Speaker 1: Who waiver claims have to be made, and I've got
trade proposals for lying my way. My first round pig
turned out to be a big flop. I don't know
which wide receiver I need to drive, Doctor Roto give
me the news. I really don't know what I should do.
My quarterback keeps getting sacked. I've got a bad case
of fan deceive blues.
Speaker 2: Will the second most important thing forty minutes between now
and the holidays? It may not be. It's not buying
your gifts, it's not organizing your Christmas Eve dinner or meal,
your church service. It's spending thirty minutes of the main
Who's going to make you win your fantasy league? The
good doctor? How the hell are your mister? Roto mt
did you?
Speaker 3: Are you still playing? Are you in the sime?
Speaker 2: I'm still playing. I am in the semifinals. I had
a certain kicker for the Los Angeles Rams last night
who got me off to a fantastic start.
Speaker 3: You just pook and Akula who put you out? Put
you in a generational start?
Speaker 2: No, well I didn't have that. I'm telling you, Rono,
if there's anything I can give to you besides the
gift of warm beings for you and your family is
let's keep kickers alive in fantasy football toll I'm saying.
Speaker 3: I said, no one except you, But look, I'm happy
for you. What a game last night? I mean, think
of this way at halftime. JSN has nothing finishes a
game with like twenty four points fantasy points. Pooka was
was fine in the first half and then goes ballistics.
So you know, it's just one of those things where
you know it's the game's never over till it's over.
It really isn't you know in today's NFL with the
scores the way they are, you know, and but don't
think you're out of it. I had a friend who
was playing against Kyle Pitts last week, keep one shockingly,
So if you're going up against PUKA or you're going
up against JSN, don't get discouraged. Just keep putting the
best guys out there. You never know what the other
team's gonna do.
Speaker 2: All right, I brought this up to you last week,
but my, oh, how do I put this? My I'm
triple scared than I was last week. I asked you,
I said, are we gonna worry about teams that are
out of the playoffs. I've got Devon hen going for
the Miami. That's since anti Miami. You got Jets playing
New Orleans. You've got a boat, You've got Kansas City, Tennessee.
We have a plethorat rodo of teams playing other teams
that aren't going to make the playoffs. I'm scared or
the death that Devon a Chan is going to take
some time off, not give it one hundred percent. I
need him for two more weeks. Can you guarantee me success,
doctor Rono?
Speaker 3: I think this week we can, and so immediately, what
I always like to do is I look to see
what Vegas is thinking. Vegas has a Chan at like
nineteen point five points predicted it's pretty good, so they
don't think he's being shut down yet now week eighteen.
This is why you never want your fantasy league to
end in week eighteen. For sure, this guy's gonna get
shut down Week seventeen. I think we're hanging on by
a thread. But you should get through this week. I
would think most guys get through this week. I think
it starts turning a little ugly next week, and then
for sure in week eighteen. So eight Chan I'm fine
with Travis Kelsey. I'm fine with this week. So, I
mean there's certain guys like that that I think are
still going to give it a go. Look, they're players,
they want stats. Stats equals money, right, bigger contracts, So
you're not gonna see these guys lay up. Now. I'm
more concerned about a guy who on a rookie contract
where a team basically says, we don't need this guy
to get killed. That's different. Or like Tua who's you know,
one concussion away from a retirement home in Boca. No
reason to throw him out there. Quinnewers, I want to
see what he can do. Right, Let's see what quinn
Ewers can do?
Speaker 2: All right, Rono, we got the Steelers and Lions both
are eight and six. One is feeling pretty good about
themselves with a losi offense. One has an amazing offense
and is not in the playoffs. How's this going to
shake out for us fantasy players? And with the Steelers
and Lions on it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you want your Lions this week. You want Jamir Gibbs,
you want Ama Ross Saint Brown, I mean you want them.
The Steelers don't let up big plays, so I don't
know whether this is a Jamison Williams week. They tend
to let up. They give up plays, but not the
big ones, the explosive ones. So I'm worried about him.
David Montgomery. I mean, when Dan Campbell's giving you the
old David is a pro speech, you know that's not
a good sign. They got to get your Jamior gives
more involved. So I love Goff, I love Gibbs, I
love Saint Brown. On the other side, here's a shocker.
And as I was doing my research this week, you know,
the Lions play a lot of man coverage, but dk
Metcheff has not been great against man coverage. Been kind
of surprising to me. So I still think he could
have an okay week, and I still think Aaron Rodgers
is in play. But the Lions are winning this game.
I think the Steelers have played very well last week,
But have they played a team like the Lions who
are just gonna lay it on them? I don't think so.
I think Detroit really wins by a lot.
Speaker 2: A lot of intriguing teams meeting that have playoffs on
the line. Jacksonville Denver super sexy game, Bronco's great defense,
weren't a knockdown, dragout offensive back and forth with Green
Bay Sunday Jaguars, who we like to always make fun of,
beat up badly the Jets. Now that's the difference in
challenge obviously this week, But the Jaguars are playing some
of their best football in the last couple of years.
How do you see this matchup showing up they are.
Speaker 3: They're very well coached Leam Cohen. I mean, he probably
won't win Coach of the Year, but he's certainly a hand.
Today's done a fantastic job, and Trevor Lawrence has looked
a lot better. Remember those first few weeks of the
season where every ball was sailing like Cam Newton's. Now
he's actually throwing in completing passes. Jacoby Myers has been great.
Be careful with Jacoby Myers this week. Be careful with
Brian Thomas Junior. I think Brian Thomas Junior sees certain
I think Brenton Strange is sneaky. Travis Etn is a
great start. Baseiel Tooton is out. He won't be back
for the regular season, so this is going to be
as many carries as Etn can handle. So I think
in particular. I like Strange and I like etn On
the other side, R J. Harvey has been tremendous. I
think bo Nix is in play. I like Courtland Sutton
a lot this week. I know you have the Evan
Ingram revenge game. I'm not buying into it. I don't
really love Troy Franklin, but I think if you keep
it to the running backs, and you keep it to
Courtland Sutton and the quarterbacks, I think you'll be all right.
Speaker 2: I don't care who wins between the Buccaneers and the Panthers.
It's the weakest division in the NFC in the South.
But for us fantasy folks would mind thirty eight to
thirty five game in Carroll one way or the other, right.
Speaker 3: And Tampa wouldn't mind that either. But I think Dave
Knalis would mind it right. So he's going to try
to control that game by running the football. But if
they go down, this game could shoot out because what
happens is is that these two teams play a kind
of game that they both want to play. So what
does that mean. It means that Carolina run the defense
that Abuka and Mike Evans thrive with, thrive Baker did
not play well last week. I expect him to play
much better. I expect Bucky Irving to give me a
great game as well. So right there, I think you're
looking at Evans and Bucky as sensational starts, and Baker
and abuk a decent starts. On the other side. Tatroy
McMillan is dealing with some injuries, but I like him.
I like Jalen Koker. He surprised people last week and
had a very good game called a big touchdown. I
think that could happen again this week. Bryce Young looks,
he does nothing and then out of nowhere he puts
up a really great fantasy game. How do you beat
Tampa by throwing the football? Wouldn't shock me to see
surprise this week?
Speaker 2: Anything you deciphered out of the Colts offense with Philly
Rivers playing last week, and what do you think about
this week's game with their hosting Monday night against the Niners.
Speaker 3: Look, the Colts almost won that game. I mean they
just scored too early. They left enough time on the clock, right,
So that's what happened. But I mean, good on Philip Rivers.
I can't I couldn't believe it myself, but I think
he's going to keep them in this game. This game
is really about Jonathan Taylor. We have not seen Jonathan
Taylor do Jonathan Taylor things where we were getting like
six touchdowns over a two week period. The Colts need that,
they need it right now. But what Rivers was able
to do, he got Pittman involved, he got downs involved.
He'll get Tyler Wong involved. The key is the Colts
defense because San Francisco is really playing at a high
level on offense right now. Brock Purdy came back, George Kittle.
Indianapolis has not stopped the tight end all season, so
Kittle should have a good week. Christian McCaffrey hasn't had
a bad week all season. Ricky Pearsall came back and
now gives you that deep threat. So Vegas has the
forty nine or scoring about twenty six and a half points.
I think we're gonna see four touchdowns. If the Colts
want to win, they're gonna have to control that clock
with their running game.
Speaker 2: All right, Texans a second consecutive horrific opponent. This time around,
it's going to be the Las Vegas Raiders. Hey, the
Texans put up forty, which is way out of the
ordinary for them. Do you envision them putting up forty
this week, which means it could be another big week
for CJ. Stroud and his receivers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we talked about that last week. I think that
it was a really great matchup for Stroud. This week,
same thing. Raiders play a lot of cover three. Not
gonna be good. Good for Nico, good for Jaden Higgins,
good for CJ. Stroud. Do you know that Vegas has
the Raiders scoring twelve points this week? That's crazy. That's
a really low number. You don't Fourteen is a shockingly
low number. Twelve even worse. I mean, you start brock
Bowers because you probably don't have a guy better than him.
You start ashing genty because you know if he can
get he can find the end zone once. But I mean,
this is a game that the Texans should win. Texans
should dominate. They're playing really good football right now. I
think the biggest question is this, how healthy is Woody
Mars and how long will they keep them out there?
If they're winning this game by fifteen, you know, fourteen seventeen,
do you pull them out and let Jordan play? I
might