Week 18 Matchups + Wheel of Shame, One More Time! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 1/5

Yeah, I have a really bad feeling. It's just the most Cardinals thing to do. Just continue ruining your future. The Jets can beat New England. Or sorry, New England can beat the Jets. They probably will. So Arizona will jump them. You lose this game. You get Marvin Harrison. Let me just. You lose this game. Marvin Harrison is a Cardinal. Yeah, but if you win, you feel good for a couple minutes. You do a bunch of high thoughts. Arizona. Lay down. Lay down. Lay down. Everybody lay down. Like on the field. Yes. All right. But Seattle beat them in week seven. Fantasy wise. Cardinals were good last week. James Connor is going to be good again. It's a fun game for fantasy. Seattle just gave up, I think, 600,000 yards to Jalen Warren and Najee Harris last week. And now they face a significantly better running back in James Connor. Yeah. I mean, this really is a great game for fantasy. If you want players where you know they're motivated, both sides of the ball, the Cardinals are playing to.

prove they are winners. They are playing to upset the divisional opponent. The Seahawks are playing to get in the playoffs. So both of these defenses have not been as good as either hoped, even after some acquisitions for the Seahawks. And both offenses are actually clicking now. With Gino back, he's looking good. I want pieces all across this. Kyler's in, Conner's in, McBride is in. What are you doing with the Seahawks wide receivers? I think that's the That's the conundrum, you know, is JSN trustable in week 18? Yeah, I mean, it's hard. He had one catch for 12 yards in a touchdown. Tyler Lockett had one catch last week. So trustable against Arizona, probably? Yeah, I think probably. If you're in a position where you have to, I'm okay with it. Yeah, the Arizona Cardinals defense, you know, the Pittsburgh Steelers defense that they played against last week, sometimes they don't show up and sometimes they.

They're really good. The Cardinals can't show up. They don't have the personnel to, like, really lock someone down. So I think I'm fine with all three Seattle Seahawks wide receivers in this matchup. All right, Tray McBride? Yep. Do you play Tray McBride? Yes, you do. Greg Dorch, a little sneaky seven for 82 last week. He, Cardinals at home. Yeah, I think that he could be. I don't know if I have the courage for a championship run, but. Let's see, over the past six games. Jason, you're right. That Arizona's going to win? Yeah, yeah. Cardinals are at home. Past six games, four of them, Greg Dorch has been a double-digit player, double-digit fantasy points. Now, two of them were complete duds against Pittsburgh and San Francisco. So you'd get dorched in this one? But I, like, Dorch is, if you are struggling, then Dorch is probably on your waiver wire and has an upside at least. Yeah, maybe.

I'm not excited to play the door. I'm not saying I'm excited to do it, but just like they're excited, if you're excited, it's like, I'm playing the dors. If you're not excited, it's like, I'm not going to play Greg. That's how you have to do that. All right. Greg is, who wants to play Greg? No one wants to play Greg. What about Gregory? Even worse. Oh, no. I'm sorry, Greg's. Sorry, Greg's. But you know what I'm talking about. Yeah, they don't want to be called Gregory. You see your license. Yeah, you're looking for nicknames. And G. G. George. That's nice. G. Dorch. I don't know. Kansas City, 10 and 6. The Chargers are 5 and 11. L.A. is three and a half point are three and a half point favorites. Over under 35. You know, Kansas City is not playing their players. So Clyde Edwards, Alair, I think is probably going to be a pretty good play. I mean, the, the Chargers have packed it in. They've left the NFL.

in this season. And so Clyde Edwards O'Lear, I think we'll get run in this game. My reaction to that is the same as yours to the Dorch. I'm not excited about a bunch of backups in Clyde. Clyde can't overcome much. I think the charges are favored. They're going to win the game. I've got my, I pick the Chargers to win. So I don't know if Clyde's going to be great or not. Yeah, I mean, obviously most of the starters aren't going to be playing. It's going to be much more difficult to run with Blaine Gabbard there than with Patrick Mahomes there. But I do think Clyde could end up in a game like this with 20 opportunities. He could end up being the centerpiece. It could be a really run first offense. I mean, honestly, he could end up looking how Austin Echler has looked for a lot of the last few weeks, which is 17 plus opportunities and doing not much with him. No, I would play Echler over.

over Pacheco because it's not just the offensive, yeah, but what about Clyde? It's not just the offensive stars that will be sitting. It's kind of like when you were talking about going up against the Rams, they won't have Donald. I would imagine Chris Jones is not going to play in this game, so it should be easier sledding. It's a stupid gross game. It really is, yeah. All right. The Rams are 9 and 7, the 49ers are 12 and 4. The Carson wins Sam Darnold battle. We all needed. The number two and number three pick. of years ago, 2017 and 2018. The Rams are not playing their starters, minus Puka trying to accomplish a rookie record. So four for 29 is what he needs. Otherwise, you're going to see Ronnie Rivers to Marcus Robinson, two to out well. Oh, man. No. No. No, thank you. San Francisco's favored. They're not playing their starters. Jordan Mason's going to get a ton of work. Sam Darnold is better than Carson wins. Yeah, that's.

I was going to say... Probably why they're favored. Sam Darnold leading this off... Because it's still the same scheme. You won't have the positional players, but you're going to have this San Francisco team that works with every single quarterback that they put in the system, where McVeigh is truly an offensive genius, but can Carson Wentz with a lower cast of characters put up a fight against the 49ers? And I would say no. Yeah, a dumb game. Dumb dumb game. Yeah, you played Jordan Mason. You hopefully don't need to play Puka. Would you play Puka or DeMarcus Robinson? DeMarcus Robinson. Yeah. You've got to take the snaps. Which is, I mean, the perfect example of week 18. Dallas is 11 and 5 taking on the 4 and 12 commanders. Ron Rivera's last game as a commander's head coach, most likely. Dallas 13 point road favorites. The overrunners 47. It means a ton to Dallas. They win the NFC East with.

a victory here. So, you know, DAC and C.D. and Cooks and Ferguson and Pollard, like, you just line them up, put them out there on the field. It's one of the offenses you can have confidence in this week. Yep. And then there's another team. Yeah, the Washington commanders are going to be out there throwing a ton, trying to avoid. Oh, getting sacked so much. Sam Howell will be looking at the stars. And there is. I mean, he'll be on his back this entire game. The Cowboys are going to sack him so much. So obviously great DST. If you've got the Dallas Cowboys, they're going to have a couple of turnovers and six sacks. And J.P. Finley, who reports for the commanders, says that there's a vibe that the veterans, the veterans in Washington are sitting this week. I get a vibe for real. Yeah. Like several of the veterans that they probably just don't want to. Like Terry McLaurin. I don't know about that. Maybe. I mean, he's one of their leaders and a veteran. If there's a vibe that.

veterans are sitting. I can't imagine it would not include Terry. Yeah, it just depends if Sam Hale's like crying, like, please don't take him from me. Oh, Sam Hale doesn't even throw it to Terry. Oh, that's true. Every time he runs in, he's like, wait. So I mean, look, Washington doesn't want to win this game. If they lose it, they secure the number two pick. So it's a win-win or a lose-lose, right? However you want to look at it. Dallas gets what they want. Washington gets what they want. And, uh, I don't know. Ron Vermeimai asks his players to run backwards in this one, more than normal. Yeah, you'll probably have Tony Pollard having an absolutely outstanding game. You expect the Dallas Cowboys to walk over the commanders and you can walk in the running game on them, no problem. They are. It's like the video of when they give that old guy the handoff. Yeah.

I mean, RICO Douddle might have a game in this one. Yes, that's Tony Pollard. I agree he should be good, but I think there's a chance that Rico Duttle cleans up in the second half. Sure. Yeah, I would be fine playing Rico Duttle. And here we are. We get to talk about the final game of the week, the final game of the year, and a game that matters. It's a good one. Buffalo at 10 and 6, Miami at 11 and 5. The Draft King Sportsbook line, Buffalo on the road, minus two and a half. Overrunners 48 points. It's been bet down a little from the 50 and a half point over and under, but this is a playoff game. You know, if Buffalo loses this game, they are eliminated. If they win this game, I was thinking about this, like for this up and down season for Buffalo and everything that it's been, this confusion about the offense, the firing of their offensive coordinator, the is it over for Stefan Diggs? And, you know, is even Sean McDermott, could he be out? You know, there's talk of Harbaugh and are the Buffalo bills in contention for that?

Look, if they win this ballgame, they're the number two AMC team after all of that. I just thought that that was kind of shocking. It's amazing. When you're able to look back on this season, if they win this ballgame, which they are favored to do, they have finished number two. Yeah, and the coordinator change really made a big difference. I mean, this was a team that was losing a lot of their games. They've been on fire lately, and they've really changed their scheme. They are now all of a sudden a run first team, even though they've got Josh Allen. They are pounding the rock and doing it with great success now. Including Allen on the goal line. I mean, that's how he got his two touchdowns last week. Yeah, for sure. He's kind of turned into a Jalen Hertz a little bit. They're doing the tush push. It's like a slightly different one where they've got one guy behind him doing it. Have you seen the origination of the tush push? Have you seen this? So it's very interesting because there was, there's some NFL films clips on the sidelines of one of the.

I think it was one of the backup tight ends maybe on Indianapolis just talking about, like years ago saying, you know what would be good is if like you just put a big guy in there and had like one guy push him or like two guys push him. And then they go to kind of the origination of when it happened, which was Nick Siriani, who was the offensive specialist coordinator for Indianapolis. And he subbed out, I believe Matt Ryan or Carson Wentz and put in Jacoby Brissette. And then one guy helped push Jacoby Brissette. And then that evolved from there. But like Siriani, who's obviously the head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles, was involved in the Jacoby Brissette. And it shows him on the sideline, like literally jumping into another coach's arms with glee over how it worked. Oh, that's awesome. And so, yeah, he enjoys it. But Buffalo, Miami. Right now, Seth Walder put this out there according to ESPN analytics. The most likely NFC title game is the Cowboys 49ers.

with a 44% chance to occur, and the most likely AFC title game right now is Bill's Ravens. That's the highest probability. Okay. And, you know, this one should be fun. Now, Diggs was great against them a long, long time ago. Yeah, over the course of the season now, when you adjust for schedule, the dolphins have been great against the run. They're number two in the league. They've really turned it on. The Buffalo Bills have been winning, running the ball, but they might need to throw it here. What do you do with Diggs? I mean, this is an important game. You go one more time. One more. Let's go with the default phrase. Ready? You got to play digs. Is that what we've been saying? Or is it the, you don't set digs? Here's a deal. If you're playing in week 18 and you've got digs, I think you've already made your decision that you've been benching them. Because I think if you've been playing them, you probably didn't get to your game. I mean, here's his, not fantasy finishes. Here's his fantasy points for the last month, 4.4.

6.8, 5.4, 5.1. That's after their by week. Is he, I mean. You're dorsching? You're not dorsching. No, you're not. No, you're not. But how about Jordan Addison against Detroit? Yeah, I like that matchup. I would go Jordan Addison. Yeah, I don't mind that. Drake London against the Saints. No, I'll go Diggs. Let's go Brandon Cooks against the commanders. I'll go Diggs. Yeah. Okay. So on the other side, Tyreek Hill, had some stuff going on. Saw him in a walking boot too. He had a house fire. Yeah, he was outside that house in a walking boot, but he will, I mean, look, they're playing for something here. They need him desperately in this game. They are almost certainly going to be without Jalen Waddle. He didn't practice on Thursday. He had a high ankle sprain. Already missed last week. I can't fathom he plays. That would.

Nothing this week would shock me more than Jalen Waddle making it out there. So Tyree Kill is going to be extremely important. You guys expect Moster to be back out there? And if so, would you play him and A-Chant? I think he'll be out there. I will play either and both if they are, if they're there. Either and both. Durham-Smith. Hey, that was a good call last week. Smythe week, three for 54. Not bad. Dalton Kincaid last week got back out and produced, four for 87. Some big plays. I'd be very curious what the passing offense looks like for Buffalo in 2024. Yeah, Don Kincaid was in on 55% of the snaps. They also missed them on another bomb. Who do you have winning this game? Buffalo. Easy. I'm going to say Buffalo by 12 points. Wow. I think they smoke them. So I think Miami wins this game. And obviously.

Buffalo already smoked them earlier, 48 to 20 when they played last time in week four. To me, if you take one piece away from the ensemble, I have not seen. You're talking about Jalen Waddle? Yeah, I'm talking about Jalen Waddle and maybe Moster. You take a piece or two away from this Dolphins team. I've never been proven. They've never stepped up to the plate. Well, look at their game log of how many good teams has Miami beaten? Yeah, the Dallas game was like their first or second time. So they just got smashed by Baltimore. They beat the Cowboys by two points. We beat the Jets. They lost to the Titans. I mean, like a good team that they, a really good win on their record with all the information now that we know is Dallas. They beat Dallas by two points. Well, and it's funny because this Buffalo team is the kind of game they lose. The one that they really need to win. That's kind of been the story for them too.

So it'll be fun. This is a night game, right? I mean, Sunday night football. Yep, it's a final one. A couple updates here, Trevor Lawrence, questionable. So he's moving forward. I saw another report on Christian Kirk, how great he looks, recovering from the core muscle injury. And, well, here we go. Fantasy face-off. Fantasy face-off, presented by Draft Kings. Now, how much of your brain do you use? What is the scientific amount? You use your whole brain. I believe that is. Stop it, Mike. Stop it. What's the amount that they get... You mean like the sci-fi, you only use 10% of your brain? Thank you. Okay. Whatever it is. All of my brain, you know, obviously has been so committed to winning the League of Record, which, of course, it accomplished because my brain, when you put it, you know, when you attach it to a task. Right. But it may have come at the expense of something in my life. Right. Yes. And I did, I did...

I did lose. I did lose again. You did get the quattro. Got the quattro, which means we end the year with Jason with 10 first place finishes. Thank you. That's not where you want to be. Mike had nine second place finishes. That's where the magic is. And I had eight third place finishes. You don't want to be there. I had nine times I was not spinning. Mike, you're right. First, the worst, second, the past. Yeah. I forgot the old adage. What about third? The turd. I'm a turd. Yeah. Yeah, my trophy says it. All right. Shall we spin this stupid wheel and see how bad this gets? Let's go. Wheel of shame. Yeah, go ahead. Spin the stupid wheel for my stupid four in a row. You know, it was great. Mike had lost three in a row, and it felt real nice and balanced. Right, bros. Loser!

Glasses. Loser glasses. Now you're not allowed to look at the front of the glasses to see what they say. You just got to put on those. Now wait, I got a pinwheel hat. Yep. You got a nice little stupid hat and you got these glasses and you're not going to. Does he have a lulley? The rules. Am I going to be able to see my roster? No. Well, the rules are you can take the glasses. You can move the glasses off just a little bit to see your roster. But otherwise, oh, yeah, I said you can't look at the front. What can you see right now?

Absolutely nothing. You get your microphone. Yeah, here you go. There you go. Why do I need my microphone? Well, because we do a podcast. It's a podcast. Okay. I can see nothing. Okay. Good. So let's kick it off here. No, I can't read my roster. When it comes time, I'll let you. You want me to start, Jay? Yeah, you start. All right. My quarterback is going to be. It's a pie in the face. It's a pie in the face. Oh. Oh, no. It's a pie in the face. You can take the glasses off now so you can see. Oh, man, that was good. Did we go, is that shaving cream or is that whipped cream? I hope it's whipped cream. It's whipped cream. It's delicious. Okay. Oh, man. Well, it's just. Oh, you're looking good, Andy. You're looking really good. The quadro got you. I don't know if I've ever had a pie in the face in it.

It exceeds expectations. Startling. Startling a little in the nostrils. Oh. Thank you for the eye protection. You're welcome. We just, we look out for our good buddies. Congratulations. Is he supposed to still wear the glasses? No, he can't see what the glasses. He's got the opposite glasses now, like the, the, the sun tan. It kind of looks like a clown. So we're, we're playing. We're playing this. Can I get a rag or something? What? Nope. Just for the nostrils. YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballers. All right. My quarterback. Wait, we're playing again this week, right? But we're playing for money. You guys want to make a bet? Sure. Sure. Okay. I've got Justin Fields against the Green Bay Packers at $7,200 as my quarterback. I spent down on the crazy man, Nick Mullins at 5100. Who is yours, Mike? Fields. He's playing against Nick Mollins going against the Detroit Lions.

A good passing, good team to pass on. No, it makes sense. I went Dak. Oh, okay. You went Dak Citi. Of course you did. Of course you did. Jack, 8,000. One more time? Yeah. One more time, sweetness. I don't, back and Citi. I don't blame you there. That's fun. It's delicious. All right. Thank you for the treat. You're welcome. Here we go. Jordan Mason against the Rams. Sure. 4,600. Pierre Strong Jr. Against the Cincinnati Bengals for four. Someone's going to have a lot of good wide receivers there. My running backs are Tony Pollard at 6,500 against the Washington Manders. That's no fun. And James Connor, 6,100 against Seattle. Rashad White. Okay. 7600. And Carolina, they're playing for a lot. Yeah, yeah. James Connor, 6,100 against Arizona.

All right. My wide receivers, I got Ammon Rae St. Brown against the Minnesota Vikings at 8600. I'm going for it. I got Jamar Chase at 7,300. He said he's going to play. If you're going to be on the field, you better do something. And then Jordan Addison against the Detroit lines of 5300. I went with Ammon Rae St. Brown as well, 8700. And I have stacked my quarterback with a guy named Justin Jefferson at 8,500. And then. I'm going with the final hurrah of the old man. Oh, what? I got Adam Thieling at 6,000. Thank you, Jason, for believing in me. You're welcome. I went with C.D. Lamb, as you expected, 9,300 for Citi. He might have another 17 receptions or something against Washington. I went with bargain for the next two guys. Christian Kirk at 3,000. Oh, man.

He's going to play, and he's going to be great. Darius Slayton at 4,000 for my other wide receiver. All right, now we'll close it out. I have James Connor at my flex, so we have canceled him out at 6,100. Got my guy, Juan Johnson, taking on the Atlanta Falcons at just 3,600. And I had this weird gap of money where I couldn't really improve a player. So I paid, I got the Raiders, guys, at 3,300 going against the Denver Broncos. All right. Ran out of money. So my final guys are Michael Mayer. What? Is he been playing? I hope so. I'll pivot if he's not, but he's going up against. I just looked who's playing against Vance Joseph defense and not. Yeah, that's fair. I have Christian Kirk at 3,000. I hope he's playing. And the Vikings defense against Detroit. You know, Mayor hasn't played two weeks.

Well, I think he's going to play this week. Okay. Joanne Johnson is my tie-in. Oh, you dog. Pierre Strong Jr. is my flex. And a little defense known as the Dallas Cowboys. Wow. That 4100 against Washington. We do have an update here from Twitter. Michael Mayer looking like an injury scratch again for Sunday. I will look for a pivot. Week 18, baby. 18. All right. I already won this game. That was fantasy faceoff presented by Draft Kings. Download the Draft Kings app right now and use the promo code. Ballers, the Draft Kings Sportsbook app right now. Use the code ballers. New customers can play free for a share of millions and prizes with your first $5 deposit. Mike. What's coming on Tuesday Thursday? So we got Brooks is the footie award or footy nominations. Am I correct? Footy nominations on Tuesday. Don't miss it. We are narrowing down the list, the footies. They will go through the week.

You have ruined your pop filter, Andy. I ruined, made more delicious. I don't know. Okay. Well, that's TBD. Ooh, I'm going to add some whipped cream to my microphone. Sorry, and if you're new, that's our yearly fantasy football award show. You can't miss it and we need your votes. Yes, it is the greatest award show in the history of mankind. And then just a reminder. We are two shows a week starting next week. However, that's just this podcast. Dynasty. We're into Prospect season. Get on the Dynasty podcast. Very excited to talk about these new players. Every Wednesday. Every Wednesday, the DFS podcast runs through the playoffs because you can still play DFS through then. So Borg and Betts are going to help you win. Spitballers pod every Monday. We don't really go away. No. No, I'm going to go away and wash my face. Yeah, that makes sense. But then back to more shows. So thank you for joining us. Good luck this weekend. Goodbye.

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