Speaker 1: Wow, Wow, everybody. It is Thursday, December twelfth, twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the NFL Fantasy Football Show. We're setting fewer
Speaker 1: lineups this week. That you're an MG. Marcus Grant, joined
Speaker 1: by Michael F. Florio and Lakwan Jones. I've I would ask,
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess I can ask, LaQuan. Have you
Speaker 1: done an accounting of how many leagues you have made
Speaker 1: the playoffs?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 3: And it's not a lot. Actually, it's only about six,
Speaker 3: six out of the many I told you yesterday.
Speaker 4: You told me you're playing in sure? Can I can
Speaker 4: I say the number? Can I say it out loud?
Speaker 2: Or just in case Sabrina is listening? No, that's a lot.
Speaker 1: It's more than five, but less than one hundred, So
Speaker 1: we'll leave it at that. How's your how's your ledger
Speaker 1: looking there for the postseason? Uh?
Speaker 5: It's this full disclosure. Has been my easily my first
Speaker 5: year since I've started working here. I've made it. I
Speaker 5: do double digit leagues. I'm in it in four or
Speaker 5: five something like if you count dynasty leagues. But most importantly,
Speaker 5: my wife made the playoffs and has a really good
Speaker 5: chance of making the championship.
Speaker 1: That's the important part because if that's happening, there will
Speaker 1: be peace at home and you can live comfortably, and
Speaker 1: that's great. I'm in double digit leagues. I'm with you, Floyl.
Speaker 1: This has been one of my worst seasons in a while.
Speaker 1: I think I'm in two at this point, and like, okay, bizarro,
Speaker 1: it's bizarre, Like, you know, I could blame the players,
Speaker 1: or I could blame my own poor management of you know,
Speaker 1: drafting and roster managing. But I'm gonna blame the players.
Speaker 1: I was like, I've made good decisions, they played poorly.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm going with.
Speaker 5: I think it's three now that I three out of
Speaker 5: like the eleven or twelve, which.
Speaker 1: Is not great, not great, not great great, But it's
Speaker 1: been a rough year. But we've helped people, and that's
Speaker 1: the important part. That is our job here is to
Speaker 1: help people. We're gonna continue to try to help you
Speaker 1: out with some of our big calls. Four Week fifteen
Speaker 1: is the playoffs get underway in the majority of fantasy leagues.
Speaker 1: So let's start with Club dub up the non quarterback
Speaker 1: who is going to be the top scorer of the week.
Speaker 1: And again, I don't just feel I rarely look at
Speaker 1: all of these before the show, like I fill in
Speaker 1: my portion of it, and then I come back when
Speaker 1: we do the show and I look at it. So
Speaker 1: your club dub Lakwan once again is taking me by surprise.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm getting the party bus and we're all hitting
Speaker 3: the club with the Ravens defense because obviously Tom and
Speaker 3: Devido you gotta pounce on the easy layups. And I
Speaker 3: was really surprised to see that the Ravens were rostered
Speaker 3: in less than fifty percent of leagues, which is kind
Speaker 3: of you know, what they've been doing all seasons, kind
Speaker 3: of warranted for that. But this week you have to
Speaker 3: put them in the starting lineus. You have to get him.
Speaker 3: You're gonna get sack production, possible takeaways, and I think
Speaker 3: they're going to be able to keep the Giants out
Speaker 3: of the end zone. So we're looking at huge points
Speaker 3: this week with the Ravens. DST Wow, all right, look,
Speaker 3: I follow the logic.
Speaker 1: I will say that, you know, I never thought about
Speaker 1: it because we've been picking on them so much all
Speaker 1: year that it's like, you know, like I thought this
Speaker 1: last week with the Jags and the Titans, and I'm
Speaker 1: like Bill Levis, but Jaguars, I don't know how to
Speaker 1: do that, and so that's that's sort of where I
Speaker 1: am with the Ravens like that, But I appreciate the
Speaker 1: boldness of the call for sure, Uh, yours Florio a
Speaker 1: little bit more conventional for your top scorer.
Speaker 5: Yeah, fantasy football doesn't always have to be hard. And
Speaker 5: when I saw this guy was still still out there,
Speaker 5: I was like, sure, give me Jamar Chase, who I
Speaker 5: looked at his numbers this week, and I look, everyone
Speaker 5: knows he's the unquestioned wide receiver one. I don't think
Speaker 5: he's getting enough credit. There is one wide receiver with it.
Speaker 5: I mean, no WAD receivers within eighty fantasy points of him.
Speaker 2: There's three within one hundred.
Speaker 5: Like he is lapping the position like CMC did last
Speaker 5: year running back and Josh Allen, Saquon Barkley. These guys
Speaker 5: are getting all the accolades. But like Jamar Chase is
Speaker 5: having the best fantasy season of anyone this year. His
Speaker 5: average game is a over a touchdown and over one
Speaker 5: hundred yards. And I know the Tennessee Titans have been
Speaker 5: a tough defense for wide receivers.
Speaker 2: My reaction to that is like you know that Lebron.
Speaker 5: Gift where he's like, like, Jamar Chase is the greatest
Speaker 5: wide receiver walking the planet.
Speaker 2: He is going to be absolutely fine.
Speaker 1: To your point, and I looked this up the other day.
Speaker 1: The gap between Jamar Chase and the number two wide receiver,
Speaker 1: which is justin Jefferson, it's almost as big as the
Speaker 1: gap between wide receiver two and wide receiver twenty seven.
Speaker 1: Like that's that's how much further ahead of everybody else
Speaker 1: that Jamar Chase is right now. So yeah, that definitely
Speaker 1: makes a whole lot of sense. I am also like
Speaker 1: Lakwan taking a raven, but I am again kind of going, look, Florida,
Speaker 1: you know my theory on low hanging fruit. Low hanging
Speaker 1: fruit is just as good as the fruit at the
Speaker 1: top of the tree. You know how the work is
Speaker 1: hard to get it. So Derrick Henry along those lines
Speaker 1: is is my pick for the top scorer of the week.
Speaker 1: This feels like a game where the Ravens will be
Speaker 1: able to move the ball at will against the Giants,
Speaker 1: especially if New York can't keep possession, and you know
Speaker 1: they have a lot of short possessions giving the ball
Speaker 1: back Eventually that defense is going to wear down and
Speaker 1: I can imagine in the second half it's a game
Speaker 1: script that favors Dereck Henry just running the football over
Speaker 1: like I'm gonna just quote Marshaun Lynch, just run through
Speaker 1: up his face over and over and over and I
Speaker 1: don't have enough time for all the overs. But you
Speaker 1: get the point. Derrick Henry gonna have a big week
Speaker 1: this week for the Ravens and your fantasy squad. So
Speaker 1: those are the guys that we think are gonna go big.
Speaker 1: Now the guys that we are a little bit worried about,
Speaker 1: like maybe you can't completely get away from them, but
Speaker 1: you don't really like the situation. Who is your red
Speaker 1: flag this week, Lukwan, I gotta.
Speaker 2: Go with Jared goof.
Speaker 3: Jared golf So I like to go on, but he
Speaker 3: might be a goof this week being that you know,
Speaker 3: the Bills have been really tough on quarterbacks and as
Speaker 3: of late in the last three games he's just been okay.
Speaker 3: And in the playoffs, I don't need just okay and
Speaker 3: think this game is going to shift more towards on
Speaker 3: the ground to try to take on that attack. But
Speaker 3: Jared Goffman, you're looking at one of these situations, if
Speaker 3: you have somebody like a Justin Herbert the pivot to
Speaker 3: or even a bow Knicks this week, man, I will
Speaker 3: probably go that way because honestly, the Bills have only
Speaker 3: allowed four quarterbacks this season over two hundred and fifty yards,
Speaker 3: So we're looking at a tough situation through the air
Speaker 3: for Jared Goff. So you know he gets the bench from.
Speaker 1: Me, all right, So no, Jared Goff I think is
Speaker 1: going to be high scoring. I think if anything, maybe
Speaker 1: volume sort of helps him. But I get it if
Speaker 1: you're not really if you're not really confident in starting
Speaker 1: him against that Bill's defense.
Speaker 4: Meanwhile, Floria, you're a red flag.
Speaker 1: Is a guy who at least in my mind, has
Speaker 1: been kind of at best all year anyway.
Speaker 5: And there was a stretch in the middle of the
Speaker 5: season where Naji Harris was having his best fantasy run
Speaker 5: in like three years. What was significant during that stretch
Speaker 5: was Jalen Warren was not healthy. Since Jalen Warren has
Speaker 5: returned in the last five games, Nase Harris iss top
Speaker 5: fourteen Fantasy points. Once he's become a lot more touchdown dependent,
Speaker 5: he has seen a lot of those valuable passing targets.
Speaker 2: Go to Jalen Warren and then the Eagles.
Speaker 5: Not only are they bottom five and fantasy points and
Speaker 5: rushing yards allowed two running backs, but they.
Speaker 2: Have a good offense.
Speaker 5: We know that they could easily build a lead against
Speaker 5: the Steelers, and when the Steelers play from behind, that's
Speaker 5: when we see Jalen Warren a lot more on the
Speaker 5: field because he's better pass blocker, he's better pass catcher,
Speaker 5: all of that. So I have both of them as
Speaker 5: sits this week, but Naji Harris is obviously the big name.
Speaker 5: When my thing is always when a player is like
Speaker 5: a safe floor player, and that's what Harris is. He
Speaker 5: doesn't bring a high ceiling and you're in a tough matchup,
Speaker 5: that floor gets lowered and the whole reason you start
Speaker 5: them kind of goes away. So yeah, I would, I'd
Speaker 5: be looking to get away from Nause this week if
Speaker 5: you can.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean looking at Nause.
Speaker 1: I mean generally you're looking at you know, eleven, twelve,
Speaker 1: thirteen points. Every now and then, he will, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe dip under that every once in a while.
Speaker 4: He's got two twenty point games.
Speaker 1: Generally, it's just kind of eleven to thirteen, and that's
Speaker 1: just that range where it's hard to you know, like
Speaker 1: you don't mean you're not putting him on the waiver wire,
Speaker 1: but you're also not really excited about starting him. It's
Speaker 1: just he's just kind of there more than anything. And
Speaker 1: now the matchup's not good for me. I am waving
Speaker 1: the red flag about James Cook this week, and again
Speaker 1: he's another player that it might be hard to get
Speaker 1: away from necessarily, but there's nothing about this matchup.
Speaker 4: That makes me excited about him.
Speaker 1: If the Bills are going to succeed, I think it's
Speaker 1: going to be throwing the football. I think it's Josh Allen.
Speaker 1: I think it's Khalil Shakir. You know, we'll see if
Speaker 1: Keyon Coleman and or Dalton kin Kid play, but I
Speaker 1: think that's sort of where it goes. The Lions have
Speaker 1: been really tough on running backs this season. They're just
Speaker 1: they're not giving up yards on the ground, they're not
Speaker 1: giving up rushing touchdowns, and they're not giving up receiving
Speaker 1: yards to running backs either. So in case you think
Speaker 1: that maybe you know, if James Cook gets a bunch
Speaker 1: of targets that maybe that's going to horror help even
Speaker 1: things out. It just has not been where the Lions
Speaker 1: are vulnerable this year, so this just feels like a
Speaker 1: real tough situation for James Cook. I think if you
Speaker 1: want a bill, you want somebody on the pass catching
Speaker 1: side of things. If you can find a way to
Speaker 1: get away from James Cook, maybe you do that this
Speaker 1: week against Detroit. It's time to drive your line up,
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Speaker 1: we close out this edition, let's go with a snore
Speaker 1: lax Lakwan who is your favorite sleeper in week fifteen.
Speaker 2: Two two out?
Speaker 3: Well is still available in the waiver wire out there,
Speaker 3: highly available, and it's a short week for DeMarcus Robinson
Speaker 3: who suffered a shoulder injury, so I think it would
Speaker 3: be a nice little plug and play to put him
Speaker 3: in starting lineouts. We know how the forty nine ers
Speaker 3: and Rams play, it's always going to be tensions high.
Speaker 3: I honestly think this is going to be a high
Speaker 3: scoring game for the Rams, so therefore to tow a
Speaker 3: well coming in clutching big moments we saw last week
Speaker 3: on that four and five. You know Stafford likes to
Speaker 3: rely on him when he's stuck back against the wall,
Speaker 3: so he gets his fantasy points in chunks, and even
Speaker 3: in the last three games with only thirty seven percent
Speaker 3: into snaps, he's eight for eight on targets and catches
Speaker 3: and has more receiving yards than DeMarcus Robinson. So if
Speaker 3: DeMarcus Robinson not playing, this is going to be a
Speaker 3: situation where two tuo abo could be very useful for
Speaker 3: fantasy managers.
Speaker 1: He did have some big catches when the Niners and
Speaker 1: Rams played at Sofi Stadium early in the year, so
Speaker 1: keep an eye on him. As you mentioned, de Marcus
Speaker 1: Robinson a little bit banged up, so could be more
Speaker 1: opportunities for at well there. Meanwhile, I'm looking at your
Speaker 1: snorlax Flora, I have to ask, are you being honest here?
Speaker 1: Is this how you really feel about this player? Are
Speaker 1: you perhaps being a little bit facetious about this guy?
Speaker 5: The exact opposite of that, I'm being sincere about my
Speaker 5: boy McCormick, because I've been like trying to pound the
Speaker 5: table for this guy the last couple of weeks and
Speaker 5: it's come to fruition. Like last week, he played sixty
Speaker 5: percent in the snaps, had eighteen opportunities ten. He was
Speaker 5: like a ten and a half Fantasy points or something
Speaker 5: around that, which isn't the best, but if you it's
Speaker 5: one of those situations where if you go back and
Speaker 5: watch him, you're probably more impressian if you.
Speaker 2: Just looked at the box score.
Speaker 5: He averaged over five yards per carry in each of
Speaker 5: his last three games. He keeps getting more and more volume.
Speaker 5: He has shown to be a physical runner who has
Speaker 5: some explosiveness. He's not like Jamar Jamiir Gibbs or anything
Speaker 5: like that, but for a big guy, he's got some speed.
Speaker 5: And Antonio Pierce has come out and said that he
Speaker 5: has earned the work and what even I think isn't
Speaker 5: getting enough attention, as Antonio Pierce said that Alexander Madison
Speaker 5: was inactive last week as a numbers game, like it
Speaker 5: wasn't he wasn't healthy or anything like that. Since here,
Speaker 5: McCormick has fully taken over this backfield. Gets a solid
Speaker 5: matchup this week against the Falcons, but then gets the
Speaker 5: Jaguars and the Saints. So yeah, someone that could certainly
Speaker 5: help you in the fantasy playoffs.
Speaker 4: Our pile.
Speaker 1: Patrick Claybon has started calling him honest Spice, So you
Speaker 1: know when when Scary, Sporty Baby Ginger and Posh decide
Speaker 1: to go back on tour, they get add a sixth
Speaker 1: Spice to their group.
Speaker 4: They can have honest Spice to bring in.
Speaker 3: Would be proud that you know all their names because
Speaker 3: I only know Sporty Spice.
Speaker 1: Really Hey, look, that was like they were big during
Speaker 1: you know, like my college years.
Speaker 4: So like it hit, you know, it definitely hit.
Speaker 1: It hit. It hit a spot may or may not
Speaker 1: have had a big crush on Scary Spice.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to act like I haven't seen the
Speaker 2: movie Spice World.
Speaker 1: That what it is something like that I did not
Speaker 1: expect to get on this tangent they get out of
Speaker 1: Spice World. I'll tell you what I want, what I
Speaker 1: really really want. I want you to start Rico Dowdell
Speaker 1: this week in your fantasy leagues because he he's kind
Speaker 1: of a sleeper. He's he's on the edge of sleeperdom.
Speaker 1: Like the way he has played the last few weeks,
Speaker 1: He's just becoming a guy that you can start consistently
Speaker 1: as a running back to the Cowboys. Thankfully have decided
Speaker 1: that the Ezekiel Elliott experiment is basically over. Zeke gets
Speaker 1: in the game every once in a while just to
Speaker 1: sort of give Dowdell a rest, but it's a parent
Speaker 1: who is the running back one now there in Dallas,
Speaker 1: Dowdell has been playing some really good football over the
Speaker 1: last few weeks, back to back games with over one
Speaker 1: hundred rushing yards. Even before that he had eighty six
Speaker 1: rushing yards. Is getting a little bit or not an
Speaker 1: extraordinary amount of work, but a little bit of work
Speaker 1: in the passing game, but more importantly just running the.
Speaker 4: Ball really really well.
Speaker 1: As the best possible matchup you could imagine for a
Speaker 1: running back this week going against the Carolina Panthers, So
Speaker 1: you know this, at this point, it's hard to make
Speaker 1: a case against Rico Dowdell. I mean, next week he's
Speaker 1: got the Bucks. Week seventeen, they end at Philadelphia, so
Speaker 1: the matchup is not great, but the way he's being used,
Speaker 1: it's just hard to imagine getting away from Dowdell at
Speaker 1: any point for the rest of the season.
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Speaker 4: Week fifteen.
Speaker 2: That is our quick overall look.
Speaker 1: At some of the superlatives four Week fifteen. So the
Speaker 1: playoffs underway. Best of luck to all of you out there.
Speaker 1: That'll do it for this edition of the NFL Fantasy
Speaker 1: Football Podcast. Stay happy, safe and healthy, do good and
Speaker 1: live well. Enjoy Thursday night football. Good luck in the
Speaker 1: fantasy playoffs, and we will talk to you tomorrow.
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