Fantasy Football Today - Start or Sit (NFC): Can We Trust the Cowboys? Kyren Williams? Jauan Jennings? Tetairoa McMillan?  (12/12 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Episode Date: December 12, 2025

What a game last night! We recap Falcons-Bucs to start the show and discuss what to expect from Kirk Cousins and Kyle Pitts when Drake London gets back and what to make of the Bucs receivers and Bucky Irving ... News and notes (11:15) and One Question for Each Game (16:00)! Is this going to be a good week for Justin Jefferson? Should we start Quinshon Judkins? Kyren Williams? Terry McLaurin? Rico Dowdle? Devin Neal? Jonathan Taylor? ... Start or Sit for Vikings-Cowboys (25:50), Browns-Bears (35:40), Lions-Rams (45:15), Commanders-Giants (53:35), Panthers-Saints (1:00:30), Colts-Seahawks (1:08:30) and Titans-49ers (1:14:45) ... Email us at [e-mail] Fantasy Football Today is available for free on the Audacy app as well as Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever else you listen to podcasts Watch FFT on YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.youtube.com/fantasyfootballtoday⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Shop our store: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠shop.cbssports.com/fantasy⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  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 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

This is Fantasy Football Today from CBS Sports. What a play! Can you believe this? It's a no idea. It's time to dominate your fantasy league. Off to the races and he stays on his feet. It's just going to go the distance. Now here's some combination of Adam, Dave, Jamie, and Heath.

Welcome, everybody. Happy Friday. It's Fantasy Football today, presented by BenMGM, make it legendary. And week 15 is off to a legendary. start. Kyle Pitts, career highs, in targets, catches, yards, touchdowns, and I'm going to go ahead and guess fantasy points. Adam Azzer here with Dave Richard. Jamie Eisenberg will be joining us shortly. Today we are previewing seven games, including Minnesota at Dallas. A tough one here. You know, probably not that tough in terms of start or sit, but in terms of projecting the outcome

and how it's going to, how the fantasy points are going to play out, that's tough. Cleveland at Chicago, Detroit at the Rams, Washington at the Giants. Carolina is at New Orleans, Indianapolis is at Seattle, and Tennessee at San Francisco. Good morning, Dave. What's up, dude? This was the third best game that Kirk Cousins has had against the Buccaneers in two years in his last three games against them. He scored over 32.9 fantasy points, and actually did better than that in both games last year. But holy cow, let's talk about Atlanta, 29, 10-28.

You're right? Yeah, I'm fine. What are you choking on Cat Duky? Adam's dying over here, and he told a story before the show that I don't know if he wants going out on the air. He doesn't look very happy about it. If you think it's funny, I'll tell it, but I'll tell it after we talk Falcons 29 bucks 28. A lot to talk about here. What stood out to you?

Well, the Bucks defense playing like Cat Duke is definitely something that stood out, especially in the fourth quarter. A lot of mistakes were made there. And honestly, a lot of mistakes were made in the first quarter based on how big of a game that Kyle Pitts had. And maybe that's something we should have taken into account, given what the Saints got away with against this Buck's defense last week. But Kirk Cousins, his offensive line gave him just enough protection. He did a good job locating and hitting Kyle Pitts and Bejohn Robinson out of the backfield. And David Sills, you've got to give him credit to what's actionable moving forward.

You're starting Bejan Robinson. You already knew to start Kyle Pitts, at least I think most of the back. of you knew that he was a top five tight end force and ppr and i i really think that that's that's about i'm not going to be ready to start kirk cousins anytime soon arizona next week maybe if you're desperate you could go with him but outside of that i don't i don't know if david sills is somebody that i'm going to recommend for people to pick up off the falcons defense and then for the thing that showed out to me from tampa's offense number one is great to see mike Evans back and playing

like the old Mike Evans. That was awesome. Godwin came through in short yardage situations. Abuka did not come through. How about Bucky Irving getting 17 touches, which was great, but getting zero snaps at the goal line? Sean Tucker, all five of the buck

snaps. I believe it was inside the five. It was either the five or the ten. Either way, Sean Tucker owned them. It's a little frustrating. And Heath Cummings talked about this leading up to the game that Bucky Irving's inefficiency combined with the fact that he wasn't a feature back for the Bucks could bite us. It did.

And I think you're just going to have to lick your wounds with Bucky Irving, not coming through for a big game. And I'm not sure how good you can feel about him moving forward. Oh, boy. Good morning, Jamie. Good morning. I'll tell you what, man. Next year is going to be Kyle Pitts this year. Telling you, finally going to happen.

When he goes to Pittsburgh? You know, I say it somewhat facetiously, but because it's been the joke every year in fantasy circles, but guy looks great. But I do think, so like London's back next week, most likely, so you said that, like, for three weeks. No, but they said it yesterday. They said he's out, but he's exposed, or the report was he's expected to play

next week. So, anyway, that's still going to start Kyle Pitts. All right. Well, that'll be a conversation for next week when they are at Arizona, which is a great matchup. I think the big thing for him next year is, like, is he the classic example of contractor? Yeah, maybe.

I think a lot of it depends on his health, too. Like, part of the reason why he looks so great is because I think he's healthy. Think about how the prior two years went for him and how he was dealing with something in his knee. I bet if he were honest right now, he'd say he feels better than he has at any point in the last three years. All right. Well, what about the Bucks wide receivers here? Because what we got was almost a full route run rate for Chris Godwin. He ran 95% of the routes.

Mike Evans ran 70%. Abuka, 62.5%, McMillan, 50%. When Evans was off the field, it was basically a split between Abuka and McMillan. McMillan had a touchdown overturned. Abuka had a solid game, but, well, he had seven targets, but he didn't run that many routes. Four catches for 64 yards.

Evans with 12 targets, with a huge game. Guy went with five targets, but caught a touchdown. Jamie, next week for them is at Carolina. two games against Carolina that's basically going to decide a division in the next three. But who are you going to trust in this receiving core for Tampa Bay? We almost got our 200 plus yards for Mike Evans. I mean, clearly he's the guy. So you're starting him without hesitation.

I think you treat Abuka and Godwin, depending on how this week shakes out injury-wise and whatever other matchups we're going to be talking about here, as high-end number three receivers. I mean, this is going to be an offense that is most likely going to be throwing a lot because I'm going to guess how this defense looks. They're going to be in some shootouts or chasing points. So if you tell me that they're all going to be in that six to eight target range, I'm going to feel pretty comfortable about their chances to do something with a decent floor.

So I think Abuka gave you a decent floor. Godwin scores a touchdown. The floor was there. McMillan is not someone you're going to trust. So even if he has a good game and, you know, he comes away with the touchdown, I still think he's fourth at best. But they're all, it's basically go back. to the first month of the Chargers.

Like, this is where we are again. You know, you're talking about very talented players with at the time the quarterback was playing really well for Los Angeles with Herbert. And everybody was in play. And so, you know, you're going to lose out. You know, again, it was Abuka with the good game, not the great game. But, I mean, Evans, to me, is the easy one. You're starting him, no question. Have you seen anything from Abuka?

Did you see anything last in this game on Thursday that makes you encouraged? I still think the fact that they're, I don't want to say featuring him, but you know, when you say a player of his caliber is getting seven targets, like, it's, it's hard to get away from what he still can be. I mean, granted, the last month has been very disappointing. Yeah, that's what I'm getting at. But I think part of that, though, was we overvalued him, too. Like, we immediately, I don't know, I'm assuming the people who have a book, I know we did because I know what our rankings were, top five, top 10, top 15.

Like it was a sliding scale and a slow sliding scale. But initially, like those first few games when Godwin and Evans were out, it was like, okay, we have this superstar and we really didn't. All right. Well, that would be Falcons and Bucks. And we've got some news and notes for you. We've got to remind. There's one other question from this game. Jamie, did you teach Todd Bowles his postgame press conference and language this week?

Oh, wow. I feel bad for him, man. Like, his seat went from, man, they're going to win a division. They had, honestly, when the season started, when you looked at their schedule, you look at the rest of the division, they had what may have been the easiest path to the one seat in the NFC because they should have destroyed. the Falcons, the Panthers, and had no issues with the Saints and, you know, just walk their way

into the one seat potentially, you know, and they looked like they were on there. Were they seven and two at one point? Sounds about right. I can double check. Let me, I thought, I thought they had some terrible defensive play designs last night and putting

Kindle Vildor on the field was really a bad tactical error many times against David, When you get burned by David Sills, you know, you're not quite as good of the players you might have thought you were. They were six and two, and now they are seven and seven and in a dog fight. And that is the end of Thursday night football. So we have Sunday night, or Sunday morning rather, and you can check us out at YouTube, YouTube.com slash fantasy football today from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Eastern will be answering your starters to questions. But also football fans, picture this. You bet on your favorite player to score the first touchdown of the game.

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Try a first first. touchdown score or wager with confidence today. Bet MGM, Megan Legendary. News and notes. Still not expecting Fields or Tyrod Taylor for the Jets. Still not expecting Gino Smith. In fact, Kenny Pickett is almost certainly going to start. Riley Leonard, though, he practiced in full, so we'll see if it's Rivers or Leonard.

We've got running back news. Christian McCaffrey limited with an illness. Should be, I'm guessing he'll be fine. All right. But Josh Jacobs, this is the big one right now. about this game yesterday. Jacobs at Denver. Jacobs has a knee injury. All right, Jamie, where is Jacobs in your rankings?

And if he were out, where would we put Emmanuel Wilson, who had a ton of carries and a couple of touchdowns in the one game without Jacobs? Jacobs is top 10, and Wilson would be top 15. Okay. Woody Marks was back at practice. Nick Chubb was not. Breeze Hall was limited.

He's got knee soreness. Did Chris Rodriguez miss practice again? I believe he was limited. Okay. And wide receiver, C.D. Lamb is going to play. He's out of the concussion protocol. He should be good to go. Denver wide receiver, Pat Bryan, has a hamstring issue still.

He's still been out. So maybe Troy Franklin gets back to his 10 targets, so eight targets. Devante Adams has now missed two practices with a hamstring injury. We're going to keep an eye on that. Ladd-McConkey was limited. T. Higgins limited. Romo Dunzee limited Cedric Tillman still in the concussion protocol

and Marvin Harrison Jr. still missing practice. Jake Ferguson missed practice with a calf issue. Any concerns about Ferguson guys? Not yet. We're probably not today. Yeah.

All right. We have our mailbag at noon Eastern on Friday so we should hopefully have updated info during that show. Darnell Washington was limited but he's still in the concussion protocol. David Nijoku mispractice. T.J. Hawkinson got in a limited

session and Mason Taylor mispractice. And Cleveland's offensive line is beat up. Eagle's offensive line is beat up. Chiefs, good news for them, Trace Smith, their guard, their star guard was limited. He missed last week's game, but their tackles are still

beat up. And same with the Chargers. Did you see that the Raiders might be getting Colton Miller back at the tackle? Yeah. And the I think that helps, that obviously helps. But it could especially be good for Gentie. And the Broncos could be getting Ben Powers back.

So he has, you know, he's got a chance to play this week. Max's kid? Max Powers. Oh, from, is that a Simpsons joke? Yes, yes. Cool. And Pittsburgh Edge, T.J. Watt was hospitalized with a lung issue. We hope he's okay.

And he might not play this week. And defensive tackled Derek Harmon mispractice, but he actually has a chance to play. So that's a Monday night game against Miami. Still no Denzel Ward. Houston starting cornerback, Camarie Lasseter, mispractice. Buffalo starting quarterback Christian Benford has a toe injury. That's kind of a big deal. Arizona's beat up on

defense. Jalen Carter didn't practice. Trent McDuffie was limited and J.C. Horn looks like he's on his way back. All right. Speaking of on their way back, we're going to take a quick break and when we come back, got one question for each game and Dave wants me to tell a disgusting story, so we'll be right back on

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over-deliver. Service fees exclusions and terms apply. Welcome back, everybody. One question for each game. Minnesota is at Dallas. Dave, is this finally the week for Justin Jefferson? Well, when you say the week, do you mean the week where he becomes the stud first round receiver that we drafted him to be? I will take a second round receiver. I think he can get close to that. Jamie, how you feeling about Jefferson? I mean, the matchup is as good as you can get. So I will start him as a number two receiver.

13 receivers have at least seven targets against Dallas this year. All of them have at least 14.7. EPR points. I remain encouraged by what I saw from J.J. McCarthy last week, getting the ball out fast, offensive line protecting him. I think that there is definitely an opportunity, a real opportunity for Jefferson to have a good game. Yeah, except Washington has no pass rush.

The Cowboys have a better pass rush. They have some pass rush. Yes, I agree. They're secondary, though, is not played well. All right. Cleveland's at Chicago. So we've got Judkins. We've got the Bears running back.

We've got all the wide receivers in this game, mostly just from the bears. We've got the tight ends. Jamie, who's the best flex in this game, Cleveland at Chicago? Of all the players? Yes. Oh, that's a great question. Michael Fanon. Yeah, that's what I thought.

That's what I thought. How does a potential return of O'Donzee affect that? It doesn't. I mean, it makes it, I think, worse because. like O'Donzee was not playing well but then you have his just availability and participation is going to make things tough on Luther

Burden so I think if it's no O'Dunzei obviously I like O'Donzee better than Burden if he plays but no O'Donzee just gives the opportunity for burden to be a little bit more a little bit more upside okay next game is Detroit

at the Rams Dave start everyone I wouldn't start David to Montgomery with a huge amount of confidence. And I wouldn't start Blake Corum with a huge amount of confidence either. Anybody else, Isaac Tesla, the DSTs,

I really don't want any part of the DSTs. I think I gave you enough time to play the game of the week music. I have been very distracted. In case anybody hasn't noticed, I've been all over the place. I'm working on a special surprise for you and I'm about three seconds away from having it.

Okay, ready? You need me to filibuster for like another 30 seconds about this game? This is what I believe to be, the original Game of the Week moment as sent in by a listener and I thought we'd have a little trip down

memory lane on this fun Friday. Here we go. All right, that's going to do it for the Raiders and the Broncos which brings us to It's the game of the week, yeah. The mills visiting the Ravens.

Game of the week, yeah. Woo! Get the Game of the Week. All right, Buffaloes of Baltimore. Heath, what do you think about the Game of the Week song? It's something. There's one other that may have been before that that I'll try to get a clip up for next show.

I thought the one guy that tended to us was... Yeah, I was trying to find... I think that what I just played may have been second. because the guy that sent it to us was the first one. Two people said that. Someone sent that to me also. No, the other one

that we discussed previously was the original. I love how the listeners know and we don't. I know. They're amazing at what they can track down. I'm going to send this one. I'm going to send this one to,

yeah, okay. All right, I have that one too. I'm going to send this one to our producer. That's the original one. And he's going to, and we can play that one a little bit later. All right. But anyway, this is going to be a really good game.

And, you know, Detroit at Los Angeles should have great starts. Washington is at the Giants? Jamie, who are the top three running backs slash wide receivers or running backs or wide receivers in this game, Giants and Commanders? I have McLaren and Wondell Robinson very close. So those two, just to make it easy. And then I would probably go with Tyrone Tracy as the next best player over Debo Samuel.

Okay. I have it the exact same way. Wait, so McLaurin, then Tracy, and then Debo? Is that we said? No, McLaren, then Wondale, then Tracy. Okay. Let's see. Carolina's at New Orleans.

Who's a better start? Rico Dowdell or Devin Neal, Dave? I have Dowdell higher, but it's close. You know what I was thinking, guys? What is the difference between Devin Neal and Woody Marks? Right? Like, they both are averaging basically the same amount of carries. you look at the touches it's pretty similar like last week

Woody Marks had a ton of touches but usually he's in the 18ish range and I would say no Nick Chub maybe he's higher than that they both have really good matchups yeah you know I'm saying it's not bad maybe just a little bit more experience for Marks over Neal over the balance of this season they're obviously both rookies that helps I could see Arizona's defense totally collapsing whereas Carolina has given us there have been games where they've had huge moments defensively.

So I'm going to lean toward Woody Marks. I also think that Tyler Shuck could take numbers away from Neal, whereas I'd be less concerned about that with Bryce Young, or I'm sorry, C.J. Stroud. I don't know why I said, Bryce Young. C.J. Stroud taking like rushing numbers and rushing opportunities away from Woody Marks. But every time I go to update my rankings, I find myself moving Devin Neal up, up,

and up some more. could be a top 20 running back by the time we get to Sunday. I'm kind of encouraged by what he's doing and the workload he gets. I still think he has a Tayson Hill problem. He scored a touchdown last week. Taysam Hill handed it off to him. So there's always that.

There would be a Nick Chubb problem at the goal line for Marks, but right now we're not expecting Chubb, so maybe that's the difference there. Colts at Seahawks. Jamie, how confident are you in Jonathan Taylor? I'm not benching Jonathan Taylor. I'm not expecting

and Jonathan Taylor to be a top five running back and win me my week. So I have Taylor in two leagues. One's the Dynasty League. The other is our FFT Open League. And I'm really thrilled that I had Kyle Pitts in that same lineup. Because that's what Jonathan Taylor used to do. And I think you just got to understand, like, it's a terrible scenario for him. Because even if Daniel Jones was something, like we've seen it for the last month.

he's been struggling, you know, with his production. You know, he's still leading the NFL in rushing yards. He's obviously having an amazing season, and, you know, you hope to see him finish the season strong, but he's had some really tough matchups, and I wish they would throw him the ball in the passing game. Maybe Philip Rivers changes that, but it's just like you're relying on a breakaway run, you're relying on a touchdown, and those things have been, those things have been escaping him for, you know, the better part of the last four games.

So I'm still starting him again because the workload in the town is too hard to overlook, but this is just going to be a brutal game. The Seahawks run defense is amazing. Start two of three in PPR. ETN, Javante Williams, Jonathan Taylor. I'm sitting, Taylor. I'm sitting Javante. It's close between Javante and Taylor, but I think I'd say Taylor too.

Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Yeah, Taylor, I've got him with seven tough matchups. Denver, Rams, Raiders, Steelers, Chiefs, Texans, Jaguars. He scored 30 fantasy points in two of them. and the other five, he scored 14.6 or fewer, including two horrible duds.

You know, so... Do you think Seattle's defense alters their plan because it's not Daniel Jones under center? No. Yeah, they put 11 guys and their 12th man in the line scrimmish. They're great against the run regardless. All right, next game is Tennessee at San Francisco. So, Dave, what can Tony Pollard do for an encore?

11 carries for 38 yards and one catch for five yards. We're just not, we're not buying it, right? I really don't want to buy into it. He got really lucky on two runs against a Brown's defense that just were out of position. And so if the 49ers are out of position again and just everything goes right, he'll have another big breakaway play. I don't want to take anything really Look, Pollard looked good when he was running

But it was two big runs He doesn't do that very often I would be very surprised If he had another huge game And it has nothing to do with the matchup Is everything to do with him Okay Yeah, and and

In his situation I shouldn't say just him Everything with his situation Right On his 56 yard touch, whatever it was It was really long touchdown run Yeah, three Browns fell down.

It was like bowling. Okay. They got the memo. What's that? They got the memo. They got the memo. I hate when you say that. I hate that almost as much as what you curse.

Minnesota is it Dallas. Here's your new stat of the game. This is kind of what Dave was saying earlier about Jefferson. But Jordan Addison has seven or more targets. Oh, we had the same exact stat. Every wide receiver with seven or more targets has scored 14.7 or more PPR fantasy points. That's exactly what I had, except that I have. had it with Jordan Addison, who has seven or more targets in four of his last five games.

When you have bad receivers, though, they have a tendency to break the, not bad receivers, but receivers who are not playing well, they have the tendency to break these types of streaks. But at least we have a great opportunity here, obviously, for Jefferson and for Addison. And only one wide receiver has scored double-digit PPR fantasy points against the Vikings in their last four games. So it's just so funny to see, you know, the great offense with the terrible matchup and the terrible offense with the great matchup, and Jamie, what do you think this game looks like, Minnesota at Dallas? I hope the Minnesota offense shows up because then we get what should be the Dallas offense showing up. I hope Dallas doesn't get conservative here and is able to play a low-scoring

game because the Minnesota offense doesn't push the tempo. So the Dallas defense has obviously been very good. The Cowboys are in the most high-scoring games of any team in the league. The fact that their home helps, and we've talked about this at some point this week that, you know, the, the Cowboys have put up numbers against some good defenses already this season. You know, you go back to the Packers game and how they were playing at that point. So I think just in the case of DAC and Lamb and Pickens, wherever you see them ranked, ignore it, start them, don't even think about it. They're too much, they're too good. There's too much upside, you know, like, you know, Dave gave you an example of a Jonathan Taylor scenario. Everybody's going to have one of those because you have great teams at this point.

But for the most part, you're going to start those three players. Ferguson is a borderline starter at this point just because of what he's done and not done when everybody's there. And I think in the case of the Vikings, like, I don't want to chase McCarthy in a one quarterback league. So when we talked about this on Tuesday, if Mario is out there, you start him over McCarthy. I like C.J. Stroud better than McCarthy. I know the matchup is great. I know he had three touchdowns. As Dave said, the changes that they made definitely were a benefit to him.

And Dallas is terrible. But again, like, I don't want to have my fantasy playoffs decided by J.J. McCarthy with what his body of work has looked like this season. So Jefferson, still a number two receiver, but I can understand if you're hesitant. Addison, a number three receiver, but I can understand if you're hesitant. And even the running backs, like, at best, they're flex options because they're still going to take away from each other, especially what we saw last week with Jordan Mason, how he ran. Okay. Can you see yourself getting Jivante out of your lineup for a Woody Marks or an R.J. Harvey or anything like that? You can definitely make the argument for it. But again, you know, like we were just discussing what's the difference between Marks and Devoniel. Like there's a body of work that Javante Williams has for better or worse. And you know what you're getting. And touches will be there. There's nobody going to take him. There's nobody that's going to take him away from goal line opportunities. This is a game.

where if you play it out, at least for me, I think Dallas is going to be playing with the lead. It should be an opportunity for some carries and maybe additional carries to maybe run out the clock. So I like Javante better than those guys. But again, the ceiling for Marks, for Harvey, for Trevian Henderson, for Devin Neal, is probably better than Javante Williams

is based on the matchup that those guys have. Are you starting Devin Neal over Aaron Jones? Yes. I think I'm going to get there. Are you starting Devin Neal over Justin Jefferson and Jordan Addison. No. Over Addison, yes.

Jefferson, Neil Addison. Let's say it's half P. I'm assuming that was full PPR. Let's say it's half PPR. Jefferson, Neil Addison. All right. So I think basically what we're saying is we might be a little nervous about the Cowboys,

but we're not treating it that way. It's just one of those you're going to start them and live with the consequences. I think like the one player and game, but one player I keep going back to is Jackson Smith, the Jigba. Eight of his last nine games, he's been over 20 PPR points. He had one absolute stinker, and it was against Minnesota. Their defense was so dominant in that game.

So dominant. Who's Seattle's? Against the Seattle's defense against Max Brosma. Against the Vikings offense. They did not need to do anything. And I don't think that's going to be the case here. So they've been fantastic. They haven't allowed a receiver to get double digits in PPR.

I believe now it's four straight games. Like, this is just a fantastic defense. This is going to be the offense that test that. So to me, we have three receivers, and I might be missing somebody, but three receivers that are just in brutal situations based on what the numbers suggest that you cannot bench, the two Cowboys and Michael Wilson. Yeah, well, this game I was going to say is so similar to Arizona at Houston because Minnesota's defense from a fantasy standpoint is playing that well.

Well, that's one and two in terms of risk. Fewest fantasy points allowed to wide receivers. That's one and two. But how about quarterbacks? I mean, you've got starting with Lamar Jackson, what five games ago, Lamar Jackson, Caleb Williams, Jordan Love, Sam Darnold, Jaden Daniels. None of them scored. They've combined for one touchdown pass, zero rushing touchdowns.

None of them scored more than 16.6 fantasy points. None of them through for Georgia yards. And I will say, Dak makes me more nervous than the receivers do. Someone asked Dak or Purdy. I'd go party. I'd go, Dak. How are we feeling about Jake Ferguson, Dave? Is he going to score a touchdown?

He's kind of in that boat right now. And maybe he could still give you a four-for-fifty type game. But if you're starting him, you're hoping that he catches one of the six touchdowns that happen in this game. So low-end, number one, tight end. Okay. I'm going to ask the chat if you have any questions about this game. I think, yeah, picket, I expect pick-ins and lamb to be started.

more or less universally, but I think Jefferson's going to be a tough call for people. I'll ask you guys, let me get the schedule up here. Jefferson, do you think he'll do better than a Mecca, Abuka, like 10 and a half points? Yes, but the last two games have obviously not been the case. How about Jefferson? Oh, here's one. Jefferson, Christian Watson, Brian Thomas, Jr., need two. I'd go with Jefferson and Watson.

Yeah, I'm sitting BTJ. Would you start Emmanuel Wilson over Jefferson? I would hate if that's my three receivers, though. Yeah, I know. Would you start Emmanuel Wilson over Jefferson if Jacobs were out? Yes. Yeah. How about Joanne Jennings or Jefferson?

Joanne Jennings. I'll take Jefferson. I'll go JJ. Addison or Joanne Johnson? oh boy a little more upside for addison there's much more upside for ad like joan johnson's probably 10 ppr points he's just been in that range his entire season the entire season like addison will hopefully do that so i'd go addison with the upside yeah i mean it's not like addison's had a i don't think he's had a blow up game with mccarthy no right but it's just it's such a favorable

matchup and really the you ask for a difference i don't know if this is like a real difference but I think one of the huge differences is that the offensive line is better now for Minnesota, certainly than it was when Brosmer played against Seattle, and definitely in other starts that McCarthy had this year. Okay. And if you're curious, it just can't mess around with what McCarthy did last week. They can't get away from that. If they say, all right, now drop back and scan the field and take three and a half seconds

and hope you don't get hit, like that's when McCarthy is going to make mistakes. You know what this feels like? This feels like what we had last year with Tyree Kill and Tua. Tyrake Hill and Tua. Oh. Yeah. Yeah. What Jefferson's going through.

Right. That's a good point. Yeah. Just if you're curious about George Pickett, like no one sitting lamb, George Pickens in tough matchups, other than week one at Philadelphia, he scored at least 13.7 fantasy points against Green Bay at a huge game. Jets, when he was shadowed by sauce at Denver, Arizona, they've been good against receivers. Philadelphia had a huge game, Kansas City.

So that's a pretty good floor for Pickens. All right. Here's some questions from the chat. They're going to have to throw a lot, too. I hope so. Dak or Burrow? Burrow. Dack or Stafford?

Stafford. Stafford. Aaron Jones, Devin Singletary, or David Montgomery, have PPR. I have Jones highest of those three. I'll take Montgomery. Four point per pass touchdown. Dan or Stafford? I'm going to go Dan here.

No, Stafford. Dark or dart? That's two straight misspellings of DAC. Dak or dart? I'll take dark. Okay, DAC and a dart. And Addison, Chuba Hubbard, or Harold Fanon, have PPR?

Fanon. Yeah, all right. And sit the DSTs or what in this game? You know, they're both interesting because obviously Minnesota's defense has been great, but they're playing a great offense. And McCarthy and the Vikings have typically been very good for opposing defenses, but it's still the Cowboys. But if I'm going to take a chance on one of them,

and actually take a chance on Dallas just because of McCarthy. I think I'd start the Saints DST over both. All right. Cleveland's at Chicago. Sportsline loves the Cowboys' DST this week. Yeah. Because it's J.J. McCarthy. All right, Cleveland's at Chicago.

By the way, T.J. Hawkinson. Cleveland's at Chicago. Coincidence of the game? T.J. Edwards. I talk about him all the time, right? And he seems to be the key to the Bears run defense, although I feel like it might be a coincidence. But it is really something.

he played about 60% of the snaps last week and they allowed 3.7 yards per carrier to running backs with him on the field and 5.3 with him off the field. I expect a full snapshot this week from T.J. Edwards. That was his first game back. This means a bad matchup for Quintan Judkins.

His offensive line is pretty beat up. They just lost their center for the year. I think at least one other guys on the injury report. So starters at Quinshan Judkins, Dave. Low end number two running back. Aaron Jones or Quinchon Judkins I currently have Jones a spot ahead of Judkins I'll take Judkins

Judkins or Jefferson Jefferson and PPR Judkins or Addison Jackins Sit Shudor Sanders We want to see it again And that's Judkin We're not going to start any Cleveland receivers, right?

If you're in a pickle in 2 QB leagues I think Shudor is okay like I get it the Chicago secondary is really good but they the the Achilles heel the Chicago Bears defense is their pass rush and Shador was was good not just in college but this season last week when there's no pressure it's easy and he's accurate he can be accurate on intermediate throws we saw it so if he's got time to throw I wouldn't be surprised if he had you call it 250 and one maybe two plus he'll run a little bit that's not bad if you're really desperate at quarterback. Yeah, I faced Kirk Cousins in our Super Flex League last night. You know, Marone is so good at fantasy. A guy we play with one of our colleagues, he's just good at every year. So I saw Kirk Cousins in our Super Flex League and Kyle Pitts in our FFT League.

So good for you, Marone. Yeah, so the Bears, you mentioned their secondary is good, but I think Kyler Gordon's on the injury report. And they're giving up, they just bleed points in the passing game, but they have been hurt most of the year. It's because of their pass rush more than anything. Yeah, I guess no one's going to start. Jerry, Judy, did have five targets last week, which really wasn't that many. Harold. I would, I would, I would, I might dial him up in DFS.

And some people did it last week. I might do it again. Deepest of leagues, three receiver flex leagues, full PPR. I'd consider it. But he's not like a top 30 whiteout or anything like that. All right. Harold Fanon is basically a must start. He's top five.

Start Harold Fanon. All right, Jamie. Let's talk about the Bears. Who do you have confidence in on the bears facing the Browns? Confidence is a tough word. I'm going to start DeAndre Swift as a number two running back. I'm going to use common on guys as a flex. I'm going to use Luther Burden as the starter in three receiver leagues of Odunze's out.

I'll start Odunzee in three receiver leagues if he plays. And Colston Loveland's a low end starting tight end, but he's in that group of guys that you can make a case for and against several other players in that range. So confidence is probably not the right word is used. And Caleb is behind Berset and Stroud, right? Caleb is behind Stroud. I would start Berset over Malsias.

Okay. DeAndre Swift, the best running back in this game? For me. I have Junkins higher. Yeah, I'll take Swift over Junkins. Yeah, I don't really know that this is that tough of a matchup anymore. Since week five, or since week four, well, beginning in week five, running backs are averaging 4.3 yards per carry against Cleveland.

They're not bad, but they started out the year as the Seahawks, basically, and now they're just kind of whatever. There have been a lot of good running backs, not to say that Swift is a bad running back, but good feature backs that have done well against Cleveland. And so Swift is good. He's the better running back in Chicago, but he splits so much that it's hard to get super excited about him.

And when the Bears are winning, it's still a split between Swift and Mononga. The only time it's not is when it's the hurry up offense trailing in the fourth quarter. That's when you'll see more of Swift. I don't think that's going to be the case this week. In the last five weeks, the Browns are number six and

most fantasy points allowed to opposing running backs. And that's against backfields from the Jets, the Ravens, the Raiders, the 49ers, and the Titans. And five guys over that stretch have scored at least 17.4 PPR points. Sure. It's Brees, Henry, Genti,

mcalfrey and then pollard last week most appallard is obviously the the exception of that group but a lot of guys that got a lot of work and i'm just a little worried that swift's going to share too much with mona guy that's what oh he's i mean look he's the number two running back i don't think anybody yeah we agree on where he is the rankings i just wouldn't get super excited no no well jamy's not super excited about anybody and no on the bear no one is uh yeah if if if odunzee's out then it changes things but all right let's see if we have any but it sounds it sounds like the highest ranked bears receiver is going to be

what around 30th or so about that at best I mean that's where burden is right now it would be if O'Donzee keeps practicing and he plays in the game he's going to see a lot of man-to-man coverage and that's what he's had the most success against this year you have to wonder with O'Donzee how much

of his struggles were tied to this foot injury and missing only one week you know is how healthy is he but but that's why he's not going to be like a top 24 type of receiver. Yeah. All right. Luther Burden, Blake Corum, or Alec Pierce?

Who's your favorite? Oh, boy. Probably Pierce still. It would be, it's between Burton and Pierce if O'Donzee's out. If O'Donzee plays, then it's Pierce easy for me. That's probably the way to put it. Swift or Sutton? there's more upside with Sutton but I would probably go Swift

I think I've got Sutton higher Judkins or Tetaroa McMillan or Emmanuel Wilson if Jacobs is out so Wilson would be Judkins is probably going to be third of that group Wilson would be the easy one it's probably safer to go McMillan and PPR and Swift or Rico Dowdell

half PPR I'll still go Swift they're both going to share. The Panthers is such a wild card right now. Like, at least you know what you're getting with the Bears. Like, what if Chuba has the better start and Rico doesn't get 18 carries like you got last time? I'd lean Rico, but it's close.

And I resent you calling the Panthers a wild card, Jamie. They are division leaders at the moment. That is true. Menangai or Sharper? Were they playing this week? Playing the Saints. That's true. Well, you know, the Saints could get the call.

Oh, okay. I thought you're about to curse. And then start to play. Oh, God. I hate you. Menangai or Charbonnet? I've got my I've got my non guy

just a little bit higher but I kind of like Charbonnet. Charmong guy like they're the same player. That's good. Last one. Pick two tight ends. Fanon, Ferguson, Tyler Warren.

Ferguson's the odd man out. All right. Agreed. I like the Bears DST? I do. They create a lot of turnovers, and that's one thing I think that we could see in this matchup. And look, Shadur's played well. He did have an interception last week. It wouldn't surprise me if they created turnover, fumble. I think that he holds the ball a little bit too much. So while the pass rush may not be as good as some of the teams that he's faced, or the bears may not have

as great a as great a pass rush as you would like, he's going to give them opportunities. So they're a top 10 DST for me. All right. And Sita Brown's DST. And Don't go anywhere. We'll be right back with the Rams hosting the Lions. Big game this week. We'll be right back. Canada's Wonderland is bringing the holiday magic this season with Winterfest on select nights now through January 3rd.

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Still only one running back has scored more than 16 PPR fantasy points against the Lions. They have not allowed a receiving touchdown to a running back, and they've allowed only two rushing touchdowns to a running back since week four. So we've got two teams that are really good against the run, and that means Jemir Gibbs is an easy call, but no one else is,

except I guess it's kind of easy to get away from Montgomery. Okay, so, Kiron Williams, he runs well on everyone. You know, tough matchup, it doesn't matter, for the most part. He had 12 carries for 91 yards and a touchdown against Seattle.

But, Dave, are we starting or sitting, Kyron Williams? You're starting, Kairn Williams. You're doing it as a high-end, number two fantasy running back. You're hoping that he continues to lead the way for this backfield. Detroit's run defense is the best part of their defense right now.

But they're going to be hard pressed to stack the box against him, given the other receivers that L.A. has and the quarterback that L.A. has. All right. I already said I was going to start Woody Marks over Kairn Williams. But now I don't know because I might have to start Woody Marks over Josh Jacobs. But you guys, if Jacobs were out, would you start Emmanuel Williams over Kairn Williams? What about Kieran Wilson? Yeah, Emmanuel Wilson over Kairn Williams. Would you do that?

Admittedly, it's going to be close between those two. I think I might lean Kairn over Wilson, but that's the range. That's like the top 15 running back range. Kyrin Williams in his last seven games, he has only eight catches. That's the other thing about this. He and Blake Korma both been really efficient, averaging well over five yards per carry in the last seven games. Kyran has 101 carries in seven games. Corum has 72.

So it's what, it's like 13, not 14 or so per game for Kyran, 10 per game for Blake Corum. What's 101 divided by seven? I don't know. I've embarrassed myself. Yeah, it's about 14. They both have six goal line carries. Kyron has scored six touchdowns. Corm has scored three.

It's just, it's 14 to 13 to 14 carries and maybe one to two catches. You might get lucky. You might have a five catch game, but that's so rare. So I am very nervous here against a team that gives up the fewest fantasy points to running backs and the second fewest receiving yards per game to running backs. So I guess you have to have someone really good

if you're going to bench Kyron Williams. But we're talking about playoff teams here so you might have someone really good. Start Adam, start Puka. Any interest in Kobe Parkinson? Yes. Because it's going to be a high-scoring game, I think he's in the conversation

of a low-end number one tight end right there with Jake Ferguson. Currently have Ferguson ranked higher. I think it's simply because I think there's going to be more opportunities for Ferguson in his game than there will be for Parkinson in this one. And there's a lower floor for Parkinson. I should mention that too. But the total in this game is sky high. Well over 50 points should be a lot of touchdown.

Stafford's playing at an MVP level. This is the kind of game where the Rams might try and feature Matthew Stafford so that he could get in that MVP spotlight and separate himself from Drake May. I think that this is definitely going to be an opportunity for Colby to be a red zone option, just as he has been for much of the year. Yeah. Well, in the last five games, he has the most red zone and most green zone targets among tight ends. I shouldn't have said much of the year, but it has been the last five games. But since Higbee went on IR, basically, I mean, a little bit before that. Well, I mean, and remember, before that, they had like four tight ends that they were rotating, and now it just feels like they've settled on parking.

Yeah, he had a 71% route participation rate Parkinson in week 14. That was a season high. However, look, let's just be honest here. It's four to five targets at best lately. You know, it's 41 yards at best. There's a lot of downside with Parkinson for sure. Can I mention one other thing? I don't know if this was going to be a matchup that Parkinson was going to face,

but Parkinson versus Brian Branch, if that's how the Lions were going to deploy Branch against this offense, that would have taken him away, but Branch isn't going to play. So that just opens the door for somebody like Parkinson to have an easier matchup. He'll play against the backup. David Montgomery is outside the top 30. You don't start him. Start Gibbs. Start St.

Brown. Jameson Williams is top 12. And, you know, look, I think it's been a little unsustainable what he's doing. His explosive play rate is through the roof. Not repeatable. But how are you going to get away from Jameson Williams and what should be a shootout? Rams are 18th against receivers. You can get to them.

Sit the lion's tight ends. And it really just comes down. to Jared Gough here. So how about Jared Gough or Dak Prescott, Dave? I've got Dak ahead of golf. I don't like Jared Gough's track record against the Rams. Three games since he was traded from L.A. to Detroit, three games where he hasn't had 20 fantasy points.

But this is just such a good opportunity for him to continue doing what he's been doing. And that's putting the ball on the air. Hopefully it's not a game like what we saw against Dallas, where there were so many rushing touchdowns that it took away, opportunities for golf to have a bunch of passing touchdowns. He's going to be called on to do a lot of the lifting for Detroit this week. And one other thing, last week was like the first time, I don't know, maybe the first or second time in like a month, month and a half that the Rams pass rush looked good.

And it was against Arizona when the Cardinals lost their left tackle. So with that big front five that Detroit has, I feel pretty good about golf getting good enough protection, not being flustered by it and throwing downfield. Jamie, Jared Goff has finished top 10, five times, six times this year. And it's usually a great matchup. Bears, Bengals, Battlestar Galactica beats, commanders, giants. Those are the four great matchups that he killed. And then the other two were Minnesota, where he scored 23.4 fantasy points and Green

Bay, where he scored 24.6. If you're in the mindset of, well, it's going to be a shootout, that's always good. But that hasn't necessarily translated to fantasy points. Like, just look at last week against the Cowboys. Because Jamir Gibbs could have the big game. You never know. But where do you, I'll just give you the last word on golf, who is, I mentioned this on Beyond the Box Square.

He's actually the number seven, number eight quarterback per game this year, even though it probably doesn't feel that way. I'm starting him. Oh, your microphone is incorrect. Yeah, I just much for others. All right, Jamie is starting him. I'll give you guys some DAC. Or, yeah, golf or DAC, is what I meant to say.

I'll take Dak over golf. They say some words so we know. One, two, three, four, five. There you're good, yeah. I like those words. Who'd you say, Dak or golf? I would go with golf. Golf or Lamar Jackson?

Lamar. Golf or Drake May. May. I'd go with golf. Yeah, I think this is, you know, the one thing we've seen from the Rams. They've been terrible on the road to quarterbacks. They have not been terrible at home to quarterbacks yet, but they've also played a pretty easy schedule at home against opposing

quarterbacks. So I think this is a shootout. I know golf's track record against this team has not been good, but this is the type of game I think where they're going to go back and forth. I don't see the line slowing down the Rams. All right. Let's move on to the next game here before we do that, though. A little piece of FFT history.

We need some Game of the Week music. How about it's the game of the week. Yeah. I like it. Don't do that again. Detroit is at Minnesota. Game of the week. Yeah.

All right. Don't do that again. Do we possibly think that the other one was the original? This is clearly the original. It's going to be freaking awesome. Just like, because I was doing it on the air. I had two emails. I didn't know which one was which.

I screwed it up. All right, Washington at the Giants. Stat of the game. Just something to think about here. the commanders are replacing their second leading receiver and a guy who had five or more targets than six of his last seven healthy games. We haven't really talked about the impact of no Zach Ertz,

but he was a very important piece of this passing game. So Jamie, just is this a good game for fantasy and this game where we want to start players, Washington at the Giants? It's one of the few. I mean, you know, you look at the two defenses are terrible, at least based on paper. What we've seen from Dart, for the most part, aside from the New England game. He's been a great fantasy quarterback. Wondell Robinson comes

into this game with 53 targets in his last four games. So he's going to get a lot of work and hopefully takes advantage of this defense, which is number nine in most fantasy points allowed to opposing wide receivers. Then you have the other side of this where the Giants pass defense has been terrible. And Mariotta in four of six starts has been over 20 fantasy points in place of Jayden Daniels. McLaurin in his last two starts with Mariotas has been 14.4 PPR points or more with two touchdowns. Oh, by the way, they were against Kansas City and Denver. And then Debo should have an opportunity for a good game. He beat up the Giants in week one that was with McLaurin working his way back from

the holdout or hold in, whatever it was, and Zach Gert's on the field. So there's a chance for him to be productive. I'm only going to start him in three receiver leagues, but clearly a great matchup and opportunity. And so you look at it and say everybody should be in play. Theo Johnson is coming off the game with eight targets. The commanders have been bad against tight ends all season. So, like, everybody shouldn't be in play here for you.

And then really the only running back I think you could trust is Tracy, but the Giants give up touchdowns to running backs. And that's what Chris Rodriguez needs. So he could fall into the end zone here. And Devin Singletary could be in play as a flex because of how much work he tends to get in tandem with Tracy. So it's one of these games that has a Bonanza-type upside. Yeah, except the only player that I – well, no.

I don't know. Tell me if you agree with this. The only players that I'm actually excited to start in this game would be DART and McLaurin with an honorable mention. Because you hate Wando. Honorable mention to Wando Robinson. I mean, I think he's a very safe play and does have some upside. Everyone does against the commanders. But I'm not excited to start Tyrone Tracy.

I'm not excited to start Debo. I'm not excited to start Theo Johns. It's like we don't have a- Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Agreed. Like, it's, you know, again, go back to word you use, I think it was about the Bears. Like, there's no confidence in those guys.

But, yes, you should be excited to start them. And I think you should be excited to start Wondo. Yeah, I mean, I'm excited for the safety of Wondale. Tyrone Tracy or Zay Flowers, PPR. I'd go Tracy. Let me double check how I have it ranked in PPR, but the knee-jerk reaction is Flowers. Tracy's been outscored by Singletary two of the last three games.

He did leave one of those games early, but he was not having a good game at New England, and 10 carries, 36 yards, one catch for negative three yards. All right, Washington gives up the six most fantasy points. The Giants, I think, give up the most fantasy points to the running backs. The Giants allow over six yards per carry. So this could be a week where Chris Rodriguez finally scores. Chris Rodriguez has been very efficient.

Just we know he doesn't catch anything. There's Ben Sinit. Put him on your bench. Maybe he does something. Marcus Mariotta, we're starting over Jacoby Preset. We're starting. Would you start Trevor Lawrence or Marioata? Mario.

I have Trevor Hira as of now. It's three spots away. All right. I got some chat questions here that should help us through this game. Chris Rodriguez or Trevionn Henderson? The only format I would consider that is non-PPR. Would you do it in non-PPR? No, I'd still start Henderson.

But, I mean, look, you know, Henderson, he hasn't scored touchdowns very often. He hasn't scored touchdowns very often with Ramandre Stevenson. And Rodriguez, again, if you're going to, trust him, that's where it's going to be the opportunity for him to win. Okay, what else we got here? We got Wondale or Debo? Wondale. Wondale or Jefferson?

Wondo. I'll chance it on Jefferson. Wondale, Robinson, or D'Andre Swift? Wondo. Yeah. Let's make it half PPR. Wondo. All right.

Closer. Here's a good one. Full PPR. Wondell Robinson or Kairn Williams. Kairn. Yeah. Oh, man.

Two players that I hate. Not really, though. Not really. Brissette or Mario-Dota. I already said we're going. Marioita. Is there bad weather in this game? Somebody's pointing this out.

Let's see. I don't see any bad weather. I mean, it's going to be cold. Cold. There's going to be a lot of games this week that are cold. Yeah. Yeah.

But I don't see. anything where it's going to be like crazy wind or tons of snow mariotta or stroud non-p-r i'd go mariotta full ppr i'd go mariotta half ppr i'd go mariotto uh dart or hurts oh that's tough dart dart okay dart or golf very close right now but i'd go golf i would too Slayton or Burden If there's no O'Donzei Burden is safer But Slayton has more upside

I want to ask Dan about this on the mailback But I've talked about this with With Slayton right So two weeks ago he comes back And basically shares snaps With Isaiah Hodgins Last week both Hodgins Or sorry two games ago

And then last game Because they had to buy Last game against New England They both Hodgens and Slapes and Slapes both played a ton But that's because the Giants were in three receiver sets at a much higher rate than normal. They were trailing big the whole game. So my concern with Slayton is if they're in two receiver sets more often,

that he's again sharing with Isaiah Hodgons. Because he only has five or six targets in his last two games. I think the one thing to look at, though, two games ago was the game removed after he missed for a hamstring injury. So were they limiting his snaps in that one? Yeah, maybe. And James and Hodgins have a very good rapport. it's really just about playing time though i'm not saying to start hodgins or anything no no no but but james was talking about was talking up hodgins going into the patrice game because he was coming off

that decent game two decent games previous the two games prior where he had played well yeah all right a few more questions here he's had a safe floor with dart and their last three games together dart is uh slaten has scored 11.2 ppr points in three straight games with that's it yeah with dart and scored a touchdown last time and you know who else gets a lot of targets more from dart than he did much more from dart than Winston is theo johnson so i do have a theo johnson issue theo johnson isaiah likely or colby parkinson so if you're looking for the safest floor it's theo johnson if you're looking for the highest ceiling it's isaiah likely i would play likely dart or purdy

they are back to back i like purdy slightly better agreed olive or wandale alave alave all right we're moving on from this game let's go to our next game sit the dsts and our next game is Carolina at New Orleans. What a buildup. Yeah, Dave, who are the best, who are the easy calls in Carolina at New Orleans? Neither are the quarterbacks. Rico, I think, still qualifies as a low-end number two running back.

Devin Neal is definitely a number two running back. Alave is a must-start at wide receiver. Teteroa is a low-end number-two wide receiver. receiver and PPR might be a high flex and non-PPR worried about volume and efficiency with him. Am I missing anybody? I don't think I am. Joanne Johnson is okay.

Not a top 12 tight end for me this week. Saints DST we talked about on the Beat Waivers show. Great schedule the rest of the way. 10 or more fantasy points in three of their last four. Carolina does give up numbers to DSTs because they've got some issues on offense. I don't mind taking a stab at the Saints DST. to you if you really hate your other options. The Panthers are actually a pretty tough team

because everybody wants to know about Rico Dowdell, everyone wants to know about Tetaro and McMillan. Jamie, who do you like better? Dowdell or McMillan in this game? I like Dowdell better in this game. My concern is that what we saw from the Panthers against a great defense of the Rams is 40 touches for their running backs

and minimal pass attempts for Bryce Young. And that is not a good formula for the Saints because they won't have a lot of time possession and I don't think they'll have to have the opportunity to rush the passer as much as you would like from a DST playing against any team. So if the Saints are able to get ahead in this game and we're seeing Bryce Young throw similar to the Falcons game, for example, then yes, there's opportunities for the Saints DST. There's opportunities for Tedrole-McMillan. There's opportunities for still the running backs to be successful because of what they'll do in the passing game. But I would think

that the Panthers, their formula for success all season, for the most part, has been to run, run and run some more. And if Chuba's healthy and looking the way that he did, and you're still going to give Dowdle 15 plus touches, like, it's very hard to expect them to not try and do that against this defense. Yeah, Dowdell, I think this might be kind of a Joe Boo game for him. People are going to really lose confidence in him if he doesn't have a good game here. And Chuba Hubbard had such a great game last time out. Now define good game. if he has the similar game that he had against them the first time around, which he didn't run very well in that game, but he scored touchdown.

He had 18 carries, 53 yards and a touchdown. I would say, you know, 16 or more touches and good efficiency. If he doesn't score, he doesn't score whatever. But to really own the early downs role and to run well, because he hasn't really been running that well lately, you know. Save for six carries at the 49ers, you know, he's been pretty bad per carry the last four games. And he's Rico doubt. I mean, he's a good player, but he's not some superstar or anything. He's also not the one that they're committed to. So, you know, Chuba's still the one

with the contract. And if he has another strong game, like, yeah, you're right. It could be the Chuba show the rest of season. But we like... I would, I would expect them to almost rotate drives. I would hate that. That's not what was said during the buy, but that doesn't necessarily mean you're wrong. So Devin Neal versus Daudo, what was your answer from earlier? Daudo right now. Agreed. All right, and Chuba is really just a, like a Montgomery type of flex here. All right, Tetero McMillan. We talked about him a lot on Wednesday's show, I believe, with the tough calls.

But, you know, look, you're not expecting a lot of targets. That's just because you're not expecting a lot of volume, as Jamie said. They scored in his last two games without a lot of volume. So, you know, you kind of got bailed out a little bit there with the touchdown. He's still their best receiver. He's still going to have a lot of involvement. It wouldn't shock me if there's a Xavier League game or a Jalen Coker game because we've seen those guys pop up at times, but you can't trust them at all. Like they're not even, you know, it shouldn't be in a consideration and even three receiver leagues.

But I think if you're hopeful for McMillan, again, you're hoping that the Saints offense shows up and puts up points early in this game and that Bryce Young's forced to throw. You're starting McLauran over McMillan, right? Yes. Oh, yeah. You're starting Michael Wilson over McMillan. Would you start Cortland Sutton over McMillan? I have them back to back right now with McMillan once by that. Would you start McMillan or Wondale?

Wando. Dave? Wando. Okay. It has to be that way. Olave. You know, I've got some concerns about Olave. Simply put, Tyler Schuck does not target him nearly as much as Spencer Rattler did.

It's like a 32% target share down to a 24% target share. And he's having the least efficient year of his career. He's actually been a very inefficient wide receiver. But there's no way I'm sitting Chris Olavé unless I'm loaded. It's also the emergence of Devon Vele over the last three weeks. It's also what Joanne Johnson has done. Like, you know, Rattler didn't have that second receiver to the same. Well, I guess he did.

Yeah, Rashid. It's a stupid comment by me. No, that's all right. But Veilet, would you start Veil over, let's say, the number one Bears receiver? Nope. No, but I'd start him over the number two Bears receiver. Would you start Veilie over Debo Samuel? No.

No way. Would you start valet over like a Kyle Menangai or a Zach Charbonnet in PPR? In PPR, it would be close, but I probably would take the chance. There's going to be one of these backup running backs that goes nuts this week because of either touchdowns or game script. I don't think it's going to be injury-related, but you know, you're looking at Chuba's one. You know, just we don't know exactly what's happened. Menangai could easily have the, you know, two-touchdown game and 50, 60 yards receiving. We saw it from Quorum last week, you know, that type of game.

Charbonnet, given his situation against the Colts and how they lean on him. I wouldn't be surprised if Bachel Tutin has a big game, too, just because if the Jaguars are dominating the Jets and how bad that run defense is. Like, no, ETS still gets his numbers, but like Tutin has like a quorum type of game, you know, just getting some opportunities late in the game and just wearing down that. Fourth quarter breakaway run, something like that, you're thinking? So to your point, like, about Velae versus those guys, like, I would probably take my chance with the running backs. John Johnson or Theo Johnson

I still have John hire but they're like the same type of play They're back to back for me Joanne hire All right questions from the chat Panthers or Packers defense I'd go Packers Dowdell or Emmanuel Wilson

Would be Wilson Sorry I think I asked that one earlier I agree if Jacobs is out Dowdell or Judkins half PPR Dowdle Dowell Johnson or Colston Loveland Loveland

Agreed What if Odunzee plays Loveland Yeah Chris Olabe or Christian Watson Olave Olave Olave Dowdell or Devin Neal

We did that we said Dowdell Joanne Johnson or Brenton Strange Uh Joanne Strange at the same guy Um I don't I have Joanne a little higher but I think I might also have strange

I have strange outside of my top 15 I don't know if you should be that far down Chuba Hubbard or Jacoby Myers Kobe Jacoby Chris Olave or Jameson Williams Jamo Okay

Jamo All right moving on to the next game Because Tyler Shuck and Bryce Young are number You know they're like Chuck's been playing well And he runs If you're desperate at quarterback

I think he's I would play Shuck over you Yeah All right Colts are at the Seahawks. Are we starting anyone other than Jonathan Taylor for the Colts?

I mean, this is, I'll go back to it. Max Brosmer was completely atrocious in that game against Seattle. And it's T.J. Hawkins' best game in the second half of the season. Okay, but you know who else is really bad against tight ends?

The Jacksonville Jaguars. And Tyler Warren just had one of his worst games of the season. Yeah, I mean, The quarterback was lost in the middle of the game. Like, it's hard to say, like, that's the one you want to use as the example here. Why not? I mean, it's a great matchup, and he had two catches on six targets.

He doesn't really get that. I think you're starting Tyler Warren. I just think you're doing it with less excitement than you were a week ago, two weeks ago. For sure. For sure. Yeah. Yeah. So, but you could consider, would you start Dalton Schultz over him? No.

I have Warren Overshoulds. I would start Dalton Cicade over him. I would start Fanning over him. I would have started Pitts over him. How about likely? I have likely behind him one spot. I've got him one spot ahead. All right. Taylor's about 12th in the rankings.

Likely's got Cincinnati. You know, you'd have to be pretty loaded to sit Taylor. You should figure Taylor. If you all remember at the end of last year, Taylor had, I think, three straight games with 30 or more carries, something like that. So I wonder if they try to do that. Obviously, it's a super tough matchup. Look, good luck if you have Taylor. There's not much you can do.

If they try to do that, I mean, of course they're going to try and do that. They're not going to try to put this on Riley Leonard or Phillip Rivers. I'm saying, I expect to me at 20 carries. I don't know about 30. The other aspect here is they could get blown out. And he could be taken out of the game in terms of his carries. Any, where are Pittman in Pierce, Dave? Number three receiver range.

Maybe they go up a tad if it's Rivers under center. Maybe. For the last time. I'll say this this week until I say it on the mailbag and then Sunday. The last three games, Daniel Jones threw for 181 yards, 201 yards, and then the quarterbacks combined for 196 yards. So about 190 yards per game, 193-ish, three straight games. Pittman and Pierce both had two games with 13 or more PPR fantasy points out of three.

Downs has been bad. Warren has been, you know, pretty bad. but those two guys have come through. So there's at least that in tough matchups, which this is. I mean, Seattle has been probably better than Minnesota lately against wide receivers. Pierce has been better than Pittman in tough matchups. Pittman's been pretty bad this year. Pierce has been surprisingly good, I guess, in tough matchups.

But still, I mean, Seattle is just, I mean, they have held Marvin Harrison, Jr., Pooka, Devante Adams, Justin Jefferson, all pretty bad games for them. recently. They've been so good. On the other side. You're hoping for volume, which is how Pittman and Pierce have gotten their numbers, more so Pittman than Pierce, 13 plus, whatever you said, two of their

last three games each. If it's Riley Leonard, you're hoping that Leonard just spams targets to both of these guys inside of 15 yards, and then maybe there's some garbage time numbers on top of it. If it's rivers, I'm just going to assume that the old man will be in yolo mode, and he'll just

fire all over the place. And that always opens the door for some decent numbers from these guys. All right. Sam, starters at Sam Darnel, Jamie. Low end starter in that C.J. Stroud, Mario, Mario, Trevor Lawrence, range. It's a great matchup. I mean, you're down two cornerbacks for the Colts.

You know, no soft gardener, no Charverroix Award. We'll see if to Forrest Buckner plays, but I'd be surprised. And so, you know what it is with Darnold. Like, when the matchups haven't been good, he's been great at times. Yeah. Volume has been an issue. I was surprised you threw the ball 30 times last week. week. So, you know, we'll see, you know, how this game unfolds. This defense could clearly dominate this offense based on the quarterback play, especially with Riley Leonard. So, you know,

it's, it's risky. But I start, I would start Donald over Berset. I would start Donald over Caleb. I'd start Donald over Nix, you know, those quarterbacks. I just think that there's a higher ceiling for him if things go well. Dave, I think this will be the last question for this game because start the Seattle DST. You're not going to trust AJ Barner, obviously JSN, but not the other receivers. So Ken Walker and Zach Charbonnet. Now we've talked about Judkins, Dowdell, Swift, right? These guys that were nervous about starting.

Is Ken Walker in that group, ahead of that group, behind that group? Behind. Definitely behind that group, and there's a part of me that wants to put Charbonnet ahead of him. Walker doesn't look great. He's not getting the touchdown opportunities.

I disagree, Dave. No, dude, last week he was dancing in the backfield. Because they were surrounding him in the back. Didn't you feel like his offensive line just really? I felt like he had no chance. last week. Okay, can you explain any of the weeks prior? Yes, he's been great.

He's been running so well this year, Kenne. He runs better than Charbonnet. He just doesn't get the touches that we want. Right, right, right. He's not getting the opportunities. And then last week, he didn't run better than Charbonnet. That's only one week. He's been so much better than Charbonnet for much of this year.

He's not getting the credit. And the three games prior to last week, you know, the involvement in the passing game was great. Like, that disappeared last week. It was frustrating. Yeah. You know, so wouldn't shock me if this is a huge, huge game for Ken Walker just because what they've looked like without Buckner

wouldn't shock me if it's another oh crap, why did I start Ken Walker week again? Right, of course. Yeah, you're just going to get, you know, getting a fooled you again. Last week ended up being a blowout win for Seattle and Walker still didn't have the type of game that you would expect him to have.

And that's happened so many times this year. And I think it's going to be a blowout win for Seattle as much as I wish Philip Rivers would come in and keep the game close. He never scores. He never scores. And last week, Sharper and I had a carry from the two-yard line.

Walker has, what, four touchdowns this year? You know, so what it comes down to. All right, I understand. He's tough to trust. And that's it. All right, we'll move on to our next game. Tennessee's at San Francisco. It's that of the game that matters.

Because you're probably going, I don't know if Brock Party's going to throw a lot. And you're right. But CJ Stroud, Drake May, Daniel Jones, Justin Herbert, Sam Darnold, Trevor Lawrence. They all scored 21 or more fantasy points with fewer than 30 pass attempts against the Titans. You just don't need to throw that much to have a good game.

That's why we like Purdy. It's that of the game that might matter next week because you're not going to sit McCaffrey. The Titans are allowing 3.3 yards per carry to running backs since week nine. All right, this is the easiest game on the schedule. Jamie, sit all Titans? I would, yes.

And then Purdy, you know, we've talked about a lot. Where do you have him? Top five. Wow. Dave, where do you have Purdy? I don't have him top five, but he's top 10. All right.

He's a good start. He's sixth. Oh, he's sixth. Wow. I'm a little nervous that you might be a little just because he might throw 24 times. Okay, but stack him up

against Dak against Minnesota and Jared golf against the Rams and, you know, he starts to Mahomes and, you know, there's just a lot of guys that are questionable. Yeah, no,

definitely over Mahomes. McCaffrey is a start. Joanne Jennings is a start. John Jennings is over McMillan. I think we said, over McMillan, right? I would, yes. I mean, he scored a touchdown in four of his last five games.

He's averaging seven targets per game over that span. Like, there's enough to trust here against his defense. They're 25th. He's the number one guy. Most points allowed to opposing receivers. Yeah, I think if you're concerned about him is that he's actually having a very inefficient year, 6.6 yards per target for Joanne Jennings. Career average is 7.8.

So the yards have not been good. He is scoring touchdowns, but he's been over 54 yards once since like week two or something. If this was a tough matchup, I would say that's probably not something you want to bank on. It's such a good matchup. And George Kittle is a must start, and the 49ers DST is top four for Dave and Jamie. I don't mean to short change this game, but I don't really think there's much else there. I would love to see, and I know Matt's curious about this in the chat, I would love to see Pierce all have a good game. It's just hard to trust.

Yeah, yeah. So disappointing. But, you know, he's a good DFS start throw. he's certainly somebody that if you're just wanting to see a player step up based on matchup he could definitely do that but it's hard to expect that now he talked about some of his struggles and he's just happy that the team's winning blah blah blah but um there's there's such huge opportunity that you hope coming off the buy week and another guy you know you talk about john and taylor how he closed the season last year piercell's last two games last season we're fantastic

so let's see if he can have a a good finishing kick here but with kittal healthy with mccafee doing what he's doing in the passing game with jennings like it's just hard to to say, I'm starting Ricky Pearsall in my fantasy playoffs. Okay, last one here. Oh, I guess I'll read this, half-PPR, Tyler Warren, or Jake Ferguson? Warren. Warren. Right now to this game.

Ricky Pearsall, Darius Slayton, or Devon Valle? I would take the chance on Slayton in his matchup. Hey, Slayton. Burrow or Purdy? Burrow. Jennings or Wondale? Wondell. Jennings.

Purdy or May? I'd go Perty. Purdy or DAC I'd go party Dak Niners or Broncos DST Niners 49ers

All right That's it for today's show Dave Do I have to tell the story I don't think If you don't want to You don't have to It's your story

You have to tell it I don't mind I really don't think It's a good story But You know look I'm a very I'm a very like

Happy Friday guy Work week is tough You know Friday I love Fridays I got a big tennis match tonight. Like, I'm just in a great mood. I wake up. I finished all my work last night. Do you like put on the cure song every Friday morning when you wake up? No, that would be

Saturday. I'm in love. Oh, no, Friday I'm in love. Of course. Yeah, my bad. Yes, I am in love with everything on Fridays. So I took my son to the bus, you know, the bus this morning. I come back in the house. Everything's great, but get ready to do the show. What is that smell? So usually that smell is a dead mouse in the wall, which happens a lot in our house, which is great. But no, it didn't smell like that today. I said, oh. In the wall? Yeah, the mice die in the wall.

It's horrible. How do you get them out? They decay. They do not come out. Yeah, it's a very common thing up here. They just, they die in the wall. You just live with the smell of a mouse carcass in your wall? It goes away after like a day or two.

But this was not that. This was poop. And this was my cat taking a crap. about two feet away from where I'm sitting right now about five minutes before I was about to go on the air she took a pretty huge dump right on the carpet in my office and I've recovered since but I did like three matches

and then I was like choking on the stench of the match so it was tough yeah nice people are really freaked out by the mice but this is what happens like they die it's disgusting and potentially behind you right now is like 10 dead mice I mean yeah

Yeah, they're everywhere. It really sucks. Because in the cold weather, they come into all the houses. And, you know, they're in the crawl space and stuff like. It just sucks. So basically, since you're a cat, you're living in Tom and Jerry's house. That's the thing about having a cat. While she does, she has three litter boxes she can choose from.

She decided to crap on my carpet. Does she do anything to get rid of the mice? She will kill them if she sees them. So that's why they don't, that's why they stay in the walls and the crawl space. Oh, that's true. Because Zoe is a, that's how I knew I had mice. Because one day she came up from upstairs with a little gift for us in her mouth. She had murdered one.

And she was presenting it to us as a trophy. Anyway, this is a peek inside my life in the woods. We'll talk to you on the mailbag. And have a wonderful day, everybody. Good luck in week 15. See ya. Paramount Podcasts.