Fantasy Football Today - Start or Sit (AFC): WINNING Lineup Tips & Players to AVOID (12/19 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Episode Date: December 19, 2024

We break down crucial starts and sits to help you secure your playoff victory in Week 16! Heath kicks things off with teams' high (3:00) and low implied totals, followed by Jamey's Start of the Week: ...Bucky Irving (5:03). We cover key injuries (10:00) and answer your most challenging lineup questions with one (19:50) question for each game includes Zay Flowers, Joe Mixon (21:52), Tyreek Hill (23:10), Khalil Shakir (24:55) and others. Then, we go game by game with complete breakdowns, starting with Chiefs-Texans (29:28), Ravens-Steelers (37:30), Rams-Jets (44:48), Dolphins-49ers (53:50), Browns-Bengals (1:02:10), Titans-Colts (1:07:10), Bills-Patriots (1:11:00), and Raiders-Jaguars (1:15:00). Fantasy Football Today is available for free on the Audacy app as well as Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever else you listen to podcasts Please VOTE for Fantasy Football Today in the Sports Podcast Awards in the "Best Fantasy Betting and Gaming Podcast" category: https://bit.ly/3Zxw3uS Watch FFT on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/fantasyfootballtoday Shop our store: shop.cbssports.com/fantasy  SUBSCRIBE to FFT Express on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fantasy-football-today-express/id1528634304 Follow FFT Express on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6qyGWfETSBFaciPrtvoWCC?si=6529cbee20634da8 SUBSCRIBE to FFT Dynasty on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fantasy-football-today-dynasty/id1696679179 FOLLOW FFT Dynasty on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2aHlmMJw1m8FareKybdNfG?si=8487e2f9611b4438&nd=1 SUBSCRIBE to FFT DFS on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fantasy-football-today-dfs/id1579415837 FOLLOW FFT DFS on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5zU7pBvGK3KPhfb69Q1hNr?si=1c5030a3b1a64be2 Follow our FFT team on Twitter: @FFToday, @AdamAizer, @JameyEisenberg, @daverichard, @heathcummingssr Follow the brand new FFT TikTok account: https://www.tiktok.com/@fftoday Join our Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/FantasyFootballToday/ Sign up for the FFT newsletter https://www.cbssports.com/newsletter You can listen to Fantasy Football Today on your smart speakers! Simply say "Alexa, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Football Today podcast" or "Hey Google, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Football Today podcast." Visit the betting arena on CBSSports.com for all the latest sportsbook reviews and sportsbook promos. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:01:01 with iGaming Ontario. This is fantasy football today from CBS Sports. What a play! Can you believe this? pursuant to an operating agreement with iGaming Ontario. Adam, Dave, Jamie and Heath. Oh, what's going on? You ready to set some lineups? You ready to win and move to the fantasy football championship round? That's what we're here to help you with. Welcome to fantasy football today presented by bet MGM, the sports book born in Vegas.
Starting point is 00:01:36 Adam Azer with Heath Cummings, Jamie Eisenberg will be joining us shortly. It's a weird week Heath, you know, these quarterbacks we were just talking about you, what'd you say you have five that you like this week? Five quarterbacks that I like this week. And you know what? I'm going to go right into our trivia question
Starting point is 00:01:50 because I'm going to pour some cold water on even five. Which must start quarterback has not scored more than 20.6 fantasy points in six point per passing touchdown leagues in five straight matchups against this week's opponent. Lamar Jackson. That is half of the answer. There is another one. Josh Allen.
Starting point is 00:02:12 No. Jaylen Hertz. No, I mean, maybe, but there's only one, I doubt it, but there's only one that I know for sure. Who is it? It's Joe Burrow. He always has this thing with Cleveland. They have his number.
Starting point is 00:02:24 It is really weird. He hasn't played them yet this season. Well, I do think- Oh no, he has, he has, I'm sorry. He has, and he scored, he didn't have a good game. Yeah. I do think that that would be, like if you wanted to have concern about Joe Burrow,
Starting point is 00:02:37 or even Josh Allen in a similar situation, like both of those games could be games where the other team's offense is so bad that they just don't need to do that much. It's just crazy. So for, for burrow, his highest amount of points against Cleveland in the last five meetings is 20.6 in PP in a six point pass in touchdown leagues for Jackson. He has never scored 20 fantasy points against the Steelers
Starting point is 00:03:06 and he's only faced them five times. He's missed a lot of Steelers games, but only one of them have been at home. So I'm hoping a little home cooking can help Lamar Jackson. Actually, I don't care because I don't have any Lamar Jackson. So I'm all about it right now. How could anybody who has Lamar Jackson care?
Starting point is 00:03:25 Like who, or they have Jayden Daniels, who was so fantastic against Philadelphia the first time that he played him. So I got a text yesterday from a friend that said, Hey, I think he used the word sacrilegious. Would it be sacrilegious to sit Lamar Jackson for Kyler Murray with given the matchups, Kyler against- I don't think, yeah, I don't think it has anything
Starting point is 00:03:43 to do with religion, but I do think that, like what? You feel so much more confident in Kyler Murray who's basically been good once in the last month. That's what I said. I said, he hasn't been good enough to justify. It's like, I see where you're coming from, but that's how people are feeling. They're nervous, but you know what?
Starting point is 00:04:01 They're just really aren't a lot of slam dunk quarterbacks. So you're not, you're in, as Jamie would say, the same canoe as a lot of other fantasy managers. So how about we talk about players we love. Who is a player you love this week, Heath? So I told you I was going to do this and I hope it works well, but one thing I noticed and it's directly related to what the quarterback situation
Starting point is 00:04:21 that you talked about was there's only seven teams this week with an implied total over 25. We're going to talk about the other end of this spectrum in just a moment, but the green Bay Packers, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Buffalo Bills, the Detroit Lions, the Cincinnati Bengals, the Arizona Cardinals, the Baltimore Ravens and the Atlanta Falcons are the only seven teams this week with an implied total over 25. I love it if I have players on those teams in my lineups this week and if I've got a tiebreaker, I'm going to lean towards players on those teams.
Starting point is 00:04:59 Can you say it one more time? The Packers, the Buccaneers, the Bills, the Lions, the Bengals, the Cardinals, the Ravens and the Falcons. All right. Let me throw just a couple of names at you here. Marvin Harrison Jr. How do you feel about him? I figured what we would happen here is I'm going to give you the other list in just a moment and you're going to ask me about the best players on each of those
Starting point is 00:05:25 teams. Um, so I, listen, I think Marvin Harrison Jr is someone I feel great about if he's in my flex split, because man, that could be the hammer from the flex that wins me the matchup. And if my flex is bad, it's probably okay. Okay. Here's a good one. Marvin Harrison Jr, Jerry Judy from our chat. I am probably going, that's it of the weird thing because the Cleveland Browns do make the other list. But their implied total has not moved as much as you and I and I think Jamie would all agree the difference should be between a game started by Jameis Winston and a game started by Dorian Thompson Robinson. Um, it's only down to like 19.75.
Starting point is 00:06:07 So Judy hasn't fallen as far in my projections as I would like, but I'm just going to force him down in the rankings. I think I'd probably start Marvin. Okay. Hey Jamie, what's going on? Hey guys. Uh, do you want to give us your start of the week? Sure.
Starting point is 00:06:24 Uh, Bucky Irving is the start of the week. I'm hoping that he's got no issues with his back. I wasn't thrilled that he's still on the injury report, but I'm sure it's just maintenance more than anything because not practicing most of the week last week and still played and had over 100 yards once again. So taking on a Dallas defense has gotten better against the run lately, but I just trust Liam Cohen and the offensive system there for Tampa Bay. They've just been so fantastic at running the ball.
Starting point is 00:06:45 Hopefully he doesn't lose a lot of work to Rashad White. He's clearly gonna share. But both guys have shown the ability to be successful. I just think Bucky Irving's got a chance to be a top 12 running back this week, just based on his opportunities. Hopefully he goes for the positive instead of the negative in the receiving yards, cuz last week he had two catches from minus four yards. But Bucky's typically giving you some good numbers all the way around.
Starting point is 00:07:03 115 yards rushing last week 54 yard run didn't show any signs of being hampered by the back. I think he's gonna have an opportunity again for potential top 10 finish. All right, Bucky Irving, and then players to avoid so he's wants to give us the other end of that list. Nine teams this week. This is terrible. Like how are there nine teams within a pretty implied total below 20? You do
Starting point is 00:07:24 not generally want to start players with an implied total below 20 points. New Orleans Saints, New England Patriots, Jacksonville Jaguars. Now I will say this one's gone back and forth. The Raiders are not on the list because it seems like every day that I look, a different team is favored in this game. Right now the Raiders are favored. So Jacksonville is on the list, but the Raiders are not far.
Starting point is 00:07:46 The Tennessee Titans, the New York Giants, the Cleveland Browns, the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Houston Texans and the Denver Broncos. All right. Obviously we're not gonna sit Nico Collins. We're not gonna sit Cortland Sutton, Malik Nader. I'm not gonna say Joe, I'm not gonna say Joe Mixon either.
Starting point is 00:08:04 That's a, well, yeah, that's an interesting one though, cause what a horrible matchup, but we'll talk about that in a little bit with one question for each game. So, so he is not saying avoid all these guys saying, think about this is a low scoring week. It looks like this could be a tiebreaker. Saints, Patriots, Jaguars, Titans, Giants, Browns,
Starting point is 00:08:21 Steelers, Texans, Broncos. These teams are implied to score fewer than 20 points. Jamie, who are you avoiding? I'd like to avoid Isaiah Pacheco. I wish we would have been saying this for the last three weeks. He's just not getting the job done, not getting enough playing time. You thought, okay, after the second game where he had 16 total touches, now it's, you know, opportunity to beat up the Browns and he didn't beat up the Browns. Now it's opportunity to beat up the Browns and he didn't beat up the Browns. So it's frustrating taking out a Texans run defense number
Starting point is 00:08:50 four in terms of fewest fantasy points allowed to the position. They did a great job in slowing down Devon Achan in the run game last week. Pacheco's not doing enough in the passing game, four catches in the three games since he's come back in week 13. So while I thought, I think a lot of people,
Starting point is 00:09:03 myself included, were hoping for somewhat of a savior for your fantasy team going into the playoffs. He's been the absolute opposite. So tough matchup, bad quarterback right now in terms of injury, most likely at least, could be a rough game for Pacheco once again. I will give a little bit of good news because it does maybe look like it could be a low scoring week. It doesn't as of now, as of Thursday morning, doesn't seem like we're going to have that terrible weather anywhere. You know, it doesn't seem like we're going to have one of those games in Chicago where it's four degrees and snowing all day
Starting point is 00:09:36 and no one can operate the offense or anything like that. So that right now at least is a positive. It'll be cold, but nothing too crazy. All right. Hey, listen, if you wouldn't mind, if you got 30 seconds to spare, please vote for us. Go to sportspodcastgroup.com and go to vote now. Best fantasy betting and gaming podcast. Scroll down and find fantasy football today.
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Starting point is 00:11:18 It's tough to pull it off this time of year. And I think I'm like a little bit too late to get, like to order stuff online. I think I missed it. I got to go to a store, get a gift card or something. I don't know. I'm not good at gifts. I'm very bad at gift giving. I'm one of the worst.
Starting point is 00:11:35 I'm seasonal. What does that mean? I'm pretty good at gift giving when it's not football season. Yeah. Well, no, you're not. It should be the case for me. I can see that it should be the case for me. I can see that. It should be the case, but yeah.
Starting point is 00:11:46 All right, fine. At least I'm not alone during football season. News and notes. All right, so we know Dorian Thompson Robinson starting, but that's not necessarily for the rest of the season. That is a week to week basis for the Browns. Mason Rudolph. I asked you this question on Sports Network yesterday.
Starting point is 00:12:02 Would you give any thought to, like you're deciding Jerry Judy versus we had the question Marvin Harrison, you know, somebody in that same range, any consideration to Thompson Robinson could stink and they bench him mid game. I mean, he probably is going to sick. Yeah, I don't know. It seems like we get somebody at the at the next press conference. He's asked how bad does Dorian Thompson Robinson have to be for you to pull it out of the game? Speaking of press conferences, do not tell Titans head coach Brian Callahan that his
Starting point is 00:12:40 team is soft. Yes, you should. That's how you get good clips. Holy cow. He went on, I don't know, nearly two minute rant, which he wasn't screaming or anything, but he was using very profane language. And then at the end, what a line to finish it off. So if you haven't seen it, it's worth your time. But Mason Rudolph's going to start. Gino Smith looking good. You guys ranking Geno Smith yet against Minnesota? I wouldn't start him against Minnesota, no.
Starting point is 00:13:09 But you rank him? No. Well, I mean, ranking, yeah, he's not making the top 24. Okay, I'm sorry. Yeah. I would start Michael Pennex over him if that's the question. No, no, no, but I'm just, you are expecting him to start. We are treating the receivers as if he is starting. Yes. And I do
Starting point is 00:13:25 think it's much better than Sam Howell. I mean, Sam Howell played basically the entire second half, right, or most of the second half. Yeah. And could not get away from any pressure like the offensive. It really is a credit to Gino Smith that he's been able to avoid pressure as much as he had because that offensive line has been a disaster. Oh, and it's a little disappointing for me because I used to love going for Sam Howell but I guess I don't get to do that. Led the NFL in pass attempts last year by the way. So Drew Locke is going to start for the Giants. Penick starting. Baker Mayfield mispracticed. We
Starting point is 00:14:02 think that's nothing. Tuwit Sanh's on my low was limited with a hip issue. He should be fine. Aiden O'Connell and Patrick Mahomes practiced in full. Are you guys expecting Aiden O'Connell to face the Jaguars and Patrick Mahomes to face the Texans? Yes. Yeah. Okay. I knew Mahomes was going to play.
Starting point is 00:14:21 I like, he's so obviously was going to play. He has a Chiefs fan. Do you want him to play. I like this. He's so obviously was going to play as a chiefs fan. Do you want him to play? You know, the game is Wednesday and. He's fine. Yeah, like I thought he was going to play on Sunday night. He's fine. The nice thing is just win two games in five days, which isn't really that big a deal. And then he gets 24 days off.
Starting point is 00:14:49 So funny. All right. What else? Oh, I was going to read something about Kirk Cousins from CBS sports.com, but I just encourage you to go read it. Cody Benjamin wrote an article about what the Falcons can do in terms of the money they owe Kirk Cousins and they could just cut him and read the story Running back news. All right, both Seahawks running backs missed practice. Zach Charbonnet has an oblique injury
Starting point is 00:15:13 Ken Walker did some walk-through activities, but he missed practice. Is anybody picking up another Seahawks running back right now? I Did in our podcast league, you know, I think if you're in a deeper format and you're stuck, it's not a bad idea to speculate on Kenny McIntosh just because he seemed like he'll be the next man up. But again, you've got to be talking desperate situation to trust the third string running back against the Vikings. That's a really good run defense. But when we're talking about Amir Abdullah and we might be talking about Patrick Taylor again and looking at some of these situations where we're on to third string and fourth string
Starting point is 00:15:47 and fifth string running backs you know it's um he's in that he's in that conversation you know so he'd be he'd be right around Kendre Miller if he starts he'd be right around uh you know for me at least like the Chiefs running backs and the Steelers running backs and you know high-end flex. Yeah and we're a long way from him, you know, being the starter. It's not uncommon for guys to miss practice on Wednesday. So Charbonne, he didn't leave the game with an injury. So, you know, we'll see. Isaac Garendo missed practice with a hamstring injury that he apparently sustained last week. So I had a bunch of bids in dropping Patrick Taylor. I
Starting point is 00:16:21 canceled all of those. We'll just see what happens there. We'll hold on to Taylor for now. Uh, Breeze Hall was not on the injury report. That was good news. Roshon Johnson practiced- But he didn't practice though. That's weird. That- Yes, that was weird. Okay. We'll keep an eye on what happens with Breeze Hall. Uh, Roshon Johnson practiced in full. David Montgomery is not on IR yet, but I still dropped him. Thanks to some help from Jamie. I was like, should I drop? Do you think it's okay to drop Montgomery? He's like, yeah. So he might come back at some point,
Starting point is 00:16:50 maybe in the playoffs, but you can drop Montgomery. Zulu McLaughlin out tonight. The St. Sein Clyde Edwards, he layer to their practice squad. Sincere McCormick out for the season. Tony Pollard missed practice, no surprise. Tyrone Tracy Jr. was limited with an ankle injury. At wide receiver, Marquise Brown practiced in full. How about that? George Pickens mispractice. So he's
Starting point is 00:17:08 not looking great right now. They're playing Saturday. Jalen Waddle mispractice. Cedric Tillman still in the concussion protocol, but might play this week at Cincinnati. Tight end news. David Najoku mispractice. Please get back out there. Zach Ertz mispractice. Will Disley is out, but Jamie Hayden-Hirst is likely to be activated tonight for the Chargers. Does that change anything for Stone Smart? It's not great. You know, I mean, knowing that there's another guy there that they clearly have trusted in the past. It's just a matter of, you know, how much will you were counting on him, I would probably be a little bit cautious. So clearly if Brenton strange is there, make that move and pivot to you know, what what should be a better situation. And then I mean, I'm not I'm not starting smart this week, I'm going to drop him outside the top 12. All right. On defense. Well, actually, let me go to the offensive line. Trent Williams,
Starting point is 00:18:01 very unlikely to play it seems for the 49ers. Chicago left guard Tevin Jenkins mispracticed with a calf injury and Ryan Kelly the center for the Colts. He expects to play this week. It would be nice to get him back against Tennessee. Patrick Sertan will play tonight. Other big... TJ Watt was limited. Lario Gonjobi was limited. But a couple of defensive backs I, mispractice for the Steelers. I'll double check on that. Youngway Ku is on IR. Don't start him. And Giants edge rusher Brian Burns has an ankle injury.
Starting point is 00:18:33 So he's considered day to day right now, as they are dropping like flies on the Giants defense. All right, we got to get to one question for each game. Before we do that, I'm going to give you my favorite stat of the week. It is making me a little nervous, guys. Mark Andrews, I think you have him as a top seven tight end. He has never scored in 10 games against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Starting point is 00:18:57 And he scored a touchdown in three straight games. Currently, he has never scored a touchdown in four straight games in his career. Oh, my gosh. Is anybody nervous about Mark Andrews with this history? He's a tight end. I did drop him in the rankings a little bit when you told me the stat, just because he's been so touchdown dependent. So he's still a number one tight end.
Starting point is 00:19:22 I would start strange over him, but that's uh In in PPR. That's the extent of it. I mean look at some points gonna find the end zone against the team You know, it's just that there's there's there's too many too many times. Well, they'll face each other and I wonder how many times Because it's happened a few that Lamar did not play in some of the games where Andrews has faced him So take that into account But yeah, he's he's, he's not outright benchable because of that. What's, what's more worrisome Mark Andrews never scoring a touchdown against the Steelers or Sam Laporta never scoring a touchdown outside. What's the bigger sample size? Cause we said Laporta was six games outdoors, right? Ten games for Mark Andrews. So it is a
Starting point is 00:20:00 bigger sample size for Andrews. Probably the same sample size for Andrews with Lamar. So it is a bigger sample size for Andrews. Probably the same sample size for Andrews with Lamar. Prah, Lamar has only played the Steelers five times. Less, there you go. Yeah, am I right about that? I'm pretty sure I'm right about that. Five times, four of them. Well has Andrews played in all those though?
Starting point is 00:20:16 That's also. I think so. Oh, Andrews has missed some games, that's a good point. Maybe not, maybe not. But yeah, so Andrews zero touchdowns in 10 games against the Steelers. In 26 games against his other two division rivals, he scored 18 touchdowns.
Starting point is 00:20:35 Crazy stuff. All right. I just say, like we're not doing the Steelers game today, or the Lions game today, right? Correct. Okay, so Dave's gonna have some fantastic Jared Goff cold weather stats. I'm telling you, it's not a single quarterback.
Starting point is 00:20:47 All right. Except Josh Alley, just started. All right. We're we'll be right back with one question for each game on fantasy football today. All right, folks. Here we go. One question for each game, starting with Pittsburgh at Baltimore starter sit, Zay Flowers. High end number three receiver.
Starting point is 00:21:04 You know, he's he's been a little unlucky. Uh, did score touchdown last time these two teams met, but under 12 PPR points now for whatever, ever since the Broncos game, which I believe was week seven, six or seven, um, it's, it's been a pretty long time since we've seen him have a monster game. So if you look at what the Steelers have allowed the last couple of weeks, there's been a lot of big games to wide receivers, but that's. Jamar chase.
Starting point is 00:21:30 That's the two Eagles guys. You know, flowers has just been overshadowed a little bit by Rashad Bateman scoring touchdowns, Mark Andrews going touchdown. So I think you're clearly starting him in three receiver leagues. You've probably been doing so all along. Um, I would start him over Jerry Judy, for example. I would start him over Jerry Judy, for example. I would start him over Jerry Judy. I'm not sure if I've got that currently, but that's the way I'll, I'll end up. Um, yeah, he's like the very top of the, I don't love my wide receiver, so I'm going to start this guy. Uh, as a flowers has not had a single game with anywhere between 12 and 18.4 PPR fantasy points
Starting point is 00:22:08 per game. He is either below 12 or 18 and a half or more. That makes him a consistent tough call. Very strange. Houston at Kansas City, who are some guys you would start over Joe Mixon who has the toughest matchup in fantasy and has been horrible in tough matchups. Who are some guys you'd start over Joe Mixon? Saquon, Jacobs, Gibbs, and Chase Brown. Wow! You have him fifth? Woo! Okay. Jamie, how about you? I'm a little bit lower, but it's
Starting point is 00:22:38 basically just all the must-start guys. Like, he's just one of those guys you just can't sit at this point unless you like I love bucky Irving this week I'm not doing that. Why? I might move Bijan ahead of him. You don't have Bijan Robinson ahead of Joe Mixon are you kidding? How? Like he's Bijan. He's Joe Mixon.
Starting point is 00:23:00 Yeah but like he's been he was terrible last week against the Dolphins. He was terrible against the Titans. He was good one time against another tough run defense. And by the way, he was terrible last week with like four catches because he does get four to six targets every week now, which had five catches if I yeah, and he was still terrible. I think the concern is the concern for me is not so much the matchup as daunting as it is.
Starting point is 00:23:28 Is he healthy? That's right. Right. All right, Heath, come on. Any bet in the world. B John versus Mixon. I just said I might move B. I didn't take a hard stance at all. All right.
Starting point is 00:23:40 All right. Fine. It is tough with the state of running back. It is tough to sit Joe Mixon.. It is tough to sit Joe mix and I don't want to sit Joe mix and he's probably going to touch the ball 20 times. All right. Rams are at the jets. Rank the wide receivers. I'll start Pukin Akua one now ranked the rest. Adams to cup three Wilson for Yep. And full PPR.
Starting point is 00:24:06 Adams cup. Wilson, you said, okay. I'd go Wilson. We haven't heard it, but I'm sure there's a squeaky wheel game coming for Cooper cup. San Francisco's at Miami Tyreke Hill or Joanne Jennings. I'm still Tyreke. It's Jennings for me.
Starting point is 00:24:25 Okay. Cleveland at Cincinnati. Is this start them all, sit them all? No, Jerome Ford's a decent start. Jerome Ford is a number two running back. How do you feel about Njoku if he plays? He'd be a low end tight end one. He'd be right around where I have Andrews. Yeah, he'd be behind low end tight end one. He'd be right around where I have Andrews. Yeah, he'd be behind Andrews for me, but he'd probably be in the top 12. Tennessee's at Indianapolis.
Starting point is 00:24:52 Are there any must start players in this game? Jonathan Taylor and Tony Pollard. If he gets in any semblance of full practice, you're probably still starting him anyway, though. Okay. So last week, I mean, I kind of view this matchup similar to last week's for Jonathan Taylor. And I know we were, I don't know if Heath was, but I know you and I, Jamie, were apprehensive
Starting point is 00:25:15 about Taylor and ended up being right, I guess, because of the fumble, but ended up being wrong because he should have had 18 points in that game. But I mean, still a tough, a good run defense and a guy who, if we're lucky, he's going to catch one pass basically. It's back to back weeks with over 20 carries. I don't think the Titans, despite the quarterback change, are running away from the Colts. I think you kind of know what you're getting. And what we've seen from the Titans the last two games is Jace Brown ran well against them. Brian Robinson ran well against them. So Robinson ran well against them. So Jonathan Taylor, especially Ryan Kelly plays,
Starting point is 00:25:49 and I'm sure he's pissed and motivated, especially after what he said following the game. I'm not worried about that. All right. New England at Buffalo, who's a better flex? I'm gonna give you two questions for each of these last two games. Ramandre Stevenson or Khalil Shakir.
Starting point is 00:26:06 Shakir and PPR. Yeah, I think so. I mean, he's so locked in right now. It's like eight straight games of seven plus targets. It's back to back weeks with a touchdown. It's like 15 PPR points or more in three of his last four. He's the guy is the's the he's Josh Allen's guy. Dalton, Kincaid or Hunter Henry? Kincaid for me.
Starting point is 00:26:30 I think this is we saw it a little bit last week. Seven targets in his first game back. He's got a pretty nice track record, which is, you know, saying something for him because he's been a disappointment, but he's got five games this season with seven targets. Four of those, he's been nine.3 PPR points or more. So as we know, that's a borderline starter. Henry has been disappointing the last couple of games and the bills, despite what Sam Laporta did last week, have been fantastic against tight ends.
Starting point is 00:26:57 So I think Henry is going to be a little bit of trouble. I downgraded him a little bit this week. I'll, I'll go with Henry. Like I, I, this would be a good place to implement the tiebreaker if you want to, for just like the number of points the teams are supposed to score, but neither one of these tight ends score touchdowns or really see targets in the end zone. Um, I, like those, those games where Kincaid's had seven or more targets, he's had 53, 32, 51, 47 yards.
Starting point is 00:27:24 He's just been bad. He only played like half the snaps last week. Um, but I just, I did have a stat on Hunter Henry. I wanted to give it's I'm calling it the comforting stat of the game. Well, he only played half the snaps because I mean, they were just blowing out the team they played. They were. Yeah. Uh, Hunter Henry's had two bad games since week seven. In those two games, Drake may through 25 passes and 23 passes, including last week, 25 passes at Chicago and an easy win 23 passes last week in Arizona, which was weird as they were
Starting point is 00:27:56 losing, but I think they didn't have the ball much. But whenever he's had a normal game, Drake may, you know, 30 or more pass attempts, Hunter Henry scored 9.4 or more PPR fantasy points. So that put me at ease a little bit with Hunter Henry. Not saying, you know, I think he's close with Kincaid, but if you have Henry and you know, want to be encouraged, there's that. Jacksonville's at Las Vegas.
Starting point is 00:28:18 Are we going right back to Jacoby Myers? Yes. If Aiden O'Connell is playing, absolutely. 100% for sure. Would you start it? Uh, Jacoby Meyers over Garrett Wilson? If O'Connell's playing, you would. Yeah. Okay. And then let's spend a little bit of time on this. This is our last game and two of the most popular waiver wire players who, you know, speaking about the Raiders guys, but who is your favorite running back in the Jacksonville Las Vegas game? Travis Etienne. Alexander Madison.
Starting point is 00:28:53 Okay. And they are ranked where? Etienne is like 23 and Madison is like 26. I've got Madison at 24. Okay. So borderline starts. Uh, all right. We'll talk more about that. I call that the movable option, movable object versus the stoppable force with
Starting point is 00:29:17 the movable object being Jacksonville's run defense and the stoppable force being the Raiders running backs. It's like it could be both teams, couldn't it? It's two. Yeah. The only difference is, and I, like, it hasn't, I don't know if this has shown up in the stats or not, but I do think the Raiders defense, especially, especially their front has been playing a lot better.
Starting point is 00:29:41 Interesting. They don't have Crosby now, but if we're just talking about against the run. Um, yeah, interesting. Yeah. It's just like the Tennessee Indianapolis game, the Jacksonville Las Vegas game. There's some really good matchups there, but players, we don't necessarily want to trust necessarily want to trust. If you haven't signed up for bet MGM yet, you can do that and you can get up to a $1,500 first bet offer on your first wager with BetMGM if you use the bonus code fantasy. Download the BetMGM app
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Starting point is 00:30:39 backs with more than 13.2 PPR fantasy points against the Chiefs. That includes Bijan, Kamara, Derek Henry, J.K. Dobbins, Jordan Mason. But you guys are not concerned, I guess. I think again, you know, you got, like we just got this question, you know, Joe Mixon or Chuba Hubbard. You could certainly make the case Chuba Hubbard for Joe Mixon.
Starting point is 00:30:57 That's very valid, given what the body of work has been for both of these guys, and the matchup for both of these guys. I think the one thing about you get to this point is how cute do you get with your lineup when somebody like he said is going to get 20 touches and you just listed it, you know, three running backs that, you know, James Cook, for example, fell into the end zone twice against the Chiefs. Joe Mixon, they can get a pass interference on the one and he scores and then he gets five catches and you're still talking about a great day, you know, for a guy that may run for 50 yards.
Starting point is 00:31:27 So it's certainly tough. It's not ideal. I just think you got to have such a great situation. This is one, you know, again, make the case for James Cook, who's going to probably share with two other guys and they may be up three touchdowns and James Cook has done nothing and then it's Ray Davis time. Also, like we've talked about it, this Chiefs defense hasn't been the same in their last four or five games. The Browns running backs averaged 7.8 yards per carry last week against them.
Starting point is 00:31:58 The Chargers were terrible, but they are terrible. The Raiders running backs averaged 4.7 yards per carry against the Chiefs. They've given up five touchdowns in their last four games to running backs. Yeah. Now that is one thing that, cause I have mixed it in two leagues and obviously I'm starting them. I don't have a choice, but that is one thing that got me a little bit more hopeful is that maybe the Chiefs run defenses starting to show some cracks, but they gotta be tired. I mean, you know, who do they get Wednesday on Christmas Day? Steelers.
Starting point is 00:32:27 Like, could be a great day for Najee and, and, you know, Jaylen Warren. Could be. Gosh, yeah. Not who I want to be trusting in my fantasy. Right. But still, it's, you know, a tired defense, man. All right. So let's keep it simple here.
Starting point is 00:32:41 We have a lot of games to preview. Sit CJ Stroud, start Nico Collins, start Joe Mixon, Sid Tankdale, right? Yes. Well, we haven't talked about Dalton Schultz, but you know, he's usually decent. He was horrible last week. He was horrible three weeks ago. But he's got a lot of like decent games. Would you start Dalton Schultz or Stone Smart? It's funny you say that. I have that decision to make now in a dynasty league
Starting point is 00:33:10 and I'm gonna pivot to Schultz because I'm nervous with Hayden Harris playing. Over under one and a half games this season for Dalton Schultz with double digit fantasy points. Under. Over. He. Over. He has won. Damn it.
Starting point is 00:33:27 It was week 13 against Jacksonville. That's the only time he scored more than nine, more than 10 fantasy points all season long. How much does your outlook of this game change if Carson Wentz is the quarterback compared to Mahomes? I mean, we talked about this on Tuesday that the Texans were the number one DST to get when Mahomes practiced in full. I dropped them from number one in my rankings to 10.
Starting point is 00:33:52 So this is a it's clearly a game changer. You know I'm still nervous because he is practicing full. He's not right. You know so this is you know an Ironman doing Ironman things. But it's tough to think that he's going to be the same guy with this pass rush on him. They're second in the NFL in sacks. So the Texans are going to make things very uncomfortable for Mahomes who's been very uncomfortable when healthy behind this offensive line. So Hopkins against Dingley a lot. I'm out.
Starting point is 00:34:24 I think Worthy is the best receiver for the chiefs right now, because they're trying to manufacture targets. They're giving him, you know, some carries. Uh, he's not a great start, but he's, you know, desperation number three receiver. And Kelsey, you're starting really all season by default, more so than he's been great because he hasn't been great. Like this game opened with an over-under, I believe a 42 when I looked at on Tuesday morning and I was doing projections and the chiefs were two and a half points underdogs.
Starting point is 00:34:52 So you're looking at the chiefs scoring somewhere around 18, 19 points. It's gone up now chiefs are three and a half point favorites. Um, worthy and Hopkins are completely off the board. If Carson Wentz is starting, they are for me, high end flexes with Patrick Malone's Kelsey is in that tight end 12 conversation. If Carson Wentz is starting, Kelsey is a top six tight end that you don't think about if my home starts. Am I crazy for thinking that whence could just could be, you know, perfectly fine. I don't
Starting point is 00:35:28 think he's going to go out there and be horrible. I think that what you're what you should be weighing is Wentz versus injured. My homes. Wentz could be fine, but the the chiefs pass catchers aren't must start with Mahomes. Yeah, of course. Well, except for Kelsey. A small downgrade takes them out of the conversation for the most part.
Starting point is 00:35:51 Speaking about, and Jamie already said, let's try to avoid Isaiah Pacheco. Speaking about Kelsey though, who do you guys have ranked ahead of Kelsey? And we're expecting right now, we are expecting Mahomes to play. He's practicing in full, so let's just go with that. Again, like we could just listen to what he's, and I know players and teams lie to us all the time, but he said on Tuesday, this is not as bad as the one that I had against Jacksonville in the playoffs. And the one he had against Jacksonville in the playoffs, he played six days later and
Starting point is 00:36:22 threw for 300 yards and two touchdowns. Like he says he's okay. He was out there doing stretching two days later, standing with all of his weight on one foot. All right, so then you know what, like, I should probably ask him my home's questions here. To a purdy Stafford, my homes. Stafford purdy. My homes to
Starting point is 00:36:43 homes. Stafford my homesdy, Mahomes, Tuah. Mahomes, Stafford, Mahomes, Tuah, Purdy. Bo Nix tonight. We're going to talk the 49ers game, right? Probably tomorrow. No, no, no, today. Just to give you by comparison, Purdy is great, great after losses. Oh yeah? Oh my gosh.
Starting point is 00:37:00 Like great. Oh wow. Thank you, Jamie. How many games is Spreck pretty lost? He lost five this year and he's been great in all five after. Oh, well it looks like I'm starting him against Jamie in the podcast league. Fire it up. Um, all right. So my homes, where's he is your top 12 for you guys? Nope. Nope. Okay. You have to start Bo Knicks ahead of him or Herbert ahead of him? Uh, I would start my homes over Herbert. I would start
Starting point is 00:37:22 Nick's over mom's strongly prefer Mahomes over both. All right. But then, but we don't know for sure that he's going to play, but you know, maybe you can just... No, he's playing. I guess. He's got to assume he's playing. Like if he has three straight full practice designations, I think it's... It is. Had a guy that did that and then missed? It is. It is funny that we are considering, you know, because you asked the question, Mahomes versus Herbert and Herbert's ankles might be worse than Mahomes. Right. Okay, so let's, I just realized that I deleted the Pittsburgh notes from the doc, from the notes that I sent you today.
Starting point is 00:38:01 So let me get that. That's going to be our next game. Pittsburgh Baltimore, both DSTs by the way for, sent you today. So let me get that. That's going to be our next game, Pittsburgh Baltimore. Both DSTs by the way, for this game, Kansas City Houston are in play. They're like 10ish or something. I don't actually, I don't know where Heath has the Texans, the EST, but.
Starting point is 00:38:16 14. Okay. So they're both around, they're low end starters. All right, let's go to Pittsburgh and Baltimore. And how much do you guys care about Lamar Jackson's bad history against the Steelers and Mark Andrews and all that. And the fact that as Dave brought up last time, we talked about Steelers Ravens, they don't score a lot of points.
Starting point is 00:38:36 No team has scored more than 20 points in eight straight games in this rivalry. I don't like it. It doesn't make me feel warm and fuzzy inside. What could you possibly do about it? Yeah. Look, you're starting Lamar Jackson. Just the thing you have to do when you look at him is just don't expect him to be Superman to win your week. Just expect him to be normal. So 25 points is still realistic. 35 points is probably not realistic. I think it's the first time maybe since week one that he's not my QB one.
Starting point is 00:39:16 So I have downgraded Lamar Jackson. He's QB two. He's two. Okay. He's, I would start Allen over him and I would start Joe Burrow over him this week. Okay, Jamie, you missed it, but Joe Burrow, six, five straight games with fewer than 21 points
Starting point is 00:39:32 against the Browns. It's a different Browns team, it's a different Joe Burrow. Yeah. You know, you wanna talk MVP, if their record was different, he'd be the MVP. He should eat. I'd vote for him. He should be the MVP. Look how valuable he's been.
Starting point is 00:39:45 They've almost won half their games. Oh, it's all, it's totally his fault. It's his fault that they stink. Okay, so any who, so Jackson and Henry are Mustarts. Is that it? Am I missing something? Mustarts? Yeah. Yeah, that's it.
Starting point is 00:40:02 I know that he hasn't scored touchdown against him in 10 games or whatever, but I think in this current tight end landscape, Mark Andrews, the muster. I would start strange over him. So I think anytime we have waiver wire guy versus somebody, if you could pick up a waiver wire guy, like I would do it. Yeah, I would rather I'd rather trust Andrews. Question here from iron Mike, Najee Harris or Javante Williams PPR?
Starting point is 00:40:28 Najee. Yeah. You know, it's funny, like we were and we should be critical of Najee. Scored 13 PPR points against the Ravens last time these two teams met. Well, if you look at Najee's catches, he has some weeks where he has a lot or, you know, three or four, some weeks where he has zero. He has won the last two games. But I try to kind of figure it out and it could just be fluky, but it sort of coincides
Starting point is 00:40:54 with when he faces a team that gives up a lot of production in the receiving game to running backs, he catches passes. When he faces teams that are good against pass catching running backs, he doesn't. And guess what? The Ravens are really bad at that. They give up a lot of production. The fifth most receiving yards to running backs. And what did he have first time against them?
Starting point is 00:41:10 Four catches? Four catches for 30 yards. Both running backs had four. So I know people aren't going to start Jalen Warren, but Najee Harris or a Raiders running back? I would start Madison over Najee. I would start Najee Naji. I would start Naji over Abdullah. I agree.
Starting point is 00:41:28 Naji Harris or Jerry Judy? Naji and non-PPR Judy and full. Love it. We'd also start Jerome Ford over Naji. Yep. Okay. What about? Mixed over Naji too. Yep. Okay. What about, uh, what a mix and over nausea too.
Starting point is 00:41:45 Okay. Yes. What about, um, if George Pickens plays, would you start him? He would be a low end number two receiver, high end number three receiver, just from the concern of how healthy is he? Right. Right. Yep.
Starting point is 00:42:03 Cause he hasn't practiced yet and they're playing on Saturday and Pat Freiremuth or Mark Andrews, Brenton Strange. How we feel about Freiremuth. I would start Freiremuth over Andrews. His only bad game really since Russ has taken over is the Steelers game. So take that for what it's worth is the Ravens. Excuse me. But he's got a touchdown in three straight games, clearly two of those without Pickens. And he's kind of been living in that 9.9, 10 point range or more in the last five weeks. So you got a guy that's more involved and I think really the best pass catcher for the Steelers that, you know, not the running backs, you know.
Starting point is 00:42:41 So Russ is trying to be creative because Cause the guys now field are making plays. It's Calvin Austin. It's Pat Fryer, Muth, and it's, you know, Jalen Warren for the last two weeks. I've got, I've got him top 12. I'd go Andrew's Muth strange, but he's, he's a start. Where do you guys have Derek Henry this week? 11. 10. Bucky Irving or Derek Henry. I just made that switch last night to put Henry ahead
Starting point is 00:43:08 of Bucky just because of the shared situation. But when I started the week, it was Bucky at 11, Henry at 12. I put Henry at 11 and Bucky at 12. Henry. How about Zay Flowers or Najee Harris? Flowers and PBR. I've got flowers in, yep, flowers in full and half, but not in none. Trying to think of some of the trending names at wide receiver in recent weeks. So guys like Adam Thielen, Jerry Judy, who else, who may we have picked up? Like Christian Watson or Romeo Dobbs or something?
Starting point is 00:43:47 Pick up. McMillan. McMillan. Would you start any of these guys over Zay Flowers this week? No. No, but it's close with Thielen. It's close with McMillan. I remember all the names you said.
Starting point is 00:44:01 I would start flowers over Judy. Packers receivers? I would start them over the Packers receivers. All right. So let me finish up with this. What we've got guys like Justice Hill, Rashad Bateman, Calvin Austin, Jalen Warren. Do you like any sleepers in this game? I think Jalen Warren is going to be, you know, last week was the first time in like the last six weeks He's been under nine PPR points, you know, so He's been pretty consistent got you ten in this game the last time these two teams met
Starting point is 00:44:34 This is one of those teams that you know struggled I think they're top six in receptions allowed to running backs for the season So with no pickings with a pass rush, that's gonna be a problem for us I think he's gonna throw to his backs a lot in the last two games So with no pickings with a pass rush, that's going to be a problem for Russ. I think he's going to throw to his backs a lot. And the last two games, it's been more and more so than the Naji. So again, you don't want to start him. But if you're down running backs, if you got concerns about match, I like him better than Pacheco.
Starting point is 00:45:00 I like him better than the Chargers guys, the Broncos guys. You know, so he's a high-end flex. Yeah, I agree with all of that. I've got it's Warren, then Hill, then Austin. They are all basically within a half a point of nine in the projection. So they're all kind of the same guy, but Warren will be my favorite. Would you guys start the Bengals DST and or the Falcons DST over the Steelers and Ravens? Yes.
Starting point is 00:45:28 Bengals for sure. I think I go Bengals, Ravens, Falcons Steelers. Alrighty. Actually like the Bengal defense more than the Falcons defense. And I don't disagree with you. I mean, it's just, you know, how bad the Bengals defense has been. The Falcons have been actually pretty good the last three weeks. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:45:44 I think Dorian Thompson Robinson is uniquely bad. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Rams are at the Jets. Okay. Who do you like better? Matthew Stafford or Aaron Rodgers? Stafford. Rodgers for me. Do you guys really like you like like them or what? Like, how are we feeling about your your favorite quarterback in this Rams Jets game Heath? I think I am on maybe Rogers Island. I haven't seen where Dave has them ranked. I know Jamie is not as excited. But I've got Stafford just kind of as a borderline QB one. Rogers is a top 10 guys average 20 and a half fantasy points per game
Starting point is 00:46:22 since Devonte Adams joined the team 289 yards in each of his last two games. Didn't do that once in the first 13 weeks. Head coach says that he's finally healthy and you're seeing the real Aaron Rodgers. I think he's going to finish the season strong. What is the comparison prior to last week from what you said about Rodgers to what Stafford has done since Puka and Cooper Kaba come back. Prior to last week, Stafford was much better. I think Stafford's probably been just slightly better
Starting point is 00:46:50 than Rogers. He has since he had both of those guys than Rogers has been. Yeah, I feel like same type of- I can give you the 17 game paces for since the two receivers return. It's basically we gave for both, right? Yeah, I don't know, but it's 4,400 yards, 34 touchdowns, six interceptions for Stafford.
Starting point is 00:47:13 That's a hell of a pace. That includes last week, right? That includes last week. It was even better before last week. For Rogers, it's 3,970 yards. So that's like 400 less. 30 touchdowns, six interceptions. Okay, the touchdowns and interceptions are fairly similar.
Starting point is 00:47:28 The yards much in favor of Stafford. I think for both of these guys, the defenses sway this for me. I'd rather take on the Jets defense than the Rams defense. I know that they were awful, god awful against Josh Allen. Most defenses are god awful against Josh Allen. How much of the game that they were awful, God awful against Josh Allen. Most defenses are God awful against Josh Allen. You know, how much of the game that they, the, the defensive performance against Brock Purdy was the rain and Purdy not being good in those elements.
Starting point is 00:47:56 Rogers was amazing last week in a half against Jacksonville. So I think Rogers is a good start. I think Stafford's a little bit of a better start. I would take Stafford. Are the Rams the only West Coast team, one o'clock game on the East Coast? Well, that depends. Did they stay in the East Coast city of Madison, Wisconsin? Coming off that San Francisco game and playing an early game at the Jets.
Starting point is 00:48:25 That's a thing. It's a long week, though. It is a long week, but it's a physical game. This is one of these storylines that I used to bring up a lot and I just never bring up anymore. Well, travel's a lot different now. And I don't think historically the Thursday to following Sunday turn around is as bad. It's usually the Monday to Sunday that you don't love.
Starting point is 00:48:50 Monday night then East Coast. It's also going to be very cold. This might be the coldest game of the week. It's going to be frigid this weekend. Yeah, indoor team in a cold game. Hate this state. Kyron Williams, any hesitation with Kyron Williams? Have you seen the Jets tackle?
Starting point is 00:49:08 So the Jets have gotten pretty good against running backs actually the last few weeks. James Connor, 2.8 yards per carry. Jonathan Taylor, 2.4. Ken Walker, 3.1. Devon Aitchan, 1.7. Tank Bigsby, 3.8. Travis Etienne though, 4.6.
Starting point is 00:49:23 So I just bringing that up here. Like how do you, Kyron Williams or Derek Henry? They're kind of similar, right? Kyron. They are kind of similar. I have Kyron two spots behind Henry. All right, he's gonna be a start. Read a question from the chat.
Starting point is 00:49:40 Stafford or Jared Goff? Stafford for me. I've, I've got golf right now. All right. Uh, golf, go for Rogers for you, Heath. Um, I'm going to make the move to Rogers this morning. Okay. Uh, looking forward to breaking that one down tomorrow. Um, Cooper cup. So Pooka is a must start. Cooper Cup is a number two receiver. And like how confident are you guys in Adams Cup and Wilson? Fairly confident.
Starting point is 00:50:13 I mean, you know, Adams is coming off just a ridiculously amazing game. He's not going to do that again because he's not playing Jacksonville, but he's still a must start receiver. And I wonder if, you know, you had the sideline rant from Garrett Wilson that I think we've all seen by now where he's arguing or pleading for the fade route from Sean Jefferson their wide receiver coach that you wonder if there may be a few more throws in his direction this week as opposed to Devontae Adams you know little squeaky wheel coming but they're both I think just easy starts at this point. You know, just, you can nitpick this guy for a sec.
Starting point is 00:50:47 I clearly, but I think in a blanket statement, they're, uh, they're number two receivers or Adams is a number one receiver and most of the number two. That's it. That, and I kind of sold Adam short earlier this year and maybe celebrated the bus call a little bit too soon on Devonte Adams. But like he's got 11 or more targets in five of his last six games. And he scored at least 17 fantasy points in four of those games. It's not, it was a one week explosion and one of the greatest haves of football any wide receivers ever had. But he's been incredible basically since Halloween. any wide receivers ever had. But he's been incredible
Starting point is 00:51:25 basically since Halloween. Yeah, I'm going to ask the chat if they have any Cooper Cup questions because he's obviously been kind of up and down lately. We're going to set the tight ends in this game and then we spent a lot of time on Priest Hall yesterday.
Starting point is 00:51:37 So I don't want to do that again necessarily, but you guys have him as a like a number two or borderline flex basically if he's legitimately not on the injury report again him as a number two or borderline flex basically. If he's legitimately not on the injury report again today, and he wasn't on the injury report yesterday, if he's, if he's just practicing in full and not even listed, then I will be moving him up significantly this before
Starting point is 00:51:58 tonight's game. He's a, he's a high end number two running back. If he's, if they're saying he's 100% fine, I'm just going to believe them. I have a very difficult call in one matchup where, um, my four running backs are Charbonne, Irving, Breeze Hall, Jonathan Taylor. Not a bad problem to have, but a lot of questions clearly. Uh, Irving is locked in for sure. And Charbonne is locked in for sure if he's healthy and Walker's out.
Starting point is 00:52:22 But if Charbonne is out, then I got a tough call between Taylor and Brice Hall. So I'm facing Dave in our yellow league and I've got a very difficult call with Brice Hall and Keenan Allen and Devontae Smith. Oh, wow. That is tough PPR. Do you know what's interesting is had I beat you, he'd be playing the easiest matchup, not that there's an easy one left, but the easiest matchup on the table. And now he's got a dogfight with you down Montgomery and down most likely Alamokamaru. For the record, I would start Jonathan Taylor over Breece Hall or Jamie. I would as well, but it's to Heath's point, if he practices in full, it makes it a tougher call just because he's now going to look much better.
Starting point is 00:53:05 But I think Jonathan Taylor is in a little bit better spot just because we guys are catching passes right now. Especially if we get like, Brice Hall's fine and Braylon Allen Allen's out. Allen practice is also banged up too. That's part of it. Yeah. And by and for the record, he Brice Hall versus Kenan Allen Devante Smith. I have absolutely no idea what I would do.
Starting point is 00:53:22 So good luck. Thanks. Here's some cup questions. Cup or Brian Thomas Jr. in PPR? Thomas. Oh yeah. Cup or Khalil Shakir? Cup, yep.
Starting point is 00:53:36 Cup or Bucky Irving? I would go Bucky in all formats. I think, I would too. Cup, Kendre Miller, Tajay Spears. The only way that this is a comparison is if Tony Pollard is out. Yeah. And then I would go Spears over Cup. All right. Let's move on to our next game. But first, let's move on to a commercial break. We'll be right back on fantasy
Starting point is 00:54:01 football today with San Francisco at Miami So a little hat tip here to Dave Who sent me a link Dave sends these links on true media, which is our one of our statistical databases really good research I never really know how to read them. I'm just not smart enough I'm gonna need him to kind of break it down for me. But the gist of the link was break it down for me. But the gist of the link was quarterbacks who have who are in the Kyle Shanahan system have not fared well when they face Kyle Shanahan. So it's something to keep in mind for Tua this week against San Francisco. Anyway, we did spend a lot of time on Purdy and Tua. Jamie, you like Purdy better. Heath, I forget who do you like better? Uh, you know, it's, I started out with two, a pretty significantly ahead of
Starting point is 00:54:48 pretty and every time I go check the, um, the line, this game gets closer. It's now a one point game in terms of dolphins are favored by one. This is another team going across the country, the 49ers, but it's a four 30 game, so, and the Thursday. So maybe it doesn't matter. Um, I think I'm going to be making the change to party this afternoon. Oh, I hate this game. Uh, it's game of the week as you remember, but it stresses me out so much. Every single decision except for a Chan. He's the only one. Oh, sorry. And the tight ends, uh, I would, I stress out over every single one.
Starting point is 00:55:27 How, like, I don't understand the game and the weak thing at all. Like it's a game with two teams that are, that are not going to the playoffs. It's just gonna, it don't overthink it. Two teams that don't have top 12 quarterbacks. It's gonna be a good game. It's just gonna be a good game. That's a great game. But you know, I'm starting to rethink that. It's got the potential a good game. It's just going to be a good game. That's a great game. But you know, I'm starting to rethink that. It's got the potential to go either direction because you know, you have two offenses that are coming off disappointing performances. You have a defense in San Francisco that's, you know, I think showed last week that they
Starting point is 00:55:57 have the potential to be back to where they potentially have been, you know, for the last couple of years. And you have a Dolphins defense that's played well, surprisingly, for the majority of the season. So I don't know really what to expect unless Tua shows up and has a big game. Because if Tua doesn't have a big game, then the 49ers have a chance to, I think, blow them out. Uh, so the other thing is like Tua is always so so I think he's always really bad against good teams but I can't I can't sit here and call six and eight team a good team you know what
Starting point is 00:56:33 I mean like I don't know it's a any who who do you start in this game with conviction HM we start with conviction the tight ends even though San Francisco is so good against tight ends but we have to start John Owen Kittle. Is there anyone else you're like, oh yeah, no doubt about it. I'm starting him. Tyree Kill is like Joe Mixon to me. Like you got to have just a loaded roster to bench him. I'm starting Joanne Jennings.
Starting point is 00:56:59 Okay. You don't feel that way about Joanne Jennings, Jamie? They're relatively close, but I mean, Jennings is somebody that was picked up off waivers for a lot of people once the injuries happened. So you may have a loaded roster. Like I said, I like Tyreek slightly better than Jennings. So I don't view them the same. Exactly. Do you like Arendo if he plays? Do you like him better than Breeze Hall? Do you like him better than Jonathan Taylor? At this point, it's hard to say that he's safe, you like him better than Breeze Hall? Do you like him better than Jonathan Taylor? At this point, it's hard to say that he's safe, you know, because he's been dealing
Starting point is 00:57:29 with knee injury and now hamstring injury. And clearly they don't run the ball the same without Trent Williams. Yeah, he's, he's right. Like definitely behind Taylor for me, um, right in that range where he was ahead of Breeze Hall at the beginning of the week. And if Breece Hall has got a good practice report today, then Breece Hall is going to be ahead of him by the end of the day. All right. A running back had 73 or more rushing yards in each of Miami's first five games. That has not happened since nine straight games. 73, no running back has reached that mark. They're allowing
Starting point is 00:58:05 about four or 3.9 yards per carry to running backs in their last eight games. They're just a really good run defense. It doesn't always matter for San Francisco, but it might. Jennings is a number two wide receiver. Dave is lower on Jennings. I would like to get his opinion on that, but he's not here. And then we like the tight ends as mentioned C. So how about the quarterbacks in this game or Jared golf? Purdy golf, golf, golf, purdy golf to a golf over both. The quarterbacks in this game or Kyler Murray, Kyler over? Kyler over both.
Starting point is 00:58:46 Kyler. The quarterbacks in this game or Sam Darnold? No, Darnold easy, right? How about, how about, no, I mean it's easy. Jordan Love? Purdy Love, too. Love over both. You want the the pretty stats after a loss. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:59:10 Yeah. So in four or five games after a loss, the season scored at least 26.1 fantasy points. The worst game was a 16 point game. Now that's you. You have to somewhat azer stat that because he did not play after one loss. So he missed the Packers game because of the injury. And then you can't credit him for the Packers loss because he did not lose that game.
Starting point is 00:59:36 So the Bills game is not necessarily him coming off of a loss. I like that. I love that. I would, I would azer stat out the Bills game anyway. It doesn't count. It was in the- Well, it's not his loss. Like that's Brandon Allen's loss. Yeah. I agree. Now you could say, you could say that the lot, the bill, I think this is where Heath is going.
Starting point is 00:59:54 You could say that the, uh, I think it was the Cardinals, the Seahawks loss. You could say that the Seahawks loss and then his next game was technically the Bills game. So he is coming off of a loss there. But again, we'll say it's directly after a loss. Love that. Love that. Love directly after his loss. But the like you go back week three, remember he didn't have two of his guys in week three against the Rams. They had just lost to the Vikings. Get rid of 30 point game. Oh, wow. So he's been I don't remember all of them, but the Cardinals lost he bounced back after that one. Like he is just his numbers. After loss have been pretty good. That was really to help Acer beat you in the podcast league with Acer stats. Nothing could
Starting point is 01:00:38 be finer. Thank you very much. But you were starting him anyway. I was. Yeah, it was him over Bonyx. I'm going to start him. So let's go with, I'm gonna give you some Joann Jennings Tyree Kill questions. Would you start a health, a playing Tony Pollard or Joann Jennings Tyree Kill? And let's say it's half PPR, make it a little harder for you.
Starting point is 01:00:56 Healthy Tony Pollard? Yeah, he's playing. He's not gonna be healthy, but he's playing. The receivers. I'm starting Pollard. Joe Mixon or Tyree kills slash Juan Jennings. Mixon mixing. How about T Higgins?
Starting point is 01:01:19 Higgins over everybody. You've just said, yeah, how about you? You can say, okay, we probably should talk about Patrick Taylor. If Grend've just said. Yeah, how about you Higgins Adam? Yeah, okay. We probably should talk about Patrick Taylor if Garendo's out. Yeah, yeah, let's talk about that. Where would you rank him if Garendo's out? Probably a high end flex.
Starting point is 01:01:37 30. Compare them to the other waiver wire guys. Behind Jerome Ford, ahead of Kendre Miller, behind Alexander Madison. If Camaro was ruled out by the time Taylor played, I would start Kendra Miller over him too. All right. That's it for this game. Finished with this game.
Starting point is 01:01:56 Moving on to Niners DST, by the way, is like a top 12 Cleveland at Cincinnati stat Cleveland at Cincinnati, stat of the game. The Bengals have allowed 42 yards or a touchdown to 12 tight ends in their last nine games, including Isaiah Likely, Charlie Kohler, Jordan Aikens, Grant Calcatera, Pat Friermuth, Chigokankwo, and Josh Wiley. This is a great matchup. David Njoku, how did he do?
Starting point is 01:02:23 Obviously he didn't practice on Wednesday, but if he plays, how did he do? Obviously he didn't practice on Wednesday, but if he plays How did he do in three games with Dorian Thompson Robinson last year David Njoku had six to seven catches 46 to 59 yards 10.6 to 12.6 PPR fantasy points in all three games. He did not catch a touchdown So if the joke who if the joke who plays would you start him or Mark Andrews? The joke of Andrews would you start him or Mark Andrews? The joke, Andrews, would you start in a Jokey or strange? Strange and PPR and a joke going on strange.
Starting point is 01:02:55 Okay. Um, and I think it's worth noting that we don't have to totally go back to last year either during Thompson Robinson through 24 passes against the Bengals this season. Yeah. On those 24 passes, the B the Browns gained 82 yards. He had two of them were intercepted. So bad. I can't believe they made this decision.
Starting point is 01:03:19 So then convince me that I should start Jerome forward on this terrible team. And convince me that I should start Jerome Ford on this terrible team. The Bengals have allowed seven running backs in the last five games to get 10.4 PPR points or more. Is that what you're expecting? You're expecting 12-ish points? Yeah, yeah. All right.
Starting point is 01:03:40 What did I say, 90 yards or a rushing touchdown to a running back in every game? Yeah. That's insane. You know what concern I have? I yards or a rushing touchdown, a running back in every game? Yeah. That's insane. You know what concern I have? I think I briefly brought it up. It's like, they almost never let Jerome Ford have a lot of work.
Starting point is 01:03:54 They'll get a Deontay Foreman or somebody will be in there. He just, they don't really give him that big workload. I wonder what's gonna happen this week. Well, the thing I like about Jerome Ford is he's got the ability to make the big play. Um, so if, if he only has 14 touches and hopefully one of them goes for 30 yards, three career carries of 60 or more yards for Jerome for that isn't, can you go to a Ryan's comment about Jerome Ford, the
Starting point is 01:04:23 starting running back for the first five games of the season? It's a great point and it's something that's been frustrating me the entire week about Jerome Ford. But in two of the five games, now he didn't get the entire workload for the Browns as you've talked about Adam quite a bit. You know that they've mixed in somebody else early in the season. But two of the first five games when he was healthy, he got hurt in week six, he had 15 plus PPR points.
Starting point is 01:04:48 So we're obviously not talking about a safe option here. You know, there's not, yeah, Jerome Ford's guaranteed to do this, Jerome Ford's guaranteed to get you even those 10 PPR points. It would be a lot more comforting if it was James Winston, you know, because the quarterback situation feels bad. The production from him has been, you know, sort of sketchy. if it was Jameis Winston, because the quarterback situation feels bad. The production from him has been sort of sketchy,
Starting point is 01:05:07 but as Heath just alluded to, he's got big play potential. He's shown that. Adam, you did one of the questions on who's got more, right? It was Jerome Ford versus the rest of the AFC North, right? No, it was Jerome Ford. Who has more 60 plus yard runs in his career, Jerome Ford or the four starting running backs in the NFC North?
Starting point is 01:05:22 Oh, NFC North. And it was the NFC North guys, but it was just impressive that he's got three carries of 60 or more yards. And Jamie, he averaged 12 PPR fantasy points per game the first five games of the season. Right. There were two big games and three stinkers, you know, so there's, there's, there's risk. But again, you look at it, this is a bad defense that they're facing since Logan Wilson's gone
Starting point is 01:05:41 down. So there's optimism here. There's no certainty here. So, you know, to Ryan's question, I think is valid, but there's enough of a sample size. And you go back last year, you know, there's enough of a sample size where Jerome Ford did some nice things when Najee,
Starting point is 01:05:56 when Chubb hurt his knee in week two. So there's a lot to like about Jerome Ford's situation. It's just not guaranteed. All right, Jerry Judy is a top 30 wide receiver. He's like 24th ish for you guys. He's moving down. No, he's barely inside the top 30 for me. Okay. So yeah, I think you have him at 27th and 29th. I now have him at 35.
Starting point is 01:06:18 Okay. This stinks. What a bummer. Start all the Bengals except for Mike Osicki. Moving on to, oh, you guys like the Bengals DST. Tennessee is at Indianapolis stat of the game. This was actually surprising to me. I mean, I knew that the Colts defense had been playing better, but in their last nine games, since week six, the Colts have allowed the sixth fewest passing yards in the NFL and the third lowest yards per attempt.
Starting point is 01:06:42 And this great run for the Colts started with a Titans game. But it's just something to consider if you're thinking about Mason Rudolph, who's been good, or you're thinking about Calvin Ridley maybe. This Colts defense actually has been quite good. And in the last five games, no wide receiver has more than 13.2 PPR fantasy points, that's Jets, B Patriots Broncos. None of them even reach 14 points Alright, so anyway
Starting point is 01:07:12 Calvin really or Jerry Judy? Reggie Are they close? Yes. They're both number three wide receivers. Okay Mason Rudolph Did he crack your top 24? Yes. He is currently number 24. Someone asking in the chat,
Starting point is 01:07:32 Drake May or Mason Rudolph? Rudolph. Rudolph. I mean, how can you start not start Mason Rudolph like three days before Christmas? That's what I'm saying. Rudolph or Gino Smith. Rudolph.
Starting point is 01:07:48 Yep. Okay. Talk about the day. Talk about the I guess you guys like Jonathan Taylor. Who would be your favorite running back in this game? Pollard, if he's been healthy this entire stretch, it would be Pollard, but I'm just nervous that he's fighting through this ankle injury. So Taylor, I've got Taylor 14 Pollard 15. So
Starting point is 01:08:06 All right. Hypothetical Pollard's out. Who's your favorite running back? Spears. Yeah, Spears would be higher than Pollard. Oh gosh, please Spears. I have been every league pretty much just thought I was going to get that last week. Didn't happen. Sorry. That's mean. That's mean. I shouldn't be saying that.
Starting point is 01:08:28 Sorry, Tony Pollard. You just want Tony Pollard to rest. I do rest. So that we get a couple of these. Um, cause I think Camaro is kind of in a similar situation. They've been talking on the broadcast about how Alvin Camaro really wants to have his first 1000 yard rushing season. And he's not far away from that at all.
Starting point is 01:08:42 Tony Pollard is only 18 yards away from his third consecutive 1000 yard rushing season. Wow. So, uh, so you can get that next week. Chigal Conquo is about 15th or 16th in the rankings. Uh, Anthony, start or Sid Anthony Richardson. And you know what? The Tennessee Titans are actually pretty horrible against mobile
Starting point is 01:09:00 quarterbacks. They're very horrible. They're, they're top five and rushing touchdowns allowed for the season with five. I think they're fourth. Fourth most. Yeah. It's not a bad matchup. It's just a matter of how much trust you have in Anthony Richardson.
Starting point is 01:09:13 So I went to one league where I advanced, did waivers last night, and Richardson was my quarterback and there's nobody else that is worth picking up of the replacement option. So I'm sticking with Richardson. For me, he's in that same range of Stafford and Rogers and Purdy and Tua. It's risky. It's absolutely risky, but it would not surprise me if he has another good game on the ground. He's been 40 plus yards on the ground in four straight games. He's got four rushing touchdowns in his last four games.
Starting point is 01:09:44 So that gives him the opportunity for a good outing. And man, was he on his way to a great game. First drive, he runs for a touchdown. I was like, here we go. I thought he was going to play well. And he pooped the bed once again. So, um, Richardson or Herbert from the chat, Richardson, I'd start Richardson over both quarterbacks tonight. I guess you'd start over Mason Rudolph then. I would. Okay, how about Josh Downs and Michael Pittman compared to Jerry Judy and Calvin Ridley? They're behind both of those guys. Downs had a great game against the Titans the first time around, but that was with Flacco. So he's got seven targets in each of the last two games with Richardson. He's got under seven PPR points or under eight PPR points in each of the last two games with Richardson. So
Starting point is 01:10:32 he's just become too risky at this point to say must start receiver, but there's a great match up here based on what we've seen from this Titans defense the last few weeks. Like they just give up so much production to wide receivers. Pitman to me is just too tough to trust because he's just not been good with Richardson over the course of their time together. They're wide receiver 40 and wide receiver 41 for me. So I would rather not start a DST in this game. It's interesting that the Colts DST from our projections is really high. I don't know how much that's factoring in more Levesse's numbers than Rudolph's numbers. I do think you should be rostering the Colts DSD because they get the Giants next week. So, you know, if you don't have a better option for this week, you take your chances against what has been a bad offense and then hope that you make it through and then you
Starting point is 01:11:19 get the Colts against the Giants. But you said it, this Colts defense has played really well lately. They just turned over, you know, bone necks three times with three picks. It's kind of been a little underrated story for them that their defenses kind of kept them in a lot of games for the majority of the season. New England's at Buffalo. I already gave you the comforting stat of the game about Hunter Henry. When Drake May throws more than 30 passes, Hunter Henry has a solid game. Jamie likes Kincaid better than Henry. Heath
Starting point is 01:11:45 likes Henry better than Kincaid. And I'm not sure if I ask this as a follow up, but would you start either of them over Mark Andrews? Kincaid and PPR. No. All right. So we've got for the Bills, Josh Allen, James Cook, Easy Starts, Khalil Shakir is wide receiver what for you? He's a number three he is ranked as a number three receiver but this is one of those must start guys
Starting point is 01:12:11 like he's just been so good you get a lot of targets that well I mean not a lot but seven eight targets pretty he's got eight straight games with seven or more targets yeah and he catches so many targets so it's a lot of catches it's a high floor yeah go ahead sorry I, yeah, go ahead. Sorry. I, yeah, I just think like there, this is a game that the bills can just do whatever they want. And they do have all of the past catchers healthy. This, we've at least seen a lot of Josh Allen games this year where he throws fewer
Starting point is 01:12:40 than 30 passes that he could do that and still score a lot of fantasy points. But this, I do think there's a little bit of risk of a, of a bad game from Shakir here. It certainly could be. You also wonder though, like, is this the pad, the stats game for the MVP? Shakir has scored double digit PPR fantasy points in every game. He's played a normal snapshot. He's had a couple of games. I think he left one game with an injury. I think there had been a blowout, but normal snap share, which isn't even that many, it's 70 ish percent double digit PPR fantasy points every game this year.
Starting point is 01:13:13 That's amazing. Right. There's just been a lot of those that were 11. Yeah. Yeah. That's not a great game. Right. So I, not lately though.
Starting point is 01:13:23 It's not, not the last two weeks. Yeah, three of the last four. It's 15 plus points All right Is there any how do you feel about Ramon Dre this week? Flex he's a flex. It's great matchup. You know, they're number two in fantasy points allowed to the position and he's getting a lot of work But couldn't do it against the Cardinals last week. Antonio Gibson is getting about seven touches per game, so that's a little bit of a factor right now. It's just that they're 14 point favorites on the, or 14 point underdogs on the road.
Starting point is 01:13:53 So this feels like a blowout by halftime, which is a game you'll hate. It's terrible for Ramon Dre. Okay, and I don't think I would start, I would start Madison over him. I would not start Abdullah over him. Right. I would in PPR.
Starting point is 01:14:08 You know, Amir Abdullah, we're about to talk about him. He has two games this year with more than 16 receiving yards. Two games this year with more than three catches. It's been recent. But those are coming in the last five. Yeah, I know, but still, I don't know. It's a lot of faith to put in Amir Abdullah. No, it's not a lot of faith.
Starting point is 01:14:24 It's not like we're putting a lot of faith in him, but it's some faith put in him. That's it for this game. And no Patriots wide receivers and Drake May usually scores about 20 points, he runs a lot, but no, I don't think we want to start him. Buffalo DST, we're going back to the Bills DST? Yep, yep.
Starting point is 01:14:40 Okay, Jacksonville's at Las Vegas, the stoppable force versus movable object. Seven of the last eight lead running backs against the Jaguars have averaged 4.9 yards per carry or better. Enter Alexander Mattis and he averages 3.3 yards per carry. The Jaguars allowed the second most receiving yards per game to running backs. Enter Amir Abdullah, two games a season with more than three targets, two games this season with more than 16 receiving yards. But you got gotta stop that though.
Starting point is 01:15:05 It's a lot. He's been this guy all year. He's been there. Well, that's not true actually. I guess when Zamir White and Madison were healthy. Yeah, it's the last five games. Okay, but they're, all right. Well, two of the last five games,
Starting point is 01:15:18 he has more than three targets. Yeah, but Madison missed some of those games, right? Well, right. So like two of the last five is not even a good ratio. McCormick was there. It's not safe. I'm just saying, the sample size you have to use is when all these guys were beat up. All right, but now Madison's back. All right. Okay. I mean, I think Madison is the running downs guy and Abdul is the passing downs guy. That's probably true, but I actually think there's a
Starting point is 01:15:45 chance Madison out catches him just with his first and second catches. 100%. I think in in hurry up situations that they're trailing then Abdul is gonna he'd set it best on Wednesday show and and and like I said I qualified it from from Tuesday because at that point we thought Ritter might be starting. If Ritter was starting I would I would like Abdullah better than Madison because Ritter stinks and is not going to throw the ball down the field at all so now Madison is the better of the two running backs and If you think that the Jaguars are going to be playing with the lead Then Abdullah probably is gonna have the better game if you think that the Raiders are gonna be playing with the lead
Starting point is 01:16:16 Then Madison is gonna probably have a very game in a back and forth game. It probably favors Madison Look, he's got more touchdown potential and he may have just as much receiving potential because that was his role earlier in the year. So there's no guarantee either way who's going to be the pass catching guy here because it's the Raiders. They're just not a very good team. But I think Abdul is five game sample size of white being hurt, Madison being hurt, McCormick being hurt, no real certainty here. He's shown you a little bit of something that you could say, okay, maybe there's some hope here. Would you guys start Madison or Deandre Swift? I kind of like Swift this week with the injuries for Detroit. So I'd go Swift, but they're close. Swift, Madison or Tyrone Tracy, Tracy, Tracy. But again, they're close. Madison or Devante Smith,
Starting point is 01:17:02 Tracy, but again, they're close. Madison or Devante Smith. Smith. I'll go Smith and PPR, Madison, everything else. All right, we're gonna start Brian Thomas Jr. Brenton Strange is not someone that we've got an agreement on here. Jamie's higher on Brenton Strange. He has-
Starting point is 01:17:20 He's top 12 for both of us though. Okay, okay. Seventh for Jamie, sixth for Dave, 11th for Heath. He has very Leo gets by the way. Okay. Okay. Okay. I've been doing that a lot today. He has Brenton strange has I think six catches this year of 20 or more yards. Evan Ingram has two. Evan Ingram actually is having such a bad season. He of all the the tight ends, yeah, 34, or 34 tight ends I think had 40 or more targets. He's dead last Evan Ingram in yards per target. Just awful, so. I wonder if the Jaguars move on from him.
Starting point is 01:17:56 Yeah, I mean, I'm just saying like, if you could live with the floor of what Ingram was giving you, and maybe have a better player, and an unbelievable matchup. Holy cow, the Raiders are horrible against tight ends. Now I'm excited actually to start Brendan Strange. But you haven't been in almost all your playoff.
Starting point is 01:18:16 Yeah, I do have a, I have started giving like three leagues. I think in the magazine league, you and I were the only ones who added anybody and we both added like three players. You added somebody and then I added strange. And then you added Abdullah, I think it was, it was interesting to watch that go back and forth. I think I added before strange because I have Milan, you added before strange. I have Hunter Henry in that league and I would start Henry over strange. I mean, what I think is probably pretty close for you guys, but the chiefs are activating Marquis Brown to play Saturday. By the way, stat of the game, Travis I think is probably pretty close for you guys, but the Chiefs are activating Marquise Brown to play Saturday.
Starting point is 01:18:47 By the way, stat of the game, Travis ETN is averaging one broken tackle for every 56.5 carries. Worst in the NFL. Yikes. He's not good, but here come the Raiders. So the thing about ETN, got to buy into the playing time last week. So 76% of the snaps, whatever it was, it was second most or most he's played all season. And he's given you 11 PPR points or more in each of the last two weeks without a touchdown. So he's rallied a little bit
Starting point is 01:19:19 based on how crappy his season has gone to the point where he's in the discussion with some of these other running backs that we've talked about, you know, Tyrone Tracy and I like him better than the chiefs guys, better than the Steelers guys. Like there's a chance here for you to Okay. And we like, we love Brian Thomas Jr. and Jacoby Myers were expecting Aiden O'Connell back. So that's a guy who has been really terrific against the Jaguars who allowed the third most fantasy points to wide receivers and And we're back. He scored a touchdown by the way. He was the guy, right? How long did it take him to score his first touchdown? Jacoby Myers? He had an career. Yeah. Remember he had a crazy streak. And then I feel like he had one that was called back. He went a long time without a touchdown.
Starting point is 01:20:00 I think, I think Trey McBride may have just broken his record for most targets in a season without a touchdown. Hopefully McBride's gonna break that record. Wait, D.M.D. Johnson doesn't have that record? One of the coolest things is that Trey McBride has zero receiving touchdowns, but he's still scored more touchdowns this year than 100 Henry. That's crazy.
Starting point is 01:20:28 Cause you have the fumble recovery and there's a rushing. Yeah. So Deontay Johnson must have that record, right? 147 targets without a touchdown in 2022. All right. I think we're good with this game here. Did I host this show? What do you mean?
Starting point is 01:20:43 Time. Oh yeah. Super long. Sorry about that. We are out of here and good luck everybody. Get hopefully some good fortune tonight to get us off on the right foot. Although I wouldn't mind Jamie having a horrible night tonight and coming into the podcast like he did last Friday. That was entertaining. Oh, let's see. Against you or in general? just me, just me. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:21:06 Yeah. I'm trying to think. I don't, I don't have a lot of Broncos chargers guys left. Azer has Sutton. So that could, that could make things terrible for you. We're in the podcast league. Yeah. Yep.
Starting point is 01:21:19 And I don't see that Jamie has anybody starting night in that same league. I'm playing the only listener that advanced. Congratulations, Benjamin Cherry. And what's that? Good for us. The three of us in the final four in the podcast league. Yeah. Really making it fun for the people who listen to the podcast.
Starting point is 01:21:39 We do have two listeners. Yeah. Todd Rhodes. Yeah. I'm sorry. I don't have anybody. Benjamin doesn't have anyone. So we're just relaxing tonight. Yeah. Watch the next next next timber. Take care of my list.
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