Week 17 DFS, Odell vs. Norman, Bargain RBs and more!

Win championships with that fantasy free style. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know what it is. This is Speeds in the Place to Be. Rocks is actually in Cuba enjoying the vacation. He was like, you know what, I didn't win my fantasy leagues. I ain't got no money, but I'm going on there because I hear it's popping. So I am joined for weeks seventeen here on the Fantasy Freestyle dropping stats over beats with my man Coltrane, special guest hosting. You may see him on that Sports Guru, but this

is Speeds and Coltrane. We're gonna hear a little bit from Rocks a little bit later as we go into weeks seventeen, dropping stats over beats. It's the fantasy Freestyle here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Hey Cole, bringing you on because multiple reasons. Man. One, I hear you won your fantasy league right right right right? Who who? Who? Who led you to a championship, So I gotta give

a big shout out. So like nin guy Lashawn McCloy, yep, yep, Shawn McCloy was huge, Matt Ryan with the comeback season, um came out of nowhere this year. Yes, so those are those are definitely people that will help you win your league and win that catch and truth be told, Uh Speeds and coal Train. We competed in a fantasy football league this season. Neither one of us, neither one of us was successful. However, Cole, I gotta tell you, I don't know. I think it was like the ninth

place game or something. I was playing you this weekend and I seized ninth place against you. So it's been a watch happened. Not pleased about what that what happened there, But you know that is sometimes you know, Yeah, I'm

saying what I'm saying. Here's the other thing, here's the other reason that I wanted to bring full Train on and his special expertise because I've been saying for a little while, you know, on the Fantasy Free Style and Plantasy Sports Radio network, that if you are in leagues that have like these two championships, but by some reason, are playing your championship on week seventeen, because we're gonna

be talking about week seventeen, but we already have. We already have news that you know, Levan Bell not playing Ben Roethlisberg and not playing Antonio Brown not playing so many different people are gonna be resting, and we're gonna talk about some motivations of some other teams a little bit later on. But Cole coul Tran, you told me that you were in a two week Fantasy championship matchup right, how does that work out? But you're still done by

week seventeen or are you playing in week seventeen? No, we're finished. So what we did was we started in week We started our playoffs a week earlier than most people did. So we started week third team we didn't. So six teams made the playoffs. Let me start. I'll pick that with that, all right, six teams make it start. We we won his Week thirteen. It's a one week playoff. Then you need your semifinals, which is Week four team,

then week fifteen, in week sixteen, or your championship rounds. Okay, cool, adding together from the two weeks, that's how you get your score. I ended up winning championships by a total of about four and a half points. That's pretty crazy over two weeks. Man, So coal Trane locking it in, winning his league and winning that cash. He was getting a little bit of advice from speeds across the way,

so holding him down. You know, check it out. I just asked Coltrane, because you know, like I don't really like those leagues that are going into weeks seventeen, because you know your studs may not be playing. We're gonna get into that. But someone else who did not make it two weeks seventeen, it turns out, was Rex Ryan.

I have been railing against Rex Ryan for a little while, Coltrane saying that, you know, his whole squad was a dumpster fire all the way back at the beginning of the season, where Shack Lawson got injured early, the highly touted rookie rssel Darius checked into a facility. They fired their offensive coordinator. Very early. There were questions of nepotism going around with him and his brother Rob. They don't even know if they want to bring back Tyrod Taylor.

Rex is kind of raw. Raw is not working. You know one thing that I thought was funny about the Rex Ryan firing. I don't know if you remember this Coltrane, but he redid a paint job on his truck to be like a Bill's paint job on his car. So now that he's fired, he still has to drive around with that as his car. What do you think about that? Huh? He's driving around with the a job of his car and the paying job on his what is it his arm? Yeah?

I think he probably got that Mark Sanchez tattoo. Maybe he filled it in a little bit to make it Tyrod Taylor or your boy Shady McCoy. Huh yeah, two reminders. Now how badly he's failed. I mean, I can't picture him. I don't know who's gonna give him a job because he's I don't see any reason why for he took this Buffalo team, which all accounts was a pretty good team, and just draw him straight directly into the ground. It wasn't His wasn't his foundation defense, and it's not like

the Bill's defense. He came any better. They had a top five, top ten defense before That's Ryan got there. Absolutely, I mean, I think and I said, as I was watching this disaster against the Dolphins, I said, this is the last draw because you can't take that defense and what what a team led by a backup quarter. But really he ran for over two hundred yards against them both times they faced each other this season. Oh yeah,

that's crazy, That's absolutely crazy. But you know, I mean, I guess the interesting thing is, you know we're coming up on you know, a lot of teams will be thinking about it, happy about the playoffs after this weekend's action. But then on Monday, it's gonna be black Monday. And you know, we've already had a few coaches fired. Rex Ryan has been fired in Buffalo, Gus Bradley has been fired already out in Jackson though, and of course don't

forget about the always lovely below five Jeff Fisher. Finally, that error, not the era of the error of Jeff Fisher has been ended in Los Angeles. So those are three jobs right there, right. I wonder do you think there's any other Let's get into pure speculation mode, because

that's what we do here, dropping speculation over beats. It's the fantasy freestyle coal train filling it for rocks and I'm your boys, speed this bitting statistician holding you down on the Fantasy Sports radio network, A cole any other coaches you think might be on the hot seat? For example, I've got too. I think Chuck Begano could be gone, and I think Marvin Lewis maybe nearing the end of his tenure in Cincinnati. Do you think there's any other

coaches that better be looking out for the reaper on Monday? Well, I've heard. I wouldn't say Marvin Lewis too, but I have heard just from reading around the internet that, I mean, unsubstantiated rumors. Right now, that's what we do, unsubstantiated stuff. Just throw it around, bro, that they're giving they're giving him the option of leaving or doing one more year. That's what I've heard. That sort of like you could leave. That That doesn't even sound weird. That sounds like there's

still no faith in him whatsoever. We're here in New York though. Here Coltrane, Coltrand Speeds here, and that's what we're based in. I'm seeing the papers today. A lot of people have for some reason thought that odd Bowls might get the accent. There's a lot of reports today that Todd Bowls will, in fact, they think, be retained. I actually agree with that. I think he needs in a little bit more of a chance with this team,

with this roster, with this locker room. I don't know so so so this brings me to the question, Coltrane, Um, out of these guys the Bill's job, the Jaguars job of the ram shop, because those are the jobs that we know now right, maybe the Bengals will be up. Doesn't look like the Jets will be up. I really do think Andrew luck is a little bit peeved off in India, and I think they're gonna have to do

something different. But out of these jobs that we know will be different next year, let's say here, like an up and coming you know, college coach or an up and coming coordinator, Um, which of these jobs, or like a TV analyst, Let's say, which are these jobs are you um most excited about interviewing before? Well, let me give you a little little list right here. So my least exciting one buff to start off Buffalo. I feel like this team is gonna go over complete makeover. They're

gonna be completely rebuilding from what this scene was. Sean mc probably the only piece left that you're gonna have that's usable because maybe Sammy Watkins plus your bull who wants to be in Buffalo. Certainly not Marshawn Lynch, No, certainly not number to do. I'd say Jacksonville, UM, I think you know you've got not You're gonna have a nice draft pick for the next season. Um down down South and Florida. Jacksonville is nice and um. I personally

I think the defense is getting better, I really do. UM. And then I think I don't think portals is quite done yet. I think from me, you think if they bring in one of these quarterback whispers or something like that, that he's still fixable. He is only something. He's only years old. I think he's got time and eventually you can move on if you have to. But the most exciting one I think is l A right only because

you're in Los Angeles. I mean, if you got to like the market, if you're if you're a prospective coach coming in, you gotta like being in Los Angeles, you already know that everybody knows the team is gonna be bad next year, right, I mean right, you got a young quarterback to work with. I mean like you got a great You've got a great young running back. Also you have it's on defense. You have a big time

market that will maybe attract free agents. Yep. I mean I think there's plenty of opportunity grow in l A. If you could be merging into a brand new stadium with an owner who's clearly going to be providing for you, spend, spend spending. If you can be the first coach to win in l A is quite some time, you'll make a name for yourself pretty quickly. Yeah, I like that.

I agree with you, Coltrane. I think the RAMS is the most attractive job because of a lot of the pieces we just discussed, and because of you know, the hard knocks, glitz and glamour, and you know the magnetism, the magnetism that that has. But here's the thing with the RAMS job. Um, what if Jared Goff is just

not the guy? Right? What if he's one of these first round Because then if that's the case, you're early in the process of figuring that out, and that could mean that you go down the wrong road for a good three years. He's like, if you at least are in Jacksonville, you already know that Blake, you know whatever it is you know, you don't know jack about Jared Goff. And that is actually to the detriment of Jeff Fisher.

They should have been playing the number but one overall pick from the beginning, even though he did not know where the sun rises and where the sun sets. But um, I agreed, Jacksonville is interesting to me, man, because listen, they've invested some of that defense. They're taking steps. But I think it's clear that Blake Bortles is a little bit messed up, that he is a little skittish in the pocket, that he does make bad decisions, and I

don't know if I would want to inherit him. They were already saying the ownership is saying and the general manager saying that, uh, the new coach does not have to be tied two Bortles. What I don't like about the Jaguars is the owner con is trying to make this the London Jaguars. You know, they're having multiple games out there in London or trying to become this adopted team. If I'm gonna be the head coach, that's an actual

like distraction. If I know I have to make that weird trip every single season, that's something that I don't want to deal with. I agree with you about Buffalo. You know, they don't know what they're doing with Tyrod. They have Shady, but he's actually probably on the second half of his career if you want to know the truth. And they've been in burgeatory for a long time. They're

not attracting anything. If instead of interviewing for the Bills, I'd hold out for some other opportunities, to wait for these TV guys to get those jobs, and then I'll take those TV jobs. And that's what we're talking about here. Speeds and coal Train on the Fantasy Freestyle on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Hey, we're gonna get into, uh, you know, things that you need to help you win

your league and win that cash. You know we're gonna do Our flagship segments are game flow geniuses, are diamonds in the rough, and our fantasy food games these schools, forget about it. We're also gonna give you rocks even from Cuba is going to give you his PEP seventeen DFS lineup so you can hit. You know, he's been hot lately, hitting in those tournaments, hitting in those double ups and in those nice little cash games, giving you those lineup books. When I got my man's special guests

Cold Train. We do a lot of things. We're playing some fantasy leagues together. We also do work on that sports Gulu app where fans can talk about sports on video. Get all your hot takes in there if you one in Mad ways for you to Holly Red Speeds, that spitting statistician. But when I have cold you know, before we go to break, I want to ask you, though, generally, what are your thoughts on Week seventeen? Has it released to fantasy sports as it relates to say daily fantasy

or picking games? Because I find it so hard. It's almost like a preseason week when you do not know how many teams are gonna play hard. Who's already got like the movers at the in the locker room, who's already got their tea time set for monthday morning in some Caribbean island. What's your rule of thumb thinking about Week seventeen in this uh in this kind of space cold dream well for Week seven team and it depends so for fantasy football at least, I think Week seventeen.

If you're a commissioner, you're doing wrong by your league by bass, Yes, yes, because it's not fair to the players that have to play in that because there is no because you can drop the best team. You can drop the best team, you can drop all the best players, all the right players, but if they're the layoff, guess what, they're probably gonna have played maybe maybe a half of football this week coming up. So that's not fair of your players. As far as picking games, DFS, stuff like that,

you know it is it's basically preseason. Like you said, it's tough to choose. But I guess that's where you make the money, right, Yeah, yeah, I think you. I think here's the deal. You can find some any efficiencies here,

and I think that's the beauty of it. Do you realize they came out with the prices for these games like on Monday, you know, even before Monday Night Football, before an announcement like literally D'Angelo Williams and Fitzgerald Toussaint both at fort hundred this week, So you know if Levian Bell is getting rested because the Steelers are locked into the three seed as they are, right, and you know it's gonna be one of these guys that are just gonna get all the work against the Cleveland Browns.

And there are thirty first ranked defense in the NFL. Like, that's an incredible value. There are ways for you to find inefficiencies. We're gonna give them to you here um on the Fantasy Freestyle, you in the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. But you know where are some other places like obviously is in Detroit and the Green Bay game. Right, those are teams that are playing for it. You know what

I like, here's another one for your Coltrane. I like to pay up this week for the Seattle Seahawks defense. They are in an atmosphere where they have to win to try to get that second by. They want a home game, they know they are vulnerable, and they are playing against the do do blunt, guts trash team of the San Francisco forty Niners, a team that I think

is actually trying to not win games. I think Seattle defense will travel well and have a big effort in Week seventeen, especially after getting lit up by the Cardinals at home last week. I'll pay up for them. Are there any kind of teams you want to say that are still competing or teams that are not competing, um that maybe stick out to you at all going into

Week seventeen? This week, if I've ever seen a team with with its ears pinned further back exactly, they're gonna be going for it and they need, you know, they need they need to win in order to stay viable because they could be two, three or four in the NFC. Team I'm looking at though, that could really show up big this week. There are the Washington Redskins. I think Burt Cousins comes out, and I don't. I don't think

Genoras Jenkin is gonna right. If you're the Giants and you're locked into the five seed, you're you're resting Genora's Jenkins a little bit more. And Kirk Cousins, you know that offense is gonna be thrown. Oh yeah, absolutely, They're gonna be going all game basically. Saw. I mean, I look at Kirk Cousins this week as a cold as a guy that I would like to put some money on at least. Yeah, I like that. I like that,

and you know Kirk Cousins likes that. I also, I'm looking for a couple of interesting things here Coltrane as it relates to the Corks of Week seventeen, I think there's gonna be another volume play in that same division. I like Carson Wentz as a bargain dfs um game. I know, like the Eagles have nothing to play for, but Carson once he's getting that experience. He has Lane

Johnson back as his tackle. And the Eagles have all three of their starting running backs like on I R already, when they'll Smallwood gone, Ryan Matthews gone, Kenyan barn are even gone, the only people are gonna be Darren Sproles and another undrafted free agent rookie. They're gonna put the ball up. We've seen Carson want to throw the ball

even sixty times in recent weeks. I think they're gonna try to beat the Dallas Cowboys so they can go into some momentum with their rookie quarterback saying that they won two games in a row on you know, against division rivals. We're going to the playoffs, and the way to beat the Cowboys is through the air. I think Carson Wentz is gonna throw, throw, throw, and there's some production there now if you want to crown them, crowned her ass. But they are who we thought they were,

and we got so many things to actually consider. In week seventeen when we come back, we're gonna hear from Rocks, who was on vacation all the way out in Cuba. He's gonna give you that DFS lineup. This is a crazy week. We're right before the playoffs. Three of the six teams in the a f C needs actually build chemistry with backup quarterbacks. I don't think we've ever seen that before. We got a lot to discuss. We got cold train filling in. I'm your boys, Fees is spitting statistician.

We'll hear from Rocks right after the break. We're dropping stats over beats. This is the Fantasy Freestyle on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Hello, you play to win the game, you don't play to just play it. You know what it is. This is your boys Fees spitting statistician. We're dropping stats over beats. It's the fantasy Freestyle now for all of y'all who want to get your Rocks fixing. And I guess there's some people that listen to the

Fantasy Freestyle and here Rocks. Your Rocks is in Cuba, but he was nice enough to bless you on the holidays with a good Week seventeen DFS lineup. In some takes, I will say this though, he sent that to me early before he left the country. And I will say that he recorded this before the news of Rex Ryan leaving getting fired in Buffalo. We'll take you with a grain assault of what Rocks always gives you that fire

to win your league and win that cash. Young fist full of rings, Let's hear what Rocks has to say in Cuba about Week seventeen. Now, if you want to crown them the crowner ash, but they are who we thought they were. Wet kuda THUNKI yo. Week seventeen. If

you're still rocking with us, hold your head. I know a lot of you are probably on a tropical beach somewhere spending that cash that you won this season listening to Rocks and Speeds on the Fantasy Freestyle Fantasy Sports Radio Network, because we gave you what you needed all season to win your league and win that cash. I know some of you you just really have insatiabal appetites for cash, and you just want to play that DFS in Week seventeen, and I totally understand, a, Yo, That's

why I am here rocking with you. There's a lot of different ways you can normally approach a regular week in the NFL. However, of course, Week seventeen is a completely different animal the way I look and look at it. The most obvious way is obviously teams that need to be winning and then they are in the playoffs, and teams who are still jockeying for playoff position. However, you would be very very shortsighted and cutting off a good deal of the league if that was all that you

looked for going into Week seventeen. There's a number of different situations around the league really where you can take advantage of teams that are probably not going to make

the playoffs. Basically, you'll be looking at teams that have an opportunity, whether it's their head coach who maybe wants to get their quarterback a little bit of reps, whether it's maybe a situation where you might see a wide receiver, maybe a guy like Steve Smith who might actually be playing his last game in the NFL and they're for You're going to want to see what their prices look like in the DFS and think about whether or not you can take advantage of that for sentimental reasons. Also,

don't get it twisted. There's a coach, and I could think of one right off the top of my head in Buffalo who really might be playing for a job next year. Hello. That is definitely something you want to take into consideration, unless, of course, you think it's a situation where the players have quit on the coach. That is to say, a lot of people will just be giving you that straight up. You don't want to be in any situation where they may rest their guys advice.

Not not not. We're going a lot deeper than that on the Fantasy Freestyle, as we always do. We do not just give you a fish, homeboy, We're teaching you how to fish. So on that NOTEO, get your tackle box right, because I'm about to give you a DFS lineup for Week seventeen that I think is gonna help you win your league and win that cash. AO. Let's put it this way. Kirk Cousins has really been a

divisive person in the fantasy community this year. However, Washington is one of those teams that still has a glimmer of hope going into Week seventeen at seventy against the New York Giants, team that's already locked into their wild card spot. I really really like him in this one there at home, where he's played better this year, and the Giants have already signaled that, you know what, maybe

they may rest some starters. I honestly think that they're probably going to be resting starters along a banged up defense, the chief among them Genera Shankins, who still still still not a percent. There's no need to rush him back. And while the Giants have really made a historic turnaround on the defense this year, they've still been a lot better against the rush than they have against the past.

I think there's an exploitable matchup for kirk Cousins. And also, Yo, did I mention you should also look to players who are playing in a contract. Yere kirk Cousin got tagged this year. He's making a night nice amount of money. However, the Red Seines are talking about maybe his hand him again. I think he wants one of those nice long term deals with about sixty or seventy million guaranteed a great

effort against the Giants in Week seventeen. Putting a little bit more of that on film would definitely give Washington or another team a little bit more confidence that he can be that dude moving right along Ao Los Angeles. They didn't really do it this year, but you know

who did, David Johnson. David Johnson has been setting all sorts of records for the Arizona Cardinals this year, and if he gets a hundred yards from scrimmage, he's gonna be passing Barry Sanders and Edrin James, both of whom did it for fifteen games in a row for the most in a row in one season. I feel like they want to go out on a high note. He has really been, outside of Larry Fitzgerald, particularly early in the season, the main thing that Arizona Cardinals fans can

hold their head on this year. The l A Rams have basically been in retreat mode for the last six seven weeks. Jared Goff is terrible. I think Arizona is going to be living in the red zone on the one even if they're taking it easy, and I think, again, this is about the player. It's not about the game.

It reminds me a little bit of when the Titans were trying to get Chris Johnson two thousand yards a couple of years back, even in games that didn't mean anything, they were feeding him the ball and making sure he got it. The sky is really the limit on David Johnson as long as he gets touches, and I don't see any reason why they're not going to give him touches in this one. And at the very very least, I'm just gonna put his floor at like a hundred five to a hundred ten yards in this one, and

I think it's definite that he scores a touchdown. You may even see some fireworks. I love the blow up potential. My second running back this week at hundred, I really liked Tevin Coleman against the New Orleans Saints. Atlanta is at home again, another one of those teams that has made the playoffs, but his jockeying for positions so they've

got something to play for. Coleman ripped the Saints for three touchdowns in Week three, and he's the exact sort of running back that they've had trouble with all year. He has the ability to both break tackles in the open field, then also hit a seam and before gone.

I do not like this matchup at all as a Saints man, and I also think that there's no reason for the Falcons to really be pressuring Julio to play heavy snaps other than you know, they want to make sure he gets a little bit of rapport with Matt Ryan. I don't even really see a huge deal for them to continue to push the ball down field and expose Matt and Ryan's hits. I think they're gonna be able to do it against the Saints on the ground, and I really think that Tevin Coleman is going to be

the guy getting the carries in the second half. Really love this matchup, and again the price is right at sixty four hundred. The Saints or who you look forward to make big plays, who you target, and I really think Coleman is a great, great, great target there. The big game, the big game that we know about Week seventeen is going to be Green Bays traveling from the frozen tundra to Ford Fields to the friendly confines of Ford Field to play Detroit. Is going to be the

last game of the season. I'm assuming they flex that out on Sunday night at eight thirty, and I like Jordy Nelson eighty two hundred in a must win game for green Bay. You know, green Bay's offense has been dialed in, the recipes are completely correct, the assembly line is moving like clockwork. And that's basically been a rod to Jordy Nelson. I see no reason why he cannot continue it in this one, and I think, just you know, he's just been beastick. He's the guy that Aaron Rodgers

looks to when things have got to get done. And there's not been a bigger spot this season for this team where things have got to get done. Jordy Nelson big spot. You're gonna watch your DFS lineup go from like high finishers to like, oh my god. Once Jordy blows up for a touchdown against the Lions, it's going to be a long one. In that same game, I really really like Golden Tape on the Detroit Lions. Detroit has really not done too much down the field too

much lately. The running game has been in shambles. However, I do think Golden Tate at fifty dred is a ridiculous value. I could see very very easily Greek based spending a decent amount of time in the second half in the prevent defense. And you know what shifty, fast guys in the open field that golden tape do is eight up yards after the catch in a prevent defense. I really really like the floor that he's been showing lately.

He only has three touchdowns, but he's one of those guys who's really been very very unlucky in terms of getting tackled inside the ten, inside the five on a lot of long gainers, so it's certainly something that could pop at any point. I also think he's been peppered with targets really for the last eight to ten games. I don't see any reason why that doesn't continue. And I really think Matts Stafford trusts him, and if theoretic happens to miss this game, that even just bolts him

even further up those high floor options. I love him as a wide receiver three with wide receiver two upside in DFS a week seventeen, speaking of upside, all, Matt Tyler Lockett was really starting to get into that same group that he was in last year. In that Seattle passing off vents and unfortunately he's done for the season. He's got some leg issues and all man, he's limping

all over the place. However, enter Doug Baldwin. Doug Baldon was doing it on less targets this year, and he was actually really starting to kill Ish already, and now lock It is out. He actually saw percent of the total team targets last week after lock It went down. And this is a game again with Seattle. Team needs to win there on the road against a historically poor

San Francisco defense. They're primarily susceptible to the run, but all of Seattle's main backs are either banged up or on I r it's probably going to be a couple of carries for roles and then maybe you'll see the new guy, Alex Collins mix in a little bit. I think though, you're gonna see your boy Russ going to the guy that he trusts, Doug Baldwin down the field on those short slants, on those little screens, basically moving the ball through the air. With Doug Baldwin, I think

he's got huge upside in this one. And again the floor is so high because of the target situation. Love Doug Baldwin I think he's a great bet for a touchdown against the San Francisco, the team that is really not even trying to win. And I don't even say that sarcastically. They're not trying to win. I'm gonna kind of go to a place where maybe we take it a little bit of sentimental. Kansas City has been really,

really good against the tight end all year. Kansas City is another team that could basically, if things break right for them, Kansas City could wind up with the first round by it and the way that they've played this year, I think that they deserve it, and particularly with the Raiders not having Derek Carr, who knows what's going to be going on. They play against the San Diego Chargers team that has nothing to play for. It's been a

complete lost year and they've been killed by injuries. However, Antonio Gates continues to have that mind melt connection with Philip Rivers. You saw it last week against the Cleveland Browns. He was looking to him like crazy, and honestly, this really maybe the last game that Gates plays. That also made the last game that Gates plays in San Diego, depending on what goes on there. I know Kansas City has been locking down the tight end position all year.

It's not a great matchup. They're gonna be throwing the ball. However, call it a hunch, call it a leap of faith, call it me just calling it what I want to have happened. But I really think the Gates is a great shot for a touchdown and then some in this one, and at fifty eight hundred for that lower to mid price tight end, I really think he's gonna get targets regardless of whether he's covered. He's still proven he has the ability to be one of the better red zone

threats in the NFL. And I think the old veteran gets one more from Philip Rivers in this one and makes himself a great play for fifty eight hundred real quick. I like Will Lootz as a kicker on New Orleans. He's actually been kicking a little bit better, getting more elevation on those kicks he was getting blocked, and the wart looking so good early in the year. They're playing

against Atlanta in the in the Georgia Dome. He should have a couple of opportunities to kick some field goals, and as I mentioned earlier, I like that Rex Ryan defense and a little bit of a revenge game hello against the New York Jets at home hundred on fan duel. The Jet will be playing in uh A MetLife Stadium, but it's it's gonna be Ryan Fitzpatrick or unless they really want to get crazy, maybe Christian Hackenburg. Either one of them are a clear, clear, clear team to attack

from a DFS perspective. On the defensive side, you know, the Jets are really in shambles on offense. Forte is hurt, blah, Powell has been ineffective lately, Brandon Marshall is banged up, you know, and Fitzpatrick doesn't want to hold onto the ball. He has an all year. So I think they're a great opportunity to really really if they want to try and maybe make a statement hero. So there you have it. That's a quick DFS lineup for you and some ideas

that I've got heading into week seventeen. I just do want to say to everyone listening to us rocking with us, I hope that you had a happy holiday, regardless of what it is that you celebrate, and I will wish all of you a happy New Year. On behalf of Speeds This is rock Swan fantasy Freestyle in the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. We're gonna be back stronger than ever in two thousand seven teen. Hey, somebody is running on the field, some goose falling a half and a red shirt.

Now he takes off the shirt. He's running down the middle. By the fifty. He's at the thirty. He's bear chested and banging his chest, and he runs the opposite away. He runs to the fifty. He run to the forty. The guy is drunk, but there he goes the twenty. They're chasing up. They're not gonna get up, bleaving his arms, par chested, somebody's stopped. Now here comes the blue gg They got him. Here comes out a little girls. How

are they tackled about the forty yard line? I cannot play with him, cannot win with him, cannot coach with him. Can't do it. You already know what it is. That's your voice, Spees. That's been statistician coming into week seventeen, dropping stats over beats. It's the fantasy for style here in the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. You just heard from Rocks one young fist full of rings all the way out in Cuba, seeing if he can get more than

just rains, get that rum out there probably holding him down. Uh. In the new year, I'm back with our special guest host, coal Train, and he's gonna be joining me for do you know what it is? Our flagship segments here on the Fantasy Freestyle. We're gonna give you our diamonds in the rough, our game flow genius, and our fantasy food ghazies. Forget about it for week seventeen. Hey, Cole, why don't

you bless them? We were talking a little bit off air and you had a diamond that I really really light, So why don't you give him your first diamond for a week seventeen? Well, my diamond for week seventeens gotta be shoul Queeze Rogerson. I love that play to speak with Doug Martin officially done for the season and possibly for the next stream in the next four games next season with the suspension coming up and everything in between. Where that Carolina depense has been susceptible to the run

all year to Queens, Rogers has run. Well, he's not a guy's gonna be owned very many leagues now that Doug Martin was back. But if you can get him.

I think he's gonna be a big play this week coming up things from no doubt, especially like we said, with Cameron Brad moving to the I R. And obviously they all know, everyone knows that Mike Evans will get a ton of targets in Week seventeen against the Carolina Panthers, and that defense, like I said, like you said, have been a little bit exposed this year, and still they are likely going to sit out Louke keikly And that's an interesting question. What you do there when people have

like the concussions. Well, you know, if you just keep resting and sitting them out, he probably will not play. And then you brought up the Doug Martin issue, uh Coltrane, and I think that's very intriguing. You know, not only um is he suspended for four games, but it sounded like Doug Martin said he was gonna try to appeal the suspension and then people and teammates and people close to him told him not man, and instead he entered

a rehab facility. It seems the drug in question is actually at a roll Coltrane that he is um, you know, kind of abusing. What's interesting about this also is The Tampa Bay Bucks signed Doug Martin to a five year, thirty plus million dollar deal just last offseason. They have four years left on a contract with the muscle Hamster Doug Martin, so you gotta figure they will expend all their resources to try to get him right. Even though he's gonna miss the next one I guess three games

next year. It's still for the long play. You gotta protect your investment and wrap your arms around Doug Martin in this situation if you're the Tampa Bay Bucks, right, Coltrane, absolutely, I mean, you can't let the muscle hamster get away from you. The guy's God thinks got a lot of skill, you knowing time over time again still come back. But right now, I mean, it is what it is. It's a it's an unfortunate set of circumstances for him. We hope that he gets the help that he needs. But

at the end of the day, this is it. If we're talking about week seventeen, right right, this is week seventeen. Other people arresting, Other people are arresting just because they were arresting for the playoffs. This guy is going to a treatment facility. We're praying for you, Doug Bart, hope everything goes well. You know my diamond in the rough four seven team. You know what, I like this guy at tight end. This is a guy who has shown a history of building at the end of the season.

This is a guy who I think last year also had a great last month. This is a guy who is building a relationship with his young quarterback. And I already told you earlier than the show that I think Carson Wentz is going to throw the ball about fifty times on Sunday, and I think his number one target is going to be Zack Hurts, and I think Zach Ertz is my diamond in the rough on Week seventeen.

I'm telling you this guy Um has been heavily targeted by by Carson Wentz and you can get him for only fifty nine hundred in that matchup at home against the Dallas Cowboys. Like I said before, the Dallas Cowboys past defense is susceptible. Um and the Philadelphia Eagles are a much better team at home, and they will be home on Week seventeen, the Cowboys in the NFL against

the past. I like that matchup. I think Um in a week where there are not a lot of tight ends, you know, like Jordan Reids still injured, Greg Olsen is questionable. Effort has been moved to I R. Do you want to pay up for Travis Kelsey or do you want to get a little bit of value If you do, I like zach Bert's at dred He's my diamond in the rough full Week seventeen and Rocks and all of the listeners of the Fantasy Freestyle would know that I have been hot giving tight ends at value all season long.

But even now, some of my guys that I've been given you, guys like Cameron brad are how guys like la Darius Green, who I've been calling for you are now out even though he's out of the concussion protocol. Egill probably rested as well for the wild card games. So I think that this is the way to go. Zach ERT's diamonds in the Rough Week seventeen. What do

you feel about birds? I know you know as a as a Giants fan, it might be hard for you to compliment uh An Eagle, but you know that the Cowboys of defense can set by the time absolutely and you know zach Ertz has looked great and play Blues look even there than the guy throwing the battle. In the past two weeks, will slaying Johnson came back as true is Carson Wentzl was fantastic against the Giants events

that was playing for everything. Yeah. Absolutely, And I think, like I said Volume Ray in Week seven, team, you've got to find out the places where you know, people have motivation. There's other motivations, you know, before we get into before we get into a game. Flu geniuses with flu Gates, I gotta I gotta give um something else. You know, there's a couple of people where there's there's

milestones on the line. Okay. You know Melvin Gordon is hustling back to try to play in week seventeen because he got injured a few weeks ago. He finished. He has nine hundred and nineties seven yards rushing so far this year. You know, I think he's hustlings back trying to get over that thousand. Mark Antonio Gates, even though he has said he's gonna come back next year, he's only one touchdown shy of the tight end touchdown record. I think Philip Rivers is gonna try to pump him

with a lot of red zone targets. I think Antonio Gates would also be a nice diamond and the rough and another one I like Kansas City Chiefs running back Spencer ware Um meets about eighty yards to get the thousand, and I think that would be a nice streshold to remember, the Kansas City Chiefs playing against San Diego in a stadium that I think will be more read than lightning bolt, even though sadly enough it is the last game for San Diego, likely in that city. I wonder, I wonder

how that will be. But you know, let's turn our attention now to some people, some some people that our listeners need to avoid cold train here in the Fantasy Freestyle and the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Who are who are some fool gazes that we need to forget about the Week seventeen where you don't think and I know you're thinking a little bit broader because here on the Fantasy Feast that what we always say is we do not give people a fish, We teach them how to fish.

And in this situation on Week seventeen, you're talking about avoiding a whole chunk of people, right, cul Trainez, how do you know it's foodazing was looking for cruse seconds should think. On Week seventeen, I avoid anybody who's clinched. I avoid let's just go to the list, Dak Prescott, Zekel, Yeah, Dallas, they're gonna park the bus and get away. That's why,

to be honest, called trains. The Cowboys went from one point favorites on the road to Philly becoming a five point favorite at home because they know they're gonna arrest that that that young backfield, that Pro Bowl MVP contending backfield of Dallas. Absolutely, I you know, I it's the

same same way with I avoid Tom Brady. I avoid guys like let's see, I mean, I am boy Spencer wearing to be honest with you, even with the milestone coming up, Um, they gotta play, though, because remember the Kansas City Chiefs from the Oakland Raiders actually still have the division up for grabs and potentially a bye. They could be the two seed or they could be a wild card, So they are in fact playing, and I

think that's a big difference. But there are You're right though, there are definitely some other teams, man, like the New York Football Giants, And that leaves me to my fool gaze for a week seventeen, and I gotta tell you the truth. The Giants are locked into the five seeds. They're going to be traveling um on the road, probably to the NFC North champion, and I would sit this

week Olddell Beckham Jr. Listen. And the thing is not only because of this clicking, but as we know, in a big game for the for the Washington team where they have to win in Washington, they have Josh Norman who will likely be covering Oldell Beckham for a lot of this game. You know their history. We don't want

to get into that. But here's the thing. Oldell has too much on the line, too much to risk, and there's a chance that you know, there could be a bruhaha, there could be a suspension, there could be an injury, there could be something that comes that becomes a distraction for the New York Football Giants next weeks in their wild card matchup. And for that reason alone, I think O'Dell needs to go on his honeymoon with the kicking

net and take a rest this week. I think he's my food gazing and I think eventually in the game, the first time there's any kind of weird animosity or any kind of flare up. It's gonna be like, thanks, O'Dell. Now you sit down, and if you have him in fantasy or if you played him in any way, shape or form in DFSC, you're gonna be piste off Odell Beckham food gazing forget about it. Oh, that was a little bit of a nutcase, you know, as a giant

spread I watched every week. I you're probably right, probably gonna be sitting down for most of the game, to be honest with you, just because why risking there's no benefit from him playing beside old personal pride, which we know it gets in the way most department you way to be honest, to be honest with you, it's just it's more it's more about self preservation in weeks seventeen than anything else. Yep. And this can play itself out in so many different ways. I go to the Buffalo

New York Jets game. The quarterback decisions there are playing themselves out in completely different ways. On the Buffalo side of things, you have tyrods. They are being benched in favor of d J manual. That does not send the signal that they're trying to win the game. What they're trying to do is protect their financial asset, and for some reason Tyrod Taylor gets hurt that triggers they could trigger an option where they have to pay him thirty

million dollars. It reminds me of years past where r G three and Colin Kaepernick were just bench because they didn't want him to get hurt because they didn't want to have like contract things going on. And on the Jet side of things, unbelievably, the New York Jets are gonna go out there and start lying Fitzpatrick in week seventeen and it looks like rookie second year pit and Christian Hackenberg will not see the field at all. I think they're doing this for the reason of this way.

You always have hope of like what's behind door number three. If they went out there and Christian Hackenburg looked even worse than Rice Petty, it would it would do that Mike mcagnet, you know, kind of strategy and pick. And also they wouldn't be able to, you know, they wouldn't be able to say that maybe we can still develop him. It would be kind of an adibition that they piste

away on the second round pick. So very interesting to see how these things play out in so many different games called what about a game like you know, like Chicago Minnesota where Matt Barkley is competing trying to put things on film, So maybe other teams might want him as a backup or something against Sam Bradford in Minnesota, who's been getting you know, hammered all season long behind an offensive line. What are you doing these kinds of situations? Well,

I mean, you've gotta it depends on your situation. That's the problem these games. I mean, I think, yeah, we're talking about so let's back to the Jets for example. Of you. You will be honest though, if you're a Jets fan, you already kind of know what you got. Hackenberg. There's a reason why you haven't played this year, I guess, so we kind of know what you is at this point. He's not a good quarterback. He's not right. It's playing in the NFL. He's been for two years now. No,

that's Petty Hackenburg. We don't know about the Petty we know is not ready. But but Hackenburg and they're not even gonna run Hackenburg out there. You gotta throw them out there at some point though, Damn That's that's the thing. That's why I think that we kind of wet the ti't we We know, we haven't pet Hackenburg at this point because they're not throwing them out there. Yeah, I guess, I guess maybe it's they don't want to. They don't

want to soil their reputation further. The last thing we got to get them here, thought is left for the Jets. I mean, at this point, you can't if you throw a Fitzpatrick out there, you're not giving your fan base anything at all to rely on. And I think at a certain point the ownership has gotta give it, got to give their fans something to be even remotely happy about. All right. So yeah, I mean he's order back positions

all across the land in week seventeen. Very intriguing. But we have one thing left to do here on the Fantasy Freestyle when we drop in statue of the Beats Fantasy Freestyle and Fantasy Sports Radio Network ROXES in Cuba, he gave you a DFS lineup. We still have our game flow genius and Coltrane. They know what they're doing out there in the desert out there in Vegas, and they have put an astronomical line on this Saints Falcons game. Uh a fifty six over under total in the Dome.

You got Matt Ryan, you know, potential MVP candidate against Drew Brees, who you know leaves the league in passing, second in touchdowns, yet somehow did not get a Pro Bowl nomination. We think there's a lot of points gonna be scored in that game. I think I can find a game flow genius or two out of there. You like anybody in that game as a game flow genius,

like Drew Brees because they're gonna be throwing, throwing. I mean, I like Matt Ryan too, but I think I think in a certain if the game gets too crazy, out of control things are happening, and I think Matt ryany begets take it out because well, again, why are we risking playoff? Are MBB quarterback for the playoffs? I think Drew Brees throws all game. To be honest with you, I think he's a lot to be honest. So, yeah, Drew Brees indoors. Has you know you know you make

money with Drew Brees indoors. I would I like what you're saying, Coltrane, and I would think that you don't remember. The other person on Atlanta that you really have to be careful of is Julio Jones. Julio Jones has missed a few weeks. Julio Jones is just coming back, and um, I could see Julio Jones also getting an early book in this game. And that's why one of my game flow geniuses is Tevin Coleman. I think Tevin Coleman, you know, he's been healthy now the last couple of weeks, coming back,

growing in his role. He went off in the last game in ninety yards at a touchdown, I think against a bad Saints defense. Then Tvin Coleman is someone who could be an interesting value, could get you in the end zone. You know. Gavonte Freeman is big. If you want to pay up for hair on Fansuel in these other daily fantasy sites, you could always do that as well. But I think they're gonna try to eventually at some point park the bus and get out of there. And

I don't think Atlanta is gonna throw as much. I like your goal of breeze over. Um, Matt Ryan, we will you know my fantasy like kind of you know, most outstanding player. There was another guy you wanted to shout out. You know, this year has been Levan Bell, has been a Zepia Elliott, and it's been this last guy who's been incredibly consistent weekend week out, And I know you want to tip your cap to David Johnson, right, Coltran, David Johnson, can can you be the perfect fantasy player? Is? Does?

Does such a thing exists? Because if there ever was a player, it's David Johnson's who thousand and seventy nine yards combined yards rushing, receiving, twenty combined touchdowns. For David Johnson this year absolutely is you are number one pick next year. Over even like Levyan Bell or Zeke Elliott.

I think this year proved that David Johnson is absolutely worth the number one pick and not only just steven running backs should dominate the top four picks of next year's draft be in my honest opinion, absolutely we got the three of the three running backs I named. And what was your fourth that you put in that year? Right there? M M, that's a good question. I I'm hesitant about putting Shady in there. Shady McCoy has been incredible. To Marco Murray has at a grate here as well.

You know those guys will probably be able to come back. Obviously. Rule number one we say here on the Fantasy Freestyle cultrain is no your settings and PPR leagues. You still want to get those wide outs like Lulio, Joe's, Antonio Brown, Odell Beckham and even guys like Mike Evans. But obviously those are the running backs that are going to be helping you next year. Um, the people that have been listening to us this year have been winning their leagues

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We know a couple of other playoff formats that we'll talk about and then, don't get it twisted. We can do that. Bo Jackson, Dion standers, so we'll start even talking about some of the hot stove moves in baseball as well. Happy New Year, Happy holidays. When you hear us next week, it'll be big time NFL playoffs. We hope you one year league and one year cash uh special shout out and thanks again Cold Trane for stopping by. Really appreciate you guest hosting those on the Fantasy Freestyle.

Absolutely thanks for having me, Speeds, no doubt so for Coltrane and your boy Rocks, who's enjoying the you know, the renewed freedom out there in Cuba. I'm your boy Speeds, the spitting Statistician. This is the Fantasy Freestyle on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network op Piece