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Summary

Fantasy Focus Football: Week 16 Lineup Locks and Gut Calls (Dec 17, 2025)

Hosts: Field Yates, Daniel Dopp, Mike Clay
Summary by: [Podcast Summarizer]
Theme: Week 16 fantasy playoff strategy, “gut calls” on key players, injury updates, and deep-dive debates on tough start/sit decisions.

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Episode Overview

In this engaging and insightful episode, the ESPN Fantasy Focus Football crew—Field Yates, Daniel Dopp, and Mike Clay—convene for a crucial playoff week. The team dives into “gut calls” and bold predictions for Week 16, examining which big names and sneaky plays could swing fantasy championships. The episode blends stats and analysis with lively banter, debates, and memorable moments as they debate player values, recent performances, matchups, and how to balance numbers with manager intuition in the playoffs.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The State of Hosts’ Fantasy Teams (00:00–03:10)

• Daniel jokes about Mike making projections for teams he no longer has in the playoffs, sparking some competitive “trash talk” about past league titles and dynasty teams.
  • Field: “There’s a saying that nobody cares about your fantasy team, but if you’re listening to Fantasy Focus, you probably care about our fantasy teams.” (02:07)
• Light-hearted discussion about the depth and quality of their dynasty teams.

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2. Introducing “Feelings and Facts” Segment (03:10–04:45)

• Field: “Rather than just say, who are we gonna start this week, let’s talk about what are you feeling?”
• Mike coins the term “Feelings and Facts” for the segment.

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3. Bold Gut Calls for Week 16 (04:45–13:40)

Jonathan Taylor’s Monster Game Prediction (05:08–08:08)

• Field: Jonathan Taylor will rush for 150 yards and a touchdown against the 49ers Monday night.
  • Stats: 25 carries, 3 receptions last week, consistent “lead back” usage.
  • Niners have allowed the top back to outscore their season average in every game except once.
  • Mike: “I have him top five … right there with the elite guys.” (07:48)

Rashi Rice: Top 5 WR Potential (08:10–11:21)

• Daniel: Rashi Rice will exceed 18.5 points even with Gardner Minshew at QB.
  • Fifth in targets since Week 7, strong volume.
  • Titans allow the 5th-most points to WRs lately (“Wide receivers are eating against the Titans. So the question is, can you trust the QB situation with Minshew?” [09:13])
  • Minshew’s WR1 historically gets plenty of targets.
  • Field: “Definitely like the short-range targets too … much higher likelihood throws.” (10:38)

Justin Jefferson: Is the Breakout Coming? (13:40–17:38)

• Mike’s Call: “Justin Jefferson, 20+ fantasy points for the first time ever with JJ McCarthy under center...” (14:01)
  • Jefferson’s target share is high (30%), but production is down.
  • Giants are favorable for WRs lately.
  • Mike and Field wager on whether Jefferson will be top-22 WR; poll later shows 64% of listeners agree with Field (not top 22).
  • Mike: “I think this is the week against the Giants where the connection hits for at least one touchdown…” (16:18)
  • Field: “Mike and I are 22 spots apart on Justin Jefferson.” (16:44)

JJ McCarthy’s Fantasy Floor (17:58–20:06)

• Daniel: Predicts another 20+ point game for the rookie QB.
  • “250 passing yards, two touchdowns, plus 15 rushing yards and a touchdown this last week...” (18:39)
  • Continues to shine in favorable matchups, though winning is less relevant for fantasy.

“Government Names” Bit & Lad McConkey’s Breakout (20:06–22:29)

• Field: Predicts Lad McConkey will post 115+ yards vs Cowboys.
  • Cowboys have allowed 17.5+ points to a WR in six of last seven games.
  • “That is sneaky. Lad McConkey has a big day on Sunday. 115 receiving yards…” (22:19)

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4. The Rams Offense: Big Trouble? (23:05–26:50)

• Mike: “A down week from the Rams offense is going to knock a lot of good teams out...” (23:05)
  • Seahawks allow the fewest WR points over last 8 weeks.
  • Puka Nacua struggled vs. Seattle previously; Kyren Williams' usage declining, tough Seahawks run D.
  • Devante Adams' injury further complicates matters for Rams' skill players.

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5. Running Backs in Focus

Jameer Gibbs’ High Ceiling (27:05–28:23)

• Daniel: “Jameer Gibbs will be the first RB to top 20 points against the Steelers.”
  • Pittsburgh run D slipping, giving up close to 20 points to RBs in recent weeks.

Ashton Jeanty Underwhelming Outlook (29:12–31:29)

• Field: “Ashton Jeanty under 10 fantasy points against Houston.”
  • Raiders O struggles to score; Mike less bearish, but all agree matchup is tough.

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6. Quarterback Carousel: Head-to-Head Debates (41:05–51:50)

• The crew conducts a series of rapid-fire “which QB would you start” debates, navigating a turbulent QB slate for semifinals week:
  • Tyler Shuck vs. Matthew Stafford (Shuck gets nod due to matchup and Stafford's tough draw)
  • JJ McCarthy vs. Lamar Jackson (Split decisions: Daniel sides JJ, Field/Clay side Lamar)
  • CJ Stroud vs. Trevor Lawrence (Consensus: Stroud, due to matchup)
  • Jacoby Brissett vs. Joe Burrow (Split: Daniel picks Brissett, Field picks Burrow)
  • Bo Nix vs. Bryce Young (Field: Young, Daniel/Mike: Nix)
• Field: “You know what this is? This is a reminder… it is a weekly game.” (52:01)
• Lively, honest recognition that these are very tough calls for high-stakes playoff weeks.

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7. Additional Noteworthy Conversations

• Tua Tagovailoa Benching Impact (36:34–39:34)

  • Tua benched for Quinn Ewers; the group sees a minor downgrade for Jalen Waddle, no major change for Devon Achane due to volume.
  • Mike: “If you’re starting Tua, you’re an absolute animal for winning that many games with him…” (37:10)

• Mailbag: Waller vs. Knox, Evans vs. Waddle (62:26–64:18)

  • Waller gets the slight nod due to matchup, despite questions at QB.
  • Mike Evans slightly preferred over Waddle with Tua benched, but all show caution due to offensive uncertainties.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “There’s a saying that nobody cares about your fantasy team, but if you’re listening to Fantasy Focus, you probably care about our fantasy teams.” — Field Yates, (02:07)
• “I’m just worried about a remix from last week. The Raiders have preserved Ashton Jeanty… I got him under 10 points.” — Field Yates, (31:29)
• “Do you know that’s a really good matchup for wide receivers, guys? Sources are saying that.” — Daniel Dopp, (09:13)
• “Justin Jefferson with the 30% target share in an offense that scored eight touchdowns in their last two games. It doesn’t add up…” — Mike Clay, (17:00)
• “This is week 16. People go home after this week… it is a weekly game.” — Field Yates, (51:53, 52:01)

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Important Timestamps

• 03:10 – “Feelings and Facts” intro and segment naming
• 05:08 – Jonathan Taylor breakout prediction for MNF
• 08:10 – Rashi Rice WR1 upside debate
• 13:40 – Justin Jefferson’s woes and bold predictions
• 17:58 – JJ McCarthy’s emerging fantasy relevance
• 20:06 – Lad McConkey 115+ yard call
• 23:05 – Rams offense could dud, playoff implications discussed
• 27:05 – Jameer Gibbs first RB to 20 against Steelers
• 29:12 – Ashton Jeanty under 10 points call
• 36:34 – Tua’s benching and Dolphins’ fantasy offense outlook
• 41:05 – QB “start/sit” battles segment begins
• 52:01 – Weekly game reminder for fantasy playoffs
• 62:26 – Rapid mailbag: Waller vs Knox, Evans vs Waddle

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Overall Tone

The episode is energetic and friendly, full of stats-based insight but willing to debate, banter, and inject humor (“government name” bit, fun wagers, gentle digs at each other’s teams). The crew embraces uncertainty and the “gut call” nature of playoff fantasy football, often acknowledging the limits and frustrations of overanalyzing at this late stage. Still, they give clear, actionable advice supported by data and recent trends.

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For Listeners Who Missed the Episode

This episode provides a unique blend of actionable Week 16 advice—especially for those facing agonizing start/sit calls—with the signature chemistry and wit of the Fantasy Focus team. If you’re making crucial lineup decisions or just want to know which bold calls and “off-script” QBs the experts are actually trusting this week, this episode is a must-listen.

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Note: Ads, intros/outros, and promo readouts have been omitted from this summary.

Transcript

[Daniel Dopp]

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[Mike Clay]

That's such a weird thing because I was looking at the focus league, the FF now league, and I see myself in the final four in all of those. I don't see much of you guys.

[Field Yates]

Well, interesting. You see Daniel in two out of those three.

[Daniel Dopp]

Yeah. Actually you do see two of them.

[Mike Clay]

Yeah.

[Field Yates]

Yeah, you should have directed that right to me.

[Mike Clay]

Yeah, that was a. You should have went to him at that. I don't know what.

[Daniel Dopp]

Well, Field showed up to work the first two days.

[Field Yates]

Yeah.

[Daniel Dopp]

Come on.

[Field Yates]

How many focus league titles do you have?

[Mike Clay]

I have.

[Daniel Dopp]

That's a goose egg.

[Mike Clay]

Two years ago.

[Field Yates]

Yeah, that was me two years ago.

[Mike Clay]

Yeah, three years ago.

[Field Yates]

I don't know. I won.

[Mike Clay]

I won 11 years ago. Yeah.

[Field Yates]

How about FF now titles?

[Mike Clay]

Yeah.

[Daniel Dopp]

Have you ever won FF Now?

[Field Yates]

No, no, that would be me last year too. And who's the reigning dynasty champion?

[Mike Clay]

I don't know. I did win that two years ago.

[Field Yates]

You actually have.

[Mike Clay]

I actually have won that. I really believe you.

[Field Yates]

You and Daniel have the two best teams.

[Mike Clay]

You know, this sounds like Cowboys fans now after they lost last year.

[Field Yates]

Yeah.

[Mike Clay]

But technically we have the all time head to head lead on the Eagles, so this is fine. No big deal. Seeing that on social, it's like, come on, man. Like really? Is that what helps you sleep at night or you know, just take the L right now?

[Field Yates]

There's a saying that nobody cares about your fantasy team, but if you're listening to Fantasy Focus, you probably care about our fantasy teams. I think you guys have. And there's four teams left in our dynasty league. My team last year, like, I had a veteran squad that had, like, you know, kind of like been forged in the fire. And we finally. And we got the job done, but we understood that if it wasn't, then it might not be ever. Yep, you guys are the young bucks. Where, like, Mike's team's already won and you're like, how the hell does Mike have Ceedee Lam and Puka Nkua and Jamar Chase? Like, that's not possible.

[Daniel Dopp]

It's a great question.

[Mike Clay]

I don't have a quarterback. I know.

[Daniel Dopp]

And a super flexible.

[Field Yates]

And then you look at Daniel's team and you're like, Daniel has Bijon, Andre Clundon and Marvin Harrison Jr NZ flowers. And I'm sure I'm forgetting Pete, Jameson.

[Daniel Dopp]

Williams and Trey McBride. And I have C.J.

[Field Yates]

Sprout. That team is fricking loaded. Like, I'm glad my team got its title last year because I might not win one for the next decade with you two in that league.

[Mike Clay]

You'll be fine. You'll bounce back.

[Daniel Dopp]

Fingers crossed, though, he doesn't win for a decade.

[Field Yates]

It would help if I didn't have, like, a bottom five quarterback and Lamar Jackson is my QB one.

[Daniel Dopp]

Yeah, that's not great, unfortunately.

[Field Yates]

We'll talk about that.

[Daniel Dopp]

We may dive into that a little bit on the show. Quick little bit of love to our friends over at Trophy Smack. Head on over to trophy smack dot com. Use the promo code focus10 for 10%. Off your order over there and shout out to our buddy. Eric Moody joined the show yesterday. Make sure that you go follow him on social media, Rick and Moody, and hang out and chat, ask him all the questions. Obviously, we love Eric. It was gonna be a very fun show today. We're making a bunch of gut calls heading into week 16 field. This is a really fun idea that you had. You kind of brought to the table. Rather than just say, like, hey, who are we gonna start this week? Let's just talk about what are you feeling?

[Field Yates]

I'm using this name completely arbitrarily. So if somebody is out there sweating whether to start this player or not, I apologize. But I was saying to the guys before the show, like, at some point you've done enough. Like, do we or do we not start AD Mitchell? Like, if you have been relying on AD Mitchell in some way, shape or form for the past three to four weeks, you kind of understand the experience, right? Like, he had a great game. He also has had, like, three relatively nondescript game for fantasy purposes. So you get it. Like, if you're playing him, he's a Jets wide receiver. Like, it's probably because you're hoping for that miracle again. But I think most fantasy championships will be swung by some of the guys that we honestly don't talk about as much because it's generally like, yeah, you're starting. You're still starting Jonathan Taylor.

[Daniel Dopp]

Yeah.

[Field Yates]

Which would be an ideal place for me to start. Oh, let's talk about Jonathan Taylor.

[Mike Clay]

Wait, hold on. Before you do that, I think I have a good name for this segment. What are you going with, Feelings or facts?

[Field Yates]

Feelings and facts. I like that.

[Daniel Dopp]

I like it.

[Mike Clay]

Facts, Facts and facts.

[Field Yates]

Yeah. Yeah, Mike.

[Mike Clay]

Feelings and facts. Yeah, I just thought of that on my own.

[Daniel Dopp]

That's really good. Yeah. I've never even heard of that.

[Mike Clay]

Yeah.

[Field Yates]

So I'm going to start with a feeling.

[Daniel Dopp]

Hopefully he's going to say, we got to listen.

[Field Yates]

It becomes hopefully a fact by Monday night. Late Monday night, the final game of Week 16, is the daggom Colts playing host to the.

[Daniel Dopp]

Is that how he says it, dad?

[Mike Clay]

Gamut. Yeah.

[Field Yates]

Yeah. The 49ers enough. And it hasn't been a great month plus for Jonathan Taylor.

[Daniel Dopp]

No.

[Field Yates]

And now some of that is unfair. And it's been created unfairly by himself. Jonathan Taylor was MVP, or at least right there with Christian McCaffrey the first 10, 11 weeks of the season. He hasn't had 20 points in a game since he had 49.6 against the Falcons during that international overtime game in Germany.

[Daniel Dopp]

That seems good.

[Field Yates]

That was like five or six weeks ago. However, my first gut call is that Jonathan Taylor rushes for 150 yards and a touchdown on Monday night against the 49ers.

[Daniel Dopp]

That's 21 fantasy points right there, which you take.

[Field Yates]

And I think there's going to be even more potential juice to squeeze there for jt. Let's start here. Flat out, full stop. Even though it wasn't super productive, I thought the Colts offense was better last week than I expected it.

[Mike Clay]

I would agree.

[Field Yates]

Like, I was fearful that it was eight completions for Philip Rivers on 22 attempts for 47 yards. And defenses could literally just sell out against the run and make Jonathan Taylor 1.7 yard per carry player because they've got 13 men in the box. Wasn't perfect from Philip Rivers, but he at least completed 66.

[Daniel Dopp]

Did you say 13 men in the box? I just realized you said that that is illegal. In case anyone's wondering, 2/3 of his.

[Field Yates]

Passes were completed last week from Philip Rivers. Not great Yardage by any stretch, but like more functional than I thought.

[Daniel Dopp]

Yeah.

[Field Yates]

So that's good right there. And Jonathan Taylor last week had 28 opportunities.

[Mike Clay]

Sure did.

[Field Yates]

25 rushing attempts, three receptions as well. Now let's look at the matchup. That's the important part. Here is the Colts defense, by the way, played well last week. They did not allow a single touchdown to the Seahawks. Jason Meyers just went off with six field goals. First time that's ever happened in Seahawks franchise history. But last week against the 49ers, Tony Pollard had 100 plus rushing yards and a touchdown.

[Mike Clay]

Yeah.

[Field Yates]

And check this out. Or check out this.

[Daniel Dopp]

Whoa.

[Field Yates]

Or maybe this checks out. I know this checks out.

[Daniel Dopp]

This checks out. Oh, that's so good. Field.

[Field Yates]

Every player that has finished as the top scoring running back for his team against the Niners this season.

[Mike Clay]

Yep.

[Field Yates]

Has scored above his season long average with the exception of one player. That was Rico Dowdle. Remember that Monday Night Football game? Yeah.

[Mike Clay]

Did you grind through the numbers and pull. That's. That sounds like a me stat.

[Field Yates]

So.

[Daniel Dopp]

It does.

[Field Yates]

You're welcome, Mike.

[Mike Clay]

I like it.

[Field Yates]

Actually, let's be honest. Kyle Soppi helped me out with the tool a while ago that tracks these things.

[Mike Clay]

Kyle's the go shout out to thirsty Kyle.

[Field Yates]

So, Kyle, thank you for that. So just to say that one more time, the highest scoring running back against the Niners in each game this season has scored above his season average, with the one exception of Rico Dowdle.

[Daniel Dopp]

It's a great stat.

[Field Yates]

It would be tough for Jonathan Taylor to get above his season long average. But even if he gets right to his season average, you would take that. So I say JT has a monster night on Monday. Love that playing at home too, which helps.

[Mike Clay]

I have him top five. I've been projected for 24 right there with the elite guys. So definitely the massive percentage of their offense offensive touches is something that. And the matchup's a lot easier. So yeah, I'm worried about his absolute ceiling compared to earlier this year. But you know, with this matchup and his volume, I. I'm with you.

[Field Yates]

Okay. All right.

[Mike Clay]

I like it.

[Daniel Dopp]

I am going to go next, if you guys don't mind. I'm going to bring to the table Rashi Rice because I think Rashi Rice will still top 18 and a half fantasy points with Gardner Minshew under center projection.

[Mike Clay]

18.

[Daniel Dopp]

Is it really? Look at that. Well, then I might even go a little higher. Well, we're going to. We're going to lay out the thing. We're going to talk about the player, the matchup and obviously the quarterback situation, but with Rashi Rice. Rashi Rice, excuse me, elite volume. Since returning in week seven, he is fifth amongst wide receivers and targets over that span behind Jamar Chase, Amon, Ross St. Brown, Kenneth Gainwell, Michael Wilson and Wandell Robinson. The fourth one, I wouldn't have guessed that. So. But he's fifth. The three worst games he's had this season, 6 for 38 on 9 targets against the Broncos, 4 for 34 on 8 targets against the Texans, and 7 for 51 on 11 targets against the Chargers. Every other game he's been over this 18 and a half point mark that I just gave you. And those are three really good defenses.

[Mike Clay]

Yeah, terrific, right?

[Daniel Dopp]

Every other game he has topped 18 and a half fantasy points. Let's talk about the matchup now. He gets the Titans this week. Do you know that's a really good matchup for wide receivers, guys.

[Field Yates]

Sources are saying that.

[Daniel Dopp]

Yep, fifth most fantasy points to wide receivers. Here's what they've done recently. Week 10, they had a buy. Week 11, they allowed Nico to score 24.2 fantasy points. Week 12, they allowed JSN to score 37.1 fantasy points. Week 13, they allowed Jacoby Myers to score 21.3 fantasy points. Week 14, even Jerry Judy got in on the action with 16.6 fantasy points. And then last week, Joann Jennings had 18.7. Ricky Pearsall had 15.6. Wide receivers are eating against the Titans. So the question is, can you trust the quarterback situation with Gardner Minshew coming in Under Center? Since 2022, he has played for the Eagles, the Raiders and the Colts. He has started three, excuse me, 24 games over that span, Gardner Minshew has a wide receiver playing with Gardner minshew has topped 16 fantasy points in 17 of those 24 starts. Also in those 24 starts, a wide receiver has had at least nine targets on 18 different occasions. So in 18 of his 24 games, his top wide receiver was seeing at least nine targets, which is exactly what we're looking for. If you got Rashee Rice on your squad, I think he was already being ranked a starter. We were not starting Rashi Rice, obviously, but I think I have less trepidation in the fear of Gardner Minshew knowing what he's been able to do in the past. And this matchup is just so good. Minshew doesn't have to be elite. Just find the guy and put the ball in his hand. So I've got him. Still as A top five wide receiver. I only see a marginal drop off right now.

[Field Yates]

Definitely like the short range targets too. Right. Those are absolutely much higher likelihood throws.

[Daniel Dopp]

Pepper them with those 12 short range targets. I'm good with that.

[Field Yates]

I hope you're wrong because in the 48 semifinals I have this weekend, I'm facing him in 32.

[Daniel Dopp]

Okay. All right. That's fair. It'll be a tough one. It'll be a tough one. Sorry about that.

[Field Yates]

It's not quite 48. It's not quite 32. It's two out of the six.

[Mike Clay]

Yeah. I was. I was surprised how. Just how poor Minshew has been as a fantasy quarterback the last couple of years. The last two years when he started. But you're right. We don't really care about that.

[Daniel Dopp]

I don't care him.

[Mike Clay]

We're the final four. We're not streaming Gardner Minshew unless you're in a super flex league. So just get the ball in the hands of Rasheever Ice, maybe a little Kelsey and maybe get Xavier Worthy going somehow. I don't know if there's a week.

[Field Yates]

It'S going to be that is the most fantasy football thing. Yes, that like if Xavier worthy has his first 20 point game of the.

[Daniel Dopp]

Season, it's in week 16 when no one's starting him because already given up.

[Mike Clay]

Brian Thomas last year.

[Daniel Dopp]

With Brian Thomas last week Lawrence goes out potentially.

[Mike Clay]

Thomas goes off.

[Daniel Dopp]

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[Mike Clay]

So you guys both picked like kind of high end fantasy players and a little bit of turmoil to have big weeks. I'm going to do the same and mine's probably the boldest of the three, even though it might be the best player of the three. Justin Jeff oh, 20 plus fantasy points for the first time ever with JJ McCarthy. I'm out under center. You're out. I'm out with the Mark Cuban head on.

[Daniel Dopp]

This is great. I'm glad we get to have this conversation. Give us I want to talk about, I want to talk about this really good.

[Mike Clay]

Some reason for optimism. Look, he had eight targets last week. I know that it didn't work out well, 22 yards and two catches. But he had some, a lot of close calls in that game. He actually had a touchdown and it was called it was an illegal formation which was a guy standing a couple feet away from it has nothing really to do with the play. He would have scored anyway. It made my conversations a little bit different.

[Daniel Dopp]

I just want to say this. On those plays, when an illegal formation happens on the other side of the line because someone didn't line up six inches farther back, does that really affect the outcome of the play?

[Field Yates]

So I agree with that. The only thing that I will say is that the ref is calling the flag as the ball is snapped.

[Daniel Dopp]

So it's not there's no question it's like this happened.

[Field Yates]

So it would be I you get the frustration. But I also, I want to take the there's enough that we complain about with the refs that I think is valid that I want to give Them their pass there. Because I have had that same thought and then I have reminded myself, like, I get it. There's a process involved with those flags.

[Mike Clay]

My least favorite is where the guy's running, sprinting off the field to get off the field. And he's like a half inch. You're looking at replay and his foot still inbounds. Has nothing to do with the play at all. And they throw like a penalty for 12 men on the field.

[Field Yates]

I just got the Dolphins last week.

[Daniel Dopp]

Yeah, well, he's really so good.

[Mike Clay]

There should be some sort of like. Like if the guy's leaving the field and it's like just common sense, you know? Anyway, a lot of close calls for Jefferson. He's been under 12 fantasy points in sixth straight. He does have a 30% target share with McCarthy. That's huge.

[Field Yates]

It's tasty.

[Mike Clay]

He had a couple touchdowns early this year with McCarthy. A couple decent games. He thought he they would increase them there. It has not. I get it. But it's a good matchup. They're playing the Giant, the Giants top eight and catches, yards, touchdowns, and fantasy points allowed to receivers. They have a lot. 30 plus fantasy points to opposing receivers in five consecutive games. There's a lot to like from that perspective. And just watching that game last week, I felt like it was close. Like they're missing. They keep missing. I mean, really, what, five? Now it's been like four. What did I say? Five straight games. Six straight games under 12 fantasy points. Some of them with McCarthy. I know that's seemingly a long stretch. It is for a fantasy season. It's not really a large sample and the targets have been there for the most part. So I think that it's variants gone wrong here. I know their connection hasn't been great, but he's hitting Jaylen Naylor.

[Field Yates]

I watched variants gone wrong.

[Mike Clay]

Yeah. I feel like. I feel like it's close. And I think this is the week against the Giants where the connection hits for at least one touchdown. Maybe he catches five balls this week and gets to 20 points. I think this is the week.

[Daniel Dopp]

Also. I've got Jalen Naylor on my Dynasty team. Maybe I should try to move him for somebody.

[Field Yates]

This is great. Okay. This is actually so a lot of times when we're doing board best, it's like quarterback six versus quarterback ten. And we split the difference. It's quarterback eight.

[Mike Clay]

Yeah.

[Field Yates]

Mike and I are 22 spots apart on Justin.

[Daniel Dopp]

Where are we at? What were the rankings at?

[Field Yates]

11 for Mike.

[Mike Clay]

Yeah.

[Field Yates]

33 for me.

[Mike Clay]

Wow. I can't believe you're that low. I think I was 21.

[Field Yates]

Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah, you're right. He's been awesome recently.

[Daniel Dopp]

When you say, I can't believe it.

[Mike Clay]

Jefferson.

[Field Yates]

Right. Yeah.

[Mike Clay]

What is that?

[Daniel Dopp]

But. Okay.

[Mike Clay]

But Justin Jefferson with the 30% target share in an offense that scored eight touchdowns in their last two games.

[Daniel Dopp]

So this is where.

[Mike Clay]

Doesn't add up. As a.

[Daniel Dopp]

You're right. As a numbers person. It doesn't add up. And so if you're not a numbers person and you're just like, am I going to keep trusting this? I'm just banging my head against the wall and it's not working.

[Field Yates]

I have an idea. Let's do a two. Like, not just a board bet if you're interested.

[Mike Clay]

Of course. Yeah.

[Field Yates]

But also a chat vote and see which side they're on. Love it. So in between 11 and 33 is 22. Do you want top 22? Are you comfortable with that? That's a pretty darn good bet for you.

[Mike Clay]

Yeah, I will take it.

[Field Yates]

Okay. I say Justin Jefferson is not a top 22 wide receiver.

[Mike Clay]

I say Justin Jefferson is a top 22 receiver in week 16.

[Field Yates]

Put it on the board. All right, so can we throw a chat question in there as well and see which side they rest on? Will Justin Jefferson finish inside the top 22 of wide receivers? Yes or no? Wow.

[Mike Clay]

I'm going to guess the answer.

[Daniel Dopp]

That's crazy.

[Mike Clay]

I'm going to guess that is crazy. How about.

[Daniel Dopp]

Do you mind if I go next? Because I'm going to follow along with that Because I talked about him yesterday, but I wanted to bring it up with Mike here.

[Mike Clay]

Wrote down my guess. So we'll see.

[Daniel Dopp]

Because I think that J.J. mcCarthy scores 20 or more fantasy points for the third straight game.

[Mike Clay]

Okay.

[Field Yates]

Just. You know, I don't think the Internet's given me enough.

[Daniel Dopp]

Enough love for this field. That's why I'm bringing it up. You called this, like, weeks ago.

[Field Yates]

Here's how it works.

[Daniel Dopp]

None of us wanted to trust him. And you were like, I will plant my flag on this dude.

[Field Yates]

You have a rare good call. You have to brag about it. It's just how the Internet works now.

[Mike Clay]

It's just like spiking after a touchdown. It's fine. I have no issue with that, too.

[Daniel Dopp]

That's all it is.

[Field Yates]

I believe that's aura farming. Isn't that what they called it?

[Daniel Dopp]

I have no idea. I hope it wasn't something I shouldn't have done. But they do it all the time.

[Field Yates]

We're three 40ish white guys. We're not exactly the people to, you know, be the authority on celebrations of the end zone.

[Mike Clay]

Yeah.

[Daniel Dopp]

Well, let's talk about J.J. mcCarthy really quickly. 250 passing yards, two touchdowns, plus 15 rushing yards and a touchdown this last week. We talked about it on yesterday's show. 23 and a half fantasy points, back to back games of 20 or more fantasy points. He had great matchups in both of those games and has another great matchup this week. I brought up the idea of, like, am I worried? And I would maybe change the way that I'm looking at it if the northeast was really snowy or it was bad weather. Field looked it up yesterday. Weather might not be as big of a factor as you might think in December in New York.

[Field Yates]

It's getting downright warm up here. It's gonna be 55 in Connecticut on Friday.

[Daniel Dopp]

That's crazy.

[Field Yates]

To the beach or my pool?

[Daniel Dopp]

That's a little too far.

[Mike Clay]

The snow to melt.

[Daniel Dopp]

To melt off the driveway. Yeah, that checks out. Anyway, our focus has really been on Justin Jefferson and how bad he's been with J.J. mcCarthy. But if we just look at J.J. mcCarthy, he's done what you expected him to do against two bad defenses. He has six total touchdowns over those two games. Took advantage of Washington, took advantage of Dallas, and he's done this. I want to think about it like this, and this is what I'm trying to do. He's done this without Justin Jefferson. What happens when him and Justin Jefferson do hit in week 17 and then it's a guarantee if Justin Jefferson gets to that 20 fantasy points, I feel like JJ McCarthy is at least going to get to that same mark again this week. So again, a third straight matchup. Even if he hasn't been able to find a way to get Jefferson involved, I still think it's possible with the matchup and the way that they're utilizing him. So I'm going to say third straight game of 20 or more fantasy points for J.J. mcCarthy.

[Mike Clay]

I like it.

[Field Yates]

All right, my next one is. Have you guys seen that new social media bit where the admin from an NFL team goes around the locker room and calls players by their government name?

[Daniel Dopp]

Government name.

[Field Yates]

So they'd be like Michael Lester Clay. Right? Junior, Junior, Sorry. I'm going to break out the government name today, show you how serious I am about this next call.

[Mike Clay]

Okay.

[Field Yates]

Bad McDonkey goes over 115 receiving yards against the Cowboys.

[Mike Clay]

People don't realize. They don't get it. Joe Farterson. This is Just their real names. Okay.

[Field Yates]

I don't think also people appreciated one of the funniest things that I have seen on TV in a long time. And it was a little bit too inside baseball for all of not just the audience but the set to understand it. But for those that may have missed fantasy football, now go check out Mike's social handles right now because he posted the video. It was so good of him talking to his team. And I'm going to step back as Mike was yelling and he was talking to lad McConkey and he goes like that social post, ladies. And it made me downright cackle about 30ft away on the set.

[Mike Clay]

That's a callback to something we talked about on this show. Was a week four.

[Field Yates]

It was like week four when Lad. The amazing part about that is that no one gets the victory lap that debate back in the day because it turns out they all stink.

[Mike Clay]

We were all however, not this weekend.

[Field Yates]

When Lad McConkey, his actual government name, goes for over 115 receiving yards against the Cowboys. I don't really need to give you guys a whole, much, whole lot more advice beyond the fact that they play the Cowboys, who by the way have allowed a receiver to reach 17, 17 and a half fantasy points, at least one of them in six of their last seven games. I'm going to give you a chance to guess the offense that could not produce a 17.5 point receiver against the Cowboys. Against the Cowboys the last seven games. They.

[Mike Clay]

In their last seven games.

[Daniel Dopp]

Yeah, it was the Philadelphia Eagles.

[Field Yates]

No, no, no. The Eagles. They got there. Don't you.

[Daniel Dopp]

Oh, I thought you were doing that to troll Mike.

[Mike Clay]

Like maybe it went up 21 nothing in that game and then lost. I guess AJ Brown probably score there. Good days there. Yeah. I can't remember. I can't remember who teams played.

[Field Yates]

Just think about awful offenses. The Raiders, of course.

[Mike Clay]

The Raiders.

[Field Yates]

Raiders.

[Mike Clay]

Oh, I thought he was going the other way with it.

[Daniel Dopp]

I did too. I was like the Rams. Was it Puka and Devonte.

[Mike Clay]

Like that's where my head went. He got.

[Daniel Dopp]

That's usually how Mike leads us into questions. You like did the opposite of that.

[Field Yates]

Well, you know, that is sneaky. Lad McConkey has a big day on Sunday. 115 receiving yards against the Cowboys is my guy.

[Daniel Dopp]

I'd like to do the thing that we do with Drake May where we call him lad bad McDonkey McConkey. And like we do a full name. Yeah. With the nickname in between.

[Mike Clay]

Problem is I have to decide if I'm Going to start him in the FF now league.

[Field Yates]

I was trying to convince you right there. Yeah, yeah.

[Mike Clay]

Because I. I also have George Pickens who's on the other side of that game in a tough matchup.

[Field Yates]

Yeah.

[Mike Clay]

Against the Chargers and. And Ted. Ron McMillan.

[Field Yates]

I like that.

[Mike Clay]

I pick a lot through a lot of these guys, so.

[Daniel Dopp]

Let's hope so. I would love to have a big week for lad McConkey. I would just like to see him get back on track, to be honest, with everything going on here. So. Yeah.

[Mike Clay]

All right, Michael, my turn. Guys. I believe that on Thursday Night Football, a down week from the Rams offense is going to knock a lot of good teams out of.

[Daniel Dopp]

Wow.

[Mike Clay]

I'm in jeopardy here because I have a little bit of PUK and a kua. Actually, my. My Kyron team. I had him on one team that's out, so I don't have to worry about that. But devonte Adams, unlikely to play. They're getting the shot. But he was out of practice yesterday. I can't imagine he's going to go. But I'm really worried about a lot of these guys and we're going to get into some of them later on in the show. So I won't do a deep dive on Matthew Stafford and Kyron Williams just yet. But Puka Nukua, I mean, you'll look at this Seattle defense, they've led the fourth fewest fantasy points to receivers, the fewest over the last eight weeks, the second fewest to the perimeter, the fewest yards, the lowest yards per target, the third lowest catch rate since Week 7. One receiver has got fifth. Scored 15 fantasy points against the Seattle Seahawks. And these teams played in Week 11, and you might think, well, they probably. I don't remember Nakua and Adams having bad games at all. Oh, hold on. Pukunukua, 14.3 fantasy points, which is for him, is horrendous. And Devonte Adams had 7.1 points in that game.

[Field Yates]

Moreover, those 7.1 fantasy points came in the most incredible fashion.

[Mike Clay]

Like fullbacks, one snap of the game.

[Field Yates]

Form, one catch, one yard, one touchdown for Devonte in that game.

[Mike Clay]

Yeah.

[Daniel Dopp]

You said there was one wide receiver that topped 15 fantasy points since week seven.

[Mike Clay]

Correct.

[Daniel Dopp]

Did you have it on your note who it was? No, it was Chimera dk.

[Field Yates]

Of course.

[Daniel Dopp]

Of course it was Chimera dk.

[Field Yates]

And by the way, you know why that happened?

[Daniel Dopp]

Pun returned touchdown.

[Mike Clay]

Correct. That's right.

[Field Yates]

They are nasty.

[Mike Clay]

So again, we'll talk more about this throughout the rest of the show, but that's my, my issue here. I think that you could have a down game from Stafford. You're gonna have no Adams, no Adams.

[Daniel Dopp]

We don't think we should say we don't like the.

[Mike Clay]

Right.

[Field Yates]

Because it has. Yeah, kind of the winds have shifted.

[Mike Clay]

Ever so slightly and Nakuba, maybe with Adams there, maybe does score and have a big game just on 15 targets. That could happen, but could be a down game. People are going to be streaming. Colby Parkinson. Yeah, I don't know how that's going to work against this defense. Kyron Williams in the running game, we'll get to later, but that's a concern as well. So I'm really worried about the Rams scoring, you know, just having an underwhelming day on Thursday night.

[Daniel Dopp]

Do you have Devonte Adams projected right now?

[Mike Clay]

I do. No, I removed.

[Field Yates]

No, he's not in the.

[Daniel Dopp]

If, if he does play, if we find out Thursday, hey, guess what? They're going to roll out with Devonte Adams against this defense. They're going to have a lot of managers in a situation. Where are you going to trust devontae?

[Field Yates]

Classic pickle right there. I probably would say, like, I just got to hold off there. I probably have to hold off.

[Daniel Dopp]

I would hope I have better options.

[Field Yates]

Because I think you're going to get some reporting that's like, yeah, he's going to be limited to like, which would be hilarious. Only red zone work.

[Daniel Dopp]

What he should have been three for.

[Field Yates]

Three and three touchdowns.

[Mike Clay]

But you also worry about a setback there with the hamster, for sure.

[Field Yates]

One bad play and he's gone.

[Mike Clay]

I'd be. Honestly, they're trying to win a Super Bowl. I would be shocked if he played.

[Field Yates]

I mean, also I would be shocked. We obviously know that Sean McVay loves Devonte Adams, like, loves the guy. He named a second born son who was born on Monday, Devontae McVay. Which is crazy. That's crazy. It's actually not the truth.

[Mike Clay]

It's puka.

[Field Yates]

It's puka.

[Mike Clay]

Yeah.

[Field Yates]

No, it's actually, you know, the amazing boy. It's Christian.

[Daniel Dopp]

Is it really?

[Field Yates]

It's Christian. Yeah. Yeah. So most importantly, congratulations to Sean and his wife and their growing family's got two sons now. It's a beautiful thing.

[Mike Clay]

Love that.

[Field Yates]

Think about the timing there. You've already got this incredibly condensed week and then nothing is more important than the birth of your child. So that's a wild 100ish hours there for the entire McVeigh family. And welcome to the world, Christian.

[Mike Clay]

That's right.

[Field Yates]

I'm sure those boys will be very very into football like the parents are. Anyways, I agree with you on this Rams offense. It does make me nervous. 13 for 20 was Matthew Stafford stat line when these two teams played. Now it was a funky game because Sam Darnold threw four picks so they weren't playing as much like they were just kind of quirkiness to its shorter fields, et cetera. That being said, definitely an interesting game to kick off week 16.

[Daniel Dopp]

I can't believe I'm going to do this, but I'm going to bench Matthew Stafford in a league for CJ Stroud and I don't think at any point I know, but like at no other week this season would I have ever made that decision.

[Mike Clay]

This topic is the second half of our discussion. We're a lot on quarterback.

[Daniel Dopp]

All right, deal. We'll go into a bunch of things.

[Field Yates]

Last cut call for you.

[Daniel Dopp]

Last one from me is I believe that Jameer Gibbs will be the first running back to top 20 fantasy points against the Pittsburgh Steelers this week on his way to a 35 point game. Because of course we're going to have.

[Field Yates]

The 20 against the Steelers.

[Daniel Dopp]

Nobody at the running back position is top 20 fantasy last week Jameer Gibbs has at least 36 fantasy points in every other game since week seven. This is the week. This is the every other game at home. He's got 16 touchdowns on the season, 62 catches, 494 receiving yards. Both are third amongst the running back position. He's third in the NFL in yards before first contact, which is not an offensive line stat for Jameer Gibbs this year. That's just him being unbelievable at what he does, averaging 22.7 points per game. Steelers are allowing the 12th fewest fantasy points to running backs this year, but over the last month they've actually allowed the 13th most fantasy points to running back this year. Week 10 Kamani Vidal had 17.8. Week 11 Chase Brown at 18.7. Week 13 James Cook had 18.7. Week 15 Devon Achan had 18.7. Three straight running backs to hit 18.7 fantasy points against them. But the Lions are in a win or go home spot. They're going to have to rely on their running back. I don't think they're going to be able to do what they did last week. It's going to have to be a huge game for Jameer Gibbs. I don't know about the 35, but I do think that he will be the first running back to top 20 against the Steelers this year.

[Field Yates]

So you mentioned back to back to back games of allowing exactly 18.7 fantasy points. Yeah, very unlikely that happens, right? I have a. I don't know if it's just quirkier. All right, let's see it. But I'm playing my buddy Lefty in the semis of our league this weekend and Lefty and I have played already twice this season.

[Mike Clay]

Okay.

[Field Yates]

We have decimal scoring here, so it's not full point scoring. He has defeated me by exactly one point in each of our first two matchups.

[Daniel Dopp]

No way.

[Field Yates]

And the funny part was like the first one was like a 154.26 to 153.26. The second one was a pitcher's duel. It was like 100.4 to 99.4. So we've played two very different games.

[Daniel Dopp]

Yeah, the locker room defense talk worked for the second one.

[Mike Clay]

Got better. But they say it's hard to beat a team three times, so. Yeah, you have the edge here.

[Field Yates]

Let's hope so. I do love Lefty though. So if he beats me, it's okay. My last call here is Ashton genti telling her 10 fantasy points this weekend. And it may not actually sound that that bold, does it? I mean, let's go through some of what's happened to the Raiders offense all year, but highlight the last six games. Over the last six games, the Raiders have scored a total of seven touchdowns, Seven offensive touchdowns over the last six games. Five of those have been by Brock Bowers. He's very good. Three of those came in one game for Brock Bowers. Genti has one touchdown in his last five games. I mentioned yesterday, he's got a total of 95 rushing yards over the last three games. So do you think against this Houston defense, just. I'm being serious here. Do you think he gets to 45 rushing yards?

[Mike Clay]

I'll say yes.

[Field Yates]

But really?

[Mike Clay]

Yeah.

[Field Yates]

Okay.

[Mike Clay]

I think we're at the 45. Just because I'll have 15 carries or so, average 3 yards a carry, I would be surprised.

[Field Yates]

Okay, so I probably lean towards Daniel there. Do you think he will score a touchdown?

[Daniel Dopp]

This.

[Field Yates]

No, I just based off of their propensity for not scoring, I'm at 52.

[Mike Clay]

So medium projections, probably like 47 or something.

[Field Yates]

So the interesting part is. So Mike's projections, just to remind people, if you just add up the rushing yards plus the receptions, plus the receiving yards, it's not going to equal the projected points because it's going to include some portion decimals of it of a touchdown, right?

[Mike Clay]

Yeah.

[Field Yates]

8.4 yeah, it's like yeah, 0.16.

[Mike Clay]

For rushing, touchdown,.12 for receiving. So maybe like a one in three chance he scores. Yeah.

[Field Yates]

So the bottom line is this, is that like Ashton Genty who has one touchdown in his last five games, I'm bearish on the rushing upside here and the receiving upside. Even if he gets four to five catches, he's averaging 5.4 yards per catch. It's pretty much dump off city. So this defense facing off against the Houston, the Raiders pathetic offensive line like the Houston defense is one of the scarier units to face this year. In fantasy. This week. In fantasy. Yeah. Like could they get 17 fantasy points this weekend? They absolutely could.

[Daniel Dopp]

Totally.

[Field Yates]

So I'm just worried about a remix from last week. And one thing we have seen the Raiders do with one of these absolute blowout city. They have preserved Astron Genti. So I got astron genti under 10 fantasy points.

[Mike Clay]

Have the Raiders projected to score 12 points.

[Field Yates]

Yep, that's the implied total in Vegas.

[Mike Clay]

Is that the same number? Yeah, it's very close.

[Field Yates]

The over under is. I believe so. The, it's. The over under is close. Yeah. 38 and a half and the Texans are favored by 14 in this game. So do the math.

[Mike Clay]

There you go.

[Field Yates]

26 to 12 is basically, you know, the Vegas implied scores 26.25 to 12.25.

[Daniel Dopp]

So Brock Bauer scores a touchdown and.

[Field Yates]

Everyone else maybe struggles.

[Daniel Dopp]

Yeah, we'll see.

[Field Yates]

You know, it's kind of a low key, disappointing thing for fantasy this year is Daniel Carlson used to be a great fantasy kick. Yes, they play in that field. He's got an absolute bomb of a leg but they just don't get any field goal.

[Mike Clay]

Yeah. This is why our projections for kickers are so driven by the playing good offenses and who you're playing against that's so important. And it doesn't, you know, unless you're, you know, Aubrey and you can just kick from last field. You know you had a couple of.

[Field Yates]

Rushes left like 12 fantasy points on the board last week. Week if you play decimal scoring. He left a 61 and a 59 yard.

[Mike Clay]

Right. And not scoring yet.

[Daniel Dopp]

And he had like a bootleg on a field goal run where he should have thrown the ball and he would have had a passing touchdown.

[Field Yates]

That would have been sweet.

[Daniel Dopp]

So like that was that. I don't know that have been a thing.

[Mike Clay]

Actually the best kicker in fantasy was you're seeing the team on the screen, the Colts the first month there till he got hurt there. The Colts kicker was Leading everyone.

[Field Yates]

Spencer Schrader.

[Mike Clay]

Spencer Shrader. That's right.

[Daniel Dopp]

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[Field Yates]

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[Mike Clay]

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[Field Yates]

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[Daniel Dopp]

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[Field Yates]

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[Mike Clay]

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[Field Yates]

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[Mike Clay]

That's why you rack.

[Daniel Dopp]

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[Field Yates]

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[Daniel Dopp]

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[Mike Clay]

Last one for me, guys is actually going to lead right into our next topic. My prediction is bold prediction here is Taylor Schuck will be a top five fantasy quarterback this week. Whoa. Yeah.

[Field Yates]

Like it, Michael.

[Mike Clay]

Ready to go? There's a bold one. 17 plus fantasy points and three straight in four of his last five and he's only made six starts, so he's been pretty, pretty good. 16.7 fantasy points per game during that span. Is 11th among active quarterbacks, ahead of guys like Joe Burrow, Bo Nix, Patrick Mahomes, Jalen Hurts, Justin Herbert, Lamar Jackson.

[Daniel Dopp]

You said he's 11th. Does that mean he's better than Jacoby Brissette who's been quarterback 12?

[Mike Clay]

He's been 12 or better. No, Brissette's like two or three.

[Daniel Dopp]

Okay, all right, got it.

[Mike Clay]

Shortly shock only six passing touchdowns during that span, but he's playing well and he's adding value with his legs. 28 carries, 127 yards and two rushing touchdowns over his last four games and guys, they're at home playing against the jets. And we just saw the jets go into Jacksonville last week and get absolutely demolished by Trevor Lawrence. He had 44.3 points. The jets now in the season top 10 in passing touchdowns and fantasy points allowed to quarterbacks despite having faced the fifth fewest pass attempts. Teams don't have to throw on them and they're still putting up huge numbers. Zero interceptions for the jets this season. They just fired their defensive coordinator which once in a while you see a team get a little juice when they make a change like that. But I just, I think the, the way Shuck is playing and then being at home and the way the jets are out of it and struggling, I think he set up for a big.

[Daniel Dopp]

This late in the season to fire your defensive coordinator after you've traded away all of your blue chip defensive players.

[Field Yates]

Who's your guy too? Like, like I think Steve Wilkes and Aaron Glenn were like they were close. It's tough, cold business. We are going to. I like the call on Tyler Schuck, by the way. Happy for the Saints. Like they've kind of played themselves out of the quarterback conversation for right now going into the draft. And by the way, it's the perfect draft to do that. Yes, it's the perfect draft to not need a quarterback because it is limited inventory at the very top.

[Mike Clay]

Maybe you go shock and a veteran next year and just see and build around that and then see how it goes and then go for the quarterback if you need to.

[Field Yates]

Everybody is going to respond with the same joke. Tyler Schuck already is a veteran. He's 25, 26.

[Daniel Dopp]

Not wrong.

[Field Yates]

He had seven years in college.

[Mike Clay]

Better in competition.

[Field Yates]

Two things here. One, we're going to get to our poll result in the question.

[Daniel Dopp]

Yes, we are.

[Field Yates]

But two changes upon us. Tua Tungavailoa has been benched.

[Daniel Dopp]

It's happened.

[Field Yates]

By the way, Quinn, yours has taken over for the Dolphins.

[Mike Clay]

Concerning.

[Field Yates]

You know, it's funny Mike, because my gut reaction when I hear about this is that I am A, like less optimistic on the offense as a whole for Miami. But B, I'm like, it's not like I like Tua's not been good.

[Daniel Dopp]

Right. Do you.

[Field Yates]

Is there any fantasy takeaway that immediately if you're starting Tua, you're an absolute animal for winning that many games with him as your fantasy second quarterback?

[Mike Clay]

Oh no, you're not starting him.

[Field Yates]

He's been, I mean, super flex like you know, even so bad. Like I'm just saying.

[Mike Clay]

But it's like QB31 or double super.

[Field Yates]

Flex quarterback league, whatever.

[Mike Clay]

I think it's like 45 qualified quarterbacks, like 43rd in fantasy points per game. He's being beyond atrocious in fantasy.

[Field Yates]

So bottom line is this. It has been a brutal season for Tua, and yet I still feel like I may be less optimistic here with Quinn Ewers. Quinn has a couple of things going for him. Quinn does have the advantage of like, Tua's put on a lot of bad film. Quinn hasn't put the bad film on yet. So he has a little bit of the benefit of the doubt that like, like maybe he goes out there on Sunday against Cincinnati and you're like, oh, wow, why did this guy have to sit on the bench for the first 15 weeks? Seventh round pick, guys.

[Mike Clay]

Yeah.

[Field Yates]

This is not. It's not the Miami Dolphins. Yeah. Handing the keys off to a second round pick. Now, it's a great matchup to build some confidence. Right. But for the guys that move the needle in fantasy, Devon Hn. Not really. Right.

[Daniel Dopp]

Like, I still have the.

[Mike Clay]

Just give me the targets for him.

[Daniel Dopp]

That's what I was going to say. Is, is. Is Quinn Ewers gonna dump the ball off as much as Tua did or is he gonna try to find a way to push it down?

[Field Yates]

I'll tell you what, he's more mobile than Tua. Not by a ton, though. Okay. That way he's a good athlete, but he's not a great athlete.

[Daniel Dopp]

We still want Devon Achan's volume to be there in the passing game.

[Field Yates]

And we actually joked about this. Not joked, but we laughed at this a couple days ago on the show. Devon Achien's projection this week, it's amazing.

[Mike Clay]

It's enormous.

[Daniel Dopp]

Yes.

[Field Yates]

28.61 points at last check.

[Mike Clay]

Does it mean when you're 35, when you're already up there, I mean, and he looks, look, in a neutral, In a neutral matchup, he would be right there with those top guys. So when you add in the fact that you're playing the Bengals, who you should be able to score more on more than usual, more than the Dolphins usually scores, not to mention how poor they are against running backs. I mean, that's going to add a few points that vaults you from 24, 27, 28, whatever.

[Field Yates]

We weren't laughing to say we disagree with you. We were just like that number makes your eyes your. Your jaw drop.

[Daniel Dopp]

You're usually pretty. I don't want to say conservative, but like, we don't see a 28 point projection running back.

[Mike Clay]

They're mean projections. They're not meant to be. Like I just, you know, I think Isaiah Bond's going to catch a 42 yard touch in so I'm going to rank him 19th.

[Field Yates]

Like I'm going to do that.

[Mike Clay]

They're supposed to be level headed.

[Field Yates]

So to be clear. Yeah, you're the goat at the projections and there's no close seconds. That's why it was so interesting. Such a huge number to a benched Quinn Ewers in Zach Wilson still not starting for the Dolphins. Suppose a little bit of interesting news there but Jalen waddle to me a little bit of a downgrade.

[Mike Clay]

He's already going to draw DJ Turner a lot more on that tomorrow. So downgrade. We'll get into that tomorrow more. But I think the biggest one honestly in terms of decision making is actually Darren Waller. I know like I was thinking about scooping him up. I picked him up in a couple weeks. Maybe stream him after last week but with no.2 it's just risky now. I don't think you need to take that risk now. So I'm less likely to use.

[Daniel Dopp]

It is a great matchup on my.

[Field Yates]

Topics list for the week. We'll see if we dive into that tomorrow.

[Daniel Dopp]

We said that last week for what it's. We said it was a great match for the Ravens.

[Mike Clay]

The Bengals are at least a little more competent lately. A they've been a little better.

[Field Yates]

I mean they had against Lamar winning. Yep.

[Mike Clay]

Totally.

[Daniel Dopp]

All right. Before we dive into the next segment we're going to take a quick question from our YouTube chat. This one comes in. It's the poll results. Will Justin Jefferson Finish inside wide receiver 22. 64% said no. Mike literally wrote down 64%.

[Mike Clay]

No.

[Daniel Dopp]

You are. That's not real show that can. Can we. Is that. Is there any chance we can see that on the screen? Move it over. I don't know if you can see it. It says 64%. No. I cannot believe you guessed.

[Mike Clay]

That's why I want to say it out loud because I wanted to see if I could actually get it.

[Daniel Dopp]

That is unbelievable.

[Field Yates]

Wow.

[Mike Clay]

You are.

[Daniel Dopp]

This is why you're the projections guy.

[Mike Clay]

My best skill is. This is so funny. When Megan I watch Jeopardy. When someone gets a daily double I can see into their brain and say like 3,000 like their wager and I get it like really close or right on like every time Officially on the.

[Field Yates]

Hot seat owes the mentalist.

[Daniel Dopp]

That's right.

[Field Yates]

Yeah.

[Mike Clay]

I won't go that far. That Guy is unbelievable.

[Field Yates]

All right, let's get through a couple of things here because we do have the quarterback segments. We have board bet to pay off and we got to spin the wheel. Okay.

[Mike Clay]

Oh, yeah, we got to go through these quicker.

[Field Yates]

Let's do these quarterback battles, right?

[Mike Clay]

Yeah, we did talk a lot about. A lot about these. But guys, I was looking through quarterback rankings and like just before.

[Field Yates]

Upside down week, right?

[Mike Clay]

Yeah, it's an upside down week. In fact, I was looking at it. I was like, you can make a case to bench the likes of.

[Field Yates]

Give me the answer.

[Mike Clay]

Joe Burrow, Dak Prescott, Trevor Lawrence after, you know, good he's been. Lamar Jackson, Bo Nix, Matthew Stafford. I think that's the end of the notable list. But you can make a case to bench all of those guys. And that's where the kind of the setup for that I feel like the.

[Field Yates]

Least compelling player to sit that you just mentioned, believe it or not, is actually Joe Burrow. Like, yeah, those other guys, none of them played great last week, but they have. They're mostly matchup driven.

[Mike Clay]

Right.

[Field Yates]

Dak versus the Chargers, Bo versus the Jaguars. Trevor Lawrence versus the Broncos. Like Joe plays the Dolphins like.

[Mike Clay]

And that's why I have him at 10. But you can make. It's a confidence.

[Field Yates]

But he was bad last week.

[Mike Clay]

Of course, generally been. So here we go. I'm going to say up with five. Head to heads between some quarterbacks, give you a little background. You guys tell me which way you'd go. Then I have a bonus at the end at a different position.

[Daniel Dopp]

Love it.

[Mike Clay]

First one just talked about him. Tyler Schuck against the Jets. I just laid that case out up against this one. Might actually be easy based on what we said earlier. Matthew Stafford in Seattle Seahawks again dominant against quarterbacks. Only two quarterbacks have hit 20 against them this year. One of them was not Matthew Stafford, who had 130 yards and 13 fantasy points in Week 11. You know that if Stafford's not big through the air, he's going to let you down because he has negative 8 rushing yards so far this season and he's been outside the top 10 in three of his last five. Yeah, as well. So what do you think? Shuck or Tyler Shock?

[Field Yates]

And I'm just, you know, I'm going to answer these questions and then I'm going to move on and not acknowledge them further because these things could blow up in each and every one of our.

[Mike Clay]

Yeah, this is one of them.

[Field Yates]

Tyler Shock moving on.

[Mike Clay]

Yeah, it's tough. You don't want to answer I have.

[Daniel Dopp]

Matthew Stafford ranked a spot higher than Tyler Schuck, but after everything that you just laid out about Tyler, it's tough to be able to not think about it. Yeah. So I think I may change my rankings after the show to Tyler.

[Mike Clay]

At home are in the Dome, which helps road and home teams. I mean, there's a lot to like. All right, guys, next one. Lamar Jackson, one of the best players in the league.

[Daniel Dopp]

Unsubscribe.

[Mike Clay]

In an offense that scored exactly two touchdowns in six consecutive games. Lamar, under 12 fantasy points per game during that stretch against. It's been gross. They're playing the Patriots a lot of big game to the Patriot or to Josh Allen last week, but only two other quarterbacks have a 20 against him. So you have Lamar in a tough spot here. Yep. Or JJ McCarthy in New York to play the Giants. We talked about him earlier, so I'll leave it at that. A good matchup against the Giants. Who do you go with? With Lamar or McCarthy?

[Field Yates]

I'm gonna go Lamar, but I'm assuming Daniel goes J.J. i'm going J.J. okay. I'm going Lamar.

[Mike Clay]

I have the. I actually McCarthy projected just ahead, but it's close, so I. I'm gonna lean toward Lamar. I think I just. I'm still nervous about McCarthy just having a.

[Field Yates]

Should we score these like we did? I was just gonna big calls a few weeks ago.

[Mike Clay]

Oh, I love that. Red zone.

[Daniel Dopp]

Yeah. I will say this. I think it's hilarious that we're in week 16 and these top quarterbacks were talking about benching for these guys. Mike, I know you got more on the list, but, like.

[Mike Clay]

Yeah.

[Daniel Dopp]

Unbelievable that we're even having a conversation about. About Tyler Shuck or Matthew Stafford. J.J. mcCarthy or Trev or Trevor Lawrence. Lamar Jackson, like, unbelievable that we even have to have this conversation. I think I would go with both of the two guys that you wouldn't expect so far.

[Field Yates]

You're the two wild cards so far.

[Mike Clay]

Okay, you're right.

[Daniel Dopp]

I got Shuck and J.J. d. Okay. I have really nice handwriting.

[Mike Clay]

Funny. I'm hedging because I'm McCarthy projected ire.

[Field Yates]

But I can barely read my own. I appreciate that. I'm trying.

[Mike Clay]

We'll see if my projections are guns, but work better.

[Daniel Dopp]

Oh, I like it.

[Mike Clay]

Okay, next one, guys. CJ Stroud, who look three passing touchdowns last week, but he's been a little boom bus. He has as many games with 18 points, which is four, as he does games under 11 points. He doesn't have much upside. He's on pace for a Career high in rushing yards, though he's adding a little bit there. And they're playing the Raiders, who are very inefficient against the pass. So good spot for him. But again, not. Not much of a ceiling for CJ Stroud. The competition here is the guy who was the top scoring fantasy quarterback last week with 44 points. Trevor Lawrence.

[Field Yates]

Most points by a quarterback in a game all season.

[Mike Clay]

Yeah. And he has been incredible for a while now. Five consecutive top 12 fantasy addicts. Now, he's no Jacoby Brissette, who is nine in a row, but he's been pretty good. 17 plus fantasy points in eight of his last 10. And the two he didn't were against literally the two best defenses against quarterbacks, the Chargers and Texans. Yeah. So other than them, he's at 18 plus in every game. He's doing it with his legs and his arm as usual. But guys, he is in Denver. Yep. Play Broncos defense. That's allowed the fourth fewest passing touchdown. Just 14 this season. They've allowed three weekly quarterback finishes better than 12 this season. One during their last seven games. So do you stick with red hot Trevor Lawrence or do you play a little safer here with CJ Stroud?

[Daniel Dopp]

I'm going to the matchup. And CJ Stroud.

[Field Yates]

I am going with CJ Stroud as well. This is a fan. Okay. So all of us, this is a fantasy conversation. To be clear. I just want to take a moment to note though, CJ Stroud is playing phenomenal. Real life.

[Mike Clay]

Yeah.

[Field Yates]

Very impressed by.

[Daniel Dopp]

Seriously.

[Mike Clay]

So is Lawrence.

[Field Yates]

Oh, I'm not disagreeing with you, just. But we're trying to make the case for the quote unquote underdog Lawrence. Very impressed by the way that he has played CJ if you told me he threw, I mean, like not guaranteeing this by any stretch, but like there's a four touchdown game in there somewhere for C.J.

[Daniel Dopp]

Oh, against the Raiders.

[Field Yates]

Yeah, somewhere.

[Daniel Dopp]

Yeah.

[Mike Clay]

He had three touchdowns.

[Daniel Dopp]

Totally.

[Mike Clay]

Yeah. It's incredible. At the average age of the starting quarterbacks in the AFC south is 39 with three youngsters and Philip Rivers.

[Field Yates]

Unbelievable.

[Mike Clay]

Sorry, sorry.

[Field Yates]

Is Rivers the last one? We have two unanimous and we have one to center so far.

[Mike Clay]

What's the last one now? We got two more quarterbacks and then a bonus here. We have time. Yep. Next one, guys. A guy that is 18.7 plus fantasy points in nine straight games. He's been a top 12 fantasy scorer in all nine games, has two plus passing touchdowns and eight of the nine inch Jacoby Brissette. During the last 10 weeks, number one at quarterback and pass attempts by 56 completions, yards. He's second in passing touchdowns. He's QB4 during the span. He gets the Falcons this week. They've allowed 19 plus fantasy points due Bryce Young, Tyrod Taylor, Sam Darnold and Baker Mayfield just since week 11. Wow. So it's a great spot for.

[Daniel Dopp]

That's really nice.

[Mike Clay]

And Brissette just had a top 12 fantasy week against the Texans. Of all defense. Yes. He did one to do that all season.

[Daniel Dopp]

We were surprised. You maybe were surprised more than most. Maybe your girlfriend was surprised by that one.

[Mike Clay]

Yeah, Everyone. Everyone was. Yeah. Her.

[Daniel Dopp]

Yes. Her eyebrows were quite surprised. Yes.

[Field Yates]

We're surprised.

[Mike Clay]

Yes. I forgot to joke that quick.

[Daniel Dopp]

Sorry. That was your joke. You're the one that brought the table.

[Mike Clay]

I don't remember anything. Guys. You go with Jacoby Brissette or the guy who led the NFL in basically every passing category last season. Joe Burrow. Coming off a dud last week, zero touchdowns against the Ravens. He now has as many duds as he has big games this season. He's not rushing the ball at all, but he's playing the Dolphins. So it's a pretty good matchup. They actually have allowed the highest completion rate to quarterbacks this season. So do you go with Burrow? Who and Also this Burrow two weeks ago had a huge game. He did spells four touchdowns, 284 yards. So do you go Burrow or do you go Jacoby Brissette?

[Field Yates]

I'm going with Joe Burrow.

[Mike Clay]

Wow. Okay.

[Daniel Dopp]

I'm going with Jacoby Brissette.

[Mike Clay]

I have Brissette in my top five this week. Great matchup. And he's been incredible.

[Field Yates]

I think. There's one thing that's really interesting about Jacoby Brissette since he took over as the starter.

[Daniel Dopp]

Yeah, please.

[Mike Clay]

Would love that.

[Field Yates]

Fascinating to see what happens in this game in general. You guys tell me.

[Mike Clay]

I think I know where you're going with this. I was thinking the same thing. I have the same fear here, I think. Let's see what you say.

[Field Yates]

Tell me these are the games that Jacoby Brissette has started for the Cardinals. And you tell me which of these opponents you consider a game in which it's like they should be favored or is at least close to.

[Mike Clay]

Yep.

[Field Yates]

The Colts with Daniel Jones back in October.

[Daniel Dopp]

No, not back then.

[Field Yates]

The Packers.

[Mike Clay]

Nope.

[Field Yates]

The Cowboys.

[Mike Clay]

No.

[Field Yates]

I know about them now, but still at the time.

[Mike Clay]

No. Yeah.

[Field Yates]

The Seahawks.

[Daniel Dopp]

Nope.

[Field Yates]

49Ers. The Jaguars.

[Mike Clay]

No.

[Field Yates]

Buccaneers. I know they are not perfect. But you know they're.

[Mike Clay]

I take the. Yeah. We picking the Bucks.

[Field Yates]

The Rams.

[Mike Clay]

Rams, of course.

[Daniel Dopp]

Definitely the Texans, dude.

[Field Yates]

They have faced a juggernaut schedule.

[Mike Clay]

It feels like I will say this. He. I know the Texans jumped out in front of them last week which was actually our fear was that that game would be low scoring and he wouldn't have the garbage time. But they were. He was like hanging in there early on. It wasn't like he just jumped it all on them in the, in the fourth quarter. But I agree. I'm a little worried about them. It's at home. Right. I think it's in Arizona. Like they are competitive or they're leading in this game and he just doesn't have to do as much.

[Field Yates]

But that's my fear exactly. Is it's like this game is like the final score is 2116 or 20 something. Yeah.

[Mike Clay]

Yeah.

[Daniel Dopp]

I think there is, there is something about the idea that Jacobe Brissette, even against all of those like really good defenses.

[Mike Clay]

Yeah.

[Daniel Dopp]

That feels not only obviously so positive for him but like how damning is that for Kyler Murray?

[Mike Clay]

That like very much is. Yeah.

[Daniel Dopp]

Like other teams are going to be like next season. It's like wow, he got replaced by this veteran and he crushed it against all these other guys when Kyler was so bad. That's going to be such an interesting conversation next year. I know it's not. Not today.

[Mike Clay]

Wait to see where but that lands. I hope he stays put, honestly, that veteran.

[Daniel Dopp]

Yeah. Where's he going to go to be for. Especially if we don't love the draft right now for quarterbacks.

[Field Yates]

Tell me the second or third or fifth act quarterback is the story of the off season between Kylerge, Kobe, Brissette, potentially Mac Jones, guys like that. Joe Flacco maybe still. Yeah. Danny Dimes who I think you know because of his injury probably stays in Indianapolis. But still that is the story of the off season at least in the early going. Besides potentially Joe Burrow being treated.

[Mike Clay]

Yes.

[Field Yates]

All right, Mike, last one for the quarterback.

[Mike Clay]

Yeah, last quarterback. Bonix is the first one. Here he is facing the Jags, one of the better defense. They're mid pack but they've faced the most pass attempts this season. So they're very good. Third lowest EPA against the pass. Bonix's rushing has kind of dropped off the last month or so but he's second in past attempts in completion and he's dirty. He's definitely been. Yeah, boom, bust guys. He has the Jags, Bryce Young has the Buccaneers who had the second most yards at fourth most fantasy points points to quarterbacks. They've allowed 18 plus fantasy points to the opposing quarterback in six straight games. 25.3 fantasy points per game including some young fellow by the name of Kirk Cousins who went 26.9 last week. By the way, Bryce Young last week 49 rushing Arts is the second most in a game in his NFL career. He's been boom bust but he's had some good games as of late as the better matchup. Do you go Bo Nix or do you go Bryce Young?

[Field Yates]

I'm going Bryce Young just because of what I saw last Thursday.

[Daniel Dopp]

I got to stick with Bo Knicks.

[Mike Clay]

Okay. I have bonix higher. I did move Young moves up next. Knicks moves down. But I, I'm still going to give a little bit of an edge.

[Field Yates]

This would be good to actually track this because we're in agreement on two Chuck and C.J. shroud. That's Shuck over Stafford, C.J. shroud over Trevor Lawrence. Daniel's on an island on J.J. mcCarthy and I'm on an island. A J.J. mcCarthy versus the Mar. I'm on an island with Burrow over Jacoby and Bryce over Bo.

[Mike Clay]

Wow.

[Field Yates]

All right, so this is gross.

[Daniel Dopp]

This is week 16. People go home after this week.

[Field Yates]

You know what this is? This is a reminder as Mike Clay likes to tell us, it is a weekly.

[Daniel Dopp]

It is a weekly game.

[Mike Clay]

Wild. Wild. All right, here's the bonus guys. I wanted to. I had an interesting one at running back so I wanted to bring it up. We're going to start with Aaron Jones. Okay, Aaron Jones has the Giants this week. He's yet to reach 16 fantasy points in a game this season is single digits and four straight. However, he does have 14 plus touches and 65 plus yards and two straight. He played 60% of the snap last week. And the Giants are allowing an NFL high 5.9 yards for carry to a running back which I can't stress enough how atrocious that is. If I the second most fantasy points to the position, the fifth most touchdowns. It's a great spot for Aaron Jones who's healthy now and trending up in a good matchup which we've talked about. The guy on the other side of this is a guy I'm a little worried about this week for the first time in a while. And Kyron Williams worried about the Rams running backs. So let me, let me spell this out on Kyron. Weeks one through nine he averaged 16 and a half carries per game. He's down to 13.1 over the last six games as Blake Corm has played more. He does have 13 touchdowns in 14 games. He's been bailing you out. He's been scoring every week pretty much. And that's kept him alive in fantasy. He's become a almost a zero in the passing game. This is a very much a worry here. 13 or fewer receiving yards in each straight. He's a total of seven targets in his last five games. His fantasy point totals in four games in which he has not scored this year season 10 10.4 8.5 5.8 that's.

[Daniel Dopp]

A touchdown dependent running back.

[Mike Clay]

Yes. The Seahawks have allowed six touchdowns or running backs this entire season and the seventh fewest fantasy points are running backs. They have allowed the most running back catches this season. That's not part of Kyron's game. I just laid that out. But the third fewest rushing touchdowns, actually just four of those two of them were receiving that. They've given up the lowest yards per carry to running backs at three and a half. Kyron did have a good. Now I will say this, Kyron had a decent game against them in week 11. 16.6 points. He had 96 yards. He did find the end zone that got him into double digits. But Blake Corum wasn't as much of a factor in that game. And at nine touches, just 1.5 fantasy points. Corum's been playing more now. So Kyron maybe falls into the end zone and gets you an okay day. But I am very worried, like I laid out the beginning of the show that the Rams are going to cost some teams the ability to advance this week. Week. And I'm very much worried about Kyron.

[Field Yates]

So let me ask you, is Devonte Adams being out would help Kyron?

[Mike Clay]

Yeah. At the goal line perhaps.

[Field Yates]

Yeah.

[Mike Clay]

Yeah. And well, I don't know. PUK is talking about Canada Mumfield. So I don't know. Might be his big game. He'll be a fun, you know, he'll be fun in like Alvar draftkings. Yes.

[Daniel Dopp]

Like that's where that would be like.

[Mike Clay]

A fun Thursday night. You know, he'll be cheap. Like I haven't looked at his price for that.

[Field Yates]

But Aaron Jones, who you guys going with?

[Mike Clay]

I'm going Aaron Jones.

[Daniel Dopp]

Okay, here's the tough thing for me. Like Aaron Jones hasn't been nearly as efficient on the ground as Jordan Mason. Yeah. He's it's basically he's been getting passing game work and so, so when you talk about how bad the Giants have been, there's a Part of me that just wonders is this just like if Jordan Mason is just running the ball at a nice clip, do they let him continue? Because he's been that guy for them since Week 11. Over the last five games, he's been a better rusher than Aaron Jones. I think because of that, I would still go with Kyren Williams.

[Field Yates]

You're on an island. So Mike has no gumption, he has no courage, he has no strength. He merely agrees with at least one of us on all five.

[Mike Clay]

Yes, Yes, I do. Yeah.

[Field Yates]

Yeah.

[Mike Clay]

Why? That was my topic. Yeah.

[Daniel Dopp]

Actually when you say that it is sort of backwards. He is the one that had the stance first. I guess we didn't have.

[Field Yates]

We have the courage.

[Daniel Dopp]

Oh, no. Yeah. Because I said I don't care where you're at. I'm letting you know where we're at.

[Field Yates]

You're right.

[Mike Clay]

Yeah.

[Field Yates]

You have no courage.

[Daniel Dopp]

Yeah. You're like the Cowardly Lion.

[Mike Clay]

I don't care about courage. I care about being right. That's what you're like.

[Daniel Dopp]

I want wins. Who cares about courage?

[Mike Clay]

W's.

[Field Yates]

Oh, man. All right, we'll track those over the.

[Mike Clay]

Next one week here.

[Daniel Dopp]

That'll be very fun to be able to see.

[Field Yates]

Let's pay off a board bed quickly. Can I tell you guys something?

[Daniel Dopp]

Yeah. Let's be real quick about it.

[Field Yates]

I don't think I actually won this board bet and I'll tell you why. It's weird. So the crux of my argument last week for Jackson Dart who you guys had as quarterback one.

[Mike Clay]

Yes.

[Field Yates]

And I gave you guys top six. He ended up finishing his quarterback 10 with a solid day of 22.

[Mike Clay]

Yeah.

[Field Yates]

22.14 fantasy points.

[Mike Clay]

Good day.

[Field Yates]

My feeling was that Jackson Dart was not going to be tapped into at all as a designed rusher. That didn't happen at all. However, he did call his own number from the one yard line and almost scored a rushing touchdown. And he had 60 plus rushing yards. He's just an awesome scrambler. Is Jackson Dart now. He was also checked for a concussion for the fifth time this season. Guys. Unreal. So I don't expect the Giants to let it rip at all for the next three weeks. With Jackson Dart as a runner, he will be used as a pocket passer and a scrambler only.

[Mike Clay]

Well, we don't like that this week. Although I do have him ranked as a QB1. I need him to run because he's playing the Vikings and he's not going to light it up through the air. You would imagine against a team that's been actually. They've allowed the third and fewest fantasy points of quarterbacks, the fewest over the last four weeks. So it's a tougher spot. He's moved down, but honestly, his rushing is what keeps him in that conversation. He just keeps doing it.

[Daniel Dopp]

I'm a feeling like you just got 22 fantasy points out of your quarterback and you check in and it's like, oh, he's QB10 on the week. Someone else probably had a better quarterback than.

[Mike Clay]

Yeah, he was. I looked. Looked at this. He was two points off of Josh Allen for top six finish. Okay.

[Daniel Dopp]

Okay.

[Mike Clay]

So it's tight scores. That rushing touchdown. He would have been in easily. Yeah.

[Daniel Dopp]

Gosh.

[Field Yates]

All right, shall we sp.

[Daniel Dopp]

Let's spin the wheel, my friends. We got a punishment wheel. I don't really want to talk about what the lineups were because it was really bad. I don't know if it was as bad for you. Obviously, it wasn't as bad for you guys. It was a gross week for my squad.

[Field Yates]

I actually had a good week, I think. Yeah, I think you did, guys. You had Kenny G. And Tara Lawrence.

[Mike Clay]

Yeah. Yeah. I. Dallas Goddard need a big game. Do we have the results? Yeah.

[Daniel Dopp]

Let's go ahead and look at what the. The lineups were.

[Mike Clay]

Real quick recap. Lamar o' Neal got hurt. He was off to such a good start, and he got hurt, baby.

[Field Yates]

I got 76 and one of my guys went for a zero.

[Mike Clay]

Yeah, that's really what I had. 40, though, if you so well done.

[Daniel Dopp]

Mike had Lamar Jackson 14.6, Devin Neal 10.2, Khalil Shakir 11.5 in Dallas. God. Or Dallas Goddard, as we say, 25 fantasy points. That was 61.3. Yeah. Fields crushed the. We had Trevor Lawrence. That basically just won him the leak right there. But then he also had Kenny Gainwell, the running back for the Steelers, Arthur Juan Brown at 12.1 and then a goose egg from Isaiah likely.

[Field Yates]

I have screwed up every wild card pick this year.

[Daniel Dopp]

I. Yeah, it hasn't always worked out great. I took Jared Goff. He actually had a really good week, to 25.5 fantasy points. Omarion Hampton absolutely fell flat. 17 and a half. Devonte Adams. Sorry, seven and a half. Devonte Adams, my wild card, 11.1. Unfortunately got hurt, left that game early.

[Mike Clay]

Yeah.

[Daniel Dopp]

And because of that, with Isaiah likely also getting a goose egg, I fell almost 20 full points short of Mike Clay. It wasn't even close. Right now we still have a start of the week that we need to pay off at Some point.

[Field Yates]

Yeah. Based on current weather in Connecticut.

[Daniel Dopp]

You want to do a Friday?

[Field Yates]

We'll have made my choice. We might not thaw out until, like, I don't know, April. At this rate, we'll have to see.

[Daniel Dopp]

Maybe we do a swap. Maybe we do a.

[Field Yates]

Somebody else to go.

[Mike Clay]

We gotta go to, like, a mall and play indoors. Indoor mini golf.

[Field Yates]

We have a mall with indoor mini golf.

[Mike Clay]

It's on your way, right?

[Field Yates]

Yeah. It's an hour and 45 minutes from here. No problem.

[Mike Clay]

Hey, yeah.

[Daniel Dopp]

It's not our fault.

[Mike Clay]

Yeah.

[Daniel Dopp]

Shouldn't have lost the week. All right, here we go. I'm going to spin the week our wheel.

[Mike Clay]

I hope you get min.

[Daniel Dopp]

No whammies, no whammies. No whammies.

[Field Yates]

Stop.

[Daniel Dopp]

A hot sauce. I've already done hot sauce. Do I do it again? Do we do it?

[Mike Clay]

Done hot sauce.

[Field Yates]

Yeah. Remember he did all the chips and he went.

[Daniel Dopp]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Mike Clay]

No go again.

[Daniel Dopp]

All right.

[Mike Clay]

No fun to repeat.

[Field Yates]

I want a T shirt from Rosie.

[Daniel Dopp]

That feels like a no whammies. No whammies, no whammies.

[Mike Clay]

Stop.

[Daniel Dopp]

Winner tweets.

[Mike Clay]

All right, I'm going to send my best lineup of the year. Let's go. This is great. Winner tweets from the losers.

[Field Yates]

Does that mean that because I won this pass, we get the tweet from your account?

[Daniel Dopp]

I think that's what it means.

[Field Yates]

Or does it mean that means.

[Daniel Dopp]

Okay, Is that what it is? Is it that? Do you get to. How does this work? Is it.

[Field Yates]

I'm assuming it's like one tweet, right?

[Mike Clay]

Yeah. I don't know.

[Daniel Dopp]

We'll have to figure out some things.

[Field Yates]

I think I'm gonna go with 5.

[Mike Clay]

Tweet during the podcast.

[Daniel Dopp]

I'm not a high volume tweeter, so people are gonna be like, wow, Daniel put out in a tweet. Let me see what it says. Oh, my gosh.

[Field Yates]

If you guys get me canceled, top five musical artists. No, I won't get you canceled. It's probably gonna be something, you know, some fight. Yeah, it's gotta be.

[Mike Clay]

Oh, yeah, yeah. I have some idea.

[Field Yates]

I just wanted to say maybe we.

[Mike Clay]

Should consult on this.

[Field Yates]

I was just gonna say. I just wanted to say that the Lions.

[Daniel Dopp]

Don't you dare. Don't you dare. There is a line. You cannot cross that line.

[Field Yates]

I promise.

[Daniel Dopp]

The wigs. You can.

[Field Yates]

This is.

[Daniel Dopp]

But it's part of the punishment. It's like my top five favorite bands. The Wiggles.

[Mike Clay]

Yeah, yeah.

[Daniel Dopp]

Taylor Swift. Like, what other things can we throw in there?

[Mike Clay]

We have way more.

[Daniel Dopp]

More Good stuff than that.

[Mike Clay]

Worse ideas.

[Daniel Dopp]

Yeah, let's go ahead and head over to the mailbag. We're gonna take a couple questions before we close this thing out.

[Mike Clay]

Chat could help us out with some ideas.

[Daniel Dopp]

Yeah, maybe not maybe. Chat probably would be too good with ideas. Louis Garcia wants to know. Clay defend dart at number eight.

[Mike Clay]

Please go. We just, we. This must have came in minutes before. We just discussed it. We actually didn't see that before we talked about it. But yeah, I mean look, tough matchup against Minnesota, but he just continues to add so much value with his legs. I think he'll. And he's playing at a high level.

[Daniel Dopp]

I mean this is a great level.

[Mike Clay]

He is a top five quarterback when he has played this season. I know it doesn't feel like it cause he's been out and started early in the season. The Giants stink. But. But he is top five in fantasy points per game at quarterback. So even if you downgrade him in a tough matchup, you know the. And, and the floor from his rushing. Yeah.

[Daniel Dopp]

It'll be very interesting to see when we vote on fantasy rookie of the year who gets our vote because we haven't had a lot of good ones.

[Mike Clay]

But NFL rookie of the year, Offensive rookie of the Year. Honestly, that conversation.

[Daniel Dopp]

Honestly could be that same thing.

[Field Yates]

Guys, the beat goes on. Who is the offensive rookie of the year? We had this debate on Monday. Yeah, we had it on text.

[Mike Clay]

It's a long list. Yeah, there's a long short list.

[Daniel Dopp]

Long short list.

[Field Yates]

The betting favorite is Treveon Henderson at DraftKings Sports Wild.

[Daniel Dopp]

That feels very recency biased.

[Mike Clay]

If he's the.

[Field Yates]

If.

[Mike Clay]

Yeah, if he's the offensive rookie there. Does that mean Ramondre Stevenson is the offensive player of the year then since.

[Daniel Dopp]

He keeps playing ahead of him?

[Field Yates]

I actually think there's a case like Henderson, if he has like two more big games the rest of the way.

[Mike Clay]

Yeah.

[Field Yates]

Then he could A get to a thousand rushing yards and B, you know, drive some late season interest and see like influence winning. Right. The Patriots or 11:3.

[Mike Clay]

Yeah.

[Daniel Dopp]

That is one thing Jackson Dart is not influencing right now is winning for the Giants. Unfortunately.

[Mike Clay]

Maybe not. But if he puts up some big.

[Field Yates]

Numbers the last few games, important position too at quarterback after there was a year to consider like an offensive tackle. This is probably it.

[Mike Clay]

This is it. Yeah, you're right.

[Daniel Dopp]

Why not? All right, next question that we have here, this one comes from JP wants to know would you start Darren Waller or Dawson Knox?

[Field Yates]

I know we talked about it earlier, but Darren Waller gets the matchup of all matchups.

[Mike Clay]

Yes, he does. I'm going to go Waller. Even with the quarterback change, I'm just not there. He had a knockout because Kincaid's a factor. He's still. He's going to steal a touchdown here or there. He's still playing enough when they're throwing the football. I'm just not. I don't even have knocks in my top 30. Like, I'm just not there. Wow. Not enough consistent targets there.

[Daniel Dopp]

Okay.

[Field Yates]

Not knocking on your rankings.

[Mike Clay]

Wow. Nope. Not your best one.

[Daniel Dopp]

No. All right, let's move ahead to the last question.

[Field Yates]

That wasn't a joke. It was just.

[Daniel Dopp]

It was just a thing. Jackson Zimmerman wants to know, should I start Mike Evans over Jalen Waddle? Evans is projected to score less, but Tua just got benched for the season. We didn't even really talk about Mike Evans.

[Field Yates]

Lev. I have Mike Ev. Evans ranked higher than Jalen Waddle already.

[Daniel Dopp]

I did as well.

[Field Yates]

Yeah, yeah, I know.

[Mike Clay]

You were a little more.

[Field Yates]

I moved Waddle down.

[Mike Clay]

I have. But I have Evans lower. The concern with Evans that I have is he was heavily targeted weeks one through three and didn't have any games. I don't think he hit 12 fantasy points at any of those games. And now he comes back from injury, is limited and has a big game. Does that continue? But you have Godwin. You're. They're working in Jalen McMillan. You have a book who still had. Who had a decent game last week. I'm nervous that he's gonna be a little boom bus. I don't know if he's going to sustain enough of a target share in Carolina.

[Field Yates]

I wonder. But they have that. A thousand yards to reach.

[Mike Clay]

Yeah. Well, yeah. 250 yards a game.

[Field Yates]

Something like that.

[Mike Clay]

Yeah.

[Field Yates]

It's like 215.

[Mike Clay]

Yeah.

[Field Yates]

So I don't know.

[Mike Clay]

I'm not as optimistic on Evans. Just with all the mouse to feed there and the fact that they're. They're scoring like two touchdowns a game, not the three a game they were scoring last year. So a little worried there. I'm leaning Waddle, but I'm very nervous there, so I have no issues going up.

[Daniel Dopp]

You're worried the Bucks are going to score two touchdowns or they're averaging two touchdowns a game. Do you think that the Dolphins, with Quinn, yours, scores two touchdowns?

[Field Yates]

Probably against Cincinnati, Maybe.

[Daniel Dopp]

I mean, against Cincinnati, maybe.

[Field Yates]

Maybe.

[Mike Clay]

Yeah. It's a good point. Against the Eagles, probably. Yeah, that's. I think. I think I probably will end up with Evans ahead with yours in there, but I think so. Do some work on that after the pod. I think I would.

[Daniel Dopp]

I would land there as well. All right. That's going to do it for today's show. Thanks for hanging out with us, guys.

[Field Yates]

I love that quarterback.

[Mike Clay]

Had to head battle.

[Daniel Dopp]

That was really fun.

[Mike Clay]

Thank you everyone.

[Daniel Dopp]

That was good job. By ending by chat by Eric Moody, everybody here being able to pull their way and shout out to our friends over at Wingstop for presenting the show today. Thank you for them as well. That's going to do it for today. We'll be back tomorrow not only previewing Thursday Night Football, but diving into our first Preview for Week 16 to get you set for your playoff matchup. Don't forget to love each other and be kind to yourself. You guys deserve it. We love you so much. We'll see you tomorrow.

[Mike Clay]

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