Team Motivation Levels, #FootClanTitles (+ Week 18 Waivers) - Fantasy Football Podcast for 1/4

Where he's moving should be a big wave of people. He's trying to take a lap at the end of the game to high five all the fans of the front. And he can barely do it without running over a photographer. NFL, get this figured out because it was ridiculous. Ridiculous. All right. I think that covers this game well enough. There's not many takeaways. The passing games aren't working. Big Ben's going to go away. But also a big Ben throwing the ball 46 times for it.

46 attempts turning into 123 passing yards. I mean, that's just impressive. That's really impressive stuff there. All right. Let's move on. Where there's smoke, there's fire. Presented by Trager Grills. All right. Where there's smoke, there's fire. Week 18 edition. And these are the two players that you degenerates deserve. If you're out here doing your title game in the final week of the season, this is who you get. This is who we talk about. Number one.

Braxton Berrios from the New York Jets. He is on a heater, a wide receiver 20 against Miami, 23 against Jacksonville, and then torched the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 8 for 65 with a tutty. He had a rushing touchdown as well. Targeted on 32% of his routes over the last four weeks, and that's like an outrageously good number. And if you're...

Not listening. Percentage of routes, targeting on percentage of routes, that is a very sticky. Yes. That means you're good. That means that the quarterback when you are on the field is, in fact, looking for you. Brax, and this is definitely a three-game streak of technically NBA GM rules say that he is on fire. But three weeks ago, just to clarify here, three weeks ago, he had one target in the game.

for one reception for 26 yards. He happened to have another rushing touchdown with 10 yards. It was not a very – he scored 10 fantasy points, was on the field, 27 percent, had one target. He just happened to – it was like a tight-in line of one for one for one. He fell into the end zone, got into the top 20. But the last two weeks have been impressive. So the question, is this smoke or is this fire? Is this just – is this something that's going to stay or not? I have a –

Definite answer. He is taking on Buffalo this next week. The question is the opportunity because he had this opportunity where Berrios, the last two weeks, has been on the field over 80% of the time, which that's not been his role. He's been like a 30% snapshot guy. But it came down to Jameson Crowder was out and Elijah Moore was out. Now, Elijah Moore is part of the future of this team. He is, in fact, he's the future of the wide receiver core for the Jets.

Jameson Crowder is not. Even if James and Crowder is available to play against Buffalo in the final week of the season, do they play him or do they do a heat, their own heat check and see, is Braxton Barrio somebody that is going to be a part of this team for the long run? So, Jason, you have a defender's answer. We'll let you go first. The answer is essentially, if he is in, if he has the opportunity, he's on fire, you set it.

which is the snap percentages. Look, from the buy week early in the season, week six, his snaps are 9% 24, 21, 29, 19. You get it. Like, he's not on the field. But the last two weeks, 83 and 87%. And he's done great with it. He's got a good sync with, you know, with Zach Wilson. So this is fire. This is something that they're going to continue on. The

The matchups aren't really, you know, when you're talking about the slot guy, the West Welker Julian Edelman type that's just going to beat someone in short space, Cole Beasley type, you're, you know, they're still going to get theirs. And so I like it, a full PPR, I like Braxton Berrios going forward. Now, if it turns out that Sunday morning, Elijah Moore and Crowder. Crowder are both active.

then I would pull him out of my lineup. I would pull him because there's a chance he doesn't play ahead of Crowder. I don't think that they are, I think they're going to give Brax & Marios the chance. And I watched an interview with him where he was kind of talking about just the mind meld and the sink that he's got with Zach Wilson, making sure he's in the right spot at the right time that he could trust him. And that's appeared there. So, yeah, I mean, if I'm the coaching staff.

With what he's done the last two weeks, you've got to give him the opportunity. I agree. This comes down to Jamison Crowder. If Crowder is inactive, I think that Berrios is a flex type of a player. So I will say it's a conditional fire. Yeah. Condition. Is it your conditional? Yeah. It's on a timer. Next for you degenerates. Dari Agumboale, Jacksonville Jaguars current starting running back.

The RB 14 against the New York Jets after the catastrophic injury to James Robinson, who tore his Achilles right at the beginning of that game. Granted, the Jets, everyone can run on the Jets. We know that. But still, Dari came through. Then the next week against the New England Patriots, he was the running back 20. The snap share went down. As expected, the opportunity share went down. It was really only 11 opportunities against the Patriots. However, he did score through the air.

It's important to know how this happened. Yeah, okay. Take us through it. Here was his stat line. He was nine attempts on the ground for 36 total yards. And then through the air, he was one for four. And then at the end of the game, the very, very end, we were talking of the garbageiest, right? Because the game finished with the touchdown 50 to 10. So what does that mean? It was 50 to 3 or something like that?

He got a 28-yard receiving touchdown. What's funny is I was kind of down on Dari for this week because of the matchup against the Patriots. Sure. And I felt great about my call the whole game. I'm like, see, I told you, he's not going to be able to do it against Patriots. And it's so frustrating and funny to be so right. Yes. And absolutely wrong. In the end of the day, I was wrong because he was, you know, he was an RB2, scored 13.8, fantasy points and half point.

So it was Super Garbage Man, but this week against Super Garbage Man. That's a new fantasy football superhero. It's not a great matchup this week against the New England Patriots. No, that's who they. Or I'm sorry, the Indianapolis Colts still bad. They're top six against the running back position. But opportunity is so much more important than talent at the running back position. And if you're going to get the opportunity.

You're going to score points, even if it comes in garbage at the end of the game. So I'm going to say this is a small fire. So last week it was the SnapShare did go to Daray, but in terms of opportunity, Reikwell Armstead had eight and Daray had 11. I think that this is probably a smoke situation. For a week 18 waiver play, it's...

Certainly not the worst, but we're going to jump into the waivers here in just a moment. And I think that there's better opportunities. So compared to the waiver guys that we're going to talk about, I'll say it's smoke. He could come through, but no, I'm locking in it. I'm locking in it. It's just smoke overall. You know, you convinced me. I looked at the usage. He had 60% of the running back rush attempts and 50% of the running back targets. That is not the, I say opportunity matters more than talent.

and that's true, but the opportunity, 60% and 50% that's not the opportunity you want in a tough matchup. On a bad team. Yeah, I'm with you, uh, smoke. There, that was it. That was where there's smoke. There's fire presented by Trager grills. Grilling season never ends with Trager. Go to Trager.com slash footballers. News and notes from around the league. All right. We're going to take a look at the playoff scenarios because this.

matters. This matters a ton going into the final week of the season because there are teams that have nothing to play for like the Green Bay Packers. They are the number one seat in the NFC. They are 13 and 3. They have clinched. They cannot lose the buy week. This is why we don't want people to play.

their championships in the final week of the season. And we're here for you. We're going to give you all the waivers, all the start sits, everything this whole week, because we want week 18ers to win the championship too. But try to fix it going forward because here's the perfect example. The Packers are doing what is probably the worst thing possible. What gets brought up is the worst thing is this. You got there with the Packers. You got there on the back of your stack of Aaron Rogers and Devanti Adams. Right.

And then they sit their starters in the final week and you have to pivot in your championship game to someone else. But the reality is here, it could be even worse. Well, the question is, do you have to pivot? Because Matt LaFleur, coach with the Green Bay Packers, has said, we're going to play our guys. We're going to approach it like any other game. That means you have to start them. Do you? I mean, this is a week of team. That's the point.

Do you? Can you? He says they're going to play their game and they're going to approach it like any other game. Now, if they do that, of course. There's no way that Aaron Rogers with a broken toe in a game that means nothing. There is no way he plays the whole game. What about Devante Adams? I think there's no way that Devante Adams plays a whole game. They shouldn't play any of the game. Other than getting like the start, like if they've got streaks or something, give them the start, let them play a quarter and then pull him.

I think there is something to be said for just the routine, the habitual nature of human beings of prepare for this game mentally, go through the week of practice, warm up, as usual, do everything, and then go out, just like it's like a preseason game, go out there and handle two, maybe three drives, and then shut them down. That's fair. And if that happens, it is a massacre for fantasy managers who started.

Aaron Jones, started A.J. Dillon, started Devante Adams, started Aaron Rogers. I feel like if I am in the championship and I have Devante Adams, I have to start Devante Adams. I doubt that you have a good enough option as, you know, if you're going to your fourth wide receiver to actually bench Devante Adams, but the reality is if they do what you just described.

then any wide receiver is better than playing Devante Adams. Yeah. So I'm just projecting here after years of following the NFL, years of being a fantasy football player. I don't know what for sure that they will do. They're saying they're going to play their guys. I find that very difficult to believe, especially when your quarterback has been playing on a broken toe. The Eagles.

The Eagles have their, they've clinched the playoffs. They cannot win their division. They are 9 and 7. They have had a little bit of a COVID outbreak here. Dallas Goddard, Boston Scott, Jordan Howard, Kelsey, Fletcher Cox. They've all been added to the COVID list. Now with the new rules, they, of course, could make it back in time for their Saturday game with the Cowboys. But do they actually play? I do not know.

When I heard about the... This is called the I don't know section of the show. Providing info. We want you to be aware of the things that you also don't know. We're wanting to illuminate and shine a light on the gaps of knowledge as possible existence. We have no idea. When Bosset Scott and Jordan Howard were out of the COVID list, when I found that out, I was like, I'm not too worried. The new COVID protocols, even if unvaxed players are back the same week that they're testing positive.

But the combination of the fact that they're not playing for anything with kind of guys struggling with, you know, through an illness, do you really force Boston Scott back? Right. Say get in here and play, you know, on a small gas tank for nothing or rest up. So fun week 18. So those are the two most difficult teams. And then these are the teams to monitor because these teams have been eliminated.

Look, it's a divisional weekend. That is so great. So everybody is playing against a divisional rival. Maybe they're trying to play spoiler. They're trying to be the Grinch. But these are the teams that you need to be following the news all week, seeing if players are going to play. It's going to be a word vomit because it's a bunch of teammates. But just listen to Broncos, Browns, Dolphins,

Jaguars, Jets, and Texans. That's your AFC teams that have nothing to gain. They cannot make the playoffs. They're eliminated. In the NFC, you have the Bears, Falcons, Giants, Lions, Panthers, Seahawks, Vikings, and Washington. Now, if you did not hear a team listed in there, that is because they are fighting for playoff seating, possibly a division title, possibly just a win-and-get-in situation. We have a few very interesting situations like that,