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November 15, 2021 53 mins

Marcas Grant and Michael F. Florio are back for a new edition of the NFL Fantasy Football Podcast to recap all the action from Week 10! The hosts start with reactions to our fantasy headlines: Green Bay Packers running back Aaron Jones is expected to miss 1-2 weeks with a mild MCL sprain, Los Angeles Rams wide receiver Robert Woods suffered a torn ACL one day after the Rams signed Odell Beckham Jr., the Tennessee Titans have placed wide receiver Julio Jones on injured reserve, and New England Patriots wide receiver Jakobi Meyers finally scored his first NFL touchdown! After the news, Marcas and Michael review lessons they learned in Week 10 and talk about the weekend’s top performers, wondering if Buffalo Bills wide receiver Stefon Diggs can build off his big game against the Jets and if New England Patriots tight end Hunter Henry can keep scoring touchdowns. Next, the hosts lament the week’s biggest disappointments, covering what went wrong for Los Angeles Chargers wide receiver Mike Williams and Tennessee Titans wide receiver A.J. Brown. Then, the experts play a game of “Hype Train or Smokescreen,” discussing the Chiefs offense, Rhamondre Stevenson, Antonio Gibson, and Trevor Siemian. Later, Marcas and Michael go over the top waiver wire targets for Week 11, and finally, we close the show with a preview of the Los Angeles Rams at San Francisco 49ers Monday Night Football matchup.


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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Wow, what is up? Welcome to another edition of the
NFL Fantasy Football Show. It's made your man, MG. Marcus Grant,
still fully vaccinated, still dodging variants like neo in the matrix,

(00:21):
and we are almost through Week ten. Got a big
show for you, as we always do. Got producer Justin
and the specialists alongside behind the scenes making this thing happen.
A cast of dozens that helps put this show on
and joining me here on screen as always Michael f
Florio And you know, last week, we came on the
show on Monday and we were all sort of bewildered

(00:41):
because Week nine did not know anything according to plan.
I don't know about you, but I feel like week
ten everything sort of righted itself. Like I feel like
I got a lot more right in week ten certainly
than I did in week nine. Yeah, it was definitely
a better week. Still some weird stuff that I'm we're
definitely going to talk about, but nothing like week nine.
So uh, it felt good, getting back on some calls, right,

(01:03):
getting some wins back in on some leagues that it
took a hard loss on last week. So feeling a
lot better than a week ago, that's for sure. Absolutely.
You know. It's funny too because doing this job, people
always ask like, you know, how do I what is
it like doing this job? And I'm always like, you know,
part of it is that you want to help people.
You want to make sure you're helping people win their
fantasy leagues. But there's also the human element of just
wanting to be right, you know, like you don't want

(01:25):
to sit here, uh and be wrong, because then you
look like a fool um laugh week and I think
we all as an industry sort of looked like fools.
I think after week ten we feel a lot better
about ourselves, Like, you know, maybe we uh, you know,
maybe we know what we're doing a little bit here.
So predicting the future is tough. Predicting the future is hard.
I tell that to people all the time, Like it
gave This job has given me newfound respect for meteorologists.

(01:46):
That's all I know. Um, we got a lot to
talk about on this show today, where we will ask
the question, is Stefon Diggs finally becoming the wide receiver
we hoped for? Uh? Is Antonio Gibson starting to turn
the corner for the Washington football team and for your
fantasy squad, and we will preview the Rams and the
forty Niners coming up tonight on Monday Night Football as

(02:07):
we close out Week ten. But let's get started, as
we always do, with some fantasy headlines, and we will
start in Green Bay, where Aaron Jones left the game
against the Seahawks on Sunday with a knee injury. Now, initially, uh,
it seems very worrisome. There were reports uh that he

(02:29):
had gone to talk to his family after he left
the medical tent, that he had tears in his eyes,
and certainly we all thought the worst, hope for the best,
but thought the worst. Turns out it is a knee
sprain the early report so that he will miss one
to two weeks. The Packers also do have a by
coming up soon, so that may be another game that
you're gonna be without Aaron Jones. But we saw yesterday

(02:50):
a J. Dillon stepped in played very well. This is
a guy that I know you've been high on, I've
liked as well. So now, with Aaron Jones out for
the foreseeable future, is a J. Dillon a US start
for your fantasy team? I think so. I mean yesterday
in a game where Aaron Jones was active for at
least the first half of it. A J. Dillon played
only of the snaps, still had twenty three touches, UH

(03:13):
sixty six yards on the ground, also added sixty two
through the air, scored the touchdowns. He was playing really well, Marcus.
This was his third game of the year with over
fifteen touches. He has shown us he can be utilized
in the passing game. Been targeted eighteen times this year,
caught sixteen of them. Aaron Jones has continuously been in
RB one for years now in this offense, one of

(03:33):
the best offenses in football. That is my expectation for
a J. Dillon. I think he should come in as
an RB one and I think his upside because he
could get even more work potentially than Aaron Jones, who
we know they like to, you know, shed a little
bit of time with with the secondary running back. I
think he has top five upside, but I definitely think
he is an RB one right now. I mean I've

(03:53):
been saying for a while that he has really taken
well to that Jamal Williams role, and anybody who's had
Aaron Jones on their fantasy squads for the last few years,
knew how frustrating Jamal Williams could be because he would
step in, he would take some of those opportunities and
he would generally do pretty well with them. And so
Dylan seems to be continuing that tradition there in Green Bay,

(04:15):
and so it will be I think, I guess, refreshing
if you have a J. Dillon to know that he
can step in and handle the big workload there. I
don't think there's going to be a situation where he
handles all the touches. There will probably be another name
that we see rotate in there a little bit. But
but a J. Dillon, if you've got him, I think
it's gonna be worth playing. And if he's somehow I

(04:35):
don't know why he would be, But if somehow he
is available on your waiver wire, we'll probably get to
that a little bit later in the show, then you
probably should go on and add him there um. In
Los Angeles last week, obviously the big news for the
Rams was the signing of Odell Beckham Jr. Uh. What
we found out afterwards is that the same day the
Rams signed Odell, they lose Robert Woods. He tears his

(04:59):
A C. L. In practice. He is going to be
out for the remainder of the season. He put out
a note on social media kind of thanking the fans
for their support, and he just kind of letting everybody
know that he's gonna be okay and he will be
back hopefully for next year as well. Uh, not much
to say about this. We'll talk a little bit more
about O'Dell, We'll talk about Van Jefferson, we'll talk about
the Rams, and we talk about Monday Night football. But uh,

(05:20):
you know, I will say Florial this it's a tough
loss obviously for the Rams. It's a big loss for
Robert Woods that they disappointing loss, But we didn't for
fantasy because after a slow start, he was actually starting
to play really well and was looking like the guy
you probably spent a little bit of draft capital on. Yeah,
he was, and he leads this team and end zone targets.
I think a lot of people would guess that is
Cooper Cup, but it's actually been Robert Wood. So I'm

(05:43):
gonna be keeping a close eye tonight on how they
their offense operates in the red zone. But Marcus, this
felt like wrestling or like a TV show like one
of the most adorable players in the NFL, Robert Woods.
It feels like this is his first injury ever. The
same day that Odell Beckham arrives into town. Like, what
are the chances you can't make this stuff up? I mean,
if it were a TV show, you'd be like, yeah,

(06:04):
this is fake, Like this not happened. But alas here
we are. Um in Tennessee, Julio Jones and his struggles
with that that meddlesome hamstring continues. He has been placed
on injured reserve for the Tennessee Titans, which means he's
going to miss at least three games. Um. I mean,
he just hasn't been able to get right all year.

(06:24):
This has been a lingering issue. He he just has
never been able to stay on the field consistently. In Tennessee.
Uh we we obviously know A J. Brown is pretty
much widely owned. I mean, if I don't want to
play in the league, and maybe I do want to
play in the league where A J. Brown is still
somehow on the waiver wire, I don't know. But without
Julio Jones, Uh, is there another Titans receiver that's worth

(06:45):
picking up at this point? Uh, there's no direct Julio
Jones replacement, that is for sure, and I will take
the big l on Julio Jones. I thought he could
have had a big year this year, opposite of A J. Brown.
He just hasn't been able to stay healthy this This
hamstring has hampered him all year long. But if you're
in a deeper league, or you're going a little bit
deeper and you need a replacement, I think Marcus Johnson

(07:06):
is a name that, uh, he caught my eye a
little bit yesterday. He played six the snaps, that was
the second most of their receivers. He led the Titans
and targets with six catches with five and receiving yards
with the hundred. A J. Brown had an awful game yesterday,
but one catch. The volume just wasn't there for him.
I had a couple of people telling me on Twitter
they were thinking of dropping him. Do not do that.

(07:27):
But I think Marcus Johnson is just a deeper league
at Marcus. I don't think you could get a direct
Julio replacement off the waiver wire just yet. I think
that's the case. I don't I don't even know if
I would take the swing at Marcus Johnson. This that
feels like point chasing a little bit. The the good
news is a silver lining to this one. If you
have Julio Jones, you have probably sort of figured out

(07:49):
how to maneuver without him, because that's just been the
situation for a good portion of the year. Um. If
you haven't, then at least it's at a position that
has depth in fantasy, right, if you lose a wide receiver,
there's a pretty good chance you can find another productive
wide receiver. You can sort of mix and match, kind
of plug and play off the waiver wire a little bit,

(08:11):
so at least that kind of works in your favor.
But I'm with you. I thought this was gonna be
a great situation for Julio. I thought it was gonna
be a great situation for the Titans offense. UM. But
you know, now they've lost Julio Jones, They've lost Derrick
Henry Um and that's somehow on the field, they're still
light in too to play good football. They're winning games

(08:31):
even without a couple of their big offensive stars. So
we'll see how long it continues. But it's been a frustrating,
frustrating year for for Julio. Uh, there is some good
news though we finished Jacoby Myers. We have been talking
about this guy for weeks on end about how he
hasn't been able to score a touchdown. It seemed like
it was close so many times, and finally, finally Hants Sunday,

(08:56):
it happened. Just a little short pass from Mac Jones,
he breaks a tackle against the brown sprints to the
end zone, dives across the gold line, and scores his
first NFL touchdown. Florio. It was fantastic. It was fabulous.
I think I don't even know if we could even
believe our eyes. It was his one thirty fifth career reception.
Uh so it was. It was really awesome to finally

(09:17):
see j Kope Meyers scored touchdown yesterday. Yeah, it was.
I believe he had the most targets before a touchdown
in in history, So I mean, you have to feel
bad for the guy. A couple of weeks ago, he
had one call back due to a penalty. Then he
scored a two point conversion one week so he's got
a little taste of the end zone, but this one

(09:38):
officially counts. I was waiting for a flag and never came,
and it was awesome to see all his teammates celebrate
with him because we knew that he hadn't scored. We
joke about it, but clearly his teammates did as well,
and they wanted to celebrate with who their number one
wide receiver is finally scoring a touchdown. I mean most
of the team ran over the end zone to celebrate
with him, to share the moment. It was a razing uh.

(10:01):
You know, by the way, the answer to the trivia question,
it was thrown by Brian Hoyer. It was not making
because at that point it was such a blowout that
the mc jones had been pulled, Hoyer had come in,
and they finally get the touchdown to Jacoby Myers. I
went I put together a list of facts about this
Jacoby Myers touchdown. UM. Seven hundred and ninety eight days

(10:22):
passed between his first NFL game and him scoring his
first NFL touchdown on Sunday. In that time, Derrick Henry,
probably not a big surprise, has the most touchdowns in
that span, including the playoffs, has forty seven touchdowns, forty
five of them in the regular season. Uh. The last
time Jacoby Meyers scored a touchdown that mattered was December

(10:46):
one teen. He was still playing at North Carolina States.
It was in a game against East Carolina. At that
point December, the number one movie in America was Ralph
Breaks the Internet. Uh, and the number one song on
the Billboard Hot one hundred was thank You Next by
Ariana Grande. So a lot, a lot has happened. Uh,

(11:11):
I mean we've had a presidential election. I mean that
there's been so much that has happened. Wasn't a thing right,
Uh So, Um, congratulations Jakobe Myers. That was want fun
all right? Uh that gets us to the things that
we learned. I think we do every the week here
where we look at the games from Sunday and we

(11:32):
take something away from what we saw on the football
action And Uh so for you, Floria, what was a
thing that you pulled out of this week's games that
even the goat, even the greatest one to ever lay
them up, can bust? I mean Tom Brady came into
this game averaging three hundred and thirty passing yards per game,

(11:52):
three touchdowns per game, and he was facing the Washington
defense that was allowing the most fantasy points to quarterbacks.
An average game for them was giving up over three
hundred passing yards and two and a half passing touchdowns.
So I thought tom Brady was in a great spot.
I thought he and all the Bucks players around him,
We're gonna go off. But it was not meant to be.
Tom Brady finished with just thirteen Fantasy points. He was

(12:15):
outscored by Mason Rudolph. So that tells you how bad
it was in Week ten for the Goat. And it
just shows us that these weird dug games that we've
been getting markets. We had it with Josh Allen against
the Jaguars, Lamar Jackson against Miami. Uh, all of these
top teams have been losing in weird games. The Goat
isn't even above it this year. Even the Goat can

(12:36):
can disappoint us. I mean I talked about all the
things we got right this week. This is when I
got majorly wrong because on NFL Fantasy Game Day I
said Tom Brady was going to be the top scorer
for the week. Um, yeah, he wasn't. Even In the
conversation with the way how that happened. Um, the thing
I learned, and we sort of talked about this maybe
last week or two weeks ago. We talked about it
in terms of Javante Williams not just taking over in

(12:58):
the Buffalo or the bron goes backfield. But I think
we should just spin it around and say, look, maybe
we were wrong about Melvin Gordon. Maybe we underrated Melvin Gordon,
where we just all sort of assumed that the young
guy was gonna push him aside. But Melvin Gordon continues
to play well, and he's doing it and what is
a fairly limited role there in Denver. I mean, uh,

(13:19):
he's still having to split time with Javonte Williams, and
both of those guys are playing good football and being
very effective. But there's nothing we have seen from Melvin
Gordon this year to suggest he deserves less opportunity than
what he is getting had. You know, you see the
nine point three points against the Eagles, not super spectacular,
but he's been very effective running the football. He's finding

(13:41):
the ends one on a pretty consistent basis. Uh, and
he's just he's just kind of hanging around. He's a
top fifteen running back as we sit here and talk
right now, And look, I don't know what it is
about it. Maybe it's because we've seen him, you know,
lose his job to Austin Ekeler and to Philip Lindsay
in the past, maybe that's what it is is, Uh,
we just seem to kind of keep down playing Melvin Gordon,

(14:02):
and he just seems to keep hanging around and doing
this thing out here. I think a big part of
it is we just want Javontay Williams to be in
RB one. You know, we all have a short attention
spans in the fantasy community. We all want the new
shiny toy. And to give him credit, Javonte Williams has
done everything that we wanted him to do. He's missing
forcing a bunch of miss tackles, He's still looking pretty explosive.

(14:24):
But Melvin Gordon is holding his own. And the big
thing is Melvin Gordon is getting the touches near the
goal line and scoring the touchdowns. So he actually would
be the Broncos running back that I prefer to start
right now. Although I will say Javontay Williams next year
and beyond, I I think he's gonna be awesome and
come with a ton of hype and live up to it.

(14:44):
But this year, I think it's gonna be tough because
Melvin Gordon is not gonna go away. He's not. Um,
I mean, I think what what works for Javonte is
you sort of pointed out, is next year is great.
Melvin Gordon's at the end of this contract in the
recent history of running back suggests that, uh, he's certainly
not gonna command a big salary and there's a very
good chance that the Broncos move on from him. So

(15:06):
for anybody who has Javontay Williams in dynasty leagues, uh,
you know, stay the course because next year very much
could be his year and your year as well for fantasy.
But hey man, all hell, Melvin Gordon, props to him
for just, you know, continuing to be productive, uh, continuing
to do his thing. That gets us to a break
we come back, we will look at some of the
top performers from the week, including Stefon Diggs, who had

(15:31):
the huge breakout game we've finally been waiting for. We'll
see if that's the start of something big. Next on
the NFL Fantasy Football Show, let's take a look at
some of the top performers for Week ten. Obviously still
one more game to go, but that as we sit
right now. Patrick Mahomes back on top the QB rankings,
he is the QB one with just over thirty six points.

(15:52):
Trevor Simeon tied for QB four with just a shade
under twenty points. RB two Vandre Stephenson, Age Dylan is
your RB three with twenty six point eight. The Ernest
Johnson another spot start for him and another pretty successful outing.
He's the RB six with twenty two point seven. Antonio
Gibson at twenty one point eight. Stefon Diggs your wide

(16:13):
receiver one right now with just over thirty points. Hunter Henrys,
you're tied into at nineteen points seven. Tyler Conklin, if
you've been streaming, it was a pretty good option in
this week. Tight in four at sixteen point one. Dan
Arnold continuing to kind of just kind of hang around
the rankings there, he's there, Tied in six at thirteen
point seven. So Stefon Diggs was on that list. Had

(16:35):
a huge week. We have sort of been waiting for
this to happen. I mean, I know you as a
Bills fan of especially been waiting for this to happen,
but a lot of fantasy folks out there as well
waiting for a big performance from Stefon Diggs. Eight for one,
sixty two and a touchdown? Uh? Is this the start
of something big? Now? Can we expect Stefon Diggs to
be that guy that we spent the high draft pick on.

(16:56):
I'm I'm really hoping so, and not only as a
Bills fan because I traded for Stefund Diggs in a
bunch of leagues. Already this year he might be my
most rostered wide receiver and it just it hasn't been
what we expected. But yesterday was a step in the
right direction. That thirteen targets is a ties of the
season high. He had a forty six percent target share
Toddy's season high, and red zone targets second most air

(17:19):
yards he's seen in the game. So the usage is awesome.
What stands out to me is it kind of reminded
me of last season, like they weren't looking to spread
the ball around, and that's what they kind of have
been doing this year, not just going straight to Diggs
and kind of letting Diggs beat the you know, be
the number one option and beat the guys down field,
go one on one like they've been spreading the ball out,

(17:39):
getting a lot of Cold Beasley, a lot of Emmanuel
Sanders and Dawson Knox involved. That wasn't the case yesterday,
and it was just like, hey, our best could beat
your best, and we're just gonna repeatedly do this until
you prove it that you can stop it. That is
what the Bills did last season. So I don't think
one game is enough to say Stefon Diggs is fully
back to being what he was last year. But I
think it's closer now than it has been at any

(18:01):
point this season. So it's a step in the right direction.
And definitely he is turning upwards moving forward. I would say,
what's really encouraging, on top of just the usage rates
and them just kind of, you know, kind of hammering
the Stefon Diggs part portion of the playbook is the
schedule to going forward. I mean some of the games
they got coming up. They got the Colts, They've got
the Saints. Uh, they've got the Bucks. Um, you know,

(18:24):
they got the Panthers, who have sort of been a
mess a little bit. I know they were big against
the Cardinals on Sunday, but before that they had kind
of been a mess. They've got the Falcons in what
is Fantasy super Bowl week, so um, you know, maybe
this is starting to turn it exactly the right time.
And you you talked about acquiring Stefan Diggs, And I
know that the trading deadline is coming up in the
next couple of weeks in a lot of fantasy leagues,

(18:45):
So maybe it is worth trying to spend up and
get Stefon Diggs because we know how good he can be.
And if the usage rates start to fall in line
and the schedule starts to line up, Uh, then he
could be a guy that ends up being a league
winner down the stretch for a whole lot of different
fantasy managers. Um staying in the division, Hunter Henry. Uh.
The yards nothing spectacular for Hunter Henry yardage wise. Uh,

(19:09):
he was your tight end too. Four catches for thirty
seven yards. That was kind of math. But he did
have two touchdowns and lately he has been a touchdown
scoring machine for the New England Patriots. You know, I
always like to say touchdowns are fickle beasts, and I
still believe that, but they seem to be showing up
on Hunter Henry's ranch. So how long can he keep
this going? I don't think he's gonna keep this touchdown

(19:32):
pace up. He's not gonna give you a touchdown each
and every week. But this is his role in the offense.
We kind of expected it to be John H. Smith
coming into the year, but he is their top red
zone weapon. I mean he has multiple red zone targets
in three straight games now and since Week four he
has one game with less than nine point nine Fantasy points,
so basically giving you double digits each and every week.

(19:55):
The floor is very low because if he doesn't, like
in that one game in that stretch without a touchdown
four point three fantasy points, because he's gonna get you
like four targets a game. He's not giving a whole
bunch of yards. In fact, he is one game all
year with more than fifty yards, so he's not giving
you yardage at all. He's not going to give you
a bunch of catches. But when you're getting deeper at

(20:15):
tight end, you kind of only want a touchdown. So
I think that he remains like a low end tight
end one that's a streamable option at least for the
time being right now. Yeah, it's funny that the one
game he didn't score a touchdown in that stretch was
against the Chargers. Like in the revenge game, he doesn't
score a touchdown, but he made up for it by
scoring two on Sunday and right the the touchdown upside

(20:38):
is great, but it's also hard to count on. The
streak has been nice. Um, although when you will talk
about tight end being gross, this might be the grossest
tight end year in a long time because Hunter Henry
right now is your tight end four. You look at
his numbers, he has thirty one catches for three hundred
and fifty three yards, which is not great, but he's

(20:58):
got seven touchdown ounds and that makes him your number
four tight end. Even it's been a down year for
Travis Kelsey, there's still a sizeable gap between him and
the number two tight end right now. Um, it's not
getting better. It might be getting worse at the tight
end position right now. I mean just this week alone
we had Hockinson and Mikekasecki put up zero. Darren Waller

(21:22):
hasn't been what we paid up for in draft. So
that's the thing, Like when you're getting down to like
tight end twelve eleven twelve each week, you're just like,
which of these guys has a chance of scoring a touchdown?
Hunter Henry has the best chance right now. So Hunter
Henry by default is basically a tight end one right now.
Although I will say Marcus, Uh, if I had to
choose between him and Dan Arnold, I'll go the safer

(21:44):
route with the volume with Dan Arnold. But I think
both of those guys are tight end ones right now.
I'm just sorry. I need to pause a moment and
just let that statement wash over me, Like if I'm
choosing between Hunter Henry or Dan Arnold. I'm not saying
you're wrong. It's just a wild statement that I never
thought It's not we'd be saying at this point. All right,

(22:05):
So that was the good of week ten. Let's get
to the bad and talk about the guys that frustrated
us with a little thing we'd like to call I'm salty.
Last week was I'm sorry because we just completely whipped
on everything. This week we were pretty good on things.
So now we can go back to complaining about the
guys who led us down. Who for you was one
of the biggest disappointments of the week. This one, Uh,
this one hurt a lot because not only it's Mike Williams,

(22:27):
and not only was I talking up Mike Williams as
a good start this week. Mike Williams was one of
my favorite players coming into the year to target in drafts.
I have him on a bunch of teams myself. And
it's not just a week ten thing for Mike Williams.
Like the first five weeks, markets targets share almost a
hundred and twenty eight yards per game, he was giving
us twenty three fantasy points per game. But since Week

(22:49):
six on the target share drops to fifteen percent, his
air yards drop more than half. He's averaging just fifty
three per game, and he's given US less than six
fantasy points per game with no touchdowns in the last
five weeks. And I don't like, I can't fully explain
it because he's still the same talented receiver. I don't
think he's a wide receiver one like he was the

(23:10):
first month. But I don't think he's a receiver that
should be putting up six fantasy points either and getting
just you know, like five targets a game, Like why
are we not throwing the ball to this guy? More?
But one thing that I looked up today, coincidentally, Week
six is the week that Mike Williams appeared on the
injury report, and he came out that week and said
he couldn't do what he likes to do on the

(23:30):
football field. He needed to take the entire bye week
to rest. He says he is okay now, but the
only explanation I could really think of his Mike Williams
is playing through this knee injury and is not add
percent right now. But for fantasy, it's getting to the
point where he is no longer just like, set it
and forget it. Guy like he is very much so
someone that you could bench. And I know people are

(23:51):
out there thinking of cutting him. I wouldn't do it yet,
but I can't say I blame you for considering it.
Here are some of the names that have outscored Mike
Williams that receiver in the last four weeks, uh Taj Sharp,
Marquis Goodwin, Kindall Hinton. These are some of the guys
that have more Fantasy emergency quarterback. The emergency quarterback Kendall

(24:13):
Hinton has more points in the last four weeks than
Mike Willas. By the way, if you're a click on
Kendall Hinton's name on NFL dot com, He's got a
pretty cool picture. He's got these glasses on. He looks
really looks very professorial. Um, yeah, check it out. It
doesn't mean anything, but uh, but it has been a
slug for Mike Williams, especially considering how good he was

(24:35):
at the start of the season. Like we expected regression.
We didn't expect him to just fall off a cliff. Um,
that's kind of what's happened. Um. For me, it's a J.
Brown And this is sort of a one week thing.
This isn't some long thing. Although I'm I'm surprised and
dismayed when you say that people are hitting you up
asking if they should drop a J. Brown. Um, do
not do that, Please do not do that. Uh. A J.

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Brown is still very good and A J. Brown is
still going to get a lot of targets. And I
understand that Sunday was not great. Uh. He had just
the one catch for sixteen yards. He didn't have seven
rushing yards. If that makes you feel any better, probably doesn't. Um,
it just was a bad game. Like it's one of
those things that happened. We didn't expect it, especially with
Julio Jones not available. But but it's one of those things.

(25:19):
So I would not drop a J. Brown. I would
not panic. Although here's the thing. If you have somebody
in your league that's freaking out, maybe see if you
can swing a trade, because I would definitely want this
guy on my roster. But yeah, I'm a little bit
frustrated that the in a game where it seemed like
it was all set up for him to have a
big game, especially against a Saints secondary that was struggling. Uh,
he didn't. So um, I don't know, I don't. I

(25:41):
don't have much more to say about that. It's just
it's just one of those things, right, there's nothing, there's
nothing that we should be concerned about long term. It's
it's frustrating because, yeah, I understand the Saints have have
Lattimore there. He's a really good cornerback. And and with
no Julio, I know all of the defensive attention falls
on a J. Brown, But four targets, Like, come on,
this guy is by far head and shoulders your best receiver.

(26:03):
He should be getting way more than four targets each week.
And and yeah, every Sunday night, I'd like to tweet
out like who's someone you're thinking of dropping? And usually
you get a couple of angry big names, and uh,
a J. Brown was this week that a lot of
people were angry with, so hopefully it was just a
Sunday night reaction. By Tuesday, everyone should come to their
senses and realize, like, hey, A J. Brown is far

(26:23):
too good to even consider ever even sitting, let alone dropping. Yeah, man,
just chill out, you know, drink a seven up of
a moon pie. Oh that sort of thing. By the way,
just just kind of a fun side note. This just
came across my Twitter timeline as we were recording this show. Uh,
the Packers are announcing a stock offering that's coming up
on Tuesday. Starts at nine am Eastern times. So if

(26:45):
you're looking to get something for the packer fan in
your life for the holidays, Uh yeah, maybe spring for
some some packer stock. You can you can make that
person that's close to you that is a packer fan,
they can become a packer owner. Um and I guess,
I guess you get to go to a holder meetings too.
I think they actually do have like shareholder meetings, um
atlantage and they're just like Parks and Rex meetings, where

(27:07):
like it's just like screaming stuff like like that doesn't
make any sense to I mean, look, if I would
say this if I were a packer shareholder, if I
were like that kind of person and wanted to be
a packer shareholder, like I would to show up at
Lambeau with like exo tape and like, this is why
we need to draft of you know, a safety or
this is why we need to get more wide receivers

(27:28):
or something. I'm not that not that anybody would listen
to me, but it would make me feel better about
myself if I hilarious you show up like a projector
like a big like old movie, real stuff thing and
just like start breaking down film and they're just like that,
that is not what we're doing here, you know, like
do I tay Oudam needs help? Who got to sign
another wide receiver? Uh? And then I would probably be

(27:49):
laughed out of Lambo Stadium never to be seen again.
Whatever I say it twice a week, I'm gonna keep
saying it because you know, I keep putting it in
the rundown. So that's why you should sign up and
not sign up, I guess sign up for TikTok, but
you should follow us at NFL Fantasy on the TikTok
uh see the stuff that we are doing there. Come
check it out. We're doing fun, entertaining, informative at least

(28:10):
I hope it's informative and entertaining stuff. Also, you can
follow me at Marcus Grant. I. Uh, you know, I
I would say this, I was like really big into it.
I'm not not big into it. It's just, you know,
as time in the season kind of wear on you,
you don't TikTok quite as much. But I'm still kind
of lurking and I'm still tweeting and tiktoking. And I
did one about Mike Gasicki being one of the top

(28:31):
tight ends recently, and I think somebody went back and
checked after he put up a zero the other day,
asking uh if it was still valid. And I will
say that the stats I put out on TikTok are
only valid at the time that they are posted. I
bear no responsibility for what happens in the game's following them.
But you can come check that out. Uh. There, we've
we've reached the point now where where your TikTok's are

(28:52):
are holding back players. That's that's what Uh, that's what
that's what I'm hearing. Wow, all right, well, you know what,
it's good to know I have that kind of power
over the random goofy things I do, uh, sitting at
home drinking coffee or whatever it is I'm doing on
the TikTok's. But anyway, yeah can check us out. It's
a it's a whole lot of fun there. Um, let's
play hype train or smoke screen. Here about some of

(29:13):
the guys we have seen in the last week or
two who have done some big things. The first one
is the Kansas City Chiefs offense. We had, you know,
been searching our brains coming up for reasons why the
Chiefs hadn't looked like the offense we were used to.
There were a thousand think pieces, it seems, on what's
wrong with the Chiefs, And everybody had their own reason

(29:34):
for why Patrick Mahomes wasn't putting up video game numbers
every week. Well he did that on Sunday night against
the Raiders in Las Vegas. Uh. He was the QB one,
Darryl Williams RB one, Travis Kelsey is the tight end one,
Tyreek Hill the wide receiver three. They just drilled the
Raiders and get a big win. Now they're back on
top of the a f C West. So hype trainer,

(29:55):
smoke screen. Chief's offense is back. Now, Oh, this is
a full on hype train, I think. I mean, this
is just proof as to why you never sit any
of your Chiefs. I mean, Mahomes went off last night.
Williams did, as all of them did. They all absolutely
went off. And we were talking before the show and
I kind of joked about it, but like, imagine what
it felt like to be the Chiefs. Like you guys

(30:17):
have dominated the NFL for three years, You're in two
Super Bowls, you had the arguably one of the greatest
offensive seasons ever, and you just repeatedly do it, do it,
do it. You have a couple of bad games and
all of a sudden, everyone's like are all of them washed?
Are they no longer the best? Like what is wrong
with them? It was? And it's just like no, it's
it's okay, Like it's a steal from rank like chill

(30:39):
bra like they're fine. My only my biggest question with
the Chiefs offense, Marcus, is like, what is this backfield
gonna look like once Clyde Edwards lay returns, Because Darry
Williams is playing very very well, that is gonna be
the big question. And I know that they're expecting c. E.
H to be back next week, so um, I think
we're gonna be, you know, keeping a close eye on
the practice reports, seeing how things are going. But yeah,

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between Darryl Williams, with the fact that a couple of
weeks ago, Derek Gore came into our lives, Uh, we
weren't sure what to make of that. So um, you know,
I don't know. I do Clyde Edwards Laire just walked
back into a starting gig. Does he get a ton
of the touches? That's gonna be the big question. But
I am sort of back on board with the chiefs
kind of turning things around. You know what what I

(31:22):
saw last night from them, It's a thing that you've
been talking about Patrick Mahomes saying, I just have to
be content sort of taking a profit, sort of just
taking what it is the defense gives me. And I
think we saw that especially the first half, right, it
wasn't a lot of forcing the issue. It was just
sort of making the open throws, making those plays. And
then as the game went on, Uh, the Raiders started

(31:44):
to look a little bit more lost on defense. Then
you start to see the Chiefs throw those haymakers. I
mean that that play where he rolls out and he
throws it down the field and Daryl Williams basically just
mosses the defensive back, uh, makes the catch and then
leans into the end zone, you know, and then they
hit Tyreek Hill down the field. Old, that looked like
the Chiefs that we have been used to see in

(32:04):
the last few weeks. And so if they start to
get that rhythm, they start to start having fun again. Um,
then I think everybody needs to worry. But I think
I think last night was just you know, it's a
baseball player that's in a slump, right and you have
that two or three hit game, and all of a
sudden you start rolling again. So, uh, for us in
our fantasy teams, that's great. For the rest of the
A f C maybe not so much. So a quick

(32:27):
lesson I think we could take from this, like what
we see over the course of like two or three
seasons matters a lot more than what we see over
the course of two or three games. I think that
is absolutely fair. Absolutely. Um. Remindre Stevenson over a couple
of games looks like he is picking things up. Then
a hundred scrimmage yards in back to back contest for

(32:47):
Remondre Stevenson also found the end zone a couple of
times on Sunday, huge game for him. Some of it
was Damien Harris not being available, but still some of
it is that he really seems to be carve had
a bigger role in that Patriots backfield. So obviously maybe
not the level of fantasy production we saw yesterday, but

(33:08):
in general, hype trainer smokescreen with Remandre this is hype
training for me. I mean, all Remander Stevenson has done
since he's come into our Fantasy lives is ball out
Like he had a great preseason that that got him
on our radar. Then I know he had to fumble
in Week one and then was kind of relegated to
the bench. But since he's come back into the Patriots rotation,

(33:29):
he's been awesome. He had a team high five targets
this past week last week led the Patriots and rushing
and receiving yards. So I think, even when Damian Harris
comes back, how do you get this guy out of
your offense? Like I think Harris will still see the
larger share I would say of groundwork, but I wouldn't
be surprised if we see those guys split the groundwork

(33:50):
and if we see Stevenson not Brandon bold and take
over the passing work moving forward, because he's just the
more explosive option, and he has shown us time and
time again that he just because he's a big dude
doesn't mean he can't catch the ball. I do think
the guy who loses out here is probably Brandon Bolden,
and we saw him have a couple of nice games
earlier in the season. But Stevenson, you're right, is more explosive.

(34:12):
He can't catch the football, maybe not as well as Bolden,
but I don't think it's like a significant drop off
with with Bolden there. So I think he's the guy
who sort of takes that RB two job behind Damian Harris.
And I know for a lot of people it's been
sort of hard to figure, right because Stevenson was drafted
and there was sort of that like Garrett Blunt two
point oh label attached to him. Then in the preseason,

(34:34):
early in the season, you know, there was talk, I
think the the running back coach said he's got a
lot to work on, and so we all sort of
backed off. We've seen Bolden come in there, but it
looks like he's getting comfortable. Uh, he's starting to feel
the offense a little bit more and he's starting to
get more opportunities. So he probably is the guy to own. Um,
there's no need to fear Patriots running backs like we

(34:54):
once did. I think we're Mondre Stevenson needs to be
on plenty more rosters than he is right now, and
I do think he's got a role in this offense
for the rest of the year. Um. Antonio Gibson we
thought was gonna have a big role in the Washington
offense early on. It didn't seem to be the case.
On Sunday, he was sort of back to being the
guy that we probably spent a second or third round

(35:15):
pick on. Nearly twenty two Fantasy points his high for
the season. Hype Trainer smoke screen, is Antonio Gibson back? Now,
This is just a hype train segment because I do
think he is a hype train player right now. He
looked better yesterday, like he ran with power, with some authority.
You see on these goal line carries. The shin injured,

(35:35):
the shin injury that he was dealing with was really
hampering him before the bye week, they were limiting his touches,
getting Jared Patterson more involved. That wasn't a thing yesterday.
Patterson had four touches all game. It was Antonio Gibson.
So I think he is back and healthy. The only
thing I want to add is it was a favorable
game script for Washington. J D. Mckissic still a double

(35:56):
the amount of targets. Uh. Mckissic is still going to
be that running back that they use in the two
minutes drill or when they're trailing and trying, you know,
throw the ball a lot. So I think Antonio Gibson
is training up, He's looking healthy, but I still don't
think he's quite gonna be what we were hoping he
would be coming into the season. Yeah I am, I
am on the hype train, but I'm still a little
bit skeptical. Twenty four carries was great, Uh, the two

(36:19):
point seven yards per carry not so great. And you're right,
the game script worked in his favor, much to everyone's surprise.
I mean, I went into this week figuring they were
gonna be playing from behind against the Bucks, uh, and
that it was gonna be another heavy j D mckissic game.
So as long as this continues to be the case,
I think Gibson is in a good spot. If Washington
can take leads, hold them into the second half and

(36:40):
and have to grind out the clock, I think they're
gonna be fine. And who knows, maybe next week against
Carolina and they figure out how to make that happen. UM.
But I think as long as they continue to struggle defensively,
and by the way, news came this morning that Chase
Young has a torn a c l and so he's
out for the rest of the year, so that's a
big piece missing from their defense. I'm not gonna say

(37:01):
that j. D McKissick fully goes away, but this was
encouraging and maybe they figured out how to get Gibson
more involved in the offense. So I'm here to remain
optimistic here and hope that there are more games like
this coming for the rest of the season. UM. Last
one Trevor Simeon, who has taken over as the Saints
starting quarterbacks since Jamis Winston went down with a knee injury.

(37:25):
Consecutive games where he has thrown two touchdowns and no
interceptions came in a loss on Sunday to Tennessee. But
I mean, he's not necessarily a world beater in fantasy,
but he's also not submarine in your teams if you
had the audacity to play him. Are we buying this
hype trainer smoke screen on Trevor Simeon. I'm thinking this

(37:47):
is a smoke screen. Trevor Simeon was putting up pretty
pedestrian numbers yesterday until late in the game when the
Saints were in desperation mode and trying to get back
in this one. Um, I'm still not sure what's going
on here. Taysom Hill, like Sean Paynton, the Saints paid
him all that money and Jamie Swinson goes down and
they're like, no, we're gonna go with Trevor Simeon. So

(38:07):
I still wouldn't be surprised if we see Taysom Hill
take over at some point. Simeon. He's played better than expected,
but I think he is still purely like a two
quarterback league type of guy. You don't want him in
a one quarterback league. Yeah, I'm not buying it. I
mean I feel like with Simeon, with a lot of
these guys, right, there's a reason some of these guys

(38:28):
are journeyman and career backups because we sort of know
how this ends. I mean, look, the the Mike White
experiment seems to be dead after he put up an
awful game no touchdowns, four interceptions for the Jets on Sunday.
There's a reason Mike White has been a backup for
his whole career. There's a reason Trevor Simeon has never
consistently been able to wrestle a starting job away from anybody.

(38:51):
So it's been nice to see him play relatively well
the last couple of weeks. I am not on board
with Simeon being a thing long term. Uh, It's just
is there anybody besides say Alvin Camaron I guess maybe
mark Ingram. Is there anybody there that you trust consistently
in the Saints offense? The running back? And that's really
about it, because we saw yesterday even when Alvin Camara

(39:13):
is out, like mark Ingram had a good day. So
I think you could trust the lead running back and
that's really it. I think Tray Cohen Smith is trending
in the right direction. Deantay Harris, but even those guys,
they're more deeper league plays well. And I think so
much of it is dependent on the quarterback. Right If
if Trevor Simeon isn't throwing for a ton of yards,
it's gonna be hard for any of those pass catchers

(39:34):
to really, uh put up big totals in The Saints
offense is not nearly as explosive as it had been
in the past, you know, when Drew Brees was there,
when they were you know, when they had Michael Thomas. Um,
so yeah, it's it's just been hard to sort of
lean on any of those guys. And I definitely don't
believe in leaning on Trevor Simeon at any point for
the rest of the year. This has been a good
year for Michael Thomas, even though he hasn't played. He

(39:56):
was truly just landboy. You would just have anyone run
these lance and uh, they're they're clearly missing him. So
maybe he's more than just you know, slant boy. Maybe
he is uh, he's definitely maybe uh kind of a
key part of that offense. And we are learning that
in real time watching the Saints play tie for another
break will come back and we will dive into the

(40:18):
waiver wire, including Cam Newton, as he told us so
eloquently he is back, and we'll talk about whether or
not he should be back in your lineup. Stay tuned
for that on the NFL Fantasy Football Show, look at
the Week eleven Waiver Wire targets that Michael left Florio compiles.
Take us through your list this week. Cam Newton is

(40:40):
my number one quarterback ad if if you didn't hear,
Cam Newton reminded the world yesterday that he is in
fact back to a tongue of iloa. Came in relief
last week and played pretty well. I think with a
long bye week now we could get him back against
the Jets and then Mac Jones. He played really well
this week. He gets a good matchup next week against
the Falcons. A J. Dillon is my tip ad of

(41:00):
the week right now, with Aaron Jones out the next
couple of weeks. Romandre Stephenson, we just spoke about him.
He's been playing really well. Deontay Foreman had led the
Titans backfield and and snaps and touches his past week.
Derannis Johnson. I know Nick Chubb could be back, but
Dernis Johnson is a really good backup handcuffs, so I
think you want him on your roster. Toy Johnson just

(41:21):
keeps getting the job. Don't keeps seeing big targets in
that passing game. Wayne Gallman looks like he might have
taken over for Mike Davis there. Rashad Bateman, please add
this guy so I could stop putting him on this
list already. He needs to be rostered in more leagues.
Continuing with the receivers, Elijah More he got the job
done again this past week. Jamal Agnew didn't have a catch,

(41:41):
but still top double digit fantasy points again. His usage
is just very consistent there. T Y Hilton is back
and tied for the team lead and targets. Deontay Harris
and Trade Kowen Smith are the top pass catchers there
In New Orleans. Marcus Johnson we spoke about as a
deeper league target. Dan Arnold just keeps getting targets and
keeps scoring double digit fantasy points. Tyler Conklin looking like

(42:03):
a useful option there. And then some deeper tight ends
if you're in a deeper league, Adam Troutman and Austin
Hooper just off of the volume they've been getting as
of late. All right, uh so let's go back though
to Cam Newton. Uh, you know, he didn't play a ton,
but he scored two touchdowns, one rushing one passing. As
we mentioned, he told everybody that he was back and
he was probably flagged for that. Boom. I mean, I

(42:26):
know these are our bosses, but boo, I don't don't
sew a flag on him. Man, Right, he's been out
of the league. He's celebrating the play was over. Let
him take it's fine whatever, and he's back home to
like he's back home in Carolina where he started his career.
Uh side note, by the way, apparently Sam Donald had
Robby Anderson in football jail. I mean, not that Anderson
was like super spectacular yesterday, but he actually did things

(42:49):
and it's been a while since he has done things. Um,
but is Kim a QB one now that he's back
and presumably going to be the starter in Carolina? Bore
your line. I think he's more of an upside QB two,
But like, he's definitely like a top fifteen quarterback. I
would say last year twelve rushing touchdowns let all quarterbacks,

(43:09):
five ninety two rushing guards was third, and he actually
has better playmakers around him with d J. Moore Robby Anderson,
Christian McCaffrey, So I think we could get better passing
numbers out of Cam as well. And the next three
weeks the schedule is very friendly for him. Washington, Miami, Atlanta,
all teams in the top six at least heading into
Week ten, and fantasy points allowed to quarterback. So I

(43:32):
think unless you have like a stud quarterback, you should
be trying to get Cam Newton off the waiver wire
this week. I went last week and I added Cam
in a whole lot of spots, and I didn't, you know,
have the foresight to start him in any of those.
But I know I'm gonna have some decisions to make
because I know there's at least one or two rosters
where I have Jalen Hurts and Cam Newton. So I'm
gonna really be kind of scratching my head about the

(43:53):
matchups and trying to figure out whether or not that's
the thing I want to do. But he should be rostered.
I would expect, uh that by the end of this week,
at least by the end of the waiver wire period
in most leagues, he's going to be very heavily owned
across Fantasy football, just because I mean one, the excitement
is back. Um. I mean, look, Fantasy Twitter lights up

(44:13):
when whenever Josh Gordon was going to do things right.
So I can't imagine that we're not going to see
excitement about Cam Newton as we sit right now and
record this show. He is rostered in sixteen point two
percent of NFL dot Com league. I suspect that number
is going to go up significantly by the time we
do our next show on Wednesday. Um, Dan Arnold and

(44:34):
you talked about him as being a guy that maybe
you would sort of ride with over Hunter Henry because
of the volume. Again, tight end is maybe as gross
as it has ever been in fantasy football. But Dan Arnold,
is he understanding the kind of the nebulous nature of this?
Is he a tight end one right now? Yes? I

(44:54):
think he is. I mean, this guy leads the team
in targets since the Jaguars acquired him. He is at
least five targets in five straight games, with seven or
more in four of those, so he's getting pretty safe,
reliable volume. He has topped double digit fantasy points in
every game with at least seven targets, so double digit
fantasy points markets is enough to keep you on that

(45:15):
borderline tight end one radius each week. So I think
if he is not a tight end one, he is
just on the outside of it. But he is definitely
a consistent tight end, which is hard to find nowadays.
So I make the case that he is a tight
end one and someone that should be roster in more
leagues than he is. He should definitely be rostered in
more leagues. I think some of it is one, uh,

(45:35):
nobody really knows who he is outside of fantasy circles. Uh.
And two he plays for the Jaguars. I think those
are the two things that are sort of working against him.
But if you were willing to dive into it and
look at a little bit, um, he is getting a
lot of work there. He is. Uh. The Jaguar passing
game has been a disaster to the point that people
are wondering whether or not Trevor Lawrence is overhyped and overrated.

(45:58):
I'm not willing to say that just yet. What. Um.
You know what, when they are having success, generally it's
because they're getting the ball to Dan Arnold and or
Jamal Agnew um. So he he should probably get more
consideration than he has been getting so far. All right,
I guess it's in the top way for wire target
for week eleven. Who is it for you? For me,

(46:18):
it is a J. Dillon. I mean he is, even
if it's just for one or two weeks. I think
it'll be two weeks because then the packers have a
buy so I think they're gonna want a Aaron Jones
healthy for the playoffs. I think we get Dylan the
next two weeks, but that is two weeks of an
RB one that is hard to find. The RB ones
don't grow on trees. So I think he is a

(46:38):
guy that you could pick up and definitely get into
your starting lineup. Uh. He is my top pickup of
the week. And if he's already rostered in your league,
then I think it's Cam Newton. I'm gonna go with
a J. Dillon as well, just because, as you mentioned,
running backs are sort of hard to come by, and
any time a guy is gonna get volume, and we
know that's gonna happen for the next couple of weeks,
I think he needs to be on a roster. I

(47:00):
would say if he's not the guy, if he's already
rostered or or you know, you just don't want to
go that direction. Romandre Stevenson's another one. He may not
be the lead running back in New Orleans or in
New England, but he should still get plenty of opportunities.
So uh, those are the two guys that I would
probably lean on right now, Although do like Cam. The
idea of picking up cam and and kind of stashing him,
uh for whenever you need him those steel like a really,

(47:22):
really nice option. We'll wrap up the show previewing the
Monday night football game from Santa Clara Rams at forty Niners. Uh.
The Rams looking to kind of stay hot in the division,
especially with the Cardinals getting thumped on Sunday. Chance for
the Rams to maybe take control a little bit in
the NFC West. The Niners still sort of playing for
their playoff lives there three and five, but they're still

(47:45):
hanging around with a chance at a wild card spot,
believe it or not. So big game for both of
these teams. Obviously, We're going to see Odell Beckham Jr.
In light of the Robert Woods season ending knee injury.
I know before it was sort of a in the air,
but now it looks like O. B J Is definitely
going to play, So his season high and fantasy points

(48:06):
is thirteen point seven. Let's put it at fourteen. Does
O b J get fourteen or more tonight? The logical
all the logical reasons I'm thinking of are are saying no.
But I'm gonna say yes, just because it's fun. And
I could see Sean McVeigh being like, I want to
get this new toy that we have and and just
show him off to the world on like the big

(48:26):
stage on Monday Night football. So I wouldn't be surprised
that they, you know, they kind of forced feed him
the ball a couple of times tonight. So I'm gonna
say over here, I'm gonna say over as well, partially
for that reason that Sean McVeigh wants to show off
that he's got a brand new weapon that he can
work in the offense. I'm also gonna say it because, look, man,
I think Odell kind of wants to stick it to
the Browns a little bit right, Like they let him go.

(48:48):
He was sort of unceremoniously dumped, and then on top
of it, the Browns went out and looked awful getting
drilled by the Patriots on Sunday. Couldn't do anything offensively.
So part of me thinks that O'Dell wants to be
able to kind of stick it to Cleveland a little
bit and say, see, this is what you missed out on,
This is what you could have had in your offense.
So yes. All the other factors, all the logical, analytical,

(49:11):
rational factors, say no, but my heart's saying yes. So
I'm gonna go with yes on that one as well.
All Right, who would you rather have this week? Van
Jefferson or Brandon Aiyuk who has seen a little bit
of a resurgence lately. This one is super close to me.
I actually have them ranked just a couple of spots apart.

(49:31):
But I lean Van Jefferson here because both of them
are part of three basically three big receivers. And I
know George Kittle's a tight end, but in San fran
it's it's Debot, Kittle and Ayuk. But I think a
Yuk is kind of cemented there as the third option,
whereas tonight, I wouldn't be surprised if Van Jefferson is
the second option, because O'Dell is still getting acclimated, still

(49:53):
learning the playbook, so I think the opportunity might be
a little safer for Van. But I'm feeling pretty good
about both of these tonight. I am too. I'm gonna
lean with Van, even with all the things that we
just said about Odell and and how the Rams may
try to work Odell in. Uh it is, and I
think you pointed this out last week. It's Van Jefferson

(50:14):
that has a familiarity with the offense, that has that
familiarity with Matthew Stafford, having played with him all year long.
And I also think that right now he is probably
more suited to kind of filling the Robert Woods gap
in the offense. Now, maybe that changes uh in in
a week or two, but I think for now, Van
Jefferson is sort of that guy. I'm also saying it

(50:35):
because I need a couple of big performances from Van Jefferson,
including in a guillotine league where I am on the
chopping block, so I could use him having a nice,
nice game to kind of keep me safe in that situation.
But I think there's at least another week or two
where we can really sort of lean on Van Jefferson,
and then once O'Dell sort of gets his feet wet, uh,
then maybe we reevaluate how things go there, But you know,

(50:58):
I think it's close either way. I think to them
actually have pretty decent nights tonight in this game, um
last one. Will Jimmy Garoppolo go over nineteen points for
the third straight week. I keep going back and forth
on this one because I think if he does get
to it, it's late. As I think the Rams are
gonna win this game. I think they'll have a lead,

(51:19):
so maybe the Niners have to throw late in this game.
But I also keep thinking like maybe we get a
trade lance slighting if this game gets a little out
of hands. So I'm gonna say Jimmy g doesn't do it,
but he definitely has a shot to do it. If,
especially if they have to throw late in the game,
I'm gonna say no. I think he's somewhere around seventeen
or eighteen points. It's gonna be an okay game for him.

(51:42):
I do think he's gonna have to throw the football
a lot because the Niners secondary has been an issue,
and so I think the Rams are gonna score points,
so that that's gonna put the game a little bit
more on Jimmy shoulders than maybe otherwise would. But I
don't think he's gonna get quite enough to get you
to nineteen. Uh. You know, if if you need seven
teen points, it's I think he gets you there. If
you need nineteen or twenty, then I think you're gonna

(52:03):
be a little bit disappointed by Jimmy. But yeah, I
don't know. It should be interesting. It is a long
time rivalry. The Rams and the Niners have been going
at each other for a really, really long time. Uh.
So we'll see how this thing turns out tonight, but
it should be a whole lot of fun. Uh. And look,
it's just it's nice to know that we're right about things.
Right after Week nine being so horrible, it's nice to
kind of be back on the right side of things
this week. Sometimes we know what we're talking about. Sometimes

(52:26):
we absolutely know what we're talking about, not that you'd
know it from some of our Twitter mentions, but don't
worry about that anyway. Uh for us, that is it.
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