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some championships lost. Um. I like how you are predicting that you are going to win championships in two thousand and seventeen. We have multiple opportunities to do that. Whether it be that Bo Jackson, Dion Sanders, when we give you that baseball heat, whether it be when we give you that football heat for check it out, Rocks, whether it be in the first ever Fantasy Freestyle DFS tournament
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we still have President Obama moving forward though. You know what we need to also do is one of those cigars. Maybe should go uh in a way to stip our cap to someone who you know has been doing it in Fantasy full been doing it for years. I would say he's been doing it for years. This cat has been running around with some of the sounds from under
the ground. But suddenly now we uttered it loud in front of a crowd, So frounting is alloud because this guy, Steve Smith, he would punch you in the mouth, you know, I'm telling you. And this guy had only five nine Okay, what a hell of a career Rocks and Smith in the Fantasy Freestyle. Definitely want to tip our cap to Steve Smith. This guy, I think is a no brainer Hall of Famer, a thousand catches five time All Star guy was just like, had you know such determination, grit grind,
this guy would punch you. Also, when you consider his return yardage, um, you know, second maybe only to Tim Brown in terms of you know, production from the white out spot. When you consider returning as well, Yeah, man, I mean you look at the numbers and it's it's absolutely surprising. Steve Smith had a bunch of years that really jump out the page off the page when you look at his total career. But he was really a guy who year in and year out, people kept saying
he was going to decline, and he did not. He finishes an illustrous career that started with him being the third round pick out of Utah in two thousand and one. I repeat that two thousand and one blow well in career was sceptions in the NFL seventh in career receiving yards, and that's an attribute to his big play ability and as you just said, speeds seventh in career all purpose yards.
One of my defining moments of Steve Smith as a Saints fan was constantly watching Steve Smith running down the field catching bombs from quarterbacks ranging from Jake Delme to Cam Newton with no other Saint in the picture. It's been absolutely ridiculous, and he proved a lot of people wrong, finishing up his career with the Baltimore Ravens as a productive wide receiver in the latter half of his thirties.
Tip of the cap to see Smith to all your other defensive backs out there, but Ice up Son, Ice off Son. You know Steve Smith, he be getting down like that. And I mean when he was in the Carolina Patis referenced Shake Delme throwing him the ball. I mean that team went to the Super Bowl one year and he was a prime weapon. This guy, first second round draft pick, year in year out, would get you undred yards and he would get you in the end zone.
Big play ability from the wide receiver position. You'll check it out, though, Rocks. Another thing you missed when you were out in international waters was Black Monday. I know a couple of coaches that wish that they had Steve Smith or some kind of production like that from the outside, because maybe it would have saved them their jobs. There are currently six openings in the NFL, which is you know what I'm doing the math like almost a fifth of the league. I'm telling you, so I mean, you know,
I would wonder. You know, if you've been listening to the Fantasy Sports radio network, you're here. Species has been in statistician on shot callers, and earlier in the week, I kind of ranked the jobs that I thought were most desirable, and I gave some some reasons that people not may not be interested in or know about, like, for example, Rocks. I kind of think the San Francisco job is pretty good. Let me give you three reasons why. Okay.
One is that it is the only opening right now where the team is going to be hiring a head coach and a GM at the same time. For the for the head coach and the GM to be on the same page and come in without any kind of in one inheriting the other, I think is very very important. Is the covered pretty much? Bear? Yes? It is. Do I think there is talent? No, I do not. But what I did hear Jed York the owners say was that he wants to try to establish a new winning
culture and you know what that takes time. You know what else, they have had four head coaches in the last four years, and I don't think that's gonna happen. I think they are also in a division where you also have Los Angeles that is a basement kind of team, and uh, this is Speeds calling his shot. The Arizona Cardinals are primed for regression over the next two to
four years with an aging quarterback. I can see David Johnson being the only shining light there for years to come with it looks like Larry Fitzgerald is gonna be gone as well. I think this is a division where you can kind of spring up and uh, you're gonna have some time on the same page with the g M. I think that's kind of important one of these jobs
to her interest box. Well, I would say, you know, as you as you astutely pointed out, it's there is an entire new organization basically up in San Francisco, and if I'm coming in as either a coach or a g M, I really really like that. I will say though, that in Los Angeles, I'm not entirely sure that less Snead is necessarily going to stick around as the GM there. I know that is a very very high profile opportunity as well. I think a lot of coaches would be
interested in that. That said, I wouldn't be shocked to see people choosing the Denver job. You know, if you're one of these young guys that maybe had a chance and kind of fell flat like an Adam excuse me, like um, like a Josh McDaniels, you know I wouldn't be you know, you've been waiting. I don't know. I don't know. It may be hard for him going staying in the a f C with a competitive team, but that is a team that justusin. Dennis was already the
head coach of the Broncos in his career. He's not gonna go back there when he left the first time he became the Broncos head coach. I don't think they want to go back to that. Can not play with him, cannot win with him, cannot coach with him, can't do it right. Bad, my bad, my bad, my bad, bad, bad gentleman. I'll let you. I'll let you take that one. Here's the thing. I think Denver is gonna wind up going a bigger, a bigger splash than that. Okay, this
is a kind of win now team. I think you make a good point about being lucky to try to when you're an ascending coordinator or something like that. You have to be careful because you only get so many opportunities unless, of course, your last name is Ryan for some reason. But here's the reason I don't like the Denver job as much as many people that are out there that I've heard from. Um, you have expectations in Denver, Okay. As soon as you walk in, you are expected to
make the playoffs. You have a defense that is win now, but the window is slightly closing, and you have strong personalities there in John l A and guys like Von Miller. And here's the thing. When that defense has to win now, that's when you're supposedly developing either Accident Lent or Trevor Simeon. I'm not that excited about that. And the last point I'll say about that, with the expectations that you have
as Denver, you are in a very difficult division. The Kansas City Chiefs are solid team year and year out. The Oakland Raiders, many people believe, are in ascending team. And with young former m v P Chansigator until he got hurt car out there, they're gonna be there four years to come. I don't think it's an easy road to host similar how to like free agents, don't want to be in the like Western Conference when it's so
bad in the NBA. I think there's expectations, but you're set up so continue to be mediocre, especially with these two quarterbacks. Well what do you think maybe about the Kyle Shanahan. Yeah, I like given his father has given his list, there's relationship, given the fact that you know he's going to be treated with a little bit of respect, and also that the fans there are gonna see that last name and remember the good times. Yeah, I like
Kyle Shanahan a lot. When I did uh talk about candidates on Shock Caller's earlier on this week, Um, Kyle Shanahan was someone I had big faith in. I have big faith in this Atlanta offense. He's done it before everywhere he has been. This Atlanta offense is number one in the league. And I do think Kyle Shanahan is interested in Denver, and I think Denver is interested in him. I, however, placed Kyle Shanahan instead because maybe about like you said,
stepping out of Dad's shadow a little bit. You know, Shanahan obviously did have some time in Denver, but I was thinking that Shanahan was viable in one of two jobs where they might be looking for a quote unquote quarterback whisperer. And I think there are two jobs out there that also, to be quite honest, I think are better than most. When I did my rankings, they were
a number one and number two jobs. I think if he could go out to l A and actually develop Jared Goff, you have all the other pieces in place with Todd Darley in the running back a defense with guys like um all Pro, Aaron Donald Donald to the ogletree. You have a new market where that can attract free agents, you have some buzz, you have an owner that's building a new stadium that wants to keep it fill, and
we'll have resources behind you. And if you're the guy who thinks you can develop Jared Goff, I think it would be a good play. The other place where I think that is largely similar is in Jacksonville. Listen, the defense is getting better and better with guys like Millie Jackson, Fowler, Jalen Ramsey. You are also in an imminently winnable division as we have seen, and you know the Allen's on the outside piss. You are the guy that can fix Blake Bortles. Then you have an interesting you have an
interesting possibility, and he in a winnable division. The only thing I don't like about that job is you're gonna have to deal with that trip to London every year, which is a bit of a problem for me. Well, and another thing that I'll say to you there is that you know, it's kind of a damned if you do, damned if you don't, because you're dealing with a quarterback in uh, you know, in mortal service that's shown some NFL success, but who's also it seems like every other
year he's having his mechanics needing to be fixed. And at what point do you just get sick of that? I would also say, we're hearing that Doug Moron might get a look there, We're hearing that Tom Coughlin might even be brought back. I mean, does Jacksonville's owner or Shad Con, does he view them as as a project team or does he think that they're really close to being win now because of that week division? I don't know. I don't think that Week one now either. I think though,
he will give his next coach a little bit of leeway. Um, and you have you've bought time because you know you inherited Blake Bortles. Going back to my point before at the timeline, that's why that San Francisco job is pretty interesting to me. The last name I want to mention, the job that I actually ranked the least desirable um is the San Diego Chargers job. And here is why. Okay, it's been said in any sport, one of the hardest things to do as a manager or as a coach
is to deal with an aging superstar. That's what you have in the quarterback position in San Diego. Philip Rivers coming off a season where he led in the league in interceptions twenty one interceptions. He made it very public at the beginning of the year that he didn't know if he would want to ever move his family and is like twenty seven kids to Los Angeles. It seems like that's what the Chargers are always to be doing.
I don't know if Philip Rivers wants to inherit a new coach and a new scheme and all this stuff. I think Actually you mentioned Josh McDaniels, offensive coordinator of the New England Patriots. I'm actually hearing that the defensive coordinator of the New England Patriots. Matt Patricia has been granted permission to interview with San Diego, and I can see that as a possible thing. You mentioned the first
time defensive coordinator getting a job. When you don't have that much demand, you might have to take what you can get, and I think that might be the case here. But I don't like this job to charge is potentially moving to l A to be Little Brothers second class citizens in the Rams Stadium. In fact, just having alienated a fan base. With Philip Rivers having two years left, Max, I don't like this Chargers job, and I think the lunk of the litter in this case is Matt Patricia. Honestly, though,
I agree with you and Philip Rivers. Though let's not forget that he did lose his number one weapon this year. That defense did them absolutely no favors, and you know, Mike McCoy was pretty overwhelmed the last couple of seasons he did. You know, it's obviously not all on the head coach, but there are worse things to do than Inherit the twilight of Philip rivers career, and at least as the first year on the job for a young coach. I'd rather than twilight of Philip Rivers career than Jared
goss sophomore season. Absolutely. Uh. San Diego Chargers. Remember we talked about it with the Denver job. They are just out of leave, fourth out of four in that division and a tough road to hoo. You know who is not ever fourth? It is Rocks and Speeds, and we're gonna prove it in our DFS lineup. But when we come back, we're gonna give you a little sneak pee view of our DFS lineup. Maybe we shouldn't give them everything, Rocks, because then they know how to compete against us in
a tournament. We're also going to give them our breakdowns of all four wild card games where we come back, right, Rocks, We're going game by game. We're giving you Saturday, We're giving you Sunday. We're giving you those a f C games, giving those NFC games. We are with you on the march to the Super Bowl. Let's get uh Fantasy Freestyle, the Fantasy sports radio network that look, hello, you play to win the game? You don't play it, just play it? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
you know what it is. You know, we dropping statue over beats it's a fantasy freestyle on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Rocks and Speeds in the place to be if you want to get at us, who could always tweet at us at fantasy freestyle, but leave off that last because there are no errors in the fantasy freestyle. Hey, Rocks, we're gonna hit him off with all this wild card knowledge to give them. Also, you know, shout out to it's always sunny in Philadelphia. That started again, Charlie Kelly,
the ultimate wild card Rocks. You ready to get into these wild card games? Yeah? Man, Let's let's take it down south, baby, Let's take it down south. We're going to Houston, aren't we. We are going to see an Oakland Raider team traveling Oakland, Maryus who very well could have been the second seed. Unfortunately, that Derek Carr injury changes everything and now they're gonna be on the road playing a Houston Texan team. It's going to be Connor
Cook versus brock Ostwiler Speeds. Is that what you expect in terms of quarterback play in playoff matchup? No, absolutely not. It's funny. I wanted to say this is a matchup of two backup quarterbacks, but The sad part is that brock Oswiler has been that seventy two million dollar news around the Houston Texans all season long. He is a backup, but you know this is pretty bad quarterbacks, Like this is a rematch of that Mexico City Monday night football
game where there were lasers in brock Oswidler's face. I wonder if he has recovered from those. Here's the thing. I've been fading the Houston Texans all season long and I can't believe it, but I'm gonna have to pick them to win this game. I mean Connor Cook as the third string quarterback. He got absolutely zero reps with this offense all season long. Do you remember it was
actually mcgloyn who was the backup. Connor Cook is the first NFL quarterback in history to make zero starts in the regular season and then start a playoff game for his team. And I think they're gonna struggle to move the ball against the number one defense in the NFL, the Houston Texans only giving up three and ten yards a game. I struggle to see how the Oakland Raiders moved the ball here. And so let's brock Oswidler serves it up on a platter, which he is known to do.
I can't believe this, but I think the Texans are gonna win this game at home. Yeah, I mean, I agree with you. I will say that I thought Connor Cook was actually, before the draft one of the better quarterback prospects in the class. I felt like he was really victim of a savage, anonymous attack from NFL scouts, and part of me would really like to see Connor Cook prove all of the haters wrong on the road in his first career start. But the reality of it is that this is the NFL and that is a very,
very very tough road to travel. From a fantasy perspective, I'm really having a hard time looking at these fan duel prices and having, you know, selecting really anyone from this game I want to target. There are the two Oakland wide receivers and a price very very reasonably. But again, you talk about Connor Cook, I'm looking for Lamar Miller at on fan duel in this game. Oakland's defense has
not been very very good at all. You know, Houston is gonna want to play conservative heap brock Off Wilder from losing the game for them. And resting their laurels on that defense. I see this being another big workfload for Lamar Miller and I wouldn't be shocked if he got a rare for him rushing touchdown in this one. I would keep Lamar Miller at in mind. And what is a very very weak group of running backs this week on Van Duel, Non tell Rocks, I understand what
you're saying out there, and I agree with you. I'm fading the Oakland side of this game. I want no part of receivers crab Street and Cooper in this matchup. Also, you know, Rocks, I've been talking about it on Fantasy Freestyle and on Shot Follers on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network all season long, at this Oakland backfield and how like it's been a committee. It has not been Latavia's Murray. And you've seen even recently apparently Washington is back in
the fold. They're going three headed again. So it's very hard to pick, you know, if you think you could pick the right one who gets in the end zone or pops off, whether it be Jay la Chard or Washington or Murray more or to you, I'm going away from it the I am I do however, rocks in that lineup where I'm competing against the fantasy freestyle listeners. I had to Houston Texans in that lineup, but they might not be the ones you think we got. The dork.
The first one is, uh, the Houston Texans defense. I have the Texans defense. We can talk there about a third string quarterback. They're the second highest defense on the Lord at forty hundred. But I like Ja, Dave and Pliny and the number one defense going at home, going against the third string quarterback, the second one, go ahead, rock you. Houston really showed something this year without J. J. Watt. Yeah,
the J Watt all world. But you know, tip of the cap to the Houston defense for not folding when a lot of people thought they would when J. J. Watt was lost for the season. I'm sorry to interrupt. You keep who's that second guy? Now? We're gonna keep the second guy's secret, I guess because I don't want people finding this. I really like display um within the Houston game. Maybe it's your boyd Lamar Miller. Maybe it's someone you don't even know about, you know, maybe you know,
we'll talk about that. Keep it moving though, Let's go to that next game, we have the Detroit Lions. They go up to the Pacific Northwest, and let me tell you something, this Seattle team has kind of stumbled to the end. Okay, you know, Earl Thomas. That's a big injury for the legion of boom they have. The Seattle defense has been giving up twenty four points a game since that injury, very different than the sixteen or seventeen
they were giving up before that. And the other thing that's really a problem in my opinion with Seattle is this run game. This run game is an absolute nightmare for the Seattle Sea box. Thomas Rawls has not impressed in three yards and carry. It is not doing well, you know, like actually even less than one of his games eight carries for eight yards. They're bringing in Alex Collins and whatnot. I will say this, Um, I do think this is gonna be a little bit higher scoring game.
Then you think I like the over on this one. The total is fourty three in this game. I can easily see both teams in the mid to upper twenties. I can see this being a twin kind of game. And that is also why I think it's a close game. And uh, the eight point spread is too much for me. Rocks, Seattle is giving up eight points at home. If you realize Detroit is in every game, they play all the fourth quarter comebacks, and honestly, Seattle, especially with this running game,
is not blowing anybody out. They even lost at home to Arizona recently. I think, um, I think Seattle get to win, but I'd go again, I'd go Lions against the spread here. That's my take on the overall game. You started what some of the kids in Speeds versus the kids had to say about this game. You've got speeds and spitting statistician picking against kids nine years or old or younger. We got a couple of interesting experts. We're gonna see how they do. Rocks. Throw your hat
in the ring. Were you like in this game? You know, I think that it's been a nice run for the Detroit Lions and that Jim Bob Cooder offense. They've really done some interesting things this season. That said, I haven't liked the way that Matt Stafford played down the stretch sce he's hurt that finger. You know, losing Theo Riddick
has really been bad for their overall balance. On offense, They've had to change things up a bit, and I find that, you know, while I don't think Seattle is nearly as complete as they have been in years past, the running game is a complete concern. It would probably be nice to have Marshawn Lynch on the roster right now. Losing Earl Thomas is a big deal, but this is a defense that still has four guys going to the Pro Bowl and they still have Russell Wilson at quarterback
who's never lost a game. I think Seattle is gonna win this game fairly handily. I really don't think Detroit is going to be able to do much against them on offense. However, again talking about that dearth of good running back options this week, in Fanue, I really do like him this week. He played something of the snaps
last week. He excelled in a multi down role, and that allows that allows Detroit to kind of change up from what they were doing in the middle part of the season, which was playing slow to keep that offense, keep keep their defense, which is a big liability off the field. That defense has gotten a lot better and their offense has shown the ability to actually move quickly. They if you watch them against the Green Bay Packers. They were really really moving the ball and they were
doing it with pace. If Zack Zentner stays on the field, He's shown the ability to pick up yards after contact. He's a complete asset in the receiving game. And I think that they don't really have another running back on their roster right now that they trust and in the playoffs where game flow is such an important thing, He's someone who's proven that he really has established a high floor in the last couple of weeks. I like him a lot at st combine with Lamar Miller as a
high touch floor option at the running back position. That said, uh, Jimmy Graham, Jimmy Graham back in the playoffs, Jimmy Graham healthy. What do you think he's the most expensive option this week at the tight end position at sixty six hundred. Is he someone who might be in play for you? You You fading him this week? I am not on Jimmy Graham this week. He's the most expensive option at the
tight end position. I think I could do better value for that, but uh, we'll leave that for a later conversation. This couple of lions that I wanted to discuss with you because I think they're you know, I like the Zack Center. I like the Zack Center. Call at sixty two hundred two things. Uh here and a lot of people are talking about Zack Center this week. Michael Bennett is talking about Zack Zenter. Here what he said. But they are who we thought they were. Not I didn't
hear what he said. Michael Bennett, you know, always outspoken, both of these a lot of things. He does, both the Bennetts, Bennetts in the playoffs, both the Benett brothers say a lot of things. Um, he called Zack Center the best Caucasian running back in the NFL right now. I'm reminded of Peyton Hillis, who even graced the Madden cover at one point. But Michael Bennett saying, yeah, you know, really respecting the work he did out in the D two college that he was going over two thousand yards.
See he's in three of his four years in college, said that he is the best white running back in the NFL right now. But they are who we thought they were. Got about the hook. You also heard my man Jim Bob Cooder talk about that. Um, he can see zat Center in a multi down role, like he said, and that they can get that pace afterwards. So that's an endorsement on both from your team and your opponent.
At the one other guy on Detroit though, Listen, you know about the Legion of Boom, and you know about how they you know how they can cover the receivers. I'm not trying to go Eric Ebron either, but some of do they employ similarly to a tight end that they look to on third down, that they look to in the red zone. And it's only forty eight hundred this week on the fan, do well. I like an Kwan Bolden. Okay, you're not gonna have Richard Sherman traveling
around to cover an Kwan Bolden. They're gonna try and shut down your boy Golden Tate. It's gonna be An Kwan Bolden in key situations getting the third in thirteen. He's gonna be the one person on the Detroit Lions who was equipped to be physical with the Seattle Seahawks, and at only forty eight hundred, I like him a lot, you said, Jimmy Graham. Part of the reason I'm not playing Jimmy Graham because because I went elsewhere at D I am going with Doug Baldwin in my DFS lineup.
I think, um, Doug Baldwin. You know listened when you play DFS, you know sometimes you need to pop off to win weeks, and Doug Baldwin does that from time to time. With Russell Wilson, Big plays multiple touchdowns and against I think against the Detroit secondary that can be had. And like I said, a game that I picked the over over the total of forty three. I like Doug Baldwin,
and I gotta tell you the truth there, Rocks. I know you have a love hate relationship with this dude, but there's only eight quarterbacks this weekend and at seventy seven hundred. I like Russell Wilson as well. That's a stack for you from SPEECI spentance that astician, Russell Wilson and Doug Baldwin. That is my speed stack. You know, the most expensive option is Aaron Rodgers going against that incredible UM Giants defense lately, Big Ben is your second
most expensive option. I happen to pay up instead for Levy on Bell. I like Russell Wilson in this game as well. Like I said, a game that I think is going to go over Yeah, and just one thing, you know, all of those are very very reasonable takes. One thing I also say is I could not agree with you more about an Kwon Bolden his price and also a Quan Bolden is someone that you know the moment is not going to be too big for on a Detroit Lions team, were very very few people have
playoff experience. Rocks and Speeds. When we give it to you, what we agree that is what you need to win your league and win that cash. Take it to the bank. He would take it to the bank. We go to Sunday. Rocks first game on Sunday is Miami coming up north in January to take on the Pittsburgh Steelers at home. This is his biggest line on the board. The Steelers are ten point home favorites. There's been a lot of double digit action so far. Um you know in this
NFL season. I checked my lines with that with that app Sports Action. It's a great app. If you remember that, you get the lines, you can see what the public is saying, and they're saying it's a ten point spread for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Big Bend Lady on bell An Tonio Brown and Home a lot of fantasy and goodness
there right Rocks. Yeah, man, Hannah, there were two things that I've been watching pretty carefully in missing game as I decide whether I'm going to pay up eighty five d upper Van Roethlisberger on the fan duel is, uh, how is Ladarius Green doing? He was in the dark room.
He's practiced in full the last couple of days. It looks like he's trending towards starting, which is great news for him because he's really been the seam stretcher, the difference maker that we expected him to be going into the season before he was forced to miss it under closed reasons. We're still not sure that was an ankle or a concussion. I would say it's trending works looking like it was a concussion or both. Also, Sammy Coats is looking like he may be back in the lineup
for this one. Hopefully those broken hands or whatever he had going on has been cured. Giving the offense another dimension and not forcing not forcing them to rely on the likes of people like Eli Rodgers and Darius Hayward bay across from Antonio Brown, big Ben is at home. We've talked about this all season long. He's been money
in the bank at home. I don't really see Miami necessarily putting up a ton of points on Pittsburgh, but the Pittsburgh defense has been susceptible Um, And I just think Big Fan is going to be a really great play if he has all of his weapons healthy. And I think that they are going to want to make sure that they're in the best position possible for the next game that they're playing, because I don't think they
should have any trouble. What'stoever the Miami Dolphins team that's starting Matt Moore at quarterback for sure, for sure, for sure. I agree with you. I think Pittsburgh when is this one going away? Which is actually one reason why I would stay away from Ben Um. I think they're gonna be able to park the bus a little bit in the second half and get late Jean Bell a ton of touches. I see something like twenty four to ten
in the second half a Rocks. You want to make a gentleman's bet about Big Ben, it seems like you're high and Big Ben. I will say that Big Ben is not one of the top four quarterbacks in this week, not one of the top four scoring quarterbacks. Yeah, I realized I should have said three, but okay, I'll say I'll take it. I think Big Ben will finish as a QB four or above in this week of of
Daily Fantasy. I also think that I agree what you're saying about possibly getting the foot off the taking the foot off the gas a bit, But I think that's a Miami secondary that's been exploited through the year, and they could do so much early in the game. Antonio Brown, big play threat. I could see it happening even just in the first half. So I'll take that. Gentleman's bet. Speeds and two thousand and seventeen were fading this Miami
side nowhere. That's actually no Miami Dolphins in my fantasy line. I'm moving on to the last game of the weekend. We have the New York Football Giants going up to landbou Field, which is probably frozen by now and actually the site of you know, a rematch of games that you know, go back in Giants. Lord, you remember Tom Coughlin and the Rosy cheeks um. You remember, you know, Eli Man named twice having to go through Lambeau in
a Giant Super Bowl runs. Do you think the Giants are a team that are looking like teams of yore that have made this kind of run. You think he like steps his game up in the playoffs like he actually has done before. How do you see this game going rocks? Well, you know, there's a big difference in temperature between Miami, where a lot of the Giants wide
receivers have been this week, and in green Bay. And I found it pretty amusing the media coverage the the old man waving the finger, Get off my lawn, Get off my lawn. And I would not be shocked if Eli Manning and Odell Beckham came out there and absolutely shocked the green Bay Packers. Green Bay has been a team on the clear ascension. Aaron Rodgers said, to relax, the team relaxed. They ran the table and they've had
a nice run of it. However, that's a team that to me has still looked a little bit vulnerable through the air. You know that Green Bay has been shutting down running games. One of the things we've talked about all season speeds is when the defensive strength goes with some of the offense isn't necessarily trying to do The Giants running game has basically been stuck in neutral or worse all year. You've seen Paul Perkins getting more snaps,
so I think it's going to be a committee. He's a lot more effective on a big play basis, and Rashia Jennings has been through the air, and I would not be surprised to see Eli Manning go into Lambeau in the freezing cold, add to his hate to say it, but add to his Hall of Fame resume and pull off that upset. And if he does, old man Odell Beckham will be worth the eight nine hundred that Fan
Dwell is charging for his services this week. Yeah, absolutely, oldl Becum at eight hundred, you know you pretty much gotta get him in those lineups of Green Bay Packers that even more banged up in the secondary in their season finale having safeties play slot corner, So you gotta think Odell is ripe to be able to take one of those seventh ten yards slants to the house. I like, also what you're talking about, fault Parkins. Faull Parkins only at looks like the more explosive back that the Giants
have to end through the whole. One thing I will say on the Green Bay side of the thing. You know about all the weapons, right, but do you know who Aaron Rodgers himself credits their ability to, like you say, run the table. They actually say that the difference has been the return of the health of their tight end.
Jared cooked. Jared Cooked at only fifty two hundred in a game where if you remember, one of the strengths of the Giants defense recently has been the fact that they have three good cover corners to maybe be able to handle these weapons like Adams or Nelson on the outside in a game where I'm guessing it's probably gonna be pretty cold, you might want to see what they
could do over the middle. Despite all pro Langdon Collins being there at safety, the Giants have been notoriously bad her guns defending the tight end and Jared Cooking building chemistry with Aaron Rodgers. So that is an interesting play in that game. There you have it, Rocks. Those are the wild card weekends. We've given people a little bit of taste of our dfs as well. We're not going
to give them all the secrets because we're competing against them. Remember, you could check out Fantasy Freestyle on Twitter, give us a follow. You'll see the link to join that hopefully, yo, but go right now because it's gonna fill up pretty quick. If it does fill up and there's more demand, will open up a bigger one for divisional weekend. I guess right, Rocks, I mean the more than merry best weekend in sports, the best weekend in sports. Yeah, we'll definitely do that.
So when we come back, we're gonna be giving our flagship segment, but we're gonna be doing a little bit different. It's gonna be like a season long edition Rocks game Flow, Genus Diamonds and Fantasy fool Gazes forget about it, right, the superlatives, yo, And this has been the official Fantasy
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Rocks and Speeds back at it again. But we've been doing if you've been listening to the network, is you know we give you our diamonds in the rough, Well, give you our game flow geniuses, and then we hear at the fantasy freestyle. We give you our fantasy few days is get about the best, right. So what we're gonna do now that the season, we're not gonna give you one for just a week. We're gonna look take
this opportunity to look back. We're gonna go position by position and give you not what's hot in the streets. We do that in baseball. We're gonna give you our season long edition. This episode we're focusing in on the running backs and rocks. Let's give him first of all your diamonds. Who are your running back diamonds? You know? And these are people that probably could have won you your league and one you that cash. Who are you
running back diamonds for the NFL season two thousand and sixteen? Yeah, man, the first, the first one I've got is Melvin Gordon. Melvin Gordon, this is a player who is coming off micro fracture surgery, who showed absolutely nothing in his rookie year, he did not even score a touchdown. Despite basically missing the last four games of the season, Melvin Gordon was
the RB seven in PPR Leasus. He totaled three yards shy of a thousand on the ground with ten touchdowns forty one catches four twenty yards two more touchdowns through the air twelve is infinity times more than zero, and those touchdowns were a big difference that made Melvin Gordon a fantasy factor this year. In lineups he was better in every way, but obviously the big thing for him was Danny Woodhead going down, which allowed him to play a much bigger role and earned the trust of Philip
Rivers and the Chargers coaching staff. He's got his career on the right track and he's almost definitely going to be drafted as an RB one in drafts in two thousand seventeen. My second diamond in the rough the running back position is someone at the complete other side of the spectrum. Old Man Frank or Frank Gore, was actually forty three years old when the season started. He rumbled and stumbled and bumbled his way to the twelfth overall
finished among running backskin PPR League. We thought this was going to happen for two reasons, because the Cults were gonna be so much better on offense and also because Frank or had no competition for touches. Well, guess what. The Cults were not who we thought they were this year. There was a lot of problems. That line was pretty garbage all season, but Frank Gore, for however, showed he
had a very very very high floor. The ceiling was not necessarily there, but what Frank Gore was able to do was add enough production in the passing game and scored four touchdowns receiving to make up for Robert Turbin coming in there and stealing those goal line carries from him late in the season. Frank Gore was a guy you were able to get at an RB two price, who is a solid fringe RB one for you all season who made sure that your team had that nice,
solid floor. He was a guy both of us talked up as a value going into drafts this season, and that's why he was a diamond and the rough for me? Who do you got at the diamonds as far as the position and goals? For sure? Yo, You love Frank Gore for so long and he once again turns in a thousand yards. He's in one of only twelve backs in the NFL to do so, so likely to do
it over there, I look at my diamonds. I look at guys that, you know, we had to look a little bit deeper, guys that were not necessarily drafted at all, and that would be the case in many leagues. For Jordan Howard Chicago Bears, this is a guy who you know, was not the starting running back at the beginning of the season, was on waiver wires, and finished the league years second in the NFL and rushing thirteen hundred and
thirteen yards. People were talking about Jeremy Langford before the season, So I think if you look deeper and you found the rookie out of Indiana, Jordan Howard, it did you very well. And then similarly, do you remember week one, this guy was not even um allowed to board the team plane, and now he went all the way up to twelve hundred and seventy two rushing yards fourth in the NFL. JI he definitely won you some weeks. He went not one, not too but three different two hundred
yard games of them against the Buffalo Bills. That will get you your head coach fired My two diamonds of the rough J G. I. E And Jordan Howard at the running back position. I think those are candidates for the fantasy nut relative to where they were drafted. Hey, routes, we go to the game flow genius because there's a lot of running backs out there. You know, it all
depends on what their team likes to do. We've talked about exotic smashed mouth, and we know the rise, especially in VPR leagues of third down back pass catching backs. A lot of them got earth this year, but still the weapons they can be in PPR leagues. What running backs you want to focus in a game flow kind of way for the last season, I laugh at PPR
backs for this. My game flow genius is Legarrett One, who had all of seven catches for thirty eight yards and still finished as a ninth overall running back in PPR leagues. Eighteen touchdowns along with eleven hundred sixty yards on the ground will do that for you. Nobody really saw this coming, but he was completely consistent. Nine touchdowns in the first eight games, nine type downs over the last eight games. His two carries were second most in the league to Zeke Ellie and the most buy a
New England back since two thousand four. He saw two hundred eighteen of those carries and saw twelve of those touchdowns while New England was ahead and scored eleven touchdowns
in the second half. This was a guy speeds and I spotlighted all season long as a game flow genius when New England was more than a touchdown favorite at home, which happens kind of often when your team winds up fourteen into so La Garrett once for me was a game flow genius and just for just for laughs, he added in three runs of forty yards or more, which was tied for the most in the league. My second game flow genius I'm going a little bit of a
different direction here is mark Ingram. Mark Ingram had a complete up and down year, but he wound up as the RB seven overall playing for the Saints number one offense. However, his role wasn't consistent. He split carries with Tim high Tower basically sixty forty, and he watched high Tower, John Coon and Drew Brees total ten rushing school words while he only had six. However, playing for the number one overall offense as its advantages and through the seven games
the Saints one, he was completely spectacular. I'm talking a hundred yards of game average of one touchdown and two catches for a total of eighteen Fantasy points of games. That's more than five and a half more than he had in the Saints losses. While the Saints were a little bit tough to predict this season, if you were able to tell when they would win a game, you would be able to tell when the game flow would
go mark Ingram's way. And he's going to be an interesting player to watch next season, particularly after his first thousand yards season in an offense with playmakers and it looks like Drew Brees is coming back. Who do you got on that game flow side of things? I'm telling you man, you know they they they did it all season long. Exotic smash mouths, you know, and at first it was almost a joke between us. Ross was walking
this exotics, you're member a photo us. We gave the listeners on the fantasy freestyle we leave them over unders in uh, you know, early on in the year season long, early over unders, and we hit three out of the four the ones that we gave, you know, win that cash where you mail it off to Vegas. Another one that I strongly, strongly considered was the Tennessee Titans were five and a half win season total one, and I thought they were gonna go over. I really like Marcus
Mariota to take a step. But they have an identity which is something that a lot of teams do not have. And you know some of the teams that are really doing great, they are also doing exotic smash mouth. You got the Oakland Raiders are really doing it behind that offensive line. The Dallas Cowboys, we've heard about their offensive line. The Tennessee Titans are doing the same thing. And I think it was a great game flow for DeMarco Murray.
DeMarco Murray finished third in the NFL twelve hundred and eighty seven yards. I also want to tip my cap to him because he was battling turf toe for a good chunk in the middle of the season, and this is something that they wanted Derrick Henry to kind of assume more and more of responsibility as the season went along. But then Derrick Henry got hurt and DeMarco Murray continued to play that exotic smash mouth role all season long. So my number one game flow genius is to Marco
Murray at the running back position. The only other one I'll give you is Philadelphia. He gives Darren Scrolls down. Scrolls is a guy who you think he's just that pass catching back, but he added to his repertoire in two thousand and sixteen. This is a guy who carried the ball in between the tackle and in this game that is a war of attrition. We're running backs started getting lost left and right. There was still tiny Darren getting in all the tiny touchdowns, and so Sweez has
been statistician. Has to tip my cap to Darren sproles as well as to Marco Murray his game flow geniuses blocks. I know you want to be all positive because it's a new year, if you want to be all happy, but we gotta give a full gaze. He's got to look back one more time at running backs that maybe if you looked a little bit deeper when you were doing your draft prep, you would have seen that this was not the season for Themszy looked as very notable
gaz who was forget about it. The first guy I'm gonna start with is someone who tipped my cap to you Speeds, you did see Jamal Charles started the season with some injury concerns. He would supposedly full go and practice. However, he was not seeing the field early in the preseason, and a lot of people thought they'd be able to sneak him in at the price of a low, low ranked RB one, someone who had RB one high end
upside still week winning upside. That was not the case, but Charles wasn't even activated until Week four, and he only saw fourteen touches over the three games he played this season. While in Jamal Charles fashion, he did turn them into thirteen fantasy points, that was not useful for you. He did not actually go on i R and have his surgery until after the seventh week of the season,
meing that was dead weight on your roster. And while it's unfair to bland fantasy owners for unforeseen injuries, if you read the tea leaves as my man Speeds did correctly, you could see this one coming. And as the result of people who spent on Jamal Charles wound up shaking their heads and saying fool gaze as they watched Spencer where put a hold on that backfield? My second fool gaze is someone that I didn't see come in. I
don't think you saw come in speeds. Lamar Miller. Lamar Miller was drafted in the first round and a lot of leagues, particularly in PPR League Speeds. I think both you and I had him as our RB three or four going into the season seven. He might be a he might be a dark horse for RB one. However, as you said, rock Oswiler, that entire Texans offense was
a Joel but he also looked less explosive. He gained some weight, and even though he missed the first two games of the season, he only wound up as the RB nineteen. He was supposed to be a big play guy. He was supposed to be playing on an offense that would move the ball that was lacking. He was only an RB two because of that huge workload. He barely saw any carries in the red zone. He only scored
five touchdowns on the ground. If you drafted Lamar Miller in the first or second round and you still won your league, hit me up on Twitter at Fantasy Freestyle, no eat, I want to hear about how you did that. Forget about just forget about him. I got two more running backs to forget about one. Sad to say, and Rocks and I sometimes we reference our home league. It's a dynasty's league, it's a keeper league. I was very
excited that I was keeping this guy at value. I thought he was a replacement for deast Mode and that he was going to do work and provide the Seattle Seahawks with that rushing game that they had had. And he years passed in order to be a Super Bowl contender. But Thomas Rawls is my season long fool, Gazzy, forget about him. Listen. People are hyping him up. He was a top ten or fifteen running back at in draft boards going into the season. He gets right away again.
They think it's supposed to be a three week injury. It turns out to be an eight or nine week injury. Then he finally comes back. It's all set up, Christine Michael, they ship him out. C J. Procise looked great but then got injured. So the backfield was going to be all roles. What does he do? Like you said earlier in the show, Rocks averaging like one school yard to carry for the Seattle Seahawks. That is not going to
get getting done. Very disappointing year for Thomas lou Rawls in the deep voice forget about it, but the last Rue Rocks and I had to save this one for last, because this is quite frankly, the absolute worst fool gaysy of them all. I've been talking about this all year. I even coined new phrases about putting fifty three men in the box, largely because I said that's how I would play this guy. He's been a fool gays before me.
Multiple weeks of the season. He was the number one overall draft pick for some of you out there, Rocks and Speech told you not to do it. Some of you did it anyway. But Todd Gurley fool gayzy Todd Todd Gurley five yards rushing this year. That is below Isaiah Crowell. Okay, that is below you know guys like Spencer Ware. But here's the worst part. Todd Gurley three point two yards to carry. He got the ball two hundred and seventy eight yards. There is not a running
back in the top um. I gotta go all the way down to literally the running back in the NFL to find someone who had a worst yards per carry than Todd Gurley. I said it all year. That's a shot called by Speeds, the spitting statistician Todd Gurley, Fantasy fool gaysy forget about him, and you know the problem, it's not going to get that much different next year and early pick. I think David Johnson might join him in an offense that might look very similar next year.
There you have it, your Rocks first episode of the
new year. How you feel? I feel pretty good, man, and I just hope that our listeners enjoy, appreciate, and ununderstand that every second of playoff football is extremely important because we're gonna get into those dark days just the off season, but we'll be rocking with them through the rest of the playoffs, through the Super Bowl, and then we're gonna be giving them that Dion Sanders vo Jackson switching over to fantasy baseball because those boys of Summer
are coming before you know it, aren't they. Speeds absolutely don't forget that. You can check for us on Twitter Fantasy Freestyle leave off the last We're gonna have that DFS lineup going for wild card weekends. See if you can compete against Rocks and Speeds. We got money on the line. We'll be back next week Divisional weekend. We'll be holding you down. I'm giving you more insight to
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