Speaker 1: Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of I Heart Radio.
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Speaker 1: and whatever stupid stuff they decided to drop into the show.
Speaker 1: Now here's your host. Welcome to Week seventeen, a special
Speaker 1: edition of Fantasy Football Weekly. I'm Paul Charchi and my
Speaker 1: co host is Brian Johnson. We made it to the
Speaker 1: fantasy off season. We did it is it's it's the
Speaker 1: fantasy off season, even if it's not even I guess
Speaker 1: the I wouldn't even call the time in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: regular reality season, fantasy off season exactly. And I didn't
Speaker 1: think we were gonna make it here. To be honest
Speaker 1: with you, I don't know. I don't know about your
Speaker 1: wind back to August. Look, but hey, and give the
Speaker 1: NFL credit. Man. They just said we're gonna power through this.
Speaker 1: And there are a lot of people that said, oh no,
Speaker 1: that's wrong. What do you want to do? Do you infect?
Speaker 1: You know, infect all the players? You want to give
Speaker 1: thirty two teams COVID you know what they you know?
Speaker 1: To their credit, it wasn't always a smooth ride and
Speaker 1: a lot of people that do a lot of adapting,
Speaker 1: including fantasy owners. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: the NFL had it right. They can get through the playoffs.
Speaker 1: About any major hiccups too, we don't want to jink
Speaker 1: them now. How from a fantasy perspective, we don't care
Speaker 1: what we're done. Mostly yes, uh ex some weeks seventeen seasonal,
Speaker 1: it's over. If you're playing it. You know, as you
Speaker 1: guys already know if you're listening to podcast, if you're
Speaker 1: playing your Fantasy championship in weeks seventeen, you're doing it wrong.
Speaker 1: But we believe this is a great opportunity for daily
Speaker 1: Fantasy Sports, and that's we're going to just spend most
Speaker 1: of this podcast talking about some angles that we like
Speaker 1: for DFS. Um Some people don't even know what DFS
Speaker 1: stands for. I just think I think that makes sense.
Speaker 1: I think there's a great opportunity for DFS players in
Speaker 1: weeks seventeen, Brian, because some percentage of the people that
Speaker 1: are playing this week, they're not even really paying five
Speaker 1: ten percent aren't paying close enough attention to all the
Speaker 1: things that shift in week seventeen. You gotta really pay
Speaker 1: close attention in Week seventeen. Well, let's dialing back really quick.
Speaker 1: Just for anyone who doesn't know what daily Fantasy sports is.
Speaker 1: Most do. But if you don't, if you happen to
Speaker 1: not know, it's whatever you know about fantasy football marries
Speaker 1: up to DFS in the lineup that you set is
Speaker 1: very similar. One quarterback to running backs, blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: The scoring is very similar to what you're used to.
Speaker 1: But where it's different is you build your team with
Speaker 1: a fake salary cap. Most sites it's fifty dollars. You
Speaker 1: use that, and every player has a price tag attached
Speaker 1: to him. The better ones are more expensive, the ones
Speaker 1: who aren't as good are cheaper, so you can't just
Speaker 1: load up on all the good players. That's DFS in
Speaker 1: a nutshell, all right, And what I think there's do
Speaker 1: you want to go beyond that and explain, you know,
Speaker 1: game theory stuff like that, Well, real quick, we won't
Speaker 1: go we won't get too hand holding, we won't get
Speaker 1: too heavy. But when we talk about some players we
Speaker 1: like this week, we're gonna say they are a good
Speaker 1: tournament play or a cash game play. There's generally two
Speaker 1: kinds of games, and daily Fantasy sports there's tournaments, and
Speaker 1: those are the big contests where there's a first place,
Speaker 1: a second place, a third place, all the way down
Speaker 1: the line, and those are the contests where you really well,
Speaker 1: those are the tournaments. Then the cash games are the
Speaker 1: head to heads or the fifty fifties where either you're
Speaker 1: playing against one person or half of the people in
Speaker 1: the contest win. And in those contests, you just kind
Speaker 1: of want to stay with the pack, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. You don't want to differentiate, you don't want
Speaker 1: to get too contrarian. I'm throwing a lot of buzzwords
Speaker 1: out there. You don't want to use leverage plays. You
Speaker 1: just kinda you go with the best plays basically in
Speaker 1: cash games, but in tournaments you got a straight from
Speaker 1: the pack. At times you got a zig while other zag.
Speaker 1: You can't just go with all the chalky best plays
Speaker 1: or you're flat out it's not gonna win a tournament
Speaker 1: because there's too many people. Many people, so you know,
Speaker 1: there might be a thousand people in the tournament or
Speaker 1: twenty thousand people in the tournament. So if you just
Speaker 1: if you play everything normal, you're not going to stand
Speaker 1: especially if you only have one or two line up
Speaker 1: because you're going upup against guys that have a hundred
Speaker 1: lineups and they're they're using all all of the pular place,
Speaker 1: so you have to zig while other zag. All right,
Speaker 1: is there any other daily Fantasy sports one oh one
Speaker 1: that you think our listeners need to know right now
Speaker 1: at before we get started. I would say they call
Speaker 1: it a game of skill, it's still gambling. Don't put
Speaker 1: up money that you're not comfortable losing in DFS because
Speaker 1: it is very hard to win in DFS, especially in tournaments.
Speaker 1: DFS and fantasy does not meet the legal definition of gambling.
Speaker 1: Let me be extremely clear about this. What Brian just
Speaker 1: said is wrong. It is not gambling, just an opinion.
Speaker 1: It is you, but you are putting your cash at risk,
Speaker 1: but it is not cofinition of gambling. Black and white
Speaker 1: not gambling. Let's talk about some of the NFL teams
Speaker 1: you need to avoid as you're putting together your your
Speaker 1: your daily Fantasy rosters. And now when you're playing on
Speaker 1: most sites, you can literally remove these teams from your
Speaker 1: player pool by n clicking them in the matchups above,
Speaker 1: and I suggest doing that because you do not want
Speaker 1: any of these guys in any of your TFS lineups
Speaker 1: these teams. The Steelers have announced they're resting their starters.
Speaker 1: The Chiefs have announced they're resting their starters. Because the
Speaker 1: Steelers arresting their starters, they're effectively giving up on the
Speaker 1: number two seed, which means Buffalo is going to have
Speaker 1: the number two seed, which means Buffalo doesn't have to
Speaker 1: play their starters either. So there's a lot of danger
Speaker 1: with them. And then one other team that I think
Speaker 1: you I would just play a void is Tampa. They
Speaker 1: can only move from the fifth seed to the sixth seed,
Speaker 1: and both of those are first round road games, and
Speaker 1: the Bucks may just decide we don't know yet. Bucks
Speaker 1: may just decide we don't care enough between the fifth
Speaker 1: seed and the sixth seeds, so it doesn't matter, and
Speaker 1: we'd rather just rest our starters that that's a better
Speaker 1: advantage for us. There's one small angle that they might
Speaker 1: want to target the NFC East team, right, but you
Speaker 1: could try to target you could try to target that
Speaker 1: NFC East team. Let me throw one more thing in here,
Speaker 1: because when the morning wave of games is over on Sunday,
Speaker 1: that's going to alter how some teams may handle their
Speaker 1: games in the afternoon sleep. So you always here in
Speaker 1: seasonal leagues on Thursday, right. Never if you have Thursday players,
Speaker 1: never put him in your flex spot. You want to
Speaker 1: put him in your running back or wide receiver spot.
Speaker 1: That's definitely true. It's more so true in Daily Fantasy Sports.
Speaker 1: Even if all the teams are playing, all the players
Speaker 1: are playing on the same day, make sure you have
Speaker 1: your latest start time in that flex spot. Even if
Speaker 1: it's your favorite player in your lineup and you're like,
Speaker 1: he's my favorite running back, don't PLoP him in at
Speaker 1: running back. Put him in and your flex spot, whether
Speaker 1: it's a running back, a wide receiver, even a tight end.
Speaker 1: The latest spot, the latest start always in your flex
Speaker 1: butt in DFS, especially in COVID times because players get
Speaker 1: scratched right before the game. Look at des Brian and
Speaker 1: you want to leave yourself ultimate flexibility. Okay, so back
Speaker 1: to some of the teams that you're talking about, the
Speaker 1: teams you don't want to target. The teams that are
Speaker 1: highly motivated to win on Sunday are Cleveland. Uh, they'll
Speaker 1: be going up against the Steelers, a team with backups
Speaker 1: as we mentioned, and for Cleveland, it's not only a
Speaker 1: playoff spot. It's a win over a hated division rival
Speaker 1: who has dominated the brown for like twenty years. So
Speaker 1: you know this. I think the Browns are gonna be
Speaker 1: up for this. Tennessee needs a win for the division
Speaker 1: title and home game in Round one. Highly motivated team.
Speaker 1: They at Jacksonville Ravens have a winning in scenario and
Speaker 1: if they lose, they likely go home, so they are
Speaker 1: highly motivated. Indie needs a win and help. Green Bay
Speaker 1: looks to lock up home field with a win, so
Speaker 1: they'll be motivated. New Orleans can leap frog Green Bay
Speaker 1: to the number one seed with a win and some help.
Speaker 1: Packers can go so keep there. You could argue the
Speaker 1: vikings of their biggest rival. They would keep the Bears
Speaker 1: out of the playoffs two if they win that game.
Speaker 1: Although if you're the Packers, I want the Bears a
Speaker 1: fair point and I want to I seriously, I want
Speaker 1: the Bears in in the playoffs. That is a that's
Speaker 1: a team you can beat. Uh. We mentioned New Orleans.
Speaker 1: I believe that can leap frog Green Bay. Washington needs
Speaker 1: can they win. They're inna win in scenario, so and lose.
Speaker 1: If they lose, they go home. So highly motivated. Team there,
Speaker 1: but that's a tough offense to find helping. Uh Rams
Speaker 1: need a John Wolford lead, a win over in Arizona
Speaker 1: or a loss by Chicago to Green Bay. So there
Speaker 1: they will be playing to win, but they'll be doing
Speaker 1: without their starting quarterback, their best receiver, and two running backs.
Speaker 1: So bad news the Rams. Chicago's gotta win. In scenario
Speaker 1: Dallas needs a win and help and the Giants need
Speaker 1: to win and help. Um they play each other. So
Speaker 1: it's a lot of teams that are highly motivated for
Speaker 1: playoff positioning. Now let's talk about some of the players
Speaker 1: that that caught our I especially by the dollar at
Speaker 1: the quarterback position. Brian go ahead, Uh well, I like
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill a lot, and how can you not. He's
Speaker 1: up against the Texans who have packed it in. Well,
Speaker 1: they packed it in last year essentially for this season,
Speaker 1: and in Tannehill has played Houston already had sixty four
Speaker 1: passing yards four touchdowns against the Texans in Week six.
Speaker 1: I mean Brandon Allen just had three seventy yards and
Speaker 1: two touchdowns for the Bengals against the Texans last year. Now,
Speaker 1: now Tan Hills not chep seven k on d K
Speaker 1: that's uh, you know, six seventh pricest quarterback. But I
Speaker 1: don't see his ownership percentage being super high because of
Speaker 1: the running back on that team we're going to talk about. Finally,
Speaker 1: just pivot him for a second. So Derrick Henry is
Speaker 1: and this is the most favorable matchup of his year,
Speaker 1: and it's a must win scenario. Yeah, so you have
Speaker 1: to make I think you have to make a decision
Speaker 1: on whether or not you're gonna go in on on
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry. Yeah. In cash games, he's a guy that
Speaker 1: pretty much everyone's gonna plug into their lineup in a
Speaker 1: fifty fifty or a double up where you just have
Speaker 1: to essentially come in the top half of your league.
Speaker 1: Double ups or doubles is more like to But yeah,
Speaker 1: in in a tournament play and I only see very expensive.
Speaker 1: But if he goes belly up, you're screwed because you've
Speaker 1: spent all your monum. So to answer your question, if
Speaker 1: you're playing one lineup in a g PP, I would
Speaker 1: not play Derrick Henry. I think his ownership percentage will
Speaker 1: still be high because it's a really good matchup against
Speaker 1: an awful, awful run defense, and he has proven success
Speaker 1: over them year in and year out. All right, so
Speaker 1: I would I would get back to Hill. So at
Speaker 1: the contrarian angle then is is too, are you stacking Titans? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I would gain even more leverage by not playing Derrick Henry.
Speaker 1: And if Derrick Henry doesn't hit his five six times
Speaker 1: value and that's basically you multiply his salary by five
Speaker 1: or six and you get that many fantasy points. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would stack a J. Brown, who I believe has
Speaker 1: four touchdowns in three career games against the Texans, and
Speaker 1: uh maybe even throw what we'll talk about Titans a
Speaker 1: little later, your boy John you Smith in there. But
Speaker 1: uh yeah, that's how you gain leverage, not just talking
Speaker 1: to uh titan's in any If you feel a player
Speaker 1: is gonna be super high owned, and that's a running back,
Speaker 1: then your your leverage plays either the running back from
Speaker 1: the other team or the passing game from that same team.
Speaker 1: And uh and that's the instance here, I think Henry
Speaker 1: is gonna be ownership and uh so, yeah, the leverage
Speaker 1: playby Tannehill and his receivers. I am really intrigued by
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield. He's only dollars, uh that and he's my
Speaker 1: number six rand quarterback because the Steelers have nothing to
Speaker 1: play for. I think this is this is the stack
Speaker 1: I would put into a bigger tournament. Uh, to differentiate myself,
Speaker 1: I would be And you're gonna hear more Browns come
Speaker 1: up later on in the show. I like Baker Mayfield
Speaker 1: dollars instead of the seven thousand that Tan Hill. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he comes in cheaper, and then last week we didn't
Speaker 1: have any of his wide receivers. So yeah, yeah, the
Speaker 1: books to sees Pittsburgh, but they're not factoring in how
Speaker 1: bad that defense is going to be depleted personally right
Speaker 1: right and if Steelers just don't have anything to play for.
Speaker 1: So I think that's a good angle. Are there any
Speaker 1: other quarterbacks you want to talk about? Yeah? And this
Speaker 1: is a pretty much a meeting, meaningless game between the
Speaker 1: Lions and the Vikings. But I like Cousins at sixty hundred.
Speaker 1: He won't have his left tackle. But the Lions are
Speaker 1: probably the least motivated team out there. They're gonna be
Speaker 1: without a lot of players. And uh, Cousins at two hundred,
Speaker 1: twenty three yards and three touchdowns against Detroit in Week
Speaker 1: nine on just twenty past attempts, and they're gonna be Samsdalvin, Cook,
Speaker 1: Alexander and Madison not guaranteed to play. They got Justin
Speaker 1: Jefferson chasing the Rookie of the Year award essentially, and
Speaker 1: Kirk's is gonna want to shut up the haters one
Speaker 1: more time this year, and I just see him. The
Speaker 1: Vikings should have fun in this game with their skill players.
Speaker 1: I don't see why they would not, so uh by injuries.
Speaker 1: This game might get overlooked because it's totally meaningless to
Speaker 1: both teams. So I like Cousins, and again, it's a
Speaker 1: very stackable team with Jefferson and even feeling too all right,
Speaker 1: let's go to the running back position. Um, we talked
Speaker 1: about Derrick Henry. We're mostly saying we I think we
Speaker 1: can find better value elsewhere, and you know, I'd love
Speaker 1: to have Derrick Henry, but I'm not. So Let's talk
Speaker 1: about some of the other guys you like, beginning with
Speaker 1: David Montgomery. Yeah, David Montgomery has arguably the ceiling just
Speaker 1: about as high as Henry. He's outperformed performed Henry last week,
Speaker 1: and Henry had the better matchup in Montgomery essentially underperformed
Speaker 1: even though he hit twenty points. He didn't score touchdown,
Speaker 1: and we did score, but he didn't get hundred yards.
Speaker 1: People were expecting a bigger game from from Montgomery last week,
Speaker 1: but he should have a great game against green Bay.
Speaker 1: He did in week twelve, had a hundred and three
Speaker 1: yards on just eleven carries. He added forty receiving yards
Speaker 1: and receiving touchdown. The path of least resistance against the
Speaker 1: Packers is still against the run. Derrick Henry's improved that
Speaker 1: against Green Bay last week, but the game script got
Speaker 1: flipped upside down on Tennessee and Chicago has a chance
Speaker 1: to win this game. Packers will be without David back
Speaker 1: try and uh, yeah, Chicago and keep Rogers off the field,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna feed Montgomery heavily. So at seventy seven hundred,
Speaker 1: almost two thousand less than Henry, Montgomery's a guylking tournaments. Uh,
Speaker 1: talk to me about Miles Gaskin. This is a game
Speaker 1: in which two is going to get the start. Uh,
Speaker 1: And I think there's a lot of people that have
Speaker 1: a lot of trepidation about starting to in this in
Speaker 1: this matchup. And I would and I'd be if I
Speaker 1: were the Dolphins, I'd be orienting towards the running game
Speaker 1: here and Gaskin got almost all the work last week
Speaker 1: with Savant Akhmed and Acumed got the start, and you
Speaker 1: could tell they were kind of wanting to maybe a
Speaker 1: fifty fifty split, but Gasking just so much better that
Speaker 1: would never saw the field essentially after the first quarter.
Speaker 1: And again, this is one of those very motivated teams
Speaker 1: in Miami playing against a very unmotivated Buffalo team, and
Speaker 1: Gasking is a very moderately price that. This is a
Speaker 1: guy I think you'll see is somewhat popular in both
Speaker 1: cash games and tournaments, but at that price in this
Speaker 1: expected workload, that was the first game we're acumented and Gasking.
Speaker 1: We're both healthy too, and Gasting just blow him out
Speaker 1: of the water when it comes to playing time. So
Speaker 1: I think he's a guy that I would up lock
Speaker 1: into most lineups, regardless of playing tournaments or cash games.
Speaker 1: This week heavily owned player might be Ty Johnson of
Speaker 1: the Jets, because he's the starting running back for the
Speaker 1: Jets against the Patriots run defense that has packed it in,
Speaker 1: giving a five and a half yards per carry over
Speaker 1: the last three weeks. Uh, Ty Johnson, and we've got
Speaker 1: so Frank Gore's out, uh and La Michael p Ryan
Speaker 1: is on the COVID list. So it's gonna be all
Speaker 1: Thy Johnson in this game. And he's had one other
Speaker 1: game where he had a workhorse role and in that
Speaker 1: game we got twenty two carries. He put up a
Speaker 1: hundred four rushing yards and a touchdown on the Raiders. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's when Gore got hurt in like the first carry.
Speaker 1: I remember I was heavy on Frank Gore that week,
Speaker 1: so I remember that week. Well, Johnson did well. Yeah
Speaker 1: as Raiders, and then Johnson did well when Gore came back.
Speaker 1: Even though Gore got all the carries, he had six
Speaker 1: catches and a touchdown the following week. So yeah, he
Speaker 1: can play for sure. And now he's only he's gonna
Speaker 1: be a lot of people are happening in both cash
Speaker 1: games and tournaments, so he's not a full on fade.
Speaker 1: But when it's it's tough to pass on a bell
Speaker 1: cow running back at this price. But if you have
Speaker 1: the stones too, and we'll talk about a leverage play
Speaker 1: very shortly on the Jets. If you're not gonna go
Speaker 1: with Thi Johnson, but Chi Johnson went to the bed,
Speaker 1: you have a huge edge on the field. Even even
Speaker 1: though he was so cheap. His ownership percentage projects to
Speaker 1: be very high. But I would come in personally owning
Speaker 1: him less than the thirty. He'll probably be owned by
Speaker 1: the field by only owning him. Like two of my
Speaker 1: ten lineups per se, Alexander Madison looks to me the
Speaker 1: vi Kings lead back with Dalvin Cook out. He goes
Speaker 1: up against the Lions, a team allowing the fifth most
Speaker 1: rushing yards, fifth most receiving yards to oppose it running backs,
Speaker 1: and Dalvin Cook destroyed them when they met earlier in
Speaker 1: this season. Um, they're the Vikings. If you want to
Speaker 1: go contrain. You talked about Cousins, and we do like
Speaker 1: the passing game here, but it's still the Vikings. They're
Speaker 1: never going to give up on the running game completely,
Speaker 1: and they could make if they could decide. Coaching staff
Speaker 1: could decide, we want to protect our most valuable players,
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins, Adam Thiel, and Justin Jefferson. We're just gonna
Speaker 1: run Alexander Madison in this gamp. Yeah. One of the
Speaker 1: most common mistakes in fantasy football, whether it's daily or season,
Speaker 1: is a backup running back gets the starting job for
Speaker 1: whatever reason, the suspension, injury, and you just assume he's
Speaker 1: going to perform like the starter did. That's usually not
Speaker 1: the case, but that's kind of the case with Alexander
Speaker 1: Madison when he's gotten the opportunity. So yeah, I love
Speaker 1: the Madison play. He'll probably be another very popular cash
Speaker 1: game option because he seems like a very safe play.
Speaker 1: I don't think his own ship percentage will be as
Speaker 1: high in tournaments because people will want to differentiate and
Speaker 1: there's a little worry because he's questionable, they might give
Speaker 1: Mike Boone some run runs. So, uh, we have Madison
Speaker 1: certainly in play this week. We expect Madison to be
Speaker 1: available here. What do you think about Kareem Hunt, who
Speaker 1: I've added to our discussion list here at fifty hundred
Speaker 1: dollars And we talked about Browns earlier. They've got a
Speaker 1: you know, they've got a matchup against the Steelers team
Speaker 1: that's not got it doesn't have anything to play for.
Speaker 1: We saw Jonathan Taylor and Giovanni Bernard both put up
Speaker 1: big games against the Steelers in the last two weeks,
Speaker 1: and maybe the Browns just get ahead early in this
Speaker 1: one and they just rest Nick Chubb. Some, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: a lot of maybe for it's cheap, he's not. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's not. That's the same price as Madison. Do you
Speaker 1: expect Madison to to be the bell cow? Essentially? If
Speaker 1: Chubb's yeah, hundreds still a backup running back, right, he
Speaker 1: gets good run it at the backup running backs. But
Speaker 1: but it's six K. His ten to fifteen touches still
Speaker 1: aren't guaranteed. And you want you want fifteen guaranteed touches
Speaker 1: from your running back almost regardless price. And who's to
Speaker 1: say they don't rest. So I'm kind of off on Hunt.
Speaker 1: He would be. He has a very high ceiling. He
Speaker 1: always does, so he would be a good tournament play
Speaker 1: because no one's gonna be on him. But like in
Speaker 1: a cash game where you're trying to stay with the pack,
Speaker 1: stay right the you know, the middle of the scoring field.
Speaker 1: Hans and Nog a guy like for the salary at
Speaker 1: wide receivers, Emmanuel Sanders. Since Drew Brees has come back,
Speaker 1: Sanders averaging eighty yards per game. Obviously no Michael Thomas
Speaker 1: in this game. Trey Kwan Samith's question mark. The Panthers
Speaker 1: secondary has been all over the place, at the good
Speaker 1: bad good games, bad games. You don't know what you're
Speaker 1: gonna get there. But Sanders has been very bankable and
Speaker 1: dollars seems reasonable. Yeah, definitely, and uh, I think he
Speaker 1: will also be a pretty popular choice this week with
Speaker 1: Thomas Still and I are. But you can you can
Speaker 1: eat that chalk essentially, if he's gonna get you your points,
Speaker 1: which if he sees the volume should alright. My next receiver,
Speaker 1: I like is is a value play Richard Higgins. Forty dollars.
Speaker 1: Jarvis Landry will cost you two thousand more than Richard Higgins.
Speaker 1: And I'm getting a guy who, over the last three
Speaker 1: weeks has basically been this has scored as well as
Speaker 1: Jarvis Landry has. He has scored and or top seventy
Speaker 1: six yards in three straight games for Chard Higgins has.
Speaker 1: I feel like this is a great opportunity to go
Speaker 1: Mayfield Higgins. I got a cheap quarterback. I got a
Speaker 1: cheap receiver in a great matchup. Definitely, And these receivers
Speaker 1: are gonna be frothing at the mouth after being forced
Speaker 1: to And I feel so bad for Landry, who never
Speaker 1: missed the game in his career. Uh, that sucks me.
Speaker 1: If I had to pick between Higgins and Landry, It's
Speaker 1: definitely Higgins because of the price. Thousand dollar delta for sure.
Speaker 1: All right, tell me about Calvin Ridley. He's eighty five
Speaker 1: hundred dollars. That is a huge amount of second pricest
Speaker 1: receiver on the slate. I think because Green Bay is
Speaker 1: still motivated, if someone's going to be spending up at receiver,
Speaker 1: they'll probably still go Davante Adam's way. Uh, this is
Speaker 1: kind of a just a gut call. These teams played
Speaker 1: two weeks ago, the Bucks and the Falcons, and really
Speaker 1: had ten catches a hundred sixty three yards in a
Speaker 1: touchdown on fourteen targets. There's no Julio. I don't think
Speaker 1: Julio is playing this week. He's out, And really, I
Speaker 1: just think the only thing Atlanta has to play for
Speaker 1: right now is getting Calvin Ridley the receiving title, which
Speaker 1: he can get. He's in fourth place right now by
Speaker 1: yards by yards. He's about twenty behind Diggs, who's not
Speaker 1: going to play, essentially, so he's locked in. And then
Speaker 1: he's had Hopkins and Adams who are no more than
Speaker 1: fifty yards ahead of him, and the Adams maybe I
Speaker 1: don't know if Hopkins is gonna get at a big game.
Speaker 1: I think they just speed Ridley mercilessly. In this game
Speaker 1: against a leaky secondary, was given up sixteen wide receiver touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Soon Davis may miss another game. This is just a
Speaker 1: thirty forty point potential, uh that I see people overlooking.
Speaker 1: For the most part, will probably only be owned about
Speaker 1: ten percent at most. You'll did to another Jets player
Speaker 1: that you liked. If you weren't gonna go Ty Johnson,
Speaker 1: who is it? Yeah? So if you're most people plug
Speaker 1: in Thy Johnson into their lineup, they're not gonna. I
Speaker 1: really want to put a Jets wide receiver in your lineup.
Speaker 1: But uh, if I'm not playing Johnson, I'm playing Jameson
Speaker 1: Crowder for sure. And he had a big game last week.
Speaker 1: So but I'm I've always loved Jameson Crowder and he
Speaker 1: and Sam Donald they're fully clicking again. When he faced
Speaker 1: the Patriots the first time in Week nine, he was
Speaker 1: coming off a three week injury. Joe Flacco is the quarterback.
Speaker 1: He still caught a touchdown. Um, I think he catches
Speaker 1: another touchdown on Sunday if not to and look, this
Speaker 1: is the Jets one chance to like just beat the
Speaker 1: piss out of the Patriots, right, we got a lot
Speaker 1: of never gets more promised, a lot of pent up,
Speaker 1: pent up aggression here. So um yeah, I just like
Speaker 1: Jameson Crowder at five k that that is way too
Speaker 1: cheap from a guy who's guaranteed to see ten targets.
Speaker 1: Still a Patriots past defense that even without stuff on
Speaker 1: Gilmore has been good except last week, except last yea.
Speaker 1: And you know, but Josh is not on the field.
Speaker 1: It's Sam Donald. I'm I'm more nervous about this one
Speaker 1: than you are. But five thousand is a is a
Speaker 1: is a fair price to pay. Let's go to the
Speaker 1: tight end position. Um, I've got my guy Johnny Smith,
Speaker 1: who I like it only thirty eight hundred dollars. That's
Speaker 1: everybody's given up on Johnny Smith. There's gonna be a
Speaker 1: ton of Tennessee stacks, but nobody's they're all gonna be
Speaker 1: stacking Tannehill and Davis, Tannehill and Brown. Nobody's gonna be
Speaker 1: stacking Tannehill. John You And that's I think that's your
Speaker 1: angle most you know, John Who's um targets have been
Speaker 1: good the last two weeks, five targets, seven targets. Finally
Speaker 1: healthy back you know, at the start of the season
Speaker 1: healthy and he was a dominating tight end force. Then
Speaker 1: he got hurt, missed I think one game, played hurt
Speaker 1: for the better part of like five six weeks, but
Speaker 1: clearly back healthy again and part of this offensive rotation.
Speaker 1: And this feels like a good angle at only thirty
Speaker 1: hundred dollars, and I believe he went somewhat nuclear. Well, no,
Speaker 1: it was this was the first game. I think this
Speaker 1: is when Johnny got hurt. This is the game and
Speaker 1: are at eight matches, a hundred and thirteen yards and
Speaker 1: a touchdown against the Texans. So yeah, I love the
Speaker 1: john who call, and really at tight end, I can
Speaker 1: usually find two or three guys third cheap, you know,
Speaker 1: minimum price, even that that I like. But I'm basically
Speaker 1: hand jamming Mike Kasecki into all my lineups this week.
Speaker 1: I'm treating him as a wide receiver one who you
Speaker 1: can play at tight end. Again, they're playing against the
Speaker 1: unmotivated Buffalo Bills, who there have been three games where
Speaker 1: tight ends virtually did nothing two catches by opposing tight
Speaker 1: ends and three games against the Bills and that was
Speaker 1: two games against the Patriots in one game against the Jets.
Speaker 1: Those teams don't use their tight ends at all. So
Speaker 1: take those three games out. There's actually one game where
Speaker 1: Herndon did something against the Bill, so I kept that
Speaker 1: in because he did something. But you take out those
Speaker 1: three games where tight ends did nothing because they weren't
Speaker 1: even targeted. And opposing tight ends are averaging six point
Speaker 1: seven five catches, seventy three yards and point seven touchdowns
Speaker 1: per game against Buffalo when they're playing motivated and Mike
Speaker 1: Kasecki had eight catches, a d thirty yards and a
Speaker 1: touchdown on the first meeting as well. When these teams played.
Speaker 1: I was way back in week two. But still, because
Speaker 1: Sticky is, I'm treating him like a wide receiver one.
Speaker 1: And if I can put a wide receiver one in
Speaker 1: my tight end spot all day every day, makes sense.
Speaker 1: All right. Lastly, defenses, Um, you know, if this is
Speaker 1: always it always feels like, all right, what money do
Speaker 1: I have left? All right, I'll just pick that defense
Speaker 1: is really how you should treat it, and nothing too
Speaker 1: scientific here, Cleveland. You're going up against Pittsburgh, Yeah, Mason Rudolph,
Speaker 1: Miami going up against the Matt Berkeley. I believe the
Speaker 1: Matt Berkeley probably led Bills. Uh, the Jets, I think
Speaker 1: there might be the cheapest option out there. On most sites,
Speaker 1: they just have the Pats. Well, and it's Cam Newton
Speaker 1: starts the game. Who you know, he's been benched so
Speaker 1: many times now that you don't even know who's gonna finish.
Speaker 1: I'll throw this in like so the Jets and you're
Speaker 1: using Ty Johnson, it's it's very It's usually good practice
Speaker 1: when you were using a running back because you expect
Speaker 1: a lot of carry. Is when you expect a lot
Speaker 1: of carries, you expect clock control, you expect the team
Speaker 1: to win the game. So you usually want to pair
Speaker 1: you're one of your running backs with the defense because
Speaker 1: if the running backs on the field getting a lot
Speaker 1: of touches, usually the defense isn't giving up a lot
Speaker 1: of points and hopefully forcing some turnovers. So that makes sense.
Speaker 1: Ty Johnson with the Jets is pretty much a no brainer.
Speaker 1: If you're gonna use thy Johnson and then use the
Speaker 1: Jets defense, all right, that makes sense. Um any other
Speaker 1: defenses that that's stick out for you, let me pull
Speaker 1: them up real quick. But no, because like you said,
Speaker 1: there's so much variants in defense. There's really you can
Speaker 1: do some research. But if that your team's defense, if
Speaker 1: their offense turns the ball over on the five yard line,
Speaker 1: then the other team gets the ball, they're gonna score
Speaker 1: and it's not your like. You focus on your key
Speaker 1: players and then just see what you can make work
Speaker 1: with defense, really make sense. Don't focus on the defense
Speaker 1: when you're building your lineups. Alright, um charges against the
Speaker 1: Chiefs backups? Yeah, I like it. I can dig it. Okay, alright,
Speaker 1: there's all there's all something that Anthony Lynn. He can
Speaker 1: muck that up somehow. I don't know if I'm buying
Speaker 1: into anything employed still I can understand that. All right,
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