Week 11 Buy or Sell + Vetoes, Trade Phones, TNF Preview

with a backup quarterback, no Antonio Brown, no Levi-on-Bell, injured James Connor, the trade for Fitzpatrick. And ultimately, that comes down to the head coach, too, and Mike Tomlin. And I've been, you know, pretty out on the Steelers being able to survive. And to me, it kind of looks a lot like the Seahawks, where people wanted to count them out. You lose your legion of boom.

You lose March on Lynch? The lesions. Do I say lesion? The lesion? The lesion of boom. Generally speaking, you have to go to a doctor to remove the lesion of boom. All right. Strong point that completely distracts what I was saying, but I...

Should have said Legion. And what's, but I know, I know what you're saying here in the sense that a good organization run well from the top down. They usually. Well, you fight through what would be for another organization a four year down period. And this is the, this game is the tale of two very different organizations because this was the year where the hype for the Browns and Baker and Odell and Jarvis and, you know, even even a defense with some big stars on it.

They were going to be a Super Bowl darling pick. And it's just when the organization is dysfunctional at the top, it's really hard to have a good football team on the field. I'll give credit to the Browns. They beat Buffalo last week. And they're back home. And we get Baker v. Rudolph in this one. Mason Rudolph just averaging 190 passing yards. So that just further illustrates the lack of upside for Juju, even if he can have, even if he can be the.

the main guy. And last week it was, you know, James Washington, then it was Deontay Johnson. You know, not expecting, nobody's thinking about Mason Rudolph from a fantasy perspective. Is anybody thinking about Baker this week? No, I don't think so. No, no, not against the Steelers, no. So far on the season, the Steelers are 11th against fantasy quarterback, six against running back, 16th against wideouts. Nick Chubb, Kareem Hunt, can you play both of these guys? Or are you kind of Chubb only because of the matchup?

You know, Chubb is, you're going to play him every week because he's Nick Chubb. He's been a great fantasy option. Hunt is a guy that I think you could get away within a PPR, but you have to see him. Take the name out. I mean, he's basically Duke Johnson for this team. If Duke Johnson were there, which he was, you know, how valuable is he? He's going to get a couple passes. If he breaks something off, okay, you can put him in in a pinch, but I don't think he's a guy that you're wanting to start. Maybe he had.

He had nine targets. He had four carries and nine targets. Like, that's a decent opportunity, especially when you are as good at football as Kearney Mahat. According to pro football focus, he missed, he forced seven missed tackles on 11 touches. Like, the dude is crazy good. He's on the field. They were, they had two running backs on the field a ton. If you looked at like the next gen stats of when Nick Chubb was actually successful.

It was, when Kareem Hunt was on the field, this creates a very different dynamic for the Cleveland Brown's offense. 43% of the time. That's how often they were out there together last week. And we didn't really talk about it, but Antonio Calaway got suspended last week for another off the field situation or disagreement between the head coach. They need weapons. I mean, they don't have Injoku back yet. That being said, the matchup's not ideal. So you are banking on a lot from a little is the way it looks targeted. And I'm not saying Kareem Hunt's a...

RB2. He's a flex play who's in there. Should I play this third wide receiver or cream hunt? I think he can play. Are you talking about Odell? Oh, goodness. That's rough. Now, to get back to Baker real quick, because no, we're not going to play him in this matchup, but because this is where we're talking about Baker for this week, he is an interesting guy to keep your eye on for if you're streaming quarterbacks, you know,

The schedule after this for the Browns, and likewise, their defense. The Browns DST is the nice long-term one. You get the Dolphins, you get the Bengals, you get the Cardinals, and then the Bengals, again, four of their next six games. To highlight how good the Pittsburgh lines have been, the offensive line has the lowest sack rate allowed in football, and their defensive line has the second highest sack rate in football.

probably going to be a very brutal reminder to Cleveland in their organization on what they got wrong this year on the offensive line side of the ball. I think we all would, as bad of a year as Baker Mayfield's had, I think we'd all agree he's a better quarterback than Mason Rudolph at this stage. 100% for sure. But Mason Rudolph can have success because his offensive line is giving him time to make his reads, maybe his read, and make the throw.

And so you got to give them credit. Where's Jalen Samuels? There is. Yeah. Oh, it's nice to hear you pluralize him this time. It was hard to do. To singular or to plural? Says say Samuels. Okay. Uh, as opposed to Debo. Yes. James Connor is our RB 15 on the week. Last year when he faced Cleveland, the numbers were quite astronomical. 36 touches, 192 yards, two touchdowns.

29 touches, 212 yards and two touchdowns. Should be more of the same if he can just stay on the field. Yeah. I mean, I think that the recommendation here obviously is if he is active, which he appears to be. You play him. They held him out specifically so that he could be right. And, you know, we'll talk about him a little bit more tomorrow, I'm sure. I have two more players that I'm a few more. I guess we'll get into the wide outs first. Deonté Johnson.

To me, he looks more and more integrated in the offense, more and more comfortable. I think that you have Mason Rudolph comfortable throwing to Deonté Johnson. Are you interested in him at all in this matchup? That's a tough question, because I was going to bring up, you know, James Washington. You don't want to chase points, but James Washington...

The last two weeks, four for 69 and then six for 90 with a touchdown. Yeah. He is also, maybe we answered the question with. He's also trending up that. I think they're both desperation plays at the wide receiver, but both of them are similar tiers. Like if you're interested in playing Deonté, then I'm okay playing James Washington. I've seen them as very similar outcomes. So what you're saying is don't play their guy. That's what I think I heard.

Because if we're not confident in Juju in general, it's hard to be 190 passing yards. Go distribute it. Yeah, there's just not enough volume. There's not enough targets. And you made the joke, Jay, about looking for Samuels. But it's true. Mason targets his running backs a ton. What about Vance? Vance played on 97% of snaps last week. Had seven targets. Do you dare to dance? He's had seven targets two weeks in a row.

Actually, and not really given any fantasy. He did score two weeks or last week, two weeks ago, sorry. But I'm not going to stream him now. Jarvis Landry, last three weeks, 10 targets, 13 targets, 10 targets. Nine for 97 and a touchdown. Six for 51 and a touchdown. Yeah, I'm playing Jarvis as a high end three, low end two. Jarvis greater sign Odell rest of season? For fantasy purposes, it sure seems like it.

If you took the names out, it wouldn't be a hard decision. Yeah, it's... Correct. It's really insane. When you talk about O'Dell Beckham, you look at where he is in rankings on a weekly basis, and you look at Jarvis, and it seems like both are often misranked. I mean, I read you, O'Dell Beckham's fantasy finishes on a weekly basis. He had two good games, and then he was in the 40s, in the 60s every week. Meanwhile, Jarvis was the wide receiver 7, the wide receiver 18, the wide receiver...

33, 51, 38. I mean, you know, outside of the first three weeks, he's been relevant much more often than O'Dell Beckham has. All right. I think that wraps it up. By the way, the Pittsburgh defense has been outstanding. They're behind only New England and fantasy points. They've averaged two picks a game. Weeks one and two, they were 26th and 14th. Then they said, hey, Minka, come on over. 11th, third, eighth, fourth, fourth, fourth, one, one.

Yeah, they've been outrageous. Outrageous. Outrageous. Just reminded me a nutrageous, which made me hungry. We want to thank our studio sponsor, Pristine Auction, a Michael Thomas signed logo football yesterday, $58.97. Check them out. Pristineauction.com. That'll do it. We'll be back tomorrow. Starts of the week. Week 11 matchups. And we're going to apologize to a few players on the show tomorrow. Oh, for nothing. Goodbye. See you tomorrow. Goodbye.

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