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Hey! So it is. So it is welcome in. Since the reveal of the true lyrics. To the Thursday episode? To the Thursday episode. What a lot of people don't know is like Tuesday has different lyrics. I just haven't brought them up yet. Until Tuesday night football comes out? Well, no, I'm a poet and I'm not ready to.

bear those emotions. It's an art thing. Yeah. So, okay. They may or may not come out, but now just so excited for the next time the podcast is live. Oh. And everyone is just getting screaming. Screaming as football time followed by the haze. Oh, that would be great. And Jason's high kicks that'll be happy. Oh, my kicks, they're going to be to the highest. You've been, I mean, you've been working out well over a year now and stretching your hamstring every single time has not.

made a difference. I know. I mean my hamstrings. I can't touch my knees. That's how, that's how far I can get. Would your trainer feel exceptionally guilty if after a year and a half that you finally get a note from the doctor like, this man has no hamstrings? I think he would feel better. I think he would say, thank goodness. This was embarrassing for me. What is going on? Why can't this guy ever stretch his hamstrings?

Every time he tells you the same thing. No, no, no, straighten the leg. And you're like, this is not. Like, I can straighten my leg when you're standing. When I'm standing or laying flat. I can get my leg straight, but not when you ask me to move my leg at the hip. We do have Thursday night football. Now, they'll eventually, they quit on the Thursday night football at some point before the season's over. That's true. Football time, just count your blessings. You got it right now.

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the boom boom kicker, and some news. Here's the quick question. Who is an under the radar or underrated fantasy player that could end up on a majority of title winning teams this season? I'll jump right in. It's a guy I talked about a little bit yesterday. I'm going to talk about him a lot more today, but I really love.

Philip Lindsay going forward. If you look at the remaining schedule on the season, not just playoffs, but the entire rest of season, the number one best matchup strength of schedule-wise for running backs is the Denver Broncos. And what we saw coming out of their buy was they said it's going to be the Philip Lindsay show. It was. He got 16 carries against a tough Minnesota Vikings defense. But from here on out, the toughest matchup that they have is actually this week against Buffalo. And that's

That's a plus matchup for a running back in general. They've got the Chargers, the Texans, the Chiefs, and the Lions to finish out the season. That is just such a good stretch run. And I think it's going to coincide with the exact same time where he's getting the ball. Right now, while he's been in a 50-50 timeshare, he's the running back 14. He's not been bad. He's pretty good. Nor was he bad in this Vikings matchup. He was 16 for 67. That's 4.2 a carry.

Freeman had half the amount of carries. And if you go back to October, it was 50-50. Yeah. I mean, you just look at the snap percentages. I'll bring them up later. Spoiler. Philip Lindsay is my start of the week. He's my start of the rest of the season. I was going to say. Wow. I really do like Philip Lindsay the rest of the way. I'll be surprised if from here on out, he's not a top 12 back. All right, Mike, who do you got? All right. As I was trying to figure out the answer to this question, one, you already know, because we've been talking about Devante Parker is.

just sneakily going to end up being one of these league winning guys. And I, we got to take this up a notch. Oh, man. Got to take it up a notch. And I was reminded of a few years ago when it was Blake Bortle's season. Oh, yeah. And he was, there was the, uh, either the semis or the championship week where he was my, uh, my stream and my start like everything. I went fully into Blake Bortles.

because he was playing San Francisco at the time, and then things started out horrifically bad. And then it turned into 380 passing yards, two touchdowns, 31 rushing yards, and Blake Bortles totally came through and won people championships from the waiver wire. And look, you can't have Devante Parker without fits.

Magic whose schedule is equally as juicy. The Jets, the Giants, and the Cincinnati Bengals, 14th through 16. Look for Ryan Fitzpatrick to, or I should say, hopefully you do not see him opposing you. Well, you roll into the championship week. You got your stacked roster. You look over at your lowly opponent who's got two Miami Dolphins and you laugh.

And hopefully you will be the one laughing last because you may not. I feel like the Ryan Fitzpat, when you look at the consistency chart for him on the season, I'm picturing a, you've got an open field and you tell somebody that there's a treasure out there. There's two treasures. It's like the movie rolls. And the rest, they're landmines all over the field. Now go dig up something. Sure. Because two times this year, he has been a top 10 quarterback.

So, Mike, the pride that you'd be the amount of ridicule you could bestow upon your opponent if you won a fantasy playoff matchup with Ryan Fitzpatrick. Just saying get ready for it. And the truth is people don't think you're going to be stuck in that position, but you don't know what injuries may come about. Matthew Stafford owners all of a sudden had to play Jeff Driscoll. Hopefully you don't have to endure the tilt and the panic and the hot sweats that will shortly come from starting.

Ryan Fitzpatrick. That's on the back of the prescription bottle for Ryan Fitzpatrick. Side effects may include the end of the commercial. That's right. It's a really long list. Yeah, yeah. But just, just saying, look out. That's like when you don't have insurance. Like if you got insurance, you've just got Lamar Jackson. But it's like I'm uninsured right now. I've got to get the generic, you know, off-the-counter stuff with all the terrible.

side of that's fitzpatrick yeah just take that the back of the bottle for josh rosen's much worse yeah let's put it that way you know you got to go out of country for josh rosen that's just i think those pills are called cyanide those dude they don't have a they don't have a positive effect there is no there's no efficacy all right baker mayfield is the name i'm going to bring up and i say underrated at this point because or maybe properly rated i don't know who knows baker has been bad for fantasy owners

He was drafted everywhere. People wanted the next Patrick Mahomes season. They did not get it. However, weeks 14 and 15, it's Cincinnati at home, and then it's in Arizona. And Arizona is bleat. They just gave up the two biggest games of Jimmy Garoppolo's career, fantasy-wise. They gave up the first. They went to the drawing board. They said, we can't let this happen again. And then two weeks later, they gave up the second.

because they don't fix problems. And we're out here in Phoenix. And the one thing that's wrong about their defense is not that they don't have athletes. Is that they don't apparently know how to game plan or recognize things on the field. That's why we can joke about the tight end scoring every time on them and make fun of it. And then their defensive coordinator.

can say, yeah, we know that. We're going to stop it. And then nothing happens. And then some dude named Dwellie. Yeah. Off the street scores two touchdowns. A double Dwelly. I honestly believe this is going to be the only week all season where the title does not perform well against Arizona. Outside of that, I think the rest of the season, they will. So Cincinnati, Arizona, weeks 14 and 15.

Did I not pick up on a joke there? Yeah, they're on by. Oh, okay. That's it. Yeah, I guess. It was pretty. It wasn't good. So this week, odds are lower, but they could still give up a touchdown. I think in practice, they're going to get torched by tight end. That's right. That's why they sign Max Williams to a two-year extension because every practice, they're like, this dude is awesome. He's so good. Signed him now. Who wrote Beanie Season is here?

Did somebody write that in? I didn't, but I fully approve. Brooks, Brooks wants to let everyone know. Now, Mike's got the Beanie on today, which really is pure Mike form. This is, this is the Mike right. This is my final form. This is. Because it kind of helps you look. H hoodie and a beanie. You've always been like a homeless hipster. You know what I mean? Sure. And so I think that's a good one. All right. Well, that'll do it for the quick, quick question. Let's go ahead and jump into the news.

News and notes from around the league. Presented my sleeper. What did I say? We're going to do what? Nobody knows. Let's come on now and jump into the news. About a car named the Scooby-Doo. All right. The Steelers are reporting Juju Smith-Smithshrushster not expected to play in week 12 against the Bengals.

Deontay Johnson is still in the concussion protocol. At this point, Johnson did practice in full on Wednesday. He just needs to be cleared. I still don't think he's cleared. You get a concussion. The man was bleeding from the ear. Bleeding from the ear. How can you clear him to go out there and have full contact the next week? That's a fair point. I think Vance McDonald is sneaky in this game. Cincinnati is such a good matchup. How sneaky?

extremely sneaky. We should talk about him later. Oh, really? Oh, yes. Oh, it's time to do the dance. Little teaser. Okay. So you agree. I do. All right. Alshon Jeffrey limited in Wednesday's practice. Nelson Aguilar did not practice. Oh, that's good. I mean, for wins. Jordan Howard limited. So Eagles still dealing with injuries and we'll see what happens this week. We'll keep you up to date. Howard was, he was in individual drills. He's still not cleared for contact.

So, yeah. And they signed a Jai, which meant they might have believed Howard's injury could last more than a week. Sure. Emmanuel Sanders, Debo Samuel, and George Kittle were sidelined for Wednesday's practice. Kyle Shanahan says all of them might be game time decisions. And they're a Sunday night, aren't they? They're at the afternoon. No, the Sunday night is Green Bay. And San Francisco. Yeah, it's the night game. Oh, shoot. Yes, you're right. So that is most unfortunate.

Oh, no. If you are relying on Debo or, I think Debo is going to play. And I think that on the basis that he hurt the shoulder came out and played the remainder of the game against Arizona. Sanders is more questionable to me as his kiddo because they've both missed some time. Are you willing to pivot to a player that has scored in three consecutive games named Kendrick Bourne, wide receiver for the 49ers? Are you willing to pivot to him?