November 18, 2025 • 53 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:34):
Welcome in too.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
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in the National Football League. We'll get to the reasons
why in just a bit. We do have a quick
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Roddy Underscore. But hopefully everything is squared away, unlike my
fantasy team that is not. In Week eleven, the Long
Term League took quite a hit. I was one of
the many people who got Josh Allen this past weekend.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Mike Buccaneers Bills was the.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Exciting points of palooza, which, by the way, I completely.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Struck out on.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I may even skip the report cards at the end
because of how bad it was.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
But I got plenty. I got a lot of red
on my barn.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
All right, all right, outside of all outs out of
the Buffalo and Tampa.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Yeah, kind of a funky week with not as much
scoring as we would have hoped.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Around the NFL, A lot of field goal kickers, So
if you still have a kicker in your league, then
maybe you were excited there. You know, you're Cairo Santos
of the world and all I mean, you know in
Seattle a bunch of field goals there, and you know
Pittsburgh put up a big point total. Jacksonville in a
very odd game against the Charge Like that was just
a weird follow Yeah, just the ebb and flow of
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that game. A couple of dicker Field goals or all
you got on the Chargers side. But you know, Houston,
Tennessee is sixteen thirteen. The Carolina Atlanta game was insane.
Anybody see Bryce Young going for four hundred plus, No,
he had one two hundred yard game coming into this week,
for crying out loud, Green Bay and the Giants was
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just an extreme game where suddenly it broke through a
bit to at least get you into the winner circle,
perhaps if you're in Jordan, love with your QB. Finished
eighth for the week, and then the happy return of
Brock Purty. But yeah, I mean, just some weirdness overall.
And I'm looking at like the leaders position by position,
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and you're just like, that's not how we drew it
up for week eleven. Some strange bedfellows certainly at this point,
and normally that happens where we have a lot of
bye weeks, but between injuries and just some funky matchups,
it escalated quickly.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I also think division matchups played a little bit.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Of a role in this sure, right, Yeah that makes
sense because there's a little bit more at stake. Not
that teams don't want to score touchdowns in those situations,
but you know a little bit more about the other team,
and think that happened and Bears Vikings.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
I know what.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Happened in Texans Titans. I just I mean, that's a
sixteen thirteen ballgame. And I understand Davis Mills is the
quarterback of the Texans, but he's not the he's Davis
Mills is fine for what he is. Davis Mills is fine.
Mentioned Seahawks and Rams as well. Of that twenty one
nineteen matchup. I think that played a played a role
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in some of it, so it was difficult to maybe
get on track.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Now.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Not all division matchups were like that. You mentioned forty
nine Ers Cardinals, a high scoring affair and a Price
Young story.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
For four hum yards, I got Bryce Young and Jacoby Brissett. Yeah,
for four hundred yards, that's what I was gonna says
Harrison Junior.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
No, No, Michael Wilson ended up being the play for
the car Entrey McBride obviously, But the pickup of Michael
Wilson and the fifteen catches for one eighty five, of course,
those always happened in losing efforts. But you know, I'll
let me just stick right there. You know, we like
to go around in week twelve and or in week eleven,
excuse me, and maybe look ahead to week twelve and
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what could happen in week thirteen. But when I look
at Jacoby Brissett and what he's done as the Cardinals quarterback,
I've been on a bit of a rotating basis because
of Joe Burrow's injury. Like Jacoby Brissett now, depending on
matchup wise, is starting to become at least a solid option,
one much more viable than you would get from you know,
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say someone like to a tongue of my Lowe who's
probably out there on the waiver wire.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Five starts for Jacoby Brissett, nineteen point four points are
better in.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
All of them.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Wow, that's a stat.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
How about that? So he's you have a buy in
the middle there, But twenty one point seven, nineteen point eight,
twenty four point eight, nineteen point four and twenty three
point nine.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Hmm, it's throwing two touchdown passes in every single start.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
So now you look at the offense, and I know
we had the stat. I think it was two weeks
ago where we'd looked at the point differential was nearly
six points per game better with him over Kyler Murray,
and obviously Trey McBride is absolutely feasted. We had that
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in the podcast and some of the rambling I did
on Sunday Morning with with Greg Cosel of just how
instrumental McBride has been in the connection he and per set,
because last year we watched a lot of Trey McBride
in the red zone. He was invisible and now you're like, well,
is that one of those I hate doing the hype
thing as a short fire plug of a man myself,
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but where Kyler Murray just can't see him and doesn't
trust him. Yeah, right, So like that it begets some
of those kind of discussions of well, why is this
guy so dominant here? He's like, well, oh there, it's fixed.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
It's it's crazy. It the the Kyler Murray era has
gotta be over. Whether they think, you know, Jacoby Brissett's
the guy or whatever, but it's it's obviously it's obviously
done with. But to think that he could go back
there throw for you know, four hundred and fifty some
yards and have forty seven completions forty seven to fifty
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seven ties. It's an NFL regular season record. Ben Roethlisberger
had forty seven completions in a playoff game a few
years back for the Steelers that was also in a loss.
But just yeah, just even even the if efficiency of
how he's doing it is remarkable.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Yeah, just absolutely insane. I mean to look at a
week eleven on the grand scale, right, we talked about
the oddity of it all. Going off the Fantasy pros scoring.
You had four quarterbacks top twenty points this week, Brissette
Prescott and the Monday Nighter with his throws against the Raiders,
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Bryce Young and Josh Allen with his six pack forty
four point seven points. But then you get Fields and
Purty tied for fifth at nineteen point three, and then
it starts drifting. You're at sixteen points before we're out
of the qb ones.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Yeah, I was.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
I was ticked at Drake Main only gave me fifteen
in our Guillotine League. I'm like, well, Jess, like Justin
Herbert and Lamar Jackson and so the others like, I
guess it wasn't as bad as I thought.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
I'll tell you what you know that begets a larger thing.
If we want to go there, and you mentioned Lamar Jackson.
There's a guy that is playing what at seventy percent?
He does not look anywhere near the Lamar Jackson were
used to. Right. An early run finished with four carries
for ten yards. Right, and one of those things when
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you're playing a team like Cleveland that's always been in
the arsenal. All right, this guy's gonna overrun his pursuit,
and all of a sudden there's Lamar slipping out the
back door for a ten yard gain, moving the chains
that did not exist in Sundays hell. The fact that
they were using Mark Andrews as they did one of
my favorite plays I think I've seen in football history.
And if I can get a sport Flix card that
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shows that little pirouett he does to get to the
outside for that game winning run, I'd buy that in
a minute. But by the way, you didn't see that
on your Bengo card. But Mark Andrews game winning touchdown run.
Oh it was a goal line. No, actually, it's a
really nifty move. But if Lamar Jackson's healthy, you're telling
me he's not doing that himself or trying. So I
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mean the fact that those plays have all come in
in short yardage in the bag and Derrick Henry's a
terrible short yardage runner. But you know, for Lamar Jackson,
I'm nervous about playing week to week at this point.
If that running element is gone, that's a tough play.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Yeah, And ultimately it's one of the things that is
the reason why I still am just not buying in.
Like we can have this conversation about who the Ravens
are and where the Ravens are going to be at
the end of the season in the AFC North, I
just know where they're not going to be in February,
and that's.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
In the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Like it's just sure, you know, you know, like it's
because they're just they're they're not that team. And if
it's not Lamar doing what he's doing, and then they're
just they're they're not going to go places. Plus there's
just other really good teams in the a f C
and and there are really good teams that are going
to be on the outside looking in, and the Ravens
may be one of those squads, but right now in
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that in that log jam, Yeah, the the Ravens may
have gotten a win. Heck, I hate to say it,
but even if you're struggling with Cleveland to that point,
you know, no, right that who tells you, you know
a little something that they needed to they needed Dylan
Gabriel to get knocked out and should or Sanders to
come in and have those factors end up, you know,
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falling their place to leave with a touchdown victory on.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Sunday, succeed and proceed, Yes.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Yes, absolutely, and then the red gigs that you mentioned.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Sorry, Ian, but Justin Fields gets benched.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
You know, compared to everybody else in week eleven, Justin
Fields is not too bad fantasy wise, but he just
doesn't have a job going into week twelve.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
Real life wise though. It's about time, right, But that's.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
The hard part. Like Smith and I talked about it
a little bit on our show Monday Night on the Network,
and it's just the there's those couple plays a game
where his athleticism shines through, right, and it's like that
he's that guy and Dan you know this going back
to his time in Ahow State me watching him with
the Bears. There are times and possessions where you're enamored
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and like, okay could work right and this could be
and go back to he had two years with the Bears.
There's like thirty some odd touchdowns. His touchdown interceptionation was
about two and a half to one. That's great. Completed
about sixty percent of his passes even last year with
the Steelers sixty five percent completion rate, career best five
touchdowns at a pick, so takes care of the football.
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You'd like him to maybe put it in harm's way
every once in a while, just so you can move
the chains. But there's no dynamism at this point, and
he misses that easy throw that would convert for a
first down. He's sailing it over the guy's head or
bouncing it at his feet, and you're just like, what
where this is your five?
Speaker 5 (11:41):
He looks pretty mentally broken at this point. I think
he needs a full mental reset. Whether it's two nets
or another team, just sit on the bench and just
get get your mental right, because there's something he's just
not seeing the field. He holds the ball forever, he
even even his superpower and running, he's not even doing
it at the same level as he used to.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
So through you know, Mike mentioned at Ohio State. And
that's what I honestly feel it's because of his first
season in Columbus in twenty nineteen, hor he threw thirty
nine touchdowns and had three interceptions that I was still
holding on to hope that that's the reason that he
could be the guy. But it's funny because I'm going
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to use Justin Fields in this example. Is Justin Fields
was such a highly touted recruit out of Georgia, right,
five star, highest rated, you know, recruit up to a
certain point that even went to Ohio State. And that's
considering everybody that came before him at the time, he
was the highest rated Buckeye player ever coming out of
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high school, even though he went to Georgia. First in
Ohio State. The point is is he was amazing coming
out of high school. How many stories do we have
of guys who go to high school, you know, are
five star athletes and don't even make it in college, Right,
Like I think that's a story?
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Like I don't. I think, Yeah, it's it's what it is.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
He's not going to make it in the National Football League.
It's not gonna work out. He's not gonna be a
starting quarterback. If he wants to be a you know,
a bench you know, backup quarterback at some point teams
want to use certain packages with him.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
That's what it's gonna be.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
The role that he played with the Steelers last year
is probably the best that it's ever gonna be in
his career and probably his future in.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
The National Football League.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
BEFO, we're being honest, Yeah, I mean, it's it's a
nice career and he can carve out. I mean, look
at look at how many guys end up starting games,
right if you had him for two to three week
stopgap guy, like in one of the perfect scenarios as
we were talking about Baltimore, is you know, in that
offense similar whatever you and you can move him in
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in and out as a decoy with with Lamar and whatever.
But it's coming off of those huge I mean, look
at look at what we're doing right now. Every throw
that arch Manning takes THEO what we do with you know,
not to the same level, but a little bit with
Bryce Young who had this big game right, he and
McMillan have what they're got going. But on the other side,
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we don't talk a lot about the Titans, but when
we do it's man, what's with cam Ward? Right, and
trying to figure that out, and these are the top prospects,
the number one picks whatever, and going on down the line.
We asked that question a lot about Pennix, right, and
last week he did that press conference which was still
really awkward. Now he's probably done for a year plus
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they're saying partially torn acl but another guy was a
top prospect, got hurt a couple of times, still got
that big deal. By the way, the Rams have their
first round pick for next next year. So add that
to the hey, we're gonna get out of this and
maybe not quite so fast. But it's the Captain Kirk
era now. But but all of that to say, like
we do that right where it's the white hot, we're
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introduced to these guys, and then what it doesn't hang
and work out in the pros. Some of it is
where you end up being drafted. The other is sometimes
it's just you know, go and beat it. See doesn't work?
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Yeah, yeah, you know what's so interesting about that Rams
Falcons pick, and remember the Jaguars in the Trevor to
get Travis Hunter traded their first round pick to Cleveland.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Was we thought, you know, at.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
The NFL Draft in April, we thought that the NFL
Draft in twenty twenty six was going to be littered
with quarterbacks, right, just an array of possible new arms
coming to the National Football League. It was actually one
of the reasons, aside from just how dumb of a
deal it was for the Falcons to do, was really
smart for the Rams to do. Bring back Matthew Stafford
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for a year, maybe to figure it out, whatever however
you want to do it, and you can maybe draft
your quarterback of the future with that other first round pick.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
And now it's not likely.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
To turn out that way with the way that the
quarterback field has gone in college football in twenty twenty six,
but at the time it looked like the Rams were
maybe going to get their.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Arm of the future.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
And maybe not so much the case, but bad trade
by the Falcons and the season's even make air, making
it even worse.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Well, now they'll get the arm of the future with
their own pick at a better value. Yeah, well by
adding another defensives rusher something ft seven.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Right, Yes, And for a team that hated draft picks, well,
they're pretty good at making them.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
I'll tell you that much Joe question about it?
Speaker 3 (16:19):
All right, we'll take a time out here look more
at week twelve. Mike Harman, it's a big time home
runs and his ninjas and hot plays and gold scores
and rankings and so much more. And we'll even Roddy
and myself will review our streaming defenses and points a
paloose up. Plus, we've got some more buys coming up,
back to a fourteen bye week in week twelve, something
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we'll dive into and maybe some replacements with some waiver
wires at the end.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
That's all coming up next here, and I want your.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Flex rolling on here on I want your flex hit
Mike up at Swollen Dome. You can find me at
Dan Byer on Fox and Ian Roddy, our executive producer
at Ian Roddy underscores. We can take a look back
at week twelve. Talked about some of the highs and
some of the lows. My takeaway from week twelve, guys,
is actually more of a question to Mike, not only
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just for the fantasy info, but because it's with his
quarterback Caleb Williams. I think that we are a little
bit mesmerized by the Bears right now with their winning
streaks seven and three mark atop the NFC North and
we see the dramatics in their victories and no doubt
what they did in Cincinnati and against the Giants was impressive.
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I played Caleb Williams this past weekend after unfortunately having
him on the bench the last two weekends, and it
was more of the Caleb Williams of before.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Is there reason to have concern?
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Is this an NFC North thing that I thought maybe
earlier because of the division matchups? Is Caleb Williams back
to being a roller coaster fantasy football starting quarterback?
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Yeah? I think he's a roller coaster and I think
he's matchup dependent. And we've talked about it a bit
in the larger football context, and certainly I've tried like
it's not great for radio because it's not hot take nonsense. Right,
he's the greatest thing ever Well with Bears quarterbacks, that
don't take much to jump to the top of that
Tota Bowl, right, given the history of the position there.
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It's winning football, it's growth, it's everything of a new
system under Ben Johnson and a new approach to playing
the game. Like, the greatest thing you could say is
he's not taking terrible sacks. He's not thinking he can
outrun a blitzing linebacker to get to the edge. No,
get rid of the ball. See another down right, which
he did not do a year ago, was all right,
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I'm gonna hold on to it. Hold on to it
so I can put it in harm's way. So that's
great for touchdowns to interception ratios, that's great, and a
lot of people, Hey, look at that interceptionless streak. That
means you didn't try to push the ball down the field.
And you look at his shot chart, it was abysmal.
This year, it's better. There are more of those, but overall,
you know, you're talking about a guy top three in
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snaps from their play action. I bet you probably couldn't
find twenty of those last year right under that offense
or going back to his days at USC. So it's
it's just a different way and still learning the game.
Still not gonna put the ball in harm's way with
great regularity. So there's gonna be matchups where it works
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and matchups where it goes horribly horribly wrong. Pittsburgh's kind
of in that weird spot. Which of their pass rushes
shows up right in this next matchup, and then you've
got Philadelphia and green Bay. Oh in Cleveland, well, their
offense sucks, and they might get a couple of short
fields depending on whether it's Gabriel or Sanders, right, Sanders
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will take more shots downfield, happy Jerry Judy owners, but
in terms of potential turnovers, more of that. And then
you got Green Bay again. So Pittsburgh's got a question
mark to where maybe he's borderline back end QB one,
But then you got four straight weeks that I would
be reticent to put him anywhere near a fantasy lineup.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Yeah, And it's interesting because coming into this week in
my long term league, in our scoring system, he was
a ninth so far on the season.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
So if you're in a.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Even if you're in a ten team in league like
I am, he's I look at the top ten and
be like, all right, here's here's a guy that's starting
quarterback caliber. But when you when I when I watch
the Bears, I look at them and like Caleb Williams
throwing the ball isn't the Even watching the Colts a
little bit, you're like, Okay, Daniel Jones will just get
his in the passing game and the Bears need to
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seem to work hard for it, but they're really running
the ball well, at least it feels that way to me.
And Caleb Williams is most impressive honestly when he's just
on the move and scrambling. Now, you may have to
end up throwing the ball away, but some of the
sacks that he ends up, you know, e looting mic
maybe the most impressive portion of his game.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Right now, that's it. You could do the whole berminism whoops, yeah,
excited ut or it says currently number ten in terms
of Fantasy qbs for total points on the year. But
I think you're exactly right right when he's on the run.
I mean, he's got the Howard swer of an arm,
so he's going to be able to put it wherever
he wants on the field. Now, accuracy issues were still
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timing and all of that stuff still part of the
new look offense. Again, back at USC it was just
throwing up in a general direction. One of those guys
was running under it right at least in the Heisman year,
and then you look at last year was just an
abject failure all around. You had coaches getting fired and
disappeared you had the obvious eber flu should have never
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been allowed to come back for that year one. Not
that you can give it a complete mulligan, but you're
trying to unlearn anything that was impartant there for Ben Johnson,
and I think they've struck a pretty good bargain that
there will be better days. I just don't think they
happen until twenty twenty six. They've got enough of a
personnel and a defense that takes the ball away a ton,
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but it's it's gonna be so difficult, like this next stretch,
just laying out that, and even in the final when
you get into the playoff weeks, San Francisco is sitting
there at the back end, even without Bosa uh and Warner,
there's there's still a pretty good unit. Thanks it's after
it for Robert Salas so Uh, that's it's a no
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fly zone. So it's one of those I think I'd
grabbed my popcorn, uh, and maybe you got to play
on the dunesday the run game. As you say, with
Swift and Manungui Uh, they're up to number two on
the year in terms of yards per game, behind Buffalo
of all teams, which is kind of weird, but you're
looking at you know, just opportunity. Sure is gonna be tough.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
I think in those situations too, you look at I mean,
Williams is mobile enough to get the yards and if
you've got the tandem like you do there. So in
Buffalo you've got Josh Allen and James Cook. When you
know when James Cook Cook is getting the football, Yeah,
it makes a sense, you know, a little bit of sense.
And one that running game is going. That stood out
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to me for a couple of reasons. Also because JJ
McCarthy just stinks like he's no good. He even with
these fourth quarter comebacks and he makes some of these
throws and it's acrobatic catches, but the football is nowhere
near where it needs to be. When you looked at
the stat lines, they weren't as different from each other.
Actually it felt like they were played completely different games.
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But the numbers, and that's what we deal with in fantasy,
were actually a little bit more similar than we would
have realized. That's what kind of stood out for me
on the bear side of things for Week twelve.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
Well, I'll take that other side for a second. Ago
Dan McCarthy, how many did he leave on the field,
I mean Addison a couple of times, Jefferson like just
go and down checking the boxes of wide open receivers.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
I there is a TikTok and I gosh, I could
I could give the person credit.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
They did. They did the top five worst throws of
week eleven.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
You saw that too, I do, because he actually does
it every week. But he but he chooses a different
player to sort of and it's like, yeah, it's it's
just yeah, and coming in at number five, it's JJ
McCarthy with this throw.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
To coming in at number four.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
It's JJ McCarthy who had this throw coming at number three.
It's actually gonna be JJ McCarthy coming in all the
way down to number one.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Uh he did drop a JJ nine because of that
stupid alter ego.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Crap, Oh my goodness, but yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
That was he probably gott to really find who this
guy is because I gotta, oh, here it is, all right,
sure enough, Uh lewis fantalize.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
That's that's who it is. That's great.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
But JJ JJ McCarthy got the uh got the ribbing
in in week eleven. But all right, but justin Jefferson,
I've got shares and that's that's a frustrating proposition.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
That's just yeah, man, you look at him and at
this point, it's it's tough, like he's he's a w
R two based on his quarterback like and normally we
could say, okay, you've got opportunities count Well, we watched
him get open repeatedly against a pretty good secondary. Right,
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the Bears are banged up a little bit, but I mean,
Jefferson should have had a monster game, Addison should have
had a monster game, and they they didn't in a
plus spot because that's the one thing the Bears have
been I mean, they've been opportunistic with the turnovers. But
you can move the ball on him, like we've watched
it all year long and he just missing wide open throws. Now,
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will that get better? I'm sure as hell not. Wait around,
Like we're talking about fantasy trade deadline coming up, I
think i'd be looking justin Jefferson's last double digit game
came before their like the last five weeks. You got
one that's right on the border of ten.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Yeah, the touchdown, like and they got like forty yards.
It gets the Lions.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
Yeah, that's it. Otherwise we're talking seven nine, seven four three, seven, six,
one like and even before that. I mean, obviously it's
a rough year. He's currently twenty ninth, or he was
twenty ninth this week, I should say, for the year.
When we we go on down the line and you know,
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looking at half PPR for the year, I mean he's
still at sixteen. Great, so you know, barely double digits
for a couple of those, but that's in. You know,
when you're adding starting to add in the points per suf,
you're just looking at it from a straight you know,
what kind of output are we getting. You're not getting much?
Speaker 2 (26:49):
No, not at all. T J.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Hopkinson's value dropped. Anything that Jordan Addison had has gone
out the window. You know, Jalen Naylor had a couple
of catches the week prior, but you're not playing him
at all. There's just no reason to to play anybody
in that receiving core.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Well, I mean, we're gonna play Justin Jefferson.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
But yeah, yeah, right, remember when Jordan Mason was running
like running over people that Aaron Jones comes back and
it's like, all right, Jordan Mason is your five carries?
Speaker 5 (27:17):
Well got the worst part, the worst part about all
of it is that they could have had Sam Darnold,
as we know, and we've talked about, they could have
had Daniel Jones, they could have had Aaron Rodgers this offseason,
and they passed on all of those to.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
See what the Rogers was in the mix too.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
And this is a win now football team. It's not
like this is a team that's, you know, structured to
see what you have in a young quarterback. It's structured
to win the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Dare I say a cheating scandal that aided the Michigan
Wolverines and screwed the rest of college football also screwed
the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
Done Dune, done, nicely done. It's all Jim Harball's fault, right,
He's also the guy that hyped up JJ McCarthy called
him the college court terbacky.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Yes, correct, when they probably should have had three or
four losses in that but they knew everybody's plays. Anyway,
moving on, what stood up for you guys in Week eleven?
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Well, I think you know the strange bedfellows when we
start talking about the point totals. The quarterback position is
just such a mess. Right, we're already at that point.
It's week twelve, when we're into what are we have
fifty some odd starters right as we get ready for
week twelve, and we look at Shador Sanders, we look
at Kirk Cousins coming back with no Drake London to
throw to you. Yay, that'll be thrilling as they ride
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that losing streak. I mean, is good to see Brock
perty and Ricky piersoll back, so maybe you're feeling better.
I mean, George Kittle has a monster game, so perhaps
with Purty under center, they feel better with Kittle being
a receiver rather than staying home to block as we've
seen him in weeks past. Not that you didn't get
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decent returns, but maybe this unleashes him for the second
half of the year. But overall, just the unevenness of
the quarterback position, which is so vital to the flow
of everything, Like it's just so erratic at this point
on a week to week basis that it's going to
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make for a really interesting stretch run. And especially as
we're looking at Guilletine leagues, what those winning leagues look like,
in the winning teams look like at the end that
are able to survive, And obviously it's a bastardization, you know,
in the process as you're picking up guys off dead
teams and all. So maybe you know some of that
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just budget budgeting really plays that big a role. But
I think we're going to see some really wild teams
of guys that emerged in these final weeks that are
going to take home prizes all over the place.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
You know, this week, somebody's got to replace Justin Herbert
in their starting lineup because of the bye week by
that the Chargers have. The week thirteen is going to
be a full week. NFL doesn't give any buys during
the Thanksgiving week, But we jump over to week fourteen,
which is the end of the regular season for many leagues.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
You know, Drake May is going to be on the
bench at that point.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
So it's almost like the quarterbacks that you're wondering, you know,
take one step lower now because you're going to be
sands a quarterback or some teams are going to be
in week fourteen something to by the way, mark your
calendars and look ahead to. But yeah, it has been
a it has been a messed up year. Even Daniel Jones,
they're coming off of their bye is kind of come
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back down to earth. You know, I mentioned him earlier
and just in watching him play like he you know,
his yards do come easier than Caleb Williams do in
the air. But it's not the crazy stuff that we
saw earlier on in the season for you know, from
someone like Jones either.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Yeah, at least a little higher floor. But yeah, your
point's well taken, right, the heroics of early season, and
we'll see what happen happens with Jonathan Taylor down the stretch.
I'm hoping he's a monster all the way through Week
eighteen and into the playoffs, running wild like mid eighties
Hulkamanian What the ww was? That'd be great our WWF
still at that time. But all of that to say,
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if suddenly Taylor falls off, does it tank everything? Right?
I mean, so we look at that. I mean, you
look at the quarterback position where we stand points to date,
Alan Drake may Patrick Mahomes is still third despite two
dog games in a row. That's how good he was early.
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Justin Herbert's fourth four point three points in Week eleven
against the Jaguars. Bo Nix is fifth, the guy everybody hates.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Yeah, and of your big five that we had at
the start, of the Year. Well, Jayden Daniels hurt, Joe
Burrow's obviously been hurt, Jalen Hurt's not there, and Lamar
has been hurt, and so it's just been Josh Allen.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
Yeah, still got himself back up to seven. But you've
got a couple of big games that prop the rest
of it up right. And that's the thing I think
a little bit with bow Knicks as well, is you've
got two or three starts that really helped to carry that.
But the point being, yeah, the the guys that we
expected to be bell cows for us and to help
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lead the fantasy realm. And this goes back to, you know,
starting to look at draft twenty twenty six because we'd
had that trend where people were starting to reach out
for their quarterbacks a little bit earlier. Maybe maybe that
recedes a little bit.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Yeah, if hey, if Bryce Young is gonna throw for
four hundred and fifty yards for you, right.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
Thirty one point eight points. He had two games over
ten and a half before, oh, No, three games over
ten and a half. One of them was a thirteen.
He had a twenty two point three and nineteen point
five and a thirteen before this thirty.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Did it last year though, right, The Panthers turned it
on at the end of the year, right, and now
they're they're a six win team, but they're ninth right
now in the NFC, I think when you're talking about
the playoffs standings and where they stand, so they're there. Yeah,
there's still some work to do, but division could be
could be in the grass ian. What stood out to
you in Week.
Speaker 5 (33:16):
Eleven, guys, the Chiefs they lost to the Broncos that
division game. They're now four games back in the division,
so that was kind of the biggest thing that stood
out to me. Is they play the Colts this coming week,
so I think we can all agree that's a pretty
losable game for the Chiefs. Not like it's you know,
guaranteed they're going to but they're at a real risk
of dropping a five and six on the season, which
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is actually just absurd considering that, what haven't they won
that division for the past nine years running. I think
it is something like that. So yeah, that was that
was the biggest thing that stood out to me. It's
just the Chiefs are like genuinely entering panic mode now.
Speaker 4 (33:52):
Well and for fantasy purposes, right, you got the game
from Travis Kelcey. But and I know the Broncos are great,
but no, no or ten yet Rice is Well, it's
six sketches thirty eight yards.
Speaker 5 (34:04):
Yeah, and like you said, Mahomes had another just disappointing game.
It's uh yeah, I'm just the concept of the Chiefs
missing the playoffs is pretty absurd to me.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
And they've lost their tiebreaker to Jacksonville.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
That too, that too, they have multiple time breakers Buffalo too.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
So, and those teams are gonna be in the wild
card picture because Patriots right out top of the AFC
East and the Colts atop the the AFC South. The
funny thing was this actually felt like a Colts excuse me,
a Chiefs fantasy game because you mentioned the Travis Kelcey stuff.
But it's also the reason when you mentioned Rashid Rice. Yeah,
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he's his favorite target or second favorite target, but you
don't have six for thirty eight.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Yeah, and you know, and they're gonna be plays for him, but.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
You're not gonna get You're never gonna get those ti
rekill numbers that you got. That's not who Rashi Rice is.
And I don't know if that's who the Chiefs want
to be. He also threw to like ten different receivers
in that game against Denver, so I had a bad interception.
By the ways, they were all former homes yeaheah.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
Well, and they had one taken off the board too, right,
they had to pick six got off. So yeah, I
mean yeah, from a football and fantasy bridge right there,
I mean that's a good point. We're just in that
weird spot nine straight. Denver won five straight before the
Chiefs went on their run.
Speaker 5 (35:35):
Denver's got it comfortable lead. Now they're two games ahead
of Chargers who were in second.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
So yeah, and I mean they and they lost to
the Chargers earlier this year, but they play them in
Denver on their return trip. So not only with that
that lean there's there's already a game and while they
have lost it, if you win this next one, you
kind of have it. I don't want to say it's
totally wrapped up because there is a return matchup for
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the Broncos at Arrowhead, So if the Chiefs do go
on a streak, but yeah, if you're denveran to your
point about the comfort of it could be a lot
comfortable if you beat the Chargers at home, you're any different.
Speaker 5 (36:14):
Chargers team your super Bowl tick Denver Broncos.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Yeah, how about that.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
It's still a lot of football to be played. But
you know, the defense has been has been pretty good.
I don't know what they're going to do offensively without JK. Dobbins.
And you know, I've been reported all week that it
was likely a long term injury, that he was not
going to be able to play for the Broncos definitely
against the Chiefs and was headed to IR Now it sure,
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it seems like it's a season ender, So step on
up our J Harvey right now.
Speaker 4 (36:42):
Once again for JK. Dobbins.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Yeah right, yeah, and he goes.
Speaker 4 (36:49):
On that list of guys that we've seen flashes. But
you know what could have.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
Been, Yeah, absolutely, you almost wish for him they would
have just held him out of the first seven games
and then said play these rest instead of Yeah, you know,
it carried the workload for a lot of the season,
but it's just, yeah, another another injury for him. All right,
We're going to take a time out here on I
want your flax. Take a look at the report cards
from week eleven. Plus, Mike's got some waiver wire names
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that you got to look at for week twelve, that's
all coming up next to here on I want your flas.
All right, we start with Mike Carmen. We're gonna end
with Mike Carmen as well with some waiver wire. But Mike,
what'd you get right in week eleven on the report card?
Speaker 4 (37:30):
Well, we're gonna start. I mean really, I'm just gonna
say we had Sean Tucker as a ninja and I
just got to drop a microphone after that.
Speaker 5 (37:37):
That's a big one.
Speaker 4 (37:38):
I'm going to take that victory lap top runner of
the week for us, so I appreciate the love there.
The running back position treated us pretty well. As for
the top five finished as RB Ones McCaffrey second, eight,
Chan was eleventh. Josh Jacobs unfortunately got hurt, so we've
got that one. As we look forward, Gibbs was in
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the right spot at four, and I'm sorry Bijon was
at four. He finished in the right spot, and James
Cook finished eighth, So we take a victory lap at
the running back position. Quarterback Josh Allen was third. The
other guys, well, they all failed me. I already called
out Patrick Mahomes, so I don't need to pile on there.
Lamar Jackson was a bit of a counter and two
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to play at the back end of the top five.
He did me nothing and all that expectation for Sunday
night football. I mean, come on, Jalen Hurts, come on Eagles, like,
what are we doing here? I mean a fun game
if you like defense, but didn't didn't quite get it there,
but we survive. Nico Collins was a top five wide receiver,
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so Davis Mills may not be good for your fantasy team,
but he will target his guy repeatedly. We had Dak
and Brock Purdy as hot plays. Maybe Dak was too
bit of a big of a chalk, but we're gonna
take it. George Pickens there as well, giving us some love.
Lad mcconkee top fifteen. Waddle finished as a top ten
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in that Spain game that started the day. I'll take
an L on Derrick Henry taken l on Jordan Love.
They were in the cold sore list victory and Sam Darnold.
I didn't want it. I wanted them to win that
game because I want chaos. And for you, Dan, of course,
I mean, and you still almost pulled it off.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
I know.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
I hate to say it, Well, but I'm going to
because nobody else said it. I've been calling it for weeks. Turnovers,
they're gonna show up.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
You know.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
How come I know that because they have been showing
up every single game. And it caught four interceptions. Four interceptions. Yeah,
and they needed a punt to go out at the
half millimeter line at the end of the game. If
it would have been maybe a yard closer, maybe a
couple of yards closer, it's a more makeable field goal
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than the sixty one yarder.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
But oh well, it's a very strange world.
Speaker 6 (40:00):
But he goes, did you guys see that punt? Did
you see that punt of the rams Seahawks game? Yeah,
it's just I don't know how it happened with physics
and gravity and the whole shebang, but you could not
have a better coffin corner punt. And they still see
I still almost pulled it out with that and the
four turnovers.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
But a loss is a loss, that's what it is.
Speaker 4 (40:23):
But you know what, They're not all created the same.
And I love the fact that everybody picked up for him, right,
defender's cursing and.
Speaker 5 (40:32):
The like, Yeah, Ernest Jones, But I mean just that
was talking to me.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
He was talking to me.
Speaker 4 (40:40):
Well, I mean, look, a lot of folks still have
their uh they're are ready for the samny Ian knows
this going all the way back to the time in
New York, right whenever there's a game, because they did
that to Daniel Jones when he had that game against
the Steelers. You could be great for ten weeks, but
that one one one well, you know, but but there
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have been balls left on the carpet, there's no question.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
Yeah, that's the problem.
Speaker 3 (41:05):
Is the narrative has been on how great Donald has been,
and he has been great at times. But what's going
to kill them is the turnovers which have been happening.
They now lead the NFL and giveaways with twenty and
they could be the best team in the NFL that
they just cut them in half. I think they would
be unquestionably the best team in the NFL if they
just had you know, ten turnovers, which isn't crazy to
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say that would be won a game basically, you know,
through this point of the season.
Speaker 2 (41:32):
But oh well, all right, moving on other w's.
Speaker 4 (41:36):
I give you a big virtual hug, thank and some
cheese skirts l or other wins, I should say sakuon Barkley,
the aforementioned Jordanadison DK Metcalf goes well, it's DK Metcalf
at this point, and Courtland Sutton finished thirty second for
the week. Alas, we did not get the massive returns
(41:56):
from Jamis or JJ McCarthy in those respective fantasy realms,
not that I wanted JJ McCarthy selfishly to do so,
but I'm a realist again moving between the twenties and
making some plays. Some obvious throws didn't work. Rogers got hurt,
so an incomplete there, but all in solid week. We'll
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take the w and certainly the Tucker one makes me
feel better about myself for finding the diamond in the
rough as it were. But I was just curious, you know,
coming out of Week eleven, just watching results and watching
play by play and just kind of scratching my head, going,
this is where we're at in the NFL. It's very
curious space right.
Speaker 3 (42:37):
Now, and that absolutely is. But we're also hitting the
home stretch. We're almost at that two thirds spot in
the season, and now we're starting we're gonna have some
really good games. You know, the NFL does set it
up where like mid November, like after this Thanksgiving, like
through December.
Speaker 2 (42:56):
We've got some really good.
Speaker 3 (42:57):
Especially marquee games, so it should be should be a
fun stretch, maybe a little better than what we've had
with some of this malaise as of late streaming defenses.
Speaker 2 (43:07):
For Ian Roddy, how did those turn out in Week eleven?
Speaker 5 (43:10):
Yeah, not bad.
Speaker 4 (43:10):
It was a pretty good week.
Speaker 5 (43:11):
Chicago Bears were the first one. They allowed seventeen points
to nine in the vikings, but JJ McCarthy, who is nine,
he threw two interceptions to them, so that helped. And
then the Dallas Cowboys were the other one on Monday
Night Football. They had a pretty nice defensive performance, had
sixteen points allowed, They had an interception for sacks and
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got that safety as well. So pretty successful week for
streaming defenses. But we will look to carry it over
into next week.
Speaker 3 (43:39):
Well, I took a giant fus with my points at
Palooza of at being the Lions and Eagles, and you
couldn't get worse than that. It was not a good
decision by me. However, if you took my advice and
took the Steelers on your survivor pick, congratulations you are through.
If you really wanted to risk it and pick the dolls.
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You probably had a heart attack watching that game in Madrid,
but they got through. The other fringe one was the Falcons.
That one fell apart. But the main pick of the
week was Steelers, and Pittsburgh was able to take care
of the Bengals, especially in that second half, even without
Jalen Ramsey. True story, guys, I was at work watching
the games and I went out to get some lunch
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and I'm like, well, let me just down the street
literally three blocks. I'm like, let me look at my
phone and see how the Steelers Bengals game. And I
look at my phone and the alert from Mike Adam
Schefter says Steelers dB Jalen Ramsey has been ejected for
throwing a punch. And I'm like, great, that's where we are.
That's where we are in this contest. But for the Steelers,
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ultimately it worked out in the end, and maybe Jamar
Chase his absence in Week twelve, he is appealing that suspension.
I have no idea on why that would why they
would overturn it, but very likely Cincinnati without Jamar Chase
against the Patriots in.
Speaker 4 (44:58):
Week twelve unbelievable. That again, and it's been said a
billion times, the spitting thing. One, it's the worst, it's
it's worse than anything else you can do. But two,
thinking that in this day and age, in an NFL game,
even if it's someone in the three hundred level, someone's
getting a good shot of that.
Speaker 2 (45:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (45:19):
Right, you're not going to get away with that.
Speaker 3 (45:22):
They can find you throwing a beer on the field
from section one nineteen, roll forty two, seat eight. They're
going to see you spitting in someone's face. Yeah, yeah, Chase,
just better.
Speaker 4 (45:34):
Yeah, it's gonna cost him at half a million dollars. Yes,
just gross too, No, but that's that's just gross.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
That's respectful.
Speaker 4 (45:42):
Yeah, yeah, just you know, tell him you'll meet him
in the parking.
Speaker 3 (45:46):
Lot after the game and be done with something the
old fashioned from that. Yeah right, Well he'll be fresh
for their Thanksgiving Day game than in the Week thirteen
against the Ravens. Well we see Joe Burrow that game,
who knows, but I surezech no, we're not going to
see him in week twelve now without Jamar Chase. And
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if you continue to lose like that, what's the point
of bringing Joe Burrow back. If you're three and eight,
that's going to be the question for Zach Taylor and
everyone in Cincinnati. But all right, Mike, let's get to
the waiver wire pickups. Four teams on by Broncos, Chargers,
Dolphins and Commanders not playing in Week twelve.
Speaker 2 (46:24):
Who should we pick up?
Speaker 4 (46:25):
Well, I mean with starting Cincinnati exit Jamar Chase enter
Yoshavash Yes, is there a great upside? No, But I
mean strange bedfellows opportunity knocks as a WR three desperation
flex play. Again, you're missing a bunch of wide receivers
coming out of these four teams that are there, I mean,
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including a Deebo. Samuel Resurgence is not going to be
available for your fantasy squad this week, So you go
down that road. As we look at the quarterback position,
talk about Sam Darnold still available forty percent of leagues. Again,
we're just looking for guys that with an opportunity. Captain
Kirk against New Orleans decent spot. No Drake London so
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a bit problematic there. Gain well because of his aptitude
as a runner and receiver. We saw that a little
bit on display here and I got to imagine if
Aaron Rodgers is unavailable, we see more reliance on the
runners as runners and receivers than we've certainly seen here
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in the recent past. When we look at the we
go back to the fun and excitement that is the
Atlanta Falcons for a second. When we go down that
depth chart with no Drake London to play, well, there's
Darnel Moody. And then maybe you wonder about working in
the second unit, whether a guy like Hodge suddenly gets
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a little bit of run or something to that effect.
So maybe are sills that you know, again desperate desperation
in week two? Well, right where we're trying to find
the proverbial diamonds in the rough. Go back to the
quarterback position. Dude, we haven't had a Shador Sanders discussion yet.
We obliquely got to it a little bit earlier.
Speaker 3 (48:11):
It is a fantasy podcast, and I didn't think it
was relevant.
Speaker 4 (48:14):
Okay, fair enough, Well, I mean I look at it
from a Jerry Judy thing where we've wished and hope that,
you know, going back to the Joe Flacco part of
the season, that he can get you there. But if
shadur hasked to play like we saw that he wasn't
shy about putting it up down field. Now, whether that
leads to anything good in constructive is a whole other question.
(48:36):
But all we can speak to is opportunity here and
perhaps perhaps more than a side than anything.
Speaker 3 (48:46):
I think that you need to put him in your
ninjas no matter what, and if it hits, it hits.
Speaker 4 (48:52):
And then we just started screaming like wild men.
Speaker 3 (48:54):
Yeah, yeah, like you called it absolutely no, It's it's
one of those discussion like I just wrote him down
with a question mark.
Speaker 4 (49:03):
Yeah, of just because because we saw it right it was.
It was erratic, and it was scattershot and most often terrible.
But he was willing to put the ball downfield, something
Dylan Gabriel was never going to do.
Speaker 3 (49:17):
And there is this scenario where he will now get
reps in practice, which I know has been a hot
button topic. By the way, I understand Dylan Gabriel getting
most of the reps in a practice, especially for a
guy who's a rookie, but to not just get two
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percent of the snaps or something. I think it was
was it Wyatt Teller who said we didn't even know
his cadence right, Like we couldn't tell like that's that's
that is on the Browns in that situation. So I
don't blame him. And I know the numbers say four
and sixteen, and honestly, guys, most of the country got
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Kansas City and Denver and not everybody has the Sunday ticket.
And on the West Coast it was the Seahawks and
Rams and the Cardinals and the forty nine ers, so
those TVs were on those games. Not a lot of
the country saw shad or so they'll just go look
at the numbers and be like, well, whatever, Mike you
said it. I saw him as they were happening. The
couple of throws that he made and even went into
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the end zone that could have been a Touchdow. It
was off the mark. It was a pretty good throw,
just didn't It wasn't in the spot it needed to be. Yeah,
did show something. So there's always going to be a
conversation about it. One side's going to go too far
with their thoughts, the other side is going to go
too far with their thoughts. And it's usually somewhere in
the middle. But yeah, give them a week of practice.
Play a crappy Raiders team who knows what could happen.
Speaker 4 (50:45):
Yeah, I'm looking at it also just the fun and
the general life philosophy of find yourself. Someone is someone
in your life that will love you like some people
really stand for Shador Sanders. Sure, my goodness, but as
you say, the extremes on both ends. Michael Wilson, Even
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before Marvin Harrison Junior was out, we talked about Jacoby
Brissett and what he's done. Twenty nine targets the last
three weeks. So opportunities I mean eighteen this week, but
that's still eleven if my math is correct, So opportunity there.
We go down the roster a little bit more because
the wide receivers where we're trying to find some love
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long term play. Keep an eye on Brandon Ayuk, still
available in about seventy five percent of leagues. If you've
got a bench spot for the stretch run for the playoffs,
if he comes back, maybe maybe you got yourself a
little bit of a Hollywood ending there. But you know,
when we look at percentages the amount of stashes for
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running backs, there is not a whole lot of touches
out there on the average waiver wire. You know you're
wishing and hoping for a Brian Robinson junior, maybe a
little bit of touton, but again his workload relative to
ETNS not terribly strong. And then we look at Spears.
He goes up against Seattle, so for a one week play,
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that is not a winning combination, even if he does
get a little more of the workload.
Speaker 3 (52:17):
And hopefully it ticked off Seahawks team and that game
I for my purposes, all right, that's going to do
it here for I want your flex, We'll have a
midweek episode. We'll do it a little different this time,
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Also dive into Survivor pools.
Speaker 3 (52:34):
I give you the Survivor pick every week, so we
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And then at the end of.
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Roddy Underscore. But hopefully everything is squared away, unlike my
fantasy team that is not. In Week eleven, the Long
Term League took quite a hit. I was one of
the many people who got Josh Allen this past weekend.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Mike Buccaneers Bills was the.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Exciting points of palooza, which, by the way, I completely.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Struck out on.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I may even skip the report cards at the end
because of how bad it was.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
But I got plenty. I got a lot of red
on my barn.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
All right, all right, outside of all outs out of
the Buffalo and Tampa.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Yeah, kind of a funky week with not as much
scoring as we would have hoped.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Around the NFL, A lot of field goal kickers, So
if you still have a kicker in your league, then
maybe you were excited there. You know, you're Cairo Santos
of the world and all I mean, you know in
Seattle a bunch of field goals there, and you know
Pittsburgh put up a big point total. Jacksonville in a
very odd game against the Charge Like that was just
a weird follow Yeah, just the ebb and flow of
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that game. A couple of dicker Field goals or all
you got on the Chargers side. But you know, Houston,
Tennessee is sixteen thirteen. The Carolina Atlanta game was insane.
Anybody see Bryce Young going for four hundred plus, No,
he had one two hundred yard game coming into this week,
for crying out loud, Green Bay and the Giants was
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just an extreme game where suddenly it broke through a
bit to at least get you into the winner circle,
perhaps if you're in Jordan, love with your QB. Finished
eighth for the week, and then the happy return of
Brock Purty. But yeah, I mean, just some weirdness overall.
And I'm looking at like the leaders position by position,
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and you're just like, that's not how we drew it
up for week eleven. Some strange bedfellows certainly at this point,
and normally that happens where we have a lot of
bye weeks, but between injuries and just some funky matchups,
it escalated quickly.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I also think division matchups played a little bit.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Of a role in this sure, right, Yeah that makes
sense because there's a little bit more at stake. Not
that teams don't want to score touchdowns in those situations,
but you know a little bit more about the other team,
and think that happened and Bears Vikings.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
I know what.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Happened in Texans Titans. I just I mean, that's a
sixteen thirteen ballgame. And I understand Davis Mills is the
quarterback of the Texans, but he's not the he's Davis
Mills is fine for what he is. Davis Mills is fine.
Mentioned Seahawks and Rams as well. Of that twenty one
nineteen matchup. I think that played a played a role
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in some of it, so it was difficult to maybe
get on track.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Now.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Not all division matchups were like that. You mentioned forty
nine Ers Cardinals, a high scoring affair and a Price
Young story.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
For four hum yards, I got Bryce Young and Jacoby Brissett. Yeah,
for four hundred yards, that's what I was gonna says
Harrison Junior.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
No, No, Michael Wilson ended up being the play for
the car Entrey McBride obviously, But the pickup of Michael
Wilson and the fifteen catches for one eighty five, of course,
those always happened in losing efforts. But you know, I'll
let me just stick right there. You know, we like
to go around in week twelve and or in week eleven,
excuse me, and maybe look ahead to week twelve and
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what could happen in week thirteen. But when I look
at Jacoby Brissett and what he's done as the Cardinals quarterback,
I've been on a bit of a rotating basis because
of Joe Burrow's injury. Like Jacoby Brissett now, depending on
matchup wise, is starting to become at least a solid option,
one much more viable than you would get from you know,
(05:00):
say someone like to a tongue of my Lowe who's
probably out there on the waiver wire.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Five starts for Jacoby Brissett, nineteen point four points are
better in.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
All of them.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Wow, that's a stat.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
How about that? So he's you have a buy in
the middle there, But twenty one point seven, nineteen point eight,
twenty four point eight, nineteen point four and twenty three
point nine.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Hmm, it's throwing two touchdown passes in every single start.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
So now you look at the offense, and I know
we had the stat. I think it was two weeks
ago where we'd looked at the point differential was nearly
six points per game better with him over Kyler Murray,
and obviously Trey McBride is absolutely feasted. We had that
(05:48):
in the podcast and some of the rambling I did
on Sunday Morning with with Greg Cosel of just how
instrumental McBride has been in the connection he and per set,
because last year we watched a lot of Trey McBride
in the red zone. He was invisible and now you're like, well,
is that one of those I hate doing the hype
thing as a short fire plug of a man myself,
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but where Kyler Murray just can't see him and doesn't
trust him. Yeah, right, So like that it begets some
of those kind of discussions of well, why is this
guy so dominant here? He's like, well, oh there, it's fixed.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
It's it's crazy. It the the Kyler Murray era has
gotta be over. Whether they think, you know, Jacoby Brissett's
the guy or whatever, but it's it's obviously it's obviously
done with. But to think that he could go back
there throw for you know, four hundred and fifty some
yards and have forty seven completions forty seven to fifty
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seven ties. It's an NFL regular season record. Ben Roethlisberger
had forty seven completions in a playoff game a few
years back for the Steelers that was also in a loss.
But just yeah, just even even the if efficiency of
how he's doing it is remarkable.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Yeah, just absolutely insane. I mean to look at a
week eleven on the grand scale, right, we talked about
the oddity of it all. Going off the Fantasy pros scoring.
You had four quarterbacks top twenty points this week, Brissette
Prescott and the Monday Nighter with his throws against the Raiders,
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Bryce Young and Josh Allen with his six pack forty
four point seven points. But then you get Fields and
Purty tied for fifth at nineteen point three, and then
it starts drifting. You're at sixteen points before we're out
of the qb ones.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Yeah, I was.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
I was ticked at Drake Main only gave me fifteen
in our Guillotine League. I'm like, well, Jess, like Justin
Herbert and Lamar Jackson and so the others like, I
guess it wasn't as bad as I thought.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
I'll tell you what you know that begets a larger thing.
If we want to go there, and you mentioned Lamar Jackson.
There's a guy that is playing what at seventy percent?
He does not look anywhere near the Lamar Jackson were
used to. Right. An early run finished with four carries
for ten yards. Right, and one of those things when
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you're playing a team like Cleveland that's always been in
the arsenal. All right, this guy's gonna overrun his pursuit,
and all of a sudden there's Lamar slipping out the
back door for a ten yard gain, moving the chains
that did not exist in Sundays hell. The fact that
they were using Mark Andrews as they did one of
my favorite plays I think I've seen in football history.
And if I can get a sport Flix card that
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shows that little pirouett he does to get to the
outside for that game winning run, I'd buy that in
a minute. But by the way, you didn't see that
on your Bengo card. But Mark Andrews game winning touchdown run.
Oh it was a goal line. No, actually, it's a
really nifty move. But if Lamar Jackson's healthy, you're telling
me he's not doing that himself or trying. So I
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mean the fact that those plays have all come in
in short yardage in the bag and Derrick Henry's a
terrible short yardage runner. But you know, for Lamar Jackson,
I'm nervous about playing week to week at this point.
If that running element is gone, that's a tough play.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Yeah, And ultimately it's one of the things that is
the reason why I still am just not buying in.
Like we can have this conversation about who the Ravens
are and where the Ravens are going to be at
the end of the season in the AFC North, I
just know where they're not going to be in February,
and that's.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
In the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Like it's just sure, you know, you know, like it's
because they're just they're they're not that team. And if
it's not Lamar doing what he's doing, and then they're
just they're they're not going to go places. Plus there's
just other really good teams in the a f C
and and there are really good teams that are going
to be on the outside looking in, and the Ravens
may be one of those squads, but right now in
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that in that log jam, Yeah, the the Ravens may
have gotten a win. Heck, I hate to say it,
but even if you're struggling with Cleveland to that point,
you know, no, right that who tells you, you know
a little something that they needed to they needed Dylan
Gabriel to get knocked out and should or Sanders to
come in and have those factors end up, you know,
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falling their place to leave with a touchdown victory on.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Sunday, succeed and proceed, Yes.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Yes, absolutely, and then the red gigs that you mentioned.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Sorry, Ian, but Justin Fields gets benched.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
You know, compared to everybody else in week eleven, Justin
Fields is not too bad fantasy wise, but he just
doesn't have a job going into week twelve.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
Real life wise though. It's about time, right, But that's.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
The hard part. Like Smith and I talked about it
a little bit on our show Monday Night on the Network,
and it's just the there's those couple plays a game
where his athleticism shines through, right, and it's like that
he's that guy and Dan you know this going back
to his time in Ahow State me watching him with
the Bears. There are times and possessions where you're enamored
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and like, okay could work right and this could be
and go back to he had two years with the Bears.
There's like thirty some odd touchdowns. His touchdown interceptionation was
about two and a half to one. That's great. Completed
about sixty percent of his passes even last year with
the Steelers sixty five percent completion rate, career best five
touchdowns at a pick, so takes care of the football.
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You'd like him to maybe put it in harm's way
every once in a while, just so you can move
the chains. But there's no dynamism at this point, and
he misses that easy throw that would convert for a
first down. He's sailing it over the guy's head or
bouncing it at his feet, and you're just like, what
where this is your five?
Speaker 5 (11:41):
He looks pretty mentally broken at this point. I think
he needs a full mental reset. Whether it's two nets
or another team, just sit on the bench and just
get get your mental right, because there's something he's just
not seeing the field. He holds the ball forever, he
even even his superpower and running, he's not even doing
it at the same level as he used to.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
So through you know, Mike mentioned at Ohio State. And
that's what I honestly feel it's because of his first
season in Columbus in twenty nineteen, hor he threw thirty
nine touchdowns and had three interceptions that I was still
holding on to hope that that's the reason that he
could be the guy. But it's funny because I'm going
(12:20):
to use Justin Fields in this example. Is Justin Fields
was such a highly touted recruit out of Georgia, right,
five star, highest rated, you know, recruit up to a
certain point that even went to Ohio State. And that's
considering everybody that came before him at the time, he
was the highest rated Buckeye player ever coming out of
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high school, even though he went to Georgia. First in
Ohio State. The point is is he was amazing coming
out of high school. How many stories do we have
of guys who go to high school, you know, are
five star athletes and don't even make it in college, Right,
Like I think that's a story?
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Like I don't. I think, Yeah, it's it's what it is.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
He's not going to make it in the National Football League.
It's not gonna work out. He's not gonna be a
starting quarterback. If he wants to be a you know,
a bench you know, backup quarterback at some point teams
want to use certain packages with him.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
That's what it's gonna be.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
The role that he played with the Steelers last year
is probably the best that it's ever gonna be in
his career and probably his future in.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
The National Football League.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
BEFO, we're being honest, Yeah, I mean, it's it's a
nice career and he can carve out. I mean, look
at look at how many guys end up starting games,
right if you had him for two to three week
stopgap guy, like in one of the perfect scenarios as
we were talking about Baltimore, is you know, in that
offense similar whatever you and you can move him in
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in and out as a decoy with with Lamar and whatever.
But it's coming off of those huge I mean, look
at look at what we're doing right now. Every throw
that arch Manning takes THEO what we do with you know,
not to the same level, but a little bit with
Bryce Young who had this big game right, he and
McMillan have what they're got going. But on the other side,
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we don't talk a lot about the Titans, but when
we do it's man, what's with cam Ward? Right, and
trying to figure that out, and these are the top prospects,
the number one picks whatever, and going on down the line.
We asked that question a lot about Pennix, right, and
last week he did that press conference which was still
really awkward. Now he's probably done for a year plus
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they're saying partially torn acl but another guy was a
top prospect, got hurt a couple of times, still got
that big deal. By the way, the Rams have their
first round pick for next next year. So add that
to the hey, we're gonna get out of this and
maybe not quite so fast. But it's the Captain Kirk
era now. But but all of that to say, like
we do that right where it's the white hot, we're
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introduced to these guys, and then what it doesn't hang
and work out in the pros. Some of it is
where you end up being drafted. The other is sometimes
it's just you know, go and beat it. See doesn't work?
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Yeah, yeah, you know what's so interesting about that Rams
Falcons pick, and remember the Jaguars in the Trevor to
get Travis Hunter traded their first round pick to Cleveland.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Was we thought, you know, at.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
The NFL Draft in April, we thought that the NFL
Draft in twenty twenty six was going to be littered
with quarterbacks, right, just an array of possible new arms
coming to the National Football League. It was actually one
of the reasons, aside from just how dumb of a
deal it was for the Falcons to do, was really
smart for the Rams to do. Bring back Matthew Stafford
(15:35):
for a year, maybe to figure it out, whatever however
you want to do it, and you can maybe draft
your quarterback of the future with that other first round pick.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
And now it's not likely.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
To turn out that way with the way that the
quarterback field has gone in college football in twenty twenty six,
but at the time it looked like the Rams were
maybe going to get their.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Arm of the future.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
And maybe not so much the case, but bad trade
by the Falcons and the season's even make air, making
it even worse.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Well, now they'll get the arm of the future with
their own pick at a better value. Yeah, well by
adding another defensives rusher something ft seven.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Right, Yes, And for a team that hated draft picks, well,
they're pretty good at making them.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
I'll tell you that much Joe question about it?
Speaker 3 (16:19):
All right, we'll take a time out here look more
at week twelve. Mike Harman, it's a big time home
runs and his ninjas and hot plays and gold scores
and rankings and so much more. And we'll even Roddy
and myself will review our streaming defenses and points a
paloose up. Plus, we've got some more buys coming up,
back to a fourteen bye week in week twelve, something
(16:41):
we'll dive into and maybe some replacements with some waiver
wires at the end.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
That's all coming up next here, and I want your.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Flex rolling on here on I want your flex hit
Mike up at Swollen Dome. You can find me at
Dan Byer on Fox and Ian Roddy, our executive producer
at Ian Roddy underscores. We can take a look back
at week twelve. Talked about some of the highs and
some of the lows. My takeaway from week twelve, guys,
is actually more of a question to Mike, not only
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just for the fantasy info, but because it's with his
quarterback Caleb Williams. I think that we are a little
bit mesmerized by the Bears right now with their winning
streaks seven and three mark atop the NFC North and
we see the dramatics in their victories and no doubt
what they did in Cincinnati and against the Giants was impressive.
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I played Caleb Williams this past weekend after unfortunately having
him on the bench the last two weekends, and it
was more of the Caleb Williams of before.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Is there reason to have concern?
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Is this an NFC North thing that I thought maybe
earlier because of the division matchups? Is Caleb Williams back
to being a roller coaster fantasy football starting quarterback?
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Yeah? I think he's a roller coaster and I think
he's matchup dependent. And we've talked about it a bit
in the larger football context, and certainly I've tried like
it's not great for radio because it's not hot take nonsense. Right,
he's the greatest thing ever Well with Bears quarterbacks, that
don't take much to jump to the top of that
Tota Bowl, right, given the history of the position there.
(18:17):
It's winning football, it's growth, it's everything of a new
system under Ben Johnson and a new approach to playing
the game. Like, the greatest thing you could say is
he's not taking terrible sacks. He's not thinking he can
outrun a blitzing linebacker to get to the edge. No,
get rid of the ball. See another down right, which
he did not do a year ago, was all right,
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I'm gonna hold on to it. Hold on to it
so I can put it in harm's way. So that's
great for touchdowns to interception ratios, that's great, and a
lot of people, Hey, look at that interceptionless streak. That
means you didn't try to push the ball down the field.
And you look at his shot chart, it was abysmal.
This year, it's better. There are more of those, but overall,
you know, you're talking about a guy top three in
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snaps from their play action. I bet you probably couldn't
find twenty of those last year right under that offense
or going back to his days at USC. So it's
it's just a different way and still learning the game.
Still not gonna put the ball in harm's way with
great regularity. So there's gonna be matchups where it works
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and matchups where it goes horribly horribly wrong. Pittsburgh's kind
of in that weird spot. Which of their pass rushes
shows up right in this next matchup, and then you've
got Philadelphia and green Bay. Oh in Cleveland, well, their
offense sucks, and they might get a couple of short
fields depending on whether it's Gabriel or Sanders, right, Sanders
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will take more shots downfield, happy Jerry Judy owners, but
in terms of potential turnovers, more of that. And then
you got Green Bay again. So Pittsburgh's got a question
mark to where maybe he's borderline back end QB one,
But then you got four straight weeks that I would
be reticent to put him anywhere near a fantasy lineup.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Yeah, And it's interesting because coming into this week in
my long term league, in our scoring system, he was
a ninth so far on the season.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
So if you're in a.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Even if you're in a ten team in league like
I am, he's I look at the top ten and
be like, all right, here's here's a guy that's starting
quarterback caliber. But when you when I when I watch
the Bears, I look at them and like Caleb Williams
throwing the ball isn't the Even watching the Colts a
little bit, you're like, Okay, Daniel Jones will just get
his in the passing game and the Bears need to
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seem to work hard for it, but they're really running
the ball well, at least it feels that way to me.
And Caleb Williams is most impressive honestly when he's just
on the move and scrambling. Now, you may have to
end up throwing the ball away, but some of the
sacks that he ends up, you know, e looting mic
maybe the most impressive portion of his game.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Right now, that's it. You could do the whole berminism whoops, yeah,
excited ut or it says currently number ten in terms
of Fantasy qbs for total points on the year. But
I think you're exactly right right when he's on the run.
I mean, he's got the Howard swer of an arm,
so he's going to be able to put it wherever
he wants on the field. Now, accuracy issues were still
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timing and all of that stuff still part of the
new look offense. Again, back at USC it was just
throwing up in a general direction. One of those guys
was running under it right at least in the Heisman year,
and then you look at last year was just an
abject failure all around. You had coaches getting fired and
disappeared you had the obvious eber flu should have never
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been allowed to come back for that year one. Not
that you can give it a complete mulligan, but you're
trying to unlearn anything that was impartant there for Ben Johnson,
and I think they've struck a pretty good bargain that
there will be better days. I just don't think they
happen until twenty twenty six. They've got enough of a
personnel and a defense that takes the ball away a ton,
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but it's it's gonna be so difficult, like this next stretch,
just laying out that, and even in the final when
you get into the playoff weeks, San Francisco is sitting
there at the back end, even without Bosa uh and Warner,
there's there's still a pretty good unit. Thanks it's after
it for Robert Salas so Uh, that's it's a no
(22:22):
fly zone. So it's one of those I think I'd
grabbed my popcorn, uh, and maybe you got to play
on the dunesday the run game. As you say, with
Swift and Manungui Uh, they're up to number two on
the year in terms of yards per game, behind Buffalo
of all teams, which is kind of weird, but you're
looking at you know, just opportunity. Sure is gonna be tough.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
I think in those situations too, you look at I mean,
Williams is mobile enough to get the yards and if
you've got the tandem like you do there. So in
Buffalo you've got Josh Allen and James Cook. When you
know when James Cook Cook is getting the football, Yeah,
it makes a sense, you know, a little bit of sense.
And one that running game is going. That stood out
(23:06):
to me for a couple of reasons. Also because JJ
McCarthy just stinks like he's no good. He even with
these fourth quarter comebacks and he makes some of these
throws and it's acrobatic catches, but the football is nowhere
near where it needs to be. When you looked at
the stat lines, they weren't as different from each other.
Actually it felt like they were played completely different games.
(23:27):
But the numbers, and that's what we deal with in fantasy,
were actually a little bit more similar than we would
have realized. That's what kind of stood out for me
on the bear side of things for Week twelve.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
Well, I'll take that other side for a second. Ago
Dan McCarthy, how many did he leave on the field,
I mean Addison a couple of times, Jefferson like just
go and down checking the boxes of wide open receivers.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
I there is a TikTok and I gosh, I could
I could give the person credit.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
They did. They did the top five worst throws of
week eleven.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
You saw that too, I do, because he actually does
it every week. But he but he chooses a different
player to sort of and it's like, yeah, it's it's
just yeah, and coming in at number five, it's JJ
McCarthy with this throw.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
To coming in at number four.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
It's JJ McCarthy who had this throw coming at number three.
It's actually gonna be JJ McCarthy coming in all the
way down to number one.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Uh he did drop a JJ nine because of that
stupid alter ego.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Crap, Oh my goodness, but yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
That was he probably gott to really find who this
guy is because I gotta, oh, here it is, all right,
sure enough, Uh lewis fantalize.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
That's that's who it is. That's great.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
But JJ JJ McCarthy got the uh got the ribbing
in in week eleven. But all right, but justin Jefferson,
I've got shares and that's that's a frustrating proposition.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
That's just yeah, man, you look at him and at
this point, it's it's tough, like he's he's a w
R two based on his quarterback like and normally we
could say, okay, you've got opportunities count Well, we watched
him get open repeatedly against a pretty good secondary. Right,
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the Bears are banged up a little bit, but I mean,
Jefferson should have had a monster game, Addison should have
had a monster game, and they they didn't in a
plus spot because that's the one thing the Bears have
been I mean, they've been opportunistic with the turnovers. But
you can move the ball on him, like we've watched
it all year long and he just missing wide open throws. Now,
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will that get better? I'm sure as hell not. Wait around,
Like we're talking about fantasy trade deadline coming up, I
think i'd be looking justin Jefferson's last double digit game
came before their like the last five weeks. You got
one that's right on the border of ten.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Yeah, the touchdown, like and they got like forty yards.
It gets the Lions.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
Yeah, that's it. Otherwise we're talking seven nine, seven four three, seven, six,
one like and even before that. I mean, obviously it's
a rough year. He's currently twenty ninth, or he was
twenty ninth this week, I should say, for the year.
When we we go on down the line and you know,
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looking at half PPR for the year, I mean he's
still at sixteen. Great, so you know, barely double digits
for a couple of those, but that's in. You know,
when you're adding starting to add in the points per suf,
you're just looking at it from a straight you know,
what kind of output are we getting. You're not getting much?
Speaker 2 (26:49):
No, not at all. T J.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Hopkinson's value dropped. Anything that Jordan Addison had has gone
out the window. You know, Jalen Naylor had a couple
of catches the week prior, but you're not playing him
at all. There's just no reason to to play anybody
in that receiving core.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Well, I mean, we're gonna play Justin Jefferson.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
But yeah, yeah, right, remember when Jordan Mason was running
like running over people that Aaron Jones comes back and
it's like, all right, Jordan Mason is your five carries?
Speaker 5 (27:17):
Well got the worst part, the worst part about all
of it is that they could have had Sam Darnold,
as we know, and we've talked about, they could have
had Daniel Jones, they could have had Aaron Rodgers this offseason,
and they passed on all of those to.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
See what the Rogers was in the mix too.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
And this is a win now football team. It's not
like this is a team that's, you know, structured to
see what you have in a young quarterback. It's structured
to win the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Dare I say a cheating scandal that aided the Michigan
Wolverines and screwed the rest of college football also screwed
the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
Done Dune, done, nicely done. It's all Jim Harball's fault, right,
He's also the guy that hyped up JJ McCarthy called
him the college court terbacky.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Yes, correct, when they probably should have had three or
four losses in that but they knew everybody's plays. Anyway,
moving on, what stood up for you guys in Week eleven?
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Well, I think you know the strange bedfellows when we
start talking about the point totals. The quarterback position is
just such a mess. Right, we're already at that point.
It's week twelve, when we're into what are we have
fifty some odd starters right as we get ready for
week twelve, and we look at Shador Sanders, we look
at Kirk Cousins coming back with no Drake London to
throw to you. Yay, that'll be thrilling as they ride
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that losing streak. I mean, is good to see Brock
perty and Ricky piersoll back, so maybe you're feeling better.
I mean, George Kittle has a monster game, so perhaps
with Purty under center, they feel better with Kittle being
a receiver rather than staying home to block as we've
seen him in weeks past. Not that you didn't get
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decent returns, but maybe this unleashes him for the second
half of the year. But overall, just the unevenness of
the quarterback position, which is so vital to the flow
of everything, Like it's just so erratic at this point
on a week to week basis that it's going to
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make for a really interesting stretch run. And especially as
we're looking at Guilletine leagues, what those winning leagues look like,
in the winning teams look like at the end that
are able to survive, And obviously it's a bastardization, you know,
in the process as you're picking up guys off dead
teams and all. So maybe you know some of that
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just budget budgeting really plays that big a role. But
I think we're going to see some really wild teams
of guys that emerged in these final weeks that are
going to take home prizes all over the place.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
You know, this week, somebody's got to replace Justin Herbert
in their starting lineup because of the bye week by
that the Chargers have. The week thirteen is going to
be a full week. NFL doesn't give any buys during
the Thanksgiving week, But we jump over to week fourteen,
which is the end of the regular season for many leagues.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
You know, Drake May is going to be on the
bench at that point.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
So it's almost like the quarterbacks that you're wondering, you know,
take one step lower now because you're going to be
sands a quarterback or some teams are going to be
in week fourteen something to by the way, mark your
calendars and look ahead to. But yeah, it has been
a it has been a messed up year. Even Daniel Jones,
they're coming off of their bye is kind of come
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back down to earth. You know, I mentioned him earlier
and just in watching him play like he you know,
his yards do come easier than Caleb Williams do in
the air. But it's not the crazy stuff that we
saw earlier on in the season for you know, from
someone like Jones either.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Yeah, at least a little higher floor. But yeah, your
point's well taken, right, the heroics of early season, and
we'll see what happen happens with Jonathan Taylor down the stretch.
I'm hoping he's a monster all the way through Week
eighteen and into the playoffs, running wild like mid eighties
Hulkamanian What the ww was? That'd be great our WWF
still at that time. But all of that to say,
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if suddenly Taylor falls off, does it tank everything? Right?
I mean, so we look at that. I mean, you
look at the quarterback position where we stand points to date,
Alan Drake may Patrick Mahomes is still third despite two
dog games in a row. That's how good he was early.
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Justin Herbert's fourth four point three points in Week eleven
against the Jaguars. Bo Nix is fifth, the guy everybody hates.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Yeah, and of your big five that we had at
the start, of the Year. Well, Jayden Daniels hurt, Joe
Burrow's obviously been hurt, Jalen Hurt's not there, and Lamar
has been hurt, and so it's just been Josh Allen.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
Yeah, still got himself back up to seven. But you've
got a couple of big games that prop the rest
of it up right. And that's the thing I think
a little bit with bow Knicks as well, is you've
got two or three starts that really helped to carry that.
But the point being, yeah, the the guys that we
expected to be bell cows for us and to help
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lead the fantasy realm. And this goes back to, you know,
starting to look at draft twenty twenty six because we'd
had that trend where people were starting to reach out
for their quarterbacks a little bit earlier. Maybe maybe that
recedes a little bit.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Yeah, if hey, if Bryce Young is gonna throw for
four hundred and fifty yards for you, right.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
Thirty one point eight points. He had two games over
ten and a half before, oh, No, three games over
ten and a half. One of them was a thirteen.
He had a twenty two point three and nineteen point
five and a thirteen before this thirty.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Did it last year though, right, The Panthers turned it
on at the end of the year, right, and now
they're they're a six win team, but they're ninth right
now in the NFC, I think when you're talking about
the playoffs standings and where they stand, so they're there. Yeah,
there's still some work to do, but division could be
could be in the grass ian. What stood out to
you in Week.
Speaker 5 (33:16):
Eleven, guys, the Chiefs they lost to the Broncos that
division game. They're now four games back in the division,
so that was kind of the biggest thing that stood
out to me. Is they play the Colts this coming week,
so I think we can all agree that's a pretty
losable game for the Chiefs. Not like it's you know,
guaranteed they're going to but they're at a real risk
of dropping a five and six on the season, which
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is actually just absurd considering that, what haven't they won
that division for the past nine years running. I think
it is something like that. So yeah, that was that
was the biggest thing that stood out to me. It's
just the Chiefs are like genuinely entering panic mode now.
Speaker 4 (33:52):
Well and for fantasy purposes, right, you got the game
from Travis Kelcey. But and I know the Broncos are great,
but no, no or ten yet Rice is Well, it's
six sketches thirty eight yards.
Speaker 5 (34:04):
Yeah, and like you said, Mahomes had another just disappointing game.
It's uh yeah, I'm just the concept of the Chiefs
missing the playoffs is pretty absurd to me.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
And they've lost their tiebreaker to Jacksonville.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
That too, that too, they have multiple time breakers Buffalo too.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
So, and those teams are gonna be in the wild
card picture because Patriots right out top of the AFC
East and the Colts atop the the AFC South. The
funny thing was this actually felt like a Colts excuse me,
a Chiefs fantasy game because you mentioned the Travis Kelcey stuff.
But it's also the reason when you mentioned Rashid Rice. Yeah,
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he's his favorite target or second favorite target, but you
don't have six for thirty eight.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Yeah, and you know, and they're gonna be plays for him, but.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
You're not gonna get You're never gonna get those ti
rekill numbers that you got. That's not who Rashi Rice is.
And I don't know if that's who the Chiefs want
to be. He also threw to like ten different receivers
in that game against Denver, so I had a bad interception.
By the ways, they were all former homes yeaheah.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
Well, and they had one taken off the board too, right,
they had to pick six got off. So yeah, I
mean yeah, from a football and fantasy bridge right there,
I mean that's a good point. We're just in that
weird spot nine straight. Denver won five straight before the
Chiefs went on their run.
Speaker 5 (35:35):
Denver's got it comfortable lead. Now they're two games ahead
of Chargers who were in second.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
So yeah, and I mean they and they lost to
the Chargers earlier this year, but they play them in
Denver on their return trip. So not only with that
that lean there's there's already a game and while they
have lost it, if you win this next one, you
kind of have it. I don't want to say it's
totally wrapped up because there is a return matchup for
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the Broncos at Arrowhead, So if the Chiefs do go
on a streak, but yeah, if you're denveran to your
point about the comfort of it could be a lot
comfortable if you beat the Chargers at home, you're any different.
Speaker 5 (36:14):
Chargers team your super Bowl tick Denver Broncos.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Yeah, how about that.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
It's still a lot of football to be played. But
you know, the defense has been has been pretty good.
I don't know what they're going to do offensively without JK. Dobbins.
And you know, I've been reported all week that it
was likely a long term injury, that he was not
going to be able to play for the Broncos definitely
against the Chiefs and was headed to IR Now it sure,
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it seems like it's a season ender, So step on
up our J Harvey right now.
Speaker 4 (36:42):
Once again for JK. Dobbins.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Yeah right, yeah, and he goes.
Speaker 4 (36:49):
On that list of guys that we've seen flashes. But
you know what could have.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
Been, Yeah, absolutely, you almost wish for him they would
have just held him out of the first seven games
and then said play these rest instead of Yeah, you know,
it carried the workload for a lot of the season,
but it's just, yeah, another another injury for him. All right,
We're going to take a time out here on I
want your flax. Take a look at the report cards
from week eleven. Plus, Mike's got some waiver wire names
(37:16):
that you got to look at for week twelve, that's
all coming up next to here on I want your flas.
All right, we start with Mike Carmen. We're gonna end
with Mike Carmen as well with some waiver wire. But Mike,
what'd you get right in week eleven on the report card?
Speaker 4 (37:30):
Well, we're gonna start. I mean really, I'm just gonna
say we had Sean Tucker as a ninja and I
just got to drop a microphone after that.
Speaker 5 (37:37):
That's a big one.
Speaker 4 (37:38):
I'm going to take that victory lap top runner of
the week for us, so I appreciate the love there.
The running back position treated us pretty well. As for
the top five finished as RB Ones McCaffrey second, eight,
Chan was eleventh. Josh Jacobs unfortunately got hurt, so we've
got that one. As we look forward, Gibbs was in
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the right spot at four, and I'm sorry Bijon was
at four. He finished in the right spot, and James
Cook finished eighth, So we take a victory lap at
the running back position. Quarterback Josh Allen was third. The
other guys, well, they all failed me. I already called
out Patrick Mahomes, so I don't need to pile on there.
Lamar Jackson was a bit of a counter and two
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to play at the back end of the top five.
He did me nothing and all that expectation for Sunday
night football. I mean, come on, Jalen Hurts, come on Eagles, like,
what are we doing here? I mean a fun game
if you like defense, but didn't didn't quite get it there,
but we survive. Nico Collins was a top five wide receiver,
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so Davis Mills may not be good for your fantasy team,
but he will target his guy repeatedly. We had Dak
and Brock Purdy as hot plays. Maybe Dak was too
bit of a big of a chalk, but we're gonna
take it. George Pickens there as well, giving us some love.
Lad mcconkee top fifteen. Waddle finished as a top ten
(39:05):
in that Spain game that started the day. I'll take
an L on Derrick Henry taken l on Jordan Love.
They were in the cold sore list victory and Sam Darnold.
I didn't want it. I wanted them to win that
game because I want chaos. And for you, Dan, of course,
I mean, and you still almost pulled it off.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
I know.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
I hate to say it, Well, but I'm going to
because nobody else said it. I've been calling it for weeks. Turnovers,
they're gonna show up.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
You know.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
How come I know that because they have been showing
up every single game. And it caught four interceptions. Four interceptions. Yeah,
and they needed a punt to go out at the
half millimeter line at the end of the game. If
it would have been maybe a yard closer, maybe a
couple of yards closer, it's a more makeable field goal
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than the sixty one yarder.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
But oh well, it's a very strange world.
Speaker 6 (40:00):
But he goes, did you guys see that punt? Did
you see that punt of the rams Seahawks game? Yeah,
it's just I don't know how it happened with physics
and gravity and the whole shebang, but you could not
have a better coffin corner punt. And they still see
I still almost pulled it out with that and the
four turnovers.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
But a loss is a loss, that's what it is.
Speaker 4 (40:23):
But you know what, They're not all created the same.
And I love the fact that everybody picked up for him, right,
defender's cursing and.
Speaker 5 (40:32):
The like, Yeah, Ernest Jones, But I mean just that
was talking to me.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
He was talking to me.
Speaker 4 (40:40):
Well, I mean, look, a lot of folks still have
their uh they're are ready for the samny Ian knows
this going all the way back to the time in
New York, right whenever there's a game, because they did
that to Daniel Jones when he had that game against
the Steelers. You could be great for ten weeks, but
that one one one well, you know, but but there
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have been balls left on the carpet, there's no question.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
Yeah, that's the problem.
Speaker 3 (41:05):
Is the narrative has been on how great Donald has been,
and he has been great at times. But what's going
to kill them is the turnovers which have been happening.
They now lead the NFL and giveaways with twenty and
they could be the best team in the NFL that
they just cut them in half. I think they would
be unquestionably the best team in the NFL if they
just had you know, ten turnovers, which isn't crazy to
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say that would be won a game basically, you know,
through this point of the season.
Speaker 2 (41:32):
But oh well, all right, moving on other w's.
Speaker 4 (41:36):
I give you a big virtual hug, thank and some
cheese skirts l or other wins, I should say sakuon Barkley,
the aforementioned Jordanadison DK Metcalf goes well, it's DK Metcalf
at this point, and Courtland Sutton finished thirty second for
the week. Alas, we did not get the massive returns
(41:56):
from Jamis or JJ McCarthy in those respective fantasy realms,
not that I wanted JJ McCarthy selfishly to do so,
but I'm a realist again moving between the twenties and
making some plays. Some obvious throws didn't work. Rogers got hurt,
so an incomplete there, but all in solid week. We'll
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take the w and certainly the Tucker one makes me
feel better about myself for finding the diamond in the
rough as it were. But I was just curious, you know,
coming out of Week eleven, just watching results and watching
play by play and just kind of scratching my head, going,
this is where we're at in the NFL. It's very
curious space right.
Speaker 3 (42:37):
Now, and that absolutely is. But we're also hitting the
home stretch. We're almost at that two thirds spot in
the season, and now we're starting we're gonna have some
really good games. You know, the NFL does set it
up where like mid November, like after this Thanksgiving, like
through December.
Speaker 2 (42:56):
We've got some really good.
Speaker 3 (42:57):
Especially marquee games, so it should be should be a
fun stretch, maybe a little better than what we've had
with some of this malaise as of late streaming defenses.
Speaker 2 (43:07):
For Ian Roddy, how did those turn out in Week eleven?
Speaker 5 (43:10):
Yeah, not bad.
Speaker 4 (43:10):
It was a pretty good week.
Speaker 5 (43:11):
Chicago Bears were the first one. They allowed seventeen points
to nine in the vikings, but JJ McCarthy, who is nine,
he threw two interceptions to them, so that helped. And
then the Dallas Cowboys were the other one on Monday
Night Football. They had a pretty nice defensive performance, had
sixteen points allowed, They had an interception for sacks and
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got that safety as well. So pretty successful week for
streaming defenses. But we will look to carry it over
into next week.
Speaker 3 (43:39):
Well, I took a giant fus with my points at
Palooza of at being the Lions and Eagles, and you
couldn't get worse than that. It was not a good
decision by me. However, if you took my advice and
took the Steelers on your survivor pick, congratulations you are through.
If you really wanted to risk it and pick the dolls.
(44:00):
You probably had a heart attack watching that game in Madrid,
but they got through. The other fringe one was the Falcons.
That one fell apart. But the main pick of the
week was Steelers, and Pittsburgh was able to take care
of the Bengals, especially in that second half, even without
Jalen Ramsey. True story, guys, I was at work watching
the games and I went out to get some lunch
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and I'm like, well, let me just down the street
literally three blocks. I'm like, let me look at my
phone and see how the Steelers Bengals game. And I
look at my phone and the alert from Mike Adam
Schefter says Steelers dB Jalen Ramsey has been ejected for
throwing a punch. And I'm like, great, that's where we are.
That's where we are in this contest. But for the Steelers,
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ultimately it worked out in the end, and maybe Jamar
Chase his absence in Week twelve, he is appealing that suspension.
I have no idea on why that would why they
would overturn it, but very likely Cincinnati without Jamar Chase
against the Patriots in.
Speaker 4 (44:58):
Week twelve unbelievable. That again, and it's been said a
billion times, the spitting thing. One, it's the worst, it's
it's worse than anything else you can do. But two,
thinking that in this day and age, in an NFL game,
even if it's someone in the three hundred level, someone's
getting a good shot of that.
Speaker 2 (45:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (45:19):
Right, you're not going to get away with that.
Speaker 3 (45:22):
They can find you throwing a beer on the field
from section one nineteen, roll forty two, seat eight. They're
going to see you spitting in someone's face. Yeah, yeah, Chase,
just better.
Speaker 4 (45:34):
Yeah, it's gonna cost him at half a million dollars. Yes,
just gross too, No, but that's that's just gross.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
That's respectful.
Speaker 4 (45:42):
Yeah, yeah, just you know, tell him you'll meet him
in the parking.
Speaker 3 (45:46):
Lot after the game and be done with something the
old fashioned from that. Yeah right, Well he'll be fresh
for their Thanksgiving Day game than in the Week thirteen
against the Ravens. Well we see Joe Burrow that game,
who knows, but I surezech no, we're not going to
see him in week twelve now without Jamar Chase. And
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if you continue to lose like that, what's the point
of bringing Joe Burrow back. If you're three and eight,
that's going to be the question for Zach Taylor and
everyone in Cincinnati. But all right, Mike, let's get to
the waiver wire pickups. Four teams on by Broncos, Chargers,
Dolphins and Commanders not playing in Week twelve.
Speaker 2 (46:24):
Who should we pick up?
Speaker 4 (46:25):
Well, I mean with starting Cincinnati exit Jamar Chase enter
Yoshavash Yes, is there a great upside? No, But I
mean strange bedfellows opportunity knocks as a WR three desperation
flex play. Again, you're missing a bunch of wide receivers
coming out of these four teams that are there, I mean,
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including a Deebo. Samuel Resurgence is not going to be
available for your fantasy squad this week, So you go
down that road. As we look at the quarterback position,
talk about Sam Darnold still available forty percent of leagues. Again,
we're just looking for guys that with an opportunity. Captain
Kirk against New Orleans decent spot. No Drake London so
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a bit problematic there. Gain well because of his aptitude
as a runner and receiver. We saw that a little
bit on display here and I got to imagine if
Aaron Rodgers is unavailable, we see more reliance on the
runners as runners and receivers than we've certainly seen here
(47:31):
in the recent past. When we look at the we
go back to the fun and excitement that is the
Atlanta Falcons for a second. When we go down that
depth chart with no Drake London to play, well, there's
Darnel Moody. And then maybe you wonder about working in
the second unit, whether a guy like Hodge suddenly gets
(47:51):
a little bit of run or something to that effect.
So maybe are sills that you know, again desperate desperation
in week two? Well, right where we're trying to find
the proverbial diamonds in the rough. Go back to the
quarterback position. Dude, we haven't had a Shador Sanders discussion yet.
We obliquely got to it a little bit earlier.
Speaker 3 (48:11):
It is a fantasy podcast, and I didn't think it
was relevant.
Speaker 4 (48:14):
Okay, fair enough, Well, I mean I look at it
from a Jerry Judy thing where we've wished and hope that,
you know, going back to the Joe Flacco part of
the season, that he can get you there. But if
shadur hasked to play like we saw that he wasn't
shy about putting it up down field. Now, whether that
leads to anything good in constructive is a whole other question.
(48:36):
But all we can speak to is opportunity here and
perhaps perhaps more than a side than anything.
Speaker 3 (48:46):
I think that you need to put him in your
ninjas no matter what, and if it hits, it hits.
Speaker 4 (48:52):
And then we just started screaming like wild men.
Speaker 3 (48:54):
Yeah, yeah, like you called it absolutely no, It's it's
one of those discussion like I just wrote him down
with a question mark.
Speaker 4 (49:03):
Yeah, of just because because we saw it right it was.
It was erratic, and it was scattershot and most often terrible.
But he was willing to put the ball downfield, something
Dylan Gabriel was never going to do.
Speaker 3 (49:17):
And there is this scenario where he will now get
reps in practice, which I know has been a hot
button topic. By the way, I understand Dylan Gabriel getting
most of the reps in a practice, especially for a
guy who's a rookie, but to not just get two
(49:39):
percent of the snaps or something. I think it was
was it Wyatt Teller who said we didn't even know
his cadence right, Like we couldn't tell like that's that's
that is on the Browns in that situation. So I
don't blame him. And I know the numbers say four
and sixteen, and honestly, guys, most of the country got
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Kansas City and Denver and not everybody has the Sunday ticket.
And on the West Coast it was the Seahawks and
Rams and the Cardinals and the forty nine ers, so
those TVs were on those games. Not a lot of
the country saw shad or so they'll just go look
at the numbers and be like, well, whatever, Mike you
said it. I saw him as they were happening. The
couple of throws that he made and even went into
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the end zone that could have been a Touchdow. It
was off the mark. It was a pretty good throw,
just didn't It wasn't in the spot it needed to be. Yeah,
did show something. So there's always going to be a
conversation about it. One side's going to go too far
with their thoughts, the other side is going to go
too far with their thoughts. And it's usually somewhere in
the middle. But yeah, give them a week of practice.
Play a crappy Raiders team who knows what could happen.
Speaker 4 (50:45):
Yeah, I'm looking at it also just the fun and
the general life philosophy of find yourself. Someone is someone
in your life that will love you like some people
really stand for Shador Sanders. Sure, my goodness, but as
you say, the extremes on both ends. Michael Wilson, Even
(51:05):
before Marvin Harrison Junior was out, we talked about Jacoby
Brissett and what he's done. Twenty nine targets the last
three weeks. So opportunities I mean eighteen this week, but
that's still eleven if my math is correct, So opportunity there.
We go down the roster a little bit more because
the wide receivers where we're trying to find some love
(51:28):
long term play. Keep an eye on Brandon Ayuk, still
available in about seventy five percent of leagues. If you've
got a bench spot for the stretch run for the playoffs,
if he comes back, maybe maybe you got yourself a
little bit of a Hollywood ending there. But you know,
when we look at percentages the amount of stashes for
(51:49):
running backs, there is not a whole lot of touches
out there on the average waiver wire. You know you're
wishing and hoping for a Brian Robinson junior, maybe a
little bit of touton, but again his workload relative to
ETNS not terribly strong. And then we look at Spears.
He goes up against Seattle, so for a one week play,
(52:11):
that is not a winning combination, even if he does
get a little more of the workload.
Speaker 3 (52:17):
And hopefully it ticked off Seahawks team and that game
I for my purposes, all right, that's going to do
it here for I want your flex, We'll have a
midweek episode. We'll do it a little different this time,
talk about just the evolution of fantasy.
Speaker 2 (52:32):
Also dive into Survivor pools.
Speaker 3 (52:34):
I give you the Survivor pick every week, so we
dive a little bit more into that.
Speaker 2 (52:38):
And then at the end of.
Speaker 3 (52:39):
The week, we'll have your week twelve rankings. Hopefully our
glitches are all taken care of and everything is good
from that end. And then again a reminder, just two
episodes next week, but we'll have a rankings episode for
you that will encompass the entire week, as all thirty
two teams are in action in week thirteen. So for
Ian Roddy and Mike Carmen, I'm Dan byer. We'll talk
(52:59):
to you next time time right here, and I want
your flights.
Speaker 1 (53:03):
Mmmmmmmmmm mm hmm
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