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you see? I did. I was nervous about them, like, I think they're gonna be blowouts, and mostly they were, and then some of the games weren't as good as we had hoped, and I don't know, it turned out okay, was still playoffs football. Yeah, I guess like the Kansas City Jacksonville game was the best one. But is it crazy to think that if my homes didn't get hurt, that the Jaguars made the dance, maybe that game's got weird at that point. So you had Jamal Agnew I

don't know what he was thinking. Oh, that fall, that hurt, that hurt. He said, so many big plays though throughout the course of the season they would have been in that game. You like that X factor on special teams and some offensive place. He doesn't have that that turnover deep in their territory. Who knows. I think could have been a little bit different. The rest of those games

were pretty much did little Unfortunately. We're gonna break down the this week's games San Francisco at Philadelphia and of course Cincinnati at Kansas City. But I've got a couple ots and ends I want to I want to talk to you about fantasy football related. I want to start here. There's one player in each of the four remaining teams that could reasonably be taken first overall in next August drafts. Let me start with some of Let me start with

the Chalky guys, the two Chalky guys. Let's start with Christian McCaffrey. Do you think he should go at pick number one next year? We talked about, you know, we we recasted the first round a few weeks ago, and I remember recall saying McCaffrey and I think Ekeler are the two running backs. We'll see you go in the first round. Maybe Barkley, but that's it. I think we'll

see a lot of quarterbacks. I think, yeah, I think you're wrong, but you know, I'm I'm way more skeptical about there's so many people who just cannot not take a running back in the first round. You know, in every league, there's you know, half of the league can't imagine any scenario in which they would not take a running back in the first round, well regardless of where they go or how many go in the first round. McCaffrey certainly up there as RB one. I think it's McCaffrey,

but I'm talking about the first final pick. I'm because I think there's gonna be a plethora of running backs coming back in the second and third round. I do, at least, I'm not gonna go running back first. Overall, I'm gonna go with one of the players I'm assuming you're going to get to in a minute here on

another team. So you're on No. One, Christian McCaffrey, i'd be Um, I think it's a way risky or pick then I would normally put at that at that position, but I think there are gonna be some people who would who will take Christian McCaffrey at one. I won't do it, um, but you know there's a case to be made that you know, forty Niners, elite offense, it's always gonna be run heavy. Christian McAffrey is a great player,

you know, great offensive line. There's gonna be lots of reasons why Christian McCaffrey can go first, and I bet, but next August he will be the consensus first selection. Christian McCaffrey. Not that I would do it, but I think America will do it. Let me give you this guy I mentioned again, a player from each of the remaining teams they could that could go first overall. Travis Kelsey. That's who I was alluding to just before. Yeah, he would.

He's my first overall picking for years. We said, you know, we'd rather be a year get off a guy a year early before he falls off that clip. But we're really talking about running backs and wide receivers. We've had that conversation, not really a tight end. It's just I feel like we go over it every week. He's essentially two tight ends in one and and elite level production at that. I mean, he's a top five wide receiver that you get to play tight end, and there's no

one comparable to him at his position. No, not Mark Andrews, not George Kittle, not Kyle Pitts yet, but it's it's Travis Kelsey. And just because he the delta between him and tight End two is so huge, I will I will go down with the ship like if if one guy, I'll be like, I'll be holding onto him and we'll go off together. But running very Titanic. I've never seen Titanic, by the way, would you believe that? People don't believe

me when I tell them that I've never either. We are we are some of the good ones I see. That's how I see it too. We're the good guys here that didn't see Titanic. For not seeing Titanic back in the day, I mean, I've seen bits and pieces because it's been on TV or whatever. But I don't know for James Cameron to have I don't know if temerity is the right word audacity to do a love story. But then the setting is the Titanic, like one of

the greatest tragedies in American stuff. Makes it so great? Right? That's what people would say is that it's the whole point is that it's obviously not going to work out. You know, somebody's going to drown by even before you start the movie, you know, and yeah, how about this. James Cameron movies suck ass. And I'm including the current avatar in that they are terrible, objectively terrible movies with wooden characters who are absolutely stereotypes of whoever they're supposed

to be. I think his movies are rub ish. Not the No Interest, not the Terminator. Terminator one is a pretty good movie. Terminator two is better than Terminator one. It is not. Terminator two is a deeply flawed movie. You know who's not deeply flawed? Terravis Kelsey. When you get Travis Kelsey, you it almost double the points of

the number two tight end. And if you were to sloft the position, you were to go all the way down to the number twelve tight end, the last tight end in your league in this year that would have been Dalton Sheltz, you're at roughly triple or quadruple the fantasy points if you have Travis Kelsey from the guy who stleft that position down to number twelve, and a lot of times, by the way, when you sloft down to the you sleft that position, you're the last one

to take a tight end. You don't get twelve you ended up at tight end like sixteen seventeen eighteen in your rotating guys and you know, stuff like that. So it could be even more dramatic, it would be like thirty three going into next year. But he showed no signs of slowing down this passage, no signs of speeding up. Almost like he looked just as good as he ever has, if not better. So yeah, he's my M one oh one.

Philadelphia has got a player who could go first overall, Jalen Hurts if you believe that there's still some upside for Jalen Hurts beyond what we saw this year. And this year he was, depending on your scoring system, the highest scoring quarterback or the second highest scoring quarterback despite missing was it three games I think he missed? He is a two or three two missed two games. Had he played a full season, Jalen Hurts probably would have

been you know, a lock is the highest scoring quarterback. Now. The reason I think you can make a case for Jalen Hurts is because, again compared to sloughughing that position, his rushing makes him you're getting like a fifty percent bonus over the number twelve quarterback. You know, somebody of mobile, you know, like Jared Goff. Oh at least, I mean he had thirteen rushing touchdowns and like you just said, he missed two games that would have been the second

most rushing touchdowns among running backs. Only Jamal Williams had more. He had seventeen. Then there's Ekeler and Derrick Henry had thirteen, had nine hundred and fifteen rushing yards. I feel like Hurts. Hurts had seven hundred sixty three and you could argued if you played those two games, he rushing yards on us, you get Austin color plus. Yeah, I although I obviously got all the receiving yards to go with it. It's

he and Josh Allen are are right there. I mean, Hurts bulked up a little bit past season, but I don't know. Allen's just built a little He's got the bigger frames, way more muscular than Josh Allen is. They're different runners. They're very different. A little dough to absorb those all those hits though, But here's the thing. Hurts gets the ball inside the five a lot, and Josh Allen doesn't as much. He does some, but not as much. And I think that's you get touched down predictable touchdown

rushing from Jalen Hurts more than you do. Josh Allen Hurts is gonna be my number one ranked quarterback last year. He was my number two going into this year. And he's got the better Hurts that is, the better uh weapons through the air. Brown Smith got her over he always does over digs and then pretty big drop off. Yeah, I agree with that. I think we'll see Alan Hurts and I think even Patrick Mahomes in the first round this year and in one quarterback weeks, maybe even Justin

Fields will see what happens with him. But I think Justin the Fields will be an end vogue early second round. I think you're right because of the rushing they are, they're running back. Justin Fields led all quarterbacks in rushing yards and it's not close. And he missed a couple of games too, and it's the start to the season just brutal for him. You can almost just say, like his first five games, it's a great point they you know, they weren't. He wasn't doing much of anything. You know.

Week one was the monsoon. Week two was a brutal match up with San Francisco. Didn't do much in those games, and Justin Fields came on so strong with the rushing after that. Alright, so we got one team left, Tyler boy in your world, yes, Jamar Chase. I mean, you know what's not to like about Jamar Chase. You could easily take him at with the first pick overall and just be happy that you've got Joe Burrows primary target. Yeah, and uh, well, we'll see what happens. I believe the

Higgins is a free agent. I think he's got one and and the Electricizes fifth year option, but I think he's locked down for a while. Tee Higgins almost helps. Higgins is healthy. And you know, I've always kind of leaned it's it's Jefferson or Chase. Really, Cooper couple will be in that convo. So and he's you know, he's pushing. He's over thirty now, I believe, So it's really Chase or Jefferson to me. And Jefferson always seems like the safer guy, or at least go into this this year

with the same ceiling, safer floor. But that's kind of flip flopped with Jamar Chase. Jefferson his head the bigger dud games this year than that than Chase has, and they both had those those high yes Spike week type of the other. The other part of it is, you know, and I like her cousins extremely capable quarterback, but you know, just the reality of it is Joe bros awesome. I mean, he's on a Hall of Fame level, uh start to

his career. And if I got to hook my wagon to a thirty five soon to be thirty six year old quarterback or or Joe Burrow, who's gonna be whatever twenty six, you know, I just feel like I'm more I'm I'm might. I think I'm more settled with Jamar Chase,

and I feel like that's a safer spot. Yeah, as of right now, the Vikings have to do something to address their wide receiver too, because it's not feeling they need someone who can stretch the field and just get the double teams, the bracket coverage off of Jefferson because it happened on a weekly basis, But so they need someone, they need a T. Higgins type of player to uh help pop the top. So then we talked about Jalen Hurts,

Travis Kelsey, Christian McCaffrey, Jamar Chase. I think each one of them is the number one ranked player at their position at draft time next year, Justin Jefferson. It might be Justin Jefferson is the number one at wide receiver, but I think it's I think Jamar Chase Is could easily be that. But out of those four who do, I got Kelsey because they're allan Josh Allen is close to Hurts, Jefferson, close to Chase, echol or Barkley, close

enough to McCaffrey. Nobody's closer to Right now, I'm on Kelsey, but I get the feeling I'm gonna be warming up to Jalen Hurts with my first pick next year. But I you know, but I get six months to change my mind on that. Let's break down some of these games. San Francisco, well some of them. How about both of them? San Francisco taking on Philadelphia. Get this, both of the quarterbacks in this game are younger than the cornerbacks who

played in the College Football Championship Game this year. The quarterbacks quarterbacks, Yeah, well, steps in Bennet's like dirty, and then I don't even know the other guy. It's uh, it is yeah, it is crazy. And both quarterbacks in this game rock pretty Jalen Hurts career defining moments with major ramifications organizationally for themselves. You know, if Jalen Hurts puts up a great game here, I think he solidifies himself as a just a big spot playmaker and the

long term solution for Philly a quarterback. If he I don't think it will. If Jalen Hurts goes belly up here and has a terrible game, then there's still gonna be some questions. If the passing is bad, he throws two or three picks, I think there's it's going to open up an off season of people saying they're not entirely sure about Jalen Hurts yet, but he can completely change the narrative. Brock Purty can set himself up as

the Niners twenty lock twenty three starter. If he's not already, he could probably get himself a new contract because usually quarterbacks, if you roll into a season as your team's starting quarterback, they're not going to pay you as the seventh rounder. Yeah, if they win this game and it's not like if he plays, if he just manages this game and they win, he is the starter next can and and it signals the end of Trey Lance in San Francisco and the

end of Jimmy Garoppol in San Francisco. Those guys will move on Land, so they'll both work their ways off that team, knowing they can't be starters, and they both both want to be starters, so I think they'll they'll find they'll find new homes. So I'm just massive implications here, And the last thing I'll mention before we dive into some of the individual matchups San Francisco Philadelphia. San Francisco is the best run defense, and it's not terribly close.

Philly is the best past defense, and it's not terribly close. These are amazingly good defenses, particularly at those two things. Yeah, what's uh, what's the over under on this game? Forty five and a half and a half. Yeah, I kind of feel the under in this one. Well, you know, you can beat you can beat San Francisco through the air. You can beat Philly on the ground a little bit, although they've gotten a lot better at that. Um. I just I I there are some angles here that worry me.

Do you think brock Purtty's do you think the other shoe drops on brock Purtty right here in a big spot in Philadelphia with a super Bowl on the line. I don't only call him a rookie anymore because it's the end of the year. He's been in the NFL a whole season, plus he's started half of the season essentially.

But this is gonna be this is he has not experienced anything what quite like what he's walking into, going to play in Philadelphia in the NFC Championship game, him flying across the country, nonetheless, and in the I don't know, he's had road games, but he hasn't had played in a road game quite I guess the team like this. So if I had to, you know, if I had to pick the shoe falling off other shoe fallowing off for staying on, I would go falling off. And we

shall see. It's a brutal match up. So um the line on this. By the way, his line the brock pretty line one yards. He's been under that number in five of his eight games. But more importantly, Philly has held opposing quarterbacks under thirteen of the last fourteen games. Yeah, imminently bettable for those that want to do so. Brock the brock pretty under on this, And then you know, keep in mind, here's Philly's past defense. You know, I said this is they're they're the best past defense, and

it's not particularly close. Listen to this. Number one in net passing yards, number two in gross passing yards, first in sack percentage, first in yards per pass attempt, Number one in pass rush by Pro Football Focus. Number five past coverage by Pro Football Focus. They've got the great outside cornerbacks, Darius Slay, James Bradberry. It's just it's it's just it's such a great past defense for Philadelphia. It's gonna be Its gonna be a long day for Brock.

I'm not saying that the Niners can't pull it off, but they're gonna need some their defense. They're they' don't have to hold Philly underwenty one points. Probably that's not an easy job, easy thing to do. Um Now, Avante Maddox, Philadelphia slot corner, may or may not play. We're waiting for final news on that. Particularly if he doesn't go, then I'm kind of intrigued about the wide receivers that line up in the slot, which is John Jennings and

Deebo Samuel primarily, George Kettle stands in the slot. Um those are guys that could have a little bit more luck. The guy who's gonna be left out in the cold here, I think is Brandon I, who plays almost entirely outside, and that puts him into Bradberry slay. Get this last week James Bradbury gave up three yards in his coverage. Yeah. There was many catches made by the Giants receivers or players well, yeah, and including Richie James dropping a wide

touchdown at the end of the game. That was a glorious garbage time opportunity. It was. I had touted him on visaon with Mitch and Polly um as At. He was plus three hundred and eighty for an any time touchdown, and I had touted him on Thursday, and I'm on, and you know, near the end of the game, like, die, he's not going to come through on this, And then there's that pass, but I'm like, we're gonna hit the

plus three eight the old alligator arms. Let me give you one other Let me give you one other angle in this game that I like from a betting standpoint, Kenneth gainwell over seven and a half receiving yards in a nutshell. If you think the Eagles will complete one pass to their runners. This is a hit because Miles Sanders and Boston Scott just don't catch. Over the last month, they've combined for I'll catch. He's been targeted gain well, it's been targeted at least once in eight straight games.

He's posted seven or more yards and six of the last seven games. And here's the best part. For as great as the Niners defense is, and it's obviously great, this is the one weird thing that they don't do well. Niners ran twenty six in receptions allowed to running backs and sixteen in yards allowed to running backs. The average running back game against them is five receptions for thirty or four yards. I need seven and a half yards. That's it. I need one fifth and give me one

reception for eight yards and I'm set. That's all I need is one fifth of what the Niners normally give up. We'll get it. Kenneth game well over seven a half yards. My DFS play from this game is um deebo Samuel running from the slot. Again, I mentioned Avante Maddox may not go. His backup is hybrid safety Chauncey Gardner Johnson, who allowed six of eight passes to be completed on him last week, and Diebel Samuel is pretty cheap. I want to say he logged in right around five thousand bucks.

He's way off people's radar. Finally healthy, mostly healthy at this stage. I kind of like Deebo Samuel here. I like, yea, his ownership should be uh somewhat low compared to the Jamaar Chases and the Vante Smith's j Browns of the World. I think so. I think, so, talk to me about Cincinnati, Kansas City. I got a couple of ankles, I like, but I want you to go first. Well, we gotta start. I wanted to start with Kansas City or since he players, but we gotta talk to Patrick Mahomes out of the gate.

I suppose right there's video has surface throughout the week. He looks fine. He looks like he think he's trying. Is he trying to look fine? You think there's some showmanship here? There is. He's not putting, He's making it appear he's putting a lot of weight on that ankle, which I believe was his right ankle, right, yeah, his right ankle. Um. I think he'd be in trouble if you were to go out and play a game of hop scotch in the parking lot. Right now, I don't

think he could execute in that man. I think he he's gonna be limited. He's so I don't think we're looking at uhcent Patrick Mahomes by any means. But we'll get to the the Kansas City side. I guess sort of a spoiler alert just because I don't know, We don't. No one knows how effective he's gonna be. I'm kind of staying away from any Patrick Mahomes props because pretty

feels us so I won't be going there. But starting on the the Bengals side, I'm going back to the well with receiving props for running backs against the Chiefs, went with Travis e t N last week. It fell short of the nineteen and a half yards. He had eighteen yards like the first two drives, and then he didn't catch a pass the rest of the game. To Michael Has caught a pass. It was brutal. He but he was like he was trending in that direction. Didn't work out for for e t N. But I'm going

with not Joe Mixon. I'm going with some j p Roun. I like his over at fifteen and a half yards. I mentioned this last week. The Chiefs allowed these second most receiving yards and running backs in the regular season forty six per game. Joe Mixon is the starter, but here the backups who have faced the chief since Week fourteen. Who would have hit this fifteen and a half receiving

yard over. Marlon mack As sixty two receiving yards, Mike Boon twenty seven yards, DJ Dallas thirty two receiving yards, Chase Edmunds thirty nine, So backups getting it done through the air. These teams actually met in week thirteam Mixing did in play, so Peter Ran was a lead back. He did catch six balls for forty nine yards. Chris Evans chipped in with a one catcher eight yards and a touchdown. So, uh, Mixing will start this game, but it was kind of a It was a split backfield

last week between p Ryan and Mixing. Pran caught five balls for thirty one yards, also saw seven carries, so total twelve touchdowns. I think we see more of a balance attack at running back in this game between Mixing and p Ryan, So I like the the over on the fifteen and a half receiving yards for j I do too. And I'll tell you what I just if if you were to just look at the film of

p Ryan and the time you know his carries. We looked at all of p Rion's carries and all of the mixons carries throughout the Holy I don't think you could be convinced that Joe Mixon is the best running back on the Bengals right now. And Mixing was getting on the majority of the touches in the last few weeks of the regular season, but now I was I'm thinking it's because they wanted to keep p running the playoffs.

So uh yeah, I expect p Ryan will will see thirty the touches about sixty of the snap, so I'll take that over fifteen and a half receiving yards. And I like, hey, didn't Hurst. So I do a lot of It's not I do a lot of props on underdog, where you just pick over unders and you gotta get them all right for how many you pick, and they offer fantasy points as one and in half PPR. So I like Hurst at over six and a half or

six point nine five fantasy points on underdog. But for those who don't play underdog and just look at regular books. I like the over the thirty five and a half receiving yards against the Chiefs. Will have sixty yards per game to tight ends over the last five regular season games. Evan Ingram came up a little short last week. He only had thirty one yards, but he did catch five ball. That's that's good volume. And before her scored against the Bills last week. This is speaking to the over the

fantasy points prop. Buffalo last surrendered to tight end touchdown in week twelve one season, So the earth broke broke that. Okay, Street ended that drought. So I like his chances to score and go over the thirty five and a half receiving anytime touchdown plus three twenty Yeah, I love it. I love that. And uh, did you it wasn't Hurst who was the first touchdown? Score? Did you see the kid who hit uh a four leg? Yeah it was, it was it was six digits hit on a five

dollar bet. Yeah it was seventy yeah, yeah, yeah, he had uh first touchdown? He got all every game right, Kelsy got her Jamaar Chase and then Schultz. He there's the video of then watching him watching the I didn't see that. The Cowboys insane, Yeah, oh I bet, but pretty awesome. But yeah, I like that anytime. Call on Hurts and and yeah for sure and maybe the first time, why not? And one more for the Bengals, Joe Burrow over thirty seven and a half passing attempts. Uh. This

seems a little too easy for him to hit. This mark the Chiefs only fourth highest opponent passing play percentage in the regular season Trevor Lawrence at thirty nine pass attempts against Casey last week and they didn't really possess the ball a Ton Jacksonville and uh, and the games prior in the regular season. Uh. Jared stid him thirty six pass attempts against Chiefs, Russell Wilson thirty eight, Geno Smith forty. So every opposing quarterback right in that range.

And I think Earl hit that thirty seven and a half with ease over to the Kansas City side, up that peacock, because we're going back to the Neah Gray Well, I was just waiting. I got my Noah Gray over ten and a half yard sitting right here. Well, a tenant if you get ten and a half, that's great. I'm seeing twelve and a half. The line might move, but I like it at twelve and a half, certainly like it at ten and a half. UH said it

last week he needed fifteen and a half. He basically needs a catch um to hit these overs and including last week, Noah Gray has caught at least one pass in seventeen of eighteen games this year. In his seventeen games with at least one catch, Gray has recorded at least twelve yards and thirteen of them and the games has fallen short. It's been like ten eight right there.

So we gets uh at least one catch every game. UH. And for the record, he one of those games he went over twelve yards UH the season was against the Chiefs in week thirteen he at fifteen. I'm sorry against the Bengals in week thirteen at fifteen yards. So Noah Gray over twelve and a half. And if you get him at eleven a half or ten and a half, like you saw, love that look and see if it's

if there's an updated line on Noah Gray. Quintin Morris seventy one yards against UH since the last week, Mark Andrews Josh Oliver at ninety nine yards against since two weeks ago, so tight ends about backup tight ends. Just in recent games, these backup tight ends have all hit the over. Charlie Koehler, John hu Smith, kde Oton and Noah Gray in Week thirteen hit the over. I know. It's just it's a good opportunity. He's he can get him at over ten and a half on points point bets,

points points bet. Where's the number? That is a great number. I like that play if you can, you shop your props as always. And lastly, I'm sticking with tight ends and we'll go with it with the bigger name tight end, Travis Kelsey. Anytime touchdown, UM, the one I'm looking at is just over point five touchdowns. That's the same as any any time touchdown. I just if Travis Kelsey is playing,

I like his chances to score. He's a He didn't score in the week third team matchup, but he scored uh in two two previous games against the Bengals played him twice last year, once in the playoffs where he had ninety five yards in a touchdown, five yards in the touchdown in the regular season against the Bengals last week, and it's a reverse homecoming game and slash spike game for Travis Kelsey, who grew up in Cincinnati, went to the University of Cincinnati, and then they didn't draft him

and they didn't draft him. So I want to revisit this draft from a tight end. Okay, the Bengals took Tyler if so Travis Kelsey went in the third round sixty overall. Quite the difference from where the Bengals took Tyler Effort in the first round twenty first overall. Effort was all right for a minute, clear mistake made by the hometown. The next time I adn't taken in that draft was Zach Ertz. The Eagles taken him to Yeah, pretty much worked out for It's been very good. He

has good Obviously hindsight you would have taken Kelsey. But you can't hate that selection too much by the Eagles. But you can hate the Cowboys and the forty Niners selections at tight end before Travis Kelsey. Overall. Dallas takes Gavin Escobar instead of Travis Kelsey, which is about fifth team picks before Kelsey went, and then eight picks before Kelsey went to the Chiefs sixty overall. The San Francisco forty Niners select advance McDonald, vance McDonald overall out eight

picks before Travis Kelsey. You know, you can do this with almost every great player. You can go back and look at the guys who you know the teams should have taken, and it's you know, it's it's such, it's it just goes to show it's not a science. You know, we look back at it and go wal dull, But it's not a science. It's really really hard to know, and teams throw, you know, thousands of hours and millions of dollars and trying to crack the code on on

these drafts and make sure every pick is right. And it's not easy. So fu your favorite player, your debbie player goes later in the draft and you you were hoping, don't worry. Yeah, Area's gonna have a good Uh. Can I give you one more from Cincinnati, Casey, how about Jerick McKinnon under thirty and a half rushing yards um. The only reason that the only reason that this number the numbers as high as it is. I think it's because you ran for fifty one against the Bengals back

in Week thirteen in that matchup. But everything else is screams under here. He's been held under thirty one rushing yards and four straight in sixteen of nineteen games. And Cincinnati has been a great run defense since they saw McKinnon in a week thirteen. They're giving up three point four yards per carry. That's it. McKinnon would have to carry the ball ten times ten rushes for McKinnon to get back to the to hit the hit the number here.

So in those running back rules are clearly defined at this point in Kansas City, Checko is the better running back, McKinnon is the better receiver. Yes, there's a little crossover between the rules, but Checko is getting the carries and McKinnon's catches the most part of it, so he's not getting he's not. I don't think McKinnon's getting ten rushes in this game. So yeah, I mean, you know, maybe

there's some scenario. Well, I mean there is a scenario where the Chiefs get way ahead early and run, but I don't know, I don't see it. I don't see that likely happening against Cincinnati. The Chiefs would love to run the ball forty times in this game if they could, but I don't I don't see that in the cars. They do that, they're gonna have to limit the hits that the homestakes because I think he's gonna be kind of a sitting duck. There can I do too. I

wish it wasn't that way much, But we'll see. He's gonna play. Seems like he's gonna play, But I think he's gonna be a little gimpier than people. I think he's gonna be gimpier in this game than he was in the game he got hurt. Well, it's almost impossible. He was dragging his leg around. But I mean, you're you're stiffing up over time, especially over a week's time. And I know the adrenaline is pumping in that game. They I mean, they're probably gonna you know it's gonna

be pumping. Is the pain killers they're gonna be giving him in that an That's what days are pumped full of those. His eyes will be a little dilated. It's very possible. Um, I uh so, who do you got winning? Who's your super Bowl? Here? I'm going I think the Bengals, just I don't. If Molomes was healthy, fully healthy, I would go chief, But I think the Bengals. They did

it last year against the healthier mahomes. They won in games of City Sego the Bengals, and I just I don't see brock Purty beating the Eagles on the road. I'm with you, I've got the same teams. But what I like about this set of matchups everybody deserves to be there. I got no problem with any of these

four teams finding their way to the super Bowl. And some years there's you know, there's some team that you just feel like caught some lucky breaks, isn't nearly as good as you know, whatever, it is, some team that you know just found its way there that doesn't feel like they actually or the team that belonged to be there even though they you know, they won, they won their games and they got there, but you weren't like

that's I get the feeling. All four of these teams are really good teams, and there's no bad matchup that comes out of this, no matter who wins, no matter what cross section of who plays who. The Vegas line at opening is gonna be like three points, and they're all very evenly matched. That the four best teams are left. If you if you could put three A f C teams in the final four. I still don't think Buffalo is a better team than San Francisco or Cincinnati for

that matter. I think the four best teams are left, and hopefully we see some good games. We probably will have no injuries, probably will Thanks for listening. You know, next week, I've got something on our list to do for next week, and I think it's um our lessons learned from last year. And then the week after that, we'll be previewing the Super bowls our final, our final live game of season. We're not going to break down the flag football game and uh kick kick tac too.

They'll be playing gross and some other I don't know what they're gonna be. That's so dumb. How is Tyler Huntley participating in this? Yeah? I don't know that. That's bizarre. That is super bizarre. There's some other, some bigger snubs that I don't I don't want to get into the snub talk. Why, you know, why do we even have to have this? What is our have to even be an event? The players don't even want to do it.

You know, it was bad enough it was in Hawaii and nobody everybody refused to go and there was like four people who showed up and we're going to the ninth string quarterback and all that. Why does there even have to be any events? Why do we need a skills competition and a flag football game? How many non contact injuries do we need to see? What we realize that they can still get hurt playing this flag football game. Remember back in the day when they would play the

flag football on the beach shan football. Yeah, and that was the end of it. That could happen on nonstand too. I just don't think anybody cares about these things. I don't just don't really name your Pro Bowl teams and just let those guys bask in the glory of being Pro Bowlers, but they don't play a Pro Bowl. I don't think that's unreasonable. And flag football is dumb. And lastly, is really bothers me now is when you see these guys doing back flips after they win games, yeah, and

sometimes after they score touchdown. If I was a general manager or owner of an NFL team, backflips certainly would not be allowed by any of my players. You'd have. That'd be a contractual obligation. They're better athletes in Bill Grammatica, Remember Bill grammatica those a cl celebrating after a field goal,

celebrating a field goal. It was against the Giants too, I remember in the meadowlands and it was just like a meaningless gay like yah came down I could Yeah, So stop back back flipping everyone out there, no need. Thanks for listening everybody. We'll look forward to chatting with you next week and previewing the Super Bowl week after that. Bye bye. Fantasy Football Weekly is a production of I

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