Playoff Primer + Trade Targets & League Winners - Fantasy Football Podcast for 11/15

Marvin Mims. They have a pretty decent schedule. How are you? Cortland Sutton has been a revelation. He scores touchdowns every single week and is the definition of greatness. It didn't sound right. No, no, it didn't. I mean, he's not that good. Yards, 53, 29, 76, 43. 13. Yeah, but let me read you touchdowns. I know. One, one, one, one. I mean, he is the go-to guy. I think Sutton's good. Yeah. So it might be a sneaky ad. but not Judy. And, you know, C.D. Lamb, Brandon Cooks, they have a great end of season schedule, Buffalo, Miami, Detroit, Hollywood Brown, you mentioned it. Cooper Cup and Pooka Nakua, Washington, then New Orleans and the Giants. Nice way to start the playoffs. If Matthew Stafford's back, that'll be a really under the radar league winning type of addition. Yeah, you could see Cooper Cup and Pooka and Akua taking people the titles if you get to the playoffs with them. And the Texans.

The Texans as well. We talked about that. Texans' Titans matchup, but the Titans are not good against wide receivers. And the Texans have, this is why I'm not that afraid of C.J. Stroud. Because where the Titans get beat is the only place the Texans go. Like Nico Collins, Tank Dell, Noah Brown, even Robert Woods, they're going to be able to get theirs against the Titans. Yeah, it makes sense. Other names to mention Deontze Johnson and Pickens have a nice situation. to end the year. Does A. Flowers OBJ Bateman, you know, I don't care that much about that. Do you? No, no. You can't trust the Ravens. The matchups are irrelevant. Good matchup, bad matchup. I don't think you could trust starting Ravens' wide receivers right now. They run the ball too well, and Mark Andrews is their primary target. You said his name, but I think that if there's one, like, target that I...

think is sneaky and easily acquireable after this last week, it would be Deontay Johnson. I think that the Indianapolis Colts, the Cincinnati Bengals, and the Seattle Seahawks are all good offenses that can score on the Steelers and bad defenses that can be thrown on. So Deontay Johnson to me is an affordable, acquireable, really good baseline guy through the playoffs. I have to look into that. Tight ends. Best schedules, Jake Ferguson. Oh, you don't say. David Najoku, although the Watson injury maybe throws it out the window. Gerald Everett, he's not getting enough action for me to care. Pat Fryermuth is pretty good. Fryermuth is interesting because you could get him on waivers today. Right. He's been sitting there while he's on IR if, you know, you should be checking and.

The fact that they opened his window right away, they say he's going to practice or play this week, I have a waiver claim in on. I wondered. Did you spend fab? No. Okay. Yeah, I did a non-fab bid as well. Yeah, he's worth a roster spot. And with his playoff matchups coming up, I would certainly add him to the roster if you've got a burnable spot. Tight-ins with bad schedules and the begging question of does it matter to you? Dalton Schultz, terrible, the worst. Basically, real, real bad. George Kittle, real, real bad for two weeks with Arizona and Baltimore. Evan Engrell, not good. Three negative matchups, Dallas Gottert, not healthy right now and doesn't have a good matchups coming up. And then Colquette, who look, it's fun to kind of like hope for Colquette. You got to play Cleveland in the first week of the fantasy playoffs. Yeah, you're not going to. Who's the number one against tight ends? You're not going to want to start.

him. Colquamette and Dalton Schultz, these guys have been on fire. If you're on the way to the playoffs and you can turn those into, you know, other, you know, turn them into Jake Ferguson. I would much rather have Jake Ferguson than Colquemette or Dalton Schultz. And that seems like with what those two players have done right now today, Dalton Schultz and Colquette, you can get a trade done with those guys for Ferguson, maybe not straight up. Maybe the fantasy manager is aware of the playoff schedule or just likes Ferguson better. I like Ferguson better than Schultz and Komet, but I think if you ask 10 people to put those three guys in order, you'd get three different orders a lot. You pair up Schultz or Komet with someone for Ferg Daddy, and I think you can get that deal done. The defense is you want to target the Jets. They play Miami, Washington, Cleveland. And they're great. You know.

Yeah, that one is, yeah, they're great, obviously. But, man, Miami and Miami in Week 1 is a little nerve wreck. That is. Maybe you stack them with another defense. Yeah, that's what you usually want to do is you don't look for, you don't look for three weeks always. You know, you look at who has the best schedules for the first week of the playoffs for the second week, and you grab a couple of defenses. But the Jets, those second two weeks against Sam Howell, and Dorian Thompson, Robinson, or whoever the quarterback's going to be in that final week, that's going to win. That's going to score so many points. A defense that has really not put up fantasy points this year, but I am targeting for one specific matchup is the Philadelphia Eagles because they play the New York football Giants. They do it at home, and they do it in week 16. I traded for them yesterday because I am targeting that single week against the Giants because I can't wait.

They have a good, they're okay, Seattle, Arizona on the front and back of that, but that's the target. The Chiefs, New England and Las Vegas, those are amazing. Like, you can figure it out in your championship week if you get those first two, which I'm sure is why you have them on your roster. Yes, and the Chiefs are my favorite, well, no, the Browns are probably my favorite defense, although I wonder how much the quarterback change hurts their defense with shorter fields and issues like that. But outside of that, The Chief's defense has been so good for fantasy. They are turning the ball over. They are scoring touchdowns. They are sacking the quarterback. You want Aiden O'Connell to go into Arrowhead in week 16 and take on the Chiefs? Yeah, I would love that. And I would love to play against Mack Jones or Bailey Zappy. Oh, yeah. The stretch run before then, you get Aiden O'Connell again next week. You also get Jordan Love.

So there's a handful of great matchups from here to the end of the playoffs with the Chiefs. The Browns have arguably the best opportunity because they got two home games against Chicago and the Jets. And then Houston in between, which is fine because they're an elite defense. The sneakiest one is the Falcons to me because you play Carolina and the Falcons defense is all right. And you play Chicago in the final week. And you play Gardner-Minshu in between. So that's not bad if you don't have a top option. And they're out on waivers. So Falcons are a good pickup if you're preparing for the playoffs. And I have three defenses. Like just, you know, we've talked about this a lot. Like I have three on my roster. It's okay to hold multiples if you feel like you're deep enough elsewhere. This is the time of year where you probably need to do it. I had three defenses on my roster last week. I had to drop one of them. But look at your not just playoffs. Playoffs are pretty far away for.

This is the playoff primer, so we're looking at them. But if I'm in my league, I'm looking at who do I play next week. I'm always one week ahead on defenses. I'm picking up whoever is going to. I know who my defense is going to be next week. 100%. And currently, I think I, I think I paired them perfectly, depending on how waivers went through today, to where I think I've got my guys set for the rest of the year. I think the Chiefs and the Jacksonville Jaguars pair perfectly going forward. You did, you got the Minnesota Vikings. Oh, yes. Perfect. The Vikings have a great stretch run for... You're looking at like Chicago, Las Vegas? Yep. Chicago, Las Vegas. Yep. They were the team that pairs perfectly with the Chiefs. You did. You picked them up. So there you go. Pat Firemeath went for 25 in our league. Wow. I did not get them with my zero bit. Mm-hmm. Pretty interesting. Okay. Well, that is going to do it for today's episode. A reminder. We have...

the strength of schedule tool up on the website. For supporters that join the foot.com updated weekly. Brooks, do you have any other news or are there any other quarterback changes that I have to worry about live on the air? No changes. Not seeing anything. I just really, I want to ask you guys about the Cowboys defense. That was what I was just going to bring it up. Concern you. Yes. It does concern me because it's the reason I didn't spend on them on Fab a couple weeks ago. And the Cowboys defense has obviously been. outrageously good. They've won you some weeks. They are good in real life. Yeah, and they could surprise those weeks for sure. But I don't want them. I would much rather have an amalgamation of these other teams we talked about. It's Buffalo, Miami, Detroit. Buffalo on the road, Miami on the road, and then Detroit. Those are scorers.

Yeah, I don't want to play the Cowboys defense. So that's the one elite defense that you're holding on to right now. I mean, you could go swap them for one of these other ones. You can and you should. There you go. All right. Tomorrow we have starts of the week, the matchup previews and a whole lot more Friday, the fantasy face off, wheel of shame. And hopefully we'll reflect on a very good Thursday night football game. That is my desire. I'm going to put that out there, that I enjoy the football on Thursday. Maybe that'll happen. I'm hoping. All right. Thanks for tuning in. Catch you tomorrow. Bye. 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 theFF ballers.