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Speaker 1: here's your host. And then there were four four teams
Speaker 1: left super Bowl looming. It's the a f C and
Speaker 1: NFC championship weeks. I am Paul Tcharchi and my co
Speaker 1: host Brian Johnson once again for these playoff games. Hi, Brian,
Speaker 1: what's going on charge? Good to talk to you. I
Speaker 1: I think some of us would have picked these four teams,
Speaker 1: but not necessarily most people. Uh yeah, most of us
Speaker 1: weren't picking the Niners. But yeah, I just I just
Speaker 1: sort of gave him a chance when I said the
Speaker 1: Giants went in eight nine years ago, is massive underdogs
Speaker 1: and upset the number one seed Packers and anything could happen,
Speaker 1: and anything did happen. Yeah, it was that was a
Speaker 1: that was a shocking outcome. Honestly, I was really stunned
Speaker 1: for about twenty four hours after that game that, given
Speaker 1: the offensive performance of the forty Niners that they won
Speaker 1: that game. Yeah, I mean in Green Bay marched right
Speaker 1: down the field. First it looked so cool. It's uh,
Speaker 1: it was the best weekend of football ever. I'm concerned.
Speaker 1: And now we've got two games that are going to
Speaker 1: struggle to live up to that just by default, but
Speaker 1: it should be good games. Anyway. I got forty Niners
Speaker 1: wrong last week. I said, I thought that Brian, that
Speaker 1: they had just they might just be wrung out that
Speaker 1: they have done so many road games. Then it was
Speaker 1: six of eight on the road. Now there's seven of
Speaker 1: nine on the road, and that you know, they've been
Speaker 1: basically playing playoff games since Christmas for Pete's sake, and
Speaker 1: you know, here we are February looming, and I was
Speaker 1: worried they had run out of gas. I was wrong
Speaker 1: about that. We'll talk about forty Niners rams in just
Speaker 1: a minute, but let's start with the a f C
Speaker 1: side as your team. You know, you jumped on the
Speaker 1: you jumped on the Bengals band way. It was pre
Speaker 1: Borrow band way. That's saying something. I did a lot
Speaker 1: of flags for that. You did, you did it well
Speaker 1: not I think was still black. People said I was insane,
Speaker 1: like you're gonna pick a team, dude, four And I
Speaker 1: was like, you can't get any worse than They're only
Speaker 1: going up where they were at that point. Al Right,
Speaker 1: nobody will accuse you of being a bandwagon jumper at
Speaker 1: that time. So Bengals travel to the Chiefs this I
Speaker 1: would not be surprised if either team won. The spreads
Speaker 1: like three and a half. So it's it's seven, it's seven,
Speaker 1: which is shocking, is it really? Yeah? Bengals are seven.
Speaker 1: Bengals in the points all the way. I'd like a
Speaker 1: money line, especially considering these teams played in Week seventeen.
Speaker 1: Granted it was in Cincinnati. The Bengals won that game one,
Speaker 1: so we'll reference that game for sure. Over under fifty
Speaker 1: four and a half points, high scoring game. Funny things,
Speaker 1: Both defenses are pretty good. Bengals defense is better than
Speaker 1: people think. What's pretty good too is the weather forty
Speaker 1: three degrees and clear minimum wins. Can't ask for anything
Speaker 1: better this time a year in Kansas City. Should be
Speaker 1: uh again, should be high scoring games, should be fun
Speaker 1: for fantasy purposes. Um, we'll start with the running game
Speaker 1: though with the Bengals and Joe Mixing. Initially, I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give Mixing and a and this one. It's
Speaker 1: a shootout, right, But I'm just gonna give him a
Speaker 1: b here. He did not have a good game on
Speaker 1: the ground against the Chiefs in that week's seventeen game,
Speaker 1: twelve carries for forty six scoreless yards. Casey has been
Speaker 1: good against the run this year. They've only surrendered seven
Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns and running backs in the regular season. That's great,
Speaker 1: really great. Uh. They held Nagi Davis and Devin's Singletary
Speaker 1: in the playoffs to combine fifty five yards on twenty
Speaker 1: two carries. Singletary did run for a touchdown last week,
Speaker 1: but it's more about the receiving angle for mixing in
Speaker 1: this one. He's been very active in the passing game
Speaker 1: as of late, total twenty six targets over his last four.
Speaker 1: In that week seventeen game, he had seven catches for
Speaker 1: forty yards. The Chiefs have allowed the fourth most catches
Speaker 1: and third most receiving arts running backs like that the
Speaker 1: regular season, So a hundred plus combo yards should be
Speaker 1: in the cards. But I would not be shocked if
Speaker 1: if he has more receiving yards than rushing yards in
Speaker 1: this game. So if that reason just to be for him,
Speaker 1: Jamar Chase though he gets an A because he was
Speaker 1: a league winner. Levin catches two hundred and sixty six
Speaker 1: yards and three touchdowns. Now, okay, here the contrary and
Speaker 1: point up for that would be Chiefs go into this
Speaker 1: week of prep and the clear mandate is we're not
Speaker 1: going to let Jamaar Chase beat us again. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: they do whatever it takes to take away Chase. Meanwhile, Higgins,
Speaker 1: Boyd and others might have an opportunity to feast if
Speaker 1: that's how the Chiefs choose to attack this. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: Chiefs have surrendered the fifth most wide receiver touchdowns in
Speaker 1: the regular season. Six wide receiver touchdowns surrendered in the
Speaker 1: playoffs so far, six six two by the Steelers and
Speaker 1: in four by Gabe Davis alone. And that's the angle there,
Speaker 1: uh for te Higgins, if you're trying to be contrarian DFS,
Speaker 1: Chase is gonna be the chalkiest wide receiver. He's He's
Speaker 1: less expensive on no sites than Um Cooper, Cup, Deebo Samuel.
Speaker 1: Then as Jamaar Chase. Everyone's gonna look at the weeks
Speaker 1: seventeen game. But with bodes well for te Higgins, let's
Speaker 1: jump to him. I'll give him a b even though
Speaker 1: I like him more in this game. Is the Chiefs
Speaker 1: held Stefon Diggs to three catches for seven yards last week,
Speaker 1: and Jamaar Chase is the Stefan Biggs of the Bengals,
Speaker 1: right And uh, the just mentioned Gabe Davis two yards
Speaker 1: and four touchdowns. He's the number two receiver for the Bengals,
Speaker 1: So uh, I'm sorry for the Bills. Higgins the number
Speaker 1: two for the Bengals, just three catches sixty two yards
Speaker 1: in the week seventeen game, did not score. It was
Speaker 1: all about Chase, of course, but uh, I like Higgins
Speaker 1: just as much as Chase. And if if you're only
Speaker 1: picking one Bengals receiver pairing with Joe Burrow or not
Speaker 1: in DFS, if you want to be contrarian, you go
Speaker 1: with Tee Higgins. I think he has the chance to
Speaker 1: outproduce Jamaar Chase in this game. Um, the safest play
Speaker 1: might be Tyler Boyd just to see for him. Though
Speaker 1: four catches thirty six yards in a touchdown in the
Speaker 1: week seventeen game, he did not score last week against Tennessee,
Speaker 1: but he had touchdowns in each of the four games prior.
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley Isaiah Mackenzie combined for seven catches on nine
Speaker 1: targets against the Chiefs last week, so slot receivers have
Speaker 1: been active against them. So I like Boyd here and
Speaker 1: going back to DFS one more time. If you're doing
Speaker 1: a big stack with Bengals Burrow, Higgins, Boyd, that's how
Speaker 1: you deferrange your differentiate yourself in bigger tournaments. Uh. And lastly,
Speaker 1: when it comes to the past catchers, we gotta talk
Speaker 1: c j Uzomo is having a great great playoffs just
Speaker 1: four catches thirty two scoreless yards in Week seventeen. Opposing
Speaker 1: tight ends have averaged five catches and fifty fifty two
Speaker 1: yards per game in the regular season against Kansas City,
Speaker 1: which is pretty good, but they've totaled just six touchdowns. Uh.
Speaker 1: Dawson Knox had a meager two catches for nine scoreless
Speaker 1: yards against Kansas City in a in a high scoring affair,
Speaker 1: so it doesn't look like a great matchup for Suzy,
Speaker 1: but neither was Tennessee last week on paper, and he
Speaker 1: had a great game for his standards, so certainly a
Speaker 1: viable play this week, So a see for him and
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow a easy. We had four touchdowns four six
Speaker 1: yards in Week seventeen, got a slew weapons. You gotta
Speaker 1: love Burrow in this one. It feels like those Chiefs
Speaker 1: cornerbacks that have been that overperformed for a long stretch
Speaker 1: of the regular season. It's kind of coming to roost
Speaker 1: now and you know they kind of are who they
Speaker 1: are and to some degree, you know, Mike Hughes uh
Speaker 1: uh assurdavious Award. You know those Hues especially is a
Speaker 1: meager talent awards banged up. I wonder if there's uh,
Speaker 1: I feel like those guys are exploitable at cornerback and
Speaker 1: should mention Honey Badger Tyrone Matthew in concussion protocol right safety,
Speaker 1: but he should he should play in this game, so
Speaker 1: that would be a huge Forenzamaica. But he's trending, he's
Speaker 1: trending towards playing. I expect him to play all right
Speaker 1: over the over the chief side. We'll start with the
Speaker 1: running backs. Darryl Williams got all the work in that
Speaker 1: week seventeen games and he's dead to us now. Yeah
Speaker 1: he might he's uh, he's kind of had setbacks this
Speaker 1: week in practice. Not like it really would have mattered
Speaker 1: anyway if he was active. Or not, he'd be up
Speaker 1: third in that pecking order. But Williams had a hundred
Speaker 1: and seven combo yards and two rushing touchdowns in that game.
Speaker 1: So but he got almost all the work in that game.
Speaker 1: And this feels like we're going to have two different
Speaker 1: guys to get a lot of it's Jerick McKinnon and
Speaker 1: Clyde Edwards Hilaire gonna give him both the CE. McKinnon
Speaker 1: had ten carries for twenty four scoreless yards against Buffalo
Speaker 1: last week. He did catch five passes for fifty four
Speaker 1: yards on seven targets. C E. H was far more
Speaker 1: effective rushing last week, sixty carries on just seven sixty
Speaker 1: yards on seven carries. So I guess we see with
Speaker 1: more rush attempts in this game. Uh, it's really more
Speaker 1: about the receiving angle with Jet here. The Bengals have
Speaker 1: allowed the fifth most catches to running backs in the
Speaker 1: regular season, So I like beginning with the c UM
Speaker 1: and again c H gets a C two mentioned the
Speaker 1: seven carries for sixty yards last week. Josh Jacobs had
Speaker 1: eighty three yards on just thirteen carries in the wild
Speaker 1: card round against the Bengals. Derrick Henry Deante Foreman combined
Speaker 1: for twenty four carries, a hundred yards and a touchdown
Speaker 1: against the Bengals last week. Uh, since he was without
Speaker 1: defensive tackles Josh Tupo and Mike Daniels last week. Both
Speaker 1: have been practicing this week they should play. That will
Speaker 1: help a little bit there, but both both. You gotta
Speaker 1: like both the running backs for the Chief's offense, of course,
Speaker 1: And speaking of liking, nay loving someone, Travis Kelsey, Hey,
Speaker 1: can I give him an A plus? It's off season plus? Well, no,
Speaker 1: you will know what what you can give him is
Speaker 1: the fantasy Fonzie a year. I should have given him that.
Speaker 1: And you know I love my my revenge spite angles.
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey born in Ohio, went to University of Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: There's a Cincinnati universe. I think his University of Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: The Bengals chose to draft Tyler Eifert over Tyler Kelsey
Speaker 1: way back in and there was like four other teams
Speaker 1: that drafted the tight end over Travis Kelsey. They're probably
Speaker 1: still kicking themselves over that. So love Kelsey this week.
Speaker 1: He was somewhat quiet by his standards in that week's
Speaker 1: seventeen game five catches twenty five yards. He did score
Speaker 1: a touchdown, but a great match up here. The Bengals
Speaker 1: were top five in the most catches, yards and touchdown
Speaker 1: surrendered to tight ends in the regular season. Last week,
Speaker 1: Tennessee's tight ends did nothing. But that's pretty understandable, uh,
Speaker 1: since he did yield twelve targets to be very comparable
Speaker 1: Darren Waller. In the wild card round he caught seven. Uh.
Speaker 1: Foster Moreau also saw three targets in that game, so
Speaker 1: tight ends very active against the Bengals. Kelsey is my
Speaker 1: pick for the highest scoring skill position player on this
Speaker 1: slate by far. I don't think I could fade him
Speaker 1: under any circumstances. Really, I will quickly throw out Noah
Speaker 1: Gray as a punt option in DFS. Dirt cheap would
Speaker 1: be a differentiator. If he volters a touchdown. He has
Speaker 1: seen the field in a couple of targets here in there.
Speaker 1: It would be a dirty, dirty touchdown, but you never know. Okay,
Speaker 1: over to Tyreek Hill and the rest of the wide receivers.
Speaker 1: Hill gets an A as well, despite just six catches
Speaker 1: for forty scoreless yards in Week seventeen. In the Week
Speaker 1: seventeen game, I expect a better performance on Sunday. Posing
Speaker 1: wide receivers in the regular season didn't put up great
Speaker 1: numbers against the Bengals, collectively, averaging thirteen catches, one fifty
Speaker 1: six yards and zero point nine touchdowns, less than the
Speaker 1: touchdown per game, but Cincinnati has a surrendered a touchdown
Speaker 1: to the position in sixth straight, including one to A. J.
Speaker 1: Brown last week, who also had a hundred forty two yards.
Speaker 1: Tennessee Whiteouts combined for two hundred and seven yards in
Speaker 1: that game. Uh. The week prior, Las Vegas wide receivers
Speaker 1: total seventeen catches on six yards in a touchdown. So
Speaker 1: easy a for Tyree Hill and over to Byron Pringle
Speaker 1: and Nicole Hardman. Uh. We like Pringle Moore on this show.
Speaker 1: I'm giving both the c uh Pringle the stronger. See.
Speaker 1: In Week seventeen, Pringle had three and my guy, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm big, I'm I'm big into the Pringle. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: had three catches thirty five yards, didn't score. Hardman one
Speaker 1: catch fifty three yards didn't score. Neither did much. But
Speaker 1: over the last three games, Pringle has seen seven targets
Speaker 1: and all at least seven targets in all three, he's
Speaker 1: pulling away from the pack a little bit. Like I
Speaker 1: keep interrupting, No, no no worries. Uh, twenty two targets over
Speaker 1: that three game span. Hardman has sixteen targets over that
Speaker 1: same span, but just five total over his last two games.
Speaker 1: Like you said, Pringle has has separated himself from Hardman's
Speaker 1: And you know, I think that I think that one
Speaker 1: of the reasons you saw Josh Gordon get demoted to
Speaker 1: the practice squad is because springs Pringle's snap count and
Speaker 1: effectiveness has gotten so high that there's just there's no place,
Speaker 1: there's no plays left for Josh Gordon on the field anymore.
Speaker 1: And and DeMarcus Robinson is still ahead of Josh Gordon.
Speaker 1: I'll throw him his name out there quickly. He he
Speaker 1: does get a bench created, but he has another punt
Speaker 1: play option in DFS, he's gonna be on the field.
Speaker 1: And in this what should be a high scoring affair
Speaker 1: can pay the same amount basically for Pringle in a
Speaker 1: DFS world, right, and you know a little more than
Speaker 1: like it's a grand twelve hundred or something like that.
Speaker 1: It's enough of a difference. But uh not not loving
Speaker 1: DeMarcus Robinson to llege obviously, and but in last and
Speaker 1: certainly not least, Patrick Mahomes gets an a just two
Speaker 1: passing yards two touchdowns. In the week's seventeen game, we
Speaker 1: mentioned that Williams, Darryl Williams had two rushing touchdowns. Uh,
Speaker 1: Mahomes had twenty five rushing yards in that game. Josh
Speaker 1: Allen had I don't know a good amount of rushing
Speaker 1: yards as the Bengals last week, and he had about
Speaker 1: I mean against the Chief he had I think sixty
Speaker 1: if memory serves. And the Bengals that allow the sixth
Speaker 1: most passing yards of this season. Not not They're a
Speaker 1: good defense, not great. Mahomes is a great quarterback. Should
Speaker 1: be a great game. But who go Bengals, Go Bengals.
Speaker 1: We'll take a break. When we come back, we'll break
Speaker 1: down forty nine at Rams Fantasy Football Weekly Styles. Stay tuned,
Speaker 1: Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. Forty Niners take on the Rams,
Speaker 1: and obviously, these teams met twice in the regular season.
Speaker 1: You would think, since the Rams are favored in this game,
Speaker 1: that they would have won any of those two, but no,
Speaker 1: those are forty Niners victories. And you mentioned how that
Speaker 1: the Forts have been somewhat road Warriors. Uh, they have.
Speaker 1: This is trending. Despite the Rams efforts to suppress ticket sales,
Speaker 1: it's still it's gonna be more in this game. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be at least and they're real fans too. The
Speaker 1: Rams fans are gonna be like extras from like the
Speaker 1: paramount set or something like the It's not as bad
Speaker 1: as when the Chargers play it so far, right, I
Speaker 1: mean that's like the Rams because they moved to l
Speaker 1: A and immediately went to the Super Bowl, have gotten
Speaker 1: a legitimate fan base. So I still think it's going
Speaker 1: to be I think it will be more Rams fans
Speaker 1: than Niners fans, but there will be plenty of They
Speaker 1: Area money that's bought their way into so far one
Speaker 1: way or another. Um. Rams lost both of the games,
Speaker 1: including the Niners win an in game and Week eighteen,
Speaker 1: we want to watch the status of the ankle injury
Speaker 1: to elite left tackle Trent Williams. That is a big
Speaker 1: X factor in this game, so something you want to
Speaker 1: watch there as well. Let's start with the Let's start
Speaker 1: with the running game. Elijah Mitchell just gets a C
Speaker 1: grade for me. Uh. He had the thirteen carries last week,
Speaker 1: which was way way way down for me. Probably rolled
Speaker 1: into that averaging twice as many, but that Packer bad
Speaker 1: weather game, Niners offense couldn't get in and go in
Speaker 1: lots of punts. Um, you know. Even factoring in that
Speaker 1: thirteen carry game the last six games, he's still averaging
Speaker 1: twenty three carries per game, which I do like. In
Speaker 1: the two meetings with the Rams this year, Elijah Mitchell
Speaker 1: carried the ball forty eight times, both of them wins.
Speaker 1: One of them was a lopsided wins, so they gave
Speaker 1: Mitchell lots of carries, but he wasn't efficient. The average
Speaker 1: just three and a half yards per carry. That was
Speaker 1: a full yard under his season average. Against the Rams,
Speaker 1: there's a good run defense. He seemed declining rushing averages
Speaker 1: in four straight games, down to just three yards per
Speaker 1: carry last week, Brian, and with that knee injury, I
Speaker 1: just feel like Elijah Mitchell, just the efficiency and the
Speaker 1: effectiveness just doesn't feel like it's there right now. And
Speaker 1: then add in he's never played this much football in
Speaker 1: one year either, well not even close. Yeah. Adding Deebo
Speaker 1: Samuel with back to back ten carry games, and my
Speaker 1: sky high confidence for Mitchell that I had had at
Speaker 1: the end of the season and even in the first
Speaker 1: couple of games of the playoffs. Uh, it's chiseled away
Speaker 1: a little bit. And so I am nervous about Mitchell.
Speaker 1: I like his chances of scoring. L A is allowed
Speaker 1: to touchdown per game over the last nine games. Uh.
Speaker 1: And Jeff Wilson may very well not play. He did
Speaker 1: not practice on Wednesday or Thursday. Not sure about Friday yet.
Speaker 1: Um so well, Um, I've got the sea Grantam Mitchell.
Speaker 1: I think he finds the end zone here, but I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised for you. Peters out in like the
Speaker 1: fifty yard range, sixty yard range. Yeah. Leonard Fournette had
Speaker 1: a great game behind a battered old line for the Books,
Speaker 1: and he was dinged up himself. Had a good game
Speaker 1: against the Rams last week. If Trent Williams comes back,
Speaker 1: we'll we'll knock Elijah Mitchell up to a B grade,
Speaker 1: But he sits at a C right now with with
Speaker 1: not knowing what Trent Williams status is. Um I mentioned
Speaker 1: there's really no other running backs to mention, but we'll
Speaker 1: use that as our transition to Deebo Samuel, who I
Speaker 1: mentioned had the ten carries and back to back games
Speaker 1: just frankly looks fresher as a running back than Mitchell does.
Speaker 1: The knee injury, all the carries, everything else from Mitchell
Speaker 1: Um and I think it was very telling at the
Speaker 1: end of last week's game, Brian, when the Niners had
Speaker 1: had to get a first down to Salt Way the
Speaker 1: Packers on their own field and arctic conditions, they ran
Speaker 1: the ball with their wide receiver, Deebo Samuel. He's got
Speaker 1: to touch the ball at least twenty times in this
Speaker 1: game for them to have a chance. Well, not not carries,
Speaker 1: I'm talking catches, and still if they're gonna win, I
Speaker 1: mean I'd love it. Don't get me wrong, but that
Speaker 1: is a lot of touches for Deebo Samuel Um monster
Speaker 1: games for Deebo and both meetings with Los Angeles three
Speaker 1: touchdowns spread against across the two games. Hundred and forty
Speaker 1: total yards, hundred thirty three total yards. A grade for
Speaker 1: Deebo Samuel in this one. Brandon Aok gets a B grade.
Speaker 1: He had a huge game in the Week sixteen, sorry,
Speaker 1: the Week eighteen game against the Rams with the Rams
Speaker 1: trying to finally, you know, stop Samuel and do anything
Speaker 1: they can to stop Samuel. There's gonna be opportunities for
Speaker 1: ayou can in better coverage. In the two games against
Speaker 1: the Rams has seen only Jalen Ramsey for one pass attempt.
Speaker 1: They really use Ramsey on Deebo Samuel. So he's doing
Speaker 1: a very good job. I like I you can this
Speaker 1: one be great for him. He's gonna get softer coverage
Speaker 1: against David Long and Darius Williams. Darius Williams looked awful
Speaker 1: when the Bucks were coming, like there was a sixth
Speaker 1: straight plays and then he couldn't make Yeah, he bad.
Speaker 1: So that's why I like you. I think I think
Speaker 1: it's a nice I think it's a nice sneaky play here.
Speaker 1: Sticking with the receivers, I want to talk about Juan Jennings.
Speaker 1: Last week I told you I liked Jennings because slot
Speaker 1: receivers had some success against the Bucks. He only ended
Speaker 1: up with like two catches for ten yards, but he
Speaker 1: did have a drop. He had he had one drop
Speaker 1: and then another near miss that would have put him
Speaker 1: closer to forty yards. Anyway, he scored twice against the
Speaker 1: Niners in the Week eight team matchup from inside the
Speaker 1: five yard line. Jennings has as many catches as the
Speaker 1: rest of the team combined this year from inside the
Speaker 1: five yard line. So if you're looking for a cheap
Speaker 1: touchdown in DFS, John Jennings is a possibility. I will
Speaker 1: mention Mohammed san who is going to return from his
Speaker 1: knee injury in this game and could take a little
Speaker 1: the slot work, but I really don't think so, because
Speaker 1: Jenny has been better. I keep forgetting that he's on
Speaker 1: the team. I know well, he hasn't played since Week nine,
Speaker 1: so that's a good Travis Benjamin on the fort too,
Speaker 1: I think mostly in a special team's role, but yes,
Speaker 1: let's go to the tight end position of George Kittle.
Speaker 1: Rams are solid tight end defense. Only two tight ends
Speaker 1: had six receptions against the Rams all year. It was
Speaker 1: Mark Andrews and t J. Hockenson. Neither one of him scored.
Speaker 1: They had eighty nine yards for Andrews just forty eight
Speaker 1: yards on the six receptions for t J. Hockenson. Last week,
Speaker 1: Tom Brady targeted Gronk eleven times, only four completions. There's
Speaker 1: a good tight end defense. No tight end has scored
Speaker 1: against the Rams since Week ten, but in Week ten
Speaker 1: it was George George Kittle, Yeah, he got it. I
Speaker 1: think he has a long running good history against the
Speaker 1: Rams for whatever reason. I have the numbers in front
Speaker 1: of me, but only had ten yards in the week
Speaker 1: A team meeting. Though also I'll mention that did not
Speaker 1: score in that meeting. Um before last week, and Kittle
Speaker 1: had kind of a little of a breakout game, he
Speaker 1: was by far it was the only receiver do anything
Speaker 1: against the Packers last week. He had been held under
Speaker 1: twenty nine yards in four straight games. They've been badly
Speaker 1: under use it, under utilizing George Kittle. Prior to last week,
Speaker 1: he had like one of the worst drops you would
Speaker 1: ever see, and then then and then the very next target,
Speaker 1: it was like one of the most amazing, no, one
Speaker 1: of those amazing catches you've ever seen. The complete gin
Speaker 1: and Yang of pass catching ability they did. They did
Speaker 1: it up getting that same like thirty ish yard completion
Speaker 1: I will look like ultimately the same route later in
Speaker 1: that same game to Kittle. So I gotta be great
Speaker 1: on Kittle. Tough matchup, but Kittle's pretty special. They still
Speaker 1: need to go to him. But I don't see the
Speaker 1: a upside that you often get from George Kittle at
Speaker 1: the tight end position, and in DFS I probably would
Speaker 1: not pay his price tag in this matchup. I believe
Speaker 1: that is everybody. That is everybody for San Francisco. Jimmy Garoppolo,
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, sorry. So you know, given that we've got
Speaker 1: an A grade on Samuel to Be grades on his receivers,
Speaker 1: a C grade on John Jennings, I've got a B
Speaker 1: grade on Garoppolo here surprisingly safe despite the fact that
Speaker 1: he hasn't scored in two straight games, but prior to that,
Speaker 1: he had scored in every single game this year that
Speaker 1: he had played in, and he had topped two hundred
Speaker 1: nine nine yards in four of the last five regular
Speaker 1: season games, including putting up three d sixteen yards against
Speaker 1: these same Rams and Week A team. Uh B, Jimmy Garoppolo,
Speaker 1: don't don't see this is I think this is a
Speaker 1: great contrarian play. Recently, everybody's thinking about this Packer game.
Speaker 1: Garoppolo look bad, the arctic conditions, getting drops over the field,
Speaker 1: all that stuff. I love flipping it to a contrarian play.
Speaker 1: Some people have given up all hope, so I do
Speaker 1: real quick. It's not a story. But he's four man
Speaker 1: uh or woman teams on underdog the best ball, UH
Speaker 1: site and you can you have to pick up quarterback.
Speaker 1: You only get one quarterback, and of course Garoppolo is
Speaker 1: the last quarterback taken. And when I whenever I'm stuck
Speaker 1: with the San Francisco San Francisco quarterback, I'll take Garoppolo.
Speaker 1: But you see some people just taking tray Lance. But
Speaker 1: granted they are trying to differentiate themselves from the field.
Speaker 1: But Lance commit. Could Lance committ at the goal line
Speaker 1: and still a rushing touchdown? Not impossible, but they haven't
Speaker 1: used him that way since the beginning of the season,
Speaker 1: so it would be it would be a deep callback.
Speaker 1: I feel like more people are banking on a benching
Speaker 1: than just like a or an injury. He has injured, right,
Speaker 1: Garppolo still got the shoulder and finger. But yeah, actually
Speaker 1: I feel I feel pretty good about Garoppolo. If you're gonna,
Speaker 1: if you want to go contrarian at quarterback, this is
Speaker 1: your play. Obviously, with only the other four quarterbacks are
Speaker 1: also he'll be under like five the big time. Probably true.
Speaker 1: Probably true. Let's go to the rams, uh, let's start
Speaker 1: running game on the ramps and cam acres. Who he
Speaker 1: he relegated Tony Sony Michelle to the bench. Last week.
Speaker 1: He's winning. He won the time share battle eight one
Speaker 1: of the naps to of the snaps. I still can't
Speaker 1: believe he's back playing after I can't get this level.
Speaker 1: And yeah, his running looks pretty good for cam Akers,
Speaker 1: but he nearly fumbled the game away last week. Two
Speaker 1: lost fumbles. If he has an early fumble in this game, Brian,
Speaker 1: the bend benching is not is not impossible here. You
Speaker 1: can't you. It's a good time to go in the doghouse.
Speaker 1: If you're fumbling the ball, there's no no time to gap.
Speaker 1: You can't on the field. Single elimination playoffs. Niners are
Speaker 1: great run defense. Forty Niners finished six against the run
Speaker 1: during the regular season, giving up just seventy five yards
Speaker 1: per game. No runner his top fifty eight yards since
Speaker 1: Week nine. That's early November, to tell you how long
Speaker 1: ago Week nine was. And that includes in the playoffs
Speaker 1: Zeke thirty one yards, Aaron Jones forty one yards, and
Speaker 1: that was with A. J. Dillon missing half of the game.
Speaker 1: Small small numbers. Through the second half of the season,
Speaker 1: including the playoffs, San Francisco is giving up just three
Speaker 1: point four yards per carry, which would have made them
Speaker 1: the number one run defense across the full season. Do
Speaker 1: you have any concerns with Damiko Ryan's defensive coordinators drawing
Speaker 1: a lot of interest as a head coaching candid people
Speaker 1: in here in Minnesota. Distract is that it not letting
Speaker 1: him interview yet he's not allowed to with the new
Speaker 1: league rules. So they made a rule. Yeah, they do
Speaker 1: it during the bye week, back in the bye week,
Speaker 1: or you gotta wait till after They didn't know that, yea,
Speaker 1: that they should have been doing that basically forever. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, because it happened to know. Yeah, alright, so
Speaker 1: that's cam Akers. I'm I'm pretty down on cam Akers here.
Speaker 1: I'm giving him a C grade for the reasons that
Speaker 1: I just mentioned. Let's go to the passing game, and
Speaker 1: I want to start with Cooper Cup. Of course obvious a.
Speaker 1: He had overeen yards and both of the games against
Speaker 1: the forty niners running out of the slot. He goes
Speaker 1: against Kwan Williams. Kwan isn't bad, he hasn't a lot
Speaker 1: of He's not allowed to touch down all year, But
Speaker 1: who cares? Cooper Cups a monster. He's going to get
Speaker 1: his numbers and he still gets an A grade. Speaking
Speaker 1: of almost fumbling the game away, he almost did the
Speaker 1: same thing. Well, he did fumble which almost led to
Speaker 1: the whole game going bye bye for the Rams, but
Speaker 1: correct although the cam Akers fumble at the goal line
Speaker 1: at the end of the first half, massive implications on
Speaker 1: the whole rest of the game. Really um okay, And
Speaker 1: so Cooper Cups and obviously let's talk about ob jam
Speaker 1: putting him down at his seat level here with Cooper
Speaker 1: Cups sitting on you know what should be a pretty
Speaker 1: good game, is there enough left to go around for
Speaker 1: oh b J. We have seen some tandems do okay
Speaker 1: against the forty niners. Feeling and Jefferson did okay, Higgins
Speaker 1: and Chase did okayt Cafine Lot did did okay. But
Speaker 1: it's hardly a lock, and more often than not, teams
Speaker 1: playing the forty Niners it's only the main guy that
Speaker 1: performs reliably well and generally are not too deep. And
Speaker 1: that includes in the playoffs when only Davante Adams got
Speaker 1: paid and only Amrii Cooper got paid. Nobody else on
Speaker 1: either team, no receiver on either team did anything, including
Speaker 1: by the way, Ceedee lamb who is a disaster? I
Speaker 1: know exactly joke. If that's the whole we'll have whole
Speaker 1: offseason shows on Ceedee lamb Um. O b J is
Speaker 1: very touchdown dependent, with less than thirty nine yards and
Speaker 1: four of the past five games he's gonna face cornerback
Speaker 1: Dante Johnson the most often. Johnson is roughly fourth string
Speaker 1: here on the always churning Niners secondary. I don't like
Speaker 1: him very much, but the Niners have been have been
Speaker 1: battling gamely with marginal replacement level cornerbacks all year long,
Speaker 1: So I've just got the C grade on O. B J.
Speaker 1: You need the touchdown. If he doesn't give you the touchdown,
Speaker 1: he hurts your team, but he might score then. Van
Speaker 1: Jefferson's on the bench. He's dealing with the knee injury.
Speaker 1: Super low volume makes him unstartable. He has had one
Speaker 1: or two catches in five of the past six games.
Speaker 1: Can't count on I can't count anything here for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: if he's inactive or not for whatever reason, if he
Speaker 1: holds him out or he gets hurt in game. It's
Speaker 1: with Ben Sco and Wreck. So there's a punt option
Speaker 1: for you if you're you're desperate, but I'd rather go
Speaker 1: to Tyler Higbee. He had two good games against San
Speaker 1: Francisco this year. The first game thirty eight yards, touchdown,
Speaker 1: second game fifty five yards and two touchdowns, but those
Speaker 1: games are mostly an outlier for Higby. The average tight
Speaker 1: end game against San Francisco is just thirty five catches
Speaker 1: and and thirty four yards per game. UM Diners have
Speaker 1: been a good tight end defense. Dalin Schultz did put
Speaker 1: up eighty nine yards in the first playoff game, but
Speaker 1: then last week the Green Bay tight ends, granted they're
Speaker 1: not good. They didn't even catch a pass so well.
Speaker 1: Mars Eighties Lewis did, but he fumbled it away. And
Speaker 1: speaking of game losing bumbles or contributing to games lost,
Speaker 1: way to go Marcin. Yeah, actually I think he got
Speaker 1: to zero yards on that play. I think he had
Speaker 1: a zero yard box score. Maybe I just misread it,
Speaker 1: but all right, So then let's go to the final
Speaker 1: player left here, Matthew Stafford. I've got an A grade
Speaker 1: on Cup, I've got to C grades on on O
Speaker 1: b J and Tyler Higbee. B grade on Stafford here
Speaker 1: um one good game against San Francisco, one bad game,
Speaker 1: against San Francisco. The Niners are a good past defense
Speaker 1: that plays better than its talent would suggest. The average
Speaker 1: passing game against San Francisco over the past six games
Speaker 1: just two d twenty yards and one point one touchdowns.
Speaker 1: And obviously, these have been playoff games, and good team
Speaker 1: most predominantly good teams in this mix, including Matthew Stafford,
Speaker 1: is part of that two and twenty yards and one
Speaker 1: point one touchdowns. I'm I'm lukewarm on him here, that's it.
Speaker 1: I'm with you. Who you got, I've got forty Niners,
Speaker 1: even though I keep waiting for the other shoe to
Speaker 1: drop at this point, why not thet I like San
Speaker 1: fran To, even though they don't like being called San
Speaker 1: fran in San fran Like, who you got? I've got
Speaker 1: I've got Chiefs just because I can't get my cell
Speaker 1: off to take Patrick Mahomes. You know, go against Patrick
Speaker 1: Mahomes and Arrowhead. How about you. You've got Bengals. I
Speaker 1: gotta go Bengals. It's gonna be a great game, or
Speaker 1: we can only hope it's a great game. And the Chiefs,
Speaker 1: obviously season playoff veterans at this point, been too two
Speaker 1: straight Super Bowls. But I don't know that that game
Speaker 1: last week that a little bit well, not radily, but
Speaker 1: you know, it was an emotional roller coaster for him.
Speaker 1: I don't think they might be spent maybe a little bit.
Speaker 1: There could be they could come out flat in this one.
Speaker 1: I was talking to Paul Allen, my radio friend Paul Allen,
Speaker 1: and he was he was in Las Vegas last weekend
Speaker 1: and into this week, and he he placed a first
Speaker 1: half wager on the Bengals for exactly that reason. I
Speaker 1: felt like there was there was a good chance that
Speaker 1: the Chiefs were going to come out flat in this
Speaker 1: because of all just all the emotions of the win
Speaker 1: from last week. Yeah, unbelievable. Uh, we'll find out. We'll
Speaker 1: find out. We'll break down the Super Bowl game in
Speaker 1: two weeks. Not sure what we're gonna do next week.
Speaker 1: Talk about Ceedee Lamb at the Ceedee Lamb Show. We
Speaker 1: do a way too early, like first round mock or
Speaker 1: something like that for next year. We'll figure it out.
Speaker 1: We'll figure it out. Thanks for listening to everybody. We'll
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