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that cash. We got a good show for you on a Thursday. It is a little bit different than usual though, because it is a Thursday without NFL football. I told you about this yesterday. How I do not like the fact that there is no Thursday game this week. We got two Saturday games to Monday games a whole slate on Sunday, all of which will on some level be preventing me from being fully present with my family and friends as I drive around the Tri State area during
this Christmas weekend. I got five players in the Monday games. I'm gonna have to try to come back and win a Fantasy championship, and I don't think I'm gonna be able to see it happen because I'm gonna be around the dinner table in the Bronx. But that's okay, I digress. I ain't that mad. We still got a great show for you. I'm gonna preview some of the games that will take place in week sixteen as you guys are competing for your championships. I'm gonna tell you I like
as Diamonds and fool gaze hes. We're gonna talk a little bit about this story. I don't know if you've seen, but the Patriots and Tom Brady may have some beef because Tom's Brady's boy might not be able to be down with the team anymore. I'll tell you a little bit about more about what I mean by that in our next segment. And also I touched on a little bit we'll talk about it a little bit more today.
This is serious puff Daddy p Diddy Diddy Puffy that he's trying to potentially put a group together to buy the Carolina Panthers after Jerry Richardson announced that he is going to sell the team. And so I put a pole question up right now, there are no majority African American owners in the NFL. My question for you is, would a bidding group led by Diddy and potentially including Colin Kaepernick, because apparently it might if they were to try to buy the Panthers, would that be accepted or
approved by current NFL ownership. Your choices are yes, no or yo. Money talk. So if they got the money, then they get the opportunity. I definitely want to hear what you guys have to say about that. And also
we got our guys the trap game. My stro's young, cause in the effect, they came out with some new fire a couple of days ago, and we're gonna have to make that pop right here on the Fantasy Freestyle, they are rotting girly all the way to their Fantasy Championship, and we will of course open the phone lines a little bit later on the number of call is eight
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You gotta have the Fantasy Sports Radio Network on your phone, poor tablet device, Christmas, Welcome back to the Fantasy Freestyle right here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. This boy, Jane Martinez speeds the spitting statustician holding you down on a Thursday. I got my guys, the Chris Is they are both down there in the fantasy pit of misery. We got Chris both Bona on the ones and twols making it so hot that we sweat steam. And I
got my guys. It's your boy venture. He's on the YouTube production, okay, giving you all those different camera angles. He's also monitoring the chat and we're gonna get a couple of questions at the end of the show. See what you guys are saying out there. I see what kind of questions you have, so we can take care of everybody that has questions going into the championship week of most fantasy formats. Let me start by giving you news and from around the NFL. You know Alan Hearns.
He says he's not even close to a hundred percent, even though he is back at practice. It sounds like he's gonna gut it out. Meanwhile, Mark eas Lee, another Jaguars wide receiver, says he's going to be out for a while. Let me tell you something. I think this is a very convoluted situation. But to me, d D. Westbrook is the only guy to own in that wide receiving group. I don't know if I can buy Alan
Hearns when he himself says he's not really a hundred percent. However, I think he's gonna be able to be on the field and take enough snaps and take enough targets that Keelan Cole, who was one of the biggest ads at the wide receiver position this week, I think he gets compromised as well. Okay, I think d D is the only one to own here in New York with the Giants. Davis Webb, the rookie quarterback, finally got first team reps
at quarterback at practice today. It sounds like I believe they're getting him ready, getting him some reps so he can actually see the field, so they can get some kind of tape on him and evaluate him a little bit as they go to the offseason. Interesting who might be doing that evaluation. It sounds like the Giants have interviewed ESPN announcer analyst Lewis Riddick for the GM role. To keep an eye out on that. That should be interesting. Larry Fitzgerald says that he is undecided and if he
will play in two thousand eighteen. Out there in Arizona. It's like the question is are they gonna take one more stab at it or does it just completely break apart. I mean, Carson Palmer could retire Larry Fitzgerald. It's apparently up in the air. Bruce Arians may not be there at all either. So do they take one more shot with this group with a returning David Johnson or is it time for them to hit the reset button and start the rebuilding process. Keep an eye out on that.
I'm gonna tell you something. Whatever fits does, That's what Palmer will do. These guys I think are going to be in lock step. Interesting. This is an interesting note injury from practice today that I think has UM some value. So J. P. Ryan left practice today for the Washington football team with a groin injury. You know how much I hate the late week um injuries or someone that got hurt in practice. I don't think this is good
for his availability. Now the million dollar question is what does that mean is left standing in Washington because Chris Thompson gone, Rob Kelly gone, Byron Marshall gone. Now if Somema J. P Ryan can't go, we are down to Capri. Bibbs would be the back to own would be a very interesting d f S play if in fact Soma J. P. Ryan can't go. And we got roared today that the Seattle Seahawks were find a hundred thousand dollars from mismanaging the concussion protocol as it related to Russell Wilson in
week ten. It sounds like he was supposed to be in the protocol but they just you know, ran them back out there or didn't actually go through the independent you know, neurologists and all that stuff. But what I find interesting, my guy Tony Sencada just said this on Line Up Block Live. He gotta find a hundred thousand dollars. MS Davis who lit up Davante Adams last week and and uh hit that concustomental he got fined two hundred
and seventy thousand dollars. So an individual can get fined two hundred seventy K, but an organization for systematically mismanaging this gets only find a hundred thousand. I'm gonna tell you what if I'm If I'm an organization and I'm in the playoffs and my QB goes down to my QUB is named Drew Brees, say its name, Big Ben, Say it's named oh Russell Wilson. For example, I'm taking a hundred K fine and not worried about it and
keeping it moving to the next stop. I don't think that trying to price is a deterrent for an organization. But hey, what do I know. Let's look at some of the practice reports here guys that did not practice, so you definitely want to check this because you know it's not Wednesday anymore. Okay, these some of the guys that didn't practice Wednesday. You need to see them trending in the right direction, and it is not doing so. For these guys that Shawn Jackson did not practice with
his ankle in jury. Remember I told you he was in a walking boot earlier in the week. Davante Parker with an ankle, Manny Sanders with an ankle, all three of them missing practice today. Kerwin Williams not practicing today for the Arizona Cardinals. That with that quad injury, and what I think is the most important one, Jeremy Macklin did not practice because of a knee injury. I think that if Jeremy Macklin can't go, that is a big
time boost for Mike Wallace in that same offense. Remember, the Ravens have a plus match up against the blunt, guts trash secondary that is the Indianapolis Colts on Saturday in the early game. Back at practice, Kelvin Benjamin with the knee, they were probably just managing his reps. Joe Mixing back at practice, likely getting cleared from the concussion protocol. Leonard Fournette once again practicing and clearing the concussion protocol
as well. Is Falcons running back Tevin Coleman. Listen. I think that's interesting because you saw the way DeVante Freeman was running the last couple of weeks. If Tevin Coleman is now back, Listen, Ward was in there as well. But if Coleman is that might take away a few touches for DeVante Freeman. And I bet there's some people out there with Freeman going into their fantasy Championship. I still think Freeman is a back end RB one a
great start, but it is interesting. I would have liked it a little bit better if Tevin Coleman was not there. Davante Adams, who I mentioned before, has in fact been ruled out for the Green Bay Packers on Saturday night as they play the Minnesota Vikings. I think that's a slight booth to Randall Cobb, and I mentioned that in my Waiver Wire show on Tuesday. I think the biggest part is listen. If there's no atoms, that's a good thing. But also remember Cob operates out of the slot, so
hopefully that is away from Xavier Bumpy Roads. Okay, I mentioned at the beginning of the show that we may have a little bit of beef between Tom Brady and the New England Patriots, and it all centers around Tom Brady's personal trainer. The man's name is Alex Guerrero. Okay, his name is Alex Guerrero. It's Tom Brady's kind of like personal trainers. The guy's giving him the avocado and all the ugs and all the good sleep therapies and all that good drinking water stuff. And yo, I can't front.
It's working right. We all talked about how Tom Brady is defying the age and all that stuff. He's a forty year old man still performing very well. Is avoided in for the lion's share of his career. But here's the thing. Alex Guerrero, who was not the team doctor, not affiliated with the team at all, because he was Tom's boy, he was getting a lot of perks. He was on the sidelines during games, he had an office at the facility, he was allowed to be on the
team planes and stuff like that. And uh, Bill Belichick and the Patriots just decided to revoke all of those privileges. So something is going on. The question is what is going on? We get to play a little law and order on what is going on. I think there's two different theories here. One, as you know, with Bill Belichick and the Patriots, they were all about one voice, one voice, one voice, and that voice is Bills, right, So maybe you know, maybe the medical staff went to Bill and
was like, listen, you know, I guess Tom whatever. But now a lot of other players are going to these therapies. What if like a regular guy in the Patriots, you know, second string linebacker or whatever. He has a little banged up there. It is a little law and order. What if the Pictriots training staff that was like, listen, we're telling, you know, Malcolm Butler, what he needs is uh, you know this electro therapy right here for his knee, And all of a sudden, Alex Guerrero is like, na, na, no,
you don't need that. Come over here, I got the good good for you. I think that creates a little bit of a rift. But he has the other thing. It seems like Alex Guerrero was now taking on working more than just Tom Brady. He's working with Gronk this year, working with Julian Edelman. It sounds like and others. So I just think it's a little of inconsistency, a little favoritism for Tom's boy, and you know, like, okay, so Alex Guerrero gets an office, he gets to be on
the team plane. What happens when um oh, I don't know what happens when Brandon Cooks is like, yeah, I want my my entourage, my my personal chef to get in office as well. I think it's very interesting and they have to draw the line somewhere. What I think though, my big concern is what if this was really like a Alex Roger Guys cousin Juri kind of situation, you know, because let's say all of a sudden, Tom Brady gets popped for p E D S and the Patriots are like, no, no, no,
that wasn't us. You know, like maybe that was Aleice Guerrero. You know, how what do you do find the team's uh hold the team accountable? You know. I think there's some questions here, and the fact that they've actually made this a public deal, that they are revoking his privileges makes it seem to me like they are trying to nip it in the bud. I also asked you, guys, would a ownership potential group led by Diddy be able to potentially buy the Carolina Panthers right now? Of you
saying no, only ten percent say yes. The other sixteen percent say money talks. I think it's interesting. Uh. Someone out here replied to me Tommy Baker says, it's not about the money, it's about the business proposal and the future of the team. I think it's about more than that. I think it's about the pr I think it's about
the image. I think it's about after Richardson, you know, says this, and we know about cam as a African American quarter back and all the stuff that's going on right there in that part of the country near Charlottesville as well. I think this is a big image thing, and this could be a way where they try to diversify on the quick because Tommy Baker says also there's a conflict of interest with Kaepernick's lawsuit. Tons of people have been in line, you know, to try to buy franchises.
I think if they want to try and put a smiley face on this, they could let a quote unquote diverse group led by a first African American majority owner. I think it's viable. Um. I think they're serious about it, But ultimately I also do not think it happens. Why because Puffy and the junior mafia over here they need to get money. They need a little bit more. Puffies only worth eight hundred twenty million and teams are apparently
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A little method Man and red Man bringing us back into the fantasy freestyle right here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Keeping a lockton loader right now with Speeds, the spitting Statustician on a Thursday, the first Thursday in a while where there is no NFL football. Instead, they want to make it hard for Speeds to see his team and his fantasy championship as he goes all around the neighborhood to celebrate the holidays with his family. But
that's all right, that's all right. I am at, I am at as long as I still wind up winning my league and winning that cash, and I'll be back after all the games on Tuesday's edition. We're gonna have a big time celebratory party if Speeds win his leagues and win that cash, and I want everybody on Tuesday to call in. Hopefully it's not game of inches, but we're gonna have a championship party here on the Fantasy Freestyle next Tuesday, the day after Christmas, on the twenty
we're all gonna be celebrating those chips, all right. I told you I wanted to preview two key games here where I think there's some interesting diamonds and fool gazes. For Week sixteen. The first game I want to talk about is the Saturday night game with the Minnesota Vikings are in Green Bay to take on the Packers. Remember that they're going back to Brett Hunley, and I think that is the key piece to know right here. And I think there are some people that actually benefit from that.
On the green Bay side too, in particular, the first I believe is Jamal Williams. Jamal Williams last week had ten carries with only thirty yards, But I think that was a product if they wanting to have Aaron Rodgers kind of run the show and have the win beyond his arm. What we have seen when it was Brett Hunley, we saw Jamal Williams really becoming a viable RB two. I think I don't care about Aaron Jones. I think Jamal Williams goes right back to being an RB two,
even against the very tough Minnesota Vikings defense. I think Jamal Williams is a very interesting play. A lot of people have been asking me with different running backs over on Twitter. I like Jamal Williams this week. I think he once again becomes the focus of the green Bay offense because they go back to Brett Hunley, and I think that he's great and PPR format and I think that, um, you know, he he just goes right back to being in essence kind of he was like the workhorse of
that team. He was getting work in the past game and in the run game. I think that continues for Jamal Williams. So he's one of my diamonds in the rough in that game. I also believe, as I mentioned it at the top of the show when I mentioned that um Davante Adams would be out. I like Randall Cobb this week. Okay, he had seven catches for eighty four yards and a touchdown last week when Davontae Adams
was gone. Listen, Jordy Nelson is in the retirement home right now, and especially when they went back to Brett Hunley. Every don't thought Nelson might have been viable again with a rod and Okay, I could have seen that that potential, but with Brett Hunley he did not look Jordy Nelson's way. No, DeVante Adams. I like Randall Cobb. I also like Randall cop because he does a lot of his work out of the slot and so hopefully he will be away from the Pro Bowl. Cornerback Xavier Bumpy Roads. So, uh,
those guys are diamonds in the rough for me, chriss um. Unfortunately, now when we talk at diamonds, we also have to talk about the opposite of that. That's our fool gays. These guys to forget about. And I gotta tell you something. I'm very torn on my fool gay ze for this game because it is a guy that I own in my season long championship team, and I'm planning on starting him even though I am about to call him a fool gay zey. And you know, he's my guy, He's
our guy. He's one of the first nicknames on the stats over beat Cipher. It is Stephen can you digs It? Unfortunately, since he's come back from the groin injury, he really hasn't done it that well. I like the matchup against Green Bay. I would have liked it better if Kyle Rudolph was injured, but that doesn't seem to be the case. The problem with me now is I think Digs is touchdown dependent these days. He got in the end zone last week, and that's what saved you if you had
Stefon Diggs. I had him, I started him. I survived and advanced my semifinals, but a lot of it was because he got in the end zone. If he doesn't get in the end zone, I very much fear a three catch for twenty eight yards kind of day. Same as like what I said about Tyreek Hill a few weeks ago, Like, if he doesn't get the big play, that's the kind of line you're staring at in the
face with your fantasy championship on the line. Unfortunately, if he doesn't get into the end zone, I see, you know, like I said, four for thirty five something like that, that's not gonna get it done. He is a touchdown dependent and because Keenum looks so much for Kyle Rudolph in those situations, I'm worried about it. That's why Stefon Diggs is my fool gazy. Forgot about him means phony, Yeah, he might be a little food gazy. I personally hope
not because I'm starting him. I just got word from the Fantasy Pit of Misery that our guy, the Madam Chris Bovona, is also starting Stefon Diggs. I want to move to another game that I think is very important. That is down in the NFC South and the Falcons go to Nolin's to take on the Saints. The Saints are five and a half point favorites. Fifty two and a half is the total. Let me tell you something right now, this is one of my stronger plays of the week, fifty two and a half. It's far too
many points for me. I think this game goes under. Remember it was a Monday night football game a couple of weeks back, and everybody was like, oh my god, such a high total. And I told you to take the under in that game. Also the game that game, the final was twenty to seventeen, thirty seven points. We think there's gonna be more than two more touchdowns. I'm not so sure. I've been telling you guys all season
long that these are now evolving into running teams. We see what the what the um Saints have done utilizing Ingram, utilizing Kamara as well. Last week, Ingram had twelve carries. Kamara had twelve carries. They are trying to run the ball. Shortened games give their defense arrest. And here's the other thing. The way DeVante Freeman has been running and the way Matt Ryan has been throwing. The Falcons are doing the same exact thing. Last week on Monday Night football, Mattie
Ice had thirty one passing attempts. DeVante Freeman had twenty seven touches. Okay, both of these teams are trying to run the ball a little bit more and go away from what you think technically and historically is their scheme and their approach. That being said, I don't think fifty two and a half points get scored. I'm telling you right now on this game, I'm leaning heavily on the under. I heard that. I told you that Tevin Coleman has cleared the concussion protocol and he's back in the mix.
I don't care. I still think Devonte Freeman is a locked and loaded RB one. My question though, is what happens with the wide receivers. Marshawn Lattimore pro bowler, Marshawn laddmore who I've been talking about on stats overbeat Cipher for all season. He had Julio Jones. Can he handle Julio? Last time Julio had five catches for nine yards against Latimore, but he did struggle in the first half. Okay, then he kind of popped off. Laddim always on him and
he covered him well. I think he can handle him. And remember, Julio is real banged up. He's always banged up by this point of the season. He misspracticed yesterday. He said he's good to go. He's got an ankle and foot injuries. You know, so many things going on. I think Laddimore can handle him. Last time they met, Mohammed HiT's the New Day had six catches for eighty
four yards and a touchdown. Maybe that happens again. Maybe the second and third options get to eat because they're looking away from Julio and Marshawn Laddimo or something to keep an eye on, and I think the same. Listen though, on the other side, Mike Thomas popped off in this Last time they met, Mike Thomas had ten for one seventeen and a touchdown. Last time. Mike Thomas has been hot a touchdown in three straight games, over two hundred
and eighty yards in those three games. Unfortunately for me because I'm also facing this guy in my season long championship. Michael Thomas is a diamond and the roughs. Yeah, you know what it is. Um, I would actually say that I'm gonna have Julio as my fool gazzy and I'm just talking about this like relative to expectations. Okay, he really hasn't opped off. He's banged up. He's got Marshall on Lattimore on him as well. I don't think it
shapes up good. I expect actually Michael Thomas to outperform Julio Jones. I think the Saints win this game. I think they were a better team. I think something is off with the Falcons this season. I don't know if it's the Super Bowl hangover. I don't know if it's the new offensive coordinator. I don't know if it's a confidence injury. I don't know if it's that guys like Freeman and Julio and Coleman have all been banged up a little bit this year. But something seems off to me.
I think the Saints move on in this kind of round robin tournament for the NFC South Crown. I like the Saints to win this game. Call it, but my big play is I like the under in this game under fifty two and a half. Hey, but Bone, I want to ask you something and uh and venture as well. I like to get your thoughts. You know, I'm talking about some of these guys I'm facing. I'm facing studs
in my championship matchup right. I'm facing Michael Thomas, I'm facing Cam Newton and Christian McCaffrey, who I think have great matchups. So here's what I did. Check this out. Here's how I hedged my bet you know what I did. I went on over and I made a DFS lineup that was basically my opponent in my championships team, you know, the team that's facing me in my Season long championship. I turned that into a DFS line up over on fan Duel. I had to make one tweet because of
flex positions and blah blah blah. Right, so I'm feeling this way. I'm feeling, Bevona, Like if my opponent in my season long league pops off and puts up a big number to beat me, because you're gonna need a big number to beat Speeds, right, then at least maybe I cash in the tournament with that same lineup. What do you think about the way I'm hedging my bet in that way, Bavona? Do you think that's cool? I mean,
there's nothing really wrong with that. In in in essence, it's kind of like, well, it's kind of more like say, like if you were a Disney Disney exact and you're kind of covering your own butt. Uh if this fix if like the Fox, uh like they what they just merged with Fox or something like that, maybe it's kind of like you putting in stock in the Fox just in case the merger does not does fall aparts something
like that, maybe like in in essence like that. So yeah, you're covering your basis, all right, fair enough, So I'm glad that you give me the stamp of approval. Here's we're gonna do. We're gonna right now open up the phone lines at eight four four eight four three six eight seven nine. We got plenty plenty of time in our next segment to talk to speeds. We gotta try and help you set your lineups when your leagues and
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take it where you ever wear you go. Welcome back to the Fantasy Freestyle right here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network, Dame Martinez the Spitting Statistician, and we have reached my favorite part of the day when we opened the phone lines up at eight four four, eight four three six eight seven nine. For the next segment, we're gonna be answering your calls, your questions to try to
help you win your leagues and win that cash. I tell you, though, Chris, I thought that we were gonna have like a downturn in callers because I was like, there's no way that so many people in the cipher will all be competing in their championship. I was expecting a little bit of a downturn. But I'm so excited to see that the phone line still light up here for the Fantasy Freestyle, because that means that the stats over beat Cipher is ready to win a little bit
of their championships. I also want to give a big shout out to my guy Benjamin Holmes out there on Twitter. Hit me up, asked the question, gave him his answer. He said he's watching right now. He also said that I'm the man. I appreciate that the guys over at the Stats over Beat Cipher have been very very nice to me recently when you guys are advancing in your playoffs.
I continue to be overjoyed by the support that the Fantasy Freestyle gets, whether it's on Twitter, whether it's on YouTube, hit that like button, follow your boys Speeds, the spitting statistician at Spitting Speeds. I just hope that we can keep it going after football season. Guys, don't abandon me. We'll still be talking about fun stuff here to help you win your leagues, to help you win that cash. And we also put the fun in Functional Sports Radio and we're gonna get back to that as soon as
the NFL season dies down. But we still got to answer some questions so we could win a chip out there. And we start with Jordan's in Arizona. Hey, Jordan's your first stup on the Fantasy Freestyle today. Welcome to the hashtag stats over beat Cipher. How can we help you win a championship? Hey, what's up? Um? I just had a question about Russell Wilson and yeah, they've lately. Um, I know that you said Doug Baldwin was gay, but
it's really hard to set him. Yeah, it's hard to sit him if you have Russell Wilson, I would recommend leaving Baldwin in your lineup. When I'm saying, though, is you just got to kind of like change your level of expectations. That's all Jordan. What I'm saying like you probably drafted him to almost be your back end wide out one. Maybe you're wide out too, And I'm just saying you still start him. I'm not saying don't start him, but it seems like he's kind of faded back and
just become part of the herd in Seattle. You know, like some weeks it's Richardson, some weeks it's Graham, some weeks it's Baldwin. I'm not saying you sit him. And when I say he's a fool gazzy, I think that means he's a fool gazzy relative to expectations, which I think is an important clarification Jordan's. But I would still play him, especially if you're riding out Russ. You need that double up to win a championship. But what are
you what else you would you be considering with your lineup? Well, I have Robert Woods, Adam Feeling and Camara over them in my lineup right now with him on the bench, with Baldwin on the bench. Yeah, I mean, you definitely gotta play Kamara over him. I like, I like Robert Woods over him. They got it a great match up, the Rams against the Tennessee Titans. I believe this week, who do give it up um in the back end? And Woods has become his favorite receiver. So I'm okay
with Woods over him. I'm okay with Kamara over him. Who's the other one, Yeah, I mean you gotta start dealing with from I think you're I think you're right. I think you're right to them. If that's the only place, if you just sit, if you just start the two wideouts and then the flex um, then I think Baldwin
gets pushed out. All right, Thanks, I appreciate. Yeah, No, I understand your love for the stack and the double up, but you gotta go with the best, and you maybe you don't want to invest that heavily in it because you know, as you know, because you have them on your team. Baldwin has not delivered. Let's keep it moving and we go to l A and in the City of Angels, we talked to Brad. Brad, you're on the fantasy freestyle chopping it up with speeds. How can we
help you win a champion ship this week? Get any fantasy free freestyle? Can you help in Australian win a championship? I can try? Is that? Is that? Is that your real accent? Is that your real accent? Or you joshing me that? I would be overjoyed. I would be overjoyed to help you. Brad. What's going on? Man? Can you help me? Can you help me in like a rugby
fantasy championship? Is the real question? Absolutely, But we don't have any as many teams go for the New Zealand team to be honest, fair enough, it's all kiwis all the time apparently. But Brad, let's help you win a championship. I'm happy to help. What do you got for me?
All right? I am good with running backs? What's got me here is myk ingram Ezekiel Elliott and I have Kenyan Drake in my flex but my wide receivers I have Mike Evans entiree kill and I sat Mike Kevan's last weekend and put up some numbers and I don't know whether to run with him this weekend or I also picked up Nelsonagalo, Mike Wallace killing Cale on the wave of wire this week. Okay, um, is this a standard or PPR league? Okay, Um, you gotta have Tyreek Hillen. Okay,
I'll tell you that right now. Um As, I understand your concern on Evans. Trust me, I understand because he hasn't really delivered at all. Um So I understand that. But I did tell people that I liked him on Monday night. But here's the thing. Now, that was a home game. They're now going on the road at Carolina, and that's a problem for me. Okay, that is a big time problem for me. The Carolina Panthers are a top five defense in my opinion, and sometimes they just
dramatically shut it down. I think Evans will obviously be the focus as well. Of the other names you mentioned, the one that intrigues me the most. I gotta tell you the truth, and it might sound weird to you, Brad is Mike Wallace. And here's why Jeremy Macklin is injured. He's now doubtful. Okay. For the Baltimore Ravens in that game on Saturday, their matchup is great against the Indianapolis Colts, and Wallace has a little bit of that big play potential.
He's been playing better lately, So for me, the idea that recent play, I think Wallace has been better than Evans. The fact that Macklin is out only means a greater opportunity for a guy like Um Wallace. And they're playing the Indianapolis Colt which is a very promising matchup, so I would almost I would almost have Wallace leapfrog Evans in your pecking order. Brad, alright, I hope you win a chip and holler at me back anytime. I hope
you win your league and win that cast. Brad. Dilley, Dilly to you, thanks for calling up next on the Fantasy Freestyle. We keep it locked here in b K. Brooklyn is in the house and we go to Phil. Phil, you're on the Fantasy Freestyle. How can I help you win a championship this holiday weekend? Dilly, Dilly, speedy, Dilly Dilley, my man, what's going on? Let's keep you out of the pit of misery. Let's help you win a championship. What's going on to? I have a tight end question.
I had Hunter Henry who got hurt. So I picked up um, Mercedes Lewis from Jacksonville, and I just wonder if there's anybody else that you recommend ahead of him. Yeah, I'm not hi Lewis. I'm not high on Marcedes rs. I gotta tell you, So, who are your other options? I might be able to get Trey Burton, Garrett Sellick Ricky Seals Jones, Richard Rodgers. I would go, yeah, I would go Ricky Seals Jones. I would go with legend, Yeah, the legend. I would go with the legend of Ricky
Seals Jones. Um, out of those, this is guy. You know, he's kind of like Evan Ingram. He's really a wide receiver. You know, he's really a wide receiver. He's not a tight end. And here's the thing. I like their matchup against the Giants. Okay, the Giants, as you know, probably they gave up a touchdown to the tight end something like eleven weeks in a row. They are last in
the NFL against the tight end. I think what's gonna happen in this game, Um, is that Larry Fitzgerald is gonna get pretty much all the attention as he's should. They have no real running game, you know, because even Kerwin Williams doesn't look like he's gonna play, and so Fitzgerald is obviously the number one target, but I honestly believe that Ricky Seals Jones is number two. And the other thing is tight Ends have been making big plays
against the Giants. Okay, you're you, you live in Brooklyn, you probably see some of these Giants games. No, no, no name tight Ends like who you said, Garrett Selleck running right through this team, right. So, so because of those reasons, I don't think you need to be a name value kind of guy. And I like Ricky Seals Jones mostly because of the matchup and when you're at this level, you're kind of you know, we're not talking about Jimmy Graham, We're not talking about Kyle Rudolph. We're
not talking about you know, Greg Olsen. Here. All your options are kind of dart throws anyway, So give me a dart throw against one of the worst defenses in the NFL. We're tackling is optional and they have quit on the season. That's the way. That's the ingredients I'd look for in my dart throw. Does that make sense? Feel? Oh? I like your speed, all right. I hope, I hope it works out for you, Dilly Dilley, I hope you win a championship. Up next on the Fantasy Freestyle, we
got another friend of the show down in Florida. We go to Rude Rude Dilley, Dilley, how can we get a championship this holiday weekend? How can we help you? Man? I'm in two championships, got yeah, double it up? Yes, I need a RB two robbers sever two in a flex. Okay, these standard of people are both standard. Both of them are standing all give me the fresh one, so okay. So Dean Lewis do to the Tavis Murray Sterling Shepherd.
And out of these four, what do you need? I need a RB two robbers sever two in a flex. Um for me, it is everybody except Sterling Shepherd. Rue. And here's why. Two words on why. The two words are Patrick Peterson. Patrick Peterson is gonna be guarding sheep. I think sheep is really like you know, outside of Evan Ingram, of course, like the only option Eli Manning has and Patrick Peterson Pro Bowl Corner has shut down wide receivers much better than Sterling Shepherd. I'm afraid of
the Sterling Shepherd going up against Peterson. So because of that, I go Lat Murray, Juju and Dion Lewis. Give me your other league. Uh. I got this standard, like I said, but I got Jarvis Langer and Brenda Cook starting. I got cheaming on the sex because I don't know what's up with his backs. Tina Allen doesn't play. Do I go with McKinnon or Crowder? And you said it's standard, Because it's standard, I go McKinnon. Uh, Crowder is good
in PPR formats. But Crowder is also facing the Denver Broncos no fly zone defense, so that gives me cause for pause. Latin Murray, I think I'm not that Mary. Excuse me, McKinnon. I think can get in the end zone for you, to be quite honest, Uh who I think both of these Vikings backs can get into the end zone in this game, So I think you're okay that way. I hope it works out for you. Rue. Last question right here, Melvin and Callie Quick, we're up
against the break. Do me a favor. Melvin asked me a question, and if I can't answer it right now, I'll take it on after the break. I promise what you got, Melvin, R I got uh Kyle Rudolph for Greg Olson Rudolph or Greg Olsen Um. I like, you know those are good options, man, I might flex one of them. To be quite honest, I might try to get both of them in my lineup. Melvin, who's your flex right now? Is either between Duke Johnson, Jerk McKinnon
or t O Riddy. I think you could consider getting Rudolph and Olson in your line because you said it's PPR. Rudolf's gonna get potentially in the end zone. Olson I think found his way last week. Melvin, seriously consider flexing one of these guys. That's what I'll say. DJ and Philly, I'll get you right after the break is the Fantasy Freestyle right here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. This
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eight pm. E. Stern on the feature the Sports Radio Network, Welcome back to the Fantasy Freestyle here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Speeds and spitting statistician holding you down. We only got a couple of minutes left that you have one more caller that I want to get to because we gotta help everybody in the status over beat Cipher. And it is DJ down in Philly, where apparently it is always sunny. Hey DJ, how can we help you
win a championship this holiday weekend? You're on the Fantasy Freestyle. He was so speedy. I'm gonna championship because of you, guys. Man. Thanks, that's what's up anytime, Let's keep it going. So I had Antonio Brown and I had Rex Burkay who went down. So I need a flex between Mark Kee's Goodwin, Mike Wallace or James White, who might be an end zone. Yeah, I like Wallace this week. UM. I said it to
another caller. I'm off Marque's Goodwin because they're facing that Jacksonville secondary with A J. Bluya and Jalen Ramsey, both Pro bowlers there. I loved Goodwin the last couple of weeks, but I'm of from this week. I like Wallace this week. DJ. I like Wallace because they're going up against the Indianapolis Colts.
I like Wallace because Jeremy Macklin is doubtful for this week, so Wallace maybe the only guy kind of left standing, the only target for Flacco deep um and mostly mostly because the Colts, you know, and so I think Whillace becomes their number one target for Baltimore. And Wallace has been playing well recently. DJ. If you have him on your team, you've seen that, you know. I think something like four out of the last five games he's actually put up decent numbers. So if my answer for you
as Mike Wallace, I hope that helps you win a championship. DJ, all right, thanks one questions, Yeah, what's up? There's a quick defense question. I played Chiefs against Miami or uh? Um, I like the Chiefs at home. Uh, brock Ops Wilder actually looked like you knew what it was doing at quarterback last week. You know what I mean? Against that? So I would go with the Chiefs at home. I think justin Houston, what you what you're relying on is
trying the sacks from Houston. Remember Peters had two picks last time. I don't buy this, and and smoking J. Cutler is liable to throw some picks on the road. Okay, So I would go with the Chiefs defense. I hope that works out for you. Dj Alright, um, anytime, brother man, anytime. Now we go to our guy down in the Fantasy Pit of Misery, Chris the Analyst Ventra, Hey, Chris, I know we got some questions from YouTube and stuff like that, but I gotta ask you, what do you think about
my strategy? Because you know we talked DFS lineup sometimes here on the Fantasy Freestyle. I'm making a DFS lineup that is basically my opponents team in my season long championship. I feel like I'm hedging my bet that way. What do you think, Ventra? Yeah, of course you gotta do that, you gotta do I thought I was relatively like unique doing that. You're like, you gotta do that, like you
think people have been doing that for years already. Well yeah, I mean well you play DFS, right, You can make multiple line ups in DFS, so you know you should make one. You know your opponent, ye, hedge it like fair enough. I'm glad you like it. What are the people saying over there? Brother man? What are the people saying in the feed? What are the people asking? You know they're loving the cipher. I was talking to them a little bit governing the cipher. Yo, do me a favor.
When you're hollering at people, tell them they better not leave us what was done? Yo, we're gonna be talking basketball, and honestly, Ventral you were here, you can talk to Bovona about this fantasy freestyle. Bro. We put the fun in functional sports radio. We have a good time. We get into real issues. So I hope everybody keeps it locked to the fantasy freestyle when we're done. But what are they asking right now? So we got I got a question here, picked two for PPR, right, and you
got four receivers here. I've got Stefon Diggs. Can you digs it? Funcious? Tyreek Hill and Josh Gordon. It's Hill and Gordon for me. It's Hill and Gordon for me. Yeah, because unfortunately I'm down on Diggs. I'm down on my own guy. Maybe it's a little bit of reverse psychology, you know what. I'm trying to say that my own guys are gonna be fool gazy and hoping maybe they've proved me wrong. And pop off. Who's Carolina plan? Uh? Carolina has Tampa. So you don't like that? I like that.
But Funch just got a little bit banged up, didn't he in that last game. He's a little bit banged up. And honestly, I think Greg Olsen is coming back. Funs would have been third on this list for me. But I like Tyree Hill to get in the end zone and Johns Gordon has been a man amongst boys, So I'm still going Hill and Gordon. I think Funchs has a you know, he fades away at times. All right, sounds good? Alright, so everybody check it out Tomorrow. We're
gonna have a special guest talking forty Niners football. So we're excited about that. We're gonna do my DFS lineup. We're gonna hit up that young cause, and for the last time, we're gonna take your calls in advance of your Fantasy championships. I really hope I get to help the cipher out