December 24, 2024 • 28 mins
It's Fox Sports Radio's official fantasy football podcast! Mike Harmon and Dan Beyer open the show with their immediate thoughts and reactions following a 34-0 trouncing on Monday Night Football as the Packers defense pitched the first shutout of the season against the Saints. Then the guys go through the rest of the weekend's matchups, hitting on the biggest studs and duds from across the league. Finally, they close out the show with a "Fantasy Festivus", airing out all of their biggest grievances from this season of fantasy football.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 4 (00:33):
Very Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays. He is Mike Carmen and
Dan Byer. Ian Roddy is the executive producer a special edition.
If I want your Flex this time around, you can
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at Swollen Dome, or find me at Dan Byer on Fox. Mike,
it is the Holidays. You and I got together on
Monday night, December twenty third on your show that you
(00:57):
do weeknights on Fox Sports Radio with Jason Smith, and
because of the holidays, because of time crunching different schedules,
we decided to take some of our content from that
show and put it into the pod this week.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
Yeah, we got the recap of what was an exhilarating
Monday night game between the Packers and the Saints.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
But still some fantasy love with the.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Z in auxhilarating a lot of zs z's.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
Well, look, maybe you took a nap, whatever it is.
Maybe you got some extra holiday holiday holiday hustle and bustle,
some cooking, some baking, a nap somewhere in there. Whatever
the case is, that you talk about the performers of
week sixteen and start looking ahead to what we might
have championship week.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
It's a glorious time of year.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Dan, Yeah, Week sixteen it was pretty crazy, and I
know exhilarating doesn't have any z's. It was just a joke,
but a week. We appreciate your loyalty and it is
a winning time. It is playoff time in fantasy football,
so we didn't want you to think that we were
abandoning you. It's just a different feel for the podcast
this week, and we'll be back for a brand new
episode coming up on Friday with Mike Harmon's rankings and
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hot plays and cold soares for Week seventeen. But if
it sounds a little different, That's why because I was
in for Jason Smith on Mike's show weeknights on Fox
Sports Radio on Monday night as we chopped up that
Packers Saints game. And by the way, here's a little
taste of that, and that's what you're gonna get throughout
the podcast. So enjoy that and we'll talk to you
right here, and I want you Flex.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Merry Christmas, greetings and welcome in.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Another beautiful week begins here the Jason Smith Show with me,
Mike Harmon. No, Jason Smith tonight has big voice. Bob
had to tell you Stan Byer in his stead, my
tag team partner, longtime colleague here Fox Sports Trade and
of course the I Watch Your Flex podcast that we
dial up multiple times each and every week, making you
a little bit smarter, sometimes making ourselves look a little
(02:48):
less so. But Dan keeps me on even keel and
we're almost through the end of the regular season. We'll
have an airing of the grievances later, Dan, But you're
fresh off a flight, fresh off the Midwest, the skies,
the highways, the byeways, how it all go.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Fresh off the snow, the chill. The ears still haven't popped, Mike,
But this is fun. I love when you and I
get together, and as you said, we get together on
the I Want Your Flex podcast. But there is always
something just a little different when I'm in for you.
I don't know if it feels dirty, if it feels
like maybe like I know that you're with Jason Smith,
but I'm kind of like cheating. So it's this secret
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sort of thing. But I'm happy to be here for
the next four hours.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Well, you know what is an open secret?
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Four hundred affiliates nationwide, the IHEA radio app. I mean global, global,
I mean just putting it out in everybody's face. Twenty
one nothing your Monday night football score. Not really aesthetically
pleasing in any sense of the world word at this point.
Josh Jacobs with his sixty four yards and a touchdown
Jordan Love pedestrian one thirty six and one, but a
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yeoman like effort against an overmatched, undermanned, and frankly discombobulated, pathetic, underprepared.
What other word can I use to describe what the
Saints are put together?
Speaker 4 (04:03):
I have no idea. I have no idea why the
NFL would say this is what the audience wants On
Christmas Eve, eve it. It doesn't make sense in a
flex situation, and keeping this game in like it didn't
make sense at the beginning of the season to think
that in Week sixteen the Saints would have anything to
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play for, whether Derek Carr was healthy or not healthy.
I don't know why the NFL would want to schedule
a game like this. Well, actually I do, because they
want to make the Packers seem great. They want the
Thursday or they want the Monday night football lore and
the cold weather, and they want that look for their
broadcast because everybody loves wintery mix and watching those games
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on TV. That's the exact reason that they did it.
They loved it when it was snowing in Cleveland, they
loved it when it was snowing in Buffalo. And hey,
late December, right before Christmas, let's go to Green Bay.
Who should we put against them? The Saints. You set
it on the list in the studio. I said it
on the list in our studio. Worst team in the
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NFL at the beginning of the season. They've overachieved, Dan,
they have overachieved, and we thought that in Derek Carr
and they don't even have him tonight. Why this game
is being played on a Monday night. I have no
idea except for the NFL trying to push their conspiracy
and having some winter wonderland fun for the Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
In the end, it is a TV show, so we
get that.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
So if you get a little bit of a weather
element to it, that it gives folks something extra to watch.
In this case, it's fantasy playoff games and whether they
cover the robust fourteen or fourteen and a half point
number that was put up for the Packers here obviously
Jordan Love and Josh Jacobs, and maybe you decided to
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delve down into those wide receivers. I wouldn't touch them
with a ten football, even in a plus matchup, because
which guy is gonna get fed?
Speaker 3 (05:59):
You have no idea.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
We talked about it a little in the podcast you
were en route to your homeland. As Hean and I
sat down, It's like, you look at some of the
numbers when you go to Jyden Reed you really love him, great,
he's got fifty catches, right, Not on a week to
week basis, trying to guess who's gonna get fed outside
of Jacob's has been a miserable construct and even today Hey,
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Muscove's back, that doesn't matter. He is still Tucker Craft.
Go go ahead and get him involved a bunch. But
to your point about you know the Packers and what
they are. You've got history, so you always get to
give people a nice little history lesson on your league
when you go to lambeau Field. The pageantry, the pomp
and circumstance and everything. Yeah, the Saints, I mean they're
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not only missing Car. There's no a Lave, there's no Kamara.
Carr was still having a really good season despite the chaos,
inconsistency and just futured play around him. But all that
to say, yeah, and we're flexing everything else. We're putting
in a mini it might as well be the Emirates
Cup Light with those four teams that are playing Saturday
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and Wednesday, and yet this game stands alone. Hell, we
fletched out the Cowboys out of a game, right right
right like, but nothing sacred.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Let's keep the Saints though. Let's make sure that the
Saints and Packers stays in the spot that it needs
to remember the days of the Aints. Yeah they are
the Ain't nobody good playing tonight? That's who they are.
They're not the Aints. It's just ain't nobody good playing
for the Saints tonight. And that's the mess that we
get and should we expect twenty four to nothing? This
is just this is a three hour parade, like there's
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nothing to worry about. Guarantee people will be leaving in
the fourth quarter because now you've got Christmas plans. You
don't want to be stranded out at night. But there's
no reason for this game. I know that you can't
a week out change a Monday night game, but still
to the point of what we thought the Saints were
going to be at the beginning of the year, Mike
and now with an inner med coach, and I know
they went on a mini run you know, a few
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weeks back. Still not enough worthy enough to keep this
as a Monday night game except for the hope of
snow and for the great vibes that you get from
playing a game at Lambeufield in December.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Yeah, I mean, Rizzy doesn't match the the heat and
genesis of social media clicks like his guy the Rizzler Man.
It's close because I've seen those side by sides at
points and he does get a little fiery on the
sideline but I don't think it has the same juice.
But for the Packers, man, you're gonna be an eleven
win team taking care of business, yeoman like defense as
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we talked about on the pod, but bringing it to
everybody here in this space. You know, finally all the
turnovers that we'd been projecting and waiting for with this
defense coming in Spains. I think it was their twenty
seventh tonight. Earlier on one of the more inexplicable fumbles
you'll see, where it was like someone was gonna about
to get mugged. And I don't not make light of
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people getting robbed is very real thing, but it's the hey,
here's my wallet. That's what Rattler did with the football.
As the defender went to take you just kind of
flipped it up into no man's lands.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Everything.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
Yeah, just take it, keep me safe. He still got
run through into the end of the turf. Later was
the beneficiary of one of the worst roughing the passer
calls I've seen all season long, which is a whole
other referendum on refereeing that needs to happen. As well
as if you were going to have the you know,
the everybody does the Czar of sports end of year.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
What would I change?
Speaker 5 (09:31):
Yeah, officiating really needs some something. I don't know how
and what, but yeah, it's it's gone into a really
bad space. Fortunately it's a blowout, so one or two
miss calls or bad clock work aren't gonna matter here.
But the Packers roll on in what has been a
nondescript game.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Maybe maybe this will come out of the airing of
grievances as well, that the thoughts about officiating. But on
art I Want Your Flex podcast, a few weeks back,
maybe a month or two ago, we went down the
list of teams that we thought could win the Super Bowl.
And I'm not trying to rain or snow on Green
Bay's parade at all with the Monday night game and
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saying that the NFL purposely put them here because Mike,
you could attest to it that I felt Green Bay
was a legit Super Bowl contender. And when I was
back home in Wisconsin this past week, I had aunts
and cousins and saying, how do you think the Packers
are gonna do? My opinion really means nothing, but I
do believe in this team as a legit possibility to
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win Super Bowl fifty nine. When you look at how
things in the NFC are shaking out, I just don't
think tonight tells us anything about them.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
Oh no, we don't learn anything. This is a get in,
do your job, try to get out healthy. That's it.
Make sure so because as long as Josh Jacobs is
running as he is, and right now Jordan Love is
on a streak, and I don't want to jinx it,
but it's four plus games without a pick. Like he's
taking care of the football sure right, which is one
of the big, big caveats to a lot of players,
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Like all right, there's great explosive plays and opportunities, and
he spreads the ball around a ton as we've spoken of,
may just go down. What their stats were coming into
this week sixteen finale here is that you've got a
number of guys at twenty five thirty forty catches. You
don't have a guy that needs to be fed one
hundred and fifty times. And that's the greatness of the team.
Does that work forever? Maybe maybe not, But Watson at
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one point probably should have been hit for a touchdown.
Now Love found another option that got him a first.
How often can you do that before someone feels like
they need to be fed, whether it's contract incentives or
just hey, trying to put stuff on tape because I
got to get paid too, and fractures there. But for
the moment, you're up twenty four to nothing and moving forward.
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But you look at the NFC as a whole. I mean,
Jalen Hurts went out with a concussion, what does that
mean for a week? For two weeks for their end
of the season. You go down the list. In Minnesota,
You've got Sam Darnold, great story. Everybody keeps saying, yeah,
but like he's, you know, a thirty five year old
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guy that's been weaving his way throughout the league. No,
he's still a young guy, came in young. Yes, he's
bounced a bit. That's more circumstance, I think than him necessarily.
But he's found the right spot. And you've got a
defense playing lights out football. You roll through the Lions.
Does the attrition eventually hit them?
Speaker 3 (12:33):
May not. Defense.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
They've lost so many guys that were starters, and David
Montgomery thinks he's gonna have the Festivus miracle and be
able to play issuing surgery. I don't know that whether
that happens or not. But you know you've got all
that to say that that's pretty much your bubble, right.
I mean the West, someone's getting in, but are they
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a contender or not. I don't know how much I
believe in the Ram or the adn't get in deeper.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
I don't think the Rams can win the Super Bowl.
I do think the Rams are the team you don't
want to play. Does that make sense?
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (13:10):
I think that's simple enough where I don't think they're
gonna run through the NFC and end up in New Orleans.
But if I'm sitting there at Green Bay and I'm
the sixth seed, is the wild card because of the
greatness of Detroit and Minnesota so far this season, going
to LA and facing the Rams maybe isn't as ideal
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as another possibility, like being able to face of being
able to face the winner of the NFC South, whoever
that may be. Like, there's a distinct advantage for the
fifth seed wild card playing the fourth seed in the
NFC South, But I don't think that the I think
green Bay could go to LA and handle the Rams.
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But I just don't think it's the fact of that
we think automatic victory when it comes to that scenario.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
Yeah, wait to see how many folks got some extra
dollars or Christmas bonuses at their jobs in Wisconsin to
come back out to Los Angeles for an early January vacation.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Tell you what, Las Vegas and the warm weather, they're
ready to go. Let's get out of.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
There find their way.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
Is no question about it, all right, Dan, As you
and I get together each and every week on the
I Watch Flex podcast. Part of the early week show
is going through the good, the bad, the ugly of
the week, just past the performances that maybe stood out,
some of the picks that we had in our top
fives and all of that fun stuff. I do a
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laundry list of things, and then I watch guys fail
me left and right, and it's their fault, not mine.
I picked them to do well. They're expected to then perform.
But we have a miserable effort from Josh Allen in
a twenty four to twenty one win. After Monster games,
week after week, championship.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Is on the line.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
We're talking playoffs and eleven point performance in the home
win over the Patriots.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
You're thinking, as well, if you're Eagles, if you have
Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts lookout game against Washington at Washington
could have some points. He ends up getting a concussion
and ends up getting knocked out. And that's as I
look back at Week sixteen, which is playoff time, this
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is winning time in fantasy football. It's funny to me, Mike,
and how the running back positions, specifically a couple of
guys really were affected in a positive way by things
that you just can't count on. You can count on
matchups going yourway. I like this matchup, but Jalen Hurts
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gets knocked out against Washington, opening the door for Saquon Barkley.
Falcons make a quarterback change and decide we're gonna go
with Michael Pennix. Oh, by the way, we have got
a crappy team with nothing to play for coming to town,
and so we can just run Bejhon Robinson all over you.
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So Bejon ends up being the star. And then in
Detroit David Montgomery and no comment about your bears. It's
just a fact of Now it's his show. Guess what
let him run wild, and that's exactly what he did.
But all three of those scenarios aren't scenarios that you
go into the week. Even though they're big names, they
came up with huge, huge performances, all because of something
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else that happened, not because of what they were actually
planning on doing well.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
And a guy that atoned for a previous fantasy and
football sin Jonathan Taylor goes for two to eighteen and
three touchdowns in a wild win over the Titans. For
fantasy purposes, one of the great disappointments on the year.
We'll get into him in the airing of grievances, no
doubt a chan even though the Dolphins haven't been world
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beating well, you look at what he did. He's into
double digit touchdowns, one hundred and twenty on the ground,
seventy receiving in that win at Chewba Hubbard, who I
know you you love and hate, Uh, probably hate him
a little bit more right now. One hundred and fifty
two and two adds four receptions to become the number
two running back for the week. Connor Cook, some of
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the usual suspects getting it done. You mentioned Michael Pennis Junior.
Great opportunity in a plus matchup, but for fantasy purposes,
he gave you an absolute zero.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Part of it being Kyle Pitts and whatever that interception is.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Drake London didn't help him. You there in a goal
line or you know, possible touchdown scenario for Atlanta, but
you go. If Cousins isn't benched, you're not You're expecting
Bijon to have a nice game against the Giants, but
you're not leaning on the run game as much. And
if you're in a playoff game where it's Sakwon Barkley
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against Jalen Hurts, like you can have an advantage when
you have Hurts as your quarterback because you can still
touchdowns from Barkley. Once he gets knocked out and then
Barkley gets him, it's likely game set and match for
your fantasy. So just that those that domino effect Mike
can be the difference between winning and losing in fantasy.
And that's just can't you can't expect it, But you
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can't expect the game to be played in the thirties
between the Eagles and Commanders. And that's what we got,
as crazy as it was, but man, just the circumstances
on how it goes down.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
No, and that's the beauty of the league. For better
or for worse, I depending on your perspective and your
team and whether you're on the short end of it,
both for fantasy and your actual fandom. Dan, I mean
watching that Eagles game play out, five touchdowns, two fifty
eight for Jaden Daniels and once again everybody singing his
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praises because that had gotten muted for a while. Second half, Oh,
he's getting kingsburied right, the second half of Kingsbury's life.
We've watched it when he was a college coach, We've
watched it in his previous NFL stops where things settle down.
Bryce Young had another big game. Patrick Mahomes on what
was supposed to be a bad wheel. Oh wait, let
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me rush for a touchdown early on and take care
of business. So topsy turvy world of the league for sure,
as we get ready for Week seventeen.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
And Keenan Allen becoming quite the threat for your Bears.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
Even though he's already actively talked about maybe wanting to
go back to Los Angeles. But yeah, nine and one
for him, and we'd be remiss if we didn't talk
about No matter how bad the Jaguars are, boy Brian
Thomas Junior is going to be a problem, Yes for
a long long time, another big game for him nine
one thirty two and one.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
What is it? Two to seventy two? They all count.
They all count, so just the same, doesn't matter if
it's if it's Bill's Chiefs or Chiefs Texans, if you
want to use this week's games or Raiders Jaguars, they
all count the same.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
We all start. We always start the season with that
and the other. We can find fantasy points no matter
what sticker or lack thereof is on the side of
it helmet.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Yep, we'll find our value.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Time for the airing of the grievances that annual part
because it is actually Festivus today in the Seinfeld Lore
December twenty third, So everybody get together and pass around
the metal poll and air out who's done you wrong
for fantasy purposes in Bush, you're welcome to dive in
in here if you've got one or two people, or
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just a situation in general that has peeved you to know.
And Dan, would you like to start? Is there someone
in particular on your list that get you absolutely?
Speaker 4 (20:35):
And I actually feel silly for thinking this way, but Mike,
you know how you sometimes talk yourself into drafting a
player or expecting good things from that player. Oh yeah,
that was the case with me with Romandre Stevenson of
the New England Patriots. And if you look at Romandre
Stevenson and what he's done this year, eight hundred yards,
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seven touchdowns, it's not awful, but it's also not great.
And it's not that I expected great things from Ramandre Stevenson.
It's that I talked myself into drafting Ramandre Stevenson. And
Week one they go out, they beat the Bengals one
hundred and twenty yards in a touchdown. This baby's gonna
take off. You know why, Mike, Because New England is
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gonna run the football. They just gave him a contract
in this offseason. You think they're giving him a contract
if they're not gonna use him. Girod Mayo is gonna
be an upgrade over Bill Belichick, at least in the
short term, because it's a new voice and new blood.
And when you play Drake may you just lean on
that running game. And Romandre Stevenson at times is in
and out of the lineup. Never cracked one hundred yards again.
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And in the week that I then decided to bench him,
he scored two touchdowns against the New York Jets. So
I know it's a little off the board, but Romandre
Stevenson is my thorn in my side for my high
hopes for fantasy for fantasy football on this Festivus holiday.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
The old I send you to Heaven before I send
you to Hell, go back and watch at Simpson's side,
show Bob and quoting all sorts of great musicals of
the past. Jonathan Taylor with his thirty nine point eight
this week fantastic right two unterd plus three touchdowns. He
did miss a couple of games. He's right now running
back twenty in PP hardly.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Just pouring one out for all the fantasy teams that drafted.
Speaker 5 (22:21):
That was good and Taylor, that was a very good
sound effect that you added in there. I don't even
know how you did that. Breece Hall, a guy who
would have been drafted as RB two, RB three or
RB four in most leagues. He's currently RB sixteen.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Oh gosh. I had hopes it hopes for him as well.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Jets and the great expectations thereof CJ. Stroud.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
We talk about games that matter. Going into Week seventeen,
this Mini four team, let's hang out and play some
games down the stretch.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
CJ. Stroud is QB eighteen.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
I had and we thought, we thought now with Steffan
Days and Nico Collins and obviously the devastating entry to
take Dallas past weekend. But they were best friends. You
thought the report would be there. It has not been.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
Yeah, it's a team actually, you know, I thought they'd
put up some points. It was fearful of the offensive line.
Those fears were were well founded. But on our board
over there, in addition to thinking New Orleans would be
the worst team in the league, my out on a
limb was that Houston would miss the playoffs because I
thought the rest of the division would actually show up.
And guess what it did not three of the worst
teams with terrible decision made.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Jonathan Taylor turning it on in week sixteen.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
He gave you that one, and look, they still had
a glimmer of hope for a long while. Hey, burse
you got anybody you'd like to add to this list
or a scenario an airing of grievances.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Yeah, definitely a few. I mean, after tonight, the entire
New Orleans Saints are are I have to air my
grievances on that franchise as a whole for being so
awful offensively that I came into a semi final matchup
basically tied tonight. I had Tucker Craft, my opponent had
the Packers defense, and he in essence, had the New
Orleans Saints offense just feeding him points. So no, I
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lost that one as as a whole over the season.
Travis Etn is definitely somebody who came into the season
as a as a solid second round running back, started
off the season fine and then got hurt, and once
he got hurt, he really disappeared offensively. Tank Bigsby really
got into the mix in Jacksonville, and he turned quickly
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into somebody who you didn't feel like you could bench
him at the once he started to struggle early in
the season, and then it got to the point where
you're like, I can't start him. There's no way you
can't start him with any level of confidence.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
You want to fund with numbers out of that, yeah,
RB's thirty eight and thirty seven. Bigsby is one point
eight points better than Etn for the season.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
That's terrible.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
That is terrible, and I think on behalf of plenty
of other owners. Of course, the Christian McCaffrey situation doomed
a lot of people from the start of the season. Also,
do you guys remember Brandon aiyuk Oh spot a time
he's a player in the NFL. He's still on the
forty nine ers. He had the whole contract dispute and
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then got hurt and was never seen up again.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Yeah, he submarined a team for me.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
Do we have a Tyreek Hill? Did we mention Tyren?
Speaker 3 (25:22):
He's on the list certainly.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
K Metcalf knee injuries, and I felt Jackson's with a
jigbo would emerge and he has this season, and it's
almost been a little bit at the expense of DK Metcalf.
I thought it would be at the expensive Tyler Lockett.
But DK Metcalf has not been the performer, especially down
(25:45):
the stretch here. Finally got into the end zone against Minnesota,
but hadn't scored since mid October prior to that, and
to go along with the knee injury, to go along
with just his totals, he had been a disappointment.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
W R thirty three going with our CJ. Stroud Nico
Collins back to number twenty two, so a lot of
that related to injuries, so shows you how effective he
was when he played. Mike Evans missed a couple of
games and has been a beast in several others, but
still only WR nineteen on the year. He's just behind
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Tyreek Hill in that regard. And then the last quarterback
I wanted to mention because he got benched and even
if you didn't expect that you'd have dominance week to week.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Actually, I'll take two Kirk Cousins twentieth on the year
heading into tonight, even with all those weapons and everything
that had been assembled for him, and then Jordan Love
tonight against the Saints thirty four to off in your
final eleven point five points. He is QB seventeen on
the year.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
Sam Laporta was a guy that at the tight end position,
oh absolutely number one coming into the season. Got a
love Laporta, and then he scores in the fake trip
game against the Bears when I was eliminated weeks prior.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
There you go, he at least got you one there.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
So they did have the two touchdown, three catch six
yard game this year.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
They're very reminiscent of the old Jerome bettis five carries
one yard three touchdown stat line from many years ago.
He's Dan Bayer. Thanks Bersch at Ryan Bursch, you gore.
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Speaker 1 (27:37):
As the sick podcast of the Dodger Zone and thankfully
not many lows anymore.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
There you go, all positivity looking down at the rest
of creation, like my beloved White Sox over under on
Wednesday forty nine and a half for twenty twelve.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
Oh the over. Yeah, absolutely the over. It's a new
day on the South Side of Chicago.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
Boy, I wish I had your optimism.
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Speaker 4 (00:33):
Very Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays. He is Mike Carmen and
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If I want your Flex this time around, you can
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it is the Holidays. You and I got together on
Monday night, December twenty third on your show that you
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do weeknights on Fox Sports Radio with Jason Smith, and
because of the holidays, because of time crunching different schedules,
we decided to take some of our content from that
show and put it into the pod this week.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
Yeah, we got the recap of what was an exhilarating
Monday night game between the Packers and the Saints.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
But still some fantasy love with the.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Z in auxhilarating a lot of zs z's.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
Well, look, maybe you took a nap, whatever it is.
Maybe you got some extra holiday holiday holiday hustle and bustle,
some cooking, some baking, a nap somewhere in there. Whatever
the case is, that you talk about the performers of
week sixteen and start looking ahead to what we might
have championship week.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
It's a glorious time of year.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Dan, Yeah, Week sixteen it was pretty crazy, and I
know exhilarating doesn't have any z's. It was just a joke,
but a week. We appreciate your loyalty and it is
a winning time. It is playoff time in fantasy football,
so we didn't want you to think that we were
abandoning you. It's just a different feel for the podcast
this week, and we'll be back for a brand new
episode coming up on Friday with Mike Harmon's rankings and
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hot plays and cold soares for Week seventeen. But if
it sounds a little different, That's why because I was
in for Jason Smith on Mike's show weeknights on Fox
Sports Radio on Monday night as we chopped up that
Packers Saints game. And by the way, here's a little
taste of that, and that's what you're gonna get throughout
the podcast. So enjoy that and we'll talk to you
right here, and I want you Flex.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Merry Christmas, greetings and welcome in.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Another beautiful week begins here the Jason Smith Show with me,
Mike Harmon. No, Jason Smith tonight has big voice. Bob
had to tell you Stan Byer in his stead, my
tag team partner, longtime colleague here Fox Sports Trade and
of course the I Watch Your Flex podcast that we
dial up multiple times each and every week, making you
a little bit smarter, sometimes making ourselves look a little
(02:48):
less so. But Dan keeps me on even keel and
we're almost through the end of the regular season. We'll
have an airing of the grievances later, Dan, But you're
fresh off a flight, fresh off the Midwest, the skies,
the highways, the byeways, how it all go.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Fresh off the snow, the chill. The ears still haven't popped, Mike,
But this is fun. I love when you and I
get together, and as you said, we get together on
the I Want Your Flex podcast. But there is always
something just a little different when I'm in for you.
I don't know if it feels dirty, if it feels
like maybe like I know that you're with Jason Smith,
but I'm kind of like cheating. So it's this secret
(03:23):
sort of thing. But I'm happy to be here for
the next four hours.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Well, you know what is an open secret?
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Four hundred affiliates nationwide, the IHEA radio app. I mean global, global,
I mean just putting it out in everybody's face. Twenty
one nothing your Monday night football score. Not really aesthetically
pleasing in any sense of the world word at this point.
Josh Jacobs with his sixty four yards and a touchdown
Jordan Love pedestrian one thirty six and one, but a
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yeoman like effort against an overmatched, undermanned, and frankly discombobulated, pathetic, underprepared.
What other word can I use to describe what the
Saints are put together?
Speaker 4 (04:03):
I have no idea. I have no idea why the
NFL would say this is what the audience wants On
Christmas Eve, eve it. It doesn't make sense in a
flex situation, and keeping this game in like it didn't
make sense at the beginning of the season to think
that in Week sixteen the Saints would have anything to
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play for, whether Derek Carr was healthy or not healthy.
I don't know why the NFL would want to schedule
a game like this. Well, actually I do, because they
want to make the Packers seem great. They want the
Thursday or they want the Monday night football lore and
the cold weather, and they want that look for their
broadcast because everybody loves wintery mix and watching those games
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on TV. That's the exact reason that they did it.
They loved it when it was snowing in Cleveland, they
loved it when it was snowing in Buffalo. And hey,
late December, right before Christmas, let's go to Green Bay.
Who should we put against them? The Saints. You set
it on the list in the studio. I said it
on the list in our studio. Worst team in the
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NFL at the beginning of the season. They've overachieved, Dan,
they have overachieved, and we thought that in Derek Carr
and they don't even have him tonight. Why this game
is being played on a Monday night. I have no
idea except for the NFL trying to push their conspiracy
and having some winter wonderland fun for the Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
In the end, it is a TV show, so we
get that.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
So if you get a little bit of a weather
element to it, that it gives folks something extra to watch.
In this case, it's fantasy playoff games and whether they
cover the robust fourteen or fourteen and a half point
number that was put up for the Packers here obviously
Jordan Love and Josh Jacobs, and maybe you decided to
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delve down into those wide receivers. I wouldn't touch them
with a ten football, even in a plus matchup, because
which guy is gonna get fed?
Speaker 3 (05:59):
You have no idea.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
We talked about it a little in the podcast you
were en route to your homeland. As Hean and I
sat down, It's like, you look at some of the
numbers when you go to Jyden Reed you really love him, great,
he's got fifty catches, right, Not on a week to
week basis, trying to guess who's gonna get fed outside
of Jacob's has been a miserable construct and even today Hey,
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Muscove's back, that doesn't matter. He is still Tucker Craft.
Go go ahead and get him involved a bunch. But
to your point about you know the Packers and what
they are. You've got history, so you always get to
give people a nice little history lesson on your league
when you go to lambeau Field. The pageantry, the pomp
and circumstance and everything. Yeah, the Saints, I mean they're
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not only missing Car. There's no a Lave, there's no Kamara.
Carr was still having a really good season despite the chaos,
inconsistency and just futured play around him. But all that
to say, yeah, and we're flexing everything else. We're putting
in a mini it might as well be the Emirates
Cup Light with those four teams that are playing Saturday
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and Wednesday, and yet this game stands alone. Hell, we
fletched out the Cowboys out of a game, right right
right like, but nothing sacred.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Let's keep the Saints though. Let's make sure that the
Saints and Packers stays in the spot that it needs
to remember the days of the Aints. Yeah they are
the Ain't nobody good playing tonight? That's who they are.
They're not the Aints. It's just ain't nobody good playing
for the Saints tonight. And that's the mess that we
get and should we expect twenty four to nothing? This
is just this is a three hour parade, like there's
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nothing to worry about. Guarantee people will be leaving in
the fourth quarter because now you've got Christmas plans. You
don't want to be stranded out at night. But there's
no reason for this game. I know that you can't
a week out change a Monday night game, but still
to the point of what we thought the Saints were
going to be at the beginning of the year, Mike
and now with an inner med coach, and I know
they went on a mini run you know, a few
(08:03):
weeks back. Still not enough worthy enough to keep this
as a Monday night game except for the hope of
snow and for the great vibes that you get from
playing a game at Lambeufield in December.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Yeah, I mean, Rizzy doesn't match the the heat and
genesis of social media clicks like his guy the Rizzler Man.
It's close because I've seen those side by sides at
points and he does get a little fiery on the
sideline but I don't think it has the same juice.
But for the Packers, man, you're gonna be an eleven
win team taking care of business, yeoman like defense as
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we talked about on the pod, but bringing it to
everybody here in this space. You know, finally all the
turnovers that we'd been projecting and waiting for with this
defense coming in Spains. I think it was their twenty
seventh tonight. Earlier on one of the more inexplicable fumbles
you'll see, where it was like someone was gonna about
to get mugged. And I don't not make light of
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people getting robbed is very real thing, but it's the hey,
here's my wallet. That's what Rattler did with the football.
As the defender went to take you just kind of
flipped it up into no man's lands.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Everything.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
Yeah, just take it, keep me safe. He still got
run through into the end of the turf. Later was
the beneficiary of one of the worst roughing the passer
calls I've seen all season long, which is a whole
other referendum on refereeing that needs to happen. As well
as if you were going to have the you know,
the everybody does the Czar of sports end of year.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
What would I change?
Speaker 5 (09:31):
Yeah, officiating really needs some something. I don't know how
and what, but yeah, it's it's gone into a really
bad space. Fortunately it's a blowout, so one or two
miss calls or bad clock work aren't gonna matter here.
But the Packers roll on in what has been a
nondescript game.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Maybe maybe this will come out of the airing of
grievances as well, that the thoughts about officiating. But on
art I Want Your Flex podcast, a few weeks back,
maybe a month or two ago, we went down the
list of teams that we thought could win the Super Bowl.
And I'm not trying to rain or snow on Green
Bay's parade at all with the Monday night game and
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saying that the NFL purposely put them here because Mike,
you could attest to it that I felt Green Bay
was a legit Super Bowl contender. And when I was
back home in Wisconsin this past week, I had aunts
and cousins and saying, how do you think the Packers
are gonna do? My opinion really means nothing, but I
do believe in this team as a legit possibility to
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win Super Bowl fifty nine. When you look at how
things in the NFC are shaking out, I just don't
think tonight tells us anything about them.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
Oh no, we don't learn anything. This is a get in,
do your job, try to get out healthy. That's it.
Make sure so because as long as Josh Jacobs is
running as he is, and right now Jordan Love is
on a streak, and I don't want to jinx it,
but it's four plus games without a pick. Like he's
taking care of the football sure right, which is one
of the big, big caveats to a lot of players,
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Like all right, there's great explosive plays and opportunities, and
he spreads the ball around a ton as we've spoken of,
may just go down. What their stats were coming into
this week sixteen finale here is that you've got a
number of guys at twenty five thirty forty catches. You
don't have a guy that needs to be fed one
hundred and fifty times. And that's the greatness of the team.
Does that work forever? Maybe maybe not, But Watson at
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one point probably should have been hit for a touchdown.
Now Love found another option that got him a first.
How often can you do that before someone feels like
they need to be fed, whether it's contract incentives or
just hey, trying to put stuff on tape because I
got to get paid too, and fractures there. But for
the moment, you're up twenty four to nothing and moving forward.
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But you look at the NFC as a whole. I mean,
Jalen Hurts went out with a concussion, what does that
mean for a week? For two weeks for their end
of the season. You go down the list. In Minnesota,
You've got Sam Darnold, great story. Everybody keeps saying, yeah,
but like he's, you know, a thirty five year old
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guy that's been weaving his way throughout the league. No,
he's still a young guy, came in young. Yes, he's
bounced a bit. That's more circumstance, I think than him necessarily.
But he's found the right spot. And you've got a
defense playing lights out football. You roll through the Lions.
Does the attrition eventually hit them?
Speaker 3 (12:33):
May not. Defense.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
They've lost so many guys that were starters, and David
Montgomery thinks he's gonna have the Festivus miracle and be
able to play issuing surgery. I don't know that whether
that happens or not. But you know you've got all
that to say that that's pretty much your bubble, right.
I mean the West, someone's getting in, but are they
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a contender or not. I don't know how much I
believe in the Ram or the adn't get in deeper.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
I don't think the Rams can win the Super Bowl.
I do think the Rams are the team you don't
want to play. Does that make sense?
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (13:10):
I think that's simple enough where I don't think they're
gonna run through the NFC and end up in New Orleans.
But if I'm sitting there at Green Bay and I'm
the sixth seed, is the wild card because of the
greatness of Detroit and Minnesota so far this season, going
to LA and facing the Rams maybe isn't as ideal
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as another possibility, like being able to face of being
able to face the winner of the NFC South, whoever
that may be. Like, there's a distinct advantage for the
fifth seed wild card playing the fourth seed in the
NFC South, But I don't think that the I think
green Bay could go to LA and handle the Rams.
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But I just don't think it's the fact of that
we think automatic victory when it comes to that scenario.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
Yeah, wait to see how many folks got some extra
dollars or Christmas bonuses at their jobs in Wisconsin to
come back out to Los Angeles for an early January vacation.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Tell you what, Las Vegas and the warm weather, they're
ready to go. Let's get out of.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
There find their way.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
Is no question about it, all right, Dan, As you
and I get together each and every week on the
I Watch Flex podcast. Part of the early week show
is going through the good, the bad, the ugly of
the week, just past the performances that maybe stood out,
some of the picks that we had in our top
fives and all of that fun stuff. I do a
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laundry list of things, and then I watch guys fail
me left and right, and it's their fault, not mine.
I picked them to do well. They're expected to then perform.
But we have a miserable effort from Josh Allen in
a twenty four to twenty one win. After Monster games,
week after week, championship.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Is on the line.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
We're talking playoffs and eleven point performance in the home
win over the Patriots.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
You're thinking, as well, if you're Eagles, if you have
Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts lookout game against Washington at Washington
could have some points. He ends up getting a concussion
and ends up getting knocked out. And that's as I
look back at Week sixteen, which is playoff time, this
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is winning time in fantasy football. It's funny to me, Mike,
and how the running back positions, specifically a couple of
guys really were affected in a positive way by things
that you just can't count on. You can count on
matchups going yourway. I like this matchup, but Jalen Hurts
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gets knocked out against Washington, opening the door for Saquon Barkley.
Falcons make a quarterback change and decide we're gonna go
with Michael Pennix. Oh, by the way, we have got
a crappy team with nothing to play for coming to town,
and so we can just run Bejhon Robinson all over you.
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So Bejon ends up being the star. And then in
Detroit David Montgomery and no comment about your bears. It's
just a fact of Now it's his show. Guess what
let him run wild, and that's exactly what he did.
But all three of those scenarios aren't scenarios that you
go into the week. Even though they're big names, they
came up with huge, huge performances, all because of something
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else that happened, not because of what they were actually
planning on doing well.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
And a guy that atoned for a previous fantasy and
football sin Jonathan Taylor goes for two to eighteen and
three touchdowns in a wild win over the Titans. For
fantasy purposes, one of the great disappointments on the year.
We'll get into him in the airing of grievances, no
doubt a chan even though the Dolphins haven't been world
(16:54):
beating well, you look at what he did. He's into
double digit touchdowns, one hundred and twenty on the ground,
seventy receiving in that win at Chewba Hubbard, who I
know you you love and hate, Uh, probably hate him
a little bit more right now. One hundred and fifty
two and two adds four receptions to become the number
two running back for the week. Connor Cook, some of
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the usual suspects getting it done. You mentioned Michael Pennis Junior.
Great opportunity in a plus matchup, but for fantasy purposes,
he gave you an absolute zero.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Part of it being Kyle Pitts and whatever that interception is.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Drake London didn't help him. You there in a goal
line or you know, possible touchdown scenario for Atlanta, but
you go. If Cousins isn't benched, you're not You're expecting
Bijon to have a nice game against the Giants, but
you're not leaning on the run game as much. And
if you're in a playoff game where it's Sakwon Barkley
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against Jalen Hurts, like you can have an advantage when
you have Hurts as your quarterback because you can still
touchdowns from Barkley. Once he gets knocked out and then
Barkley gets him, it's likely game set and match for
your fantasy. So just that those that domino effect Mike
can be the difference between winning and losing in fantasy.
And that's just can't you can't expect it, But you
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can't expect the game to be played in the thirties
between the Eagles and Commanders. And that's what we got,
as crazy as it was, but man, just the circumstances
on how it goes down.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
No, and that's the beauty of the league. For better
or for worse, I depending on your perspective and your
team and whether you're on the short end of it,
both for fantasy and your actual fandom. Dan, I mean
watching that Eagles game play out, five touchdowns, two fifty
eight for Jaden Daniels and once again everybody singing his
(18:46):
praises because that had gotten muted for a while. Second half, Oh,
he's getting kingsburied right, the second half of Kingsbury's life.
We've watched it when he was a college coach, We've
watched it in his previous NFL stops where things settle down.
Bryce Young had another big game. Patrick Mahomes on what
was supposed to be a bad wheel. Oh wait, let
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me rush for a touchdown early on and take care
of business. So topsy turvy world of the league for sure,
as we get ready for Week seventeen.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
And Keenan Allen becoming quite the threat for your Bears.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
Even though he's already actively talked about maybe wanting to
go back to Los Angeles. But yeah, nine and one
for him, and we'd be remiss if we didn't talk
about No matter how bad the Jaguars are, boy Brian
Thomas Junior is going to be a problem, Yes for
a long long time, another big game for him nine
one thirty two and one.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
What is it? Two to seventy two? They all count.
They all count, so just the same, doesn't matter if
it's if it's Bill's Chiefs or Chiefs Texans, if you
want to use this week's games or Raiders Jaguars, they
all count the same.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
We all start. We always start the season with that
and the other. We can find fantasy points no matter
what sticker or lack thereof is on the side of
it helmet.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Yep, we'll find our value.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Time for the airing of the grievances that annual part
because it is actually Festivus today in the Seinfeld Lore
December twenty third, So everybody get together and pass around
the metal poll and air out who's done you wrong
for fantasy purposes in Bush, you're welcome to dive in
in here if you've got one or two people, or
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just a situation in general that has peeved you to know.
And Dan, would you like to start? Is there someone
in particular on your list that get you absolutely?
Speaker 4 (20:35):
And I actually feel silly for thinking this way, but Mike,
you know how you sometimes talk yourself into drafting a
player or expecting good things from that player. Oh yeah,
that was the case with me with Romandre Stevenson of
the New England Patriots. And if you look at Romandre
Stevenson and what he's done this year, eight hundred yards,
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seven touchdowns, it's not awful, but it's also not great.
And it's not that I expected great things from Ramandre Stevenson.
It's that I talked myself into drafting Ramandre Stevenson. And
Week one they go out, they beat the Bengals one
hundred and twenty yards in a touchdown. This baby's gonna
take off. You know why, Mike, Because New England is
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gonna run the football. They just gave him a contract
in this offseason. You think they're giving him a contract
if they're not gonna use him. Girod Mayo is gonna
be an upgrade over Bill Belichick, at least in the
short term, because it's a new voice and new blood.
And when you play Drake may you just lean on
that running game. And Romandre Stevenson at times is in
and out of the lineup. Never cracked one hundred yards again.
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And in the week that I then decided to bench him,
he scored two touchdowns against the New York Jets. So
I know it's a little off the board, but Romandre
Stevenson is my thorn in my side for my high
hopes for fantasy for fantasy football on this Festivus holiday.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
The old I send you to Heaven before I send
you to Hell, go back and watch at Simpson's side,
show Bob and quoting all sorts of great musicals of
the past. Jonathan Taylor with his thirty nine point eight
this week fantastic right two unterd plus three touchdowns. He
did miss a couple of games. He's right now running
back twenty in PP hardly.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Just pouring one out for all the fantasy teams that drafted.
Speaker 5 (22:21):
That was good and Taylor, that was a very good
sound effect that you added in there. I don't even
know how you did that. Breece Hall, a guy who
would have been drafted as RB two, RB three or
RB four in most leagues. He's currently RB sixteen.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Oh gosh. I had hopes it hopes for him as well.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Jets and the great expectations thereof CJ. Stroud.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
We talk about games that matter. Going into Week seventeen,
this Mini four team, let's hang out and play some
games down the stretch.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
CJ. Stroud is QB eighteen.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
I had and we thought, we thought now with Steffan
Days and Nico Collins and obviously the devastating entry to
take Dallas past weekend. But they were best friends. You
thought the report would be there. It has not been.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
Yeah, it's a team actually, you know, I thought they'd
put up some points. It was fearful of the offensive line.
Those fears were were well founded. But on our board
over there, in addition to thinking New Orleans would be
the worst team in the league, my out on a
limb was that Houston would miss the playoffs because I
thought the rest of the division would actually show up.
And guess what it did not three of the worst
teams with terrible decision made.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Jonathan Taylor turning it on in week sixteen.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
He gave you that one, and look, they still had
a glimmer of hope for a long while. Hey, burse
you got anybody you'd like to add to this list
or a scenario an airing of grievances.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Yeah, definitely a few. I mean, after tonight, the entire
New Orleans Saints are are I have to air my
grievances on that franchise as a whole for being so
awful offensively that I came into a semi final matchup
basically tied tonight. I had Tucker Craft, my opponent had
the Packers defense, and he in essence, had the New
Orleans Saints offense just feeding him points. So no, I
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lost that one as as a whole over the season.
Travis Etn is definitely somebody who came into the season
as a as a solid second round running back, started
off the season fine and then got hurt, and once
he got hurt, he really disappeared offensively. Tank Bigsby really
got into the mix in Jacksonville, and he turned quickly
(24:29):
into somebody who you didn't feel like you could bench
him at the once he started to struggle early in
the season, and then it got to the point where
you're like, I can't start him. There's no way you
can't start him with any level of confidence.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
You want to fund with numbers out of that, yeah,
RB's thirty eight and thirty seven. Bigsby is one point
eight points better than Etn for the season.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
That's terrible.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
That is terrible, and I think on behalf of plenty
of other owners. Of course, the Christian McCaffrey situation doomed
a lot of people from the start of the season. Also,
do you guys remember Brandon aiyuk Oh spot a time
he's a player in the NFL. He's still on the
forty nine ers. He had the whole contract dispute and
(25:13):
then got hurt and was never seen up again.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Yeah, he submarined a team for me.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
Do we have a Tyreek Hill? Did we mention Tyren?
Speaker 3 (25:22):
He's on the list certainly.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
K Metcalf knee injuries, and I felt Jackson's with a
jigbo would emerge and he has this season, and it's
almost been a little bit at the expense of DK Metcalf.
I thought it would be at the expensive Tyler Lockett.
But DK Metcalf has not been the performer, especially down
(25:45):
the stretch here. Finally got into the end zone against Minnesota,
but hadn't scored since mid October prior to that, and
to go along with the knee injury, to go along
with just his totals, he had been a disappointment.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
W R thirty three going with our CJ. Stroud Nico
Collins back to number twenty two, so a lot of
that related to injuries, so shows you how effective he
was when he played. Mike Evans missed a couple of
games and has been a beast in several others, but
still only WR nineteen on the year. He's just behind
(26:19):
Tyreek Hill in that regard. And then the last quarterback
I wanted to mention because he got benched and even
if you didn't expect that you'd have dominance week to week.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Actually, I'll take two Kirk Cousins twentieth on the year
heading into tonight, even with all those weapons and everything
that had been assembled for him, and then Jordan Love
tonight against the Saints thirty four to off in your
final eleven point five points. He is QB seventeen on
the year.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
Sam Laporta was a guy that at the tight end position,
oh absolutely number one coming into the season. Got a
love Laporta, and then he scores in the fake trip
game against the Bears when I was eliminated weeks prior.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
There you go, he at least got you one there.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
So they did have the two touchdown, three catch six
yard game this year.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
They're very reminiscent of the old Jerome bettis five carries
one yard three touchdown stat line from many years ago.
He's Dan Bayer. Thanks Bersch at Ryan Bursch, you gore.
Check out his podcast Everything He's got going Dodger related
as we get ready for the end of the silly season,
money flying about. He and Bo Benz and Monci belagyas
(27:29):
they've got you covered on all the highs and lows
of the that season. Where can they find the podcast Bursch.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
As the sick podcast of the Dodger Zone and thankfully
not many lows anymore.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
There you go, all positivity looking down at the rest
of creation, like my beloved White Sox over under on
Wednesday forty nine and a half for twenty twelve.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
Oh the over. Yeah, absolutely the over. It's a new
day on the South Side of Chicago.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
Boy, I wish I had your optimism.
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