Starts of the Week + Wk 14 Matchups, Jason’s Back!

All right, let's go ahead and get into it. The three, nine jets take on the four and eight bills. Cold weather time, by the way. So we got to monitor that a little bit more. Every week we have a weather article that shows up on the fantasy footballers.com summarizes what's going on that morning. But, you know, man, I saw the over under and I thought, holy crap, that's freezing. Because the over under is 38 and a half.

That wasn't the weather report. No. The weather report is even worse. What's the weather report there? Are you kidding me? 26? No, that can't be real. I counted like six games that are within the 30s and that can't be real. Yeah. Why do people live there? Oh, I'm so sorry.

I'm so sorry for your time right now, Buffalo. That's incredible. And I have verified that is the projected weather. 26 degrees. 26 degrees. So you've got a game with the three and nine jets and the four and eight bills, divisional matchup. Bills are three and a half point home favorites in a game with a 38.5 point over under. And we expect Sam Darnel to return to action. Josh Allen, he's been a fantasy force in the past couple of weeks at the quarterback position for Buffalo.

You know, he's the most interesting discussion in this matchup for me because Josh Allen, we had the foot cast yesterday for everybody over to join the foot supporting the show. And we were asked a lot of, you know, different questions about Josh Allen. And like in a couple of weeks, you know, are you going to be wanting to start Josh Allen over, you know, maybe you think James Winston's a good playoff matchup, but Winston goes to Baltimore in week 15.

Josh Allen's going to be a real option. He's going to legitimize himself as a real option if this and next week have the kind of rushing yardage that he's put up recently. This is the super scary one though. Because it seems like it should be better. It's been two games for Josh Allen. He's been a dominant fantasy force. But now it's your playoffs. If you lose, you're out. Are you willing to put your faith in Josh Allen? Everything points to him having a...

literal top five upside this week, at home, cold against the Jets. I mean, it's all there, but are you guys actually willing to trust Josh Allen? I think it's always going to come down to what your other options are. Josh Allen or Mitch Trubisky coming off of his injury. Mitch Trubisky. Josh Allen or Russell Wilson against the Vikings. Okay. Yeah, I mean, if I've got other.

more established guys like that. A Jason special. Josh Allen or Carson Wentz versus the Dallas Cowboys. Don't do that to me. Yeah. We got to ask the tough questions. Oh, don't. Andy, what? I would play Carson wins. Okay. Then I would. Here's the thing. He's actually lower in my rankings. I do have Josh Allen ahead of Carson Wentz in my rankings. How do you, you know, how do you balance at this point in this season, though? You know, Brooks brought it up.

I think yesterday, can you live with losing with a big name on the bench? Yep. Versus can you overcome the name? It's a tough question. Like I said yesterday, I would start Jalen Samuels running back for the Pittsburgh Steelers as a tight end over Rob Grankowski this week. That would be my choice. I'm not going to get lost in Rob Gunkowski's illustrious name and lights. I would start Jailen Sam. But can you lose?

Can you handle mentally preparing and losing with big names on the bench? I think you have to be willing to make that decision. And sometimes it's going to come down to your opponent. How good are you – how good of a team are you playing in the fantasy playoffs where you need upside? Yeah. That's the question. Sure. And hopefully we can get this field covered in snow for Shady McCoy. Oh, yeah. Because he's the king of the snow. But even if it doesn't, this is still a very strong matchup.

for LaShawn McCoy. What's your interest in Zay Jones? They have jettisoned all the, let's say, what they perceived as the dead weight at the wide receiver position from Buffalo. Zay Jones, he had a pretty solid game, and the Jets are a fantastic matchup for wide receivers. Not in the playoffs? Yeah, not in the playoffs. The timing of this could not be worse, Buffalo. You should have done this three weeks ago.

Yeah, and with the weather. I mean, this is a shady bowl. It's the first thing that came to my mind as well. This is a team that wants to run, run, run, run with Josh Allen, with LaShawn McCoy. Two weeks ago was Robert Foster. Last week it was Zay Jones. They're not enough targets to go around to guarantee production. He has been targeted on more than 25% of the total targets, but still, that's not a big pot. That means he's got like four targets. Right. It's not a big pot. I'm with Jason on that. Over under and everything.

in a deeper league. And if you've lost Marvin Jones and Sammy Watkins and Deshawn Jackson, maybe. Now, on the other side of the ball, Crowell should. See, volume had a good game against Tennessee, 21 carries. Oh, yeah, for 98 yards. Unfortunately, he did pop up on the injury report already. Let's monitor his health. Nobody ever starts him with a smile on their face. No, no. It's like taking your, you know, taking a bad tasting vitamin or something.

You've got to take it. The doctor said so. But you're not really thrilled. Sure. You'd be like, can I take anything else? The 6-and-6 Panthers take on the 471 Browns. The Browns are one and a half point home underdogs. The Panthers are in a bit of a tailspin. So 47 point over under. Cam Newton, update on him his shoulder. He was limited at Wednesday's practice. This has happened from time to time this year.

He was pulled for the final play of the game last week in favor of their backup to throw the Hail Mary. Yeah. Yeah, you could see it. Yes. If you watch the game, Cam Newton was struggling. The velocity was not there. Well, there were two Hail Marys at the end of the game. They took two shots. The first one was with Cam Newton, and he came up about.

10 yards short of the end zone. So they pulled them and put the backup in. Something is legitimately wrong with his shoulder. That hurts the upside of especially the deep, you know, Curtis Samuel. He could take a screen to the house. That's great. But, you know, it's going to be hard to have him or if Tori Smith gets back. Anybody to break loose deep with, you know, a shoulder injury. So you have concern, you know, we've talked about his playoff matchups all year. He didn't rule out another offseason shoulder surgery.

but how much booty scooting are we getting this week from if he's not going to throw what's the impact of the scootin of the boot scooch i don't know oh there it is oh yeah do you think there's any worry with the shoulder injury running the ball and i definitely have i have concerns uh some concerns about it it's an elevated risk but i would still play cam newton as a top ten option i would be

happier if they were more competitive in the playoff race. Sure. That would give me more confidence in what you're going to get. I mean, Christian McCaffrey, he's an auto start. If you're picking a wide receiver from Carolina, Funches Moore, Samuel. Still DJ Moore for me. DJ Moore. Ian Thomas, people want to know because you have your top four or five tight ends and then you have like a whole police lineup of dumpster fires at that point. Ian Thomas, I mean, do you take a chance yesterday? I compared him to Matt Lacoste.

It's troubling. Oh, it's certainly troubling. But if you're going for the gusto of you have no strong options, he is in that. He is an option. He is in that tier. Now, granted, that tier is about 20 players. But 5 for 46, Greg Olson on IR has some more actual experience under his belt.

He's a very young player, and it takes some time to acclimate to the tight end position. Yeah, I mean. That's a no from Jason. Has a no for me. He's my tight end 21. Could he be the guy that catches a touchdown? Sure, but so could Chris Herndon. Brown's 28th against the position in the past six weeks. Yeah, I mean, I would rather play Jonu Smith.

All right. Yeah, me too. Even against the Jacksonville Jaguars, similar situation where they both are coming in for the incumbent starter who was injured. It clearly took Jono a little bit of time to acclimate to the position. But, I mean, and I don't hear what I'm not saying. I don't want to start Jono Smith. But I would rather start him than Ian Thomas. I think Baker is a fine play.

I kind of like Jono this year. Do you? I do. Yeah. I think Corey Davis is getting the shutdown treatment. Well, maybe, well, hey, starts of the week today. Maybe we'll hear about him later. Maybe. Maybe. Baker is, I think he bounces back. Travis Kelsey, though, is my start of the week. Oh, I think that's a good one. It's a strong play. Nick Chubb, the matchup stinks for him. You think Baker's a strong play? I do. On the, on the, uh, I do. I think he bounces back. The Carolina Panthers.

Last six weeks, 30th against quarterbacks, 30th against wide receivers. So I'm good starting Baker and Jarvis. And I'll even, in deep leagues, I think Antonio Calloway is okay. David and Joke is a little banged up. Is he on the radar? He's been very difficult to trust. On the radar, but it's just he gives you, he can be shut out. He can give you eight yards like he did last week. He is not.

He has not sustained that level of consistency that he saw in the middle of the season, but he's still a top, he's a tight-in one. I would play him over the guys we've been talking about. 100% I would rather play David and Joku than those other. I feel like there's tight-ins now. So there's the few at the top, and all the rest are like a used car on a car lot and then a different.

Every single time we have the show, a different salesman comes out and describes some other spin on this car and why you should buy it. Yeah. But there's never enough line items there. It's like a car from Matilda. Yeah. I like it. Yeah. Deep rolled doll reference. Oh, yeah. Deep rolled doll. Roll that odometer bag. Wow. Goodness gracious. I remember that. Yeah. Because it's awesome. It's a great story. All right. Let's thank pristine auction for sponsoring today's show.

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