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Episode Transcript
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(00:01):
Welcome to fangirl football.
I'm Judy.
And I'm Lauren.
Welcome back.
For week 17, sit start parttwo, we have Saturday games, Sunday
games and Monday games to cover.
So this is a little bit longerof an episode than we normally have,
but we're going to cover allthe remaining games and who you should
sit start.
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And some urgent injury newsthat we've we found out over the
last 24 hours.
Yeah, there's lots of newscoming out about injuries.
Let's kick it off with theinjury news with the Chargers.
So Gus Edwards is out this week.
We all thought he was going tohave a great matchup.
They're playing the NewEngland Patriots.
It's in New England.
Chargers are were favored.
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I haven't checked the linethis morning to see if it's moved
any.
They're probably still favored.
The over under is 42 and ahalf but Gus Edwards is out.
We don't know if JK Dobbins isgoing to be activated off of IR.
They did open his window so itis that we get J.K.
dobbins back.
After that it's Kamani Vidal,the rookie that hasn't really been
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impressive are Hassan Haskinswho did get a touchdown last week,
but he was involved on twocatches and not rushing the ball.
This is a great, great matchupfor whoever ends up running the ball
against the Patriots.
Maybe they'll give the rookiea chance and if you can't get it
done against the Patriots, youcan't get it done.
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What should people who haveGus Edwards maybe run to their waiver
wires and see if they couldpick up one of their hasan just in
case or maybe block someonefrom taking them?
Definitely, yeah, that's agood play because this is a great
matchup and if you had GusEdwards and you were planning on
playing him, there's not a lotto be picking up this week and hopefully
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it was in your flex anyway.
But the other overlying themethis week is rain.
Every game has rain.
If it's not in a dome, it'sgoing to be raining at some point
in the game it seems like.
And we did some investigation.
We talked about this on tfs,but we did some investigation and
when we always look at thoseover unders because usually it ends
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up being higher scoring thanyou end up with more fantasy points.
So we like that over under andin rain games they only hit the over
40% of the time, 41% of thetime and normally it's 51% so there's
definitely that decrease inproduction for points in games.
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So it's concerning the.
The Seattle Chicago game whereit was very under.
We did.
Yeah, six to three.
That was a stinker of a game.
What a way to end my ThursdayNight Football.
That was just awful.
So who do you have any must starts?
Especially with Edwards outand J.K.
dobbins unknown.
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Who are you?
Yeah, the Chargers haven'tlocked up that wildcard spot yet.
They need a win and thePatriots are bad at stopping the
run.
They're also stop bad atstopping the pass but the run more
so they.
They are really bad at that.
I don't really like any of thePatriots side of the ball.
You didn't get to yourchampionship weekend, but if you're
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playing for your consolationor you know, different, different
level, then you may be pickingup a Patriot player.
Ramadre Stevenson, I guess isa chance in this matchup.
Chargers are really good atstopping people.
The Chargers have the topscoring defense in the NFL and they've
allowed less than 20 points ineach of their road games.
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So the odds of anything goingreally right for the Patriots side
of the ball isn't really good.
I don't like starting any ofthem for the Chargers.
I feel like it's up in the airlike we just talked about.
You know, I would haverecommended Gus Edwards and starting
Gus Edwards if they activate J.K.
dobbins, he's a must start as well.
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I don't know if they're goingto activate him.
If it's raining and you canonly get your players hurt going
into the playoff.
Is that what you want to do ordo you want to take this easy matchup
and let your rookie see whathe can get done?
I'm kind of leaning that way,but we'll see if they activate him
or not.
It also puts more emphasis onthat passing game.
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So lad McConkey is a muststart now with the running game going
to be used less and JustinHerbert although their ceilings a
little bit less here because Idon't think they'll be pushed to
do a whole lot.
Let's continue on to theDenver at Cincinnati game where Cincinnati's
favored by three and a halfand the over under is 49, 49.5.
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Cincinnati's been a good teamto score 30 points.
Let the other team score 30 points.
As we keep saying.
What do you think here?
Joe Burrow leads the NFL with4,229 passing yards and 39 touchdown
passes this season.
He passed for 252 yards lastweek and three touchdowns.
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He's become he became thefirst player to ever have 250 yards
and three touchdown passes inseven consecutive games.
So now he's going to see if hecan stretch that again to eight games.
Denver obviously is going totry to stop him.
And Denver leads the NFL with51 sacks, including seven players
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with three or more sacks.
The Broncos can also get aplayoff spot with a win.
This is setting up to be a fun game.
This is probably the best gameon the slate on Saturday.
I feel like it should be themost fun.
Jamar chase leads inreceptions 108 and 1510 yards.
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It's going to be a great game.
And then we know thatCincinnati, like you said, is giving
up those points as well.
So hey, let's bring in Bo Nixand see what he and Cortland Sutton
can can do.
And you're favoring thepassing side more than the running
side for Denver?
I am, yeah.
That running back situationfor the Broncos is a little bit crazy.
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I never know what SeanPayton's going to throw at us from
week to week.
You know, is it going to beJaleel McLaughlin this week who missed
the last game or is it goingto be Blake Watson who he brought
in last week?
Maybe he brought him in haveestimate and Williams.
Yes they do.
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So I'll stay away from theBroncos running situation.
Obviously you're startingBonix, Joe Burrow, Jamar Chase, Cortland
Sutton, probably T.
Higgins because he's beenpretty solid the last few weeks.
He's probably a wide receivertwo or three for you and even Chase
Brown has a chance in this game.
I'm leaning a little bit awayfrom Chase Brown, but since he's
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the only back in theirbackfield, he's almost a must start
as well.
He doesn't share with fourother people like the Broncos do.
Well, let's chat Arizona atthe LA Rams where the Rams are favored
by six and a half over underis 47.5.
This is technically a a dome,but hopefully they don't have any
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lightning delays or anything.
I still can't believe thatfrom years ago when there was a lightning
delay at this stadium.
Hopefully not.
The Rams have a technically aone game lead over the Seahawks.
The Seahawks got that win last night.
It's still a win even thoughit was six to three.
They got that win.
So that is going to push theRams to get their win because they
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do play each other next week.
It's going to be a fun game.
I don't know who owns thattiebreaker at this time, but it could
come down to that game.
The Cardinals have beeneliminated from the playoffs, so
they're not playing foranything here except for some pride
in the division.
And since week 10, any jobs?
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Maybe.
I don't know.
Since week 10, Pukinakua leadsthe NFL with 57 receptions and second
in yards with 709 on the kind of.
Sorry, I was just gonna saythat's kind of amazing given that
at the start of the season he,he got injured and we were wondering
if this was gonna be a reverseof NUA cup last year and cup was
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gonna come in and be thestellar one and Nakua was gonna be
injured all season.
Yeah, no, it's definitely pukasince week 10.
And Cooper cup has failed totop 5.4 fantasy points in three of
his last four games.
So we aren't seeing thatconnection with Kup or he's getting
more covered or maybe Puka isjust more wide open.
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Who knows?
But it definitely is going toPuka Nakua.
So you're starting Puka.
You're starting Kyron Williams.
Kyron Williams, he's stillgetting the majority of the carries.
You can't not give the ball tohim and start him, although he's
just so inefficient at runningthat ball.
But this is a great, greatmatchup for him.
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So you're starting both ofthem and we're still hoping Trey
McBride can get thattouchdown, but it just hasn't happened
yet.
He's a must start though.
He had a down week last week.
I think he was only worth five points.
He cost me a best ball.
And this week he, he has agood matchup.
So is he finally going to getit or are we going to go into week
18 going?
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Is Trey McBride going to everget a touchdown in.
In this season?
Anyone else you like from thethe Arizona side?
The Arizona side is a littlebit interesting.
Kyler Murray, he has a goodstart in this.
He had 22 fantasy points inthe loss to the Panthers last week.
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And when these two teams metin week two, Murray had 266 yards
and three touchdowns and heran for 59 yards.
So it comes down to motivation.
Are they trying to show thatthey have what it takes going into
20, 25 and keep some of thisteam together?
And then there's James Conner.
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He left last week's game witha knee injury, didn't come back,
but he's listed as questionable.
His backup, Trey Benson isn'tpracticing either, and he's listed
as questionable.
One of the other running backsMichael Carter, they put back on
the practice squad on Monday.
So I don't know where this isall going.
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They have another running backas well.
But we're going to have towait and keep looking at the injury
reports to see who's going tobe running the ball.
They do have a good matchup sothey're a cautious start.
Whoever is running the ballfor the, the Cardinals and then Matthew
Stafford, this, this has thepotential to get into a shootout
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and then it brings in bothquarterbacks and sitting at 47 and
a half you can tell Vegas issitting there going yeah, maybe it'll,
it'll get into that shootout.
Let's move on to the jets atBuffalo where Buffalo is favored
by nine and a half.
Over under is 46.5 outdoor stadium.
At least it's going to be anot too cold rainy day, not snowy.
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Yeah, it's not snowy.
It's a warm rain all on theeast coast.
I think there are even somethunderstorms predicted on Sunday
night for the game in Washington.
But it's a warm rain.
It's like 50 degrees.
Of course that 50 degrees andstanding in the rain with a little
wind isn't real comfortable.
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I did, I officiated a couplegames like that and it was just completely
miserable.
Your hands are still frozen.
I guess we'll see a lot of thelike little mitt things that they
put their hands in whilethey're having to stand around.
Yeah and raincoats to keepyou, try to keep you somewhat dry.
So the Bills can go eight andhome eight and oh at home this year
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with a win.
And Aaron Rodgers has 499regular season touchdown passes and
can become the fifth playerwith 500.
Comes down to motivation here.
Buffalo is locked in at number two.
They can't do, they can'timprove, they can't fall from that
number two spot.
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So what do they want to do towin this game?
You also have a beat up JoshAllen and now you've got it raining.
What do you want to risk inthis game to get this win that is
worth nothing.
I don't like really dependingon the Bills to start everyone and
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I really don't think we'll seethem play an entire game which is
going to lessen their fantasy production.
Obviously if Josh Allen gotyou here you're going to probably
have to start him.
But you might look around andthere might be more motivated players
sitting out there that couldwin that game.
I guess the only must start Ihave is devonte Adams because Aaron
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Rodgers is going to play.
Aaron Rodgers wants devonteAdams to look good and the Buffalo
gives up the fifth mostpassing touchdowns per game.
So he's got a good matchup.
Yeah, I think Aaron Rodgers isalso definitely going to be motivated
to become that fifth person tohit 500 regular season passing touchdowns.
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So yeah, this one's there.
Rogers and Adams may belooking for jobs, so they're trying
to showcase their talent alittle bit.
Although I think we're allover Aaron Rodgers.
I like devonte Adams, but Ican move on from Aaron Rodgers for
sure.
James Cook for the Bills maybe running the ball a lot and we
may see a lot more of RayDavis as well in this matchup.
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That's going to be ugly.
Yep.
With the rain, rain tends tomove away from passing just because
it's.
It's slippier.
Can't speak.
Rain tends to move away frompassing just so that you're less
likely to drop the ball, turnover the ball.
Hopefully.
I guess it's a little harderto catch it probably.
I'm not sure.
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I need to actually pull thepassing statistics from rain games,
which I haven't done, butthat'll be.
That'll go on our stats listof things to pull.
Well, let's chat Tennessee atJacksonville where Jacksonville's
favored by one.
Over.
Under is.
Over.
Under is 41.
Both of these teams are threeand 12.
Yeah, they're playing for thebottom of the AFC South.
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Who's.
Who's going to be hit the bottom?
Yeah, that division is just awful.
I can't believe Houston iswinning that division and they look
so bad on Christmas Day.
Two points and they're winningthe division.
It's just sad.
Both of these teams areplaying for draft picks.
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See what their rookies can do,see what they have.
Coaches are trying to keeptheir job probably in the NFL.
The only one that is a muststart from this game for me is Brian
Thomas Jr.
Who just keeps getting it done.
He has not been below 75 yardsand 16.6 draftking points since the
bye week and he's had back toback 30 point games, which is a little
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concerning because I thinkeverything gravitates towards average.
So back to back 30 point games.
I feel like he ought to getback to average.
These teams played just acouple weeks ago in week 14 and it
was A.
It was Jacksonville 10 andTennessee 6.
So we could get another.
Yeah, we all thought we weregonna get work.
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Yep.
We all thought we were gonnaget a great game that week and it
ended up A real dud.
So we'll see if this onedoesn't end up a dud.
The Titans have moved on fromWill Levitz to Mason Rudolph and
he's throwing for sometouchdowns and he does seem to have
a little bit of chemistry with Ridley.
Ridley had seven receptionsthe last times these teams played
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and now he's got Mason Rudolphback, so maybe we'll see some Ridley
in there.
Tony Pollard, their runningback, is also getting less work and
Tygie Spears is getting moreof the work.
Spears came in last week andhad a couple touchdowns in that loss
to the Colts, so maybe you canstart Taiji Spears.
He this is a great Macmatchup, but so Brian Thomas Jr.
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Ty G.
Spears otherwise just move onfrom this game.
Well, let's also move on toGreen Bay at Minnesota where Minnesota's
favored by one and a half andthe over under is 48 and a half.
These teams, I always feellike these teams really competitive
when they face off againsteach other.
I know there's alwaysrivalries in the NFL, but this is
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one of the ones I think ofwhen I think of like, oh, that game
must be very exciting to attend.
And it is for everyone that'slocal because you know, all of us
outside of Green Bay inMinnesota are like, is Green Bay
in Minnesota or is that Wisconsin?
And we always confuse thesetwo and I know local people hate
that, but everyone else in thecountry is like, wait, where is that?
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Aren't they like the same place?
Anyhow, we get a dome in thisone so that's fun.
No rain to worry about.
And these are really, reallymotivated teams because this is key
seating for both of theseteams and we saw these two teams
play early in the season andit was a 60 point game.
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That was week four.
So a lot of things havechanged since week four.
Are we going to see these sametwo teams?
But I'm excited that we do getto see this in a dome and we don't
have to have it raining orsnowing in Green Bay.
That we actually get todetermine who has the better team
without the weather becoming a factor.
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First time they met, Lovepassed for 389 yards.
Can he do it again?
It's inside.
I don't know.
It is inside.
The wide receivers for GreenBay continue to be a mystery for
me, but Christian Watson has aknee injury and that could end up
helping out.
Reed, Wicks and Dobbs pick uptouches so I like them a little bit
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better.
But if you're going to play aGreen Bay wide receiver Good luck
picking which one it's goingto be that.
Gets lucky this week in asimilar picking which one is going
to get lucky.
I think there's been sometight end news for Green Bay as well
with their tight end LukeMusgrave off ir.
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Yeah, they activated him last week.
They he wasn't used.
He ran a few routes but he wasnot passed to last week.
It was all Tucker Kraft thatwe saw the work going to last week.
I'm sure they're going tocontinue to use him and try to in
a him into that offense moreand more since he just got back from
ir.
But right now it's all TuckerKraft, who knows.
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And then Green Bay continuedcontinued to use Josh Jacobs but
they were ahead last week andthe Vikings are allowing the fourth
fewest rushing yards per game.
It isn't going to be a Jacobskind of day.
He's a real, real cautious oreven a set start in this game.
It's not going to be a running game.
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You're going to have to passto win this game.
Vikings are okay with that.
They like to do that.
Darnold's had two touchdownpasses in seven of his last nine,
nine games.
And Justin Jefferson had aseason high fantasy point week catching
10 of 13 targets and twotouchdowns last week.
He's getting hot at the right time.
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And then they've got JordanAddison there as well who's getting
touchdowns too and targets.
I you've got to start Jordan Love.
You've got to start JustinJefferson, Jordan Addison, they're
all must starts.
Green Bay wide receivers, Idon't know, pick one if you want
to or Tucker Kraft and thenthe running backs Aaron Jones and
Josh Jacobs.
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Hopefully you've got better options.
Let's move on to Las Vegas atNew Orleans where New Orleans is
favored by 2 1/2 over underhis 40.5.
I don't think you're gettingyour better running back options
from this game.
Maybe Kamara.
Yeah, Kamara looks to returnfrom his groin injury, but he's had
just two touchdowns in hislast 10 games and now he's coming
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back.
These two teams are alreadylooking ahead to next year.
Draft picks, new coaches, the future.
It's not now for sure.
The only thing interesting inthis game is Brock Bowers has a shot
to break the NFL record forreceptions by a tight end in a season.
Needing 16 in the next two weeks.
He had 11 last week and that'snot for a rookie.
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He's a rookie, but he is setto break the NFL record in his rookie
year.
It's amazing on a bad teamthey've got to be trying to get that
record for him.
I would think Jacoby Myers,their wide receiver, Raiders wide
receiver, looks to bounce backfrom that Jaguars game last week.
We thought that he had a greatmatchup, but he had just five targets.
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The Saints give up the fourthmost receiving yards per game, so
hopefully he'll have a betterday this it's two very average defenses.
The Saints are kind of on thebottom end of that.
The Raiders have the, thebetter defense here.
There's nobody that's otherthan Brock Bowers that you've got
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to start from this game.
There's a couple interestingones that are cautious in Jacoby
Myers and Alvin Kamara.
If he's healthy.
Everyone else, yeah, move on.
Like we've said for other,other games, you probably didn't
get to your, your championshipor some of these players.
Maybe Brock Bowers, but yeah,that's it.
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Maybe Jacoby Myers.
He was running well there fora while and not now.
Anyhow, let's go on.
Let's chat Carolina at TampaBay where Tampa Bay is favored by
7 1/2 over under is 48.5.
What's Tampa Bay playing for?
They can still get in the playoffs.
They can still win the NFCsouth there.
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They just need a loss by theFalcons and they need to keep winning
and get a loss from theFalcons and we'll get to the Falcons
who are playing Sunday NightFootball here in a few more games.
So this is definitely for theBuccaneers on a must win level.
They can't lose this game.
Carolina's not playing foranything except looking good for
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next year which they've been doing.
It's impressive how farthey've come and I did not think
that Dave Canales could getthem there, but I am definitely impressed
by the work that Dave Canaleshas done.
It's interesting that DaveCanales came from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
to the Carolina Panthers afterlast season and he has worked with
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Baker Mayfield, who is a greatstory as well, stepping into that
role after bouncing aroundfrom team to team.
Both these teams give greatfantasy games.
Evan's going to get maybe histhousand yard season.
He needs 180 yards in the nexttwo games for that thousand yard
season.
He has a bonus in his contract.
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You know that that team wantsto get him that bonus.
This is always a fun time ofyear when sometimes they'll publish
the list of bonuses that canbe achieved.
Probably look for it next weekand it's always interesting to Watch
a team try to get theirplayers the bonuses.
The Panthers are coming offthat overtime win over Arizona and
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Bryce Young had 27 fantasy points.
Bucks are giving up the fourthmost passing yards per game and Young's
looking pretty good now.
Is this going to be our shootout?
It should be our shootout, butyou can also run on both of these
defenses.
I like pretty much everybodyin this game.
I think the only caution hereare injuries.
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So Adam Thielen popped up onthe injury report on Thursday with
a hamstring injury.
You know, we hate thosehamstring injuries because they never
end up trending well.
And I think that's what he hadearlier this season when he was out
was a hamstring injury.
So it's kind of returning,which isn't a good sign.
But we've also have.
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Xavier Leggette is expected to return.
So now we may have Leggetteand Jalen Coker who has really shown
the last few weeks someexplosiveness and he's a rookie so
it's fun to.
To see what he can do.
You're just starting everybody here.
You got any caution in thisgame or other than injury or.
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We just gonna push, you know,Baker Mayfield, Mike Evans, Bucky
Yearing, Rashad White, Price,Young, they're all in.
Go, go play.
I'm excited about this one.
I think this one's gonna be afun one to watch and I think it is
gonna.
I'm hoping it's on theoverside and gonna be a little more
of a score fest for both sides.
I think so.
Yeah.
Shuba Hubbard had a seasonhigh last week for Fantasy Points
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with 32 bucks are giving upmore to the.
Hubbard only had 43 yards on12 carries when these two teams played
just a few weeks ago.
In Week 13, we'll see ifHubbard can find some more room,
running room this, this time around.
Hey, guess what?
It's going to rain in thatgame too.
Be good if Bryce Young startsstruggling with with some of the
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passing from.
From the rain.
Cuba Hubbard could have a good day.
He could.
Let's continue to Dallas,Philadelphia, where Philadelphia
is favored by nine and a halfover under is 41.5 and this one has
some big injuries.
Uh, Jalen Hurts is still onconcussion protocol.
Maybe he'll play on Sunday,but it's unlikely cuz he his concussions
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from last Sunday.
So that protocol is like 10days now.
We might see Kenny Pickett instead.
Yeah, Kenny Pickett said he'sgood to go, so I think we'll probably
see Kenny Pickett And Dallasshut down CD Lamb.
He's not going to play anymorethis season, which is good.
We were all wondering why theywere playing him anyway and jeopardizing
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his health.
So I'm glad that they'vepulled CD Lamb out of this mix.
Eagles need a win.
They need a win for this division.
This is just Saquon Barkleyshow, you know, for the first half
and then he gets benched andwe get to see the backups.
I think that's my, my biggestcaution with this game is it feels
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like it could be a key playersthat you depend on are only going
to play a quarter or maybe ahalf, and then you're going to start
seeing them get pulled.
And that really impacts yourfantasy points.
If your player decided, ifthey decide, oh, Barkley's only going
to play, it does 5% of the snaps.
Yeah, you can definitely gethurt playing Saquon Barkley for your
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championship, too.
This is fantasy championships.
And now you can't dependSaquon Barkley to play an entire
game.
It's a bad day.
I had Derek Henry and we sawhe didn't play the whole game on
Christmas Day.
I still got enough productionout of him that I think I'm going
to be fine.
And I think you'll probablyget the same out of Saquon Barkley.
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The only interesting part tothis game is Cooper Rush has won
four of his last five games.
The Eagles.
But the Eagles are giving upthe third fewest passing yards per
game.
So are they just going to shutdown the Cowboys and the Eagles are
giving up the six fewestrushing yards.
Is this going to be anothergame where, you know, the, the losing
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team can only score two points?
Like we saw Christmas Day, itseems like it.
This game feels like it couldbe on the the six, three side.
Yeah.
So you've got us start Saquon Barkley.
You're probably starting A.J.
brown because you don't have achoice as well.
But there's a lot of caution around.
I wouldn't really start anyone else.
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Let's chat Miami at Cleveland,where Miami's favored by six and
a half.
The over under is 40.
What's going on with this one?
I know Dolphins havestruggled, but kind of come back
together later in the season.
Yeah, they're, they're holding on.
They haven't been eliminatedfrom playoffs, believe it or not,
but they don't control theirown destiny.
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They need Denver to lose toCincinnati on Saturday.
So they will know that goinginto this game.
I think if Denver, if Denverwins, they'll eliminate both Miami
and the Colts.
I think it's December in Cleveland.
What could go wrong for Miami?
But it is 50 degrees.
It's also raining and 10 milean hour wind so they're getting a
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break though on the temperatures.
It's not two or something.
It looks like Waddle is goingto be back for this matchup.
It's just been a disappointingseason for the Dolphins and I don't
know that they'll if they getinto the playoffs.
I don't feel them going very well.
Devon HN racked up 31 fantasypoints last week and the Browns defense
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is allowing the third fewestreceiving yards per game to running
backs though and Achan dependson those passes.
Achan's had three receptionsin all 11 games he's played with
Tua but Browns aren't lettingthat happen so it'll be interesting
to see how good of a day DevonAchan has.
Tua's not had over 215 passingyards and only one touchdown in back
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to back games.
So can he break out of thatand be more like Joe Burrow last
week with 250 yards and threetouchdown passes against the Browns?
What about the Brown side?
Are we getting Winston back?
No.
Can we just cry?
We want to throw fit.
Give us Winston.
I mean Dorian ThompsonRobinson dtr.
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He threw two interceptions too.
Can't we just have fun and youknow, have some fantasy production
as well with Jameis Winston?
Why do you have to make us allsuffer through the DTR days?
Give us Winston and at leastit's fun.
And Jerry Judy only had threetargets with DTR.
David Ndoku did have 10targets, but I guess he's just checking
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it down.
He doesn't know what he'sdoing and he can't throw like Jameis
Winston.
It was Jerome Ford who seemedto benefit from the quarterback change.
So not only the quarterbackchange but now no Nick Chubb to share
the backfield with.
And Jerome Ford had 92 yardsand a touchdown and 39 receiving
yards last week.
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But Miami gives up the 10thfewest rushing yards per game at
83.
I still like him.
Anytime you got a back notsharing, it's a good situation.
So I still like Jerome Ford inthis game as well as Devon Hn and
then we get to our Do I reallywant to start them into a tyree kill?
Janu Smith should be a goodstart in this matchup as well.
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And David Ndjoku, I don'tthink you're.
Starting DTR or Jerry Judy No.
Judy had been getting it donebut now we got DTR and we got a rain.
Bring back Winston.
Bring back Winston.
Yes.
Let's chat Atlanta atWashington where Washington's favored
by four over under is 47.5.
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And I think this is going tobe the second starting game for Michael
Penix Jr.
It is.
It is the second starting game.
He had an easy introduction tothe NFL getting that start against
the New York Giants.
But Washington gives up thefourth fewest passing yards per game
at 200.
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So this game's going to be alittle bit different.
This is the first primetimegame in NFL history between rookie
starting quarterbacks thatwere each selected in the first round.
So these two quarterbacks wereselected with the number two and
number eight picks.
And this is the first timewe're draft, wasn't it?
Yes.
Yeah.
Yeah, same draft, first round.
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Yep.
Drake London left last week's game.
He had eight targets, but heleft the game early with a minor
hamstring injury.
Said it was just precautionaryand he should be good to go.
They're going to need all thefirepower that they can find to go
against Washington, who we sawcome back against the Eagles last
week and win that game.
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Jaden Daniels led thatcomeback against the Eagles.
It was crazy.
He went 24 of 39 for 258 yardsand five touchdowns.
He threw two interceptions,but he still had those five touchdowns
and he ran nine times for 81 yards.
He was quarterback one for theweek last week.
He's going to be looking to doit again this week against the Falcons.
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Last week, I mean, BichonRobinson was their go to guy.
I don't know if that was bydesign, you got a rookie quarterback
in your first start or if itwas because the Giants suck.
Either way, he had 22 carriesand 94 yards for two touchdowns.
Washington allows the six mostrushing yards per game.
And last week we saw Barkleyrack up 150 yards and two touchdowns.
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So what can Bijan Robinson dothis week?
What do you think about TerryMcLaurin this week?
I like Terry McLaurin.
I feel like this is a goodpassing matchup for, for the Commanders
and that they're going to needto to pass the ball.
Brian Robinson is looking tomake up for a bad week.
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Last week he was just awful.
He 10 carries for 24 yards buthe's sharing the backfield these
days with a couple otherrunning backs.
I don't know how much he'llmake up in this game.
It.
It's a pretty balanced defensesituation in both of these teams.
I've got to start BijanRobinson, Jaden Daniels, Terry McLaurin,
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those are all the stars forthese two teams.
And then I don't know, DrakeLondon, we're going to have to watch
that hamstring injury, but I,I have a feeling he'll be playing
and they're going to need him.
And then Brian Robinson, he'sjust sharing.
I hope you can get into asituation where you can pick up somebody
that's not sharing.
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I think for any of the otherwide receivers on the Atlanta side,
I'd be a little cautiousbetween the reign and a rookie going
in for his second, second game.
I like Bijan Robinson, maybeeven Tyler Algier a little bit more.
I do like Tyler Algier.
That's the problem with Bijanis whenever he gets to that high
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level production they bring inAlgier to take off the workload so
he never hits the SaquonBarkley numbers.
I think we're starting tolearn that it might not have necessarily
been Arthur Smith pullingBichon as much as something else
behind the scenes there.
I don't know why they've justdecided to not run him as hard or
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if it's just that they feelthey have another quality back in
Tyler Algier.
Algier does a good job whenhe's in there, so it's definitely
a balance and since they havehim they should use him well.
Let's chat the Colts at theGiants where the Colts are favored
by 8 over under is 40.5.
This should be a good game forJonathan Taylor, right?
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Can't believe I'm saying that,but it.
Definitely should should be.
He, he made it up to fantasyowners last week for that that situation
a couple weeks ago where hedecided to dropped the ball and as
he entered the end zone andfumbled out of the end zone.
So last week he made it up tous scoring 42 fantasy points.
It's hard to do that two weeksin a row but he's playing the Giants
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and that helps a lot.
So yeah, Jonathan Taylor muststart in this situation.
Anthony Richardson has a greatmatchup too because he would run
the ball as well or he couldtry to pass it.
He hasn't been that great of apasser either way.
He but Anthony Richardsonended up on the the injury report
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with a back and foot injury.
The Colts are optimistic thathe's going to play but if you are
looking for a quarterback he'sdefinitely got a great matchup and
is one that you could play inDFS or stream this week because it
is such a good matchup and heruns the ball.
But check those injury reportsto see if he ends up playing.
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Do you think the whole situation.
Go ahead.
I was about to say ask do youthink he's kind of playing for his
job that for next year?
Because that mid season takinghimself out of the out of the game
for a minute got him a lot of looks.
I think in my Colts playbookhe is definitely playing for his
job but they seem to be moredevoted to him than I am.
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That's another situation whereI kind of wonder what happened behind
the scenes because it seemslike he came back energetic, more
focused.
Yeah.
Ready to get the job done.
He just doesn't seem like aleader for a team.
I want my quarterback to leadmy team.
I want my quarterback to belike Jaden Daniels who already looks
to be stepping in and leadingthat team and I don't feel like Richardson
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knows how to be that leaderand Flacco's done nothing to teach
him apparently or maybe hasand maybe that was a little bit of
the improvement on the Giant side.
Colts give up points too sothe Colts gave up two touchdowns
to Taiji Spears last week andalmost let the Titans come back and
get into that win that game.
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The Colts are allowing the sixmost rushing yards per game.
So Tyrone Tracy becomes a goodstart in this game at home for the
Giants.
Malik Neighbors is alsomissing practice with a toe injury
and now he's a game time decision.
The only one I got to startsTyrone Tracy.
I like the matchup for TyroneTracy in this game and then Jonathan
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Taylor and perhaps AnthonyRichardson if Flacco gets to play.
The the wide receivers for theColts become more interesting, but
they're a little bit like theGreen Bay mystery.
And who's it going to be?
Well, let's wrap it up withour our Monday night game Detroit
at San Francisco whereDetroit's favored by four and the
over under is 50.
I think this is one of ourhighest over unders of the weekend.
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It is.
Yeah.
I don't think it's raining inthis game.
The Lions continue to battlethe Vikings for the NFC north title.
They're tied right now, butthey will know on Monday night if
the Vikings won on Saturday or not.
They're also at this momentholding the top spot for that buy
in the nfc.
They got to keep winning tostay up there, but they will have,
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they'll know at least ifthere's the pressure's really on
them 49ers have been eliminated.
They're not playing foranything except pride.
And Jared Goff has been hot.
But the 49ers are allowing thesecond fewest passing yards per game.
Amon Ra St.
Brown had eight targets lastweek and a touchdown.
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Jameson Williams had a seasonhigh last week, mostly though due
to an 82 yard touchdown reception.
And Laporta has been doubledigit fantasy points four straight
weeks.
I feel like, well, let's keep going.
Jamar Gibbs is alone in thebackfield now with the injury to
David Montgomery.
And last week he had 23carries, 109 yards and one touchdown
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and then caught five passesfor 45 yards.
He was a had great production.
And Last week the 49ers letDevon Achan with the Dolphins run
all over them.
He had 120 yards and atouchdown and six catches for 70
yards.
I feel like we see a lot moreof Jameer Gibbs, but we know that
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the Lions like to spread the ball.
They like everybody to gettheir touchdown.
They want to put up their 50points and everybody gets a touchdown.
So we're starting all of ourLions players.
Amon Ross ain't Brown, JameerGibbs, their must starts.
Even Jameson Williams.
I like Sam Laporta, maybe evenJared Goff.
I feel like it could be a goodgame for Jared Goff.
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Yeah.
So 49er side Lions are givingup the six most passing yards per
game.
Purdy's either had a greatgame or a disaster of a game.
Last week he was 26 of 40 for313 yards and two touchdowns, an
interception.
So he had a good, good gamelast week.
And then last week we sawDeebo Samuel return and he didn't
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return.
He just kind of returned tofantasy relevancy.
He showed up last week and gota touchdown.
He's still hit or miss, sohe's kind of a cautious start for
me.
I think the only 49er playerthat I'm truly committed in is George
Kittle.
And Kittle's 33 yards awayfrom his 4,000 yard season last week
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he had eight catches, 406yards, didn't get in the end zone.
And then as far as runningback wise, we're going to see I think
Garendo return this week,which is good because Patrick Taylor
did not deliver.
He was, he only rushed theball eight times for 24 yards which
was really surprising I thinkto everyone.
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We're used to the 49ers beingcommitted to their running back and
they definitely were not.
And then Juwan Jennings hehasn't been over 10 fantasy points
in his last two games.
Definitely a cautious start there.
So now we're, you know, isSamuel coming back?
Is anyone motivated?
They're just questions on the49ers side of the ball and start
them all with caution.
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Well in the the Detroit Lionshave been their defense is good at
beating up the other side andwe've seen it throughout the season
of just like after they afterteams play the Detroit Lions they
seem to struggle a little bitand are extra I want to say injured
but maybe sore is the is thebetter term.
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Could be so I'd be.
I'd be cautious on the 49ersside combined with how the 49ers
have just had a had a injuryprone season.
Yeah.
Well that wraps it up though.
That's all the games for week 17.
Good luck if you're in your championships.
We also have some DraftKingscontest up and running this weekend
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and we have two DFS episodesout now.
You can find the links to allof those in our description.
We'd love to have you join us.
Yeah, let's win somechampionships and move on to dfs.
Yes.
Happy holidays.
Welcome to fangirl football.
I'm Judy.
And I'm Lauren.
Welcome back.
For week 17, sit start parttwo, we have Saturday games, Sunday
games and Monday games to cover.
So this is a little bit longerof an episode than we normally have,
but we're going to cover allthe remaining games and who you should
sit start.
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And some urgent injury newsthat we've we found out over the
last 24 hours.
Yeah, there's lots of newscoming out about injuries.
Let's kick it off with theinjury news with the Chargers.
So Gus Edwards is out this week.
We all thought he was going tohave a great matchup.
They're playing the NewEngland Patriots.
It's in New England.
Chargers are were favored.
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I haven't checked the linethis morning to see if it's moved
any.
They're probably still favored.
The over under is 42 and ahalf but Gus Edwards is out.
We don't know if JK Dobbins isgoing to be activated off of IR.
They did open his window so itis that we get J.K.
dobbins back.
After that it's Kamani Vidal,the rookie that hasn't really been
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impressive are Hassan Haskinswho did get a touchdown last week,
but he was involved on twocatches and not rushing the ball.
This is a great, great matchupfor whoever ends up running the ball
against the Patriots.
Maybe they'll give the rookiea chance and if you can't get it
done against the Patriots, youcan't get it done.
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What should people who haveGus Edwards maybe run to their waiver
wires and see if they couldpick up one of their hasan just in
case or maybe block someonefrom taking them?
Definitely, yeah, that's agood play because this is a great
matchup and if you had GusEdwards and you were planning on
playing him, there's not a lotto be picking up this week and hopefully
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it was in your flex anyway.
But the other overlying themethis week is rain.
Every game has rain.
If it's not in a dome, it'sgoing to be raining at some point
in the game it seems like.
And we did some investigation.
We talked about this on tfs,but we did some investigation and
when we always look at thoseover unders because usually it ends
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up being higher scoring thanyou end up with more fantasy points.
So we like that over under andin rain games they only hit the over
40% of the time, 41% of thetime and normally it's 51% so there's
definitely that decrease inproduction for points in games.
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So it's concerning the.
The Seattle Chicago game whereit was very under.
We did.
Yeah, six to three.
That was a stinker of a game.
What a way to end my ThursdayNight Football.
That was just awful.
So who do you have any must starts?
Especially with Edwards outand J.K.
dobbins unknown.
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Who are you?
Yeah, the Chargers haven'tlocked up that wildcard spot yet.
They need a win and thePatriots are bad at stopping the
run.
They're also stop bad atstopping the pass but the run more
so they.
They are really bad at that.
I don't really like any of thePatriots side of the ball.
You didn't get to yourchampionship weekend, but if you're
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playing for your consolationor you know, different, different
level, then you may be pickingup a Patriot player.
Ramadre Stevenson, I guess isa chance in this matchup.
Chargers are really good atstopping people.
The Chargers have the topscoring defense in the NFL and they've
allowed less than 20 points ineach of their road games.
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So the odds of anything goingreally right for the Patriots side
of the ball isn't really good.
I don't like starting any ofthem for the Chargers.
I feel like it's up in the airlike we just talked about.
You know, I would haverecommended Gus Edwards and starting
Gus Edwards if they activate J.K.
dobbins, he's a must start as well.
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I don't know if they're goingto activate him.
If it's raining and you canonly get your players hurt going
into the playoff.
Is that what you want to do ordo you want to take this easy matchup
and let your rookie see whathe can get done?
I'm kind of leaning that way,but we'll see if they activate him
or not.
It also puts more emphasis onthat passing game.
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So lad McConkey is a muststart now with the running game going
to be used less and JustinHerbert although their ceilings a
little bit less here because Idon't think they'll be pushed to
do a whole lot.
Let's continue on to theDenver at Cincinnati game where Cincinnati's
favored by three and a halfand the over under is 49, 49.5.
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Cincinnati's been a good teamto score 30 points.
Let the other team score 30 points.
As we keep saying.
What do you think here?
Joe Burrow leads the NFL with4,229 passing yards and 39 touchdown
passes this season.
He passed for 252 yards lastweek and three touchdowns.
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He's become he became thefirst player to ever have 250 yards
and three touchdown passes inseven consecutive games.
So now he's going to see if hecan stretch that again to eight games.
Denver obviously is going totry to stop him.
And Denver leads the NFL with51 sacks, including seven players
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with three or more sacks.
The Broncos can also get aplayoff spot with a win.
This is setting up to be a fun game.
This is probably the best gameon the slate on Saturday.
I feel like it should be themost fun.
Jamar chase leads inreceptions 108 and 1510 yards.
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It's going to be a great game.
And then we know thatCincinnati, like you said, is giving
up those points as well.
So hey, let's bring in Bo Nixand see what he and Cortland Sutton
can can do.
And you're favoring thepassing side more than the running
side for Denver?
I am, yeah.
That running back situationfor the Broncos is a little bit crazy.
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I never know what SeanPayton's going to throw at us from
week to week.
You know, is it going to beJaleel McLaughlin this week who missed
the last game or is it goingto be Blake Watson who he brought
in last week?
Maybe he brought him in haveestimate and Williams.
Yes they do.
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So I'll stay away from theBroncos running situation.
Obviously you're startingBonix, Joe Burrow, Jamar Chase, Cortland
Sutton, probably T.
Higgins because he's beenpretty solid the last few weeks.
He's probably a wide receivertwo or three for you and even Chase
Brown has a chance in this game.
I'm leaning a little bit awayfrom Chase Brown, but since he's
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the only back in theirbackfield, he's almost a must start
as well.
He doesn't share with fourother people like the Broncos do.
Well, let's chat Arizona atthe LA Rams where the Rams are favored
by six and a half over underis 47.5.
This is technically a a dome,but hopefully they don't have any
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lightning delays or anything.
I still can't believe thatfrom years ago when there was a lightning
delay at this stadium.
Hopefully not.
The Rams have a technically aone game lead over the Seahawks.
The Seahawks got that win last night.
It's still a win even thoughit was six to three.
They got that win.
So that is going to push theRams to get their win because they
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do play each other next week.
It's going to be a fun game.
I don't know who owns thattiebreaker at this time, but it could
come down to that game.
The Cardinals have beeneliminated from the playoffs, so
they're not playing foranything here except for some pride
in the division.
And since week 10, any jobs?
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Maybe.
I don't know.
Since week 10, Pukinakua leadsthe NFL with 57 receptions and second
in yards with 709 on the kind of.
Sorry, I was just gonna saythat's kind of amazing given that
at the start of the season he,he got injured and we were wondering
if this was gonna be a reverseof NUA cup last year and cup was
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gonna come in and be thestellar one and Nakua was gonna be
injured all season.
Yeah, no, it's definitely pukasince week 10.
And Cooper cup has failed totop 5.4 fantasy points in three of
his last four games.
So we aren't seeing thatconnection with Kup or he's getting
more covered or maybe Puka isjust more wide open.
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Who knows?
But it definitely is going toPuka Nakua.
So you're starting Puka.
You're starting Kyron Williams.
Kyron Williams, he's stillgetting the majority of the carries.
You can't not give the ball tohim and start him, although he's
just so inefficient at runningthat ball.
But this is a great, greatmatchup for him.
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So you're starting both ofthem and we're still hoping Trey
McBride can get thattouchdown, but it just hasn't happened
yet.
He's a must start though.
He had a down week last week.
I think he was only worth five points.
He cost me a best ball.
And this week he, he has agood matchup.
So is he finally going to getit or are we going to go into week
18 going?
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Is Trey McBride going to everget a touchdown in.
In this season?
Anyone else you like from thethe Arizona side?
The Arizona side is a littlebit interesting.
Kyler Murray, he has a goodstart in this.
He had 22 fantasy points inthe loss to the Panthers last week.
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And when these two teams metin week two, Murray had 266 yards
and three touchdowns and heran for 59 yards.
So it comes down to motivation.
Are they trying to show thatthey have what it takes going into
20, 25 and keep some of thisteam together?
And then there's James Conner.
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He left last week's game witha knee injury, didn't come back,
but he's listed as questionable.
His backup, Trey Benson isn'tpracticing either, and he's listed
as questionable.
One of the other running backsMichael Carter, they put back on
the practice squad on Monday.
So I don't know where this isall going.
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They have another running backas well.
But we're going to have towait and keep looking at the injury
reports to see who's going tobe running the ball.
They do have a good matchup sothey're a cautious start.
Whoever is running the ballfor the, the Cardinals and then Matthew
Stafford, this, this has thepotential to get into a shootout
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and then it brings in bothquarterbacks and sitting at 47 and
a half you can tell Vegas issitting there going yeah, maybe it'll,
it'll get into that shootout.
Let's move on to the jets atBuffalo where Buffalo is favored
by nine and a half.
Over under is 46.5 outdoor stadium.
At least it's going to be anot too cold rainy day, not snowy.
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Yeah, it's not snowy.
It's a warm rain all on theeast coast.
I think there are even somethunderstorms predicted on Sunday
night for the game in Washington.
But it's a warm rain.
It's like 50 degrees.
Of course that 50 degrees andstanding in the rain with a little
wind isn't real comfortable.
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I did, I officiated a couplegames like that and it was just completely
miserable.
Your hands are still frozen.
I guess we'll see a lot of thelike little mitt things that they
put their hands in whilethey're having to stand around.
Yeah and raincoats to keepyou, try to keep you somewhat dry.
So the Bills can go eight andhome eight and oh at home this year
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with a win.
And Aaron Rodgers has 499regular season touchdown passes and
can become the fifth playerwith 500.
Comes down to motivation here.
Buffalo is locked in at number two.
They can't do, they can'timprove, they can't fall from that
number two spot.
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So what do they want to do towin this game?
You also have a beat up JoshAllen and now you've got it raining.
What do you want to risk inthis game to get this win that is
worth nothing.
I don't like really dependingon the Bills to start everyone and
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I really don't think we'll seethem play an entire game which is
going to lessen their fantasy production.
Obviously if Josh Allen gotyou here you're going to probably
have to start him.
But you might look around andthere might be more motivated players
sitting out there that couldwin that game.
I guess the only must start Ihave is devonte Adams because Aaron
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Rodgers is going to play.
Aaron Rodgers wants devonteAdams to look good and the Buffalo
gives up the fifth mostpassing touchdowns per game.
So he's got a good matchup.
Yeah, I think Aaron Rodgers isalso definitely going to be motivated
to become that fifth person tohit 500 regular season passing touchdowns.
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So yeah, this one's there.
Rogers and Adams may belooking for jobs, so they're trying
to showcase their talent alittle bit.
Although I think we're allover Aaron Rodgers.
I like devonte Adams, but Ican move on from Aaron Rodgers for
sure.
James Cook for the Bills maybe running the ball a lot and we
may see a lot more of RayDavis as well in this matchup.
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That's going to be ugly.
Yep.
With the rain, rain tends tomove away from passing just because
it's.
It's slippier.
Can't speak.
Rain tends to move away frompassing just so that you're less
likely to drop the ball, turnover the ball.
Hopefully.
I guess it's a little harderto catch it probably.
I'm not sure.
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I need to actually pull thepassing statistics from rain games,
which I haven't done, butthat'll be.
That'll go on our stats listof things to pull.
Well, let's chat Tennessee atJacksonville where Jacksonville's
favored by one.
Over.
Under is.
Over.
Under is 41.
Both of these teams are threeand 12.
Yeah, they're playing for thebottom of the AFC South.
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Who's.
Who's going to be hit the bottom?
Yeah, that division is just awful.
I can't believe Houston iswinning that division and they look
so bad on Christmas Day.
Two points and they're winningthe division.
It's just sad.
Both of these teams areplaying for draft picks.
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See what their rookies can do,see what they have.
Coaches are trying to keeptheir job probably in the NFL.
The only one that is a muststart from this game for me is Brian
Thomas Jr.
Who just keeps getting it done.
He has not been below 75 yardsand 16.6 draftking points since the
bye week and he's had back toback 30 point games, which is a little
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concerning because I thinkeverything gravitates towards average.
So back to back 30 point games.
I feel like he ought to getback to average.
These teams played just acouple weeks ago in week 14 and it
was A.
It was Jacksonville 10 andTennessee 6.
So we could get another.
Yeah, we all thought we weregonna get work.
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Yep.
We all thought we were gonnaget a great game that week and it
ended up A real dud.
So we'll see if this onedoesn't end up a dud.
The Titans have moved on fromWill Levitz to Mason Rudolph and
he's throwing for sometouchdowns and he does seem to have
a little bit of chemistry with Ridley.
Ridley had seven receptionsthe last times these teams played
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and now he's got Mason Rudolphback, so maybe we'll see some Ridley
in there.
Tony Pollard, their runningback, is also getting less work and
Tygie Spears is getting moreof the work.
Spears came in last week andhad a couple touchdowns in that loss
to the Colts, so maybe you canstart Taiji Spears.
He this is a great Macmatchup, but so Brian Thomas Jr.
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Ty G.
Spears otherwise just move onfrom this game.
Well, let's also move on toGreen Bay at Minnesota where Minnesota's
favored by one and a half andthe over under is 48 and a half.
These teams, I always feellike these teams really competitive
when they face off againsteach other.
I know there's alwaysrivalries in the NFL, but this is
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one of the ones I think ofwhen I think of like, oh, that game
must be very exciting to attend.
And it is for everyone that'slocal because you know, all of us
outside of Green Bay inMinnesota are like, is Green Bay
in Minnesota or is that Wisconsin?
And we always confuse thesetwo and I know local people hate
that, but everyone else in thecountry is like, wait, where is that?
(16:53):
Aren't they like the same place?
Anyhow, we get a dome in thisone so that's fun.
No rain to worry about.
And these are really, reallymotivated teams because this is key
seating for both of theseteams and we saw these two teams
play early in the season andit was a 60 point game.
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That was week four.
So a lot of things havechanged since week four.
Are we going to see these sametwo teams?
But I'm excited that we do getto see this in a dome and we don't
have to have it raining orsnowing in Green Bay.
That we actually get todetermine who has the better team
without the weather becoming a factor.
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First time they met, Lovepassed for 389 yards.
Can he do it again?
It's inside.
I don't know.
It is inside.
The wide receivers for GreenBay continue to be a mystery for
me, but Christian Watson has aknee injury and that could end up
helping out.
Reed, Wicks and Dobbs pick uptouches so I like them a little bit
(17:59):
better.
But if you're going to play aGreen Bay wide receiver Good luck
picking which one it's goingto be that.
Gets lucky this week in asimilar picking which one is going
to get lucky.
I think there's been sometight end news for Green Bay as well
with their tight end LukeMusgrave off ir.
(18:19):
Yeah, they activated him last week.
They he wasn't used.
He ran a few routes but he wasnot passed to last week.
It was all Tucker Kraft thatwe saw the work going to last week.
I'm sure they're going tocontinue to use him and try to in
a him into that offense moreand more since he just got back from
ir.
But right now it's all TuckerKraft, who knows.
(18:42):
And then Green Bay continuedcontinued to use Josh Jacobs but
they were ahead last week andthe Vikings are allowing the fourth
fewest rushing yards per game.
It isn't going to be a Jacobskind of day.
He's a real, real cautious oreven a set start in this game.
It's not going to be a running game.
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You're going to have to passto win this game.
Vikings are okay with that.
They like to do that.
Darnold's had two touchdownpasses in seven of his last nine,
nine games.
And Justin Jefferson had aseason high fantasy point week catching
10 of 13 targets and twotouchdowns last week.
He's getting hot at the right time.
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And then they've got JordanAddison there as well who's getting
touchdowns too and targets.
I you've got to start Jordan Love.
You've got to start JustinJefferson, Jordan Addison, they're
all must starts.
Green Bay wide receivers, Idon't know, pick one if you want
to or Tucker Kraft and thenthe running backs Aaron Jones and
Josh Jacobs.
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Hopefully you've got better options.
Let's move on to Las Vegas atNew Orleans where New Orleans is
favored by 2 1/2 over underhis 40.5.
I don't think you're gettingyour better running back options
from this game.
Maybe Kamara.
Yeah, Kamara looks to returnfrom his groin injury, but he's had
just two touchdowns in hislast 10 games and now he's coming
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back.
These two teams are alreadylooking ahead to next year.
Draft picks, new coaches, the future.
It's not now for sure.
The only thing interesting inthis game is Brock Bowers has a shot
to break the NFL record forreceptions by a tight end in a season.
Needing 16 in the next two weeks.
He had 11 last week and that'snot for a rookie.
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He's a rookie, but he is setto break the NFL record in his rookie
year.
It's amazing on a bad teamthey've got to be trying to get that
record for him.
I would think Jacoby Myers,their wide receiver, Raiders wide
receiver, looks to bounce backfrom that Jaguars game last week.
We thought that he had a greatmatchup, but he had just five targets.
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The Saints give up the fourthmost receiving yards per game, so
hopefully he'll have a betterday this it's two very average defenses.
The Saints are kind of on thebottom end of that.
The Raiders have the, thebetter defense here.
There's nobody that's otherthan Brock Bowers that you've got
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to start from this game.
There's a couple interestingones that are cautious in Jacoby
Myers and Alvin Kamara.
If he's healthy.
Everyone else, yeah, move on.
Like we've said for other,other games, you probably didn't
get to your, your championshipor some of these players.
Maybe Brock Bowers, but yeah,that's it.
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Maybe Jacoby Myers.
He was running well there fora while and not now.
Anyhow, let's go on.
Let's chat Carolina at TampaBay where Tampa Bay is favored by
7 1/2 over under is 48.5.
What's Tampa Bay playing for?
They can still get in the playoffs.
They can still win the NFCsouth there.
(21:59):
They just need a loss by theFalcons and they need to keep winning
and get a loss from theFalcons and we'll get to the Falcons
who are playing Sunday NightFootball here in a few more games.
So this is definitely for theBuccaneers on a must win level.
They can't lose this game.
Carolina's not playing foranything except looking good for
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next year which they've been doing.
It's impressive how farthey've come and I did not think
that Dave Canales could getthem there, but I am definitely impressed
by the work that Dave Canaleshas done.
It's interesting that DaveCanales came from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
to the Carolina Panthers afterlast season and he has worked with
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Baker Mayfield, who is a greatstory as well, stepping into that
role after bouncing aroundfrom team to team.
Both these teams give greatfantasy games.
Evan's going to get maybe histhousand yard season.
He needs 180 yards in the nexttwo games for that thousand yard
season.
He has a bonus in his contract.
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You know that that team wantsto get him that bonus.
This is always a fun time ofyear when sometimes they'll publish
the list of bonuses that canbe achieved.
Probably look for it next weekand it's always interesting to Watch
a team try to get theirplayers the bonuses.
The Panthers are coming offthat overtime win over Arizona and
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Bryce Young had 27 fantasy points.
Bucks are giving up the fourthmost passing yards per game and Young's
looking pretty good now.
Is this going to be our shootout?
It should be our shootout, butyou can also run on both of these
defenses.
I like pretty much everybodyin this game.
I think the only caution hereare injuries.
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So Adam Thielen popped up onthe injury report on Thursday with
a hamstring injury.
You know, we hate thosehamstring injuries because they never
end up trending well.
And I think that's what he hadearlier this season when he was out
was a hamstring injury.
So it's kind of returning,which isn't a good sign.
But we've also have.
(24:09):
Xavier Leggette is expected to return.
So now we may have Leggetteand Jalen Coker who has really shown
the last few weeks someexplosiveness and he's a rookie so
it's fun to.
To see what he can do.
You're just starting everybody here.
You got any caution in thisgame or other than injury or.
(24:29):
We just gonna push, you know,Baker Mayfield, Mike Evans, Bucky
Yearing, Rashad White, Price,Young, they're all in.
Go, go play.
I'm excited about this one.
I think this one's gonna be afun one to watch and I think it is
gonna.
I'm hoping it's on theoverside and gonna be a little more
of a score fest for both sides.
I think so.
Yeah.
Shuba Hubbard had a seasonhigh last week for Fantasy Points
(24:51):
with 32 bucks are giving upmore to the.
Hubbard only had 43 yards on12 carries when these two teams played
just a few weeks ago.
In Week 13, we'll see ifHubbard can find some more room,
running room this, this time around.
Hey, guess what?
It's going to rain in thatgame too.
Be good if Bryce Young startsstruggling with with some of the
(25:13):
passing from.
From the rain.
Cuba Hubbard could have a good day.
He could.
Let's continue to Dallas,Philadelphia, where Philadelphia
is favored by nine and a halfover under is 41.5 and this one has
some big injuries.
Uh, Jalen Hurts is still onconcussion protocol.
Maybe he'll play on Sunday,but it's unlikely cuz he his concussions
(25:36):
from last Sunday.
So that protocol is like 10days now.
We might see Kenny Pickett instead.
Yeah, Kenny Pickett said he'sgood to go, so I think we'll probably
see Kenny Pickett And Dallasshut down CD Lamb.
He's not going to play anymorethis season, which is good.
We were all wondering why theywere playing him anyway and jeopardizing
(25:58):
his health.
So I'm glad that they'vepulled CD Lamb out of this mix.
Eagles need a win.
They need a win for this division.
This is just Saquon Barkleyshow, you know, for the first half
and then he gets benched andwe get to see the backups.
I think that's my, my biggestcaution with this game is it feels
(26:19):
like it could be a key playersthat you depend on are only going
to play a quarter or maybe ahalf, and then you're going to start
seeing them get pulled.
And that really impacts yourfantasy points.
If your player decided, ifthey decide, oh, Barkley's only going
to play, it does 5% of the snaps.
Yeah, you can definitely gethurt playing Saquon Barkley for your
(26:42):
championship, too.
This is fantasy championships.
And now you can't dependSaquon Barkley to play an entire
game.
It's a bad day.
I had Derek Henry and we sawhe didn't play the whole game on
Christmas Day.
I still got enough productionout of him that I think I'm going
to be fine.
And I think you'll probablyget the same out of Saquon Barkley.
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The only interesting part tothis game is Cooper Rush has won
four of his last five games.
The Eagles.
But the Eagles are giving upthe third fewest passing yards per
game.
So are they just going to shutdown the Cowboys and the Eagles are
giving up the six fewestrushing yards.
Is this going to be anothergame where, you know, the, the losing
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team can only score two points?
Like we saw Christmas Day, itseems like it.
This game feels like it couldbe on the the six, three side.
Yeah.
So you've got us start Saquon Barkley.
You're probably starting A.J.
brown because you don't have achoice as well.
But there's a lot of caution around.
I wouldn't really start anyone else.
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Let's chat Miami at Cleveland,where Miami's favored by six and
a half.
The over under is 40.
What's going on with this one?
I know Dolphins havestruggled, but kind of come back
together later in the season.
Yeah, they're, they're holding on.
They haven't been eliminatedfrom playoffs, believe it or not,
but they don't control theirown destiny.
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They need Denver to lose toCincinnati on Saturday.
So they will know that goinginto this game.
I think if Denver, if Denverwins, they'll eliminate both Miami
and the Colts.
I think it's December in Cleveland.
What could go wrong for Miami?
But it is 50 degrees.
It's also raining and 10 milean hour wind so they're getting a
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break though on the temperatures.
It's not two or something.
It looks like Waddle is goingto be back for this matchup.
It's just been a disappointingseason for the Dolphins and I don't
know that they'll if they getinto the playoffs.
I don't feel them going very well.
Devon HN racked up 31 fantasypoints last week and the Browns defense
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is allowing the third fewestreceiving yards per game to running
backs though and Achan dependson those passes.
Achan's had three receptionsin all 11 games he's played with
Tua but Browns aren't lettingthat happen so it'll be interesting
to see how good of a day DevonAchan has.
Tua's not had over 215 passingyards and only one touchdown in back
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to back games.
So can he break out of thatand be more like Joe Burrow last
week with 250 yards and threetouchdown passes against the Browns?
What about the Brown side?
Are we getting Winston back?
No.
Can we just cry?
We want to throw fit.
Give us Winston.
I mean Dorian ThompsonRobinson dtr.
(29:42):
He threw two interceptions too.
Can't we just have fun and youknow, have some fantasy production
as well with Jameis Winston?
Why do you have to make us allsuffer through the DTR days?
Give us Winston and at leastit's fun.
And Jerry Judy only had threetargets with DTR.
David Ndoku did have 10targets, but I guess he's just checking
(30:05):
it down.
He doesn't know what he'sdoing and he can't throw like Jameis
Winston.
It was Jerome Ford who seemedto benefit from the quarterback change.
So not only the quarterbackchange but now no Nick Chubb to share
the backfield with.
And Jerome Ford had 92 yardsand a touchdown and 39 receiving
yards last week.
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But Miami gives up the 10thfewest rushing yards per game at
83.
I still like him.
Anytime you got a back notsharing, it's a good situation.
So I still like Jerome Ford inthis game as well as Devon Hn and
then we get to our Do I reallywant to start them into a tyree kill?
Janu Smith should be a goodstart in this matchup as well.
(30:49):
And David Ndjoku, I don'tthink you're.
Starting DTR or Jerry Judy No.
Judy had been getting it donebut now we got DTR and we got a rain.
Bring back Winston.
Bring back Winston.
Yes.
Let's chat Atlanta atWashington where Washington's favored
by four over under is 47.5.
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And I think this is going tobe the second starting game for Michael
Penix Jr.
It is.
It is the second starting game.
He had an easy introduction tothe NFL getting that start against
the New York Giants.
But Washington gives up thefourth fewest passing yards per game
at 200.
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So this game's going to be alittle bit different.
This is the first primetimegame in NFL history between rookie
starting quarterbacks thatwere each selected in the first round.
So these two quarterbacks wereselected with the number two and
number eight picks.
And this is the first timewe're draft, wasn't it?
Yes.
Yeah.
Yeah, same draft, first round.
(31:53):
Yep.
Drake London left last week's game.
He had eight targets, but heleft the game early with a minor
hamstring injury.
Said it was just precautionaryand he should be good to go.
They're going to need all thefirepower that they can find to go
against Washington, who we sawcome back against the Eagles last
week and win that game.
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Jaden Daniels led thatcomeback against the Eagles.
It was crazy.
He went 24 of 39 for 258 yardsand five touchdowns.
He threw two interceptions,but he still had those five touchdowns
and he ran nine times for 81 yards.
He was quarterback one for theweek last week.
He's going to be looking to doit again this week against the Falcons.
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Last week, I mean, BichonRobinson was their go to guy.
I don't know if that was bydesign, you got a rookie quarterback
in your first start or if itwas because the Giants suck.
Either way, he had 22 carriesand 94 yards for two touchdowns.
Washington allows the six mostrushing yards per game.
And last week we saw Barkleyrack up 150 yards and two touchdowns.
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So what can Bijan Robinson dothis week?
What do you think about TerryMcLaurin this week?
I like Terry McLaurin.
I feel like this is a goodpassing matchup for, for the Commanders
and that they're going to needto to pass the ball.
Brian Robinson is looking tomake up for a bad week.
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Last week he was just awful.
He 10 carries for 24 yards buthe's sharing the backfield these
days with a couple otherrunning backs.
I don't know how much he'llmake up in this game.
It.
It's a pretty balanced defensesituation in both of these teams.
I've got to start BijanRobinson, Jaden Daniels, Terry McLaurin,
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those are all the stars forthese two teams.
And then I don't know, DrakeLondon, we're going to have to watch
that hamstring injury, but I,I have a feeling he'll be playing
and they're going to need him.
And then Brian Robinson, he'sjust sharing.
I hope you can get into asituation where you can pick up somebody
that's not sharing.
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I think for any of the otherwide receivers on the Atlanta side,
I'd be a little cautiousbetween the reign and a rookie going
in for his second, second game.
I like Bijan Robinson, maybeeven Tyler Algier a little bit more.
I do like Tyler Algier.
That's the problem with Bijanis whenever he gets to that high
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level production they bring inAlgier to take off the workload so
he never hits the SaquonBarkley numbers.
I think we're starting tolearn that it might not have necessarily
been Arthur Smith pullingBichon as much as something else
behind the scenes there.
I don't know why they've justdecided to not run him as hard or
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if it's just that they feelthey have another quality back in
Tyler Algier.
Algier does a good job whenhe's in there, so it's definitely
a balance and since they havehim they should use him well.
Let's chat the Colts at theGiants where the Colts are favored
by 8 over under is 40.5.
This should be a good game forJonathan Taylor, right?
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Can't believe I'm saying that,but it.
Definitely should should be.
He, he made it up to fantasyowners last week for that that situation
a couple weeks ago where hedecided to dropped the ball and as
he entered the end zone andfumbled out of the end zone.
So last week he made it up tous scoring 42 fantasy points.
It's hard to do that two weeksin a row but he's playing the Giants
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and that helps a lot.
So yeah, Jonathan Taylor muststart in this situation.
Anthony Richardson has a greatmatchup too because he would run
the ball as well or he couldtry to pass it.
He hasn't been that great of apasser either way.
He but Anthony Richardsonended up on the the injury report
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with a back and foot injury.
The Colts are optimistic thathe's going to play but if you are
looking for a quarterback he'sdefinitely got a great matchup and
is one that you could play inDFS or stream this week because it
is such a good matchup and heruns the ball.
But check those injury reportsto see if he ends up playing.
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Do you think the whole situation.
Go ahead.
I was about to say ask do youthink he's kind of playing for his
job that for next year?
Because that mid season takinghimself out of the out of the game
for a minute got him a lot of looks.
I think in my Colts playbookhe is definitely playing for his
job but they seem to be moredevoted to him than I am.
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That's another situation whereI kind of wonder what happened behind
the scenes because it seemslike he came back energetic, more
focused.
Yeah.
Ready to get the job done.
He just doesn't seem like aleader for a team.
I want my quarterback to leadmy team.
I want my quarterback to belike Jaden Daniels who already looks
to be stepping in and leadingthat team and I don't feel like Richardson
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knows how to be that leaderand Flacco's done nothing to teach
him apparently or maybe hasand maybe that was a little bit of
the improvement on the Giant side.
Colts give up points too sothe Colts gave up two touchdowns
to Taiji Spears last week andalmost let the Titans come back and
get into that win that game.
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The Colts are allowing the sixmost rushing yards per game.
So Tyrone Tracy becomes a goodstart in this game at home for the
Giants.
Malik Neighbors is alsomissing practice with a toe injury
and now he's a game time decision.
The only one I got to startsTyrone Tracy.
I like the matchup for TyroneTracy in this game and then Jonathan
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Taylor and perhaps AnthonyRichardson if Flacco gets to play.
The the wide receivers for theColts become more interesting, but
they're a little bit like theGreen Bay mystery.
And who's it going to be?
Well, let's wrap it up withour our Monday night game Detroit
at San Francisco whereDetroit's favored by four and the
over under is 50.
I think this is one of ourhighest over unders of the weekend.
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It is.
Yeah.
I don't think it's raining inthis game.
The Lions continue to battlethe Vikings for the NFC north title.
They're tied right now, butthey will know on Monday night if
the Vikings won on Saturday or not.
They're also at this momentholding the top spot for that buy
in the nfc.
They got to keep winning tostay up there, but they will have,
(38:31):
they'll know at least ifthere's the pressure's really on
them 49ers have been eliminated.
They're not playing foranything except pride.
And Jared Goff has been hot.
But the 49ers are allowing thesecond fewest passing yards per game.
Amon Ra St.
Brown had eight targets lastweek and a touchdown.
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Jameson Williams had a seasonhigh last week, mostly though due
to an 82 yard touchdown reception.
And Laporta has been doubledigit fantasy points four straight
weeks.
I feel like, well, let's keep going.
Jamar Gibbs is alone in thebackfield now with the injury to
David Montgomery.
And last week he had 23carries, 109 yards and one touchdown
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and then caught five passesfor 45 yards.
He was a had great production.
And Last week the 49ers letDevon Achan with the Dolphins run
all over them.
He had 120 yards and atouchdown and six catches for 70
yards.
I feel like we see a lot moreof Jameer Gibbs, but we know that
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the Lions like to spread the ball.
They like everybody to gettheir touchdown.
They want to put up their 50points and everybody gets a touchdown.
So we're starting all of ourLions players.
Amon Ross ain't Brown, JameerGibbs, their must starts.
Even Jameson Williams.
I like Sam Laporta, maybe evenJared Goff.
I feel like it could be a goodgame for Jared Goff.
(39:58):
Yeah.
So 49er side Lions are givingup the six most passing yards per
game.
Purdy's either had a greatgame or a disaster of a game.
Last week he was 26 of 40 for313 yards and two touchdowns, an
interception.
So he had a good, good gamelast week.
And then last week we sawDeebo Samuel return and he didn't
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return.
He just kind of returned tofantasy relevancy.
He showed up last week and gota touchdown.
He's still hit or miss, sohe's kind of a cautious start for
me.
I think the only 49er playerthat I'm truly committed in is George
Kittle.
And Kittle's 33 yards awayfrom his 4,000 yard season last week
(40:43):
he had eight catches, 406yards, didn't get in the end zone.
And then as far as runningback wise, we're going to see I think
Garendo return this week,which is good because Patrick Taylor
did not deliver.
He was, he only rushed theball eight times for 24 yards which
was really surprising I thinkto everyone.
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We're used to the 49ers beingcommitted to their running back and
they definitely were not.
And then Juwan Jennings hehasn't been over 10 fantasy points
in his last two games.
Definitely a cautious start there.
So now we're, you know, isSamuel coming back?
Is anyone motivated?
They're just questions on the49ers side of the ball and start
them all with caution.
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Well in the the Detroit Lionshave been their defense is good at
beating up the other side andwe've seen it throughout the season
of just like after they afterteams play the Detroit Lions they
seem to struggle a little bitand are extra I want to say injured
but maybe sore is the is thebetter term.
(41:47):
Could be so I'd be.
I'd be cautious on the 49ersside combined with how the 49ers
have just had a had a injuryprone season.
Yeah.
Well that wraps it up though.
That's all the games for week 17.
Good luck if you're in your championships.
We also have some DraftKingscontest up and running this weekend
(42:09):
and we have two DFS episodesout now.
You can find the links to allof those in our description.
We'd love to have you join us.
Yeah, let's win somechampionships and move on to dfs.
Yes.
Happy holidays.
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