Speaker 1: Should one stud running back actually be benched this weekend
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Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 5: That is a mighty fun introduction and I blush and
Speaker 5: humbledness and anyone who would like to replay. I think
Speaker 5: back to last week and when we asked for who
Speaker 5: who is the sleeper? And then what player is going
Speaker 5: to be the real dud, the player that you don't
Speaker 5: want in your lineup? Our guests should have answered anyone
Speaker 5: who you promoted Pharaoh, anyone who you were promoting last week?
Speaker 5: Should I think we told people not to start the
Speaker 5: Buffalo running back. I think we might have told people
Speaker 5: to start Amari Cooper. We said, we said Pollard in
Speaker 5: front of spears at least I did.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 5: It was a humbling week. Let's just put it, you.
Speaker 1: Know, But I trust the process on this, and I
Speaker 1: don't know exactly what happened. Pharaoh. Maybe you have an
Speaker 1: explanation for it. I knew Amari Cooper didn't do much
Speaker 1: as I was watching that Bill's Lions game. I was
Speaker 1: flabbergasted to find out after the game, not one, not
Speaker 1: one target, not one gd.
Speaker 5: Target to how many targets came the week before, I
Speaker 5: don't know, to be honest. Maybe he complained he was
Speaker 5: getting too much work.
Speaker 1: I think he had.
Speaker 5: Double digit targets the previous week, just you.
Speaker 1: Know, and I mean, and I think what baffled me too,
Speaker 1: is it was ninety points in that game, his team
Speaker 1: scored forty eight, and he did not get one target.
Speaker 1: Farrell on the season. I'm looking at Amari Cooper's game
Speaker 1: logs here. He did have fourteen targets the week before. Again,
Speaker 1: yes before that, three, three, two and five. Okay, not great,
Speaker 1: but still more than zero. But I mean even with
Speaker 1: the Browns this year six ten, eight, twelve, eight nine
Speaker 1: and then zero against the Lions. Do you have an
Speaker 1: explanation for this? I've been searching for one. I haven't
Speaker 1: found one. It's got to just be an anomaly. Can't
Speaker 1: happen again or in it.
Speaker 5: Well, I'll tell you what if it does happen. Either way,
Speaker 5: he's not gonna be in my line up.
Speaker 4: Nobody's gonna be surprised by it anymore.
Speaker 5: No, no, no glues, eggs. They all can't play like
Speaker 5: the Ladigator Lady greater Ladigator crea. Yeah what McConkey has
Speaker 5: just had. What a year that is?
Speaker 1: Laditi mecha kay or Mecca ka meconkka whatever Keegan Michael
Speaker 1: Key called him on rich Eisend Show. The Bills are
Speaker 1: fourteen point favorites this week Farrell against the New England
Speaker 1: Patriots in a total of forty six and a half.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't surprise me at all to have a James Cook
Speaker 1: Ray Davis game that get far far away from Ma
Speaker 1: Maari Cooper this week.
Speaker 4: That would be the best piece of advice we give
Speaker 4: you all night.
Speaker 1: But stay tuned for much more because Farrell and I
Speaker 1: have much more to discuss on.
Speaker 5: The shounce back to bounce back.
Speaker 1: Bounce back, bounce back week. We're going to be discussing
Speaker 1: Brian Robinson, Jerry Judy, and so much more. I want
Speaker 1: to lead things off tonight with your Raiders, which means
Speaker 1: I got to pull this out thanks to John Terry,
Speaker 1: pull this out. Put on my Raiders chain here tonight.
Speaker 1: As we're getting into the Raiders conversation to lead things
Speaker 1: off tonight, shout out to John Terry for that lovely
Speaker 1: piece of jewelry. Antonio Peers, according to Paul Gutierrez, told
Speaker 1: reporters that Aidan O'Connell should be good to go for
Speaker 1: Week sixteen against the Jacksonville Jaguars. Now, this is an
Speaker 1: improvement over Desmond Ridder. Obviously, you saw Jacoby Myers last week.
Speaker 1: Farrell kind of be invisible most of the game until
Speaker 1: they needed to make plays at the end of the game,
Speaker 1: and Myers was there making plays. In fact, almost caught
Speaker 1: that Hail Marray right at the end, got two hands
Speaker 1: on the football, just couldn't pull it in. Jesse Bates
Speaker 1: was just in a little bit better position to make
Speaker 1: the pick. But I think this is interesting, not for
Speaker 1: Brock Bauers. But for Jacoby Myers, a lot of people
Speaker 1: were ready to bench him in the championship round. They
Speaker 1: weren't flexing him out. But now O'Connell comes in, it
Speaker 1: makes it more intriguing. And I think you almost break
Speaker 1: ties in favor of Jacoby Myers because we know O'Connell
Speaker 1: is talented enough to make Rock Bowers the number one
Speaker 1: tight end this week and make Jacoby Myers a top
Speaker 1: twenty five play at wide receiver too, in my opinion, and.
Speaker 5: As wonderful as Bowers has been, it seems like that
Speaker 5: that offense has leaned on him and targeted Myers when
Speaker 5: he is the proverbial go to guy no matter who's
Speaker 5: at quarterback, and it was difficult. He had a hard
Speaker 5: time shatting some of the coverage in last week's game.
Speaker 5: I believe in Myers, boy do I believe in Bauers.
Speaker 5: And after that, you just got to get out of
Speaker 5: business with the Raiders, even the kicking game.
Speaker 1: Who is the kick? Oh, Daniel Carlson. You don't mean
Speaker 1: Daniel Carlson.
Speaker 5: I love him, but I'm I'm I'm getting out of
Speaker 5: it because it's just not that you know that they
Speaker 5: got to move those chains to get him in position,
Speaker 5: and then they've got to not be playing from a
Speaker 5: chaser position. And uh, you know, this is a game
Speaker 5: that they got a chance to win. And so maybe
Speaker 5: I'll maybe I'll walk back on that a little bit.
Speaker 5: But you know, I don't think. I don't think discussing
Speaker 5: kickers is going to make a difference to everyone that
Speaker 5: wants to win this championship. But sure is nice to
Speaker 5: watch Dicker, you know, go out there and nail fixis.
Speaker 1: That was great that we hadn't seen a free kick
Speaker 1: in fifty years and we got to see one last.
Speaker 5: Why do we not see more of those?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 4: Isn't it kind of a rare situation for it to
Speaker 4: present itself?
Speaker 1: I don't think, Like I think Harball made the right
Speaker 1: call by doing it, But I don't think that a
Speaker 1: lot of players have there A lot of teams have
Speaker 1: the opportunity to do it, right, I guess no.
Speaker 4: I mean because to me, if you got a good
Speaker 4: enough kicker, then yeah, fire.
Speaker 5: The rule is essentially you fair catch the punt and
Speaker 5: then you have a free kick.
Speaker 1: Is that right? I don't know. I think I'm taking
Speaker 1: it from for the word from your mouth. I was
Speaker 1: trying to understand what was going on on Thursday, and
Speaker 1: I thought I got it. Then I don't think I
Speaker 1: got it, So I don't know. But it was fun
Speaker 1: and it was great to see. Tom Smith has a
Speaker 1: question right now from the from the YouTube chat breaking news.
Speaker 1: Earlier this afternoon, Aaron Wilson, who covers the Houston Texans,
Speaker 1: has announced that the Texans have signed IRV Smith to
Speaker 1: their fifty three man roster. So Irv Smith or Kyle
Speaker 1: Pitts this week? Pharaoh, that that's the question, Pitts or
Speaker 1: Irv Smith on the Texans. Remember Brevin Jordan out for
Speaker 1: the season where they torn a cl.
Speaker 5: You know, Irv may not get a jersey, Tom, Let's
Speaker 5: go with Kyle Pitts. Now, he'll be on the fifty three,
Speaker 5: but he may not get a jersey. This week, Kyle
Speaker 5: Pitts will be in a jersey. And you know it's
Speaker 5: a new era in Atlanta. And you don't you don't
Speaker 5: want to be uh wish I had. You definitely don't
Speaker 5: want to be fomo with your fear of missing out. Tom,
Speaker 5: go ahead and let's let's sneak cow Pits.
Speaker 3: In the lineup.
Speaker 1: Longtime viewers of the show thought there was no way
Speaker 1: Bulky would be able to sneak in Irv Smith.
Speaker 4: Onto the hill, but it happened.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the Jets here, Farrell and I might
Speaker 1: be reaching on this, but I think you know in
Speaker 1: the championship round, you want to make sure all bases
Speaker 1: are covered. Zach Rosenblatt reported today of I believe for
Speaker 1: the athletic that Brees Hall is no longer on the
Speaker 1: injury report. He is going to play Week sixteen against
Speaker 1: the Rams. This is the first time in a few
Speaker 1: weeks that he's been off the injury report entirely, so
Speaker 1: makes it feel good about his injury status. However, in
Speaker 1: his stead and when he hasn't been healthy and when
Speaker 1: he hasn't been playing, Braylon Allen and Isaiah Davis have
Speaker 1: made some waves, especially Isaiah Davis, who's been scoring touchdowns
Speaker 1: for the Jets this year.
Speaker 4: Last week nine.
Speaker 1: Carries thirty yards for Breese Hall, he only caught two passes.
Speaker 1: I would expect more from him this week, Farrell, But
Speaker 1: for the people who do have Breis Hall and I
Speaker 1: brought this up on Fantasy Mojo's website because I know
Speaker 1: you're gonna ask me this. You're gonna tell me, Bulky,
Speaker 1: nobody who has Brice Hall is in the championship round.
Speaker 4: It's just it's not possible.
Speaker 1: And while you are close to being right when you
Speaker 1: hypothetically said that to me, but you did it in
Speaker 1: the main event. He has only owned in seven percent
Speaker 1: of Championship round teams. In the Fantasy Pros Championship owned
Speaker 1: on just six percent of those Championship round teams. For
Speaker 1: the people who have Brice Hall this weekend, do they
Speaker 1: need to think twice before locking him into their lineups?
Speaker 1: Do they need to just make absolutely sure that he
Speaker 1: is the better call over some of these other running
Speaker 1: backs that might provide that you might have on the
Speaker 1: same team as Brice Hall that might actually be better
Speaker 1: plays than him. Rico Dowdell, Chuba Hubbard, you know, Jerome Ford,
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard, all players that were drafted after Bres Hall,
Speaker 1: All players that could have better weeks than him this week?
Speaker 1: How long and hard are you thinking about starting Hall
Speaker 1: at home against the Rams in Week sixteen?
Speaker 5: If I'm one of those six or seven percent of teams,
Speaker 5: I figured out a way to get there without Haul,
Speaker 5: and I'm going to keep my hut hands in a
Speaker 5: lineup that would be. That would because the first round pick,
Speaker 5: and don't you think your first round pick? So he
Speaker 5: was he was their guy and they figured out a
Speaker 5: way to make there without him, and good for them.
Speaker 5: So they've had somebody that that's going to contribute better
Speaker 5: than all and be a safer play. So I will
Speaker 5: continue to.
Speaker 1: Have so here. I was thinking I was the crazy
Speaker 1: one for even suggesting that Briest Hall should not be
Speaker 1: in lineups. And you're saying, like, yeah, Balky, he should
Speaker 1: not be in lineups this week. If you made it
Speaker 1: this far without him, you you clearly have better options
Speaker 1: you you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there there is Alvin Kamara. If if album was
Speaker 5: one of your running backs and you had to start Hall,
Speaker 5: that might make sense. Pollard is is you don't have spears.
Speaker 5: There's there's situations that could get there. But those teams
Speaker 5: are so good that they've probably got those situations well
Speaker 5: in hand. And I would I would guess you know,
Speaker 5: it would be it would be fun to look at
Speaker 5: those teams and just see how many of them drafted
Speaker 5: heavy running back.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, for sure, heavy running back. This I wish
Speaker 1: I would have done heavy running back this year.
Speaker 5: Everybody does, and except in August. In July, the nobody does.
Speaker 5: No I did. But now now.
Speaker 4: It's different, it's a different story.
Speaker 1: The Cleveland Browns have made an unfortunate switch at quarterback
Speaker 1: for fantasy players this week. This is the week we're
Speaker 1: all waiting for Jameis Winston against the sorry excuse of
Speaker 1: a defense that the Bengals have. The total would have
Speaker 1: been they couldn't have set the total high enough in
Speaker 1: this game. Six sixty three would have been too low.
Speaker 1: So so now it's Dorian Thompson Robinson, and I get
Speaker 1: what Cleveland's doing here. I don't know if they necessarily
Speaker 1: think Winston is figuring into their few your plans at all.
Speaker 1: I think that the ownership coaching staff probably thinks that
Speaker 1: they can still make and form a future NFL backup,
Speaker 1: at least in Dorian Thompson Robinson, whose numbers have been
Speaker 1: dreadful at this level so far in his career. However,
Speaker 1: this is about the softest spot you could pick to
Speaker 1: bring him in, and this is a way to build
Speaker 1: his confidence. We have to deal with it as fantasy owners.
Speaker 1: I want to ask you about David and Joku. He
Speaker 1: is questionable for this game against the Bengals. Limited practice today.
Speaker 1: That was the only practice he had all week. When
Speaker 1: you think about David and Joku and tight end premium scoring,
Speaker 1: if this dude is active and he's catching passes from
Speaker 1: DTR Pharrell, are you still finding him a way to
Speaker 1: wedge him into your lineup.
Speaker 5: I'm not the best to ask this question, Balki. I
Speaker 5: would throw it back to you. I've never been in
Speaker 5: Joku fantasy player. A fan of him as a fantasy player.
Speaker 5: I'm a big fan of the athlete, and I love
Speaker 5: watching him play, but I just don't fall for enough
Speaker 5: enough targets, enough play enough offense. And you know, when
Speaker 5: Jamis came in, I thought, well, maybe he'll be a
Speaker 5: different kind of fantasy player, and in some weeks he
Speaker 5: certainly has. Let's go back to the quarterback and we
Speaker 5: say why this can happen when you margin when you
Speaker 5: put together a team that's operating in the margins, and
Speaker 5: you know they've lived with this young quarterback. He's been
Speaker 5: in the meeting rooms, he's been in the preseason. Our
Speaker 5: team's not going anywhere. We know what we've got in Jamis.
Speaker 5: Let's give this guy a chance. To play. You're right,
Speaker 5: they picked a place for him to play that should
Speaker 5: be a soft opportunity for him, and he has not
Speaker 5: played well, and so you know, I hope he's made strides.
Speaker 5: He's had a whole year to prepare running that scout team,
Speaker 5: and you know, sometimes it takes players a long time
Speaker 5: to get it. Maybe now, maybe now he's soaked up
Speaker 5: whatever knowledge there is in the quarterback room in Cleveland
Speaker 5: and is ready to give it a role to be
Speaker 5: a pro.
Speaker 1: I think that'll be something that we're watching very closely
Speaker 1: this week. Maybe not necessarily for the development of DTR
Speaker 1: but Jerry Judy, Elijah Moore, Cedric Tillman, potentially in David
Speaker 1: and Joku who by the way, since you threw it
Speaker 1: back at me, yeah, I'm benching him this week. I
Speaker 1: don't like him even in tight end premium scoring. I
Speaker 1: don't like him at all. I have very little faith
Speaker 1: that he is gonna even you know, catch a pass
Speaker 1: in the end zone or happen to catch a pass
Speaker 1: in the end zone. I just I think there are
Speaker 1: better options out there, especially in the championship.
Speaker 5: He's fantasy green, eggs and ham to.
Speaker 1: Me, Yeah, that's and and and I would not eat
Speaker 1: him uh in in Cleveland. I would not eat him
Speaker 1: in Cleveland with dtr throwing to him. No, I would
Speaker 1: not Bulky. I am. Last thing I want to get
Speaker 1: to before we bring on Tommy Harron is the Falcons
Speaker 1: making a quarterback change this week? Well, speaking of a
Speaker 1: soft spot, they get the Giants this week. Mark Rimondi,
Speaker 1: who covers the NFL for ESPN, says the chances that
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins returns to the Falcons next year is a
Speaker 1: backup seems slim. They could say cap space by trading him,
Speaker 1: but they are taking on either a sixty five million
Speaker 1: dollar cap hit next year or a forty million dollar
Speaker 1: cap hit in twenty twenty five and twenty million in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six if he's a post June first release.
Speaker 1: So this genius. You know all these people that were saying, oh,
Speaker 1: it's so genius to sign Cousins and draft Pennix, I
Speaker 1: think once this cap hit hits, those people might have
Speaker 1: a different take on this whole situation here. So you
Speaker 1: talk about Cousins going to the bench. I think I'll
Speaker 1: ask you this because I want to make sure I'm
Speaker 1: right in thinking this seems like a permanent thing. I
Speaker 1: don't think they go back to Cousins anymore this year.
Speaker 1: I don't think they go back to Cousins next year.
Speaker 1: I think this is Michael Penix's team going forward. So
Speaker 1: what do you think, How does that change Drake Lennon,
Speaker 1: How does that change Kyle Pitts? How does that change
Speaker 1: Jon Robinson, Darnell Mooney, so on and so forth. Is
Speaker 1: it significant? Is there no change for you in the
Speaker 1: way you're treating these guys in your lineups this week? Pharrel?
Speaker 5: It is significant in the fact that Cousins has played
Speaker 5: so poorly and sometimes the players just hit the wall.
Speaker 5: He was injured. There were people that we talked to
Speaker 5: it planned in Hollywood and sometimes in the show leading
Speaker 5: up to our live draft there people would say, I'm
Speaker 5: just not sure Cousins is healthy. It looks like he's
Speaker 5: had some reoccurrence of his issues, and you know, the
Speaker 5: throwing motion is off and it's just it's just bad.
Speaker 5: So yes, this is very much an upgrade from a
Speaker 5: The fact we won't see Cousins again is if he's injured,
Speaker 5: a lot of this contract they'll have to cover if
Speaker 5: they let him go. It's about one hundred million dollar
Speaker 5: hit total. But that's worse than having to That's not
Speaker 5: as bad as having to cover this full tracked if
Speaker 5: he if he is injured. So uh, I think it's
Speaker 5: pastime for Pinis and and uh I'm interested to see
Speaker 5: what he does. Uh. You know, we've had the Pitts
Speaker 5: conversation last week, Drake London. We have to buy into
Speaker 5: the fact that this is a pro receiver, one of
Speaker 5: the best receivers in the game. So let's let's don't
Speaker 5: bench him. Mooney has got to get open underneath. I
Speaker 5: think this player, Pinis will be able to extend the
Speaker 5: plays and run around, which is is something the offensive line,
Speaker 5: especially since they're they're calling these uh the legal receivers downfield.
Speaker 5: They're gonna or I legal player downfield. They're gonna have
Speaker 5: to get away. Uh, They're they're gonna have to get
Speaker 5: in their heads a completely different play style. But I
Speaker 5: think the receivers will welcome it. I think everyone there is. Uh.
Speaker 5: I think from a fantasy standpoint, let's stick with your
Speaker 5: guys and you, as a fantasy player, there's no advice
Speaker 5: we can give you. Pits. You've either decided to live
Speaker 5: with it or not.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. Nothing we are saying on the show tonight
Speaker 1: is going to change your mind on what you're doing
Speaker 1: with Kyle Pitts.
Speaker 5: Yeah, don't. If you've been relying on Mooney and god
Speaker 5: knows you've been relying on London, don't mine them just
Speaker 5: because this quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: Right exactly. I am with you one hundred percent. I
Speaker 1: don't think this if it's a downgrade, it's it's marginal.
Speaker 1: I think there's there's so much more upside. I'm much
Speaker 1: more excited about these guys in Atlanta as I am
Speaker 1: than I was with with Kirk Cousins. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: our guest tonight and bring him on and see what
Speaker 1: he thinks about this situation and so much more. He's
Speaker 1: been on this program before. You probably remember him. He
Speaker 1: is a twelve time former FFPC League Champion in pursuit
Speaker 1: of a pair of million dollar grand prizes in both
Speaker 1: the FFPC Main Event and the Fantasy Pro Championship, and
Speaker 1: in the thick of it in the KFFSC main event
Speaker 1: as well. You follow him on the X at Tommy
Speaker 1: Island sixty nine. Please welcome back onto the show, mister Tommy,
Speaker 1: her and Tommy welcome in season's greetings and thanks for
Speaker 1: hopping aboard tonight.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 3: Hey, hey, hey, happy holidays.
Speaker 1: How are you?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 5: Oh God, look at that. That's not hair tonic bulk.
Speaker 5: That's the real stuff. Back there, let's see Jamison done
Speaker 5: right over Tommy's Uh, we got.
Speaker 1: Makers mark back there.
Speaker 5: That there's back there?
Speaker 6: You know, you know, Jeff, you got me a little
Speaker 6: Sinatra back there?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, there you go.
Speaker 4: Do I see a whistle pig? Or am I seeing things?
Speaker 3: Angel?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Angels envy? Yeah, there you go. Okay, fantastic. Okay, So
Speaker 1: now we got the bourbon discussion out of the way
Speaker 1: that night, let's get into the fantasy football conversation. Tommy,
Speaker 1: I went through some of your teams. I don't know,
Speaker 1: you know some of these players that you own on
Speaker 1: a lot of teams. I don't know how many of
Speaker 1: you of them you own on teams that are doing
Speaker 1: very very well in ore are in pursuit of this
Speaker 1: million dollar grand prior. But a lot of these questions
Speaker 1: tonight are going to be about players that you've either
Speaker 1: drafted or acquired. And two of the tight ends that
Speaker 1: I noticed you had on a bunch of teams are
Speaker 1: playing each other on Sunday Night Football. Now in the
Speaker 1: ff PC, maybe you start both of these guys. But
Speaker 1: if you only have one roster spot, who are you
Speaker 1: playing this week? Is it Jake Ferguson hosting the Buccaneers
Speaker 1: or is it Kate Aughton? Might be a game time
Speaker 1: call on the road at Dallas.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it's uh, it's foggy and and regardless of
Speaker 3: and I love Aughton, Aughton is uh those couple of
Speaker 3: weeks that he gave has been worth every ounce you
Speaker 3: can share that I got of him this year, so
Speaker 3: because he's ever delivered. But it is Ferguson this week.
Speaker 3: The matchup against Tampa Bay, Tampa's Tampa's not good against
Speaker 3: the tight ends, so that's a great matchup for ferg
Speaker 3: even with Cooper cup So and then throw in the
Speaker 3: Outton's probably not gonna play. So it's an easy decision
Speaker 3: for me.
Speaker 5: That is an easy decision. It's not such an easy
Speaker 5: decision in Tennessee unless they tell us Pollard is headed
Speaker 5: to the bench, and then he might he might not play.
Speaker 5: Taj Spears that answered the bell and provided everyone that
Speaker 5: has been speaking of him in positive light, provided all
Speaker 5: of them validation. What are you doing if you have
Speaker 5: Pollard in Spears, and how strong is your belief in Spears?
Speaker 5: What we saw last week is what we can count
Speaker 5: on hopefully.
Speaker 3: Look, Spears is the guy that I've been back and
Speaker 3: forth or I've been in on for a long time,
Speaker 3: but obviously this year has been kind of a dud.
Speaker 3: He's lessen skid marks out there along the way because
Speaker 3: he hasn't produced, he hasn't been out there. He showed
Speaker 3: so much last week I'm considered playing it, considering playing
Speaker 3: him over Nasea Harrison. That's what I'll tell you. So
Speaker 3: to put that perspective to me. If Pollard's in, I
Speaker 3: think he's a he's a flex option. If Pollard's out,
Speaker 3: he's a solid running back too. He's and and and honestly,
Speaker 3: I think he's like a poor man's Chase Brown. And yeah,
Speaker 3: by that means of my comparing him to Chase Brown,
Speaker 3: what I'm saying is explosive and he can make big plays.
Speaker 3: And uh, because Chase Brown is one of my favorite
Speaker 3: players this year and one of my m VP's and
Speaker 3: the faces.
Speaker 5: Well my fantasy play Tommy. I really thought that I
Speaker 5: had possession of the term poor man's player. I thought,
Speaker 5: if anybody's going to use that, that's what it should
Speaker 5: be me, because I, oh, yeah, but you're not a
Speaker 5: poor man. So I got a lot of a lot
Speaker 5: of poor you know, walk, He's gonna now ask you
Speaker 5: for a player. We have to talk about this player
Speaker 5: every week, and this is the poorest man's player.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, balking, Well, okay, so he's in a poor
Speaker 1: situation right now. Definitely, the New Orleans Saints, I believe,
Speaker 1: are holding open tryouts before they head on up to
Speaker 1: Lambeau Field because they need warm bodies. Now. One of
Speaker 1: these guys that is probably going to be starting for him,
Speaker 1: I believe, and Tom Smith is all over this in
Speaker 1: the YouTube jet. I do believe Alvin Kavera has already
Speaker 1: been ruled out this week, so you would think Kendra
Speaker 1: Miller is going to be starting for the Saints at
Speaker 1: Lambeau on Monday Night football. The reason I bring him
Speaker 1: up is because we have seen flashes from him before.
Speaker 1: We know that the Rizzler himself, Darren Rizzy, the new
Speaker 1: head coach, where the interim head coach of the Saints
Speaker 1: likes him a whole hell of a lot more than
Speaker 1: Dennis Allen did. And now this could be a potential
Speaker 1: for him to break out. The Packers Dboa for their
Speaker 1: defense has been in the top ten over the last
Speaker 1: month or so, so it's not the greatest matchup. It's
Speaker 1: definitely a negative game script. However, if Spencer Ratler is
Speaker 1: checking the ball down to Miller, he could ppr himself
Speaker 1: into a decent week this week. I think we have
Speaker 1: to start talking about Kendre Miller as potentially a second
Speaker 1: running back or a flex. I'm gonna throw him out
Speaker 1: there and pit him against Ramandre Stevenson, who's taking on
Speaker 1: the Bills, and again another negative game script for Stevenson
Speaker 1: as their two touchdown underdogs to the Bills. Who would
Speaker 1: you rather play between Miller and Stevenson this week?
Speaker 3: Tommy, So I'm playing. I'm playing Remondre. And look, Buffalo
Speaker 3: has been Buffalo has not been good defensively, and we
Speaker 3: know that they might fix that, but they've been they
Speaker 3: haven't been good versus the run. And you know you
Speaker 3: wouldn't You wouldn't know that. You think about the Bills,
Speaker 3: you think they're great against the they're great defensively, and
Speaker 3: they're not. So I'm playing playing Remondre, but I think
Speaker 3: Kendre is still a good option. If you have him,
Speaker 3: you play him. Don't forget about Jamal fil Williams.
Speaker 7: Who's always around like he's gonna look, he's what's gonna
Speaker 7: happen is it's he's gonna get those passes and he's
Speaker 7: gonna catch you know, five for thirty two.
Speaker 3: And he's gonna you know, he's gonna get them down
Speaker 3: to the get them down to the red zone and
Speaker 3: then Jamalfa's gonna come in if they score, and it's
Speaker 3: gonna be him, or it's gonna be Spencer Rattler getting
Speaker 3: the touchdown. So anyway, that's uh. But but I don't
Speaker 3: think Hendred's a bad play.
Speaker 5: To all there is in New England. Through all the
Speaker 5: darkness of the New England season and Stevenson's poor yards
Speaker 5: per carry, there's still moments of brightness that this quarterback
Speaker 5: brings to this offense. And that that's I agree with
Speaker 5: you tell me. And it's it against Buffalo. They're gonna
Speaker 5: be chasing and trying to put you know, trying to
Speaker 5: move the stakes anyway they can't im.
Speaker 3: It might not be Gibbs, I mean, get you know,
Speaker 3: I know there's a lot of back and forth. Well
Speaker 3: is this Gibson week? But every time Gibson has a
Speaker 3: chance to step forward, like he does something one week
Speaker 3: and then yeah that's what.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm not going to fall with the banana, the tailpipe.
Speaker 5: You know, the bunk. He's talking about you chasing two
Speaker 5: million dollar prizes. But I know there's nothing you're more
Speaker 5: excited about in your first place k Consolation League team.
Speaker 3: Draft drafted that team right beside our man here that
Speaker 3: that was?
Speaker 1: Was that? Okay? So I don't think I made the
Speaker 1: playoffs in that league either, So I don't we just got.
Speaker 3: To no, I cha, yeah we were. I started. I
Speaker 3: think I started five on four and my team got
Speaker 3: good at the end. But yeah, I was. Anyway, everyone,
Speaker 3: I'm late your consolation though, right.
Speaker 5: Yes, you're You're in first place and everybody wants you
Speaker 5: are you should begin to consider yourself consoled, Tommy, And
Speaker 5: it's everybody wants that comes to the event, wants to
Speaker 5: draft next to Balkey. Here at our super Sunday Sweet
Speaker 5: Sixteens that we have coming up, Scott Christian and James Hicks,
Speaker 5: friends of the show and participants and friends of the
Speaker 5: league are asking for their entry back in case Balky
Speaker 5: for some reason does not show, run in his stead
Speaker 5: if he doesn't show.
Speaker 4: So I just I just looked it up.
Speaker 1: In that league, Tommy, you and I finished with identical
Speaker 1: six and five records. However, you outscored me about what
Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy five points on the season.
Speaker 5: But you know it's six and five. Both you guys
Speaker 5: should end up in the Gator Bowl. So let me
Speaker 5: ask you that Christian Watson and Tankdale, Christian Watson in Tankdale?
Speaker 5: Which one is the start Tank Dale in Kansas City.
Speaker 5: I kind of field Tank Dell, but I'm more interested
Speaker 5: in what you're gonna tell us.
Speaker 3: Well, you know what, this is what we're gonna do
Speaker 3: this weekend. You're gonna go out with Skankdale, and I'm
Speaker 3: gonna go out with Kristen Watson. It's Kristin Watson. He's playing. Look,
Speaker 3: he's got the New Orleans Saints who give up the
Speaker 3: deep ball. I think I like Christian Watson this week.
Speaker 3: I can see one big touchdown maybe hope I want
Speaker 3: Eve to curse it. I know there's a Green Bay
Speaker 3: fan on the on the sky with us, so I
Speaker 3: know I think this is a really good setup for
Speaker 3: Kristan Watson and you know and Tankdale. Look, he's what
Speaker 3: you're gonna get with with Kansas City and Houston is
Speaker 3: a better pass rush. They got good, They got better
Speaker 3: last week again because I know Kansas City have been
Speaker 3: given up versus the wide receiver a better pass rush
Speaker 3: that they showed last week, and I don't see that.
Speaker 3: Look it's Nico Collins's team. As a wide receiver, I
Speaker 3: think Kristin Watson, Christa Watson's a at least at least
Speaker 3: two steps ahead.
Speaker 5: I can buy that. And you know, I'm running into
Speaker 5: a lot of fantasy players that shake their head. They
Speaker 5: say I'm never drafting a packer receiver again. Balkey would
Speaker 5: saying that's a big mistake. Balkey was on another pack
Speaker 5: of receiver.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say it's a big mistake.
Speaker 5: But if I look at that talent with Christian Watson,
Speaker 5: and I hope everyone says that because if he continues
Speaker 5: to slide, or if that is the prevailing draft attitude
Speaker 5: of the competition, next year, Christian Watson will be on
Speaker 5: all my teams. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think you bring up a good point, Ferrell, because
Speaker 1: I think the narrative next year and we've seen it
Speaker 1: this year. When all these guys are healthy at the
Speaker 1: same time, very difficult to predict who's going to have
Speaker 1: that that big week. I don't and they have by
Speaker 1: and large, you know, I know there's been a couple
Speaker 1: of games here or there, but by and large, Watson
Speaker 1: is not missed any time. Right, Dobbs got suspended, he
Speaker 1: was in the concussion protocol, so he missed a couple
Speaker 1: of games. Wicks has been out there the whole time,
Speaker 1: Jayden Reid's been out there the whole time. Tucker Kraft
Speaker 1: look at the ascendants that he's had, So when they
Speaker 1: are all healthy, yeah, it's tough to predict. I don't
Speaker 1: know if that happens two years in rown't. I mean,
Speaker 1: we see a lot of regression on the meet with
Speaker 1: these with these injuries. And I'll just say this, I
Speaker 1: don't finish a point with this. If that to what
Speaker 1: you're saying, Pharaoh, if that is how everybody is treating
Speaker 1: packers' receivers next year, then yes, I will be grabbing Dobbs.
Speaker 4: I will be grabbing Watson if they slide too far.
Speaker 1: Because when the their teammates missed time or whatever, all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, these guys go for being drafted as
Speaker 1: the fiftieth forty fifth receiver off the board to potentially
Speaker 1: being a top twenty or a top twenty five play
Speaker 1: on any and.
Speaker 5: I appreciate I appreciate your input there because really all
Speaker 5: I have to talk about is next year. Carry on
Speaker 5: with a new question.
Speaker 3: So listen one more Christian wat Watson also has a
Speaker 3: like his sailing. We've seen what he can like.
Speaker 5: He is a.
Speaker 3: Monster and to me and look to me, that's that's
Speaker 3: the answer to going back to Tankdale. Love Tankdale, love Tankdale.
Speaker 3: But guess what it's Krista Watson.
Speaker 1: Yeah. He's got the higher ceiling and obviously big plays
Speaker 1: I mean, and he's not dropping passes this I think
Speaker 1: he's dropped one pass all year. He's been phenomenal throughout
Speaker 1: the Niners game because the Packers really dominated that from
Speaker 1: the get go.
Speaker 4: Watson put up point four that game. He had four
Speaker 4: rushing yards.
Speaker 1: That was it. But out of those other four games
Speaker 1: since the buye, one hundred and fifty yards sixty seven yards,
Speaker 1: one hundred and fourteen yards, fifty six yards hasn't gotten
Speaker 1: into the end zone. But you can tell how much
Speaker 1: he is being used two hundred yard games. That's something
Speaker 1: in the last five weeks. That's something a lot of
Speaker 1: the receivers can't say right now, and you can't say
Speaker 1: it about Watson. It comes on to Watson Ordell. This week,
Speaker 1: I'm with Tommy Harron. I will join you at Tommy
Speaker 1: Island and say that it is Watson over or tinked up.
Speaker 1: Let's do this. I want to go to Tom Smith.
Speaker 1: He's been patiently awaiting. Uh, he's got a question. DeVonta
Speaker 1: Smith or Khalil Shakir. This week, it's DeVonta Smith or
Speaker 1: Khalil Shakir. That's what he is looking at. Devanta Smith
Speaker 1: is at Washington. Khalil Shakir is in this. I want
Speaker 1: to get into the Amari Cooper side of this too.
Speaker 1: Khalil Shakir is against the Patriots. Tommy. What's happened to Cooper?
Speaker 1: And since the trade at least the last several weeks.
Speaker 1: Why is Shakir being the guy that Josh Allen looks
Speaker 1: at so much more than Amari Cooper?
Speaker 3: Well, I think that you know, obviously, Alan likes to
Speaker 3: distribute the ball around to a lot of players, and
Speaker 3: the thing about Shaki, He's always there he's always around.
Speaker 3: He's always doing the little stuff. He's always Look, if
Speaker 3: you need a plumber, shak you a lawyer, Kyl Shakir.
Speaker 3: If you meet somebody to seek Shakir, he's there. He's
Speaker 3: picking up a block. So that works well when you
Speaker 3: got a quarterback who distributes the ball well and and
Speaker 3: nothing against Look Amari Cooper's Look, he's great, but he
Speaker 3: commands the ball and when he's not commanded. I hate
Speaker 3: to say this, when he when he's not the guy,
Speaker 3: he's not the guy, and I mean he's so he
Speaker 3: doesn't work well in that that situation. So you know,
Speaker 3: I think you're going to see a game or so.
Speaker 3: I mean, maybe I make him. You know, I heard
Speaker 3: what you guys said earlier about him. Maybe I make
Speaker 3: him my sleeper for this week. I was I was
Speaker 3: gonna I was gonna say that and say later on that,
Speaker 3: hey he's my sleeper, but he's not.
Speaker 6: Look, I think Shakiir just he's a better fit in
Speaker 6: that offense. And I add the chemistry.
Speaker 3: Remember the back end of last year, he was Shakira
Speaker 3: showed showed out what the last four four games or so,
Speaker 3: they developed that chemistry.
Speaker 6: It's continued on and nobody else step forward.
Speaker 5: Could you tell us, Balky, like in the last five games,
Speaker 5: how many how many catches this play is because hey,
Speaker 5: or what he's averaging? Ope, just to prove Tommy's point
Speaker 5: of how he comes up and down absolutely, And second
Speaker 5: to prove Tommy's point. If you want to watch the
Speaker 5: best Khalil Shakir play ever, the best football player ever,
Speaker 5: you can go back.
Speaker 8: To his days at Boise State when quarterback drew a
Speaker 8: pick and he chased down the interceptor and saved the
Speaker 8: touchdown with a tackle, and it was one of the
Speaker 8: most impressive football players.
Speaker 5: I've ever seen. I love that guy, football player. You
Speaker 5: got any numbers there both?
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 1: I have plenty. Actually, this I'm gonna go all the
Speaker 1: way back to Week seven because this is how press
Speaker 1: of Shaki has been and how consistent he's been. Seven
Speaker 1: for sixty five, nine for one hundred and seven, six
Speaker 1: for fifty, six for fifty eight, eight for seventy, four
Speaker 1: for thirty five for one hundred and six, last week
Speaker 1: six for thirty nine, and he's gotten in the end
Speaker 1: zone four times this year, including each of the last
Speaker 1: two weeks as well. He gets the Patriots this week.
Speaker 1: They don't all have to be Spike Week players. Kids.
Speaker 1: You can plug in a guy Khalil Shakir who's going
Speaker 1: to get you between fifteen and twenty and you'll be
Speaker 1: a okay with that, knowing that, yeah, maybe he doesn't
Speaker 1: have the thirty five point upside forty point upside, that's
Speaker 1: okay for the record, Tommy, you want to get you
Speaker 1: on this. To answer Tom's question, would you play Shakir
Speaker 1: over DeVonta Smith this week?
Speaker 3: I think I think I would. It's very close.
Speaker 6: I mean, I need to think through that because I
Speaker 6: do like DeVonta Smith.
Speaker 3: I think it's a Barkley week with with with Washington
Speaker 3: and Philly and and one of those wide receivers is
Speaker 3: going to eat. But it's not gonna be both this
Speaker 3: week because they're not gonna leave They're not going to
Speaker 3: leave Barkley out this week and a little backseat. I
Speaker 3: mean everybody, Look, everybody was expecting last week for Barkley
Speaker 3: to have, you know, an NFL record week and everything
Speaker 3: and and and they've done that last few but guess
Speaker 3: what it's uh, this is a Barkley week. That's the
Speaker 3: only reason.
Speaker 5: Okay, Okay, So devant to Smith is proven that he
Speaker 5: can contribute fantasy wise with all the star power around
Speaker 5: him in Philadelphia and the AJ Brown at receiver. Now
Speaker 5: let's go up to Minnesota. Let's let's let's put let's
Speaker 5: put DeVante Smith up against Jordan Addison, a player that
Speaker 5: I really don't understand because it didn't have him on
Speaker 5: any teams. I thought that with Justin Jefferson, it all
Speaker 5: begins and ends with him. And you know who knew
Speaker 5: that Sam Darnold was going to be this good. I
Speaker 5: drafted hive and played him, But I sure didn't expect this.
Speaker 5: Your thoughts DeVonta Smith, Jordan Addison.
Speaker 3: It's a it's a land to Jordan Addison, and only
Speaker 3: one reason because of the Barkley piece that I just said.
Speaker 3: I think it's going to be a little Barkley and
Speaker 3: you know, can DeVonta Smith and hope he it's a
Speaker 3: solid for it, but it's uh. Addison was a big
Speaker 3: play dependent early in the year, and that's where it
Speaker 3: was very back and forth. He would have, you know,
Speaker 3: the touchdowns, but it was on very few targets. He's
Speaker 3: getting targets the last several weeks and he's been a
Speaker 3: part of the offense, and he's been producing and just
Speaker 3: watching the game. And for me, it is just watching
Speaker 3: the game and they're feeding him and now he's getting
Speaker 3: targets and he's getting touchdowns and big plays.
Speaker 5: Hey, Bunky, Billy Hollywood has gone off tilt here. I
Speaker 5: think I think it goes into your next question that
Speaker 5: you're going to ask Tommy, Uh, this is this is wild?
Speaker 3: Or is it?
Speaker 5: You guys figure this one out because this is this
Speaker 5: is Billy Hollywood.
Speaker 1: Number number one. I don't think it's it's wild to
Speaker 1: play Wild Mayfield over.
Speaker 4: Jackson, I Ferrell. I'm a weak man. I say it
Speaker 4: all the time. I wouldn't be able to do it.
Speaker 1: Bill Hollywood is a strong viril individual who's a.
Speaker 5: Strong individual, strong virile.
Speaker 1: I like that.
Speaker 5: Billy Yet over here, brother, Yeah, he's William Hollywood.
Speaker 4: He is gonna play Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 1: He thinks he's gonna play Mayfield at Dallas over Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson tomorrow, who is hosting the Pittsburgh Steelers. So let's
Speaker 1: unpack this here. I understand why he is doing this.
Speaker 1: Stephen Ranigan, a guy who has won more money than
Speaker 1: God playing in the FFPC over the last ten fifteen
Speaker 1: years or whatever it's been. I talked with him on
Speaker 1: Tuesday and he told me that the way this Buccaneers
Speaker 1: offense is going right now, he thinks its wheels up
Speaker 1: for everybody. Mayfield, Evans, Irving McMillan, Otton if he plays,
Speaker 1: which is probably not gonna play. So I get it,
Speaker 1: and you can get caught up into that. That said,
Speaker 1: what Jackson does with his legs and what he did
Speaker 1: last week, I mean, he had a great hit five
Speaker 1: touchdowns last week. I know it's the Steelers. I know
Speaker 1: it's a different week. I don't think I could do it. Tommy,
Speaker 1: Are you playing Baker Mayfield over Lamar Jackson this week?
Speaker 3: Not? And just to put this in perspective, I've got
Speaker 3: Banker on the backside. I've got six bullets in the
Speaker 3: Fantasy Prize. Three of my teams have Joe Burrow at quarterback.
Speaker 3: I've got Baker behind two up. I'm playing Burrow. I'm
Speaker 3: not playing playing Lamar Jackson. I'm playing Joe Burrow. I'm
Speaker 3: playing those guys. There's as much as I love Baker Mayfield,
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna overthink that. I would never forgive myself
Speaker 3: to sit Lamar Jackson, even if I'm a Steelers fan,
Speaker 3: and there's no.
Speaker 1: Way I would say too like you think Steelers Ravens. Oh,
Speaker 1: that's got to be a little scoring game. Totals at
Speaker 1: forty four and a half. The total on that Cowboys
Speaker 1: game is forty eight and a half. So I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a difference, but it's only four points. And when
Speaker 1: you consider the difference in quarterbacks at least the talent
Speaker 1: and the production, I still think I'm going with Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson here, we I don't.
Speaker 3: Want I'll also I'll also add on that that game script. Look,
Speaker 3: what I'll tell you is this, I mean, as much
Speaker 3: as I want the Steelers to win, it looks like
Speaker 3: it's a Ravens regardless of the history where the Ravens
Speaker 3: don't beat the Steelers, this is one of those where
Speaker 3: it's just that don't have Georgia Pickens.
Speaker 6: I mean, we don't have Georgia Pickens.
Speaker 3: It's not it's not a good, not a good situation.
Speaker 1: And and the Ravens just failed to close teams out.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's always close in the fourth quarter every
Speaker 1: single game. And if that's the case, Lamar Jackson is
Speaker 1: not just gonna be sitting there handing it off to Henry.
Speaker 1: He's gonna have to make plays in the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: of this game. So, uh, there's there's that as well.
Speaker 4: Let's do this.
Speaker 1: Paul tischera another former guest of the show, high fellas
Speaker 1: with a few injuries. My flex is in flux. This
Speaker 1: is obviously f FPC tight end premium. He's got chigakon Quo,
Speaker 1: He's got Romeo Dobbs, Jalen McMillan or Kendra Miller. Now,
Speaker 1: McMillan is a guy that I think is very interesting
Speaker 1: because he screwed over so many basketball players this year.
Speaker 1: Because now that he's turning it on all those teams,
Speaker 1: they didn't advance their out and they're waiting for next year.
Speaker 1: So Number one, we could talk about McMillan here and
Speaker 1: why it's taken so long for him to kind of
Speaker 1: get with it, even after the Chris Godwin injury, which
Speaker 1: seemed like that happened about seven months ago. Now it
Speaker 1: seems like it was ago. But who would you play
Speaker 1: here a con Quo Dobbs, McMillan, or Kendrick Miller. Dobbs
Speaker 1: and Miller play each other the Packers hosting the Saints
Speaker 1: on Monday Night a con Quo this week, I believe
Speaker 1: is that the Colts. I want to say that the
Speaker 1: Titans are playing, Yeah, the the Titans are in Indianapolis
Speaker 1: or Conquo's taking on the Colts there. And then Jalen McMillan,
Speaker 1: as we just discussed Sunday night football in Dallas.
Speaker 3: So for me, I'm looking at I'm looking at Jayleen
Speaker 3: McMillan and Kendre Miller. I'm probably probably laning Kendrey Miller
Speaker 3: depending on the situation. I mean, now, Kendrey Miller is
Speaker 3: going to get the volume, but it's it's a strong
Speaker 3: plog to Jalen McMillan as well, So the other two
Speaker 3: are out.
Speaker 6: So for me, it's a coin flip for those I
Speaker 6: like McMillan coming on.
Speaker 3: You know, I think he's uh, he was. He was
Speaker 3: a struggle early on. He proved he's I think he
Speaker 3: scored his first week, right, He scored his first week,
Speaker 3: proved he had he had a nose for the for
Speaker 3: the end zone. But he then he dropped the ball.
Speaker 3: He just didn't look like the right part. And now
Speaker 3: he's starting to develop. He wasn't a one for one
Speaker 3: substitution for Godwin because he that wasn't the position. It's
Speaker 3: not like he was. They groomed him to be the
Speaker 3: bet that guy, but he also played other positions. I
Speaker 3: don't think it was that he had in that Autun
Speaker 3: came in and was very strong for those couple of weeks. Again,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna give him my uh my m v P
Speaker 3: for those couple of weeks.
Speaker 6: But now he's catching the ball and he's scoring touchdowns.
Speaker 3: He already had the notes, So so anyway, I'm answering,
Speaker 3: you know, I'm kind of addressing what you started with
Speaker 3: talking about, you know, how he started slow. I think
Speaker 3: he's there now. For me, I lean Kendre Miller, and
Speaker 3: then second would be McMillan, and then the other two
Speaker 3: are out.
Speaker 1: I think it comes down to, like, what kind of
Speaker 1: fantasy player are you? Because I am with you, I
Speaker 1: narrow it down to Millan and excuse McMillan, Miller and McMillan.
Speaker 1: I actually lean towards McMillan because of the offense, because
Speaker 1: I'm very excited to have a Bay offense.
Speaker 4: What they're able to do.
Speaker 1: The implied point total for the Saints this week, by
Speaker 1: it's forty two and a half. But they're fourteen point dogs,
Speaker 1: so Vegas is telling us they're only going to score
Speaker 1: fourteen points, which is really bad. And so but you know,
Speaker 1: and then you look at the at the Buccaneers. I mean,
Speaker 1: they're three and a half point favorites in a total
Speaker 1: of forty eight. So what are they scoring in that game?
Speaker 1: Like twenty seven points? So that's like two more touchdowns.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think I'm gonna go with mcmill in
Speaker 1: here over Miller Ferrell, Do you have a dog in
Speaker 1: this fight?
Speaker 5: I really like McMillan and tell me there was great analysis.
Speaker 5: You know, he's not the physical player that the Godwin is.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I'm gonna go with McMillan. That's obviously why
Speaker 5: Billy Hollywood wanted to play Baker in front of Lamar
Speaker 5: and uh Mikes you know that again? Fix it. I
Speaker 5: gotta think Billy is overthinking it.
Speaker 1: There, speaking of Bill, Speaking of Bill Hollywood Ferrell, he
Speaker 1: posted this as well. Oops, that's that's Roger Dobson's comment.
Speaker 1: Last week, I played golf over Daniels and got lucky.
Speaker 1: I believe lucky. I believe On this show last week,
Speaker 1: I said, uh that I would play Jared goff over
Speaker 1: jadend of course at home, and people called me crazy.
Speaker 1: Farrell Daniels top three this week? What are you doing
Speaker 1: talking about playing golf over Daniels? The reason you hold on?
Speaker 5: Hold on?
Speaker 1: Hold on? And I said, I played golf over Daniels.
Speaker 1: And you know what I did. You know what I
Speaker 1: did if I couldn't do it, Like I said, I'm
Speaker 1: a weak guy. I played Daniels over golf and I
Speaker 1: was so ticked off on it didn't cost me anything big,
Speaker 1: but we'll we'll find out.
Speaker 5: That was a twenty difference scory.
Speaker 1: It was. It was huge. And this is a message
Speaker 1: to all of you bullies that hang out on the
Speaker 1: high stakes Fantasy Football Hour YouTube and and just tell
Speaker 1: me I'm crazy.
Speaker 4: Well, I listened to you, and now I'm paying.
Speaker 1: The price for it.
Speaker 4: Never again I make a call on this show. I'm
Speaker 4: going with that call. I don't care to anybody else.
Speaker 5: Yes, damn straight, Balky, you know, okay, Hey Tommy Island,
Speaker 5: make a call on this, Calvin Ridley or bust. I've
Speaker 5: been a believer that you have a number one receiver
Speaker 5: as long as the quarterback can grip a ball and
Speaker 5: fling it. I'm going to play that number one. You're
Speaker 5: playing Calvin Ridley this this week.
Speaker 3: Hell, yes, like you're playing You're playing them all day.
Speaker 3: He's Uh. I think he's re established a very very
Speaker 3: safe floor since de Hops left.
Speaker 6: I mean, I think he had one little one slippage week,
Speaker 6: but he's had double digit, double digit weeks. We already know.
Speaker 3: What he can do. We already know his ceilings really high.
Speaker 3: We've seen those, and we've seen when he goes and
Speaker 3: I think I think the second week when Rudolph played,
Speaker 3: he had one of those weeks where he caught of
Speaker 3: like ten passes and went by you know, he went
Speaker 3: for like twenty five Fantasy points. So for me, you
Speaker 3: got to play him. He's at minimum a wide receiver
Speaker 3: three who can arguably with Rudolph coming in, can be
Speaker 3: a wide receiver two. And with the with the potential
Speaker 3: to be a wide receiver one.
Speaker 5: I love it.
Speaker 3: You got two weeks of what does he have left?
Speaker 3: He's got He's got uh, he's got the Colts and
Speaker 3: Jacksonville left. Giddy up.
Speaker 1: I just I just did look that up, Pharrell of
Speaker 1: the golf versus Daniels thing from last week. Not only
Speaker 1: were you dead on that it was a twenty point difference.
Speaker 1: That's how many places it cost me in the KFFS
Speaker 1: he made event Championship round. I would be twenty places
Speaker 1: higher right now if I would have just listened to
Speaker 1: my own God blessed advice. And that was the easy.
Speaker 5: And that was the we were in agreement, and that
Speaker 5: was we just pounded on that last week and we
Speaker 5: went on. I mean that was the easiest.
Speaker 3: Quite. Yeah, I don't have one left in the kff C.
Speaker 6: I'm in the console license. I just remember that.
Speaker 3: I'll rub that.
Speaker 4: No, you're not rubbing it. We're absolutely not.
Speaker 1: I'll have week at any time, anytime we could keep
Speaker 1: Tommy Herron out of the championship round of anything.
Speaker 4: We count lucky because it just doesn't happen. It just
Speaker 4: does not happen.
Speaker 1: Let's do a couple of emails here for you, Tommy.
Speaker 1: First one is from Chuck and Chowmont, New York Trauma.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's up, Tommy. How do you think
Speaker 1: Hollywood Brown does on Saturday afternoon? Thank you and thank
Speaker 1: you Chuck for the email. Hollywood Brown activated off. I
Speaker 1: R can't imagine that he's going to get a ton
Speaker 1: of snaps he's going to figure in to the game plan.
Speaker 1: But I don't know, man, I mean, does this take
Speaker 1: away from Kelsey? Does it takeaway from Hopkins? What's what's
Speaker 1: Brown's effect going to be in this game?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I don't think. I think he's another piece in
Speaker 3: the whole puzzle. I mean I don't. I don't think
Speaker 3: it takes away from any of the other I mean
Speaker 3: we're talking about how that distributed. You're talking about players
Speaker 3: like Noah Brown, Noah Gray. What's maybe Noah Gray catches
Speaker 3: two less passes, maybe Justin Watson doesn't catch him. I mean,
Speaker 3: those are those are the people it's going to be.
Speaker 3: Kelsey's going to catch some passes Worthy, He's gonna get
Speaker 3: his whatever minimal four touches that he gets that he
Speaker 3: should be getting more of d hop What is he
Speaker 3: going to get five to five to seven targets? I
Speaker 3: mean it's yeah, I mean this this could be a check. Yes.
Speaker 1: The other thing, too, is consider that Mahomes is hobbling
Speaker 1: around on that high ankle spring too, or what they're
Speaker 1: telling us is a high ankle sprain. I can't imagine
Speaker 1: that Brown's speed is going to be exploited this game
Speaker 1: because the ball is going to get out of Mahomes
Speaker 1: hands so fast tomorrow. I just I don't see him
Speaker 1: having a big impact on the game and as a result,
Speaker 1: not having a big impact on the numbers for Kelsey
Speaker 1: and hop on Age. One more email here for you,
Speaker 1: Andrew in Worthington, Ohio, Happy Holidays. Is Patrick Taylor anything
Speaker 1: more than a desperation start this weekend? Tommy? That is
Speaker 1: Andrew in Worthington, Ohio. Look, this is like, there what
Speaker 1: nineteenth twentieth string running back? The Niners running back is
Speaker 1: now officially the spinal tap drummer of the NFL and
Speaker 1: Fantasy football this year.
Speaker 4: It's insane. Patrick Taylor is going to be the starter.
Speaker 1: Patrick Taylor for the forty nine Ers is battling the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins in South Beach this week in the late window.
Speaker 1: How do you feel about Taylor in Week sixteen?
Speaker 6: Man, this is great, This's the perfect question.
Speaker 3: I've actually got a situation where I've and this is
Speaker 3: one that's in the big that's in the Fantasy pros Championship,
Speaker 3: one of my six bullets, and I lost Dobbins, I've
Speaker 3: got Bijon, I lost Dobbins, I lost Chubb and have
Speaker 3: been making do at number two running back. I'm considering
Speaker 3: Rowland Patrick Taylor out and I'm good with it because
Speaker 3: whoever's been the number one Shanahan, when he goes with
Speaker 3: the number one, he goes with the number one. He
Speaker 3: doesn't he doesn't do the running back by committee. He
Speaker 3: just runs with it. So if that's him, he's he's
Speaker 3: good for a you know, good ten points with the
Speaker 3: potential to do a little better than that. And if
Speaker 3: he gets in the end zone, he's got a fifteen point.
Speaker 3: A bona conda is there. But are they really going
Speaker 3: to put a bona conda and give him the ball
Speaker 3: if he gets the hot hand? I guess, but that'd
Speaker 3: be the only way. Patrick Taylor is the next guy up.
Speaker 3: Everybody's done it so far. Five running backs, and every
Speaker 3: one of them is produced.
Speaker 5: If you if you have to buy into a front
Speaker 5: office that can put together a group of running backs,
Speaker 5: here's where you should buy it. And you just say, yeah, okay,
Speaker 5: wrong yet.
Speaker 3: Yeah, hold your nose and put him in the lineup.
Speaker 1: And I am fresh out of emails, Pharaoh. We have
Speaker 1: one final question thover tw.
Speaker 5: Oh help us out, brother, help us out. We need
Speaker 5: a Sleeper, and you've given us some great ones already.
Speaker 5: We need one more than we haven't talked about. And
Speaker 5: then who is that guy? You know, we all shoot
Speaker 5: ourselves in the foot Fulky with binging golf Bill Hollywood
Speaker 5: talking about putting Lamar on the bench. We all shoot
Speaker 5: ourselves in the foot. But who is that guy that's
Speaker 5: gonna shoot make everyone look like they shot themselves in
Speaker 5: the foot. He's going to be on your bench because
Speaker 5: you're not playing any other FFPC players will make that mistake.
Speaker 3: So so first of all, you already, uh my sleeper
Speaker 3: is Amari Cooper. I'm joking. I'm joking because of what
Speaker 3: uh actually already said by Sleeper earlier. It's Jacoby Myers
Speaker 3: is Jack Myers. Put him in with Broccoli Bowers and
Speaker 3: there I'm playing my best my best Fantasy Pro team.
Speaker 3: I've got them both in my lineup and I'm rolling
Speaker 3: it and great matchup. There's I mean, and what DeVante
Speaker 3: Adams did last week? DeVante Adams blow, I mean, I
Speaker 3: can just I can I can just place if I
Speaker 3: can place Jakobe Myris in that posit, that same that
Speaker 3: same set, that that same situation, just put a different
Speaker 3: Jersey on them, and I would be very happy. I
Speaker 3: also would love to see neighbors McBride, Gibbs, Cuba blow up.
Speaker 3: Those are my guys that I think are gonna blow
Speaker 3: up this week. But my disappointments and I don't have
Speaker 3: I've got a couple of two of these guys, but
Speaker 3: I got three of them that I'm gonna tell you.
Speaker 3: Juwan Jenny's I think going against Miami. You know he's
Speaker 3: he's a arguably a wide receiver one wide receiver, two rings.
Speaker 3: I don't I can see him having a dud this week.
Speaker 3: Jerry Judy for obvious reasons because of DTR and then
Speaker 3: Naja Harris, which I know that's kind of one that
Speaker 3: he's He's you know, is he and everybody's lineup? Maybe not,
Speaker 3: but I'm benching him. I'm not playing him, but there's
Speaker 3: a lot of people that are going to probably be
Speaker 3: playing him because it's not like running backs that date
Speaker 3: this year.
Speaker 6: So the ones that I'm standway.
Speaker 1: From, Yeah, I love that makes pretty ut sense to me.
Speaker 5: It's a tremendous answer.
Speaker 4: And just regarding the Harris thing, Warren is really starting
Speaker 4: to come.
Speaker 5: Into his own.
Speaker 1: He's being more involved in that offense at the expensive
Speaker 1: of Najee Harris. We will never do anything on this
Speaker 1: show to be at the expense of having the great
Speaker 1: Tommy Island on this program. Tommy Herron, Ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 1: the twelve time f FPC League winner, a guy who
Speaker 1: is searching for a pair of seven figure grand prizes
Speaker 1: this year in the FFPC, and a guy can't wait
Speaker 1: to hang out with again in Louisville very soon. Tommy,
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. We will continue to follow you
Speaker 1: on the X at Tommy Island sixty nine. Be good,
Speaker 1: hopefully the bounces your way in week sixteen. And a
Speaker 1: very Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Speaker 5: Super Sunday weekend, Tommy Island, I got something We're going
Speaker 5: to add to that liquor shehef back there.
Speaker 1: So there we go. Thank you, Tommy.
Speaker 3: Talk to you, gentlemen, Take care of happy holidays.
Speaker 4: Take care so much, absolutely Tommy Herron.
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen hopping aboard tonight on the High Stakes
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football are always good to hang out with him,
Speaker 1: talk with.
Speaker 5: Him, talk a great year he's having.
Speaker 1: He is and he would tell you he is not
Speaker 1: because he is not. He's He's in the championship round
Speaker 1: of the Fantasy Pro Championship of the FFPC main event,
Speaker 1: but not of the Kentucky Fantasy Football State Championship, which
Speaker 1: is the most desirable trophy that you want to get.
Speaker 5: He was coming and scouting it out last year and
Speaker 5: he was having a very good time, and he used
Speaker 5: the league to prep for his draft in the FFPC,
Speaker 5: and I think you will. I think he's coming super Sunday,
Speaker 5: and I think he will also expand his territory with us.
Speaker 9: But you know, doesn't matter how much he does, if
Speaker 9: he does a little or a lot, you always know
Speaker 9: that Tommy isl in his room and he's always high
Speaker 9: energy and a pleasure to be around for everybody there.
Speaker 1: I do remember him in between drafts after we had
Speaker 1: drafted Saturday morning together, he was in an FFPC, a
Speaker 1: main event draft online before he drafted again Saturday afternoon
Speaker 1: in Kentucky. So he was all business that had a
Speaker 1: great time, and I had a great time with him.
Speaker 1: To look forward to doing that again sometime real soon. Parah,
Speaker 1: Let's get to some emails here, Okay, Joe in Midland, Texas?
Speaker 1: How crazy am I for thinking about starting Brenton Strange
Speaker 1: over Travis Kelcey this week. Thanks guys, That is Joe
Speaker 1: in Midland, Texas. Now, farah, far be it for me
Speaker 1: to call anybody crazy on the show, especially after you're
Speaker 1: talking about starting a guy who caught eleven passes for
Speaker 1: seventy three yards last week after Evan Ingram went down.
Speaker 1: This is a guy that I mean you think about
Speaker 1: per Permar's been talking about bretton Strange.
Speaker 4: It's like week five. It seems like on this show
Speaker 4: he showed out.
Speaker 1: We know that there are a lot of talented players
Speaker 1: pass catchers on Kansas City's team.
Speaker 4: But the thing is, this week, I think it's gonna
Speaker 4: be a huge Kelsey week.
Speaker 1: I think he is going to be featured by Mahomes
Speaker 1: getting the ball out over and over again. This could
Speaker 1: be like a thirteen fourteen catch performance from Kelsey. You're
Speaker 1: not crazy to think about starting Strange over Kelsey. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't do it, though I'm playing Kelsey here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you're a little crazy there. Brother, Let's just not
Speaker 5: do that. Let's put Travis Kelsey out there. You know, uh,
Speaker 5: you got those those notions of playing bretton Strange. You
Speaker 5: just gotta shake it off.
Speaker 1: The nice I see what you did there. Took me
Speaker 1: a little bit. Yes, welcome to New York, Bulky. No,
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding. Jaden Daniels or Baker Mayfield is the
Speaker 1: next question here that we have. This is from uh
Speaker 1: who is this? John man Cato, Minnesota. Would you guys
Speaker 1: bench Jayden Daniels again the Eagles in favor of Baker
Speaker 1: Mayfield at Dallas. So we had this question earlier with
Speaker 1: Mayfield versus Lamar Jackson. Jaden Daniels is really good. He's
Speaker 1: not Lamar Jackson, Ferrell. Would you be doing it?
Speaker 3: That?
Speaker 4: Would you be playing Mayfield over Jaden Daniels?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 5: And what a great matchup of what a great combo quarterback?
Speaker 5: Tell a your team. Great respect for Baker Mayfield, one
Speaker 5: of the big What I saw him do with his
Speaker 5: legs in the last game, fascinating. He's really got No,
Speaker 5: let's start Daniels. But I'm biased here, Balky, and I'll
Speaker 5: better throw this back to you because I've never started
Speaker 5: Baker Mayfield and got positive scoring out of it. So
Speaker 5: I'm biased because i feel like, yeah, I'll start Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 5: Then I'm telling you the emailer that it's going to
Speaker 5: be a disaster. So I'm just gonna.
Speaker 4: Say I would say Daniels as well.
Speaker 1: I think that the game script for that for that
Speaker 1: Eagles game, I think is going to work in daniels favor.
Speaker 4: He is still running a lot. I know.
Speaker 1: I've talked about how much I love the Buccaneers, and
Speaker 1: I feel like every single time we bring up somebody
Speaker 1: versus Mayfield, I'm picking the other guy.
Speaker 4: I think Mayfield's gonna have a good week.
Speaker 1: I have him in a couple of leagues, and in
Speaker 1: those leagues, I'm starting him for sure this week.
Speaker 4: So I think he's gonna be good. I just think
Speaker 4: Daniels is gonna be a little bit better my own.
Speaker 5: Hey, the only thing that I got right last week
Speaker 5: was Rashawn White, by the way. So but Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 5: My compliment and ode to Baker Mayfield is this, I
Speaker 5: want to draft a lot of bucks next year.
Speaker 1: Oh for sure. Absolutely.
Speaker 4: You know there's people nervous about it.
Speaker 1: When Dave Canalis decided to leave the OC job in
Speaker 1: Tampa for the head coaching job in Carolina, and I
Speaker 1: think I can't remember if this was it was Scott
Speaker 1: Bairt or Fio Gremager or somebody who's talking about it
Speaker 1: this week? Like you can make the argument the Buccaneers
Speaker 1: offense has been better and more explosive since Canallis left
Speaker 1: and Liam Cohen has taken over play calling duty, So
Speaker 1: there is something there and if they keep that together,
Speaker 1: they keep the band back together. In twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: I'm with you, Farrell, drafting a lot of Buccaneers Jerome
Speaker 1: Ford or Brian Robinson. This is Steve and Southfield, Michigan's
Speaker 1: question happy Championship Round, Fellas is Jerome Ford's defensive matchup
Speaker 1: enough for me to play him over Brian Robinson versus
Speaker 1: that tough Philly Rushdie Merry Christmas guys that is Steven
Speaker 1: Southfield Michigan. This is interesting, Farrell, because both of these
Speaker 1: guys should get a lot of volume, but Ford is
Speaker 1: going against the much more good offense our defense.
Speaker 4: I beg your pardon. I would actually lean forward here.
Speaker 4: I would play Ford over Robinson.
Speaker 5: It's difficult for me to want to do anything with
Speaker 5: that team, but yes, Ford over Robinson here, and this
Speaker 5: is the one that I would probably change back to
Speaker 5: Robinson at twelve forty five.
Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you for reminding me of that.
Speaker 1: One of my Finer moments from twenty twenty four.
Speaker 5: Finally, mister Banks a lot as a player.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, here we go.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's got a question. Yeah, I want to answer
Speaker 5: that question because I want to. I want to help
Speaker 5: Banks out a little bit best I can. But here's
Speaker 5: a player who we haven't mentioned on the show. If
Speaker 5: we have mentioned him, it's been in some sort of derision.
Speaker 5: Ray Ray McLeod and Christian Watson would be my answer, Buckie,
Speaker 5: you might wish to ask the question.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so he has to start two of these players.
Speaker 1: They're all receivers. It's going to be Ray Ray McLeod
Speaker 1: at home against the Giants. Maccollins. Who is that game
Speaker 1: at the Patriots or is that in Buffalo?
Speaker 5: Not sure?
Speaker 1: Okay, it may not matter for how I'm going to
Speaker 1: answer this question anyway, but mac collins is another choice.
Speaker 1: Kendrick Bourne against Buffalo or Christian Watson at home against
Speaker 1: New Orleans. I am going to say Watson here for sure,
Speaker 1: And I can't really make a good case for Hollins.
Speaker 1: I definitely can't make you know. The case for Born
Speaker 1: is on. New England's gonna be down, They're gonna be
Speaker 1: throwing a ton. But I think Ray Ray McCloud, even
Speaker 1: though it's penix, I'm still kind of intrigued of what
Speaker 1: that could be. So if you're looking for maybe somewhat
Speaker 1: of a floor, then maybe it's born in Watson. But
Speaker 1: I like to play fantasy football and have fun with it,
Speaker 1: So give me the cloud and Watson here is that
Speaker 1: what you said?
Speaker 4: Watson? And McLeod Yeah, and McLeod.
Speaker 5: Is is here's a comment about checkdowns. McLeod is more
Speaker 5: than that, and he is. He's proven that this year.
Speaker 5: I'll checked it the other day. Hell, he's got more
Speaker 5: yards in Deebo Samuel this year, and you're right in
Speaker 5: Deebo Samuel every week. I just I think that he'll
Speaker 5: be part of where this young quarterback is going. And
Speaker 5: I think they probably worked closely together in camp and
Speaker 5: throughout the season. And yeah, Ray raised my guy.
Speaker 1: I want to leave everybody with this final email here
Speaker 1: from Tim and Columbia South Carolina, Dear Ferrell and Balkey.
Speaker 1: With the quarterback change in Cleveland, is DK Metcalf the
Speaker 1: guy I have to play over Jerry Judy. Now, DK
Speaker 1: Metcalf going up against the Minnesota Vikings this week, and
Speaker 1: obviously Jerry Judy. Catching passes from Dorian Thompson Robinson is
Speaker 1: a far cry from catching passes from Jamis Winston. So
Speaker 1: if those are your two choices, if it's Metcalf, and
Speaker 1: if you know, even with Metcalf kind of taking a
Speaker 1: back seat to Jackson Smith and Jigba this season, at
Speaker 1: least the second half of the season, I think he's
Speaker 1: a better play than Judy this week. Who is like,
Speaker 1: is he leading the NFL and receiving yardage right now? Ferrell?
Speaker 1: If he's not leading, he's got to be top three.
Speaker 4: I'm saying Metcalf over Judy.
Speaker 1: What say you?
Speaker 5: Metcalf is due to have a game now? It just
Speaker 5: what does that mean you a player of that caliber.
Speaker 5: You just can't see him stringing consistent poor games fantasy
Speaker 5: games together. I don't know if they've been poor in
Speaker 5: fill games. I haven't got to watch Seattle as much
Speaker 5: as I would like, but his production is trailing and
Speaker 5: you just don't expect to see that. So I don't
Speaker 5: think it's much of a gamble to go with Metcalf
Speaker 5: because that catch radius, that speed, that strength and separation,
Speaker 5: it's all still there with that player.
Speaker 1: I want to thank you for all your work throughout
Speaker 1: the season. We're going to do this again next week
Speaker 1: as well, but Farrell, thank you so much for hopping
Speaker 1: aboard KFFTC dot com. The Super Sunday is what you
Speaker 1: want to check out. There leaves filling up and you
Speaker 1: definitely want to be drafting in person and hanging out
Speaker 1: for the super Bowl party.
Speaker 4: Can we say super Bowl party? I think we can.
Speaker 1: We think that on a podcast, but you can watch
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl live at Caesars in Southern Indiana. That
Speaker 1: is going to be a fantastic, fantastic party. As always,
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, my friend. A warm wishes go
Speaker 1: to you and yours and I'm very merry Christmas to
Speaker 1: you up this Wednesday as well. We'll do this show
Speaker 1: again on Friday.
Speaker 5: Thank you, sir.
Speaker 1: So the that is Ferrell Elliott, the definitive Commissioner of
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football, hopping aboard to keep me company and teach
Speaker 1: me some stuff and just being a guy that we
Speaker 1: can rap with and hang out with on Friday nights.
Speaker 5: We love it.
Speaker 1: Mister Banks a lot also says thanks homie, Ferrell is
Speaker 1: the goat.
Speaker 4: Do I have to be in Kentucky to join the league? Oh,
Speaker 4: my friend, you do not u.
Speaker 1: The KFFFC used to just be a Kentucky thing, and
Speaker 1: then it turned into a regional thing, and then it
Speaker 1: turned into a national thing. Now it's an international thing.
Speaker 1: So yeah, people are coming in from all over. You
Speaker 1: can either drive, draft live or draft live in person
Speaker 1: or online, but we always encourage you to come to
Speaker 1: Kentucky a couple of weeks before you head out to Vegas.
Speaker 4: For sure, mister banks a lot.
Speaker 1: It is so much more fun, as Tommy Heron can
Speaker 1: tell you after he had his first KFFSC experience last year.
Speaker 1: I want to thank Tommy Heron for coming on, Farrell Elliott,
Speaker 1: the FFPC, Rob Bryce, and of course each and every
Speaker 1: one of you. We will be back next Friday, December
Speaker 1: twenty seventh at ten pm Eastern Time for our final
Speaker 1: show of twenty twenty four and a preview of Week
Speaker 1: seventeen where all the Magic happens. In case you missed
Speaker 1: this past week's I wrote of his high Stakes load on.
Speaker 1: I talked to former five hundred thousand dollars champions Stephen
Speaker 1: Ranagan the road of his High Stikes load on this
Speaker 1: past Tuesday. You can watch it on any of the
Speaker 1: FFPC socials. Or listen to it on the road of
Speaker 1: his podcast feed as well. Lowdown will be back not
Speaker 1: Tuesday because it's Christmas Eve, so I've moved the show
Speaker 1: to next Friday at eight pm Eastern Times. Seven time
Speaker 1: FFPC League winner Rob Linkowski will join me, so you
Speaker 1: get two shows on Friday. You get me and Rob
Speaker 1: coming up at eight o'clock and then Farrell and I
Speaker 1: at ten o'clock that night, so that'll be a lot
Speaker 1: of fun. In case you missed last night's high stakes
Speaker 1: Fantasy football show on the Better Sports Network, Doug Orth
Speaker 1: from Fantasy Points and Fantasy Football Today co hosted with
Speaker 1: me great two hours of knowledge and fun that we had.
Speaker 4: You can watch that back again on any of.
Speaker 1: The FFPC socials or the Better Sports Network Socials Better
Speaker 1: Sports Network YouTube as well. The HSFF show will be
Speaker 1: back this coming Thursday, the twenty six Roto Ballers. Ryan
Speaker 1: Goodman will co host with me as we do the
Speaker 1: final Thursday Night Thursday night football pregame show of the season.
Speaker 1: I think it's the Bears next week, and god, I
Speaker 1: can't remember the other team helped me out in the
Speaker 1: chat room who the Bears are playing. I know it's
Speaker 1: the Bears on Thursday Night Football. It's the Seahawks, the
Speaker 1: Seahawks and Bears, so we will go for two hours
Speaker 1: and lead you almost all the way up till halftime
Speaker 1: of that game on Thursday. So that's what's going on there.
Speaker 1: Play the FFPC Weekly Challenge, Play the FFPC Playoff Challenge.
Speaker 1: You can register now at myffpc dot com. Remember, thirty
Speaker 1: five dollars can get you in the running for one
Speaker 1: hundred grand. Two hundred dollars gets you in the running
Speaker 1: for five hundred thousand dollars in the FFPC Playoff Challenge.
Speaker 1: Seems early because the lineups will lock three hours sooner
Speaker 1: than they did last year.
Speaker 4: I know a lot of you like to wait till
Speaker 4: the last minute. The last minute has been moved up
Speaker 4: a good three three and a half hours this year,
Speaker 4: so make sure you're taking care of that right now
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Speaker 1: One other thing I want to bring up before we
Speaker 1: sign off tonight. I know twenty twenty four may have
Speaker 1: not been the easiest year for many of you for
Speaker 1: different reasons. It was not easy for Farah, it was
Speaker 1: not easy for me as we both lost loved ones
Speaker 1: this past year. It will be weird and special this
Speaker 1: year as we celebrate the holidays, be thankful for what
Speaker 1: you have. Celebrate with friends, celebrate with family, and tell
Speaker 1: the people closest to you that you love them. And
Speaker 1: celebrate Christmas the best way you can.
Speaker 4: Hopefully the ball bounce is your way in week sixteen.
Speaker 4: Thanks for watching, everybody. Merry Christmas to all and to
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