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Speaker 1: Greggy very excited here on Thursday night, on Thursday morning,
Speaker 1: excited for Thursday night. Finally got a good game, uh
Speaker 1: tonight again the Steelers and the Panthers after the the terrible,
Speaker 1: atrocious game that was last week. Unless you're Nick Mollin's family,
Speaker 1: obviously the forty Niners and Raiders. That was a terrible game.
Speaker 1: But I'm excited, Greg, talk a little talk a little
Speaker 1: week Tan, I got some got some rankings up, quarterback
Speaker 1: rankings rankings, Best Fantasy five up and ready to go
Speaker 1: one two, three, four, five five times five up on
Speaker 1: Road of Experts, and uh, we'll talk to dr. Lots
Speaker 1: of injuries as well, always injuries, always injuries, and so
Speaker 1: many more. Um, I want to start leaving on Bell
Speaker 1: because we've had this question for a while with d
Speaker 1: James Connor went to do with Leavy on Bell, especially
Speaker 1: as people's trade deadline started reaching, as we get closer
Speaker 1: to closer and closer to Thanksgiving. Is it possible here, Frankie,
Speaker 1: not possible, probable lady on Bell? The bell's like on Mac. Yeah, definitely,
Speaker 1: it definitely is a possibility. I've heard. I've heard other
Speaker 1: fantasy shows, other NFL shows talk about it. You know,
Speaker 1: they can do a little uh, you know, a little
Speaker 1: back door, a little uh, you know, under the table
Speaker 1: kind of negotiation where all right, we won't give you
Speaker 1: the transition tag. You don't have to come back this year.
Speaker 1: You don't because look the way that the Steelers are
Speaker 1: playing right now. And I think it's a good transition
Speaker 1: because we'll talk about tonight's game and preview this. They're
Speaker 1: playing well, the Steelers are playing good ball. They got
Speaker 1: off to a weird start, they were like one, two
Speaker 1: and one. They have now won four games in a row,
Speaker 1: sitting at five two and one now at the top
Speaker 1: of the a f C North once again, and James
Speaker 1: Conner is just playing lights out football right now. So
Speaker 1: why do you why would you want to bring back
Speaker 1: the distraction that is Levan Bell? And you know, I've
Speaker 1: heard Corey and Gabe go back and forth. Uh. And
Speaker 1: I've heard, you know, Corey against Jim Day talk about, well,
Speaker 1: who's the better player? You know, statistically, We'll save that
Speaker 1: for another day. Who's a better player? All that matters
Speaker 1: is that behind the Steeler's offensive line, running backs have
Speaker 1: been able to produce no matter what their name is,
Speaker 1: whether it's Levian Bell, James Connor, D'Angelo Williams, going back
Speaker 1: to the days of you know, Rachard, Mennen Hall, all
Speaker 1: these guys. I mean, they've always had a great run
Speaker 1: game and it has not changed. James Conner what he's
Speaker 1: doing right now is absolutely phenomenal. So this team is
Speaker 1: is both writing from an NFL perspective from a fantasy perspective.
Speaker 1: I don't see why they would want to bring back
Speaker 1: the distraction that is Levian Bell. So there's certainly a
Speaker 1: chance that you know, they just say, all right, well,
Speaker 1: let's both look the other way. Levian Bell doesn't return
Speaker 1: this year, doesn't risk a chance of injury. Uh. And
Speaker 1: you know, he'll get into the off season and unrestricted
Speaker 1: free agent, some team will pay him a boatload of money,
Speaker 1: probably my New York Jets, because you know that's what
Speaker 1: they do do, and that'll be it. But as for
Speaker 1: this season, to answer your question, yes, there's certainly a
Speaker 1: chance that he does not play at all this season.
Speaker 1: And I you know, while we had that report, I
Speaker 1: don't know, sometime in week four, week five, we had
Speaker 1: that ESPN report of it was just clickbait. And that's
Speaker 1: what I'm saying back then too. It's you know, all right,
Speaker 1: uh yeah, he's gonna report during the bye week, by
Speaker 1: weeks coming gone. Greg. Here we are sitting and getting
Speaker 1: ready for week ten, Thursday Night Football where the Steelers
Speaker 1: are gonna face the Panthers, and we don't have Levian
Speaker 1: Bell and field. So that was just you know, all
Speaker 1: these reports that you hear, and these cryptic tweets and
Speaker 1: all this stuff. I mean, you can try your best
Speaker 1: to decipher it. What it comes down to is Levian
Speaker 1: Bell is not here, and I would not be surprised
Speaker 1: if he doesn't play again for the Steelers. I tweeted
Speaker 1: that up before the season. Here's the other side. But
Speaker 1: I've been on that the whole way you have been,
Speaker 1: and it's incredibly clear he's not playing the Steelers. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say this, Frank, I will be surprised if he
Speaker 1: plays another down the Steelers. On the other way, now
Speaker 1: that I'm not surprised he doesn't play, I would be
Speaker 1: surprised if he does play. That's how far I've gone.
Speaker 1: I probably could have got like nice odds to mean,
Speaker 1: everything's bettable, right, could asked Gabe about that. But you know,
Speaker 1: before the season, you probably could have bet does Levian
Speaker 1: Bell play another down in a Pittsburgh Steelers uniform? Oh,
Speaker 1: you could have got some pretty good odds on that. So,
Speaker 1: I mean that's the way that I've been leading the
Speaker 1: entire time. I'm gonna stick with that. And you know,
Speaker 1: for all the people who are continuing to ask Levian
Speaker 1: Bell and James Conner questions, I understand there's a lot
Speaker 1: of uncertainty and people want answers, but to be honest,
Speaker 1: we don't have answers. I mean as much as as
Speaker 1: much time as we've wasted, and honestly, that's what it is.
Speaker 1: It's time wasted talking about Levian Bell and James Conner.
Speaker 1: Nobody for sure has any answer. But the way that
Speaker 1: it looks right now is the Steelers are playing great football,
Speaker 1: great offensive football, great defensive football, and partially due to
Speaker 1: the way the offensive line is playing, the way James
Speaker 1: Conner is playing. Why why would they want to mess
Speaker 1: that up? I don't I don't see that happening. We
Speaker 1: got a new kicker on my demo, a new kicker,
Speaker 1: Greg Badley. Yeah, the first cousin of Marvin Bagley in
Speaker 1: the NBA. Quite Badgley. He's worse then Ryan's not at them,
Speaker 1: going to be upset at you, sorry, Bud oh Man. Look,
Speaker 1: the charges are a potent offense. They should have a
Speaker 1: plenty of kicking opportunities. Uh, but you know they are
Speaker 1: cursed somebody I like I mentioned they have the someone
Speaker 1: has the voodoo doll with the Chargers kicker and they
Speaker 1: just keeps stabbing his leg and every single year, like clockwork,
Speaker 1: whoever the Chargers signed to be their kicker is terrible.
Speaker 1: It's like they forget how to kick a football when
Speaker 1: they go and to Los Angeles to kick for the Chargers.
Speaker 1: Right before we get into any more fantasy football, were
Speaker 1: you a child movie star? No? Really, really, I will
Speaker 1: say this. I will say this. This is embarrassing. Nobody knows.
Speaker 1: This never says in the air before Oh, you're starting
Speaker 1: Home Alone. I know that. The Yeah, they put that up. Huh,
Speaker 1: we're putting that up. Sat out to Greg Martinez, a
Speaker 1: longtime listener and viewer of the BFFs Uh. I tweeted
Speaker 1: out a picture of your face, which is just so
Speaker 1: great when we're reading Hussan White like white size. That
Speaker 1: was a good edition. It was a great recap. Thank you.
Speaker 1: But I was like, all right, I can't let this go.
Speaker 1: So I tweeted that out and our guy Greg Martinez
Speaker 1: set this back, this picture of you starring in Home
Speaker 1: Alone too, where you know, obviously your parents left you
Speaker 1: in New York. Greg, do you want to know a
Speaker 1: true story? Yes, side side to that. So when I
Speaker 1: was four years old, I believe four or five, I
Speaker 1: took acting lessons. My friends thought I was going to
Speaker 1: my friends, my family, my parents. I thought I was
Speaker 1: going to be like this child of the actor. For really,
Speaker 1: I started snow White. I was dope. What's yeah, I
Speaker 1: was dope and literally was acting school when I was
Speaker 1: upset that I was doobe and my parents like, listen,
Speaker 1: that's a that's a huge part, like you're not doc
Speaker 1: but like that's a huge part because you get to
Speaker 1: really act rather than one of the useless worse right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it was five. I was five at the time,
Speaker 1: because when I turned six, you was time to sign
Speaker 1: up racting school again. And I had been in some
Speaker 1: some productions previously, but when I was six, my parents
Speaker 1: really thought I was gonna be this actor, Like, all right,
Speaker 1: you want to sign up racting schools, you know what,
Speaker 1: then we're gonna take a year off and play soccer instead, really,
Speaker 1: you know, do like normal kid things. So I really
Speaker 1: into the really into soccer, really like the Yankees at
Speaker 1: this point, um, and and they like football. Say, I
Speaker 1: think we've focused on sports for the next year and
Speaker 1: not acting. And it's been twenty five years since I
Speaker 1: took acting lessons, and it seems, frank that that ship
Speaker 1: has held. Probably could have been a great actor. I mean,
Speaker 1: don't you know what I think they thought it was.
Speaker 1: I was gonna be Haley Joel Osmond and it just
Speaker 1: didn't happen. Do you know who that is? Hally Joel Osmond.
Speaker 1: It's a good frank one. No, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: Haley Joe Joel Osmond. Al right it right now? Though? Yes,
Speaker 1: great Google, Oh I know this. Uh, this was the
Speaker 1: person in like the sixth sense. He was a kid
Speaker 1: in the sixth sense. Yes, I mean what does he
Speaker 1: do now though, like there's there's no way he does anything.
Speaker 1: He's an actor still. He was in Um, he's an adourage,
Speaker 1: he's the Age movie. Actually, Mike Snino traded to the rays. Greg,
Speaker 1: that was yesterday. Well, it just officially, I just got
Speaker 1: the frank, we're talking about my acting career. Okay, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry to take away anyway. Anyway, I could have
Speaker 1: been all Joel Osmond. Instead, here I am next to you.
Speaker 1: I'd rather be here next to me. And really, you
Speaker 1: want to be this guy, Greg, If you would be
Speaker 1: Haley Joe Osmond, that's how you. You would have had
Speaker 1: a beard. You would have you would have had the
Speaker 1: long last beard. Even we've been we've been clamoring for
Speaker 1: after all these years. Here's the thing, Frank about that
Speaker 1: would have that could have been you so last Friday, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that could have been you so so last last Friday,
Speaker 1: I had grown my facial hair out. It had been
Speaker 1: over a week, gonna have since I told you to
Speaker 1: keep doing You didn't. You didn't really say anything. You
Speaker 1: didn't even know we had this exact conversation. You didn't
Speaker 1: notice it enough. It was we probably had the conversation.
Speaker 1: You didn't notice it. Some best friend you are. You
Speaker 1: don't even listen to me when I talked, I do
Speaker 1: listen to you. Didn't I did. We were on this
Speaker 1: show and I said, Greg, please grow out your facial hair.
Speaker 1: What do we have to do? We had that that
Speaker 1: was previously. I saw the little stubble and I was
Speaker 1: like more, we need more. Shaved the neck at the
Speaker 1: time to be more, and I was like, I mean
Speaker 1: maybe you're just addicted to shaving, so just shave underneath.
Speaker 1: But then I had like ingrowns growing on the cheek.
Speaker 1: I was like, this is gross. No it's not. I
Speaker 1: did man, and man, it wasn't. I had the ingrowns.
Speaker 1: I can't have that looks terrible. Now I got a haircut.
Speaker 1: I'm freshly shaving. I feel so much better. No, I literally, folks.
Speaker 1: I went to the bathroom yesterday. I looked, I was
Speaker 1: washing my hands. Look in the mirror. How's it, Greg?
Speaker 1: What are we doing? We're not even trying right now.
Speaker 1: We gotta be better. And after that, I was like,
Speaker 1: my haircut today, Well, I mean, who do you have
Speaker 1: to impress? Greg? You're already gatting myself? No? You watching? No? No,
Speaker 1: like I want them to look at me and be like,
Speaker 1: Judy loves you the way you look good? It look good. No.
Speaker 1: I can't tell you the countless amounts of people who
Speaker 1: have tweeted me begging for bearded Greg. It's just those
Speaker 1: are most of the notifications that agivity is not one
Speaker 1: of them. I mean, but does that really matter? Think
Speaker 1: about this next year, Greg, You're throwing me the best
Speaker 1: twenty eight year gir old birthday party that I could
Speaker 1: ever ask for. Speaking, it's on the side you're getting
Speaker 1: married to Judy speaking twenty seven year old birthday parties.
Speaker 1: Frank taking his birthday off tomorrow. I am well. I
Speaker 1: was kind of demanded to by by my fiance, like
Speaker 1: I really want to take you out and you ask
Speaker 1: Greg if you could get off, all right, I'll try.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't really want to like leave my
Speaker 1: my peeps, my f and ts, why peeps behind with
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of work to do. I'll ask,
Speaker 1: I'll see what I could do. It was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's fine because I'm out the next week. Well it
Speaker 1: was more of of course they of course they could
Speaker 1: lay off, no problem what I said. And it's gonna
Speaker 1: be great because I'm to drink a bunch of beer
Speaker 1: tonight and I'm gonna watch the game and I don't
Speaker 1: worry about waking up absolutely, and I can also catch
Speaker 1: the end of the Bucks Warriors. So I'm very very
Speaker 1: excited for tonight. That's great night in sports. That's awesome. Frank,
Speaker 1: enjoy your day off tomorrow. Do your enjoy your enjoy
Speaker 1: your wedding next Friday. Greg's not my wedding next Friday. Well,
Speaker 1: the wedding that you will be attended, Yes, I will,
Speaker 1: I will. Um. All right, let's get some football. So
Speaker 1: in my league just just now. Maurice Harris is not
Speaker 1: picked up yesterday on the week, claimed he was picked
Speaker 1: up today for zero dollars. Do not by me because
Speaker 1: I missed that because it's like a bad job by you,
Speaker 1: id I mid zero dollars and he went someone else
Speaker 1: for zero dollars. Today, I wouldn't just been a dollar,
Speaker 1: don't know. Do you know that? Do you know who
Speaker 1: was dropped for Warriors Harris? I will guess was dropped
Speaker 1: Kenny Stills, Derrick Henry, Derrick Henry, Yeah, I mean he's
Speaker 1: completely droppable. The way the way that the pendulum has
Speaker 1: swung in the Tennessee Titans backfield right now, Dion lewis
Speaker 1: back to back games with twenty plus touches with for
Speaker 1: a hundred total yards in both of those games. It
Speaker 1: looks like the the go to running back for the
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans offense right now. And you know what we
Speaker 1: what we were saying about the Bears offense a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago, is that if an offense is thriving
Speaker 1: using a certain player as the lead back or getting
Speaker 1: that player more involved, why would they go away from that?
Speaker 1: Who would you rather own right now? Derrick Henry happing
Speaker 1: with the Titans right now, they just put up twenty
Speaker 1: points against the Cowboys. What's the question, Who would you
Speaker 1: rather own right now? Derrick Henry or Carlos Hide. Uh,
Speaker 1: I I would rather own Derrick Henry because he's He's
Speaker 1: part of a two man backfield, whereas the Jaguars are three.
Speaker 1: So even if Leonard Fournette goes down, all those Hide's
Speaker 1: still gonna have to battle with t J Yeldn for touches,
Speaker 1: whereas if Dean Lewis goes down Derrick Henry should you know,
Speaker 1: easily see fifteen plus touches. But I will say Derrick
Speaker 1: Henry at this point in time is droppable. I was
Speaker 1: actually looking at his game log last night. The guy
Speaker 1: hasn't had over like teen carries since it was like
Speaker 1: week three or four. His his carriers have just been
Speaker 1: all over the place. And uh, you know, I don't
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily blame the Titans either, because he hasn't
Speaker 1: been that effective. Neither at this point have been effective.
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry has scored uh in back to back weeks.
Speaker 1: Of course, the carries have gone down, as Frank mentioned,
Speaker 1: but he's getting in the end zone finally. Yes, right,
Speaker 1: that's good. Yeah, but in those games he has twenty
Speaker 1: seven and thirty three yards respectively. Uh. What I was
Speaker 1: referencing was he hasn't had more than twelve carries since
Speaker 1: Week three when he faced the Jaguars and he had
Speaker 1: eighteen carries. Since then, it's been eight eleven, seven, twelve six.
Speaker 1: So that's like, you know, every other low end flex
Speaker 1: option that we ranked that's in that area. Yeahlijah McGuire,
Speaker 1: I mean even like lower than that, Hayton Barber, guys
Speaker 1: like that. That's that's like the uh, the mold that
Speaker 1: he's in right now for fantasy purposes. Okay, Um, what
Speaker 1: else we have going on right now in the NFL?
Speaker 1: We have doctor right coming up next, by the way,
Speaker 1: at twelve twenty Eastern time, he will join the program
Speaker 1: um in Philadelphia, and Aaron Sprawls, we're supposed to return
Speaker 1: this week, aggravates the hamstring injury. So one last one
Speaker 1: less running back to compete against. Frank. I know you're
Speaker 1: always against the Eagles running backs, but as I said
Speaker 1: to you last week, I picked up Josh Adams and
Speaker 1: holding onto him and see what I have just interested? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't have a lot of interest in really any
Speaker 1: of the Eagles running backs. I have Wendell Smallwood ranked
Speaker 1: the highest of them this week, just because he saw
Speaker 1: the highest snap percentage the last time the Eagles played.
Speaker 1: But Josh Adams, Yeah, I mean, I don't have a
Speaker 1: problem with stashing him on the end of your bench
Speaker 1: just to see, if you know, what he did in
Speaker 1: that game, but before the bye actually meant anything because
Speaker 1: he was he was running effectively. UM, was running strong
Speaker 1: with good efficiency. UM. So we'll see what happens. But
Speaker 1: the Eagles overall haven't been able to run the ball
Speaker 1: all that well this season. That's why. That's part of
Speaker 1: the reason I liked Carson Wentz and brought him up
Speaker 1: yesterday as a by low candidate, because they bring in
Speaker 1: Golden Tape kind of a guy who's like an extension
Speaker 1: of the run game. A lot of passes us to
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage and see what he could do
Speaker 1: after the catch. They have Alston Jeffrey, they have Zach Ert.
Speaker 1: So I do think that we're gonna see more passing
Speaker 1: volume out of the Eagles and Carson Wentz. Um, you're
Speaker 1: all about Carson Wentz and buying in the second half
Speaker 1: of the year. Yeah, And look, it's just it's it's
Speaker 1: what it's always been for Doug Peterson. This is why
Speaker 1: I didn't like the Eagles running backs coming into the year.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a three headed monster, which is not
Speaker 1: really a monster because it's like, who are these running
Speaker 1: backs on the field anyway, So like, who do you
Speaker 1: depend on in this back field for more than twelve
Speaker 1: carries a game? Probably nobody. You're just hoping for lightning
Speaker 1: on the bottle. Yeah, yeah, you'll see if if one
Speaker 1: of Smallwood or Clement goes down and then then like
Speaker 1: if if it becomes a two person backfield, then maybe
Speaker 1: we'll see something out of Josh Adams. But I'm I
Speaker 1: really don't want to depend on the Eagles Eagles running
Speaker 1: backs for any type of fantasy value here that makes
Speaker 1: sense even desperation times by still here. Yeah, look we
Speaker 1: still have I believe we have four teams on a
Speaker 1: bye this week. We either have four or six teams
Speaker 1: on a buy next week. So we'll see what happens. Again,
Speaker 1: I don't mind status Josh Adams and say see what
Speaker 1: happens here, But by no means do I think either
Speaker 1: him or small would have a ton of upside movie
Speaker 1: for fair enough when we come back, dr a inside
Speaker 1: Injuri is gonna join us and we're the latest on
Speaker 1: a j Green, How serious is this injury? According to
Speaker 1: the good doctor, He'll let us know when we return.
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Speaker 1: Sports Radio Network. So hometown Heller just text and me.
Speaker 1: He's like, hey, interesting pick up in Fantasy And you
Speaker 1: know that's so weird. You're you're listening to the fs
Speaker 1: UM and your hardest talking about Marise Harris and he's like, no,
Speaker 1: I'm already Harris, Like, oh, you're talking about my kicker
Speaker 1: pick up of Marvin Marvin Bagley. He's like no, Like,
Speaker 1: the only other person picked up today was the the
Speaker 1: Bengals defense, Like who car just thought it was interesting
Speaker 1: by you, Like why are you who Guards are the
Speaker 1: Bengals defense picked up. The Bengals defense play against No
Speaker 1: news that whoever they play next week? They play Baltimore
Speaker 1: next week, then Cleveland, then Denver, and then the playoffs
Speaker 1: are the Chargers, Oakland and Cleveland. Greg, Yeah, what are
Speaker 1: you doing here? What do you mean? What are you doing?
Speaker 1: Throwing things in Baltimore? You're gonna stash a defense for
Speaker 1: like the fantasy playoffs? Is that what you're trying to do?
Speaker 1: Next week Baltimore? No? You know? Yeah? He have with
Speaker 1: the Jets next week they ever buy the Bengals. The
Speaker 1: Bengals defense has not been good. I do my thing,
Speaker 1: very bad. They actually allow the most passing yards in
Speaker 1: the NFL right now, Oh maybe that'll go down as
Speaker 1: New Orleans not likely. Dr Ay from inside injuries joins
Speaker 1: us right now, Doc, how are you, sir? I'm good, guys,
Speaker 1: how are you? I'm happy to report that, Uh, for
Speaker 1: the last three years, my son and his fantasy league
Speaker 1: has never won. This year, he got serious and downloaded
Speaker 1: the app and worked off of inside injuries, and he
Speaker 1: has basically all but one his league before even the
Speaker 1: tenth week has started. Well, that's damnit impressive. Dr damn impressive.
Speaker 1: So so I just want to let you know, I
Speaker 1: want to report that shout out to the young Dr.
Speaker 1: A is it Doc Junior jor J Alright, Hey, Doc,
Speaker 1: I mentioned before A J. Green him and we were
Speaker 1: coming into the segment with you A J. Green. So
Speaker 1: Dr Robert Anderson, which is usually a terrible sign for
Speaker 1: your foot. Um, rest and rehab is what we've been told.
Speaker 1: Although we'll see what happens in the future. We know
Speaker 1: he's rule Otte this week and next week already. What
Speaker 1: are you seeing reading and hearing when it comes to A. J. Green. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So this is not the first time that he had
Speaker 1: a toe injury in two thousand and fourteen that sidelined
Speaker 1: him for a month back then. And you know, these
Speaker 1: are one of these things. Turf toe recurs a lot. Now. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, we may not have known it, but I
Speaker 1: almost guarantee you he's been playing through a really minor
Speaker 1: case of turf to probably every season. But it's now
Speaker 1: gotten to the level of, you know, so so much
Speaker 1: significant pain that he had to actually take time off
Speaker 1: the field. And so because of the fact that he
Speaker 1: has had this before, you know, right now, um, you know,
Speaker 1: the really what we're looking at his week thirteen at
Speaker 1: a minimum possibly you know, week four teen, so um,
Speaker 1: you know that's that's essentially what we're projecting. But this
Speaker 1: is a very very sensitive thing. I mean, if he's
Speaker 1: had if he has surgery on this, then he's done
Speaker 1: for the season. I mean, you can't come back from total,
Speaker 1: you know. So this is really just a conservative approach
Speaker 1: to see if it heals and to see if they
Speaker 1: can pain managers thing through the rest of the season
Speaker 1: either way. You know, he was a high injury risk,
Speaker 1: high reward guy for us. He's at thirty three percent
Speaker 1: right now obviously, and when he gets to week thirteen,
Speaker 1: we'll see where that percentage goes up to. If he
Speaker 1: gets to then we feel more confident. But the likelihood
Speaker 1: of him getting to that is very low. And as
Speaker 1: usual Greg and Duck uh fantasy owners trying to be
Speaker 1: the smartest guys and gals in the room, are you know,
Speaker 1: they see an injury like this occur and they think, oh, well,
Speaker 1: I'm already I'm seven and two, I'm six and three.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm already set for the playoffs. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go out and acquire a j Green so that he
Speaker 1: can help me win a championship. That's a risky move
Speaker 1: right now, isn't it. Oh, that's a tremendously risky move. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, this type of injury will significantly hamper a
Speaker 1: wide receiver and any or any football player. And if
Speaker 1: you try to go pick him up, um, you know,
Speaker 1: and he has surgery, then you know then basically you've
Speaker 1: wasted that. Or even if he does play again, he's
Speaker 1: really going to be hampered to perform like this. He
Speaker 1: may play very limited snaps and be more of a decoy, etcetera.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is what he's looking looking towards. You know,
Speaker 1: when the team says no timetable for return, that means
Speaker 1: that it's pretty significant. And that's what they have to say.
Speaker 1: They're not going to release what he has. So that's
Speaker 1: an issue, like you said, Frank, and um recommending against it. Clearly.
Speaker 1: Clearly somebody yesterday traded away a J Green for Marie
Speaker 1: Cooper and somebody else tweet about it was like a
Speaker 1: Marii Cooper and means like Dion Lewis type running back.
Speaker 1: Not bad. And I thought if you could turn an
Speaker 1: that now for anything, And you know, we spoke about
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper has one of the best remaining schedules for
Speaker 1: for a wide receiver this year for fantasy purposes that
Speaker 1: on the other end of the spectrum, if you could
Speaker 1: pull that off, that's something that I would look into.
Speaker 1: But again, having injury optimisms before a wide receiver at
Speaker 1: the elite talent that he is, but dealing with this
Speaker 1: level of foot injury, it seems too too optimistic. It's
Speaker 1: something I wouldn't be doing, and it's something that doctor
Speaker 1: E advises against as well. Doc. We've had a few
Speaker 1: weeks where thankfully we haven't had to talk about Leonard
Speaker 1: four Nett, But as of now it looks like he's
Speaker 1: going to return in week ten. He returned to practice
Speaker 1: of return to full practice yesterday for the Jaguars. So
Speaker 1: what are we expecting out of Leonard four net Is
Speaker 1: he is he the healthiest he's going to be? Is
Speaker 1: this his optimal recovery time? And I know, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, you don't normally specialize in like projections, but
Speaker 1: a lot of people are asking us, well, how many
Speaker 1: carries can we expect from Leonard Fournett? Does he get
Speaker 1: like seventy five of the workload? What do you think
Speaker 1: his body can hand the right now, well, I think
Speaker 1: his body can handle full of workload now. Um, you
Speaker 1: know a r HTR was week nine and so there
Speaker 1: you know, so he should have been ready last week,
Speaker 1: and you know, maybe they're giving him an extra I'm not. Um,
Speaker 1: the Jacks were not on BI last week. I don't believe, right,
Speaker 1: So I think they were, Oh they were, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: So I mean he has an extra week and boom.
Speaker 1: You know, he should be really really ready to go.
Speaker 1: He's at eight one percent, which is peak health. Um.
Speaker 1: You know that's basically our pent is like your essentially
Speaker 1: the only thing that concerns us. You know, this hamstring
Speaker 1: has been healed now, it's been aggravated once, and he's
Speaker 1: given the best possible chance now to not reaggravate it again.
Speaker 1: Um uh. And so his injury risk is eighteen percent.
Speaker 1: It's not low, it's elevated and it will stay that way.
Speaker 1: So he is in peak health. He should be ready
Speaker 1: to go, But he does go into that game with
Speaker 1: an eighteen percent chance of another injury or recurring that injury,
Speaker 1: because you can't piss off a hamstring again in the
Speaker 1: same season. Expect to be Scott free. You know, the
Speaker 1: rest of the season, you have to really expect that
Speaker 1: there's a chance that this hamstring may get injured again
Speaker 1: or the opposite hamstring. Remember, there's a big psychological component,
Speaker 1: you know, he doesn't want to reinjure that one, and
Speaker 1: by not reinjuring that one, he has this compensatory force
Speaker 1: on some other body part and then boom, you have
Speaker 1: a Grade one m c L or something like that.
Speaker 1: So again that's why the injury risk is elevated. But
Speaker 1: he is at peak health. He's ready to go. This
Speaker 1: would this would be the week for him to come back.
Speaker 1: They gave him all the time in the world, Frank
Speaker 1: to get better. Finally, after redid reinjure that hamstring once
Speaker 1: before we saw what Dalvin Cooks, an exact thing happened.
Speaker 1: All of these guys now back on the field, will
Speaker 1: they remain I think that's the question we have to determine. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and what we'll be able to see it this week.
Speaker 1: It's kind of hard to rank Leonard for NET. I
Speaker 1: haven't have him as a low end RB two as
Speaker 1: of right now. Again, I don't think that we get
Speaker 1: twenty touches out of for NET anymore. We're probably more
Speaker 1: than that, like sixteen range, because they do have capable
Speaker 1: backups behind him with TJ. Yelden and Carlo hid So.
Speaker 1: I don't think he sees the full workwood that he
Speaker 1: did before. But according to Doc, all systems go right
Speaker 1: now for Leonard four Nette heading its weeks ten absolutely
Speaker 1: and will all systems be ago for Rob Drinkowski this
Speaker 1: week Doc, as he returned from injury and then reaggravates
Speaker 1: the injury. And the last couple of weeks the Patriots
Speaker 1: have played Sunday Night and Monday Night and there's just
Speaker 1: been no there's been a lot of worry. Actually not
Speaker 1: no worries, but it's hard of worry from fantasy owners.
Speaker 1: What do you do about Rob Gronkowski? Good news not
Speaker 1: the cases week. It's one o'clock game against Tennessee Titans.
Speaker 1: What's the latest on Gronk? Yeah, you know, we've at
Speaker 1: inside injuries, we downgraded him. We had him at a
Speaker 1: Grade one back injury. Now we've downgraded him to a
Speaker 1: grade two um because we we strongly feel based on
Speaker 1: everything that we're seeing that he has some sort of
Speaker 1: disk problem. Um. You know, you don't do typically this
Speaker 1: doesn't usually occur when it's paraspinal muscular. Sure, it's like
Speaker 1: a muscle muscle problem, spasm or something like that. And
Speaker 1: with the three back surgeries and all the other injuries
Speaker 1: that he's had, Um, you know, this looks like to
Speaker 1: be a disc problem. Now. Having said that, Um, these
Speaker 1: types of things, ken Ric Kurm, you know, disc bulges
Speaker 1: out and pushes up against the nerves. A player can't
Speaker 1: do anything, you know, even an NFL football player with
Speaker 1: all the pain management techniques. So you know, this is
Speaker 1: something that's going to be concerning now. So he was
Speaker 1: at peak healthy, dropped to seventy five cent, so he
Speaker 1: didn't drop all the way to fifty percent, which is
Speaker 1: you know, the concerns. So I think he needs to rest.
Speaker 1: We think he needs to rest this week and come
Speaker 1: back the following week because he really really needs to
Speaker 1: be ready for the playoffs. I don't I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't think the Patriots will actually you know, be uh
Speaker 1: they shouldn't need him in this game. But um, you
Speaker 1: know we're recommending one more week of rest before they
Speaker 1: put him back on the field. Right, it looks like
Speaker 1: we're the Rob Gronkowski thinks, because this is the first
Speaker 1: year that I've ever owned Robronkowski in fantasy, and it
Speaker 1: was on the team that you and me and Michael
Speaker 1: four all shared together. So I think we're probably just
Speaker 1: the grunk jinks, right, That's what it is. Probably. I mean,
Speaker 1: even when he fit on the field, he hasn't been himself. Right, Like,
Speaker 1: the one thing that you've always said about Cronk is hey,
Speaker 1: at least when he plays, you know, you're getting the
Speaker 1: top tight end in football. Uh, well, not in the note,
Speaker 1: but doc. Something that you know, along the same lines
Speaker 1: as Gronk, a pretty consistently injured player throughout the years
Speaker 1: has been Sammy Watkins and I know a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago, even before last season, before this season, you consistently,
Speaker 1: you know, spoke about Sammy Watkins and his foot. I
Speaker 1: know he had surgery a couple of years ago. The
Speaker 1: guy seems like he basically has a mechanical foot at
Speaker 1: this point. Um, he didn't practice Wednesday. I would be
Speaker 1: surprised if he suits up this week. Is this something
Speaker 1: that's going to hamper him for the rest of the season. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's really the only Unfortunately, that's the only thing we
Speaker 1: can say. This is the other foot though, right, so
Speaker 1: the left foot that he had all those surgeries on
Speaker 1: and the fracture left foot. You know, but this is
Speaker 1: very classic compensatory uh injury to the other foot. When
Speaker 1: you have surgery on one foot and in the fracture,
Speaker 1: you know, you're always going to have this compensatory type
Speaker 1: of force that's always there and you don't know when
Speaker 1: it's gonna come back. And it's a Grade one foot injury,
Speaker 1: so that's good. It's not a great two or grade three,
Speaker 1: which would indicate a fracture. So it's a grade one.
Speaker 1: But um, you know, again, Sammy Watkins was high injury
Speaker 1: risk for us. He was a really high risk, high
Speaker 1: reward type of guy. Now you know he's high risk
Speaker 1: and he's at seventies six percent. We're projecting him to
Speaker 1: come back week eleven. That's his optimal recovery time where
Speaker 1: he should be coming back. So he should miss this week,
Speaker 1: which I think they're expecting him to do, he'll be
Speaker 1: back up to peak health for this particular injury. But guys,
Speaker 1: he's at thirty percent injury risk. So if he plays
Speaker 1: in this game, it's one out of three chance in
Speaker 1: that game he's gonna get injured. So that's pretty high.
Speaker 1: That's your boy. It's not my boy, it's your boy.
Speaker 1: Chris Venturous favorite player, Sammy Watkins. Great. You know what's crazy.
Speaker 1: If you had to guess how old Sammy Watkins is,
Speaker 1: what would you say? He's really young. He seems like
Speaker 1: he's been in the league for however, he seems like
Speaker 1: it seems like he's Randall Cob right, right, it seems
Speaker 1: like he's just like right, he's he's been through the grinder,
Speaker 1: he's like the blenders. He's twenty five years old, and
Speaker 1: it feels like his body's We're always talking about Sammy
Speaker 1: Watkins being injured, like the guy is Randall Cob. I
Speaker 1: bet you Randall cop is probably even that old either.
Speaker 1: Look it up. Speaking of wide receivers that are hurt,
Speaker 1: Spon Diggs missed last week's game with an injury. What's
Speaker 1: the latest when it comes to Svon Digs. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: a good thing that he missed last week's uh game,
Speaker 1: because you know that rib was not going to hold up. Um,
Speaker 1: you know it's not likelihood, it's not fractured, but um,
Speaker 1: right now we have him for you know, optimal covery
Speaker 1: time at week ten, so he's ready to come back.
Speaker 1: He's right. You know, he's at right now sixty seven
Speaker 1: percent by game time, Um, he should be above seventy
Speaker 1: seventy five percent. Um, you know, he's at elevated injury
Speaker 1: risk in ninetent he's probably gonna stay there. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: this is a guy that's been banged up before, but
Speaker 1: with this particular injury, Um, it should have healed and
Speaker 1: you know, optimal recovery time lands him coming back in
Speaker 1: week ten. Alright, so week ten, it's not terrible, ran, No,
Speaker 1: that's that would be this week. But the Vikings are
Speaker 1: gonna buy, so that makes sense by yeah, so it
Speaker 1: makes sense a week eleven he'll be ready to go.
Speaker 1: He always like Melvin going right. They held him out.
Speaker 1: They held him out, and it was like the Vikings
Speaker 1: finally did the right thing with one of their star
Speaker 1: offensive they learned from Dalvin Cook. Doc. I want to
Speaker 1: ask you about Chris Carson. We've been getting a lot
Speaker 1: of questions about him, uh and whether he's gonna go
Speaker 1: Obviously if he doesn't, Mike Davis looks like he checks
Speaker 1: in as a solid RB two this week. But Chris
Speaker 1: Carson dealing with a thigh and a hip injury. I know,
Speaker 1: the hip injury has popped up multiple times throughout the season,
Speaker 1: and they said earlier on in the week they don't
Speaker 1: expect Chris Carson to practice much. And with that, I
Speaker 1: would imagine if he doesn't practice much and the fact
Speaker 1: that he's dealing with multiple injuries right now, we likely
Speaker 1: don't see Chris Carson in week ten. Is that how
Speaker 1: you were viewing it? And if so, when do we
Speaker 1: expect for his Carson back? Yeah, definitely not this week. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, he this is the classic again compensatory force.
Speaker 1: This is like sort of the theme for this week. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, week four, hip injury, then he kept playing
Speaker 1: through it, then he picked up another hip injury week eight.
Speaker 1: Now he has a Grade one thigh injury, which is
Speaker 1: essentially right next to the hip, and so he's you know,
Speaker 1: doing a lot of these he's hurting other body parts
Speaker 1: by continuing to play through this injury. So this is
Speaker 1: a re reaggravated type injury. I mean, the guys he's
Speaker 1: at percent right now. Um, I don't see him getting
Speaker 1: above sixty. So in week eleven when he comes back,
Speaker 1: even though he may be healed from this particular injury,
Speaker 1: he won't get above sixty to sixty five percent, and
Speaker 1: he's at injury risk and he's gonna stay there. This
Speaker 1: is a guy we are throwing up all the red
Speaker 1: flags on essentially, you know, um, sort of, I don't
Speaker 1: know if he's going to be productive for anyone for
Speaker 1: the rest of the season. Yeah, and that's been a
Speaker 1: major issue for him all year and for news of
Speaker 1: him all year. Yeah. And you got to make sure
Speaker 1: that you own Mike Davis. If you own Chris Carson
Speaker 1: and own Mike Davis, whether you don't own Chris Carson
Speaker 1: Mike Davis. Now it's seventy percent ownership on CBS Sports
Speaker 1: dot Com leagues. But we've seen in games where Chris
Speaker 1: Carson doesn't play or has left, Mike Davis plays in
Speaker 1: over seventy of the snaps. He's seen at least twenty
Speaker 1: two touches in each one of those games. So while
Speaker 1: the team drafted Rashad Penny in the first round, we've
Speaker 1: seen that when Chris Carson is out, Mike Davis is
Speaker 1: the next man. It's not Rashad Penny, it's clearly Mike Davis.
Speaker 1: We're talking to doctor from inside injuries. Just a couple
Speaker 1: of minutes left, and Frank, I wanted to make sure
Speaker 1: we get to your boy, yebow boy, Sam Donald, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be honest withy doc. As a injury expert like yourself,
Speaker 1: You're not gonna have Frank has been tweeting all week.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I've been tweeting. I will. I will tell
Speaker 1: the doc what I'm saying as a diehard Jet fan,
Speaker 1: And I'm sure the doctor would say the same thing
Speaker 1: if he was dealing with well, he could say he
Speaker 1: knows the track. Well, we're about to find out. But
Speaker 1: I think this is a phantom injury doc. It doesn't
Speaker 1: have anything to do with sports medicine, and I'm not
Speaker 1: doubting that. But if you look at the state of
Speaker 1: the New York Jets and where they are at right now,
Speaker 1: Todd Bowles, I believe input Josh McCown as a starting
Speaker 1: quarterback because he thinks he gives them a better chance
Speaker 1: to win and he's trying to save his job. I
Speaker 1: know that Sam Donald, there was a sack this past
Speaker 1: week where he came up limping. He definitely could have
Speaker 1: heard himself on that play. But I just find it
Speaker 1: weird that right after the game we didn't hear anything
Speaker 1: about this injury. Monday on a conference call, we didn't
Speaker 1: hear anything about this injury from Todd Bowls. And then Wednesday,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, he's in a walking boot and
Speaker 1: they already ruled him out. So it's just kind of
Speaker 1: a weird, uh, series of unfortunate events for Jet fans
Speaker 1: and Sam Donald alike. But what's the latest song? Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I think the Jets fever and emotion has clouded,
Speaker 1: uh the normally the normal logical thought process that you
Speaker 1: normally go through. Uh, you know, I think that I
Speaker 1: think the injury is real, but I think it's really mild.
Speaker 1: So I think it's one of those things guys, where
Speaker 1: a team is given they have the excuse they need
Speaker 1: to bring it, put put another guy in essentially, so
Speaker 1: great is on my side. It's it's a grade one
Speaker 1: foot sprain. UM, very minor. You know, he'll be out
Speaker 1: for week ten. Um, they have a bye week eleven.
Speaker 1: I mean project you know, optimalcovery puts him back to
Speaker 1: play this week according to us, and he's out. So
Speaker 1: I don't think he has a great I mean, our
Speaker 1: metrics are not saying grade two. It's grade one so, um,
Speaker 1: you know he's gonna have plenty of time to rest
Speaker 1: for this injury. Um, and so I don't know, maybe
Speaker 1: you you're half right? How about that? Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna clip that out and send it to the
Speaker 1: New York. Yes, I'm gonna send it to miniche Mat.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna send it to all these guys. I'm full
Speaker 1: of dry said DRR inside injuries. Will do it all
Speaker 1: again next week. Thank you for your time, sir. Alright, guys,
Speaker 1: thanks a lot of a great week. Alright, we'll take
Speaker 1: a break here. When we come back, we reveal we
Speaker 1: want now right, he's quarterback and tight end ranking for
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Speaker 1: Princess those joy just go ahead now. It sounds about right.
Speaker 1: Lets diamonds in my pocket. This is cool. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: rings in the second. I'll read the reading the moment
Speaker 1: as well. Um Turner says the Tiger and Phil will
Speaker 1: be making side bets during their pay per view event
Speaker 1: Um Friday and Thanksgiving weekend. Yeah, it's like a thing, right,
Speaker 1: I think Black Friday. Yeah, it's a it's just Phil
Speaker 1: Michaelson verse Tigerwoods one on one, right, some kind of Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's cool. It's not their own money on the line,
Speaker 1: which is like annoying. It's it's for charity, right or something?
Speaker 1: Is it for charity? I don't know, I think something
Speaker 1: like that. Oh, let's see, Okay, I'm not a big
Speaker 1: golf guy, but I mean, I'm sure to the golf
Speaker 1: world really not not a golf guy. What I don't
Speaker 1: think you're not not a golf guy, like mini golf
Speaker 1: It's about the closest I get to golf. I would
Speaker 1: try pitching, but I've never tried it. True story. Um,
Speaker 1: when I was just engaged the day of the g
Speaker 1: SC draft, I told my now fiance that we were
Speaker 1: going minigolfing with Frank and Kinga right after the g
Speaker 1: s T draft, and we did not well, it was
Speaker 1: a it was a trick. You told me this until
Speaker 1: now told you that. Yeah, I didn't give you my permission.
Speaker 1: I was like, Hey, I'm gonna be at the g
Speaker 1: s T. He was across from a very good mini
Speaker 1: golf course, and I said, hey, he probably hates me
Speaker 1: now because I was part of a Why after your interview,
Speaker 1: why don't you come meet me and Frank of the GST.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be drinking mirrors, Kings meeting us there as well.
Speaker 1: We're all gonna be a mini golfing. Are you get
Speaker 1: a mini golfing? I'm not bad, I'm pretty good, are you?
Speaker 1: I played a lot on that, pretty much like every
Speaker 1: vacation I've ever been on. I'd say at least two
Speaker 1: of the night's minigolf. I tell a quick minigolf story. No,
Speaker 1: Ben's how quick. I guess all right, so less all
Speaker 1: my friends and all my friends and girlfriends went mini offing, right,
Speaker 1: we did, and we split it up six verses six whatever,
Speaker 1: guys and girls mixed, and we get the final hole,
Speaker 1: and wouldn't you know it, it's tied. It's completely tied
Speaker 1: between Team one in team two. It all comes down
Speaker 1: to the eighteen the whole. And you know, I think
Speaker 1: I got three. I think like a three what I
Speaker 1: was supposed to get on the whole. We're not under
Speaker 1: in my job, into my job, and you go back
Speaker 1: and forth, and Judy's up and all she needs to do.
Speaker 1: Team Judy's up, and she just need to do her jobs,
Speaker 1: like get the three or the four. And my, my
Speaker 1: poor girlfriend at the time, she takes the club right,
Speaker 1: and you see her shaking, and we're obviously commentating, we're screaming,
Speaker 1: like we're all into it, right, she is that nervous shaking. Oh,
Speaker 1: she takes the swing. She hits the ball one inch
Speaker 1: and it falls backwards. She's like, she's a pretty good
Speaker 1: minioff player, especially you know, so obviously she's obviously she
Speaker 1: never watched Kobe Bryant. But she she loses the This
Speaker 1: is a stroke, of course, now after her third swing,
Speaker 1: she does it again. She was so nervous she missed
Speaker 1: it twice. So now at this point, do you what
Speaker 1: level are you at? Are you Are you feeling bad
Speaker 1: or you like horrible, feel bad for her, or you're
Speaker 1: mad at her because you're like you had one job.
Speaker 1: I feel bad. I feel bad for her. I feel
Speaker 1: bad for her. So she gets whatever the max was
Speaker 1: that we did seven or six sevens on that um,
Speaker 1: And she'll tell you the same thing. So, wouldn't you
Speaker 1: know it's the last girl on our team needs to
Speaker 1: get like a two on the whole to tie it,
Speaker 1: you know, to tie us and set us into a
Speaker 1: sudden death holds it hole in one and we win.
Speaker 1: I literally picked her off and like for like, we
Speaker 1: all held her off the cheer. So we we just
Speaker 1: did like a random it's just like a random beers
Speaker 1: on on it. Whatever. But it was awesome, nice, Oh
Speaker 1: my god, not performing. Never seen her so nervous in
Speaker 1: my life. I don't know what I would have done.
Speaker 1: I feel like I probably would have just like Hounded
Speaker 1: Kingdom and be like, what the hell are you doing?
Speaker 1: That wouldn't have helpful situation? Yeah, probably not the situation um.
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Speaker 1: we unbail your rankings. Yes, it's under the best Fantasy five.
Speaker 1: You'll be in the show. I mean think we're having
Speaker 1: a good show. Yeah, No, we're having a great We're
Speaker 1: having a good time. There's not the goal here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm having a great time. Hope everyone else is having
Speaker 1: a great sure, I'm sure they are. Let's reveal the
Speaker 1: quarterback rankings Frankie for Frankie Stanfield this week. You can
Speaker 1: check him out at rotosport dot com. Frankie Stanvil the
Speaker 1: best ranker right now? You don't know many I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't any more, you don't. The first thing that
Speaker 1: you obviously notice is tonight's game. Of course, Steelers and
Speaker 1: Panthers will make our picks going up. Uh in about
Speaker 1: ten minutes from now. You have Ben Rathlisberger ranks your
Speaker 1: sixth overall quarterback, and yet consensus wise he's outside the
Speaker 1: top ten. What makes you have big band ranks so high? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it seems a little bit interesting to me. I don't
Speaker 1: know why. The rest of the industry is kind of
Speaker 1: out on big bend. But he normally thrives in these
Speaker 1: primetime games, and I know he's not He's not a
Speaker 1: big proponent of Thursday night football. Obviously, a lot of
Speaker 1: players don't like playing on the short week. But look,
Speaker 1: the Panthers are pretty much a middle of the pack defense.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're not scaring anybody. A lot of people
Speaker 1: look at the Panthers like they're a defense of years past.
Speaker 1: They're not. They're not as good as they used to be.
Speaker 1: Their secondaries made up of a lot of a lot
Speaker 1: of younger players, you know, for second third year players.
Speaker 1: So I'm not scared by any means. I think Big
Speaker 1: Ben is in a in a position here to put
Speaker 1: up three D and two, maybe even more than that.
Speaker 1: I just think we get points back and forth here,
Speaker 1: which obviously, when you look at the game total at
Speaker 1: fifty one, I think, actually, uh, picking a winner or
Speaker 1: picking against the spread in this game tonight it is
Speaker 1: a little bit more difficult. But I do like the
Speaker 1: one point total. I like I like going over that
Speaker 1: number here. Again. You know, we we started the show
Speaker 1: off talking about the Steelers offense and how potent they've
Speaker 1: been with James Conner back there. Uh, they're rolling right now,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna look at them to continue to score
Speaker 1: points here. Antonio Brown, I know if you were listening
Speaker 1: to uh to the morning show, you heard them talking
Speaker 1: about Antonio Brown pulled over with some kind of uh
Speaker 1: driving traffic violation, whatever it might be. Um, he's gonna
Speaker 1: play tonight, not worried about that. And the Anthers actually
Speaker 1: the lead fantasy points to slot receivers, So I look
Speaker 1: at this as a bounce back spot for Juju Smith
Speaker 1: Schuster as well. We just saw Adam Humpreys go off
Speaker 1: for over eighty yards and two touchdowns, So I think
Speaker 1: it's a good spot for Antonio Brown, Juju. The Panthers
Speaker 1: have been better against running backs lately, but James Conner
Speaker 1: is absolutely matchup proof. Greg. Yeah, James Connor's matchup proof,
Speaker 1: no doubt. The Panthers also allowed the most tight ends.
Speaker 1: Like he said, slot receivers. You're surprised that the industry
Speaker 1: is kind of out on Big Ben tonight. He's outside
Speaker 1: the top ten for fantasy purposes. Just it doesn't really
Speaker 1: make a lot of sense. Do you think it's a
Speaker 1: Thursday thing? It might be. I mean, it could be that,
Speaker 1: you know, everyone just likes the quarterbacks around him a
Speaker 1: little bit better than that. And I mean, if you
Speaker 1: look at who the consensus has ranked higher, Fitzpatrick against Washington,
Speaker 1: I mean I think I think the the Washington defense
Speaker 1: will play better this week Philip Rivers at Oakland. Philip
Speaker 1: Rivers can easily go off for like two seventy five
Speaker 1: and two and maybe three touchdowns. But are they gonna
Speaker 1: need Rivers to do all that much? Like you're gonna
Speaker 1: get up big, and I know like part of them
Speaker 1: getting up big is gonna be Philip Rivers scoring. But
Speaker 1: I just don't know that it's going to demand much.
Speaker 1: I just I just see more of a back and
Speaker 1: forth type of game tonight, where you know, Big Ben
Speaker 1: drives on the field, Cam Newton drives on the field,
Speaker 1: and we see points on both sides, and it's it's
Speaker 1: kind of gonna force the Big Ben to have to
Speaker 1: throw the ball tonight. Yeah, I I get. I think
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a good game. It's gonna be I
Speaker 1: think it's gonna What was the over under in this game?
Speaker 1: I would take the over. Typically, I like the over
Speaker 1: a lot because defenses just aren't. Football is not meant
Speaker 1: to be played on you know, only three days rest,
Speaker 1: and they're not they're not ready for it. Not I
Speaker 1: mean physically they're not ready for it. I know, it's stupid.
Speaker 1: Goes over every week. Yeah, I would take the old
Speaker 1: and we had the under last week with the forty
Speaker 1: Niners game just barely got it because the ineptitude of
Speaker 1: the John Druden and boys the Raiders. But typically Thursday
Speaker 1: night games have gone over the number this year, Um,
Speaker 1: I'm probably did the over. Well, the Panthers are plus
Speaker 1: three and a half. Do you like that more? Look?
Speaker 1: This is this is a close look. Both both teams are.
Speaker 1: They're five and three against the spread, both teams, and
Speaker 1: you look at their their record straight up. The Panthers
Speaker 1: are six and two, they're absolutely rolling right now. But
Speaker 1: the Steelers are five two and one so to very
Speaker 1: very evenly matched football teams. So that's why I think
Speaker 1: it's a little bit harder to choose against the spread tonight,
Speaker 1: to choose a winner for this team. That's why if
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do anything, I'm looking at the total there
Speaker 1: and obviously some prop beds. I haven't looked into the props,
Speaker 1: but that's that's probably somewhere you want to look as well. Obviously,
Speaker 1: if we expect points to be scored, we should expect
Speaker 1: some props to go over the number as well. Okay,
Speaker 1: so we'll get into that again and make our official
Speaker 1: picks about five minutes from now. In your quarterback rankings,
Speaker 1: you also have Jerry Goth inside your your top ten,
Speaker 1: but quite barely, and everybody else has them a little
Speaker 1: bit higher. I don't want to say don't let Jared
Speaker 1: Goth this week, because you do. He's inside your top ten,
Speaker 1: but why just a little bit lower on Jarry Goth
Speaker 1: than everybody else. I think this is a big Todd
Speaker 1: Girly week. And if you look at the way Vegas
Speaker 1: very frustrating. Yeah, you look at the way Vegas is
Speaker 1: is predicting this game to uh to kind of play
Speaker 1: out here. The Rams coming off a huge loss against
Speaker 1: New Orleans Saints, coming back home in Los Angeles ten
Speaker 1: point favorites against the Seahawks. And I know typically these
Speaker 1: two teams play each other close, but I think this
Speaker 1: is one of the games where the Rams are gonna
Speaker 1: be up big and kind of take out their frustration
Speaker 1: and losing last week against the Saints and they pound
Speaker 1: the Seahawks. So um, look, I think that Jared Goff
Speaker 1: can throw one, maybe two touchdowns. I just don't know
Speaker 1: that much is going to be asked of him. And
Speaker 1: we've seen this year. In games where Todd Gurley goes off,
Speaker 1: those are the games that typically limit the upside of
Speaker 1: Jared Goff. I just think that's kind of the game
Speaker 1: flow for this one. I think we see a big
Speaker 1: Todd Gurley game and week tending it's the sea people
Speaker 1: are talking about this, Frank related to your quarterback or
Speaker 1: tight end rankings. UM, Kansas City is nine now and
Speaker 1: coin tosses this year. That's an interesting stat And if
Speaker 1: you go back to the preseason there at twelve and
Speaker 1: now the last year, you know that you could. I
Speaker 1: think that there are ways you do it in the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. I don't know if you could do it
Speaker 1: for just like regular season games. I don't know. Probably could.
Speaker 1: You gotta imagine you could. So, I mean just looking
Speaker 1: through looking through Jared Goff's uh game look back to
Speaker 1: back games with the three at least three passing touchdowns
Speaker 1: against the Saints, he had three against the Packers. He
Speaker 1: had three last time out against the Seahawks on only
Speaker 1: one touchdown two interceptions. So there have been a there's
Speaker 1: been at least there have been three games this year
Speaker 1: where he had he has had one touchdown or less.
Speaker 1: There's been five games where he's had two touchdowns or less.
Speaker 1: I just think it's one of those games where we
Speaker 1: get a lot of tied Gurley. We might get like,
Speaker 1: who's seventy five and two out of Jared Goff, which
Speaker 1: you know we'll make him a top ten quarterback. But
Speaker 1: I just I just don't know that he has big
Speaker 1: upside this week. Yeah, I get it, I get it.
Speaker 1: Would you rather play Goffer big Ben tonight or that
Speaker 1: think Ben tonight? Thank you? Thank you for making me
Speaker 1: feel good about me? Right yeable Um, Andrew Luck, you
Speaker 1: have two spots ahead of Baker Mayfield. That was my
Speaker 1: decision this week. I'm gonna go with Luck because he
Speaker 1: just throws so many touchdowns per game. Something else really
Speaker 1: stands out to me. You have played borders pretty high
Speaker 1: because your boy jim Sonnas likes Blake Portles. I don't
Speaker 1: think I have him that high in relation to the
Speaker 1: players that he's right around. It's just ahead of Alex Smith.
Speaker 1: And I know Alex Smith faces Tampa Bay this week,
Speaker 1: but with that offensive line in shambles, Uh, Alex Smith
Speaker 1: doesn't typically throw the ball all that much. I just
Speaker 1: don't love the spot here for Alex Smith. Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: actually does have a good matchup against Philly, but it's
Speaker 1: you know, the ineptitude of of the Cowboys offense to
Speaker 1: play calling. I still do like u Amari Cooper a lot.
Speaker 1: Because the Eagles have given up the fourth most fantasy
Speaker 1: points to opposing wide receivers this season. Mariotta just behind
Speaker 1: Blake Bortles as well, could be in an okay spot
Speaker 1: against the Patriots here at home as home dogs. But uh,
Speaker 1: it's basically just I don't like the matchups or these
Speaker 1: spots that these quarterbacks are in. Who are just behind
Speaker 1: Blake Bortles. Um In two games against the Colts last year,
Speaker 1: for what it's worth, he threw for at least three
Speaker 1: hundred yards and both of those. Uh, and Blake Bortles
Speaker 1: what he does with his legs this here, I mean
Speaker 1: he's averaging over thirty rushing yards per game. He's he's
Speaker 1: fifth among quarterbacks and rushing yards this year too. Um
Speaker 1: So I just I like all those things a little
Speaker 1: bit more than the quarterbacks. Uh. We'll have ranked just
Speaker 1: behind him, and with that we say goodbye on YouTube.
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Speaker 1: if we get your picks, let's diving your tight end
Speaker 1: rankings here. Uh. We had a question before Duke Johnson
Speaker 1: and George Kittle. I said, Duke Johnson, and you weren't
Speaker 1: quite sure because George Kittle, you're number three ranked tight
Speaker 1: end this week, and I know the Giants have played
Speaker 1: better against tight end tight ends this year, So who
Speaker 1: throw us to them? I mean, they clearly made that
Speaker 1: thing to correct in the off season. They were absolutely
Speaker 1: torched by tight ends last year. We were streaming tight
Speaker 1: ends against them every single week, it didn't matter who
Speaker 1: it was. And they've been better this year. But in
Speaker 1: terms of targets, share and usage for George Kittle and
Speaker 1: his playmaking ability, we so we all saw that that
Speaker 1: big play he made last week, the one handed grab
Speaker 1: over the middle from Nick Mullins. I just think the
Speaker 1: way that he's been using and the talent level we've
Speaker 1: seen out of George Kittle. He's undoubtedly a top five
Speaker 1: tight end regardless of matchup, and Nick Mollens proved that
Speaker 1: he's gonna lean on his tight end as well. So
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna continue to rank George Kittle that way
Speaker 1: inside of my top five every single week before we go.
Speaker 1: I just I just saw this tweet that came out.
Speaker 1: I think this is real. I do want to make
Speaker 1: sure it's really here. What do we got Greg, What
Speaker 1: do we got going on? He was practicing today? Uh? No, right,
Speaker 1: they wouldn't practice, they play. I believe it's Rex Burkhead,
Speaker 1: Sexy Rexy's back. I think if if that sweet wasn't fake,
Speaker 1: I think Rexy Sexy Rexy's back, that would just throw
Speaker 1: everything for a loop. Yeah, it's it's real. Reported it
Speaker 1: Welcome back to practice, Rex Burkhead. He's eligible to play
Speaker 1: as soon as December seconds. It was about a month.
Speaker 1: He's Sonya Michelle owners who are Loving life eligible to
Speaker 1: return in week thirteen. That is so annoying. And we
Speaker 1: haven't had the Patriots by yet. We have next week.
Speaker 1: We eleven, that's when we thought we had the Patriots
Speaker 1: backfield figured out. Little Sony Michelle, Little James White, rex
Speaker 1: Burkett comes in and throws everything for a loop, trying
Speaker 1: to pick him up. If he's out there, Yes, I am, Yes,
Speaker 1: you are, Yes, I am. Maybe we could see a
Speaker 1: Dan Lewis type stretch down the something like that. You know,
Speaker 1: running running backs are tough to find. It's a good
Speaker 1: potential stash. I'm just saying. I'm just saying, all right,
Speaker 1: that's that's a good one to bring up. I want
Speaker 1: to see what his ownership percent is. Sorry, I get
Speaker 1: to your tight end and any other time you want
Speaker 1: to bring up before we wrap up, Frankie, he's only
Speaker 1: oh boy, he's out there, man. Yeah. If you want
Speaker 1: to be ahead of the curve, I know a lot
Speaker 1: of people might have that second waiver run on Sundays
Speaker 1: this week, or if you're in the league like Greg,
Speaker 1: you might have waivers run every single day. Go out
Speaker 1: there and get your bids in on rex Burke. It
Speaker 1: was only eleven percent owned. Again, this isn't like, let
Speaker 1: me drop somebody of value to make sure I get
Speaker 1: rex burkhead. But I'm sure you can find someone on
Speaker 1: the end of your bench who uh, who's not worth
Speaker 1: owning in order to uh stash Rex Burkin and just
Speaker 1: kind of see what his upside could be in this
Speaker 1: uh this Patriots offense. Frankie went to spread spread. His
Speaker 1: Panthers are three point dogs that I open under his
Speaker 1: fifty one. I know you mentioned the tight ends real quick. Great,
Speaker 1: some people were asking me about jack Toil this week.
Speaker 1: Really worried about the Jacksonville Jaguars matchup. I haven't ranked
Speaker 1: as my eight tight end, which means I am not
Speaker 1: worried about the matchup here. I'm I'm a little bit
Speaker 1: higher on him than the consensus field. So don't worry
Speaker 1: about the Jaguars matchup. We saw before the bye, played
Speaker 1: in about seventy of the snaps um and dominated targets.
Speaker 1: It could be the beginning of the end for Eric Ebron,
Speaker 1: which sucks the spread for tonight's game. Greg right now
Speaker 1: is at Panthers are getting three and a half points
Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh. Again, I think it's a really really tough
Speaker 1: one to call. I think bold teams are trending in
Speaker 1: the right direction again. Very evenly matched teams Carolina Panthers
Speaker 1: six and two, five and three against the spread Steelers
Speaker 1: five two and one, five and three against the spread
Speaker 1: really really close right down the middle. If I had
Speaker 1: to choose someone here, I would take the Panthers getting
Speaker 1: into three and a half. But I really do think
Speaker 1: the overho that just went up half a point fifty
Speaker 1: one and a half. I'm taking the over there like
Speaker 1: the Panthers as well. That's my I like that more
Speaker 1: than the over under. I'll take the Panthers, just be
Speaker 1: different than you. I'll think the under for fun. Alright, alright,
Speaker 1: frenzy some next for Frank Staffel and names Grex Selsman,
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