Week 11 Matchups + Bringing the Hammer, Wheel of Shame - Fantasy Football Podcast for 11/15
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It's great. Top notch. I wonder where that originated. Top notch? Yeah, what makes that notch the best of the notches? I mean, if you take a... I don't want to go all spitballers here. No, but I'm just saying, if there's notches, the one on the top is clearly the best one.

Because of height? Yes. Isn't it the heightest? Yes. Well, it is. I guess you and I are better than Jason. Yeah, I mean, we can check in with the short kings of the Deucer's Alley and ask them, you know. Shout out, short kings. You ever been able to reach the top shelf or the top notch? No. I'll answer it for you. Middle notch. Middle notch Deucer's Alley. These are real middle notch guys. Yeah. Anyways, good morning, everybody. How are you doing over there, Papa Josh?

I'm doing great. Are you the tallest of the three? I am. That's why I was pointing at both these guys. Oh, man. Supreme dominance at five six. He can jump up and like. Also the fastest. Oh, no. That actually has been proven. Yeah, there was a race. No, Jeremy. It's been proven that he's faster than Matt. Oh, that's true. So we're setting up a race? No. No, he doesn't want it proven. I choose not to run. He doesn't want to run.

He talks a big game and then you're like, are we setting up a race? Nah. No, I love it. It has not been proven. It has, Josh. But that's called a forfeit, so. I'm so happy to be with everybody today.

Unfortunately, Mike, they just perfectly nailed what we watched last night on Thursday night football minus two plays. Hey, yeah. If you be grateful that we got some, well, we got Saquon Barkley and then we got absolute stinkiest doo doo garbage. I know it's within two scores, but the Jane Daniels to Zachert's touchdown. And then I bet the two point conversion was awesome.

This happened for one reason. I mean, Jaden Daniels was down to seven points, had thrown a pick. It was not looking good. The team inexplicably went for it on fourth down when they could have kicked a field goal to take the lead. Oh, that was so stupid. It's the single dumbest thing I've seen in the NFL this year because it was an opportunity to take the lead with just four minutes left. It was an easily makeable field goal, and you had just been stuffed twice

on second and third down. I can't believe they did it. It changed the entire game.

It wasn't one of those situations where there was like, you know, a minute left so that if they pick it up, they can run the clock out and kick a field goal with four seconds left. That wasn't the situation. I don't know, man. It was just weird. You got to take in the lead. And I'm, you know, we're all Mr. Go for it. I'm as aggressive as it gets, but you take the lead. Oh, you're in on that. Oh, yes. You take the lead with four minutes left or at least.

Remember how they moved the entirety of the field with passing? And they couldn't be stopped on that drive. And then they're like, you know what we're going to do? Run, run, run. We're going to go high T right here. And it didn't work. Yeah, it was a little reminiscent of the former Cardinal Cliff days at times. You know, right up the middle. But what I was getting to is that Jason was just openly mocking the

Mr. Jeremy over there, Al Borland. Our main two leagues, League of Record and our main Dynasty League. Jeremy and I are facing each other, and in both of those, he has Jaden Daniels. So I'm playing against Jaden Daniels like crazy. Oh, in both of them? In both. Oh, I didn't realize he had him in both. I am loving life because the game is over and Jaden's got

Seven points. I'm like, heck yeah. And then garbage time. Garbage time. Goes down the field. Garbage time. Terrible time management again. The touchdown to Zach Ertz, which, I mean, what an incredible catch. But this is how garbage it was. When it was called on the field, not a touchdown, no one cared. Oh, you're talking about the two-point conversion.

Was that the two-point number? Yeah, that was the two-point number. It was like, you know, it was just one of those things where it didn't matter. Yeah. It doesn't matter. The game's over. It doesn't matter. Oh, oh, we got that? Yeah. Neat. So stupid. Yeah, I mean, at least that gave him a shot at the onside kick, but... And Brian Robinson scored, so... Yeah, I would... If you took the gamble on it, it paid off. I was talking to Al yesterday. Hopefully he doesn't mind me sharing this, but he said...

You know, he's got Jaden Daniels in both leagues and he's just like, man, I am the most stressed out I've been in fantasy. And I couldn't help but think of that quote when Jaden Daniels was struggling last night because this was one of the ones that like on paper was scary. If you're a Jaden Daniels manager, you kind of knew in the back of your head that maybe Goff or Nix or Herbert or

would be a better play this week. But how do you sit down that guy that you just hope he gets enough on the ground? It was a really boring game. If you were a Saquon manager, you were sad, and then you were so – I mean, you weren't sad. Yeah, you were. Yeah, you were sad. You were because he was bottled up. Yeah, it was 76 yards, no touchdowns. Yeah, you were pretty disappointed with the performance. It really seemed like the commander's defense had Saquon's number, and they did for the majority of the game until they didn't.

Two touchdowns in 20 seconds for Saquon Barkley. Well, they needed Ken Gainwell to go in and tenderize the meat.

Like, that was a wild run there where Gainwell's getting just absolutely gouging the defense, and then they were like, hey, Barkley, you take over from here. Didn't we bring up Gainwell as like – because we talked Corum, and we talked Trey Benson, and we talked these other insurance backs, and we're like, why is Gainwell not being brought up where if something happened to Saquon, which has happened for years, why wouldn't Gainwell be one of those priority ads? Oh, he would. He just is not as –

top tier right it's like the he'll give you what 65 percent of Saquon yeah I mean we've seen him in a couple opportunities to have that role and he just hasn't had massive performances and I also think some of the reason that he isn't given enough credit as that insurance back is because they drafted Will Shipley sure and everyone loves a rookie

Yeah, they do. That's why Blake Corham gets mentioned in that group. It's awesome to see Saquon have a career year with the opportunity he's had. I mean, the 100-yard games with this offensive line and this offensive system, he has been rejuvenated. Also, I think this offseason, just to quickly give one kind of takeaway, it's that –

There's a massive difference. We're like, oh, DeAndre Swift is successful in Philly. Okay, he's not Saquon. Oh, my gosh, Devin Singletary had some success in Houston. Oh, he's not Joe Mixon. Like, the big backs. Yeah, oh, Gus Edwards had some touchdowns last year for the Ravens. Oh, he's not King Henry. Yeah, and who's winning? Turns out running backs matter. And it's the old ones. It's the great ones. It's the greats. It is. But I'm saying it's the upside-down nature of the Ravens.

of this fantasy football season of the wide receivers are killing people. If you drafted running backs early, it's working out. And if you drafted the old guys, that's what I'm saying. They're all healthy. We have nothing to say on waiver day for running backs because James Connors healthy. And, and these guys are staying on the field. The best part is that this isn't a fantasy football take. This is an NFL take the teams that

spent big money on Brandon Iyuk and, you know, franchise T. Higgins or, you know, the teams that invested and spent the money on the big running backs this offseason, they're the ones winning. And I'm so happy because I don't enjoy the part of the offseason where we were trending towards

Running backs can't get contracts, and it's all committees and rookies. Let's bring balance to the force here. Maybe this year we'll incentivize some teams to spend up on players. You just talked about, was it yesterday, Connor might get an extension from Arizona? I mean, I am projecting that. Haven't heard nothing, but just it would be...

Not surprising at all. Fine wine running backs. Yeah. They just get better and better. They will definitely keep working. It was a horrible night for Terry McLaurin. It's worth mentioning that Philadelphia right now, number one wide receivers are getting shut down against Philadelphia. And so it's not just Terry McLaurin. You're talking about –

you know, a number of top backs. I was trying to pull up. I had a chart earlier of all of the shutdown guys. Well, while you look at that, just a reminder that the Washington Commanders play Philadelphia in week 16. Ooh. Okay. Yeah. At least put that on your radar. Kenyon Mitchell, right?

Here's who he's gone up against. So McLaurin last night had no catches on him. He had one catch in the game, none on Mitchell. Lamb, one catch. Chase, two catches. Neighbors, one catch. Cooper, one catch. Evans, two catches. Olave, two catches. Maximum yardage in that group, 23. And Drake London, one catch, five yards. What a good draft. What a good draft this year for the Eagles.

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There's an expectation for Tank Bigsby to return to practice to just further confirm the fact that Jason will not start Travis Etienne even in a Pop Warner league. Yeah, he did not. He didn't practice yet this week. The expectation is he has a chance to play. So I feel like I'm hoping he plays so that nobody's too tempted. And Brian Thomas Jr. is still limited with the chest injury. I mean, this is lining up.

Really well for the Detroit defense. Sam Laporta still sidelined on Thursday.

I felt like the comments from Dan Campbell and the news report on Laporta really put him more into the week-to-week category for me personally. So him being sidelined two days in a row, it is concerning. Aaron Jones still limited. We expect him to play. He says he's going to be good. Najee Harris returned to a full practice, getting ready for that big matchup this weekend. Jalen Warren. Oh, gosh, I didn't see that. Added to the injury report with a back issue. And did not practice. Didn't practice.

Well, that was a real flip-flop there. I feel like we are going to just spend this whole year waiting for Warren to have one good game, and it's never going to happen. I haven't been waiting the whole season. I've just been out. No, you've been saying, why do we talk about him? He was running back 23 last week. He was. And just so that I'm clear, you're saying he's running back 23 last week. That's a good thing. That's not like, oh, he was down at running back 23. It's meaningful enough to bring up on waiver wires what he's saying. Okay.

But that was his best performance of the year, right? Running back 23. Hold on. Hold on. Jason is so against Jalen. You're dunking on the running back 23 on the week. Yes. Which is probably. How many bi-weeks were there? Oh, that doesn't matter. I'm just saying. No, no. This is between you two. He got up to running back 23.

In a week with a bunch of bye weeks. But that is his pinnacle this year. Did he get 10 fantasy points? No, he did not. Okay, that's what I've been saying all year. He hasn't yet got 10 fantasy points, still didn't get it. So Jason Moore, only top 15 running backs for Jason Moore. If he was running back 45 and he scored 15 fantasy points, I'd be happy. Do you want to hear something fun?

Yeah. Guess who the running back 23 is this year in points per game? Oh, gosh. Is it Brees Hall? It's Brees Hall, baby! I feel that in my soul. Oh, I'm on the same side with Brees. I'm so sick of him. All right. Well, just know, with my memory, the next time you ever say this guy was a top 24 running back. You're dead, man. The hammer's coming. You're dead, man. Bring it. Bring it. Oh.

I will say, what poor analysis. And then you know what I'll follow that up with? I'll say, well, he scored 10 fantasy points that week, which is totally okay. Tyreek Hill upgraded to a limited practice on Thursday after missing Wednesday. He's putting off surgery until after the season. I did not know that. Yeah, that was this morning. I mean, I guess...

I guess that's good news in the sense that I've kind of been afraid that one week the shoe's going to drop and he's like, ah, I can't do this anymore. It might. The fact that they're like, yo, this has to be repaired, it's not great. Devontae Adams did not practice Wednesday or Thursday wrist slash illness. Getting back to Tyreek Hill real quick, if this is a player who has to get surgery, at what point –

Do you shut him down? That's what I mean. Because this is a team that, what do they have, three wins, four wins? Three. They have three wins. If they rattle off two more losses, you know, and they're. Can you rattle off losses? I thought you could only rattle off wins. Is that true? I don't know. I mean, I'm here to learn. I wouldn't be rattling them off if I was losing. What is the opposite of rattling? I don't know. This is not. We can't do this. But, you know, I mean, obviously they've got the Raiders and the Patriots the next two weeks. That's a great sign for Tyreek Hill.

I just wonder when they're out of the playoffs and it's like, yeah, we're, we're mathematically eliminated week 16, week 17, maybe championship week for fantasy. I felt like that was true before he said he's going to put it off until after the season. But my point is after the season might begin during the season for a player. That's do you know what I'm saying? I know what you're saying, but for them to come, for him to come out and say, I'm not going to do that. I feel like also matters, which he's coming out and saying, I'm not going to do that. We're,

We're just saying that's his public pronouncement is I'm not going to wait until this season is over. That's what he's saying for him. If he stops playing football, he would get the surgery during the season. Not for him because the season would be over. His season would be over. Oh, it's not his season. It's the season. What are we even talking about? Also, people get it. Also, the AFC East is up to their old tricks.

I don't know. I'm unaware. The Bills are 8-2, and then every other team in the division has three wins. Like back when the Patriots were dominant, they were dominant, but no one else in the division could compete.

Get it together. Yesterday, Jason said, buy low on Tyreek Hill. I just want that to be brought up. Darnell Mooney was added to the injury report on Thursday with an Achilles injury. George Kittle upgraded to a limited practice. That's good news with the hamstring. Dalton Kincaid still not practicing. Almost assuredly out. Amari Cooper, this is not good. I mean, it's good, but not good. He says he thinks he can play, but he's going to have to wear a cast. And the wrist injuries...

I mean, we need a wrist index soon, the way that the wrist injuries are going. It really has been crazy, and it's all wide receivers. You know, you had Keon Coleman, his teammate, Cooper, obviously Tyreek. It's a weird Adams this week. Yeah, it's a weird wrist year. Harrison Butker is going to miss the next four-ish weeks with a meniscus surgery repair. T. Higgins. Yeah, this one is...

It's fun. He was limited. However, this is a shout-out to Andrew Cooper. I retweeted it. If you've not seen it, Andrew Cooper does some fantasy analysis, and he came with receipts of the way that T. Higgins runs up the hill. We've all seen the practice videos of when they're entering, there's this hill over to their right, and the way that T. Higgins has taken the hill

During practice has been a tell of if he is going to play. So this is a big week for it. He's saying Higgins is running up the hill. Aggressively. Aggressively, the way that he has done when he actually is going to play. So that will be... This is a very Vermont snow style analysis. This one actually makes a little bit more sense. How dare you? My problem with the Hill narrative was that we had a very small sample size of videos. I needed to see years...

of videos of him on this hill, not just three or four. You want to see him when he's in the middle of a healthy stretch walking slowly up the hill to debunk the hill man. Or he always runs up the hill, and then I believe the hill. This week will be a big one because he ran. It was like rainy. So you're thinking he's in. I know he's in. His quad, if it's hurting, doesn't take the hill the way he took the hill. That's true. You know what I mean?

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I was very impressed. It was right away. No hesitation. Sometimes I like to like have a brief conversation in between our break and the next segment. And then that causes me to forget, forget. I was going to say that T Higgins is the Sunday night game. Congratulations, everybody. Yeah. Yeah. Don't worry. He ran up the hill. I think we will know.

The worst thing that could happen, according to Jason, is if he ended up as the wide receiver 23 this week. Oh, no. What a terrible thing. If he doesn't score 10 fantasy points. That's the barometer for a bad half-peep yard game. But it's all relative. If you're wide receiver 23 with eight points, that means everybody else stunk. Counterpoint. Mike, with the slap across your face. You're the Jake Paul. He's the Mike Tyson.

I'm the old one? Fantastic. Yeah, but you're the one we're rooting for. Oh, okay. That's true. Everyone's rooting for Mike. You saw the slap this morning? I did. And you know why? Because he stepped on Tyson's foot. He did. Very disrespectful. And his white shoes. Yeah, you can't do that to people in white shoes. Don't scuff the shoes. Never. I'll slap you. Yeah.

Green Bay, Chicago, Jacksonville, Detroit, Minnesota, Tennessee, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Las Vegas, Miami, the Rams, and New England, and Cleveland, New Orleans. We covered all of those on yesterday's episode. Today, the Colts at 4-6 going back to Anthony Richardson taking on the Jets in New York. The Jets 3-7, the DraftKings Sportsbook line, New York minus 4. The over-under is 43.5. I like New York in this game.

Both of these teams have been really in the blender when it comes to the coaches, the coaching staff, the decisions, the quarterback tumult.

low expectations that have been lowered. What is your initial impression on this game? I mean, the big news that we talked about this week was that Anthony Richardson is installed as the quarterback. We're going to see what he learned on his quick little hiatus as a backup quarterback, if anything. You know,

When it comes to, like, you like the Jets in this game. I get that. They're at home. They're a very good passing defense over the course of the season, last week notwithstanding. And then you've got, you know, basically a rookie in Anthony Richardson coming in who has looked good and bad in different matchups. But I do caution a little bit of swinging the pendulum too far where we go. Anthony Richardson has been bad, has thrown picks, and that was a good defense.

So, therefore, it's just going to be a massacre. Anthony Richardson also has big explosive upside plays down the field to Adonai Mitchell, who's getting more work. I would not be surprised here. I don't think it is a guarantee that Anthony Richardson comes out and has an awful game and is demoralized by the Jets' defense that looked so bad last week. Yeah, I mean, it's never a guarantee in fantasy football. But I buy all of that. I buy the whole narrative. I think he'll be pretty bad.

I mean, let's go back in time. I mean, we have single-digit fantasy performances in 4-5. 11.5 was the peak in the last five starts. I don't have high expectations. There's no guarantee that he doesn't hit on a big play, but I would not be expecting or starting personally Anthony Richardson. His passing yard line is 177 yards.

The take that I was talking about was really more about the Jets' defense. Yeah, they've been crumbling. The DST seems like one that you definitely just got to have, and that is what I'm more concerned on.

You know, I also buy what you're saying in the sense that I don't want to start Josh Downs. I don't want to start Adonai Mitchell or Alec Pierce if Pittman is active. I don't want to start any of them. I'm fine with Downs in the flex, even with Richardson, because I think he's good for, you know, five catches and he's a good player. Same game. Like I'd play him over Bateman for what it's worth. Sure. That's fine. So what about Devontae Adams?

Oh, Adams I'll play, yeah. His targets have been out of control. They have. And I expect after the bye week at home with Rodgers, it'll be a little bit better. Well, the bye week is next week.

But will they be at home? Before the bye week. They're still at home after the bye week. Why does it feel like they haven't played in a while? Because they didn't play last week against the Cardinals. Oh, they didn't play. They took an early bye. I just feel like, yeah, I'd play Adams. Okay. Regardless of when the bye is. This thing of Devontae Adams has been inside the top 38 games

at wide receiver just two times. Are you saying you'd play Downs over Adams? No, I'm not saying that. Just of the, like, where... I was testing where you are with Josh Downs. Yeah, 13 targets, 11 targets for Adams the last couple weeks. You obviously hope that Rodgers and Wilson and Adams can kind of, you know, being at home in this game, not a defense that's scary in Indianapolis. I'm playing all the Jets. So call Rodgers. Is Rodgers...

He's stream of like I would play Rogers over Richardson. Yeah, me too.

But I would play Travis Etienne over Richardson. That's where I'm at, Jay. Oh, my goodness. Yeah, Jonathan Taylor and Brees Hall both look like good plays here. Brees Hall, wow, I'm surprised. Minus 160 on DK to get a touchdown. That says that he's got very good odds to score this week, and it makes sense. You're at home, you're favored by four, and you're against a weak run defense.

But he can let you down, man. Brees Hall can let you down. You're feeling it. You're feeling the burns. But Hall should be fine. Your Jets should be fine. They should win this game. I agree. And on the Colts side, Michael Pittman was a full practice on Wednesday and Thursday, which he's generally been taking Wednesday off. So this is – Goodbye, Adonai Mitchell. Goodbye, Alec Pierce. Yeah, that's the point is Adonai becomes –

A far sketchier start. Alec Pierce remains like he's just Alec Pierce is who he is. I think regardless of Pittman or Adonis, a pray for the one, the one Jonathan Taylor splits with or without a rich, basically the same. You can play him against the Jets defense that, you know, let Amari DeMarcato run,

50-something yards at the end of the half. Oh, wait, that was the Bears. No, that was the Bears. He let James Conner run wild against them. Yeah, there you go. And Benson. The Falcons at 6-4 take on the 5-5 Denver Broncos. The DraftKings Sportsbook line here, Denver minus 2 at home, over-unders 44. Both teams in the playoffs as of right now. Wild. I think both teams deserve to be in the playoffs. The Denver Broncos have looked awesome.

They basically beat the Chiefs until the field goal was blocked at the end. That still blows my mind. Basically. Well, it's one of those, you know, if you missed it, it was they're running the clock out to kick the field goal because they're close enough where it's a gimme. You know, they're just trying to get the clock to four seconds.

The game is over. They're going to win. Wow. How'd they do that? And then the field goal was blocked. It was a dogfight game, 14 to 16. That's how Denver wins right now. Bo Nix, your stream of the week, Jason. He's been a quarterback one and four of six starts. I like Russell Wilson more than Bo Nix this week. That's one of the biggest questions on our start-sit tool. It's so funny considering that they let Russell Wilson go.

to essentially get Bo Nix. But yeah, I agree. I think Russell Wilson is a better start this week, even though I like Bo Nix this week. Saw Javante Williams hit waiver wires in all my leagues this week. Audrick Estime, Mike, are you willing to start him in this game against the Falcons' run defense, which is top half? I am. I mean, I'm not expecting big things, but he has... What would you estimate he would be able to put up? Nice.

I mean, I think he can get to Jason's threshold of 10 points. I think he can get there. I think the only way he can get to 10 points is a touchdown. So this is a guy who's constantly referred to as the first and second down back. I don't think he's going to get pass catching work. He won't. And so against the top half rush defense for a team that, you know, they're usually a little bit more slog and dog. Their defense, you know, they're not –

I don't know. I just roll with it. That's new. That's new. You want it fresh and new. I liked it. You said it felt good. Slogging dog. So, you know, they're a slogging dog team. So that means they're playing defense. I'm not loving Estimay here as a starter. He's certainly a great pickup. It's like Brian Robinson last night. Sure, yeah. I expect Estimay will get double-digit carries, probably be in that 60 to 70 rushing yards area. And then you're, I mean, like. Algier or Estimay?

I'd go Estime. Okay. Yeah, I would as well. The Broncos' defense has just been outstanding. I think they're – especially the pass game, I worry a little bit about Drake London on the other side of the ball. Usually when I see like the – you've got a Sauce Gardner or a Patrick Sertan or, you know, LeJarius Sneed. You've got one of these guys that's like taking out the one. You look for the two in those games a lot of times.

Pretty sad that right now Mooney looks a little banged up with an Achilles limited participant on Thursday because I might be excited for him to be really necessary in this game. Yeah, and you've got to remember the Broncos' defense number one in the NFL against wide receivers. You can look at last six weeks where it softened a bit, but they missed Sertan for two of those weeks. The default defense for the Broncos, very good against the pass.

um a good defense in general you're going to look at to be john to kind of be your table setter for this offense in this game and it's not surprising to me that the broncos are favored at home it should be a good game kyle pitts yeah kyle pitts or one of the the waiver type guys like johnny i would be pissed i mean i'd stay with there yeah okay and if we somehow get

information that the T. Higgins Hill narrative is incorrect this week, would you go back to Sticky Gasicki or would you play Kyle Pitts? I would go with Gasicki. I think that – I know it didn't come through for a big performance last week, but his snaps, his routes, even his targets, they were all there. It just wasn't down the field stuff as much as you wanted and he didn't get a touchdown. But the opportunity is certainly there.

Tee Higgins is not going through the team stretch this morning, but is in uniform and has a helmet as he works on the side. Do we know about this morning's hill? We do not. No. Harditz was asking, but we don't have information yet. Let's dig, man. Let's dig. Corbin Sutton is the wide receiver seven since week six. Would you play him in this matchup over both of the Falcons? Oh, man. Oh, man. It's funny because I –

Yeah, I agree. I mean, you know, you talk down Drake London because of the matchup, but London has been, I mean, London's been great. Well, you did, but, yeah. Well, I think many people can, but London is the wide receiver five on the season, so I don't think you can sit London. You just have to hold your breath. That one is so tough because you have the production from Drake London, but you know

When guys are in these matchups, you know that they're going to let you down. It's the exact Jaden Daniels or a pivot choice. Yes. That's what I mean, yes. Do you stick with the guy that has gotten you there where Drake London has been very good but probably needs a touchdown in this game to salvage the day for you? Sutton and London are very close in my rankings. I would –

I'll do it for the team. I would play Corlin Sutton. I think so. I think so. That's a really tough call, but I think it's the right way. I think that I am. I'm with you. I can see it. The Seattle Seahawks at 4-5. The 49ers at 5-4. The DraftKings Sportsbook Lions San Francisco at home minus 6.5. The over-under is 48. Seattle is – they've really kind of –

Been on a... Falling off? Yeah, they've fallen apart. They're rattling off their losses. Yeah, one in five. One and five in their last six games after starting the year with three straight wins over not good teams. Correct. A rookie quarterback, Jacoby Brissett, and then not Tua. So Seattle might have been one of the pumpkin teams of the year. It's concerning a little bit in terms of just...

Their defense is very problematic. It could hurt Kenneth Walker's opportunities to run the football as the game goes on. I'm not saying you're benching him. I'm just saying. But he's catching passes. The last time they played San Francisco, eight catches for Ken Bone. Seattle is actually, if you're not a Seahawks fan, they're fantastic. This is what we want. We want a team that can be a really high-powered offense. We like ballgames.

Pretty much everyone in this offense. And I know that their defense is going to give up a bunch of points. Yeah, they're falling apart. They started the season looking really good. Their defense was tough. They had some easier matchups, but they are really falling apart. I don't know the situation and the details, but four days ago they –

You guys know they cut, they straight up cut their leading tackler on defense. The guy with the most tackles on their defense, they just cut him. And I don't know any of the details there. I don't know why. He was too productive. We're trying to get fantasy points here. So it's great for fantasy, but a wild storyline. And DK Metcalf is back. He's practicing in full. That's a real...

Really big deal for the offense. Yeah, I mean, on the course of the season, the 49ers have been very difficult to throw on. But DK Metcalf, you know, he's got experience against San Francisco being a divisional opponent. I think DK is actually a pretty good play this week. The...

Oh, man, that was the 11-target game where he only had three catches for 48, where it was like he just kept missing. Well, didn't he have a touchdown call back in that one, too? That one I don't remember. I remember so many. Okay, but just so many near catches. 11 targets turning into three for DK Metcalf is weird. The biggest question on Seattle is JSN. Like, do you...

Do you chase after the potential break it? Like, was that a breakout performance and seven for one 80 and two, you've been happy twice in nine weeks for what it's worth. Yeah. And that was what DK gone DK Metcalf back. I'm not, I'm not playing Jackson Smith. It's a tough cornerback matchup in the slot.

It does make me nervous. Debo and Juwan Jennings, I think we're all about. Mike has Juwan Jennings as the start of the week. Ricky Pearsall is a dart throw-ish type of guy. He was 4 for 73 with the big touchdown last week. Would you play Ricky Pearsall or Rashad Bateman? That one's interesting.

I like Pearsall. I think he's got great hands. I could see that Pittsburgh-Baltimore game starting slow, starting defensive, and then ending the game with some huge stuff. I'd go huge for upside.

against Cincinnati. Yeah, I'd play the kind of number one versus the number three, four. But Pearsall versus Bateman, I think that's very tough. I think if Kittle was to miss due to the hamstring, Pearsall really steps up. But we'll see CMC again heavily, heavily. Very high odds of scoring a touchdown. Let's put it that way. But the point being of like,

Over under at 48, we'll take that. Geno Smith's passing yard line at 247. I expect a pretty rapid moving game, and I expect both teams to score. Brock Purdy, is he an option? Oh, for sure. What quarterback do you think he is on the year? Nine? No, I'd go higher than that.

I'll go like six. He's eight. Right in the middle. Somebody's closer. He has not had a finish inside the top five.

But he's been 8, 7, 6, 8, 7, 5. Those have been his best performances. I think Brock Purdy's a really good start this week. There's a lot of quarterbacks. You know, like my start of the week, C.J. Stroud. If I had Brock Purdy or C.J. Stroud, I think I'd go Brock Purdy. This matchup against Seattle, you expect him to –

Have success. Are we done with Geno Smith as a streamer? Are you guys picking a different week? Not done, but this is not the week. What quarterback on the year is Geno Smith, by the way? Oh, gosh. I feel like that's got to be...

14. Yeah. I think he's high in QB2 right now. QB9. What? Yeah. But I mean, I needed him. He started hot. That's no bye week. Oh, okay. No, I mean, he didn't play last week, so I guess that is a bye week. I'm not doing good on the byes today. I'm going to be honest with you. They're all over the place. You know, I need a bye week.

To get my buys correct. Yeah, when do we instate that? Oh, do we get a buy? Yeah. And we just like sit Al Borland out here to just play the harmonica? Yeah, the deuces take over. I have to raise the chairs. I've often thought about an episode when we're all gone. Did you just say we have to raise the chair? I took a cheap shot. I love it. I got Jeremy to laugh, so that makes it good. That was good.

I have thought about, well, the Deucers are now ranking. Oh, you're ranking jokes. They're now ranking jokes. Oh, I got a nine from the Falcon. Thank you. I've often thought about just doing an episode when we all, you know, we're all out and just having three bears and just, but they make the Deucers. It's just dead silent. No, it's just dead silent. It's dead silent. With the cameras switching. Cameras switching. They have to do it all. 60 minutes. It's like when. Yeah, exactly.

Who's the actor for... This song just keeps going. Nick Offerman. You remember when he sat on YouTube? Oh, yeah. Just drinking whiskey. It was 10 hours. Was it really? I looked it up. 10 hours of sitting there sipping whiskey by a fire. I mean, he had to have taken a break. No. No, no, no. He had to take a tinkle. Yeah. You can't drink that much whiskey. I mean, if you're not drinking and sitting... He's sipping. He's just nursing it. It's still got to go somewhere. Yeah.

Well, I mean, I don't know. Too much whiskey? Gotta take a piss. Maybe I missed it. Yeah, that's what they say. I'm a fucking swish. Yeah, that was a swish, Mike. Too much whiskey? Gotta take a piss-ski. Oh, you're only getting a six and a two over there from Deuces Alley. Those guys have no taste. They just have no taste. They also have nothing to do if they're ranking jokes. Kansas City 9-0, Buffalo 8-2. The DraftKings Sportsbook line, Buffalo minus two. The over-under is 46-2.

First impressions of this game. Who wins it? Oh, Buffalo's going to absolutely demolish the Chiefs. Ooh. That's spicy. Demolish? Yeah.

I don't mind calling for the win. You're going demolished. Yeah, I mean, I don't think they're going to blow them out. No Dalton Kincaid? I don't think they're going to blow them out in the end score, but I think they will. Oh, hedge? No, no, no, no, no. Hedge! Not a hedge. You can't use the word demolish and then say this. An explanation. I think that they will completely control the game. I think they will look better on offense, defense, special teams. In the end, maybe it's a close score, but you'll watch this game and be like, the Bills...

The Bills are controlling this game. They're the better team, and I think they win handedly.

Wait, win handedly? Yeah, that's not a blowout. I'm not saying they're going to win by 14 points. Don't be mad at us when you start it with demolish. Use the word demolish. What do you mean by demolish? They're going to win by one. I mean that when you've got an undefeated team in Kansas City that hasn't yet had a scoreboard, say, negative one, they're going to go to Buffalo and they're going to get a rude awakening because the Chiefs aren't that great. What's the final score, Jason?

Final score will be 24 to 16. Okay. I'll take the Chiefs. Yeah, I think the Chiefs will probably win it. Of course, big ref over here would always say that. Let's see. So the Chiefs have allowed 24 points twice. The Bengals put up 25 and the Bucs put up 24. Three times. Three? This week in Buffalo. Okay. All right.

demolish. James Cook's going to have a hard time running inside against the... That's my concern is that you have either a missing or casted Amari Cooper. You have no Dalton Kincaid. You have no Keon Coleman. You have a running game that's going to be stifled. You're going to be dinking and dunking with Cook in the running game. Kincaid was ruled out. Did we say it officially? Yeah, he's gone. Cook

and Shakir are both dink and dunk options in the passing game that's my biggest concern with are you both scoring enough points yeah I think the Chiefs I think it's close I don't think they're going to demolish them but I think it'll be close and um you know it'll be a tough place to go in and play the the Bills have found a way to win I definitely think they can win the ball game and uh

This is not the Bills-Chiefs matchup of days of old with Tyreek and Diggs and the high-flying, high-scoring affair. The over-under is 46. It's fine. It's not special. How do you feel about Hopkins? So his reception line right now is at 4.5, which is a tiny, it's a small, but Juju Smith-Schuster is practicing in full. He should be back. I knew for sure that Hopkins was going to take a step back.

from the previous week in terms of targets and production. You know, how do I feel about him? Not great. I mean, wide receiver 2-3 range to me. Okay.

Yeah, I mean, I would take the over on four and a half receptions. You know, towards the end of this game, it's going to become Mahomes versus Allen, and the defenses, I think, will start the game strong and the quarterbacks will finish the game strong. That's often how it happens with these type of players. You know, Mahomes passing lines at one and a half touchdowns.

I mean, your start of the week, Mike Kareem Hunt, I love this week. I think that the place that you do beat the Bills is on the ground. And Hunt has just been his fewest since his first week in action. He didn't even hit 50% of snaps. If you take that one out, he hasn't had fewer than 22 opportunities in a single game. He's a great play in this matchup.

He's Mike's start of the week. Patrick Mahomes has a touchdown prop of one and a half. You know, him getting more weapons back is good. Kelsey is certainly a start and been playing well. Are you playing Stroud against Dallas or are you going to play Mahomes against Buffalo? I'm not. I'll play Stroud. I agree. With Nico Collins' bag not being on, you know, better matchup. I agree.

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Terms and conditions apply. You need to hire. You need it indeed. Cincinnati's four and six. The Chargers six and three games in LA. DraftKings Sportsbook line, Los Angeles minus one and a half. The over-under is 48. Every week feels like a must win right now for Cincinnati. It would obviously be very good for like Jamar Chase went wild last week, but his numbers with and without Higgins over time, it's always better when Higgins is back. I hope Higgins plays well.

because the Chargers are a good defense, and you need more weapons to kind of allow them to have to pick their poison. So I love the opportunity for Higgins if he's in there as a wide receiver too. I hope he's back. Chase Brown, his rushing line's at 62.5. He's been a beast. RB5 since week four.

What decisions do you have to make on that side? Is it Gesicki? Is it Higgins? Are those the two big ones? Yeah, for Cincinnati, Burrow is in. He's playing too well. Obviously Chase is in. I'll say both Chases are in. And it's then T. Higgins. If T. plays, I'm going to play him.

It's sketchy. Hopefully we'll know before Sunday night or Sunday morning, I should say, that for sure T. Higgins is projected to play. But if he is out, then I'll go back to Mike Kosicki. It didn't work. The production went to, what was it, Tanner Hudson? But the targets were still there. It was nine targets. And if you're going to give a tight end nine targets, I'm going to bet on that more than not.

Jason, who demolishes who by a couple points here?

You know, I've got the Bengals winning despite being the road underdogs, but I'm in love with this game. I was very sad. You want this game? I want this game. I was very sad that this was Sunday Night Football. Great for watching it, but from creating our DK lineup, I wanted players in this game. I think, you know, over the course of the season, I've brought it up. The Chargers are the type of team that hits the under over and over and over or under and under and under, whichever way you want to look at it.

This game, the way that Joe Burrow has been playing, I don't think the Chargers are going to be able to impose their slow-it-down will against the Bengals. I think they're letting Herbert throw the ball more. Are they going to get pulled into a high-paced game? That's what I'm saying. I think they're going to get pulled into a higher-paced game. That's how I project this matchup. That means I really want a lot of the pieces here. I

It's hard to take an over of 48 for a Chargers game. That just hasn't been how they're playing football.

But I – something in me just is like I think it happens. You know, Gus Edwards I think has a good chance at a touchdown. If you're in one of those bi-week injury areas where you're looking for a – you know, every week there's a team or two that needs a waiver running back that you have to start. Gus Edwards would be my pick this week. Did you mention J.K.? No, I haven't. So, J.K. Dobbins, it's just something to monitor. We don't know what happened, but he didn't practice on Thursday. He listed as personal. So –

I mean, you don't expect its injury, but you've got to pay attention to it. We also just got an update here from Zach Taylor, Coach Taylor, saying he expects T. Higgins to play. They'll say – and they said, we'll see about Orlando Brown Jr. Yeah, this one is – you know, I like Herbert. Having the opportunity against the Cincinnati defense has been really, really bad against quarterbacks, wide receivers, and tight ends. My only worry is that if the Chargers defense has –

They're at home, and if they have their kind of game and they are able to slow down what Cincinnati does best, then we could be disappointed with the outcome. The over-under is 48.

But they're number three against running backs. They're number three against tight ends. I love how Burrow's playing, though. Their defense has just been so good. They gave up the last week. The Chargers gave up 17 points the week before 10 points the week before 8 points. Those are phenomenal. However, you have to take it with a grain of salt. The matchups were the New Orleans Saints. Yeah, with nobody. The Cleveland Browns, you know, with Jameis playing Jameis ball that week. And then the Tennessee Titans. So...

I don't think they've really been tested the way that Joe Burrow's at the beginning. Yeah, Joe Burrow's going to come in here. However, their offense has been getting it going. Their offense, you know, they've scored 27 points two weeks in a row, 26 before that. Cuge being back I think really helps them. The fact that Cuge was gone got Will Disley more involved in the passing. I just – I really like this game. The hardest part is that McConkie is like even if the offense is getting going –

Because of the nature of his role in this offense, if he doesn't score a touchdown, I think you get really disappointed. I mean, the last five games, you've been thrilled. You were thrilled in week eight. He was number two wide receiver, showed what he was capable of, two touchdowns, 111 yards.

But he was also a good part of the offense the weeks surrounding it where he was the wide receiver 36 and 37. Still seven targets. Didn't get into the end zone. Kind of doing the PPR thing. Yeah, on average right now, he's averaging four receptions and 55 yards. 55!

That's just not going to be a happy game. So you need the touchdowns, which have come. He's been looked to around the goal line, and I think for that reason and with a higher over-under, you can play him here. But I do agree. If you don't get a touchdown, I don't think you're going to be happy with Ladd. I want a happy game. You know what I mean? We all want happy games. Who would you start between Ladd and Quinton Johnston? I'd start Quinton. I would as well. I'm always going to make that choice because I just think we know the big plays and the touchdowns are both –

in the cards for Quinton. Yeah, those are more likely. I mean, Quinton Johnston's types of targets are farther down the field than

Ladd-McConkie, a lot of those are the short move, the sticks type of throws that are important but not great for fantasy. Now, Kyle says that this episode today is teaching him that you have very, very high standards for fantasy. The four for 55, you're thinking that's not a happy game. Correct. And then the running back 23, is it? Let me teach Kyle something because I don't know how many times I've got to say this because this is like the 20th time. If you don't score 10 fantasy points –

You're not happy. You're not happy with any player ever that does a score check. No single digits. And if you go four for 55...

I mean, you didn't goose. Oh, okay, that's great. But did you... Yeah, you didn't get 10 fantasy points. That's my barometer for a happy or an unhappy manager. And I think that's true. Now, hold on. Technically speaking, our bust metric for consistency charts is seven points or fewer. But that's full bust. Right, exactly. So you're saying there's a line between unhappy... Yes. It goes happy, unhappy, bust. Correct. Because we measure busts...

good and great, right? Do we need an unhappy? You're talking about for the truth series? Yeah. Do we need an unhappy one in there between bust and good? Is it the meh zone? So here's the funny thing. We actually do have that, and it's literally called the meh. We don't bring it up on that episode, but in our docs, it's listed as meh games, and they're not. No, it's not. 100%. Wow. It's not calculated in. Those are kind of taken out of the score because they're meh. Yeah. But they exist, and they're meh.

And now we have clarity. All right, Monday Night Football, Houston, 6-4, going to Dallas. They're 7.5-point road favorites against Dallas in Dallas. The over-under is 42. Dallas is an implied point total of 17. This line and, you know, Houston being such heavy favorites on the road in Dallas, it tells you how holistically bad Dallas is. He's screaming about the moon.

Oh, okay. Did he say the moon? The moon! I couldn't understand it, but I understand it now. Now that you know what he's saying, it's going to be great. Going to be, huh? That's great. That's Jerry, huh? That's sticking. All right, Houston minus 7.5 over under 42. Houston gets Nico Collins back. Dallas made the choice to bring Cooper Rush back. His passing line, 182-10.

After last week's performance, that seems high. You know, you need CeeDee Lamb to be peppered with targets and created opportunities, end of rounds, screen passes. The red zone target last week without the sun is a touchdown, right? You have to look at that and say he scores on that play. He was wide open. The play was to him.

But gosh darn it, the sun. The home field advantage. The home field advantage got it. Really turned on you. So Lamb is, you're not going to sit Lamb down just because of this move. That is not happening. We now know that Rico Dowdle is the guy. It's a little too late here, McCarthy. Daylight dollar short. Yeah. If you would have done this week one, your team is a lot better. Is this validation for you?

Do you feel a semblance of validation? My face says, of course it is. Oh, thank you. I don't know in what world you could live where this isn't validation for Mike's take on Rico Dowdle. It took nine weeks for them to decide he's better than a cooked Zeke. It took nine weeks for Mike McCarthy to stand up to Jerry Jones. Sure, that might be what it was. Because he's like, I'm getting fired anyways. I'm going to play the better player. Yeah, I mean, I completely agree. Rico's looked good.

pretty good. Now, this is a tough matchup. It is. So I think he's a flex option. Total yards for Rico versus Jerry Jones' age. Oh, I'm taking Jerry Jones' age for sure. Oh, that's... Rico is not crossing 100. He's 82. He's 82 years old. His face doesn't look good. I thought he was looking good for 100. Instead, he's looking bad for 82. Okay.

Looking bad for 82 is a top five insult on the earth. Planet Earth of all the things you could be told. Look, it feels good. It feels very validating that they're officially saying, hey, Rico's going to be our guy. He averages three receptions a week. That's what you're hoping for is...

I mean, I just gave the odd request to me. I'm expecting double-digit carries in that. You're hoping between 60 and 70 rushing yards. Hopefully you get that in the tough matchup. Plus then you just juice it up with maybe four receptions for...

15 to 25 yards and you're okay with that. But it's going to be tough. The one thing I do love that we saw last week was that he had three targets, three receptions because we weren't sure. Rico had been involved in the passing game. And so that had been great. But now with the backup quarterback coming in, you're not sure if they're going to check it down or not. Rico only played 52% of the snaps.

Still had the three receptions. He's fine. He is fine. He's an every down player on a team you don't want to watch. Right. Now, C.J. Stroud on the year, do you know what he is in points per game? Because I got that number for you. Points per game, C.J. Stroud. And let's just say it's been a number that has been working its way through today's episode. Oh. He's the quarterback.

14. 23. 23. That's what I was going to say. 23. That's been enough. I was going to say that, but I said something else. Demolished. Look, he's your start of the week, Jason. The matchup against this Dallas defense, the return of Nikko,

My only worry on him underperforming your expectations this game is not needing to. Right, it becomes a complete Joe Mixon game. They slowed Detroit down. Like, their defense looked really, really good. Five picks against Jared Goff in that offense. What can they do against Cooper Rush? I agree they might not necessarily need him, but I do genuinely think that Nico being back...

Niko will get his. Niko will get a over-the-top touchdown in this game at some point, and that goes to C.J. Stroud. That's why I'm okay playing him. Niko's obviously, for all of us, the top 10 wide receiver play this week. He's going to be in. I like him a lot. Yeah, I'm sure you do. Because you ever do the move where you trade for somebody and then you go watch all their highlights? Yeah, I've done that. I did that. That's not good. I went and did that. I went and watched all of the Niko highlights.

Never going back to the pants store. So, Mixon, of course. Nico, of course. You can play Stroud. And Tank is fine. Yeah, and Tank is fine. And don't play the slowest man on the planet. That would be Dalton Schultz. That's Dalton Schultz. Who has a DK receiving line of only 33 yards. You ever seen people run in place?

That's what he looks like to me. It's so funny to me that Dalton Schultz, of anyone to just be macho man, elbow drop from on top of the cage. He's like, what is this Dalton Schultz, man? Leave him alone. He's a doctor.

All right. He was three for 66 in that game against Detroit. I will be rooting to see Trey Lance in this game. I have to admit. My man. Oh, yeah, me too. My man. By the way, Jake Ferguson out with an illness right now. Not out for the game. Out for practice and not really somebody you can rely on. Is he down with Cooperitis? Yeah, I would be down. Yeah, I'd be like, my stomach hurts. Yeah.

The sun. The moon. Where's the moon, Jerry? All right, it's time. Go ahead, Jay. Before we move on to the fantasy face-off,

I wrote a note down. I'm not feeling great about my bills prediction. Oh, yeah. You're pulling back on demolished. I'm pulling back on. Oh, man. Are you pulling back on win? No, I do think they pull out the win, but I was going to joke that you were going to backtrack to the point where they win by negative four.

No, it's going to be tough. You know, I think I... Yes, because the Chiefs' offense is not great. Their defense is top tier. I just forgot how many weapons that the Bills were missing at the beginning. I was so excited about giving the Chiefs the first loss of the season that I just jumped the gun. And I got to be...

I got to be a little bit more intellectually honest. So this is me taking my, you know. Yeah, it's good. It's the humility. Yeah, an immediate L. Their pre-apology. Until. No, no, no. If they demolish them, this will be a gigantic L now. I should have just tried to get lucky. Okay, now we can move on. Here we go. Fantasy Face-Off, presented by DraftKings.

All right. Last week, I was able to end up on top of 112, Jason 109. Remember the gnome zone? That was good times, guys. Mike, 94, and he gets to spin the wheel before we reveal this week's lineups. Wheel of. All right. Spin it. Spin that sweet wheel. Mall Cop and Iceman.

Top something with pizza. Pizza face.

Freebird. Freebird. Let's freebird. Remember that beard with the white hair last week, Mike? Yeah. And how it kind of lived on me and Jason for a while. Yeah. Time to climb in. Oh man. I could see the white hairs flying through the wind. Oh, fantastic. To be fair. I didn't know it was going to do that. Well, I, you know what? I bought this a long time ago, so, uh, I can't even fit. I can't even fit.

Every time we buy something, we have to wonder. I literally can't see anything, guys. That's fine. My eyes don't reach the eye holes. The face is too big. Here's the rule. I'll send the thing over. You can send it over. Okay. Or you can read it, and then you have to climb back into that disgusting mask. Oh, yeah. This thing is everywhere. I think you can wear it just like that.

That's looking real good. Oh, man, you're just blowing that hair everywhere. We ate those beards, Mike. We ate them. Eat up, eagle. I am. Free bird. All right. My quarterback this week, as Mike figures out what to do,

I'm going with Russell Wilson. I'm taking Wilson at 5,900. My quarterback is Russell Wilson. I'm taking Russell Wilson at 5,900. Guess what? I have Russell Wilson. Dang it. You guys both sounded like you weren't going to do that earlier this week. Unlimited. It was a ruse. I've had him in all week. I know. Okay. My running backs this week, guys, I'm going with a couple teams playing at home. Devon A. Chan, 7,200 at home against Las Vegas.

just too good of a matchup, and I'm taking David Montgomery. I'm going the Montgomery route at home against Jacksonville in a game they should blow them out. I'm taking Montgomery over Gibbs in this, 6,500. Wow. How is this supposed to work? Well, people with normal heads, there are eye holes. There's an eye hole up at the top. This is my forehead. That's my forehead, dude. Like,

What? All right, go ahead. You can emerge for breathing purposes. So, Andy, we're identical so far. Are you serious? I'm serious. I have A-chan and Montgomery, 7,200 and 6,500. We'll see if we can do the first ever identical matched lineup. It's never going to happen. We're very close.

Because I have Devon Achan at 7,200. But I'm going to take the better Detroit Lions running back. I will take Jameer Gibbs. Yeah, okay. All right. So that's ironic, though. Same matchup.

My wide receivers, Jason, we'll put it to the test. We obviously all have Pickens. We got George Pickens. Yeah. I got Puka Nakua against New England at 7,300. Ooh, spicy. I've got Calvin Ridley at home, 6,200 against Minnesota. Wow. I really do like those players quite a bit. I would say I like them even more than my two, who I like, which is DK Metcalf at 6,500.

And Juwan Jennings at 5,300 along with a dead man. I do have Calvin Ridley and George Pickens, but I went Cortland Sutton against the Atlanta Falcons at 5,900. Yeah. Sutton's a good price. He was in my lineup before I pivoted to Ridley. I might regret it. Davis Allen, 2,500 at tight end too cheap.

for to save some money and my flex is actually I'm doubling up on tight end I'm taking TJ Hawkinson the PP the PPR machine. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah.

I've got Dennis Allen, Davis Allen as well. Oh, Dennis Allen at tight end. 2,500. I've got in my flex, I've got Kareem Hunt against Buffalo Mike start of the week at 6,700. And crap, at the bottom, the Titans, 2,300. Their defense at home against a great Minnesota offense. I'm just hoping Darnold can. Were they the cheapest? I don't think they were the cheapest. They're very low, though. They're only 2,300. Mike, your final three? Uh.

Dennis Allen, a.k.a. Davis Allen. Then I do have Juwan Jennings as my flex at 5,300. And I went the Cleveland Browns. Yeah, that's who I got. Your guys' defense really outdid my defense last week. Yeah, that helped a lot. And I feel like I would rather have the Browns in the tights. Neither of you guys went the pee-pee machine? No, only you went with the pee-pee machine. Oh, man. Oh, gee. Oh, man. I preferred Hoculee's, but.

How machine we've done the wheel of shame for a while. Mike, where is this on the scale? I mean, it's really not that bad. Like the bird is the word. It's just I literally can't. It's impossible to even get it close to being able to have visibility. There have been multiple times this year where we've looked through some stuff. But when I emerge, it goes in my mouth for a wheel of shame. And we've we've had like people put put it on and go like, would this fit Mike's head?

Like, we don't, like, they don't make. After this, I need at least someone else to verify that this is ridiculous. I put it on. I could see through the eyes. Seriously? Yeah, it's a real big head size issue, Mike. I mean, that's all this is. What we need to do is we need to get, you know how there's those shoe stretchers?

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