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Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly. I am Paul Charchi and my co host today, the ailing Matt Harrison.
Yeah, my knee pit is really Oh that's a throwback right there.
Oh yeah, that's your showing your age if you get back to the knee pit. We haven't had a knee pit reference on this show. And what do you think, like ten years.
It's been a while, but I heard you and uh, Paul Allen and Chad Greenway talking about Dennis Pitta today and it brought me all back to the Todd heat Memorial injury report, all that good times back then.
The Todd Heap Memorial injury Report. That's how we started those episodes of Fantasy Football Weekly, back in the day when it was really hard to get injury information. So you're like, the first thing we got to get out of the way is who's healthy and who's not. Now, that's just not times have changed and.
We figured out how to work it into the matchups, and yeah, take less time.
I think that I think it is better this way that we've that we've done it. But we missed Todd Heap. I was always my intention to get Todd Heap on the show. But and we could probably get him now because what's Todd Heap doing? He'd probably enjoy the opportunity to come on the show, But well, you know what are we going to do with him now?
He's probably in a hospital somewhere.
Let's hope he's not dead somewhere with all the things that have gone wrong for him. And I hope he'd take it with a sense of humor to know that there was a show out there that named their injury report after Todd Heap.
Who knows, he might be really angry about it.
Could be, it could be. We're gonna have a ton of fun today, Matt. We're gonna break down the AFC and NFC championship games fantasy football weekly style with letter grades and all the players and see how see who we like, who we don't like, what kind of sleepers we can unveil a lot of ways you can put this to good use DFS betting. In some cases, you may sell fantasy leagues playoff fantasy leagues, so you can
change rosters. I'm in one of those. We've got one of them ageeteen leagues dot Com, so there's a lot of different ways you could skin this cat. I want to start with the Eagles Commander's game. That's our first game on Sunday. And I think, if I'm correct about the scheduling on this, I haven't. I haven't looked at it a while, Matt. I think we're going mid afternoon for the first game and then prime time for the second game.
Correct, Yeah, two pm Central time, so three pm Eastern is the first game.
Got you? Got you? And that first game is Commander's Eagles. That is your game, Matt. Let's well, let's take it away and maybe you can start where if you want. But I mean, the a story here for sure on the Commander's side is Jade and Daniels.
Why wouldn't we start with him? I mean, he's the top scoring fantasy player in the Fantasy in the playoffs, so far, better than Lamar and Josh Allen and Stroud and Saquon and Derrick Henry, all those guys had two games as well. He's seen this Eagles defense twice before, and Eagles defense that has faced the thirtieth best strength of schedule this year, so maybe not.
The toughest matchups.
So when they met in Week sixteen, Daniels threw for two hundred and fifty eight yards and five touchdowns, and then he added eighty one yards on the ground on nine carries, and then last week Stafford was Yeah, last week Stafford was able to throw for three twenty four and two in snowy conditions. I don't know if I trust this Eagles defense to be this like stone cold lock that everybody seems to think it is, and it doesn't. Seemed like the moment is too big for Jade and Daniels.
So I've got an A grade on him, and I think he's my favorite quarterback of the four going this weekend in terms of.
Just like fantasy point potential. Yeah, I could.
I think the Eagle ranking all of them, he would be my number one.
The Eagles secondary has been great, legitimately great. I could see I could see this being an all or nothing scenario for Jadon Daniels, But the five touchdowns last game is pretty telling you know. What we know is it won't be like the moment's too big for Jaden.
Dan definitely, because that kid is I think, definitely I shoot for the moon kind of guy. And his favorite target is Terry mclaur and Terry, who's been the top scoring wide receiver in the in the playoffs so far for Fantasy only, Nico Collins has more receptions than Terry in the playoffs, and I have a feeling that McLaurin will get one more reception to at least tie Nico
Collins this week. McLaurin scored in seven of his last eight games, including the Week sixteen matchup against the Eagles, where he managed five catches sixty yards in a score. But the problem is in Week eleven, McLaurin was almost blanked by the Eagles one catch, ten yards yep, and Philly is number three in the league and fewest yards allowed to perimeter receivers this season. I've got a be on McLaurin, but since it's an offseason show, I can give him a B minus.
I think, ah, okay, look, you stepped up, you're sick, you're doing the show. Anyway, We're gonna give you this minus.
All right, I think the sleeper here is Diami Brown, who is actually the Darius Slay slayer, and he's let lock go against Darius Slay in this one. According to Pro Football Focus, in thirty career receiving snaps against Darius Slay, Diami Brown is averaging three point seven yards per route run. It's pretty significant for that snap total. Yeah, and Brown is sneakily tied with McLaurin in receptions during the playoffs with eleven and has more yards than Terry.
So.
By the way, Danny Brown is only forty four on DraftKings, and he's kind of a nice contrarian play. I built some internal lineups over at fanball dot Com with with my coworkers there. I switched out McLaurin for Diami Brown and just took the cash discount. I'll throw a C grade on him, but it's probably closer to like a C plus grade for Diami Brown.
You're really pushing the envelope, now, Yeah, See that was what I always fear. You do it one time and then the flood gets open.
Yeah, see that's what happens.
That's well. Now, it's the problem is, you guys can't just take the win. You have to expand it.
I have regrets, all right, all right, Uh, the last receiver you might want to start as Zach Ertz. He's were on a team high three hundred and eighteen routes from the slot this season and thirty five percent of the Eagles receptions allowed this season. We're out of the slot. Okay, so you're looking at roughly one third of your target totals maybe going to zach Ertz in this game. We don't forget, by the way, Yes, absolutely a big revenge
game in Philly. Scored in the first game, not in the second, so there's some opportunity for Ertz to cross the goal line in that revenge game. I like Ertz. I think he's my second favorite tight end. Play this weekend. He gets a B grade for me. And then I think the Brian Robinson Austin Eckler thing. This is super interesting. Robinson did absolutely nothing in the wild card round versus Tampa, but he was pretty steady last week in the Detroit game,
fifteen carries, seventy seven yards, two touchdowns, which was fantastic. Yeah, five point one yards per carry. He was not targeted at all last week though, and I think that's because Austin Eckler's finally all the way healthy.
Yeah, for sure, Eckler running Mike, He's healthy. He looks good.
Yeah. He caught four of his eleven or four of his are sorry, he caught all four of his targets for forty one yards. That's an average of ten point three yards per catch, which is down from his season average of ten point five yards to catch, by the.
Way, Yes, but that's actually by the way. Yeah.
He leads running backs in the league in yards after catch per reception this year with eleven point nine.
Wow.
He's basically receiving the ball behind the line of scrimmage and scampering out for about twelve yards every time. It is only meeting with the Eagles. This season, Eckler had eight catches and eighty nine receiving yards. So I think that there's a possibility, and this is my boldest take of the weekend, Eckler might see more targets this weekend out of any player in both games.
Wow. That's probably betable somehow somewhere, And you know, I bet the reception side is definitely betable, and I bet it definitely would I bet his odds enormous.
I'll give Eckler a B grade here. Robinson gets a bench grade for me.
Though.
The Eagles have only allowed five running back rushing touchdowns on the season, so things will probably dry up and it will be more like he did against Tampa, which was not very good in the run game. Switch over to the Eagle side. Saquon Barkley is A. He's an A grade. He's the fantasy Fonsie. He's the fantasy Ardvark. He's the building block of anything you do in playoff Fantasy.
You can't even fade him, no, like of the four teams left, he's the only running back that should be in one hundred percent of DFS lineups like he should do like you fade him, you're just playing with fire. In two games against Washington, the first one twenty eight touches one hundred and ninety eight yards and two scores, second one twenty nine touches one hundred and fifty yards
and two scores. And Washington faced Detroit last week and Jamior Gibbs and Gibbs could have done whatever he wanted against the Commanders, and yeah, for so for reasons unknown, after averaging seven and a half yards per carry. Gibbs only had fourteen carries. He got one hundred and five yards and two scores. He added six catches for seventy yards. He could have done whatever he wanted and Detroit went
away from him. Yeah, in situations, it's crazy. The Commander's defense ranked dead last in the league in average rushing yards before contact to running backs.
Wow, So there's gonna be some room to work with.
There's room to work with, and you're giving Saquon the ball. Thirty touches is in play for Saquon, and if the Eagles lose, it will be because they went away from Saquon in the run.
It's uh, you know, and you may have heard this and listeners may already know it highest over under in the history of Vegas for rushing yards on a players over under. Depending on where you're looking, it's between one hundred and twenty six and one hundred and thirty yards.
Wow. For Barkley, I think it's in play.
It is in play, and I you know, it's funny. You can make a case that you should ladder it up from there because he obliterates this number from on a pretty regular basis. So there's there's still a scenario where not only does he go over the say one hundred and thirty yards, but he goes way over it and nobody nobody be shocked.
So the key to the rest of this game, I think is Jalen Hurts. It changes everything you do in fantasy and betting depending on which Hurts is out there. Now. The last time he faced the Commanders, he got that concussion that knocked him out of the game and knocked the Eagles out of number one seed contention. He has managed one hundred and thirty one and one and twenty eight pass and.
It's two games, right, I mean, everybody assumes that Hurts is hurt and more more than they're letting on because he doesn't look like himself and just the productivity is not there.
Well, get this. Over the season, he's averaging only three point nine passing yards per dropback, and that's the lowest total of any quarterback to make the conference championship since Pro Football Focus started doing stats in two thousand and six.
Wow, holy cow, look at that.
So not a prolific passer here, and Hurts Week eleven win against Washington, he managed two or twenty one passing yards, did not throw a passing touchdown in that game, So I'm not feeling super confident in the Philly passing game overall. Here why you can still get some Hurts exposure going. He ran for thirty nine thirty nine yards in a score in the week eleven meeting, and he's ran thirteen times in the two playoff games for one hundred and
six yards in a score. So the Eagles are throwing caution to the wind if he's if he's hurt about concussions or anything like that, they're not showing it. They're making them run still.
And and you know what, why not? I mean, you know, at any loss is your last loss, you may as well run him, I think, Matt.
Yeah, So I've got a C grade on Hurts. He's my least favorite quarterback of the four playing this weekend. But all it takes is a goal line push push or two and he's going to return value for you. Uh got aj Brown? He has three receptions over two playoff games, Yes, which is which is trailing Xavier Hutchinson, Anthony Miller, and DeMarcus Robinson in that department. He's tied with Olamide Zechias and Jalen Naylor in receptions in the playoffs. Oh, by the way, Jalen Naylor has been out.
Of the playoffs, so that's right.
And also aj Brown reading fine leatherbound books on the sideline,
so we know he's talented. But we also need to realize that when the Eagles went on their crazy win streak, it's kind of when his targets dropped and he was the squeaky wheel for a little bit there and saw some action again for two games, but then it kind of went back to what it was before the game he was targeted the most this year was Week sixteen against Washington, where he saw fifteen targets in the game that Jalen Hurts got knocked out and the team lost
that game, by the way, so he still has more targets than any other Eagles wide receiver in the playoffs, tied with Dallas Goddard at ten so far in the last two games. Problem is, the last seven games of the regular season, the Commanders only allowed seven touchdown passes total, and Goff only managed one last week in catchup mode and Baker had two. So we're looking at maybe one touchdown pass in the game for Hurts. I think that would be the safe bet.
I think that is the safe bet.
The odds are that it's Brown getting that, and the sportsbooks agree. Of all the receivers for the Eagles, he's plus one fifty five for at any time touchdown. Brown ranks second in Pro Football Focused grades when facing man coverage, and Washington runs the eighth most man coverage in the league. So it's like a Sea dart on Brown. But I
don't feel great about it right now. Devanta Smith, he caught all of his eight playoff targets for seventy six yards, but he's been one of the strangest players to forecast since Halloween. Since Week ten, he's had six games under sixty yards and he's scored four times. But he's only had two games with double digit PPR points in that span. Yeah, which is crazy. He's just too volatile. I'm gonna leave DeVonta Smith on the bench, and then Dallas Goddard is the last guy.
I like him here. I'll be interested to hear what you think.
I got a C grade on Goddard comes in with a questionable tag, but he's gonna definitely play in this one. Tied for the target lead for the Eagles in the playoffs with ten he has scored. He sees a lot of targets when the opposing defense is blitzing. Goddard ranks eighth in the league amongst touchdowns in yards sorry amongst tight ends in yards per route run when facing the blitz, and Washington Blitz is at the sixth highest rate in the NFL. So it looks like there could be quite
a few targets going his way. In the week eleven meeting, Goddard caught all five of his targets for sixty one yards. Yeah, it seems about where he's gonna be. I don't know if he can get much more than that, though, because Hurtz just doesn't throw the ball well.
I still think if he's going to get into that five catch sixty yard range and maybe a forty chance of a touchdown, I think that's a B grade for a tight end.
Okay, can I talk into it. He's still like zach Ertz more than Goddart. But I think I got got Art as my third ranked tight end this weekend, all right, So that's all I got On the Eagles and Commanders. My prediction is I think the Commanders pull this off.
You're not alone, the betting public is hitting the Commander's money line pretty hard. And I think the Eagles just don't. The Eagles look like they're good at a lot of things. They just don't look dominating like you want them to. And the Commanders have overcome a lot to get here, and Jaden Daniels just has got the vibe of a winner that honestly, Jalen Hurts doesn't seem to have, even though he's won tons of games.
Well, and if you think about the Eagles right now and all season, really, they've just there's just been doubts about the whole team all year. Nick sirianni Is, I mean they're talking about if he would have lost to the Rams last week, he would have been fired. Maybe if he loses to the Commanders this week, he's fired. It's possible. Yeah, And it seems like that locker room's kind of been kind of in dismay right now, and
it just seems like the Commanders are the team of destiny. Also, their colors are in the Super Bowl logo, so well then, yeah, I like that we got that going and it works every year.
If I got to just pick the winner, it would be I'm still on Philadelphia because of the defensive abilities they've got so much better than what the commanders have seen so far. But you know, we'll see and they, you know they they again. Five touchdowns by Jaden in the earlier matchups suggest that maybe the Eagles defense is and what we think they are. Let's take a quick break when we come back. Buffalo at Kansas City. Stay tuned,
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Buffalo in Kansas City is the evening game on Sunday Night. Of course, these teams have met regularly in the postseason, and they play each other in the regular season pretty often.
Buffalo's won four straight regular season matches matchups between these teams, three of which were in Kansas City, so they have been able to win in Kansas City before, but they've lost three prost season meetings in the Allen Mahomes era, including that crazy twenty twenty two playoff game, which is one of the greatest games of all time.
I think everybody's hoping for a repeat of that game.
Maybe different outcome. Yes, yeah, you would really think that you could hold a lead when you're kicking off with thirteen seconds left by.
Not the Buffalo Bills.
Not the Bills. Not two years ago. When these teams met a week eleven, Buffalo won thirty to twenty one. Buffalo led it half and then never gave up the lead, but it was really closer than that nine point final score would suggest it was. The outcome is very much in doubt through most of the game. Current line Kansas City, he favored by one and a half. The weather is not gonna be much of a factor. It'll be chilly, but not cold, thirty eight degrees, no precipitation. So let's uh.
I'm gonna start with my favorite Bills player, Khalil Shakir. I loved him in the preseason. He's had a nice season, targeted a career high twelve times in the earlier meeting. The week eleven meeting. Between these twelve times. Shakir usually catches pretty much everything you throw to him, although here he turned those twelve passes only into eight receptions in the earlier matchup. Now, importantly, he runs from the slot.
He's gonna face off against slot cornerback Chamari Connor. He allows an eighty five percent catch rate on passes in his coverage. That is the worst completion percentage of any cornerback in the league. I love this matchup for Khalil Shakir. The only thing, the only reason I'm giving Khalil Shakir a B grade instead of an A grade is they don't target him in the end zone and he rarely scores. He has just four touchdowns on the season despite eighty
eight receptions. He's my favorite of the Bills receivers. And then after that, I don't think there's a lot to do with Bills receivers. So you've got Shakir and then probably like one of the other receivers will have a good game. But it's Kean Coleman, Amari Cooper, mac Hollins, even Curtis Samuel last week, they all ran between ten and fourteen routes. That's just not enough. You know, they're shuffling these guys in and out. I mean, Shakir's on
the field a lot. The other four are just rotating in and route and ten to fourteen routes is not enough to make any of them fantasy bankable. Whoever does run on the outside, which will primarily be Cooper and Coleman and Hollins two, I guess they will get a big dose of Trent McDuffie and Jalen Watson, who are both above average guys. Mcduffy held Nico Collins in check, and he's way better than all of those guys. So
we've got bench grades on all the other receivers. What about Dalton Kincaid, you might be asking, Matt, what about Dalton Kincaid? Charge, Oh, well, let me tell you about Dalton Kincaid. You know, I think he's a C grade viable starter because the Chiefs have struggled against tight ends all year, allowing the second most receptions and the most yards to tight ends. Frustratingly, though, Kinkaid and Knocks split playing time basically right down the middle, with almost identical
average snaps and routes. Run Kincaid invisible for basically three weeks, but he does average a more respectable four catches per game throughout the rest of the year. So in a pinch, it's only there's only four games. There's not many tight ends to work with here. I guess you will throw a C grade on Dalton Kincaid. So where does us
leave us with Josh, you may be wondering. Over Allen's last seven meetings, Steve Spagnolo has been unable to stop Allen's rushing, averaging fifty eight rushing yards and zero point seven rushing touchdowns per game, and that includes four rushing touchdowns in his most recent three games against Kansas City. I love Josh Allen on the ground here. And if you look at what some mobile quarterbacks have done to Kansas City lately Week eighteen, Bo Nicks forty seven rushing yards.
Week seventeen, Russell Wilson fifty five rushing yards. So and on the season, the Chiefs saw the fifth most quarterback rushing yards. So I believe this is a really nice running game for Josh Allen here through the air, I'm less optimistic as usually heard. I've only got the B grade on Khalil Shakir and a C grade on Dalton
Kinkaid and bench grades and everybody else. And he's thrown exactly and only one touchdown in three straight games against Kansas City, so I don't love him through the air here. Kansas City's coming off an eight sack game, I believe, Yeah, eight sack game of c. J. Stroud, which will not happen again here. But still, you know, Josh Allen's mobility
will help make sure that. In fact, he's been sacked zero and zero times in his last two games against the Chiefs, so I think his offensive line will hold up just fine here. I've still got the A grade on Josh Allen because of the rushing.
So no, do you think that people are downplaying how good the Chiefs defense has been this year simply because they're sick of the Chiefs.
Well, the attention is always going to be Patrick Mahomes, right, But the reason that they won all the games they won sixteen and one in the regular is their defense. The defense was the was way I think way better. Well in that way, was better than their offense was throughout the course of the season, my opinion. Let's go to Kansas City side. I've got one A grade for you,
Travis Kelcey, Matt. We got playoff Kelsey last week. Eight targets, seven catches, one hundred and seventeen yards, and a touchdown, looking nothing like the Travis Kelcey who struggled to put up just, you know, really modest scoring through most of the year. I think he scored in three games during the regular season. Does that sound right, man?
Yeah?
I think it was. So the Bills shut down Kelsey in the week eleven meeting, but what happened was because they were putting so much attention on Kelsey. Noah Gray got two touchdowns in that game. And I think they'll play Kelsey more straight up because now they've proved. Chiefs proved they can go to Noah Gray if they need to. So I think they play Kelsey straight up and good
titands generally have success against the Bills. Sam Laporter recently, Hunter Henry recently, Tyler Conklin last week as they likely, and Mark Andrews had good games. So I've still got the eight ground and Kelsey. But man, as he looks slow, Matt, he has lost a step for sure.
I think that if you're in the kind of playoff league where you set a lineup every week, and if you're not near the front or your way behind. I think the Noah Gray angle is super interesting here because I think people will just be completely off of him because he didn't do anything in the playoff game last week. He's got that track record, and I think that they
trust him. I think that he's one of the two or three most trustworthy receivers on Kansas City right now, and I like him as a dart throw.
So I love that you brought this up, and I'll do use that as my transition. How could Noah Gray be like the second most trustworthy receiver? Well, the wide receivers for Kansas City last week, only Xavier Worthy caught a pass. All the rest were zero receptions. Unbelievable. Hopkins, Brown Smith, Schuster, Watson. They're all low volume, touchdown dependent guys who give you virtually nothing if they don't score.
If I had to receivers past their prime.
Yeah right. In many cases, if I had to pick one, I'd go DeAndre Hopkins and just hope that he can like box somebody out at the end zone. But that's but they're all on the bench for this one and I and you're right. If it came down to Noah Gray or any of those guys. I think I'd be perfectly happy going with Noah Gray. Let's use that as an opportunity to talk about Xavior Worthy. This is the
one chief receiver you could actually start. Worthy is an interesting guy because he's got the four to two speed MATT so he's super super fast, and we want to think that that speed will unlock deep downfield touchdowns. But it doesn't. It hasn't been. He's not getting receptions, he's not getting anything downfield. Since week eleven, they totally changed the route tree for Worthy and it's all short stuff.
Since week eleven, Worthy he's got thirty nine receptions thirty six of the thirty nine or from nine yards or less.
So he's a short, dink and dunk receiver that they want to try to set loose with the speed.
Huh, that is it? Get this? Since week thirteen, Xavier Worthies average distance of target is four yards, that's his average catch is four yards. That's it. And Buffalo allows the fourth shortest air yards per target, just six point nine yards. So for Worthy it's all short stuff, bubble screens, slants, stuff like that that they're trying to turn They're hoping he'll break into long, long games, but he usually doesn't.
I've just got the C grade on Xavier Worthy. Also speaking of the passing game, Samaj p rid could be a sneaky play now.
I heard you talking about your love of Samaj p Ryan earlier today.
Yes, I liked p Rid in last week did not come through, But this isn't even more a hopeful uh moment. The Bills allowed the most running back receptions, the most running back receiving yards, and the second most running back receiving touchdowns. Samajp RAN's betting line is over under eight and a half yards receiving. I like him here. He's the designated receiving back for the Bills. I don't know what the designation actually is. We say designated a lot, but there is no actual designation.
Well, churches, Isaiah Pachecko dead.
I guess he's dead. I was wrong. I don't have my Phonsie sounder on this. I had assumed they were saving him up for a big playoff push like last year, where they powered through the playoffs largely on the legs of Isaiah Pachecko. Nope, that isn't apparently not gonna be the case.
He must not be healthy.
Kareem Hunt is getting more usage than Pachecko, although it's not very reliable usage and he's not running very well. But Hunt has scored in three straight games, not counting the Week eighteen game which they rest, and he's basically paced Pacheco out in short down a distance workload, which is shocking to me. Pachecko was always really good and
short down and distance stuff. Buffalo's run defense much improved lately, but they've also played some really bad run defense run offenses in recent weeks, like Denver and New England and the Jets. But still I can get you to a C grade on Kareem Hunt, I can't on Pachecko. Pachecko's it's just a loss here. Just nine six and five rushing attempts the last three weeks for Isaiah Pachecko. It's all going the wrong way right now. That leaves us
with Patrick Mahomes B grade. I've got an A grade on on Travis Kelce and then just like C grades on a couple of receiving options. That's there's just not a lot of great matchups I like for his receivers. Now, Mahomes did get three touchdowns in the Week eleven matchup, and the Bill secondary has had some lapses. Andy Reid always likes to attack the slot. Every receiver runs from the slot in his offense, and he does like to
pound the slot. And the Bills have got their slot cornerback is the worst of their three starting cornerbacks, Taron Johnson not county Week eighteen. Without their starters, the Bills have allowed multiple passing touchdowns and eight to the last ten. I think Patrick Mahomes is in the two touchdown range and that feels like a B grade. Who do you winning? Who do you have winning that game?
I think the Chiefs win that one too. I did see a nice stat from PFF Mahomes eighth highest graded quarterback against two high coverage looks and the Bills defense runs the fourth most too high coverage.
In the NFL. All right, that's another angle for Patrick Mahomes. Is he known for playing well in the playoffs? Does he have a track record for playing well in the playoffs.
I think he's been in an AFC championship game or two.
Yeah, I think he has. I think he has. I want only I have. I don't have any any quibble with Patrick Mahomes with the Chiefs. Other than the fact that the commercials are incessant. I Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes are on my TV every game that I watch constantly. It's my only quibble.
You don't like fumble Ruskie do.
I had to go there? Yeah? Sorry, But I'm rooting for the Bills because the you know, the fan base, they've been you know, they've been languishing forever. I would like to see a I'd like to see a new team get in. I'd like to see just you know, give some other teams, you know, reasons to think that they can go to the super Bowl. And I hate that Josh Allen keeps getting sort of this loser tag like he can't he's not good enough to get his
teams over the hump. I'd like to see him do that in the way that Yeah, I mean young Ones did and yeah, and Manning did.
I think if Josh Allen is to get there, it's because of him, because they don't really have the weapons around him, like Stefan Diggs and some of the other weapons that they've had in the past that are surrounding him. And I don't particularly think that the Bills coaching staff is absolutely outstanding and just knocking the socks off everybody. So that's where I think Kansas City just has all of the the advantages here. I think they have a
better defense. I think their coaching staff knows what they're doing, and I think Mahomes is ready for the moment. And if Josh Allen does it, it's going to be because Josh Allen is playing on the planet.
Yeah, and he might be though. I mean this year he's been a better quarterback than Patrick Mahomes absolutely, yeah, And I want to think that he is going to not sing. He doesn't have to single handedly go win this game, but he's gonna have a huge part in it. Yeah, if only, if only for the narrative, and I think it'd be great for Josh. And how about this for Bill's fans, They've raised one hundred thousand dollars from Mark Andrews charity. Would Eagle fans have ever done this?
Matt No Bills fans notoriously awesome fans, even though they're throwing themselves through tables.
Yep.
They they've they've always been, uh you know the ones that have been there, like when the Damar Hamlin thing came down.
Uh.
No, one was pounding the table harder for them than those Bills fans, just making sure that everything was going right. I seem to remember a punter having an issue a few years back where the Bills fans were all over that too.
They're they're great, didn't they a few years ago? Didn't Joe Burrow like beat an opponent for them that got the Bills into the playoffs and then they pounded a bunch of money at Joe Burrow's charity?
Is that?
Is that?
I think that happened as well, like two three years ago. Listeners, listeners will correct me on that.
I believe all right, I've got commanders and chiefs, and it sounds like you have Bills and Eagles.
Yeah, I've got Bill's Eagles, so we're we can't both be right here.
No, it'll be an interesting pod next week when we return to talk about it.
Yeah, we'll look forward to that for sure. Thanks for listening, everybody. Fantasy Football Weekly will be back next week as well. Thank you Matt for stepping up despite a nasty case of whooping cough. Sure we'll go with it, ye whooping cough. Yes, with a little chlamydia sprinkled in God.
I hope not.
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