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Speaker 2: And we are back.
Speaker 3: I am Dale LOLLI he is the Matt Williamson and
Speaker 3: Matt with the weird scheduling this week with Thursday game,
Speaker 3: three Saturday games and your Sunday games and Monday games.
Speaker 3: I thought we'd do a full week starting tonight and
Speaker 3: taking it through Monday DFS lineup for the Fantasy Football segment,
Speaker 3: so we have it allows us to talk about a
Speaker 3: bunch of different players as opposed to just playing tonight's
Speaker 3: game or something like that.
Speaker 2: There's already four teams that are substantial that are off
Speaker 2: the dock.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and we'll do tomorrow. We'll just do a Monday
Speaker 3: a Sunday Monday DFS lineup, so we'll have two different lineups.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's fine.
Speaker 3: So anyway, so let's look at the lineups this week.
Speaker 3: So you get the Bills start with the defenses, as
Speaker 3: we always do. The Bills at thirty six hundred against
Speaker 3: the Jets.
Speaker 2: I don't think I'm paying up for that. I don't
Speaker 2: like the way their defense played lately.
Speaker 3: You get the Colts against the Giants at thirty five hundred.
Speaker 2: That's not bad.
Speaker 3: The Chargers against the UH Patriots at thirty four hundred,
Speaker 3: Buccaneers against Carolina at thirty four hundred, Vikings against the
Speaker 3: Packers at thirty three hundred, Lions against San Francisco at
Speaker 3: thirty three hundred, Dolphins against Cleveland at thirty two hundred.
Speaker 3: In quarterback in Cleveland, I don't think it's going to
Speaker 3: be dtr.
Speaker 2: I think it's probably Winston.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's interesting, that's interesting. Yeah, Dolphins on the road though,
Speaker 3: Rams at home against Arizona thirty two hundred.
Speaker 2: As you said, the tackle they don't have it, yeah,
Speaker 2: kind of Connors very questionable. Yeah, this still really I mean,
Speaker 2: unfortunately it's superwl weak for everybody. But right there's a
Speaker 2: lot of big dogs getting shut down. There's a lot
Speaker 2: of questionables. Who's gonna play, you know.
Speaker 3: The Commanders at home against the Falcons are thirty one hundred,
Speaker 3: The Eagles against Dallas thirty one hundred, Jaguars against the
Speaker 3: Titans are three thousand. Seahawks tonight against Chicago or three thousand.
Speaker 3: The Bengals against Denver are three thousand.
Speaker 2: Saints.
Speaker 3: Why would the Bengals defense be more expensive than Denver's
Speaker 3: defense in that game.
Speaker 2: I was thinking of the same thing. Aha, just say,
Speaker 2: what's Denver is gonna be? Denver's is really good, but
Speaker 2: they're putting up points. They're putting up points, but you're
Speaker 2: still gonna get sacks and yeah, things of that nature.
Speaker 2: I mean, Denver's got a good D.
Speaker 3: The Saints against Las Vegas are twenty nine hundred. I'd
Speaker 3: rather play Las Vegas.
Speaker 2: DA me too. Yeah, what's that one.
Speaker 3: Broncos against the Bengals on the other side of that
Speaker 3: are twenty eight hundred.
Speaker 2: They're not too far off.
Speaker 3: The Titans against Jacksonville are twenty eight hundred. The Bears
Speaker 3: tonight against Seattle or twenty eight hundred.
Speaker 2: We definitely go cheap. There's a bunch of these that
Speaker 2: aren't bad.
Speaker 3: The Bears defense is number one in the league against
Speaker 3: opposing quarterbacks. They do not give up anything through the air.
Speaker 3: You can run against them, yeah, yeah, but you can't
Speaker 3: pass the ball necessarily against him, And I don't see
Speaker 3: Seattle's offensive line is all kinds of banged up.
Speaker 2: It is. Bearsd hasn't been great lately, but that's a
Speaker 2: good point. You're at home. Yeah, on a short week,
Speaker 2: could be kind of a nasty field too, Who knows,
Speaker 2: I don't know what to what we're kind of weather,
Speaker 2: we're ex back in the night. But I don't hate that.
Speaker 3: The Packers on the other side of that game against
Speaker 3: Minnesota are twenty seven hundred.
Speaker 2: He's been playing well, but I could see a lot.
Speaker 3: Of points not against it. Yeah, they've been playing guard matship.
Speaker 3: Falcons against Washington are twenty seven hundred. The Raiders against
Speaker 3: the Saints wants to Move are twenty six hundred dollars.
Speaker 2: I really don't even care who the defense is, like
Speaker 2: a Kouspov's playing the Giants and Saints.
Speaker 3: Saints aren't breaking twenty points in that game.
Speaker 2: Though, I mean, I don't care the Crosby doesn't play,
Speaker 2: that's a good one. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Now it's in New Orleans, I guess you know.
Speaker 2: I know, but the fans could turn on him too.
Speaker 3: You could also start the Cowboys defense against Kenny Pickett.
Speaker 2: Five hundred dollars might even be McKee, right. I mean,
Speaker 2: if it's hurts, I think you get out of it.
Speaker 2: It's not bad like it's cheap. Yeah, I think I
Speaker 2: like the going against I think I take the Raiders.
Speaker 3: Okay, I don't. I don't have a problem with that.
Speaker 2: I mean, Sam, I would definitely go cheaper ones.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just it doesn't make a lot of sense
Speaker 3: to pay up because some of the teams that you're
Speaker 3: paying up for are bad defenses, like Colts.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, and they're on the road, and yeah, so
Speaker 2: why not the Raiders. Yeah, it's good, spy not they're
Speaker 2: playing hard, they won last week. Get to play the Saints.
Speaker 3: You get to play the Saints. That's the big thing.
Speaker 3: At quarterback, you wanna go quarterback or tight end?
Speaker 2: All right? Quarterbacks? Fine, all right.
Speaker 3: Josh Allen is eighty five hundred against the Jets. Could
Speaker 3: be the last time you get to see him this year.
Speaker 3: They're at home.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's fighting an injury though.
Speaker 3: J Jade and Daniels seventy eight hundred. Jalen hurts his
Speaker 3: questionable seventy five hundred, Joe Burrow seventy two hundred. Denver's
Speaker 3: fifth against opposing quarterbacks and they get Riley Moss's back
Speaker 3: at corner.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's big. Baker Mayfield against Carolina sixty nine hundred.
Speaker 3: You need to win that game.
Speaker 2: Jared Goff sixty eight hundred, Sam Darnold sixty four hundred,
Speaker 2: Rock Perty sixty three hundred, Bo Knicks sixty two hundred
Speaker 2: against that Bengals defense. I mean you've probably got to
Speaker 2: throw to keep up too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Jordan, and he's gonna run like that's not bad
Speaker 3: Jordan Love sixty two hundred.
Speaker 2: That game could be a shootout. Yeah, I think it
Speaker 2: will be.
Speaker 3: Kyler Murray six thousand.
Speaker 2: I think they're my favorite too so far, Nickson Love.
Speaker 3: Anthony Richardson fifty nine hundred, Justin Herbert fifty nine hundred
Speaker 3: to Attago Vailoa fifty eight hundred, Drake May fifty eight
Speaker 3: hundred against the Chargers, Matthew Stafford fifty seven hundred, Aaron
Speaker 3: Rodgers fifty seven hundred, Caleb Williams fifty seven hundred dollars.
Speaker 2: They are he hasn't turned the ball over. No, he's
Speaker 2: got weapons and they can't run the football. No, it's
Speaker 2: not a bad defense he's playing. But he says a
Speaker 2: pretty well, yeah, they get weapons cheap runs like that's
Speaker 2: way cheap. Do you like him better than Nix? And
Speaker 2: I forget who's right now? Love, I might like those
Speaker 2: guys a little bit more but for the Buck, but
Speaker 2: for the Bock, I mean, Caleb Williams, is he stills
Speaker 2: a lot to prove Keithan Allen's playing well? What man? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Bryce Young at fifty six hundred even cheaper against Tampa Bay. Yeah,
Speaker 2: like they just played a few weeks ago.
Speaker 3: Bryce Young against Tampa Bay put up twenty three point
Speaker 3: sixty two Fantasy points.
Speaker 2: He's been productive. He had two hundred and ninety eight
Speaker 2: passing yards in a touchdown and ran three times for
Speaker 2: seventeen yards in a touchdowns. Running three or four times
Speaker 2: a game, give or take.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he's run the ball actually more than
Speaker 3: that recently. Do you like him more than five three
Speaker 3: seven three three?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I don't hate it. Yeah, I mean you know,
Speaker 2: for the Buck, you're the Bucks have to be low
Speaker 2: against quarterbacks. Yeah, they're going to put up points. Williams
Speaker 2: and Young are going to put up points in those games.
Speaker 2: I agree. I agree? Which one? Do you know? All
Speaker 2: the bad weapons? Maybe just because the cheaper one, so
Speaker 2: Bryce Young. I think we'd be starting Bryce Young at
Speaker 2: this point right there for Christmas.
Speaker 3: But again, I think I think when you look at
Speaker 3: his production over the last what five six weeks twenty
Speaker 3: seven point one two fifteen point nine. I guess he
Speaker 3: had a couple of talents.
Speaker 2: He's more roller coaster than you might think, but you
Speaker 2: would think his wheels would keep him his floor a
Speaker 2: little higher. But I think I might like Caleb Williams
Speaker 2: a little bit more just because of that. Okay, Well,
Speaker 2: he's a little bit roller coaster to a little bit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess, but his his roller coaster is on
Speaker 3: the road though. Yeah, Bryce Young at home has been
Speaker 3: see his last several home games twenty six point seven
Speaker 3: to six.
Speaker 2: You're talking about Williams are young.
Speaker 3: This is Williams twenty seven point seven to six against Detroit.
Speaker 3: They played Minnesota at home, he had twenty nine point nine.
Speaker 3: They played Green Bay at home. Well, that's his low
Speaker 3: point twenty six or sixteen point twenty four.
Speaker 2: Let's put him man. Yeah, I think I think the
Speaker 2: floor at home for him, there's a big difference there.
Speaker 2: For whatever reason, they're so horrendous, they're a definite team.
Speaker 2: That home road splits her something to be aware of. Okay,
Speaker 2: so running back, let's go tight end. We got the
Speaker 2: standalone here. Brock Bauer sixty seven hundred. I think they're
Speaker 2: trying to get him. Yeah, I think they're trying to
Speaker 2: get the ball. Trey McBride is so he didn't play bad. No,
Speaker 2: he's right, he's fine. We never got to him. They're
Speaker 2: playing the Saints. McBride is sixty two hundred, George Kittle
Speaker 2: six thousand, Detroit is number two against tight ends. John
Speaker 2: Uther Smith is fifty seven hundred, Sam Laporta forty nine hundred.
Speaker 2: Big drop off there after those guys, and Djoku is
Speaker 2: forty seven hundred, Hockinson forty five hundred. Uh, don't don't
Speaker 2: mind the Joku. They feed him no matter what. He's questionable. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: he played last week, but yeah, he was questionable.
Speaker 3: Kinkaid is forty three hundred, Kate Aughton forty two hundred.
Speaker 3: They're twenty eighth against opposing tight ends. Hunter Henry is
Speaker 3: forty two hundred, Brenton Strange four thousand, they're fifth against
Speaker 3: opposing tight ends. Tucker Kraft thirty nine hundred, eleventh.
Speaker 2: Craft's a good player. Yeah. I always hesitate to jump
Speaker 2: on their pass catchers for dfs because.
Speaker 3: There's too many, right, too many. There's a name on
Speaker 3: here that I want to get to. Kyle Pitts is
Speaker 3: not it. Cocomett is not it. Zach Ertz is not it.
Speaker 3: Will Disley is questionable. Jake Ferguson is thirty seven hundred,
Speaker 3: chig and quonquo. He's been hot, thirty six hundred. He
Speaker 3: has over twenty targets the last two weeks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he should not be that low.
Speaker 3: He should He has twenty one targets. He has one
Speaker 3: hundred and forty receiving yards on seventeen catches the last
Speaker 3: two games.
Speaker 2: Let's fire him up. I mean, I bet he's super chalky,
Speaker 2: but I'd rather have the lineup right, right, Yeah, when
Speaker 2: it's that chalky. Yeah, yeah, at thirty six hundred, that
Speaker 2: really I liked him as a Receiver's been some inconsistencies,
Speaker 2: but I like to play.
Speaker 3: Playing the Jaguars and Madson Rudolph starting, and the Jaguars
Speaker 3: embarrassed them at home a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 2: Jags back seven is not good against past.
Speaker 3: Yeah, running back. You're looking at Saquon Barkley at eighty
Speaker 3: six hundred against Dallas.
Speaker 2: Consider it, and yeah, I don't love it. If it's
Speaker 2: McKee or picket though, that's the problem, right, I mean,
Speaker 2: it helps your touch push and short touchdown.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're gonna get the touchdowns. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Jamiir
Speaker 3: Gibbs is eighty five hundred.
Speaker 2: I get that one hundred percent too and would have
Speaker 2: a problem with it.
Speaker 3: Jon Robinson is eighty two hundred.
Speaker 2: Looks great.
Speaker 3: Josh Jacobs eighty one hundred. Minnesota is third against opposing
Speaker 3: running Yeah. Jonathan Taylor seventy nine hundred they are playing
Speaker 3: the Giants are twenty ninth against.
Speaker 2: Opposing crazy big game. Yeah, I don't think you're chasing points.
Speaker 2: They need to win the game, right right. Devin ah
Speaker 2: Chan seventy seven hundred. Cleveland is fifth against opposing running backs.
Speaker 2: This was one of his best games, but I don't
Speaker 2: love that one. Chase Brown against Denver seventy six hundred.
Speaker 2: I'm sure they're high, but he gets a higher percentage.
Speaker 2: They're actually sixteenth against running really. Yeah, it's not mean.
Speaker 2: His usage is almost insane. I mean it's way higher
Speaker 2: than any other back in the league. Kyron Williams against
Speaker 2: Arizona seventy five hundred. They're twenty six against opposing running Wow.
Speaker 2: He should be more expensive than that. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: he gets all the touches. Yeah, doesn't get a lot
Speaker 2: of carry or catches. But that's right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, James Connor seven four hundred. I think he's highly
Speaker 3: Kamara is seventy three hundred. James Cook against the Jets
Speaker 3: is seventy two hundred. Chewba Hubbard against Tampa Bay seven thousand.
Speaker 3: Bucky Irving on the other side of that is sixty
Speaker 3: seven hundred and does he have a question No, Carolina
Speaker 3: is thirty second against opposing running backs, and again, Tampa
Speaker 3: Bay needs to win the game.
Speaker 2: I would have a hard time not putting him in
Speaker 2: the line.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think he just he might be chalky too.
Speaker 3: Sure everybody against Carolina in the running back position.
Speaker 2: Is going to be chalky, right, I must win type
Speaker 2: of situation. That's your best guy. I'd rather he run
Speaker 2: the ball, really, rather have him than not.
Speaker 3: Isaac Grendo sixty five hundred. He's questionable. Tony Pollard is questionable.
Speaker 3: He is sixty four hundred. And of course the Jaguars
Speaker 3: are thirty first against the run.
Speaker 2: I'd rather look at Spears.
Speaker 3: Breese Hall sixty three hundred, Buffalo thirtieth against opposing running backs.
Speaker 2: I wonder what's his snapcounts? Ben, I don't think they've
Speaker 2: been low. No he played or anything.
Speaker 3: No, I think they might want to get into without
Speaker 3: He had fourteen for fifty two. Last week he had
Speaker 3: five catches on six targets for thirty eight. So he's
Speaker 3: getting the ball, Yeah, twenty times a game. The week
Speaker 3: before that they were he was banged up.
Speaker 2: Injury.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but the catches are you know, you go back
Speaker 3: to the Colts game, seven targets, seven catches, four targets,
Speaker 3: four k He just it's pretty consistent.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Aaron Jones is sixty two hundred, Brian Robinson is sixty
Speaker 3: one hundred. Kenneth Walker's on IR it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that just happened.
Speaker 3: Rico dal Dell six thousand, phillies second against the run.
Speaker 3: I'll bet though, Zach Charboney six thousand in tonight's game. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they're twenty eighth against opposing running backs. I said, that's
Speaker 3: their Walker's out. He's a very run funnel team.
Speaker 2: I think that's the move.
Speaker 3: All right, So we got the quarterback and the running
Speaker 3: back from the other team in tonight's game.
Speaker 2: Okay, so yeah, it is what it is.
Speaker 3: Okay, let's move on to wide receiver. We can average.
Speaker 2: Sixty three fifty here the rest of the way, so
Speaker 2: we can still pay up for a wide receiver if
Speaker 2: we want.
Speaker 3: Jamar Chase is eighty four hundred.
Speaker 2: I don't like he'll get certain.
Speaker 3: I assume he gets a certained for they gets.
Speaker 2: Doubled and certained.
Speaker 3: Takes Hagen, Yeah, Justin Jefferson eighty three hundred. Green Bay
Speaker 3: is first against opposing wide receiver. Really, yeah, Puka ni
Speaker 3: Kua eight thousand.
Speaker 2: M A. J.
Speaker 3: Brown seventy eight hundred, don't know the quarterback situation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I said Pukah's kind of intriguing.
Speaker 3: A mon Ros Saint Brown seventy seven hundred, Mike Evans
Speaker 3: seventy five hundred.
Speaker 2: I'm sure he'll be fine.
Speaker 3: Ceedee lamb, you just said they shut him out. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: Terry mclaurin's seventy two hundred, he's questionable. They're thirtieth against
Speaker 3: to pass. DeVante Adams seventy one hundred. Crazy, Yeah, he's questionable.
Speaker 3: Tyreek Kill was questionable. There's a lot of cues here
Speaker 3: on the water receavage. Tyer Kills sixty nine hundred. T.
Speaker 3: Higgins sixty nine hundred.
Speaker 2: I don't love that either. It's coming back.
Speaker 3: Brian Thomas Junior sixty eight hundred. They're third against opposing
Speaker 3: wide receivers though.
Speaker 2: Really yeah, he's productive every week though.
Speaker 3: Malik Neighbors sixty six hundred.
Speaker 2: I don't care who the quarterback is. They throw them
Speaker 2: ball a time.
Speaker 3: Lad Mconkee sixty six hundred.
Speaker 2: I don't mind it playing patriarchy, Yeah no.
Speaker 3: Jerry Judy sixty five hundred, Cooper Cup sixty five hundred,
Speaker 3: Drake London sixty four hundred. He is questionable as well
Speaker 3: as his Judy Courtland. Sutton against Cincinnati sixty three hundred.
Speaker 2: Wow, I like that a lot. I don't see right,
Speaker 2: we considered Nicks. I mean that the balls go to Sutton,
Speaker 2: that's where they go. Yeah, yeah, I like that a lot. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I'm plugging it in at sixty three. That's too good
Speaker 3: to be true.
Speaker 2: About our budget any Yeah.
Speaker 3: Jordan Addison is sixty three hundred, getting their number one
Speaker 3: against best. Jackson Smith and jigba Is sixty two hundred.
Speaker 3: They're six against opposing wide receivers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they get good corners.
Speaker 3: Garrett Wilson against Buffalo sixty one hundred.
Speaker 2: He's been complaining lately, squeaky wheel. Yeah, yeah, squeaky wheel.
Speaker 2: That seems cheap for him anyways.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, he hasn't been getting the ball they threw
Speaker 3: to him in garbage time less way, I think he
Speaker 3: gets the ball this week.
Speaker 2: I'm fine with it. Yeah, he's an easy one to
Speaker 2: convince me on. I love the player.
Speaker 3: Jamison Williams is six thousand.
Speaker 2: He's been pretty good lately too.
Speaker 3: Jacobe Myers against the Saints is six thousand. They're twenty
Speaker 3: fifth against the pass.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure they are.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: Jayden Reid fifty nine hundred. They are thirty second against
Speaker 3: opposing wide receivers.
Speaker 2: One of their receivers out I think is that Watt
Speaker 2: Watson is out out? Okay, Yeah, that clear things up
Speaker 2: a little. Yeah. I don't mind Reid, I don't mind Myers.
Speaker 3: DJ Moore could be our stack tonight. Fifty nine hundred.
Speaker 2: BacT. You haven't mentioned Keenan Allen. He's been on fire. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Juwan Jennings is fifty eight hundred.
Speaker 2: Detroit is thirty first against opposing wide receivers.
Speaker 3: DeVonta Smith is fifty eight hundred. Keenan Allen is fifty
Speaker 3: eight hundred.
Speaker 2: I think you go yes on that.
Speaker 3: That's a nice stack, and we have seventy two hundred left.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't even mind going Dj Moore with the stack
Speaker 3: in that.
Speaker 2: For the third receiver as our flex, or we could
Speaker 2: we could pay up with for our flex, we can
Speaker 2: get James Cook, Terry McLaurin, DeVante, Adams, Chuba Hubbard, Tyreek Hill,
Speaker 2: these guys off, they're all questionable. I don't like that. Neighborhood.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we may be able to pay up a defensive.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't want to pivot off Jig. I don't either.
Speaker 3: We could pay up a quarterback, but we've already.
Speaker 2: Put keenan Allen, Yeah, stacked nice back. There is there
Speaker 2: a running back or receiver we could upgrade too. I
Speaker 2: like the Bucky Irving, Yeah, call you know. I like
Speaker 2: Charbonne Tonight against like both of those. So we're let
Speaker 2: me regress here. We have one spot for amount of
Speaker 2: money that we don't love the flex for right, let
Speaker 2: me get so we could go brock Bowers at sixty
Speaker 2: seven hundred as a flex. As a flex, we.
Speaker 3: Can get neighbors. We can get lab mconkie, Cooper, cup Pollard.
Speaker 2: Do you prefer neighbors or McConkie, London, brist Hall Bad,
Speaker 2: Jordan Addison, Brian Robinson, Neighbors and mconkie kind of stand
Speaker 2: out to me. There's not much target competition for those guys.
Speaker 2: Is what is DJ Moore done? He had seven for
Speaker 2: sixty eight last time out. He had on ten targets
Speaker 2: his last five games ten targets, eight targets, eight targets,
Speaker 2: sixteen targets, seven targets. He has seven seven, eight, six,
Speaker 2: eight seven.
Speaker 3: In terms of catches now, the yardage totals once in
Speaker 3: a while sixty eight, forty six, forty nine, ninety seven
Speaker 3: to one oh six. But he scored two touchdowns in
Speaker 3: that stretch as well, and we got the quarterback in
Speaker 3: the lineup.
Speaker 2: I don't mind being double set. Yeah, they can't run
Speaker 2: the football. No, I don't think they're going to run
Speaker 2: the football against Seattle. I think they want to develop
Speaker 2: Williams too and get him as comfortable as possible.
Speaker 3: So if we go, if we do that, then we
Speaker 3: have thirteen hundred left over. We want to pay up
Speaker 3: a defense. We can go get the Bills defense against
Speaker 3: the Jets. We can get the Colts against the Giants.
Speaker 3: I think I prefer the Colts the Chargers against the Patriots.
Speaker 2: It's not bad either. It's in New England, but yeah,
Speaker 2: not bad.
Speaker 3: Should be sacks, should be sacks.
Speaker 2: I'd say Chargers of Colts. M who's the Giants starters
Speaker 2: at lock still? Man, I know he's hurt, he's horrible. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's hurt and he's horrible. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Other than that, he's Yeah. The defense, I mean, I
Speaker 3: like the Chargers defense better than the Colts defense by.
Speaker 2: A long storm thousand. They're both pretty bad offense.
Speaker 3: And for the Patriots to win, they're going to run
Speaker 3: the ball. Whi's going to keep the score down.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Romandre fumbles a lot. Romandre fumbles a lot. Let's
Speaker 2: do Chargers.
Speaker 3: Okay, that still leaves us with five hundred leftover? Or
Speaker 3: do we want to try to pay up?
Speaker 2: Let me let me tex check defense. Let me check
Speaker 2: one thing.
Speaker 3: You're Raiders back in if we pay up on Courtland Sutton,
Speaker 3: he was our most expensive receiver. It's sixty get a
Speaker 3: real base. We can get Mike Evans at seventy five hundred.
Speaker 2: That's a move. I don't love the It's fine moving
Speaker 2: up on the defense. If anything that Gain does does
Speaker 2: on yeah, yeah, I'll be talking about the difference of
Speaker 2: maybe two points. Mike Evans is on that thousand yard crusade.
Speaker 3: I don't know how close he is, but they got
Speaker 3: two games left and he's got.
Speaker 2: I think he's in striking distance.
Speaker 3: He has, yeah, eight hundred and eighteen yards. Yeah, he's
Speaker 3: playing Mike Evans the ball. He is going to get
Speaker 3: the foot.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: That only leaves us to one hundred dollars left, I think.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So we got Caleb Williams at quarterback, win Tonight, Bucky
Speaker 3: Irving and Zach Charbonnet at running back, Mike Evans, Garrett Wilson,
Speaker 3: Keenan Allen at wide receiver. That's two weeks in a
Speaker 3: row we've had Mike Evans and Keenan Allen. Yeah, in
Speaker 3: a lot they hit for us last week. Chicken klonk
Speaker 3: Wo at the tight end position, thirty six hundred dollars,
Speaker 3: DJ Moore in a flex at fifty nine hundred, and
Speaker 3: the Raiders defense at twenty six hundred.
Speaker 2: Play in the Saints, play in the Saints. Yeah, there
Speaker 2: you go. Yeah, I like it, locking it in, locking
Speaker 2: it in, and we are in there, we go, all right,
Speaker 2: we're gonna get to a break that's gonna do it
Speaker 2: for the Fantasy Football Focus.
Speaker 3: A lot of decent matchups this week for Championship Week.
Speaker 2: There are there's some scary ones. Some scary ones yeah too,
Speaker 2: Like don't always dance with U Brunya. You gotta be
Speaker 2: able to some of the stars we're playing this week.
Speaker 2: I picked up Chicken quonquoll. Yeah. I don't blame me.
Speaker 2: It's a good move.
Speaker 3: I mean he's getting the ball a lot, Yeah, so
Speaker 3: why not take the targets. But anyways, let's get to
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Speaker 3: After yesterday's game, uh, the twenty nine to ten loss
Speaker 3: to the Kansas City Chiefs, Mike Tomlin intimated that there
Speaker 3: would be some changes. Yeah, they're doing how they're doing
Speaker 3: and who they're doing it with. Nothing is off limits.
Speaker 3: So I have some ideas on some things. I would do. Okay,
Speaker 3: we'll go back and forth through. I'm gonna go first.
Speaker 3: One thing I would do is I would strongly consider
Speaker 3: putting Minka Fitzpatrick in the slot.
Speaker 2: I was thinking that too. I love his usage as
Speaker 2: a deep center fielder, but I think KZ can do it.
Speaker 3: Yes, and we have I think KZ on the field
Speaker 3: is better than what they're doing in the slot right now.
Speaker 2: I see what you're saying. I would rather have KZ
Speaker 2: out there, who's your best eleven KZ out there or
Speaker 2: the slot situation which isn't pretty at the moment, and
Speaker 2: make it close to the ball, you know, better run defender.
Speaker 2: We've seen a lot more of him not in deep
Speaker 2: middle of the last couple of games, and that's not
Speaker 2: why they're losing foks.
Speaker 3: No know, right, Like he's making plays all over the place.
Speaker 2: I think that's a real good one. And then basically
Speaker 2: make him the slot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, which he's when they're when they're in the base defense,
Speaker 3: he's in deep center field.
Speaker 2: He can be here. He's still he's a free safety.
Speaker 2: When you go to when you're playing thirteen or eleven person,
Speaker 2: I should say he's playing the slot. It's a good one, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm all for it.
Speaker 3: I mean, to me, the slot has been a big problem,
Speaker 3: huge problem, not just in in this recent stretch, but really.
Speaker 2: In the weakest part of the defense since Week one. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, and which nobody was shocked about. You know,
Speaker 2: throw an undrafted rookie out there from the beginning, hoping
Speaker 2: Sutton's time comes. And it's doesn't look like that's a
Speaker 2: successful plan at all, to say the least. I'm not
Speaker 2: even sure if Someton will be in the league next year.
Speaker 2: I mean, he doesn't run very well. Maybe you'll have
Speaker 2: to be a safety, and is anyone going to do that?
Speaker 3: And I'd rather put him at free safety and just
Speaker 3: and then the slot.
Speaker 2: He might even be better at free safety than there's
Speaker 2: a lot at this stage of the game. Yeah, communication
Speaker 2: has been a problem with him. I like it. I'm
Speaker 2: all for it. I would go with Warren as my
Speaker 2: top back. Yeah, I mean, I think that one's the
Speaker 2: low hanging fruit. I just think he's the better player,
Speaker 2: fresher legs, more explosive, better receiver. Now it wouldn't be
Speaker 2: one hundred percent, that's not how that position works, but no,
Speaker 2: it'd be a two to one ratio or seventy five
Speaker 2: to twenty five at the very least sixty forty, which
Speaker 2: is kind of what has been the last couple of
Speaker 2: weeks just because of the way the game script is gone.
Speaker 2: You can dismiss it because they're losing. He's a third
Speaker 2: down back, and there's definitely some of that, but there's
Speaker 2: also been instances where I think on first and ten
Speaker 2: and neutral script, Nage you would have been out there
Speaker 2: and isn't now.
Speaker 3: You know, I did see this though today when I
Speaker 3: was looking at some stuff. Warren didn't run into a
Speaker 3: loaded box once yesterday.
Speaker 2: Doesn't surprise me. I mean that whole is night and.
Speaker 3: Day, whereas Nausea was like ten percent running into an
Speaker 3: eight or nine man box. And that's kind of one
Speaker 3: of the problems that how it's been this whole career
Speaker 3: right now with nause is that when he is out there,
Speaker 3: you're seeing single high and nine guys in the box. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's just it's just not setting up well for him
Speaker 3: to run the football. I don't even mind putting him
Speaker 3: out there on some third downs and it's third and
Speaker 3: four and they're gonna they're gonna go to their nickel
Speaker 3: or dime I'm gonna run nausey up the.
Speaker 2: Middle because then he could play. He could stand up
Speaker 2: in protection for blitz, or you could dump with him
Speaker 2: on the screen. Yeah, or you know those type of
Speaker 2: things too. Yeah, but I think on more neutral stuff,
Speaker 2: I want more Warren for sure. I just think he's
Speaker 2: a more effective player. Yeah, I think so as well.
Speaker 2: I've always been a massive Warren fan. I don't know
Speaker 2: what his workload threshold is. I don't think any of
Speaker 2: us do, and it's a concern, but I think he's
Speaker 2: your second best skill guy. Yeah, you know, it's your turn.
Speaker 2: I don't really have another. I have some things i'd
Speaker 2: consider or flirt with.
Speaker 3: Yeah, A lot of it depends on is Joey Porter
Speaker 3: Junior back for the next game or not, and the
Speaker 3: people out there saying Joey Joey Porter Junior doesn't Matt
Speaker 3: oh or he stinks.
Speaker 2: I think it's yeah, right right. I think it's similar
Speaker 2: to Pickens versus the other receivers, I really do. I
Speaker 2: think that Room is one guy in the Pips, you know,
Speaker 2: I mean, and that includes Jackson. I've been down on
Speaker 2: Jackson for a while. I mean, I think he's okay,
Speaker 2: but he's better when Porter's out there. Yeah, I forget
Speaker 2: who I was listening to, and I never thought of
Speaker 2: this in my whole life, but certain Gardner Stingley, like,
Speaker 2: I think most people consider them the top three corners
Speaker 2: in the league. And I'm gonna say porters quite to
Speaker 2: their level. But all those guys got so much better
Speaker 2: when Reed, the Texans first pick in the second round,
Speaker 2: just played really well. And the dude that comes back
Speaker 2: for Denver like Moss Moss, Oh, I always forget his name,
Speaker 2: But you don't think about second corners influence in number
Speaker 2: one corners. But it is a lot more say than that,
Speaker 2: you know, like if you need your Alvin Harper almost
Speaker 2: you know that to be the stars compliment.
Speaker 3: That's why I don't have a problem with Jackson. He
Speaker 3: just can't be your number one guy.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure if Jackson's good enough to be that
Speaker 2: too that I want, you know, that's all. I think.
Speaker 2: You can do better. Yeah, you can do better there,
Speaker 2: but what him being out is massive.
Speaker 3: If Porter is back, would you consider playing Trice?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would. I mean there's something especially in the
Speaker 2: Bengals game. Yeah, Like that's a tough challenge if you
Speaker 2: lose because of them, that's not great. Or if he
Speaker 2: gets beat more than you like, that's not great. But
Speaker 2: you might find something that you might find something out,
Speaker 2: you know. I mean, And that's a little bit of
Speaker 2: the GM and me off season ahead. But I want
Speaker 2: to know everything I can about Trice. I mean, Jackson
Speaker 2: comes back or not. I don't think there's any way
Speaker 2: that they go into camp saying Trice is definitely a starter,
Speaker 2: but it might be Trice versus number two draft pick
Speaker 2: for the starting job or you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: and have a couple more offices more. That's something I
Speaker 2: would consider. That's a good one.
Speaker 3: But now you're moving multiple spots in your secondary.
Speaker 2: But if Porter has to be healthy for that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Porter has to be healthy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know want to experiment with that like
Speaker 2: first round of the playoffs. Yeah, so that would be
Speaker 2: a one time thing and then go from there. And
Speaker 2: if Trice won, I mean I wouldn't I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know their practice schedule off the top of
Speaker 2: my head before this weird week, but I would assume
Speaker 2: he'll get a lot of run with the ones. If
Speaker 2: Porter's on has been the first practice he has already,
Speaker 2: now I will say this.
Speaker 3: James Pierre started that game yesterday, and right after giving
Speaker 3: up the touchdown to Christian Watson, he got yanked because
Speaker 3: before that play was snapped, he's out there looking around
Speaker 3: like I didn't know where to line up at.
Speaker 2: There were some of that, and Pierre has value elsewhere.
Speaker 2: But to me, Sutton and Pierre don't run well enough.
Speaker 2: You know, like obviously a huge offseason priority. Let's get
Speaker 2: faster on the back seven. Yeah, but maybe your fifth
Speaker 2: corner doesn't fit that bill anymore. You know, that's who
Speaker 2: you're playing with. Yeah, do you have any others? Nothing
Speaker 2: like jumps out off the table.
Speaker 3: I would not use Corderio Patterson as a running back anymore.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't either. I definitely would.
Speaker 3: Not, unless unless it's a situation like you saw in
Speaker 3: Baltimore where I'm gonna throw him a pass against a
Speaker 3: five ft ten linebackers.
Speaker 2: He's not getting to carry carries in crucial moments. Ever. Again, probably,
Speaker 2: I've been saying for a couple of weeks it's time
Speaker 2: to streamline the skill position players. And that means less Patterson, less,
Speaker 2: prough It less, maybe even Jefferson, you know, you know,
Speaker 2: like if two receivers are out there. I want it
Speaker 2: to be Austin and Pickens. Maybe Scronic would be my
Speaker 2: third if everyone's healthy to I mean, over Jefferson and
Speaker 2: the others, just because he has some nastiness and that
Speaker 2: ord of thing. I'm not even saying yes to these.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying the coaches should at least have a conversation,
Speaker 2: you know, like this is, this is what's happening right
Speaker 2: this week? Hey, what would you guys do? What?
Speaker 3: What changes do you guys want to make?
Speaker 2: If I'm coach, t like, just throw things out there.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to hold it against you. Just throw
Speaker 2: things out. Let's talk about it all. Does Peyton Wilson
Speaker 2: deserve more snaps? I'm not even saying get in the queens?
Speaker 2: But is he ready to be my Patrick? Queen? And
Speaker 2: queen be my Wilson? Seems premature, but I'm just again, I.
Speaker 3: Can't make that change in a week, Just too big
Speaker 3: of a change.
Speaker 2: Healthy fields? Does he get ten snaps every game?
Speaker 3: No matter what, He's got to be healthy first? And
Speaker 3: I don't know. I mean, he hasn't practiced practice.
Speaker 2: In two weeks, right, I'm running out of ideas though,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, I'm trying to think what
Speaker 2: and frankly, we talked about this in the first hour.
Speaker 2: The changes you see aren't going to be this guy's
Speaker 2: on the bench, this guy got cut right, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean. You're playing with your guys. You might
Speaker 2: change the snapunce a little, or this guy doesn't play
Speaker 2: a nickel anymore, or Minko's your slot. That's a great one,
Speaker 2: but I think a lot of them will be procedural
Speaker 2: or how we call this defense, or when you call
Speaker 2: this sequencing, or maybe hey, Russ, I don't like the
Speaker 2: changes you're making at the line of scrimmage, or we're
Speaker 2: going to really stress getting the ball out in two
Speaker 2: point five or less. Or they have a weird trend
Speaker 2: that I don't love. And I'm an Arthur Smith guy,
Speaker 2: but I think I've really started to pay attention to
Speaker 2: it the last month. When they throw for a first down,
Speaker 2: they almost automatically go to a run on first and
Speaker 2: ten the next play, which I understand why, But these
Speaker 2: teams are smart too.
Speaker 3: They didn't do that against the Bengals. Against the Bengals, right,
Speaker 3: and they have been throwing more on first down and
Speaker 3: they have a strong tendency of complete a pass for
Speaker 3: a first down, all right, because get back to the run.
Speaker 3: But like it's like they put money in the bank
Speaker 3: and they're, you know, living. Here's the thing about that
Speaker 3: game yesterday. They had a sixty nine yard drive. They
Speaker 3: had a seventy two yard drive twenty five yards at
Speaker 3: h and they punted it from midfield, which that play
Speaker 3: Pickens caught that caught the ball along the sideline short,
Speaker 3: a short catch and the guy kind of stood him
Speaker 3: up real quick. But Pickings is twisting around to come
Speaker 3: out of it. The other tackler comes in and knocks
Speaker 3: they would be tackler off of him, and they blew
Speaker 3: the whistle. Yeah, and he's running down the sideline. He
Speaker 3: was not happy about it. It was going to be a touchdown.
Speaker 2: It was going to be a touchdown. Yeap, it was.
Speaker 2: And I don't kill the refs for that.
Speaker 3: They don't blow the whistle when it's a running back
Speaker 3: in those situations. They don't blow the whistle on a
Speaker 3: tush push.
Speaker 2: And they'll allow you to get there on the second halffort. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Like they blew it too quickly on that one. They did.
Speaker 2: They did, and it probably cost Seer's points or at
Speaker 2: least a big, chunky.
Speaker 3: Yard cost him the halftime lead.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, a big one. They would have led a
Speaker 2: halftime in that game that was It would have been
Speaker 2: fourteen thirteen at the half. That was an error. I mean,
Speaker 2: there's no doubt about that. You mentioned the long drives.
Speaker 2: We should have probably brought this up earlier in the
Speaker 2: show the first segment, but gave too many short fields
Speaker 2: against You can't do.
Speaker 3: That, Yeah, and we should have Cordless. Cordless weight Man
Speaker 3: had maybe his worst over all day. Yeah, kicking the ball.
Speaker 3: That first one he kicked was the line drive one
Speaker 3: looked like something I would have came no hangtime. But
Speaker 3: even at that forty seven yards to open the second half,
Speaker 3: they get a field goal out of that. Now they
Speaker 3: had a three and out when they fumbled, then they
Speaker 3: got thirty eight yards, turned the ball over on downs,
Speaker 3: and then eighty five yards on the last one. They
Speaker 3: were moving the ball reasonably, con I mean they it.
Speaker 2: Wasn't three and out, three and out, three out, No,
Speaker 2: not at all. I mean some of that stuff's been better,
Speaker 2: and the running game to me, has been better. So
Speaker 2: it's been a lot of mistakes and you can't make
Speaker 2: the safe since these teams. Yeah, these teams are in
Speaker 2: the sacks.
Speaker 3: I mean, and when I'm looking at this, I'm watching, I.
Speaker 2: Believe Wilson for the sacks more than I do the
Speaker 2: as a whole.
Speaker 3: I don't think it was a protection problem.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 3: I think in some cases, I don't know where the
Speaker 3: prime I don't know who the primary receiver is in
Speaker 3: certain situations. In some of those instances, but the primary
Speaker 3: wasn't open and he didn't have time to get to
Speaker 3: the second that you know, or for whatever reason, was
Speaker 3: looking to get out of the pocket. Kansas City had
Speaker 3: a nice plan against him.
Speaker 2: They did. They did, and their pass rush is good,
Speaker 2: but they didn't have Chris Jones, the defense coordinator is tremendous,
Speaker 2: and they did. I think they brought a fair amount
Speaker 2: of pressure in the game too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was actually beating if you saw the stats
Speaker 3: at halftime, I think he was Like when they blitzed him,
Speaker 3: he was like four for five for like seventy yards
Speaker 3: against the blitz.
Speaker 2: It was the other times teams are going to rush
Speaker 2: him up the middle, though, I mean, like, yeah, they
Speaker 2: kept harping on the broadcast, like the MA home scrambles
Speaker 2: were always when the B gap would open. I'm dumb
Speaker 2: gone like, but if if EAMs are not going to
Speaker 2: let A and B gaps open, you know that at
Speaker 2: this point. So maybe one of the adjustments that you
Speaker 2: make is to get him on the move more often. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's a good conversation we had with Merrill. Two was
Speaker 2: he I hate speaking for others like this because I'm
Speaker 2: not going to phrase this one hundred percent right, but
Speaker 2: he doesn't love Wilson sitting in the pocket tapping it
Speaker 2: for three seconds. Yeah, because it's a sight. It encloses
Speaker 2: on you. I mean, it's big bodies, there's trees falling
Speaker 2: around you. But on the other hand, the way Merrill
Speaker 2: phrased it was, but I love when he's play action
Speaker 2: booting or you know, or something quick hitting play action,
Speaker 2: and you need your running game to have some substance
Speaker 2: to run. It's been really a problem. They had the
Speaker 2: running game against Baltimore. Yeah, they ran the ball effectively
Speaker 2: against the Ravens. I think that was my team wide
Speaker 2: biggest concern going into the Baltimore game. Like, I kept
Speaker 2: saying three nine per carry and couldn't cut it. It's
Speaker 2: got to be four to three ish, four to four. Well,
Speaker 2: that's gotten a little better. I mean, I think it
Speaker 2: was like four to seven against the Ravens. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: it was good even before nause He's ripping off runs
Speaker 2: against backups in the end. But it was six point five.
Speaker 3: I mean, Warren was six point five Wilson when.
Speaker 2: He he was like that the way six for fifty
Speaker 2: five runnings helpful. Yeah, you know, I'm just smart.
Speaker 3: You know you're not gonna get the first down.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, obviously on fumble, but it was.
Speaker 3: Six for fifty five and he had a one yard
Speaker 3: touchdown run. He was getting ten yards of chunk.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, he was smart about it. Yeah. I mean,
Speaker 2: I think he's more apt to take off him go too.
Speaker 3: So, you know, I think the running game is is
Speaker 3: something that's going to I.
Speaker 2: Think the air was actually pointing up with the running game. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So, but I mean, I think they do need to
Speaker 3: get him, even if it's just a little bit of
Speaker 3: pocket movement, just to get him out away from the
Speaker 3: middle of that pocket, because that's where the problems are coming.
Speaker 2: Spot and it really is a hard time see in
Speaker 2: the middle of the field.
Speaker 3: His his arm is strong enough that you know, even
Speaker 3: if you roll him out a quarter of the way
Speaker 3: he can still make throat to the other side of
Speaker 3: the field.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean you're.
Speaker 3: Not you're not narrowing things down to just half.
Speaker 2: Its total halfield read or those type of things. I
Speaker 2: don't have any other like wholesale changes. I mean, you'd
Speaker 2: have to be in the building for what we have
Speaker 2: a hard time getting these plays in or this communication
Speaker 2: or man, this guy's not adjusting to this route or whatever.
Speaker 2: I mean, really minusia, you know type things you'd have
Speaker 2: to be real detail, not minusia, but like deep in
Speaker 2: the weeds. But I bet some of that stuff's problematic
Speaker 2: right now. And to your earlier point, it's harder to
Speaker 2: work on those finer things. Three games eleven days, right.
Speaker 2: I know this is a problem. I just don't know
Speaker 2: how to get it fixed because I don't make time. Yeah,
Speaker 2: doesn't mean we'll get it fixed, but you at least
Speaker 2: have a better chance of correcting that attacking the problem.
Speaker 3: I saw the frustration there yesterday with they had gotten
Speaker 3: a bunch of guys back on the defensive back end,
Speaker 3: and you're still seeing the communication issues. And I think
Speaker 3: that's where Elliott was going with like, hey, we get
Speaker 3: the same guys out here.
Speaker 2: Now he seemed very frustrated. Yeah, in his job. He
Speaker 2: actually said these are week one and two problems that
Speaker 2: week seventeen. Yeah, yehs got a new dude, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: guys who played a lot of snaps. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So that's that's where they're at right now. Let's we'll
Speaker 3: see if they got the you know, a full week
Speaker 3: of practice to prepare for the Cincinnati Bengals, prepare for
Speaker 3: the playoffs, and prepare for the playoffs. You got a
Speaker 3: couple of weeks get prepared for that. So you get
Speaker 3: a couple of weeks, you know, if you want to
Speaker 3: make some changes, adjustments, whatever you want to call them,
Speaker 3: you have time to do that.
Speaker 2: I like the make of one a lot. The slot's
Speaker 2: been a bunch.
Speaker 3: Of that's that's to me, should be issue number one
Speaker 3: that get solved. Yeah, And that's the way to say,
Speaker 3: I understand you. You hate having him minky, we got
Speaker 3: a problem here. You got to go there, Manca, we
Speaker 3: have a problem there. You got to go there, which
Speaker 3: is kind of what they've done with him the last
Speaker 3: couple of years.
Speaker 2: But he's a good player that you one of the
Speaker 2: one of, if not the best center field or in
Speaker 2: the league. You know, you don't ask that guy to
Speaker 2: play second base, but sometimes sometimes you have to feel
Speaker 2: on the second baseman, you dude, Yeah right, that's the
Speaker 2: way it goes.
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Speaker 3: the Matt Williamson and Matt last week, I last week.
Speaker 2: All the days are running together. Could have been two
Speaker 2: days ago.
Speaker 3: Could have been two days ago. I believe it was
Speaker 3: last week. I don't know. But we had the conversation,
Speaker 3: you know what, was before the Houston game because we
Speaker 3: hadn't gotten to see Mahomes play yet. Yeah, and I
Speaker 3: said I would rather face an injured Mahomes or face
Speaker 3: a Yeah, an injured Mahomes than a healthy Carson Wentz.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 3: Now, as I said when I said that, it would
Speaker 3: depend on how injured Mahomes, was it too bad?
Speaker 2: You didn't look too banged up either one of those games. No.
Speaker 2: I mean he's scrambling, he's getting the Yeah, you know
Speaker 2: they have that metric. You got to fifteen miles an
Speaker 2: hour twice against Houston already, and he's moving fine.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I took a lot of gruff guph for that,
Speaker 3: and I understand it.
Speaker 2: I mean, but bring sometimes you bring stuff up on
Speaker 2: the show to have a conversation. Of course, that's the
Speaker 2: way this works, right, And an injured Mahomes versus a
Speaker 2: healthy former guy guy who was a former good player
Speaker 2: in the running for the MVP Award. It was a conversation.
Speaker 3: I also didn't know how healthy at that time Mahomes was.
Speaker 3: He looks completely healthy right now. Yeah, No, I he
Speaker 3: doesn't feel completely healthy.
Speaker 2: At the time. It looked kind of critical for him,
Speaker 2: you know. Yeah, in terms of most people don't get
Speaker 2: up and walk around a week later, walk around a
Speaker 2: week later after taking the hit that he took. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and he's had a lot of ankle stuff and it
Speaker 2: was dealt with him over the years, but seems to
Speaker 2: be dealing with it quite well. He must spectacular.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was fantastic and again just diagnosing the mental stuff.
Speaker 2: I mean, he throws, but the mental stuff was great.
Speaker 3: And was able at times like manipulated cornerbacks or linebackers
Speaker 3: or whoever with his eyes. There were several times where
Speaker 3: it looked like he was going to throw that quick
Speaker 3: screen pass, you know, the quick bubble screen and even
Speaker 3: fake it and t J. Watt would jump in the
Speaker 3: air or whoever was coming in would jump in the
Speaker 3: air and boom, hit the guy in the slant behind him, like.
Speaker 2: Moving safeties with his eyes. Next level stuff, it's next levels.
Speaker 2: It's elite stuff. Yeah, it's rare stuff. Right. He was
Speaker 2: great yesterday. He was great, and that gives them a
Speaker 2: chance to win it at a third one. You know,
Speaker 2: there's no doubt about it. He is a special, special dude.
Speaker 2: And even Kelsey, you know, like he is a move
Speaker 2: like he used to and congrats to him. By the way,
Speaker 2: a thousand catches is awesome and most touchdowns in Chief's
Speaker 2: history in the same day. Good for you. That's awesome.
Speaker 3: You know, it sucks that he passed hinz word.
Speaker 2: Oh Yeahsburgh, Yeah, yeah, I forgot about that part. I
Speaker 2: was thinking more of the Chiefs angle. It all, but
Speaker 2: like he has such a good feel for I know
Speaker 2: this is the zone they're playing. I'm just gonna drift
Speaker 2: ever so slightly that you know, give us help when
Speaker 2: you actually cover him. That's the thing. And that's I
Speaker 2: keep talking about this Meryl conversation because we just had
Speaker 2: it today. He had a real problem with a lot
Speaker 2: of those guys just dropping to their spot as opposed
Speaker 2: to being football players or showing instincts or whatever, because
Speaker 2: no one's better at being football players. Are showing instincts
Speaker 2: than Mahomes of Kelsey. A lot of improv stuff. And
Speaker 2: we know this is cover two and you're supposed to
Speaker 2: go here, but you're more open if you're just two
Speaker 2: steps to the right, you know, and you gotta adjust quick,
Speaker 2: gotta play the game. Yeah, that ball's coming out, Yeah
Speaker 2: it was coming out quickly, unbelievably faster. I you know,
Speaker 2: initially was that makes a tackle problem a lot easier
Speaker 2: for right, So you're going to see that. That's how
Speaker 2: they're gonna play in way, it doesn't matter who they play.
Speaker 2: Ye And again, if the Steelers had Mel Blutt and
Speaker 2: Rod Woodson out there, you'd press those dudes and beat
Speaker 2: them up. But Without Porter, you can't do it. You
Speaker 2: can't do it right. You're really shorthanded. But it's a
Speaker 2: great game plan and that's all they're gonna play.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but one way moving forward to fix that would
Speaker 3: be make it just a lot start yea, with Porter
Speaker 3: out there. Now I can Now I can press some dudes, now,
Speaker 3: I can, you know, get up in some passing lanes
Speaker 3: and do some stuff.
Speaker 2: And some things we haven't seen a ton of too.
Speaker 2: Is they've been really successful over the years. Those corner
Speaker 2: blitzeres get home quick. I mean not two point one
Speaker 2: seconds quick. But you know, Hilton used to get im
Speaker 2: media pressure a lot. Sometimes you'd run into a tackle
Speaker 2: and not get home. But let's let's make out of this.
Speaker 3: Lot even a game even some you know, linebacker Blitzer
Speaker 3: up the middle and things of that nature. I know
Speaker 3: their interior line is good.
Speaker 2: But sure, sure you got to mix it up. You
Speaker 2: got to mix it up, and you gotta you gotta
Speaker 2: make them. I even think about games going forward, you know,
Speaker 2: more so than what you just dealt with.
Speaker 3: Is well things stand up now as things currently sit.
Speaker 3: If the Steelers would play the Texans in the opening
Speaker 3: round of the playoffs, the winner of that game would
Speaker 3: go to Kansas City, right, Kansas City, So you might
Speaker 3: have to deal with that again. I'm pretty quickly. And
Speaker 3: so you learned some lessons in that game yesterday.
Speaker 2: That's what you're hoping for.
Speaker 3: That's what you want. That's what Steeler fans should want.
Speaker 3: You want the rematch with the Chiefs. It may not
Speaker 3: be the most appealing thing in the world, but you
Speaker 3: just played them.
Speaker 2: No one's going to give you a playoff wins left
Speaker 2: and right. No, it's you get a playoff playoff them right,
Speaker 2: start with number one. Yeah, get the first one and
Speaker 2: then go from there. Yeah. And that seems like a
Speaker 2: way is a way too, and it is good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you get some time in between that to
Speaker 3: fix some stuff and we'll see what the Steelers come
Speaker 3: out of their little mini buy with when they come
Speaker 3: back next week. But that's going to do it for
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Speaker 2: I am Dale Lollie.
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