Fantasy Football Today - 12/11: Week 15 Tough Calls; Commish Failure; NYJ-BAL (Fantasy Football Podcast)

Episode Date: December 11, 2019

Heath and Adam argue over a Commissioner error in one of the Podcast Leagues as Ben tries his best to regulate! Then we look at the Most Added list (5:52) and have a long discussion about A.J. Brown ... A quick round of Fantasy Feud (13:24) as we discuss the most efficient RBs in the NFL. Then we've got your news and notes (18:00) and tough calls at QB (20:48) including Ryan Tannehill, Russell Wilson and Matt Ryan, tough calls at RB (28:15) including Phillip Lindsay, Devonta Freeman and Joe Mixon, and we have to talk about John Brown of course (35:25)! ... Previewing NYJ-BAL (38:10). Can you trust either RB in this game? How about any of the WRs or TEs? And we finish the show answering your questions (50:00) via email, Apple Podcast and Twitter ... Your emails at [e-mail] To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Now, here's some combination of Adam, Dave, Jamie, and Heath. Well, of course, we have some tough matchups every week, but here in Week 15, you know, it just feels even tougher. You're going to sit there, you're going to agonize over your roster decisions, and we're going to help you out today by reading a bunch of your questions and talking about some of those difficult matchups for Week 15. Welcome to Fantasy Football today on Wednesday. We'll be doing some regulating on Heath, who is a horrible commissioner, as we'll find

out today. And Heath, you know who I love this week, who I'm really rooting for, pulling for big time this week? Who's that? Josh Jacobs. Do you know why? Why is that? Because you picked up DeAndre Washington in one of our non-PPR leagues, and I'm playing against you. And I fear DeAndre Washington. So let's get Josh Jacobs back on the field, though it doesn't really seem like that's going to happen.

DeAndre Washington this morning capped off what was maybe the best four-day stretch of my career season for sure. And it's just going to get better today. So, yeah, I'm really in a good place right now. Okay, good. You know, I'm actually – we'll get Ben in in a second. I'm especially mad at Chris Towers because he had number one waiver wire claim priority over Heath. And I'm not facing Chris this week. And he picked up the Chiefs DST instead of DeAndre Washington.

So I thought that was ridiculous. I'm very happy about it. In another league that I'm in, somebody—I had $134 Fab dollars left. Somebody else had $514. And they don't have good running backs. And didn't pick up deandre washington either and i got him everything is turning up heath right now oh is that right let's bring the third member of our crew today and get some music ben ben ben ben ben ben ben ben ben ben i always wanted to do that. Ben, Ben, Ben, Ben, Ben. Hey, Ben, what's up?

Not much. You know, I think I might just need to be a spectator to start this off. I'm hearing something about a co-commissioner fiasco that I really want to hear the details about. Let me tell you something. All right. Heath, you screwed up in our podcast for the People League, apparently. Do you have the music?

Oh, sure. You want the two and a half bad music again? No, I want the regulators music. Okay, okay. I'll get it up. This issue needs to be regulated. I'll bring that up in a moment. So, yeah, you are the commissioner, right, of the league, 10 teams?

Well, I need Ben to regulate this. Okay. 10 teams. Well, I need Ben to regulate this. I am on the league right now, and there is a page on CBS that is called Commissioner Access page where the commissioner gets to decide who has commissioner access. There are two names that say yes for commissioner access. One of them is Heath Cummings. One of them is Adam Azer. Ben, can you regulate?

Do we have one or two commissioners in this league? I don't get to say my side yet? No. I mean, it's a pretty open and close case. All right, go on. Azer, what is the possible alternative side to this? Okay, Heath runs this league. This league was his idea.

He picks the contestants for the league. He sends out the emails. He does everything. We share a team. I have commissioner access. I think he also has to hold on. Hold on. One thing that got messed up.

You could have done. I've done all of these other things. You know, the funny thing is I'm not even sure what you're talking about. I think I know what got messed up, but I don't know for sure. What what in your mind got messed up in this league? This is the weirdest league ever. It's a 10-team league. Four teams make the playoffs.

Playoffs start this week. So last week was very important. Our first-place team is also the lowest scoring team in the league. He went 10-4 and scored fewer points than everyone else. That's amazing the highest scoring team in the league finished in fifth place the second highest scoring team in the league finished in sixth place neither of them are going to be participating in the playoffs because adam and i did a terrible job don't put me me at this. This is your league.

You are a commissioner. I am a commissioner for a minute. We've established that he's a commissioner of this league, correct? I'm not a commissioner. He had no defense to not being a commissioner. He just gave defense to I've done everything. I am not a commissioner. I am an honorary commissioner.

I have no actual power. I can go in there and make changes if I need to. You have complete and total power. You could go do anything you want on the website right now. This is your fault. Apart from a signing fault, which it seems like it's just both of your faults. It's Heath's fault. I'm on the edge of my seat with this story.

How the heck can this happen where the fifth seed and the sixth seed are both not in the playoffs? It's 10 teams. Only four teams make the playoffs. And they start this week. Honestly, I usually just make the playoffs about standings. teams, so only four teams make the playoffs. And they start this week. And honestly, I usually just make the playoffs about standings. I don't have those types of rules.

They're good rules. He's right. Clearly, it's looking more like it's more Adam's fault now because I usually do have points to be part of the standings. And you should have

made the changes and you didn't. So this is your failure. So we've got to rectify this. I can't let this stand. So I can think of two possible outcomes that are okay. Either we give up our spot in the playoffs for the highest scoring team. Absolutely not.

And they get the two seed instead of us because they deserve it more than us. No. Or they get to play in the podcast league again next year because we ruined their experience for them. They were the top scoring team in the league and we did not give them a chance to be the champions of the league. I am going to let them back into the four-people league next year. Just send me an email. Because it's your freaking league, and you're the commissioner, and you can do that, and it's been regulated. All right, let's take a look at the most added lists here to get the show started.

DeAndre Washington, one. A.J. Brown, two. Raheem Mostert, three. Robbie Gold, four. Not a bad option there if you need a kicker for one of the best offenses in football. So he is 65% on Robbie Gold. Tyler Higbee is five.

And Darius Slayton, six. Ryan Tannehill, seven. I plan on talking about most of these guys here, but Boston Scott is now 8% owned. But, you know, A.J. Brown is a guy that just the targets alone, they scare me. And the inconsistency, it scares me. And, Ben, how do you feel about A.J. Brown against the Texans this week

in the biggest game of the week? I mean, I love that you're starting off with him because he's the player that I am just crushing on so hard this week. AJ Brown is going to make Ryan Tannehill hundreds of millions of dollars since tannahill started uh took over starting seven games he has more receiving yards more than double the receiving yards of any other texan more than the next two texans combined tight which is just basic math those two things mean uh titans sorry those two things mean the same thing right yeah he's been phenomenal no he hasn't receiver in the nfl he's been inconsistent best receiver in in the NFL in yards per target with at least 40 targets. He doesn't get enough targets.

I believe that's ahead of him. Right. He hasn't been getting consistent targets. You're right. But this guy, I believe, is the best receiver in a very, very good 2019 rookie wide receiver class. I think he's going to be an absolute star down the line. Top five fantasy ceiling. That's all true.

Right. And I am not surprised that he's Ben's favorite because he's got enormous upside weekly, and Ben doesn't care what his floor is. It's a perfect player. The only guy that wasn't on the list and I think may have almost as much upside on a weekly basis

and has been better and more consistent recently as Anthony Miller I think he's taken say he's been forward. He's further down. Okay most that has not been better by the by the Metric that you're choosing to use. Yes, that's correct. What fantasy boys? I Think he has been better by fantasy points over the last month Yeah, well, his last— Maybe if he stretched. I mean, the only reason he wasn't before is because he wasn't catching any touchdowns.

No, the only reason he wasn't before is because Taylor Gabriel was playing. As soon as Gabriel got hurt, Miller went crazy. Here's an interesting note on Brown that I just want to add. On top of the fact that he's been this good with Tannehill under center, which I think is very notable, he also wasn't playing a lot of snaps to start the season something we see with rookies we saw it with dj moore last year we talked about this all off season where moore didn't play consistent snaps until late in the year aj brown's snapshot was in the 40 percent for the entire

month of september the first four games then it was in right around 60 for all of october only since like november since around when Tannehill started taking over the offense has his snapshot actually trended up and he's had three games over 80 percent now he's been essentially their number one since Corey Davis missed week 10 he's running more routes now and again this guy came in with a really really strong profile in terms of age adjusted production all those things we've talked about uh for ruck for rookies out of old miss was way more productive than dk metcalf at old miss and metcalf's been a productive nfl player so this is a guy that i think has a lot of long-term upside and i think you should absolutely be buying into with the increased snaps and the increased

role right now i know the targets aren't great i mean this is a run first team but this guy is is just a really good player and somebody you should want to be playing. And I do think you should pick him up. You just have to acknowledge if you're going to start him, if he scores three fantasy points this week, it should not surprise you. Yeah, sure. And he might score 25 as well, but you can't start him and then be upset if he scores three points

because that's well within the range of possibilities. I should have been more clear. Anthony Miller's been more involved the past month than A.J. Brown. Because of Brown's monster game last week, he has scored more fantasy points the last month than Miller. Again, I think

if you're looking at it from a who is the most likely to score 12 fantasy points, it's Anthony Miller. Who is the most likely to score 20 fantasy points it's anthony miller the who is the most most likely to score 20 is probably aj brown but i do think just to like reiterate with aj brown he has that remember odell beckham's rookie season 2014 what he did in the fantasy playoffs he won fantasy leagues as a rookie it's it's almost blasphemy to compare anything to that but that's the upside that i think i think aj brown has that upside i legitimately do think he has like i don't think

last week was a fluke is the is the key okay well it's not so much that it's that ryan tannahill his past attempts in his last four games or like 1918 22 27 i think So it's just a matter of is he going to throw more, and you hope there's a lot of points in this game, and you hope maybe that the Houston run defense can be solid and make Tannehill throw the ball a little bit more. And if that happens, then you're going to feel better about A.J. Brown. But, you know, so would you start A.J. Brown over like a struggling Odell Beckham against Arizona?

Yeah. Wow. I would too. Would you start him? I would start him over. I'm looking at one of my teams. I don't have A.J. Brown, but I put in a claim for him, right? I'd start him over DK Metcalf this week, would you? Yep.

But I wouldn't start him over Zach Paschal, and I wouldn't start him over Kenny Galladay. Galladay's got the Bucs. Paschal's at the Saints. I would start him over Paschal but not Galladay. Yeah, I think I agree with that as well just because Galladay has a great matchup, but I think it's close. I think you can have A.J. Brown in that range

because Galladay's obviously played with an inconsistent quarterback. Heath, give me a final thought on the most added list. DeAndre Washington, A.J. Brown, Raheem Mostert, Robbie Gold, Tyler Higbee, Darius Slayton, Ryan Tannehill, Seahawks. I think just one more time because I haven't said this this week and maybe it was said enough yesterday, but I was able to get DeAndre Washington in four leagues. I basically threw everything I had at him. And as long as Josh Jacobs is out this week, he's not just like somebody you can start because you picked him up off the waiver wire.

I think he's a top 12 running back. Yeah, Jamie said the same exact thing. All right, we got a few things to promote. Our Facebook giveaway, the biggest lesson you learned this season. So some that we've gotten so far from Ty, drafting the tight ends right after the big three is just about the riskiest thing you can do. Yeah, that group didn't turn out so well.

And I hope if you drafted Hunter Henry, I hope you kept him through his injury. From Jimmy, never, ever, ever waiting too long to draft a second quarterback in a two-quarterback league. Yeah, I'm not sure. This year, I guess maybe. But overall, I don't necessarily agree with that. I don't like to wait too long to draft my third quarterback

in a two-quarterback league. So I guess, yeah, I guess if that... I guess I like to wait too long to draft my third quarterback in a two-quarterback league. So I guess, yeah. I guess I can't wait too long. That doesn't really make sense. Okay, I agree with you, Jimmy. Don't wait too long to draft a second quarterback or a third quarterback. And if you want to win a million dollars, you can go to cbssports.com

slash parlay and play the parlay pick'em. You're picking games and you're winning some money. Parlay pick'em at cbssports.com slash parlay. Hey, let's do a quick round of Fantasy Feud. You're picking games and you're winning some money. Parlay Pick'em at cbssports.com slash parlay. Hey, let's do a quick round of Fantasy Feud. You guys ready? Oh, yeah. Okay, just one round. Let's do it. The top

five answers are on the board. You have to say your name to, you know, buzz in. Give me the top... There's actually six answers. There's a tie at fifth place. Top five running backs in yards per carry, minimum 100 carries. Heath. Heath.

Devin Singletary. He is number two. Ben, you have a chance for the number one answer. Derrick Henry. That is incorrect. He's number five. Heath, would you like to pass or play? So we've got two and five off the board?

Yeah. Let's play. Okay. We're looking for the top five running backs in yards per carry. Minimum 100 carries. Devin Singletary and Derek Henry are off the board. Heath, what do you got? Raheem Mostert?

That is correct. He is the number one answer. Good job. Who else? I don't know if this guy has enough carries, but Matt Breida. Dude, you're on fire. He's the number three answer. Mostard, Singletary, Breida, Blank, Derrick Henry, and Blank. I love that I know...

Josh Jacobs. Josh Jacobs is incorrect oh i got oh he gets a couple he gets three yeah it's two more i i don't think i'm going to get the last two is the problem i don't think ben is either that's the good um um minimum 100 carries got five seconds five seconds four three two austin eckler one more yards let's just like i would feel stupid if i didn't guess him so i'll just say christian mccaffrey good job okay he's tied with tied with Eric Henry at five yards per carry. Someone is averaging 5.1 yards per carry. He is fourth on the list.

It's not Mostert, Singletary, Brita, Henry, or McCaffrey. It must be five, four, three. Melvin Gordon. No, you know what? I'm not counting that. Melvin Gordon. I'm not counting that. It's not Melvin Gordon. All right, Ben, the I'm not counting that. Melvin Gordon. I'm not counting that. It's not Melvin Gordon.

All right, Ben, the board is yours. Who's the number four? I have two guesses. You said I wasn't going to get it, so I have two really good guesses. All right, I want you to say both of them, and then I want you to pick the one that you're going to officially go with. So I'm thinking Gus Edwards and Duke Johnson are two guys. I'm not sure if either even is at 100 carries yet,

but they're two guys that I think have been very efficient and would be off the radar a little bit. But I'm going to go Duke Johnson. Oh, incorrect. You should have gone with Gus Edwards. He would have been wrong anyway because it's Nick Chubb. But no, Gus Edwards actually is up there, but I don't think he has 100 carries. By the way, everything is still turning up Heath.

95 carries. That was my best performance ever. That was very good. That was super impressive. You can tell that you look at your earthwork when you project each week. I mean, like, I was impressed by – I pulled up Devin Singletary and Ricky Mostert. You've been regressing every week. I wasn't surprised that Mostert was number one.

What surprised me is Devin Singletary is averaging 5.6 yards per carry, and he's got a tough matchup against the Steelers. Is Devin Singletary matchup proof at this point? I wouldn't call him matchup proof because there's a couple of different things going against him. One, the Steelers are pretty good against the run so that and he too he's going to regress he's not going average 5.6 for the entire season and if he does he won't do it again next year um and then three it's also i think last i saw this game had an over under of like 36 and a half one of the lowest of

the season and i think vegas is probably right on that. There won't be many points. So touchdown odds are low, hurts the yards. He's definitely starting DeAndre Washington over him. Non-PPR, I'm probably starting Adrian Peterson over him. Whoa. Well, Peterson's got the Eagles. He's not going to really be able to run against them. He's going to get 20 carries.

Yeah, but Singletary will probably get close to 20 touches. He could. You know what? The thing is, Peterson might be more likely to score a touchdown because you got that stinking Frank Gore guy at the goal line, although I predicted on Sunday that's not happening anymore after that huge failure. But that's obviously just a gut feeling. Injuries, news, and

notes. Lamar Jackson's going to play. We're previewing that game later. You know, two of the toughest calls might be Mark Ingram and Le'Veon Bell this week. Not easy in this matchup on Thursday. Mike Evans out for the season. Alshon Jeffrey out for the season. Marvin Jones out for the season. Darius

Geis, sprained MCL, out for the season. Auden Tate out for the season. Le'Ve sprained MCL out for the season. Auden Tate out for the season. Le'Veon Bell wants more touches and he bowled a 251. Ben Gretsch, what is your bowling high score? I believe it was a 191 or 192.

When I was like a teenager, I used to bowl a little bit. Have you ever bowled, Adam, two games combined that totaled 251? Oh, yeah. Not consecutively, but maybe. Actually, yeah, probably. I usually bowl, if I bowl three frames, I'll bowl like in the 90s. It'll be embarrassing.

And then I'll bowl like around 120 after that, something like that. But I need one game to get going. How about you, Heath? You're bowling high? It's not 190. I would guess it's somewhere around 150, but I really don't know. Yeah, I think mine's about 151. So I'm up ahead of you.

And I didn't realize when you mentioned what a tough week this is for Bell and Ingram, this is like the Ben Gretsch Bowl. Trap? It's like you buy low back versus the sell high back. One of them's a trap back. Philadelphia right tackle Lane Johnson's week to week, and Carson Wentz a lot better with Lane Johnson, and Alshon Jeffrey, by the way.

So he'll be interesting with a good matchup at Washington. Hit him. Yeah. Jameis Winston expected a start this week. You feel good about him this week with a broken hand at Detroit? He's fine. Okay. There's only one guy that was available that you're considering,

and it's Tannehill. And I have those two in one league, but it's a bonus for 300-yard league, so I'll probably just still start Jameis. But they're right back-to-back in my rankings. Mark Andrews is going to play. James Conner expected a practice this week. And from what I read on Twitter,

he thinks that the Patriots should have to forfeit the week this week against the Bengals. Is that right? I did see that on Twitter. You said that on Twitter, I think. I did say that on Twitter. I think you said that. See, say.

And maybe I'm wrong. Maybe they'll do an investigation and it was all just an accident that the Patriots were doing the same thing again. Yeah, maybe. And probably have been ever since they did it the first time. I did see that on Twitter. It was under my name. Maybe just take some draft picks away.

That's led to them stopping this behavior in the past. I think that – I'm not even going to let you respond to this. I'm just going to say it. I'm going to leave it out there. We're going to move on to our next topic. I think that Major League Baseball should strip the Houston Astros

of their 2017 World Series Championship. Week 15, tough calls. All right. Ryan Tannehill. So, Jamie was saying he's got him, he had him fourth.

Does he still have him fourth? He does. Dave has Tanneill eighth heath has tannahill where seventh yeah he's not a tough call he's a he's a consensus top eight guy ben you agree start brian tannahill yeah i mean if you want to make the case against him he's thrown for under 200 yards i think three times in the seven starts he's been really relying on touchdowns he has multiple tds in every single game, including rushing touchdowns.

I think he's going to be fine. I mean, I think they can throw on Houston. And again, I mean, A.J. Brown is probably the greatest receiver that ever played in the NFL, I think. We can crown him. So, you know, when you're thrown to that kind of talent, yeah, I mean, you got to start at the guy. Here's another guy who apparently, based on on the rankings is not a tough call.

Josh Allen. Is he just a straight up sit at Pittsburgh? Sit him. Okay. Yeah, I'm sitting him. Pittsburgh. The first two weeks of the season,

they gave up 31 and 30 points to Brady and Wilson. Since then, Hoyer had 20 Mayfield at 25 with a rushing touchdown. Everyone else has been pretty junky. Um, Russell Wilson, tough call. I think he's a tough call at Carolina because you know Chris Carson should have a huge game. And Wilson scored 20 or fewer fantasy points in six of his last seven games

and just hasn't really been the same. And Tyler Lockett's been bad. So, Ben, what do you think about Wilson this week at Carolina? He's always tough because we know that he has a really low floor and i wouldn't mind sitting him especially against a team that has such a bad run defense if chris carson gets rolling i think that and i expect that he will against this run defense you you definitely can get one of those games or wilson only throws 20 22 passes but But if Carolina gets out in front, then all of a sudden Wilson

has a massive ceiling because they'll lean on him to throw. He throws 35 times in comeback mode and that's when he blows up. I can definitely see sitting him. I think this matchup leans more towards the run game for them. Heath, where do you have Wilson? Two. What? I'm starting him.

Wow. The thing is, I don't necessarily disagree with some of the things that Ben said, except Ben's supposed to be making the argument that Russell Wilson can win you a week. I'm not going to sit a player that can win me a week in the fantasy playoffs. He may have lost you six of the last seven weeks. This is a game where Seattle has an implied total of like 27. They're going to score a bunch of points. Their defense has not been very good lately.

I don't think the defense is going to be very good going across the country to play against Carolina. They're going to give up some points. This might be one of those games where he only throws 30 passes, but they go for 270 yards and three touchdowns. Okay, how about Dak Prescott against the Rams? This is a really interesting game because Will was talking about this could be a shootout.

This could be kind of Saints 49ers-like. But the Rams have a pretty good defense. Then again, so do the Saints and the 49ers. And Dak has basically needed that pass volume in the last two games against Buffalo and Chicago to have these frantic fourth quarter rallies where he's put up respectable fantasy numbers. But he's thrown 46 to 49 passes in four of his last five games because the

Cowboys defense is sort of falling apart. Then again, I don't really trust Jared golf that much. He's had a bad year unless he's had a great matchup. So how do we feel about Dak Ben you have the first word against the Rams I agree with you that's a really interesting game I mean we saw good things from the Rams this this past week they look like they are getting things figured out on offense against Seattle Dallas hasn't looked great but they have been obviously

a very good offense all year so we could see that back and forth type of shootout the thing I'll note about your point with Dak racking up some garbage time production we see plenty of teams that don't necessarily push the ball down the field as much even as they are trying to come back his vertical passing game has been there all season and and he's been right at the top of the league in average throw depth and air yards so we like the cowboys of old weren't that aggressive when they fell behind they used to check down and still go to elliot and keep running it uh at least we know he has that upside if they trail and if they get ahead he's probably going to be a big a big part of them getting ahead yeah i like him i mean i think he's a high level fantasy quarterback right

now that i trust i I'm starting him. Okay. So would you start Baker Mayfield at Arizona, or is that a home game? What? Baker at Arizona. They make everyone look good. Baker Mayfield has scored fewer fantasy points per game than Marcus Mariota this year.

We do not need to talk about Baker Mayfield, no matter who he's facing. Mitchell Trubisky or Dak Prescott? Dak, but I do like Trubisky. Is Matt Ryan a tough call at San Francisco, Heath? I don't want to start Matt Ryan at San Francisco. I know the 49ers just got blasted by Drew Brees, and they've had some struggles with running quarterbacks recently.

Brees was the first pocket passer to do it. It was at Coors Field, I mean, the Superdome. So I think you just kind of watch that one away, pretend like it didn't happen. I don't want to start Ryan outdoors against that defense. No Calvin Ridley for Matt Ryan, but no Dee Ford and no Richard Sherman for the 49ers. They've played two games already without Dee Ford,

and they were terrific in both of them. They beat Green Bay 37-8. They lost at Baltimore 20-17, but we know they played very well in that game, so that hasn't mattered, but maybe Sherman will. Ryan just hasn't really been great. If he didn't have that 90-plus-yard passing touchdown, he doesn't have a very good game against the Panthers,

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are they easy starts? Are they tough calls? Heath, Joe Mixon against New England. Mixon has basically had tough matchup after tough matchup recently, and he's mostly come out of it fine. Start or sit Mixon? I think you're probably starting Mixon. Like there are some situations where it could be a tough call.

He's a top 24 running back for me in both formats. I love the increased usage. Andy Dalton being back helps him because teams at least have some fear of the pass. And you've been able to run against the Patriots a little bit. You just haven't been able to run into the end zone. So if I picked up DeAndre Washington, I would absolutely start him over Joe Mixon. But other than that, there's probably not anyone I would absolutely start him over Joe Mixon. But other than that, there's probably not anyone that you're adding and starting over Mixon.

I always wonder at this time of year if the playoff teams might not be starting Joe Mixon. They might be loaded. They might have two top 10. There's no way to know. I could start Eckler over him. Even in non-PPR? Yeah. Okay.

Because he's not a great option this week. That's what I'm saying. How about, Ben, Philip Lindsay at Kansas City? Chiefs give up the second most fantasy points to running backs, five yards per carry to running backs, second most receiving yards to running backs. Oddly enough,

Lindsay was really bad against Kansas City in the first meeting, but what do you think about Phillip Lindsey? Yeah, I think he's a fine option, but not like an exciting one. He has a couple of catches the last couple games, but they've mostly been design plays. He's still running a lot fewer routes than Royce Freeman.

He's only playing about 50% of the snaps, even though he's massively out-carrying Freeman. We basically have an early down and passing down back situation. So I don't think there's really like upside if they get behind for him to catch four, five, six balls in a game. So you're hoping that that rushing efficiency is there, and you noted that it's a good matchup for that.

But, you know, to me, he's mostly just kind of a fine, fine option, not anything exciting. Let's see. Yeah, I'm... Oh, good. I'm mostly just starting him. But why? He's been, if you're mostly just starting Phil, but if you're most weak, you're losing.

He has not been particularly good from a fantasy perspective recently, but he's getting 18 touches almost every game. He's been an efficient back over his career, and even over this year, just not the last couple of weeks. He is in a high-scoring game against one of the worst run defenses in the league. I would start almost any running back that you told me is probably going to get 18 touches against the Chiefs. Well, he's been involved in three double digit losses, losses by 10 or more points.

He had his best game of the year at Green Bay and then against Kansas City, he was terrible and against Buffalo, he was terrible. So, you know, like, because he doesn't make up for it in the passing game. So he's either going to be awesome or terrible. Well, it's 66% of the time he was terrible. Come on. He's averaging 3.8 yards per carry this year. That's a surprising number to me because I thought he'd be better than that.

Is he? Yeah. Yeah, he is. Miles Sanders at sanders that surprises me as well well now i have to double check because now you're making me feel like i'm wrong but miles sanders i've got a 4.5 on two different sources philip lindsey yes okay does that make you feel better about starting him no not really not really. Why PC for life? It makes me feel stupid. That's what it makes me feel. Yeah, he's averaging 4.5. What is he averaging?

What was that all about? 3.8 over his last three games, maybe. Or four games. Yeah. Maybe. Against AFC West opponents on the road in December. What is 3.8? That's not even on his player page.

How did I get that? It's a really bad job. Yeah, that is. Okay, so anyway, Miles Sanders at Washington with the emergence of Boston Scott while Sanders was cramping. Almost the exact same argument

that I just made for Philip Lindsay I would make for miles Sanders, even with him sharing with Boston Scott last week, he had 19 touches. He's been very efficient so far this season. He's facing, he's facing Washington. I'm just going to start him.

That won't process. Won't always be right, but I don't know how I would ever decide to sit guys with that many things going for them. He's only averaging 3.8 yards per carry. He's averaging. That's not yards per carry. He's averaging. That's not true. 4.3 yards per carry.

I didn't think it was. Is Aaron Jones a tough call? Let's go to the next one here. Ben, is Aaron Jones a tough call against the Bears coming off 22 touches and a huge game against Washington? No, I don't think so. I don't think he's a tough call. We've seen him take a little bit more of the backfield over the last couple of weeks. We know they're going

to split a little bit. One of the really positive signs last week, though, was he actually got some targets down the field, a few air yards. He hasn't had any since Devontae Adams has been back. His cumulative four-game stretch has been negative air yards. He's only getting targets at or around the line of scrimmage, whereas prior to Devontae Adams returning, he was getting some downfield targets, and that's why he had a really big boom, like a three-week receiving boom right there in the middle of the season.

So he got some of those downfield targets last week back. It's nice to see that they're still thinking about that, and they might still be using that in their offense. That really helps his upside. All right, last one is Devontae Freeman. i'll give you excuse me the first word here against the 49ers who allow the third fewest fantasy points to running backs and the second fewest receiving yards to running backs now the last two games davante freeman has faced the panthers who give up the fewest receiving yards to running backs and the saints who give up the fewest receiving yards to running backs, and the Saints, who give up the eighth fewest.

And in those two games, he had four catches for 13 yards against the Saints, four catches for 10 yards against the Panthers. So the Niners are just as good as those teams back better than the Saints at defending pass catching running backs. So keep that in mind. And their run defense is really good too. So Devontae Freeman, 17 carries in two straight games. Ben, would you start or sit Freeman? I'd sit him.

Like, it's easy. I don't think he's a very good fantasy option. They haven't had, like, I look at team-level stuff for running backs a lot. As a team, they just have not had a lot of running back production, even when Freeman was out of the lineup. There might be some receiving production here. He scored his first rushing touchdown of the year last year against Carolina who gives up rushing touchdowns to everyone San Francisco doesn't so yeah I mean I expect Atlanta will throw a lot and he could catch some passes but I don't want to play him I don't know like what

what about him is inspiring I pretty much agree in non-PPR like I'm starting almost everyone over him in PPR he's a tough decision for me I've got him as a borderline start but again it's not I do agree he doesn't have a ton of upside I would rather start Patrick Laird in PPR than Freeman well he hasn't got receiving yards he still has

gotten four catches in two straight games and he is averaging 3.6 yards per carry and i am sure about that this season one more guy because we have to bring him up every wednesday show so ben can tell heath how wrong he is and um john brown at pittsburgh uh so is john brown i don't even know if that's a i don't even know that's a fair way to characterize john brown because i don't think he's crazy for liking him think he's crazy for liking him. He's crazy for liking him as much as he does.

How high in your top five is John Brown this week? John Brown, again, I'm on a sliding scale with everyone else. Everyone else dropped him back into the 30s, so I have dropped him back to 21st overall. I've got to let him know that I still love him. So I've got to say at least 10 spots ahead of everyone else. He's at Pittsburgh, who appear to be really bad. I brought this up on yesterday's show against the inside

receivers. Jarvis Landry, Tyler Boyd, Landry again, Robert Woods, Zach Paschal, who, as Ben Gretsch helped me out with yesterday, does move inside a lot. Christian Kirk, who moves inside so that seems to be decided he doesn't move inside you said he he plays you said he does both you say he's an outside receiver who moves inside so a little bit he doesn't really move inside yeah just he it moves in like a little bit but not he's an outside

most outside receivers play the slot a little bit okay so that's so you're saying i think you said as much as as most outside receivers or something which i guess is not a lot i i could bring up the quote here um he he moves inside as much as the next guy that's what you said but the next guy just doesn't move inside that much that was that was a terrible job, Ben. I sent him the snap count. I sent him a screenshot. You should not be able to look at that stuff. Sum it up. I'm pretty sure I clarified in that email that he's an

outside receiver and moves inside as much as the next guy. What does that mean to me? That means he moves inside. He's not the slot guy. I also mentioned all the slot guys they've had. He's not a slot guy. I also mentioned all the slot guys they've had. He's not a slot guy. I mentioned Chester Rogers and Paris Campbell. So, Ben, is there any chance you would start John Brown?

That I would start John Brown? I mean, the volume is still there, right? And I think he definitely has boom potential. It's just that Josh Allen's not a very consistent passer. It's not really there. It's like four targets, four targets, eight targets in his last three games. It was there last week. I should say the team share of the volume.

He's still clearly their lead receiver. I mean, I know Beasley's coming on a little bit, but he's still the guy that dominates, especially the air yards. And he has plenty of upside because of that. Would you start outside receiver Zach Paschal, A.J. Brown, or John Brown? I would start A.J. Brown. I'm serious. I'm not just saying that. I would start A.J. Brown, or John Brown? I would start A.J. Brown. I'm serious. I'm not just saying that.

I would start A.J. Brown. I think a lot of people would. A.J. Brown, John Brown, or Paschal? Yeah. I would go A.J. Brown, John Brown, Paschal in non-PPR. I might start John Brown over A.J. Brown in PPR just because I think he'll catch a few more passes. All righty.

Jets are at the Ravens. Let's preview this game here. Okay. Quarterback is easy. Sam Darnold sit. Lamar Jackson. Heath, do you have any hesitation at all because of the quad injury? If he is active, he is in my starting lineup. Is he not your number one quarterback or would you start? He is

my number one quarterback. Okay. By the way, your stat of the game, and this really is relevant for Mark Andrews. I think this explains his sort of struggles, at least in yards. First seven games of the year, Baltimore had a bye in week eight. First seven games of the year, Lamar Jackson averaged 30.7 pass attempts per game. Since the bye, six games, he's averaging 22 pass attempts per game.

So that's why it's hard to trust marquise brown it's hard to trust mark andrews sometimes he does score a lot but the yards are down all right so with the jets it's funny because okay the big reason for that is they're blowing people out right like they've won in that six games stretch they've won probably three or four games by 30 points yeah and and they might win this game – they honestly might win by 25 or more points. I mean that's a distinct possibility. So let's talk about Le'Veon Bell. And I think the first thing you should know about Le'Veon Bell is where he ranks on a per-game basis in both formats.

In non-PPR, he's 22nd this year. In PPR, he's 14th. Does that sound like a reasonable ranking for him this week? Heath? Um, I, that's really close to where I have him ranked in non PPR. I don't think I have him that high in PPR.

Okay. So what do you think about Le'Veon Bell? I think, you know, look, he gets a good amount of touches. He has four and a half catches per game, and that's pretty consistent.

But I just think that everyone is going to look at every jet and think, gosh, they could be horrible this week. What do you think? I do think he had a three-game stretch without Darnold where he averaged seven catches per game and had like 23 targets in those seven games. He had one other game with Darnold where he caught eight passes.

The rest of the games he's played with Darnold, I mean, it's been four, five, two, four, three, one, one. It's not quite the same involvement as four to five catches per week would lead you to believe. Right. Okay. But his last five games have all been with Darnold. He's had eight, four, two, five, four catches.

So in my mind, I'm thinking four catches. Right. Also, I need to point out, the Ravens' run defense has not been great last six games. The teams that they have faced, here's the yards per carry that they've had, 4.35. That was New England, one of the worst run teams in the league. 3.6, 6.5, 3.1, 6.3, 4.5.

So a little up and down there. Yeah, but I just don't know how much it matters with the Jets. Like Le'Veon Bell averaged 3.8 against the Dolphins and 3.2 against the Bengals. They can't run the ball, no question. No.

So give me some running backs or wide receivers would you start A.J. Brown or Le'Veon Bell? I would start A.J. Brown I mean I would start A.J. Brown I think at PPR I'd start Bell

that was a great, great choice, Adam. I don't know. He'll probably catch one more pass than A.J. Brown, but I think their catch total is probably, he might be like minus 140 to catch more passes than A.J. Brown. Would you like to know how Bell has done in blowout losses? Here are his PPR fantasy points in the games. Can't we just read his season stats?

That the Jets have lost by 14 or more points. 20 in week one, but 9, 15, 8, 6, 10. So in four of six games that they've lost by 14 or more points, he's scored 10 or fewer PPR fantasy points. He's got some serious downside. So obviously you pick up DeAndre Washington, you start him over him. But Raheem Mostert or Le'Veon Bell?

Mostert, non-PPR, Bell, and PPR. I like that. Are there any wide receivers that you'd start over Le'Veon Bell in this game? Ravens or Jets? No. You're not taking Robbie Anderson over Bell? I am not.

I am not starting any Jets. Like, Le'Veon Bell is my favorite Jet, and I'm not really starting him. I just don't want any part of the Jets. Yeah. I mean, I agree with both you guys. Adam said it at the top too this team has just such so much downside it's like i i know i was high on levy on bell as uh as he alluded to a

little bit ago as like a buy load in the middle of the season his workload was great this offense has been horrible you can't trust any of these guys and like i don't i said that i wasn't total it wasn't like a mocking thing because he had a good stretch against some bad opponents. But that's over. They aren't playing bad teams anymore. And they're not good enough to play with good teams. All right. So a wide receiver has had 80 yards or a touchdown in all but one game

since Jimmy Smith returned. So that's six games. And so it's not like you can't have a good performance against the Ravens secondary. It's tough. But you're not trusting Robbie Anderson. I am not. All right.

So Lamar Jackson's the number one quarterback. I think he's two for Dave, one for Jamie and Heath. We'll get to Mark Ingram in a second. Can we just... No Hollywood Brown, right? No Willie Sneed? Correct. What about Mark Andrews?

How do you feel about him this week? We don't have him ranked yet. I think we probably will today, depending on what his injury designation is. I don't feel great about it. The Jets have weirdly been really good against tight ends. I think second or third in the league against tight ends. He'd be right around eight for me in my rankings.

I don't think I could start him over Tyler Higbee if Gerald Everett was still out. Oh yeah. But you know, it's a Thursday game. So, you know, if you had to make that,

I've not seen any indication that like, if Gerald Everett has practiced by Thursday, it is weird. Like Jamal Adams might play in this game, by the way. He'll be a game-time decision. I don't know if that really makes a difference. It is weird that the Jets have been so good against tight ends. They haven't faced a lot of great ones,

but they did really well against Wiccicchi last week. One catch for six yards on five targets. They did very well against Darren Waller. 41 yards on six targets. Andrew's just fine. He has a knack for the end zone. So you're saying you'd start Higby over him. Would you start David Njoku against the Cardinals or Mark Andrews?

No, I'm not doing that thing. Okay. He didn't play very much at all. No, the Arizona tight end thing is officially dead until they play a tight end with a pulse. Would you start Ian Thomas or Mark Andrews? Probably Andrews, but it's really, really close. That's a good one.

All right, Ben, let's talk about Mark Ingram against the best run defense in football. He's had some really good games against some really good matchups. Matchups don't seem to matter as I was looking at Mark Ingram's game log. So start or sit, Mark Ingram, would you rather have Bell or Ingram? matchups matchups don't seem to matter as i was looking at mark ingram's game log so start or sit mark ingram would you rather have bell or and the reason for that we've talked about it quite a few times with respect to ingram is lamar jackson right like the threat of him pulling on those uh you know those read options uh is holding everyone on the outside it opens up the

lanes in the middle and that's something that's borne out in the stats over the course of several seasons that running quarterbacks efficient running quarterbacks help the efficiency of their of their running backs and that's something that uh we should expect be extremely true when that running quarterback is lamar jackson who is maybe the best running quarterback ever like i mean he's that good uh so yeah i i'm not concerned about the matchup with Mark Ingram. I think you can expect him to still be pretty efficient because they're going to have to respect Lamar Jackson's rushing ability as well. Heath, any running backs that you'd start over Mark Ingram this week

that might be surprising to some people? I'm going to try to set the record for saying DeAndre Washington's name the most times in one podcast. DeAndre Washington. Yeah, I see you have Miles Sanders ahead of him. Yeah. All right. I should also note, though, I mean, I'm not making a huge adjustment on their defense, but Ingram has really only been really good when he had multiple touchdowns.

He's done that four times this year. He's had four really good games. He's had plenty of low floor games. Last week, I think he had 10.9 PPR points. It was only his fifth lowest total. He has, I think, four games in single digits. So, I do think you can sit him. I mean, I just don't think you should sit him because of the matchup, necessarily.

I don't... You could sit him. I just don't really... I don't want to unless I have a great option. He's a good option. Five games with seven or fewer non-PPR fantasy points. So, four games with 19 or more, five games with seven or fewer, four games with 9- fewer non-PPR fantasy points. So four games with 19 or more, five games with seven or fewer, four games with nine to 13 non-PPR fantasy points. All right, I don't know if you answered this,

but Le'Veon Bell or Mark Ingram? Ingram. In both formats? Yeah, I mean, this really is a great question for me. I would almost always, in PPR, lean towards the guy who plays every snap for his team, catches the passes. Mark Ingram still shares work with Gus Edwards, but I still think you have to play Ingram here. I mean, you have to assume that they're going to lead their huge home favorites.

And you want running backs in situations where they're huge home favorites and expected to win, rack up rushing yards and potentially have plenty of scoring opportunities if those arise. So I think you have to play Ingram even though it goes against every bone in my body based on the types of touches these backs get. Well, that would be the Jets and the Baltimore Ravens. Should be an ugly start to Week 15. That's going to be a blowout for sure. All right, guys. So unfortunately, we have to eliminate our Dynasty segment for today.

I'm very sorry. I wanted to tell people why Garrett Cole had lost so much value in the last 24 hours. Oh, you have got to be kidding me. That's ridiculous. J-Hap, Sonny Gray? You really think so? You really think? You don't think that he is my first i found my first 2020 fantasy baseball bust garrett cole good i found uh the first thing i get to make fun of you about after the 2020 fantasy baseball season um let me talk to you about zip

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Is Powell the cop? Who's Powell? McClain's got to be John McClain. Well, these are diehard. Is this a movie? Well, Hans Gruber. Yeah, diehard. Powell? Who's Powell? McClain's got to be John McClain. Well, these are diehard. Is this a movie? Well, Hans Gruber. Yeah, diehard. Powell.

Who is Powell? I think Powell is the cop. Welcome to the party, Powell. That's not what he says. Half PPR. I need to start two. Ingram. Singletary.

Lindsey. Laird. McCoy. DeAndre Washington. He's going to say Washington for sure. Yes, he is. Washington is the best player on this list. Half PPR? I'd go Lindsey.

I think I'd go Lindsey and Ingram over Washington. I'd go Washington and Ingram. Oh, okay. Not Singletary. All right. From Garrett. No, Singletary, no. Subject line, 29% snap rate for Cooper Cup.

Body of the email. Should we be worried? Really interesting thing I found in stealing signals with this. He actually ran routes on 52% of dropbacks. Their personnel was really heavily run pass split josh reynolds played way more snaps and actually ran fewer routes he was out there for run blocking mostly and he didn't even have a target he did have three rush attempts josh reynolds so cup yeah it's not good but he's still probably going to be out there for a lot of the pass attempts he's he's golf's favorite receiver i think he can still start him the upside is not going to be same, but much better when you look at his

routes. Kup or Ingram this week? In PPR, I'm playing Kup over Ingram. Yeah, in PPR I probably am too. In non-PPR, it's Ingram and it's not particularly close. By the way, bold prediction. Mark Ingram has two catches for

30 to 40 yards against the Jets. Is that a bold prediction? I have a statistical basis for that. Well, he has 30 to 40 receiving yards against the Jets. That's my prediction, my projection. Jacob and Santa Clara. Tom Brady. Are you going to share the statistical basis?

We don't have time, but basically, his production in the passing game against teams that are similar to the Jets in how many yards they give up to running backs and receiving yards, that's what I'm projecting. Okay, 16-team league, Tom Brady.

Should I start Brady against the Bengals? Should I start Minshew? Drew Locke. Oh, is this for week 16? Oh, it's for next week. Brady against Buffalo or Minshew at Atlanta, Drew Locke against Detroit, Dalton at Miami, Trubisky against the Chiefs.

I don't know. It's not going to be Brady. I am not starting Brady against the Bills. No way. Tom Brady's Tom Brady's probably last uh I wouldn't do Locke Locke's been thrown underneath a ton I don't love Minshew at Atlanta for me it's kind of between Dalton and Trubisky I don't know what are you thinking I am I like I have Minshew and Trubisky very similar this week.

Um, I like Minshew. One more bad game would change my evaluation of him a lot. He still has more good games than bad games. So like he is someone, if he had a good game this week against the Raiders, I'd probably just go with Minshew. Cause I like him the most right now. Okay.

Uh, you've got some options there, but it's not going to be Brady from Chris Rogers, Wentz or Tannehill this week? Oh, Tannehill. Tannehill is the only quarterback in this group in my top 15. From Pat, four-point-per-passing touchdown leagues, Kyler Murray or Ryan Tannehill?

I want to play Kyler in that situation. I have Kyler projected for more fantasy points and four points for past touchdown leagues. I'm going with Kyler Murray. Okay. Nice. Jeremy from somewhere in northeast Oklahoma. No idea.

Oh, Hooker. Okay. Somehow I scraped a first round by in my state. Don't call us names. I scraped a first round by in my 12-team standard scoring league, but I have Ridley and Evans, so pick two of these options. DeeDee Westbrook, Alan Hearns, Curtis Samuel, Brashad Perryman, Randall Cobb.

Oh, well, DeeDee's got to be one of them, right? Standard league? It's not PPR. Didi stands out, but if it's not... Well, I think Bershad Perryman's a decent option. There's a lot of air yards opening up in that Tampa offense. You know they want to chuck it down the field. He's a guy that could definitely hit some splash plays.

I'd go Didi and Hearns. Didi and Hearns. Didi and Perryman, you're saying? I'll say Didi and Perrymans. Didi and Hearns. Didi and Paramin, you're saying? I'll say Didi and Paramin, yeah. Okay. And Curtis Samuel is sort of interesting because he catches a lot of touchdowns. And they have Seattle. If Ian Thomas is going to see targets, Curtis Samuel is falling way down that target totem pole, right?

Christian McCaffrey, DJ Moore have been huge focal points, and now Ian Thomas is getting 10 targets? Maybe Curtis Samuel hasn't fallen down the target priority. He was just never as high as everybody hoped that he was. Maybe. There you go. I think he's in the same place he's always been. Well, he doesn't have the same quarterback he had last year,

so that could be part of it. He wasn't. From Mason, look,'t. From Mason. Look, you've already made a terrible call on Garrett Cole, and you are the commissioner of that stinking league, so you're done. I've been helping my brother's team, and now that it's playoffs, he's going rogue and playing Emmanuel Sanders over Julio Jones. How do I convince him to play Julio over Emmanuel Sanders,

or do I let him ride with Sanders? I want to know where his ranking's falling. I would play Julio. But I don't. I want to know where he's rankings fall in this. I would play Julio, but I, I don't, I would play who want to fade Sanders. Um, in non PPR,

I have Julio 13th and Emmanuel Sanders 14th. Yeah. And PPR, I've got Julio ninth and Sanders 15th. So I don't think it's all that crazy. No, it's not crazy. Without COVID, it's not, I don't think it's all that crazy. No, it's not crazy. It's a tough matchup for Julio.

I don't know if it is, though, because Richard Sherman's not playing. Not that Sherman was going to shadow him. All right, guys. Let's go rapid fire here. Josh from a city in Arkansas. Matt Ryan. That one's easy.

Go with Tannehill. So how about this? Pick two of these three. Edelman, Julio, and Godwin. PPR. Sit Julio. No, that one's easy. Go with Tannehill. So how about this? Pick two of these three. Edelman, Julio, and Godwin. PPR. Sid Julio. Okay, from Angie. Higby or Waller this week? I'm playing Waller, I think, but that's close.

Yep. They're back-to-back, but I would play Waller. Craig, a lifelong supporter of CBS Fantasy Sports. Non-PPR league, DK Metcalf or Darius Slayton? I'm going Slayton. I've got him as a top 20 wide receiver this week. It wasn't just last week.

He has been their target leader for the last month. And the fact that he was with Eli Manning, the one concern I have with Eli is I don't think Eli wants to get hit at this stage in his career. The dolphins can't put any pressure on him. So I think he'll have time to look for Slayton deep. And so I think Slayton's their number one wide receiver. Okay.

Metcalf is safer. Metcalf is like, seems to be like a 70 yard kind of guy. Slayton has some horrible games in there, but okay. From Jack Cole Beasley, Nelson Aguilar or Raheem Mostert PPR. 70-yard kind of guy. Slayton has some horrible games in there. Okay, from Jack, Cole Beasley, Nelson Aguilar or Raheem Mostert, PPR?

Mostert. Yes. It could be Aguilar. Yeah, Mostert. Yeah, Aguilar still may not play, but boy, is he going to be interesting if he does. From Frank, Kareem Hunt or Joe Mixon, PPR? I like Hunt.

Yeah, it's rare that I would project a guy with 12 touches to be better than a guy with 20 touches, but I would go with Kareem Hunt. From Alf, could you bench Alvin Kamara for Mostert or Mixon? No.

No, but in non-PPR, I would bench Alvin Kamara for Mostert or Mixon? No. No. But in non-PPR, I would bench Alvin Kamara for DeAndre Washington. From Titus, I have the Bills DST. What other streamers might I consider in Week 16? Sorry. Week 16

DSTs? I'll look that up. It's like you have Miami versus Cincinnati, and you have the Giants versus Washington in Week 16. It's like four offenses you want to target are all playing four terrible defenses and i i am looking at that houston is playing jamis if like if you are in a league where the total yards and points you give up don't matter near as much as the turnovers and sacks tampa bay is a great team dude start the bills like the patriots offense is terrible start the thing is

legitimately terrible start the bills uh but you can start that's a great call again depends on what type of league i don't think they'll get a lot of sacks and interceptions or turnovers they may hold them to few yards and few points points. It really depends on your scoring. You don't have to run away from the Bills. From Andrew, Tyler Boyd or DeeDee Westbrook? Boyd against the Patriots or Westbrook against the Raiders? DeeDee by a country mile.

It's not that far for me. It's close for me. A regular mile. From Iron Mike. We're going with Deed uh baker kyler kyler by two country miles from dylan how startable was beckham great matchup against the cardinals but awful situation

i mean they're talking about how he's like super unhealth like baker mayfield came out and said he's super unhealthy it was handled poorly this that and the other thing like i you can't think of him like he's odell beckham right now like anthony miller darius slayton debo samuel dd westbrook john brown aj brown zach paschal no i would start all of those wide receivers over odell beckham this week it's the cardinals the cardinals make a lot of bad wide receivers over Odell Beckham this week. Yes! It's the Cardinals. The Cardinals make a lot of bad wide receivers look great. But do they make the team's number two wide receiver great? Because he is clearly the number two wide receiver in Cleveland.

And Kareem Hunt might be the number two. He might be the number three behind Kareem Hunt as well. He might be the number three wide receiver. I think you might be running into a little bit of a trap with Anthony Miller, by the way. Just saying. Okay. Do you think bit of a trap with Anthony Miller, by the way. Just saying. Okay. Do you think it's a trap?

It could be. It could be. The Packers are the best pass defense he has faced, or will be the best pass defense he has faced in this recent stretch. He had, what, three or four catches in the last game? You're lucky he scored. He played the Giants and the Lions, and he lit them up. Mitchell Schubisky does not throw the ball downfield. So he's probably just going to have a lot of short area catches.

I think one point of clarification, and this probably has something to do with if I am running into a trap, you said the Packers have the best pass defense he has faced recently. And I think in terms of fantasy points, that might be true. They've allowed 7.9 yards per attempt to opposing quarterbacks this season. But in my spreadsheets, that actually gives Anthony Miller and Mitchell Trubisky a boost

because I view this as a good matchup for the Bears passing game. I mean, I brought that up. They do give up a lot of big plays. Will Mitchell Trubisky actually gamble to make big plays? I don't know. You may be seen. My opinion is that yards per attempt allowed at this stage is more predictive than fantasy points allowed,

but I don't know 100% that that's true. Then it probably comes down to attempts also because they might try to run. The Packers have a terrible run defense. So, well, if Taylor Gabriel comes back, you could be in a little bit of trouble. That's all I'm saying. If Taylor Gabriel comes back,

he will not be ranked ahead of Odell Beckham. Anthony Miller won't be correct. Right. Okay. So, uh, let's read a couple more from Brian. Start to non PPR Le'Veon Bell,

David Montgomery, Devin Singletary, non PPR. Ooh, it's Singletary and maybe Montgomery for me. I don't know. What do you got, Heath? I think I would go with Le'Veon and Singletary. I can back that.

They're very, very, very close. Yeah. Last email here. This is actually a tweet from Dustin. How did I lose with Winston Barkley, girly Michael Thomas, Deandre Hopkins, Julio Jones,

and Travis Kelsey. That's, that's a lot of points. You lost that team. Yeah. I had none of those this past week. I have so many teams in semifinals this week that do not belong. And I'm just

going to try to keep writing it. That's what this time of year is all about. Well, I hope you don't consider our team because we belong. We belong. We had a good, strong year. No, I think the guy that scored 2,100 points this year belongs. Okay, so do we. So do we. Okay. Thank you for listening, everybody.

Having commissioner access does not make you the commissioner for heath for ben i'm adam and i get the last word see you tomorrow on fantasy football today thanks commission