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

against the depleted Baltimore Ravens and Joe Burrow in all the numbers you illustrated with his lack of production until he runs into Baltimore again. Cooper Cup's going to have his game, but that's not a surprise. I think O'Dell Beckham Jr. gets back into the end zone and is more involved yet again. And so he's my start of the week going into the championship, which is a strange thing to say. Look, I'm the anti-Odell Beckham guy on this show, have been for a long time, and I would.

I think he's a great play this week. At wide receiver, I'm going to Antonio Brown. We talked about what could happen with Tom Brady. It's back to back for you, isn't it? They get up. I had Antonio Brown in my draft king's lineup last week, but I don't think he was my start of the week. I think he was. Maybe he was. But he is this week. Look, he is.

The offense, last week he played 79% of the snaps in his first week back, and he received 79% of the wide receiver targets. That is outrageous. What Tom Brady is going to do without Mike Evans, without Chris Godwin, is throw the ball to the most reliable guy he has, and it's going to be Antonio Brown. The Jets can't stop Antonio Brown. Whatever he gets goes to AB.

and gronk, that's it. Can I just say on a personal note how the fact that this is happening is very, it messes with me because I had, you know, we talked on the show about can you drop Antonio Brown a while back. That's right. And so you're in a position there. At that moment in time, Antonio Brown was being talked about like he was going to be cut. Mike Evans was healthy. Leonard Forenett was healthy. Chris Godwin's healthy. And you're like,

I couldn't find the scenario where this was possible, right? Because the scenario was going to be like, well, yeah, everyone would have to get hurt and you'd have to get back by week 17. Right. And then to have it happen, and I let him go in that league. And now I could really use him. And so I just, I'm sad. Well, pick him back up, man. No, I can't do that. Oh, yeah. Somebody else did that. All right, my wide receiver started the week. We've already talked about him a little bit here, but it's Devante Smith.

against the Washington football team. It felt like Washington had figured some things out against wide receivers, but they haven't. They've fallen apart yet again. Top 12 production to the wide receiver position in three straight weeks. I understand the hesitation of putting Devante Smith in there. His floor is very low, but with the matchup, and I believe that...

that Jalen Hertz will have a good game and a good game through the air as well as on the ground. So I think that Devante Smith is in play as a flex. All right. I'm going back to the gronk. Gron, gron, gron, gron. I think everything you're saying, everything you're saying about the situation and the 77% of the wide receiver target says one thing to me and it's trust. Tom Brady throws to the players he trust. Tyler Johnson had zero catches last week.

So when you have Evans and Godwin and Fournett out of the game, you're going to throw it to Antonio Brown and Rob Grunkowski. So I'm willing to go right back to the well with the upside of a couple touchdowns in this game. Yeah, speaking a couple touchdowns. That's going to be Dawson Knox my start of the week at tight end. I want to be tied to Josh Allen. Half of the wide receivers. Like physically? Yeah, like a three-legged race. Yes. Because he could you imagine Dawson Knox and Josh? Those are two big boys. In a three-legged race? Domination. They're going to win.

And they're going to win in the end zone. So I just think he has been reliable with the wide receiver core kind of recovering from COVID and the expected point total here for the Buffalo Bills against Atlanta. Dawson Knox should have a very, very powerful week. Am I streaming tight end option of the week? It's Foster Moreau taken on the Indianapolis Colts. Over the last eight weeks, the only team that did not put up top 12 tight-in production against the Colts.

It was the Texans, and the Texans do not currently have a really any sort of a go-to tight end. Brevin Jordan could turn into something in the long run, but teams have been able to exploit them there. Back-to-back 60-yard games for Foster Moreau, I think that if you don't have one of these locked-in options, he's someone I would be looking at. Jason Moore's, ironclad, locked and loaded, 100% guaranteed boom, boom, kicker of the week.

Now, just an update here because it wasn't here last week. I'm fighting the boss battle with Jake Elliott. And here it goes. Okay. Throwing haymakers. He came back like camakers. And he thought that he had me fooled. But I threw a duke in. And soon he was haduked along with the Niners Robbie Gould. Oh, man. It's really good.

I liked it a lot. I did. We got the comeback with Kamakers in there. Yeah. Very, very topical. If only Brandon Ayuk was a kicker. The delivery was solid. I mean, you've really come. Way better than owl. Oh, his was. You've come a long way. I didn't want to tell him at the time. Oh, no. Were you? Oh, it was so bad. No, he's not here right now. Yeah, that's why I'm saying. It was great. He's got his great owl. Oh, there's Brootsie. Oh, that's so sweet.

Brooks, he's sitting in his seat, taking all his glory. Yeah. I mean, over there running the... Hitting the... Chilling like a villain. Yeah. Drop. Just doing whatever he wants. So on behalf of Mike Wright, Homer Simpson, and Andy Holloway, I'd like to say we'll catch you tomorrow on the podcast. YouTube.com slash The Fantasy Footballers. If you want to subscribe over there, you can click the bell, be notified of new episodes of the show, and we'll be back soon. Goodbye.

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