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Nobody really wants to look at me.
So the talking is important. So we we had a, we had a week.
We did we it was, I mean the start of the week was a lot more
fun than the end of the week as far as like quality of games is
concerned. They really they gave us all the
good stuff for Thanksgiving and then the Sunday main slate was a
little bit of a snoozer, but we got to finish the week up with
dessert. We got to watch Drake May in a
prime time game. So that's always very fun and
and he delivered. Per per usual.
There were many chance of MVPI feel like he did make the the
MVP race between him and Stafford a little closer with
Stafford having all of the reasons.
And trying to pick six definitely, definitely it makes
because before did you see the broadcast before you drew the
the first pick and they're like and this guy.
Has. Grown 25 touch, I forget the
number. 2528 touchdown passes with no interceptions.
The previous record was 20 and I'm like holy shit this guy has
to win MVP and like 2 seconds later pick.
Next, immediately. Pick 6 OK, this is a
competition. Yeah, the the regression there
came in bunches. And so Stafford definitely gave
up some footing. I think he probably still is the
favorite for MVP over May, but not not by a ton.
I really I think I mean, you want my take.
What it all comes down to is does Drake may beat Josh Allen
for a second time to basically, you know, clinch the one seed
and the the division? Like if he does that, I think
it's you're going to be hard pressed to not give him the MVP.
He'll have to keep putting up, you know, good statistics
because Stafford is going to keep accumulating touchdowns
when they do the Devante. Adams.
You know, touchdown. I'd make I'd make Stafford a
heavy favorite. There's big time it's his turn
energy with Stafford. I don't know if if that's like
a, a, a true consideration, but I, I, I think the vibes will be
for Stafford. No, I don't think you're wrong
there. I, I think that Drake, Drake has
to really earn it. Stafford just has to not fumble
it. You know, if he, he can cruise
to MVP, Drake May is going to have to unseat him if he wants
it. But I, I like those chances.
At least I I think May is is definitely live.
For it, yeah, certainly, certainly.
Which is pretty fun. That's pretty fun.
He certainly wins sophomore to year award.
Yeah, quick note, on the QB chart, we have excluded Max
Brosberg. He just breaks the chart.
And we also do not have Chadur Sanders on the chart for this
week. There was a an error in his data
that we had that was skewing the chart and showing him with like
basically 0 adjusted yards per attack.
Imagine he's right around here. Yeah, he's like the worst, yeah,
the worst quarterback on the chart as far as what you would
want for fantasy, because he does not drop back very many
times and he is not very efficient, only people less
efficient than him on the chart. Are he, he plays the Browns and
he plays for the Browns. Yeah, I, I, I mean, I'm pretty
encouraged watching him and some, some of the, some of the
I, I know they, I saw his QB or was like 17 on the year, like
one of the worst ever in the NFL almost.
And but I don't know, given given the quality of play around
them, I, I think that's a kind of encourage clear that he's
better than Dylan Gabriel, He'll.
He'll get a chance to compete for the job in the offseason.
It'll probably be him and Deshaun Watson.
I would guess competing for the job.
Who knows if they bring in another body to compete or if if
it's another shot, but that does seem to be the future of the
Browns quarterback room, which is not encouraging.
Right. Yeah.
I mean, they have the, they have the picks to no, no, they have
the picks to, to get somebody in this draft.
Oh boy. But it's not.
It's not. Yeah.
So on, on, on to the fantasy relevant quarterbacks.
Is is percent continuing to be incredible?
Yeah, I mean, he's not even just fantasy relevant.
I think he is one of the most important quarterbacks for
fantasy here. Down the stretch, Cardinals
declined to open Kyler Murray's practice window.
Really just I mean, you've got to think that the best thing for
them as an organization is to drag the Kyler injury out
through the rest of the season. And unless the wheels truly fall
off for Brissett. But I think you just you want
the plausible deniability for Kyler that hey, it wasn't, you
know, it was just injury or like.
He's not damaged. Goods, right?
Exactly. So I, I think we should see
Brissett close the season out unless something truly horrific
happens for him. I do think Brissett's pretty
important from like ADFS standpoint for the rest of the
season. He's been under projected like
every week for the last four weeks.
Basically he's one where every single week I go in and adjust
this projection up because it is still been too low.
It's getting closer and closer but I feel like projections.
What's that? The Cardinals have the third
highest pass rate over expected. Yeah, they're just slinging it.
I mean, look at where he is as far as dropbacks per game.
Right, right, right. He's Mahomes.
So incredible volume. And then even stuff like I know
he had the the sack fumble stuff against Seattle.
His pressure to sack rate is like not bad.
It's like 18%, which is not very good, but it's not like this guy
is just crumbling against them. Pressure.
Yeah, and the Cardinals offensive line has not been so
fantastic. I mean that they definitely need
some help there. He's been getting pressured at a
a decent clip. I mean, really, if you look at
like some of the more efficiency that like if you're looking at
EPA per game, the that's really where like you start to see a
difference between Brissette and Mahomes.
And it's because Mahomes is in positions where he he's actually
like doing meaningful things. A lot of the Brissett stuff is
just coming from like very cool completion.
You know it, it's big time hits a three, Paul Pierce hits a
three to cut the lead to 32 or whatever, right?
And a. Lot of garbage time stuff.
Yes, but he is. I think he's really important
for fantasy. He's just someone where if
you're doing DFS, you know, for these last few weeks of the
season, you should be paying attention to the Brissette
projection. If he's not like projecting for
I, I kind of use Mahomes as like the watermark for Brissette
where I'm like, he shouldn't project for as much as Mahomes,
but he should be pretty darn close, which is kind of seems
kind of crazy, but that's like my, you know, kind of my rule of
thumb. And then you can obviously
adjust it a little bit for matchup, but for the most part
he he's just been under projected.
Right, you're kind of saying that if if you're you get closer
to the pluck by just putting in Mahomes projection than his his
current projection almost. Yeah, Mahomes is probably like
going a a bridge a little too far, but you know, it's.
Yeah, yeah. I'm not saying you just do that,
but you're saying, you're saying that's closer than his actual
projection. Like you, you, you you go you
just off of that projection, not his own projection.
Yeah. OK.
I had another note here on a a quarterback that's had a good
stretch lately, much like Jacoby Brissett.
But are we? Are we ready to get hurt by
Bryce Young again? Or are you going to do it next
year? Yeah, I mean, it's kind of weird
that he, he, he, he has these. It's two years in a row now.
We're down the stretch. He's been excellent.
I, I, I, you know, I had my pet Terry that he, he's very good
against zone and, and struggles more against man.
But it's, it's weird that there's this other pattern that
down the stretch he's been incredible.
Like I guess he shot the bed in week 12 and just a 2.9 adjusted
yards per drop back 3.4 per attempt.
But then week 1011.3, week 1111.3, week 1313.3 yeah, I
don't know, like just pretty incredible.
And and then he he gets 3 touchdowns against a Rams
defense that has just like crushed quarterbacks, like
absolutely demolished them and I.
Yeah, I, I don't want to take anything away from Bryce John
'cause he, you know, the performance against the Rams
was, was good. The two of the three touchdowns
come on these I mean it, they were more a product of fantastic
play calling. Like it's two different 4th and
shorts where the Rams are ready to sell out to stop the run.
And so they just get one-on-one coverage and it's just, hey,
it's our guy versus your guy. And we are willing to lean into
the really high variance play of we're just going to take a shot
to the end zone on 4th and two and 4th and three.
And if we miss it, Oh well, we're going to lose the game
anyway. And if we make it, that's the
kind of thing that that lets us beat the Rams.
And they converted both of them. And both of those were good
throws. Again, not to take anything.
In the face of pressure as well, because to get single coverage
you you you also get a blitz. But I do want to point out that
they're they're high variants, right?
Like that's a thing where just as easily could have gone the
other way, where it's like, oh, Bryce barely missed them or, you
know, oh, it was, you know, just a little bit off.
And we're much less impressed with the, you know, the game now
ends where the Rams beat him by 14.
Bryce has one touchdown on the day and, you know, almost 100
and fewer yards. And we're we're a lot less
impressed. So I think the truth is
somewhere in between, he's probably doing enough to where
and and he's very fortunate that the, you know, incoming
quarterback class is so bad. He's doing enough that he at the
very least is going to get a seat at the table if there's a
quarterback competition next year.
But he might be doing enough to where there's not even a
competition and they just they give him one more year to
develop, which is not what I would do.
But I am not in charge of the Carolina Panthers.
Yeah. And yeah, I and I mean who, who
would they even bring in as a competition like?
Like I mean I. Honestly think he smokes the
kind of the Joe Flacco's. Like, I think he's good enough
that he'd smoke somebody like that.
Yeah, I, I would, I would just say any, maybe any of those
veterans who you think like they might actually give us a a
better chance to win this year. If if the Panthers think that
they can be competitive in a, you know, relatively weak
Division, I mean, there's there's also going to be guys on
the market like you, you could potentially get a Kyler thing
going there, which would make zero sense.
To me, that would be very funny. It's like our problem is that we
have a short quarterback who is really not suited for this under
the gun or under the center type stuff that we want to do.
So we're just. Going to that would be bad from
the the Panthers though, right? Oh, it'd be very.
Bad. Yeah, I know.
Like. From a roster construction
perspective where they have they have the the cheap rookie
quarterback contract and they have what this is year 2.
So out of a five year deal and Year 5 is the option and more
expensive but still cheap. And they then they decide to
like, ruin that edge by taking on the Cutler Murray contract.
Yeah, I know. And that would be terrible guys
that I would if if I was in charge, the legitimate decisions
I would consider would be Marcus Mariota, if I can get him, I
think like he's probably good enough, better than Bryce Young
that I could maybe do something with A-Team if I felt like my
roster was very good. I'm also just down for Jameis
Winston, like, but I think Jameis is under contract for
another year with the Giants so that I can't remember if he's
just a one year deal or if he signed A2 year deal.
But the guy, guys of that caliber would be what I'd, you
know, be interested in. Right.
That's what you would do. I don't.
I don't think they will. No, I I think it's yeah, he's
he's probably he's probably going to start another year.
A guy who shouldn't start another year.
You can you can go ahead. This one.
I don't care if this age is poorly.
I'll just put this one out here. Cam Ward stinks.
Cam Ward will not be an NFL quarterback.
He's so bad. I've I've now watched every Cam
Ward rap from three different games, and I can confidently say
that's three games too many. He is just think of the worst
parts of Justin Fields where you're like, dude, how do you
not see what's going on right in front of you?
Like all you have to do is open your eyes.
That's Cam Ward every play. Sometimes Justin Fields is like,
Oh my God, he he read a defense like he knows what's going on
out there. Cam Ward has zero clue.
Like it's so frustrating watching him where you see a
route developing and you're like, nice, that's going to be
open. Cam Mord has no clue that it's
going to be open. He's like, I'm just going to
hang on in here and every it feels like so often he's holding
the ball so, so long. And and there's like, at the
very least, it's like, dude, there's a check down there for
like you just take the 5 yard. If you, if you weren't willing
to like push it down field here, at least take the five yards.
And it was just ugly stuff. I mean, Pollard was having
success running the ball early in the game and it was just any
time that they had to pass, the drive was over.
It was like, well, we got into a passing situation.
So that's that drive's done. We the their first drive, they
marched down the field. It was like, yeah, we stayed
ahead of the sticks. We're doing fine.
But after that first drive, it was like Jaguars realized if we
force Cam Lord to throw the ball, he can't do that, right?
So. That's not allowed.
The run on 1st and 2nd down forced it the the turn down
throw. Yeah, he's like less arm
talented. Jordan Love had a baby with
Justin Fields, but also less physically gifted.
He doesn't have the rushing capability of Fields.
So it's like the processing power of Justin Fields and the
arm talent of an injured Jordan Love.
It's like, all right now we're. Cooking his arm talent is pretty
sick that. That's the one thing I mean,
Jordan Love's arm talent is phenomenal.
So to to confident injured Jordan Love like I feel like
that's fair. OK, He's I I yeah, I phrasing in
his arm talent is probably his arm talent is good.
It's just super inconsistent for for how high the highs can be.
The lows are terrible. Like there were a couple times
where he did identify a receiver to throw the ball to and it's
just like off by 5 yards. Like it just it lands in a void
in the defense and not, not like one of those oh man,
miscommunication from the receipt.
They were just on different pages.
He wanted the guy to keep going with the route and the receiver
throttled down. Like, no, he just fucking
missed. It was a it was a 15 yard throw
and he's off by 5. It was it was gross stuff, man.
Do not watch it. It's kind of like it's like that
old scary movie The ring. Like I'm telling you right now,
don't watch anymore, Kim Ward. Don't do it.
Don't let it into your home. I.
Remember that movie? Yeah.
So don't do it. I'm I did it so that you don't
have to. Don't do it.
The rain is the. Kind of scary movie that if you
watch it and you're like, oh, this isn't that scary.
Why? Why don't they watch more scary
movies? And then you watch an actual
scary movie and that's holy shit.
That's a great way to explain Kim Ward, too, because to be
fair to him, he's no JJ McCarthy or Max Brozmer, right?
But yes, he is. He's the scary movie that's not
actually scary. It's like, God, this is bad.
And then you watch an actual really bad quarterback, you're
like, Oh my God, never mind. Yeah, I might have been the one,
the one, the one. And this is a little bit
selfish, but I I bet something that people are having trouble
with is people who drafted Lamar Jackson in the main events.
They're starting Lamar Jackson because they drafted him early
and now kind of starting to question like we obviously have
them on the full year. We have them up high on the the
adjusted yards per per attempt. And but his last four games have
been absolutely atrocious. And I guess it's a it's
something I'm wondering. I'd be wondering if I had Lamar,
can you still play Lamar or? I I guess the, the easy starting
point is you're, you're hoping that if you have the Lamar team
that you have picked up Jacoby percent already and you're
playing him instead. I think you're still starting
Lamar. He's still projecting pretty
well. Also, if you watch the Bengals
game, it wasn't like he was so bad there.
There were a couple things where he's just like, I mean, the
biggest criticism I could give is like there are a couple
throws where he's like not even a full beat behind.
Maybe it's not even that he's behind.
He's just off on his place, but just.
That ended at the end of the game throws where it's like
drive the field to win the game. There was ones where you skied
it. Yeah.
Had tight ends open and it's like whoosh or it was zay
flowers. He was trying to go to Zay
flowers because I was sweating zay flowers and it just wasn't
even in the same zip code. And I'm like, this is like, this
is a trouble that I would expect from JJ McCarthy.
Yeah, at the end of the game it did feel like it kind of fell
apart. But earlier in the game a lot of
the zayflowers missed connections were like it hit him
in the hands and it was a really tough catch.
He didn't bring it in or it it hit him in the hands and it was
a tad behind and there's a defender there and the defender
made the play, right. Or I mean, you get the the bomb
touchdown to Zayflowers. It gets taken away from a
phantom Pi call. Like I think that I think you're
a lot closer. Also, there's the Isaiah likely
fumble, right? Like there with just a very
small tweak to the outcome that we got.
You end up with two more touchdowns and like 150 more
passing yards with the likely or I guess the likely one counted
as as passing yards. But you get the Zay Flowers bomb
touchdown and you get the likely touchdown.
I think we're not panicking about Lamar if we get those two
things. And I I think that he's just
continuing to get healthier. He he doesn't seem totally
right, but it wasn't as he didn't seem as Hanford as the
last time I saw him. So I don't know.
I think you're still starting him.
But like if you have, let's just say hypothetically that you pick
up Brock Purdy, someone dropped him when he was injured.
You want to do Brock Purdy or Lamar?
I think you, I think you've probably sold me on on Lamar
over Brock Brody. Yeah, what about Daniel Jones or
Lamar? Someone who's I, I guess it's
like hurt Daniel Jones against hurt Lamar.
You probably want hurt Lamar. Yeah.
OK. Last one.
Let's think of one that someone could feasibly have gotten off
waivers. OK, This is actually a pretty
good one. Mariota or Lamar?
I feel, I feel like you, you probably have a little bit more
stability with Mariota. Like Lamar's obviously a much
better quarterback. But let me let me pull up, let
me pull up some Mariota stuff. Like Mariota had 50 attempts on
Sunday night, high watermark, but he had 3030 and he's also
not the most if he had 605 yards.
Oh my God. Yeah, no, that that game waited
overtime where both teams drove the field and scored.
So that is definitely going to pad the stats a little bit
there. He's running, though, like
Mariota is adding a floor with his legs.
Me personally, I'd still do Lamar.
I just, I think that think you just got to ride it out, man.
I, I don't think we've seen enough to be like, Oh yeah, it's
over for Lamar this season. That's, you know, pack it in.
Yeah, No, I, I I'm with you. You've convinced me.
I'm not part and I'm just thinking like you're probably
getting a more stable floor, more stable median with Mariota
and the defense is probably bad enough that there's a ceiling
there just on volume 2. OK, the I had just a couple more
notes here on the quarterback chart.
Oh, this one was just funny because we were talking about it
during the game when it happened, but that Bonex spot
where the the commentators are just in the middle of talking
about how good Bonex is he's he's one of the best, you know,
off platform throwers in the league.
You know people are are clowning they.
Clearly prepared a segment to talk true how great Bonex was.
Like they clearly planned that research and taught about what
they were going to say about how great Bonex is.
And then as they were, as soon as they finished talking, Bonex
chose like the back breaking interception.
It's a really bad news and I message.
You hey, did you see that too? And you're like, Yup, it.
Was really bad, yeah. I think he also took a really
bad sack, right. It was is great.
It was great timing. To his credit, though, he did
have a nasty off platform touchdown in that game.
So it's the the Bonex detractors are correct and also the Bonex
Glazers are correct. He is.
He's everything that haters say that he is, and he's also
everything that the the Glazers say that he is.
You know what Bonex is? He's like when people, when the
people who like Cam Ward are watching Cam Ward, that's who
Bone Nix actually is. Yes, the the the love the
fantasy that people have of Cam Ward is what Bone Nix actually
is. Yep, because he can do he can
make some awesome throws and then there's also a lot of not
awesome with it. But yeah, at least Bone Nix is
like 10 times the processor Cam Ward you you would need to give
Cam Ward like 30 seconds to process a play in the way that
Bonex processes it. That's just the difference
between these guys at, you know, at the NFL level.
It that does not work in college.
Cam Ward could just sit and then extend a play and but he's just
not athletic enough to be extending plays like that in the
NFLI mean we barely see it work for Kayla Williams like and and
that's one of his larger weaknesses as well.
You have to be like a freak athlete with an insane arm to
make it work as Kayla Williams. Like we literally just saw Kyla
Murray, you know, effectively get benched before we were set
because it stopped working for him.
So that the bar to do that is quite high to be that type of
quarterback in the league if you're not very good in
structure as well. Mahomes is like the Mahomes is
the example of like this is what it looks like when you can do it
out of structure and extend plays and also do it in
structure. Although it it, you know,
there's definitely been, we've seen better play for Mahomes
than what we're getting this season as a whole.
Yeah, yeah. It started out phenomenal, but
it seems to have like flamed out a little bit.
It's it's starting to come back a little bit.
It's just, I feel like the misses from Mahomes are so vivid
to me because it's like, oh, this is Pat Mahomes, you
shouldn't miss that. And it's like you see,
especially the deep stuff because it felt like early in
his career he really like made his hey with the deep ball, but
that was probably more a Tyree kill product than a pad.
Like it's just a lot if you're gonna miss long, but then you
have a guy who's like, actually, it's not possible to miss me
long. That really good thing about.
Tyree Kill is that he's better than anyone at adjusting to the
ball in the air. Like obviously he's way faster
than everyone, which helps get to the ball faster than everyone
else. But he also he read like there's
some players who they're able to read where the ball is going to
go. They're able to see the ball in
flight and say that ball is going over there and and much
earlier than other people, which is what Tyreke was able to do.
Whereas some players they can't do that.
They don't realize where the ball is going to go like until a
second or beat or two later. Yeah, OK.
Last note I had on the quarterback chart and then we
can get to running backs. Baker Mayfield was a guy I was a
little worried about where he had the shoulder injury.
He gets knocked out of the game against the Rams.
Wasn't certain if that was going to be something where it like,
really was a drag on him for the rest of the season.
But he came back, played the full game, looked solid, like
looked wholly unencumbered by it.
Godwin back and looking pretty reasonable, you know, not
running a full, you know, set of routes yet, but he's he's
increasing his snaps and I think that they're saying they're live
to get. Baker Mayfield for a guy would
have Yeah, not throwing shoulder off shoulder.
That's pretty nuts. Yeah, they could get Evans back
as well. And obviously Bucky was a huge,
huge lift for the offense. So I think the Bucks are pretty
exciting. I think Baker Mayfield might be
a pretty fun quarterback down the stretch here.
Just if you know the rising tide lifts all shifts for that
offense and and getting Bucky back I think really, really is a
big help for what they want to do so.
Are are are the Are the Bucks a a playoff basketball target?
Yeah, they're they're one that you they're like not as comment
is, you know, the Broncos are the secrets kind of out on the
Broncos. Like a lot of people are
slamming Broncos now. The Packers are one where it's
like I prefer to go into Packers over Bucks.
But if I missed the vote on Packers, I'm I'm into Bucks.
Bucks definitely can get there. The one of the hard things about
the Bucks though, is it really feels pretty condensed, like
there's some team. Like with the Packers, you don't
feel all that bad spending 5 roster slots on Packers.
If you get Josh Jacobs and Jordan Love and then three
receivers, you, you feel pretty good about that.
You know, with the Bucks, I if you're willing to draft Evans
right now, then I guess you probably don't feel quite so bad
about that. But right now it's just like,
all right, it's Baker, Bucky and Buca.
You could mix some Godwin in, but it's it's one where I'm
more. Playing like Godwin or Auten for
a playoff run and I'm sorry, not playoff for a Super Bowl run.
Yeah. That's the only way that works,
which probably feels a lot less comfortable of a bet.
Right, right. Where where a team like even the
the Chargers. So it's also a site by site
difference thing too. Like on DraftKings, you really
would prefer for your team to have its own tight end, like,
it's strong tight end on it. Yeah.
Because otherwise, you're not going to feel the full roster in
the Super Bowls where it's just that team that you have.
So teams like the Chargers are really sick because there's a
million receivers you can draft, but there's a a strong running
back that goes late, and then there's a strong tight end that
goes late and you can chat them all.
And so the Chargers are a pretty good bailout option.
But teams like, for example, the Texans, who have OK playoff odds
right now, not that much worse than the Chargers, they're not
as appealing because it's like, what are you going to draft?
You know, sure, you can have Dalton Schultz and Nico call
like Dalton Schultz, you're fine to take on DK Nico Collins
you're happy to take. But are you really drafting
Woody marks? Like, I don't want to draft
Woody marks. You're certainly not drafting
Nick Chubb. And then after that, it's like,
are you really going to take Jaden Higgins?
So it's like you just run out of pieces on the Texans, so they're
not quite as appealing to me. Is that like a a woody an anti
woody marks in general take or just that he's too expensive
relative? No, no, no.
He's free. He's free.
It's just that. So then what?
Other. Because other.
Free running back section. But yeah, other free players
score triple the Woody Marks points.
So it's like, I don't need to take.
It's the same reason that you don't take a Ray Davis or you
know, something like that for the Bills, because it's like if
you do happen to show up to the bills Super Bowl with Ray Davis,
congratulations on your min cash.
Like the Ray Davis points might as well be an empty rosters.
It's a it's a rosters. What?
He marks, though, I think if the Texans, I guess you have to
believe the Texans Super Bowl. But if you get the Texans to the
Super Bowl, Woody Marks running back points are going to be
pretty, pretty good. I I would just much, there's
almost no opponent I can think of or I wouldn't rather just
have the opponent's running back over Woody Marks.
Like the Woody Marks roster is never going to be the nutted
roster. So I'm like not super excited to
do that when it's already a thin.
It's like one of the things that we've seen in testing with The
Sims is if you're already doing something thin, you'd at least
like it to be that when the low probability event occurs, you're
going to win the money. But here you're like trying to
parlay a thing where it's like, not only do I need this low
probability event to occur, I also need Woody Marks to score
more than, you know, say that you're Texans again, you know,
Texans against the Rams. It's like, OK, well, Woody Marks
has to score more than Puka or Devante Adams or Kyron Williams.
Like he doesn't have to outscore all of them, but he's got to
outscore one of them. And so all of a sudden it's a
lot less appealing. Or I mean, even like the Eagles,
you're like, OK, Woody Marks now has to outscore Saquon or Dallas
Goddard or like, it's just not a thing I'm super excited to be
doing. If the Texans had really high
playoff probability or like, high, you know, odds of making
it to the Super Bowl, then I'm interested in Woody Marks.
But other than that, not particularly.
Right, They're they're they're a team that that that profiles as
early advance rate piece and and and there's just no interest in
in woody marks. For yeah, the earlier that you
need, yeah, the earlier in the tournament that you need a
player to be helpful for you, the better.
They have to be scoring and Woody marks.
Right. And I guess that's pretty
intuitive, but that makes sense where like if, if they have low,
if they have low Super Bowl odds and they're kind of mediocre,
then it's just not appealing at all.
Because it's like, I could just take the Chargers, who have
better playoff odds than the Texans, and then I get Amari and
Hampton. And it's like, I think I'd
prefer just doing the Amari and Hampton side.
And there's a there's a point at which the odds for the Texans
get good enough that you're like, I'll do some Woody marks,
but it's just not there right now.
And so. Makes makes sense for sure.
And so, Speaking of running backs, we should probably just.
Yeah, that was that was a. Wheel wheel on in to the the
running back room. So your first note here is the
the Janti Mega target chair and and potentially seeing that as
signal with the new offensive coordinator.
Yeah. I'm curious what you think about
that. It was that just like a one game
aberration or do you think that it's just going to be Janti
getting a million check downs going?
Forward, yeah. So I think in general, when a
when a running back gets a lot of check downs usually like
that's not that that shouldn't be the plan and that they get a
lot of check downs and his it's, it's -20 air yards on his on the
six targets. So minus point tree, minus tree,
A dot on the other hand, on the other hand, the signal here is
that he had an 82% route, right, which that's obviously offense
coordinator driven. And then if you look at his
target Sprout run over a year other than week 1, he's been he
said like week two, it was 22% week 415 percent, 35 percent, 24
percent, 11 percent, 17 percent, 20 percent, 25 percent, 26
percent 26%. This may just be one of those
ways where like he's too good of a player to actually be framing
of this. So I'm not sure how else I say
it, but I'm I said, but I'm not sure how else I'll say it.
And but it's almost like the offense is failing.
True, true. Overstuffing Janti, yeah,
targets. And I guess he's getting 5 yards
of perception in this game, 7.3 before.
So I guess it's not truly, it's not particularly efficient.
So you would hope for a productive offense to be getting
more than 5 yards of catch options.
But if the offense isn't very good, they traded away Jacoby
Myers and obviously they have Brock Bowers, they don't have a
lot of other options. It I'll be honest, this does
seem pretty systemic actually. Yeah, my my read just from
watching the game was that it it's it's probably the only
thing that they're comfortable with where it's like, man, we
can't I. Lost five games.
It's 66.4 targets a game. I I just think like they can't
throw to any receivers and they'd really love to throw to
Bowers, but defenses are very much keying on that.
And so I think this is just the logical, you know, this is the
flow chart. It's like I can't, none of my
receivers are open. Brock Bowers is sextuble covered
for the 10th play in a row. Check down I.
Guess I'll just check it down. So I I think that you might and
then. The 82% red share, that's very
interesting too. Yeah, I mean, they're basically
they're acknowledging like no one can get open on pass plays,
so Genti get out there because someone needs to be there to
catch it when they sextuple cover Brock Bowers again.
So yeah, I think I think this is something that's probably going
to be pretty sticky through the rest of the season.
He might might be able to PPPPR scan this way into relevance.
Yeah, yeah, I digging into it more.
It looks pretty good. And he still had, he still had,
he still had a decent amount of a pass blocking too.
Like so 50% of the snap of his snap of the team snaps were
routes with Jonty and then 9% pass blocking.
So I think he, I think he was out there for 100%, pretty close
to 100% of their drop box, which that's pretty damn bullish.
Yeah, that's what the offensive coordinator change.
OK. The next note that I had was
regarding two of two of the guys that have been getting stellar
usage, but they both have kind of waned as the season has gone
on, although one of them never really got got out of the
starting walk. Yeah, that's Javonte Williams
versus Saquon Barkley. And and my question for you is,
let's just say hypothetically that that's a start sit for you.
Are you starting Javonte Williams over Saquon Barkley
now? And that's a little bit
depressing for the Saquon drafters.
Like, yeah, your your orbit, your utter running back has to
be pretty good or better than running backs.
I have to not just be starting the pair of them.
But I think that's pretty close. I think that's pretty close
where they're getting. Let me think that's true.
They're getting pretty similar usage.
So since week 10, Saquon Barkley, he's he's on the field
for 94% of snaps. Wow, actually that that was
sorry. That's the the the most recent
game, 82% of snaps. Where is Jovante's out for?
What is this 79%? And and they've got similar.
So Javante's running a little bit less routes, he's pass
blocking a little bit more, but he's got Doc Prescott as his
quarterback and the offense is more functional.
I think. I think you're probably Javante.
It's close, but I think you're probably Javante.
Yeah, I think his TD equity is higher too.
The Cowboys as an offense are just scoring more touchdowns and
he also doesn't lose out to the touchdown vulture aspect of the
tush push. I, I do, I think it's close just
cause Saquon still is getting, you know, he has an elite
workload. The other, you know, to, to
devil's advocate and detract from Javonte a little bit, they
have been using Malik Davis a little bit more, not a ton, you
know, but Malik Davis is what people hope that Jayden Blue
would be for this offense. It just it turns out that you
have to be better than UDFA to, you know, your your talent level
has to be greater than a UDFA to see an NFL field.
And unfortunately for Jaden Blue, that is not the case.
So he's he's just not out there. But Malik Davis is doing the
like Miles Sanders change of pace type stuff in the offense
now. And so and he looks more
explosive than Javonte too. Not to, again, not to poo poo
Javonte like you're pretty happy to start him right now.
But it's just he's not, he doesn't have like the same burst
that Malik Davis does. He's more of like the physical
bruiser, you know, bell cow carry the workload, you know,
out there pass blocking type of guy.
And he's doing that well. But yeah, I think.
Yeah, Malik Davis is is pure change of pace.
Yes. He's not.
He's not getting a lot of snaps. It's a lot of the times it's
just, oh, Malik Davis is in the game.
It's because we're going to hand him the ball here and then he's
going to immediately go back to the bench.
It's not there. There's no real upside with
Malik Davis If if Javonte were to get injured, I don't even
think that Malik Davis, you know, is someone that you're
particularly excited to start. It probably just becomes some
very disgusting timeshare there where he's.
Better than Davis is is like a Yeah Showdown consideration.
Yeah. Oh, he's I I've been slamming
him and when I play cowboy showdowns for a little bit now,
but yeah, he's he's not someone where you're don't don't worry
about having him on your on your bench as a handcuff or anything.
That's not a not a thing you need to do.
OK, another another kind of usage guy who we saw his usage
go way down after the injury when he came back.
But in their most recent game, it came back up a little bit.
And that's from Andre Stevenson where we get, you know, for the
first week of him being back, Trayvion still looked like he
was the dominant bell cow in the backfield.
But last night we get a lot more work for Stevenson where it
seems like it. It looks like 5050.
Right. But before it was like 80. 20
yeah, yeah, yeah, a lot more. So you're saying a lot more than
before. Correct, correct.
Yeah, it, it, it, Yeah, it went from at Trayvon at Top dog to to
5050, which is probably not, not too surprising given that he was
coming off the injury before and that maybe helped.
Yeah, I, I, I got the, it looked to me like they were splitting
series. And then when a series got very
long, they'd rotate the other guy in.
Yeah, I, I didn't pick up on that, but that's a good note.
It just I was tilting a little bit because I I wanted more
trivia on Henderson. Yeah, no, I do too.
So I still. Don't.
Think I still think it's going to be Henderson by the playoffs.
Like I I think reminder like it like it's kind of like if he's
even he's leaving kind of situation.
Yeah. Like they clearly wanted this to
be the reminder season like that was they're full intent going
into the year and we're we're still just a Romandre bad fumble
away and Trayvon housing the next series from like this being
Henderson's backfield. Yeah, and although Romandre did
look better than he has, but it was against the Giants putrid
run defense, so I don't want to take too much away from that.
I, I he's a fine like when he's not fumbling, he's a fine NFL
running back. Like he has good attributes.
It just he's not Trayvon Henderson and he fumbles.
Yeah, I I do think he's a pretty undervalued piece in playoff
basketball. The tricky part about him is
like as soon as he gets any kind of cost, he's just not super
exciting. Pats are the favorite to get the
buy now. And so you're going to have a
guy who contributes nothing in week 1 and then you're not
particularly excited to have like if he's hitting your line
up in Week 2 or week 3, it's probably not super helpful like
because his he's not going to score a ton, but he's like, Hey,
he filled my flex, right? He got he got 8 and he's in my
flex and he he so he's not super exciting, but he he seems he's
like right on the you want to talk about guys who don't
project for a ton of points, but like you drafted in any way.
Romandre Stevenson is the perfect Woody Marks corollary
where it's like, am I excited to see Woody Marks or Romandre
Stevenson in either of my line UPS in a single week fantasy
contest? No.
But if they're the only show in town, like if this is the Super
Bowl and Romandre is one of three or four running backs with
a projection greater than two points, yeah, I'm really excited
to have him on my team. But if he's one of 12 active
running backs in a week and he's the RB 8 of 12 or RB-9 of 12,
I'm way less excited. And so you if Stevenson is
really cheap like he currently is, he feels pretty good if
you're trying to sneak some basically like if you got a
Patriots combo. And right now, because it's just
a little ambiguous like how the playoffs are going to shake out,
this is less less viable because it it's more possible to get
really strong teams constructed with all the studs.
But later in the playoff festival cycle, where it all of
a sudden becomes difficult to get, like there could be a point
where it becomes very hard to get two of the three of Mae
Henderson and Diggs right? Where it's like, God, it's just
you can't get two of those three on a team.
Like everyone's taking a Patriots piece 'cause they're
the one seed and they look, you know, like if that's happening,
then Stevenson's a great pick later because he's a guy that
will be active in the Super Bowl and it's hard to get like the
nutted combo. And so just having someone in
your flex that's going to score like a reasonable amount of
points, you're not relying on some like two or three-point
game from Pop Douglas or something.
Like Stevenson's a pretty good pick there, especially if your
earlier picks are for that Super Bowl, but strong.
Like if you get to pair Drake May and Ramandre.
So you're like, I've got the QB one projection of the Super Bowl
and then I've got Ramandre to fill in.
And then my other pieces are like I got Saquon Barkley, A.J.
Brown. So I have the two best Eagles
pieces projecting and I've got the best quarterback projection.
And then yeah, I had to punt with my Flex.
It's from Andre, but it's better than nothing.
Like that's kind of the situation where you really like
a guy like that in playoff basketball.
But he's one that I think is a pretty important piece right
now. He's just kind of, he's niche.
You have to understand when it's A and that's something where
it's really been helpful to have The Sims to play around with it
where it's like, no, dude, Ramondre Stevenson doesn't do
anything for you on this. You know, Seahawks Super Bowl
where you don't have JSN, you know, you have you have Ken
Walker, Sam Darnold, and then it's like, oh, but I could go
Kayshawn Booty, Ramondre Stevenson, and now I've got a
full Patriots Seahawks Super Bowl, and that's a pretty likely
one. It's like, yeah, you're pretty
likely to min cash. Like very neato that you got
five players there. Like enjoy your min cash because
all the people with JSN are going to smoke you or all the
people with Drake May are going to crush you.
So anyway, understanding the dynamics of like what do you
actually need to show up in those particular finals outcomes
is pretty important. And that's where Romandre has a
role. But that was probably way more
playoff basketball than anyone cared to listen to.
I think that's why people listen to Start Chasing 15 actually.
Well, there's more where that came from, people.
So, yeah. And then your next note was
about Shuba Hubbard seeming to play a lot more than before.
And so just looking at week 13 here with 17 rush attempts for
Tuba Hubbard, 18 for Rico Dowdle.
Boy, they really love Bryce Young, don't they?
35 at rush attempts. And then what's interesting here
is that Tuba had 15 routes for Rico's 6.
I think that's they both only had two targets and I know Tuba
kind of he, he, he, he made a big explosive play on one of his
targets. I, I, I guess I don't want to
put too much signal on, on, on the targets for a run for, for
Tuba on the 15 rounds. There's probably just more
signal that he's the one that they want out there running
rounds. He had three pass blocks to
Rico's done. So it seems like they're
splitting in calories and then Chuba's the more trusted guy.
Yeah, it does seem it it does seem like Chuba is emerging as
like their preferred option of the passing game.
Rico also did get injured in this game.
He came out early with a shoulder and was like, he took
himself out of the game again. So it was bothering him.
Don't know exactly how serious it is, if it's the kind of thing
that's going to last a couple weeks or, you know, just if he's
day-to-day with it, if the injury lasts for a little while,
I would I would expect the the split to look pretty similar to
what we got. But if it's the kind of thing
where it was just like, hey, he's banged up, but two weeks
from now, Rico Dowdell be right as rain.
I expect it to go back more towards Enrico's favor.
But I I do think that they. And every other week other than
Week 13, it was massively Enrico Dowdell's favor.
Yeah. So it you're right, you're right
in identifying it probably was an injury related thing that
Chubu was the receiving back, especially given that's not
really what he's been his entire career.
Yeah, I guess something to watch for next week if it if that's
just an operation, but Rico's generally being the receiving
back and but we got an interruption to that last week.
We'll see how that goes. Yeah, the the disappointing part
is I don't really know how you take advantage of this very much
like to make money in fantasy football, because unless there's
a Panthers showdown slate, I mean, there there's the small
little ones, you know, so it's like, woo, you get a a little
Panthers showdown slate for like 10 I.
Think you need to play like second-half individual custom
showdown slate? Yeah, they're.
Bombing out, head to heads. Yeah, yeah, that's what I'll do
next week. I'll I'll rake in my $88.00 of
expected value or whatever I can get.
From No, no, you're you're, you're sending out $5 at
second-half showdown head to heads.
Yeah, I I still don't think I'm getting very much down that way,
but yeah. Oh.
No, no, no. I'm saying 88 is is is is, is
high is. Is yeah, you're going to have
less. Expected value than $88.
Yeah, they, they play the Saints.
Oh, actually, they have a they have a bi.
Is this the Panthers bi? I totally didn't realize.
All right, so false alarm, everybody.
Rico Dowell's probably going to be totally fine.
This is a but. No, that I, I guess we got, we,
we're around a bit way of getting there, but after kind of
a, a down game for Rico Dowdle, we're giving people the signal.
Don't don't panic, this is there's just an injury related
thing. The overall trend is still Rico
Daddles to beat the Panthers or B1.
Yeah, if if coming off their buy he still has injury related
stuff. That's a spot where I I'd be
more interested in tuba, especially if he's really cheap.
He probably. Yeah, I guess we monitor the
practice report, but the fact that he came back in.
Right. Right, he got a lot of carries.
Yeah, I think, I think it's probably a nothing burger, so.
Yeah, it's probably just a one week operation.
And and this true signal is don't panic on on Rico Dattle.
Yeah, that's a bummer. That's a.
Bummer because I have a good amount of Chuba teams that could
use some Chuba scores of the playoffs, but we have so much.
Rico Dattle teams as. Well, we do.
We do you know that's I always play both sides that way, always
come out on top. All right, let's let's talk
about the last note I've got on the RV chart, which is the
Monongai and Swift split. You get like a vintage Ben
Johnson game where he just pounds the rock and the eagles
totally embarrassed with their defensive line.
I mean the bears with 200 yard rushers against what's supposed
to be a very good defensive front was was pretty fun to
watch. There was some, honestly, I felt
like. They were on 85 team plays, 85.
They, they did a really good job in this game, like highlighting
some of the run concepts that they were doing and I, I, I had
a lot of fun watching this one and, and seeing like how the
plays were unfolding and how they were getting so much space
to run into. They were doing a lot of really
creative stuff, so that was fun. I think in general, my take away
is this is bullish for the Bears rushing game going forward,
where it just feels like Ben Johnson kind of found his groove
with the offense and like he's figured out how to make this
particular personnel group that he has work.
You know, if you can make it work against the Eagles, I feel
pretty good about his ability to to keep it rolling down the
stretch here. But yeah, I, I think the
Monongai arrow is pointing up. Swift arrow is, is more or less
neutral because I don't, I think Monongai's taken a little bit
from him. But I think that in general, the
offense is just going to run through the the running name a
lot. And so it's probably just, you
know, kind of business as usual for Swift.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I, I, I do bet that a lot of
the yeah, actually, you know what, if you, if you look since
week 12, Menong guys been been ahead in rush attempts and since
week 11 has been split. So it's probably one of those
situations what, where they're probably, it's probably 5050,
but it's not going to be 5050 in a given week.
It was in week 13, but there's going to be weeks where Swift is
a hat and there's going to be weeks where Monon Guy is a hat,
which is pretty nice for the Monon Guy doctors and probably
still pretty strong for Swift doctors to be honest, given his
price as well. Yeah, no, but you're you're
happy to see both of those guys on rosters right now.
And so moving on to our tight end charts, I guess we're just
skipping past the the backups. There's we are.
Oh, I guess we talked about Swift.
I'm a non guy. We already showed up.
In, in, in talking about, I guess the only other group that
I, I would want to discuss a little bit is the Cardinals
where we talked that and Trevor Benson was going to come back.
And then he, he just didn't, I think he, he went like LP to no
participation to not playing. And, and I guess you, you,
you're, you're happy to play Bam Knight while Trey Benson's out
and Michael Carter is still useful because he's the he's the
receiving back and they seem to trail a lot.
And that's all. That's all I have to say on
that. All right, let's let's move on
to tight end here. And.
It's it's still so weird. Seeing Karl Pitts at the top of
this Sam and tight end chart where he's, he's just smoking
the field in participation and he's getting pretty good usage
too. I I do almost wonder if like,
this was, this was the year for Kyle Pitts and he kind of got
unlucky with the quarterback play.
Yeah, it's it's not turning into fantasy points, but man, the the
usage is is. Is strong, yeah.
Pretty good Speaking of people where I mean the the usage is
not as strong as you'd want it to be, but thank God that Chip
Kelly is gone for Brock Bowers because I don't know if I could
have handled very much more Brock Bowers just not being
utilized. I mean he only gets 4 targets in
this game. Granted they only threw what?
How many passes did Gino throw? Like 24 or something?
I think it was like I want to say it was 24.
So I think Gente got like a 33% target share or something
stupid. So he he only came out, I'll
have the I'll have the the drop back count in a second, but he
only had a 15% targets per run as well.
So they he he wasn't he he again, he once again was not
targeting Brock Bowers the way that he should have been, which
is is mind blowing. Like how can you be mad about
what the rest of your team is doing every week when you will
not 23 attempts? So you're pretty right at how
can you be mad about what the rest of your team is doing when
you won't target Brock Bowers? Like who cares what they're
doing coverage wise? Yeah, I don't, I don't care if
he's double covered, like just just put it up.
Let him, let him do the things right, Right.
Because if you just put the ball in his general vicinity, things
happen that you yeah, things happened that you did not think
were in the range of outcomes will happen like that.
His second touchdown, I mean, got the so the play right before
he gets the touchdown called back, right?
He's totally robbed Bowers fans everywhere, rending their
garments, but they go right back to him and Gino basically dirts
it like Gino's puts the ball in the ground and then announcers
midway through saying and that one's incomplete and Bowers
plucks it off the ground like before it ever touches the
ground. Insane catch.
Like one of one of the best of the season.
You know, just. Give him a semblance of a chance
to make a play. Yeah, he's he's so unbelievably
good. God, it makes me.
Can you imagine if we got Remember, Remember when he was
being drafted, there was, you know, talk that, oh, maybe the
Bengals take Brock Bowers. Could you fucking imagine
Cincinnati Bengals Brock Bowers? Oh my God, it would be so
disgusting. I mean, yeah, you might you
might end up with like the first ever, you know, 2000 yard
receivers and 1000 yard tight end on the same roster.
Joe Burrow would just be having an absolute ball out there.
I just, I really, really, really hope that we get a better
situation for Brock Bowers next season because I don't know how
I'm going to avoid slamming this guy again.
Like, just watch him play. He's I, I said this to someone.
Brock Bowers will continue. The drafting will continue until
morale improves. Tell me if this is a ridiculous
take or not, but in that Cincinnati Bengals scenario
where it's Bowers and Chase, I kind of think that Bowers and
Chase end up with like identical target shares if they're on the
same team because one of them is just big Jamar Chase and then
the other one is Jamar Chase like.
Has plays where he actually looks like Jamar Chase, yes.
Yeah. They're like.
The. After the catch stuff with
Bowers, it's like, how is he this agile?
Like he's doing, he's doing stuff that looks like Jamar
Chase in space. You know, it's crazy stuff.
And then he also just can sometimes bully people because
he. So. 40 lbs heavier.
Than are we going to get second round Brock Bowers in in in FFBC
next year? I think we will.
It might even be 2-3 turn Brock Bowers.
God if we get 2-3 turn Brock Bowers on FFPCI guess we're 150
maxing next year. We only, we only got 53 in this
year, but. Now I'm probably I'm probably
over egging it, but he was like mid first round this year.
Yeah, and he was so he was so clearly should have been the one
O 1. God, he should have been the one
O 1. But yeah, All right.
How? Many Chip Kelly, Brock Bowers
next year. Chip Kelly just, I mean, he,
Chip Kelly saved the faders so hard.
And you, if you faded Brock Bowers, you better send Chip
Kelly a Christmas card. I mean, a Christmas card's the
least you can do. Like Chip Kelly saved your
family from being on the street if you faded Brock Bowers.
So you know, you you find that man, you get him an edible
arrangement or something seeded more for you than you'll ever
know. All right, transitioning from
that, I think elite tight end is kind of set up to smash in the
the fantasy playoffs here. We've got I mean, McBride's just
been smashing and it feels like there's no end insight there.
Bowers, I mean, you finally have Chip Kelly out of the way.
Hopefully they figure out how to throw to him instead of eight
Genti check downs a game. And then Kittle is seeming to be
pretty back with Purdy being back.
So the 49ers really, I mean, the 49ers don't have a wide receiver
that they love throwing the ball to.
I mean, Jawan Jennings is like clearly their number one
receiver. But as far as pass catchers are
concerned, it's pretty clearly C. 1 with a 17% target spread
run which is low ish for kittle but that's 11.6 A dot so about
60 air yards on a game where the Browns never really pushed them
right. Like when the when when the
49ers play a team that that forces them to throw and score
and you're going to get massive, massive Kittle weeks.
Yeah, and, and Kittle has been like, if you look at the Purdy
and Kittle games together, like he's kind of a touchdown magnet.
He's got the Mark Andrews touchdown magnet thing going
with I. Mean like, if you're trying to
score a touchdown, why not throw to George Kittle?
Yeah, so I, I do think I, I think if you're heading down the
stretch in the fantasy playoffs, you're very excited to see one
of Bowers, right? Right, He's a good contrarian
play to get in the playoffs. For sure.
Yeah, yeah, Kittle and Bowers might be two of the best as far
as like how likely they or how represented they are going to be
in the playoffs and and what they'll project for.
So, all right, last last tight end note I had, I wanted to get
your thoughts on a Ronde Gadsden because there was a couple weeks
stretch where he seemed like he was setting the world on fire.
I mean, not seemed like he was setting the world on fire.
But lately the opportunities have kind of fallen back in line
where he's more of like a Keenan Allen level target involvement
in the offense, which and this is as Keenan Allen has been
waning in the offense. So it's been less exciting for
Gadsden lately, But I wanted to get your take on this rest of
season. One thing I was kind of
concerned about that may be happening is the target chair
coming down actually not the target the, the route chair
coming down and I see he still hit 68%.
So I, I was worried it actually might be lower than that.
And so I'm, I'm encouraged that he's still running routes.
This is down from like he'd been, I guess he'd been, he'd
hit 91% in week 885% week, 991% week 11.
So I am, I, I, I guess I do have some concern that especially
with the low target shared there, instead of using the
tight end as a receiver, they're bringing in more blocker types
to supplement the offensive line.
I, I, I am, I'm, I'm, I'm very, I'm honestly very concerned that
their, their game plan right now is more focused on protecting
Herbert than the extra receiver. This stuff can be volatile.
Like they may just decide who they're playing.
The Raiders who have like Max Crosby in an overall decent pass
rush, but otherwise garbage defense.
So if I'm like taking to my, I'm going the other way now where if
I'm taking myself, how would I play that?
Would I have like 5 out in patterns with my receiving tight
end or what? I would I leave people in into
block and try to cook them with my receivers.
I think I would do the second one.
And so maybe when it comes down to it's, it's it's volatile game
to game hope. I guess.
Hopefully I'm I'm I'm optimistic that games going forward won't
look like this, but it's disappointing that these kind of
games are are in the in the range like he's not just a plug
and play. You'll love it every week, tight
ends. Yeah, that's I, I think the
analysis of that they've been shifting focus more towards
protecting Herbert really makes a bunch of sense.
And that was not something I picked up on.
So I'm, I'm glad that you shared that because that, that does
make sense and probably something where if I see the
Gadsden projections going forward.
They're just follows off like week 11.
He had a 91% right share. So I, I don't, I don't want to,
I'm not comfortable saying, hey, they're just not going to play
this guy every week and or sorry, they're going to keep
this guy route limited every week.
What I'm saying is there's going to be teams that they play where
the game plan doesn't include as much Gadson as we'd like.
And and those are hard to predict, probably.
Yeah, that makes sense. Shall we move on to receivers?
Is there anything else you wanted to cover at tight end?
I guess, yeah, nothing really that we haven't that we haven't
already covered before. Like, I don't have anything
Brown groundbreaking to say about these guys.
All right, let's hit the receivers here.
So we've got our receiving chart here.
And then the your first note here is for Justin Jefferson.
Unfortunately, unfortunately, we're very sad about it.
But I guess one guy you're not happy to see in your lineup in
an advancing team is Justin Jefferson.
Dude, I have a couple 55 fives where I managed to advance the
Justin Jefferson team and I am just there.
There's going to be no bigger fan of JJ McCarthy than me for
for down the stretch here. I just please, please give me
like a couple usable Justin Jefferson weeks.
I'm begging you. He I also have Justin Jefferson
on like the only home week that I I still care about.
So yeah, we we didn't need to have a Justin Jefferson funeral.
I mean, man, I, I, my heart goes out to that guy.
His his first time ever apparently declining to speak to
the media after the game. It's like, good for him.
Like I there's no way that you could have had a a tactful
interview. Just get out, man.
Don't don't you know, say anything stupid.
Don't you know, you don't need to hurt anybody's feelings.
Everybody already feels real bad about this.
Just it's going to it's going to be OK, man.
Just keep your head down but. So do we still get first round
Justin Jefferson next year? Yeah.
I mean, unless JJ McCarthy is the quarterback, then maybe you
get him in the second, but I don't think you can have JJ
McCarthy as the quarterback next year if they do like.
They'll be a mutiny. Yeah, yeah, you can't.
You'd lose the locker room before the season even started.
Man, if you're if you're doing this, make a wish shit again
they. So this is this is this is for
the quarterback part of the the the chart.
But it does make me think, if you're the Cardinals, do you
like sign Bersat to a longer term deal?
Do you trade them off of the good season?
Like cuz Kobe Bersat with the Vikings, I could believe in
that. God it's so scary to sign like.
Right. You can't sign them to a decent
contract, but. No, yeah, it's.
Really scary. How do you how do you hold on to
them? As the as the Cardinals, I don't
think you do as Cardinals. The Cardinals don't.
What's that? The Cardinals trade him right.
Well, I mean, he's not under contract, does he?
He's a it's a two year deal. Oh, it is a 2 year deal.
I mean, yeah, you man, you're really, you're sitting pretty
then if you're the I mean, you're not sitting pretty if
you're the Cardinals because you don't actually have a
quarterback. You you have, you know, what do
you do it as a package deal. You send it's you got to take
them both. You got to take Tyler and Jacoby
off our hands. Oh my God, that'd be so funny.
Yeah. I mean, I think you got to try
and move them both this offseason.
He's Jacoby is, is more one where he, you need him to go
somewhere where you've got a guy that you're actually trying to
develop or, or it's a team that's very competitive and they
need a backup where it's like if something bad happens to our
starter, we need a guy that's going to come in and play games
well enough that we're not guaranteed to lose them all.
We we could, you know, we could go 2 and 4.
As a package, you get like a day tree pick for for set and then
you trade away that day tree pick and maybe something else to
get somebody to pick up that color.
Murray's that contract. Yeah, that's going to be really
fun to watch. Honestly, I think the way that
the Cardinals navigate this offseason will be pretty, pretty
entertaining. OK, the next, the next we have.
A comment here from Jefferson might be live he could get He's
a squeaky wheel. So the only thing I'm going to
say about Jefferson it feel I I was taking this in my head and
I'm like, should I say this? This feels so silly to say.
The underlying usage is phenomenal.
Like he's getting really good at underlying usage where he's 25%
targets for a run on the year like 11.5 A dot.
His routes are good like this doesn't feel like the type of
player that I should be using like peripheral stats about his
his usage. So like I, I, I feel like
they've been doing the they've been doing that get Justin
Jefferson the ball thing. It's just the team that the
quarterback isn't very good. So like, what are you going to
do with Justin Jefferson and the round, Like.
Yeah, it's, I mean, this is the kind of opium that I need, so I
appreciate you sharing it. But yeah, I think I think we're
probably just cooked for Justin Jefferson for the rest of the
season. Who knows, though.
Maybe we get enough. I mean, maybe JJ McCarthy does
enough that he earns himself the ability to compete for the job
next season and we get some Justin Jefferson down the
stretch. But I don't think we need to
spend. I guess I was going to say let's
move on from Justin Jefferson because it's not going to be a
thing that. Yeah, I mean.
But if if you're going to have one bit of coke, it's at the
third highest big time true rate of any quarterbacks this year is
JJ McCarthy Somehow I don't I don't understand that.
I think that's probably Justin Jefferson's that.
But you know what it it could work out.
It could work out. Yeah.
I mean, the the thing that I will say that is could make this
some fantasy relevant content for people is Justin Jefferson
starts, sits like, are you playing Justin Jefferson over
Crystal Labbe? Yeah, really.
I mean, I, I, I played Olave and if you didn't have the Olave
touchdown this week, the the week is, is not great and.
Yeah, I mean, it's almost so like he, he, he, he's.
Not getting great quarterback play here.
Yeah, I just think it's better than what you're getting.
Jefferson is like just entirely non functional.
You know, there's there's not a single target to be had there.
That's that's useful. But I, I guess, I guess you're
you're going to give me the confidence to start him this
next week. So I'll be blaming you when it
when it all goes. I, I, I mean, I'm just saying
like he's better than, like he's better than guys in similar
situations. And they're they're.
They're good players that like, but I think the comp to a Lava
is an interesting one. Yeah, All right.
We don't have to. Spend very much time on this
next note. But I did need to say it.
George Pickens, the top five real life NFL wide receiver.
There, I said it. But we, we talked about this ad
nauseam. But that that is just themes,
themes, the facts. He's very, very good at the
football. Yeah, that's all.
Yeah, you didn't seem. Very comfortable with that
silence. So I'll I'm only kidding.
No, I I don't necessarily disagree.
Obviously excellent, excellent player in a fantastic offense,
very good environment at will should will and should project
very well going forward. Not, not nothing groundbreaking
there. Speaking of a guy who.
I'm a little worried about. The projection going forward,
not that it's going to crater or anything like that, but just
that I'm, I'm a little worried because this is the kind of
player. Archetype where you'd be.
Hoping that he's going to really be coming on at this point in
the season, but I think we might have already seen the peak this
season. That's for Emeka Ibuka as Godwin
is getting more healthy and more involved.
And then you possibly have Mike Evans coming back and then Bucky
is is there to, you know, be. Another focal point.
In the offense, I'm I'm worried Ibuka might not be at the height
of his powers for the fantasy playoffs.
Is that reasonable concern or what do you think on that?
And it depends on what. You think?
About Ibuka, so in in terms of like his usage, what I'm going
to say is his usage is strong here.
So week 13, even with the the decent Godwin game, he had eight
targets and 24% target spread run 97% route rate.
However, he only converted that into like 42, 4 catches for 42
yards. And it's like, do you believe in
a book of the player? If, if, if, if answer yes, then
you should feel good about Abuka.
I think Abuka. Is like a.
Good player that was potentially overdrafted in the first round
by the books. Like, I think, I think he's a
good player, but I don't, I don't.
Think he's a superstar, I. Think he's like he's probably as
they flowers, Jordan Addison, maybe maybe a step below those
guys in terms of quality and he's got great usage and a great
system. And so the big games are still
going to be there, but his fantasy production thus far has
been decently touchdown heavy. And and so that that kind of
makes it harder to be like you're saying, maybe we've seen
the big games already and it's harder to it's it makes it
harder to get those in the future, but you're going to have
big games, I think, but it is harder to see the the future
explosion games. Yeah, I think that's pretty.
Reasonable analysis there. Where he's still going to be
good, you're going to be happy to have him.
Can't we just still have the Jefferson comment up?
I I just. Realized that I had myself muted
as I was agreeing with you on. Your No, I heard you.
So I think, I think you were not.
Oh. Well, I just think I, I, I, I
was, I was rudely. Interrupting you and.
I don't have the excuse of you being muted.
All right, let's move on to the. Next wide receiver chart here
and so your your first note on this chart was a little bit of
a. Revival for Nico Collins, which
is great to see and and nice to see it coincide with Stride
coming back to where's not Target. 98 yards at. 3% targets
per run, 76% weighted target for a run and, and, and big game
from him. And I, I guess what the other
kind of note is he's had some big games like this where week
10 he had 14 targets for 136 yards.
So kind of hopeful here that the the total dysfunction days of
the offense are behind them and and and we get some Primo Nico
Collins going forward. Yeah, I think the more that they
can get Higgins involved, the better it is for.
Collins as well, just so it's not just the Nico show.
I think just having an offense that's more functional is is
more better here and it does seem like the Higgins stuff is
finally starting to happen. So I I think in general that's
just a a boost for the offense as a whole and and Collins, so
pretty excited for him down the stretch.
He's just he's kind of been like a reasonable pick at the 1-2
turn. You know, he he didn't didn't
smash or anything, but I think you're not upset to have him on
a roster here heading into the play offs.
Yeah, I've got a guy. Though that you are upset to see
on a roster. Heading into the play offs.
How about DJ Moore? DJ Moore is down here in the
Windsprinter category. And he's not even running.
Full routes, like it's, you know, he's 7580% routes down
here with Darius Slayton. And I mean like, I think I'm
Michael Wilson over DJ Moore at this point.
So just to be fair to DJ Moore. Some of this is skewed by week
10 where he had 35% of reps last week he had 98% of routes, OK,
but just a 10% target spread run where?
And then it's a yeah, that's that is a 12 1/2 A dot.
And so OK, air yards. But yeah, clearly he's not the
Prince we were promised. I saw I saw a tweet that I
forget, I forget who it was that was basically he's just a he's
just a gadget play guy that will jog clear out routes for you.
He won't even Sprint them. It was Jacob.
Jacob Sanderson who. Said it that.
Seemed it was illuminating, yeah.
How do you feel about Burden? Versus DJ Moore.
Rest of season. So let me let me dive into
Burden. So burden is 1 where I.
Have them on on a main event team heading into the the league
finals that we need to win to get to the the playoffs Sprint.
So then kind of begging for the breakout so I can put him in
over his eight flowers or Dejuan Johnson or somebody like that.
And in the last three. Games he's been.
Around the 60% route rate with low to mid 20s targets run he
actually he had more targets and the.
Last hour yards. Than than DJ Moore last week.
So even on the even on the mediocre red tree, our red
chair, he's still getting decent targets.
So like 5-5 and six, you probably have a it's probably
pretty close. I mean, you probably have a
slight preference for Luther Burden just because you get an
element of playing it before you see it where maybe.
This is the week. Where he gets an 80% at right
rate and combines that with his hard threat run and just see DJ
more. But on on the current kind of
state of play, they're probably pretty even.
Yeah, I think I am pretty much lock step with you.
There they're basically. Even, but as you've used to
describe Trayvon Henderson previously on this show, if he's
even, he's leaving. So at this point, you're just
waiting for a Luther burden to, you know, squeeze the toothpaste
out of the tube, genie out of the bottle, all, all of that.
They're really making them work for it.
Really, really making them. They're like.
OK, promotion, the 60%. Rent rate.
When 80, when 80, he, he just, it's on him.
He's got. He has to.
Make the plays where it's just in that, you know, it becomes
inevitable that we can't, we can't stop.
You know, we need to give more opportunity to this guy.
It's it's foolish for us to do other things.
So right, right, right. We need that signature play
where they're going. Oh shit.
We got to play him, so this is kind of an evolution.
Or an extension of the Justin Jefferson funeral that we had.
But I've got another question for you here.
Jordan Addison or Keshawn Booty straight up rest of season.
So let me let me pull up booty. Where he's running a pretty good
right share, his targets right run, pretty mediocre yards per
out run if he doesn't catch a bomb, usually pretty mediocre.
Last Game, 5 targets, 35 yards and then I pull up Addison,
who's probably got a better right share targets and all that
kind of stuff where, yeah, he's a full route runner and similar.
Ish target sprout run he. Had 103 area yards, but.
Only 36. Real area yards or real yards?
That one's for. I think that one's probably
pretty close. Yeah, that one's pretty, pretty
close. Which is?
Not good news for the Addison Raptors.
I I probably lean, I think I lean booty just because I I.
Want to go with the guy who has the much better quarterback
play. So a bit sad.
I think Jordan Addison's a really, really good player.
It, you know, what this all makes me think of is what if the
Vikings had successfully traded up for Drake May like what a
different universe we'd be living in.
I mean, he would he would have the MVP fully locked up at this
point as Justin Jefferson just finished, you know, setting the
single season receiving record here in Week 13.
Like it would. It would be so over.
Now that would be a much brighter timeline for sure.
Yeah. Vikings fans.
Crying into their pillow, thinking about.
Drake being a Viking. It's OK though, you have JJ
McCarthy. OK, last note on this chart man,
Jameson Williams is about to bury me all the way in the
fantasy playoffs. I mean, listen, all it took was
for the offensive coordinator to lose play calling duties after
he was now and for proper context, this is when the Lions
were second overall in the NFL in total offense.
So not it's not like he is out there calling stinkers.
You know, the the big problem was just not enough Jamo.
So you need that. So first that happens.
OK, great. You also need the LaPorte a
season ending injury. OK, you're getting closer.
Jamo's still not, you know, totally useful.
And then you need the Amanora injury.
So listen, the thesis behind 4-5 turn, Jamison Williams always
was the double contingent value offensive coordinator, you know,
switch over to the head coach calling plays.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And if you couldn't see that,
you need to open your third eye, buddy.
But in all seriousness, if you have Jameson Williams heading
into the fantasy play offs, you're pretty happy about it.
I don't think you're actually super happy in redraft cuz he's
still he's still like a little bit of a scary start in redraft.
I mean this next week with almond raw out you're you're
probably pretty comfy star in him.
But as soon as he's back it's less comfy.
But man in baseball you're so happy to see Jamo on your team.
So Jamo drafters rejoice. You know you finally you can get
your W here. He he's going to be fun in the
fantasy playoffs. He's about to be very involved.
Yeah. He like so last week he.
Had like an 8.2. A dot on 10 targets and so not
that only 82 area yards, but then at 20 yards per reception,
144 yards where he's just so explosive.
Yeah, he's such an. Explosive player that like.
It makes to me, it makes sense to me that they would involve
him. Like it makes less sense that
they wouldn't. My, I mean my, I'm kind of, I'm
coming full circle to the. The thing that I said on stat
chasing multiple years ago that got people so mad, but maybe
Jamison Williams should be the number one target on this team
and Amanrah is is still like, you know, the chain mover.
Yeah, like, I don't know. Man, maybe just like.
Try it on for size, see how it feels like What happens if you
give the most explosive guy on your offense other than Jamir
Gibbs the ball. A lot of times you know, right?
Well, apparently sex is what happens.
Yeah, I, I, it's. It's very exciting to play Jamo.
I It's a bummer because in DFS you're not going to.
Sneak 1 past the goalie here. Like everyone's going to be on
it, you know, But I don't know. I I.
Wish that there was a way. Maybe I'll just boost the Jamo
projection to like 20. This week, just pretend.
He's like almond raw plus. We'll see how it goes.
All right. I think we need to move on to
the final chart here. And so we talked about this a
little bit, maybe say. Say flowers is probably on the
on the first chart, but I did want to he is right here.
So maybe in in connection with the kind of bull Lamar and
thesis. I'm like I'm I'm I'm
contemplating. Do I start like Jaden Higgins?
Do I start at Luther Burden over at Zay Flowers this week?
Where? Hey, at least them, even though
those guys are route limited, at least they're getting functional
targets. At least I know I'm getting some
points there. I know that's wrong, but that's
kind of like, yeah, I think it's too fancy, man.
Zay Flowers projected now. Granted, this is against the
Bengals. So this is this is think of this
as like your nuclear peak ceiling projection you're going
to get for Zay Flowers, right? But he projected for almost 18
PPR points last week, like I think he was 17 1/2.
So he didn't get anywhere close to that.
But again, like you, you give him the phantom Pi call that
took away his long touchdown like that right there is 1112
point, you know, and right, you get one of those other catches
and all of a sudden he's to his projection.
I think I think you hold strong was a flowers.
I think the the true believers will be rewarded.
I think I'm I'm riding with say here OK, OK, that makes me feel
better. That makes me feel.
Better because it's like it's always like that.
You feel like you take him out and I know this is pure Boomer
and Dumbo stuff, but you feel like you take him out and that's
the week that he goes off. But that's probably what what's
the most likely. Outcome here actually.
I mean, listen, what you really need to do is right before.
Lock like one minute before his game starts.
You need to swap him onto your bench real quick and you need to
like time it with maybe like leave 5 seconds left just for
margin for error and then you swap him back in real quick just
to try and trick the universe into thinking that maybe you.
I don't know if I'm brave enough for that.
All right, on on, on to, on to. The final receiver chart.
Oh man, oh man, we need. To we need to get the four.
It's a. It's a rat's nest here.
We got to figure this out for next season so we can.
Can get some some of these losers out of here so we can see
the ones we actually care about. Get the riff raff out.
Yeah, but man. A guy who you.
Wouldn't expect on this chart. Khalil Shakur.
He's just down in the shitter man.
Like Gabe Davis was the route leader for the Bills last week.
Khalil Shakur ran I think 13 routes.
It's you cannot rely on this guy.
It's bad. And I mean, you want the IT
here, here you are. This is your reward.
You made it. It's week 13 stat chasing.
You're about an hour and 40 in. Here's your alpha.
The Bills in playoff bestball. The secret is that there are two
players that matter on the Buffalo Bills for playoff
bestball, and it's Josh Allen and James Cook.
If you don't have at least one of those, you are not playing
for a Bill's Super Bowl. I'm not saying you can't draft
other Bills, but Bill's Super Bowl isn't a Super Bowl you make
money in. Without one of those two
players. Do not show.
Like don't be trying to backdoor your way into a Bill's Super
Bowl where you're like, oh man, I got all the Eagles and and
then I'm going to get, you know, Keon Coleman.
I'll get Keon Coleman later and it's going to be OK.
It's like, that's not even a roster spot for you.
Really. Like, that's not even a player
that's active in the Super Bowl for all intents and purposes.
Will he hit your line up with three points?
Sure. You know, but it's not actually
doing anything meaningful moving you up the pay scale.
You need to have one of those two players and preferably you
have them in combination with other good players from the
other team that you're playing. That is that is the secret to
you're gonna and just by knowing that, like knowing that, hey,
these Bills pass catchers, they're not actually a thing.
They're like there to when I have Josh Allen and James Cook,
I can use those to help me. Like, hey, it's Round 3 of
playoff basketball tournaments and I just need guys that hit my
flex for six points. That's where those players are
really useful. But when you make it to the
finals and you're like, OK, I I got to finish first to actually
make all the money. You're not finishing first
without Josh Allen or James Cook.
Unless it's something where it's like a it's Rams Bills and you
happen to have like the nutted combo that's almost impossible
to get on the Ram side where you're like, oh, I got Puka
Kyren or I got Puka Devante, Matt Stafford or something like
that. Where you just have access to
other very high scoring players that aren't very commonly
appearing together. And that's the way that you
overcome not having the primary pieces of the Bills that score
fantasy points. But that is just a super
important thing to be aware of that we've seen when we've been
testing with The Sims or it's like there's a ton of spots
where you might think like, oh, I could just draft a random
bills pass catcher. I'll draft Khalil Shakur here,
I'll draft Gabe Davis here and it'll now I'm live for a Super
Bowl with the Bills. No, you're not.
Like, don't don't you tell
yourself that lie. So anyway, Khalil Shakur being
down on this chart, I think was a good opportunity to kind of
illuminate that when I'm when I'm getting from what you're
saying is like the overall point.
Don't play for Super Bowl at min cashes.
Correct. Like, avoid situations where
you're playing. For.
Super Bowl and min cashes If If you don't have the dogs in your
team, then that's not a good Super Bowl roster.
Yeah, your your Super Bowl. Min cashes will happen
naturally. From you getting to the Super
Bowl without the perfect, without the correct two team
combo, it's like I get there with Josh Allen, James Cook,
Khalil Shakur. And then I didn't draft any of
the other bills 'cause I had some Packers that I thought
could make it. I had some Eagles, but it turned
out it's a Rams bill Super Bowl and I didn't have any Rams.
It's like that's fine, you're gonna you're gonna min cash here
'cause you had the three best, highest projecting bills.
That's where you min cash. But like don't, don't seek out
these teams where you're like tricking yourself into thinking
it's a very live Super Bowl. Like you're never, you're never
intentionally going for the Super Bowl min cash unless
you're just like dead to do anything else.
But anyway. Your next comment was about
Jaden Higgins. I I.
Like I. Alluded to I.
Put him in the kind of Luther burden category where it's like
60 he maybe his rideshare is a little higher 60 to 7% right
share very strong target spread run.
So they're they're, he's involved, they're using him and,
and he's. One where?
Higgins is probably a little bit less talented than Burden, so it
feels less inevitable that you have the holy shit game with him
and but very, very usable piece is is going to contribute flex
points and and hopefully better with a touchdown or two in the
fantasy play offs is is how I frame him.
Yeah, I think you're pretty excited about Higgins.
He. Yeah, I think you're right.
I I wanted to say like. He feels like he's.
Closer to getting like a full role than Burton is.
He is, he is. He's a little, it's a little
higher. Yeah.
They just. They feel so stronger.
Actually, they just. Feel so stubborn about.
Bringing him along well. Yeah, he also like I, I think
it's one of those things where they're actually like.
In Week 12, he had 9 targets. Like he's got 7 targets, 7
targets, 9 targets, 5 targets, and then seven and Week 8 as
well. And so, like, I feel like it's
on the platter there for him to get it.
He just, like has to have that breakout game.
Like the Texans want Jaden Higgins to be a team more than
the Bears want Burton to be a team.
I think that's, like, very true. Jaden Higgins has to make it
happen, though. Yeah.
But yeah, he's very exciting down the stretch.
You're pretty happy to see the the Jaden Higgins show up on
your your best ball rosters. Another guy that you're pretty
excited to see Pat Bryant, man, the the rookie receiver
breakouts they're they're all they're starting to cook.
They're we got some guys bubbling up here, but Pat Bryant
actually flipped Troy Franklin this week who had previously
flipped Cortland Sutton. So I think we're seeing a a
changing of the guard here potentially where, you know, Pat
Bryant might end up being the possession receiver on this team
by the time we get to the playoffs, which it's pretty
interesting to me. Am I am IA little over my skis
with him there. What do you think?
So I'm just. Digging into the week. 13 stuff
So Evan Ingram 69% Pat Bryan 77%.
These are red shares Cortland Sutton 83%, Tri Franklin down to
67% and then Pat Ryan at 19% targets per out run.
Try Franklin at 9 and that's what, 7 targets?
For Bryant. Versus tree for Franklin and six
for Sutton. So he was he was he was that
they the runner up for targets on the team behind Evan Ingram
on a let me see, which basically makes you the target leader
right on a 10 point. 4A dot so like your.
Your air yards are way higher. So he's like 70.
He's he's the air yard leader on the team.
Yeah, ahead of that Troy Franklin, ahead of Courtland
Sutton, ahead of Evan Ingram. You want to see it another week,
right? But.
I guess. Coming out of the by the week 12
by add some additional signal to it.
So that that's. Pretty exciting.
Yeah, he's he's very exciting and we've.
Saved the best for last. The most exciting man, who I
actually do not think appears on this chart yet because his wraps
run over the course of the season have been too low, but
that that will be. That's on the list of things to
fix for next year. Remove shitters and then
manually add players of interest.
But that is AD Mitchell, who is shaping up to potentially be the
skeleton key for the best ball playoffs, the fantasy playoffs.
I mean, I'm if you have any, if you have, if you have Fab left
at all, you're slamming it on AD Mitchell.
And like me personally, if I get AD Mitchell in this waiver run
this week, I am starting him over Justin Jefferson this week.
Justin Jefferson is my worst receiver that I could start.
I would be starting AD Mitchell over him this week.
Is that too hard? To hard to argue with that.
I mean AD. Mitchell.
Had something like 100 and how many air?
Yards. Did he have this week?
It was like 160 something. He was, I think he was like 63.
Yeah, you're right. Just crazy stuff, man.
They're feeding him and he's doing the AD Mitchell things.
He's doing the like, hey, I'm really talented and you're gonna
get the frustrating stuff with it as well.
But I just think that The Jets is the perfect environment for
that because there's no real penalty to doing this.
The bonehead like frustrating, like, oops, I totally fumble the
bag here type plays. It's like there's no stakes.
We're we're already down here in the muck, man.
Just fuck up even more. Like shit, fumble it.
Twice out of the back of the end zone.
What do we care? Like it's, it's just, they're
just out there looking for signs of life at all from guys that
could be like, can this guy be a football player for us in future
years? And AD Mitchell has that in
spades. That's like the guy that if you
were hoping for, just show me anything like AD Mitchell's the
guy to show you anything. So he's really exciting down the
stretch. I, I might be a little biased
there because I've got a lot of AD Mitchell and Bestball and
it's, it's fun to see those bags come alive.
But man, I, I think he might be, he might be one of the, the
players that, you know, tells the story of the season at the
end of it all. Yeah.
And yeah. I yeah, I.
Agree, and it probably helped that they were playing the
Falcons who couldn't score and or maybe it didn't.
Maybe, maybe next week a Mitchell gets there in a
different way where The Jets are buried and AD Mitchell is like a
Garberstein king. I mean they've.
Got the Dolphins. Dolphins have been better on
defense lately. But yeah, I'm hopeful that we.
Get more AD Mitchell production. Because it's been fun and yeah,
as far as the actionable thing, if he's on waivers, you.
Just you slam him. It's all your fault.
I hate to do that and then not in my league team, but he's not
in my league and Nieder is. Fucking not Pat Bryant.
Wow. I'm kind of surprised Pat
Bryant's not on the way. I was surprised too.
Like I'm like what the hell, guys?
Yeah. 80. Mitchell, I would assume most
like competitive. Leagues, probably 80.
Mitchell's been scooped up a week ago, right.
You know, but he, he's sitting there in mine, so I'm I'm trying
to get him from the Papa. Yep.
Well, I think those are all. The notes that I had, was there
any? Receiver stuff that I missed or
anyone else you wanted to touch on?
I think we, I think we covered it so.
See you. See you next Tuesday, everyone,
for the fantasy playoffs.