Week 16 Buy or Sell + Playoff Push, Permission to Cry - Fantasy Football Podcast for 12/22

By yourself, Kyla Murray, three touchdowns against Indianapolis. Cardinals are at home this week. One total touchdown in the last two weeks for Kyla Murray. That is Trevor Lawrence stuff. So three total touchdowns against Indianapolis. Cardinals have been horrible at home. They've been horrible in general lately. Three is a lot. Three is a lot. For right now. I mean, you can go back even a little bit further. You have that Green Bay game where...

DeAndre Hopkins had the almost touchdown. I mean, this is a long time ago, but that ended up getting called back on a penalty. And then Hopkins essentially missed the majority of that game because that was the beginning of his hamstring injury. But Kyler did not have a touchdown in that game. I don't know. The offense looked very lost without their number one wide receiver. And I will sell the three touchdowns. I'm going to buy it. I will.

Go the other direction. The over under is 50 in this game. Cardinals are still favored Christmas Day. I'm going to buy a... You're buying the Christmas miracle? I'm going to buy the Christmas miracle. Aaron Jones, top 12 running back against Cleveland. He's been the running back 9 and 10 on 23 total touches the last two weeks. So this has been... It was up last week, though. It was 15 opportunities compared to the eight the week before. Top 12 against Cleveland this week. Man, they're playing so well. I'm going to...

I'm going to buy it. I think he'll sneak inside. This line is so tough because of the, you're never quite sure at this point. Will it be Aaron Jones? Will it be AJ Dylan? Because two weeks ago, Dylan was getting the majority of the opportunities. Did have, Dylan had a Russian touchdown this week. Yeah, he did. And this week it switched back in terms of just being on the field, 63% of the snaps for Aaron Jones. I will, yeah.

Yeah, I mean, I don't want to just be matchy match, but I would play him as a top 12 running back, so I'll buy it. Gabriel Davis, is he a top 30 wide receiver against New England? Four touchdowns in the last three weeks, been top 30 for the last three weeks, including wide receiver three last week with the two touchdown performance. But New England, this is in New England. They're allowing the third few as fantasy points to wide receivers on the year. Beasley will be out. Top 30 is not an incredible bar to reach, so.

And Mandy Sanders was, he was classified as week to week last week, obviously missed this one. Have you guys seen any updates on his availability for this week? Nothing yet. No, I'm going to buy top 30. Regardless? Yeah, I'll buy top 30 for Gabe Davis uncomfortably. Man, it will be interesting to see if they try to scheme. Stefan digs out.

And that just opens things up for Gabe Davis, who with the big playability could certainly hit at top 30. I will. I'm going to sell it. That's a really tough one, though, with not knowing if Emmanuel Sanders will be there or not. I don't think you'll be there. That was by yourself from pristine auction.com. Use the code ballers, get a $10 credit. I am curious, Mike, your overall thoughts on Stefan Diggs season.

Not as prolific as last year by any stretch of the imagination. Right. Still, you know, when I looked up those numbers earlier today, I mean, he's at 82 receptions for 1,000 yards, eight touchdowns for, you know, with a few weeks left. Yeah, he's still a top 10 wide receiver. Still has 128 targets on the year, about the same yards per catch. It's already matched last year's touchdown total. The touchdown's pace is a little bit better this year, which has saved a little bit of the lack of volume.

But, you know, going into next year, is this a top 10 guy? Yeah, he's a truly elite wide receiver. And Josh Allen is a, you know, a top tier quarterback in the NFL. So he'll still be a top 10 guy, in my opinion. We haven't seen the lack of weak winning weeks, winning weeks. No, you got it. That is.

That's what's really been disappointing. You have a number two overall finish against the New York Jets, but other than that, he's just kind of like a wide receiver too, getting where he is by being at least mostly consistent. And if the question is, how do you feel about the season? Slightly disappointed? I think you could be slightly disappointed, but holistically looking at how many wide receivers drafted in that range have been incredibly disappointing.

You got to look at that and say that was a W. Diggs or Metcalfe next year? Stefan Diggs. Okay. Let's talk news. News and notes from around the league. Presented my sleeper. Funny, if we have some Emmanuel Sanders news, he will be out at practice today for the walkthrough, and they will take it a day at a time. See, when you said he was week to week, I was thinking to myself, he's been weak as a start for a long long time. Sure. Kind of irrelevant, flamed out.

burned very bright but you don't know Cole Beasley you're going to see almost what 80 90% of snaps for Gabe Davis regardless it'll be if Sanders is out there it'll be interesting to see who goes where on the field well I will say this I would certainly play Davis over Sanders yes I would agree with that all right we got bad news for Brooks Leonard Fournett injured reserve oh it's for Brooks it's for both producers both of you rode Leonard Fornet into the playoffs that's that one womp womp

That one sucks. Hopefully you... That was Al. Hopefully you looked towards the playoffs and were getting your team right and you insured yourself with Ronald Jones, but... Oh, you're not scrambling for the new Buccaneer Levy on Bell? The ring... They're making a new movie. He's called The Ring Chaser. Like, what? Who?

Why are we doing this? I tweeted yesterday. Why are we doing this? I have to tell this story. I have to tell this story. I tweeted. And I, look, I admit this week, week 15 has found a new level of like angry Andy. It didn't exist. I haven't been able to get rid of it. So the vitriol has been a little stronger. So on Twitter, I just, when I saw they were signing Lev Bell, like I did what you did. I shook my head and said, why in the world? Is this guy playing? And so I said,

You know, you could sign RG3 to play running back and you get better production than Love Bell, which I'm not sure that's not the case. But it probably, you know, and I'm, I mean, if you're running sweeps, absolutely. Listen, I don't know if I can help this. RG3 wants a job, people. RG3 wants a job. He's ready. He was quick to reply on the tweet. And I don't, wouldn't it have been better to have him out there than Garrett Gilbert last night?

Maybe. He's ready. He's thirsty. Yeah. He wants a job. It is wild. Just the landscape of the NFL where you have these players out there. I guess we haven't heard a peep about Todd Gurley. I don't know if Todd Gurley wants to play. Like maybe he's cool taking this year off. Maybe he's cool taking his gigantic bag of money and never playing football again. But the fact that we have not heard.

really his name linked to anybody, and Levi-on-Bel just keeps getting jobs. And then you have guys like Gilbert, where Robert Griffin has been saying a long time that he wants to try and make a comeback, and no one will give him the opportunity. There's a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff that we do not know about. Tyreek Hill has been added to the COVID list. Kelsey's on the list. Sweet, mercy. So there you go. Are you expecting Kelsey back?

I think that there is a chance. There was good news today. The chiefs who have been dealing with an outbreak had no positive test today. Okay. So there was a thought that that could be continuing no more positive tests, but with the new protocols, you could have Tyreek back, you could have Kelsey back, or you could not have them. Brooks, are you saying Kansas City is an afternoon game? Yes, sir. You'll know before that. Yeah. You'll know before that with Ty, at least with Kelsey. That's rough.

AJ Brown is turning towards playing if practice goes well. Is that the report we have? Yeah, that's what I saw as well. Well, shoot. Isn't that kind of fits everybody out there practicing on the field? Would you play AJ Brown? So generally speaking, I don't want to. But I will say like. San Francisco Thursday night. Because he is just coming back. He's been so disappointing. But I'll highlight like a.

our family league where we play with our kids. We were devastated by just draft injuries and all of those things. So like last week where we were able to squeak through to the next round, but that lineup included KJ Osborne, Jeff Wilson, AJ Green, and AJ Brown's chilling there on our IR. Yeah, you're going to play. So like there are teams out there. If you have a double flex 12 teamer, there are certainly.

places where AJ Brown would slide into a starting job. All right, Cole Beasley's on the reserve COVID list. I believe he's not vaccinated. Carlos Hyde on injured reserve. Which means he won't be playing. That was the point. 10-day minimum. Yeah. NBS is on the reserve COVID list. After all the glowing things you said yesterday, his status is up in the air. Shoot. We're on Echler Watch. No updates yet. So.

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Get this man a quarterback for crying out loud. Two for 51 last night with Gilbert. Yeah, and one of the catches was another incredible downfield highlight reception. I mean, you certainly get to a point where you can't just keep going back to this well of saying Terry McLaurin can overcome the quarterback situations because he's being put in such terrible situations with.

with his quarterback, but it will shock me if Washington is not really active in the market. I know that the story of Taylor Heineke, it's a feel-good story. Maybe he gets another chance next year. But this is a team that they're probably out of the playoffs now, but they were in it going into this week. They were in it at the beginning of this game. They were up, I believe, 10 to 0. And had they squeaked out of victory this week,

You're talking about them as a potential wildcard team. So I do expect them to be very aggressive in who they go after. I don't know if they can lure in a Rogers, Wilson or Watson, a player of that caliber. But if they do, then Terry McLaurin is going to be very exciting. He'll probably end up being overdrafted because we'll rubber band back way too high. But the player is so good, he just needs a quarterback.