Fantasy Football - Week 17 Championship Matchups + Wheel of Shame! - Podcast for 12/26

Jalen Carter will be back. That will impact the defensive line for Philadelphia and the production of James Cook a little bit, who leads the NFL in rushing yards. So it's not a start-sit change. Sequin, play him. Yeah. It is a run funnel. He should be. He should be excellent this week. The bills are 32nd and rushing touchdowns allowed. 32nd in yards after contact. 31st in yards per contact or per carry allowed. So, yeah, play the running backs. Play the quarterbacks. We got good news on Josh Allen in the foot. Nothing hindering him. He's going to be okay. Jalen Hertz, though, you know, is he going to have A.J. Brown with the teeth? If AJ Brown's out, I'm probably... You're willing to pivot? I might be willing to pivot off of Jalen Hertz this week. I think you can run the football. And I think if he's not push-pushing, him and just Devante Smith makes me nervous. So your start of the week, Caleb Johnson or... Oh, man. Or hurts without... His name's Caleb Williams. Oh.

Thank you. You're thinking of your fantasy MVP. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, shoot or shoot. Would you play Caleb Williams or Jalen Hertz? I would play Caleb. I play Caleb. Okay. That's only if A.J. Brown is. Williams. That's only if A.J. Brown is. If he's out. Out. Yeah. It's hard to go away from from. hurts to that level, but I do have confidence in Caleb Williams this week. I don't have confidence on past catching or tight-in options for the bills, though. Where are you with Goddard, Jay? I think that if A.J. Brown is out. I mean, we've seen a lot of success for whoever's left when one of those three are out. So if A.J. Brown doesn't play, then I'm excited for both Devante Smith and Dallas Goddard. Otherwise, I mean, Goddard's just been...

weirdly good, utilized around the goal line like he never has been in his entire career up until now. I never want to buy in or believe it. 10 points in three straight games. Yeah, I mean, when you're at this point in the season, your championship week, week 17, he's the tight end five on the season. I think you just have to stay with him. Sunday night football. My start of the week, Caleb Williams and the Chicago Bears 11 and 4 taken on the 11 and 4 San Francisco 49ers Vegas line San Fran minus 3 at home. Overrunners 52 and a half. Christian. A lot of points. Christian. One more game. More. One more game. Christian. You will have fully earned your true entry into the footballers Hall, Ring of Honor. Two years ago, there was a wild statistic.

That one more game, Christian. 50%. If you drafted Christian McCaffrey, you had a 50% chance of winding up in the championship game. That was two years ago. I believe that that stat will be close to true again. Two years ago, he let everyone down in that championship game. Oh yeah, you got hurt. That's why we got hurt for me. For me. Victory is otherwise I would have been a double champ. Victory is not being declared. We need one more. Here's what's wild is if this holds up and he wins people titles this week, which the odds are in that favor. You just said 50% right? Over the last six years, it will be 50% of the time he wins you leagues and it will be 50 because it will be three injury plagued years and three basically number one overall running back years, which is just. You've got to save it up. Unbelievable. Everybody in San Francisco has been hurt this year.

Except him. He siphoned all of their power. Blood sacrifices for him and Mike. Yeah, we can one more game. We kind of made a pack together. One more game. Yeah, we'll do what it takes. You too, you decided to. The bears have been good against running back. I'm excited for this game. Sunday night football, these two teams, 52 and a half point over under. Unfortunately, the recent sacrifice for CMC had to be Kittle again. Well, yeah, you, you had almost nobody left. He used Pearsall twice. He used Kittle twice. Joanne Jennings, your start of the week, Jason. You got to love him in this game with Pearsall still banged up. Kiddle banged up, probably not going to play. Jake Tonges would be a desperation play at tight end. But yeah, I mean, it's pretty straightforward there. It's more complex on the other side. Caleb is my start of the week. I feel like I sit a little bit alone on that one as well. But I don't think he needs five quarters. I think he could do it in four. He's just so erratic.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, right now his consistency on the season. He is the quarterback 11, which is like, oh, great. Caleb, he's a quarterback one this year. His consistency score is a D. 35% of his games are good. It really feels like how it was with Jordan Love last year where it was like he has big games and he can be real special, but the vast majority of games, he hurts you. Now, this matchup is good. The over and under is good. You can see, I can totally see why you're making him, you know, you're calling the shot that this is a good Caleb week, but he definitely scares me from a consistency standpoint. Oh, he's terrifying. He's terrifying. Absolutely. Philip Rivers torched this 49ers defense. So that's part of the, that's the biggest part of the bet. But, you know, Roma Dune's a probably not going to play. Luther Burden, we'll see. He's been limited. Might not play. And lack of weapons hurts. Makes it even scarier.

Um, we did get news in this game that Tom Pelliserra, your boy, Mike. Perfect. Oh, good. Perfect news for you figuring out Kittle said he has a chance to play. He's played before without practicing. We'll see if he practices today. So Tom Pelliserro and Mike, just, just pay attention. What is your pivot option at tight end? I didn't even pay attention. He went to strange. Yeah, right now it's Brent strange. So it would be, uh, the problem with decision. If you ask me. Yeah. The problem with this game is it's at night. So, I mean, if you're. If you're waiting on Kittle. It just sounded like the actual darkness would affect the game. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I was like, they do have lights. Okay. All right. So being able to see with visible light, not a problem. But your pivot option would they shrink drastically. Dude, if they didn't have lights, we'd be talking about like phases of the moon on the show. That'd be different. A new moon game? Yeah.

Yeah, you'd be looking for the games that have the brightest moon. And the game finishes zero to zero again. We really should get some lights in here. We hope to see some of the moon tomorrow. Maybe a crescent. Kyle Monongue, DeAndre Swift, fix it for me. Tell me who's going to be great. Swift. Yeah, I would still lean the swift side. He's been banged up and was a little bit limited, but he's been the primary running back for the whole season. He's, he is what we know. He's a. Really, really good running back too. Is love in the air? Colston Loveland. Big disappointment last week, despite 83% of SNAPs, but didn't have the production. No Rome, no Luther burden, and then Colston Loveland just disappears. Colston barely liked land. Oh, got him. Bodied. But yeah, are you going to go back there? He, I like, if you had Loveland, would you play Strange over him? Even with the, you would? Yes, I would.

Yeah, I would play straight. 49er struggle against tight ends. I would probably go see if Hunter Henry were on the waiver wire. Joanne Johnson, I would play over Loveland. I mean, if you look at it this way, the last seven weeks, so not a small sample, like a really long stretch, basically he's had two games in that stretch where he got a touchdown, and you were happy. And every other game that he didn't get a touchdown, you are seven points, five points, four points, eight points, four points. It's not, he is not like a possession volume receiver. Touchdown guarantee. Oh, whoa. Touchdown guarantee. For Colson Loveland. Oh, Mr. Loveland. Yes. Well, then. I don't know what this is, but that. I mean, that's a touchdown guarantee. That's if you give him for sure six points on top of the.

the 30 to 50 yards. You feel stupid now for saying strange? I do. Now that you know he's getting a touchdown. I can't. Back on track. Back on track touchdown. Man. Andy has bears fever. Yeah. That's goodness. That's a problem. Yeah. How could it go wrong? The Rams. Here's your Monday night football fantasy deciding game. So if you are Stafford, Kyron, Puka, Bijon, London. Pits. It is a Monday night miracle you'll be looking for. The Rams at 11 and 4. The Falcons are 6 and 9. The Rams minus 7 and a half. Over under 49 and a half. The Falcons, ironically, like if they get beat, it helps the Rams pick. That's how motivated they are in this game. The Rams pick gets better if they beat the Falcons because the Falcons, they gave their pick to Los Angeles, which right now is sitting at pick 11 in the draft.

Extra motivated. That is, I mean, that's genuinely really important. And they're in the hunt for the number one seed. So in this game, you know, this is one of those ones where I'm thinking to myself, oh, are the Rams? Are they going to have stuff to play for Monday night after all these games? Yeah. Yeah. A win makes their first round pick better. And they can still get the number one seat. So where is the confidence level? What tier is Stafford in for this week? For you. We underestimated him on this show. All three of us did. against Seattle. We thought without Devante Adams as his little goal line wide receiver. Yeah, he double middle fingered us because he was the number one quarterback on the week the first time he did that all year. Yeah. And they are 457 yards. Right now, I believe last I looked he was the odds on betting favorite to.

be the MVP of the league, that's got to be in the mind. They get around the goal line. They're going to have some stuff to help put him over the top. I think Matthew Stafford is a very good play this week. Do you like, like one of the things that happened last week is Seattle put up such a fight? Do you think Atlanta can do that at home in this game? Enough. If London is there, can they score enough? Offensively? Yeah, can they score enough to give you confidence in all the offensive pieces for the Rams? The nice thing is the Rams defense, their rushing defenses has been very good most of the year. Their defense has been wilting a bit, and their past defense has been where you attack them. So I think that, you know, Drake London, Kirk Cousins, and Kyle Pitts on, I mean, this is primetime Kirk Cousins, which we know has not been historically great. Not always. And pay attention to Drake London. He popped as a limited.

participant on Thursday. Was he a full participant Wednesday? I don't. I just, you know, I got my alert that it's like, oh, Drake London's down to from healthy to questionable. And you're like, what? London had finished wider, wide receiver 1-1 and 7 before the injury, came back, didn't do much last week. Oh, it's a thank you, Brooks. It's on an estimated practice. Oh, because this is a Monday night game. So this is their Wednesday practice. Yeah, I would expect. You still like him as your start of the week? Yes. So Mike, just so the people know, like on Monday night football, you got Bijon in one league. I know that. Yeah. Then you're facing Kyron and Puka in another league. Yeah. Is that the only players that touch this game for you or is there others? Kyle Pitts, I'm against Kyle Pitts on Monday as well. Maybe I doubt we'll get any drama because you'll be winning by 600 to 700 points. But if we do, it'd be fun. We do have one more segment guys. I like no drama. Me and Mary J. Blige. No drama? Yeah.

One more segment. Fantasy Face Off, presented by prize picks. I'm so happy. Andy's so happy. Not because I want to see Jason suffer or you suffer, but because I, I'm not the shame. Yeah, I will take it. Will of shame. I will say Mike and Jason, they had tied this week as the losers. And then they had to do a tiebreaker and. and i you're the super loser i'm the super loser this is my spin that wheel what have we got here got uh got you something for christmas star man jerry jones i still want jerry jones to hit one who cramped up cramped up oh is it oh it's crampus oh yeah i'm gonna eat your children have you guys seen the uh mike's fresh out of those the what

Oh, yeah, I said you're fresh out of children. Have you guys seen any of got any of the reels or anything of like the crampas parades? Oh, man. Over in Europe. Man, I wasn't sure. Oh, thank goodness this wasn't me because that thing would knock it. I was pretty worried. I asked Al to try it. It's snug. Yeah, look outstanding. It's snug. Do you have your love? I feel like you can breathe in there. Yeah, no, it's not too bad. Kind of like it in here. I might stay after the show. You got your lineup memorized. I think you can see through the holes enough. Can you hear me well enough? Yeah, yeah, no, we got you. Why don't you kick us? Kick it off, crampus? I'll kick it off with Joe Burrow. Oh, crap. Yeah, so the thing is, is he's on Mike's team. Did you pick all Mike's players? We'll find out. Oh, my gosh. 267.5 passing yards. Yeah, he's going to blow that out of the water. So I'm taking more than that. I thought, I thought about doing that. No joke. That's funny. I'm actually going on the sad side.

My quarterback is Jackson Dart. And I'm taking 27.5 pass attempts, and I'm taking less. Yeah, that makes sense. That does make sense after last week. My quarterback is my green goblin. It's Jacoby Brissette, 209 and a half passing yards. 209? Yeah, we're going more. Oh, gosh. Goodness. I got one. Goblin was real green. I got one saved up for you, though, guys. All right. My running back. Chase Brown. Mike's running back, Chase Brown. 53 and a half rushing yards against the Arizona Carls. No problem. No problem. That's not even a goblin? That is not a goblin. My green goblin's my running back. Tony Pollard 11 and a half rushing attempts. I'm taking the more. I'm taking the more. Oh, it's a green goblin. Yeah, that's my green goblin. That projection is crazy. I am trying to atone for some of last week's sins. I got Ashton Genty. Okay. 69.5 rushing yards. We're going to go more.

All right. I'm going away from Mike's team. This is where I lose. Trey Tucker, this is not a green goblin. Trey Tucker? Just four receptions at wide receiver. Oh, man, I can't wait for this one. Yeah, so I'm taking more than four receptions with Brock Bowers out of the way. I'm going JSN, receiving targets. Nine. I'm taking more. Yeah. I got T. Higgins in that big blow-up spot. T. Higgins at 57.5 receiving yards. We're going to go more. And at tight end, this is my green goblin. I'm going with Harold Fannin Jr. Three and a half receptions. It's already done. Yeah, he's living at 4 plus, so I'll take more than that. I went Joanne Johnson, 42 and a half receiving yards. I'm taking the more. In something that has not been done in our prize picks matchups, guys.

Tray McBride, demon. Oh, oh, you go, wow. You're taking the more difficult. Is this a touchdown? Seven and a half receptions. You took the demon. Wow. This guy is living on. Let's go. He'll do whatever he wants. He's scared. He's like, I can win at normal at normal odds. So I'm just going to do whatever to make it harder for me to still win. Wow. To be clear, I assume you're taking the more there. You didn't specify. All right. Yeah, you can't take both sides of a demon. That was fantasy face off presented by prize picks. Seven days of picks miss is back. Unwrapped the great max discounts on the app through December 26th. And use the code footballers and get $50 in lineups when you play $5. Well, good luck everybody. Jason just looked.

It's like the saddest crampets. He does look like a sad. Look at him. I didn't get to eat any children. Oh, we will be back on Monday to talk championship studs and duds. We will have championship shirts up on the website, shopballers.com for you footclan title winners. If there's any inventory left, if Mike hasn't bought it all up. And good luck Saturday, Sunday, Monday. We'll talk to you. One game, Christian. One more game. I don't even know if we'd see Mike ever again if something happened. Christian McHas really in that game. I don't think we'd ever see him again. One game. He doesn't even want to entertain the joke. Nope. One more, crampus. One more. Merry Christmas. Happy holidays. Everybody hoping it was a good one. Enjoy the weekend and we will talk to you on Monday. Goodbye. You for listening to another episode of the Fantasy Footballers podcast. Join our fantasy football community on join the foot.com.

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