Playoff Formats

Brian Johnson. It's uh, it feels weird talking about the off season wins Week eighteen, but it's the fantasy off season. What a week it has been. It really has um as of this morning, Friday morning, all excellent news on tomorrow, Hamlin, and that it looks like, you know, optimistically, everything's gonna work out great. Yeah, he supposedly was on like a

zoom call with the team. Yeah, of course that's a private manner, but I think everyone would love to see that video at some point because yeah, for sure that a great, pretty heartwarming stuff there really is. And um, from from his standpoint, it really it could not have worked out any better. I think, as horrific as the

whole thing. And it's in totality, you know, it sure looks like at the end of the day, there's no reason to think that he will not come out of this in in in great shape, And whether or not that means an NFL career does not matter to me at all whatsoever. Um. You know, it may turn out that whatever, you know, whatever condition he had, may prevent him from ever playing the NFL again, But who cares.

You know, you know you're gonna be alive, and you know gonna gonna have a you know, presumably a great rest of his life. And I don't want to speculate that he's gonna play again, but I there is a chance, just based on Chris Pronger, the hockey player, he got hit in the chest with a like a slapshot or something in the same essentially the same thing happened. You wanted to cardiac cardiac arrest. But uh, he went on to play like twelve years after that. So hopefully hopefully

can play again for sure. Uh. Over the course of the show, we're gonna talk about how commissioners and leagues should deal with the Bills, Bengal situation, and resolving your championship from last week. There's still some leagues out there that are unsettled. We'll give you some broad based advice on that. Um, we're gonna talk about how to play in the playoffs. We love fantasy football in the NFL playoffs super fun. You get to try do things we'll give you. We'll talk about how we like to play

UM and how to disperse players for that. And then at the end of the show, I want to talk about some of your prefer DFS angles for Week A team. Yeah, it's probably one of the better weeks to play DFS if you're one of the trick you right, if you're brave. There's there's a lot of people that just opt out of Week eighteen or make bad angles on Week A team just because they assume big game players are gonna

play when they're not. And I we'll talk about the teams you should really be focusing on, and probably those teams you should be fading. And then but then some guys chasing some incentives in But yeah, we'll get to that in a little bit. Sounds good. Let's start with commissioners and leagues that still have a Week seventeen championship to figure out. Uh. The advice that I've been giving people, Brian is first and foremost for commissioners, ask your first

and second place teams to work it out among themselves. Really, we don't want to make you into the bad guy. And my goal is to not have the commissioner have to make a call between who wins and who loses. And if we have found overwhelmingly the teams that were in the finals have have been able to work it out themselves in an equitable fashion, and that's the best thing. And we we should preface this with that we're talking

solely private leagues, home league, you call him. Any contest operator out there, they had to make the tough choice to just not count, like they can't go to projected points or we're not talking about No, we're not talking about home friends and family leagues. Yes, yea um, and so but then if your first since I could place teams can't work it out, now it's back on you, commissioner to have to make some kind of ruling. This

is not ideal. I know there's some commissioners that that really think they've they dig the power trip of being the commissioner and they want to own this decision. But again, this is not the this is not the best spot for this. The worst thing I think any commissioner can do is use any form of past performance because you are picking a winner. Yeah, and that's I don't think

that's ever. That's not a healthy position to put yourself in his commissioner and put the loser in because at that point, you know, we've seen people recommend things like, well, I'm taking the average of the players performances over the month of December because that's more recent, and I'm averaging those and I'm applying him to the week seventeen. I'm like, jeez, this is you are putting yourself in a position to to pick winners and that is not good. And projected

points to kind of falls in that bucket. I think those aren't real their projections and yep, and even PA points projected points, they're all based, you know, on the average performance. But most of the times the players have spike weeks, so you can't you know, one week they have thirty points and then the two. So yeah, I'm

not a fan of either of those routes. Really, I'll say this, if one of the two teams was highly likely to win, you know, if this if they played the game a hundred times and this one team was gonna win the time, then I would probably just go ahead. And you know, again, if I'm a commissioner who has to make the call and one of them is overwhelmingly favorite,

then I would just pick that person. We're in an Empire league together and I was in the third place game, not playing you, and I've had like a chance to win, And I talked to the other manager her and I said, hey, if he was a little closer, I would totally split this with you. And he was he was like, he was sotly. Finally he's like, yeah, you you were gonna

beat me, so like really cool. And another league, I was in third place game it would have come down to the wire probably and I said, I was like, let's split it, and he said, I'm fine with that. We were gonna play Week eight team, but we were kind of like, we're kind of tired of season, but third place, So yeah, that's that's definitely a good alternative. Now, if the outcome is in doubt and your commissioner has to make a ruling, um, your ruling can be I'm

splitting the pot. I'm just not getting in the You guys are splitting the pot. You two couldn't come up with a solution. But I'm doing it for you. I'm splitting the pot. Totally valid to do that as a commissioner, and in just in terms of like emotionally setting you know, putting out, putting yourself in a position to be the bad person, that's a very safe way to go. Just you know, Brian, you're gonna split the pot with Fish. You two guys. You know, I'm sorry that it worked

out this way, but you know that's it. That's my ruling. And then the other is I think the final scenario that you could use, but I really don't like it. As you again, you can't use pass performance, but if you want to play out week eighteen you could. I don't like it. Many good players are not going to play, so I really don't recommend it. But that's so that's the that's the scenario again. Ideally, the first and second place teams working out among themselves. If they can't, the commissioner,

you gotta get involved. If one team was highly likely to win, make that team the winner. If the outcome was in doubt, I'd split the pot. And if you still can't do that, then I would play out Week teens. One other option I've heard, which I don't love, but I like it better than the past performance of their projected points is you can swap in your highest scoring bench players that could fill you know, oh yeah from

last week best effective approach. Yeah, I had. I had one league, my Whiskey League, my coveted Whiskey League, which I love. It's it's run by Scott Steve's aban in in Milwaukee, and uh and Washington and um. It came down to me and versus one other guy and again the so Guillotine League. All seventeen losers sent a bottle of whiskey into the winner. And I'm in the finals. I'm up by two points heading into Monday night. I have Jamaar Chase, but he had Josh Allen Tee Higgins,

So I conceded. I didn't want to um, but there wasn't a very very you know, the only scenario really were Jamaar Chase was gonna outscore Josh Allen and tie Higgins. Either te Higgins was gonna have to get iced for the whole game or get hurt. Well, you know, Josh Allen, he kind of tweaked his knee a little bit. It did a little bit. I mean, you're still gonna play. But yeah, I think you deserve at least a couple of bottles out of that. I'm hoping. I'm hoping the

winner sees it that way. He's Josh and listening. Okay, let's talk about planning and playing in the playoffs. Yeah, Brian, perfect time first, the perfect time to test drive any scoring system changes you're contemplating. Its particularly scoring system. Uh, there's so many other weird things about the way that you play in the playoffs that a lot of the other things that you might be contemplating you can't do.

But if you've always wanted to try tight end point and a half PPR, if you want you whatever, whatever, whatever you're thinking about, this is a there's a good opportunity to test drive it. We encourage you to to, uh to try. Yeah, And if you still use kickers and defense in your league, this is the perfect time to not do it and see how when you do do it in the playoffs. Absolutely, absolutely, all right, here's how I would set it up, and that's how I

do set it up. So, first, your playoff league should have seven teams, and that's because there are fourteen teams that get into the NFL playoffs, So you want seven teams participating in it because that way everybody gets two and exactly to team quarterbacks, team kickers, and team defense. If you want to use, it's the perfect time, everect time to use that. I'll defer to you. I guess fine, but yeah, totally seven seven. You can go less two, but seven max, Yeah, seven, seven. I think seven is

perfect because it forces people into really undesirable teams. And you know, everybody's gonna have two quarterbacks, so who's gonna get that last team that nobody wants? And you know, I love it. I think seven is the perfect number. But Okay, you're right, you can play with less for those and then because again, because there's four teen teams left, I'd use exactly fourteen roster spots, Brian, So that would be we We already mentioned the two team kickers, the

two team quarterbacks, the two team defense. That's six or fourteen, three running backs, three receivers, a tight end, and reflex that brings you a fourteen fourteen roster spots fourteen NFL teams. Now that's gonna open up a few things. I'm talking about a second, Uh, there's no bench. Everybody scores so no bench, no bench start, it's everybody place. The playoffs, you don't even have many that many guys going, and due to Bie weeks and stuff, you know, like the

Eagles aren't gonna go. Uh, there are no transactions to be made. Your draft is the final thing. No transactions the key to winning in the playoffs. You want to identify teams that are gonna play three or four games. That's the single biggest thing is who's gonna Who's gonna which which teams like San Francisco. You think San Francisco could easily make a run everyone whatever, whether the ninth strate and the most sorry, most desirable is the teams

that can make a run. But also I don't have a buy in San Francisco that the perfect for that, right and it looks like Buffalo is shaping up to be that team right now. Uh in Kansas City probably will be the one seed Buffalo. You know, you could get four games out of Buffalo, you can get four games out of San Francisco. That puts a huge premium

on those players for sure. All Right, and then the last thing I want to mention from just a strategy standpoint is as you're as you're holding your draft, your auction. We're gonna talk about how to disperse players. In a second quarterbacks, kickers and defenses in real in regular season

fantasy especially, kickers and defense are not very important. Here they are because the reason and they're not important in the in the regular season is they're all about the same, they don't They all score about the same and everyone has and everyone has on it. But in the playoffs, when your kicker gets knocked out, Dang, there's eleven points I'm not getting every week. Even dang there's two points.

I'm not getting every point every Kickers and defenses have way more importance in the playoffs, like for the good teams. You'll see those guys going before, like you know, Travis e. T N assuming that the Jaguars and the playoffs, like I'd rather have the Bills defense, yes, which makes it really fun. It's another part of the playoffs. Okay, yeah, I'm I'm wormed back up to kickers and defense and proud of you, proud of you. So now the question is how to disperse the players. Of course, you can

just have a draft. That's easy, but what are some other things you could do? Obviously, the auction. I love, we love auctions. UM auctions have some limitations this time here. I don't think like you can use the ESPN auction engine or the Yahoo auction engine for the playoffs. But maybe you can. I'm not sure about that. So mostly it might just be getting everybody together in one place,

one time. It could be getting everybody together on his zoom. Yeah, and Matt had his white board idea to tell people about it. I think I got I haven't done this yet with him. I think it's a really good idea. But yeah, you'll have a white board. It could just be a piece of paper. You don't have to have a white board. But you know, player makes it easier. It does. The player goes up you know whoever Patrick Mahomes.

Everyone has twenty seconds to write down a number and then you all flip flip up your white bar and whoever is the camera and then but what happens if there's a tie? Uh you left it tweet? I think a tie. I think if you and I both flip up fourteen, Patrick Mahomes, that we both have a fourteen written down, everybody else is out, then you and I

have to write a new number. That's at least fourteen well probably or at least fifteen probably right, Like like, if I'm willing to I only want to go one more dollar, but you're willing to go to more than you'll you'll ultimately win. Patrick Um. So there's the the white Board Zoom Auction League, which I think makes a lot of sense. The other thing you can do we mentioned there's exactly fourteen roster spots. Everybody just picks one player from each NFL team, fill your anybody you want.

So then the question is do you get do you go with the chalk like, okay, so I can I'm allowed one forty niner? Do I take Christian McCaffrey. With that kind of setting, I like where you you do it every you can also do it every week. You pick it, you know, set a lineup. But you can only use a player once. So if I use McCaffrey in the wild guard around, I can I can't use them again for the rest of the the rest of the playoffs. Yeah, that's more work than I'm usually willing

to do. I just say, you know, draft everybody you know to give you one player from every team, and that scales infinitely. You can you can have any number of teams if you do that right. If I say I don't need to just have seven teams in my playoff league, I can have as many as I want

to have a thousand teams. Knowing that with all the variations of play, if I said, give me one player from fourteen different teams, enough people not everybody, you know, Christian McAffrey, some people are gonna be like, I'm going George Kemmel. Some people are gonna go, I'm going Niners defense, which would be totally, totally cool. Niners defense is awesome and they could play four games. We're talking about how great, how much of an advantage it is to have a defense.

So there's so many different strategies and ways you can go that way. Yeah, you certainly want to go contrarian, uh at some positions, because yeah, most people will probably pick Christian McCaffrey from Most people are gonna pick probably Travis Kelsey, yeah, from the Chiefs for their tight end.

But yeah, it's a swing for the Fences movie. Yeah, if the Chiefs get knocked out and you just pick Travis Kelsey or Patrick Mahomes or some other people, most other people in your league have and you didn't and then you're you're you're in a good spot. Correct, correct, So um, that's the that's that's how you disperse players is really up to and you can have a lot of fun with that. Most people will still just do a draft, but um, yeah, I love the I love

the playoff leaks. And regardless of how you if you just do a regular draft or a regular auction, um you in my mind and this this is the best ball strategy to I play a lot of best ball playoff leagues. You want to kind of not go all in, but go hard on a team that's all based off who who's available with your first pick, say you know it's like first overall pick, I get Josh Allen, almost ignore the ADP and just go grab Gabe Davis. Over leagues, you do have to do some stacking in the playoffs

and just hope that team does play three and four games. Yeah, and then if I'm heavy on the bills with the Chiefs or an a f C team, I'm trying to fill my other roster spots with NFC guys because you don't want to be eliminating your own players from the same conference. So a definitely a high level strategy you want to keep in mind and think it all depends on how many teams are in and in a seven team league, I don't do that because it's too easy

to get beat out. And I'm just having run these for twenty five years, I've found that the best the approach that wins the most the people who I diversify. So yeah, all right, let's talk. Um let's talk through a week a teen DFS options. Brian, You've done a bunch of work here, Um I have. I've got some of the team motivations in front of me, but you've put specific You've put some specific work into some advice for people. It's it's kind of high level stuff too.

I mean in Week eighteen DFS, which used to be Week seventeen, in terms of the last week, it's it's really more about motivation than the matchup. And uh so we're gonna talk most sites. The main slate is just the early afternoon, late afternoon games on Sunday. So unfortunately this weekend that's going to remove motivated teams. Uh Kansas City in the city Tennessee, Jacksonville on set matter day. Green Bay is on Sunday night playing Detroit who could

be or not. Detroit's gonna go at green Bay hard. And I think Dan Campbell's gonna play the win no matter what. Definitely, uh. And you know, talking to Chad Greenway today, he felt like team's gonna team would be Lions will be trickier if they've been eliminated, because he thinks they'll be looser, they'll be more willing to take chances gamble um. He thinks they're they're more dangerous team if the Lions have actually been eliminated, which could make

some sense. You know, there's not exactly a lot of playoff pedigree and what would effectively be a playoff game for the Lions. Outside of Jared Goff, I can see them being a little bit tight in a game that means this much. You know, the Lions haven't played a meaningful final week of the season game in I don't know, twenty years. I wholeheartedly agree with that, Like, if they got nothing to lose, yeah, and green Bay's got everything on the line at that point, I mean they do

either way, but yeah, I'm with you there. Um it back to the main slate on Sunday. Not a ton of teams that are gonna be motivated. But you certainly want to be targeting well now, but we we basically know how the Cincinnati Buffalo situation is playing out or how they won't resume the game. Cincinnati Buffalo are motivated, as are their opponents. Uh, the Ravens playing the Bengals.

Ravens are highly motivated for this game. They've got many playoffs scenarios that unfrill with wins here and New England and playing Buffalo, they win, has to win eligible. Yes, Miami needs to beat the Jets, they'll make the playoffs. Pittsburgh, Uh, well motivated as well against Cleveland. So those are teams you want to target. Seattle certainly, and all these teams mentioned so far are in the one o'clock window, one

eastern window. UM Philly playing an unmotivated Giants team, even though the Giants have said they're gonna they're not playing, they're started. If the Giants play their starters at all, of some steak. If they play their starters more than a series or two, it's a mistake. Now, so the Philly Philly is going to beat the Giants. I mean that you Philly is going to beat them. So so Dallas and San Francisco will still have something to play for that they'll both be playing for the two seed.

But there's gonna be a little scoreboard watching there. They both play in the late afternoon. If Dallas and San Francisco's winning, Yeah, but I'm saying that so Dallas can get the two seeds, you know, like they have to get loss. They have to get a Philly loss, which isn't gonna happen. So yeah, it means Dallas not gonna be too motivated. So Off is not going to be motivated. And you know, of course all these unnotivated teams and the teams that are well out of the playoffs, Yeah,

they're gonna want to take a look at guys. But you're really playing with fire, trying to guess how much usage of player is gonna get, like especially the star players on a bad team. What's what's what's the point in that? But I have identify I Well, I wanted to get your opinion on the Vikings. I don't think they if they do play, Um, if you do. If they do play, I think it they played because they

can get two starters. They can get the Vikings, get the TUCI, but they need they would need San Francisco to lose to Arizona next in the late games, which is not which is not happening, probably not. So there's fourteen point underdogs. Uh, the Cardinals are David blows their quarterback and they're not beating the Niners. So there's the Vikings would be foolish on many for many reasons, including a horrible surface on the Chicago field and the fact

that they're short too offensive linemen in this game. So I I just don't I can't see them risking Kirk Cousins, Justin Jefferson knees, you know, just you don't think they're gonna want I know, in the grand scheme, it's not important, but Justin Jefferson chasing the but he's too far behind now because of the dud game Jeffers. The fifteen yard game Jefferson had last week really took the the possibility, the realistic possible ability of getting the all time single

season record. What do you feel about t J. Hockenson needs one hundred and two yards for a thousand. I think they try to get him there, not unless he's got money tied to that thousand. I don't think so. And we don't know. Um, a couple other guys on unmotivated teams who are also going for a thousand yards. Michael Pitton needs a hundred and five. D. J. Moore needs a D two. I kind of like more I

did against the Bucks. Yeah. I think it's a coaching staff that Carolina coaching staff is still is still coaching to try to earn the right to stay on his coaches in the off season. Carolina got something of a bad beat last week, and I trust them more than I trust New Orleans in their game. Yeah, totally. Uh, Tyler al Gier needs a hundred yards exactly to hit

the thousand yard mark. I didn't realize he was, and I feel like the Falcons are gonna want get him there, get their rookie in a thousand yard Who was the last thousand in the yard rusher for the Falcons card Errol didn't do it last year. I probably go vic. Uh, Steven Jackson, No, like he was running that well at that point. Wardak had done rest of the Wow. Yeah, I mean I think of him with the box. Um. Yeah,

I don't know. It's a good question though, but it's been a long time and Tyler l Geer's name, by the way, you watch how many times we mentioned him this in these in our offseason Fantasy Football weekly is Brian. It's gonna come up all the time. These hot start, these hot finished guys, excuse me, and end up carrying tons of momentum in through the fantasy cycle at the end of the year. And al Gear finishing really, really well, arguably with the best couple of games of his career

in the last two weeks. And uh, they the Falcons playing a Bucks team with really nothing to games. So I think I like Algier a lot. Bucks are getting trounced in the first round of the playoffs. You think they're they're pretty much gonna face the Cowboys, right or five? Yep, let's see. I mean they're playing at home. Yeah, they do get that, they get the luxury of a home game, but it's the whole other topic on whether or not team should deserve that or not. I think they should

amend the rules too. If you win your division, but your five hundred or worse don't home, Like how many if you just don't get in seriously, who there's been some remember the Seahawks were like and they won. They were seven win team that went in the playoffs and won their first game. We're gonna see it on the in the a f C two with the whoever wins Tennessee Jacksonville, they're gonna be five, will be nine, and

it will be nine in eight, I believe. I think there but still not too impressive, not really desire of a first round home game. Um. One other player, Gerald Everett? Who Chargers playing? Am I blanking on who the Chargers are playing? The Chargers don't have a ton to game. They might have a little. They can get up to the five seed, h um and, which would give them the opportunity to play against Tennessee or Jacksonville, which should be a much easier matchup than they have at the

sixth seed. So that's a That's why I think that's a highly motivated Chargers team right against a Denver team that has been dead in the water for a long time. I'm I'm a little skeptical about Austin. I don't know if they're gonna like give Echo or thirty touches. But Gerald Everett, I like Gerald Everett. UM he is five catches short of sixty, and he has an incentive bonus of two dollars if he gets sixty catches, and so he does he slide a little that to the offensive coordinator,

I would, yeah, I want to so five. I'll take five catches any day from a tight end, a cheap tight end in DFS and uh. By the way, Denver allowing the second most receptions to opposing tight end six per game. So I like Everett a lot uh this weekend. But see parum is They've been using param a lot

down the stretch here. I think they want trying to figure out what they've really got in Donald parm For those of us that are Donald Donald Parker from way back and been waiting for him to finally like string together four healthy games in a row, that would be my only worry. But I like your motivation here. And we have seen we've seen teams do this where they will feed a guy who they like, good locker room guys.

They'll feed them to get them the money. How often do you think the front office dissuades the coaching staff from guys hitting there. I don't know, in real trouble. If they did, I think they could get they could get suited. If they did, they'd have to be very cautious about it. Yeah, but I think in most cases they they want their guys to get there. They can certainly afford to pay them. They can't put at that the owners can afford it. But some of them are, well,

not all of them, some of them are vampires. If you believe the truth about about the Raiders, that they're so cash strapped that they can't afford to change coaches if they wanted to. You know, that's you know, you've got these You've got this asset of this incredibly valuable foot all team. But it's not liquid money, it's value. It's values entirely upon your sale of the team. And there are there are some teams that you know, some teams make wild amounts of money and some merely do okay.

And it might be Raiders might be one of those teams that are just just doing okay. And I would have thrown Josh Jacobs in the unmotivated list, But again, the Raiders are playing on Saturday against the Chiefs. But Jacobs essentially has the rushing title locked up already at least like a hundred and fifty yards ahead of Nick Chubb. And I don't think that. And we've been saying it all season, Jacobs is not going to be a Raider

next year. Even they're gonna be losing my thirty of the Chiefs who are just gonna So do they continue grinding him up in Week eight? Team? Does he just Josh Jacobs go to the coaches and go, look, I got an offseason coming where I need to make my money. I don't give me the ball. Yeah we'll see. I mean, because he does have the rushing title locked up. Yeah, you don't want to something bad to happen in a

totally meaningless game, so airing a free agency. But it's it's that's this is what you're dealing with when you're playing in the last week in in daily fantasy or daily drafts, whatever. You gotta watch out for these land mines and look for the motivating factors. So Hugh helped you out a little. Houston and Indie's pretty fascinating because Houston needs to lose to secure the number one pick that gives them their choice of quarterbacks. Um Bears would

go to number two. They could flip flop. Indie can move I believe all the way up to three with a loss in the draft. Um, right now, I think they're sitting at five. Uh, so they're pretty motivated to move to They need a quarterback as well. Yeah, I mean, and it's really it's a Stroud or Young, right, and it's a two quarterback. It's a two quarterbacks. And the Bears probably aren't going to take the trade out. At least'll trade out of they'll trade out of the spot

and they'll get they'll get paid handsomely for that. Yeah, it's that's it's fat. You still want you assume the Bears want to lose, and it almost seems like the Vikings wanted to starting Nathan peter Man. You can't make it more obvious than that. Well, do you think the Vikings want to lose just to avoid the chance of playing Green Bay because if they win, they'll get the two seed. If so, the nine is itself to lose? What to that is not losing to Atlanta? Sorry, Arizona

ain't happening. I don't think. Uh, Chicago's gonna get something like three first round picks for their one first round pick, a little bit like on you know, almost what they had to give up to get justin fields. But they'll get even more because this is the first pick of the draft Justin Fields came off the board or whatever, eight pick eight, So that'll be it'll be fascinating to

see how that plays out as well. And I haven't crunched the numbers a ton, But what do you I think there's a chance Lamar Jackson probably not a raven next year, or there's a chance. What it like? I feel like Houston most people think he's absolutely a raven. I think we on this show are more skeptical about whether or not he's going to be a raven. I think there's a small I think there's a I don't. I don't know if it's called a small chance. But the Tech since seems like they have a lot of

money to spend. I'm sure they do. If they could go get Lamar Jackson and then then they can first first round pick, that would set them up pretty nice, I think too so. But as Houston ready to win, I mean, you know, Lamar Jackson went out nothing to do with that. I don't think why would he want to be a part of that. Well, if you if you're getting they could you're getting a second and the first in the second for the next three years. Yeah,

maybe you can get you can. You can. You can get healthy in the NFL pretty fast, so maybe there'd be that, But uh, the other side of it. As I saw this go across my Twitter feed, am not gonna get the numbers exactly right as we as we wrap up the episode here, um under look, with Lamar Jackson starts, the Ravens are like a seven fifty win percentage in games without Lamar Jackson, there like a three hundred win percentage since he's been there. Dud dude equals

wins for that team. At the end of the day, Tyler Huntley is not. I was, Yeah, he looked better last year. I was really hoping he's been hurt played this week because he's hurt too. But uh so, yeah, I wouldn't go. I wouldn't play Tyler Huntley against the Bengals, even though that they have something to play for the Ravens. Miami needs to win and there their young quarterbacks. Thompson dude can play a bit. I liked it. We've seen We've gotten a decent look at him in two different games.

He's looked. He's pretty good. That's probably one of the primary stacks that would be going after even though it's the Jets. But the Jets are the Jets don't care at this. They don't like the Dolphins. That's a big rivalry. But uh, I wouldn't. I wouldn't wouldn't fear the Jets like I have in past weeks when it comes to the passing game. Go are the standards of interdivisional rivalries. It's Miami Jets really even on the on the scales

out of particularly big rivalry. My step dad when I was like twelve or thirteen, it was a quick story you Pat Kerwin, h My stepdad was friends with Pat. Talked to Pat Carowin asked him if he knows I won't say my stepdad's name on the air, But anyway,

he was. He was a front office He worked in the front office for the Jets and the Giant early nineties, and my stepdad was friends with him and he hooked him up and it wasn't a full time job, but on home games he would go and you know, these are the days when you take actual pictures of all the sequences, and he would so he would like run those up to the coordinator's box. Like before it was all on iPads, just random stuff. So he did it for phone, and I got to go to a ton

of Jets games. Never really was a Jets fan, but that was the heated rivalry. I was at the Fake Spike game and none that that was awesome. That was That's like the most famous, like named game. I've been to the Fake Spike game. But now the Jets and Patriots is bigger rivalry. Yeah, and Patriots Miami is a bigger rival because the Miami was the No matter how bad Miami was, they always played the Patriots hard, including the crazy Tony Sperrano led Wildcat Game, one of the

big big upsets of the Brady Belichick era. Growing up in New Jersey, the Jets and Giants. You know, this is pre red Zone this, you know, I'm talking nineties. So they would never play at the same time, so we would never We'd only get one game most Sundays, one in the early afternoon and late afternoon Jets are Giants. And I can't tell you how awful it was when it was Jets Bills. Yeah, and this is like like

after the Bills, like running gone. But yeah, that was after Thurman Thomas and Andre Reid and Kelly for the four Peak of losses mid to late nineties, brutal, brutal times. Thanks for listening, everybody. We are back every week of the season. You already got that figured out. I think

is this is our We're in our off season mode. Um. Next week we'll be breaking down all the playoff games fantasy style, talking about who we like and who we don't like and who you know how we think these games are gonna go and we're happy to chat with you throughout the remainder of the off season. Thanks everybody. Fantasy Football Weekly is a auction of I Heart Radio.

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