2025 Season Leaders Trivia + Wild Card Weekend DFS Stacks

Summary

Fantasy Football Happy Hour with Matthew Berry

Episode: 2025 Season Leaders Trivia + Wild Card Weekend DFS Stacks
Date: January 6, 2026
Host: Matthew Berry (with Field Yates, Connor Rogers, and Denny Carter)

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Episode Overview

This episode dives into the 2025 NFL regular season stat leaders through interactive trivia, peppered with the show’s signature mix of playful banter, pop culture references, and audience engagement. Following a lengthy opening segment full of movie talk and light-hearted arguments, the core of the episode features fantasy leaderboard trivia covering QBs, RBs, WRs, and red zone usage, plus analysis on what these numbers mean for 2026 fantasy drafts. The latter portion is dedicated to DFS advice for Wild Card weekend, featuring stack strategies for large-field tournaments with guest Denny Carter.

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1. Opening Banter: Movies, Culture, and Hot Takes

[01:01 – 11:44]

• The "Star Wars" Debate

  • Berry admits he’s barely watched Star Wars, leading Field and Connor – and the chat – into a whirlwind debate over which American classic is more essential viewing: Star Wars or The Godfather Part II.
    • "I would say that Godfather 1 and 2 is more important than all nine of the Star Wars." — Matthew Berry [01:18]
    • "Never seeing Star Wars is more egregious than having never seen Godfather 2." — Field Yates, echoing audience poll [02:28]

• Armageddon Logic & Bad Movie Choices

  • Nostalgia and movie plot holes dissected: Why train drillers to be astronauts in “Armageddon”, bad sequels, and Matthew’s claim to fame as a Razzie nominee for “Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles.”
    • "I'm a Razzie nominee for my work on Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles." — Matthew Berry [07:31]
  • Comparing “The Martian”, "Interstellar", “Gravity”, and “2001: A Space Odyssey" as favorite space movies. Field confesses he hasn't seen Interstellar, to much chagrin.
    • "I think Interstellar is one of the best movies of the past 20 years." — Connor Rogers [10:47]

• Christopher Nolan’s Confusing Endings

  • Split opinions on Nolan’s movies (Inception, Tenet). Connor: “Tenet is an atrocious movie... Anyone who likes that movie is wrong.” [11:48]

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2. Fantasy Leaderboard Trivia: Season Stats Deep Dive

[12:21 – 41:08]

Quarterback Points Per Game

• Key Points:

  • Josh Allen led QBs in PPG (22.8). The focus shifts to Brock Purdy at #2 (21.5 PPG) and Jalen Hurts at #9.

    • "I’d be buying into the Niners offense next year... I'd be heavily in on Brock Purdy next year." — Matthew Berry [15:23]
    • "He’s not just the system quarterback... Purdy’s taking this to another level." — Connor Rogers [14:28]
    • Caution: Purdy's injury risk—“He’s been in the NFL for four years. He’s gotten hurt all four years.” — Connor [16:47]

  • Jalen Hurts underwhelmed in 2025 due to decreased rushing: “If Jalen Hurts isn’t going to run the ball…he’s just not as nearly as much of a needle mover.” — Connor Rogers [18:30]

    • Field projects Hurts will still be a top-8 fantasy QB pick next year, but is wary due to lower floor. [21:33]

Rushing Yards Per Game (RBs)

• James Cook: Led at 95.4 yards/game.
• Surprise Names: Javonte Williams at #6, Kyren Williams at #7.
  • "Kyren should at least have some regression in terms of goal line carries." — Connor Rogers [29:18]
  • Offseason questions for both – particularly the Cowboys’ RB room and potential role for Williams.

Red Zone Touches

• McCaffrey dominates (91 touches), surprise: Travis Etienne tied for 4th.
• Analysis:
  • Etienne’s value dependent on returning to Jags and remaining the workhorse under OC Liam Coen. [31:20]
  • Quick nickname banter: “King Tutankhamun” for Bashal Tootin, “Brown Gobbler” for Chase Brown.

Wide Receiver Points Per Game (Fantasy PPG)

• Top 2: Puka Nacua, Jackson Smith-Njigba (~23/21 PPG).
• Surprise #4: Rashee Rice (18.8 PPG), discussion on his emerging value.
  • "When he came back, it was just like — you’re my guy [Mahomes]." — Field Yates [35:00]
  • "If Travis Kelce does retire, Rashee Rice is going to be on the short list for Ride or Die candidates next year." — Field Yates [36:51]
• Devante Adams at #9: Massive touchdown dependency, but age and injury raise doubts for 2026.
  • "He’s probably the most touchdown dependent fantasy superstar among pass catchers." — Field Yates [40:31]

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3. Wild Card Weekend DFS Stacks with Denny Carter

[43:03 – 49:48]

• Stacking Philosophy in Playoff DFS

  • Denny: Stack not just a lineup, but a game narrative—QB + multiple pass catchers + an opponent for correlation in big tournaments.
    • "Make your lineups like you’re right... Stacking is important here if you want to get your lineup to the top." — Denny Carter [45:18]

• Sample Stack Targets for Wild Card

  • Buffalo @ Jacksonville (52.5 O/U):
    • Target lower rostered Bills stacks (Josh Allen + receivers); bring back with Travis Etienne.
    • Jags’ offensive pieces also live due to Bills’ porous run D.
  • Texans @ Steelers (39.5 O/U):
    • Texans pass-heavy; recommend Nico Collins, Stroud, Dalton Schultz, run back with Ken Gainwell.
  • 49ers @ Eagles:
    • Eagles stack is “contrarian” due to late-season slide, but upside is there.
    • A.J. Brown uniquely positioned vs. Niners’ coverage; bring back with CMC.
      • "If you think Hurts is going to have a big game, then you throw in A.J. Brown, you throw in Dallas. Got it? Maybe Devonte Smith.” — Denny Carter [49:12]

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4. Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Armageddon’s Plot:
  • "People overlook that astronauts are actually, like, some of the smartest scientists in the world. They're not just people that wanted to go to space." — Matthew Berry [07:03]
• Defending Not Seeing Star Wars:
  • "Maybe not my America." — Matthew Berry [04:48]
• On Fantasy Draft Caution:
  • "If Hurts is taken as a top 8 quarterback next year, I’d be entirely out." — Matthew Berry [21:17]
• DFS Big Picture:
  • "Embrace variance, embrace uncertainty here." — Denny Carter [48:50]
• Audience Engagement:
  • The hosts actively address the “regulars” in the chat by name (Ved, Aloha Bricks, etc.), using their trivia answers to guide the segments and riffing off their jokes.

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5. Last Call: Early Line Alert and Quick Picks

[52:38 – 53:55]

• Wild Card Bets
  • Connor: Niners +4.5 vs. Eagles (expects close game)
  • Matthew: Chargers +3.5 vs. Patriots (“Herbert will want to bring his absolute best”)
  • Field: UNDER 52.5 in Jags-Bills (“Both teams will go run heavy, fewer possessions”)
• Show News/Updates
  • Quick reaction to Cliff Kingsbury leaving the Commanders.

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6. Tone & Style

• Playful, fast-paced, banter-laden.
• Frequent pop culture analogies; doesn’t take itself too seriously.
• Encourages live audience participation and chat jokes.
• Casual, occasionally irreverent (especially around memes, inside jokes, and movie spoilers).

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Quick Timestamps for Key Segments

• Star Wars vs. Godfather Banter: 01:01–06:09
• Armageddon/Astronaut Movie Talk: 06:10–11:44
• QB Leaderboard Trivia: 12:21–17:16
  • Brock Purdy analysis: 14:08–16:47
  • Jalen Hurts disappointment: 17:01–22:13
• RB Rushing, Red Zone, and Kyren/Javonte Focus: 22:38–29:50
• WR Points Per Game, Rashee Rice Emergence: 33:55–38:22
• DFS Wild Card Stacks (with Denny Carter): 43:03–49:48
• Wild Card Betting/Last Call: 52:38–53:55

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For Listeners New and Old

Expect a lot of laughter, strong movie opinions woven into the fantasy talk, and practical analysis on how season-ending numbers and playoff matchups should shape your 2026 fantasy strategy—especially if you like to keep playing DFS through January. Individually, each contributor brings football expertise, but it’s their camaraderie and willingness to have fun that makes the show a standout for fantasy fans.

Transcript

[Matthew Berry]

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[Field Yates]

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[Matthew Berry]

I've seen like one of them when I was a kid. Just there's like nothing. Nothing there for me.

[Field Yates]

How are you a red blooded American male and you've never seen Star Wars? The original trilogy?

[Connor Rogers]

Yes.

[Field Yates]

There's actually nine of them but whatever.

[Matthew Berry]

It's ridiculous.

[Field Yates]

Have you not seen the. Have you not seen Star A New Hope?

[Connor Rogers]

No.

[Matthew Berry]

I would say that Godfather 1 and 2 is more important than all nine of the star Wars.

[Field Yates]

I actually disagree with that. I've never seen Godfather 2. I've seen the first one. I've seen Godfather 1, but I just. Whatever. He never got around it.

[Matthew Berry]

That's a good idea.

[Connor Rogers]

Screenwriter in Hollywood.

[Field Yates]

Yeah.

[Connor Rogers]

Is one of the objectively and I'm the 1 greatest movies of all time.

[Matthew Berry]

I'm the asshole because I haven't seen nine stars.

[Field Yates]

I apologize. I don't claim that. That's a good take though. I like.

[Matthew Berry]

I see.

[Field Yates]

Wait a minute. When I spoiled Fredo on the boat.

[Connor Rogers]

You didn't know what that means? No.

[Field Yates]

You actually spoiled my two boy. I'm not kidding.

[Connor Rogers]

I mean 1974 I.

[Field Yates]

Fantasy football happy Hour with Matthew Berry welcome to the.

[Matthew Berry]

Fantasy Football Happy Hour. That's right, both Jar Jar and Fredo drink for free today we're thinking about. You still haven't watched it a thousand percent. Did you watch Godfather 2 last night?

[Field Yates]

Yes, I did.

[Matthew Berry]

All five hours of it? Damn right. Plenty of time for that.

[Field Yates]

Yeah. What is more egregious comes the pull from the regulars here. I didn't realize. Yeah, thank you very much. Regulars disagree. Never seeing Star wars or never seeing The Godfather Part 2? It's a sequel.

[Connor Rogers]

Yeah.

[Field Yates]

And, yeah, 83% saying that never seeing Star wars is more egregious than having never seen Godfather 2.

[Matthew Berry]

Well, it's your demo, so it makes sense.

[Field Yates]

Yeah, my demo. It's America. No, no, no. My demo is America.

[Matthew Berry]

This is tailored right towards your demo. This isn't like walking out in the street or the office and asking people.

[Connor Rogers]

Yeah, here's the problem, too.

[Matthew Berry]

You brought these people here.

[Connor Rogers]

It's like the MVP race. You got to adjust for schedule. You got to adjust for who the person is. It is much more egregious that you haven't seen the Godfather Part two than he hasn't seen Star Wars. You were a screenwriter in Holly.

[Field Yates]

Yeah. But not a good one.

[Matthew Berry]

That's why you're here.

[Field Yates]

Yeah, pretty much. No, listen. Yeah, that's a good question from Raise the Flags, Connor. How many more Air Bud movies have you seen than Star Wars?

[Connor Rogers]

One.

[Field Yates]

You've seen at least one Air Bud.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah, I said I have seen a Star wars, but I couldn't even tell you which one I've seen.

[Connor Rogers]

Let's talk it back on, like, the nine. Star Wars.

[Field Yates]

In terms of what he should have.

[Connor Rogers]

Seen, there are three. Okay. Him not seeing Attack of the Clones doesn't matter. Revenge of the Sith with Count Dooku doesn't matter.

[Field Yates]

I completely agree with that. The three. The original trilogy, Star A New Hope, Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi. Those are the. Yes, those are the three that you have to have seen. The nine's a bit much.

[Matthew Berry]

My off season.

[Field Yates]

I get that much. By the way, candidly, I have to admit this. I also have seen Air Bud. Yeah. Best part of Air Bud is the ref. It doesn't say here a dog can't play basketball. Yes, that's the best line. It's the best line where the ref is. He's flipping through the rule book and he's just like. It doesn't say a dog can't play basketball.

[Matthew Berry]

By the way, I have some support here. Nvrg. Thank you. I've also never watched Star Wars, Star Trek, Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings, all superhero movies. I have no interest in it. Go, Connor.

[Connor Rogers]

Yeah.

[Field Yates]

NVR. G VUP93. Get out.

[Connor Rogers]

Yeah.

[Field Yates]

Come on, Nate. Or nine. I'm with Conor. Never seen Star Wars. Looks dumb. Come on.

[Matthew Berry]

Yes.

[Field Yates]

These people are animals.

[Matthew Berry]

Finally. And they're all new people rallying behind me.

[Field Yates]

I'll tell you what. They're commies is what they are. They're all commies. Come on, Valiant. Vincent. Valiant. Vincent, come on, back me up here. He says, on one hand, it's insane not to have seen Godfather 2. However, not everyone likes dramas or mob movies. Thank you. Not seeing Star wars, patently insane and unacceptable. It's part of the fabric of American culture.

[Matthew Berry]

Maybe not my America.

[Connor Rogers]

Yeah. I will say of the Star wars movies, my favorite moment across all nine of them.

[Matthew Berry]

No spoilers.

[Connor Rogers]

I'm gonna spoil it because it's not a good movie. Now to say in Revenge of the Sith, when Ewan McGregor says to Anakin Skywalker, anakin, I have the high ground. And that just looks like that's determined. The high ground moment is just so ridiculous that Anakin Skywalker sacrifices himself into the lava trying to overcome the high ground. It's a ridiculous. A ridiculous.

[Field Yates]

He has the ability to leap over. Yes. I mean, like, he's got the Force.

[Connor Rogers]

Yeah.

[Field Yates]

He's like the greatest holder of the Force.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah.

[Field Yates]

And yeah.

[Connor Rogers]

It's like Derek Henry saying TJ1. No, I'm bigger. Do not tackle me.

[Matthew Berry]

Ryan Scott. I didn't expect to receive Air Bud spoilers today day run. It's not really. It's just a funny moment.

[Field Yates]

To be clear, Ryan. So you've seen the trailers. You know Air Bud plays basketball, right? I didn't spoil anything. Obviously. It can't be in the rulebook if he plays basketball. I didn't spoil anything. All I did was explain a moment that explains the premise of the movie. Like, that's not a spoiler. I'm not gonna tell you who wins the big game at the end. You know, I'm not gonna tell you if the kid gets the girl or not. I am gonna tell you that yes, airbud's allowed to play basketball. Cause that's the effing movie. Yeah. That's not a spoiler. When you describe the plot, that's not a spoiler. Yeah. Like saying, yeah, 100%.

[Matthew Berry]

We can sit here and do 55 more minutes of movies.

[Field Yates]

I don't think I will say this to the audience. And we didn't do it. I don't know why we didn't do it, but originally when we got here, I wanted to do a movie podcast, like a.

[Matthew Berry]

Once a week.

[Field Yates]

Once a week.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah. It would have been great.

[Field Yates]

We had a NBC owns Fandango. Or they did. I think it went off in the Versant stuff, but maybe that's why it didn't Happen. Maybe. But, like, we own Fandango or Dead Fandango and Rotten Tomatoes. I was like, jay and I should do a movie podcast.

[Connor Rogers]

Yes, but only on, like, not on, like, Godfather 2. Unlike Armageddon.

[Field Yates]

Yeah.

[Connor Rogers]

We talk about in Armageddon why instead of training astronauts to drill, they turn drillers into astronauts, which seems a lot harder to do.

[Field Yates]

Yes.

[Connor Rogers]

Especially given they experienced all the drillers in the audience.

[Field Yates]

It makes zero sense. They had three days, and they thought it was easier to train for what.

[Matthew Berry]

Takes people a lifetime to do.

[Field Yates]

It's easier. Yeah. No one's gonna be able to figure out how to do this, but, you know, turn into astronauts.

[Matthew Berry]

People overlook that astronauts are actually, like, some of the smartest scientists in the world. They're not just people that wanted to go to space.

[Field Yates]

The training you have to go through to be an astronaut is astronomical.

[Connor Rogers]

That is one of the most baffling movie things ever, by the way, people.

[Field Yates]

Okay, that, by the way, drilling is also tough. The truth of the matter is, the screenwriters of Armageddon should have given a couple more. More days. Honestly, I think about it.

[Matthew Berry]

Maybe the plot was flawed.

[Connor Rogers]

It was a flaw.

[Field Yates]

No.

[Matthew Berry]

Finding Nemo 3. That's for sure.

[Field Yates]

Finding Nemo 2. Finding what it was as well. Look, I can speak from authority here. I'm a. I'm a Razzie nominee for my work on Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles. Thank you very much.

[Connor Rogers]

You didn't win.

[Matthew Berry]

No.

[Field Yates]

We got.

[Connor Rogers]

Movie was worse than you.

[Field Yates]

I'll tell you. I'll tell you exactly. It was the Mark Wahlberg version of Planet of the Apes.

[Connor Rogers]

Oh, yeah. That was bad.

[Field Yates]

Yeah.

[Connor Rogers]

I have seen that. I'll allow it.

[Matthew Berry]

Kind of forgotten for a reason.

[Connor Rogers]

Pick up.

[Matthew Berry]

We were.

[Field Yates]

We were nominated for worst sequel or remake. Right? Oh, and so obviously Crocodile and three is a sequel, but the. The Mark Wahlberg ver. Mark Wahlberg version of Planet of the Apes before the most recent, they've had kind of a new run of the plan of the ape movie. But, yeah, that one was even. I was just like, yeah, that one deserved a win because Crocodile lady in Los Angeles is not a good movie. Like, I'm not sitting here. It is definitely not a good movie, but it's watchable.

[Matthew Berry]

It's not the worst movie.

[Field Yates]

No, it's not the worst movie at all.

[Connor Rogers]

Like, Run the Mill bad.

[Field Yates]

Yeah, it's like. It's just. It's just. It's just. It's not offensive. It moves fairly quickly. Like, it's 90 minutes. Like, it's just. It's Just. It's very wild.

[Matthew Berry]

That's not a good sell.

[Connor Rogers]

It's like ripping a bad day.

[Field Yates]

You don't waste that much time. I'm not, I'm not. I'm not saying it's a good. I'm not trying to sell it. I'm just saying it's not. It's not horrific like. Like that mar. The Planet of the Apes one was just like, oh, yeah, that was bad. That was bad. Yeah. This one's just inoffensive.

[Connor Rogers]

Yeah.

[Field Yates]

Croc 3 is just. Once it got dumbed down, believe it or not, from the brilliance of our original script, it kind of got.

[Matthew Berry]

We got a fun show today. If you can't tell. We got fantasy leaderboard at Trivia. Denny Carter is going to join us later on Talk DFS stacks for the wild card round. And of course we'll do early line alert as we always do on Tuesdays. One last thing though, before Fantasy Leaderboard Trivia raise the flags. In the chat said best space movie, the Martian, what would you. What would your answer. Mine is. Mine is interstellar far and away, but not that much.

[Field Yates]

I've never seen in a Stellar too.

[Connor Rogers]

That's Paul. That's Paul. You know what?

[Field Yates]

I'll tell you why Christopher Nolan movies drive me crazy.

[Matthew Berry]

If you don't like Christopher Nolan, then.

[Connor Rogers]

You don't like why. That's a bad opinion. Why do they drive you crazy?

[Matthew Berry]

Great.

[Connor Rogers]

What are you not like a memento?

[Field Yates]

Memento is great. Except then you're like, well, I. I'm a big, like, ending guy. I want. I want it to be wrapped up and all of it's a great ending. All of his momentum.

[Connor Rogers]

I want to ruin that one.

[Field Yates]

No, no, no. Memento is a memento. Memento is fantastic. But the. What's the one? Inception. That one drove me crazy.

[Connor Rogers]

Inception's a little silly.

[Field Yates]

Very watchable. I mean, there's a bunch of cool visuals in it, but the ending of Inception drove me crazy. Never gotten around to Interstellar. My favorite space movie other than Star Wars. The Martian's a great movie. The Martian is a great movie.

[Matthew Berry]

I don't think it's a great Interstellar. Clears. Oh, I didn't love the Martian.

[Connor Rogers]

No, it's the one little cheesy. It's very cheesy. It's very Hollywood. It's not. It's not special at all.

[Field Yates]

The. I like that movie. Am I three out of five?

[Matthew Berry]

Is that the one where he gets.

[Field Yates]

He gets stuck on the moon?

[Matthew Berry]

He lives off potatoes. He lives off potatoes. It's terrible.

[Field Yates]

I really like it, actually.

[Matthew Berry]

Terrible's too far. It's fine.

[Connor Rogers]

It's just like Matt Damon saying a lot of one liners. Like, we're going to science the crap out of this. It's not good.

[Matthew Berry]

Ruben said, never seen Interstellar. That's where the line is drawn. I agree. I find that wild.

[Field Yates]

Fair enough.

[Connor Rogers]

Yeah.

[Matthew Berry]

Favorite space movie.

[Connor Rogers]

Kind of lame at 2001. Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick. That's an epic.

[Field Yates]

I don't know.

[Connor Rogers]

I love Interstellar. I think Interstellar is one of the best movies of the past 20 years.

[Field Yates]

All right, that one. I'll watch that one. I will, actually.

[Connor Rogers]

And also Gravity with Sandra Bullock.

[Field Yates]

All right. That was the one with him, her and George Clooney.

[Matthew Berry]

Right.

[Field Yates]

Clooney's the. Yeah. I'm so Gravity. Yeah, I like that one.

[Connor Rogers]

What's that?

[Matthew Berry]

Arrival. Doesn't really count.

[Connor Rogers]

Yeah. Arrivals in the mix as well. That is also fantastic.

[Field Yates]

I like that one. Might the reason for my. My Martian take here. And again, sometimes I view movies, sometimes as a screenwriter, despite the fact that I've never seen Godfather 2. But like, they kept my interest despite the fact it's basically a one hander. It's basically. It's Matt Damon with a bunch of potatoes. Like, there's not a lot that's a hard thing to do. I mean, think about, you know, Tom Hanks and why am I. Why am I blanking on it on the Island Castaway. I mean, like, again, like, those are so hard to do. Where it's just like all you got is one guy.

[Connor Rogers]

Yeah.

[Field Yates]

And he's talking to himself anyway.

[Connor Rogers]

It's like Ryan Reynolds and buried.

[Field Yates]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Connor Rogers]

Fine as well. Yeah. Before we move on to Trevor Lawrence, the company, the one thing I want, I want this on the record. Christopher Nolan, who I love. I think Interstellar is fantastic. Inception is, is excellent. Despite not making any sense. Tenet is an atrocious movie. It's absolutely horrific. Anyone who likes that movie is wrong. It's just a bad movie. Doesn't make any sense. It doesn't go quickly. It doesn't capture attention. It's a bad movie. Anyway, let's move on.

[Field Yates]

All right, you got that?

[Matthew Berry]

I didn't make it through tennis, so.

[Field Yates]

I kind of watched that one either. But I will, I will make it a point to watch Inception. Interstellar. Thank you. Interstellar Leaderboard Trivia.

[Matthew Berry]

This is for you regulars. We want you to play along. We do know what the leaderboard looks like, but this trivia is for you. So get involved in the Chat. Let's see how much you know from this season. Some of these answers may surprise you. Let's start with the quarterback point per game leaders here guys. And this is through Week 17 because most leagues play through Week 17. We've left a couple blank for every single category. Let's start with number two because obviously Josh Allen at the top 22.8 fantasy points per game but number two at 21.5. Keep in mind points per game and week 18 did not count.

[Field Yates]

Yeah, it's a great question here. Just looking at some of these other names here. Stafford being top five was a surprise. I'm amazed that Bo Nix ended up because it was such an uneven season for Bo Nix sneaking into the top ten here as well. So are we taking some guesses from the audience? The idea here is to guess because we know the answer. I actually paid attention during the pre show call for once.

[Connor Rogers]

So it's also in the shade in front of you.

[Matthew Berry]

Yes, Walt said Brissette, that's a great call.

[Field Yates]

I'm surprised, Jacoby Brissette, that it's not the answer though. I'm surprised he did not so ved regular.

[Matthew Berry]

You are correct.

[Field Yates]

Look at him. The Niners avatars.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah.

[Field Yates]

Brock Purdy is the guy there at number two averaging 21 and a half fantasy points per game. Obviously not having week 18 certainly helps his cause. He missed a good chunk of time. But this is somebody that Jay, when he's out there and you've been a big Brock Purdy fan, know is in my stable. Right. As we as we were in the middle of break u Harry as well. So he's had 40 starts over the last three years.

[Connor Rogers]

Right?

[Field Yates]

40 starts averaging over 18 fantasy points per game in those starts. He's QB6 on a points per game basis since the start of 2023. And the argument we always made is like people say he's a system quarterback and he definitely benefits from Kyle Shanahan's play calling and the players around him. But he's a good effing quarterback.

[Connor Rogers]

He is. And I thought even though statistically had a very poor game against the Seahawks and he scored three points, I thought he was fine in that game. I don't think that was on him. Like he didn't melt down the way that he did when he saw McDonald's defense on that Christmas game against the Ravens a couple of years ago. But Purdy, yeah, he's not just the system quarterback. You compare his numbers to what Mac Jones did to what Jimmy Garoppolo did In this offense, it's night and day. Purdy's taking this to another level. And the thing about that makes this so incredible that he's second in fantasy points per game game is that no Brandon Aiuk, George Kittle missed a lot of time. He's got McCaffrey and he's had Juwan Jennings. Which one? Jennings hasn't had the year that people wanted him to have. So he just, he, whoever is in the system, he makes it work. Like Jake Tonjas was an absolute monster Sunday night game against the Bears. Purdy, he attempts high degreeful, high difficulty throws and, and he is a bit of a gunslinger and he will make mistakes. But yeah, also the effect that he adds a bit with his legs as well, which has really come into his game over the past two years. He's an, he's an excellent quarterback.

[Matthew Berry]

I'd be buying into the Niners offense next year. This was a little bit of quietly a reset year for them and it's amazing. They were still playing for the one seed but when you just look at the, the log of their salary cap, you could see they had some things to work through. They moved on from Debo, they never had IUK back. And then you look at this offseason, you know, right now they're projected to have over 37 million in cap space. I'm sure with some maneuvers that could be 50 plus, 60 plus make some moves to put more around them. They have their first round pick. So I'd be heavily in on Brock Purdy next year.

[Field Yates]

Yeah, for sure. Especially by the way, they could easily, if they need more cap space, I could see them dealing Mac Jones to free up some like hey take, give us Mac Jones and take this other contract off of our books. That kind of thing. Like, like they'll, they'll get clever. They always do. It's a really smart front office there in San Francisco next year. I think he's a low end QB1. He's somewhere in that QB9 to 12 range for me. But like just the floor is always there. To your point, he gets more points with his legs than you think. And then like you know, they signed Juwan Jennings to an extension. Kittle's not slowing down anytime soon. You know, Ricky Piersall continues to show flashes as well. You know, again, McCaffrey will be the big question here, but they've shown like Shanahan has shown like it isn't McCaffrey. They'll find an Isaac Grindo or whatever. They'll find some.

[Matthew Berry]

Robinson will be a Thing, right.

[Field Yates]

They'll find. They'll find a day three pick next year at running back. That'll. That we'll all be talking about in week seven or something.

[Connor Rogers]

Only thing with Purdy, he's been in the NFL for four years. He's gotten hurt all four years. Like he is not a huge guy and he's susceptible to these injuries. So that is the one thing is I think he is very elevated injury.

[Field Yates]

Risk and maybe so maybe they hang on to Mac Jones too if they.

[Matthew Berry]

Can value him more for their team.

[Field Yates]

Possible, very possible. But either way, right. Your point is, is like we like the 49ers. They've sort of retired set and they are getting younger. You know, this was one of the older teams in the NFL last couple years and so it should be a good off season for Sam.

[Matthew Berry]

Let's flip the board again. I saw a lot of guesses that nine was Jackson Dart, which not a bad guess because of all the high point weeks. But the low weeks mostly out of his hands have actually sunk him from being number nine. Let's see if we get a couple more guests in here. I saw Justin Herbert was said.

[Connor Rogers]

Let's see.

[Field Yates]

Yeah.

[Matthew Berry]

Dart at nine. As you see from of course, Cobra Kiger, dead to me. A lot of Brissette guesses again. Stuntman Chuck said Cordell Stewart.

[Field Yates]

I mean I like that one. Cordell Stewart a better guess. Aloha bricks. Lawrence is on the list. I love you brother, but Ian Gooda 4634.

[Connor Rogers]

Ian Gooda 4633 was taken.

[Field Yates]

Yeah, exactly. Well, Ian, I'm not sure what your avatar is. What do we think that is?

[Connor Rogers]

Is that Matthew Berry? No, it's not.

[Field Yates]

No, it's not me. Too much hair.

[Matthew Berry]

I think that's Ian himself. Ian in a suit. Is that you in a suit, Ian?

[Connor Rogers]

Is that Dostoevsky?

[Field Yates]

Either way, Ian, you got it right. Congratulations. You are absolutely right. Jalen hurts widely. Drafted as a top three or four quarterback this year, sneaks into the top 10. He's number nine on a points per game basis here. Connor. And I think the biggest issue here for him the drop was the lack of brushing.

[Matthew Berry]

By the way, Ian confirmed my avatar is me. Ian in the suit. Okay, so it was that is. This is a disappointment, right? There's no way around it. And you bring up the lack of rushing, which he needs to have to be a top five fantasy quarterback. Where you drafted Jalen hurts Jay. You were left with disappointment. And then all of the odd dead weeks between him and Aj Brown like just so many just goose egg ish level weeks between them and that's going to hurt him then in the passing volume.

[Connor Rogers]

Yeah they're definitely the worst vibes division winner coming off the super bowl championship in the history of football. It's strange because he has, he has had really good games like he was magnificent against the Vikings and Flores's defense where he played basically a perfect game and then he has complete meltdowns like he did against the Chargers in prime time where he lost them that game single handedly. So very strange year for Jalen Hurts. I think the fact that AJ Brown emerged over the second half of the season gives you a bit more optimism going into the playoffs at least. But we don't know what A.J. brown's situation is going to be next year. Don't know why Hertz stopped running if Jalen Hurts isn't going to run the ball on design QB rushes. He's just not as nearly as much of a needle mover. And the tush push wasn't nearly as successful this year.

[Field Yates]

Well it wasn't nearly successful. It feels like they didn't run it as much as well to your point about that, just 26 yards per game, that was a career low in terms of his rushing this season. Less than 30% of his fantasy points this year came from rushing and for the first time since 2021 he had under 35% of the Eagles red zone and goal to go rushing attempts. Feels like they didn't do the tush push as much. It wasn't as effective and I think there's a chance it's outlawed this off season. There seems to be more and more momentum towards trying to outlaw that rule. And you know, people talking online about how this isn't football and not like not whatever nerds like me but like you know, people with influential voices within the NFL in terms of you know, former coaches, former former all star players. You know it's not football to have.

[Connor Rogers]

Say Aaron Rodgers with his hands in his pockets while Conor is just not. That's all I want to see.

[Matthew Berry]

The quarterback sneak is different from the tush put. Yes, that's the problem. It's evolved the quarterback sneak into a spam level play. And listen, credit to the Eagles for unlocking this like it worked for them for a long time. Obviously part of their super bowl run. I have no qualms with them in this. It's just a matter of keeping the product as pristine as possible forward.

[Connor Rogers]

The issue is is if you get really good at it then you're running it like twice in a row from third and two and it's like what are we doing here?

[Matthew Berry]

Like there's a player safety element that the league will, will push in this as well.

[Field Yates]

No, I just, I remember that the, the playoff game last year, the NFC championship between Washington and Philadelphia where Frankie Lubu was just like missing and was whatever seven offsides in a row or whatever. It was like, it was just, it's just like what are we doing here? You know what I mean? Like I, you know as a commanders fans like I like, like the effort but come on like what are we doing?

[Matthew Berry]

If Hertz is. And I want your projection. If Hertz is taken as a top eight quarterback next year, I'd be entirely out. And it's not just him. Is that the Eagles defense is so good. How many scripts is he in where it's like Jalen hurts, needs to throw 25 times this half and put up this crazy production. Do you think he'll be drafted as a top eight quarterback?

[Field Yates]

I do. I'm going to have him somewhere in the QB5 to 7 range as of right now. Assuming tush push is legal. But. But yeah, I mean I could see it. It's, it's a little. There's too thin a line between because of the lack of rushing and because he's not a high volume passer and doesn't need to be. Like there is a nervousness there about the fact that like he's a guy that doesn't have as much of a floor as you might think other mobile quarterbacks do. For whatever reason he just, he didn't run this year.

[Connor Rogers]

Yeah, it felt like the league figured out him and Bonix a little bit more this year because there's not a lot of sophistication in, in the throws and like there's just don't use the middle of the field that much. It's a lot of deep balls, go balls and then shorter stuff. So yeah, we'll see.

[Field Yates]

By the way, there's also, there's also the rumor that A.J. brown might be moving on. Now I don't think the Eagles go into the season with only Devontae Smith and Jahan Dotson. You know they'd, they'd replace A.J. brown but still who they replace him with I think is also would be, you know, part of the equation of evaluating Hertz next year. I do think he'll be drafted as a top eight guy, certainly as a top ten guy. But I also get people saying like yeah, I think I'M out this year.

[Matthew Berry]

Let's go to the rushing yards per game leaders and keep those guesses in the chat. We left number six and number seven open. For those of you listening, James Cook was number one at 95.4 yards per game. Derrick Henry and Jonathan Taylor right behind him. Then Bijan Robinson, who was at 86.9 yards. Devon Achan.

[Field Yates]

Now, this is rushing yard leaders. This, this is not fantasy points. This is not total scrimmage yards. This is rushing yard leaders here. And it's obviously these are obvious. I'll give another hint. It's running backs. There's not a quarterback. It's not like Lamar is in there or something like that. These are all. These are running backs.

[Matthew Berry]

J. Woogie said. Chase Brown.

[Field Yates]

Interesting.

[Matthew Berry]

We got Ved said etn.

[Field Yates]

Okay.

[Matthew Berry]

Which is a good guess.

[Connor Rogers]

It's wrong, but it's a good guess.

[Matthew Berry]

It's a really good guess.

[Denny Carter]

Yeah.

[Field Yates]

Rico Dowdle, Ryan Oswald, also a good guess.

[Connor Rogers]

Yeah.

[Matthew Berry]

Another one. Dowdle kind of faded down the stretch.

[Field Yates]

He certainly did. Jakory Krusky, Merritt. Is he in there? Is it him?

[Matthew Berry]

He didn't make it. It's not just 17 weeks four through.

[Connor Rogers]

Six or whatever it was. He was right in the mix.

[Matthew Berry]

And there's Brian with it with number six, that is Javante Williams.

[Connor Rogers]

That strikes me as a man who looked it up.

[Field Yates]

Yeah.

[Connor Rogers]

And you looked it up.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah. I'll give a little love to GT12, 1290. In the chat he said Kyron Williams almost right away. So that was definitely not a lookup. Nice job by GT Javante Williams, guys. Big year on the one year kind of flyer deal for the Cowboys to turn into so much more. But now the cost is going to change. Matthew, would you still pay that cost or do you kind of get into fade territory?

[Field Yates]

I think it, I think it sort of depends on what happens in this offseason. The problem with him is, is, is that it all was, it was both volume and touchdown dependent. He's not using the passing game like at all.

[Connor Rogers]

Right.

[Field Yates]

8.5% target share, under 10 receiving yards a game. So it was just basically like this is somebody who got massive volume. Like basically 18 touches a game and he had at least 15 touches in 13 of the 16 games he played. And this is somebody who was top seven in the NFL in both red zone rush attempts attempts and goal to go rush attempts. So he got a ton of volume and he got a ton of volume in close and the Cowboys offense was really good. Now if he's going to have that role again then yes. Like if the if in the offseason the Cowboys like pay him.

[Connor Rogers]

He's.

[Field Yates]

He was on a one year prove it deal and credit to Javante Williams who proved it. But so if the Cowboys go out and do that, then sure. Right. And if this if the room looks the same as it is because I do think their offense is going to be a lot better next year. But I could also see a lot of changes coming to this offense and I could see Jerry saying I don't want to pay him. I think I can do this with Malik. I can do this. I do this through the draft. I can find somebody else. I can sign J.K. dobbins to one year deal and get the same production. You know somebody like that. Right. Another Denver Broncos cast up Dave Montgomery.

[Matthew Berry]

End up there are Tyler Algier.

[Field Yates]

Tyler Algier. Right. I mean there's a lot of guys like that. Right. Like there's also my bold prediction of Dak Prescott, quarterback of the Rams next year. Never know.

[Matthew Berry]

Did you launch soft launch that one?

[Field Yates]

Yeah, somewhere on the show Sunday.

[Matthew Berry]

That was a Sunday special. I was not here for that.

[Field Yates]

No, that was. Was probably a long day.

[Connor Rogers]

So you're retiring Stafford again.

[Field Yates]

I am retiring Stafford again.

[Matthew Berry]

One day you're gonna be right.

[Field Yates]

I want to one day over the next six years I'm gonna get this right.

[Matthew Berry]

I want to clear Brian's good name. He's made it. Sure. He did not look it up. He's just going off volume. I want to clear Brian's good name.

[Connor Rogers]

I'll allow it.

[Matthew Berry]

That's fine.

[Field Yates]

Are we sure Brian has a good name? Yes, we're gonna clear it. We'll just clear it.

[Matthew Berry]

I've seen him in the chat. If you've been in the chat before. You have. You have for now. A good name. Number seven right behind him, 73.7 yards and the guys behind number seven Jameer Gibbs, Saquon Barkley, Christian McCaffrey still all cleared that 70 yard threshold. Let's see those guesses in there for this.

[Field Yates]

While the guesses are going. I'll just say about Javante Williams just to finish that up at the moment, assuming he's back with the Cowboys and they don't add anyone significant in that room. He's a low end QB2 high end flex. He's going to be in that 18 to 24 range for me at the moment then K Gemma 89. That's a great guess. DeAndre Swift is 7 that it's not DeAndre Swift, but that is a Great guess. That is a great guess.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah.

[Field Yates]

And Chase Brown, also a great guest. Also wrong.

[Matthew Berry]

You know who got this first? Yeah, it's good to see. I don't think this is who got it first, but I had aloha bricks on the first card. But maybe I'm wrong. I do miss them sometimes. This is from Ace. Ace said Kyron Williams. You guys could share the title. It is Kyron Williams surprising at number seven. And as for another good year that Kyron has had. Jay, does Blake Corum's volume in the second half of the season kind of scare you going into next year?

[Connor Rogers]

It does scare me. It's strange. It doesn't feel like Kyron Williams has had a great year, I think because one, the emergence of Coram. Two, his loudest moment of the season was probably that fumble against the Niners in that, in that Thursday night game which cost him the game. So Kyron Williams. But I think it's a testament to him that even in what feels like not a great season, the fact that he's still able to be seventh in the NFL in rushing yards. But I would be very concerned about Corum and that this turns into a Bijan Algier type of situation. Except Kyren Williams isn't Bijan Robinson in terms of the receiving, in terms of the rushing talent. So yeah, I think that even if they bring the whole cast back, I think you have to downgrade Kyron relative to where he was drafted this year.

[Field Yates]

Yeah, I think that's fair. Like I have, I have Kyron pencil in right now somewhere in the 15 to 18 round, 18 range at running back, fourth, fifth round here as well. I mean, played just played under 70% of the snaps. Like again, the Kyren argument has always been, I mean, in addition to the fact that he's good, but like he never leaves the field. They run when they get in close. And so is Devonte Adams back? One of the issues with his touchdowns this year is. But like when they got on the three yard line, Stafford was throwing a fade to Devonte Adams instead of handing it off to Kyron Williams a lot. So that was one of the concerns as well. So his snap rate, his touches per game, both down from the last two years now still 17 touches a game, still a very good offense. But in a scenario where Devonte Adams isn't back with the Rams, Matthew Stafford is retired. He's not going to retire. You know, I'm just saying there's, you.

[Matthew Berry]

Know, he really might, which is like. But if he wins the Super bowl, if he wins the Super Bowl.

[Connor Rogers]

Yeah. Here's the other things with Kyron. One, Stafford is fully healthy this year and Stafford is an injury risk and he dealt with the back thing before the season but was ultimately fine. So there's injury risk there where if Stafford's not the quarterback, this offense is going to look a lot worse. And then secondly mentioned the goal line. Faith Stanford threw 15 touchdowns at the goal line. That is a record most in NFL history. That is not going to be replicated next year. Very unlikely. It's just like that's just an insane amount of touchdowns are being taken away. And so Kyron should at least have some regression in terms of goal line carries.

[Field Yates]

I assume. I don't know his contract status off the top of my head, but I think. Is devonte Adams a one year deal? I think he's. Or did he resign because they signed him in the offseason. So maybe there's a. I don't know if there's a player option or he.

[Matthew Berry]

Signed a two year deal.

[Field Yates]

Two year deal. I don't know. If only the first year was guaranteed.

[Matthew Berry]

Half of next year is guaranteed. So if they cut him, they save 14, but it costs them 14 in dead money. Which means Devontae Adams at age 34 will be back on this team next year.

[Field Yates]

Yeah, I would think so.

[Connor Rogers]

Yep.

[Field Yates]

I would think so. Yeah.

[Matthew Berry]

So especially with how productive he's been. He's got to become a little bit of an ageless wonder besides the soft tissue injuries. But when he plays, it's like Devontae Adams is 33.

[Field Yates]

Yeah.

[Matthew Berry]

Never looks at.

[Field Yates]

Unbelievable. It just goes to show what happens when you have Taco Bell in your house.

[Connor Rogers]

You'll see.

[Matthew Berry]

That's right.

[Field Yates]

Yeah.

[Matthew Berry]

Just the Baja Blast.

[Field Yates]

It clearly is.

[Matthew Berry]

That stuff could fuel you for weeks with no sleep.

[Field Yates]

Yeah, exactly.

[Matthew Berry]

Most red zone touches, we left number four open here. Who is tied with Jameer Gibbs for 60 red zone touches, of course. Christian McCaffrey cleared the pack. 91. Red zone touches. The next closest.

[Field Yates]

I'd have thought Derrick Henry would have been above Jonathan Taylor here.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah, well, you didn't. You forgot about the fourth quarter where he never stepped. Jonathan Taylor at 74. Derek Henry had 64. The rest of this list is Gibbs, Javante, Kyron, James Cook, Zach Charbonnet and Josh Jacobs.

[Field Yates]

Charbonnet is not a surprise being there. I'm surprised that Josh Jacobs is as low as he is because I feel like they. All they do is give it to Josh Jacobs.

[Connor Rogers]

Yeah.

[Field Yates]

When they get included. Maybe they just weren't in the red zone all that much. Yeah, it was a low, it was a low volume offense here. So let's see who the Brian Oswald's Bijan. Bijan.

[Matthew Berry]

Great Bijan.

[Field Yates]

Not Bijan. Tyler Alger would be a better guess.

[Matthew Berry]

In terms of a lot of people guessed Algier. Looks like Vinnie guessed Alger. Aloha Bricks said Algier. Burks and Flannels. But ved you are correct, it is Travis etienne tied for fourth with 60 red zone touches. But he is also a free agent. Matthew which I would think his best fantasy value is tied to him going back to this offense under Liam Cohen. Right.

[Field Yates]

Well they obviously believe in him as an every down back which he hasn't always been throughout his career. 10 different games this year with 15 or more fantasy points he had, you know, at least he's now had at least 1,399 yards from scrimmage in three of his four career seasons. Doug Peterson went back and forth on whether or not he could be a an every down back. There was one year he was, one year he wasn't. But we all liked Bashal Tootin this year in the preseason thinking that he and Travis Etienne was like, nope. Liam Cohen believes in me and so I just sort of feel like the Jaguars, given how magical the season's been, I feel like they're going to want to bring as many people back.

[Connor Rogers]

I have a relationship with Trevor, he's.

[Field Yates]

Got a good relationship. Obviously they played college ball together. So I do think that's. I think for our purposes we would prefer Travis Etienne back on the Jaguars in a system where, you know, he's been successful and they believe in him as a workhorse back as opposed to going to a new system and going somewhere where he might be more of a committee guy.

[Connor Rogers]

What do you think the outlook is for my man King Tutankhamun? Bashal Tutankhamun never got any. No one ever picked that up. I think it's a great.

[Field Yates]

No, it's no Brown Gobbler.

[Connor Rogers]

His name's Simplicity.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah, we called him the Tootler for like three months.

[Field Yates]

Exactly. Do you remember on we came up on the Sunday show and we. We did the Brown Gobbler for Chase Brown?

[Matthew Berry]

Well, I was here for the carryover that Monday. I saw a lot of it in the chat.

[Field Yates]

Didn't love it any sense. The best thing we've come up with this year.

[Matthew Berry]

Weird how the season went off the rails right around then.

[Connor Rogers]

I'm surprised you didn't drop that on the FNIA Bengals Ravens during your parlay.

[Field Yates]

Like the Brown Goblin segments would have loved to.

[Matthew Berry]

You got something like you're. You're heating something up there, but you're leaving it in the holster right now.

[Field Yates]

Yeah, I was going to talk about the process there, but I'm gonna. Let's just move on. Let's just move on.

[Connor Rogers]

So let's.

[Field Yates]

They would not have liked Brown Goblin, to be fair.

[Connor Rogers]

That'd be 100. Correct.

[Matthew Berry]

Oh, boy. Wide receiver point per game leaders Puka Nakua easily at the top 23.3. Jackson Smith and Jigba behind him at 21.6. They're the only two receivers to clear the 20 mark. Ja' Marr Chase right after that. But number four, we left open here. And I think this one is going to surprise people. And my big hint I'm going to give you and everyone in the chat is saying my Wilson. And you are not correct because you're forgetting what Michael Wilson was like with Kyler Murray the first half of the year.

[Field Yates]

Yeah, it's not Michael Wilson. This is fantasy points per game, Right?

[Matthew Berry]

That's the hint.

[Connor Rogers]

Yeah.

[Field Yates]

Fantasy points per game. But you know, the top three there, obviously. Puka, JSN and you know. Yeah. So stressy. You're wrong. This is the first one Michael Wilson.

[Matthew Berry]

No one's gotten, for example.

[Connor Rogers]

But I'll just say this about this.

[Field Yates]

I'll just say this. I'm gonna say this about Stressy. I don't think that's his real picture, the avatar. I don't think that's a picture of him.

[Denny Carter]

Probably not.

[Field Yates]

I'm just gonna say that right now. It's a picture of the frog. Frog with a.

[Matthew Berry]

How about Thomas Hansen said Wandell Robinson?

[Field Yates]

Wanda Robinson is a great guess. It's a wrong guess, but it's a great guess. In terms of fan, we still do.

[Matthew Berry]

Not have the right guess. And we have about 35 ish entries.

[Field Yates]

Maybe Devontae Adams is a good guess. Espedici. But it is not Devonte Adams here.

[Matthew Berry]

Kwamikaze said Alec Pierce.

[Field Yates]

Alec. Oh, yeah. For the shoot.

[Matthew Berry]

Parker Washington entering the chat. That's Lakers. Oh, we got it. Finally.

[Field Yates]

Andrew Paredes make a buka. It's not a booka.

[Matthew Berry]

Ace Got it.

[Denny Carter]

Ace.

[Field Yates]

Yeah, Ace. Ace. Ace Googled it, but go ahead.

[Matthew Berry]

Ace has Rashid Rice. It is rasheed rice at 18.8 points. Yeah, that's the hardest one on the board, I think. The hardest one on the board for sure.

[Field Yates]

By the way, Pickens in a lave. Detective Drake, London. I'm surprised to see him there at 8, by the way, because it felt like he was so up and down.

[Matthew Berry]

It's not like he didn't get a.

[Connor Rogers]

Reception after he came back.

[Field Yates]

And our guy 8 CD Lam I comments at number 10. But Rasheed Rice, as you see there, coming in at number four. Like, when he came back, he had a. Basically, he had almost a 29% target share. He got at least eight targets in every game he played this year, except for one as well. 47% of the team's red zone targets. It just felt like Patrick Mahomes was like. When he came back, it was just like, all right, I'm done messing around with everyone else. Like, you're my guy. You know, occasionally I'll find Kelsey, but it's really. And the expectation here. I'm trying, not trying to. Matthew Stafford, the beloved Travis Kelce here. But the expectation is that Travis will announce his retirement here at some point here in the future and join a broadcast booth coming near you. He'll be a highly coveted guy. Open seat here on happy hour, Trav. If you're killer Trav, we'll make a room for you.

[Matthew Berry]

Replace the media.

[Field Yates]

Oh, Adam, with this ad, I'm sure.

[Matthew Berry]

Okay. Yeah, that's fair.

[Field Yates]

Yeah.

[Matthew Berry]

I mean, don't you think we need a bartender?

[Connor Rogers]

He's actually. He's a big Paul Tom Sanderson fan, so he can do magnolia segments. I'm sure he loves himself some magnolia.

[Field Yates]

I'm sure he does. He's probably seen Star Wars, I'll say that much. The Googler look. Hey, Gemma. Now I like that the regulars are turning on each other. That's amazing.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah, I.

[Connor Rogers]

When that happens.

[Field Yates]

Exactly. The Googler. But the point. All my point was going to be. I'm just going to say this right here, right now, and the regulars are here. Yeah, I have a point.

[Matthew Berry]

If.

[Field Yates]

If in fact Travis Kelce does retire, Rasheed Rice is going to be on the short list for Ride or Die candidates next year.

[Connor Rogers]

Oh, wow.

[Field Yates]

I could see a JSN season coming.

[Connor Rogers]

Here's the thing, though.

[Field Yates]

Assuming. You have to assume Mahomes is health.

[Connor Rogers]

You can't choose Rasheed Rice for a Ride or die. You can't do it.

[Field Yates]

Yeah, no, it's a bad.

[Matthew Berry]

It's bad.

[Connor Rogers]

It's fair. Yeah. Do that. Yeah, I understand the logic.

[Matthew Berry]

He's not gonna be the rider.

[Connor Rogers]

Die.

[Matthew Berry]

He's not gonna be the ride.

[Connor Rogers]

I'm not gonna announce that on the whole of imj.

[Matthew Berry]

Too many memes. Way too many memes.

[Denny Carter]

Way too many quote tweets.

[Matthew Berry]

Instagram comments disaster.

[Field Yates]

My publicist is texting me right now saying what did you just do?

[Connor Rogers]

Yeah, why couldn't you go Travis Hunter right here.

[Field Yates]

You got it.

[Matthew Berry]

Just run back at Maureen Hampton, please.

[Field Yates]

I want to just clean this up real quickly though. We are making fun of what an inappropriate use of words that would be. We are not making fun of what actually happened. What happened involving Rasheed Rice in the off season last. Was it last offseason or two. Two offseasons ago was tragic and awful. And we're not making fun of that. We're making fun of the fact that he was obviously involved in a horrific accident involving travel. And I'm trying to dance around this.

[Matthew Berry]

A little bit and he won't be the writer.

[Field Yates]

He won't be. But I'm just saying he could have a Jackson Smith and Jigba type season where he is the main focal point of Patrick Mahomes and what we expect to be a good offense.

[Connor Rogers]

Absolutely.

[Field Yates]

That was the point of that.

[Connor Rogers]

The reason why he ranks so high as well is that poor Choice Awards by me 1 he he overlapped entirely with when Mahomes was healthy because as soon as Mahomes got hurt that was his season done. So he didn't get the Chris Ola Doken experience then to the first game against the Raiders. They were doing everything humanly possible to get him touchdowns and so he scored twice in his first game back. He had some massive games as well. He had a game where he won I think eight for 142 and a touchdown. So yeah, the talent is undeniable with Rasheed Rice.

[Field Yates]

The talent and the connection. The connection and fit in the cheat.

[Matthew Berry]

What I want to move on.

[Field Yates]

Whatever.

[Matthew Berry]

Listen, the chat is making me laugh.

[Field Yates]

I just want to say this. If this is the last show and it very likely is for me because I'm sure I'm getting canceled tomorrow.

[Matthew Berry]

You know who might be right or.

[Field Yates]

Die actually might be but be me. I just want to say I love you all and I appreciate it.

[Matthew Berry]

It's been fun.

[Field Yates]

Speak fun. Leave me next year with with Travis Kelce as the host. Fans, triple happy hour with Travis Kelce. Just do me that favor.

[Matthew Berry]

Any guesses for number nine while we're here Now a lot of people got this one. It is Devonte Adams. I saw plenty of Devonte Adams guesses for number four where it was Rasheed Rice and a lot for Devonte Adams at number nine and he simply was Matthew the touchdown king when he played which aided these points per game.

[Field Yates]

28 end zone targets, that's 10 more than any other player. Just I mean unbelievable. It's actually second in red zone targets as well. No one had more receiving touchdowns this year than Devonta Adams. He had 14 of them. He actually scored in nine of 14 games. So while he had a bunch of multiple touchdown games, he kind of gave you a floor like this crazy touchdown floor. Now he's banged up during the fantasy playoffs which obviously brutal timing there as well. But the only concern on Devonte Adams here, but we sort of talked about it like turns 34 in December past two years he's missed six games like just are you confident that he can, you know, in at his age 35 season continue to be as productive as he has been?

[Connor Rogers]

Yeah. And it's also, it's a concern kind of that like these are soft tissue injuries as well, which is a couple years now more recurring. But I mean staff and him have that rapport at the goal line that should regress a little bit in terms of the ship production. But at the same time that skill has been with Devonte Adams his whole career.

[Field Yates]

Yeah, he needs to stay there with Stafford. 37% of his points this year came from touchdowns like he is. He's probably the most touchdown dependent fantasy superstar among pass catchers there. Right. You know he's talking about oh he's a touchdown defendant flex. He's a touchdown dependent tight end like Devonte Adams was a touchdown dependent wide receiver. One because he had more than 75 yards in three games. That was it. Like he was never a volume guy but he got you there with the scores.

[Matthew Berry]

Alright, we're going to take our first break. When we're back, Denny Carter joins the show with some DFS tips for the wild card round. As we go through stacks right after this.

[Field Yates]

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[Connor Rogers]

Yeah, it means a lot.

[Field Yates]

I mean, last Winter Olympics, Covid kind.

[Connor Rogers]

Of took my opportunity to get a full 1500 in and 5k.

[Field Yates]

So just looking forward to kind of getting my first real touch of the Olympic experience. And of course, the fantasy football loss has you carrying that backpack. And so it's even here in the interview. It's going everywhere, right?

[Connor Rogers]

It's going everywhere.

[Matthew Berry]

You'll see at the games, for sure. American speed skater Casey Dawson qualified for the Olympics in Milan this past weekend. But that didn't save him from his fantasy punishment, as we all saw.

[Field Yates]

That's a pretty good one.

[Denny Carter]

I like that.

[Field Yates]

I just. Is the league filled with Olympic athletes? Because it's just like you have to. If you finish last, you have to carry a pink backpack to a national television interview. But if you have it, you have to just bring it to your cubicle. Like, who else is in the league?

[Matthew Berry]

Stakes were much higher for Casey.

[Field Yates]

Yeah, I want to know that the.

[Matthew Berry]

Stakes are pretty high for our last place finisher as well.

[Connor Rogers]

Yeah.

[Matthew Berry]

Denny Carter. Great to have Denny Carter back on the show. Denny, we haven't come up with a. A way of redemption for you.

[Field Yates]

I've got your punishment, Denny, for finishing last in the league of. Would you like to hear your punishment's gonna be?

[Denny Carter]

I wouldn't, but I guess you're gonna tell me anyway.

[Matthew Berry]

Go ahead.

[Field Yates]

Your punishment is that you have to play in the league next year. Yeah, another year with us assholes and.

[Matthew Berry]

Still have on the show.

[Field Yates]

Yeah, it's miserable.

[Connor Rogers]

I thought the Chargers hat was his punishment. Oh, that was something else. Okay.

[Field Yates]

Hey, hey, hey.

[Denny Carter]

I like my Chargers hat. It's powder blue. It. Connor like it, you know, the best in the NFL. Yeah, I think the last time I checked, that league was like late October. That's how my team was. Was doing so treated very unfairly during the dream.

[Field Yates]

You should have made a triumphant, like, rise like I did to seventh place. But maybe what, Denny. Maybe what we can do is we can relegate Denny to the regulars. League. The regulars. All the regulars are forming their own league in the chat, Denny, you, of course, the star of the Rotoworld Q and a on YouTube every single week. And so maybe that's what we do is we relegate you down regular comes up to the league of basketball and then we bring whoever, the final. Whoever Wins the power rankings. The peacocky for regular of the year gets to be in our league.

[Matthew Berry]

I like this.

[Field Yates]

Maybe that's what we should do.

[Matthew Berry]

Sounds like a job that Steven and Damian will have to vet.

[Field Yates]

Yes. Yeah, we're gonna get.

[Connor Rogers]

We're gonna get producers parachuting Danny in to regulars island. Danny can hold the conch. He can teach him how to make fire.

[Matthew Berry]

Yes.

[Field Yates]

Danny, have you seen Star Wars?

[Denny Carter]

Okay. Yes, I have, but Connor's right. I mean, come on. They're not actually good.

[Matthew Berry]

Wow.

[Denny Carter]

Sorry.

[Matthew Berry]

Thank you, Danny.

[Denny Carter]

I. I can't. I've never been able to get in to him.

[Matthew Berry]

I'm sorry. Thank you. Vindicated.

[Field Yates]

That's all that cares. All right, go ahead.

[Denny Carter]

Yeah, I've seen him.

[Field Yates]

All right. Denny's here for a reason.

[Matthew Berry]

Wild card weekend. Many reasons. One, to defend me. Thank you, Denny. I really appreciate that. And number two, for all of you that can't give up fantasy and want to still play in the playoffs, of course there's daily Denny wildcard weekend stacks in daily fantasy. For those trying to start to get into daily fantasy. Why are stacks so important in this exact format?

[Denny Carter]

Yeah, so, yeah, if you need more fantasy in your life for the wild card weekend, there are six games. It actually makes for a pretty good slate of draftkings games. I think what we want to do here, if you're in a large field tournament, so you're talking about, you know, 5,000, 10,000, even more people that you're competing against every week, what you want to do, you want to stack not just a lineup, but a game, Right? So paint a story. Create a story in which, you know, one quarterback and his pass catchers go off and then a pass catcher or running back or tight end or on the other team has to therefore also go off, you know, has at least the chance, the chance to have the game script, the pass heavy game script to go off as well. So make your lineups like you're right, as if you are correct. And I know that's hard. I know you want to be safe, you want to be super safe. But we're going to talk about it here. Stacking is important here if you want to get your lineup to the top.

[Matthew Berry]

So the game that comes to mind for me, Denny, because it has far and away the highest point total of wild card weekend is Buffalo going to Jacksonville. The total is 52 and a half. What would be the strategy for this board?

[Denny Carter]

Yeah, so, I mean, you could go a lot of different ways here. I think that the bill stacks here will be Relatively unpopular because of the Buffalo offense struggling over the, over the final month of the regular season. And that means that you might get Josh Allen at a, at a slightly reduced roster shift on a six game slate. Now that is significant. Okay, that's, that's a strategy I like going into this weekend. If he goes off, that means Dalton Kincaid maybe comes along. That means maybe Khalil Shakir, maybe one of the other secondary tertiary pass catchers from Buffalo also comes along. Right. So you, you bank on that. And then who, so who's coming back for the Jags in that stack? I say Travis ETN because the Bills can be attacked and have been attacked via the ground all season. And ETN obviously a good candidate for 20 touches.

[Field Yates]

Yeah, there's no question about it, especially given this game is at home. Like that's the. To me, if I'm, if I'm Liam Cohen, like just run the ball, keep Josh Allen off the field and you know, batter them because they are bad at defending the run. And so I actually think a reverse too. I think a Jag stack in that game is interesting with, you know, with Parker Washington, with Breton Strange if you want to punt at tight end as well. Travis etn, of course, as well.

[Matthew Berry]

Danny, the game, the lowest point total, of course the Texans going to Pittsburgh just 39.5 right now on DraftKings. But maybe you could find some value in this game because of the prices.

[Denny Carter]

Yeah. So the Texans offense has been quite pass heavy for much of this season. Teams are leaning toward the pass against the Steelers. Nico Collins is the kind of receiver that gives, gives the Steelers fits. A boundary receiver, a big receiver. I like him a lot here. So if you think Collins is going to have a big game, then you throw in Stroud, maybe throw in Dalton Schultz and you can get all of those points from your Texan stack. You run it back with Kenneth Gainwell, who has 35 targets over his past five games. He's been targeted on 28% of his routes. That's a lot.

[Connor Rogers]

Yep. No, I like it. Stroud is very high variance. We saw in that chart against your charges a couple of weeks ago, him connecting on those deep balls. And we've seen as well the Steelers, their secondary is vulnerable to getting torched. So Flowers did on Saturday Night Football. We also think back to Joe Flacco doing what he did with Jamar Chase in that Thursday night game.

[Matthew Berry]

The Niners having to travel to Philly for the first round of the playoffs here, Denny. And credit to the Niners, they've dealt with a ton of injuries on defense this year. But maybe that benefits building an Eagle stack in this round.

[Denny Carter]

I think so. And look, am I wild about building an Eagle stack? I'm not. You know, considering how Jalen hurts and the Eagles looked over the past three or four weeks. But that means that everybody else is going to be fading them too. So you got to embrace variance, embrace uncertainty here. If you think Hertz is going to have a big game, then you throw in A.J. brown, you throw in Dallas. Got it? Maybe Devonte Smith.

[Field Yates]

A.J.

[Denny Carter]

Brown has a particularly good matchup against a Niners defense that really doesn't play much too high safeties and AJ Brown can get there pretty easily on one or two deep shots against a defense that doesn't guard against that sort of thing. So consider him you run it back with cmc, you get a bunch of targets. This is an interesting one to stack, I think.

[Field Yates]

Yeah, I agree with you. I mean I think we've the Eagles are so Jekyll and Hyde, but when it comes to the playoffs, when it comes to them playing at home, they seem to be able to turn it on. So I do think there's probably some opportunity there. I as a Commander's fan, I desperately hope that the Eagles blues in the first round here, I don't think they're.

[Matthew Berry]

Gonna all right, we're gonna take one more break. Denny, thank you so much for joining us. Really good stuff from you as always. We got early line alert during last call after this.

[Field Yates]

Yeah and we'll put Medici in touch with you about draft date next year. All right. Medici's in the league, I'm sure.

[Matthew Berry]

Aloha Bricks.

[Field Yates]

Aloha Bricks. The whole Ved.

[Matthew Berry]

Yeah, Ved Rhino. There you go.

[Field Yates]

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[Connor Rogers]

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[Matthew Berry]

The AI voice we're using now is English.

[Denny Carter]

Impressive.

[Field Yates]

Five minutes later, by the way.

[Denny Carter]

It wasn't an AI Voice.

[Field Yates]

It was Jay Croucher.

[Matthew Berry]

I apologize.

[Field Yates]

Jay, if you're watching. Wow, I'm speechless.

[Connor Rogers]

English.

[Field Yates]

English, by the way. Yeah. First, a lot of problems there.

[Matthew Berry]

A lot of problems there.

[Field Yates]

AI doesn't sound like an AI Voice.

[Matthew Berry]

He's not British.

[Field Yates]

He's not British.

[Matthew Berry]

He's worked here for five years.

[Field Yates]

Five years.

[Matthew Berry]

That's half a decade.

[Field Yates]

Yeah, you would think so. I mean, struggling. I understand. Florio thinks you're one of the little people. And it's fair. It's a fair assessment, but just, you know, we have to understand.

[Matthew Berry]

Phil called it out.

[Connor Rogers]

Jay Eiler.

[Field Yates]

Yeah. Jay, your coworker, Mark, this is the Philo B 2925. Jay, your coworker Mike Florio did you dirty this morning. He called your voice AI doing a DraftKings ad. Maybe the.

[Connor Rogers]

The Ailer.

[Matthew Berry]

Not the Ailer.

[Connor Rogers]

Also the Ailer, the new villain name. Yeah, yeah. It's problematic, but fortunately, and it would have stung if this was the other way around, but Mike Florio did not vote for Joe Flacco comeback player of the year, so he'll always be okay with me.

[Matthew Berry]

Fair enough. That's a good one.

[Field Yates]

Very generous of you. Very. Yeah, doing. Yeah, kind tracking.

[Matthew Berry]

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[Field Yates]

Oh, the crown is yours.

[Connor Rogers]

Crown, it's yours.

[Matthew Berry]

All right, last call. It was not early line alert. Jay, what do you like going to.

[Connor Rogers]

Take the Niners plus four and a half. I agree, Matthew. The Eagles likely win. I think it's going to be close. I think the Niners offense is going to look better than it did against the Seahawks. Expecting Trent Williams back. Ricky Pearsall chance to be back as well. I just don't trust the Eagles offense to score enough to blow out San Francisco.

[Matthew Berry]

Kind of on the same path as you over in the afc. Give me the Chargers plus three and a half. Right. New England, really good team. Not expecting a huge letdown here, but three and a half is still a lot of point points in any playoff matchups. Justin Herbert, 0 and 2 in the playoffs, you know he's going to want to bring his absolute best and can that offensive line hold up enough. The Patriots all their greatness. Not a great pass rushing team. I hope the Chargers or I expect the Chargers to keep this game close.

[Field Yates]

Yeah, I'm going to take the under in the Jacksonville Jaguars bills game. It's 52 and a half. That's a high line. I feel like in the playoffs teams play conservative and I think both teams are going to want to go run heavy. You've got, you've got a good defense in Jacksonville and I do think the Bills defense shows up a little bit. We talked about this earlier in the show. We think the Jaguars will run a lot to try to keep Josh Allen. So I think less possessions as well. Give me the under 50, 52 and a half in Jags bills.

[Connor Rogers]

Yep. I like it. Give me a.

[Matthew Berry]

We got some news here guys. During the show, Cliff Kingsbury will be moving on or kind of feels like a mutual on here for new opportunities.

[Field Yates]

So he'll probably, he'll probably be in the head coaching mix and or be a offense coordinator somewhere else. Him and the Commanders deciding to mutually part ways. I'm a little sad about this because I actually thought for all the issues the Commanders had this year, that offense wasn't really one of them. Like I mean like they got good production out of their backup quarterback. You know, I mean so I'm sorry to see Cliff go. Did a great job with Jayne Daniels. Wish him well in the future. We'll have to decide. We'll figure it out once the Commanders name a new OC which will come in a while. It's closing time. You don't have to go home, but you can stay here for Jane Conrad. Matthew, we are back on Thursday. Go to guillotineleagues.com join the playoff league. Peace out.