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But we never know. We never know We're going to
preview Week 15 from our DFS perspective on this show.
And while we generally use those fanball figures, remember most
of the information you can use on any other of the salary cap
sites. Before we do that, let's go
around the league and look at the latest news.
News team A symbol. I started with the laughable
cult situation with Scott Fish the other day, and we're going
to start there again. Daniel Jones is out for the
year. Anthony Richardson still on IR
with an orbital bone fracture which happened in warmups.
Riley Leonard has a strained knee ligament.
And it's week to week, which doesn't sound promising when
you're week to week. So we're likely looking at
either Phillip Rivers or Brett Rippon against Seattle on
Sunday. Yeah, I don't think I want
anything to do with what's gonna happen.
It's Seattle too, right? Yeah.
Like one of the worst, one of the toughest spots for a guy
who's since been retired for five years to, Yeah, try to push
through. Yeah, it might be an absolute
disaster for whoever the Colts quarterback is.
We'll talk more about that match up later.
DK Metcalf is back in Pittsburgh.
He stayed in Baltimore with some stomach issues, but Mike Tomlin
says he'll play this week. The Browns lost Jerome Ford for
the remainder of the season with a shoulder injury.
He was taking snaps from Quinch on Judkins.
So if you're a Judkins owner, that's good news for you, my
guy. Troy Franklin shedding a tear
here. His snapshare decreased to 25%
last week. Some are calling it a soft
benching. Uh, oh, that's not good.
He got shot patent. Yeah, yeah, a little bit CD.
Lamb is trending toward playing on Sunday night, but head coach
Brian Schottenheimer says that he still has two more steps in
the concussion protocol to yet clear.
Now, his concussion happened on Thursday, so it's a 10 day off
waiting period here. So that helps Lamb.
But if you're having to make a decision about your Sunday night
starter for Week 15 and your lamb in or lamb out, that's a
pretty tough decision right there.
A guy who would go in the opposite side in that game,
Jordan Addison, he popped up on the injury report with an
Achilles injury. That's always concerning that
that it's new. Devon A Chan was limited in
practice on Thursday with a rib injury that knocked him out of
the game last week against The Jets.
He said he could have kept playing, but the Dolphins were
already up 3 touchdowns on The Jets at that time.
So they're just like, Nah, you're OK dude.
You just go sit over there. Kenny Pickett will start at
quarterback for the Raiders on Sunday.
Blah. Gino Smith is out with shoulder
and back injuries. Rome Odunze was limited in
practice after missing last week's game.
I guess that's a positive sign for Rome.
And it doesn't look like Marvin Harrison is going to play again
this week. He's still working on that heel
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All right, time to dig into Week 15.
No buys this week. All 32 teams are in play for the
rest of the year. The Falcons and Buccaneers play
Thursday night. If you're listening to this on
Thursday, that's great. If you want a preview of that
game, check out yesterday's podcast episode.
If you're listening to this after Thursday, I hope the
scores went well for you. But if you want to play in that
Fan Ball Thursday night contest tonight, it's a very extra
special 5 by 5. All of the good players are
$4.00 or less. You should see the $5 players in
it. It's hilariously bad.
We got like defenses and kickers up there or what's the.
No, no, no, like like fourth string tight ends and stuff like
that. Yeah, really bad.
All right, Trevor, let's lead off with the player who's going
to be in half or more of your fan ball line UPS this week.
What do you got? Yeah.
We're going back to probably the best cast receiver we got, Puku
Nakua 8300 at home against Detroit.
The Lions Rams game is currently at a 55 1/2 over under, which I
believe is the highest of the year.
I know Bengals Bills got to like 5455 last week.
Puku finally got a couple of touchdowns away from Devante
Adams last week, though he did have to do it from 28 and 31
yards away because inside the 20 is Devante time.
Detroit's a dream match up though, allowing the second most
wide receiver touchdowns, already 20 on the year and the
fifth most yards to the position.
LA has got a 30 1/2 team total, which is the highest on the
slate. Just in the last three weeks,
Detroit has allowed 9156 and 1 to Wandale Robinson, 194 and 4
come out 194 and 4 touchdowns to the Packers collection of
receivers on Thanksgiving, and then CD Lamb and Ryan Flournoy
each cleared 115 last week. Even with CD Lamb missing half
the game, I'm not going to miss out on hookah here.
And what could be maybe the best spot all time in his career?
Sorry I had to adjust some things.
My dog started going nuts and barking all over the place.
So she was. Excited about puka.
I get it. She.
Really is and I I'm excited about puka too.
The the the high end wide receivers this week are really,
really tempting, my guy that I'm going to have in close to half
my line UPS a little bit this week.
It's it's a little cheaper than some of those high end wide
receivers and I hear it's de Hamber, which means it's time to
use Derrick Henry 7200 at Cincinnati.
Hattie, shut up, Hattie, seriously shut up.
We said Cincinnati. Not Hattie, yeah.
Cincinnati, He took 26 touches for 102 combo yards last week
and he gets the Bengals this week.
They're the worst run defense in the league.
I don't have to go way into it there, but the Ravens and
Bengals, you may remember, played just two weeks ago on
Thanksgiving night. Henry had 10 carries for 60
yards and a score on the ground. He added in a 44 yard reception
in that game, so that was good. But it was only 11 touches, and
the Ravens lost that game by 18, which is somewhat embarrassing.
11 touches for Henry was his lowest touch total since Week 4.
And in the last three years, he's only been held to 11
touches 3 times. So it's not very often that that
happens. By the way, each of those times
where he was 11 or fewer touches, Henry's team lost that
game. So I think feeding King Henry is
key here. I think it's going to be a
course correction after the meeting two weeks ago.
And I think Baltimore's offense rolls in this one.
I agree, I think and because he ran the ball well against
Cincinnati a couple weeks ago, but like you said, he just
didn't have enough touches for it to matter.
So I think they correct that this week.
I don't. Know why they would go away 6
yards per carry? Yeah, go away from that.
That makes sense. All right.
A player above 7000 on fan ball who you would not put in any of
your line UPS this week. Trevor.
Yeah. I'm going James Cook, he's 7800
in New England. The Patriots have one of the
league's best rushing defenses. They've only allowed one enemy
that back to clear 100 yards, and that was Chase Brown.
Cook had 15 touches for 49 yards in a scoreless effort in their
Week 5 matchup against the Patriots.
Cook also has just one touchdown in the past three games despite
a massive 75 touches. So it's not an awful play, but I
just, I'd rather spend my money on some of the seven K receivers
or drop down a running back to Saquon or Derek Henry, who you
just mentioned, for 5 to $300 less.
Yeah. I'm kind of in the same boat.
I got another high-priced runner that I'm not putting in my line
UPS. It's Jonathan Taylor.
He dropped out of the $9000 range, which is good for the
first time in several weeks, but he's still 8500.
He's at Seattle and the problem is, at best he's down to a third
string quarterback and at worst he's got a 44 year old who
hasn't played in five years or Brett Rippon under center.
And we saw what Seattle did to a bad quarterback two weeks ago
with Minnesota. Seattle's great against the run.
They're top three and yards per carry, rush yards and rushing
scores. They haven't allowed a rushing
touchdown at home since Week 5. The silver lining is for for
Taylor, I guess the Seahawks give up the second most
receptions to opposing runners and this shapes up to be dump
off city for whoever is quarterback.
So you got to take Jonathan Taylor and play him in your your
season long leagues. I think that's fine.
I think he's got double digit targets is probably in the cards
for him this week. He could catch 10 balls in this
game, which which would be great, but the price is too high
on on the DFS sites and I find it unlikely that the Colts are
going to score many touchdowns or be in a spot where they can
afford to run the ball anymore because we're going to highlight
more of the Seattle side of this a little bit.
Yeah, I'm sure we will. I I think like you said, it's
it's dead on arrival for basically everyone on Indy this
week. Yeah.
All right, your favorite quarterbacks of the week.
Let's start with your expensive guy, Trevor, Yeah?
Expensive guy. Usually I try to go for a, you
know, kind of a dual threat of Hertz and Allen, somebody like
that. We're just going for like the
most statuesque guy in the league.
We got Matt Stafford at 1600 home against Detroit.
Everything I said about Puka. It.
Is a revenge game. We'll get to that here.
Everything I said about puka applies here too, obviously.
Detroit's given up 25 passing touchdowns already.
Bottom, which is bottom five in the league.
Also bottom third of the league in passing yards allowed.
It is the revenge game. This is the third time around
for this match up. I don't know how much this
matters, but his two career starts against Detroit resulted
in 317 and one in Week 1 of last year and then in the 2023
playoffs. And that there's no round or
wild card, maybe 367 and 2. So pretty good both times.
And then I'm I'm going to steal a page from your playbook, Matt,
with the Devante Adams number of games with 0 touchdowns or one
and then two or three. Stafford's got six games with
one or two passing touchdowns. When it comes to throwing for
3-4 or five, he has seven of those.
He's also right there with Drake May for the MVP.
So that could be on the brain here a little bit when it comes
to how aggressive they are in in the red zone with Stafford.
I agree. I I like Stafford a lot this
week. My expensive pick, it's kind of
a ballsy pick. It's Lamar Jackson at an even
7000 at Cincinnati. He's the second Price second
highest Price quarterback on the slate and he's only hit 17 fan
ball points once in his last five games.
However, it came last week against Pittsburgh and he showed
some signs of life. He ran for 43 yards in a score.
It was his first rushing score since Week 1, and it was the
most rushing yards he's had since he came back from the
injury. He would have had two more
passing scores in the last two weeks had Isaiah likely not just
buttered his hands before every play.
And the Bengals are a great match up, the second most
passing yards allowed, the fourth most passing scores, the
ninth most rushing yards allowed to quarterbacks.
This all sets up nicely and I think people will remember the
bad month and fade Lamar Jackson here.
But I don't mind doing a Lamar Jackson Derek Henry tandem in
some line UPS this week. And it's kind of this is it for
Baltimore, right? Like, their playoff hopes are
teetering greatly. They can't afford more losses.
Feels like it would be a kitchen sink game where Lamar's running
as much as he can and Henry's getting 25 touches.
So I I do like pairing them both together to.
Be honest, the Bengals have an outside shot of winning this
division, too, and it kind of hinges on this game, too.
So it's a big game for both teams here.
Who's your budget quarterback, Trevor?
Yeah, on. The cheap side we'll go CJ
Stroud 5500 home for the Cardinals.
He hasn't really had a ceiling yet since his first two games
back from injury, but this could be the spot on the season.
Arizona's dead center of the pack against quarterbacks.
However, they've allowed three of their last four opposing
quarterbacks to throw for three touchdowns, and that includes
some kind of ugly names. Stroud's also working with his
most talent, a pass catcher this season with Jane Higgins
starting to play well as a rookie, and all of his other
options are healthy. Schultz, Kirk, those guys.
I'm a bit worried that Houston's defense just suffocates the
Cardinals because they're excellent.
But I do think Brissett's got Jacoby.
Brissett has five straight games with at least 40 passing
attempts. So I think just the volume alone
should keep Stroud beating to get to 24 or 27 points.
And I'll also throw a bonus one here, Marcus Mariota.
Mariota at 55. Did you see the video of CJ
Stroud leaving Texans owner Bob McNair hanging on a high 5 at
the end of the game last week? No.
I have not. Did he just obviously leave him
hanging or, like, no, he was like, going through and McNair
puts his hand up and Stroud just kind of like, walks by and
McNair just, like, left his hand up like, oh.
And then the Texans, to their credit, their social media team
had McNair, like, show up and do a video of him just still having
his hand in the air. And people were like, oh, OK,
you want a high 5? And they're like, no, that's for
CJ. It was great.
It's either got to be that or the the cell 5 after you get
stood up stood up there. There we go, my budget pick,
another ballsy pick, JJ McCarthy, 5100 at Dallas.
This is the minimum price for a starting quarterback this week,
and it's against the best match up in the league in Dallas.
Now, I am a Vikings fan, so I know the struggles they've been
widely reported, but against a similarly bad commander's
defense last week, JJ just went out and ran the offense as
simply as he could. He threw 3 touchdown passes in
that game. Now did he miss some big plays?
Absolutely. He had Jefferson open about 35
yards downfield and he didn't see him and instead he scrambled
and ran for a first down on that play.
But he's come. Up in some big spots on the road
in similar situations. He had good days in Chicago and
Detroit, both of those not elite pass defenses there.
And the Cowboys are the most not elite pass defense there is.
They're bottom 5 in every passing category.
The lowest point total a quarterback has had this year
against Dallas was Geno Smith's 17.3 fan ball points.
So that's the bottom, that's the floor.
It seems JJ can return value for you at 17.3 fantasy points and
I'm thinking the upside's like a 20 or 30 point game here for
him. So I like JJ McCarthy here.
He he adds a little bit on the ground game.
I think he's a fine play for Sunday night.
I like. That spot too, actually, I think
some of the rhetoric coming out of the Vikings press conferences
and stuff was that they simplified things.
You know, maybe they didn't try not to say dumb down, but just
really kind of make it simple. And you, you saw it with the six
rushing attempts. I think you just saw him more
willing to use the athleticism, which is a A.
Plus NFL skill that he has, like he can put 3040 rushing yards on
a team, you know, fairly easily. I heard Kevin O'Connell
interviewed and he said that McCarthy was trying to diagnose
so many things at the line that it was like paralysis by over
analysis. And they're just like, no, just
go run the play. Like, don't think about this
cornerback or what he's doing it just like, go around the play.
Yeah, seemed to wear, but good job.
All right, let's go to the running back position.
Trevor, who do you got on the expensive side here?
Yeah. I'm going to need the our
sleepers or our cheap options to hit because I got puka and I'm
giving you CMC at 8700 against Tennessee.
Biggest workload in the league. Over 25 touches per over his
last five. 7 total touchdowns scored in that stretch.
Titans are a bottom half run defense giving up more than a
rushing score per game, which is fifth worst in the NFL.
You start every week with basically 12 PPR points from
this guy just from his pass catching work.
San Francisco is nearly A2 touchdown home favorite against
yeah Tennessee CMC is a great bet for multiple end zone trips
in this one and I do like CMCs floor a little bit.
I think Junior Gibbs might have a higher ceiling this week, but
I think CMC just 25 touches. It's nobody else is getting that
so. That's true.
Well, maybe my expensive running back might get to 25 touches.
It's Travis Etienne 6400 against The Jets and I picked on this
Jet, this Jets team in this spot last week too.
I and I had a Chan as my expensive running back.
He had 105 combo yards and a score on 8 touches before he got
hurt. And then?
They took him out and then Jalen Wright took over and had 24
carries for one O 7 and one and Ollie Gordon scored two.
And if you combine those 3 backs it was 41.9 PPR points against
The Jets last week for runners and the prior three top runners
to face The Jets. I am just recycling this stat
from last week. 3222 and 30 PPR points.
Etienne carried the ball 20 times last week at 74 ground
yards, 2 rushing scores and I think the only worry is the Jags
get far too up early and they throw ETN to the bench and bring
in a guy I might mention later in the show.
I will say I don't know if the Jags are like good enough to
really be blowing teams out. But.
They have to go or anything. I know, I know they have.
It's just, it's, it's messing with me.
It just doesn't make any sense. So I don't know.
I'll highlight that a little bit more later.
Who's your budget runner? Yeah, we're going.
Woody Marks for the Texans, 57157 hundred home for the
Cardinals. Workloads really good, at least
16 touches and five straight matchups.
Also excellent. Cardinals getting destroyed by
enemy backs since the Week 8 by they've given up at least 70
combo yards to every single number one they faced and 80
yards to all of those except Ken Walker.
Last week, the wheels completely fell off that run defense.
They gave up 253 yards and three touchdowns on the ground to the
Rams trio of backs trio. Ronnie Rivers put up 40.
Like there were actually 3 backs.
Nick Job is hurt which should lock Marks in the goal line
work. The only other back that really
gets any work is Dari Ogunwale who's a 31 year old pass
catcher. Marks didn't practice Wednesday,
although he did finish the game on Sunday after suffering a
minor injury. So I assume he's good to go, but
just keep an eye on that Thursday and Friday practice
report. You make a 31 year old pass
catcher seem like he's like ancient.
I mean, we got the 44 year old Philip Rivers back.
I'm a year older than him but what's the tweet?
What's the guy close to my age in the league still?
What's the Evergreen tweet of here comes the 35 year old
quarterback, the oldest guy in the league.
You know, how does he put it together?
Like how is he still alive that it's like me at 35, Like showing
up for my 9:00 AM Monday job just like that.
All right, my budget runner is Devin Neil 5600 against the
Panthers. This one only works if Alvin
Kamara is indeed inactive and I don't think he's going to be
active. He didn't practice on Wednesday
as he's still coming back from that MCL spring.
Neil had 20 touches last week, 84 combo yards and a score.
Evan Hall and Odric Estimate were the other two backs
involved. They combine for only 5 touches.
If Neil gets another full workload against Carolina,
things could turn out really well because I'm going to go
through them line by line. But here's how it went since
Week 8. Here's how the running backs
have fared against Carolina. James Cook, he's a bell cow, 33
points. Josh Jacobs, he's a bell cow, 20
points. Camara and Neil combined for 20
points. Bijan, bell cow, 30 points.
Ed in Algier, he had 9. McCaffrey, bell cow, 27 points.
Corum and Chiron together 27 points.
So it feels like Dev and Neil, we're looking at like a 20 point
floor here at 5600. What?
I yeah, I might like Neil better than my guy.
That's that's a. Good one.
All right, there we go. Let's go to the wide receiver
position. Trevor, you get to start us off.
Yeah, we'll go George Pickens 6700 home for Sunday night
against the Vikings. Obviously he famously loafed
through much of the Thanksgiving #2 game last Thursday between
Dallas and Detroit. Pickens is a guy that's very
much online on social media. For example, after Dallas beat
the Eagles a couple weeks ago, Pickens Instagram story just
said weak butt. Philly fans y'all know him for
sandwiches with like the laughing emoji.
So I'm guessing he'll have seen all the edits on social media
that are just clowning him for literally walking around with
CD. Lamb hurt too, right?
Crazy. Yeah, I I think he shows up with
some fire on national TV spot. We mentioned CD didn't practice
Wednesday with the concussion, might not know what status until
later, although it sounds like he's progressing well.
I will say in the four games this year the Pickens played
that Lamb did not. He had five.
Five for 6818 for 134 and 2, two for 57, and 1:00 and 9:00 for
168 and one. That seems.
Right, last week's dud, it's decent, and prior to last week's
dud, Pickens hadn't scored less than 12 PPR points since Week 1.
So I like this a little better. Obviously with without Lamb and
hopefully we get some clarity before Sunday at noon on that,
but I think Pickens is a good play either way.
All right, for my wide receiver, I'm going to double dip.
I'm going to do my expensive wide receiver and my budget wide
receiver. In one giant blurb here.
I got JSN at 8500 and his teammate Rashid Shaheed at 4100,
both against the Colts, so Sam Darnold obviously should have
been my cheap quarterback as well.
There's a bonus cheap quarterback 5800 by the way, so
Sauce Gardner still out for the Colts.
Charvarius Ward is in the concussion protocol, so he's
probably going to miss this game too.
In the slot against JSN is Makai Blackman PFFS #104 ranked corner
out of 111, so that's near the bottom.
Kenny Moore and Jaylen Jones are the other two corners.
Moore is 74th ranked and Jones is unranked, but he's allowed
122 passer rating in his coverage this season.
So Shaheed was targeted five times last week.
He caught four of them for 67 yards.
He's much more of a deep threat than Cooper Cup at this point in
his career. Plus he scored that touchdown on
a kick return last week. And Scott Fish let me know that
Sam Darnold leads the league in completions over 10 yards this
season. So time to Chuck it deep against
the Colts. I think the Seahawks have the
ability to just put the foot on the gas here and blow out the
Colts. Like 40 or 50 points is in play.
I think for Darnold and the Colts that are Darnold and the
Seahawks this week, they got no corners and they got no
quarterback. The Colts do.
So if the Seahawks get up by two scores early, this one just
could be in epic blowout mode. Indy pretty decent against the
run as well, so passing should be the first and second option
on Sunday. So I like both JSN and Rashid
Shaheed and I've built a couple of lineups with both of them in
there. Would you bring it back with
anyone from the Colts like a Tyler Warren, or just say this
is dead on arrival? I'll just play this Darnold and
these two I. Mean if you want to get real
weird, the guy I told you not to play, Jonathan Taylor, he's
probably going to get 10 touches in this game.
I just don't think the Colts can score a touchdown.
That's my issue. I think you need probably like a
couple like just Jonathan Taylor, superhero 55 yard runs
where he just, you know, puts three guys in the turf or
something and. Honestly, like he's probably the
only guy who can score a touchdown, but the rest of the
team, I don't think they can. So I'd probably leave all of
them outside of my lineup. So who's your, who's your budget
wide receiver here? Trevor?
Yeah. This guy is real budgety.
We got Jack Bash, rookie for well, 3200 at Philly.
Great match up there. So Besh was the Raiders 2025
second round pick. He's finally getting some real
run. On Sunday.
He saw 82% of the snaps, which was second on the team behind
Trey Tucker. He parlayed that into team lead
and targets, catches and yards last week.
And we talked about Kenny Pickett will be coming in.
I actually think that's an upgrade at this point with just
how bad Gino's been. 4 of Besh's six catches last week came in
the fourth quarter when Kenny Pickett took over for an injured
Gino. Is Gino officially out?
I just saw he missed practice Wednesday.
But is he they, I, I saw that he missed practice, but they said
Kenny Pickett's going to start. So, OK, so we're already
perfect, all right. And so Philly is not that
imposing a match up against receivers middle of the pack,
giving up yards. They are a lead at preventive
touchdowns, but the Raiders weren't going to score any of
those anyways. Vegas isn't an 11 1/2 point Rd.
dog, so there could be plenty of garbage time here.
Kind of like we saw last week with Picket to Bash.
Oh, Kenny Pickett revenge game. For his what, 4 backup
appearances or? Whatever, I think he got a start
last year, didn't he? Yeah, maybe he did.
Week 18 start. Yeah, yeah.
All right, let's go to the tight end plays.
We'll, we'll go back to you, Trevor, Who's your expensive
tight end? Yeah, so Trey McBride and Brock
Bowers are the two most expensive guys on the slate, and
they face the 3rd and 5th tough, toughest matchups for tight end.
So I'm going to go to the next guy at George Kittle 5700
against Tennessee. Kettle's match up against
Tennessee middling tight end defense since the week 10 by has
allowed performances of 6 for 51 to Dalton Schultz, 3:45 and 1:00
to Brent Strange. Then last week, Harold Fanton
went nuclear. Career day of eight, 114 and one
overs past four games, Kettle's been heavily involved, averaged
stat line at six for 74 and over half a touchdown.
Even just the six for 74 mostly gets you there on a sub 6K price
tag. And he's one of the, we always
say on one of a handful of tight ends that's got the 25 point
upside. Yeah.
That's true. My expensive tight end.
He might have 25 point upside, but it would take a lot.
It's Dalton Kincaid 4600 at New England.
He did end up scoring A touchdown last week against the
Bengals. I used him as my cheap tight end
last week. So did Jackson Hawes of the
Bills, by the way. And Dawson Knox had 93 yards and
a touchdown called back for a penalty.
So it was almost another epic day against the Bengals.
It seems like Josh Allen likes his tight ends though, and it's
a fairly big match up for the Bills in New England.
Lots of playoff implications on the line.
The last time Kincaid faced the Pats, he had 6 catches for 108
yards and the Pats have allowed the eighth most receptions to
the tight end position. I just like the spot for a guy
at 4600. He he seems like the guy end up
in my wide receiver tight end position a lot on fanball, yeah.
And last week they said he was, like, really gutting it out, and
he ended up playing a decent amount of snaps and wasn't
terrible. But I think another week of rest
should do him a lot of good just considering how much we saw
Dawson Knox producing in that spot.
Yeah. All right, cheap tight end time
Trevor Go. Ahead Harold Fannon, 4400 at
Chicago The Browns other side end David Ojoku suffered a knee
injury on Sunday, was DNP on Wednesday's practice report.
He's also a free agent after the year, so I kind of leaned he
just sits and Cleveland gives their draft picks more run.
Fanna took big time advantage of a Joku's injury last week.
The Bears allowed 18 touchdowns to tight ends this year.
Not great over the last three, the game the Bears have.
Not allowed 18 touchdowns to tight ends this year.
That can't be real 'cause that's more than the Bengals I.
Was gonna say that I think it. Was third most when.
We we're doing it live here. Hang on Gago, against the tight
end. Sorry, 5 where where did I get
20? All right, Honestly, no, I'd was
that like a Trey McBride stat and I just I'm not sure.
Yeah, that's. Last week, Let's go.
Back to Harold Fannon here. You're like Harold.
Fannon though, Fish and I were talking about him a lot, about
how he when Shadur scrambles, Fannon like mimes him and and
and goes the same direction and and he's just like the outlet
every time. Yeah, and then here's some stats
that are true that I'll throw at you.
They gave up eight for 62 to the Steelers tight end monster
foursome, 5 for 57 to Packers tight ends.
Nobody knows who the Packers tight ends are anymore.
Thana does have solid chemistry with Shadur as well.
Three straight contests with four catches or a touchdown.
Like you said, he's got he's got some good.
Good. Science with the Shadur there,
he's the top target. Every week for Shadur.
So that's a good thing. My budget tight end.
This is the part of the show where we pick on the Bengals
tight end defense. So it's Isaiah likely 3500 at
Cincinnati and I made fun of his butter hands earlier in the
show. He did score though last week
and then he scored again. Ran above 3 steps.
Had it stripped out of his hands in the end zone, he would have
had a 19 or 20 point fan ball day if he has that rule to
touchdown. And the week before against
these Bengals, he dropped it on his own right at the goal line.
He had five for 95 in the game, but it would have been another
20 points had he just held onto the ball for one second longer.
Last week on the show, I mentioned that the Bengals were
six PPR points per game worse than the next worst tight end
defense. After giving up 137 yards and
two touchdowns to the tight end of last week, they're now eight
points worse than every other tight end defense in the league.
Tight ends are averaging 24.1 points per game against
Cincinnati as a group, I went and looked who the best tight
end group offensively is in the league.
It's the Cardinals. They averaged 12 1/2 points per
game. They're like, it's like you get
2 games worth of tight end points from the best tight end
group in the league when you start a tight end against Cincy.
So Mark Andrews definitely in play, Isaiah likely super in
play here. I think he he can absolutely
just smash and it's possible that he could get to 2
touchdowns and close to 100 yards like he's done in the last
two weeks. Any love for Charlie Kolar or
Peyton Ricard? Patrick Ricard, if they line
those guys up. I think Ricard they keep in the
backfield. That's true.
Yeah. Fire up Kolar, too, for sure.
All right. Deep, deep sleeper time.
Trevor, who do you got? Yeah, so I'm going to another
tight end here. I I think I like likely better
at the same price, but Colby Parkinson is 3500 for the Rams
this week against Detroit. This is a great way to get cheap
exposure to that Lions Rams game with a 55 point total.
Parkinson has four catches or a touchdown in five straight games
with four touchdowns total over those five.
Detroit is top third against the tight end on the season,
although recently they allowed both Theo Johnson and Jake
Ferguson to clear 10 PPR points over the last three games.
So it's tough to get exposure to that game without paying $8000
for somebody. So Colby Parkinson's a decent
way to get a little action on that one.
All right, I'm gonna play this button driver.
Last week, my deep, deep sleeper was Jerry Judy.
He had three yards and a touchdown.
Woo. As soon as I saw, because it was
a big long touchdown, right, that I think he had.
Yeah, I thought of you as soon as I saw that.
All right, let's go with base Shoal Tootin this week 4200
against The Jets. I highlighted the running game
against The Jets earlier in the ETN matchup, but.
Tooten. Comes in when the Jags are
blowing out people. He scored against the Titans two
weeks ago when the Jaguars won by 22.
He had 74 yards in a score against the Chargers in Week 11
and the Jaguars won that game by 29.
Call it a hunch. I think the Jags might run away
with this one against The Jets. That leaves plenty of garbage
time for Tooten. I I expect him to get most of
the work in the second-half of this game.
It makes me a little nervous about my ETN call.
The tune will be so good. He eats too much of the word no
that the. Jaguars are just going to be so
far ahead that ETN might not play in the second-half.
Sure. The Jaguars are playoff bound,
so they got to start resting people crazy.
Yeah. Do you have a a lineup or a
strategy for this week's games? Yeah.
This one's all right. I got Stroud and Stafford at
QBCMC Marks and Travis ET and a running back, Puka, Pickens,
besh at receiver and then I got as a likely at the tight end
spot all. Right, that sounds pretty sweet.
I'm going to pop up the old on the video screen here.
The old 5 by 5 for this week, the Sunday 5 by 5 contest is
only the late games. Again, this one's called a top
heavy 5 by 5 because we made the the top prizes worth a lot more
and we're paying out a little bit less, a bit a bit fewer
places this week. Just trying some new things out.
A lot of these guys that we we really liked we highlighted
already in the show. We have Puka, we have Gibbs, we
have Taylor, who we didn't like as much.
We have JSN McCaffrey. That's your $5 row.
But some of the guys I think that are really interesting,
Justin Jefferson and Aaron Jones down in that $1.00 row going up
against the Dallas defense, I think that's pretty intriguing
there. And you know, JJ McCarthy had
only 2 bucks. I liked him.
But you you're saying get exposure to that Detroit and
Rams game. Javonte or Jameson Williams, 2
bucks. Kyron Williams 2 bucks, Javonte
will All the Williams's are two bucks by the way, and Aman Raw
is only three, so anything else stick out to you Trevor?
Yeah, actually I like the if you start with JJ and if you go JJJJ
for 3 bucks and they can run it back with like CD Lamb or George
Pickens and then go with a couple $5 guys kind of like that
and you. Liked Kittle a lot too, and he's
also a $1.00 dude this week as well.
Yeah. Is there anyone on tennis?
Yeah. There's nobody on Tennessee in
the pool, right? I suppose they don't have any.
Anyone worth anything. So.
No, we're not. We're not running any Titans out
there in the 5 by 5. Come on, you can go.
Pretty to kittle that that would be a good start.
Yeah, there we go. 10 bucks left.
Sheesh. All right.
That. Was the five by 5?
Go play the 5 by 5. It's 5 bucks to play.
There's no positional requirements, 55 dollar players,
5 four dollar players all the way down to 1 if to build the
best five player line up with $15 in salary cap and so you can
go play that 2:50 to the top, top prize in that one this week.
Trevor, do you have a line up for us this week?
Yes. Didn't I just go over it a
couple minutes? Oh gosh.
Yeah, I was. It's all good.
I had my screw up and now it's yeah, you know what?
I I I had admittedly on show production meeting here for the
people who made it to the very end of the show.
I forgot to get the 5 by 5 overlay and it was done.
But I was like, oh crap. I so I was loading it in while
you were going over your line up.
So my line UPS going to be better though I I got some
pretty it was. Last week I I gave out some kind
of rotten advice so. Here, you know what, I'll I'll
give out my line up that I have for for our $10 internal right
now. I got Lamar Jackson and Derrick
Henry. ETN is my other running back.
I got JSN plus Jamar Chase and Rashid Shaheed as my wide
receivers. I got Likely and Fannin at my
tight end and Flex and Sam Darnold is my other quarterback.
OK, that's interesting. Yeah, I think that's got more of
a ceiling than my lineup does. I just think that some of the
correlation is a little better. Big Seattle and Baltimore stacks
there, three on each. So let's go, let's go.
Plus Jamar Chase to run it back on the other side for Cincy.
Yeah, he hasn't had an. Explosion game in a minute, so
yeah. It's it's been a little while.
His, his price is depressed a little bit there too.
We didn't even talk about him today.
There's a little bonus expensive receiver for you.
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