Speaker 1: Wow, Hey everybody, It's Thursday, December nineteenth, twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the NFL Fantasy Football Show, where we're down
Speaker 1: with Costco hot Dogs too man, your man, MG Marcus
Speaker 1: Grand joined by Michael f.
Speaker 2: Florio.
Speaker 3: Here we are. It is week sixteen. I don't know
Speaker 3: about you.
Speaker 1: Like we've talked about how fast this season is going,
Speaker 1: it feels like things have ground to a halt this week?
Speaker 3: Is it just me?
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, a little bit? Like for me, I feel
Speaker 2: like every week.
Speaker 4: Is just like you blink and it's like, oh man,
Speaker 4: it's Thursday already, Like where did the week go?
Speaker 2: But yeah, I don't I get. You know what it is.
Speaker 4: It's the holidays and stuff so on top of because
Speaker 4: you know it every day in season, every Monday.
Speaker 2: Is the same, every Tuesday is the same.
Speaker 4: But now you add in outside factors like holidays still
Speaker 4: for Disney on ice yea, and there you go.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, everybody else is sitting down watching the doubleheader
Speaker 1: of the NFL. I will be watching costume characters skate
Speaker 1: around at Staple Center in downtown Los Angeles, because you know,
Speaker 1: family and holidays and that's it's not all bad for
Speaker 1: sure for sure. Anyway, we got our Week sixteen calls,
Speaker 1: Florio and I will do a club dub or red
Speaker 1: Flags and the Snorlas. But let's start with a couple
Speaker 1: of quick fantasy headlines. News out of San Francisco where
Speaker 1: it hits just keep on coming for the forty nine ers.
Speaker 1: They cannot keep a healthy running back for anything. It
Speaker 1: looks like Isaac Garrindo unlikely to play this week against
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins, that is the Sunday night football game
Speaker 1: this week. We talked about this earlier in the week, Florio.
Speaker 1: It was a game that, on paper when they scheduled
Speaker 1: it they released the schedule, looked like it was going
Speaker 1: to be a huge game with two teams you figured
Speaker 1: would be certainly competing for a playoff spot, maybe even
Speaker 1: for their division titles, and staid they are both six
Speaker 1: and eight, so likely, Isaac Garndo, how confident would you
Speaker 1: be to put Patrick Taylor in a lineup this week?
Speaker 4: Not insanely confident, but like I have a league where
Speaker 4: I was texting you about it today. I lost David
Speaker 4: Montgomery U and then my other flex option was Amari Cooper,
Speaker 4: who gave a zero last week. So like, I am
Speaker 4: going back and forth, like do I want to plug
Speaker 4: in Patrick Taylor over Amari Cooper because I'm playing a miror.
Speaker 2: Of Doula as my RB two. That's where we're at
Speaker 2: this week. I'm like, Okay, I have more confidence in
Speaker 2: a mirror of Doula that I'm starting him.
Speaker 4: But to me, this kind of is exactly what we
Speaker 4: broke down last week when we thought it would Isaac
Speaker 4: Grenda would not be playing like Patrick Taylor. I expect
Speaker 4: to get the first opportunity probably lead this backfield because
Speaker 4: he's been there so long and all of that, but
Speaker 4: it could easily be a hot hand approach and end
Speaker 4: up being one of the other backs that just looks
Speaker 4: better and gets more of the work. So there's definitely
Speaker 4: risk there. The reward, though, is like he could POTENTI
Speaker 4: the the RB one on a Kyle Shanahan run system
Speaker 4: in a good matchup.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's sort of what we hope for, right.
Speaker 1: The whole reason we even bring the names up is
Speaker 1: because Kyle Shanahan, I guess, even going back to his dad,
Speaker 1: Mike Shanahan, they used to just be able to plug
Speaker 1: in running backs and find success.
Speaker 3: So maybe that's sort of the hope.
Speaker 1: But you know, who knows if it's Taylor, maybe israel
Speaker 1: A Bani Honda slides in there some kind of way,
Speaker 1: you know. Plus also the fact that the Niner offense
Speaker 1: has just not been as explosive this year for any
Speaker 1: number of reasons, even to the point that they're talking
Speaker 1: about Trent Williams might not play again this season. So
Speaker 1: that's a big loss on the offensive line for this team.
Speaker 1: So definitely a calculated risk. I think, certainly I would
Speaker 1: be more inclined to play him in a daily lineup.
Speaker 3: I'm not.
Speaker 1: I don't know that I can plug him into like
Speaker 1: a fantasy playoff lineup and hope for the best. I
Speaker 1: would definitely think i'd look elsewhere besides Patrick Taylor and
Speaker 1: San Francisco. Meanwhile, in Atlanta, Michael Pinnocks junior, we talked
Speaker 1: about him being elevated to the starting job for the
Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons. But a fun fact, he was waiting at
Speaker 1: Costco for a hot dog when he got the news
Speaker 1: that he was starting Florida. I don't know if you've
Speaker 1: ever talked about this on air. We've talked about this,
Speaker 1: just you know, amongst ourselves. We are all fans of
Speaker 1: the Costco hot dog here on this show?
Speaker 3: Huge fan?
Speaker 4: I mean you get a not only is it like
Speaker 4: a hot dog, it's like a legit jumbo hot dog.
Speaker 4: Like if you got that at a baseball stadium that
Speaker 4: things costing you like fourteen dollars.
Speaker 2: You get it with a soda for a dollar fifty a.
Speaker 4: Look, I'm not I'm not too proud to say I
Speaker 4: haven't had a Costco hot dog in a couple of
Speaker 4: slices of Costco pizza for dinner here and there, like
Speaker 4: when you're going shopping at Costco, which, look, I need
Speaker 4: to prepare myself mentally to do so.
Speaker 2: That's like the reward for you.
Speaker 1: After Absolutely no, the Costco hot dog is a legit
Speaker 1: one of the great bargains in American life, one of
Speaker 1: the great values in American life. There are two things
Speaker 1: that make Costco great gas and hot dogs. I guess
Speaker 1: the hot dogs give you gas, not that kind of
Speaker 1: gas anyway, it's a whole thing. But the Michael Pinnix
Speaker 1: NFL quarterbacks, they're just like us. They love Costco hot
Speaker 1: dogs as well too.
Speaker 2: Do you think he got recognized at Costco?
Speaker 1: Probably not. I would imagine like Michael Pintix. But that's
Speaker 1: the thing about NFL players that they're generally pretty anonymous,
Speaker 1: Like because they wear a helmet, you don't necessarily know
Speaker 1: what they look like. And you certainly wouldn't think that
Speaker 1: the starting quarterback first round pick for the Atlanta Falcons
Speaker 1: would be kicking it at Costco waiting for a hot dog,
Speaker 1: you know. So, I'm sure he was able to eat
Speaker 1: his hot dog relative peace, but maybe not anymore if
Speaker 1: he plays well coming up this week.
Speaker 4: He said he wasn't hungry once he got that call.
Speaker 4: I'm like, dude, eat the hot dog.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he pays your round fifty, Like finish the dog man,
Speaker 1: like go go, not get out for sure. Anyway, let's
Speaker 1: get to some of our calls for week sixteen. We'll
Speaker 1: start with Club dub, the non quarterback, who's going to
Speaker 1: be the top scorer this week?
Speaker 3: And the winner is.
Speaker 4: I like your answer better than mine, but I'm gonna
Speaker 4: go with Mike Evans here because we keep talking about it, Marcus,
Speaker 4: like they have. We've reached the time of the year
Speaker 4: where incentives matter, and I don't think there's a team
Speaker 4: with more incentive than trying to get Mike Evans to
Speaker 4: one thousand yards. Like, look, he's undoubtedly the greatest Bucks
Speaker 4: receiver in their history. I think he's up there for
Speaker 4: best player in Bucks history. And this streak means a
Speaker 4: lot to him and to the team and all of that,
Speaker 4: and it is a great matchup. The Cowboys have allowed
Speaker 4: the most passing year since week eleven. Baker Mayfield is
Speaker 4: playing extremely well. I said yesterday, I don't think he
Speaker 4: should win it, but I think he should get some
Speaker 4: MVP like down ballot votes for how well he has
Speaker 4: played this year. And I think it's going like the
Speaker 4: matchup and the volume is going to translate to another big,
Speaker 4: big day for Mike Evans like it did last week.
Speaker 2: And look two fifty one, he might get over half
Speaker 2: of that just this week alone.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the thing is that the matchup is
Speaker 1: really really good for Evans. I think, you know, we
Speaker 1: talked about this earlier one. I think they all want
Speaker 1: to get him the the thousand yards. It's such a
Speaker 1: cool stat that he's going to try and continue the
Speaker 1: streak four but also because it just helps them get
Speaker 1: closer to winning the NFC South Right, get the ball
Speaker 1: to your best player and hopefully that provides dividends, So
Speaker 1: I think there are multiple reasons to try and feed
Speaker 1: Mike Evans this week.
Speaker 2: Mike Evans Hall of Famer. Right, Like, there's an internet
Speaker 2: debate and I'm like, why are.
Speaker 3: We doing this? Web Like why? How?
Speaker 1: I don't understand how Now Mike Evans the Hall of Famer,
Speaker 1: Like between the stats and the fact that in his
Speaker 1: era he is one of the most dominant players. Like
Speaker 1: everything about him says hall of Famer without a doubt.
Speaker 2: Mix a playoffs, yearly, super Bowl.
Speaker 3: Champion, like all of that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's in. He checks all the boxes for me.
Speaker 1: This week, James Connor checks all the boxes. And I
Speaker 1: went back and forth whether I was gonna do Connor
Speaker 1: or Bejon Robinson because I think he also has a
Speaker 1: chance to be the top scorer this week. But I
Speaker 1: landed on Connor because he's been consistently good for the
Speaker 1: Cardinals all season long again continues to be one of
Speaker 1: those guys that just I think underrated year after year.
Speaker 1: Right now he's the RB ten. He's very much in
Speaker 1: line for another thousand yards season this year. But on
Speaker 1: top of it, the matchup has been fantastic because the
Speaker 1: Panthers have been terrible against running backs all season long,
Speaker 1: and in a year where Kyler Murray has been just
Speaker 1: kind of he's been more Kyler Mehry. I think you
Speaker 1: can look for James Connor to handle a heavy workload
Speaker 1: if things go as you expecloth here'sday. The Panthers have
Speaker 1: been aside from last week, they've been very competitive. So
Speaker 1: I don't know the game script really comes into play here,
Speaker 1: but I can see a scenario where late in the game,
Speaker 1: maybe the Cardinals are trying to just grind it out
Speaker 1: a little bit, and you see more James Connor. But
Speaker 1: even over the course the first three quarters, I think
Speaker 1: he gets a whole lot of action and I.
Speaker 3: Think he has a huge, huge game this week.
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, on the flip side, somebody who is maybe a
Speaker 1: little bit sketchy this week, who's somebody that's a red flag.
Speaker 4: For you, an entire team and they wear red the
Speaker 4: Kansas City Chiefs because this story.
Speaker 2: Look me and you.
Speaker 4: Were joking a lot about it this week, Like this
Speaker 4: is what Patrick Mahome does late in the year. He
Speaker 4: gets hurt, he hurts this ankle and then he ends
Speaker 4: up wanting to play. But now we're going back and
Speaker 4: forth if they're gonna let him play or not, So
Speaker 4: that adds risk. Add into the fact that he's already
Speaker 4: been taking quarterback hits at the highest rate of his
Speaker 4: career in the last three games, and now he's gonna
Speaker 4: be hobbled up struggling to run. Pacheco and Hunt are
Speaker 4: splitting the work so much that it's hard for either
Speaker 4: one of them to be productive in fantasy because we
Speaker 4: haven't seen the bursts from Pacheco back yet and Kareem
Speaker 4: Hunt doesn't have that in his game anymore. DeAndre Hopkins
Speaker 4: like kind of needs a touchdown to get thirteen Fantasy points,
Speaker 4: so I don't think the juice has really worth the
Speaker 4: squeeze there. Kelsey is the big one, but he hasn't
Speaker 4: been putting up great numbers as of late. And when
Speaker 4: they're in the red zone, the touchdown passes team to
Speaker 4: go to Noah Gray. The short design stuff is going
Speaker 4: to Xavier Worthy. Now it's crazy. I could make an
Speaker 4: argument that Xavier.
Speaker 2: Word is the chief player that I feel best about
Speaker 2: this week.
Speaker 1: That is kind of a wild statement. I mean it,
Speaker 1: I mean it just is because he's been so inconsistent.
Speaker 1: But I think to your point, I mean Noah Gray
Speaker 1: leads Kansas City with receiving touchdowns. Travis Kelcey has just two,
Speaker 1: Gray has five. It's just been a weird, upside down
Speaker 1: year for the Chiefs offense, and they're kind of scary
Speaker 1: to deal with right now, not in a good way,
Speaker 1: in the bad fantasy way.
Speaker 3: They're scary to deal with.
Speaker 1: But apparently we're gonna have to deal with the Chiefs,
Speaker 1: which is why I don't love Joe Mixon this week.
Speaker 1: I don't really love Joe Mixon for the rest of
Speaker 1: the year, which is sort of a tough thing to
Speaker 1: say about a guy who really has outperformed expectations this season,
Speaker 1: but the schedule down the stretch has not been good
Speaker 1: to him.
Speaker 3: Last week was not particularly good.
Speaker 1: In fact, two of the last three weeks have not
Speaker 1: been particularly good for Joe Mixon. You sort of look
Speaker 1: at what's coming next. He's got the Chiefs this week,
Speaker 1: Next week is the Ravens. Then after that, if you
Speaker 1: are still whatever for whatever reason, playing on a fantasy
Speaker 1: daily or would have you, in Week eighteen, it's the
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans, all three of them with above average run
Speaker 1: defenses in an offense that really has.
Speaker 3: Not lived up to expectations this year.
Speaker 1: So for all the great things Joe Mixon has done
Speaker 1: for your fantasy roster, I get it if you got
Speaker 1: to play him, but it's not very exciting for him.
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Speaker 3: Who is your sleeper for Week sixteen?
Speaker 4: I said earlier that I have confidence in a mir Abdullah,
Speaker 4: So I'm going with him here because last week he
Speaker 4: played more snaps in Alexander Madison after Sincere McCormick was hurt.
Speaker 4: He had seven targets, scored nineteen fantasy points, and if
Speaker 4: you go back to the game before Sincere McCormick really
Speaker 4: started to take over, he had seventeen Fantasy points in
Speaker 4: that one. Because he catches a lot of passes and
Speaker 4: it's kind of a cheat code there.
Speaker 2: They also like tend to use him in the red
Speaker 2: zone a bit more.
Speaker 4: So. Yeah, I look, the floor isn't all that safe,
Speaker 4: but I do think there's an upside there because of
Speaker 4: the matchup. The Jack's third most Fantasy points all out
Speaker 4: to running backs, top five in catches, receiving yards, and
Speaker 4: receiving touchdowns, So I'm playing him over Alexander Madison despite
Speaker 4: the fact that all fantasy apps have Madison projected for
Speaker 4: more points.
Speaker 2: I think the upside is way higher with that Duela
Speaker 2: this week. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, we just have been trying to shoehorn
Speaker 1: a Raiders running back and I think we're all still
Speaker 1: a little bit sad that it won't be sincere McCormick.
Speaker 1: But Ameerdula certainly has a great opportunity. And just to think,
Speaker 1: you know, it only took ten seasons or whatever. Way
Speaker 1: back in twenty fifteen when he first was drafted, we
Speaker 1: were all like, mere Dula is gonna be the next
Speaker 1: big thing in fantasy now. But maybe this week it
Speaker 1: actually kind of comes together for him. One of my
Speaker 1: favorite sleepers this week is ty J Spears, in part
Speaker 1: because Tony Pollard is a little bit banged up, missed
Speaker 1: a couple of practices this week and not sure what
Speaker 1: his status is going to be. The Other part of
Speaker 1: it is the matchup. I mean, the Indianapolis Colts have
Speaker 1: been a really soft spot for opposing running backs all
Speaker 1: season long. I don't think that's going to change this week,
Speaker 1: and were they likely changing quarterback, you know, with with
Speaker 1: Mason Rudolph looking like he's gonna get the start, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know that they want Mason Rudolph to stand
Speaker 1: back there and throw the ball a bunch of times.
Speaker 1: It means they could lean on the running game a
Speaker 1: little bit more. Also means maybe some short throws to
Speaker 1: Spears just to get him out in space and see
Speaker 1: what he can do.
Speaker 3: But either way, the matchup is good.
Speaker 1: I think the potential volume is going to be there
Speaker 1: this week for tij Spears, even if Pollard is healthy.
Speaker 1: Who knows how many opportunities he gets playing on a
Speaker 1: bad ankle this week. So I do like Taij Spears
Speaker 1: as kind of a sleeper this week. That was Drive
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Speaker 1: are there, is there is there one that you are
Speaker 1: looking forward to more than the other for this week.
Speaker 4: I ran through my fantasy matchups and I'm like, I
Speaker 4: don't think I have anyone in Thursday or Saturday's games
Speaker 4: that I'm starting. So I was like, I'm gonna be
Speaker 4: wat I have. Actually in the Dynasty League where we're
Speaker 4: facing each other, I have Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 2: So that was a lie, but that's the only one.
Speaker 4: Like every like tonight, I have so many starts and
Speaker 4: sits in tonight's game in the article, but I'm looking
Speaker 4: at my teams and I'm like, yeah, I don't have
Speaker 4: these players. So I'm versed in Courtland in the league,
Speaker 4: I'm versing a couple of people.
Speaker 2: But to me, those are sometimes the more fun.
Speaker 4: Games because I get to just sit there and hate
Speaker 4: and root against other players.
Speaker 2: So I'll be just as invested, but for a different reason.
Speaker 2: How about you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I have this thing in my head and maybe it
Speaker 1: doesn't work in the regular season. Maybe it has to
Speaker 1: be a postseason thing where and you and I and
Speaker 1: Patrick Claybam were talking about this. This Chiefs run started
Speaker 1: when they had that ridiculous come back in the playoffs
Speaker 1: against the Houston Texans. I ended up rolling the Texans.
Speaker 1: That was when Deshaun Watson was the quarterback and Bill
Speaker 1: O'Brien was the head coach. How amazing would it be
Speaker 1: for this to come full circle? And it's the Texans
Speaker 1: that would come and beat the Chiefs and put an
Speaker 1: end to this dynasty run that they're putting together right now.
Speaker 1: But again, I guess, I guess it has to be
Speaker 1: more of a playoff thing than a regular season thing.
Speaker 3: But who knows, maybe we get a sneak preview in
Speaker 3: the regular season.
Speaker 4: Look, I'm not saying it's gonna happen, but selfishly, if
Speaker 4: anyone ends this Chiefs dynasty, I feel like it has
Speaker 4: to be the Bills.
Speaker 1: I mean it would be fitting because they are like,
Speaker 1: that's the dragon that they have not slayed yet, is
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 4: I'll take the Bills advancing in any way I could
Speaker 4: get it, But like it would be awful to see
Speaker 4: like the Steelers beat the Chiefs or.
Speaker 2: Something like that. Like it wouldn't be it would be
Speaker 2: anti climatic.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I mean I think the Bills would be
Speaker 1: a good candidate because we already know, like the Bengals
Speaker 1: can do that. The Bengals are already like that's the
Speaker 1: one team. If you're the Chiefs, you're thrilled to the
Speaker 1: Bengals on the outside of the playoff chase right now
Speaker 1: because that has been their kryptonite in this run.
Speaker 4: The only way they could really do it is if,
Speaker 4: like I think the realistic way is Denver loses out
Speaker 4: and they win it out and they get in. But like,
Speaker 4: I want no parts of seeing the Bengals in the
Speaker 4: playoffs if I'm one of the AFC teams.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, you're right, absolutely, And I know it's not
Speaker 1: what you want. But honestly, somehow bo Nick's taking out
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes in the playoffs would be common.
Speaker 3: That would that would be that would be very funny.
Speaker 2: If it can't be the Bills, I want it to
Speaker 2: be the worst possible team in the AFC.
Speaker 1: Buriously, a bon Nicks somehow getting it done would be
Speaker 1: would be comedy.
Speaker 2: For shit. It will never be the Chargers, we know that.
Speaker 3: No, they would just charge their way out of the playoffs.
Speaker 3: That's what they would do.
Speaker 2: Imagine if like the Colts sneak in and they're the
Speaker 2: ones that do it.
Speaker 1: Anthony Richardson flexing in the end zone, like running over
Speaker 1: running over Chris Jones to score a touchdown and then
Speaker 1: flexing in the end zone, that'd be amazing.
Speaker 3: Probably not gonna happen.
Speaker 2: Chiefs fans have turned this podcast off five minutes ago.
Speaker 1: Well, the rest of you can probably turn it off
Speaker 1: right now, because that'll do it for this edition of
Speaker 1: the NFL Fantasy Football Podcast. They happy, save and healthy,
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