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football almost daily with me today, Trevor Jones, the guy I
defeated in basically all of the Week 17 contests on Fanball.
Oh, I had a good week last week, Trevor.
Yeah, you, you smoked me. I not a great effort for me last
week in our internals at all. I I had one where I was in like
last last place, but I stacked heavily on that bears Niners
game and oh, that was a fun watch.
That was that was really great. To watch.
On Sunday night today we're going to preview Week 18 from
ADFS perspective on the show, and Trevor's team and my team
play off against each other this week in a meaningless game with
a whole bunch of Subs in play. Super fun, exactly what we
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Fanball figures. And Trevor, I'm wearing my River
Falls football hat here because your River Falls Falcons in the
Stag Bowl for the national championship coming up this
weekend. Yeah.
Should we get a flight to Canton?
Is it too late to? I already direct flights from
MSB to Canton. From from what I've heard from
the people who go to the Fantasy Football Expo out in Canton,
it's just miserable to get to Canton from here.
Yep, I've been to the Pro Football Hall of Fame once, but
that's just because I have family in Ohio and yeah, you
just it, it is very hard to get to.
It's in the middle of nowhere. Yeah, All right.
Well, hey, good luck to the River Falls Falcons.
My my daughter Haley goes there. Trevor, you're an alumni.
So, hey, that's the greatest, greatest football moment in
River Falls history. Go get AD Three national title
this week. Let's go.
All right, let's talk a little bit about the Saturday games,
Trevor. We'll start off the Panthers and
Bucks for maybe the NFC South title game because suddenly
Atlanta can factor into this. But here's how this one goes.
If Carolina wins, they're in. If Tampa wins, they need the
Saints to beat the Falcons to go to the play offs.
And if Tampa beats Carolina, but Atlanta beats New Orleans, then
Carolina goes anyway on the tiebreaker because all three
teams would be 8:00 and 9:00. What a mess.
So I just got a bunch of bullet points on these games, Trevor,
So feel free to react to how you feel on on these Saturday games.
We're going to go over these two Saturday games because we got a
slate for it and it's fun to play.
There's not the world's greatest plays on the Saturday slate
considering there's two really good games in reality.
But for fantasy, it's going to be pretty weird.
All right, let's start on the Carolina side.
Tampa's allowed multiple touchdowns to 8 straight
quarterbacks if you include run and pass.
So that bodes well for the Panthers passing game.
Bryce only had 191 and 2 touchdowns 2 weeks ago.
So Bryce Young, I think he's my third favorite quarterback on
the slate. Yeah, I.
I just think so right now the Seattle, San Francisco game has
a four point higher total. So that's kind of where I'm
leaning for the most part. And I agree, I think I like
Darnold and Purdy. A good step above Bryce and
Baker. That's where I'm at, too.
Rico Dowdell, by the way, he needs 7 yards for a $1 million
bonus, so he's going to get 7 yards for sure.
Tampa has allowed the most receiving yards in the league to
opposing running backs. So of the running backs on the
slate, Dowdell is definitely my number two behind McCaffrey,
yeah. Dowdell also, I believe has a
$200,000 incentive for another touchdown, A rushing touchdown.
I think it's an 8 yard rushing touchdown.
He earns about 1.2 million. That's fun.
We, we got a lot of incentive talk on this, this show.
We do. We do, by the way, All right,
Ted McMillan had 6 for 73 and one against Tampa two weeks ago.
Dave Canalis said he didn't do a good enough job getting Tet the
ball last week where he only had four targets, one catch and five
yards against Seattle. So I think Tet McMillan is in
for a big bounce back game and I like him quite a bit on this
slate. And then the Bucks have randomly
allowed eleven touchdowns to tight ends this year.
That's a lot. It's the fourth most in the
league. Tommy Tremble had 77% of the
snaps and Tavion Sanders just went under the knife this week
on his ankle. He's done for the year, Tremble
only 3100. And when I've been filling out
my Saturday line UPS, I keep putting Tremble in there 'cause
I'm spending up on random dudes. I think that Tremble's kind of a
good play this week. Yeah, so how I'm approaching
this is so I I fiddled around with it.
You can get Darnold, Purdy, JSNCMC and Mike Evans into the
same line up and still fill out like actual players.
But you're going to need some Tommy Trembles, maybe a Xavier
to look at Sean Tucker, you know, somebody that's kind of
gross. But you can kind of get
everybody outside of like Bucky and pure Sol Kittle if he plays.
So yeah, so on the Panther side, for me, it feels like Bryce
Dowdle, Tet and Tremble are all pretty reasonable plays that you
can get in your line up on the Tampa side.
Baker only had 145 and one in the Week 16 meeting and the
Panthers are basically top ten in every category against the
past. Although there's there's a
silver lining here. He had 346 yards and two
touchdowns last week. That was his best performance by
far in like 2 months. He's been held under 200 yards
in five of his last seven games. So, but still, Baker's my 4th
ranked quarterback out of these four Saturday quarterbacks, but
he's going to be the least. Owned as well I think.
So it's a contrarian angle with Baker.
Here it is then if you went Baker, you know, if you wanted
to get off Mike Evans for some leverage play like Chris Godwin
play at Buca who's kind of been terrible for like 2 months.
But he would be really low owned and it is a good spot for him
for a decent I should say. Bucky has a good matchup, but I
still don't think he's healthy and it's randomly a committee
backfield now. Bucky only had nine for 19 last
week on the ground against Miami.
What, 5 catches for 14 yards in that game?
Rashad White only had four fewer snaps than Bucky and Sean Tucker
got 2 touches on 4 snaps. They were both in the red zone.
Tucker's had 11 red zone touches in the last four weeks.
Bucky's had 7. White's had six in that time
frame. So I I don't think you can play
any Tampa runners. I like Sean Tucker because he's,
I think he's 4100. Panthers have allowed the six
month rushing touchdowns on the season, and he did score.
He had a touchdown in three straight games prior to last
week. But if he doesn't score a
touchdown, yeah, you're probably getting like 1/2 a point.
Tucker's like 4100 or 4000, right?
Yeah. Yep.
And so he was what I needed to kind of unlock the CMCJSN Evans
pretty, I think he was kind of. A Did you miss the part where I
said that he had four snaps last week?
So you're paying $1000 a snap, correct?
Yeah, $1000 a touch, maybe with two.
Touches. Speaking of red zone targets, a
Mecca Egbuca basically hasn't had one in a month.
You cannot solidly play Egbuca at all.
Since Godwin and Evans return, they're basically getting all of
the red zone work. Godwin had 7 catches 108 yards
in a score last week. Jalen McMillan came out of
nowhere for seven for 1/14. Evans scored but only had three
catches for 31 yards. So I don't think you can play
Igbuca Evans and Godwin in the, excuse me, in the Week 16
meeting. They both had five catches.
Evans had 31 yards and a score. Godwin had 30 yards.
I think they're going to be targeted super heavily in this
game, though. Hard not to like Godwin a little
bit more though. For me at the 5700 price tag, I
think they're pretty even as to what the split is right now.
And Evans is 7300. Is McMillan a dart throw at like
4100? Yeah, he's not a bad option.
And I think I'd rather have probably got a Helen in a line
up then like spread it out or you know.
Sean Tucker basically, if you're looking at yeah, right, right.
That's maybe that's where you could go is if you don't want to
play Sean Tucker because the ceiling might just be like 12
points on 2/1 yard plunges. Yeah.
So yeah, I, I, I don't hate it. And I also I do like Evans just.
When the season's on the line, it's tough for me to see them
not throwing the ball to Mike Evans like 12 times.
Oh yeah, I think so. You, you just have to spend up.
And I think there's a lot of guys you want to spend up on
this week. And we're going to talk about
most of them in just a second here in the next game.
Seattle at San Francisco, winner gets the one seed, losers,
probably the five seed on the Seattle side.
Sam Darnold has a chance to earn $2,000,000 this week. 150 yards,
he gets a half mil, 3 touchdown passes, another half mil and and
he'll probably get the other million if he does those two
things because if he raises his passer rating by 0.8, that's
another half mil and if he raises his completion percentage
by 0.3%, that's another half million.
So if he's accurate this week, he's going to earn 2,000,000
bucks. Should we get an extra like 5
screen passes to juice his completion percentage or what's?
How do you think they like manufacture some of this?
I would just keep throwing to JSN.
Probably the right call. Who is probably the other guy
you want to play? By the way, Niners have been in
shootouts as of recently. Cam Ward, Phillip Rivers, Caleb
Williams each hit two touchdown passes.
Rivers had 277 passing yards and promptly retired a day ago and
Caleb went for 3:30. So you have to like JSN at 8400.
You got to pay up for him. You got to pay up for McCaffrey.
It seems these two teams played way back in week 1.
JSN had 9 catches. Oh wait, I got this button. 9 *
9 * 124 yards. He had 13 targets in this game.
He's had double digit targets and three of his last four.
It just seems like a no brainer to just put JSN automatically in
all of these line UPS. I think you just start with
McCaffrey and JSN. Yeah, 100%.
I, I, I don't think you could not play them.
Yeah. The other receivers, Rashid
Shahid has had one target in each of the last two weeks, but
the last time the Seahawks had a super high volume passing day,
Shahid had 7 targets, 5 catches and 74 yards against the Colts
in Week 15. So I think that it's going to be
a heavy passing day here. So I don't mind Shahid at 3700
as a hero play kind of guy. I don't think I do cup at 3800
though. He needs a touchdown to pay off
and he's only got 2 on the year. I think Cup's just not, you
know, he's not the guy he once was.
And well, Rashid Shahidi, like he said, doesn't get a ton of
targets. He's the kind of guy that can
break, you know, a 60 yarder on one play so.
And he also could get you that that special teams touchdown in
there too. AJ Barner, kind of interesting
guy at 4000 touchdowns and two straight 6 on the year.
He's a red zone threat and he's also their tush push guy.
If you're not using Kittle, he's a pretty interesting option at
tight end. Then the runners.
Charbonnay is at 5900, Walker's at 5700.
They split carries almost evenly.
Charbonnay had more carries and hit 110 yards and two scores
last week. The week before it was Walker
who had 100 and a score. Charbonnay gets more red zone
looks and probably has a better chance of scoring, which is why
he's probably got the $200 juice on him.
I just like Dowdell a lot better at basically the same price,
getting a majority of the touches against a weaker rundee.
Yeah, I agree. I think you probably feel better
about Rico being saddled up with carries than you do one of the
Seattle backs. Although I will say, if I had to
pick one, I think it is Charbonnet.
At this point, I'm kind of just done with Ken Walker.
Like I I used to think he was good and it's just we keep
waiting and good match after good match up.
He just kind of fluff, you know, flubs in.
So if I had to go one, I'd like to go Charbonnet.
Yeah. Yeah, all right.
San Francisco side 8800, Christian McCaffrey, I think
he's in in our internals. I think he's 100% owned and you
just can't afford not to have him.
Kittle is 6600. It looks like he's going to
play. They wanted him to test the
ankle last week and it looks like he was close but not quite
there. I think that he goes and I think
that you have to put him in lineups at 6600 too.
I like him better than Mike Evans in in and you get a
discount on him too. If Kittle doesn't go.
By the way, you just immediately flip to Tanjas at $4000 and he's
like probably the best play of the week at 4K if Kittle is
randomly. Inactive, yeah.
I mean, I just, I think this game will shoot out a little
bit. The Niners defense is so bad.
I think that it's just going to, you know, force this game into a
little bit more of a shoot up. Yeah.
So I'm I'm with you there. So the Seahawks, they're weak in
the passing game against tight ends and running backs and
that's it. And that really like works
perfectly for the 49ers. They got CMC and Kittle or
Tanja. So it feels like Brock Purdy's
just in a good spot here. It's exactly what he wants to
do. He doesn't target the wide
receivers a ton anyway. He's been on fire 5 touchdowns
in each of the last two weeks. 6900 he's number one with a
bullet on on my quarterback plays for the slate ran in two
scores last week. And by the way, Bryce Young ran
in a score against the Seahawks D last week, too.
I think this just might work. So it just everything seems to
be filtering toward Purdy having a good game here.
Yeah, I'm with you. I think Purdy and Arnold, I
think that's going to be my my 2 super flex guys on the Saturday
slate we're. Going to have the same freaking
line up, aren't we? We're going to we Probably yeah,
the Niners strength at running back in tight end makes the
Seahawks wide receiver or sorry the the Niners wide receivers
pretty tough to play. The the Seahawks weakness is the
Niners strength and vice versa. So they don't really have to
target Jennings at 5900 or Pearsall at 5600.
Kendrick Bourne 3200, though, I found myself getting some Bourne
in line UPS because I'm spending up at other positions and I'm
down to like 3200 for my flex guy.
And by the way, if Bourne gets 200 or if he gets 49 receiving
yards, $250,000 bonus. So that's kind of a sneaky one
right there I was. Going to say, how do you wait?
You know, how do you weigh that between like, well, we need to
win the game to like try to win the Super Bowl, but also our
like fourth string receiver, he could really catch, make some
cash. He could cash in 1/4 mil here.
I would guess that, you know, he, he, he put in some, a couple
of good catches on Sunday night and once they start filtering
everything to McCaffrey and and Kittle, I think it opens up the
field for maybe the third wide receiver to have some success
against the Seahawks secondary. Anything else you want to add to
the Saturday slate? No, should be.
I think it's going to be more of fun of a real football slate
than a fantasy slate. But it's actually a decent
fantasy slate, too. Yeah, that's Seattle.
San Francisco Game should be pretty fun.
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All right, Week 18, here's the teams that we know that are
resting dudes. And by the way, this is our
fade. These are our guys that we're
not playing this week. Both Trevor and I looked at it
and went, I mean, we're fading teams here.
Philly says they're benching most of their starters, which is
weird because they still could get the number two seed.
But I mean, that's what they want to do, I guess.
So that's that's their opinion, man.
Hertz, Barkley, Brown, Smith, Goddard all look like they're
going to be out plus multiple lineman from both sides of the
ball. So it it actually presents some
interesting things for Washington.
On the other side, the Packers have nothing to play for at all.
Sounds like Jordan Love, Josh Jacobs and maybe Christian
Watson all sit in this one. Let's see Josh Allen expected to
sit against The Jets. Actually, they said that he's
going to play 1 snap. It must be like a consecutive
game thing that they want to keep going.
So he's going to take 1 snap and then probably run off the field.
And so I imagine James Cook probably sits as well for this
one. Justin Herbert taking the week
off to get ready for the play offs.
Chargers are locked into a wild card spot.
They just don't know which one and I don't think they really
care. And the Raiders resting Geno
Smith and Max Crosby. Heavy sarcasm on resting and.
Max Max was healthy enough to Sprint out of the facility after
they told him he was sitting. So he's so.
Pissed at them. They're going to lose him.
I get it. Yeah, Yeah.
They're going to have to trade him.
It's insane. All right, well, let's start
with the player that will be in close to half your line UPS.
Who do you got this week? Yeah, we'll start with the I
think he's the most expensive guy on the slate.
Bijon Robinson 8600 home for New Orleans.
He's on fire right now. Over 25 touches per game average
in the last five. He's got 20 catches over his
last three games. Saints are giving up the 7th
most rushing yards in the league.
Also, the Saints allow nearly 30 running back touches per game,
which is third most in the NFL. And Pajon's getting all the work
he can handle for non playoff teams.
We talked about kind of the contract incentives.
Pajon is 255 yards away from Chris Johnson's single season
scrimmage yards record and they've saddled him up with, you
know, as many touches as he can handle.
I think they're going to make a real effort to go for it here.
I and what's kind of a dead Falcon season.
I think they're really going to make an effort to get him this
this record. That's insane.
Yeah, also, Chris Johnson doing it in 16 games is like, man.
Yeah, that's that's pretty impressive.
The correct answer to this is Derrick Henry at 7800, who will
probably win or lose a playoff spot for the Ravens.
Baltimore beat Pittsburgh in Week 14.
Henry had 26 touches in that game, 102 yards in a score and
the Ravens desperately needed a win last week to stay even in
play for Week 18. What did they do?
They handed Derrick Henry the ball 36 times.
He got 200 and 16216 rushing yards.
And then he had an Al Bundy on top of that four touchdowns in
one game. They they needed to win the week
before against the Pats. He didn't they they didn't get
there. They didn't get that win either.
But he had 120 yards and two scores on 18 carries in that
game too. I mean, it's Derrick Henry,
right? Derrick Henry in a must win
game. Like it's like you said, it's.
That's the correct answer of who should be in your line up or
who's starting your line up this week.
Yeah. All right.
Favorite quarterback play of the week?
We got Trevor. Yep, we'll stick with Trevor.
6700 home against Tennessee. T Law has been quarterback one,
quarterback three, quarterback five in the past three weeks.
It's a good match up against Titans defense.
Trevor Lawrence already tagged for 250 total yards and two
touchdowns earlier this season. He's thrown for multiple
touchdowns against Tennessee and four of his last five against
the Titans. Titans are a bottom 10 passing
yard defense and rushing yards bottom 10 committed to
quarterbacks, which is important because Tila has four rushing
touchdowns in his last three games.
Jacksonville needs to win to lock up their their seed and
Lawrence might be the hottest quarterback of the league.
So especially in Week 18, It's so I mean, we've talked about
the dead teams, but it's so important.
I'm only going to trust the guys who like I know are going balls
to the wall this week. I'm not playing Josh Allen for
1/2 or Drake Knee for 3/4 like. I think it's really important to
focus on guys who will be playing four quarters in Week
18. Yeah, I think that it's
important to note that the Jags could opt to rest guys maybe in
the fourth quarter if they're way up on Tennessee.
But I mean that that's that's the only thing.
And if they do, they're up by a ton.
Already, right. And Tennessee's, you know,
they're still kind of playing a little bit like I think they'll
give it a half decent F against the Jags.
I've got a Tennessee guy coming up here that I want people to
play. Oh, here we go.
My expensive pick is Lamar Jackson at quarterback, 6600 at
Pittsburgh. He's going to play.
It's a playoff game for the Ravens.
Had 219 and a score through the air and seven carries for 43
yards and a touchdown on the ground against the Steelers in
the week 14 match up. And that was basically his best
performance in November or December.
Not afraid of the Steelers pass defense.
Third most passing yards allowed in the league.
By the way, they've given up the ninth most rushing touchdowns to
opposing quarterbacks too. So I think Lamar Jackson and
maybe the cheapest price we've ever seen Lamar Jackson in a
must win game. I I think that I think it's a
pretty good spot here for him. All right, QQQB, who you got?
Yeah, I've got Philadelphia Eagles back up quarterback
Tanner McKee, 5500 home against the Commanders.
So the Eagles have already announced, like you said,
they're kind of resting most of the starters in Week 18.
McKee, I think this is going to be a showcase spot for him.
He's a free agent after 2026, and I think Philly lets him kind
of show off here for a potential trade.
He actually played at the spot last season in Week 18 against
the Giants, and they let him throw 41 times, and he had 270
passing yards and two touchdowns.
So they've already proven that like, yeah, let's go out there
and, you know, just throw the ball around.
The matchup's also prime Washington's bottom four and
passing yards of touchdowns allowed.
So yeah, I really think Tanner McKee kind of air it out a bit
here. So does Philly just think that
they can win against Washington without all their starters?
And they're just like, yeah, let's, let's go for it.
I kind of think so. It's it's kind of a win, win.
Situation, yeah. And I think, are we still
getting Josh Johnson for Washington?
I think so. Yeah.
So I mean, that's, that's pretty tough.
Yeah, All right. My budget pick, Aaron Rodgers.
Only 5400 against Baltimore, Another guy with something to
play for. It's either win or maybe the
career is over for Aaron Rodgers.
Not great that he's missing DK Metcalf, but I do believe I, I
saw this somewhere. I think Rogers gets a half
million dollar incentive if the Steelers make the playoffs.
So I think there's a little extra juice in Rogers this week.
The Ravens just allowed Malik Willis to make their defense
look silly. I'm not going to say Rogers has
that kind of mobility or, or, or swagger in his game right now.
But Willis had 288 and one through the air, 60 and two on
the ground. Drake may also hit 380 and two
through the air the week before. So Ravens defense definitely
gettable. Rogers hit 284 and a score in
the Week 14 meeting. So he'll have to spread it
around a lot. He'll have to hit all those
tight ends and all those backup wide receivers.
But he's got a lot of old guy wide receivers that he can hit.
And let's see if they can like, you know, trudge out like the
senior citizen circuit to beat Baltimore.
Yeah, we've got like the 2019, like Pro Bowl alternate
receiving corps with Adam Thielen and MVS.
Who else is on the Scotty Miller?
So there we go. 4th and 5th receivers, yeah.
All right, running back plays. Who's your expensive guy?
Yeah. Expensive.
I went with RJ Harvey for the Broncos.
The rookie has been a touchdown machine recently.
He's got at least one in five straight games.
He's also getting more work in the past game recently he's got
9 catches for over 100 yards at a touchdown combined over the
last two weeks. Sounds like Trey Lance is
getting the start for the Chargers.
So it sounds like they're mostly resting their guys in week 18.
Denver should be going all out. It's pretty simple for them.
Clinch the one seeded with a win.
The Chargers do have a great run defense, but if it's the Denver
ones against the Charger second stringers.
I like RJ Harvey's chances this week.
All right, my expensive runner, I mean, if you're not doing
Bijan or Derrick Henry it it's pretty silly.
But Javonte Williams, I think is kind of in a good spot at 6300.
I, I did look up, I believe he hit all of his contract
incentives, but he is on a one year deal and he really wants to
Max out this 2026 contract. And the Giants have taken the
late season mantle as the worst run defense in the league.
They're now allowing A hilariously bad 5.6 yards per
carry, worst in the league. Javonte, by the way, picked up
25 fan ball points in the first meeting against the Giants.
So I think he's kind of in a sneaky good spot and 6300 as
kind of a mid grade guy I was finding on my Sunday line UPS, I
I had money leftover and so you can kind of upgrade for maybe
some cheaper guys and I think Javonte is in a good spot.
Yeah, I like that pick a lot. All right, Bougie pick.
Who do you got? I got Aaron Jones or Jordan
Mason. Aaron Jones has not yet
practiced this week even though he had 20 carries on Sunday and
Jordan Mason was hurt. Very weird.
But if it's Aaron Jones? I think it's just veteran
maintenance. OK, OK, let's.
I will say it's kind of funny that like he's 30 years old, we
got nothing left to play for and it's like, well, we really got
to get him out there for 20 carries on Sunday.
We need to like, rest him. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
I mean, you, you followed Aaron Jones for the first part of his
career. I think that's just the guy he
is. Yep, it is, but just the the
Packers didn't really give him 20 touches for the most part at
the end of his career. But yeah, yeah, anyways, revenge
game for Aaron Jones obviously against the Packers team that
sounds like is a trying. Jones had two straight games
with 20 plus touches coming into week 18.
Jordan Mason did practice in full on Thursday and if it for
some reason, if Aaron Jones does sit, Jordan Mason would be a
smash play. Also, Jordan Mason's 136 yards
away from 800 rushing yards on the season and he would get an
extra 200 K for that. Whichever back is the most work
should have success. The Packers starting defense,
which won't be on the field, has given up 457 rushing yards
combined over the past two weeks.
So. Nice.
Minnesota Rodnecks. All right, it sounds like they
might try to play McCarthy too randomly with a broken hand.
I mean I. Which could mean that's a bunch
of hand offs. That's true.
All right, My budget player,
Tony Pollard, 5800 versus Jacksonville, he has a ton to
play for this week, gets 250,000 for 66 more rushing yards and
200,000 for two more rushing touchdowns.
Now, it's a super tough test against the Jags.
They don't have a huge shot at the number one seed.
And like I said, if they find themselves in a comfortable lead
like they're going to win this game, they could end up resting
members of their really good run defense.
And it seems like the Titans have, just like in the last
month with this interim coaching staff, they probably looked at
all these veteran players and they said, well, what incentives
do you need to hit? That's why Tony Pollard's
getting tons of work late in the season.
The The Titans could be down by three scores and they might be
handing the ball off to Pollard throughout the whole
second-half. No, I, I'm with you.
It's I like that kind of like, hey guys, the season's dead and
a bunch of you won't be on the team next year anyway, so let's
let's cash everybody out and get get the hell out of.
Here, well, like nobody's going to be there.
It's like Cam Ward will be there and then the coaching staff is
going to be all gone. All these veteran players are
probably out. It's going to be a weird one.
All right, let's go to the wide receiver position.
Mine's hilariously bad. Let's hear yours first, though.
Yeah, Michael Wilson is the expensive guy, 6800 against the
Rams. So he's another guy that's got
some incentive or records on the line, I should say.
He can hit 1000 yards for the first time in his career by
getting to 93 in Week 18. In his last four games, he's had
five touchdowns and he's averaging 84 yards a game.
So I bet, I bet he gets to 93. The last time Wilson played, the
Ramsey exploded. That was just in week 1411 for
1:42 and 2:00. I will say, if San Francisco
wins on Saturday, the Rams have nothing to play for.
If San Francisco, even if San Francisco loses, they can only
get up to the five seed. And McVeigh traditionally hasn't
played for seeding late in the year.
They actually kind of had this situation last year.
And what rest of their guys in week 18.
So yeah, Wilson should be motivated.
No, Marvin Harrison. I think this is a really good
spot. Yeah, the no Marvin Harrison
thing always is a little extra bonus for Michael Wilson too.
My guys Stefan diggs 6400 versus Miami like this more before all
the weird news this week and it was a lot of weird news this
week. Vrabel says that there's no
reason why Diggs wouldn't play in this game though.
So Diggs has a ton of incentives on the line and he might need
that money for legal fees or alimony or something like that.
If he gets 8 more receptions, another $500,000 and and every
10 more receptions after that, he gets another 500 grand after
that. If he gets to 30 more yards,
that's another half mil. If he gets to 130 yards, that's
another half mil. He has an 18 catch 230 yard
game, which would be insane, right?
He'd make two and a half million dollars.
Man, and I will say no one, there's no one that's more
affected by like mental stuff, I think positively or negatively
than Steph Diggs, right? Like, oh, I'm going back to play
my old team. Yeah, I'm about to go nuclear on
these guys. Oh, I need to like cash 3 mil.
Yeah, I'm about to go, you know, crazy on this team.
Yeah, I actually, I like that one.
That's again, your only worry is that like, maybe they're beating
the crap out of the chats, but if they are, Steph Diggs was
probably a decent part of that. So yeah, Dolphins, Dolphins,
Dolphins. Sorry, wrong.
The bad, bad. Did you see the Did You see the
Family Feud clip of Stephon Diggs that's been rolling around
Twitter this week? I.
Have not no. It's a little dirty for this
show. I'll have to.
I'll have.
To send it to you. But it's pretty good, all right.
I have seen a lot of the the there was the Vikings, you know,
camera bit in the locker room from a few years ago.
Which player would you least or which player on the team would
you not let date your sister And like to a man everyone says
Steph Diggs and so he can make it the rounds as well.
For sure budget wide receiver who you got?
Yeah, Jacoby Myers. We'll stay with the Jags there.
5700 Averaging nearly 9 targets a game in his last four, Meyers
has at least eight PPR points in seven.
Straight and he's. I got it, yeah.
And he's cleared 11 PPR points at 5 of the 7.
Titans are a really good match up.
They're bottom 8 and receiving yards and touchdowns permitted
to enemy wide outs. Meyer smoked this same Tennessee
defense just a few weeks ago in week 13.
He went 690 and 1. And I like I said earlier, I
think the Jags are one of the teams I'm, I'm pretty confident
in it will be foot on the gas for at least 3 1/2 quarters.
Sure. My budget wide receiver, Debo
Samuel, and you'd think the Commanders, they got nothing to
play for. What's going on here?
Well, Debo has a huge incentive day.
I would guess that they're kind of focusing on Debo for all of
this. Listen to this.
If he gets to 10 receptions, $650,000.93 more yards, 450,000
more, two more touchdowns, another quarter mil.
So 1.3 million potentially in play for a huge Debo day.
Against a the second and third string Philly defense,
potentially, yeah. They're resting all their
starters, guys on the D line. They they could be resting
Mitchell and Dejean this. And by the way, they played two
weeks ago, and I don't know if you remember this, there was a
big fight after the game and Dan Quinn stood in the middle of the
field watching this fight happen between the Eagles and the
Commanders. And and they asked him, why did
you stay there? And he's like just remembering
for for two weeks from now. And we see them again.
So I think the commanders are going to be like they're going
to be riled up and ready to go and they're just going to want
to put a beat down on these Eagles just for just for pride.
Sure, I like that. I like that play.
All right, let's go to the tight end position.
Who you got? They got Kyle Pitts 5600 home
against New Orleans. He finally cooled down a little
bit. He just had three targets last
week and that was Drake London, his second game back.
However, in the four weeks prior, Pitts had averaged nearly
10 targets per game. Saints aren't a great match up
for tight ends, although they did just give up 355 to 1 to
Chica Conquo last week. Drake London only has four
catches on 10 targets in the two games since his return.
I don't think he's even close to fully healthy.
I expect to bounce back from Pitts here.
He just, he's played so well with Cousins.
I think that's that'll continue here.
Are you a little bit disappointed that the biggest
tight end game of all time didn't come out of Trey McBride
last week? He still did fine like 23 he.
Eventually got there, yeah. But man, I think everybody
wanted him to get to like 60. That would have been so.
Yeah, I think we all just assumed it would be like a 15
for 1:52. Yeah, All right.
I've got Colston Loveland 4200 versus Detroit.
I don't like a lot of the high-priced tight ends this week
and we know a couple of things. The Bears still want to get the
number two seed. They can do that with a win.
Rome Dunze hasn't practiced yet this week.
Luther Burden got hurt on the final play of the Sunday Night
Football game last week. He is practicing though with a
quad injury. And Olamide Zacchaeus, he's been
sick all week and hasn't practiced, so there could just
be some additional targets available for Loveland, who had
10 targets last week. 6 catches, 94 yards and a score.
I I think he's just in a good spot.
And I think as we move into the first part of draft season next
year, I think Colston Loveland's going to be one of those guys
who's starting to sneak into the top five.
Tight end. Conversation I agree.
I it's funny because in the beginning of the year I was
like, oh, that's so funny. The Bears took this guy over
Tyler Warren. You know what?
What a clown operation. And now it's like Colston
Loveland might be kind of really good.
I. Mean.
They're both good. They are both good.
It's not a bad situation here. It's not one can be good.
It's not the Highlander. Trevor, come on.
No, no, it's just usually the bears making the flub.
Now it's the Bears are making the smart choices.
For for a Packer fan and a Viking fan, that's the absolute
worst. I don't know about you.
I really liked it when it was just the Vikings and Packers for
years and years. Britain.
Chicago. Getting good, thinking about
getting uppity on us. Yeah, they really are.
All right. Budget tight end who you got?
Yeah, I got Michael Mayer for the Raiders against Kansas City.
Minimum price 3K. Brock Bowers was shut down for
the year last week. Mayer immediately took
advantage. He led the team in targets,
catches and yards, going 8 for 89 in the two games.
Post Mahomes ACL, Kansas City's kind of been lifeless. 2 weeks
ago, they allowed eight for 53 and one to the Titans.
Chig gunner helm combo at tight end.
Evan Ingram only had four for 21, but he's mostly watched and
that was last week. So yeah, 3K for a guy who's the
favorite leaders team in targets, I don't know if there's
a big ceiling there just because this Raiders team is not live to
score more than like 14 points, but I think 3K, you know, you're
getting a pretty good floor there.
All right, my budget tight end Hunter Henry 4100 at against
Miami, he's got an incentive, can hit another $250,000 bonus
if he gets 5 catches. Miami the third easiest tight
end defense in the league. They're along the second most
catches and the third most yards the position.
And by the way, Hunter Henry has scored in two straight games, so
the only worry here, they get up too big and he's not playing in
the second-half. So yeah, that's it.
All right. Deep, deep, sleeper time.
Who do you got? Yeah, we'll go with another
Philly backup. We got Tank Bigsby.
They're running back 4400. Philly traded decently
significant draft capital to acquire Bigsby.
They gave up a fifth and a sixth earlier this year.
He's clearly ahead of AJ Dillon and Will Shipley for base work
and should get the goal line work as well.
Shipley's a little more of a pass, catching back against
Vegas in Week 15 when Philly was just kind of grinding the game
out. They did saddle up Bigsby with
17 carries, so clearly they do trust him a little bit.
Philly's a four point home favorite and they're the team
total still over 3 touchdowns. So I think Bigsby gets 15 plus
touches and a score in this one. OK, that makes a lot of sense.
My deep, deep sleeper. Hollywood Brown, 3800 at Las
Vegas. Another incentive guy.
His incentives are huge, by the way, $750,000 if he scores a
touchdown, that's an expensive touchdown right there.
If he gets to two touchdowns, he gets a million, 102 yards will
net him another $625,000. So he's looking at a a mil and
1/2 in incentives this week for a game that's like, it's like a
good game for a wide receiver. It's not like blow the roof off
the doors game. It's just a good game for a wide
receiver and the Chiefs, if they have nothing to lose, they could
just target Hollywood over and over in Vegas and the Raiders
are actively trying to lose and secure the number one pick.
So I I don't mind this at all. No, I, I like you.
Basically, your plays were just, I took the incentives and I took
yeah, let's fire these guys up. Let's fire these.
Guys, yeah, it's. Just a little bit of my my
thought process as well. You know, Hollywood, by the way,
it's it's a lot. Alotican whoever who would
however he pronounces his name as the quarterback dude has.
Like dude could make a friend for life here.
That's true. And Hollywood might kick him
10%. I was going to say, do you think
they've maybe like had the, hey, I think 20% of the like bag I'm
about to get, but you got to throw me like 12 targets today.
Yeah, that could be in play. I mean, that might be more than
a lot of kids making in salad. Probably I'll buy you a rolls.
Royce or something like that. All right, I'm skipping the 5 by
5 contest this week as far as the the on screen version of it,
but we urge you guys all to go play the 5 by 5.
They've been selling out every week.
So this one's back to being the afternoon games only.
And then there's also the the Peacock this weekend, the buck
hunter, the high 5, all the good ones over there.
So and and get in on those Saturday games.
Those are pretty fun too. Trevor, anything you want to
say? We'll be back again next week to
preview the Wild card round of fan ball plays, but anything you
got for this weekend? No, not really.
The last thing I'd say was the on the incentives.
I heard a really funny one, I think it was Robert May's of the
Athletic Football Show. So Bradley Chubb gets $5,000,000
if the Dolphins finish top 20 in scoring defense this year.
They're currently 24th, 21st in scoring defense, like .3 points
per game behind the Atlanta. So just a very funny like if
Bradley Chubb can be like a superhero or if, you know, if
Tyler Schuck puts up like 35 on Atlanta, like some guy gets
$5,000,000 for finishing top 20. And what a weird, what a weird
incentive 5 million for being like bottom third of the league
of defense. For a team incentive too.
Yeah, I just not, not even like an individual incentive.
Yeah, I got to. I got to find some of these
contracts myself where other people can do the work and I get
paid well. Good luck to Bradley Chuck.
Yeah, good luck to Bradley, Chuck.
Maybe, maybe he's like incentivizing some Falcons
players to to shave some points here.
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