Speaker 1: Way off. We'll talk about way offs. You're kidding me, playoffs, coome.
Speaker 1: I just hope we can win a game. Dropping stats
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Speaker 1: strong takes, the tip is the fantasy free style. You
Speaker 1: win championships at the fantasy free staff. Dropping stats so beat,
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Speaker 1: that fantasy free style. One, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, yea, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what it is. Back in the Place to
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Speaker 1: We got rocks and steads in the Place to beat.
Speaker 1: We had that wild cards and hopefully you got the
Speaker 1: wild cards. Didn't get a joker one year, and you
Speaker 1: can win that Cat Fay conditional weekend and rocks. I
Speaker 1: always think it's better in football. You still get four games.
Speaker 1: Let me get the best four teams in football, the
Speaker 1: ones in the season joining the party. Join the party
Speaker 1: with us. Yeah, man, I agree with you, and I
Speaker 1: think that it's also just great because it's one of
Speaker 1: only two weekends where we do get those four games
Speaker 1: with no other competition. It's really great to have two
Speaker 1: on Saturday and then two on Sunday. And honestly, Ron
Speaker 1: wis looking forward to the weeks late after what was
Speaker 1: for me a mile card weekends, I was not really
Speaker 1: feeling yet hashtag mild card. Uh. I was not really
Speaker 1: feeling a lot of the football that that we witnessed
Speaker 1: last week and uh, last weekend you and I were
Speaker 1: actually together for the for the Saturday games, I found
Speaker 1: myself up absorbed in the tasting notes on my barrel
Speaker 1: stouts more than I did with the open Raiders were
Speaker 1: doing with their third Street quarterback end, what Rock Osweiler
Speaker 1: and the anemic us Be running game was pulling off.
Speaker 1: So I'm also we can see a little more fireworks
Speaker 1: coming up in this which I agree with your best
Speaker 1: weekend in sports. I agree with the Sunday games night
Speaker 1: get a little bit better the Giants and the Packers
Speaker 1: game to the games in the first half, at least,
Speaker 1: I would say the Giants actually played amazing for about
Speaker 1: what twenty seven minutes um and then obviously m d
Speaker 1: be candidate Aaron Rod got going. He did big last week.
Speaker 1: Uh you know, three hundred sixty samod yards, four touchdowns,
Speaker 1: no interceptions. Let's up, let's let's look into these uh
Speaker 1: divisional games. We're gonna give you our game by games breakdown,
Speaker 1: along with some DFF loads a little bit later on.
Speaker 1: We're also, as usual, we're gonna give you our diamonds
Speaker 1: are fool Daisies, our game flow geniuses. We're doing the
Speaker 1: scene long kind of awards. We're gonna look at the
Speaker 1: tight end position a little bit later on. But I
Speaker 1: want to start up drops look at some of these
Speaker 1: injuries coming out of wild Card weekend, seeing if any
Speaker 1: of these teams are gonna get affected. Obviously, I want
Speaker 1: to talk about this. Did you say big Ben little
Speaker 1: walking boot? After the game they saying they're saying, you know,
Speaker 1: he shed his walking dude, He's obviously gonna be good
Speaker 1: to go. But here's my question. They were up big
Speaker 1: in that game and taking the old Lady Bell, but
Speaker 1: they left Big Ben in there, and they left him growing.
Speaker 1: I think that's a little bit of a risk to
Speaker 1: the media. Franchise quarterback after you've already kind of hold
Speaker 1: the starters are like other levels of wish, kind of
Speaker 1: the white flag that she's gonna park the bus. It
Speaker 1: almost came back to pit him. If you think, what
Speaker 1: do you think about what Tomlin diak there? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I agree with you. I also think though, that
Speaker 1: it's everyone knows that Big Ben is tough. Everybody knows
Speaker 1: that Big Ben has been a warrior. He's taken a
Speaker 1: ton of punishment at the quarterback position, and he's another
Speaker 1: one of those guys that doesn't always get all those
Speaker 1: tiki tach calls, but he does kind of have a
Speaker 1: propensity for milk and stuff a little bit. And I
Speaker 1: wonder if it's just maybe him creating a little bit
Speaker 1: of drama adding to his aura, you know, in a
Speaker 1: situation where maybe he wasn't that bad, but if it
Speaker 1: was something that he really you know that the training
Speaker 1: staff was aware of on the sidelines and he said,
Speaker 1: I'm feeling a little bit gimpy, there's no reason at
Speaker 1: all for him to have gone back out there. It
Speaker 1: kind of reminds me of a similar situation, albeit much
Speaker 1: less of a marquee player with time Montgomery and in
Speaker 1: Green Bay coming back in for a goal line series
Speaker 1: after missing almost the entire second half, and at that
Speaker 1: point green Bay had the game well in hand, And
Speaker 1: when he was asked about it, he was like, it's
Speaker 1: the playoffs, and I understand that, but there's a difference
Speaker 1: between a playoff game, uh, you know, one score game
Speaker 1: or a tie game, and a playoff game where your
Speaker 1: team is basically just salting the clock and you can
Speaker 1: use my boy Rakowski to do that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: I didn't think that was that was very smart on
Speaker 1: the green Bay side, particularly after they lost Jordy Nelson,
Speaker 1: which was the big blow earlier in the game. True,
Speaker 1: and they're certainly gonna need time unnumbering this Sunday, the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys actually right now have the number one run
Speaker 1: defriends in all of football, giving up only eighty three
Speaker 1: of the half yards a game, so they clearly need
Speaker 1: any running back they can. Speaking of running backs, Spencer
Speaker 1: where he returns to practice middle of the week, he
Speaker 1: was battling a rib issue. It sounds like he should
Speaker 1: be good to go with the Chief take on the Steelers,
Speaker 1: the one whose ribs aren't okay though it's Jordy Nelson.
Speaker 1: What a shot he took in a weekend where there
Speaker 1: are a couple of big time shots. Jordy Nelson got
Speaker 1: a big shot. Uh. They said he probably broke at
Speaker 1: least two ribs. They were concerned at first about internal injuries.
Speaker 1: Doesn't look like he's gonna wind up suiting up in
Speaker 1: this game. That could mean more for Randall Cop, more
Speaker 1: for Davante Adams, even more for the tight end jaredy Cook,
Speaker 1: What do you think? What do you think it's the
Speaker 1: big beneficiary of Jordy Nelson's likely missing this divisional round
Speaker 1: game Rocks. I think it's got to be the Dallas
Speaker 1: second there. Uh fair enough, they've That's one less thing
Speaker 1: to worry about when Aaron Rodgers is slinging it like
Speaker 1: this though he's basically been running the offense as a
Speaker 1: next man up. You saw it with Randall cob out,
Speaker 1: But Jordy Nelson is a lot more important to this
Speaker 1: offense than Randall cob I really like Giradimo as a
Speaker 1: potential plug in play. Although he sud he got cop
Speaker 1: for that marriage of one this weekend, he did. I
Speaker 1: think that was earlier in the season. Green Bay has
Speaker 1: been aware of that, and uh, you know, I don't
Speaker 1: think that's gonna really affect anything. Right now. The NFL
Speaker 1: disciplinary process will play itself out. I do think though
Speaker 1: that uh, you know, it's gonna be interesting that you're
Speaker 1: gonna see a lot of people in dfs this week
Speaker 1: chasing the points with Randall Cobb. I think, uh, it's
Speaker 1: a little more Davante Adam's week. You know. I think
Speaker 1: he's a great, much better chance for a touchdown. And
Speaker 1: I also do think I love the Jared Cook play.
Speaker 1: He's kind of been the straw that stirs the drink
Speaker 1: in that Green Bay offense down the stretch. I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna see some more looks Jared Cook a k a.
Speaker 1: Reggie Jackson. According to Rocks, Jared Cook at fifty four
Speaker 1: un fans who well will talk about him a little
Speaker 1: bit later on as we go game by game. Couple
Speaker 1: more injuries in real quick that will affect playoff teams
Speaker 1: that I want to talk about. Rocks. We have been
Speaker 1: on this guy all season long. Unfortunately, though the Derek
Speaker 1: is Green still in the concussion protocol. He was practicing
Speaker 1: last week then had a setback. Who hate to see
Speaker 1: that with guys who have had multiple concussions in their career,
Speaker 1: doesn't look like they'll be there to be that security
Speaker 1: blanket for Big Ben. The other name I wanna mention,
Speaker 1: and this is a name, don't forget about this guy.
Speaker 1: This guy looked special for a couple of weeks, but
Speaker 1: then had a broken shoulder. They are saying that c J.
Speaker 1: Pro Sise might get cleared for contact and practice still
Speaker 1: this week. Someone to keep an eye on the Atlanta
Speaker 1: Falcons do not cover pass patching backs well. C J
Speaker 1: Prosise could be a huge weapon for the Seattle Seahawks
Speaker 1: in this game down in Atlanta. But I want to
Speaker 1: ask the Rocks Thomas Rawls probably one people their weeks
Speaker 1: going off for a hundred and sixty one yards and
Speaker 1: a touchdown at value. I had been fading Thomas Rowles,
Speaker 1: saying that that run game was a problem because he
Speaker 1: did not look good. He did look very good against
Speaker 1: Detroit last week. But if c J. Procise was able
Speaker 1: to come back, do you get him involved or do
Speaker 1: you kind of ride the Rolls train for now? Uh?
Speaker 1: You know, I think Seattle is really going to take
Speaker 1: what Atlanta gives him. I also think that it really
Speaker 1: gonna be Atlanta's offensive success that dictates this game. I
Speaker 1: would think if process is active they're going to work
Speaker 1: him in. You know, he's also someone who is a rookie.
Speaker 1: He was injured to start the season. Rawles finally got
Speaker 1: a hot hand that you heard Pete Carol say going
Speaker 1: into that game last week, he wanted Rawls to touch
Speaker 1: the ball twenty times. I can't think that that's gonna
Speaker 1: necessarycessarily change too much with the resert with return of
Speaker 1: c J process. I will say, though, to your point,
Speaker 1: he does give them another explosive option if he is
Speaker 1: healthy in the middle of the field. That he opens
Speaker 1: up a little bit of stuff maybe for Jimmy Graham.
Speaker 1: Creates a little bit of a confusion there. And really
Speaker 1: the Seattle offense was functioning at their best when he
Speaker 1: was healthy for that middle part of the season. One
Speaker 1: other guy I want to shout out coming back from injury.
Speaker 1: It's looking like the Chiefs are gonna have justin Houston
Speaker 1: in this That defense is gonna be at goal strength
Speaker 1: in Arrowhead. That's gonna be rock and it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a true test for that Pittsburgh Steeler's offense. And I
Speaker 1: agree with you, Big Ben is gonna be missing. Look
Speaker 1: the dairy screen when they're really gonna need all hands
Speaker 1: on deck, and when I think is gonna be a tough,
Speaker 1: tough game, absolutely rocks. And we'll dive into the fourth
Speaker 1: divisional matchups a little bit later in our next segment.
Speaker 1: So here at the top with our headlines, I want
Speaker 1: to move on to some coaching news that we have.
Speaker 1: You know, we talked about all the different opportunities, the
Speaker 1: candidates and the jobs that we're out there last week
Speaker 1: dead and six, then two of them have gone down.
Speaker 1: The Bills have hired Sean McDermott as their new head coach.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna tell you, you you don't get someone who
Speaker 1: has brew up a polar opposite from Rex Ryan and
Speaker 1: this guy, this guy is not gonna bring any flash
Speaker 1: any player. He's gonna, you know, get everyone to just
Speaker 1: do their job. He also, in my opinion, is gonna
Speaker 1: be the switching Buffalo Bills to a four three front.
Speaker 1: That should be very very interesting there. The question I
Speaker 1: have for Sean McDermott is, what do you like Tyrock
Speaker 1: Taylor as your quarterback? Interesting to see Sean McDermott moving
Speaker 1: to the Bills. The other news that came down as
Speaker 1: we record this podcast on Wednesday, the Broncos have hired
Speaker 1: Miami Dulmins defensive coordinator Vance Joseph as their head coach.
Speaker 1: And I want to get into this one with you
Speaker 1: a little bit, Rock, because I know you're big on
Speaker 1: those quarterbacks out there in Denver. I thought that the
Speaker 1: Broncos were gonna go with an offensive guy as their
Speaker 1: head coach. Not talked. Yeah, we talked about Kyle Shanahan.
Speaker 1: We talked about maybe having one of those quarterback whisperers
Speaker 1: out there, and then brought up John McDaniels. They instead,
Speaker 1: you sure did for a second go around. Instead they
Speaker 1: go defense, And so I questioned this, if you want
Speaker 1: to know the truth, why do you think why would
Speaker 1: they need a defensive guy? They already clearly has the
Speaker 1: defense humming the way they want. It. Does not look
Speaker 1: like Vans Joseph would retain Wade Phillips as he's a
Speaker 1: d C. Let me some change for an offense for
Speaker 1: a defense that over the last few years has been
Speaker 1: among the best in football. And then on the offensive side,
Speaker 1: do you really think it's gonna be Vans Joseph that's developing,
Speaker 1: Whether it be Packs and Lunch or Trevor Sinian, I'm
Speaker 1: hearing both of these guys, whether it be Dermot and
Speaker 1: Buffalo or Joseph in Denver, that they both want like McCoy,
Speaker 1: former Chargers head coach at the offensive coordinator. What do
Speaker 1: you think you think the Broncos were right to go
Speaker 1: defense for their new head coach. Well, I think that
Speaker 1: man's Joseph is a guy that's been talked up for
Speaker 1: a while. What I will say, though, is I think
Speaker 1: that they've already it's not officially yet, but where there's smoke,
Speaker 1: there's fire. It seems like the Broncos have been able
Speaker 1: to nail Mike McCoy to get him on step as
Speaker 1: the OC, and I think if that is what needed
Speaker 1: to happen by bringing in someone as a head coach
Speaker 1: who is willing to say, I know one side of
Speaker 1: the ball. I don't want to be terribly involved in
Speaker 1: the offensive side of things. Uh, coming from Gary Kubiak
Speaker 1: who obviously was more of an offensive mind, and let
Speaker 1: Wade Phillips basically handle the defense. Um, you know, I
Speaker 1: wonder what is going to happen though with those young quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: As you said to me, bringing in Mike McCoy is
Speaker 1: a strong, strong indicator that the Trevor Simeon error was
Speaker 1: a stop gap error, and they're gonna see what he
Speaker 1: can do with tax to lunch. PC is one of
Speaker 1: those guys, as you said, who has a reputation as
Speaker 1: being a guy who get the most out of his quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: Paxton Lynch has got all the athletic tools, He's a
Speaker 1: little bit raw. Simeon more of a game manager that
Speaker 1: you're gonna let those defense win those games. Be more
Speaker 1: of a running team. With Gary Kubiak out of town,
Speaker 1: I think you're gonna see a lot more balanced and
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if he got those perimeter wide
Speaker 1: receivers more involved than they were this year. Okay, so
Speaker 1: you think this boom is a boom for maybe guys
Speaker 1: like DT and Manny Sanders on the outside. We'll see
Speaker 1: what Mike McCoy can do with those young quarterbacks down
Speaker 1: there in Denver. Mike McCoy is not in San Diego anymore.
Speaker 1: The question remains, will the Chargers be in San Diego? Rocks,
Speaker 1: I know you wanted to talk a little bit of
Speaker 1: relocation from scenes out there on the West Coast, some
Speaker 1: news about maybe allowing the Raiders to go into the
Speaker 1: desert and seeing what the Chargers ultimately do. What do
Speaker 1: you got forms rocks? Yeah, the the way that it was,
Speaker 1: the way that it was, it was described that the
Speaker 1: headlines I was reading was that the NFL thought that
Speaker 1: San Diego was salvage herble. You know, anyone I know
Speaker 1: from San Diego tells me it's basically sunny and seventy one.
Speaker 1: That sounds better than table Yeah, that sounds more than
Speaker 1: salvage visable to me. Man, that seems aspirational in this
Speaker 1: whole New York winter. But it's looking like they think
Speaker 1: that they can make it work for a couple of
Speaker 1: more years. Obviously, there was a lot of talk of
Speaker 1: San Diego going up north, joining the l A Rams,
Speaker 1: possibly in that stadium, creating a little competition in New York's.
Speaker 1: I guess in the United States, I guess it would
Speaker 1: be the third city if Chicago is trying to play
Speaker 1: that number two games. But it's looking like they're gonna
Speaker 1: stay in San Diego for the time being. However, it
Speaker 1: seems like there is a little bit of traction, a
Speaker 1: lot of traction at traction. Dare I say? In this
Speaker 1: Oakland Raiders becoming the first professional sports team in Las Vegas. Yep, yep,
Speaker 1: that is possible. I will say this that means Rots,
Speaker 1: you do not consider the National Hockey League a professional
Speaker 1: sports league. Because we are hearing that that that Las
Speaker 1: Vegas hockey team in the NHL. It's going through smart
Speaker 1: action next year. They got their name. However, uh, they're
Speaker 1: still up on the name. They were gonna be the
Speaker 1: Black Knights that got uh that got nicked because of
Speaker 1: a college team. Like there will be API in the
Speaker 1: Desert starting next year. I think it will be very
Speaker 1: very interesting though, any kind of football Sundays out there
Speaker 1: when the Vegas home team is in play, that will
Speaker 1: definitely be very very interesting. Hill Rocks, can we come back.
Speaker 1: What we need to do is dive into these divisional matchups.
Speaker 1: Do you think, uh, do you think you can go
Speaker 1: four for four picking these games? I think I can.
Speaker 1: All right, let's see because if you know, I don't know, Rocks,
Speaker 1: if you're listening to the shot callers, but on shot
Speaker 1: call and you got Speeds verse the kids. So in
Speaker 1: wild card weekend, Speeds went three and none picking the games.
Speaker 1: But it wasn't alone. There was holding the five year
Speaker 1: old that also went three and one. Uh, we'll see
Speaker 1: if Speeds can keep his picks ahead of the kids there.
Speaker 1: But when we come back, Rocks and Speeds will drop
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Speaker 1: you're ready to head into these divisional games? Man, how
Speaker 1: do you see this first one going? You know you're
Speaker 1: talking about the Georgia Dome week at the Atlanta Falcons
Speaker 1: and the Seattle Sea Hawks traveling to Atlanta, going across
Speaker 1: the country to the dirty, dirty, dirty dirty South. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, I think this is one of the more
Speaker 1: interesting games this weekend, if not for me, the most
Speaker 1: interesting game, because I really want to see if Seattle
Speaker 1: is able to show up on the road. I don't
Speaker 1: really believe in Atlanta as much as a lot of
Speaker 1: people do. I would love to have seen this game
Speaker 1: if Earl Thomas was healthy. I feel like Seattle probably
Speaker 1: feels the same exact way that I do, because this
Speaker 1: is going to be a strength of the Atlanta Falcons
Speaker 1: at downfield passing against something that Seattle, the vaunted legion
Speaker 1: of boom that had a lot of trouble dealing with
Speaker 1: since Earl Thomas has been out for the season. So
Speaker 1: I'm really curious to to see if Matt Ryan is
Speaker 1: able to be up to the task, step up in
Speaker 1: the playoffs and get it downfield to Julio on the
Speaker 1: other side of the ball. From a passing perspective, I
Speaker 1: like Doug Baldwin in this one. I know you've been
Speaker 1: high on Doug Baldwin in this playoffs. He was really
Speaker 1: hamp heard early in the season of these two teams
Speaker 1: met by Desmond Trufon. Well, guess what, Desmond Trufon is
Speaker 1: out for the season. That's not doing Atlanta's secondary any favors.
Speaker 1: And I think if Atlanta's offense is able to turn
Speaker 1: this into a shootout, you could see doug Baldwin pop
Speaker 1: pop off and as such, at seventy nine hundred, he's
Speaker 1: a pretty attractive target in DFS. On the fan duel
Speaker 1: this week, what do you got going on in this game? Rocks.
Speaker 1: You know I've been on Dougie Baldwin for a while.
Speaker 1: Teach me. Had to Dougie, teach me, teach me how
Speaker 1: to Douggie. He had eleven catches for a hundred and
Speaker 1: four yards and a touchdown in wild Card weekend. Remember
Speaker 1: this coming off a year where he finished as wide
Speaker 1: receiver eight overall, ninety four grabs, eleven hundred twenty eight yards,
Speaker 1: and seven touchdowns. You talk about how you really like
Speaker 1: to see this game, Well, we did see this game before.
Speaker 1: In fact, all four Divisional round matchups are rematches of
Speaker 1: games earlier in the season. Okay, this week in this
Speaker 1: game in Week six Atlanta was in Seattle, and remember
Speaker 1: that was a big time game. The Seattle Seahawks won
Speaker 1: that game twenty to twenty four. But you may remember
Speaker 1: this game because there was a huge no call on
Speaker 1: a pass interferance deep down the field to Julio Jones
Speaker 1: at the very end of the game. A lot of
Speaker 1: people thought that even inspired the conversation of if UH
Speaker 1: pass in afearance should be reviewable? If you remember that
Speaker 1: earlier on in the season they played to game back
Speaker 1: in Week six and that was in Seattle. This one
Speaker 1: is in Atlanta. I think, as you mentioned, Rocks, that
Speaker 1: has a huge difference for the Seattle Seahawks to be
Speaker 1: without their twelve men. And here's the other thing you mentioned,
Speaker 1: no Earl Thomas. Earl Thomas was patrolling the back end
Speaker 1: in that game. He will not be this game. Who
Speaker 1: do I think that benefits somebody that you were on
Speaker 1: a little bit earlier on in the season, Rocks. I
Speaker 1: think this benefits Taylor Gabriel. I think that is a
Speaker 1: very interesting low money play in this week in DFS,
Speaker 1: Tyler Gabriel for only fifty five years the rationale, I
Speaker 1: think UH Seattle is at a break tendencies in Richard
Speaker 1: Sherman may in fact shadow Julio Jones around. You know,
Speaker 1: put your best on their best right then otherwise where
Speaker 1: you used to have Earl Thomas in the back. Tyler
Speaker 1: Gabriel is their deep threat. He's the guy who can
Speaker 1: blow off and go for sixt yards on a bubble
Speaker 1: screen war go over the top. I remember you were
Speaker 1: talking about him Rocks with those like next gen stats
Speaker 1: about how fast he ran. I could see Maddy Ice
Speaker 1: going over the top two Taylor Gabriel in this game.
Speaker 1: The other thing I'll tell you about don't look now,
Speaker 1: but this Atlanta defense is not that bad. Okay, This
Speaker 1: Atlanta defense is only on fan duel. And I don't
Speaker 1: think that Thomas Rawls is gonna be able to do
Speaker 1: it again with this run game. I think they might
Speaker 1: stop them off, stop them up. And don't forget about
Speaker 1: second year player out of uh the College National champions,
Speaker 1: Vic Beasley out of Greenston. Vic Beasley let the league
Speaker 1: with fifteen and a half sacks. I think he it's
Speaker 1: another one or two against Russell Wilson and those teams
Speaker 1: are points. You said you're not that high on the
Speaker 1: Falcons Rocks. I actually am I think the Falcons will
Speaker 1: not only win this game, I think they'll cover the
Speaker 1: four and a half point spread. This number one offense
Speaker 1: putting up thirty three and a half points a game.
Speaker 1: And yes, I know the Legion of Boom and that
Speaker 1: Seattle defense is great, but they have been giving up
Speaker 1: eight more points a game. Since the Earl Thomas injury.
Speaker 1: They've been given up twenty four points a game. At
Speaker 1: the end of the season. I think at home, Maddie
Speaker 1: Ryan proves that he is in fact an m VP candidate,
Speaker 1: that he is not falling off a cliff like we
Speaker 1: thought he would in the middle of the season. I
Speaker 1: like Atlanta. I'll lay the points in this one, and
Speaker 1: apparently so will the public. The public is on this
Speaker 1: point spread. Fifty are betting with Atlanta at home, laying
Speaker 1: four and a half points. Uh, we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: I actually think Atlanta is a quiet team to get
Speaker 1: all the way to Super Bowl. Yo, speed speeds. I
Speaker 1: know we don't normally do this, you know we don't.
Speaker 1: We don't normally do things for those in states and
Speaker 1: municipalities where it's legal to do a traditional but uh,
Speaker 1: I'll take that gentleman's bed. Uh, you know I'll take
Speaker 1: I'll take Seattle, and I'm gonna say Atlanta is not
Speaker 1: gonna cover. Sure you want you want me to give
Speaker 1: you the four and a half points. Still, Huh, you
Speaker 1: just said you would. You said you were taking him.
Speaker 1: You're laying the point. Sure, that's a gentleman's bed here
Speaker 1: on the fantasy Freestyle Rocks and Speeds, I'm riding with
Speaker 1: the Atlanta falt into their number one offense at all.
Speaker 1: I think Seattle is gazzy on the road, but you
Speaker 1: like the Seahawk speeds it away from the Pacific clood lift,
Speaker 1: I do. I I don't believe it's a vote of
Speaker 1: no confidence in Matt Ryan. Let improve me wrong. That
Speaker 1: is a gentleman's bed. Yo, don't get me wrong. Maddie
Speaker 1: Ryan at eighty three hundred, I think that's a viable
Speaker 1: play as well. Let's keep it moving though. Next game
Speaker 1: there may not be much to discuss. The Houston Texans
Speaker 1: go to Foxboro to take out the Patriots. The Patriots
Speaker 1: are currently sixty white favorites, wow over under forty four
Speaker 1: and a half. I don't know when we see a
Speaker 1: line that big in the playoffs. But remember this is
Speaker 1: also a rematch Rocks. Uh yeah, man. In Week three,
Speaker 1: Houston went to New England and got slaughter. What fight
Speaker 1: that was, Jacobe the Ressett. Now Tom Brady is in there.
Speaker 1: Also in week three, the Texans had a defensive lineman
Speaker 1: named j. J. Watts still on the field. That is
Speaker 1: not the case, but boy, Jadeveon clowneys trying to make
Speaker 1: up the difference. Ros. Yeah, it's nice to see him
Speaker 1: finally paying off a guy who you know, faced a
Speaker 1: lot of criticism, took his last year before he was drafted,
Speaker 1: essentially off in college, then got off to a bit
Speaker 1: of a slow start in the NFL. But he has
Speaker 1: really come on strong this year, made his first profile
Speaker 1: bull and was playing like a man possessed. However, I
Speaker 1: do not think Jadeveon Clowney and the Houston Texans defense,
Speaker 1: which has been toughening up and stiffening, particularly against the
Speaker 1: run lately, is going to be able to stop Tom
Speaker 1: Brady at ball. However, in this game, I do think
Speaker 1: that the plays are the inside guys, and that's gonna
Speaker 1: be Julian Edelman, who to me is extremely affordable. I
Speaker 1: get paid to mention Julian Edelman seven seven thousand, highest
Speaker 1: floor at the position to me, basically, and that's what
Speaker 1: you're going for, particularly in these cash games. I also
Speaker 1: really like forty Dan Lewis in this game. I think
Speaker 1: Dion Lewis is a really really low priced options. The
Speaker 1: patch of proven that they're able to move the ball
Speaker 1: with him when they want to, and I think that
Speaker 1: they've been holding him out in hopes of unleashing him
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. And you've seen James Whiteby phased out,
Speaker 1: You've seen Legarrett Blunt basically resulting the game in the
Speaker 1: second half. But Dion Lewis is being sprinkled in and
Speaker 1: I think you're gonna see a lot of him. As
Speaker 1: you know. Also all season long we've said when the
Speaker 1: Pats are at home favored by a big number, LA
Speaker 1: Garrett Blunt is gonna be that hammer and battering ram
Speaker 1: in the second half of the games. I don't really
Speaker 1: love him at seventy three hundred, however, he is certainly
Speaker 1: very very viable and a great bet for a touchdown.
Speaker 1: I just don't think the huge yard is totals that
Speaker 1: have popped up a number of times this year are
Speaker 1: going to be there against the Texans defense. So Dad,
Speaker 1: I was gonna mention that I continue to advocate for
Speaker 1: LGBT rights by going with my man La Garrett as
Speaker 1: the blank. He is only seventy three hundred. My man
Speaker 1: is averaging over a touchdown a game this year, finished
Speaker 1: with eighteen rustling putdowns and over eleven hundred yards. A
Speaker 1: man can still not get a Pro Bowl not, I
Speaker 1: think ultimately, though he might. Um So let me ask
Speaker 1: you this though, can you talk about LGBC you also
Speaker 1: talk about Dion Lewis. Can you set university where you
Speaker 1: put both Patriots running backs in your DFS line up? No? No,
Speaker 1: I can't. I I you know it's not you know, hey,
Speaker 1: I think that the Patriots could basically unleash a world
Speaker 1: of hurt on this Houston Texans team that's probably just
Speaker 1: happy to be here. But um, I would definitely and
Speaker 1: we'll get into it we when we go into the
Speaker 1: rest of the games. I would like one of the
Speaker 1: stud guys bank rank anchoring my roster this week, particularly
Speaker 1: in cash games. Uh, you know, it could be one
Speaker 1: of those also angry Brady games where you know he's
Speaker 1: just going over the top. I don't think so he's
Speaker 1: got great guys on the boundary um with your boy
Speaker 1: boy A and Jonathan Joseph. I think that they're gonna
Speaker 1: lock down the outside, but you know, anything can happen.
Speaker 1: And I would say though that Brady himself is an
Speaker 1: interesting play in eighties six hundred. However, with Gronk out,
Speaker 1: he has not shown the usual very very high floor
Speaker 1: that he has when he's in the lineup, So I
Speaker 1: would be cautious there, particularly if they pull up like
Speaker 1: a Steelers did with Big Ben last week and get
Speaker 1: out to a huge, huge lead, in which case you
Speaker 1: will see La Garrett Blunt hammering it earlier for sure.
Speaker 1: I actually, you know, I've been fading you and your
Speaker 1: boy Julian Edelman for most of the year. I do
Speaker 1: think though he has come on lately. Listen, since the Patriots,
Speaker 1: by okay, he has had eleven or more targets, and
Speaker 1: six of those eight games he has had seven catches
Speaker 1: or more. In six of those eight games he went
Speaker 1: eight from catches for one fifty one yards and a touchdown.
Speaker 1: In their last game. I'll tell you if I don't
Speaker 1: mind that one other player that is in this game rocks.
Speaker 1: And I know you have been talking about this guy
Speaker 1: a lot. It is the Houston Texans running back Lamar Miller.
Speaker 1: Do you like Lamar Miller at seven thousand? Like, listen,
Speaker 1: I don't know what the game flow is gonna be,
Speaker 1: Like maybe Rock is gonna have to throw, but I
Speaker 1: think it's healthy. Lamar Miller is in there, and if
Speaker 1: there's any you know, in the first half as they
Speaker 1: try to keep it close, Lamar Miller could be a
Speaker 1: good bet for a touchdown. He had seventy three yards
Speaker 1: and a touchdown in the wild card matchup. You've seen
Speaker 1: any value in Lamar Miller at seven thousand, You know,
Speaker 1: it's really tough to see. It took him thirty one
Speaker 1: carries to get those aforementioned seventy three yards. He wasn't
Speaker 1: very involved in the passing game. New England is actually
Speaker 1: pretty vulnerable to pass catching backs. However, brock Oswiler has shown,
Speaker 1: as Lamar Miller owner a maddening inability to see the
Speaker 1: dump off, to see the screen pass and extra cute
Speaker 1: it before it becomes covered. Instead, he'd like to throw
Speaker 1: those little dump bops in the middle of his field,
Speaker 1: in the field to his tight ends. Ryan Griffin and C. J.
Speaker 1: Flura Wits for local Wits Fedora. Um, you know, I
Speaker 1: don't really I don't really see it. I mean, the
Speaker 1: only thing I could see is late in the game,
Speaker 1: if Houston's really just given up on brock Eis Whiler completely,
Speaker 1: maybe they'll just run him against you know, against those
Speaker 1: soft fronts while they're playing a pre event. Let him
Speaker 1: pick up some cheap ten and fifteen yard games in
Speaker 1: the second half as the Patriots have a five to
Speaker 1: six touchdown lead. Other than that, I really see a
Speaker 1: hard time paying for him as a mid range running
Speaker 1: back when for a couple couple of couple of bucks
Speaker 1: more you could spend up for the real top guys
Speaker 1: in the position who have a much, much, much higher plant.
Speaker 1: Sure don't don't get it twisted, Brockots. While it was
Speaker 1: the second best quarterback last week, remember though, Tom Savage
Speaker 1: has cleared the concussion protocol. So if things are not
Speaker 1: going well, remember they have pulled the hook on us
Speaker 1: while before. Maybe they see it again. I I stay
Speaker 1: away from this sixteen point number. I'd passed on this
Speaker 1: game if you had to put a little bit of
Speaker 1: shekels on it. Let's look to Sunday Rocks for the
Speaker 1: first game of Pittsburgh Steelers, they go to Arrowhead to
Speaker 1: take on the Chiefs. Now. This is also a rematch
Speaker 1: in week four at Pittsburgh. The Steelers dump trucks the
Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs of forty three to four teams. Here's
Speaker 1: the difference, though that was in Pittsburgh. Big Ben is
Speaker 1: a completely different quarterback. The Steelers are a completely different
Speaker 1: offense on the road, and that's where they will be
Speaker 1: against a very strong defense you mentioned before justin Houston.
Speaker 1: Back in the lineup, it looks like this week by
Speaker 1: week serving Kansas City. Well, um, I mean you have
Speaker 1: absolute studs here on the Pittsburgh side to talk about rocks.
Speaker 1: You know, I know you who mentioned that you're saving
Speaker 1: some money from one of these studs. Are you talking
Speaker 1: about leave Bell? Are you're talking about our boy down
Speaker 1: in Dallas? What do you think left Bell? Repeat performance? Uh?
Speaker 1: Kansas City? I'm I'm paid in him this week. Even
Speaker 1: though he went nuts when these teams played the first time.
Speaker 1: Remember this is actually his first game coming back suspension,
Speaker 1: and people were interested in seeing how it shook out.
Speaker 1: After D'Angelo Williams again filled in very very admirably, and
Speaker 1: Levian Fell hit the grounds running no fun intended, ripping
Speaker 1: off chunk games looking as explosive as ever. However, was him.
Speaker 1: One of the things I always worry about, particularly on
Speaker 1: the road, is that while he picks up huge artist totals,
Speaker 1: while he's often involved in the passing game, he doesn't
Speaker 1: always have a nose to the goal. Because Pittsburgh does
Speaker 1: be scoring these really really long touchdowns see guys like
Speaker 1: Darius Hayward Bay and Eli Rogers and Antonio Brown not
Speaker 1: once but twice for fifty plus yards, It's sometimes hard
Speaker 1: for him to get a little cheap five yard touchdown. Um,
Speaker 1: so I'm worried about that. I also, I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: I'm I've seen the Pittsburgh passing games stall and then
Speaker 1: you know, basically only be able to move the ball
Speaker 1: with Levian Fell and not really get in positions where
Speaker 1: they're able to score when they're on the road. You
Speaker 1: hit the nail on the head. I'm fading Pittsburgh, I'm
Speaker 1: fading Big Bend. I'm fading Antonio Brown. And this one know, uh,
Speaker 1: the price to me is just a little bit too much.
Speaker 1: And I think I've seen it too many times on
Speaker 1: the road. His Kansas City team is on the rise.
Speaker 1: They're not gonna get any cheap turnovers from Alex Smith
Speaker 1: lowest interception rate of any quarterback in playoff history, and
Speaker 1: hopefully your voice, Spencer, were will be holding onto the ball,
Speaker 1: so no fumbles there. I think Pittsburgh is gonna have
Speaker 1: to earn it, and I'm not sure that they're gonna
Speaker 1: be able to. All right, let's look at this Kansas
Speaker 1: City side real quick. Rocks. You know, listen, kids, a city,
Speaker 1: those twells and four they get to buy have won
Speaker 1: something like twenty two of their last twenty six regular
Speaker 1: season games. But it is now the playoffs. You know,
Speaker 1: here's where I want to go with this, Rocks. Alex Smith,
Speaker 1: you know they've been saying for years as a game manager.
Speaker 1: I'm calling him and he leaps game manager, which sounds
Speaker 1: like an honesty moron. Will check this out. Don't look now,
Speaker 1: but the Kansas City's Chiefs are scoring points. Okay. They
Speaker 1: won five of their last six games, scoring thirty three
Speaker 1: and thirty seven points. A team you know, you don't
Speaker 1: think of the Chiefs has a high powered offense, but
Speaker 1: they are doing pretty good. Two guys I want to
Speaker 1: highlight you know, if you go to on the Football Outsiders,
Speaker 1: they have those d v o A rankings and a
Speaker 1: lot of people look at that for offense and defense.
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, though, the number one special teams
Speaker 1: in the NFL are these Kansas City Chiefs, And in
Speaker 1: a game which I think is gonna be pretty close,
Speaker 1: special teams can be a big difference. So you know
Speaker 1: where I'm going with this. My man Rocks, my man
Speaker 1: Tyreek kill Tyreek Hill on the Kansas City Chiefs the
Speaker 1: sixty six hundred. I don't necessarily think that he's gonna
Speaker 1: have a ton of production as a wide receiver. But
Speaker 1: you're liable to get Greek carries for seven of the
Speaker 1: yards and a touchdown. You're liable to get a punt
Speaker 1: return for a touchdown or a kick off return for
Speaker 1: a touchdown. You know, in tournaments, I don't think a
Speaker 1: lot of people are gonna be picking him because you've
Speaker 1: got some other options. Tyreek Hill could be an option.
Speaker 1: But my question for year Rocks, I know you've loved
Speaker 1: the baby grand Travis Kelsey. He is by far the
Speaker 1: most expensive tight end this week. You know, at seventy
Speaker 1: one hundred, you got Jimmy Graham right under that and
Speaker 1: then a big drop the five thousand are you paying
Speaker 1: up for? Travis Kelsey is the highest tight end on
Speaker 1: the board. You know, I'm still I'm still going a
Speaker 1: little different places with my lineups right now, trying to
Speaker 1: nail things down. But I haven't find I haven't found
Speaker 1: myself really picking him though. I will have to say speeds.
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey, number one overall tight end this year has
Speaker 1: been a huge part of the reason the Chiefs have
Speaker 1: been putting up those big numbers down the stretch. Alex
Speaker 1: Smith is finally learning to trust him and dare I say,
Speaker 1: throwing up a couple of contested balls and letting his
Speaker 1: big boy tight end make plays in the middle of
Speaker 1: the field, running angry and ripping off chunk games. That said,
Speaker 1: I don't think you're gonna see too many chances taken
Speaker 1: in this one. I do want to talk about Tyreek
Speaker 1: Hill real quick, Tyreek Shining City on a Hill, destroying
Speaker 1: get Lately. An interesting play here. If, as I am,
Speaker 1: you are fading the Kansas City Chiefs, I'm sorry. If
Speaker 1: you're fading the Pittsburgh offense, you compare Tyreek Hill with
Speaker 1: the Kansas City defense and double up if he does
Speaker 1: something big in the return game, which I don't think
Speaker 1: is that crazy of a strategy in tournaments. And if
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh falls flat and he happens to how is one
Speaker 1: he says he's been known to first in the league
Speaker 1: in hunt return average. You're just getting that double up
Speaker 1: there in a really really unorthodox way, and your ponents
Speaker 1: watching that live score won't even understand what hit them.
Speaker 1: Nice an opportunity to double up. We like that here
Speaker 1: on the Fantasy Freestyle. I gotta tell you, Rock, I
Speaker 1: like both of these teams. I think whoever wins this
Speaker 1: game will be a very live underdog against what is
Speaker 1: likely going to be the New England Patriots in the
Speaker 1: a f C title game. Let's go to the last
Speaker 1: game of the weekend with the Green Bay Packers and
Speaker 1: m VC candidate Aaron Rodgers telling everybody to R E
Speaker 1: L A X. He got it done. They continue to
Speaker 1: rub the table as he predicted that they go down
Speaker 1: to Dallas and Dallas has the home team. There are
Speaker 1: four and a half point favorite if the two is
Speaker 1: the total. This again is a rematch of a game
Speaker 1: that took place in weeks six in Green Bay, where
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys beat the Packers thirty to sixteen. This
Speaker 1: was before Aaron Rodgers got on his hot streak. I
Speaker 1: think Eddie Lacy may have even been the running back
Speaker 1: for the Packers in this one. Here's something I want
Speaker 1: to tell you, Rocks. You know how I like to
Speaker 1: fade the public. You're faded in public. Yeah, I'm sometimes
Speaker 1: faded in public, But I also like to fade the public.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna give them a little bonus pick right here.
Speaker 1: The public of the public is taking him over in
Speaker 1: this game. The over under is fifty two. I'm on
Speaker 1: the under in this game. And here's why. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you know, Rocks, but the Cowboys and the
Speaker 1: Packers are number three and four in the NFL in
Speaker 1: time of possession, and I think that's gonna be very
Speaker 1: interesting in this game. I think if you're the Dallas Cowboys,
Speaker 1: you want to keep the ball out of Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: hands as much as possible. And that means is Zekiel
Speaker 1: Elliott and at eight on fan Duel, I am saying,
Speaker 1: do whatever you have to do to get see in
Speaker 1: your line up against these Green Bay Packers. Listen, in
Speaker 1: week six, going into that game, the Green Bay Packers
Speaker 1: had the number one run defense in the NFL. All
Speaker 1: Zeke did was get twenty eight carries for a hundred
Speaker 1: and fifties seven yards against this defense. I think he
Speaker 1: can do it again. I uh. I also think this
Speaker 1: is the way Dallas is gonna try to play to
Speaker 1: keep the ball out of Aaron Rodgers's hands. I love
Speaker 1: Zeke Elliott this week, um, and I think even a
Speaker 1: good value. Yeah, man. And that's honestly part of the
Speaker 1: reason I went with Dion Lewis and a number of
Speaker 1: lineups was to save money to spend up on Ezekiel Elliott. UM.
Speaker 1: I will also say Aaron Rodgers, he's expensive this week,
Speaker 1: hundred top quarterback on the board, even without Jordy Nelson.
Speaker 1: I think that he could have a transcendent performance, another
Speaker 1: one of those three fifty yards three score performances to
Speaker 1: help you win your week. I really like him this week.
Speaker 1: It's almost nice to have Jordy out of the way
Speaker 1: so you have some cheap are options. You know, Jordan
Speaker 1: is still eighty one hundred on fan double. They haven't,
Speaker 1: they haven't. They haven't made the switch this week. But
Speaker 1: you look at Davante Adams for seventy four hundred. You
Speaker 1: look at Randall Cobb sixty five hundred, and then you
Speaker 1: scroll all the way down you see Gerano. You gotta
Speaker 1: go all the way down and by hundred fifty three hundred.
Speaker 1: I think all three of those guys make for interesting plays.
Speaker 1: My preferred play is Davante Adams. I don't want to
Speaker 1: go to Randall Cob. I feel a lot of people
Speaker 1: will be on him this week. They're chasing points, and
Speaker 1: he's disappeared basically for the entire season. I'm not convinced
Speaker 1: he's all the way back. Another player you highlighted speeds
Speaker 1: where I'm going away from Kelsey, I am looking towards
Speaker 1: Jared Cook four hundred. Jan has really shown a connection
Speaker 1: with Aaron Rodgers, no doubt. I agree. I like Jared Cook.
Speaker 1: I like that play. You might see him in my
Speaker 1: lineups as well at hundred, especially you know with no
Speaker 1: Jordy Nelson, there's gonna be a growing share of the
Speaker 1: targets and the opportunities. Speaking of tight ends, when we
Speaker 1: come back, we're gonna dive into tight ends. We're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about it in the season long which tight ends
Speaker 1: helped you win your league. Which tight ends really are
Speaker 1: on teams that got that good game flow? And which
Speaker 1: tight ends did you draft early because you thought they
Speaker 1: were gonna be such and they turned out to be
Speaker 1: through gaze. He's forget about it, Yo, Rocks and speeds
Speaker 1: dropping stats over beats. It's the Fantasy Freestyle on the
Speaker 1: Fantasy Sports Radio Network. We'll be right back after this.
Speaker 1: I would rather play with ten people and just get
Speaker 1: penalized all the way until we got to do something else,
Speaker 1: rather than play with eleven when I know that right
Speaker 1: now that person is not sold out to be a
Speaker 1: part of this team. Cannot play with him, cannot win
Speaker 1: with him, cannot coach with him, can't do it, and
Speaker 1: we are back. You know what it is, Rocks and
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Speaker 1: all these experts giving you what you need to. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, make two thousand seventeen. Prosperous has been prosperous
Speaker 1: for you so far, Rocks. Yeah, it's it's been fairly prosperous.
Speaker 1: You know. You went a little to lose a little,
Speaker 1: you know, get a couple of dimefins, avoid a few
Speaker 1: fool gazes, you know how we do it on the
Speaker 1: Fantasy Freestyle. Absolutely, it was prosperous for you because you
Speaker 1: also edged me out. We actually finished one too in
Speaker 1: our first ever Fantasy Freestyle DFS contest. It was ronical.
Speaker 1: It was Rocks that took it home, Rocks with a
Speaker 1: slight victory over your boys Speed the spitting statistician. But
Speaker 1: let's dive into our flagships segment here, Rocks. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: we've been going position by position almost like it was
Speaker 1: the Baseball podcast last week we talked about running backs
Speaker 1: for the season. Let's let's try the light on those
Speaker 1: tight ends right now. Hey, Rocks, I know you want
Speaker 1: to start positive for the season. What tight ends turned
Speaker 1: out to be diamonds for you. The first one I
Speaker 1: got a spotlight is Jimmy Graham. I call him the
Speaker 1: Reverence after the great Reverend Billy Graham. Jimmy Graham was
Speaker 1: a forgotten man. He was coming off a patella injury,
Speaker 1: one that players have struggled to come back from at all,
Speaker 1: let alone make an impact. And what was even more
Speaker 1: damning is he wasn't really that involved in that Seattle
Speaker 1: offense in two thousand fifteen when he was healthy, no one.
Speaker 1: No one thought he would be in uniform to open
Speaker 1: the season, and if he was, he would be a
Speaker 1: shell of himself until maybe around mid season, and even then.
Speaker 1: The Seattle offense is not known for their huge, explosive
Speaker 1: plays or really featuring the tight end. He was basically
Speaker 1: a fool's play. Someone the sucker money, the easy money
Speaker 1: in your league was gonna draft way too early just
Speaker 1: because they recognized the name from all those good times
Speaker 1: in New Orleans. Instead, he proved a lot of people wrong.
Speaker 1: He played all sixteen games, finished as the tight end
Speaker 1: four overall. He faded during the stretch, but sixty five catches,
Speaker 1: five yards and six touchdowns on only ninety five targets
Speaker 1: is ridiculously efficient. Among all tight ends with eighty or
Speaker 1: more targets, only him and Kelsey even came close to
Speaker 1: averaging ten yards per target, which is a great, great,
Speaker 1: great mark. In fact, he was actually more efficient on
Speaker 1: a per target basis than any season previously, including that
Speaker 1: time in New Orleans, and his fifty eight yards per
Speaker 1: game were more than his last season in New Orleans.
Speaker 1: I expect Seattle to continue to be a balance offense,
Speaker 1: particularly if they can clean their lineup. However, I think
Speaker 1: Jimmy Graham has nowhere to go but up in the
Speaker 1: two thousand seventeen season, particularly his ability to improve upon
Speaker 1: those six touchdowns as a red zone threat. For me,
Speaker 1: that's why he was a diamond in the rough this season,
Speaker 1: and one I was glad as a big Saints fan
Speaker 1: to see him back healthy. I would have loved to
Speaker 1: see him spike one over the goal post, but he
Speaker 1: looked damn good this season. Hey, Rocks, I know you
Speaker 1: love tight ends, so let's focus on them some more.
Speaker 1: You got a second one for me, diamonds for the season.
Speaker 1: I do uh. Drafted in the second round at a
Speaker 1: Notre Dame in two thousand eleven, Kyle Rudolph was a
Speaker 1: guy who a lot of people thought was gonna make
Speaker 1: some noise in this league. Back then he had guys
Speaker 1: like Christian Ponder throwing him the ball. Other than a
Speaker 1: nine touchdown season, he could have largely been considered a
Speaker 1: bit of a disappointment. Coming into this season. No one
Speaker 1: saw him as anything more than one of those guys
Speaker 1: who was kind of a low end tight end, one
Speaker 1: fringe tight end to option. Instead, he finished behind only
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey as a tight end number two in the league,
Speaker 1: and the reason for that was Teddy Bridgewater blowing out
Speaker 1: his knee and Sam Bradford coming over in a trade.
Speaker 1: They had a terrible offensive line, not dissimilar to the
Speaker 1: situation in Seattle. Therefore, all Sam Bradford had time to
Speaker 1: do was throw it as soon as possible, and Kyle
Speaker 1: Rudolph profited from more than any player. He led all
Speaker 1: tight ends and targets. He scored seven touchdowns, and he
Speaker 1: also had eight hundred and forty yards. He didn't see
Speaker 1: much downfield, but that, like I said, wound up helping him.
Speaker 1: You know what, also helped Losing Adrian Peterson and not
Speaker 1: being able to get anything consistently going in the run game.
Speaker 1: Rudolph I think was one of the biggest surprises of
Speaker 1: this year. And if you happened to draft him late
Speaker 1: as maybe a backup tight end, you really really got lucky.
Speaker 1: You found a diamond in the rough, and he may
Speaker 1: have even won you some cash this year. Absolutely are
Speaker 1: diamonds in the rough. Those are the guys that will
Speaker 1: help you win those leagues and win nag cash. I mean, obviously,
Speaker 1: Kyle Rudolph probably went undrafted. He was in that gushy
Speaker 1: tier where we had a lot of tight ends that
Speaker 1: where we thought were interchangeable. But in fact, Kyle Rudolph
Speaker 1: rose to the cream of the crop. My diamonds rocks.
Speaker 1: I uh, you know, you probably would not have even
Speaker 1: known who this guy was coming into the season, but
Speaker 1: he finished tight end seven and here on Fantasy Freestyle.
Speaker 1: You know how I love to say Jim Bob Cooterer.
Speaker 1: I also want to shout out the Harvard Man Cameron break.
Speaker 1: He was tight end seven fifty seven catches, six hundred
Speaker 1: sixty yards and eight touchdown. I think the future is
Speaker 1: bright for this guy because I think he is really
Speaker 1: on the same page with Jamis Winston. Jamis Winston looks
Speaker 1: to this guy in the end zone. He knows that
Speaker 1: Mike Evans is gonna be double covered all the time,
Speaker 1: that defenses are turning their attention to him, and Cameron
Speaker 1: Bread has become that second option. I actually think the
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Buccaneers are a team on the rise. Watch
Speaker 1: for them to make the playoffs next year. And I
Speaker 1: think Cameron Bread can continue his uh his rise to
Speaker 1: the top with that chemistry with Jamis Winston. So I
Speaker 1: like Cameron Bread as a diamond in the rough. Lookout
Speaker 1: for him next year, Rocks and next the place we
Speaker 1: go our game flow geniuses. And it's interesting, what gameflow
Speaker 1: really supports a tight end? You tell me who's your
Speaker 1: game flow genius at tight end for two thousand and sixteen. Well,
Speaker 1: a game flow that supports the tight ends a quarterback
Speaker 1: that's throwing the ball more than six hundred seventy times.
Speaker 1: I am talking about the Ravens offense, and I'm talking
Speaker 1: about Dennis Pitta. Dennis Pitta came back from fracturing his
Speaker 1: hip twice two seasons a row. Only your old grandma
Speaker 1: down in Florida has had more hip trouble than Dennis
Speaker 1: PITTI doesn't have. Dennis Pitter doesn't have a life alert blazer.
Speaker 1: Last time I check, does he? I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: It's strange time does Joe Flacco Elite? Does Deni Pitt
Speaker 1: to have a life alert bracelet? We gotta ask these
Speaker 1: questions down in Baltimore. What I will say, though I
Speaker 1: was shocked he was even able to play. He wound
Speaker 1: up seeing a hundred and twenty one targets, third of
Speaker 1: all tight ends, and that is not how they planned it.
Speaker 1: That's not Ravens football. However, Mark Tressman's complete failure to
Speaker 1: establish the running game, to stick with the running game
Speaker 1: even when it was working, was in Dennis Pitta's favor.
Speaker 1: It was an unbalanced attack, and other than Steve Smith,
Speaker 1: there was no real wide receiver threat to take those targets. Therefore,
Speaker 1: he led all tight ends and receptions, finished with eighty
Speaker 1: six catches for seven hundred thirty yards and two scores.
Speaker 1: That was the tight end eight. Again, this was a
Speaker 1: guy maybe three or four years ago. You may have
Speaker 1: been drafting him and actually expecting t e one productions.
Speaker 1: But I want to hear from someone that drafted Dennis
Speaker 1: Pitted going into this season and actually thought he would produce.
Speaker 1: That's why for me, that unbalanced Ravens attack, all those
Speaker 1: passing attempts from Joe Flacco, all those targets made Dennis
Speaker 1: pit a game flow genius like you got. I like
Speaker 1: that one as well, Rocks. Remember, um, Joe Flacco and
Speaker 1: Dennis Pitta like went on vacation together. They were boys,
Speaker 1: so they had that chemistry. I personally had Dennis pit
Speaker 1: on a fantasy team or two. I had him as
Speaker 1: a fill in after Zach Hurtz got hurt and Dennis
Speaker 1: Pittter was holding it down. I will say this, I
Speaker 1: caution you, Um, he really helps you a lot more
Speaker 1: if you're in a PPR league. He's one of those
Speaker 1: guys that gets, like, you know, six yards to catch.
Speaker 1: So if you could get those receptions like you mentioned,
Speaker 1: he really led the league in receptions among tight ends
Speaker 1: over there. So, um, you know that's where you get
Speaker 1: helped out my game co genius at tight end. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go out to San Diego and Hunter Henry. Okay,
Speaker 1: Hunter Henry was tight end nineteen. But Philip Rivers loves
Speaker 1: this guy, loves this target, and he likes him in
Speaker 1: the red zone. Also, I believe listen. I'm glad that
Speaker 1: Antonio Gates got that touchdown record or tied it at least,
Speaker 1: But it looks to me like Antonio Gates is on
Speaker 1: his way out there saying he's gonna come back. I
Speaker 1: don't think he's gonna be that productive. I think they
Speaker 1: are gonna be looking for Hunter Henry to be the
Speaker 1: main guy. And you know, Philip Rivers, whether they're in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles or San Diego, they are going to throw
Speaker 1: the ball. Philip Rivers has no problem putting it up
Speaker 1: and trusting his pass catchers should go get it. And
Speaker 1: there were a couple of times I saw a Hunter
Speaker 1: Henry make easy plays out of the tight end position.
Speaker 1: I think Hunter Henry, especially with a continuing declining Antonio Gates,
Speaker 1: I like Hunter Henry to take a step and get
Speaker 1: into the top ten at tight end next year. That's
Speaker 1: why Hunter Henry is my game flow genius out there
Speaker 1: for the San Diego or maybe l A Superchargers, Uh Rocks,
Speaker 1: we gotta unfortunately end the show on a bad note
Speaker 1: or these people they gotta forget about people who might
Speaker 1: have looked real shiny, but when you looked a little deeper,
Speaker 1: you realize you should not have wasted that draft pick
Speaker 1: on them because they in fact werez How do you
Speaker 1: know it's a fool gazing at you should fake? Okay,
Speaker 1: I know we're ful gazing. One thing. I just really
Speaker 1: want to say, incredibly quickly speeds breaking news. It's looking
Speaker 1: like Hunter Henry is going to be catching passes next
Speaker 1: year in Los Angeles. Okay, charges making the move up
Speaker 1: north likely. We think that's wind up. His going in Diao,
Speaker 1: San Diego apparently became unbearable as we were recording this.
Speaker 1: That's right. You never know what can happen in the like,
Speaker 1: you know, in the time when we record, we are
Speaker 1: recording on Wednesday. By the time you hear this, you
Speaker 1: will probably have already heard those news. Hunter Henry, I
Speaker 1: don't care where he is. I think he's gonna be
Speaker 1: catching pass us for Philip Rivers next year. I think
Speaker 1: he's my game. Clotenius at tight end where we going
Speaker 1: were and this was something that I saw coming a
Speaker 1: million miles away. I thought it was a terrible signing
Speaker 1: at the time. Kobe Fleiner. Kobe Fleinner got a lot
Speaker 1: of money to come in and be a huge weapon
Speaker 1: in New Orleans Saints offense. I thought, at the very
Speaker 1: least he would be decent in fantasy. He was always
Speaker 1: a guy who never really struck me as a playmaker
Speaker 1: when he was in Indianapolis. However, every once in a while,
Speaker 1: just due to the sheer trust Aaron Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: the sheer trust Andrew Luck had in him from their
Speaker 1: Stanford days, he would get looks he would be open
Speaker 1: in the end zone. So he made it work. However,
Speaker 1: most people were projecting him anywhere from what's let's call
Speaker 1: it T E four the T E six. They said
Speaker 1: Breeze would elevate the game further. He throws to the
Speaker 1: open man. It's explosive offense. The reports from the off season,
Speaker 1: this was something you should have been paying attention to.
Speaker 1: He was having some trouble with the playbook as a
Speaker 1: Stanford guy. I don't understand why, but Drew Brees wasn't
Speaker 1: on the same page with him. He still had kind
Speaker 1: of a lot to learn. A lot of people ignore
Speaker 1: that and said, oh, it's just you know, it's it's
Speaker 1: silly season. They've got to they've got to figure something
Speaker 1: out to write about. However, all that led to the
Speaker 1: season was miss connections drops two deflections, the wrong routes.
Speaker 1: Some of the worst plays the Saints entire season were
Speaker 1: passes that were intended for Kobe Fleaner. He was basically
Speaker 1: the loan blemish on the number one overall offense. He
Speaker 1: was held under fifty yards in twelve of sixteen games.
Speaker 1: He had three or fewer catches in eleven of sixteen games.
Speaker 1: He wound up as the tight end fifteen, and he
Speaker 1: would have been even lower if Josh Hill did not
Speaker 1: get hurt, because he was in the midst of getting
Speaker 1: phased out of that offense. He was a complete fool
Speaker 1: gay zy. He fell flat, flat on his face, and
Speaker 1: if you reached in an early round to draft him,
Speaker 1: all man, forget about it. Your team was not looking
Speaker 1: great at the tight end position, and hopefully you got
Speaker 1: one of those guys like a Cameron Braid or you know,
Speaker 1: or maybe uh Kyle Rudolph and made that pick up
Speaker 1: early and forgot about Cleaner and did not let him
Speaker 1: drag your season down about him. We're gonna forget about
Speaker 1: Kobe Cleaner. You're right, his totals would have been better,
Speaker 1: maybe if Josh Hill as well, but his totals also
Speaker 1: would have been worse. If he didn't get a jet
Speaker 1: suite running touchdown earlier in the season, that is something
Speaker 1: you did not expect out of the tight end position. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I thought he would at least be able to put
Speaker 1: up Ben Watson numbers out there in New Orleans who
Speaker 1: really loved the tight end but not as much. We
Speaker 1: go to my fool gay Ze Rocks and listen, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, my show on Fantasy Sports Radio Network shot Callers.
Speaker 1: This was a shot I called. I said this um
Speaker 1: early in the season. I said, I do not like
Speaker 1: Rob Gronkowski this year. Everybody was talking how he was
Speaker 1: the top, you know, a first round pick in PPR league,
Speaker 1: maybe even a top eight pick. I was fading Gronkowski.
Speaker 1: And here's why. Go check the tape. I said that
Speaker 1: Gronk always get hurt and that I was not gonna
Speaker 1: count on Gronk for sixteen games and I thought he would, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, break your heart in the playoffs. And what happened.
Speaker 1: It turns out that's exactly what happened. You maybe got
Speaker 1: some production for him here and there, but he was
Speaker 1: not dependable. And as they tried to go to that
Speaker 1: too tight end offense in New England, it did not
Speaker 1: work out for Gronk. Gronk finished the season tight end
Speaker 1: twenty six, Rocks only scoring three more points than Giants
Speaker 1: tight end will Tie. Gronk scored ten less points then
Speaker 1: the second best Houston Texans tight end, Ryan Griffin's. He
Speaker 1: was not a value if you went all the way
Speaker 1: to the first round pick to buy yourself some Gronks.
Speaker 1: You did not win your league. But you should listen
Speaker 1: to Speeds, listen to Rocks, because I was telling you
Speaker 1: Sade that I also told you to fade Jordan read
Speaker 1: he missed games as well. That's why those guys are
Speaker 1: fool gayzy. Forget about him. Next week, Rock, we're gonna
Speaker 1: come back. Maybe we'll give him our quarterback awards for
Speaker 1: the season. In terms of our quarterback diamonds and who
Speaker 1: Gazes for the season. I know there'll be a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff to talk about. Their divisional weekend best weekend
Speaker 1: in football? Rocks. Uh, are you excited? You're feeling good?
Speaker 1: You think we're gonna get actually uh high quality games
Speaker 1: this week? You know? Uh? The only thing that I'm
Speaker 1: really excited about is if for some reason Houston is
Speaker 1: able to pull off that unlikely upset against New England.
Speaker 1: Are people gonna be talking about Bill Belichick sleeping on
Speaker 1: a boat? Sleeping on a ferry in New England? Was
Speaker 1: that a distraction? Speeds? I want to know if might
Speaker 1: be he was on a boat as well. Apparently you
Speaker 1: go on a boat, maybe you lose. We'll find out
Speaker 1: when you're hearing this. Uh well know next week we'll
Speaker 1: be talking about championship Sunday. We will be down to
Speaker 1: the final four. We'll still be able to put together
Speaker 1: a little DFS lineup for you, and we'll be able
Speaker 1: to preview the championship games. We'll see if Atlanta does
Speaker 1: cover the four and a half like Speed says, or
Speaker 1: will Rocks continue his streak of gentlemen's bets. All that
Speaker 1: in more next week on the Fantasy Freestyle, Rocks and
Speaker 1: Speeds holding you down, dropping stats over beats. It's the
Speaker 1: Fantasy Freestyle on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Say goodbye
Speaker 1: to the people, Rocks, enjoy the games, y'all, have a
Speaker 1: great weekend, and will be back next week hitting you
Speaker 1: in the head again. Way offs, we'll talk about playoffs.
Speaker 1: You're kidding me? Playoffs? I just we canna win a game.