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Genius and vocal Minority. And welcome to another edition of
the Fantasy Freestyle right here on the Sports Grid Network,
episode number four hundred and twenty seven, the four hundred
and twenty seven convening of the Stats Overbeat Cipher. And
it is a very special one because if you are
are still here, maybe just hopefully, either you are three
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hours away from it or maybe you already have one
your league and one that cash. And I got people
hitting me up on social media left and right that Yo,
I won my league and won net cash. Yo, I
won my league and won net cash. And I know
some people are going to after Monday night football tonight
with the Minnesota Vikings and the Green Bay Packers. Will
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tell you what I think about that. Some prop bets
to play just in case you didn't get your cash
in season long, you can still do it on any
Monday night. Football will get you ready for that. Also,
you have to acknowledge there are still some people who
play in week seventeen. So I gotta give you a
couple of things that Speed's got right, a couple of
things that Speed's got wrong, and even some people on
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the waiver wire. We will also talk about some of
the league's we have been following for a long time.
All right, we will talk about you know these Remember
I was in two finals, I was in four semifinals,
fo finals. I'll let you know how we did. Knows.
We've got the Stats Overbeats final and by the way, people,
it has not been decided yet. Okay, so we are
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we are going to find out who will win first
ever Stats Overbeats league. But we got a whole lot
of other stuff to do, okay, because the cycle just
keeps turning, right, So we have to talk about who
got banged up, who laid duds, and what that means
for you moving forward in fantasy or in other ways.
If you're capping the games, if you're gonna play DFS regardless,
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Dwayne Haskins with that ankle. He got carded off the field.
That looks like he's gonna be you know, obviously they
don't have any more games left. It was the worst
thing possible, right. I'm glad he avoided catastrophic injury that
would you know, be surgery or something that he had
to you know, impact his offseason program. But still the
ankle doesn't look good. Spa, he'll be gone for a week.
Seven teen Spencer wear out with a shoulder. James Conner
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with a thigh. A lot of people were riding him
now that he was back with the Pittsburgh Steelers, thought
that he would have a shot to deliver a fantasy championship.
I had shares of James Conner in a championship matchup.
I'll tell you if I want to lost that one
a little bit later on zach Ertz with a rib.
This one could be very interesting, Okay, for a number
of reasons. One, Earth is clearly a championship caliber tight
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end for your fantasy team. There are probably some big
deal teams that have zach arts. But also, you know,
it was the emergence of Dallas Goddard, as we told
you about over the last couple of weeks. And also
Jordan Howard is trending like he may be coming back
for the Philadelphia Eagles against the New York Football Giants
coming up in week six seventeen after come back from
that shoulder injury. D J. Moore in the Concussion Protocol,
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Corey Davis in the Concussion Protocol, Kyler Murray with a
hamstring Now they said he also avoided catastrophic injury and
that it's just like kind of a normal strain. We
don't know if he's going to wind up playing in
Week seventeen. They don't have much to play for, so
you know, maybe the better part of judgment is to
keep him on ice for Week seventeen against the Los
Angeles Rams. Keep an eye out for that. We'll give
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you an update on that on the Thursday edition of
Anacy Freestyle. Mark Ingram with the calf injury. That's a
big one because listen, they've got they're calling it maybe
a three week thing. They're gonna arrest them this week regardless.
Then they have the bye week, right so right there
for divisional matchup. They are now hopeful that he'll be
okay for a divisional matchup. But remember They've got so
many other running backs and that scheme is kind of
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plug and play guys like Gus Edwards, guys like even
Justice Hill. All right, so they have plenty of options
over there. Will fully reaggravated that groin injury. It looks
like he's gonna miss some time now. And even you
know Houston in the playoffs, it's looking like he is
going to miss time. We'll see if that has impact.
You know, they at least have this week. Um, they're
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locked in. They're gonna make the playoffs because their w
on Saturday, big knock to the Seattle Seahawks running game.
I think Seattle, more than any other team maybe had
the worst Week six team. They lost Chris Carson to
a hip injury. He gone rest of the season. They
lost c J Process, the backup out of the backfield,
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to an arm injury. He gone. We're getting reports people
that maybe Beast Mode Marshawn Lynch is flying up to Seattle.
He may work out and sign a deal. Jay A
g i E was cut today by the Eagles. Maybe
he goes out to Seattle. Seattle, we know this. They
have a huge game next week that's been flexed to
Sunday night against the San Francisco forty Niners. But they're
in the playoffs, right, So will it be you know,
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with a by getting somebody time to get caught up
to speed, or will they be playing and turn around
and you know, traveling to uh potentially a Philly or
Dallas for a wild card game without these running backs.
They also lost tackle Dwayne Brown. That's a huge offensive line.
Last Seattle got beat up bad in this game, and
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then they went ahead and lost to the Arizona Cardinals,
giving the seat San Francisco forty Niners the kind of
inside track on the NFC West Division and quite frankly
a bye in the NFC. Talking about in week seventeen,
one of the things that we're going to have to
be talking about is like where resting their team their
players are not certainty. Teams are have already come out
and said they will probably rest some of their stoughts.
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Baltimore has said this, we will not see Lamar Jackson.
His m v P regular season is over. We'll probably
not see We're not gonna see Ingram, We're not gonna
see something Earl tom As some of their linemen. Okay,
I think Mark Andrews got a little bit gimpy, might
not see him. However, the Houston Texans, they are gonna
play their guys. They were Bill O'Brien's already come out
and said, guys like DeAndre Hopkins, Kenny Stills, they are
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going to play. Deshaun Watson is going to play Week
sixteen against the Tennessee Titans. Now, remember Tennessee needs that
game to win to uh make the playoffs. Okay, if
they lose win, If they lose, excuse me, and Pittsburgh wins,
then it would in fact be Pittsburgh. We also got
a big poll question up. All right, I got a
poll question up at spitting speed. You can always check him.
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Because I thought about the Tennessee game, makes me think
about New Orleans and what Michael Thomas has done this year.
He broke the all time record and he still has
a game to play. He's got a hundred and forty
five catches. So I ask you, if you're in a
PPR format next year, where are your drafting Michael Thomas?
Are you drafting Michael Thomas? Literally? First, overall, it's been
a while since the wide receiver really was in consideration
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from true number one to overall. Would you draft him
first overall? Would you draft him somewhere in the top
five maybe like you did with a guy like DeAndre
Hopkins or Antonio Brown in in recent years. Would you
just take him no, just late first round because you say, hey,
maybe I can get that production from other wide outs
like Julio Jones or DeAndre or someone else that you
think could have send and be in that level next year.
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Or are you someone who, like you, don't go wide
receiver in the first round. You just get that that
work horse running back in the first round. Let me know, okay,
right now, you say that Michael Thomas is a first
round top five pick. Interesting, that's kind of where like
Alvin Kamara was last year? Has he passed Alvin Camara?
Let mean know at spitting speeds my takeaways, what speeds
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hundred and twenty seven of the Fantasy Freestyle right here
on sports Grid. Good to see so many members of
the stats Overbeat site from the chat room as always,
Jilly Dilley, the Henderson family, my man Danny Lee from
an undisclosed location. Hey, Danny, No, I have not yet
gotten the package, okay, but it's probably coming in a
couple of days. Don't sweat that. Snorkel Ops in the building.
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You're right about James Conner. He's certainly not the terminator.
It's like he's made of Mr Glass. I agree, and
you know what, m HM? Does that carry forward for
you for next year? Snorkel Ops and others? Are you
gonna like this year? Connor was a top ten running
back going into fantasy drafts. Right He was like RB
seven eight nine, A lot of people. His production is
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still there when he's there, Right, He's still gonna be
the lead back of a Pittsburgh Steelers offense with big
Ben back likely. Right, Let's say he's ranked as like
an RB eleven and you're there at the turn and
James Conner is there? Do you pass on James Connor
because of the injury history and like the injury prone nous?
You know, because I would ask you, what about a
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guy like Dalvin Cook? Do you pass on him because
of injury prone nous? It's an interesting question to me.
And then Tom Pierce, Yeah, I'm talking about top three
from Michael Thomas, like who would it be? Right, Christian McCaffrey,
do you go back to Sa Kwan even though it
just what about say Kwan Barkley yesterday? Huh? Right, further
removed from the ankle injury, looking good, he's probably still
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a top three, top five pick. Someone in the chat
room was talking to me about what about Kenyan Drake.
I don't know if I would count on him again
to have this over the course of a full year,
but maybe he could be an RB one next year.
You go back to a guy like Zeke I mentioned
Cook What about a guy like Lamar. Someone's gonna take
Lamar in the first round of draft next year, right,
So does Michael Thomas fit in there? Guys like Miles Sanders,
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that's interesting, you know, I like other ascending running backs.
What about a guy like a Devin Singletary. And obviously
there's others, you know, don't forget about guys like obviously
Todd Gurley, lev Bell. You know where all these people,
Alvin Kamara, you know, we know about this, Aaron Jones
who was playing tonight, um. But where Thomas fits in
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there is pretty interesting. But not even let me when
we talk about takeaways. You know, let's let's talk about
what big takeaways, what we got right, what we got wrong?
And honestly, you know, we'll save the Michael Thomas. But
you know, I want to talk about this because tanking,
and it has been such a big issue all year.
Players don't tank. Look at that Cincinnati Miami game. First
of all, you think Andy Dalton is tanking because he
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wants the Bengals to draft Joe Burrow to replace him. No,
he goes out there and throws three nineties yards and
four touchdowns. Players ain't tanking, Okay, you think Ryan Fitzpatrick
has a tanking bone in his body. Coaches don't take Okay,
you see Flores for Miami all season long. He's been
getting it after it, yelling at officials, going hard, guys
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playing for him. Teams don't tank what players don't tank.
Coaches don't tank. They are preparing, They are working their
ass off. You know who tanks though front offices and
general managers. That's why you'll see a team like Cincinnati
go to Ryan Finley to evaluate him. That's why you'll
see Miami go ahead and trade everyone. That's how they
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were trying to tank. Okay, and think about it. They
traded away Kenny Stills useful for Houston, Jeremy tunsl why
excuse me, Laramie Tunsel useful for Houston. DeVante Parker it though,
decided to keep him Gaze didn't like him. Now he's
blowing up signing an extension. Uh minca Fitzpatrick, they like
all him now he's a consideration for Defensive Player of
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the Year. That's how you tank. All right. I'm gonna
tell you also, a big takeaway from me, this quarterback
Merry go Round is gonna be very interesting in the
off season. Okay, add Now Derek Carr potentially, Okay, they've
been talking about he. They may be in the market
four quarterback add Jamis potentially. Okay, we're here. Oh, they're
gonna franchise tag him before the game on Saturday. Then
Bruce arians after the game saying, now I don't know,
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I don't know about that. We may be in the marketplace.
All right, we're gonna do it one day. We'll do
a full on thing one day of like all the teams,
all the musical chair stops, and all the potential quarterbacks
they may be out there. It's gonna be very interesting.
Same with head coaches. And I also one of my
big takeaways, you know, I was talking with Ariel Epstein,
our homegirl who you guys see on a lot of shows.
Now we do Put Football Today together. She's on the
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Morning After as well. Um, we were talking on Saturday
because she was wondering about them putting Daniel Jones back
out there, and I was like, no, you gotta get
him the reps. And she was like, well, what about
the injury concerned? What if he gets hurt? And I
was like, yeah, but the only thing you'd be risk
is if he has a really bad injury, and then
what do you know, rookie Kyler Murray gets hurt, pulled
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a hamstring. It's not the bad injury though. And then
Dwayne Haskins, though, gets carded off the field with an
ankle injury. And that's a problem, right, And it's always
we talked about this in preseason, like are you gonna
get hurts? Why should they be out there? Same kind
of thing. Now do they learn? Do they get better?
Remember Baker at the end of the year last year,
Remember uh Sam Donald at the end of the year
last year, or you know, or should a guy like
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Haskins not be out there right now? A guy like
Danny Dimes, a guy like Kyler Murray? Should they not
be out there right now? And that's something that's interesting.
We're gonna hear a lot about that going into this
week as people are getting shut down or rested. So
I think that's interesting. Let's talk about some things that
Speed's got right. Okay, and let me tell you something.
The number one thing that I got right, and I've
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been talking about this for the last couple of weeks,
and now, Sandro, if you're down there in the pit, Yang,
if you're down there there in the pit. Remember that
I've been saying this, because you're gonna start to hear
more and more people talk about this. I was early
a couple of weeks ago, telling y'all look out for
the Kansas City Chiefs defense, all right. I was saying
that their defense has been playing a lot better. Everybody's
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on Baltimore. Everyone knows about the Chiefs offense. I'm saying
that the Kansas City defense is what makes them live
in the a f C. They are still plus seven
fifty elect eight to one odds to win the Super Bowl,
and I am listen, I'm not on New England. Everybody
is on Baltimore. So the pivot for me is Kansas
City and Mahomes is getting healthier and that defense is
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getting better and better. They gave up three points at
Chicago after a three points the follow the previous week
against I believe it was Denver. They're averaging less than
ten points a game against them in the last five
or six weeks. Tyron Matthew the honey Badger. He don't
give a damn. And I've been saying for the last
couple of weeks. A Steve Spagnolo new defense takes a
while to get the arn't okay, and now they're doing
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a lot. I'm telling you this Chief's defense, if it
continues to improve, makes them very dangerous. I've been telling
you about that. I got that one right. I hope
you are listening to me about this another thing that
Speed's got right. I told you about the Eagles. First
of all, I had the Eagles winning that game. I've
been telling you for weeks that I thought the Eagles
would still win the a F NFC East, mostly because
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of the schedule, and then that this game yesterday was
at Philly and that did matter. Okay, But I've been
saying with the Eagles and a ton of teams, Okay,
what has been my narrative almost all season. If you're
real deal stats over beat Cipher, it's the idea about
how the run game must be there to provide balance
because you don't want your quarterback turning into a volume thrower. Yeah,
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that's cool for fantasy if you have Philip Rivers or
Matt Ryan or Jared Goff or Carson Wentz, one of
these guys who might put it up forty five times
Jamis Winston, But that doesn't help the real team. Well,
the Eagles have found balance. And remember how I said,
I thought, Jordan, how it was that balance. And then
over the course of the last couple of weeks, I
was like, listen, Miles Sanders is great and all right,
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and I said, Miles Sanders was getting more and more
in the receiving game. But then over the last couple
of weeks, I had Miles Sanders in my DFS lineup
and I was like, Miles Sanders, if he can provide balance,
this is gonna be big for the Philadelphia Eagles. Well,
what do you know, Speed's got that right, Okay, because
Miles Sanders got twenty carries and it's about the touches.
It's about the commitment to the run game. Miles Sanders
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twenty nine carries, seventy twenty carries seventy nine yards and
a touchdown, another five catches in seventy seven yards in
the receiving game. Okay, a total of a hundred and
fifties six yards from scrimmage and a touchdown on twenty
five touches. That is giving you balance. Now, what happens
even though Eagles only scored seventeen points, Look what happens whence. Yeah,
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he puts it up a lot, but a seventy six
percent completion percentage when he goes thirty one forty. And
you need that run threat, especially guys like Earth's and Godard.
You need those linebackers respecting the run, whether it's Miles
Sanders or Jordan Howard. I told you all about how
he represented this balance for the Eagles and how that
was going to be important, and what do you know,
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they win a big NFC's divisional slate and pull into
the driver's seat for the NFC's divisional title over the Cowboys.
Another defense I told you about was the Indianapolis Colts
last week. I said, I like the Colts defense potentially
as a stream I was giving you guys those in
the waiver wires, and if you picked them up and
faded Will Greer, well, not only did you get three
interceptions from Will Greer, not only did you get five
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sacks by that Colt defense, but you got not one,
but two hunt returns for our touchdowns from Nahem Hinds.
If you listen to your boys speeds and you picked
up the Indianapolis Colts as a streaming defensive defense, I
told you I had a time you could have gotten
You probably won your championship matchup, but it wasn't all smiles. Okay,
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I must admit Speeds got some things wrong. We will
acknowledge what I got wrong. We'll check in on the pole.
And for those of y'all who need to play a
little bit of Week seventeen, if you got banged out
and a lot of people did get hurt, whether it
was Connor or Urts or d J. Moore, at every position,
there were people that got banged out, So I will
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help you. Okay, what we got wrong? And then we
looked at the wave of wire. When we come back,
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towards the end of this segment. For the last final segment,
if you want to you know, wish happy holidays to
the cipher. If you want to uh if you have
something for week six seventeen that you need uh sit
starts someone got hurt, something like that, you know will
help you out when you're leaving when their cash, or
if you want to gloat, If you want to gloat,
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you could do that as well. I know some stats
over beats members uh man some championships that they want,
so we'll do that in the next segment as well.
In the chat room, Dexter is trying to rally everybody
in the chat room to need Mike boone tonight. He
needs about fifteen points for him to win his league
and win that cash snore kele Ops Um, very good
questions Snoops asking me what about because I did say this,
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Jordan Howard does look like his trending back for a
game against the Giants here weeks seventeen. Jordan Howard because
is the early down back, all right, Jordan Howard is
the between the tackles early down back. Remember, earlier in
the season, Miles Sanders was more of a PPR guy.
Now Miles Sanders will get some carries too, but Jordan
Howard takes his role back in my opinion, of being
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the early down between the tackles runner for the Philadelphia Eagles,
and they may need them against the New York Giants
because that Giants offense will score some points gainst Philadelphia
on Sunday. All right, but Speed's got some things wrong.
Got to admit it, got to acknowledge it. The first
thing is, every time we've been talking about coaches that
I think are gonna get fired, I've included Atlanta's dan Quinn.
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And Atlanta is now won three games in a row.
They've put it into my eye a little bit. I
thought that they were kind of unraveling. Remember I was
on Atlanta early in the season. Early in the season
when I was on their thirteen home games, and I
thought they were gonna take a step forward. I was
on Atlanta to be, you know, a playoff team. Um,
and then they started off really bad. It started to unravel.
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Matt Ryan got banged up, Freeman got banged up, and
then I thought dan Quinn was gonna lose his job.
There was a lot of smoke out there about that.
They've been playing for him. Okay, they've won three in
a row. Remember they had that big time come from
behind win against at San Francisco and then they beat
Jacksonville yesterday. What was it though, And my narrative stage true.
The balance was back twenty carries combined from Hill and
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Freeman a hundred and nineteen yards. They had the balance.
So Matt Ryan, yea, he puts it up, but he
completes over sevent of him. That's what happens when you
have balanced. Julio another big time game, ten catches for
one sixties six. I got that one wrong. They may
be playing for dan Quinn. They may care about him
a little bit more than I thought. Maybe he wasn't
dead man walking. Also, here's another thing, you know, I
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thought that Saints offense was not going to be as
good outdoors against Tennessee on the grass, but they put
it on me. I mean, breeze that his thing. Kamara,
finally a little bit out of mothballs, had seventeen touches
a hundred and ten yards from scrimmage. Maybe with Camara
it's kind of like what we've been talking about with
Todd Gurley, and they're kind of doing the load management,
and they're saving him a little bit because they do
have designs on playing multiple games in January. Okay, so
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maybe they're just starting to get him going. But Michael
Thomas is the story right now. A hundred and forty
five catches on the season, eight yards, nine touchdowns. But
here's the thing. I'm gonna give you a couple of
other stats, and I think are absolutely ridiculous. He has
his hundred forty five catches on a hundred and seventy
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six targets. That's eight two completion rate. Drew Brees is
completing eighty two percent of the balls he throws to
Michael Thomas. Excuse me, Drew Brees and Teddy Bridgewater and
Taysom Hill or whoever else is throwing him the damn ball,
and he's averaging eleven point six yards per reception. So
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let me say this again. What that means is, if
the Saints decide to throw the ball to Michael Thomas,
it is an eighty two percent proposition that he will
catch a general average eleven and a half yards. You
throw it to Michael Thomas three times, you get a
first down. You know, it's absolutely crazy. And here's another
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ridiculous stat from what Michael Thomas is doing. To remember,
here's the records for the most catches all time in
the first five years of a career. Jarvis Landry has
the record foe catches in the first five years of
his career. Larry Fitzgerald for Tory Holt for three, A. J.
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Green for fifteen, Julio for fourteen, Randy Moss for fourteen.
Some pretty good names, right. Remember I said Jarvis Landry
was first at four av one, Larry Fitzgerald was second
at four six. Larry Fitzgerald is not second. Michael Thomas
is already second with four sixty six. But I said
this was the first five seasons. Michael Thomas has one
game left of his fourth season, okay, and he may
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with another, you know, normal game for him catch another
what fourteen balls tie Jarvis Landry for the most of
all time for five seasons in his fourth season. I
think it's absolutely ridiculous. Uh, This Saints offense can do
whatever it wants. It scored forty some odd points against
the San Francisco defense. It's gone outside. This team is
going to be very tough to beat. And they got
the inside track for this game's in the end, see
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going through the Dome just like it did last year.
Look out for the New Orleans Saints right now. I
may be on a sneaky Saints Chief super Bowl. I
might have to look at see what those odds are
for New Orleans Kansas City super Bowl. I may have
to bet that, all right, Um, And the last thing
that I got wrong that I gotta tell you, remember
a few weeks ago, I've been saying how Jilly Dilley
probably has a note. How I've been saying I wanted
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to get ahead of it and said that I want
the number one wild card team to win at the
NFC East to four seed the NFC East Division champ
in wild Card weekend. I don't know if I want
that anymore, not as a futures bet, because I'm on
this Philly team. And I told you about Carson Wentz,
I told you about Jordan Howard. We see the revelation
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of Sanders. I don't care if Earth has a broken
rib or not. We'll see. We'll learn more about Earth's
and his ribs this week. God are coming back, they
say to Shawn Jackson, may even come back. Okay, but
what if it's Seattle. Seattle may wind up be in
that five seat. I'm worried about this running back position.
I'm worried about the sensive line injuries. Let's say San
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Francisco beats them next week and Seattle is the five seed,
they would travel to Philadelphia. Well, guess what a couple
of weeks ago they traveled to Philadelphia and they won
nineteen to seven in a very close game. Right, But
this would be a team now with the Eagles that
would be getting more healthy, the Seahawks getting less healthy.
And to continue what I'm saying is my narrative the
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entire time. Remember volume throwing. What would happen in those
teams if Carson Wentz did not have to become a
volume thrower, could complete seventies scent of his balls. And
what if Russell Wilson, because of no run game and
no balance, does have to become a volume thrower. I
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don't know that I'm saying Eagles could win this or
that they'll even we who knows, they may not even
win the division. But I'm saying, you don't want to
get ahead of yourself anymore. I'm causing I'm pausing all
of that because I think the Eagles may have found something. Now,
could they go ahead and defecate the mattress against the
Giants on Sunday? They could? Will the Cowboys beat Washington?
(27:06):
I think so, even though case Keenum under center maybe
better than Dwayne Haskins. Will see. But I like some
of the things we're seeing with these Philadelphia Eagles. But
for those of you, you know, I said, if you
want to call, and by the way, guys, the number
of call is eight four four eight four three six
eight seven nine. Will put it in the chat room.
The number to call is eight four four eight four
three six eight seven nine. Yeah, Danny Lee, I'm leaning
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now towards a little bit of a Saints Chiefs, alright,
Saints and Chiefs, And I'm gonna get the number for that.
I think it's plus twelve hundred. I think it's a
twelve to one odds right now for Saints Chiefs. And
I'm intrigued by that. Danny h undisclosed location, Danny Lee. Um,
So the number call again is eight four four eight
four three six eight seven nine. And if you want
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to call just to gloat, I'm okay with that. Okay,
Because fantasy football, you work hard for four months sometimes
longer in dynasty leagues and key believes, and it call
came to fruition like over the weekend, last Saturday, Sunday,
and maybe tonight. So if you want to go right ahead,
there you go. We got Ray Ramirez in there, we
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got untouchable j in there. But if you want to gloat,
you'd only be joining your boys. Beedes, the spitting statistician.
I told you about these finals that I was in,
and there was one that you know, I thought it
was gonna be cool because I need to add speeds.
I need to represent the entire stats over Beat Cipher. Right,
So I was in the G S T League, you know,
Expert Industry League. A lot of people know about it.
(28:31):
People in the chat room know about it. Everybody for
uh uh, from Billy Hayes to last year. Remember John
Ross was in there, no doubt. Dexter, thanks for all
that I do. Thank you Dexter in the stats over
beat Cipher for sure. All right, Um, oh okay, Francisco
g you're gonna call. You're gonna call it on Thursday.
That's what's up. But um you can call it all right,
call to gloat. We'll do a whole segment to gloat
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all right on Thursday. But here's the deal, uh, Metal Matt,
put up the GSC one where says speed Cipher that matchup.
Put it up there it is. There's your championship against
Mr Adam Roynas. As you can see, there are no
people left to play on either side, and your boys,
Speeds the Spitting Statistician took down Adam Roynas for the
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championship of the famed Grenned Street Tavern League. You can
take that down. So what you know what that means, people,
is that means that your boy Speeds the Spitting Statistician,
stable genius and vocal minority just one that league and
one net cash. And that was a cool couple of
grand guys. We got some gees coming my way, all right,
(29:37):
So thank you. Uh so, if you want to call
the gloat, it's okay. You wouldn't be alone. I'm gloating
as well. It's absolutely okay. I see a lot of
people out there to shout out to me. Thank you
to everybody. Now let's put up the other one, which
is very very interesting, Metal Matt, because this people, this
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is the final right now as it stands for the
stats over beats League championship. All right, John G, who
everybody knows Tampa pick six has been dominant, was in
first place. All right, it's down by point five, okay
to the Crypto Toker, who was a great team all year.
Everyone knew about the John G and Jilly Dilley who
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was in second place, but the Crypto Toker was a
strong third place team all year long. Is up by
half a point and both teams have their quarterback going
on Monday Night Football, Aaron Rodgers and Kirk Cousins. Who
do y'all think of win that matchup? You could take
that off. We'll talk about it when we come back.
All right, I think it's going to be very interesting.
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We'll talk about that will profile Monday Night Football and
anybody who wants to talk to the Spin Statistician. Phone
lines are open hot at your Boy, but its episode
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be drop their little outcast, little bombs over bad Dad
as we come back, episode four hundred twenty seven of
the Fantasy Freestyle right here on Sports Grid. I see
the caller. We're gonna get to the caller on a
hot second. Anybody else who wants to get down, just
hold tight. It is a special call in fact, to
be quite honest, But I do want to get out there.
If anybody is playing Week seventeen. Some waiver wire things
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that you can add. Some guys that are out there
right now at the running back position. Gus Edwards is
a guy I'd be interested in. Okay, you already know
mark Ingram went down. You already know the starters weren't playing.
But this Baltimore Ravens run offense. They're plugging play. Okay,
I'll take whoever's out there for Baltimore against Pittsburgh on Sunday.
Gus Edwards is only owned in ten percent of leagues.
If you want that, if they go ahead and sign
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Beast Mode Marshawn Lynch in Seattle, that's viable as well.
And then you gotta look at other spots where they
may be like shutting guys down, you know, like that
Indian that colts Jags game, for example, or in Detroit
where carry on our guy, carry on, Johnson, carry on.
You know, they may be getting more of a workload
at the wide receiver position. I would go to Greg
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Ward at this point, he's only nine percent owned. If
you lost somebody that you need and you need, like
DJ Moore went down for you or something like that,
and you're in a where a two week final, Greg
Ward at this point, you gotta go. You gotta go
to He's been good in his fill in duty for
Philadelphia and the same thing for tight end. Go to
Dallas Goddard people, he's fifty owned. He's at this point.
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I mean he had twelve targets yesterday, nine for nine
and a touchdown. I mean, come on people. Um, that's
where I would go if I were you, guys, if
you still needed some if you needed specific guys, if
you're in a situation like that. I know not a
lot of people don't play Week seventeen or your rosters
are locked, But listen, I'm trying to cater to everybody
all different formats here. So if you do when you're
in a in a bind, feel free to hollow at
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your boy eight for four, four, three, six, seven nine.
We have, however, one of the finalists and stats over
beats League. It sounds like we got on the line
right now, Yang right, we got Christian. It sounds like Christian,
you're on the line. Uh, what's going on? Christian? Uh?
How do you feel tonight? It looks like I think
you have Rogers. You're up by half a point, but
you're facing Kirk Cousins. It's gonna be a tight one.
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How you feeling, Christian? Oh? Alright, alright, you think you're
gonna wind up winning this one? I mean this is
a tight one because I could see this going either way. Honestly,
I know you got a half a point lead, right,
but it couldn't go either way. It's like, what fifty
fifty pretty much, right, Chris, dude, it is today. I
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can't believe it came down. I know it's when I
was looking at a Christian it was so hysterical and
I was like, oh wait, and they'll both have quarterbacks.
And then he had um John g R Boy Tampa
pick six. He had Tyreek Hill last night right because
you were up on him. But then he had Tyreek
Hill Monday last night to kind of catch up and
got right to even with you. So it's gonna be
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a bond burner. Let me ask you this, Christian, and
thanks for calling in. Would you do this? And sometimes
I do like the hedge bet. Okay, so you have
Aaron Rodgers, right, would you consider doing this Christian betting
like the prop bets all on the unders of Aaron Rodgers,
like betting that he won't throw a touchdown, betting that
he'll throw under whatever his prop bet is for yards,
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betting that he'll throw interceptions. This way, if Aaron Rodgers
defecates the mattress and you don't win the Status over
Beat league, at least you win a little bit of
cash on the side for your prop bets. And if
your prop bets lose. That means Aaron rod just had
a good game and you probably are the first ever
champion of the Stats over Beats League. Would you ever
do that bet against your guy to win a little
bit of extra sidecash? Uh, that's the negative. All right,
(35:12):
You're gonna go all in. You're gonna go all in
with your boy to win the first stever Stats over
Beats League. Well, listen, you've been a very good team
all season long. You in third place, humming along, and
we'll see if if Aaron Rodgers delivers it for you.
I gotta tell you, Christian, I will say this. I'm
on green Bay to win this game. I'm on Green
Bay to win this game. I am on Green Bay
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to win this game. I think they are a better team,
especially without the running game. Listen, I'll talk to you,
but I'll talk about it a little bit at the
end of this segment. But I am on green Bay
to win this game. Give a shout out to anybody
in the cipher you want to give a shout out,
Say happy Holidays to anybody. Uh, you you're here. You
are a potential champion of the first stever Stats over
Beats League. So anybody you want to shout out there, Christian, Yes, man,
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I would I would love to give a set out
to the Sullivan my boys, Danny Ray Angel, yeah, Ricky,
and I want to give a special thanks to my
mom my girl for sure, but to shout out to
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Elvin Mendoilly down number. Yeah dude, Yeah, we're a little
cars and there was special Thank you for telling this absolutely,
Thank you so much, Christian. To you. You know you're
getting something neither running rup Ward Championship money. So check
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that venmore that PayPal account later on this week and
we'll absolutely for sure and we'll absolutely work to have
everybody who was in here back next year. Thanks for
the call, Christian, and thanks again obviously to the stats
over beat cipher right it's the holiday season, he shouted
out everybody. Thanks again, thanks for the call, Christian. Also
want to tell everybody um in the pit league remember
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our staff league where I was in the semifinals and
there was a little bit of a weird reseeing that
went on. Our man, e Y, Eric Young is gonna
take it down. Okay, he beat George Kurtz in the final.
Our guy, George Kurtz put it on him. E Y
with a huge year had a great year when nine
and four was tied for first all season long, and
then stomped people in the playoffs, beat me in the semifinals,
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put up a big number against me, and put up
another big number against George Kurtz. He was the best
team over the last month. So we tip our cap
to e Y the Soul Crush Express. George Kurtz was
second in that league. I was playing Jim Day third.
I want to ask you guys about this. I want
to ask you guys about this. I was playing Jim
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Day and after the four o'clock games yesterday, I still
had one player left to go, and Jim Day was done.
He was done. I had one player left to go
and he was beating me by one ain't eight points, okay,
But the one player I still had left was the
Kansas City defense, and so I needed two points out
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of the defense. You only get whole points from the defense, right,
So I needed two points. My other defense was Buffalo,
who had gotten two points. You know. Like I felt
good about it, but then Jim Day hits me up
on Twitter being like, Yo, congrats for your victory against me,
and I was like, who wha wha wha, whoa, I've
be't beating you yet because defense is can't even score
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negative points. He was like, l O, well you'd have
to score. I was like, na, no, no, I need
to I need two points to beat you. I love
Jim Day, but I thought he was putting a like
reverse psychology guy boss on me man, And I was like, whoa,
I can't be responding to this. How do you guys
feel about that? In the chat room? Let me know,
because I was like, yo, I don't know if he's
trying to like mess with my mojo or something like that.
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He told me that I had already beaten him, but
I hadn't you know what I mean? And then um,
ultimately still, yes, the Kansas City defense did enough. I
did wind up winning. So that's another league where I
when I'm getting a little bit of cash in the
prize money, bronze medal in that league we did all right,
all right, let's talk about this game. Let's talk about
this game. Tom pierces in the chat room saying Green
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Bay running backs will go off all right? Um oh,
untouchable Jay said, so the bench of those teams of
which teams of my uh my gs t league. I
had Danny Dimes on the bench yesterday I had I
had a Raheem Mostert on my bench in my championship
winning team. But in any event, I digress. UM. So
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thanks and much love to Jim day e Y, George
Kurtz and everybody in the pitam Misery League. But by
the way, that's me play Yang because Yang always like
to talk that smack early on in the season. You know,
Yango talk smack to me. Fantasy baseball. I'm beating you.
I'm beating you. Then it comes to the playoffs. I'm man,
he's not fantasy football. Yo, what's up? I'm ahead of you.
You're not doing too good. Come to the playoffs. He's like,
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oh I fell off here. I am getting money out
the league. But I digress. Monday Night Football UM Minnesota
Vikings host in Green Bay Packers. They are four and
a half point favorites. As of now, it looks like, yep,
still four and a half. It opened the five and
a half. Okay, so there's money coming in on Green Bay.
Maybe that's a reaction to the UM the Dalvin Cook
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and it is now official. Alexander Madison is inactive for
this game as well, the total is hovering around for
is that forty six and a half? All right? Remember
we've been talking about these divisional unders, these primetime unders
a lot. I think this game might lean that way
as well. I take you back. My narrative all year
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and for this show has been balanced, and that the
team that has balance will be able to, you know,
still be able to be efficient throwing the ball. And
if you lose your balance, if you're not able to
run the ball, it's gonna be a problem. All right.
And so my leading thing here is I don't know
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if Minnesota's gonna be able to have the balance that
they've enjoyed all season. Law, Dalvin Cook is the top
five rusher in the NFL. Okay, I take you back
to Week two when these guys played last time around. Okay,
green Bay won that game. Um, green Bay won that
game sixteen. So green Bay won that game by five.
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Dalvin Cook went berserk in that game. In Week two,
Dalvin Cook had twenty carries for a hundred and fifty
four yards and a touchdown. He also cut three balls
for another thirty seven yards. Dalvin Cook had a hundred
and ninety one scrimmage yards in that game. Okay, Alexander
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Madison went four for five in that game, so the
running backs had you know, over two hundred scrimmage yards.
I'd say that was balance. Okay, they still lost that
game the Green Bay I'm worried. Everyone loves Mike Boone
and in the chat room, you know, uh, Dexter needs
fifteen points and he may get points. But the question is,
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remember what happens for the real team and the fantasy
team of two separate things. I say it all the
time with volume throwing. I say it all the time
with target share the fantasy heard and I'm gonna say
it was providing balance at the running back. I don't know.
I don't know that Boone is gonna be able to
provide the balance. And the way you want to do it.
You want to run against Green Bay. You don't want
to necessarily throw. And I know that Zimmer. I heard
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Gabe say that he's got the best all time record
against the spread, and that's all well and good. I
know Minnesota is a much better team at home. I
know their defense is a better defense at home. This
game will be at home, unlike the first game Week
two in Green Bay. I know all of that, I
also know that I don't trust Kirk Cousins in prime
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time spots or in big spots. I also know that
I trust Aaron Rodgers to rip out the heart and
soul of his division opponents. And I also think that
the Minnesota Vikings may lack some of the balance in
the run game that they've had in the previous weeks.
I am weary that Kirk Cousins may have to become
a volume thrower, and if that is the case, I
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don't think that is a good thing for the Minnesota Vikings.
So for this game, I lean with it at four
and a half points to five or whatever it is.
I lean to the points, and the Green Bay side
give me Green Bay plus two points in this game.
I also lean under in this game. I think both
teams are going to try to establish the run. They're
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going to try to have that balance. They're going to
try to keep Davante Adams and Adam DeLand and Stefon
Diggs and the throwing attacks, and unfortunately the Crypto Tooker
and the Tampa Picks six is quarterbacks from their passing
yards that they need. I think the running game is
going to try to be the leading indicator, but unfortunately,
I don't think it will be effective for the Minnesota Vikings,
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and I think Kirk Cousins will become a volume thrower.
The prop bet that I saw was Kirk Cousins thirty
one and half attempts. That is too low to me.
I think they're going to half to the throw because
the Packers, I think are going to get up to
stop Mike Boone, Amira Bulah, c J Ham or whoever
(44:14):
it is. And then I think Cousins is gonna have
to throw. I like Green Bay to win the NFC North.
I like them to win this game. Take it plus
the four and a half or five, and my prop bit,
I think Cousins becomes a volume thrower because Boone can't
provide the balance over thirty one and a half attempts
for Kirk Cousins. My man Scott Wetzel's coming in next.
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We got in game live Gabe Morancy at the meadow
Lands and listen, I know people are gonna win their
fantasy championship based on what happens tonight if it's Mike
Boone and in our league we got her Cousins and
Aaron Rodgers going head to head with only a half
of points separating them untouchable j My leading prop is
(44:56):
Kirk Cousins over thirty one and a half attempts. I
like Aaron Jones as well to get into the end
zone anytime touchdown. I'll be back on Thursday if you
want to call and gloat like your boys Speeds who
took down industry leagues. How does it feel? Honest? You know?
I love you alright? In Game Live is up next
year on Sports Grid. We'll be back on Thursday to
(45:17):
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fifty freestyle Tedwards, he's got would be interested in. Okay,
(46:03):
you already know mark Ingram went down. You know already
know the starters weren't playing. But this Baltimore Ravens run offense,
they're plugging play. Okay, I'll take whoever's out there for
Baltimore against Pittsburgh on Sunday. Gust Edwards is only owned
in ten percent of leagues. If you want that, if
they go ahead and sign Beast Mode Marshawn Lynch in Seattle,
that's viable as well. And then you gotta look at
other spots where they may be like shutting guys down,
you know, like that Indian that colts Jags game, for example,
(46:26):
or in Detroit where carry on our gout, carry on, Johnson,
carry on. On. You know, they may be getting more
of a workload at the wide receiver position. I would
go to Greg Ward at this point, he's only nine
percent owned. If you lost somebody that you need and
you need like DJ Moore went down for you or
something like that, and you're in a where a two
week final Greg Ward at this point, you gotta go.
(46:46):
You gotta go to He's been good in his fill
in duty for Philadelphia and the same thing for tight End.
Go to Dallas Goddard people, he's fifty owned, he's at
this point. I mean he had twelve targets yesterday, nine
and a touchdown. I mean, come on, people, Um, that's
where I would go if I with you, guys, if
you still needed some if you needed specific guys, if
you're in a situation like that, I know not a
lot of people don't play week seventeen or your rosters
are locked, But listen, I'm trying to cater to everybody
(47:08):
all different formats here. So if you do, when you're
in a in a bind, feel free to hollow at
your boy for six seven nine. We have, however, one
of the finalists and stats over beats League. It sounds
like we got on the line right now, Yang right,
we got Christian. It sounds like Christian, you're on the line.
What's going on? Christian? Uh? How do you feel tonight?
It looks like I think you have Rogers. You're up
by half a point, but you're facing Kirk Cousins. It's
(47:30):
gonna be a tight one. How you feel like? Christian? Alright? Alright?
You think you're gonna wind up winning this one. I mean,
this is a tight one because I could see this
going either way. Honestly, I know you got a half
a point lead, right, but it couldn't go either way.
It's like what pretty much right, Chris, dude? It is.
I can't believe it came down. I know it. When
(47:53):
I was looking at it, Christian, it was so hysterical
and I was like, oh wait, and they'll both have quarterbacks.
And then he had um John g your boy timp
pick six. He had Tyreek Hill last night right because
you were up on him. But then he had Tyreek
Hill Monday last night to kind of catch up and
got right to even with you. So it's gonna be
a bond burner. Let me ask you this, Christian, and
thanks for calling in. Would you do this? And sometimes
I do like the hedge bet? Okay, so you have
(48:14):
Aaron Rodgers, right, would you consider doing this Christian betting
like the prop bets all on the unders of Aaron Rodgers,
like betting that he won't throw a touchdown, betting that
he'll throw under whatever his prop bet is for yards,
betting that he'll throw interceptions this way. If Aaron Rodgers
defecates the mattress and you don't win the Stats over
Beats League. At least you win a little bit of
(48:34):
cash on the side for your prop bets. And if
your prop bets lose, that means Aaron Rodgers had a
good game and you probably are the first ever champion
of the Stats over Beats League. Would you ever do
that bet against your guy to win a little bit
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of the best yet, Martinez, you know what it is.
It's your boy, Dame Martinez, a k A. Speeds, a
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(00:42):
Genius and vocal Minority. And welcome to another edition of
the Fantasy Freestyle right here on the Sports Grid Network,
episode number four hundred and twenty seven, the four hundred
and twenty seven convening of the Stats Overbeat Cipher. And
it is a very special one because if you are
are still here, maybe just hopefully, either you are three
(01:04):
hours away from it or maybe you already have one
your league and one that cash. And I got people
hitting me up on social media left and right that Yo,
I won my league and won net cash. Yo, I
won my league and won net cash. And I know
some people are going to after Monday night football tonight
with the Minnesota Vikings and the Green Bay Packers. Will
(01:26):
tell you what I think about that. Some prop bets
to play just in case you didn't get your cash
in season long, you can still do it on any
Monday night. Football will get you ready for that. Also,
you have to acknowledge there are still some people who
play in week seventeen. So I gotta give you a
couple of things that Speed's got right, a couple of
things that Speed's got wrong, and even some people on
(01:47):
the waiver wire. We will also talk about some of
the league's we have been following for a long time.
All right, we will talk about you know these Remember
I was in two finals, I was in four semifinals,
fo finals. I'll let you know how we did. Knows.
We've got the Stats Overbeats final and by the way, people,
it has not been decided yet. Okay, so we are
(02:10):
we are going to find out who will win first
ever Stats Overbeats league. But we got a whole lot
of other stuff to do, okay, because the cycle just
keeps turning, right, So we have to talk about who
got banged up, who laid duds, and what that means
for you moving forward in fantasy or in other ways.
If you're capping the games, if you're gonna play DFS regardless,
(02:30):
Dwayne Haskins with that ankle. He got carded off the field.
That looks like he's gonna be you know, obviously they
don't have any more games left. It was the worst
thing possible, right. I'm glad he avoided catastrophic injury that
would you know, be surgery or something that he had
to you know, impact his offseason program. But still the
ankle doesn't look good. Spa, he'll be gone for a week.
Seven teen Spencer wear out with a shoulder. James Conner
(02:52):
with a thigh. A lot of people were riding him
now that he was back with the Pittsburgh Steelers, thought
that he would have a shot to deliver a fantasy championship.
I had shares of James Conner in a championship matchup.
I'll tell you if I want to lost that one
a little bit later on zach Ertz with a rib.
This one could be very interesting, Okay, for a number
of reasons. One, Earth is clearly a championship caliber tight
(03:14):
end for your fantasy team. There are probably some big
deal teams that have zach arts. But also, you know,
it was the emergence of Dallas Goddard, as we told
you about over the last couple of weeks. And also
Jordan Howard is trending like he may be coming back
for the Philadelphia Eagles against the New York Football Giants
coming up in week six seventeen after come back from
that shoulder injury. D J. Moore in the Concussion Protocol,
(03:36):
Corey Davis in the Concussion Protocol, Kyler Murray with a
hamstring Now they said he also avoided catastrophic injury and
that it's just like kind of a normal strain. We
don't know if he's going to wind up playing in
Week seventeen. They don't have much to play for, so
you know, maybe the better part of judgment is to
keep him on ice for Week seventeen against the Los
Angeles Rams. Keep an eye out for that. We'll give
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you an update on that on the Thursday edition of
Anacy Freestyle. Mark Ingram with the calf injury. That's a
big one because listen, they've got they're calling it maybe
a three week thing. They're gonna arrest them this week regardless.
Then they have the bye week, right so right there
for divisional matchup. They are now hopeful that he'll be
okay for a divisional matchup. But remember They've got so
many other running backs and that scheme is kind of
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plug and play guys like Gus Edwards, guys like even
Justice Hill. All right, so they have plenty of options
over there. Will fully reaggravated that groin injury. It looks
like he's gonna miss some time now. And even you
know Houston in the playoffs, it's looking like he is
going to miss time. We'll see if that has impact.
You know, they at least have this week. Um, they're
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locked in. They're gonna make the playoffs because their w
on Saturday, big knock to the Seattle Seahawks running game.
I think Seattle, more than any other team maybe had
the worst Week six team. They lost Chris Carson to
a hip injury. He gone rest of the season. They
lost c J Process, the backup out of the backfield,
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to an arm injury. He gone. We're getting reports people
that maybe Beast Mode Marshawn Lynch is flying up to Seattle.
He may work out and sign a deal. Jay A
g i E was cut today by the Eagles. Maybe
he goes out to Seattle. Seattle, we know this. They
have a huge game next week that's been flexed to
Sunday night against the San Francisco forty Niners. But they're
in the playoffs, right, So will it be you know,
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with a by getting somebody time to get caught up
to speed, or will they be playing and turn around
and you know, traveling to uh potentially a Philly or
Dallas for a wild card game without these running backs.
They also lost tackle Dwayne Brown. That's a huge offensive line.
Last Seattle got beat up bad in this game, and
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then they went ahead and lost to the Arizona Cardinals,
giving the seat San Francisco forty Niners the kind of
inside track on the NFC West Division and quite frankly
a bye in the NFC. Talking about in week seventeen,
one of the things that we're going to have to
be talking about is like where resting their team their
players are not certainty. Teams are have already come out
and said they will probably rest some of their stoughts.
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Baltimore has said this, we will not see Lamar Jackson.
His m v P regular season is over. We'll probably
not see We're not gonna see Ingram, We're not gonna
see something Earl tom As some of their linemen. Okay,
I think Mark Andrews got a little bit gimpy, might
not see him. However, the Houston Texans, they are gonna
play their guys. They were Bill O'Brien's already come out
and said, guys like DeAndre Hopkins, Kenny Stills, they are
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going to play. Deshaun Watson is going to play Week
sixteen against the Tennessee Titans. Now, remember Tennessee needs that
game to win to uh make the playoffs. Okay, if
they lose win, If they lose, excuse me, and Pittsburgh wins,
then it would in fact be Pittsburgh. We also got
a big poll question up. All right, I got a
poll question up at spitting speed. You can always check him.
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Because I thought about the Tennessee game, makes me think
about New Orleans and what Michael Thomas has done this year.
He broke the all time record and he still has
a game to play. He's got a hundred and forty
five catches. So I ask you, if you're in a
PPR format next year, where are your drafting Michael Thomas?
Are you drafting Michael Thomas? Literally? First, overall, it's been
a while since the wide receiver really was in consideration
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from true number one to overall. Would you draft him
first overall? Would you draft him somewhere in the top
five maybe like you did with a guy like DeAndre
Hopkins or Antonio Brown in in recent years. Would you
just take him no, just late first round because you say, hey,
maybe I can get that production from other wide outs
like Julio Jones or DeAndre or someone else that you
think could have send and be in that level next year.
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Or are you someone who, like you, don't go wide
receiver in the first round. You just get that that
work horse running back in the first round. Let me know, okay,
right now, you say that Michael Thomas is a first
round top five pick. Interesting, that's kind of where like
Alvin Kamara was last year? Has he passed Alvin Camara?
Let mean know at spitting speeds my takeaways, what speeds
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hundred and twenty seven of the Fantasy Freestyle right here
on sports Grid. Good to see so many members of
the stats Overbeat site from the chat room as always,
Jilly Dilley, the Henderson family, my man Danny Lee from
an undisclosed location. Hey, Danny, No, I have not yet
gotten the package, okay, but it's probably coming in a
couple of days. Don't sweat that. Snorkel Ops in the building.
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You're right about James Conner. He's certainly not the terminator.
It's like he's made of Mr Glass. I agree, and
you know what, m HM? Does that carry forward for
you for next year? Snorkel Ops and others? Are you
gonna like this year? Connor was a top ten running
back going into fantasy drafts. Right He was like RB
seven eight nine, A lot of people. His production is
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still there when he's there, Right, He's still gonna be
the lead back of a Pittsburgh Steelers offense with big
Ben back likely. Right, Let's say he's ranked as like
an RB eleven and you're there at the turn and
James Conner is there? Do you pass on James Connor
because of the injury history and like the injury prone nous?
You know, because I would ask you, what about a
(09:37):
guy like Dalvin Cook? Do you pass on him because
of injury prone nous? It's an interesting question to me.
And then Tom Pierce, Yeah, I'm talking about top three
from Michael Thomas, like who would it be? Right, Christian McCaffrey,
do you go back to Sa Kwan even though it
just what about say Kwan Barkley yesterday? Huh? Right, further
removed from the ankle injury, looking good, he's probably still
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a top three, top five pick. Someone in the chat
room was talking to me about what about Kenyan Drake.
I don't know if I would count on him again
to have this over the course of a full year,
but maybe he could be an RB one next year.
You go back to a guy like Zeke I mentioned
Cook What about a guy like Lamar. Someone's gonna take
Lamar in the first round of draft next year, right,
So does Michael Thomas fit in there? Guys like Miles Sanders,
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that's interesting, you know, I like other ascending running backs.
What about a guy like a Devin Singletary. And obviously
there's others, you know, don't forget about guys like obviously
Todd Gurley, lev Bell. You know where all these people,
Alvin Kamara, you know, we know about this, Aaron Jones
who was playing tonight, um. But where Thomas fits in
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there is pretty interesting. But not even let me when
we talk about takeaways. You know, let's let's talk about
what big takeaways, what we got right, what we got wrong?
And honestly, you know, we'll save the Michael Thomas. But
you know, I want to talk about this because tanking,
and it has been such a big issue all year.
Players don't tank. Look at that Cincinnati Miami game. First
of all, you think Andy Dalton is tanking because he
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wants the Bengals to draft Joe Burrow to replace him. No,
he goes out there and throws three nineties yards and
four touchdowns. Players ain't tanking, Okay, you think Ryan Fitzpatrick
has a tanking bone in his body. Coaches don't take Okay,
you see Flores for Miami all season long. He's been
getting it after it, yelling at officials, going hard, guys
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playing for him. Teams don't tank what players don't tank.
Coaches don't tank. They are preparing, They are working their
ass off. You know who tanks though front offices and
general managers. That's why you'll see a team like Cincinnati
go to Ryan Finley to evaluate him. That's why you'll
see Miami go ahead and trade everyone. That's how they
(11:47):
were trying to tank. Okay, and think about it. They
traded away Kenny Stills useful for Houston, Jeremy tunsl why
excuse me, Laramie Tunsel useful for Houston. DeVante Parker it though,
decided to keep him Gaze didn't like him. Now he's
blowing up signing an extension. Uh minca Fitzpatrick, they like
all him now he's a consideration for Defensive Player of
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the Year. That's how you tank. All right. I'm gonna
tell you also, a big takeaway from me, this quarterback
Merry go Round is gonna be very interesting in the
off season. Okay, add Now Derek Carr potentially, Okay, they've
been talking about he. They may be in the market
four quarterback add Jamis potentially. Okay, we're here. Oh, they're
gonna franchise tag him before the game on Saturday. Then
Bruce arians after the game saying, now I don't know,
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I don't know about that. We may be in the marketplace.
All right, we're gonna do it one day. We'll do
a full on thing one day of like all the teams,
all the musical chair stops, and all the potential quarterbacks
they may be out there. It's gonna be very interesting.
Same with head coaches. And I also one of my
big takeaways, you know, I was talking with Ariel Epstein,
our homegirl who you guys see on a lot of shows.
Now we do Put Football Today together. She's on the
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Morning After as well. Um, we were talking on Saturday
because she was wondering about them putting Daniel Jones back
out there, and I was like, no, you gotta get
him the reps. And she was like, well, what about
the injury concerned? What if he gets hurt? And I
was like, yeah, but the only thing you'd be risk
is if he has a really bad injury, and then
what do you know, rookie Kyler Murray gets hurt, pulled
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a hamstring. It's not the bad injury though. And then
Dwayne Haskins, though, gets carded off the field with an
ankle injury. And that's a problem, right, And it's always
we talked about this in preseason, like are you gonna
get hurts? Why should they be out there? Same kind
of thing. Now do they learn? Do they get better?
Remember Baker at the end of the year last year,
Remember uh Sam Donald at the end of the year
last year, or you know, or should a guy like
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Haskins not be out there right now? A guy like
Danny Dimes, a guy like Kyler Murray? Should they not
be out there right now? And that's something that's interesting.
We're gonna hear a lot about that going into this
week as people are getting shut down or rested. So
I think that's interesting. Let's talk about some things that
Speed's got right. Okay, and let me tell you something.
The number one thing that I got right, and I've
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been talking about this for the last couple of weeks,
and now, Sandro, if you're down there in the pit, Yang,
if you're down there there in the pit. Remember that
I've been saying this, because you're gonna start to hear
more and more people talk about this. I was early
a couple of weeks ago, telling y'all look out for
the Kansas City Chiefs defense, all right. I was saying
that their defense has been playing a lot better. Everybody's
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on Baltimore. Everyone knows about the Chiefs offense. I'm saying
that the Kansas City defense is what makes them live
in the a f C. They are still plus seven
fifty elect eight to one odds to win the Super Bowl,
and I am listen, I'm not on New England. Everybody
is on Baltimore. So the pivot for me is Kansas
City and Mahomes is getting healthier and that defense is
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getting better and better. They gave up three points at
Chicago after a three points the follow the previous week
against I believe it was Denver. They're averaging less than
ten points a game against them in the last five
or six weeks. Tyron Matthew the honey Badger. He don't
give a damn. And I've been saying for the last
couple of weeks. A Steve Spagnolo new defense takes a
while to get the arn't okay, and now they're doing
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a lot. I'm telling you this Chief's defense, if it
continues to improve, makes them very dangerous. I've been telling
you about that. I got that one right. I hope
you are listening to me about this another thing that
Speed's got right. I told you about the Eagles. First
of all, I had the Eagles winning that game. I've
been telling you for weeks that I thought the Eagles
would still win the a F NFC East, mostly because
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of the schedule, and then that this game yesterday was
at Philly and that did matter. Okay, But I've been
saying with the Eagles and a ton of teams, Okay,
what has been my narrative almost all season. If you're
real deal stats over beat Cipher, it's the idea about
how the run game must be there to provide balance
because you don't want your quarterback turning into a volume thrower. Yeah,
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that's cool for fantasy if you have Philip Rivers or
Matt Ryan or Jared Goff or Carson Wentz, one of
these guys who might put it up forty five times
Jamis Winston, But that doesn't help the real team. Well,
the Eagles have found balance. And remember how I said,
I thought, Jordan, how it was that balance. And then
over the course of the last couple of weeks, I
was like, listen, Miles Sanders is great and all right,
(16:06):
and I said, Miles Sanders was getting more and more
in the receiving game. But then over the last couple
of weeks, I had Miles Sanders in my DFS lineup
and I was like, Miles Sanders, if he can provide balance,
this is gonna be big for the Philadelphia Eagles. Well,
what do you know, Speed's got that right, Okay, because
Miles Sanders got twenty carries and it's about the touches.
It's about the commitment to the run game. Miles Sanders
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twenty nine carries, seventy twenty carries seventy nine yards and
a touchdown, another five catches in seventy seven yards in
the receiving game. Okay, a total of a hundred and
fifties six yards from scrimmage and a touchdown on twenty
five touches. That is giving you balance. Now, what happens
even though Eagles only scored seventeen points, Look what happens whence. Yeah,
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he puts it up a lot, but a seventy six
percent completion percentage when he goes thirty one forty. And
you need that run threat, especially guys like Earth's and Godard.
You need those linebackers respecting the run, whether it's Miles
Sanders or Jordan Howard. I told you all about how
he represented this balance for the Eagles and how that
was going to be important, and what do you know,
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they win a big NFC's divisional slate and pull into
the driver's seat for the NFC's divisional title over the Cowboys.
Another defense I told you about was the Indianapolis Colts
last week. I said, I like the Colts defense potentially
as a stream I was giving you guys those in
the waiver wires, and if you picked them up and
faded Will Greer, well, not only did you get three
interceptions from Will Greer, not only did you get five
(17:31):
sacks by that Colt defense, but you got not one,
but two hunt returns for our touchdowns from Nahem Hinds.
If you listen to your boys speeds and you picked
up the Indianapolis Colts as a streaming defensive defense, I
told you I had a time you could have gotten
You probably won your championship matchup, but it wasn't all smiles. Okay,
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I must admit Speeds got some things wrong. We will
acknowledge what I got wrong. We'll check in on the pole.
And for those of y'all who need to play a
little bit of Week seventeen, if you got banged out
and a lot of people did get hurt, whether it
was Connor or Urts or d J. Moore, at every position,
there were people that got banged out, So I will
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help you. Okay, what we got wrong? And then we
looked at the wave of wire. When we come back,
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towards the end of this segment. For the last final segment,
if you want to you know, wish happy holidays to
the cipher. If you want to uh if you have
something for week six seventeen that you need uh sit
starts someone got hurt, something like that, you know will
help you out when you're leaving when their cash, or
if you want to gloat, If you want to gloat,
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you could do that as well. I know some stats
over beats members uh man some championships that they want,
so we'll do that in the next segment as well.
In the chat room, Dexter is trying to rally everybody
in the chat room to need Mike boone tonight. He
needs about fifteen points for him to win his league
and win that cash snore kele Ops Um, very good
questions Snoops asking me what about because I did say this,
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Jordan Howard does look like his trending back for a
game against the Giants here weeks seventeen. Jordan Howard because
is the early down back, all right, Jordan Howard is
the between the tackles early down back. Remember, earlier in
the season, Miles Sanders was more of a PPR guy.
Now Miles Sanders will get some carries too, but Jordan
Howard takes his role back in my opinion, of being
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the early down between the tackles runner for the Philadelphia Eagles,
and they may need them against the New York Giants
because that Giants offense will score some points gainst Philadelphia
on Sunday. All right, but Speed's got some things wrong.
Got to admit it, got to acknowledge it. The first
thing is, every time we've been talking about coaches that
I think are gonna get fired, I've included Atlanta's dan Quinn.
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And Atlanta is now won three games in a row.
They've put it into my eye a little bit. I
thought that they were kind of unraveling. Remember I was
on Atlanta early in the season. Early in the season
when I was on their thirteen home games, and I
thought they were gonna take a step forward. I was
on Atlanta to be, you know, a playoff team. Um,
and then they started off really bad. It started to unravel.
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Matt Ryan got banged up, Freeman got banged up, and
then I thought dan Quinn was gonna lose his job.
There was a lot of smoke out there about that.
They've been playing for him. Okay, they've won three in
a row. Remember they had that big time come from
behind win against at San Francisco and then they beat
Jacksonville yesterday. What was it though, And my narrative stage true.
The balance was back twenty carries combined from Hill and
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Freeman a hundred and nineteen yards. They had the balance.
So Matt Ryan, yea, he puts it up, but he
completes over sevent of him. That's what happens when you
have balanced. Julio another big time game, ten catches for
one sixties six. I got that one wrong. They may
be playing for dan Quinn. They may care about him
a little bit more than I thought. Maybe he wasn't
dead man walking. Also, here's another thing, you know, I
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thought that Saints offense was not going to be as
good outdoors against Tennessee on the grass, but they put
it on me. I mean, breeze that his thing. Kamara,
finally a little bit out of mothballs, had seventeen touches
a hundred and ten yards from scrimmage. Maybe with Camara
it's kind of like what we've been talking about with
Todd Gurley, and they're kind of doing the load management,
and they're saving him a little bit because they do
have designs on playing multiple games in January. Okay, so
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maybe they're just starting to get him going. But Michael
Thomas is the story right now. A hundred and forty
five catches on the season, eight yards, nine touchdowns. But
here's the thing. I'm gonna give you a couple of
other stats, and I think are absolutely ridiculous. He has
his hundred forty five catches on a hundred and seventy
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six targets. That's eight two completion rate. Drew Brees is
completing eighty two percent of the balls he throws to
Michael Thomas. Excuse me, Drew Brees and Teddy Bridgewater and
Taysom Hill or whoever else is throwing him the damn ball,
and he's averaging eleven point six yards per reception. So
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let me say this again. What that means is, if
the Saints decide to throw the ball to Michael Thomas,
it is an eighty two percent proposition that he will
catch a general average eleven and a half yards. You
throw it to Michael Thomas three times, you get a
first down. You know, it's absolutely crazy. And here's another
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ridiculous stat from what Michael Thomas is doing. To remember,
here's the records for the most catches all time in
the first five years of a career. Jarvis Landry has
the record foe catches in the first five years of
his career. Larry Fitzgerald for Tory Holt for three, A. J.
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Green for fifteen, Julio for fourteen, Randy Moss for fourteen.
Some pretty good names, right. Remember I said Jarvis Landry
was first at four av one, Larry Fitzgerald was second
at four six. Larry Fitzgerald is not second. Michael Thomas
is already second with four sixty six. But I said
this was the first five seasons. Michael Thomas has one
game left of his fourth season, okay, and he may
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with another, you know, normal game for him catch another
what fourteen balls tie Jarvis Landry for the most of
all time for five seasons in his fourth season. I
think it's absolutely ridiculous. Uh, This Saints offense can do
whatever it wants. It scored forty some odd points against
the San Francisco defense. It's gone outside. This team is
going to be very tough to beat. And they got
the inside track for this game's in the end, see
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going through the Dome just like it did last year.
Look out for the New Orleans Saints right now. I
may be on a sneaky Saints Chief super Bowl. I
might have to look at see what those odds are
for New Orleans Kansas City super Bowl. I may have
to bet that, all right, Um, And the last thing
that I got wrong that I gotta tell you, remember
a few weeks ago, I've been saying how Jilly Dilley
probably has a note. How I've been saying I wanted
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to get ahead of it and said that I want
the number one wild card team to win at the
NFC East to four seed the NFC East Division champ
in wild Card weekend. I don't know if I want
that anymore, not as a futures bet, because I'm on
this Philly team. And I told you about Carson Wentz,
I told you about Jordan Howard. We see the revelation
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of Sanders. I don't care if Earth has a broken
rib or not. We'll see. We'll learn more about Earth's
and his ribs this week. God are coming back, they
say to Shawn Jackson, may even come back. Okay, but
what if it's Seattle. Seattle may wind up be in
that five seat. I'm worried about this running back position.
I'm worried about the sensive line injuries. Let's say San
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Francisco beats them next week and Seattle is the five seed,
they would travel to Philadelphia. Well, guess what a couple
of weeks ago they traveled to Philadelphia and they won
nineteen to seven in a very close game. Right, But
this would be a team now with the Eagles that
would be getting more healthy, the Seahawks getting less healthy.
And to continue what I'm saying is my narrative the
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entire time. Remember volume throwing. What would happen in those
teams if Carson Wentz did not have to become a
volume thrower, could complete seventies scent of his balls. And
what if Russell Wilson, because of no run game and
no balance, does have to become a volume thrower. I
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don't know that I'm saying Eagles could win this or
that they'll even we who knows, they may not even
win the division. But I'm saying, you don't want to
get ahead of yourself anymore. I'm causing I'm pausing all
of that because I think the Eagles may have found something. Now,
could they go ahead and defecate the mattress against the
Giants on Sunday? They could? Will the Cowboys beat Washington?
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I think so, even though case Keenum under center maybe
better than Dwayne Haskins. Will see. But I like some
of the things we're seeing with these Philadelphia Eagles. But
for those of you, you know, I said, if you
want to call, and by the way, guys, the number
of call is eight four four eight four three six
eight seven nine. Will put it in the chat room.
The number to call is eight four four eight four
three six eight seven nine. Yeah, Danny Lee, I'm leaning
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now towards a little bit of a Saints Chiefs, alright,
Saints and Chiefs, And I'm gonna get the number for that.
I think it's plus twelve hundred. I think it's a
twelve to one odds right now for Saints Chiefs. And
I'm intrigued by that. Danny h undisclosed location, Danny Lee. Um,
So the number call again is eight four four eight
four three six eight seven nine. And if you want
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to call just to gloat, I'm okay with that. Okay,
Because fantasy football, you work hard for four months sometimes
longer in dynasty leagues and key believes, and it call
came to fruition like over the weekend, last Saturday, Sunday,
and maybe tonight. So if you want to go right ahead,
there you go. We got Ray Ramirez in there, we
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got untouchable j in there. But if you want to gloat,
you'd only be joining your boys. Beedes, the spitting statistician.
I told you about these finals that I was in,
and there was one that you know, I thought it
was gonna be cool because I need to add speeds.
I need to represent the entire stats over Beat Cipher. Right,
So I was in the G S T League, you know,
Expert Industry League. A lot of people know about it.
(28:31):
People in the chat room know about it. Everybody for
uh uh, from Billy Hayes to last year. Remember John
Ross was in there, no doubt. Dexter, thanks for all
that I do. Thank you Dexter in the stats over
beat Cipher for sure. All right, Um, oh okay, Francisco
g you're gonna call. You're gonna call it on Thursday.
That's what's up. But um you can call it all right,
call to gloat. We'll do a whole segment to gloat
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all right on Thursday. But here's the deal, uh, Metal Matt,
put up the GSC one where says speed Cipher that matchup.
Put it up there it is. There's your championship against
Mr Adam Roynas. As you can see, there are no
people left to play on either side, and your boys,
Speeds the Spitting Statistician took down Adam Roynas for the
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championship of the famed Grenned Street Tavern League. You can
take that down. So what you know what that means, people,
is that means that your boy Speeds the Spitting Statistician,
stable genius and vocal minority just one that league and
one net cash. And that was a cool couple of
grand guys. We got some gees coming my way, all right,
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So thank you. Uh so, if you want to call
the gloat, it's okay. You wouldn't be alone. I'm gloating
as well. It's absolutely okay. I see a lot of
people out there to shout out to me. Thank you
to everybody. Now let's put up the other one, which
is very very interesting, Metal Matt, because this people, this
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is the final right now as it stands for the
stats over beats League championship. All right, John G, who
everybody knows Tampa pick six has been dominant, was in
first place. All right, it's down by point five, okay
to the Crypto Toker, who was a great team all year.
Everyone knew about the John G and Jilly Dilley who
(30:18):
was in second place, but the Crypto Toker was a
strong third place team all year long. Is up by
half a point and both teams have their quarterback going
on Monday Night Football, Aaron Rodgers and Kirk Cousins. Who
do y'all think of win that matchup? You could take
that off. We'll talk about it when we come back.
All right, I think it's going to be very interesting.
(30:40):
We'll talk about that will profile Monday Night Football and
anybody who wants to talk to the Spin Statistician. Phone
lines are open hot at your Boy, but its episode
four hundred twenty seven, Billy Dilly, come on back on
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be drop their little outcast, little bombs over bad Dad
as we come back, episode four hundred twenty seven of
the Fantasy Freestyle right here on Sports Grid. I see
the caller. We're gonna get to the caller on a
hot second. Anybody else who wants to get down, just
hold tight. It is a special call in fact, to
be quite honest, But I do want to get out there.
If anybody is playing Week seventeen. Some waiver wire things
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that you can add. Some guys that are out there
right now at the running back position. Gus Edwards is
a guy I'd be interested in. Okay, you already know
mark Ingram went down. You already know the starters weren't playing.
But this Baltimore Ravens run offense. They're plugging play. Okay,
I'll take whoever's out there for Baltimore against Pittsburgh on Sunday.
Gus Edwards is only owned in ten percent of leagues.
If you want that, if they go ahead and sign
(32:14):
Beast Mode Marshawn Lynch in Seattle, that's viable as well.
And then you gotta look at other spots where they
may be like shutting guys down, you know, like that
Indian that colts Jags game, for example, or in Detroit
where carry on our guy, carry on, Johnson, carry on.
You know, they may be getting more of a workload
at the wide receiver position. I would go to Greg
(32:37):
Ward at this point, he's only nine percent owned. If
you lost somebody that you need and you need, like
DJ Moore went down for you or something like that,
and you're in a where a two week final, Greg
Ward at this point, you gotta go. You gotta go
to He's been good in his fill in duty for
Philadelphia and the same thing for tight end. Go to
Dallas Goddard people, he's fifty owned. He's at this point.
(32:59):
I mean he had twelve targets yesterday, nine for nine
and a touchdown. I mean, come on people. Um, that's
where I would go if I were you, guys, if
you still needed some if you needed specific guys, if
you're in a situation like that. I know not a
lot of people don't play Week seventeen or your rosters
are locked, But listen, I'm trying to cater to everybody
all different formats here. So if you do when you're
in a in a bind, feel free to hollow at
(33:21):
your boy eight for four, four, three, six, seven nine.
We have, however, one of the finalists and stats over
beats League. It sounds like we got on the line
right now, Yang right, we got Christian. It sounds like Christian,
you're on the line. Uh, what's going on? Christian? Uh?
How do you feel tonight? It looks like I think
you have Rogers. You're up by half a point, but
you're facing Kirk Cousins. It's gonna be a tight one.
(33:42):
How you feeling, Christian? Oh? Alright, alright, you think you're
gonna wind up winning this one? I mean this is
a tight one because I could see this going either way. Honestly,
I know you got a half a point lead, right,
but it couldn't go either way. It's like, what fifty
fifty pretty much, right, Chris, dude, it is today. I
(34:04):
can't believe it came down. I know it's when I
was looking at a Christian it was so hysterical and
I was like, oh wait, and they'll both have quarterbacks.
And then he had um John g R Boy Tampa
pick six. He had Tyreek Hill last night right because
you were up on him. But then he had Tyreek
Hill Monday last night to kind of catch up and
got right to even with you. So it's gonna be
(34:25):
a bond burner. Let me ask you this, Christian, and
thanks for calling in. Would you do this? And sometimes
I do like the hedge bet. Okay, so you have
Aaron Rodgers, right, would you consider doing this Christian betting
like the prop bets all on the unders of Aaron Rodgers,
like betting that he won't throw a touchdown, betting that
he'll throw under whatever his prop bet is for yards,
(34:47):
betting that he'll throw interceptions. This way, if Aaron Rodgers
defecates the mattress and you don't win the Status over
Beat league, at least you win a little bit of
cash on the side for your prop bets. And if
your prop bets lose. That means Aaron rod just had
a good game and you probably are the first ever
champion of the Stats over Beats League. Would you ever
do that bet against your guy to win a little
bit of extra sidecash? Uh, that's the negative. All right,
(35:12):
You're gonna go all in. You're gonna go all in
with your boy to win the first stever Stats over
Beats League. Well, listen, you've been a very good team
all season long. You in third place, humming along, and
we'll see if if Aaron Rodgers delivers it for you.
I gotta tell you, Christian, I will say this. I'm
on green Bay to win this game. I'm on Green
Bay to win this game. I am on Green Bay
(35:34):
to win this game. I think they are a better team,
especially without the running game. Listen, I'll talk to you,
but I'll talk about it a little bit at the
end of this segment. But I am on green Bay
to win this game. Give a shout out to anybody
in the cipher you want to give a shout out,
Say happy Holidays to anybody. Uh, you you're here. You
are a potential champion of the first stever Stats over
Beats League. So anybody you want to shout out there, Christian, Yes, man,
(35:56):
I would I would love to give a set out
to the Sullivan my boys, Danny Ray Angel, yeah, Ricky,
and I want to give a special thanks to my
mom my girl for sure, but to shout out to
(36:16):
Elvin Mendoilly down number. Yeah dude, Yeah, we're a little
cars and there was special Thank you for telling this absolutely,
Thank you so much, Christian. To you. You know you're
getting something neither running rup Ward Championship money. So check
(36:38):
that venmore that PayPal account later on this week and
we'll absolutely for sure and we'll absolutely work to have
everybody who was in here back next year. Thanks for
the call, Christian, and thanks again obviously to the stats
over beat cipher right it's the holiday season, he shouted
out everybody. Thanks again, thanks for the call, Christian. Also
want to tell everybody um in the pit league remember
(37:00):
our staff league where I was in the semifinals and
there was a little bit of a weird reseeing that
went on. Our man, e Y, Eric Young is gonna
take it down. Okay, he beat George Kurtz in the final.
Our guy, George Kurtz put it on him. E Y
with a huge year had a great year when nine
and four was tied for first all season long, and
then stomped people in the playoffs, beat me in the semifinals,
(37:22):
put up a big number against me, and put up
another big number against George Kurtz. He was the best
team over the last month. So we tip our cap
to e Y the Soul Crush Express. George Kurtz was
second in that league. I was playing Jim Day third.
I want to ask you guys about this. I want
to ask you guys about this. I was playing Jim
(37:45):
Day and after the four o'clock games yesterday, I still
had one player left to go, and Jim Day was done.
He was done. I had one player left to go
and he was beating me by one ain't eight points, okay,
But the one player I still had left was the
Kansas City defense, and so I needed two points out
(38:08):
of the defense. You only get whole points from the defense, right,
So I needed two points. My other defense was Buffalo,
who had gotten two points. You know. Like I felt
good about it, but then Jim Day hits me up
on Twitter being like, Yo, congrats for your victory against me,
and I was like, who wha wha wha, whoa, I've
be't beating you yet because defense is can't even score
(38:29):
negative points. He was like, l O, well you'd have
to score. I was like, na, no, no, I need
to I need two points to beat you. I love
Jim Day, but I thought he was putting a like
reverse psychology guy boss on me man, And I was like, whoa,
I can't be responding to this. How do you guys
feel about that? In the chat room? Let me know,
because I was like, yo, I don't know if he's
trying to like mess with my mojo or something like that.
(38:49):
He told me that I had already beaten him, but
I hadn't you know what I mean? And then um,
ultimately still, yes, the Kansas City defense did enough. I
did wind up winning. So that's another league where I
when I'm getting a little bit of cash in the
prize money, bronze medal in that league we did all right,
all right, let's talk about this game. Let's talk about
this game. Tom pierces in the chat room saying Green
(39:10):
Bay running backs will go off all right? Um oh,
untouchable Jay said, so the bench of those teams of
which teams of my uh my gs t league. I
had Danny Dimes on the bench yesterday I had I
had a Raheem Mostert on my bench in my championship
winning team. But in any event, I digress. UM. So
(39:31):
thanks and much love to Jim day e Y, George
Kurtz and everybody in the pitam Misery League. But by
the way, that's me play Yang because Yang always like
to talk that smack early on in the season. You know,
Yango talk smack to me. Fantasy baseball. I'm beating you.
I'm beating you. Then it comes to the playoffs. I'm man,
he's not fantasy football. Yo, what's up? I'm ahead of you.
You're not doing too good. Come to the playoffs. He's like,
(39:52):
oh I fell off here. I am getting money out
the league. But I digress. Monday Night Football UM Minnesota
Vikings host in Green Bay Packers. They are four and
a half point favorites. As of now, it looks like, yep,
still four and a half. It opened the five and
a half. Okay, so there's money coming in on Green Bay.
Maybe that's a reaction to the UM the Dalvin Cook
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and it is now official. Alexander Madison is inactive for
this game as well, the total is hovering around for
is that forty six and a half? All right? Remember
we've been talking about these divisional unders, these primetime unders
a lot. I think this game might lean that way
as well. I take you back. My narrative all year
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and for this show has been balanced, and that the
team that has balance will be able to, you know,
still be able to be efficient throwing the ball. And
if you lose your balance, if you're not able to
run the ball, it's gonna be a problem. All right.
And so my leading thing here is I don't know
(40:53):
if Minnesota's gonna be able to have the balance that
they've enjoyed all season. Law, Dalvin Cook is the top
five rusher in the NFL. Okay, I take you back
to Week two when these guys played last time around. Okay,
green Bay won that game. Um, green Bay won that
game sixteen. So green Bay won that game by five.
(41:16):
Dalvin Cook went berserk in that game. In Week two,
Dalvin Cook had twenty carries for a hundred and fifty
four yards and a touchdown. He also cut three balls
for another thirty seven yards. Dalvin Cook had a hundred
and ninety one scrimmage yards in that game. Okay, Alexander
(41:37):
Madison went four for five in that game, so the
running backs had you know, over two hundred scrimmage yards.
I'd say that was balance. Okay, they still lost that
game the Green Bay I'm worried. Everyone loves Mike Boone
and in the chat room, you know, uh, Dexter needs
fifteen points and he may get points. But the question is,
(42:01):
remember what happens for the real team and the fantasy
team of two separate things. I say it all the
time with volume throwing. I say it all the time
with target share the fantasy heard and I'm gonna say
it was providing balance at the running back. I don't know.
I don't know that Boone is gonna be able to
provide the balance. And the way you want to do it.
You want to run against Green Bay. You don't want
to necessarily throw. And I know that Zimmer. I heard
(42:24):
Gabe say that he's got the best all time record
against the spread, and that's all well and good. I
know Minnesota is a much better team at home. I
know their defense is a better defense at home. This
game will be at home, unlike the first game Week
two in Green Bay. I know all of that, I
also know that I don't trust Kirk Cousins in prime
(42:45):
time spots or in big spots. I also know that
I trust Aaron Rodgers to rip out the heart and
soul of his division opponents. And I also think that
the Minnesota Vikings may lack some of the balance in
the run game that they've had in the previous weeks.
I am weary that Kirk Cousins may have to become
a volume thrower, and if that is the case, I
(43:05):
don't think that is a good thing for the Minnesota Vikings.
So for this game, I lean with it at four
and a half points to five or whatever it is.
I lean to the points, and the Green Bay side
give me Green Bay plus two points in this game.
I also lean under in this game. I think both
teams are going to try to establish the run. They're
(43:28):
going to try to have that balance. They're going to
try to keep Davante Adams and Adam DeLand and Stefon
Diggs and the throwing attacks, and unfortunately the Crypto Tooker
and the Tampa Picks six is quarterbacks from their passing
yards that they need. I think the running game is
going to try to be the leading indicator, but unfortunately,
I don't think it will be effective for the Minnesota Vikings,
(43:51):
and I think Kirk Cousins will become a volume thrower.
The prop bet that I saw was Kirk Cousins thirty
one and half attempts. That is too low to me.
I think they're going to half to the throw because
the Packers, I think are going to get up to
stop Mike Boone, Amira Bulah, c J Ham or whoever
(44:14):
it is. And then I think Cousins is gonna have
to throw. I like Green Bay to win the NFC North.
I like them to win this game. Take it plus
the four and a half or five, and my prop bit,
I think Cousins becomes a volume thrower because Boone can't
provide the balance over thirty one and a half attempts
for Kirk Cousins. My man Scott Wetzel's coming in next.
(44:34):
We got in game live Gabe Morancy at the meadow
Lands and listen, I know people are gonna win their
fantasy championship based on what happens tonight if it's Mike
Boone and in our league we got her Cousins and
Aaron Rodgers going head to head with only a half
of points separating them untouchable j My leading prop is
(44:56):
Kirk Cousins over thirty one and a half attempts. I
like Aaron Jones as well to get into the end
zone anytime touchdown. I'll be back on Thursday if you
want to call and gloat like your boys Speeds who
took down industry leagues. How does it feel? Honest? You know?
I love you alright? In Game Live is up next
year on Sports Grid. We'll be back on Thursday to
(45:17):
all the craziness for weeks seventeen. I'm out. NFL season
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fifty freestyle Tedwards, he's got would be interested in. Okay,
(46:03):
you already know mark Ingram went down. You know already
know the starters weren't playing. But this Baltimore Ravens run offense,
they're plugging play. Okay, I'll take whoever's out there for
Baltimore against Pittsburgh on Sunday. Gust Edwards is only owned
in ten percent of leagues. If you want that, if
they go ahead and sign Beast Mode Marshawn Lynch in Seattle,
that's viable as well. And then you gotta look at
other spots where they may be like shutting guys down,
you know, like that Indian that colts Jags game, for example,
(46:26):
or in Detroit where carry on our gout, carry on, Johnson,
carry on. On. You know, they may be getting more
of a workload at the wide receiver position. I would
go to Greg Ward at this point, he's only nine
percent owned. If you lost somebody that you need and
you need like DJ Moore went down for you or
something like that, and you're in a where a two
week final Greg Ward at this point, you gotta go.
(46:46):
You gotta go to He's been good in his fill
in duty for Philadelphia and the same thing for tight End.
Go to Dallas Goddard people, he's fifty owned, he's at
this point. I mean he had twelve targets yesterday, nine
and a touchdown. I mean, come on, people, Um, that's
where I would go if I with you, guys, if
you still needed some if you needed specific guys, if
you're in a situation like that, I know not a
lot of people don't play week seventeen or your rosters
are locked, But listen, I'm trying to cater to everybody
(47:08):
all different formats here. So if you do, when you're
in a in a bind, feel free to hollow at
your boy for six seven nine. We have, however, one
of the finalists and stats over beats League. It sounds
like we got on the line right now, Yang right,
we got Christian. It sounds like Christian, you're on the line.
What's going on? Christian? Uh? How do you feel tonight?
It looks like I think you have Rogers. You're up
by half a point, but you're facing Kirk Cousins. It's
(47:30):
gonna be a tight one. How you feel like? Christian? Alright? Alright?
You think you're gonna wind up winning this one. I mean,
this is a tight one because I could see this
going either way. Honestly, I know you got a half
a point lead, right, but it couldn't go either way.
It's like what pretty much right, Chris, dude? It is.
I can't believe it came down. I know it. When
(47:53):
I was looking at it, Christian, it was so hysterical
and I was like, oh wait, and they'll both have quarterbacks.
And then he had um John g your boy timp
pick six. He had Tyreek Hill last night right because
you were up on him. But then he had Tyreek
Hill Monday last night to kind of catch up and
got right to even with you. So it's gonna be
a bond burner. Let me ask you this, Christian, and
thanks for calling in. Would you do this? And sometimes
I do like the hedge bet? Okay, so you have
(48:14):
Aaron Rodgers, right, would you consider doing this Christian betting
like the prop bets all on the unders of Aaron Rodgers,
like betting that he won't throw a touchdown, betting that
he'll throw under whatever his prop bet is for yards,
betting that he'll throw interceptions this way. If Aaron Rodgers
defecates the mattress and you don't win the Stats over
Beats League. At least you win a little bit of
(48:34):
cash on the side for your prop bets. And if
your prop bets lose, that means Aaron Rodgers had a
good game and you probably are the first ever champion
of the Stats over Beats League. Would you ever do
that bet against your guy to win a little bit
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