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Speaker 1: That's Frank Stanfell. I'm Gregg Susman. Hello, Hello, I hate this.
Speaker 1: I hate this. Dam I hate it. I hate it.
Speaker 1: I hate it. I hate it, I hate it. Welcome
Speaker 1: inside the Fantasy best Friends Forever alongside Greg Susman. I
Speaker 1: am Frank Stanfell, getting you ready for Week fifteen of
Speaker 1: your Waiver wire. But before that, I'll throw it to
Speaker 1: Greg Susman for a very special message involving the Fantasy
Speaker 1: Football Playoffs. I wanna first thank you everybody. Our listeners
Speaker 1: are viewers, are watchers, right, because they listened yesterday, right,
Speaker 1: they watched and they viewed, and they reached out to us,
Speaker 1: to me yesterday, I asked me about my matchup all
Speaker 1: night long, and that was awesome. To have people following
Speaker 1: along all night long with me, was really really cool.
Speaker 1: To see your tweets. R d M is like, that
Speaker 1: was awesome. What wasn't awesome is what took place last night. Now,
Speaker 1: I want to say this, I recognize there's a fair
Speaker 1: amount of luck that goes into this game. I was
Speaker 1: down in my league. I was up rather four point
Speaker 1: nine points against Sebastian Janikowski last night for those that
Speaker 1: missed it. And in my league, every field goal up
Speaker 1: to forty nine yards is worth two points, an extra
Speaker 1: point is worth one point. So essentially one yard cost
Speaker 1: me being up five points. As I said yesterday, I
Speaker 1: owned the tiebreaker. Now that's one yard and anyway, and
Speaker 1: everyone's had those brutal losses. Wow, I thought you did
Speaker 1: until last night. This game as much skill as involved
Speaker 1: and being being the smart guy on draft day, being
Speaker 1: the right pickups, bidding the right amounts during the season,
Speaker 1: there is so much luck involved. My luck started to
Speaker 1: go in a really positive direction last Thursday night when
Speaker 1: my opponent bench Derrick Henry and all forty seven of
Speaker 1: his points for Jordy Nelson in a move that flabbergasted me.
Speaker 1: It was pumped about. My luck once again went in
Speaker 1: the right way when Kenyan Drake had the most miracle
Speaker 1: touchdown of all miracle touchdowns on Sunday afternoon. So you
Speaker 1: could make the case, and rightfully so, that I should
Speaker 1: not have been that in that position that I was
Speaker 1: on Monday night. And then the luck started to turn
Speaker 1: a little bit, and you know how these things kind
Speaker 1: of even out. It was all on a weekend, all
Speaker 1: in a day, on twenty four hour span. Jujus miss
Speaker 1: Schuster followed up Kenny and Drake's lateral after lateral with
Speaker 1: his own and get a whole bunch of yards. Robert
Speaker 1: Wood's the best wide receiver on the Rams at his
Speaker 1: lowest output of yards in any game since Week one
Speaker 1: six or seventies six or sixty one or seven sixty one.
Speaker 1: Something happened, Frank, We'll get to it. After this, followed
Speaker 1: it up by going into Monday Night Football up four
Speaker 1: point nine points and listen, if I'm gonna lose, just
Speaker 1: just kill me, man, Just just stab it, shoot it whatever,
Speaker 1: just end it. That's not how it works, is it, Frank.
Speaker 1: It never just ends brutally on a first quarter fifty
Speaker 1: yard field goal. Ever, so the first quarter Sea basket
Speaker 1: is a thirty yard field goal. Great, all right, three
Speaker 1: more points until I lose. Fine, going in a halftime,
Speaker 1: And this is just the story of the night, the
Speaker 1: story of luck, the story of my weekend, the story
Speaker 1: about our season as fantasy football players. Russell Wilson, there's
Speaker 1: an interception with sixteen seconds left. They were getting an
Speaker 1: extra point or a field goal or something there. He
Speaker 1: throws an inter set going in a halftime, and I'm like, wow,
Speaker 1: my luck is on the upswide second half comes Sea Baskets,
Speaker 1: another thirty yard field goal, and of course I'm much
Speaker 1: rather the extra points, but it's another third yard field goal.
Speaker 1: I have no more margin left to spare. I am
Speaker 1: up by point, well by one point right, zero point
Speaker 1: nine zero. I'm obviously I'm un by zero point nine points.
Speaker 1: Minnesota comes down, goes all the way, and I'm thinking
Speaker 1: I want Minnesota obviously scored nothing at all all night.
Speaker 1: So they just run the clock and run the clock
Speaker 1: and run the clock. Minnesota goes out of the one
Speaker 1: yard line, goes from a fourth down, doesn't get it.
Speaker 1: Look up like, oh my god. Of course they immediately
Speaker 1: go three and out. They kick the ball on their
Speaker 1: own side of the field. Right Minnesota comes down. I
Speaker 1: want to kick a field on Like god, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be six three. This is a disaster. Plenty of time,
Speaker 1: lip up, come and extend it. Okay, a touchdown, make
Speaker 1: it ten three or thirteen three, that's perfect. Bobby Wagner
Speaker 1: blocks the field goal illegally, but blocks the fieldical look up.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my god, this is ridiculous. This is rediculous.
Speaker 1: Now there's about five minutes to go. By fifty I
Speaker 1: believe the ball at their own forty Russell Willie Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson somehow scampers out as he tends to do and
Speaker 1: runs up to the left sideline and keeps going and
Speaker 1: going and going, and I just go luck over until
Speaker 1: we're going in for the touchdown, and we realize, and
Speaker 1: I'm talking to my group of friends, and we realized
Speaker 1: it kind of makes sense for them to go for
Speaker 1: two thirte nothing. Fourteen nothing, probably doesn't matter, but it
Speaker 1: kind of makes sense. We go over too, so I'm
Speaker 1: reoding for a touchdown and Roody for Pete Carroll to
Speaker 1: be on my side. They score the touchdown on third
Speaker 1: and goal. They get in there and there I'm just
Speaker 1: staring at the huddle and I'm staring at Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: not leaving the field, and my hands are coping my
Speaker 1: mouth and I'm just I can't believe it. I cannot
Speaker 1: believe it. What's the next thing that happens? Frank time
Speaker 1: out and like, oh my god, they're gonna change their
Speaker 1: minds and they go to like a little highlight package
Speaker 1: and I'm just staring silently at the television. Next thing,
Speaker 1: you know, Russell Wilson's out there and I'm like, please,
Speaker 1: no penalty? Right like they push him back the ball,
Speaker 1: They'll say screw it, just go for the extra point.
Speaker 1: They hiked the ball, and at that point, I don't
Speaker 1: care what happens. They wind up converting it. It's fourteen nothing.
Speaker 1: There was two minutes and forty seconds to go kick
Speaker 1: it off the Minnesota and it's it. I ran around
Speaker 1: my apartment celebrating, kissing Judy just smiling ear to ear,
Speaker 1: thrilled that I somehow survived getting a kicker getting five
Speaker 1: points against me to forty year, change to go. What
Speaker 1: happens next? Throw it past the Dalvin Cook that hits
Speaker 1: off his hands and could have been intercepted. My stomach drops,
Speaker 1: just drops at that moment, like oh God, deep breath.
Speaker 1: The very next play, Cousins scrambles to his left and
Speaker 1: you see it the whole way, two Seattle defenders converging
Speaker 1: on him and the white Kirk Cousins was playing last night.
Speaker 1: He was going down. That ball was coming out, and
Speaker 1: all I hoped for was that a big fat guy
Speaker 1: would fall on it or somehow Minnesota will recover. Neither
Speaker 1: of those things happen. Seattle defensive back gets it, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, please just be smart, just pull a Todd
Speaker 1: Gurley right slide fall, do anything. The defenders no, no,
Speaker 1: no, no no, they want their team picture. They want their
Speaker 1: team picture. And as I see him pick it up
Speaker 1: and see him cut to that left sideline again, you
Speaker 1: think my stomach dropped. Then my heart sank. Touch down
Speaker 1: Seattle and here comes the extra point, And now all
Speaker 1: I can hope for is a blocked extra point in
Speaker 1: a game that means nothing, in a moment that means nothing,
Speaker 1: and there goes the guy the Vikings corner off our
Speaker 1: left side of the screen dives. There's no avail, and
Speaker 1: as the ball goes to the upright, pillows start getting
Speaker 1: thrown in my apartment, cushions to start getting thrown. My
Speaker 1: couch is bare, with nothing but crumbs, and I'm just angry, saddened,
Speaker 1: and in shock. As a look that was on my
Speaker 1: side for so much of that night. This is when
Speaker 1: the other way It started on Thursday night, as I said,
Speaker 1: with Derrick Henry not being in my opponent's lineup. It
Speaker 1: continued on Sunday with Kennyan Drake's miraculous touchdown. I was
Speaker 1: in a position I did not deserve to being, admittedly,
Speaker 1: but then you feel it, you feel that sense of hope.
Speaker 1: And that's what I felt in Fantasy football last night,
Speaker 1: that sense of hope where I shouldn't be here, but
Speaker 1: with two minutes and forty seconds to go, I was there.
Speaker 1: I was a pre piss of that semi final, facing
Speaker 1: Todd Gurley and Brandon Cooks next week and Tyree Keil
Speaker 1: if he plays in a match off. I was not
Speaker 1: gonna be favorite in but I was there and anything
Speaker 1: could happen. As we saw this Sunday, I put up
Speaker 1: in my half point PVR League one, I want to
Speaker 1: get the exact number in this PPR league I put up.
Speaker 1: I believe a hundred and forty two point eight points,
Speaker 1: I want to say, and my opponent had one hundred
Speaker 1: and forty two point nine. And then I'm looking at
Speaker 1: stack corrections like a my, what else am I gonna do?
Speaker 1: I compared ESPN scoring on the lateral to Kennyan Drake,
Speaker 1: to Yahoo. Maybe something's there now. I compare the same
Speaker 1: thing with Juju Smith Schuster. Maybe something there. Now. I'm
Speaker 1: at a loss for words. There is no other way.
Speaker 1: There's luck and turn. Unfortunately, there's been brutal losses and
Speaker 1: everyone has their own story, and I respect that. I
Speaker 1: was in a league where somebody lost on Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: losing a yard or two on a Neil, like he
Speaker 1: took an extra step and lost on that nil. In
Speaker 1: this round of the playoffs, I've never seen anything like that,
Speaker 1: and I felt that last night. That is as heart wrenching,
Speaker 1: as heartbreaking as this stupid game gets. That was my
Speaker 1: range of emotions, and I know my opponent on the
Speaker 1: other side, I felt the exact opposite the entire night.
Speaker 1: And that is how it went. There's a big jolly
Speaker 1: fellow standing here in the studio just looking at using
Speaker 1: white teams. I'm not sure it's about to happen, Greggy.
Speaker 1: That is U. That is a microcosmo fantasy football for
Speaker 1: every single person ever. The joy, the excitement. I got
Speaker 1: the score wrongs one point three point two, but you
Speaker 1: got the concept. The way that this game can build
Speaker 1: you up, Greg, and in the next ten twenty minutes,
Speaker 1: whatever it might be the next second, the way that
Speaker 1: it could tear you down. I mean, that's part of
Speaker 1: why we play, right, the roller coaster. The level of excitement,
Speaker 1: enjoy and anger and sadness that fantasy football could bring.
Speaker 1: There's no other fantasy support that could do it in
Speaker 1: that in that amount of time, that quickly, that can
Speaker 1: flip you want a dime like that, Greg, There's no
Speaker 1: other fantasy support that could do it. And that's what
Speaker 1: makes fantasy football so fun. Sorry, Greg. And And the
Speaker 1: thing is, you know you might have heard about this
Speaker 1: with like twins they have like they have like a sampatico,
Speaker 1: right like, if one twin is like ill or feels
Speaker 1: down down in the dumps, doesn't feel right, the other
Speaker 1: twin can feel it. Greg I felt you felt you
Speaker 1: last night, man felt it inside when that extra point happened.
Speaker 1: I was right there with you, but I was, I was,
Speaker 1: I was texting you along the way, and and when
Speaker 1: they go for two, I'm like, this is like you
Speaker 1: were the luckiest person of all time. This is insane.
Speaker 1: When I saw the fumble recovery, mind you, I'm streaming
Speaker 1: on ESPN like I've cut the chord, so I'm like
Speaker 1: a little bit behind everything, Like, oh god, oh it
Speaker 1: was so bad, dude. I'm so sorry. If you have
Speaker 1: a horror story, if you have play aff heartbreak, because
Speaker 1: Greg I tweeted about this last night drink so many
Speaker 1: leagues were one and lost on that final drive with
Speaker 1: which meant absolutely nothing in the realm of like football
Speaker 1: and NFL, Like Kirk Cousins driving down the field and
Speaker 1: throwing a touchdown to Dalvin Cook meant nothing at all,
Speaker 1: Like in this game in standings, a lot of people
Speaker 1: we Cousins, you know, throwing Someone tweeted me last night
Speaker 1: that they were up big and going against Kirk Cousins
Speaker 1: and Dalvin Cook on that final drive and lost because
Speaker 1: of it. I mean, and for every person that loses
Speaker 1: because of it, there are people that win because of it.
Speaker 1: So it goes both ways. But if you have a
Speaker 1: heartbreaking story and yes, we're gonna get to the waiver wire.
Speaker 1: If you're freaking out and you're like, oh, they're not
Speaker 1: talking about what's gonna happen this week, we're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about what's gonna happens. Yeah, we got some quarterback streams.
Speaker 1: You're playing in a two quarterback league, running backs, wid suis,
Speaker 1: tight ends defense. We're gonna get to guarantee we'll take
Speaker 1: your calls to seven. Do you have a horror story?
Speaker 1: You won because last night I want to hear from you,
Speaker 1: either console, Greggy, make fun of Greggy, whatever you want
Speaker 1: to do. We want to hear from you. People. Let
Speaker 1: me throw this at you. We talk about luck, and
Speaker 1: we talk about the ups and the downs. Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: so I am in the Flex League. I mean that's
Speaker 1: semi finals. I'm in the final four Reflex and expertly
Speaker 1: the Fantasy League of Experts. I believe it is called
Speaker 1: obviously one by Corey Parson and myself previously one of
Speaker 1: my frank staffle and I'm there in the final. I
Speaker 1: have to bring my belt in studio because I know
Speaker 1: where it is. It's home, it's safe, it sounds I
Speaker 1: beneath and there where I need to be. And I'm
Speaker 1: looking at the standings, and I noticed a bunch of
Speaker 1: us finished eight and five. And remember that I didn't look.
Speaker 1: You know, it is what it is. I play who
Speaker 1: I played when then it goes to the the point scored. Alright,
Speaker 1: so its point scored. So I fished third. There's some
Speaker 1: third And normally how every bracket that I that I
Speaker 1: understand works, the three seed plays the six seed, the
Speaker 1: fourth seed plays the five seed, and then now you
Speaker 1: could recede in the next round, or you stay on
Speaker 1: your side of the brackets, depending on your playoff format.
Speaker 1: But pretty inarguably the three seed plays the six seed.
Speaker 1: The four seed played the five seed. But I, by
Speaker 1: looking at the standings, I played the five seed and
Speaker 1: the four seed played the sixth seed, which should not
Speaker 1: have happened. Now, I scored the most points in the
Speaker 1: league last week. I had a hundred forty something or whatever.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna I advance it doesn't affect me in
Speaker 1: any way, but it could have affected my opponent, or
Speaker 1: it could have affected the other matchup. Now, my opponent
Speaker 1: was Jake Seeley, the commissioner of the league. Jake would
Speaker 1: have lost to anyone, So Jake is unaffected Inness. He
Speaker 1: would have lost to either players. In the other matchup,
Speaker 1: I would have beaten my opponent, which was Scott Barrett. Yes,
Speaker 1: I was. That was built up to that. I would
Speaker 1: have beaten my opponent, Scott Barrett. Scott Barrett was the
Speaker 1: sixth seed and faced the four seed, who is Frank Stafeld.
Speaker 1: As we told you on yesterday's show, it was Jordan
Speaker 1: Howard versus Todd Gurley, Scott Backart versus Frank Stanfeld, and
Speaker 1: Frank finished within one point of beating Scott Barrett. So
Speaker 1: Scott would have lost to me in a matchup that
Speaker 1: should have taken place according to the league rules. Frank
Speaker 1: lost to Scott Barrett, but would have beaten Jake Seeley,
Speaker 1: the team he was supposed to play according to the
Speaker 1: league rules. So now what is that bad luck or
Speaker 1: is that something that should be changed? Right now, we
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Speaker 1: Sky's numbers in prime time and in big games really
Speaker 1: starting to plummet. His q b R in the fourth
Speaker 1: quarter of one score in the second half of one
Speaker 1: score games, his QBR is forty one, which ranks twenty
Speaker 1: nine in the NFL. Many, many people, certainly the ones
Speaker 1: that are less statistically oriented, would say that this guy
Speaker 1: folds under pressure. We nase eight a m. Eastern on
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Speaker 1: thank you. That's the best friends forever Fantasy Sports Radio Network,
Speaker 1: Frank and yet my my open here. How I'm feeling
Speaker 1: what's going on in my life? So I gotta ask you,
Speaker 1: given that I I found for you, You've a best fread.
Speaker 1: I was looking at it for you. How do you feel?
Speaker 1: What do you want to happen? What's going on? So
Speaker 1: I've already I've already contacted, said Commissioner Jake Sealey. We're
Speaker 1: working to figure out what's going to happen. I haven't
Speaker 1: responded to him yet, but I see both sides of it,
Speaker 1: because here's Scott Barrett is thinking that he won a
Speaker 1: close game, and jagready told me that it was my
Speaker 1: Fantasy League automatically set up the playoff schedule, so he didn't.
Speaker 1: He didn't set up the playoffs schedule himself, so it
Speaker 1: was like an error within like the my Fantasy League
Speaker 1: seating system, like whatever. So I understand because Scott Barrett
Speaker 1: barely won this playoff matchup, but if it wasn't the
Speaker 1: right matchup, it's just weird because now he thinks he
Speaker 1: won this close game and he's probably all excited. He's
Speaker 1: he's the guy on the opposite side of you who
Speaker 1: just barely won his playoff matchup, so he's super excited.
Speaker 1: And now for me to come in and, based on,
Speaker 1: you know, an error in the system, for me to
Speaker 1: take that away from him, Like, I don't know, I
Speaker 1: see both sides of it. I I can't tell if
Speaker 1: I'm being too nice. Obviously I want to advance. Everybody
Speaker 1: wants to advance. I don't know. They brought up he
Speaker 1: brought up the possibility of a three person like triple
Speaker 1: threat match, but then that doesn't really seem fair either.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'll talk to him. What do you
Speaker 1: think should happen? I don't know. Should I advance? I don't.
Speaker 1: To me, it's weird. I've never been in a situation
Speaker 1: like this. To me, it's bad that like none of
Speaker 1: us noticed this prior. That's probably true. That's a bad
Speaker 1: Like to me, you you probably I guess you're out
Speaker 1: because it wasn't like you said anything immediately, like if
Speaker 1: you don't notice it immediately, like a second the matches
Speaker 1: were now, I was like, hey, I shouldn't do this
Speaker 1: or even on Sunday by faith in my commissioner. I
Speaker 1: get it, I get it, but I think it's I
Speaker 1: think it's on you. I think I don't want it
Speaker 1: to be on you. I want I want I want
Speaker 1: you in. And plus I don't really want to make
Speaker 1: it on you know, some kind of technicality here, like
Speaker 1: would you really want to advance in your matchup now, Greg,
Speaker 1: based on like a stat correction? Hell, yes, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm just too like I'm too spiteful. I don't know
Speaker 1: if spiteful is the right word. I would just want
Speaker 1: to win out like correctly, I wouldn't want to win
Speaker 1: based on a technicality or a or a you know,
Speaker 1: STA corrects it. I don't know. It's just me, like,
Speaker 1: I just want to win straight up. I want to
Speaker 1: sit there and say my team was better than years.
Speaker 1: It wasn't based on something that had to change in
Speaker 1: order for me to win. I just want to say
Speaker 1: my team was better than years. I'm better than you.
Speaker 1: That's what I want to be able to say. That's it.
Speaker 1: That's fine, Okay, see what happened. It's cool. I mean whatever.
Speaker 1: It's hard to go back to back in any league.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. He's just I'm sorry for you. You just
Speaker 1: don't deserve to be out like I deserve to be out.
Speaker 1: I lost, you know I lost? Yes, you did, You didn't,
Speaker 1: John D. Felippo. If it makes you feel any better,
Speaker 1: the person who cost you your fantasy playoff last night,
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins for fumbling and sucking. John D. Felippo was
Speaker 1: out as the offensive coordinator of the Minnesota like coach,
Speaker 1: terrible game last night? How much is on him? And
Speaker 1: how much I have to credit the Seahawks defense because
Speaker 1: they played well, and you know, I have I have
Speaker 1: like a fantasy football writers Twitter that I like follow.
Speaker 1: There's a bunch of people in here like Josh Norris,
Speaker 1: Matt Camp, Matt Harmon's got Barret all these guys like
Speaker 1: a list, and I see people kind of well, it's
Speaker 1: not John D. Felippel's fault necessarily. What are we talking
Speaker 1: about here, though, because look at all the talent that
Speaker 1: they have. I know, the alfensive line is kind of
Speaker 1: like in shambles, Well, whose fault is that? You know,
Speaker 1: it's the front office's fault? Like build a better offensive line,
Speaker 1: you know, from one year to the next. The Los
Speaker 1: Angeles Rams, once they got Sean McVeigh, they built up
Speaker 1: the offensive line like they knowingly invested in their offensive
Speaker 1: line because that's what they needed to do. And I know,
Speaker 1: you know, when you spend that much money on a
Speaker 1: quarterback like Kirk Cousins, it limits your funds. But no
Speaker 1: one told you to sninne Kirk Cousin, bring back Case
Speaker 1: Kingdom for cheaper and trying an offensive lineman if that's
Speaker 1: what you need. But based on who you have, Kirk Cousins,
Speaker 1: Adam Feeling, Stefon Diggs, Dalvin Cook talent all over the field.
Speaker 1: Kyle Rudolph too, who's just been a Donne He's been
Speaker 1: garbage this season. He's not a bad tight end, he's
Speaker 1: a good tight end. You have talent all over the field.
Speaker 1: There's I don't I don't see any defense of John
Speaker 1: Dee Felippo here because based on the way he's been
Speaker 1: calling the games, like there hasn't necessarily been a lot
Speaker 1: of creativity. I know some of it falls on Kirk
Speaker 1: Cousins too, and I think that really reared its ugly
Speaker 1: head last night. Everybody has always said this about Kirk Cousins,
Speaker 1: and I guess I was just kind of like a
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins truth or a believer, and I wanted to say,
Speaker 1: you know, it's not it's not all on Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 1: Like he's a good quarterback, but what people normally say
Speaker 1: about him is he's a compiler. He could put up
Speaker 1: stats when you need him most. He can't go out
Speaker 1: there and win a big game. We saw that again
Speaker 1: last night. It's like, at this point, it's not just
Speaker 1: like a two three games, small sample size, like this
Speaker 1: is a trend. They went into New England, they got
Speaker 1: their asses whooped. They went into Seattle, they got their
Speaker 1: asses whooped. With all that talent on the field, at
Speaker 1: some point, it's like, all right, how many excuses are
Speaker 1: you gonna make for Kirk Cousins. If you see on
Speaker 1: that play with where they went for it on fourth
Speaker 1: down where they're on the goal line, Adam feelings wide open,
Speaker 1: and I know it's like a split decision, like you
Speaker 1: gotta make that decision right then and there. Who am
Speaker 1: I going to? I'm going to krof That's what I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go to. But Adam DeLand was wide open. And anyway,
Speaker 1: why isn't Adam Why isn't Adam Feeling your first read there? Anyway?
Speaker 1: Why is kyrou if your first reread? It's just they're
Speaker 1: probably Kyle Rudolp being the first read on a play
Speaker 1: like that, to be fair, like huge is in the
Speaker 1: red zone. But Adam Feeland has been your guy all
Speaker 1: season long. Like if it's just who's gonna go out
Speaker 1: there and get themselves open? Adam Feeling is one of
Speaker 1: the best route runs in the NFL. Greg and he
Speaker 1: saw that, I mean the safety felt when you know
Speaker 1: he made his cut, the safety felt he was wide open.
Speaker 1: So I don't know. I just think I'm that close.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna trust my best offensive playmaker on the team,
Speaker 1: which is Adam Feeling. I get it. YadA, YadA. We'll
Speaker 1: see how this affects the Vikings offense moving forward. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, Mike Zimmer strikes you as a guy who
Speaker 1: would probably want a lot of run to set up
Speaker 1: the past and vice versa. But they haven't been able
Speaker 1: to really establish the run all season long. Dalvin Cook
Speaker 1: had a receiving touchdown last night, but again they haven't
Speaker 1: They haven't run the ball all effectively this season. And
Speaker 1: I know, you know he's been hurt. Dalvin Cook has
Speaker 1: been hurt and hating types of games. And they don't
Speaker 1: even try, Like to me that Kirk Cousins had much
Speaker 1: like Jared Gothli before, he had nothing. He had nothing
Speaker 1: last night, and then they didn't give Dalvin Cook a
Speaker 1: shot to establish your own game. Why don't you take
Speaker 1: more shots though? When you have guys like with the
Speaker 1: play with Diggs that was a phenomenal catch. You have
Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs and Adam Feeland, who are two of the
Speaker 1: best contested catch wide receivers in the NFL. Why don't
Speaker 1: he just take more shots like that where Okay, well,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you a fifty fifty ball down the field.
Speaker 1: Let's see what happens. You have two of the most
Speaker 1: talented wide receivers. Stefanie proved it on that play. Phenomenal,
Speaker 1: phenomenal catch down the field. I don't understand why you
Speaker 1: don't take more shots. It doesn't make a lot of
Speaker 1: sense to me. The the other problem for me, as
Speaker 1: it goes back to de Filippo, this is why he
Speaker 1: got fired. I'll tell you that is the third and ones,
Speaker 1: the fourth and runs, not just running the football, he's
Speaker 1: one freaking yard he snuck with Kirk Cousins. That worked again,
Speaker 1: and the next fourth and one roll out to the
Speaker 1: right side. Nothing. And we had seen that play earlier
Speaker 1: on thirty two and it didn't work. And that's why
Speaker 1: John de think looks out of a job right now.
Speaker 1: Kevin Stefanski has promoted the offensive coordinator. He was promoted
Speaker 1: internally last year with the expectation that De Felipa will
Speaker 1: get a head coaching job. Um after the season, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be hard to sell a fan base and hiring
Speaker 1: guy I just got fired. You know Pat Sherman want
Speaker 1: to hire him previously. Oh, I'm sure. I'm sure the
Speaker 1: Jets already have him on speed dial. How long have
Speaker 1: the Jets wanted De Felippo? They wanted him as the
Speaker 1: O C for a long time. I hope he's not
Speaker 1: the guy, but we'll see what happens. He just he's
Speaker 1: looked over match too, Donde Felippo. When it comes to that, Greg,
Speaker 1: let's get into the waiver wire. We gotta do this,
Speaker 1: all right, it's gonna let's get into the waiver wire.
Speaker 1: If you're still in there playoffs, semi finals, Frankie, who's
Speaker 1: the number one guy you want to pick up this week? Well,
Speaker 1: obviously it depends on position. Who's available in your league? Obviously,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna throw Justin Jackson's name out there. He's
Speaker 1: own on CBS. I know the number is a lot
Speaker 1: lower on Yahoo's only about fifty percent owned on Yahoo.
Speaker 1: I think he's the number one guy if he's available
Speaker 1: in your league. If you're playing to the tad team league, Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I was helping out my soon to be brother in
Speaker 1: law last night justin Jacksonville on his ten team league.
Speaker 1: So if he's out there, which he is in some leagues. Um,
Speaker 1: I think he's the guy owned, but facing the Kansas
Speaker 1: City Chiefs and right now, based on the information that
Speaker 1: we have, we got a report today but where it's
Speaker 1: not looking good for Melvin Gordon. I touched on that yesterday.
Speaker 1: They need this guy for a deep post season run.
Speaker 1: They need him to be healthy. I know that this
Speaker 1: is a huge matchup. A regular season matchup does not
Speaker 1: get bigger than what it is this Thursday night against
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs where they can tie the Kansas
Speaker 1: City Chiefs for first in the a f C West.
Speaker 1: But they need to be smart about this. Austin Ekeler
Speaker 1: also in concussion protocol. It's gonna be hard for him
Speaker 1: to get cleared on the short week. Just three days
Speaker 1: we saw him get hurt on that on side kick
Speaker 1: on Sunday. So it looks like Justin Jackson is gonna
Speaker 1: have his this backfield to himself going up against the
Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs, who have given up fantasy production to
Speaker 1: running backs all season long. Greg we just saw Kenneth
Speaker 1: Dixon run effectively and run for a touchdown. We saw
Speaker 1: Gus Edwards run for sixty plus rushing yards in that
Speaker 1: game as well, so there's fantasy production to be had.
Speaker 1: It's a good matchup Justin Justin Jackson looks like he
Speaker 1: gonna have the backfield to himself, but outside of him,
Speaker 1: it's there's likely a lot of wide receivers if you
Speaker 1: need watch receiver help, and he still comes to mind.
Speaker 1: Tough matchup against Minnesota though, and then Dante Pettis and
Speaker 1: Curtis Samuel. I think those wide receivers and Justin Jackson.
Speaker 1: Also throw Damian Williams name in the mix because Spencer
Speaker 1: where it hasn't been practicing thus far. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: that makes sense. You know, it looks at Buffalo Fraggie
Speaker 1: where Lashan McCoy very questionable for this week, Chris Ivy
Speaker 1: hurts his shoulder, He's kind of questionable this week. Are
Speaker 1: you gonna do this? Mark Murphy? There again, Marcus Murphy.
Speaker 1: The you know people have made this point pretty much
Speaker 1: all season long, is that Lashaw McCoy hasn't been able
Speaker 1: to run. I know the game that he was out,
Speaker 1: Chris Ivory did have a big game in that game,
Speaker 1: but it's not like the Bills have been a team
Speaker 1: that have been giving us a ton of fantasy production
Speaker 1: for running backs all season long. The past couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: I've been trying to buy it's into la Shawn McCoy
Speaker 1: two weeks ago in stands of Miami Dolphins. On paper,
Speaker 1: it looks like a great matchup. Last week against the
Speaker 1: Jets on paper looks like a great matchup. We saw
Speaker 1: what he did just a couple of weeks ago against
Speaker 1: the New York Jets, and I just I don't know
Speaker 1: that you can trust really any Bills running back. I
Speaker 1: know that you know the opportunity might be there, but
Speaker 1: you know there's opportunity for some of these other guys
Speaker 1: as well, mentioned Damian Williams, Elijah McGuire, who's out there
Speaker 1: in a ton of fantasy leagues right now. I don't
Speaker 1: know if Isaia Karwell is gonna be able to go.
Speaker 1: He just had eighty total yards and touchdown. The matchup
Speaker 1: against the Texas is not great either. I just I
Speaker 1: don't know how many people are gonna have to, even
Speaker 1: in deeper leagues, depend on a Bill's backup running back
Speaker 1: to come in and perform when really, Bills running backs
Speaker 1: haven't done it all season long. Again, to me, the
Speaker 1: most important thing when you're picking up guys this week
Speaker 1: is twofold Number one. You pick up because you need them,
Speaker 1: You pick up because you need to be a throw
Speaker 1: him in there. That's Frank. You just mentioned you can
Speaker 1: pick up Chris Hievery, Marcus Murphy, but you're really playing
Speaker 1: Bills running back this week. Lenny Rusher is going to
Speaker 1: be Josh Allen. You know that already. So what are
Speaker 1: you hoping for from a Bills running back ash yards
Speaker 1: in three straight games? Correct, you're hoping. You're hoping they
Speaker 1: somehow fall into the end zone. That's it Bills against
Speaker 1: the Lions. And it's not the same Lions rushing sense
Speaker 1: that it has been early on in the season because
Speaker 1: since they have had Snax Harrison. And we saw this
Speaker 1: again this week where you know, if people were getting
Speaker 1: excited about David Johnson and I realized it's David Johnson
Speaker 1: and the Cardinals offense they are very inept, but he
Speaker 1: has not run either. It's been a direct correlation and
Speaker 1: you've seen that with the Giants as well, that since
Speaker 1: next Harrison has left that team, the Giants run defense
Speaker 1: has been terrible, and since he has joined the Detroit Lions,
Speaker 1: their run defense has really really stepped up their games.
Speaker 1: So even on paper, whether it's you know, Marcus Murphy
Speaker 1: with the backfield to himself or Chris Ivory getting the
Speaker 1: majority of the workload if he's healthy and good to go,
Speaker 1: it's not a good match against the Detroit Lions anymore,
Speaker 1: not at all. And that's what I don't want to
Speaker 1: do that at all. But as I was saying, when
Speaker 1: you're picking up any of these guys that you have named,
Speaker 1: whether it's Elijah McGuire, whether it's Kenneth Dixon, whether it's
Speaker 1: Damian Williams, you're picking up these guys in order to
Speaker 1: play them. You could stash him whatever you're there's there's
Speaker 1: two reasons of a player right now. It is to
Speaker 1: use them this week, or is to block your opponent
Speaker 1: from getting them. That is it. That is the only
Speaker 1: reason I'm claiming a bloody this week. That's it. What
Speaker 1: about a handcuff situation which is kind of late, but like,
Speaker 1: if Kenneth Dixon is available and you were riding the
Speaker 1: gust bus who has not looked great, you pick up
Speaker 1: Kenneth Dixon there, I think that makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 1: I would also I throw Kenneth I'll do the handcuffed situation.
Speaker 1: God forbid, somebody gets Todd Gurley gets hurt this week.
Speaker 1: The guy everybody picked up is wrong by the way,
Speaker 1: Oh John Kelly. John Kelly is not the right guy.
Speaker 1: And it's who is Justin Davis. I believe it is.
Speaker 1: He's the guy who came in on like the final drawing.
Speaker 1: That's it's just so, that's the guy pick up. God
Speaker 1: forbid Gurley gets hurt next week. I think that makes
Speaker 1: a lot of sense. Kenneth Dixon, though I will mention him.
Speaker 1: I think I'm a little bit higher on him than
Speaker 1: you are, and it's just you are for sure. He's
Speaker 1: trending up, whereas Gus Edwards just had a four week
Speaker 1: low in terms of snap percentage, and Kenneth Dixson has
Speaker 1: only played in the past two weeks. But he's also
Speaker 1: you know, he's seen his snaps in crazy the past
Speaker 1: two weeks. He was up over thirty percent this past week,
Speaker 1: and he's he's run very effectively over seven yards per
Speaker 1: carry this past week. It was only you know, eight
Speaker 1: or nine carries, but he scored a touchdown and we've
Speaker 1: known it seems like Kenneth Dixon has been on this
Speaker 1: roster for like ten years now. It feels like he's
Speaker 1: been there forever. But as long as he's been there,
Speaker 1: they've talked him up. They've wanted Kenneth Dixon to be
Speaker 1: something for a long time now. So he's trending in
Speaker 1: the right direction, whereas uh, Gus Buss is trending downward.
Speaker 1: I don't really want to trust anybody because I feel
Speaker 1: like everyone just takes away from each other. It's a
Speaker 1: three headed running back mess. But something would happen to
Speaker 1: Gus Edwards, I think Kenneth Dixon would instantly step in
Speaker 1: as like that early down give me fifteen and twenty
Speaker 1: touches easily on this team. So that's part of the
Speaker 1: reason too. It's like, obviously we're not rooting for a
Speaker 1: Gust Edwards injury, but if something were to happen Kenneth Dixon,
Speaker 1: whether this week or you know, in week sixteen, I'm
Speaker 1: just kind of stashing him. I'm at this point it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, who you're starting lineup is pretty much correct.
Speaker 1: So if I correct, If I could stash a guy
Speaker 1: who has upside and he's one injury away from being
Speaker 1: like an RB two, then I'm gonna do that because
Speaker 1: the players who have on your bench right now are
Speaker 1: are irrelevant because unless you're just you're paying attention to
Speaker 1: a week sixteen matchups obviously, But I think Kenneth Dixson
Speaker 1: has a little bit upset here right. I'm just not
Speaker 1: common to playing Kenneth Dixon. I'm just not. No. I agree,
Speaker 1: I don't want to play him this week either. I
Speaker 1: agree with them on that, and they're facing Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: so it's a solid matchup. But I'm just saying he's
Speaker 1: one injury away, fine from being a fifteen to twenty
Speaker 1: touch running. But when they ask you this, would you
Speaker 1: rather own Kenneth Dixon or what was this? Justin Davis's name?
Speaker 1: Which one of those guys you're on their own doesn't
Speaker 1: see where your heads at. Uh, probably Kenneth Dixon because
Speaker 1: we've at least seen him now the past two weeks,
Speaker 1: like run effectively. But you're not gonna put but you're not.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna play him, Tod Girly get hurt. You
Speaker 1: You're gonna play this guy because you can get all
Speaker 1: the carriage. If I'm a Todd Gurley, owner's definitely Justin Davis.
Speaker 1: Just In a vacuum, though I'm not I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know that. If you're not a Gush Edwards
Speaker 1: or it's Hodd Gurley owner, I would take and you
Speaker 1: and you have your starting lineup. I think I'm taking
Speaker 1: the other guy. I would take Dixon. I think he
Speaker 1: has more. You know, it's two games now where we've
Speaker 1: actually seen him run effectively. What do we know about nothing?
Speaker 1: I don't Justin Davis. I don't know if that's his name.
Speaker 1: I don't even know whither that's his name. I don't
Speaker 1: know anything about him, nothing, nothing at all. I just
Speaker 1: know that Todd Gurley goes down. I have the running
Speaker 1: back of the best offense in the NFL. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: probably just passed the ball more. Probably they will totally
Speaker 1: more jet sweeps to Robert Woods and Brandon Cooks. That
Speaker 1: will be the whole offense for sure. I just never
Speaker 1: gonna feel comfortable in my semi final or my final
Speaker 1: paying playing Kenneth Dixon. How would we rank Damian Williams,
Speaker 1: Elijah McGuire, Kenneth Dixon, And I guess you could throw
Speaker 1: Justin Davis in there, because, like I understand, I don't care,
Speaker 1: but you don't have, they're just Davis in there. I
Speaker 1: want to throw. I want to throw the guy that
Speaker 1: I think has the best opportunity to start. Now, is
Speaker 1: Isaiah Crow gonna play this week? Nobody knows right now
Speaker 1: what was the injury? And like, why isn't one of
Speaker 1: the Bills guys in there to that, because those guys
Speaker 1: might actually start. Those guys may have nobody a team
Speaker 1: that I haven't been able to run the football at
Speaker 1: all right, I probably leave Elijah McGuire obviously foot injury
Speaker 1: for all right, and in this time of year, injuries
Speaker 1: conservative I would put. I would put Elijah McGuire first
Speaker 1: on that list. Yeah, it's not a great match against
Speaker 1: the Texas, but we just saw him, you know, closer
Speaker 1: Toy touches over eight you know, over eighty total yards
Speaker 1: and a touchdown. As you know, I would go Elijah McGuire.
Speaker 1: Then Damian Williams scored two touchdowns and out snapped Spencer
Speaker 1: wear out snapped him. And then I'll go with Kenneth Dixon.
Speaker 1: And I know you're much higher on Dixon than That's fine,
Speaker 1: I'll throw. How about I know he was inactive this
Speaker 1: past week, Shark Hendrick West because if he's active. Do
Speaker 1: you think he he's familiar with this offense? Does he
Speaker 1: get more work than Damian Williams if it was like them,
Speaker 1: I can't this team ultimately chose Damian Williams over shark
Speaker 1: Ndrick West, right, yeah, I mean he's still kind of
Speaker 1: getting like into football shape. He hasn't been on roster.
Speaker 1: He could have been on the roster instead of Damians
Speaker 1: all season long. They chose Damian Williams West. All right,
Speaker 1: So yeah, Damian Williams. You have to see what happened.
Speaker 1: I'm Spencer Ware didn't practice yesterday. We'll see what happens today.
Speaker 1: You have to pay at inturn of that dealing with
Speaker 1: shoulder and hamstring injuries. Plays on Thursday night, So yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's well before then because Elijah McGuire plays Saturday. Um,
Speaker 1: but obviously if where can't go, I think Dammy Williams
Speaker 1: shops at the top of that. And that's on Thursday, obviously. Yes,
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Speaker 1: dot com. Ruing the wide receivers Franking. You mentioned the
Speaker 1: wide receivers earlier. Why don't we go through that again.
Speaker 1: We're kinda hit on the running backs. Discussed that pretty well.
Speaker 1: I want to get to your calls and four, three, six,
Speaker 1: seven nine. Let me get into the wide receivers that
Speaker 1: either are worth picking up right now this week. It
Speaker 1: will help us now, Yes, I mentioned Kenny Still is
Speaker 1: coming off a huge game where he was up over
Speaker 1: a hundred and thirty yards. Believe Ryan Tannehills through the
Speaker 1: ball nineteen times in that game and nine of those targets,
Speaker 1: it was nineteen attempts. Nine of those targets went to
Speaker 1: Kenny Stills, so just a massive target share. The squeaky
Speaker 1: wheel gets the oil. We've seen that the past two
Speaker 1: weeks now, since Kenny Stills has come out and said,
Speaker 1: you know, I can't throw the football to myself, he
Speaker 1: has been forced fed the ball and he performed admirably
Speaker 1: in that game against New England Patriots eight for one,
Speaker 1: five and one. The problem here, Greg, Is. They're facing
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings, so he plays on the outside. There's
Speaker 1: no secret about that. Kenny Stills is not playing a slot.
Speaker 1: He's likely going to see Xavier Rhodes. So it's not
Speaker 1: a great matchup. And as you've referenced, and we're gonna
Speaker 1: continue to talk about you, when you add players at
Speaker 1: this point in the season, you're you need to add
Speaker 1: them in order to start them. So I don't know
Speaker 1: how comfortable I'm gonna feel starting Kenny Stills against my
Speaker 1: against the Minnesota Vikings. But he has performed very, very
Speaker 1: admirably the past two weeks. Dante Pettis, I've been the guy.
Speaker 1: I'm the guy banging the drum for Dante Pettis. He's
Speaker 1: my guy. Uh. He's going up against the Seattle Seahawks,
Speaker 1: the same team that he two weeks ago when he
Speaker 1: went off for over a hundred yards and two touchdowns.
Speaker 1: He now has at least six targets in four straight games.
Speaker 1: He also has four touchdowns in his last three games. Um,
Speaker 1: and you know I always talk about this as well, Greg,
Speaker 1: when they give an opportunity to a young player, a
Speaker 1: rookie wide receiver on the one yard line and they
Speaker 1: they're basically saying, Hey, we want you to win against
Speaker 1: your cornerback on the one yard line and we're going
Speaker 1: to throw the football and we're going to trust you
Speaker 1: in the spot, and we need you to be open
Speaker 1: because it's on the one line, Like there's no margin
Speaker 1: for error. Right. Dante Pettis did exactly that and he
Speaker 1: scored a touchdown. So they're going to continue to go
Speaker 1: his way. He he led the team and snaps this
Speaker 1: past week. Uh. You know, as I referenced last week,
Speaker 1: I was not worried about Marky's goodwin. Same case here.
Speaker 1: Dante Pettis is the guy they're they're building him up
Speaker 1: for the future, getting him ready for next year. So
Speaker 1: I'm very excited about Dante Pettis again facing the Seahawks
Speaker 1: this week, who he tours two weeks ago. Uh. And
Speaker 1: then Curtis Samuel who has just been incredibly consistent, and
Speaker 1: Craig in my half point Ppry. I looked this up
Speaker 1: last night. So he's been up, he's been over double
Speaker 1: he's been in double digits four four games in his
Speaker 1: last six. He's just been incredibly incredibly consistent. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: mentioned five of his last six going back to Week
Speaker 1: nine against Tampa Bay where he had that was a
Speaker 1: big game where he had the rushing touchdown where he
Speaker 1: ran all over the field in nearly twenty fantasy points
Speaker 1: in that game, but at least the eight targets in
Speaker 1: each of his past two games going up against New
Speaker 1: Orleans Saints this week, the Saints did a good job
Speaker 1: against the Tampa Bay Books wide receivers, so kudos to them,
Speaker 1: but um, as you know, I I give myself a
Speaker 1: little pat of them back here. Devin Funches is being
Speaker 1: phased out of this offense. He played the lowest naps
Speaker 1: out of all their wide receivers and he had another
Speaker 1: week to get healthy. So you can't just sit here
Speaker 1: and say, oh, well, he's getting his feet underneath the like. No,
Speaker 1: they're phasing him out of the offense. They know that
Speaker 1: he's an impending free agent. They have been, you know,
Speaker 1: beat writers already talking about this that d J. Moore
Speaker 1: and Curtis Samuel are taking over as the starting wide
Speaker 1: receivers of this team. And because Curtis Samuels on the field,
Speaker 1: he's getting targeted more. And it should be a shootout
Speaker 1: against New Orleans Saints. So I think Curtis Hamuel was
Speaker 1: definitely in play as a wide receiver three, and I
Speaker 1: just think there's some like deeper league targets that we
Speaker 1: should mention. Day Shawn Hamilton's absolutely home going up against
Speaker 1: the Cleveland brown the Browns he played in the slot
Speaker 1: this past week. He had seven receptions right around fifty yards,
Speaker 1: scored a touchdown. So I don't know that he has
Speaker 1: huge upside, but he's filling in that slot role that
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Sanders was playing, and he was targeted heavily one
Speaker 1: week ago and he was on the field a lot.
Speaker 1: Mentioned Tim Patrick, he had ten targets as well. I
Speaker 1: think Dave Shawn Hamilton is safer, but Tim Patrick a
Speaker 1: guy that we didn't mention. He started on the outside
Speaker 1: with Curtis sam Auel and you have Hamilton's and the slot.
Speaker 1: They're both going up against the Browns, which is not
Speaker 1: a terrible matchup, but it is a better matchup for
Speaker 1: the slot receiver. Trent Shurfield, Who who the heck is
Speaker 1: this guy? Again? Just deeper leagues? Uh, he played a
Speaker 1: lot for the Arizona Cardinals and uh, you know he
Speaker 1: was targeted heavily in that game. Isaiah McKenzie, who took
Speaker 1: over the slot receiver role for Za Jones. A Jones,
Speaker 1: they moved to the outside. Um, yeah, he scored a
Speaker 1: rushing touchdown. He's very electric. They're excited about him. It
Speaker 1: sucks first A Jones, I was excited about him. I
Speaker 1: was hoping that they would leaves A Jones in the slot.
Speaker 1: But it's clear that they like Isaiah mackenzie in that role.
Speaker 1: And they faced the Detroit Lyons, who um, they have
Speaker 1: strong corners on the outside with with Darius Slay and
Speaker 1: then Mackenzie and the slot. So those are just some
Speaker 1: deeper wide receivers. All right, the guys that I mentioned earlier,
Speaker 1: still seven people? Just alright? Sorry, right, let me do this.
Speaker 1: Tell me to mention why re series? I understand. I
Speaker 1: want to. I want to break it down easier for everybody. Okay,
Speaker 1: not yelling at the same side. All right, If you
Speaker 1: could start one Denver wide receiver this week, Courtland Sutton,
Speaker 1: DeShawn Hamilton's Tim Patrick. Which one of those three would
Speaker 1: you start? It depends on the health of Denzel Award
Speaker 1: because he didn't play this past week. Um, so that's
Speaker 1: something that I would pay attention to. If Denzel Award
Speaker 1: is active, it would be DeShawn Hamilton's over Sun over Sun.
Speaker 1: If if Denzel Award is not active, that would open
Speaker 1: up more opportunities for Courtland Suton on the outside. Denzil
Speaker 1: Award has played phenomenally this season, so if he's active,
Speaker 1: it's it's Hamilton's. If he's not active, I would go
Speaker 1: with Sun all right, now, let me use that person
Speaker 1: Sutton slash Hamilton, depending on who you start. Would you
Speaker 1: rather have that guy this week or Kenny Stills. This
Speaker 1: is the decision our listeners have to make. It's a
Speaker 1: tough one because it's the matchup, but it's like the
Speaker 1: unfamiliarity with Dashawn Hamiltons can trust him after just one
Speaker 1: game versus the tough matchup. Yeah, I would go with
Speaker 1: one of the Broncos guys. You know, we talked about
Speaker 1: trends right trending in the right direction right now. I
Speaker 1: just saw a massive targets share. But going up against Minnesota,
Speaker 1: he saw with their defense did against the Seattle wide
Speaker 1: receivers last night, and it was probably the game plan
Speaker 1: of Seattle, like they didn't need to pass in order
Speaker 1: to win this matchup. But I don't want to trust
Speaker 1: Kenny Stills against Xavier Rhodes and the Vikings secondary in
Speaker 1: the you know, in week fifteen, in the second round
Speaker 1: of the playoffs. I don't want to do that. Would
Speaker 1: you rather start one of these guy, one of the
Speaker 1: Broncos or Dante Pettis. It's Dante Pettis for me, not
Speaker 1: best or Curtis Samuel. That makes things a little bit
Speaker 1: more interesting. Um yeah, I would go with Curtis Samuel.
Speaker 1: Just the floor that he's provided, you know, the past
Speaker 1: five of the past six weeks, what he's been able
Speaker 1: to do. I think we get a lot of points
Speaker 1: between New Orleans and Carolina. It's close. I like both
Speaker 1: guys a lot, but Samuel Samuel has been has been
Speaker 1: very safe. And you know why. While I mentioned Dante Pettis,
Speaker 1: what he did against the Seahawks last time, I'm sure
Speaker 1: you know the watch the tape and try and stop
Speaker 1: and prevent Pettis from doing that again this week. I
Speaker 1: still do like him, but it's close. I'll take Curtis Samuel,
Speaker 1: all right. So that means Frank ranks the wide receivers
Speaker 1: this week that you need to pick up Curtis Samuel,
Speaker 1: Dante Pettis, Dave Seawan Hamilton, and he Stills. That's what
Speaker 1: you're telling, that's what you're saying. Yeah, okay, just based
Speaker 1: on this week. Okay, and that's what that's what we
Speaker 1: care about. Obviously. Before you get to your calls, let
Speaker 1: me just do I agree with that? UM? I think
Speaker 1: I do. To be honest with you, I'm definitely taking
Speaker 1: the Denver guy over Kenny Stills against Minnesota. There's a
Speaker 1: lock for me. I'm closer on Dave Shawn Hamilton versus
Speaker 1: Dante Pettis. To be honest with you, Curtis Samuels might
Speaker 1: number one given the consistency we've seen over the last
Speaker 1: six weeks. Curtis Sammons my number one for sure. Then
Speaker 1: I might go with uh, then they might go with
Speaker 1: DaShan Hamilton's, then Donte Patterson, the Kenny Stills nice tight
Speaker 1: end this week. It's funny you have cj us on
Speaker 1: a listed here. Everywhere I've looked about Waiver wire tight ends,
Speaker 1: everyone was USAMA and I'm trying to figure out why,
Speaker 1: like every week, the same thing, just against Oakland. That's
Speaker 1: why Greg, we have USA was on this list every
Speaker 1: week three for thirty three for thirty three thirty, and
Speaker 1: that's it. It's been than zero. It's not even like
Speaker 1: it's not even favorite to three. Hey, I get it. However,
Speaker 1: been off teams for weeks, I don't have you've been
Speaker 1: streaming tight end. It's just like I don't want I
Speaker 1: don't want I don't want USA. I don't want them.
Speaker 1: It's just a good match against Oakland can Ian Thomas.
Speaker 1: He's the number one tight end of the Raiders have
Speaker 1: allowed the most fantasy points to opposing tight ends of
Speaker 1: Sea Jeff Driscolls as the corner man. I agree with
Speaker 1: you one I and Thomas would Thomas. But then you
Speaker 1: know if Tom, if someone picked up Thomas last week
Speaker 1: and you're looking at Vernon Davis as the Jordan Reed,
Speaker 1: replace him with Josh Johnson as his quarterback, or c
Speaker 1: J Usama or you know these guys that have been
Speaker 1: dropped Kyle Rudolph, you mentioned Trey Burton. It's like once
Speaker 1: you get outside that top eight or ten, it's it's
Speaker 1: just a crap shoot. So people might have picked up
Speaker 1: Ian Thomas, and if you're just looking at match up alone,
Speaker 1: I think you Usama's the next guy yup. Just because
Speaker 1: the Raiders they've allowed the most fantasy points the tight
Speaker 1: ends of the seas. Let me throw two more names
Speaker 1: out of you. Anthony Ferkster, No Janu Smith in Tennessee. Obviously,
Speaker 1: no Delaney Walker in Tennessee. Berkster has got more playing
Speaker 1: times to touchdown a couple of weeks ago. Vernie Davis,
Speaker 1: No Jordan Reed or those guys ahead of C. J. Usama,
Speaker 1: They're not for me. I would I would take Ferkser
Speaker 1: over Vernon Davis um just because I don't know what
Speaker 1: to expect from Josh Johnson as the quarterback here. He
Speaker 1: didn't target the tight end frequently even when he came
Speaker 1: in last week, and folks are you know he was
Speaker 1: kind of eating into Johnny Smith's production even when Smith
Speaker 1: was healthy. So neither matchup is great. John Smith's going up,
Speaker 1: I mean, folks are going up against the Giants who
Speaker 1: are like middle of the pack, and then the Jaguars
Speaker 1: are one spot higher them in terms of fantasy points
Speaker 1: allowed to tight end. So it's Vernon Davis against the Jaguars,
Speaker 1: it's firks Or against the Giants. I'll take Ferkster over
Speaker 1: over Davis. But I like Usama and Ian Thomas more
Speaker 1: than both of those guys. I really don't like Jasama.
Speaker 1: It's literally the matchup planes. Guy sucks. Sorry who? So
Speaker 1: who do you like that? I'd take Bernie Davis the
Speaker 1: Jaguars with Josh Johnson is your quarterback. I know that
Speaker 1: you're splitting hairs at this point. Correct, correct, Yeah, but
Speaker 1: at least Usama seeing targets. Barnie Davis will too. But
Speaker 1: do we know that? Do we know Josh Johnson's gonna
Speaker 1: target necessarily? It seemed like he targeted wide receivers more
Speaker 1: last week. Jameson Krawer had a long touchdown. I'm not
Speaker 1: I'm not too for it. I mean, if you have
Speaker 1: to start any of these guys, like God bless you,
Speaker 1: eight or four eight, four, three, six, eight seven nine.
Speaker 1: Streaming defense is this week. I know we've tried to
Speaker 1: prepare for this. I've had the Lions for a while
Speaker 1: against the Bills. You could also have the Bills against
Speaker 1: the Lions. That's one we expect a low scoring affair.
Speaker 1: Jacksonville she was probably owned right now obviously against Washington
Speaker 1: and Josh Johnson. You want that anybody else? I think
Speaker 1: the top three are the Falcons at home against the Cardinals,
Speaker 1: it is bad. But Josh Rosen is like, what's worse
Speaker 1: the Falcons defense or the Cardinals offense? Good point. I
Speaker 1: would say the Cardinals offense good point. Gosh Rosen has
Speaker 1: not made any plays the past couple of weeks. They
Speaker 1: can't get the run game going with David Johnson. I
Speaker 1: know that, you know, they just beat the Packers a
Speaker 1: few weeks ago, but um see, and that was a
Speaker 1: little fluke. I just don't I trust the Falcons if
Speaker 1: it's more than I trust the Cardinals offense. And then
Speaker 1: it's two two teams that are facing each other, of
Speaker 1: the Lions against the Bills, how many points are gonna
Speaker 1: be scoring? I like those better than the Falcons. Mantles
Speaker 1: with you. I like those defenses that I was debating that,
Speaker 1: I like those defense is better. Uh, then I'll go
Speaker 1: with the Falcons. And and Jack's do you like the No?
Speaker 1: I wanted to. I wanted to rank the Bills the highest,
Speaker 1: but they just got torched by the Jets, right, and
Speaker 1: it's spot at home and at home again, So I
Speaker 1: probably had the Lions ahead of the Bills. You think so?
Speaker 1: I think just because the lines I know they put
Speaker 1: the Cardinals are inconfident. Yeah, but Josh Allen very turnover
Speaker 1: prone while he does rush for a lot. I mean
Speaker 1: the Jets who can't get turnovers against anybody. Just had
Speaker 1: two interceptions against Josh Dowen. Two of the easiest interceptions
Speaker 1: you've ever seen your life. All right, here we go
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Speaker 1: how are you losing Derrick Henry forty nine points? I
Speaker 1: mean the same way anybody else loses to Derrick Henry
Speaker 1: scoring forty nine point Come on, Corey, if you're trying
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Speaker 1: out to Stephen in Massachusetts. What's up, Stephen? Hey, what's up? Greggy?
Speaker 1: Going on? Frank, what's up? Man? I'm doing all right.
Speaker 1: I ended up winning up because because of that last
Speaker 1: play Tho digs that that nation little four yacht catch
Speaker 1: I'd ended up working out for Meigs Feeland at the
Speaker 1: four yard catch. H No, the digs went on, Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: that's awesome. Man. At least you're on the winning side
Speaker 1: of things all. It really came down to that last
Speaker 1: welick because before that, I honestly thought I was gonna lose,
Speaker 1: but because I ended up winning, I have two questions
Speaker 1: with two guys in my lineup, and I'll try to
Speaker 1: be fast in my flex right now, I have Josh
Speaker 1: Gordon in there, and that's because I'm not sure what's
Speaker 1: going on with Spencer Ware, because you guys touched on
Speaker 1: it that it wasn't practicing and that Damian Willens would
Speaker 1: be the next man up. So if I have a
Speaker 1: question with that, if where is out? Should I just
Speaker 1: go and uh try to pick up Damian Williams to
Speaker 1: play him in my flex position? Or should I just
Speaker 1: keep Josh Gordon in there? And this is a PPR league,
Speaker 1: it's a good question to Spencer Ware out. Would you
Speaker 1: rather have Damian Williams against the Chargers or Josh Gordon
Speaker 1: against the Steelers who pretty stout cornerbacks on the outside there.
Speaker 1: If spencer Ware is Spencer where is out? I would
Speaker 1: go Williams. Yeah, when it's close, I I always say this,
Speaker 1: I'm lean with the running back. So let's go out
Speaker 1: to Brian in Minnesota. What's up, Brian? How's it going? Guys?
Speaker 1: Go all right, what's up? I got a pretty stout
Speaker 1: depth at running back. I got Barkley Camara, and I
Speaker 1: also have Nick Chubb and David Johnson, so I'm looking
Speaker 1: to start one of those two. Had my flex and
Speaker 1: just looking at the production. Obviously, Chubb has been more consistent,
Speaker 1: but Johnson's up against the Falcons, so I'm trying to
Speaker 1: figure out who I should type for put in there
Speaker 1: for my semifinal match. I haven't done my running back
Speaker 1: rankings yet, but I can in no way condoned starting
Speaker 1: David Johnson over the way the way that Chubb is playing,
Speaker 1: He's just been He's been matchup proof, he's been game
Speaker 1: flow proof. Even in games where they getting blown out,
Speaker 1: Chubb is still scoring touchdowns. Scored another touchdown last week.
Speaker 1: Going up against the Denver Broncos this week, they're they're
Speaker 1: more of like a middling defense against the run. They
Speaker 1: were they were getting shredded earlier on in the season,
Speaker 1: but they've kind of rectified that. But still Nick Chubb
Speaker 1: is uh, he's he's matchup proof. He I have to
Speaker 1: start him over over David Johnson. That's just me personally.
Speaker 1: Greg agree, Yeah, I agree. I don't think you can.
Speaker 1: I don't think you could start David Johnson. Chum you
Speaker 1: can't overthink the amount of carriers. He had a production.
Speaker 1: He gets you had a great David Johnson stat on
Speaker 1: yesterday's show or after the show where he had a
Speaker 1: ten yard reception and infinis with the eleven yards and
Speaker 1: like that. Dude, he had a he had a long
Speaker 1: reception of ten yards yesterday he had eight receptions for
Speaker 1: twelve yards. His other seven receptions went for two yards.
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