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Muster Your Peafowl!

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Scott Fish and Paul Charchian dispense tons of player advice surrounding Sunday's conference championship games. And they learn some new peacock facts. 

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Speaker 1

Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of iHeartRadio.

Speaker 2

Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from iHeartRadio, 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, Paul Chargion.

Speaker 1

So much stupid stuff, Scott Fish, lots of stupid stuff. Yeah, we probably we prode ourselves on stupid stuff here at Fantasy Football Weekly. We only get to break down games, Scott. Yeah, this show and one more show, one more show, three games left, three games left, that's all.

Speaker 3

Yeah, what a bummer. And then we're going to talk about ardvarks and cox and badgers and stuff. Just the animal talk.

Speaker 1

Yeah, a lot of it. There'll be a lot of uh, there'll be a lot of this. A little little peacock in there. Yeah, So yeah, we'll work some stuff in. I think next week's show, Matt Harrison will joined to talk about ways to play fantasy and play around the Super Bowl. And then the show after that will be the big Super Bowl preview show. Yes, not after that, we start looking at twenty twenty four already.

Speaker 3

Yes, I know, imagining Caleb Williams or Drake May and purple. I get it like that.

Speaker 1

Yeah, you think the Ravens are going to change quarterbacks.

Speaker 3

It's you know, it's anything's possible now, not that No, not that really right, you're right, But we've got two full games to break down today, yes, and tons of tons of angles, and like we've done the last several weeks, we're not doing like letter grades on every guy.

Speaker 1

But I just I just want to hear about angles. You're interested in angles that fantasy players could exploit. Sometimes there might be betting angles for those of you that do that in a legal area. Great, but yeah, I just want to get your thoughts on the games and let's just let's talk through the sort of the fun angles that you've got. The first game is Kansas City Baltimore.

Speaker 3

Yes, sounds like a rainy, sloppy mess.

Speaker 1

It might be. It might be rainy, it might be ray.

Speaker 3

The most recent reports like it went from might be raining to it sounds like it's going to rain the entire game. Wow, so good, good thing for party. He's not at that one based on last.

Speaker 1

Week, right, Yes, and that's you know. This came up on My camfe In Show with the host Paul Allen Rock perty's had two of his last three games have been pretty bad. If he stinks in this one.

Speaker 3

The Ravens one, Yeah, the Christmas Ravens one, that must be the one.

Speaker 1

Yeah, Christmas Ravens, and then last week's game was not good. If he lays an egg here, then what do the Niners do? Are they in the kirk Cousin sweet Steaks at that point?

Speaker 3

Oh?

Speaker 1

May you know what?

Speaker 3

You know?

Speaker 1

Where could what might they do at that point?

Speaker 3

Oh?

Speaker 1

Would be fascinating?

Speaker 3

Yeah?

Speaker 1

Wow, their off season would take a would become so much more complicated than what we expected.

Speaker 3

I feel like that team has faith in party, believe the party. I mean, he had a good playoff run until he you know, his arm fell off last year, and you know he's back in the NFC Championship game. I have trouble believing they make that move. But it's that's possible, Lamaro. But this one, this one, I can. This one is a little especially because pretty so cheap, you know, like.

Speaker 1

Right, and that's helped them in other areas, so they've been able to, you know, put big money towards you know, like Bosa and Christian McCaffrey. You know, they've got you know they've spent lavishly on there are heroes and Zero's roster with big, big money on like four or five players, and then everybody else is just cheap guys. And it's worked for San Francisco to this point. All right, let's let's talk Kansas City Baltimore. You mentioned rain could be

a factor, and I like the running backs in this game. Yes, and this is before weather.

Speaker 3

Mister runs like he bites people. Did you hear about that? This week as the Poteco finally responded to all the things people talk about his running.

Speaker 1

No, I didn't hear that.

Speaker 3

Yeah, someone's like sub reporters, like people say, you run like you're trying to bite people. He's I et no, zombie man.

Speaker 1

That's really good. Come on, I know.

Speaker 3

Good.

Speaker 1

Well let's start with Pajaco. Sure, who runs like he bites people? Hey, I love that he just runs mad.

Speaker 3

Yes, it's I always worry about the career longevity of those types of runners. We've seen it a few times. But yes, he runs mad.

Speaker 1

Now I see lots of running coming. Here's why Ravens have lost four games this year? How did they get beat on the ground? Listen to this the four losses the opponents averaged thirty rushes, three zero rushes, one hundred and twenty three rushing yards. That's how you beat the Ravens. It's such a good second hear.

Speaker 3

Keep their keep their offense off the field and keep them off the field from making special plays.

Speaker 1

That's part of it. But also they're really good run a pass defense in and not they're not a great run defense.

Speaker 3

Yeah, so Hamilton, we're gonna talk about him in a minute.

Speaker 1

Okay, I'm fascinated by Kyle h.

Speaker 3

It's yeah, that's an interesting matchup there too.

Speaker 1

So if you're Andy Reid and the Chiefs and you're looking at how teams beat the Ravens, it's on the ground. Pacheckos. For those of you that are of a betting ill, can you like your prop bets? Pa Checko's over under on attempts is only fourteen and a half. As I mentioned, these losses, teams have averaged thirty rushing attempts. Add in some weather that could be a game that could be a rushing helper as well. Sixty three and a half

rushing yards is prop number over the Now. Last week they shut down Singletary on this show, I said, I liked Singletary because of the reasons I'm mentioning, now, this is how you go beat them, you know, get your running game going. But the Texans got They were basically blown up by the third quarter. Singletary, I only got nine carries the five games prior to last week against the Ravens. They ranked this is his last five weeks of this season, not counting Week E teams, so they

didn't play the starters. They ranked twenty ninth in rushing yards allowed, thirtieth in yards per carry, and they gave up five point two yards per rush.

Speaker 3

That's a lot.

Speaker 1

Isn't this a mandate to run?

Speaker 3

Pachecko does feel like it. It does feel like it. Yeah, and then they're a much more Yes, yes, it does feel like. I was trying to train my get my train of thought there, but I couldn't. But yes, it does feel like a really good spot for Pacheco.

Speaker 1

Ravens are good pass defense, the path of least resistance on the ground. Opposing runners average twenty four carries per game against Baltimore, and Pachecko again sitting at fourteen and a half, I think he won't need nearly twenty four to have an effective game here, So I like Pacheco to continue his hot streak. Yes, dude's good.

Speaker 3

Yep, assuming he assuming he's I assume he's gonna go. Like I know, he's had limited practices this week, but it he went last week, so I feel like it's gonna go goo.

Speaker 1

Let's talk Kyle Hamilton since you brought his term. So he's the best coverage safety in football. Yeah, you're two of his career. He's the best coverage safety in football. Let me give you some numbers. The average receiving game allowed in his coverage this year. You want to guess yards, give me the yards.

Speaker 3

Yes, I'm gonna go with just the yards. Okay, I'm gonna with twenty four yards.

Speaker 1

Fifteen yards went exactly exactly. He's allowed one touchdown in his eighteen games, so his per game average is zero point zero six touchdowns per game allowed Kyle Hamilton. But now here's the question for you. Hamilton's usage Scott has been like this this year. He plays in the slot, but sometimes if the opposing team has got a good slot receiver, he'll cover the receiver. If they don't, he'll cover the tight end. So what did he do here?

When you have Travis Kelcey and Rashi Rice the two guys you need to take away from the Chiefs passing attack. If you take those two guys away, Chiefs passing attack is dead. So what would what do they do with Kyle Hamilton? Do you take away Rashi Rice, who runs over roughly half of his snaps from the slot, or do you take away Travis Kelcey?

Speaker 3

Yeah, this this this feels This feels like your classic old school Bill Belichick cover the two and uh put two people on the one. The question is which is which? But I feel like I feel like they'll probably they would probably just keep Kyle in the position he does more often this season and just keep him in the slot with Rice and probably just double keV Kelsey.

Speaker 1

Or Kelsey's also standing in the slot.

Speaker 3

Or Amanda bump on Kelsey and have someone over the top on him. But you could almost double both of them, both of them with the rest of that receiver.

Speaker 1

You really could, and just wait for MVS, who granted did not drop his passes last week, but just wait for him to drop his passes. Right, it's gonna be raining. I mean, this is not MVS territory right here, right, I don't think a slow track, a slow, muddy track. I don't think this is a good spot for MBS my opinion, and so I'll be fascinated. Either Rashi Rice or Travis Kelsey could be sitting on a really bad game, potentially Hamilton. Yeah, yep. So that's uh, that'll be one

worth watching. I've got a couple others in this game for you, Lamar Jackson. Get this. Opposing quarterbacks against Kansas City. Seven straight opposing quarterbacks zero or one passing touchdownst.

Speaker 3

Kansas.

Speaker 1

That's how good that pass defense have been. Ten of the past eleven zeros in there too, which, yeah, yep, ten of the past eleven zero or one passing touchdown. Lamar Jackson comes in. I think he's gonna run much more than pass. I think the passing totals are going to be low, particularly in this weather, and just given how good the.

Speaker 3

Chiefs are, I can see that.

Speaker 1

And that brings me to my favorite player of the week.

Speaker 3

Oh boy.

Speaker 1

Were I allowed to legally bet in Minnesota, I would be betting Justice Hills props. So Gus Edwards can't catch, right, Okay. Keithon Mitchell was the past catcher there, but he's dead. So they've been. They're using Justice Hill more as the pass catching back out of the backfield. He's running the triple the routes of Gus Edwards. Over the last month, Hill's averaging thirty three receiving yards per game. Justice Hill's prop numbers eleven and a half yards eleven and a half.

He's averaging thirty three over the last month. Yep, So I see them doing, see them throwing well to throwing fairly off in anyway to Justice Hill. An opposing runner has topped that line in ten of the past eleven games against the Chiefs. Justice will be served.

Speaker 3

Yeah, he's I like it. Justice like that. Yeah, he's gonna hit. He's gonna hit both of those. In fact, I'm willing to bet those, and I'm willing to bet both those probably go up in the next two days. And here here's here's one reason why. First off, Charge always does his own research. Like you always do your own research, right, Your rankings always have like stupid consensus and stuff like that. So this is I'm dumber than consensus. I'm prefacing this with Charge. This is a charge call.

I have seen that Justice Hill reception props so many times this week. Really it's a very very talked about like okay, all right, so that might move. So you found your way on too, like you're like, yes, this.

Speaker 1

Is that's a hot button for other people.

Speaker 3

So I'm I get in on it now. If you're listening to this.

Speaker 1

His Justice Hill's rushing yards and by the way, dal McCook factored in and through the passing game. But it was the blowout time at the very end of the fourth quarter last so I don't see blowout coming. Although I prefer Baltimore in this game. Justice hills rushing numbers thirty three and a half and I think he gets over that as well. Just the eye test, he's so much more dynamic than gus Y really just straight ahead

four yards per carry. Over the last five weeks, Justice Hill averaging five and a half yards per carry.

Speaker 3

Scott, Yeah, I'm always about three and a half four years earlier in these kinds of things, Nico Collins. Yes, So whatever I say now in twenty twenty seven, just take it, take it to the bank. Yeah, No, I've been, I've been. I liked Justice Hill a long time ago. He's underwhelmed, he's never quite made it. He's been hurt a lot, but he does have times when he's very efficient with the ball.

Speaker 1

I would agree with all of that. Chiefs run defense has been better lately, but it's still the easiest way to beat the Chiefs is on the ground, not through the air. We already talked about good that pass that pass defense was anything else you want to talk about with this game? Who do you think wins? I got Baltimore winning, assuming the fixes an in right, who knows.

I'm sure you saw what Warren Sharp tweeted about how the referee, the referee they put show what's his name, Sean Smith yep, the referee who's got overwhelmingly the strongest trends towards road upsets, yes, than any other referee crew. So his crew's on it.

Speaker 3

Yeah, it's it's It's possible he just loves causing drama for home fans and it's and they like there, it's possibly not fixing the game on purpose. He just hates the home fans like, he loves the animosity of it, and the NFL put him there being like all right, let's make this happen.

Speaker 1

No, I'm not a.

Speaker 3

Big conspiracy theorist guy, but like, yeah, it is interesting.

Speaker 1

Isn't it interesting?

Speaker 3

But yeah, I think Baltimore should win.

Speaker 1

Uh.

Speaker 3

I think they're just the better overall team. But it's it's really tough to rule out and Andy reid led Mahomes offense, like, isn't it It feels it feels like the old far for Rogers days, where I know they only go ahead of super boyage, but no matter who they played, you felt there's a puncher's chance. Yeah, you know, yeah, I feel like that's what it is. I feel like I feel like the Ravens should win, but I'm not gonna rule out casey.

Speaker 1

I know, I know it's just the raven you know, the Ravens in addition to just winning way more games than the Chiefs. The Chiefs were the games they were winning, they're barely getting by mediocre opponents, are even losing to mediocre.

Speaker 3

That's my thing about the Chiefs. I wonder if their offense figured out like they're offense sputtered all y'all. Yeah, started to come along at the end basically when they realized, oh, Rashi Rice should be our number one wider. That helped, Yes, So yeah, yeah, I agree. I just feel like they didn't put away bad teams.

Speaker 1

They didn't, and here's the Ravens just smoking teams right.

Speaker 3

Smoke San Francisco, as we've just mentioned.

Speaker 1

Yes, yeah, so I just I can't. I can't, I can't look past that. I just I just think the Ravens. If these two teams play the way they've played for the past two months, the Ravens are way better.

Speaker 3

Right Yep, yep, absolutely.

Speaker 1

Let's talk Detroit San Francisco.

Speaker 3

Yep, yep. We we get. We get a dry, warm, mid sixties or high sixties, mid seventies mix of sunny and cloudy day in San Francisco. I say this because we all know Jared Goff is a housecat. I like calling him a house cat. I We're gonna keep doing it until he catches odd. He's a house cat. He's way better.

Speaker 1

And his outdoor games he averages two hundred and ten yards and one passing touchdown.

Speaker 3

Yep.

Speaker 1

That's not gonna beat the forty nine.

Speaker 3

Ers, No, no, And this is you can say that, you know, some of those might have had more inclement weather than others, but also this is a really good forty nine Ers defense, so that kind of offsets that. In his last four against this forty nine ers defense where with the Rams. Yeah, and so the Ram not against the defense. But in San Francisco he had multiple scores in all of them, two of them really high

yardage games, two of them not so much. But yeah, he's it's hard to bet on Jared Goff outdoors in general against a really good defense. It makes it a little bit harder it does.

Speaker 1

Now. The weather here San Francisco.

Speaker 3

Beautiful and almost no win too, which so it's just it's basically like almost an indoor game. Maybe the sun sun gets in his eyes. Maybe that's his problem. I don't know. Uh No, I actually I like both these teams to have a pretty close games here game here. But on the Lions side, let's just stay on the Lions side for a second. Did you know the only player on Detroit Lion, on the Detroit Lions who was alive the last time Detroit went to the NFC championship game?

You don't have anyways, So there was there's one.

Speaker 1

There's one player, yes, who was alive from the nineteen fifties.

Speaker 3

Ninety one, wasn't it anyone?

Speaker 1

What was it that the Lions won the championship? I thought you said or no, went to the playoffs.

Speaker 3

Yeah, went to the NFC championship.

Speaker 1

Yeah, whatever, I don't I don't know.

Speaker 3

Yeah, it's the it's the long snapper, Jake McQuaid. It's the only one all than that.

Speaker 1

Well, it's not Super Bowl era. It's got to be pre Super Bowl, right. They haven't been to an NFC championship game in.

Speaker 3

The Super Bowl era. Maybe it's a divisional round. Yeah, maybe I read that wrong either way. Yeah, Now I want to look it.

Speaker 1

Up because if it were in the nineties that most of the team would be alive, guys would still be be alive.

Speaker 3

Ninety one against Washington, they lost to Washington.

Speaker 1

In the that was the they. I didn't remember that the Lions had gone that far. You're telling me the only player alive.

Speaker 3

In nineteen ninety one was Jake McQuaid. But I mean, what would that realistically make him thirty two?

Speaker 1

Oh, I got to I thought, you meant it's still alive today. You met who was born on the.

Speaker 3

Team, on the team, it's still playing on the team that was alive for that ninety one Cha gotcha? Yeah, I know that the nineties for guys like us, feels like ten years ago. It was actually quite a while ago. One thing I think that's an interesting of note angle for this is golf is not dealt with pressure. Well. This year he's He's top five in the league in UH yards per attempt and e PA when not pressured.

He's bottom five when pressured. And for a good stretch of the second half of the season, when you know they lost a bunch of their games, he was the worst quarterback in the NFL against pressure. And I know that the forty nine ers got zero sacks with you know, Hargrave and Warner and Bosa last week, but I think that they could bring some pressure, especially depending on Frank greg New who has ankle UH ankle injury, toe injury, knee injury, and back injury. So basically basically he's just me.

He's just me out there shocking. He went back in to play that like he's a warrior.

Speaker 1

They showed when they showed his his ankle getting all, you know, crunched up and twisted the wrong way in game. I'm like, well, that's the end of his season series right now, out.

Speaker 3

There, get me out there. Yeah. So RAG news going to be an interest. I think we have to assume he's gonna play like.

Speaker 1

Yeah he is.

Speaker 3

He'll rest or whatever it takes to make sure he can suit up like this is this is this, Like every game in this playoffs feels like a super Bowl for the Lions, you.

Speaker 1

Know what I mean?

Speaker 3

So I think he goes. Another note, interesting note is the Lions have the lowest deep ball rate in the league. I don't know, they don't throw it low. And when you think about their offense with their Josh Reynolds, well, Josh Reynolds can rundy, but you know Saint Brown gives out of the backfield Montgomery, La think about it. Yes they don't.

Speaker 1

But they they take that deep shot every couple of times, you know, a couple of times a game.

Speaker 3

They are one of the best and most efficient when they do. They will over a fifty percent completion rate when they go over. All right, So maybe it's a little rope see how old I am dropping rope of it here, But yeah, top an explosive success rate and deep completion rate when they do go deep. So I found I found those those pretty interesting. When they get inside. If you're looking for any time scorer type props and stuff like that, they run over seventy percent of the

time once they're inside the five. Wow, and they score a touchdown on thirty one percent of their drives, which that's great. Yes, it's a fantastic ridiculous. Now nearly a third of the times.

Speaker 1

They don't have to settle for many field goals because they're so efficient at scoring when they get in close, which is you know, credit to credit the Lions. David Montgomery.

Speaker 3

Yeah, absolutely, Yeah. Over over on the other side, forty nine er side. I think a lot of the talk this week is going to be Party without debo. If he goes or not. You know, he was what he's been doing in practice as the point as of the point of the you know, the last time I checked before we're doing this was that he was working out on the side. He was not doing practices. He was just working out on the side. There's not a lot of optimism for him to go. But if he does go,

it changes things. But if he doesn't go, like we're looking at guys like you garner a quarter of the target share from Party. Once he does go, I believe his props are somewhere in the five for eighty range right now. Yeah, So if Deebo doesn't go, I would be I'd be happy with both of those numbers. I feel like that both of those are in a shootout scenario. I think five for eighty is easily obtainable for him. Kittle twenty two percent, target shair CMC, Christian McCaffrey eighteen percent,

Juwan Jenning's twelve percent. You correctly not hit that. During the season on Fantasy Football Weekly, on a week where where Deebo was going to be out, You're like, I think he was either you take a chance on me player or you had a starting great on him.

Speaker 1

You're like, this is why, Yeah it was I that was Viking this week. Actually, yeah, Jennings, by the way, one of the best blocking receivers in the league.

Speaker 3

My gosh, yeah he's good.

Speaker 1

Did you see him block some guy into the gatorade cart last week?

Speaker 3

I missed that.

Speaker 1

I Oh, it was glorious. It was glorious. Kittle's really fascinating in the games without Deebo. Samuel Basically he explodes, you know, when you know all that middle of the field stuff where Deebo tends to get the ball out just they siphon it all to Kittle. In six uh oh, I saw the stat from us somebody on my Twitter feed.

I'm sorry, I don't remember who. Six career games without Deebo Samuel, when George Kittle did play, he averages ninety one yards per game, three point three yards per route run. Gigantic number that is, that is huge. Those are big numbers for Kittle if Deebo doesn't play, or if he's a decoy. I also think Kittle's sitting on a big game and Deebo could be a decoy in this game.

Speaker 3

Yep, it's it's it's very possible if he goes in there, he could. He could just be a few notes on party without Deebo with and without Debo. Nineteen games with Deebo, seven without Peres. Passer rating drops from one nineteen to eighty. Wow without Debo.

Speaker 1

Wow, that's a big change.

Speaker 3

His yards per attempt nine point four to eight point three his Wow.

Speaker 1

Deebo extends the field because Debo's known.

Speaker 3

I have bubbles, screens and everything else, the yards after the catch or something, because this is yards per attempt, not a dot okay, so it must be that he gets the yards on it to make it a difference. Completion percentage drops from seventy with deebo to sixty two percent without debo.

Speaker 1

Because seventy is huge, sixty two is more like NFL norm.

Speaker 3

Yeah, so everything about him drops without debo. But I feel like that's probably fair for any team losing their wide receiver one or two. Okay, I'm listening to that.

Speaker 1

But yeah, you have Brandon Ayu, You've got George Kittle, You've got the best pass catching running back in football. McCaffrey absolutely, Party should able to be shine.

Speaker 3

He should be. He should be as long as he doesn't have a Ravens or Packers style. I blame the Ackers game on the web. I think he couldn't deal with that downpour. I think that is mostly it. Maybe maybe not maybe.

Speaker 1

Maybe, But if you're the Lions, do you play to just take away Christian McCaffrey. Go Look, we're not losing a Christian McCaffrey. Brock Purty's gonna have to go play hero ball.

Speaker 3

Right right? Yep. And unlike unlike Goff with the pressure, Party had the third It was the third best quarterback this year under pressure. Okay, which if any hunchins, I think they can bring some pressure. But just just a note I'm gonna throw two things at you from a couple of my friends over at Fantasy Life. There Dwayne McFarlane, and I believe the second one was Ian Hartitz, so maybe maybe they're not both from Fantasy Life. I mean

both those guys are. But the last, uh, the last wide receiver is the last string of wide receiver ones versus the Lions. And this is a Brandon I you kind of goes here, maybe kill a little bit. Ceedee Lamb thirteen for two twenty seven, Justin Jefferson twelve for one ninety two, Puka Nikola nine eighty one, Yeah, Keenan Allen eleven for one to seventy five, Mike Evans eight for one forty seven, Justin Jefferson six for one forty one.

And those guys scored about ten touchdowns combined. Unbelievable.

Speaker 1

That was so you should be sitting on a huge game. Should be Cam Sullivan their cornerbacks for the lines, Cam Sullivan, Kendallville.

Speaker 3

Door brutal, yep.

Speaker 1

So bad.

Speaker 3

It's so bad, yep.

Speaker 1

And that's uh. And that'll be priority number one in the offseason.

Speaker 3

For and the second part, and I believe it was Ena Hearts but if I'm crediting that wrong of this, that sucks. I'm sorry. It's the kind of stat I would have looked up anyway. Uh. But the last five quarterbacks against the Lions Baker Mayfield three forty nine and three, Matthew Stafford three sixty seven and two, Nick Mullens three ninety six and two, Dak Prescott three forty five and two, Nick Mullens four eleven and two.

Speaker 1

Yeah, how about that?

Speaker 3

So the worst gabe was three hundred and forty five yards at two Scotts. It's the Lions, and.

Speaker 1

You know, so that's forts Let's talk Christian McCaffrey, right, because you know the Lions are so easy to pass upon and so hard to run upon. I think McCaffrey could be sitting on a quiet game here.

Speaker 3

Yeah, it's very possible. It's very possible.

Speaker 1

His his over under rushing number is eighty eight yards. Eighty seven and a half. Yes, you know how many runners topped eighty eight yards against Detroit?

Speaker 3

This I do because you heard it.

Speaker 1

Nobody, nobody, McCaffrey has to have for him to hit his his Vegas line on yards, he has to have the best game anybody's had. Against the Chiefs or sorry, against the Lions by nineteen yards.

Speaker 3

Yeah, and I don't.

Speaker 1

Think it's happening.

Speaker 3

That's that's a it's a lot. The only the only wonderful caveat for McCaffrey, if you want to try to play the over on that line, is that he gets everything for them usually usually. Yeah. But yeah, and with de Bout, you know, he's he doesn't take too many, too many rushes anymore anyway.

Speaker 1

No, that's it. I think that's that's largely dried up.

Speaker 3

Right.

Speaker 1

Lions, uh finished number one in rushing yards allowed number three and yards per carry allowed number two in rushes attempted, in part because there their pass evens is so bad, right, why run? Now it's Christian McCaffrey, And that's a good reason to run. But maybe you just throw to McCaffrey instead as a possibility. But Lion's only giving up sixty rushing yards per game. It's just that's nothing. Yeah, So I wonder if McCaffrey is sitting on a quiet a quiet game here.

Speaker 3

You are, Chargian said that the.

Speaker 1

Idea Christian McCaffrey. What a bummer that is? Who wants to sit all game long?

Speaker 3

Yeah?

Speaker 1

And just go, oh, man, I hope Christian McCaffrey doesn't score. Yeah, that's so fun.

Speaker 3

I hope he doesn't do it right. That's there's no fun in that. That's why people love the overs and hate the unders. It's true. People know sharps don't care. But people, your casual betters.

Speaker 1

While we're talking lions for a second, did you know you can already bet the Super Bowl MVP?

Speaker 3

Oh boy, you can, you can? Okay, So now they got four teams worth of players of odds.

Speaker 1

That's right, you have four teams, that's right. Now. Ten of the past fourteen have been quarterbacks. Ye tell me if any of these interest you, you'd have to place his wagers today. Lamar Jackson is the favorite. He's got two at two for one. Would you bet that he would?

Speaker 3

He would be, I was gonna say, even before I was going to try to guess him. But yeah, I figured Lamar would be the first.

Speaker 1

Brock Purty three to one. You're interested in that?

Speaker 3

Interesting? I guess a little bit. I mean, yeah, Patrick Mahomes is four to one. I'd rather put way less money on a longer shot.

Speaker 1

But yeah, I hear you.

Speaker 3

Yeah, Yeah, that's it's Mahomes at four to one, four to one.

Speaker 1

If they get past the Ravens and get to the Super Bowl, I think you'd be pretty happy to have that four to one. I'm Patrick Mahomes to win MVP since quarterbacks usually win it.

Speaker 3

Yeah, I feel like Golf would be my fourth one, just because I feel like if the Lions make it, I feel like the Chiefs are Ravens should take care of them. I know that they lost. The Chiefs lost to them Week one, but.

Speaker 1

Yeah, that's a million years ago.

Speaker 3

Now, that's that's a different team.

Speaker 1

What do you think about Jared Goff nine to one and Super Bowl MVP?

Speaker 3

See, that's the one I would better, just because.

Speaker 1

It's I know right, that part feels pretty good.

Speaker 3

I feel like the order is correct though.

Speaker 1

But what a great story would be for Jared Goff who had the horrible Super Bowl game with the Rams and then they summarily go trade him, and you know, then with his new team he goes back to the Super Bowl and wins MVP. Oh, what a great That's such a typical NFL kind of storyline. Yep, it'd be a great.

Speaker 3

There are so many storylines with this these last four teams. It's just wonderful. It's just wonderful for that. But where do you stand as the Viking fan on the Lions? Like I am a I was Barry Sanders my favorite player of all time, Like the Lions are my second team. So like, I'm I'm fine if they win, I'm happy. But I know there are a lot of Vikings fans who are like, not another NFC North team before us, not another you know, not a team that hasn't won before us.

Speaker 1

I'm not that way. The Lions fans are so humble and they're yeah, you know, they've been beaten down for so long. They're so humble, they're so non arrogant.

Speaker 3

I will say I'm happy for them for the most. Yeah, ninety percent of the ones I know are that way.

Speaker 1

Yeah.

Speaker 3

I have found some that are not handling being good as well as you would expect. They're not used to being good, so they definitely have a but it's not many of them. Most almost all, You're right, almost all Lions fans are are wonderful.

Speaker 1

Yeah, because you know, they they just they don't have the arrogance here.

Speaker 3

Yep.

Speaker 1

And that's and that's you can'tnot be and the other factor, and it's a real one. My wife and I watch Hard Knocks, yeah, you know, the season before or last, and she fell in love with Dan Campbell. She's absolutely one percent rooting for the Lions because she loves Dan Campbell.

Speaker 3

Yep. I'm I'm generally, especially with this if the Bills were still in it, that make it a little more interesting, you know, a.

Speaker 1

Lose lose for Super Rights, yeah versus Lions, right versus.

Speaker 3

Yeah, that one. But I'm I'm more along the lines of I would love to see a fan base that has never had a championship get one for the whole fan base too. I'm for sure I like people being happy, you know.

Speaker 1

The other thing, uh, the other thing that and I think we may have mentioned this on last week's show, but as great as Patrick Mahomes is, and you know, his legacy's already set six championships, right, and it's just the league is healthier when you have Brady versus Manning, you know. And I wanted it to be Josh Allen. I wanted Josh Allen to win so we could have Brady, we could have we could have Mahomes versus Josh Allen. Didn't work out. Maybe it's gonna be Mahomes versus Lamar Jackson.

It's just not as a competiti You want it as a competitive league. You want to have that other players who are good too, not just one team.

Speaker 3

Yep, yesep, absolutely well, let.

Speaker 1

Me give you one more Super Bowl MVP angle. Okay, if it's not going to be a quarterback, I told you ten of the last fourteen have been quarterbacks. Yeah, it's not going to be a quarterback. It's got to be somebody who's explosive that can turn the game on two or three gigantic plays. Right, that's gonna pile up one hundred and fifty yards.

Speaker 3

Jamison Williams, No, give me another Lion. I'm one. Rustlin Brown, Jamier Gibbs, Jamiir Gibbs.

Speaker 1

Okay, now, I told you what the quarterback odds were.

Speaker 3

Here's my tough thing with that. Hold on a second, Okay.

Speaker 1

I told you the the the quarterback odds like two to one, three to one, four to one. What do you think the odds are for Jamier Gibbs to win Super Bowl MVP one hundred and twenty five to one? All right, now, go ahead.

Speaker 3

See here's my problem James White scored as running back three touchdowns.

Speaker 1

And he caught like eighty passes.

Speaker 3

He had over one hundred total yards, and he scored the game winging touchdown.

Speaker 1

And they're like, nah, quarterback, I know, so I get it. Tom Brady was on the field, he was gonna win it.

Speaker 3

You do have a point, you know, It's it is kind of a different point though, Like it's I'm not comparing golf to like the you know, golf is not Brady like Brady. Like, if you don't give it to Brady, there's a thing there, you know. But if you don't, I still think they'd give it to golf. But I do like it. That's a that's incredible odd.

Speaker 1

Just the odds are so good. One hundred and twenty five to one. They played the super but they played out this weekend next week. One hundred and twenty five times Jimi or Gibbs would win MVP, like I don't know, nine times or ten times or something like that.

Speaker 3

Something I like.

Speaker 1

Something in the ballpark of nine time, nine times times. So you know, I mentored, you know, not one out of one hundred and twenty five, nine out of five. You get the idea.

Speaker 3

I get it. I like it. I like it's a it's a really deep I don't think it's happening, but it's no problem. I hope it happens. That'd be abvioazy, wouldn't be And then everybody, you get the peacock of all peacocks. If that happened, that so good. We'd have to find a super peacock. But super because it's a super Bowl, we need a super peacock.

Speaker 1

Good point.

Speaker 3

Maybe it's like an auto tune peacock.

Speaker 1

What what maybe we need more than one peacock. What is a group of peacocks call?

Speaker 3

I actually don't know this a pot of peacocks? I don't know.

Speaker 1

I mean there's like, uh, there's a pot of whales. There's a murder murder of throro, right, what is more than? What's a group of peacocks called? How do I and how do we not know this yet?

Speaker 3

Yeah? This is this is insane because we're a group of people that a muster A muster, you said, an ostentation or a muster?

Speaker 1

Oh, ostentation is way better an ostentation of peacocks?

Speaker 3

Yes, oh, I love it. Oh. And the plural is pea fowl. Is it really?

Speaker 1

I didn't know that we've been saying it wrong because all the time it's a fowl. There's no way, no way, it's not peacocks.

Speaker 3

It's p fowl. Females are p hens. What I'm not gonna believe. I'm not gonna geographic about peacock. I don't know anything.

Speaker 1

A muster of pe pe pe fowl, a mustard pie.

Speaker 3

I gotta imagine that's the correct one. But other people, but people, but you can use peacocks. I gotta believe that's a dual thing where you can use if you.

Speaker 1

Got to the end of this peacocks.

Speaker 3

Even the thing says group of what is a group of peacocks called so like? It doesn't even say p fowl in there.

Speaker 1

If you got to the end of this podcast, which right.

Speaker 3

Now a group of p hens is a harem?

Speaker 1

Is it really? Who comes up with this stuff?

Speaker 3

P fowl are members of the pheasant family? Interesting? No, it is definitely.

Speaker 1

You made it to the end of this podcast. Jesus on Twitter at Scott Fish twenty four at Paul Chargi in hashtag muster of pea fowl.

Speaker 3

God, oh beautiful. I don't know what I'm gonna I don't we said, what do we do with this information?

Speaker 1

I want to know if people actually get to this point or if they've long since turned this thing off.

Speaker 3

Gosh, we'll find out.

Speaker 1

Thank you for listening, everybody. We'll be back next week. We'll talk about super Bowl games you can play. Matt Harrison's already prepping it. He's very excited. Ways you can have fun with your Super Bowl parties and stuff like that. And then the week after that we'll be breaking down the super Bowl. Can't wait on our last chance to talk about football from the twenty twenty three season. And after that we're gonna start getting four heavy with a

lot of a lot of rookie Yeah. Yeah, he's in Mobile this week Senior Bowl stuff, So that'll that'll be great. Thanks for listening, everybody, talk to you soon. Fantasy Football Weekly is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.

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