December 10, 2025 • 46 mins
Marcas Grant, Michael F. Florio, and LaQuan Jones start the show with the latest fantasy headlines, including Philip Rivers coming out of retirement to sign with the Colts. The guys debate which Colts pass catchers they would feel comfortable playing if Rivers starts (1:19).
They also discuss Tee Higgins entering to the concussion protocol (5:32) and Mike Evans potential return to the field (7:20). Then they preview the Thursday night and Sunday games and review the Start-O-Meter with Baker Mayfield, Jacoby Brissett, and Shedeur Sanders. Time stamps below:
- Falcons at Buccaneers Preview: 9:01
- Start-O-Meter - Baker Mayfield: 12:49
- Bills at Patriots Preview: 16:15
- Packers at Broncos Preview: 18:54
- Lions at Rams Preview: 19:50
- Colts at Seahawks Preview: 22:16
- Chargers at Chiefs Preview: 23:42
- Ravens at Bengals Preview:
- Cardinals at Texans Preview: 26:02
- Start-O-Meter - Jacoby Brissett: 27:14
- Titans at 49ers Preview: 29:37
- Panthers at Saints Preview: 30:40
- Jets at Jaguars Preview: 32:40
- Raiders at Eagles Preview: 34:43
- Browns at Bears Preview: 37:25
- Start-O-Meter - Shedeur Sanders: 38:26
- Week 15 Sleepers: 42:42
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Wow, what's up everybody? Welcome to another edition of the
NFL Fantasy Football Show. It's Made Your Man, MG Marcus Grant,
joined by Michael Floyo and Lakwan Jones. It's Burgfest by
(00:21):
Mike Count. We only have I think what three Burgfests
left on this show, man. This is the third to
last one, right, I believe. So, I mean, I don't
know if they're making us do a week eighteen show.
I have no idea. How are we doing a week
eighteen show. We're not doing a week eighteen shows. As
far as I'm got.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
We got the leagues that you're playing in Week eighteen.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Friends. Don't let friends play week eighteen. Leave.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Just have a party that week for whoever helped win
you were a championship exactly.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Just go donate to the charity of that player's choice
if they helped win a championship. Always a good way
to go, which I guess, by the way, Shout out
to our friends over at Fantasy Care, Scott Fish, John Bosch,
all those folks who I know, we're out buying toys
for tots. Always a big thing that they do. So
everybody who participates in the Scott Fishbowl and all these
charity tournaments. This is sort of the reward for all that.
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All right, we got a lot to do on the
show today. We're going to ask the question, can you
start Jacobe Brissette against the Houston Texans. We will consult
the start oh meter, plus, we run down the Thursday
and Sunday slates, and we give you our sleepers for
week fifteen. We will start, as we always do at
this time, with some fantasy headlines. Because the NFL world
went crazy right after we finished taping our podcast on Monday,
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which is how things always go. The maybe craziest news
of them all, a literal grandfather will be playing for
the Indianapolis Colts. Philip Rivers, at the age of forty four,
having been retired for five years, has signed with the
Colts practice squad and there's a very real chance that
he could start this week against the Seattle Seahawks. That
(01:51):
is because Riley Leonard is dealing with a PCL sprain
and as of this recording, his status for Week fifteen
is very uncertain. So we sort of talked about this
on Monday, Lakwan, but it was any sense of what
happens if it's Riley Leonard or Brett Rippon, because Philip
Rivers wasn't on our radar. What are you doing? He's
(02:11):
coming off the couch, literally off the couch. If Rivers starts,
that looks very likely. Right now, which Colts pass catchers
are you comfortable with?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I'll say this, I'm not gonna shoot him down because
what if he comes in and has that Joe Flacco effect.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
They're gonna put Chuster's season.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
What if he comes in right, and then Michael Pittman
and then we see a Tyler Warren get elevated. I mean,
last time we seen Rivers, it wasn't like a terrible performance.
Eleven and five the guys went to But it's not
like he was completely removed from the game. That football
IQ was still there. I'm saying he is walking into
a good Colts team, right. He worked with JT and
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Pittman when they were rookies, but now he's getting them
at their peaks. I'm looking at this as what if. Okay,
I'm not gonna shoot down the total idea that you
can't start Ankle Pittman, if you're back to the wall,
you can't start Tyler Warren because whatever the case may
be or telling the Taylor right, I'm just saying, what if. Okay,
I'm not shooting it down, man, because we've seen crazier
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things this season alone.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
All Right, So obviously you're on with Tyler Warren. Yes,
I'm kind of in with Tyler Warren. Anybody beyond that.
Just Jonathan Taylor, that's it.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Like I'm not because on top of this being his
first game in five years, it's a little different with
Joe fla Joe Flackel started a game a month before that,
you know, like he hasn't played five And on top
of that, the Seahawks are the hardest matchup for wide
receivers right now. In the last five weeks, they have
clamped everybody. I'm I'm not even considering Alec Peerre. I
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don't have Pittman on a ton of teams. I have
Alec Pearson a lot. I'm not even considered. I've dropped
him in a number of leagues to get better options.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
This week. It's just, man, it's it's crazy making it's fun.
I'm gonna watch it. I don't want to trust my
fantasy season with it, you know, I'm just thinking of
all the quarterbacks all around the world why they called
Philip Rivers. There's there's a.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Good article out there right now that apparently Riley Leonard
worked was one of the college quarterbacks that flew to
Philip Rivers' backyard last year to work out, and was
like this guy could still throw pretty well.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Still got it. Philip Rivers' oldest child is like a
couple months older than Riley Leonard.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
That's the three successive quarterbacks who have played well at
this age is one, It's Tom Brady and that's it.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
But he also played continuous. Yeah, he didn't take a
five yeah break to come back.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
He stay attached to the game. He was a head
coach for a high school team in Alabama. But like
I think the football, IQ still has his ability to
go out there and dish it out. I mean, that's
all long lesson is.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
The mind is one thing, and I don't doubt that
right like the football accuses, the mind is there and
the body.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Do you gonna check it down the JT about ten
times and hand him and the ball twenty times?
Speaker 3 (04:49):
That's what that And Alex I'm sorry, Tyler Warren a
bunch of short quick catching, I mean the downfield stuff.
He had no arm in twenty twenty. Like I went
back and watched some of his highlights from that year.
He's lollypopping throws.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Then, I mean when you're doing it to Jack Doyle
and then.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Zach Squal I'm Michael Pittman Jr.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
As a as a rookie, but I would say this though, again,
what if what if I'm not shooting it down? I'm not,
But but you have to decide if you want to
trust I staring Justin Jefferson. I ain't starting Justin Jefferson,
but I like that you would start Michael Pitman Junior.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Over that's coming later in the week, later in the
show that today It's not gonna been today show, but
we will have that later on in the week. But
let's let's turn the page. Cinnati, where t Higgins back
in concussion protocol. You had just come off a concussion
protocol before the game against the Bills, had a couple
of plays where his head hit the ground, and anybody
watching sort of felt a little bit queazy with watching
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him continue to play when it looked like he may
have been concussed. After the game, they said he was
dealing with symptoms he's been in the concussion protocol. Since then,
we'll see what his availability is for this week. But
let's say he can't go Floria On. You're deciding to
put together a say a DFS line up, I'll DFS.
I'm not gonna say a season long league. Would you
roll with andre Yoshivas.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
I would not be playing him because even in DFS,
like two weeks ago, in this exact matchup, he only
had two targets. It was Mitchell Tinsley had nine in
that game. And that's my thinking is I think Tinsley
is the better replacement to come in and run the
out wide downfield like t Higgins routes. Obviously there's no
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replacing Higgins, but I think he is the one that
is better suited to get those Higgins opportunities.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah, I'm I don't know. I feel like that's a
kind of a dice roll sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Like in DFS though, like if you're just throwing out
there out there, throw a line about there.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
So I like Mike Koseki, Big Jersey. Let's just say.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Kaseeki played well last week, I am. I mean, he
had one hundred and fifteen yards all of the season
that he had eighty six last week.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I mean last season we saw him show up when
t Higgins was sideline. I mean he has the opportunity.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Let's just say that I have used Kasiki as shorthand
and for that tight end that you draft in the
late rounds, and you're just kind of like like I
just call I just like whatever I think of somebody
like that. I'm just like, yeah, you know, like like
Mike GASICKI like, that's my guy is throwing out risky place.
Hey ne or diar rd or died. Let's go. You
change your name to t E three, from RB three
(07:18):
to t E three. Good news down in Tampa, h
Todd Bowles was saying that Mike Evans has shown everything
he needed to in practice. The update on that is
he Well, I'm with Jayleen McMillan have been activated from
injured reserves, so they are good to go for Thursday
night against the Atlanta Falcons. So Lakwan like I'm Jayalenn
(07:40):
McMillan is a different story. But Mike Evans, if he
comes back, are you starting him against Atlanta?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
I'm interested in doing it because Mike Evans in the
beginning the season, we didn't see those wide receiver one performances.
It was kind of like ten fantasy points, ten fantasy
points of Mecca Buka doing this thing. But now with
this Bucks offense, like near full health. Now we got
Chris Godwin back, Bucky Irvins. I'm actually interested to see
what he looks like out there if he is fully healthy.
But but one thing that we can stamp as for
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certain is that he is the number one target. Baker's
going to feed him. He's going to even try to
get him to those one thousand yards and keep the
right see running.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Like, I'm actually interested, I would be wild, right, I
mean in force feed. I mean we've seen it before.
I'm not putting it off the table. But with Mike Evans,
he's probably your best option this week. I mean do
or die? I mean, who were you holding down while
Mike Evans was out? Let's just think that, right, Like,
there's some sketchy starts this week where I have a
wide receiver one coming off an injury. If he's healthy,
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he's practicing, he's ready to go, I'm locking him in.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Yeah, I mean, I guess the upside to this is
if you have made it to the playoffs, you've obviously
figured out other options. So now you're getting back a
potential wide receiver one on top of everything else you have.
I guess that's sort of.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
The pieces to an old lineback like this Bucks offense
is almost intact fully intact to be bull shremmed.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Hopefully that helps Baker as well. We can talk about
that a little later on in the show in his time. Now,
as we turn our attention toward week fifteen, tyning to
check out the first to score odds for the Falcons
Bucks matchup on Thursday Night football, hmm, I noticed the
theme here. One of these things is not like the others.
That's been John Robinson at the top with the best odds.
After that, it is all Bucks all the time, Bucky Irving,
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Mike Evans and Mecca Abuka and Chris Godwin. We should
change it, like, yeah, Bucky who plays for the Bucks.
We should make it a Mecca a bucka who plays
for them too. I mean, look, hey, Joe Thaisman changed
his name. He was Joe thisman until he had a
Heisman campaign. It became Thaisman for the Heisman. Why can't
we go a Bucca for the balls? How he I
did not know that he was Joe Thiseman most of
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his time in college and then his final year Notre Dame,
they put together a Heisman campaign. He was just like
the rest of my life. Now now he's just like
he's Joe Thaisman. He was the quarterback for the Washington
football team. Won a Super Bowl with the Washington football
team Landy one probably right, it was before that it
was like, oh, okay, I'm just saying, though, you're taking
(10:03):
a long walk around the block for a payoff that's
not really gonna hit any long as you know Falcons
and Bucks Lakwan, is there a Falcons pass catcher non
Kyle Pitts division that you are interested in starting, Because
it looks like Drake London not gonna play this week,
probably not gonna play against.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
He's probably shut down. I mean, honestly, that's the best decision, right,
Like you're risking out the sure, I understand, but you're
gonna put him out there. You're gonna risk him coming
back in twenty six. Like there may be some setbacks
in that. But outside of Kyle Pitts, it's very scary.
Like David Sills, like he's been their top red zone target,
but he's hit or miss like he's more so I'm
speaking to the folks that are the fourteen to sixteen league. Sure,
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take that shot, but I'm not interested in starting darn
On Mooney where he had one catch last week, right,
yeah it was a touchdown, but he has six catches
in the last three games. Like, we're not looking at
somebody you can trust in the playoffs. So if you're
down this bad, I'm sorry, you're just gonna have to
roll the dice on David Sills Like it's one of
those you got to be strapped to a touchdown where
this could possibly be a situation where he falls in
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the end zone with the red zone defense, with the
Bucks being poor. So take your shot, I guess, but
thought and prayers.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
At least of the short answer is, oh, it is
kind of what it is.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
I mean, be Sean's probably gonna put up one hundred again,
but that's your most reliable there.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
That's kind of what it is. On the other side
of this one, Florio, I mean, Mike Evans is back
and Mecca a Buck is struggling right now, would you
still start him in a playoff situation?
Speaker 3 (11:27):
It's option dependent, but yes, I do think he is
still in play this week because one thing, and I
tweeted it out after Sunday's game. There was one in
the end zone that Baker put a little too much
air on. There was one on the sideline that he
was open, and Baker has just missed. If you look
since week six when his kid started for ABUCA, the
lowest catchable target rate in the NFL. I put a
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lot of it on Baker. It's not like a Buka's
without sin. In that same span, he has the second
highest drop rate. But Baker has thrown three touchdown passes
in every game against the Raheem Morris Falcons def and
the Falcons are top three and yards, touchdowns and fantasy
points to wide receivers in the last month. And if
Evans is back out there, even if it's in like
kind of a decoy role, I think that means really.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Good things for a Meccabuka. That's sort of my hope
is that Mike Evans sort of draws some coverage away
because Abuka trying to be the load bearing receiver out
wide has not really worked out. So hopefully Mike Evan's
coming down. Though it's Baker needs to be better. Yeah, better. Yeah.
I also just think it was a lot to ask
of him right now, Yeah, dude, right, maybe we revisit
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this next year. It feels a little bit better right now.
It just seemed like a whole lot. We're gonna open
up the Starto Meter and figure out out what quarterbacks
we're feeling good about this week, plus dive further into
the week fifteen previews that's coming up on the NFL
Fantasy Football Show. King a new thing here on the
show today. It's the Starto Meter or startometer, I don't
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know whatever we're calling it. Basically the thing we kind
of talked about informally earlier in the week about you're
taking a player and deciding which guys we would start
over or not over a certain player. So throughout the show,
we'll sprinkle a few of these in. Wanted to start
because we talked about the Bucks and Falcons with Baker Mayfield,
the start O meeter of the Baker Mayfield. I'm gonna
run through a list of quarterbacks and you guys can
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just quickly tell me whether or not you would start
these players where you start Baker or the guy that
I list here. So we will start at Florida. You
can start then you can follow up l q us
Baker against the Falcons or Sam Darnold against the Colts.
Baker for me, Baker Baker. All right, Uh, I would
probably go Baker in this one too. Sam's been on
the struggle bus lately. Yeah, all right, Caleb Williams against
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the Browns or Baker Mayfield, Baker may Yeah, day because Browns,
Trevor Lawrence against the Jets or Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
I'm gonna go Baker, but this one is closer, Sir
william Sir William, I we'll go.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
I think I'm gonna go Trevor because the Jets without
Sauce and Quinn Williams are kind of a different animal,
just runs wild. That's also very very possible with this. Okay, okay,
So Florial Baker Mayfield or Justin Herbert at Kansas City
Baker Mayfield Baker with this one, yeah all right, all right,
yeah Herbo with a bad offensive line and a bionic hand. Yeah, yeah,
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seemed kind of bad. Yes, I was gonna make a
Star Wars like Luke Skywalker joke, but lookwe would They
got it, So it's.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Fine, dar Trek, all right, my fault.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Anyway, let's continue Baker Mayfield against the Falcons or bow
Knicks against the Packers.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
I don't want to face the Packers, so I'm gonna
go with Baker Mayfield here. I'm a believer, but I
gotta go Baker in this one too.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Yeah, Bait. It usually both stopped running? Why and that
was all he had? Really, that was what was going
for him. But he stopped running the last few weeks,
so I don't know, all right. This is why I
think he gets a little bit spicy here. So Baker
Mayfield against the Falcons or Jared Goff against the Rams,
Jared Goff.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
For me, it's not clothed. I'm gonna go Baker. I'm
gonna go Baker. This is a real question, and this
is a real answer to me. I'm going Baker over Golf.
I think we're gonna hassle him in the pocket. There's
gonna be a game where you know, golf is gonna
look human.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Right, I mean, I think that's gonna hap. I think
I think volume wins for golf, So that's why I
would probably golf. I think they're gonna have to throw
it a lot. I think it's gonna be like I
wouldn't surprised that game is like, you know, thirty five,
thirty or something's gonna have.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
To process fast.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
It's gonna be going for two like they're gonna be
very aggressive the Rams. Look, I'm gonna make him crash up.
They've struggled against receivers as of late.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
They have some good ones recently they have.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
It's okay, It's just it's.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Just a fact that, Yeah, I'm not taking shots. I'm
saying information for the viewer. All right, one one last
one here before the Quan crashes out. Baker against the Falcons.
Jordan Love at Denver.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Baker, Baker, really this one hard, Yeah, Baker for all
for me except for Jared Goff, for Jered Goff. I'm
going to Trevor.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
I think I might go Jordan Love. He looked really
good against the Bears.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Yep, did as he should so Adam.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Maybe it's because Bears can't get men pressure on him.
Whether the Broncos will be in his face a little
bit more, But I think I'm gonna go Jordan Love
in that one sack. All right, we'll do a little
bit more of those a little bit later on in
the show. But now let's turn our attention back to
Week fifteen, Big AFC East matchup this week between the
Patriots and the Bill, so florial, I will ask you
which quarterback scores the most Fantasy points in this one?
(16:23):
Is it Josh Allen or is it Drake May?
Speaker 3 (16:26):
When it comes to fantasy, if it's Josh Allen versus
any other quarterback, the answer is Josh Allen unless he's
playing like the Texans like. He has scored thirty seven
fantasy points in three games this year. That is the
most quarterback has ever done in NFL history, and the
rest of the league quarterback wise this year, has done
so twice. Drake May has not scored thirty. He has
not thrown for three hundred yards in a game, and
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in three games against the Bills, two of them he
doesn't have a touchdown. And I really like Drake May,
but Josh Allen is the I truly believe it.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
He is the greatest fantasy quarterback ever.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Ooh ever, wow eh.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
He's been nothing but a QB one or two six
years in a row. Yeah, I'm just because I like,
you know, like Kim Newton, but that Kim didn't have
like the passing upside.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
The marges Brooke the fantasy record little that is great,
but year to year, week to week, I don't think
anyone brings a more consistency and upside than Josh.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
This feels like an offseason conversation when it's March and
we don't really have anything the time. Staying with that game.
The similarities between Josh Allen and Drake May the biggest
one is there are two quarterbacks that we love and
we're starting every week. We can't figure out what's the past. Yeah,
like on either side of this one. So laquant I'm
gonna ask you which pass catcher, wide receiver, tight end,
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whatever has the best fantasy that could be for either team?
Wide receiver, tight end, Who do you like?
Speaker 2 (17:44):
I like Kinkaid in this game, and I would say
this like close Shakira. He gives you that solid floor,
but steiling is low. I like Kinkaid in this game
against the Patriots, and then we look on the other
side of the Patriots wide receivers. I think this is
a Mac Collins low key revenge game. Like this could
be a bit pleasy. Yeah, free defeat man. We support it,
But I think Stefan Diggs is going to be very
very busy with Fouriol's boy Chris Benfer, and I think
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that he's going to be put in jail, like how
Jamar Chase was last week. So I look at this
as like, hey, we might see a Kaisham Booty pop off,
we might see a mccollins. So there's interesting characters, like
B side characters. I would say, like the Avengers B
side of that cast will be able to show up
and show out. And I think mccollins he will have
something to say since he missed out in Week five.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
I think mc collins should play barefoot.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Oh my, in the snow legit, let's do it.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
I'm alo to remember when, like the Denver Broncos had
a barefoot kicker, like in the eighties.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Stuff like those players still like walk around the facility
barefoot because of mccollins, Like he's gone, but the tradition
is still there.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
I actually went to college with the guy who didn't
wear I see in four years, I guess saw him
wear shoes like five times.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
It was crazy, absolutely absolutely crazy work. All right. As
we look further into Week fifteen, the packers at the Broncos,
we talked about the quarterback situations there, Jordan love Bow, NICKX,
what have you, Floya? How deep are you going on
Packers wide receivers this week?
Speaker 3 (19:08):
It's only Christian Watson and that's it. And even Christian
Watson I don't think is a slam dunk this week
because who's on the other side, Like, he's probably gonna
get a whole lot of Patrick Surtain shadowing him. So
I look, I've been really bullish on Watson, especially as
of late, but I have him on a number of
playoff teams this week where like I'm sitting here for
like Juwan Jennings, I'm debating him or Mike Evans in
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a league. So Watson is is far from a guy
that I'm like forcing into lineups this week.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
I just took Jayden Reid off an IR spot and
I'm like anoying with it. I haven't used them all year,
right am my fourth tour? Like do I just move
on because it's been all year and I haven't used
I don't know. I'll be pondering that one over the
next couple of days. For sure. Lions and the Rams
a really big interesting one right next door at Sofi
Stadium coming up this week. I was gonna ask, like,
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who would you not start, because like everybody's pretty much
in play on both sides of this thing. But instead
I'm gonna ask you, Lakwan, to pick your RB two.
Which of these RB twos has the better day? Is
it David Montgomery or is it Blake Korm who's been
hot lately.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
I'll point out David Montgomery, he's been strapped to like
touchdown dependencies. But I think Korm is running in hot
right now, like he needs to be put out. He
is stopped dropping and rolling like how we've seen the
Cardinals get put the bet on that big run that
he had. So Korm to me, he is building more
confidence in this system, this multi back system. And McVeigh
has talked about last week of how he wants to
(20:30):
keep Kyen fresh for the back end of the season
because I don't know about any of you guys on
this couch, but my team's playing in February, so I
want Kiren healthy. I want Kyroen to be out there.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
He might not even win the division.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Come on, Florio, don't know he's trying to get me.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
I'm sure there are some rams that will be in
the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Can I get my single here. I am not worried
about any other team in the West. We're the most
dangerous team in the NFL. You gotta deal with this
dynamic duol now with Blake Koran popping off of how
you see explosive, he could be right. Talk from a
guy with a team with a thirty eight year old
quarter What could go wrong?
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Nothing?
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Because oh my.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
God, I'm sure some Rams will be voted to the
Pro Bowl. So yes, that's true. They will be uh,
they will be playing.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Listen, I'm plicking. I'm picking Blake korm as a flex okay,
because the simp effect. He's getting the opportunities and he's
looking good with these opportunities. This is going to be
a one to two punch with this Lion's defense. The
run defense has been middle of the pack all season long.
So I do look at this old line just pushing
the trenches and getting a field because this is going
to be a shootout game. Like both of these teams
are going to put up points. These are both one
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and two of the most scoring offenses in the NFL
right now, So I look at this where McVeigh is
going to lock in on Blake Korm because he is
running in hot all right.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
I mean, look, Blake Korm helped me get to the
playoffs in a couple of weeks, so I'm here for it.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
That's why I'm not just well, I don't think I
would play either one of them this week personally.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
That's just me. I mean, the Lions have been tough
against They've been really bad against wide receivers. They've been
good against running backs, so we'll see.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
They haven't faced the super Bowl winning team.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
But I doubt play the Eagles this year. Remember they
did they they.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Haven't played a super Bowl caliber team. Like I said,
the Eagles are no longer in that caliber.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Who won when the Rams played the Eagles? Oh? Here
we go? Who won when the forty nine ers backups
played the rem Colts at Seahawks? Before he just falls
off the couch, we talked. We talked about what Philip
Rivers could mean for the pass catchers there in Indianapolis.
But Florial, what do you realistically expect from Philip Rivers
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himself this week?
Speaker 3 (22:31):
I mean, it's not the wisest decision to be throwing
him out there against this defense. In my opinion, I
think the Seahawks defense is up there with Denver. I
Like I said on Monday, I think Houston is the
best defense, but I think Seattle and Denver are right
there with them. And the Seahawks have been coming into
their own as of late.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
They're getting after the quarterback.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
They're really like they are the hardest defense the last
five weeks to throw against. And that's why I had
I was planning on writing up Daniel Jones as they
sit this week before he got hurt. I was planning
on rinning up the coltswide receivers as sits before I
knew it was gonna be Philip Rivers. Philip Riverston in
his last five years did throw over twenty percent of
his passes to the running backs position. In his final game,
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I think he threw five times to rookie Jonathan Taylor.
So I think Jonathan Taylor and Tyler Warren again are
the only Colts I personally am willing to But because
Jonathan Taylor, you obviously have to start. And then if
you get eight points out of Tyler Warren and Michael
Pittman Junior, one of those is gonna.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Hurt a lot less. Yeah, that's true. I do love
that the highlight reel was like, it's him throwing to
Mike Williams.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Stuff with the Chargers, like Jack Doyle Man, I'm pretty
sure thats who his last touchdown.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
I think you are correct on that one Chargers at
the Chiefs. The Chiefs cannot win the AFC West. That
part is done. They are clinging onto the faintest hope
of life in terms of the playoffs altogether, LaQuan. We
saw last week Patrick Mahomes was not good against the
Houston Texans. Any worries about starting him against the Chargers.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
I have QB two expectations with him, Like, I don't
see him having a huge performance because week one, the
Chargers came out and kind of shocked them, right, they
kind of punched them in their mouths. And right now
this Chargers defense has no issue taking the ball away
or causing chaos in the trenches. So I think this
is going to be a very difficult game with Patrick Mahomes,
especially what we've seen last week. So I'm really having
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my expectations tempered because if I have a Brock Purty,
I'm sorry, Brock Purdy or Trevon mid Lawrence, Like I'd
rather start those quarterbacks over Patrick Mahomes in this tough
matchup against the Chargers.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Yeah, I mean interesting, I'm probably forced to start Mahomes.
I'm not excited about it, especially if his receivers put
their hands on backwards again this week like they did
last week, because it was it was pretty brutal Ravens
at the Bengals. Isaiah likely had a big week last week.
The Bengals are terrible against tight ends. Is Isaiah likely
a must start? Floor?
Speaker 3 (24:53):
I really like Isaiah likely this week. I like him,
in fact, even more than Mark Andrews. But I do
think both are in play. As we saw last week,
you could attack the Bengals with numerous tight ends. That's
what the Bills. They're two leading receivers where they're tight ends.
But in the last three games, Likely has more targets, catches, yards,
and touchdowns than Mark Andrews.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
And that's despite fumbling.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
One out of bounds through the end zone against the
Bengals and then last week. I mean, I thought it
was a touchdown catch all the way later a touchdown. Yeah,
he had two steps, he had it in his hands
and got knocked out. If he has those two touchdowns,
we're looking at Isaiah Likely completely different. Plus, he was
their leading receiver against the Bengals two weeks ago with
ninety five yards and the Bengals. The only tight end
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better than Trey McBride this year is the tight.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Ends playing the Bengals.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
They've allowed catches, yards, touchdowns, and fantasy points to the position.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Andrews, I think you're hoping for a touchdown, but I
do think the upside is higher with likely. It is
the first place I go when I'm trying to figure
out tight ends sleevers. I'm like, who's playing the Bengals?
And then when I see it's like George Kittle, I'm.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
Like, oh, I actually do some work, come man.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
So yeah, h Cardinals at the Texans Marvin Harrison Junior
hoping to return. He did not practice on Wednesday, but
uh laqwan, let's say he comes back. Is Michael Wilson
still startable? And I guess is he startable anyway? Even
without this?
Speaker 2 (26:16):
This is a difficult start with or without him. Like
it's one of those situations like you're hoping your bench
you have a reliable guy like a Chris o'lave who's
been performing well. You hope that you have like a
flex opportunity where you could stick in a quin Shawn Jenkins.
Just try to play with your lineup and have a
solid lineup going into there, because this is one of
the more difficult matches I know, looking stare in the
face of a person who has been held down by
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Michael Wilson with Jacoby Brissett going crazy giving you wide
receiver one production. But this week is do or die.
It's one of those situations is like, hey, if your
absolute best opportunity and best value in your wide receivers
Michael Wilson, you better have thoughts and prayers and get
your expectations in order.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
I'm really sad that they may be taking Michael Wilson
away from us because he's been so hotly playing some
really good football.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Why not just make Marv the wide receiver two in
the offense and design it for him to be the one,
and then Trey McBride, you know, be Trey McBrien that
might be.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Coming in the very What are we waiting for? Just
do it. We have fantasy playoffs right now. That's another
chance for us not to sprinkle in the start zero meter,
this time with Jacoby Brissette. Because This was a conversation
we had earlier in the week. So some of these
names will be similar to what we talked about with
Baker Mayfield, but we'll run through them. Lakwana. You can
start this time in Florida. You can follow it up.
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So Jacoby Brissett's against the Texans or Sam Donald against
the Colts.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Sam Donald unfortunately.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
And right, all right, so, uh, Sam Clemente, I think
I might still go Jacoby in this one. Just believe
in it, all right, I might go Jacoby this one,
all right, go on to Jacoby or Caleb Williams against
the Browns.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Jacoby, believe it or not. Kim has just been like
QB two ish low ing QB. He hasn't been great,
you know. Yeah, I'm cool with going Jacoby here.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Yeah, go Jacoby. Cale has been good enough. Yeah, good
enough for the Bears to win, but necessarily that.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
They still unplug him and just have common young guys
just crazy.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
So it's like I can't do.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
That, all right, Jacoby Brisett or Trevor Lawrence against the Jets.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
I'm gonna go Sir william again. I'm rocking with him again.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Same for me. Yeah, I think I'll go travel on
this one for sure. Jacoby or Jared Goff against the Rams.
Jared Goff Jared GoF easily golf for me, Yeah, GoF
golf here all right. So Jacoby or Jordan Love against
the Broncos at Denver.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Ooh, this is actually tough.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
I'm going Jordan Love.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
I think Jacoby on this one. I think Jacoby because
Love might get.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Harassed, probably will, but I think I go.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
I think I go Jordan Love is his secondary is
Jacoby is.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Gonna get harassed that part too.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Yeah, it's bad both ways, all right.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Jacoby or Patrick Mahomes against the Chargers h Q two.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
You go Mahomes on this one.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
I'm going Mahomes all day. He runs. That's something rusher.
Last time play. Yeah, I was gonna say Jacoby, but
that part I think swayed me down the home side
of things, all right. Last one, Jacoby or Lamar Jackson
against the Bengals.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Lamar, I think he's back. I think they are of
pointing up. He looks a little bit more healthier. I'm
playing perty against you. I'm playing pretty over Jacoby. I'm
getting Jacoby out of my lineups. I just don't want
to do it.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
It's Lamar, mostly because it's Lamar, but also because Bengals.
Oh there, there you go. That's all you, there you go.
That's how we're feeling about Jacoby Brissett this week. Time
for a break, but we'll come back with the rest
of our game previews plus our sleepers for Week fifteen.
All right, more Week fifteen previews. We'll start with the
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Titans heading to Santa Clara take on the forty nine Ers.
Florio Tony Polo look great against the Browns last week,
and he repeat that against the Niner run defense that
has not been nearly as good as Cleveland's.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
No, he's not going to do that again, like that's
gonna be his best season, best game.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
But I do think it puts him in the position
where you could consider.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Flexing him or something because of what you said with
the forty nine Ers defense. But on top of it,
I still don't love Tony Pollard because that was a
competitive game for the Titans, right it was actually game
script on his side. This is the healthiest brock Party
and the forty nine Ers offense has probably been since
the start of the year coming off thereby, so I
think this could be a game that gets pretty ugly
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pretty fast.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
So I still don't love Tony Pollard. Yeah, Titans with
a league worst point differential like minus one fifty six.
I believe it is they They have been chasing points
in every game. I think that happens this week. So
that's sort of come on, can that's where game scripts.
Game's gonna throw it a lot because they're gonna have
to throw it a lot. I think is kind of
where it is. Uh, Panthers at Saints, choose your fighter
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LaQuan Cuba Hubbard or Rico Dudele.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Yeah, this one's real nasty where because I feel like
you can't you can't trust either one of them because
like coming out of to buy it, Tube is coming
in with some juice, some motivation, right, and then the
last time they faced the Saints defense, like neither one
were good products and Rico struggled in that game. He
had eighteen carries but average two point nine yards for carry.
So I'm looking at this, right, We've seen this backfield
do the switch on and off, snip snap this or that,
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and I look at this is where like I'm hoping
that Tuba Hubbard would be the option right coming into
this week. I was looking at it like Tuba last
time we saw him play looked healthy. Maybe that's all
he needed time to get healthy because he's turned up
on an elite defense. So I'm gonna rock with Cuba
on this one. Where Rico to me he might have
to play the background because he hasn't been good on
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the ground these last couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
So frustrating, right. I will point out though that Rico
doat on miss practice today. Okay, so that's that's definitely
worth noting we're paying attention to. It's just frustrating, right
because Tuba was playing well, then Rico took over, and
then Rico started to fade. Now Tuba is back. It
is to your point, snip snap, snip snap. I don't know.
I have no idea what to do on a week
to week basis with the Panthers' backfield. Also, do we
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get good Brice young or bad Bryce Youngest?
Speaker 2 (31:52):
That is the big question mark. That is the biggest
question mark probably in that room. I'm going to hope
to Belie leave and say good. I want the Panthers
to win this division just for fun and purpose. The
defense is intact like the defense is good. So it's like,
just don't go out there and do what you did.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Like what if Bryce do the last time he played?
Oh he was terrible last ye yeah, like one and
a half points or something. It was like seventeen to
seven his last game before the Oh yeah he was good.
He's really So here's the problem, because I think we
kind of figured out that like Bryce Young plays poorly
in good matchups and plays well in bad matchups. But
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like the Saints are sort of mid, so like now
I don't know what to do with that.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
BORI almost voke it was two weeks, but we're good.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
We're coasting, all right, Jets at the Jaguars Florida, Do
you start Brian Thomas junior? Brian Thomas Junior.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Is to me, at least what I viewed like Alec
Pierce has earlier in the season, or Quentin Johnston had
a stretch in this role, this role where like uh,
Booty for the Patriots had a stretch in this role
where it's like, I don't think you just start him,
no questions asked. But if you're looking at your team
and you're like I need a flexor, or you find
yourself like really far behind maybe someone on Thursday goes
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off for whatever. He's a high low floor, high upside
play in my opinion, because of what I was talking
about on Monday, I think he had a lot of
success last week just running go routes and just like
going downfield, you're.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Gonna be our deep threat. We're gonna give you.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
More air yards than you have all year, and it
worked and it makes some big play reliant.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Right.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
You could always get a large chunk play or a
touchdown that way, but understand that those are volatile targets
and if things don't go right for him, the floor
is single digits and probably low single digits. So to me,
that is the range that I view Brian Thomas Junior
in at this point.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
I just you know, I'm and we sort of touched
on it earlier in the week. I'm very curious how
fantasy drafters are going to view him heading into next year, right,
because everybody was so hyped he was a late first
round pick and that hasn't worked out. Obviously there will
be a discount on him. I'm just curious what.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
There will be a day in like June that becomes
Brian Thomas Junior Day and his ADP will go up around.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
It's gonna be you know, I know it's gonna happen.
I'm gonna wake up in the morning, I'm.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Gonna log on to Blue Sky or whatever, be up
for nine hours at that.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Everybody will be talking about Thomas j And my thought
would be like, well, first he's like I'll be googling
like did he get traded? Did he get hurt? Like
what happened? And it's just like, no, no, we just
decided to make him the main Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
You being up as early as you are, you should
wake up each day and declare what day that player is?
Speaker 1 (34:26):
You should you shouldn't? You should throw the conversation grenade
for the day. It's just I'm good. Would just just
steer the conversation like that. Raiders at the Eagles. Look,
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what are your projections for Jalen Hurts in this one?
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Now, when I saw this question on the doc, I'm like, man,
it's the Raiders, but the Raiders defense they kind of
be in middle of the pack against the quarterback position.
And then I can't really not paint a pay sure
where Jalen Hurts doesn't have like twenty fantasy points on
the table. Because of the toush push and the weapons
that he has around him. I'm just hoping this right.
If I'm starting him this week, I don't have any
other better options on the bench, obviously, I'm starting him
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just hoping that he can hit that twenty point mark
because that's honestly what we need because in the last
couple of weeks he's only had one QB one performance
and then the last four games he's had sixteen Fantasy
points or less. We need a bounce back desperately. And
the one thing that is still remained true when they
throw that bat signal on AJ Brown shows up to
the scene and he airs it out.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
I mean ever since AJ Brown went on Twitch and
was did the whole like, if you have me in Fantasy,
get rid of me.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Yes, he's been lights out. Yeah, you gotta do the opposite.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
He had the most disappointing one hundred yard game I've
ever seen on Monday Night. Yeah yeah, but he should
have two hundred yards and a touchdown in that one.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
But basically what happened with AJ Brown is like it's
like when my kid cries about not getting a cupcake,
Like if he just spent all day crying about that
gating a cupcake. Well, the Eagles gave a j Brown
a cupcake. He's giving him a mini cupcakes with sprinkles.
A whole bunch of cupcakes with sprinkles over the last
few weeks is what's happened. So uh, yay for gentle parenting.
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I don't know other part of this florio. Will Jalen
Hurts still be considered a top five fantasy quarterback next year?
Speaker 3 (36:22):
There there's a big Jalen Hurts hive out there, so
I there's an anti hurt tive as well. He's very polarizing.
Top five, well, I think Josh and Lamar are going
to be in the top two. I think Patrick Mahomes
probably goes ahead of him. Him versus Burrow is an
interesting conversation. Him versus Jayden is an interesting conversation.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
May May and Dart are two.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
So I think there he's in that second tier, which
will probably be like QB four through like seven or
eight or something like that.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Yeah, I'm just curious, when it's all said and done,
do we remember the overall season, the overall numbers, or
do we dive into the week to week and remember
the you know, clos right. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
I also think, like, I know, playoffs don't matter, but
if he goes out and balls out and wins the
Super Bowl again, everyone's gonna forget, you know. Yeah, but
Laqwan says that's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Yeah. Stop, there's a path for like the Cowboys and
maybe sneaking, Yes, there is. I'm kind of root for it.
I mean, just chaos, baby, Chaos is fun, Chaos is
a ladder. It's great Bears or Bears hosting the Browns.
Browns at Bears in this one, Flooryo. We've seen Swift
and Manunguy run the ball very very well. Can they
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do that against this Browns defense that got run over
by total plenty power last week? It's definitely possible.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
I feel much better about Swift of the two than
I do Kyle Manungay because Swift sees some pass game volume.
But the thing is, I do think both are in
play this week because if the Bears are playing from ahead,
and we know the Bears are going to run the
ball even when they're trailing, like look what they did
in a game where they never led last week against
the Packers. So I do think both are in play.
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In the matchup. I think Swift brings a higher ceiling.
Manungui might have the higher floor at this point, but
I do lean Swift because of his pass game usage.
But to me, yeah, I think both are flex options
or areb two plays.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
I mean, they've just they've been so good running the
ball for most of the season. I mean, I don't
care who the opponent is. I'm not going to go
away from them just because that's what they want to do.
So that feels like a good, good play to me.
Another edition of the start O Meter coming, this one
featuring one Shadur Sandersy, you look very good against the
Tennessee Titans last week. It was a back tape.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
It was back tape, folks, it was back tape whatever.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
Whatever works. Man Like, not everybody can get a fancy
air stream trailer, you know, so he's got to do
what you gotta do. So the name's here a little
bit different because obviously the expectations for Shudur are maybe
not the same as safe for Baker Mayfield or Jacobe Brissett.
So Floyd, I'll start with you Shoudur Sanders against the
Bears or Kinny Pickett, who looks like he's going to
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get the start over Geno Smith, who's dealing with some
injuries against the Eagles.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
That's Super Bowl champion. Can he Pickett in a revenge game?
But Big Jersey, I'm still going Shador here. Uh sure, door, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
That's that's an easy with here. Okay, So this one
might be a little bit tougher. Schauduur against the Bears
or Tyler Shuck against the Panthers.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
I'm gonna go with Chador because I like his matchup.
I'm going Shuck. I like Shuck.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
You've come around.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
I wouldn't say all that still expence, but we talk
in fantasy.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
I like Shuck this week. I think I'm mnna go
Shoudur because you can't count on Tyler Shuck to get
two rushing touchdowns every week.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
That is true.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
That's oond one was bananas too. He's just like you know,
Broke contain and just like Ranford, he's in He's in
his error right now for sure. All right, So floring
back to you, Schardure against the Bears or JJ McCarthy
at Dallas. I went back and forth on this one.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
I'm gonna go with JJ though because of the matchup,
because just I'm playing the match up here. No way,
j JJ is their my boy.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
I can't do it. I'm not saying he's great. He
had he he was a QB nine fittingly last week.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
This is an adjusted New Dallas Cowboys defense against against
the run.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
But they are still pressure air.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
Still listen, JJ came and get the ball in the
air to freaking last week. Yeah, to tight ends and
Josh Oliver twice.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
That help no one, But it still and this is
not This is a game where I expect them to
be trailing and not leading by thirty points and having
to throw more than twenty times.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
Obviously you're going to yes, absolutely well. For the sake
of my own column, I put JJ in Are's asleep
or somebody o J just just for if it's all's
for confirmation bias, nothing else, all right against the Bears
or Marcus Mariota at the Giants.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
Marcus Mariota, he's one of my favorite sleepers this week.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
Marcus, Yeah, yeah, I think that's unanimous good Marcus. Yeah,
he spells it weird. But uh, chadur or Aaron Rodgers
against the Dolphins on Monday Night.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
I think Rogers is safer, but I'm gonna roll the
dice on Shadors. I would like to say I roll
the dice on Shador in this one. Yea, I think
the upside's greater, right, I don't want to wait the
entire weekend.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
Especially in Rogers. Dolphins against the pass are tough. Dolphins
against the runner stinky. So you know, I think I
think it shoud okay, last one, Shad against the Bears,
bon Nicks against the Packers.
Speaker 3 (41:24):
Mike garrat Follo Legit hit me up because his quarterbacks
are Bo Nicks and Jacoby and I was like, and
he was like, my other options are Chadour or JJ.
And I was like, going back and forth between JJ
and Bo, but I said I would probably go Bo.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
All right, I go Bo over Shador.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
Yeah, I think I go Bo kind Yeah, I think
I think this might be a week Bo runs a
little bit more, hopefully, and because that's that's where his
fantasy value came from.
Speaker 3 (41:51):
Starrying you, brother, what why do we give players like
bow Knicks grace when they struggle and not other players?
Speaker 2 (41:58):
Because I'm a believer.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
I believe in this yell man.
Speaker 2 (42:02):
I've seen him do it.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
He's still a top ten fantas seventeen fantasy points since
Week nine.
Speaker 2 (42:07):
Hellow, players mess up.
Speaker 1 (42:09):
Sometimes you just gotta live with the brand. Sometimes sometimes
you just got a brand and you just gotta go
with it that way. So there you go. There you go.
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Speaker 2 (42:51):
I hate that we're in. Then back in the season
is the first round in fantasy playoffs for to Mecco
booking man. Just with the Mike Evans coming back and
stabilizing that offense, I'm hoping that they can bring more
versatility to his game where he's not just stuck playing out.
Why Now with Mike Evans back and Chris Godwin, you
can kind of get that versatility of him playing out
of the slot or even out wide. So I'm looking
for Baker to get back to bases and get back
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to the full strength of this Bucks offense. And I know, wah,
mecha Buka, It's been scary, but I'm telling you now, man,
I'm putting him into flex as my schnorlax this week.
Speaker 1 (43:21):
All right, So I Mechabuka coming back to life in
Week fifteen. Florida, you sort of hinted at this, but
who is your sleeper Marcus Mariota?
Speaker 3 (43:29):
Because the Giants are in the top three in Fantasy
points allowed to quarterbacks.
Speaker 1 (43:33):
They really struggled through the air.
Speaker 3 (43:35):
We've seen Mariota put up numbers in favorable matchups and
on top of that, he runs.
Speaker 1 (43:40):
Right and he might run near the goal line and
that is enough.
Speaker 3 (43:43):
But then we discussed, like JJ McCarthy shdor who I
also think are sleepers, and keep an eye on the
Jets because I'm just gonna say, if Justin Fields ends
up getting the start this week, I'm gonna be plugging
Justin Fields into some lineup.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
I will say, speaking of that, it looks doubtful that
he's going to play. At least the reports I saw
looks like it could be Brady Cook. Yeah. Start, this
has justin fields. I don't want to play for the
team that benched me written all over it. You know what?
Sometimes sometimes I understand that, man, you don't want me,
then why do I want to show up for you?
I get it my sleeper this week, And I will
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admit that this is kind of heavily ViBe's base, but
it's Bricky pearsaw right because since he's come back from
the injury, it hasn't been great. I love that you've
looked right at him, Yeah, waiting for him to say something.
What is it? I think he's got like ten targets,
four catches in like fifteen yards or something like that.
It's been bleak. There's been a lot of talk though,
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around the forty nine ers about Pearsal getting involved and
knowing that they need to get him going. They've had
the bye week to get a little bit healthier and
for Kyle Shanahan to scheme some things up. The matchup
is good against the Titan secondaries, so this just feels
like a situation where I wouldn't be surprised if you
see some early targets to Pearsaw try to get him
involved in the floor of the game. But like I'm
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also going to admit to you, there's nothing statistical to
back this up. It is strictly just like it just
feels like a situation where they get him going because
they sort of need to get him going. I missed
that set. We used to just vibes. Oh yeah, we
still do it once a week on Fantasy on Tuesdays.
Usually it's the no stats, just vibes. And that's kind
of what this what.
Speaker 2 (45:17):
Youd on Tyler Shuck. I mean a couple of weeks ago, no.
Speaker 1 (45:20):
Status vibes here on Ricky Pierso. So we'll see how
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Speaker 2 (45:49):
Wow, I'll cont help, Bob, I'll don't help
Wow, what's up everybody? Welcome to another edition of the
NFL Fantasy Football Show. It's Made Your Man, MG Marcus Grant,
joined by Michael Floyo and Lakwan Jones. It's Burgfest by
(00:21):
Mike Count. We only have I think what three Burgfests
left on this show, man. This is the third to
last one, right, I believe. So, I mean, I don't
know if they're making us do a week eighteen show.
I have no idea. How are we doing a week
eighteen show. We're not doing a week eighteen shows. As
far as I'm got.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
We got the leagues that you're playing in Week eighteen.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Friends. Don't let friends play week eighteen. Leave.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Just have a party that week for whoever helped win
you were a championship exactly.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Just go donate to the charity of that player's choice
if they helped win a championship. Always a good way
to go, which I guess, by the way, Shout out
to our friends over at Fantasy Care, Scott Fish, John Bosch,
all those folks who I know, we're out buying toys
for tots. Always a big thing that they do. So
everybody who participates in the Scott Fishbowl and all these
charity tournaments. This is sort of the reward for all that.
(01:07):
All right, we got a lot to do on the
show today. We're going to ask the question, can you
start Jacobe Brissette against the Houston Texans. We will consult
the start oh meter, plus, we run down the Thursday
and Sunday slates, and we give you our sleepers for
week fifteen. We will start, as we always do at
this time, with some fantasy headlines. Because the NFL world
went crazy right after we finished taping our podcast on Monday,
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which is how things always go. The maybe craziest news
of them all, a literal grandfather will be playing for
the Indianapolis Colts. Philip Rivers, at the age of forty four,
having been retired for five years, has signed with the
Colts practice squad and there's a very real chance that
he could start this week against the Seattle Seahawks. That
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is because Riley Leonard is dealing with a PCL sprain
and as of this recording, his status for Week fifteen
is very uncertain. So we sort of talked about this
on Monday, Lakwan, but it was any sense of what
happens if it's Riley Leonard or Brett Rippon, because Philip
Rivers wasn't on our radar. What are you doing? He's
(02:11):
coming off the couch, literally off the couch. If Rivers starts,
that looks very likely. Right now, which Colts pass catchers
are you comfortable with?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I'll say this, I'm not gonna shoot him down because
what if he comes in and has that Joe Flacco effect.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
They're gonna put Chuster's season.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
What if he comes in right, and then Michael Pittman
and then we see a Tyler Warren get elevated. I mean,
last time we seen Rivers, it wasn't like a terrible performance.
Eleven and five the guys went to But it's not
like he was completely removed from the game. That football
IQ was still there. I'm saying he is walking into
a good Colts team, right. He worked with JT and
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Pittman when they were rookies, but now he's getting them
at their peaks. I'm looking at this as what if. Okay,
I'm not gonna shoot down the total idea that you
can't start Ankle Pittman, if you're back to the wall,
you can't start Tyler Warren because whatever the case may
be or telling the Taylor right, I'm just saying, what if. Okay,
I'm not shooting it down, man, because we've seen crazier
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things this season alone.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
All Right, So obviously you're on with Tyler Warren. Yes,
I'm kind of in with Tyler Warren. Anybody beyond that.
Just Jonathan Taylor, that's it.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Like I'm not because on top of this being his
first game in five years, it's a little different with
Joe fla Joe Flackel started a game a month before that,
you know, like he hasn't played five And on top
of that, the Seahawks are the hardest matchup for wide
receivers right now. In the last five weeks, they have
clamped everybody. I'm I'm not even considering Alec Peerre. I
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don't have Pittman on a ton of teams. I have
Alec Pearson a lot. I'm not even considered. I've dropped
him in a number of leagues to get better options.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
This week. It's just, man, it's it's crazy making it's fun.
I'm gonna watch it. I don't want to trust my
fantasy season with it, you know, I'm just thinking of
all the quarterbacks all around the world why they called
Philip Rivers. There's there's a.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Good article out there right now that apparently Riley Leonard
worked was one of the college quarterbacks that flew to
Philip Rivers' backyard last year to work out, and was
like this guy could still throw pretty well.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Still got it. Philip Rivers' oldest child is like a
couple months older than Riley Leonard.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
That's the three successive quarterbacks who have played well at
this age is one, It's Tom Brady and that's it.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
But he also played continuous. Yeah, he didn't take a
five yeah break to come back.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
He stay attached to the game. He was a head
coach for a high school team in Alabama. But like
I think the football, IQ still has his ability to
go out there and dish it out. I mean, that's
all long lesson is.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
The mind is one thing, and I don't doubt that
right like the football accuses, the mind is there and
the body.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Do you gonna check it down the JT about ten
times and hand him and the ball twenty times?
Speaker 3 (04:49):
That's what that And Alex I'm sorry, Tyler Warren a
bunch of short quick catching, I mean the downfield stuff.
He had no arm in twenty twenty. Like I went
back and watched some of his highlights from that year.
He's lollypopping throws.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Then, I mean when you're doing it to Jack Doyle
and then.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Zach Squal I'm Michael Pittman Jr.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
As a as a rookie, but I would say this though, again,
what if what if I'm not shooting it down? I'm not,
But but you have to decide if you want to
trust I staring Justin Jefferson. I ain't starting Justin Jefferson,
but I like that you would start Michael Pitman Junior.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Over that's coming later in the week, later in the
show that today It's not gonna been today show, but
we will have that later on in the week. But
let's let's turn the page. Cinnati, where t Higgins back
in concussion protocol. You had just come off a concussion
protocol before the game against the Bills, had a couple
of plays where his head hit the ground, and anybody
watching sort of felt a little bit queazy with watching
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him continue to play when it looked like he may
have been concussed. After the game, they said he was
dealing with symptoms he's been in the concussion protocol. Since then,
we'll see what his availability is for this week. But
let's say he can't go Floria On. You're deciding to
put together a say a DFS line up, I'll DFS.
I'm not gonna say a season long league. Would you
roll with andre Yoshivas.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
I would not be playing him because even in DFS,
like two weeks ago, in this exact matchup, he only
had two targets. It was Mitchell Tinsley had nine in
that game. And that's my thinking is I think Tinsley
is the better replacement to come in and run the
out wide downfield like t Higgins routes. Obviously there's no
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replacing Higgins, but I think he is the one that
is better suited to get those Higgins opportunities.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah, I'm I don't know. I feel like that's a
kind of a dice roll sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Like in DFS though, like if you're just throwing out
there out there, throw a line about there.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
So I like Mike Koseki, Big Jersey. Let's just say.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Kaseeki played well last week, I am. I mean, he
had one hundred and fifteen yards all of the season
that he had eighty six last week.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I mean last season we saw him show up when
t Higgins was sideline. I mean he has the opportunity.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Let's just say that I have used Kasiki as shorthand
and for that tight end that you draft in the
late rounds, and you're just kind of like like I
just call I just like whatever I think of somebody
like that. I'm just like, yeah, you know, like like
Mike GASICKI like, that's my guy is throwing out risky place.
Hey ne or diar rd or died. Let's go. You
change your name to t E three, from RB three
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to t E three. Good news down in Tampa, h
Todd Bowles was saying that Mike Evans has shown everything
he needed to in practice. The update on that is
he Well, I'm with Jayleen McMillan have been activated from
injured reserves, so they are good to go for Thursday
night against the Atlanta Falcons. So Lakwan like I'm Jayalenn
(07:40):
McMillan is a different story. But Mike Evans, if he
comes back, are you starting him against Atlanta?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
I'm interested in doing it because Mike Evans in the
beginning the season, we didn't see those wide receiver one performances.
It was kind of like ten fantasy points, ten fantasy
points of Mecca Buka doing this thing. But now with
this Bucks offense, like near full health. Now we got
Chris Godwin back, Bucky Irvins. I'm actually interested to see
what he looks like out there if he is fully healthy.
But but one thing that we can stamp as for
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certain is that he is the number one target. Baker's
going to feed him. He's going to even try to
get him to those one thousand yards and keep the
right see running.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Like, I'm actually interested, I would be wild, right, I
mean in force feed. I mean we've seen it before.
I'm not putting it off the table. But with Mike Evans,
he's probably your best option this week. I mean do
or die? I mean, who were you holding down while
Mike Evans was out? Let's just think that, right, Like,
there's some sketchy starts this week where I have a
wide receiver one coming off an injury. If he's healthy,
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he's practicing, he's ready to go, I'm locking him in.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Yeah, I mean, I guess the upside to this is
if you have made it to the playoffs, you've obviously
figured out other options. So now you're getting back a
potential wide receiver one on top of everything else you have.
I guess that's sort of.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
The pieces to an old lineback like this Bucks offense
is almost intact fully intact to be bull shremmed.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Hopefully that helps Baker as well. We can talk about
that a little later on in the show in his time. Now,
as we turn our attention toward week fifteen, tyning to
check out the first to score odds for the Falcons
Bucks matchup on Thursday Night football, hmm, I noticed the
theme here. One of these things is not like the others.
That's been John Robinson at the top with the best odds.
After that, it is all Bucks all the time, Bucky Irving,
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Mike Evans and Mecca Abuka and Chris Godwin. We should
change it, like, yeah, Bucky who plays for the Bucks.
We should make it a Mecca a bucka who plays
for them too. I mean, look, hey, Joe Thaisman changed
his name. He was Joe thisman until he had a
Heisman campaign. It became Thaisman for the Heisman. Why can't
we go a Bucca for the balls? How he I
did not know that he was Joe Thiseman most of
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his time in college and then his final year Notre Dame,
they put together a Heisman campaign. He was just like
the rest of my life. Now now he's just like
he's Joe Thaisman. He was the quarterback for the Washington
football team. Won a Super Bowl with the Washington football
team Landy one probably right, it was before that it
was like, oh, okay, I'm just saying, though, you're taking
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a long walk around the block for a payoff that's
not really gonna hit any long as you know Falcons
and Bucks Lakwan, is there a Falcons pass catcher non
Kyle Pitts division that you are interested in starting, Because
it looks like Drake London not gonna play this week,
probably not gonna play against.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
He's probably shut down. I mean, honestly, that's the best decision, right,
Like you're risking out the sure, I understand, but you're
gonna put him out there. You're gonna risk him coming
back in twenty six. Like there may be some setbacks
in that. But outside of Kyle Pitts, it's very scary.
Like David Sills, like he's been their top red zone target,
but he's hit or miss like he's more so I'm
speaking to the folks that are the fourteen to sixteen league. Sure,
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take that shot, but I'm not interested in starting darn
On Mooney where he had one catch last week, right,
yeah it was a touchdown, but he has six catches
in the last three games. Like, we're not looking at
somebody you can trust in the playoffs. So if you're
down this bad, I'm sorry, you're just gonna have to
roll the dice on David Sills Like it's one of
those you got to be strapped to a touchdown where
this could possibly be a situation where he falls in
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the end zone with the red zone defense, with the
Bucks being poor. So take your shot, I guess, but
thought and prayers.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
At least of the short answer is, oh, it is
kind of what it is.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
I mean, be Sean's probably gonna put up one hundred again,
but that's your most reliable there.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
That's kind of what it is. On the other side
of this one, Florio, I mean, Mike Evans is back
and Mecca a Buck is struggling right now, would you
still start him in a playoff situation?
Speaker 3 (11:27):
It's option dependent, but yes, I do think he is
still in play this week because one thing, and I
tweeted it out after Sunday's game. There was one in
the end zone that Baker put a little too much
air on. There was one on the sideline that he
was open, and Baker has just missed. If you look
since week six when his kid started for ABUCA, the
lowest catchable target rate in the NFL. I put a
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lot of it on Baker. It's not like a Buka's
without sin. In that same span, he has the second
highest drop rate. But Baker has thrown three touchdown passes
in every game against the Raheem Morris Falcons def and
the Falcons are top three and yards, touchdowns and fantasy
points to wide receivers in the last month. And if
Evans is back out there, even if it's in like
kind of a decoy role, I think that means really.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Good things for a Meccabuka. That's sort of my hope
is that Mike Evans sort of draws some coverage away
because Abuka trying to be the load bearing receiver out
wide has not really worked out. So hopefully Mike Evan's
coming down. Though it's Baker needs to be better. Yeah, better. Yeah.
I also just think it was a lot to ask
of him right now, Yeah, dude, right, maybe we revisit
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this next year. It feels a little bit better right now.
It just seemed like a whole lot. We're gonna open
up the Starto Meter and figure out out what quarterbacks
we're feeling good about this week, plus dive further into
the week fifteen previews that's coming up on the NFL
Fantasy Football Show. King a new thing here on the
show today. It's the Starto Meter or startometer, I don't
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know whatever we're calling it. Basically the thing we kind
of talked about informally earlier in the week about you're
taking a player and deciding which guys we would start
over or not over a certain player. So throughout the show,
we'll sprinkle a few of these in. Wanted to start
because we talked about the Bucks and Falcons with Baker Mayfield,
the start O meeter of the Baker Mayfield. I'm gonna
run through a list of quarterbacks and you guys can
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just quickly tell me whether or not you would start
these players where you start Baker or the guy that
I list here. So we will start at Florida. You
can start then you can follow up l q us
Baker against the Falcons or Sam Darnold against the Colts.
Baker for me, Baker Baker. All right, Uh, I would
probably go Baker in this one too. Sam's been on
the struggle bus lately. Yeah, all right, Caleb Williams against
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the Browns or Baker Mayfield, Baker may Yeah, day because Browns,
Trevor Lawrence against the Jets or Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
I'm gonna go Baker, but this one is closer, Sir
william Sir William, I we'll go.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
I think I'm gonna go Trevor because the Jets without
Sauce and Quinn Williams are kind of a different animal,
just runs wild. That's also very very possible with this. Okay, okay,
So Florial Baker Mayfield or Justin Herbert at Kansas City
Baker Mayfield Baker with this one, yeah all right, all right,
yeah Herbo with a bad offensive line and a bionic hand. Yeah, yeah,
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seemed kind of bad. Yes, I was gonna make a
Star Wars like Luke Skywalker joke, but lookwe would They
got it, So it's.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Fine, dar Trek, all right, my fault.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Anyway, let's continue Baker Mayfield against the Falcons or bow
Knicks against the Packers.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
I don't want to face the Packers, so I'm gonna
go with Baker Mayfield here. I'm a believer, but I
gotta go Baker in this one too.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Yeah, Bait. It usually both stopped running? Why and that
was all he had? Really, that was what was going
for him. But he stopped running the last few weeks,
so I don't know, all right. This is why I
think he gets a little bit spicy here. So Baker
Mayfield against the Falcons or Jared Goff against the Rams,
Jared Goff.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
For me, it's not clothed. I'm gonna go Baker. I'm
gonna go Baker. This is a real question, and this
is a real answer to me. I'm going Baker over Golf.
I think we're gonna hassle him in the pocket. There's
gonna be a game where you know, golf is gonna
look human.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Right, I mean, I think that's gonna hap. I think
I think volume wins for golf, So that's why I
would probably golf. I think they're gonna have to throw
it a lot. I think it's gonna be like I
wouldn't surprised that game is like, you know, thirty five,
thirty or something's gonna have.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
To process fast.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
It's gonna be going for two like they're gonna be
very aggressive the Rams. Look, I'm gonna make him crash up.
They've struggled against receivers as of late.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
They have some good ones recently they have.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
It's okay, It's just it's.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Just a fact that, Yeah, I'm not taking shots. I'm
saying information for the viewer. All right, one one last
one here before the Quan crashes out. Baker against the Falcons.
Jordan Love at Denver.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Baker, Baker, really this one hard, Yeah, Baker for all
for me except for Jared Goff, for Jered Goff. I'm
going to Trevor.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
I think I might go Jordan Love. He looked really
good against the Bears.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Yep, did as he should so Adam.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Maybe it's because Bears can't get men pressure on him.
Whether the Broncos will be in his face a little
bit more, But I think I'm gonna go Jordan Love
in that one sack. All right, we'll do a little
bit more of those a little bit later on in
the show. But now let's turn our attention back to
Week fifteen, Big AFC East matchup this week between the
Patriots and the Bill, so florial, I will ask you
which quarterback scores the most Fantasy points in this one?
(16:23):
Is it Josh Allen or is it Drake May?
Speaker 3 (16:26):
When it comes to fantasy, if it's Josh Allen versus
any other quarterback, the answer is Josh Allen unless he's
playing like the Texans like. He has scored thirty seven
fantasy points in three games this year. That is the
most quarterback has ever done in NFL history, and the
rest of the league quarterback wise this year, has done
so twice. Drake May has not scored thirty. He has
not thrown for three hundred yards in a game, and
(16:47):
in three games against the Bills, two of them he
doesn't have a touchdown. And I really like Drake May,
but Josh Allen is the I truly believe it.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
He is the greatest fantasy quarterback ever.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Ooh ever, wow eh.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
He's been nothing but a QB one or two six
years in a row. Yeah, I'm just because I like,
you know, like Kim Newton, but that Kim didn't have
like the passing upside.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
The marges Brooke the fantasy record little that is great,
but year to year, week to week, I don't think
anyone brings a more consistency and upside than Josh.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
This feels like an offseason conversation when it's March and
we don't really have anything the time. Staying with that game.
The similarities between Josh Allen and Drake May the biggest
one is there are two quarterbacks that we love and
we're starting every week. We can't figure out what's the past. Yeah,
like on either side of this one. So laquant I'm
gonna ask you which pass catcher, wide receiver, tight end,
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whatever has the best fantasy that could be for either team?
Wide receiver, tight end, Who do you like?
Speaker 2 (17:44):
I like Kinkaid in this game, and I would say
this like close Shakira. He gives you that solid floor,
but steiling is low. I like Kinkaid in this game
against the Patriots, and then we look on the other
side of the Patriots wide receivers. I think this is
a Mac Collins low key revenge game. Like this could
be a bit pleasy. Yeah, free defeat man. We support it,
But I think Stefan Diggs is going to be very
very busy with Fouriol's boy Chris Benfer, and I think
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that he's going to be put in jail, like how
Jamar Chase was last week. So I look at this
as like, hey, we might see a Kaisham Booty pop off,
we might see a mccollins. So there's interesting characters, like
B side characters. I would say, like the Avengers B
side of that cast will be able to show up
and show out. And I think mccollins he will have
something to say since he missed out in Week five.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
I think mc collins should play barefoot.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Oh my, in the snow legit, let's do it.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
I'm alo to remember when, like the Denver Broncos had
a barefoot kicker, like in the eighties.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Stuff like those players still like walk around the facility
barefoot because of mccollins, Like he's gone, but the tradition
is still there.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
I actually went to college with the guy who didn't
wear I see in four years, I guess saw him
wear shoes like five times.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
It was crazy, absolutely absolutely crazy work. All right. As
we look further into Week fifteen, the packers at the Broncos,
we talked about the quarterback situations there, Jordan love Bow, NICKX,
what have you, Floya? How deep are you going on
Packers wide receivers this week?
Speaker 3 (19:08):
It's only Christian Watson and that's it. And even Christian
Watson I don't think is a slam dunk this week
because who's on the other side, Like, he's probably gonna
get a whole lot of Patrick Surtain shadowing him. So
I look, I've been really bullish on Watson, especially as
of late, but I have him on a number of
playoff teams this week where like I'm sitting here for
like Juwan Jennings, I'm debating him or Mike Evans in
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a league. So Watson is is far from a guy
that I'm like forcing into lineups this week.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
I just took Jayden Reid off an IR spot and
I'm like anoying with it. I haven't used them all year,
right am my fourth tour? Like do I just move
on because it's been all year and I haven't used
I don't know. I'll be pondering that one over the
next couple of days. For sure. Lions and the Rams
a really big interesting one right next door at Sofi
Stadium coming up this week. I was gonna ask, like,
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who would you not start, because like everybody's pretty much
in play on both sides of this thing. But instead
I'm gonna ask you, Lakwan, to pick your RB two.
Which of these RB twos has the better day? Is
it David Montgomery or is it Blake Korm who's been
hot lately.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
I'll point out David Montgomery, he's been strapped to like
touchdown dependencies. But I think Korm is running in hot
right now, like he needs to be put out. He
is stopped dropping and rolling like how we've seen the
Cardinals get put the bet on that big run that
he had. So Korm to me, he is building more
confidence in this system, this multi back system. And McVeigh
has talked about last week of how he wants to
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keep Kyen fresh for the back end of the season
because I don't know about any of you guys on
this couch, but my team's playing in February, so I
want Kiren healthy. I want Kyroen to be out there.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
He might not even win the division.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Come on, Florio, don't know he's trying to get me.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
I'm sure there are some rams that will be in
the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Can I get my single here. I am not worried
about any other team in the West. We're the most
dangerous team in the NFL. You gotta deal with this
dynamic duol now with Blake Koran popping off of how
you see explosive, he could be right. Talk from a
guy with a team with a thirty eight year old
quarter What could go wrong?
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Nothing?
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Because oh my.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
God, I'm sure some Rams will be voted to the
Pro Bowl. So yes, that's true. They will be uh,
they will be playing.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Listen, I'm plicking. I'm picking Blake korm as a flex okay,
because the simp effect. He's getting the opportunities and he's
looking good with these opportunities. This is going to be
a one to two punch with this Lion's defense. The
run defense has been middle of the pack all season long.
So I do look at this old line just pushing
the trenches and getting a field because this is going
to be a shootout game. Like both of these teams
are going to put up points. These are both one
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and two of the most scoring offenses in the NFL
right now, So I look at this where McVeigh is
going to lock in on Blake Korm because he is
running in hot all right.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
I mean, look, Blake Korm helped me get to the
playoffs in a couple of weeks, so I'm here for it.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
That's why I'm not just well, I don't think I
would play either one of them this week personally.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
That's just me. I mean, the Lions have been tough
against They've been really bad against wide receivers. They've been
good against running backs, so we'll see.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
They haven't faced the super Bowl winning team.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
But I doubt play the Eagles this year. Remember they
did they they.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Haven't played a super Bowl caliber team. Like I said,
the Eagles are no longer in that caliber.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Who won when the Rams played the Eagles? Oh? Here
we go? Who won when the forty nine ers backups
played the rem Colts at Seahawks? Before he just falls
off the couch, we talked. We talked about what Philip
Rivers could mean for the pass catchers there in Indianapolis.
But Florial, what do you realistically expect from Philip Rivers
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himself this week?
Speaker 3 (22:31):
I mean, it's not the wisest decision to be throwing
him out there against this defense. In my opinion, I
think the Seahawks defense is up there with Denver. I
Like I said on Monday, I think Houston is the
best defense, but I think Seattle and Denver are right
there with them. And the Seahawks have been coming into
their own as of late.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
They're getting after the quarterback.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
They're really like they are the hardest defense the last
five weeks to throw against. And that's why I had
I was planning on writing up Daniel Jones as they
sit this week before he got hurt. I was planning
on rinning up the coltswide receivers as sits before I
knew it was gonna be Philip Rivers. Philip Riverston in
his last five years did throw over twenty percent of
his passes to the running backs position. In his final game,
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I think he threw five times to rookie Jonathan Taylor.
So I think Jonathan Taylor and Tyler Warren again are
the only Colts I personally am willing to But because
Jonathan Taylor, you obviously have to start. And then if
you get eight points out of Tyler Warren and Michael
Pittman Junior, one of those is gonna.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Hurt a lot less. Yeah, that's true. I do love
that the highlight reel was like, it's him throwing to
Mike Williams.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Stuff with the Chargers, like Jack Doyle Man, I'm pretty
sure thats who his last touchdown.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
I think you are correct on that one Chargers at
the Chiefs. The Chiefs cannot win the AFC West. That
part is done. They are clinging onto the faintest hope
of life in terms of the playoffs altogether, LaQuan. We
saw last week Patrick Mahomes was not good against the
Houston Texans. Any worries about starting him against the Chargers.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
I have QB two expectations with him, Like, I don't
see him having a huge performance because week one, the
Chargers came out and kind of shocked them, right, they
kind of punched them in their mouths. And right now
this Chargers defense has no issue taking the ball away
or causing chaos in the trenches. So I think this
is going to be a very difficult game with Patrick Mahomes,
especially what we've seen last week. So I'm really having
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my expectations tempered because if I have a Brock Purty,
I'm sorry, Brock Purdy or Trevon mid Lawrence, Like I'd
rather start those quarterbacks over Patrick Mahomes in this tough
matchup against the Chargers.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Yeah, I mean interesting, I'm probably forced to start Mahomes.
I'm not excited about it, especially if his receivers put
their hands on backwards again this week like they did
last week, because it was it was pretty brutal Ravens
at the Bengals. Isaiah likely had a big week last week.
The Bengals are terrible against tight ends. Is Isaiah likely
a must start? Floor?
Speaker 3 (24:53):
I really like Isaiah likely this week. I like him,
in fact, even more than Mark Andrews. But I do
think both are in play. As we saw last week,
you could attack the Bengals with numerous tight ends. That's
what the Bills. They're two leading receivers where they're tight ends.
But in the last three games, Likely has more targets, catches, yards,
and touchdowns than Mark Andrews.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
And that's despite fumbling.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
One out of bounds through the end zone against the
Bengals and then last week. I mean, I thought it
was a touchdown catch all the way later a touchdown. Yeah,
he had two steps, he had it in his hands
and got knocked out. If he has those two touchdowns,
we're looking at Isaiah Likely completely different. Plus, he was
their leading receiver against the Bengals two weeks ago with
ninety five yards and the Bengals. The only tight end
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better than Trey McBride this year is the tight.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Ends playing the Bengals.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
They've allowed catches, yards, touchdowns, and fantasy points to the position.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Andrews, I think you're hoping for a touchdown, but I
do think the upside is higher with likely. It is
the first place I go when I'm trying to figure
out tight ends sleevers. I'm like, who's playing the Bengals?
And then when I see it's like George Kittle, I'm.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
Like, oh, I actually do some work, come man.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
So yeah, h Cardinals at the Texans Marvin Harrison Junior
hoping to return. He did not practice on Wednesday, but
uh laqwan, let's say he comes back. Is Michael Wilson
still startable? And I guess is he startable anyway? Even
without this?
Speaker 2 (26:16):
This is a difficult start with or without him. Like
it's one of those situations like you're hoping your bench
you have a reliable guy like a Chris o'lave who's
been performing well. You hope that you have like a
flex opportunity where you could stick in a quin Shawn Jenkins.
Just try to play with your lineup and have a
solid lineup going into there, because this is one of
the more difficult matches I know, looking stare in the
face of a person who has been held down by
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Michael Wilson with Jacoby Brissett going crazy giving you wide
receiver one production. But this week is do or die.
It's one of those situations is like, hey, if your
absolute best opportunity and best value in your wide receivers
Michael Wilson, you better have thoughts and prayers and get
your expectations in order.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
I'm really sad that they may be taking Michael Wilson
away from us because he's been so hotly playing some
really good football.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Why not just make Marv the wide receiver two in
the offense and design it for him to be the one,
and then Trey McBride, you know, be Trey McBrien that
might be.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Coming in the very What are we waiting for? Just
do it. We have fantasy playoffs right now. That's another
chance for us not to sprinkle in the start zero meter,
this time with Jacoby Brissette. Because This was a conversation
we had earlier in the week. So some of these
names will be similar to what we talked about with
Baker Mayfield, but we'll run through them. Lakwana. You can
start this time in Florida. You can follow it up.
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So Jacoby Brissett's against the Texans or Sam Donald against
the Colts.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Sam Donald unfortunately.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
And right, all right, so, uh, Sam Clemente, I think
I might still go Jacoby in this one. Just believe
in it, all right, I might go Jacoby this one,
all right, go on to Jacoby or Caleb Williams against
the Browns.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Jacoby, believe it or not. Kim has just been like
QB two ish low ing QB. He hasn't been great,
you know. Yeah, I'm cool with going Jacoby here.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Yeah, go Jacoby. Cale has been good enough. Yeah, good
enough for the Bears to win, but necessarily that.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
They still unplug him and just have common young guys
just crazy.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
So it's like I can't do.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
That, all right, Jacoby Brisett or Trevor Lawrence against the Jets.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
I'm gonna go Sir william again. I'm rocking with him again.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Same for me. Yeah, I think I'll go travel on
this one for sure. Jacoby or Jared Goff against the Rams.
Jared Goff Jared GoF easily golf for me, Yeah, GoF
golf here all right. So Jacoby or Jordan Love against
the Broncos at Denver.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Ooh, this is actually tough.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
I'm going Jordan Love.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
I think Jacoby on this one. I think Jacoby because
Love might get.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Harassed, probably will, but I think I go.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
I think I go Jordan Love is his secondary is
Jacoby is.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Gonna get harassed that part too.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Yeah, it's bad both ways, all right.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Jacoby or Patrick Mahomes against the Chargers h Q two.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
You go Mahomes on this one.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
I'm going Mahomes all day. He runs. That's something rusher.
Last time play. Yeah, I was gonna say Jacoby, but
that part I think swayed me down the home side
of things, all right. Last one, Jacoby or Lamar Jackson
against the Bengals.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Lamar, I think he's back. I think they are of
pointing up. He looks a little bit more healthier. I'm
playing perty against you. I'm playing pretty over Jacoby. I'm
getting Jacoby out of my lineups. I just don't want
to do it.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
It's Lamar, mostly because it's Lamar, but also because Bengals.
Oh there, there you go. That's all you, there you go.
That's how we're feeling about Jacoby Brissett this week. Time
for a break, but we'll come back with the rest
of our game previews plus our sleepers for Week fifteen.
All right, more Week fifteen previews. We'll start with the
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Titans heading to Santa Clara take on the forty nine Ers.
Florio Tony Polo look great against the Browns last week,
and he repeat that against the Niner run defense that
has not been nearly as good as Cleveland's.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
No, he's not going to do that again, like that's
gonna be his best season, best game.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
But I do think it puts him in the position
where you could consider.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Flexing him or something because of what you said with
the forty nine Ers defense. But on top of it,
I still don't love Tony Pollard because that was a
competitive game for the Titans, right it was actually game
script on his side. This is the healthiest brock Party
and the forty nine Ers offense has probably been since
the start of the year coming off thereby, so I
think this could be a game that gets pretty ugly
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pretty fast.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
So I still don't love Tony Pollard. Yeah, Titans with
a league worst point differential like minus one fifty six.
I believe it is they They have been chasing points
in every game. I think that happens this week. So
that's sort of come on, can that's where game scripts.
Game's gonna throw it a lot because they're gonna have
to throw it a lot. I think is kind of
where it is. Uh, Panthers at Saints, choose your fighter
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LaQuan Cuba Hubbard or Rico Dudele.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Yeah, this one's real nasty where because I feel like
you can't you can't trust either one of them because
like coming out of to buy it, Tube is coming
in with some juice, some motivation, right, and then the
last time they faced the Saints defense, like neither one
were good products and Rico struggled in that game. He
had eighteen carries but average two point nine yards for carry.
So I'm looking at this, right, We've seen this backfield
do the switch on and off, snip snap this or that,
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and I look at this is where like I'm hoping
that Tuba Hubbard would be the option right coming into
this week. I was looking at it like Tuba last
time we saw him play looked healthy. Maybe that's all
he needed time to get healthy because he's turned up
on an elite defense. So I'm gonna rock with Cuba
on this one. Where Rico to me he might have
to play the background because he hasn't been good on
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the ground these last couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
So frustrating, right. I will point out though that Rico
doat on miss practice today. Okay, so that's that's definitely
worth noting we're paying attention to. It's just frustrating, right
because Tuba was playing well, then Rico took over, and
then Rico started to fade. Now Tuba is back. It
is to your point, snip snap, snip snap. I don't know.
I have no idea what to do on a week
to week basis with the Panthers' backfield. Also, do we
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get good Brice young or bad Bryce Youngest?
Speaker 2 (31:52):
That is the big question mark. That is the biggest
question mark probably in that room. I'm going to hope
to Belie leave and say good. I want the Panthers
to win this division just for fun and purpose. The
defense is intact like the defense is good. So it's like,
just don't go out there and do what you did.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Like what if Bryce do the last time he played?
Oh he was terrible last ye yeah, like one and
a half points or something. It was like seventeen to
seven his last game before the Oh yeah he was good.
He's really So here's the problem, because I think we
kind of figured out that like Bryce Young plays poorly
in good matchups and plays well in bad matchups. But
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like the Saints are sort of mid, so like now
I don't know what to do with that.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
BORI almost voke it was two weeks, but we're good.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
We're coasting, all right, Jets at the Jaguars Florida, Do
you start Brian Thomas junior? Brian Thomas Junior.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Is to me, at least what I viewed like Alec
Pierce has earlier in the season, or Quentin Johnston had
a stretch in this role, this role where like uh,
Booty for the Patriots had a stretch in this role
where it's like, I don't think you just start him,
no questions asked. But if you're looking at your team
and you're like I need a flexor, or you find
yourself like really far behind maybe someone on Thursday goes
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off for whatever. He's a high low floor, high upside
play in my opinion, because of what I was talking
about on Monday, I think he had a lot of
success last week just running go routes and just like
going downfield, you're.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Gonna be our deep threat. We're gonna give you.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
More air yards than you have all year, and it
worked and it makes some big play reliant.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Right.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
You could always get a large chunk play or a
touchdown that way, but understand that those are volatile targets
and if things don't go right for him, the floor
is single digits and probably low single digits. So to me,
that is the range that I view Brian Thomas Junior
in at this point.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
I just you know, I'm and we sort of touched
on it earlier in the week. I'm very curious how
fantasy drafters are going to view him heading into next year, right,
because everybody was so hyped he was a late first
round pick and that hasn't worked out. Obviously there will
be a discount on him. I'm just curious what.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
There will be a day in like June that becomes
Brian Thomas Junior Day and his ADP will go up around.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
It's gonna be you know, I know it's gonna happen.
I'm gonna wake up in the morning, I'm.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Gonna log on to Blue Sky or whatever, be up
for nine hours at that.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Everybody will be talking about Thomas j And my thought
would be like, well, first he's like I'll be googling
like did he get traded? Did he get hurt? Like
what happened? And it's just like, no, no, we just
decided to make him the main Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
You being up as early as you are, you should
wake up each day and declare what day that player is?
Speaker 1 (34:26):
You should you shouldn't? You should throw the conversation grenade
for the day. It's just I'm good. Would just just
steer the conversation like that. Raiders at the Eagles. Look,
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what are your projections for Jalen Hurts in this one?
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Now, when I saw this question on the doc, I'm like, man,
it's the Raiders, but the Raiders defense they kind of
be in middle of the pack against the quarterback position.
And then I can't really not paint a pay sure
where Jalen Hurts doesn't have like twenty fantasy points on
the table. Because of the toush push and the weapons
that he has around him. I'm just hoping this right.
If I'm starting him this week, I don't have any
other better options on the bench, obviously, I'm starting him
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just hoping that he can hit that twenty point mark
because that's honestly what we need because in the last
couple of weeks he's only had one QB one performance
and then the last four games he's had sixteen Fantasy
points or less. We need a bounce back desperately. And
the one thing that is still remained true when they
throw that bat signal on AJ Brown shows up to
the scene and he airs it out.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
I mean ever since AJ Brown went on Twitch and
was did the whole like, if you have me in Fantasy,
get rid of me.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Yes, he's been lights out. Yeah, you gotta do the opposite.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
He had the most disappointing one hundred yard game I've
ever seen on Monday Night. Yeah yeah, but he should
have two hundred yards and a touchdown in that one.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
But basically what happened with AJ Brown is like it's
like when my kid cries about not getting a cupcake,
Like if he just spent all day crying about that
gating a cupcake. Well, the Eagles gave a j Brown
a cupcake. He's giving him a mini cupcakes with sprinkles.
A whole bunch of cupcakes with sprinkles over the last
few weeks is what's happened. So uh, yay for gentle parenting.
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I don't know other part of this florio. Will Jalen
Hurts still be considered a top five fantasy quarterback next year?
Speaker 3 (36:22):
There there's a big Jalen Hurts hive out there, so
I there's an anti hurt tive as well. He's very polarizing.
Top five, well, I think Josh and Lamar are going
to be in the top two. I think Patrick Mahomes
probably goes ahead of him. Him versus Burrow is an
interesting conversation. Him versus Jayden is an interesting conversation.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
May May and Dart are two.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
So I think there he's in that second tier, which
will probably be like QB four through like seven or
eight or something like that.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Yeah, I'm just curious, when it's all said and done,
do we remember the overall season, the overall numbers, or
do we dive into the week to week and remember
the you know, clos right. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
I also think, like, I know, playoffs don't matter, but
if he goes out and balls out and wins the
Super Bowl again, everyone's gonna forget, you know. Yeah, but
Laqwan says that's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Yeah. Stop, there's a path for like the Cowboys and
maybe sneaking, Yes, there is. I'm kind of root for it.
I mean, just chaos, baby, Chaos is fun, Chaos is
a ladder. It's great Bears or Bears hosting the Browns.
Browns at Bears in this one, Flooryo. We've seen Swift
and Manunguy run the ball very very well. Can they
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do that against this Browns defense that got run over
by total plenty power last week? It's definitely possible.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
I feel much better about Swift of the two than
I do Kyle Manungay because Swift sees some pass game volume.
But the thing is, I do think both are in
play this week because if the Bears are playing from ahead,
and we know the Bears are going to run the
ball even when they're trailing, like look what they did
in a game where they never led last week against
the Packers. So I do think both are in play.
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In the matchup. I think Swift brings a higher ceiling.
Manungui might have the higher floor at this point, but
I do lean Swift because of his pass game usage.
But to me, yeah, I think both are flex options
or areb two plays.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
I mean, they've just they've been so good running the
ball for most of the season. I mean, I don't
care who the opponent is. I'm not going to go
away from them just because that's what they want to do.
So that feels like a good, good play to me.
Another edition of the start O Meter coming, this one
featuring one Shadur Sandersy, you look very good against the
Tennessee Titans last week. It was a back tape.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
It was back tape, folks, it was back tape whatever.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
Whatever works. Man Like, not everybody can get a fancy
air stream trailer, you know, so he's got to do
what you gotta do. So the name's here a little
bit different because obviously the expectations for Shudur are maybe
not the same as safe for Baker Mayfield or Jacobe Brissett.
So Floyd, I'll start with you Shoudur Sanders against the
Bears or Kinny Pickett, who looks like he's going to
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get the start over Geno Smith, who's dealing with some
injuries against the Eagles.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
That's Super Bowl champion. Can he Pickett in a revenge game?
But Big Jersey, I'm still going Shador here. Uh sure, door, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
That's that's an easy with here. Okay, So this one
might be a little bit tougher. Schauduur against the Bears
or Tyler Shuck against the Panthers.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
I'm gonna go with Chador because I like his matchup.
I'm going Shuck. I like Shuck.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
You've come around.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
I wouldn't say all that still expence, but we talk
in fantasy.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
I like Shuck this week. I think I'm mnna go
Shoudur because you can't count on Tyler Shuck to get
two rushing touchdowns every week.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
That is true.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
That's oond one was bananas too. He's just like you know,
Broke contain and just like Ranford, he's in He's in
his error right now for sure. All right, So floring
back to you, Schardure against the Bears or JJ McCarthy
at Dallas. I went back and forth on this one.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
I'm gonna go with JJ though because of the matchup,
because just I'm playing the match up here. No way,
j JJ is their my boy.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
I can't do it. I'm not saying he's great. He
had he he was a QB nine fittingly last week.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
This is an adjusted New Dallas Cowboys defense against against
the run.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
But they are still pressure air.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
Still listen, JJ came and get the ball in the
air to freaking last week. Yeah, to tight ends and
Josh Oliver twice.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
That help no one, But it still and this is
not This is a game where I expect them to
be trailing and not leading by thirty points and having
to throw more than twenty times.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
Obviously you're going to yes, absolutely well. For the sake
of my own column, I put JJ in Are's asleep
or somebody o J just just for if it's all's
for confirmation bias, nothing else, all right against the Bears
or Marcus Mariota at the Giants.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
Marcus Mariota, he's one of my favorite sleepers this week.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
Marcus, Yeah, yeah, I think that's unanimous good Marcus. Yeah,
he spells it weird. But uh, chadur or Aaron Rodgers
against the Dolphins on Monday Night.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
I think Rogers is safer, but I'm gonna roll the
dice on Shadors. I would like to say I roll
the dice on Shador in this one. Yea, I think
the upside's greater, right, I don't want to wait the
entire weekend.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
Especially in Rogers. Dolphins against the pass are tough. Dolphins
against the runner stinky. So you know, I think I
think it shoud okay, last one, Shad against the Bears,
bon Nicks against the Packers.
Speaker 3 (41:24):
Mike garrat Follo Legit hit me up because his quarterbacks
are Bo Nicks and Jacoby and I was like, and
he was like, my other options are Chadour or JJ.
And I was like, going back and forth between JJ
and Bo, but I said I would probably go Bo.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
All right, I go Bo over Shador.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
Yeah, I think I go Bo kind Yeah, I think
I think this might be a week Bo runs a
little bit more, hopefully, and because that's that's where his
fantasy value came from.
Speaker 3 (41:51):
Starrying you, brother, what why do we give players like
bow Knicks grace when they struggle and not other players?
Speaker 2 (41:58):
Because I'm a believer.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
I believe in this yell man.
Speaker 2 (42:02):
I've seen him do it.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
He's still a top ten fantas seventeen fantasy points since
Week nine.
Speaker 2 (42:07):
Hellow, players mess up.
Speaker 1 (42:09):
Sometimes you just gotta live with the brand. Sometimes sometimes
you just got a brand and you just gotta go
with it that way. So there you go. There you go.
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Speaker 2 (42:51):
I hate that we're in. Then back in the season
is the first round in fantasy playoffs for to Mecco
booking man. Just with the Mike Evans coming back and
stabilizing that offense, I'm hoping that they can bring more
versatility to his game where he's not just stuck playing out.
Why Now with Mike Evans back and Chris Godwin, you
can kind of get that versatility of him playing out
of the slot or even out wide. So I'm looking
for Baker to get back to bases and get back
(43:13):
to the full strength of this Bucks offense. And I know, wah,
mecha Buka, It's been scary, but I'm telling you now, man,
I'm putting him into flex as my schnorlax this week.
Speaker 1 (43:21):
All right, So I Mechabuka coming back to life in
Week fifteen. Florida, you sort of hinted at this, but
who is your sleeper Marcus Mariota?
Speaker 3 (43:29):
Because the Giants are in the top three in Fantasy
points allowed to quarterbacks.
Speaker 1 (43:33):
They really struggled through the air.
Speaker 3 (43:35):
We've seen Mariota put up numbers in favorable matchups and
on top of that, he runs.
Speaker 1 (43:40):
Right and he might run near the goal line and
that is enough.
Speaker 3 (43:43):
But then we discussed, like JJ McCarthy shdor who I
also think are sleepers, and keep an eye on the
Jets because I'm just gonna say, if Justin Fields ends
up getting the start this week, I'm gonna be plugging
Justin Fields into some lineup.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
I will say, speaking of that, it looks doubtful that
he's going to play. At least the reports I saw
looks like it could be Brady Cook. Yeah. Start, this
has justin fields. I don't want to play for the
team that benched me written all over it. You know what?
Sometimes sometimes I understand that, man, you don't want me,
then why do I want to show up for you?
I get it my sleeper this week, And I will
(44:16):
admit that this is kind of heavily ViBe's base, but
it's Bricky pearsaw right because since he's come back from
the injury, it hasn't been great. I love that you've
looked right at him, Yeah, waiting for him to say something.
What is it? I think he's got like ten targets,
four catches in like fifteen yards or something like that.
It's been bleak. There's been a lot of talk though,
(44:37):
around the forty nine ers about Pearsal getting involved and
knowing that they need to get him going. They've had
the bye week to get a little bit healthier and
for Kyle Shanahan to scheme some things up. The matchup
is good against the Titan secondaries, so this just feels
like a situation where I wouldn't be surprised if you
see some early targets to Pearsaw try to get him
involved in the floor of the game. But like I'm
(44:58):
also going to admit to you, there's nothing statistical to
back this up. It is strictly just like it just
feels like a situation where they get him going because
they sort of need to get him going. I missed
that set. We used to just vibes. Oh yeah, we
still do it once a week on Fantasy on Tuesdays.
Usually it's the no stats, just vibes. And that's kind
of what this what.
Speaker 2 (45:17):
Youd on Tyler Shuck. I mean a couple of weeks ago, no.
Speaker 1 (45:20):
Status vibes here on Ricky Pierso. So we'll see how
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Speaker 2 (45:49):
Wow, I'll cont help, Bob, I'll don't help
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