Fantasy Football Today - Mailbag! Plus Fantasy Cops and Some News (12/14 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Episode Date: December 14, 2024

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Can you believe this? No, I can't. It's time to dominate your fantasy league. Off to the races and he stays at his feet. This is gonna go the distance. Now here's some combination of Adam, Dave, Jamie and Heath. It's mailbag time. Just found out something very new and neat

about Dan Schneier. Welcome everybody to Fantasy Football today. Yeah, you're not gonna like it. Presented by Ben MGM, the sports book born in Vegas. Adam Azer, Jamie Eisenberg, Dan Schneier. We've got your week 15 questions and we have a lot of them. We also have a couple of news items to get to here. It's early, so we don't have a ton of practice reports, but Evan Ingram is out for this season. And as I mentioned today of just a few minutes ago

on FFT Express, I will be singing, People Are Strange for the rest of the day to Brenton Strange. You know that song, right, Dan? The doors? Yes. Did you be singing that song? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. just a few minutes ago on FFT express, I will be singing people are strange for the rest of the day to Brenton strange.

You know that song, right Dan, the doors. Did you be singing running up that hill? Running up that hill, why? Stranger things. Brenton strange 9.2 or more PPR fantasy points in three or four games without Ingram earlier this year. But I don't think people are gonna trust him, but Ingram's Ingram earlier this year, but I don't think people are going to trust him. But Ingram's out. Um, and Bucky Irving, I don't think he practiced today. Mike Evans was out there. Bucky, Bucky Irving seems very

questionable for today's game. So, uh, this weekend's game, pardon me. All right. What's going on, Dan? How we doing? You all right? It's been a week of highs and week of lows for me on about Monday night. I don't know what happened, but I caught some weird stomach bug and it's been brutal for three days somehow never got a fever but was just chills all the time not holding anything down I won't go into too many details regarding that I mean you already kind of did enough there it could get worse it could get worse but that's the low that's the low I could get more detailed I won. The high is that my friend Rachel continues to barrel on. I'm wearing my team Rachel shirt today on Survivor.

All right. She made it to the finale episode, the final four next week. Wow. A one in four chance at a million dollars and sole survivor. That's awesome. You know, it's funny, uh, Debo Samuel was about to get the same stomach bug, but he dropped it. It was a perfect pass too. And I had pretty going in two leagues.

You know, Jamie, for as long as I've known him, he's been very even keeled. Um, doesn't get too up or down based on how his fantasy matchups have gone. But yesterday, real or Thursday, for those of you listening on Saturday, really hit him hard, really hit like a stomach bug stomach bug, like a drone flying over his town. If any. There's a lot I have on that that I won't get into. Aliens are coming against time. I don't know if it's aliens,

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We'd really appreciate it. We won last year. Let's go back to back. Let's crush it. We need your help. It means a lot to us. We're gonna help you win your league right now. Starting with this email from a, I don't have the name. Sorry about that. This probably, this person probably won't vote for us. Uh, full PPR. We need

to St. Brown, London, Higgins, Brian Thomas Jr. Higgins and St. Brown. I can't bench St. Brown. So we start with that and it comes down to Higgins and St. Brown. I can't bench St. Brown. So we start with that. It comes down to Higgins and Brian Thomas for me. If you believe in what Brian Thomas got last week from a target share standpoint, from a full out, just volume on three levels of the field and what they said this week, which is I'm always open, get me the ball. They continue getting the ball.

You can make a case for him, but I don't think I can bench T Higgins in this spot. So I'm going to go with what Jamie said. It's close though. I've read this one incorrectly here, which boy this Matthew is his name. He's definitely not going to vote for us now. He said bench two and he had gave us those four receivers, St. Brown, London, Higgins, Brian Thomas Jr. But then he also gave us three running backs, Charbonneau, James Cook and Brian Robinson.

So now you have seven choices and you have to bench two. Full PPR? Yes. You're only benching two? Yeah, I guess so. This is a wild team. Give me the receivers again then, I'm sorry. Yeah, St. Brown, London, Higgins, Brian Thomas Jr.

Charbonneau, James Cook, Brian Robinson. What a team. Oh boy, James Cook is one of the ones on benching James Cook, Brian Robinson. What a team. Oh boy. James Cook is one of the ones I'm benching. Yeah, that we can do for sure. You can. And Charbonneau of Walker plays, but if Walker doesn't play. He probably won't play.

London for me. You'd bench London and start Brian Thomas. I'd start Thomas over London, yes. Yeah, I have a tough one with that. I probably would still sit Brian Thomas, start London. Listen, when you have great options, unfortunately you're probably gonna make a bad call. Yeah, but it's not always unfortunate

because they all could score. They all could score. Yeah, yeah. All right, next up. Or they could play the 49ers ramp. Yeah. From Christopher. Oh, actually Matthew wants to know

who we think is a better real life fantasy wide receiver and rest of season. Okay, rest of season in fantasy and real who we think is a better real life fantasy wide receiver and rest of season. Okay. Rest of season in fantasy and real life. Who's a better receiver? Two separate questions. Tyreek Hill or Malik neighbors? Better rest of season in real life wide receiver?

Both. And fantasy. Fantasy is better. Rest of season in fantasy and who's better in real life? Tyreek Hill or Malik neighbors? Tyreek and both. Look, I mean, Malik may end up being better than I mean Tyree is a borderline hall of famer. Like come on.

Yeah but right now. I think that question was specifically to trap Adam and myself. No no. I would say Tyree kill. We will not fall for that trap this time. I still think Tyree kill looks really good. If they would just throw him the ball down field for once but man when he's not there. They both have Josh Allen.

Who would you rather have catching passes from? Tyree kill. Yes. I don't want to say my homes because that's a little fair, unfair to Malik. Oh yeah, sure. Yeah. So Chiefs fans are saying?

No, cause they got, he's got the chemistry with Tyreke. Okay. I thought he was going to say, Oh poor Chiefs fans. This is from Christopher. I'm worried that the Ravens will blow out the Giants. Should I start Jamis Winston over Lamar or should I start Ferguson over Andrews? No, you gotta keep Lamar in.

Oh yeah. And Jamis just lost one of his, or most likely not gonna have one of his best weapons. Like, this could be a bad game for Jamis. Yeah, I agree with that. I also don't think like these blowouts are that bad because like they're still gonna wanna put up four, three, four, five touchdowns

before they, you know, take the air out of the ball. The only thing that if you, if you think it's going to be a blowout and you're worried about Lamar, your thing's going to be a blowout and worry about Lamar because there's like two or three defensive touchdowns here and they're losing offensive possessions and that Mars is more game manager handing off. Just get, get your win and go home at that point. But he's still in the MVP race. He's still gonna put up numbers.

Like this is not a single more situation by any stretch. No, he's been amazing in all three of their blowout wins. So, but the other one is more interesting, Ferguson versus Mark Andrews. I'm still going. It's close to begin with. I mean, you know, in PPR, I actually like Ferguson better, you know, because I think Andrew's, again,

I know the Giants are the Giants, but they do lock down tight ends, or they do limit tight end production. Let's call it what it is. They're not stopping tight ends, tight ends just don't do well against them. So, you know, yearly trends, I think if you have the choice, I go Ferguson PPR.

Not in PPR, because Ferguson doesn't score touchdowns, I go Andrews. I think it's fair. Dan, you're the only one that I think would be qualified to answer this. Do you think starting safety Tyler Nubin, who's out for the year, had anything to do with the Giants being a lead against tight ends? No, I think it's all the way that Shane Bowen plays his scheme. It's the same scheme over and

over again, and it's too high over the top. It's just going to limit opportunities for his tight ends. All right. Next up. And you know what? I'd actually like to take this time just to say, I don't think Nijoku being out is really going to hurt Jamus that much. Why? He's just going to throw the ball to someone else. It's not like like Judy, Tillman more. They can pick up the slack.

The last two games, Nijoku has 94 yards on 30 targets. That's absolutely awful. Yeah, he's scoring touchdowns and he's a good player. He's a good player. But I don't think, like if he lost Judy, that'd be one thing. But it's not like Njoku's making plays downfield, making guys miss, doing crazy things. He's just sucking up a lot of targets.

I still think that they're not gonna be able to run the ball in this game. And he's still gonna throw a ton. It's just gonna go to guys who actually might be able to do more with the ball than David Njokum. Just my take. I don't hate it. All right, let's go to Kristeno Paul.

Paul from New Jersey, parentheses no drones. Keenan Allen, DeAndre Hopkins, Khalil Shakir, Nick Westbrook-Akine. Let me see, I don't know how many he needs here. But who are your two favorite? Allen, Hopkins, Khalil Shakir, Westbrook-Akine. There's one that's easy and that's Shakir. The second one for me will probably be Keenan Allen.

But it's close between him and Hopkins. What's the format PPR? He doesn't say but he doesn't need to. It's Hopkins for me. Yeah, I would go Keenan just because he already had success against this team. I like we talked about on Friday show, I think we're going to see a situation where the receiver still have the opportunity to put up numbers even though Caleb struggles. I just buy into the targets he's had since Thomas Brown has taken over as a play caller. Sokins has touched on her bust if he scores he'll be better than keenan

I just think keenan is going to get a lot more opportunities. All right, this is from george in canada He says dear nelson ned lennie and mo Uh these like the three stooges or something First of all, there were four names there Yeah, there are four. I just thought like lenn and Moe was like a Stooges type thing. What's his name? Shrimp or something? So what is it? Nelson, Lenny? Oh, these are Simpsons characters?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. OK, that I just had to think about that more once I heard the Nelson. Oh, I never revealed the thing about Dan. I never watched the Simpsons. Like, I don't watch the Simpsons. Just going to put that out there. I'm going to recommend an episode to you. You have Disney Plus?

I think so. I think I still pay for that. You can just watch one Simpsons episode. I'll try to think of one that I think you're gonna really like. All right, our playoffs start next week and whoever wins week 16 and whoever wins in my matchup this week gets in.

Do I go with James Cook or Jonathan Taylor in half PPR. Oh boy. Both guys make me nervous. Uh, I like the matchup a little bit better for Taylor. Fresh legs. Um, the only thing that, you know, you, you look at with cook is there's going to be a lot of points in that game. And so hopefully he comes through, but he just has not been involved in the passing game. As we saw last week, there are a lot of points between the bills and the Rams and he did nothing. So I give a slight edge to Taylor over Cook. We talked a lot about, about this on beyond the box score this week, but the, you know, change in James Cook's role in the passing game has really just altered his outlook entirely

as a fantasy player. And I don't think that's coming back anytime soon. So especially like this week right away. So I'm going with Taylor there. You know, it's one thing to say it's altered his outlook. That might be true, but he's still a top 12 running back per game this season. He still scored 11 touchdowns. They're going to score a lot of points in this game. So I would start- He's a top 12 running back per game and he has 11 touchdowns.

It seems like some of that is touchdown dependent. Yeah, maybe, but he scores. But that's true. But I think Jonathan Taylor is entirely touchdown dependent this week. That's fair, that's fair. All right, from Kyle. Just a little bit better.

All right, so Jamie said Taylor, I say Cook. What's your answer? Taylor. What was the embarrassing thing you learned about me? You can't tease it. No, Dan is the guy who, if we're scheduled to do a podcast at 11.15, he will show up at 11.15 and then send a text message

to both of us being like, hey, are we still on for 11.15 11 15? He said, No, no, no, no. First of all, I sent it at 11 14. And I was in this room that's what because of when I said, how does this not pretty obvious to you, Adam? You didn't give us any room at 1108. So as someone at 1108, I waited six minutes, nobody was here at 11 14. Nobody get there. We're gonna get there at 1115. As someone who's never late, I just want to say like,

I did show up in the room at 1115 also. I thought it was the wrong room because it said express. So the background was what I thought was because Thomas. Right, Adam. Maybe if you show up earlier, you can change the background. Schaefer sent us the link for all three shows for that we're doing on Friday and the express ones right by the mail. I don't know how I'm getting the heat for showing up six minutes early and then waiting six minutes, no one's here. And then texting, are we still on for 1115? You wait, you send that at 1117. You don't send that at 1115. Do you ever

start at 1115? We're supposed to be there at17. You don't send that 1115. Do you ever start at 1115? We're supposed to be there at 1115. All right, let's move on. Do you ever go into like, you know, I have read on Tom Coughlin time. Sorry. Yeah. You ever go into a situation where you think, man, this is a great story. And then you're halfway through and you're like, man, this is a terrible story. Oh, that's 30% of my stories. Now this was a great, this was one of my better ones. I have from Kyle, uh, Jacobi Meyers, sincere McCormick, Nick Chubb or Darnell Mooney. One spot. greats. This was one of my better ones. I have from Kyle, uh, Jacobi Meyers, Sincere McCormick, Nick Chubb or Darnell Mooney. One spot.

And do we have a format? No. Okay. Well, I didn't hear the first name. I'm sorry. Jacobi Meyers, McCormick, Chubb, Mooney. Sincere when I say McCormick. Uh, I would go Jacobi Meyers easily in PPR. Uh, non PPR I'd go McCormick half PPR I'd go Meyers. in PPR. Non PPR at Go McCormick. Half PPR at Go Meyers. From Christopher. Good morning Neil, Lance, Billy Joe and Lewis. Armstrongs or astronauts? Oh not Lewis, Louis. Armstrongs, Armstrongs.

Yeah Armstrongs, yeah. See I'm not that bad at this. I just should have taken a little more time on that Simpsons one. Yeah that was bad bro. That was not good. You can never go three stooges unless you're curly. Curly is always the obvious.

Okay. Moe, I thought was a stooge, but I might be wrong. Pick three running backs. No, Moe is a stooge. I've never seen the stooges either. Larry Moe and Curly and Shrimp. James... Jeff.

Yeah, yeah. James Connor. You're the Shrimp. I'm taller than Dan. That was still debated. I think you actually are like a hand. Oh, Dan, are you good at chess? No, I've never than Dan. That was still debated. I think you actually are like a Dan. Are you good at chess? No, I've never played before.

It's a weird thing. I should be good at it as somebody who plays poker. Yeah, I should be good at it. There it is. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I would be good at it. I'll say this. Not gonna lie.

I'm pretty good at chess. Are you? No, that's my Schneider impression. All right. Pick three running backs and non PPR James Connor, Tony Pollard, Rashad White, Rico Dowdell. Wow. Three? Yeah. In non PPR.

Say it again. Dowdell, Pollard, Rashad White and who? James Connor. Ooh. Connor's easy. Yeah. Connor versus Patriots is a lock it in. Um, Pollard's easy if he's healthy. Yeah. There's two. If Pollard's healthy. Yeah. There's two.

There's two, I would say three. I'm torn between Rashad white and Rico Dowdell just because Rashad whites looked great last, like unbelievable. By the way, uh, the haircut theory is going to be put to the test. You know, I was got a haircut this week. Derek Henry. Oh no. He cuts the dreads.

Not worried. No, it's good. The haircut was good. Okay. Um, who would I say's good. The haircut was good. Oh, haircuts good. Okay. Who did I say the two? Oh, Puka. Puka, prior to last week, Puka and Rashad White both got haircuts and they both were awesome.

I'm going to go with Connor Pollard and Rashad White. If Pollard is out, then Dowell over Tijer Spears. I'm going with White. I'm going to break. We'll be right back on fantasy football today. Get groceries delivered across the GTA from real Canadian super store with PC express. Shop online for super prices and super savings.

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Elijah Moore, Sincere McCormick, Cade Otten. I'm going McCormick again. Look, I liked what I saw on tape from McCormick. We broke him down on Beyond the Box score. He's better than people realize, great contact balance, great ability to win in a phone booth, which I think has been talked about this week by Antonio Pearson. They said he's the starter moving forward.

I expect him to get the most volume of all these players by a wide margin. Is coming from someone who's way too young to have ever been in a phone booth, by the way. Or no, actually phone booths were around when I was a kid. It's Elijah Morris and Cier McCormick and Kate Otten. So it's, but he's replacing the joke with, that's what threw me off a little bit. So it's just a flex. Yeah.

Yeah. I think McCormick makes the most sense. The one thing about Elijah Moore who could benefit a lot with the Njoko injury if Tillman comes back, because then you assume we're going to see a little bit more of Elijah Moore in the slot. Uh, but I do think McCormick just based on opportunity here is the best one. I just got a little bit worried with Desmond Ritter if he starts, you know, just how that offense will operate. Not that Aiden O'Connell is the, you know, world's greatest quarterback, but you know, he at least has been in the system for

right. Quite some time. I don't know, guys. I'm, I'm not so in on McCormick as you got. I'm starting him in one league, uh, by choice, by necessity. But, But that's what this is too. I think Elijah Moore, I would go with Elijah Moore in full PPR. I mean, with Jamis, how much he throws, again, they're facing the Chiefs, the Chiefs are gonna score, they're gonna be playing catch up.

Are the Chiefs gonna score? Yes, the Chiefs- That's the thing. The Chiefs don't score a lot. Yeah, they score. The Chiefs have the best run defense in football. They score what, 17 points last week on field goal? Yeah, everything is just a field goal with the Chiefs.

I mean, maybe they had a bad week last week, but. Like against the Raiders, they scored 19. Everyone scores a good point. Two weeks ago was 19. Like they don't score a lot of points, the Chiefs. Yeah, maybe I overrated their offense a little. And they take so much time on their drives, which is not a good thing.

This is the most pass heavy offense in little. And they take so much time on their drives, which is not a good thing. This is the most pass heavy offense in football. So I think you've got probably a five catch advantage at least for Elijah Moore on Sincere McCormick. You got Madison coming back. Does that take some carries away from him? And you've got the Raiders. It's the worst. It's one of the worst offenses in football.

So I would go with moreover McCormick personally. What's the latest on O'Connell and and Ritter? I Thought we were O'Connell was is not been ruled out. Yeah, he did not practice yesterday I'm not mistaken Adam right, but he showed up, but he wants to play says he won. Yeah My guess is they're gonna take it up to Saturday. Yeah Okay, this is I'm gonna go more. I agree with you. I'm gonna go. All right right. Here we go. This is from, I'm going to let Dan pronounce this name. L A M I N E. Lamine. Lamine in DC. Start two out of three. It's a weird league. Uh, Kraft, Could be Titan Brigham.

Sit one. Craft, Friarmouth, Ferguson. I'm saying Friarmouth. Cool. This is a weird league, but I would agree with that. Hey, listen everybody. If you have not signed up for BetMGM yet, use the bonus code fantasy, and you're gonna get up to a $1,500 first bet offer

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Devante Smith at Pittsburgh, home against Pittsburgh actually. Braylon Allen at Jacksonville and Sincere McCormick against the Falcons. Who do you like? Devante Smith, Braylon Allen or Sincere McCormick? Format? Doesn't say, I'll go McCormick and non and half. I'll take Devante info. And I think that's fair.

I don't know. Devante scares me in general, moving forward, just based on what I've seen from that offense and maybe squeaky wheel game for AJ Brown, which I guess we're all expecting felt like Debo got his squeaky wheel game yesterday He just kind of didn't do anything with it The design with for him was there early so I want to play McCormick based on that I think I think part of this though is if if the sentiment is squeaky wheel for AJ Brown and

same amount of pass attempts for Jalen Hertz, then it's awful for Devontae Smith. If it's more passing, and AJ Brown is going to get more opportunities, then it's also going to benefit Devontae Smith. Yeah, I do sort of feel like they're going to throw more, but I don't know. I can't throw any less. This is Sam from Canada. I started fantasy football for the first time last year and didn't make the playoffs. This year I started listening to your podcast for the first time and I made the playoffs in both my leagues. Needless to say, I voted for you

in the sports podcast awards. Well, thank you, Sam. All right. So now half PPR league start two receivers and a flex. So basically sit one and he and Zach Sharbonne. Yeah, Zach Sharbonne should be in this mix. Okay, sit to that. JSN, Garrett Wilson, DJ Moore, Jordan Addison, Zach Sharbonne. Cool. Three are starting. Which two are we sitting?

It's half PPR and it's JSN Garrett Wilson, DJ Moore, Jordan Addison, Zach Charbonneau. For me, it comes down to JSN and Wilson cause I'll sit DJ Moore. Moore's the easy sit for me. I probably sit JSN. I'm assuming that Walker's out cause it seems very likely didn't practice yesterday,

Thursday, you might be listening on Saturday. It might be different. So, Charbonnees a lock for me based on that. Yeah. Comes down to JSN or Addison for me. To sit or? To sit. To sit. Garrett Wilson in that matchup I'm playing almost no matter what. I think I was right. I said JSN or Wilson. It's JSN or Addison. Yeah. I think I'm a little confused instead of doing sits Tell me who you're starting. Give me the three or start. Yeah, so Garrett Wilson and Charbonne we're starting those two and then we're debating between the other two The other three DJ know our JSA. No, no, we've ruled out DJ more. We've ruled out DJ more. All right I think I go Addison for the up. I think it depends on the matchup to like if you need a safer

I don't know if I want to call JSN safer. I'm gonna go go Addison for the up. I think it depends on the matchup too. Like if you need a safer I don't know if I want to call JSN safer. I'm gonna go with Addison Boy, that took a long time It's a tough call and I don't know I keep going back and forth that one all the way up in this one We're we're fantasy playoff time, you know, so most of the questions we're gonna get are not gonna be easy Yeah, we get we get some of the people that you know lucked into the playoffs that are just legitimate, you know, fantasy novices and don't know, um, and have some confusion. And then we have people like this that have great teams and have tough calls. You know, I wish I would have benched, uh, to on Jennings. Same in Purdy somehow. He really, it was pretty close to having a big game. Uh, like he had a few plays where

Jennings Oh, Purdy threw a beautiful touchdown to Ram's Defender. Oh, that was horrible. Purdy, that was the worst game I've seen in Purdy's place. How was Jennings close to having a big game? Because he had a drop. Well, he had nine targets, right? No, he wasn't close to having a good game. An acceptable game, yeah. Purdy was close to having, I guess, a game that you could live with if he catches that pass. Purdy was awful.

It's devastating. I can't, you know what happens to me? Like the league I have, my home league, where I have Perdy and Jennings, I can't even look at the matchup. I can't click on the homepage. I can't do it. I can't, this is what happens to me every time.

I can't get my, I probably won't look again until like Sunday at six and like, hope I'm like back in it or something. All right, let's go rapid fire here. So we can get to the phantascopsis. I know Jamie's got to bounce soon. Rob has to start two of these guys. Start two, Marvin Harrison Jr, Keenan Allen, Adam Thielen,

Rico Dowdle, Devante Smith. Start two? Yep. Thielen is one. Down and then what format it is don't know PBR PBR. Oh, that gives me a chance to play Harrison. I was going to go. Thielen Doudel, but at least puts it in the I'm going to go feel in Harrison and full PPR. I'm going to go feel and doubt. Same. This is from Joe. I'm going to go with Thielen and Doudle. Same. This is from Joe. Super flex half PPR bonus points for touchdowns over 40 and 50 yards and 100 yards rushing

300 yards passing 100 yards receiving. Okay. Anyway, super flex half PPR will Levis, Jacobi Myers or Adam Thielen. Thielen, I think. I know, honestly, if a push came to shove, I gotta go with what I would do. I would probably have to just slot Levis in and hope for the best. I'd like to know what receivers you'd be benching,

because Myers has been awesome, and Thielen's on a good two-game stretch. But I think in this case, you have to play the quarterback, especially one that's playing Cincinnati. There's a huge world spot here for Le for, uh, Levis, if he's healthy. By the way, I, I, I slow the roll and blow up with Will Levis ever. But yeah, I just did a B a, a FFT express with Dave. We did beat the waiver wire and Jamis Winston, Cedric

Tillman, Elijah Moore, they are top priorities. If you want to look ahead to next week. Oh, they have Cincinnati next week. Sure. All right. This is a good question here. I'm sorry I don't have a name on this one, but it says, why should I start CD lamb over DJ Moore in terms of matchup? Moore has a much better one and just scored 23 half point half PPR points against the Vikings three weeks ago. Lamb just scored over 15 and a half PPR points for the first time last

week since week eight and yada, yada, yada. He's single digit points in two of his last six weeks. He's clearly dealing with some kind of ailment. Why should I start Lam over DJ Moore? It's a very fair question. I think just looking at it from me and how I rank it, I think CD Lam's targets are locked in. Not that DJ Moore's aren't, but you have two other very capable wide receivers on the same team with him. And as we saw last week, they're trying to get Ramon Dunze some, you know, some featured touches, you know, so that's, that's encouraging where it's not just, you know, plays breaking down and he's looking for, for Dunze. So they're scheming up some things for him. I think just in the

case of, of this, yes, the matchup statistically is better. I still think that CD Lam again has a little bit of a higher ceiling if things go right for him. So I'm going to lean towards CD Lam, but you can certainly go with DJ Mori. He's had a better year since Dax gone down for sure. All right. Last one is from Serenity now. Dear Morty, Helen, Frank and Estelle. Oh dear Morty, Helen, Frank and Estelle. This is an easy one. Seinfeld characters. I rank them. As far as funniest or best? Funniest.

Oh, Frank is the funniest. Yeah. Number two is difficult between Estelle and Morty. Hard to beat Frank. I would go with Morty. I would go with Estelle. I really like Morty. Estelle is so, Estelle cracks me up.

Okay. I mean, yeah, you are like an old woman. So yeah, sure. Yeah. Half PPR. Nujoku. Oh, he's out. Sincere or Swift? McCormick.

Yeah, sincere. Yeah. Talk for a second. Golf today, Dan? Golf has been done for weeks now. Bro, it's 20 degrees today. Yeah, it's brutal. My for weeks now. 20 degrees today. Yeah, it's brutal.

My focus has shifted to these drones that keep flying over. Yeah. So what's going on there? Like what are people saying in your town? It's very weird. I mean, I've talked about so Thomas a little bit off air. No one really knows what's going on, but we've all at this point seen them. So we don't really know. I saw one that was flying incredibly low just over the trees. That's the one I saw. So I don't really know what to make of it at this point.

I'm just kind of waiting for somebody to tell me what's going on. And that doesn't appear to be the government because they're saying they don't know. So we'll see. I guess you're scared. I'm definitely a little nervous about this. I don't see why I wouldn't be. Yeah, I agree. This just reminds me so much of Independence Day when everybody was so excited and they went up to the rooftop to look and then they just got evaporated, you know?

I don't think any of that's gonna happen, but. What you're describing is poor little Dan is gonna go walk outside. Oh, look at the trees. There's gonna be a drone there. He's going to get zapped with a laser. I mean, not just him. No, it's going to be, it's going to come down.

It's going to New Jersey. I mean, I'm in trouble here in New York. You see Independence Day. I mean, Ben Roman in the comments said, what, are you just talking about a neighbor flying their drone? No, Ben, I'm talking about like legitimately from a decent distance away it looked like the size of a car and it was flying along the tree just over the tree line like that makes zero sense whatsoever. Like so I don't know what to make of that but I guess it could just be people flying

their drones I guess. Yeah this is a national story the FBI has been commenting on it. It's very weird. It is just gonna leave it at that. I'm definitely a little nervous and weirded out by the whole thing. Yeah, I don't blame you. Well, you can come stay with us. Go to the diner. I think they're flying over you now too. I've heard they're showing up in New York these days as well.

Well, this sounds like a job for the real cops. But now we've got jobs for the fantasy cops on fantasy football today. Here we go. There's been one that's, uh, that's made its way around the interwebs. It's gone viral on Twitter. Uh, Dan, you want to explain this one? You want me to do it? Oh, which one are we talking about? The crazy one, the crazy collusion one. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'll let you explain. I think you'll do better than me. Someone sent a screenshot of two fantasy managers, I think playing to a scoreless tie. Yeah.

Two players in my league benched all their players to force a tie and eliminate me from the playoffs. I've tried to explain this is cheating and collusion, but they think they're being smart. I need help. What do you think? So, yeah, go ahead, Jamie. Kick them out. They're done. Yeah, yeah. Kick them out. They're done.

Yeah, yeah. This couldn't be more collusion. Exactly. This is like the definition of collusion, two teams working together just by the pure definition of it. So that's the issue here. I don't mind the idea of trying, like we've talked about this before in other fantasy cops,

if you're in a spot where like you're in first or whatever, and you want to like manipulate your matchup for the playoffs or where you'll be in a bracket, going ahead and like benching players or whatnot, but not when you're working with another manager, that just becomes collusion at that point. It's so bad. Like how does the commissioner not step in here?

Les, I'm sure the commissioner is probably part of this, knowing all of our emails that we get about this. Like how does the commissioner not step in here and say, no, this is not happening, I'm sorry. I appreciate your effort, but you're colluding with each other to screw somebody else over. And this is not allowed. Doesn't anybody remember the chargers Raiders game from 2021 last week of the regular season, winner gets in the playoffs, losers out, and the Steelers, I believe, would get in over the loser. But if the two teams tied,

they both would have made the playoffs. And they went to overtime, and neither team played for the tie. They both tried. I think Brandon Staley, if I remember, he called timeout. He made some really controversial decision, and the Raiders won 35-32 on a on a field goal like a long field. It was an incredible game. I wish I remembered all the details,

but no that was that that was the way to do it. Go out and play for the win. You can't collude like that. You're out of the league. All right next up this one's from Tommy. This one's a little confusing so bear with me. Our league had four teams tie at seven and seven for the final playoff spot. No, for the final three playoff spots. One team must go. The league constitution says tiebreakers are in order. One record, so they all had the same record.

Two, quote, heads up results. And then three total points scored. Okay. Of the four teams that were tied, the aggregate heads up records amongst the tied teams were two and one, two and two, two and two, and one and two. So you could argue that the one and two team would be out,

but if you go to the third tiebreaker, total points scored, the one and two team would be out. But if you go to the third tiebreaker, total points scored, the one and two team would be in based on the third tiebreaker and out based on the second tiebreaker heads up results. If heads up results is interpreted as the aggregate heads up results. The manager is arguing that since the tiebreaker doesn't specifically state aggregate heads up results, There is no team amongst the tied teams with a clear undefeated heads up advantage over any other tied team. This one frustrates me so much. That's why I'm shaking my head.

It's just so backwards. It should be points and that's it. That's it. We can't be, there's already so much luck involved with the scheduling. Why are we adding more luck and variance to this game? Record one and then points. No, enough, no, not yet, record and then points.

There's a tie in the record, you go to points. That's the best team, that's the best team. Enough said. The only way you could do this is if everybody played each other the same amount of times. Yeah. But they're lopsided, they're not the same amount of wins and losses here.

Right. Because the one in two team would say, Hey, you, you, these other two teams were two and two. They had four games. I only had three games in this, you know, in this group of four. So I think you got to skip tiebreaker two and go to tiebreaker three and go to points. Take control of your league

and make the first tiebreaker points. Yeah. Get control back of your league. Absolutely. What would D they say? What do you feel like you're in control? You feel in control of your city. I Was born. Oh, no, do you feel in charge?

My brain is better than Adam. Yeah, I'm getting outside the prison He says Gotham take control of your city and I know it's better than Jamie's I used to have a pretty good Bain. I think all three of us have pretty bad Bains right now. Those are bad Bains. All right, this is from Thomas. You're Bain in my ass. The new guy in our league who's eliminated

dropped Sam Laporta right before Thursday Night Football last week. Our league has a rule that eliminated players can make transactions, try their best to play spoiler and all that, but they're not allowed to do it during the fantasy playoffs, which is week 15. But this was last week. So I initially had no problem at all with the Laporta drop

until someone pointed out that he also had both Stefan Diggs and J.K. Dobbins on his roster. And there's no logical reason for dropping Sam Laporta. To make things worse. It's not a fab league. And the guy who added him to the league and vouched for him is the sixth seed and is now going to get Sam Laporta for the fantasy playoffs. He swears he just didn't notice the two IR guys, which I actually believe given that this guy has failed to set his lineup twice and has made a few egregious, but not vetoable trades.

I take it in good faith that he's just horrendous at fantasy. Our commissioner ruled that the drop should stand since the Porta is not undropable, which I am respecting, even though the team I'm facing this week now gets the Porta as an addition. But my question to you is this, did the commissioner make the right ruling or should the Porta have been returned to the Guy's bench with Stefan digs removed instead

Yes Which one are you saying that they should have the Porter should have been back on his team and and dig should have been dropped If he has IR players on his team the commissioner should step in here and say you have other dropable players If you're just looking at why did he drop the portal? What was the reasoning? Hey, I don't know nothing. Nothing. I mean, it could be a spike drop. Some people make spike drop. But I think the only like it wasn't first off is he people make spike drop. Yeah, I agree. Is the man I'm going to do that with a lot of 49ers next is is is the drop because there was an illegal roster is the drop because

they were adding somebody else. Like, I don't understand why the, why the Porta was dropped. So if it's just dropping Laporta for an illegal roster, then you say, okay, look, Hey, you just didn't pay attention. You said so yourself. You didn't realize there are IR players on your team. Like for the, for the, for the sake of the league, like you have to go in and step in as a commissioner. I'm gonna make, you know, I'm gonna be cold hard

with this as I typically am, but we're asking a serious question about an unserious league. I mean, we have somebody who is not setting their lineups most of the time. Oh, that's not true, it's one unserious manager. You know, not everybody's life is fantasy football here. Okay.

Be careful what you say, Dan. You went a whole season without setting a lineup in one. That's not true. I didn't know that. I went a whole season without setting a line up in one place. That's not true. I didn't know that. I had muted that league and then I set it in week six. By the way, that league where I was supposedly 0-9, I won my last four games, okay? And I played, spoiler for two teams down the street.

You were not supposedly 0-9. You were 0-9. Oh, I was. And then I finished in sixth place. And then I won on a four-game winning streak when Puka got healthy and my other first round, second round pick got healthy. And I won four straight games and finished in sixth place. Wait, in the magazine league?

Yes. Take a look at the playoffs in that league. No, I saw seventh place. That's a big difference, Dan. Seventh or eighth. Well, I was going nine or whatever to start. Okay. All right.

That wasn't due to my inactivity. That was due to the injuries. I got a counterpoint, Jamie. What about all the previous drops that this manager has made that other other fantasy managers have been able to pick up throughout the season instead of him dropping Stefan Diggs or JK Dobbins? So I'm actually going to disagree with Jamie. No, but you know, he's made bad drops throughout the season. Right. Yeah. I think I would let Lepore. How inactive have they been?

Yeah, I don't know. I don't have all the answers, but it's just, I wouldn't quite do it. It almost feels sort of the same philosophy as, as the commissioner sending an email to an inactive manager in week 15 or week 14 and being like, Hey, set your lineup. But you didn't do that the six previous weeks when other teams were beating up on this guy. If they have been making, I guess that's fair. If they have been making ad drops throughout the course of the season and holding On to the two IR guys for whatever reason then yes, you should not do that If this is the only ad drop they've made in weeks, okay right before the playoffs Then I'm gonna step in speaking of bad commissioners. Can I actually chime in real quick?

I was I was sick all morning yesterday So I missed the drama but in the next you know latest edition of Adam screws up again as a commissioner I'm gonna mute what happened yesterday in the next, you know, latest edition of Adam screws up again as a commissioner, Jamie, what happened yesterday in the Big Burger Dynasty League? And why did I see like three trades process? I was looking at my phone. What did Adam do this time? There were trades? I didn't see I saw some trades made official notification on my phone. I'm like, trade has been made official. We're in the

playoffs. Yeah, no, you can you I would allow people to make trades up until the start of the game. You say the deadline was last week? Isn't that what Thomas has? No, I didn't say that. I didn't say it. No, he didn't say it, he said it though.

I didn't say that the, look, I'm gonna tell you the truth. I hate being commissioner of this league. Yeah, you gotta step down. I'm so bad at it. You just made, you just gotta step down. I raised, I helped, I helped, I mean, I didn't really do anything,

but I put this together to raise money for St. Jude. It's really the people, the two people who joined the league and paid a lot of money to be in it. They deserve the credit, not me, not me. But I started it because of St. Jude. I don't really want to be commissioner anymore. I'm awful at it. I didn't realize that we had a trade deadline in the league constitution. That was Monday. I intended to have it be Thursday right before the game started. The playoffs actually started. So I made a mistake there. I'm just an awful commissioner.

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Just me and Dan to finish off the show here. And Dan, I feel like mission accomplished already by me getting you to admit you're a terrible commissioner. It's not, I mean, it's not like I, okay, some of us finish in eighth place and then say we made the playoffs and finished in sixth. I'm just being honest here. All right, we do have some comments on Apple Podcasts. I appreciate that. So thanks for the reviews. This is from JMac. Pick two running backs on a flex in PPR. James Connor, James Cook, Zach Charbonneau, Jets running backs. I'm going Connor and Charbonneau. Those are the locks. It's only two.

Two and then a flex between James Cook. He's got Breece Hall and hold on. There's also John. There's also John Smith and Adam Thielen. No, no, no. James Cook over John who went feeling. Oh, feeling. Oh, I kind of want to play feeling, but but I'm gonna I'm gonna go James Cook. I

Am going to I Think I'm actually gonna go feeling Cuz the choice we don't respect it. So I'm going cook. All right next up we have From team r10 Next up we have from Tmar10. Okay, I need a Superflex and a wide receiver. CJ Stroud, AJ Brown, Tyreke Hill, Terry McLaurin, DJ Moore. What's the format? I don't know.

Okay, so let's do it again. Give me the names one more time. CJ Stroud, AJ Brown, Tyreke Kill, Terry McLaurin, DJ Moore. So Stroud, of course, I'm not gonna bench a guy. Oh, it's PPR. Super Flex quarterback. And then it's, I should be just looking at the email because I've already just totally.

No, it's on Apple Podcasts, it's not your fault. I'm gonna go with Tyre Kill over AJ Brown, McLaurin and DJ Moore. Okay. How about you? How about you? Got it. I'm in on that. All right.

Next up, by the way, the subject line on that was Die Hard is a Christmas movie. So that's just an awful take. Once I watched it, didn't I? What was my take finally on it? I gotta think back to the podcast. I don't know. I'll think about it right now.

Not a Christmas movie. Thank you. Good for you. From day 818, Deandre Swift, Tank Bigsby, Elijah Moore, or Cedric Tillman PPR. Swift Bigsby Moore, Tillman, uh, Bigsby. Not for me and PPR. It's tough, but I just think he has the most explosive potential with Tillman. I'm gonna go with Tillman there. It's going to be Tillman or more for me.

I think they're going to have struggle passing. I'm going to stand by my take. We disagree with you on that entirely. I think it's going to be a cold game outdoors. The chiefs are going to control the clock all game and kick field goals. Jeremy from Ridgewood, New Jersey. That's a place where he's probably seen some drones. Yeah.

I bet. Pick three of the following five and a half PPR league Pollard, Shakir, Dowdell, Marvin Harrison Jr. Devante Smith. Shakir, Dowdell, this is PPR, right? Dowdell or no Shakir, Harrison. Well, Pollard is Pollard if he plays, I just don't think Pollard is going to play. I would go Pollard, Shakir, Dowdell. And if Pollard is Pollard if he plays, I just don't think Pollard's going to play. I would go Pollard, Shakir, Doudle. And if Pollard's out, I would go Doudle, Shakir and Marvin. So I'm responding to Matthew with his hilarious joke. What was Dan? Are you broadcasting from your parents bedroom?

This is a great original joke, Matthew. Oh my gosh, buddy. Chill out. Matthew's not voting for us now. That's I see you're pandering to the voters. I understand. I respect it. Absolutely. All right. This is a true poker fan 888 comment on Apple. Nice. Can I trust Kyler Murray going forward? Should I start Kyler or Caleb Williams, Anthony Richardson or Drake May?

It's Kyler for sure for this week. I don't know about going forward, but this is a great matchup against New England. Yeah, you can afford to play it week by week. And I think we have one more here. No, just a thank you from a guy from Titletown. Well, thank you. I appreciate that, sir.

Oh wait, we have this one. Oh man, there's a lot from title town. Well, thank you. I appreciate that, sir. Oh wait, we have this one. Oh man, there's a lot of questions here. Start two running backs in a flex. Brock Bowers, Devon H. and Chuba Hubbard, Tony Pollard, geez. See, this is how it's done. Mel gets it. Anyway, say those names again's done. Mel gets it. Anyway, say those names again.

Oh. Mel said Dan streams from the outhouse, not his folks bedroom. That's actually funny. I'm just gonna make this easy. I would start Bowers, A-chan. No, I would start A-chan, Hubbard, and I would start Pollard.

If he plays. You're benching Bowers? Yeah. Because of the redder situation? No, yeah, yeah, partially. I don't think Bowers is benchable. I want to make that clear. I don't think any of these guys are benchable.

HN Hubbard and Pollard. True. Uh, well, Pollard, I think won't play. Well, I wouldn't say that. Pollard's faked us out a lot with Yeah, true. Injuries. Oh, this is tough.

You can go with Bowers, but I think we I can't bench Bowers. That's fine. Yeah. All right. Thanks everybody for the questions. Now your Apple podcast questions. You just did Apple podcast.

Now your YouTube questions. You want to go ahead and pick a few there. Okay, let's see. There's a lot of jokes on me right now, so we'll avoid those and we'll go straight to this, which I respect by the way. I keep making jokes on me, unless they're like the stupid, like classic joke,

no offense, but I called you out because it's just like, not a good joke. Ah, Mel says sit one D hop waddle or Rico and full PPR. I will sit D hop. Okay. Uh, kid I'll go. I got you now. Dalton Kincaid or Jawan Johnson. Are we sure Kincaid's even playing? Yeah, I'm pretty sure he's playing. He's been practicing full. He's got the worst matchup, but I'm going to go with Kincaid. I can't possibly play Jake Hayner's Joanne Johnson.

Jake Hayner has played in one game. He's played in like three, but he played a significant amount in one game and he threw so much to Chris Olave. So I have no idea what he's going to do in this game. After getting 10 total points from Kyron and cup, which two players have the highest upside out of chase Brown, Tyree kill, Charbonneau, McLaurin, and Garrett Wilson, it is one third PPR.

That's such a tough cause like he has so many good players here, Luke. And it sucks that you just had Kyron and cup in, but I don't blame you. I would have played him too. I think Tyreek has the most, Tyreek we can put on there right as we're looking for upside. Tyreek, Charbonne, right? Tyreek and Charbonne probably the most upside. I'd probably go Chase Brown and Charbonne.

I mean the upside is kinda negligible. All these guys have upside. Wait you wouldn't say Tyreek was in the upside. Not in a third PPR. Yeah, oh, third PPR. I've never even played in that kind of league. Very interesting. From Beans, Dan Schneier looks like the general manager

for a regional bologna distributor. Fun fact, Beans, I don't eat bologna. What a disgusting mystery meat that must be. They basically taste like a hot dog. I mean, if you like hot dogs, you see. I do like hot dogs, but I'm still unwilling to try bolog taste like a hot dog. I mean if you like hot dogs you see. I do like hot dogs but I'm still unwilling to try bologna because a hot dog is different. You've never had bologna? No I've never had bologna.

Why would I eat bologna at any point? It's good. It's disgusting mystery meat. And I think the difference that you're not understanding here between a bologna and a hot dog is the texture. Bologna texture looks gross. I guess if I fried it up it'd be fine and crispy. No. Bologna is good. Just eat cold bologna texture looks gross. I guess if I fried it up, it'd be fine and crispy. No, bologna is good.

Just eat cold bologna. Cold bologna? You're eating cold bologna? Yeah, I eat cold bologna. I haven't done that since I was a kid. If anything, you gotta fry it up. I haven't had bologna since I was a kid, but I would eat bologna. Ugh, cold bologna, that soft texture.

Ugh. Jeff wants us to rank these three. Ridley, Shakir, Tillman. Shakir, one. That's obvious. Ridleyir, Tillman. Shakir one, that's obvious. Ridley two, Tillman. I'm not as high on Tillman as you are. No, I'm not that high on Tillman either, but I agree with your order.

Tillman or Elijah Moore. I'd lean Tillman. I guess, yeah, Tillman. I don't feel good about either. Givante Spears, Tucker, or Sean Tucker, or Kend feel good about either. Javante Spears, Tucker or Sean Tucker or Kendry Miller. If Pollard's out Spears, let's start by saying that. If not, let's go under that impression. I think I still might go Spears.

I think I, oh gosh, I don't even know. Tucker? I'd go Javante. Nah. I'd go Javante. Here's another thing. Ham over turkey over baloney says Sebastian Doreen. Ham is another meat that I just find absolutely disgusting. The worst version of pork. One of my favorite foods. Ham, regular ham, deli ham, deli ham is disgusting. What is it? Maybe a Christmas ham, which I've never had a Christmas spiral ham. And I've always

kind of wanted to wonder that I bet could be good. That I bet could be good, but that gross cold cut out of the sleeve ham. Now, are you doing this just by looking at it or you've actually tried it? I've tried ham. I don't buy this at all. It's been on an Italian sandwich. The bad, when you go to a bad Italian deli, they'll put ham instead of like the good Italian red meats. Like they'll some, it'll be like loaded with ham.

That this is how you know if you get a good Italian sandwich from a deli. If it's mostly that like gross ham that Adam likes, that's a bad one. If they put like, you know, the prosciutto and they put like all the good spice hams on there, that's how you know you got a good Italian deli. Okay.

All right. We've got a question for from Western. Oh, I can't do a week 16 question right now. I'm sorry. I don't have no, no We're not ready for that From Sam pick a wide receiver and a flex and PPR neighbors, Judy Jamison Williams and Pollard Um, I mean we're assuming that Pollard is gonna play in this let's do that. So then it's Pollard for me for sure out of these I

Would rank the receivers Judy neighbors JMo. I Wouldn't again I'm down on that whole Browns passing game so I will go with Neighbors James and Judy in that order Hey ham hater. Yeah, this is a bad take. Like him is wonderful. No, no deli ham, cold cut deli. You know what actually tastes kind of a lot like the spiral Christmas ham? What cold cut deli ham, buddy?

No, I doubt that they taste similar at all. Actually, they do taste cooked and probably taste good. Start two out of three and half PPR McLaurin, Dowdell, Brian Thomas Jr. Tough one. That is a tough one. Oh, Brian Thomas Jr. last week. The volume was insane. I'm going to start BTJ.

I'm going to start McLaurin and Dowdell. You're going to start Thomas. I'm going to start Thomas and McLaurin. What a great comment we have here from beans. Oh, Adam Azer looks like a generic police sketch. That is really funny. I'm just glad this wasn't me. I hope this is not true.

Pig hearts and kidneys are in baloney. What do you mean you hope it's not true? What do you think's in all this? Not pig hearts and kidneys. What do you think's in a hot dog, Adam? You're not that naive. I don't know specifically what's in it. I know that in The Simpsons,

they say that a boot is in the hot dog and in that great episode. Oh, Lisa the vegetarian. All right, this is the assignment for those of you in the chat. What, which Simpsons episode should Dan Schneier watch? I recommend seasons three through seven. I will not accept one, two or eight.

I think we might even wanna go season four through seven here, but if you have a favorite episode, I would say Lisa on Ice would be my recommendation for you. That one is great, but it doesn't have a ton of Homer. So yeah, I will, first of all, this question, Bo Nix or Anthony Richardson's great question here. Can I say something? Well, let's go first with this question. I'm question, Bo Nix or Anthony Richardson's great question. Can I say something? Well, let's go first with this question.

I'm gonna go Bo Nix. Yeah. And now a few things that I wanna talk about. One, I've weirdly never seen Simpsons, but I have seen a decent amount because it was on TV a lot at the time. Like I was a kid and it was like late night of Futurama. And I didn't find that humor funny.

And it's the same writer. And I've heard it's the same humor So I don't know about myself with Simpsons. We'll see if it's on my alley Here's another take from Hector Carnitas is the best version of pork good version of pork for sure But prosciutto is the best version of pork by far prosciutto is pork. I thought prosciutto is beef prosciutto is pork I used to think it was beef too and then a Muslim friend of mine couldn't eat it and told me why. Oh, that's interesting. Brian Thomas Jr. McLaurin Tyreek Hill sit one.

Why do I want, I honestly, you know what? I'm doing it. I want to do it and I'm doing it. I'm sitting a Camara. I don't care. That's what I want to do. I don't trust that offense. I would do the same thing.

Yeah. I would just do the same. Cook or Ridley PPR? I just, again, I know the matchup's not horrible, but, and it's good, but on paper, I just don't trust Will Levis. I'm going with Cook. All right, let's go with, do not watch the Simpsons.

Actually, you know what? This is actually a great take. This is the best version of pork and it's better than prosciutto, al pastor tacos, especially if you go to like tacos, El Gordo in Vegas, places like that. One of the best places in Vegas, my favorite taco ever. Really.

I've got it. Cape Fear, season five, episode two. Have you ever seen the movie Cape Fear? No chance. No, no, no. Watch Cape Fear. That is- Cape Fear Simpsons the movie Cape Fear? No chance. No, no, no. Watch Cape Fear. That is Cape Fear Simpsons episode Cape Fear Simpsons. It'll be good though if I haven't seen the movie. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, all right. All right. A few more here on YouTube. Uh, Darnold or Winston and, uh, I guess he's got Judy. So Arnold, Arnold, yeah, for sure. And neighbors, Judy, Marvin Harrison, Jr.

Did we do this one? We didn't. I'd go to, I think I'm gonna go to MHJ. Okay. Stevenson or Marvin Harrison PPR. MHJ full PPR. Yeah, this is a good matchup. He really should get going. I don't think it's a good matchup.

I think he's gonna get Christian Gonzalez. I just think they're gonna move the ball and be in position to score a lot. He really should get going. I don't think it's a good matchup. I think he's going to get Christian Gonzalez. I just think they're going to move the ball and be in position to score a lot. And he'll get one of those. If they open up a lead, it's really bad for him. Andre. Um, that's true. DeAndre Hopkins, Devante Smith or Elijah Moore in non PPR. God, I hate this option. I'm going to honestly non PPR.

I'm tempted to go Hopkins. I am going Hopkins. I don't think the other two are doing much anyway. I'm with you. He gets a ton of end zone targets. You need the touchdowns. I don't agree with this take, but I like that he calls it Taylor ham and not pork roll.

So the Dana Bede says, Taylor ham is the best version of pork and Taylor ham is how you call it. It's the Dana Bides. The Dana Bides. Oh, that was a really bad pronunciation. I was trying to get it in quick. Yeah. That's my excuse. You know the reference, right? No. The dude abides. What's that? Big Lebowski. Oh, the dude abides Lebowski. Yeah. Now I

saw Lebowski once. That's it on a plane. Uh, me too. Did you like it? I should have, not as much as I thought I would based on I think sometimes things get hyped to me Like there were moments. I liked I liked early when he when like the conversation when they're at the bowling alley With the four of them that was funny, but like I'm trying to remember what they can't even remember what they said John to Turow's character is amazing. Yeah with all them there to Turow had to be there exact but like I don't know the whole Movie I didn't love non PPR pick pick two, Marvin Harrison, Jameson Williams, Malik neighbors, Jacoby Myers. Ooh, non PPR.

I think Harrison scores this week, so I'm going Harrison. Okay. And Jameson. I'm gonna go Myers and Jameson. And that is it for our mailbag. Thanks so much for watching and listening everybody. We will talk to you on Sunday, 1130 AM. Eastern and have a great week and good luck. Bye. Paramount Podcasts