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2:58

No. Yeah. No. I I mean, I'm seeing it now.

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and I think the comparison that Grand

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a few months ago, he's a jags fan, so he's

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probably a little harsh. As

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he said, he Trevor Lawrence is Jared Goff

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with long hair? Well,

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at some point Jared Goff

3:20

became an insult. Do

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you see Jared Goff right now, by the way? Quarterback

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in the lines potentially through the playoffs? And,

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no, I think I think Lawrence is better than Goff.

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I think that's but, like, here's

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the thing with with Lawrence. You know, Greg Coastell

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said when he came out. It was

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unfair to call him generational. Unfair

3:39

to Lawrence who was a very good prospect.

3:42

But Andrew Luck, paint manning those

3:44

guys only come around, you

3:46

know, 1 a generation. So

3:50

I think it is kind of unfair to Trevor Lawrence,

3:52

but he is playing super super high level football.

3:54

And the thing that I needed

3:56

to see from Lawrence. He he's clearly got the

3:59

physical ability to move a little bit. We saw

4:01

that at the end of that game. I have

4:03

become a firm believer. In

4:06

recent years that for the most

4:08

part, a franchise quarterback's

4:10

gotta got that dog in me. And

4:14

there's only ever a couple of occasions

4:17

where guy really can show you that.

4:19

Well, how about Trevor Lawrence? Basically,

4:24

giving the Jaguars a shot to tie the

4:26

game late in regulation, blowing

4:28

that chance with a fumble, then getting

4:31

that shot again, and then

4:33

rep what cating it and then winning

4:35

the game for the Jaguars. That was

4:37

a big time example of Trevor Lawrence

4:39

showing, the Jaguars fans in the NFL,

4:41

that he's gotten that dog any. And

4:43

now it's coming statistically as

4:46

well. The problem for Trevor Lawrence this

4:48

week is the matchup. The

4:51

jets are a nasty

4:53

matchup. They're a nasty matchup for

4:55

Jay Jones, who might have won you some DFS

4:58

catch last week, they're a nasty match up

5:00

for Christian Kirk, they're a nasty match

5:02

up for Lawrence. I'm actually looking forward

5:04

to this game quite a bit. But

5:06

I have to downgrade my guys

5:09

like Jones and Kirk and Lawrence

5:11

a little bit. You know, Lawrence is popping

5:13

up in a lot of questions this week

5:15

that I've seen especially from

5:17

folks who have Jalen Hertz, which

5:19

we will get to. But Trevor

5:22

Lawrence, It is a tough match for

5:24

him. We just talked about Jared Goff. Goff

5:27

did not throw away touchdown last week

5:29

against this against this jet's team.

5:32

So it's something that is going to

5:34

be well, he did. He did throw a

5:36

touch down. He threw through one to Brock Wright

5:38

on the on the the the

5:40

the final that fourth downplay,

5:43

which really sealed the game for them. But

5:45

Jared Goff did not put up huge fantasy numbers

5:47

despite playing pretty well overall. Not a

5:49

great match up for the Jaguar offense in general.

5:52

But Trevor Lawrence, yes, he has arrived.

5:54

And I think he's finally proven that

5:56

he is the the best Jaguar

5:59

quarterback, probably since

6:01

Mark Brunel. No. I don't wanna erase

6:03

David Garrard's

6:05

tenure as well. I

6:08

forgot about David Guerard. Okay.

6:10

What about Joe the

6:13

Jets offensively? So,

6:17

you know, Zach Wilson threw for three seventeen.

6:20

Oh, man. I mean, Ross,

6:23

here's the problem for a guy like Donovan

6:25

Knight. Okay? Who by the way had a terrible

6:27

matchup with the lions last week and it came

6:29

to pass. He had just thirteen caries for twenty three

6:31

yards. I think I mentioned that on the podcast. Last week,

6:33

how tough the lions have big become as

6:35

a matchup for everybody, but especially the

6:37

rung game. Here is the problem for BAM

6:39

Night. Zack

6:41

Wilson does not throw the ball to his running

6:43

backs. He just doesn't do

6:45

it. His running backs got

6:47

one target against the lions

6:50

last week. Did you happen to see that

6:52

target? No. Wilson

6:57

just threw up a hail. Oh,

6:59

yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He was

7:01

getting spun out of the pocket, and he

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just throws up a water balloon. That

7:06

Michael Carter happened to run under.

7:08

That was the target. Wilson had no

7:10

idea where that ball was going. So bam

7:12

night, despite this being an easier matchup

7:14

for him, you can't expect him to get targeted

7:16

in the passing game, which essentially now leaves

7:19

him to be touchdown dependent, which really scares

7:21

me off of him. Elijah

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Moore four for fifty 1. Yay.

7:26

I I can't imagine anybody's trusting him

7:28

in in this matchup. Garrett Wilson's really

7:31

the only jet that I have any excitement

7:33

out, but Zach Wilson is just

7:35

bad, man. And it really,

7:37

really makes me scared

7:41

to play anybody from the New York Jets in in

7:43

a semifinal matchup that I have to be honest

7:45

with you. Saturday,

7:49

or when the rest of the games are for the most

7:51

part? For the most part, yes. Yeah. Atlanta

7:55

plays at Baltimore How

7:57

does Devin do Renee hurt his foot

7:59

in a Tuesday practice, Joe? I

8:02

don't know how he heard his foot in a Tuesday practice.

8:04

But I think it was

8:06

hysterical that the

8:09

packers cut Sammy Watkins

8:11

on Monday. And

8:14

I literally tweeted, the Sammy Watkins

8:16

who looked like he was carrying a refrigerator on

8:18

his back, by the way, filled with filled with bunch

8:20

of daddy sodas. Ross, by the

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way, have you had the Yingling chocolate porter,

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8:27

Yeah. Then I I found

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a twelve pack of it down here in South Carolina. It

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I'm not a big porter guy, but It

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of two of Pennsylvania's best companies.

8:42

Yeah. Yeah. So it's a yeah. It's

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holiday, daddy soda. Anyway,

8:52

Sammy Watkins, I literally tweeted out as like,

8:54

What does it say about the state of the Raven's

8:56

receiving court? When I had to literally

8:59

ask myself if Sammy Watkins could help

9:01

them, and they claimed them. So

9:04

they see the same exact thing. This

9:07

game at Atlanta and Baltimore.

9:10

I do not wanna watch a second of

9:12

this game As a matter of fact, I might start

9:14

with the Daddy Sonos before this game is on thirty

9:16

seven and a half as the total Baltimore's seven

9:19

and a half point favorite. Desmond Ritter

9:21

did not look ready for primetime, but knows

9:23

about Lamar Jackson? I don't believe

9:25

Lamar practiced on Tuesday,

9:27

which means we could be looking at another week of Tyler

9:29

Huntley, and I frankly don't wanna look at another

9:32

week Tyler Huntley. This is a terrible receiving

9:34

core. At the very least though, j

9:37

k Dobbins has looked pretty

9:39

solid. I mean, he has a hitch in his kitty up.

9:42

He didn't practice on Tuesday, by the way, but

9:44

that could just be management. A

9:47

a game that I

9:50

think from a fantasy perspective is

9:52

not terribly enticing. Let's put it that way.

9:54

JK Dobbins on the Raven side, Mark

9:57

Andrews has been doing Absolutely nothing.

9:59

Each dropping passes. If you have Andrews,

10:01

you probably still have to play them. But

10:03

from Baltimore's perspective, it is

10:05

ugly. They have got to invest on

10:08

the offensive side of the football in

10:10

a major way this off season. Anything

10:14

in Atlanta? Tyler Algyer.

10:17

Arthur Smith came out and said he really likes how he's

10:19

finishing runs. Drake

10:22

London has a massive target share.

10:24

The problem with Drake London's target share

10:27

is the targets are terrible. So,

10:30

you know, you're out there with a Desmond

10:32

Ritter throwing twenty six passes, Drake

10:34

London sees eleven of them. He

10:37

catches and he has seventy yards receiving,

10:39

which is like which is seventy five percent

10:41

of what he threw for. In that game.

10:43

It just Drake 1 a wide receiver

10:46

three, LG or is a Flex, but this is a bad

10:48

game. And by the way, this game as

10:50

bad as it is for Fantasy. Thirty

10:53

seven and a half being the total. It's

10:55

not even the second lowest

10:57

total on the slate this week. Not

10:59

even the second lowest, and we'll get

11:01

to the lowest. The

11:05

lions are playing the Carolina

11:08

Panthers. I was very disappointed by

11:10

the Panthers offensively. You

11:13

know, honestly, I was disappointed by the lions, although they're

11:15

going against the Jets. You talked about that. Much

11:17

tough. A couple games ago. Yeah. Let

11:20

let's go to the lions now. Here is the

11:22

key for Detroit. If

11:24

Deandre Swift is not on the

11:26

injury report, it appears

11:29

safe to start him. His three

11:31

highest touch totals of the year

11:33

have come in the three games in which he was not

11:35

listed on the injury report. And I I'm not

11:37

saying day designation. I'm

11:40

saying on the injury report at

11:42

all, even if he's listed as a full participant

11:44

in practice, he is not on

11:47

the injury report. Now, they still

11:49

have Justin Jackson working in there, but the

11:51

Andre Swift is the best play in

11:53

this back field when he's not on the injury report

11:55

and he is not as we

11:58

speak here on a Wednesday morning.

12:00

Jamal Williams has been a zero unless

12:02

he scores a touchdown. So I'm so

12:04

I mean, you could put Jamal Williams in and say,

12:06

oh, Detroit's gonna score, which they might.

12:09

They're three point favorites on the road, but

12:11

he needs a touchdown And then, of course, you're looking

12:13

at Aman Ross, Saint Brown, who is

12:15

who is this year's Cooper Cup. Not

12:18

a great matchup for Jared Goff.

12:20

He's been a pretty match up sensitive quarterback

12:22

as well as he's playing. So I might

12:25

look elsewhere for my quarterback this week,

12:27

although Carolina is a little bit more beatable

12:29

on the back end. Than the jets are.

12:32

already discussed how tough I believe the jets

12:34

are defense to be. What

12:37

if any need to be said about Carolina,

12:39

Joe? There

12:41

just it's it's done.

12:45

You cannot play theante form in this and I don't

12:47

care if he goes off. You cannot do it. Ten

12:49

carries for nine yards against the Steelers.

12:51

A Steelers run defense that was

12:53

absolutely gashed by the Ravens the

12:55

week previous. He does nothing

12:58

in the passing game, and their underdogs

13:00

in this game. Oh, by the way, Detroit's

13:02

Run defense has been absolutely stellar,

13:06

stellar, stellar of late. Per

13:08

Fantasy Point's data, the Carolinas

13:11

Panthers have the third worst run blocking

13:13

match up of the week, which measures

13:16

offensive line success versus defensive line

13:18

success. The only two teams worse are the bears

13:20

in the Texans. They held

13:22

bam night to one point nine yards per

13:24

carry last week. As matter of fact,

13:26

if I'm playing a Carolina running back,

13:29

I prefer Chuba Hubbard straight

13:32

up to Deontay Forman,

13:34

and I never prefer Chuba Hubbard to anybody.

13:36

But I prefer them straight up to Donante Forman

13:38

this week if I'm playing a Carolina running

13:41

back in this matchup. Interesting.

13:45

Buffalo's at Chicago, which

13:48

brings up a pretty good question, Joe.

13:50

I saw bomb cyclone potentially

13:54

Super cold there. We might have a bunch

13:56

of weather games. How much

13:58

does cold temperatures affect

14:02

scoring and weather and all that stuff.

14:05

If there is going to be a game this

14:07

week that will not be affected by cold

14:09

temperatures, I believe it to this 1, even

14:11

though it's supposed to be frigid in Chicago. Chicago

14:14

already runs the football at a

14:16

much higher rate over expectation than

14:18

any team in the NFL and they're

14:21

activating Khalil Herbert off of

14:23

IR this week. Chicago is gonna run the ball.

14:25

Chicago is gonna run the ball whether it's negative

14:27

twenty degrees outside or a hundred and twenty

14:29

degrees outside. That is what Chicago

14:31

does. Justin Fields, he made

14:34

a special play again with his legs last week.

14:37

Even against the greatest defenses, he's been

14:39

making special plays with his legs. Though,

14:42

he still does leave some throws on the field.

14:44

I still think with with with the bears underdogs

14:46

in this game. Justin Fields is just

14:48

as high an upside quarterback as you can have

14:52

in this matchup. And he has no receivers, by

14:54

the way. Equinimia is Saint Brown

14:56

got hurt on the

14:58

first the first target. He

15:00

he saw he suffered a concussion. The

15:02

other wide receivers on this team Byron

15:04

Pringle and symbol Webster. Dante

15:07

Petters, Bayless Jones touched the ball twice

15:10

and wants to fumble. I mean, it is

15:12

a really atrocious ceding core.

15:14

They need to join Baltimore in the market of

15:16

improving the skill position players this

15:18

soft season. David Montgomery, by the

15:20

way, really good match up with really

15:22

tough match up with the Eagles, twenty four

15:24

point one Fantasy Points. It was the RB6

15:26

performance of the Week. And if you'll

15:29

remember, last season, weeks fifteen

15:31

to seventeen, the Fantasy Play Off Weeks, he

15:33

scored fifty seven Fantasy Points behind

15:35

only Devin Singletary and Rashad Penny.

15:37

At the at the at the position. David

15:40

Montgomery is Santa Claus here. He's coming

15:42

to he's coming home and

15:44

producing for you in these critical

15:46

weeks. The return of Herbert does

15:49

concern me, but I don't think Herbert's going

15:51

to get a full workload, especially against

15:53

the Buffalo Bills defense in

15:55

this particular matchup in the cold weather.

15:58

What about Joe? You

16:02

know, you said you're not worried about the weather. What

16:04

about the bills, how do you want to go on digs?

16:06

Stephane Diggs, JLON

16:09

Johnson, injured against the Eagles, by

16:11

the way. He got he

16:13

he he had some good snaps against AJ

16:15

Brown, but AJ Brown got his. And

16:17

here's the thing. If there

16:19

is again, if this game's in

16:22

Chicago, if it was in Buffalo, I'd be

16:24

saying the same thing. Buffalo drafted

16:26

Josh Allen. The weather was the and everybody

16:28

laughed at it. Well, look what he does on the frigid

16:30

temperatures and the snow against Miami,

16:33

last Saturday night. Three hundred

16:35

and four yards, four touchdowns. Ten carries for

16:37

seventy seven yards. Josh Allen's gonna go off this

16:39

week. The bears pass rush

16:42

is non existent. They got seventeen

16:44

sacks on the year. My Twitter,

16:47

when they sack Jaitlyn Hertz last week, my

16:49

Twitter feed lot lit up. Oh my god.

16:51

The bears got a sack. Well, guess what? They

16:53

also just put two of their sacks on

16:55

IR in a Jack Sandborn the

16:58

line factor. So I expect Buffalo

17:00

to come out and do what Buffalo does.

17:03

Stephane Diggs, White receiver

17:05

1, Gabe Davis, we know what he is at this

17:07

point. He has a volatile, frustrating wide

17:09

receiver, three options. Got a score touchdown.

17:12

And I think Devin Singletary is a

17:14

usable running back this week and Dawson

17:16

Knox a usable titan. The weather

17:18

does not scare me at all for the Buffalo

17:20

Bills this weekend. Next

17:23

match up, it's the saints at

17:25

the Browns. I saw word

17:27

shoves on the injury report. And

17:30

we also talked about this

17:32

was Steve Fesick on yesterday's even

17:35

money podcast supposed to be

17:37

some intense wind there in Cleveland,

17:39

Joe. The projected

17:42

total in this game

17:44

depending on where you look is

17:48

thirty 1 and

17:50

a half thirty two. Ross,

17:53

that is Iowa Rutgers level

17:55

of a total. Okay?

17:59

It is the first time in

18:01

fourteen years. We've

18:04

seen a total below thirty two points.

18:08

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18:10

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18:13

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18:15

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18:20

Or I don't know. I

18:22

mean, they're they're definitely running back so you're gonna play

18:24

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18:26

Camira or Myles Sanders? You're playing Myles

18:28

Sanders. Are you playing Alvin Camira or

18:30

Tony Pollard? You're playing Tony Pollard.

18:33

Find somebody else if at

18:35

all possible? This is the lowest

18:37

total NFL game in fourteen

18:41

years. We have to see about We

18:44

have to see about Nick Chubb. But

18:46

if I have a Marie Cooper in a question,

18:49

I'm taking the other guy this week. If

18:51

I have a it it's really

18:53

so bad that I have to just

18:56

completely bail

18:58

on this game quite frankly. The guys who

19:00

I think benefit are obviously the running backs

19:02

in the run game and maybe the tight ends

19:04

in the short passing game, maybe a little David and

19:06

Joku action, but this game is projected

19:09

to be extremely low scoring and we

19:11

do not want to deal with that

19:14

for Fantasy. If I've got somebody on

19:16

the other side of my match up playing

19:18

Nick Chubb, playing Amari Cooper,

19:20

I am celebrating because this game

19:22

has the potential to be brutal. Chris Alave,

19:24

get them out of your lineups. Like, I

19:27

I can't stress it enough. This is the worst

19:29

scoring projected atmosphere in

19:32

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19:34

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20:44

Joe. Yeah. The Seahawks are road underdogs,

20:47

and there's a couple of situations we need to

20:49

watch in this game first and foremost. Kenneth

20:51

Walker did not practice on Tuesday. Pete

20:53

Carroll said he came out of last week's game a

20:55

little sore in his return from the ankle

20:57

injury. And he wasn't limited in that game. He

20:59

played seventy five percent of the snaps and he had one

21:02

of those games where you got a lot

21:04

of questions about Kenneth Walker. Can I trust them? Well,

21:06

if you started them, he scored eleven point nine

21:08

fantasy points. Alright. Pretty good. If you bench

21:10

them, I scored eleven point nine fantasy points.

21:13

Not too upset. I missed out on that. But

21:15

we have to we have to watch

21:17

his status. The other key for the Seahawks

21:19

is the injury to Tyler Locket. Broke his finger.

21:22

He is almost certainly going to miss this game following

21:24

surgery. Our doctor Edwin Porys likened

21:26

it to an injury Chris

21:28

Godwin had in twenty twenty, which caused him one

21:31

game. And with the sea locks, road under

21:33

docks, again, by the way, there's supposed to

21:35

be some frigid temperatures in Kansas City,

21:37

but not anywhere near the kind

21:39

of atmosphere we're going to see in the

21:42

the the games that are played by the lake. It's

21:44

supposed to be frigid. But with the Seavox road

21:47

underdogs by nine and a half points, If

21:50

you need wide receiver, this

21:52

might sound controversial. I

21:55

think I would rather play Marquise Goodwin

21:57

than Amari Cooper this week. I think I'd

21:59

rather play Marquise Goodwin than Chris Alave

22:02

this week. Just those two guys from that

22:04

extreme situation

22:07

in Cleveland, barring something changing with the weather,

22:09

by the way. Marquise Goodwin

22:11

has had two games this year in which he's

22:13

seen over sixty percent of the offensive snaps.

22:15

He scored more than eleven fantasy points in

22:17

both of those games. Including a touchdown in

22:19

each of those games. So I think Marquise Goodwin

22:22

is somebody who for your DFS lineups. If you

22:24

need to pick somebody up off the waver wire, I think

22:26

Marquise Goodwin is a guy who you

22:28

can trust this week or at least at least

22:30

have a reasonable expectation that

22:32

that he could put up some numbers. They're gonna feed

22:34

DK Metcalf. Mark Keith Goodwin,

22:37

Noah Fan, these are kind of guys who can

22:39

step up in the absence of time of lock it.

22:43

The Chiefs, Jared

22:45

McKean, and this feels like a thing. So

22:49

Derrick McKinnon has finished

22:51

as the the

22:54

overall running back one in each of

22:56

the past two weeks. Wow. And

22:58

per hour rush grade at Fantasy

23:01

Point's data Kansas City's got

23:03

the best ground game matchup of the entire

23:05

week against the Seahawks. Over the last five

23:07

weeks, only the giants

23:10

are giving up more

23:12

yards before contact per attempt

23:14

on carries than the seahawks. So

23:17

I think it's a good spot for Derrick McKinnon to

23:19

continue producing. But here's the caveat. More

23:22

of Derrick McKinnon's work has been done through the air.

23:24

Over the last two weeks, despite being the overall

23:26

number no. Overall running back one in

23:28

to those two weeks. He has seventeen targets

23:30

to sixteen carries. So he's gotta

23:32

do it through the air. The good news is Patrick

23:35

Holmes is throwing the football. So we can do

23:37

it through the air. It's also a positive

23:39

matchup for Isaiah Checko, though, if

23:41

you need a running back. Let's say, you know,

23:43

Kenneth Walker misses. Let's

23:45

say, mixture of misses or

23:47

they're questionable or whatever, Isaiah

23:50

Pacheco is somebody who you can probably

23:52

plug in in a positive atmosphere here

23:55

for the Kansas City Chiefs and play them this

23:57

weekend against the Seattle seahawks in a very

23:59

good matchup. Giants

24:03

are at the Vikings Joe. I've

24:06

never seen anything. Ross, you were there in person.

24:09

You witnessed history. I know.

24:11

Wild. Well, I mean, the

24:14

cults the cults, oh,

24:17

boy. The wild part about it

24:19

is It's not even like every

24:21

break went the Vikings way. I mean, there's two

24:23

pummeled returns for touchdowns that got

24:25

blown dead Jalen Rager

24:27

comes in the game, stops his route. I

24:29

mean, really if they got all the breaks,

24:32

they could have come back from, like, forty five

24:34

No. Yeah. I mean, jail

24:36

and rigor gets two targets, by the way. So

24:38

I don't know if you saw us. Did you ever see you you

24:40

hear the you heard the stat EPA estimated

24:42

points added. Yeah.

24:44

Of course. So Jalen Rager's,

24:47

like, targets were, like, on average,

24:50

minus four point, like, two

24:54

EPA, a piece, which

24:57

means his two targets essentially

24:59

cost the vikings nine points. Which

25:01

is staggering. They

25:04

just gotta hope Justin Jefferson doesn't get hurt

25:06

again or doesn't have to leave this game.

25:09

The giants all of a sudden in

25:12

the driver's seat for the playoffs.

25:14

I mean, good for them, good for Danny Dimes,

25:16

but he's still throwing to a rag tag

25:18

group group of guys here.

25:20

The thing that was impressive to me about the

25:22

giants on Sunday night

25:24

against the commanders was just how good

25:27

Safeway and Barkley looked. That

25:29

was the best 1 Barclays looked in about

25:31

a month to me. And and obviously,

25:34

I think the offense is going to continue to go

25:36

through Sequium Barclays. Now, Darius

25:38

Layton has a really good match up against

25:40

Minnesota's secondary this week. I think

25:42

Darius Layton's in play. I think Richie

25:44

James is in play. If you're really

25:46

desperate for wide receivers, I think Daniel

25:49

Dimes is in play. You know?

25:51

Oh, I lost jail and hurts. Daniel Daniel

25:54

Dimes is out there. Yeah. Okay. Pick up Daniel

25:56

Jones and start him in a matchup against Minnesota

25:58

just because the Vikings managed to

26:00

play, like, one of the single most confident

26:03

teams I've seen in years doesn't

26:05

mean all of sudden I think all their problems

26:07

are fixed. Absolutely not. I

26:09

think the giants should be able to score some

26:11

points on them. It's just the fact that the giants

26:13

don't have a very talented receiving core

26:16

right now for Daniel Jones. No,

26:19

they don't. What about the Vikings

26:21

offensively? So, Dalvin

26:24

Cook, If you drafted Dalvin Cook

26:26

and you survived some of the slings and arrows

26:28

of this season, you saw what he

26:30

did against the Colton Week fifteen. A hundred

26:33

and eighty, a hundred and ninety yards from scrimmage

26:35

in a touchdown. This

26:38

is the worst run defense

26:40

in the NFL over the last five weeks

26:42

in terms of yards before contact per rush

26:44

attempt. We saw Brian Robinson. It

26:46

looked like Brian Robinson was gaining nine yards

26:49

every time he touched the football. And then somehow,

26:51

the the commanders went away from them, which I didn't

26:53

understand. I think this is a spot for Dowling

26:55

Cook to go off. But again, They're

26:57

the Minnesota Vikings. I will say this.

26:59

The KJ Osborne thing, I

27:02

wouldn't be chasing that. The

27:05

colts were down Kenny Moore,

27:08

and the the

27:11

the vikings feasted in the slot on

27:13

the colts replacements I don't

27:15

think the giants are gonna pose that big a

27:17

sieve to to K.

27:19

J. Osborn. But Minnesota is

27:21

kinda Minnesota, man. We

27:23

do. You play feeling. You play hot

27:25

you feelings kinda fallen off a little bit, but

27:28

he scored last week. Hawkins said had three for thirty

27:30

three, but he got nine targets. I'm

27:32

not gonna I'm not gonna lose my

27:34

mind over T. J. Hawkins, not

27:37

putting up numbers when he got nine targets that

27:39

game. You just kinda play your guys, and I think

27:42

it's a good spot for Kirk Cousins as well, but I

27:44

really think it's a good spot for Allen Cook.

27:48

The bangles are at the Patriots, Joe.

27:54

I I feel bad for Jacoby Myers, but Ross,

27:57

that was like Like, it was

27:59

it was a funny play. I mean and

28:03

and the funniest part was Mac Jones just

28:05

to getting utterly run over. Channel

28:07

comes. Did

28:10

you see, I think, Bill Barnwell from ESPN

28:12

tweet it? You know yep. You know how a NextGen

28:14

stats does the dots? You

28:17

ever see the, like, the all twenty two dots?

28:19

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What go

28:21

see if you could find I think it was Bill Barnwell.

28:24

Who tweeted out the dots from that play.

28:26

And it just says Chandler Jones dot

28:29

just running right through max. It's

28:33

really funny. Anyway, Ramondray

28:36

Stephenson looked great. Probably shouldn't have lateral,

28:38

but I don't think expected JacobY

28:41

Myers to completely lose his mind. I

28:45

mean, what what do we do with Patriots? I

28:47

I mean, I I could see

28:50

them coming out and feeding Jacoby Myers

28:52

in, like, a kinda, you know,

28:54

redemption arc in this game. I

28:56

think that would be valid. Mike Hilton, the

28:59

slot corner for the bangles did

29:01

not play last week. So

29:04

that that led to a big game for

29:06

Chris Godwin. So I think that's something

29:08

that we could potentially watch here.

29:12

Hilton was limited in practice on

29:14

Tuesday, though. So he could be training toward a return.

29:16

If he doesn't play, I think, Jacoby Myers is is

29:18

viable, otherwise, play Remoderry Stephenson. That's

29:20

it for the Patriots who are just they're gonna have

29:22

to retool everything off. They're they're

29:24

obviously going to make some coaching changes on the offensive

29:27

staff this offseason. What

29:29

about the bangles? So there's a

29:31

problem for the bangles. I

29:34

mean, you play tea Higgins, you play

29:36

you play Jamar Chase and you play Joe Burrow,

29:38

you could probably make a decision on Tyler Boyd.

29:40

The other the other problem here is the

29:43

mismatch that we have on the ground.

29:45

Per our rush grade at Fantasy Point's data.

29:47

The bangles had the fourth worst

29:50

run game match up this week and, you

29:52

know, the Patriots did an overall admirable

29:54

job on Josh Jacobs last week containing

29:57

him to ninety three yards on twenty two carries,

29:59

four yards a pop. Look,

30:02

Joe Nixon, I'm not saying you'd bench him, but he's

30:04

probably a mid to low RB2. And Samad

30:07

Jay P. Ron just a desperation flex with,

30:09

you know, how they've been rotating those back now

30:12

with with p ryan having played pretty well,

30:14

I'm not feeling as great about the Bengel's run game

30:16

as I am their pass game in this game. And, you know, it's

30:18

not like that the pass game's great matchup either.

30:22

Last but not least for episode one,

30:25

Joe. We've got the

30:27

Texans who've been a little frisky the

30:30

last couple weeks against

30:32

the Titans who, as we're recording

30:34

this, signed Josh

30:36

Dobbs off the Lions' practice

30:38

quad sounding unlikely that

30:42

Tana Hill plays on Saturday against

30:44

Houston. I mean, there is

30:46

one player I wanna play from

30:48

this game. Well, let okay. Let's check

30:51

the status of Brandon Cooks and

30:53

Nico Collins. Because

30:55

the we know Tennessee is a

30:58

pass funnel defense. So you

31:00

could talk me into Cooks. You could talk

31:02

me into Collins, and you could talk me into Chris Moore.

31:05

Depending on the the the status

31:07

of the receivers here. But the

31:09

answer to the question of

31:12

Who's it gonna be? Rex

31:14

Birkhead or Goomba Wallet

31:16

with Damien Pierce on IR? The answer

31:18

to that question, Ross, was

31:20

no. Royce

31:23

Freeman comes off the practice squad.

31:25

He paces the back field with six

31:28

fantasy points. Six point six fantasy points.

31:31

Yay. Tennessee's an atrocious match

31:33

up for opposing running backs. The

31:36

there are there are three players you can consider

31:38

in this game. Whoever the top two Texan

31:40

receivers are, and Derek Henry, who

31:42

has a good matchup against the the the Tennessee

31:45

run defense against the Houston run defense.

31:47

Malik Willis is gonna start at quarterback. Malik

31:50

Willis is style right now. Stylistically

31:53

is bad Justin Fields. Like,

31:56

he's Justin Fields with less juice,

31:58

less experience, and maybe

32:01

somehow a worse supporting cast. So

32:03

even by boy, Chica Conque, can't

32:05

trust him this week against Houston. Houston's been really

32:07

good past defense, by the way, which makes

32:09

Patrick Holmes' performance last week

32:11

more impressive. Steven Nelson,

32:13

the corner was out, but I mean, this is

32:15

not a spot where I'm very excited

32:17

to use anybody from Tennessee, including Derek

32:20

Henry. But at the very least, the titans are four and

32:22

a half point favorites, which suggests Derek

32:24

Henry could be could be important

32:26

in this game. Thirty six and a half being the

32:28

total, an exceptionally low total. That'll

32:33

do it for episode one here

32:35

of the show that's so nice we do

32:37

it twice. This is a weird schedule this

32:39

week. We got a couple Saturday afternoon,

32:42

Saturday night game, then we got some Sunday

32:44

games, night night, Monday night, weird

32:46

weekend. We still got a lot more football

32:48

to talk about. Make sure you are ready

32:51

for your Fantasy playoffs.

32:53

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