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

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I liked it. Wednesday, December 8th. Andy Mike and Gimley here with you on the show. That happens in Lord of the Rings, right? Yes, that's why I threw that's why there's a good Gimley in there. Everyone likes a good Gimley joke or a Gimley impression. That's timely. The kids are really with that one. Man, I still remember when those movies came out.

Yeah, we were very young. You don't want to say things like that. Really? They're that old? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. When are we getting to the point where, like, when will they redo them? Because you know, there's a, that's a good question. A timeline. Like, eventually somebody's going to do all the Harry Potter's and everything. That's the one I always wonder about. Someone will do all the Lord of the Rings again. Yes, they will. When Harry Potter gets remade and I've lived through two generations of Harry Potter, that's when I'll feel super old.

It's funny because the Lord of the Rings movies were like the groundbreaking visual effects. Yes. And then they will be redone because their groundbreaking visual effects are not good. They already are questionable. They have, hashtag bad. They haven't aged very well. That's incredible. 20 years ago was the first one. Wow. We're old. I mean. Well, Jason's old. Yeah, as you say, Gimley over there.

We have a great show for you today. Quick question. We're back at it. We have a buyer sell news and notes. We got the mailbag. We got Thursday night preview. And it's going to be a good time. Twitter at the FF Ballers. You can follow Jason at Jason FFL. Mike at FF Hitman. I'm at Andy Holloway. Join thefoot.com for our community of amazing human beings that all play fantasy football together.

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Been a lot of fun this year. We've gotten into some topics that, you know, maybe we don't normally cover on this show. So it's been. Yeah, you can deep dive certain things. And it's just like, if you thought that this show was loose, then, I mean, like the green room. The green room is, is the equivalent of we've taken our ties off from this show. Right. So it is. This show's loose. That shows loose. It just gets nuts over there. That's right. Buy or sell time.

Buy or sell, presented by pristine auction. Not surprisingly last week I went two for three and led the way in buyers. It's my favorite part of being the host and introducing things. I can just throw in a quick comment and move on. But let's do By Yourself for Week 14. Russell Wilson, is he a top 10 quarterback at Houston?

His best finish since returning was the quarterback 9 at Washington in Week 12. I will buy. Yeah, I thought we saw some progress. I really did last week. I like the receivers in this game. I like Russ in this game. So I'll buy it. Go ahead, Jay. Oh, man, this line is so funny to me. I do agree with you, Andy. We saw a little bit of progress last week, but we still saw, I think, a few passes that just...

completely got away from him. Something isn't right. Now, Houston is a nice salve to get right. I love this line. I think this is the most difficult one that I've seen like this whole season because it's a great quarterback against a terrible team, but the quarterback's been struggling. And I've said this, and I'll continue to. I'm going to sell Russell Wilson until after I see it. If I get it wrong, that's fine. But he has not proven it all the way to me yet. So I haven't going to sell, say he is not top 10.

Yeah, I will be selling as well. He's currently not ranked in my top 10. I can't imagine come the weekend that he will be there. And there's a couple guys behind him that will not shock me if they exploit their matchup and they jump up and surpass him. So I'll sell the top 10. Hollywood Brown, 65 receiving yards against Cleveland. He has not hit that mark since week 9. He average 85 yards a game from weeks 1 through 9 weeks, 10 through 13, or as we'll call them the...

walk through the valley of the shadow of points. I mean, Baltimore's offense is struggling. He seemed, Lamar seems to be maybe hyper-targeting Mark Andrews even more. 65, any Hollywood prediction stinks because it's one play. Sure. But I'll sell it. Cleveland's at home in this game. I have Cleveland winning the ball game, so I will sell Hollywood.

Yeah, it's a tough line, but I love the man, and so the button must be pressed for Hollywood, because I am buying this. The talent is there, and someday Lamar is going to get it together, and the Ravens will score points. That will happen, right, at some point? Well, you say it was such conviction. It's certain to.

Yeah. Mike. He's been so close the past two weeks, 51 yards, 55 yards. And that was with bad Lamar. So if Lamar is just not bad. What has happened to Lamar Jackson? The man has lost himself. It feels like out there on the football field and making just very bizarre at least three to four decisions during the game where he go, what are you doing, man?

This is not unsurprising to me. Okay. For multiple reasons. One, the defense is not what it was. It has no secondary. They're giving up points. It's putting more on Lamar's play. You feel like he's pressing? He's pressing. They've gotten behind in games. I'm not trying to take anything away from Lamar the player. But this is not a player that has historically won ball games with his arm. He's not a 300-yard passer. And so when you press him into that situation, you take away.

At a minimum, you've taken away explosive run plays from players other than him. Right? You don't have, you don't have J.K. Dobbins, who we forget how good he was. And Gus Edwards, you have Devonta Freeman, who is passable. And so I think you're... The Seahawks would love to have Devonta Freeman. You had Lamar come out and do some things with his arm. Then you had defenses in the NFL adjust. And now you're...

You need him to adjust again. November 7th was the last time that the Ravens scored 20 points. That is over a month ago. And if you remember, that following game after, you know, they beat Minnesota, that's when Miami did that crazy package where they just corner blitzed him nonstop. And that's what, like, sometimes you go, oh, did the NFL see something? And they picking up on it. You can just look. It's statistically like they are

Teams are doing that. Pittsburgh this last week blitzed so much more than they usually do. And I think you're right. Lamar has to figure that out. So far he has not. But I'll buy the yardage for Hollywood. Saquan Barclay 80 total yards against the Chargers hasn't hit that mark since returning. I'm buying this. I think he will hit it. I like him this week. 80 total yards? Correct. So. I mean, it's going to be.

We got a... He's going to have to do it from Fromm Yelon or what? Yeah, Jake, Jake Fromm, likely, you know, him or Glynnet is going to have to get it done. Ah, man, the Chargers, the run funnel. Oh, come on, Sequin Barclay. You've got to be able to do something against the run funnel, but I will... Your heart says sell. My heart, I mean, I'm going to go with my heart. My heart says sell, and it makes me sad. I'm going to go for a monster 40 and 40 game here. I believe you'll get 40 on the ground.

40 through the air, and so I will buy. So you and I bought it? Yes. Mike sold it. Correct. That is correct. Oh, Sequin. I'm sorry, your time is expired. Oh, I'm not talking about me. I'm sorry your time. Go on it. Just like the disappointment of the Sequin Barclay season in totality. I mean, like, look, the dude missed a month, or essentially five games because it happened right at the beginning, where they really.

fluky he's just backing up and happens to step on someone and rolls his ankle and it turns into a hot air balloon and so he misses a bunch of time and then he comes back to just a completely dysfunctional offense that fires their offensive coordinator he's playing with a backup quarterback now it's it's sayquan do you do you feel like sayquan is a full-on bust

for what the expectation was off of the return from the ACL where he was going in the first round. Yes, I do think that he is currently a bust. However, I still am of the mindset that the next month, I think three out of the next four games, he's going to catch the fire that people drafted or preferably traded for him. Catching fire is very difficult. There is a fire out there he needs to catch? Yes, he needs to capture it. The fire. Capture the fire.