Week 17 Matchups + Wheel of Shame, Theme Park Tour - Fantasy Football Podcast for 12/30

My strong leg. Yeah, you can play both of them. You're playing the left leg of Jacob Dobbins? Oh, definitely the right leg. Yeah, you need the super fast one. His right leg is fast. That left leg is just dragging behind him. J.K. Dobbins has the ability to be great, but you do need to realize that he needs touchdowns. He needs breakaway plays because he doesn't catch the ball a lot, and he's not one of these players who's playing 70% of snaps. A lot of times, he's in the 30% of snaps. They run the ball a lot, and he is a talented player, so you can play him, but you're going to have variance in his games. Naji, on the other hand, he feels like he needs to be in. I think he's going to finish the week as an RB2. It's kind of what he's been doing. He had nine targets last week once Trubisky was old school. Yeah, but it was nice to see him again involved in that way because he obviously has that skill set, and now you've got this rookie quarterback that might be going, oh, I can just, I figured out a thing.

I can just complete easy passes to Najee. So we'll see. He's good enough to be a RB2 started in most playoffs. All right. Capstone time. Buffalo, 12 and 3, Cincinnati, 11 and 4, Monday night football in Cincinnati. Buffalo minus one. Great weather. Over under is 49 and a half. Buffalo must win to maintain the number one seed. They have the tiebreaker with Kansas City. That's a big deal. That's home field advantage. You want to play an Arrowhead in the AFC title game? No. No. Cincinnati, you went out, you get the number two seat. You're still alive for the number one seat. Joe Burroughs never faced the bills in his career, first time. And that is an exciting proposition to see what he can do. He's the quarterback two ahead of Josh Allen since week six. He's been that good, and you're going to have a full allotment of weapons. Jamar Chase, T. Higgins, Tyler Boy, Joe Mixon. The only...

player that was in question was Hayden Hurst should be back, practiced in full on Thursday. Wheels up. Wheels up for the Bengals. I know you're conflicted, Jason. I know you don't want to be on the bus with the Bengals this week. Well, here's the thing. He's not conflicted. That's fair. He is conflicted in terms of the friendship between myself and Jason because. He wants the league of record. In league of record, he wants Joe Burrow to be bad. But for our team, he wants Joe Burrow to be good. And I completely understand that. If I were you, I would be rooting everything for the league of record because that is currently your most important league. Yeah. So, I mean, every single championship matchup that I have seen out there on Twitter.

includes players in this game. You got to this game, you know, Joe Burrow is in so many championship matchups. Josh Allen is in so many championship matchups. You have just a slew of really important fantasy assets, and this is going to be the capstone of Championship Week 2022. So I'm very, very excited. The way that I look at this game, you've got two good defenses here, really good defenses. You had Patrick Mahomes. you know, get shut down a little bit by the Bengals defense. The running defense is very good, too. They only give up 16 points a game. How do you break up Devin Singletary and James Cook? So the running backs, I am not excited to play in this matchup. Devin Singletary and James Cook, I think, are both going to have disappointing games. If I had to start one of them, I'm starting Devin Singletary because of the fact that this game matters so much.

Seems like a veteran game where when push comes to shove at the end of the game, you've got to have the guy out there that knows what to do. Can't possibly make a mistake. So I would go Singletary over James Cook, but I want to get the receiving options out there. I view this as, you know, a great pitching beats great batting, stupid baseball metaphor where you've got two of the best quarterbacks in the NFL right now. not just playing a game, but playing Monday night football, prime time, playoff atmosphere game. And if the first half of this game gets off a little slow, I think at the end of this game, Joe Burrow takes over, and he says, I can score on you. And every time he does, Josh Allen says, well, guess what? I can score on you. And they just go tit for tat at the end of this game.

So I want all the pieces. I want, obviously, Jamar Chase is going to be great. Stefan Diggs, who's been sucking and dealing with an illness, I think he's going to be great. Did you guys follow his Twitter action the last couple days? No, do tell. I mean, it's probably unrelated, but it's just one of those coincidence things that's pretty funny of. You go back to December 27th and you have Stefan Diggs tweeting another night of feeding myself. Another tweet. Forced to use the skills I learned when I did two years ago in culinary school. Another tweet. This whole cooking for yourself stuff. I saw that. Zero out of 10 wouldn't recommend too tired to eat. And then you got to wash the dishes after. And this Stefan Dix misses practice with illness. I did see that. That was funny. It's probably unrelated, but it's just, he digs, get a chef. Gabe Davis or DJ Chark.

I would go Gabe Davis. Both, I think, are good place. But it's kind of like what I was saying. Gabe Davis, who is a boomer bust option, this is the type of environment where if he booms and he's on your bench, you're going to cry. Because if you lose, I'll bet you his points would have gotten you there. Tyler Boyd or Greg Dorch? Probably, probably Dorch. Boyd? Like. If Boyd were completely healthy, and I knew for sure I would go Tyler Boyd, but it's a little bit sketchy. You know, I mean, he had the hand injury three weeks ago. He comes back in the next week. He plays 60% of the snaps. Goes to play again because he said, I'm going to figure it out. But he only played half of the game. And there was four targets, three for 21. And then we saw Trent Nervin. Yep, Trent Nervyn. He's the one who came in. I mean, there's direct correlation of he.

He plays, when Boyd is not in, Irwin goes in, he had some success. So that, my concern is you have another situation where Boyd doesn't play a full game. All right, let's move on. Fantasy Face Off, presented by Draft Kings. My own son gets to watch me shame today. You're going to enjoy this one. You're going to like it. Let's spin that wheel. Another nail binder than I, of course. was on the wrong end of. Wheel of shame. Yeah, whatever, spin it. Spinning the wheel. Spinning the wheel. The wheel is my friend. I'm not a cat. Rainy day. And it land is on moot.

Move. Move. What could this possibly be? Yeah, I have no doubt that it will be great. It's been a minute. It's been a minute since I've got to wear something ridiculously suffocating. Yeah. Well, that minute is over because you're a cow face. Oh, that's so good. This reminds me of my famous fish face. I can't. I can't tell you how horrible this is. Oh, we can hear. We can hear how horrible it is. Can you see? Through the nostrils, I believe, through the nostrils. I'm going to have to see through the face. If podcast listeners, he's having to manually open the cow mouth to view and speak. Oh, man, that's unfortunate. Oh, man. I've never been more claustrophobic. You have any long stories to tell Mike?

Just, you know, a good childhood star. All right, let's get into it. So I will kick things off at the quarterback position here. I have Jared Gurf, his draft king's sports book over under sitting at a nice 267. He is just dominant at home. We have laid that out. And the price is just right. At 5600, I cannot imagine not having Jared Gurf. And I assume the cow has him as well. The cow nods, yes. Okay, so we've all got Jared Garf. If you're building a cash lineup, he's going to be the most. Is that a breath? I think that was a breath. The cow opened his mouth to breathe. Yeah, so Jared Goff, quarterbacks across the board, great cash player at 5600. All right, who you got at running back, Jay? At running back, I spent up $8,000 for Sequin Barclay.

against the Indianapolis Colts. I think the matchup is good. He's been on fire lately. And my RB2 is one that let everyone down last week. But his price went down for it. 6,800 Ramandre Stevenson. Interesting. At home against Miami, I think he gets back to being how good he's been all season. Cowboy. Cowboy. You're okay over there? Oh, you're talking to me? Yeah, you're the cow. You're the cowboy. Is it my turn? Yeah. Wait, what about mics? You're up first. He's wanting to go last. I went first on the quarterback. Oh, I got you. Sequin Barclay for 8,000. Good, good running back. Leonard Fournett, 5600. That's a good price for Leonard for net. I have at my running back position, I have Tyler Algier against the Arizona Cardinals at 5300. And why not just stack that game with James Connor at 7200? Not a big fan of missing a couple practices with illness.

But James Connor had since returning from his injury is on the field. Every single snap is absolutely dominating and the matchup is great. I had. Those guys, both in my lineup at different times, not together. I don't usually like having a running backs together against each other, but glad to see you have it. This is the worst one you've ever done somehow. I don't know why. I'm in a frigging greenhouse. Yeah. That being said, you didn't do fish face. Also, your mouth is ruined right now. Oh, this is a good video. All right, so at wide receiver, I did stack Jared Garf with Amin-Raw, St. Brown, 7,800. The game environment's too good. I've got Garrett Wilson, still at 5,500. The Draft Kings just refuses. Fifty-five! Thank you. They just refused to...

pay him an elite salary here on draft kings and then i'm going with another rookie drake london all the way down at 4,900 he's been a ppr machine as of late that arizona defense doesn't scare me so almond raw st brown garrett wilson and drake london i have almond raw st brown i have garret wilson my difference maker there is good We're riding the snake, fellas. DJ Moore against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at 5,700. It is a make or break for this lineup. All right, guys. Every time you talk, when you have to do this disgusting hand, mouth open thing, I love it. I have Garrett Wilson. Yeah. My stack is DJ Chark. Oh, okay. 4,300. Not bad.

And I have this guy named Justin Jefferson. Oh, no. Who's $9,500. Oh, man. That was in your original Kirk Cousin stack, I take it. Oh, all right. All right. That's going to be fun. Hey, I hope you win because Justin Jefferson has 700 yards this game because he's in my league of record. All right. At tight end, I got my man Schmavis, Schmangram, against the Houston Texans, 4,400. I. The price on Evan is ridiculous. I wanted to, I was going to save money at the tight end position and put Tyler Higby in, who is more than Evan Ingram, which is, I'm like, well, I'll save some cash here. Andy's wide receiver start of the week. Alan Lazard at 5,400 against the Minnesota Vikings will be in my flex. And then my defense.

You know, I'm taking on the Jared Steadups of the world. I got the 49ers at 2,900. Yeah, I have the 49ers at 2,900 as well. In my Flex, I also have Andy's start of the week, but a different start of the week, Leonard Fournett, who is in Andy's lineup at Flex, and then I paid way down at tight end. I don't love having both Garrett Wilson and Tyler Conklin, but I did it because he's only 2,900. Yeah, that makes sense. The matchup is there against Seattle. Do I get to speak now? Yes, please. Speak cow. I have the 49ers defense. Moo. I have Tyler L.G. and my flux. Oh, boo. I have Trey McBride, Arizona tied in. Oh, nice. You're going to take a nice. 3,300, saving some cash monies. 33. The price per point on Trey McBride has got to be pretty bad. Hey, Mike, why don't you close the segment out? Let me get back to the page.

That was Fantasy Faceoff presented by Draft King Sportsbook. Download the Draft King Sportsbook app now and use promo code Ballers to get $200 in free bets instantly when you place a $5 bet on any football game. That's code, ballers, only at Draft King's Sportsbook. Hey, hey, what do you get? I have to share a story. I want to share a story first, and I can't do it in a cow head. Now you've got a cow hat, and I equally like that. Yeah, it's not bad. I saw this video the other day. Did you guys see this video about the scoring quirk in somebody's league where they have, it's all standard, normal type of scoring, but they have a penalty for missing an extra point of negative 50. Oh my goodness. Why? But you have to start a kicker then? You do not have to start a kicker. Then you never play a kicker.

And so this person was in the semifinals and they had Matt Gay and Matt Gaye missed no extra points on the year. And they had a 35 point lead. And Matt Gay missed an extra point and they lost by 15. Oh, man. Can you imagine having a negative 50? No. Because here's the thing. Because I would not be in that league. I was going to say if you like the easy thing is to say, oh, I'll just never play a kicker. But like a kicker. when we had them in our leagues, you know, that could be 15 points. It can. So then you're like, and they, they do rarely miss it. I mean, more more than than ever before they miss them. But it's like, you know, Justin Tucker, has he missed one before? Yeah. He has. This year. First one. Yeah. I think it was. I mean, that would just be the most, obviously psychotic league ever. Yes. So like, hey, remember all that. But imagine the hope you'd have. Remember those months and months of work you put in?

into grinding the waiver wire, making all the trades. Getting to the playoffs. And then a kicker misses an extra point. All right. I'm going back in. Yeah, I will be with Mike there and I would not be in that league. All right. That is going to do it, everybody, for the fantasy footballers. Week 17. Good luck. Go get those hashtag footclan championships. Goodbye, everybody. Thank you for listening to another episode of the Fantasy Footballers podcast. Join our fantasy football community on join thefoot.com and follow us on Twitter at the FF ballers.