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And Then There Were Four

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With only four teams left, you'd think this episode of Fantasy Football Weekly would be 15 minutes long. But no, Brian and Charch yap for a half hour about the two championship games being played. You'll get a deeeep dive on every meaningful player from each game. Also, note that Charch resists mentioning his correct upset prediction from last week, a feat of unnatural strength for him.

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Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of I Heart Radio. Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from I Heart Radio, your weekly source for the nation's best fantasy football advice, speculation, and whatever stupid stuff they decided to drop into the show. Now, here's your host. And then there were four four teams left super Bowl looming. It's the a f C and NFC championship weeks. I am Paul Tcharchi and my co host Brian Johnson once again for these playoff games. Hi, Brian,

what's going on charge? Good to talk to you. I I think some of us would have picked these four teams, but not necessarily most people. Uh yeah, most of us weren't picking the Niners. But yeah, I just I just sort of gave him a chance when I said the Giants went in eight nine years ago, is massive underdogs and upset the number one seed Packers and anything could happen, and anything did happen. Yeah, it was that was a

that was a shocking outcome. Honestly, I was really stunned for about twenty four hours after that game that, given the offensive performance of the forty Niners that they won that game. Yeah, I mean in Green Bay marched right down the field. First it looked so cool. It's uh, it was the best weekend of football ever. I'm concerned. And now we've got two games that are going to struggle to live up to that just by default, but it should be good games. Anyway. I got forty Niners

wrong last week. I said, I thought that Brian, that they had just they might just be wrung out that they have done so many road games. Then it was six of eight on the road. Now there's seven of nine on the road, and that you know, they've been basically playing playoff games since Christmas for Pete's sake, and you know, here we are February looming, and I was worried they had run out of gas. I was wrong

about that. We'll talk about forty Niners rams in just a minute, but let's start with the a f C side as your team. You know, you jumped on the you jumped on the Bengals band way. It was pre Borrow band way. That's saying something. I did a lot of flags for that. You did, you did it well not I think was still black. People said I was insane, like you're gonna pick a team, dude, four And I was like, you can't get any worse than They're only

going up where they were at that point. Al Right, nobody will accuse you of being a bandwagon jumper at that time. So Bengals travel to the Chiefs this I would not be surprised if either team won. The spreads like three and a half. So it's it's seven, it's seven, which is shocking, is it really? Yeah? Bengals are seven. Bengals in the points all the way. I'd like a money line, especially considering these teams played in Week seventeen.

Granted it was in Cincinnati. The Bengals won that game one, so we'll reference that game for sure. Over under fifty four and a half points, high scoring game. Funny things, Both defenses are pretty good. Bengals defense is better than people think. What's pretty good too is the weather forty three degrees and clear minimum wins. Can't ask for anything better this time a year in Kansas City. Should be uh again, should be high scoring games, should be fun

for fantasy purposes. Um, we'll start with the running game though with the Bengals and Joe Mixing. Initially, I was like, I'm gonna give Mixing and a and this one. It's a shootout, right, But I'm just gonna give him a b here. He did not have a good game on the ground against the Chiefs in that week's seventeen game, twelve carries for forty six scoreless yards. Casey has been good against the run this year. They've only surrendered seven

rushing touchdowns and running backs in the regular season. That's great, really great. Uh. They held Nagi Davis and Devin's Singletary in the playoffs to combine fifty five yards on twenty two carries. Singletary did run for a touchdown last week, but it's more about the receiving angle for mixing in this one. He's been very active in the passing game as of late, total twenty six targets over his last four. In that week seventeen game, he had seven catches for

forty yards. The Chiefs have allowed the fourth most catches and third most receiving arts running backs like that the regular season, So a hundred plus combo yards should be in the cards. But I would not be shocked if if he has more receiving yards than rushing yards in this game. So if that reason just to be for him, Jamar Chase though he gets an A because he was a league winner. Levin catches two hundred and sixty six

yards and three touchdowns. Now, okay, here the contrary and point up for that would be Chiefs go into this week of prep and the clear mandate is we're not going to let Jamaar Chase beat us again. Yeah, and they do whatever it takes to take away Chase. Meanwhile, Higgins, Boyd and others might have an opportunity to feast if that's how the Chiefs choose to attack this. Yeah, the Chiefs have surrendered the fifth most wide receiver touchdowns in

the regular season. Six wide receiver touchdowns surrendered in the playoffs so far, six six two by the Steelers and in four by Gabe Davis alone. And that's the angle there, uh for te Higgins, if you're trying to be contrarian DFS, Chase is gonna be the chalkiest wide receiver. He's He's less expensive on no sites than Um Cooper, Cup, Deebo Samuel. Then as Jamaar Chase. Everyone's gonna look at the weeks seventeen game. But with bodes well for te Higgins, let's

jump to him. I'll give him a b even though I like him more in this game. Is the Chiefs held Stefon Diggs to three catches for seven yards last week, and Jamaar Chase is the Stefan Biggs of the Bengals, right And uh, the just mentioned Gabe Davis two yards and four touchdowns. He's the number two receiver for the Bengals, So uh, I'm sorry for the Bills. Higgins the number two for the Bengals, just three catches sixty two yards

in the week seventeen game, did not score. It was all about Chase, of course, but uh, I like Higgins just as much as Chase. And if if you're only picking one Bengals receiver pairing with Joe Burrow or not in DFS, if you want to be contrarian, you go with Tee Higgins. I think he has the chance to outproduce Jamaar Chase in this game. Um, the safest play

might be Tyler Boyd just to see for him. Though four catches thirty six yards in a touchdown in the week seventeen game, he did not score last week against Tennessee, but he had touchdowns in each of the four games prior. Cole Beasley Isaiah Mackenzie combined for seven catches on nine targets against the Chiefs last week, so slot receivers have been active against them. So I like Boyd here and

going back to DFS one more time. If you're doing a big stack with Bengals Burrow, Higgins, Boyd, that's how you deferrange your differentiate yourself in bigger tournaments. Uh. And lastly, when it comes to the past catchers, we gotta talk c j Uzomo is having a great great playoffs just four catches thirty two scoreless yards in Week seventeen. Opposing tight ends have averaged five catches and fifty fifty two yards per game in the regular season against Kansas City,

which is pretty good, but they've totaled just six touchdowns. Uh. Dawson Knox had a meager two catches for nine scoreless yards against Kansas City in a in a high scoring affair, so it doesn't look like a great matchup for Suzy, but neither was Tennessee last week on paper, and he had a great game for his standards, so certainly a viable play this week, So a see for him and Joe Burrow a easy. We had four touchdowns four six yards in Week seventeen, got a slew weapons. You gotta

love Burrow in this one. It feels like those Chiefs cornerbacks that have been that overperformed for a long stretch of the regular season. It's kind of coming to roost now and you know they kind of are who they are and to some degree, you know, Mike Hughes uh uh assurdavious Award. You know those Hues especially is a

meager talent awards banged up. I wonder if there's uh, I feel like those guys are exploitable at cornerback and should mention Honey Badger Tyrone Matthew in concussion protocol right safety, but he should he should play in this game, so that would be a huge Forenzamaica. But he's trending, he's trending towards playing. I expect him to play all right over the over the chief side. We'll start with the running backs. Darryl Williams got all the work in that

week seventeen games and he's dead to us now. Yeah he might he's uh, he's kind of had setbacks this week in practice. Not like it really would have mattered anyway if he was active. Or not, he'd be up third in that pecking order. But Williams had a hundred and seven combo yards and two rushing touchdowns in that game. So but he got almost all the work in that game. And this feels like we're going to have two different guys to get a lot of it's Jerick McKinnon and

Clyde Edwards Hilaire gonna give him both the CE. McKinnon had ten carries for twenty four scoreless yards against Buffalo last week. He did catch five passes for fifty four yards on seven targets. C E. H was far more effective rushing last week, sixty carries on just seven sixty yards on seven carries. So I guess we see with more rush attempts in this game. Uh, it's really more

about the receiving angle with Jet here. The Bengals have allowed the fifth most catches to running backs in the regular season, So I like beginning with the c UM and again c H gets a C two mentioned the seven carries for sixty yards last week. Josh Jacobs had eighty three yards on just thirteen carries in the wild card round against the Bengals. Derrick Henry Deante Foreman combined for twenty four carries, a hundred yards and a touchdown against the Bengals last week. Uh, since he was without

defensive tackles Josh Tupo and Mike Daniels last week. Both have been practicing this week they should play. That will help a little bit there, but both both. You gotta like both the running backs for the Chief's offense, of course, And speaking of liking, nay loving someone, Travis Kelsey, Hey, can I give him an A plus? It's off season plus? Well, no, you will know what what you can give him is the fantasy Fonzie a year. I should have given him that.

And you know I love my my revenge spite angles. Travis Kelsey born in Ohio, went to University of Cincinnati. There's a Cincinnati universe. I think his University of Cincinnati. The Bengals chose to draft Tyler Eifert over Tyler Kelsey way back in and there was like four other teams that drafted the tight end over Travis Kelsey. They're probably still kicking themselves over that. So love Kelsey this week. He was somewhat quiet by his standards in that week's

seventeen game five catches twenty five yards. He did score a touchdown, but a great match up here. The Bengals were top five in the most catches, yards and touchdown surrendered to tight ends in the regular season. Last week, Tennessee's tight ends did nothing. But that's pretty understandable, uh, since he did yield twelve targets to be very comparable Darren Waller. In the wild card round he caught seven. Uh. Foster Moreau also saw three targets in that game, so

tight ends very active against the Bengals. Kelsey is my pick for the highest scoring skill position player on this slate by far. I don't think I could fade him under any circumstances. Really, I will quickly throw out Noah Gray as a punt option in DFS. Dirt cheap would be a differentiator. If he volters a touchdown. He has seen the field in a couple of targets here in there. It would be a dirty, dirty touchdown, but you never know. Okay, over to Tyreek Hill and the rest of the wide receivers.

Hill gets an A as well, despite just six catches for forty scoreless yards in Week seventeen. In the Week

seventeen game, I expect a better performance on Sunday. Posing wide receivers in the regular season didn't put up great numbers against the Bengals, collectively, averaging thirteen catches, one fifty six yards and zero point nine touchdowns, less than the touchdown per game, but Cincinnati has a surrendered a touchdown to the position in sixth straight, including one to A. J. Brown last week, who also had a hundred forty two yards.

Tennessee Whiteouts combined for two hundred and seven yards in that game. Uh. The week prior, Las Vegas wide receivers total seventeen catches on six yards in a touchdown. So easy a for Tyree Hill and over to Byron Pringle and Nicole Hardman. Uh. We like Pringle Moore on this show. I'm giving both the c uh Pringle the stronger. See. In Week seventeen, Pringle had three and my guy, I'm I'm big, I'm I'm big into the Pringle. Yeah, he had three catches thirty five yards, didn't score. Hardman one

catch fifty three yards didn't score. Neither did much. But over the last three games, Pringle has seen seven targets and all at least seven targets in all three, he's pulling away from the pack a little bit. Like I keep interrupting, No, no no worries. Uh, twenty two targets over that three game span. Hardman has sixteen targets over that same span, but just five total over his last two games.

Like you said, Pringle has has separated himself from Hardman's And you know, I think that I think that one of the reasons you saw Josh Gordon get demoted to the practice squad is because springs Pringle's snap count and effectiveness has gotten so high that there's just there's no place, there's no plays left for Josh Gordon on the field anymore. And and DeMarcus Robinson is still ahead of Josh Gordon.

I'll throw him his name out there quickly. He he does get a bench created, but he has another punt play option in DFS, he's gonna be on the field. And in this what should be a high scoring affair can pay the same amount basically for Pringle in a DFS world, right, and you know a little more than like it's a grand twelve hundred or something like that.

It's enough of a difference. But uh not not loving DeMarcus Robinson to llege obviously, and but in last and certainly not least, Patrick Mahomes gets an a just two passing yards two touchdowns. In the week's seventeen game, we mentioned that Williams, Darryl Williams had two rushing touchdowns. Uh, Mahomes had twenty five rushing yards in that game. Josh Allen had I don't know a good amount of rushing yards as the Bengals last week, and he had about I mean against the Chief he had I think sixty

if memory serves. And the Bengals that allow the sixth most passing yards of this season. Not not They're a good defense, not great. Mahomes is a great quarterback. Should be a great game. But who go Bengals, Go Bengals. We'll take a break. When we come back, we'll break down forty nine at Rams Fantasy Football Weekly Styles. Stay tuned, Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. Forty Niners take on the Rams, and obviously, these teams met twice in the regular season.

You would think, since the Rams are favored in this game, that they would have won any of those two, but no, those are forty Niners victories. And you mentioned how that the Forts have been somewhat road Warriors. Uh, they have. This is trending. Despite the Rams efforts to suppress ticket sales, it's still it's gonna be more in this game. It's

gonna be at least and they're real fans too. The Rams fans are gonna be like extras from like the paramount set or something like the It's not as bad as when the Chargers play it so far, right, I mean that's like the Rams because they moved to l A and immediately went to the Super Bowl, have gotten a legitimate fan base. So I still think it's going to be I think it will be more Rams fans than Niners fans, but there will be plenty of They Area money that's bought their way into so far one

way or another. Um. Rams lost both of the games, including the Niners win an in game and Week eighteen, we want to watch the status of the ankle injury to elite left tackle Trent Williams. That is a big X factor in this game, so something you want to watch there as well. Let's start with the Let's start with the running game. Elijah Mitchell just gets a C grade for me. Uh. He had the thirteen carries last week,

which was way way way down for me. Probably rolled into that averaging twice as many, but that Packer bad weather game, Niners offense couldn't get in and go in lots of punts. Um, you know. Even factoring in that thirteen carry game the last six games, he's still averaging twenty three carries per game, which I do like. In the two meetings with the Rams this year, Elijah Mitchell carried the ball forty eight times, both of them wins. One of them was a lopsided wins, so they gave

Mitchell lots of carries, but he wasn't efficient. The average just three and a half yards per carry. That was a full yard under his season average. Against the Rams, there's a good run defense. He seemed declining rushing averages in four straight games, down to just three yards per carry last week, Brian, and with that knee injury, I just feel like Elijah Mitchell, just the efficiency and the

effectiveness just doesn't feel like it's there right now. And then add in he's never played this much football in one year either, well not even close. Yeah. Adding Deebo Samuel with back to back ten carry games, and my sky high confidence for Mitchell that I had had at the end of the season and even in the first couple of games of the playoffs. Uh, it's chiseled away a little bit. And so I am nervous about Mitchell. I like his chances of scoring. L A is allowed

to touchdown per game over the last nine games. Uh. And Jeff Wilson may very well not play. He did not practice on Wednesday or Thursday. Not sure about Friday yet. Um so well, Um, I've got the sea Grantam Mitchell. I think he finds the end zone here, but I wouldn't be surprised for you. Peters out in like the fifty yard range, sixty yard range. Yeah. Leonard Fournette had a great game behind a battered old line for the Books, and he was dinged up himself. Had a good game

against the Rams last week. If Trent Williams comes back, we'll we'll knock Elijah Mitchell up to a B grade, But he sits at a C right now with with not knowing what Trent Williams status is. Um I mentioned there's really no other running backs to mention, but we'll use that as our transition to Deebo Samuel, who I mentioned had the ten carries and back to back games just frankly looks fresher as a running back than Mitchell does.

The knee injury, all the carries, everything else from Mitchell Um and I think it was very telling at the end of last week's game, Brian, when the Niners had had to get a first down to Salt Way the Packers on their own field and arctic conditions, they ran the ball with their wide receiver, Deebo Samuel. He's got to touch the ball at least twenty times in this game for them to have a chance. Well, not not carries, I'm talking catches, and still if they're gonna win, I

mean I'd love it. Don't get me wrong, but that is a lot of touches for Deebo Samuel Um monster games for Deebo and both meetings with Los Angeles three touchdowns spread against across the two games. Hundred and forty total yards, hundred thirty three total yards. A grade for Deebo Samuel in this one. Brandon Aok gets a B grade. He had a huge game in the Week sixteen, sorry, the Week eighteen game against the Rams with the Rams trying to finally, you know, stop Samuel and do anything

they can to stop Samuel. There's gonna be opportunities for ayou can in better coverage. In the two games against the Rams has seen only Jalen Ramsey for one pass attempt. They really use Ramsey on Deebo Samuel. So he's doing a very good job. I like I you can this one be great for him. He's gonna get softer coverage against David Long and Darius Williams. Darius Williams looked awful when the Bucks were coming, like there was a sixth straight plays and then he couldn't make Yeah, he bad.

So that's why I like you. I think I think it's a nice I think it's a nice sneaky play here. Sticking with the receivers, I want to talk about Juan Jennings. Last week I told you I liked Jennings because slot receivers had some success against the Bucks. He only ended up with like two catches for ten yards, but he did have a drop. He had he had one drop and then another near miss that would have put him

closer to forty yards. Anyway, he scored twice against the Niners in the Week eight team matchup from inside the five yard line. Jennings has as many catches as the rest of the team combined this year from inside the five yard line. So if you're looking for a cheap touchdown in DFS, John Jennings is a possibility. I will mention Mohammed san who is going to return from his knee injury in this game and could take a little the slot work, but I really don't think so, because

Jenny has been better. I keep forgetting that he's on the team. I know well, he hasn't played since Week nine, so that's a good Travis Benjamin on the fort too, I think mostly in a special team's role, but yes, let's go to the tight end position of George Kittle. Rams are solid tight end defense. Only two tight ends had six receptions against the Rams all year. It was Mark Andrews and t J. Hockenson. Neither one of him scored. They had eighty nine yards for Andrews just forty eight

yards on the six receptions for t J. Hockenson. Last week, Tom Brady targeted Gronk eleven times, only four completions. There's a good tight end defense. No tight end has scored against the Rams since Week ten, but in Week ten it was George George Kittle, Yeah, he got it. I think he has a long running good history against the Rams for whatever reason. I have the numbers in front of me, but only had ten yards in the week A team meeting. Though also I'll mention that did not

score in that meeting. Um before last week, and Kittle had kind of a little of a breakout game, he was by far it was the only receiver do anything against the Packers last week. He had been held under twenty nine yards in four straight games. They've been badly under use it, under utilizing George Kittle. Prior to last week, he had like one of the worst drops you would ever see, and then then and then the very next target, it was like one of the most amazing, no, one

of those amazing catches you've ever seen. The complete gin and Yang of pass catching ability they did. They did it up getting that same like thirty ish yard completion I will look like ultimately the same route later in that same game to Kittle. So I gotta be great on Kittle. Tough matchup, but Kittle's pretty special. They still need to go to him. But I don't see the a upside that you often get from George Kittle at the tight end position, and in DFS I probably would

not pay his price tag in this matchup. I believe that is everybody. That is everybody for San Francisco. Jimmy Garoppolo,

Yeah yeah, sorry. So you know, given that we've got an A grade on Samuel to Be grades on his receivers, a C grade on John Jennings, I've got a B grade on Garoppolo here surprisingly safe despite the fact that he hasn't scored in two straight games, but prior to that, he had scored in every single game this year that he had played in, and he had topped two hundred nine nine yards in four of the last five regular season games, including putting up three d sixteen yards against

these same Rams and Week A team. Uh B, Jimmy Garoppolo, don't don't see this is I think this is a great contrarian play. Recently, everybody's thinking about this Packer game. Garoppolo look bad, the arctic conditions, getting drops over the field, all that stuff. I love flipping it to a contrarian play. Some people have given up all hope, so I do real quick. It's not a story. But he's four man uh or woman teams on underdog the best ball, UH site and you can you have to pick up quarterback.

You only get one quarterback, and of course Garoppolo is the last quarterback taken. And when I whenever I'm stuck with the San Francisco San Francisco quarterback, I'll take Garoppolo. But you see some people just taking tray Lance. But granted they are trying to differentiate themselves from the field. But Lance commit. Could Lance committ at the goal line

and still a rushing touchdown? Not impossible, but they haven't used him that way since the beginning of the season, so it would be it would be a deep callback. I feel like more people are banking on a benching than just like a or an injury. He has injured, right, Garppolo still got the shoulder and finger. But yeah, actually I feel I feel pretty good about Garoppolo. If you're gonna, if you want to go contrarian at quarterback, this is

your play. Obviously, with only the other four quarterbacks are also he'll be under like five the big time. Probably true. Probably true. Let's go to the rams, uh, let's start running game on the ramps and cam acres. Who he he relegated Tony Sony Michelle to the bench. Last week. He's winning. He won the time share battle eight one of the naps to of the snaps. I still can't believe he's back playing after I can't get this level. And yeah, his running looks pretty good for cam Akers,

but he nearly fumbled the game away last week. Two lost fumbles. If he has an early fumble in this game, Brian, the bend benching is not is not impossible here. You can't you. It's a good time to go in the doghouse. If you're fumbling the ball, there's no no time to gap. You can't on the field. Single elimination playoffs. Niners are great run defense. Forty Niners finished six against the run during the regular season, giving up just seventy five yards

per game. No runner his top fifty eight yards since Week nine. That's early November, to tell you how long ago Week nine was. And that includes in the playoffs Zeke thirty one yards, Aaron Jones forty one yards, and that was with A. J. Dillon missing half of the game. Small small numbers. Through the second half of the season, including the playoffs, San Francisco is giving up just three point four yards per carry, which would have made them

the number one run defense across the full season. Do you have any concerns with Damiko Ryan's defensive coordinators drawing a lot of interest as a head coaching candid people in here in Minnesota. Distract is that it not letting him interview yet he's not allowed to with the new league rules. So they made a rule. Yeah, they do it during the bye week, back in the bye week, or you gotta wait till after They didn't know that, yea, that they should have been doing that basically forever. Yeah,

I know, because it happened to know. Yeah, alright, so that's cam Akers. I'm I'm pretty down on cam Akers here. I'm giving him a C grade for the reasons that I just mentioned. Let's go to the passing game, and I want to start with Cooper Cup. Of course obvious a. He had overeen yards and both of the games against the forty niners running out of the slot. He goes against Kwan Williams. Kwan isn't bad, he hasn't a lot of He's not allowed to touch down all year, But

who cares? Cooper Cups a monster. He's going to get his numbers and he still gets an A grade. Speaking of almost fumbling the game away, he almost did the same thing. Well, he did fumble which almost led to the whole game going bye bye for the Rams, but correct although the cam Akers fumble at the goal line at the end of the first half, massive implications on

the whole rest of the game. Really um okay, And so Cooper Cups and obviously let's talk about ob jam putting him down at his seat level here with Cooper Cups sitting on you know what should be a pretty good game, is there enough left to go around for oh b J. We have seen some tandems do okay against the forty niners. Feeling and Jefferson did okay, Higgins

and Chase did okayt Cafine Lot did did okay. But it's hardly a lock, and more often than not, teams playing the forty Niners it's only the main guy that performs reliably well and generally are not too deep. And that includes in the playoffs when only Davante Adams got paid and only Amrii Cooper got paid. Nobody else on either team, no receiver on either team did anything, including by the way, Ceedee lamb who is a disaster? I know exactly joke. If that's the whole we'll have whole

offseason shows on Ceedee lamb Um. O b J is very touchdown dependent, with less than thirty nine yards and four of the past five games he's gonna face cornerback Dante Johnson the most often. Johnson is roughly fourth string here on the always churning Niners secondary. I don't like him very much, but the Niners have been have been battling gamely with marginal replacement level cornerbacks all year long, So I've just got the C grade on O. B J.

You need the touchdown. If he doesn't give you the touchdown, he hurts your team, but he might score then. Van Jefferson's on the bench. He's dealing with the knee injury. Super low volume makes him unstartable. He has had one or two catches in five of the past six games. Can't count on I can't count anything here for whatever reason, if he's inactive or not for whatever reason, if he holds him out or he gets hurt in game. It's

with Ben Sco and Wreck. So there's a punt option for you if you're you're desperate, but I'd rather go to Tyler Higbee. He had two good games against San Francisco this year. The first game thirty eight yards, touchdown, second game fifty five yards and two touchdowns, but those games are mostly an outlier for Higby. The average tight end game against San Francisco is just thirty five catches and and thirty four yards per game. UM Diners have

been a good tight end defense. Dalin Schultz did put up eighty nine yards in the first playoff game, but then last week the Green Bay tight ends, granted they're not good. They didn't even catch a pass so well. Mars Eighties Lewis did, but he fumbled it away. And speaking of game losing bumbles or contributing to games lost, way to go Marcin. Yeah, actually I think he got to zero yards on that play. I think he had

a zero yard box score. Maybe I just misread it, but all right, So then let's go to the final player left here, Matthew Stafford. I've got an A grade on Cup, I've got to C grades on on O b J and Tyler Higbee. B grade on Stafford here um one good game against San Francisco, one bad game, against San Francisco. The Niners are a good past defense

that plays better than its talent would suggest. The average passing game against San Francisco over the past six games just two d twenty yards and one point one touchdowns. And obviously, these have been playoff games, and good team most predominantly good teams in this mix, including Matthew Stafford, is part of that two and twenty yards and one point one touchdowns. I'm I'm lukewarm on him here, that's it.

I'm with you. Who you got, I've got forty Niners, even though I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop at this point, why not thet I like San fran To, even though they don't like being called San fran in San fran Like, who you got? I've got I've got Chiefs just because I can't get my cell off to take Patrick Mahomes. You know, go against Patrick Mahomes and Arrowhead. How about you. You've got Bengals. I gotta go Bengals. It's gonna be a great game, or

we can only hope it's a great game. And the Chiefs, obviously season playoff veterans at this point, been too two straight Super Bowls. But I don't know that that game last week that a little bit well, not radily, but you know, it was an emotional roller coaster for him. I don't think they might be spent maybe a little bit. There could be they could come out flat in this one.

I was talking to Paul Allen, my radio friend Paul Allen, and he was he was in Las Vegas last weekend and into this week, and he he placed a first half wager on the Bengals for exactly that reason. I felt like there was there was a good chance that the Chiefs were going to come out flat in this because of all just all the emotions of the win from last week. Yeah, unbelievable. Uh, we'll find out. We'll find out. We'll break down the Super Bowl game in

two weeks. Not sure what we're gonna do next week. Talk about Ceedee Lamb at the Ceedee Lamb Show. We do a way too early, like first round mock or something like that for next year. We'll figure it out. We'll figure it out. Thanks for listening to everybody. We'll be back next week with more Fantasy Football Weekly. Fantasy

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