January 26, 2021 • 36 mins
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Bowl fifty five is set. Welcome in. It is another
edition of the I Want Your Flex podcast. You just
heard it. Get my count Twitter at Swollen Dome. I'm
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at High Your Flex as well. The championship games on Sunday,
Mike were a great watch. I thought Game one was
better than Game two, and I think that if you
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didn't have a dog in the fight, you probably felt
that way. But we are finally down to the point
where Super Bowl fifty will have the Chiefs and Buccaneers
playing in Tampa. Yeah. I think the biggest thing for
me is both games funnel back into one question. Why
are you kicking field goals? Okay, if you're the Green
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Bay Packers, look you got bad play call and Rogers
gotta wear some of that. Run the ball, or you're
near the quarterback, tell Maddie to beat it right if
you haven't earned that by now that you have two
plays left, whenever he's thinking about I mean, and if
that's the only call, it's it's stupid. But then also
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when you're looking at the Bills, the idea that you're
settling for field goals, you're not winning that game with
fields that was pretty well and easily determined. Once you
get inside the red zone, at no point is the
field goal really on the table anymore. I mean, you're
kicking a we're down into the eight yard line and
then you kick a field goal, it's it's just not
gonna work. Even after the field goal, make you're still
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two scores down, Like it's just infuriating to watch. At
some point, there's gonna be some guy with an abakus
and like four computers saying, you know what, statistically, coach,
this is stupid. Okay, and let me tell you why.
Just because it's always been done that way doesn't make
it right. But two thrillers to entertaining games and like,
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we got four of the best quarterbacks in the game
getting after You can't ask for much more than that. Yeah,
you know, the Roger situation is this, I think that
to his point, I actually believe him when he says,
I saw five linemen start running out of the field,
and in that scenario, you can't afford to call a
time out because that's the whole reason that you're kicking
the field goal anyway. Maybe that would have been the
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option then, to just be like, no, we're gonna go
for it. Then you call the time out, and then
you have to go for it anyway, because you have
just wasted a time out to end up doing it,
to end up going for it. The whole scenario, just
as it played out, has been the talk the last
twenty four hours. But as we look at it from
a a bit of a fantasy perspective, and I do
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want to bring Bill's Chiefs into this as well, just
because of what we didn't see. I thought of the
four teams, Mike, that Green Bay was the team that
hangs their hat mostly on the running game. And when
you go up against the league's best run defense against Tampa,
I almost kind of think you had to be like,
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something's got to give. And I I just I thought
that from what we've seen, and as you said, you
can't sell for field goals. You just have teams that
wanted to put up points in anything that you could do. Uh.
For running the football I think was an added bonus.
And in this case, the Buccaneers ended up running the
football better than Green Bay, with Leonard four Nette getting
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fifty five yards. I mean, Aaron Jones was was kept
in check. However when he before he was knocked out
of the game. It wasn't like Green Bay really attempted
to establish the run at any point anyway. No, and
obviously you know, a lot of it comes back to
your offensive line and some of the issues they're having
right no back tr uh triple underscore. We talked about
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it coming into the game, how huge that would be
going up against this rundy, But at no point can
you abandon it? Right? If nothing else, you've got to
be able to sell. Maybe there's an extra play action
in there. Maybe I don't know, an end around like
everybody else. He didn't check the box with the jet
sweep with anybody. Uh, And obviously yeah Adams dropped a
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would be touchdown pass. You had, uh, some issues and
some anger and st brown with the two point drop,
but to your point four point two carry all right,
but you only rushed at sixteen times. You just can't
abandon and all together. I mean the fact that Buffalo
won a week ago without carrying the ball at all.
It was the Josh Allen Show, which is really what
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it became. Again against the Kansas City Chiefs with no
Zack Moss, they went away from it all together. Here
Aaron Jones six seven the big fumble, So he's out
probably on the list of guys that aren't getting Christmas
cards from Aaron Rodgers anymore. Because remember, it's never Rogers fault. Dan,
it's never his fault. You know that. It's a it's
a perfect opportunity to say this, and it's specifically about
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this podcast. Mike does this show weeknights him and Jason
Smith of their show on Fox Sports Radio. I anchor
with The Gottlieb during the week on the The Gottlieb
Show on Fox Sports Radio. We each have our shows
on Sunday during the NFL season, and all of those
opportunities Mike and I know that your show was was
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on prior to the games, but all of the opportunities
are to again, second guest, Matt Lafleur talk about Aaron Rodgers,
talk about Tom Brady. But as a fantasy podcast as
we are, we try to veer from it just a
little bit to talk about maybe how you ended up
faring on your daily fantasies, uh scenarios and and there
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are a lot of different scenarios that you could have
played daily fantasy. So I don't want people to think
that we're ignoring the obvious headlines. The fact of the
matter is you can probably get that stuff anywhere you turn,
and I don't know that it's gonna be a topic
not only, you know, for these couple of days after,
but into the off season as well. So we just
try to take these opportunities to look at different things. Now,
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with that all being said, Green Bay was down, you know,
and in earlier, the earlier, the second half after the
Aaron Jones fumble, and there's just in looking at how
things played out fantasy wise, you always try to find
that diamond in the rough, and I'm not sure on
how many diamonds in the rough outside of uh, you know, Marquez,
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Uh while this scantling who ends up having the big play.
But Adam's got in the zone, Tanyan got into the
end zone, Mike Evans got into the end zone. Leonard
Fournette got into the end zone. He saw what the
Chiefs did. There was just a lot of usual suspects
that we had a championship weekend when it comes to
fantasy football. Yeah, specific to this game, I mean, both
Brady and Rogers put up solid point totals, even with
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the turnovers from Brady, so you check the box and
move on. For Nette wasn't spectacular, but that touchdown run
sure as hell was, so that got you your money. Unfortunately,
for Ronald Jones wasn't a factor in the passing game
and averaged a miserable one point six with his ten carries.
But staying true to the run, you at least had opportunities, right,
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And that's the only thing when you and I, uh,
for the entire season. You know this is episode thirty six,
go back through the thirty five. The only thing we
can talk about is game set up and opportunities. And
if a guy gets double digit carries, I gotta think
he does something with them, because that's not even as
tall as he is when he gets down to it, right,
you're not even get in the six ft falling forward
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per carry. The run game for Green Bay disappointing, but
strength on strength as it were. Uh. And then you know,
I liked Cameron brad he found the end zone, but
three for nine not exactly beating it any anybody on that.
Tyler Johnson had a big opportunity early to make a play,
didn't had one catch, and then Gronkowski had his one
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slip screen and so that was all fine and good.
So not overwhelming for any of those stat lines. So
I guess you take the touchdowns and clasp your hands
and say thank you for that. Yeah, there's you know,
And and you mentioned Tyler Johnson. His biggest play came
by him not catching a pass on the pass interference.
I just I look at when you're trying to formulate
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these lineups in the playoff time, and whether you're playing
just one game matchups, you're playing both of the games.
When you are trying to decipher on who to pick,
you are looking for that Uni horn and when you're
trying to figure out a way, Okay, I'm gonna have
Travis Kelsey on my team, Can I afford to also
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have Tyreek Hill? Or do I need to go somewhere
else for I'm gonna have both of those guys? Where
am I taking my hits? It was a bit of
a tough find if if you didn't take MVS and
and he would have been a guy that probably would
have uh probably got you in the money on a
lot of daily leagues if you ended up playing him
along with the likes of Josh Allen, of Tyreek Hill,
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of Travis Kelsey, and if you if you didn't have
Stefan Diggs and he put MVS in your lineup, you're
probably all the better for it, because he was maybe
the one big name that took a hit. But there
just there weren't a lot of standouts, you know, and
Darryl Williams had a nice little game, but it wasn't
anything to set the world on fire. So just an
interesting week where I felt like the big names showed
up on Championship week when it came to fantasy football.
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Found the end zone right, we diamonds in the rough
guy like Mikole Hardman makes up for his bad decision
early right the FDR run and then he gets into
the end zone again. Not world beating, but it gets
you your double digit points and you move forward. Josh
Allen saved by the fact that he crushed that over
That over under on his rushing line was only thirty
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four and a half yards. Dan, I really wish I'd
driven to Vegas because that one seemed easy. Got Cold
Beasley with seven for eighty eight on a broken leg
for crying out on. I joked about it before the show,
doing my my bit with LaVar Action. I'm like, I
think he's really hurt, worse than we let on. I
would have never said, hey, by the way, it's a
broken leg, right bruising, you know, condusions the word that
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we use, but I don't know. And Patrick Mahomes is
just a wizard, Like it's almost not fair anymore. But
to your point, he Kelsey and Tyreek Hill take up
so much of your salary cap space. You're not getting
two of them together. I mean really not. It's it's
it's difficult and you kind of have to have to
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pick your poison and and uh and and end up
dealing with that. Travis Kelsey was the was the big
play over the weekend, obviously with with his hundred yard
plus game and the two touchdowns thirteen catches will help
you along the way for sure the Chiefs backfield as
we kind of transition from these championship games into what
we could see and we'll do more super Bowl talk
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in our episode next week. But Clyde Edwards Hilaire finally
does return for Kansas City. Six carry seven yards, did
have the touchdown, did have a couple of targets, and
his one reception didn't go anywhere. But the Darryl Williams
factor is one for Kansas City. And it's funny because honestly,
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leaning into the season, you knew how high I was
about c. E. H and was so high that I
also found out and realized that it was Darryl Williams
who kind of made the push at the end of
the season to be the guy to end up being
the backup once Damian Williams. You know it opted out earlier,
but Williams didn't grab that backup job until later. And
then you see the the transition with Levian Bell coming in,
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and now you're trying to work Bell, and and how
here we are entering Super Bowl fifty five. Darryl Williams
is the Kansas City Chief's best option right now coming
out of the backfield right fourteen touches in this game
against Buffalo. We have no idea what Levian Bell will
be will be anything being available, I'd run him out
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of the slot just we're running six wide, just change
up the whole rules of the game. But it's the
idea that you're gonna find that. I mean, Darrell Williams
will be low, low ranked, I would guess in terms
of your the dollars spent. Yeah, I mean I would
rather have him in this game. Well, let me take
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that back. I was just about to say I was
I was about to say that I'd rather have him
rather than Leonard Fournette. But it is going up against
that Buccaneers defense, So I may, I may pump the
brakes on that a little, but I'm not as shy
about taking Darryl Williams instead of Leonard Fournette as I
would have been maybe, um, you know, two weeks ago
or you know, or something like that. Like, I actually
think that Darryl Williams is now a piece of what
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Kansas City does, mainly in part because you can also
keep him on the field. Uh. He used to be
just a third down back. Now you can use him
in a variety of places. So his value to me
has gone up for Kansas City. We saw the type
of Super Bowl Damian Williams had last year for Casey.
Now maybe it's Darrell williams opportunity to get some of
that shine. I tell you I paid sixteen dollars for
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Damian Williams in an auction draft the day before he
opted out. Anyway, No, did it early, right, all the
magazines all at like I got Damian Williams. By the way, Mike, Uh,
sixteen of your fictional dollars are now dead because he
opped it out. Great, thank you. Uh so that worked
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out really well for me. Um. But yeah, when you
look at Darryl Williams again, if we're gonna look at
just double digit opportunities, tough matchup, which will depress the
algorithm that determines his salary for fantasy purposes. Right on
the other side, Not that Kansas City's any slouch, but
the for net likelihood, I think as you go through
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of goal line touches, maybe muted a little bit by
the fact that Brady'll take it himself. So maybe it
gets them a little more even but I would suspect
that we we were looking at more of those tertiary
receiver options if you're gonna go pick someone out of
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the Tampa Bay our guys, Scotty Miller, how happy were
you when he scored that? I was so, you know,
I've been on the Scotty Miller train for a while.
And then with the big catch. Of course, I didn't
play him in any day that I did last week.
I did last week. I should have known better with
Antonio Brown being out, but U But in the end,
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it's two catches thirty nine, yeah, or thirty six total
he gets the score that that was one of the
stranger sequences if you're gonna do just game breakdown, but yeah,
from the running back physician, he got two weeks, you know,
is that enough for c e H. Maybe they feel
better about his health, right, does he get that explosiveness
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back to some degree that set the fantasy world on
fire to start the season, as everybody lamented not taking
a shot on him, wondering how Andy Reid would would
dispatch with carries. The one thing also, I think with
Darrel Williams he only had one target against the Bills.
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That's another thing you'll probably see more leaking out into
the flat trying to back that rush off because with
multiple offensive lineman gone right, with Fisher now down with
the Achilles the that's a tough time against that Tampa
Bay front, So trying to get the ball out fast
and back them off a bit so that Patrick Mahomes
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has a little more time. He'll get the two weeks
to help heal is footnoll. So that not not that
it seemed to bother him terribly uh in this one,
but yeah, the Darryl Daryl Williams, your your would be star,
It's it's absurd, I mean it's absurd. Your Damien Williams
purchase now makes me feel a little bit better for
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how high I was on C E H this this
past season and not to see where it is your
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and and and maybe it's the perfect opportunity for us
to do this because over this uh, for the remainder
of this episode, plus the next couple as well, we're
gonna be looking at which to me is actually always
fun because fantasy in your in your league with your
buddies or anything that you did online is a thing
of the past, but you're still in football mode. You're
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still in fantasy modes. And why not to take the
opportunity to look ahead to what could be next year
and what we can do over the next couple of
weeks is just to end up breaking down how we
think things are going to at least play out. And
the good thing for us, Mike, the NFL regular season
has been over for about three weeks, but there there
are still a lot of questions to be answered, But
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there are also a lot of things that are changing
in the NFL that gives us, maybe, uh the option
to say this may not be what it was in
as what it was in. And so what I want
to do here is if we were to have a
draft right now, I just want to know for the
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one season the number one overall pick? Is that a
no brainer? And who would be your first overall pick
if you had to draft right now for next season
in the NFL? Do I have the guts to go
back to the well with Christian McCaffrey, assuming that somebody
that one he's gonna stay healthy, but too like I
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like Teddy Bridgewater. There's a lot of quarterbacks on the
open market, right And we talked about Aaron Rodgers a
little bit. His postgame comments is he gonna try to
force his way out. I tell him to beat it,
and I do dollar cost averaging because I'm not paying
Jordan's love anything. And I said, you're stuck. Go hang
out with Pat McAfee for the season. You're not quarterbacking
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somewhere else. But you know, McCaffrey is the one that
I kind of lean on, right he he didn't We
didn't see much of him, but he averaged thirty points
a game and the PPR option becoming the norm. It's
he's got to be in consideration. I I absolutely agree
with you, and this is this is this is staggering.
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I ransom numbers and me running numbers is looking up stats.
I didn't hype in anything. Yeah, I looked it up
and it was very easy because these were the people
who had six touchdowns this year. Like Christian McCaffrey had
played in three games, had six touchdowns this season. Christian
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McCaffrey tied DeAndre Hopkins, Allen Robinson, James Conner, Leonard Fournette,
who see continuing to play, and Miles Sanders for touchdowns
this season. Now, James Conner was dinged up, Miles Sanders
was dinged up, but they didn't miss thirteen games Mike,
like Christian McCaffrey did. DeAndre Hopkins played in all of
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his games. One of those touchdowns was a hail Mary.
So you have got I mean, when you look at
how impressive that little bit of action that Christian McCaffrey had,
I agree with you wholeheartedly. He has to be the
first overall pick in the draft. If we were to
draft today. It's funny because then then when you get
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a number two, I'm sitting there going, Am I crazy
to think I take Travis Kelsey? No, in page where
you still play a decided tight end? No? Because I
thought to myself and crazy wanting to take Tyreek Hill.
So like that, like it's it's not. And I understand,
especially at the tight end position, with what you ever on,
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you can maybe also get, you know, more similar to
what Tyreek Hill. But I was looking at Tyreek Hill,
and honestly I was looking at Davante Adams, who knows
what you know with the Aaron Rodgers comments, but in
looking at it, and and and the reason why I
don't think you're crazy about Travis Kelsey and the reason
why I don't think I'm crazy with Tyreek Killer or
Davante Adams is because the three guys that I would
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consider outside of CMC at the number one overall position
would be Dalvin Cook. And you just had Gary Kubiak retire,
so he's not your offensive coordinator anymore. And listen, Dalvin
Cook gets injured. We you know he actually it was
dinged up at times this year and played through those
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injuries but that's still there. Derrick Henry is coming off
of a three D and seventy nine carry season, you
know where, back to back years where he basically yes
piano on his back. And then finally, the other guy
that I think that we would consider is Alvin Kamara.
But how good did Alvin Kimara do when Drew Brees
wasn't the quarterback? And Drew Brees isn't going to be
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the quarterback. So you throw all of those things together, Mike,
and I think you're looking outside of CMC maybe being
the top guy. You are taking a shot at Travis.
I actually I thought of Tyreek Hill, but when you
said Travis Kelsey, the more I think about it, yeah,
I I don't think that that's an awful idea, especially
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you know, obviously in a PPR league as well. Yeah,
I'm just looking at it from a all right position scarcity.
There are three guys that you look at at the
tight end position, far and away from anybody else. And
that's assuming George Kittle comes back healthy, yeah and ready
to go, and and if you're willing to put those
chips in, by the way, that auction team since we're
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doing this sixteen bucks on Williams, like thirty nine on
McCaffrey and like another thirty on Kittle. Boom, there's my
squad to start right, twenty roster spots two d those
three guys. So but but looking at just the scarcity right,
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and Darren Waller was fantastic. We talked about him a
bunch for his Week thirteen exploits against the Jets and
what was just a ridiculous game. But overall number one
receiver um in terms of receptions, number two in yards,
number three in touchdowns, number two in fantasy points per
game for tight end, right, it's him. Whatever you think
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of Kittle and Kelsey, and then it's a whole lot
of touchdown dependent what's the role going forward? Kind of
guys like Tony In was a great waiver wire pick
up and he had some big games, But did you
truy him every week? Unless we'll lead to lap our
executive producer and packer fan, No you didn't, uh, and
just go on down the line. So many guys who
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you know, had those two or three game streaks and
then got hurt right the annual Hey Hunter, Henry's gonna
brighten now. So it's it's that kind of pot process
that takes me to Kelsey going. I if I'm writing
a column right now, I'll make the argument for him
all the way up at number two. Yeah, I think
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the other guys there are other names. There are there
are other names that are gonna be first round picks.
But I don't think that, like, there's no way you
could make an argument to put Sae Kwon Barkley not
not if they're coming off of his injury. There's there's
there's no way that you're going who's quarterbacking? Yeah, and
and and and I would also then move to to
Nick Chubb. Nick Chubb is awesome, but he's just not
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gonna go number one. He's not going to there's he's
gonna be a first round pick. Very likely. You'll be
happy with Nick Chubb on your team. Similar to Jonathan Taylor.
I think that Jonathan Taylor and and what they have
in Indianapolis is you know, in the hem Hines, we
know what he can do out of the backfield. But
with Taylor's situation, we did see a little bit more
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of the receiving aspect, but you're still not going to
take him number one. There are four running backs that
I think that you considered going at number one and
three of them have big question marks. So if you're
not willing to do that, you look at the wide receivers,
you look at the tight end position, and yeah, I
would I would put I would put CMC above them.
You know, I think that's actually obvious. But he still
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has the injury stuff. But I'd put Kelsey there. I'll
even give you that nod. And then I'd put Tyreek
and Tavante Adams lower. Yeah, and with Davante and you know,
and you know when you're looking at a first round overall,
he and Aaron Jones are so dependent on what happens
at the QB. Sure, right, because as good as Davante is,
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is Jordan's love going to be able to put the
ball where Rogers has been able to Adams. By the way, Yeah,
if Rogers isn't there, Adams is not, Yeah, not in consideration.
By the way, Aaron Jones is probably not going to
be in Green Bay next year. If Aaron Rodgers is there,
then maybe that allows some opportunity. Who knows how a J. Dillon,
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you know, would take to the role. He seems to
be more of a one faceted back as opposed to
the multifaceted that that Jones is, but that could be
more opportunities. It will also have to see what Green
Bay can do, if anything, to try to add another weapon,
because that was one of my issues with Sunday was
that Aaron Rodgers just looked for Davante Adams way too
much in the red zone and I think it's why
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you didn't run it a thirtain goal. They settled for
a field goal in the first half. There were three
incompletions to Davante Adams, one one off his hands. True,
but there there seems to be For as great as
the Lazard plays that you saw throughout the season and
the MVS play yesterday, when it came down to really
trusting someone, Aaron Rodgers trust Davanta Adams. So if those
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two are back next year, you could put him maybe
into consideration. Um if if if Rogers isn't, yeah, you're
pulling away from that. And if not, then Rogers has
to go and talk to somebody because both of those guys,
while they may not be true number two's, they've got
a lot going for both Lazard and MVS and most
teams across this National Football League would kill to have
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either of them over whoever their number two was. So
that's an Aaron Rodgers issue as well. Let's dive in
to what we've done over the last couple of weeks.
We're running down our top ten favorite stat lines of
the fantasy season we've had. You know, Mike mentioned the
Darren Waller two hundred yard game that he had. I
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had the Tyreek kill. Mentioned his effort against Tampa and
what he did with the thirteen reception two d sixty
nine yard three touchdown effort in Week twelve. Uh, that
was last week. We've had a bunch of good ones, Mike.
You've got two, uh, four and three. These aren't rankings.
We're not ranking them four, we're not ranking them three.
We're just counting it down of ten favorite What have
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you got for your favorite stat lines for fantasy season?
Go all the way back to Week one, when hope
started to become a dangerous word in an exciting time
in Las Vegas as Josh Jacobs ran for ninety three
yards on twenty five carries workhorse, but he also had
three touchdowns, and he started banging the drum going, oh,
I got value, I got value. You also had four catches,
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forty six yards. Just a massive week. Uh. And then
you think about it on the whole, that was nine
percent of his rushing yards. He only went over ninety
rushing yards twice the rest of the season, and that
was one quarter of his touchdowns. Not that you're expecting
anybody to run for touchdowns, but you got three that
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opening week, and you started ringing your hands, going, oh,
it's gonna be so glorious. And he had a great
He had a great year, no question, got over a
thousand yards, twelve touchdowns, But that Week one sent everybody excited,
and people in Vegas we're planning for Super Bowl trips
to to the Pirate ships, so it would have been
Pirate on Pirate. I remember that because it was Raiders Panthers,
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and even though they play every four years, I just
do not have any recollection of the Raiders and Panthers
ever playing and something happening, but for some reason that
stuck out. It was Week one. Raiders got the win,
Jacobs had the great day. Uh, and unfortunately for their owners,
that was the high point of the season. Alright, what
what what else he got is our number three favorites?
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Now you had a statistical anomaly of all anomalies last
week that you included on the list as Jeff Jeff
Smith of the Jets was targeted eleven times, only caught
three passes, and was also sacked, which I just loved.
I don't know why it was so much better than
like throwing an incompletion on an end a ot. It
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was just that he was He was actually sacked in
the game, which made which is why I used it,
because not only did not catch eight of your eleven
targets or complete eight of your eleven targets, you ended
up being sacked as well. So well you have to
want to give him a hug dog because most guys
just throw it up for grabs. I don't must rather
have the sack. What's he doing? Threw a duck down field?
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Here's the thing is I, you know, I really have
to look at it and I gotta find out what
play it was. I'll admit I did not look up
and find out what the exact play was. But when
I was looking at stats and just going through numbers,
I'm like, man, there's a lot of targets and not
a lot of catches, and I'm like, wait, he got sacked.
So so we'll find the play. We'll do it for
next week's bill. Grab it on the game pass, I'll
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screenshot it, Okay, alright, put it up. Uh. The other
line that I pulled for this week goes to Dak
Prescott all the way back in Week two against the
Atlanta foul because when the Falcons were just everybody piling
up points in the second half of games, and certainly
for Dallas, right that was that was the key. But
the stat line for Dak Prescott was huge as you
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would expect, but well not quite in the same way.
Four fifty yards through the air and a touchdown, but
he also had three rushing touchdowns, five carries, eighteen yards,
three scores. Uh, we were just talking about first round
and and top picks. I still see a lot of
folks and mocks right that way too, wearly mocks. Hey
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Ezekiel Elliott like Tony Pollard was a better back. And
right there and week two Dak Prescott running for touchdowns.
That told you what kind of year it was gonna
be better back that game. Also, Mike, seems like it
was four years Yes, it does. It seems so long ago.
I just you think about the the on side kick
(30:44):
and Hayden her standing around it. Uh, when Dak was healthy.
I mean Dak hasn't played and seemingly four years we've
talked about quarterbacks and any guy that's ever lived in
Dallas passed through Dallas. Hey, Jefford wants out send it
down since Ben so long. Dak actually did a sleep
(31:06):
number commercial about recovering from his injury. That's how long
like he was able to already film a commercial as
he tries to come back from his uh leg that
was pointing at eleven o'clock when uh, when he when
he broke his leg. Yeah, that was that's produced in
Texas state tax on whenever he got paid in the end,
(31:26):
I think about that. That's a billion oh man, man,
that was. And I don't know if it was Sleep Number.
I apologize to the Mattress company if I got it wrong,
but for let's you say a Mattress ad But that
that's how long ago that that has been. All right,
So we kind of put a bow on the conference
championship games again. Listen to Mike and Jason and The
(31:46):
Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon here their thoughts on it.
You can always podcast it if you want to get
the hot takes. We just kind of look at the
numbers and how things play out and how they could
do it fantasy wise, and and also uh, just on
what actually is going to happen on field. We'll have
some fun with some prop bets next week for the
Super Bowl. We'll have some you know coming out at
that point, and we'll also dive more into how the
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draft is going to play out. You know, our thoughts
on number one, and now you kind of know some
of our thoughts on two, three, four, and five. Will
end up elaborating on that and have some guys that
you need to mark right now so you don't forget
about them in July, August and early September. Alright, Mike,
Now we can take a breather a week without football,
which will be weird, but I'm gonna miss it when
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it's gone, but we'll try to take advantage of it
as much as we can. This week, we're down to
one game, Dan, two hundred and sixty eight of them
are The good news is. The good news is is
while the off season this year won't be as long,
especially as last year's off season because of COVID, but
(32:54):
it'll be like our last long off season, well, depending
on what the NFL does, because if they go to
seventeen games, uh, you know for next season, then the
super Bowl would be pushed back a week. And while
the preseason is likely to be short, and maybe it'll
be somewhat a similar window, but we'll be a little
bit deeper in February for a for a super Bowl
(33:16):
than than we normally would, and we'll have more fantasy
games to talk about, so that I'll be a plus well,
and you and I will both figure out how to
be in the city of the super Bowl man on
the street harassing fans and players alike. Because we live
in the city where the super Bowl is going to
be next year. There's no excuses now for us. See
now I'm conflating it with WrestleMania, which got moved because
(33:38):
I'm supposed to be this year. Now it's gonna be
in Tampa. So Tampa gets both the super Bowl and
WrestleMania here. Well, and that and that's the whole thing.
That's the whole thing with the Tampa playing the home game.
It slipped my mind and I read it somewhere and
I'm like, that's right. We had rains in Los Angeles
three years ago that delayed construction of SOFI Stadium. Otherwise,
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Super Bowl fifty five was scheduled to be in l
A and the Buccaneers wouldn't have been the first team
to play in their home stadium. They would have been
playing in l A against Kansas City. But because of
that rainstorm three years ago, they switched with Tampa. They
also switched the broadcast, so CBS gets the Super Bowl
this year and NBC next year we'll get the broadcast
so they can package it up with their Winter Olympics coverage.
(34:23):
So there's a lot of changes. But for the Bucketeers,
they make history. And thanks to that rainstorm three years
ago in southern California, the Bucks become the first team
to play in their own stadium. Do you think Anthony
Lynne would have coached differently in the fourth quarter if
the Super Bowl? I like Anthony lynn and I have
such a tough time to shot. That gave manage, but
(34:44):
I had to do it. Oh man, I'll tell you what.
We'll stop. We'll up talking about coaches over the next
couple of weeks as well. I may not be really
excited about Dan Campbell as the headman. But man, they
have built up a roster of assistant coaches and people
don't run this around him. Yeah, I have to be
in one of those guys. Do Staley joining as well?
So a lot of conversations that we'll have again. We'll
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have a couple of more episodes of I Want Your
Flex coming at you get my Catch Swollen Dome. I'm
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Bowl fifty five is set. Welcome in. It is another
edition of the I Want Your Flex podcast. You just
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at High Your Flex as well. The championship games on Sunday,
Mike were a great watch. I thought Game one was
better than Game two, and I think that if you
(01:10):
didn't have a dog in the fight, you probably felt
that way. But we are finally down to the point
where Super Bowl fifty will have the Chiefs and Buccaneers
playing in Tampa. Yeah. I think the biggest thing for
me is both games funnel back into one question. Why
are you kicking field goals? Okay, if you're the Green
(01:30):
Bay Packers, look you got bad play call and Rogers
gotta wear some of that. Run the ball, or you're
near the quarterback, tell Maddie to beat it right if
you haven't earned that by now that you have two
plays left, whenever he's thinking about I mean, and if
that's the only call, it's it's stupid. But then also
(01:51):
when you're looking at the Bills, the idea that you're
settling for field goals, you're not winning that game with
fields that was pretty well and easily determined. Once you
get inside the red zone, at no point is the
field goal really on the table anymore. I mean, you're
kicking a we're down into the eight yard line and
then you kick a field goal, it's it's just not
gonna work. Even after the field goal, make you're still
(02:14):
two scores down, Like it's just infuriating to watch. At
some point, there's gonna be some guy with an abakus
and like four computers saying, you know what, statistically, coach,
this is stupid. Okay, and let me tell you why.
Just because it's always been done that way doesn't make
it right. But two thrillers to entertaining games and like,
(02:35):
we got four of the best quarterbacks in the game
getting after You can't ask for much more than that. Yeah,
you know, the Roger situation is this, I think that
to his point, I actually believe him when he says,
I saw five linemen start running out of the field,
and in that scenario, you can't afford to call a
time out because that's the whole reason that you're kicking
the field goal anyway. Maybe that would have been the
(02:57):
option then, to just be like, no, we're gonna go
for it. Then you call the time out, and then
you have to go for it anyway, because you have
just wasted a time out to end up doing it,
to end up going for it. The whole scenario, just
as it played out, has been the talk the last
twenty four hours. But as we look at it from
a a bit of a fantasy perspective, and I do
(03:19):
want to bring Bill's Chiefs into this as well, just
because of what we didn't see. I thought of the
four teams, Mike, that Green Bay was the team that
hangs their hat mostly on the running game. And when
you go up against the league's best run defense against Tampa,
I almost kind of think you had to be like,
(03:39):
something's got to give. And I I just I thought
that from what we've seen, and as you said, you
can't sell for field goals. You just have teams that
wanted to put up points in anything that you could do. Uh.
For running the football I think was an added bonus.
And in this case, the Buccaneers ended up running the
football better than Green Bay, with Leonard four Nette getting
(04:01):
fifty five yards. I mean, Aaron Jones was was kept
in check. However when he before he was knocked out
of the game. It wasn't like Green Bay really attempted
to establish the run at any point anyway. No, and
obviously you know, a lot of it comes back to
your offensive line and some of the issues they're having
right no back tr uh triple underscore. We talked about
(04:23):
it coming into the game, how huge that would be
going up against this rundy, But at no point can
you abandon it? Right? If nothing else, you've got to
be able to sell. Maybe there's an extra play action
in there. Maybe I don't know, an end around like
everybody else. He didn't check the box with the jet
sweep with anybody. Uh, And obviously yeah Adams dropped a
(04:46):
would be touchdown pass. You had, uh, some issues and
some anger and st brown with the two point drop,
but to your point four point two carry all right,
but you only rushed at sixteen times. You just can't
abandon and all together. I mean the fact that Buffalo
won a week ago without carrying the ball at all.
It was the Josh Allen Show, which is really what
(05:08):
it became. Again against the Kansas City Chiefs with no
Zack Moss, they went away from it all together. Here
Aaron Jones six seven the big fumble, So he's out
probably on the list of guys that aren't getting Christmas
cards from Aaron Rodgers anymore. Because remember, it's never Rogers fault. Dan,
it's never his fault. You know that. It's a it's
a perfect opportunity to say this, and it's specifically about
(05:31):
this podcast. Mike does this show weeknights him and Jason
Smith of their show on Fox Sports Radio. I anchor
with The Gottlieb during the week on the The Gottlieb
Show on Fox Sports Radio. We each have our shows
on Sunday during the NFL season, and all of those
opportunities Mike and I know that your show was was
(05:51):
on prior to the games, but all of the opportunities
are to again, second guest, Matt Lafleur talk about Aaron Rodgers,
talk about Tom Brady. But as a fantasy podcast as
we are, we try to veer from it just a
little bit to talk about maybe how you ended up
faring on your daily fantasies, uh scenarios and and there
(06:12):
are a lot of different scenarios that you could have
played daily fantasy. So I don't want people to think
that we're ignoring the obvious headlines. The fact of the
matter is you can probably get that stuff anywhere you turn,
and I don't know that it's gonna be a topic
not only, you know, for these couple of days after,
but into the off season as well. So we just
try to take these opportunities to look at different things. Now,
(06:33):
with that all being said, Green Bay was down, you know,
and in earlier, the earlier, the second half after the
Aaron Jones fumble, and there's just in looking at how
things played out fantasy wise, you always try to find
that diamond in the rough, and I'm not sure on
how many diamonds in the rough outside of uh, you know, Marquez,
(06:55):
Uh while this scantling who ends up having the big play.
But Adam's got in the zone, Tanyan got into the
end zone, Mike Evans got into the end zone. Leonard
Fournette got into the end zone. He saw what the
Chiefs did. There was just a lot of usual suspects
that we had a championship weekend when it comes to
fantasy football. Yeah, specific to this game, I mean, both
Brady and Rogers put up solid point totals, even with
(07:18):
the turnovers from Brady, so you check the box and
move on. For Nette wasn't spectacular, but that touchdown run
sure as hell was, so that got you your money. Unfortunately,
for Ronald Jones wasn't a factor in the passing game
and averaged a miserable one point six with his ten carries.
But staying true to the run, you at least had opportunities, right,
(07:39):
And that's the only thing when you and I, uh,
for the entire season. You know this is episode thirty six,
go back through the thirty five. The only thing we
can talk about is game set up and opportunities. And
if a guy gets double digit carries, I gotta think
he does something with them, because that's not even as
tall as he is when he gets down to it, right,
you're not even get in the six ft falling forward
(08:02):
per carry. The run game for Green Bay disappointing, but
strength on strength as it were. Uh. And then you know,
I liked Cameron brad he found the end zone, but
three for nine not exactly beating it any anybody on that.
Tyler Johnson had a big opportunity early to make a play,
didn't had one catch, and then Gronkowski had his one
(08:26):
slip screen and so that was all fine and good.
So not overwhelming for any of those stat lines. So
I guess you take the touchdowns and clasp your hands
and say thank you for that. Yeah, there's you know,
And and you mentioned Tyler Johnson. His biggest play came
by him not catching a pass on the pass interference.
I just I look at when you're trying to formulate
(08:48):
these lineups in the playoff time, and whether you're playing
just one game matchups, you're playing both of the games.
When you are trying to decipher on who to pick,
you are looking for that Uni horn and when you're
trying to figure out a way, Okay, I'm gonna have
Travis Kelsey on my team, Can I afford to also
(09:09):
have Tyreek Hill? Or do I need to go somewhere
else for I'm gonna have both of those guys? Where
am I taking my hits? It was a bit of
a tough find if if you didn't take MVS and
and he would have been a guy that probably would
have uh probably got you in the money on a
lot of daily leagues if you ended up playing him
along with the likes of Josh Allen, of Tyreek Hill,
(09:31):
of Travis Kelsey, and if you if you didn't have
Stefan Diggs and he put MVS in your lineup, you're
probably all the better for it, because he was maybe
the one big name that took a hit. But there
just there weren't a lot of standouts, you know, and
Darryl Williams had a nice little game, but it wasn't
anything to set the world on fire. So just an
interesting week where I felt like the big names showed
up on Championship week when it came to fantasy football.
(09:52):
Found the end zone right, we diamonds in the rough
guy like Mikole Hardman makes up for his bad decision
early right the FDR run and then he gets into
the end zone again. Not world beating, but it gets
you your double digit points and you move forward. Josh
Allen saved by the fact that he crushed that over
That over under on his rushing line was only thirty
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four and a half yards. Dan, I really wish I'd
driven to Vegas because that one seemed easy. Got Cold
Beasley with seven for eighty eight on a broken leg
for crying out on. I joked about it before the show,
doing my my bit with LaVar Action. I'm like, I
think he's really hurt, worse than we let on. I
would have never said, hey, by the way, it's a
broken leg, right bruising, you know, condusions the word that
(10:39):
we use, but I don't know. And Patrick Mahomes is
just a wizard, Like it's almost not fair anymore. But
to your point, he Kelsey and Tyreek Hill take up
so much of your salary cap space. You're not getting
two of them together. I mean really not. It's it's
it's difficult and you kind of have to have to
(11:00):
pick your poison and and uh and and end up
dealing with that. Travis Kelsey was the was the big
play over the weekend, obviously with with his hundred yard
plus game and the two touchdowns thirteen catches will help
you along the way for sure the Chiefs backfield as
we kind of transition from these championship games into what
we could see and we'll do more super Bowl talk
(11:20):
in our episode next week. But Clyde Edwards Hilaire finally
does return for Kansas City. Six carry seven yards, did
have the touchdown, did have a couple of targets, and
his one reception didn't go anywhere. But the Darryl Williams
factor is one for Kansas City. And it's funny because honestly,
(11:41):
leaning into the season, you knew how high I was
about c. E. H and was so high that I
also found out and realized that it was Darryl Williams
who kind of made the push at the end of
the season to be the guy to end up being
the backup once Damian Williams. You know it opted out earlier,
but Williams didn't grab that backup job until later. And
then you see the the transition with Levian Bell coming in,
(12:02):
and now you're trying to work Bell, and and how
here we are entering Super Bowl fifty five. Darryl Williams
is the Kansas City Chief's best option right now coming
out of the backfield right fourteen touches in this game
against Buffalo. We have no idea what Levian Bell will
be will be anything being available, I'd run him out
(12:24):
of the slot just we're running six wide, just change
up the whole rules of the game. But it's the
idea that you're gonna find that. I mean, Darrell Williams
will be low, low ranked, I would guess in terms
of your the dollars spent. Yeah, I mean I would
rather have him in this game. Well, let me take
(12:44):
that back. I was just about to say I was
I was about to say that I'd rather have him
rather than Leonard Fournette. But it is going up against
that Buccaneers defense, So I may, I may pump the
brakes on that a little, but I'm not as shy
about taking Darryl Williams instead of Leonard Fournette as I
would have been maybe, um, you know, two weeks ago
or you know, or something like that. Like, I actually
think that Darryl Williams is now a piece of what
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Kansas City does, mainly in part because you can also
keep him on the field. Uh. He used to be
just a third down back. Now you can use him
in a variety of places. So his value to me
has gone up for Kansas City. We saw the type
of Super Bowl Damian Williams had last year for Casey.
Now maybe it's Darrell williams opportunity to get some of
that shine. I tell you I paid sixteen dollars for
(13:26):
Damian Williams in an auction draft the day before he
opted out. Anyway, No, did it early, right, all the
magazines all at like I got Damian Williams. By the way, Mike, Uh,
sixteen of your fictional dollars are now dead because he
opped it out. Great, thank you. Uh so that worked
(13:49):
out really well for me. Um. But yeah, when you
look at Darryl Williams again, if we're gonna look at
just double digit opportunities, tough matchup, which will depress the
algorithm that determines his salary for fantasy purposes. Right on
the other side, Not that Kansas City's any slouch, but
the for net likelihood, I think as you go through
(14:11):
of goal line touches, maybe muted a little bit by
the fact that Brady'll take it himself. So maybe it
gets them a little more even but I would suspect
that we we were looking at more of those tertiary
receiver options if you're gonna go pick someone out of
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the Tampa Bay our guys, Scotty Miller, how happy were
you when he scored that? I was so, you know,
I've been on the Scotty Miller train for a while.
And then with the big catch. Of course, I didn't
play him in any day that I did last week.
I did last week. I should have known better with
Antonio Brown being out, but U But in the end,
(14:54):
it's two catches thirty nine, yeah, or thirty six total
he gets the score that that was one of the
stranger sequences if you're gonna do just game breakdown, but yeah,
from the running back physician, he got two weeks, you know,
is that enough for c e H. Maybe they feel
better about his health, right, does he get that explosiveness
(15:15):
back to some degree that set the fantasy world on
fire to start the season, as everybody lamented not taking
a shot on him, wondering how Andy Reid would would
dispatch with carries. The one thing also, I think with
Darrel Williams he only had one target against the Bills.
(15:36):
That's another thing you'll probably see more leaking out into
the flat trying to back that rush off because with
multiple offensive lineman gone right, with Fisher now down with
the Achilles the that's a tough time against that Tampa
Bay front, So trying to get the ball out fast
and back them off a bit so that Patrick Mahomes
(15:59):
has a little more time. He'll get the two weeks
to help heal is footnoll. So that not not that
it seemed to bother him terribly uh in this one,
but yeah, the Darryl Daryl Williams, your your would be star,
It's it's absurd, I mean it's absurd. Your Damien Williams
purchase now makes me feel a little bit better for
(16:20):
how high I was on C E H this this
past season and not to see where it is your
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(16:41):
and and and maybe it's the perfect opportunity for us
to do this because over this uh, for the remainder
of this episode, plus the next couple as well, we're
gonna be looking at which to me is actually always
fun because fantasy in your in your league with your
buddies or anything that you did online is a thing
of the past, but you're still in football mode. You're
(17:01):
still in fantasy modes. And why not to take the
opportunity to look ahead to what could be next year
and what we can do over the next couple of
weeks is just to end up breaking down how we
think things are going to at least play out. And
the good thing for us, Mike, the NFL regular season
has been over for about three weeks, but there there
are still a lot of questions to be answered, But
(17:24):
there are also a lot of things that are changing
in the NFL that gives us, maybe, uh the option
to say this may not be what it was in
as what it was in. And so what I want
to do here is if we were to have a
draft right now, I just want to know for the
(17:45):
one season the number one overall pick? Is that a
no brainer? And who would be your first overall pick
if you had to draft right now for next season
in the NFL? Do I have the guts to go
back to the well with Christian McCaffrey, assuming that somebody
that one he's gonna stay healthy, but too like I
(18:08):
like Teddy Bridgewater. There's a lot of quarterbacks on the
open market, right And we talked about Aaron Rodgers a
little bit. His postgame comments is he gonna try to
force his way out. I tell him to beat it,
and I do dollar cost averaging because I'm not paying
Jordan's love anything. And I said, you're stuck. Go hang
out with Pat McAfee for the season. You're not quarterbacking
(18:30):
somewhere else. But you know, McCaffrey is the one that
I kind of lean on, right he he didn't We
didn't see much of him, but he averaged thirty points
a game and the PPR option becoming the norm. It's
he's got to be in consideration. I I absolutely agree
with you, and this is this is this is staggering.
(18:54):
I ransom numbers and me running numbers is looking up stats.
I didn't hype in anything. Yeah, I looked it up
and it was very easy because these were the people
who had six touchdowns this year. Like Christian McCaffrey had
played in three games, had six touchdowns this season. Christian
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McCaffrey tied DeAndre Hopkins, Allen Robinson, James Conner, Leonard Fournette,
who see continuing to play, and Miles Sanders for touchdowns
this season. Now, James Conner was dinged up, Miles Sanders
was dinged up, but they didn't miss thirteen games Mike,
like Christian McCaffrey did. DeAndre Hopkins played in all of
(19:37):
his games. One of those touchdowns was a hail Mary.
So you have got I mean, when you look at
how impressive that little bit of action that Christian McCaffrey had,
I agree with you wholeheartedly. He has to be the
first overall pick in the draft. If we were to
draft today. It's funny because then then when you get
(20:00):
a number two, I'm sitting there going, Am I crazy
to think I take Travis Kelsey? No, in page where
you still play a decided tight end? No? Because I
thought to myself and crazy wanting to take Tyreek Hill.
So like that, like it's it's not. And I understand,
especially at the tight end position, with what you ever on,
(20:21):
you can maybe also get, you know, more similar to
what Tyreek Hill. But I was looking at Tyreek Hill,
and honestly I was looking at Davante Adams, who knows
what you know with the Aaron Rodgers comments, but in
looking at it, and and and the reason why I
don't think you're crazy about Travis Kelsey and the reason
why I don't think I'm crazy with Tyreek Killer or
Davante Adams is because the three guys that I would
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consider outside of CMC at the number one overall position
would be Dalvin Cook. And you just had Gary Kubiak retire,
so he's not your offensive coordinator anymore. And listen, Dalvin
Cook gets injured. We you know he actually it was
dinged up at times this year and played through those
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injuries but that's still there. Derrick Henry is coming off
of a three D and seventy nine carry season, you
know where, back to back years where he basically yes
piano on his back. And then finally, the other guy
that I think that we would consider is Alvin Kamara.
But how good did Alvin Kimara do when Drew Brees
wasn't the quarterback? And Drew Brees isn't going to be
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the quarterback. So you throw all of those things together, Mike,
and I think you're looking outside of CMC maybe being
the top guy. You are taking a shot at Travis.
I actually I thought of Tyreek Hill, but when you
said Travis Kelsey, the more I think about it, yeah,
I I don't think that that's an awful idea, especially
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you know, obviously in a PPR league as well. Yeah,
I'm just looking at it from a all right position scarcity.
There are three guys that you look at at the
tight end position, far and away from anybody else. And
that's assuming George Kittle comes back healthy, yeah and ready
to go, and and if you're willing to put those
chips in, by the way, that auction team since we're
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doing this sixteen bucks on Williams, like thirty nine on
McCaffrey and like another thirty on Kittle. Boom, there's my
squad to start right, twenty roster spots two d those
three guys. So but but looking at just the scarcity right,
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and Darren Waller was fantastic. We talked about him a
bunch for his Week thirteen exploits against the Jets and
what was just a ridiculous game. But overall number one
receiver um in terms of receptions, number two in yards,
number three in touchdowns, number two in fantasy points per
game for tight end, right, it's him. Whatever you think
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of Kittle and Kelsey, and then it's a whole lot
of touchdown dependent what's the role going forward? Kind of
guys like Tony In was a great waiver wire pick
up and he had some big games, But did you
truy him every week? Unless we'll lead to lap our
executive producer and packer fan, No you didn't, uh, and
just go on down the line. So many guys who
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you know, had those two or three game streaks and
then got hurt right the annual Hey Hunter, Henry's gonna
brighten now. So it's it's that kind of pot process
that takes me to Kelsey going. I if I'm writing
a column right now, I'll make the argument for him
all the way up at number two. Yeah, I think
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the other guys there are other names. There are there
are other names that are gonna be first round picks.
But I don't think that, like, there's no way you
could make an argument to put Sae Kwon Barkley not
not if they're coming off of his injury. There's there's
there's no way that you're going who's quarterbacking? Yeah, and
and and and I would also then move to to
Nick Chubb. Nick Chubb is awesome, but he's just not
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gonna go number one. He's not going to there's he's
gonna be a first round pick. Very likely. You'll be
happy with Nick Chubb on your team. Similar to Jonathan Taylor.
I think that Jonathan Taylor and and what they have
in Indianapolis is you know, in the hem Hines, we
know what he can do out of the backfield. But
with Taylor's situation, we did see a little bit more
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of the receiving aspect, but you're still not going to
take him number one. There are four running backs that
I think that you considered going at number one and
three of them have big question marks. So if you're
not willing to do that, you look at the wide receivers,
you look at the tight end position, and yeah, I
would I would put I would put CMC above them.
You know, I think that's actually obvious. But he still
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has the injury stuff. But I'd put Kelsey there. I'll
even give you that nod. And then I'd put Tyreek
and Tavante Adams lower. Yeah, and with Davante and you know,
and you know when you're looking at a first round overall,
he and Aaron Jones are so dependent on what happens
at the QB. Sure, right, because as good as Davante is,
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is Jordan's love going to be able to put the
ball where Rogers has been able to Adams. By the way, Yeah,
if Rogers isn't there, Adams is not, Yeah, not in consideration.
By the way, Aaron Jones is probably not going to
be in Green Bay next year. If Aaron Rodgers is there,
then maybe that allows some opportunity. Who knows how a J. Dillon,
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you know, would take to the role. He seems to
be more of a one faceted back as opposed to
the multifaceted that that Jones is, but that could be
more opportunities. It will also have to see what Green
Bay can do, if anything, to try to add another weapon,
because that was one of my issues with Sunday was
that Aaron Rodgers just looked for Davante Adams way too
much in the red zone and I think it's why
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you didn't run it a thirtain goal. They settled for
a field goal in the first half. There were three
incompletions to Davante Adams, one one off his hands. True,
but there there seems to be For as great as
the Lazard plays that you saw throughout the season and
the MVS play yesterday, when it came down to really
trusting someone, Aaron Rodgers trust Davanta Adams. So if those
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two are back next year, you could put him maybe
into consideration. Um if if if Rogers isn't, yeah, you're
pulling away from that. And if not, then Rogers has
to go and talk to somebody because both of those guys,
while they may not be true number two's, they've got
a lot going for both Lazard and MVS and most
teams across this National Football League would kill to have
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either of them over whoever their number two was. So
that's an Aaron Rodgers issue as well. Let's dive in
to what we've done over the last couple of weeks.
We're running down our top ten favorite stat lines of
the fantasy season we've had. You know, Mike mentioned the
Darren Waller two hundred yard game that he had. I
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had the Tyreek kill. Mentioned his effort against Tampa and
what he did with the thirteen reception two d sixty
nine yard three touchdown effort in Week twelve. Uh, that
was last week. We've had a bunch of good ones, Mike.
You've got two, uh, four and three. These aren't rankings.
We're not ranking them four, we're not ranking them three.
We're just counting it down of ten favorite What have
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you got for your favorite stat lines for fantasy season?
Go all the way back to Week one, when hope
started to become a dangerous word in an exciting time
in Las Vegas as Josh Jacobs ran for ninety three
yards on twenty five carries workhorse, but he also had
three touchdowns, and he started banging the drum going, oh,
I got value, I got value. You also had four catches,
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forty six yards. Just a massive week. Uh. And then
you think about it on the whole, that was nine
percent of his rushing yards. He only went over ninety
rushing yards twice the rest of the season, and that
was one quarter of his touchdowns. Not that you're expecting
anybody to run for touchdowns, but you got three that
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opening week, and you started ringing your hands, going, oh,
it's gonna be so glorious. And he had a great
He had a great year, no question, got over a
thousand yards, twelve touchdowns, But that Week one sent everybody excited,
and people in Vegas we're planning for Super Bowl trips
to to the Pirate ships, so it would have been
Pirate on Pirate. I remember that because it was Raiders Panthers,
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and even though they play every four years, I just
do not have any recollection of the Raiders and Panthers
ever playing and something happening, but for some reason that
stuck out. It was Week one. Raiders got the win,
Jacobs had the great day. Uh, and unfortunately for their owners,
that was the high point of the season. Alright, what
what what else he got is our number three favorites?
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Now you had a statistical anomaly of all anomalies last
week that you included on the list as Jeff Jeff
Smith of the Jets was targeted eleven times, only caught
three passes, and was also sacked, which I just loved.
I don't know why it was so much better than
like throwing an incompletion on an end a ot. It
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was just that he was He was actually sacked in
the game, which made which is why I used it,
because not only did not catch eight of your eleven
targets or complete eight of your eleven targets, you ended
up being sacked as well. So well you have to
want to give him a hug dog because most guys
just throw it up for grabs. I don't must rather
have the sack. What's he doing? Threw a duck down field?
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Here's the thing is I, you know, I really have
to look at it and I gotta find out what
play it was. I'll admit I did not look up
and find out what the exact play was. But when
I was looking at stats and just going through numbers,
I'm like, man, there's a lot of targets and not
a lot of catches, and I'm like, wait, he got sacked.
So so we'll find the play. We'll do it for
next week's bill. Grab it on the game pass, I'll
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screenshot it, Okay, alright, put it up. Uh. The other
line that I pulled for this week goes to Dak
Prescott all the way back in Week two against the
Atlanta foul because when the Falcons were just everybody piling
up points in the second half of games, and certainly
for Dallas, right that was that was the key. But
the stat line for Dak Prescott was huge as you
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would expect, but well not quite in the same way.
Four fifty yards through the air and a touchdown, but
he also had three rushing touchdowns, five carries, eighteen yards,
three scores. Uh, we were just talking about first round
and and top picks. I still see a lot of
folks and mocks right that way too, wearly mocks. Hey
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Ezekiel Elliott like Tony Pollard was a better back. And
right there and week two Dak Prescott running for touchdowns.
That told you what kind of year it was gonna
be better back that game. Also, Mike, seems like it
was four years Yes, it does. It seems so long ago.
I just you think about the the on side kick
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and Hayden her standing around it. Uh, when Dak was healthy.
I mean Dak hasn't played and seemingly four years we've
talked about quarterbacks and any guy that's ever lived in
Dallas passed through Dallas. Hey, Jefford wants out send it
down since Ben so long. Dak actually did a sleep
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number commercial about recovering from his injury. That's how long
like he was able to already film a commercial as
he tries to come back from his uh leg that
was pointing at eleven o'clock when uh, when he when
he broke his leg. Yeah, that was that's produced in
Texas state tax on whenever he got paid in the end,
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I think about that. That's a billion oh man, man,
that was. And I don't know if it was Sleep Number.
I apologize to the Mattress company if I got it wrong,
but for let's you say a Mattress ad But that
that's how long ago that that has been. All right,
So we kind of put a bow on the conference
championship games again. Listen to Mike and Jason and The
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Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon here their thoughts on it.
You can always podcast it if you want to get
the hot takes. We just kind of look at the
numbers and how things play out and how they could
do it fantasy wise, and and also uh, just on
what actually is going to happen on field. We'll have
some fun with some prop bets next week for the
Super Bowl. We'll have some you know coming out at
that point, and we'll also dive more into how the
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draft is going to play out. You know, our thoughts
on number one, and now you kind of know some
of our thoughts on two, three, four, and five. Will
end up elaborating on that and have some guys that
you need to mark right now so you don't forget
about them in July, August and early September. Alright, Mike,
Now we can take a breather a week without football,
which will be weird, but I'm gonna miss it when
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it's gone, but we'll try to take advantage of it
as much as we can. This week, we're down to
one game, Dan, two hundred and sixty eight of them
are The good news is. The good news is is
while the off season this year won't be as long,
especially as last year's off season because of COVID, but
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it'll be like our last long off season, well, depending
on what the NFL does, because if they go to
seventeen games, uh, you know for next season, then the
super Bowl would be pushed back a week. And while
the preseason is likely to be short, and maybe it'll
be somewhat a similar window, but we'll be a little
bit deeper in February for a for a super Bowl
(33:16):
than than we normally would, and we'll have more fantasy
games to talk about, so that I'll be a plus well,
and you and I will both figure out how to
be in the city of the super Bowl man on
the street harassing fans and players alike. Because we live
in the city where the super Bowl is going to
be next year. There's no excuses now for us. See
now I'm conflating it with WrestleMania, which got moved because
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I'm supposed to be this year. Now it's gonna be
in Tampa. So Tampa gets both the super Bowl and
WrestleMania here. Well, and that and that's the whole thing.
That's the whole thing with the Tampa playing the home game.
It slipped my mind and I read it somewhere and
I'm like, that's right. We had rains in Los Angeles
three years ago that delayed construction of SOFI Stadium. Otherwise,
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Super Bowl fifty five was scheduled to be in l
A and the Buccaneers wouldn't have been the first team
to play in their home stadium. They would have been
playing in l A against Kansas City. But because of
that rainstorm three years ago, they switched with Tampa. They
also switched the broadcast, so CBS gets the Super Bowl
this year and NBC next year we'll get the broadcast
so they can package it up with their Winter Olympics coverage.
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So there's a lot of changes. But for the Bucketeers,
they make history. And thanks to that rainstorm three years
ago in southern California, the Bucks become the first team
to play in their own stadium. Do you think Anthony
Lynne would have coached differently in the fourth quarter if
the Super Bowl? I like Anthony lynn and I have
such a tough time to shot. That gave manage, but
(34:44):
I had to do it. Oh man, I'll tell you what.
We'll stop. We'll up talking about coaches over the next
couple of weeks as well. I may not be really
excited about Dan Campbell as the headman. But man, they
have built up a roster of assistant coaches and people
don't run this around him. Yeah, I have to be
in one of those guys. Do Staley joining as well?
So a lot of conversations that we'll have again. We'll
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have a couple of more episodes of I Want Your
Flex coming at you get my Catch Swollen Dome. I'm
at Dan Buyer Fox. A huge thanks to our executive
producer Lee de Lapoo. I think I probably left out
of the last six podcasts and thanking Lee for all
of his work, But you can get Lee on Twitter
at Lee de Lapping. Of course you can always tweet
us at I Want Your Flex. Enjoy the weekend off.
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We'll be back next week and look even more ahead
to the one Fantasy season and Super Bowl fifty five.
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