Playoff Primer + Pump the Brakes, Jason's Body

in Grunk for this weekend. To play? Yes. Very little. So would you, let's say Ben Watson is not available. You've somehow, you missed out on Yuzama in the great tight end pickups. Would you jump the gun on Thursday? That's what I'm getting to. Yes. Yes, I would. I would play Vance McDonald in bed on Gronk being out. As of Wednesday, November 7th. Wednesday morning.

In the morning. Like, if I get a report that Gronk was, you know, practicing. In full tomorrow on Thursday, then don't. Yeah, I would be waiting to the... But if I don't hear anything, you know, I'm ear to the ground. I'm trying to find out everything I can about Gronk. But knowing that they have the buy next week...

But I think that's a realistic situation that people could be facing. People kind of had to face it last week with Gronk in the Sunday night game and having to play the Sunday morning tight ends. This is a little worse than that. Yes. But I think Vance is good enough. What's funny is Mike was forced into playing Ben Watson last week over Gronk. You got a better week than Gronk. It worked out. Better week than Gronk's giving him all year. It definitely worked out. You're no longer, I don't think right now you're risking a, you know.

Three points to 25 points. Lately it's been like, are you going to get 10 from Grown? Yeah. I think the risk is worth. Jason, how are you feeling about your star, Juju Smith Schuster? He's just, I absolutely love Juju Smith Schuster. I realize that he has, he's had a couple of down games. If I could trade for Juju Smith Schuster right now, I would do it in a heartbeat. If you look at, similar to what Andy was just saying on Vance McDonald, right?

You can't just look at the results. The results are the only thing that matters for winning fantasy, but in predicting fantasy, you have to look at the process. You have to look at, okay, was he on the field? Was he getting the right targets? Juju is near the top of the league in red zone targets. When they get down there, they're looking his way. Juju has been unbelievable on the predictive analytics that matter. Even still, the star is firmly in the north.

In the north. This is the north star. Polaris? Up is north? No, I'm just, I was making a north star reference. And down is south. Down is south. I mean, come on, everybody knows this. Now, um... If you dig, you're going south. If you dig a hole, you go six feet south. I just want this voice to stay around. I want to be quiet and let it happen. Now, I was going to make Brooks edited in because I completely forgot to mention it. Maybe...

One of the most important things to pay attention to. We didn't talk team defenses in the playoff primer. So I'm going to give you that as we close out the show. And I'm not even going to make Brooks do extra work. We're just working it in. Wait. Before we go back, I really do want your guy's opinion on DJ Moore and Curtis Samuel because this matchup says that someone's going to pop. No, thanks. Nah. It was the uses of DJ Moore was unbelievably.

I don't want to chase. I don't want to chase what Curtis Samuel did. No, I would not. Clearly you do. I'm tempted because Tori Smith is out. Curtis Samuel is a burner and this is a matchup that says he's got a chance at, you know, at one of those deep bombs. DJ Moore played the most snaps of his career last week. The targets just didn't go to them. If you had to pick one of those two, you go DJ. If I'm chasing one of those, I'm going with DJ Moore. That's fair.

I think that's all you can say. It's all relative to what you have on your roster comparatively. But if I had to play any of the three, I would play Gigi more. I just wanted to bring it up. Because I think those are players that people might be grossly staring at and they need to know. Yeah. Can I properly go back in time now? The best defensive schedules for weeks 14 through 16 as of right now look like this. Denver plays San Francisco, Cleveland, and Oakland.

Detroit plays Arizona, Buffalo, Minnesota, Tennessee, Jacksonville, New York, and Washington. Washington faces the Giants, Jacksonville and Tennessee, and then Jacksonville has a pretty good defense. Now, I like to try to get the combo, right? A defense that I believe has at least elite-level talent, playmaking ability combined with the schedule. I'm not just going to go on schedule alone. Like I don't, look, Detroit's playing Arizona Buffalo. They are on the road.

They're on the road. They're not a great defense. Yeah, I agree. They are not, I don't think they're a great defense. But when you're looking at the matchup, the thing I want to know is who is the quarterback and how are they playing? And so I would still be very comfortable playing Detroit against Arizona and Buffalo. Yeah. And I totally agree. They have not been a talented defense. But Ziggy Ansah has been out. Right. And they just traded for Snacks Harrison.

Those are two really good defensive players that they have not had while they've stumped. Based on the information we have now, though, and the performances we have now and the stashing you're doing now, I have a lot more confidence in the sack machine like Denver. Sure, yeah. I would rather have Denver than Detroit. Denver is a better target than Detroit is for me. Who else stands out to you? The New England Patriots. I mean, if you're just playing the...

Oh, if you can get the Pats for championship weekend, then – and the Pats actually have a couple decent matchups on the way. It's Miami. So you don't want their week 15. Week 15 is Pittsburgh. That's where you go, okay, pivot off for that one week. But the sandwich – I mean, you start with Miami and then playoff championship at home against Buffalo and probably a quarterback that –

I don't know. Maybe it's Josh Allen by that time. One would hope. Yeah, it should be. I mean, just figure out, take a look who's playing the Jets or the Raiders. The Raiders are really the target I'm looking at. Sure. That would be Denver Championship Week. Yeah. And I think Cincinnati plays them the week before that or two weeks before that. And so I'm willing to stash two defenses to stack them. I want to get through the playoffs with confidence.

That's why I know Detroit's playing at Arizona at Buffalo. I'm staying away from them. From fantasy points produced perspective, they're the 25th ranked defense. That's not good enough for me. Yeah, the Bengals, I'm glad you brought them up because if they're a perfect byweek stash or just a playoff stash, but beginning of playoffs week one, you don't love them. They're on the road against the Chargers. Don't play them. But then their week 15 and 16 are as good as anybody. Is it Cleveland, Oakland? Oakland, yeah.

Yeah. So, and then on the other side of the coin is a lot of people have been counting on the Chicago defense. You'll have Cleo Mac back by then. Week 14 and 15. Gross. They face the Rams and the Packers. You can't. You can't play them. You can't start them though. No, you cannot play. You can hold them on your bench for Week 16 championship week against the 49ers though. Yep. And I would. Chargers defense has been pretty good. You can't play them. I don't think, you know, Cincinnati, Kansas City.

Carolina's defense has been pretty good, but the semis and championship, the Saints and the Falcons, no thank you. And then Baltimore, Kansas City in week 14, you can't do it. Probably can't do it against Tampa Bay in week 15, no matter what quarterback there is. The Chargers in week 16. So Baltimore punt them. Yeah. And you don't have to punt them now, but just know that you need, if you are rolling with Baltimore, you need to.

have that defense stash for the playoffs. Yeah. So we'll post all the defenses so you can look at it as well. All these will be on Twitter at the FF Ballers, and hopefully this breakdown helps you out as you plan. This is our job is to provide you as much information as we can, and your job is to make decisions based on the context of your league, what's on the free agent, wire, and what you need. Your job is to win the championship, to bring it home. Yeah, and then report back. Yeah, definitely report back.

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