Week 15 Previews: Bills-Lions Fantasy Bonanza?

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I always felt bad because my sister would always wrap my presence for me, for like my mom and my dad. But then when it came time to wrap her presence, she got the one that was all just jumpled up and terrible.

People say like, oh, if it takes you more than three pieces of tape, you're doing it wrong. I'm doing it inanely wrong.

Then doing it wrong.

My whole life need more than three, or you just go to.

Do it. Three is like the minimum. You're kidding me. Anyway, I still got a couple of weeks to figure that part out.

Anyway, we got a couple of minutes to jump to jump into this, So we're gonna preview the week fifteen Slate give you our fantasy hot takes as well, but we will start with some fantasy headlines.

I guess in particular fantasy headline.

Because we only got one of them, namely that Tommy DeVito is going to get the start against the Baltimore Ravens.

So Cutletz is back this week, not really because.

Of anything he did, mostly because Drew Lock is still in a walking boot and appears like he's not going to be ready for this week's game.

But does it matter?

Does it matter in terms of who you're gonna start from the Giants offense, whether it's Tommy DeVito or Drew Lock.

It matters for my viewing pleasure of the because I'm gonna enjoy watching Tommy cutle It's a whole lot more than Drew Lock. No offense to Drew Locke, but no, it's still Tyro on Tracy. The leak neighbors are bussed here and even Tracy I don't love the matchup, but on paper this is a fantastic matchup from elite neighbors.

I mean it is, and I've got him in the sleeper's column this week. I know he hasn't scored a touchdown since what week three? I think is the last time he.

Is a sleeper like he qualifies. He should not be. He is talented for that to be where he is.

I also think, though Lakwan, that our frustration with Mylaie Neighbors isn't necessarily about Melakue Neighbors. It is as I as I put it in a sleeper's column, it is the crushing weight of lofty expectations, right yeah, yeah, three twenty point games in a row early in the season. Since then, I mean, he's been around like twelve to fifteen points, which isn't terrible, but it does feel like we just set the bar really high for him.

Guilty not me, because we kind of already knew what this was. I mean, the Giants O line was bad, Daniel Jones is bad, the whole team is bad. I mean, Elie Neighbors is the only shining star there. So it's like we kind of understand the bad product of having a bad quarterback what it does to these elite, top

I mean, this is where we are in week fifteen. That Elaitue Neighbors is a sleeper. We're also it feels like a lifetime ago when he was dropping Daniel Domees references right after the draft, like that felt like completely forever ago for sure. With Neighbors all at the stern Week fifteen and is fantasy playoff time for most leagues. I know there were some that started last week. I would assume they're probably some that start next week, but for the most part they stuck right now.

This is it.

So let's start with Thursday night football. Interesting game in the NFC West, longtime rivalry. The Rams go to Santa Clara to take on the forty nine Ers. You can see that at eight fifteen Eastern on Prime Video Florio. I know in your start sit column you've got Deebo Samuel as a sit. You were mentioning on NFL Fantasy Live that he got bullied on the internet.

Yeah wild, He tweeted, like, I'm playing well, I just need to get the ball and then he got community notes like you lead the team in drops and I was like, oh my god, and then he deleted the time.

I mean, the idea that a guy named Deevo got bullied is really to me, I think that's just funny. But all that being said, could we get a Squeaky Wheel game out of Deebo this week?

Yes?

And that is the one thing I put in my article. I said on Fantasy Live, like the reason, production, the usage, the history against the Rams all kind of points to reasons that you'd want to sit him. The only reason I could think of to start him is the squeaky Wheel logic. And being like he has come out publicly and called them out, are they going to build the

I think everybody I caught up on him having all those carries and all those rushing yards a few years ago, because at the time it was a big boost to what he was doing. You don't want to build a whole plane out of that, and I think that's sort of where the confusion and the frustration comes in. Those jet sweeps just not hitting the way they used to

It might be tough, and honestly, I don't know about Patrick Taylor. He didn't really get much opportunity until Grenda was injured, so it's like, I really don't understand how we're running to the waiver wire for a guy like that when we have Izzy Bonnie Kanda on the waiver wire as well.

He's more explosive. So I'm more so leaning that way.

I know, I kind of want to zeg when everybody else's bagging and kind of go that way where I feel like he's more explosive, more more efficient as well, because I didn't really see much out of Patrick Taylor that I was like, Wow, blown out of the water. I need to get this guy, So I'm really leaning that way. We're Brooklyn at my Ibana. Kanda don't want none unless she got runs Ton.

Uh.

We'll see how this thing works.

Ideally, if you're the forty nine is you just keep one or both of these guys healthy for the remainder of the game and the remainder.

Of the season. For sure.

Let's turn our attention note to the rest of Week fifteen, or at least a good chunk of Week fifteen, where I can get through all of the games because nobody's going to buy this week. But Bill's Lions on Paper is the most entertaining game of the week. The Bills coming off that score fest, they came up just short at so far against the Rams. Now they go to Detroit to take on the Lions, who have just won loss this season. We talked about this on Fantasy Live Florida.

Yes, there's a couple if you want to just say concerns, because I think you probably still start him. It's James Cook because the Lions are elite at stopping the run. They're elite at stopping pass catching running backs, and like you were pointing out on Fantasy Live, we're seeing more Ray Davis, and what I think goes under the radar is in passing situations they're using Ty Johnson now and

I mean, this is projected to be the highest scoring game of the week. I love the Josh Allen Khalils, Shakir Stack, we love, we like Jimmy or Gibbs and David Montgomery anyway, but especially this week against that Bill's run defense. Both those guys very much in play.

Again.

The morning slate of games not so great, but everything seems backloaded. All the best games of the week seem like they are backloaded.

The league wants all eyes on that game.

They do absolutely one of the other later games this week, Lakwan Bucks at the Chargers Tampa, coming out here to Los Angeles to take on Jim Harbas group. Lad McConkie did not play last week, hopefully trending toward being available this week. But let's say he doesn't go. Can you start Justin Herbert? I mean, the matchup is great, but the pass catchers aren't. Can you start Herbert without Lad?

I think you can. I think you can start them and be confident in him. Taken advantage of this banged up secondary that the Bucks got going on and understand look if Bryce Young can go out there and put up twenty plus fantasy points, I definitely think that Justin Herbert should be fine to go out there and put up some big points. I understand that Lad McConkie, if he's without that, you still have Quinton Johnson he found

I love that.

I love that idea, and I'm just I'm really happy that at some point midway through the season, Greg Roman Jim Harbaugh just decided to take the raps off and let Justin Herbert throw the football.

Now, with no JK.

Dobbins and the fact that the run game really has stalled out, I think there's more reason to believe in Justin Herbert, at least more reason for him to get opportunities. So would be great to see if he can get it done even without Lad McConkey.

This week, Steelers at.

The Eagles, the Battle of the Keystone State, with Pittsburgh heading to Philly. I'm George Pickens, another guy who right now his status kind of up in the air this week did not play last week, Gloria, which Pittsburgh pass catchers? Would you start? If any If there is no George Pickens.

Pat Friarmouth, And I think that's kind of it for me. Like last week it was, I know, like I look with six teams on by, like I see saw some people streaming Calvin Austin or Mike Williams stuff like that, and I'm like, Okay, the week called for it. This week there's no buys. It's the Fantasy playoffs. The floor is entirely too low with any of these Steelers pass catchers to trust. But Brian Muth has been putting up better results as of late. The volume has been ticking

Austin into a lineup if you don't have to. You know, I'm sort of with you on Friar Mooth. I think there's some value there. But beyond that, I do remind myself Mike Williams is a stealer. I literally have to remind myself of that driving around you that they're like.

Oh yeah, they still have Mike Williams too.

I don't get why they don't use him more.

I mean, see Ravens, Comma, Deontay Johnson, same thing.

Mike Tomman's probably looking for whoever's the craziest of this group.

And that's who's gonna pepper with Target. I mean, you know, everybody needs a new Antonio Brown. That's all I'm saying.

No, we don't.

One is fine.

We had the second coming of Dickens. There really is his own different beast. He is chaotic in a completely different way. Yeah, but it's chaotic nonetheless.

Time to talk about some sleepers for the week. LQ, who you got uh?

I'm going to Loidjah Moore as a solid sleeper this week as a flex option, maybe a wide receiver three option. But there might be a little bipolar to his game because if you look back at the game logs, it's been snip snap, snip snap since Winston became the starter. But the good news is he's taken advantage of the matchups that he's had and put up some solid points.

I'm sorry I got distracted because I just imagined in my head instead of paying out into season bonuses, the Browns just having a pizza party for all their players in the zone for real.

Who do you like here?

Lakwan's boy Brian Robinson Junior, who I feel like has kind of not overlooked, but like we haven't really spoke about him much lately because he was in and out of the law, up with injuries and he had a snap count. But in his game before the value went for one hundred yards and a touchdown. He against the Saints this week, fourteen rushing touchdowns allowed by New Orleans. They allow over five yards per carry, which is a

I mean, it very well could happen. And you're right.

We haven't talked about Robinson in a while. He had the good start of the season. I know he was banged up a little bit, but really has had I think a very excellent season. I certainly exceeded my own expectations for him for sure. For me, it's gonna be Rico Dowdell, who really has put to bed any notion that he shouldn't be the running back one there in Dallas. It's nice that they sort of done away a little bit with his Ezekiel Elliott charade that.

They have been going on.

With their playing the majority of the snaps since Week nine. The last three week has been especially good. Over three hundred and twenty rushing yards, double digit Fantasy points in three straight games, really getting a lot of the touches back there and a fantastic matchup because we've been picking on Carolina's defense all year long. Maybe the best possible matchup for a fantasy running back. No team has allowed more rushing yards than the Panthers so far this year, even with Cooper Rush.

I know there aren't a lot of places we can go.

We still like Seedee Lamb, but the Rico Dawdell has been a guy that at this point you can sort of set and forget. At least as an RB two you can set and forget. I think for the remainder of the season, still got plenty more to talk about.

We got a Sunday night game and two count them one two Monday night games this week.

We will get to those and a little bit more after the break here on the NFL Fantasy Football Show, It's time to see who will represented by Uber eats so Lakwan, who is your hot start for this week?

So Flurial, did you know that the Bills got early tickets to see Sonic three? Because yeah, it's going.

To be any of explosiveness, speed and with Sonic and knuckles ring chasing, it's about to be a movie. My guy on the ground, So I want to highlight Knuckles though aka two times twenty twenty four angry run winner David Montgomery. We saw what Kivrin Williams did last week on the ground, and Rams found a huge success on the ground, and Monty has been a beast this entire season. He's just been very consistent, only one game with a

Yeah, I feel like everybody's big on both of the Bill rather the Alliance running backs this week against the Bills.

I predicted projected fifth points for them combined on Fantasy lot You can't hurt me, like I'm already expecting.

I do love Florida getting out ahead of this, right, So he's like, look, I just I said it before you did, so it's gonna happen.

Might as well embrace it.

There it is. Florida was your hot start this week.

It was supposed to be Brian Robinson Junior. I went out of order earlier, but Calvin Ridley because I don't. I expect big things out of Calvin Ridley once again this week. He had twelve targets last week, no one else on the Titans had more than four, and his fifty seven percent first read rate and Week fourteen was by far the highest in the NFL. Fifteen fantasy points per game in his last seven games. But I think he could build on that because he's getting the Bengals

Him this week.

Yeah, I think you gotta start Calvin Ridley. Also, look, you talk about the Bengals defense, I do have them as a sleeper this week just because.

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But you know, look, as much as I love Ali bon Piri and the the folks at the edit desk there, they.

Wanted a little more gotcha than just that.

Otherwise I would have just said, well Levis and called it a day and we'll go on to the next name.

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For me.

My heart start this week is gonna be Chuba Hubbard.

And last week Cuba came out and surprised a lot of us when we did not expect much from him against.

The Philadelphia Eagles.

Instead, he gave you a really good game, got you double digit fantasy points, and found the end zone. Sadly, some of it come at the expense of Jonathan Brooks, who unfortunately suffered another knee injury and is gone for the rest of the year, but it does continue the trend of Chuba Hubbard and his outstanding breakout season over a thousand rushing yards for the first time in his career, and this week he gets a Cowboys defense that has been bad.

You heard me talk.

About Rico Dwell earlier about how he's gonna be able to run on the Panthers. We'll flip the script and Chewba Hubbard should be able to find some running room against.

The Dallas Cowboys as well.

If this is the case, this game might be over in like seventy five minutes. Both these teams just decided they're going to run the football back and forth, keep the clock moving. I don't know how many points they're going to be, but both the running backs, is what I'm saying, are very much in play in this one.

Look on where do we draft Chuba Hubbard next year?

I mean it looks like Jonathan Brooks might be gone for a good point good chunk of next year is Chuba Hubbard? What second third round guy next season?

I think he lives in the third round.

You just hope that the Panthers don't go out there and sign like some type of veteran like Alexander Madison or something weird like.

That, because I wouldn't change anything, but it would more annoying.

It's just like just kidding. He's the Cuba. It just give it to him.

He's earned it man like, he's earned my respect, even with him and Deontay Foreman back there, you know, last season and going back and forth. But Cuba, he's always had that talent explosiveness to him and he's worked his way up there and even though he's a Drake fan, it is what it is.

Yeah, for sure.

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Back to are we fifteen previews? Sun that I have football Florio Packers at the Seahawks. Do we still trust Jayden Reid? He's been absolut lately.

I don't like, no, I don't want to trust him, But fantasy is weird, and watch this is the kind of game like you'll pull him from your lineup and it'll score two touchdowns or something like that. But just one target last week, and if you pull it back even further, three or fewer targets in three of his last four games, and the carries haven't really been there all that much. In his last four game five games, he has just two carries, So you can't rely on

Yeah, I mean, like it's just hard to get away from him, but he also has been He's been so gone recently that it's just it's really hard to get behind him. Two Monday Night games coming up this week. The first one the Bears at the Vikings Lakwan Raate. For me, the Bears rank I should say the Bears wide receivers against this Minnesota secondary.

Dj Moore at one, and then you got Roma Dunze and then Keenan Allen. I think DJ Moore's won only because Thomas Brown understands that assignment. He knows what he has to do get the ball to DJ Moore on the design plays, and I think the thirty three percent target share shows that. And honestly, Roman Donze has been showing up a ton in the red zone. Actually all season long, he's actually had more red zone targets in Keenan Allen, even though Keenan Allen recently has found success

Like I think we're all going to be like, look at what Caleb Williams and Keenan Allen and DJ Moore did on Thanksgiving against his Vikings defense, and I think Brian Flores is going to draw up a completely different game plan and just come out and wreck havoc.

I don't love that at all, because I have both Caleb and Keenan Allen as sleepers this week.

I mean, I've got DJ Moore this week.

Bro, It's not impossible, but that's I just DJ.

I did say that Caleb shocks the Vikings this week, and for sure, that was my bold prediction, one of my bold predictions for the week second Monday Night game, it's the Falcons at the Raiders. It's the maybe the Desmond Rudder Funge game if Aid and O'Connell doesn't play, but that Florida. Do we still believe in Drake London and Darnell Mooney considering how much Kirk Cousins has struggled.

Yes, because despite the struggles, Like, yeah, Kyle Pitts is somewhere, we have no idea what he's doing or where he's going anything like that. But these other two wide receivers have continued to be productive. And I know Drake London it doesn't feel like he's living up to expectations. But if you look at it on the season, he is a top ten Fantasy wide receiver. He's eight Molik Neighbors nine, Like they're right there as two guys are, like, really

The good news this is a reminder that just because a quarterback throws interceptions, it has nothing to do with your fantasy wide receivers. So Kirk Cousins to go out to throw four picks does not impact you if you're starting Drake London and DARRENL. Mooney, except for the fact that just means the Falcons don't have the ball. It's time to drive your line. I'm presented by the all new hybrid Toyota. Camery got about ninety seconds left in the show, Lakwan, what is your hot take for the week?

Anthony Richardson a top five fantasy quarterback this week, and look, two of his three last games have been twenty plus points. Twenty nine rushing attempts in the last three games as well, with three rushing touchdowns and seventy five percent of those runs were by design. This is a real opportunity to go out there and cook, I mean cook the Broncos defense because they've been getting done up through the air.

All Right, Floria, what's your hot take?

Similar with the top five theme, I think Khalils Shakir top five wide receiver this week. Like I am so excited to watch what he is going to do. Not only has he been really consistent as of late fantasy points wise and volume wise, but the Lions are in the top five and yards and fantasy points for game two wide receivers. They are the only team to allow over eight thousand yards to slot receivers. No one else has allowed eight sixty. So that just shows you how

Yeah.

I love Khalil Shakira this week one hundred percent. We talked about Mylaku Nighbors. I will tell you that my hot take, he goes for one hundred yards in a touchdown this week. The targets have been there consistently. Only three other receivers have a higher target share than Malik Neighbors. This year only seven other six other receivers rather have a higher air yards share than Neighbors. Yes, the production hasn't been what we wanted to. It's been a long

That's just my two cents there.

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