NFL Week 14 Breakdown, Analysis, and Recap!

You're listening to the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Fantasy Best Friends Forever. M Do do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do yeo, says the Fantasy best Friends Forever. Here are the Fantasy Sports Radio Network alongside Frankie Standfell, I am Greg Reggae. What's going on Monday Reggae Wacky Wild Fun Week four teen depends on you know which side of the uh Marie Cooper coin you were on. But man, crazy crazy Week from the Miracle in Miami

or whatever you wanna call it. Kenyan Drake, what do you know? All he needs is all he needs is to be part of some crazy lateral play in order to meet his fantasy value from that. Patrick mahomes nobok past, not just the noble past, like down the field, fourth down. I mean that game was ridiculous. A lot of crazy games, a lot of huge performances, a lot of dud performances that will get into greggy. Um, how was your weekend?

How was your fantasy Sunday? Like fantasy twoferent questions, but um, my, basically, how is your Sunday? Okay, fair enough my Sunday? Man, it was a roller coaster ride. It was a roller coaster ride. So we were meeting with the rabbi, like for the wet for our future weddings. We were in Philly, so we were meeting with a rabbi and that means supposed to be twelve and twelve thirty, No big deal.

Of course, you know he's late. So I started at twelve fifteen and went from twelve fifteen and one o'clock or really one fifteen, and I was like, this is ridiculous. So we get back to Judy's house and she's like, just do whatever you have to do. Is like the giants in the Big TV, a red zone on the laptop, and I'm setting up okay, So I'm I'm just I'm just sending up. They don't have red zone at her house,

so I couldn't be so so I'm sending up. I'm looking at what I missed, Like, alright, cool Cameram Greight touchdown. Nice um my opponent in my home league, like he got a touchdown from somebody. I gotta devapt Adams touchdown was all right, So like pretty even right now. But it's like I feel okay. I I feel okay. Next thing, you know, sei kwan boom, se kwon boom, Like things are going well, things are going well. Andrew Luck had a really nice second half, and I'm like, I'm feeling

really good, feeling really good. And then before the I so I gotta give Scotty credit, like I used to kill Scott and he's like, I don't look when I don't look at my magic with seven o'clock, I don't look at my matchup. I try not to look my match up till four o'clock, and like, I know what's

going on. I know who my opponent has. D I have like eight tads open with every life story at so I know who my opponent has like inherently, but I don't look at the matchup because I don't want to like be down or you know, I just don't want to. It's like a superstitious thing. I get it exactly, so I try to not do it to like the four o'clock games. That's like my my thing. So the four the four five games kick off, and I have a lot of points. I have like ninety points or

something like that. I'm projected for, I believe of the time, like one thirty three. Like that's it's pretty good. That's not bad. My opponent, though, was projected for like one thirty four or something like that, like one thirty. I was like, wow, that's close. I'm playing Jeff actually, Jeff the Jet fan, Jeff the Jet fan. Oh man, this is by the way it was, you know, this is this is where screen today. I am exactly, this is

really close. Next thing, I know, I'm just looking at I'm looking at my phone and we got reads it on the computers. It's a little later than the one on the TV. So I look at my phone and all of a sudden, train goes from three points the fourteen point two, and I was like what. And then I'm watching the Chargers game up on that Charger game, the Chiefs game on my TV, and they go, you're not gonna do what just happened in the Dolphins game. I'm like, what happened? What happened? You know what? I

wanted to show it to you right now. So they show it on the TV before Red Zone shows it, and I'm just like losing my mind, you know, losing control. And this is great. So now projected for a hundred and forty six points and he's at one thirty. I'm like, okay, this is good. I'm feeling good. So then we eat dinner, we have your early dinner. Is I gotta come back from Philly. So we get on the train. Is at

a six fifty seven train. Now watching reds on my phone, so I have it the end of the West Coast game, right, and the four o'clock games on the West Coast games. At the end of the four o'clock games, those are the West Coast games. No, no, not not always, but fine, yeah, end of the fourth end of the four o'clock games, and I'm watching on my phone and the Detroit defense,

who was great yesterday? I scored a touchdown, like and that was a point where this dickhead texted me congrats up and at that time everything flipped the scrap and at that time Big Ben was out. He had Big Ben and he had Juju, and I'm like, okay, alright,

I hate when people do that. I hate when yeah, Big Ben Juju, Philip Lindsay, like his entire team was going at that time, and there's people you know who you are if you do that, Like if you're losing in a matchup and you think you're gonna lose and

you text the opponent congrats on your win. It's just like so in one of my so my one, my other, my other league, one of the Max, like the reverse jinx is like a bit that everybody does, everybody does it, but this really like I think he was actually texting me like congrats, like hope, even like Ben was out, like he had no shot and I'm just watching, Oh my god, Moore, Josh Dodgs, Josh Dobbs, Josh Dobs couldn't

do anything. So I'm feeling great. And then the freaking Raiders go down and score and it's they just don't score at all. I feel great, Rembers, they go down at score, then of course it was back. There's a touchdown of Juju was like, oh my god, here we go. Here we freaking go. But my kickers, like my Badgeland, he just keeps taking field goals and like this is awesome.

So I was gop like six points at the time. Right, the freaking Raiders score on fourth down and Derek Carrier and then they do all this stupid lateral place to Juju, And next thing I know, going into Sunday Night Football, I am up a tenth of a point. I have Robert Woods and he has Josh Reynolds and Sebastian Janikowski, and I'm up one tenth of a point going to Sunday Night Football. I'm like, all right, you know what

I have. Robert Woods had the best receiver on this team, maybe outside Brandon, Like I feel fine, you know, like I know he's going to get the ball, and he did. He did seven rose sixty one like almost a standard. Robert was outing. Josh Reynolds finished with three for thirty six. I am up four point nine points going into tonight against Sebastian Janikowski, and I'm like, listen, if when scores

a touchdown, it's over. Of course, kickers don't have marginal scoring or right, So if I would have been five, if I would be up five points at a four point nine one yard that's a huge, huge difference when it comes kicking. Now in my league, for plus the opposite of everything, So kicking scoring in my leagues all minimalized, So extra points are a point, right, All field goals are worth two points up until fifty, where it's worth three points. To a forty nine yard field goes only

two points. I canna allow four points to take her to night to win, we need touchdowns, Russ, just touchdowns, nothing else, getting the end zone. Please, Well, good thing. You're playing against one of the most efficient offenses, right, Like he throws twenty times a game, but he has like three touchdowns every single time, So you just need the Seahawks and just continue onions. It's tougher, tougher defense against Minnesota, where you know in the red zone things

could tighten up. So I'm just sitting here, Oh my god. And that that was the story, like my homely that was like my back and forth story all day. Flex I was basically winning from getting the end so much so that Jake texted me being like, why don't your players always show up against me, you crushed the crushed him. I think the best. Really, Wait, what's that, Greg, You're

you're advancing industry league. Well, you're you're advancing an instrue one that I don't go on with anybody record getting pretty close to closing the deal here, I'm doing my thing. That makes a little bit tougher. But you know, Sacon Barkley is special. He's do you think he's the number thinking about this? I was thinking about this. It's him ver Zeke, right, that's what has to be for number two. Next. Dad asked me that who I'd rather have? Zeer Barkley.

You know, I think like schedule will come into play. Schedules are the same, That's true. I think like maybe you lean a little bit with the youth, but like Zeke is still super young too, So I'm only leaning towards Barkley because of the pass catching, because he can do that also. But here's the thing, right, Yeah, I tweeted about this yesterday. Drink Zeke has sixty five receptions about that he was targeted thirteen times, just at twelve

receptions Ezekiel Elliott. He posted career highs, of course, in both targets and receptions. He's now on pace for eighty receptions. Greg this is a guy who a year ago we were wondering whether or not he gets forty he gets forty five passes. Now he's on pace for eighty and nearly a hundred targets as well. So and I know his uh Adam levitan Um does great work. Follow On, he tweeted this out that since Amari Cooper has joined the Cowboys, Zekiel Ellett is averaging ten more PPR Fantasy

points per game. So obviously we'll get into a Marii Cooper. And you know, for everyone who's bashing the Cowboys for giving up the first round pick, look, that's only if they make the playoffs. It was worth it by itself there, but based on what he's doing, how he's can completely transformed. You know, I had a little bit of fun last night.

I tweeted out about, you know, what he's done in six games and what like his sixteen game pace would be based on what he's doing, It's over a hundred receptions, it's closest seventeen hundred yards, it's sixteen touchdowns. He's averaging a touchdown per game. Yes, he had three yesterday but man, Marty Cooper, phenomenal. Great job. You know, you gotta give credit where it's doing. Great job to to Jerry Jones

and the Cowboys pulling the trigger on that. A lot of people were critical of the Cowboys for giving up a first round pick, but Marie Cooper out here ruining some people's fantasy seasons and helping others win fantasy championships. So great job by the Cowboys and a Mary Cooper. Yeah, the Cowboys last night against Philly, I'll give this Philly it right. They bent and didn't break, and they did score that touchdown with Dallas got it didn't count. Um,

did you see the total team stats? I did. The Cowboys doubled the yardage that the put up put up. Not only that, they doubled the time of possession. The obvious big difference was, you know, the Cowboys turned the ball over a ton. I think Dak had two interceptions. I believe you had a fumble loss as well, So

that's the difference in the game. But like, it's crazy to see how you can dominate time of possession and dominate yardage and a game could still be so close in then FFL just based on the turnover differential, which was the difference yesterday between the Eagles and the Cowboys. The Eagles did fight. Um, you know, they were huge.

There were a lot of duds yesterday. We'll talk about some of these guys, but like Hurley let a lot of people down in that game, Cam Newton, zach Ertz Dallas got At some point, I'm wondering myself Zacher's hurt because Dallas Goddard just catching all these balls. He nearly had a second touchdown, which should have had a second to very much that he did his arms out that should have been That should have been a second touchdown. Um, but I didn't want to rebi do this. I don't

know if you saw this great yesterday. It was a quote after the game. It was from r J o Choa on Twitter between a MARII Cooper and Dak Prescott. This is from mari Cooper. It's interesting because I actually had another stop route on that play. This is one of the long seventy five yard touchdowns he had, and they were if you were watching, really sitting on those

stop routes, and I was like, this is ridiculous. So when I broke the huddle, I was kind of mad, and I was like, Dad, come on, and he was just like, just run it, bro, and I guess he thought about it again and he kind of signaled a go route and I was elated when he did that, and I took off and called the ball and scored, so basically going against all the play calling that Scotland

Hand and the Cowboys had set up yesterday. And it's just awesome when we could see two young players like that saying like I see what a defense is doing. I know I can burn this guy, trust me, and in Dak putting his faith in a Mari Cooper and vice versa, and and it paying off huge time. Yeah, it was. It was absolutely awesome for Mari Cooper owners. And I wrote them off for dead. We laughed the first round pick, as you said, Frank, and it's been

worth it. It completely changed the offend. And again they have changed the offense in general right like it's now exactly what it should be. Zeke zi zi zz and then Mari, I, this is just the opense a couple of years ago, where was zeke zi zi zi ze dead?

Now ze zi zi zimri and it's well worth. And there was also Witten back then too, So that's true and it's just Zeke and now going in the next year, where is a Mari Cooper Because I'm sorry, I haven't serious because I thought about this too on the right interday, I'm like, he's going to be a Secon round pick. Yeah, Mark Cooper is going to be in the second round pick. I'm not doing that. I'm not I will say that now. I said that later. I'm chair last year and said

I'm doing j Jones, I'm not Cooper. I'm not doing Cooper on the second round. I didn't sayone do it on the second round? I will. I think he'll be a second round pick. Really, so where's the guy? So where does Let's getting the ram because it was a huge heartbreak, like you said up, so where do guys like Brandon Cooks, Robert Woods go? You're putting Mariy Cooper in the second round? Well, the the biggest difference is that Mari Cooper is one I understand, but it's an offense.

It just wants to run the ball. They but it's still like he you see what the targets, He's definitely what happened to making of those targets. It's just like he doesn't have anyone to compete with in terms of targets, well outside of Zeke Elliott, No, who's getting thirteen targets. But you know, I would I think most people next year, especially given the Cowboys, like we see inflation in their

in their in their betting spreads, in their lines. Because they're America's team, people are going to gravitate towards a Mary Cooper see what he did, especially depending on what he does to close out the season, and they're going to draft a Mariy Cooper over bothoth Rams wide receivers. It's kind of hard to say right now. You know, a lot of things are gonna change. I mean, as of right now, I probably would. I probably would take a market because he's a legal, he's he's a guy

who can win you. And but are they the Robert Woods? This comes down to what kind of draft you are. It's gonna be Robert Woods. If you look at his game log has had sixty plus yards in every single game except for Week one this year. He's been incredibly consistent. He's right around you know, sixty to eighty yards, and if he gets you a touchdown, they ends up being that high end wide Tier two that week. Brandon Cooks,

He's been solid as well for this team. But I just think what a Marie Cooper is showing right now is not only does he have a huge upside to win you fantasy matchups, he's had to say floor to break. It's not like he's given you these these Oakland Raiders. All right, he's gonna give you a thirty yard performance here, but then you get what you got yesterday to know he's been around, Like his floor is seventy five yards. That's pretty much where he's been at. So as of

right now, it's very early with the Rams. Yesterday they go into Chicago and all I heard was the damn weather, Like whether whether that like god it it's cold, Like I didn't think Sean McVeigh called a very good game yesterday, like and we love everybody loves Sean McVeigh, and that's fine. I do too. He did not coachingod game yesterday at all. So you have to put some of the blame on Jared Goff as well, without question. But I'm sure Corey's

gonna get into that too. But in the in the fourth quarter, in particular, Todd Gurley is picking up chunks of yards and they stopped going to them. They just didn't use it. They didn't use them. And I understand, and I understand he was getting stopped early on at the line, but there were times in that late third, early fourth quarter he was picking up chunks of yards.

It was like, here we go, here we go. There's too many times where Sean mcveage falls in love with a play action that doesn't work if you're not running the ball. And obviously last night Jared Goff had no feel whatsoever for the ball and he missed wide open

receivers Robert Woods, Brandon coach, Josh Reynolds multiple times. And that's when you have to utilize your Pro Bowl, all Star, all Pro whatever, all everything, all world, Todd Gurley and utilized the speed of Brandon Cooks with that quick outside outside screen. Utilize those Jets sweeps you use all season long. He didn't call one of them last night. Now he faded with Robert Woods like four different times, but he didn't call one of them. That's when you have to

utilize that. When Jared Goff has no field and you saw it over and over and over again again last again, last night, last night night that GOV had no thing. There's our play. They deserve to win. But Schell McVeigh did not coach his best game yesterday. It looked like he got inside his own the head a little. I agree he was thinking about it too much in my home leave. We've talked about it all year. The little engine could it's still roaring. Can you drinking the lineup

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frank Um, where's your next man? Where's your next? Well? I think we just kind of put a bowl on the Rams and Bears game. We talked a lot last week, and I got some tweets about this about the Bears defense and whether or not ue to use them against the Rams. It's not to bear his defense against anybody,

especially when they're at home. They are the best defense by far this fantasy season, and said they're going to be the defense that's overdrafted next year, so again to be to be fair, right, like good spot for them. It was a cold you know, a cold night. They have bad lost the Giants last week, Like it kind of all added up for a good night for them. But it was the best offense in the NFL. We're one of the two best offenses in the NFL. Uh, and they took it to them all night long. And UH.

To give an update on my personal situation, Judy was like loving it that she went with her gut. She stuck with Chicago and she she put up like a billion points yesterday, so she was fine. Did I let her down with something that I told her? I think I told her to use Ingram? You did? She told so her gut was Spencer were he told him her Ingram where had about five more points more than Ingram.

But she was killing me over this because Ingram didn't have that touchdowns with very lady when we were texting about it, you flew out. So he did that touchdowns to late and she was so angry and then she was helping her mom with something and boom, she had like three touchdowns and like a I have in a period like Aaron Jones had his touchdown mark ingram and his touchdown um and one of her other players I

had a touchdown bang bang bang. So she was very very pumped and she made it on the final four. She this is this thing that really bothers me. That was like, no matter what, it's been a great season with no participating trophies, we're not doing that duty to win the game. So the problem is next faces Girley who he plays on the team that has Girly and my homes on it. So that's that's an issuetas it's my homes on Thursday night, it's Girly on Sunday night,

like you are Yeah, you're bad. Yeah, the final Thursday night football game and since season the Chiefs and Charges this Thursday. Obviously, we'll talk about that a lot as the season goes on. We'll have to talk to dr A about the running back injuries, because yesterday we saw Austin Ekeler get hurt on the on side kick recovery and I just saw earlier today that his status for

Thursday is already kind of in doubt. So if he can't go, and if Melvin Gordon can't go, if you picked up Justin Jackson, Do not drop him yet because he might be the loan running back going up against the Kansas City Chiefs this week. Yeah. Absolutely, And that's exactly where I wanted to head to next with the Charge. You have to talk about all those like we were wide running backs basically, how what they did well? We will,

we will for sure. But I wanted to get into both the Chargers and the Chiefs because a lot came out of that. Right. So, you had Austin Ekeler get hurt on an on site kick basically just getting costs, and you saw he's gonna Cushing protocol. It's gonna be very tough for him to get clear by Thursday. It's very tough. Will Melvin Gordon be healthy ready to rock, I don't know, but they may push him now because

of this Austin Ekeler injury, which is very scary. It's one of those must win games on Thursday night football, so it's a very tough spot. We'll see what the Chargers openly seemed to do. Uh they win yesterday. Keenan Alan scores touchdown. I obviously measure my badgeley are earlier, but that's kind of a deal with the Chargers, who able to handle their business. Yesterday at the game Bangles team UM very poorly invest by the way, UM with a game Bengals team, did you go in? Three? I

went one, two was and two I forgot. My third bet was when I got right with the Giants, big Blue, they came through fine colors wide, the Chiefs six and a half. And I don't even want to say my third one, but it was I had Carolina, which is lost that the Charges lost saved me from the cultural and the Panthers. Yeah, alright, behind you buy one. But for the Chargers, just from an actual NFL perspective, they're ten and three, the Chiefs are eleven and two. It's

a huge game. Obviously they want to go out and try and win that game. But just from their perspective, if Melvin Gordon is not is not, how do you rush him out there? I don't know. It's just like you can't do that. You need this guy for the playoffs. Honestly, especially ten days, I wouldn't. I wouldn't play him until week seventeen, and even then I would only give him like ten to fifteen touches just to like get his feet underneath him, you know, get him ready for the

playoffs or whatever you need. If you have any chance of making a run deep into the postseason, you need Melvin Gordon. I'd be surprised. I know that. I've said all along Greg that I I think if he were to come back early, it would be this game against the Chiefs. Just it's a marquee matchup. I get it. I don't think that he should play, but we'll see what happens again Thursday night football Chargers Chiefs ten days off do the Chiefs. Charges and Chiefs both have after

that one to get their players healthy. Which brings me to Kansas City, where Tyree Hill battle a foot in your all day yesterday. I mean, he was out there, played the entire game, left before halftime, came back. He was in pain, and he was just living around the field all afternoon. And even though he caught that ridiculous no look over across your body pass, he lived afterwards and after the game he says, he puts in real pain. I get it adrenaline and I get the pain killing shot.

Whatever it took. I think he's in a rush to play on Thursday night. And you know, they're already without Sammy Watkins. We may be starting Helvin Benjamin and Chris Conley. On Thursday night for the Kansas City Chiefs, Spencer Ware was banged up. We don't what his status is going to be. Damian Williams scores two touchdowns on Sunday. A lot to take out on the Kansas City side of things as well. And we often hear fantasy football in the NFL the battle of attrition. Everyone talks about that.

But honestly, if you're gonna win your fantasy league, you're gonna earn it this year because just based on how many players we lost a week ago, you know, playing without Melvin Gordon, losing a j Green, losing all these early round picks, and then now Tyreek Hill, who's you know, been a He's easily been a top five wide receiver all season long. You mentioned even a whatever he was fifty six, Tyreek Hill still better than what the Ravens

had to offer yesterday. Four team targets, eight receptions, a hundred and thirty nine yards. But you're right, Greg, if he can't go, you're looking at the next man up. But like Chris Conney was targeted three times. In this game, de Marcus Robinson was targeted seven times. Like, so if Tyreek Hill can't go, I just don't know if it's as easy as all right, well, we'll like plug this guy in because Patrick Mahomes at least in this game

spread the ball around a lot. And when we're talking about spreading the ball around, you talk about their running back situation too. Because spencer Ware performed well yesterday fourteen fifteen carries seventy five yards five yards worker carry against the Baltimore Ravens, who you know, we're in the bottom three in terms of like yards per carry and how

many yards they allow overall the running backs. He also was targeted five times, called all five of those, so twenty touches up over you know, right around a hundred and a hundred and thirty total yards. The problem was he was vultured two times by Damian Williams, which at running Back by Committee unfortunately rears its ugly head. Damian Williams had twelve touches. It was not good on those touches on a per carry, a per you know, reception basis,

but did have the two touchdowns. But spencer Ware looked way better in this game than Damian Williams did. Yeah, he did, he did, Um, and the Chargers just got lit up by Joe Mixon yesterday too. So it looks like Spencer where is gonna be in a good spot on Thursday night? Yeah? I agree. Listen, Spencer, Spencer Ware, Damie Williams um. It was clear which one looked better. It was clear which one looked clear? Like how many

times do teams have to do the Damian Williams thing? Greg, We did this last year and the same thing Adam Gates wouldn't give Kenyan Drake touches over Damian Williams. We're still in the same boat in Miami, and now Damian Williams just finds his way on to another team, doing just enough to annoy fantasy owners because he scored the

two touchdowns. Meanwhile, Spencer Ware looked way better in every single other facet of this game, Like Damie Williams played more snaps yesterday, Greg, And I know Spencer Ware was banged up for a little bit of this game, but Damian Williams played fifty of the snaps. He was on the field more than any of the running back and then Spencer Ware played around of the snaps, so it's not an ideal snapshare, but on a per touch, per carry basis, spencer Ware was way better. I agree. I

agree with that. I agree with that. Um so with the Chiefs, with the charges Thursday Night Football. Have more with that with Dr Ray when it comes when we talked to him later on this week. We know you're gonna want to know about it, and we do too, so we'll hear more about that that then. But Justin Jackson sucked, by the way, Justin Jackson did suck, Yester, he sucked. He definitely like but you got to hold on him. You have to hold on You definitely have

to hold on to him. But I mean, they're they're gonna be teams that are going home because they started

Justin Jackson. And you know we told people too, But I mean, based on the reports that we had in the way that everything was trending, like Austin Ekeler had a terrible game the week before, Justin Jackson outplayed him, and then you get the report midweek from Anthony Lynn saying that Austin Ekeler is wearing down quote wearing down, and then Justin Jackson looks like he's in a good spot against Cincinnati Bengals and just puts up an absolutely

here seven carries twelve yards. Oh great. He had two receptions for twenty three yards. Terrible, terrible for this would a good time. I want to get back in. Yeah, you know, I'll do this now. So one of the most popular questions we had with Spencer where versus his opponent, Gus Buss Gus Edwards. We're the guys, We're we're Gus Edwards owners. It was a weird game. The defense is really good for Baltimore. Obviously they fell apart at the very very end. What did you think of Gus Edwards

Kenneth Dixon bolted him? Um, what did you think of the Ravens in general? Lamar Jackson at the quarterback position. I thought Lamar Jackson actually, uh performed pretty well. I know that he had he had the fumble late in that game where you know the Ravens were driving. You know, that's part of what Lamar Jackson needs to learn, is like his blind side and having that internal clock when you know he's about to get smashed by the opposing team.

But I thought he played well in terms of, you know, through for two touchdowns, he rushed for seventy one yards. So Lamar Jackson did with you know, he was he was a borderline QB twelve for me, like he was a low end QB one and high end QB two. But from the running back perspective, I mean, it's pretty

much what it's been all season long. Like you think you could trust the guy and then it just comes out that, all right, well they're gonna ride the hot hand, and this is what teams are doing nowadays, and it's it's next to impossible to know what a team is gonna do because it's it's very hot hand approach. We hear that where that that term a lot, and it's it's super frustrating for fantasy owners because gust Edwards, alright, he touches about sixteen times, sixteen carries, sixty seven yards

four point two yards per carry. That's fine, but then Ken Dixon starts, you know, stealing carries, and he's running well in those carries, eight carries, fifty nine yards, seven point four yards per carry. He had a touchdown and you know he also he had a reception in receiving it. He just looked better overall. And now yesterday Gus Edwards saw a four week low in terms of carries and snap percentage. So it's like, who are you gonna trust going into next week when they have a good matchup

against Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Well, what we say, what we think is good, right because Alvan Kamar didn't do much yesterday, and you know, the past couple of weeks, the Tampa Bay Bucks defense has uh has definitely stepped up. But just looking at the snap percentage Gus Edwards of the snaps again, that was a four week low since he kind of clause I took over being the starter here and at Dixon of the snaps, he's only played in two games. That was his highest snap percentage, so he's

trending up. Gust Bus is training down, and then time Montgomery again is doing just enough in the past game to kind of eliminate past value reception value for those other two running backs. So it's a mess. I think you gotta kind of devalue, You gotta devalue Gus Edwards, and I think you have to you kind of gotta

raise your expectations for Kenneth Dixon. Dixon's probably more of He's in the flex play discussion now, now Gus Edwards because he still has seen at least sixteen carries in every game, more of like a low end RB two or high end flex option, more more so than the high end r B two that he thought he was heading into this. It's unfortunate because the Ravens, you think water round the ball, they have Lamar Jackson, as Frankie said, and Gus Edwards seemed to be the guy. You know,

it is what it is. Ultimately with Baltimore a good game with Kansas City over to Cincinnati. We spoke about the the Chargers side of Chargers side of that Joe Mixon is able to score a touchdown Tyler yesterday not great. I was sorry it six times. That was tied for a team lead with Joe Mixon who also had six targets. And you know, I've been clamboring for this. We need to see more Joe Mixon in the past game. He needs to, you know this, six targets, that's what he

should be at. He should be his workload in this game. And I know it's a lot, but he needs to be in that Todd Gurley, Ezekiel Elliott workhorse type of mold that just needs to be the case. And you see that when he does get this month's work, he can what he can do. Twenty six carries one and eleven yards. Four point three yards were carrier. That's even with Jeff Driskal as the quarterback. He ran effectively all day long. He scored a touchdown as well five receptions

in additional twenty seven receiving yards. So Joe Mixon, I thought it was great. Still had him ranked inside my top twelve. I know he hadn't been. He hadn't had a huge upside the past couple of weeks. He wasn't scoring touchdowns and the carries were you know, it was fourteen or less the past three or four weeks heading into this one. So it's surprising to see that workload. But that's what it needs to be. Like, Joe Mixon

is this good. So if you're if you're out there listening, Marvin Lewis, make sure you continue to get Joe Mixon and you want to give you this. The Raiders yesterday defeated Pittsburgh in a in a big surprise. I mentioned Ben Roethlisberger and I mentioned Juju Smith Schuster how awesome they were despite Ben missing in the third quarter. But the Ravens Raiders after that win, decided to make a personnel change, a general manager change regiment. Nzie officially out

as a general manager in Oakland. He was fighting, he was giving the opportunity to stay the rest of the season. He said, absolutely not. John Gorden clearly cleaning house. That's pretty weird too, because you kind of forced his hand into making all those moves. Anyway. I mean, I'm sure John Jordan's the one that's like pulling the strings behind everything. It's basically like acting GM and coach for this team.

So i mean, all right, that makes sense just from a personnel perspective of what we saw in the field yesterday, Big Martin, what do you know? Greg touchdown in three straight games? Uh? Still only sixteen carries for thirty two yards. He's in your flex discussion, Jared Cookman, back to back games over a hundred yards receiving. He's one of these, you know, tight ends every single week where you just kind of set it and forget it. Well, this is in flex where I won. I only started too tight end.

I've been do you have the last four weeks, it's been Jared Cooking, George Kittle, Who've been awesome. Like, I know it's a crazy thing to do, but I've been doing it. George Kittle over jalan Samuel was yesterday, by the way, George Kittle over James Alis right. Actually, Jans Sims a perfect game at PBR League. He did. He did fine, exactly you're looking for it. Got Voltaire on the touchdown, he did, and that was pretty much all

Steve really did. Five car and a touchdown. But Jalen Samuel's eleven carries twenty yards only two point five year yards per carry, but targeted seven times, seven receptions sixty four yards and he was on the field for eighty percent of the snaps. And I know Adam Schefter already tweeted that it would surprise him and from what he's heard, some rumblings around Pittsburgh if James Conner played next week, So make sure you hang on to those guys as well.

Janeln Samuels of the snaps and on. They faced the Patriots next week, so that's that's gonna be a shootout games. Now. I do want to mention before we I forget with the Cowboys and Eagles. We talked at the Cowboys a lot I gotta mention the Eagles. We had a discussion all week about Golden Tate and his role pretty non existing. He took a backsheet backseat to Alshon Jeffrey. And then it came to the running game with Josh Adams had

twenty carries back to back weeks. Now he got a couple of carries, but a far cry from the twenty. The fact is he's a zero in the passing game, which we knew that. It was almost like high landed yesterday with the Eagles struggling to do anything on the ground, trying to be in comeback mode. He was useless and unfortunately had one long run and that was it. He was did not was targeted, did not catch a pass.

It was more all darren Sproles, and unfortunately, because darren Sproles and they went a bit of a hurry up in the red zone, darren Sproles gets a touchdown from the five yard line and it was just very, very frustrating. So you need to have the right match up with Josh Adams. They faced the Rams on Sunday Night Football this week. Is that gonna be the right matchup? Probably not.

It's tough to say because Jordan Howard just rust nineteen times for a hundred yards, but that was the MS was a game with the least different So we get into we get into this with a lot of running back situations where you need to try and predict game script. And you know, if you could predict game script, then God bless you, you should be betting. You should you should have won a million dollars by now, because trying to predict game script in the NFL on a week

to week basis is nearly impossible. So on paper, what it's going to look like is, oh, yeah, of course, the Eagles are traveling to the West Coast. They're faceing They're facing a Rams team that just got embarrassed in Funsday Night Football against the Bears. They're going to be from behind. And if that's the case, you know, I'll go as far as to say that Darren's prowls might be a borderline flex. He's now scored a touchdown in

two straight games. He's the one who's being used in the past game, as you mentioned, when they're running that hurry up and they just need a running back on the field and a scattered back. It's it's Darren's burrowls in games where they're playing with the lead or you know, closer competitive games they're grinding out the clock or something. Yeah,

Josh Adams is going to be the guy. And you know, I didn't love him coming into this matchup either because he did not just have been great against the run. He was more so a flex option, whereas the past couple of weeks he was more in the RB two discussion. But yeah, Josh Adams going up against the Rams, it's not going to look like a favorable game script from that match, So you'll do what you have to do, uh,

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dot com bet DSi dot com. The promo code is F A T S Y eighteen cool three seven nine. Isn't you recapping the games? You want to hear your horror stories for sure, so we'll get them in there. Dustin from Salem, either you or we didn't. We didn't know what happened. We didn't know what happened for sure. So that's definitely gonna happen. Greg Every week we get touchdown vultures, but didn't it seem like yesterday they were

just more than like the usual touchdown vulture. Like James Devlin scored another touchdown yesterday, And admittedly, you know I was talking up Sony Michelle all week last week. He has twenty carries, but if he gets that touchdown, like, it's a totally different day for James Devlin scored a touchdown. Stephen Ridley you already mentioned, five carries for four yards and a touchdown. Trenton Cannon of the New York Jets.

My New York Jets, Alfred Blue scored a touchdown, Damian Williams too touchdown, Zack Zenter a touchdown, Kennethy Dixon stole a touchdown from Gus Edwards. And Brandon Balden. How can we ever get Brandon Balden? Everyone started the week Brandon Balden game to rushing attempts to sixty yards to We'll tell you who was known about that? All those Kane

Drake owners. Kenyan Drake thing is interesting though, because, like, while I still want to be mad at Adam Gates for not using him like Kenyan Drake just provided one of the most awesome moments. And I'll go as far and I haven't watched like every game in NFL history, that was one of the most memorable regular season moments in NFL history. And I know it's kind of going viral right now where you can watch the video with like the Titanic song like you for everything. But that

was an awesome player from Kenyan Drake. Awesome for some not so awesome for others. We got we got the mailman in the in the YouTube chat telling us how he was crushed by Kenyan Drake. I still don't know why he's not used as more like there's no like that's starting far. Frank Gore ran well, so I can't crush it. And then and bold and randomly gets two rushing attempts and he scores two touchdowns, Like, how can

I make a case for Kenyan Drake. He's been great all season long, but that's why he still has the most the most touchdowns among the Dolphins running backs. Frank Coors still hasn't scored rushing touchdown alst he's long so well, he's been great. I mean, Kenyan Drake is the one is the money maker. One might say, alright, alright, Ade, By the way, we crushed Tom Brady on here Brady highest passing, highest mat passing yards he had all season long,

came yesterday, three touchdowns. He was very good yesterday. Frankie, Yeah, he was the QB one overall. You know, QB two is Greg now Dak Prescott. You know QB three is one guest, one guest only. Nick Mullins, Um, no, he was not Luck. Josh Johnson in four passing that the other start of the week had Josh Johnson and bolding in your lineup, You're likely moving on to the next

round of the Fantasy football playoffs. This is just what we talked about, right, Like, Josh Johnson comes in of relief of Mark Sanchez and randomly forty five rushing yards, a rushing touchdown, throws for a touchdown as well. I now you mentioned Andrew Luke Gray get and a lot of people were freaking out in that first quarter first half ish for Andrew luck but still ends up with nearly four yards and two touchdowns. And on top of that, t Y Hilton, who was questionable for the game yesterday,

as I mentioned on Friday, rushes the Texans. Whenever you see t Y Hilton going up against the Texans, put him in your DFS Lineup's crazy nine. Had a phenomenal game, Yes he did. He was absolutely brilliant yesterday in that one. As I said, the nine game winning streaks snapped for Houston and Indianapolis after getting she lacked by the Jaguars and Jacksonville wake up in a major way. Had really nice adjustments by Frank Reich at halftime, and they got

the job done. Uh in a big potsition magic against Houston. It was really really good by them. Yeah. The AFC wild Card is just all over the place right now, all over the place. Got the Ravens who are right there. You got the Colts now who are dophins. Dolphins control their own destiny. And I've said this, I'm gonna stand by this. And look, if you're a Miami fan, I'm sorry. I'm not trying to offend you, piss you off anything.

I don't think the Miami Dolphins are very good. Not what they've done enough to win game is this here, it's crazy. They you know, they've they've played just enough defense here, They've played They've made huge plays all season long. You can't forget when they faced Chicago in Miami, Albert Wilson, you know, just torching everybody and going to the house. It seems like every single week, you know, the Brandon

Bolden touchdowns, the miracle from Kenyan Drake. It's it's been one of those seasons for Miami where every single thing when they need something to go right, when they need a big play, when they need a random defensive stop, Miami has been there to do it. But then on the flip side, you know, I've watched a lot of Miami as a Jets fan. You know, you see the games between the Bills as well. It seems like they've

been able to lose every game too. Like the Bills could have beat the Dolphins last week, but Jets played competitive games and both their matchups against the Dolphins. Like it's just very weird. I don't think the Dolphins are very good, but hey, here we are. It's it's about to be week fifteen and there's seven and six right in the mix for the a f C wild card. They very much are. It's it's really remarkable. Are a f C is really interesting? With the Patriots losing yesterday,

the Chiefs in this battle yesterday. Uh we thought we knew. And of course fourteen weeks later, Patrick Mahomes just took over the MVP race one I think so too big spot on every big spot for him. On Thursday night in an ice A game. As I leave, it was Evan Silva that said it, Um, you know, I think

he's Jason McIntyre. But night show game. Everybody's watching Mahomes gotta come up big on Thursday night if they think if he does, he secures an MVP vote, and how how can you doubt him at this point, especially against the Ravens. It's not just what Spencer where did yesterday, it's what Patrick Mahomes did. Obviously, Crunch Time crushed us

in a matchup against Matt Modika. Shout out to Matt Modica, who who ran over the BFS thankfully, you know, thanks in large part two ran over right back, right over and back thanks in large parts of Derrick Henry obviously putting up we have one of the Derrick Henry. Yeah right, what Derrick Henry had like a the whole game and we have one. I think we ended up losing by like twenties, so you can give Derrick Henry twenty points

were still in Yeah, that's that's probably the case. You know, the two highest scoring PPR games by skill position players this week, we're the highest scoring. It's all season long more than that between did we it was thirty something two? Yeah, he had the Bears defense. So I mean I I shut the ixed off that tab after so so once I got because we had Robert Woods, we had Josh Reynolds,

we had Antonio Brown. So like I was like, all right, well, it's funny that after after Golden Taes game, like nice shop Josh Reynolds and it worked, um, but not as well as we have moved. Like we put up a media it was a medio game. Came really crushed us yesterday. And then we have Dack on the bench. But I mean, who's starting Dac Overnon. We weren't. You can't crush yourself for that. We weren't doing that. We had we had a huge kicker dilemma as well. It makes you feel

it makes you feel better. We would have started, we still have lost. Yeah. Did we have Maher on the bench, yeah, fourteen Yeah, and you're the kicker through the kicker guy. Yeah, Like I mean you crushed it with kickers this year. But yeah, you know we got we got un lucky the bear. He was put up twenty one against us, very every forty seven like that. What are you gonna do? Ultimately, what are you gonna do? Um? As we mentioned, Aaron Judes did not short this game for Green May today.

They ran over Atlanta and I felt like Redzon didn't really show enough of this game, to be honestly, I feel like I barely saw any of it. Um, But the Packers whooped the Falcons evidently out from early on in the game, you know, and I kind of liked Calvin Williinston's matchup to this is another process over results, because if you look at the past catchers for Atlanta, they did well, like Justin Hardy randomly got in the end zone. Julio Odonan's had a monster game over a

hundred yards and two touchdowns. You're telling me some of that couldn't go Calvin Ridley's way. I think that he was in a good spot. But just talking about um, the Green Bay running backs here, Aaron Jones back over six of the snaps here last week. Part of the reason, I'm sure Mike McCarthy was fired only of the snaps and then the goal of Joe Philbin yesterday to start Jamal Williams and play him on the entire first series between Aaron Jones and Kenyan Drake, like what have they

done to their respective coaching stats? You know, what more do you need to see from Aaron Jones? Like, I know he still ended up with a great game, but you had some fantasy owners ripping their hair out because the first half of that game Aaron Jones did not do anything, so he had to have that big second half, which he ultimately did. So you know, I'm kind of complaining for no reason, but he had why did you not start? Like why does Jamal Williams start for this

team and play the first series? So thinking that it was because Aaron Rodger has been hit too much, and they said Joe film was like see what protect me you would? I got you man. Had a Packers fan tweet it me yesterday and said, look this is what they do. Uh. They start Jamal Williams and then they let Aaron Jones, you know, slowly warm up into the game. And then after Aaron Jones had the big game, he tweeted me afterwards and said, he told you so, this

is what the packers like to do. Like all right, well, if you're if you're happy about you know, not starting your best players at you know, at their respective positions, and all the power to you. But I just don't really see the logic in. You know, we need to get Aaron Jones warmed up into the game slowly, and we have to start with like no, not like just your best players. No you think so? And the cabal

really thing is really frustrating to me. That killed me yesterday. Obviously, Up and all the other Falcons pass catchers performed well in this matchup Hooper, No, a lot of people depending on Austin eight four four eight four three six, eight, seven nines anything else. Before he get to the phones, Frankie that you wanted to make sure you hit on here. Now I think we hit on a lot of the stuff running. I really want to talk about the waiver, wid running backs and ard and the only when we

did it before we got the phone lines. I want to do this. We didn't mentioned jeff Wilson yet yesterday and Jeffrey Wilson twenty three harries for ninety yards yesterday I had a cash for six. So it wasn't It wasn't as great as last week, but the important thing was the domination in the backfield. He had twenty three carries out for Moors had two. That's all you really need to know that Breed is not out there yesterday and not out there next week. Rather, Jeff Wilson was

right back in the lineup. Yeah. Absolutely, back to back games at least twenty three touches and they faced the Seattle Seahawks. That was the team that at um. Jeff Wilson did everything that he just did it last week against him when he had nine targets and eight receptions and over a hundred and twenty totally yards. He had a great game against Seattle. So he's gonna face him

again next week. I'll have to see what happens with Matt Brita, and I'd be surprised if Matt Breda plays again this season, just being honest, Um, I think he's part of the future there with him and Jack McKinnon. I don't really the forty Niners aren't playing for much this year. Um, I'd be surprised. I think Jeff Wilson, especially with no Matt Brida, he's gonna be an RV two again next week. Alrighty, with that, we're gonna sign off of YouTube. We're gonna take your calls. The rest

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leave a comment. And if you were listen to Love with the Radio, would take your calls the the programs. Let's start with that right now. Frank at eight four four, eight, four, three, six, seven nine, and we begin with's Trek and Jersey. What's up? What's up? What's going on? Man? Hey, man um? I'm winning about thirty right now. I'm playing Russell Wilson tonight, I have Dalvin Cook. I know I'm winning. It's the first round of the playoffs, but I'm just asking about

the next week. I know I'm winning tonight, I'm playing next week, I'm playing uh Odell, Melvin Gordon, Matt Ryan, Julio Jones. What do you guys think I'm winning? You're up by thirty tonight, you have Dalvin Cook, You're going up against Russell Wilson. I feel I feel confident. I feel confident. We'll give you, uh, definitely chance of winning. And when it comes to next week, I mean you just said I'm gonna have Melvin Gordon, I'm gonna have Odell Beckham. I mean that's not I didn't wear it

that correctly. Sorry, Right, I'm facing Melvin Gordon, O b J. I don't know who's playing or but on my team Mahomes, Lindsay, t Y Hilton, Trey Burton, and then my my team it's just whole. Trey burn sucks too, but Nelson Curtison it all and uh, I don't really have that much depth right now. It's really bad. Yeah, look, you have Mahomes, so I think as long as you have Patrick Mahomes, I mean you'll have a fighter's chance about being awesome. You have to do something at the tight end position.

You just can't continue to to trot Trey Burton out there and just expect something different happened. That's the definition of insanity, Greg waiting for different results. And uh, you know, I think Ian Thomas is gonna be a popular pick up this week. He just had the you know, nine reception. It was an eight or nine reception in seventy seven yards. Good matchup against the Browns. But I liked. I liked that he was used, and I believe he could have

caught a touchdown yesterday as well. So Ian Thomas is a name that I'm looking at. Um. I think you had a dump trap burn. But good luck in your neck, Matt, your next matchup. Alright, back the phones. We got eight fourth, raight, four, three, six, eight, seven nine, stand in d C. You're up next? What's up? Stand? How you doing? How y'all doing the day? I got like two questions. Actually I'm in the playoffs right now. Standard League? I got Dalvin Cook, but I'm down ninety

five the one sixteen. What y'all think Standard League? Lot's a lot of points of Standard a lot of points. Dalvin Cook isn't even a guy that's been scoring touchdowns. We saw his his pass game usage go up last week. He saw a career high and targets and receptions. What I will say, we just saw Jeff Wilson have a pretty big game against against Seattle. I don't want to get your hopes up. To be honest, I don't think

you have a good chance of winning. But the way that the Seahawks have been giving up fantasy production to running backs, I'm not gonna say it's impossible. You have a chance. Is it a good chance? Probably not? Okay, thank you? Yeah. One more question going in the playoffs next week. For the next two weeks, I have won a flex spot opening a full PPR. Who should I go with? Uh? Fitch, Joe, Josh Reynolds, Curtis Samuel's a golden tape. We can't answer that yet. Yeah, we can't ask.

I haven't even looked at fourteens on over guarantee if you call back Wednesday or Thursday, we will one thousand percent answered that question. On Thursday we got so y'all don't plan that. I no, I don't even plant it on a way I don't want to wearing on Thursday, which was putting my life. No. I mean when it terms to like waiver wire, like, yeah, you can start to look at Matt Short in terms of like planning out your line up for the week in advance when

it's still Monday. I never do all right? Uh eight four four eight four three six seven nine Stephen the Massachusetts You're next, Steve, Stephen, have Dick's leapt Yeah? What's up? Man? What was your question? So I had Dick's left down eleven to pull it off? Question is? Uh? Oh Kenneth Dixon. Now you guys interested, You guys into him, and you saw him. You guys want to look at I know it's Monday, but he has my attention for sure. I

think he's getting close to a flex discussion. Seriously, Well you can get close to FLEXI two weeks left and your Fantasy football semifinals. You feel comfortable putt Kenneth Dixon in there? No way, absolutely not. But if you if you suffered injuries, great, I mean it depends on what you have. If you were able to pick up one of these other way wire running backs, yes, I love

those guys way more. Like you don't know what people are going through right now, Greg when it comes to their running backs, Well, I pick him up, and you know, maybe Gus Edwards gets hurt and then he's like your week. Yeah, he's getting carries right now and he's performing well in those carries. You have a dead roster spot. I'm absolutely interested in Kennet Dixon in terms of tonight eleven, you're down eleven. You have Stefandigs is a PPR YEPPR Yeah,

I think you're good down eleven in the PPR six fine. Um. By the way, Tim Patrick, that's a that's a name, Fim Patrick. That was the guy you know, Shawn Hamilton though seven receptions and not. The gun comes down from Cortland. Sun Frenzy's up next with Corey Jim and Ben Shroff for Frankie Stamfill. My name is Greg Sausman Sea Bass. We hate you tonight, hopefully in the semifinals.