FullTime Fantasy-- Looking Ahead to the Fantasy Playoffs

It's time to look ahead to the fantasy football playoffs.

Adam Krautwurst and Jack Kohlscheen have you covered with all the things you need to know before you look ahead to the money weeks.

Also...

-Marquis Brown
-Tank Dell
-Keaton Mitchell

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Episode Transcript

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Welcome to the Full Time Fantasy Podcast. Please sim it by the Fantasy Football
World Championship, home to the industry'smost accurate rankings. What is up,

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everybody? Welcome to the Full TimeFantasy Podcast. I am your host,
as always, Adam Crowerson with meagain tonight is Jack col Sheen. Listen,
Jack's coming out with me every weekuntil you knock us out of the
top twenty of the ff WC,because that's where we're gonna be there the
rest of the year. Jack,What is going on tonight, my friend?
Yeah, not too much, man, just coming off you know what

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a wild week ten? They wereboth between I had some teams that I
don't think have ever scored lower pointsthis entire season, and then you know,
seeing the CJ. Stroud just explosion. It was just a wild week
lot. Yeah, yeah, itwas good. We've got I mean,
we have a bunch of teams together, we have a bunch of teams apart,

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and just to go through and see, yeah, I had a team,
I mean I had a team thatdidn't score a touchdown, like like
sixty sixty eight points. My genoSmith's my quarterback. And then listen,
I was forced to start in oneof those injuries. Bye Week's thing.
No touchdowns from Gino, not asingle player. My team scores a touchdown
sixty eight points, like what thefreak? But then you're right, you

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go to some teams like, oh, CJ. Stroud, let's go and
you and I have CJ. Stroud, A couple of big f F W
C main teams that they are therethat are looking pretty nice. Goal going
down the stretcher. What are youlisten, we were planning on talking about
c J. Stroud tonight. Whatare your uh, what are your thoughts
on Stroud? Uh? Rust awayhere? I mean, I don't know

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if you could ask for anything morefrom a rookie quarterback. I mean,
even even in his down games,he's still you know, I'm not much
of the like the film guy,but he looked confident and poised. He
doesn't ever seem to appear panicked inthe pocket. And you know he that

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Texans O line, I think isactually doing a whole lot better than people
projected at what at the start ofthe season, even with the injuries that
it's had. And so if youlook at really the exciting offensive weapons they
have, you know, Tank Dell, who will talk about in a little
bit, and just a lot ofyouth combined with really the inability to run

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the ball in any active way.I think it. They've really just started
to lean into a faster pace ofplay, more plays, more passing,
and that's just more goodness for us. Yeah, no, it's And it's
not even like he's like been overlylike getting a ton of points on the
ground either, Like he's not gettinga ton of run like Anthony Richardson was
kind of like rushing scores, rushingyards. He was getting there, But

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Stroud's getting there. I mean helooks to me like a like a young
like a like a Texans Deshaun Watson. As we kind of what maybe it's
the jersey that kind of makes itlook like that, but I feel like
he's that same style of player.Pass, first run, second, can
run if he needs to. Butman, he looks he looks good,
and it's exciting to look at rostersright now. They kind of have have

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him on there. But but we'llget into more of the quarterbacks and the
strength of schedule here in a littlebit for sure, But but tonight,
I just want to talk about acouple of players real before we get into
that just some utilization, you know, we like to talk about that that
type of stuff moving forward and kindof mix it in with like waiver wire
pickups for this week, and we'regonna kind of incorporate the waiver wire goodness

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into the kind of the rest ofseason. So we'll talk about a couple
of players here, and then we'llget into some playoff schedule type stuff.
What can we do for rosters thatare pushing for the playoffs? What can
we do for rosters that are thatare a lock pretty much for it for
the playoffs, so how they cankind of enhance those But tonight, I
want to start with with a guyplayer that you just mentioned, Tank Dell,

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probably a wide receiver two crazy totalk about moving forward. I don't
think Nico Collins practiced today either,maybe he was limited, So maybe that's
more opportunity this week for Tank Delland so maybe maybe not so good for
Stroud. But Torch the buck secondarythis week, you know, he's on

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a seventeen point per game pace movingforward here. Robert Woods has has been
out, which has helped as faras target share. But everyone's kind of
looked good there. I mean again, we have a good quarterback. He
elevates the pieces. There. NoNoah Brown, who's a size speed guy.
Forget like Noah Brown six foot two, six foot three, can run
like the win. So I hadthat long touchdown that last week. So

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what are your thoughts on Tank Dallenwe're moving forward? Well, you know,
I think the most illuminating stat forTank Dell is his yards per route
run. So the the you know, kind of the gold standard for a
rookie wide receiver. It's two yardsper route run. If you can hit

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that, you're feeling good. Thisis the first half of his rookie season,
when we all know it's we're notgoing to expect a lot. They're
still getting used to the speed ofthe game. It's the second half where
they explode. First half of theseason, he has two point three three
yards per route run, better thanDeebo, Samuel Keenan, Allen Cooper Cup,

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Jamar Chase. He's topped them allat the moment, and he's really
only improving now. Obviously he's notquite getting or hasn't gotten the usage up
until this point of some of thoseplayers. He's not out there near as
much as Cooper, Cup, buthe's certainly being used more and more each
week, so that, I mean, the yards per route run tells me

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that when he's out there, he'stargeted, and he's productive with those targets.
So the more opportunity he gets,the more we can expect to see
and that's been kind of the trendover the past few weeks with him.
Is really a greater trust. He'scoming back from the concussion and has adjusted
well to the game and just seemsto have a good synergy with Stroud.

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You can tell there's trust there anda connection and they seem to have the
timing figured out. So you know, we always go in and we know
that there's going to be rookie widereceivers that just explode and beat expectations.
We do our best to try topredict which ones those are and draft accordingly
out of the class. I mean, Tank Dell looks like that guy that

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we're going to turn around and saythis was the rookie wide receiver you needed
to have. Yeah, point onthat he's been over eighty percent of the
routes all but two week two weeksin the season. You know, target
share over twenty percent, you know, four or five times here I'm seeing

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you know. So yeah, andeven the way that Stroud talks about him
after after the game, breaking downthat last touchdown drive, the way he
talked about, you know, thetrust that he has with Tank Dell on
the route that he ran, andso just yeah, great, great to
see that. It's one of thosethings too. Man Like receivers used to
be back in the day, itwas, you know, third year breakout.
You gotta wait for them to developall this. Now it's like now

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it's second year breakout. You kindof just blindly take those guys just because
the number state that second year breakoutis the big breakout year. Whether you
believe in the player or not,we don't know anything, but we do
know that second year guys usually breakout. Now it's almost like rookie second half.
Rookie breakouts are kind of the thingnow too. But like you said,
Tank Dell has had a first yearrookie breakout, and again of things

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for sure, you know, uh, Christian Watson, right, complete bust.
It's been. It's been everything's gonegone wrong, injuries and all that
offense, all that type of stuff. But yeah, I think a rookie
receiver second year receivers, man,you just kind of take them and just
I don't want to say you thinkthem blindly, but you see a guy
with speed and talent, you know, go ahead and take them and see
what happens. Yeah, And Ithink a lot of that trend from the

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third year to receiver to the secondand then moving up. It's just the
progression of coaches. There's just thementality for the long time of veterans deference
and triving to kind of earn yourway. I think as things have starting
to to loosen up and got youknow, know, you have a lot
of new head coaches over the pastfive years or so taking over these positions.

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They're much more willing to let theyoung guys take the reins. And
you know, not to get toomuch into the narrative stuff, but you
know, you've got at the Texans, you've got a lot of former players
as coaches. And I forget whetherit was the the Noah Brown touched down
or the Dalton Schultz this past week, but one of them was completely facilitated

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by a massive block by Tank Dell, who's not a big guy but just
laid someone out with a wonderful block, which You've got to think player coaches,
that's the stuff they want to see, obviously, not being reckless,
but being willing to chip in andthe dirty work, not just the glamorous
stuff, especially as a wide receiver. I think he definitely is bought in,

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and the coaching staff seems to likehim, seems to see that.
So I don't see any any reasonit's not Wheels up for tank for sure.
And if Nico doesn't play this week, oh my gosh, he's gonna
go crazy for for sure. Allright. Moving on to a guy that
you know we've been waiting for thismoment all year. You know, the
draft capital, the draft value waslow on him because we're waiting for his

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quarterback to get back. And that'sHollywood Brown, Mark, He's Hollywood Brown.
He's a guy that you know,everyone would have been taking earlier if
it wasn't for the quarterbacks situation withyou know, we didn't know who was
going to be, and it endsup being Dobbs, who you know,
apparently is the second coming. Imean, the guy made so much money
for the Vikings, I mean aton of money for the Vikings. Sunday.
Good for him. That's another that'sa phenomenal story. I love what

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Dobbs is doing now, but yeah, Marquis Brown, Man, we're talking
about a guy that that would havegone higher, but quarterbacks. The situation
now he's got his quarterback back,his running back back. Maybe this offense
now can be humming another guy that'sprobably going to be a mid range two
moving forward. Twenty five percent targetshare, but he's he's second to last

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in catchable target rate at sixty eightpercent, So you got to figure that's
definitely going to come up with KylerMurray there, And I know he's the
guy that you were high on.I know a lot of the teams we
coned together, you were a MarquiseBrown And now's the time, man,
if you were able to kind ofget through what we've been going through,
throwing Marque starting in the starting lineupsis going to look pretty sweet. Yeah,

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Hollywood's been serviceable. He hasn't beena standout, but he hasn't killed
you so far. But in twentytwenty two, the six games that he
had with Kyler Murray, he wasa wide receiver one. He was fourth
in the league in targets, fifthin the league in receptions, ninth in
the league in yards, there's obviousconnection between the two of them, and

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I remember hearing everyone assumed that hewas going to be traded because he's on
the last year of his contract.It only makes sense. And look,
you know, the Cardinals traded Dobbsthe moment that they were able to,
just to try to get some sortof value out of him, when a
lot of more conservative teams would havemaybe held on to the backup, especially
when you got your quarterback coming offof an ACL but they chose to be

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aggressive and trade him. But apparentlyone of the at least from what I
heard, one of the big reasonsthey decided not to trade Marquise Brown is
because of a strong relationship that hehas with Kyler and that as long as
Kyler's there, he wants this guythere. So I think once he's back
in, even if we're not seeingthe same QB four five six from Kyler

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Murray that we're used to a lotof that was driven by his rushing upside,
he doesn't need to have that rushingupside, And in fact, you
know, limiting that rushing from thestart might actually help, you know,
more targets for for Marquis Brown.And you know, greater emphasis on that
passing game. Get the rushing throughJames Connor, let him take over.

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Now that he's healthy, I thinkyou're going to see definitely an increase in
the quality of opportunities like you weretalking about for Hollywood, and this is
now, you know, this isthe time of the season where we can
start paying off that draft capital thatwe paid instead of just treading water.
There are plenty of times in thesixth seventh round when you and I went

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back and forth on either wanting youknow, I was wanting old Dusty Kresty
Hollywood Brown. And so now I'mhere, we are this is the time
I've got to put up her shutups. So no, I think I
think you're right now. He's thirteenthin the NFL in in target share and
air yard share, so again it'sjust the catchable targets go up. I

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think he's gonna be really good forteams down to down the stretch. If
you got them, great, throwthem in those throw in those lineups this
week. Whose Arizona had this week? I don't even remember here, I'm
trying to drawing a blank. Butanyways, you're gonna want to get him
into lineup is Atlanta Atlanta? Yeah, yeah, you definitely want to get
him in against Atlanta for sure,and you should be excited about it.

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The Clayton tune experience discourage you.But your so that's right, that's a
whole different ballgame. I remember amessaging you last week. We're going through
lineups and and I'm like, hey, what do you think Marky's Brown and
Mario Douglas And You're like the Mariodougla. I'm like, Okay, Clayton,
Clayton, sorry, Clayton soun hitsthat. Hey Mario got ten,

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got time Fantasy points. We'll takeit. He made it. He made
it. He made it, Soall right, last guy here before we
move on to kind of playoff typestuff. Keaton Mitchell is a guy that
I don't know if we've talked abouthim, Jack, but he's been a
guy that's been on and off ofmy mostly on my rosters. I never
rarely ever drop running backs. ButKeith Mitchell is a guy that you know,

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if you're into Dynasty, you mighthave been onto him a little little
bit. My Coast and the DefendMike Shop, he was on the Keaton
Mitchell very early on, like Weekone ish, so we we had him
on a couple of teams, stillstill have him there. So he's a
guy that finally break breaks out andyou know so some people might say,
oh, well, you know hehad that long touchdown the kind of garbage

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time Like, yes, I agree, but if you dig a little bit
deeper, Gus Edwards was strictly thegoal line back for this game. Of
course, gets his fifth freaking touchdownin two games. D Jon Robinson can't
even get a carry inside the threeyard line and this guy's got five touchdowns.
It's so stupid. But anyways,Keaton Mitchell was I think dad even

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on carries with Justice Hill through thefirst three quarter. I think it was
eight to eight. I think itcarries. So he wasn't just this like
fourth fourth quarter garbage time quarterback becauseI know they pulled Lamar at one point
in the fourth quarter. So Ilike Keton Mitchell there. I think Keaton
Mitchell is probably better than Justice Hill. He's not going to be the goal
line back. But if Justice Hillgets dinged up or Keaton Mitchell just you

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can't take him off the Maybe he'sjust so much better than Justice Hill.
They can't take him off the field. What do you think we're moving for.
I don't want to get too excitedabout him because it is a three
headed backfield. But this team Dvoa, they're saying that this is the best
team in football. You want somepieces of this offense, Well, I
think you know. If Devon ahChain has taught us anything, it's if

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he does it once. Yeah,you can't write those, especially at running
back, especially with rookie running backs. You cannot write it off as a
fluke. You're not gonna, youknow, bet the farm on it,
but you certainly can't write it offand wait to see because then you're going
to be too late. Like Iwas the RB five on nine touches alone.

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Now you could dismiss that and saywhat a fluke. But I'm sure
as those touches increase, the efficiencygoes down, but we're still fine.
That's still a top performer that's onyour waiver wire. And the interesting thing
is in the first half they actuallysplit the snaps between the three backs equally,
and then Justice Hill ended like youwere talking about. It looks like
he got more usage, but alot of that was actually fourth quarter.

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The final drives when they were pullingstarters and they had Justice Hill out there,
not Keaton Mitchell, which to me, you know that if this is
still you're in the phase of likerookie getting your feet wet, I would
assume, you know, give themthe garbage time when it doesn't matter.
But they pulled Keaton Mitchell and putJustice Hill out there during garbage time,

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which maybe says something about the rolesthat they see. I do think he
might be like the Will Levis ofrunning backs at this point, because you
know, just like how we sawthe explosion from Will Levis on efficiency,
we have to tread lightly. Ithink, like you said, he's never
gonna get goal line touches. That'snot how this is set up. And

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I don't think he's despite the overallRavens offense and how well as a team
they're doing. I don't think itis as fantasy friendly of an environment as
say like h Hn and the Dolphins. You know, you have Lamar,
so there's going to be that that, you know, opening up lanes,
but you certainly don't have somebody likeTyreek Hill that certainly creates the space that

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h Chan can operate in. Soit's going to be harder going for Keaton
Mitchell, but it's still a greatoffense. It's still a promising young rookie.
And these are the times when youknow we're headed to playoffs. You
can't really afford to wait and see. You can't. You know he's going
to be gone, And I guarantee, well, I almost guarantee there's not

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going to be another running back onthe waiver wire for the rest of the
year that has as much upside asthis guy. So I was just going
to ask you that is this thelast kind of hurrah for teams with money
to burn? I got to makea move, or even if I don't
have to make a move, maybemaybe I'm in the playoffs and we can
get into this in a little bitmy roster set. But man, I've
got the money. I can't letsomeone else have him. That you think

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this will be the last kind ofguy in the in the in the backfield,
you say, yes, yeah,I think there's still going to be
big waiver wire additions from here tothe end of the regular season, But
I doubt it's going to be Idoubt it's going to be a running back
because all of the immediate handcuffs aregoing to be you know, already taken.

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So in the cases of injuries,you know, at the beginning of
the season, we're still figuring outdepth yots. But at this point in
the season, we know the depthcharts, we know the orders. Everybody
behind the starter is taken everywhere inalmost all cases, so this is going
to be And at this point,there just aren't that many dark horse unknown
you know, running backs that somehowhaven't gotten the opportunity up until this point

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and yet are gonna get huge opportunityat the end of the season. Just
not how it typically works. WithKeaton Mitchell, he was I think you
alluded to it, certainly frustrating tome as well, had him on plenty
of teams, but and was patientand waited. But then as soon as
I saw the hamstring injury, youknow that that can be weeks, that
can be you have no idea.So at that point you're thinking, I'll

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take an uninjured handcuff back over youknow, an injured one, and then
as soon as you drop him thathamstring mirror if you got like a stem
cell injection or a you know,divine healing or what happened. But his
hamstring is just fine. Yeah,goes off and explodes after you drop him,
which is how running backs work.And I think that's why that's that's

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a great point. I was.I was gonna say that too. Through
I think the reason why a playerthat the you know, I don't say
the caliber of Keaton Mitchell was availablebecause look, you pointed out, every
starting running back's gone, every backupscan and a lot of the third stringers
are gone. Why is Keaton Mitchelllabel That's because he's already been added and
dropped because he had the hamstring injury. So he's available in some leagues where

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he normally a player of his caliberor the you know, the third running
back for the Ravens wouldn't be.But eventually zero fantasy points all year,
hamstring injury. You gotta make moves. Leonard Fournette, right, Oh,
Leonard Fournette is paied to the bills, All right, is it Leonard Freedders
and Keith Mitchell. I'm gonna gowith Leonard Fournette. So I think you're

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right. I think this is thekind of the last running back that you
could maybe be pick up. Iwas, you know, I've done most
of my Waivers, and I can'tthink of any other like guys that were
like, oh this this this runningmix. I mean, get some some
JP Ryans out there, I guessif you want to go that route.
But I think Keaton Mitchell certainly moreexplosive and then a much better offense than
than than than pen Ryan is soso yeah, no, I like that.

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I like that Keaton Mitchell going forwardas a stash and and maybe even
listen, I have to I thinkI have a team where injuries and bye
weeks. I think I got ateam where I gotta throw ket Keaton Mitchell
in there and cross my fingers,you know, so we'll see injuries and
bye weeks. I had to throwChase Edmonds in the last week on a
team I actually cared for and thoughtwas pretty good. So you can do

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far worse than Keaton Mitchell, Isay, from experience, yo I had.
We were in in my five Kor my three K for the for
the for the portfolio, I hadto start Jeric McKinnon and uh, you
know, I never screamed louder thenwhen McKinnon scored. And on Sunday morning,
I'm like, lots go like itnothing feels better than when you when

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you take a fly er, yougotta start a guy, you have no
choice any freaking scores on a receivingtouchdown. It's just so nice. And
the corollary to that is that nothingfeels worse than when in your one of
the main event teams that you reallycare about, you drop Jerick McKinnon,
then need an RB two, haveno one else to start, end up

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starting Chase Edmonds and then watched JerickMcKinnon score that touchdown. So I feel
like we had inverted weekends of it. There you go. And by the
way, if Jack McKinnon's is available, he's a guy that like this offense
is It's like the like the Chiefsdefense has been so good. No one's
been talking about how bad their offensehas been. Everyone's maybe because I'm Western
New York and the Bills offenses isspent sputtering, but it's been better than

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the Chiefs offense. And maybe iflook at that last year, Jack McKinnon
won people a million bucks last yearduring during the race, like he might
be a guy that listened. Wegot to spark our offense. But Checko's
not going anywhere. But maybe westart throwing the ball to McKinnon a little
bit more six seven, eight catchesa game maybe down the stretch. This
is the exact same playbook that wesaw last year with Eric McKinnon. He

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was a complete dud for the firsthalf two thirds of the season and it
was just out of desperation once AndyReid had given all this opportunity to the
wide receivers that they had brought inand no one really produced. I you
know, unless uh Rashie Rice justreally fully breaks out into a lead wide

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receiver, I could easily see themgoing back to Tried and Truman, you
know, Kelsey McKinnon, Kelsey McKinnonjust back and forth to move down the
field because other than that, youknow, there's nothing reliable. Yeah,
and going into the bye week too, right, bye week? Maybe maybe
maybe that's the do they They comeout of the bye week and it's when
we're running with with with Pachuco.It's Kelsey McKinnon in the passing game and

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Rashie Rice will give you you knowwhat, targeted you here and there.
But I mean that's almost what he'sgetting anyways. So yeah, I could
definitely see that happening wouldn't be surprising. So if you've got if you've got
McKinnon, certainly certainly hold on.I know it's always going into a bye
week. Well you're not gonna drophim coming off a touchdown, but you
know, don't don't drop the goinggoing into the into the bye week.

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But yeah, anyways, prepping forfor playoffs. So this is the time
where you know, SAVD the ownersnow are going through their rosters, taking
their time, you know, goingthrough maybe once once waivers are complete,
you sit down and you're start settingyour lineups and stuff, looking towards the
future. Right, we got alot of lead, Like I know,
the FFWC playoffs start weeks fifteen.I think I think it starts get the

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all play week four week fourteen,So you've got you still got a little
bit of time. But now iswhen you want to look forward. Now
is when you want to look atstrength to schedules. If you've got some
really solid teams that that you knowyou're gonna be in the playoffs, maybe
some some some some eight and oneteams, some high scoring teams, you're
gonna be looking towards because you know, going to the playoffs, you're gonna

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have probably well you got team kickerwith the FBC, so it's a little
bit easier. You gotta carry totwo kickers, which is sweet, which
is awesome, but maybe you're gonnacarry two defenses. You're definitely gonna carry
multiple quarterbacks because no waivers, andyou want to be able to not be
an injury away from being out ofthe whole tournament. So you're looking for
depth. You're looking to kind oftrim to trim the fat. Now's the
time. Well, everyone else isscrambling for one week fill ins, Now

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is the time. Or maybe you'regoing to look forward to the playoffs,
look at that strength to schedule andthen maybe some some teams you have are
still fighting and scraping away here someof those players that you can kind of
look forward to starting here. Soas you're going through all your lineups,
Jack, what are you what areyou kind of looking for? Well,
you know this is it's really beingable to plan for the playoffs look forward.

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It's a luxury, and this iskind of a case of you know,
the rich get richer. I'm ableto do. You know, I'm
looking at all of my best teams, the teams that you know, have
already earned their way that that reallyjust need to not screw up or or
or not implode completely, but buthave a really good path to the playoffs.

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And I'm starting to look especially youknow, you've got some teams where
you went really deep with wide receiverin the draft, and it's you know,
on this particular one it really pannedout, and you're counting and you're
seeing these are like, I don'tknow how I could pick up a wide
receiver that is going to get aheadof these five or six guys, or
maybe you've got your running backs lockeddown and it's you know, I've got

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four running backs I trust and afifth that I could flex in a pinch.
You know, what's the value ofthat extra marginal you know, depth
receiver or that mark, you know, that marginal handcuff running back compared to
adding on an extra defense with areally good playoff schedule from fifteen to seventeen,

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or going ahead and grabbing that thatsecond tight end before we get really
close to playoffs and people start toadd depth once we you know, you
shut down waivers, having you know, a better pick at tight end at
that on those future weeks, that'skind of the things you start to do.
You start to see how many ofthese can I afford to lose and

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still make it to the playoffs andyet give me that that depth that I'm
looking for for sure, and Iwant to We weren't putting on doing this,
but I want to just show.I'm going to share our team here
that is in first place in theFFWS, in our in our league,
and it's in the top twenty overall, and get rid of this banner here

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soever. Everyone can see it perfect. So this is kind of what we're
talking about. So we have ateam here, Fantasy Portfolio dot win uh
number three. We're eight and one, fourteen hundred and thirty seven points,
and we are top twenty overall.So this is like that luxury that you
were talking about where we can go. Okay, look we're probably gonna make
we have a two game lead.Hey, we're going for that ten k

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sweep. Let's go get that.I love it. That's one of the
great things about f FWC is ifyou have the most points and the best
rocker, there is no league playoffs. You get the full to ten thousand
and we move on to the Thisis the three week race so I'm super
excited the dominator. That's right.So we go look at like our roster
and and I got to give youcomplete credit. I mean, this is

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something that we we we've been textingabout, but you've been locked in.
And I remind correct me if I'mour quarterbacks are now our Stroud and Kyler
Murray. Did you pick up Stroudoff of waivers? Yeah? Yeah,
this was originally a geno Daniel Jonesteam. Okay, and yeah, and

(28:36):
we got off the Daniel Jones experiencereal quick. Yeah, I think within
the first couple of weeks after thatjust did not look like it was going
to be the Daniel Jones of lastyear. And picked up CJ. Stroud
pretty early after he showed himself,and then recently picked up Kyler CJ.

(29:00):
Stroud Gino and Kyler until this pastthis pass and then consolidated down to Stroud
and Murray once we had seen whatwe needed to see. Yeah, so
our quarterbacks are set and we'll getinto the strengthen schedule here in a minute
for the quarterbacks. But excited aboutStrode, obviously excited about Kyler Murray.
But that's when we're talking turning overthe roster. Two new quarterbacks that we're

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super excited about, and then therunning back position Man to be able to
be a top twenty team cruising withoutKyron without a Chan to get them back
to go along with Bryce Hall,Sanders has fallen off, but Foreman's carried
us like Foreman's hanging around. Youcould do worse for an RB four than
than Deonta Foreman. You could doworse on RB five ver Miles Sanders.

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So the running backs are set you'relooking at there with the receivers. Marquis
Brown, we just talked about him, you know, depth a receiver,
not the most dominant guys in theworld. But obviously Allen's been great.
I'm and Ro's been great for sure, So we like that. And then
Laporta picked him. King Kid,another guy that you that that you were
texting me about a couple weeks ago. Hey, what do we do to

(30:03):
it? You know, I'm I'mthe Western New York Bills guy. I'm
like, hey, listen, KingKid's gonna be the man that do what
we got to do to get him, and he what an incredible feeling he's
been for the Porta. King Kaid'sa flex option at this point with all
the targets, you get ten catcheslast week. I know we have to
pick up a team kicker here eventually, but I'm not I'm not too worried

(30:25):
about that. But we're gonna lookat the Chargers defense, you know what
I mean, We're gonna look,hey, what how does the play We
have the ability to look, howdoes the playoff schedule play out? Who
do they who do they play?You know? How can we mix and
match? We have that ability.So if you're if you have a team
like this where you're set up,look forward, look down down the stretch,

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maybe two defenses based on matchups?Is is that what what you think
we're gonna do here, Jack?Yeah, because realistically, and it doesn't
even need to be these particular players, but if you look at our receivers,
yeah, it's gonna be hard forany player to break into our flex
spot. The only one that youknow immediately seems likely out of the you

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know, to keep us from flexingfive wide is if Kyron returns back completely
to form and as well h Chanit the same way I think kyrone makes
you would push to start even withBree and a Chan. But in that
case. Now you're starting to look, you know, we want to keep

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a little bit of depth of runningback, but Latavious Murray, especially with
the four net signing, completely expendable. So there's a spot. We've got
quarterback covered, We've got tight endcovered, we have wide receiver depth.
We could I mean, we couldafford to even shave wide receiver a little
further, like a Michael Wilson.But I particularly like him and I'm going
to hold on to that one fora bit. But that's when we start

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to look, maybe we, uh, instead of just banking on one defense,
uh, you know, maybe welook for a combination of defense.
Yeah that either we can ride forthe rest of the season or or alternate
and kind of ping pong during theplayoffs. And even though it's still several
weeks and you know that there's thethe part of me that loves to churn

(32:13):
the roster and always have people inthe spots that can increase in value.
You know, I'm not sure howmuch that that rb Latavious Murray if we
swap him out with another handcuff.The odds of that handcuff hitting versus the
odds of having two solid defenses Yeah, great matchups for those money weeks where

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we're now starting to get to thepoint where that that calculus starts to make
a whole lot more sense correct andlike and then like you said, like
there's probably like if you were tocut Murray, there's very little that's probably
gonna happen in the running back marketthat's gonna make a huge difference. You
know, we talked about Keith,Keaton, Mitchell and especially after next week,
once we get h Chan and KyrieWilliams back and Breis Hall and Foreman

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and Sanders, like, there's justit's it's gonna be very ful that any
running backs and be able to crackthe flex or our running backs. I
mean we even got King, LikeI said, King K we get flex
too, So I know it's nottight end premium, but he's the number
two target in the bills right now. So yeah, so that's kind of
what you're looking to do here,looking over every roster, what is each

(33:17):
each roster need? How can Iand how can I figure it out?
So we've got to a quick startsick question here from Daily Double, what
is our thought on starting Dean toForeman tomorrow in a pinch I think I'll
go first, sure, Jack.I think that the Bears have kind of
told us what they want to do. I think they like form and he's

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played well. He reminds me likeof David Montgomery, Like he just runs
well, he's a you know theway he uses angles and he's just a
very solid running back. He getstheir goal line carries. The question is,
you know, what are they goingto do with Herbert back? Is
Herbert definitely going to play, butwe play tomorrow. I think if Herbert

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does play, Formant probably takes aback seat. But I think it's a
probably a one a one B thing. I don't love it, but I
guess I don't know what to comparehim to, you know what I mean?
Like it's I think, but Ithink if you're in a pinch,
you could probably start him. Yeah, no, I don't hate it.
You know, obviously, you knowJerry's saying he's in a pinch, so

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this isn't you know, his preferredoption. But in a pinch, he
he's he's played out. You stillgot Tyson pagent, which means that you
know you're going to rely more onthe running backs for your rushing and they're
gonna play I'm a little bit moreconservative game, you know, Khalil Herbert.
You know, as he returns,he's still in my mind more of

(34:45):
the explosive between the twenties runner,you know kind of yeah, you know,
certainly not Keaton Mitchell, but butsimilar to that role. Whereas you
know, I still think in thein goal line settings and things like that,
you're going to go to somebody justwith the size and the combination of
size and speed like Foreman. SoI think he's certainly taking the back seat,

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but I think he's going to havestill a far greater role than somebody
like Roshan Johnson, who you know, came into the season with a lot
of promise but just really just gotflat out outplayed by Don Dea Foreman,
who frankly has done that now fora few years in a row, and
we shouldn't be surprised at this point. He comes in kind of as the

(35:32):
ostensible just a guy and then endsup outplaying his way into really great performance
on several different teams at this point. Yeah, but you would know Carolina
last year and Foreman just you know, the Achilles he's you know, Rochean
lost his opportunity. He got hurtat the wrong It was just unlucky,
got hurt at the exact wrong time, and literally the game that he was

(35:54):
good would be able to take itover. He gets htainly has a three
week concussion, like you just likethat just doesn't happen any three reconcussions don't
happen anymore. He had one,and so he lost his opportunity there.
And it's funny too, I laughed, Jack, when well we've got It's
just such a difference in like perspectiveor like how you people approach drafting,

(36:14):
because here you and I are like, yeah, no, I could see.
But I've got guys like Mike Shopsome other buddies that I call on
teams with. They're like Foreman becausethey draft three running backs like I would
never like that's why I draft threerunning backs. I am not starting to
forman Meanwhile, we're drafted five receivers, Like, yeah, I could see
putting Foreman at the RB two.Absolutely. You know, it's so funny

(36:37):
the way roster construction factors into that. Well, that's the thing about the
running back position. You know,the fantasy performance and the games can be
ugly, but you know ugly pointsare still points too, and you know
he foreman excels at ugly points,So don't hate it. Certainly not the

(36:59):
easiest defense to rush against, butnot necessarily one that I would avoid either,
So in a pinch, I thinkit's a fine play, Yeah,
for sure. All right, Solet's go to the to the quarterbacks.
Here, strength is schedule for thequarterbaving forward because some people might have like
a lot of teams I've got havegot, you know, Josh Allen or
Patrick Mahomes. I have one quarterback, you know, I fill him in

(37:19):
for the buy. But once youget to the playoffs, you're looking towards
the playoffs. Now and now isa year. This this year is a
year where you want to gred thatquarterback earlier than than you normally would a
Josh Allen hasn't had his bye weekyet. You know, Eagles have their
bye week this this week. Chiefshad their bye week this week. So
this week you would have had topick up a quarterback anyways, but this
is the year you gotta do itearlier than aver because there's no quarterbacks left,

(37:43):
like you don't want to be stuckwith your second quarterback is Travis Bagent
or something, and well now andJustin fieldsill be back. Like there's just
no quarterbacks that you can trust downthe strutch. So you're looking at the
strength of schedule, you're looking atat at at quarterbacks, and I'll just
I'll just kind of get us started. Your quarterback that I've seen on some
waiver wires, probably due to thetimeliness of the bye week, is Russell

(38:06):
Wilson, the Broncos, come up, come off the bye. He has
the second best quarterback schedule for thethree week race, that's weeks fifteen,
sixteen, and seventeen. He isthe second best one behind our king Kyler
Murray, who's a number one.I'll let you talk about Kyler, But
Russell Wilson gets Detroit week fifteen ina shoot at Detroit in the Dome.

(38:28):
Good weather, we will, wedon't care about the weather. Blizard outside
in the dome in Detroit. Thenhe go then he's home to New England.
Not great, but that's where you'vegot your other quarterback, right,
you're flexing these guys. And thenhe gets the Chargers at home in a
shootout because the Broncos defense stinks.This could be for maybe a wild card

(38:51):
spot or a playoff spot. Numbertwo, Russell Wilson's guy that if he's
on waivers, I'm looking to pickhim up. He's got two great matchups
in the fantasy for playoff and talkabout ugly points. You know, Russell
Wilson is that this season has fittingme of ugly points. He's averaging like
twenty points a game. It looksterrible, but he's getting there. So

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I've seen him on waivers myself,and I think especially you know, at
the onesie positions. I like tokeep it slim for most of the regular
season, but you know, youneed that backup in case your team just
takes off, but then you getthat unfortunate injury in those fifteen to seventeen
and so I think he's a greatoption either if you've lost your quarterback recently

(39:36):
or you need that backup quarterback.Speaking though of that situation, I actually
think Josh Jobbs and the Minnesota Vikings. You know, not only the talent,
the offensive talent that he has aroundhim, which I think is even
better than what he had in Arizonaand what we've seen in Arizona. But
you look at the schedule week fifteenat Cincinnati. Now, Cincinnati has had

(39:59):
a pretty good pass rest that's madeit pretty difficult for a lot of quarterbacks.
But he's mobile and hopefully can youknow, mitigate that a bit.
And then you've got you know,Minnesota is a dome, so you've got
a dome game Week sixteen against Detroitand then Week seventeen against Green Bay.
I'm not worried about either one ofthose. You've got no weather to be

(40:21):
concerned about. And you know,I think not only is there a lot
you know, those are teams thatI could see you know, shootouts emerging,
but there's division on the line.This is a division where there's true
rivalries and they truly hate each other. So I could see, even if

(40:42):
there's not much to play for onone side or the other, I could
still see, you know, avigorous game. I like the Money week
schedule for Josh Dobbs at quarterback aswell, who now is available on most
waiver wires. Again exactly, andthat's what we're talking about, Like we're
not you know, we're not talkingat Josh, don't. We don't care
about well, I'll get into thatsecond, but we don't necessarily here about

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Josh Allen's playoff schedule, whome like, those aren't guys you're able to get
off waivers. But where it doesmatter, and I'll kind of scroll on
about it was where you get guysso the worst and basically what the strength
of schedule is here as I'm as, I'm going off of the percentage difference
of fantasy points allowed at the positioncompared to what their opponents scored against other
teams. So it's like it's fantasypoints allowed, not necessarily like what the

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how they rank against quarterbacks is howmany fantasy points do they give up against
the quarterback position compared to other teams. So you scroll down into the bottom
and the toughest strength of schedules inthe playoffs are the Dolphins and the Jaguars.
You got Tua and you got TrevorLawrence. So maybe those are guys
like listen, I'm not benching Alainno matter what. I'm not mentioning Mahomes
or Hurts or Lamar. But youknow what, Tua. I don't think

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Tua is a transcendent quarterback. TrevorLawrence, I don't necessarily think Trevor Lawrence
is a transcendent quarterback Tua gets theJets Week fifteen, who embarrassed, Like
the coach said, embarrass everyone.They just embarrassed Herbert. I was just
in a FFWC main event going intoMonday night. I was up ten with
the Jets defense against Herbert and Iwon by like six, by six points.

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Herbert did nothing, and I feltcomfortable going into the matchup. That's
how good this Jets defense is.So Jets defense, then Dallas defense,
then Raven's defense. That's his threeweek race. I got it. You're
not winning one hundred and fifty grand, two hundred grand, a million bucks
with two starting three weeks against thosedefense. You need Trevor Lawrence faces Baltimore

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difficult, the difficult one, Tampawhich is easy, but then Carolina,
which is another difficult one as well. You need Josh Dobbs, you need
Russell Wilson. You need someone forat least one of those weeks to fill
in and be able to get youthere. So that's kind of what what
we're talking about here is what canwe do to get away from our two
was our Trevor Lawrence is and thethird toughest one is Houston, And we're

(43:07):
just talking about having our guy therein Houston at quarterback. But guess what,
you looked ahead and you saw KylerMurray on waivers the number one strength
to schedule San Francisco sounds like atough defense is but not against the past
Chicago, Philly. That's what youwant to be looking forward and looking ahead
to do. Yeah. Yeah,I think the Kyler's got a sneaky schedule

(43:30):
because you hear those names. Obviously, Chicago is Chicago, and we know
that's a bankrupt defense. But youknow, you hear the Niners, you
hear the Eagles, and if you'rejust sort of casually paying attention, well,
those those are great defenses. Theyare every year you know what gives.
But I think sneakily the cornerbacks arewhere you exploit those teams, and

(43:54):
the secondary in Philadelphia in particular hasbeen terrible. That's why they've been added
on a lot of pieces there totry to, you know, patch something
together, but that's been the weakspot that teams are attacking. So if
Kyler's back in full form, Ithink or at least you know, eighty

(44:14):
five ninety percent of the way there, I think that could definitely have some
upside. In the weeks of thecount. Yeah, exactly. And again
those are shootout games. Like yousaid, you don't care about the point.
You just want points. Who caresif they're ugly points, you know
what I mean. If Kyler Murrayis running around, they're losing thirty to
six, and then he puts upthree second half to touchdowns, great,
fantastic. So and by then hopefullyKyler's needs done a little bit better,

(44:37):
maybe he can be a little bitmore mobile. So and again, the
quarterback position is a position where youcan kind of look ahead now and hopefully
find some of those matchups and keeplisten, we still have like five weeks
until this happens, so teams mightbe dropping quarterbacks. I might have to
make tough decisions. Keep your eyespeeled for quarterbacks kind of moving forward to
help compliment what you have there,especially if you've got one of the elite

(44:59):
ones here. So moving on tothe running back position here. A lot
of times it's a little bit tougherto kind of look ahead because hey,
there's so many injuries right Like youcould be like, oh, this team's
got the greatest strength of schedule ever, but you know they can have three
run of three injuries to the runningdeck position by the time you get there.
And also a lot of times youjust start in your studs right,
like, oh, you know,I've got a guy that like Saquon Barkley,

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For example, the Giants have theworst running deck schedule down the stretch
of New Orleans Philly, the Ramsthe worst. But are you bet like
who you mentioned Saquon Barkle before,he's gonna get thirty five touches in the
game. He's only gonna scre yourfifteen fantasy points, but he's gonna get
you thirty five touches. So it'sa little bit harder to do it that
way. But do you have anyrunning backs, Jack, that you kind

(45:43):
of are running back maybe backfields teamsschedule wise that you're kind of looking to
a void or looking to exploit.You know, I think it's a great
like you're saying, you start yourstuds. I think the the list of
studs though, is not maybe aswide as everyone thinks. Strength of schedule
is a great uh, certainly tiebreakerwhen you're making tough, you know,

(46:06):
those close decisions. And I thinkit's also a good way and you know,
we're talking about preparing for those playoffsto decide which handcuff running backs are
you know, a better investment in, you know, if everybody's an injury
away. It kind of just seemslike a coin flip, but one that
I like, which you know,I think should be available based upon the

(46:28):
terrible results earlier this year who burneda lot of fantasy owners. I like
getting Josh Kelly of the Chargers.Now, you know it did not work
well the first time around, completelyunderstand. But if something happens, especially
if you've got Austin Eckler and you'retrying to patch a great team to get
to that victory. But even ifyou're just looking for some upside and you're

(46:52):
you're you know, do I getJosh Kelly or Zamir White? Who knows
what to do with that? Lookat the the last three weeks for the
Chargers, Week fifteen, the plusmatchup against the Raiders, Week sixteen,
a plus matchup against Buffalo, whichdoesn't again to casual observer, doesn't sound
like it. But they lost youknow, Matt Mulano and a lot of

(47:15):
that linebacking court. Like that's therunning game is where to attack Buffalo at
the moment, and then the coupde gras in week seventeen at Denver,
which is just heaven for running backs. So you know, certainly don't want
to see anything happen to Austin Eckler. Love him as a player, but
you know, if you've got him, the wheels up and if you're trying

(47:37):
to decide which handcuffs to get,Josh Kelly's probably on your waiver wire because
he's disappointed lots of people so far. But I think he could be one
of those impact players that comes outof nowhere, and those are the players
you want in the three week race. That's what you want to have.
Friends of mine go bills, Theyplay all over the place. They won

(48:00):
a million dollars last year. Inanother tournament. They started Zay Jones the
week's fifteen. You know why theydid that because no one else was gonna
play him, and he had Hescores forty points and the rest is history.
Also, they also had Jerk mccannon, no one else was using him.
That's what you want if if ifEckler goes down and you're the only
dude that starts Kelly and he popsoff for twenty three Fantasy points. You're

(48:22):
way ahead of every everybody else.Like you know, you don't want Ekoler.
I mean you want Ekoler, butyou don't want Achol. Everyone's got
Ekoler, and everyone's gonna start Okiler. Eckler goes down, and you've got
Kelly with that sweet schedule. Thatis what you're looking for. And that's
that's a that's a great point.That's the type of stuff that you want
to be looking for. And andand and I'm gonna I'm gonna kind of
be in the same thing we dothere and I'm and I'm looking at the

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Eagles schedule, their fifth, fifthbest schedule down the stretch Seattle, who
got destroyed and now they're not thisthey aren't this bad, but they got
destroyed by the Ravens. Three hundredrushing yards against the Ravens. Okay,
then get the Giants in Arizona,two very positive matchups, two teams they
should completely blow out. There area lot of running decks you can go

(49:08):
pick up in Philly. You're gonnafind Rashad Penny everywhere all over Waivers.
If you've got the room to stashPenny, you go pick him up.
You stash them. And if there'san injury, man, Penny's been waiting.
I don't think Penny's hurt. Penny'sjust he's just kind of been there.
There hasn't been that that injury toget him, to get him to
that role. But you can absolutelysee this this coaching staff, if there's

(49:30):
an injury there plugging in Penny andgiving him twenty five carries and next thing
you know, he's got twenty fivecarries down the stretch against the Giants and
the Cardinals and he helps you winone hundred and fifty thousand dollars. So
that and you can get pieces ofof this this backfield, right like you
look at some other backfields. Youknow, he's got the number two schedules

(49:52):
on the stretch the Falcons, Well, Bijon is not available, l Giers
not not available. So you know, there's nothing really you can do there.
But this is a backfield with Phillymaybe the rest of their starters the
last two weeks of the year,and they throw it and they activate Reshot
Penny. I mean, there's somany things that can happen there, so

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any any other running back stuff,Jack Well, I was just going to
say to your point on you know, leverage on the field and or having
those unique players that maybe are stuckon the waiver wires. It's important to
also remember the FFWC waiver rules whenit comes to playoffs. So not only
are these no more waiver pickups afterweek fourteen, anybody who's dropped in the

(50:35):
prior two weeks is also not ableto be picked up. So this is
the time now to start thinking aboutit, because you know, just counting
on. While somebody else might dropthem, I'll get them later. They
might be frozen and banished to theshadow realm where no one can give them
whatsoever. And you just happen tobe one of the few teams that makes
it to the big tournament who happensto have this guy on their roster.

(50:58):
Maybe it goes nowhere, but youknow, a five to ten percent chance
of major leverage on the field issomething you want to look to, Yeah,
for sure, exactly. Those areThose are great points that people forget
about, you know, until itgets there, like, oh, I'll
pick up this or ow crap,he's freaking locked. That takes the shadow

(51:19):
round. He's in the shadow round. But moving on to receiver and I'll
let you start a receiver, becauseI think I know where you're going to
go with this. I think we'vetalked. I've heard your son in the
pre show asking about trading away JSN. So I would just remind your son
of the Seahawks schedule weeks fifteen toseventeen. Weeks fifteen Philadelphia again like we

(51:45):
talked about Week sixteen Tennessee, whichis porous secondaries. In week seventeen Pittsburgh,
which again one of those defenses thatsounds a lot scarier and it certainly
is for quarterbacks and running backs,but actually has been fairly attackable through the
secondary. So just the best strengthof schedule you could ask for. And

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three wide receivers, especially one inJSN, who you know people may be
getting tired of, maybe forced togive up during by weeks or maybe considering
tonight, whether he's the guy onthe bubble that they need to get rid
of so they can get a kickeror something. Keep JSM for that week
to fifteen to seventeen if you can, if you can afford it, unless
you're in a league with me,that's right, Well every league with you

(52:30):
you already aged JAS that's true,that's true. But yeah, and I
want to point out too, likeI know things can kind of be you
know, ah, they're better,but like you know, it's just it's
just strength of schedule, and youknow it's true, it's not everything,
but they have you know, basedoff of the percentages, they have a
twenty six percent advantage at the widereceiver position number one. The second best

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one is Baltimore all the way downat seventeen. So like it's a nine
percent point gap between one and two, and just give you perspective, between
two and three, it's it's onepercent. Between three and four it's one
percent. Like it's a massive percentage. Great higher. Now, I know
this is gonna sound crazy, maybenot the FFWC people, because we draft

(53:15):
a million receivers, we start fiveof them. But like, if you
can afford to hold, like likelet's say maybe your drop. Oh you've
got Latavious Murray right where we're justtalking about him, like, oh,
he's expendable. Jake Bobo, LikeI hate to say the name because it
keeps freaking score and points, buthe's an injury away right from having this
sweet schedule all to himself, andthe coaching staff loves him. So if

(53:38):
you get an injury a metcalf,or you get an injury a Lockett.
You know you can throw in Boboand maybe he's a wide receiver too.
Maybe he's at Zay Jones from lastyear that one week where you know he
explodes against this sweet schedule. SoI think this is the type of stuff.
This is the type I listen.No one's busier than I am.
I got three kids in sports inschool. This is the type of stuff.

(54:00):
When the women and children are inbed, you're up at one o'clock
in the morning, drink, drinkabout weeks fifteen to seventy. Looking at
weeks fifteen to seventy. This iswhere you make your money, all right,
Jackson his nineteenth diet pepsi. Youknow, at two in the morning
on a Wednesday, let's grind thisJake Bobo receivers and see what we can

(54:22):
do. You mentioned the Ravens too, is the second best strength of schedule
with a very attackable schedule of Jacksonville, San Francisco and Miami. I think
the Miami week seventeen could be agreat shootout. And the interesting thing about
the Ravens is there are going tobe Ravens wide receivers on your waive ride.
That's right. I've seen OBJ,and OBJ has started to see some

(54:45):
targets over the past couple of weeks. You know, it's not completely inconceivable
that somebody like Nelson Agalore or evenRashad Bateman could become the guy due to
an injury in Baltimore in those finalweeks, and you know, it's already
one of the best offenses in theleague if it consolidates into one receiver.

(55:05):
You know, we get really stuckin how things are are now and we
forget that three or four weeks agoeverything looked completely different. So in three
or four weeks from now, thosethings that we hold is like, no
way possible. There's a shot.So when we're talking about when all the
money is on the line, it'sworth taking shots at these high upside opportunities
like the Baltimore schedule in the moneyweeks. Yeah, and listen, I'm

(55:30):
saving this this podcast because you're gonnaI'm telling you everyone thinks they know everything
when we really know absolutely nothing.I look at the strength of schedule at
the very bottom. Actually, theMiami Dolphins, we just talked about Tua.
Miami Dolphins receivers. It's the Jets, it's the Cowboys, it's the
Ravens. I'm not saying you're gonnastart Jake Bobo over Tyreek Hill, but

(55:52):
I'm just saying, but you might. I'm this is gonna sound insane.
You get an injury of Metca,lock it next thing, you know,
it's JS And I'm just he's worthit in an ad and then you can
figure it out later because everyone inthe tournament is going to start Tyreek Hill
and no one in the tournament isgoing to start a starting Jake Bobo.

(56:14):
And I'm just saying stuff. That'sthe crazy, stupid stuff. And you
would know, Man, you camein second place last year and the ffw
C Maine. I came in fifthplace in the FFPC Maine. We know,
we've seen it, we know whatit takes, we know what happens
in these freaking tournaments. Man,Well, I'm gonna give away a juicy
piece or a little bit of edgeto maybe wrap up some of the show

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here one of my favorite positions toexploit his defense. It's just that area
where people it's too complicated, it'stoo very volatile, and better not spend
too much time on it, becauseit's not just worth it. If you
look ahead two weeks fifteen to seventeen, there is a defense that I guarantee
is on every single waiver wire atthe top of that, and that's the

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La Rams. You've got week fifteenagainst the Washington Commanders, You've got Week
sixteen, the hardest matchup over thosethree weeks against Derek Carr and the Saints,
or I guess Taysom Hill and DerekCarr and the Saints. And then
in week seventeen you've got the NewYork Giants to seal the season, who

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at that point may not have aquarterback. They may just be Wildcat to
Sakuan every single play, which franklymight be better than what they're dealing with
now. But that is a defensethat is freely available and has two just
blowout matchups and a third that isn'tgoing to kill you. You know,
when you've got all You've got Tyreekand you've got Keenan Allen, you've had

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all these great players and you're tryingto find the way to differentiate yourself.
Sometimes you can do it through Bobo, but sometimes you can just do it
by picking up the LA Rams defensefor a dollar coming off of their bye
week. Stash it in that extraspot, and now you've got a key
way to differentiate yourself. And youknow, we all know that the matchup

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is what drives those defensive points.And you know, having that extra it
is not inconceivable for the Rams andAaron Donald to blow up for ten to
fifteen points in any one of thosegames. Guys, when I when I
came in fifth, the difference betweenfifth and third place was like two points.
The difference between fifth and fourth placeAaron Jones freacking forty six yard touchdown

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cost me ten thousand dollars. Ifit was a forty three yard touchdown,
I come back. I gonna comein fourth place. It's the difference of
point percentage points. Every point matters. I have a ton of Ravens defense,
a ton, and even talking withJack tonight and going through this,
I'm learning you look at the Ravensdefense, right, Ravens have the third
worst defensive schedule, but they've gota good a decent matchup with Jacksonville fifteen

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and a decent matchup. I don'tknow how it's decent, but with Miami.
Maybe the sacks week seventeen in themiddle of that is an awful forty
nine ers matchup. You go upto the Rams, the Rams Washington,
and the Giants on both sides ofthat, you get yourself, the Rams
and the Ravens, and you've gotthree beautiful matchups for the three week race.

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And it almost sounds crazy to benchthe Ravens defense for the Rams defense.
But like you said, when they'replaying Washington, the guy gets sacked
twelve times a game. When they'refacing the Giants, I mean, Davida,
we're talking about the worst quarterbacks you'llever see in football, and so
I mean, that's what you want, man. You want those pick sixes,
those strip sacks for touchdowns. That'swhere gets you to the points.

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You know, it's about turnovers andtouchdowns. It's not about holding opponents to
three points or whatever tackles for loss. You know, you want chaos.
You want touchdowns, and that's whatthese bad quarterbacks produce. So go out
check your strength and schedules, andeven if you're scraping and clawing to get
into the playoffs, I bet youcan find a roster spot to add that

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second defense. Now, now correctme if I'm wrong. Defenses and kickers
also get shadow band uh once theyget dropped or are they able to be
edited, edited and dropped as well. I think it's everybody. Everybody,
pretty sure it's everybody. But butyeah, really if I'm wrong, tweeted
out that I don't know what I'mroy royal correct us. Okay, but

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yeah, dude, awesome, awesomejob tonight. Yeah and and yeah,
the Daily Doubles says Dallas scheduling playoffs. I was just gonna say that,
Jerry. I was just gonna mentionthat they've got Buffalo, Miami and Detroit.
They're a good defense, but Idon't know if they're that good,
right, I mean it's about theagain, it's about the pick sixes and

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that type of stuff, and you'regenerally not gonna get that against those teams.
So so yeah, it's it's youthink you're set all. I got
Dallas, I got Baltimore. Uh, there's some better stuff out there,
go go find it. So yeah, dude, awesome, awesome show tonight.
I definitely got smarter, just kindof digging in here and excited to
go stay up till three in themorning and uh get doue with Waivers and

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hey, I got to fulfill mycontractual obligation by mentioning JSN. So I'm
of course, how how funny isthat people don't even know like the like
you're you're the you're the j SNguy, and before the show you're backstage
and I'm talking about Son. He'strying to just making fantasy trades, and
I'm like, listen, you don'twant to trade JSN in a keeper league,
but we'll talk about it later.And I can just see Smoke going,

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no no for Shakir, No no, it was it was digs in
Shakir for JSI and cde Lamb.But even that, it's like, dude,
no, no, no, no, no, don't don't eat Bill's
fans. He's stinking Bills fans.I'll tell you what. I don't know
what they're doing. But anyways,everyone, thank you for joining us.

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I'll be back next week and maybeeven Jack will be with me next week
talking about our top twenty main eventteam moving forward here and hopefully hopefully everyone
has a good fantasy week. Nomore injuries please, and you can you
can find me on Twitter at Adamunderscore crowtwers. Jack, what is your
what is your Twitter, Hander,where where can we find you at?

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I don't know, do you.I think it's just just just Jack.
That's right, you can find himthere. So all right, guys,
we will see you next next week