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Speaker 1: Andrew Erickson, we now bring you to the show. I
Speaker 1: had to do all that stuff. What's up, buddy, What's up?
Speaker 2: Man? Fantasy Football playoffs are here week fifteen. I finally
Speaker 2: went through all my teams and figured out that I
Speaker 2: have four live bullets in the in my Fantasy Championships
Speaker 2: among redraft teams. One Dynasty team made it in somehow,
Speaker 2: even though I forgot to start Jordan Love last Thursday night.
Speaker 2: Oh it's super flex and I didn't start joining Love
Speaker 2: at all. He uses on a bench, so I only
Speaker 2: start one quarterback. But Zach sharbonay, like line came through
Speaker 2: for me on my bench. I hat an bench on
Speaker 2: your start teams?
Speaker 1: Would you say you had like between It's it's tough
Speaker 1: because I know some people won't count, like best balls
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. Like what was your was your
Speaker 1: team count? Roughly?
Speaker 2: I think it was like twelve twelve teams, so pretty good,
Speaker 2: like twenty five so like twenty basically twenty five percent
Speaker 2: advance rate. And that's exactly what my advance rate was
Speaker 2: in Best Ball this year. So I drafted around like
Speaker 2: seventy Best Ball teams I think, and I think it
Speaker 2: was around twelve teams that advanced. Okay, yeah, that's that's
Speaker 2: pretty good. Like it's not like, oh my god, it's amazing,
Speaker 2: but like adequate, and it's just nice to have some
Speaker 2: some bullets live to see how things play out in
Speaker 2: a couple weeks.
Speaker 1: We're invested with you guys. I think I had. Trying
Speaker 1: to do the math, I think I had twelve between
Speaker 1: like FFPC, the Pentathlon keepers and Redraft leagues, and I
Speaker 1: think I have one, two, three. I think I have
Speaker 1: six or seven live right now, so pretty dang good rate.
Speaker 1: I didn't do as much Best Ball as I probably
Speaker 1: will do next year, but thirty three percent rate of
Speaker 1: moving on to round two on I did the decay
Speaker 1: best balls this year, so we are invested. We have
Speaker 1: all the same worries concerns of you guys, but we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk to you guys, and we're gonna get down
Speaker 1: to the nitty gritty lots of stuff already. I mean
Speaker 1: this comes out after but you had fantasy implicated injury
Speaker 1: starts it stuff that happened on the Thursday night football game.
Speaker 1: We remember how cool that was with the game and
Speaker 1: how Grindo did the thing or didn't do the thing
Speaker 1: like that, Like we've already we're already starting that this week.
Speaker 1: So looking to not answer those but you know that
Speaker 1: is how the Fantasy playoffs go and big decisions are
Speaker 1: made and hopefully we are going to get those to
Speaker 1: everybody else. So Andrew, are you ready to rev up
Speaker 1: the discord chat? You ready to do this?
Speaker 2: Well, let's do it. Let's get these people to the
Speaker 2: next round of playoffs.
Speaker 1: All right, hollow Night himself, it's our boy chinz Or
Speaker 1: who has not been with us for a little bit.
Speaker 1: Chins Or, where you've been at, buddy?
Speaker 3: Can you believe that work is getting in the way
Speaker 3: of fantasy football.
Speaker 2: It's pathetic.
Speaker 4: Boo.
Speaker 2: They know it's weak. Do they know it's playoffs?
Speaker 3: Isn't I've been telling everyone a blank stare. It's kind
Speaker 3: of it's kind of strange.
Speaker 1: Booh, that is lame. That is totally It needs to
Speaker 1: be holidays. They're like, listen, we're just trying to get
Speaker 1: a national holiday. We just want six weeks off for
Speaker 1: the fantasy playoffs and then the real NFL playoffs? Is
Speaker 1: that so much to ask?
Speaker 5: Ginzer?
Speaker 1: What do you got, buddy?
Speaker 3: I got a gross groos flex question here. The names
Speaker 3: I'm dealing with are Ray Ray McLeod, Nick Chubb or
Speaker 3: Kamani Vidal.
Speaker 1: Oh, that is a gross one. At what format? Half full?
Speaker 3: This sporteen team and it's half.
Speaker 1: Pbr okay, good not sickos standard. Uh whoop, I cut
Speaker 1: you off. I'm sorry, Vidal Chubb, Ray Ray McCloud ericson
Speaker 1: you are a Kamani guy this week? But is it
Speaker 1: enough to go over either one of those guys?
Speaker 2: No, She's just gonna play a Nick Let's got the
Speaker 2: most touchdown potential.
Speaker 1: I would say you're kind of on the brown are
Speaker 1: you're I know, Debro, I've been texting back and forth
Speaker 1: with Deebra. I'm gonna just say this right now. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't. I haven't decided if I'm gonna do this
Speaker 1: on the betting show Betting Pros, the prop show that
Speaker 1: Eric's and I do with Piece of Pia. Debro text
Speaker 1: me earlier in the week and he was like, we
Speaker 1: have a ladder this week, and I'm like, all right,
Speaker 1: let's go. He told me who it is. The line dropped.
Speaker 1: I instantly laddered it. The line then dropped a little
Speaker 1: bit more, and I'm like, dang it. But with that
Speaker 1: and it's in the same game. He said that he
Speaker 1: is all on the Browns this week, Brown's plus and
Speaker 1: money line here, and I feel like you were also
Speaker 1: on the brown front here. Does that make you feel
Speaker 1: a little bit more comfortab about Nick Chub because I
Speaker 1: don't because of Kansas City's run stopping game and you
Speaker 1: continue to see the usage kind of go down with Chubb.
Speaker 1: He just doesn't look good. So I feel a little
Speaker 1: bit indifferent about Chubb, but I get the touchdown equity.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know who's not playing is Njoku? Right?
Speaker 1: So yeah, that just came out.
Speaker 2: He's I mean, he's the number one red zone throw
Speaker 2: on that team, So I again, like James is gonna
Speaker 2: move the ball no matter what. It takes one defensive
Speaker 2: pass interference in the end zone to get Chubb on
Speaker 2: the one yard line, Like I get, like the matchup's
Speaker 2: not great. The Chiefs Stevens hasn't been as good over
Speaker 2: the last couple of weeks anyway, and he's he's the
Speaker 2: red zone back, So yeah, I'm not gonna again. It
Speaker 2: would be different if like you're you had better. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's just the other options. I'm like Ray McCloud, Am
Speaker 2: i gonna chase ninety five receiving yards back to back
Speaker 2: weeks from Ray McLeod Like no? And Bydell Yes, I
Speaker 2: do like him, but it's pretty Again, this is his
Speaker 2: changes of scoring touchdown better than Nick Chubbs, where I
Speaker 2: know he's the goal line back and Badell maybe maybe
Speaker 2: gets the goal one carry like he's probably gonna seelet's
Speaker 2: gooal On Kry's and Gus Edwards, which is what you
Speaker 2: push back against me when we talked about Videll earlier.
Speaker 2: So even if he leads the team in rushing. What
Speaker 2: do you win when that happens. I don't think Nick
Speaker 2: chubbs has to find the end zone. I just think
Speaker 2: that's the path for him. So I would just go
Speaker 2: with Chubb.
Speaker 1: I'm least interested in videl One interesting thing I just
Speaker 1: have up here, I just PFS projections. Ray McCloud is
Speaker 1: projected essentially forty two yards on four catches, which is
Speaker 1: actually not horrific. Nick Chubb's betting line this week on
Speaker 1: DK rushing is forty two and a half, so they're
Speaker 1: almost identical. You're gonna have a little bit more reception
Speaker 1: equity with Raby McLoud, but it's not close on the
Speaker 1: touchdown side, especially if you believe the Browns are gonna
Speaker 1: be hyper competitive in this game and you lose in Djoku,
Speaker 1: like Erickson said, Nick Chubb, even though it might not
Speaker 1: be good, it might look Gus Edwards Z. So I
Speaker 1: will say I'm saying all this to be like, I'll
Speaker 1: go with Nick Chubb, but I'm not sure Raby McLoud
Speaker 1: is that far off. You know, Like you can throw
Speaker 1: against the Raiders. They're gonna throw against the Raiders and
Speaker 1: it might be a semi Ray Ray day, but you're
Speaker 1: safer with Nick Chubb. So that's a lot about that one.
Speaker 1: But these are like, this is the gross stuff we're
Speaker 1: dealing with this week. Isn't it gross that we're dealing
Speaker 1: with stuff like that when we just had by apocalypse toosed.
Speaker 2: To mean like that. But then there are some people
Speaker 2: that like have Isaac Grendez, like there RB five right now.
Speaker 2: I like those people are like, oh, embarrassedment of riches.
Speaker 2: I don't even need to worry about how he is
Speaker 2: or how his foot is because I don't even need
Speaker 2: to plan because.
Speaker 1: I'm there, like a tough one. Guys, Yeah, I got
Speaker 1: the guy in my AMA today. He's like, I got
Speaker 1: a tough one. I got here's what I have. I
Speaker 1: got to start four. He's like, I got Rico, dawdle
Speaker 1: Joe Mix and Chewbah or Davante Smith, Isaac Grenda, and
Speaker 1: there was somebody else, And I was like, oh, you
Speaker 1: can sit, Corinda. You didn't have to worry about it.
Speaker 1: So but that didn't work out for him, or worked
Speaker 1: out for him, you know, whatever happened to that Thursday
Speaker 1: night game, corn Wallace back on the show, Cornwallace, some buddy.
Speaker 3: Hey, what's up first?
Speaker 6: I got a quick comment, I'm a I am rooting
Speaker 6: for Andrew Erickson in his uh Brian Thomas junior bet.
Speaker 6: I remember when he made it in the summer, and
Speaker 6: I feel like he was treated very unfairly about it
Speaker 6: and that he was lighting his money on fire. So
Speaker 6: I hope he gets to eat a.
Speaker 7: W that is.
Speaker 1: I love that. And I just want to remind people
Speaker 1: if you didn't listen what Cornwallis is talking about, maybe
Speaker 1: throughout the year you heard it, but we talked about
Speaker 1: it on the Prediction Show this week because one of
Speaker 1: my prediction for this week was Brian Thomas fifty plus
Speaker 1: yard touchdown. And then I didn't even know this. I
Speaker 1: must have missed this, but Ericson unveiled that you had
Speaker 1: bet Brian Thomas to lead all rookies in receiving yards.
Speaker 1: What a crazy bet?
Speaker 2: Eighteen to one? Yeah, eighteen to one, and.
Speaker 1: You are like forty or fifty off hours right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, second place, Like there's a lot of rookies clustered,
Speaker 2: but having Mac Jones like you might have the best quarters,
Speaker 2: Like he's left because Ridder's in with Las Vegas neighbors,
Speaker 2: has Commy DeVito. So somehow, some of my Mac Jones
Speaker 2: is potentially the best quarterback that's gonna get me the money.
Speaker 2: So Mac Jones, you owe me Patrix days, he owes me.
Speaker 1: That's a good shout out, cornwall I just appreciate that,
Speaker 1: all right, what is the question?
Speaker 7: Okay?
Speaker 6: So I'm looking at my roster and I'm just basically
Speaker 6: I think I just want to go all upside and
Speaker 6: wanted to get your guys take on it. So I
Speaker 6: feel like Brian Thomas Junior versus Malik Neighbors is just
Speaker 6: kind of a coin flip. They're similarly ranked. Matt Jones
Speaker 6: probably a better quarterback, but I like how Brian Thomas
Speaker 6: Junior gets it done. So I want of your thoughts
Speaker 6: on that. And then I really want to play Amari
Speaker 6: Cooper over DK and I just don't see why Amri's
Speaker 6: ranked so low. It looks like his underlying metrics are
Speaker 6: improving and he's on a way better team with probably
Speaker 6: going to be a way better game environment. So just
Speaker 6: want to get your guys take on.
Speaker 1: That, Cornwallace is then ericson guy for sure. These are
Speaker 1: this is the Andrew Rickson playbook that's coming out here.
Speaker 1: So Brian Thomas or neighbors, and then Amari Cooper or DK.
Speaker 2: Erickson neighbors for me, Eric me, neighbors not for me,
Speaker 2: Thomas for me. I've just seen too much of Tommy DeVito,
Speaker 2: giants and leaked. I mean, the lead Nimbers destroyed me
Speaker 2: last week with the over on his receiving yards. I
Speaker 2: don't know how he got there, what he did, and
Speaker 2: it destroyed the part of my soul. But I don't
Speaker 2: think he's gonna be able to do it again. The
Speaker 2: Beato just not a recipe for success.
Speaker 1: Do you want the Lions? Do you want the Vegas
Speaker 1: lin don't know if you've seen them. Do you want
Speaker 1: the Vegas lines on both?
Speaker 2: I think I guess it is Neighbors is at like
Speaker 2: sixty seven and a half and Thomas is at like
Speaker 2: sixty four and a half.
Speaker 1: Neighbors is at sixty two and a half, and Brian
Speaker 1: Thomas is at sixty three and a half. So Neighbors
Speaker 1: has jumped I'm sorry Thomas has jumped Neighbors now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I would play neighbors. I want to
Speaker 2: keep saying that Thomas play Thomas is who I would play.
Speaker 2: Neighbors is on my mind for some reason, don't know.
Speaker 2: I think Cooper has more upside than DK Metcalf. Metcalf
Speaker 2: has kind of struggled the last month or so. I
Speaker 2: think that are the question really hit the environment thing, right,
Speaker 2: And that's what it comes down with a lot of
Speaker 2: these receivers like who has who has the higher floor?
Speaker 2: Clear the DK Metcalf right, like he's a staple of
Speaker 2: that offense. He's going to see eight targets, catch four balls,
Speaker 2: five balls, just matter does he score a long touchdown,
Speaker 2: does he find the end zone? But Amari Cooper, we
Speaker 2: have to remember, like he's so boom or bus, but
Speaker 2: this is a game where he booms. And that's why
Speaker 2: he was on my prediction show as going over one
Speaker 2: hundred yards catching a touchdown this week because this is
Speaker 2: the game as the highest total of any game this
Speaker 2: season in the NFL, like they're playing in Ford Field,
Speaker 2: and when the Bills have decided to throw the ball
Speaker 2: this year, that's when Amari Cooper has boomed at his highest.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I think that if you're shooting for ceiling,
Speaker 2: I think Cooper definitely is the play. And I think
Speaker 2: the only reason he's ranked lower of the Metcalf is
Speaker 2: just because you have to bake in the floor in
Speaker 2: some capacity, and unfortunately the rankings that we do, they're
Speaker 2: not upside floor rankings. Right, it's meeting projection and one
Speaker 2: hundred times or like ninety nine out of one hundred times,
Speaker 2: Like I'm not necessarily saying this correctly, but more often
Speaker 2: than not, Metcalf's probably gonna outscore Amari Cooper because of
Speaker 2: the floor that he offers. But in this particular man,
Speaker 2: where there should be a lot of points, Cooper makes
Speaker 2: a lot of sense.
Speaker 1: Boom or doom boom made people mad doing that for
Speaker 1: a Mari Cooper. Amri Cooper is a boom, not a doom.
Speaker 1: Do you know the reference ericson you're younger. I'm younger,
Speaker 1: I should know everything. You should know the costco guys, No, no, no,
Speaker 1: no Wrizzler or the Big Justice Wrizzler.
Speaker 2: Isn't that the Saints head coach.
Speaker 1: Drettis. You're not going to save us on this one.
Speaker 1: This is the young people's game. But with subdread, it's
Speaker 1: not that you're all by the way, you're.
Speaker 2: Just my age.
Speaker 8: I'm not going to help you on either of those.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what's up?
Speaker 8: Two questions for you, guys, I have both Isaiah Davis
Speaker 8: and Brandon Brandon for you Welsh Alan on one team.
Speaker 8: I can only play one of them. I need to
Speaker 8: play one of them. Which one would you lean towards?
Speaker 9: Mmm?
Speaker 1: Good old. For some reason, I didn't hear it, but
Speaker 1: apparently I think it was last week. I just said
Speaker 1: Brandon Allen for times on the Oh it was on Sunday.
Speaker 1: It was a Sunday live stream. I thought I was
Speaker 1: saying Brailan Allen, but everyone was saying I was saying
Speaker 1: Brandon Allen, which was a sign, by the way, because
Speaker 1: Brandon Allen then got in the game.
Speaker 2: That he would that he would play in a demolition
Speaker 2: of the Chicago Bears. He didn't technically play because party
Speaker 2: they got banged up. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I played one play, pretty got out one game, one play,
Speaker 1: and then he came in. But you know a sign,
Speaker 1: little soothsayer, that's a really good question. If and I
Speaker 1: think it all is centered, well, I guess for Dreddis
Speaker 1: it doesn't because Dreda said she's got to play one.
Speaker 1: If Breeze Hall is out. This is where it gets
Speaker 1: more exciting. Oh, Dredas will bringing back up in a second. Then,
Speaker 1: because there's a second question Isaiah Davis or Braylen Allen.
Speaker 1: Though for me, even after that, after what the last
Speaker 1: game where Braylen.
Speaker 2: They split fifty to fifty usage in Braylon Allens, I mean.
Speaker 1: And Davis was more efficient.
Speaker 2: I mean, how was he more efficient?
Speaker 1: He just scored a touchdown? Yeah, that's sufficient, soth, but Brandon.
Speaker 2: Had more red zone touches. So like, again, like Davis
Speaker 2: was better last week. But if they were going to
Speaker 2: see the same usage, is that gonna happen two weeks
Speaker 2: in a row? Is he gonna find the day ze?
Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm not so guaranteed. And if the Jets
Speaker 2: thought that, why did' Davis start? Raylan Awen started? So
Speaker 2: I'm going back to Bylan Allen.
Speaker 1: I'm fine with it. I like the receiving outside of
Speaker 1: Isaiah Davis, but I'm still fine with this. Sorry, jededis
Speaker 1: what was your second question?
Speaker 2: Oh, no, worries.
Speaker 8: I need to sit one between Pacheco, James Cook, and Pollard.
Speaker 8: Pollard popped up on didn't DMP yesterday has a thirty
Speaker 8: five percent chance on? Are they playing? And James Cook
Speaker 8: against the Lion's kind of tough and when to get
Speaker 8: in your thoughts about uh Pacheco's workload.
Speaker 1: Look at that pro Dredas was like deal, just are
Speaker 1: they playing tool?
Speaker 8: Was?
Speaker 1: It was Pollard Pacheco?
Speaker 2: And who James Cook?
Speaker 1: James Cook? Okay, Pollard Pachaco or cook ericson it's checko.
Speaker 1: By the way, I'm still starting Pollard.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think he'll probably be fine. They're just this
Speaker 2: is classic monitoring workload, I would say, because then he's
Speaker 2: going to get like a hundred touches against the Bengals, So.
Speaker 1: I gotta sit Pachecko.
Speaker 2: Yeah, check, And look, I get James Cook is similar
Speaker 2: to Amari Cooper where he's super boom or bust. This
Speaker 2: environment says, hey, it's gonna be a lot of booms
Speaker 2: in the lines and bills. So unless unless this game
Speaker 2: totally duds out, in which case like hey, like possible.
Speaker 2: I just think that the Bright process is starting players
Speaker 2: as many as you can in a game total that
Speaker 2: as a fifty four and a half point like projection,
Speaker 2: Like it's just it's yeah, So.
Speaker 1: Dude, all these booms you're thrown around, your nickname is
Speaker 1: going to be big justice here. By the way, you're
Speaker 1: in the East Coast, you're in what are you in?
Speaker 1: Maine or Massachusetts or Connecticut or they're all the same. Okay,
Speaker 1: you're in one of the sorry not giveaway where you
Speaker 1: is Chake. When people say Pacheco, is that an East
Speaker 1: Coast thing?
Speaker 2: It must be because it is Pacheco.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is Pacheco. Like, well, there's always this battle,
Speaker 1: like pronunciation is difficult for all of us. So there's
Speaker 1: this battle between like, know, being an idiot and saying
Speaker 1: things wrong and and pronunciation or there's just like people
Speaker 1: say things differently on different coasts. And I noticed that,
Speaker 1: and there's quite a few people I know that are
Speaker 1: kind of East Coast people that will say Pacheco. And
Speaker 1: I'm just like, no, Like I don't I don't want
Speaker 1: to be bothered by pronunciation or anything like that. But
Speaker 1: I'm like no, But it's almost cute. It's like, oh,
Speaker 1: you say Pacheco, a little East Coaster. I just wasn't
Speaker 1: sure if you did that, but I guess you don't.
Speaker 1: You said Pacheco, and you agree with me.
Speaker 2: Yep, Pichecko.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Dreda says it's East Coast, it's Pachaco. It's not. Okay,
Speaker 1: father Man, father Man, you're back up on the show.
Speaker 2: What's up.
Speaker 7: What's going on?
Speaker 1: But we're doing good?
Speaker 2: Dude?
Speaker 1: What you what you got for us?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 10: I got a well a quarterback West, I'm in a
Speaker 10: two quarterback leads. We got kind of weird scoring on it.
Speaker 10: We get a point taking away for every incompletion, so
Speaker 10: it's kind of weird like that. But uh, I got Stafford.
Speaker 10: I mean I got a Murray in the lineup right now.
Speaker 10: I know Thursday nine game has already been played. Dude,
Speaker 10: how did how did Stafford do?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Stafford was pretty good because then you know, because you
Speaker 1: know how that nine or secondary is, so he was
Speaker 1: pretty solid. So was the question Murray? You had to
Speaker 1: decide between who who and Stafford?
Speaker 10: Yeah, just Murray and Stafford and also a lot of
Speaker 10: flecks but bbr flex question two on their too many?
Speaker 7: If he plays?
Speaker 1: Are Keenan Allen, Keenan Allen or I mean you started
Speaker 1: uh Kyler Murray over Stafford? Correct?
Speaker 2: I started, Yes, you did?
Speaker 1: You did start Kyler Murray exactly, and then uh, Cedric
Speaker 1: Tillman or Kendra or Keenan Allen?
Speaker 2: Are we this Cedric Tillman. I think that this in
Speaker 2: joke with thing is a big deal. And before Tillman
Speaker 2: got hurt. Like I get that his you know, disappearance
Speaker 2: has kind of coincided with the Jerry Judy just like
Speaker 2: taking over the world. And that's credit to Jerry Judy.
Speaker 2: But Cedric Tillman used to look like he was above
Speaker 2: Elijah Moore. So I think within Djoku out, Cedric Tillman
Speaker 2: then kind of becomes that de facto big bodied wide
Speaker 2: receiver for James Winston in the red zone. So I
Speaker 2: like Tilman a lot. I think a lot of people
Speaker 2: have kind of forgotten about Tilman, but I've probably been
Speaker 2: dropped in a couple different places. So if he's out there,
Speaker 2: goop him up. And I think that he's a probably
Speaker 2: decent play this week given the injury to Djoku and
Speaker 2: talked about the matchwig Ins the Chiefs Chief secondary hasn't
Speaker 2: been nearly as good since they lost Jalen Watson. I
Speaker 2: know Joshua Williams. I believe he's also banged up. So yeah,
Speaker 2: and look, attaching yourself to James Winston receivers, it usually
Speaker 2: works out favorably. Like it's it's just good. It's a
Speaker 2: good bet to make. So if you're in a pinch,
Speaker 2: I think Tillman. I mean, I'm done with the Bears,
Speaker 2: like I don't I don't want to play their offensive
Speaker 2: players like it's it's a disaster. So yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Agree, I'm gonna co sign everything that you said there
Speaker 1: that I like. How you said too is what you
Speaker 1: forget about Tilman is before that injury, every single week
Speaker 1: it was like eight targets to each one of those guys.
Speaker 1: So and Tilman is like, what you know, their big
Speaker 1: play option and Jared and Judy has been such a
Speaker 1: monster that if you're going to have any defensive lock
Speaker 1: up on Judy, it could create a few more, especially
Speaker 1: deep opportunities for Tillman. So I like that. I go
Speaker 1: with them as well. Recycleops, premium member on the Fantasy President. Hey,
Speaker 1: plus name, what's up?
Speaker 4: Not much?
Speaker 7: How you guys do it?
Speaker 1: We're doing good, dude, What do you got for us?
Speaker 11: I got So I've got kind of like a strange situation.
Speaker 11: So number one, I coasted into the playoffs by like
Speaker 11: four points on the last week, So happy there.
Speaker 9: But yeah, I kind of keep writing that.
Speaker 11: So I have I have some great wide receivers, but
Speaker 11: consistency has kind of been an issue. So I've got
Speaker 11: I need to start to because I've been starting my
Speaker 11: running backs event. Josh Jacob's a chan and then I've
Speaker 11: been flexing Gibbs.
Speaker 6: So I've got to choose between A. J.
Speaker 11: Brown, Drake London who have been those are like elite
Speaker 11: wide receivers, but they haven't been producing launch lately. And
Speaker 11: then I've got McLaurin and McConkey. So between those four,
Speaker 11: who are your two top choices for this week?
Speaker 1: Okay, just one last time? It was AJ Brown, McConkie.
Speaker 11: Who and who McLaurin and London.
Speaker 1: McLaurin, and I was a London McLaurin, A J. Brown
Speaker 1: and mconkee. What do you think? Rickson?
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna play the guys that have been the
Speaker 2: most consistent all year, and SJ. Brown and Drake Laud.
Speaker 9: Did for me.
Speaker 1: Do Strickland have been consistent?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean he consistently gets targets. He's playing the Raiders.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know he doesn't get raz you know, he
Speaker 1: doesn't get targets, Rickson, Raymond dcleod, who else doesn't get targets?
Speaker 2: Cole Bits he got Kyled, he had more. He had
Speaker 2: more targets than Jewan Johnson.
Speaker 9: Did.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess he has been. I'm looking at the
Speaker 1: game log seventy eighty six sixty one ninety seven, he
Speaker 1: had a two games. He's really only had three games
Speaker 1: this year that have looked not great. Hasn't caught a
Speaker 1: touchdown in a month. But again I love the matchup
Speaker 1: against the Raiders. Yeah, I think I agree. I guess
Speaker 1: what I was trying to figure out was like, like
Speaker 1: Terry McLaurin, I don't think is that far off from
Speaker 1: Drake London, but like he also had some games where,
Speaker 1: you know, early in the season, where he wasn't getting
Speaker 1: consistent targets and now he is and he's one of
Speaker 1: the biggest deep play guys this year as well. So
Speaker 1: I love the touchdown equity for him, especially in that matchup.
Speaker 1: So I feel like like McLaurin could be an option
Speaker 1: I want to say Lad, but with Ladd banked up
Speaker 1: and those options, Lad has to just kind of get
Speaker 1: kicked to the side. But I don't know. I guess
Speaker 1: I'm fine with London.
Speaker 2: Those are all good. I mean they're all good. Like
Speaker 2: I wouldn't really sweat I mean just picked two. I
Speaker 2: just picked the two that I like the most. I
Speaker 2: think they're all good plays. I don't think you're in
Speaker 2: a I don't think it's really gonna matter.
Speaker 1: Honest, well, I mean London and hell if you know,
Speaker 1: if we weren't in a space of value.
Speaker 7: A J.
Speaker 1: Brown to be honest with you, because it's like, I'm
Speaker 1: not saying to do that. But it's two incredible matchups.
Speaker 1: I think for McLaurin and London, you got all this
Speaker 1: drama with AJ Brown and Hurts and also just I
Speaker 1: cannot get over how bad the pass game looks for
Speaker 1: the Eagles. But it's hard to sit him, especially when
Speaker 1: you talk about that bounce off of all the drama.
Speaker 1: So London and Brown, but I do think McLaurin is
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Speaker 1: to the next question. Mister Andrew Erickson w Will Will
Speaker 1: w sucks?
Speaker 2: Yes, good to be on. What do you got?
Speaker 1: What you got for us?
Speaker 2: I got a couple quick ones.
Speaker 1: I've been so burned by Kate ought in the past
Speaker 1: few weeks. Would you take him or Stone Smart? Cad
Speaker 1: say it one more time, cad Aughton and who stone Smart? Ericson?
Speaker 1: Can you sit cad Aughton?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can sick Kate on Stone Smart's interesting because
Speaker 2: if he just feels like the Will Disley role he
Speaker 2: should be productive because justin Herbert just hyper targets the
Speaker 2: tight end position. It doesn't really seem like it matters
Speaker 2: who that player is, because even in the game where
Speaker 2: we saw him play just a half of football after
Speaker 2: Will Disley got hurt, Oh yeah, I mean, I'm not
Speaker 2: convinced that Kate Awten is the play to make. I
Speaker 2: would I bet the under on his receptions prop because
Speaker 2: he's been under four and a half catches in seven
Speaker 2: of the ten games he's played with Mike Evans like
Speaker 2: he like. The coaches have been vocal about Katauton, where
Speaker 2: when they have other players, they're going to use those guys,
Speaker 2: but when those guys miss time, they'll feature Auten. But
Speaker 2: they don't go into the week thinking, all right, we
Speaker 2: got to feed Kate and like that, like that's not
Speaker 2: the case whatsoever. So I think it's close. I guess
Speaker 2: I think the rest of season, I might be interested
Speaker 2: more in Stone Smart because if he has another really
Speaker 2: good game, then you could see riding him out the
Speaker 2: rest of the way, and the betch up is better
Speaker 2: for Smart versus the Buccaneers. They've been terrible against tight
Speaker 2: ends all year where the charters are a much tougher
Speaker 2: defense just overall against the past game, especially against tight ends.
Speaker 2: So uh yeah, I cut Kate Aten is not in
Speaker 2: the circle of trust anymore given the return of Mike Evans.
Speaker 2: So if I if it was Will Disley or and
Speaker 2: I would say Will Disley. So considering Stone Smart is
Speaker 2: just another version of Will Disley. Uh yeah, that's fine.
Speaker 1: Looking at the ranks if people are curious about it.
Speaker 1: So I'm pulling something up here. Aughten is twelve and
Speaker 1: stone Smart is all the way down at thirty one.
Speaker 1: Obviously some people haven't made adjustments. My only thing is
Speaker 1: is like Smart only caught three passes last week. Aughton
Speaker 1: caught three passes. He had four the week before. It's
Speaker 1: seventy yards this past week. So I don't know if
Speaker 1: Aughton is that bad of it. I would still lean
Speaker 1: Kate Otten because I feel like I know where I'm at.
Speaker 1: Maybe there's some unforeseen upside in that, Like what you're
Speaker 1: talking about, this world of Stone Smart takes over the
Speaker 1: Disley role and things have this big change. I'm just
Speaker 1: not sure that that happens. I don't think Aughton is
Speaker 1: in the circle of trust. But I would go with him.
Speaker 1: I will say though Aughton lives in this world. I've
Speaker 1: talked about I talked about it on the tight End
Speaker 1: Quarterback Rank show we did earlier in the week that
Speaker 1: like there are there's a line and that line starts
Speaker 1: around eleven and it's guys like Ertz and Henry and
Speaker 1: Henry maybe is the top of that list, and maybe
Speaker 1: even doesn't belong in there, But like Friar Muth, Ferguson,
Speaker 1: Juwan Johnson, there's a line of all these guys. You
Speaker 1: can have a question. If your feeling's done smart and
Speaker 1: you want to play that upside played, go do it.
Speaker 1: But I think Auten is the safer play, and there's
Speaker 1: still touchdown equity in it. But you know, tight ends
Speaker 1: are blown up this year. Maybe it's Stone smart, it's
Speaker 1: six catches in a touchdown and he's a he's a
Speaker 1: forever fantasy playoff hero.
Speaker 2: Ericson, that's smarter, not harder.
Speaker 1: Oh Jesus of course, Like it gets quiet, we set
Speaker 1: it up. What's gonna happen with Ericson? Bam, that smarter,
Speaker 1: not harder? Thank you so much? All right, bot Bot
Speaker 1: was yelling at me because he just wanted to get
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Speaker 2: Just quick question.
Speaker 12: I am in a sick, sticky situation because George Pickens
Speaker 12: probab not playing. I'm in the I'm in a dynasty
Speaker 12: playoffs here also made it in all five of my
Speaker 12: league's playoffs because of you.
Speaker 1: Ericson. Just want to put that out there.
Speaker 12: Would you start Amari Cooper or Jaden Reid? And I'm
Speaker 12: also between Perdy and Mahomes. I feel like you're just
Speaker 12: gonna say Purtty, but I just want to throw that
Speaker 12: out there.
Speaker 1: Well, he's asking you specifically, Erickson, so you can answer
Speaker 1: perty easy over Mahomes by the way, because of how
Speaker 1: he performed, and the other was a Mari over Jayden Reid.
Speaker 1: You're gonna go mariy.
Speaker 2: Correct next question.
Speaker 1: There you go, easy stuff. Look at that play Kate
Speaker 1: to Ericson, you only get Ericson answers awesome, the dev awesome.
Speaker 1: What's up, dude?
Speaker 13: I mean a have forty six percent chance? So I'm
Speaker 13: playing another team that's really good, and I feel like
Speaker 13: all my guys are similarly croups. So it's it's you know,
Speaker 13: there's no clear winner who I should be starting right,
Speaker 13: so it's a super flex. Now I'm definitely starting Lamar
Speaker 13: in quarterback, and I have Mahomes and Jamis, and I'm
Speaker 13: leaning towards Jamis just because I don't care if he
Speaker 13: throws an interception. He's just throwing touchdowns too, So I
Speaker 13: I think I'm leaning towards Jamis. And it still feels
Speaker 13: like sacriligious to say that.
Speaker 1: Do you have a real quick Do you have other
Speaker 1: any other questions in this or was that the only one?
Speaker 7: Now?
Speaker 1: The other question is by the Okay, hold it real quick.
Speaker 1: I actually I just wanted to know because I didn't
Speaker 1: want to kick you if you had another question. So
Speaker 1: hold that thought real quick. Because I had this long
Speaker 1: debate with Bogman yesterday. Bogman just can't get behind Jameis
Speaker 1: Winston had him ranked low. I'm starting Jamis in a
Speaker 1: multiple spots this week. A lot of guys like them
Speaker 1: to beat the Chiefs. And to your point, the week
Speaker 1: he had three interceptions, Jamis Winston was the number one
Speaker 1: fantasy quarterback. That was like my point with Bogman. He's like, well,
Speaker 1: you could throw picks and he could maybe get like
Speaker 1: bench or something. I'm like well, dude, he threw three
Speaker 1: picks and was the number one quarterback because of the volume.
Speaker 1: He opened up at thirty five point five pass attempts
Speaker 1: this week. The The only thing I want to throw
Speaker 1: out to this because Ericson, I want to get your
Speaker 1: take on it. That held me back from smashing it immediately,
Speaker 1: and I'm regretting a little bit. Lotter bet I might
Speaker 1: have is that there is some perceived rain and over
Speaker 1: ten mile an hour wins. Right now, it looks like
Speaker 1: the windiest of games currently in NFL weather when I
Speaker 1: checked it last night is that Kansas City Browns game
Speaker 1: and there is some expected showers. Now that could be nothing.
Speaker 1: It could be a big old fat nothing burger. And
Speaker 1: if there was no weather, I would already have bet
Speaker 1: the pass attempts over because dude throws forty a game.
Speaker 1: I set you up, Ericson, just a little bit. Is
Speaker 1: Winston over Mahomes sacrilegious for this weekend?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 4: It is?
Speaker 1: And I have my homes by the way over Winston.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to say all of.
Speaker 2: That, but go, yeah, I'm starrying Patrick. I'm starting Patrick
Speaker 2: Mahomes like he's facing the Browns defense, like their defense
Speaker 2: is their defense is so bad in their secondary, like
Speaker 2: all they do is give They're just begging teams to
Speaker 2: give up big plays against them. Like the Chiefs are
Speaker 2: actually a good defense overro I know they've been not
Speaker 2: to say wins is a bad start, but I'm not
Speaker 2: going out of my way to play Jameis Winston over Mahomes.
Speaker 2: And you look at Winston again, going back to playing
Speaker 2: in Cleveland. A lot of James Winston's big games have
Speaker 2: been on the road, not at home. So I look
Speaker 2: his last two home games, he hasn't scored more than
Speaker 2: fifteen fantasy points, So keep that in mind. Like a
Speaker 2: lot of his big games have been road games where
Speaker 2: they're trailing by a ton of points. If if this
Speaker 2: game is close, like that's not good for Jameis Winston.
Speaker 2: Like you want them getting either blown out or they're
Speaker 2: like killing the Chiefs. Let me ask you that they're
Speaker 2: like fifty five times.
Speaker 1: So are you all worried about that weather?
Speaker 2: I mean I think you always have to consider it.
Speaker 2: Which is Cleveland in general, Like this is where like
Speaker 2: in December, this is why the Browns are always like
Speaker 2: this problematic team that games can get destroyed in and
Speaker 2: also in joke's not playing like that matters a lot
Speaker 2: like he is there he I mean, the majority of
Speaker 2: Jameis Winston touchdowns have gone to Njoku, So I think
Speaker 2: there's enough point to not play Winston, especially when Mahomes.
Speaker 2: If it was somebody else like like Anthony Richard's and
Speaker 2: you're like, no, you don't need to you play Winston
Speaker 2: over those guys. But Mahomes for me is yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: playing Momes.
Speaker 1: The weather outside is weather dev What was your other question?
Speaker 13: He did the flex one absolutely well, and that definitely
Speaker 13: helps clarify It's all right, so I can get right
Speaker 13: with God and Mahomes. So so the running backs I
Speaker 13: have I can I have to start too, and I
Speaker 13: have a flex. I have a Chan, Brian Robinson, Connor,
Speaker 13: I have Dowdell, Tracy Junior. Now everyone's saying that, you know,
Speaker 13: Daddle's gonna have a week, but my other running backs
Speaker 13: are also really good, so I'm not quite sure I'm
Speaker 13: currently starting. Is a Chan Robinson and Connor? Do I
Speaker 13: just run with those guys or do we really like
Speaker 13: Dowdle here?
Speaker 1: Oh so it's three you can do three here, right, Okay,
Speaker 1: Robinson's and must any chance and must. I'm one hundred
Speaker 1: percent Dowdle over Connor this week? What about you, Erickson
Speaker 1: Dowdell over Connor? Oh yeah, are you serious? Absolutely? It's
Speaker 1: the Patriots, Absolutely Patriot I know, yes, but yes, what yes,
Speaker 1: I that's blasphemy.
Speaker 2: You have to start James Connor's at home.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm just saying rico'donnell.
Speaker 2: I'd rather sert Rico Dad over Brian Robinson. No really, yeah, okay, okay,
Speaker 2: I need to hear why you don't like James Connor
Speaker 2: Like that doesn't make any sense to me.
Speaker 1: It's not that I don't.
Speaker 2: The Cardinals are six and a half point favorites at
Speaker 2: the Cowboys are underdogs on the road.
Speaker 1: Like great. The number one Fantasy points given up to
Speaker 1: running backs is the Carolina Panthers. They are giving up
Speaker 1: the most fantasy points to running backs. They have given
Speaker 1: up the most touchdowns to running backs rushing. They have
Speaker 1: given up seventeen touchdowns to running backs on the year.
Speaker 1: Over twenty two hundred yards between rushing and receiving been
Speaker 1: given up two running backs. There is only one other
Speaker 1: team as I'm looking here, has given up two thousand
Speaker 1: or more total yards to rbs and that is the
Speaker 1: Giants Derrick Henry smash. By the way, I'm this is
Speaker 1: not about a James I mean, I'm kind of a
Speaker 1: little anti Cardinal A lot of the time I think
Speaker 1: you get out of me, and sometimes they'll rotate in
Speaker 1: a few guys. But James Connor is great. I'm just
Speaker 1: saying ric o'doddell is in the spot.
Speaker 8: I do not.
Speaker 1: I don't care that the Panthers are favored in this.
Speaker 1: Do I think the Panthers are gonna blow out the Cowboys? No,
Speaker 1: I don't. I actually think this will be an annoyingly
Speaker 1: stupid good close game. And that means that ric o'doddell
Speaker 1: is going to be involved on both sides of the ball.
Speaker 1: They don't run anybody out there. So James Connor is
Speaker 1: great play, but rico'dode's in the matchup of matchups, and
Speaker 1: he is the number one guy.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: So that's why I like Ricododdele not so much hating
Speaker 1: James Connor.
Speaker 2: So then why would you play Ricododo over Brian Robinson then?
Speaker 1: Because I also love Brian Robinson Because the Saints are
Speaker 1: in that same top six or something.
Speaker 2: The more openriot, the Patriots are in there too, Like
Speaker 2: I look, I'm I'm cool with starting Ricodotto, but not
Speaker 2: over James Connor like I want. I think Brian Robinson
Speaker 2: is the odd man out here because he's the only
Speaker 2: one that plays more in a committee, like they're going
Speaker 2: to give Jeremy Nichols touches. So, yes, the Saints bad,
Speaker 2: but the Pittriots are also bad. And James Connor is
Speaker 2: the engine to the offense the Cardinals. When James Connor
Speaker 2: plays at home as a favorite, averaging over ninety rushing
Speaker 2: yards per game, like, he is a better play than
Speaker 2: Dowdell and Brian Robinson in my opinion, And I agree
Speaker 2: with you that Dowdell should smash.
Speaker 1: So I'm pretty sure now you're benching Brian Robinson.
Speaker 2: No, that's who I wanted to bench for originally. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: so can you convince Can I convince you Brian Robinson
Speaker 2: James Connor over Brian Robinson or.
Speaker 1: I'm totally open to it. I'm one hundred percent open
Speaker 1: to that. It's just I all, here's the problem. I
Speaker 1: guess you got all these guys that have these really
Speaker 1: great matchups. I mean, the Saints also have given up
Speaker 1: fifteen touchdowns to running back. That was why the Tracy
Speaker 1: touchdown call in Tracy prediction last week was built around.
Speaker 1: By the way the Saints are giving up touchdowns left
Speaker 1: and right eight of nine games. I believe they've now
Speaker 1: given up a touchdown tool running back in the backfield,
Speaker 1: Brian Robinson. The offense runs through Robinson.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna run through The Cardinals offense doesn't run
Speaker 2: through James Connor.
Speaker 1: To your point, I'm saying they both do. I think
Speaker 1: they're both very close. Let me where does the actual ring.
Speaker 1: Let's look at where their ranks have these guys just for.
Speaker 2: Well, okay, but to answer the question, we agree that
Speaker 2: Rico needs to be in there. I will we can
Speaker 2: debate Ryan Robinson versus James Connor. I'll do that.
Speaker 1: But like so, they said, maybe set a chan Now,
Speaker 1: I mean, I hate to do that. His receiving so much.
Speaker 1: You can't you can't do that, right, So hold on,
Speaker 1: I'm not can't do that. I was trying to figuree
Speaker 1: on that.
Speaker 2: You got it. It's like, maybe we should just sit
Speaker 2: the best guy.
Speaker 1: Just we're making all these cases for these other guys.
Speaker 1: All right, So here are the ranks for this week,
Speaker 1: just for your reference, five of all those running backs,
Speaker 1: by the way, I love to but he's nine. He's
Speaker 1: not in this. But just to throw that to your credit,
Speaker 1: James Connor is eleven on the Fantasy pros consensus ranks,
Speaker 1: Robinson is fourteen, and Dowdell is the lowest at sixteen.
Speaker 1: But I'm making the case of Dowdell here is absolute smash.
Speaker 1: So James Connor, also four star rating a minus, starts
Speaker 1: sit on Fantasy Pros. So and also, I mean, you're
Speaker 1: smarter than me, so you know, let's take the edge
Speaker 1: to you for Connor.
Speaker 2: Well, it's shift shift it so forget about Connor. So
Speaker 2: Dowdell or Robinson pick one.
Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna slightly lean Dowdell.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, yeah, so you know, so we if we
Speaker 2: both agree Dowdell over Robinson, then we'll let the We'll
Speaker 2: let the user come up with what he wants to
Speaker 2: do with James Connor or not.
Speaker 1: Brian Robinson's gonna smash this week.
Speaker 2: Now, they're gonna score the exact same amount of points.
Speaker 1: It probably will they be like matter, yeah, every single one,
Speaker 1: what happens an ah, chance gonna he's gonna be the worst.
Speaker 2: He's been the war.
Speaker 1: I was just about to say he's gonna score nine points.
Speaker 1: The others are all gonna score fifteen, and we're all
Speaker 1: just gonna be sitting here and like, all right, what
Speaker 1: do we do? We're not getting too cute.
Speaker 2: That was fun.
Speaker 1: I had fun doing that, all right, Bryce Sarah tops
Speaker 1: Bryce Bright, Yeah, Bryce Sarah tops Sup.
Speaker 9: Thanks for letting me ask.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it, of course, dude, what do you got?
Speaker 7: So?
Speaker 9: I actually had a couple. So the first one is
Speaker 9: obviously I don't really like Tracy This week, I have
Speaker 9: pa Checko and I just picked up McCormick off of Waivers.
Speaker 9: Do we like Pachecko or McCormick better this week?
Speaker 1: Oh, Erickson is Chaco or McCormick.
Speaker 2: It's still I think it's close, But I still have
Speaker 2: to Checko rank two spots. I had the Browns, They
Speaker 2: just they just give up too many explosive plays. And
Speaker 2: I you have to keep in mind, like as great
Speaker 2: as McCormick can be with Carri's like, there is such
Speaker 2: a big risk with Desmond Redder as your quarterback that
Speaker 2: the Raiders don't score any points on offense. And that's
Speaker 2: not gonna happen with the Jeeves, so I can't. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna start with check.
Speaker 1: Oh, I am going to agree Bryce. What's the next one?
Speaker 2: Thanks?
Speaker 9: So my second one. I normally play neighbors in my flex,
Speaker 9: but I also have Jamo and I just picked up feeling.
Speaker 9: So out of those three, who do you think is
Speaker 9: the best flex?
Speaker 1: I am here for all of the feeling questions I had.
Speaker 1: There's such joy I had in talking about feeling over
Speaker 1: Marvin Harrison for this week, So feeling Jamo Neighbors only
Speaker 1: do one big justice Andrew Rickson, what do you say?
Speaker 2: I mean neighbors I have ranked the highest, but that
Speaker 2: doesn't feel like the right answer. And I know he's
Speaker 2: the highest in ECR, right easy to write answer. I
Speaker 2: mean he's definitely the ranked the highest NCR.
Speaker 1: I don't with DeVito in there, it's even worse, all right,
Speaker 1: So the ranks, the ranks are probably not gonna quite
Speaker 1: do it. We have Neighbors at twenty three and he
Speaker 1: is on a ship falling down. I said ship, by
Speaker 1: the way, thirty three for thling and Jamo's thirty six,
Speaker 1: So pretty wide margin right now in favor of neighbors.
Speaker 1: But to what I feel like you're alluding to. I
Speaker 1: don't know, Man, Adam Thelen maybe doesn't have this crazy ceiling.
Speaker 1: But again you talk about favorite, you know for Carolina,
Speaker 1: Adam Thlen's the number one target. We saw what you
Speaker 1: can do against the secondary of Dallas this past week.
Speaker 1: I I think Thelan might be the safest of it,
Speaker 1: and I think his I think his ceiling. Man, you're
Speaker 1: gonna make me do this. I might go feeling over
Speaker 1: neighbors in my ranks because if you think about this,
Speaker 1: who has better touchdown equity neighbors with de Vito versus
Speaker 1: Baltimore or Fling with Young versus Dallas.
Speaker 2: Dude, dude, So like I I think, dude, are we
Speaker 2: gonna do this? It's the onling, like you got I
Speaker 2: gotta move him up And no, it's so funny because
Speaker 2: like right now, like he's ECR wide receiver thirty three,
Speaker 2: Like I get that, but we're just one week away
Speaker 2: from him having a good game against Dallas, which I
Speaker 2: think is pretty easy to project for him being a
Speaker 2: top twenty four rank receiver. So it's like, let's just
Speaker 2: move him now because we're gonna move him next week anyway,
Speaker 2: So let's just make the move now. I mean, the
Speaker 2: last two weeks, Adam Feelin has been wide receiver six
Speaker 2: and wide receiver nineteen. Malik Neighbors has been in the
Speaker 2: last basically since he came back from his concussion, not
Speaker 2: anywhere near the top twenty four. He hasn't been a
Speaker 2: top twenty four receiver since week four.
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, I think it's the dealing. We're gonna have
Speaker 1: to make that rank move. He's flying, He's flying off
Speaker 1: the board, moving on up. All right. Uh, that was fun.
Speaker 1: See that's why the show is so great too. We
Speaker 1: have these revelations Corbyn Corbyn, Mielevin. We'll sew unmute hit
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Speaker 7: Hey, how's it going, y'all?
Speaker 1: We're doing good, dude.
Speaker 7: I got two questions. I got a running back and
Speaker 7: a wide receiver question.
Speaker 1: Okay, so running back.
Speaker 7: Wise, I got eight chan Connor, Dowdell and Charbonnet, and
Speaker 7: I know Kenneth Walker has a fifteen chance of playing
Speaker 7: and I gotta sit one of them.
Speaker 2: Not this again, Why did.
Speaker 7: You do this?
Speaker 2: We're just gonna have the down of Connor argument again.
Speaker 1: Well, we've already had it now, We're gonna throw sharbon
Speaker 1: in it. If ken Walker starts, it makes your life
Speaker 1: so much easier. If ken Walker doesn't start.
Speaker 2: What are you doing? You can't I mean, if Walker's playing,
Speaker 2: you can't really like play. I mean they're playing Green Bay,
Speaker 2: not like think the matchups like that great.
Speaker 1: It's not that great.
Speaker 2: You can't play Sharbona Walker play like you can't.
Speaker 1: But if Walker doesn't play, does Sharon get the boots also?
Speaker 2: Sunday night?
Speaker 7: Though?
Speaker 2: I think I think ratched like he's he's not gonna.
Speaker 1: Play, okay, But so then if that's the case, then
Speaker 1: then are you boots? Are you gonna play him? Or
Speaker 1: are you booting Charbonay? I think I'm I'm tempted to
Speaker 1: boot sharbon A here.
Speaker 2: No, I don't think. I don't think Walker's gonna play.
Speaker 1: No, No, but it's sharbon Ay, I know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I would keep Sharbona in A Chan has
Speaker 2: my two running bos well.
Speaker 1: He has to start three, he has to sit one,
Speaker 1: doesn't he have four?
Speaker 2: Un Yeah? Yeah, so that we agree on those two.
Speaker 1: So you're so you're booting.
Speaker 2: Doubtell yes, if I canna play sharbon A, yeah.
Speaker 1: With three touchdowns?
Speaker 2: All right? A Monster game.
Speaker 1: Okay, great Corban. What was your other question? Yeah?
Speaker 7: And then the other one is wide receiver Josh Downs
Speaker 7: versus n w I and Josh Downs has an eighty
Speaker 7: percent chance on how are they playing right now?
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Speaker 1: Are they playing? Multiple references in w I faux life
Speaker 1: or Josh.
Speaker 2: Downs, Josh Downs for me?
Speaker 1: Anything else? You can say no if you want no.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, I mean, if anything, just Ridgardson is
Speaker 2: always a It was a tough bet to make with
Speaker 2: these receivers.
Speaker 1: In w I had a big old zero and that
Speaker 1: I mean he did.
Speaker 2: He did have an end Zon target, so he had
Speaker 2: his chance to score a touchdown zero. Well, I mean
Speaker 2: you know that he's gonna score this week after everyone
Speaker 2: drops him, right.
Speaker 1: That's true.
Speaker 2: That's a good point, But it's pretty much fantasy football
Speaker 2: one on one.
Speaker 1: Josh Downs is where that is football one hundred percent.
Speaker 2: I did.
Speaker 1: I pulled that thing that you always do with with
Speaker 1: Bogman last week. I don't know if I said this
Speaker 1: on the show where I called him. It was on Saturdays.
Speaker 1: It was College Bets and he was I was like,
Speaker 1: how your BET's going? And he's like, I'm three and
Speaker 1: on and I'm amazing and blah blah blah. And then
Speaker 1: he's like, I the last game I have here is
Speaker 1: SMU Clemson. I love SMU here. And I said, well,
Speaker 1: if you've been perfect so far, Ericson has told me
Speaker 1: I have to fade you and go on the opposite.
Speaker 1: And guess what, the fade absolutely work.
Speaker 2: So I just want to point that outd regression, man,
Speaker 2: it's undefeated.
Speaker 1: Life's regression.
Speaker 7: All right.
Speaker 1: We are in the final stages here, so this is
Speaker 1: lightning round. We are going to lightning around your questions.
Speaker 1: So we're going to bring you up. Let's try to
Speaker 1: stick to one and we are going to give you
Speaker 1: quicker answers so we can try to get to as
Speaker 1: many people as possible. Let's try MLP f I, n
Speaker 1: GWXQ whatever again. What's up MLP Hey is it working
Speaker 1: this time?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 8: We got you.
Speaker 1: That's your question?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 15: Hey, a couple of questions, So, DST, I'm trying to
Speaker 15: figure out if I can roll with the forty nine
Speaker 15: or tonight, or if I should like take a chance
Speaker 15: with the Bengals or also at the Cowboys and the
Speaker 15: Falcons available.
Speaker 1: Well, we didn't start the Niners ericson, so who are
Speaker 1: you starting?
Speaker 2: Falcons?
Speaker 1: Okay, falcons? What was the other one?
Speaker 2: Hey?
Speaker 1: Flex question?
Speaker 15: Uh DK Chillman Jamo or McCormick.
Speaker 1: Uh dkay for me, m.
Speaker 2: DK or McCormick. Did you say it was full PPR?
Speaker 1: I didn't. Let's assume half though, Yeah, I think.
Speaker 2: You still got to go with dk DK's play.
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Speaker 16: Boys Boys Boys.
Speaker 4: So I'm sure the questions have been ridiculous, but my
Speaker 4: situation is either I played Grendo tonight or my other
Speaker 4: options are Remandre or the Breeze Hall slash Braylen Allen situation.
Speaker 4: But not with the Briece stuff. I almost feel like
Speaker 4: Braylen Allen's not the safe play, and I feel like
Speaker 4: the game could get away from the Patriots if the
Speaker 4: Cardinals want to play the way they're capable of playing,
Speaker 4: and that's going to hurt rutbount Remandre. So I don't
Speaker 4: know if I just rolled the dice with Grendo tonight
Speaker 4: or if you guys think there's a safer option back there.
Speaker 2: We just couldn't escape it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we couldn't escape it. But yeah we started Grinda.
Speaker 1: As we said at the beginning of the show, Garndo
Speaker 1: because the show airs on Friday. So congratulations on that
Speaker 1: Grenda performance you had. Ryan, It's so Brian. Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: soon as we got on good what you got.
Speaker 16: Snuck into the playoffs here last week with a I
Speaker 16: thinks too Chase Brown outscoring to Higgins by nineteen points
Speaker 16: after facing Josh Allen is starting. But this week I
Speaker 16: have of pushing about Flex. Right now, I've got Jerry,
Speaker 16: Judy and Tyreek kills my wide receivers U full PPR
Speaker 16: have Drake, London and Flex right now. But on the bench,
Speaker 16: I've got Wattle, Breis Hall and Adam Feeling. So I'm
Speaker 16: wondering that london't start Feeling just because you know, London
Speaker 16: seems more of a floor play lately, or you know
Speaker 16: what your guys thoughts on that were.
Speaker 1: That's it almost could be by the way, like acting
Speaker 1: like Judy is like a top twelve wide receiver. Would
Speaker 1: you which of those guys and would you go like
Speaker 1: even waddle over Judy and then a feeling over like
Speaker 1: how are you parsoning?
Speaker 4: That is?
Speaker 1: It just easy to say which of those guys in
Speaker 1: flex and Judy's a no brainer or what see you Erickson?
Speaker 2: I think the people that he has in are the
Speaker 2: place to have Judy Hill London, that's.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, London. London should be the two. So
Speaker 1: then the flex question is really more of like Judy
Speaker 1: or feeling and.
Speaker 2: Mean I don't don't I mean, why are we trying
Speaker 2: to sit Judy? Well, the guys has been it's like
Speaker 2: on fine and yeah I get that Tim's back, but
Speaker 2: joke was out, so yeah, fair, I think anything's really
Speaker 2: going to change, So just unroll with Uh. Look, he's
Speaker 2: gonna get volume because James James does and doesn't everyone
Speaker 2: wants so yeah, ex keep Judy truth.
Speaker 1: Uh duan, what's up?
Speaker 5: Hey, guys, I'm putting my bench in the chat. I'm
Speaker 5: looking for my flex spot. I'm kind of between Rinco Dadle,
Speaker 5: Brian Thomas Junior and Grenda. At the moment, I was
Speaker 5: wondering what you guys think it.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you heard us talking earlier, so heavy Rico
Speaker 1: rico is a great flex option. Congratulations on a smash
Speaker 1: of a flex in rico girth. What's up girth four more?
Speaker 1: We're gonna plow through here?
Speaker 14: Oh yep here?
Speaker 1: I am well.
Speaker 14: Hey. I first want to say thanks to the Jennings
Speaker 14: sous sayer and for you guys recommendations on the trade
Speaker 14: some weeks ago on Tyrone Tracy. Here I am number
Speaker 14: one seed going to the playoffs. It's a good feeling.
Speaker 15: Yeah.
Speaker 14: So this is actually for next week because I have
Speaker 14: no chance of the waiver wire. Everybody's always beaten me
Speaker 14: to it. So apologizes that you cover this, but look
Speaker 14: in a week sixteen, it's my round one. I already
Speaker 14: heard the stuff you guys said earlier this week about
Speaker 14: don't doubt Lamar versus Jamis, don't do it.
Speaker 2: But I've also got.
Speaker 14: Potential to get Mayfield versus Dallas, of a love versus Seattle,
Speaker 14: and so I want to get your thoughts there, Like, Okay,
Speaker 14: it's Lamar versus Pittsburgh. We know he struggles there. I
Speaker 14: hear the concerns on Jamis Winston. But what do you
Speaker 14: think about Mayfield or Love next week over Lamar Man?
Speaker 1: That's interesting. I'm out. I love Mayfield versus Dallas Ericson.
Speaker 1: Is that something you would do? You do either one?
Speaker 1: I mean this is a little in the future. I
Speaker 1: haven't even dug into sixteen, but knowing Lamar's struggles against Pittsburgh,
Speaker 1: would you lean on Love or Mayfield?
Speaker 2: You think?
Speaker 1: No, could you do it? I don't. I don't think
Speaker 1: I could do it either.
Speaker 2: I just I don't. I just don't think that. Like,
Speaker 2: Lamar Jackson's been the QB one all year, and you're
Speaker 2: gonna set him when it matters most.
Speaker 1: Okay, let me ask you this differently. I just let
Speaker 1: me ask you this differently. I can't wrap my mind
Speaker 1: around that you are not allowed to start Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: and you start Lover or Mayfield? Which one would you pick?
Speaker 2: Definitely Mayfield?
Speaker 1: Okay, so there you go. So if you're feeling it,
Speaker 1: because we don't make your fantasy decisions for you. We
Speaker 1: just give our breakdowns, and you guys have to pull
Speaker 1: the trigger if you are feeling it, because there is
Speaker 1: some justification in that mayfield would be the option both
Speaker 1: of us would still in our personal lineups. Put Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson out there though, all right, ronan last one on
Speaker 1: the lightning, or we got two more on the lightning
Speaker 1: around here, sup ronin the last ronin, Hey, gentlemen, what
Speaker 1: you got?
Speaker 12: So would you consider starting our doomsday over the likes
Speaker 12: of Tracy Junior Metcalf for debo?
Speaker 1: No, no, across the well. Debo is not an option here,
Speaker 1: but no across the board for now. It could, but
Speaker 1: I don't try. I don't trust any Bears, and I
Speaker 1: think ericson that's what you said earlier.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just a bad spot for them. I get
Speaker 2: the vikings on paper, they give up a lot of volume.
Speaker 2: It's just it's just not a great bet to make dunes.
Speaker 2: They caught the touchdowns last week that this week it
Speaker 2: could be Keenan Allen, or could be DJ Moore, or
Speaker 2: could be Swift Like there is too many there's too
Speaker 2: many miles defeat an offense that's not efficient at all.
Speaker 2: Like that's like the big issue with the Bear so
Speaker 2: one of these bears will probably pop off, but it's.
Speaker 1: Needed better options too. You had some good options, so
Speaker 1: if you didn't, I might go differently. All right, Second
Speaker 1: to last, slitherin Gecko, what's up? Also going thinking? Before
Speaker 1: let me get on.
Speaker 8: I got a PPR decision to make for one running
Speaker 8: back one flex.
Speaker 1: My choice is this between Hubbard and Garrett Wilson. Okay,
Speaker 1: so we have to sit one.
Speaker 2: So sorry I got so excited, but just starting Hubbard.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Hubbard's smashed. So it was it was Pollard, Hubbard
Speaker 1: and Garrett Wilson. Who you sitting?
Speaker 13: Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: So it's got to between Pollard or Garrett Wills.
Speaker 1: Think he said it was full PPR too. I think
Speaker 1: you gotta sit Pollard. He's finding the Bengals, man, I know,
Speaker 1: but you're not sitting in Cuba.
Speaker 2: I mean, but they can't sit. You can't, can't, cannot,
Speaker 2: cannot will not sit to Hoard under even for me
Speaker 2: win without him, I can't win with these guys.
Speaker 1: Garrett Wilson, he's ranked eighteen, but he's got the jags.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's one of these things where it's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: but he's not Aaron Rodgers's best friend, Like, that's Adams,
Speaker 2: So I think that again, it's a two. It's twofold, right.
Speaker 2: You not only are you betting on the matchups across
Speaker 2: the board, but you have to bet on the volume
Speaker 2: going to Garret Wilson and not to Adams and not
Speaker 2: Tyler Conklin and Rogers should not be stiff. So I
Speaker 2: think I'm gonna just take the running back. So I
Speaker 2: just feel most comfortable about their overall workloads. I mean,
Speaker 2: we've it's not like Garret Wilson's hasn't had good matchups
Speaker 2: this year and not like and he's busted before he
Speaker 2: has so again, because if he doesn't score a touchdown,
Speaker 2: I don't think he killed you. So I think it's
Speaker 2: gonna be Pollar. I mean, Polor should have scored. Pollard
Speaker 2: ran pretty cold last week. He had a touchdown called back,
Speaker 2: but he was like ripping up the Jaguars.
Speaker 1: So I love I love Pollard, So I'm cool doing that,
Speaker 1: all right. Last one, some old guy brand new to
Speaker 1: the discord must have just joined up. You are last up.
Speaker 1: If if this works out, some old guy the name
Speaker 1: doesn't make me feel good that the technology is gonna work.
Speaker 1: I don't know but maybe maybe that was the last one.
Speaker 1: I think that was going to be the last one.
Speaker 2: Is also asking Wilson or Evans, and I would say,
Speaker 2: Mike Evans plan.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Mike Evans, all right, Well, some old guy posted
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Speaker 1: and all that suffs ericson who do you need big
Speaker 1: this week? Last thing? You need one player to go
Speaker 1: off crazy. You need a big boom and not a doom.
Speaker 2: Honestly, I think the most guy, the most roster player
Speaker 2: I have probably across like all rosters and like Bestball teams,
Speaker 2: is probably Jayden Daniels. Daniels Okay, you could just smash
Speaker 2: like I mean, it's a good matchup against the Saints.
Speaker 2: You think if you could just have like a marquee
Speaker 2: like thirty point game like out of the bye week
Speaker 2: and they just like Commanders, just absolutely truck stick the Saints,
Speaker 2: that would put me in a a very good position.
Speaker 2: But I need to really cut it. And and Wattle too,
Speaker 2: Like I mean, Wattle is like on every one of
Speaker 2: my rosters, and like the last couple, like Spike Weeks
Speaker 2: have been very like okay, like this is helpful.
Speaker 1: I need some Brian Thomas. I also need some feeling.
Speaker 1: I picked up feeling and quite a few spots. I
Speaker 1: was proactive about that. So feeling, Brian Thomas and Big Weeks.
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