Week 14 Waivers, Playoffs, and more!

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leagues and win that cast. I also big shout out to everybody watching live on the Fantasy Sports Network live YouTube stream. We bring your right in here to Studio thirty four. You can will say what's up to my man? Ted Finn Junr. I got my man the Manimal Chris He's given it's so hot that we sweat steam. We got a big show for you on a Tuesday. It's very interesting because we're gonna be talking about waiver wire

ads for a week fourteen. The interesting part, though, is half the people that were listening last week are not in the playoffs maybe, and so your competition maybe less for the waiver wire Wednesday. But I will still give you people at every position the most heavily added, guys who I like and who I think are full gazing who you need to forget about. I'll give you a

little bit of a hint. I got a guy that I'm gonna give you that literally is one percent owned, and I think he could be very valuable and important for you, especially if you know you're struggling with the Patriots tight end that might be suspended for your playoff week. I'm gonna talk about what happened on Monday Night Football

last night. There is a lot to discuss. Okay, I know we talked fantasy, and we talked about the stats, but we gotta take a step back a little bit and also talk about what we saw on Monday Night Football and how ABC, ESPN, the NFL both try to like look down on the physicality and the quite some of the dirty plays and some of the violence, but at the same time they're glorifying it. We'll get into that a little bit later on, and if it is Tuesday, we are going to get some more nominees for hashtag

Game of Inches. This is an addition for the playoffs. There are some people that won and lost their playoff spots in their leagues because of some very close plays, and there was some you know candidates from last night's game as well. We will also later on in the show open up the phone lines and take your calls. As you know, the number is eight four four eight four three six eight seven nine. Later on in the

show we will answer your calls. The status over beat cipher is strong and I know y'all are going to the playoffs, so you still need a little bit of insight from your boy. Speeds the spitting Statistician will also take some questions from the YouTube live stream. So if you like what you're seeing over there, hit that like

button right there. You can put a question or a comment in the feed and my guy Chris the analyst Venture will synth the size those and get the best of the best a little bit later on in the show, and uh, I gotta pull a question up as I usually do on Twitter at Spitting Speeds if you want to follow which Waiver Wire add do you like the most? Is that Peyton Barber and Tampa in there for pop Quiz and Doug Martin? Is it Mike Davis in Seattle? Maybe he is the back to finally own in Seattle

for the Seahawks. Is it Marquis Goodwin who maybe had a little bit of a bond with Jimmy g or somebody else. Let me know when we come back, we go around the league, we do Game of Inches, and we talk about Monday Night football. Come on back? Is the fantasy freestyle? Are you new to Daily Fantasy? Are you a veteran? Either way, you can better your chances of winning money and lots of it by going to Daily Rodo dot com. Multiple people have become millionaires thanks

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Sports Radio Network. Listen, we got some news and notes we gotta get to, and then I want to talk a little bit about what we saw on Monday Night football. And then we got some Game of Inches playoff edition. And you know, Bovona is the one over there, the manimal down in the Fantasy Pit of misery. He is going to be making our final decision there. It is on our week thirteen Game of Inches. All right, So Ryan shays here, the linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers, has

been diagnosed with a spinal contusion. They're saying though, that uh, he will not need surgery and that he continues to improve. He will, however, stay in a Cincinnati area hospital for a second night tonight. I gotta tell you this is good news. That was very scary when you saw it. When you saw it, it it was obvious that he was trying to get feeling and see movement in his lower extremities and it did not happen. You saw the reaction

of some of his teammates. You saw as they asked even you know, after halftime, there was really no update. They were being very tight lipped about it. I was very worried. The news we were going to hear was that. Unfortunately, Ryan Shazier still did not have that movement, but he does have some movement in his legs right now. That is incredible news, and a spinal contusion is something a

lot better than the alternative they're actually saying. You know, guy like Tommy Maddox had this exact injury in the past and only missed actually one game, So the outlook is actually a lot brighter than you would have thought about twenty two hours ago as it related to Ryan Shaysier. It was, however, a very scary injury. That was not the only scary hit or scary injury that we saw. Joe Mixon is in the concussion protocol. Vontes Perfect went down as well, And let me tell you something came

out today. Juju Smith Schuster got a one game suspension because of that hit. I'm gonna tell you something. I think, honestly, if Juju did not like stand over him and taunt him and flex over Vontes perfets pretty much prone body when he was almost knocked out. I would say, no, he shouldn't get a suspension. I would have said no, he shouldn't have even got a penalty. I actually thought that that was a legitimately clean crackback block from Juju.

Smith Schuster was kind of the perfect time, perfect angle and he didn't see it coming, but then going overboard kind of like staring over him and taunting him. That I think is what got a one game suspension. The Bengal safety George Iloca also got a one game suspension for his hit on Antonio Brown. He was trying to take a b out. Let me tell you how much I know that that was the case. He wasn't even focused on the play. The pass actually hit him in

the shoulder. If he was aware of what was going on, he would have had a pick. He was going like a heat seeking missile trying to take out Antonio Brown. Georgie Lacola, he also got a one game suspension, should have had an interception. Um Also Gronk appealed his suspension. The appeal uh was her today, but the suspension is upheld. Gronk will in fact miss Week fourteen Monday Night Football against I do believe the Miami Dolphins. They say, um

a couple of injuries. To talk about practice reports in terms of Thursday Night football, you know we always get the real practice reports tomorrow for all the games on Sunday. Interesting to note though, as it relates Thursday Night football the Saints and the Falcons Marcuts marshall On Lattimore returned to practice. Remember he's been out with that ankle injury. He returned to practice on a limited basis. I think that's important because you know someone's got to try and

cover Julio Jones and then also mark Ingram. Though mark Ingram did not practice today, that downgraded from limited work. He did get in yesterday. So keep an eye on mark Ingram. I think they could be just managing his reps. You know how teams do that from time to time, especially on the short week. But keep an eye out on what happens with mark Ingram moving forward. If not, then oh my goodness, Alvin Kamara even more usage, even more,

a bigger share of the pie there. I'll give you my view for Thursday Night Football a little bit later on in the week before we get there on Thursday. But let's talk a little bit more about what we saw last night Monday Night Football. I told you, I told you yesterday on this show before the game started. I said, this was a very physical matchup. I said that there was maybe a bounty out on some players.

I said that last night, and by the way they were head hunting with Antonio Brown, I don't think I was that far off you saw, and all the more reason to use the trick. I told you that I thought they were gonna go after Levian Bell. I said James Conner would have been a guy to own, but instead it turns out that Giovanni Bernard could have been a guy that you could have picked up yesterday and now is in prime position. Remember, Jeremy Hill is already

on I R. Joe Mixon has likely a concussion. It is gonna be a race against time for Joe Mixon on a short week, and if not, fire up Giovanni Bernard as a very interesting play against the Chicago Bears next week. A very interesting DFS play as well, and I thought it was very interesting about like this rivalry they asked Big Ben. He was just like, yo, it's AFC North football. But he as they also said, when they play the Ravens, they expect a good, clean, hard

for physical, grind out matchup. When they play the Bengals, though, they have concern for the health and safety because of dirty plays. And boy did it come out like that again. But here's what I gotta tell you. If they are frowning on this, then why did every single commercial break when they were coming back on Monday Night Football? It was like, remember the time when they injured Ben Roethlisberger.

Remember the time when they injured Kenny Anderson in the early eighties, Remember the time they had to put in a new rule because Ryan Shazier led with the crown of his helmet and concustant injured Giovanni Bernard. They were like disappointed in it, but glorifying it at the same time. That's like remember when ESPN used to do that segment like oh he got jacked up? They were glorifying and looking down their nose at it at the same time. They gotta decide which way they want to play it.

Is this a battle of gladiators that they want to pump up and understand there's gonna be some violence or is football a different game now they're like, oh my god, this game is so hard hitting. Oh my god, this game is so rough. Me and Tony were talking about it last hour. It's football. That's the way it's supposed to be, as long as it's clean, right, So which way is it? The NFL cannot have it both ways.

I gotta tell you something. The Steelers look like a stacked contender when you have Martevis Bryant and Jujuice Smith Schuster and Antonio Brown and Levian Bell, and you give Ben Roethlisberger, a veteran quarterback who understands where you're trying to blitz from where you're trying to scheme. If he can identify the matchup, if it's the good matchup with Martevis Bryant or Antonio Brown or killing it and going to Levy on Bell, there are some good options there.

And look at the Steelers schedule for the rest of the season. They only have one more road game. Everyone talks about, Oh I love the Steelers at home. There's only one more road game. They are ten and two right now. They have home games against Baltimore against the Patriots and against the Cleveland Browns. Their only road game is at the Houston Texans. The Houston Texans are currently

in the NFL against the pass and can be had. Um. We were talking last hour about, you know, maybe using Jimmy Garoppolo against the Houston Texans as a DFS quarterback this week. I think Ben can do a little bit of work. And he's got Cleveland, Houston home against Baltimore and then the New England Patriots. This ten and two team can very easily be thirteen and three with a buy and teams coming to Pittsburgh where we all know.

And that week fifteen matchup against the New England Patriots, oh boy, that could be for home field advantage in the a f C and it's in Pittsburgh. Just remember at the beginning of the season I had Pittsburgh in the Super Bowl. We shall see. And the last thing I'll say about this is, Um, the week started with me picking against the home dog and getting it wrong. I said, the week might end with me picking against

the home dog and getting it wrong with Pittsburgh. Steelers did win that game, but it was a five and a half point spread. I said, I like Pittsburgh to win that game. I said twenty. It was twenty three twenty. That was right in the line. So what we're gonna do. You're gonna hold me accountable. Guys next week when I'm talking about my home dogs on my UM Friday show, remind me that I really want to go with these home dogs. It is a trend that does, in fact continue.

Here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna open up the phone lines right now. We're gonna open up the phone lines if you have questions at eight four four, eight four three six eight seven nine. We're gonna get you ready and willing and able to continue to win in the playoffs. So we're gonna do though. Also, I'm gonna give you my waiver wire ads. We're gonna talk a quarterback, running back, wide receiver, tight end. There are people being

added frequently in a lot of leagues. I gotta let you know my take on them before waiver wires run a little bit later on, and then we will get to your calls. And then later on in this show, Chris, you're also ready to decide a game of inches winner. There are some people that lost their playoffs spot because all the inches. There are some people that got into the playoffs because of inches, and we are going to

break them all down before we get it started. Though, let me tell you real quick before we go to break um. There's some quarterbacks out there. Josh McCown is only owned. Okay, this guy has Denver, then New Orleans, then the Chargers. Okay, not the best matchups, but Josh McCown is quarterback seven right now. Case Keenum only six owned. He needs to play well for them to hold onto a one seed in the NFC. Aaron Rodgers, Okay, a lot of people we were talking about this last week.

But if he comes back into weeks fifteen and sixteen, he's got Carolina tough defense. Then he's got Minnesota tough defense. I don't know if I go on the Aaron Rodgers train. I do, However, like Jimmy Garoppolo this week. Some people are asking me questions about quarterbacks. I love Josh McCown in weeks fifteen and sixteen. This week, though, I like

Jimmy Garoppolo. He is six on. You can get him this week for a matchup against the Houston Texans, and if you're in the playoffs, it's all about this week. I like Jimmy Garoppolo this week as a waiver wire quarterback ad I'll tell you who I like it some other positions, and we'll start to answer your calls when we come back. It's the Fantasy Freestyle on the award

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man speeds the spitting statistician. I told you before we went to break that some of the quarterbacks I like. I like Josh McCown. He is quarterback seven number now right now? Can you believe that he is ahead of like Drew Brees right now? Josh McCown is ahead of Drew Brees right now. Okay, I understand they have Denver this week, but after that in New Orleans and the Chargers, listen, I think if you need a quarterback, Josh McCown is definitely viable. Let me tell you a little bit about

these running backs though. Here are some of the most heavily added running backs. I'm gonna give you uh five or six of them and my thoughts on them. The first one is because of what happened on Monday Night football, I think you need to consider Giovanni Bernard. Giovanni Bernard is only percent owned. Joe Mixing is in a race against the clock to be cleared of the concussion protocol. Usually they missed the next week. And remember he's got

a short week because of Monday Night football. Jeremy Hill already on I R. I think this means this backfield is gonna be all Giovanni Bernard. Giovanni Bernard a pretty interesting cheap DF that's play. He's only earned in thirteen percent of leagues. I say, go out and get Giovanni Bernard. He is my number one ad out of like the you know, low owned guys left so far at the running back position. I also like Mike Davis. I like

Mike Davis. I said it last week. I said last week I thought Mike Davis was the best option for the Seattle Seahawks. But here's the thing. They're playing Jacksonville this week, and Jacksonville has started to styiny even running back, so it may not be the best idea this week. But I do think Mike Davis is the best option in Seattle, and he is only eight percent owned. I still think he might be worth a flex play next week, even against the Jacksonville Jacks. You can go out and

get Mike Davis. The next guy is Peyton Barber. Here's the idea on Peyton Barber. Though I told you on Sunday's Lineup Block Live that everything I said about a pop quiz Jaquis Rodgers, you could insert Peyton Barber. When I broke the news of him being the starting running back on Sunday Fantasy Lineup Block Live. But here's the thing. I don't like him anymore. It gets crowded, right, Doug

Martin might be back. If Doug Martin is back and it's him and Jocquas Rodgers and Charles Simms and Peyton Barber, then I don't like it. But if there's still no Doug Martin, I think they might give Peyton Barber a chance. He had twenty three carries, he had four targets. That's the workload you kind of like. That might continue, but only if Doug Martin is still out. Remember he has been concussed, but he's been out for a week or two already. He might come back, and that would temper

my expectations on that. A couple of other guys that are pretty still heavily owned right now, they're at sixty sixty five percent owned. But if it is worth the check to see if you can grab Kenyan Drake. He killed it against that Denver defense. He went twenty three carries, a hundred twenty yards and a touchdown. He is available in thirty of leagues. As he's available in your league, go out and get Kenyan Drake as the last man

standing for Miami. It looks like Damian Williams will continue to miss action even though they's got an extra dat away because they got Monday night football against the New England Patriots. Rex Burkhead is only owned in sixty percent of leagues a third of leagues. You can go out right now and get Rex Burkhead. Rex Burkhead had a

hundred three scrimmage yards and two touchdowns last week. I think Rex Burkhead they've sort of streamlined their committee in New England and it is uh, you know Dion Lewis in early downs and it's Rex Burkhead out of the past. And also listen, if there's no Rob Gronkowski, it's gonna be even more Rex Burkhead. I go find out if Rex Burkhead is available in your league, and if he is, and especially if it's a PPR league, go out and get Rex Burkhead. I like him as an be too

easily this week with no Rob Gronkowski. Also, Theo Riddick is only owned in of leagues, and if there's no Amir Abdullah, I think he's viable at wide receiver. The guy I like My number one ad is Marky's Goodwin. He's only owned in thirty two percent of leagues. It look remember I told you I got it wrong last week. I thought he was only a deep guy, that he wouldn't have chemistry with Jimmy Garoppolo. He put it in my eye, Jimmy Garoppolo. He went eight for ninety nine

with Jimmy g last week. But there was some intermediate routes, some short routes. I think he is definitely viable. Remember we talked about um, they're facing the Houston Texans. I like attacking that matchup. If you don't have Marky's Goodwin available, what about Listen, Jermaine cursest owned over half of leagues. You can get Jermaine Curse. This is a guy who has had ten plus targets in his last two weeks in a row. And I just told you Josh McCown

his quarterback seven. I understand they're playing the Denver Broncos and that's never really a past defense you want to attack, but Jermaine Curse has been doing it the last couple of weeks. There's D D. Westbrook out there. I'm starting to become a believer. Indeed Westbrook. He had another six catches another seventy eight yards last week for the Jacksonville Jaguars, even though that could have been a little bit because of the matchup. They were playing those Indianapolis Colts where

everybody does work in the passing game. But it was a thirty to ten game and they still found ways to keep getting the ball to D. D. Westbrook. Also, I gotta tell you Josh Gordon. I guess Josh Gordon is owned in seventy of leagues. He is unowned in a quarter of leagues. Is he's still available, I guess, go out and get them. He was heavily targeted by Deshaun Kaiser. But here's the thing. I don't trust Kaiser because Kaiser will tuck it and run very quick. But

the matchups are interesting. He's got Green Bay this week, so if you're in the playoffs, he is going to get some targets. Josh Gordon becomes viable. And then at tight end, let me tell you something, guys. At tight end, there's two guys. I'll tell you. First of all, if Hunter Henry is unowned, go get him. He's got a great matchup. He's own owned in leagues. I usually don't think about them. People are but go check and if

Hunter Henry is unowned, you need to do that. As they take on the Washington football team, I think Josh Gordon may do a little work on Keenan Allen Hunter Henry has become the second target here. But here's two other tight ends Cameron Braid. Cameron Braid for Tampa is owned in fifty center leagues, basically half. Cameron Braid got in the end zone twice. Why because Jamis Winston is back at quarterback west soon as Ryan Fitzpatrick was at quarterback wives all o J. Howard and no Cameron Braid.

I think it is time to make America bread again. I think he is viable. He is unowned and around half of leagues, and he gets in the end zone with Jamis Winston. Jamis Winston looks his way in the red zone for sure. Here's the other guy. I's gonna tell you he is one percent owned. Wouldn't you like that? You can go out and get this guy right now. I'm talking about Steven Anderson. He is the tight end for the Houston Texans. This is my deep kind of diamond in the rough. This is a guy that was

not owned by anybody. He would five catches for seventy nine yards and a touchdown last week. It looks like he's one of these move tight ends that is really not in line, is out there, kind of like an Evan Ingram type. Okay, like a Ricky Seals Jones kind of type that's out there. He can do this. And also c J. Fedorrowitz sent to i R. This week,

you know, Will Fuller still banged up. Bruce Ellington sent to i R. Yes, I know there is DeAndre Hopkins there, and yes, I know, you know whatever the matchup blah blah blah. But someone else has to catch balls, and this guy, Steven Anderson, looks like it could be him. So if you, for example, nis to play this week and you don't have Zach Ertz because he's in the concussion protocol, or if you don't have Rob Gronkowski because he's suspended, I believe Cameron Brad and Steven Anderson or

Hunter Henry are the places to go. I know we got some callers and we're definitely gonna get to them next segment, but what we gotta also do is we got hashtag game of inches to talk about real quick and Chris, I know you're the decider, so let me throw these out. First of all, I was looking at games and I was like, that's gonna be a game of inches. When Doug Baldwin had a touchdown but it

got reversed and then eventually went to Tyler Lockett. When Derrick Henry had that late seventy five yard touchdown run to ice that game, maybe that impacted people. What about the Kansas City Chiefs. The Jets kicked the field goal, but then because of so many of all those penalties, then they got over the thirty five point horizon. Maybe that difference of pulling a field goal off the board and then scoring a touchdown that impacted your Kansas City defense.

What about last night? Maybe some people were relying on Joe Mixon mix on, mix off, and then he left the game early with the concussion. Hey, Bovona, let me let me tell you these nominees. Tell me what you think about this one. Sergio Rodriguez Comatos twenty three. He lost by one point, missed the playoffs by one point. He had Tyrod Taylor who left early because of injury.

That's his hashtag game of inches? What about Carry Lewis at harlemn World seventy four lost won by less than a point and their opponent had Kansas City Defense, who all of a sudden gave up thirty five plus points. They lost a little bit more because of those points allowed. This time, Kerry Lewis won by less than a point because of that. What about my Man West the deal he submits before he hits me up on Twitter all the time. Big shout out to my Man West the

deal hashtag stats over beat Cipher. He lost by point seven, had Joe Mixon get banged out early in the game with a concussion? What about Derek Brown one by point for eight because the opponent had Joe Mixon. In my league, there were playoff points, playoff spots decided in my big home lead. The defending champion, a guy who beat me in the semifinals last year because of Robby Anderson Um had his playoff spot on the line right was facing

Joe Mixon. Actually one uh the guy who had Joe Mixon one by point to eight because he, you know, took the lead on that last play when Joe Mixing got concussed. What is it for you, Chris Pavona. Is it a guy who lost by a point and had Tyrod Taylor a guy who lost by less than a

point because of Joe Mixon? What about that Kansas City defense that unraveled when the Jets took off field goal off the board and wound up scoring a touchdown and the two point conversion and the Chiefs defense gave up over that thirty five point threshold that decided it for

some people. What do you think, Chris, I'm gonna be honest, I'm gonna stay away from any of these game of inches for the Chiefs because if you haven't been listening to uh Fantasy sports radio, if you haven't been watching the NFL, the Chiefs have been on this slow decline City Chiefs defense anyway, Is that what you're saying? Yeah, exactly, So I'm not even gonna say this game of inches.

You shouldn't be playing the Chiefs defense right now. You shouldn't be playing really anybody outside of Alex Smith, maybe Kareema and maybe Tyreek Hille So for this one, Travis Kelsey, Travis Kelsey, excuse me, I almost forgot about if I'm gonna pick anything though you just talked about Tyrod Taylor, how much you love him. I have to go with losing by one point in missing the playoffs because of an injury to a guy that I love to and Tyrod Taylor, all right and fair enough. You've been a

team Tyrod all season long, So big shout out. It is Sergio Rodriguez. Sergio Rodriguez. His at is basically like comatose twenty three, lost by less than a point and had Tyrod Taylor as his quarterback. Obviously, you gotta figure that if he played the full game, Sergio would have won that matchup and had playoffs to be talking about. You know who has playoffs to still talk about? All the people who are hollering at me. At eight four four eight four three six eight seven nine, we get

to the phones. My favorite part of the day, hashtag stats over beat. We see what the cipher has to stay. When we come back after the break, we answer your questions. You know what it is, Dane Martinez, speed and spitting statistician. You're listening live or watching live, It's the Fantasy Freestyle on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Have you ever wanted to have a fantasy expert in the palm of your hand better yet in the pocket of your capys. We'll

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Schuster's gonna knock you out. Votes perfect, gonna knock you out. All right, Enough about that, here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna get to the phone lines right now because my guys and stats over beat Cipher are in full effect and people over here, you know, they're still in the playoffs, so they're still asking questions. They need to know what it is to win their leagues and win that cash. Let's get to the phone lines right now. Is the favorite part of my day when I get

to hear from the hashtag stats over beat Cipher. And we started off with Evan in Philly. Hey, Evan, you're on this fantasy Freestyle. How can we help you? Was lucky? Was week thirteen? Lucky for you? Are you still live in the playoffs? What do we doing? Evan? Yeah? Man, I actually gotta thank you. I'm a first in both my leagues and points and record, and um, it's my first year playing fantasy. Absolutely, that's what's up. We love to hear that. And so what you're relying on the

Fantasy Freestyle and the Fantasy Sports Radio network. And it took a rookie the first place? Yeah exactly, Yeah, absolutely, Well let's keep it going, Evan. How can we help you? Let's get a w in the playoffs? Alright, So my questions about a somage p Ryan m basically, what do you expect for from him? And would you drop him for my waiverward is pretty good? Uh, somebody like Marshawn Lynch, Jamal Williams, not Forte or Derrick Henry. So those are

decent options, Okay. I like Marshawn Lynch going forward. I like Jamal Williams going what. I like those guys. So you know, I won't tell you that you can't pick those guys up if they are available. However, do not drop some a JP Ryan for this week. Al Right, Evan, do not drop some R J. P. Ryan for this week. They are playing the Los Angeles Chargers. The Los Angeles Chargers are fifth in the NFL against the pass, and they are thirty first in the NFL against the run game.

I think it sets up for some A J. P. Ryan to have a nice game against the Chargers this Sunday in Los Angeles at four oh five Eastern time. I think it's actually like Josh Dotson will get covered. It'll be a little Jamison Crowder. I think the way Washington is gonna try to win this game is by writing somem a J. P. Ryan. So I gotta tell you, I actually listen. I like some of the other options you said, but I think this matchup sets up very nice for some J. P Ryan, Evan, and I'd be

happy I had that in my playoff weeks. I would start some A J. P. Ryan. Thanks for the call. I hope that helps you keep on the great rookie season. Let's keep him moving here on Fantasy Freestyle. Up next is Gary. Gary is in California. Gary, what's going on? I hope Week thirteen was lucky for you. I hope you're in the playoffs, and I hope we keep it rolling and get you with w what's going on? But man,

Dilly Dilley, Dilley Dilley. Hey, So, Um Alex Smith is on my waiver wire and I'm trying to get him. If I'm able to get him, who should I play? Because Cousins, Rivers or Alex Smith? I like Alex. I like Alex Smith this week. You just you may have heard me with the last caller. I was just talking about the Washington football team and against these Los Angeles Chargers. I think the charges are very good against the past,

not as good against the run. So that's part of me having a little bit of caution on Kirk Cousins. I like Um Alex Smith. This week. You know they play UM Oakland and remember the last time they played. It was a Thursday night football game that was thirty one thirty. It was a back and forth game. Tyreek Hill had a big time bomb touchdown. I think listen, what the Kansas City Chiefs did this week was realized

that they need downfield aggressive Alex Smith. He also has that rushing potential right um and and Kareem Hunt, as we've seen as kind of hit a wall and the Oakland secondary can be had. All that, to me adds up to Alex Smith being once again viable. It was the defense that let the Chiefs down last week against the Jets, not the offense. Remember they changed play calling duties.

Andy Reid's not calling the plays anymore. I think they are gonna return to a little bit more of an aggressive downfield Alex Smith, and I think that means good things for fantasy owners. Gary. So yeah, I go ahead and get him. And I like Alex Smith over Kirk Cousins this week. Up next on the Fantasy Freestyle, another friend of the show. So we say Dilly Dilley and welcoming Dan from New Jersey. Hey was lucky, it was we thirteen. Lucky for you. You're still in the playoffs.

You must be. If you still got questions, Dan, how can we help you get a playoff W? No, watch him trying to fight for one or doesn't startill fifteen sixteen? Okay, so let's get into the playoffs. Doesn't get a much needed W. Then let's go what's up? Alright? So before my main question, um, I got a quick, quick thing to ask you where? So I got my standard team. Um. And the question is of these five, which two or three would you use your number six priority on? Um?

We got n account, Big Ben, Wallace, Curse or the new New England defense. Um Well, To be honest, it depends on the rest of your your your lineup. You know, like, if you're happy at quarterback, then you don't need McCown or Ben right. I think McCown and Ben are both completely viable moving forward. But if you're happy at quarterback, then you don't need it, right. Same thing as it relates to Wallace or Curse. I like Curse over Wallace.

I'll tell you the truth. I actually don't like Mike Wallace. Um and I think, Um, I think Jamaine Curse is definitely viable. He's been good the last couple of weeks. But the question remains, what do you have at wide receiver? I don't know that. I would you know, start one of these guys over a wide receiver of a playoff? Cont't end there, you know what I mean. So it's really all about the context in your specific situation, Dan And Um, what I will say is I do love

Big Ben moving forward. I love Big Ben moving forward. So you may want to get him regardless. Okay, because I do like Big Ben. Those wide receivers you mentioned

don't really rate that much for me. New England is definitely improving as a defense, and I like their matchup with Miami this week, but then the following week they have Pittsburgh and I wouldn't be playing a defense against the Steelers right now, what else you got for me, Dan, Well, actually, just going off of that, I was actually gonna tell you my team so give you a little better feeling. So I got Maddie Ice, we got Keenum, we got my four wide receivers, which is Jordy Kate. Wait, wait,

let's go with position by position. Okay, that'll be better at wide receiver. You got Jordy Fungies. Um, I would not I would start Funes, Tate and Seneu over these guys. Okay. So, and as I like Sanu this week because Marshall and Lattimore has been killing it. But he's gonna be on Julio Jones, I think Maddie Ice has to look to Mohammed Sanu. And if you want to know the truth, Maddie Ice, Mohammed Sanu stack wouldn't be the worst thing So there's how I feel about the wide receivers. You

don't put Jordy. To be quite honest, you could drop Jordi if you want. Um, let's talk quarterbacks. Now. You said you have Maddie Ice and case Keenum, right, Um, I would get Ben on my roster. Um, I would get Ben on my roster. But I'm not sure if I I certainly wouldn't drop drop Maddie Ice. The question is case Keenum his matchups, So check this out. He's got Carolina this week. That's not a good matchup, But then he's got Cincinnati and Green Bay, which are good

matchups at the end of the year, you know. So I think what you could do is get yourself Ben and then play the matchups with Ben, Maddie Ice, and case Keenum because you could drop Jordy Nelson. Then let's talk running backs. Go ahead, okay, and then we got a freeman. I like four net high Prem Murray. I like all of those guys. I like Latin Murray the least because I think he is gameflow dependent. He's gotten

touchdowns because Minnesota has been up big. I don't think they're gonna be up big in their next couple of games. But I told you you may have heard me talk to the other caller recently. I love p Ryan this week. I think p Ryan is set up with a great matchup this week. P Ryan is gonna be in my DFS lineup this week. So I would flex some a J. P. Ryan. And it sounds like you had some other studs though, I would go Freeman. I would go for Net and

then I would flex some a J. P. Ryan. And because you're also talking now about Davante Freeman, it gives me calls for pause in terms of Maddie Ice and in terms of Mohammed Sanu. But that game, that Thursday night football game, that's Saints um Falcons game. It's the total in that games in the fifties, people expect points. So maybe you do want to invest heavily in that one. I want to get to some other people, Dan, So if you got to give me a last kind of

point of question, oh no, that was it. Basically in the defense I have is um is the Chargers. I don't know if if you think that New England's better choice, you know, yeah, I like New England over I I like the Chargers defense. Okay, they're getting pressure on people and all that, but I like New England has a better matchup in my opinion, if you need one to you know, make the playoffs. But thanks for the call, Dan, call back anytime. Dilly Dilley definitely part of the status

over beat Cipher. Up next on the Fantasy Freestyle, it is Rue in Florida, Dilley Dilley to Rue. Friend of the show was week thirteen. Lucky for you, we gotta playoff matchup coming up. What's up, Bully Dey? What's up? Dilly Dilly, Dilly Dilley? How can we help? Man? Okay, So I got a quarterback um situation dilemma or whatever, and I think it's gonna be hard even for you. All right, So I gotta bye week good. I'm in

a in a in a Aaron Rodgers owner right. My question is, though, because we already did these Enum and breathe, I got case Klum, breathe Rogers, Rogers come back? Who do I start out of breathe in Rogers? All right? So Rogers has the Carolina Panthers week fifteen. I don't like that. Case Keenum has the Cincinnati Bengals Week fifteen. I like that a lot more. I don't have the Breeze matchup right now in front of me. You know who Breeze is playing that week, Breeze is playing. Uh.

I'll try and find it for you. But because of the matchups right now, I'm on case Keenum at this point. Who's this matchup? Then you can play, you can play Breeze, you can play. I would go Breeze then Keenum, and I would not go with Aaron Rodgers with the Carolina Panthers has my first game back. I hope that works for you. RU call back any time up next on the Fantasy Freestyle. Hopefully we got time for everybody. It is Trey in Memphis, Tray, what's up? We're up against

the break? How can we help? Yeah? What's up? Man? Shout out to the cipher man, all right, that's what's I got a quote, A bad question, man, I got. I had a guy as week drop Alex Smills. Yeah, and you know I've been rolling with tab rod Yeah. I like it. Do it? Do it, Alex Smith, do it? Do it? You saw them decide to try to go, you know, down the field a little bit more. They change the play calling duties. Trey Andy Reid's not calling

the plays anymore. I think that's a legitimate change that makes them maybe go down the field a little bit more. And I think Alex Smith knows that if he doesn't do it, they're gonna bring Patty Mahomes in. Who will you know? Kareem Hunt hasn't run well lately, and Alex Smith has some rushing potential on his own Trey. I like the matchup for Alex Smith against the bad Oakland Raiders secondary. I like Alex Smith this week. I think he's even viable in DFS. I like Alex Smith. Pull

the trigger on it, Trey and do it. Johnny out there in Austin having on the phone lines, I'm gonna answer your call when we need come back. When we come back on Fantasy Freestyle, it's Johnny and Austin. I'm gonna answer his question. We look at the polls on Twitter, who do you want? On the waiver wire ads? And we talked to our boy Chris ventures see what the people are saying on the YouTube feed as well. Come all right back, We're gonna tie a nice neat little

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Robert latal on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. We got time for one last caller here that wants to get down with the stats. Over beat Cipher and Yo, thank you so much. I truly appreciate you guys. I appreciate the calls. I appreciate the love. I appreciate the Dilley Dilley and the ciphers and the likes and the follows and all that stuff. I really hope that we're helping you when you were leagues and win that cash to end it up Today on the cipher, we got Johnny

in Austin. Hey, Johnny, I hope you're keeping it weird down there in Austin. How can we help you get a W moving forward in the playoffs speeds? Dilley Dilley, Man, we're doing all right. We're making it happen. Hey, I just want to say a quick thank you real fast. I'm in three football leagues, made playoffs and all three that's awesome. I appreciate you, Johnny, And do me a favorite question. Are you on? Are you do you go to like Dirty six or Clean six when you're partying

down there? So I live on the west end of downtown, so I just got to the Clean six every now and then. You gotta get a little freaky and good every now and then you ventured down to Dirty six. All right, how can we help you get a W moving forward? I'm glad Johnny that you made the playoffs in all of your leagues, and the fact that you credit even a small portion of that to the spitting statistician, I thoroughly appreciate it. Let's keep it moving though, How

can we help? No, I'm grateful, man. So I got four running backs I need to and a flex um. So, so I have Davonte Freeman, Jordan Howard, Rex Burkhead and somaj p Run. Is this standard or PPR twelve teams standard and first week of playoffs? All right? That definitely changes it for me. You said Freeman, Howard, Burkhead and who o p Ryan? Um? Because it is standard? Because it is standard? Um, oh man, this is tough. This is really tough, Johnny. I told you I like the

Soma j Ryan matchup. So he gets in there. Okay, he's one of the ones you get in there. Um. I like Devonte Freeman because I think that's gonna be a high scoring game, So he gets in there. I'm down to Jordan Howard or Burkehead. And because it's standard, I normally would just say go with Jordan Howard, but I'm gonna surprise you and I'm gonna take Rex Burkhead. And the reason is because they're missing Rob Gronkowski this week. So I think burke his Head is gonna eat a

lot in the short passing game. I think Burkhead is gonna get into the end zone. And I don't necessarily think Jordan Howard is going to UH with Cincinnati. I think Cincinnati is piste off. I think they're gonna be real physical this week. So I know, you know, I know, Johnny, he was probably like your like second or third round pick. But in the playoffs, I'm sitting Jordan Howard. I hope that works out for you, Johnny. What do you think? No,

thank you so much, Speeds. I appreciate that any any time, brother man. I hope it works Dilly dilly to you as well. I go Freeman, p Ryan, and then Burkehead. I hope you get a W in the playoffs. John We had a question today, a poll question, who do you want to spend your waiver priority or your fat budget if anything is left for Week fourteen. A lot of you are going you are going with Mike Davis

and Seattle. Maybe not this week against the cat scratch fever and the Jacksonville Jaguars, but they like Mike Davis has the best back in Seattle, Russell Wilson is still the team's leading rusher. Of you go with Markey's Goodwin. I like Goodwin, I like Jimmy Garoppolo this week. I think that's a very interesting DFS stack of you are going Peyton Barber. I like Peyton Barber. But the question is if Doug Martin comes back, I think that becomes

a committee you want to avoid. People are saying Mike Davis. People are saying Jordy Nelson to pick up. I don't know about that. People are saying Josh Gordon if he is available, and there's some other options out there. You can always follow me at spitting speeds and you could get down with the conversation. Tomorrow we'll start doing our spotlight games for week fourteen. We may play one of those Young Cars Rat parodies. I happen to think they are five and so we are going to play some

of those again later on this week. I'll give you my DFS lineup, but you know what you do with that. Going over to Daily Roado dot com slash d k MS, you can put it in there's only three weeks left. You win that contest, you go to the finals. You win that, you get tickets up there to the game in Minnesota with Justin timber Lake doing the halftime show. We'll give that out, but listen you as you know, you learn a lot more about how you help the

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