Playoff Primer + Pump the Brakes, Jason's Body

Wink, wink, guys, I'm going to pay you. I'm going to give you guys $100,000 if you let me join the team and get regular snaps. Yeah, there are still reports that they're working on a contract, so we'll see. I think he will sign there. That's just, I mean, obviously I have no inside information, but from the different things I've read is that contract negotiations are ongoing, and I just don't see why it wouldn't happen. It just makes sense for all parties.

If he signs their fantasy owners have asked me, Michael Thomas, what happens to him? Nothing. Correct. Des Bryant is a wide receiver three at best in that situation. He's a goal line threat. Michael Thomas doesn't make his hay. On the goal line, he makes his hay all over the field. To the tune of 10 to 12 catches a week lately. Nick Mullins is going to start at quarterback for the 49ers against the Giants this week. Hooray.

And then Darren Sproles is back at practice this week, expected to do play, because what's better than three, difficult to decide between running back options in Philly than four. A board to four. A board if you've got a Philadelphia Eagle running back. I think it is a full of board. Talk and roll. All right, before we get into the playoff primer, it is Wednesday, which means, oh, oh, O'Reilly. O'Reilly. On the whole parts. Pump.

The brakes with O'Reilly Auto Parts. We're pumping the brakes on, well, three players this week. Two of our pump the brakes are from the same team. Yep. And I'm going to start Matthew Stafford. Matthew Stafford. I'm afraid to say it. But that Golden Tate fella, that safety blanket, that PPR machine, the Yakmaster Golden Tate. The 100 receptions over the course of the season. You can't just trade a guy like that away.

and expect your quarterback to be in a groove with Marvin Jones and Kenny Goliday. So it was a very, very disappointing offensive performance from the Lions. I think you do tear down Matthew Stafford. And they play at Chicago this week. So he is a not start to me. He is a full.

sit on the bench, put your cap on backwards, and wait a week, at least for Matthew Stafford. Let's see what happens whether they, you know, they brought him Bruce Ellington, I think. Is that correct, Brooks? Was it the lines that brought him Bruce? Yes, sir. They're searching. They're hoping. They're wishing. But they don't have Golden Tate. And like Jason said, you lose a hundred reception guy. It's going to hurt. So I'm pumping the brakes on Matthew Stafford. Yeah, and I'll just come in here in a combo with that because I'm pumping the brakes. It gives me a sad face.

Ladies and gentlemen, I'm pumping the brakes on Carryon Johnson. The theoretic use was extremely disheartening to see him come in and be the passing down's guy because that's carry on can do that. And I think that he improves the offense if you just commit to him. Just the way that I see offense in the NFL, if you have a player on the field and you don't know if you're going to throw or run, I think that actually improves your team.

But this is the way that they are handling things and Kerry on Johnson saw his snap count from 81% two weeks ago, plummet back down to 55%. Fifty-five. Very, very disappointing day. And then on top of that, this is really, this isn't me bailing on him for the season. But the matchup against Chicago, it's already a terrible matchup. And if Theo Riddick is going to be the sixth target guy,

Then carry on. You got to lower your expectations. Oh, Jason's plugging his ears. He doesn't want to hear any of this. Is Mike done talking yet? Carry on a wheel. Yeah, look, this isn't a great matchup for him. I do agree on this week. You got to pump the brakes a little bit there. My pump the brakes. I'm also sticking at the running back position.

And coming up to this holiday season, Christmas is right around the corner. You got to stay away from crampus. You'll eat your children. I'm talking about Doug Martin. Oh my gosh. Doug Martin, it's a bad week. Look, Doug Martin, for all the, you know, crap we can give him for not being good at football anymore. And eating children. And eating children at Christmas. Good of a monster does that. Yeah. Doug.

He can still be relevant. I mean, you know, in the two weeks where he's been in the starter, he's had double-digit carries. He's had serviceable, not great, but not terrible fantasy productions. And so you, you know, should you like you put on a play. Yes. I was going to say productions. Cranpus. But this isn't the week for him. He's coming to get your kids. Two weeks ago. Cranpus.

This isn't the week for Uncle Grandpa's... Put him in the cellar. Yes, put them in the cellar. You know what concerned me about this, pump the brakes? I don't think you're... Well, you could be wrong. What concerned me is they were getting destroyed. And we saw this, right? I saw way too much Doug Martin in the second half of the game they were being destroyed.

It scared me to death. I was expecting. Because Gruden knows what he's doing. Yeah. We've talked about this. Here's the thing. I mean, yes, he was in the game a lot when they were getting destroyed. That game was the whole team, offense and defense, flat out quit. And you can even say coaching. This is just flat out quit in that game. Two weeks ago, when they were down against the Colts, they didn't mentally give up.

They were still playing football, and that's when Jalen Richard had eight receptions. So now, I, you know, again, I brought up the fact that that was on the road. I don't think that a team mentally quits at home in front of their crowd, especially when you're a Raider, and you're in front of Raider Nation. You're not going to turn over and give up, you know, and just let yourself die. And in which case, I think Jalen Richard will be out there.

Catch and passes as they try to keep up with the Los Angeles Chargers. I don't like the matchup for Doug Martin from an offensive line, defensive line, or from a game script. So if you got both of those guys, which I know some people do, this is a Jalen Richard week, not a crampus week. I, as a Jalen Richard owner in a Deep Dynasty League, hope you're right.

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We got, we sat down last line, went through all the Christmas gifts for the kids, trying to make sure the proportions are correct. Oh, yeah. That can be a disaster. Gotta have the ratio. We can't, I'll be, I'll be honest, we kind of messed it up a little bit last year. You guys are like already almost done with your Christmas shopping. That is correct. That's insane. Well, and when I, so. To my wife's credit, it's not you guys are, I mean, she's done all of it. It's all about them deals, man. You can get the steals and deals. But we sat down and last year,

We gave kids, I mean, they spent the same amount of money, but the older kid, he had like a few things that he couldn't use on Christmas morning as well. And then the other kid had a billion things that could all be used on Christmas morning. So there was that moment. And my wife doesn't want to relive it again. Yeah. She feels. Those kids not understanding financial worth. Yeah, it would be easier if it was like one gift each. That's why you just get them all 10 of those.

stretchy, sticky hands. Oh, that's what you do? Kids love them. You can get those with the quarter machines? Yes. Yeah. Cheapest Christmas ever. Cheapest Christmas ever. This is all we could afford, kids. Let me go play Red Dead on the PS4. Playoff primer time, guys. Let's talk about fantasy playoffs before we get into, we'll do Thursday night match up after this. But look, last year's playoff primer episode.

highlighted a number of players that made huge impacts for fantasy owners in weeks 14 through 16. An example, last year brought up James Winston. He averaged 317 passing yards, two touchdowns per game in weeks 14 through 16. Running backs, we brought up LaShawn McCoy's glorious schedule. Man, he was great. I mean, everyone remembers Todd Gurley.

from last year because he carried people to fantasy championships. But watching Shady those last three weeks, he was gouging people. 133 yards from scrimmage per game and a touchdown per game. And then Jarvis Landry was the wide receiver for during those weeks, brought him up on the show, Sterling Shepard as well, Antonio Gates, a number of players. Now, playoff matchups, give the disclaimer here, right? They're not everything. They're a piece of the puzzle. That's the show in general. It's taking all these different pieces.

putting them together, and increasing your odds. I cannot see the future. Right. You don't want to overreact. You don't want to see a schedule and say, I want that schedule so bad that I will give up. I'll trade you for that schedule. I'll give up a better player for a worst player to have a schedule weeks away. That would be a fantasy football mistake. That's a fallacy that the schedule is just one piece of the puzzle like Andy said. You know, you prefer, you know, ideally.

You want a good player with a great schedule. You know, that's kind of the target, the hope, the dream. But I agree with you, Andy, from earlier, probably more important than the great schedules are being aware of maybe the players that are on your team that you go, oh, man, I don't love the playoff schedule because those are the players where. You can make a trade. Yeah, you can make a trade and kind of protect yourself. And if they're playing well right now,

you can usually get good value for them to where you're not downgrading your player. Maybe you upgrade your player. Maybe you sideways trade, but you get a better playoff schedule. We get a lot of questions about playoff schedules earlier in the season, and it's really not the time to evaluate it because you need to accumulate as much data on fantasy points against as possible for as long as possible before you make those determinations. So we like to do it now, heading into week 10, on the brink of trade deadlines for a lot of teams.

and when the most amount of data has accumulated. So some of the best quarterback schedules this year, Cam Newton is at the top of that list by a lot to me. Cam Newton has Cleveland in Cleveland in week 14, and then at home, New Orleans, Atlanta, divisional games, at home, both defenses that are vulnerable to the quarterback position. In fact, New Orleans and Atlanta are the 30th and 31st ranked against the fantasy quarterback. Yeah, Cam Newton.