Fantasy Footballers - Fantasy Football Podcast - Week 16 Matchups + Mike's Back, Wheel of Shame! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 12/20

Episode Date: December 20, 2024

Week 16 is underway! On today’s fantasy football podcast, matchup previews continued with tricky start/sit playoff decisions! Plus, injury updates, Mike spins the Wheel of Shame, and a recap of Thursday Night Football! Manage your redraft, keeper, and dynasty fantasy football teams with the #1 fantasy football podcast. -- Fantasy Football Podcast for December 20th, 2024. (00:00) - Intro (04:10) - TNF Recap (07:30) - FootClan Friday (08:50) - NFL News (18:50) - Fantasy Forecast (18:55) - Titans at Colts (25:00) - Cardinals at Panthers (33:05) - Vikings at Seahawks (36:35) - Patriots at Bills (41:30) - Jaguars at Raiders (46:35) - 49ers at Dolphins (49:45) - Buccaneers at Cowboys (53:45) - Saints at Packers (58:10) - Fantasy Faceoff/Wheel of Shame Connect with the show: Subscribe on YouTube Visit us on the Web Support the Show Follow on X Follow on Instagram Join our Discord Check out today's sponsors: Studio is brought to you by Amazon Prime News & Notes presented by USAA. Visit https://www.USAA.com/Insurance  Fantasy Forecast presented by DraftKings Sportsbook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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is brought to you by Amazon Prime. Welcome to the Fantasy Footballers Podcast with your hosts, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Jason Moore and Mike Wright AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Welcome in Bye bye bear hello hit man Hey everybody Bye bye bear hello hitman hey everybody the fever dream has come to bro well we had been very what was that all about we we did you listen to any of the podcast

I assume not I did nothing this. This was... Trying to exist. Yeah, like this, you know how sometimes you're like, sick day, I get to, I'm gonna watch shows. Are you gonna watch Netflix? None of that bull crap. It was just live and try to fast forward and time warp till this is over. We had been...

I am 75% Theraflue right now. Are you? Okay. Yeah, we had spent some time on the show saying how, talking about how little we had heard from you, which told us everything we needed to know, where it was like. There was no updates. There was no real communication. It was like.

And then I see the tweet from yesterday where it was the Jumanji AF. Yeah, you never tweeted during the whole time either. That tweet, which was, what year is it? Yeah. That was the first time I had woken up all week where I'm like, wait, wait, I'm in reality. Yeah, that's.

I'm no longer half here, half in the Phantom Zone. Well, we're happy to have you back. Jay Grizz once again, disappointed in your absence. He didn't do much. He does, I mean, he looks good. Yeah, yeah, I see. He hasn't aged a day. Makes Jason look small.

That's true. But you're back in time for the Wheel of Shame today. Congratulations. Yeah, perfect. You guys, I would not put it past you But you're back in time for the Wheel of Shame today. Congratulations. Yeah, perfect. You guys, I would not put it past you to pick on a sick guy. Yeah, well, you know, we'll see what happens. YouTube.com slash The Fantasy Footballers.

I did want to take a second. We're coming to the end of the season. We got semi-final week. We're previewing games today. We've got the fantasy face-off at the end of the show. Next week is championship week. Although, it's funny, I talked to somebody yesterday whose championship week is this week.

Really? Yeah, I was like. They never moved it when the NFL added a game or something? No, and so that meant that their first week of the playoffs was the week when the Ravens and everyone was on by. Oh my goodness. I was like, what are you doing, man? Fix your league. I was like, what are you doing man?

Fix your league. I was like, what are you doing? But, um. If only, if only they knew what the schedule was. Yeah, yeah. You know, sometimes, sometimes people just leave it alone. I guess. And so, uh, that's always one of our reminders is get that fixed in the off season.

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Before we talked about the 34-27 Thursday night football game. What a game, yeah, it was pretty exciting. This game, the Broncos started hot. They looked unstoppable. Just machine-like to begin the game. Much to my chagrin, as I did message you guys how annoyed and look this is the me problem this is a 100 maybe other people had the problem too but them rotating their running back literally every snap felt not uh it to me it didn't feel fully strategic.

It felt like Sean Payton's like, yeah, I can do it. I can do this because I'm Sean Payton. And it worked for a bit there. And then Running Back never caught momentum. Yeah, the Running Backs got tired from all the running on and off the field. It's funny, it's like- They were sprinting off. That is a distance to cover.

You're doing wind sprints. It's literally more than they run when they get the ball on the vast majority of occasions. So you're talking about fresh legs, like, man, fourth quarter, all of my guys are winded. Why are you so tired? Coach, you got me running 50-yard wind sprints every other snap This was a game where I think you know just the greatness of Justin Herbert was on display. Oh my gosh I'm in time again. That's so good I think it was the Darius Davis touchdown that was it didn't make sense the way our main goal was he was like

Running to the left and had no ability to put his shoulder into it and just laser beams a ball It was awesome and McConkey had a good game Dude that Gus run the Gus bus. I was a vintage Gus Edwards run. Yeah, he was 14 for 68 and two Superstar Marvin Mims Jason led the way for Denver's passing game three for 62 Just further separating from that chump Troy Franklin. He had two catches of his own Jason led the way for Denver's passing game, three for 62, just further separating from that chump Troy Franklin. He had two catches of his own. Yeah, but you know what, I'm gaining.

I'm gaining on you. But Cortland Sutton, five for 50, everything was pedestrian in this one. If you started Sutton, which I think tons of people did, we had three or four in our office that did that, this was not This was not the worst thing that could have ever happened I believe in our league he showed up about a point and a half under where they had him projected

Yeah, Mike Mike and I are playing against Cortland Sutton in the in the Dino jr. League together and I'm disappointed that he got seven and a half points. Yeah, I like cuz they didn't feel that way no, it felt like he should be he should have ended the game around five and Seven and a half too much. So it all that being said we don't have a Thursday night goose of Cortland Sutton to To add to the cup and the read like he it wasn't a league winning performance is probably not gonna define your week Either direction, but that was kind of the summary of the game. The real only disappointing player who was an outright bust if you chose to play him, and we talked about it on the waivers, that we would play McMillan over him

is Quentin Johnston. Quentin Johnston did absolutely nothing even though Herbert was awesome. No, he queued again. Yeah, well, queues gonna queued, especially on prime time. Those lights are maybe the lights are too bright. He can't see when it's prime time. But yeah, hopefully you didn't you didn't start them. So yeah, there you go. It's Friday. But clan Friday. All right, every Friday we give $100 away to FantasyChamps.com. We give a Fantasy Footballers t-shirt away to a supporter. And this week, username Groot.

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Alrighty We have Saturday games this week you get that trickle of fantasy points coming in throughout the weekend, Saturday, Sunday, Monday. Patrick Mahomes off the injury report will play because of course, this was good news, really good news. And I've seen all the practice videos as well. Joe Mixon off the injury report and will play in the game. Still a tough matchup, still really, really want him in your lineup if you have Joe Mixon and you've been leaning on him to get to the semifinals.

Yeah, all the video, the practicing in full, it really does seem like the injury is not an issue here. The matchup is still an issue, but it's given me a lot of confidence to kind of bump him up a little bit more. All right, we have George Pickens ruled out once again, George and Rashad Bateman is questionable with seen in a walking boot, uh, probably a customized walking boot that's already been pre-made for him with an engraving and it's like his

walking boot that he can use every week if he wants to, has he considered getting a running boot? Oh, and just leave it on? Yeah, like why is it always a walking boot? Man, if he went out there and started running routes in one of those boots, yeah dude, with cleats, a boot with cleats? I mean he would.

Oh, that would be a weapon. And he'd be safe. I feel like he would always be just tilting one direction. Yeah. He's got to start in the slot, otherwise he's going out of bounds. He's a little, yeah, he's uneven. Yeah, RB one leg.

Yeah. Tyrone Tracy, limited on Thursday with an ankle injury. He's still a, you know, anytime you got an offense looking as inept as the Giants, he's still gonna be a little bit of a nervous start on a week to week basis. A very. Cedric Tillman's still limited.

Holy crap, dude. You're not playing him without Winston, and so we move on. And there are also like, sometimes you are trying to push someone through a concussion protocol even more, and they are, this is a team, I don't think they're in need to force him back for DTR.

David Najoku did not practice, dealing with the hamstring. Same's. Braylon Allen, Isaiah Davis, both limited. Jason made Breece Hall his start of the week. What? Yeah. This is a- Oh, you know what's going to happen, Mike.

You get fresh reaction from Mike. You know what's going to happen. You made Breece Hall your start of the week? I told him I'm not there with him. This is just, this is only a man crying out in pain Breeze Hall has a good matchup his two counterparts are currently not practicing and full are in a and he is Going to have a good week now that he can't help people like I said, this is a this is just a man Zach or its return to a limited practice could be back out there with the concussion.

This is what I was talking about, remember we talked about player incentives and maybe Zach Ertz will come back a little quicker through his protocol because he's got some checks to cash. He's got some quiche coming out. Yeah, so that's motivation somehow can affect concussions it seems. Yeah, and we are still, K.Dotton still didn't practice Wednesday or Thursday with a knee injury monitoring that. Tony Pollard did not practice.

DMP, DMP limited last week so he could still play. Geno Smith practiced in full, and here's a big one. Kenneth Walker. The bone zone. Practiced in full. Are we back? Well, see the bone, we might be back to Kenneth Walker playing, but the Bone Zone, it's Minnesota.

So that is. As bad as it gets. And then Charbonne, he was limited with the oblique, but. Honestly, Andy and I are squaring off, and the semis in the dynasty are Dino senior under dog Andy is the underdog and my final decision comes down to a spot like It's I have Jerome Ford right and it was oh, you know, I don't like that DTR is the quarterback But hey, he should be getting all all the work. He's got juice. It's the bangles. Yeah, it's the bangles I love my running back against the Bengals. I just want pieces

of that. And I didn't want, I'm sorry, I'm saying this decision. I didn't want Ken Walker to make the decision hard for me because I think he is, even starting him is so difficult. A healthy Ken Walker against Minnesota is like, oh, are we going to get one of those real crappy where he's like two yards per carry, maybe he catches three passes and it's just nothing? Do you remember when- Staring it down is really, really hard to start him. Do you remember when Kenneth Walker played against the Detroit Lions in that tough run

D before they lost their defense? And he was the running back two with three touchdowns. Yeah, no, he can. But what was his line aside from the touchdowns? He was 12 for 80 6.7. Yeah, I didn't for receptions for 36 and he could that's where it's hard That's really can Walker can do that. Ken Walker can also be 40 yards on 15 attempts and nothing else. There are several situations this week,

Jerome Ford, Kendra Miller. Yeah. Oh man. Where you have, yeah, where you have like an opportunity that just screams, start me, because of the amount of work that they have the potential to receive. But offenses that say, kill me,

because they're going to be so inept. Like, you know, are you going to be happy with Kendra Miller if he catches one pass and runs between the 20s a few times and they punt. Like this is what submarine Dalvin Cook, we shared stories on the footcast of your worst championship bad beats. And I was like, I had Dalvin Cook

when he was a top five running back and he played in the fantasy Championship and I needed nine points to win a title and guess what it wasn't Kirk Cousins. He was out with COVID I don't remember the name of that chump that played quarterback that week But they were so inept that it was three and out three and out three and out You don't get to run the football if your first down is a sack Okay and now it's second and 15 and you got

an incompletion and it's third down, you're off the field. Like that does happen and those decisions are hard. I know Kendra Miller will get more into it on this show. He is like the number one name littering the start sit tool on the website because, you know, people don't know what to expect. And whether you go with a lower probability bad matchup, Kenneth Walker or everything for Kenrey Miller on Monday night where you've not seen enough of him. It's a really tough choice. Jalen Waddell did not practice. We can probably stop updating about Jalen Waddell. He's not gonna be in your

lineup. Isaac Garando, we got news. Unlikely to play. Unbelievable. This is they're gonna go to fifth string at the running back position, which will probably be if you had, you know, some Keishon Vaughn, Patrick Taylor combination that is not attractive. Like I'm not actively fighting for one of those guys right now. I don't know if you guys have a different opinion. I think Patrick Taylor is probably a good play this week. I expect, I mean they always

use one guy. The idea that they're going to platoon it and use a committee, maybe at some point now that they're onto the 16th string running back, maybe they do. It's just, it's never been done. Kyle Shanahan has had enough injuries and they just grab whoever's next and say, well, you're on the field for every snap. It's just kind of how we play ball. So I think it's going to be Patrick Taylor. He is someone that I would be willing to start. I picked him up in a league that I'm in the playoffs for, at the very least, to just block if I don't start him. All right. Alvin Kamara not expected to play on Monday. Season might be over for Alvin Kamara, so you're probably not getting him back next week

if you make it through. It is certainly disappointing. He's been a key cog in championship runs. Just devastating. I mean, he's one of those players that's just in almost every single playoff right now. Mike, we are facing each other this week. I was already an underdog,

and now you will not be getting Calvin Camaro against you I'm sorry for your loss. Yeah, but guess what I got instead. What do we got? Remandre Stevenson. Oh That will be the ultimate come up for me. Yes, which one of you guys I believe you are owl are playing against in the League of Record the Alvin Camaro that would be yeah That would be Al. Congratulations. I think he got a concession speech

from the other manager already, due to Alvin Kamara's absence. But then Al will try to be like, ah, Coraline Sutton! Ah! Is that Al's voice? It is when one player's like, I don't have my superstar running back.

He's like, yeah, but Coraline Sutton got eight points! Mike is back, baby. I love it. Bring the heat. We did get news this morning as well. Just one last bit here. We talked about James Connor, got the great matchup. Trey Benson's already out for Sunday's game.

And Amari Demarcato's on IR. So they are now down to two running backs on the roster, Connor and DJ Dallas. We may have a return here. Yeah you could get Tony Tony Brooks, James Jones Jr. Oh my gosh. Michael Carter. Tony Tony James Jones Brooks Jr. coming back. That's a name I never thought I would hear again. Or remember. Yeah. Also though Paris Johnson, the left tackle is also not going to play this week. So, you know, some good from a depth chart standpoint for Connor and some bad from an offensive line standpoint.

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Terms and conditions for our different programs and policies apply. Details at Fizz.ca. It's time for Fantasy Forecast, presented by DraftKings Sportsbook. All right. Yesterday we covered the Texans, Chiefs, Steelers, Ravens. Those are our Saturday games. Don't forget to set those lineups early. Giants, Falcons, Lions, Bears, Browns, Bengals, Rams, Jets, Eagles, Commanders, and we're moving forward. Tennessee 3-11, Indianapolis 6-8,

games in Indy where they are 3.5 point favorites. Over-under is 42.5 on the DK Sportsbook. It's going to be Mason Rudolph on the Titan side. Gonna be Anthony Richardson once again at home Tony Pollard we think could be active we talked about his contract incentives He's got a little ways to go to get to 1,100 yards seven touchdowns Tajay Spears was your hungry for more Jason and then yesterday Mike this will be breaking news to you, but I am I'm shooting my shot on Chigga Concord this week. What?

That's going to be my that's going to be my tight end start. So that is over Otten. That is over Britain's range. Wow. So this was the breaking news yesterday. One more piece of data. I brought up the fact that the Colts are who you want to play. If you're in a tough, if you're a tight end. We talked about the targets per route run

being in the same place that Ridley's at. Over the last three weeks, here are the tight ends targeted the most on a per route basis. Number one was Najoku, 31% of the time. Number two, in the NFL, ahead of McBride, Brenton Strange, Hunter Henry, anybody else, is Chigga Conquell. He's number two in the league, 29% of routes run. And so I am taking my shot on an athletic tight end as opposed to the plotting. You know, we got news that Britain

Strange has an AC joint injury. Kate Otton is now missing two practices. We've got a concussion that maybe Zachary gets back from. Like if you're bottom of the barrel is all I'm saying. It's gonna be Chig for me. Is that my line up? That's the way I'm riding. All right. I get it.

Enough to the point where Jason has apparently put did you? Yeah, yeah. Some sort of touchdown bet down on Chig. Yeah, for sure. I mean, I'm gonna play and I'm also in one of the leagues where I was in that situation of like, am I playing a Britain Strange? And I decided, I'm riding with you man.

I picked up Jake. Yeah. You're, I mean, he is a player. Oh yeah. He had a drop. Oh, con quo. 10 targets last week by the way. Yeah, I see that.

Yeah, the thing is, is, athletically he is a really good player. There was a time where we were very excited for him. I do think that the opportunity is there for him and Mason Rudolph, not a huge upgrade from Will Levis, not a downgrade from Will Levis. So you could hopefully see him duck foot run another big long touchdown. Is that how Chig runs? Dude, yes, on that big long touchdown. Duck foot?

Yeah. So his feet are out? Yes, his feet On that big long touchdown. Duck foot? Yeah. So like his feet are out? Yes, his feet point away from center. What's that? Does he quack? Is it his feet or is he quacking? It's a feet.

No, it's a feet. It's like, I don't know how he runs so fast when his toes are pointing, like guys looking in two different directions. Oh my gosh. Jonathan Taylor, Jason, after he hurt you, I'm surprised he's not your start of the week. I did think about it.

I mean, he's a good start this week. Obviously, last week, the boneheaded play that, what did you say, 7? 7.9% of people in Yahoo! Leagues lost because of that play. Holy crap. Yeah, because he just dropped the touchdown. Went from a touchdown to a fumble.

But how cool did he look? Like if that had went a touchdown to a fumble, but how cool did he look? I I like it like if that had been a touchdown and the way that he was like timing the drop How cool is that where the like NFL Street credit is is like how quick can you drop the football? Yeah after breaking the plane. Yeah, everyone's trying to get it close. They had to review that thing ten minutes It had called me a touchdown Jonathan Taylor's a good player. He was awesome last week. I bet he doesn't do that again. I'm sure he will never do that again the rest of his career. But the matchup is pretty good against the Titans. They're at home. They are favored. I think Jonathan Taylor's a very good start. For whatever reason, he hasn't had huge

games against Tennessee in the past, but the matchup looks good on paper. Is there a wide receiver on the Indianapolis side that you would feel a level of confidence in this week? No, I mean you could. I know Alec Pierce is banged up. Maybe there's a little bit of consolidation of the 45% completion rate. I mean I would put Josh Downs in first and I would hope that I'm not putting Josh Downs in. I hope I have a better option. You know last week you had nine targets to Michael Pittman eight targets to Josh Downs with the completion rate it feels like you need about 20 or 30 targets to have a good game but I mean Josh Downs has had a

handful of good games already with Anthony Richardson so if you've got to play one of them that's who I would play. Yeah, I want to hit the almost upset button, but it feels like this game is so boring anyways. Did you see the Brian Callahan press conference where one of the reporters asked about his team being soft? No. Oh, man. If you had saw that, I think you would have hit the button.

Because he got it. It's fine. Andy's almost upset of the week. He got fiery on that. I mean, he told that reporter like, whoever's saying that has absolutely no idea what they're talking about. 38 expletives. Oh, it was really like, it was Dan Campbell.

It was so- 38. It was so- That is the stats that Kyle's already had. Genuine and real. Oh, you made that up, Kyle, okay. Well, it was, I mean, if he's not 38- Oh, he made it up, all right. It's not too far off, but I mean, it was a great,

like, if I was a player and I watched my coach the way that he got my back, and I think it would have amped this team up. It would what are the mark? What if you're actually soft? I don't think they are man. I They don't have a good record They've lost a lot of games But honestly, it's quarterback. I mean that not not every not all of their woes is quarterback play But in the beginning of big year, I mean, it's hard to

win games when you're constantly throwing the other team touchdowns. It's like that doesn't mean your team is playing soft. Remember in the beginning of the year, we didn't want to face the Titans defense because they just, they go out and they hit hard and they play strong, but they, you know, maybe, maybe they're a little bit phoning in and now it's hard to play hard at three and 11. It's also hard to play defense on a short field because Levis gives you a short field. The Cardinals are seven and seven

taking on three and 11 Carolina Panthers, the Drafking Sportsbook line Arizona minus four and a half. The over-under is 47. There you go. Carolina, we got a little bit of a retread, no, that's not the word, a retracement. That's not a word. For bright, yeah it is.

Retracement? Yeah. For real? That's new, do do do do do do. I mean you retrace. Yeah I, I mean I've got Mr. Stocks over there looking at me. Bryce Young just, he went backwards a little bit last week.

That was the point. Oh this was a, a retracement is a technical term used to identify a minor pullback or change in the direction of a financial institution such as a stock or index. All right. Andy, my man. Look at that. That's impressive.

I'm just saying shares of Bryce Young. The price went down a little bit last week. Um, you know, turnovers, uh, Arizona on the road, four and a half point favorites, he's still a competitive NFC West, Cardinals right there, one game behind. Carolina's rush defense, it's awful. They're giving up 173 rushing yards a game? That would be the most all time.

James Connor's gonna be pretty good. How is James Connor not the RB one this week? Yeah, I mean, he- Jason made him his start of the week on that basis. Basically I was him and Breeze. I had Breeze as kind of a second because who's not starting James Connor, but James Connor is like the start of the week.

He should be in this matchup. You're favored. You're playing a perfect matchup. Your backups are injured, so you're going to get all the work. And he's just been on fire. Also, the last like three years in a row, when he's on the field down the stretch, late in the season, when defenses are tired the way he plays, concrete.

He's, you know, it's tough to take him down. So talk to me about the other parts of the offense, because I think people have been laboring with the Kyler Murray decision this week. We've seen him in there. It's Kyler O'Love, it's Kyler O'Darnold, it's Kyler O'Golf. There are situations where I would start Kyler Murray and it's not the names that you just said. Obviously Kyler can have big explosive games. The Carolina matchup is a good one to be in. The

over-under is fine. But if I'm looking at starting Kyler or Caleb Williams, Williams okay it's really difficult for me to say I'm gonna trust him over guys that I think are playing good football on a regular basis like Jordan Love like Sam Darnold like Baker Mayfield I don't think I'm gonna take someone who is as volatile this season as Kyler over them but it's not to say he's unstartable in a good matchup it's just like they win games where he doesn't have good fantasy That's the issue of last week. I Liked where the I like the spot the Cardinals were in I thought Kyler was a decent play

the Cardinals put up 30 points and Kyler did nothing concrete. Yeah, James Connor had the rushing touchdowns and we this matchup it can happen That joke needs to stay offline. We cannot proliferate That's a Mark Sanchez give me any credence to that nickname because we only use it because it's so honor So it's concrete my oh man Mark Sanchez. What's up? We still I mean, we're watching the games. We we all concrete It was the Jets game was it I. We were watching it was the Jets game Was it I don't remember which one it was the Cardinals are playing and it's just

All of a sudden the announcer just keeps yelling concrete. Yeah, no one's ever heard about that out here This is not what everybody calls him. This is not a nickname. You can't make it happen. It's also the name concrete There are better nicknames. All right on the other side Chuba Hubbard's Russian receiving line is 90 and a half. He's also a very good play. Going right back to Chuba Hubbard after a disappointing week and then Adam Thielen. I think Adam Thielen is a great start. Ligette, Moore, Coker all banged up. Be careful. Yeah no don't be careful I'm gonna play him and I'm gonna play him over Jacoby Myers Jason. I made that decision. Oh, yeah, you are. Yeah, we can all make that decision.

So Adam Thielen to me is like the barometer test of like he is this week. He's the name of waiver wire type of guy that will I start, you know, Jerry Judy, who's now got DTR, but he's been on fire, or Adam Thielen. I would take Judy in that situation. Yeah, I would probably stay with Judy. I would take Myers, but Josh Downs, we were just talking about, can you start Josh Downs with Anthony Richardson against the Titans?

Yeah, but I would rather have kind of the known volume that is expected with Adam Thielen, so that's kind of my barometer test this week. Yeah and Thielen's in that group over the last five weeks where you know it's 12.3 points a game, it's about where Shakir is, it's a little bit of it's point two ahead of Myers, it's where Tyreek's been, it's where McConkie's been, so he's fine. It comes down to fine yeah like Bryce Young was the did we get fooled fool it's the wrong word did we get did he just get this you know he played really really well after coming off the bench and now the old made like some of

the habits or things that they have I don't know if that came through the mic but Jason Jason's over if you're not on the video, Jason has two mugs. He's got two mugs. And I'm like, what is? He's clinking them together frequently. I'm not on purpose. I keep hitting the handle of one another. Because you have two mugs in a very small space.

What do you think's going to happen, Mugs Man? At least separate them. There was a water. And then I decided right before the show, I want a coffee. There you go. Right hand, left hand. There we go. You got two hands. There's no way he's not spilling that mug on the other side. I'm not used the show I want a coffee. There you go, right hand, left hand. There we go. There's no way he's not spilling that mug on the other side.

I'm not used to right-handing this. But is Bryce Young, is he going to revert right back? I think there's 10 targets in the cards for Thieland. Whatever you're happy, if you're happy with 10 targets, he catches 75% of his passes, he's gonna be fine. Having said that, I would play Thiel, but. Trey McBride, he spat in the face of my touchdown guarantee after they tried to get him that little.

Every, everybody in the entire world is now doing the every single week, this is it, I'm calling the Trey McBride touchdown. It's not happening ever. Ever. It's happening this week. It is not. It is 100%.

It is never happening. They will try a little harder at the end of games to get that done. The big question I think on most people's minds who are in the playoffs is Marvin Harrison Jr. That's the guy that they don't know what to do with. You know if you've got a Zay Flowers type that is you know do you start Zay Flowers or you know you can honestly have the conversation of like is Adam feeling a safer better start than Marvin Harrison?

He is a safer start, yes. Safer floor. He's only had one target I think inside the 10 in the last month so Harrison is very I mean the wide receiver 28 you need to treat him appropriately you need to treat him that way not the way you drafted him and then you'll be fine. Marv has been seven or fewer points and three of the last four. Yeah yeah I think people are... How is this possible? Cardinals could win the division still. Minnesota's 12 and 2 taking taking on the eight and six Seattle Seahawks, DraftKings Sportsbook Line,

Minnesota minus three, over-under is 42 and a half. An amazing job by Kevin O'Connell with these Vikings. They have been outstanding. The defense, so formidable, make you basically, you know, you have to pass. You don't really get the choice to run on them. That's where the dilemma of Ken Walker becomes more complicated. There will be a re-injury risk. It might not be high, but he's been hurt multiple times this year. And you're coming back from

injury in a terrible matchup. You know, he missed two weeks early in the season. He missed two weeks late in the season. And we two weeks late in the season. And we were already a little bit, Mike, you've been frustrated with the bone zone becoming the char-bone zone anyways. So it does feel a little nerve-wracking. We talked about it a lot earlier. My start of the week at wide receiver

was JSN, who is the guy right now and has a safe PPR floor. And upside, I think, Not only based on his talent, but the matchup is fantastic. The Vikings put up so many points and you can't run on them. So it's just like the end of games is so valuable for opposing teams against the Vikings when you talk about the passing game.

What do you do with Metcalf? So Metcalf and Marv, those guys are in the same tier to me of like, these are good players That you can get a good game from this week who have not been performing and you've just got to decide, you know It's obviously gonna come down to your options, but neither one is a must start I would be playing Harrison over Metcalf if I had that choice because Metcalf has had What two months of disaster? Yeah, it's been his previous explosive week would have been week seven, gets the Atlanta

Falcons four for 99 with the score, misses two games. His first game back after the bye week, seven for 70, okay, that's fine. And then it's just been subpar every game after that. Yeah, he actually was off to a really strong start. He was. On the course of the season, got injured and hasn't been the same So I don't know if that is it just correlation or causation, but it's mixed with Jason's emergence, too Yeah, I mean it's it's been long enough that you need to be scared, but the matchup is so good here

I you guys would you roll John Jennings over Mac half? Yeah, Jen Jen Jen Jennings for sure. Jalen McMillan over DK Metcalf? No. That one's. I think it's close. I really do. I think that's name over opportunity.

I think that one's close. I probably wouldn't have the guts to not see if I can get a Metcalf game. Aaron Jones on the other side is rushing line is at 66 and a half. He's RB 15 on the year Jefferson and Addison are we feeling good this week for both guys? Yeah, I mean, where are you with Hawkins? You're never gonna not feel good about Justin Jefferson and Jordan Addison's averaging 16 fantasy points per game over the last seven games so I think you've got a think you got to have him in there. Hockinson is always gonna be in because,

you know, there's six or seven tight ends you can rely on and if he's one that you have, he's in. So it's pretty easy, I think, on that side of the ball. The question, the only question is Darnold. You know, like Darnold. Yeah, where's he slot in this week? He's the quarterback six over the last seven weeks. We have him as our consensus quarterback six this week.

Darnold on the road against Seattle, or Jared Goff on the road against Chicago? I'm gonna go with Darnold. I think that Goff outside, potential bad weather. Brock Purdy against Miami on the road. I'll take Darnold. I will too. Eileen Darnold as well.

Yeah, we got him ranked pretty high. The Patriots are three and 11. Powerhouse, Ramandre, Stevenson led Patriots going into, oh, Buffalo, cool. Buffalo, 11 and three at home. They have an implied point total of 30. They are the Patriots 16 points. Away we go! Start Josh Allen, start James Cook. Yep. And then it gets complicated with the receiving room. It gets very, very complicated. 11 degrees by the way. Yeah, it's gonna be cold, windy. Not in my dome. That being said, I do think that you can take shots on any of them. I mean, Amari Cooper, Khalil Shakir, Kion Coleman, they will not all get it done.

There's no chance that all three are gonna have a good game. But Josh Allen's probably gonna throw two touchdowns in this matchup. If you look at the history of when the Bills have been 14-plus point favorites, which has happened 10 times with Josh Allen, they're 9-1, and opponents are averaging 11 points, and they just blow them out. They take care of business. So I do think this is a game where if you want to throw one of those wide receivers

in, maybe you can say if it's windy and you're up a lot, maybe it's Kalil Shakir is the safe option. They're not the 50-yard bond. It's not Shakir for you no matter what? Well, I think, yeah, I mean, I guess Shakir is the safest for sure. Shakir or Thielen, though? Oh, that's a tough question. By the way I have a plan for you

guys. I think that would be really cool. Save your money. Arthur. Combine and save your money. For a few years. For all of our money? Yeah both of you. Build a stadium. Oh we're going to start saving. Yeah that's all of our money. Build a dome. And then when you have the dome, every time you see a bad weather game coming up, invite the teams to play. Ah. And then if they turn you down,

if they turn you down, it's like, you had a dome available. Yeah, but that was a lot of money. Are they a lot? I think they're a lot of money. Probably more than- A stadium? A stadium. Yeah, well, if you're a lot of money. I'm probably more stadium. Yeah stadium Yeah, well a lot of if you're a billionaire. It's actually not that much because then you just make other people pay for it

It's really nice. Yeah, you we can do like a tax thing, right? Yeah, like Tax on the UDK just make other people pay for our dome I am in and I'm not playing I'm not joking if we can if we can do that I'm in. If you don't have to pay for it you are in. Yeah but we own it. Oh yeah. Just like the people pay for it. Yeah we get a bunch of revenue. Like I don't necessarily want to pay taxes to build people's domes. Right yeah yeah because it feels weird. But I am totally fine on the other side. Got it. If other people are building me a dome yeah I'm in. Who was that, did you guys ever see that that documentary about the guy that pretended he was oh yeah billionaire and got in a league yeah he was like buying then it was at the Nets the Knicks I forget but

I know what you're talking about it was all it was all fake and he just he got way down the road on buying the team so it's possible so it's possible so you're telling me there's a remember what team was the this game is look I'm buying the team. So it's possible. So it's possible. So you're telling me there's a chance. I can't remember what team it was. This game is, look, I'm not, I'm playing Alan, I'm playing James Cook, that's all these things, but this game gives me the heebie-jeebies. Okay. Of like. Not as great as you think it could be.

As in the randos on the bills score and then they're just Like cruising like what what are the Patriots gonna do here? What are they gonna do? Oh the the Patriots are going to fold Remondre is not gonna be great But The matchup at least they give up 22 fantasy points again to running backs. You hope it comes early Yes, you do and hunter Henry's receiving lines 42 and a half hunter Henry is the matchup at least, they give up 22 fantasy points a game to running backs. You hope it comes early? Yes, you do.

And Hunter Henry is receiving the minus 42 and a half. Hunter Henry is not a path to a championship to me. Dallas businessman, John Spano, pretended to buy the New York Islanders. Yep, for $165 million. How? Yes, it was a 30 for a 30, and it was so fascinating, and it was all fake.

At what point of the con are you like, I gotta get out of this thing. Like you're, they're gonna, they're gonna find out. This is where you got to pay the bill. This isn't like you got a free dinner. You're buying a sports team. The idea that you go down the line like, Oh, I'm gonna buy a suit. Yeah. I'm a buy suit. I'm gonna have a limo drop me off That's amazing produced a bunch of 120 bucks left. So produced a bunch of fake documents It's like the billionaires like I forgot my wallet again guys. Can you get this check? Yeah

All right, Jacksonville 3 and 11 the Raiders 2 and 12 Yeah. All right, Jacksonville 3-11, the Raiders 2-12. Neither of these teams should try to win this game. The Draft King sportsbook line is Las Vegas minus one and a half. The overrunner is 40. They should try so hard to lose. Which team is worst coached? Which team has... Piers. Yeah, I agree. That's who wins the game. Oh, because they make the bad decisions? Right, yeah. I mean, Aidan O'Connell is gonna be back

Aiden O'Connell is supposed to be back which is great news for Brock Bowers. I think it's great news for Jacoby Myers You know with Jacoby Myers in four games with Aiden O'Connell He's averaging twelve point seven fantasy points per game and in ten targets so to me that's Just as good. I have that above my Adam Thiel in line, but he's right there in line. Brock Bowers needs 109 receiving yards to break the NFL record for a rookie tight end. Oh, Mike Dick is record. Yeah, he'll get there. He has not been prolific of late, even with Aiden O'Connell. He did have a number one overall finish because he can go 10 for 140 but the three other

weeks surrounding it outside the top 15 at the position so you know any defense that wants to try to stop this team that would be the guy to try to cover. Brian Thomas jr. has been awesome with Mack Jones. Mac Jones is just chucking it. He's got as many 20-point fantasy games as CJ Stroud this year. Which is one? Which is one. ETN and Bigsby, are we freaking out

if we have to put them in our lineups? Yeah, I don't think you want to put them in the lineups. You're gonna be able to throw pretty easily on the Raiders and... I think you're okay with ETN. Really? I do. He's been better. He has visibly looked better to me on the last couple weeks.

He's been, the last two games, about 10 points. So it's okay. The issue with both of these guys is both of these guys. Right? Right. You know, the last two weeks you had Tank Bigsby with 18 carries and 11 carries. So the fact that they are really sharing work just makes it difficult for either one to have a good.

Yeah, I totally agree. But I think that ETN's, like I think he's safe to give you eight points or so. Because of the passing work? Yeah. And then on the other side, like what do you do with, the Raiders have quietly given us running back production. Like it's been gross, but we're back to Alexander Madison

as the primary guy as DK rushing lines only 46 and a half, which that sounds about right, but he has managed to get into the end zone a few times. Are you, if you're desperate, are you looking at Madison or Travis ETN? I would rather go with the talent of ETN. Both of these teams don't scare me. The matchup is good for Madison,

but Amir Abdullah is still a pass catching back. I would rather have the pass catching of ETN and the talent of ETN over Alexander Madison. But he's, I mean, they're close. They're not far apart. Madison in the- What a horrible game to have to watch with your players in there.

Madison over the first portion of the season before he got hurt, missed a bunch of time in McCormick had his games. I mean, he was still getting targets. Six targets, three, one three five three five like I Don't know. I think Madison is it's it is disgusting and it's the bottom of the barrel You're hoping you don't have to do it But like like you're sitting on Tony Pollard you get really bad news heading into the weekends like what do you do?

Sure, you could throw Patrick Taylor into that kind of the mix. You would go Taylor over these guys? I think I would go Taylor over these guys. I will say this, this game could be sneaky good. You just said Andy, what a bad game to watch. Mike, on Sunday Live last week, you pointed out that even though there wasn't a high over under, it was kind of a low over under, looked like two lousy teams and the Jets and the Jaguars that like, you could just have two bad defenses that end up giving you a lot of fantasy production. This is two bad defenses. That was a beautiful offensive output.

I think you could see that again if Aiden O'Connell is starting, which it looks like it's happening. That's so big. Jacoby Myers and Brock Bowers and Alexander Madison could all end up with good games while Brian Thomas and Trav Zetian also have big games. So hopefully this turns into... What about Britain Strange? I mean, Levin Targets?

I mean, it's just a matter of health. They said he's going to be out there. Levin catches on 12 targets. It's a great matchup for tight ends. So he's still an option. A desperation play. I agree. And yeah.

I hope you pivot back to. Nope, not going to do it. But I could. You never know. All right, we'll take a break. We'll get into the rest of the matchups. [? MUSIC PLAYING?] Well, Patrick Taylor and the 49ers at 6 and 8,

taking on the 6 and 8 Miami Dolphins in Miami San Francisco on the road one point favorites the over under is 44 and a half Shanahan versus McDaniel yeah yeah and this they were together for a really really long time on coaching staffs throughout the years we are down to the fifth string running back for San Francisco. A lot of their offense is predicated on a competent running game. I don't have the Patrick Taylor confidence that maybe, I'm not quite where Jason is, just believing that it'll be all him. But to be fair, that's a shot you could take. To be fair, my confidence is that it'll be all someone.

It could be Keishon Vaughn. But I think it's going to be Patrick Taylor. We've seen him on the field before. We've seen them give carries when Garindo got hurt. And he was the next man up. So I do think it's going to be Patrick Taylor. The matchup here is not the best against the Dolphins, but they're not like a top five defense against Running Max.

But if you've got a guy getting all of the work, that's just valuable for fantasy. Definitely play A-chan. His receiving line, receptions wise, five and a half. I think Tyree Kill will be okay in this game with the injury to Waddle. His line is also five and a half receptions wise, five and a half. I think Tyreek Hill will be okay in this game with the injury to Waddle. His line is also five and a half receptions and that is exactly where John Smith's line is. So five and a half for all three of those guys. Yeah, everyone gets five and a half.

Malik Washington would be like a sneaky DFS punt play type of player with Waddle being out with no OBJ. Or would he? You said or would he? No, he said. Oh, would he? Yeah. Joann Jennings on the other side, his line 62 and a half. Joann Jennings, I like him this week.

I think you'll be happy he's in your lineup. Kittle's in your lineup. And then Jason, where are you with Tua after the really disappointing performance last week? He's also, like there there is like he's gonna play but he's got a hip injury. Yeah I'm not excited about Tua at all. Shanahan knows McDaniel's system. I don't think he's gonna be surprised. We've seen a lot of teams that get used to the system kind of figure it out better with

the motion and those type of things. So I think you're gonna have a good game plan here from Shanahan who is still playing for the playoffs. Is there a chance we just have an absolute stinkfest? Yeah, I think so. I really do think so. Because both coaches know the other person and their tendencies so well. And you've got some really important banged up pieces.

I mean, obviously we know the San Francisco 49ers offense, the running back room has been decimated. But they're also they're bad at wide receiver. You know Joanne Jennings is is there one Debo has disappeared. Pierce all disappeared. Ayuk has gone. So and you got Waddell on the other side. I'm not excited for this game as some kind of great fantasy explosion. Like an offensive performance. And you see the news that Trent Williams might be out for the season?

Yeah. Yeah, that's going to hurt fifth string running back Patrick Taylor a little bit. Yeah. Or whoever else gets opportunities. On Sunday night, we get the Buccaneers, eight and six, taking on the six and eight Dallas Cowboys. Tampa road favorites by four over-unders 48.

That is the highest of the week. We have some news here. Baker Mayfield, Laser Mayfield himself, could be the new Kirk Cousins of prime time. He has lost eight straight prime time starts. Laser? What's going on? You didn't even want to hit the ball. Phasers and lasers don't can't handle prime time

laser I think he can I'm not too worried about History of wins and losses I care about performances that that was the thing with Kirk cousins for a long time was He can't ever win the big game and you go and you look at the statistics, it's like, it wasn't his fault. He was playing pretty well. He had like a couple really bad personal performances to start that run and then was very good, but they kept losing and it got overblown.

This is a fun game. It is, yes. You know, I think that the Dallas Cowboys defense is not what it once was and then they lost digs. Once it started getting better, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers defense is destroyed as well. Cooper Rush is capable enough, I think, against this Buccaneers team to score and keep Baker on the field having to widen the gap. The Buccaneers implied point-to-holes 26. It's the highest over under the week.

It's one of the reasons I like Jalen McMillan a lot. The hot and injuries and other reason, the fact that he's been on an upward trend as a young rookie who's finally catching a higher percentage of his passes, getting on the same page. I like him as a flex. Evans is in your lineup. Rashad White's been the like him as a flex. Evans is in your lineup.

Rashad White's been the RB 10 since week seven. He's in your lineup. Bucky Irving, if he's active, you gotta play him. That's where I'm in. Yeah, that's where I am too. He's just too, he's too good. And I think if he's active, you know, he gets- He's been limited this week in practice,

so it's not the same terror as last week, where it was just nothing. You're like, I hope he's OK. Mike, you are inching very close on your bold prediction show. You had said Rico Doudo would be a top 20 running back. He is RB23 in total points, 27 in fancy points per game. And is playing in semifinal matchups. Is he playing on your team? You're darn right he is. So I'mfinal matchups.

Is he playing on your team? You're darn right he is. So I'm facing Dowdell. You will. And it's wild when you'd much rather have him on your team than Ramandre for this matchup. His career highs in rushing yardage have been 112, then he went to 131, then he went to 149. Top 10 performances in three straight weeks.

It was the giant Cincinnati and Carolina So we're gonna contextualize it those are juicy, but 19 for 86 against Washington before that run happened I've not been catching the ball as much no that with Cooper Rush that that's been That has been just well. He had plenty of games with Cooper Rush catching passes. I mean rush has been the starter Yeah, right sweet 10. It has been the starter since week 10. It has been lately, though, that it has disappeared. So Mike McCarthy, let's get the passes dialed up here. But also, you're welcome, Mike.

Yeah. Freaking idiot. So are you talking to yourself? No, I'm talking to Coach Mike McCarthy. There's too many Mikes. You're welcome, Mike. Yeah, no, there's a little bit too many of us Tampa's been number one against the run the last six weeks So maybe that's a red flag for a big game. I don't know but Rico Dowdell's in a lot of lineups and

You know, it's been nice that CD lamb has been getting it done with Cooper Rush. Yes Despite him being banged up and he will get it done again It seems that way and then I think we're just staying away from the tight end position in Dallas at this point. Yeah, it's unfortunate. Yeah, it's not been good since Ferguson's returned. So I think that summarizes that one pretty good. Monday, we got the five and nine Saints

against the 10 and four Green Bay Packers, where Green Bay is now sitting as a 14 point home favorite. It's my favorite defense of the week, the Packers at home against Spencer Rattler and nobody else. The over-under is 42 points that gives the Saints the lowest of the week, 14 points on offense. I really don't know how they move the football. I don't think Kendra Miller is, it's hard for Kamara to produce when the offense is this bad and he still finds a way generally in the passing game. Kendra Miller's rushing lines at 51.

Like you're playing a dowdell over a Kendra Miller, right? Yeah, yeah. You're playing a Pollard even with the health concerns over a Kendra Miller? Yeah, if Pollard is active, I'm gonna be a Pollard even with the health concerns over a Kendra Miller? Yeah, if Pollard is active, I'm gonna be playing Pollard. Let me read you, literally, the most popular start sits on the site. Ford or Kendra Miller?

Miller or Taylor? Miller or Downs? Miller or McMillan? Oh, Patrick Taylor. Miller or Tracy? Miller or Doudel? Miller or Pacheco? Miller or Spears? Miller or Brian Robinson? So Kendra Miller or Pacheco Miller or Spears Miller or Brian Robinson?

So Kendra Miller is a big question. He is the biggest question of the week And I wish I could tell you I've seen enough film of Kendra Miller To have the confidence that he's gonna do great things. I have seen enough film of Kendra Miller to have confidence He can do great things. I've also seen enough film of Spencer he can do great things. I've also seen enough film of Spencer Rattler to not be sure that he can do great, that Kendra can do great things with this offense. You have no Chris Olave, you have no Kamara,

you have no Taysom Hill, you have no Derek, yeah, you have no MVS. This offense is just kind of a skeleton crew. Would you take the over-under on their implied total of 14.3 points? Because I'm taking the under. Yeah, I would probably lean towards the under.

So I like Kendra Miller. You can always end up volumizing your way to a good game and getting a touchdown, but I am so against this specific matchup and the belief in the team that most of those options, not all of them, but most of them I would go the other way. You'd play Kendra Miller or Josh Downs? Because that would be a flex decision for people.

And it definitely should be a flex. This is a Monday night football game, so get them out of your running back slot. I think I would go Kendra. And Madison, the Madison-Kendray-Miller decision? I would go Madison, it's a fair question. Jordan loves my start of the week at the quarterback position. Jacob's been amazing.

What do you do with the roulette of letdowns that you get in Green Bay receiving options? This is such a plus matchup. Jaden Reed, I don't see the split right in front of me here. He was like the wide receiver seven through the first 10 weeks. He's been like the wide receiver 46 since then. It was so juiced from week one, though.

Like, it was, let me go look at his actual numbers, but it was like two huge weeks. Week one was four for 138 in a touchdown. 31 points in week one and 23 in week four. That's kinda how it goes with him. Are you playing him? I mean, there are a lot of people with injuries, no more David Montgomery.

I know Kyle's in that situation. I don't think he's a horrifically bad play, but you're. Is it Watson, is it Dobbs, is it Reed? What's the order? I would put Watson at the top that's where I'm at yeah right now I well but I trailed off because I'm my confidence level is not high yeah Dobbs got the touchdowns last week oh man and that

whoo snatching that one right off the ground did you see his interview about that catch? I did not. He was very kawaii, Leonard. He was like, Romeo? They're like, talk about that catch. And then he just kind of sat there and he's just like, yeah, I just, like, I caught the ball.

I was like, all right. Yeah, because we don't have to talk to everybody. That would be, yeah, no, we know that, Mike. We know that you're- I'm saying, talking to the athletes, like, like that's not their job is to go play football. The only message we would have gotten from Mike this week would have been a small message that just said I am dead. Yeah. And then you would have let us know and that would have been it but you're back and just in time.

Fantasy Face Off presented by DraftKangs. Well, well, well, last week I managed to bring it home. Yeah, you dominated. And then Amun Ra stole my second place. Yes. Thank you, Amun Ra. Jason won by two points over Mike, making Mike the shame. It's time to spin. Wheel of Shame. All right, spin the wheel. Right back in the studio, just in time for the Wheel of Shame. Hope it's something that covers my mouth breathing.

Ho-ho-hopeless. Oh, what do we got? Oh, we got a full Santa gear? It's holiday season. It's the holiday season. OK, so we got a coat. Biddy-biddy-bee. We got a beard. We got a wig.

A wig? Yeah. Merry freaking Christmas. All right, you're going to go to go to someone else We're gonna need a five minute break. Go to my camera What is this and then we'll reveal Santa Claus? I like hide hide Mike for a minute. Yeah, I'll be back Transforms. Yeah. I mean, what do you have on your Christmas list this year? Well, I can't say yet

I want to go sit on Mike's lap here and let him know I wouldn't recommend it Oh, no, probably not the right time I mean, I don't wanna say it yet, I wanna go sit on Mike's lap here and let him know what I'm looking for. Oh no! I wouldn't recommend it. Oh no. Yeah, I guess probably not the right time. Yeah, I mean, Colin the stocking in the former Breeze Hall, you've already got that for Christmas. Oh yeah, yeah.

All I want. Oh, this is good. I hope we bought this wig from the same place he bought those darn troll wigs for us, so that he can breathe it for the next six to eight years but uh here's what we're gonna do no no no we'll pan back to you momentarily I think the beard looks a little higher quality here yeah no we spared no expense no expense this is good this is very good all right

well I'll get it started we've got our fantasy face off for the week revealing our lineups I am going to right a wrong. I mean not that it was a wrong. I won last week, but I'm actually going Aaron Rodgers this week 5600 He's at home. He's been playing great, and I'm taking Aaron Rodgers in the savings Wow okay, okay? I'm gonna go Take even more say you forgot the glasses Mike. I'm going way down. You can go ahead and bring the camera back soups At 4500

Michael Pinnix Jr. Oh, this is good for us I'm just playing wild this Christmas season. All right scared money. Don't make money Jason Michael Pinnix Oh, yeah, you're in you're done right? Oh, man, he's playing that. Whoa. What, what do I look like? That beard is not that the best. That beard is growing out of your eyes. It's not a mustache. It's above your nose down. That's supposed to go below your nose. Mike. You got to put it below your nose. There you go. That's where the That's where the mouth hole is. All right, yeah. Now you look like jolly old Saint Nick. Yeah, Michael Pennix. Did you go Michael Pennix?

Yeah, he's playing the New York Giants and he's $4,500. Yeah, no, I paid a little bit more than you did. My running backs, Jameer Gibbs, 7,500, James Connor, 7,100. Same. Jameer Gibbs and James Connor are mine. So we are just eating up that money, sharing those money bucks.

Oh, I got plenty more money. Devontae Adams at 7,100, stacking with Rogers. Marvin Harrison, all the way down at 5,400 now. It's too much. For Arizona, and Malik Washington at 3,700 is my savings. My savings is gross. I thought about going to Malik Washington and just burning $1,000.

I've got Keon Coleman at $4,700. He was my savings. I've got your start of the week, Jackson Smith in Jigba. He's a great play. And Brian Thomas Jr. at $6,300 in that Jacksonville game. I like the Brian Thomas there. I have Malik Washington at 3,700. I have John Jennings, hopefully correlating in the same game at 5,900. And then who's this guy? Oh, Jamar Chase. I figured that would be the case.

At 8,500. That's a lot of quiche. That is the gap between your Michael Pinnix and Rogers is the gap between Chase and Adams. My tight end, no surprise here. Chigga Conquo, 3400. My flex, you might know him as Devon Achan, 7400. Oh nice. And I'm going Titans defense in the upset that I picked earlier against the mistake prone Anthony Richardson, 2600. Go listen to that Brian Callahan conference you're gonna like it I've got chig at 3400 at tight end as well my flex is going to be very interesting

it's a chase off between me and Mike you've got Jamar chase I've got chase Brown in the running game at 7700 so I paid up for the running backs and then I've got the 49ers Shanahan against Miami and Tua. I have Trey McBride, because I'm told he's going to score a touchdown every single week at 6,200. Even if he doesn't score a touchdown, the dude is just PPRing his way into greatness. I'm running 12 personnel out yet again.

Currently have Brenton Strange in there at 3,500. I'll probably have to pivot to Chig, because he's right around the same amount of money, should Strange not play. And then I have, I'm going with the other defense, and I'm taking the Colts, I'll take the home team, 3,000 against Mason Rudolph. Ho, ho, ho!

Ho, ho, ho! Well, we did just get some breaking news here, Nick. Sirianni talking about AJ Brown's knee injury, which just popped up on the injury report Thursday. Oh no. We'll see, he said, about whether he'll practice today. Oh. We'll see about whether he'll practice.

Okay. Something to monitor here. We do have an Injury Blitz podcast coming out soon, so. I actually have Devonte Smith, 54. Uh-huh, uh-huh. No, we have an Injury Blitz with Matthew Betz coming out soon. So I actually have Devante Smith, 54. Now we have an injury blitz with Matthew Betts coming out soon. That was fantasy forecast presented by DraftKings Sportsbook. Download the DraftKings Sportsbook app now.

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