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Speaker 1: Good evening, Merry Christmas, and a happy New Year to you.
Speaker 5: Bonky, Good evening to you, brother. And what in the
Speaker 5: world is this you have on? What is what are
Speaker 5: you wearing here?
Speaker 1: This is a hoodie with no sleeves, okay, you Belichick.
Speaker 1: This is a Baseball Life brand hoodie that my kid
Speaker 1: we My twelve year old son is big into baseball,
Speaker 1: which I know is sacrilege, but uh but uh yeah, no,
Speaker 1: he got a bunch of baseball gear and this was
Speaker 1: one of the things that we got.
Speaker 2: So I wear it tonight.
Speaker 5: And do you know in the show's introduction, not in
Speaker 5: my introduction, but in the show's introduction, you went into
Speaker 5: uncharted warriers because you started talking about our last questions
Speaker 5: of the Sleepers and the bust and fumbled over the question.
Speaker 2: Ounker turned around, looked at me, and which you know
Speaker 2: did the same thing.
Speaker 5: It was like, you know, have you got a little
Speaker 5: you know, if we we want to perform in this
Speaker 5: show better than fantasy players did on Christmas Day, that's
Speaker 5: that really should be our goal, you know, because if
Speaker 5: you had players playing on Christmas Day, you.
Speaker 1: Know, Tom Smith is Tom Smith is chiming in right now.
Speaker 1: Lots of owners disappointed players yesterday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's all players, not just players. All players.
Speaker 1: Well, I'll say this, if you had a Monross Saint Brown.
Speaker 2: You're probably okay, that's him.
Speaker 5: But if you know, if you had gold Turpin led
Speaker 5: the Cowboys and receiving on one target.
Speaker 6: Yes, well here here's the thing, Like you bring that up, Pharaoh.
Speaker 6: What about the passing offense for the Minnesota Vikings in
Speaker 6: that Lions game?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 1: Three passing yards team passing yards in that game Max
Speaker 1: Brosmer just barely clears fifty one yards and the life
Speaker 1: met by.
Speaker 2: Two scores, two scores. I just I don't don't get it.
Speaker 5: Presno, Snight won a game this year when their quarterback
Speaker 5: for twenty five yards, and I said, that's worse than
Speaker 5: I would be.
Speaker 1: You know, it is just yeah, listen, it's the way ball.
Speaker 1: The ball bounces for a lot of people in high
Speaker 1: stakes fantasy football. We're in to the championship round of
Speaker 1: the kffs C of the FFPC, and we're going to
Speaker 1: try to do our best to help you out tonight.
Speaker 1: I mentioned some of the things that we're going to
Speaker 1: talk about early on in the in the program tonight,
Speaker 1: I also want to get to with Craig Glundowski, the
Speaker 1: fifteenth place team owner in the FFPC main event. Let's
Speaker 1: get into Jackson Dart. Let's get into Ironde Gadzt and
Speaker 1: Teo McMillan, all these tough lineup decisions that people are
Speaker 1: facing for a million dollar grand prize. We'll also get
Speaker 1: into DeAndre Swift Tyler and Orange Jalen Hurts and so
Speaker 1: much more. Leading things off to night Farrell, Let's crank
Speaker 1: it up with one Harold fan It. Oh yeah, this
Speaker 1: is very interesting. So he is listed as questionable for
Speaker 1: the Steelers game this weekend after he was added to
Speaker 1: the injury report on Friday. It is a soft tissue
Speaker 1: injury that caused him to be added to the injury report.
Speaker 1: Fanin is, I mean, like, here's the thing, It's a
Speaker 1: not even a midweek it's an end of week injury ad.
Speaker 1: I think he is on the wrong side of questionable
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 2: Farrell.
Speaker 1: I would be looking at it from the standpoint if
Speaker 1: you do have Harold Fann and you were counting on
Speaker 1: him this week, you have to make other lineup changes.
Speaker 1: You have to make other lineup plans. If you are
Speaker 1: playing in the KFFFC or the FFPC, in those leagues
Speaker 1: that still have waivers open on Saturday night slash Sunday morning,
Speaker 1: make sure you're picking up somebody, anybody at tight end,
Speaker 1: just so you don't have to be afforded to take
Speaker 1: that zero. I am very very bearish on Harold Fann
Speaker 1: and playing this week. Farrel I am I chicken little?
Speaker 1: Is the sky falling on me right now? Or do
Speaker 1: you agree with me that we're not going to see
Speaker 1: Harold fan in week seventeen?
Speaker 5: Well, I can't go either way. Bulky, You don't. You
Speaker 5: don't live in fear. So there must be some insider,
Speaker 5: you know, because you are in the cradle of football, Bucky.
Speaker 5: You're there in Green Bay and you're you know, you're
Speaker 5: you're doing your thing, and you know you're talking. You're
Speaker 5: talking to all these other fantasy guys during the week
Speaker 5: with sharpens your skills.
Speaker 2: For this show.
Speaker 5: That's the whole purpose for those other shows you keep
Speaker 5: talking about. But yeah, fan, now, if Shadoor Sanders going
Speaker 5: to start the game for.
Speaker 2: Cleveland, yeah, that's the play.
Speaker 5: Oh so when Chador starts, Spanning's fifteen points plus. Uh,
Speaker 5: it's it's just it's in. You know, in the KFFSC.
Speaker 5: Unless you're in an ancillary league, you have no waivers.
Speaker 5: Main event FFBC you have no waivers. There's nothing that
Speaker 5: can be done. So you know, just just say a
Speaker 5: prayer for soft tissue if you are in. If you
Speaker 5: can't do some waivers, go get and you believe in injuries.
Speaker 5: Kittle's hurt, go get, Go get Tongas. Yeah, yeah, go get.
Speaker 2: We'll get to Kittle in a little bit too.
Speaker 1: But I think it's interesting that you bring him up
Speaker 1: because this is a bad situation for tight ends in general.
Speaker 1: In Week seventeen in high Stakes Fantasy, and Bowers is
Speaker 1: just done. Yeah, Bowers is done. He's on IR for
Speaker 1: what it's worth. Harold Fannin did say, and again, I
Speaker 1: take injury reports from the player himself with a grain
Speaker 1: of salt. But Fannin did say he plans on playing
Speaker 1: against the Steelers this week.
Speaker 5: So Harold's playing for Cleveland. Went to school in Bowling Green,
Speaker 5: is from Ohio, the same state as the great John Anderson.
Speaker 5: He'll be playing if those guys don't those guys don't
Speaker 5: say things. You know what my favorite college team is
Speaker 5: in Ohio. Go ahead, John Carroll University. Just want to
Speaker 5: throw that out. D three Division three all right in
Speaker 5: league this year. That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Are they Are they still playing right now?
Speaker 2: Or no?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: They lost last week? Oh they did.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm looking it up because the conference that my
Speaker 1: alma mater played in uh featured four teams in the
Speaker 1: Division three College Football Playoff this year.
Speaker 2: My alma mater was not one of them.
Speaker 5: I forget that. You went to college, the Barber college,
Speaker 5: your barber school you went to had a football team.
Speaker 2: The college you are great, Pharaoh. No, my my college.
Speaker 1: My University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Titans. Oh, they can place college.
Speaker 1: I can tell you this, Farrell. The one team that
Speaker 1: is still left from the WEI Act the Wisconsin Intercollegiate
Speaker 1: Athletic Conference is the u W River Falls Falcons, who
Speaker 1: beat JOHNS Hopkins in the Semis and they will face
Speaker 1: North Central, the the powers.
Speaker 5: Out of Uh yeah, that's the team.
Speaker 1: That's They're the ones who took out John Carroll.
Speaker 5: And are they playing that championship in Canton, Ohio in
Speaker 5: the Hall of Fame Stateum.
Speaker 1: I, I well they you should go. Let's just drop everything.
Speaker 1: I will say this. They they that used to be
Speaker 1: the Stag Bowl and and I thought that was in
Speaker 1: West Virginia. I don't know if they still play it
Speaker 1: there or not, but I mean I can tell you
Speaker 1: that North Central and UW. River Falls are are squaring
Speaker 1: off in the Division III College Football Championship on January fourth.
Speaker 2: Very win that game. I have no idea pop tarts
Speaker 2: one of these trophies. Oh there it is.
Speaker 1: They don't get that looks they don't get a trophy
Speaker 1: that looks that good.
Speaker 2: That is okay. You you tease this with George Kittle, Okay,
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan, the head coach of the San Francisco forty
Speaker 1: nine Ers, said that George Kittle will be a game
Speaker 1: time decision. And why is this interesting because game time
Speaker 1: for the Niners will be on Sunday night football, which
Speaker 1: is very, very frustrating for all of us. He did
Speaker 1: not practice this week, he told Kyle Shanahan. According to
Speaker 1: Nick Wagner, who covers the forty nine ers at ESPN
Speaker 1: dot com, Kyle Shanahan said that Kittle told him he
Speaker 1: should have a better answer by tomorrow regarding his availability
Speaker 1: for Week seventeen. Kittle has played through injury clearly less
Speaker 1: than one hundred percent. Here, Pharrell, I said the sky
Speaker 1: was falling with one Harold Fannin. If the sky is
Speaker 1: falling with Harold Fannin, it is just crushing on you
Speaker 1: with George Kittle right now.
Speaker 2: I have no.
Speaker 1: Confidence in this guy playing on Sunday at all. And
Speaker 1: the fact that he's playing Sunday night, to me, it's
Speaker 1: a slam dunk. Don't take the zero. Get somebody else
Speaker 1: in there on Saturday afternoon or evening with the Packers,
Speaker 1: the Ravens, the Chargers, the Texans. Get somebody in there
Speaker 1: before this thing blows up in your face on Sunday night.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's gonna go farrel What do you
Speaker 1: think as far as Kittle goes in championship?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think I'm glad you went to school in
Speaker 5: Wisconsin and it was not medical school, because you would
Speaker 5: go off around with your chart and say, I see
Speaker 5: no hope.
Speaker 2: There's no hope here for your patient.
Speaker 5: Well again here this is quarterback related. Party is on fire.
Speaker 5: Party has been tremendous. And that's and for the first time,
Speaker 5: the Niners are healthy with the exception of Kittle, And
Speaker 5: I think what here could cause hesitation? What does the
Speaker 5: forty nine ers have to play for? They're likely not
Speaker 5: to win the division, which is another ticket I can
Speaker 5: tear up, but they've already earned their playoff spot, which
Speaker 5: right they're going to be in the playoffs. So there's
Speaker 5: not really a whole lot of things that could happen.
Speaker 5: And they have the opportunity to let Kittle be on
Speaker 5: a snap count or not play at all, and play
Speaker 5: a very good tight end who played well earlier this season,
Speaker 5: so that their need, their situation for Kittle not to play.
Speaker 2: Seems to me to be more convenient than I will say.
Speaker 1: For what it's worth, there is a chance that the
Speaker 1: Niners still could get the one seed in the NFC.
Speaker 2: Not a great.
Speaker 1: Opportunity, mind you, but there is a chance when it
Speaker 1: comes to that. So maybe they want to deploy him
Speaker 1: on Sunday night football against the Bears, who could be
Speaker 1: a potential NFC champions a matchup. It could be a
Speaker 1: potential NFC playoff matchup at a minimum.
Speaker 2: So I don't know. I think that the.
Speaker 1: Niners do want to play him. It's a question of
Speaker 1: if he is going to be available, and I don't
Speaker 1: want to mess around with that.
Speaker 5: Tom Smith makes a good point and Alex Johnson here
Speaker 5: and he says, doctor Balke has a nice ring to it.
Speaker 5: You know he should meet your good friend doctor ericson.
Speaker 2: That guy has a medical degree. I do that guy
Speaker 2: has all kinds of degrees.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Tom Smith, timing in the Niners play the Seattle
Speaker 1: Seahawks in week eighteen, so there is still a little hope.
Speaker 2: Of winning the division.
Speaker 5: You are right, Hey, Yeah, so Tom, I won't tear
Speaker 5: up the ticket.
Speaker 2: Yeah, never tear up the ticket. I don't. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't like that. I just even when I know
Speaker 1: it's a loser, I never tear it up. Farrell speaking
Speaker 1: of I'm gonna get let's get into the minutia here.
Speaker 1: You don't never tear him up. No, I never store
Speaker 1: them all.
Speaker 2: For God's sake, hold on, hold on, I'm gonna do this.
Speaker 2: Right now. I'll show you this right here. I don't
Speaker 2: have to rent of storage.
Speaker 1: Hold on, hold on, No, this is this is not
Speaker 1: this is just from the past year. Okay, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: show you this right now. I get a stack of
Speaker 1: them right here. Are all losers. They're all losers over
Speaker 1: the course. It is about a year and a half.
Speaker 1: Got not a year, but a year and a half
Speaker 1: right here. And I never tear them up. Okay, I
Speaker 1: keep them right here. Whether that's this, this is probably
Speaker 1: bad hoodoo to not do.
Speaker 2: You go down. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1: I don't go through them. I just I just hold him.
Speaker 1: I hold him all right. Now here we go. Josh
Speaker 1: Allen fare is apparently going to play on Sunday against
Speaker 1: the Eagles. This according to Chris Brown, who covers the Bills.
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott stating today that Josh Allen's going to go.
Speaker 1: He has a sore foot, and apparently the soreness in
Speaker 1: Josh Allen's foot has dissipated throughout the week. Alan had
Speaker 1: this injury happened to him this past week against the Browns,
Speaker 1: and maybe it's none too serious.
Speaker 2: I get it.
Speaker 1: And he didn't miss any action after he hurt the
Speaker 1: foot in Week sixteen as well. However, if you look
Speaker 1: at the Bills offense, they have not been able to
Speaker 1: move the ball well through the air. Whether that's on
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, there's the receivers. That's that's a matter of
Speaker 1: personal perspective here. I get it, and Sean McDermott doesn't
Speaker 1: expect that the foot injury is going to slow Alan down.
Speaker 1: This could be me reaching here, but with everything on
Speaker 1: the line and knowing that this is not an easy
Speaker 1: matchup for Josh Allen, Ferrell, do you envision a scenario
Speaker 1: where it's possible that Josh Allen is not the best
Speaker 1: quarterback choice for your fantasy team in Week seventeen?
Speaker 5: I can agree with that. I would play party over.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you can see the scenario you would play
Speaker 1: party over Josh Allen this week. Okay, let me throw
Speaker 1: another one at you here. Josh Allen against the Eagles
Speaker 1: or Drake May.
Speaker 2: At the Jets.
Speaker 5: Hard to figure out?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's rough, that's rough.
Speaker 5: I know Josh Allen.
Speaker 2: I would play May.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and John. The people that are in on Josh
Speaker 5: Allen are real believers, and they spent significant draft capital
Speaker 5: for him, and they probably don't have a Drake mate,
Speaker 5: but they might.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I could. I could make a case for
Speaker 2: Drake may there.
Speaker 5: Oh you well, you want to throw up, Let's go
Speaker 5: down to Miami and do Josh Allen and Quinn Ebers.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's no, we're not doing that because Josh Quinn one.
Speaker 2: And then you know, all.
Speaker 1: Right, let me let me do a real one here.
Speaker 1: Quinn threw for sixty yards.
Speaker 2: He was very good.
Speaker 1: What that guy from Minnesota throw for Max Brosmer, Yeah,
Speaker 1: fifty one yards? Okay, but his team had a total
Speaker 1: of three passing yards and they beat the Lions by
Speaker 1: two touchdowns.
Speaker 2: So take that for what it's worth.
Speaker 1: Last one, I'll bring up Josh Allen, Farrell, Josh Allen
Speaker 1: or Trevor Lawrence at Indy.
Speaker 5: Trevor Lawrence playing inside based on the way he's played
Speaker 5: lately in the team coming together, Wow, maybe Jacksonville's quarterback
Speaker 5: Trevor Lawrence.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Allen in that in that case,
Speaker 1: but I certainly think you should think you you know what,
Speaker 1: you what? What Lawrence did last week in Denver was
Speaker 1: pretty impressive, and so if anybody wants to say, like, no,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ride the hot hand. I'm gonna play Lawrence
Speaker 1: at Indy this week over Josh Allen. I fully get that.
Speaker 1: I get it.
Speaker 5: And that's one I think you could have. If you
Speaker 5: could Trevor Lawrence like round, you.
Speaker 1: Could have Josh Allen and Drake May. It's possible. No, no, now,
Speaker 1: I don't think you'd have Josh Allen and Joe Burrow Farrell,
Speaker 1: but I think Burrow over Allen.
Speaker 2: Some guy would. He's not playing for anything though.
Speaker 1: Right, that's true. I would also just for what it's worth.
Speaker 1: You said perty over Allen. I'm gonna say Josh Allen
Speaker 1: over Jacoby Brissett against the Cincinnati Bengals this week. Would
Speaker 1: you be playing Allen over Brissett? Yes, okay, all right.
Speaker 1: Last thing I want to get to here, and before
Speaker 1: we get into our guests, Craig Luandowski here. Josh Jacobs
Speaker 1: no longer on the injury report for the Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 1: He will be playing tomorrow night at lambeau Field against
Speaker 1: the Baltimore Ravens. But you know who will not be
Speaker 1: playing in this game is Jordan Love who was ruled
Speaker 1: out by the Packers. Wow, And it will be Malik
Speaker 1: Willis versus I'm assuming Tyler Huntley. I have not seen
Speaker 1: the Ravens rule out Lamar Jackson yet, but they did
Speaker 1: list him as doubtful yesterday. So this game and Farrell
Speaker 1: will bring in the injury status of Josh Jacobs, Jordan Love,
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson into this. This is a very very interesting
Speaker 1: game for fantasy purposes because we do have guys like
Speaker 1: Zay Flowers, like Christian Watson, like Josh Jacobs. You bring
Speaker 1: in Tyler Huntley and the Malik Willis aspect here. The
Speaker 1: total on this game, I believe has dropped to thirty
Speaker 1: nine and a half. I'm gonna look that up right now,
Speaker 1: because I did see the Packers move from a two
Speaker 1: and a half point favorite to a four and a
Speaker 1: half point favorite, and then with the Love news here today,
Speaker 1: they have now dropped to a three point favorite. The
Speaker 1: total has dropped to thirty eight and a half. Are
Speaker 1: you breaking ties in your lineup this week against players
Speaker 1: like Flowers, like Christian Watson, like Josh Jacobs. I wonder
Speaker 1: how many significant fantasy players they're going to be in
Speaker 1: this game with two again, what we think is going
Speaker 1: to be two backup quarterbacks manning these offenses. Saturday night
Speaker 1: in Green Bay.
Speaker 2: So what are you asking me?
Speaker 1: I'm asking you, Sorry, this is a long winning question.
Speaker 1: I'm asking you about these Packers skill position players and
Speaker 1: these Ravens skill position players with the backup quarterbacks and
Speaker 1: so listen. Obviously you're playing Derrick Henry, but the pass
Speaker 1: catchers in Baltimore, the pass catchers in Green Bay, and
Speaker 1: quite frankly, the running back.
Speaker 2: In Green Bay.
Speaker 1: I think you have to play Josh Jacobs. But I
Speaker 1: don't want to be presumptuous here. I want to know
Speaker 1: what you think about these other skill position.
Speaker 5: Guysers are going to be playing their third team quarterback,
Speaker 5: the quarterback which one.
Speaker 1: The Ravens are probably going to be playing Huntley, The
Speaker 1: Packers are for sure starting Malik.
Speaker 5: Leak's gonna play. Okay, Malik played pretty well, didn't he?
Speaker 2: Yes, he's been all right. He had some moments. Uh.
Speaker 5: I think it's vexing enough to figure out what Packers
Speaker 5: receiver to play when they have love. So now you're
Speaker 5: this very very difficult question to figure out what they
Speaker 5: would do with the backup quarterback, which meets if you
Speaker 5: believe in those Packers receivers and you have unlocked the
Speaker 5: magical theory on how to play them. You should probably
Speaker 5: keep doing it. When we go over to Baltimore. This
Speaker 5: is much more problematic. And you've seen what some of
Speaker 5: the backup quarterbacks have done. Uh, they're over this past
Speaker 5: weekend or past week and you know about the time
Speaker 5: I gave up on Zay Flowers is when he's put
Speaker 5: together three really really good games. And I but yes,
Speaker 5: I'm I'm going to try to remove myself from as
Speaker 5: much of the Ravens passing game as I can. And look,
Speaker 5: anybody who wants to say anything about that can go
Speaker 5: back listen to the shows from June. You must have
Speaker 5: a lot of spare time on your ears. But but well,
Speaker 5: I don't think either of us were big Flowers guys,
Speaker 5: and we had we had to set through.
Speaker 2: The pros versus Joe's.
Speaker 5: Talking about how Flowers was gonna happen, and he has
Speaker 5: had a better season.
Speaker 2: But my point is to.
Speaker 5: Answer your question in a long winded answer to a
Speaker 5: properly asked question, I'm.
Speaker 2: Going to try to play someone different. I am with you.
Speaker 1: I don't think your secret to fantasy success in championship
Speaker 1: week lies in Green Bay.
Speaker 2: I could be wrong.
Speaker 1: We'll see what happens on that. But I don't foresee
Speaker 1: this being one of those games where were like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, if only I wuld to started all my
Speaker 1: Packers and Ravens.
Speaker 5: I don't think that this is another situation. If Jacobs
Speaker 5: gets a little banged up, you've got a meaningful second
Speaker 5: team running back there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, very and a great.
Speaker 5: Christmas A great Christmas song, A historical Christmas.
Speaker 1: Song features yes, Come, Come Emmanuel Wilson. And I will
Speaker 1: say this about Wilson. I don't think you can start
Speaker 1: them now that we know Jacobs is active for this game.
Speaker 1: But there is a non zero chance. And if you
Speaker 1: want to get you know, to borrow a line from
Speaker 1: Michael Keaton and Batman. If you want to get nuts,
Speaker 1: let's get nuts. And you got to make up one
Speaker 1: hundred some spots in the FFPC Biggerrilla or the main
Speaker 1: event you want to play Emmanuel Wilson. I think there
Speaker 1: are certainly worse ways to do it.
Speaker 5: Who do you play when you've got to make up
Speaker 5: eight hundred spots?
Speaker 1: You play Emmanuel Wilson. I mean like that, that's a
Speaker 1: guy that you put in there. What you're saying the
Speaker 1: counter intuitive? Yes, yeah, it could. It could very well
Speaker 1: be counter intuitive. I want to get into mister Expo's
Speaker 1: fifty two question here before we get into tonight's guest.
Speaker 2: And well, we got a guest and knows more about
Speaker 2: this than we.
Speaker 1: Yes, we have to get to him. He wants to know,
Speaker 1: mister expos fifty two, what's your thoughts on Dalton Schultz?
Speaker 1: If I were to get tanjis, would you go him
Speaker 1: with Kittle?
Speaker 2: Maybe? Out?
Speaker 1: Now, here's the situation. If you have Dalton Schultz on
Speaker 1: your team and you're weighing that against George Kittle Pharrell.
Speaker 1: The schedule is Schultz playing tomorrow afternoon, four thirty Eastern time,
Speaker 1: And I don't know about Kittle, and I know he's
Speaker 1: a game time decision, and I was already pretty bearish
Speaker 1: on him. I would play Schultz over Kittle, even if
Speaker 1: I had Tanjas. I would not wait on Tanjas. I
Speaker 1: would play Schultz tomorrow afternoon, even though it's a low
Speaker 1: total game. I feel like I don't want to mess
Speaker 1: around with this too much. I would play Schultz over
Speaker 1: Kittle tomorrow. What say you on this situation for mister
Speaker 1: expos fifty two, No.
Speaker 5: I would too, And you know in the last two
Speaker 5: weeks of the show, we have championed Shultz as the
Speaker 5: biggest surprise.
Speaker 2: He's had the quietest successful year of the tied in
Speaker 2: the league. You go look up his numbers ball if
Speaker 2: you want to shout out how many catches. I think
Speaker 2: we're now flirting with eighty And you know that's that's
Speaker 2: more than Kelsey and more than Warren and more than
Speaker 2: a lot of guys have done very well.
Speaker 1: I think Dalton Schultz has seventy five catches on the season,
Speaker 1: seventy five for a shade under seven hundred yards.
Speaker 2: He's gotten in the end zone three times since the
Speaker 2: t and the touchdowns have come recently, Yes they have.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he has gotten three touchdowns on the season, two
Speaker 1: of them have come within the last two weeks as well.
Speaker 1: Trone Force eighty one ninety nine. Who should I play
Speaker 1: at Flax? This is full PPR. Kenneth Gainwell, Jalen Warren
Speaker 1: or Devonte Smith. This is a tough one and you know,
Speaker 1: Troon force is a real one here because this is
Speaker 1: not an easy situation to make in Week seventeen. Jalen
Speaker 1: Warren is obviously at Cleveland this week. Kenneth Gainwell guess what.
Speaker 1: He is also at Cleveland this week and then and
Speaker 1: we'll way, we'll get into more of those Steelers running
Speaker 1: backs here in just a little bit with Craig Lewandowski
Speaker 1: and then DeVonta Smith is at Buffalo.
Speaker 2: Farrell, if you could.
Speaker 1: Only play one of those players, Gainwell, Warren or DeVonta Smith,
Speaker 1: who would it be for you?
Speaker 2: This week? I'll win? And after Philly's got the Bills.
Speaker 5: Philly's got the bills, which could develop into shootouts, So
Speaker 5: you're going to play Smith.
Speaker 1: The potential shootout in that game stands right now, Eagles
Speaker 1: Bills forty three and a half.
Speaker 2: I think that, yeah, there you go make an.
Speaker 1: It's a low total. We got to take the over
Speaker 1: in that game for sure. I am actually, with all
Speaker 1: due respect to what Farrell said, I'm going to roll
Speaker 1: with one Jalen Warren here.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: They're the passing options in Pittsburgh are non existent. If
Speaker 1: the Steelers are going to beat the Browns, it's going
Speaker 1: to be with the ground game, and I do believe
Speaker 1: Warren will be the lynchpin for that.
Speaker 5: So he would be my third choice.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: And Smith would be my third choice.
Speaker 5: This is and Gainwell would be my second because and
Speaker 5: it will get to that later maybe with our guests.
Speaker 2: We'll talk more about that.
Speaker 5: But I uh, Trone Force, I'm glad we helped you.
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, we didn't.
Speaker 1: Racy has a question Loveland or Ty Warren Ray, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna make you wait for that. We got to get
Speaker 1: to our guests, but I promise you we will answer
Speaker 1: that question. And then James Hicks, Michael Mayer or Brenton
Speaker 1: Strange at tight end we will get into that as well.
Speaker 1: I promise, ladies and gentlemen. Let's bring in our guests tonight.
Speaker 1: He's been extraordinarily patient, all the shrimp, all the crew.
Speaker 1: De tay has gone in the green room because we
Speaker 1: have kept him waiting there way too long. He is
Speaker 1: embarking on a big week this week where he has
Speaker 1: a chance to win one million dollars in the FFPC
Speaker 1: main event and quite frankly another million bucks with a
Speaker 1: team that he has fairly high up in the leader
Speaker 1: board there in the FFPC. Big Gorilla, please welcome in
Speaker 1: to the program. You follow him on the X at
Speaker 1: Craig lewin Dow's number four. He is Craig Lewandowski. Craig,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for hopping on the show tonight.
Speaker 1: We really appreciate you making some time and sorry so
Speaker 1: on what's up man?
Speaker 7: I couldn't find that shrimp.
Speaker 2: The intern must have eaten at all.
Speaker 5: Again, we've had does Madagascar shrimp.
Speaker 2: When we get them they go quick.
Speaker 5: Sometimes they don't get into the green.
Speaker 2: Room, you know.
Speaker 7: Thanks for the inviting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, thank you for accepting the invite. It's great
Speaker 1: to have you on on board tonight and certainly a
Speaker 1: unique situation, uh that that you're in tonight. We'll get
Speaker 1: into your you know what, you think your prospects are
Speaker 1: here going for one final week in the FFPC. Before
Speaker 1: we get into that, can you tell us what you're
Speaker 1: doing for a living when you're not hanging out near
Speaker 1: the top of the FFPC Main Event and Big Gorilla
Speaker 1: Championship Round leaderboard?
Speaker 2: Sir, sure, Yeah.
Speaker 8: I work for an events production company in Dallas, and
Speaker 8: I'm an IT sourcing manager, So essentially I work with
Speaker 8: the IT department and I negotiate software licensing contracts and
Speaker 8: other IT under contracts.
Speaker 7: I'll be half of the organization.
Speaker 5: That sounds like a pretty good daytime job, bulking, Yeah,
Speaker 5: absolutely surprising a guy that does that for a living
Speaker 5: ought to be able to really break this question down
Speaker 5: to this great and I really want to know why
Speaker 5: we've We've got a lot of tough questions about lineup situations,
Speaker 5: and you're welcome to jump on any of those that
Speaker 5: are in the that are in the message room. But
Speaker 5: what's your toughest decision in week seventeen? Because you're sitting
Speaker 5: at the top, you've got a chance. It's impressive. You've
Speaker 5: got six hundred four minutes of players still left, as
Speaker 5: I understand, So what what's up? What's your toughest thing
Speaker 5: that's going to keep you awake all week?
Speaker 8: It was kind of a blessing and a curse. But
Speaker 8: the Raiders made that decision.
Speaker 5: For me because oh yeah.
Speaker 8: And once they put them on ir then my options
Speaker 8: were somewhat limited. So I've got gain well Warren, I
Speaker 8: had Debo. Didn't want to start Debo with a third
Speaker 8: string quarterback because his usage has been very low than
Speaker 8: me recently. Theo Johnson, who I do have Dart and
Speaker 8: maybe there could be some correlation there if I wanted
Speaker 8: to make a big move, but he put up a
Speaker 8: zero last week. You can't start him with any confidence.
Speaker 8: And then I have Chris Godwin. Oh, my pivot options
Speaker 8: weren't weren't very enticing, so.
Speaker 5: They sounded good in October though that that's a pre
Speaker 5: Halloween lineup you can get right behind Bulky.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, Craig, did you have before Bowers got IR?
Speaker 3: Did you?
Speaker 1: I mean, like, I guess I want to who you
Speaker 1: ascended to your starting lineup with Bowers being on IR.
Speaker 8: So I have been rolling with dark Cook, etn Nakua,
Speaker 8: Ted McMillan, Bowers, Pits, and then I had been rolling
Speaker 8: with Gamewell since he had been getting a lot of
Speaker 8: the passing word.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but what tied in? Isn't that what you're asking about?
Speaker 1: Well, no, not necessarily, because you have a lot of
Speaker 1: I mean, you mentioned Pitts, so Pitts could clearly take
Speaker 1: your tight end spot you. You obviously have THEO Johnson
Speaker 1: as well. Is there a guy that you once you
Speaker 1: saw the Bowers, I r like, okay, I'm playing this
Speaker 1: guy now.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it was it was making the decision to go
Speaker 8: with Jalen Warren and Gamewell just because I think he's
Speaker 8: Oh maybe the ceiling isn't as great, but I think
Speaker 8: he's the safest option if I'm trying to move up
Speaker 8: and this way I can get all over the Pittsburgh
Speaker 8: backfield points.
Speaker 5: Okay, we're going to talk about that a little later on,
Speaker 5: but we are going does go in and talk about
Speaker 5: it right now?
Speaker 2: Well, do you want to? We can?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think they talked about that right now because
Speaker 5: we've got plenty of Tyler Warren questions in here. You know,
Speaker 5: when Bulky and I get together in the summer and
Speaker 5: talk to all the experts, and they'll we sometimes hear
Speaker 5: the phrase it's backfield is going to be fifty to fifty,
Speaker 5: and you know, you never think it is. And then
Speaker 5: you look at your game well and your Warren and
Speaker 5: it's four hundred and forty snaps for Warren and four
Speaker 5: hundred and twenty two for Game. Well, you know, how
Speaker 5: do you It's about as close as it can get.
Speaker 5: So are you tempted to start them both? Because Balky's
Speaker 5: already told you Pittsburgh has no passing attack? And I
Speaker 5: think that's a little bit because he's kind of against
Speaker 5: Aaron Rodgers, who you'll remember used to play in Green Bay.
Speaker 5: Were both shaking his hint. Maybe that's Leroy course, And
Speaker 5: I'm getting Bulky Confyes, that was accurate. Do you know
Speaker 5: the real Leroy Craig, Oh, you should meet Leroy and
Speaker 5: talk Aaron Rodgers with him, be the most entertaining football comer.
Speaker 5: What are you going to do with these running backs?
Speaker 5: You got two of them? Which one's gonna hit? Or
Speaker 5: are you gonna go with both of them?
Speaker 7: I'm hoping they both had because I'm starting both of them.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there we go, There we go. That's big news bunking.
Speaker 8: So now what I will say on the on the
Speaker 8: Bowers thing? That was actually that was a bad break
Speaker 8: for me because he was the only player that no.
Speaker 7: One above me owned.
Speaker 8: Oh so, and I know, I know you put up
Speaker 8: fifty points earlier this season, So a generational game from
Speaker 8: him against a softer defense, you know, potentially could move
Speaker 8: the way up.
Speaker 1: God, that sucks, I will say in your defense. Uh,
Speaker 1: not in your defense, but to speak well of your team.
Speaker 1: I don't know how many teams above you right now.
Speaker 1: And Craig, I guessed, were you fifteenth coming into this
Speaker 1: week or were you.
Speaker 8: I was seventeenth I started the chase set. I think
Speaker 8: I was eight oh three out of.
Speaker 7: Eight seventy or however many teams are in it.
Speaker 8: Right, And I scored two of nine the first week
Speaker 8: and moved up in the top one hundred, and then
Speaker 8: put up a one ninety one last week and moved
Speaker 8: up to seventeen, and I'm forty ninth. Now I had
Speaker 8: no players going yesterday, right, Yeah, that was difficult watching,
Speaker 8: you know, all of the teams leap frog you and
Speaker 8: hoping none of those games go explode.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but when you look at them, they didn't score much.
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, Well, so there's that.
Speaker 1: And then it's also like the scene of the movie
Speaker 1: like where where the hero is bleeding out and you're like,
Speaker 1: I know I'm gonna get a bandage. I know I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get medical attention. It's just a question of how
Speaker 1: fast I can get medical attention. So now I just
Speaker 1: got to wait, and I got to see what everybody
Speaker 1: else does while I'm sitting here doing nothing. But once
Speaker 1: you get bandaged up, which you are now, I mean
Speaker 1: you are one of the few players in the top
Speaker 1: fifty that have had zero players go so far this week, Craig,
Speaker 1: which I think is definitely a feather in your cap.
Speaker 1: So I should bring this up right now. And there
Speaker 1: were certain people that were fortunate enough to have Kyle
Speaker 1: Pitts going in the championship round at week fifteen. There
Speaker 1: were other people that were fortunate enough to have Puka
Speaker 1: Nakua going in week sixteen. Both of these players absolutely
Speaker 1: blew up on Thursday Night football. You, my friend, had
Speaker 1: a front row seat for watching Pits and Nakua on
Speaker 1: back to back weeks. Because you had both of these
Speaker 1: guys on your team. It's a big reason why you've
Speaker 1: moved up. And I have to ask you when you're
Speaker 1: watching that Pits game in week fifteen, when you're watching
Speaker 1: the Nakua game in Week sixteen, what's going through your
Speaker 1: head as far as how realistic this million bucks now becomes.
Speaker 1: Knowing how far down you started off the Championship round
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, dude, you were in the
Speaker 1: thick of it after two individual performances.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that was pretty exciting to watch, especially because I'm
Speaker 8: a Kyle Pitch truther. I went to UF so I
Speaker 8: got to watch them throughout his collegiate years, and I
Speaker 8: thought he was going to be the, you know, one
Speaker 8: of the best tight ends ever to play, and then
Speaker 8: it's been nothing but disappointment throughout his career. Yet I
Speaker 8: draft him every single year, and my friends, my friends
Speaker 8: make it's kind of a running joke. They make fun
Speaker 8: of me for it.
Speaker 5: Well, you know, it's an asset you believe in, and
Speaker 5: you paid less for it every year. I think your
Speaker 5: young man of mighty fine lesson. I think it's brilliant.
Speaker 7: He was a tremendous value this year.
Speaker 8: But yeah, watching that game where he scored three touchdowns
Speaker 8: and Cousins was just throwing to him every play, and
Speaker 8: then Nikoupa last week where the game went into overtime,
Speaker 8: and then yeah.
Speaker 7: That was just unreal.
Speaker 5: And I love talking about the future Greg, although I
Speaker 5: do not have a crystal ball, but I bet you something.
Speaker 5: I bet you he'll be a bargain next year too,
Speaker 5: Which one, nicolea no is going to first game? Uh, Pitts.
Speaker 8: He's a free agent now, so I think it's going
Speaker 8: to depend on his landing spot.
Speaker 2: Right, he's not getting out of state of Georgia. You
Speaker 2: don't think the Falcons let him go franchise him.
Speaker 1: I hope there's tools there plugs all right, Well, we'll
Speaker 1: see what happens with Kyle Pitts next year. I want
Speaker 1: to ask you about Jackson Dart and this is so
Speaker 1: I'm going to ask you about your quarterback situation in
Speaker 1: this league. Now correct me if I'm wrong. Craig three quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: Dart Winston, Torod Taylor.
Speaker 2: Is that what you have?
Speaker 8: Unfortunately, yes, I had some piss poor roster management on
Speaker 8: my part. For lack of a better description, I actually
Speaker 8: drafted Jordan Love and JJ McCarthy. I cut at various
Speaker 8: times they were heard or not performing, and Dart had
Speaker 8: I picked up Dart and he had emerged. And then
Speaker 8: I just got Winston as an insurance policy and said,
Speaker 8: I'll just roll with these guys. And then in week
Speaker 8: fourteen the league championship giants had to buy. I had
Speaker 8: to pick up Tyrod Taylor because he was available, came
Speaker 8: off a couple of good weeks, and he gave me
Speaker 8: a minus one because he got hurt in the first order.
Speaker 8: But I somehow still managed to win championship week and
Speaker 8: that got me into the chase because I was a
Speaker 8: three seed.
Speaker 2: So, oh my god, it's kiss smit.
Speaker 5: So the poor guy, then, poor guy you beat is
Speaker 5: to look at that mindus launch I'm sure, Well, now
Speaker 5: I only have dark and.
Speaker 7: I have no horr options.
Speaker 1: Well, and listen, like you look at Dart, and the
Speaker 1: reason I ask you about him this week is because
Speaker 1: Jackson Dart, we've seen what he's capable of throughout the season,
Speaker 1: and he gets a great matchup against the Raiders defense
Speaker 1: without Max Crosby this week, as we found out a
Speaker 1: few hours ago that he will not be playing the
Speaker 1: rest of the season for Las Vegas. And I'm curious
Speaker 1: as to what you think Jackson Dart is going to
Speaker 1: give FFPC players like you, because we know that there.
Speaker 1: I don't know if there's been a public mandate that
Speaker 1: they told Dart not to run as much as he
Speaker 1: had met, but a big reason that he carried teams
Speaker 1: was because of his legs. And if he is not
Speaker 1: doing that this week, or if he is not doing
Speaker 1: it to the critical of plomb that he did earlier
Speaker 1: this season, I think we have to wonder how much
Speaker 1: are we gonna get from Dark Craig. What are you
Speaker 1: expecting fantasy points wise for Jackson Dart in Sin City
Speaker 1: playing against those Raiders this week?
Speaker 8: I have low expectations, even though it's a softer matchup.
Speaker 8: I'm hoping for fifteen points minimum. I just don't want
Speaker 8: him to face playing again like last week one point.
Speaker 8: But it looks like Kafka or whomever definitely put the
Speaker 8: reins on him. I was watching the game because I'm
Speaker 8: trying to climb the leaderboard, and I think they ran
Speaker 8: the ball sixteen times out of the first seventeen snaps,
Speaker 8: and it's just whit frustrating. So are you even gonna
Speaker 8: let him play?
Speaker 5: We don't know, play Wandale this weekend? If you got
Speaker 5: him anywhere.
Speaker 8: I would, But I mean, it depends on my depend
Speaker 8: It depends on what my other options are.
Speaker 2: You know, we got so many Kentucky.
Speaker 5: Guys and the thing I just want to throw into content.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think Pharah, Like for me personally, if I
Speaker 1: have Robinson, most of my leagues, I'm playing them. I mean, like,
Speaker 1: when it comes down to it, you really gotta have
Speaker 1: a loaded wide receiver roster not to play him. Juwan
Speaker 1: Jennings I think would make some sense over him this week.
Speaker 1: I think Tetero McMillan, I think you could play over
Speaker 1: Wondale Robinson.
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 1: By and large, it's tough to find two or three
Speaker 1: receivers on your roster that are better than Wandale Robinson
Speaker 1: that you would, you know, want to play this week.
Speaker 1: So in my leagues, I'm playing him for sure.
Speaker 5: What's what's the barefooted receiver up at Let's put let's
Speaker 5: let's put Mac out there in front of We can't.
Speaker 1: Do that because the Patriots ruled them out.
Speaker 2: So he will. I know, it's so probably.
Speaker 1: Problem will more than likely it is, Farrell.
Speaker 2: I think that you are.
Speaker 1: You are definitely on point on that Mac Collins, the
Speaker 1: grizzled veteran wide receiver in New England. But we have
Speaker 1: to talk about the young, up and coming tight end
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles here, Farrell with Craig.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we do. I was trying to think, you know,
Speaker 5: the young and up and coming tight end in Los Angeles,
Speaker 5: and I was just having flashbacks to warmer weather in
Speaker 5: the summer when Bolky you were all over that Rams
Speaker 5: tight end and and it you know, so Gaston with
Speaker 5: the Chargers. Now, I love this player. I see him
Speaker 5: very much as Bowers esque as far as the way
Speaker 5: he Yeah, he's as in you know, and he's got
Speaker 5: the same physique that his father did.
Speaker 2: Admired his father as a player.
Speaker 5: He's you know, his season has truly been a bell curve.
Speaker 5: I haven't watched the games as closely with the Chargers
Speaker 5: as I would like to. What has led to his
Speaker 5: high points and low points? And what do you expect
Speaker 5: of him this weekend? All the skill sets there is
Speaker 5: there just too many other receivers in this mix.
Speaker 8: I think it's a combination of a few things. He
Speaker 8: definitely has talent. He's more receiver than tight end. Oh yeah,
Speaker 8: I think And I don't know if it's due to
Speaker 8: injuries on the offensive line, but the Chargers offense has evolved.
Speaker 8: If you look early in the season first half, I
Speaker 8: think Herbert was averaging thirty eight thirty nine pass attempts.
Speaker 8: The last second half of the season, he's averaging twenty six. Yeah,
Speaker 8: and then he's spreading it around to you know, Maconkie, Allan,
Speaker 8: Quentin Johnston, the running backs, Harris the rookie.
Speaker 5: Well McConkie has hit the wall with fantasy production as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 8: So they've kind of become a super spreader offense. And
Speaker 8: it's a low volume passing attack, which isn't a great combination.
Speaker 8: If I have Datston, There's no.
Speaker 7: Way I'm starting this weekend unless I am.
Speaker 5: I got to roll knowing what we know now, I
Speaker 5: know what the answer is. But I had a tough
Speaker 5: decision this week. It was golf or Herbert that chills golf,
Speaker 5: which is huge.
Speaker 2: Which would you know? Which would you have done?
Speaker 7: I would have chose golf as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, thanks, all right this this I'm gonna sound
Speaker 1: like an a hole here, but I would have chosen Herbert. Well,
Speaker 1: and you call me well, I should have clearly I
Speaker 1: should I should have told you.
Speaker 5: I let you have thought about it, but long and
Speaker 5: thought wrong.
Speaker 2: Boky.
Speaker 1: Well, I will say this about golf, like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: would have played Herbert over. I could not have envisioned
Speaker 1: a game that that the Lions put out against Minnesota.
Speaker 2: I never would have saw it and I didn't see
Speaker 2: it coming.
Speaker 5: Uh drag mention the forty something point Bowers game this year,
Speaker 5: you know, golf had one of those two or something.
Speaker 2: Damn you're close and you can't get that out of Herbert.
Speaker 1: But by the way, I'll just say this, and I
Speaker 1: think this is I don't know his YouTube name, but
Speaker 1: I believe this is Jared Eisen lawyer who is watching
Speaker 1: us tonight, saying we always Allion's hair. I am not Jared,
Speaker 1: not always a Lion. I will se I'll say this
Speaker 1: about the Lions.
Speaker 2: I was rooting for him.
Speaker 1: I wanted him to win yesterday against Minnesota to give
Speaker 1: the Lions a fighting chance of playing for something in
Speaker 1: week eighteen against Chicago because I'm still fingers crossed with
Speaker 1: the Packers winning the NFC North.
Speaker 2: Now that is, I don't know, it's probably going by
Speaker 2: the wayside.
Speaker 7: Bulky Jared. Jared's actually a friend of mine and he's
Speaker 7: he's one of.
Speaker 1: Gig you're friends with Jared. I didn't know this.
Speaker 5: I am, Oh, my god, fends with everybody.
Speaker 8: We both we both worked for the same company and
Speaker 8: lived in the Fort Myers area for a while. Now
Speaker 8: he's there's a group of us that go out to
Speaker 8: Vegas for.
Speaker 1: The Yes, I've run into you guys the and and
Speaker 1: you know now that you're saying this, Craig, I think
Speaker 1: Jared might have told me this before, which I feel
Speaker 1: like an idiot now, but it is, it is what
Speaker 1: it is. Me feeling like an idiot is sort of
Speaker 1: part for the course.
Speaker 2: Oh way, smartest we.
Speaker 1: Know, smartest guy I know, and I don't know that
Speaker 1: many people. I want to ask about Teto McMillan here, Craig,
Speaker 1: because if you look at if we look at what
Speaker 1: he's done now, last week he was unbelievable, right, ten targets,
Speaker 1: he catches, six of him seventy three yards gets into
Speaker 1: the end zone. If you look at the three games
Speaker 1: prior to this, two for twenty five, one for forty three,
Speaker 1: two for twenty five. If knowing that everything's amplified with
Speaker 1: this being Championship week and everything like that, when you
Speaker 1: consider Teto and McMillan against that Seattle Seahawks defense which
Speaker 1: Granna got lit up by Pokinaku in the Rams last week,
Speaker 1: how much of a concern is the targets?
Speaker 2: Is the volume?
Speaker 1: Is the usage this week for Tetero McMillan great in
Speaker 1: week sixteen, but three weeks before that obviously much less
Speaker 1: than great.
Speaker 8: You don't have to remind me because I started them
Speaker 8: all three of those weeks, and yeah, total five catches.
Speaker 8: Not a lot of confidence he's gonna get high volume.
Speaker 7: Again. I don't have great alternative options, and like Bowers,
Speaker 7: I think McMillan there's only one or two teams that
Speaker 7: have him ahead of me, So it's a good leverage play.
Speaker 7: I'm hoping that young isn't running for his life and
Speaker 7: just peppers with peppers in with targets like he did
Speaker 7: last week. I did make a mistake, and I can't remember.
Speaker 8: It was like week ten or eleven when McMillan blew
Speaker 8: up for one hundred yards of two touchdowns.
Speaker 7: I had actually benched him that.
Speaker 8: Week in favor of Pits, and it cost me finishing
Speaker 8: in the top two in the league because I left.
Speaker 7: So now I'll never bench I won't bench him again.
Speaker 5: Okay, here's here's something about benching and when to play player.
Speaker 5: I handled the New England Patriots. I think the best
Speaker 5: way I could this year. I have Stefan Diggs on
Speaker 5: the Dynasty team that I inherited. But all I did
Speaker 5: was draft drink May and run for daylight. I stayed
Speaker 5: away from the rest of it. Yeah, I considered it
Speaker 5: too difficult. And here we are the end of the
Speaker 5: season and we're still trying to figure out. You know,
Speaker 5: because you watch Henderson playing, you go, man, I wouldn't
Speaker 5: mind having that player. That's a really good player. So
Speaker 5: he gonna play this week or what.
Speaker 7: It sounds like he might. I think he shut them on.
Speaker 2: How do you handle that backfield?
Speaker 8: If he If he does, oh, I'm if I own him,
Speaker 8: and I do on my gorilla, I'm one hundred percent playing.
Speaker 8: You have to just because of the home run potential.
Speaker 8: And Hollins and Booty are out. Maybe that doesn't mean
Speaker 8: more targets for the running backs, but if Henderson plays,
Speaker 8: he could get a couple more targets.
Speaker 7: So I would absolutely play him.
Speaker 5: And I did not know Hows was out, A new
Speaker 5: bouttoo was out, But I thought the other receiver that
Speaker 5: was having problems with Douglas and I guess he never
Speaker 5: has an.
Speaker 2: He's having problems too far.
Speaker 1: It's a cavalcade of problems.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well his cavalcade of problems is to catches a game.
Speaker 5: But that's the other thing.
Speaker 1: No, we we know that Mario Douglas is questionable with
Speaker 1: a hamstring issue.
Speaker 5: That okay, that's so too. I thought it was Douglas. Well,
Speaker 5: you know that Thomas Smith is always on top of
Speaker 5: everything this goes. He's out there in California.
Speaker 1: Gets like yeah he so. So we're looking at a
Speaker 1: questionable Henderson, which we just talked about, a Mac Collins
Speaker 1: who is out, to Mario Douglas who's questionable in Kaysehawan
Speaker 1: Boody who is out this week. Too, so could be
Speaker 1: wheels up for Henderson. I think the thing that's frustrating
Speaker 1: and I don't know how many Ramandre Stevenson owners uh
Speaker 1: and and you can weigh in on this crag, but
Speaker 1: if you have Stevenson, I feel like if Henderson's active
Speaker 1: for this game, you can't really play Stevenson, can you,
Speaker 1: even even though it's against the Jets.
Speaker 8: Right, yeah, yeah, favorable matchup. I have to say the
Speaker 8: teams ahead of me, they're just looking at lineups that
Speaker 8: people have, Like I didn't see any Stevenson, so.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 8: People might have him on their on their rosters and
Speaker 8: just start playing them, but he might be a tough
Speaker 8: button to click if you know Henderson is going to
Speaker 8: make a move up the leader board.
Speaker 5: And I want to congratulate you the kind of guy
Speaker 5: you are and the way that you approach this. Balkey said,
Speaker 5: you're a one plus plus plus plus guy as our president, so.
Speaker 2: You know the uh so.
Speaker 5: But you know, it seems like you've been replete with injuries,
Speaker 5: especially on a team here that's right in the middle
Speaker 5: of the hunt. And then there's no whining. You know
Speaker 5: you're gonna go find your next logical move. Which is very,
Speaker 5: very impressive. Maybe that relates to your career that you've chosen.
Speaker 5: You you're a you're a logical guy. I've talked to
Speaker 5: some fantasy players this week, Guys that I love, Guys
Speaker 5: that are good fantasy players. You know, one wants to
Speaker 5: quit because players are injured. I try to tell them,
Speaker 5: you don't think general managers in the NFL are upset
Speaker 5: because players are injured. You know, you say you want
Speaker 5: to play fantasy football. You want to you want to
Speaker 5: have that experience. You know, that's what it's about. And
Speaker 5: and and another guy told me. I said, well, you
Speaker 5: know it's it's gonna go better for you next year.
Speaker 5: And he told me he's not playing next year. I said,
Speaker 5: how are you going to spend your sundays? He said
Speaker 5: he was joining a frisbee golf And I love these
Speaker 5: guys and both of them are full of it because
Speaker 5: we'll see them in August, and so, you know, and
Speaker 5: we need to see that Fort Myers bunch. You can
Speaker 5: get a NonStop flight out of there to Kentucky. You
Speaker 5: need to come up here and play. We'll talk more
Speaker 5: about that later, but I'll tell you one thing. You know,
Speaker 5: you'll be a winner in any ring you are with
Speaker 5: the way you.
Speaker 1: Approach the game, you know, Craig, Craig, I'll throw this
Speaker 1: to you and I'll share a personal insight. I don't
Speaker 1: know how many years ago this was, but I didn't.
Speaker 2: I mean, like I.
Speaker 1: Made the play. I probably played in like two dozen
Speaker 1: leagues that year. I don't know how many years ago
Speaker 1: this was, but it was several. I played in like
Speaker 1: two dozen plus leagues. I made the playoffs in like
Speaker 1: three of them, which was super frustrating. And I didn't
Speaker 1: I didn't win a playoff game. And I was like,
Speaker 1: and I said, I told my friends that I played with.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm done. I can't.
Speaker 1: I'm this is awful. I'm investing weight time into this.
Speaker 1: It's not worth it anymore. And that feeling came in
Speaker 1: like mid January, late December, and I think by May
Speaker 1: I was drafting pretty heavily. And the following year, like
Speaker 1: five or six leagues out of like twenty five or thirty.
Speaker 1: You know, so it like comes and goes or whatever.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you've had years where it's just it's been
Speaker 1: super dry for you, and then you get a year
Speaker 1: like this where it's like oh my god. Now, and
Speaker 1: we haven't even talked about your Big Guerilla team yet.
Speaker 1: We can talk about that as well. But now you
Speaker 1: have a team in the main Event and in the
Speaker 1: Big Gorilla that are definitely within striking distance of winning
Speaker 1: perhaps a seven figure grand prize. It's always important to
Speaker 1: trust your process, keep the faith, because you never know
Speaker 1: when these magical years are going to come along.
Speaker 8: Man, up until a month ago, I thought this was
Speaker 8: going to be a very dry year for me. I
Speaker 8: did two main event teams and this one hadn't popped yet,
Speaker 8: so it was kind of middling.
Speaker 7: And then I did seven.
Speaker 8: Gorillas, four of which were just drawing dead from the
Speaker 8: onset because oh Joe Mixon or some other and.
Speaker 7: They were mainly early drafts.
Speaker 8: And then I had one gorilla, the one that's in
Speaker 8: the Chase, that was undefeated in the regular season.
Speaker 7: So that was the.
Speaker 8: One thing I was going to be able to hang
Speaker 8: my hat on. But the year kind of turned around.
Speaker 8: But you're right, you just got to stick with the process.
Speaker 8: I have told myself that I would like to cut
Speaker 8: back next year, not do so many teams, just because
Speaker 8: it's difficult.
Speaker 7: To manage and draft.
Speaker 8: Later, I know, you guys open up the drafts super early,
Speaker 8: and everyone it's kind of like you know, crack. You
Speaker 8: want to you want to get your your little taste,
Speaker 8: and everyone wants to draft. But the two teams that
Speaker 8: are doing the best for me are the ones that
Speaker 8: I drafted, you know, the latest and.
Speaker 1: To eat sorry, I mean right and listen. There's some
Speaker 1: people that like, like I know Chad Schroeder, he's not
Speaker 1: He's a notorious late drafter right now.
Speaker 2: When he drafts late.
Speaker 1: I mean he goes hard, harder than anybody I know
Speaker 1: as far as how many drafts he does. But I
Speaker 1: know a lot of people that draft early that love
Speaker 1: the values that they get out of players early. So
Speaker 1: it's it's hit or miss. Some people love it. Some
Speaker 1: people have a lot of great success with it. Some
Speaker 1: people like doing the opposite, which and I'm not going
Speaker 1: to fault anybody you do.
Speaker 5: How Yeah, that's the beauty of the hobby because it's
Speaker 5: in a lot of ways. It's like your friends that
Speaker 5: play golf. I've got a guy that can play it
Speaker 5: once every two weeks and shoot in the mid seventies.
Speaker 5: I know other guys that play fifty four holes in
Speaker 5: one day, on a weekend and you know, they really
Speaker 5: can't do anything but to get a bogie. So it's
Speaker 5: just it's however you want to approach it. Now Here
Speaker 5: in Kentucky we have our Super Sunday Sweet sixteen on
Speaker 5: the Super Bowl weekend, and you know, so we're gonna
Speaker 5: get back on the horse right away. You know, if
Speaker 5: you just come on up and then and it is
Speaker 5: it is a blast. And so you know, drafting is
Speaker 5: just just it's a personal thing.
Speaker 2: Is as much as you want to do.
Speaker 5: But you know, I think you're good at it. And
Speaker 5: working the waivers can be difficult. Yeah, when you get
Speaker 5: in a role with the waivers and you have enough teams,
Speaker 5: you can already you can begin to see between the lines. Welky,
Speaker 5: have you ever experienced that you're you're there and you
Speaker 5: already know what's coming and you see it and you
Speaker 5: move through it real quick. That's the way I like
Speaker 5: to get with. Well, I'll say this too, when I
Speaker 5: draft early. Sometimes you know, when that first waiver wire
Speaker 5: period rolls around in September, there are certain players that
Speaker 5: everybody missed on in those early drafts and then you
Speaker 5: spend you know, four or five, six, seven, hundred bucks
Speaker 5: to get those players on your team, and now all
Speaker 5: of a sudden you get a juggernaut and it's less
Speaker 5: team management because you only got three hundred bucks the
Speaker 5: rest of the season. Right, So it varies like there's
Speaker 5: a million different ways to skin a cat in the
Speaker 5: FFPC A.
Speaker 7: Re evaluate my early drafting process because it could be broken.
Speaker 1: Well, listen, I don't. I don't think your process is broken.
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody's process is broken. I think if
Speaker 1: it's not working, it just needs to be tweaked. There's
Speaker 1: a difference between broken and tweak. And I'll say this too.
Speaker 1: To your credit, Jared is chiming in. Craig is one
Speaker 1: of the most skilled players out there. The only surprise
Speaker 1: is that this is the first time he's been this close.
Speaker 1: You will see him again, Is that true?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 1: Is this the closest you've ever been to the mountaintop here?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 8: I think the highest I finished before was Jalen Wattles
Speaker 8: rookie year. I think I finished like one or something.
Speaker 1: Oh all right, that's very that's really good.
Speaker 5: Actually, I don't think anybody's process is broken except the
Speaker 5: guys that came into the summer and said Evan Ingram
Speaker 5: was going to be a top five tidy those that
Speaker 5: process is broken.
Speaker 2: I don't know who said that. We had those guys
Speaker 2: on the show. Oh a big year.
Speaker 1: Well this was the whole joker argument with Sean and
Speaker 1: that's what it was.
Speaker 7: Was.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, Farrel, I have no emails here and we're
Speaker 1: up against it here. Let's let's ask Craig the final
Speaker 1: question of tonight before we let him go enjoy his
Speaker 1: championship weekend.
Speaker 5: You've got to come strong our last Uh what did
Speaker 5: abuco score last week?
Speaker 7: Full catch?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what it was, catch for forty yards.
Speaker 5: You are right, Craig, one catch forty yards yep, that's
Speaker 5: all I got. Our guest last week chose as our
Speaker 5: noted player, a fantasy favorite who would bomb and bust.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 5: He chose a Buka and that was that was ballsy
Speaker 5: and impressive. So that's what you're going up against. Then
Speaker 5: you've got to pick a sleeper. You've got to pick
Speaker 5: a sleeper. I think Baky picked Quinn yours last week,
Speaker 5: I believe, but whoever, you know, we're interested not in
Speaker 5: so much last week, but we want you to uh
Speaker 5: Buka and then we want you to give us the
Speaker 5: guy nobody's thinking about that's gonna get us there.
Speaker 8: I don't know if he's gonna bust per se. I
Speaker 8: think Josh Jacobs, who I don't own, is a difficult
Speaker 8: clique this week, only because he's been hurt. Yeah this
Speaker 8: I'm playing. Yeah, Wilson's capable. Willis is playing. I know
Speaker 8: he's good. But now the Packers have already clinched a
Speaker 8: playoff spot. Do the Lion's losing, so I don't know
Speaker 8: how much incentive they're going to have tomorrow. The Packers
Speaker 8: to give Jacobs a heavy workload, so I think unless
Speaker 8: he gets a touchdown, it's hard to see him coming through.
Speaker 5: Jacobs is your bus. You said that like a six
Speaker 5: or eight point game.
Speaker 8: I could straw. I could definitely see that happening. And
Speaker 8: honorable mention to lad Mconkie.
Speaker 5: I don't yes, just get on that train, Craig, get
Speaker 5: on the jump on there.
Speaker 7: For us for a sleeper this, you got to have
Speaker 7: a very strong stomach.
Speaker 8: I'm gonna go Dalton kind who gave me a zero
Speaker 8: last week on my big Gorilla team. But I think
Speaker 8: the Eagles Bills game, I think the total is way
Speaker 8: too low. I think that game is going to pop
Speaker 8: and Alan and Cook are going to need some help.
Speaker 8: So shak Heire's the short area target. I would go
Speaker 8: with Dalton and k Interesting and Craig.
Speaker 1: We talked about this at the at the top of
Speaker 1: the pro Farrell was one who brought this up, saying
Speaker 1: that that game could turn into a shootout and forty
Speaker 1: three and a half is not a shootout type totals.
Speaker 1: So yeah, and I think you guys convinced me here tonight.
Speaker 1: I think there will be some scoring. Kinkaid, for what
Speaker 1: it's worth, did not practice Wednesday, did not practice Thursday.
Speaker 1: He did get in a limited practice today, which I
Speaker 1: know is a little bit concerning.
Speaker 8: But that's sort of been his He did that last
Speaker 8: week and that was his routine, and we did absolutely.
Speaker 7: Nothing last week.
Speaker 8: He only got one target, but they were playing the
Speaker 8: Browns and running all over them, and the Browns weren't
Speaker 8: I know, they almost you know, they kept the game close,
Speaker 8: but I think they managed his workload a little bit.
Speaker 1: And the other thing to keep in mind too, when
Speaker 1: you think about Dalton Kinkade, this is the guy that
Speaker 1: can just pop off out of nowhere and get like
Speaker 1: a you know, six for eighty and two touchdown games.
Speaker 7: If he goes six for sixty in a touchdown, it
Speaker 7: wouldn't chock me.
Speaker 1: It wouldn't chock me at all. And and that's well
Speaker 1: within his realm of possibility here, uh as well, all right,
Speaker 1: I think I am yeah that that that, I am
Speaker 1: fresh out of questions here and and here's what I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do, Craig. I'm gonna wish you the best of
Speaker 1: luck because and I do this to all our guests,
Speaker 1: but I give you extra luck this weekend because it
Speaker 1: is difficult to find a guest who wants to come
Speaker 1: on this specific weekend when they are so far high
Speaker 1: up on the on the main event or big eer
Speaker 1: ol leader boards. There's a lot of people that don't
Speaker 1: want to jinx it and they don't want to come
Speaker 1: on the show. And you said, metaphorically, speaking to hell
Speaker 1: with that, I am coming on the show tonight. We're
Speaker 1: gonna wreck it. It's gonna be a lot of great fun.
Speaker 1: And you've helped entertain and inform our listeners and our viewers,
Speaker 1: which I appreciate. So now I'm giving you a double
Speaker 1: dose of good luck, and hopefully the ball bounces your way.
Speaker 1: And you never know, man, if you put up a
Speaker 1: big week, either in the main event or the Big Gorilla,
Speaker 1: we may be having you on this program next week
Speaker 1: to talk about that million dollar grand prize that you
Speaker 1: have won. So kudos to you, good luck to you,
Speaker 1: Thank you for coming on. Merry Christmas and happy New Year,
Speaker 1: and good lucky to.
Speaker 2: See.
Speaker 1: Thank you Craig Luwandowski, Ladies and gentlemen joining us tonight,
Speaker 1: seventeenth coming in to the main event this week and
Speaker 1: well within striking distance, still within the top fifty. Farah,
Speaker 1: because he had nobody play in the three Christmas Day games.
Speaker 5: So there's that was his best move. And you know
Speaker 5: this is a Jay Ready guy that's supporting Craig.
Speaker 2: That.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's the way I talk about you when.
Speaker 2: You're not around. Just oh, thank you. I appreciate that.
Speaker 2: And by the way, I fully expected that.
Speaker 1: I think the thing is too And when I looked
Speaker 1: at his lineup and you talked to him about this,
Speaker 1: how many teams in the top fifty, he might be
Speaker 1: the only one in the top fifty right now in
Speaker 1: the main event that is starting both Steelers running backs
Speaker 1: this weekend with no DK Metcalf playing in.
Speaker 2: Some special with that Bauer situations. That hurts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that does hurt. But the fallback here, it's weird.
Speaker 1: But he might be starting the number one running back
Speaker 1: and the number one wide receiver for Pittsburgh and they
Speaker 1: just both happen to play in the back. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: so we'll see what happens with that. I'm very intrigued
Speaker 1: to see what happens. Okay, Pharaoh, let's go rapid fire
Speaker 1: on these starter sits here as we are up against it.
Speaker 1: First one is Phil in New York, New York. He
Speaker 1: wants to know DeAndre Swift or Tyrone Tracy at the
Speaker 1: running back position.
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 1: Swift this week is going to be playing on Sunday
Speaker 1: Night football against the San Francisco forty nine ers, and
Speaker 1: then Tyrone Tracy is going to be at Las Vegas.
Speaker 5: You leave that Tyrone Tracy along, you play your mister Swift.
Speaker 5: Swift sixteen points a game, three touchdowns over the last four.
Speaker 2: Come on, It's no contest.
Speaker 1: The Bears have had one of the best offensive lines
Speaker 1: in the league this year, and I think a struggling
Speaker 1: against the run. Yeah, the Niners defense is not carrying
Speaker 1: him right now. I think that could be a potential
Speaker 1: shootout on Sunday Night Football. I am one hundred percent
Speaker 1: with you. It is Swift over Tracy this week. Now,
Speaker 1: here's an interesting wide receiver question here as we go
Speaker 1: to Gary in Moreno Valley, California. He wants to know
Speaker 1: Chris Godwin at Miami or Marvin Harrison at Cincinnati. Now, Harrison,
Speaker 1: by the way, I think his listed as question Welle
Speaker 1: for this game. He's still dealing with that heel injury,
Speaker 1: but he's been practicing. I think he's going to go,
Speaker 1: assuming they're both active. Parah Godwin or Harrison, Oh God.
Speaker 5: I would love to know what's left on his roster
Speaker 5: because you know the thing about Godwin is Mayfield. Mayfield
Speaker 5: has been so bad. Yeah, last six games, six touchdowns
Speaker 5: versus seven interceptions. I might have those numbers transposed six
Speaker 5: to seven.
Speaker 2: BOK No.
Speaker 5: Six seven is right, you got it right, Whatever it is,
Speaker 5: it equals thirteen, which is bad, bad luck for all
Speaker 5: the receivers in Tampa. Now, the athletic talent, the upgrade
Speaker 5: that you can get with Harrison in this situation is
Speaker 5: just so strong that that's going to be your guy.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I wish we could see the rest of
Speaker 5: his roster.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I'm assuming he has given us the
Speaker 1: best two options that he has as far as he's
Speaker 1: got to sit. I worry about Mike Evans, Jayleen McMillan.
Speaker 2: Who's the other guy?
Speaker 1: Mecha Buca obviously there and who does Harrison have to
Speaker 1: worry about? It's just two guys with McBride and Wilson.
Speaker 1: And quite frankly, last week when he made his return,
Speaker 1: Wilson only caught like two or three passes, So I
Speaker 1: think there's something there. And at Cincinnati give me Marvin
Speaker 1: Harrison over Chris Godwin for him this week? That is
Speaker 1: who did I say that?
Speaker 2: That was?
Speaker 7: That was that?
Speaker 2: Phil? That's our cat out in California.
Speaker 1: In California, Okay, yeah, Gary and Marino Valley. Okay, here's
Speaker 1: here's a fun one. Tom from Cincinnati wants to know
Speaker 1: Farrell the two rookie tight ends. Who do you go
Speaker 1: with this year? The two top drafted rookie tight ends.
Speaker 1: Is it Tyler Warren against Jacksonville or is it Colston
Speaker 1: Loveland again Sunday night football at San Francisco in Santa Clara.
Speaker 5: I love that Colston Loveland is only twenty one years old. Yeah,
Speaker 5: that's all I love about it. Tyler Warren is the
Speaker 5: guy you're gonna play Colson. Loveland hadn't had a four
Speaker 5: catch game since the swimming.
Speaker 2: Pools were still opening. Dagas.
Speaker 5: Come on, let's get real. Tyler Warren could blow up
Speaker 5: in this game. It's not even a contest Tyler Warren
Speaker 5: all the way. It's Loveland someday, you know, yeah, casting
Speaker 5: he's twenty one years old.
Speaker 2: Man, I'm excited.
Speaker 1: I have to have Loveland going in a few leagues
Speaker 1: this week, which I don't love. You shouldn't because of
Speaker 1: the injuries or whatever. It's it's the best to borrow
Speaker 1: a line from Argo Ferrell, and I've said this on
Speaker 1: the show many times. It's the best bad idea we have.
Speaker 1: It's most in Loveland to me. In my starting lineup
Speaker 1: this week, I'm rolling with him. But if it comes
Speaker 1: down to Warren or Loveland, and I don't know if
Speaker 1: we have any clarity on the Colts quarterback situation, but
Speaker 1: if it is Leonard, if it is Rivers, I do
Speaker 1: like Warren even in a bad matchup against Jackson. Well,
Speaker 1: we found out that Luther Burden is actually going to
Speaker 1: be playing for the Bears this week as well. So
Speaker 1: that is a little, you know, a monkey wrench a
Speaker 1: fly in the ointment to borrow a line from John
Speaker 1: McClain with mo Ali Cox.
Speaker 5: Mo Ali Cox may catch more than Loveland. It's in
Speaker 5: a backup road to Warren. It's yeah, to borrow our
Speaker 5: line from Lawson.
Speaker 1: Quarterback One quarterback question is our last one that we're
Speaker 1: gonna have tonight, pharall. And this one comes to us from.
Speaker 2: Oh God, who is this?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: Greg? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Greg in Framingham, Massachusetts wants to know Jalen Hurts this
Speaker 1: week at Buffalo or Trevor Lawrence at Indianapolis.
Speaker 2: Why don't you answer that one? You know what?
Speaker 5: Why guy from Massachusetts not gonna listen to.
Speaker 1: Southern Okay, well, I don't know if you listen to
Speaker 1: a midwesterner either.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, Bunkie, you're you're worldwide.
Speaker 2: I'm not.
Speaker 1: As weird as this is. You asked me last last week.
Speaker 1: I would have said Hurts all the way. But what
Speaker 1: Lawrence was able to do against then, you know the
Speaker 1: thing is the acid test with Lawrence this past week
Speaker 1: was the Denver Broncos defense. Lawrence has been crushing it
Speaker 1: against all these mid to bad defenses over the course
Speaker 1: of the last month, month and a half. Then he
Speaker 1: gets Denver.
Speaker 2: Last week and he goes ham On.
Speaker 1: So I don't the way that he's playing right now.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ride the hot hand. I will play Trevor
Speaker 1: Lawrence over Jalen Hurts this week.
Speaker 5: Well, you know, the great thing that's happened for Trevor
Speaker 5: Lawrence is he's welcomed Jacoby Myers into the fold, and
Speaker 5: that's improved his passing game. It's improved vector receivers could
Speaker 5: do that. Probably the only thing that would have worked
Speaker 5: better is if they had acquired Pittman. I got it
Speaker 5: in Booky, Yeah, I was worried I got it in there.
Speaker 2: Seventy minutes into the show. You finally got it in,
Speaker 2: So good to do it on you.
Speaker 5: You were talking about baseball in the first minute, so
Speaker 5: that's what you normally would have weaved it in. Hey,
Speaker 5: this cat with a bunch of numbers and his name's
Speaker 5: got a question.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is rt uh three oh two eight two
Speaker 1: one two nine four on YouTube. Quarterback question Jackson Dart
Speaker 1: this week Farrell at Las Vegas or Tyler Shook at Tennessee.
Speaker 2: I'll weigh in on this. You feel free to agree
Speaker 2: or disagree.
Speaker 1: Shuck and Dart, surprisingly have both used their legs, and
Speaker 1: I would say that Chuck has actually been using his
Speaker 1: legs a little bit more lately than Jackson Dart. The
Speaker 1: numbers that Shuck has put up over the course of
Speaker 1: the last month has been really, really surprising to me.
Speaker 2: You look at.
Speaker 1: His finishes over the course of the last four weeks,
Speaker 1: quarterback sixteen, quarterback sixteen, quarterback six, and quarterback twelve. And
Speaker 1: now he gets that Titans defense. Yeah, gimme Tyler Shuk
Speaker 1: this week over Jackson Dart.
Speaker 5: I agree, Bucky, and I think that was a fantastic
Speaker 5: breakdown of it.
Speaker 2: And Chuck's just playing a.
Speaker 1: Little looser, It's true, and I think that looseness has
Speaker 1: gotten him into the conversation of he could be the
Speaker 1: starting quarterback, not only in twenty twenty six, non zero chance,
Speaker 1: he's their long term solution, and I believe you will be.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's always great to talk about a University of
Speaker 5: Louisville players.
Speaker 1: No matter no matter if the eighteen twenty eight or
Speaker 1: in Tyler Shuck's case, sixty eight, it is a blessing
Speaker 1: to talk about University of Louisville players. It's always a
Speaker 1: blessing to talk to anybody from Louisville, especially my favorite
Speaker 1: person from Louisville, the k FFFC Commissioner, One Farrell Elliott. Now, Farrell,
Speaker 1: we have to talk about if people want to get
Speaker 1: involved in the KFFFC in twenty twenty six. You have
Speaker 1: some Super Sunday's Sweet sixteens open coming up on obviously
Speaker 1: the Pro Football Championship Day, and there's also a Rocky
Speaker 1: Blyer online division that's going to be drafting here in
Speaker 1: a little bit less than two months already. Tell us
Speaker 1: what people need to know if they want to draft
Speaker 1: in the KFFC for twenty twenty six.
Speaker 5: Go online, check it out. It's under Super Sunday Sweet sixteen.
Speaker 5: There's six live spotslav Bulky in It's ninety sixteen field
Speaker 5: Drafting Live is Caesar Southern Indiana. Ninety sixteen is playing
Speaker 5: for ten thousand dollars grand prize and lots of other
Speaker 5: cashing prizes.
Speaker 2: And then the the UH.
Speaker 5: The online element is currently scheduled for the Tuesday night
Speaker 5: after the Super Bowl. If we sell it out, we
Speaker 5: will have it then. If we need to push it back,
Speaker 5: a couple of days we will, but it's this event
Speaker 5: is in its fourth year or fifth year, one of those,
Speaker 5: and it's selling out quicker. It is somewhat exclusive because
Speaker 5: the people that love it love it and a lot
Speaker 5: of the guys that are in our our chat will
Speaker 5: be there and you will be there, which is the
Speaker 5: greatest thing that we can ever say about it. And
Speaker 5: then our kf f SC schedule for our upcoming August
Speaker 5: activities and year round activities that'll be up here right
Speaker 5: about the first of the year. So thank you Balkey
Speaker 5: for that plug, and any of the guys that are
Speaker 5: listening tonight, we'd love to have we'd love to have
Speaker 5: you come and enjoy that weekend.
Speaker 1: K f f SC dot com is where to go
Speaker 1: to register and get involved. Draft against me and draft
Speaker 1: against a lot of the people in the chat tonight.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a lot of fun. Tom Smith, I'm
Speaker 1: holding out that he's still coming. I hope he's recovering,
Speaker 1: but hopefully that's very possible. Farrel a Merry Christmas to you.
Speaker 1: I will wish you a happy New Year, and we
Speaker 1: will do this again. Coming up on January second, is
Speaker 1: the next time you and I will go live. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of fun. Man, Thanks so much.
Speaker 2: Enjoy your holiday weekend. Thank you sir.
Speaker 1: That is Ferrel Elliott, the Definitive Commissioner of Fantasy Football.
Speaker 1: KFFFC dot com is where to register it for the
Speaker 1: Kentucky Fantasy Football State Championship. That will complete our broadcast,
Speaker 1: our our stream tonight, at least not our broadcast, but
Speaker 1: it will complete our stream tonight. Shout out to Craig Luwandowski,
Speaker 1: Ferrell Elliott, the f f PC, Rob Brice, and of
Speaker 1: course each and every one of you for watching tonight.
Speaker 1: We will be back next Friday at ten pm Eastern Time.
Speaker 1: Fingers crossed with the newest FFPC Millionaire. I'll see what
Speaker 1: I can do as far as booking that guest coming
Speaker 1: up next week. In case you missed the Rotavus High
Speaker 1: Stakesloawdow on this past Tuesday, we had ten times FFPC
Speaker 1: Champion Duke Vaveros rejoined the show. That was a lot
Speaker 1: of fun. Got into a lot of start sit discussion
Speaker 1: and how you can best move your team up several
Speaker 1: hundred places in the FFPC Big Gorilla and the FFPC
Speaker 1: Main Event. With just one week to go, and this
Speaker 1: is a big one and I've never done this before,
Speaker 1: but next Tuesday, ten pm Eastern time, I have booked
Speaker 1: the current leader in the FFPC main event heading into
Speaker 1: week seventeen, Brian Carrero, who we've had on this show before.
Speaker 1: He is going to come on on Tuesday night and
Speaker 1: kudos to him. Man like he could be coming on
Speaker 1: on Tuesday a millionaire. He could also be coming on
Speaker 1: with his tail between his legs and I was so close.
Speaker 1: So that will be a fun show regardless on Tuesday. Now,
Speaker 1: before we get to Tuesday, we have to get to Monday.
Speaker 1: No FFPC insider access next Thursday, because it's New Year's Day.
Speaker 1: Will what we will be doing will be having FPC
Speaker 1: insider access. What we did this past week on Monday.
Speaker 1: Player profilers Bradley Stallder joined me this past Monday for
Speaker 1: a very fun show with watching Monday night football with
Speaker 1: the Colts and Niners. And then we will do another
Speaker 1: Monday show this week with Fantasy Alarms. Andrew Cooper, the
Speaker 1: tight End Whisperer himself, will come on. That show is
Speaker 1: going to be seven o'clock Eastern time this Monday on
Speaker 1: the FFPC and Better Sports Network Social. So check that
Speaker 1: out there. The FFPC Weekly Challenge is live, no draft,
Speaker 1: no salary cap, just picked ten or twelve players depending
Speaker 1: upon if we want to play with kickers or defenses.
Speaker 1: Remember tomorrow afternoon you will have the opportunity to get
Speaker 1: in the Saturday Challenge as well as Sunday afternoon in
Speaker 1: the Sunday Challenge, So two different challenges left for you.
Speaker 1: This week went up to twenty five hundred bucks ten
Speaker 1: thirty one hundred team contest one player per NFL team.
Speaker 2: My FFPC dot com.
Speaker 1: If you want to get your spots locked up for
Speaker 1: the FFPC World Famous Playoff Challenge, you can do so
Speaker 1: as well. My f FPC dot com is where to go.
Speaker 1: There's no draft, there's no salary cap, no convoluted rules.
Speaker 1: Just pick your twelve players and watch them ride all
Speaker 1: the way to perhaps a half million dollar grand prize.
Speaker 1: Two hundred dollars entry fee will get you eligible for
Speaker 1: five hundred thousand dollars. A thirty five dollars entry fee
Speaker 1: still gets you eligible for a one hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 1: grand prize. Only one player per NFL team on that
Speaker 1: you can't we don't have the rosters live for that
Speaker 1: because we don't know who's gonna be in the playoffs yet,
Speaker 1: but lock those entries up now so you don't miss
Speaker 1: out on what's going to be the best contest we
Speaker 1: have all season long at the end of the season
Speaker 1: with the world famous FFPC Playoff Challenge. Remember to like
Speaker 1: this video, subscribe to the channel, comment on the video,
Speaker 1: share with your friends, share with your enemies. Get notified
Speaker 1: each and every time we go live. Thank you so
Speaker 1: much for watching, streaming, listing, downloading throughout the year. I
Speaker 1: hope each and every one of you had a very
Speaker 1: merry Christmas, a very happy holiday season, and I wish
Speaker 1: you a happy new Year. We will talk with you
Speaker 1: again on January second. This channel goes live Tuesday night
Speaker 1: at ten pm Eastern Time. Thanks for watching, everybody, and
Speaker 1: hopefully the ball bounces your way on Championship Week.
Speaker 4: This has been another episode of the Hot Stakes Fatasley
Speaker 4: Football Hour, presented by my f FPC dot com.
Speaker 3: It was broadcast live and was watched around the world.
Speaker 4: Bulky and Farrell will be back next week with more analysis,
Speaker 4: more interviews, add more advice from guests much smarter than
Speaker 4: they are.
Speaker 3: Thanks for watching, and we'll talk with you again. Next week.
Speaker 2: One last thing, and I think I bring this up
Speaker 2: every year.
Speaker 1: I'll just make this brief Listen, chances are you're not
Speaker 1: winning a million bucks this weekend with the f FPC.
Speaker 2: It's very, very difficult to do so.
Speaker 1: But and I think Chris but Caro said this best
Speaker 1: on the Fantasy Empire podcast this past week. All you
Speaker 1: want is just to have that chance to have that
Speaker 1: sweat this weekend where you know, if you put up
Speaker 1: a two hundred twenty, it could be you taken down
Speaker 1: that million dollar grand prize. Could be Craig Lewandowski we
Speaker 1: talked with tonight, could be Brian Carrero who I'm gonna
Speaker 1: talk with on Tuesday night. So if you are in
Speaker 1: this situation that that a big week could turn into
Speaker 1: a seven million dollar or a seven figure payday, congratulations.
Speaker 2: That is what you want.
Speaker 1: That's what we all want every single year. Enjoy the weekend,
Speaker 1: enjoy football, and.
Speaker 2: I'll leave it at that. It's going to be very exciting.
Speaker 2: We'll talk with you again next week. Everybody, be good,