Starts of the Week + Week 17 Breakdown, Title Time - Fantasy Football Podcast for 12/30

and the touchdowns for him to succeed, and they're only implied 15 total points here. So it's hard to bank on saying Cordero's going to get a touchdown. I think that, you know, in this matchup, Cordero versus Devin Singletary, who is a very good start. He's been a top three guy or a top running back, top 24 running back the last three weeks, two times in the top 10.

In a plus match against Atlanta, I would start Devin Singletary over Cordero Patterson. Yeah, and that takes some fortitude in the playoffs. The Bill's defense, it's been bad against the running backs. We know that. It's just something that they've been struggling with for half the year. So it's not that there isn't an opportunity there. There's just some risk connected to Cordero.

Stefan Diggs is in a very good spot, so you're playing him. He could be a weak winning type of player. When it comes to the other Buffalo wide receivers, though, it's tough because the matchup is so good against the Atlanta Falcons, but do you actually have confidence to start any of these players where Sanders is back and healthy, but he has not produced essentially since week nine?

against the Jacksonville Jaguars. Cole Beasley, Gabe Davis, they're coming off of the COVID list. Isaiah McKinsey looked great, but that was with the absence of Cole Beasley. Are you playing any of these backup or not a backup, but you know, a wide receiver two guys options? No, I think if I had to pick one, it would be Gabe Davis because I'm going after a touchdown. The fact that they're coming back off of COVID scares me. There could be more of a rotation than usual, so it's hard to rely on them. For those reasons, I love

Dawson Knox, and I think he's going to be the secondary receiving option to play.

But I would stay away from the other wide receivers. Not that one of them can't get it done, but I don't think it's easy to pinpoint in this matchup who it would be. The last player that's scary here is Kyle Pitts. I like Kyle Pitts in this game. That's what I was going to say. Really? Yeah, I mean, he's been a top 10 tight end for three straight weeks, number four last week against Detroit. And this team, what agenda do they have? I mean, he was over 100 yards receiving last week. That's Detroit.

Let's go get him the record. Let's go get him the record. I mean, this is your number one receiving option. How far is he? It's like 130 yards or so. Yeah, I mean. That's not the exact number, but it's right around there. It's not like Kyle Pitts is not going to give you a goose. He's just not. He's going to go out there and he's going to give you eight to 10 points. And if you get lucky enough to catch touchdown number two on the year, you're okay. But when you look at the last three weeks, he's been a, he's the.

tight-in six in that span. It's just tough because the Bill's defense has been great all year locking down tight ends. They average over the last six weeks, giving up less than five fantasy points. And obviously, Kyle Pitts is a special talent. He's been better than Dawson Knox in the last three weeks. I would definitely play Dawson Knox over Kyle Pitts. If you had both of those options, Andy, where would you go?

Well, Dawson Knox's chance of catching a touchdown is almost infinitely better than Kyle Pitts. Yes, mathematically correct. So I think based on the defense and I think Dawson Knox is probably the right play there. Okay. But I think Kyle Pitts is a guarantee for 50 yards. And, you know, he had 100 something last week. I don't know. I think your options are slim and Kyle Pitts at least gives you a baseline of eight targets and 50 yards.

The New York Giants at 4 and 11 take on the Chicago Bears at 5 and 10. The DK Sportsbook line, Bears minus 6, over under is 37. What are your big question marks in this game? Because, I mean, you don't know who the starter is for Chicago, and you do know who the starter is for New York, which is a problem. My biggest question is, is there anybody that you would play outside of David Montgomery? I'm not sure I want to play Sakewan. They're talking about...

one, he hasn't really been that great. He's dealing with injury. I think he was kind of limited in practice. I mean, he had three fantasy points last week. The matchup against Chicago is fine, but with no quarterbacks and no offense, it's hard for me to trust him. And there's so many guys this week. The Devin Singletaries, Rashad Pinnies, Boston Scots, all these...

wonderful guys that I would do let's go there go to Boston Scott I would play boss Scott with over over Sequin regardless of Jordan Howard status yes wow I'm not saying you're wrong that was me just reacting viscerally to the names but that doesn't mean that's wrong because they're not going to score guys they're not going to score any points it's 15 points that they have as they're implied total and I'll take the under

This has been the most inept offense, and he was a 53rd running back last week. He played 34% of snaps against Philadelphia. With these backup quarterbacks who got a target. Yeah, we had eight the week before. I'm with you. I'm with you. I would play Boston Scott. I would not play Scott with Howard active over Sequin. Without him active? Yeah. Like if Howard is active, I mean, we will get to that. What if they report him as partially active? Partially active. Partially active.

I would say I need, I don't know what that is. But Montgomery is your lock here. I'm playing, yeah, Montgomery's a long. I'm still playing Darnell Mooney. The matchup is there against the giant secondary. 26th on the year, 24th against wide receivers over the past six weeks. It wasn't, like, the connection wasn't there for Mooney last week with, you know, with, with Foles. But nine targets. I mean,

Nine targets against the Giants, I would absolutely take that with Mooney's ability to break one. I'm going to give you a really tough decision here. Okay. Because Cole Comette is good for 40 plus yards in four of the last five weeks. Yes, he is. He'll never score a touchdown. No, no, he's restricted. It's impossible. Him and the Jimmy Graham's on. Jacobi Myers. Jimmy Graham has scored a touchdown in three of the last five weeks for this team. And just scoring a touchdown has led to.

tied in six, eight, and 11. So what do you do? Do you play Cole Comet or Jimmy Graham? I play Cole Comet. I would rather have Comet because I know I'm not getting zero. And Jimmy Graham, if he doesn't get in that end zone. No, Col Comet, though, he's giving you close to that. I don't know. I'm just looking at the finishes on the week and it's like Comets 16 last week, eight the week before. I think I'm with you guys. I just.

Yeah, I would do. He's not going to score. I would play neither of these in your championship matchup. You genius. The 11 and 4 Kansas City Chiefs with offensive player of the month, Patrick Mahomes. Take on the Cincinnati Bengals. They seem to have figured some things out. Yeah, yeah, they're pretty good. The Bengals are 9 and 6. The Draft King Sportsbook line has the Chiefs minus 5 on the road. So the Bengals just smashed.

and their five-point home underdogs. The overrunners 51 points. That's how good Kansas City is playing. Fourth against quarterbacks, 10th against wide outs, eight against tight-ins in the last six weeks. It's a trap. But I mean, it's a trap. For Joe Burrow? Yeah. I don't know, man. I don't know how to feel about this one. Because you have two opposing forces that are meeting each other. But the force is, it's a.

The force of the Kansas City Chiefs is multiple weeks. The force of Joe Burrow is, last week is weighing very heavy for people. And as it should, 504, the stat of like he was the third person to throw, third quarterback to throw 525 yards and four passing touchdowns. But the week before that, against Denver, 157 and 1. Now, he's had a couple good games here and there, but he's like,

a perennial quarterback 10. Like, that's, that's where he's going. And that's when the matchups are not nearly as bad as they are with, as the Kansas Chiefs. Joe Burrow has scored over 20 fantasy points, which when I look at a quarterback, that's like, okay, at least I got 20 in six point passing touchdown leagues. He's scored over 22 times in his last seven games. And he, he's been averaging 29.

attempts per game, and then last week he exploded with 46 attempts against the depleted secondary of the Baltimore Ravens. So I agree with Mike. I think this is a trap. I don't think Burrow throws it 46 times, and I don't think he has a great fantasy week. He'll 100% have to throw it so many times. And when you look at the run for Kansas City, it's been impressive, but you've played Ben Rothesberger, Derek Carr, Teddy Bridgewater in three of the last four weeks. And the one week that you didn't, you gave up.

28 points to Justin Herbert and you can say, okay, you didn't have Chris Jones, but that was the first competent quarterback you faced as well. And are you sitting T. Higgins, Jason? No. Are you sitting Jamar Chase? Are you sitting Joe Mixon? That's what I wanted to follow up with. There is a little bit. I'm not pushing for you must start Joe Burrow. I'm just saying like from that perspective, you're at home, you just scored 40 plus points. You've got all these options that you would never set. Sure. And he's the guy that gets the ball to him. But you would have never sat.

Over the last month, you would have never sat T. Higgins or Jamar Chase or Joe Mixed on any of those. And again, Joe Burrow hasn't been hitting 20 points in most of those games. Do you think that they can win this game without scoring 40, 50 points and throwing the ball 40, 50 times? I mean, how are you going to do that against Kansas City? You have to run. You have to control the ball. It must be established and you just melt the clock. That won't work. That's the only thing that can work. Kansas City is going to score a million points. They could.

They certainly could. The Cincinnati defense is okay. But regardless of how I feel about, you know, the skill players of Jamar, Higgins, and Mixon, they're all in, like looking at Tyler Boyd, I'm trying to not play him. He was on the smoke fire episode. Yeah, I would not touch that. I'm trying to move away from him, but I would not like to.

I would not like to play Joe Burrow this week if I can help it. Tyler Huntley? That's, man. I would certainly think about it. I guess I have drawn my line in the sand with Joe Burrow. And that's understandable. And so basically you're a pro. I think I'm going to play him. I'm not going to pivot to anybody with heavy question marks or just match up. Joe Burrow or Kyler Murray? Can we revisit that question?

That's the decision, Mike, and I have to make. Kyler against the Dallas Cowboys. I don't want to revisit. Yeah. Okay. I think I said Kyler yesterday. I'll stick with Kyler. All right. Here's another running back that I would play over Saquan Barclay, Darrell Williams, inheriting a larger role. We presume without Clyde Edwards Allaire. It's not confirmed yet that he is out. He, uh,

did not fracture his collarbone, but is certainly injured. And I think it will be Darrell Williams by himself this week. If it's Darrell, well, with Derek Gore, yes. Darrell and Derek, would you play Darrell Williams if Clyde's out in a PPR league or would you play Rashad Penny? We talked about that yesterday and you guys had landed on Penny. We didn't say specifically PPR because the PPR does change it.

What did I? What? You just paused after the peepee. Oh, did I? Yeah, he said the pee pee pee. We both got a little giggle because we're children. Because we're children. This is a grown-up show. Now the pee-pee. Anyways, keep talking about. Rashad, Rashad P in a P-PR league. Darrell Williams is going to catch more passes. Right. So that will, that just, that ups the baseline for him in that scoring format where there is P-P. R.

R whether a TPR. To me, Darrell Williams is a must play if Clyde is out. Tyreek is back from, you know, he's got another week off. Yeah. We've seen several examples where the week back from COVID has been not so good. And then it seems like one week later, they're back to normal. Miami's 8 and 7 taken on the 10 and 5 Tennessee Titans.

Oh, by the way, Travis Kelsey is back, and he's back in your light. And you're, you're hoping. Should you start my homes? Yeah, play. Yeah, should play my homes. The Drafking Sportsbook line, Titans minus three and a half. The over under is 40. I mean, I like Miami. Does I make it an almost upset? It would. Andy's almost upset of the week. Dolphins have won seven straight after starting this season one and seven. It's actually kind of incredible. There's been no team ever.