Fantasy Football - Week 17 Championship Matchups + Wheel of Shame! - Podcast for 12/26

8:43Andy Holloway:i assume christmas is friday next year it is so there will be a game there yeah there will be and It'll probably just be the one. Wasn't it one last year?

8:52Mike Wright:I don't remember things beyond two weeks ago.

8:55Andy Holloway:Because last year was the first Netflix football. And maybe there was two.

9:00Mike Wright:I would just say, maybe this will be the new Madden curse. Look at the game scheduled by Netflix. And those are the, you'll figure out.

9:07Jason Moore:Avoid those players in your draft.

9:08Mike Wright:That's it. That's it. It's our final Friday.

9:16Jason Moore:Put Clan Friday.

9:21Jason Moore:I like this name.

9:23Mike Wright:Yeah. Wow, weasels. I was shaking my head because I feel like they pick out names just to mess with me. Wow, weasels. A$100 gift card to FantasyChamps.com goes to Wow, Weasels.

9:36Jason Moore:If you are not Wow, Weasels, remember FantasyChamps.com when you get your championships this week. What code do I need, Jerry? You can use the code BALLERS to save some money. I'm going to need it. Oh, okay. This is a personal request. I'm going to need it. Oh, man. It's so true. It sucks. Is this show over?

9:55Mike Wright:A real champ doesn't use a coupon.

9:57Jason Moore:Right. Right, Andy. That's right. He pays double.

10:01Mike Wright:You want that trophy to be worth something. There needs to be a super champ coupon that doubles the price. Okay. Yeah. Al is - How much inventory - Al's putting his trophy up there because he wants us to remember - That he's giving it away soon.

10:14Jason Moore:I'm just keeping it warm for Mike over here. Thank you. It's all polished up.

10:17Andy Holloway:Me and Jeremy are in pretty much a head-to-head heads-up for the Dynasty League. Yeah, I'm coming for that one.

10:24Mike Wright:Yeah, you're going to win by a lot, Mike. Yeah, that's true, too. Oh, man.

10:28Andy Holloway:How much inventory does fantasy champs have?

10:32Mike Wright:Oh, my gosh. The problem in your matchup with Al that I can't overcome is the unconscionable disparity at quarterback. Because you get Joe Burrow against the Cardinals, and he has to. He is backed into with the injuries. He has to play Justin Herbert. Oh, yes. Against Houston. Yeah. Like, barring. Is their defense good? Yeah, they're real good. They're pretty good. They're real, real good. Dang it. Yeah.

10:59Andy Holloway:And then it's just. Not if you ask Ashton Gentry.

11:03Jason Moore:I was thinking about this, too. You know your way to win? Your way to win is Javante to have a big game against his Cowboys receivers.

11:10Mike Wright:What I was thinking, too, is that, like, my team, this is the rebuilding year for me in Dynasty. I thought I'd never do it, right? The credit card bills were piling up. I don't know how long we've been doing that league, but I've never had a rebuilding team. I've always been in. And I was thinking, like, I won titles with Christian McCaffrey. Like, he is still here winning titles for people. The giving up on McCaffrey, moving him for somebody else, it's still him. He's still winning them. He's good. He's really good. Let's talk news.

11:42Jason Moore:News and notes from around the league. presented by Progressive Insurance.

11:49Mike Wright:If I had kept him, I'd be in the playoffs. That's how good he is.

11:52Andy Holloway:Yeah, probably.

11:53Mike Wright:I mean, that would have happened. All right, we do have a few injury updates for the Saturday games. Kamani Vidal's questionable. Lamar Jackson, doubtful. Lamar, doubtful.

12:04Andy Holloway:There's other stuff saying he's just not expected to play.

12:07Mike Wright:Jordan Love, questionable, has been limited all week. I did see he had projections in prize picks, so I thought that was interesting

12:14Jason Moore:this is why I think the Ravens announced it earlier like hey hey Lamar's not going to play guys so Jordan you just take a break ski man there probably

12:24Mike Wright:would be that would be strategically smart like if you knew your

12:28Andy Holloway:guy they're like psych

12:31Mike Wright:we said doubtful

12:32Andy Holloway:you idiot he's in one of the giant winter coats the whole one then just rips it off

12:38Mike Wright:they're starting to talk about trade rumors with him what

12:41Jason Moore:Oh, man.

12:42Mike Wright:Well, Lamar. Cardinals are interested, please. Lamar Jackson, like, they're talking about Harbaugh's tired of him. Can we interview Kyler Murray? Like, he's 29, which is when Cam Newton's, like, he fell off a cliff with the athleticism. Obviously, I think Lamar's, I mean, a great quarterback. It's just, you know, it would be smart. If you were going to miss him anyways, announce it as soon as possible. Maybe they'll be tempted to give Love some time for the playoffs. Josh Jacobs off the injury report and will start.

13:11Jason Moore:They are still playing despite the jokes about maybe having an easier path to resting Jordan Love. The Packers do have home field to play for. And Christian Watson, who was practicing.

13:29Andy Holloway:He's sick. But now he's got an illness. Did he run into Crod? All I know is –

13:33Jason Moore:I just hear Crod out when you say that. The illness is going around this week. They are very serious. Maybe. Maybe.

13:40Mike Wright:Trayvon Henderson listed as a limited participant. Practice on Wednesday in a non-contact jersey. A.J. Brown. This was shocking. Come on, Hendo. You're okay. A.J. Brown didn't practice Wednesday or Thursday because he got his wisdom teeth out. In the middle of the - You know you can schedule these for whenever you want.

13:56Jason Moore:Like the offseason. Did he - Were they infected? I don't know, man. But that's just - It was crazy to be like out of the blue. It had to have. I mean - But even when you have impacting wisdom teeth, it's like you can't wait a month. I don't know. Maybe you can't. Anquan Bolden played football with a broken jaw. Just saying. Well, I mean, if A.J. Brown plays football. I had my wisdom teeth out. And I can tell you one week after they were out, I was still struggling pretty hard. A.J. Brown, I'm sure, played. How many did you have?

14:30Andy Holloway:Four. Oh, you got a full clip. I had the full four, and I got the full four dry sockets.

14:37Mike Wright:Oh, did you really? Oh, yeah. Guys. Did you guys both get your wisdom teeth out? Yeah, I did. How many did you have? Four pack?

14:45Jason Moore:I think so.

14:46Mike Wright:I had two. I was really young. Oh, only two for Josh? Half as wise. That math checks out.

14:51Andy Holloway:I showed up, and I only had one. Legit. So I was like, man, I must be the world's biggest baby. Oh, because of how much it hurts? Because everyone says, it's not a big problem. I'm like, no, dude, this hurt days of just like, I can't do anything. My mouth hurts so bad. And then you found out. And then once you go back in for the like, oh, you should have came in for the things. I'm like, oh, well, at least I'm not a big baby.

15:17Mike Wright:All right. George Kittle, non-participant. We don't think we're going to see him. Ricky Pearsall limited on Wednesday and Thursday. He's always been limited. It sucks. I know. Unfortunately, I now think of that with Ricky Pearsall. I never expect anything. Right.

15:32Andy Holloway:And it's so lame because it's like he's getting illegally tackled and hurt every time it happens. And shot. It's like not fair. Yeah, that too.

15:41Jason Moore:It's not his fault.

15:43Mike Wright:Yeah, that one. Come on, Ricky. You talk about not calling a hip drop. Yeah. They throw a flag on the gunshot wound. Yeah. That was News and Notes sponsored by Progressive Insurance. Quote today at Progressive.com. Progressive Casualty Insurance Company affiliated with third-party insurers. Not available in all states and situations. Coverage subjects to policy terms. Limits and conditions. we're into the matchups

16:07Jason Moore:fantasy forecast presented by prize picks

16:13Mike Wright:we have a couple Saturday games coming up Texas Chargers Ravens Packers both of those were covered on the most recent episode of the show but why talk about them again when we could talk about the Cardinals at 3-12 taking on the Cincinnati Bengals who are 5-10 Vegas line Cincinnati Daddy minus seven and a half. The over under is 53 and a half. The Cardinals are probably going to be without all their players. Buda Baker as well in the concussion protocol. They're only good player left. Walter Nolan.

16:44Jason Moore:I mean, last week, they're Williams on IR. They lost their best player on both sides of the field in Buda Baker, their best pass rusher and their current healthy, the best cornerback, which was not their original. They have no defense left.

17:03Mike Wright:I don't really understand how Cincinnati doesn't score 6 ,000 points in this game. It is the NFL. I thought Denver would score 6 ,000 points. I thought that Detroit would care about scoring in this game.

17:15Jason Moore:I did wonder. I mean, when it's actually Christmas and you're at home and you've got fans and kids who this is their Christmas day, like those defenses that are good defenses, like there's something special to play for. We talk about the Chiefs, do they have anything left to play for? No. For the first time ever, no. But you have that to play for.

17:34Mike Wright:The offensive players don't have kids and presents to play for?

17:38Jason Moore:Well, I'm saying that the offensive players for this year's Christmas games had backup quarterbacks. They all – Not Jared Goff. Was that – no, that game was at Washington. You're just saying home games? Yeah, I'm saying the home crowd on Christmas. It's a new narrative. All of the quarterbacks.

17:55Mike Wright:This is home Christmas present narrative. Yeah, home Christmas present narrative. for the defense by jason moore yeah um the cardinals uh they've lost every game jacoby russet has started good work jacoby the bangles got the offense back on track 309 and four last week the question to me isn't will cincinnati scored their 30.5 implied point total which is ridiculous it's just how will it be chase brown three times again will it be jamar chase back into the end zone because somehow he hasn't scored since week seven. He's saving them up for Mike.

18:30Andy Holloway:He's saving them up, guys. Mike has the easiest championship of all time. We're getting three Jamar Chase

18:36Mike Wright:touchdowns. We all know it's coming. Yeah. I don't know what this is repayment for in your life, Mike. The personal problems he removed. Mike's set up. Joe Burrow, Chase yes Higgins yes Brown yes if you wanted to mess around with Gasicki I wouldn't even be mad at you because you might get lucky you might get one Arizona pretty trash Gasicki's getting three four five targets a week you play Trey McBride what do you do with the wide receivers for Arizona

19:08Jason Moore:I'm definitely still starting uh Michael Wilson I know the Bengals have been better against wide receivers recently Michael Wilson he's been too good to continue benching um or to to bench I mean even this last week he got the touchdown which kind of saved his fantasy day wasn't great but you know he's a wide receiver 22 there's there's been one bad game in the last six weeks and this matchup is high implied team total I think the question is how confident are you in starting

19:38Andy Holloway:marvin harrison ah man he was very limited last week 51 of the snaps he's still being limited in practice because of the heel i think he's an okay ish play but this isn't like davante smith or

19:54Mike Wright:marvin harrison smith smith wandale or marvin harrison wandale wandale takes on the the raiders uh zay flowers with no that one's with no lamar marvin harrison flowers flowers is still safe like

20:08Andy Holloway:Flowers will be – he'll have like probably eight points.

20:13Jason Moore:Yeah, Snoop is not going to Brosmer and finish the game with 50 yards.

20:16Mike Wright:Michael Carter or Michael Wilson is a top ten question. Really? Yeah, Michael Carter, starter for the –

20:22Andy Holloway:Or Michael Wilson? Yes. Oh, that's an easy Michael Wilson. You give me Carter or Marv, I can see that, but not Michael Wilson.

20:30Mike Wright:Yep, it's a top question right now on the flex rankings. So we're all on the Michael Wilson side of that one?

20:38Andy Holloway:I am. Okay. And Michael Carter is fine. 18, 13 opportunities over the past two weeks. He appears to be their guy. And, I mean, 53 and a half point over under.

20:51Mike Wright:All right. This game should be crazy. If you are playing against Burrow and Chase, I'm sorry, you should hope that the Cardinals offense throws like five pick sixes and ruins the offense. Right. But what about Jacoby Brissett? I mean, play him. Yeah, he's a very good play. All right, Pittsburgh, Cleveland. Pittsburgh 9-6, Cleveland 3-12. The Vegas line here, Pittsburgh minus 3. The over-under is 34.5.

21:20Jason Moore:Lowest of the year, gross.

21:22Mike Wright:And the lowest since Cleveland, Miami in Week 17 last year, gross. All five lowest over-unders of this entire season have involved the Browns. It makes sense. Inept offense, great defense. so we also know the Ravens game on Saturday night might impact the Steelers and who they play and how they play them and how much they play them because if Baltimore loses that game which

21:49Jason Moore:they probably will which I think

21:51Mike Wright:now without Lamar in Green Bay which tells you like man Lamar must not have been able to play this is a back

21:59Jason Moore:bruise if you watched him after the game in the locker room it was like this guy was hurting i felt like he could barely stand up and he he said he got what was the was it the shot they get turtle yeah he got the turtle shot still couldn't play through it's a turtle it turns into a turtle throw some lidocaine on it too just give me everything you

22:19Mike Wright:got so cleveland pittsburgh pittsburgh only three point favorites on the road maybe some of that

22:27Jason Moore:expectation is baked in already yeah i i like i really love kenneth gainwell here with dk Metcalf gone the matchup against the Browns the the running game has been working against the Browns and passing the ball to Kenneth Gainwell your current leading receiver he's running back but he's got the most receptions on the team it's perfect but you have to monitor what happens with that Ravens game because I could see them I mean this could be Caleb Johnson could get oh Caleb Three carries? Maybe five, Andy.

22:59Andy Holloway:I don't think that's happened. I have Jalen Warren in two championship lineups as of right now. Thinking about a pivot? Well, I'm at least preparing just in case. So I'm sure that'll come up on Sunday live.

23:14Mike Wright:Maybe they play a lot of Warren because Gainwell's their dude and they need to keep him fresh.

23:18Andy Holloway:That has crossed my mind.

23:19Mike Wright:Yeah, I mean, there aren't a lot of fantasy relevant players in this game. You're not starting pass catchers for Pittsburgh. and on the other side Dylan Sampson limited limited might be back but he'll share time no question Dylan Sampson is not a prototypical three down back he is a pass catcher you'll see Raheem Sanders you'll probably see Travion Williams and Dylan Sampson

23:39Jason Moore:all mixed together on the course of the season the Steelers are number one against running backs you're not playing either of them and then there's really there's only Harold Fannin it's Fannin and move on and that's what we're going to do we're going to go into the break

23:52Mike Wright:come back with the Saints Titans

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26:13Mike Wright:The New Orleans shucks.

26:16Andy Holloway:Gonna get a shark tonight.

26:17Mike Wright:5-10 taking on the 3-12 Titans. New Orleans minus 2.5 on the road over under 39.5. What a great opportunity for the shuck momentum to continue. You look at what matters for the Saints right now, and it's confidence in a quarterback for the future. I think he's 4-3 as a starter, and the record of other starting rookies this year is abysmal. they are they currently have the eighth spot in the draft titans are sitting at five um tyler suck has been the quarterback eight in fantasy over the last month i believe he has started against you this week jason he sure is in listenerly he sure is it is irrelevant but it's amazing thinking back two months ago to the idea of starting tyler suck in fantasy much

27:09Jason Moore:less caring about tyler shuck at all and in the championship game which it is a pretty good matchup I mean Tennessee gives up points to the quarterback position Tyler Shuck has been playing well and you know this is a team you remember when they started the year this team had a very high pass rate over expectation very fast pace of play it was great for fantasy football this is what we wanted to see then it's like we weren't getting ceiling though we were we were getting a

27:37Andy Holloway:real nice floor from the Kellen Moore offense yeah and and so but then they were like trying to

27:43Jason Moore:I don't know be like okay we've got Spencer Radler how are we gonna maybe we should slow this down then it was a new rookie Tyler Shuck and now I think they're opening it up and it looks great

27:53Mike Wright:told you guys I thought Pollard would get it done last week he's been a man on a mission he's on his last three games he'd be on pace for 2 ,000 yards and 17

28:01Jason Moore:touchdowns he is like oh I'm almost to contract stocks

28:05Mike Wright:let's go he's 151 yards away from$250 ,000 bonus he's at over 100 yards in three straight games tony pollard um is fine this week you talk about the letdowns you had from gibbs and monty and and these other running backs pollard just out of nowhere hyper relevant he was the most

28:28Andy Holloway:invisible but a name that you knew you're like should i play pollard but he was doing nothing with plenty of work yes it was it was madness and now it's gone up even more i mean

28:40Mike Wright:up over 20 opportunities twice in the last three weeks uh it's not a great matchup but it's at home and i think you just stay in the flames this is pure nba jam rules here yeah and not that we're

28:52Andy Holloway:playing cam ward but we talked about how tyler shuck cam ward is playing much much better like there is we were halfway through the year with the titans and it was oh my gosh if we end up with a number one pick again do we just take another quarterback but since the the coaching change you know weeks 11 through 16 he's completing 64 of his passes he's running a little bit like they they're there you can see the path now for cam board yeah i i agree which is very exciting

29:25Mike Wright:a lot of people have questions around tasem hill and whether he's a viable play this week they you know the titans have been great against the run but tasem hill does more than just run he should be the guy that gets the goal line opportunities with basically no running backs left i mean yeah out of guesstamay we thought maybe we'd have an opportunity last week he had a total of five attempts on the ground he's not been good on the ground at all somehow he's catching two or three really bad passes a week it seems like tasem hill is your break glass play this

29:59Jason Moore:week at tight end yeah i mean it's funny because i don't think this situation's ever happened before the two tight ends that i would look for on waivers are same team on the same team it's like juan johnson i think is great you had nine targets last week eight catches he's the clear number two target in this offensive yes 67 yards away from a quarter million dollars so you know he's uh going after that he's gonna give him that money taysom hill though i mean 12 rushing attempts and four receptions opportunities around the goal line like I'm not sure which one I would want to start more but I want to start both

30:36Andy Holloway:I would pick Juwan Johnson because Taysom Hill so would Jason to start of the week yes well between Juwan and Taysom is tough I think there's a chance that Taysom does nothing I think that is a possibility but then there's also the possibility that last week was this is how we're going to use him now for the remainder of the season with our injuries he just i don't i don't know for sure what he's gonna do i can't imagine he doesn't have 10 opportunities on the ground genuinely okay so you're on the side of yeah i just don't i saw

31:13Mike Wright:zero from estimate or hold that makes me think they would pivot from what they did last week

31:17Jason Moore:i'm curious who has like higher odds for a touchdown i feel like tasem hill has more paths whether passing one in being the goal line back even catching one i i know juwan johnson's my start of the week but i think i would actually start tasem hill over him wow chris olave yeah

31:37Mike Wright:has been amazing he's the wide receiver six keep playing him especially in this matchup and i think that covers it i mean if you wanted to ask a quarterback question tyler shuck or Jacoby Brissett?

31:51Andy Holloway:I think I'd go Brissett. Yeah, I'm going to go Jacoby.

31:56Mike Wright:Caleb Johnson at San Francisco, my start of the week or Tyler Suck?

32:01Jason Moore:How many quarters is Caleb good? Does he get five? Because he was great with five.

32:07Andy Holloway:I think I'd play Shuck. I'd go Caleb.

32:11Mike Wright:All right, Jacksonville's 11-4. They take on the Indianapolis Colts. By the way, this game is Jacksonville minus six over under 48 and a half. Phillip Rivers is better than half of the players in football at the quarterback position. We were marveling watching these games just like you can't find 30 people in the world to play this position professionally. And a 44-year-old out of shape hasn't played in

32:39Jason Moore:five years Phillip Rivers with no arm ability to throw most NFL throws.

32:46Mike Wright:Uncalculably better than Max Brosmer, than Ola Dukin. Ola Dukin! I mean, then literally probably, I mean, then Shadour. He'd be better for that team than Shadour. Yeah. I mean, it's insane. Like, Tom Brady could come in and beat two-thirds of the starters.

33:05Jason Moore:Probably true.

33:06Mike Wright:Today.

33:06Jason Moore:I still think Brett Favre could do it, but that's the one I want to see.

33:09Mike Wright:Slow to see. How old is Brett Favre? It's probably 53. That's my guess.

33:15Jason Moore:I'm on it. He is 56. Yeah. Yeah, I don't think he could do it anymore. But I want to see it. I don't know.

33:23Andy Holloway:It's just crazy. Jade, for an update, Juwan is plus 180. Taysom is plus 195 for a touchdown. So Juwan just a little ahead.

33:32Mike Wright:Well, it's a must-win game for Phillip Rivers and the Colts to have any chance of staying alive. They would be eliminated if, I think, if Houston just wins.

33:42Jason Moore:Yeah.

33:43Mike Wright:So low odds right now for the formerly 7-1 Colts. I believe this was the game that I said I'm really on the edge of taking the Colts as the almost upset in this one. So I guess I'll just formalize it.

34:02Jason Moore:Andy's almost upset of the week.

34:06Mike Wright:I don't really know if the Colts defense can do enough to slow down what's been going on with Jacksonville. But being at home with everything on the line, Jacksonville coming off the Denver win, I'll give it a shot. It's a six-point gap. They don't have to win. They just got to get it closer than that six points. Jacksonville have been playing outstanding. Jason, you made Trevor Lawrence your start of the week.

34:28Jason Moore:Yeah, you got to stay in the flames. You want to talk NBA Jam rules. This is just life rules. When someone's been as good as they've been since the bye week, his last eight games, he's on pace for 36 passing touchdowns and 12 interceptions, 4 ,000 passing yards. He's also running the ball, 444 rushing yards, and he's got the offense moving, or maybe Liam Cohen's got the offense moving.

34:57Mike Wright:Did you see his comments, though? He said they've changed zero of their offense or their offensive, like, anything they've done with Trevor. They haven't changed a thing all season long. He's just processing faster. He's just finding his way through the offense. I thought that was interesting.

35:11Jason Moore:The issue with Trevor Lawrence has always been putting the ball where a receiver can't catch it. That's it. Like, he'll make these amazing plays, but he's been very inconsistent with his accuracy. Recently, he's just putting the ball where they need it, and it's like, all right. He's got the tools. He's athletic. He's tall. He's strong-armed. He's got the weapons. Everything is set up for him if he can just be. The hair. Yeah, the hair. All sorts of things. So. What? I always remember thinking about the tweet that said he's got one too many horse parts. And I can't get that out of my life. I 100 % knew you were going to make a horse comment.

35:59Jason Moore:I 100 % knew you decided, oh, I shouldn't say that. He's got the main, who knows what all horse parts he has, but he's got a lot of them. So, anyways, he's a... Horse got rocket arm? Yeah. Yeah. He's astounding.

36:19Mike Wright:What's the sound again? What do they call that?

36:22Andy Holloway:A weenie? A weenie? Well, no, that's not... That's neither one, right? Yeah, when they do the lips, what is that thing called? I don't know.

36:28Mike Wright:It sounds like it just started with like a blurt. It's a horse blurt. Horseberry. Blarp. I thought our research team might be looking into that. But they're not. They don't care. I was. Oh, were you? It says lip flapping or lip fluttering. That's what I'm saying. Okay. Play Travis Etienne. You've got to brand that better. Play Travis Etienne and give me the order of your confidence in the wide receivers for Jacksonville. I have Jacoby Myers as my start of the week. Parker Washington just went crazy last week. It's hard to be like, hey, play Brian Thomas. But he had Pat Sertan last week.

37:01Andy Holloway:Yeah, I think it's Jacoby Thomas Washington for me.

37:06Jason Moore:That's how I put it too, and it feels kind of stupid.

37:09Andy Holloway:What was the name again? It sounded like one person. Jacoby Thomas Washington. Yeah, famous president, right?

37:15Mike Wright:Of course. Jacoby.

37:18Jason Moore:It feels stupid to have Parker Washington third on the list because he's been really good for a long time, that exact same time frame after the bye week for Trevor Lawrence. I mean, he's been a top 24 wide receiver four of his seven starts. But I agree. I mean, the best overall wide receiver is Jacoby. The highest upside big fantasy outpouring is obviously Brian Thomas Jr. And then Parker Washington could get it done. But I do think last week Parker Washington benefited from a great Broncos defense that kind of was focusing on the one and two and letting Parker surprise.

38:03Mike Wright:Jonathan Taylor has not been a top 12 running back since week 10. it's a brutal matchup against Jacksonville. It's not really going to change what you're doing. It's kind of like the reason you always play Jonathan Taylor is because of what Ashton Jinty did last week. Even when you're having a tough time, you're Jonathan Taylor, which means one play. It's still been fine.

38:27Jason Moore:Yeah, it's like he has 10 plus points.

38:29Mike Wright:Jacksonville's been so good, though, over the last six weeks. Number one in football against running backs.

38:33Andy Holloway:Yeah, I mean, he put up 21 for 74 against them with a touchdown a couple weeks ago.

38:40Mike Wright:Yeah, no, it's not a change your plans. It's just maybe he's not the one that carries you to the title this week. Yeah, correct. He helps you. Pittman, Pierce, Downs, put them in order.

38:52Andy Holloway:I think Downs is the safest play if you're just like, I need a floor, and then I guess I'd go Pierce if I'm trying to hit my ceiling. Michael Pittman's just in this weird limbo area in the offense with Philip Rivers.

39:09Mike Wright:Three for 26, four for 32 for Pittman. Hasn't scored since week 12. Man, we have the... I tend to agree.

39:15Andy Holloway:There's two Rivers starts so far. Yeah. So, I mean, in those... Five targets each game. Yeah, in those two, Michael Pittman's playing the whole game and 26 yards and 32 yards. It's not that... I think Pittman is playable, but I think I prefer the other guys.

39:31Mike Wright:Tyler Warren is my start of the week. tied in nine targets last week with phil he is the most uh helpful offensive weapon that they have for philip rivers in my opinion with the size short area target capability i i like tyler

39:47Jason Moore:warren i might stand alone in this group i think you do i get it i get it the the matchup is fine the targets have been there nine last week but it turned into 30 yards you know three for 30 with

40:00Andy Holloway:philip rivers three for 19 with philip rivers i'm in the middle a ninth i'll still take nine

40:06Jason Moore:targets i would i think it'll be i would play the saints guys personally over over warren

40:12Mike Wright:tampa bay seven and eight but still alive the dolphins six and nine vegas line tampa bay minus six over under 45 and a half if they win their last two games tampa bay will win the south so they're right there despite the fact it's looked bad since week nine the bye week baker completing just 59 of his passes going to a booker too much the key doesn't know how to throw well a booker's not even in play i don't think you would even consider a book on championship week that would be crazy any player on any team yes even turpin right can make a big play on any given week but there's nothing statistically snap wise of encouragement right now for the last six weeks for a way down so you know they they came out this week right away and they're like oh we

41:05Jason Moore:got to get him involved early that was a big that was that was talked about oc head coach that was like what they were saying and then they give him 56 percent of snaps no i'm saying after that but

41:16Mike Wright:they they did it before as well no and then they came out and said we need to get we're all trying to find the guy responsible. And again, Baker last week, we can say all we want, but he threw for 145 yards. Two weeks ago, 122 yards. That will not make any of it work for anybody. It won't make it work for Evans. It won't make it work for Godwin. It won't make it work for Abuka. The Bucs are...

41:39Andy Holloway:This is weird and sad that what they have become, because you have... Yeah, I'm playing Mike Evans. I have no problem there, but it's like Bucky Irving who when I'm watching him he looks great. He looks like Bucky Irving. He's still getting a bunch of opportunities except they have now gone to he's getting charboned by Sean Tucker.

42:04Jason Moore:Yeah. Sean Tucker is seemingly the goal line back. I guess on that one.

42:11Mike Wright:That's charbonade, huh?

42:12Andy Holloway:Yeah. They're like okay, thank you for your work, Bucky. Get out of there. Sean Tucker will take it from here.

42:19Jason Moore:Also, in the four games since he came back from injury, he's not hit just four yards a carry in a single game. He's not been the efficient, explosive Bucky where we were used to prior to that injury. I don't know if he's still struggling with it or if more likely because when I watch him, I don't think he looks like he's physically struggling. I think it's the Bucs offense. I agree with that. And Baker Mayfield that's just kind of taking a step down. I think Baker is struggling physically and so it hurts the whole cast so are you saying that you know would you are you going and looking at your roster genuinely if you've got a Michael Carter or is you just playing Bucky and I'm gonna play Bucky

42:59Mike Wright:yeah he's had a 10 plus yard run in all four of his starts I think you still look for big play there they're heavily favored I wouldn't go away from him for Michael Carter personally no I wouldn't

43:09Andy Holloway:even think about not to that level uh man what about Kenny Gainwell I think that's a more fair

43:17Mike Wright:discussion but i'm nervous about everything in that game yeah i agree with low over under how

43:21Andy Holloway:about a divisional tracy against the raiders good against the raiders i think i might go with him

43:27Jason Moore:over i mean i've got bucky ahead of all of these players in my rankings i think i will stick with bucky devon h and play him i'm done talking about the dolphins that is i just started that's fair Well, that's because Ewers. I mean.

43:45Mike Wright:You're talking about an infinitely better quarterback than Max Brosmer?

43:49Jason Moore:Yes, an infinitely better.

43:51Mike Wright:He threw for 260?

43:52Jason Moore:Incredible.

43:54Mike Wright:What about Jalen Waddle? Waddle or Tett McMillan? Tett. Ladd McConkie against Houston. Oh, that's tough. Waddle. Yeah. Watson versus Baltimore. Christian Watson.

44:08Andy Holloway:How's his tummy? Tommy? How's his tummy and who's his quarterback? So I don't think I can... Not enough info to answer that right now.

44:15Mike Wright:New England's 12-3. The Jets are 3-12. Oh, palindrome. Vegas line, New England by just 13.5. On the road. Over-unders 42.5.

44:28Andy Holloway:Denver was favored by that as well.

44:30Mike Wright:Implied point total. Yeah, but Denver always is and always freaking does that, man. They are so annoying. Frauds! They are... I don't think they're frauds. No, I like what you said. They play to their opponent, but that's also, like, can you do that in the playoffs and count on it? Maybe.

44:49Andy Holloway:I mean, here's the thing. Maybe. Maybe. They are, you know how teams, your identity takes shape based off of, like, something's like, oh, your coach. And it's like, Sean Payton's real annoying. Right? Okay. Yeah, he's very annoying. Just Denver Broncos have adapted that. We're just an annoying team. Okay. So you're like your coach.

45:11Mike Wright:And people want to punch us in the face. So the Cardinals are like a poop team. Yeah. Yeah. They're number two. Okay. I'm trying to think. Yeah, Andy Reid's teams are fun. They're always fun. He's fun.

45:24Andy Holloway:Yeah. Hmm. We got to add this to the UDK.

45:28Jason Moore:The Rams are cool.

45:30Andy Holloway:Right.

45:31Jason Moore:They're a cool team.

45:32Andy Holloway:Yeah, they're hip. They're cool. They're sexy. Hmm. Let's talk about the Jets. I'm going to put this in my analysis moving forward.

45:39Mike Wright:Well, the over-under is like almost 10 points under the Cardinal game, but the Patriots have almost the same implied point total as the Bengals because of how favored they are. So, New England, New York.

45:51Andy Holloway:We have some questions now. On Wednesday, it's like, man, I love Drake May in this matchup. I know they're heavily favored, but I think that Drake May will come through with a big game. And on top of that, they're trying to win Drake May an MVP. Might try and get him a little bonus touchdowner here. One or two of them. But you have Kayshawn Booty who is not practicing with a concussion. Now you have Mack Hollins who has not practiced all week with an abdomen injury even though he's very, very close to a$400 ,000 payday if he just gets four more catches. But it's just the lack of those guys it's not that i'm pivoting off of drake may just maybe the ceiling is not what it what

46:41Mike Wright:what i was projecting on wednesday you can see a ton of remandre in this game because of the the lack of need to throw the football you can see a ton of consolidation that's that's what's going to hunter henry is who i like the very most he's my tight end five on the season i think hunter

46:56Jason Moore:henry and stefan diggs are going to have he's your five on the season he's he's my tight end five this

47:02Mike Wright:week okay um i was like that's an impressive new stat i didn't know we did that but i i think there

47:08Jason Moore:will be a consolidation of fantasy points like drake may will spread it around annoyingly so he'll go to the open guy but if kyle williams if his guys are williams is legit worth talking about

47:21Andy Holloway:yeah i mean he he very well could be what i don't you know the volume wasn't there necessarily he had the huge awesome touchdown catch when booty got knocked out of that game he was the one who actually ran the most routes of the remaining wide receivers digs is four receptions from

47:36Mike Wright:five hundred thousand dollars henry three from five hundred thousand dollars they'd love to get those guys those marks this week a million dollars to hand out there remandre a great start this week yeah and drake may should be 202 that's what i think that don't expect him i mean he had not been really inside the top 10 for a while before this week despite all the wins right they won every game except for one against Buffalo quarterback 17 11 12 12 10 13 finally got back in there at seven last week if he was the quarterback 14 this week that would be about my expectation

48:09Jason Moore:yeah I I think that starting the week when we thought maybe they would have more weapons available he was a little bit higher especially if um you know if Travion doesn't go because Travion's such a you know he could take that screen pass for 50 yards and a touchdown I had him early in the week as like my quarterback two or three now he's more seven eight range with guys I would play ahead of him Ramondre can take the screen

48:33Mike Wright:past 15 yards out of bounds yeah oh yeah so that's also possible he'll take the exact same amount of time to do it though right break some tackles and go and then

48:44Jason Moore:it's like the length of the play valuable player the length of the play is like sexy player seven seconds whether it's Hindo or Ramondre Brady just one goes a

48:53Mike Wright:lot farther brady kirk will start on the other side and that is bad news for for the jets breeze hall has um not only been really bad for fantasy running back 44 47 40 but i was looking at this because it was um it was one of my prize picks projections that i almost went with this week i didn't do it but it was like 13 and a half yards longest rush which normally is a bad scary bet for Brees Hall. He's had longer runs. He hasn't done that in three weeks. He hasn't hit 13 for three weeks.

49:26Jason Moore:Earlier this year when they had quarterbacks under center, you had a long run of 18, 17, 23, 22, 35, 30. Now you look at the last, just going back in the box score, the last week, 7, 13, 11, 9, 9, 11. It's like if they don't have a quarterback there, you have one player to stop because that quarterback's not going to get the ball to Adonai Mitchell down the field and hurt your team. Brees Hall could do something. So you're playing everybody focus on Brees Hall.

49:55Andy Holloway:And trying to just get into the psychology a little bit of maybe just narrative, but Brees Hall, I mean, his Christmas chain, he's counting it down. He's cutting the rings off. Absolutely. He's like, freedom. Get me out. He packs a new bag every day. You think Brees Hall wants to get hurt? No. With two weeks left and he's going to try and break the bank. Man, he's going to make business decisions and he should.

50:23Mike Wright:Yeah. Yeah. Vegas, Cleveland, New York is the two, three, and four in the draft right now.

50:28Jason Moore:He should get a tummy issue today. Yeah. Be like, oh, man, bad sushi, guys.

50:34Andy Holloway:Sorry.

50:34Mike Wright:They were saying the Giants need to counter the Brock Bowers to IR by starting Russ. We'll take a break. We'll get into some more matchups.

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51:48Mike Wright:The 12-3 number one seed Seattle Seahawks are seven-point favorites against the 8-7 Carolina Panthers. The over-under is 42.5. It's not a lot. Carolina does control their own destiny, right? Yes. It's wild. the Seahawks do as well for their number one seat.

52:11Jason Moore:Those control your own destiny things are so funny to me because it's like Carolina controls its own destiny, but also so does Tampa Bay. Because they play each other. Because they play each other. So it's like, it's just who wins that game.

52:22Mike Wright:Yep. Yeah, that's fair. It's going to end up a week 18 battle. They can clinch the NFC South if they won this game. They're seven-point underdogs. they've been seven and two and one score game seattle six and three both of these teams have

52:39Andy Holloway:been good and they win and tampa loses and tampa bay loses thank you so where are you in this one

52:47Mike Wright:rico dattle has been really disappointing he is 70 yards from a million dollars i don't think they give two farts about that right now he because you when you don't have your playoff seating secured you don't care about that you just play to win the game been disappointing based off of an

53:04Andy Holloway:adjustments that you made mentally about him in the middle of the season but I mean last week against Tampa that was horrible 6.3 fantasy points but before that you know even though he's not destroying the the world he was still getting over 10 points a week but the confidence to play him in this matchup against the Seahawks Michael Carter is pretty low Michael Carter okay easy Michael

53:27Jason Moore:Carter this is a situation where you had a run where he was you know 80 plus percent of snaps 70 plus percent of snaps then Chuba comes back they they went right back to Chuba then they were like oh we made a mistake we got to go back to Rico and then they're like oh we made a mistake now it's like they're splitting they're just splitting and since they've been splitting he has not been that good he's been subbed in most of those splits when he's down around 50 percent of the snaps where you expect them to be and then you add that against a very tough opponent here I mean this is a matchup that you don't want to uh run against the Seahawks on the course of the season and in the last six weeks they're number two against running backs so you tell me you get 50 percent of less than what Carolina usually does I I would look elsewhere yeah like when

54:18Andy Holloway:my dynasty squad I'm trying to figure out my final flex position and like Juwan Johnson is in play for me oh and I I have Rico on that roster it's like no I would play another tight end in that situation before I'm playing Rico this week yeah I agree Ted Aron McMillan currently the favorite

54:37Mike Wright:for offensive rookie of the year I do think it'll be interesting if he has a slow week and Tyler Shuck has a big week.

54:43Andy Holloway:If Shuck wins at least one more game, I think that Shuck will be the rookie.

54:48Jason Moore:Yeah, his schedule on the road against Tennessee and then the last game on the road against the Falcons for Shuck. Those are two winnable games. If he wins both, he's guaranteed. That'd be so awesome.

54:59Mike Wright:But Teddero has been good. Sarsid decisions in this game, Mike. The Kenneth Walker situation from last week, is he just setting you up to let you down?

55:11Andy Holloway:He is a terrifying start this week because it makes sense. I'm not even looking at last week, the 11 for 100 against the Rams. It's just he is explosive, and the Panthers are 27th against running backs on the season, 28th over the last six weeks. It's right there for Walker. If he scores. Is he in your lineup? Right. He is. It's between him and Jawan Johnson. Trying to figure out what I need.

55:42Jason Moore:Who would you start between Kenneth Walker and Charbonnet? It's still Walker.

55:48Andy Holloway:Yeah. But it's like Charbonnet. This could be one of those stupid games where Charbonnet has two touchdowns on eight carries.

55:54Mike Wright:You are always playing with fire with Kenneth Walker.

55:56Andy Holloway:Yes, you are.

55:57Mike Wright:He is an explosive player.

55:59Andy Holloway:But it makes sense this week. Or it did make sense last week and he came through.

56:04Mike Wright:It feels a lot like Travion and Ramondre. but maybe a little bit light. Kenneth Walker had two 50-plus-yard plays last week. He had the pass catch early in the game that he almost scored on down at the three, had the long touchdown run. But if you don't get the big play from him, Romandre rumbles into the end zone. Charbonnet rumbles into the end zone.

56:27Jason Moore:If your big play doesn't end in the end zone, you are not rewarded. Correct. You are taken out, and the other guy gets it.

56:33Mike Wright:That's right.

56:35Jason Moore:JSN? Always playing him.

56:37Mike Wright:play him with joy in your heart AJ Barner a desperation play at tight end probably wouldn't do it in this matchup though even though he's been pretty good it's a tough matchup for tight ends that's all you can lean on right here and Sam Darnold is he an option heavily favored on

56:51Jason Moore:the road here at all I prefer not I think I think there's better options in single quarterback leagues that that are available uh Darnold has been really hot and cold yeah red light green light

57:03Mike Wright:yeah we're on we're on way to a red light though i gotta laugh here i'm just i'm i saw that some waivers went through in our league of record i'm like oh mike daniel the two guys going at it in the championship game no it was it was the freshly eliminated papa josh picking up dylan samson just in case what's that for you never know man you never know judkins i mean when judd can judd can be ready with that yeah i mean dude talk about a keeper all right the giants didn't we talk about this game enough i guess not the giants are two and 13 the raiders are two and 13 it's a 41 and a half point over under giants one and a half point road favorites okay these teams cannot stop the run their quarter i mean jackson dart the game plan for jackson dart last week was basically like anybody could do what you're doing why do they do that i don't

57:58Jason Moore:yeah it was like it felt like he was being punished it was weird this team was way better

58:04Mike Wright:with table i don't care oh they they definitely were they were they they haven't won a game since he's left i and i would not i would not doubt that tracy and singletary get 30 plus opportunities this week i mean the the recipe for this game is going to be just it's going to be gross it's

58:22Andy Holloway:going to be a gross game it's going to be running which sucks jackson dart was fantastic for i have no confidence in him i agree none against the zero fantasy points last week he played the whole game

58:37Mike Wright:100 snaps zero fancy points yeah i would bail out so i would bail out of just about everything in this game outside of genti and tracy um i think wandale i guess wandale's but that scared me last

58:51Jason Moore:week with the PPR. Yeah, I mean obviously if they're not letting Dart throw the ball, that's going to be bad for all the receiving options. I can't believe that they're going to go as extreme as it was last week. Because I mean that was the first and only game we've seen like that. They've been letting Dart throw, so I don't know what their rationale was for that. Maybe it carries over. Keep them alive for next year.

59:13Andy Holloway:That's how it feels. Both of these franchises it would be so much better for everyone to lose.

59:21Mike Wright:someone's gonna win this is the dung bowl somebody's gonna win and the other team's gonna get the number one pick so you know raiders are at home who wins who's who's fernando mendoza rooting for because mendoza might go to the raiders in both situations

59:39Andy Holloway:then he should be hoping that the raiders lose so they don't have to trade assets to

59:43Mike Wright:go get him yeah i don't know um no pivots to michael mayor with no brock bowers no the giants defense is stingy against tight ends yeah okay darius layton can eat a butt once again yeah

1:00:03Jason Moore:thank you darius trey tucker should be okay i mean the targets are gonna have to go somewhere We're going to keep our eyes on Jack Bash. Hopefully he looks good as an end of rookie season. Good opportunity. But you're not playing him. Trey Tucker should be the target beneficiary from having no Brock Bowers.

1:00:23Mike Wright:Phillies 10-5. The Buffalo Bills are 11-4. The Vegas line, Buffalo minus 1.5 over under 43.5. We thought Lane Johnson might come back this week. He will be – I don't think he's going to be back. he heard Mike needs one more week of not blocking well for Saquon since Mike's facing Saquon and then he'll come back because it's Mike's year. Magic Mike.

1:00:47Andy Holloway:I would really appreciate that.

1:00:48Mike Wright:Jalen Carter will be back. That will impact the defensive line for Philadelphia and the production of James Cook a little bit who leads the NFL in rushing yards so it's not a start sit change. Saquon play him. It is a run funnel.

1:01:03Andy Holloway:He should be he should be excellent this

1:01:05Mike Wright:week the bills are 32nd in rushing touchdowns allowed 32nd in yards after contact 31st in yards per contact or per carry allowed so yeah play the running backs play the quarterbacks we got good news on josh allen in the foot nothing hindering him he's going to be okay jalen hurts though you know is he going to have aj brown with the teeth if aj brown's out i'm probably you're willing to pivot i might be willing to pivot off of jalen hurts this week i think you can run the football and i think if he's not tush pushing him and just davante so it makes me nervous your start of the

1:01:41Jason Moore:week caleb johnson or oh man or hurt his name is caleb williams oh thank you you're thinking of your fantasy MVP. Thank you.

1:01:58Yeah.

1:01:59Jason Moore:Hey, shoot or shoot. Shoot or shoot. Would you play Caleb Williams or Jalen Hurts?

1:02:10Mike Wright:I would play Caleb. Okay.

1:02:13Jason Moore:That's only if A.J. Brown is... That's only if A.J. Brown is...

1:02:18Mike Wright:If he's out.

1:02:19Jason Moore:Out.

1:02:19Mike Wright:Yeah, it's hard to go away from hurts to that level, but I do have confidence in Caleb Williams this week. I don't have confidence on pass catching or tight end options for the Bills, though. Where are you with Goddard, Jay?

1:02:36Jason Moore:I think that if A.J. Brown is out, I mean, we've seen a lot of success for whoever's left when one of those three are out. So if A.J. Brown doesn't play, then I'm excited for both Devontae Smith and Dallas Goddard. Otherwise, I mean, Goddard's just been weirdly good, utilized around the goal line like he never has been in his entire career up until now. I never want to buy in or believe it.

1:03:04Andy Holloway:Ten points in three straight games.

1:03:06Jason Moore:Yeah, I mean, when you're at this point in the season, your championship week, week 17, he's the tight end five on the season. I think you just have to stay with them.

1:03:15Mike Wright:Sunday night football. My start of the week, Caleb Williams and the Chicago Bears, 11-4, taking on the 11-4, San Francisco 49ers, Vegas line San Fran minus three. At home, over-unders 52-1⁄2.

1:03:27Andy Holloway:That's a lot of points. Christian.

1:03:30Mike Wright:One. One more game. More. One more game, and then you will have fully earned your true entry into the footballer's ring of honor.

1:03:39Jason Moore:Two years ago, there was a wild statistic. that 50 % if you drafted Christian McCaffrey you had a 50 % chance of winding up in the championship game. That was two years ago. I believe that that stat will be close to true again. Two years ago he let everyone down in that championship game. Oh yeah, he got hurt. For me, victory is

1:04:07Mike Wright:otherwise I would have been a double champ.

1:04:09Andy Holloway:Victory is not being declared. We need one more.

1:04:12Mike Wright:Here's what's wild. If this holds up and he wins people titles this week, which the odds are in that favor. You just said 50%, right? Over the last six years, it will be 50 % of the time he wins you leagues. It will be three injury-plagued years and three basically number one overall running back years, which is just unbelievable. Everybody in San Francisco has been hurt this year. He has siphoned all of their power. Blood sacrifices for him and Mike. One more game. We kind of made a pact together. One more game, yeah.

1:04:52Andy Holloway:We'll do what it takes. You decided to.

1:04:55Mike Wright:The Bears have been good against running backs. I'm excited for this game. Sunday Night Football, these two teams, 52.5 points over under.

1:05:00Andy Holloway:Unfortunately, the recent sacrifice for CMC had to be Kittle again.

1:05:04Mike Wright:Well, yeah, you had almost nobody left. He used Pearsall twice. He used Kittle twice. Juwan Jennings your start of the week Jason you got to love him in this game with Pearsall still banged up Kittle banged up probably not going to play Jake Tonjes would be a a desperation play at tight end but yeah I mean it's pretty straightforward there it's more complex on the other side Caleb is my start of the week I feel like I sit a little bit alone on that one as well but um I don't think he needs five quarters i think he could do it in four he's just so erratic oh yeah yeah right now

1:05:40Jason Moore:his consistency on the season he he is the he is the quarterback 11 which is like oh great caleb he's a quarterback one this year his consistency score is a d 35 of his games are good it really feels like how it was with jordan love last year where it was like he he has big games and he can be real special, but the vast majority of games he hurts you. Now this matchup is good. The over-under is good. You can see, I can totally see why you're making him, you know, you're calling the shot that this is a good Caleb week, but he definitely scares me from a consistency standpoint.

1:06:18Mike Wright:Oh, he's terrifying. He's terrifying. Absolutely. Phillip Rivers torched this 49ers defense. So that's part of the, that's the biggest part of the bet. But you know, Roma Dunes, probably not going to play. Luther Burden, we'll see. He's been limited. Might not play. And lack of weapons hurts. Makes it even scarier. We did get news in this game that Tom Pelissero, your boy, Mike, perfect. Oh, good friend of the show. Perfect news for you figuring out Kittle. Said he has a chance to play. He's played before without practicing. We'll see if he practices today. So Tom Pelissero and Mike, just pay attention.

1:06:55Jason Moore:What is your pivot option at tight end? I didn't even pay attention. He went to Strange.

1:06:58Andy Holloway:yeah right now it's pretty strange so it would be uh the problem with decision if you ask me yeah the problem with this game is it's at night so i mean if you're if you're waiting on kittle it just sounded like the actual darkness would affect the game i'm sorry i'm sorry i was like they do have lights okay all right that's so being able to see with visible light not a problem but your pivot option would they shrink drastically if they didn't have lights we'd be talking about

1:07:26Mike Wright:phases of the moon on the show. That'd be different. A new moon game? Yeah. You'd be looking for the games that have the brightest moon.

1:07:34Andy Holloway:And the game finishes zero to zero again. We really should get some lights in here.

1:07:40Mike Wright:We hope to see some of the moon tomorrow. Maybe a crescent. Kyle Mononga, DeAndre Swift, fix it for me. Tell me who's going to be great. Swift.

1:07:48Jason Moore:Yeah, I would still lean the Swift side. He's been banged up and was a little bit limited, but he's been the primary running back for the whole season. He is what we know he's a really, really good running back, too.

1:08:02Mike Wright:Is love in the air? Colston, Loveland. Mr. Love. Big disappointment last week despite 83 % of snaps but didn't have the production.

1:08:11Jason Moore:No Rome, no Luther Burden, and then Colston Loveland just disappears. Colston barely liked land.

1:08:20Mike Wright:Oh, got him. Bodied. But, yeah, are you going to go back there? If you had Loveland, would you play strange over him? Yes, I would. You would?

1:08:30Andy Holloway:Yeah, I would play strange. 49ers struggle against tight ends. I would probably go see if Hunter Henry were on the waiver wire. Juwan Johnson, I would play over Loveland.

1:08:42Jason Moore:I mean, if you look at it this way, the last seven weeks, so not a small sample, like a really long stretch, basically he's had two games in that stretch where he got a touchdown and you were happy and every other game that he didn't get a touchdown you were 7 points 5 points, 4 points, 8 points 4 points. It's not he is not like a possession volume receiver

1:09:06Mike Wright:touchdown guarantee

1:09:07Jason Moore:touchdown guarantee

1:09:10Mike Wright:for Colston Loveland oh Mr. Loveland I don't know what this is

1:09:16Andy Holloway:But that, that's a touchdown guarantee. If you give him for sure six points on top of the 30 to 50 yards. Do you feel stupid now for saying strange?

1:09:25Jason Moore:I do. Now that you know he's getting a touchdown? Back on track.

1:09:30Mike Wright:Back on track, touchdown.

1:09:31Andy Holloway:Man, Andy has Bears fever. Yeah.

1:09:36Mike Wright:Goodness. That's a problem. Yeah. How could it go wrong? The Rams. Here's your Monday Night Football fantasy deciding game. So if you are Stafford, Kyron, Puka, Pijon, London, Pitts, it is a Monday night miracle you'll be looking for. The Rams at 11-4, the Falcons at 6-9, the Rams minus 7.5, over under 49.5. The Falcons, ironically, like if they get beat, it helps the Rams pick. That's how motivated they are in this game. The Rams pick gets better if they beat the Falcons because the Falcons, they gave their pick to Los Angeles, which right now is sitting at pick 11 in the draft. Extra motivated.

1:10:26Mike Wright:That is, I mean, that's genuinely really important. And they're in the hunt for the number one seed. So in this game, you know, this is one of those ones where I'm thinking to myself, oh, are the Rams going to have stuff to play for Monday night after all these games? Yeah. Yeah. A win makes their first round pick better and they can still get the number one seed. so where is the confidence level what tier is stafford in for this week for you we we underestimated him on this show all three of us did against seattle we we thought without davante adams as his little goal line wide receiver uh yeah he double middle fingered us because he was the

1:11:05Jason Moore:number one quarterback on the week the first time he did that all year yeah and and they are 457 yards. Right now, I believe last I looked, he was the odds-on betting favorite to be the MVP of the league. That's got to be in the mind. They get around the goal line, they're going to have some stuff to help put him over the top. I think Matthew Stafford is a very good play this week. Do you like...

1:11:30Mike Wright:One of the things that happened last week is Seattle put up such a fight. Do you think Atlanta can do that at home in this game? Enough. If London is there, can they score enough on yeah can they score enough to give you confidence in all the offensive

1:11:46Jason Moore:pieces for the Rams the nice thing is the the Rams defense their their their rushing defenses has been very good most of the year their defense has been wilting a bit and their past defense has been where you attack them so I think that you know Drake London Kirk Cousins and Kyle Pitts on, I mean, this is primetime Kirk Cousins, which we know has not been historically great. Not always.

1:12:14Andy Holloway:And pay attention to Drake London. He popped as a limited participant on Thursday. Was he a full participant

1:12:21Jason Moore:Wednesday?

1:12:22Andy Holloway:I don't. I'll look at it. No, I got my alert that it's like, oh, Drake London's down from healthy to questionable. And you're like, what?

1:12:29Mike Wright:London had finished wide receiver 1-1 and 7 before the injury. Came back. Didn't do much last week.

1:12:35Andy Holloway:Thank you, Brooks. It's on an estimated practice report. Because this is a Monday night game so this is their Wednesday practice.

1:12:40Mike Wright:You still like him as your start of the week? Yes. So Mike, just so the people know, on Monday night football, you got Bijan in one league. I know that. Then you're facing Kyron and Puka in another league? Yeah. Is that the only players that touch this game for you or is there others? Kyle Pitts, I guess. I'm against Kyle Pitts

1:12:57Andy Holloway:on Monday as well.

1:12:59Mike Wright:I doubt we'll get any drama because you'll be winning by 600 to 700 points. But if we do, it'll be possible. It'll be fun. We do have one more segment, guys.

1:13:07Andy Holloway:I like no drama. Me and Mary J. Blige.

1:13:10Mike Wright:No drama?

1:13:11Andy Holloway:Yeah.

1:13:12Mike Wright:One more segment.

1:13:17Jason Moore:Fantasy Face-Off, presented by PrizePix.

1:13:25Jason Moore:All right. I'm so happy. Andy's so happy.

1:13:27Mike Wright:Not because I want to see Jason suffer or you suffer, but because I'm not to shame.

1:13:32Jason Moore:Yeah, I will take it.

1:13:38Jason Moore:wheel of shame

1:13:44Mike Wright:i i will say mike and jason they had tied this week as the losers and then they had to do a

1:13:52Jason Moore:tiebreaker and then i you're the super loser i'm the super loser this is my spin spin that wheel What do we got here?

1:14:01Mike Wright:Got you something for Christmas

1:14:03Jason Moore:Starman Jerry Jones I still want Jerry Jones to hit one

1:14:06Andy Holloway:Ooh, cramped up Cramped up With a K Oh, is it Oh, it's Krampus Krampus Oh, yeah I'm gonna eat your children Have you guys seen The Mike's fresh out of those The what? Oh, yeah I said you're fresh out of children Have you guys seen any Got any of the reels or anything of Like the Krampus parades That they do over in Europe Oh, man

1:14:27Mike Wright:Man, I wasn't sure

1:14:28Andy Holloway:oh thank goodness this wasn't me because that thing would knock it

1:14:31Mike Wright:I asked Al to try it it's snug yeah look outstanding it's snug I feel like you can breathe in there

1:14:40Jason Moore:it's not too bad I kind of like it in here I might stay after the shot you got your lineup memorized I can see through the holes enough can you hear me well enough why don't you kick it off I'll kick it off with Joe Burrow Oh, crap. Yeah, so the thing is, is he's on Mike's team. Did you pick all Mike's players? We'll find out. Oh, my gosh. 267 and a half passing yards. Yeah, he's going to blow that out of the water. So I'm taking more than that.

1:15:11Mike Wright:I thought about doing that. No joke. That's funny. I'm actually going on the sad side. My quarterback is Jackson Dart.

1:15:19Jason Moore:Oh.

1:15:19Mike Wright:And I'm taking 27.5 pass attempts, and I'm taking less.

1:15:25Andy Holloway:Yeah, that makes sense.

1:15:26Jason Moore:That does make sense after last week.

1:15:28Andy Holloway:My quarterback is my green goblin. It's Jacoby Brissett, 209.5 passing yards. 209? Yeah, we're going more. Oh, gosh. 209. Goodness. Goblin was real green. I got one saved up for you, though, guys. All right. My running back, Chase Brown.

1:15:44Jason Moore:Mike's running back, Chase Brown. 53.5 rushing yards against the Arizona Cardinals. No problem. No problem. That's not even a goblin? That is not a goblin.

1:15:54Mike Wright:My Green Goblin is my running back. Tony Pollard, 11.5 rushing attempts. I'm taking the more. What? I'm taking the more.

1:16:02Jason Moore:Oh, it's a Green Goblin.

1:16:02Mike Wright:Yeah, it's my Green Goblin.

1:16:03Jason Moore:I was like, that projection is crazy.

1:16:05Andy Holloway:I am trying to atone for some of last week's sins. I got Ashton Gente. Okay. 69.5 rushing yards. We're going to go more. We're going to go more.

1:16:15Jason Moore:Very nice. All right. I'm going away from Mike's team. This is where I lose. uh trey tucker what he his this is not a green goblin just tucker just four receptions at wide receiver man i can't wait for this one yeah so i'm taking more than four receptions with uh brock

1:16:35Mike Wright:bowers out of the way i'm going jsn receiving targets nine i'm taking more yeah i got uh t

1:16:44Andy Holloway:Higgins in that big blow up spot to Higgins at 57 and a half receiving yards. We're going to go more.

1:16:49Jason Moore:And at tight end, this is my green goblin. I'm going with Harold Fannin Jr. Three and a half receptions. It's already done. Yeah. He's living at four plus. So I'll take more than that.

1:17:02Mike Wright:I went Juwan Johnson, 42 and a half receiving yards. I'm taking the more.

1:17:06Andy Holloway:In something that has not been done in our prize picks matchups, guys. Trey McBride. Demon.

1:17:15Jason Moore:Oh, you go, wow.

1:17:18Mike Wright:You're taking the more difficult.

1:17:19Jason Moore:Is this a touchdown?

1:17:20Andy Holloway:Seven and a half receptions.

1:17:22Mike Wright:You took the Demon.

1:17:23Andy Holloway:Wow. Demon, baby.

1:17:25Mike Wright:This guy is living. Let's go. He'll do whatever he wants. He ain't scared. He's like, I can win at normal odds. So I'm just going to do whatever to make it harder for me to still win.

1:17:36Jason Moore:Wow. To be clear, I assume you're taking the more there? Yes. You didn't specify. All right.

1:17:40Andy Holloway:You can't take both sides of Demon.

1:17:44Mike Wright:That was Fantasy Face-Off presented by PrizePix. Seven days of Pixmas is back. Unwrap the Great Max discounts on the app through December 26th. And use the code footballers and get$50 in lineups when you play$5. Well, good luck, everybody. Jason just looked like the saddest cramp. He does look like a sad. Look at him. I didn't get to eat any children. We will be back on Monday to talk championship studs and duds. we will have championship shirts up on the website shopballers.com for you foot clan title winners if there's any inventory left if mike hasn't bought it all up and uh good luck saturday sunday monday um we'll talk to you one game christian one more game i don't even know if we'd see mike ever again if something happened to christian mccaster early in that game i don't think we'd ever see him again one game he doesn't even want to entertain the joke

1:18:39Jason Moore:One game more.

1:18:41Mike Wright:One more, Krampus. One more. Merry Christmas. Happy holidays, everybody. Hope it was a good one. Enjoy the weekend, and we will talk to you on Monday. Goodbye.

1:18:55Jason Moore:Thank you for listening to another episode of the Fantasy Footballers Podcast. Join our fantasy football community on jointhefoot.com and follow us on Twitter at the FFBallers.

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