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Speaker 1: Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a super Bowl edition. It's
Speaker 1: the last chance we're gonna have to break down games
Speaker 1: for like six months. That's crazy more. Yeah, well yeah,
Speaker 1: about six months, seven months, something like that. My co
Speaker 1: host today, Brian Johnson, been all a while, Welcome back.
Speaker 3: Hey, charge, how's it going. Yeah, it's uh, it feels
Speaker 3: like a super Bowl that should have been played weeks ago, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think it's because the offseason content is just over
Speaker 3: the years. It's just like the season never ends. In
Speaker 3: the past, there's there's been an end, but there's no end. Yeah,
Speaker 3: crazy football nowadays.
Speaker 1: So it's uh, they got it all figured out.
Speaker 3: They do. Let's put a bow on this this season
Speaker 3: for sure, though.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's I'll be honest, it's not the super Bowl
Speaker 1: I wanted, it's not the teams I wanted. And it's
Speaker 1: not to say that I have a problem with either teams.
Speaker 1: I don't, but I just think the league is healthy
Speaker 1: year when Patrick Mahomes is not in every Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: when there's a little more drama involved, and I was
Speaker 1: rooting for a I was rooting for the Lions to
Speaker 1: get in, but no such luck. We've got We've got
Speaker 1: a rematch from our twenty nineteen Super Bowl. Jimmy Garoppolo
Speaker 1: will not be overthrowing anybody in this game. Let's break
Speaker 1: it down Fantasy Football Weekly Style, Brian. The Chiefs come
Speaker 1: into this game with an offense that had sputtered through
Speaker 1: most of November and December, and really in totality, the
Speaker 1: offense hasn't even looked great in the in the postseason,
Speaker 1: but the defense has been great. So let's talk through
Speaker 1: the Chiefs side of us.
Speaker 3: Let's start there, all right, per usual, I like to
Speaker 3: start with the running backs, and we'll obviously get into
Speaker 3: Christian McCaffrey later, but that just feels like a game
Speaker 3: where we're focused on the running backs more than the
Speaker 3: passing game.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be three that tip my hand on this.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, especially on the forty nine ers side. But
Speaker 3: we're talking the Chiefs now, of course, so I'm gonna
Speaker 3: start with a B grade for Isaiah Pachecko has played
Speaker 3: over seventy percent of the snaps in the playoffs, averaging
Speaker 3: twenty three touches. We love that, Yep, that's great, but
Speaker 3: only ninety four combo yards so far. Pachecko is averaging
Speaker 3: the season in the playoffs, but they've been tough matchups,
Speaker 3: and most recently with the Bills and the Ravens. Of course,
Speaker 3: the forty nine Ers, believe it or not, could be
Speaker 3: a bit of a reprieve for Pachecko since Week fifteen,
Speaker 3: San Francisco allowing the sixth most rushing yards per game,
Speaker 3: the fourth highest explosive run rate, the third highest yards
Speaker 3: after contact per attempt. So it's a pretty nice matchup
Speaker 3: for Pacheco. And in the NFC Championship game against the
Speaker 3: forty nine ers Jamior Gibbs David Montgomery, they combined for
Speaker 3: one hundred and thirty eight rushing and two touchdowns on
Speaker 3: the ground. Yeah, also combined for five catches for what
Speaker 3: it's worth, and it's certainly worth something when you're only
Speaker 3: comparing two teams. On two teams, I think there's back
Speaker 3: to the divisional round.
Speaker 1: Sorry, go ahead, there's I think there's an opportunity here
Speaker 1: for Pachecko through the air he can catch, and I
Speaker 1: think they may have to find some creative ways to
Speaker 1: get the ball in his hands. And I can see
Speaker 1: a scenario where Pachecko gets three, four or five receptions
Speaker 1: in this game. Maybe Clyde Edwards a Laird, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: knocks in one as well.
Speaker 3: Certainly worth mentioning. Jerick McKinnon was rumored to maybe come
Speaker 3: back with the Super Bowl, but that seems very very
Speaker 3: unlikely at this point. There'll be no Jared McKinnon. Just
Speaker 3: furthermore on Pochecko. Why it's a great matchup going back
Speaker 3: to the Green Bay game in the Divisional round against
Speaker 3: the forty nine ers Aaron Jones and Emmanuel Wilson for
Speaker 3: those who recall him being the backup one hundred and
Speaker 3: twenty four rushing yards on twenty two carries. So a
Speaker 3: great matchup for Pachecko. He gets a B for me,
Speaker 3: and like I just said, McKinnon on the bench or
Speaker 3: he's he's not gonna play, most likely, But I got
Speaker 3: Clyde Edwards letter on the bench just playing twenty five
Speaker 3: percent of the snaps, averaging just under five touches per game.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's like a DFS start if you want
Speaker 3: to throw one to be contrarian or like in any
Speaker 3: time touchdown type just dart throw.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I don't know what his rushing prop is. We're not
Speaker 3: going to go into props too much because this is
Speaker 3: still a fantasy show, not a gambling show. So h
Speaker 3: on the bench Travis Kelsey, though not on the bench
Speaker 3: locker there, right, Yeah, a grade for Kelsey. It's crazy
Speaker 3: to think we were all calling him washed at the
Speaker 3: end of the preseason, right charge, like pack it.
Speaker 1: Out at the end of the preseason or the regular the.
Speaker 3: Regular season, Okay, that's how long. That's how long the season.
Speaker 1: Well, I wouldn't say washed. We just all felt I
Speaker 1: think we felt like he was he was, you know,
Speaker 1: on the wrong side of his career. I don't think
Speaker 1: anybody was saying like Travis Kelson needs to retire.
Speaker 3: We didn't say he needs to be need to retire.
Speaker 3: But it was bad. But the playoffs have been great,
Speaker 3: starting with Miami ten targets, seven catches, seventy one yards
Speaker 3: against Buffalo, five catches seventy five yards, two touchdowns against
Speaker 3: Baltimore two weeks ago. Eleven targets, eleven catches, one hundred
Speaker 3: and sixteen in a touchdown. He also averaged five yards
Speaker 3: per carrying that game against the Ravens. Okay, yeah, I've
Speaker 3: got rush, so we'll throw that in there. And I'm
Speaker 3: not going to mention any of the off the field
Speaker 3: stuff with with Travis Kelsey.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but can if you're so inclined to believe that
Speaker 1: the fix is in on this whole thing, take the
Speaker 1: Travis kelce over everything, right, I mean, you know, then
Speaker 1: you know, if you think that there's gonna be an emphasis,
Speaker 1: he'll he'll We'll see what eight Travis Kelcey commercials on Sunday.
Speaker 1: So you know the likelihood of you know, there are
Speaker 1: gonna be some if you believe that the whole thing's
Speaker 1: for ragged or whatever, then Kelsey sitting down a gigantic game.
Speaker 1: They're gonna want that to tie into their their promotional plans.
Speaker 3: He just seems like the most unfadable. I'm speaking from
Speaker 3: a DFS perspective right now. When it becomes you know,
Speaker 3: like when when you when you're fading a player, it's
Speaker 3: like a highly owned player. And seems that's what Christian
Speaker 3: McCaffrey's a Travis Kelsey's. He seems like the most unfadable
Speaker 3: player to me though, to gain like you cannot fade
Speaker 3: Kelsey in this game. Sam Laporta nine catches for ninety
Speaker 3: seven yards against the forty nine ers and NFC Championship
Speaker 3: game on thirteen targets, and the porta was not one
Speaker 3: hundred percent. I mean, I don't know. We don't have
Speaker 3: to get into Travis Kelty two more. The the angle
Speaker 3: is if you're rolling over unders on minimal yardage or
Speaker 3: a cheap DFS option is Noah Gray?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: And a great a great matchup, I think, George, I
Speaker 3: heard you had some interesting things to say.
Speaker 1: About I do.
Speaker 3: Let me give you let me give you some mill
Speaker 3: on the spot.
Speaker 1: Oh, I've got it all right. Here might know a
Speaker 1: great data for you right here. Of the final five
Speaker 1: weeks of the regular season, San Francisco ranked dead last
Speaker 1: in tight end yards allowed.
Speaker 3: How about that?
Speaker 1: I mean, we think of this great defense you mentioned
Speaker 1: one game ago, Detroit's tight ends piled up one hundred
Speaker 1: and five combined yards. And here's the really weird part
Speaker 1: for Noah Gray and why he could have a be
Speaker 1: a factor in this game. San Francisco weirdly gives up,
Speaker 1: over gives up, gives up big games to backup tight ends.
Speaker 1: And if you want to go back, going all the
Speaker 1: way back to week eleven, here are guys that put
Speaker 1: up at least double digit yards. Payne, Durham, will Disley,
Speaker 1: Colby Parkinson, Elijah Higgins, Jeff Swain, Charlie Kohler, Bryce and
Speaker 1: Hopkins in the playoffs, a hobbled Luke m musk Grave
Speaker 1: and then last week Anthony Firkster nearly went double digits.
Speaker 1: He got eight yards. Noah Gray's betting line is like
Speaker 1: eleven yards. That feels extremely comfortable here. He runs eighteen
Speaker 1: routes per game. He averages ten yards per catch anytime touchdown,
Speaker 1: by the way, plus nine to fifty. Again not a
Speaker 1: betting show, but yeah, I like I like Noah Grady
Speaker 1: get'll be a small factor in this game that you know,
Speaker 1: not somebody you necessarily want to have to count on
Speaker 1: from a fantasy standpoint. But I think he I think
Speaker 1: he gets a little something done here.
Speaker 3: I love it. I was like, you got a nugget, right,
Speaker 3: you had Like that was like a twelve piece of nugget.
Speaker 3: Maybe wants some the Polynesian saw some chicken. I like it. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: great matchup for both tight ends. We had no great
Speaker 3: sneaky play prop wise DFS wise. Not so sneaky as
Speaker 3: Rashi Rice, who has broke out in the playoffs on
Speaker 3: everyone's radar. Give him a B grade, but popped up
Speaker 3: on the injury report on Thursday with injured ankles emphasis
Speaker 3: on the l ye not just one ankle. But hopefully
Speaker 3: it wasn't like a stepping out of the shower wrong
Speaker 3: type incident. I don't know, but he should be good
Speaker 3: to go on Sunday, hopefully, So a B for a
Speaker 3: right for Rashi Rice. In the playoffs, the forty nine
Speaker 3: ers have utilized too high safety coverage on sixty plus
Speaker 3: percent of their snaps since Week twelve. Against too high
Speaker 3: Rice has lived the team in target share percentage. So
Speaker 3: Rice has been on the heater. He gotta love him
Speaker 3: in this one. And really the only other wide receiver
Speaker 3: I like for the Chiefs is I don't want to
Speaker 3: say like, but he's playable as Marcus valduzs Scantlet and
Speaker 3: you know, really people were calling for his head in
Speaker 3: the in the middle of the in the season, but
Speaker 3: he's shown up in the playoffs and again against on
Speaker 3: this too high coverage that the forty nine ers run
Speaker 3: the majority of the time, MVS leads the Chiefs in
Speaker 3: air yard share percentage and at his price in daily
Speaker 3: and whatever is over under is is anytime touchdown odds
Speaker 3: are gonna be in your favor. He just needs that
Speaker 3: one play to pay off. It's not gonna cost you
Speaker 3: a lot in any format. So I'll give MBS the
Speaker 3: TA com grade if you must. He gets the very
Speaker 3: soft seakay for me, and.
Speaker 1: That's It feels like, if there's ever a spot for
Speaker 1: Marquez Valdez scant Link to really disappoint, it's a super Bowl.
Speaker 1: You know, all the history of the epic drops that
Speaker 1: he's had throughout his career. It just feels like it's
Speaker 1: the perfect stage for Marquez Valdez Scantling to just disappoint
Speaker 1: on the grandest possible scale.
Speaker 3: Let's ride the positive narrative though the last two games,
Speaker 3: the last in their playoff games. Of course, he's been
Speaker 3: clutched and you're like, I cannot believe MDS is showing up,
Speaker 3: So why not? Why not the complete the epic turnaround?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 3: For MVS. I want to put this out there just
Speaker 3: really quick. I said MBS was the last wide receiver
Speaker 3: I quote unquote liked for the Chiefs. But if you're
Speaker 3: the Daily the Daily Player playing Showdown, Richie James is option.
Speaker 3: They're cheap. If you we're gonna get into the forty
Speaker 3: nine er side of things with you. I know, on offense,
Speaker 3: you have to like the Chiefs defense. When between the
Speaker 3: two defenses in this game, Richie James is intriguing where
Speaker 3: he runs enough routes, sees enough targets three to four
Speaker 3: per game, but he also returns kicks. He plays special
Speaker 3: teams for the for the Chiefs. So if you're gonna
Speaker 3: roll the show Down and you like the Chiefs defense,
Speaker 3: you might just well throw a Richie James out there.
Speaker 3: Because he returns to the kick for a touchdown, whether
Speaker 3: it be a punt return or a kick return, you
Speaker 3: double up on the points with the Chiefs defense. So
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna throw it out there, and I don't
Speaker 3: want to get into Patrick Mahomes a whole lot. Just
Speaker 3: one thing to say. He has last thrown for more
Speaker 3: than two touchdowns in Week seven. Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's amazing, isn't it Wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I remember twelve games ago.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember he's top.
Speaker 3: Two hundred and eighty yards passing only twice. That's all
Speaker 3: I say. He used to go to eighty and three
Speaker 3: every game. It's uh, so the ceiling is capped for Mahomes.
Speaker 3: I like the Chiefs to win. I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 3: end there and LEGITD.
Speaker 1: But what's the letter great on Mahars.
Speaker 3: I'll give him a bee just because he's not an a.
Speaker 3: He's you know, he hasn't put up a eight numbers
Speaker 3: basically all year fantasy wise, which is somewhat explainable, but uh,
Speaker 3: you can't put it past them. But just from a
Speaker 3: on paper, he's a bet.
Speaker 1: I can recall at the end of the Fantasy Football Weekly,
Speaker 1: you know, like week sixteen, Week seventeen, we were talking
Speaker 1: about how many quarterbacks had had a three touchdown game
Speaker 1: since Patrick Mahomes had had a three touchdown game, and
Speaker 1: we were into like the thirties and forties of three
Speaker 1: touchdown games before Patrick Mahomes. That one need stells An
Speaker 1: had one, which is amazing. Let's go to the San
Speaker 1: Francisco side. Lots of rushing coming. We already alluded to
Speaker 1: this Brian Christian McCaffrey sitting up potentially a very big
Speaker 1: game here. The way to beat the Chiefs is on
Speaker 1: the ground, as reverse exemplified by Todd Munkins moronic scheme
Speaker 1: in that last game, only giving his runner six carries
Speaker 1: and then he scored ten points. And if you go
Speaker 1: back to the wild card round, Rahie Morris, lead back
Speaker 1: for the Dolphins, got eight carries and Miami scored seven points.
Speaker 1: So maybe you want to score more than seven or
Speaker 1: ten points, so you gotta run the ball, and you
Speaker 1: got Christian McCaffrey. Then I just think in totality, if
Speaker 1: you're Kyle Shanahan trying to avoid going zero to two
Speaker 1: in Super Bowls, aren't you gonna put your more faith
Speaker 1: into Christian McCaffrey than you are brock Purty.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like so much faith into CMC where I would
Speaker 3: almost let him play quarterback over Rocks, right, And I
Speaker 3: don't direct snap. That was either a handoff to McCaffrey
Speaker 3: or a direct snap to McCaffrey. And yeah, like.
Speaker 1: Yes, I just I just see a very And it's
Speaker 1: not we don't hate on brock Purty here. It's that,
Speaker 1: isn't it. You're and you're gonna hear me say some
Speaker 1: reasonably nice things about him in a minute. But the
Speaker 1: game plan here goes through Christian McCaffrey. In Chief losses,
Speaker 1: teams average twenty three carries and almost five full yards
Speaker 1: per carry. So again, I just I feel like, you know,
Speaker 1: if you're going to try to put the Chiefs on
Speaker 1: a loss, you gotta give somebody plenty of carries, and
Speaker 1: it's gonna be Christian McCaffrey.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: I don't think they're gonna fool round with any of
Speaker 1: the backup running backs and any meaningful numbers here and
Speaker 1: the five times that an opposing runners hit at least
Speaker 1: nineteen carries, the Chiefs only won two of those five games.
Speaker 1: They lost three Niners finished number one in run blocking
Speaker 1: by Pro Football Focus, Chiefs were dead last and run
Speaker 1: stuff win rate. And CMC probably helps you through the
Speaker 1: air too. Nine of the ten past Chiefs opponents have
Speaker 1: had a runner top twenty receiving yards. So McCaffrey's going
Speaker 1: to be a huge part of this game in my opinion,
Speaker 1: and an absolute eight grade, which you would have guessed anyway. Now,
Speaker 1: if I like McCaffrey that much, that's and I keep
Speaker 1: telling you running game, running game, running game. That means
Speaker 1: I've just got C grades on Brock Purty, Deebo Samuel
Speaker 1: George Kittle. For those guys, I think there's a reason
Speaker 1: for concern. Let's uh, let's start with the party side.
Speaker 1: Kansas City's pass defense is awesome, Brian. They've allowed over
Speaker 1: the past twelve games. Here's the touchdowns passing touchdowns Kansas
Speaker 1: City is allowed over the last twelve games. One one
Speaker 1: one zero one zero one one three one zero one.
Speaker 1: Sounds like I'm just talking binary. No, that's passing touchdowns
Speaker 1: allowed over the past twelve games. It's just you get
Speaker 1: zero one almost every game. The average passing yards against
Speaker 1: Kansas City over the past eleven games just one hundred
Speaker 1: ninety two yards.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 1: They rank third best in yards per completion, so you
Speaker 1: don't even get long passes completed, you get it's just
Speaker 1: short stuff. And Kansas City's number two in pressures and
Speaker 1: pressure rate, So that suggests that Perty's not gonna be
Speaker 1: able to set up long downfield passages. You're gonna have
Speaker 1: to get rid of the ball quickly. So I don't like,
Speaker 1: I don't think Perty's gonna get a ton done here.
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about a total raveling where Perty's gonna
Speaker 1: cost his team the game, but I don't love that
Speaker 1: now where he could be helpful as a runner. Kansas
Speaker 1: City struggled against mobile quarterbacks lately, allowing five straight quarterbacks
Speaker 1: to run for twenty five or more yards, and the
Speaker 1: Chiefs ranked dead last in quarterback rushing attempts against them
Speaker 1: and twenty fourth in quarterback rushing yards allowed twenty per game.
Speaker 1: So I think Purdy is is gonna do a little
Speaker 1: bit with his feet, not enough you can count on that.
Speaker 1: And we've only got the C grade on party. Hero
Speaker 1: is sitting on maybe like a one touchdown game. Let's
Speaker 1: go to Brandon Ay. Yeah yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 3: Real quick to Purdy on the ground. Of course, Perty
Speaker 3: is ne Lamar Jackson. No one is a Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 3: But there were multiple times in the AFC Championship game
Speaker 3: where it was evident Lamar Jackson had like fifteen yards
Speaker 3: of green space in front of him if he didn't
Speaker 3: take advantage of it. So if they were yielding that
Speaker 3: kind of real estate to Lamar Jackson, just think of
Speaker 3: the the uh they're gonna be dropping back there. They're
Speaker 3: gonna be begging Perdy to run in this game. So
Speaker 3: I love that angle. I'm in full agreement there. I
Speaker 3: love the over on perties anything pertty rushing rushing yardsal
Speaker 3: factor on the ground for.
Speaker 1: Sure, He's got better wheels than I think people realize.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Brandon Ayuk's got a fascinating matchup against Lagerius Snead,
Speaker 1: who might be the hottest cornerback in football. Sneed's gonna
Speaker 1: follow him around the field almost certainly is gonna be
Speaker 1: is going to be getting shadow coverage on Ayuk. Snead's
Speaker 1: average game allowed in his coverage is two and a
Speaker 1: half catches for twenty eight yards. That's it. And if
Speaker 1: they try to break Ayuk away from Snead by putting
Speaker 1: Ayuk in the slot and he does run from the slot,
Speaker 1: s then he's gonna face first rounder Trent McDuffie, who
Speaker 1: also gives up just twenty eight yards in his coverage.
Speaker 1: So you don't have you don't really have anywhere to
Speaker 1: bring Ayuk to put him on a big game. There's
Speaker 1: nowhere to find easy coverage against Ayuk. The Chiefs finished
Speaker 1: the regular season third best in touchdowns allowed to wide receivers,
Speaker 1: fourth best in yards allowed to receivers, and in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: listen to these subdued numbers that the Chiefs gave have
Speaker 1: given up to good receivers like Brandon Ayuck Tyreek Hill
Speaker 1: sixty two yards, that's it, Jalen Wattle thirty one yards.
Speaker 1: Even worse then, they've placed played Buffalo Stefan Diggs twenty
Speaker 1: one yards. Then against Baltimore they gave up a fifty
Speaker 1: four yard bomb to Zay Flowers but otherwise held them
Speaker 1: to sixty yards. So there's I just think Gyu's sitting
Speaker 1: on a really, really tough matchup here, Brian, what do
Speaker 1: you think?
Speaker 3: What I'm thinking right now is how much more fun
Speaker 3: were the Chiefs when they had an awful secondary shootout
Speaker 3: right and then Mahomes had to come out and chase
Speaker 3: the I don't like the Chiefs with Lagarious Steed and
Speaker 3: it's not fun anymore. They're not a fun team. But yeah, no, this,
Speaker 3: I mean, you're harping on it and there's no looking
Speaker 3: past it. This game is gonna run through the ground
Speaker 3: for San Francisco. It's a brutal matchup.
Speaker 1: It is through the air. So let's start. Let's tuck
Speaker 1: Deebo Samuel for a second here, he he's this is
Speaker 1: this is really intriguing. So he runs from the slot
Speaker 1: most often, but not always by any stretch. He still
Speaker 1: runs outside plenty. He's got a in the slot. He's
Speaker 1: got this tough matchup with Trent McDuffie, who I mentioned
Speaker 1: just twenty eight yards per game allowed in his coverage
Speaker 1: and Deebo Samuel. Really five of his last six games
Speaker 1: have been pretty darn quiet in terms of yardage. Anyway,
Speaker 1: he can find his way into the end zone, which
Speaker 1: we love. Tough matchup with McDuffie, and again like him
Speaker 1: if they if they break him outside, then he'd get
Speaker 1: Charvarius Award, which is a oh no, I'm sorry. Charvaria's
Speaker 1: award is on his own When is on his own team,
Speaker 1: he'll get Williams. And that would be an easier matchup
Speaker 1: for Samuel because he'll avoid Snead and all probability if
Speaker 1: he goes outside, and Ayuk is outside as well, so
Speaker 1: there might be some opportunities there. I don't love him here,
Speaker 1: but you know where I do really like him is
Speaker 1: on the ground. Kansas City saw the fifth most wide
Speaker 1: receiver rushing attempts in the regular season and in the postseason.
Speaker 1: Jalen Waddles run against him. Stefan Diggs has been run
Speaker 1: against them. Say Flowers got carries against him. And obviously
Speaker 1: Samuel's a really good runner, averaging five point eight yards
Speaker 1: per carry. I mean there's a running back numbers three
Speaker 1: point four yards after contact. So I've got a B
Speaker 1: grade on Deebo Samuel. If you can roll together the
Speaker 1: rushing and the receiving, he's got an easier pathway to
Speaker 1: a big game than Ayuk does, and so he might
Speaker 1: be able to get a little something done there. What
Speaker 1: do you think about Debo?
Speaker 3: Well, when it comes to a rushing wide receiver, is
Speaker 3: Debo the greatest ever?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean probably yes, Yeah, I mean Cordero Patterson.
Speaker 3: Why am I banking at corridor Old Patterson? And why
Speaker 3: am I blanking? I'm Jerscy Harvink. Yes, Percy Harvin of
Speaker 3: course is in that converss. That's what I was thinking of.
Speaker 3: But yeah, yeah, the stars are aligned for Deebos. Deebos.
Speaker 3: I mean it's all there on paper. We can't fault
Speaker 3: if it doesn't happen, But on paper it's screaming, yes,
Speaker 3: this will happen. For Deebo on the ground.
Speaker 1: Stock George Kittle. For a second, Chiefs have been a
Speaker 1: good tight end defense. No opposing tight end all year
Speaker 1: has topped eighty three yards and only two top fifty
Speaker 1: eight yards. So you know, nobody's had like the colossal
Speaker 1: game against the Chiefs. And in the playoffs listen to this,
Speaker 1: Isaiah likely Brian sixteen yards, then Dalton Kincaid forty five yards,
Speaker 1: and against Miami, which they don't really even use the
Speaker 1: tight end to your guy durham smythe twelve yards. No
Speaker 1: tight end has scored a touchdown against Kansas City in
Speaker 1: six straight games. And you know Kittle where his big
Speaker 1: games become pretty reliable is when Deebo Samuel's not on
Speaker 1: the field, but Deebo's on the field, and you know
Speaker 1: when Deebo's lining up on the slot, he's also catching
Speaker 1: balls over the middle of the field. That's Kittle territory.
Speaker 1: So there's a little bit of cannibalization there. This year,
Speaker 1: in games with Deebo Samuel, Kittle's averages drop almost twenty
Speaker 1: yards down to fifty nine yards per game and a
Speaker 1: very disappointing zero point three touchdowns per game. In Deebo
Speaker 1: Samuel games Kittle without Deebo Samuel Kittles is Kittle is
Speaker 1: almost at a full touchdown per game, and it drops
Speaker 1: all the way down to zero point three with Kittle.
Speaker 1: So I've only got the C grade on George Kittle.
Speaker 1: I'm not expecting a lot from him.
Speaker 3: Brian, Yeah, this feels like a well first off, this
Speaker 3: feels like a Fantasy Football Weekly episode, right, cannot take
Speaker 3: not not take a jab to the face for a
Speaker 3: tight end take that I've had in the past. I
Speaker 3: always get one of those thrown at me from you
Speaker 3: and Matt, of course, But yeah, this feels like a
Speaker 3: This feels like more of a Kittle Kittle will shine
Speaker 3: and is all around football game, not his fantasy his
Speaker 3: fantasy output per se. Because I yeah, again on paper,
Speaker 3: not a great a great matchup for Kittle. I'm with
Speaker 3: you there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it's gonna be a tough one. I see
Speaker 1: the under. It's I think the under over unders like
Speaker 1: forty eight points. I think the under keep talking about
Speaker 1: how good these defenses can be, and especially the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: How about and I think the Chiefs win. What do
Speaker 1: you got?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm still shocked that the you know, the line
Speaker 3: opened as Kansas City as a you know, right after
Speaker 3: the Conference championships ended at two and a half points
Speaker 3: in favor of the Niners, and I was like, and
Speaker 3: I quickly moved to one. You know, the forty nine
Speaker 3: is being a one point favorite. I was expecting it
Speaker 3: to move in favor of the Chiefs too right now,
Speaker 3: especially from what I've read, all the action is on
Speaker 3: Kansas City because it's like, I can't bet against Mahomes.
Speaker 3: But you know what, you couldn't bet against Tom brid
Speaker 3: in two thousand and eight against the Giants or Tom
Speaker 3: Brady again. You never know? But uh but no, clearly,
Speaker 3: I don't know. You look at this game as a whole,
Speaker 3: it's screams Chiefs, but uh but who knows, we'll see.
Speaker 3: I mean, what's I think it's really the long shot
Speaker 3: MVP Super Bowl MVP odds. So if I'm on the
Speaker 3: chief still my long odds, I'm going back to Richie
Speaker 3: James Jeez to win MVP. Here's what he means for
Speaker 3: it to happen. He needs to catch touchdown and he
Speaker 3: needs to return one on special teams. That's all it's
Speaker 3: gonna take.
Speaker 1: That mean, it's got to be like plus three thousand
Speaker 1: plus four thousand.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, he's got to be one of the longest
Speaker 3: odds on the team. But if it's he has somewhat
Speaker 3: of a path to it through that, Through that, he's
Speaker 3: got to catch one and he's got to run one
Speaker 3: back on special teams. It's uh, it's plausible.
Speaker 1: If you nail. If you nail this Richie Richie James thing,
Speaker 1: it's gonna go down as one of the great calls
Speaker 1: in Brian Johnson history. I mean, this is that that.
Speaker 3: Would be I'll get a back that if a back tattoo.
Speaker 3: If Ritchie James wins Super Bowl MVP, I gotta I
Speaker 3: can put money on it. Now. Well, I can say
Speaker 3: on WAX, I do have the Richie James Kansas City
Speaker 3: Defense the FS combo, as I mentioned earlier, I am
Speaker 3: riding that hard.
Speaker 1: No, it's because you get double points, right exactly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and the cheap and low owned and all that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right to me. I don't know why it's
Speaker 1: I guess I understand why you're doing Ritchie James as
Speaker 1: opposed to say Justin Watson or somebody like that. But
Speaker 1: I don't know that's that's too rich for my blood.
Speaker 1: But I hear what you're saying, kind of sort of, all.
Speaker 3: Right, well, you gotta throw a long shot m VP
Speaker 3: out there, doesn't have to be a long shot. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna look up, I'm gonna look at the odds.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I don't know. That's not something I
Speaker 1: was necessarily sitting on, Like, who's my long shot super
Speaker 1: Bowl MVP? But let me pull up some odds right here.
Speaker 1: M hm hm, Well, a defensive player could win MVP,
Speaker 1: which would automatically make it a long shot, right, that
Speaker 1: would be pretty interesting, Like, I don't know, Lagerious Snead
Speaker 1: has two interceptions. That's possible if you get the brock
Speaker 1: pretty meltdown. Lagerious Sneid is one hundred and fifty to
Speaker 1: one to win, So that might be that might be
Speaker 1: my angle. If I had to pick a somebody at
Speaker 1: deep at deep odds, that might be my guy. Let's
Speaker 1: find uh, let's find where yours is. Richie James is
Speaker 1: five hundred to one to win MVP.
Speaker 3: Holy cow, James.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you've always been more of a believer in Richie
Speaker 1: James than I'm been. But we'll credit you for consistency.
Speaker 3: Five bucks can't even get you a happy meal these days,
Speaker 3: so you might as well throw it down.
Speaker 1: No. Yeah, by the way, can't even get you the
Speaker 1: hamburger out of the happy meal. No, it's ridiculous. How
Speaker 1: much just the basic McDonald's hamburger goes for now? Is
Speaker 1: it's like three in a quarter? Ridiculous times it changed? Yeah, unreal.
Speaker 3: We won't be we won't be eating hamburg or McDonald's
Speaker 3: on Super Bowl Sunday. Celebrate Orge, I miss you. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's good watch the game together.
Speaker 1: It's a little sad. We're my normal super Bowl party
Speaker 1: has been canceled because we uh we uh we have
Speaker 1: an issue with our kitchen and our uh leaking uh
Speaker 1: our leaking refrigerator. So yeah, kitchens, all of them.
Speaker 3: Not resolved.
Speaker 1: Yeah, not quite.
Speaker 3: It's too hot in Minnesota this winter, right.
Speaker 1: It is too out here. It is no snow on
Speaker 1: the ground in February. It's very weird. All right, thank you,
Speaker 1: my man. That's fun. We'll be back next week with
Speaker 1: our first true offseason Fantasy Football weekly, either next week
Speaker 1: or the week after. I want to talk about do
Speaker 1: the opposite data just you know, for those that you know,
Speaker 1: was this a year, it was this last year? Or goodyear?
Speaker 1: To do the opposite, was it not. We talked a
Speaker 1: lot about how people weren't drafting running backs as much.
Speaker 1: Did that end up paying off or was that ultimately
Speaker 1: a mistake. I think that's gonna come up either next
Speaker 1: week or the week after that.
Speaker 3: Looking forward to it, I'm all, I think there's some
Speaker 3: serious tight end talk to have this year too, in
Speaker 3: the first couple of rounds. Yeah, it really doesn't even
Speaker 3: involve Travis Kelcey as of yet. He can if he
Speaker 3: doesn't retire, he can he can You think.
Speaker 1: Her retires by the way.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I mean, winning the Super Bowl just
Speaker 3: pop up Vegas, wedding on the field, wh not. Let's
Speaker 3: go out and a blaze the glory.
Speaker 1: But we'll see what about this? Are you gonna watch
Speaker 1: Puppy Bowl twenty?
Speaker 3: I'm always not for Puppy Bowl. You know that.
Speaker 1: I know you love. It's the twentieth Puppy Bowl. You
Speaker 1: can bet. You can bet on the MVP Most Valuable Puppy,
Speaker 1: and I there's some pretty good angles for Most Valuable Puppy.
Speaker 1: Patrick Mabones is plus five plus five hundred to win
Speaker 1: the MVP. Patrick macbone, he's half beagle. Uh he's from
Speaker 1: Iowa at a shelter in Iowa. Adoptable and Patrick macbones
Speaker 1: it's because he's bagal. It's they're pack animals and they're
Speaker 1: they're uh, they've got the keen sense of smell. A
Speaker 1: lot of people think he's gonna do well. Your long
Speaker 1: shot is Bark Purty plus thirty three hundred for MVP
Speaker 1: Most Valuable Puppy I could do.
Speaker 3: I want to sort a whole new podcast from this
Speaker 3: Puppy Bowl names I gotta how about Travis Yelpsie.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good. How about Darius Spee? There you go.
Speaker 1: I think that's pretty good. All right, man, man, yeah,
Speaker 1: appreciate it.
Speaker 3: We could do this all day.
Speaker 1: Yeah we probably nobody's listening, but yes we could. All right,
Speaker 1: have a great Super Bowl everybody. We'll talk to you
Speaker 1: next week.
Speaker 3: Bye bye.
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