Week 18 Matchups + Maximum Shame, Big Money Bonus - Fantasy Football Podcast for 1/6

Oh, he, if you've been following along on Twitter, there has been a very, uh, fun graph of bathrooms in his house versus passing touchdowns. Will he ever have more touchdowns than bathrooms? He did. He did it. He took him 17, week 17. Yes. So he has 13 passing touchdowns, has 12 bathrooms. Look, I've, I've, I've tried to like pull some punches, take it easy here on Russ, but away. uh to do uh get favor with the public don't have 12 bathrooms yeah i mean how much how much how much how much locomotion is going on in this house how much party you gotta do oh i just use that one i like to spread it around i mean is it i know that's funny is i've never i've never checked into the actual facts of this no i have

It's true? Yeah, yeah. There's 12 bathrooms? This was a long ago. This was like when he moved to, you know, this city. Does he have bedrooms? But that's what's crazy is I think it was like a four bedroom house. It's something like that like four or five bedrooms, 12 bathrooms. I don't know. Like I want to believe that certain bathrooms in his house have a bathroom. Four bedrooms, 12 bathrooms and a nine car garage. Yeah. So I would like to believe that, like, you can go into a bathroom. What is happening in this house? And in that bathroom, there is a door to take you to another bathroom. Like, there's also an indoor basketball court, a game room theater, indoor pool. Let's see, that's fine. Yeah, that's awesome. Like, that's, that's, that's, I'm just saying that's where the square footage is going when, when there's only four bedrooms. I got you. I got you. And a whole bunch of bunk beds. Yeah. For the, for the parties. The team parties. Goodness gracious. Latavius Murray.

Could be worse, the matchup here against the Chargers. 18 opportunities the past week. Yeah, well, I mean, yeah, he's a fine volume play. Ask me, Zach Moss or Latavis? No, I won't. Okay. Because I know the answer. Your answer would be Zach Mosso, right? Yeah. Okay. Jerry Judy over the last month, averaging seven for 76. He's in play. He's actually been pretty good. I mean, you just talked about his average, but. it's consistent as well. As consistent as we've seen Jerry Judy, the matchup is not great against the Chargers. But this is also a situation where Denver is, you know, they've got a new coach there that's wanting to win a game. They are trying to get some good mojo going into the offseason. They're going to come out and play in a divisional matchup. If the starters are resting on the other side of the field, that's not just offensive. That's defensive. And you could have a good game here for.

Jerry Judy. Cortland Sutton last two weeks, seven and six targets. He has been absolutely average finishing just outside of a fringe top 36 wide receiver. So maybe if your league is deep enough, you're going there, but don't expect fantastic things. The New York Giants, nine, six, and one, taking on the Philadelphia Eagles, 13 and three. Fantastic, a divisional. Divisional game here to end up this season. It's got to be a close matchup, right? Oh, yeah. Drafking Sportsbook line is Philadelphia minus 14. The over under is 43. That puts the Giants at an implied team total of 14 and a half points. That puts the Giants at backups.

I mean, that's what it does. The line is saying what everyone expects, what the coach has not come outright and said, but basically insinuated. I'm seeing a tweet from Pat Leonard, who is verified, you know, reporter covers the Giants. He says what he saw at practice confirms for me that the Giants will likely rest several starters versus the Eagles. They have nothing to play for. Take the buy. We get healthy. Go. prepare for the playoffs. And the Eagles, Jalen Hertz, trending in the right direction to start. They've beat plenty of teams this year. Only lost once with Jalen Hertz as the starter. So yeah, I mean, they're going to mop the floor here. 13 teams over the last decade that were two touchdown favorites or more in the final week. Those teams are 12 and 1. So history is on the side of the Philadelphia Eagles locking up the number one seed.

We've talked about big money bonuses on this show. Not sure if you've seen it going around on Twitter. Kenny Goliday is closing in on one of his incentives. I have seen that. 750,000 bonus. It is on the line this week. Should he pull in 76 receptions on the weekend? If he's just 76 catches away from his bonus. Oh, there it is. So let me ask you this then, Jay. No, I will not start Kenny Gullet. No, that's not the question. Oh, okay. On the Eagle side, is it full confidence in every normal Philadelphia starter? Yep, Dallas Goddard, yep, Devonta Smith, yep, AJ Brown, yep, Miles Sanders, yep, Jalen Hertz, yep. I do think there's a situation where you have half a game here. I am more confident in Miles Sanders, you know, less confident in AJ Brown and Devonta Smith having a massive game. When you're favored by this much,

There is a situation that often happens where, you know, and obviously the Giants are wrestling their starters. You get up to scores. You know your playoff bound. You don't want to keep your guys out there. And so the receivers will probably not have to catch a lot of balls in the second half of this game. Their upside is capped. But you hope that they get to the lead by scoring a touchdown. But I just can't imagine a world where I'm binging those guys. So they're in the lineup. I agree. I'm not benching them. I'm expecting them to play a half. Yeah. And just hoping that my guy gets the points. The Arizona Cardinals are, oh. And I know we haven't, you know, we're here for the 4% of people playing in the championship weeks. But just to reiterate, this is the kind of garbage. This is why every, every one of these games is silly and stupid. Right. We're hoping for a half from players we're playing in the championship. So.

Let's fix it. Week 17, one weekend. Absolutely. That's the right weekend to play. The Arizona Cardinals 4 and 12. The San Francisco 49ers 12 and 4. The ultimate, ultimate palindrome, the latest that we could possibly get. I mean, a week 18 palindrome is something to behold. It's special. Draft King Sportsbook line, San Francisco minus 14. The over under is 40 and a half. That puts the Arizona Cardinals in an implied team total of just over 13 points. Blah, blah, blah. The Cardinals have lost six in a row. The San Francisco 49ers, the division is clinched. They can get the number one seat if they win and Philadelphia loses. We just covered. That's not likely. Do you remember? How crazy the line was in that awful weather game, you know, a couple weeks ago.

It was like 30 something lowest in a decade. Oh, yeah, yeah. We've had some really bad games, some bad Vegas implied team totals. This is, the Arizona Cardinals are tied for the lowest implied team total of the year. They are not expected to score many of the points. Very impressive. One of those reasons could be the fact that DeAndre Hopkins is out. His future with Arizona. It remains murky. It's a pretty big cap hit should they decide to trade him. But perhaps they could get a Devante Adams type deal done. Help to rebuild this as the Cardinals have a lot of holes to fill on the team. David Blau, he will be playing. You will not be playing him. No. James Connor did not participate on Thursday, knee and shin.

He has been great. He helped people win championships when championships were being played. I don't expect him to play in this meaningless game. It seems neither does Las Vegas. So without James Connor, without Kyler Murray or McCoy, without DeAndre Hopkins, you basically have a few options that are going to be active in this game that you could play. Marquis Brown. Um, talented. Greg Dorch, 10 targets turned into poop last week. Could be another 10 targets for, you know, 10 yards this week. But I all, 10, David Blow targets turned into 4 for 15. Against the Atlanta Falcons. I, you know, I don't know if the 49ers can play 60 minutes of solid aggressive ball. When, you know,

I don't know what the score is going to be. Sure. But it's going to be something where you probably have backups playing pre-vent at the end of this game. And some of those targets finally start turning into yards in a PPR league. You know, the Dorch can still be played. And what do you think of what do you make of the, the breakout of Trey McBride last week? Are you willing to look his way in fantasy or in draft kings? I am. I would be willing to do that. Trey McBride, one of six rookie tight ends over the last decade.

to put up a game of 775 and 1. And we're talking about Jordan Reed, Schmev and Schmangram back when we were really getting excited about him, George Kittle. The great Kyle Pitts. Kyle Pitts. Kyle Pitts. I mean, that hasn't translated yet. Any day now. Oh, it's coming. Any day now, the Kyle Pitts breakout is going to happen. But yes, if there's anything exciting about this Arizona side of the football game, it's, it's Trey McBride. It's do they follow up? that amount of usage with a repeat performance. And hopefully they do. First tied in off the board, second round pick. As a philosopher once said, drafted to be great. So hopefully that's what we see. On the other side of the ball. I would play George Kittle on the other side of the ball. He's going to be very good against Arizona. Yeah. I think that is a fair thing to say. However, the last six weeks, Jason.

Arizona, eighth in schedule adjusted points against the tight end position. What say you? Well, I think the last six. Lucky. The last six weeks is not actually schedule adjusted. Oh, it's not? No, the last six weeks is just their matchup. So, you know, when you play teams that don't use tight ends, you don't give up a bunch of points to tight ends. Fair enough. I don't have their schedule off the top of the dome, but I'm guessing that they didn't play great tight ends because, you know, usually tight ends dominate them. They played Kyle Pitts team. Okay, so perfect example, right? Like if they played the Atlanta Falcons, who's scoring points for tight end, that's going to pump up their jam. What do you do? Pump it up. What are you doing with Brandon Ayuk, wide receiver 15 on the year since week six. He is the wide receiver seven. And yet, Debo, Samuel, full practice, Wednesday and Thursday. If Debo is back, what's your confidence level for Brandon Ayuk?

Debo Samuel is back. I am, I don't know how much it changes my opinion of Ayuk, not that much, because I view Ayyuk as a low-end wide receiver two, probably more of a wide receiver three this week. It's really been Kittle, who is taken more out of the game plans when Debo is back. It, it's really hard for me to imagine, you know, I know the timeline is right. He's practicing. Put him out there, but you're just going to dominate the Cardinals. You're going to dominate him. I can't imagine. Are you going to play Debo? No, no. I'm certainly not going to play Debo Samuel. I'm saying that if I was Kyle Shanahan, I also certainly would not play Debo Samuel. Gotcha. I think I'd want him to warm up, go through the routine, maybe get some reps. Yeah, play a quarter. Take a hit and just like that thing. Get it out of the way. Remind yourself that you're okay. The running back position for San Francisco.

Flow chart. If Gersia McCaffrey is active, you're going to play him. If he is inactive and Elijah Mitchell is brought up. You're going to play him? I think you're playing Elijah Mitchell over Jordan Mason. Should somehow McCaffrey and Elijah Mitchell remain out? Jordan Mason is in play against the Putrid Cardinals rushing defense. The Los Angeles Rams are 5 and 11. The Seattle Seahawks are 8 and 8. Draft King Sportsbook Line, Seattle minus 6. The over under is sitting at 41 and a half. The Seahawks are... motivated. They need to win and become the biggest Dan Campbell fan in the world. That is the note from Kyle. It's true. You're so sincere. It's true, guys. They would have to be the Dan Campbell fan of the year. Big Guns Mahoney fans back here. Oh, Guns Mahoney. We don't use that nickname enough when talking about Dan Campbell. Well, because now we know who he is. The reason he was Guns Mahoney is because he was an interim.

head coach of the Miami Dolphins and we knew nothing about him except that he curls like 80 pounds per arm. He's very buff. He is. Yeah, I mean, the Seahawks, so I'm interested in this Kenneth Walker news, didn't participate Thursday with ankle and illness. He has taken some rest days over the last couple weeks mid show here. I had Kenneth Walker in my draft Kings lineup. I took him out just because of the news. I still expect him to play. It's hard on a Friday to lock your roster in. But assuming he's active, you're going to play him. He's been great. The Rams defense is not scary. I agree. Gino Smith is very interesting. 367 and three passing touchdowns versus the Rams in week 13. Metcalfe, check. He's in Lockett. Did not practice. But if he's active, I'm playing Tyler Lockett. Like we said, the Seahawks.

are in full motivation, they have to win this game. Yep. Are you scared of Lockett at all? I mean, I prefer my players practicing, but Lockett's so talented, I would be fine throwing Lockett in. He's, you know, if you look at Tyler Lockett in a full motivation game, his talent, Gino Smith is really, he's not just playing for the playoffs. I mean, right now that probably is, but he's also playing for. hopefully a career. Sure. As a starter for the Seahawks and Lockett is going to be your best friend on the path to getting there. On the ramp side of the ball, this is really easy. Okay. Because hit me. The Seahawks have been really good against quarterback's wide receivers and really bad against running backs and tight ends. When you look at the Rams, I don't want to start anybody in general against anyone except for Cam Acres and Tyler Higby. So it's like, okay.

Well, you can start those two guys in this matchup. The matchup is really nice. It lines up well for them as a team. And I want to start Acres and I want to start Higby. I am in agreement. Moving on. The Dallas Cowboys are 12 and 4 taken on the Washington Manders at 7, 8, and 1. Draft King Sportsbook Lines sitting at Dallas minus 7. The over under is at 41. Sanity prevailed for the Washington Manders. Jason's boy. Sam Howell will get his first start. Yeah, I don't like that it's against the Dallas Cowboys because I want him to be the great quarterback that he is. You know that if he takes this job, he will play that team twice a year. But we all know he's not going to take this job. So I mean, I'm trying to live in the real world here talking about how great Sam Howell is. The nice thing is Sam Howell is very athletic. He can run.

a lot. So for fantasy purposes, I think you could have a surprisingly good game here from Sam Hal. I'm not going to start them in fantasy championship week, but, you know, if I'm putting out a lineup, you know, a GPP and I want to try to hit, you've had some big performances against the Dallas Cowboys over the last couple of weeks at the quarterback position. Dallas is going to be playing for something. Obviously, they'll be scoreboard watching at halftime, but, you know, they need this game. So their offense is good enough. And I think Howell, if he uses his legs, if they let Howell run a lot, he could be okay. Now, that's not great for the receivers. Yeah, that's what we need to talk about here. Terry McLaurin was brought back to life by Taylor Heineke. That's gone. Johan Dotson, for what we have seen, looks like a fully legit, possibly a budding superstar wide receiver here. But with Sam Howell at the quarterback position.

I mean, it's what level are we talking about? The replacements that would go in over Terry or Dodson. Yeah, I mean, I'm talking about, you know, we're Tyler Lockett. He's, he's concerning. I would play him in a heartbeat over all three of these players. You don't know who he's going to target. You see backups come in all the time and kind of target the backup. This week was the first time all year that Sam Howell had thrown a pass to Terry McLaurin, like ever. Cortland Sutton or one of the managers. Yeah, I think I would go Cortland Sutton in this. You know, he's.

Um, he's had the targets. He's got Russell Wilson still playing. We just have no idea how this will break down. Now, Jehan Dodson, they were in rookie mini camp together. So there's a little bit more rapport there with Sam Howell and Dodson. But it really difficult to know a couple of things. One, how much are they going to let him pass? In general, if they're playing to win, I would be more worried. I would be one of those, um, game plan expectations of they're going to try to have him throw the ball fewer than 20 times win the game on the ground. But they're putting Sam Hale out there over a healthy enough to play Taylor Hineke because they want to see him. So I think they will let him throw the ball a little bit more. But it's just so difficult to rely on one of these wide receivers. If I could, like in this game, if I've got to play a wide receiver, I will go seedy lamb. Bold. Thank you.

Bold stuff from Jason Moore. It's very difficult. On the running back side, though, Jonathan Williams would be the next man up should Brian Robinson not be able to go. Again, Antonio Gibson on IR. Potential nasty boy start. 14 opportunities this past week. He would see volume. The matchup is not fantastic, but he will get the ball. Dak, I mean, the Cowboys, I think we're at full confidence here. They are going to play to win. And I think everybody who you normally play is in, right? I would agree. The manders have a good defense, so I'm not expecting huge performances from Zeke and Pollard, but they're in your lineup. Pollard was a full practice on Wednesday. So we expect him back. Sunday night. He probably could have played last week. I think it was the Titans resting Henry. And so I'm not worried about Pollard's health right now. Sunday night football. The Detroit Lions are 8 and 8. The Green Bay Packers are 8 and 8.

I lied. This is also an ultimate palindrome game. Oh, yeah. I didn't even think about it. Yeah, eight and eights. Hey, here we are. It feels less like a palindrome. A little bit. Because, like, it's all the same. And so obviously it's the same backwards and forwards, but it doesn't feel like a palindrome. Like if I said, would you say that's a palindrome? I mean, technically, yeah. But it's dumb. This doesn't have the heart of a palindrome game. Okay, so. We're not giving it that? I'm not. Okay. You can do what you want. You're hosting. What a show we have for you today. The Draft King Sportsbook Line Green Bay minus five. The over and under is sitting at 49. The Seattle Seahawks, they will be in a big implication on this because the Detroit Lions will know can they make it in based off of Seattle. If Seattle wins, they can't. But.

Detroit is certainly going to try and spoil the off season for the Green Bay Packers. Dan Campbell, Guns Mahoney, High T, all of his players are going to play this week. It's going to take us to the last game of the week. It's really like the first game and the last game of the week are awesome. And then you've got a bunch of crap mixed in the middle. I do think that I want players in this game. No matter what, the outcome of Seattle. The motivation for the Lions will be very, very high. Where are you with Jared Goff, who has been a dominant home quarterback, 274, 2.6 passing touchdowns per game on the road, 248 and 0.9 touchdowns. We did see a big performance from him recently, but he's going to Lambo. He's going to Lambo at night.

I am okay starting Jared Goff. He's been a top 10 quarterback for the last five weeks. One of those was on the road in a cold environment. It's not perfect, but the weapons are so good. Ammon Raus St. Brown is a dude. James getting worked in more. He's probably their best wide receiver going forward. He will be. DJ Chark has looked good. And obviously, DeAndre Swift out of the backfield. Jameson Williams. We keep saying that maybe he'll be worked in more. He's still sitting at one catch. Well, the nice thing is they were, the way that they were used, the way that they used him this last week, he had three targets. There was a great play that really. They had the sweep, yes. It really got me excited because it was like, oh, man, they're not just using them on nine routes. He came across the formation and was, I mean, if Jared Goff. So fast. If Jared Goff put that ball on him.

in stride, he could have taken that to the house and we'd be talking about a massive touchdown, but he threw it behind him. And I think that's going to happen quite often because you just can't believe how fast he is. He threw it way ahead of him. And then it's like, oh, no, that is still behind him. You've got to, you got to throw it, you know, 10 yards ahead of that guy. Would you go with Jared Goff or Gino Smith? I'll go Gino. Gino's been really, really good. Assuming Lockett is active. He's at home. I'll go, Jaino there. DeAndre Swift, the running back three last week. You playing him? Yeah, I mean, I get that you have the burns, but DeAndre Swift was great. He is healthy. I'm not doing well. I am not doing well after watching DeAndre Swift go out and do that. I think there's a lot of people on my defeated team. You know, a lot of people have that.

kind of feeling about Mike Evans as well, right? Like you, you have, if you didn't get to the championship, part of the way you didn't get there is because Mike Evans continually let you down in that stretch run. And then you're like, oh, I would have won the championship if I got there. So it's, it's very disappointing when these players who you want to rely on who are great are disappointing, kick you out. And then after you're out, you go, see, I can do it. Yeah. And some would say, well, perhaps, hey, Mike, did you watch that and then get.

you know, excited about the potential for D'Andre Swift next year. No, it just made my rage boil over even more. Yeah. I loathe him. You still do have a three-headed committee here, which sucks. Like, why is Justin Jackson, you know, why is he back? Why is he a thing? Yeah, I don't, I don't know if he's back for sure. It was real nice not having him. He was out with a hip. Last week. Yeah, it was very nice not having them because you had good games from Swift and Jamal Williams. Jamal Williams is a handful of yards away from a quarter-milly bonus. That's a big money bonus. Yeah, that's a big money bonus. I'm starting both of the running backs. I'm starting on MonRaw. I don't think I'm going to dabble in the chart, Jameson Williams. The question is on the other side of the ball, you have had...

You've really had the running backs here for the Packers be leading this offense. Aaron Rogers hasn't gotten it done. Now in this matchup, you've got the Detroit Lions who have been awesome against running backs and terrible against wide receivers. I like Christian Watson in this matchup. At home, I think Christian Watson Lambo Leap. Oh, he's going to be going to. Is that a guarantee? That is a touchdown guarantee. Now is, okay. Maybe he was leaping with someone else. No, no, no, no. Are you allowed to do that? Can you leap on someone else's touchdown? Green Bay Packer Superfan. Are you allowed to do a team leap? I don't recall the time I've ever seen it, but I don't know the official. Well, you're the only, you're the representative here. I would say no. Oh, okay. Touchdown score gets the leap. All right. Lambo, Lamba. I'm not going to make a touchdown guarantee. I'm going to make a Lambo leap guarantee.

Okay, I mean, you did just make a touchdown guarantee. Sorry, you retracting it. You're winding that back in? Winding the one of the real in. But a Lambo leap guarantee. Rogers, Andy start of the week, Aaron Jones, Andy start of the week, AJ Dylan, top 24 and five straight games. They're using him more and more. I think that he has, you can play him. Yeah. Thank goodness. We did it. We did it. What a great show. Nice to. I hope everyone has a wonderful championship week. And we will be back next week on Tuesday, Tuesday and Thursday. Have a goodbye. Fantasy face off presented by Draft Kings. You're going to do me dirty. I know it. What? Jason, we're best friends. Oh, man. Last week.