Fantasy Football Daily - Mike Evans: Hall-of-Famer | Week 14 Fantasy Football Market Report

Episode Date: December 4, 2023

Joe Dolan (@FG_Dolan), Tom Brolley (@TomBrolley), and Graham Barfield (@GrahamBarfield) go game-by-game to recap all of the Week 13 fantasy football action with actionable news, nuggets, and stats to ...get you ready for Week 14 waivers and lineup preparation. SIGN UP FOR FANTASY POINTS WITH CODE GURRIFIC25 AT CHECKOUT FOR 25% OFF: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.fantasypoints.com/plans#/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ READ DR. EDWIN PORRAS' INJURY [PRO]NE GUIDE WITH CODE INJURYPRONE25: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://injuryproneguide.myshopify.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Want to join a high-stakes dynasty league -- or any other high-stakes league? All new FFPC users get $25 off their first FFPC league of $35 or more, including dynasty orphans, using our affiliate link: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://myffpc.com/cms/public?affid=fantasypoints⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠FANTASY POINTS PROJECTIONS ARE LIVE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ FOR ALL STANDARD AND PREMIUM SUBSCRIBERS! Interested in playing Best Ball in 2023? There's no better place than Underdog Fantasy. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Use our code FANTASYPTS⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to sign up for a new account at Underdog, and not only will you get a 100% deposit match up to $100... but you'll get a Fantasy Points Standard subscription for only $5! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.fantasypoints.com/underdog --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fantasy-points-podcast/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:01:02 It's week 14 of the market report podcast here at FantasyPoint.com. Joe Dolan, Tom Brawley, Grant Barfield, guys, we're really down to the nitty gritty here. And there weren't a ton of huge injuries in week 13, but they were impactful ones. And we're going to talk about that. We're going to talk about the slate. I think the thing about this article here with the market report is early in the season,
Starting point is 00:01:30 we try to be like, oh, this guy's rolls bigger than we thought. This guy's role is smaller than we thought. This guy's teams better than we thought. This guy's team's better than we thought. we really kind of know right now. You know, of course, teams can have an unusually great game. Teams can have an unusually bad game. But that happens in the NFL every year.
Starting point is 00:01:45 I think what we want to do this point going forward is almost kind of break down which players are worth even rostering or trusting in a lineup in a lineup in the fantasy playoffs. Because Tom, that's where we are right now. If you're not in the playoffs, you're essentially treating this as a playoff warm up. Yeah, your teams are probably pretty much set here. A couple big injury. I think there were a couple big injury. That tanked all one is just an absolute But yeah, we're just trying to navigate through, you know,
Starting point is 00:02:17 the final weeks here is 16 by week. There's some crappy lineups out there yesterday. But now we're getting through the, you know, the Arizona's and I forget who the other team is on five next week. But I'm starting to get to that. Who's that? Yeah. Commander.
Starting point is 00:02:33 Okay. Yeah, we're finally navigating through the. buy weeks here and now we're into the playoffs. So just trying to figure out, you know, who the best players are here moving forward. And it's really more of just an injury update for this market report at this point. Yeah. And let's start with the Thursday night football game that the Cowboys and the Seahawks. It was a wild one, probably the best Thursday night game we've seen all year.
Starting point is 00:02:55 And guys, my takeaway from this is like if the Cowboys face a team that has an NFL offense, they can be scored on. That's kind of my takeaway from this game. because they've had an easy schedule. We know that. Like they've blown out bad teams. They didn't blow out the Seahawks. And if they face a team that has NFL players on offense, they can be scored on.
Starting point is 00:03:16 And they're going to score on everybody. So I was going to say they so they can keep up with anybody if they're scored on. Right. So like that's one of those games where they're one of those teams where you kind of want to, they actually have a pretty challenging schedule down the stretch. They play the Eagles in week 14. They've got the bills in week 15. In week 16, they're at Miami.
Starting point is 00:03:36 in week 17, they host the Lions. And then they play the commanders in week 18, obviously, after the fantasy playoffs are mostly over. So this Cowboys team is probably a team, Graham, we should be targeting DFS in our leagues, in our standard leagues, our redraft leagues. There's going to be points scored in their games over the next month. Dallas looked like league winners.
Starting point is 00:04:00 And DAC is MVP to me. He's playing in an MVP level. This offense is just unbelievable right now. the way he's elevating lamb and gallop and cooks. I mean, it's just a dot show. I mean, he was pretty much perfect again against Seattle. I think if you can, you know, if they went out or, you know, go three and one over that slate, you were just mentioning Joe playing Buffalo, the Eagles,
Starting point is 00:04:19 Miami. They play a Philly on Sunday night next week. I think to ex-MvP, you know, $2.99, three touchdowns once again. And secondly, how about Thursday night football? You get a weak arrest and everybody is this, like, everybody's healthier. The game's actually better. You get two competitive offenses instead of having, you know, a day and a half of practice and a day and a half of rest. But yeah, great game. And, man, I mean, I just wheels up on Dallas. And to your point on their guys, Joe, I mean, I think we're at the point
Starting point is 00:04:50 now with like Jake Ferguson and just kind of, even maybe Brandon Cooks. It's like, yeah, you can these guys, just play them. Just play them. Because Dax going to throw it 40 times. Like, you're chasing the volume and it's always there. Yeah. And they still can't run the ball. Yep. Like the run game has been, I mean, it was functional. Tony Pollard had 20 carries and average three and a half yards. Yeah, he had one explosive and that was it. Yeah, more often than not, like these fringe guys like Ferguson or Cooks, they have opportunities to score touchdowns and to rack up production.
Starting point is 00:05:19 So, you know, we're leading in like tiebreaker situation. Let's go with the Dallas offense if you get lineup decisions moving forward on these guys. On the flipside Seattle, we got to watch. We got to watch Sarbanay and Ken Walker. Yeah, might be DJ Dallas week. They do have 10 days to get ready. There was some talk the previous week that Walker could be ready for the Cowboys game. He didn't practice last week.
Starting point is 00:05:46 So maybe they were just targeting for week 14. So that's a major situation we got to be watching this week. Both of those guys are pretty banged up. It was a 50-50 split. But we could have a situation where one of these guys suits up, one doesn't, or both of them may be sitting. DJ Dallas is the sacrificial lamb for the San Francisco 49ers defense this week.
Starting point is 00:06:09 But my other takeaway from the Seattle side is, where has D.K. Metcalfe been all week, all season. No kidding. Beat him the ball. Gino, like, Gino has struggled all season. You know, we went up against somebody in our FFPC leg that sat Metcalf for Cortland Sutton. But I was getting questions about Metcalfe last week
Starting point is 00:06:29 going against the Cowboys defense. So it's been a very first. frustrating season. So hopefully, hopefully he's stuck with Metcalf. He's capable of going off like this at any point. He's one of those rare talents at the wide receiver position who can go absolutely nuclear at any point. Let's go to the Texans and the Broncos guys.
Starting point is 00:06:48 And then unfortunately, tanked out for the season with a broken leg, got hurt on a running play at the goal line, just a complete freak injury. Wheels up on Nico Collins. I mean, I, like, here's the thing Noah Brown. Tom, I don't know if he's been dropped in a good portion of leagues.
Starting point is 00:07:07 He has them. He has. And it's about 40% owned in the Yonbo leagues. Obviously, he didn't catch a ball in this game, but he came into it banged up. They might need him going forward. So that's something to talk about on the waiver wire. Wheels up for Nico Collins. Obviously, tanked Dell, unfortunately. That's just a huge loss. CJ Stroud still putting up numbers. But what an unfortunate loss for the Texans. and for a really, really explosive and entertaining young player. Yeah, he looked like he was going to be a potential league winning player this year. Certainly, if you had him the last two months or so, he's been carrying a lot of teams, kind of not came out of nowhere,
Starting point is 00:07:47 but a third round pick. It wasn't a prize pick in the draft necessarily, but he's emerged as CJ Stroud has emerged this season. So a devastating loss. looks like we'll probably have some sort of Noah Brown was at 81% of the snaps. You know, I only saw the two targets, but, and it looks like it's going to be some combination of Robert Woods and John Mechie behind them. But it's Nico Collins show now. I mean, we kind of got a little glimpse of it this week, but I mean, he could be sitting eight plus targets moving forward with CJ Stroud at quarterback.
Starting point is 00:08:24 So, yeah, wheels up for him. Collins is basically like a must start wide receiver two for the rest of the way. I think they're going to get Dalton Schultz back. He might be a wide receiver one. Yeah, he might be. He might be. They get the Jets this coming week, but I don't think that really matters. You're just playing him.
Starting point is 00:08:39 We'll see if they get Dalton Schultz back. He didn't practice all week with a hamstring. It's another injury to watch. I'll put him in the market. And yeah, Noah Brown, 80% snaps. He did not practice on Friday. So there's, you know, there's a chance he was just out there just to kind of take up space, not really a big part of the game plan.
Starting point is 00:08:54 So, yeah, you guys will talk through it on a waiver. wire, but I do like that call. This backfield, though. Oh, boy. We're back to a... Did Singletary get hurt? Did he get hurt? I don't think.
Starting point is 00:09:05 I don't think so. I think they just like decided like Damian Pierce is a good soldier and they're going to use them and once again though, Damien Pierce had 15 carries for 41 yards with a long of 22. What are we doing here? It wasn't even Damian Pierce. I mean, they played Dario Gung Buwale and some passing situation. They played him in a red zone too.
Starting point is 00:09:24 It was, it was bizarre. early in that game, I kind of thought Singletary got hurt because their first, maybe their first Red Zone sequence of the game, it was Pierce in there. And I was like, maybe Singletary picked up an injury. Then the second back was Ogun Bowel. I'll look into it more once we get the data, but definitely, uh, definitely, I'm really concerning. It did not make sense to me, guys. Like, I, like, Damien Pierce is the same guy he was early in the season.
Starting point is 00:09:46 He got the goal line carry. I'm sorry. If you have Devin Singletary, um, I thought he was going to be an RB too, you know? Yeah, he's just a flex kind of guy now. I mean, we can't completely, they're changing their mind on this backfield from week to week. I mean, they took Mike Boone out of the picture the last two weeks, but as Graham said, Ogunbo Wallet was in the mix this week. Singletary got all those passing opportunities last week, exploded in that situation.
Starting point is 00:10:12 You know, he had like 54 receiving yards. So this is just a unreliable backfield situation. Singletary is you just play them in the flex and you hope that he gets the work that week. it's it's almost like they're just going with the hot hand situation and i think that's it i think i think that's it i think they you know pierce found maybe a little something on the ground but again you know one explosive and then he averaged then he averaged less than a yard and a half per carry on his other runs like he wasn't a hot hand they just threw him out there and just like all year he was running into the bizasses of his offensive lineman i don't i don't understand it but uh flipping over to the
Starting point is 00:10:51 denver side russ was terrible in this game um and I mean, I don't even know what to say about them for fantasy right now. They're really just kind of Giovante and Cortland Sutton. That's kind of it for them. Yeah, Javante is like an empty calorie guy. You know, I think that's really the case with him. Russ was not good yesterday. His first pick that Stingley had was a little sketchy.
Starting point is 00:11:13 The second one he had was Stingley. It was just a great play by Stingley. And then, you know, the third one was just an arm punt. But beyond that, he was not good. For fantasy, though, he's been solid. Like, you look through the numbers. Like, he's been a fine streamer. foreign streamer again yesterday, especially given like the context of the slate.
Starting point is 00:11:27 But yeah, I mean, yeah, Denver, uh, Denver's run ended here. Yeah, it's just a, they're just leaning on their defense and playing a very conservative approach every week. And they actually had to, you know, put up some offense in this game against the Texans. And they didn't really show they were capable of capable of it. They got a couple splash plays from Cortland Sutton. That one catch that he had for the touchdown was absolutely spurious. spectacular. He also dropped one like over the middle of the field that was for a big play. So you get the good and the bad with Cortland Sutton. But yeah, this offense, I mean, Javante, it's, you know, they're just, they're not scoring any rushing touchdowns at the goal line. And if they do, they're going to Russ Wilson. So, you know, Javante is just like eight to 12 fantasy points. He'll get a couple of catches, rack up 70 scrimmage yards and you're not going to get a touchdown from them. So it's pretty frustrating. But Sutton's like the only guy that's somewhat reliant.
Starting point is 00:12:24 and gets the touchdown this week. But, you know, he just keeps fine ways to score touchdowns. It's only the two catches this week, but he does it again. So. Yeah. And I will say for Russ, man, just real quick on to put a bow on it. Like he has eight or more carries in four of his last five games. This is real. You know, this rushing is real.
Starting point is 00:12:41 Like he's obviously not the same runner he was. But they're designing stuff for him, especially in the goal line like Tom was saying. So like, again, you know, if you need back in QB1 rest of the way, I mean, Russ is, getting there. They play the Chargers next week. It's kind of like the Spider-Man pointing meme. We'll see who can actually score points. But they get Chargers in Detroit the next two weeks.
Starting point is 00:12:59 So, you know, two good games if you do need to stream with us. Let's just go real quick on the Chargers and the Patriots game. Only one game. Only one game since 2000 had fewer points than this. It was a Steelers Dolphins game in 2007. The Steelers won three-nothing. It was Ben Ruffisberger against John Beck. Oh, was that the like the downpour game?
Starting point is 00:13:20 I think it was like a Sunday, a Monday night game. Remember, there was like a punt. They got stuck in the ground on the... Oh, I don't know if that's what it was, but there had to be some sort of weather, weather game, but yeah, that's the game that had fewer points. Ramandre is probably going to miss the rest of the season, I would guess. At this point, I wouldn't, even if he doesn't,
Starting point is 00:13:40 I wouldn't count on him contributing to your fantasy team. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, this week for sure, have we gotten, is it high ankle or, you know, I haven't seen anything specific. It was, you know, there's, No, x-rays were negative, I think. Yeah, but it still could be a high ankle. There's been this whole debate on what's a hip-drop-tackle, what's not a hip-drop-tackle.
Starting point is 00:14:02 That was a hip-drop-dackle. I mean, that was pretty brutal on Ramandre. You know, the one on Mark Andrews with Logan Wilson kind of running at his side and, you know, he's trying to run from an angle. Like, okay, we can debate that one. There was no debate with this one. And, you know, we'll see what the NFL does to get rid of this tackle. I don't have any faith that the referees are going to be able to police anything. Oh, no.
Starting point is 00:14:21 That's the thing I would say. The job is getting more and more difficult for them and then we're going to throw this on their point. Their job is getting more difficult and they're getting worse at it. And like, the thing about this tackle is like, I did sympathize. There was a defensive back on Twitter. It was like,
Starting point is 00:14:37 how do you expect me to tackle a tight end from behind? That's what Marcus Williams, the Ravens safety, was saying after the Andrews injuries. Like there was nothing dirty about it. Like, you know, he was just trying to make a football play. It's a bang, bang play.
Starting point is 00:14:49 And for Logan Wilson's like defense, I'm not, you know, it didn't. seem like a dirty play. You know, he's running at an angle just trying to get him down and stop a touchdown. This play, I mean, Romandre was in a pile and the guy just jammed his knees into the back of his calves. I mean, that was as bad as it gets. And you're right.
Starting point is 00:15:05 Ramandre is probably done in which case. Yeah. What do we got? You kill Elliot time, baby. No, I mean, you feed them. You'll be eating those empty calories. This team's freaking terrible. The charges are awful.
Starting point is 00:15:21 Like, they're a joke. Eckler. It looks like the fridge mover on YouTube. It is honestly it's a sad for the past too. It's sad for a question. It's just bad. I mean, he has been used so much that he's just like turning into dust here. You know, it's just all catching up to them.
Starting point is 00:15:39 All these double-digit target games, it's just, yeah, man. It's an ugly offense. And Quentin Johnston, the weekly bad drop that would have went for a big, you know, big play. They got nothing right now. Yeah. Like, it's bad. And I have not, Josh Palmer, there was an update from Staley where he said he could return this season. And, you know, Chargers beatwriters, like doing their jobs and giving some actual reporting has been like pulling teeth this year.
Starting point is 00:16:04 So I don't, we'll see if they get Josh Palmer back. They could return that. You know, that sounds like desperately. If we make it into the playoffs and, you know, we're playing a couple. Yeah. I think his injury is is a lot worse. Yeah. Everybody's down here.
Starting point is 00:16:17 I mean, Eckler, Eckler's dust. Just, Justin Herbert's down. Yeah. I guess Keenan's not because you have to play him. Yeah, he'll still, it was kind of weather induced, but even, you know, he barely practiced last week. I mean, he's taken a beating this year. So, and he's had, you know, some shoulder issues. And even, even him, he's, you know, he's just getting used way too much.
Starting point is 00:16:40 And it's starting to take a toll on him. Yeah, I mean, he's 31 now. I mean, Kenan's an all-time great receiver. Don't get me wrong. But, yeah, it could get sketchy really fast. I mean, if they lose to Denver next week, they're five and eight. I mean, they could pack it in. Yeah, I'm with you.
Starting point is 00:16:54 They won't be, though. Staley's got to fight for his job here. Well, he might, they might tell him to pack it in before. So, I hope so. I think that's what we're turning towards. I mean, that was an absolute joke yesterday. The Patriots. They got the cover, though.
Starting point is 00:17:07 They got the cover, five and a half point. Oh, my God. Hey, books new, Tom. They knew. Oh, my gosh. Let's move on, please, Joe. Can we not talk about the Patriots? Let's go.
Starting point is 00:17:17 Let's go to the Lions and the Saints. I'm sick of the freaking. Saints. Somehow they got 28 points in this game, but they couldn't come back after digging themselves a whole 21-0. Derek Carr got hurt. James came in and. Car's absolutely pulverized a couple times. Yeah. Yeah. Derek Carr's numbers like are hysterical because like I cannot, they're booing the guy. And I actually think he went, he started one of six and then didn't throw another incompletion. Well, his pick, I think the pick was. on the first play of the game.
Starting point is 00:17:52 It was all. It was off Juan Johnson's hands. Yeah. Yeah. It was over three in that game. I, oh boy, yeah. He was a stream.
Starting point is 00:18:00 He was a streamer. He was a streamer. Whoops. I took an L on that one in one league. Yeah. I mean, honestly, I think Carr is just kind of who he is. I mean, this is the same exact quarterback he was with, with Vegas. He just, you know, he's the same guy.
Starting point is 00:18:16 This offense, though, I mean, I will see he's in concussion protocol. I would, we'll see. He's been battling through injuries all year. I was shocked earlier this year. I was shocked earlier this year whenever he had the similar kind of shoulder injury and the concussion. And he played the next week. I mean, at this point, they need to almost like, hey, take a week. I know we're fighting for a playoff spot or fighting for the NFC South title.
Starting point is 00:18:41 But you need to take a week. His body is taking an absolute pounding here. Oh, and he was atrocious the last time he tried to play through that in. Yes. Oh, yeah. He could not throw the ball again. Tampa. The thing is, they play Carolina and the Giants the next two weeks. Like, they are still very live. They have, you know, a big, big matchup against Tampa Day. And it goes out the year.
Starting point is 00:19:00 Yeah, it's a joke. The NFC sounds a joke. So you get, you get a bunch of easy matchups. I mean, they're still very alive. So, you know, if Carr gets cleared, he's going to play. I was just going to say for fantasy, like, I want James just because he's so much fun. I want James. Alave was going off with Carr anyway, but I mean, we get a, yeah, we'll take a week or two with Alave and Winston. Winston just throwing those yolo balls up to Alave. And yeah, so it was good to see Alave back in a lot of. That was one that went down to the wire with his concussion.
Starting point is 00:19:29 He passed through protocol. And I mean, it doesn't sound like Rashid Shaheed. Michael Thomas is on IR. So we saw what John Johnson in a big spot here. So it's going to have to be a lot of Chris Olave. And if we get some James Winston and those matchups that Graham just laid out there for the next two weeks, Alave could be wide receiver. one here for the next two weeks.
Starting point is 00:19:50 By the way, Tom, I mean, we, you know, when we were saying we would like to stream John Johnson. We, there's a guy on the roster. His name is Jimmy Graham. Have you heard of him before? Man. I've heard of this guy before. Both are touchdowns.
Starting point is 00:20:02 We should have a counter for this guy. I got to look into him. Anyway, flipping out on over to lions. The lions, I mean, you start your lions, but one guy I'd like to see in the write-up this week, guys, is Sam Leporta. Just back-to-back. games, eight targets, nine targets, each with a touchdown. I mean, we're really looking at one of the greatest rookie tight end seasons of all time.
Starting point is 00:20:27 And honestly, he's not going to get a thousand yards like Kyle Pitts did, but it's, it's almost more impactful than Kyle Pitts because Kyle Pitts is physically incapable of scoring a touchdown. Yeah, he has a repellent for the end zone there. It's a grade A repellent. Leporta, man, on pace for 91 grabs. I said in group chat in like August, I'm like, Leport is going to catch 65 balls this year. He's already at 64. And it's week 13. He's on pace for 91, just absolutely absurd.
Starting point is 00:20:57 There was a little bit of concern. Jacob Sanderson, who's awesome on Twitter. He made the point that, you know, in games where Gibbs and Montgomery are both active, you know, kind of the target totals are starting to fall. That's kind of gone by the wayside. Last two weeks, eight and nine. Yeah, even with 25 attempts this week, last week it was a very heavy pass script against the Packers. chasing points, 25 attempts this week and nine targets. I don't think I've ever seen a rookie tight end who has a feel for just like quick movements and getting in and out of breaks in the middle of the field as fast as he does. I can't remember one, honestly. Yeah, really, I can't.
Starting point is 00:21:35 He's a really good player. And I mean, he's essentially their number two receiver because, you know, Jameson Williams right now is is kind of a bit player. He's got some serious juice on too. Oh, my God. On that reverse, he went into warp speed around. He was incredible on that. But that's what he is right now for them. You know, you use his speed and then maybe next year he'll become a decent receiver,
Starting point is 00:21:55 but they have something in him that defenses have to account for. But Laporta is their number two receiver. Yeah. Joe, I can't wait to blow another $500 in Jameson Williams best ball shares next year. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you're going to be talking about that run for six months. You're going to be like, now, do you remember that verse against the Saints? He could be Debo Samuel, Joe.
Starting point is 00:22:15 He could be. Atlanta and the James. Yeah, so here's another game I don't want to talk about. Tom, I hope I convinced you to take the Breece Hall under rushing yards on our betting show. I did not. I kind of forgot about that, but yeah, I mean, not even close. Didn't even sniff it. I also had the Beijon over his rushing guard.
Starting point is 00:22:33 He got 18 carries. Didn't get there. 53 yards. So what a disaster. Desmond, I mean, it was a perfect setup like pouring down right. You thought the running games would be a little more, a little more. That was all process.
Starting point is 00:22:46 That was a great process. Trevor. Simeon stinks. This game sucked. Kyle Pitts led them in receiving, yay. Rick Lundon was dead on DJ Reed and Soss Gardner Island.
Starting point is 00:23:00 His only catch was at the end of the first half, and I think DJ Reed gave him like 12 yards of separation. He just kind of caught one underneath. That was his only catch. He got, we were all over. Smashed by one. Was that DJ Reed, I think smashed him?
Starting point is 00:23:13 In the end zone, it was a great, it was a great sell job by Drake London. He got blasted. but he made sure to lay motionless until he heard the flag hit the turf. And then he popped right up. It's like the NFL, the NFL version of the flop, basically.
Starting point is 00:23:28 I mean, this game, what my Cal threw it with the touchdown. Woo. Yeah, we were excited about that. At least Bruce catches the ball, but I mean,
Starting point is 00:23:40 he's down with it either. He's down. I feel so bad for him. Oh, man. Him and Garrett Wilson. It's, it's just terrible here. I think they go to Simian.
Starting point is 00:23:50 That's what I was just about to say. I think it's a slight upgrade over boil, but we're really stretching here. At least he's been a decent backup at some point in his career. So, yeah, nothing much to say here for the Jets. Terrible. Terrible. Yeah, at least, I'll say at least for the Falcons.
Starting point is 00:24:08 I mean, Bejohn didn't get there for the rushing guards prop, but at least Arthur Smith is starting to give him the ball a little bit. It's been pulling weird, though. It was still weird, you know, they had like a, They had a third and seven. Yeah, they had a third and seven assault away of the game. And like, you know, they, they throw it. It's like, yeah.
Starting point is 00:24:24 It's third and seven. You can run the clock down. You know, I mean, they got Corral Patterson out there getting five carriers. CPAT lost one of the most egregious fumbles of the year. He was so lucky to not lose an actual turnover. He had no ball security ball got easily launched out. He slapped it out of bounds. Yeah, Saul was right there.
Starting point is 00:24:41 He's like, what the heck he pushed it out about? You can't do that. He was so mad about that. But yeah. I wonder. I wonder, CPAT had a, he had a third and one and he went backwards. I kind of think they might face him back out of the offense after this week. But still,
Starting point is 00:24:55 I know why they brought them back in. It was kind of like a post-by week thing that's like, all right, we'll get the veteran guy here. We'll see. I mean, would you rather give the ball to CPAT five times or watch Desmond Ritter drop back an extra five times?
Starting point is 00:25:09 That's the question. And I kind of get, I kind of get the answer. Maybe wanting to see the run game. Hey, how about Kyle Pitts? had a little bit of a pulse. 4.51. Didn't get the 10 fantasy points, but
Starting point is 00:25:20 showed at least a little bit of pulse. How many times has Kyle Pitts gone over 10 fantasy points this year? Let's find out. I probably have it in my weekly game book article. It's got to be like three times because I think he's scored once and yeah, it's not many. Let's see here.
Starting point is 00:25:37 But once, twice, twice. And it was back-to-back games. And so we were like, yeah. It's coming on. finally happening. Arthur Smith is a war criminal. Let's let's not let's not let's not forget about that that like or whoever decided that
Starting point is 00:25:55 they should go into the year with Desmond Ritters as their quarterback after spending all these top 10 picks like I think the other things are true like Smith is you know he's just so addicted to trolling everybody but also I mean he was given such a bad quarterback situation. You know, his hand was probably in it. How responsible is he for it? Exactly. His hand was probably in it in terms of. Yeah. So like, but they've also been in weird. spots with the draft too like they're yeah i was going to say they'll be uh nfc south champions so they'll have to trade for justin fields this off season so we'll look forward to that
Starting point is 00:26:24 this year speaking of another quarterback who can't get his receivers the football like that let's go let's go get justin fields uh Arizona and Pittsburgh sorry Tom I mean Kenny Kenny pick it you know I look at Trubiskey's numbers they weren't that bad they're actually pretty good did he was negative scripts will do yeah he fumbled it in deep in their own territory and that was that was essentially the game yeah yeah the game. It was a weird game too. Like the Steelers moved the ball really well in the first half. I had to settle for a field goal on the first
Starting point is 00:26:53 drive and do it like I forget what it was. It seemed like a 15 play drive. Pickett gets hurt at the one yard line and then they can't punch it in. And then Cardinals just had a backbreaking drive to take it down the field, converted a bunch of third downs. And it was kind of just over after that. Like Steelers just showed no real fight. And then they had the the two delays, you know, the two
Starting point is 00:27:15 suspensions of play and never really got into a rhythm after that. So yeah, this is interesting times in Pittsburgh here. We've got Kenny Pickens who needs a tight rope surgery and looks like he'll be out the next two to four weeks and it's going to be Trubisky time against the Patriots on Thursday night football. Get ready. Oh my God. The total is at 31 and a half points for that one, boys. And I don't know how people are going to bet the over on that.
Starting point is 00:27:43 that's what it's it's so funny when they set the totals that low like they can't set them even lower and they still get hammered lower yes it's like iowa football earlier this year well uh you know we can just ignore that game this week um for fantasy feelers yeah i my one takeaway from this game and this is not really even even a takeaway is fucking awesome that guy is so good he is unbelievably good his hands are awesome he's great after the catch I mean, he's a menace in the end zone. Like, this dude is going to be a perennial fantasy tight-in one. Like, he's awesome. Awesome. He's, I mean, I mean, we'll probably have, we'll see what Kelsey does after this season. Kelsey Andrews Hawkinson, then right there, number of tight-in-four. He's going to be right in that conversation, that pocket where, you know, I think he goes maybe six, seventh round this year was coming here.
Starting point is 00:28:35 Yep. Arizona, Markis Brown stinks. I know he got hurt, but he's not a little player. He left early and didn't even know. Yeah, he left early. And then obviously, you know, this game was raining and he had the heel injury. He didn't practice all week. I put him on the down list.
Starting point is 00:28:50 But, you know, they got to buy next coming week. Yeah. Oh, that's a good point. Yeah, he's got to buy this coming week. That actually sucks for me because I'm using McBride. Like, I have a 14 team. I have a 14 team league where Kyle Pitts is my tight end three. That's where Kyle Pitts is right now.
Starting point is 00:29:06 Yeah, I have a bunch of McBride too. And this week will not be fun. But Cardinals, I mean, they're going to have to throw a ton. They've got, I mean, they got Eagles week 17. I mean, that's the game. I've got earmarked for week 17. Like McBride is going to go for 25 in that game. But yeah, man, you know, real quick on Kyler, his fantasy season has just been kind of bizarre.
Starting point is 00:29:28 Like James Connor obviously went off and scored twice. He only threw for 145 and only needed to throw it 23 times because like Tom was saying, the game script just got completely out of hand here. What do we think about Kyler? Just real quick, moving forward. he's a quarterback too. I think that's where I'm at too. I don't think you can really start him.
Starting point is 00:29:47 His receiver stink. They're not going to go nuts with him running. It sucks because I picked him up. I picked him up in a league where I dropped Sam Hal for him, and I should have just kept Sam Hal. Yeah, Sam Hal always gets there somehow. Even yesterday, we'll get to that game. Yeah, maybe Kyler's just a streamer then.
Starting point is 00:30:07 But I mean, Chicago and Philly, Week 16 and 17 is just so hot for Kyler. So, like, you know, if you if you are rocking with like Sam Hal and Kyler, maybe just just keep Kyler and just stream between the two. But yeah, I'm kind of with you, Joe. Uh, Indian Tennessee, uh, Gardner Minchu. I picked him up and started him this week for Lamar Jackson. I'm pretty thought about that. What a final drive for him. He was pretty, he pretty bad to media, you know, mediocre to bad for much of that game.
Starting point is 00:30:34 And then he was. He was really bad on the last year. He was so bad. That whole game until that final drive. That was a dime to, uh, Alec. Pierce and then, you know, the touchdown. I mean, he just totally, you know, totally made up for his mediocre to bad play for the first four quarters with that last drive.
Starting point is 00:30:52 Zach Moss, unfortunately laid a complete egg. There was somebody in John's mentions complaining that we ranked Zach Moss over Devon A. Chan. I was like, find me a site that didn't. Like, what are you, what are you supposed to do? I mean, loss is like at worst, the RB4 on the slate. 94% of the snaps. I mean, he got not like, Jake Sealy said this on, Twitter. He's like, yeah, you tell me that Zach Moss is going to play 94% in the snaps and he's
Starting point is 00:31:16 going to get 22 opportunities. I'm ranking him top three again. And like, that's just what it is. And he had multiple opportunities with carries and chances inside the 10. It just, it seemed like every jive they got in that game like started like first and goal at like the eight yard line, which, you know, made it difficult for him to score a touchdown. But I can tell you this much. I'm going right back to Moss and all of my games next week because big news, Garder Minchew, as Zach Moss and his fantasy teams. I learned that during the broadcast, so we're going to get some more dump offs next week.
Starting point is 00:31:47 They get bangles next week. I mean, you're going right back to Moss. And Jonathan Taylor, I think rap sheet said it might be a five-week injury. So his fantasy season, unfortunately. Yeah, he might be back for the playoffs, which are looking increasingly likely for the Colts at this point. Three AFC South teams making the playoffs would be. What kind of world are we living in here?
Starting point is 00:32:07 Unbelievable. The Titans, obviously, Derek Henry needs to be watched. I don't know his concussion history. He was phenomenal in this game. That's going to be a pain in the ass situation. They play on Monday night. So you know that's going to go down to like Sunday for him to get through the concussion protocol. But yeah, he is in the protocol.
Starting point is 00:32:25 We'll be half to monitor that situation this week. Because I mean, Tadj Spears is like that's a slam dunk. You have to play him if Derek Henry is out. Oh, yeah. It's going to be. It's going to be. Spears got a little dinged up, didn't he? Or is that that?
Starting point is 00:32:39 I saw him limping off the field, but that could have just been. in football. He got crumpled up a little bit on a run. He got like his body taken back. Oh, steers, yeah. Yeah, he got kind of double over. Yeah, I think he continued to play after that, but he was in some pain.
Starting point is 00:32:53 But yeah, this is going to be a tough situation to follow this week. Because I think this is going to be one of those where we get the Henry News like Sunday afternoon. So, yeah, it's going to be a painly ass. Let's move on over to Miami and Washington. obviously Brian Robinson left this game with a hamstring injury guys. They're on by and they're all on. So they're going to have plenty of time to kind of get that. But we'll watch him.
Starting point is 00:33:21 Terry McLaren gets held catchless in this game. I just don't get it. Thomas, catchless. Yeah, I've got not. I really, I'm at the point of the year where I've got nothing. It makes no sense to me. And I mean, you know, Curtis Samuel obviously was fine for 65. But I mean, they've got, you know, they threw it 23 times in this game.
Starting point is 00:33:39 I mean, they just... Sam Howe still gets home for fantasy. He still does it. It still does it. Unbelievable. Like, I don't know how he... He literally gets home every week, no matter the circumstance. I mean...
Starting point is 00:33:52 It's so ugly watching him sometimes. Like, I personally, I think Sam Howe is good. But this week, it was really ugly watching him. Yeah, he still gets there. Real quick on B-Rob, if he does miss a game, I'm not going to go crazy about Antonio Gibson. I think it'll be Chris Rodriguez getting early down stuff. Gibson will just be in his same role. Maybe he gets a few extra carries.
Starting point is 00:34:12 I think he'll get a few. I don't know if they completely trust Rodriguez, but I don't think it's going to be like Bell Cowell. It's going to be, yeah, they're going to split the carry early down carries and he'll get the passing game works. So yeah, it'll be a slight boost. But that's something we got up, you know, we'll see if Robinson even misses time because he does get the two full weeks to get ready for week 15. Let's move on over to Miami. Of course, I said on the radio, we're in the third quarter and Devani, Chan had three touches in like nine yards. And I said to Paul, I was like, Paul, like we obviously saw his potential, but it's just
Starting point is 00:34:46 after he got re-injured last week, I just don't think the dolphins are going to put a whole lot on his plate here, maybe until the playoffs. And then he goes, am in the second. I was done. That was wild. I mean, when the game was competitive, I mean, it was almost. And then they basically were like, you know what, A Chan, you get the final drive. You get the whole second half.
Starting point is 00:35:06 Like, let's go. We'll see what you got. 17 carries. I have a lead where I have most certain A-chan, and I'm just going to play both for us the year. That's just why I'm at. Yeah, I thought for sure we were going to get on more. Yeah, he's just one of those guys.
Starting point is 00:35:18 Yeah, like in your flex spot, just put them in there. He's going to go off at least once or twice, you know, one or two more times the rest of the season. You just have to have them in your lineup for when it happens. But I, you know, I'm with you guys. I'm like, I thought for sure they were up like three, you know, multiple scores. I thought we were going to get like, you know, some Jeff Wilson, garbage, you know, just tried him out there.
Starting point is 00:35:38 Well, let's save our guy that's been hurt since, what, week five, week six. You really hasn't seen any action. But nope, they were feeding H-Tan late in the game. And so anybody that plugged him into a lineup was rewarded even after a slow start through the first two and a half quarters. Let's move to Carolina and Tampa Bay. I don't know what. Well, Chuba Hubbard, I think might be an up guy just because it, like, I figured that what they might do is lean more on Chuba. and just kind of faze Miles Sanders out more because
Starting point is 00:36:11 Miles Sanders was Deuce Daly's guy and they fired Duce Daly. I still don't think Chuba is a guy you trust as anything more than like a flex, but he's clearly the guy who goes forward in this offense. Yeah. Feeling though, guys, it's just, I think it's over. Yeah, it's over. New offense, John Mingo. Tom, you were all over this, I think last week.
Starting point is 00:36:31 St. Mingo would be more involved. 10 targets. I don't think he's very good. But, yeah, I mean, I think it's over for feeling too. Yeah, they're clearly trying to. evaluate him at this. This is like four straight games where Mingo's gotten like six targets and they're
Starting point is 00:36:44 trying to get him going. So yeah, feeling yeah, his days. Even this was like kind of a pretty good setup for him. Yeah, and it just comes up small. So this is multiple weeks in the past month where he's come up pretty small. So yeah,
Starting point is 00:37:01 he's one of those like he's not even a must play at this point. He carried you through the first half of the season. Be grateful that he probably got your team into position to make the fantasy playoffs, but now's, now's the time, I'm not saying it's Mingo or anybody else on this roster,
Starting point is 00:37:17 but you probably have to start looking for somebody else to feel that Thielen role that he occupied through the first 10. I mean, I think Joe's right. I mean, it's just this is kind of a Hubbard team and then Thielen's like a really low end wide receiver three. Hey,
Starting point is 00:37:30 but you know who never comes up small? It's Mike Evans. Holy. Oh, he's amazing. Guys amazing. Absolutely. 10 straight 1,000.
Starting point is 00:37:38 yard seasons. Only, you know, only Cherry Rice has more. Just absolutely wild. Oh, by the way. Is he first style of Hall of Famer? He should be. Mike Evans? Is he first a Hall of Famer? Oh, he absolutely. Like Super Bowl champion. I was having this conversation with Scott. And Scott was like, yeah, he's just been good for a long time. I'm like, yeah, but he's been nine and nobody talks about him for not. Yeah, nobody talks about him as one of the best receivers of all time. And see, when it comes to the Hall of Fame, I am a big story guy. Like I think stories matter, right?
Starting point is 00:38:12 Like it's a museum. Okay. Like if it's just like, oh, put in the guy who had the best EPA, like, all right. Most of the time that's going to line up.
Starting point is 00:38:22 But like, you know, with baseball, this guy accumulated X number of war. Like, I hate that shit. It's a museum. Okay.
Starting point is 00:38:31 So I believe in narrative. And that's why I think Eli Manning is going to go to the Hall of Fame because it's really hard to tell the story of the NFL in the 21st century without talking about Eli Manning. It's also why I think Kurt Warner should be in the Hall of Fame.
Starting point is 00:38:46 Like, which he is, obviously. Kurt Warner's a Hall of Famer. But like, very nice, Tom. Oh, I got to mute it. God damn it. Sorry. I'm going on, I'm going on this tangent here. I must have clicked above the mute button. I thought it was all. I'm sorry about that.
Starting point is 00:39:06 Anyway, so. I believe narrative does matter. And there isn't really a Mike Evans narrative. But at some point, the statistics have to matter a hell of a lot too. Look at the, tell me, you look at that card of,
Starting point is 00:39:22 of his production and tell me he's not a Hall of Fame or you're an idiot. Do you want to know the wildest Mike Evan's stat too? I was just doing this scrolling through his pro ref page. His worst two seasons by yards per game were with Brady. That is absolutely wild. Yeah, because it was all right there.
Starting point is 00:39:37 funneled to Godwin in those seasons. Yep. Like that gets you in the Hall of Fame, man. Like, I get Brady's a year at a game. Anyone, he won a Super Bowl. Like, forget about it. I mean, like, no, the guy's absolutely a Hall of Famer.
Starting point is 00:39:50 And nobody, it talks about him as one of the best receivers of all time and he just flat out is. And he's got in his 30s now. And he's still at the top of it. He was at 21. Yeah, I remember watching him coming out of Texas A&M. And he was the, he's still the same guy. He was in 20. Maybe he's a little less.
Starting point is 00:40:05 Maybe if he's 21, he runs that. all the way into the end. He doesn't get tracked down at the one yard line. But I mean, who else? You know, there's not many guys that make that play. You know, he still has that same explosiveness. Just a truly special blend of just massive size and speed. And it's like, I love watching him play because it's like sneaky speed.
Starting point is 00:40:27 He just, he just eats up so much ground with those long strides and just a real fun player. And this year is kind of like, it kind of makes me, it's making. making me appreciate him a little bit more. You know, it doesn't have the awesome quarterbacks. You know, he doesn't have Winston. He doesn't have Tom Brady. And he's, you know, he's playing with Baker Mayfield. And just the way he's elevated this late into his career, it's a pretty special season.
Starting point is 00:40:51 Cleveland and L.A. Kiron Williams, man. Just start him. Like, he got off to this slow start in this game. And then all of a sudden, I look up at the end of the game. And he's got 20 fantasy points. Pookaa picked up cramps and a ribble. injury. He came back, but obviously, I don't think he caught a pass after half time,
Starting point is 00:41:11 even though he had that run. Cooper Cup got in the end zone, thank the ward, because it was, it was kind of hurting there. Is that DeMarcus Robinson? Yeah, that is DeMarcus Robinson, formerly of the Las Vegas Raiders out there. Yeah, looking good. Kiron, man, I just got, he's a league winner, and I love this little dude. I dropped to eat in so many teams like it's not just a flu like he's a legitimately good football player so he's he's tiny and he's he's kind of got that like mjd thing where he's so small he kind of gets lost by in the line and then he just pops out and you know you don't have an angle it's kind of the same thing with him I did not see this from him coming out of no name he did not have this explosiveness in the run of the 40 you know his 40 time the comment it was like molasses I mean I wonder if he tried to bulk up for the combine and he you know, he's only 190. I mean, he's listed 195. He looks smaller than that.
Starting point is 00:42:08 He looks smaller than Devon Achan, and Achan's kind of built like a bowling ball. Anyway, I mean, Kiron's awesome. And Puka, yeah, Joe, you know, I think they try to get him a deep target. I'm going back in my memory bank. And he tried to, like, lift his arms up above his head, try to catch the ball. And he looked like he was in some pain. So I'm going to put Puka. Yeah, because I can definitely see once the adrenaline roll, you know, runs out this week.
Starting point is 00:42:30 He's, I guaranteeing he shows up on the injury report. he's probably a guy going to have to monitor this week. And how about Matt Stafford? Turn back the clock here a little bit the last two games. He's looked excellent here. So with the Rams back to full strength,
Starting point is 00:42:45 all their skill players back, I mean, this is an offense that's clicking, 36 points and back to back games, 36 and 37 points. McVeigh has been in his bag this year, but especially now. Hot game next week versus the Ravens. It's going to be a really good game.
Starting point is 00:43:00 Cleveland, look, Joe, it was low A-Dop, but he lost to Mark Cooper during the game. Joe, Joe did all right. I mean, I know he threw the pick. He got safetyed, but I mean, the Brown's offense is just much more functional with Flacco at quarterback. He's still got the honor. Yeah, for fantasy purposes, we want Flacco in the lineup. This is, and we'll see Cooper picked up an injury in this game.
Starting point is 00:43:22 You know, concussion. Yeah. Concussion, and he came into this game with a rib injury. He, you know, talking about players who's gotten his ass kicked. The last couple weeks, he's gotten his ass kick. But, you know, we'll see if Cooper gets through. I mean, Flacco still got the arm, man. I mean, he threw a ball that was basically, it was an arm pun.
Starting point is 00:43:37 I think on a third down. He threw 65 yards in here, and it was an incomplete pass. But I mean, still, be his, be his age. He throws a pretty ball, doesn't he? It's beautiful. It's perfect. By the way, as we noted, David and Joku is dead when it's not a quarterback that can throw the ball down.
Starting point is 00:43:55 He had another drop in this game. He had another mental error where he ran the wrong route. He stinks. like yeah so Eli more 12 targets for four catches but yeah he's gonna be the number one guy all my dead best ball teams all my dead best yeah we'll talk about him tomorrow I think he'll be he's got to be some waiver wire uh love no doubt if keeper's gonna miss and if we get another game from flaco I mean he's got a little juice here uh let's move to San Francisco and Philadelphia Eagles just got their shit kicked in I mean that's sorry I mean that's that's
Starting point is 00:44:26 that's the long and the short of it um a lot of extenuating circumstances Tom, you talked about this on the point spread. You're just like you hated the spot for the Eagles. Oh, yeah. And they got another awful spot this week. Cowboys are going to get 10 days of rest again. And this Cowboys, I mean, this Eagles team is, we're going to be, I think we should watch Jayla Hertz see if he, he did go in to get checked for a concussion.
Starting point is 00:44:49 And, you know, he's been playing banged up anyway. So that's something to monitor that the line is moving. It was so dumb of them to have Swift in at the end of that game. Like, I don't know what the heck they were thinking. He got absolutely blown up, man. Yeah, it was just a, it was just a shit game. I mean, like, let's be honest. I mean, should have, I mean, obviously, you have blinders on,
Starting point is 00:45:11 but I should have seen this coming. They played 100 defensive snaps against the bills last week. Like, I should have seen that coming. I mean, the Eagles are still the same team every week. Goddard, Goddard, though. Yeah, I was going to say, we should watch him. He got to practice in on Friday. That's usually, you know, what he's going to go.
Starting point is 00:45:26 Well, they didn't put him on IR. That's kind of a trend. Like, if you see these guys. that have long-term injuries, they get that Friday practice in with no intentions of plan. I think that's usually a sign that, hey, we're trying to build up his stamina going into next week. So I would think, you know, he has a solid chance if everything checks out with his little
Starting point is 00:45:45 hairline fracture or whatever is in his arm. I think he's might be good to go for this week. Yeah, do we ever get, Joe, do we ever get word on Goddard's injury? It was a broken forearm and I don't know if he needed. How the hell do you break his forearm and he's back in three weeks? It had to be a hair. That's my speculation. But I mean, just doing this long enough, like,
Starting point is 00:46:04 it has to be like a very small fracture that if he's able to come back this quickly. See, the thing about this game is like, well, outside of the Eagles with watching Hertz and Goddard, like both of these teams are just kind of the same fantasy team every week. You just play the guys. Yep. You know, like your Niners every week. I've been saying it starts to, you know,
Starting point is 00:46:24 I know you're going to get frustrated by Kittle. You're going to get frustrated by Iuk. You know, last week was Iyuk who kind of took a backseat. Debo again. Yeah, I mean, what more can you say about Debo? He gets four targets and he scores 38 fantasy points. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:46:38 Unbelievable. Like, I didn't even, or maybe I forgot that, I mean, Debo had a, that second gear on that 48-yard touchdown. I mean,
Starting point is 00:46:47 holy cry, I, you know, I think of him more as the physical run you over type of guy, but he's got both. I was like, holy shit, he has some jets there.
Starting point is 00:46:57 That was, the Eagles, uh, Howie Roseman, who very proudly, and I think correctly for the most part, does not invest in the linebacker position. Well, he didn't invest in it and his best two are injured. And I think that showed up in that game. Nicholas Morrow.
Starting point is 00:47:13 Maybe they should put like another couple numbers on that Shaq Leonard offer that they're. Yeah. It's between him and Dallas. It's between Philly and Dallas, right? Yeah. Like, does Shaq Lender want to go to the team that clearly needs them more? Like, or does he got that? That's the interesting question because, oh, my.
Starting point is 00:47:29 Oh, my God. It was Nicholas Morrow gave up those two huge plays in the second half. Awful. Hey, Joe, I got to ask you a slight aside because we were talking about God or any feel with the Zach Earth stuff. That's something we go to be watching. I would think they're interested in him. But like, I don't know if it's, I don't think it's. What I think they probably hope is they lock up the division before week 18 so they can just go pepper him with targets so he can become their all-time reception leader.
Starting point is 00:48:01 There you go to the old team. It seems like the breadcrumbs really. He's a Philly guy. He's a Philly guy. I don't think he ever wanted to leave. Yeah. They traded him. They traded him. To open the door for Goddard.
Starting point is 00:48:16 To open the door for Goddard ends, they traded him to what they thought was a contender at the time. And then of course, the Eagles end up going to the playoffs. And then we know what happened the next couple of years. But yeah, I think that's a possibility. But it's not going to affect Goddard, I don't think. it's just going to give them another body. Yeah, another body. I still think Baltimore tries to sign them.
Starting point is 00:48:34 I mean, that's the team that makes the most sense to me. Yeah. Let's go to the Packers and the Chiefs. Tor and love. What the hell? Lord and love, man. Yeah, I mean, credit to him. Christian Watson,
Starting point is 00:48:47 everybody drops them. And now he's doing, I got to say. Oh, and he's got an answering injury now too, Joe. Oh, yeah. Blows it out. And it's because he was trying to throttle down and stay in bounds. Of course, like if he keeps his stride, he probably doesn't blow out his hamstring.
Starting point is 00:49:03 He probably just runs right out of bounds. Nothing. He's throttling down, you know, chopping the leg and it pops, you know, he pops the hamstring again. But I did cash an over four and a half receiving touchdowns for the season with the two touchdown performance. You probably thought that was an easy one
Starting point is 00:49:20 before the season. Oh, I did. And I'm like, oh, he's never going to get it. And then he gets the two touchdowns. I'm like, all right. And then he blows out his hamstring a quarter later. So thank God he did it. last night. So, because I don't know if we're going to be seeing him for a couple of weeks. Yeah. Well, he's got,
Starting point is 00:49:35 he's got a history of hamstring injuries, doesn't he? Yeah. Oh, yeah. The long and storied history of hamstring injury. I mean, he came into the league with one. He didn't practice. That's why I didn't,
Starting point is 00:49:45 that's why everybody was drafted Romeo Dobbs last year instead of Watson. Because he, he was hurt, you know, and then he got hurt, I think in the, in the training camp. And then he missed the first couple games of the season.
Starting point is 00:49:56 Yeah, it was a question last year. I think that's what it was. was to start. He had that. Yeah, he's just just one of those guys who can't stay on the field unfortunately for him. Yeah, it looked like it's been a rough start, but he's, he was finally starting to
Starting point is 00:50:08 turn a corner. I think, you know, the lack of reps with love early in camp and in the season, I think he started to get a little bit of a, I mean, just some of those touchdown throws on, you know, that back, you know, back line touchdown throw that he threw to him in the game. I think they were starting to get on the same page. Unfortunately,
Starting point is 00:50:25 he probably won't have them for the rest of the fantasy playoffs. Let's go Flip on over to Kansas City I mean what is what is Kansas City at this point I mean They're just not a very good football Travis Kelsey
Starting point is 00:50:37 Yeah Offence is just not not there I mean it's not a good offense Last night but Oh our boy Sky Costing on the game with that Terrible route that Are you
Starting point is 00:50:48 Not like fantasy points boy I guess we should see I mean we I certainly didn't draft them very much But yeah I think Richie James should be playing over at this point. It's not even close.
Starting point is 00:51:01 But Andy loves, you know, you rotating these crappy receivers instead of playing his best guys. I don't know why. A, Rishie got nine targets, though. I mean, I think you start him going forward. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:51:12 And he's got to score him. All of those targets were like those designed at the line of scrimmage screen, you know, the real cheap PPR catches where you let them, you know, so those are bankable. He's so sick after the catch. He is so good after the catch. My favorite tweet from last night,
Starting point is 00:51:26 from fast, fast break breakfast, NBA account. He said that Patrick Mahomes having to throw to Marquez Vauda Scantling. It's like the year Nicole Yocke had to play with Compazzo. Any NBA fans that watch the Nuggets in I think 2020 and 2021 when we didn't have a starting point guardian is compazo out there. NVS is terrible. I mean, he had that seam route. If he stays down the numbers and MVS for whatever reason is drifting in towards the safety, Mahomes like lost his goddamn mind.
Starting point is 00:51:58 He's like, what do you do? Like, why are you running towards the safety? Mahomes has got to be behind the scenes. He has got to be apocalyptic. I mean, I can't imagine. And then MBS actually does run a good route and gets absolutely tackled by the defender at the five-yard line on that final drive. They don't call any day. They should back up the Brinks truck for T. Higgins next year.
Starting point is 00:52:19 Yep. They have to, right? They have to do something. I mean, just give somebody, give him a big body on the boundary who can get up. get vertical and get it you know like they they got to do something here um they're they're in trouble chiefs are in real trouble in the playoffs man like the defenses are just playing too high against them rolling safeties back and just like look we know you can't throw deep like this it's it'll be interesting to see how the chiefs respond but i just don't think they have the dudes to respond like
Starting point is 00:52:48 that's the thing yeah it's just eventually you know even even the great quarterbacks need need receivers at some point and rice is certainly a player but that they they they they they they they they they they I think after last year they're like, we can get really cute with this. They've gotten cute and it doesn't look cute. Pacheco has been pretty good here. Yeah, he's been awesome. That was the final note I had is McKinnon missed this game again. And that's huge from Pacheco because, I mean, McKinnon's playing all the third downs.
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