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Speaker 1: Here's Frank Staffele, I am Greg Susman. Frankie. What's happening, buddy?
Speaker 1: Happy Thursday to you. No football, No Thursday Night football tonight.
Speaker 1: It kind of feels weird, but we will talk about
Speaker 1: the alternate Thursday Night football broadcast which are airing on Saturday.
Speaker 1: It's Saturday, sleep right, so we'll we'll jump into that.
Speaker 1: Get some updates on some injuries here, but before all that.
Speaker 1: How did you sleep, buddy, weird man? I woke up
Speaker 1: and I look, I was, I must be trying it off,
Speaker 1: like so like a light on outside my window. It
Speaker 1: was one thirty and I've been sleeping for very long.
Speaker 1: Then there's one of those nights when you just woke
Speaker 1: up like a lot, just tick on the clock. I
Speaker 1: woke up like four thirty and then eventually woke up myself.
Speaker 1: Well though, I feel good. I feel a lot better
Speaker 1: than I did um earlier this week, where I was
Speaker 1: battling the sickness early on. Right now Thursday, we're toward
Speaker 1: the end of the week. Light at the end of
Speaker 1: the tunnel here, Yes, when we get Gregg speaking in cliches,
Speaker 1: that's how you know what's gonna be. How are you, buddy?
Speaker 1: I'm doing well. I don't nearly sleep as well as
Speaker 1: you do every night. Last night was fine, but yeah,
Speaker 1: rearing and ready to go. Here, Greg, let's go more
Speaker 1: cliches should we start? Let's go? All right? So on
Speaker 1: the program today, Virginia Zakis will join us on the program.
Speaker 1: A lot of injury updates, we hope, specifically for players
Speaker 1: that reside in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Well Virginia. We're gonna preview
Speaker 1: the Saturday games today. We have a lot of Sunday
Speaker 1: games to get you tomorrow. But I want to start
Speaker 1: on the news that we're hearing about Dalvin Cook. I
Speaker 1: think it makes the most sense. So the news came
Speaker 1: out early this morning. If you're listening to our station
Speaker 1: all day, you've heard it. Dalvin Cook not expected to
Speaker 1: be available on Sunday. In fact, with the Vikings seemingly
Speaker 1: liked locked in to that sixth seed unless they win
Speaker 1: two in a row and the Packers lose two in
Speaker 1: a row, they're gonna rest Dalvin Cook for each of
Speaker 1: the next two weeks and get him ready for the playoffs, where, hey,
Speaker 1: they may wind up facing any they're gonna face. They're
Speaker 1: gonna face the You, they face the Packers potentially again
Speaker 1: in the first round. They'll face the Packers, or they
Speaker 1: will face the Saints. Wow. Yeah, so most likely I
Speaker 1: think face the Packers in the first round. So they
Speaker 1: want Dalvin Cook to be ready for that one. Yeah, absolutely, Greg.
Speaker 1: And of course, right before we come on the air,
Speaker 1: here I see a little road O World blurb update
Speaker 1: on Dalvin Cook. What it once was saying that he's
Speaker 1: going through his normal preparation for Week sixteen, like nothing
Speaker 1: is wrong. He's coming in, he's doing what he normally does. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it doesn't look like Dalvin Cook is going to play,
Speaker 1: so I wouldn't read too much into this. We got
Speaker 1: the report earlier today that he is looking doubtful for
Speaker 1: this week. It's on Monday Night football, So the earlier
Speaker 1: we get this information, obviously the better it. Teams. Like
Speaker 1: every single year, Greg this time of year in the
Speaker 1: Fantasy playoffs, in the Fantasy Championship, we have one or
Speaker 1: two big names going into either a Sunday night game
Speaker 1: a Monday night game that we don't know who's gonna play,
Speaker 1: and it kind of pauses hysteria for fantasy football. You
Speaker 1: don't know if it's gonna if Madison is gonna play.
Speaker 1: You don't know if Mike Boone is gonna be the guy.
Speaker 1: You almost want everybody is to sit except Mike Boone
Speaker 1: just so he can have a full workload and a
Speaker 1: good match up against the Green Bay Packers. So these
Speaker 1: are all things that you have to consider. You know,
Speaker 1: maybe just have another Minnesota Viking player available, a Green
Speaker 1: Bay Packers player, just in case you don't know what's
Speaker 1: gonna happen, but there's a lot that's going to happen
Speaker 1: before Monday. I can assure you that I think Saturday
Speaker 1: be the big day to know whether or not Alexander
Speaker 1: Madison will be available for this one. Saturdays when they
Speaker 1: have to give out the injury designations. Today, of course,
Speaker 1: was the first day of practice for Minnesota. The first
Speaker 1: time we heard from Mike's Diammer or you don't believe
Speaker 1: anything out of now, You said that Dalvin Cook kind
Speaker 1: of going through his normal routine here today. I think
Speaker 1: they do hold them out right, like, I think they
Speaker 1: see the bigger picture. They see that they're going to
Speaker 1: the playoffs. They make sure down with Cook's healthy. What
Speaker 1: I do believe from Mikesammer, maybe this is not even believing.
Speaker 1: You know, that's exactly what I said earlier in a
Speaker 1: month Greig, when he was first dealing with the shoulder,
Speaker 1: I said, after that Seattle Seahawks game, send him out
Speaker 1: a few games. You need him for this Packers game
Speaker 1: because it's a huge divisional matchup. So who knows, maybe
Speaker 1: he would have been less likely to reinjure himself if
Speaker 1: he sat out until now. While he was recovering from
Speaker 1: this shoulder injury. So again, well, I don't really believe
Speaker 1: anything about Mike Zimmer. One thing I kind of do
Speaker 1: want to believe is that he was asked, how would
Speaker 1: the offense change if they don't have Alexander Madison and
Speaker 1: they don't have Dalvin Cook, and he says it wouldn't.
Speaker 1: We would just do what we do and Mike Boon.
Speaker 1: But they hope it doesn't come to that. So I
Speaker 1: want to take that statement because that was a big
Speaker 1: statement that I read this morning as all right, the
Speaker 1: Vike he's needs to be and they're gonna beat the
Speaker 1: Packers on Sunday, they and on Monday, and they do
Speaker 1: want to beat the Packers. They gotta play their game,
Speaker 1: and more cliches there you go. You have to play
Speaker 1: their your own game, and that is mostly running the football,
Speaker 1: and against the Packers, what's the way to win? Run
Speaker 1: the football. The secondary is very good. So if Dalmin
Speaker 1: Cook doesn't play and they don't want to have to
Speaker 1: go to Mikepoon, we hopefully doesn't come to that. It
Speaker 1: certainly seems like the idea we're all circling around is
Speaker 1: that Alexander Madison's the guy on Monday night and he
Speaker 1: gets his normal workload. I think if he is active,
Speaker 1: he is going to play the majority of the snaps.
Speaker 1: He's going to be the man on Monday. From what
Speaker 1: I have read Madazine. This comes from Ian Rabbitport madasine
Speaker 1: is day to day, but it's hopeful to play on
Speaker 1: Monday night. Yeah. I saw that as well, and again
Speaker 1: it's you know, take what you will from Mike Zimmer's quotes.
Speaker 1: I saw earlier today on Alexander Madison. He said, quote,
Speaker 1: he's doing better, He's got a good chance for Monday, right.
Speaker 1: I also saw that Jeff Ratcliffe of PFF quote tweeted
Speaker 1: that and said that Mike Zimmer said the same thing
Speaker 1: about Adam Feeling in week eleven and then he didn't
Speaker 1: play until week fifteen. So you gotta take what Mike
Speaker 1: Zimmer says with a grain of salt. But I think
Speaker 1: either way, you know, if Alexander Madison is active, Greg,
Speaker 1: while he will see the majority of the workload, it's
Speaker 1: still going to be split. Like Dalvin Cook has been
Speaker 1: great this year, but Alexander Madison has still had a
Speaker 1: role in the games that Dalvin Cook was really good.
Speaker 1: So it would likely be Madison steps into that Dalvin
Speaker 1: Cook roll. Mike Boone steps into the Alexander Madison role
Speaker 1: normally when both him and Dalvin cooker healthy, So it
Speaker 1: would probably be a sixty thirty five split something like that.
Speaker 1: And we know what they want to run the football.
Speaker 1: You're right about that because the Vikings have the second
Speaker 1: highest rushper rush percentage in the NFL. Green Bay package
Speaker 1: allow a ton of fantasy points of running backs, so
Speaker 1: you're right. Someone's gonna be a beneficiary here. You've gotta
Speaker 1: pay attention. I want to reach some quotes from Vikings
Speaker 1: practice so you could play along with us and try
Speaker 1: to understand what's happening. We'll do that on the other side,
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Speaker 1: all the BFFs, and I want to give you a
Speaker 1: couple of quotes. UM roll before by cons practice. Now,
Speaker 1: I haven't finished practice yet, so we don't have a
Speaker 1: injury designation, poff form Madison or a Cook. Um. Here
Speaker 1: are some quotes I wanted to read you. Uh. These
Speaker 1: all come courtesy of Courtney Cronin, who's an ESPN writer
Speaker 1: who covers the vikings. Davin Cook addressed whether his new
Speaker 1: shoulder injury presents a pain management issue or puts him
Speaker 1: at risk for further damage. We placed through it as
Speaker 1: we had said. The last shoulder injury was all pain manager.
Speaker 1: There's no more damage he could have done. He said
Speaker 1: this quote, It's just about getting healthy, paint and all
Speaker 1: that comes with the game. You can bear so much,
Speaker 1: you can do so much. It's all about being healthy.
Speaker 1: And I think that's where I'm when I'm at my
Speaker 1: best for the team. So let's let's translate that. Let's
Speaker 1: use our translator, Google translator. Frank, What did Doblin Cook
Speaker 1: just say? Dalvin Cook has said that as long as
Speaker 1: he is hurting this badly in his shoulder. He is
Speaker 1: not going to play. I think he says, quote, I'm
Speaker 1: not healthy. I'm much better when i'm healthier than I
Speaker 1: currently am. I can't help the team like I want
Speaker 1: to help the team. I'm not playing on Monday night. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I think that's fair. And it's all semantics, right,
Speaker 1: because you know this is what we heard last time.
Speaker 1: It's he can't further injure his shoulder. It's all pain tolerance.
Speaker 1: Well what does that mean. I mean, it's basically the
Speaker 1: same thing anyway though, right, because it's not on Sunday,
Speaker 1: it's not the same thing. That's something he got tackled.
Speaker 1: All he did was get tackles normally and then he's
Speaker 1: writhing on the ground in pain. So whether or not
Speaker 1: you want to call that him being hurt badly because
Speaker 1: it's a pain tolerance issue or re injuring the shoulder,
Speaker 1: it is different, because I don't think that it is
Speaker 1: really that different. I think it's semantics, like either way,
Speaker 1: he's not gonna play through explain it. He's not gonna
Speaker 1: play through it either way. So being hurt badly for us,
Speaker 1: he's a shoulder, right, he hurt badly is if I
Speaker 1: hit you and I break your collar bone. You are
Speaker 1: hurt badly. If I hit you, you go out writhing
Speaker 1: in pain, but you can come back a week later.
Speaker 1: You couldn't injure yourself any further. It's just about pain management.
Speaker 1: That's how it's different. But it's not gonna I don't
Speaker 1: think that's him in the short term. And you say
Speaker 1: we get better, But him playing for you shoulder injury,
Speaker 1: there is no risk. There's no theoretically different risk than
Speaker 1: if he was undid healthy of a chance that tearing
Speaker 1: his collar book or separating his shoulder. It's all about
Speaker 1: the pain, him playing through pain, and right now the
Speaker 1: pain has reached the point where he can making the
Speaker 1: pain worse. So it's enhancing that he's making the pain worse,
Speaker 1: But the injury itself can't get worse. It's not he's
Speaker 1: not a bigger risk to separate or dislocated his shoulder.
Speaker 1: I understand what you're saying, like in terms of something
Speaker 1: bigger than what it is. That's what it means. But
Speaker 1: he's still further injuring himself. No, he's not further injuring himself.
Speaker 1: He's just causing he's creating more pain. Yes, again, it's
Speaker 1: all semantics. If he can't play through it, he can't
Speaker 1: play through it anyway, So does all we care about
Speaker 1: from bigger it's not a big, bigger injury and that
Speaker 1: it's going to be something he's surgery on for instance.
Speaker 1: All right, I mean either way, like I don't think
Speaker 1: he's not gonna play great. Let me give another quote
Speaker 1: translate Dowale Cook runs the ball and catches passes in
Speaker 1: his absence, just to myke eximmer to the roles of
Speaker 1: other running acts change, especially in the passing game. No,
Speaker 1: they can catch the ball, they're good in protection. They're
Speaker 1: just different guys. Really, the system doesn't change much. So,
Speaker 1: as I told you in the first segment, they run
Speaker 1: the ball the second most in the NFL. I don't
Speaker 1: think that they're going to shy away from that. They're
Speaker 1: going to try and run the ball effectively, set up
Speaker 1: play action, take deep shots with Stephan Diggs, Adam Felan Will.
Speaker 1: I think likely see more of a workload. I know
Speaker 1: that they're saying that the offense is not going to change,
Speaker 1: but like when Dalvin Cook was healthy this season and
Speaker 1: at his best, he was getting twenty plus touches in
Speaker 1: the game, so I don't know that either Alexander Madison
Speaker 1: or Mike Boone is going to see that work away.
Speaker 1: The disagree. I think they trust Alexander Madison, and I
Speaker 1: think of Alexander Madison, you're you're really optimistic on Madison.
Speaker 1: I'm not nearly as optimistic as you are about what
Speaker 1: about him playing in general or about him play, because
Speaker 1: I think there's different things, like I have no idea
Speaker 1: because we've seen I'm not optimistic at all a bunch
Speaker 1: of running backs, not just this year, every single season
Speaker 1: and try and come back from an injury too soon,
Speaker 1: and either you're not effective or you end up reinjuring
Speaker 1: yourself throughout the course of the game. So I'm not optimistic.
Speaker 1: I don't even know that he plays. To be honest,
Speaker 1: what's what I'm saying. I'm not optimistic necessarily of him playing.
Speaker 1: I have no idea how he's going to play. I
Speaker 1: I don't and we'll see. Obviously it'll se the injury destination.
Speaker 1: But I think if he plays, much like we've seen
Speaker 1: with Dalvin Cook over the last two weeks, they're going
Speaker 1: to try to give him a monster workload. I don't
Speaker 1: think they back off. I'm not saying it's gonna be effective.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying he's not going to re injure himself.
Speaker 1: I am saying, though, that I think they're going to
Speaker 1: try to be who This is what me translating the quote.
Speaker 1: They're gonna try to be who they are, and they
Speaker 1: trust Alexander Madison significantly more than they trust them Mike Boon. Well,
Speaker 1: they trusted Mike Boone and he came through for them
Speaker 1: last week. And you know, I'm going to remain consistent
Speaker 1: when I say that about young players. They gave him
Speaker 1: an opportunity in that game against the Chargers. Mind you,
Speaker 1: a lot of that was garbage time, but he comes through,
Speaker 1: He runs for two touchdowns. He has a great athlete profile,
Speaker 1: he was a preseason darling Mike Boone was. So I
Speaker 1: think that they do like this kid, and I think
Speaker 1: that you know, they're not gonna run Alexander Madison out
Speaker 1: there unless he is. You're right about that, and I
Speaker 1: don't know that he's going to be I'm a little
Speaker 1: bit more pessimistic. I don't know that. I don't think
Speaker 1: Madison's gonna shoot suit up this week either. I think
Speaker 1: that it's going to be Mike Boone, and if that's
Speaker 1: the case, he's probably gonna see around twenty touches. They'll
Speaker 1: work Amra Abdullah in a little bit here. The way
Speaker 1: to beat the Packers is on the ground. They have
Speaker 1: a great pass rush, they have a solid secondary. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna go as far as to say the Packers
Speaker 1: have a great secondary. They have a solid secondary. I
Speaker 1: think r Alexander has some upside, but they do have
Speaker 1: a really good pass rush. So I do think that
Speaker 1: the Vikings are going to continue to run the football
Speaker 1: with whom again, I think we won't really know until
Speaker 1: that lead up till Saturday when we see the final
Speaker 1: practice before for the Vikings. Salad Cook says, I'm going
Speaker 1: through my normal routine of getting ready for Monday night.
Speaker 1: What he told us about road a world, and we're
Speaker 1: going to see how it goes. I've been in the
Speaker 1: training room every day, starting my mornings early every day
Speaker 1: and just grinding and get my shoulder so I can
Speaker 1: be available. I'm going to go through my normal preparation.
Speaker 1: If I'm ready to go, I'm ready to go. Obviously.
Speaker 1: Immediately after the game he initially injured a shoulder, He'll
Speaker 1: say I'll play. I will be there next week. He
Speaker 1: said the same thing last time. He is never no, no,
Speaker 1: he's agreed. He is not saying this last time he
Speaker 1: said I'll play next week. He's not saying I thought
Speaker 1: I thought you were saying that. He said that this week. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: he didn't. So I think it's injuring. I don't think
Speaker 1: he's gonna play. Yeah, he's a different injury in the
Speaker 1: last time. He's also saying, Oh, but I thought he
Speaker 1: couldn't you know, further injury anything. It's a different I
Speaker 1: mean that that would be further injuring it, am I right?
Speaker 1: So I it's all semantics, right. Everyone will say, oh,
Speaker 1: it's a pain tolerance thing, it's another injury, can't come in.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't buy that, man, Like, there's
Speaker 1: so many different things that can happen with your shoulder. Look,
Speaker 1: I'm not a doctor. We could save it for and
Speaker 1: inside injuries and we'll find out from her. But you know,
Speaker 1: say whatever you want, Like you're play in the NFL.
Speaker 1: You're getting tackled by a three fifty pound guy and
Speaker 1: this guy lands on you and on top of your shoulder, Like,
Speaker 1: I have no doubt that's something different can come out
Speaker 1: of that injury. That's just it is what it is.
Speaker 1: Like I think once you're hurt, like yeah, you're gonna
Speaker 1: be susceptible to all the different kinds of things. And look,
Speaker 1: he only did was get tackled. It didn't even look
Speaker 1: that bad on Sunday and the guys on the ground
Speaker 1: writhing in pain like this risk was always there with
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cooke. Here's the last quote I want to quote
Speaker 1: I wanted to give you in regards to this. They
Speaker 1: we can move on, want to come back on Virginia
Speaker 1: joins us like he's coach. Mike Zimmers said, Alexander Madison
Speaker 1: is quote doing better, says on Mike Boone. We hopefully
Speaker 1: we don't need him on Monday, So voted Mike Boone.
Speaker 1: Ever do heard that quote? That's what made me think,
Speaker 1: if Madison is available, did Boone fumble at all on
Speaker 1: this past week? Gosh? And that that was like a
Speaker 1: damning quote. That's the quote that made me think, if
Speaker 1: Madison is available, they're going to ride Madison like they
Speaker 1: would if he was healthy. Yeah, I guess, and they
Speaker 1: shouldn't play him unless he's one. We've heard that before.
Speaker 1: We heard the same thing with t Y Hilton last
Speaker 1: week and the guy only plays you know of the snaps.
Speaker 1: Still saw a lot of targets. But last week, no,
Speaker 1: he did not fumble. My Boone did not fumble in
Speaker 1: that game. I don't know that that seems I don't know.
Speaker 1: It seems like a very damning quote for you know,
Speaker 1: a young player in Mike Boone who just performed pretty well.
Speaker 1: He's only twenty four years old again a second season
Speaker 1: undrafted out of Cincinnati. I like the athletic profile too,
Speaker 1: but it's kind of messed up. Mike Zimmer, way to
Speaker 1: uh wait, way to put some some faith and confidence
Speaker 1: in your young players. As I said, I I think
Speaker 1: that there's a reason why bood has been number three
Speaker 1: in the depth chart all year, where four when a
Speaker 1: mirror Dulo was ahead of him. He believes that the
Speaker 1: other guys give a better chance to win significantly, and
Speaker 1: that includes Alexander Madison even on a bad manco You
Speaker 1: know what's hilarious is that Mike Boone also has like
Speaker 1: this dread bund thing, the dreaded trail. Yeah, I know
Speaker 1: that sounded to the closer or like calls Alexander Madison
Speaker 1: and Dalvin Cook, the Dreaded duo. Who whoa, whoa. There's
Speaker 1: three in this mix that would make it a dreaded trio.
Speaker 1: I guess they all go to the same barber, Greg, Yeah, yes,
Speaker 1: so Frank, Yes, all right, coming up next to zakas
Speaker 1: will join us. We'll get into all this with her.
Speaker 1: We'll put a bow on this conversation. We'll move over
Speaker 1: some of the other injuries that are are affecting your
Speaker 1: fantasy lineups here uh this week. We will also um
Speaker 1: then start pleading the Saturday games. I really want to
Speaker 1: get into all three of those games if we can.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's gonna be tough in that final segment,
Speaker 1: but we've got we've got a lot of talk with Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's true. We have that that final three minute. You
Speaker 1: gotta talk about Prascod Perriman, like we've been talking about
Speaker 1: Prascod Perriman. We have some of the questions that I'm getting,
Speaker 1: are they're crazy? I was asked Perriman or Bell, and
Speaker 1: I paused, exactly and I paused, all right, break. Virginia
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Speaker 1: and I can get off inside injuries with Virginia Zakis.
Speaker 1: But a scratch, scratch, arms off. That's out of the week,
Speaker 1: Week sixteen. Your championship is online and I break it
Speaker 1: down with us. It's Virginia Zagas of inside injuries. What's
Speaker 1: happened Virginia? Hey guys, how's it going good? How are
Speaker 1: you how here? How are you hanging in there? Hanging
Speaker 1: in there? Got the go ahead today to start trying
Speaker 1: to h do a little bit of walking. So looking
Speaker 1: forward to that. All right, the little things, the little
Speaker 1: things exactly put it in perspective. Absolutely. Let's start where
Speaker 1: we've been talking about the whole show, Virginia, and that's
Speaker 1: what's going on in Minnesota. Where Dalvin Cook re injured
Speaker 1: his shoulder, made his shoulder worse, whatever you want to
Speaker 1: call it, but he is significantly hampered by that shoulder
Speaker 1: injury once again. Alexander Madison still out with his ankle injury,
Speaker 1: which means on Monday Night Football it may be all
Speaker 1: about Mike Boone Virginia One. Are the chances that either
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook or Alexander Madison play on Monday how significant
Speaker 1: or both of these two injuries. Yes, there's been some
Speaker 1: conflicting reports on Dalvin Cook. Um. Some people have said,
Speaker 1: you know, he's going to try to fight through and
Speaker 1: play through the injury. I'm gonna sort of tough it out,
Speaker 1: even though he won't be. Other reports have said that
Speaker 1: the Vikings are hopefully going to shut him down the
Speaker 1: final two weeks of the season, let him rest um
Speaker 1: and hopefully fully recover ahead of the playoffs. UM. Not surprising.
Speaker 1: Our algorithm is saying that they should shut him down
Speaker 1: for the final two weeks um, and if they do that,
Speaker 1: he should have a pretty good chance of being quote
Speaker 1: to a percent by the time the playoffs come around. Um.
Speaker 1: Of course that's not what his fantasy owners want her here,
Speaker 1: but he is not going to be UM anywhere near
Speaker 1: healthy if he does try to play this weekend. UM.
Speaker 1: You know a lot of the time we see these
Speaker 1: running backs with shoulder injuries. They can play pretty well
Speaker 1: through the injury, but all it takes is one big
Speaker 1: hit or one hard fall on that shoulder and their
Speaker 1: day is done. And that's what I'm concerned about with
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook. So no surprise, he's a high injury risk,
Speaker 1: health performance factors below average, UM, and I'm just not
Speaker 1: convinced that if he does play, he'll be able to
Speaker 1: make it through the game. UM. And best guess is
Speaker 1: he does not play. I guess on Monday. UM. Madison
Speaker 1: not looking too much better. He heard his ankle in
Speaker 1: week fourteen, missed last week. UM. Their coach said today
Speaker 1: he's unsure if he would practice. So it's looking like
Speaker 1: he's going to start the week off with a d
Speaker 1: n P. Obviously someone to watch closely, but we're showing
Speaker 1: that he really shouldn't return until next week at the earliest, UM,
Speaker 1: due to this ankle injury. Yeah, we'll take that. Mike Zimmer,
Speaker 1: you might want to start saying some nice things about
Speaker 1: Mike Boone because it's looking like He's going to be
Speaker 1: your guy on Monday Night football. Obviously, this is the
Speaker 1: biggest story heading into Week sixteen, our championship week Virginia.
Speaker 1: Another player we've been talking about all week long and
Speaker 1: where to rank is Julian Edelman of the New England Patriots.
Speaker 1: And I saw a video on Twitter yesterday of him
Speaker 1: trying to practice and it looked brutal. He did not
Speaker 1: look good out there. He's dealing with the knee, he's
Speaker 1: dealing with the shoulder. He's thirty three years old. It
Speaker 1: seems like things are starting to catch up to him.
Speaker 1: What do you guys have on Julian Edelman? How effective
Speaker 1: will he be? He's playing on a short week on Saturday.
Speaker 1: What do you have on Edelman? Yeah? Unfortunately, Edelman is
Speaker 1: one of those guys. We've had him in the high
Speaker 1: risk category the entire season. UM. He's had a few
Speaker 1: other injuries, chest, thumb, this shoulder has been going on
Speaker 1: for a while, and now it's his knee. UM. I
Speaker 1: think this is the one that you know, it's finally
Speaker 1: really affecting his performance. UM. One we have learned that
Speaker 1: this is supposedly a tendon issue, so that probably means
Speaker 1: he's either dealing with the teller tendon nitis or a
Speaker 1: very slight tear to that proteller tindon. Either one is
Speaker 1: pretty concerning, and even if he takes a few weeks off,
Speaker 1: both would continue to affect him into the playoffs. If
Speaker 1: he does play this weekend, UM not see him performing
Speaker 1: very well. Like you said, he's really not moving well.
Speaker 1: He got unlimited practices the last two days, but just
Speaker 1: has not looked good. Blacks that first and explosiveness that
Speaker 1: we need to see out of him. Um So, I
Speaker 1: don't you know. He could continue to try to play
Speaker 1: through this like he often does. He's been questionable a
Speaker 1: lot of the season, but I don't see it going
Speaker 1: well if they do make him active, Greg, it's a
Speaker 1: tough situation. I have doing Edelman on a playoff team
Speaker 1: right now, you have doing Edelman on a championship team.
Speaker 1: And I understand that he's gotten you this far, but
Speaker 1: this might be the final straw. I don't know that
Speaker 1: we can trust Julian Edelman going into Saturday, tough matchup
Speaker 1: with the Bills. He's banged up. I think if you
Speaker 1: have a legitimate wide receiver three or someone that's been
Speaker 1: playing well as of late Anthony Miller, Darius Slayton, a
Speaker 1: Tyler Boyd. In a good matchup, I think you have
Speaker 1: to look in another direction. So you were talking that
Speaker 1: yesterday you definitely start for Shardman. So let me going
Speaker 1: to another player we talked a lot about here this week,
Speaker 1: and that's Dak Prescott with what's going on with his shoulder.
Speaker 1: Now we talked about before with Dalvin Cook. You play
Speaker 1: really well with a shoulder injury. Unlets you take a
Speaker 1: bad hit or you just land on it wrong and
Speaker 1: then everything kind of changes. Well, that's unless you're quarterback
Speaker 1: where you have to throw forty times a game. Dalmad
Speaker 1: Cook is not thrown yesterday in practice, has not thrown
Speaker 1: today in practice, being very very careful with him. But
Speaker 1: in a must win game against Philadelphia on Sunday, all
Speaker 1: expectations are that he will be out there. Should fantasy
Speaker 1: owners put Dak Prescott into their lineups, I would not
Speaker 1: play him this weekend. Um. I do think he's going
Speaker 1: to try to fight through it, you know, as long
Speaker 1: as he can lift his arm up. I think he's
Speaker 1: going to try to play and see what he can do.
Speaker 1: But I don't see it going very well. Um, if
Speaker 1: you know, he's likely dealing with a lot of swelling,
Speaker 1: inflammation and that shoulder around that rotator cuff. And that's
Speaker 1: a serious, serious concern. It limits its flexibility, it's gonna
Speaker 1: affect us throwing motion, it's gonna affect his strength. UM,
Speaker 1: that's going to lead to accuracy issues. And you know
Speaker 1: this is just not a good situation for the Cowboys
Speaker 1: right now. He is, of course a high injury risk. UM.
Speaker 1: He can take any sort of a hint if anyone Um,
Speaker 1: if he gets pressure and someone hits his arm while
Speaker 1: he's not throwing motion, that's gonna put a lot of
Speaker 1: stress on the rotator cuff. UM, it could make his
Speaker 1: injury much worse, could force him to leave the game. UM.
Speaker 1: So if you've got any other viable option, I would
Speaker 1: play them over Dak Prescott. Brutal news Greg from a
Speaker 1: you know, if you're a Dak Prescott owner, if you're
Speaker 1: a Cowboys fan, if you're an a Mari Cooper owner,
Speaker 1: if you're a Michael Gallagher owner, I mean their backup
Speaker 1: quarterback is Cooper Rush. This could go south very quickly
Speaker 1: for the Dallas Cowboys in a must win game against
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles in Week sixteen. Just a really tough
Speaker 1: situation here, Greg Virginia. Another breakout wide receiver this year
Speaker 1: was DJ Chark and he is dealing with an ankle injury.
Speaker 1: He got any limited practice yesterday and I just saw
Speaker 1: on Twitter that he expects to get in a limited
Speaker 1: practice again today. What do you guys have on DJ Chark? Uh?
Speaker 1: Does this kind of fit in with his optimal recovery
Speaker 1: time or would he be returning too soon if he
Speaker 1: returns in week sixteen. Um? Yes, so we're showing actually
Speaker 1: a Grade one angle injury. Typically this would take two
Speaker 1: to three weeks to heal. Um. So, as long as
Speaker 1: this was truly a mild ankle sprain, I think he
Speaker 1: can come back this week and play pretty well. Our
Speaker 1: projections have him been an above average HPS, so again,
Speaker 1: if it's mild, I think he can do pretty well. UM.
Speaker 1: I would like to see him get in a full
Speaker 1: practice Friday, or at least if he's officially limited, you know,
Speaker 1: really go full speed. If he's not able to go
Speaker 1: full speed and run and cut it a hundred percent
Speaker 1: during practice, he definitely should not play in the game.
Speaker 1: But it looks like he is progressing and has a
Speaker 1: pretty good shot at suitting up. I think that if
Speaker 1: DJ Chark is out there, if they deem that he's
Speaker 1: good enough to play in this game against the Atlanta Falcons,
Speaker 1: that makes him a low and wide receiver, too high
Speaker 1: and wide receiver three right in that area, A top
Speaker 1: thirty wide receiver this week obviously would uh limit some
Speaker 1: of the upside of Chris Connley. But I wouldn't completely
Speaker 1: get off of Chris Conny either. You love Chris Connay,
Speaker 1: you do now we Virginia Zakis. You're all of inside
Speaker 1: injuries in Virginia. A name that Frank and I have
Speaker 1: thrown out in replacing Julian Edelman has been greg Ward.
Speaker 1: And we talked a lot about Greig Ward this weekin
Speaker 1: Who Knew? But greg Ward may that wasn't only be effective,
Speaker 1: it will sly be more effective. There's no Nelson A
Speaker 1: galore in a lot of it feels like we have
Speaker 1: an injured closed in a returning How close easier were
Speaker 1: to returning? Yeah, So Agona originally was hurt in week eleven,
Speaker 1: missed one week, and then returned to week thirteen, um
Speaker 1: and then he hasn't played since. So aggravted that knee injury. Um,
Speaker 1: he didn't practice yesterday and it sounds like he's unlikely
Speaker 1: to return this weekend. Our algorithm is saying that he
Speaker 1: shouldn't return until week seventeen. UM, he's a high injury
Speaker 1: risk and you know best guesses he does not play.
Speaker 1: And if he does, UM, I don't see him, you know,
Speaker 1: playing playing a ton And if he does, UM, I
Speaker 1: don't think he's going to be nearly as effective as
Speaker 1: he was before the injury. Fire up the Greg Ward.
Speaker 1: If Nelson Aghalore is out, the Cowboys have been eaten
Speaker 1: alive by slot receivers. And we just saw Greg Ward
Speaker 1: have a solid game last week. The targets were there
Speaker 1: for him as well. So again, if Lars out, fire
Speaker 1: up Greg Ward. I want to stick with the Philadelphia
Speaker 1: Eagles here Virginia. And yesterday we got a quote from
Speaker 1: Dick Doug Peterson saying Jordan Howard shoulder remains quote status quo.
Speaker 1: I guess that means that he's not going to play,
Speaker 1: because if he's status quo, he hasn't played each of
Speaker 1: the past couple of weeks, past a month basically, and
Speaker 1: Miles Sanders has been very good. So is that what
Speaker 1: we're expecting for Jordan Howard to sit out. Yep. He
Speaker 1: hasn't played since Week nine and as far as we know,
Speaker 1: he is still not cleared for contact. I don't see
Speaker 1: that changing in the next few days. Um. He's been
Speaker 1: dealing with a stinger, which is essentially a nerve issue
Speaker 1: near the shoulder. And the problem with these nerve issues
Speaker 1: is if they don't resolve within a few days, they're
Speaker 1: generally not going to resolve very quickly. Um. This one
Speaker 1: has taken a really long time, but it could This
Speaker 1: could be one of those things where he doesn't, you know,
Speaker 1: get back to normal until the off season. UM. A
Speaker 1: few more days you know, between now and the weekend
Speaker 1: is not going to be enough time for it to
Speaker 1: resolve itself. So, you know, they haven't played him in
Speaker 1: the last you know, over a month, and I really
Speaker 1: don't see that changing now. Um, as long as he's
Speaker 1: you know, not feel a hundred percent, so I don't
Speaker 1: think he's gonna be out there again. UM, also probably
Speaker 1: likely to miss week seventeen. Now, the rest of the
Speaker 1: players that we wanted to ask you about, we know
Speaker 1: are are not playing this weekend. We wanted to know
Speaker 1: more of the long term effects. So I'll begin here
Speaker 1: with I'll we get here with Josh Jacobs who heard
Speaker 1: his shoulder, played through it, then didn't play. He didn't play,
Speaker 1: and then play and they didn't play again. What's called
Speaker 1: all with Josh Jacob's shoulder. It's broken, it's not what's
Speaker 1: what's up here? Yeah, so his initial injury was a
Speaker 1: scapular fracture that he played through. UM. Pretty pretty painful injury.
Speaker 1: It's I'm actually impressed he he played as many weeks
Speaker 1: as he did with the scacular fracture. It was likely
Speaker 1: you know, more of a hairline fracture of very slight fracture,
Speaker 1: still very very painful, especially because of the number of
Speaker 1: hits and hard falls are running back takes. UM. But
Speaker 1: I believe he had to have done done something else
Speaker 1: to his shoulder, some sort of an aggravation and um
Speaker 1: week thirteen, because he went on to miss week fourteen,
Speaker 1: played last week and looked okay, but now isn't playing again. UM.
Speaker 1: So kind of like we said that Dalvin Cook, you know,
Speaker 1: slightly different injury here, but shoulder injury for running back
Speaker 1: it's just you know, even if you can make it
Speaker 1: through a game afterwards, You're going to be in a
Speaker 1: lot of pain. There's gonna be a lot of inflammation
Speaker 1: if you can't properly lift your shoulder. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's not something that you can really play through,
Speaker 1: especially because of the pain and with the raiders you know,
Speaker 1: out of it right now, I don't think it's worth
Speaker 1: them taking any risks. Um. He's at a very very
Speaker 1: high risk of re injury right now if he were
Speaker 1: to play. So I actually think it's a smart decision
Speaker 1: for them to shut them down. Virginia Gregg prematurely skipped
Speaker 1: over one name that still might play this weekend. I
Speaker 1: want to ask you about quickly, and that is Juju
Speaker 1: Smith Schuster, who was a limited participant in practice Wednesday.
Speaker 1: What can you tell us about Juju potentially returning this weekend? Um,
Speaker 1: So saw a report that it sounds like he's going
Speaker 1: to be a full participant practice today, which is great news.
Speaker 1: Um if he does. If he is full today, I'd
Speaker 1: like to see him get in a full practice tomorrow,
Speaker 1: especially because last week he had that setback where he
Speaker 1: had a full practice and then was dropped down. But
Speaker 1: as long as he can make it through practice today
Speaker 1: and tomorrow, I think he's got a good shot at
Speaker 1: um doing pretty well. All right, there you go. She's
Speaker 1: Virginia Sagas for inside injuries. Virginia, appreciate the time and
Speaker 1: good luck walking. Absolutely all right. We'll take a break.
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Speaker 1: So uh this Saturday afternoon we got three games. This
Speaker 1: is fun because the first game features the Houston Texans.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like a preview of two weeks from
Speaker 1: now in the NFL playoffs for the Houston Texans will
Speaker 1: play the early game on Saturday afternoon in the window.
Speaker 1: That's the point. It's it's a Houston Texas money every
Speaker 1: single year. If you can bet on which team is
Speaker 1: going to play the first game on Saturday, it's going
Speaker 1: to be the text. You can lock this in. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be Houston and Buffalo four thirty pm Eastern time, Saturday,
Speaker 1: the first week of the playoffs. I love you said
Speaker 1: everything with confidence, and then you're like, what day is it?
Speaker 1: What day is it? Saturday afternoon? Bills and Texans lock
Speaker 1: it and I have texted back and forth with Michael Florio.
Speaker 1: He feels very confident between whoever he will face, whether
Speaker 1: it is the Texans or the time Texas anymore. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he probably doesn't. I don't know anyway. So I was
Speaker 1: talking a game about this where you have the Bills
Speaker 1: of a second because they play four thirty on Saturday,
Speaker 1: right after the Houston game. He doesn't know what he
Speaker 1: wants because what does that mean? So he wants to
Speaker 1: beat the Patriots for like confidence reasons, right of course,
Speaker 1: hold on, So it actually won't be the Texas. Texas
Speaker 1: go finish with the four seat of the three seat.
Speaker 1: The Bills are gonna be the five seed in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: It will be the four or five. It will be
Speaker 1: the four or five. Okay. So he doesn't want the
Speaker 1: Patriots to fall behind the Texans because if they do,
Speaker 1: he's gonna play the Patriots in the first round of
Speaker 1: the playoffs. So he's like, if if we beat them
Speaker 1: and Houston like wins out, they could get this. So
Speaker 1: he's like, do I want to You can't have it all.
Speaker 1: So you've got a root for the Bills. I want
Speaker 1: them to win because we're gonna prove that we can
Speaker 1: fat these eyes. We're gonna go into Foxborough, not once,
Speaker 1: but twice. You're out of your mind. I love the confidence,
Speaker 1: the confidence in games. Picks for the Bills never wavers,
Speaker 1: no matter whose quarterback, no matter who's the coach. Nobody circles.
Speaker 1: We got the best bets tomorrow. How much you want
Speaker 1: to bet the Bils on that? I will. I will
Speaker 1: bet my entire bank account, Greig that the Bills are
Speaker 1: on there tomorrow. Warning it will be fun. But before
Speaker 1: we get to feel his pace shots, let's get into
Speaker 1: Texans Bucks. It's a fun one from a fantasy perspective
Speaker 1: because Tim and Bay you have Jameis Winston, you have
Speaker 1: the offense and pieces Breschard Perriman will get into him
Speaker 1: in just a moment. Against Houston, who have their own
Speaker 1: offensive weapons. Here we will fuller and get any skills
Speaker 1: and certainly DeAndre Hopkins as well. Texans Tamba from Tamba
Speaker 1: Bay on Saturday afternoon. Let's start where everybody wants us
Speaker 1: to start, Gregg, and that is with Kenny Stills. No
Speaker 1: Breshad Perryman. Look you went off last week five catches
Speaker 1: and thirteen yards, three touchdowns. No Chris god when he's
Speaker 1: already ruled out, Mike Evans will not play another game.
Speaker 1: Justin Watson will play in this game. The tight ends
Speaker 1: apparently are going to be more involved. According to Jameis Winston,
Speaker 1: why are you for getting Scotty Miller. Scotty Miller is
Speaker 1: not going to play in this game. I believe he's
Speaker 1: already be ruled out. Hurt hurd get Scotty Miller pulled
Speaker 1: his hamstring last week. There's something going on with the
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay locker room where, dude, you gotta get some
Speaker 1: rubdowns on these hamstrings or something, because everybody is suffering
Speaker 1: from hamstring injuries in Tampa Bay right now. Hopefully Brashod
Speaker 1: Perryman is not one of those players. Uh this week,
Speaker 1: the Texans have been better against outside wide receivers greg
Speaker 1: over the past eight weeks. I have this for you again.
Speaker 1: This comes from Graham Barfield does a great job with
Speaker 1: the NFL network. They're allowing the seventh fewest PPR points
Speaker 1: to outside wide receivers over the last eight weeks. That
Speaker 1: is where Brashod Perryman plays. He will not line up
Speaker 1: in the slot now. James Winson likes to throw the
Speaker 1: ball deep. He has the highest deep ball percentage in
Speaker 1: the NFL. That is exactly what Brashad Perryman does here. Greg,
Speaker 1: I have Brashod Perryman ranked as a low end wide
Speaker 1: receiver too. Is that and accurate to you? Is that
Speaker 1: too high? Is it too low? I put out the
Speaker 1: poll before the show, Greg, how do you the people
Speaker 1: feel about Brashad Perriman this week? We've got fifty votes
Speaker 1: so far. Fifty six percent say that Brashad Perriman is
Speaker 1: a must start wide receiver. To me, a must start
Speaker 1: wide receiver is a top twenty four wide receiver. Say
Speaker 1: he's a solid wide receiver. Three you can't trust him.
Speaker 1: How high it's too high for Brashad Perriman, Greig, I
Speaker 1: think it's top twenty four wide receiver? Makes sense? Forman,
Speaker 1: I think read the number one option in an offense
Speaker 1: that throws the boll downfield more than anybody in the NFL.
Speaker 1: As you just subscribed, you have to like him. He's
Speaker 1: not like you led the team in air yards last
Speaker 1: week too, so he saw the most incause Gowan played
Speaker 1: three quarters of that game, so it's not like there's
Speaker 1: Godwin coming back or there's Evans. I've explained multiple times
Speaker 1: that O. J. Howard sucks. It's for Shard Perriman man
Speaker 1: like he's never at an opportunity like this. We know
Speaker 1: how Bruce arians coaches. He's a vertical coach, exactly what
Speaker 1: he does not match made in Heaven is a match
Speaker 1: made in heaven? Do you play him over Levan Bell
Speaker 1: revenge game? I know, man, it's a bad matchup for
Speaker 1: Levyan Bell. We'll talk about this more tomorrow. But someone
Speaker 1: asked me this question and I just paused because it's
Speaker 1: a bad matchup. Everything says that you should not be
Speaker 1: excited about Levian Bell this week, Greg, but he's probably
Speaker 1: gonna score two touchdowns against his former team Harryman or Bell.
Speaker 1: I would start Levan Bell. I would start Levan Bell hesitantly.
Speaker 1: I'm doing it. That's my answer. Where was your answer?
Speaker 1: My answer was Perryman, But I struggled with it. It. Look,
Speaker 1: it's a tough matchup for Levian Bell. You have Levian
Speaker 1: Bell rank for your running back this week. I'm still
Speaker 1: working on it. But he's gonna but there's no Thursday
Speaker 1: night game, so I could take take a little bit
Speaker 1: more times. Uh, he will be in that um, he'll
Speaker 1: be in in a similar range for running back as
Speaker 1: Perryman is for a wide receiver low n RB two,
Speaker 1: it's a tougher matchup. It is a tough matchup against
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers. Greg I don't really want to do
Speaker 1: anything with the Bucks running backs here. I think you'd
Speaker 1: have to be really desperate, maybe in a league where
Speaker 1: you have two flexes, a four teen team league or deeper.
Speaker 1: Ronald Jones play the snaps last week. It's been off
Speaker 1: and on every single week. Houston has allowed the most
Speaker 1: receptions and the most receiving touchdowns to running backs this year.
Speaker 1: But the Bucks don't really use their running backs in
Speaker 1: that way. Bruce arians said earlier this week that the
Speaker 1: running backs will be more involved in the past game
Speaker 1: because they have no other choice. You're buying that, Craig
Speaker 1: at the Tampa Bay running backs will be more involved
Speaker 1: in the pass game. You're out, You're out. You look
Speaker 1: in your championship week. I don't think you want to
Speaker 1: use any Bucks running back. I didn't want to us
Speaker 1: in a Week one like I draft to paint maarbar
Speaker 1: Like why did I do this? I think if you
Speaker 1: do play on the DFS slate Saturday. Though Justin Watson
Speaker 1: plays in the slot a lot, and the Texans have
Speaker 1: struggled more against slot receivers in a season long. It's
Speaker 1: a little bit more of a limb for me to
Speaker 1: go out there and use Justin Watson. But if you
Speaker 1: just want to differentiate yourself on the DFS street, I
Speaker 1: do think Justin Watson for cheap is a solid option
Speaker 1: to go with. You already know how I feel about
Speaker 1: o J. Howard spoke about him all week long. Played
Speaker 1: eighty percent of the snaps last week. Cameron Brak only
Speaker 1: played of the snaps. Both had seven targets. Howard ran
Speaker 1: more routes. Houston allows the eighth most fantasy points to
Speaker 1: opposing tight ends. I like Oja Howard as a tight
Speaker 1: end stream this week. Raig No, it's all I got
Speaker 1: for you know you're using DeAndre Hopkins obviously. I think
Speaker 1: Will Fuller is in play as the wide receiver three. Really,
Speaker 1: he was second on the team first game back. Last
Speaker 1: week played of the snaps, he had seven targets, five
Speaker 1: or sixty one and now he plays Tampa Bay. Can
Speaker 1: you not like food yards written all over it? I'm
Speaker 1: with you, man, I like I think this is I
Speaker 1: think this is a boom game for will Fuller everything
Speaker 1: I agree with you, has allowed the most fantasy points
Speaker 1: to wide receive everything that they've allowed, the most targets,
Speaker 1: the most yards. They've allowed four team receptions of forty
Speaker 1: plus yards, this second most in the what's the If
Speaker 1: you're not going to start Will will Fuller in this game,
Speaker 1: you should have never started him? Or negative on this?
Speaker 1: What is bad about Will Fuller? This week? I think
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have him even higher than what it? Who
Speaker 1: would you start Will Fuller? Shot Parraman I start for
Speaker 1: Shark Powerman because he's number one option in his offense. Yes,
Speaker 1: O J. Howard had more targets in him last week.
Speaker 1: O J. Howard shocks Greg. The stats don't lie. They
Speaker 1: Howard had more targets play in a point per target league.
Speaker 1: The stats don't lie. How me touched Howard this have
Speaker 1: this season, It doesn't matter process of result. The stats
Speaker 1: don't lie. Targets were telling me. The stats don't lie.
Speaker 1: Shot Parium might have had more touchdowns last week than
Speaker 1: OJ Howard. He does. That's what I was getting to. Alright, alright, fine, alright,
Speaker 1: Jean Perriman over Will Fuller, but we do like both
Speaker 1: of them. He starting Carlos Hide this week. I think
Speaker 1: Carlos Hide is a flex. It's a tough match up
Speaker 1: against Tampa Bay, but he just tied a season high
Speaker 1: with twenty six carries last week. Greg, they were playing
Speaker 1: with a lead. I think we get some back and
Speaker 1: forth here. Yes, tough matchup. Tim Bay allows the fewest
Speaker 1: yards per carried running backs this year. I'm not trusting
Speaker 1: Duke Johnson this spot, even though it could be some
Speaker 1: back and forth. Um, you know, maybe even the Texans
Speaker 1: fall behind in this game. But I can't do the
Speaker 1: Duke Johnson thing. I think Carlo's Hyde is a solid
Speaker 1: flex option. He's looked great all year. I don't know,
Speaker 1: you know, the researches for him, you know, people writing
Speaker 1: him off. He's look great, Greg, Carlos Hyde or Julian Edelman.
Speaker 1: That agitation there, I'm I'm really worried about Edelman. I'm
Speaker 1: not really worried about Winston not having his top options.
Speaker 1: Volume is gonna be there. I would go layered. I
Speaker 1: hate that. I think I think I'm just officially out now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: hearing what we heard from Virginia zakas Uh really kind
Speaker 1: of stealed the deal for Edelman's fate this week, Greg,
Speaker 1: But yeah, I do like Winston this week. Even though
Speaker 1: he's down his top options, the volume will be there.
Speaker 1: Even if he throws two interceptions, he might throw three
Speaker 1: fifty yards and three touchdowns. We just saw that last week.
Speaker 1: So Winston Fuller, you're firing up both. I think that's
Speaker 1: everything for this game, and maybe we could get into
Speaker 1: one more about two minutes left, and I keep forgetting
Speaker 1: we had three minutes stick around. It's been plenty of
Speaker 1: times bills intras. We've spoken a lot about Julian Edelman,
Speaker 1: who's going to play, but he's going to be limited.
Speaker 1: Frank's all out on him, starting to guys like Patrick
Speaker 1: Laird and Carlos hide over him. Now, if Julian Edeman
Speaker 1: he's limited, I assume it means the Patriots gonna do
Speaker 1: something different on offense. What is that difference? What can
Speaker 1: how can fantasy owners exploit this? I think the difference
Speaker 1: will be James White. I think James White is going
Speaker 1: to have a solid game. He had three carries, four
Speaker 1: targets last week. He had a receiving touchdown. Uh. He
Speaker 1: had a big game the last time they met as well.
Speaker 1: He had eight receptions in the first meeting with the
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. Believe he had double digit targets in that game.
Speaker 1: Last week, Sony Michelle saw of the snaps. I think
Speaker 1: he probably sees around fifteen carries again, I think that
Speaker 1: the Patriots are really going to hashtag established the run
Speaker 1: in this game and the short pass. With James White,
Speaker 1: we likely see you know, more targets for I think
Speaker 1: peripheral players, right, Mohammed Sanu. Not that I want to
Speaker 1: start Mohamed Sanu, but he might be able to do
Speaker 1: just enough. A Mohammed san New line five for fifty.
Speaker 1: I think we see a little bit more out of
Speaker 1: Mikil Harry. They're gonna try. It's not the way that
Speaker 1: you want to beat the Buffalo Bills by throwing to
Speaker 1: the outside wide receivers, but I think we see some
Speaker 1: Sony Michelle here. I don't really feel great about him.
Speaker 1: I think he's a low in flex option. I think
Speaker 1: Rex Burkehead is gonna do his usual probably you know,
Speaker 1: eight to ten touches a game. Uh. And I think
Speaker 1: James White is the one great He's probably the player
Speaker 1: that I like most in this game. I think he's
Speaker 1: a high inflex option like James White this week. I think,
Speaker 1: especially as Juliettiman is limited as it seems like he's
Speaker 1: going to be, it wouldn't surprise me if he's lining
Speaker 1: up in the slot like this is the like the
Speaker 1: twelve target James White game. I'm not gonna trust Nikhila Harry.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna trust Mohamed Sanu only though Sanu did
Speaker 1: lead the team with eight six percent of the snaps
Speaker 1: last week and eight targets. Don't care. He can't do
Speaker 1: anything with those. Can't trust it. Um not championship week,
Speaker 1: and he loves you and he love for Rex Burkhead.
Speaker 1: You'd have to be real desperate. Deeper leagues, you know
Speaker 1: four teen teams are deeper, you start to flexes. The
Speaker 1: way to beat the Bills is on the ground. They've
Speaker 1: been susceptible to running backs. James Conner had a receiving
Speaker 1: touchdown against the Bills last week. That also adds to
Speaker 1: me liking James White this week. But I don't really
Speaker 1: want to do the Rex Burke If things just not
Speaker 1: enough touch, is not enough snacks where we come back,
Speaker 1: We'll hit the other side with the Buffalo Bill. We'll
Speaker 1: say the Saturday Night game for for tomorrow, But I
Speaker 1: do want to hit on Josh Allen and what you
Speaker 1: do at the quarterback spot with him and some other
Speaker 1: pieces like John Brown in this offense. Those are decisions
Speaker 1: fantasy owners have to make and will answer those in
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Speaker 1: Let's go, Frankie, Let's go all right. Number Question number
Speaker 1: one is at the quarterback position. Josh Allen has been
Speaker 1: a solid option all season long. You start Josh Allen
Speaker 1: and your fantasy championship in New England, the answer is no,
Speaker 1: he will be outside of my top twelve quarterbacks. New
Speaker 1: England has just been so great. They got their confidence
Speaker 1: back last week going up against Andy Dalton. Uh, Josh
Speaker 1: Allen has been great and he adds, you know, an
Speaker 1: element with his legs and that obviously helps for fantasy.
Speaker 1: He was okay against the Steelers last week. I would
Speaker 1: try and go in a different direction. I don't know,
Speaker 1: you know what your options are gonna be, But like
Speaker 1: Gardner Minshew in the Dome against the atlant and the Falcons,
Speaker 1: Uh Fitzpatrick, I would go with I would go with
Speaker 1: those two over Josh Allen if you have those options.
Speaker 1: Question number two in regards to Josh alright, John Brown.
Speaker 1: He's been a startable wide receiver all season long, a
Speaker 1: top thirty six fred receiver at minimum all season long.
Speaker 1: You go up against the fan Gilmore where somewhere saying
Speaker 1: should be the NFL's defensive m v P this year,
Speaker 1: did you start John Brown? Yeah? This is this is
Speaker 1: a tough one man, because he's not a must start
Speaker 1: by any means. I think he is a low end
Speaker 1: wide receiver. Three. I would use him over Julian Edelman
Speaker 1: because at least we know John Brown is healthy. Greg
Speaker 1: and John Brown had a tough matchup last week against
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers. Obviously, Stephon Gilmore is the toughest matchup
Speaker 1: you can have. But John Brown last week seven nine
Speaker 1: on ten targets. The last time they played against New
Speaker 1: England he had five or sixty nine on eleven targets,
Speaker 1: so he wasn't a complete dud. I think the targets
Speaker 1: will be there. I don't know how fishing he'll be,
Speaker 1: but I think that he can put up a solid
Speaker 1: sixty to seventy yards. You pray and hope that he
Speaker 1: gets in the end zone. You might have a better option.
Speaker 1: I would use Perriman over him. I would use Tyler
Speaker 1: Boyd over him. I would use Darry Slating over him.
Speaker 1: He's a low and wide receiver. Three. He's not a
Speaker 1: complete just you have to bench him, but he's not
Speaker 1: a must start like he has been. Question number three,
Speaker 1: and it's two fold. Who would you rather start Cold
Speaker 1: Beasley or Darwin Thompson. I would go with saw that
Speaker 1: Damian Williams is getting back on the practice field here.
Speaker 1: I would go with Cold Beasley last time this week,
Speaker 1: I don't like him. I feel lesser about him than
Speaker 1: I do John Brown. We had a bonus question, have
Speaker 1: three seconds left. I would go Cold Beasley over Darwin
Speaker 1: Thompson answer, Ques, how confident are you in Devin Singletary
Speaker 1: this week? I feel the same way about him this
Speaker 1: week as I did last week. It was a tough
Speaker 1: match up against Pittsburgh. The workload is gonna be there.
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna get a few catches. He's probably
Speaker 1: gonna be between eighty and a hundred total yards. You
Speaker 1: pray and hope that he gets in the end zone.
Speaker 1: I think he's a low and RB two. I like him,
Speaker 1: don't love twenty one carries last week in Pittsburgh Ver Secletary,
Speaker 1: He's Frank lmal Greg. We'll do it all in tomorrow,
Speaker 1: we hope.