Speaker 1: Wow, what's up everybody? It is Thursday, November twenty first,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. Welcome to the NFL Fantasy Football Show,
Speaker 1: where our speed rating is about to go up in
Speaker 1: a big, big way because I'm Michael Florio joined here
Speaker 1: with Lakwan Jones, and look we're we're not the fastest
Speaker 1: guys in the world. That's little surprise, but it's like
Speaker 1: we're about to eat a mushroom in Mario because we
Speaker 1: are joined by the one, the only, Chris Johnson CJ
Speaker 1: two K. A little background on Chris Johnson, first round
Speaker 1: draft pick in two thousand and.
Speaker 2: Eight, three time Pro Bowler, an All.
Speaker 1: Pro player two thousand and nine Offensive Player of the
Speaker 1: Year when he ran for two thousand yards, played for
Speaker 1: the Titans, Jets, and Cardinals, and now you can hear
Speaker 1: him as one half of the Smash and Dash podcast
Speaker 1: with Wendell White. Chris Johnson, How you doing.
Speaker 3: Man, I'm doing good man, just chilling.
Speaker 4: This is probably like one of the best times of
Speaker 4: the year where you got football, you got high school, college,
Speaker 4: NFL football, and lady, well not lady. This football season,
Speaker 4: it's literally been a football game on every other week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
Speaker 3: So it's great.
Speaker 2: Ball every day. I mean, look, that sounds good. The
Speaker 2: energies are high. I mean this this season has been
Speaker 2: crazy though for NFL CJ. Like it's it's been up
Speaker 2: and down. Like I don't know how your fantasy teams
Speaker 2: are doing, but I know mine right now. On the
Speaker 2: back end, I don't know if I'm going to the playoffs.
Speaker 5: Now we're gonna get.
Speaker 3: You in, I guess so crazing after deadline ain't hit
Speaker 3: you yet?
Speaker 2: Oh that deadline and then with six teams on buy
Speaker 2: this week, like the way we warre popping this week.
Speaker 2: But like I don't know who to drop because I
Speaker 2: can't drop CJ Tillman. I can't drop from Will Ditsley,
Speaker 2: Like I can't do that, Like, what's up with that?
Speaker 3: Man? That's how you got to take that l babe.
Speaker 2: Now we can't take no l CJ. We take lessons.
Speaker 2: We got to stack these wins, man. I still believe,
Speaker 2: but I don't know if I'm going.
Speaker 1: You take L's to get the Elvis week for the
Speaker 1: bigger w Later on in the season, Crystal wanted to
Speaker 1: ask you because you have shared a backfield with Lindell
Speaker 1: White and now you are sharing a podcast with him.
Speaker 1: So what's it like being in the podcast world and
Speaker 1: which one of those two is harder to share?
Speaker 4: I feel like the asshaw being in the backfield together,
Speaker 4: it's harder to share, you know. The podcast, bro, we
Speaker 4: both found that same time. We get the talking go
Speaker 4: back and forth. But you know, in the pike, I
Speaker 4: mean in the NFL, on the team and you just
Speaker 4: never know how in this snap it's just going to
Speaker 4: be how many different playmxs you have on offense that
Speaker 4: you got to get the ball too. So anyway it is.
Speaker 4: We made it work though with the smash and daddys though,
Speaker 4: So we made it work.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's got to be some type of competition going
Speaker 2: on there on the pod. I mean, I'm pretty sure
Speaker 2: it was on the field as well, sharing the backfield
Speaker 2: with him, Like are y'all trying to like one up
Speaker 2: each other on the pod? Like y'all trying to say, yo,
Speaker 2: my take is far.
Speaker 4: You know, we do the betting guys and all the
Speaker 4: other different the prop best and stuff like that. So
Speaker 4: at the end of the season, it's either on the
Speaker 4: trophy or Rascling Championship. Dealt or something like that. So
Speaker 4: right now, yeah, right now, currently he's fifty six thirty
Speaker 4: three and one. Wow. Yeah, and I'm fifty four thirty
Speaker 4: one fifty point thirty one.
Speaker 2: So you're right there with it. You're right there with it.
Speaker 3: Yes, so he got more wins, but he got more losses.
Speaker 3: I got.
Speaker 2: You gotta make sure that's correct.
Speaker 3: Who that's lost? Now.
Speaker 2: Look, it's like, I know you're jumping into fantasy, right,
Speaker 2: I mean, has it become your passion?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 2: Does it keep you tapped into the game that's going
Speaker 2: on today?
Speaker 4: Hey, it definitely do. I've been doing it, like since
Speaker 4: I retired in eighteen. I think I started like really
Speaker 4: getting a fantasy probably like in twenty twenty or whatever
Speaker 4: like that. So like I've been tapped into it and then, yeah,
Speaker 4: it just helped you stay with the game. It helped
Speaker 4: you like really find out players who like that's not
Speaker 4: nationally known that everybody is talking about it, Like, dang,
Speaker 4: who is the blow that just went for twenty Fantasy parts?
Speaker 3: I Mean I never heard of him before, and that
Speaker 3: makes you look him up and like, oh man, like
Speaker 3: I got it. I definitely got to pay attention to
Speaker 3: him like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he really like that.
Speaker 1: And look, us in this fantasy space, A lot of
Speaker 1: the time we come at things from like a statistical standpoint.
Speaker 5: We're looking at.
Speaker 1: Numbers, or we're watching the games and being like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's something I noticed or whatever. But you have such
Speaker 1: a unique perspective as someone who has played this game
Speaker 1: and knows like how the mind of a player works.
Speaker 1: So is there any way that you think that that
Speaker 1: gives you a leg up in fantasy and that you
Speaker 1: like kind of view things differently than people like us
Speaker 1: who have never been on an NFL field.
Speaker 4: I think it does into certain aspects, right, because you know,
Speaker 4: when you play a fantasy it's our different type of
Speaker 4: apps are Google that you can look up their projection
Speaker 4: and seeing what they're supposed to do, and they're playing
Speaker 4: against this team that's ranked this and ration or this
Speaker 4: against the past and things like that. I think where
Speaker 4: it helps me out of a lot is me just
Speaker 4: knowing the different scenarios and high certain teams are going
Speaker 4: to try to attack certain teams going into it with
Speaker 4: the game fan and.
Speaker 3: Things like that.
Speaker 4: So it kind of helped me who to play each
Speaker 4: weekend things like that.
Speaker 2: Ord Now I want to ask you about this Titans
Speaker 2: backfield today, like you and Lindell were one of the
Speaker 2: best duos when it comes to Titan's history. So I'm
Speaker 2: wondering what your thoughts on this duo with Tony Pollard
Speaker 2: and Kaj Spears, what they got going on in that backfield.
Speaker 4: You know, I like, I like those two guys they
Speaker 4: have back there, But I don't feel like it's crazy
Speaker 4: as you said that, because me and them guys just
Speaker 4: had this conversation on our podcast two weeks ago, and
Speaker 4: basically I just don't feel like they are using those
Speaker 4: guys how are me? And then there was behind the
Speaker 4: year when we was really like smashing dash. We're coming
Speaker 4: out of the game like I might have twenty carriers,
Speaker 4: he might have fifteen carriers. Yeah, And when you look
Speaker 4: at the today's game and how it is, you not
Speaker 4: even if it's a runner back that just got the
Speaker 4: job by itself, they're not averaging twenty five thirty carries
Speaker 4: like you. You having the main guy getting anywhere from
Speaker 4: anywhere in between ten and fifteen carrier these days like yeah,
Speaker 4: and then had again receptions out of the backfield and
Speaker 4: things like that, but they're trying to throw it all
Speaker 4: over the field and put up points and stuff these days.
Speaker 4: So but those guys, I like both of those guys.
Speaker 4: I like their game and I think they can be
Speaker 4: real good for us. But I can't really compare them
Speaker 4: to us because they're not using them the same way
Speaker 4: that they use us.
Speaker 3: Like it was crazy, Like, man, man, you can have
Speaker 3: me and the they.
Speaker 4: Are on the same fantasy team, yeah, because I get them,
Speaker 4: but spears and in a ton of product, you can't
Speaker 4: have both of them because it's only one guy going
Speaker 4: to get give matority of the touches and things like that.
Speaker 2: I wonder did you draft either one of them this season?
Speaker 4: On one of my leads, I got the one. I
Speaker 4: say that it wasn't in Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Oh man, you're down bad right now.
Speaker 3: On that roster.
Speaker 1: You talked though about how back in the day you
Speaker 1: could start both you and Linda White on the same
Speaker 1: fantasy team. I would say that right now, there's one
Speaker 1: backfield like that, and it is the Detroit Lions.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: When you watch that backfields, like, what are your thoughts?
Speaker 5: Because they do.
Speaker 1: Remind me a lot of smash and dash and that,
Speaker 1: Like we've seen other backfields like that as well. But
Speaker 1: they to me are the cream of the crop right
Speaker 1: now and just one of the best duos. I would
Speaker 1: say that I've seen.
Speaker 5: Where do they fall for you?
Speaker 4: Oh man, the Dead duo is a real nice dueo.
Speaker 3: I like both those games. I love Jamer Gibbs game.
Speaker 4: But same thing, like I was saying with us back
Speaker 4: in the days, you look up and you see their
Speaker 4: offense and Gibs after Saint Kiers and the Government Athlete.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, both of them are getting the value of
Speaker 4: touches and they actually.
Speaker 3: Doing their thing with it.
Speaker 4: Like yeah, I love what they got going on over that,
Speaker 4: and they definitely are in the smashing their start I think.
Speaker 2: In Detroit.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Now, I wanted to ask you, what is the advantages
Speaker 2: as a running back playing with a mobile quarterback like
Speaker 2: Kyler Murray or Anthony Richardson, Like, what are the advantages there?
Speaker 4: This on thedvanaer really because a lot of the teams
Speaker 4: are playing, they're running and spread, and you're starting to
Speaker 4: see more NFL teams going to the quarterback in the
Speaker 4: shot then ye right back and there, so you're not
Speaker 4: getting a lot of the traditional iron formation quarterback under
Speaker 4: center and things like that. So when you go to
Speaker 4: the the run game within the shot gun, that backside
Speaker 4: d n gotta stay home, right, he gotta, you know,
Speaker 4: he gotta keep iron a quarterback. So when you run
Speaker 4: an inside zone from the shotgun, quarterback to hand it
Speaker 4: off or he could run it. So that means that
Speaker 4: that backside the end can't crash down as hard as
Speaker 4: he usually do.
Speaker 3: So if he can't.
Speaker 4: Crash down like that, then nine times out of ten,
Speaker 4: it's going to be an open name for the runner back.
Speaker 4: So it's just like an extra guy, like a quarterback
Speaker 4: is like an extra block, an extra blocker without really
Speaker 4: has to block anybody, because if he prays down and
Speaker 4: come to get knee, then that leads the quarterback.
Speaker 3: Going around the edge with nobody out there to make
Speaker 3: a sac of runner.
Speaker 1: And quarterbacks are more and more athletic now, it feels
Speaker 1: like than ever before. Do you ever think, like, imagine
Speaker 1: what I would have done with a Kyler Murray or
Speaker 1: Anthony Richardson or Jalen Hurt someone like that.
Speaker 4: Now I don't have to I had this young there
Speaker 4: you go, there go without y'all. A lot of these
Speaker 4: guys probably wouldn't even may be doing it, But I
Speaker 4: did that way Vince Young and I went for two
Speaker 4: thousand yards.
Speaker 3: You know, me and Vince, So they tell the story
Speaker 3: right there.
Speaker 2: All right, So everything cannot be perfect in a fantasy season.
Speaker 2: So I want you to talk about because I know
Speaker 2: you in six leagues. You said, like there has to
Speaker 2: be some headaches across all the board, Like, what is
Speaker 2: some of the biggest headaches you have to deal with?
Speaker 3: Bro?
Speaker 4: My biggest headache was so I picked So okay, So
Speaker 4: this year I did a different strategy. Like I used
Speaker 4: to go tight end heavy because you get your points
Speaker 4: from the catches and a lot of teams out, and
Speaker 4: I started trying to go through receive it.
Speaker 3: So I know the.
Speaker 4: Last two years I was able to get uh, well
Speaker 4: you got from Killer. I was able to get Killer
Speaker 4: and Travis Kelsey. I was those two guys. So you know,
Speaker 4: getting those two guys, they was averting six or seven
Speaker 4: catches a game and.
Speaker 3: You know, testdowns in the yards.
Speaker 4: So but this year I went back to the traditional
Speaker 4: I went running back head.
Speaker 2: Running back hero of course, come on, c J.
Speaker 4: Let me whire. The first half of the season. Christ
Speaker 4: and McCaffrey is hurt for like eight weeks and then
Speaker 4: like the first two weeks, the checko bowing.
Speaker 2: Our Yeah you was hurting bad in the first half
Speaker 2: of the season, and so like, we.
Speaker 3: What you're doing.
Speaker 4: So McCaffrey finally came and then you know he got
Speaker 4: to get rid jested by for check or still al out.
Speaker 4: So that was my biggest na this year.
Speaker 3: Oh man, I'm right with you.
Speaker 1: I had so much to checko on all of my
Speaker 1: teams this year, and one game in and it was
Speaker 1: all over. But one thing that I think it's overlooked
Speaker 1: when we're especially from a fantasy standpoint, is offensive line.
Speaker 1: People just take them for granted. I feel like, and
Speaker 1: this guy's a Rams fan, so from first hand experience,
Speaker 1: he could be like Kian Williams has had eleven different
Speaker 1: offensive linemen this year.
Speaker 2: How much does that affect.
Speaker 1: The offense and specifically the run game of teams going
Speaker 1: into those games?
Speaker 4: I thank a whole lot because when you are a
Speaker 4: running back, you want to be on the same page
Speaker 4: and have that chemistry with their offensive line, just as
Speaker 4: well as our quarterbacks want then be on the same
Speaker 4: page with the receivers. It's the same way with the
Speaker 4: offensive line the runno back, we're married, We're together. We
Speaker 4: want to be on the same page a lot of times.
Speaker 4: When you have your offensive line, they understand the type
Speaker 4: of running back you are, the type of things that
Speaker 4: you like to do, the type of cuts you like
Speaker 4: to make, and you understand running back how they like
Speaker 4: to block certain things, how they like to do a
Speaker 4: lot of things. When it comes to the Black scheme,
Speaker 4: it's kind of like I said, some marriages.
Speaker 3: Chemistry and that helps. That helps you be better as
Speaker 3: running back can help them.
Speaker 4: So when you got eleven guys, eleven different guys, and
Speaker 4: you can never get that chemistry, you can never get
Speaker 4: on the same page because once you get the roller
Speaker 4: and this guy, this guy, you bring this different guy in.
Speaker 4: So it just makes everybody job that much difficult.
Speaker 2: Yeah, man, I mean it's true. I mean, as a
Speaker 2: RAMS fan, like I know what's going on. But in
Speaker 2: the fantasy streets, they sitting there kicking kyro w Ins
Speaker 2: backen like as his fault. Like he's still going out
Speaker 2: there putting up points, like he just scoring like eight
Speaker 2: games in a row. But look, that's just event right now.
Speaker 2: But listen, is there any players in fantasy from a
Speaker 2: fantasy standpoint that caught your eye this season? Like an
Speaker 2: under a radar guy, like a like a Jordan Mason
Speaker 2: is somebody you know from San Francisco that I was
Speaker 2: on heavy all summer because like, the dude has the talent,
Speaker 2: he's explosive. Like, was there any young running back this
Speaker 2: season that caught your eye?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Jordan Mason was one of those guys. How did you
Speaker 3: know by him? Though? Because let's get so crazy.
Speaker 6: When when when CMC got hurt right after that game
Speaker 6: or whatever he didn't play or whatever like that, I
Speaker 6: automatically went to look for the back the back of
Speaker 6: running out and I didn't know the name or anything
Speaker 6: his name and I went to look for him and
Speaker 6: things like that people then already drafted on.
Speaker 2: I ain't gonna say I set the tone, but hey,
Speaker 2: you gotta tap in Ceja real deal fantasy on Twitter
Speaker 2: all social media platforms.
Speaker 5: Man, they should get that plugged.
Speaker 2: I get that pluggin.
Speaker 3: But another guy that caught my eye and uh, what's
Speaker 3: your guy now? From Seattle? Uh?
Speaker 2: Oh, Zach Sharbonney. No not Kenneth Walker, Yeah, killer Walker,
Speaker 2: killer Walker.
Speaker 3: He's a dog. Yeah.
Speaker 4: He was one of those guys that I paid attention
Speaker 4: to last year, and I'm like, yeah, he's coming to
Speaker 4: savlone and this year is gonna be a be a
Speaker 4: big year for him.
Speaker 3: So that was one of those guys.
Speaker 1: He's the dash and the smash and Dash duo there,
Speaker 1: so we see why he would see your eye and look,
Speaker 1: we know you guys are uber competitive even when you
Speaker 1: hang it up.
Speaker 5: So I'm just wondering.
Speaker 1: We saw Xavier where they go out and run a
Speaker 1: four two one forty this year and it's someone who
Speaker 1: had the record for years. When you saw that, like,
Speaker 1: what do you feel? Do you start stretching and be
Speaker 1: like I want to go again or.
Speaker 4: To the y'all pups respect? And I seen him like
Speaker 4: when I seen him run that where I'm like, he
Speaker 4: is moving, yeah, and then like that made me go
Speaker 4: look at something in his highlights and I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 4: he really moving for real.
Speaker 3: For real like that.
Speaker 2: You couldn't even see his feet when he was running,
Speaker 2: like it was like the role runner, Like he really
Speaker 2: liked that. But listen, you got twin boys that's playing
Speaker 2: ball right now, dB and a wide receiver I believe,
Speaker 2: so you're seeing their development, Like do you see your
Speaker 2: speed in them?
Speaker 3: My speed? Yeah? They got some speed.
Speaker 2: They got some wheels.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they probably actually faster than how They probably faster
Speaker 4: than Lee when they on this point, And that's probably
Speaker 4: just because.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm doing the right things with.
Speaker 4: Them, having them running tracks, starting earlier training on this stuff.
Speaker 4: So that's probably Like y'all want to check them out.
Speaker 4: You know, their Instagram is twin Underscore Juices. Yeah, they
Speaker 4: gonna be they only know. They got a lot of
Speaker 4: highlights on their page and things like that. So anybody
Speaker 4: watching or whatever like that, go check them out instant
Speaker 4: dope or whatever like that.
Speaker 3: But yeah, they pretty fast.
Speaker 1: NFL scouts heard faster than me at their age, and
Speaker 1: their ears perked up.
Speaker 2: Mike made over there in Miami, like, huh oh and
Speaker 2: you what, yeah, Mike be they ain't gonna be all
Speaker 2: over that.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, just once again, you can Chris Johnson from
Speaker 1: the Smash and Dashed podcast, co host with Lindell White,
Speaker 1: you can hear it wherever you get your pods up, Chris,
Speaker 1: where can the people find you? And is there anything
Speaker 1: else you want to plug?
Speaker 3: Ah? Man, you know I'm in Orlando. You know my
Speaker 3: inspirament pretty sat too. Eight.
Speaker 4: I also got Airbnb's down in Atlanta by Disney that's
Speaker 4: two k underscore vacation runners.
Speaker 3: Oh and yeah, you know I'm just here.
Speaker 4: Man is doing what to doing training these boys, so yeah,
Speaker 4: train and only keep it right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, make sure to definitely give smash and dash a listen,
Speaker 1: follow CJ, follow his kids who are going to be
Speaker 1: future NFL playing man. CJ, thank you so much for
Speaker 1: the time, and we'll be right back on the Fantasy
Speaker 1: Football Show with our Week twelve calls.
Speaker 7: Back here on the NFL Fantasy Football Show, and thanks
Speaker 7: to Chris Johnson for stopping by and hanging out with
Speaker 7: the Florio and LaQuan take a time. We've had CJ
Speaker 7: on this show. Always a good time, always good guy
Speaker 7: to talk to and maybe just maybe fingers crossed we
Speaker 7: gonna get him back again at some point in the future.
Speaker 7: But a lot of fun. So glad we could get
Speaker 7: him to hang around. All right, guys, time to do
Speaker 7: our calls for Week twelve is always. Let's start as
Speaker 7: we normally do with.
Speaker 2: Club dub.
Speaker 5: That I'll choked up.
Speaker 7: We think it will be the top scorers non Quarterback
Speaker 7: division for the week. And wait, I'm looking at this
Speaker 7: now and Kawan, this is this is top score This
Speaker 7: isn't sleeper. This isn't surprise of the week. Please, I'm
Speaker 7: not even that. I'm just curious.
Speaker 5: Explain yourself here.
Speaker 2: Surprise surprise, it's Bucky Irvin to be at the top
Speaker 2: among the elite running backs this week. Man only because
Speaker 2: for not only, but multiple reasons why Mike Evans might
Speaker 2: be back in the fold to give some more functionality
Speaker 2: of that offense. But also this Giants defense, they give
Speaker 2: up a ton of explosive plays at the highest rate
Speaker 2: in the league. And I know everybody's going to point
Speaker 2: to Rashad White being that he's out snapping him, but
Speaker 2: that's just because he's on the field with pass blocking,
Speaker 2: running routes. But when it comes to actually touching the ball,
Speaker 2: being efficient and making plays, it's Bucky Irvin's backfield. And
Speaker 2: I think this is a game where he can get loose,
Speaker 2: bus off a couple of runs, get involved in the
Speaker 2: passing game as well, and put up some big points
Speaker 2: this week with a beautiful matchup.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 7: I mean, I appreciate the logic that all right, it's sixteens,
Speaker 7: gona buy.
Speaker 5: I mean, I really I'm trying.
Speaker 7: To do some gymnastics here, Like I do think Bucky.
Speaker 7: Every can have a good game, but man, I appreciate
Speaker 7: you being all in on that.
Speaker 5: I'm all I see.
Speaker 7: I mean, while Florio your name is one that I
Speaker 7: think is one, it's probably on a lot more people's
Speaker 7: minds for this week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been the rules a little bit and I
Speaker 1: realized I picked a quarterback after the fact. But what
Speaker 1: are you gonna do? So I'm gonna stick with him here.
Speaker 1: It's justin Herbert, who partly because of the matchup. Look,
Speaker 1: everyone knows by now that the Ravens secondary is one
Speaker 1: that you can pick on. They've allowed a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of yards. It's arguably, I would say, the best matchup
Speaker 1: for a quarterback. Third most fantasy points, most yards, second,
Speaker 1: most touchdowns allowed. But Herbert has been playing a lot
Speaker 1: better himself as well, averaging twenty two fantasy points per
Speaker 1: game in his last month, two hundred and seventy five
Speaker 1: yards per game in that span, getting more passing touchdowns,
Speaker 1: and running a whole lot more as well, which is
Speaker 1: huge for his fantasy value. But if you want a
Speaker 1: non quarterback pick as well, like start all your Chargers
Speaker 1: pass catchers this week, I think Lad McCaughey is a
Speaker 1: great start. Quentin Johnston is someone that I'm streaming in
Speaker 1: a number of leagues, and so is Will Disley's, so like,
Speaker 1: it's not just a Herbert thing.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 1: All of the Chargers pass catchers are in play in
Speaker 1: this fantastic matchup.
Speaker 7: Yeah, okay, so you broke the rules. I also broke
Speaker 7: the rules a little bit cla because it's funny because like,
Speaker 7: I'm the one who sets this up and literally was
Speaker 7: just about thinking, I just threw this name in the
Speaker 7: show sheet without even paying attention to it. It's Jaden Daniels.
Speaker 7: Because he's been in a little bit of a mini
Speaker 7: slump lately. I think this is a week for him
Speaker 7: to break out of it against the Dallas Cowboys. I
Speaker 7: think if you want to go with a non quarterback,
Speaker 7: I would pivot to Brian Robinson in the backfield, mostly
Speaker 7: for the same reason because the Cowboys defense, especially against
Speaker 7: the run, has been.
Speaker 5: Awful all year long.
Speaker 7: We saw Joe Mixon go off last week on Monday
Speaker 7: Night Football.
Speaker 5: I think b rob can do that.
Speaker 7: I think Jayden Daniels can do But because you know,
Speaker 7: the passing wise has not been great for Daniels the
Speaker 7: last few weeks, but I do think we see him
Speaker 7: run a little bit more. I think we see him
Speaker 7: be very efficient and effective, and then I think in
Speaker 7: turn starts to open some things up in the passing game,
Speaker 7: so Terry McLaurin can get some Maybe Zach Ertz has
Speaker 7: some deep sleeper vibes. I know folks like Noah Brown
Speaker 7: as a sleeper this week as well. So yeah, so
Speaker 7: my I guess my real answer is Brian Robinson, but
Speaker 7: my fake breaking the rules answer is Jade and Daniels.
Speaker 2: I mean, see, I should have picked a quarterback like
Speaker 2: you should have literally broke the rules, the rules.
Speaker 7: You could have just gone and picked I don't know,
Speaker 7: I just picked Baker Mayfield or something.
Speaker 2: I was just about to say, I'm picking bakery man.
Speaker 7: Yeah, all right, cool, all right, So none of us,
Speaker 7: none of us agreed to the rules at this point.
Speaker 3: So there we go.
Speaker 5: We have three quarterbacks in our non quarterback segment whatever.
Speaker 7: Week twelve red flag the player to beware of this week.
Speaker 2: And uh, LaQuan, you were just full of surprises today, sir. Yeah. Man,
Speaker 2: I surprised myself with this one. And I was looking
Speaker 2: at this schedule, the matchup man, and I'm like ah Man,
Speaker 2: I gotta be honest with myself. Kyra Williams is a
Speaker 2: red flag this week for me, and it's a lot
Speaker 2: of multiple reasons why. I mean, this Eagles defense is scary,
Speaker 2: but it's more specifically on Zach Bond, this linebacker that
Speaker 2: they got man out of nowhere making a huge impact
Speaker 2: in the run game. The dude's actually tied first in
Speaker 2: stops ask for PFF and top ten for tackles for loss.
Speaker 2: So this is definitely going to be a struggle, a
Speaker 2: challenge for Kyrion Williams, who in the last two games
Speaker 2: has averaged nine Fantasy points per game. So it's more
Speaker 2: so getting our expectations in order because also noting that
Speaker 2: Kyrion Williams is already dealing with trying to find the
Speaker 2: rhythm within this old line Rob Hamenstein trending towards back
Speaker 2: to being playing, but it's more so of like they
Speaker 2: still don't have that chemistry on that front. So it's
Speaker 2: going to be a very difficult match for Kian Williams
Speaker 2: to try to get the run game going this week.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's been a little bit of a slump for him,
Speaker 7: three straight games without a touchdown.
Speaker 5: The yardage numbers have been down across the board.
Speaker 3: I really nasty work.
Speaker 7: He was so great earlier in the season, and it
Speaker 7: just seems like maybe regression coming for him at the
Speaker 7: midpoint of the year. For sure, Florida, who is your
Speaker 7: guy that you are concerned about? J?
Speaker 5: Stroud?
Speaker 1: And this is something I said earlier this year with
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes, like we have reached a point where CJ.
Speaker 1: Stroud is purely a name. Like if you're considering playing him,
Speaker 1: it's because you remember what he did last year and
Speaker 1: what you paid for him in the draft and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. But on the year, Kirk Cousins Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: both have more Fantasy points than him, and in the
Speaker 1: last month he is averaging less Fantasy points per game
Speaker 1: than Daniel Jones, Trevor Lawrence, Gino Smith, Derek Carr.
Speaker 3: He's pretty much giving you.
Speaker 1: What Caleb Williams has been giving you. And you wouldn't
Speaker 1: play Caleb against the Titans, so why would you? Like
Speaker 1: I understand he at some point could break out. He
Speaker 1: is Nico Collins back. He had that long Neco touchdown
Speaker 1: called back last week, but in his last five games
Speaker 1: he has two passing touchdowns. He is one game with
Speaker 1: over two hundred and sixty yards in that span and
Speaker 1: none with thirteen fantasy points.
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, I'm hopeful.
Speaker 1: That eventually he's gonna break out of this and everything,
Speaker 1: but until we see it happen, I don't see how
Speaker 1: you can trust CJ.
Speaker 3: Stroud in fantasy right now.
Speaker 5: Yeah, It's just it's been a disappointment.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 7: Some of it obviously, the offensive line has had struggles,
Speaker 7: They've had wide receivers missing. Some of it is just that,
Speaker 7: you know, the play calling just has not been the same.
Speaker 7: You know, Bobby Slowick maybe not hitting all the right
Speaker 7: buttons the way he did last year, but whatever it is,
Speaker 7: it just it just has not worked out for me.
Speaker 7: It's it's DeAndre Swift as a player just to beware of,
Speaker 7: partially because he is dealing with a nagging groin injury.
Speaker 7: All those signs point to him being good enough to
Speaker 7: play this week. The other part of it is just
Speaker 7: the Minnesota Vikings have been really hard on running backs
Speaker 7: this year. Some of it I think is because, at
Speaker 7: least numbers wise, because teams are throwing the ball fairly
Speaker 7: effectively against them. They have faced the fewest rush attempts
Speaker 7: of any team in the league. But then again, they're
Speaker 7: also just not giving up a whole lot of yards
Speaker 7: per carry as well the vikings across the board, whether
Speaker 7: it's through the air or on the ground, not giving
Speaker 7: up touchdowns. This feels like a game where maybe they
Speaker 7: lean on Caleb a little bit more. If there is
Speaker 7: an out for DeAndre Swift, it's to get some targets,
Speaker 7: just to get him out in space and see what
Speaker 7: he can do right there. But if he just want
Speaker 7: to use him as a straight running back, I wonder
Speaker 7: if the volume is going to be enough and whether
Speaker 7: or not he's going to find enough running room to
Speaker 7: be productive. We keep coming back to this, right it's
Speaker 7: six teams on a by. It's hard to find other
Speaker 7: options this week. So I understand if you've got to
Speaker 7: have Swift in the lineup as a flex, as an
Speaker 7: RB two whatever. I just don't love the matchup. I
Speaker 7: don't love what potentially the production can be for DeAndre
Speaker 7: Swift this week. So it's time to drive your line.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I like Cole Kamet and actually Roshan Johnson might
Speaker 2: be available in the wire man because he could have
Speaker 2: some standalone value this week as well. With Thomas Brown,
Speaker 2: you know, calling the shots. But Cole Kmett is my
Speaker 2: sleeper this week. With three of his last four times
Speaker 2: he's faced off against the Vikings, He's put up double
Speaker 2: digit fantasy points with the ceiling being fifteen fantasy points
Speaker 2: in two big tight end one games on the rise
Speaker 2: of Kayla Williams in that four game span. Now that
Speaker 2: Shane Wolgron's out of the way last week, who saw
Speaker 2: Caleb play his best game numbers wise, production wise, and
Speaker 2: Cole Comet in terms of overall production. So I think
Speaker 2: this is going to be back on the rise where
Speaker 2: Cole comment can sneak in put up some big fantasy
Speaker 2: points because I know a lot of people got him
Speaker 2: on the bench, but I am feeling like this is
Speaker 2: a week where Thomas Brown, who comes from that Sean
Speaker 2: McVay tree knows how to utilize his running backs and
Speaker 2: his tight ends, and this could be a big game
Speaker 2: for Cole Comett and Kyler Williams.
Speaker 7: I mean that was my hope last week with Thomas
Speaker 7: Brown taking over, that we'd see some short throws to
Speaker 7: DeAndre Swift to Cole Comet, because that's what they did
Speaker 7: a lot of last year in Carolina. Didn't really happen
Speaker 7: against the Patriots or against the Packers. I should say,
Speaker 7: maybe it happens this week against the Minnesota Vikings Florida.
Speaker 5: Who's your sleeper for the week.
Speaker 1: I was gonna go with Will Disley, who I do like,
Speaker 1: but I already kind of said that when I was
Speaker 1: talking up Justin Herbert. But if you have Will Disley,
Speaker 1: I think he's a good sleeper and you could start
Speaker 1: him this week. I'll pay it to Hunter Henry here though,
Speaker 1: who I think is Drake Mayne's favorite target. Since Drake
Speaker 1: may took over as the QB one there, he is
Speaker 1: a twenty six percent first read share that is the
Speaker 1: sixth best amongst tight ends. He's averaged over eleven Fantasy
Speaker 1: points per game in that span, and Miami since Week
Speaker 1: seven have allowed the fourth most yards to tight end,
Speaker 1: So bayrel matchup could be chasing points. I really like
Speaker 1: his quarterback on the way he's been playing lately, and
Speaker 1: those two clearly have chemistry. So I think he's even
Speaker 1: maybe elevated a little bit. He shouldn't be viewed as
Speaker 1: a sleeper, but he still is. He's available in a
Speaker 1: lot of leagues. But I think he's played well enough
Speaker 1: where you could just pick him up and.
Speaker 5: Start him right now. There you go.
Speaker 3: So there you go.
Speaker 7: You get some options there for you. My sleeper for
Speaker 7: the week, the Commander's DST. Look, at this point, we're
Speaker 7: just finding who's playing the Cowboys on a weekly basis,
Speaker 7: and we are starting that defense against them. I mean,
Speaker 7: that seems to be kind of the best way to
Speaker 7: go it has been. If you are a Cowboys fan,
Speaker 7: you're probably ready to just kind of wash your hands
Speaker 7: of the season, even though you still have what like
Speaker 7: seven games left through whatever it is I'm sitting here
Speaker 7: going through. I mean, this week it's going to be
Speaker 7: the Commanders. Next week we'll be talking about the Giants,
Speaker 7: and it's the Bengals. I mean, we're just going to
Speaker 7: go on and on down the list of teams to
Speaker 7: play against the Cowboys.
Speaker 5: Cooba rush was.
Speaker 7: Better in week eleven than he was in Week ten.
Speaker 7: Still wasn't great. They threw the ball fifty five times.
Speaker 7: Adam Rank on Fantasy Live basically said, the Cowboys are
Speaker 7: an arena football team. We're not trying to run the ball.
Speaker 7: We're going to stand back here and throw it all day,
Speaker 7: which would be great if they had somebody beyond just
Speaker 7: ceed Lamb to throw the football too. So I think
Speaker 7: the Commanders, who've been a lot better over the last
Speaker 7: month than they were at the start of the season, they.
Speaker 5: Should be pretty available.
Speaker 7: I think across waiver wires, go out, get them, plug
Speaker 7: them in your lineup, start them against the Cowboys and
Speaker 7: prosper That is what I'm looking at for a sleeper.
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Speaker 5: That'll pretty much do it, though.
Speaker 7: For this edition of the NFL Fantasy Football Podcast, Again
Speaker 7: thanks to Chris Johnson for stopping by. I always enjoyed
Speaker 7: watching him play, enjoy talking to him just as much.
Speaker 7: Stay happy, safe and healthy, do good and live well.
Speaker 7: Enjoy Thursday Night football, everybody. We'll talk to you again tomorrow,