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Speaker 2: it's time now for the Fantasy football focus. And uh, well,
Speaker 2: we mentioned the two Steelers injuries. Jalen Warren missing practice
Speaker 2: today Nausea Harris back in full. Does that worry you
Speaker 2: in this game?
Speaker 3: Does that? Well? I think Nause's a little bit of
Speaker 3: an underrated receiver and underutilized receiver. And Patterson can do
Speaker 3: some of that, quite a bit of it too, you know.
Speaker 3: And there were even some packages last week where Warren
Speaker 3: was the back and Patterson was basically a wide receiver.
Speaker 3: But did the defense count that as two backs or
Speaker 3: do you account it as eleven? You know what I mean?
Speaker 3: So that's there's that's some fun stuff. So I think
Speaker 3: there's some untapped things with those two. But the answer
Speaker 3: to question is yes, it worries me because I really
Speaker 3: liked the way Warren was trending from where he was
Speaker 3: injury wise early in the year, and I thought this
Speaker 3: was going to be more of a warring game than
Speaker 3: maybe any this year, considering their past problems, you know,
Speaker 3: past defense problems. So I guess we'll see. But I
Speaker 3: don't expect him end of the show. By the way, yeah,
Speaker 3: my friend of the show, he's on yesterday, so you
Speaker 3: can get back and listen to that. Check that out
Speaker 3: if you miss it.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I don't expect him to miss the game.
Speaker 3: I would be fighting through everything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd be surprised if you're limited or slept wrong
Speaker 2: on it or whatever. I look up on the wrong
Speaker 2: side of the bed.
Speaker 3: Whatever. Tomorrow we're not even talking about it.
Speaker 2: But yeah, Darnell Mooney with an achilles issue limited practice
Speaker 2: on Thursday.
Speaker 3: Do you think he's in every week Fantasy Starter at
Speaker 3: this point?
Speaker 2: He's at least a wide receiver three, low end two.
Speaker 3: I think he's in that top thirty six probably no
Speaker 3: matter what. Yeah, I mean he's had a really good year. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so that's significant. Yes, absolutely, because I don't think London's
Speaker 3: one hundred percent, but I mean they're a good offense
Speaker 3: and he's a big part of it.
Speaker 2: Playing Denver this week, you know, So how do you
Speaker 2: approach that if Darnell Mooney ends up missing this game?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean has got a big more pits. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's the answer, because like I would still start London
Speaker 3: if I have them. He's really good, but he's gonna
Speaker 3: have an up, he'll climb, you know. I would think
Speaker 3: Pitts get to boost.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, so we'll see how I mean, keep keep
Speaker 2: that in mind. I mean, Bijeon has been running the
Speaker 2: ball super effectively less too Yeah.
Speaker 3: He's been catching the ball well too. But he's having
Speaker 3: a tremendous year and he's even getting hotter as the
Speaker 3: year goes on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, amazing thing is is the guy in our league
Speaker 2: who has Bijon and Derrick Henry and he's like three
Speaker 2: and seven. Wow, it's George Pickens too. Like, you gotta
Speaker 2: really try to do that.
Speaker 3: So I don't bring up my well, I guess I
Speaker 3: do bring up my teams. But every Tuesday night is
Speaker 3: Fantasy Night where I go through all my Dynasty leagues
Speaker 3: and my two Redraft leagues and put my waiver wear
Speaker 3: claims in, I submit my lineup. Look, who the is everybody?
Speaker 3: Does you know? When one of my bie weeks? What
Speaker 3: do I need to do here in this league that I'm in?
Speaker 3: In Dynasty, I have the most points scored by like
Speaker 3: two hundred. I mean it's a lot more than anybody else.
Speaker 3: I have three wins. Fire that the defensive coordinator, man,
Speaker 3: I mean, like that's one of the things about the
Speaker 3: about this game that makes you crazy.
Speaker 2: Sometimes just fire the head coach because he's calling the
Speaker 2: wrong putting the wrong guys in the game.
Speaker 3: No, I'm scoring the most points in the league. I
Speaker 3: just don't beat the opponent like game planing.
Speaker 2: Well enough, Yeah, you're the Ravens defense.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean have three wins. I have the most
Speaker 3: points in the league. Uh.
Speaker 2: Tyler Algierre with that quiet issue, was back as a
Speaker 2: full participant in practice today, so they had their one
Speaker 2: two punch.
Speaker 3: I guess if you had Bejean wouldn't be crying too
Speaker 3: much if he wasn't did. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Kirk Cousins also back. He has shoulder and elbow issues.
Speaker 3: I bet he's ailing. Yeah, he's got to be hurting
Speaker 3: at the stage of his career season. Remember he didn't
Speaker 3: throw it all last year. But you know, so now
Speaker 3: you're getting back into it. And as the older guys go,
Speaker 3: he's not Ben or far or athlete, the biggest strongest
Speaker 3: brute you know. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Amari Cooper with the wrist injury, officially limited on Thursday.
Speaker 3: I think they have major receiver issues. Yeah. Dalton Kincaid
Speaker 3: with a knee was a non participant on Thursday. I
Speaker 3: don't think ke Coleman's playing. Ke Coleman is not playing, Okay,
Speaker 3: I mean, Shakir fire him up, he gets a boost.
Speaker 3: Matt Collins is a sneaky he got picked up in
Speaker 3: one of my DFS start It's dead to Sneaky DFS star. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it was a Dynasty league. That's too deep, yeah for
Speaker 3: most people. But Shakira gets a boost certainly helps the
Speaker 3: chief chance to win the game. Yeah, I wonder about
Speaker 3: because King Kid plays, I think he gets a boost too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a knee issue. He's managing a knee injury
Speaker 2: right now. Looks like he has a real shot of
Speaker 2: missing Sunday's game.
Speaker 3: They did. They also have Dawson Knox. Yeah, that's he's
Speaker 3: not terrible. Yeah, who's had a pretty good chance to
Speaker 3: catch a touchdown.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, I mean they like him. Yeah,
Speaker 2: quarterback likes him. It's not like they don't. Yeah, if
Speaker 2: he's out there, they're not going to ignore him.
Speaker 3: They didn't draft Concaid because they hate not right, you know,
Speaker 3: I mean, they just want to change the way they play. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Marshawn Lloyd with what I forgot about him, with the
Speaker 2: ankle and hamstring stuff. He was actually limited on Thursday.
Speaker 3: Because there are number two situations been goofy. I don't
Speaker 3: know if it even Emanuel Wilson's kind of been the guy,
Speaker 3: but I wonder if Lloyd's kind of the Roman Wilson
Speaker 3: train here though, you know, like tough. It's harder for
Speaker 3: a receiver.
Speaker 2: Yeah, running backs a little easier to get back to it.
Speaker 3: But he was never great and his problems were protection
Speaker 3: and fumbles. Yeah, which is stay off the field. Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 3: here's the thing.
Speaker 2: Josh Jacobs with the Claude was limited on Thursday.
Speaker 3: He's had a pretty heavy workload.
Speaker 2: A heavy heavy workload. They're coming off a bye. You
Speaker 2: would think you think he'd be all right at this point.
Speaker 3: Yeah, keep an eye on it, obviously. Yeah, Gyr Allexy,
Speaker 3: fire up Wilson if he doesn't play, Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 3: mean if if he's only showing town, it doesn't matter
Speaker 3: if he's good or not, right, Yeah, he's a good offense.
Speaker 2: Jyr Alexander was limited on Thursday as well for the Packers.
Speaker 3: Okay, so Bears offense has been broke.
Speaker 2: But we finally have news. Mike McCarthy telling people. They're
Speaker 2: telling reporters, I should say they're reporters. Are people too,
Speaker 2: Yeah they are. Rico dal Dell will be the lead
Speaker 2: back for the certainly Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I made a deal in our league and the
Speaker 3: throw in to make the numbers work, like me, throw
Speaker 3: me Dell. I could start him if I have to.
Speaker 3: You know, their problem is they're just not going to
Speaker 3: score any points. No, the offense is gonna be bad.
Speaker 3: But he's the best one on tape. Elliott's shot. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Now I wonder.
Speaker 2: I mean, Cooper Rush hadn't really played in.
Speaker 3: A few years. I mean he's not. He's he's gonna
Speaker 3: get better than what he was in the in the
Speaker 3: first He's never been the anchor that he looked like
Speaker 3: in this game. I mean, I think we know he
Speaker 3: looked awful last awful. I bet he's better. It's probably true,
Speaker 3: like Ceedee Lamb might be a by low.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if your trade deadline's coming up. Yeah, you know
Speaker 2: they get the most recent game. Ceede Lamb was not good.
Speaker 3: Right, and you're just looking at like this offense.
Speaker 2: Think so, hey, I'll give you my wide receiver too
Speaker 2: for CD Lamb. Yeah, okay, yeah, i'd be I mean
Speaker 2: he got ten targets in that game.
Speaker 3: He's going to show in town. Yeah. I mean even
Speaker 3: Mingos probably not gonna get involved for a while, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So, I mean ten targets is ten targets if
Speaker 2: he catches eight of them.
Speaker 3: You're happy. Yeah, he make it twelve fifteen targets. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they'll be losing too. Uh.
Speaker 2: Josh Reynolds was designated to return from ir with the Broncos.
Speaker 2: He was fantasy relevant early in the year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was out splashes in his career, even in
Speaker 3: that in Detroit. Man, just keep an eye out. Yeah,
Speaker 3: No one's other than Sutton. No one's really distinguishing themself.
Speaker 3: That's the thing. I mean.
Speaker 2: Right now, it's sutting and nothing else. Every once in
Speaker 2: a while the slot guy will get involved. But they're
Speaker 2: going to be playing some meaningful games here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it seems to be getting a little better.
Speaker 2: There's nothing on the waiver wire right now.
Speaker 3: Give me for in fantasy leagues.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean everything he's done everywhere. Yeah, at
Speaker 2: this point, everything's picked over.
Speaker 3: Injuries are hitting the hard yeah, right.
Speaker 2: I mean, are you gonna push the button to start
Speaker 2: Josh Reynolds. Well, Ba mcgeddon's are coming up. Weeks twelve
Speaker 2: and four are gonna be real.
Speaker 3: They're gonna be bad. Yeah, So just keep that in mind.
Speaker 2: We mentioned Gardner Minshew named the starter for week eleven
Speaker 2: for the Raiders.
Speaker 3: That's good for fantasy. How long is that they stick
Speaker 3: with that thought? I mean he's on a short leash. Yeah.
Speaker 3: The problem is the other dogs aren't very good on
Speaker 3: the leashes. Yeah, but for fantasy, that's who you want. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but yeah, not good.
Speaker 2: The Falcons have confirmed that Young Ho Ku will remain
Speaker 2: their kicker. He's missed five of his past seven field Yeah.
Speaker 2: He's actually fallen to like he was like fifth, fourth
Speaker 2: or fifth on the all time kicking for field goal
Speaker 2: kicking percentage list.
Speaker 3: He's not like eighth yeah, yeah, just because of this year.
Speaker 2: It's like Tucker. Tucker's now below ninety percent for his career.
Speaker 2: One bad year, one bad year that kind of happened
Speaker 2: to bas what happened to Boswell. If you took one
Speaker 2: of those bad year years out of Boswell stats, he'd
Speaker 2: be one, right, he'd be number one.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, consistency position.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you know they're and you. When you're the
Speaker 2: Falcons and you lose a game like you did last
Speaker 2: week by three and oh you kicker missed three of them.
Speaker 3: I think one was blocked too. Yeah that's not good. No,
Speaker 3: I mean he's earned a little trust because he's not
Speaker 3: the new guy. But you'll forget about you pretty quick too. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they'll move on. Uh.
Speaker 2: Gus Edwards back in the limited practice yesterday. Interested in
Speaker 2: hopping on the Gus bus. If he's pretty agent, I'm
Speaker 2: picking them up.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean he's a dobbin's injury away from being
Speaker 3: the guy.
Speaker 2: And not only that, but if you look at it
Speaker 2: early in the year when both were available, they were
Speaker 2: pretty much splitting carries almost fifty to fifty.
Speaker 3: It's the same coordinator from Baltimore. Yeah, I mean, gonna
Speaker 3: treat him exact same. He's going to get the goal
Speaker 3: line kid. Goal one carries. The offense is getting better.
Speaker 3: He should be in every league. Yeah, I mean the
Speaker 3: schedule is not difficult. No, it's not. And they should
Speaker 3: be able to run latent games too. Yeah.
Speaker 2: You know, Gus Edwards is a sneaky kind of I mean,
Speaker 2: if he plays this week, he's a sneaky DFS play's achieved.
Speaker 3: He'll be thirty five hundred bucks. Yeah. I like his
Speaker 3: chance if he falls into the end zone. Yeah you went. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Joey Bosa was limited on Wednesday.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: Aaron Jones with that rib issue officially limited on Wednesday
Speaker 2: as well.
Speaker 3: Okay, I get the impression that they think he's going
Speaker 3: to go, But I bets are tricky for say, that
Speaker 3: smells like a game time decision. Yeah, I hope they're
Speaker 3: not like a Sunday night or a Monday night or
Speaker 3: even a four o'clocker. Yeah, I can't remember. I think
Speaker 3: they're at one.
Speaker 2: And Sam Darnold also was limited yesterday with a hand issue.
Speaker 2: Oh really, Yeah, that might explain some of the interceptions
Speaker 2: he has been throwing back eight. Uh you interested in
Speaker 2: anybody in tonight's game. Tonight's game actually would be an
Speaker 2: interesting captain's chare build.
Speaker 3: To build one? Next second, Let's let's take a look here.
Speaker 2: Let's take a look here and see what, uh what
Speaker 2: stands out to us, because I mean, it's a good game.
Speaker 2: That's a good I think a lot of people have
Speaker 2: eyeballs on it. First place in the East, and both
Speaker 2: these teams are playing really well, two of the better
Speaker 2: teams in the NFC noticeably better. Yeah, so let's let's
Speaker 2: take a look here and see where we would go
Speaker 2: with this for tonight's game.
Speaker 3: Are we thinking Robinson Brian is going to play? Looks
Speaker 3: like it, Yeah, it looks like everybody's Latimore's out. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Latimore's still not playing. So if we want to go
Speaker 3: with the captain's chair, Jalen Hurst is sixteen to five.
Speaker 3: Saque is fifteen to nine, Jayden Daniels is fifteen to six.
Speaker 3: Aj Brown is fifteen one hundred or fifteen thousand, even uh,
Speaker 3: Terry McLaurin thirteen to five, Davante Smith twelve nine, Brian
Speaker 3: Robinson twelve three, Austin Ecklar twelve thousand, Dallas Goddard ninety
Speaker 3: nine hundred, Noah Brown ninety three hundred.
Speaker 2: I was impressed with Noah Brown. I'm not going to
Speaker 2: get into all the quarterbacks there that are listed and
Speaker 2: next Zach Ertz is eighty four hundred. The kickers, Jake
Speaker 2: Kellie is seventy eight hundred, Zaying Gonzalez is seventy two hundred.
Speaker 2: The Eagles defense is sixty six hundred. Johan Dotson is
Speaker 2: six thousand. The Commanders defense game for fifty nine hundred
Speaker 2: is a revenge game for him.
Speaker 3: He doesn't play much.
Speaker 2: Then there's some other guys there. I would probably look at.
Speaker 2: Davante Smith would be interesting.
Speaker 3: My problem with that when I thought he was a
Speaker 3: little too cheap. When you were reading off the numbers
Speaker 3: when Goddard, Brown and Smith have all been healthy. He's
Speaker 3: kind of underachieved. But that's also it's a huge game. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, it's a huge game. You
Speaker 3: have to I was leading towards A J. Brown.
Speaker 2: I mean that would be solid as well. I mean,
Speaker 2: he's cheaper than he's fifteen, So if you went with
Speaker 2: him at fifteen n you can average seven thousand the
Speaker 2: rest of the way. Well, Jalen Hurts is eleven thousand,
Speaker 2: sak one is ten to six.
Speaker 3: I mean, there's some big hitters in this game. Jane
Speaker 3: Daniels is ten to four. McLaurin is worried at all
Speaker 3: about Jayden Dangles for fantasy. No, I'm not either. No. Uh.
Speaker 2: McLaurin is nine thousand, Devonte Smith is eighty six hundred.
Speaker 2: So you're gonna need a cheap option or two if
Speaker 2: you want to get if you want to get one
Speaker 2: of those big dogs, because you get you almost have
Speaker 2: to have Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 3: Put Well, put Jalen Hurts in the lineup. Okay, maybe
Speaker 3: we move Brown out of the chair and put him
Speaker 3: in the lineup, but.
Speaker 2: Then you got to pivot to somebody else? What are
Speaker 2: you pivoting to?
Speaker 3: I was thinking about going cheap with Lake and Austin Eckler.
Speaker 3: What if Brian Robinson reaggravates or they're losing heavy and
Speaker 3: it's the row, you know what I mean? Yeah, that's
Speaker 3: not a bad call. Well let's see them. We should
Speaker 3: be able to load up everywhere else. Let's see what
Speaker 3: that He's still twelve thousand and everybody was expensive. Yeah,
Speaker 3: So if you do that, aj like the expense A J.
Speaker 2: Brown is ten thousand. So you got that stack, you
Speaker 2: can average fifty six hundred to rest it away, which
Speaker 2: again you get you anyway, you're gonna need it. You're
Speaker 2: gonna need some cheap options.
Speaker 3: What a kicker you go?
Speaker 2: Jake Elliott or the Eagles defense? I think the Eagles
Speaker 2: are gonna win. Where do you go Washington's defense or
Speaker 2: even cheaper? They're thirty six hundred. Eagles defense is forty
Speaker 2: four hundred. Is there some really cheap guy? Well that's
Speaker 2: something to look at. Jeremy McNichols is one of.
Speaker 3: The Washington running backs like s not doesn't even play.
Speaker 2: Diami Brown is sixteen hundred. Luke McCaffrey is twelve hundred.
Speaker 2: He was opened more than you think. He was one
Speaker 2: of those guys that got missed a fair amount. I
Speaker 2: would throw him in there. I mean we're gonna have
Speaker 2: to go cheap somewhere. Grant Calcaterra is one thousand, Okay,
Speaker 2: how much is Luke, say, twelve hundred?
Speaker 3: I would put him in. Jake Bates is six hundred,
Speaker 3: Ben Sinnett is two hundred, Will Shipley is four hundred.
Speaker 3: Is he the number two though, I mean Barkley doesn't.
Speaker 2: Ever come out, well, no, actually the number two is
Speaker 2: game game well thirty two hundred. Yeah, yeah, I'm just
Speaker 2: looking here.
Speaker 3: Caffrey's the one I would cheap, really cheapy it up with.
Speaker 2: You could get something out of that, yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean that might allow us to not have two
Speaker 3: junkie guys.
Speaker 2: Okay, so he would be twelve and night get average
Speaker 2: seventy nine hundred, which still doesn't get you into range
Speaker 2: to get like you could get Jade Daniels, but then
Speaker 2: you're gonna have another cheapye where you could get McLaurin.
Speaker 2: But you're still gonna have to have another cheapy Bryan
Speaker 2: Robinson your story, and he doesn't catch the ball enough
Speaker 2: to make.
Speaker 3: That worth it. Robinson would be low on my list
Speaker 3: coming off an injury. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Goddard was a kicker ddar at sixty six hundred, so
Speaker 2: you could afford him. Let me see if so, if
Speaker 2: you went Goddard, that leads you ninety two hundred, and
Speaker 2: that would get you McLaurin.
Speaker 3: It's not bad. Goddard had a good year when he's
Speaker 3: out there. Yeah, he just missed some time.
Speaker 2: So that would that was you'd have that and you
Speaker 2: still have two hundred dollars left over.
Speaker 3: Okay, is there any logic to go in a kicker?
Speaker 3: I mean, I could you know which that probably take Phillies.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so if I take Gardards on their back, Goddard
Speaker 2: McLaurin out, and you go a kicker.
Speaker 3: Washington still kicks a ton of field goals if they
Speaker 3: do all from a year a week ago. You know.
Speaker 3: But do you trust Zane Gonzalez? Yeah? All right, we
Speaker 3: think weathers that gives.
Speaker 2: You eleven thousand, and that would mean that you could.
Speaker 3: Get are they getting our weather in Philly? I would assume.
Speaker 3: So that's not great some of it? Yeah.
Speaker 2: Uh, you could get Saque at ten six, You could
Speaker 2: get Jayden and Daniels at ten four, and you could
Speaker 2: actually pay up and get Elliott still have enough to
Speaker 2: get Elliot instead of aying Gonzales.
Speaker 3: I prefer to Elliott.
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, So if you go Elliott, are we
Speaker 2: still McCaffrey in there? There's fifty two hundred McCaffrey's in there.
Speaker 2: That leads you ten to six, and that gets you
Speaker 2: enough to get Saquon Barkley. If you want Saquon Barkley.
Speaker 2: I don't not want Saeon or Jayden Daniels. I feel
Speaker 2: like we're a little light on Commanders, and that's.
Speaker 3: One week ago. We'd be like, this is one of
Speaker 3: the best offenses in the lead.
Speaker 2: If I think the Commanders are going to lose the game,
Speaker 2: you want Jayden Denny. He's gonna have to row.
Speaker 3: I think they're going to lose the game. But we
Speaker 3: don't have chlaurin though that's the only problem we don't.
Speaker 3: I'd like love to have McLaurin.
Speaker 2: They're the only the only pass catcher that you have
Speaker 2: for them is Echler and McCaffrey and McCaffrey yeah, which okay,
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, he's.
Speaker 3: Out there a lot.
Speaker 2: So the question then becomes, do you want Barkley or
Speaker 2: do you want Jayden and Daniels?
Speaker 3: I think Daniels. I think quarterbacks is nice. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: think in the line, I think Daniel scores more points. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I do too. Yeah, and that would have two It's
Speaker 3: a lefto conversation. Yeah, who would you start? Dan? You
Speaker 3: start two quarterbacks?
Speaker 2: We can now I'm not actually going to enter this one.
Speaker 2: I just I just called up the first line up
Speaker 2: the first contest I saw, So I'm not gonna answer.
Speaker 3: What would we end up with.
Speaker 2: Ekler and the captain's share at twelve thousand? Okay, Jalen
Speaker 2: Hurts at eleven thousand, AJ Brown at ten thousand, Luke
Speaker 2: McCaffrey at twelve hundred, uh, Jake Elliott at fifty two
Speaker 2: hundred and Jade and Daniels at ten four.
Speaker 3: Two quarterbacks, it is pretty nice and a J. Brown, Yeah, McCaffrey.
Speaker 3: Does Caffrick catchs three or four balls if Eckler catches Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I think he'll catch that work. Yeah, four passes that
Speaker 3: I mean, they run screens to him a lot. They
Speaker 3: couldn't do it against the Steelers. Steelers did a good
Speaker 3: job of controlling that right, but most weeks Eckler has
Speaker 3: been a good fantasy player. Yeah, so yeah, it's not bad,
Speaker 3: not a bad lineup. It's a fun game though, too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so see how that does tonight. But that's going
Speaker 2: to do it for the fantasy football focus. Let's get
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Speaker 3: Matt.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and take Earlier in the show, he
Speaker 2: looked at the offensive line rankings. Let's take a look
Speaker 2: at the quarterback rankings, and we're getting a lot. We're
Speaker 2: heading down the road from last year in the year
Speaker 2: before that, where he had like seventy different guys start games.
Speaker 3: Yeah, quite to that level yet, I mean, but we're
Speaker 3: getting it feels better than that. But I have started
Speaker 3: two quarterbacks this year, right right right? I mean, you
Speaker 3: don't think of it that way. But they have. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean I remember last year the Browns and Jets
Speaker 3: started four.
Speaker 2: The Browns have started three already, already they start No,
Speaker 2: they didn't start DTR.
Speaker 3: Yeah yet, but that could happen if we would happen,
Speaker 3: just to get a look at him last couple of weeks.
Speaker 3: By the way, did you look at their schedule the
Speaker 3: rest of the way, it's really hotful Yeah. Yeah, there's
Speaker 3: a lot of losses.
Speaker 2: And Jamis might throw about fifteen interceptions the rest of
Speaker 2: the way this season. No, I got some really good
Speaker 2: defenses that they play down the stretch that it's not
Speaker 2: going to be kind to him. But yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: so some of the I mean a lot of these
Speaker 2: teams have started multiple starters. I mean Indianapolis tennis See.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, some of them are benchings, you know, Carolina Tennessee.
Speaker 3: Like you mentioned, right, you know, we almost had three
Speaker 3: starters for the Raiders this week. We've had two for Jacksonville.
Speaker 3: I bet we end up with three two in Dallas.
Speaker 3: Dallas is probably gonna be three before the end of
Speaker 3: the season. Fortunately, there's some like Kua that got hurt
Speaker 3: but came back. Yeah, you know, you're back to the
Speaker 3: start they start three, I don't think so. I think
Speaker 3: they did start three. Yea.
Speaker 2: Huntly started a couple of those games too, So they've
Speaker 2: started three quarterbacks.
Speaker 3: They're probably the only team that has.
Speaker 2: Once you start getting into three quarterbacks range, it's like
Speaker 2: the numbers just start to climb and climb, like.
Speaker 3: Probably Lance might get a start. I think at some
Speaker 3: point you have to why not. You have to remember
Speaker 3: Minnesota last year, like they pulled Dobs off the street. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they went through four. Have you seen his commercial by
Speaker 3: the way, ye it's pretty good.
Speaker 2: Who was sitting around going, Okay, let's let's come up
Speaker 2: with a commercial idea.
Speaker 3: How about we get Josh Dobbs get back up quarterback?
Speaker 2: Okay, So this week this is Nick Schook's rankings here
Speaker 2: on the NFL dot Com.
Speaker 3: He has Cooper Rush at thirty two. That's fine, and
Speaker 3: he played terrible. Yeah uh.
Speaker 2: He has Mac Jones at thirty one.
Speaker 3: He was pretty terrible too. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was downgrade all of your Jaguars pass catchers too.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, like Brian Thomas was a really good story.
Speaker 3: But that ship might have sailed. That's going away. So
Speaker 3: Evan Ingram, it was one of your top fantasy target
Speaker 3: He was a target hog too. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Out there at thirty up two spots. This shows you
Speaker 2: were Gardner Minshew as.
Speaker 3: Better than those two right now. Yeah, at twenty nine
Speaker 3: up two spots again, moved up because nothing that he did,
Speaker 3: but two new guys came in. Jameis Winston. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: guess he's still below like a Daniel Jones. Yeah, he
Speaker 3: definitely is. Well. Daniel Jones is another one that could
Speaker 3: get bench soon. Yeah. I was thinking that too. I
Speaker 3: bet we see Locke at some point this year.
Speaker 2: At twenty eight. Caleb Williams, he's playing terrible and their
Speaker 2: offense is horrible right now. I think they've gone like
Speaker 2: thirty one quarters now without scoring a touchdown.
Speaker 3: Wow, I knew it was bad. I didn't think it
Speaker 3: was that bad. That's insane. Yeah, not scoring touchdowns and
Speaker 3: I'm not sure a coordinator change is going to be like, oh,
Speaker 3: everything's fat.
Speaker 2: He has nine touchdown passes on the season, and if
Speaker 2: you remember, he had like I think it was a
Speaker 2: three touchdown game or maybe four touchdowns in one game
Speaker 2: earlier in the.
Speaker 3: Season, he had one blow up game. Yeah, and it said, oh,
Speaker 3: look at this, this is this is the guy. Yeah right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: maybe we could even talk about some other time. But
Speaker 3: we did a mailbag show yesterday and this isn't fantasy related,
Speaker 3: but if you were to draft all the first round
Speaker 3: quarterbacks again, what order would you put them in? Knowing
Speaker 3: what you know now, he wouldn't be one from this year,
Speaker 3: Jade and Daniels. Daniels was clearly one. I said I'd
Speaker 3: still take May over Williams.
Speaker 2: There were again, I like Daniels better than Williams in
Speaker 2: last year's draft, I mean, Maze the guy. I was
Speaker 2: really high on him. He's played better than caleboy.
Speaker 3: I mean, Nicks has played better than Williams. If I
Speaker 3: would still draft Williams over nickt Yeah.
Speaker 2: Twenty seven down three spots is Daniel Jones.
Speaker 3: That's about where he lives. Yeah. Do you think he's
Speaker 3: an opening day starter next year? I do not. I
Speaker 3: don't either, unless it's a hold down the fort for
Speaker 3: a first round pick guy.
Speaker 2: At twenty six up four spots and he just got benched.
Speaker 3: Joe Flacco. Yeah, that's about how he played too. I mean,
Speaker 3: it was a good story, but the production wasn't all that.
Speaker 3: He just can't move anymore. He can't move anymore. Right,
Speaker 3: He's not that hard to play against. He's also very streaky.
Speaker 3: Steelers happened.
Speaker 2: He's extremely streaky at the hot streak right at twenty
Speaker 2: five was unrated last week?
Speaker 3: Actually played pretty well, was Will Levis? He did. I've
Speaker 3: been really hard on him. He's not for me. He
Speaker 3: didn't have the turnovers. But some of these guys, they
Speaker 3: finally figured out how to get the ball of Calvin Ridley.
Speaker 3: Ridley's blowing up. You haven't mentioned Bryce Young yet, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean, like maybe that can happen to Richardson. I
Speaker 3: know Levis got hurt, but like these young guys go
Speaker 3: get a month away from being.
Speaker 2: A watch somebody else.
Speaker 3: Just run the offense, get the weight off your back,
Speaker 3: and now try it again. At twenty four? Is Bryce
Speaker 3: Young up three spots? Of Levis have to do to
Speaker 3: not be in the quarterback market, considering where they going to,
Speaker 3: he'd have to play better than he did last week. Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 3: you'd have to keep improving.
Speaker 2: You'd have to continue to do that and yeah.
Speaker 3: And show me a little more.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but Bryce Young number twenty four, up three spots.
Speaker 2: He didn't. The numbers weren't great last week. But he
Speaker 2: also didn't turn the ball over. It looks like he belongs. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean he looks taking better care of the football.
Speaker 2: He's making throws that are anticipation.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just to do the little things about him,
Speaker 3: which I bet we see more and more is it's
Speaker 3: just the Mahomes effect. I grew up watching Mahomes. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna do this with them. My feet aren't say but
Speaker 3: he's not picking strong enough to do that, you know,
Speaker 3: like just play in rhythm.
Speaker 2: And sometimes you get away with that stuff in college.
Speaker 2: You're not going to get away with it. That Bama
Speaker 2: Zoe line. Yeah, at twenty three up three spots is
Speaker 2: Drake May.
Speaker 3: I'm a fan. I mean, he's gonna take a beating.
Speaker 3: His line's terrible, his receivers are terrible, but he's not
Speaker 3: the problem.
Speaker 2: At twenty two up a spot bo Nicks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and if you're that's a success considering where you
Speaker 3: drafted him. If you told Sean Payton and their GM
Speaker 3: that in November he would be the twenty second best starter,
Speaker 3: he'd be like, Okay.
Speaker 2: I think it says more about these where we're at
Speaker 2: in the NFL.
Speaker 3: All the dudes behind him, Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean
Speaker 3: Joe Flacco's still on the list, for God's sakes, and
Speaker 3: like Dak Prescott isn't. Yeah, you know right, So yeah,
Speaker 3: twenty one holding steady Aaron Rodgers. That's correct. He is bad. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it seems to be getting worse. Yeah, there's five or six.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I remember those throws.
Speaker 2: But like, if you went to Indianapolis right now and
Speaker 2: said we will trade you Aaron Rodgers for the rest
Speaker 2: of this season where he can go ahead and play
Speaker 2: Anthony Richardson, I'd roll with richards I think they would too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm not saying to give you a
Speaker 3: better chance to win on Sunday, but that's door number two.
Speaker 3: I'll take door number two, you know. Yeah. I don't
Speaker 3: think Rodgers will be in a NFL next year. I
Speaker 3: don't think he will either think he's done. I bet
Speaker 3: he watches his tape and be like, I'm not what
Speaker 3: I used to be. Yeah, and I hurt on Monday
Speaker 3: a lot, and I got a lot of stuff I
Speaker 3: want to do. Yeah, and I'm busy. Yeah, and then
Speaker 3: that leaves the Jets insurable.
Speaker 2: And trouble at twenty up five spots. Derek Carr okay,
Speaker 2: Derek Carr is now ahead of Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 3: Yeah. The whole key with him is if he's under
Speaker 3: a lot of pressure, it's going to be bad. Yeah,
Speaker 3: heavy pass rush is bad. But if he can sit
Speaker 3: there and survey the field, he'll pick you up. Part Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah at nineteen he didn't even played last week down
Speaker 2: three spots, Jordan Love, He's not.
Speaker 3: Going to go any lower than that. That's way too low. Yeah,
Speaker 3: way too low. I mean, he hasn't played great through
Speaker 3: his injury, but I wouldn't hold that against him.
Speaker 2: At eighteen, only up one spot. Russell Wilson, he's playing
Speaker 2: better than that.
Speaker 3: He's playing better than that. Yes, I understand small sample
Speaker 3: size and you can use that as a not as
Speaker 3: a crotch. But I love Matthew Stafford. But Russell Wilson's
Speaker 3: playing better than him right now.
Speaker 2: He's definitely playing better than the next guy and several
Speaker 2: up here there right because it's seventeen down three spots.
Speaker 2: Is Geno Smith. Russell Wilson's playing better than Geno Smith? Yeah,
Speaker 2: he is, without question. At sixteen. He was a big
Speaker 2: riser last week and now he is the big follower
Speaker 2: this week, down ten spots, Matthew Stafford.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is a bad taste in my mouth. In
Speaker 3: last week, I thought he played poorly, missed a lot
Speaker 3: of throws, a lot of throws, and I you know,
Speaker 3: how's his body feeling at the moment. The line didn't
Speaker 3: help him all that much, helping.
Speaker 2: All at fifteen up three spots to Attago Vi Loa.
Speaker 3: I think he looks fine. He looks like himself. The
Speaker 3: offense hasn't been putting forty or sixty on people, but
Speaker 3: ball comes out on time, and I think he's the
Speaker 3: offense is rounding in the shape. Would you rather have
Speaker 3: Tua or Russell Wilson right now? Wilson, I think he's
Speaker 3: better above a neck. I think so too. Yeah. Plus
Speaker 3: he does so different.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he does what this team wants him to do. Hey,
Speaker 2: let's hit some deep balls.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean Miami would say to Yeah, you know,
Speaker 3: Steelers would say Wilson.
Speaker 2: At fourteen, down four spots, Sam Darnold, I'd be lower.
Speaker 2: I can't have Jordan Love be Love.
Speaker 3: And Wilson and even Stafford. Yeah, I think he'd be
Speaker 3: more around eighteen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's up to ten ten interceptions now and he
Speaker 2: has six fumbles in nine games.
Speaker 3: And his good moments were quite a while ago.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's got Justin Jefferson and now Hawkinson. It's
Speaker 2: not a bad there's no right like a great scheme.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's yeah.
Speaker 2: Losing your left tackle can't affect you that much.
Speaker 3: No, No, because he got a lot of stuff around you.
Speaker 2: Still At thirteen up two spots, Jalen Hurts, Yeah, I think.
Speaker 3: He's gradually moving up. I'm not a huge believer, but
Speaker 3: I think he's played his best football time.
Speaker 2: So he's completing almost seventy percent of his pastes. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and the running is I mean it's great. Yeah, the
Speaker 2: Toush pushes. I mean I could do the Toush push,
Speaker 2: but yeah, I wouldn't like it.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: At twelve up a spot, Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 3: There's guys you mentioned I'd rather not play against than him. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Stafford Love, you know, no doubt, would you rather play
Speaker 3: against Cousins or Russell Wilson. Probably Cousins. I know where
Speaker 3: he's gonna be at.
Speaker 2: Like I go back to that, it was an eleven
Speaker 2: yard completion that Wilson had to Calvin Austin. It was
Speaker 2: on second and fifteen and he got eleven of it,
Speaker 2: back runs to his runs to his left, comes all
Speaker 2: the way back around to his right, and throws it
Speaker 2: across his body to Like that looked like vintage Russell Wilson.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like I think cousins to me, the pros would
Speaker 3: be middle of field passing. Yeah, you know that kind
Speaker 3: of stuff. They're both good above the nect.
Speaker 2: But you know exactly where he's gonna be, Like it's
Speaker 2: there's the spot.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, he's a little too high on there for
Speaker 3: me and all those guys. Like if we were drafting guys,
Speaker 3: he'd end up being lower than that. Yeah, Like like
Speaker 3: I quick take him.
Speaker 2: I mean he was still I picked him up two
Speaker 2: weeks ago in our fantasy league and then I caught
Speaker 2: him loose again when love's with love coming.
Speaker 3: Back, Like, yeah, he's fine, Okay, Yeah, get you through
Speaker 3: this stretch. Eleven up a spot is CJ. Stroud. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Ten second, you're growing pains. But I mean he's been
Speaker 3: really good.
Speaker 2: The big riser this week, up seven spots, Kyler Murray,
Speaker 2: he's played well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm a fan. I think it's a good offense
Speaker 3: that the team as a hole is clicking.
Speaker 2: Nine down a spot. Baker Mayfield, Yeah, I'm.
Speaker 3: Not gonna say he's gonna turn into a pumpkin. I
Speaker 3: think he's going to be a starter for the next
Speaker 3: five years, but I don't know. He's not a top
Speaker 3: ten guy for me, even though there's too many turnover
Speaker 3: worthy plays. Yeah, there was a lot of good this year,
Speaker 3: and he's not playing with great dudes at the moment,
Speaker 3: but I don't have a high trust factor.
Speaker 2: Yeah, nine interceptions and seven fumbles is too many total rep.
Speaker 3: At eight up three spots, Rock Party. It's amazing how
Speaker 3: he gets all the you know, all the guys get
Speaker 3: back on the field and all of a sudden, Rock
Speaker 3: Party is really good again. The one shocking thing about
Speaker 3: that team is they're like bottom a league in red
Speaker 3: zone offense. They're never at the bottom league in red zone.
Speaker 2: Off Yeah, you know, well McCaffrey getting back shore has
Speaker 2: definitely helped that.
Speaker 3: No question. He scores a million a million touchdowns.
Speaker 2: At seven holding steady Jadeen Daniels, I wouldn't.
Speaker 3: Ding them too much for last week. Yeah, it wasn't
Speaker 3: his best game. The Steelers made him look average. Yeah yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 3: he still had a couple of wild throws, but he
Speaker 3: looked average. Yeah. If he looks like that again the night,
Speaker 3: I would move him down to eleven. You know, at
Speaker 3: six down a spot you had to ding him for
Speaker 3: last week Jared Goff. Yeah, he's a certain type of quarterback,
Speaker 3: and when it's good, he's phenomenal. I mean, frankly, I'd
Speaker 3: rather play against Gough than Love at five up four spots,
Speaker 3: justin Herbert. He's really on fire right now. Yeah, yep,
Speaker 3: that's exactly where I put him. We know the top
Speaker 3: four are and Herbert would be my five. At four
Speaker 3: down a spot is Josh Allen, Okay, I mean the
Speaker 3: way that you're never gonna put Mahomes at four. I
Speaker 3: know that he's not one lately, somebody asked me four
Speaker 3: out of the I guess that is what it comes
Speaker 3: down to. At three down a spot is Mahomes, Okay,
Speaker 3: I mean he's having the worst year of the four.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Burrow is two up two spots and number one
Speaker 2: is Lamar.
Speaker 3: I get it. They're having the best two seasons. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and they're not bad. I mean, it's not like insane
Speaker 3: to put them as the best quarterback in the league.
Speaker 3: It's not, no. I mean they're both playing really well,
Speaker 3: really well. Yeah, I like your burrow for MVP conversation.
Speaker 2: I mean, they got to get back into playoff contention
Speaker 2: to happen, like they got to.
Speaker 3: It's not going to happen.
Speaker 2: They have to beat the Chargers this week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that might be an alleging game. You can't
Speaker 3: lose another AFC game, yeah, because they would have seven
Speaker 3: then now they don't play the Ravens again, and that's
Speaker 3: one of the few games they don't have. But massive quarterback,
Speaker 3: they're not going to sweep to Steelers. Probably not. No,
Speaker 3: I bet they win three games in the division. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so I know they have a big time I'm up
Speaker 3: heel client.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so if they lose this one, that might be
Speaker 2: it be time to start breaking into golf bags and
Speaker 2: figuring out where you're going on vacation, which.
Speaker 3: Means Week eighteen might be an easier opponent.
Speaker 2: Well, they'll still want to beat the Steelers if it
Speaker 2: means something to the Steelers. Yeah, But likewise, if the Steelers,
Speaker 2: if the Steelers won't talk about this when we come back,
Speaker 2: let's do that. That was Nick Shook's power rankings on
Speaker 2: their Power Index for the quarterbacks this week. Russell Wilson
Speaker 2: moves up a spot. He should be moving more rapidly.
Speaker 3: He should be.
Speaker 2: I think there's still some people out there who are
Speaker 2: still here in the echoes of the Russell Wilson bad
Speaker 2: teammate blah blah blah like.
Speaker 3: He also is a pretty decent track record in this league.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you remember back when we were looking at
Speaker 2: these three four years ago, he was probably a little
Speaker 2: overrated and it took him a while to move him down.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, as to how he was playing then, he's
Speaker 2: playing much better now and I want to talk about
Speaker 2: why and then what that means. We'll do that when
Speaker 2: we come back. He's Matt Williamson. I'm Dale Lolli. You're
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Speaker 2: He is the Matt Williamson and I do finally have
Speaker 2: the Ravens injury report here, all right, Lamar Jackson did
Speaker 2: not practice today, but that was he was limited. I
Speaker 2: should say that was considered a rest day.
Speaker 3: But I think there's something going on there's something happening
Speaker 3: there with him because you're coming off ten days. Yeah,
Speaker 3: there's no reason to what's he resting from. And we've
Speaker 3: talked about this week, I mean two weeks ago, he
Speaker 3: didn't run much at all. You know, he's been bothering him.
Speaker 3: Arball is not afraid to play with that a little bit.
Speaker 3: I mean I think he's gonna play. But yeah.
Speaker 2: A Malette added to the injury report with a calf
Speaker 2: issue as limited. We mentioned that Kyle Hamilton was back. Well,
Speaker 2: he's listed as limited. Who knows what he did, so,
Speaker 2: who knows. I could have been working with the trainers
Speaker 2: on the side. Isaiah Likely was a full participant today.
Speaker 2: He was limited yesterday. Travis Jones added to the injury
Speaker 2: report as limited with an ankle issue.
Speaker 3: We were talking about him in the first hour. I
Speaker 3: like him quite a bit. He's a big body that
Speaker 3: can move active. Yeah, I mean somebody like that. I
Speaker 3: could see the Steelers going after as a nose. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So interesting. They're not quite as healthy as they appeared
Speaker 3: to be. As soon as what's going on with Hamilton, Yeah,
Speaker 3: but I guess they're looking at it. Probably good news. Unlikely,
Speaker 3: you know, he's the guy who's been out that sounds
Speaker 3: like he's coming back. Yeah. I don't know how much
Speaker 3: he'll play in this one though, because you mentioned before Kohler,
Speaker 3: I think needs to be out there more than you think,
Speaker 3: and so does and or racard Man. One of those
Speaker 3: two guys has to be on the field all the
Speaker 3: time to help a lot. Yeah. So I don't think
Speaker 3: you want Henry even being the chipper all that much.
Speaker 3: And if you want a flat out double yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: So, and Henry's not out there on third downs no.
Speaker 3: Ever, I wanted to bring this up too. I do
Speaker 3: think we might see a little bit more of Mitchell.
Speaker 3: I guess Harball's been talking him up a little bit.
Speaker 2: That that could be playing some games like that could be.
Speaker 2: Are you really going to take Derrick Henry off the field? Yeah,
Speaker 2: Mitchell out there.
Speaker 3: When Hill's out there, they throw them the ball high
Speaker 3: percent of the time. Yeah. And Henry doesn't get anything.
Speaker 2: He's not much of he's ever only three point three
Speaker 2: point two yards per carry Hill Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's not a runner, No, he's not. But he'll
Speaker 3: catch the football. So, Matt, if the Steelers are if
Speaker 3: they win this game Sunday, yeah.
Speaker 2: They would effectively take a two game.
Speaker 3: Lead in the division.
Speaker 2: Would they then vault into being the favorite to win the.
Speaker 3: Divis I would think so. I mean, like you're talking
Speaker 3: like Cynthia and the mathematicians and d A people and
Speaker 3: all those things. Yeah, I mean division loss hurts bad
Speaker 3: because it also hurts your conference stuff. No, I guess
Speaker 3: the words talk about division. The key would be that.
Speaker 2: Would be a second division loss for Baltimore.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right exactly. I like the chances if they get
Speaker 3: this win. I like the chances of the Steelers going
Speaker 3: four and two in the division. Yeah, so yeah, I
Speaker 3: would think they'd make them the mathematical favorites, and probably
Speaker 3: I bet to be the favorite.
Speaker 2: The other interesting thing about it is if Buffalo's able
Speaker 2: to beat Kansas City this weekend, then all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: your game out of first place overall in the conference.
Speaker 3: Do we want that?
Speaker 2: Do you want to be the number one seed in
Speaker 2: the conference?
Speaker 3: Why not? Yeah? It's not like Kansas City is just
Speaker 3: going to run away from the world, right, Like is
Speaker 3: Baltimore rooting for that too? It's Houston rooting for Buffalo
Speaker 3: to Winston's got four losses now, so I think they're
Speaker 3: probably the four almost no matter what? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: I guess it depends. Also, who do you want to
Speaker 3: play for?
Speaker 2: Baltimore doesn't matter because they're effectively right now four games
Speaker 2: behind Kansas City because Kansas City has the tie breaker
Speaker 2: on them and they have three losses. They can't finish
Speaker 2: in a tie with Kansas City when the divis whin
Speaker 2: the AFC North and finish as the number one seed.
Speaker 2: That's what that that loss in the Oak did to them.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, but the Steelers will get an opportunity
Speaker 2: to hand Kansas City another lost league.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I think you do want Buffalo to way?
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, why not? Yeah, you add another one to
Speaker 3: the Kansas City loss list potentially.
Speaker 2: You know, yeah, because right now Buffalo's two losses are
Speaker 2: to Baltimore and Houston.
Speaker 3: So I think we would all pick Houston. But Houston, Buffalo,
Speaker 3: Kansas City? Where do you least want to play in
Speaker 3: the playoffs? Round two? Because if you end up the
Speaker 3: five and you beat Houston and all the favorites win,
Speaker 3: then you got to go to one, right which I
Speaker 3: would think Kansas City is still my last choice. No,
Speaker 3: I don't think it's my last choice, but I would
Speaker 3: Buffalo is the place I don't want to go play. Okay,
Speaker 3: Buffalo's the close second. I'd rather go to Baltimore. I'd
Speaker 3: rather go to Houston.
Speaker 2: Buffalo struggles stopping the run though, Like yeah, you know again,
Speaker 2: there's so much football left to be played here that
Speaker 2: I don't know, you know, how healthy are they?
Speaker 3: What? What's going? Of course, right his Cooper, you know,
Speaker 3: is he playing? Is he not playing? I don't know,
Speaker 3: But this is a huge game if we were just
Speaker 3: looking at from a bill's chief perspective, Hosting the AFC
Speaker 3: championship game against that team is a heck a lot
Speaker 3: better than on the road. Absolutely, Absolutely, there's some monster
Speaker 3: games in the in the league this week. It's like
Speaker 3: Colts Patriots in the day. You know, Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean starting with tonight, you got you got seven
Speaker 3: and three against seven and two. You've got there's a
Speaker 3: lot of division games.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you got seven and three against seven and two
Speaker 2: here in Pittsburgh, you get the Buffalo game with Kansas City.
Speaker 2: I mean, those are three massive games in the af
Speaker 2: In the NFL, Seattle's playing the Rams save a division
Speaker 2: game they're playing, aren't they playing San Francisco.
Speaker 3: Yes, Okay, that's a huge game in that division too. Yeah,
Speaker 3: like if Seattle loses that one, they start to get
Speaker 3: into the rams land of really looking up at the
Speaker 3: hot teams. And then there was one other game I thought,
Speaker 3: oh you mentioned too, Cincinnati La. Yeah, I mean that's
Speaker 3: darn near an elimination game for the Bengals. Yeah, so,
Speaker 3: I mean there's some the layoff picture could look a
Speaker 3: lot different on Tuesday.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, yeah, I mean even Falcons Broncos.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know if anyone can catch Atlanta though
Speaker 3: I don't I don't.
Speaker 2: Know if they can either. But if they lose that one,
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, there's six and five on the
Speaker 2: on the other side of that after the bye, if
Speaker 2: the Broncos lose that game, they're five and.
Speaker 3: Six, say I think I mean the Broncos, Yeah, Atlanta, And.
Speaker 2: Let's say that that's let's say the Jets beat the Colts,
Speaker 2: so all of a sudden, they're four and seven, you know,
Speaker 2: so they're back in it.
Speaker 3: Or if I'm Miami, I'm kicking myself, like, if you
Speaker 3: could have won one of these last two, you can
Speaker 3: at least have a path. Yeah, you know, with two
Speaker 3: a back. Well they did win one of them. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, no,
Speaker 3: that's not They're not dead then. I mean if since
Speaker 3: he loses, Denver loses, and Miami wins, they're back in
Speaker 3: the hunt. Yeah, I guess the Jets conceivably could be.
Speaker 2: The Dolphins have the Raiders this week. I mean, they
Speaker 2: should win that game.
Speaker 3: Bet they win that game.
Speaker 2: Then again, the Raiders beat the Ravens.
Speaker 3: They're one of the dreadful teams though. Yeah, I know, people.
Speaker 3: One last thing here, Yeah, you talk about the Mike
Speaker 3: Tomlin game.
Speaker 2: You lose these Mike Tomlin games. Here's the thing. Under
Speaker 2: Tomlin as an underdog, the Steelers are fifty eight thirty
Speaker 2: two and three as an underdog against against the spread.
Speaker 3: Against the spread, So they keep the games close and
Speaker 3: minimum or win it or win them. He actually they
Speaker 3: win a lot of those.
Speaker 2: He has a winning record as an underdog regardless of
Speaker 2: where it's play at.
Speaker 3: Because some of those are probably ten point games when
Speaker 3: you have doc or I mean, like they're not all
Speaker 3: one and a half or you know, small lines.
Speaker 2: They've won their past five regular season games outright as
Speaker 2: an underdog.
Speaker 3: Wow, and they're.
Speaker 2: Eighteen and ten in Tomlin's career outright as a home underdog.
Speaker 3: Eighteen and ten as a home dog, which is this week, folks.
Speaker 2: And they've already won one of these earlier this year
Speaker 2: when they beat the Jets.
Speaker 3: I wonder how manyaly, I wonder how many those twenty
Speaker 3: eight games were divisional. I don't know, I mean, I know,
Speaker 3: I'm just kidding. There's gonna be a pretty decent percentage.
Speaker 3: I mean, six out of seventeen games. I don't know
Speaker 3: if they I mean, because most of the time it
Speaker 3: would always be almost always be Baltimore, almost Baltimore. Well,
Speaker 3: since he had some good teams.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I don't think they'd be favored here. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think I think you're looking at New England, You're
Speaker 2: looking at the City, San Francisco, Kansas City teams like that,
Speaker 2: because you got you gotta be really good to come
Speaker 2: to Pittsburgh and be favored. Because they've been this is
Speaker 2: in Tomlin's career. Like, they've had a lot of good teams. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and they've also had some eight nights in the eight
Speaker 2: and eights. They're winning some a lot of these games.
Speaker 3: At home, I'm sure a lot of them actually, instead
Speaker 3: of the Vision more I think about it, are probably
Speaker 3: against AFC first place teams from the year before that
Speaker 3: you get because you were in first place too, or
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, New England. Maybe it comes
Speaker 3: to mind a lot Kansas City recently. Kansas City will
Speaker 3: probably be favored here at Christmas, I would think so,
Speaker 3: I would think so. Yeah, they're a dog in Buffalo.
Speaker 2: I mean, the Steelers have been underdogs this already this season,
Speaker 2: probably about half the time. They were underdogs last week
Speaker 2: and then when that came out right now, as I said,
Speaker 2: they've they've won their past five regular season games outright
Speaker 2: as an underdog.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's crazy. They were dogs in Atlanta. I wonder
Speaker 3: if that's the longest streak in the league.
Speaker 2: Man, I don't know that. I bet it's it's got
Speaker 2: to be.
Speaker 3: I mean, Vegas knows stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, So, I mean they've they've done well as
Speaker 2: an underdog and their three point on it's not like
Speaker 2: they are an overwhelming underdog this weekend.
Speaker 3: That's the other thing I was going to say, which
Speaker 3: is as impressive is I bet most of those lines
Speaker 3: are under four that there were dogs because they've never
Speaker 3: been terrible, right, you know, and you're in your building
Speaker 3: and you're going to.
Speaker 2: Find a way to win more. Almost almost two out
Speaker 2: of three three really high percentage. So yeah, if you're
Speaker 2: looking at something to give you a little hope this week,
Speaker 2: that's what we're here for. There's a lot of stuff
Speaker 2: for that, absolutely, but that's going to do it for
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