Waiver Wire! Which Replacement RB is the Top Priority? (11/26 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Summary

Fantasy Football Today: Episode Summary – Waiver Wire! Which Replacement RB is the Top Priority? (11/26)

Release Date: November 26, 2024

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Hosts and Analysts:

• Adam Aizer (Host)
• Dave Richard (Analyst)
• Jamie Eisenberg (Analyst)
• Heath Cummings (Analyst)

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1. Introduction and Season Overview

The episode kicks off with the hosts acknowledging that the fantasy football regular season is nearing its end. They discuss the impending playoffs and the importance of solidifying team rosters in the final weeks.

Notable Quote:

• Heath Cummings [03:07]: "Happy Thanksgiving."

2. Impact of J.K. Dobbins' Injury

A significant portion of the discussion centers around the injury to J.K. Dobbins, a key running back for the Washington Commanders. His knee injury has left a substantial gap in Washington's backfield, making the waiver wire a critical resource for fantasy managers.

Notable Quote:

• Dave Richard [04:44]: "FFT open playoffs start next week."

3. Top Waiver Wire Priorities

The analysts debate the top waiver wire targets for running backs, considering the current injuries and team performances.

• Jamie Eisenberg’s Top Three:

  1. Gus Edwards – Potential starter with a favorable matchup against Atlanta.
  2. Jeremy McNichols – Opportunity to start for Washington if both Brian Robinson Jr. and Austin Eckler remain injured.
  3. Keenan Allen – Although a wide receiver, Allen’s high target volume makes him a valuable asset.

  Jamie Eisenberg [04:05]: "Gus Edwards will be number one, obviously, if he gets a chance to start."

• Heath Cummings’ Perspective:

  • Prioritizes Jeremy McNichols over Edwards due to uncertain status of other running backs.
  • Suggests Amir Abdullah as a higher priority than Edwards if Abdullah remains available.

  Heath Cummings [05:05]: "McNichols would be my number one if we knew for sure that Eckler and Brian Robinson were out."

• Dave Richard’s Insight:

  • Recommends Amir Abdullah as a top priority, considering his recent performance and favorable matchup against Kansas City.

  Dave Richard [06:35]: "Abdul is also interesting because he's 67 rostered."

4. Quarterback Waiver Wire Targets

The hosts identify potential quarterback pickups to bolster fantasy rosters.

• Top Candidates:

  • Derek Carr
  • Will Levis
  • Trevor Lawrence

  Jamie Eisenberg [20:07]: "Top three priorities at quarterback are Derek Carr, Will Levis, and Trevor Lawrence."

• Discussion Points:

  • Trevor Lawrence is prioritized over Will Levis if available, despite concerns over his shoulder injury.
  • Caleb Williams is considered a viable long-term option despite a challenging matchup against the Lions.

  Jamie Eisenberg [22:49]: "I like Caleb Williams better than Russell Wilson this week."

5. Wide Receiver and Tight End Waiver Wire Strategies

The analysts discuss the best wide receiver and tight end options available on the waiver wire.

• Wide Receivers:

  • Keenan Allen remains a top priority due to his consistent target volume.
  • Christian Watson and Devon Valdez are also highlighted for their potential upside in PPR formats.

  Heath Cummings [26:09]: "Keenan Allen would be number one."

• Tight Ends:

  • Will Disley, Colin Commett, and Noah Gray are recommended picks, especially in shallow leagues.

  Jamie Eisenberg [28:16]: "The top three tight ends to get this week would be all the guys that are in shallow leagues."

6. Defense and Special Teams (DST) Waiver Wire Picks

Selecting the right DST can provide crucial points in tight matchups.

• Top Picks:

  • Dallas Cowboys DST – High availability and strong defensive performance against the Giants.
  • Los Angeles Chargers DST
  • New York Giants DST

  Heath Cummings [26:09]: "Keenan Allen would be number one."

7. Kickers Waiver Wire Recommendations

Choosing a reliable kicker can secure extra points, especially in close games.

• Top Kickers:

  • Chase McLaughlin
  • Will Lutz
  • John Parker
  • Romo
  • Brandon McManus
  • Blake Ruby

  Jamie Eisenberg [32:00]: "The kickers are Chase McLaughlin, Will Lutz, John Parker, Romo, Brandon McManus, and Blake Ruby."

8. Shallow vs. Deep League Strategies

The discussion differentiates strategies between shallow and deep leagues, emphasizing the importance of strategic pickups and stashes in deeper leagues.

• Shallow Leagues:

  • Focus on high-impact players who are available and likely to contribute immediately.

• Deep Leagues:

  • Emphasize depth and potential breakout players for future weeks.

  Heath Cummings [34:51]: "Shallow league guys because Cedric Tillman is still in the concussion protocol."

9. Final Advice and Closing Thoughts

The episode concludes with final strategic advice, encouraging managers to assess their team needs meticulously and make informed waiver wire decisions to enhance their playoff prospects.

Notable Quote:

• Heath Cummings [15:05]: "Use it or lose it. If you need somebody off the waiver wire and you think it's a player that's going to help your team win this coming week, use which with most of what you have left."

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Key Takeaways:

• Running Backs are critical on the waiver wire due to injuries like J.K. Dobbins'.
• Quarterbacks such as Trevor Lawrence and Will Levis offer valuable options, especially with upcoming favorable matchups.
• Wide Receivers and Tight Ends with high target volumes can provide consistent point contributions.
• Defense and Special Teams (DST) selections should focus on units facing weaker offensive teams.
• Kickers should be chosen based on the reliability and offensive strength of their teams.
• League Depth influences waiver wire strategies, with deeper leagues requiring more strategic pickups for long-term gains.

By focusing on these areas and making strategic waiver wire moves, fantasy managers can bolster their teams and enhance their chances of dominating their leagues in the playoff stages.

Transcript

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[Jamie Eisenberg]

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[Heath Cummings]

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[Heath Cummings]

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[Dave Richard]

What's going on, everybody? Welcome to fantasy football today, presented by BetMGM, the sportsbook. Born in Vegas, Adam Mazer here in studio with Dave Richard. Which camera am I looking at, Dave? This one.

[Heath Cummings]

That one.

[Dave Richard]

That one. Hey, what's going on? Jamie's. Jamie's at home. What's up, jb?

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Hey, boys.

[Dave Richard]

All right, so this is fun. Hey, Dave.

[Heath Cummings]

Boys, boys.

[Dave Richard]

Happy to.

[Heath Cummings]

Happy Thanksgiving.

[Dave Richard]

I know. Okay. It's weird that the fantasy regular season is almost over.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Yeah.

[Dave Richard]

And thanks.

[Heath Cummings]

We still got like a couple of weeks left.

[Dave Richard]

I know. It's almost over, though. We got weeks 13 and 14.

[Heath Cummings]

Let's savor the weeks, I'm saying.

[Dave Richard]

So FFT open playoffs start next week.

[Heath Cummings]

Yeah, I don't want to talk about that.

[Dave Richard]

Yeah, me either. I've been eliminated. Jamie's still alive in the fft.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

I lost the one seed. It was very disappointing because now I gotta worry about the Week 14 mess.

[Dave Richard]

Yep. Right.

[Heath Cummings]

Are you locked into a playoff spot, though?

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Yeah, I'm the two seat.

[Dave Richard]

But locked in like you go.

[Heath Cummings]

No, there's another week before the playoffs.

[Dave Richard]

If you lose this week, you're still in. Okay?

[Heath Cummings]

Okay.

[Dave Richard]

All right.

[Heath Cummings]

Good.

[Dave Richard]

All right. Excellent. Congratulations, Jamie. All right, so it's interesting, waiver wire week. We do have the injury to J.K. dobbins and we sit here every week saying, oh, it's a bad week for running backs on the waiver wire, but that's a good thing. Well, now we've got commanders running backs injured. We've got J.K. dobbins living with a knee injury last night. So, Jamie, let's get right into it. Who are the top three waiver wire priorities?

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Yeah, Gus Edwards will be number one, obviously, if he gets a chance to start. It's a good matchup against Atlanta. We'll see what they do with the. The number two running back there. I hope it's Kamani Vidal and not Hassan Haskins, but somebody's gonna have to catch him passes because they have been throwing to their running backs, mostly J.K. dobbins, but Edwards would be number one. I guess we should go Jeremy McNichols number two, just with the opportunity to be the starter for Washington if in fact he does get that role with Both Brian Robinson Jr. And Austin Eckler banged up, you know, so tough matchup against Tennessee. They've been fantastic against running backs lately. Just looking at what they did to Joe Mixon and Aaron Jones in each of the last two games. The best receiver, I mean, look, Keenan Allen, you got to go, you got to put him in the top three too. You know, just based on what he has done in from, from a target standpoint in the two games with Thomas Brown calling plays and coming off a stellar game plus with a good matchup against Detroit. So I'll say those are the top three.

[Dave Richard]

All right. Gus Edwards, Jeremy McNichols and Keenan Allen. Yeah. What do you think, Dave? What are your top three?

[Heath Cummings]

I don't like this week because there are too many question marks and too many what ifs, especially at running back. McNichols would be my number one if we knew for sure that Eckler and Brian Robinson were out. Eckler had an ugly looking concussion, so I think he's going to be out. Brian Robinson, we just don't know. We don't have an update. But let's just say if they're both out, and there's certainly a chance they could both be out, McNichols would be my number one and I'm not even sure if Gus would be my number two. He barely played in the second half last night against Baltimore. He had negative eight rushing yards in the second half against Baltimore. And it's Baltimore, but it's still like a bad spot. Played seven snaps. It was just brutal.

[Dave Richard]

But he had all the carries, right. So like he didn't play.

[Heath Cummings]

They barely ran the ball.

[Dave Richard]

They were trailing by two touchdowns.

[Heath Cummings]

Yeah.

[Dave Richard]

So I think, right, they, they threw.

[Heath Cummings]

The ball 81% of the time in the second half. So if in some crazy world they fall behind against Atlanta, which might happen, they just played on Monday night. Their defense got beat up by Baltimore. Who knows how they're going to play flying across the country to sort of the east coast in Atlanta that they could struggle and then Justin Herbert's got to throw and they might throw anyway. And Gus Edwards really hasn't been great this season. I understand that he's going to get a good opportunity. No question he's the goal line guy. But if Amir Abdullah is in the exact same spot that he's in last week where he played almost 90% of the snaps, I would rather pick up Abdullah before Gus Edwards, especially if It's a full PPR league. So I'm going to rank it that way. McNichols 1. Amir Abdullah 2, Gus Edwards, 3. Honorable Mention Keenan Allen because he absolutely should be picked up as number four.

[Dave Richard]

Yeah. Abdul is also interesting because he's 67 rostered, so he's kind of, you know, right on that. The borderline of what we consider for the Waiver wire column in the Waiver Wire episode. But if Abdul is still available, he had eight carries for 28 yards. He had five catches for 37 yards and a touchdown against Denver. And of course, he gets a team that's the best against running backs in Kansas City this week on the road on Black Friday. And not only is Kansas City great on, you know, per carry, 3.16 yards per carry to running backs, fourth fewest receiving yards per game allowed at running backs, that's something Denver struggles with and he took advantage of it. Kansas City is great against pass catching running backs, but Abdullah played almost every single snap for the Raiders. Did I say something?

[Heath Cummings]

I'm just happy you're here.

[Dave Richard]

Oh, this is rare, right?

[Heath Cummings]

Yeah, this is rare for you to be back in Florida. So back in the day when we did our podcast, there was never any remotes. There was never any live stream. Stream didn't exist, anything like that. We were all together in the same room all the time. It was fun. There were hijinks and like, it's. It's rare for it to happen these days because you live in New York. So I'm, I'm just happy that you're here. I wish Jamie was here, too.

[Dave Richard]

And I, you know, I don't want any excuses from you today. You're coming to lunch.

[Heath Cummings]

We'll see.

[Dave Richard]

I know Dave's a little behind with work today.

[Heath Cummings]

I made some bad decisions this morning.

[Dave Richard]

He's coming to let. We're going to lunch. I have to buy Jamie lunch. We're going to lunch. Not. Yes, Dave. Why? He.

[Heath Cummings]

If you're buying me lunch, I'm coming.

[Dave Richard]

I don't want to buy everyone lunch. Maybe I'm not going to lunch. All right. The other thing about this week on the waiver wire is it's. I think it's a good week for the, the shallow league guys because Cedric Tillman's right now in the concussion protocol. He's got the long time to recover. But Jerry Judy is 79 rostered. I don't know how I feel about Judy this week. Jamie, how do you feel about him? Because going up against Denver, revenge game. But maybe Sir Tan, this covers Jerry Judy, and then you've got the packers situation as well. Maybe Christian Watson's available. But I don't know how I feel about that game. It's gonna be like 20 degrees on Thanksgiving. So just a quick glance at the shallow league guys, Jamie, because they're. They're a lot. Oh, Michael Pittman. Michael Pittman's another one. With Josh Downs almost certainly out this week, you know, who's. If in your dream world where, like, some of these guys are actually available in your leagues, who's the one to.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Go get John Smith? If everybody's available, that's a good one.

[Dave Richard]

But. But are you concerned about just the op? First of all, this whole week could be snowy and super cold. We've got, like, bad weather coming in this week beginning Wednesday night. Are you worried about that environment on Thursday? Dolphins at the Packers?

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Yeah. I mean, that's a bad east coast game. So, you know, we could see. We could see some snow. Some snow there. Yeah. You know, Tua, I like what he said. This is about shattering narratives. I don't think it's going to necessarily happen, but I like the fact that he's, you know, embracing some of the situations that he's had to deal with. But, yeah, you can't always just look one week. You know, sometimes it depends on what your record is. You want to look long term, you know, so if I could pick up John Smith, I'm doing it. If I could pick up Jerry Judy, I'm doing it. It's. It's not the greatest, you know, setup for either those two guys that we're just talking about. The ones that are, most of it are least available, but potentially available. You mentioned Abdullah. You know, clearly that's a good opportunity to try and get someone who's going to be involved in the passing game. So better in PPR than not. I think Gus Edwards is much better than McNichols personally. Just because you have two guys that aren't going to catch the ball at all, and one's getting Atlanta and one is getting Tennessee. So, I mean, if. If those are the choices at running back that are available to me, Edwards is a number two running back this week, and McNichols is barely flex.

[Heath Cummings]

Wow.

[Dave Richard]

Okay.

[Heath Cummings]

I mean, if. If both Robinson and Eckler are out, Jamie, don't you think McNichols is going to see a huge amount of Vol? Whereas we've seen all year from the Chargers that they use multiple running backs weekend and week out. They're going to pull Kamani Vidal off the inactive list and use him with Gus Edwards.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Yeah. I mean, obviously the last time we saw the injury to Brian Robinson. I know he's not on the roster right now, but I would imagine he's going to be back on the roster soon. It was Chris Rodriguez playing more than Jeremy McNichols, so there's no guarantee it's McNichols getting all the work either.

[Dave Richard]

Okay. And the other factor with this week is that nobody's on a buy, so you might not need these guys. But we actually do have three potential starting running back situations with Washington, the Chargers and the Raiders.

[Heath Cummings]

That reminds me of something that everybody should do tonight before they go and start setting their waivers. Set your lineup for week 14. Yeah, just go ahead, go to your lineup page. Set it as if it's week 14. Obviously, you know you can always change your lineup or whatever, but if you go to your lineup and you see that you have all these holes for week 14, this is a pretty good week to start looking at players that you could find off the waiver wire to replace the players who are going to be not there in week 14. Ravens aren't playing in week 14. Commanders aren't playing in week 14. Broncos Patriots aren't playing. There's two more teams. I've got a schedule. I can look and see who they are. But there's six teams on by in week 14. It's going to be a pretty important week in fantasy. You might want to see what holes you have to fill and you fill them now because if you wait a week to fill them, I don't know if you're going to be able to have as many plentiful options, especially at running back. Not that there's any guarantee that McNichols, Abdul, Gus Edwards will still be viable starters in week 14.

[Dave Richard]

Yeah. All right, we got Baltimore on by Baltimore, Denver, Houston, Indianapolis, New England, Washington on a buy in week 14. All right, let's let's talk to you about Sunday. Bundle up on Sunday and Join us at 11:30am [e-mail] fantasy football today and we'll be setting your lineup. You'll helping you set your lineup with a Q and A at 11:30am Eastern. YouTube.com fantasy football today. The coverage begins at 10am on HQ on on Sunday morning with Jamie talking fantasy and there's a lot of football content. Just that three hour block. Just I don't really have much of a schedule alert. But just one guy I wanted to point out for future matchups, you're not going to use him this week because he's almost certainly not going to play. That's Jake Ferguson, Luke Schoonmaker gets the Giants this week who are second against tight ends. I'm not sure I buy it, but they are. But then after that, if Jake Ferguson's back from the concussion. Cincinnati they're 31st. Carolina their 30 seconds. Tampa Bay they're 28th. Those are his next three matchups. Jake Ferguson 53% rostered if you want to plan ahead and he does not have a buy in week 14. So if you're the Mark Andrews manager, whoever, you can take a look at Ferguson now. If you haven't signed up yet for BET mgm, let's do it. Now's the time and Use the Bonus code Fantasy when you sign up, you're going to get up to a fifteen hundred dollar first bet offer on your first wager with BetMGM. So here's how it works. Download the BetMGM app and sign up using the bonus code Fantasy. Deposit at least $10 and place your first wager on any game. And you're going to receive up to fifteen hundred dollars in bonus bets if your bet loses. Just make sure you use the bonus code Fantasy when you sign up. News and Notes when we come back on Fantasy Football today.

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[Dave Richard]

Okay, so Dave, just real quick give me like 30 seconds on your fab philosophy right now for week 13.

[Heath Cummings]

Use it or lose it. If you need somebody off the waiver wire and you think it's a player that's going to help your team win this coming week, use which with most of what you have left, unless you don't have that much left and then use it all that. That's basically it. And then if you want to save some of your fab for the playoffs, that makes sense.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Yeah.

[Heath Cummings]

Then you probably shouldn't target anybody off the waiver wire this week who's going to be popular, right?

[Dave Richard]

Like if you're going to make the playoffs, what's the, what's the point of spending any significant fab on guys that are one week replacements or two?

[Heath Cummings]

Well, you know, I, I could tell you like if you had J.K. dobbins and you want to go after Gus Edwards just to lock up that duo and you're 10 and two, then yeah, it makes sense to go and spend a lot of fab to try and lock up Gus Edwards if that's the route you want to go.

[Dave Richard]

10 and 2. What are you, my driving instructor? You know, 10 and 2. Thank you, Jamie. Okay, news and notes. So Tommy DeVito will be the starter if he's healthy. And it seems like I love having you here, he's going to be healthy there Thursday. And Cooper Rush too. So those two guys, Cooper Rush and David. Yeah, I know. Like I said, I think I made the joke yesterday. People are going to start eating dinner at 4:00 Eastern Thanksgiving. Gardner Minchu out for the season. Aiden O'Connell, though it looks like he's likely to play this week, he's eligible to return. Aiden O'Connell will get Cleveland this week and they've actually been a pretty good matchup. Then they have a buy. Trevor Lawrence is going to practice, has a chance to play. Trevor Lawrence practice yesterday, has a chance to play coming off the buy against the Texans. And Texans just lost Jalen Petrie, one of their defensive backs. They are a mess. So Lawrence has actually been pretty solid lately and we're, we'll keep our fingers crossed for Brock Purdy for that Sunday night game at Buffalo. He did some light throwing On Monday. So let's go get in there. Brock Purdy.

[Heath Cummings]

We ended up not ranking Brock Purdy. Heath made a pretty interesting point that the line has the 49ers, I think a seven point underdog, seven and a half point underdogs and so. And with a low team total. So I don't think the odds makers are expecting Brock Purdy at this point.

[Dave Richard]

Yeah, that's fair. And but you know what, there are some pretty good quarterback replacement options if you have Purdy. We know about the running back injuries. Brian Robinson, Austin Eckler, J.K. dobbins, David Montgomery, he's got this shoulder issue.

[Heath Cummings]

It sounds like he's going to be okay. Yeah, Lions did something really smart. They were winning the game big against Indianapolis. They knew that they were playing on Thursday. They held Montgomery out of the game, both he and offensive tackle Taylor Decker. It looks like they're both going to be good to go for Thursday.

[Dave Richard]

Nice. I'm on Ross saying Brown miss practice. We expect him to play Khalifa Raymond also has an injury.

[Heath Cummings]

Romeo, that one is the Raymond one. No one's starting Raymond, but that one's a serious one. That might matter for their special teams.

[Dave Richard]

Romeo Dobbs, concussion. So he's probably not going to play on Thursday. Josh Downs probably not going to play this week.

[Heath Cummings]

Right.

[Dave Richard]

Then they have a buy. Hopefully Josh Downs is back in week 15. Yeah, they have a week 14 by Cedric Tillman still in the concussion protocol. They're at Denver this week. Brandon Cooks has a chance to play this week for, I think it seems like he's going to play. But Jake Ferguson, not going to play, most likely against the Giants on Thursday. And Jatavian Sanders, good news for him. He's out of the hospital. He's doing well. He was actually having a pretty decent game against the Chiefs. Tavian Sanders, he had, I don't know, 30 something yards in the second quarter. And he gets Tampa Bay and they stink against tight ends. If he's back this week and then, let's see, just for IDP purposes, CJ Mosley is optimistic that he'll be back at some point this season. His replacement, who I have on my IDP team, whose name I can never remember. Thank you. Has been awesome. So you might get some more weeks with him. And then Roquan Smith's replacement, who you talked about, Malik Harris, and you talked about him on Sunday morning. He was really good. So if Roquan Smith doesn't play, you have another week of keep an eye on what's happening. Replacement.

[Heath Cummings]

Yeah, yeah. Keep an eye on what's happening in Miami. Anthony Walker left with an injury. Minnesota, Ivan Pace left with an injury. Those are two good linebackers. Walker was making a huge difference for that Dolphins run defense over, I want to say, like the last three games.

[Dave Richard]

He's almost certainly not going to play this week, but they've avoided long term injury there.

[Heath Cummings]

Tyrell Dotson, who's the name that you brought up? Adam. He was cut by the Seahawks, picked up by the Dolphins. He would be the one replacing Walker in Miami. I don't know if he'll be as good. I only know this because I have both those linebackers on my, on my dynasty.

[Dave Richard]

Yeah.

[Heath Cummings]

IDP team, which I barely won. I started them both. They both had zeros because they got hurt. And I got very lucky to win.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

I got one. And then with Angeloni's injury in Detroit, Malcolm Rodriguez, he had eight tackles.

[Heath Cummings]

That's a great one. Yes, yes. Awesome.

[Dave Richard]

And then San Francisco, Drake Greenlaw has been designated to return from IR. And D'Amador Lenore, great cornerback for the 49ers, getting an MRI on his knee.

[Heath Cummings]

Great. He's on my dynasty league team.

[Dave Richard]

All right, Jamie, let's get to some waiver wire names. Who are the top three priorities at quarterback?

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Top three priorities at quarterback are. Get ready for these names. Derek Carr, Will Levis and Trevor Lawrence.

[Dave Richard]

Derek Carr. All right, so Carr's been, you know, got the MVS connection lately. He's got the Rams, Levis has Washington and Lawrence has Houston. Surprised Lawrence isn't number one. Is it just because we don't know he's going to play?

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Correct. So if you want to play the game of. I could still get car. I could still get Lawrence. I'm sorry, I still get Levis. You want to take Lawrence first then? Absolutely. Take Lawrence first with the hope that he's healthy. But you know, it's a left shoulder injury. So that's the positive thing that if he does, you know, have any concerns, not just throwing shoulder, but I don't think there's a guarantee he's going to play yet. So that's the one thing that's a little bit of a drawback.

[Dave Richard]

Okay. And then you get so many quarterbacks who are in that, oh, it might be available in your league range. Guys like Caleb Williams, Anthony Richardson, Russell Wilson, who's got a great matchup. Well, Cincinnati is an interesting matchup because they're good most weeks, but they play.

[Heath Cummings]

They're great against the run, bad against the pass.

[Dave Richard]

But. But if you look at how They've done against quarterbacks. It's been five quarterbacks who have destroyed them. And it's like Lamar Jackson, Jackson, Jalen hurts, Jaden Daniels, Jackson twice and Justin Herbert. Everyone else has struggled, but I, but I will say, I mean they seem like a good matchup. So Russell Wilson, Richardson, Cousins might be available.

[Heath Cummings]

Stafford and Cousins, Caleb Williams, shallow leagues might be there. You mentioned Caleb. He would be a good one.

[Dave Richard]

Did you like Caleb this week though, against the Lions? They have not given up multiple touchdown passes this year.

[Heath Cummings]

That's true. I would just say that he's going to have a lot of volume. I don't think that the Bears are going to be able to run a lot just the way that this game is going to go. Their defense really hasn't looked good now for a couple of weeks and the Lions should be able to put up points. It'll force Caleb Williams to throw a lot more.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

I like Caleb Williams better than Russell Wilson this week.

[Dave Richard]

You like him better than Trevor Lawrence, Derek Carr, Will Levis.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

No, no, no, no. I would start those guys over. Caleb. Just something about Russ feels off right now.

[Dave Richard]

The thing about Caleb, right, I went back because I felt like when we talked about it on Sunday, Anthony Richardson, he just played the Lions. Now Kayla's playing the Lions. I felt like there were these missed opportunities and I went back and I watched the throws from, from Anthony Richardson and I, I found more than 200 yards of missed opportunities on either bad throws or like very close plays. Like Ashton Doolin couldn't get his foot in bounds in that deep ball and ogle tree dropped the touchdown. 11 yard touchdown.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Detroit's defense was not.

[Dave Richard]

Yeah, yeah, right. There was. That play was like kind of miscommunication. There were so many big plays that they almost made the bad throw to Pierce. That could have been a huge play. So I don't know, like Detroit's been pretty good all year. But they were, they, they had a lot of wide open guys which is I think encouraging for Richardson and maybe for Caleb Williams.

[Heath Cummings]

Well, I don't. I, I would agree with that. And that kind of jives with the fact that remember in the second half he didn't have a very good completion rate at all. Richardson was under 30 completion rate but his off target rate wasn't crazy. So that kind of plays into it, that maybe just a lot of miscommunications and duel and play the drops and all that. Caleb Williams made a bunch of outstanding throws. When you go back and watch the film, some of them were really dangerous. There's like four throws where like the, the Vikings were inches away from an interception and on all four of them he's completing these awesome darts to his wide receivers. And so if he's going to have volume and he throws like that against the Lions, then he could end up having a pretty good game. If he was out there, I would pick him up ahead of Levis and, and those other quarterbacks and look, it.

[Dave Richard]

Could be one of those. Pick him up. You don't have to use him this week. Pick him up and see where it happens.

[Heath Cummings]

You could be your bye week quarterback in week 14 if you wanted.

[Dave Richard]

Absolutely. So who does Caleb? Well, all right, we'll get you. Tell me who he has in week 14. Let's go to the running backs at San Francisco.

[Heath Cummings]

If Bosa's not playing, that's fine.

[Dave Richard]

Okay, Jamie, the running backs, I'll give it to you again we've talked about this but let's repeat it. Who are the top running backs to get?

[Jamie Eisenberg]

The top two are easy. It's Edwards and McNichols. You know, just with the opportunity for both to get starting jobs. I like the matchup better for Edwards. Both guys not going to be heavily involved in the passing game based on the profile and what they've done so far this season. So give me Edwards against the Falcons as opposed to McNichols against the Titans. The third running back is a little bit trickier. I think you're looking more handcuffed slash long term. So it could be Trey Benson, it could be Roshan Johnson. Right now I have Johnson as the third guy, but it just depends on what you need. Dave mentioned the matchup is not great for him I think either the the rest of the season for the most part. But he has played more under Thomas Brown. Remember we thought okay, maybe it was a groin injury was the reason why he played more snaps and Swift played left. Less snaps. Swift was still under 60 snaps for the second week in a row and Roshan got the the touchdown again. So he's touched independent. But you know, just given the nature of what we're looking at from a waiver wire perspective, he may fall in the end zone against Detroit. So that's something that gives him a little bit of an edge over the other guys.

[Heath Cummings]

We agree on the names, we disagree on the order. Just because I'll take McNichols first but it's only as a one week option. If you're looking long term, I would take gus first. Number one. McNichols isn't going to have that job in Washington forever. Number two, the commanders are on by in week 14. We don't know the severity of the Dobbins injury. Dobbins could be back next week. We just don't know. But if he's out for the year then Gus Edwards is viable as a potential starter for the rest of the season. Roshan is third. I also wanted to make mention of tank Bigsby who's 37 available. I got a lot of names on my list that are good to just stash. You're headed toward the playoffs, you've got some spots to play with. Maybe you want to play a little, keep away from your opponents. Maybe you just want to fortify your depth. I think Bigsby is still the best running back in Jacksonville. I have no idea if he's going to start playing in week 13 because remember he got hurt an ankle injury. But I would try and sash him again. Kind of a shallow league play because he's only available in less than 40% of CBS Sports leagues. But he's somebody that I would try and pick up. Nice schedule for Jacksonville the rest of the way too.

[Dave Richard]

By the way, speaking of shallow leagues, if Jalen Warren is available, he's like something like 75%, 28% available. That's someone you should be looking at for sure. But Jamie, let's so you go Gus Edwards over McNichols. But Dave said Abdullah at the top of the show. If we throw him in the mix, I think he's 67. Roster, where would Abdullah rank right now with Edwards and McNichols?

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Edwards 1, Abdullah 2, McNichols 3.

[Dave Richard]

Okay, Dave, who are the top wide receivers you want to get this week? Top three.

[Heath Cummings]

Okay, so strictly using the 35 number that we use, Keenan Allen would be number one. He's 39 available. I there's a couple of stash players. One of them is Keon Coleman. So kind of in that same vein as Tank Bigsby when he comes back. Maybe he's something good for the Buffalo Bills passing game. Haven't seen Amari Cooper take that big leap yet. It's that outside wide out for them. Maybe it is going to be keon Coleman. He's 39 available. And then the third name I have is Devon Bailey. 96 available. That's one for for the guys that are. None of these guys are available in my yeah, we can both do it now. We can do it in unison. That'll be terrible. Vele has been the number two route rate guy in that receiving core for Denver for several weeks now. And I, I kind of think he's got that 12 ppr point floor going week in and week out. So that would be my 3. Keenan Allen, 1. Keon Coleman, 2. Devon Valley, 3.

[Dave Richard]

What about Elijah Moore? Because assuming Tillman's out.

[Heath Cummings]

Yeah, it makes sense, especially in ppr. He'd be closer to that list, but he's not going to be in the top three for me.

[Dave Richard]

You wouldn't start more over Devon Valley.

[Heath Cummings]

This week if they're, they're almost the same guy.

[Dave Richard]

I, I, they're playing each other.

[Heath Cummings]

I know.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Yeah.

[Heath Cummings]

I, I would rather start the receiver playing the Browns and the receiver playing the Broncos.

[Dave Richard]

Yeah, it's interesting. It's like this little slot receiver against the Broncos. I don't know. Yeah, I mean, like, the Broncos are really good. Are they a little beat up in the secondary, though? Because they did not, you know, they had two receivers go over 80 yards. The Broncos, the in against the Raiders, Tucker and Myers.

[Heath Cummings]

Well, Tucker, Tucker went over 80 yards because he had a big play.

[Dave Richard]

Yeah.

[Heath Cummings]

So I don't know if it's because they're beat up. I'd have to double check that. We did see that Sir Tan was on Bowers most of the time, so that.

[Dave Richard]

No, he was not. Actually. I watched Tucker more than anyone.

[Heath Cummings]

Really?

[Dave Richard]

Yeah.

[Heath Cummings]

Okay. But in the red zone, was it.

[Dave Richard]

Bowers that, like one play where we.

[Heath Cummings]

Maybe I thought it was multiple plays we saw.

[Dave Richard]

Yeah. But it was mostly Tucker. Yeah. So Jamie's right. Moss got hurt. I thought they maybe had a safety. That's true, but.

[Heath Cummings]

That's right.

[Dave Richard]

All right, tight ends. Jamie, who are the top three tight ends to get?

[Jamie Eisenberg]

The top three tight ends to get this week would be all the guys that are in shallow leagues.

[Dave Richard]

Yeah.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

If you can. If you're looking for the guys who are available. It's not, it's not pretty. Just let me get there.

[Heath Cummings]

Would Disley be on the list?

[Jamie Eisenberg]

No, he's rostered to me leagues. Colcomet would be one, Noah Gray would be two and Schoolmaker would be three.

[Dave Richard]

So I know that we have some issues with the roster rates sometimes. He's asked 59 rostered Will Disley. So will he be number one?

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Disley would be one, commit would be two and no, gray would be three.

[Dave Richard]

Will Disley. Col Comet?

[Jamie Eisenberg]

No.

[Dave Richard]

Agree. And honestly, hopefully you have. Well, Disley, you know, didn't have a great game yesterday, but they just didn't have a great game as a passing offense.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

But his floor has still been pretty solid. That's now six of seven games with eight or more PPR points.

[Dave Richard]

Yeah, so. So you wouldn't, you wouldn't get away from like Hunter Henry for, for Cole Comet and Noah Gray.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Right. Five catches. You know he's still very involved. He just, you know, Hooper scored a touchdown. I still think he's going to be a go to guy for Drake may just based on what we've seen. So the fact that he still had all those opportunities is what you're banking on.

[Dave Richard]

Does anybody like Schoonmaker this week against the Giants?

[Heath Cummings]

No, I don't mind him but it's with the idea that he's in that same range as commet that 8, 9, 10 PPR point range and he got there last week because of the touchdown. It wasn't because of volume. I thought he'd have good volume. I kind of like dowdle this week.

[Dave Richard]

By the way.

[Heath Cummings]

I think the Cowboys are gonna be actually.

[Dave Richard]

By the way. Yeah, the, the, the Col Comet. The Lions give up the fewest fantasy points to tight ends. Yeah, it's really not, not ideal.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Again opportunities. I mean 10 targets. I know they threw over, you know, 47 times but it's now 90 snap rate. Most of the season was last week. First game with Thomas Brown. 10 targets in this game. Coming off of that. We'll see. I like what they look like against a tight end that's featured because they should have given up a touchdown to a tight end last week.

[Dave Richard]

Oh well. Tree. Yeah.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Who?

[Dave Richard]

And I don't think they've given up a touchdown all season to a tight end. That would have been the first one.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

AJ Barner.

[Dave Richard]

Right, right, right. Who are the top three DSTs Jamie.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Or top however many Cowboys are number one. Number two would be the Chargers. They're 63 roster against Atlanta. Giants will be number three against Dallas. 31 roster.

[Dave Richard]

How we feel about Arizona? They have a pretty good playoff schedule. Someone emailed me and said should I pick up Arizona for the playoffs? They're at Minnesota this week.

[Heath Cummings]

So yeah, use them this week but.

[Dave Richard]

After that they actually have a pretty good schedule.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

I think you can't use them this week. They're still top 12 for me.

[Heath Cummings]

Against Minnesota he gets a turnover on the road maybe they do. I. I would be hesitant. They've got Seattle, then New England, then at Carolina, then at the Rams. So there are some matchups. I think Arizona is viable. They'll be a top 12 unit. I, I would not trust them personally against the Vikings.

[Dave Richard]

Shout out to random emailer for bringing that to my attention. Sorry I don't.

[Heath Cummings]

It's Jim from the East Coast.

[Dave Richard]

So is Dallas, the Chargers and then the Giant. They gotta be pretty desperate to go with the Giants.

[Heath Cummings]

I the only, the only positive for the Giants is that they've got a good pass rush. So maybe they get a few sacks.

[Dave Richard]

Not even doing that lately.

[Heath Cummings]

But I mean, how do you take away what the Cowboys did on offense against Washington? They weren't a total disaster.

[Dave Richard]

Would you go with the Eagles at Baltimore or the Giants on Thursday against the Cowboys?

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Giants.

[Dave Richard]

Eagles are pretty beat up right now. They had a bad week at their.

[Heath Cummings]

Pass rush is definitely missing some some.

[Dave Richard]

Talent and Darius Slay in the protocol.

[Heath Cummings]

In my rankings as we sit here right now. I've got them back to back.

[Dave Richard]

All right, Jamie, Kickers, Eagles ahead. Who are our kickers? I can read them if you want.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Are Chase McLaughlin, Will Lutz, John Parker, Romo, Brandon McManus and Blake Ruby.

[Dave Richard]

Okay, there you go. Let's take a quick break and come back and talk about the shallow league players. And we'll be right back on Fantasy Football today.

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[Jamie Eisenberg]

That game was was 109 going into the fourth quarter before everything got crazy between Washington and Dallas. So it's not like Dallas was having.

[Heath Cummings]

This offense and one of the how many touchdowns were defensive touchdowns weren't there two dsc Right, right, right. So it's not. You're right. It's not like the offense was totally on fire. Okay.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Washington only sacked Cooper Rush once but there were two fumbles in the game from the Cowboys and oh he had no hit. Russia no terms or no no interception. But I think it's given the the offensive line situation for Dallas, the Giants DST is going to be decent this week.

[Dave Richard]

Okay so I don't hate it. Yeah the fans will. The fans will enjoy that. I really need to work on the shallow league voice. I just don't have anything like why would the sophisticated stuffy guy be playing in shallow leagues. If anything he'd be playing in 18 team leagues that start three quarterbacks Dave so I have nothing but Jamie what who are the shallowly guys that we should be looking at?

[Jamie Eisenberg]

I'll start a quarterback. You mentioned Caleb Williams. I think he's worth rostering not to necessarily play this week but to have on your team just moving forward. Love Anthony Richton this week taking on the Patriots Kirk Cousins not for this week but his next two games are favorable so he's at 82 rostered. I don't want to play him this week at all. Taking on the Chargers Russell Wilson if you need somebody for this week you can use him against the Bengals and gets Cleveland again next week. So had 15 fantasy points against them in the snow. Maybe he wasn't as bad as you know I'm I'm not giving him credit for but better weather hopefully he performs a little bit better. Running backs Mirab Dula we talked about Already he's at 66 rostered Jalen Warren 72 roster those would be the two guys to go get I think make the most sense Wide receiver we touched on a couple of guys with Jerry Judy in terms of what he's at Christian Watson I would go right back to him. I don't care that he had the drop and no catches on three targets. If he catches that we're all still excited about what Christian Watson's capable of doing. Romo Dunes got 10 targets in each of his last two games. Michael Pittman clearly no downs and 15 targets in the two games with with Anthony Richards Richardson back tight ends. There's a lot of guys. So we have. Let me get there. Sorry. We have. John Smith is the prize this week. Evan Ingram I think certainly benefits of Trevor Lawrence is back Hunter Henry again nine targets still getting a lot of opportunities. Tucker Kraft now has six touchdowns in his last eight games. Might benefit with Romeo Dobbs out and Dalton Kincaid. You know and at this point I think you almost say deeper leagues as opposed to shallow leagues. But 73 rostered if he was dropped, hopefully comes back and hopefully starts to play like the guy we were thinking of earlier this season.

[Dave Richard]

Yeah, it's pretty, pretty interesting. You said that Johnny Smith was. Would be the shallow league prize. I wonder though if Johnny Smith obviously maybe it depends on what you need but to me, Jalen Warren, man, I, I would not even hesitate to be my first waiver wire priority. Guys gotta right. He's got like a pretty nice floor part, you know, of eight points which isn't that bad. But he's pretty much. Yeah. And then I mean we've been saying this for three years so I don't think it's ever gonna happen. But he just see yo this could be the week where he overtakes Naji Harris. I don't think that's gonna happen. But he just seems like he's got more juice than Naji Harris always. So Anyway, Jalen Warren 72 roster. It's just hard to find running backs that could be flex worthy. Okay. John Smith's been great. You know, I think that as we speak in the shallow league context and even in the, in the non shallow leagues. Right. It's like what is the Green Bay offense going to look like, Dave, because do you go with. Do you trust Christian Watson if he's available on your waiver wire without Romeo Dobbs? Almost certainly this week. Right. Do you go with Don Tavion Wicks, who got a lot of targets when Watson was out earlier.

[Heath Cummings]

Right. And they kind of been playing the same role, just not at the same time.

[Dave Richard]

I think Love has thrown 40 passes in his last two games combined. So we just haven't seen a lot of volume. If the Dolphins go in there and put up some points, that'd be great, but the weather is going to be not really conducive to that. So what like what do you think about any Craft, Watson, Kraft, Watson, Wicks, maybe even Bo Melton, whoever you see on the waiver wire for this team?

[Heath Cummings]

Well, when I think about Romeo, dobbs and his role. One of the things that he's good at are those short and intermediate targets. So he's not getting those 50 yard rainbows from Jordan Love like Christian Watson would get or Don Tavion Wicks would get. On occasion he does, but for the most part he's anywhere 15 air yards or closer to the line line of scrimmage. I would think that Tucker Kraft would pick up more of that with Romeo Dobbs up and I think that Jaden Reed would pick up a lot more targets with Romeo Dobbs out. I'd have to go back and look at who else might be someone who comes off the bench and is a benefactor from that. And maybe there's someone that you saw Bo Melton, Lily, Keith, one of those guys. Maybe it was Wicks for all I know. I haven't had the chance to go back and study that yet, but I will. I think that that's probably where they go with short area throws, especially if the Dolphins are going to play a lot of zone coverage to try and take away deep ball from Jordan Love.

[Dave Richard]

The thing is the Dolphins, I mean we can scoff because they haven't had a very hard schedule, but we're 12 weeks into the season, they're third best against wide receivers. That's another thing to keep in mind.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

I think what you look at is you look at what he did against that, what they did against Stafford, you know, which was impressive in that Monday night game. Then I think you got to give him a little bit of credit for what they did against Drake May because may have been playing a lot better than what he showed last week as well. So their pass rush with Chop Robinson has certainly been impressive. He's having, he's making a late season push to challenge Jared Verse for defensive rookie of the year and that's been huge, you know, and their secondary for the most part has played well and been consistent. So it's not a bad spot to be in. And to your, your, the article that you sent us, Adam, you know, what they're doing is they're keeping their defense relatively fresh, you know, so maybe that's a big part of what's happened this season as well, is that they're not putting them in all these big play 3 and outs if they don't get big plays scenarios, you know, so the, the dink and dunk offense is probably keeping them a little fresher.

[Dave Richard]

I do think that they have had a very, a very easy schedule and this could be the best passing offense that they've seen. All year, unless I'm forgetting someone. But so we'll see.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

I mean, they had the ransom. Those guys were healthy in Los Angeles.

[Dave Richard]

Yeah, that was a really, really good performance. But. But Nakua and Cup, I think both had good games. I think they. Well, I think they both had good games. I mean, Nakua scored at least 18 points. Cup had a touchdown, as I recall.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

We're talking about the quarterback as opposed to the receivers.

[Dave Richard]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, you know what? I look forward to tomorrow's show. We'll be breaking down the Thanksgiving game and the three games and also the Chiefs Raiders on Friday. All right, Dave. I don't know why we talked about those guys because none of those guys are available in my league. So who are the Deeply guys?

[Heath Cummings]

Let's start a quarterback. Will Levis, 78, available if you need a quarterback by week replacement over the next two weeks. I think Will Levis is somebody who would qualify. James Winston is also out there. At least we know that. Winston, he didn't have a lot of volume last Thursday. I wonder if he'll end up having more volume this coming week with the Browns obviously throwing. And then there's one less target with Tillman for this week. We talked about McNichols, 86, available. He's going to be an easy guy to go and target if Gus Edwards is already rostered, if Amir Abdul is already rostered. Other running backs that are highly available. It ain't pretty. It's like Sean Tucker, it's Samir white, it's Jaleel McLaughlin. Guys that you're pretty much stashing. If you're starting them, you're hoping for like three or four fantasy points. Wide receiver Devon Vale, but he's going to be on buy in week 14, so keep that in mind. If you need him for this week, that's a different story. Elijah Moore, 69, available if you need somebody deeper than that feeling. Marquez, Valdez, scantling, both of those guys, 75% available. And players that are, you know, in the case of Thielen, a little bit safer. Might be able to get you 10 PPR points, maybe 15 if he scores a touchdown. MVS is a boom bus play. Might get you 4 PPR points, might get you 15 PPR points. It depends on what you need. Tight end, I would say that the top name is Noah Gray, 93% available.

[Dave Richard]

Yeah.

[Heath Cummings]

Watch the snaps. He only played 10 snaps with DeAndre Hopkins last week. And so when I watch Noah Gray play again, it's almost like what I said with Will Disley. He doesn't do a lot of things that are particularly special. He's good at finding open space against zone coverage and obviously he's a target in the red zone. 3. He leads the Chiefs in red zone and end zone targets over their last two games and he's played at least he's had a 50 route run rate since they're by. So that tells me that there's something going on where they're using Noah Gray a little bit more. Kind of like a part time slot receiver replacement. He's running a lot of those inside routes, so maybe there's something to it. I don't, I don't. I'm. I worry about what his stats would be if he doesn't score a touchdown. It could be six PPR points. So I wouldn't be excited about that. If Luke Schoonmaker, if Ferguson's out on Thursday, yeah, I'd rather start Schoon Maker than Noah Gray and He's available in 88% of leagues and that's really about it. If you go to the DSTs, Cowboys are 77% available. They were Jamie's favorite. They're my favorite as well. I think they're like a top eight DST going up against the G men especially. And I told you, you already knew that. The Giants offensive line was terrible. They were absolutely awful last week.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Yeah, they were.

[Heath Cummings]

And I can't help but think even if Parsons doesn't play, that the Cowboys are going to be able to get pressure on DeVito for some turnovers, get some sacks and finishes the top eight DST always on my number one DST number one. Wow.

[Dave Richard]

So we'll get into. I want to talk about Monday Night Football, but I need to be reminded so I owe you lunch. What was the bet exactly?

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Quentin Johnson with Quentin Johnston versus Xavier Leggett.

[Dave Richard]

For how long? What time period?

[Jamie Eisenberg]

It was the three weeks of before you came down.

[Dave Richard]

And Quentin Johnston, because I'm just thinking about this now. He scored zero points yesterday. Am I not winning this bet now?

[Jamie Eisenberg]

No, he lost it.

[Dave Richard]

It's points per game, right. So that's 16.6 divided by two for Xavier League it. That's. That's 8. 8.8, right?

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Yeah.

[Heath Cummings]

16.6 divided by 8.3.

[Dave Richard]

8.3. And for Johnston it's 23.2 divided by three. I won the bet. I won the bet.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

It was.

[Dave Richard]

You owe me lunch. It was. According to you, Tennessee, Cincinnati and Baltimore.

[Adam Mazer]

Was the last three weeks.

[Dave Richard]

Weeks 10, 11, 12.

[Heath Cummings]

But you're. It's three games of one player and two games of another.

[Dave Richard]

Yeah. So it's points per game. So.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

You said total points.

[Dave Richard]

He had a buy.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

That was your fault. No, it was by. There was something we won the last week.

[Dave Richard]

I think we won the bet because we assumed that you. You thought. I think you thought you won the bet because you just assumed Quentin Johnson.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

I mean, we go back to watch the tape and see what it was.

[Dave Richard]

Yeah, we gotta watch the tape. We're gonna watch coming off of the.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

The game against the Browns for Johnston and.

[Dave Richard]

Right, right.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

And you said you would take le get. I don't remember what the. What the length of time was though. I thought it was over because we had a factor into by week.

[Dave Richard]

It may. Okay. If it was points per game from then to now league it wins. If it was just week 10, which may have been then Quentin Johnston wins 10 to 10.4 to 7.2 fantasy points. All right, we gotta check the tape.

[Heath Cummings]

Look at this jousting between you.

[Dave Richard]

Yeah. Because we might figure out we might.

[Adam Mazer]

Go go into a steakhouse.

[Dave Richard]

All right. Baltimore 30 of the Chargers 23. Jamie, what were your Quentin Johnson actually like with a total dud. That's kind of a big takeaway. But what were your big takeaways from this game?

[Jamie Eisenberg]

One of the worst games you could possibly have. He had five targets, three drops and no catch. So it was pretty. Pretty dismal for him. Abysmal for him. I thought Herbert was on his way to a monster game and then clearly did not get it going, you know, so that was frustrating to watch. After he had the rushing touchdown on their opening drive. Dobbins injury sucked, you know, because he looked like he was going to have a big game as well. And then, you know, it kind of just took off from the Ravens there. And you kind of wonder if. If Johnson has the. The big. The first drop, the, you know, the. The one that everybody's going to remember that it felt like maybe they have a chance to get this game. Get back into the game. And we have a little bit more action from Baltimore side. But Derrick Henry ran well, 140 yards rushing, no touchdown. So his touchdown streak stopped. Lamar Jackson's throw to Rashad Bateman was. Was amazing. The catch was even better. It's a little frustrating right now with Zay Flowers because he's getting some opportunities, not a lot. And he's not producing the last couple of weeks. So you're going to continue to start him. This is a tough matchup against Philadelphia and with no teams on a buy he's just outside my top 24 for this week.

[Dave Richard]

Okay. Yeah, the thing that he's playing a lot, Zay Flowers, he had an end zone target. I don't know if it officially counted as an end zone target, but it was a defender right in the way. No, no, the one where, where Jackson was rolling to his left and he threw. Flowers was the intended receiver, and it was just batted down by a defender who was about a yard into the end zone. I don't know if you remember that play, but Flowers was open. I mean, he was open. If, if, if the, if the defender had been like invisible, then, you know, he could have something go right through him. It would have been a touchdown. I guess I, if I would be looking at him as a buy low right now because I think there are probably people like, oh, since the Deontay Johnson trade, he's been terrible. Deontay Johnson doesn't play.

[Heath Cummings]

So five snaps.

[Dave Richard]

It's just like Zay Flowers is playing a ton deadline.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

There's no more trades.

[Dave Richard]

I mean, I, I think, like, you're right up against it. Some people go to Thanksgiving week.

[Heath Cummings]

I've, I've had people ask me, when's the trade Shark coming out? This is my last chance to make a trade. So there are some leads.

[Dave Richard]

Would you agree, though, that Flowers looks like a pilot?

[Heath Cummings]

Sure, Absolutely.

[Dave Richard]

Something's bound to happen. He's just ready to make a big.

[Heath Cummings]

And he had eight targets in the game. Like they're. I understand that he's very much a boomer bus type of fantasy wide receiver, but when the boom set, you're going to be happy that you've got him in your lineup.

[Dave Richard]

Do you guys feel more confident right now in lad McConkey who had six catches for 83 yards on six targets, or Zay Flowers?

[Heath Cummings]

I think McConkey is the number one guy, and if it's full PPR, I think he's safer and I think he's steadier. So I would take McConkie over Zay Flowers and Mark.

[Dave Richard]

Has Mark Andrews had a single game? Okay, five targets. He is. He just needs, he really just needs four targets. Four or five targets, and he gets you at least 9.1 fantasy points every single time.

[Heath Cummings]

How many of those were with touchdowns?

[Dave Richard]

One, two. One, two, three. Three. Well, yeah, most.

[Heath Cummings]

So he's a touchdown or bus fantasy tight end.

[Dave Richard]

But two games where he had five targets. He had 50 yards, four catches for 51, four catches for 55. It's not that bad. It's all he needs is four or five targets.

[Heath Cummings]

Well, sure. So when he gets those catches and he doesn't score, it's nine PPR points. You can still feel like that you could find somebody with a little bit more upside off your work. Like John who Smith obviously has way more upside than that.

[Dave Richard]

But you're not going with commed or would you go with this?

[Heath Cummings]

They're almost the same type of player versus Andrews.

[Dave Richard]

Commits had like three good games, right.

[Heath Cummings]

Isn't scoring touchdowns. I think if. If the Chargers don't have JK Dobbins, their run game could be in trouble and Disley could end up seeing more targets. So I think I would consider Disley over Andrews.

[Dave Richard]

Andrews is tight end 14 per game in full PPR. I'm sure he's better than that in the other formats. All right, back to the waiver wire. You know we could do a little bit of drop o meter. I didn't have any one necessary necessarily prepared. But let's just go like wide receivers get dropped all the time. So would you drop Wandell Robinson, 55 rostered. Drop a meter on him?

[Heath Cummings]

It's high. It's like an 8, 9.

[Dave Richard]

How about Xavier league it? Is he more of an ad or more of a drop? He's 53 rostered.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

It's hard to say there's any reason to trust the Panthers receivers, but they're all viable options if you need someone because they're all getting different opportunities to make plays. But I would rather hold the get than drop them.

[Heath Cummings]

I. I don't mind dropping them. I don't know when we'll feel good about starting him knowing that Thielen's back and then eventually Sanders will come back and they seem to be spreading the ball around a little bit.

[Dave Richard]

Deontay Johnson is super droppable. 50 rostered right into the dumpster. It's hard. It's hard to think of a player whose value changed, whose value sunk more than his after a mid season trade. My goodness is so bad for him. He was. He was like a must start.

[Heath Cummings]

You can't find any. Anybody like that other than Devonte Adams and Amari Cooper.

[Dave Richard]

Are you kidding? I know.

[Heath Cummings]

This guy's so much worse than that. This is worse than that. But it's funny how all the receivers that got traded really didn't amount to much.

[Dave Richard]

Ricky Pearsall, 43 roster.

[Heath Cummings]

Oh, he might be hurt on top of being like fourth in targets for the Niners.

[Dave Richard]

Okay.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

He had the one good game, the one big play against Tampa Bay. That was my concern. Coming off of that and he's done nothing since. Two targets and.

[Heath Cummings]

Okay, yeah, I was hoping that he'd be more involved and he wasn't.

[Dave Richard]

And Tyler Lockett, 68 roster. I think it's probably time. I don't.

[Heath Cummings]

I. Yeah. The way that JSN's been playing and you know what the upside is with DK and those two guys seem to be hogging targets. They're funneled to them more so than Lockett. You know, when you start Locket, you're hoping he has one of those lightning in a bottle weeks. There's. There's probably five or six receivers that we can point to that might be on the waiver wire that are in the exact same type of canoe but maybe a little bit better and have a little bit of a higher floor than lock it.

[Dave Richard]

Jamie, would you drop off Audric Estimate or Javante Williams at this point?

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Javante? I would hold, depending on what you need, you know. So like if you need a running back for this week, I'd rather start Edwards. I'd rather start McNichols. So if that's the decision you have to make. But estimate is definitely droppable.

[Dave Richard]

Okay. And let's go take another look at the waiver wires. There are a lot of other names to talk about. I actually wanted to ask you about Aaron Rodgers. We haven't spoken about him. He's actually not been that bad. He usually gets you around 20 points. So quarterbacks, we've got Brock Purdy and Trevor Lawrence questionable for this week. We got Gardner minshew out. Jamie mentioned cousins. He's 84 rostered, so not super available. We don't love him this week. Schedule gets a little bit better. Anthony Richardson, 78 rostered. Four of the last five quarterbacks to face the Patriots have scored 20 or more fantasy points. They've allowed eight passing touchdowns in their last two games to Stafford and Tua Wilson, Caleb Williams, you don't have to start these guys, but maybe pick them up. So then the waiver wire guys who are rostered in fewer than 65 of leagues or 65 or fewer percent less percent, whatever it is. Derek Carr against the Rams, Will Levis at Washington and Trevor Lawrence, who would be number one for Jamie if we.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Knew I moved into first.

[Dave Richard]

Okay. And Houston's been struggling. They, they. And they're super banged up at least in the second half.

[Heath Cummings]

The only thing they've got going for him is their pass rush is really strong. And we know the offensive line for Jacksonville isn't very strong. So is this Going to be a game where Trevor Lawrence is going to have to get the ball out fast. A lot of short throws, hope that his receivers make plays after the catch. I agree. I think he's the one you should go after first. It's either him or Will Levis and it's just a matter of how much you want to trust Will Levis. I don't think a lot of other people are going to target Will Levis in one QB leagues right now. So if you go and get Trevor Lawrence and Lawrence doesn't play, you should be able to find Will Levis on the waiver wire a couple days later.

[Dave Richard]

They got nobody on by this week, so we have pretty high standards. Can we get 21 or more fantasy points and six point for passing touchdown leagues from Cooper Rush against the Giants. Bryce Young against Tampa Bay. Aiden O'Connell at Kansas City. No, no less than 20.

[Heath Cummings]

I'd go under 21. I mean I, I would debate that with Trevor Lawrence and Will Levis. I don't know how close they'll get to 21.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Bryce Young just had his best game of the season. It was 18 and a half points.

[Dave Richard]

One. Yeah. But he's got Tampa Bay this week, so it's probably his best matchup. Right. And he's got him twice.

[Heath Cummings]

They might be able to run in this game though.

[Dave Richard]

Levis, like Washington hasn't been that bad. Well, 21 or more fantasy points to quarterback in three of their last four games. But he's got, he also has Jacksonville twice in his upcoming schedule including schedule is fantastic. Yes, Levis.

[Heath Cummings]

Agreed. So I, I almost think we need to kind of reframe the quarterbacks for those fantasy managers that have Lamar Jackson, that have, you know, maybe they're starting Richardson. The quarterbacks are Bo Nicks, the quarterbacks that are on by in week 14 and Levis against Jacksonville sounds really good to me. That sounds, yeah, that sounds a little bit better to me now. I don't know, we could, we could talk about Trevor Lawrence versus Will Levis in week 14.

[Dave Richard]

No, I would. I'm thinking. Well, here's the thing about Levis. He's a big play guy, right? Like it's just airing. Only guys doing it more than him is Russell Wilson lately. And Jacksonville gives up the most big plays in the NFL, right.

[Heath Cummings]

But they can also run on Jacksonville and so Tony Pollard's gonna have a big game. So how much throwing Will Levis do? Trevor Lawrence is going to do a lot of throwing against Tennessee and that's the way you, you with Tennessee is. You throw on them.

[Dave Richard]

All right, But Levis, you know, Levis could have a nice finish here and then. All right, how do you feel about Aaron Rodgers against the Seahawks?

[Jamie Eisenberg]

I don't like them. Seattle's defense the last two weeks has actually been really good. They held Brock Purdy to one touchdown. He had a rushing touchdown in that game. They shut down Kyler Murray. They're getting healthier on that side of the ball. You got all this drama going on with the jets right now, so I'd like to see him play well. But then he gets Miami the following week. And if we're going to buy into the Dolphins defense, it's two potentially bad matchups in a row. So, yes, he's played better 20 or more fantasy points in three of his last four games, but I just don't know if you want to trust it. You know, he's not getting you a lot of yards. So it's touchdown dependent at this point. I mean, his last game, he was 184 passing yards and two touchdowns downs, you know, so it's not like Aaron Rodgers is doing a great. Has great performances overall. It just feels. Everything just feels off about that team.

[Dave Richard]

Yeah. All right. How do you feel about, real quick, Drake May against the Colts or Jameis Winston at Denver?

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Another team in terms of the Colts that have been very good against opposing quarterbacks. They did a great job against C.J. stroud. Granted, that was, you know, shroud without Nico Collins. They did a great job against Josh Allen. They did a great job against. Against Jared Goff.

[Dave Richard]

Rogers, and Rogers too, you know, pretty good against Rogers.

[Heath Cummings]

Golf was good.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Roger's got 20 fantasy points against them. So just given the fact of how Drake May is performing right now, I know both teams are going in there by. So they can, you know, clearly be looking ahead. The Coles need this game. You know, Patriots clearly are a draft, you know, focused team at this point. The Colts are still in playoff hunt, so I would trust their defense more than I would trust Drake May.

[Dave Richard]

All right. And Jameis Winston, we would trust him, but it's Denver and only, only Lamar Jackson is.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

You got a pretty good sample size of what Jameis Winston is. He's played four games now. He's had two good matchups, two bad matchups. He's been great in the two good matchups. He's been terrible in two bad matchups. This is a bad matchup.

[Dave Richard]

Yeah. I guess if you wanted to make the case, you got to think about the weather and the bad matchup against Pittsburgh hard to throw. And I played pretty well down the stretch and low volume too, and had two rushing touchdowns. But yeah, Denver's is pretty much as tough as it gets. Running backs, if Jalen Warren's available, grab them. Amir Abdullah is another guy. 67, roster 66, whatever it is, is. And then there's Gus Edwards and Jeremy McNichols. We've talked about those guys. If you can't get them. Roshan Johnson, get some handcuffs. Tajie Spears. If Taj Spears is back, he's a guy could get you eight points or more if you're desperate. And Justice Hill got lucky. I started him in a league yesterday. That was. Thank you.

[Heath Cummings]

Bye week. Replacement.

[Dave Richard]

Yeah, horrible. Horrible running back replacement.

[Heath Cummings]

Okay.

[Dave Richard]

But we got Pacheco in that league. League. Jerome Ford, Devin Singletary. I mean, look.

[Heath Cummings]

Yeah.

[Dave Richard]

You know, with all these fumbles for Tyrone Tracy, you wonder what the role will be for Devin Singletary. He's 49 rostered. Cowboys are 29th against running backs. They allow 4.5 yards per carry. The Saints are next for the giants. They allow 5 yards per carry to running backs. I don't know. Is any, any appeal there to Singletary?

[Heath Cummings]

I would rather have Singletary than Justice Hill just because I think we're going to see a split between Singletary and Tyrone Tracy. At this point, I don't think they're going to completely get away from Tracy, but Singletary might lead them in carries and he might be the guy they trust near the goal line. And that's going to be the most important part of all.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

So I, I think in terms of if you need someone to play this week, you'd rather have singletary. I would 1000% much rather roster Justice Hill than Devin Singletary on the off chance that something happens. Derek Henry.

[Dave Richard]

Oh, that's fair.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

And then just go back to Jerome Ford real quick. Playing the Broncos two games. Go get four catches if they use them in the passing game. As we've seen, it's now nine running backs this season after what Abdullah did. Nine running backs have scored at least 6.8 PPR points or more with just the receiving totals against Broncos.

[Dave Richard]

Okay. You could maybe think about sincere McCormick if you're super desperate. Yeah. And Angelo McLaughlin. It was. It was his week and then he got here.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

The rotation's up and it's estimates week again.

[Dave Richard]

Yeah, it's back to as. Hey, do they have another running back gonna elevate for the practice squad? All right, wide receivers.

[Heath Cummings]

Oh, don't forget about Tank Bigsby.

[Dave Richard]

Oh, yes, Tank Big week.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Yeah, that's a good call there. I put bigs in the.

[Heath Cummings]

There's a couple other stashes at wide receiver. I'll bring them up as we go.

[Dave Richard]

Well, I just want to know how you guys feel about Jerry Judy this week. 79 rostered. He's on. He's playing really well. Right. Let's see. 14, 12.9 or more points in three, four straight games. But now it's Denver. What do we think?

[Heath Cummings]

I think you buy into what the track record has been and what the volume has been. He'll be extra motivated taking on his former team. This is still going to be an offense that throws a lot. He gets plenty of of throws inside of that 15 air yard range and he can make plays after the catch. He did that in the snow against Pittsburgh. So I feel okay. Okay. About Jerry Judy this week it's got.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

To be number three. I'd rather start lad McConkey for example. Judy only has one touchdown in the four games with Jameis so it's not like he's getting you a lot of production easily. He had the huge game two games ago. But yes, he should benefit without Tillman year Tillman there and maybe if Riley Moss is not there, he might benefit. But this is not going to be a great game for Jerry opportunity.

[Heath Cummings]

But it could be 10 targets, seven catches, 70 yards.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

I think he's got one game with more than eight targets. I'm not mistaken.

[Dave Richard]

No, he's got no. I mean unless I'm wrong. Yeah, he had six against Pittsburgh. I think he had eight, 11 and 11 in the previous three games.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

I'm sorry.

[Heath Cummings]

And it's still a high target share each week and certainly a high target per route runner. No, he should be out target getter for the Browns now.

[Dave Richard]

Now. All right, Michael Pittman. Would you rather start Michael Pittman this week against the Patriots or. Or Jerry Judy.

[Heath Cummings]

Judy. It's close, especially with downs out dueling out like they're running out of bodies. And Pittman's going to be back in in the saddle to lead that team in targets.

[Dave Richard]

Oh, nice. Aerosmith reference. Romo Dunes is 71 rostered. I went back, I looked at his targets. It wasn't really the most impressive game for Odunze but. But there were two throws on the same possession where he could have had either like a 20 yard gain or maybe even a touchdown up the sideline and Caleb didn't really put it on him. Christian Watson. If Christian Watson and Roma Dunes a Jamie are both out there on your waiver wire. Who are you prioritizing?

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Watson?

[Heath Cummings]

I would say Odunza. I think he'll get more targets.

[Dave Richard]

Keenan Allen is your guy, your favorite. If he's out there, 61%, right?

[Heath Cummings]

Right.

[Dave Richard]

Elijah Moore, Devon Vale, Demario Douglas. I mean, this. This is a super safe play. You know, around 10 PPR fantasy points for Douglas.

[Heath Cummings]

You don't have him in week 14. Same thing with Vele. But rest of season, good bench, wide receivers, especially in full ppr. Not so much in non ppr.

[Dave Richard]

Noah Brown could have four targets. He could have eight. Yeah, you know, with Noah Brown, but he's always got a chance to do something. Had a nice game against Dallas.

[Heath Cummings]

Wouldn't it come down to how much the Commanders are going to throw? Throw in a certain game. And this week, if they don't have Robinson, they don't have Eckler. They might throw a lot. So that would benefit Noah Brown.

[Dave Richard]

Oh, so you were talking. Okay, the MVS is on this list too, but you were talking about someone. Oh. Noah Gray leading the Chiefs in green zone targets, end zone targets, whatever. In the last two weeks, do you know who leads the Tennessee Titans in green zone targets this year?

[Heath Cummings]

This year?

[Dave Richard]

Yeah. And he only has five to lead the team.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Him.

[Dave Richard]

And he's the only one with more than two. And he's on the waiver wire. It's Nick Westbrook. Akin.

[Heath Cummings]

It really. It's him.

[Dave Richard]

Nick Westbrook, you might think. Oh, all he does is score touchdowns from distance. Right. He has six touchdowns this year. Nick Westbrook, Akin.

[Heath Cummings]

Are they all the last six weeks.

[Dave Richard]

Or last seven weeks? Maybe four of them are from inside the 10 yard line. And two of them are long touchdowns, including a 98 yarder. But Nick Westbrook. Aquina is the only Titans player with more than two green zone targets. He leads the team. Calvin Ridley has one green zone target this year.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Keenan.

[Dave Richard]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

No. Noah Brown's last four games, 27 targets. Terry McLaren's last four games, 17 targets. Why does that make sense?

[Dave Richard]

It does not.

[Heath Cummings]

Could it make sense from the. From the idea that teams are doubling McLaren and so more targets are going to Noah Brown and that could be happening. That might be what's happening in Tennessee. I don't know. I'd have to go back and watch and see. But if teams are doubling Calvin Ridley, it would make sense that Will Levis is going to go to another player now.

[Dave Richard]

Find a way to get McLaren involved, you know, like.

[Heath Cummings]

Yeah, sure. Well, that's a Cliff Kingsbury problem.

[Dave Richard]

Jamie, what do you think about the Other Colts receivers, Pierce and Mitchell against the Patriots.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Yeah, they both benefit. You know Christian Gonzalez basically shadow Tyree Kill in this game last week. So that opened things up for Waddle and Johnny Smith. I wonder what he'll do or will he'll go against the Colts. If they, if they send him anywhere you probably assume it would be against Pittman. So Pierce is a big play threat. We've seen that. And the last time Pittman was out Pierce had a big game. That was with Target Flacco. I think if you're looking at Adnai Mitchell, you know he has the probably best opportunity to step into Josh Down's role. So will he. We'll see. I don't want to trust any of them with no teams on a buy. I certainly would like to roster still Pierce first and then Mitchell just in case. This is a as as they indicated a potential multi week injury for Josh Downs but nobody's starting those guys with no teams on a buy in week 13.

[Heath Cummings]

Sure. And then there's two stash wide receivers. I mentioned one earlier with Keon Coleman. This is for the teams that are headed to the playoffs. You just want to fortify the bench bench shallow leagues. Chris Olave is still out there in 31 of leagues.

[Dave Richard]

Wow.

[Heath Cummings]

I don't know when he's coming back. Remember he suffered that nasty concussion. He's had a couple of them this year now. But if he comes back out of the by, Saints are practicing and he's doing well. That's somebody I would absolutely love to grab off the waiver wire if you can double check to see if he's there.

[Dave Richard]

New Orleans is two games out of the first place. If they win another game, you know, things get kind of interesting. So then you've got. You've got the Carolina receivers who's.

[Heath Cummings]

I think so too. I think the Bucks are winning that division too. But if they, if they somehow botch it along the way and the Saints do keep on winning like you're talking about. Yeah, they could absolutely steal it away.

[Dave Richard]

So who, who, who which. Just real quick Dave, who's your favorite Panthers wide receiver if you had to pick one.

[Heath Cummings]

It's. It's legate but it's not with. It's not by a huge margin.

[Dave Richard]

It's such a good matchup other than the Giants that everyone seems to do well against.

[Heath Cummings]

I mean you think that LIGA would be able to come through and lead that team in targets last week and it ended up being more and we don't kind of crazy.

[Dave Richard]

We have Ray Ray McLeod listed on here was last we saw. Darnell Mooney had an injury.

[Heath Cummings]

I think he's going to be okay.

[Dave Richard]

And Parker Washington, his last two games with Trevor Lawrence, he went over 40 yards and both of them he scored 7 to 7.6 PPR fantasy points. So obviously we're looking at low standard here. But Parker Washington, 4% roster. Tight ends. Johnny Smith.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

That's part of it too.

[Dave Richard]

True. Yeah. Johnny Smith has been the man. Green Bay is a good match. Matchup. And Jonathan Smith's been really good. Evan Ingram. So you would rather have John than Evan Ingram?

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Yes.

[Dave Richard]

Yeah. Okay. Hunter Henry, Tucker Kraft, like, would you go. Would you pivot from Tucker Kraft, who scores a lot but doesn't get targets to Will Disley.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

If Dobbs is out, I'd rather have Craft.

[Dave Richard]

By the way, actually, let me put this to you. If. If Taysom Hill and John. Who? Smith are both available, who are you going with?

[Jamie Eisenberg]

John. But Taysom would be second.

[Dave Richard]

He would be all right, so our top priorities would be Will Disley, Cole Comet, Noah Gray, Luke Schoonmaker for a one week scenario. I don't know what that one week scenario would be like, why this would be the week when no one's on by. But who are you gonna. Who are you ranking higher this week? Schoonmaker against the Giants or Command against the Lions?

[Jamie Eisenberg]

At the Lions both have absolutely terrible matchups. So I'll take the guys getting a few more targets with the better quarterback. So I'll take. Commit.

[Dave Richard]

Man, I love it. Pat Friarmuth has a great matchup. Cincinnati is so bad against tight ends. And then Cleveland next week. I didn't he do something against the Bengals though? I think he actually had a good game against the Bengals.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

This is their first meeting, right?

[Dave Richard]

Is it?

[Heath Cummings]

Yeah, you'd have to. You'd have to weigh him.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Pittsburgh's first division games were the last two weeks.

[Dave Richard]

Oh, yeah, you're right.

[Heath Cummings]

So it was last year. You're thinking of who the hell.

[Dave Richard]

Yeah, it was Cleveland. That's his week third. That's his week 14 matchup. He had four catches for 59 yards.

[Heath Cummings]

Okay. But if you're considering firmware, if you're weighing him against the makers and Noah Grays of the world, and you might just rather take your chances with the double. You don't know what you do.

[Dave Richard]

What do you think Spoon man is about? The song?

[Heath Cummings]

I don't know.

[Dave Richard]

I like I'm gonna find out. I'm gonna find. I have a source. I'm gonna find out. And Juwan Johnson.

[Heath Cummings]

They'll tell us in the YouTube.

[Dave Richard]

You take a look at Dawson Knox. Oh, that's right. I don't have the YouTube comments in front of me. I'm sorry everybody. Dawson Knox if Kincaid's out again, Dallas dst Jamie loves him. Chargers against the Falcons, Giants at Dallas, Seahawks at the Jets, Cardinals at Minnesota. Not a bad week to stream DSDS. And the kickers are Chase McLaughlin, Will Lutz, John Parker, Romo, Brandon McManus and Blake Ruby. Thank you so much for watching. Listening everybody. We will talk to you tomorrow. We're going to look at the Thanksgiving games, the Black Friday game. We're going to preview at least. Yeah, we'll preview four games and figure out some other fun stuff to do on the Wednesday show. We'll see you then.

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