Speaker 1: Hey everybody, It's Monday, December second, twenty twenty four. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the NFL Fantasy Football Show. It's me your man,
Speaker 1: MG Marcus Grant, joined by Michael f Florio and LaQuan Jones.
Speaker 1: We're still eating Thanksgiving leftovers hopefully.
Speaker 2: Oh you're not.
Speaker 3: No. Yesterday it was the.
Speaker 1: Last day, Marcus. I still a little bit of hands left.
Speaker 1: I'm mixing in with my eggs.
Speaker 2: It's great.
Speaker 1: Anyway, we got some big takeaways from week thirteen.
Speaker 2: Still one game left to go.
Speaker 1: We got the Browns at the Broncos on Monday Night Football,
Speaker 1: but they a full slate ahead of that we can
Speaker 1: dive into. Plus we'll have some waiver wire picks as well,
Speaker 1: and we got to do our weekly John new Smith
Speaker 1: update because that's a thing now that we have to.
Speaker 2: Do on this show. But sucks, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: You know, it depends on your perspective, That's all I'm
Speaker 2: gonna say.
Speaker 1: Anyway, Let's get started, as we always do, with some
Speaker 1: fantasy headlines, and one really frustrating and unfortunate one to
Speaker 1: begin with. Christian McCaffrey, who we waited for weeks to
Speaker 1: finally come back. We had to see him for a
Speaker 1: few games, and now it looks like it is over.
Speaker 1: On Sunday Night football against the Buffalo Bills, McCaffrey left
Speaker 1: early with a knee injury that is as being called
Speaker 1: possibly season ending. So I guess the first thing, Florio,
Speaker 1: the easy thing is, I mean, next man up? Obviously
Speaker 1: you know Jordan Mason is the easy call. How much
Speaker 1: interest do you have though in Isaac Garrindo going forward?
Speaker 3: I definitely want him on my roster because a number
Speaker 3: of reasons. One, this is the last week of buye,
Speaker 3: so do your bench spots become a little bit more
Speaker 3: where you could roll it, like take upside shots rather
Speaker 3: than needing players for like bye week replacements or stuff
Speaker 3: like that. But also, Jordan Mason, for as great as
Speaker 3: he was, did hit a bit of a wall down
Speaker 3: the stretches with his tenure as a starter. And then
Speaker 3: Isaac Grendo has the juice man and he's capable of
Speaker 3: putting out some really big plays. So while I think
Speaker 3: Mason will be the lead guy and we'll get the
Speaker 3: most of the opportunities, I could see Grendo either one
Speaker 3: carving out his own standalone role or maybe two if
Speaker 3: Mason continues to struggle a little bit like he did
Speaker 3: prior to CMC coming back. Maybe we see him start
Speaker 3: to it look more like a split or something like that.
Speaker 3: So definitely someone I want on my rosters right now.
Speaker 1: I also think, uh lakwan, this is sort of the
Speaker 1: lesson of this part of the season, starting to go
Speaker 1: out and get your handcuffs, get those guys that you know,
Speaker 1: if something happens to the guy ahead of them. You know,
Speaker 1: it's important to have these guys because you just never know,
Speaker 1: suddenly somebody walks into a big, big workload, right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely, and I think, you know, Floria hit a
Speaker 4: nail on the head, you know, Isaac Grendo definitely pops
Speaker 4: up on my radar as a guy that I want,
Speaker 4: you know, just to have a high end handcuff as well,
Speaker 4: because Jordan he definitely did hit a wall. He definitely
Speaker 4: hit the point where we're starting to see him kind
Speaker 4: of break down and he suffered some injuries, and Isaac
Speaker 4: Garndo plug and play into that system. Of course, he
Speaker 4: was able to show up and show out. So I
Speaker 4: definitely want, you know, one of these guys on my
Speaker 4: rosters going up, you know, into the playoffs, because at
Speaker 4: the end of the day that waiver wire the streets
Speaker 4: is going to be looking nasty once, you know, people
Speaker 4: start hitting this week for the wire.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, we're gonna dive into waiver wire a little bit later,
Speaker 1: but it is going to be a tough week because,
Speaker 1: in case you have not heard, it's by mcgetton Part two.
Speaker 2: Yay, good luck.
Speaker 1: There are six teams out to buy, including a lot
Speaker 1: of really good offenses with some really good players that
Speaker 1: are not going to be available to you.
Speaker 3: We got to think of a tagline like by mcgett
Speaker 3: into like what would the movie line.
Speaker 2: Be, Electric Boogaloo, Like, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll work out that by strike back or something
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gotta be we'll work shop that and we'll
Speaker 1: try to get it for for Wednesday show or something.
Speaker 1: I don't know, real quick for you guys. You know,
Speaker 1: obviously you know McCaffrey. We don't know how long exactly
Speaker 1: he's going to be out, certainly the end of this season.
Speaker 1: We'll see how long it potentially stretches in the next season.
Speaker 1: I know there was concern about drafting him at the
Speaker 1: top of drafts this year.
Speaker 2: You're way too early.
Speaker 1: Adp Florie on Christian McCaffrey for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: Depending on when he is back, I think he will
Speaker 3: go somewhere. If he's back for the start of the
Speaker 3: season next year, I think he's a second round pick.
Speaker 3: If he is not, I think he'll go somewhere in
Speaker 3: the third or fourth round. I think his days of
Speaker 3: being the one to one are long over. I think
Speaker 3: his days of potentially being a first round pick are
Speaker 3: over because this is another injury. There's still the Achilles injuries.
Speaker 3: It's also funny to me that in his career CMC
Speaker 3: has two seasons where if you did not have him,
Speaker 3: you probably didn't win a championship, and then two seasons
Speaker 3: where if you took him first overall, your season was
Speaker 3: long over from the moment that you took him.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I fall into that latter category where I drafted him
Speaker 1: and you know, I'm both those teams are going anywhere
Speaker 1: because I miss McCaffrey for so much of the season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been it's been frustrating.
Speaker 1: Speaking of major injuries, Taysom Hill suffered a torn acl
Speaker 1: plus additional damnage. Ad Is for our own Ian Rappaport
Speaker 1: and he is done for the rest of the season.
Speaker 2: I mean, Lakwan, look, I get it.
Speaker 1: He has sort of been a thorn in our side
Speaker 1: for Fantasy, But the last couple of weeks we knew
Speaker 1: we could count on him, right, I mean, there was no.
Speaker 2: Chris o'lave is gone, Rashie Shaheed is gone.
Speaker 1: Aside from Alvin Kamara, Taysom Hill is kind of the
Speaker 1: only other thing in this offense. So now without Taysom Hill,
Speaker 1: anybody we can count on besides Alvin Kamara in New Orleans, I'm.
Speaker 4: Gonna have to go with MVS. I mean, Marquis ald
Speaker 4: S Scantling. I mean, it sounds nasty, but he's making
Speaker 4: the big place. He's plugging play into that role, you know,
Speaker 4: for Rashis Shaheed to stretch the field, but you might
Speaker 4: see him be utilized more as a all around wide
Speaker 4: receiver and immediate maybe short targets as well. But Derek
Speaker 4: Carr is gonna have to figure it out with the
Speaker 4: rest of the company. I mean, honestly, I think this
Speaker 4: is more work on album Kamara's workloads. So you know,
Speaker 4: Fantasy managers that have Alan Kamara going into the playoffs,
Speaker 4: I know they're happy about that, you know, being that
Speaker 4: you know he'll get most of the touches on the
Speaker 4: goal line, et cetera, et cetera, and receiving work, so
Speaker 4: more most likely MBS. He becomes more interesting as did
Speaker 4: weeks go on. I mean, honestly, the touchdown that he
Speaker 4: had last week, I mean yesterday, I mean honestly, it's
Speaker 4: frustrating as a ranstring to see, but I kind of
Speaker 4: expected me, you know, like it's one of those things
Speaker 4: that you know it's coming and then it happens. Is like,
Speaker 4: all right, we got one out of our way. Let's
Speaker 4: just get this dub and get the game over with.
Speaker 4: But NBS for the next couple of weeks define interesting.
Speaker 1: I heard the annoyance in your voice that when you
Speaker 1: started that answer, just this big sigh, and you're like,
Speaker 1: I guess it's the DS, because I mean I feel
Speaker 1: like that's kind of the only way to respond to that, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, we we sort of know who Marquez Valdez
Speaker 1: Scantling is.
Speaker 2: I know the point has been made on social media.
Speaker 1: It's funny that a guy who has played his career
Speaker 1: with Aaron Rodgers, Josh Allen, Patrick Mahomes and somehow it's
Speaker 1: Derek Carr that unlike I can't figure it out. It
Speaker 1: doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 4: Look, he gets to make the big plays next week
Speaker 4: as well, and got the Giants and they allowed a
Speaker 4: ton of big plays downfield in that secondary.
Speaker 3: So go get him. MVS is a start for me
Speaker 3: and start sitting.
Speaker 2: Oh man, you know what, I haven't even gone through
Speaker 2: my whole He might end up being a sleeper too
Speaker 2: as well. Who knows. We'll see how this go.
Speaker 3: The three of us company men, look at our shirts
Speaker 3: and yes it is MVS and yeah it is all right.
Speaker 2: Let's take a look at some of the week's top scorers.
Speaker 1: These are the top scorers heading into Monday night football.
Speaker 1: Josh Allen had himself a day. He had two passing touchdowns,
Speaker 1: one to himself. Uh so he had the receiving touchdown.
Speaker 1: He had a rushing touchdown as well.
Speaker 2: MVP. Oh look, he's very much.
Speaker 1: I think he might have take you might have taken
Speaker 1: the lead for the m v P after what we
Speaker 1: saw last night. Certainly you know very much in that
Speaker 1: conversation for sure. Twenty eight point four fantasy points. Bucky Irving,
Speaker 1: huge day. I think a lot of us sort of
Speaker 1: expected that he had twenty seven and a half points
Speaker 1: a rushing touchdown three or one hundred and fifty two yards.
Speaker 2: On the ground as well.
Speaker 1: Terry McLaurin had himself a nice day, a lot of
Speaker 1: it coming in the first half. Eight for seventy three
Speaker 1: and a pair of touchdowns there, that's twenty seven points.
Speaker 1: Brock Bowers continuing to eat regardless who the quarterback is
Speaker 1: in Las Vegas. Ten for buck forty and a touchdown
Speaker 1: thirty points four brock Bowers, three different kickers Chris Boswell,
Speaker 1: Chris Ryland, and the Chase McLoughlin sixteen fantasy points there,
Speaker 1: and the Chargers defense a sack, four interceptions and a
Speaker 1: touchdown thirteen points allowed. They scored nineteen fantasy points. The
Speaker 1: Chargers beating the Falcons despite gaining fewer yards and not
Speaker 1: having an offensive touchdown, but through the generosity of Kirk
Speaker 1: Cousins able to get a win.
Speaker 2: Apparently Falconing is greater than chargering.
Speaker 1: So those are the guys who had some big weeks
Speaker 1: for you individually, though, your fantasy hero for the week.
Speaker 3: Was Kwan Joe Mixon.
Speaker 4: I mean, look, he literally fits the criteria of a
Speaker 4: fantasy hero like he put his cape on because like
Speaker 4: it was bad in the first half, Like he had
Speaker 4: three fantasy points. It's like your favorite TV show, anime
Speaker 4: or whatever where the hero the protagonist is getting beat up,
Speaker 4: getting destroyed. There's no return of like any site. And
Speaker 4: then in the second half Joe Mixon put up eighteen
Speaker 4: fantasy points and cleaned up nice. And that is the
Speaker 4: hero way, like you come and save the day when
Speaker 4: things are just terrible and bad. Because I was pulling
Speaker 4: my hair out, I'm like, yo, this is the layup matchup.
Speaker 3: What are you doing?
Speaker 2: Joe?
Speaker 3: Like, can we get it going?
Speaker 4: And then cleaning up with a whopping twenty one fantasy
Speaker 4: points another RB one week for Joe Mixon.
Speaker 3: What an amazing season he's having right now.
Speaker 1: Guys, absolutely, and I think a lot of us looked
Speaker 1: at that score, especially in the second half, You're like,
Speaker 1: what exactly is happening?
Speaker 2: Like what are the Texans doing?
Speaker 1: And then finally, as you mentioned, Joe Mixon sort of
Speaker 1: took control over that one.
Speaker 2: Stroup certainly didn't. No, that's a that's a different conversation.
Speaker 4: He remains a hero because after this bye he comes
Speaker 4: back against Miami the Chiefs in Baltimore. There are top
Speaker 4: ten rushing defenses, so the playoffs might look nasty for
Speaker 4: Joe Mixon.
Speaker 1: They had not a good schedule rest of the way
Speaker 1: for Joe Mixon for sure, Floria, you're playing your fantasy
Speaker 1: hero rather.
Speaker 3: The most underrated top four wide receiver season that I
Speaker 3: can remember, Like Terry McLaurin is not getting nearly enough
Speaker 3: credit for how well he is playing right now. The
Speaker 3: only wide receivers with more fantasy points this season Jamar Chase,
Speaker 3: Amanra Saint Brown, Justin Jefferson. All three of those were
Speaker 3: top five picks in fantasy football. Meanwhile, Terry McLaurin was
Speaker 3: going outside the top five rounds in a lot of drafts,
Speaker 3: and you were getting similar type production. He has tied
Speaker 3: a career high with nine touchdowns, set a new career high.
Speaker 3: I mean, not only is that a career high for him,
Speaker 3: it is the most touchdowns at Commanders receiver has had
Speaker 3: since Santa the Moss in two thousand and five. He
Speaker 3: played eighty games without Jaden Daniels in his career, had
Speaker 3: two multi touchdown games in thirteen with Jayden Daniels. He's
Speaker 3: done so three times already. Like he won me a
Speaker 3: couple of matchups hy Man Jaden that stack. But yeah,
Speaker 3: Terry McLaurin, I think we need to give this guy
Speaker 3: some more flowers because I feel like his season is
Speaker 3: just going completely under the radar.
Speaker 1: I mean it kind of is because Jadeen Daniels has
Speaker 1: sort of stolen all the headlines, but he's very much
Speaker 1: having a good season. I was joking yesterday that Cliff
Speaker 1: Kingsbury is gonna use that first half and send it
Speaker 1: as his application to be the head coach of the
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears, because I mean, the first half was great.
Speaker 1: Second half, yeah, first half of.
Speaker 3: The great Darnolf strong fall off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's wild.
Speaker 1: My fantasy hero for the week was Russell Wilson Look
Speaker 1: four hundred and fourteen yards, three passing touchdowns, twenty six
Speaker 1: nearly twenty seven fantasy points for Russ, and part of
Speaker 1: it was because he finally took advantage of a positive matchup.
Speaker 1: We had been promoting him as a guy to start
Speaker 1: for the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: Let us down against Baltimore was just six points there.
Speaker 1: We thought maybe at Cleveland he could give you something decent,
Speaker 1: but you know, the whole blizzard thing happened and he
Speaker 1: just got fewer than fourteen points, but really came out
Speaker 1: against Cincinnati and one the Bengals defense sort of showed
Speaker 1: everybody that they are as bad as we've been saying
Speaker 1: they are, but took advantage of that in a big,
Speaker 1: big way. And you shout out to Russell Wilson because
Speaker 1: everybody was sort of down on him. Everybody was wondering
Speaker 1: whether or not he was officially washed. People were upset
Speaker 1: at Mike Tomlin for making the change from justin fields,
Speaker 1: and all Russ has done is gone out there and
Speaker 1: win football games. And I know it hasn't always been
Speaker 1: great on the fantasy side of things, but he's been
Speaker 1: very effective. He has helped this offense for sure. We
Speaker 1: know George Pickens has been very productive of Calvin Austin,
Speaker 1: even Pat Fryarmuth jumping in, So that has been really
Speaker 1: great to see. All Right, let's go over like kind
Speaker 1: of like a thirty thousand foot view of this thing.
Speaker 1: On our biggest takeaways from Week thirteen, laquand start us
Speaker 1: off man.
Speaker 4: My biggest takeaways is that Bryce Schoung looks so good man,
Speaker 4: it's like to the point where he's not getting enough
Speaker 4: love on the fantasy streets of the timelines, because we're
Speaker 4: looking at Bryce Young in a situation where you have
Speaker 4: Jalen Koker who was injured, we have Jatavian Sanders going
Speaker 4: out with injury, and it's like he's doing all these
Speaker 4: amazing things sitting in the pocket, cool, calm and collect
Speaker 4: it and going out there and making the big plays
Speaker 4: for this Panthers offense. He's looked amazing since he became
Speaker 4: the starter, and honestly, we mentioned CJ. Strout earlier in
Speaker 4: the show. He's actually averaging more Fantasy points for a
Speaker 4: game then c J Strout coming back as the starter,
Speaker 4: So I don't know why he's on the wire. He
Speaker 4: might be a little bit more usable in your starting
Speaker 4: lineups than c J. Strout, which is crazy that he's
Speaker 4: doing this with this exact offense that he started off
Speaker 4: in the season with where we were just down on
Speaker 4: Bryce Young, but he's not getting enough credit of his
Speaker 4: decision making running out of the pocket. These highlights are amazing.
Speaker 4: Guys like Bryce Young is that dude and he needs
Speaker 4: to be picked off of the waivers. I honestly think
Speaker 4: now I'm.
Speaker 2: Down with it.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pat myself on the back here because he
Speaker 1: was in the sleeper's column this week, had been playing well.
Speaker 1: The numbers hadn't translated, but he was playing some good defenses,
Speaker 1: had a great matchup, totally took advantage of it. Floria,
Speaker 1: you learned something about another quarterback in the NFC South.
Speaker 1: This one maybe not so good.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Bryce Young should have won that game two different times yesterday,
Speaker 3: by the way the Panthers defense didn't. Yeah, Kirk Cousins
Speaker 3: is absolutely toast. And he gets a revenge game next
Speaker 3: week against the Minnesota Vikings. That should be a lot
Speaker 3: of fun. I am zero person excited for it because
Speaker 3: I watched Kirk Cousins play football these last few games.
Speaker 3: Zero touchdowns in his last three game, six interceptions, four
Speaker 3: interceptions yesterday, and I promise you, if you watch the
Speaker 3: game or go back and watch the tape, it is
Speaker 3: so much worse than you were probably envisioning. His pocket
Speaker 3: movement is awful. He has no velocity whatsoever on any
Speaker 3: of his throw. This interception right here is a beneable offense.
Speaker 3: I think I was watching that play and I was speechless.
Speaker 3: I was like, what is he doing? It's because he
Speaker 3: has no mobility. He can't plant and throw. The velocity
Speaker 3: is gone. I think it is time for the move
Speaker 3: to happen there because he's dragging down Drake London and
Speaker 3: Darnell Mooney and everything. And I know they gave him
Speaker 3: a lot of money, but if you if you took
Speaker 3: the contract aside and just watched him play, him and
Speaker 3: Aaron Rodgers are the handshake. They tore their achilles and
Speaker 3: their careers done. They're not the same players anymore. They
Speaker 3: just simply or not.
Speaker 1: I mean, the Michael Pennox conversation is very real about
Speaker 1: whether or not he should get.
Speaker 2: A starting opportunity here, especially with the Falcons.
Speaker 1: Still you know, with a shot of the playoffs, shot
Speaker 1: it winning the division, but right now Kirk Cousins not
Speaker 1: helping it. I was sort of piggyback on that and
Speaker 1: just say at this point, it's just time for us
Speaker 1: to admit it. Kle Pits is mid. He's just mid,
Speaker 1: and that's okay, right, Like that is fine. I had
Speaker 1: to I had to pack up my cape yesterday, put
Speaker 1: it away. It's just time to admit that this is
Speaker 1: not the guy that we thought was gonna be the
Speaker 1: generational guy. He played forty of the snaps after the game.
Speaker 1: You have coaches talking about, you know, we gotta figure
Speaker 1: out how to.
Speaker 2: Get him involved.
Speaker 1: Raheem Morris is like, you know, we're gonna we're gonna
Speaker 1: figure some things out. We got to get him more
Speaker 1: involved whatever. I'm like, it's the year four. We got
Speaker 1: to figure out how to get him involved. At this point,
Speaker 1: We've gone through a coaching change, quarterback change, scheme changes.
Speaker 2: It just hasn't happened. At this point. It's just time
Speaker 2: for us.
Speaker 1: To admit that that right now, he's he's just a
Speaker 1: guy and and that's okay. And as long as we
Speaker 1: start to kind of think about him that way, maybe
Speaker 1: there's a chance he has an Evan Ingram type you know,
Speaker 1: glow up a little bit later in his career.
Speaker 2: But for now, Golpus just is right.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're in a situation where Drake London and
Speaker 1: Darnel Mooney you're getting more opportunities. You know, you know,
Speaker 1: at some point we all got to just sort of,
Speaker 1: you know, let go of the rope. And I think
Speaker 1: it's time now to officially let go of the rope
Speaker 1: with Kyle Pitts.
Speaker 3: Yeah there, Yeah, if he's got that dog in him, yeah,
Speaker 3: it doesn't seem that way. I blame John new I'm
Speaker 3: blaming John if you.
Speaker 2: Want to get in to that.
Speaker 1: After the break timers get to the waiver wiring stuff
Speaker 1: as well. Stick around for a little bit more of
Speaker 1: the NFL Fantasy Football Show. Let's take a look at
Speaker 1: this week's waiver wire options. Floria who Shia we've been
Speaker 1: checking for in Week fourteen.
Speaker 3: These quarterbacks might sound like you're gonna be questioning me,
Speaker 3: but there's six teams on buy a lot of big
Speaker 3: name quarterbacks. So Aiden O'Connell has a good matchup against
Speaker 3: the Bucks. Will Levis has a good match up against
Speaker 3: the Jags. Cooper Rush has a good match up against
Speaker 3: the Bengals. All in play as streaming options, Jalen Warren
Speaker 3: needs to be picked up right now. So does Chris
Speaker 3: Rodriguez Junior. Since here McCormick is getting more and more
Speaker 3: of the attention there from the Raiders coaches. Blake Krum
Speaker 3: played season high, and at least I think he did yesterday.
Speaker 3: Zach Sharbonnay Tyler L's year, Yeah, Antonio Gibson all what
Speaker 3: we were talking about earlier in the show. The time
Speaker 3: of the year where you want your handcuff running backs
Speaker 3: on your roster, and then some pass catchers Jerry Judy.
Speaker 3: I've seen enough with him out even playing on Monday
Speaker 3: nights so far MVS needs to be picked up right now.
Speaker 3: All Nick Westbrupuakina does is catch touchdowns. Literally almost half
Speaker 3: his catches or touchdowns. Adam feeling his back and looking
Speaker 3: like himself again as the top target there. Parker Washington
Speaker 3: had a lot of volume yesterday, and then some tight
Speaker 3: ends Pat Fryermuth, who called a touchdown hunter. Henry's on buy,
Speaker 3: but the volume is too good if you need a
Speaker 3: tight end. Deil Johnson as a streaming option, Noah Gray
Speaker 3: as a potential streaming option. And then this is like
Speaker 3: a deeper league add But Austin Hooper low key getting
Speaker 3: highly involved in the Patriots passing attack.
Speaker 1: I know it's funny because I keep trying to put
Speaker 1: Austin Hooper in the sleepers column.
Speaker 2: I just don't have the guts to do it.
Speaker 1: But then he goes out and he catches a touchdown
Speaker 1: or something, so I'm like, you know, maybe maybe I
Speaker 1: find that the courage at some point in the next
Speaker 1: few weeks to kind of do that. But I want
Speaker 1: to ask you about Chris Rodriguez because Austin Eckler is
Speaker 1: on injured reserve after he had a concussion. It's going
Speaker 1: to be out for at least the next four weeks.
Speaker 1: I know, we thought Jeremy McNichols was going to get
Speaker 1: some run, and look he did get on the field,
Speaker 1: But it looks like maybe Chris Rodriguez is his next
Speaker 1: man up in that backfield behind Brian Robinson.
Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe I do want to see it happening again
Speaker 4: because Jeremy McNichols is also a talented back in that backfield.
Speaker 4: But honestly, just credit to this commander's rushing offense. Honestly,
Speaker 4: I mean, look, you get a guy like Chris rod
Speaker 4: you guys off the practice squad and get him in there,
Speaker 4: and he shows up and shows out because he looked really,
Speaker 4: really good with his opportunities. So hopefully they keep him
Speaker 4: in there in the rotation, you know, with Brian Robinson
Speaker 4: and honestly, this Titans defense, it looked like, you know,
Speaker 4: they weren't the defense that we known in love against
Speaker 4: the run. You know, they're usually tough against the run.
Speaker 4: They're one of those defenses that like to put their
Speaker 4: you know, ears back and get and clogged in the
Speaker 4: middle of the field, but they were just getting ran
Speaker 4: all over with Chris Rodriguez, so he's definitely worth a pickup.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I think a lot of us were
Speaker 1: kind of thinking a pivot to Jeremy McNichols.
Speaker 2: Maybe that's not done yet.
Speaker 1: The tough part about that is the commander's running by
Speaker 1: this week, so we gonna have to wait a couple
Speaker 1: weeks to sort of see exactly how this is gonna
Speaker 1: shake out.
Speaker 2: Hold your breath.
Speaker 1: That's kind of you know, white knut through the playoff
Speaker 1: to figure out this this Washington backfield.
Speaker 2: Speaking of white knuckling things, it's time for a John
Speaker 2: new Smith update. No, we do like a sounder.
Speaker 1: Or some kind of graphic like like I don't know,
Speaker 1: plays in the Miami Vice theme or something like that. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Week thirteen, John who continues his ridiculous run, his run
Speaker 1: of twenty point games over the last four weeks. You
Speaker 1: know how many tight ends have more Fantasy points than
Speaker 1: John new Smith?
Speaker 2: None? None at all. John new Smith is the tight
Speaker 2: end one.
Speaker 1: Over the last four weeks, he has twenty plus point
Speaker 1: twenty one plus points in three straight games. This past
Speaker 1: week ten catches for one hundred and thirteen yards on
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving Night against the Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 2: At the moment, he is.
Speaker 1: Currently the tight end five overall, he has one hundred
Speaker 1: and forty six point seven points, twelve point three points
Speaker 1: ahead of Mark Andrews, sixteen point six points ahead of
Speaker 1: Zach Ertz. The bad news for you, Lakwan, both those
Speaker 1: other guys are on a bye this week, So John
Speaker 1: new as a real chit put some distance between himself
Speaker 1: and the rest of the tight ends in the field.
Speaker 1: Have you started looking at the strawberry blonde platinum blonde,
Speaker 1: started thinking of what kind of colors you want?
Speaker 4: I still have faith. I still have faith that we
Speaker 4: could pull this out. Kid on and let me down
Speaker 4: this week, Like I don't know what that was. He
Speaker 4: had a chance and it just did not deliver it.
Speaker 3: I'm just like, you.
Speaker 4: Guys really want this to have And then the people
Speaker 4: in the comments are like DM to me, like yo,
Speaker 4: you should do this. Look like they sent me Dennis
Speaker 4: Robin and then they sent me Shelton Benjamin the wrestler.
Speaker 2: Back in the day. That was me. That was me, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: that was you. That was you.
Speaker 4: Markets you started this wave of this chaos, Like people
Speaker 4: keep photoshopping me of like different hair colors of blonde,
Speaker 4: light blonde, dark blonde, dirty blonde, Like I'm not doing this,
Speaker 4: Like John new is not going to be.
Speaker 3: Top five, Like I'm reverting what I said in August.
Speaker 2: I like the Cisco. The Cisco look seem seemed like
Speaker 2: it might work for you a little bit.
Speaker 3: No, We're not doing Cisco. No that, and I know
Speaker 3: it looked terrible on me. No, I like to think
Speaker 3: that at night, like when you lay down or whatever,
Speaker 3: like a bottle of hair dye talks to you, like
Speaker 3: the green Goblin masks Spider Man movie. You want to
Speaker 3: call in your name.
Speaker 2: Man. Side note to all of this.
Speaker 1: At the height of the Thong song's popularity, my mother
Speaker 1: just unsolicited looked at me one day and said, you know,
Speaker 1: Cisco looks like he smells bad and that has nothing
Speaker 1: to do with anything. I just felt like I should
Speaker 1: just bring that up. That's all there, You go away.
Speaker 1: We will be keeping an eye on John new Smith
Speaker 1: as we creep closer to the end of the season,
Speaker 1: but I'm not gonna lie that looking good for you.
Speaker 3: Man, Are we caving it at the end of week seventeen,
Speaker 3: because that's the end of the fantasy season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll give, we'll give. We'll give him to week eighteen.
Speaker 2: We'll get through Week eight I just give him, give
Speaker 2: him one last chance. You know, we'll try to make
Speaker 2: it fair.
Speaker 3: I swear to this pod.
Speaker 4: That's why he keeps showing up like this, Like he
Speaker 4: keeps like blowing up, like these are numbers he's never
Speaker 4: done before.
Speaker 3: What are we doing? Also, he's only two points behind
Speaker 3: Travis Kelsey, Like, he could easily get higher than tight
Speaker 3: end five.
Speaker 2: If he gets into the four slot.
Speaker 1: It might be a rap for you, man, It might
Speaker 1: be a rap if he gets them before.
Speaker 2: Man, for sure.
Speaker 1: All right, now, let's talk about one of our favorite
Speaker 1: moments from the past week. And I remember a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago Geo Smith had that season. He said,
Speaker 1: you know they wrote me off. I didn't ride back. Well,
Speaker 1: he is, he is very much. He is like Arius Stark, right,
Speaker 1: he's got the names. He's like Steve Buscemi in Billy Madison.
Speaker 1: He has the names of people, and he's got the
Speaker 1: Jets at the top of his list. He posted the
Speaker 1: photo the meme after he beat the Jets the meme.
Speaker 1: You know it, the I went to one of my
Speaker 1: biggest haters funerals just to make sure that he was dead.
Speaker 1: That is the photo that Geno Smith put up after
Speaker 1: the win. I didn't know he had this much hate
Speaker 1: in his heart, but it is hilarious.
Speaker 4: Man, the amount of hate that Gino's has had, you
Speaker 4: know before his comeback was just that deep, Like he
Speaker 4: had all this bottle that we're seeing Geno Gino basically
Speaker 4: get his lick back, like he's basically go out there
Speaker 4: like all right, Jets, you're off. And this was the
Speaker 4: most fire response that anybody could have had of all time.
Speaker 4: Like Geno Hall of Famer right there in the memes,
Speaker 4: you are a fellow hater, Floria. I mean you have
Speaker 4: to endorse this sort of thing.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say as a fellow Jet hater. Nothing
Speaker 3: not only this post, but like the fact that Geno
Speaker 3: Smith and Sam Darnold are having success elsewhere and like
Speaker 3: potentially going to the playoffs and both beat the Jets
Speaker 3: heads ahead on the year that they were picked by
Speaker 3: many to be a Super Bowl team is hilarious to me. Now,
Speaker 3: all we need is for Zach Wilson to get the
Speaker 3: spot start and to beat that, and we're.
Speaker 2: O that would be epic.
Speaker 1: Man, there would be a meltdown amongst Jets Nation if
Speaker 1: somehow Zach Wilson got to win with the Jets. By
Speaker 1: the way, at this point in last season, the Jets
Speaker 1: were four and eight.
Speaker 2: This year they are three and nine. Just putting that
Speaker 2: out there, that's all I'm gonna say. Don't worry.
Speaker 3: Aaron Rodgers says, it's not all his fault.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, at some point he's probably want
Speaker 1: to announce that. He's like, I don't know, going to
Speaker 1: the Department of Government Efficiency or something like that for reasons. Anyway,
Speaker 1: that's a good point for us to take a pause
Speaker 1: for now before the black HELI talk copters come for me.
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