Week 14 Strategy + Buy or Sell, Catch the Fire - Fantasy Football Podcast for 12/8

more heavily favored. The over under is 43 points here. I am looking forward to this game. I do think Minnesota wins it. They are a ping pong kind of team, and I think they're going to be able to get it done, but it is going to be a close one. Yes. If we know anything, we know the game will be close. Yes. Because Minnesota, they seem to match their level of play.

to their opponents. If they love anything, it's drama. I mean, Vikings fans. Overtimes, kickers. It's not always the ending that you want. But goodness, do you guys get a lot of crazy stuff happening? I'm a little surprised. Tell me if you're surprised, Andy. Maybe this is, I don't know, Adam Thielen, is he moving? I'm a little surprised. It's only 43 points. I would expect more points to be scored. I would take the over in this game on prime time in a dome in Minnesota.

Big Ben's looked a little bit better. How do you feel about just, do you think this is a defensive battle or just an average mediocre game or is there a chance for offensive? I like the line. Output. Yeah, I don't. I like the line. I mean, both teams have explosive players. So I think there's always that opportunity. Minnesota struggled in the secondary Pittsburgh. I mean, they've been a disaster against running backs recently. The second most points given up to running backs over since their by week. So.

You know, Alexander Madison, he seizes the opportunity. They need him. They're going to need him even more without Thielen. So I think certain players in this game are very attractive on both sides. We've talked about KJ. Osborne and Tyler Conklin filling the void, the target void, in some regard for Minnesota. So I think both those guys are in play, Jefferson, of course. And then Kirk Cousins, quietly the quarterback eight on the year, you know, at home. Do you have confidence without Adam Thieland to...

Plug him in and let me just remind you. Primetime. Sure. Kirk Cousins. I'm not going to pivot from Cousins down a tier based on matchup. What about based on prime time? If you want to, I mean, I'm not playing Zach Wilson over him. The streamers are not strong this week. I mean, you would be like Kirk Cousins or Joe Burrow against San Francisco. Kirk Cousins or.

Tannahill against Jacksonville. I'm with Andy. I would stick with Kirk Cousins. All right. K.J. Osborne or Russell Gage, who we talked about recently. Russell Gage has been on fire. But I think you can say pretty confidently that KJ. Osborne will be the one who steps into the wide receiver two role. I would roll.

Oh, gosh. It is really close. That is a very close question. When I look at it, I think that both guys' floor is very, very low. I mean, we know Russell Gage's floor to zero. He's done it twice recently. K.J. Osborne will probably have three points. Their ceilings are probably somewhat similar. KJ. Osborne has shown a little bit more juice on the field to me. So for those reasons, when it's that close, I'm going to go with the Thursday night player. I'm going to get it.

You know, if I've got to start one of those guys, let me know how they're going to do early in the week. Let me plug them, not in my flex position, but put them in at wide receiver and make my adjustments as the week go on. Okay. What about K.J. Osborne or Jameson Crowder? I like, if it's a full PPR, I'm going to go Crowder because I think he's going to be peppered in that matchup with a bunch of targets. What he does with them is probably not enough. All right.

What about the other side of the ball? What are your big question marks for you? Obviously, Deonti and Najee are locks in this game. How are you feeling about the mute? I think you're still feeling good about the mute. At tight end, you're not going to have someone who just every single week is great. It doesn't matter who. Darren Waller has not been great every single week. He has been involved enough around the end zone to where I think you.

are confident in him. Now, if I'm looking in this game, Pat Friermouth versus Tyler Conklin, that's very interesting to me because I think the floor is higher with Conklin. I expect more targets, more opportunity, higher probability of a touchdown to Pat Freiremuth. But when I'm looking at that decision, that means I probably lean Conklin. Yeah, with Adam Thielen leaving that game early, that turned into nine targets for...

Tyler Conkling. Conk, baby. As they say, it's been a bad year for Chase Claypool, even in weeks and matchups where you expect a lot from him, he hasn't delivered. He's got one week inside the top 12 this year, and then only one other game inside the top 24. They both came early in the year. In fact, the last five weeks, or sorry, six weeks he's played, he's on pace for 900 yards, no touchdown. 53 receptions. It all comes.

It's the touchdowns. One on the season. Like his rookie year was sensational if he was in like truly elite company of rookie wide receivers who hit that double digit touchdown mark. It's a very rare thing. So for him to drop all the way to one receiving touchdown on the year, it is really mind boggling. It actually reminds me a lot of what happened when.

If you recall, the second season for Mike Williams, he scored 10 touchdowns. Immediately following, there was a lot of hype and expectation, and he scored two times. Oh, two. Wow. Yeah, no, that's a really good comp. But he had the yardage that year, right? I think a thousand yards maybe that year. No, that's a good comp. That being said, I'm happy to.

play Chase Claypool this week. I listen to everything you said. It has not been good. He's pretty much been a bust on the season. The previous two games, though, you're talking about 93 yards, 82 yards. He has not been a disappearing act. He hasn't been a top 12, top 24, but he's giving you about 10 points those weeks. And this is the best matchup you can hope for against Minnesota. So I am willing to play him. He's not a must start, but certainly a guy that I'm not.

I'm not saying, oh, he had a bad week. I have to bench Chase Claypool or Terry McLaren. I would go Terry McLaren there. Okay. He's the one for his team. A reminder to take the Thursday night players out of your flex position, especially at a week like this. If you're making a lot of other decisions, waiting on injuries, things like that, get them into their main positions so that you have flexibility heading into the weekend. That'll do it for today's show starts of the week, the matchups, Jason's boom, boom, kick around a whole lot more coming on tomorrow's episode.

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