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Y'all are still in the playoffs. Okay, I don't want to see any drop off from the cipher in terms of who's watching, in terms of the like smashed at like button, and in terms of the viewers and the followers because all of y'all made the playoffs, so there's no need to uh leave me just yeah, we got a couple more weeks, so we gotta win that cash. As usual, here's what we're gonna do. Thank you, by the way, Jeremy already telling me the best of the
Fantasy Network. I appreciate that, brother Man, Happy three fifty to the entire Stats over Beat Cipher because, as you know, you guys make the show, whether it's live on YouTube with YouTube chat, whether it's on the radio, whether it's as a podcast, whether it's hollering in on Twitter, on Patreon, or giving me a call later on in the show. It's the status over beat cipher that makes this pop three hundred and fifty times over all. Right, what we're
gonna do is we gonna do news and notes. We're gonna do what speeds got right, what speeds got wrong. I'm gonna give you waivers four week fourteen along with a note and by the way, shout out to my man Kenny Cash on road. Awear my note for waivers this week. I bench better than your starters. I'm gonna tell you exactly what that means a little bit later on in the show. Well, answer your questions from the YouTube chat. So if you got a question, put it
on up. I know the cipher continues to help each other out, but I'll answer the top ones there. And then later on in our third segment, we put the fun and functional sports Radio. If you're a real deal true blue stats over beach, you know what I'm gonna whip out. Just like last year, we have some cipher traditions and we're gonna have some fun while we do that. I let's go on into it because I know y'all are still playing because y'all are in your playoffs. So
let's get it all right. First of all, um, James Conner got banged up on Sunday Night Football. Okay, they're calling it now potentially you know, an ankle, maybe a high ankle spring. He has been ruled out four week fourteen. Okay, you guys need to run, not walk. Run to the waiver whire and grab Jalen Samuel's Okay, he is going to be the fill in, and I'm gonna tell you why in the next segment. Lad of y'all probably already know.
I'm gonna tell you why. He has a lot offers you a lot of flexibility in your playoff week, so we're gonna get into that. Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Christian Kirk has been sent to i R since we last spoke. Okay, this was kind of one of those rookies who I thought was ascending. You could have kind of put in a streaming sense, he's gonna be done. I actually think this is a boost for David Johnson and a boost
for Larry Fitzgerald. So Larry Fitzgerald, in my opinion, may now move from on your bench into kind of flex or wide receiver three territory because there's no Christian Kirk anymore. Matt Brita has been ruled out four week fourteen. I know what you're asking each other. You're asking yourself, what about this kid that came in? What about Jeff Wilson for the San Francisco forty nine is I'm gonna have my answer on that one in our next segment when
we talk waivers. I'm gonna tell you right now. Though they didn't have Alfred Morris active last week, all right, and I think that's a very big difference. Okay, So don't come on in thinking Wilson is gonna have all of a sudden be a lead dog or gonna be a um like a workhorse. That ain't gonna happen, all right, Just to just to let you know, A J. Green had season ending surgery. If you are stats over beat Cipher, you know about the spitting statistician. I was saying this
for weeks. I was saying, why rely on a J. Green? They shouldn't bring him back. I said, if you are a fantasy owner, I was skeptical the same way I was skeptical about Dalvin Cook. Davante Freeman, Jay and others who wind up not finishing the season. I said, this is a bad look, and what do you know, he is now done. I actually don't think this boost anybody, Okay, because Tyler Boyd has already been toiling as a receiver without a j Green to help him. There's already been
no Andy Dalton. I think it's a sad state of affairs in Cincinnati. On the Thursday Show, when I'm giving you defenses to stream, I'm probably gonna give you whoever the Cincinnati Bengals are playing. Okay, um, I believe it is it? Is it the Chargers? I gotta check that it might be the Chargers And if it is, yeah, buddy, we like some of those guys, the Josh Jackson's of the world and things like that. The Bills, this is news from today. The Bills have cut Kelvin Benjamin. I
think this is a move that is long overdue. Benjamin showed himself to not be a hard worker, not trying to build chemistry with young quarterback Josh Allen. But here's the deal I'm gonna tell you right now. I've had a number of questions on social media about Za Jones chill. You can go ahead and have Z Jones. I want no part of A Jones. I know he's now the number one in Buffalo. I know the last time he played the Jets, who are their matchup this week, he
toasted them. I want no part of this. I've been telling you about Josh Allen similar to like Lamar Jackson, and the strength is in that run game, right, or even his rushing potential. I want no part of the Bill's offense. If you need to, if you're in a desperate situation, I will remind you this. Your bench probably better than their starters. Will get into that a little bit later on. Also other quick news and notes. You know, Houston did activate Deontay Foreman, but it looks like they're
gonna slow play him. It looks like he's not gonna actually be any value behind Lamar Miller. He's a guy that I was interested in. Doesn't look like he's getting up to speed quick enough for you in the fantasy playoffs, all right? Also the big stories, Right since we last spoke, the Kareem hunt stuff went down. I put it on social media. You saw my post um. I think it's right that he's done. I think it's right that he didn't go claimed. Um, do we really need to talk
much about this? You know my story about this. You know the way I feel about this, you know the way I feel that the NFL is incredibly inconsistent. And listen, if Washington claimed Ruben Foster off waivers after his domestic violence history, Kareem Hunt is going to have a job in the NFL. It's not gonna be this year, but
it will be next year. And uh, you know, treat that the way you want if you want to have ethics or morals on your team and don't draft them, but then don't draft Joe Mixon or Adrian Peterson or a number of other players either. All right, Um, for fantasy purposes, this is going to be spencer Ware, and this is gonna be my guy, the Shark, NATO Shark, Kendrick West along Wood Williams as part of a committee
behind spencer Ware. But yes, I do believe spencer Ware is going to have the Lion share the carries, And yes, I believe spencer Ware in my opinion, he is an RB two moving forward, Okay, And I like those Chiefs matchups. You want a piece of the Chiefs offense. I understand that if you need him as an RB two, I think he is a perfect answer for that. The other big thing that happened as a result of the games on Sunday is the Packers have moved on from Mike McCarthy.
All Right, the Packers. You know, they defecate the mattress. Home dogs by the way, UM a lot of home dogs this week. We'll get into that, UM double digit dogs as well. Packers will go ahead and defecate the mattress. And they called Mike McCarthy into the principal's office and dropped the hammer on him. So on one side, I think it was a move that needed to be made. I think the message got stale. There was clearly some interesting dynamics there with Aaron Rodgers, that sort of thing.
But I don't think he deserved getting fired mid season. He won a Super Bowl. There's a street named after the man in Green Bay. You don't think he could have gotten the same respect that Tom Coughlin got with the Giants, the same respect that Andy Reid got with the Eagles. What are they gonna do be first market to to what to grab who exactly? You know what
I mean? So While I think it was a move that needed to be made, this guy thinks that they played it wrong and they should have been a little bit more respective, especially as they're a blue chip kind of franchise, a storied franchise. I think they at least should have not done it in season. But I digress. I don't think it actually changes anything for the Packers. Where we've learned this season is that the Packers are Aaron Rodgers, Davante Adams, a little bit of Aaron Jones.
And that's about it. And that's not gonna be enough for that to carry them, right. They lost their out of the playoffs. But for fantasy purposes, you know, there's Davante Adams, there's Aaron Jones, and I guess there's Aaron Rodgers, right if you if you have them starting them. But that's about it. I want no part of markets valves scantling anymore. Jimmy Graham has defecated the mattress left and right.
I don't want Jamal Williams, you know, so outside of that, you know where your bread is buttered when it comes to the Packers. All right, let's talk about Week thirteen where I was lucky, where I got it right. I'm telling you already. Listen. A. J. Green I mentioned this. I I mentioned the same thing about Greg Olsen. I mentioned the same thing about Rob Gronkowski. Okay. And if you're gonna trust these guys that are banged up, I gotta bridge to sell you. Okay. I don't want any
part of this. I'm right now. Yeah, Rob Gronkowski, if you start, if you have them, you gotta start them. But you can't expect what you once did. And you need to take an eye on that. Okay. I think also the Pats are starting to evolve. I think they're starting to evolved to start using their running game a little bit more. They see that the way to beat these high flying offenses the Chiefs and Rams the Saints
is to keep that offense off the field. And that's in similar to what the Detroit Lions all the way back in Week two or three did to the Patriots. The Patriots are now toying with that as an option. Uh Sony Michelle on the ground, Rex birkehead on the ground, okay, even Cordurell Patterson on the ground. I think they're gonna be running the ball a little bit more because we've seen Tom Brady can't carry them on his right arm anymore. Okay, so guys like A J. Green, Greg Olsen, Rob Gronkowski
Gronk went three for twenty six. That's not what you're looking for at your second round pick, all right, And I was on that. There's another thing I was on. I don't know how many times I told you I was on this, not only last week, but the week before. For weeks. I have been telling you, guys, we are at the point of your season where you're wide out five, you're running back six, your backup tight end is irrelevant. What you needed to do with those roster spots. I
was ahead of this. I told you it's what Speed's got, right, you needed to get the big time handcuffs I by name, by name. I mentioned Spencer Ware as someone to go grab by name. I mentioned Jalen Samuel's as someone to go grab as a handcuff by name, I mentioned Rex Burkhead. If you're a big time Giants fan owned Sa Kwan, you may have also saw he missed a couple of plays as well, putting a lump collectively in the throat of Giants fans and fantasy owners. Okay, listen, Josh Jackson,
Austin Ekeler. I told you about these guys. Hopefully you listen to the Speeds, the spitting statistician, and you have these guys on your roster. Dilly Dilley. By the way, guys, statue of beat cipher. We double fisting. This is not soda. Al right, my man Danny Otto will let you know what that is a little bit later on, but we're making it pop. Dilley, Dilley to all the playoff bound managers out there. All right, another thing that Speeds got
right last week? All Right. I don't know how many times I gotta tell you, guys, Josh Allen is not the laughing stock you think he is with the Buffalo Bills. All right. This guy went eighteen or thirty three two thirty one yards touchdown, two touchdowns, two picks, but nine carries a hundred and thirty five yards rushing. He was the second leading rusher in the entire NFL last week.
And I continue to say, if we're giving Lamar Jackson all these props about it his floor as a fantasy quarterback and what he can do for the Ravens, I think we need to start paying attention to Josh Allen as a viable fantasy quarterback. I set it last week in my waivers, and you know he goes and performs those thirteen points rushing, that will help you. If he throws two picks, that will help you. If he throws over only two hundred yards. Okay, I let you guys
know about that. Josh Allen and two QB leagues. If you lost Alex Smith, Andy Dalton, go get yourself some Josh Allen as a QB two. I was on that for you guys. The last thing I say that I was right about. You know I love the home dogs. There were seven home dogs last week, four of them one outright. You would have got paid if you listen to speeds on the home dogs. For example, last week, the Dallas Cowboys one outright. They were seven point home dog.
We talked about it last Thursday, the Jacksonville Jaguars one outright, they were five point home dog. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers one outright, they were a home dog against the Carolina Panthers. The New York Football Giants one outright against the Chicago Bears in overtime. Then if you had the Oakland Raiders, like I think a certain security guard with access that's footage for TMZ may have had. They didn't win, but they did cover chief certainly didn't cover that like fifteen
points spread. The only home dogs that you would have truly lost with with the Cincinnati Bengals who got blitzed by Denver and the Detroit Lions who had the um the Rams come to town and have their way with him. But I say this to me, and those home dogs really really do, in fact work. Where I was close the Dallas defense and the under on Thursday Night Football. Remember I wanted the under, but I refused to pick another under in the NFL in two thousand and eighteen.
I had an inkling about this, and this defense for Dallas is real and I'm close on this. These hot boys, these these uh this season, they're kind of to me like the Jacksonville Jaguars defense last year. Difference. They got their running game and they got their quarterback all right. Listen. They have five interceptions from their cornerbacks in the last three weeks. The Saints. The Saints, mind you, went three for eleven on third down. Vander ash and Jalen Smith. Boy,
is their speed there? Okay, and we've been talking about how there's no defense in the NFL in two eighteen anymore. This is the way to counterbalance it. Fast lineback and crew, tall cornerbacks and a running game that can keep opposing offenses off the field. I had the Saints like everybody else, but I was saying I was on the under and I was saying that this Dallas defense is real. I've given out this Dallas defense as a streaming defense a
number of times earlier this season. The other thing that I was close on his Cam and his completion percentage and how they're trying to do it. Listen, Cam had another three hundred yards, but they lost again. However, remember my thesis here. My thesis is guys like Curtis Samuel, D J. Moore, Christian McCaffrey are now the focus for CAM as they go to a west cop coast, get the ball out of his hands, quicker over guy's like
Funcius over Olsen. Right, Olsen has now done Funcius catch one ball, Samuel six eight more catches four forty four, McCaffrey nine balls in a touchdown. Okay, that is the way. And here's the other reason they may be trying to get the ball out of his hand short. That arm strength may not be there. Did you see that they put in the backup Heinekey to throw the hail Mary? Okay, something maybe up with Cam Newton's shoulder. And here's what I got wrong. I got this, I got this Coltch
Jaguars game wrong. I was all over the Colts. I was all over Andrew Luck. I gave you and Andrew Luck. Eric Ebron stack in DFS. Luck did not throw for any touchdowns, breaking his streak of something like eight games in a row with three plus touchdowns. Eric Ebron did get to ten catches for eighty one yards. But I thought this offense was rolling and it did not happen.
I also was wrong on Lamar Jackson. I thought he was gonna turn into a pumpkin in Atlanta, right that they finally had some tape on the blah blah blah. It didn't happen. Lamar another seventy five yards on the ground, and he was most important. His was the most important. Joe Flacco went four and five with this team. Lamar Jackson is now three and oh for this team. I thought he was gonna turn into a Pumpkin. It has not happened as of yet. All Right, check this out, guys.
Here's we're gonna do. We're going to a right here on episode three hundred and fifty. It's three hundred and fifty. Al right, bears D says speed from Christopher. See, we'll talk about that as well. I got twenty four likes. I want to at least fifty likes by the time I'm over with this next segment. Okay, we're gonna do my waivers and we're gonna answer your YouTube questions. You know what it is, Speeds deserves better. Let's see what it is when we come back. It's the Fantasy Freestyle
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the next Daily Rhodo millionaire. Welcome back the statue of beat Cipher. Here in the Fantasy Freestyle episode three hundred and fifty, we had thirty three legs right now, Let's get it up. Let's get it up, y'all know, just like my man over here says Strong Style Ninja the cipher, we deserve more than that. Let's go, let's get a few more than that. I do want to answer some things, my man, Lanz Davis. You're asking about Chris Godwin. He's
a top blank wide receiver. The number I thought of was thirty six, because I believe he's in a wide receiver three for you moving forward, I believe that's what Godwin is. Okay, Remember DeShawn Jackson is out, Mike Evans is still the one there. Adam Humphries is the chain mover. Godwin is gonna play more than DeShawn Jackson route the touchdown. I think he's gonna be a little touchdown dependent. He had a nice game last week. I think he went
five for one on one in a touchdown. I'm just calling that up off a vague memory, all right, because I have shares of him, so for me, he's a wide receiver. Three Lance, I have him as inside my top thirties. Six Hey, Zach force to spark it, baby, spark that ish. Let me know, baby. And by the way, on Patreon, just so you know, when I hit a milestone on Patreon, I'm gonna give you guys a special video, all right, Zack Foster and Jeremy McMahon. Maybe it'll involve
that stuff as well. And the last one I want to say here is uh don uh don p I think it was that's out there. You're asking me about c J. Anderson. No, I want no part of c J. Anderson with the Oakland Raiders. You say you just signed. I want no part of that um because A it's gonna take time for him to learn the scheme, learn the playbook and be there playing the Pittsburgh Steelers. They're gonna be down to me, that's Jalen Richard, not c Jannerson. C J. Anderson is an early down back. He's an
inside the tackles kind of guy. Okay, and that's not what's gonna happen when they're playing Pittsburgh. That's gonna be Jayalen Richard in my opinion, all right, I also gotta let people know, you know, Freestyle is getting ready to you know, we're ready to blow up everybody. If you watch this show into this network all the time, you know about different commercials and reads that we do here. Well, Freestyle is at it as well because people want to pay for ad space on the Fantasy Freestyle. So I
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my waiver wires. And before I start with that, because we've got some questions coming up and all good stuff, I'm gonna answer your questions, all right. But before we get into that, let me give you my waivers. And here's the thing I wanted to mention on waivers. First, I wore this shirt for a reason today. Can you get me aside? My bench better than your starters? And here's what I want to let people know. First. Everybody is so reactionary, right like, oh my god, do I
pick this guy up? Do I pick this guy up? Who do I drop to pick up this guy? Let me tell you something. If you are a playoff team, that means you have some good players. If you are a playoff team, and let's put it this way, if you start to running backs, your third running back who helped you get to the playoffs is likely better then whoever you're gonna be picking up on waivers a k A. Your bench is better than their starters. Your bench, fantasy
football owner, is probably better than their starters. Them in this case, maybe being the San Francisco forty miners that running back for example, Okay, Jeff Wilson, Alfred Morris, Oh, take your number three running back and put them in in most cases, And that's what I want to say. Don't be reactionary this week. Okay, ride with the you know, dance with the one you brought kind of thing. That's
generally speaking, the way I approached this. So, for example, at the running back position, when I talk to you about Chris Thompson or Darren Sprawls or Rashad Penny, right, uh, I'd rather probably have whoever your number three running back is, am I gonna take Rashad Penny over. Let's say your number three running back is, Oh, I don't know, Dion Lewis, Isaiah Coel. No, I'm not scavenging the wire and just plugging someone in over someone like that when I'm gonna
win or go home scenario. And I think people need to realize that. Don't get too cute. Okay, I can only say it so many times. Don't overthink it. Okay, you have a guy that helped bring you to the playoffs, may not be your starter, but a guy you relied on a couple of weeks on during buys things of that nature, they are likely better than the random guy you're going to pick up. Unless here's some running backs that are the exception to that rule. For this week.
The first is Josh Jackson over on the Chargers. I like him. I like him a lot. He looked good on Sunday Night against the Pittsburgh Steelers. But here's the issue. Austin Ekeler is there. So at most that's a time share. If you have Isaiah Crowell, for example, he is the lead back for the Jets. If you have Josh Adams, if you have Peyton Barber, they're the lead back for
their teams. No, I'm not starting Jackson over him. Ecklers there. Similarly, with Rashad Penny, it looks like Chris Carson is gonna go. I think they said, right, I gotta check in on that. It looks like Chris Carson is gonna go. So why why would I not stick with that guy? You know? Why would I take your shot Penny? Who was gonna be part of a committee over my established bench player. I'm not gonna do it, guys, I'm not gonna do it. All right? What about um? I told you down sprowls
your shot, Penny. I told you Jackson is a guy that I would like. Yes, there's Jeff Wilson, but I'm not on him because I think Alfred Morris will be active this week. One guy I will take at the running back position because you know James Conner is out, you need to grab Jalen Samuels. He's the number one AD. I like this offense, Okay, I like the Pittsburgh offense. They're playing the Oakland Raiders. I believe, Okay, they're playing
the Oakland Raiders. So in the same reason I just told John don No, I'm not taking C. J. Anderson because they're gonna be down right. Yeah, I'll take Jalen Samuels because I think Pittsburgh is gonna score. And here's the other thing about Jalon Samuel's. Many of you know this already, especially if you're in Yahoo formats. If you were in Yahoo formats, blow the budget out for Jaylen Samuel's. Why. Because he is tight end eligible in Yahoo. You can
plug him in your tight end spot. And if you can manipulate it such that in your playoff week, you know, maybe you lost James Connor, but you're starting Oh, I don't know, Zeke Elliott, Nick Chubb. Right, so you feel good about that, you're flexing your third wide out. Who you feel good about? You know whoever? That maybe um, who's your third wide out you may be feeling good about. Oh, I don't know, Maybe it's Kenny Holiday for example. Then you still have Samuels and you want to put him
in there. What I mean, your tight end spot. That is gonna help people win this week. People are gonna win their playoff matches because they have Jalen Samuels in their tight end spot. Tight end, it's such a waste land. You are now getting a starting running back to be able to plug into that in Yahoo settings. Okay, please remember that if you and that's the guy I would go to. I told you about quarterbacks. I'm on Josh Allen, I'm on Jamis Winston. I'm on both of those guys,
Josh Allen. The rushing floor is real. Jamis Winston now two games in a row, he's back at it, hasn't turned the ball over, and the Tampa Bay Bucks have one their game. I've been telling you about this. Listen. If you you at this point of the year, you have to know you have to have cut bait on a guy like Matthew Stafford at this point, case Keenum at this point, I would rather Josh Allen or Jamis Winston over these dudes over Matt Stafford over case Keenum
over Eli Manning for example. All right, take a look at Josh Allen and Jamis Winston if you want to augment your playoff roster at the wide receiver position. Same thing. Generally speaking, your bench probably better than news starters. Okay, here's some maybe exceptions or if you're really digging. You know, my co host on the eight AM our Mike Blewett, where over in the Greenwich Street Tavern League, which I know some of you guys are in or involved in
or know about as well. Remember we are, we're gonna come back to this. Remember that week when our guy Jr. Jim Ross was undefeated and he got his first l courtesy of it's been in statistician in that league, which yeah, j R. I know, we'll talk about it. Um My guy Mike Blewett, who was something like nine and oh to start, he does have I think he's gonna be finishing the three seed in the playoffs. Here's white outs right now A J Green done, Cooper cup Don Marvin
Jones done right. So I understand you may be in a position where you need a wide receiver. Okay, So that being said, I looked to Tampa, Humphries, Godwin, both of them around owned. Okay, Humphries is the more chain mover, the PPR guy, the Willie Snead kind of guy. Shall we say, Godwin is gonna be the more boomer bust. As I mentioned to Land who asked me about Godwin, I believe Godwin is a top three, excuse me, a wide out three, a top thirty six kind of guy.
I like that. And in your playoffs, if you want to swing for the fences and for the bomb for the touchdown, I'm with it. Those are guys you can go to. Two other guys I would go to, No, not Za Jones. I would go to these guys if you can over Za Jones. One is in Carolina. Give me Curtis Samuel. Curtis Samuels only own an eighteen percent of leagues. I mentioned it to you before. Uh last week he had six for eighty eight. No, Greg Olsen, I think even more opportunity. Go get Curtis Samuel if
you can. I think he's growing an opportunity with the Carolina Panthers. He's eighteen percent owned. I think across the leagues you can go get him. Courtland Sutton. Okay, we've been talking about Sutton for a lot a long time. Now. They lost Hireman too. I are they traded d T O A. I know a lot of people have been waiting for Sutton. If you need him, he could be a guy. I like their schedule moving forward. He's only owned.
These are guys I would take ahead of Za Jones, ahead of and Te Pettis as well at the tight end position. I told you Jamelen Samuels is the man if you're really thin. It's the same names I've told you about, Vance McDonald, Chris Herndon. If you're looking for the next man up in Carolina, it's Ian Thomas. But I don't think he's necessarily the guy that you necessarily want. Okay, those are some waivers for me. Um. I also want
to check in. We got a poll question. I haven't mentioned the poll question yet, and I ask you should not. Now that we're in the playoffs, right and you know stats over beat Cipher. I know we all in the playoffs, right, I know we're all in the playoffs. By the way, guys, we have forty four likes. We can get a little bit, um be a little bit higher than that. Yes, Jim Ross, Oakland signed C J. Anderson. That's absolutely correct, they signed
C J. Anderson. It does help no one. It may, however, hurt someone who's like a Jayla Richard or Doug Martin kind of owner, but it's not gonna help anyone. You're absolutely right, Jim Ross. We're gonna talk about something because I think I know will you play this week in the Green industreets haven't league, But in anyway, I digress. All right, um My pole question is non playoff teams have the same access to the waiver wire or to
be able to make ads the same as playoff teams. Okay, you say no. And there's been a lot of good conversation about this one. A lot of people have opinions on this one, so I like that I want to read some of these things right now. On the poll question, say no, non playoff teams should not have the same access. Say yes eight percent, say lock all the teams as you head into the playoffs, we've it's everywhere. Devin is saying yes, especially in Dynasty, because you gotta let them
kind of um prepare for the future. Clayton Trey Hunt says, if you Bilt you built your team poorly enough that you need to jump for waivers, then you messed up. It's on you. That's what I'm saying on the waiver wires. At this point, your team is probably better than who
you can can find right there. So I personally agree with Clayton Elevate you says, it depends on league and if there's something to play for in the consolation bracket, Um, they're in a league where the guy who wins the consolation bracket gets um kind of a higher draft priority. There's also leagues instead where there's like the Booby Prize, right that you're just trying to avoid. I want to hear you guys in the chat room on the statue
of Beats cipher and YouTube. I want to tell me, tell me guys, what is the best like punishment you've seen or been actually a part of. Don't tell me about the tattoos that you show on ESPN or something like that. What is the actually best punishment or that's the best thing that you do, UM to prevent this kind of thing. Give it to me. In the statue of beat Cipher, I know fifteen Pistol Pete says, yes, lock them up right, you gotta have those teams locked.
I agree with that. That's the way I think it should be. But I understand if you still still got people competing, maybe for something like draft spots or in a dynasty league, I think it should be absolutely different, um for sure. All right, so let me know about that. All right, Let's go to some of the questions that I have here. This is from the YouTube chat room. We got Ben half point PPR flex. When I play
DJ Moore for or Curtis Samuel, I play more. I like More are over Samuel More is the number one wide receiver these days in Carolina, Okay over funchs uh. Samuel is kind of like that third guy that I think has some viability on the waiver wire. But for me, it's all d J. Moore. When I dropped DJ More
for Curtis Samuel, absolutely not. I like d J Moore alright, strong style, Jalen Samuel's or break this week you gotta go Jlen Samuel's if you're in Yahoo strong style, and you can put Jalen in your tight end spot and you have other running backs to play at their normal spot. Jalen Samuel's production is guaranteed. Cameron brad while I love him making America braid again and the touchdowns are there now, it's Jalen Samuel's strong style for me if you can
put him in a tight end spot. Pistol Pete is asking Dak, Baker Mayfield or Josh Allen. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I think it's Josh Allen. This will Pete Dak. Here's the thing with Dak. The Cowboys want to win games running the football with Zeke. That's how they want to win. You saw this last Thursday against the Saints. They want to be time of possession. They want to feed Zeke. Yes, Samari Cooper helps them, right, but he helps them most because they can't walk safeties
down into the box. Yeah, Dak got a little bit of running. Yeah, Dak was great, but it's not Dak for me. Baker Mayfield is interesting. The Baker Mayfield I think has cooled off a little bit. Baker would be number two, but for me, Josh Allen. That Russian potential is real. Man. I think Josh Allen is gonna run for another eighty yards this weekend against the Jets. All right, Um, I can't believe I'm saying this, Pistol peep, but I really like Josh Allen. If you don't want to go there,
and I understand it, then it would be Baker. I go Josh Allen, then Baker, then Dak if you can't pull the trigger on Josh Allen or have the stones to ride with Josh Allen in your fantasy playoffs, I understand. And then as Baker Mayfield for you. Lance Davis asking me about Chris Godwin, I already mentioned that he's a wide receiver three in my opinion. Alright, he's a wide receiver three to me. All right, don p asked me I pick up C. J Anderson. No, I've already discussed this.
You should not pick up C. J. Anderson. I don't think he's gonna be much and if anything, he's an early down guy. Jalen Richard is still gonna be the PPR guy for this team. So no, I got no reason. Who are you starting C. J. Anderson over if you're in the playoffs. Right now, who the hell do you have on your roster that C. J. Anderson is the right guy to start over these people? Then I ask, how the hell did you make the playoffs? You know what I'm saying? Last one here, Chris ce Dak, Josh
Allen or Lamar Jackson. That's interesting for me, you know, same rationale, right, the question on Lamar's I've heard things that potentially they may go, uh, they may alternate, and they may have some drives where it's Joe Flacco and some drives where it's Lamar Jackson. All right, So if if, if, if Lamar Jackson is playing and he's the only quarterback, and sure, but I'm worried that they're gonna mix it up a little bit with Lamar Jackson. Luise, when I
play Tannehill over Cousins, No, I'd play Cousins. Lance Davis, You're right, I answered it twice, Zack for stir one. When I go Boyd or Corey Davis in a PPR flex, I go Corey Davis. He's the number one. Boyd, remember has been the number two. Now all of a sudden, as the number one is gonna get more attention I think it actually is a downgrade for Boyd. I'm okay with Corey Davis, sarag yeah, Shandrick Shark Andrick West Shark Andrick West Sharknado. But it's Williams as well, all right, yeah,
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twenty four hours a day. Hey, welcome back. It's the Fantasy Freestyle right here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network, a strong style. The number of call is three four seven seven, six, seven six six on four. Phone lines are popping off. We're gonna answer some of these questions, will load up more calls, and I agree, Brett. We have fifty two likes. Let's get up over sixty. Okay, that is the number. One more time, three four seven seven six seven six six one four. We've got three
callers in right now. We will take those three calls and then we're gonna get into our that's would beat cipher tradition for the day. First call, you guys know who it probably is. It's Connor and Tampa. Hey, Connor, what's going on? Brother man? How can we help doing? All? Right? Yo? I'm sorry, I've got that Michael Gallup showdown wrong on Thursday. Gallop did work not Beasley my bad? O? Wait? Oh yeah, actually, actually I'm over answering, and when said absolutely, And your car?
Is your car running? Okay? Though? Is your car running? Okay? Good? All right? What's going on for today? What's up? Yeah? But um I know, um like like my my own league don't really matter if no one paid really definitely didn't pay. Well, I was one of six, how you know? But now I'm seven six and and and I'm the second seed and I gotta buy ask what's up? You got any questions for me today? Um? No, not really to talk about my books. How we still have a shot.
We still have a shotow of the playoffs actually, so we gotta win out right now. At first, you gotta be saying, that's pretty tough, tesme. You gotta win out and that's not easy, brother man. Yeah, I think they do have a chance, and to be quite honest, not to make the playoffs. But I do think Jamis is performing well. And I do think Jamis is showing you that he could be their quarterback if he if he
rails in the uh the turnovers right? Listen, two weeks ago, thirty eight twelve yards, two touchdowns, they win seven nine on Sunday, two touchdowns, no picks. They went again seen but here's the thing, Connor, you got New Orleans, then at Baltimore, at Dallas and Atlanta. That's a tough road to hoe. So unfortunately, Connor, I don't think is gonna happen.
You have a real quick up two weeks ago on what he said, like after him after the Ninos game when he played pretty well, he said, like he had to stop playing like this is game, just like play his game. He tried to. He needs to be a different quarterback. He needs to realize that if he takes care of the ball, he has a future in this league. He shouldn't be fits magic exactly right, Connor, And thanks for always being my Tampa corresponding for the stats over
Beat Cipher, give me a call on Thursday. We'll make it pop. Okay, we'll make it pop on that show down Slate, all right night. It sounds good. Thank you so much. Let's go up to Massachusetts. Stephen is up next on the stats over Beat Cipher Fantasy Freestyle. Stephen in Massachusetts. Let's get you a playoff? W baby, how can I help? Hey? What's up? My man? How are you doing? Dilly? Hey? So I'm in the playoffs in
my twelve team league. And I actually have a question because I had handcuffed Todd Gurley with Malcolm Brown, right, and I guess, like I think that it would be like, um, John Kelly would probably be like the next man up, I think because I dropped I dropped him, right, and I put it. I tried to put in an acclaim for what's his name, Jael Samuels as well. But I also have, like Penny, if I need to drop him to pick up John Kelly, should I just do that
or cancel the Samuel things? So you keep the Samuels thing, Stephen, You keep the Samuels, Okay, absolutely, yeah, I'm okay dropping Penny to go and get the John Kelly. Okay, Because here's the thing. Think about it this way. You're this is a doomsday scenario anyway, Stephen. Right, this is only if people go down that it's gonna matter. And if those people go down, then give me the starting running back of the Rams ahead of the starting running back
of the Seahawks. You know what I mean in that scenario, because this is only an insurance policy anyway. So for that, give me a share of the best offense, all right, Stephen. So that's that way I would play it. All right, Yeah, thanks, because because my running backs with that is talk Chubb and Spencer wear. That's why I was just trying to get the absolutely And now you've backed up l a Ram's running back position with with Kelly. Okay, so you're
you're good to go. I like where you're headed. Hopefully you get a playoff. W give me a call back next week to celebrate. All right, all right, any time now we go out to Cali, we go to the West coast, Liz in Cali. Um, if you're calling, that means you're getting ready for the playoffs. So the stats on beat ciphers in the playoffs left and right. Hopefully, what's up, Liz, you're on the Fantasy Freestyle hasty, I'm going alright, Dilly, dilly, what's up? I have good news
and bad news. Oh boy, give me a bad news, give me a bad newss. Okay with that news, I lost James Conner. Yeah that is bad news for a lot of people. I had shares a Connor everywhere. Also, what's up? And then the good news is I won my week, So that's the good news. Yeah, um, my question hardy um. I also loft call On Johnson and I'll know his aging is you know still Pat? So do you think I should just a try to just get Davin Saels or go Blo this week? And you're
playing this week? You don't have a by right, Yeah, I don't have no buy um, and so the question is correct me if I'm wrong with the question is should you target Jalen Samuel's because you lost Connor or target Legarrett Blunt because you don't know if carry On Johnson's coming back? Is that accurate? Liz, Yeah, target Jalen Samuel's. Okay,
here's the answer for you, Liz, target Jalen Samuel's. Jalen Samuel's is your running back four week fourteen, and then come week fifteen, I believe carry On Johnson is back. So if you don't get a Legarrett Blunt, let me just double check here, Liz, if you don't get Legarrett Blunt and carry On Johnson is out by the way, he might come back this week, but you would go Jalen Samuel's and who else you have other running backs? Right? Yeah?
I ask that sub Yeah, then you're fine. Yeah, what you want to do this week is you want to start Samuel's Chubb and maybe you're flexing where you do not get Legarrett Blunt. Okay, However, when carry On Johnson comes back, and I think he will after you win this week in back for week fifteen. In that scenario, at that point in time, then you go in Samuel's carry On Johnson and Chubb and you're riding out and you're winning your playoffs. Liz, you're gonna win your leagues
and you're gonna win that cash. Give me a call next week to continue the process of you winning your league and winning that cash, all right, liszt any time. That's what I'm here, trying to help people win their leagues and win that cash. All right. So those are some calls for now. We may take some more later on. So if you want to try to get in at the end of the show, then I'm gonna call this three four seven seven six seven six six one four. All right, we're up to sixty likes. I know people
are still trying to get um. No, Sergio, I'm not down, brother man, I'm not down. I'm ready to go. Baby. I got bys this week. I got byes this week. No, Perry, it's not because as of this either Okay, we're ready to go. We're making it happen. And here's what we're gonna do. For the idea of the stats over beat Cipher tradition. If you were with me last year, you knew that every night at around this time we lit the manura, and boy oh boy, it is once again
time and so we are going to do it. However, just remember, if you guys remember last week when we had who you guys are calling the mom of the stats over beat Cipher. I think she needs a better title than that. But we had Jilly dillyon and a lot of people, a lot of you guys asked me get her to sing holiday. It'll be great get her to sing Holaday. That didn't happen in the interview. But here's what's going on. H Yeah, I'll give me a lot of slack last year for lighting the manora and
my Hanakah prayer. We need to light the manora. It's the third night of Hanuka. We're getting eight crazy nights. It is the third night, and so I have a guest person to read out the Hanukkah prayer because after last week, Jilly Dilley hooked it up and so I'm ready to go. We're ready to uh, Danny, were ready for the prayer, We are ready for the Hannukah prayer, he Master Jr. Mr J three. No, it is not an autumnal mead. All right, I'll talk about it later.
I'm gonna finish this bad boy when we get the Hannukah prayer courtesy of you guessed it, Jilly Dilley. Let's celebrate Hanaka. I don't know I hot alone our share kids, but it's the bivona laha laknair shell honokoka there it is celebrating in everybody who celebrates it. Um, happy third night of Hanukkah. Alright, when we're here on Thursday, we will, in fact, uh, we'll be at the fifth night and we will celebrate it again. I hope everybody likes Jilly
Dilley giving us the Hanukah prayer. However you got is ask and ye shall receive. We got Jilly Dilley doing something else. Um, everybody, you know, I'm getting songs stuck in people's heads, you know, And I love doing that. So let's keep on doing it. Danny, give me a little bit more to Jilly dilleyday it will be so nice. Play that again, run that back. I feel like funk Flex dropping a bomb on it. It will be so nice. Yeah,
that's what I'm talking about. Okay, stats over beat Cipher in the building as always, Like my man Suraj Ptel says, lah, I'm all right, absolutely Dilley, Dilley, I think that's Dilley, Dilley and Hebrew. Basically, all right, here's what we're doing now. Okay, Remember the number two call is three four seven seven six seven six six one four as we load up any phone calls that come. Here's what I want to tell you guys. Um, No, Brett, it is not a
whiskey and coke, my friend. It's very close, full full bodied. Isn't an autumnal mead? My man Danny Otto in the fantasy pit of misery is telling me to not give up the secret, so I will not tell you guys what it is. It is not an autumnal mead. But I'm a I got I got like ten minutes to finish both of these, all right. The unicorn is gonna be real happy when I get home. But in any event, here's what I wanna do, Okay, I want to give
love again. You know. I I hope you guys don't mind that I like to do this, but I want to talk about the status over Beat Cipher and how much I love them again. Okay, Jilly Dilley with the Hannukah prayer Danny Lee from an undisclosed location. One of my guys on Patreon. His name Harry M. Henry Henderson, and he told me he apologizes to me for not
being um as active on social media. And then he says that his wife has been in intensive care for the last three weeks or so, all right, and he's still it's gonna be a lone road for her, his wife. And then he says to me, but I want to tell you I've can hinue to listen to your show and it has helped me take quick breaks from it all. So I want to thank you from the bottom of
my heart. And whether I make the playoffs or not, I will continue to listen to your show because you're an overall amazing guy and actually care about your listeners. God bless you, and God bless the stats Overbeat Cipher. Big shout out to Henry Henderson. God bless you, sir, and I hope your wife has a speedy recovery. But this speaks once again to the power of the stats. Overbeat cipher. My man had a big old game of inches as well. Henry was giving me a game of
inches all the way back in week two. Now has in fact affected his playoff positioning, so we see that. Okay, I got some good game of inches. Hey Danny, we got some game of inches here, all right, tell me what you think about this one. Leo Bump say, lost by point eight less than a point. Was facing the Seattle Seahawks defense who got a sack on the last play of the game. That opponent got an extra point. That was their margin of error. They lost by point
eight on the last play of the game. Hashtag game of inches? What do you think? That's rough? It is rough, by the way you're talking, so that I could drink my autumnal mead, by the way day all right? You better, you better. All I can say is if anybody wants to know what that actually is, they can tune in an hour. I'm popping off. You reveal the secret. All right, cool, let's go to the phone lines because we only have a few. And by the way, Jim Ross, if you're there.
I'm playing you in the G S T League again this week in the playoffs. I will have another standing offer, Jim Ross. If it's not too much of a mind f for you, you can once again call me on Thursday. I'm right here, brother man. You know where I'll be if you want to call the Cipher and get into the show on Thursday. I think I'm playing you, Jim Ross this time in the playoffs. I gave you your first L. I'm gonna give you your last L. Brother man. If you want to call in the show, I'll let
your boy. You can set my lineup. We do have calls. However, Danny, I believe we got the strong style. They you're on the line. Can I get to the strong style and then jare my friend? Let's have strong style. How you doing, Dilly Dilly brother daily Dilly speed Strong? Has it arrived? Yeah, buddy, that's what's up? Do you favor? What's you got? What you got strong style? I was gonna say, Stiper Cipher,
you've been put on notice. Smash that like button right, Yes, strong ste is here, Yes with see Dilly Deely to all. Let's get that championship. Let's get Week fourteen, going let's get the playoffs. This is what it's all about. Right now. That's sub strong style, right now, that's what sub strong style. Um, you got any questions from you and you get to go. You just want to represent, represent, just a represent and as I want to say, thank you Speees for all
your health this whole season. I'm on one route to uh my third season for a championship. Right now I'm a third place and I'm actually gonna be in the first round. You pretty much explained it as far as always starting your studs. Uh cuffe season, get your hand ye, But just a quick question, UM, what do you think of Alshon Jeffrey? Is he droppable for let's say, Adam Humphries or Chris Godwin. It's tough. I wouldn't drop him, but I understand your frustration strong style. I wouldn't drop
him all right for the Tampa Bay guys. But it does seem like as Golden Tate increases, Alshon Jeffrey does decrease and strong Style. So I don't think I don't think I cut him. I don't think he's the last man on your totem pole, per se. But I wouldn't bench him. Okay, and like that's the that's the tight line. I'm trying to walk strong style. You know what I'm saying. All right, and do me a favor. Get these guys to smash that like button. All right, yes, right now,
that's what it is. Thank you, sir. I got a couple more questions. You're right by the way, Perry, and and everybody's right, yo Jr. What you at brother man? I'm ready? Hey, yo, Danny, you told me who the next call is. But guess what you're wrong? The next call is rude in Atlanta. I do believe we do? We have you in Atlanta, yes, sir, and it is rude. Absolutely, it's good man. We only got like a minute left. What's up? Okay? Real quick? Okay? After Henry and prayers
to his wife. Absolutely absolutely, And and Tom, I'm going after Samuel's and Jeff Wilson if I do get one of them. Samuel's first, Samuel's greater than signed Wilson, not even close. Bro um overwhere do I start either one of them? From Samuel's yes, Samuels, yes, Wilson No, okay, uh rude for me? Would go Samuel's then where then, uh, you know the other Pato whoever it is. Then Wilson, Wilson, alright, Samuels then where okay? Rude? Alright, dilly dilly to you,
brother man. You see how I got your name right this time? By the way, we got time for one more and it is my man. We go back to Vegas where what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. I think we've got Jacob on the line representing the desert. Uh, you're on the show right now. We only got a minute left though. What's going on? Jacob? All right? Man? So your boy made fourth place? Okay, and uh you're
the playoffs the baby, you know? Yeah. Um, on any given week, y'all see me doing work over here, by the way, right cipher, go ahead, Jacob, Oh, Dean lewis Man, he's just been giving me a headache for like four weeks straight. So um, I have Doug Martin on the bench out performing him. I know it's ugly. It's that's ugly, bro. I go back to the Dean lewis Well. Rude, I'm sorry, I go back to the Dion lewis Well. I would
I would not touch Doug Martin. Remember They just also now got C. J. Anderson to further complicate things, at least with Dion Lewis. You know, it's like the devil you know is better than the devil you don't. All right, that's about my time. Thanks to the cipher. Thanks for the calls. I'm still working on this, Jim Ross, were you at I'm right here. Stats over beats represent Billy Billy to all baby Happy Hanuka to those who celebrate
