Speaker 1: Wow, Hey everybody, It's Thursday, December fourth, twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: and welcome to the NFL Fantasy Football Show where we're
Speaker 1: not sharing our Spotify raps. It's me, You're man MG
Speaker 1: marcus En joined by Michael Florio and Lakwan Jones.
Speaker 2: Short show, quick show, busy show. Nonetheless, we will have
Speaker 2: our calls for Week fourteen.
Speaker 1: Are with flags, are snor relaxes, all those Let's start
Speaker 1: guys with Week fourteen.
Speaker 2: I mean it is by mcgeddon.
Speaker 1: It is playoff time, Lakwan, any teams that you have
Speaker 1: that are just on the brink that need wins this week.
Speaker 3: I need to win this week against one of my
Speaker 3: hometown friends, Alondo Ingram, And it's very personable because we've
Speaker 3: been doing dirt, doing each other dirty all morning long.
Speaker 3: Like he's in the group chap saying, hey, I might
Speaker 3: pick up Russell Wilson to my one boy, and I
Speaker 3: just go pick him up just because because now he's
Speaker 3: starting great, shown because I happed him up in his head.
Speaker 2: The night before.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I hope that you know, I beat him
Speaker 3: this week and then I get that last playoff spot
Speaker 3: and we're holding the championship up at the end of
Speaker 3: the day, if.
Speaker 1: You have hate in your heart, litten out, that's exactly
Speaker 1: what that is with you making those moves right.
Speaker 4: There, speaking of hate in the heart.
Speaker 2: With Kwan's call, I.
Speaker 1: Know right our club dub the guy who will be
Speaker 1: the top scorer, and you are expecting that this guy
Speaker 1: continues to have some animosity even for a team that
Speaker 1: he didn't play for previously. But a big week for
Speaker 1: him last week, you're expecting more of the same this week.
Speaker 2: Who is it LQ?
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's my top player hater in the club. Jerry
Speaker 3: Judy going against the Steelers secondary where Jamis Winston has
Speaker 3: been so aggressive to go pass the sticks to challenge
Speaker 3: the secondary, and I honestly think Jerry Judy cannot be
Speaker 3: stopped right now with since to buy, the Steelers secondary
Speaker 3: has been as for PFF grated as the worst in coverage.
Speaker 3: So Jerry Judy's about to have himself a good day
Speaker 3: once again.
Speaker 1: All right, So Jerry Judy stepping up and continuing to
Speaker 1: play well for you, Florida.
Speaker 2: Who is your top scorer this week?
Speaker 4: Alvin Kamara? Because one Taysom hell is gone, so I
Speaker 4: think a lot of those short targets quick targets go
Speaker 4: back to him, the goal one work goes back to him.
Speaker 4: But even more so it's the Giants who not only
Speaker 4: have been ran all over, we've seen a lot of
Speaker 4: very one sided games, and that tendsibly to the opposing
Speaker 4: running back getting a lot of volume and just going
Speaker 4: off all right.
Speaker 1: So, Alvin Kamara, even with no real consistent help around him,
Speaker 1: though I know you have said repeatedly this week that
Speaker 1: you like Marcos Valdez Scantling, would still the Alvin Kamara
Speaker 1: show there in New Orleans for the Saints for me.
Speaker 1: So my big hot take for the week is that
Speaker 1: brock Bowers is going to be the number one scorer
Speaker 1: in all of fantasy. That's my hot take outside of
Speaker 1: the box thinking for the more conventional, sort of low
Speaker 1: hanging fruit, it's gonna be Saquon Barkley, because why wouldn't
Speaker 1: it be Saquon Barkley, right? The dude has been amazing
Speaker 1: all season long, and he has maybe the best possible
Speaker 1: matchup for a running back with the Carolina Panthers, who
Speaker 1: have been terrible at stopping the run. I don't think
Speaker 1: he's gonna do an like backwards hurdling or anything superhuman
Speaker 1: like that. He's just going to run over, around and
Speaker 1: through the Panthers. He may catch a few passes. Either way,
Speaker 1: you're talking about a great player on a very good
Speaker 1: offense against a bad defense. Everything lines up for Sakuon
Speaker 1: Barkley to be the top scorer in Fantasy here in
Speaker 1: week fourteen. So if you have him, you haven't, you
Speaker 1: probably already have locked up a playoff spot. But for
Speaker 1: whatever reason you haven't. Congratulations because now you probably have
Speaker 1: Week fourteen. The red flag the player that we should
Speaker 1: be aware of this week, Lakwan, who has you a
Speaker 1: little bit nervous about starting them?
Speaker 3: It's actually the entire Bucks defense in DST lineups, because honestly,
Speaker 3: I think the Raiders newfound spark of that run game.
Speaker 3: They put up the second most rushing yards against the
Speaker 3: Chiefs defense, and we know you cannot run against his defense.
Speaker 3: Now you got the Bucks where you can run, and
Speaker 3: they're alling a ton of red zone opportunities. It's insane.
Speaker 3: The six most red zone drives allow fifty three percent
Speaker 3: on the middle of the pack, just another facing the crowd.
Speaker 3: I think this Raiders offense is going to have it
Speaker 3: done on the ground and they're going to be putting
Speaker 3: up some points, all right.
Speaker 1: Uh, it's wild to think that we're avoiding a defense
Speaker 1: because of the Raiders. I'm like, I'm not saying you're wrong,
Speaker 1: It's just a weird thing to say, because it is
Speaker 1: a thing that we have never said about the Raiders,
Speaker 1: probably since like the rich Gannon.
Speaker 2: Tim Brown days or something like that.
Speaker 1: Like, it's it's been a while since we felt that
Speaker 1: way about the Raiders offense. I don't know, were you
Speaker 1: around for the Tuck Rule Were you alive for the
Speaker 1: Tuck Rule game in two thousand and two?
Speaker 2: Yeah, around in two thousand and two.
Speaker 4: If you weren't.
Speaker 1: I was gonna disinvite you from this show if that
Speaker 1: was the case. Uh, who is your red flag?
Speaker 2: Florio?
Speaker 1: And does it have anything to do with a certain
Speaker 1: former child actor from North of the Border.
Speaker 4: Look, I'm just saying Chubu. Howard came out claimed to
Speaker 4: be tm ovio and then had his lowest point of
Speaker 4: this But the saving grace for him is Drake still
Speaker 4: had a worse week. But No, the reason I think
Speaker 4: Cuba Hubbard is a red flag this week is all
Speaker 4: about the match.
Speaker 2: Well two things. One, Jonathan Brooks looked really good this week.
Speaker 4: I know the it was still limited touches, but like
Speaker 4: he was an angry run contestant. Like he looked the part,
Speaker 4: and you see why we were all so excited about him.
Speaker 4: But even more so, the Eagles are in the bottom
Speaker 4: five and fantasy points per game allowed to running backs.
Speaker 4: They've given up just four touchdowns to the position all
Speaker 4: year and have not allowed a top ten fantasy running back.
Speaker 2: So you probably still need to start Cuba.
Speaker 4: Giving the six teams on buy and everything, but if
Speaker 4: you can get away, I think this is a matchup
Speaker 4: to try to avoid.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this feels like a tough one for Cuba against
Speaker 1: the Eagles. I also think that for if anything, for
Speaker 1: the Panthers, it's going to be a pass heavy option
Speaker 1: to pass heavy offense, just because look, the Eagles gonna score.
Speaker 1: Pants gotta do something to kind of keep up with him,
Speaker 1: and I think that means Bryce Young throwing the ball
Speaker 1: a lot. My player to beware is Matt Stafford, and
Speaker 1: I look, six teams on a buy. I understand if
Speaker 1: you got to start him, I totally get it. I
Speaker 1: just don't love him. Against the Bills, they have been
Speaker 1: incredibly tough on passing games all season long. If there's
Speaker 1: a place that you can get Buffalo, it is on
Speaker 1: the ground. This feels like a week where we have
Speaker 1: the Rams leaning on Kyron Williams, maybe getting Blake Korm
Speaker 1: sprinkled in as well. Look, they're going to have to
Speaker 1: throw the ball at some point, right, It's not going
Speaker 1: to be that they completely avoid the passing game. Especially
Speaker 1: when you've got Pooka Nakua and Cooper Cup out there.
Speaker 1: You're gonna get those guys the ball as much as possible.
Speaker 1: But this might not be a pass heavy game, especially
Speaker 1: because I don't think the Bills are gonna necessarily put
Speaker 1: a huge gap between them. It's not going to be
Speaker 1: something where the Rams have to throw the ball to
Speaker 1: stay in the game. I think they can sort of
Speaker 1: run their normal offense as much as possible and stay
Speaker 1: competitive with the Bills. But I don't love Matthew Stafford's
Speaker 1: opportunity to go out and put up a big number
Speaker 1: against a Bills team that has done a pretty good
Speaker 1: job of clamping on opposing quarterbacks a lot this season.
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Speaker 1: our favorite Week fourteen sleepers. And I'm not saying you're wrong,
Speaker 1: but it's just again, I go back to last year,
Speaker 1: the year's previous, if we had thought about this guy
Speaker 1: as a sleeper, we would have been laughed out of
Speaker 1: our jobs.
Speaker 2: But this is where we are in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: I think this was one of those moments.
Speaker 3: I had my ear close to the fantasy streets and
Speaker 3: like rumblings of people questioning the star Patrick Mahomes against
Speaker 3: the Chargers, and I think you absolutely do that. I mean,
Speaker 3: last time they kept them in check earlier in the season,
Speaker 3: but now he has DeAndre Hopkins, things are starting to click.
Speaker 3: Travis Kelce's already activated, starting to get cold outside, So
Speaker 3: I think we can continue on seeing for the last
Speaker 3: five games that Patrick Mahomes isn't playing like at QB one,
Speaker 3: He's been top five in that span. So I think
Speaker 3: this week, even with the Chargers being a stingy defense
Speaker 3: of keeping folks out of the end zone, I think
Speaker 3: Patrick Mahomes shows up, shows out and reminds us of
Speaker 3: why he is in.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, he has really been starting to come along.
Speaker 1: And I said a couple of weeks ago that he
Speaker 1: looks like he's going to be a guy that you
Speaker 1: really can lean on for the fantasy playoffs.
Speaker 2: The matchups were good.
Speaker 1: You mentioned the guys that are there now obviously, you know,
Speaker 1: adding DeAndre Hopkins getting Juju Smith Schuster back. Not even
Speaker 1: that Juju is a big pass catcher weapon, but he's
Speaker 1: just one more thing to sort of have to pay
Speaker 1: attention to in that offense. Isaiah Pacheco is back as well.
Speaker 1: This death Star is fully operational. Sorry to the haters, Florio,
Speaker 1: who is your snorlax option for the week.
Speaker 4: I agree with everything you guys said about Patrick Mahomes,
Speaker 4: but he was the second best quarterback in that game
Speaker 4: last Friday. The one who was better was Aidan O'Connell,
Speaker 4: who threw for three hundred and forty and two touchdowns,
Speaker 4: and he is my favorite streaming quarterback of the week,
Speaker 4: not only what he did in that game and it
Speaker 4: being vastly better than anything Gardner Minshew did, but it
Speaker 4: is a great matchup as well. The Bucks career high
Speaker 4: in Fantasy points to Bryce Young. They routinely and I
Speaker 4: think it's five of their last six games have allowed
Speaker 4: a top eight Fantasy quarterback, Like, this is a matchup
Speaker 4: that we stream against all year and AOC is the
Speaker 4: lucky winner that gets that matchup in the week where
Speaker 4: you need to stream a quarterback more than any of
Speaker 4: the prior thirteen weeks.
Speaker 1: It is wild man, Like, we're all on Aid and O'Connell,
Speaker 1: so like, let's keep our fingers crossed that this actually
Speaker 1: stays positive and doesn't go sideways, because you know, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, as we round out our look at sleepers
Speaker 1: for the week, we're all going with quarterbacks. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go with Will Levis, who has been great. He's been
Speaker 1: good for the Titans, He's been good for opposing defenses.
Speaker 1: So no matter what side of this you fall on
Speaker 1: in fantasy, Will Levis is probably the guy that you
Speaker 1: want at quarterback. He's had sixteen more Fantasy points I
Speaker 1: think in three straight games, three of his last four.
Speaker 1: I believe starting to play well. We do like Nick
Speaker 1: Westbrook a Kine. We like Calvin Ridley. I think Tony
Speaker 1: Pollard is a nice option out of the backfield that
Speaker 1: they can throw the football to when they need to.
Speaker 1: Great matchup against the Jacksonville defense that we have been
Speaker 1: picking on all season long, Will Levis feels like a
Speaker 1: guy that we can get into some lineups.
Speaker 2: Yes, turn the ball over.
Speaker 1: He may take some sacks, which means you can actually
Speaker 1: if you're really in a hard way, stream the Jaguars
Speaker 1: defense on the other side as well. But Levis in
Speaker 1: a pinch if you're streaming, I think at two quarterback leagues,
Speaker 1: I think you're definitely playing him if you need to stream.
Speaker 1: I think he has a low QB one ceiling this
Speaker 1: week against the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Speaker 2: A guy that you can stream in those matchups as well.
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Speaker 2: So there you go. That's our look at Week fourteen.
Speaker 2: Should be an interesting one.
Speaker 1: I know for a lot of you out there, it
Speaker 1: is a do or die situation to get into the playoffs. Certainly,
Speaker 1: best of luck if you are in one of those situations.
Speaker 1: Hopefully we have helped you move on to the fantasy
Speaker 1: second season. But that'll do it for this edition of
Speaker 1: the NFL Fantasy Football Podcast. Stay happy, safe and healthy,
Speaker 1: do good, and live well, and we will talk to
Speaker 1: you all tomorrow. Wow.