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December 27, 2023 • 73 mins
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It's time for the fantasy football guysfilling your ear holes with gooey, sticky
football knowledge since two thousand and five. Here they are Lyle con Keel and
Kevin Moore Lee fantasy football guys.That's right, we're the fantasy football guys.

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Kevin oh and I have made itto three championships in three third place
games this year. Nice leeksh.I's not worried about that. No need
to bring that up, if we'rereally being honesty. Seven leagues. I'm
in twenty five leagues, Okay,there we go. Twelve of them were

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startups this year that I was notintending to win. I did not draft
my startup team with the intention towin this year. My starting running back
on a lot of those teams wasAntonio Gibson. Wasn't really expecting much,
right, But you know, there'ssay eight or nine leagues. I was
like, I could do something here. I made a deep playoff push in

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six of them. I feel prettygood about that. At least you're in
some If you were in O fortwenty five, yeah, if I was.
If I was over so Lyle inour main money league, right,
I knew I was positioning myself towin the consolation bracket because for the listeners,
if we win our consolation bracket,you can choose your draft spot the

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next year, or you can chooseto take a keeper from somebody else's team
that is not that team's keeper.So, you know, winning the Constellation
Bracket is, you know, notjust a little chunk of change. You
actually get something to help you forthe next season. So I was,
I positioned myself and I made sometrades to win that. So I was

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playing Robbie in that in the semifinal Constellation Bracket semi final, and I
said, well, Juan Johnson orTaysom Hill, And I started Taysom Hill
who got point two points. JuwanJohnson got like sixteen points. I lost
to Robbie by point two four points. Oh man, yeah, so that's

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a bad beat. So I'm in. I'm also in the in the same
situation for another league that we're inthat has the same Constellation Bracket prize,
So I'm in the finals for that. In our Diamond Dogs league against Content
Creators, I'm in the finals forthat. So I'm in. I'm in
like two finals out of twelve leagues. And then you know the Constellation Bracket

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four prizes. So you know,the quarter of my leagues. I was,
I'm in the playoffs or better?So that so bad? How you
doing there? Liel terrible, nice, nothing worth describing, like no finals
forward to the to the playoff leaks. I see, yeah, I guess
we got to do that, don'twe. So let's let Robbie run out

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this year. What okay, waita minute, agreed, Yeah, I
like that. It's not that bigof a deal, rob It only takes
about an hour or two a weekto manage that. So we're down to
the final two teams in the GuillotineLeague, so we'll be announcing a winner,
paying out nine to that t dubmade it to the final three.

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Yeah, I mean, dude,the original winner. Good for him.
Congrats. It's a good run.But uh, you know, gotta go
out sometime unless you win it.So it's you know, I've been I've
been out in the middle, andI've been out in the in the final
two, and I got to tellyou it's better to go out in the
middle. Well, the final threeis pretty rough too. It is because

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it's not the final two. Youmade it to the final game. It
did, and lost a football chick, and it's one of my favorite things
that's ever happened. Well, it'snice to know that, you know,
I have that much rent free spacein your dome. You know, just
say, it's not really like that. It's just that. Listen, if
you don't want it, I wouldhave never heard the end of it.

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You're damn right. You wouldn't have, right, You damn right. You
lost it, so now you willnever hear the end of it. And
you know what, dude, Ididn't just lose it. It wasn't like
I lost by you know, fivepoints or something. She took me out
by like forty points. It was. It was a it was a definitive
win, a career making, acareer making statement win by football chick.

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Yeah, and to her credit,had there was. She was very humble
about it and she was cool andyeah that's cool. To a point.
She she did do some Saturday calling, you know, and and called me
out, you know, through alittle shade. I would have been a
little uh dickish. Yes, weknow a lot with my with my s
talking. Yes, yeah, okay, so enough of that foolishness. So

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we we we all heard today thatthat the Broncos are going to bench Russell
Wilson for the final two games ofthe season. There's that they're just doing
it to make sure they don't haveto pay him an injury bonus of like
thirty nine million or something. Ifhe doesn't pass a fiscal in the offseason,

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they owe him thirty seven million.It's either thirty seven or thirty nine
one one is the other, sothey have to pay him the thirty seven
or thirty nine million next year.The injury bonus is the other one,
and if they cut him, thecat pits like eighty five mil. So
I'm not sure with the reason fordoing this. They're out of the playoffs

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and people are going, well whynow, Well, they just lost this
last week and which took him outof the playoff hunt, like they had
an outside chance anyway. So Iwas looking to see what the trade that
they did, what the Seahawks got, and what the Broncos gave. So
the Broncos got Russell Wilson and atwenty twenty two to fourth round pick,
which they turned into a defensive linemanfrom Iowa State who I don't know has

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seen a lot of times. Seahawksgot Drew locked Shelby Harris and Noah Fan
plus a first round pick in twentytwenty two which they turned into Charles Cross
to tackle from Mississippi State, asecond round pick which they got boy A
Mafe from Minnesota, a twenty twentytwo fifth round which they got tarare Reek
Smith from Ohio State, a twentytwenty three first round pick which was Devin
Witherspoon, which was a nice pick. In twenty twenty three second round pick

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which is Derek Hall out of Auburn. So you know, Drew Locke is
the number two on the depth sharbehind Gino. Yeah, so you know
a lot of a lot of youknow, Harris is with the Browns.
He didn't make it with Denver,and there were some other you know things
as well. But Broncos gave upa lot to have bad quarterback play for

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two years. I don't know ifit was bad for two years. Okay,
it was bad for one year inmediocre for the second year. Fair
enough. Yeah, I'll give youthat. He was not as bad this
year as he was last year,and he had some really good games.
He had some good Fantasy games.Yeah. I think he's QB six,
you know, as the season goeson. Yeah, so I don't think

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it's fair to say bad. Ithink Russ has still got some game.
I think he's in a terrible situation. Clearly. If he was still on
the Seahawks, I think they'd bebetter than they are now. Yep,
agreed. Yeah, I just thinkit's a bad fit. It was a
bad fit last year, and it'sa better fit this year with Peyton,

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but it's not a great fit.And I don't know what they're going to
do a quarterback next year. Maybethey'll sign Flacco. Love it. So
I have the contract information here forif they want to move on from him
this offseason. If they release himprior to June first, it's a eighty

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five million dollar dead cap, andit's a cap savings of minus forty nine
point six million. Oof Jesus theLord, So they an additional fifty million
if they release him prior to Junefirst. If they release him after June
first, there's no minus cap savings. But there's a thirty five point four

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million dollar dead cap in twenty fourand a forty nine point six million dollars
dead cap in twenty five. Nowthat's doable. That's doable. It's not
great. Indeed, if they tradehim, if somehow someone wants to pick
up this contract and the player theytrade him prior to June one, sixty
eight million dead cap thirty two pointsix sorry negative thirty two point six and

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cap savings and twenty four they tradehim after June first, eighteen point four
million dead this twenty four, fortynine point six dead in twenty five and
then and they save seventeen million thisyear in cap space. Well ain,
none of it's sexy, no,but that is the best option for them.
But is anyone going to be tradingfor Russell Wilson? Yeah, who's

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doing in July? Who's going totrade for a player who hasn't been great?
Hasn't been bad, but it hasn'tbeen great. So it'll be interesting
to watch that as the season goes, and watch Jared Stidham basically, and
I have this game to talk aboutlater, and it's like, Okay,
am I going to take Jerry Judy, who was very very questionable as a
play with Russell Wilson with Jared Stidhamas a starter. I think so?

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I don't think so. Thoughts anylast thoughts on Russell Wilson. Good God,
I'd rather not. I feel like, how are they going to cut
him? They're they're going to screwthe team for two or three years if
they just release him. Yeah,well, if they had Howie, you
know how he could make it happen, maybe because you know how he made
it happen with Wentz, but itwas it was even that was even,

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that was kind of tight. Andif they're going to try to trade him,
who which team? Knowing that there'sthis amazing quarterback class coming out this
year, who is going to tradefor Russell Wilson at the Falcons? Falcons
might get Justin Fields, I don'tknow, or Jayden Dani. I don't
think it'll be there where the Falconsare picking. They're in the playoff one,
they're gonna they're gonna be in theteams. Trade out, yeah,

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trade out. Yeah, we'll seeI don't know. Maybe it'll be Kyler
Murray, well, you know that'spossible, or Spencer Radler. We'll see
Arcus Mariota again. And Mariota's available, all right, So uh, I
wanted to We're at the point ofyear where basically we know who's who,
So let's talk about who the fantasyMVP of twenty twenty three season is I

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don't think it's close, guys,it's Christian mccaff I was gonna say three
mcaff Yeah, he's the NFL MVPtwo. In my opinion, it should
be. Yeah. But here's thething that scares me about here. We
have seen this time and time againfrom running backs. At what point do
you jump off the train. He'snever gonna have a season like this again,

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you can't. If he does,how good on is just running back
of all time? I'm sure wesaid that in twenty nineteen too, right,
and then the next a different team. Right, So if he was,
yeah, if he if he wasstill with the Panthers, I think
we would all agree. Hey,he's, you know, definitely gonna be
on the decline. Be careful.I mean, right now, he's the

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consensus number one overall pick. AndI don't even think it's that controversial.
But somebody's It might not be nextyear, but somebody, at some point
it's gonna get burned. Yeah.Right, we did it. We've done
it with Priest Thmes, we didit with Larry Johnson, we did it
with Edward James. We did likeI mean Alexander, you know Adrian,
Yeah, I remember one time,who was the guy who played for Pittsburgh.

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God, it's so all left Bell. I remember you drafted Left Bell.
I was so happy to get loveBell right for about a minute.
Yeah, I mean, it's justit's gonna happen. And then the luster
went off the left. And Iknow, right now it looks like it's
impossible, but it's gonna happen.I don't think it's next year, but

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he's definitely gonna He's not gonna scoreright now. He's at twenty one.
Who knows how many he's gonna have, you know, for the for the
last two games of the season.So he's not gonna score twenty plus touchdowns
this year. It's just impossible.But he's definitely the fantasy MVP. It's
not close. Yeah, And youknow regular NFL MVP generally goes to a

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quarterback, and then you know,the offensive Player of the Year goes to
the skill position player. You know, Tyreek was out for a couple of
weeks, which hurt him, butyou know everybody's talking about, Okay,
well it's the quarterback flavor of theweek. Right, It's like, Okay,
well, it's brock and then hethrows four picks, and then it's
it's hurts, and then he doessome you know, some bad things.

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But McCaffrey's been consistent all the waythrough. You know, it's probably gonna
be lamar if it was held,if the vote was held today, probably
be lamar Jack. And that's fine. He's been relatively consistent all year.
But really, when you're talking aboutjust consistency week to week, being there,
scoring the touchdowns, getting the yards, helping his team mostly win,
McCaffrey's been that guy, some otherguy, another guy was looking at which

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I thought, you know, thisis kind of like the you know,
maybe an outside shot dude. Lookat Raheem Mostert at his age, anybody
thought that guy would score twenty touchdowns? I didn't think he would, but
here he is. No McCaffrey wastwenty one, but we kind of expect
that out of him. Did anybodysee Raheem Moster coming? Yes? I

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think I did. Here's the thingabout Moster throughout his entire NFL career,
anytime he was healthy, no matterwhat team he was on or whatever,
he was super dangerous. He justwasn't healthy very often yeah, you know,
so I'm not super shocked, andI you know, he's definitely going

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to take a step backwards, youknow here soon. He's definitely getting up
there and in age and all thatkind of stuff. But in terms of
pure athletic talent, I mean,he still has one of the top speeds
this year. And how old ishe thirty thirty one thirty one, which
is he's passed the Mendoza line forrunning backs for you. But yeah,

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but but those guys that have hadinjuries and didn't have like full seasons.
We've seen this over and over,you know, except for Curtis Martin.
Yeah he was him. Yeah,yeah, comeback player of the Year for
the Jets back when Todd no wasthe guys what is the quarterbacks name?

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Oh you were you're thinking, uh, Chad Pennington? Pennington. Chad Pennington
was on the team back then.Anyway, the point is, I'm not
super shocked. I mean, theseguys are really talented and and for running
backs, especially if they don't havethe mileage, they can keep going.
But that mileage is real, yeahit is, it absolutely is. Yeah.

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So but he doesn't have the mileagebecause he's missed a bunch of seasons.
Plus you know, in his earlyin his career, he wasn't given
the chances that that he probably shouldhave had at the time. But dud
dude is still a track star.He is. I mean he's keeping Shane
off the field at this point,which is kind of crazy, he is,

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but it's real good. So yeah, you got anybody else Rob to
uh get into the mix. Heprobably isn't gonna actually win any awards,
but I want to let you guysknow, Kyen Williams is currently RB six
and he missed four games. Heis only forty points behind her. He
mostered in scoring and he missed fourgames. Wow, how far is he

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behind cemac? A lot? Onehundred and fifty? Yeah, that's a
little bit, I mean most it'sthe RB two right now. He's one
hundred and twenty points behind Cemac.Just shows you how far ahead McCaffrey is.
Yeah, he's that far ahead.Listen an honorable mention, love it.
But just I think he's a topsix pick next year in re draft

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leagues. Yeah, probably the samein keeper leagues as well. But yeah,
in fact he might be higher inkeeper leagues. But uh, you
know, he did miss those fourgames. Rashard White also surprisingly eye up
here. Yeah, yeah, he'suh, but you know what the whole

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thing is is, it's only PPRif you're in a standard league. He's
fifty three. All right. Soas far as offensive fantasy rookie of the
year, tell me anybody other thanPookin Nakua, I can make a case.
Maybe probably not, but I canmake a case maybe for Jamior Gibbs.

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You could think he's I think he'sreally good. I think that c.
J. Stroud's really good. Youknow, you mentioned uh Shane earlier.
Obviously you know he got hurt andhe's missed some time. But you
know, I think that in termsof like how dangerous is somebody, Like
if Moster wasn't there, I thinka Shane would be up there at the

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top. But I think Puka Nikuais the clear fantasy yeah, or a
rookie of the year on the offensiveside, not fantasy, it's ce D
Stroud probably, Yeah, I thinkif if Stroud hadn't missed the last two
weeks. Because I think I'm lookingat numbers right here, like uh,
Nukua in twenty two twenty three hastwo hundred and sixty five point seven PPR

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points and Stroud has two hundred andforty seven point five. So Stroud's not
had played the last two weeks,he would have been above two sixty five,
so you could put him in there. And obviously Stroud doesn't get PPR
points, right. Uh, Andyou mentioned Gibbs. He's at two twenty
seven, so you know those guysare there. And then you know Robbie
had mentioned his boy Laporta he hasthere were two hundred points. You know,

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the porter is there. I mean, I think there's a real argument
to say he's going to be thenext I don't want to get crazy and
say he's this good, but he'sgoing to be the next you know,
Gronk, Travis Kelsey, I wouldgo, I would go so far to
say he's the next TJ. Hockinson. Okay, fine, because you know

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I was. I saw something earlierthat last year the difference between the number
one and the number two tight endwas five plus points. This year the
difference between the number one and thenumber twelve tight end it's five plus points.
Right, So tight tight end playhas risen and Kelsey's actually fallen a

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bit. So yes, he's droppedpasses and Laporta is no joke. And
I think that he's a steal nextyear and a lot of drafts unless people
get real, real creative in theirdrafts. I mean, I think you
can grab him six seventh right now, six seventh and and be real happy

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with his performance. There's gonna besome people who get him in the top
five those overall. No no,no, no, not not top five
first Round'm talking five, five rounds. Maybe maybe somebody will, but I'm
just saying right now, I thinkyou could sneak him in sixth, right,
you know, but you know,next year there's a lot of hype,

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a lot of videos and stuff.Who knows. Yeah, agreed,
Robbie has showing me something about Remandra. He's out for the year now,
right, Yeah. I thought hewas gonna come back to play this week.
Nope, he's going on ir Soit is Ezekiel Elliott for the Patriots
for the last two games, ifthat works for you. Now, we
don't do a whole lot of IDP, so we really can't talk about fantasy
value of defensive rookies. But whodo you see as the the best rookie

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defender? I think it comes downto two people, so and this person
will not win Defensive Rookie of theYear. I think it comes down between
Devin Witherspoon, who you mentioned earlierfor Seattle, and Will Anderson Junior,
who I think is definitely the guyfrom the Texans. Yeah, I agree.
I think Jalen Carter will win DefensiveRookie of the Year, but I

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think that Will Anderson and Devil Winderspoonfantasy wise, you know, because live
ackers typically rule on IDP. Yeah, you know, and and cornerbacks can
as well if they tackle and youknow, they get some pressures and all
that kind of stuff. And Witherspoonis definitely dangerous. I mean, you
have people like Joey Porter and BrianBranch as well, who are are definitely

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no joke, you know, ByronYoung from the Rams. But Will Anderson
has just been phenomenal and has beena stop top scoring linebacker in IDP leagues
as a rookie. So those tacklesjust pile the hell up up man,
and linebackers tend to get him.You know. That's why, Like in

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the Diamond Dogs League, I tradeda first round pick for Rokwan Smith,
and people are like whoa. I'mlike, the guy gets twenty two points
a week. Yeah, you know, that's running back stuff. You don't
think a good running back is wortha first round pick. I'll do that
every year. I have had linebackersscore forty points for me. Oh yeah,
dude, Nick Bolton, when hegot injured early in the year,

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I was like, well, theregoes my team because he was getting me
thirty points a week. Yeah,you know. So that's why nobody I
disagree with that, all right.I didn't mean to dominate the conversation.
No, no, no, dude, I was. I'm one hundred percent
with you. I think Jalen Carteris a little more high profile than those
other guys because he plays on ateam that's that's better. But I think
overall, he is the defensive rookieof the year. I mean, if

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you look at his numbers, especiallylike pressures and stuff, yes, ridiculously
dominant, particularly particularly playing on adefensive line that hasn't played that well.
Yeah. Well, the probably thething he's got going against him is he's
playing behind a Hall of famer,you know, a potential Hall of famer
in Fletcher Cox. So I thinkFletcher Cox, Yeah, I do too,
but I don't want to, youknow, be an eagle homer.

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Uh. But you know he's he'sso he's not getting sixty five percent or
sixty percent of the snaps. He'sgetting thirty eight percent of the snaps.
And he's the most dominant young defensivetackle I've seen in a in a really
long ti Well, I thought you'regonna say a name, you would say
and Dominican sue Aaron Donald. Yeah, yeah, yeah, those names come

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to mind. That's what he lookslike. Yeah. Oh yeah, his
his his quick twitch is amazing.He's just he's just where he wants to
be in just old A's right bythese people. And then he blocks field
goals. He came back to theball and punched out like a fumble.
Almost caught a spike. Yeah,I almost caught a spike. Like he's
everywhere. So yeah, I thinkhe's he's like Roy Kent wise, fantasy

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wise, I don't think he's closed. I if I had to vote,
right, if we're playing the gameand I'm like I'm a person that's voting,
I would vote Will Anderson Jr.And I'd love to hear anybody argue
with that. Yeah, when you'retalking about IDP and points, it's going
to be a linebacker for sure,or a safety. You know, a
branch comes to mind, but yeah, for for sure. You know,

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in real football, you know,pass rushing is you know, the sexy
thing, but in fantasy it's tacklesand picks and et cetera. So al
right, just just just gonna havethe stats in front of me. Yeah,
Carter has six sacs and forty twopressures, so it's pretty good on

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less than fifty snapshare, right right, all allow it? Yeah as double
that, double that if he's gettingall the snaps. Yeah, oh yeah,
and he's one of the best devotedtackles in football as Yeah, all
you have to do is listen toBaldy's breakdowns and he just he just glazes.
Jalen Carter. Yeahke skeet skeet.Uh No, I sent you the

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the TikTok of the the mashup ofHolly Jolly Christmas and the Little John.
I think it was Little John fromthe Window to the Wall. Yeah,
yeah, it was good. Ithink everybody's heard that. Skeet skeet.
Anyway, let's get this news realquick and then we'll get to the games.
Uh so Jalen Waddle and Tyreek Hillboth missed practice today, uh for

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ankle issues and Tyreek gets a reston Wednesdays because he's an old guy.
Two was also limited in practice todaywith his thumb. As you recall,
Zay Flowers miss practice today with acalf. Nico Collins limited practice today with
his calf. Stroud's still dealing witha concussion, but he was back at
practice today in a limited way,which helps everybody on the Texans to be

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sure. Uh. Let's see Isaiaba Checko as shoulder issue and a concussion
he mispracticed today. Uh. Let'ssee what else we got here. Will
Levis logged a full practice and he'sstill dealing with that ankle we mentioned Remandre
out for the season. He's gotthat ankle issue. Seems like a lot
of ankle issues late in the season. Here. Juju limited practice with an

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ankle. Let's see Hunter Henry limitedwith a knee, a big deal for
the Niners. Trent Williams has agrowing issue. He was limited practice.
We saw him go out early inthe Monday game against the Ravens, which
probably didn't help San Francisco. Itseems Yeah, he was out those those
three games and they were over.Deebo was out for those games too,

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which didn't help. Hey, guesswhat, Deebo limited practice today with a
neck. Anybody don't put smart moneyon the Commanders this weekend. Jacoby Brissett
perhaps, Yeah, that's right.I don't think so, but you know
soon any given Sunday they are playingin Washington. So yeah, well near
one. And guess what. BrockPerty had a stinger which is why he

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got pulled the other day. Buthe's off the injury reports. We should
be fine. Uh. Let's seeTyron Smith and Zach Martin miss practice because
of a backing and regular old guyrest issues. Uh, let's see Marquise
Brown has a heel. DJ Moorehas no Amari Cooper has a heel,

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and yeah, it seems like allthese guys have heel issues now. Courtland
Sutton's still in the concussion protocol.Trevor Lawrence has a shoulders an ac joint
issue, so he missed practice.They may be done. Chris Olave limited
practice, but he was there.He had a has an ankle issue.
Michael Pittman concussion and his shoulder limited. Jamar Chase has a shoulder. He

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was out of practice today. Uh. Keenan Allen has a he's another guy
without with a heel issue. He'smissed games and missed another practice today.
Oh God, let's see chubahover witha hammy. But you don't care about
that guy this point. And youknow, obviously check your your your rosters
for injuries because there damn seems tobe a lot of them, fellas.

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There's a lot, all right.So the first game of the week is
the the Thursday barn Burner. Theone of the best games of the week,
as we found from Thursday games.He said, tongue firmly planted in
cheek Jets Browns. Yeah. Theonly thing that Jets have going for him
in this game is the defense.Really, we saw had a pretty damn

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good game. Yeah. He didninety five yards, two tdas on the
ground, sixteen targets. He haswide receiver one in or sorry, he
was RB one in PPR and standardleagues and by the way, two weeks
ago against Houston he was RB two. Yeah. Yeah, Bresall really is
the only bright spot on this team. And Gary Wilson had an okay day.

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He got fifteen target as well.Yeah, that's really it. I
mean, it was cool to seeBrownlee at his first TV, right.
I like these young receivers. Ilike Gibson, He's awesome. I can't
play him now. I mean,I don't know who their quarterback is going
to be next year. Maybe he'sgoing to be Aaron who knows. I

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do think Trevor Simeon gives a betterchance to score points to these guys than
Zach Wilson did, not saying it'sa good chance. I say it's a
better chance. Fair enough. Nothingto say, Right, you're over there
shaking your head and twitching. I'mtrying to find some to talk about.
I can't though, Yeah, solet's just go to the Browns or where

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there's more to talk about. Slightlyso, dude, Joe Flacco was on
the couch, and then the nextweek he was starting. That was his
worst game of the season. Hehad two hundred and fifty four yards,
a couple of touchdowns, and apick. Since then, he's against Jacksonville,
had over three hundred yards, threetouchdowns, did throw a pick,
had three picks against Chicago, Butit's three hundred and seventy four yards and

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two touchdowns. He's leading the Brownsin a lot of quarterbacking categories and he's
played four games. I think he'sat the first quarterback in like a million
years for the Browns to have threeback to back three hundred yard plus passing
games. Wow, like maybe ever, it might be the first time ever
that's happened for them. That's uh, it's rough. Yeah, it's rough.

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Yeah. Well, you know thefact that he's leading in the team
in some quarterbacking categories. They startedout with Deshaun Watson, and then they
went to PJ. Walker, andthen they went to you know, the
rookie Thompson Robbinson. You know,so they've they've had some troubles at quarterbacks.

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So if you get a quarterback herethat's playing well for four straight games
in Cleveland, let's start the guyfor Let's bring him back next year for
God's sake. Yeah. So yeah, I'm gonna give him the thumbs up
in this game. I'm sure youguys will as well. The only problem
is the Jets are number one againstfantasy quarterbacks for the last month. Joe
do be throwing the bald the otherteam. He will throw it to the

(30:12):
wrong colored jersey. What's funny asin sleeper. Actually he's still wearing the
New York Jets jersey because that wasthe last team he played for. Kind
of ironic. I think I thinkFord is a standard flex at best.
If you got PPR, you probablyhave a better option elsewhere. Same for

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Hunt probably. Yeah, Well he'sgot a growing issue, so who knows
what his availability will be. Weall saw Amari Cooper set the franchise record
for two hundred and sixty five yardson eleven catches, and he said himself,
I'm uncoverable, I'm unguardable, twotouchdown. Yeah, and then of

(30:56):
course in Djoku he's been tight endone seven out of the a tight end
one seven out of the last ninegames. So when you have a guy
who can throw the rock with somesort of zip and accuracy and some distance
down the field, it's amazing.What happens to your football team? Yeah,
you tend to scores points, yeah, real points, fantasy points.

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You win some games? Are theyare they ten and five at this point?
Ten and six? What's I know? They have ten wins? The
game behind the rail, Well,I guess they're now two games behind the
Ravens. Yeah, but I thinkthey're the number five seed at this point,
maybe eleven and four. Yeah,we can we can check this.
We don't have to speculate. Imean, sorry, guys, and we

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could have everybody's record memorized, butthat would just be foolish. They're ten
and five and there are two gamesbehind the Ravens, so they're not going
to catch them, clearly, Ithink. Uh but they're the five seed.
They are the five seeds, sochances are there they're going to uh

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well, they're not going to hosta playoff game at least week one.
They're not. So not if theyhad their starting quarterback and running back.
With that defense, yeah, it'sgonna be it's gonna be at Yeah.
That defense is crazy. So Ithink we've beaten that game into the ground.
So the first I think we havea Saturday game this week and it's

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the Lions going to Dallas to playthe Cowboys. Dallas seven to zero at
home this year. They play muchbetter at home, but they don't play
well against teams with winning records,So who knows what's gonna happen in this
one. Dallas is twenty first againstfantasy quarterbacks in the last month, so
who knows the golf is gonna do. He's been a quarterback one only three

(32:42):
out of the last seven weeks.One of those weeks was the QB one,
so he does have the talent aroundhim. I just think you probably
if you're in the finals, youprobably have a better option than Jared Goff.
He's a fine super flex QB twoin this matchup or any other.
Of course, gonna play Montgomery andGibbs. Don't have to tell you about
those guys. Of course you're gonnaplay on on a Saint Brown and Laporta.

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Not a whole lot of guest workhere in this game. Jamison Williams
is almost at the point where youcould you could flex him, but he's
not really consistent at this point.Same with Josh Reynolds. Uh, they
just don't put up consistent points.So really it's it's the guys I mentioned
earlier from the Cowboys, Dak Press, Dak Prescott still an MVP candidate,
to be sure, you got toplay that dude, and of course Ceedee

(33:28):
Lamb when he said he was thebest receiver in the game. You know
an argument could be made. Andalso you know Jake Ferguson is one of
the tight ends that we were talkingabout before who is consistently good. I
think Pollard might be on the listof running backs that is, uh,
you could call a bust this year. First first draft spot. I was

(33:51):
really high on him, sure,we all were. You know, what
we saw was him able to dolast year and you know, okay,
he's gonna take the He's not goingto just be the change of the and
the receiving back, and yeah,you know, it's obviously a disappointment for
everybody who drafted him high. Ifit wasn't for you know, Eckler,
he'd probably be the bust of theyear. But anyway, so that's all

(34:13):
with that game, it's pretty obviousthere's there's not a whole lot of guests
worth. Eckler at least had acouple of games, had more than twenty
points. Has two. Yeah,he's got two or three in a row
where you were like, okay,well he's found destroyed and then you know,
yeah, all right, well Igot Dolphins raven Dolphins have a tough
schedule here. They finished the seasonagainst the Jets, you know, tough

(34:37):
division rival, smoked them. Theythen play Dallas, they beat them twenty
two to twenty Prize or the Lordand Savior. Then week seventeen they're at
Baltimore and then to close up theseason, they're gonna go home and play
Buffalo. He's red hot like this, this is this is and also who

(35:00):
smoked them early in the season andthat game could be for the division could
be it's this is this is rough. I mean they have had they've had
a they've had a bit of aseason, and so was Tua. Tua
has not had a three touchdown gamesince Week eight against New England, and
he's only had two multiple touchdown gamessince then. He's given me really serious

(35:24):
Trevor Lawrence vibes at the moment.Yeah, the past three games he's been
QB twenty three, twenty three,and twenty two, and he's consistent defensive
football. What he's consistent, sure, but now he's playing the best defensive
football. I gotta be honest withyou, guys. I don't like Tua

(35:45):
from a fantasy perspective. If youwant under twenty points, if you're looking
for thirteen, he's your dude.Yeah, I completely agree. Yeah.
I had the cinnamon in in oneof my championships. Yeah, playing I
think he got to, And iffor some reason, you have a championship
game next week, I would considerdoing the same. Well, I don't

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know if you heard what Robbie justsaid. He said that he had to
sit to it, and he's playingNick Mullins instead. Yeah, I don't
blame him. What's thirteen points?Yeah, anybody can get that. Yeah.
When the president'm playing is Josh Allen, I need points? Yeah,
you gotta you got a manufacture.Yeah, so, Kevin, you mentioned

(36:29):
most of it earlier. He's prettymuch unsuitable. Didn't have a great game
against Dallas, but the previous fourgames, the guy had seven touchdowns eight
touchdowns excuse me, in four games, last four games. Yeah, he
did score last week with Dallas,but he was still in a ppr RB
twenty two. I prefer those twentythree point games out of him. Yeah.

(36:52):
Yeah, I would probably play aShane as well in a flex spot
if I need that person, justbecause he's so dangerous. But I wouldn't.
I wouldn't count on him a wholelot. He doesn't seem to be
one hundred percent back from the injuries. Not he's not. Waddell's unlikely to
play. If he does fine,Uh, you mentioned Hill. Obviously,

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if he plays he rested today,he plays, you're gonna play him.
He's you want to talk about uncoverable. That that's who he is. From
the Baltimore side. It's kind ofthe usual suspects you're gonna play on the
more. Obviously, I would playgus A in a situation where I needed
a touchdown because he's pretty good atdoing that. He's got twelve on the

(37:37):
season. You know, it seemslike these Baltimore running backs do this.
They don't for years now. Theydon't have great numbers, but they do
get like, you know, twelve, thirteen to fifteen touchdowns in a season.
Yeah, it's just a way thatthey roll. Colin Cower was talking
about Baltimore running backs earlier today andhe was saying that, you know,

(37:57):
Baltimore running backs seem to always begood because the threat of Lamar there kind
of loosens everything up, right,and they give him the ball around the
goal line too. Yeah, Soas far as receivers concerned, there's only
I would plays eight Flowers. Ithink he's fantastic. He's got three touchdowns
at his last sorry, four touchdownsat his last four games. He had
the multi touchdown game against the Chargers. He will disappear on you. So

(38:24):
he's a flex guy at best,and that's it. I'm not gonna play
likely. He's been kind of gettinggetting better. No, No, in
a championship game, that's fair,that's fair. Yeah, if it's week
six, likely he's a guy,that's fair. All right, we got
it. I mean, listen,if you need a tight end, like

(38:44):
sure, but it's not. Imean, you know, last week he
had three catches for fifty six caures. Yeah, we were just talking about
how much better tight ends have beenthis year than previous years. So the
previous two games he had touchdowns,but they were the only touchdowns he scored
all year. Like, sure,if you're streaming, he's probably available.

(39:05):
Yeah, all right, we gotPatriots going to the Bills. It's not
gonna be good for the Patriots.In my notes here, I had written
the Remadrez the only when I wouldplay in this game. He's not playing
at all. So I don't thinki'd start anyone from the Patriots. I
mean, if I had to pickon one person, it would be Zeke.
But in the Championship game. Idon't want to be starting to Zeko

(39:27):
Elliott against the Bills, so Iwon't for the Bills. A little bit
different story. Love Josh Allen thismatchup. Patriots have a really good defense,
but Josh can run anthrow, soeven if they have a good secondary,
he'll just run for one hundred andfifty yards. I think James Coke
is probably gonna get really good volumebecause he's been getting like twenty five touches

(39:51):
a game for the past four weeks. But I don't know if he's gonna
be able to turn that into pointsbecause the Patriots defense is so good against
the run. He's probably a flexplay, but he could end up with
twenty points, so that's good.Stefan Diggs is once again just disappearing in
the fantasy playoffs. Uh. Lastyear, if you do the the wild

(40:14):
card, I guess for fantasy playoffs, it's like the quarter finals, semifinals,
and then the championship weeks. Itwas three weeks last year. He
totaled twenty one points over three weeks. That's horrible. That's an average of
seven. That's not good for aguy that probably was a second round picker
first round pick. Last two weeks, he's gotten five points, which reminds

(40:38):
me Lyle, I do oh,you have five dollars because Stephan Diggs got
five point nine points and Waller onlygot four point two. He's so unimpressed
he's not even an answer yet.Yeah, I mean, I mean who
won? Yeah, hey fink Yeahliwas very arele. Robbie was very excited

(41:00):
when Steph got five point ninety's likeWaller can back into six points. Turns
out he could not. Nope,he could not. It turns out we
were both wrong. But you gome money. Yeah, that's true.
So you're probably not gonna sit stuffon Diggs just because you can't. I
mean, a couple of years ago, he got forty points in the championship

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week, so would just start Wallerover him this week? I don't know.
You want to run it back?No, I don't. Yeah,
I don't think nothing, bro,No, make it happen, Rob.
I'm not going to no balls,no blue chip, no no balls.
It's rare you here a man whoadmit to that. Well, facts as

(41:44):
facts, Kevin. Yeah, probablynot gonna sit stuff on Diggs, but
just temper your expectators. Wary ifyou if you are a flush at receiver
and you're making a decision, Yeah, just consider maybe a different option.
Gabe Davis's has a do Gab Davisthings and get three points or thirty points.
So yeah, and then don't startany of the tight ends. Yeah,

(42:06):
I don't blame you. So Stinkbowlsixty four for twenty twenty three Falcons
Bears. Neither of these teams orwell, I guess the Falcons still have
some sort of outside shot to dothe playoffs. But hell, I guess
at this point they can win thedivision. But I don't really see that
happening. Did some deep dives intothese players to try to find a reason

(42:28):
to play any of them? Bijonnow, Tyler no, Drake no,
Kyle Pitts No. So yeah,let's talk about the Bears. So Justin
Fields is one of those boomer Busdudes, right, So you know he
could throw you twenty four points likehe did against Detroit or Arizona last two
weeks ago. In last week orCleveland he got nine point six four points.

(42:49):
So we've talked about this before.He could, he can boom or
he can bust. So if you'rewilling to bet your your playoffs, your
championship. On this guy, yougo on ahead, I hope you have
a better option if you've gotten thisfar. Looking at the running backs,
Khalil Herbert, as he did earlyin the season, emerged from the three
headed Monster. Had twenty carries fora buck twelve against Arizona, had a

(43:13):
TD two. So if that trendcontinues where he's going to get that many
carries out of this running back room, I don't hate it, and I
would certainly look at him for aflex spot this week. DJ Moore has
not been great the last two butbefore that he was money, to be
sure, So if you've been rollingwith him, I would feel okay rolling
with him in this one. AndCole Kmet has just been one of the

(43:37):
best tight ends this year. He'sbeen a tight end one the last four
weeks against Minnesota, Detroit, Cleveland, Arizona. There's a couple of good
defenses in there, so I woulddefinitely get him if he's up. He's
got a knee issue, so ifhe's playing, I definitely put Cole in
fair enough, I have Titans Texanswhole game changes a Strouds back doesn't it,

(44:04):
well, I would play him butthe problem is not really with the
with the Texans. With the Titans. Yeah, I mean Derrick Henry.
I guess you play guy. Hada touchdown pass last week. It's interesting
fourth I think in his career.Fourth touchdown pass also round win. It

(44:24):
good for him, So I guessyou play him. He's been top ten
five out of the last six weeks. But the thing is when he's bad,
he's really bad. And he hada really bad game against the Texans.
He was RB seventy Wow that week, zero point six per You gotta

(44:46):
really suck to be RB seventy seventy, Like, I don't know, like,
but yeah, I mean play I'msure, but you know, d
hop limited in practice. He doescatch the occasional touchdown, gets targeted pretty
frequently, has not done much inthe past two weeks. But would play

(45:07):
him in a PPR flex all thatkind of stuff. I suppose gonna play
Stroud if he's back, right,sure, I mean you could choose not
to. I suppose to. Imean, I guess. I mean he
was great when he was playing,you know, before the issue that.
Yeah, but I feel like he'sprobably not your give you one. But

(45:32):
if he is and you're in theship. Good for you. Uh,
everybody ouse, I guess you knowplay Nick Singletary's basic Schultz. I would
give a role. He gets afair amount of targets from time to time
at tight end, but it's notsuper consistent. You know, he does

(45:52):
have five TV's on the You're notbad for a tight end. Not too
exciting though. For from the Texansside there, I mean, Harvy's shroud
back is better, but they don'thave a lot of offensive firepower and it's
kind of random, so PI canchoose your poison. I suppose. All

(46:15):
right, we got the Eraiders freshoff of win in Kansas City, now
going up to Indianapolis. You heardthe Raiders stat right that, like they
completed their last pass of the gamein the first quarter. Yeah, that's
that's why I'm going to say I'mnot recommending. Yeah have you heard that
stat lyle? They no completed passesin the last three quarters of the game.

(46:38):
The offense is horrible, horrible.They won twenty to fourteen, and
the offense didn't actually twenty points.It was field goals and defensive scores.
Last I heard, though, thosecount. I mean, hey, win
is win. I've heard, butI think if Josh Jacobs plays, then

(47:00):
he's probably worth playing. And ifhe plays, I think Davante is worth
playing. But if Jacobs is outand they're relying on Zamir White to run
the football, I don't think anyoneon the offense is worth starting because they
have no run game. I mean, the receivers is gonna get clamped and
m O'Connell's not gonna be able todo anything. They might get zero points

(47:22):
again like they did against the Chargers. It's not gonna be good. And
there's a healthy Jimmy g on thesidelines. So not a lot to love
for the Raiders. For the Coltskind of similar. Minshew is okay,
but I wouldn't want to start himif I'm in the championship. I had
to start him in the Semis againstyou, and look with that gob yeah,

(47:45):
and it's not good. Jonathan Taylorprobably decent role. Not not gonna
get you fifty points or anything,but he'll do okay, you know,
RB two or three. If Pittmancomes back in his head healthy, definitely
start him. But you know,if it's a game time decision, I'm
not sure how many snaps is gonnaget it. You know, he might

(48:07):
only play half the game. Eh, just not really about the love.
If he's if he's up and going, though, he'll be he'll be great
for the championship. But if he'snot playing, the whole team kind of
suffers. And that's all I cutgot you. So the Panthers who are
actually playing better, they got theirsecond win. They're playing the Jacksonville Jaguars

(48:31):
in Jacksonville. Bryce Young actually hadhis huh they didn't win, they won.
They go they won. They wontheir second game against Atlanta, not
just seven a couple of weeks ago. They've played actually a little bit better,
Bryce, Bryce Young had his bestgame of the season against Green Bay,

(48:52):
three hundred and twelve yards on twentythree completions and a couple of tds.
Ran the ball four times for seventeenyards. Yeah, that being said,
you can't play any of these guys. Running backs are hurt and they
suck. Yeah, just move onlooking at Jacksonville. As soon as Lyle
said, hey, you know what, maybe Trevor Lawrence isn't so bad.

(49:13):
As soon as you said that,Lyle, the sucking commenced. After the
Cincy game, where he had youknow, two touchdowns, two hundred and
fifty eight yards. He immediately followedit up with, you know, sub
twenty point games, three of themin a row. Now he's got his
shoulder. You know, if Ican't really see anybody clamoring to start him.

(49:35):
Travis Eten, he's kind of recentlyas well, flex worthy to be
sure, but you know, ifthe quarterback is hurt and your playing the
backup, obviously at Tien's value suffersas well as does Calvin Ridley. I
mean he occasionally shows up against tamphe had a couple of tds and on
the yards on six catches, Soyeah, occasionally he shows up. But
he's going to count on that inthe championship. I submit that you were

(49:59):
not. You will count on Vaningram O. He's one of the best
tight ends in the NFL this season. Not a whole lot of touchdown action,
but he's targeted a lot, catches, a lot of passes, get
its a lot of yards and Idon't know if you guys know this or
not, but that stuff translates intopoints. Nice, Yeah, is that
it? Yeah? Oh right,I got rams Giants. It's half a

(50:25):
good game. Sure, let's startssome rams. Yeah, you know,
Matt Staff is not horrible. He'sbeen top ten five of the last six
weeks. Not bad. I'll allowit. Sure, Kyrin, you're gonna
play. Obviously, Pooka, you'regonna play. Obviously. Cooper Cup was
down last week, but he hadbeen you know, pretty amazing three touchdowns

(50:49):
at his previous three. Will allowFrom the I wouldn't play Agby got only
two touchdowns of a year fifty fivetotal points. He was tight in one
once, but he had the twotouchdown getting against Arizona. But other than
that, from the giant side,I play Saquon Ty got his back,

(51:15):
but uh, he's a punctured alongthe way from being you know, the
guy he used to be. Yeah, I play Saquon. I wouldn't play
Darren Waller. I hear you're routy. I know you like him, but
I just wouldn't. We didn't likehim now he calls them offense. Yeah,
I know, I'm out on Waller. I hate him. He had

(51:37):
a fantastic game against Washington week seven, but other than that, he had
a good game against Miami week five, too, so cool. Other than
that, yeah, I would notplay him. And sorry, that's really
all I got to talk about thisone. Yeah, the rest of my
games are pretty fast too. GotCardinals Eagles. I'd play Murray and Connor

(51:58):
for sure. I think they probablygonna be run all over the Eagles defense.
Connor plays hard even against teams thathave stout run defenses, and I
honestly don't even think the Eagles dohave a good run defense. So definitely
Connor. Definitely like Murray as wellwith his ability to scramble in scamper.

(52:21):
Eagle's biggest weakness for my entire lifehas been tight ends, and McBride is
like the fifth best tight end inthe league right now. He's the only
one on this team getting more thanten targets a game, So he's I
think going to do very very wellthis week. Yeah. Which linebacker,
which third string practice squad linebacker isgoing to cover him this week? Do

(52:42):
you think? Yeah? I meanyeah, probably Kevin Bayern probably for being
honest. If Hollywood's back and healthy, which I don't know if he's going
to be, he might be wortha role. Pretty much every other actual
receiver on this team, I wouldn'treally go anywhere near they don't get they
get three target it's a game.It's not really worth throwing them in there,
especially in the last week of theseason. From Eagles Zough, you

(53:07):
kind of have to start everybody,you know. It seems like one or
two of the guys each week onlyget three points, but you never know
which one it's going to be.Swift actually got a decent amount of touches
last week, got in the vanzone almost twice. Yeah, so I
think you kind of have to starteverybody. Yeah, I agree, all
right. So the Saints and theBucks are playing. So the Buccaneers at

(53:29):
this point are eight and seven leadingthe division. The New Orleans Saints are
tied with the Falcons. It's sevenand eight, so this division is still
wide open, right, so alot to play for here. I'm not
sure that's going to matter. Fromthe same side, it's Kamara. You
got to play that guy, ofcourse. And Chris Alive. What's the

(53:49):
I know the number, but I'masking you for everybody else. The number
of targets per game where a receiverbecomes viable seven right, right, So
Alive is averaging nine targets a gameand he scores Fantasy points appropriately for that
number of targets. Rashid Shaheed maybeflexible. He was had five catches for

(54:10):
nine targets in seven years in atouchdown against the Rams, so if you're
looking for a flex play, he'sprobably a pretty good win against his defense.
I'm kind of cooled on Taysom Hilla bit. He's been used less
lately. He had a fifteen pointgame two or three games ago, but
he got point two points last week, and he's just, you know,

(54:30):
he's just not being used as hewas earlier in the season. So play
your own risk there. Really,Juwan Johnson is probably the tight end to
play if you're looking for one onthis team, and he's probably available if
you're streaming from the Tampa side.Guys, I gotta tell you, we've
been kind of cool on Baker Mayfieldof late this year, and you know,

(54:52):
with you know, some reason,because you know, he has a
history of not being a clutch player. But the last three four weeks,
I mean, he's he's playing wellenough to the point where the Bucks are
talking about they want to bring himback. No picks in his last three
eight touchdowns in the last three weeks, actually nine because he ran one in
for God's sake against Atlanta. Soas a quarterback too, in a superflex,

(55:15):
I would one hundred percent played BakerMayfield in this matchup. We talked
about Rashad White a little bit earlier. Uh, he's been an RB one
nine out of the last ten weeksin a PPR one per He's a top
six PPR pick next year in thefirst round one per well, maybe top

(55:36):
ten depending on who the quarterback is. Yeah, yeah, yeah, top
ten. You gotta play Mike Evansa touchdown in twelve of sixteen games this
year, thirteen total. He's MikeEvans. He's He's He's not never been
Mike Evans one and sixty three yardson seventy three catches. Who is Mike
Evans's never not Evans? Right,So when he goes home, he's still

(56:00):
Mike Evans. When he's on,when he's wearing a football uniform on the
field, he's Mike effing Evans.Interesting, you know what I'm saying.
The thing is is inferred or implied. I guess Chris Godwin in his last
three twenty one receptions twar in eightysix yards. That's ninety five per dude
has not found the end zone.Much this year, but in a PPR

(56:22):
he is at least flexworthy. AndI know you like Cadet and a lot
rob, but he's just a guyfor the most part. I don't actually
like him. Well you've liked himin the past. Yeah, you love
him, by the way, justas an aside, while Robbie figures out
his his thing here last season,a letter County has dropped just saying it.

(56:45):
I'm super excited about that. SoI got Niners commanders. Do I
need to about this game? Butyou don't have to. You can talk
about the Niners, I guess ifyou wanted to. But I would play
Purty, McCaffrey, deebo Ayuk andKittle like I think it's that controversial.

(57:07):
Like that's pretty much what you saidall year, you know, find a
commander for me. I can't,Okay, Curtis Samuel, No, no,
not against this defense man. Youwanted me to find one. I
found a part of one. That'sall I got. Yeah, I'm just
I'm just out, buddy. Yeah. Sorry, I know it's a quick

(57:30):
one, but this is not Wedon't have to talk about how you know
you should start the best running backin football. Not a lot of guests
work here on this one. Yeah, yeah, all right, Pittsburgh going
to Seattle. I lit his numbershere. Every single player in this game,
except for Kenneth Walker will get youbetween nine and thirteen points. Hey,

(57:54):
every single one. That's flex,baby. Every player except Kenneth Walker
can get you more, right,just put him in at running backs,
Sharbona can get you. Not betweennine and thirteen. Yeah, it might
get you between four. And you'retalking about like Kenny pitt talking about not
Kenny, but the Pickens and DeontayJohnson and Jalen Warren and Nauji and both

(58:15):
quarterbacks too, honestly. Yeah,so a lot of flex plays here.
Uh, that's about it. Noone, no one to really love except
for Walker. Yeah. I mean, Pickens blew up last week, but
he still had four catches. Youknow, he got lucky breaking two tackles.
That's it. That's the only reasonhe scored so many points. It's

(58:36):
it's still not consistent enough for meto like in the championship game. Gotcha?
All right? Then? Uh?Last game? Last? Ye?
No, you have games, okay, so charge my last game. Chargers
will travel to Denver to play theStidhams The only reason I'm going to say
maybe play Eckler is because Denver's twentysix against running backs in the last four

(58:59):
games. That would really be theonly reason. Probably have a bunch more
reasons not to play him. KeenanAllen's still out with a heel. I
don't know if he's gonna play thisweek or not. If he's up,
maybe, I mean Stick has nothad bad games, obviously not winning games,
you can't play him, But ifKeenan Allen is up, I'd probably

(59:20):
roll him in a flex. Imean, Stick can get the ball out.
There really nobody else on this Chargersteam, and I'm just hoping they,
you know, shake things up inthe offseason and get some good coaching
and whatever. Anyway from the Broncosside. With Wilson out, I mean,
with Wilson in, Javonte Williams hasnot been a great play. You
know, Courtland Sutton has been betterthan advertised, but he's questionable with a

(59:45):
concussion. Judy has underperformed. Thetight ends aren't really worth anything. But
with Wilson out, I can't playany of these guys honestly. Yeah,
I mean maybe if Sutton's in andI'm desperate for a flex you know him,
and Insteadham is a guy who's beenaround the league for a while,
so you know he's got some skills, clearly, and Sutton has overproduced based

(01:00:07):
on on preseason projections. But it'sthe finals, man, you know,
there's no fooling around, so Iwould find other options elsewhere. All right,
this is the last game, andactually Robbie has one too. Robbie
has a Monday nither my last game. If you'd have told me that a

(01:00:30):
championship week at the beginning of thisseason, Championship week, we have a
Bengals Chiefs game where I don't wantto start anybody, I'd have thought you
were crazy. Yeah, are yougoing to start Jake Browning against this defense?
Who just threw three picks against Pittsburgh? No? No, how about

(01:00:50):
Joey Mixican? Who Joey Mixican?Sorry, I'm sick Joey mix him?
How about him? He had scoreda bunch of touchdowns in the previous three
weeks. I guess give him anod in a flex. Sure he does
catch a few passes in a PPRas well, but you know, t

(01:01:14):
Higgins had a big game last week, had two touchdown game a week before
that. Okay, all right,I'll allow it, I guess. But
if your quarterback's going to throw hisfree picks, this is a pretty good
defense. It's one thing that Chiefshave. So Okay, Higgins in a
flex, I'll give you. Let'stalk about Patrick Mahomes. Man must we

(01:01:39):
how many times has Patrick Mahomes beena top ten quarterback this season? Three
times five? But only one ofthem since Week seven? Oh, only
once? So you're you're talking aboutfifteen sixteen points a week? Is that

(01:02:02):
your guy? Is it because TravisKelcey drops passes now or there's just no
receivers? No, because eleven,twelve, thirteen, fourteen, Travis kelce
was top ten. The past twoweeks, He's been bad, I'll give
you that. Did you see theimage where there's a clear hickey on his

(01:02:22):
neck and it says Tyler sucked thetalent right out of him? Taylor?
Who cares? It's funny? Mahomes? Yeah, it is. Mahomes play
at your own peril, honestly.I mean, he might get you fourteen
points. Seriously. I know thatsounds crazy, but that is where he

(01:02:44):
is right now. It's a littleNutty. I mean watching the Chiefs not
be the Chiefs. It's it's alittle off putting. On the other hand,
it's it's kind of enjoying it tobe frank. I mean, I
you know, I like shifts inthe NFL, so it's it's it's good
to see. I mean, ifthey had Tyreek Hill, do we think
that this is still happening? No, I don't, So pay pay your

(01:03:07):
stars, uh Rashi Rice is compellingin a in a PPR, especially ten
nine, ten, nine, twelvetargets in the past five weeks eight eight,
seven, nine, six receptions.I will allow that in your in
your PPR, you're gonna play Kelsey. Obviously he's been pedestrian in the previous

(01:03:29):
two weeks, but you're gonna playhim. He can't not sit correct.
But uh, temper your expectations forthis game. That's it. Yeah,
yeah, Now this is the last. This is the last. Okay,
last game. Yeah. I wantto say at the beginning of the season,
there are a lot of matchups that, you know, looking forward into

(01:03:52):
the future weeks, Oh my god, that's going to be a great Chiefs
Bengals Week seventeen. That's gonna beamazing. Any of the Jets games,
Oh, that's going to be greatwith Aaron and with a Yeah, it's
gonna be. And there's just beena lot of stinkers. Well it's unfortunate
all of them with the Jets reallybecause yeah, yeah, yeah, all
right. So arounda this week wegot the Packers going to Minnesota to play

(01:04:13):
the Vikings. I think the Vikingsare still in the hunt or they might
actually have a playoff spot. Actually, well, they got Nick Mullins leading
the Vikings, so it's gonna beit's gonna be rough, but I think
they still have a chance to sneakin the back door of the playoffs,
so they're playing for something. Myinitial thought was, these are two teams
that have shown to be really goodteam and they've also really, really sucked.

(01:04:36):
So I wasn't sure how this wasgoing to play out. It might
be high scoring, it might bea ten to seven game. When they
played back earlier in the season,the Vikings won and the Packers Nobody did
well fantasy wise. Jordan Love hadeleven points. All the receivers, Christian

(01:04:56):
Watson, Romeo Dobbs, Jay andJane Reid all had like eleven or twelve
points. The running backs were likefive. It wasn't great. I expect
they'll do better this week, butI still don't trust him to be any
more than flexes. I'm not evensure Christian Watson is gonna play. Yeah,
if he doesn't play, I thinkJayden Reid is probably my favorite of
he was out last week. Yeah, if Watson's out and Read is up,

(01:05:19):
or if Watson's up and Read isout, whoever, whichever of the
two of them plays. If oneof them is out, I like that,
So you like the guy who's goingto be playing correct unless they both
play, and then I like neitherof them. Confusing, but I think
I need a pie chart to Yeah, go ahead. But yeah, they

(01:05:42):
get decent target shares, but they'rejust it's just not converting into points.
Yeah, this is this is adivision game, so you would think,
oh, they have you know,a tough rival with the game is always
different. But everyone on this teamis so young they don't actually have the
experience playing against the Vikings that much. I'll out of the rookies, I've
only played him once. That theoldest players are year two or three guys.

(01:06:03):
It doesn't actually mean much for thePackers right now, So i'd probably
not roll Jordan Love if you're onlyplaying one quarterback. If you have a
two quarterback league, might be worthsomething, but he's probably at the back
end of that. A lot ofthe skill positions are eh this week for
the Packers. For the Vikings,however, I think it's the opposite situation.

(01:06:28):
The only person that was active onthe team the last time the Vikings
played the Packers was Jordan Addison andhe had twenty five points. Now you
have Justin Jefferson back, you haveNick Mullins playing quarterback instead of Kirk Cousins.
You have ty Chandler in instead ofAlexander Madison. So it's a completely
different offense than when they played thefirst time. We know what Justin Jefferson
has done to the Packers before.Now it's a different quarterback, but still

(01:06:53):
he's the rue running the route toget open. As long as Mullins can
get him the football, which he'sbeen able to pass a couple weeks,
he's gonna go crazy. The lossof t J. Hockinson is big,
but Addison being there, kJ Osbornebeing there pose enough of a threat.
I don't think it's going to bean issue that they lose out on Hockinson

(01:07:14):
in terms of how powerful the offenseis going to be. Ty Chandler has
proven himself to be the only runningback that can do anything on this team.
I think he's worth playing. He'sprobably not going to be much more
than a flex, but I thinkhe'll be a solid flex play. And
all of these receivers I think areworth playing. That's it. That's it,

(01:07:35):
and those eat them games. Allright. We have a couple of
questions in the discord Lyle, Yeah, let's do this to cha lv Hey,
guys made it to the finals.Half peeper have some similar questions.
But last week downs or Osborne?Robbie? I like Osborne? Yeah,

(01:07:59):
I do? Who I think Ido too? All right? Flex Alex
Jones Chandler or Gus Buss Jones,Alex Jones, Aaron Jones. Alex Jones
is Alex Jones, right wing commentatorof some of some notoriety. What's he
doing in there? Aaron Jones,Chandler? And who was last guys?

(01:08:25):
I'm going to play a Jones?Uh? Probably? Although I think Edwards
is almost guaranteed to score a touchdown. Yeah, but his ceiling is like
ten points it is, Uh,okay, I'll go with Jones two.
But Aley Chandler. Yeah, I'msure you do. Yeah, I think

(01:08:47):
that Jones says the higher ceiling thanChandler this week. Here's the here's the
real question. Tight end Craft pitsWaller or oakn whoa a con quoquo.
I've heard it. I've heard italways all those ways. Yeah, Robbie,

(01:09:09):
you're playing Waller here. No,you're playing a conquo. Yes,
you're playing Chicka Conquo. I thinkI think I might, yeah, might
as well out of these options.Yeah, I mean you're gonna play Craft.
No, Pitts is better than allof them by far, allegedly.
Have we seen it, Yeah,a few times. Uh Defense Denver,

(01:09:30):
Oh my roster. I think aboutadding Raiders Jacksonville, Seattle or Houston Denver.
Seems like an okay pick versus theChargers, but not sure. I
would definitely play never but yeah,yeah, yeah, I mean yeah,
I think that with the Chargers,you know, basically rudderless. They they
they're you know, out of theircoach, which is a good thing.
And the fact that they've got arookie playing who's not really done all that.

(01:09:54):
Well, yeah, I would definitelyplay in that scenario. Cool beer
man, beer man, beer manCowys, his fellows made one ship and
it's my home. League. Wascurious if you feel you put in Ridley
over Flowers or Garrett Wilson. That'sall I have to ask, good luck
to everyone in the ship. Havea day. And uh, yeah,

(01:10:18):
I think I'd still play Flowers,just flowers. Yes, but he says,
put in Ridley over Flowers or Wilson. Oh h. I played Flowers
for sure, but Garrett Wilson againstCleveland. If if Trevor Lawrence is up,
I'd play. I'd play Ridley overWilson. There we go. Yeah,
otherwise, you know you don't trustBethard for for a lot of things.

(01:10:42):
Yes, but to throw to,you know, an open receiver on
your bench. Versus Josh Allen mwhat oh yeah? Versus New England?
Yeah interesting, I mean, definitelyplayed. But I'm just saying, yeah,
he's looking at he's uh get screenshotsof his I'm licking at my lips

(01:11:08):
looking at that party versus Washington matchup, that's all. Yeah, and New
England's got a pretty good defense.Well if you look, you know what
is this, uh, Yahoo hashas pretty is a four star matchup and
and Josh Ellen with a two starmatchup. Didn't the Patriots beat the Bills
earlier this year? No, No, the Patriots didn't. Oh that was

(01:11:30):
the Jets. Yeah, yeah,Well, very easy to mix up.
It happens a lot. Mary hasit. Boys. And when I say
boys, I mean YouTube, notthe listeners, because you know, when
I say guys, I mean gendernon specific, but boys, I'm talking
about YouTube guys anyway. All right, So I hope everybody had a good

(01:11:53):
holiday if they celebrate. New Year'sEve is kind of like a non denominational
holiday, so everybody can celebrate.I feel like it. Yeah, we'll
see you guys next year. That'sthe first time I've heard that. And
I'm hell did beat the Bills?Patriots did beat the Bills? Crazy twenty

(01:12:14):
second? Okay, all right,Well I was in October, man,
he don't remembers October. Yeah,the season was young, Patriots still had
hope. Every Patriots fan I knowis rooting for losses so they can get
that you know, better draft pick. So consequently, I'm now cheering for
the Patriots every week because screw thoseguys. All right, enjoy your weekend,

(01:12:36):
enjoy your your New Year's and we'llbe back next Wednesday for the week
eighteen season end, and we'll talkabout the playoff leagues as well. So
all right, boys, why Ilove you? He means it, I
do love you other I mean it. Yeah, I don't know what the
hell Robbie's doing the nuggies. He'sthe nuggies, all right, to say Jesus
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