Fantasy Football Today - 12/16 BONUS: Mailbag! (Recorded Fri.)

Episode Date: December 16, 2017

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This is Fantasy Football Today from CBS Sports. Here we go! Email us at fantasyfootballatcbsi.com. Here we go! It's time to dominate your fantasy league. Let's go! Now, here's some combination of Adam, Dave, Jamie, and Heath. Welcome to the Saturday Mailbag, everybody.

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It is Saturday morning as people listen, but how are you? I'm looking forward to your dating story, so I can't wait to hear about that. Oh, yeah. There was something I was going to tell you that was inappropriate, but I don't remember what it was. I don't know. Is it more inappropriate than me saying doo-doo on the video show today? That wasn't so bad. Do you think that was bad? No, but I shouldn't have said it. Probably not, but that wasn't so bad.

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sports. So first we'll run through the news and notes, and then we will get to your emails and tweets. I have more emails and tweets in this show than any mailbag in the past, so I want to get as many questions as possible. But the Bengals-Vikings game has the most important injury updates probably, and the Texas Jaguars. Vontaze Burfik, Drake Kirkpatrick out.

Joe Mixon still in the concussion protocol as of Friday afternoon. And Kyle Rudolph is going to miss this game. Who are the players that gain or lose the most value here? Well, I think Giovanni Bernard from the Bengals side of things. I know you said we'll talk about the Jaguars game. I actually dropped Gio to pick up Chris Ivory because he was the most droppable player on my roster if Joe Mixon does return, which it sounds like he's going to.

And I think Stephon Diggs gets a boost because you've seen Kyle Rudolph four touchdowns in the last three games where Diggs has not been able to find the end zone. Had 10 targets last week. I think it sets up for a good matchup for him because of the injuries on the Bengals side of things. Obviously, Adam Thielen is going to be great. And Latavius Murray, I keep moving him up. He's going to be in a potentially awesome fantasy running back this week. Yeah, I don't know that Latavius needed the help,

but it definitely helps. No perfect. And Diggs, have you adjusted your rankings with Diggs? No, I had him 25th. I can't find a way to get him much higher, to be honest with you. Okay, okay. Great. So Diggs is certainly a flex-worthy guy.

Also, news and notes for you. So we go to that Jaguars-Texans game. DeAndre Hopkins and Leonard Fournette both mispracticed on Friday. Hopkins has the toe injury. Fournette, a quad injury. Let's start with Hopkins. Your thoughts there. Well, Bill O'Brien still expects Hopkins to play.

If he plays, you're playing him. I mean, it's too hard to get away from. I'm in a league, the only league where I still have Hopkins. My receivers are, and I play receivers with Flex because of PPR. My receivers are Hopkins, Cooks, Funchess, and Marvin Jones. So I'm lucky enough that I have a good fallback option if Funchess does not play. And I can even make an argument that Jones might be better than – he's the odd man out for me – that he might be better than Hopkins this week.

Wait, you mean if Hopkins doesn't play, you have a fallback option? If Hopkins does not play, I have a fallback option in Marvin Jones. I think you said if Funchess doesn't play. But if Hopkins does play, are you starting Hopkins over Funchess over – well, I mean you don't have to, but in theory. Would you start him over Funchess doesn't play. But if Hopkins does play, are you starting Hopkins over Funchess over... Well, I mean, you don't have to, but in theory. Would you start him over Funchess? Yeah, no. I'm still expecting him to be six to eight catches, even though it's Jacksonville. I'm still expecting around 80 yards receiving. And I always give him the chance to score. Yeah. And he scores almost every week, so it's not a bad chance. As far as Fournette goes,

you picked up Chris Ivory. In the two games that Fournette missed this year, Ivory had 17 carries at Indianapolis, 20 carries against Cincinnati. Two pretty good run defenses at the time. Yeldon had 9 carries and 11 carries in those two games. So you expect it to be sort of the same thing? You get 15 or more carries from Chris Ivory if Fournette's out? I would expect that to be the case. The one thing I think you got to look at is what's the game flow.

Now, you have TJ Yates. You have a banged up DeAndre Hopkins. You have Lamar Miller, who's not great in terms of being a dominant running back. So Jacksonville at home should be able to win this game, right? Yes. And the Houston run defense has been a little bit leaky lately. Yes. So this shapes up as a ground and pound type of game more so than a, oh, bleep, we're chasing points, we need a running back who can catch passes. And so Ivory's been more the ground and pound. Yeldon's been more the guy who catches passes. So while I think Yeldon is not a bad flyer if Four Dead is out,

Ivory would be a must-start option. Okay. All right. There you go. So you'd start him over Geo, obviously, so you'd drop Geo for him. But you would probably use – I'd start him over Mixon, too.

You'd start McKinnon over him, though. McKinnon over who? I'm sorry. Murray. I always do that. Latavius over Ivory. Yeah, but that's about the spot I'd put in my ranking. Really?

Right around 15. All right. All right, cool. I'm just thinking of it right now. I have Latavius Murray, 14. This is standard scoring. Jamal Williams, 15. I might put him ahead of Jamal Williams. Wow, all right.

So he'd be roughly a top 15 running back for Jamie. That'd be Chris Ivory. You know, I just don't know how good he is. Like, I know the work's going to be there. No, I don't know that I disagree. I think I'd start him over Deion Lewis. Oh, that's an easy one for me. Yeah.

Yeah. No, I think it's a good call. He has a pretty good chance to score a touchdown. All right, yeah, pick him up. I picked him up in one league, and he's, I think, 17% owned. So there you go. All right, it's time now for your emails and tweets. And here we go.

From Mark in Hermosa Beach, California. Dear Roman, Kurt. That's where I was. Were you? I wonder if I met Mark. That was when I went to the Old Navy event. Maybe. Was he wearing wrestling gear like WWF, WWE wrestling?

I don't believe so, but if it is the same, if Mark, if we met, it was nice to meet you. Well, he said, Dear Roman, Vince, Kurt, and Jared. And those are wrestlers. Start two. McCaffrey, Davis, Murray, Henry. McCaffrey, Davis, Murray, Henry. Which Davis? Which Murray? I don't know.

Which Henry? Gosh. Wow. Let's go to the next one. Start three. Same guy. Start three. Good start, Adam.

Good start. Thielen, Hill, Didi, Tate. Mark, you know what? Write us back, and Adam will answer your question. Thielen, Hill, Didi, Tate, Juju. Thielen, Hill, Didi, Tate, Juju. Needs how many? Three.

Thielen, Hill,, Tate, Juju. Needs how many? Three. Thielen, Hill, and Tate. Tate over Didi Westbrook? Standard or PPR? That I also don't know. Alright, standard, I'll take Didi. PPR, I'll take Tate. Can I just tell you what I'm doing right now? Finishing up

just crushing a fantasy baseball draft right now. Just crushing it. So basically what you're saying is you're fully engaged to this show. I have two more picks, and then we'll be done. So you're crushing a draft that will never see the light of day. Correct. We're going to talk about it on the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast,

which I recommend to everybody. And, okay, I don't have another pick for 24 more picks. Here we go. From Kyle, Hopkins or Dez? Hopkins. Cam, Rivers or Ben? Ben. I don't have a name on this one.

This is from Mac in McDonald's. Dear Philip, Ian, Carl, and Liam, that's shameless. Great show. Start three out of four, half PPR. So sit one. Jay Ajayi, Christian McCaffrey, Gio, Alf. Sit Gio. Part two.

Of the third. Okay, so you have Ajayi, McCaffrey, and Alf. Would you start that player over Evan Ingram as a flex? Yes. Okay. Here's Tyler from Iowa. Dear Keaton, Clooney, and Affleck. Three guys that I get doppelganger a lot for.

Do you know what George Clooney just did for his friends? Gave 14 friends $1 million. Can you imagine if you were the 15th friend? That's exactly what Conan O'Brien said. I think I heard Jimmy Fallon say that joke. Oh, yeah. Would you imagine, though? Like, what if he actually invited, like, 17 people to dinner that night?

And, like, three people were like, you know, my kid's got a recital. I got a tummy ache. Like, I know he has a lot of money. But he should just give away $14 million? It's more than that, though. He also paid the taxes on it. What? You know, like, if you give people a certain amount of money, you have to pay taxes? It's more than that, though. He also paid the taxes on it. What? You know, like,

if you give people a certain amount of money to pay taxes? It's 300 grand. Per person? Per person. So he basically gave them a million three.

How does he have that much money? I know you have a lot of money. How do you have that much money? He made some sort of investment where he made, like, $600 million on it. Oh, really? All right.

But these people, like, really helped him. That's amazing. Good for him. So, all right. So let's say you came into uh 200 million dollars right yeah do i have to pay taxes on it i just have it you have 200 million dollars uh-huh after taxes yeah how much would you give me dave and he uh fifty thousand dollars Yeah. That's very generous of you. I would take about, I would say like $30 million and just give it away. I would give most to charity. We have, I'm not going to say his name, but there's a guy who we watch games with on Sunday

who's very heavily invested in maybe putting a wager or two down on the sport of the NFL and has the chance to win a million dollars by the end of the season of season-long bets. So we asked him, how much would you give all of us since we watch games with you routinely every Sunday of the million? He said, I would give you guys $1,000 to split. There's about 10 of us. That's great. What are you going to do with your $100 Jamie That's great

I don't know Wow I am really generous good for me So anyway let's get back to the emails here Oh this is from Tyler in Iowa Would you play Robbie Gold Or Harrison Butker I would play Butker

But Gold is a great sleeper this week This is from Drew in New York Dear David, Chris, Tina, and Jerry I hate the ones that I feel like I should know And I don't Dana, Chris, Tina, and Jared Jerry Yeah even Google doesn't know

Alright Your podcast has been great this year. Thank you. I'm in the playoffs, 12-team standard league. Pick one. Carlos Hyde, Alfred Morris, Mike Davis. Carlos Hyde, Alfred Morris, Mike Davis. You like Hyde, right?

All right. Nate from Die Hard is a Christmas Movieville. The place doesn't exist. He says, Dear Young Hickory, Handsome Frank, Tencent, Jimmy, and Big Chief. These are all presidential nicknames. I did not know that. Cool. Yeah, how about that?

Two spots to fill. McCoy, Crabtree, or Alex Collins? Pick two. McCoy and Collins. Dear the Fantasy Best Men. This is from Dave. I'm getting married Saturday. You have to read this.

Hey, all right. Congratulations. Congratulations. Yeah. Two running backs. Half people are. Why were you invited to the wedding? I don't know.

It's kind of messed up. If you got invited to a wedding from one of our podcast listeners within five miles of your house, would you go? I would probably go within 20 miles. 20 miles? Within a 30-minute drive, would you go? I would probably go within like 20 miles. 20 miles. Within a 30-minute drive, I'd go.

Okay. Would you? Would you bring your wife? Of course I'd bring my wife. Would you go? Of course. I like weddings. All right, two running backs, half PPR.

Williams, Ajayi, DeMarco Murray. Just two? Yeah. Yeah,, DeMarco Murray. Just two? Yeah. Yeah, no DeMarco Murray. You know that yesterday – sorry, this is Saturday. So Thursday was the 10-year anniversary of when I got engaged. Oh, cool. Yes, and the end of the month will be the 20th anniversary of my first date with my wife.

20th anniversary of the first date with your wife. Okay, I like it. I'm old. Yeah, you are. Very old. Wow. Okay. I like it. I'm old. Yeah, you are. Very old. Wow. But you have $100. I guess not.

We could have gone on our first date like we were in high school. Yeah. Could have. We didn't, but we could have. All right. What's the story? Tell me the story. All right.

Pick one more running back for Dave who's getting married. Half PPR, Riddick, Alfred Morris, Davis. What was the last name you said? Davis. Mike Davis? I guess so, yeah. I would go with Alfred Morris. Okay.

What did I say about this dating story? You said you were talking about online dating. You said you used to do online dating before you met him. The only thing I'll say about it is this. Everybody has good stories. I have good stories too about it. The first two girls that I went out with looked very, very, very different

than their pictures. That's the number one story you hear. Yeah, like very different. So that was unfortunate. And then I had an inappropriate story, but it wasn't like a perverted inappropriate story. I don't even remember what the hell it was. So I had one where – so I just said 20th anniversary of when I – one of my first date with my wife.

So we had one of those on-again, off-again relationships for about five years. I love it. This is great. In the course of those five years, I did a little online dating in between them and um so i went out with the girl for a few times um broke up with her she then went out with a friend of mine totally uh by coincidence um yeah i guess she just she just liked the uh writers Found out that we were friends, and then she wrote a blog about it. No way. Because apparently he screwed her over.

Oh, wow. So she felt that we both did. Oh, she both did. Yeah, and the story was very funny. She didn't use our name, so if you're going to try and Google it, you're not going to find it. That would be great. Yes. Oh, man.

I'll try to think of some more. One girl on a date told me I talk too much. She's a podcast listener. Yeah. All right. Here's one from Herve. Hey, Reed, Sue, Johnny, and Ben. The hell are these?

Sue, Johnny, and Ben. I don't know. Oh, Famous and Ben. I don't know. Oh, famous Adamicans. What? That's great. All right, to the semifinals. Stefan Diggs or Marquise Goodwin at Flex? PPR.

Goodwin. Derek Henry or Jonathan Stewart at RB2? Stewart. All right. Half PPR league, I need two running backs. Fournette, Hyde, Latavius, Murray, McKinnon, and Ajayi. Fournette, Hyde, Latavius, McKinnon, Ajayi. Pick two.

Hyde and Ajayi, assuming that. No, no, no. You forgot about Latavius. Oh, I'm sorry. Excuse me. Hyde and Latavius, assuming that Fournette is out. If Fournette plays, it would be Fournette and Latavius. Oh, I'm sorry. Excuse me. Hyden Latavius, assuming that Fournette is out. If Fournette plays, it would be Fournette and Latavius. Now, here's the thing about it.

We haven't even talked about this. Do you trust Fournette if he plays? Yes. Okay. I don't think they put him out there if he's not ready to go. But it's very much trending in this direction that he's not going to play. That was Connor, owner of Team Belichick yourself. This is an email from Alex from Temecula, California.

Temecula, I don't know. Dear Zach, AC, and Samuel. That one's easy. 12-team league, I need a wide receiver three. Rashard Matthews or Corey Coleman? Coleman. And a kicker question. I have Greg Zerline.

Do I go with him or Bailey? I guess it could rain in Seattle. I guess. I'm not benching Greg Zerline, though. Okay. He's quite good. How awesome is this, by the way? So this emailer, Alex, taking a leave of absence this week from work to focus on his fantasy matchup.

Wow. All right, Minnesota Dan. What if he makes it to the championship? You're not working for two weeks? I don't know. Minnesota Dan, start two of these guys. Muhammad Sanu, Marquise Goodwin, Sammy Watkins, and Robert Woods. The first two.

Sanu and Goodwin? Okay, that's what he's leaning. From Matthew, dear John, Rudolph, Chris, and Ebenezer. Oh, you dieharders. So cool. Okay, yesterday you called Melvin Gordon, Alex Collins, and Kenyon Drake must starts. I have all three and Todd Gurley. It's PPR.

Who do I sit between Gurley, Gordon, Collins, and Drake? Can you play three? Yeah. You're sitting good. Gordon. Melvin Gordon? Wow. Okay're sitting good. Gordon. Wow. Okay. I agree.

From Brian, Brandon Cooks or Doug Baldwin? Half PPR. Baldwin. Aaron Rodgers or Drew Brees? Rodgers. Aaron Rodgers or Phillip Rivers? Rodgers. From Jack, dear Adam, Dave, Jamie, and Keith, 12-team standard.

Sit one. Collins, McCoy, Latav Jamie, and Keith. 12-team standard. Sit one. Collins, McCoy, Latavius, Murray. Sit Latavius. Okay, this is from Patsy. Says, yield, start, sit advice. Steer Lancelot, Galahad, Beldevere, and Robin. Those are like knights. I guess.

Start two running backs and a flex. Dion Lewis, Burkhead, Crowell, Mike Davis. Pick two of those. Half PPR. Oh, no. Quarter PPR for running backs. Deion Lewis, Burkhead, Crowell, Mike Davis. Burkhead and Davis.

And then pick a flex. D.D. Westbrook gets half PPR. Or Crowell. It's Westbrook. Just go with Westbrook. Jeremy andPR. Or Westbrook. Just go with Westbrook. Jeremy and Canada. Canada? Standard scoring.

Bortles or Goff? Bortles. All right. And sit one of these four. Jordy Nelson, Alshon Jeffrey, Tyreek Hill, Robert Woods. Say it again. Yes. Sit one.

Robert Woods, Tyreek Hill, Alshon Jeffrey, Jordy Nelson. Sit Robert Woods. This is for Mike in a town north of Philadelphia. Sleepy Hollow, New York. Pick three for this week. Standard scoring. Latavius, Ajayi, McCaffrey, Burkhead, Mike Davis. Latavius, Ajayi, McCaffrey, Burkhead, Mike Davis. Latavius, Ajayi, McCaffrey, Burkhead, Mike Davis.

Latavius, Ajayi, and Mike Davis. No, I'm sorry. Latavius, Burkhead, and Ajayi. Okay. Jamie, wouldn't it be great? You're sitting there on Sunday. You get your fantasy stats and the game you're watching all in the same place. It would be fantastic.

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From Jay Morgan. Dear Clark, Russ, Eddie, and Mr. Shirley. National Lampoon? Yeah, exactly. That would be Christmas Vacation The email Reads as follows Pick two at least one has to be a running back

Sterling Shepard Kerwin Williams Crowell Mixon Robbie Anderson Theoretic Shepard Kerwin Williams Crowell Mixon Robbie Anderson Theoretic. Shepard, Kerwin Williams, Crowell, Mixon. Robbie Anderson, Theoretic. Kerwin Williams.

Okay. And Sterling Shepard. Over Robbie Anderson? I mean, they're both the same type of guy to me at this point. I just think the Jets are going to get him blown out. By the way, i was of the opinion that die hard was not a christmas movie however the cable company has included it in their christmas favorites on demand selections i'm singing a different tune now maybe it will become

a christmas tradition like home alone it's ridiculous maybe it will be it's just ridiculous when you watch die hard you don't get that christmasy feeling you really don't we let's listen we talk about this way too much and we have another week to go until Christmas gets here. Yeah. Let's just put it to bed right now. You have your opinion on it. I have my opinion on it.

Wrong opinion. I can't let you... I wasn't going to be critical. See, now you're... No, Jamie, I can't let you just be wrong all the time. I care too much about you. I think that's the problem.

I care too much. Well, I do let you be wrong all the time and I still care about you. I care too much. I think it's great that everybody keeps tweeting us and sending us the stuff about Die Hard. And yes, I think somebody emailed or tweeted us that part of it is just because I like to argue with you, so I just take the opposite side of this. But I don't want to beat people over the head with this every day. Oh, I don't either.

I mean I really don't. So just as soon as everybody agrees with me, then – Okay, so then we're going to beat people over the head with this every day. Right, I don't. I really don't. As soon as everybody agrees with me, then... Okay, so then we're going to beat people up every day. Right, exactly. Alright, so back to the emails. From Brian. Standard scoring. Two wide receivers.

Green, Crabtree, Marvin Jones, and Tate. Two of them. Yeah, I'm benching A.J. Green here. Marvin Jones and Crabtree. Ertz or Jimmy Graham? Ertz. Without Landon Collins in there, it's going to be a big day. I think Nick Foles

will have a huge day. From Paul, McKinnon or Mike Davis, PPR? Mike Davis. From Chris in San Antonio, Flex PPR, Crowder, Pirine, Sanu? Pirine. From Buddy the Elf, In San Antonio, Flex PPR, Crowder, P. Ryan, Sanu. P. Ryan. From Buddy the Elf, hey, Tom, Joe, John, and Peyton in that order.

Manning, Tom, Joe, John, Peyton Manning. Elway? Oh, great quarterbacks. Brady, Montana, Manning. Who else? John Elway and Peyton Manning. Yep. Dak or Keenum?

I would go with Dak. And sit one. Standard scoring. Kareem Hunt, Devontae Freeman, Jordan Howard, Alex Collins. Bye-bye, Kareem Hunt. Bob, from the highest point in the San Juan Islands. And it says Puget Sound, Washington. I don't know.

This is one of the weirdest emails I've ever read. Hey, bad Cuban food, cheap Italian food, great New Jersey pizza, and Heath. I don't know. Okay. Am I crazy to think that the next two weeks doubling up on J.J. Smith's shoes and Antonio is nuts? New England likes to take away your number one, and if they do, I think the shoes run rampant. And next week is Houston, spelled without the first O in Houston. Thanks for all the fun over the years. You've been an

inspiration to start my own podcast, Not Fantasy Football. Unlike yours, mine does not have a potty mouth. Swear word blocker who also talks like a sailor when it suits him. Yeah, I don't know. I only understand about 30%. But what do you think about starting both Brown and Smith-Schuster? I don't understand if your argument is that they're going to take away somebody. So why are you going to start somebody that you think is going to be taken away? Is that what his argument is? Well, he said if the Patriots are going to take away Antonio Brown.

Not clear. No, I don't know. He didn't say take away. He said double up on them. Okay. On him. So, like, they both could do well. This is my argument for Smith-Schuster is that they're going to try and roll attention toward, you know, Antonio Brown.

Yeah. He's not a bad start, but I don't know that you play the I'm starting him with Antonio. Start him independently of Antonio Brown. You think he's a good start? Start him. From Peyton, I don't know what he needs here. Give me your top three. I'll just guess for Peyton. Mike Evans, Alfred Morris, Jordy Nelson,

Jared McKinnon, Brandon Cooks, Evans, Alf, Nelson, McKinnon, Cooks, PPR. Cooks, Alf, and Jordy? Or Evans, or McKinnon, PPR. Cooks, Alf, and... Jordy or Evans? Jordy. Kenan, Jordy.

Okay. God, I hate benching Mike Evans. And an email from Jason in the Bay Area. Standard scoring, Michael Crabtree or Des Bryant? Des. All right, pick a flex. Carlos Hyde, Kareem Hunt, Michael Crabtree. Hyde. This is from Hunt, Michael Crabtree. Hyde.

This is from Mike in the Upside Down. That's from Stranger Things, Jamie. You should watch it. Deer 73, 61, 37, and 63 yards. I'll tell you that those 73, 61, 37, 63, those are the last four games for a wide receiver. Do you know who it is? Is it somebody good or somebody bad?

Someone that you think is a must start this week. 73, 61, 37, 63 yards. So if somebody hasn't had 100 yards in a while, that would probably be Des Bryant. Yeah, good job. I've been nervous about Des Bryant all season. He just isn't getting enough yards. Last week, if he didn't break a tackle for that 50-yard touchdown, he would have ended the day with about three fantasy points.

So why would you start him over someone like Jordy Nelson this week? Well, Mr. Yards himself, Jordy Nelson. I mean, that's the worst probably comparison you could have. Those two guys are very touchdown dependent. I don't think it's fair to say that Des wouldn't have scored if he didn't have that long touchdown because they had a couple of red zone opportunities that they missed on early in the game. He could have had a two-touchdown game. Yeah, he basically dropped a touchdown too.

He has been dropping some balls this year, but you don't expect him to do it. I get it. I get there's hesitation with Dez, but if Dak Prescott throws a touchdown, it's probably going to be to Dez Bryant. He's throwing at least two. Yeah. So he's Dak's star of the week. Keith from the Vegas of the Middle East.

Dubai? Yeah, probably. Dear Mike, Victor, Mike, and Tango. Those would be the phonetic spellings for the movement watches. I like that. MVMT. Okay. Start two.

Crowell, Evans, Derek Henry, Corey Coleman. Evans and Henry. Alright, that's it. From Sean. Wide receiver and a flex. Des Bryant, Josh Gordon, Tyreek Hill. Wide receiver.

Man. Whew. I'll bench Tyreek. No, wait. Just pick one. Man. I'll bench Tyreek. No, wait. Just pick one. Sorry. I said wide receiver and a flex. Yeah, I have a running back to throw at you.

What's the running back? Mike Davis. I'd bench Helen Davis. Okay. So start Dez and Gordon. From Daryl. From, Dear some combination of Dave, Ronald, Wendy, and the King.

All right, I need you to rank them. You don't know what those are? No. Come on. Dave, Ronald, Wendy, and the King. Oh, yes. Okay, so I will rank them. Wait a minute.

Dave and Wendy are the same thing? Yeah, Dave and Wendy probably should be lumped together. These are burger – this is McDonald's, Wendy's, and Burger King. Unless – is Dave something else? I don't think so. That's weird then. Why would they do it like that? What's your fave?

Huh? What's your fave? My fave is Dave, Wendy. Yeah, me too. Wendy's is so classy. I love it. PBR. Pick one in PBR.

Jarek McKinnon, Latavius Murray, DeMarco Murray, Lamar Miller, Sanu, and Marquise Goodwin. Is it Goodwin or Latavius? Latavius. He also says he's picked the wrong Vikings running back. Four out of five weeks now. This email is from Paul in the Queen City. Dear Kevin, Marv, Harry, and Uncle Frank. No idea.

Yes, you do. Yes, you do. See, you really don't know anything about Christmas movies. This is Home Alone. I only know the real ones that matter. Pick two. Golden Tate, Tyreek Hill, or Josh Gordon?

Not Golden Tate. This is from Cam in Orange County. You ever see Orange County, that movie? No. Very funny. Good movie. Good movie. Quality movie. Half PPR, start two.

Jay Ajayi, Alfred Morris, Joe Mixon, Rex Burkhead. Pick two. Ajayi, Morris, Mixon, Burkhead. Rex Burkhead and Jay Ajayi. Jay Ajayi over Alf? Yeah, no, Alf. All right, there we go. See, sometimes I know Jamie's rankings And he doesn't remember all the names I gave him

So, we're a team This is from Lori in Bakersfield Would you sit DeAndre Hopkins for Tate, Goodwin, Lee, or Woods? No Yeah, you gotta go with him, Lori Okay, this is from Tyler in Northern California. Deal. I like this one.

Dear Yul, Darice, Sanka, and Junior. Great movie. Yeah. I have pride. I see pride. I see power. And then he said, thank you, you badass mutters who don't take no crap off of nobody. That's good stuff.

Cool running. One of my favorite lines to one of my buddies, which I say to him all the time, is, Sanka, you dead? Yeah, Sanka, you dead? Not a sports movie. Not a sports movie. What? No, I'm just kidding.

It's a sports movie. All right, number two running back and a flex from this group. Rex Burkhead, Dion Lewis, Jarek McKinnon, Latavius Murray, and Mike Davis. Latavius and Rex. From Jared in Atlanta, Standard Scoring League, one wide receiver, Goodwin Tate, Marquise Lee. Goodwin. And now a flex, Tate, Lee, Alfred Morris. Morris.

This is my favorite email because of this PS. PS, I've been holding my tongue long enough. I also shower at night and not in the morning. It's not like you get dirty while you're asleep, and I certainly don't want to sleep all night while being disgusting. As long as the hair looks good the next day, then everything is A-OK.

Keep doing your thing, Adam. I don't think you would shower at night. I don't have a problem with you showering at night, but I don't think you would shower at night. I don't have a problem with you showering at night, but I don't think you would shower at night if you came into the office all the time. Yeah, I always did. Why wouldn't I? I don't get it.

Why do I need to shower in the morning if I showered at night? I think you would shower in the morning. No, I don't shower in the morning. Like, I never shower in the morning. I'm not a morning person. I wake up, I brush my teeth, I work. That's it.

And I would say that I change, but I don't really change. Well, we know you don't change. I go to sleep in my sweatpants and my sweatshirt now because it's freezing

and then I stay in that until I shower at night. All right. Jeff, from a small city 15 minutes north of Boston. Worcester. Why did the vampire eat the light bulb?

It's got to be something with a light. It wanted a light snack. A light snack, yeah. And a termite walks into a bar and asks, is the bartender here? That's good. Rogers or Keenum? Rodgers.

Brian in Chicago. Jordy Nelson, Mike Davis, Mike Evans, Jonathan Stewart, Robbie Anderson. Pick one, half PPR. Jordy, Davis, Evans, Stewart, Robbie Anderson. Davis. Mike Davis. All right. From John. He's in three out of five semifinals way to go

so he needs to pick four of this group adam thielen's a must so pick three of this group jordy nelson hogan tyreek hill all right hill's gonna start so pick two from this group This group. Jordy Hogan, Evans, Woods, Hyde, and Lewis. Hyde and Jordy. From Jesus in Chicago, Stefan Diggs or DeeDee Westbrook? DeeDee. From Eric in LA, dear Larry, Artie, and Hank. Who is that? I should know that.

Larry, Artie, and Hank. Oh, the Larry Sanders show. That was funny as hell. Good stuff. Jonathan Stewart. Kerwin Williams. Chris Ivory. Pick one.

Well, Ivory if he's the guy. But if he's not, Stewart or Williams? Stewart. And now pick a flex. The running back you didn't go with, Marquise Lee, Marquise Goodwin, and that's it. Goodwin. Dear some combination of Sean Wanya. I don't know how to pronounce that.

Nathan and Michael. This boy's the man. I had to look it up. No, actually it was put in the email. This is from Nichelle from Boston, just outside of Boston. Representing the females, she is in second place in the regular season behind the only other female in the league. So way to go, girls.

Nice. I have both Antonio Brown and Martavis Bryant. Should I start both of them? I could also start Tevin Coleman, Peyton Barber, or Kenny Stills. I think you want to avoid Tevin Coleman, just unless we get word that he's cleared from the concussion protocol.

If we find out that two things here. One, if Juju Smith-Schuster's out, that certainly increases the value for Martavis Bryant. The other would be if we find out that the Bucs decide to make Doug Martin inactive, which would be a surprise. That's a play. I'd probably play Barber anyway.

All right, rapid fire from Ben. Rivers or Bortles? Rivers. From Rob, Gordon or Hunt? Standard. Gordon. I'm sorry, Josh Gordon or Hunt? Gordon.

Oh, wow, okay. From Matt, Chris Ivory, Alfred Morris, Derek Henry. That's too many names here. Come on. I'm just going to tell you to go with Marquis. No, Devin Funches. That's the obvious one. Devin Funches.

Okay. From Steven, start three. Ajayi, Pirine, Geo, Mike Davis, Crabtree, Tate. Ajayi, Pirine, Geo, Mike Davis, Crabtree, Tate. Ajayi, Pirine, Geo. Mike Davis, Crabtree, Tate. Ajayi, Pirine, and Davis. Oh, okay. From Kenny, Alex Collins, Jordy Nelson, Jamal Williams,

start two in PPR. Alex Collins and Jordy Nelson or Jamal Williams? Jamal Williams. From Michael, Tyreek Hill, Devin Funchess or Marquise Goodwin? Just need one Yep Funchess of Funchess, baby

Oh yeah From Lucas, Ertz, Pirine or Goodwin? Flex Ertz From Jimmy, McKinnon or Mike Davis? Oh no, would you start McKinnon or Mike Davis over no Would you start McKinnon or Mike Davis Over AJ Green Hopkins or Tate

Half PPR I'd start Davis Over Tate From Lanzino One running back And one flex Hyde Ajayi

Mike Davis McKinnon Pick one Hyde Ajayi Mike Davis Alshon Jeffrey

McKinnon Pick one Ajayi Over Davis, Alshon Jeffrey, McKinnon. Pick one. Ajayi. Over Alshon? Yeah. Really? You sure? Huh?

You sure about this? They're so close. I mean, look, Ajayi's going to get more touches. Yeah. All right. I won't argue. You go with Ajayi. I mean, Alshon, I'm fine with it.

Okay. My final prediction is that Jared Goff has a big week. That's where I disagree with Dave and Jamie. I'm feeling it for Goff. That's why it's a banana. My final prediction is that you're going to get one bonanza right. It's going to be Packers-Panthers. Not Patriots-Stewards, huh?

I think you're only going to get No you'll get that one right too The other one's going to be wrong And then you're only going to have to eat your Fourth bean boozle If the Patriots win this week They win the Super Bowl FYI If the Patriots win this week they win the Super Bowl

Because they'll have home field advantage Assuming they win their next two games I hope What's your ideal Super Bowl matchup? Packers-Patriots Packers-Patriots not even? Packers-Patriots. Give me what you know right now. Packers-Patriots, not even close. Packers-Patriots, not close.

We deserve that. We deserve Rodgers versus Brady. I'd be down with that. I'm expecting, and I'm hoping for, because I don't think the Packers are going to get there, Patriots-Saints. Yeah, that'd be fun. I'm also intrigued by Minnesota hosting the Super Bowl.

First time ever. Yeah. That would be cool. And I think Minnesota's really good. So I wouldn't mind seeing that. And this could be, this potential would be the best NFC playoffs ever. You could get six teams that have a legit chance to win the conference in there. Alright, so you have

two, three weeks to decide who gets in. Well, I'm going to take the Eagles out. East is easy. Oh, okay. I thought you meant who wins. Who gets in the playoffs? East is easy. Yeah. Eagles are in. Who's winning the South? I haven't done enough of the schedule research. Off the top of your head. Yeah. All right. Who wins the South? The Saints. Okay, the West? The Rams. And the North is easy. Oh, you know what, though? If the Seahawks win this week, they're 2-0 against the Rams, the same record. Fine, I'll still take the Rams, whatever.

And put the Panthers and the Falcons in, and the Packers missing. Wow, you let me have the Packers in Such a long shot They have to beat the Panthers and the Vikings In the next two weeks And hope for some other teams to lose I guess they could sort of control their own destiny But

The Cowboys could easily get in I mean They could do some damage Loving it Patriots, Steelers Jags and I'll take the Chargers. And I'll go with the Chiefs and the Titans, I guess. Not Baltimore? I mean, the Titans are a game up right now.

I don't know. Baltimore's got the easiest schedule. Yeah, Baltimore. I'll take Baltimore. Titans will choke. They're not that good. Titans don't have any good wins, I don't know. Baltimore's got the easiest schedule. Yeah. Baltimore. I'll take Baltimore. Titans will choke. They're not that good. Titans don't have any good wins, I don't think. Baltimore can make a run. What about you? I'm with you on the AFC

leaders, division leaders. I think Baltimore, and I'm going to say the Miami Dolphins get in. Really? Yep. What about the NFC? Huh? NFC.

NFC, the division winners. I'm going to take the Rams over the Seahawks. So did I. I'm sorry. So I'll take the Rams. And then I'm going to take the Saints in the South. And I'm going to say Panthers, Packers. I hope so.

Let's go Pack. Go Pack Go. Well, that's a fun show. Got some dating stories in there. I like it. I like it. Alright, that's Jamie. I'm Adam. We'll talk to you on Sunday night, recapping the action. Go ahead and get yourself a win. We'll talk to you in the championship. Bye.