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I'm telling you, my mind is blown right now at something I'm looking at. I'm just going to tease it here because I know we got, we got to show up and get to, but when we get to hungry for more, I got some stuff that's going to blow your mind. Okay. It's blown my mind.
I don't believe that's what you're reacting to. I wanted to look something up right before the show for our hungry for more segment and. Mind blown. I don't believe it.
Like I literally, I'm looking at this is wrong. And when I present this information here in a few minutes, and you clearly figure out why it is wrong and shame me for it, we can laugh at my expense because right now my mind is blown. Right now you don't believe that you just saw. I'm seeing.
Okay. That's a pretty good. Tees right. Professional tees.
We have hungry for more on the show today. NFL news big time NFL news to talk about not just the Thursday night preview, but we also have one of our favorite episodes, the playoff primer. You, you want to talk about this is the episode you need because we're going to lay out the best and worst schedules, the players with them at every position, heading into kind of the, the, the witching hour, so to speak of the fantasy football season, the moment that you make your push, but then you want to win the championship. You know, we want to get there.
A lot of you are already in the playoffs. Some of you are fighting for it and this will matter. But if you're in there, you want a chance to win. And, you know, this year's a little bit funky with the week 13 by situation because, I mean, I've looked at different trade options in our league and that's really becoming a problem, like the week 13 by like trying to figure out how to navigate that week because there's so many important players missing in week 13.
Do you have an important match up? Personally? Yeah. Huge.
Who are you playing? Papa Josh. Ficking fantastic. Yeah.
So I play Jeremy. Yeah, no, and Jeremy is, he's, he's moved on to 2024. Yeah. So I am thankful I get to play him the remainder of the season as well.
I did, you know, I tried to trade with him this morning. I didn't go well. I'm happy to hear that because you have, you have, I'm trying to trade with you too. I know and I'm, I'm, I'm just mad at you because you're making your team very good and better and better.
You just traded for a CD lamp to stack with that. And probably only one of us makes the playoffs for where our teams are sitting right now. And, you know, I don't want you to get better. So yeah, well, I, look, I, it's exciting.
It'll be fun. We'll all play out, Jason. Fantasy football, I'm hungry for more wins. Fantasy football is really fun.
Can I just say that? Like it's really fun. I almost tweeted that this morning. It's just cool.
It's just like, I almost told you, fancy football is supposed to be fun. Please make sure it's fun. All the ups, all the downs, when I get so upset and angry and full of vitriol, just always directed at you, it's fun. It's still cool.
I really enjoy being mad at you. That makes me happy. I mean, I remember last year, you made two moves that I knew were my death. And they led to your championship and they were the trade for Devonta Smith.
And they were the trade for Dalton Schultz. And you made both of those moves with great conviction. And I want to championship with it. And now that's how I feel about you and your stupid DAX CD stack.
Yeah, we'll find out the big news today. We'll talk about it. It's going to impact a lot of fancy players, myself included. Reminder, drop it like it's hot today's waiver day.
So those are going to go through soon in our league and they've already gone through and yours. Make sure you check who's been dropped. You're going to have some bi-week players that are probably hitting the waiver wire that you can pick up for the stretch run reminder. The Dynasty podcast, Jason, you were on it this week.
You did a trade up a loser episode with Matthew Betts and Kyle Borgononi. Yeah. I mean, people love episodes where there are trade for and trade away candidates. That's what we're dealing with.
And we're dealing with it from a Dynasty perspective, really valuable show this time of year if you want to have some targets. Yeah. So check that out. That is the fantasy footballers Dynasty podcast.
Comes out weekly, new episode this morning. So when you get done with this show and whatever magic is coming in the hungry for more section, you can turn to that one for the rest of your work day. And it is one week until the mega LaDon episode. It's going to be so long.
It's going to be a big one. There are no buys for Thanksgiving. So there will be football and pumpkin pie and I will be very happy with that on Thursday. All right.
Let's do it. Welcome to Hungry for More presented by Uber Eids. I just realized the name similarities between our two hungry for more candidates today. I don't even know your name.
OK. Well, I look, should you go first because you teased it already? Or should I go first to prolong the teas? I'm going to go first because I'm just so excited.
I can't tease it out anymore. My hungry for more should be obvious. I'm starting. I've been fasting.
I've been fasting for five weeks. It was a forced fast. A forced fast and I am hungry for Devon H and back in my life, baby. He's so good.
And it's going to be a real hard decision this week of first week back. You put them in your lineup. But I want to play a game without a drop that unexpected called who has more fantasy points since week three. Keep in mind Devon, Adrian has not played in five weeks.
So his total total games played is four games and really it's three because one was a 10 percent. So don't look at anything there. Don't look at his production. Don't remind yourself.
OK, so I just want to know way to validate if this is true. Got it. Right. Right.
You can you can the producers keep me honest here since week three. So including the so the last eight weeks, five of which he has not played. Who has more fantasy points? I'll start a little bit easy here.
Who has more fantasy points? Devon H and or Devin Singletary. That's ancient. It is.
How about Devon H and or Tony Pollard? Well, you wouldn't have this segment without that being a channel. That's right. He has scored more points since week three than Tony Pollard has.
How about Devon H and or Siquan Barkley? Who has scored more total fantasy points without this segment being laid out the way it is, I would have assumed Siquan. It is Devon H and how about Alexander Madison? It's a champ.
How about Najiharis? It's a champ. How about Ramandre Stevenson? Since week three, who has not missed any games, it's Devon H and how about Beijon Robinson?
Now we're just getting silly. Now it's getting silly. Now Joe Mixon, Derek Henry, Isaiah Pacheco, Jimi or Henry, baris Hall, come on or Devon H and who hasn't played in five weeks. Who has more total fantasy points?
It's Devon H and I'm hungry for more Devon H and OK, you got a I mean, you got a three-cursor in week three. Yeah, you got 49 fantasy points on the week heard around the world that is going to define this season to remind everyone. Of just how insane his three games, his basically is only three games of his career were he is averaging. So like Ken Walker over this course time who has scored more fantasy points than Devon H and Ken Walker's averaging 14.3 fantasy points per game.
That's that's really good. Alvin Camaro, who's way ahead of him, is averaging 16.9 fantasy points per game. Devon H and in those three games averaged 31.9 fantasy points per game. Every time he touched the ball, it was a chunk play.
And so it's one of those things where I have the question. OK, I have a follow up. We're all hungry for more Devon H and I'm personally hungry for him. Next week, not this week, right, right, because I have to play the agent manager and I am.
Look, the match up this week is a huge issue. So I am the raider. Yeah, I mean, it's a top matchup for Devon H and this week. He's playing.
He's playing right. Yeah, right. Sweet mercy. So and it's at home, but we don't know when those been open, but we don't have reports yet, right?
We don't know if he's going to be active for this game. The last thing I had heard from the Daniels was things are going according to plan. OK, so Kyle's confirmed. We don't know for sure.
So I have said my prayers. Yeah. And I am praying to avoid now. I was actually shocked at the Gibbs one because Gibbs's last three games are 23, 27, and 25 fantasy points, which two of those three, you know, those numbers would have beaten two of Devon H and three games, but that 49.3 is it's not special.
What he did against Denver. Yeah. So producers have you held me accountable? Was my math and I don't see anything wrong.
I was doing a little bit of checking in. Yeah. So look, who's your hungry for more? What a loser?
That's going to be here. Here's the question. Yeah. The question was going to be like realistically speaking, do you want Gibbs or H and rest of season?
Because Rahimoster is a fundamentally literally Rahimoster is the number one in the NFL in your experience still. So Rahimoster is a really, really talented player. Jeff Wilson's back. He's not being involved that much.
Not worried about Jeff Wilson. But when you look at the remaining schedule, if you just look at the playoffs as Denver Minnesota, Dallas for all that's for Gibbs for yeah, it's brutal. It's absolutely brutal for and that's what the show is, but it's brutal for the money. Because it's the Jets, Dallas, Baltimore.
That's troubling. Yeah. Because you're looking at like what's the potential for 30 and I don't know if those are 30. The Jets are not great against the run right now.
They're unbelievably great in the secondary. You can't pass to any wide receivers on them. Barely can pass the tight ends. But the running game isn't that great.
Dallas can be run on Baltimore's tough. That's on the road. So yeah, I mean, championship. So what's your answer?
I think because of the current injury, I would rather have Gibbs right now. I'm more confident in his role this week and his health this year. But I want both. That's right.
And I would want both. And I look if I'm praying for Devon H and to take an extra week at a pure selfish motivation this week, I am also praying that Damian Pierce takes another week because I'm hungry for more career highs from Devon Singletary 30 carries last week career high, 150 yards career high, played 81% of snaps was a running back three was an exceptionally important player for a lot of fantasy teams. And he plays the Arizona Cardinals this week at home. And I will be checking the Twitter sphere and all the beat writers and all the news to find out the practice habits of Damian Pierce this week.
Now I have both and I would play Singletary if Pierce was active this week. Yes. The matchup is very good. There's a decent probability they're out in front.
But I am hungry for more opportunity for Singletary. They have a really good offense. They're playing off-bound right now in Houston. And it's weird to get to this time of year.
And I've been unfortunately way too deep into fantasy football, trade universe over the last 15 or so hours. I'm talking like levels that are embarrassing. Well, I am well aware of the amount of trade offers and conversations and trade partners that you have. Yeah.
Like you have some kind of trades. I have seven trade offers out right now. And I made a big trade last night and my wife she had some stuff going on last night. And that was really bad for me because I could sit in my bed.
And I was looking at playoff rosters. I was looking at players to trade for. And what I realized, and what I'm getting with this, and I'm sorry listeners for taking so long, is that you do get to this part of the year and you look at people who won championship last year. And there are the single terries of the group.
You could sit here at the trade deadline and say, well, I don't like Devin Singletary's name. Relative to, I don't know, Tony Pollard's name. But last year you had Jerk McKinnon who literally set the league on fire for three weeks span and didn't do anything before that. And there are players out there where like you, everybody wants to get ready for the playoffs.
And so you want to build your list of names on your team. And sometimes it's going to be the movie you didn't make or the player you went into the playoffs with. And I'm not saying Singletary's going to have long term top team value him specifically. But there are going to be some names like that.
There always are names like that. Every single year there will be a player who hasn't really been discussed at this point yet who is sitting on waivers who will help people win championships because it happens every single year. That's why people that, you know, if you want to win your championship, you're obviously you're listening right now. But the people that keep listening to shows like this keep playing through the season, getting the waiver wire gems towards the end of the year.
It just went more championships. Just true. I now only have four straight offers out because three of them were actively rejected by Al Borland. Wow.
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It could have been coincidence that Jason was the one that broke this news to our Slack channel this morning, but I choose to believe it was somehow you created the news. Yeah. Yeah. I made this happen.
Browns quarterback to Sean Wandsen, want to go season ending shoulder surgery in MRI revealed or displaced fracture that were required. I didn't realize it was displaced. That's insane that he played through that game. He has a high ankle sprain as well.
He's done like he's not playing another down for the Browns. He played through this injury in the high ankle sprain and completed every pass in the second half and let them do a win. Wait, what? Yeah.
Are you reading what Jordan Schultz is reporting? Yeah, is this brand new news breaking news within the breaking news? It's it's it's crazy. I have the Browns are planning on starting Dorian Thompson, Robinson and I am planning on starting the Pittsburgh Steelers DST on totally related to that news.
And the reason Andy is freaking out here is because one of his important pieces on his roster is a Marty Cooper who are IP because if Dorian Thompson Robinson is the quarterback, you cannot play a Mario Cooper, not with confidence. I was going to make the point here that while Watson has been subpar, he has been measurably better than PJ Walker in every type of metric. It's true. But PJ Walker has been measurably better than Dorian Thompson Robinson in every memory.
I mean, the only thing that I can say to the defensive Dorian Thompson Robinson is he played one game and he did it unexpected. Right. However, what the heck man? This is not just a problem now for Marty Cooper.
Yes, that is a red alert. Now, I'm already Cooper under PJ Walker at a higher target share than even did under Deshaun Watson. 25%. So you can look at that and say, look, they played tougher matchups in those weeks.
That PJ Walker was the quarterback than they did when when Watson was and you could say, look, he took a shots with Cooper, Cooper comes down with some tough catches. He'll be fine. So I mean, starting Thompson Robinson opens up a whole new universe of pain for fantasy managers because he will run the football, which will eliminate running opportunities. And now I am now I am worried about drum for it because this offensive, it can't get first downs is going to be a huge problem.
Now they're going to be able to play great defense to run the football. But this is this is really red alert. And here we are with another quarterback injury. Yeah, I mean, in Josh Dobbs was their backup to start the year.
What are you doing Cleveland in week three, sorry, week four was when we saw Dorian Thompson Robinson have the kind of unexpected surprise start in that game. We completed 53% of his passes. Three of the incompletions were actually completions to the other team. Three interceptions, no touchdowns.
The team scored three total points that game. Now, I remember Baltimore. Okay. And at the time we thought Baltimore's defense was a little banged up and we that they should have been able to Baltimore has proven that their defense is just elite this year.
They're one of the best. They are technically the second best defense in the league, statistically speaking. So and he didn't get the practice the starting practice that week. So things are going to be better for Dorian Thompson Robinson than they were for that week four start, but he is not good enough to be good for fantasy assets.
I mean, I would be scared of every Brown until proven otherwise. He rushed for 647 yards for UCLA, 12 touchdowns on the ground in 2022 completed 70% of his passes, 3000 yards, 27 touchdowns. He was, he was certainly a special player in college, but it's a tall pass now. Yeah, it's going to be very, very interesting.
Goodness. I did not, I didn't see that DTR news until just now. I'm so happy to hear that. That was, that was entertaining for me to watch.
I don't know what to think right now. I would need to end the show. I got trades to make. No, please stop it.
Justin Fields expected to start in week 11. Should be back out there. Should be a seven week trial for Justin Fields for Chicago because they are primed to potentially have the topic in the draft. Well, it's not just a trial to showcase.
Sure. Right. Because they will either be keeping him and treating what is almost guaranteed the number one pick. I mean, maybe Carolina gets the number two pick, but they've got a top two pick coming their way from the Carolina Panthers.
So this is we either will use that pick and draft Caleb Williams or whoever they want and then look to trade fields or they're going to say fields that's so good at the end of this coming season that we are going to trade the picks. So TVD, but they're going to want him to do his best to showcase him. The matchup against Detroit this week is pretty good for. It's not a bad matchup for quarterbacks.
Okay. Pat Frimuth, 21 day window open. They expect them to be back out there on the field this week for the Steelers and the Jets. Jason, the Jets have waived Michael Carter.
Oh, yeah, which clears a pathway for Israel. A Band of Canada. A band of Canada don't want none. Let's do runs.
Huh? You're welcome. I'm busy as a prospect this year. Very speedy, still weighty running back.
That being said, it's really bothered me to see third downs and two minute drills with Michael Carter there catching a lot of dump offs. There's been games where in garbage time, there's four or five check downs to Michael Carter. They should be going to Breeze Hall. I do think some of those are going to Dalvin Cook.
I know you don't want to hear that. I do think it's going to happen, but it is better to clear the way. Yeah. What I know is that it won't go to Michael Carter anymore because he's not on the team.
Yeah. He had such a good rookie season. He's really good last year, not good this year. Only eight attempts and ruined more of a player to ruin others than anything himself.
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That is shocking. Oh, the DTR news. I mean, I guess there is the like Peter Walker is definitely the devil, you know, like there's not a there's not a world that he's much better than what we've seen. And there is the chance that DTR because he's a rookie because he has a great pedigree because he'll have a week of practice because they have a great defense because they have good running bags like there's a world that they're often functions pretty well.
Like we said, Watson was not a good player, but I'm a bit thunderstruck. Yeah. There's there's certainly a world where by the end of this season, I'm already Cooper is better with DTR than he would have been with Walker Walker's very, very capped. Yeah, that that was my my thought.
All right. Tina preview Thursday night breakdown. Well, we have a rematch from week two. The Cincinnati Bengals this week at five and four traveled to Baltimore to take on the seven and three Ravens.
The Ravens just lost at home to the Sean Watson and these Browns or those Browns. Baltimore minus four is the line on the Draft King sportsbook. The over under is 46 Baltimore one, 27, 24 and week two. And yeah, I mean, this is this was a really, really tough one for me to handicap.
I was going through this week's match ups and like right out of the gate, this game is very interesting. If if you are the one handicapping, would it would be handicapping? It would be handicapped. No, that's nice.
I like it because to be fair, you're I don't want to do your horn too much, but you're welcome to. You're pretty good at handicapping most of these games. So I can tell you what I picked and I'm not I picked Baltimore. I'm confident in Baltimore.
And the reason being is them losing to at home seems like a non John Harbaugh type of thing, but we could get a really, really fun, exciting, not last week, Thursday night football game. All four AFC North teams are in the playoff picture, the Ravens, the Steelers, the Browns and the Bengals. Bengals are the only team not currently in and they're on the bubble, but they're the Bengals like we expect them to be in the mix towards the end of the season. Burrow on the Mar I mean, you're not you're not sitting either of those guys down in this match up, right?
No, you're not. And I know that Lamar Jackson has gone back and forth on good games and bad games. In fact, more bad than good fantasy purposes. Mark Andrews torches the Cincinnati Bengals.
It's been a three game bad stretch for Lamar actually. Yes, but I think I think it's right for fans. I think Lamar has a good game on the back of Mark Andrews. Mark Andrews has the last three games against Cincinnati scored a touchdown in each one of them, two different games, eight receptions, one of them 125 yards.
You've been hammering every tight end that plays the Bengals. So you got to be really confident with Mark Andrews. Yep. And so that's kind of where like you get to the end of the line in the past.
Don't you for Baltimore? I mean, they've been not a consideration. Back home is is banged up and Zay Flowers is I'm not not really valuable unless you're not like two points per reception league. No, I'm not really looking to start any of the other pass catchers.
I do think you can easily start Gus Edwards. Yeah, would you play Gus or Mitchell? I would play Gus Edwards over Keaton Mitchell because I think if they get around the goal line, they'll be able to score touchdowns. Keaton Mitchell just might not have enough work, but I do think you can start Keaton Mitchell this game.
He's going to get more and more work. Even though last week he only had three carries turned into 39 yards in a touchdown because he's got that breakaway speed. Cincinnati has not been good at stopping the run. I believe a bus versus a Ferrari.
Like if you went to buy one of them, you'd be really tempted to get that Ferrari. But it's a lot more dangerous. Yeah, you don't even need to buckle up to bus. No, you don't even put the seatbelt on.
Yeah. Are there even seatbelts and buses? Maybe for the driver. Sure.
Yeah. But we live one person on this book. Yeah, I don't think so. And like, you know, Keaton Mitchell is just a small sample size and it's a divisional game.
And Cincinnati's going to be ready to play, I think. Yeah. On the other side on Cincinnati side, this is a really tough defense. The Ravens are top 10 across the board against every single position.
If you adjust for schedule, they don't give up a lot. And so like I can tell you right now, Mike is out of town, our champ, champ, champ team. We have the Joe Burrow V. Kyler Murray decision on our dynasty.
You're going Kyler. I'm going Kyler. Okay. Yeah.
I mean, not having T Higgins, which they're not going to have is a big deal because you really need playmakers to be able to make their mark against Baltimore. And you need Jamar Chase to be able to have somebody to take somebody attention off of him and you don't trip in Irwin and Tyler Boyd are not going to be able to do enough, I think, to give chase the opportunities that he needs. So Tyler Boyd would be an okay flex option, you know, Boyd over any of the Baltimore options. I would, yeah.
So makes in chase. Boyd is a flex in the story. In the story. I, I'm not excited to start Joe Burrow this week.
I think there are probably better options out there. That's tough to get. Would you go Sam Howl? Yeah, I think I would.
Let me look at my rankings here. I feel like there is definitely a cap when you face Baltimore and Baltimore. Yep. And without T Higgins, I would, I've got Sam Howl two spots ahead of Joe Burrow.
That's, I mean, I think that's going to be hard for people to do. I think most of them are going to go down with the ship because Joe Burrow is just, you know, not kind of guy, but I think it might be the right play. Final, final dicey one. Would you play Joe Burrow or Justin Fields?
Not field on the first game back. No, I play Burrow. I'm worried because field is injury was a fun. Right.
It's a grip strength issue. And so it's like, okay, you're going to come back and it's not like Justin Fields does it every week when he's healthy. It's a real like your floor is lower. I think I, your floor is lava.
It's super low for both guys though. Like if it becomes a bad game for Joe Burrow, which prime time Joe Burrow is usually going to be great. Yeah, that's why I'm staying there. Man, in Baltimore.
You did have the, the Sean Watson, the Browns were 34 points last week in Baltimore. Yeah, but the Sean Watson, I mean, that was a defensive score. And I don't think the Sean Watson was overtly great. You had like 20 fantasy points.
No, no, you're right. Yeah. But if you can do 20, Burrow can do 25. I'm staying with Burrow.
All right. Play off primer. All right. I'm excited to talk through these names.
I'm almost, I'm almost, I'm excited. And yet it will be you and I opening up. You don't want to give away your beliefs. It will be you and I opening up about some situations here.
Yeah. Would you consider clicking except on either my trade offers before this segment? No. Okay.
That's a shame. Last year, I mentioned that Derek McKinnon was the RB two from week 14 on here were some other League winners from last season that highlight what we're looking at. Kurt Cousins was a quarterback five, three and six from weeks 14 through 16 last year. Huge for fantasy players.
Brady had a huge week 17. CD Lam finished the year with four straight top 15 performances. George Kittle had a monster final run and then James Conner was a whole second. He was a RB six from week 11 on.
So here we go. Let's talk about quarterbacks. Right now. First of all, let's just come right out and say what you don't want to say.
Just I'm putting you on the spot. What is it that you don't want me to be aware of? It's nothing that you're not aware of. It's just going to drive home.
I look in trade negotiations in a league. Everything is about leverage and sometimes leverage is built on what's set out loud versus what is said in secret. And so look, we're going to get to running box later and it's very evident. Like I'm coming after Austin Eclar and your team on the only buyer left in the league.
And you want to give up, say, and you want to give up, say, and say, and you want to get back schedule and I got one. And there's a reason why I'd offer second round draft picks along with Sequon to go do it and I'm looking long term. I mean, a big bet yesterday and I would have rather negotiated with you last night. It's all I'm saying.
Dak Prescott has one of the best playoff schedules. He faces Buffalo. We know Buffalo has been troubled on the defensive side. It is in Buffalo.
So that one I will illustrate. You could have weather. That is a weather week potentially. But then he goes to Miami in a shootout extraordinary.
He plays at home against Detroit in championship week. Dak, it's more than these three games because every game prior to these three games is amazing for Dak. No weeks off. We've highlighted Dak for a while.
He was Mike's second half sleeper. There isn't really a better passing schedule in the entire league from now until the end of the season. But it does continue. So long as that Buffalo game is not a weather issue and it turns into a snowball, the playoff weeks are just as good as the week from here till then.
And I know I'm biased because I've picked up and I'm playing Dak and he's like the centerpiece of a couple of leagues. Listener like I've got him. That's trying to earn everybody another spot in the listener league. But I don't know if I would accept any trade for Dak right now.
Quarterback to quarterback. Oh, yes, you would. I don't think I would. Yeah.
I mean with keeper stuff considering. You're telling me if I I've got Jalen, you're saying you might be the only one that I would do that because Jalen hurts is in this category. Jalen hurts is an amazing playoff schedule Seattle. The Giants in Arizona.
Jalen hurts is the one that I would waver on and it probably would fold and do but not maybe now that I've seen he like I might ride the DAC CD, lamb stack into the playoffs. Kyle Murray really tough first week of the playoffs, but he's on rosters as often a second quarterback option. So if you can play somebody he plays San Francisco in week 15 and I in a week 14 buys you need another quarterback for maybe those two games but then Chicago Philly. He's a perfect buy week.
If you are on the way to the playoffs with a buy and you're not even going to play week one to go Chicago and Philly in your championship weeks, it's a really, really nice schedule and you would presume those will be his healthiest, his best, you know, he's going to be more in the system, more recovered from the ACL, more confident in everything that more Zach hurts on the roster. Gross. I know that hurts. But kind of got a great schedule.
Brock Purdy and Justin Fields do as well. You don't want fields in the first week of the playoffs because it's Cleveland on the road. That would be a disaster. I also have Cleveland's defense.
I'm looking forward to that. Oh man, they're going to be so good. But then Brock Purdy plays Arizona. Then you don't really want him against Baltimore.
But you could do it. And then he plays Washington. Brock Purdy is a name that is worth bringing up because I don't know how much respect he's getting in fantasy circles. You know, he doesn't run a lot but he's been very, very good for fantasy football.
In the three game stretch where he didn't have Debo Samuel, he was 7 points, 12 points, 18 points. And so I think, you know, he's been dropped. They had the buy week after that. I, you know, you pick them up off of waivers and I traded for him.
But in all the games with Debo Samuel, he's hitting 20 points reliably at the quarterback position. You know, this last week he had three passing touchdowns, 300 passing yards. He's been very good. So you combine that with a great playoff schedule for quarterbacks.
And I think he's probably the sneaky ad of the group. Like everyone wants to act jail and hurt. Skylar, you just, you probably can't beat them right now. Purdy is the, you know, I want to championship with Alex Smith a couple years.
I'm not couple anymore. I mean, a long time ago, because I had a major talent go down and it was like Smith had a nice run. Purdy's got a pretty good floor in every game. Winnie has all of his weapons healthy.
And then Justin Fields is the wild card tonight. Look, I, you can win a championship with him. I think Justin Fields is going to win people championships. I really do.
Well, let's put, you know, the good schedules aren't really illustrative until you contrast them with the bat and what you want to do there because to has the worst schedule of basically any quarterback, the Jets, you don't pass on then Dallas. Oh, then Baltimore, like I give me three teams that I don't want to face in those three games and that you did it. Yeah. Two is going to get a lot of people to the playoffs too.
So this is going to be a playoff quarterback and that is where I think he lined up perfectly with Brock Purdy. If you're the two, a manager, just go go acquire Brock Purdy. You can absolutely acquire Brock Purdy in a trade if he's not just sitting on lavers right now. Combine those matchups because the two worst matchups for Tua are the first and third week of the playoffs and those are the great matchups for Brock Purdy against Arizona and Washington.
Right. You can kind of play the schedule and combine those two players together. I think if you ride Tua through the playoffs, you're not going to win your championship. He was tough because that's one of the reasons I traded him away was to thought of if I make the playoffs, I'm not going to want to play him in those games, but I will feel pocket-mated to do so.
When you look at other guys, Trevor Lawrence, he's off your roster, bad schedule. CJ Stroun, Tennessee Cleveland, Tennessee. What are your thoughts on Stroun? Because I've seen teams now that have Stroun, trade away their other option because they feel confident enough in CJ Stroun.
Yeah. So it's funny that obviously two games, this is going to be a huge playoff theme is the Texans V Titans because they play each other twice in these three game fantasy playoffs. So like for Derek Henry running on the Texans, it's going to be great. For wide receivers against Tennessee, it's a great matchup.
Total quarterback fantasy points. Tennessee hasn't really given up a lot. They don't give up a lot of rushing yards to quarterbacks, but I'm kind of in the middle. I don't I don't view this as a terrible schedule for CJ Stroun.
I know statistically speaking, it is not good for quarterbacks, but I think Stroun's going to be able to throw on Tennessee. Sam howl, Joe Burrow tough ends to the season. Burrow has Minnesota Pittsburgh, Kansas City statistically speaking. That's not great.
I'm actually not that worried about that. I don't think the Minnesota Pittsburgh matchups are ones I would care about Kansas City in the final week. I don't know if I care about that either. Just because the nature of Joe Burrow is like these could be some pretty high that'd be a high sworn game.
Are you more worried than I am more worried than you are? Not in the first two weeks, Joe Burrow. So we're talking about fantasy schedules. It's important for us to say what I'm sure everyone listening hopefully already knows, but like you don't just bench your studs because they're in great matches.
When you've got a real stud, a great player, they're usually match up proof. There's a reason why they're great because other NFL teams and players can't stop them. But the Kansas City Chiefs have proven to me this year so many good quarterbacks have played against them and no one's got it done. I don't think Joe Burrow gets it.
Joe Burrow has had plenty of bad games this year and I don't think he gets it done in championship week. Running backs with great schedules. Austin Echler. Austin Echler plays the Las Vegas Buffalo Endember.
I mean, you can't get much better than that. That's the 32nd defense against running backs, the 27th and the 22nd defense against running backs. The only player that I think might have as good a schedule is Bezhan Robinson and the Falcons. They're playing Carolina Indianapolis and Chicago, but Chicago has gotten much, much better recently against the run.
So but Echler, Bezhan, those schedules are perfect. Where are you with Eric Henry? Because the schedules we've talked about since week one, Houston Seattle Houston for the final three weeks of the season. Does Derek Henry have a final, you know, mark to make on the fantasy universe?
Yeah, for sure. He does. Derek Henry, these are these are winnable games, but they're also easy rushing matchups. So I think Derek Henry is going to be a League winner.
In fact, right now off of a really terrible game for Derek Henry, he only had 11 carries this last week for 24 yards, scored two and a half fantasy points. If you ever want to try to trade for Derek Henry, now is a good time. This week, they're playing the Jacksonville Jaguars who are a pretty tough matchup. So maybe if your if your trade deadline goes an additional week, if you don't have to make the move now, after next week, if he puts up two bad performances in back to back weeks, I would pick him up his run after this next week is pretty much great the rest of the season.
You've got Carolina, Indy, Miami, Houston, Seattle, Houston's perfection. Jerome Ford. Jerome Ford has a Chicago Houston and then the Jets match up to end the season. He was a trade for candidate mentioned on the Dynasty podcast today.
And I personally think that he has shown that this team that he's a guy like over 64% of snaps for two straight weeks ran for over 100 yards last week against Baltimore on the ground on 17 carries. Very explosive, very fast guy and could be a league winning type of candidate. Yeah, and Jerome Ford isn't going to cost a ton. Obviously, we've got to wait and see what Dorian Thompson Robinson does for this offense.
That makes me less bullish, but he has been good. Jerome Ford has looked great. The team is relying on him. They, if they're going to win games, which is obviously their goal, it's going to come from their defense and running game.
So that means Jerome Ford is all of a sudden the center of this offense. We actually highlighted him on the Dynasty podcast as well as a good dynasty asset to try to trade for that might be a little bit sneakier long term play than people are giving him credit for. Give me some of the worst running back schedules out. No, no, no, no.
I know you want to skip it, but we need to bring up the Steelers. The Steelers have a very. Oh, okay. Yes.
Jalen Warren and Naji Harris. No, I don't want to skip it. Okay. I traded for Jalen Warren recently.
Naji and Jalen Warren, like the offensive line is moving people right now. They play Indianapolis, Cincinnati and then Seattle. The only negative there is that unlike Jerome Ford and Dream Hunt, which is a, that is a starter and a backup slash goal line. Naji and Warren are very much a split.
They are. You know, he was like, Jalen Warren got an ounces of starter. Hooray. He ran out of the tunnel.
And they're both running well. Naji was running poorly right now and Warren was on fire. I think I'd be like dying to get him and dying to play him, but the schedule's great. So I think both will be in play Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Seattle.
So both of them. This is how they're winning. They're six and three. And Naji, he did it last year, sucked the first half and it was great.
The second half, maybe he gets colder and defenses get tired. Seguan Barkley has one of the worst schedules for the running back position. He also has a week 13 by New Orleans, Philadelphia, Las Angeles. He also has no quarterback or hope.
He's all alone. Yeah. have Saquon in the League of Records. You are shotgunning offers to trade him away because this is a very bad schedule.
And while his floor is high, you pretty much expect in these three games you're gonna get 10 points. And that's not terrible, but that's not winning you a championship against the best teams in your league. So Saquon's name and his current run has been good. I think you're right to try to do like Saquon Barkley plus something for Echler.
Yeah, unfortunately in your league, I have Echler, I'm probably not doing that deal. So, but in- What about a couple twos? Oh man, maybe. Don't do not offer me that.
Saquon. Do not offer me that and I'm serious. Saquon and a couple, I'm gonna go send that. No.
I'm gonna go send that to him. Oh my gosh. No. Just go ahead and click this button right here.
Really, really don't. I really, really well. Cause I want you to know that you turn this straight down at the end of- Hold on, hold on, let me say that. No, I mean, just talk about what you're thinking and what you're feeling.
I am thinking that as a 500 record with no draft capital next year, it would be insane to not take that deal. But if I take that deal, I'm not winning the championship. And you click. All right, it's in.
Oh, this sucks. So I guess we'll deal with this. I want to win the championship. I'm the current champ in the League of Records.
Sorry. My team is very good. And I believe if I make the playoffs, I can win the championship. I also think my upcoming schedule is winnable.
Yeah. I mean, we played a couple of weeks. We played a couple of weeks and that match up will very likely good determine who makes the playoffs. Definitely good.
And I believe our two teams have really high odds of winning the championship. Like one of us, one of us won't make the playoffs and one of us might win the championship. If I make this trade for you, my draft capital gets so much better for you. Oh yeah, I got two too, that's what the offer is just sent there.
And just for those at home, like we can't trade ones in our league. So like twos are the highest draft capital. It's the gold. It's the gold bull.
And how many do you have right now? I've got zero. I've got zero. I'm going to trade it one way.
But if I make that deal, I am saying I'm put up a white flag. And I don't think I can do that. I mean, I don't know if you're putting up a white flag. You're just hedging.
I hate Andy Holloway. I hate Andy Holloway. Kenner's Walker, Damien Pearson, Singletary, Joe Nixon and James Connor also have very difficult end of season schedules. It's relevant because the Cardinals not only have a week 14 by.
But he's a target. I think he's out there and a lot of people are targeting James Connor. But San Francisco, Chicago to start the playoffs and then Philadelphia for the championship. Maybe this isn't the year for James Connor to win you a title.
No, I don't think so. What you saw last year at the end of the season was even though the team was bad and they lost Kyler Murray and they lost the games, because of necessity, James Connor became everything. He touched the ball non-stop. It was great for famous football.
This season, it seems like the exact opposite is going to happen. It seems like Kyler's going to be back. They're going to be able to throw the ball. These matchups are actually good for throwing them.
Like Philly and Championship Week. They're one of the worst teams at stopping quarterbacks and wide receivers. Their secondary is depleted. But you can't run on them.
And so James Connor to me, I think, is a really bad play. And even though the Chicago matchup, we've talked about this a couple of times, the Chicago matchup on paper looks good. You look and say, oh, it's a plus matchup. It's really not anymore.
They have turned their defense around. And recently, they're just not giving up a lot on the ground, which is James Connor can't catch the ball. But this season, he's been more of doing the groundwork than through there. The other conversation is with Kenneth Walker, because he has big plays.
But I just posted a tweet yesterday, and I didn't know the answer to this question before I looked it up. But Kenneth Walker's in the bottom five of your depth of contact. Kind of a step that he dealt with last year. But he has big plays, but he also has a committee problem.
And now we know they play Philly in the first week. And Philly is the number one defense against the running back position, minus 8.2 in terms of. Whatever the basically average baseline of the opposing team, what the other opponent usually scores at the running back position, they will score on average eight fewer than that against the Eagles. That is not good.
And so Walker, maybe try high after that performance. I think Walker and Barkley are the two big name, great players who have been succeeding, who carry a lot of value in fantasy, or in fantasy, where you could trade them for a different running back with a better schedule. Here's a wild one, and we're going to turn to the wide receiver position and bring up. I'm going to do it reverse order here.
I'm going to start with the worst wide receiver schedules, because I think that's where the biggest conversation has to be had. Tyree Kill and Jalen Waddell, they face the Jets. The Jets are just not, they just drag the game out, and you don't pass on them. Now Tyree Kill is special.
But the Jets are really, really good. And then they play Dallas, and then they play Baltimore. And so it's really hard for me to say that Miami's going to go into, like so far we've seen Miami struggle against good teams, Dallas Baltimore. Those are concerning games.
And then the Jets are a great pass defense. So is this helpful at all? To know this information about Tyree Kill, like would you actually try to move him when he has been the linchpin of basically the best player in fantasy? No, I wouldn't.
No, this is an example. The Jets. It's an example where you don't overemphasize. You do not overemphasize.
Now Jalen Waddell? Sure. Jalen Waddell is more concerning to me than Tyree. Tyree is unguardable.