December 26, 2023 • 28 mins
It's Fox Sports Radio's Official Fantasy Football Podcast! Dan Beyer and Ryan Burschinger react to Week 16 in fantasy and lament the struggles of trying to be tapped into fantasy football in the middle of Christmas celebrations! The guys discuss their concerns with Tony Pollard and Stefon Diggs. Plus, the guys play a little This Or That and look ahead to Thursday night between the Jets and Browns!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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(00:22):
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Speaker 2 (00:34):
All right, the Christmas holidays in our rearview mirror. So
is Week sixteen of the National Football League. You got
me Dan Bayer at Dan Byer on Fox. Know Mike
Harmen today, but we do have Ryan Berschinger, our executive producer.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Find him on Twitter at Ryan Berschinger.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Well, we're going to deliver it today recapping some of
Week sixteen, and in this first part here, I want
to just look back at the Christmas Day slate of games,
but not as a whole. That's not that's not the
point of it. First what I thought was, so, I
don't know if it's great is the word, because I
did feel guilty stepping away during Christmas dinner to see
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Lamar Jackson triple over the referee. Remember we're on the
West coast, so that game as a five to fifteen kickoff,
and then get a safety for it for the forty
nine ers defense. That is tough to explain to the
family who doesn't care about football, that you're in a
fantasy football semi final and that you need to know
what's going on in these games. Is It is a
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struggle for me because I just feel guilty and breaking away.
And I know other people during the holidays have the
same thing, whether it be fantasy playoffs, whether it just
be betting on games, whether it be daily fantasy. It's
the one reason why I don't like the games on
Christmas Day. Yeah, it's great to have them, but I
also it makes me feel guilty that I'm being pulled
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away from other stuff to go and see if they
are going to award a safety because the referee ended
up tripping Lamar Jackson. I just like, that's that is
what happened, true story on Monday, Christmas night. I got
up from the table and then waited to make sure
that they were gonna call intentional grounding.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
But that's that's what you get. Do you feel guilty?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
I mean I know that your Christmas is tied up
with stuff, but in times are you able to do
you feel guilty even looking at your phone, looking at
stores when maybe your family members don't even care about
fantasy football.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Yeah, yeah, there were There were like a couple times
where and this was the I guess, the silver lining
to the fact that I had already been blown out
in my playoff games coming into Monday jes so where
I didn't really have to care about these games because
it was just it was just so out of the
picture at that point. But it was this was definitely
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kind of the one scenario where we look at the
schedule and see, like, oh, cool Christmas Day games in
week sixteen. That's gonna be fun. But also that's gonna
be a nightmare for us who are in fantasy playoffs,
because if you really care about these games, especially, yeah,
you're you're gonna have to find ways where if you're
if you're involved in other stuff on Christmas suddenly like
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your Christmas could easily be ruined by the fact that
DeVante Adams only had four yards.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Bah humbug.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yeah, completely another West Coast problem. We love having the
early kicks for Sundays and for football, and in September
when the season starts, like there's still time after the
full slate of games to go outside and it's still
light out and you can do things that you need
to do. My son, who's two and a half, slept
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in on Christmas, like slept in, but because he's also
two and a half, when he woke up in Sanna
and he got stuff from Santa, he just ripped right
through it like it was nothing. Like we were done
opening presents from Santa within like five minutes. So even
though you woke up at like nine p forty, I
still was able to catch kickoff of Chiefs Raiders. But
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that was one of my concerns because again, this is
what I'm balancing, my son's first Christmas that he understands,
or Christmas is, or Rashi Rice playing for the Kansas
City Chiefs. That's the balance. I'll tell you what it was,
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and listen, I'm obviously picking my son. But was I
displeased when he went rapid fire through the gifts. I
was kind of happy about it. All Right, all right,
let's do this, Let's go see what Let's see what
the Chiefs have in store. They didn't have much in store.
But the games were The games were great, and now
you can bind family and maybe if you had Christmas
all day and you can go home and watch Ravens Niners,
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you were really in tune with the game. But this
is what ended up happening because I don't think I
think people got this sense the forty nine ers were
going to win the game that Vegas had the line.
I think I was even talking on our Sunday show.
It's actually kind of giving the Ravens a loss in
that game, already setting up a Dolphins Ravens matchup but
on Monday night because of how the game.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Was a so different.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
So this is I'm playing in a fantasy I had
two Fantasy semi finals, one one and lost one. But
all of the parts that were were crazy. Were you know,
someone was playing Justin Tucker, who had a great, great
day off the heels of Jake Elliott having a huge day,
and you know someone played him.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
In their fantasy leagues.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
The Ravens and Lamar Jackson, Zay Flowers having a decent day,
they're pouring it on. I had forty nine ers defense
in a league and I'm like, wait a second, here,
they could be racking up negative points because of how
many points that they were getting, and then you're like, okay,
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the Niners are down, so now Brock Purdy and George
Kittle and Brandon Iyuk can rack up points. We then
Purtty kind of goes out with his stinger. Like there
were just so many different ways that things could go
back and forth. I'm sure people had Jake Moody on
their team as well as you know, there were so
many pieces that were playing out in that last game
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that were determining finals. I saw a bunch on social
media people saying, all right, if the Ravens score again,
it's gonna drop who I'm playing against forty nine ers defense,
It's gonna drop them and I'm gonna win. Like that's
the scenarios, and that's what you had playing out on
Christmas night.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
It's crazy.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
Oh, that's uh, that's just just awful if you're if
you're actually doing Christmas stuff and to have this going
on at the same time, to have to care about
both things, it's really really just brutal.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
This is where legends are made, and when you talk
about fantasy football, I will remember the year that Lamar
Jackson tripped over a referee to help me win my
semi final game. And when you see that clip, which
you will, you know in years past, you will always
remember that contest. I think it was Drew Bennett of
the Titans years a game, and I think it was
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Billy Vollock.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Now you know that.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
I don't that I didn't have them on my team
because I can't remember fully, but I just remember I
think it was in week fifteen. They just completely went
off and Drew Benet had this monster game. Well, those
who had Drew Bennett that week will always remember that
it was Drew Bennett.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Jamal Charles had a fifty point.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Game against me in the in the semi final a
decade ago, and I know that because it was against me,
it was in that situation. But so that's what the
night provided the Giants. Even hanging around with the Eagles,
you know in that matchup, in what provided you. Maybe
you got a late touchdown from Saquon because of the
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comeback when they were down twenty to three at halftime.
I don't know what you would do if you were
stuck and you needed, like Patrick Mahmes, just to have
a mediocre day, you know against any he did have
a mediocre day. It wasn't a great day for the Chiefs,
but I mean, to have that, to have is your point,
Devontae Adams. To have Devanta Adams have a game where
he has one catch and again for seventy five percent
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of the game, they don't complete a pass like That's
that's the stuff where legends are made in fantasy football,
and that's what I think we got on Christmas Day.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Yeah, And speaking of yeah, legends being made this weekend,
it's the reason why I didn't care about the fantasy
on Christmas Day was because of Amri Cooper and the
fact that Mariy Cooper had already beat my head in
and suddenly, like, the most important game I had this
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weekend was my Dynasty league, which a superflex where I
had Joe Flacco in the superflex, but it didn't matter
because my opponent had Amari Cooper and he also had
brez hal and so those two guys combined it's like
ninety points and that's it.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Reshall killed me in the league.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Yeah, yeah, Jets and Browns. By the way, it's good
foreshadowing because it's coming up Thursday night, Week seventeen, that
is our week seventeen Thursday Night Final Amazon game of
the season. But yeah, it's just those the names, and
I want to talk about those guys as well coming
up in a little bit because now we're we're hitting
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championship weekend for fantasy football for so many but there,
you know, there are some with clunkers. We had talked
about it on the Sunday Show if you listen on
Fox Sports Radio, I appreciate it. Tony Pollard had a
walk in touchdown. I wasn't walk in. But if he
keeps running towards the pylon, he's in. If he dives
forward for the goal line, he's in. But instead he
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stands straight up and gets spun around at the half
yard line and doesn't score. And so if you have
Tony Pollard, you're freaking out. But if you have Dak Prescott,
you're like, awesome, time for the Dak sneak and then
they hand it off to a full back and then
you've completely lost that touchdown. And it wasn't like they
made it up on the ensuing drive because field position
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didn't matter because the Dolphins went and kicked a field goal,
So like it was completely washed up. The decision was bad,
and you remember those things. If you lost, if your
quarterback was Dak and you lost by four points, you're
looking back at that quarterback sneak. It's exactly what you're
looking back at and saying, if if only, if only
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I would have done this, if only I would have
done that.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Harmon did mention to me that he lost in a
league by I believe, one point eight, and he started
Courtland Sutton in that league. So Courtland Sutton's zero, yeah,
is what will haunt him forever.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Yeah, he got knocked out and it was I mean, gosh, Yes,
the o's in Courtland in Sutton, just like they were
in Dotson for Johan Dotson. Unfortunately for Mike Carmen will
shine bright all right, he's Ryan Burschinger.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
I'm Dan Byer.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I just wanted to I just wanted to touch on
it because I think a lot of us were in
those situations. I even saw a TikTok of a guy
off in a completely separate room. There's like eight people
around the table just having a great time, and then
there's the kitchen next door, and then there's the family
room and he's the only one, and the deal is
is you can't sit down, because if you sit down,
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you're committed to watching the game. A lot of people
just have to do the stand. Yeah, just walk in
because then if you're needed, you're at the ready to leave,
or if you feel there is a situation that is brewing,
you will then be able to leave. But if you're
in the chair, if you're on the couch, it tells
you that not only am I interested in this game,
I'm not interested in what you guys are talking about.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
And this is where I'd rather be.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
If you at least stand in front of the TV
and are watching it, it at least conveys some sort
of passive interest in the game that could bring you
back to the Christmas holiday with your family at any
given time.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Yeah, what I do is I'll do I'll stand near
the TV, walk maybe walk back every few minutes to
grab a snack, stand in a different spot to make
it look like I'm not fully engaged in the game.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
But I've gone to the bathroom to check score. I've
done that too.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Like you look at him, like geez, maybe i should
flush the toilet and run the flauct because otherwise I'm
just standing here in a closed door room. They're probably
thinking I'm doing worse things than checking fantasy football scores.
But the things you'd try to do at holidays. This
is see, this is why the NFL shouldn't have Christmas
Day games.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
This is the reason why. All right, he's Ryan bursching
Er on Dan Byer.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
We'll take a look at week sixteen as a whole,
and even look ahead to week seventeen in a bit here,
and I want your flex, all right, I do have
some good news to pass along, good news at least
for one listener of ours. And again, we loved your
feedback throughout the season. We love answering questions. By the way,
a note for next year. The earlier in the week
that you asked the questions the better. Sometimes when you
do it before kickoff, you know, an hour before certain schedules.
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You know, Mike does the morning show and maybe tied
up and asking, you know, answering questions for a line
But I mentioned that Scott Scott had tweeted the show
a bunch asking for lineup questions. Now, in the end,
Scott's lineup was so good, and again I hope that
his our information at least helped. But I think a
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lot of the players that he got probably weren't even
from stuff that we said, but finished fifteen to ohero
with a championship, so a perfect season, scoring two hundred
and eleven points in the championship week. So Scott, we
appreciate the listening. It helps any of Jalen Hurts, Pokin Nakua,
Christian McCaffrey, and Karen Williams on your team. And then
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Calvin Ridley shows up and actually show did one DeAndre
Swift so that so that was great to see. And
if we helped you at all during the season, even
if it was for just one week, that makes us
feel awesome and thank you and congratulations on your season.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Well done.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Now let's look at back at week sixteen, and I
do want to say something about the Dallas Cowboys because
they play one of the marque games that we've got
in week seventeen, and that's against the Lions. That's a
Saturday night game. For people that are wondering I am.
I have ridden Tony Pollard this entire season and just
waiting for the for him to break through. The Cowboys
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have had one one hundred yard game this year, and
it was when Pollard went over the one hundred yard
mark in a game they lost to the Arizona Cardinals.
It doesn't make any sense. I know that there's some
issues with Dallas upfront, but the fact of the matter
is is they just don't have that running game anymore.
And you know, in this scenario like this, going up
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against the Lions, where you're gonna need points, I know
it could be a crazy game. I'm still gonna play
Tony Pollard in this matchup, Birst, because I just have to,
and I've ridden him, But I'm just I am not
expecting much, and if there's an opportunity, if there is
a coin flip, I don't think that Week seventeen is
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the week that Tony Pollard all of a sudden makes
and grabs a huge headline. This This Cowboys team just
is having a difficult time running the ball. Ric O'Donnell
actually at times looks like more of the the prime
back for Dallas. I'm really concerned with the Dallas running game.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Yeah, and I fully agree, because you know, as you
had pointed out, they had to basically abandon that run
game against the Dolphins because things had just gotten so
bad and the matchup is not good. The Lions have
a good defensive front. Running backs are being rather stifled
against the Lions in a fantasy view, So that's a
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game where Dak's gonna have to throw a ton it.
It makes a lot of sense that it's gonna that's probably.
That's a great Ced Lamb game. That's that's a great
Jake Ferguson game. You may be a Brandon Kusher, but yeah,
in terms of the running game there, it's hard to
play Tony Pollard at any level of confidence. I'd imagine
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that anybody else who hasn't they're kind of in the
same position as you where they're playing him because they
have to. Yeah, but if you have better alternatives, it's
definitely smart to look outsewere.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
We have this whole conversation about dak is MVP and not.
It seems like it's going to be Lamar Jackson, and
I believe deservedly so. But one of the cases is
for Dak is he doesn't have the running game to
lean on as opposed to what San Francisco has or
even Baltimore, even though without JK. Dobbins, Justice Hill and
Gus Edwards have provided a little Obviously, Lamar takes up
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a lot of that, but Dak has put a lot
of it on his shoulders, will likely have to do
it again in week seventeen, so there's an obvious boost there.
Are you concerned at all about Stefan Diggs, who hasn't
had one hundred yard game since mid October? Coming off
of a five catch twenty nine yard performance against the Chargers,
by the way, his second sub thirty yardage yard performance
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in a span of three weeks. You've got this Buffalo
Bills team that's, you know, playing for all the marbles.
This division is still up for grabs. He got the
Patriots coming to town. You know, you want to embarrass
New England for all the years that they gave you problems.
Are you at all concerned about Stefan Diggs because of
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his most recent issues?
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Yeah, I think you have to be looking at I mean,
my goodness, he's finished outside of the top fifty to
four of his last six games at receiver, that's and
the one of those is wide receiver forty six. So
like again, it's this is just brutal, just brutal. And
it's not like the target counts are not there. They're there,
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and especially in a matchup against the Chargers, which is
a pretty good matchup for him to be stifled so
heavily in the yardage, is it is bad? The Patriots
are an okay matchup. It's not a great matchup all
And it could be a game where if the Patriots,
I mean, we saw the Patriots kind of try to
lose on Sunday Earth as hard as they could and
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it didn't work. But it could be a game where
if the Bills get an early lead, they're just going
to grind out that clock. So unfortunately, Yeah, if you're
if you're in the finals with Stefan Diggs, you've you've
had some really strong things go for you otherwise. But yeah,
if you're looking at something where you're debating between even
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with the matchup against the Jets, you can't ignore what
Amari Cooper is doing with Joe Flacco. So if you're
like debating between those two, you kind of would have to.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Go a Marire. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
So yeah, this is a you're sounding the alarm on
Steffan Diggs because this is a this is a scary situation.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
There's I get the loyalty, and there's there's certain names
that you're gonna you would be shocked to think that
there could be a compare in to play, but it
is something that you're really gonna have to look at
and again. Like you know, I thought last year when
the Patriots played New England in Buffalo, or excuse me,
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when the Bills played New England in Buffalo, where there
was it was the DeMar Hamlin game. Afterwards, you know,
there was a lot of emotion and the Bills came
out firing, and you know, Patriots season was I believe
pretty much over at that point. I do think that
New England is obviously playing hard. I don't think you're
going to see a the Bills turn it on. And
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it would make me almost want to shy away from
Stefan Diggs because I would just say this, even if
it's best case scenario and he breaks through, I don't
think there's a ten catch, one and thirty yard two
touchdown game.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
I don't think that that's it.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
There is such a shift now with them running the
football and James Cook's involvement. Nobody really got involved in
the game against the Chargers. So yeah, I would. I would.
I would almost stay away if I if I had
better options.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Yeah, yeah, I think I would too. But again, if
you if you've gotten to the finals with Stefan Diggs
on your team, then then you probably do have better options.
So I'd definitely roll with those better options.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
I'll give you a name that I like in Week seventeen,
and it's coming off of a very bad Week sixteen,
and I think this team is pressing. I think that
their quarterback is pressing, and I think that there are
issues that that would give you reason to be I
don't know, just a.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Little a little nervous.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Travis Etn and the Jaguars going up against the Panthers,
that is one where obviously you're going to play Etn
just a stinker against the Buccaneers. Actually, the only Jaguars
who really did anything were Calvin Ridley and Evan Ingram
because it was all in garbage time. They were just
getting crushed. But now you have an opportunity, if you're Jacksonville,
still control your own fate in the race for the
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AFC South Crown, an opportunity to get right a bounce
back game. If you were able to survive because of
the crappy game that Travis Etn gave you in Week sixteen,
I would play him with confidence because Aaron Jones just
carved up Carolina and I don't think that things are
going to get any better. It would be a get
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right sort of game. Plus, I really think that Doug
Peterson needs to take some of the pressure off of
Trevor Lawrence, and Travis Etn would be the one to
do that. So I love Etn in week seventeen.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
I think that's a great call at the matchup is
absolutely there, as he said, and I could definitely see
this is an opportunity for that entire offense to get
back going in the right direction. So I kind of
I even like Trevor Lawrence in that game, and I
know that he's looked bad the last the last couple
of weeks. But yeah, this feels like a game where
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the Jaguars can kind of unleash some frustration on this
poor Panther squad.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
To wrap this up, do you want to play a
little lineup this or that. I'll give you a couple
of Okay, I'm gonna give you two names. One at
the quarterback position, running back position, a wide receiver position.
We've done this with Mike before, and by the way,
Mike enjoying a well deserved getaway with the kiddos in
Florida visiting family there. He'll be back later on in
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the week when we give you our rankings for week seventeen.
But since we're talking about Mike, let's use his bears.
Would you play justin fields against the Falcons in week
seventeen or the aforementioned Joe Flacco against the Jets on
Thursday night football. I know you're gonna say field, but
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it is much more of a dilemma than you would
believe it is.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
They are they have unleashed Joe Flacco like it is
rather amazing. Just tell them just throw like crazy and
it's working.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Sure, working. It's Uh how about this one? How about
this one?
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Move fields out because fields look great against Arizona for
fantasy wise, it just running around here and there and everything.
Joe Flacco or Nick Mullins because they have the Packers
on Sunday night New Year's Eve. Take your Packer fandom.
But Mullins is coming off of a game where through
four hundred yards against the y the Lions.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
No, I That's that's a really good question because I
think that the matchup again is there for Mullins. I
would oh, man, Yeah, because because Mullins did did rack
up yards like crazy, I would mulling it over doing this.
You know what? Actually, oh wow, I think I actually, here's.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Let me just throw this in. Let me just throw
this in because I believe I do. I do sign
up for this, I do abide by this. Do you
really want to go into Sunday Night Football being like
I need twenty four points from Nick Mullins or are
you like, hey, I got Joe Flako to watch on Thursday.
I would rather start the week off great the need
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to put all of my fantasy football eggs in the
basket of Nick Mullins. Now, granted it is against a
Joe Barry led defense, but I would just that would
that would scare me to no end, to be like, oh,
it's riding on Nick Mullen's shoulders. Now, now I'm saying
that I did win a fantasy championship one year with
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Kerrie Collins on the Saints. Is my starting quarterback true story,
and my buddy still brings it up to this day.
But I think I would go with Flacco in that scenario.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
I think you kind of have to ride the hotthand
there even with the matchup against the Jets. I think
the fact that the Browns have made such a concerted
effort to just throw the ball like crazy with Flacco,
and like I said, it's it's working. Yeah, I think
the floor is better with Flacco, but there is a
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higher ceiling with Nick Mullins because of that matchup. So,
but I would I just imagine you told yourself at
the beginning of the season, I'm going to be in
the Fantasy Championship and I'm gonna be deciding between Joe
Flacco and Nick Mallins.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Crazy. It's nuts.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Just think at this start of the season, when Jonathan
Taylor wasn't going to report and they still a member
of the Colts, that you could decide between him or
the team they play on Sunday, Zamir White, who's coming
off of a twenty two carry one hundred and forty
five yard effort. All right, all right, the Colts can
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be got. We saw what the Falcons did to them
this past weekend, especially without Michael Pittman Junior in the
in the in the lineup. But would you stick with
Taylor the workhorse or would you go with with Zamir White?
Speaker 4 (26:03):
I would stick with John at the Taylor. And that's
assuming that there's no joje.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
After one hundred and seventy seven yards rushed by the
team by the Falcons, you know the Raiders are going
to do the same.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
They're no different. That's true.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
They can't complete passes, so they have to run, right.
That's that's oh man, that's.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
I get it. You're gonna start Taylor.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
But I think it's fun for this exercise to at
least uh, it's at least.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
There's real there's real arguments for that.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
It's yeah, thats.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
All right, Final final one and then we'll wrap this
podcast up. These two teams play each other. My team
is involved George Pickens or DK Metcalf. Who would you
start in the Steelers Seahawks matchup.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
So good that.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
It's a four or five Eastern time kick one oh
five when there's only three late games. It didn't even
get in the prime window of the late games. It's
that one off, weird game.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
So I would I would go DK. I get that
the the matchup is better on the side of Pickens
and he's coming off of his huge game, but also
like what it was. It was four catches for two touchdowns, right,
for George Pickens.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
So it was.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Four catches one hundred and ninety five yards.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
Yeah, that's man.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
You know.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
I know because I had to look at it on
my bench all weekend long, whenever I checked my team,
there it was. And I'm in a standard league and
it was still thirty one point five. Not that a
PPR was giving you much better, you know, because he
were only four catches.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
But yep, four for one ninety five and two touchdowns.
Oh boy, oh boy.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
Yeah I would. I would still go DK. I like
what he's done the second half of the season. Again,
the matchup might be better on the other side, but
that's the floor is better with DK, so I would.
I would stick with DK.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
All right, there it is.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
There's some fun head to head matchups again this podcast.
Because of the special holiday week, We've got this one
and then you'll have your Friday one.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
By the way, we could just do a quick Jets,
Browns start Bresol, start Joe Flacco, start Amari Cooper and
David Nijoku. You got a defense, would you take any
of the defenses?
Speaker 4 (28:25):
I would. I would play the Browns defense. But yeah, that's.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
That's about it. Yeah, there you go. There's your Thursday
night review. We'll be back Friday. Harmon will have his rankings.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
He'll be back in town, give you his hot places,
gold stores, and so much more, and hopefully you can
find some success in the championship routes. So for Ryan
Berschinger and Mike Harmon, the vacation and Mike Harmon, I'm
Dan Beyer. We'll talk to you next time right here
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Speaker 2 (00:34):
All right, the Christmas holidays in our rearview mirror. So
is Week sixteen of the National Football League. You got
me Dan Bayer at Dan Byer on Fox. Know Mike
Harmen today, but we do have Ryan Berschinger, our executive producer.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Find him on Twitter at Ryan Berschinger.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Well, we're going to deliver it today recapping some of
Week sixteen, and in this first part here, I want
to just look back at the Christmas Day slate of games,
but not as a whole. That's not that's not the
point of it. First what I thought was, so, I
don't know if it's great is the word, because I
did feel guilty stepping away during Christmas dinner to see
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Lamar Jackson triple over the referee. Remember we're on the
West coast, so that game as a five to fifteen kickoff,
and then get a safety for it for the forty
nine ers defense. That is tough to explain to the
family who doesn't care about football, that you're in a
fantasy football semi final and that you need to know
what's going on in these games. Is It is a
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struggle for me because I just feel guilty and breaking away.
And I know other people during the holidays have the
same thing, whether it be fantasy playoffs, whether it just
be betting on games, whether it be daily fantasy. It's
the one reason why I don't like the games on
Christmas Day. Yeah, it's great to have them, but I
also it makes me feel guilty that I'm being pulled
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away from other stuff to go and see if they
are going to award a safety because the referee ended
up tripping Lamar Jackson. I just like, that's that is
what happened, true story on Monday, Christmas night. I got
up from the table and then waited to make sure
that they were gonna call intentional grounding.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
But that's that's what you get. Do you feel guilty?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
I mean I know that your Christmas is tied up
with stuff, but in times are you able to do
you feel guilty even looking at your phone, looking at
stores when maybe your family members don't even care about
fantasy football.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Yeah, yeah, there were There were like a couple times
where and this was the I guess, the silver lining
to the fact that I had already been blown out
in my playoff games coming into Monday jes so where
I didn't really have to care about these games because
it was just it was just so out of the
picture at that point. But it was this was definitely
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kind of the one scenario where we look at the
schedule and see, like, oh, cool Christmas Day games in
week sixteen. That's gonna be fun. But also that's gonna
be a nightmare for us who are in fantasy playoffs,
because if you really care about these games, especially, yeah,
you're you're gonna have to find ways where if you're
if you're involved in other stuff on Christmas suddenly like
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your Christmas could easily be ruined by the fact that
DeVante Adams only had four yards.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Bah humbug.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yeah, completely another West Coast problem. We love having the
early kicks for Sundays and for football, and in September
when the season starts, like there's still time after the
full slate of games to go outside and it's still
light out and you can do things that you need
to do. My son, who's two and a half, slept
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in on Christmas, like slept in, but because he's also
two and a half, when he woke up in Sanna
and he got stuff from Santa, he just ripped right
through it like it was nothing. Like we were done
opening presents from Santa within like five minutes. So even
though you woke up at like nine p forty, I
still was able to catch kickoff of Chiefs Raiders. But
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that was one of my concerns because again, this is
what I'm balancing, my son's first Christmas that he understands,
or Christmas is, or Rashi Rice playing for the Kansas
City Chiefs. That's the balance. I'll tell you what it was,
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and listen, I'm obviously picking my son. But was I
displeased when he went rapid fire through the gifts. I
was kind of happy about it. All Right, all right,
let's do this, Let's go see what Let's see what
the Chiefs have in store. They didn't have much in store.
But the games were The games were great, and now
you can bind family and maybe if you had Christmas
all day and you can go home and watch Ravens Niners,
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you were really in tune with the game. But this
is what ended up happening because I don't think I
think people got this sense the forty nine ers were
going to win the game that Vegas had the line.
I think I was even talking on our Sunday show.
It's actually kind of giving the Ravens a loss in
that game, already setting up a Dolphins Ravens matchup but
on Monday night because of how the game.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Was a so different.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
So this is I'm playing in a fantasy I had
two Fantasy semi finals, one one and lost one. But
all of the parts that were were crazy. Were you know,
someone was playing Justin Tucker, who had a great, great
day off the heels of Jake Elliott having a huge day,
and you know someone played him.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
In their fantasy leagues.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
The Ravens and Lamar Jackson, Zay Flowers having a decent day,
they're pouring it on. I had forty nine ers defense
in a league and I'm like, wait a second, here,
they could be racking up negative points because of how
many points that they were getting, and then you're like, okay,
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the Niners are down, so now Brock Purdy and George
Kittle and Brandon Iyuk can rack up points. We then
Purtty kind of goes out with his stinger. Like there
were just so many different ways that things could go
back and forth. I'm sure people had Jake Moody on
their team as well as you know, there were so
many pieces that were playing out in that last game
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that were determining finals. I saw a bunch on social
media people saying, all right, if the Ravens score again,
it's gonna drop who I'm playing against forty nine ers defense,
It's gonna drop them and I'm gonna win. Like that's
the scenarios, and that's what you had playing out on
Christmas night.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
It's crazy.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
Oh, that's uh, that's just just awful if you're if
you're actually doing Christmas stuff and to have this going
on at the same time, to have to care about
both things, it's really really just brutal.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
This is where legends are made, and when you talk
about fantasy football, I will remember the year that Lamar
Jackson tripped over a referee to help me win my
semi final game. And when you see that clip, which
you will, you know in years past, you will always
remember that contest. I think it was Drew Bennett of
the Titans years a game, and I think it was
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Billy Vollock.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Now you know that.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
I don't that I didn't have them on my team
because I can't remember fully, but I just remember I
think it was in week fifteen. They just completely went
off and Drew Benet had this monster game. Well, those
who had Drew Bennett that week will always remember that
it was Drew Bennett.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Jamal Charles had a fifty point.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Game against me in the in the semi final a
decade ago, and I know that because it was against me,
it was in that situation. But so that's what the
night provided the Giants. Even hanging around with the Eagles,
you know in that matchup, in what provided you. Maybe
you got a late touchdown from Saquon because of the
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comeback when they were down twenty to three at halftime.
I don't know what you would do if you were
stuck and you needed, like Patrick Mahmes, just to have
a mediocre day, you know against any he did have
a mediocre day. It wasn't a great day for the Chiefs,
but I mean, to have that, to have is your point,
Devontae Adams. To have Devanta Adams have a game where
he has one catch and again for seventy five percent
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of the game, they don't complete a pass like That's
that's the stuff where legends are made in fantasy football,
and that's what I think we got on Christmas Day.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Yeah, And speaking of yeah, legends being made this weekend,
it's the reason why I didn't care about the fantasy
on Christmas Day was because of Amri Cooper and the
fact that Mariy Cooper had already beat my head in
and suddenly, like, the most important game I had this
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weekend was my Dynasty league, which a superflex where I
had Joe Flacco in the superflex, but it didn't matter
because my opponent had Amari Cooper and he also had
brez hal and so those two guys combined it's like
ninety points and that's it.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Reshall killed me in the league.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Yeah, yeah, Jets and Browns. By the way, it's good
foreshadowing because it's coming up Thursday night, Week seventeen, that
is our week seventeen Thursday Night Final Amazon game of
the season. But yeah, it's just those the names, and
I want to talk about those guys as well coming
up in a little bit because now we're we're hitting
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championship weekend for fantasy football for so many but there,
you know, there are some with clunkers. We had talked
about it on the Sunday Show if you listen on
Fox Sports Radio, I appreciate it. Tony Pollard had a
walk in touchdown. I wasn't walk in. But if he
keeps running towards the pylon, he's in. If he dives
forward for the goal line, he's in. But instead he
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stands straight up and gets spun around at the half
yard line and doesn't score. And so if you have
Tony Pollard, you're freaking out. But if you have Dak Prescott,
you're like, awesome, time for the Dak sneak and then
they hand it off to a full back and then
you've completely lost that touchdown. And it wasn't like they
made it up on the ensuing drive because field position
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didn't matter because the Dolphins went and kicked a field goal,
So like it was completely washed up. The decision was bad,
and you remember those things. If you lost, if your
quarterback was Dak and you lost by four points, you're
looking back at that quarterback sneak. It's exactly what you're
looking back at and saying, if if only, if only
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I would have done this, if only I would have
done that.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Harmon did mention to me that he lost in a
league by I believe, one point eight, and he started
Courtland Sutton in that league. So Courtland Sutton's zero, yeah,
is what will haunt him forever.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Yeah, he got knocked out and it was I mean, gosh, Yes,
the o's in Courtland in Sutton, just like they were
in Dotson for Johan Dotson. Unfortunately for Mike Carmen will
shine bright all right, he's Ryan Burschinger.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
I'm Dan Byer.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I just wanted to I just wanted to touch on
it because I think a lot of us were in
those situations. I even saw a TikTok of a guy
off in a completely separate room. There's like eight people
around the table just having a great time, and then
there's the kitchen next door, and then there's the family
room and he's the only one, and the deal is
is you can't sit down, because if you sit down,
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you're committed to watching the game. A lot of people
just have to do the stand. Yeah, just walk in
because then if you're needed, you're at the ready to leave,
or if you feel there is a situation that is brewing,
you will then be able to leave. But if you're
in the chair, if you're on the couch, it tells
you that not only am I interested in this game,
I'm not interested in what you guys are talking about.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
And this is where I'd rather be.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
If you at least stand in front of the TV
and are watching it, it at least conveys some sort
of passive interest in the game that could bring you
back to the Christmas holiday with your family at any
given time.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Yeah, what I do is I'll do I'll stand near
the TV, walk maybe walk back every few minutes to
grab a snack, stand in a different spot to make
it look like I'm not fully engaged in the game.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
But I've gone to the bathroom to check score. I've
done that too.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Like you look at him, like geez, maybe i should
flush the toilet and run the flauct because otherwise I'm
just standing here in a closed door room. They're probably
thinking I'm doing worse things than checking fantasy football scores.
But the things you'd try to do at holidays. This
is see, this is why the NFL shouldn't have Christmas
Day games.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
This is the reason why. All right, he's Ryan bursching
Er on Dan Byer.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
We'll take a look at week sixteen as a whole,
and even look ahead to week seventeen in a bit here,
and I want your flex, all right, I do have
some good news to pass along, good news at least
for one listener of ours. And again, we loved your
feedback throughout the season. We love answering questions. By the way,
a note for next year. The earlier in the week
that you asked the questions the better. Sometimes when you
do it before kickoff, you know, an hour before certain schedules.
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You know, Mike does the morning show and maybe tied
up and asking, you know, answering questions for a line
But I mentioned that Scott Scott had tweeted the show
a bunch asking for lineup questions. Now, in the end,
Scott's lineup was so good, and again I hope that
his our information at least helped. But I think a
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lot of the players that he got probably weren't even
from stuff that we said, but finished fifteen to ohero
with a championship, so a perfect season, scoring two hundred
and eleven points in the championship week. So Scott, we
appreciate the listening. It helps any of Jalen Hurts, Pokin Nakua,
Christian McCaffrey, and Karen Williams on your team. And then
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Calvin Ridley shows up and actually show did one DeAndre
Swift so that so that was great to see. And
if we helped you at all during the season, even
if it was for just one week, that makes us
feel awesome and thank you and congratulations on your season.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Well done.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Now let's look at back at week sixteen, and I
do want to say something about the Dallas Cowboys because
they play one of the marque games that we've got
in week seventeen, and that's against the Lions. That's a
Saturday night game. For people that are wondering I am.
I have ridden Tony Pollard this entire season and just
waiting for the for him to break through. The Cowboys
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have had one one hundred yard game this year, and
it was when Pollard went over the one hundred yard
mark in a game they lost to the Arizona Cardinals.
It doesn't make any sense. I know that there's some
issues with Dallas upfront, but the fact of the matter
is is they just don't have that running game anymore.
And you know, in this scenario like this, going up
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against the Lions, where you're gonna need points, I know
it could be a crazy game. I'm still gonna play
Tony Pollard in this matchup, Birst, because I just have to,
and I've ridden him, But I'm just I am not
expecting much, and if there's an opportunity, if there is
a coin flip, I don't think that Week seventeen is
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the week that Tony Pollard all of a sudden makes
and grabs a huge headline. This This Cowboys team just
is having a difficult time running the ball. Ric O'Donnell
actually at times looks like more of the the prime
back for Dallas. I'm really concerned with the Dallas running game.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Yeah, and I fully agree, because you know, as you
had pointed out, they had to basically abandon that run
game against the Dolphins because things had just gotten so
bad and the matchup is not good. The Lions have
a good defensive front. Running backs are being rather stifled
against the Lions in a fantasy view, So that's a
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game where Dak's gonna have to throw a ton it.
It makes a lot of sense that it's gonna that's probably.
That's a great Ced Lamb game. That's that's a great
Jake Ferguson game. You may be a Brandon Kusher, but yeah,
in terms of the running game there, it's hard to
play Tony Pollard at any level of confidence. I'd imagine
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that anybody else who hasn't they're kind of in the
same position as you where they're playing him because they
have to. Yeah, but if you have better alternatives, it's
definitely smart to look outsewere.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
We have this whole conversation about dak is MVP and not.
It seems like it's going to be Lamar Jackson, and
I believe deservedly so. But one of the cases is
for Dak is he doesn't have the running game to
lean on as opposed to what San Francisco has or
even Baltimore, even though without JK. Dobbins, Justice Hill and
Gus Edwards have provided a little Obviously, Lamar takes up
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a lot of that, but Dak has put a lot
of it on his shoulders, will likely have to do
it again in week seventeen, so there's an obvious boost there.
Are you concerned at all about Stefan Diggs, who hasn't
had one hundred yard game since mid October? Coming off
of a five catch twenty nine yard performance against the Chargers,
by the way, his second sub thirty yardage yard performance
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in a span of three weeks. You've got this Buffalo
Bills team that's, you know, playing for all the marbles.
This division is still up for grabs. He got the
Patriots coming to town. You know, you want to embarrass
New England for all the years that they gave you problems.
Are you at all concerned about Stefan Diggs because of
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his most recent issues?
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Yeah, I think you have to be looking at I mean,
my goodness, he's finished outside of the top fifty to
four of his last six games at receiver, that's and
the one of those is wide receiver forty six. So
like again, it's this is just brutal, just brutal. And
it's not like the target counts are not there. They're there,
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and especially in a matchup against the Chargers, which is
a pretty good matchup for him to be stifled so
heavily in the yardage, is it is bad? The Patriots
are an okay matchup. It's not a great matchup all
And it could be a game where if the Patriots,
I mean, we saw the Patriots kind of try to
lose on Sunday Earth as hard as they could and
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it didn't work. But it could be a game where
if the Bills get an early lead, they're just going
to grind out that clock. So unfortunately, Yeah, if you're
if you're in the finals with Stefan Diggs, you've you've
had some really strong things go for you otherwise. But yeah,
if you're looking at something where you're debating between even
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with the matchup against the Jets, you can't ignore what
Amari Cooper is doing with Joe Flacco. So if you're
like debating between those two, you kind of would have to.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Go a Marire. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
So yeah, this is a you're sounding the alarm on
Steffan Diggs because this is a this is a scary situation.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
There's I get the loyalty, and there's there's certain names
that you're gonna you would be shocked to think that
there could be a compare in to play, but it
is something that you're really gonna have to look at
and again. Like you know, I thought last year when
the Patriots played New England in Buffalo, or excuse me,
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when the Bills played New England in Buffalo, where there
was it was the DeMar Hamlin game. Afterwards, you know,
there was a lot of emotion and the Bills came
out firing, and you know, Patriots season was I believe
pretty much over at that point. I do think that
New England is obviously playing hard. I don't think you're
going to see a the Bills turn it on. And
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it would make me almost want to shy away from
Stefan Diggs because I would just say this, even if
it's best case scenario and he breaks through, I don't
think there's a ten catch, one and thirty yard two
touchdown game.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
I don't think that that's it.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
There is such a shift now with them running the
football and James Cook's involvement. Nobody really got involved in
the game against the Chargers. So yeah, I would. I would.
I would almost stay away if I if I had
better options.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Yeah, yeah, I think I would too. But again, if
you if you've gotten to the finals with Stefan Diggs
on your team, then then you probably do have better options.
So I'd definitely roll with those better options.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
I'll give you a name that I like in Week seventeen,
and it's coming off of a very bad Week sixteen,
and I think this team is pressing. I think that
their quarterback is pressing, and I think that there are
issues that that would give you reason to be I
don't know, just a.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Little a little nervous.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Travis Etn and the Jaguars going up against the Panthers,
that is one where obviously you're going to play Etn
just a stinker against the Buccaneers. Actually, the only Jaguars
who really did anything were Calvin Ridley and Evan Ingram
because it was all in garbage time. They were just
getting crushed. But now you have an opportunity, if you're Jacksonville,
still control your own fate in the race for the
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AFC South Crown, an opportunity to get right a bounce
back game. If you were able to survive because of
the crappy game that Travis Etn gave you in Week sixteen,
I would play him with confidence because Aaron Jones just
carved up Carolina and I don't think that things are
going to get any better. It would be a get
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right sort of game. Plus, I really think that Doug
Peterson needs to take some of the pressure off of
Trevor Lawrence, and Travis Etn would be the one to
do that. So I love Etn in week seventeen.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
I think that's a great call at the matchup is
absolutely there, as he said, and I could definitely see
this is an opportunity for that entire offense to get
back going in the right direction. So I kind of
I even like Trevor Lawrence in that game, and I
know that he's looked bad the last the last couple
of weeks. But yeah, this feels like a game where
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the Jaguars can kind of unleash some frustration on this
poor Panther squad.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
To wrap this up, do you want to play a
little lineup this or that. I'll give you a couple
of Okay, I'm gonna give you two names. One at
the quarterback position, running back position, a wide receiver position.
We've done this with Mike before, and by the way,
Mike enjoying a well deserved getaway with the kiddos in
Florida visiting family there. He'll be back later on in
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the week when we give you our rankings for week seventeen.
But since we're talking about Mike, let's use his bears.
Would you play justin fields against the Falcons in week
seventeen or the aforementioned Joe Flacco against the Jets on
Thursday night football. I know you're gonna say field, but
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it is much more of a dilemma than you would
believe it is.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
They are they have unleashed Joe Flacco like it is
rather amazing. Just tell them just throw like crazy and
it's working.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Sure, working. It's Uh how about this one? How about
this one?
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Move fields out because fields look great against Arizona for
fantasy wise, it just running around here and there and everything.
Joe Flacco or Nick Mullins because they have the Packers
on Sunday night New Year's Eve. Take your Packer fandom.
But Mullins is coming off of a game where through
four hundred yards against the y the Lions.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
No, I That's that's a really good question because I
think that the matchup again is there for Mullins. I
would oh, man, Yeah, because because Mullins did did rack
up yards like crazy, I would mulling it over doing this.
You know what? Actually, oh wow, I think I actually, here's.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Let me just throw this in. Let me just throw
this in because I believe I do. I do sign
up for this, I do abide by this. Do you
really want to go into Sunday Night Football being like
I need twenty four points from Nick Mullins or are
you like, hey, I got Joe Flako to watch on Thursday.
I would rather start the week off great the need
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to put all of my fantasy football eggs in the
basket of Nick Mullins. Now, granted it is against a
Joe Barry led defense, but I would just that would
that would scare me to no end, to be like, oh,
it's riding on Nick Mullen's shoulders. Now, now I'm saying
that I did win a fantasy championship one year with
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Kerrie Collins on the Saints. Is my starting quarterback true story,
and my buddy still brings it up to this day.
But I think I would go with Flacco in that scenario.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
I think you kind of have to ride the hotthand
there even with the matchup against the Jets. I think
the fact that the Browns have made such a concerted
effort to just throw the ball like crazy with Flacco,
and like I said, it's it's working. Yeah, I think
the floor is better with Flacco, but there is a
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higher ceiling with Nick Mullins because of that matchup. So,
but I would I just imagine you told yourself at
the beginning of the season, I'm going to be in
the Fantasy Championship and I'm gonna be deciding between Joe
Flacco and Nick Mallins.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Crazy. It's nuts.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Just think at this start of the season, when Jonathan
Taylor wasn't going to report and they still a member
of the Colts, that you could decide between him or
the team they play on Sunday, Zamir White, who's coming
off of a twenty two carry one hundred and forty
five yard effort. All right, all right, the Colts can
(25:46):
be got. We saw what the Falcons did to them
this past weekend, especially without Michael Pittman Junior in the
in the in the lineup. But would you stick with
Taylor the workhorse or would you go with with Zamir White?
Speaker 4 (26:03):
I would stick with John at the Taylor. And that's
assuming that there's no joje.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
After one hundred and seventy seven yards rushed by the
team by the Falcons, you know the Raiders are going
to do the same.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
They're no different. That's true.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
They can't complete passes, so they have to run, right.
That's that's oh man, that's.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
I get it. You're gonna start Taylor.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
But I think it's fun for this exercise to at
least uh, it's at least.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
There's real there's real arguments for that.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
It's yeah, thats.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
All right, Final final one and then we'll wrap this
podcast up. These two teams play each other. My team
is involved George Pickens or DK Metcalf. Who would you
start in the Steelers Seahawks matchup.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
So good that.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
It's a four or five Eastern time kick one oh
five when there's only three late games. It didn't even
get in the prime window of the late games. It's
that one off, weird game.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
So I would I would go DK. I get that
the the matchup is better on the side of Pickens
and he's coming off of his huge game, but also
like what it was. It was four catches for two touchdowns, right,
for George Pickens.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
So it was.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Four catches one hundred and ninety five yards.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
Yeah, that's man.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
You know.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
I know because I had to look at it on
my bench all weekend long, whenever I checked my team,
there it was. And I'm in a standard league and
it was still thirty one point five. Not that a
PPR was giving you much better, you know, because he
were only four catches.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
But yep, four for one ninety five and two touchdowns.
Oh boy, oh boy.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
Yeah I would. I would still go DK. I like
what he's done the second half of the season. Again,
the matchup might be better on the other side, but
that's the floor is better with DK, so I would.
I would stick with DK.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
All right, there it is.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
There's some fun head to head matchups again this podcast.
Because of the special holiday week, We've got this one
and then you'll have your Friday one.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
By the way, we could just do a quick Jets,
Browns start Bresol, start Joe Flacco, start Amari Cooper and
David Nijoku. You got a defense, would you take any
of the defenses?
Speaker 4 (28:25):
I would. I would play the Browns defense. But yeah, that's.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
That's about it. Yeah, there you go. There's your Thursday
night review. We'll be back Friday. Harmon will have his rankings.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
He'll be back in town, give you his hot places,
gold stores, and so much more, and hopefully you can
find some success in the championship routes. So for Ryan
Berschinger and Mike Harmon, the vacation and Mike Harmon, I'm
Dan Beyer. We'll talk to you next time right here
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