The Ringer NFL Show - Week 17: It's All Made Up and the Points Don't Matter | The Dantasy Football Podcast

Episode Date: December 27, 2019

Although most fantasy leagues have ended, we are here to help you compose a winning Week 17 daily fantasy lineup and maneuver you through a week of teams resting players. We also debate whether or not the Panthers should bench Christian McCaffrey, start only players in the Falcons-Bucs game, and start Robert Griffin III.  Host: Danny Heifetz, Danny Kelly, and Craig Horlbeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Welcome to the Danesie Football Podcast on the Ringer NFL show, on the Ringer Podcast. Podcast Network. My name is Danny Hyphitz and I'm joined as always by my co-host and Mikeo Danny. The hero we need and the analyst we deserve the Dark Knight himself. Danny Kelly! How are you doing, D.K.? That was the best always that you've ever done. So let's keep doing that exact thing going forward. I'm doing an excellent though. How are you doing? Was your Christmas break pretty good? Oh, well, there was no break, but holidays are great.

Right, right. Everything's great. How are you? How's Calvin? That's really what I cared about. How was Calvin's first Christmas? Calvin's good. It was his first Christmas that was really fun. He got a bunch of bath toys. So he's going to have a lot of fun baths in his future. Like rubber dokees. Yeah, that kind of stuff. They make really cool bath, like things that light up and do all kinds of crazy shit in the bath now. It's a way, it's a big step up from when we were kids. Wow. Craig, how are you doing? Do you have any light up toys? I do not. I have a question for you. though, high fits. Are you ordained by chance? Ordained like as like to marry people? Yeah. Can you officiate weddings legally? I mean, I can be. Are you, you want me to officiate your wedding? I just, I was just listening to you intro this show. I think you'd be a great

person to officiate a wedding. I could just imagine you yelling like, I now pronounce you. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor! Right before getting into a really long argument with the groom about some really small minutia about something or other. You know what? maybe I will get ordained. Could I do that instead of growing the Gardner-Menshew mustache? Because I really don't want to go. Oh, that's a great idea. No, I want the mustache.

We'll discuss this later. All right, we're going to learn through a bunch of players we like in their matchups this week. We're going to break down our Fandall lineup of the week at the end. But first, we're going to run through some categories. Some DFS players were liking on Fandil. This is week 17. So unless you are somehow still doing your season-long fantasy football, in which case your commissioner has messed up.

DFS is the only way you're probably doing fantasy this week. you can make some meaning out of the last week of football because for most teams it's, you know, meaningless, which is a whole argument of itself that we had earlier. But first, let's go into some weekly categories. D.K., first up, go big. Who is an expensive player you think is worth the money? Week 17. So, first off, we have to just discuss that.

If we don't know teams are sitting players, we're just going to kind of go ahead and assume teams are going to play their star players. And so I'm just going to use that little caveat before we get into these guys. But one running back I really like this week, Aaron Jones against the Lions, the Lions dreadful defense. He is 8 grand on Fandual this week.

Detroit is 28th against the run per Fandual scoring. And for Aaron Jones to me, it's just I'm writing this ludicrous touchdown rate as long as I can this season. He's like we've talked about it many times on this podcast. He's scoring touchdowns at just a outrageous rate. For whatever reason, he just has a nose for the end zone. Last week, 23 rushes, 154 yards, two touchdowns, 27 points against what we thought was a pretty good Minnesota defense.

This week against Detroit, I think he could go off again. So really like Aaron Jones in this match of just based on, you know, riding his outlier performance as long as we can, I think. And past that, I'm going to Julio Jones with Falcons at Tampa Bay, 8500. Dude has 35 targets in the last two games. 35. That's a lot of targets. That's a lot of targets. He's the only show in town pretty much for the Falcons right now

with Calvin Ridley on the IR to end the season. Tampa Bay's defense has improved, I think, of late, especially their secondary, but they are still 32nd to opposing receivers this season. So, you know, that's a good matchup. And then finally, my third one, and I'm kind of cheating by going with three guys here, but I like Tyler Higbee of the Rams,

going up against Arizona. And again, we're just riding this, terrible Arizona tight end defense. They just cannot defend tight ends this season. Higbee's 6,900. He's had four straight 100-yard games, which is completely unheard of. In fact, per Matthew Berry's love, hate call him this week,

since week 13, Higby ranks in the top three among all players, not tight ends, all players, in receptions, yards, targets, and redstone targets. So he's absolutely going off. And I'm going to keep riding that. So those are the three guys I kind of penciled in for my go big guys this week.

Yeah, you chose three guys, so I'm just going to ride your coattails. The Aaron Jones pick makes sense to me because Jamal Williams, the, I don't even want to call him backup running back, kind of change a pace guy there in Green Bay, has not practiced this week. Doesn't seem like he's going to play, probably going to keep him healthy for the playoffs. So Aaron Jones, it's probably going to get a lot of their work when they're playing for home field by. And then also, from that Matthew Barry column, something that gobsmacked me. I'm not even 100% sure what gobsmack means, but my gob my gob was smacked when I read the

following sentence from Matthew Berry, quote, not Tony Gonzalez, not Antonio Gates, not Gronk, but Tyler Higby is the first tight-ended NFL history to have four straight seven-catch 100-yard games. Wow. That blew my goddamn doors off. That's hard to believe. That's crazy. Yeah, I know it's hard to believe.

Is your God not stacked? Oh, Jay Howard hasn't done that? No. God damn. Wait, Jacob Hollister hasn't done that? All right. Moving on. Craig, do you have someone?

going, I can't believe you just took Craig's joke. That was damn. All right, all right. So the person I'm picking is a contentious player for our discussion because I'm going with Christian McCaffrey, who's the most expensive running back on Fandall. He's $11,000. Now, Christian McCaffrey is very close to breaking a lot of records. I guess one big one, he's very close to becoming the third player ever to have 100,000 rushing yards and receiving yards in the same season. Now, some people think, now this is D.K.'s opinion. What's the point of playing Christian McCaffrey this week. And Danny Hyfitts and I would say he has ever reason to play. He could break a lot of records. I believe he's like 216 yards away from the all-purpose yards

record, right? Or Chris Johnson's record? Are we just doing this argument again? Are we just going to Yeah, we're just doing it now? We have to cover it. I think you should 100% play Christian McCaffrey because I think they're going to feed him the ball like crazy. And I think it's the right move from a coaching standpoint to feed him the ball like crazy. He's worked as ass off this entire season to break a record like this. And now that he's so close to doing it, I think you have to do it. And that's why I'm playing it. We had 15 catches last week. He's probably going to have 20

on Sunday. I am all for Christian McCaffrey playing this week. I'm all for all that. I don't understand why Panthers offensive coordinator Scott Turner is like, we're going to try to get Christian McCaffrey the ball quote in as many ways as we can.

He should be saying that secretly, not publicly. That should secretly be their goal. I'm confused why they're like, you know, we're going to force feed him so he can get this record. I'm a little confused why they would just tell the Saints like, yeah, no, no. I mean, I guess they already know that they're going to give him the ball wherever, but it's odd that they were like, yeah, no, we would just want him to get this record. In a way that I respect- Let's give D.K. a platform here.

I want to hear D.K.'s opinion on this. So I can see that I think it makes sense if a team wants to play a guy when he has a shot at, like a pretty high-profile record like this. Like, if it's some obscure, stupid record, like, who cares? I think we were arguing about this earlier off-offline. And my stance was that if I'm a fan of a team with a superstar player, and we were talking about McCaffrey, but any superstar player, say like Seyquin Barclay or whatever,

and it's this week 17 game, it's a meaningless game. I'd think it's dumb to slam your superstar player into the defense like 30 plus times in a meaningless week 17 game. I think long term, I would rather have my team like play the backup, see what they got with the backups, you know what you have in a guy like, say, Barclay, and you don't have to worry about him suffering a serious injury and then missing a huge chunk of next season.

So that was my argument. It's less that, it's less like the specific McCaffrey example where he's chasing a record and more just like my philosophy on what meaningless week 17 games mean and what players should do with their star players in those games. So that's just, that's my take is that if I'm a fan of one of those teams, I'm in support of sitting your star players and just getting them healthy for next year

because at this point it just doesn't matter. Yeah, I mean, I think your point makes sense. But what Hyfit's so beautifully worded in our Slack was just about kind of, hold on, I want to find it. I'd love to read it. Can I read what you said in Slack? Wow, I'm honored. It's really well written.

I'm glad that my best writing is on a private channel. He said, what gets guys out of bed at 5 a.m. every day to push their bodies to the limit and force feed themselves to gain weight and sculpt their bodies by breaking it down, do hyperbaric chambers, and track sleep cycles and pop pain killers to play through injuries. All the work that gets put in is for 16 games. To do what these guys do, game day is a borderline religious experience. To say that a game day isn't worth it because you could get hurt or the outcome doesn't matter misses the mark on why these guys get out of bed in the morning. Christian McCaffrey, 11,000 bucks. Let's do it. I'm just going to respond to that. If the caveat, if they have incentives in their, if they have incentives in their contract for playing time or whatever, you know, specific statistical benchmarks, then go for it. Because ultimately. No, no, no, no, no. I, no, D.K.

I could not disagree with you more. Oh, my God, because it has nothing to do with the record and it has nothing to do with the benchmarks. It's the opposite. I'm making the opposite point. Okay. Let's say McAfree has nothing to do with this record. I do not give less of a shit about this record.

I'm saying that Sequin's a little different because Sequin did have an injury this year. As far as we know, Christian McCaffrey is fine. I know no one's 100% healthy, but Christian McCaffrey does not seem to be dealing with an injury right now. So we're talking about healthy star players who want to play in Week 17 who are out of the playoffs.

They have to play. Not that they have to play. Let me take that back. They want to play. And you want them to want to play. I understand, as you said, like, oh, well, maybe it doesn't make sense to get McCaffrey the ball 40 times or whatever.

And there is something very important about wanting to see certain guys you haven't seen this season. That's very real. Having said that, I don't think benching McCaffrey makes sense. I don't think benching Saquan makes sense. I don't think benching your stars who want to play makes sense because they want to play. It has nothing to do with the numbers. It's everything about you need a culture of people who, when given the option to play football or not, want to play football. Like, that is the most essential part of a football team.

Yeah, okay, but I still completely disagree. Like if I'm, if I'm a fan of that team, I would way rather have that player healthy next year where than have him tears ACL on a meaningless week 17 game. That's all I'm saying. But imagine like going to the game. If a team is out of the playoffs starting from week 12 on, do you bench your guys for the last five weeks?

That's, yeah, exactly. Yeah, but that's a different thing. It's one game to end the season, which is essentially like a, it's, these are exhibition games for a lot of teams at this point. To your point, the only difference between benching for one game and five games is you're way more likely to get hurt in five games. So why play the other four and then the bench for the final? That doesn't mean, you know, I'm just serious question by

your logic like five games. You should just shut everyone down. Well, first of all, I'm not actually totally against that if you want to find out what you got in like some of your lower level players. This is to me what the Panthers should have done with a lot of their players. So the season, that's why they ended up going with Will Greer. There's, there's fact-finding things going into next season. I don't, I'm not necessarily. saying you need to bench a guy for the final month of the season because then you could just make an argument like you can just keep going with that like oh we're going to be bad this year just don't play or start player ever and that's not what i'm saying i'm saying this is one

game left absolutely meaningless and this we're completely in the weeds at this point but i'm not coming off that i really believe that um teams especially at a position we're running back like running back who, you know, can so easily get injured, like slamming him into the defense 30, 40 times in, in a final week, 17 game is, is dumb. So that's what I'm staying. I was singing with that. This is like a tectonic disagreement we have. I'm actually very interested in this, but let's move on. We've spent too long on this. That's a podcast episode for a different day. That's an off-season pod. Yeah, we'll just yell at each other. That would be great. Going home, it's not really worth going home. Like, you know, those are the guys were big on Aaron Jones, Julio Jones, Tyler

Higby, McCaffrey. But going home, it's a little different this week. week because really this is just us reading the tea leaves and who we think is going to get benched. Obviously the Ravens already announced they're benching their guys. So newsflash, don't play Lamar Jackson or Mark Anger, Mark Andrews. You know, breaking news. The real T-leaf reading is that

there are certain coaches who are like not going to start players or going to start players, but not going to let those guys finish the games. So here's our reading of how those games are going to go. DeAndre Hopkins and the rest of the Houston Texans, including Deshawn Watson, if they start, seems like they will not finish

for the simple reason. If the Chiefs win at the 1 o'clock Eastern game, then the Texans are locked into the 4th seed for the 425 Eastern's game. They're playing at 425. So unless the Chiefs lose

to the Chargers, Houston has nothing to play for. Like, Vegas thinks that they're going to not have their starters finish the game. So this line open as a pickup, now the Titans are favored minus three and a half. I don't understand why Texans

would let Watson and DeAndre Hopkins finish this game. The other one similar to that is the Vikings. The Vikings actually are already locked into the number six seed. Mike Zimmer, who's their head coach,

told reporters on Tuesday about wrestling players, quote, I haven't really decided yet. I don't know the answer to that yet. That was Tuesday. It's one of those things where it's like indecisions, like kind of a decision. Like,

if you're saying you don't know, like you're probably not going to have your players play the whole game. Like, for contrast, you're someone who's actually not going to bench their players. Like, head coach Sean Payton of the New Orleans Saints was asked if he would bench his starters.

And he said, quote, no, no, no, no, no. absolutely no. That's what benching your starters, like that's what you're not benching your starters, that's what that sounds like. So when Mike Zimmer's like, I haven't really decided yet,

I think he's not going to play his starters. So out on the Vikings, out on the Texans, similarly actually, the Vikings are playing the Bears, and even the Bears who are obviously not in the playoffs, probably also not going to have their starters finish

because Matt and Aggie was basically like, well, if the Vikings backers are in, that means we could get our backup's reps against their backups and tests, as D.K. was saying about depth. Matt and Haggie was saying, quote, if there is somebody we can get a chance to see, we want to be able to do that.

So I feel like the bears are also going to put their backups in at some way. So does that make you outraged? Are you just pissed off at Matt Nagy for this? No, because the bears don't have any good players other than Alan Robinson. So it's fine. That's not sure. Keep moving those goalposts, Danny. Good work. Get out of here.

First of, get out of here. All right, let's go. Keep going. Keep going. Yeah, so the Vikings and Bears probably going to have their guys start, but not finish, it seems. Texans are probably in the same boat if they start at all. Bills also in this boat, Sean McDermott was kind of the most transparent of everyone saying, quote, we're planning to play a majority of our guys this Sunday,

including Josh Allen, where we're trying to go. We feel like this is the right thing for this team this year in this situation. We'll be smart with that, but it's important to get working fundamentally in terms of execution so we can stay as sharp as we can be. It's a delicate balance for remaining sharp and keeping our edge and also working to continue to get better. So basically what I think what that means is they're going to start.

they're going to try to get a few good drives out of the bills and probably pull those guys at halftime or so, but probably not seeing Josh Allen in the fourth quarter, especially with his physical running style. So I wouldn't get anyone from the Texans, Vikings, Bears, bills, even though it's not as cut and dry as they're going to play. They're probably going to get pulled as soon as their coaches are like, all right, good drive.

That's my interpretation. But it's also not night and day enough that we can recommend any of their backups. Yeah, I think he nailed it. I mean, I think that's absolutely true in the sense that when you're plugging like DFS guys into your lineup, like you want as much volume and as much playing time as possible

and these, it's just too big of a risk for a lot of these guys for me. Exactly. Now there's one, there's one glaring exception to this. Galaxy Brain play of the week, Galaxy Brain play of the year, of the year. Robert Griffin the third, baby.

Give me RG3 against the Steelers starting in week 17. I could not be more. for this. The only things I care about this week are Robert Griffin the third and Marshall Lynch both returning. Yes. It's 2012 all over again. It's the only thing I give a shit about. Like me. Sorry, that's a crude way to say it. But RG-theist said, quote, this game's not about me. It's about the team. I disagree. This game is about RG3. He's 29 years old, which blew my mind.

He's still in his 20s. He's not 30? Oh, my God. I know, right? He's the 26th most expensive quarterback on the slate. There's only 30 because we're cutting on son and a football. 26 out of 30. I think he's going to have a top 10 day. Maybe top five. It needs to be, you know, in case everyone forgot. Lamar Jackson just had the most fan of his points for quarterback ever, like through 16 weeks, ever. If RG3 is two-thirds of Lamar Jackson in this game, that's so worth it. And I just, I can't, oh, my God, dude, I just want to see RG3 in this offense.

Also, I also like Gus, because Mark Ingram's not going to play. I like Gus Edwards, who's outside the top 20. I also like Justice Hill, their third stringer who's outside the top 35. I love Edwards and Hit Hill, but give me RG3 20 times out of ten. I'm going to do a ride-in for my galaxy brain play of the week this week, and Danny, you're going to hate me for this. I'm going Trace McSorley.

Is that solely despite me? Are you solely doing this to make me upset? Per, let's see here, per John Harbaugh. Who you got a per about Trace McSorley? Per John Harbaugh. Trace McSorley could play this week in addition to Robert Griffin the third. I'm going to say Trace McSorley, he's fast

as shit, man. He's a good runner and they're going to do all that option stuff with him. Run for three touchdowns. This absolutely breaks my heart. I'm devastated. Okay, but for real, though, I'm going to go with a different guy. Oh. I'm definitely

riding in Trace McSorley because it's fun and I can't wait to see what happens there. But I'm going with Jared Gough of the Rams. Going up against Arizona of 7,900. It's not like a mega galaxy brain because obviously Goff has posted points this season at times,

but generally speaking, we're not huge fans of Goff on this podcast. Generally speaking, one might say he sucks. One might say, in reference to the Rams offense, their shit is whack. However,

going up against the Cardinals, Cardinals defense, dead last against opposing quarterbacks, Goff's attempts in the last four games, 171 attempts in the last four games second only to Carson Wentz, 46, 51, 31, and 43 passes in each of the last four games. His 1324 yards passing in the last four games, second only to James Winston.

Bottom line, would it surprise you at all if this was his random five touchdown week? No, Carl's defense is awful. Yeah. So that's my galaxy brain. Despite the fact that we don't really love golf, I think this could be a good week to bet on it. I mean, yeah, it's like a solar system. Solar system play of the week. There we go.

Yeah, Gough bless his heart. Craig, well, actually, his heart doesn't need to be blessed. He's $120 million or whatever. He's fine. His heart's plenty of blessed. Craig, do you have a galaxy brain? Do you have a galaxy brain of the week here? I do.

So in 2018 in week 17, the Bucks and Falcons happen to play as well in Tampa Bay, just like this year. And in that game, the Falcons were playing for the same record. The Bucks were playing for a little bit of a worse record. But it was a shootout. There was 900 yards of offense. Matt Ryan threw for 378 and two touchdowns. James threw for 345 and four touchdowns.

Mike Evans had two touchdowns. Chris Gawin had two touchdowns. It was like Oprah handing out touchdowns everybody. So this is what I'm saying. My Galaxy Brain Play of the Week is to comprise your fan duel roster of only Buccaneers and Falcons. It's like it's a single game slate. Oh my God.

I really think it could work and I have done it. And I am capable of doing it. And the rest of my players for these categories will be Falcons and Bucks as we do it. You're stacking the Bucks and Falcons. This is great. I'm really into this. Wow. They're playing at 1 o'clock Eastern.

I want everybody on the Bucks and Falcon. That's a galaxy brain. Love it. I love it. I'm going to play that lineup. We'll see how it does. Good. No.

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Pepsi, the official sponsor of the NFL reminds you to always be celebrating. All right, D.K. Middle range sweet spot. Goldilocks. Mm-hmm. Who's your Goldilocks? I'm going with Deontay Johnson of the Steelers going up against Baltimore. And again, it comes back to what we were talking about earlier. Baltimore is probably going to be sitting a bunch of their starters.

We've already heard that Earl Thomas and Brandon Williams are going to sit. And then I would not be surprised at all if they ended up, you know, playing some of their star secondary guys and then sitting those guys in the second half or whatever. So we could get into a lot of Steelers players against back. backups going forward. Obviously, you know, it's not ideal with Duck Hodges starting there, but he seems to have pretty good chemistry with Johnson so far. Johnson is quietly third among rookie receivers and total catches this season with 55.

He's had 9, 7, and 8 targets in the last three games combined, two touchdowns in that stretch. He also adds a little bit of upside as a punt return. If he couldn't grab a punt return touchdown, it'd be dope. But yeah, he's just showing out right now. He seems to be really kind of just feeling. Like, he seems to be really hitting his groove late in the season, which is kind of the opposite of what happens with a lot of rookie players. So anyways, it's good to see.

And I'm just riding that hope that the Baltimore Ravens end up benching a lot of their starters in the second half, and it will be going up against some backup guy. Deonti Johnson's fantastic. Also fantastic. Dallas Goddard, Philadelphia Eagles. Zachertz might be out for this game. If Zachert is out, Dallas Goddard is an excellent play. And even if he's not, Dallas Goddard had like the best game of his career last week against the Cowboys.

so he's good, that's it. Zach Hertz has a broken rib? Fractured rib. How is he going to play? I mean, he might. He might, but. There you go. That's really simple.

He would get a lot of catches with Zacherts missing the game. This is my expert analysis. Craig, are all these really going to be bucks and falcons? Yeah, they will be. So my mid-rain sweet spot is going to be Matt Ryan. Sometimes it's simple, you know, the bucks suck. He's the 10th most expensive quarterbacks. bucks.

So you're not playing James. Fourth most passing yards. I'm just offering Matt Ryan. My lineup is James. I mean, I only have two quarterbacks to choose from. And James is, well, James is a much more. Pimping the one. He's much more expensive.

He's not mid-range sweet spot. I cannot. So you're not even playing Matt Ryan and your own Buck's Falcons line up, but you're hawking. No, I could shut out. I would have made James might go big if we didn't have the McCaffrey conversation. So you can only go big on James. Mid-range sweet spot is Matt Ryan.

I don't know how I feel about that. this. Bargain bin, we're just sticking with this game. Craig, who was your bargain bid from Bucks Falcons? I feel like the whole thing's bargained been. It's Ronald Jones. Ronald Jones is averaging 15 touches over his last three games. He had 100 yards in a touchdown last week. Peyton Barber gave up a costly fumble. He was benched for two quarters by Bruce Ariens. Playing the Falcons, he's 6,200 bucks. I think Ronald Jones is really talented and hopefully he can move on to the offseason with a great final game here. I trust him. I trust him. I trust him. We're in half of Ronald Jones's yards on like one.

play. That 49-yard run? Also a great run now. Craig. I hate what people do that in fantasy. It's like, well, half his points did come on a 50-yard catch. It's like, yeah, he made a, isn't that the point of football to catch long passes? He did what he's supposed to do.

As Matthew Berry pointed out in that same column, Ronald Jones's other 13 carries, he had at 28 yards and did not gain one yard after contact. Well, the thing is, is like Leonard Four Nett would do that, like, from weeks four to eight. He'd have like 10 carries for 11 yards, and then his 11th character. it'd be for 70, and then his line would look good. But you know what matters in fantasy? You're line at the end of the day. You literally just said, I trust him.

I can't wait to, I can't wait to see how this pans out. I'm really excited for this, too. I can't wait until my line at beats our dame. That will be good. You should really, you should really dump that in here. All right, D.K., who's your bargain bit of the week? I'm going with Golden Tate of the Giants. Going up against the Eagles, $5900.

The Eagles defense is banged up, especially the cornerback spot. They've not been good all year. And Danny Dimes kind of caught fire last week, five touchdowns, and their offense actually moved the football. So Golden Tate's coming off of an 11 target game in that win over the Redskins last week. The Eagles, again, ranked 29th versus opposing receivers, I should say, this season. It's just all adds up to a lot of targets for Golden Tate this week.

And I like that. He's only $5,900 bucks, so that's really cheap. Yeah, I'm also going with a receiver. I just love Muhammad Sanoo. Used to be on the Falcons. Is he still eligible for the Falcons bucks as part of the Atlanta diaspora, Greg? Or no? No, once you go to the Patriots, you can never go back.

Yeah, that's very true. I think the Pat's going to score a lot of points in this game. I could also see putting Brady in DFS lines this week. Really simple. The Pats looked really good. Brady looked the best he's looked in like two months last week against the bills. Bill's top-notch defense. Now they're playing the Dolphins.

Dolphins, bottom-notch defense. Really bad. they're not going to get a pass rush. And I really think that for all the talk about the Pat's receiving core, one of their main issues has been they're blocking. And they were really letting Brady get pressured. The Dolphins not going to pressure Tom Brady, like, at all. And once he has time, I think he's going to hit his receiving targets.

Mohamundsen, who's $5,300. He's like, outside the top 25, maybe 30 receivers this week on Fandle, he gets 70 snaps last week. He only had three catches on five targets for like 24 yards or so. But I think he has a big way against Miami. I think the Pat's offense does a lot this week. And I just can't really explain how many holes in this Miami defense Bill Belichick will exploit. Because again, set the NFL record for players used in a season entering week 16.

Miami has no continuity. I think they're going to shred them. I think this is the game where, ironically, they come full circle and they get back on track with Miami. I think Sunu is kind of their best receiver after Edelman. And he's priced in a way that makes it really, really easy. Hi, Fitz. Do you think that Sunoo is one of the best bets for like a sleeper? per play for daily fantasy in the playoffs?

When we get to the playoffs, Sunu's going to be in my lineup every week. I think that Sunu is, everyone's going to remember that he's actually a really good number two receiver for that team, and that will immediately be a factor in the divisional round, assuming they get the buy this week, which they will. He does so much of what they need to do.

I think that he's, I'll be like, oh, the key to unlock their offense. But it's a great blockers, good rat runner, and he's just been hobbled with an ankle injured. I think that, you know, two weeks from now when they're playing, and he's going to be fully healthy, it'll be great. Fendal lineup of the week. Is it time? Let's do it. Let's do it. All right. Well, I wanted Robert Griffin the third, and I was overruled because,

D.K., is like, we should use a starting quarterback who won't get benched for Maple Marbles Mixorley or whatever. So you know, why don't you read the lineup this week since we couldn't do Robert Griffin, D.K.? How about that? I've never, I've literally never seen you more sad than I said I don't want to start RG3. It's week 17. Who gives a shit? I want to put. I want to root for Robert Griffin the third. Let's do three lineups. We'll do one with Robert. Griffin the third. We'll do the one that you sent.

And then that'll make you happy. And then we'll actually make money with this one. But that's fine. And so anyways, we're going to do, this is the official Dantasy pod one. But Danny, you can read your lineup after this. How about that? Yeah, sure. Okay.

We're going with Carson Wentz, going up against the Giants. And Danny, what do you think about that Giants defense? It's not good. You're so sad. Okay, Carson Wentz, 7,700, going up against the 30th ranked Giants defense, going up with Aaron Jones, as we mentioned earlier. You know, just tons and tons of touchdown upside, really, really good runner. Going up against a very bad Lions rush defense, so we like that match up a lot. Marlon Matt going up against the Jaguars, 31st against the running backs this year, 7300.

Jags are mailing it in at this point, so we kind of like that one. Craig mentioned schools out energy for like the Falcons and Bucks. There is no team in football that has more like school is out energy just surrounding them than the Jacksonville Jaguars. It is just they are. Just get to the offseason. Yeah. Yeah. We're going with Cortland Sutton, receiver going up against the Raiders whose past defense has really been struggling.

And we kind of like that upside with Sutton. Obviously, you know, getting Drew Locke in there adds a little bit of excitement for that offense. but mostly we just don't love the Raiders defense. So that's our first receiver. Second receiver, A.J. Brown. Clearly last week, I think he was shadowed by Marshawn Latimer, so that definitely hurt his upside in terms of the passing game. He still managed to get loose for a big jailbreak touchdown.

Just a beast going up against Houston, whose past defense has been really suspect. And so we like that one a lot. And then Deonti Johnson, who we talked about earlier on, 6,000, going against the Ravens, are likely to wrestle a lot of their starters in the second half, so we kind of like that matchup too. All right, and then to finish out the lineup,

at tight end, we got Tyler Higbee. Again, he's just been awesome, and he's going up against the Arizona Cardinals' tight end defense, which has been really, really atrocious all season. At running back, we got, sorry, at Flex, we got running back Gus Edwards, again, with Mark Ingram sitting in this game. Edwards is he figures to get a lot of volume.

We like that one. And then at defense, we got the jets going up against the bills who could sit their starters later in the game. So we're kind of just banking on the Jets playing sort of like the JV Bills lineup this week. So that's our lineup. Craig, I want to hear this Buck's Falcons lineup. I have to hear this.

Quarterback, James Winston, running back, Devante Freeman, and Ronald Jones, wide receivers, Julio Jones, Justin Watson, and Russell Gage, tight end, my nemesis, Austin Hooper, Flex, Brashad Paraman, defense, Atlanta Falcons. I kind of love it. That leaves you with $900. That's pretty close.

Wow. I kind of love it. All right, Danny, are you going to read yours? Are you going to read your RG3? No, no, it's fine. R. B.33 is just going to be great, and then I'm just going to be really petty about it. Actually, no, I don't like that. That sounds all right.

Wow. No, no. I wanted Robert Griffin, and I wanted to use the $700 that we saved for on other things. This is why we can't have nice things. I was on a plane when you guys built this lineup, and I can't believe that None of you have anyone playing for James Winston. It is insane. That doesn't make any sense.

This is his last game of a historic season. Are you kidding me? I mean, yes. You are, you're actually very right, so I appreciate that. You know what? I side with Craig.

I'm rolling with Craig's lineup this week. That's where I'm throwing my way. I'm on Craig's Buck's Falcon stack. So, so sad right now. That's all we got for the regular season right there. Wow. So long regular season.

Next time we'll be coming at you. next Friday, we'll be doing a DFS lineup for the wildcard weekend, and we'll be going through the playoffs. Exciting. Good season. Hey, good season, guys. Nice season. Good work.

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