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Speaker 1: as we do the kick off our number two, it's
Speaker 1: time to take a look at the Fantasy Football Focus
Speaker 1: and we'll take a look at this week's top performers.
Speaker 1: And Matt only one three hundred yard passers.
Speaker 3: Hey, it was the week of the running back. Yeah,
Speaker 3: big running back week.
Speaker 1: Josh Allen twenty one to thirty three for three hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty three yards, two touchdowns in that game against
Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans. They were down for a long rust
Speaker 1: of that game right and came back in one. Jared
Speaker 1: Goff had two eighty and two touchdowns. Played really well.
Speaker 1: Drake May two seventy six and two touchdowns. He makes
Speaker 1: some throws, but he doesn't pass the eye test to me. Oh,
Speaker 1: I love him. I will disagree on that one. He
Speaker 1: is nothing around him. I understand that, but he just
Speaker 1: still makes some throws. I'm like, where was he trying
Speaker 1: to go with that?
Speaker 3: Oh, there's some of those, for sure, But for fantasy,
Speaker 3: I think he's a great asset for fantasy. I have
Speaker 3: no problem to build a team around him.
Speaker 1: I like him a lot. Aaron Rodgers two seventy six
Speaker 1: to one touchdown, two interceptions. He did not play well. No,
Speaker 1: I didn't think so either. Hey, the six passes that
Speaker 1: he threw to Brice Hall traveled about a total of
Speaker 1: fifteen yards, and Breese Hall did everything. Yes. Side of that,
Speaker 1: there was there were no.
Speaker 3: He missed something, he missed it, some ones he usually
Speaker 3: doesn't miss. And there weren't many wow throws. He usually
Speaker 3: has a couple of wild throws. I didn't see hardly.
Speaker 1: Any of those. Yeah, I didn't see that. Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: actually fifth two sixty four and two touchdowns, just ahead
Speaker 1: of Sam Darnold, Kirk Cousins. Some of these guys didn't
Speaker 1: play well. Jordan Love did it again, only two hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty yards, but three more touchdown passes.
Speaker 3: He throws the ball the end zone, and he's got
Speaker 3: good receivers and he's a heck of talent.
Speaker 1: In fact, those three touchdown passes were the high for
Speaker 1: the week. Nobody else had more than two. So it
Speaker 1: wasn't a big passing weekend in the NFL.
Speaker 3: And it wasn't like there's a ton of weather or.
Speaker 1: Anything like that. You mentioned the running backs, but there
Speaker 1: were only six that had one hundred yard game. That
Speaker 1: was Saquon Barkley won seventy six an a touchdown, Tank
Speaker 1: Bigsby won eighteen and two scores, Jamiir Gibbs fifteen for
Speaker 1: one sixteen and two scores. It was the big day
Speaker 1: for running backs getting a couple of touchdowns. There's a
Speaker 1: bunch of those.
Speaker 3: I said, there's a lot of fantasy points. Maybe there
Speaker 3: was a running back yardage.
Speaker 1: Joe Mixon twenty five for one to fifteen and two touchdowns,
Speaker 1: Bjeon Robinson twenty one for one oh three in a touchdown,
Speaker 1: Nagie Harris twenty one for one oh two and the touchdown.
Speaker 1: Those guys that scored multiple touchdowns were Javonte Williams had two.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Kareem Hunt had to he only haver his
Speaker 1: three point five yards to carry the Yeah, it wasn't
Speaker 1: easy going. Uh you also had Kien Williams with two.
Speaker 3: Okay, so yeah, but I mean there were a lot
Speaker 3: of the higher drafted guys and people you invested in,
Speaker 3: and you know it was not It was a good
Speaker 3: running back week for fantasy for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Looking at the receivers, well, if there weren't a
Speaker 1: lot of one hundred yard or three hundred yard passers,
Speaker 1: there probably weren't a lot of one hundred yard receivers.
Speaker 1: And there were only four twenty four. Keyon Coleman four
Speaker 1: for one twenty five. Nobody saw that one come out.
Speaker 1: Absolutely Cooper played, but not every snap. He scored a
Speaker 1: touchdown too.
Speaker 3: They threw it to him when he was out there too. Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean he's gonna be fine.
Speaker 1: Aman Ross Saint Brown eight for one to twelve in
Speaker 1: a touchdown. He's back to be in this star, you know,
Speaker 1: George George Pickens five for one eleven in a touchdown.
Speaker 1: And this is what Wilson does for the Steelers offense.
Speaker 1: This unlocks pickings. This is what I expect to see,
Speaker 1: maybe not five for one eleven and a touchdown every week.
Speaker 1: I think five's the floor. Five's the floor. And if
Speaker 1: he catches passes, I mean he's averaging fifteen yards of catch. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so do the math. Five for seventy five might be
Speaker 1: your floor moving forward.
Speaker 3: I mean, fantasy owners should be happy about the quarterback.
Speaker 1: Chaine, absolutely, and immediately it's like he got to uh
Speaker 1: end zone touchdown. They're throwing the ball in the end
Speaker 1: to them, at least at least two that I can
Speaker 1: remember that were targeting. It might have been three targets
Speaker 1: in the end number in this game. And that's what
Speaker 1: you want to see when you give that guy a
Speaker 1: chance to catch the ball in the end zone.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they were perfect in the red zone. You know,
Speaker 3: they're throwing the ball over the stripe. I mean, I
Speaker 3: think that's things you get time to get used to.
Speaker 1: Brice Hall was the other one, six for one oh three,
Speaker 1: so two of the one hundred receivers in the same game.
Speaker 3: A lot of it in one play on him. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he's back for fantasy too. They're they're featuring him a lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah. DK Metcalf just missed four for ninety nine and
Speaker 1: the touchdown. Get the knee banged up, It's not it's
Speaker 1: nothing long term. Okay, Yeah, we'll see if he's back
Speaker 1: this week. But I think that was more getting a
Speaker 1: contusion more than anything else. Terry McLaurin six for ninety eight,
Speaker 1: didn't score, but six for ninety eight you like from Mariota. Yeah,
Speaker 1: your guy John Smith seven for ninety six and a touchdown.
Speaker 1: I thought about him a little yesterday.
Speaker 3: I'm not running to the waiver wire form or anything,
Speaker 3: but two is practicing and sounds like that offense has
Speaker 3: a chance to get better.
Speaker 1: It can't be much worse, really bad. Yeah yeah. Romeo
Speaker 1: Dobbs eight for ninety four didn't score, But those Packer
Speaker 1: receivers are tough. Man, who's it going to be each
Speaker 1: each week? Brock Bowers ten for ninety three didn't score,
Speaker 1: but he's now the NFL's leading receptions.
Speaker 3: One of the games I watched the least of, but
Speaker 3: I'm sure they're throwing it to him like they always
Speaker 3: do at the line of scrimmage, you know, a couple
Speaker 3: of yards down.
Speaker 1: He's been extremely efficient. I think I was looking. He
Speaker 1: has targets are all the matter. He has like forty
Speaker 1: seven catches on like fifty five targets. That sounds yeah.
Speaker 3: I bet it's a real low average up the target
Speaker 3: still and they're getting it to him a lot.
Speaker 1: But he's averaging ten yards of catch. Yeah. Good. After
Speaker 1: the CA Yeah, it's all they got Hunter Henry eight
Speaker 1: for ninety two. You believe it in that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I am. I don't throw the ball a lot.
Speaker 3: He's been pretty solid the last year or so.
Speaker 1: George Kittle six for ninety two. Kansas City's kind of
Speaker 1: been a tight end funnel a little bit. They've they've
Speaker 1: struggled against tight ends, but the one thing that they
Speaker 1: have struggled against defensively out for the year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Deebo was sick in this game and he looked
Speaker 3: terrible by the way. Yeah, I don't want what he has,
Speaker 3: but I think I've being out helps Kittle for sure. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I think he's top three or four rest of the
Speaker 3: way tight.
Speaker 1: End well, and you're gonna also see Juwan Jennings. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: if you if you picked him up a few weeks
Speaker 1: ago when he had the big monster game that nobody
Speaker 1: expected and you held on to him, a lot of
Speaker 1: people probably cut him since that. Yeah, right, Like, if
Speaker 1: that's the case, he'll be the number one waiver wire
Speaker 1: pick up this week.
Speaker 3: I would think. And do you have any interest in Pierceall?
Speaker 3: Not really, I just because I like the player coming out.
Speaker 3: I'd have to see a game or two.
Speaker 1: I mean, you have one for six yards. I don't
Speaker 1: even know what's It's almost like the Roman Wilson argument,
Speaker 1: like you're trying to get on a moving train. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like it's that's tough. It's real tough. Now, he may
Speaker 1: have more opportunities because of the injuries, but he was
Speaker 1: also a first round pick and Roman Wilson was a third.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's just he always had a couple of receiver
Speaker 3: injuries ahead of Roman, he'd.
Speaker 1: He'd have opportunity. Yeah. A J. Brown five for eighty
Speaker 1: nine in a score, he's legit. Yeah, Brian Thomas five
Speaker 1: for eighty nine in a score. Star T. Higgins four
Speaker 1: for eighty two in a score. He's at quietly have
Speaker 1: a pretty good year. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, last year was a lot of injuries. This year,
Speaker 3: I think he's T Higgins.
Speaker 1: Which is a really good player, and teams are really
Speaker 1: working hard to take Chase out of the game and
Speaker 1: make make Higgins beat them, and okay, we.
Speaker 3: Know how this league works. I mean, and then Higgins
Speaker 3: will have a slow day and Chase will blow up,
Speaker 3: and they when they start balancing things out or you know,
Speaker 3: they're hard to play against the passing game.
Speaker 1: Cedric Tillman and Cleveland had eight for eighty one.
Speaker 3: I liked him coming out of school. Cooper's gone. He
Speaker 3: plays the same position as Jerry. Judy was an afterthought.
Speaker 1: And there doesn't count anymore. I mean, somebody has to
Speaker 1: tell might be the guy. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think it's good for Najoku, who's been pretty consistent.
Speaker 3: I think it's good for Tillman. Might be early to
Speaker 3: pick him up now. I assume Jamis is the starter
Speaker 3: from here on.
Speaker 1: I think you pick him up now, and you know,
Speaker 1: of all the game. Yeah, you don't want to You
Speaker 1: don't want to wait too long.
Speaker 3: Nothing as a rookie, nothing until really yesterday. But I
Speaker 3: like the player coming out justin.
Speaker 1: Jefferson had seven for eighty one in the touchdown you
Speaker 1: mentioned in Djoku. He had ten for seventy six in
Speaker 1: a touchdown. Okay, another volume guy. Yeah, long game of
Speaker 1: fifteen yards, so it was a lot of yeah power
Speaker 1: catch Yeah. Uh. Jalen Naylor from Minnesota for for seventy six.
Speaker 1: He's not going away? Is Addison out? No? I didn't
Speaker 1: think so. I mean, yeah, okay, that was kind of
Speaker 1: a shootout type game. Yeah, he's number three. I don't
Speaker 1: love Addison Amari Cooper four for sixty six in the score.
Speaker 1: You'll take that for him being like fifty percent snapcount.
Speaker 1: Guy Noah Gray in Kansas City four for sixty six,
Speaker 1: out caught Kelsey. I wonder if he took over the
Speaker 1: juju stuff, maybe because yeah, Juju's I got a hair from.
Speaker 1: He's going to be out again this week. Yeah, they've
Speaker 1: already said that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I wonder how that went. I need
Speaker 3: to dig more into how that affected the pecking order.
Speaker 1: But it's interesting for sure. They play a lot of
Speaker 1: two and three tight end sets. Yeah, Jordan Addison had
Speaker 1: three for sixty six, so it's not like he didn't
Speaker 1: do anything in that game. Kyle Pitts that game, Kyle
Speaker 1: Pitts had seven for sixty five. I think in the
Speaker 1: last three games he has seventeen catches.
Speaker 3: Yeah he is he back being a top twelve Yeah yeah,
Speaker 3: oh yeah, yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1: I mean, because what you want consistency like that's always
Speaker 1: been an issue of the top ten tight ends this
Speaker 1: week and we just get on through this list and
Speaker 1: there's a bunch of guys, a bunch of tight ends
Speaker 1: on the list here. But in terms of scoring, this week.
Speaker 1: What's his face from the from Conklin ended up as
Speaker 1: a top ten point producer this week in Fantasy Football.
Speaker 1: Four catches for seven yards and a touchdown for seven yards.
Speaker 1: Four catches for seven yards in a touchdowns got you
Speaker 1: into the top ten tight end finish. Kelsey was not.
Speaker 1: Kelsey was not. We'll see about Andrews and some of
Speaker 1: these other guys tonight, but yeah, you know McBride's playing.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to think there's some good ones tonight. I
Speaker 3: mean McBride to be rival my top ones going forward.
Speaker 3: Bowers is definitely on the top of the list. I
Speaker 3: think Kelsey still is. Here's the guys you really want
Speaker 3: that are top five type dudes, and they're still gonna
Speaker 3: have down weeks.
Speaker 1: It's bleak is bleakh Khalioshakira had seven for sixty five.
Speaker 3: Okay, so he was He's just a good player. I
Speaker 3: don't think he's real change.
Speaker 1: He's kind of I mean he's a slot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a slot and they trust him. He can
Speaker 3: beat man coverage to Cooper's there to elevate him and yeah,
Speaker 3: take some pressure.
Speaker 1: Off and make their passing game again. Much like with
Speaker 1: the Steelers with Russell Wilson. They went out, The Bills
Speaker 1: went out and acquired Amurray Cooper because their guys weren't
Speaker 1: getting open no and so, and they had to unlock.
Speaker 1: They had to unlock the passing game a little bit.
Speaker 3: And it Allen was the only three interpasser and they
Speaker 3: didn't have to rely on the pass entirely. I think
Speaker 3: their offense is not one of the best in the league.
Speaker 1: Yeah, uh Noah Fant had four for sixty five.
Speaker 3: Gino was on fire in this game. Yeah, they played.
Speaker 1: He's been good all year, but he was really really
Speaker 1: good in this game. Drake London six for sixty three.
Speaker 1: That's kind of like his normal and a touchdown on anything. Right,
Speaker 1: He's solid. He's been really good. Uh. Pittman three for
Speaker 1: sixty three. I know.
Speaker 3: I think Downs had one catch for nine yards too.
Speaker 3: I mean, like the good receivers are, can't give them football.
Speaker 1: How about this one, Matt Jatavian Sanders six for sixty one.
Speaker 1: You believe it in that one.
Speaker 3: I mean, if you're the if you try to think
Speaker 3: like the Panthers think, you got to play him, the
Speaker 3: rest of you get to play him. I mean Bryce
Speaker 3: Young came at the end of the game. Might we
Speaker 3: see more of him? That would be terrible. But I'm
Speaker 3: just saying, like, I'm probably gonna play Brooks a little
Speaker 3: bit when he comes back, Like you gotta play young
Speaker 3: guys across the board on that team.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, I think I'm with you one hundred percent on that,
Speaker 1: because where are you going this year or nowhere? And
Speaker 1: you got to find out about Bryce Young. You've given
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton a shot, all right, It gave you a
Speaker 1: shot in the arm offensively for a few weeks professional outing.
Speaker 1: You know, you allowed Young to sit and watch and Okay,
Speaker 1: now you've had a month of him sitting and watching.
Speaker 1: Did he learn anything? Did you learn anything?
Speaker 3: And the offense now has a little bit more confidence
Speaker 3: and they have a little bit of a running game
Speaker 3: and all those.
Speaker 1: Good Hey, look, if you throw the ball to Deontay Johnson,
Speaker 1: some good things might happen. You know, I think they
Speaker 1: lost forty to seven yesterday, though they did lose forty
Speaker 1: to seven yesterday that they did.
Speaker 3: Quick fantasy note you know in our league, like if
Speaker 3: you told me yesterday Washington wins this game forty to seven,
Speaker 3: I would have thought my starting quarterback Jaden Daniels would
Speaker 3: have had more than five points, but.
Speaker 1: There was a that's the thing that all the points
Speaker 1: are left. It's been fantasy football this year. So if
Speaker 1: you started a lineup this weekend, everybody gets injured early. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it zero's left and right. If you started a lineup
Speaker 1: that included Deebo Samuel, right, Tank Dell, Ju Juju, you
Speaker 1: got me at zero. You got hurt in the first one.
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins. Yeah, and I could I could see somebody's
Speaker 1: putting a lineup some there's something there's send me the lineup,
Speaker 1: because I guarantee you there's somebody out there that had
Speaker 1: Deebo Samuel is their number one receiver and Tank Dell
Speaker 1: is their number two, and maybe Juju was in their
Speaker 1: lineup as their three. And you took a zero across
Speaker 1: the board at the running at their wide receiver position.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and maybe you had Kelsey and Jayden Daniels and
Speaker 3: you know you've been winning game.
Speaker 1: There was one somebody tweeted it out last week where
Speaker 1: somebody started the lineup that had legit dudes in it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like it's not a like they're winning. Probability before
Speaker 3: kickoff was probably good.
Speaker 1: You know, they scored seven Fantasy points seven. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's unbelievable some of the stuff that's happening this year,
Speaker 1: and it's affected our DFS lineups. Yeah, every week my main.
Speaker 3: League, he started Stroud and Dell and I'm like, oh, man,
Speaker 3: I might be in trouble, you know, no, no, like
Speaker 3: four points zero, you know, our DFS lineup, matt oh
Speaker 3: good lord. I wish we'd have known on Friday that
Speaker 3: Cooper Cup wasn't going to play because we changed. We
Speaker 3: would not have started Matthew Stafford knew we had in
Speaker 3: the line up. First he had four point nine six points.
Speaker 3: Now we still have JK.
Speaker 1: Dobbins and Chris Gobwin going tonight, so there's still a
Speaker 1: chance they both of them do well that we could.
Speaker 1: But right now we've got forty eight points I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: forty four point nine six points. They would both have
Speaker 1: to score like thirty each and that would still only
Speaker 1: get us. But it's still good lucky. Yeah, we'd have
Speaker 1: to some things would have to go. But it wasn't
Speaker 1: about high point win, No, it wasn't. So that possibility
Speaker 1: is there, like one hundred.
Speaker 3: Points in most leagues wins it, you know, pretty easily
Speaker 3: this week?
Speaker 1: This week, yeah, Jalen Warren got a seven point nine points.
Speaker 1: He was only two point six percent of it, but
Speaker 1: I did like the usage and he got a goal
Speaker 1: line he got a goal line carry, you know, so
Speaker 1: there again, I think that there'll be more passes coming
Speaker 1: his way. Rush for forty four actually out rushed Briest
Speaker 1: Hall in that game. Yeah, yeah, so I think that's
Speaker 1: only going to get better. As I mentioned, we got
Speaker 1: Godwin going tonight, Tank Dell we took a zero. I
Speaker 1: mean that can't happen.
Speaker 3: No, I mean, just in the real world. You don't
Speaker 3: have Nico, who's really been maybe the best receiver in
Speaker 3: league this year most give or take. But that can't
Speaker 3: be your only reason for struggling on offense as much.
Speaker 1: Today.
Speaker 3: They got too many other good dudes. And you go
Speaker 3: into the Green Bay and Diggs and Dell, they ended
Speaker 3: up like twenty seven yards between them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Dalton Schultz had one catch for twenty eight yards.
Speaker 1: That was their leading receiver. He was a lead receiver.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I knew Diggs was in the twenty five ish neighborhood,
Speaker 3: right and he had like six catches.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what's going on? Jackson Smith and Jigba got off
Speaker 1: to a good start in that game. Actually threw a
Speaker 1: thirty five yard pass. Yeah, but five point three points
Speaker 1: and so it was a metcalf and fant Yeah, doing
Speaker 1: most of the damn. I don't think Lockett did a
Speaker 1: lot of Lockett was injured going into that game. Sam
Speaker 1: Laporta is unstartable at this point. Yeah, it's brutal.
Speaker 3: He's he's like the poster boy of tight end you
Speaker 3: drafted high that you're mad at this year. You know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, one catch for twenty five yards and he looked
Speaker 1: good doing it, and they just don't throw the ball
Speaker 1: to him.
Speaker 3: No, they have so many weapons and they run the ball.
Speaker 3: They're never going to be a super high pass percentage team.
Speaker 3: Williams takes some big plays away. There was a little
Speaker 3: bit of a warning sign though with Laporta last year,
Speaker 3: like he caught.
Speaker 1: An unusual very touchdown, Yeah, very touchdown to pen then
Speaker 1: really hard to do plicate, but the other numbers weren't. Like,
Speaker 1: he's looked good. He's not even catching passes now though,
Speaker 1: they're not even throwing him passes now. Now, it's weird.
Speaker 1: It's crazy because he's a good football player. Brock Bauers
Speaker 1: is the exact opposite they are throwing. We had him
Speaker 1: in the lineup, as did sixteen point eight percent of
Speaker 1: the other teams in this league. He got us nineteen
Speaker 1: point three points, so basically half of our points. I say,
Speaker 1: he's working from one guy. Yeah, and he was. He's
Speaker 1: only fifty eight hundred. That's probably as cheap as we'll
Speaker 1: get him the rest of the year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I bet he's tight end two three one, you know,
Speaker 3: something like that. He's upcoming weeks.
Speaker 1: The Giants defense at twenty five hundred was they got
Speaker 1: us four points. They had five sacks. They gave up
Speaker 1: way too many points because their offense did nothing well.
Speaker 1: There was eleven sacks in that game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're gonna hear the word sack a lot in
Speaker 3: the next couple of days, folks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I did start the lineup. I started myself. Is
Speaker 1: in the money right now with two players left to play.
Speaker 1: I'm sitting right this again. This shows you how low
Speaker 1: of a scoring week it was. I've got eighty seven
Speaker 1: point nine points right now with two guys left to play,
Speaker 1: and I'm in the money. In fact, I'm in seventy
Speaker 1: eighth place and one that I'm in.
Speaker 3: It almost seems like lately, the whole key is just
Speaker 3: don't get his zero, don't take a zero, yeah, which,
Speaker 3: of course nobody knows going in, but these guys that
Speaker 3: get hurt walking in, you know.
Speaker 1: So I started Mason Rudolph at quarterback. We considered it.
Speaker 1: I'm gona he's super cheap, right. We don't know, we
Speaker 1: didn't we didn't know he was starting yet. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: texted each other. See he had eleven point nine points.
Speaker 1: He had twice as many points as Matthew Stafford. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I also just unusually. Yeah. I also started Jaylen Warren.
Speaker 1: That was a seven point nine. I started Tony Pollard
Speaker 1: only show in town. Yeah, only show in town, eight
Speaker 1: point five points. It wasn't great. He had sixty one
Speaker 1: rushing yards but only two catches for four yards. That
Speaker 1: kind of stunk. I still have Chris Goblin is a
Speaker 1: flowers going tonight, so I should finish in the money.
Speaker 3: I would think I'd be shocked if they both have
Speaker 3: low nights.
Speaker 1: And they were seventy one hundred and sixty six hundred.
Speaker 1: I started Metcalf nineteen point nine points, set only seven
Speaker 1: point four percent ownership. Was kind of surprise with that,
Speaker 1: because I thought that game was going to be a shootout. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I just remember picking through the receivers though there was
Speaker 3: a lot to like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well apparently not hit on, but there was a
Speaker 1: lot we liked. I started Kyle Pitts at the tight
Speaker 1: end position forty five hundred dollars. He costs thirteen and
Speaker 1: a half points. Oh, you definitely got your money out
Speaker 1: of that. Yeah, no doubt. I also started Kittle in
Speaker 1: the flex. It's six fifteen point two points, so that
Speaker 1: worked out. Okayt touchdown right, Yeah. I started the Vikings
Speaker 1: defense at twenty nine hundred dollars.
Speaker 3: The great defense is against the.
Speaker 1: They scored a defensive touchdown. They had four sacks at
Speaker 1: fumble recovery.
Speaker 3: Their top three defense going forward.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and their schedule moving forward, like I picked them
Speaker 1: up in our league.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's all the teams you want to play.
Speaker 1: It's everybody that you want to play over like the
Speaker 1: next six weeks. And they've already had their buy they've
Speaker 1: already played like the Niners. Yeah. Pack, I've been streaming
Speaker 1: defenses all year long. I'm not streaming am I just
Speaker 1: hold on to them the rest of the year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's one of the ones. Yeah, So why not so
Speaker 1: that one should finish in the money. I need to
Speaker 1: start taking some of this over into the one that
Speaker 1: I would suggesting. Zeros are just you can't do it.
Speaker 1: You can't like if you just can't do it.
Speaker 3: My two leagues i've taken, it seems like every week
Speaker 3: I have one in each league.
Speaker 1: You know, it's like man, but right now, the leader, well,
Speaker 1: the leader in points in both of the contests that
Speaker 1: we're in, or the one that I'm in and the
Speaker 1: one that wen is one hundred and thirty six point
Speaker 1: eight four points. It's probably the same four team. It's
Speaker 1: probably the same person, but because it's just too weird
Speaker 1: for to be one hundred and thirty six point eight
Speaker 1: four points for both of them. But that's really low.
Speaker 1: Usually the winner for a week is like one hundred
Speaker 1: and one hundred and seventies.
Speaker 3: I mean, there's four teams still to go. But still,
Speaker 3: if you're leading, you probably have the majority of you
Speaker 3: guys already played.
Speaker 1: Probably if you had one hundred and thirty six point
Speaker 1: eight four points this particular week, you're probably done. You're
Speaker 1: in good chase. Yeah, you're probably done though, probably right Yeah,
Speaker 1: go around. It's just a it's a off fantasy.
Speaker 3: Week, it was, and there were some big game to
Speaker 3: buy some running backs, you know, I mean that Barkley
Speaker 3: and you know some of those guys.
Speaker 1: Went, but you had to pay up big time to
Speaker 1: get Barkley. Yeah, big time. I wasn't even thinking the DFS.
Speaker 3: I was saying, if you're if you're a good strong backfield,
Speaker 3: and maybe you took a zero somewhere else.
Speaker 1: You could overcome it. Yeah, maybe you could overcome it,
Speaker 1: but you could you can't overcome it in DFS. You
Speaker 1: just can't. No, you know, not unless unless you just
Speaker 1: paid down for you threw somebody in the lineup for
Speaker 1: two thousand dollars a touchdown or something. Yeah, or took
Speaker 1: you take it. You take that zero zero, Yeah, you
Speaker 1: pay up for everybody else and go get justin Jefferson
Speaker 1: and you know, yeah it quon Barkley and just roll
Speaker 1: that way. Yeah, you might want to try that, because yuck.
Speaker 1: I mean it's like three weeks in a row now
Speaker 1: we've had somebody in our line up take a zero zero, Right,
Speaker 1: just can't win. That just can't win.
Speaker 3: And Stafford was almost like that because of the Cup situation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just he's not throwing touchdown passes.
Speaker 3: They run the ball a lot. I played bad team.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they played a bad team and scored twenty points. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so ugly, ugly. Anyways, let's get to a break. He
Speaker 1: is the Matt Williamson. I am Dale Lolly. You're listening
Speaker 1: to the Drive here on the Steelers Audio Network. I
Speaker 1: swear to God if you're a new listener to this show.
Speaker 1: Our DFS lineups probably hit fourteen of the eighteen weeks
Speaker 1: last year.
Speaker 3: Tyler's over there like, yeah, sure, yeah, I've been there
Speaker 3: everywhere much better again.
Speaker 1: I've the lineup that I've put together every week. I
Speaker 1: think I've hit and every week but one. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean we've done this for several years and we
Speaker 3: always made money, I mean to say the least.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's just this year's been a rough one. Partners, Yeah,
Speaker 1: this one's been a rough one. But anyways, let's get
Speaker 1: to a break. He is Matt Williamson, I'm Dale Lolly.
Speaker 1: We'll be back with more right after this. At least.
Speaker 2: He's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on
Speaker 2: your twenty four to seven Home of the Black and
Speaker 2: Gold Steelers Nation Radio.
Speaker 1: And we are back I'm Dale, Lolly. He is the
Speaker 1: Matt Williamson and Matt Steelers, winning thirty seven to fifteen
Speaker 1: on Sunday against the New York Jets, and a lot
Speaker 1: of people. You know, you saw a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: going into the week after they acquired Devonte Adams. Yeah,
Speaker 1: is this the best skill position group in the league?
Speaker 1: I said it was. I still think it is, But
Speaker 1: I don't know that Aaron Rodgers is five years ago.
Speaker 1: If Aaron Rodgers had those pass catchers in that running back,
Speaker 1: I'd be like, Oh, that's dangerous. He's not that guy anymore.
Speaker 3: No, I've seen a lot of flashes from this year
Speaker 3: that are really impressive, but more bad. There's so many
Speaker 3: more bad than usual for him, which is still maybe
Speaker 3: less than Joe average starter. I don't think he's Joe
Speaker 3: average starter right now, but he does want to hold football.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't think he trusts protection all that ouch.
Speaker 3: It was decent yesterday, but the ball came out so quick.
Speaker 3: I think they're gonna be a Breeze Hall centric team.
Speaker 3: And you hate say it, but I felt like that
Speaker 3: was a close to a must win for them. You know, like,
Speaker 3: could the Adams trade be all for nothing.
Speaker 1: And they went out and went and signed, you know,
Speaker 1: made a deal to agree to terms with the edge rusher.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Reddick it was practicing again this week.
Speaker 1: So he'll play next week. You know. The owner, Woody
Speaker 1: Johnson is at the owners meetings on Tuesday saying we're
Speaker 1: gonna kick you know what the rest of the way.
Speaker 1: He two wins, got two wins, and now you're too
Speaker 1: and five mean you made up a big splash play.
Speaker 1: You went and got Aaron Rodgers' wooby and he was
Speaker 1: three of nine throwing the DeVante Adams. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: There was part of me the thought, you win this
Speaker 3: game in Pittsburgh, which wouldn't have been easy, you know,
Speaker 3: looking at from their perspective, you could get back in
Speaker 3: the race in the AFC. I don't think their upcoming
Speaker 3: schedules super hard. I think they get New England this week.
Speaker 3: I looked at it and wasn't blown away by They
Speaker 3: look like a TI team, but they look old and tired,
Speaker 3: which is what we said all summer. You know that
Speaker 3: like Tyrone Smith looks really stiff, and you know, like
Speaker 3: those older dudes just or hanging on you know, I
Speaker 3: mean it's a weird team build. Yeah, and you lost
Speaker 3: straight coach, I mean your head coach.
Speaker 1: Elijah Vera. Tucker got hurt in that game. Yeah, offensive lineman.
Speaker 1: You know, they were already without two of the top cornerbacks.
Speaker 1: I mean they took they took some major playing. The
Speaker 1: Steelers beat you up.
Speaker 3: It does physically, it absolutely does. Do you think the
Speaker 3: Jets are out of the playoff picks?
Speaker 1: Yes? Two and five? Right, two and five? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean it's it's definitely an uphill climb, like I like,
Speaker 1: since he's chances better yeah, yeah, and since he's three
Speaker 1: and four now, so they're in a lot better situation.
Speaker 1: You like, the Colts chances better? Is Flacco playing? I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know what just Jammy if of plays this week? Miami.
Speaker 1: Miami and the Jets are kind of in a similar
Speaker 1: spot right right, But at least Miami's already had their
Speaker 1: buy so they're only two and four, So it's four
Speaker 1: losses right now, where the Jets are two and five
Speaker 1: and they're two and three in conference. That's the that's
Speaker 1: the big both teams are.
Speaker 3: Actually they played great, but that was at least a
Speaker 3: winnable game that they you know, considering their opponent, like
Speaker 3: that was a tough loss, and the Jets loss was
Speaker 3: maybe a critical loss.
Speaker 1: And here's the thing about the AFC. You start looking
Speaker 1: at conference records. Right, here's a four to one. Buffalo's
Speaker 1: four and two in the conference. The Steelers are four
Speaker 1: and one, The Ravens are two and two in the conference. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Houston is four and oh, Indianapolis is now three and two,
Speaker 1: and Kansas City's three and oh. Those are the only
Speaker 1: teams in the conference. So you're looking at Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Houston, Indianapolis,
Speaker 1: and Kansas City are the only teams in the conference
Speaker 1: who have winning records. The Jets conference record two and three.
Speaker 1: They had nothing going for him, really, Yeah, the Bengals
Speaker 1: are one and three. I know they had some tough losses. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, you're looking at Jacksonville. You think Jacksonville can
Speaker 1: turn it back. They're two and four in the conference?
Speaker 1: Probably not? Probably not. I mean the Chargers and Broncos
Speaker 1: are both two and two. The Raiders are two and three.
Speaker 3: Like, Chargers win the night could go a long way
Speaker 3: for their chances.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they would be sitting pretty Yeah, and I didn't
Speaker 1: think they were a playoff team, but the schedule was
Speaker 1: not super hard. That's what say.
Speaker 3: Their schedule is not bad. And I thought they were
Speaker 3: a year away from being a playoff team, and I
Speaker 3: still think they probably are.
Speaker 1: But what's in what the AFC is right now?
Speaker 3: I thought the Browns would be competitive, Miami be better.
Speaker 3: I thought the Jets would be better. I thought the
Speaker 3: Jags would be better, you know, like most teams. Listen
Speaker 3: to what we're saying.
Speaker 1: Though, the teams that you just mentioned are all the
Speaker 1: teams that you should never trust.
Speaker 3: Oh it's always like that Browns, right right, right?
Speaker 1: Absolutely? I mean who trusts those teams in history? Right
Speaker 1: since they've been established. Yeah, you just can't trust those franchises.
Speaker 1: Not that you can really trust the Chargers. No, it's
Speaker 1: more trusting Harbaugh at this point. Yes, they could go
Speaker 1: they could go lose the Cardinals tonight and I wouldn't
Speaker 1: be shocked.
Speaker 3: Oh no, I wouldn't be shocked at all. Like I'll
Speaker 3: pick them the win. I'll yeah, but won the ball
Speaker 3: and all that. But I don't think they're great.
Speaker 1: No, I mean, so the AFC again, I think the
Speaker 1: FC's is weaker than I expected. I think right now
Speaker 1: there are five good teams in the a.
Speaker 3: FC, the division leaders and the Steelers, Dealers, Ravens, Yeah
Speaker 3: uh yeah, good teams, yeah, good teams, and then the
Speaker 3: other one.
Speaker 1: I think those five teams and you can put Kansas City,
Speaker 1: you could put Baltimore on a on a tier of
Speaker 1: their own. I don't know however you want to do that,
Speaker 1: but I think and maybe even Buffalo now that they've
Speaker 1: got Amari Cooper. But I think the Steelers are in
Speaker 1: that they're.
Speaker 3: In the top five tier. Yeah, who's six? Maybe the Chargers,
Speaker 3: maybe the Chargers and again it's kind of by the fall.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's a that's a team the Steelers
Speaker 1: handled pretty easily. I'm not willing to say Denver no
Speaker 1: no or maybe since he maybe since he, but they've
Speaker 1: got major flaws.
Speaker 3: A month from now, I might say the Jets are myami,
Speaker 3: but they have a lot of digging to do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, A quarterbacks have to be starved. Is are things
Speaker 1: going to get better for those old guys? Well, here's
Speaker 1: what they got. They have the Patriots, then they play
Speaker 1: the Texans, they're at Arizona. Then they get the Colts,
Speaker 1: Seahawks at the Dolphins, at the Jaguars, Rams who should
Speaker 1: have pooking the coup and Cooper cup back. By that
Speaker 1: point at the Bills and the Dolphins at home.
Speaker 3: It's not awful, but they have to play better.
Speaker 1: But there's probably can I can I count three losses
Speaker 1: there at least probably? Yeah, they're not beating the Texans
Speaker 1: playing the way they are right now.
Speaker 3: No, I mean there's handful. I mean some of those
Speaker 3: games are too far along to speculate, but if they
Speaker 3: played today, they wouldn't be favored over all those teams.
Speaker 3: There'd be two or three that.
Speaker 1: Well, they're not gonna they're not going to be favored
Speaker 1: against the Texans. No, they're not going to be favored
Speaker 1: against the Bills in Buffaloo. No, they're not going to
Speaker 1: be favored against the Dolphins in Miami. I assuming Too
Speaker 1: is back, I would know they're going to be favored
Speaker 1: against the Seahawks. Not if they played today. So I
Speaker 1: mean that would be four losses right there. Just losing
Speaker 1: the games that that's nine losses.
Speaker 3: The big thing I said about the Jets too, which
Speaker 3: is the total opposite of what happened, was I thought
Speaker 3: they would start the season real strong.
Speaker 1: Yeah and fade, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Just age injuries to start showing up lack of depth,
Speaker 3: and then when you get off to a bad start,
Speaker 3: it's hard to dig out of that. Yeah, one of
Speaker 3: these teams were right and off though, we'll merge.
Speaker 1: Well, the Bengals right now they got a big game
Speaker 1: against the Eagles aren't playing either, but it's a big
Speaker 1: game for both teams. Eagles aren't guaranteed anything, No, but
Speaker 1: that game is in Cincinnati. They gotta win that one.
Speaker 1: Then they get the Raiders, Then they're at the Ravens,
Speaker 1: Then they're at the Chargers. That's to tea.
Speaker 3: Then they got the Steelers. Sounds like they better win
Speaker 3: their next to Then.
Speaker 1: They're at Dallas, who by that point should have Michael
Speaker 1: Parsons back. Yeah, you would think at the Titans, Brown's
Speaker 1: at home against the Broncos, and then at the Steelers.
Speaker 1: How many games are they favored in the rest of
Speaker 1: the way Eagles games at home. I haven't looked at
Speaker 1: any of the lines yet.
Speaker 3: That's probably would say it's pretty close.
Speaker 1: Cincinnati by a point or two. Yeah, somewhere in that range.
Speaker 1: They'll be favored against the Raiders. They're not going to
Speaker 1: be favored in Baltimore, No, probably not favored in l
Speaker 1: A against the Chargers, that might be a pick.
Speaker 3: Them game, tough one if they played right now.
Speaker 1: If they played right now, the Chargers might run for
Speaker 1: three hundred yards. Yeah, say I would pick the Chargers
Speaker 1: head to head right now. Yeah, Steelers at home, we'll
Speaker 1: see their huge spread. Yeah, at Dallas, they're not going.
Speaker 3: To be favored, probably not. But Dallas is kind of
Speaker 3: like the Eagles to me, they got problems.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I hear you. At the Titans, Browns at home,
Speaker 1: Broncos at home, at the Steelers, and where are they
Speaker 1: sitting right now? Three and four? They need to win seven.
Speaker 1: Yeah they can, They're capable, Yeah, but they can't. They
Speaker 1: can't withstand any more injuries. And like Orlando Brown is
Speaker 1: now out with a calf injury this week. That's huge
Speaker 1: for them. It's huge because they can't lose both tackles. No, yeah,
Speaker 1: they just I mean, you got to. You gotta be
Speaker 1: able to protect Burrow a little bit, to be able
Speaker 1: to throw the football.
Speaker 3: As we talked through this, I think a nine win
Speaker 3: team ends up getting in.
Speaker 1: I do too. It's gonna come down to those tie breakers.
Speaker 1: Just what the Chargers have left at the Cardinals tonight.
Speaker 1: I think it's favorable. They get the Saints next week
Speaker 1: with Rattler at the Browns, Titans at home. I think
Speaker 1: it's like the schedule the Bengals at home, the Ravens
Speaker 1: at home, at the Falcons at the Chiefs Buccaneers. So
Speaker 1: it gets much tougher. That's a four game stretch where
Speaker 1: they may not win a game, right.
Speaker 3: They put some money in the bank starting tonight, but.
Speaker 1: Then they get to finish off the season Broncos at
Speaker 1: the Patriots at the Raiders. Now, weather could be a
Speaker 1: factor in that Patriots game on December twenty ninth. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what they want to do, So they're probably going
Speaker 1: to be in it. I think they'll be in it.
Speaker 1: Miami schedule, and you know, we're thinking that two is
Speaker 1: gonna potentially team to bet against in the first round
Speaker 1: of the playoffs. Yeah, they get the Cardinals next week
Speaker 1: at home. Who who are talking about this is Miami.
Speaker 1: We think two has got a good chance to play
Speaker 1: in that game. Yeah, then they're at Buffalo, then they're
Speaker 1: at LA. Talk about two long trips Rams. Yeah, the Rams,
Speaker 1: Raiders at home, Patriots at home. Okay, Yeah, at Green
Speaker 1: Bay November twenty eighth. Not exactly built for cold weather now, squad.
Speaker 1: Then they get the Jets at home. Then they're at
Speaker 1: the Texans, Okay, then they're back to playing well by then.
Speaker 1: Then they get the forty nine Ers at home. I'm
Speaker 1: worried about the forty nine Ers a little bit, but
Speaker 1: I think they have enough to win that game. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: at the Browns on December twenty ninth. They're not built
Speaker 1: for that, the Browns, right, you know who knows though?
Speaker 1: And then at the Yet so their last two games
Speaker 1: they're playing weather games.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. I mean I keep coming back
Speaker 3: to the Chargers being in good shape. Yeah, win or
Speaker 3: lose to Night, but especially with the win, of course,
Speaker 3: Steelers are in wonderful shape. Those top five you mentioned,
Speaker 3: I can't imagine a scenario world five are not in
Speaker 3: the playoffs. Yeah, I mean, just a huge injury could
Speaker 3: still unless it's Josh Allen from home, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean, like any other I mean, they probably go.
Speaker 1: Well, let's let's take a look at that remaining Steelers schedule.
Speaker 1: You get the Giants Monday Night Football at home this week.
Speaker 1: They have six point favor in that somewhere in that range.
Speaker 1: Then you're at Washington coming out of the bye week.
Speaker 3: The thing with the Giants too, the more I dig
Speaker 3: in is there are another one of these teams where
Speaker 3: they can't score, run differentials really bad too. They allow
Speaker 3: a lot and they don't run much.
Speaker 1: At the Commanders. Then they get the Ravens at home,
Speaker 1: Eveland at Cincinnati, the Browns at home at the Eagles.
Speaker 1: Now they've had their struggles winning in Philadelphia. Yeah, sure,
Speaker 1: I've covered a lot of Steeler losses in Philadelphia. But
Speaker 1: the way I think think those two teams are constituted
Speaker 1: right now. The Steelers ahead of the Eagles on a
Speaker 1: power rank today at the Ravens, Chiefs at home on
Speaker 1: Christmas Day, and then Bengals at home. There's no doubt,
Speaker 1: but it's not as difficult as it like you looked
Speaker 1: at that going on. Washington looks better, but the defense
Speaker 1: is still a problem. The Browns look considerably worse. The
Speaker 1: Bengals look considerably worse. I picked the Bengals to win
Speaker 1: the division before the season started. That's that's out the window.
Speaker 1: The Eagles don't look nearly as good as what they were,
Speaker 1: and you know, we'll see about the rest of it.
Speaker 1: The Browns are the only bad team on there. The
Speaker 1: Browns are the really bad team. And we know there's
Speaker 1: outside of the Giants. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean there's eight to ten bad teams in the league,
Speaker 3: and unfortunately there's three games to give to those.
Speaker 1: Yeah. What you can't have if you're the Steelers right
Speaker 1: now are injuries, you know, especially cluster injuries at certain positions,
Speaker 1: because another old lineman going down would be brutal. After
Speaker 1: the game against the Ravens, you gotta go to Cleveland
Speaker 1: four days later. Yeah, that's something's going to go wrong
Speaker 1: with Yeah, that's stinks. Yeah, after playing the game against
Speaker 1: the Eagles, you get the Ravens six days later. A
Speaker 1: lot of that stuff's not and then four days after
Speaker 1: playing the Ravens again. Both times you play the Ravens,
Speaker 1: you got to play in a short week.
Speaker 3: I don't mean they're playing off a long week too, Yeah,
Speaker 3: because I know the Ravens haven't a crazy rest advantage
Speaker 3: this year over their opponents collectively, Like so the biggest
Speaker 3: in NFL history.
Speaker 1: You know that that part of the schedule stinks. So
Speaker 1: you got the Ravens on the twenty first, and then
Speaker 1: you got to turn around and play the Chiefs on
Speaker 1: Christmas Day. Now that's a Saturday to Wednesday. So again
Speaker 1: it's a weird and still it's short. It's a weird schedule.
Speaker 1: Like even that, what at Ravens at Brown's right, Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: it's Ravens here and then at the Browns.
Speaker 3: If I told you split, would you take it? Yes,
Speaker 3: me too, Yeah, like, oh, and two would be.
Speaker 1: Bad and two would be bad. If you can beat
Speaker 1: the Ravens here.
Speaker 3: But then you could go to and Oh but you
Speaker 3: could go to and Oh I would take one and
Speaker 3: one there just because it's hard on the bodies.
Speaker 1: Really kind of the same. I mean, if you could
Speaker 1: go one and one at the Ravens in the Chiefs Tome,
Speaker 1: you definitely take that.
Speaker 3: You definitely take that. Yeah, I mean the Browns are
Speaker 3: so bad, That's why I asked.
Speaker 1: But if you if you can get two wins, if
Speaker 1: you go two and two in that in that stretch
Speaker 1: of games with the Ravens, Browns, Ravens, Chiefs, you probably
Speaker 1: did pretty well. You'd take that. Oh yeah, and then
Speaker 1: you're probably a double digit win team. Yeah, you know.
Speaker 3: I mean, if you can get two of those four
Speaker 3: compared to where they're at now. I mean you're pretty close.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's what you gotta look forward to her
Speaker 1: in the second half. But we're gonna get to a break.
Speaker 1: He is the Matt Williamson. I am Dale Lallie. You're
Speaker 1: listening to the Drive here on the Steelers Audio Network.
Speaker 1: We'll be back to wrap up nights win over the
Speaker 1: New York Jets right after this. At least.
Speaker 2: He's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on
Speaker 2: your twenty four to seven home of the Black and
Speaker 2: Gold Steelers Nation Radio.
Speaker 1: Welcome back. I am Dale LOLLI. He is the Matt
Speaker 1: Williamson and Matt just putting a bow on the steelers
Speaker 1: thirty seven to fifteen win over the New York Football Jets.
Speaker 1: Again a game the Steelers. By the time get the
Speaker 1: game kicked off, they were three point underdogs. Kept moving.
Speaker 1: Huh yeah, kept moving And Mike Tomlin in games, particularly
Speaker 1: at home, is it home underdog? Oh?
Speaker 3: I know, O joint time. I bet against some all year.
Speaker 3: I'm glad I was wrong, but I thought the Jets
Speaker 3: were going to be really dangerous. They're kind of a
Speaker 3: dysfunctional group.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they really are. I think Tomlin is the only
Speaker 1: coach in the NFL currently and this was the case
Speaker 1: last year even when Belichick was in the league, who
Speaker 1: has a winning record overall, straight up as a home
Speaker 1: underdog or just underdog in general. It's just as an
Speaker 1: underdog to have a winning more games than you lose.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, even if it's a one point spread
Speaker 3: or twelve points spread, doesn't matter. Now, he has a
Speaker 3: winning record as a dog, as a dog period at
Speaker 3: night or on the road after Christmas.
Speaker 1: Straight up right, not even considering taking the points into account.
Speaker 1: He has a winning record as a as an underdog.
Speaker 1: I mean that in itself is really impressive. But that
Speaker 1: probably means they're not big dogs very often, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, Like apparently not, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: They're gonna play tough, grinded out games. They don't lose
Speaker 3: by a ton. They've had some big losses in the years.
Speaker 3: I'm implying it didn't. But when your previewing the game,
Speaker 3: not reviewing the game, never like a bet the Steelers
Speaker 3: lose by twenty.
Speaker 1: Soll let's do a little bit to finish up the
Speaker 1: show here real quick. Let's do a little Guys, who
Speaker 1: are rising in your eyes and guys who maybe are
Speaker 1: sliding a little bit. Let's do the risers first.
Speaker 3: To throw some offensive ones out the risers. Russ Nausey,
Speaker 3: Warren Washington, big riser for me all around. Dan Moore,
Speaker 3: Dan Moore has just played very well all season long.
Speaker 1: McCormick.
Speaker 3: McCormick is trending the right direction. The arrow's going up. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Pickens is kind of low throught because I just think
Speaker 3: he who throws them the ball and when.
Speaker 1: You know so, I'm not going to pick him. I
Speaker 1: missing anyone. No, that seems to be.
Speaker 3: McCollum hasn't stinked, I mean stung.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Fine, Yeah, so he's better than expected. He's better than
Speaker 3: a practice squad type guy.
Speaker 1: How about defensively, I mean you got to say Beingie
Speaker 1: Bishop because he had two interceptions in that game, but
Speaker 1: he had been struggling a little bit. Yeah. It just
Speaker 1: goes to show if you're struggling a struggling player and
Speaker 1: you come on the drive, that's all I gotta do.
Speaker 1: So he got fixes everything. I told him that after
Speaker 1: the game. I said, Hey, I just wanted to let
Speaker 1: you know. You come on the drive, you go get
Speaker 1: two picks. All your buddies.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's stay in the secondary. Elliott's never dipped right, like, yeah,
Speaker 3: say he's rising. I don't know how about Peyton Wilson
Speaker 3: left linebackers. I would go to Peyton Wilson.
Speaker 1: Had nine tackles in that game.
Speaker 3: I think Queen's noticeably better than he was to start
Speaker 3: the season.
Speaker 1: Oh, he was getting people were killing them after the
Speaker 1: long catch and run by uh pull by Hall and
Speaker 1: I'm like Atlanta Robberts basically, I mean they all collided
Speaker 1: with each other and yeah.
Speaker 3: They have And oh, by the way, Hall's really good.
Speaker 3: He's really good, really good. He's one of the best
Speaker 3: backs in the league. Run not a defensive ones though.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna say t J. Watts rising. How about
Speaker 3: James Pierre held up?
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, you're you're playing against two of the better
Speaker 1: receivers in the league. Yeah, and you weren't a liability
Speaker 1: out there, so play the entire second half.
Speaker 3: The announcers were really poor. I thought it with some
Speaker 3: injury news and I immediately thought, oh no, I mean
Speaker 3: Jackson can hold his own against those guys. Pierre's gonna
Speaker 3: get picked the parts and we didn't have the bishop.
Speaker 3: I'm like, now, they have two guys to throw at
Speaker 3: it and those to one, you know, consistently, and it
Speaker 3: didn't happen at all. It actually played well from what
Speaker 3: I saw and watch all all the all twenty two.
Speaker 3: I also haven't don't know this definitively, but it didn't.
Speaker 1: Look like Porter travel. They did a lot of left
Speaker 1: right some on third downs. Yeah, there were sometimes on
Speaker 1: third downs, and I saw stat he was. He was
Speaker 1: targeted three times in coverage. I saw that it was
Speaker 1: on the next gen Yeah, the next gen stuff. Three
Speaker 1: times of covers. Gave up one catch for nine yards,
Speaker 1: but he was on He was on Adams like seventeen
Speaker 1: times and Wilson twenty six times, and it was targeted
Speaker 1: three times. Right, He played really really well. I mean,
Speaker 1: which one of these guys is the All Pro? And
Speaker 1: which one one is the guy that nobody's talking about
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 3: So it was early in the game, and I think
Speaker 3: I only saw it once, but if I was, the
Speaker 3: Jets would have done it so much more. When it
Speaker 3: looked like they were playing sides, they put a bunch
Speaker 3: to the field and Porter was on the short side.
Speaker 3: I think it was with no wide receiver on that side,
Speaker 3: but he still stayed to the side and they ran.
Speaker 3: They pulled a guard and they got a tight end
Speaker 3: on him, and they got Breise Hall and they got
Speaker 3: a big chunk gain.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I would do that over and over, you know,
Speaker 1: much better that once. That was only a touchdown because
Speaker 1: he had a thirteen yard run on the touchdown. That
Speaker 1: was his only chunk run of the game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, yeah, I mean it was if you know,
Speaker 3: these guys are going to play sides. You got all
Speaker 3: these good receivers on one side, and Porter's probably not them.
Speaker 1: They were mixing things up, and so just because that happened,
Speaker 1: they caught him in a play in that situation. Sometimes, yeah,
Speaker 1: sometimes you call the right day, may have one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: They came out in that formation later with nobody out there,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, on the pass to Jack Conklin or
Speaker 1: the tight end Tyler Conklin here, that's exactly what happened.
Speaker 1: They cleared everybody out and he's over there by himself
Speaker 1: and there's nobody on that side the field because Steelers
Speaker 1: were a man on that play. Yeah, so you just
Speaker 1: didn't know what you were going to get. And I thought,
Speaker 1: I thought, how about Terrell Austin for I mean the
Speaker 1: defensive adjustments that they have made down pretty quick week
Speaker 1: after week. In the second half, I mean, yeah, pushing
Speaker 1: the right buttons. I understand they lost to the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: I understand they gave up ten points in the second
Speaker 1: half in Indianapolis.
Speaker 3: One points in a half is a lot of points.
Speaker 3: You can win a lot of games with twenty points allowed. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't. I mean that second half point differential kind
Speaker 3: of blows me away crazy. I mean it's sixty eight points.
Speaker 3: I mean they're just beating people up physically, and you're
Speaker 3: making good adjustments and executing better and getting better as
Speaker 3: a game goes on. That's winning football.
Speaker 1: Yeah, real quickly. We get it. Before we got to
Speaker 1: go here. Some of the guys who were struggling a
Speaker 1: little bit, you know, Roderick Roderick Jones, I need to
Speaker 1: see more of Uh, he's got to he's got to
Speaker 1: be better than what he has been. I know, people think, well,
Speaker 1: he messed with his head. They totally know he's been
Speaker 1: playing right tackle. That's kind of a sense training camp
Speaker 1: and he is not playing well.
Speaker 3: You can't always know the snaff count. He doesn't the
Speaker 3: right guy.
Speaker 1: You can't just say, oh, he's our left tackle for
Speaker 1: next year. But the way that he's played more.
Speaker 3: And more thinking he better give a contract offered to
Speaker 3: Damn Moore. Yeah, and then take it from there and
Speaker 3: have one extra baby. Maybe they all hit and you're happy. Yeah,
Speaker 3: anyone else go in the wrong direction.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to not really. I mean again, you're five
Speaker 1: and two. It's hard to it's hard to single out.
Speaker 1: And I don't feel what people to feel. I'm not
Speaker 1: picking on Roderck Jones. Special teams. Going the right direct
Speaker 1: special teams is tremendous. They've been really good. We didn't
Speaker 1: mention Boswell, we didn't mention this weight.
Speaker 3: We could have thrown those guys and thumbs up. You know,
Speaker 3: I I start Hayward as an offensive player. To me
Speaker 3: is leaving me a little short.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I need to see more there. Uh you know,
Speaker 1: I think I'm not sure where he creates me. Calvinus
Speaker 1: had a bad drop, Yes, really bad, Yeah, really bad drop.
Speaker 1: You know again, if they get that, that's a first
Speaker 1: down and who knows where that drive goes? Instead they
Speaker 1: have to That was the first of their three and outs, and.
Speaker 3: I had a big power halftime notes and thought one
Speaker 3: of them was if the second half doesn't go as well,
Speaker 3: we might look back at that Austin drop and be like,
Speaker 3: that's a drive killer, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so, but overall pretty good. His returns have a
Speaker 1: decent his return He's been very good as a return guy.
Speaker 1: So overall not you know, I can't kill the guy
Speaker 1: and he had a thirty six yard catching that game.
Speaker 1: Hard to knock him on that one. But yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I think they're trending in the right direction.
Speaker 3: I'm looking for guys going backwards and not really seeing it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: So there you go. Broder Jones, you got to be better,
Speaker 3: and he can be. That's the thing, can be. That's
Speaker 3: the thing.
Speaker 1: You've seen it, you know. Yeah, so absolutely, but that's
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