January 10, 2025 • 33 mins
Charch and Scott Fish bring you some dart throw options for the Wild Card round. Also pancakes. So many pancakes.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from iHeartRadio, your weekly
source for the nation's best fantasy football advice, speculation, and
whatever stupid stuff they decide to drop into the show. Now,
here's your host, Paul Chargian.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Welcome to a wildcard edition of Fantasy Football Weekly. I
am Paul Charchian and my co host today and owner
of the kitchen that I am in right now.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Scott Fish, Hey, buddy's it going? How's it going?
Speaker 1 (00:34):
He cast the playoffs? It's anxiety kitchen.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
It feels like it's just one giant room. Yes, and
that's that's what everybody wants to upstairs. That's one giant
area basically.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Because everybody congregates in the kitchen. Anyway, when you have
the parties and you have people over, everybody's in the kitchen.
They want to be where the food is.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
And that's exactly what happens. It is so so, what
you're telling me is the eighty five inch TV on
the wall is too small and it needs to be bigger,
and I need to talk to Andrew about that. Honestly, Yes,
you can see it from all angles.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
If you knew this day would come eventually, but the
fact that you can go to Costco now and get
a one hundred inch TV for fifteen hundred dollars, Yes, nuts,
look at this wall.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
It it can too. It could have the real estate.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Yes, you absolutely, you could do that. You could have
one there, you could have one here. I like that's
that'd be two hundred inches of TV.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
It's my wife's birthday today. I will convince her of
it today. It feels like a good.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Play happy, happy birthday, honey, here's one hundred inch TV.
But I definitely do not want it is specifically for you.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Yes, it's for you. It's your birthday birthday.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
That'd be fantastic. Like Yes, last week's show, Scott, we're
gonna go through all the games and we're going to
identify some under the radar dart throws, sleepers, whatever you
want to call them. Last week we concentrated on motivational mismatches,
where there were teams that had a lot to play
for the teams that didn't have very much play for.
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Everybody's highly motivated in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Obviously, it feel it should be.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Yeah, hopefully Sam Darnold will be Yeah. Apparently the motivation
level was not maybe it was too high.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yeah, yeah, that was rough last week. He missed a
lot of touchdown throws.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
He left a bunch on the board. Not that we're
still bitter here. That'll be the last one breakdown. We'll
do him in chronological order. I believe the first game
is Los Angeles Chargers at Houston Texans Scott, that is correct.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I think that's the prime game.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Yeah, yeah, it's yeah, I think that is the Prime game.
By the speaking of Prime, and I know how you
feel about this. I had my my parents and my
brother over for the Viking game. And my brother hadn't
watched a football game in five years and this he
watched this Viking game and now he's out for another
five years. But I showed them. I was telling them
that they were My brother especially was like, wow, the
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broadcast quality is so much better than it was five
years ago. And look at all you know, the camera
angles and so stuff. I said, wait to see this.
So I showed him the Prime the Amazon Prime Vision. Yeah,
and his mind was blown. Yeah, he's like, you gotta
be kidding me, right, Yeah, you know it's got the
red dot for the potential rusher yeah, raw, the routes,
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the camera angle from behind the quarterback.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
The names on the players for the people that don't
really you know.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Yeah, you don't know, you haven't memorize all the number exactly.
It's we got to get the entire NFL to where
Amazon Prime is and tip of the hat to them
for for getting here, all right, So give me, give
me an underplay under the radar player or two from
Chargers Texans.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Yeah. So honestly, one of the huge question marks in
the game is that Quentin Johnston, Josh Palmer, JK Dobbins,
Gus Edwards have all been missing practices this week's which
could lead to I don't think any of them are
going to miss, but it could lead to someone stepping
up if you followed the news well enough. Darius Davis
scored in week sixteen and seventeen. DJ Charksaw's numbers go
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up the last two weeks of the season, and he
scored in week eighteen. But I think if you're going
to pin it on one, it might be the return
of Will Disley returning week eighteen for a you know,
four for forty four for fifty type game. If any
of those guys miss he could be he could be
the guy. And he showed it when when there were
people missing earlier in the season. And this is a
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this is a Chargers defense, or excuse me, this is
a Houston defense that allowed the third most touchdowns to
tight ends over the course of the year, three touchdowns
in the last four games to tight ends. It could
be an interesting spot for Disley to step up. I
don't I can't really pin anything on Darius Davis or
you know, any of those lower ones on the Houston side.
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It's Mix's job. I don't think Pierce's ninety two yard
touchdown is kinda but that was awesome. It was great.
It was great for you to see the wide receivers
outside of Nico. You're not you're not depending on match like,
there's really no one else in this game where I'm like, oh,
that's the guy. But Disley is the guy that I'm like, yeah,
I can see him having a day.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I don't know that Joe Mixon comes back next.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Year to toon.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Yeah. I assume Peers ran him out of town. I
think Pierce ran him out of town that ninety two
yard run. That'd be fine.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
He rebuilt his career Joe Mixon rebuilt his career like
put some good, good work on tape just to get
a different contract.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
That could be the case.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Give me out of since Nay and Zach Taylor's running
me up the middle every single play, I'll show you
what I can do right.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
In his time with Houston's been inconsistent, but the offensive
line in Houston so bad. Yeah yeah, I could see
the Will Disley angle before we get to Pittsburgh taking
on Baltimore. Tell me about the scott Fish Bowl Playoff
League that I am in and I have set my
roster in.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Yes, yeah, yeah, it's your basic one and done playoff league.
You do submit a lineup each week. You pick five players,
a quarterback, running back, wide receiver, tight end, and a
flex player. Not a super flex player, mind you, just
a regular flex player, running back, wide receiver, or tight end.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
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Speaker 1 (06:11):
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or you're gone.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Like you are, anyone's eligible. All right, good, I want
to think I'm even eligible to win. I'm not one
hundred percent sure on that. I'm probably not, actually not
that I think about it. But a bunch of game codes.
We got a bunch of wrestling, funko pops, just a
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Slash s f p L, which stands for Scott Fish
(06:38):
Playoff League. You can get there as well. It's just
it's just ten dollars we got. It's wrestling themes, so
like you have a tag team partner for one one
part of it. You only set one one line lineup
a week, but there's like three different types to play
in it. So it's and you can only use each
player one time, only use the player time. What I
did when I set my lineup, and I'm not gonna
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say who I chose, but I chose all players that
I think are going to lose, the players on teams
that are going to lose in Week one, And so
that's how that's how I approached it. And then I'm
just hoping that I don't end up being the guy
like I don't take Saquon Barkley. I don't take Saquon
Barkley and the Eagles lose and I never got Sakuon Barkley.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
You know that's the danger of doing it my way.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. You you miss out on them if
you don't use them. But you want to. You want
to pick teams on players on losing teams. And but
the next matchup I'm going to talk about after you go.
I got a few of them on that one that
I think it's perfect for this.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
All right, Pittsburgh Steelers taking on Baltimore Ravens. I've got
two Ravens to think about. One's pretty obvious with Jay
Flowers out Rashad Bateman. I mean, if you want to
go deeper, you could try Nelson agil Ar. I guess,
like Isaiah likely that's a possibility. They could go two
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tight ends a lot, and you know they run those
tight ends from the slot anyway, that's possible. But I'll
take here. Volume has always been the issue for Bateman.
He's two catches a game, and you're you're hoping one
is a long bomb. Touchdown. But last week with when
Zay Flowers got knocked out all of a sudden, you know,
his usage went way up five catches. That's the second
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highest mark of his entire career for Rashad Bateman was
last week Flowers out. He has scored six touchdowns in
the last seven games. And then Steelers Secondary, it's reeling
right now. They just got rocked by Jamar Chase, who
obviously is awesome and he's shot Bateman. But before that,
Xavier Worthy and Justin Watson both scored in both top
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sixty yards. Before that, Rashad Bateman scored, so you know
it's there's some opportunity for Rashad Bateman here. So he's
guy one and then a little bit deeper, Justice Hill expected.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
I think it's a great call, do you. I'm a
Justice Hill guy from way back, but I think it's
a great call just because the game script feels like
it could be Justin Hill. Justice Hill late is.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Expected by from his concussion that is not as this
taping on Friday afternoon. That hasn't happened yet, but hopefully soon.
He's he's missed three games and during that time, Derrick
Henry was catching a bunch of passes which he does
not normally do normally. That is Justice Hill. This team
wants to throw to their running backs, and in Hill's
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previous four games he was averaging four catches per game.
That's gonna be enough to make him quasi functional here.
It gets little more compelling on the Steelers side of
the equation as well. The Steelers have allowed an opposing
runner to go over twenty receiving yards in six straight
games and seven of the last eight. So I think
there's I think there's a nice opportunity for Justice Hill
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just to be a contributor. I'm not you know, I'm
not saying like he's gonna be the highest scoring Raven,
but obviously, but it's somebody that's gonna be a little
bit of a factor.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Just a Friday afternoon update, he's still in protocol, but
he's practiced in full and head coach Tud Bunkins said
it's gonna be great to have him.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Back, all right, that's pret like it's gonna go.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
I feel like it's a good chance.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
All right. I believe that brings us the Saturday games.
Let's go to the Sunday one o'clock Eastern kickoff Denver
at Buffalo.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Yeah, I have a few here on the on the
Bills side, there're seven and a half point favorites. Could
be running down a positive game script lead if you
take away the week eighteen Chiefs no show. They gave
up the Denver Broncos gave up double digit fantasy days
to four backs in the prior three weeks, but one
hundred and twenty and a score to those Backs. I
do think it's going to be a James cookweek. But
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given a potential lead, and what Ray Davis has been
getting both seven to thirteen touches and getting one to
two catches almost every game he gets one to two catches.
I think his touchdown last week was receiving if I
remember correctly. Yeah, that's a possible deep cut there on
the other side.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Hey, by the way, who threw that pass?
Speaker 3 (10:56):
You just want to use your buttons.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
I do want to use my buttons.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
On the other side, I mean, Mims almost feels chalky
at this point with two touchdowns and back to back weeks,
and he's clearly the number two behind Sutton. Sutton and
Bonnicks have a major thing going on. It's not that. Yeah,
he's not really very sleepy. Maybe it's Vley Devon Vailey.
He ended the season hot as well. Bills have been
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tagged by wide receivers over the last half of the season,
over the last over the final what is it, let's
see six weeks they allowed five weeks they allowed the
most fantasy points to wide receivers. Bottom three in yards, receptions,
and scores allowed to wide receivers over the last five
games this season for the Buffalo Bills pass defense. This
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is a game script. Denver should probably beat a playing
beat from behind. So if I'm in a one playoff
bon Nicks Vleay, Sutton, Mims, They're probably gonna lose and
they're probably gonna have to throw a lot, especially late.
I think any of those could be in play like it.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
I like it if in your one and done Scott
Fish full playoff league for Matt Yeah, what do you
think of Marvin Mims?
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Yeah? Yeah, absolutely him or Sutton. It's probably still Sudden,
just just the sheer amount of target volume and and
the consistency of Sudden. He's okay, he is a five
to six catch fifty sixty minimum yards every game. True,
But but.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
I need to distinguish my roster from the I don't know.
It looks like there's several hundred people in this league,
is a fair point, So I need somebody, Yeah, some
things that make my lineup a little different that that.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
That's true. I think you can more hope that you
save the right players and other people don't. Yeah for
that for that down the line. But uh, yes, that
that makes that does make sense. It definitely makes sense
in a DFS situation too, because Mims is going to
be much cheaper.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
He is going to be cheaper. All right, we're halfway
through the six games. Why don't we take a quick
break right here, and we'll come back and we'll talk
about Green Bay taking on the Philadelphia Eagles. We've got
some angles here, including one that I don't really think
anybody's I haven't heard really anybody talking about. Find out
who that is when we come back. Welcome back Fantasy
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Football Weekly. Paul Charci and Scott Fish with you. We're
working through the playoff games in the wildcard round and
identifying some under the radar players that you can use
for fantasy or betting or DFS or your fantasy playoff leagues,
whatever the case may be, including Guillotine leagues. We have
two playoff guillotine games. So the first is very much
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like this in season guillotine leagues, but much smaller number
of teams because there's only four rounds of the playoffs.
They're guilletinis, yes, they're so small team. The Guillotinies are
five team guillotine leagues. You can play these at guillotin
leagues dot com And just like regular Guillotines, at the
end of every week, the low scoring team for that
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week gets chopped. Their players go to the waiver wire
you can bid on those players. So that's the Guillotini format.
The other format has twenty five to five hundred players
in it. There is no draft. This is the Choppionship
and the championship. You get to just pick your favorite
fourteen players from the playoff teams, but the catches twofold
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one can't change your roster later. You're locked in. These
are your fourteen players for the whole time, and you
can only have three per team and for this format
in particular. And you also were chopping the bottom twenty
five percent of teams every week, so you'll have to
be really thoughtful about how many chiefs and Lions. You
are safe to put on that roster. You're not gonna
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get points for them in the first week. There is
a bench so you can bench those guys. You don't
have to start them. But two different ways to play.
You can play for free, you can play for cash.
You can play with your friends in private leagues. There's
all these ways to play. Guillotine leagues dot com. Packers
taking on the Eagles. Let me hit you with this one.
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Dallas Goddard all but forgotten in an injury riddled season.
Nobody really talking about Goddard. He had two significant injuries
that derailed a lot of his fantasy production for most
of the year. And Grant Calcata, I mean, I don't know,
maybe even outscored him for fantasy points. I don't know,
probably not because he was terrible. But you're going up
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against the Packers getting hammered by tight ends. Since Week twelve,
they've allowed per game averages of just under six catches
for sixty yards. If you apply that to a full season,
that would put the Packers as the sixth worst tight
end defense by yards. And Connard's gonna get almost all
of those almost six catches and sixty yards because the
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games that in which he played, Grant Calcata does nothing,
so Goddard gets pretty much all the tight end looks
when he's healthy. He's healthy now. Last week, in a
game in which the Eagles did not play most of
their starters for most of the game, they did play
Goddard for thirteen snaps. In those thirteen snaps, Scott four
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receptions for fifty five yards. That's right, Yes, So you
get the feeling that that was a very concerted effort
to get Dallas Goddard the ball Scott because I think
they just needed to get some rhythm for him, get
some catches, get tackled a few times, get Godard back
into playing rhythm because he's just missed so much time,
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and this is a nice opportunity. I think I've got
the Eagles, by the way, do you have I've got
the Eagles going to the Super Bowl? I have Buffalo,
I have Buffalo and Philly.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Who do you have? I have Buffalo and the Lions.
But I don't have a problem with the Eagles. Call.
If I was to pick like backups to both of those,
that would be Ravens Eagles.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Okay, so yep, I would go Ravens Lions. So I
think you and I are. It's very chalky. We're all
ones in two seeds for these I just don't see
anybody going to Philadelphia and winning. And then if the
Eagles are going to travel to Detroit in the NFC
Championship game, I just don't. I just think the Eagles, Uh.
I think the Eagles would be able to score points
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on that battered Lions defense. Yea, the Vikings couldn't, but
I think the Eagles would.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Ye.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
All right, Let's go to our next game, which is, yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Before we do. For some reason, I wrote down Packers
Eagles also, but I got I got one for the
next time.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Well, you know, if you've got if you've got a
Packer Eagle you'd like to talk about, let's do it.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
I was going to talk about, well, you know, gain
well potentially in a you know, run out the clock
situation with the Eagles, But I was also going to
talk about the potential trap in Dotavian Wicks.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Oh all right, because a lot of people do our
rostering him going like all right, Christian Watson's out, I'm
gonna yeah, I'm gonna go Wis for long bombs.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
His snap percentage goes up approximately thirty five percent when
Dobbs or Watson missed, So it goes up from forty
two percent on average with when it's a full compliment.
If one of those two miss it goes up to
seventy eight percent. Wow, his targets go from three a
little over three to a little over six. He doubles
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over doubles his targets.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Okay, So it's all good news.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Outside of the Vikings game where Watson left like after
eight snaps and then Wiggs had to step it up
and they can't like it was a ton of garbage time. Yeah,
from way behind. That was a good game. Other than that,
two for twenty, four for thirty, four for forty nine,
four for forty three, and five for forty nine. He
has in top fifty yards except for that one Vikings
game all year long. Yeah, like it. If you if
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you look at the numbers and his route participation in
the numbers and his drops, true, he is he is
not putting up really any double digit fantasy days even
when those players are out. I mean, you can bank
on he's gonna get a lot more snaps, targets, et cetera.
But it's a possible trap spot. Okay, if you're simply
pushing him in.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
I like that angle watch bow. Milton's gonna go off.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Yeah yeah, Malie Keith will be scored two touchdowns. All right,
your fantasy. Good for them if they do.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Personally, we'll be happy for the Milton family. Yeah, Washington
commander's taking on the Bucks. Who you got here, Scott.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Yeah, I'm I'm going with Alamides a Chias, good old
Alamides is a Kias against what for most of the year,
good percentage of the year was a bottom five pass
d for for a decent amount of it, Yeah better lately, Yes, better.
That's that's why I said for a decent amount of
it it was much better lately. But it's also against
the team that is definitely going to put up points
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and Washington is going to definitely have to keep pace with.
Over the last month or so, alamade Is a Chias
has jumped into this seventy eighty percent snapshare. He has
become that number two behind McLaren. He's scored three times
in the final two weeks of the season. The last
week he's targeted four or five times. I think he
only had two for fifty one but he has been
known to have those deep plays. If there's a guy
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that's like McMillan is too obvious, Evans is too obvious,
Bucky Irvan's too obvious. If there's a guy that's not
quite obvious for either of these two teams, that might
be Ilamide's a kias.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Alamides a kias. All right, I'm I'm listening to that.
I kind of like Austin Eckler, Okay, yeah, sure, as
a as you know, I'm not a Brian Robinson believer,
never have been. I think he's a very ordinary runner
who should be more powerful than he is. And I
wonder if they don't, you know, out of if with
the dearth of targets, I wonder if he's not sitting
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on a few targets. I guess you absolutely you know
that could be. What do you think is zach Ertz
in this game? Does he interested?
Speaker 3 (20:52):
All?
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Not a lot of good tight ends in the playoffs?
Four the highest five scoring tight ends in fantasy football
didn't make the playoffs?
Speaker 3 (21:00):
That did? Did he? Did he get all of his
fantasy playing that final week where he was like five
catchesn't a touchdown or whatever? How much does he have
left in him. I haven't looked at the snap percentages
on on Earth.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
It's very high. I mean he plays almost every snap.
John Bates is a total afterthought there.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Yeah, sinate it. We think he should be something at
some point. He just never really showed up.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
And Earth's played well this year, you know. And I
think I think he's got three touchdowns in the last
four games something like that. For Art, He's he's done
pretty well lately.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
So I'll interested three three in the last two games.
Six catches, five catches, three touchdowns last Yeah, he's that.
That is the big thing about Earth's is he scores
a ton.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Yeah, we'll take that.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
He scores an absolutes. I'm gonna see how many touchdowns
he had because he scored a lot.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
I'm gonna I'm gonna guess like seven, which is not
half bad.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
And by the tight end positions seven exactly. We go
seven exactly, you know, but all seven came from six
of the seven came from week eleven on.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Yeah, so better lately. Yeah, he's the anti Tray McBride,
anti tra McBride.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Yeah. Former current cardinal McBride ran and mandas touchdowns out
of town.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Vikings taking on the Los Angeles Rams first, and this
is not sleeper territory at all. I just think Kian
Williams sitting on a big game here. The Vikings run
defense had been great Scott for the first thirteen weeks
of the season. The Vikings ranked top three, top three,
and basically every run defense metric you can think of,
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yards per carry, success rate, EPA, yards after contact, dv away,
anything you want. Vikings are top three again.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
And top one. If you take jam Gibbs out of.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Yeah, right, you remove Jamir Gibbs and then since week thirteen,
here's your Vikings run defense ranks in yards per carry twentieth,
rush defense EPA, seventeenth, yards after contact, twenty first, run
defense success rate thirty first for the Vikings run defense.
So I think Kyron Williams is sitting on potentially a
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really nice game against Minnesota. You know, we'll find out Minnesota.
You know, maybe Minnesota reverts to previous form. Their whole
defense is healthy. They have every defensive starter. You would
you know, you would think that this that is such
a luxury at this time of time of year. I
gotta believe there isn't another team in the playoffs that's
rostering every single starter on defense.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
That's that's incredible, especially since we've had some key injuries
this year, but all of them seem to be in
the two to five week for riding.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Right right right, yep, all right, So now my deeper
sleeper is DeMarcus Robinson, but it's a weird one. Scott
So he scored twice in the week eight meeting against men.
Three targets on three targets as very efficient. If you
apply that to a full season, he's got twenty nine
touchdown Robinson is on the field constantly as a seventy
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four percent snap share in four straight games and fourteen
different games this year, he's had a seventy four percent
snapshare higher. But here's where it gets weird. Three the
last four games, zero catches. Now, he had a shoulder injury,
but he was still out there running all the routes
and everything. Apparently with the shoulder injury, they put him
out anyway and just had him be a decoy. I
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don't know, I mean, why not just run two two
out well or something?
Speaker 3 (24:36):
I think Robinson right exactly, he's actually draw the coverage.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
But last week DeMarcus Robinson seemed to be healed from
the shoulder injury. He didn't miss any time in practice,
and he showed up with three catches for seventy two yards. Nice,
So I think he's healthy now. And then there's the
whole issue of Cooper Cup, who has been a massively
dreadful fantasy producer lately. In half point PPR, Cup has
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scored three fantasy points or less in four of the
last five games, so bad, unbelievable. He had a touchdown
in one of the one of the last five games,
but the other four his best game was three catches
for twenty seven yards. And here's the killer with Cup,
and you and I talked about this a few hours
ago off air. He's played twelve games. In the first
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six healthy games that Cup played, he had seven end
zone targets. In the most recent six games, he's had
one end zone target. And you told me one red
zone target.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Yeah, one red zone target.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
I mean for Cooper Cup. So Sean McVay is apparently,
I mean, that's not that is not a coincidence. Sean
McVay is not throwing the ball. It's not scheming the
ball to Cooper Cup.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Yeah. Yeah, if anybody's going to figure out, like figure
out what is working or what he wants to work
or what he thinks will work best. It's Sean McVay,
and clearly he doesn't think that's what's gonna work best.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Correct. Correct. So there's something Sean McVay knows something we
don't about Cooper Cup. Maybe he's holding back Cooper Cup
for the playoffs. He's gonna spring it on the Vikingsha,
Cooper Cup's fine. Haha, here's fourteen targets.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
I did hear a rumor that he has switched from
cereal to pancakes at the breakfasts. Oh, it's going to
be a bit He's getting it in and out of
cut slower because of the pancakes.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Wayed down by the pancakes. What's the best pancake?
Speaker 3 (26:34):
I don't I don't know what the best pancake. I
just like pancakes. Are Are you talking like blueberry or
charge the chip or I just have regular old pancakes? Honestly,
you do.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
I offer you a blueberry pancake or a plane pancake,
you would go.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
The plain pancake. Why I like blueberry pancakes? Don't get
me wrong, I just I just I just like a
good old pancake.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
You mentioned chocolate chip, but you know me with.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Burgers like I don't.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Pre playing, you have nothing on the burger.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Maybe a garlic aoli once in a while, but yeah,
plane usually that's it. I just I just like the
maiden stuff.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
About twelve years ago, I ordered chocolate chip pancakes and
I felt I felt weird about doing it because I'm
an adult.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
In twelve years ago, my kids do the chocolate chip
with sprinkles and stuff. Yeah, you know how, it was delicious, awesome.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Oh, it was so good. I was like, Okay, I
can't I can't get in the habit of ordering chocolate
chip pancakes. They're delicious.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Well, I haven't eaten lunch yet, so maybe I'll mix
up some chocolate chip pancakes. I've done it for my kids.
I've just never had them myself.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Do you put them in the batter or do you
sprinkle them on top after it's on the ground.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
I have done both. I have absolutely done both. I
have found that when you sprinkle them up on top,
then you're flipping them over and like.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
They're all on the tim Yeah, and that's that could
be bad. But they'll get they'll get warm and gooey.
The thing and the problem with putting them in the
batter is you don't necessarily get the even distribution. Yeah,
and for chocolate chips, maybe it's as big a deal,
so you can put a lot more chips in. But
for blueberries, right, you might put twenty in the whole
batter and then you do a scoop and you might
only get three in that scoop when you're really when
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you really want more, like you know, six per scoop
or whatever. Yeah, that made the catch with the blueberry pancake.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
I think, Oh, man, this is two shows in a
row where we get well you and Brian last last
week and meeting you this time.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
We're going really, oh, it's deemed well, we're used to
filling two hours, so right now our run time is
about is a little under a half hour, a little
more with spots, and so.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
You know, we're used to killing time. This is filling
a lot of time, So why not pancakes.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Pan pancakes, hashtag pancakes, tweet us people.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
My wife does, She's like, oh, give me a brand pancake.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
What a brand? Bran brand? Oh a brand pancake? No?
I don't think I can do that.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
I'm out. I want just I just want the regular.
I don't want the wheat pancake. I don't want. I
don't want it healthy. Basically, it's short of it.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
No, even those super protein pancakes, I'm like, ye, give
me your normal.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Is where you put it the protein powder.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
No, there's like Kodiak or whatever. There are certain types
of pancake pancake like you know stuff, yeah that is hot,
way higher in protein that you can have.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
A few years ago, I was visiting Atlanta for a
music a music festival called Shaky Knees, And I drove
up to Chattanooga, Tennessee, from Atlanta, and I let my
friend Joe Bryant, our mutual friend Joe Bryant, know that
I was going to be in Chattanooga and didn't give
him much notice and he couldn't join me. I was
hoping he could drive from Knoxville to Chattanooga, butod he couldn't.
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But he said, you have to go to this restaurant
called Aretha Frankenstein. Okay, And like, okay, and it's a
breakfast place.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
That name is a Frankenstein A little bit, isn't it
is it is a Frankenstein and go in and a.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
That was really cool. They had all these vintage cereal
boxes all over the walls, which is really cool, like
cuisp and you know all of these all you know,
all these all from the like the nineteen fifties and
sixties and seventies Cereal boxes, and that was really cool.
But their signature thing is these gigantic thick pancakes the
full size of a plate and about three quarters of
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an inch thick. Wow, And it was delicious.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
That would fill me up the entire day. I wouldn't
even have another meal.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Correct, And that's how it works. But it turned out
I found this a few months ago. Aretha Frankenstein sells
the pancake mix in a box and from Amazon, so
you can't normally get it on stores here in Minnesota.
I think it's probably very localized to the greater Chattanooga
area to buy the box. But I was able to
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get it here, and so we made some Aretha Frankenstein
pancakes over the holidays and it was very good. It
wasn't as good as them making it in the store,
but it was still very good. But it was still
very good.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
It's like the red Lobster Chedderbay biscuits. You make them
on your own with their thing. It's it's it's good.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
It's just the same. They've got all the stuff, right,
they got it.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
There's something I got a question for you about about
something similar Frankenstein. So doctor Frankenstein was the creator of
Frankenstein's Monster. Was Cookie Monster created by Doctor Cookie? Is
that is Cookie Monster? Not?
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Okay? The distinction here is it's Frankenstein's apostrophe s Monster
versus Cookie Monster. I think this is a very important possessive.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
I think you're probably right.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
But I am interested in Cookie Monster's parents. What do
they look like? You know, is Snuffalopogus actually one of
the parents, because that's what Snufalopagus like dips in every
now and again to check on Cookie Monster.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Yeah, he's not a helicopter parent. He's just everyone's well.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Just now you know that they don't allow Snuffoalophagus on
the show anymore.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
That, and I can sort of understand.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
I don't know if you're going with a joke.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
He not exactly. This is serious. It's because so the
premise for those that don't know is snuff Snuffleophagus would
make an appearance on Sesame Street and then the but
no parent, no adult would ever see Snuffalophagus, and he's
a giant, you know, he's a giant, like elephant sized, right,
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and no parent would see him, and the kids would
be like, hey with Snuffalopagus, and the parents would be like, no,
it's not And they ultimately decided they didn't want kids
to get in the habit of like being deceptive or
tricky with parents about like whether or not they had
seen somebody like if you know.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
I see, I don't know, I see.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Yeah. It's so they took snuffle Stuffle off of this
the out of the show, which is a little.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Sad, but times happened, then things change, yep, it does,
all right?
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Yeah, thanks uh. I appreciate the U six of you
that got to the end of that boring discussion on
pancakes snuffleophagus.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
And I think the listeners like that stuff.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
I don't know, maybe think they do. Maybe I don't know.
Maybe we need our own off topic show FFW off topic.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
And pair it with whiskey Wednesdays. Oh yeah, off top.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
We need to bring that back.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
I got it.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Before I leave. I want to see all these whiskeys
you got for Christmas.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
I have some of them here. I think some of
them are gone now.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
But what do you mean gone? Is stolen? Or just
drink them all. It's only it's only been three weeks
or two weeks since Christmas. No, you getn't have polished
off eight b.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
In law's house or may be done on the fridge.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
We'll see, okay, all right, we'll look forward to that.
Thanks for listening. Everybody back next week. We'll break down
all the games next week as well, and Fantasy Football
Weekly style. We'll talk to you then, Bye bye. Fantasy
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from iHeartRadio, your weekly
source for the nation's best fantasy football advice, speculation, and
whatever stupid stuff they decide to drop into the show. Now,
here's your host, Paul Chargian.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Welcome to a wildcard edition of Fantasy Football Weekly. I
am Paul Charchian and my co host today and owner
of the kitchen that I am in right now.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Scott Fish, Hey, buddy's it going? How's it going?
Speaker 1 (00:34):
He cast the playoffs? It's anxiety kitchen.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
It feels like it's just one giant room. Yes, and
that's that's what everybody wants to upstairs. That's one giant
area basically.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Because everybody congregates in the kitchen. Anyway, when you have
the parties and you have people over, everybody's in the kitchen.
They want to be where the food is.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
And that's exactly what happens. It is so so, what
you're telling me is the eighty five inch TV on
the wall is too small and it needs to be bigger,
and I need to talk to Andrew about that. Honestly, Yes,
you can see it from all angles.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
If you knew this day would come eventually, but the
fact that you can go to Costco now and get
a one hundred inch TV for fifteen hundred dollars, Yes, nuts,
look at this wall.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
It it can too. It could have the real estate.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Yes, you absolutely, you could do that. You could have
one there, you could have one here. I like that's
that'd be two hundred inches of TV.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
It's my wife's birthday today. I will convince her of
it today. It feels like a good.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Play happy, happy birthday, honey, here's one hundred inch TV.
But I definitely do not want it is specifically for you.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Yes, it's for you. It's your birthday birthday.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
That'd be fantastic. Like Yes, last week's show, Scott, we're
gonna go through all the games and we're going to
identify some under the radar dart throws, sleepers, whatever you
want to call them. Last week we concentrated on motivational mismatches,
where there were teams that had a lot to play
for the teams that didn't have very much play for.
(02:02):
Everybody's highly motivated in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Obviously, it feel it should be.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Yeah, hopefully Sam Darnold will be Yeah. Apparently the motivation
level was not maybe it was too high.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yeah, yeah, that was rough last week. He missed a
lot of touchdown throws.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
He left a bunch on the board. Not that we're
still bitter here. That'll be the last one breakdown. We'll
do him in chronological order. I believe the first game
is Los Angeles Chargers at Houston Texans Scott, that is correct.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I think that's the prime game.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Yeah, yeah, it's yeah, I think that is the Prime game.
By the speaking of Prime, and I know how you
feel about this. I had my my parents and my
brother over for the Viking game. And my brother hadn't
watched a football game in five years and this he
watched this Viking game and now he's out for another
five years. But I showed them. I was telling them
that they were My brother especially was like, wow, the
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broadcast quality is so much better than it was five
years ago. And look at all you know, the camera
angles and so stuff. I said, wait to see this.
So I showed him the Prime the Amazon Prime Vision. Yeah,
and his mind was blown. Yeah, he's like, you gotta
be kidding me, right, Yeah, you know it's got the
red dot for the potential rusher yeah, raw, the routes,
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the camera angle from behind the quarterback.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
The names on the players for the people that don't
really you know.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Yeah, you don't know, you haven't memorize all the number exactly.
It's we got to get the entire NFL to where
Amazon Prime is and tip of the hat to them
for for getting here, all right, So give me, give
me an underplay under the radar player or two from
Chargers Texans.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Yeah. So honestly, one of the huge question marks in
the game is that Quentin Johnston, Josh Palmer, JK Dobbins,
Gus Edwards have all been missing practices this week's which
could lead to I don't think any of them are
going to miss, but it could lead to someone stepping
up if you followed the news well enough. Darius Davis
scored in week sixteen and seventeen. DJ Charksaw's numbers go
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up the last two weeks of the season, and he
scored in week eighteen. But I think if you're going
to pin it on one, it might be the return
of Will Disley returning week eighteen for a you know,
four for forty four for fifty type game. If any
of those guys miss he could be he could be
the guy. And he showed it when when there were
people missing earlier in the season. And this is a
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this is a Chargers defense, or excuse me, this is
a Houston defense that allowed the third most touchdowns to
tight ends over the course of the year, three touchdowns
in the last four games to tight ends. It could
be an interesting spot for Disley to step up. I
don't I can't really pin anything on Darius Davis or
you know, any of those lower ones on the Houston side.
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It's Mix's job. I don't think Pierce's ninety two yard
touchdown is kinda but that was awesome. It was great.
It was great for you to see the wide receivers
outside of Nico. You're not you're not depending on match like,
there's really no one else in this game where I'm like, oh,
that's the guy. But Disley is the guy that I'm like, yeah,
I can see him having a day.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I don't know that Joe Mixon comes back next.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Year to toon.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Yeah. I assume Peers ran him out of town. I
think Pierce ran him out of town that ninety two
yard run. That'd be fine.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
He rebuilt his career Joe Mixon rebuilt his career like
put some good, good work on tape just to get
a different contract.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
That could be the case.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Give me out of since Nay and Zach Taylor's running
me up the middle every single play, I'll show you
what I can do right.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
In his time with Houston's been inconsistent, but the offensive
line in Houston so bad. Yeah yeah, I could see
the Will Disley angle before we get to Pittsburgh taking
on Baltimore. Tell me about the scott Fish Bowl Playoff
League that I am in and I have set my
roster in.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Yes, yeah, yeah, it's your basic one and done playoff league.
You do submit a lineup each week. You pick five players,
a quarterback, running back, wide receiver, tight end, and a
flex player. Not a super flex player, mind you, just
a regular flex player, running back, wide receiver, or tight end.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
And uh yeah. The scoring is it's a little new
you it's wrestling theme this year. We have a sponsor,
Retro Retro Menia Wrestling. It's they're offering up at Xbox
to win a steam deck, to win a bunch of
a bunch of Xbox.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
I'm nott the deck deck, am I eligible to win,
or you're gone.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Like you are, anyone's eligible. All right, good, I want
to think I'm even eligible to win. I'm not one
hundred percent sure on that. I'm probably not, actually not
that I think about it. But a bunch of game codes.
We got a bunch of wrestling, funko pops, just a
ton of ton of stuff. If you go to fantasycares
dot org, it's right on the front page fantasycares dot org.
Slash s f p L, which stands for Scott Fish
(06:38):
Playoff League. You can get there as well. It's just
it's just ten dollars we got. It's wrestling themes, so
like you have a tag team partner for one one
part of it. You only set one one line lineup
a week, but there's like three different types to play
in it. So it's and you can only use each
player one time, only use the player time. What I
did when I set my lineup, and I'm not gonna
(06:58):
say who I chose, but I chose all players that
I think are going to lose, the players on teams
that are going to lose in Week one, And so
that's how that's how I approached it. And then I'm
just hoping that I don't end up being the guy
like I don't take Saquon Barkley. I don't take Saquon
Barkley and the Eagles lose and I never got Sakuon Barkley.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
You know that's the danger of doing it my way.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. You you miss out on them if
you don't use them. But you want to. You want
to pick teams on players on losing teams. And but
the next matchup I'm going to talk about after you go.
I got a few of them on that one that
I think it's perfect for this.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
All right, Pittsburgh Steelers taking on Baltimore Ravens. I've got
two Ravens to think about. One's pretty obvious with Jay
Flowers out Rashad Bateman. I mean, if you want to
go deeper, you could try Nelson agil Ar. I guess,
like Isaiah likely that's a possibility. They could go two
(07:54):
tight ends a lot, and you know they run those
tight ends from the slot anyway, that's possible. But I'll
take here. Volume has always been the issue for Bateman.
He's two catches a game, and you're you're hoping one
is a long bomb. Touchdown. But last week with when
Zay Flowers got knocked out all of a sudden, you know,
his usage went way up five catches. That's the second
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highest mark of his entire career for Rashad Bateman was
last week Flowers out. He has scored six touchdowns in
the last seven games. And then Steelers Secondary, it's reeling
right now. They just got rocked by Jamar Chase, who
obviously is awesome and he's shot Bateman. But before that,
Xavier Worthy and Justin Watson both scored in both top
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sixty yards. Before that, Rashad Bateman scored, so you know
it's there's some opportunity for Rashad Bateman here. So he's
guy one and then a little bit deeper, Justice Hill expected.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
I think it's a great call, do you. I'm a
Justice Hill guy from way back, but I think it's
a great call just because the game script feels like
it could be Justin Hill. Justice Hill late is.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Expected by from his concussion that is not as this
taping on Friday afternoon. That hasn't happened yet, but hopefully soon.
He's he's missed three games and during that time, Derrick
Henry was catching a bunch of passes which he does
not normally do normally. That is Justice Hill. This team
wants to throw to their running backs, and in Hill's
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previous four games he was averaging four catches per game.
That's gonna be enough to make him quasi functional here.
It gets little more compelling on the Steelers side of
the equation as well. The Steelers have allowed an opposing
runner to go over twenty receiving yards in six straight
games and seven of the last eight. So I think
there's I think there's a nice opportunity for Justice Hill
(09:43):
just to be a contributor. I'm not you know, I'm
not saying like he's gonna be the highest scoring Raven,
but obviously, but it's somebody that's gonna be a little
bit of a factor.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Just a Friday afternoon update, he's still in protocol, but
he's practiced in full and head coach Tud Bunkins said
it's gonna be great to have him.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Back, all right, that's pret like it's gonna go.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
I feel like it's a good chance.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
All right. I believe that brings us the Saturday games.
Let's go to the Sunday one o'clock Eastern kickoff Denver
at Buffalo.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Yeah, I have a few here on the on the
Bills side, there're seven and a half point favorites. Could
be running down a positive game script lead if you
take away the week eighteen Chiefs no show. They gave
up the Denver Broncos gave up double digit fantasy days
to four backs in the prior three weeks, but one
hundred and twenty and a score to those Backs. I
do think it's going to be a James cookweek. But
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given a potential lead, and what Ray Davis has been
getting both seven to thirteen touches and getting one to
two catches almost every game he gets one to two catches.
I think his touchdown last week was receiving if I
remember correctly. Yeah, that's a possible deep cut there on
the other side.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Hey, by the way, who threw that pass?
Speaker 3 (10:56):
You just want to use your buttons.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
I do want to use my buttons.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
On the other side, I mean, Mims almost feels chalky
at this point with two touchdowns and back to back weeks,
and he's clearly the number two behind Sutton. Sutton and
Bonnicks have a major thing going on. It's not that. Yeah,
he's not really very sleepy. Maybe it's Vley Devon Vailey.
He ended the season hot as well. Bills have been
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tagged by wide receivers over the last half of the season,
over the last over the final what is it, let's
see six weeks they allowed five weeks they allowed the
most fantasy points to wide receivers. Bottom three in yards, receptions,
and scores allowed to wide receivers over the last five
games this season for the Buffalo Bills pass defense. This
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is a game script. Denver should probably beat a playing
beat from behind. So if I'm in a one playoff
bon Nicks Vleay, Sutton, Mims, They're probably gonna lose and
they're probably gonna have to throw a lot, especially late.
I think any of those could be in play like it.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
I like it if in your one and done Scott
Fish full playoff league for Matt Yeah, what do you
think of Marvin Mims?
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Yeah? Yeah, absolutely him or Sutton. It's probably still Sudden,
just just the sheer amount of target volume and and
the consistency of Sudden. He's okay, he is a five
to six catch fifty sixty minimum yards every game. True,
But but.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
I need to distinguish my roster from the I don't know.
It looks like there's several hundred people in this league,
is a fair point, So I need somebody, Yeah, some
things that make my lineup a little different that that.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
That's true. I think you can more hope that you
save the right players and other people don't. Yeah for
that for that down the line. But uh, yes, that
that makes that does make sense. It definitely makes sense
in a DFS situation too, because Mims is going to
be much cheaper.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
He is going to be cheaper. All right, we're halfway
through the six games. Why don't we take a quick
break right here, and we'll come back and we'll talk
about Green Bay taking on the Philadelphia Eagles. We've got
some angles here, including one that I don't really think
anybody's I haven't heard really anybody talking about. Find out
who that is when we come back. Welcome back Fantasy
(13:26):
Football Weekly. Paul Charci and Scott Fish with you. We're
working through the playoff games in the wildcard round and
identifying some under the radar players that you can use
for fantasy or betting or DFS or your fantasy playoff leagues,
whatever the case may be, including Guillotine leagues. We have
two playoff guillotine games. So the first is very much
(13:48):
like this in season guillotine leagues, but much smaller number
of teams because there's only four rounds of the playoffs.
They're guilletinis, yes, they're so small team. The Guillotinies are
five team guillotine leagues. You can play these at guillotin
leagues dot com And just like regular Guillotines, at the
end of every week, the low scoring team for that
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week gets chopped. Their players go to the waiver wire
you can bid on those players. So that's the Guillotini format.
The other format has twenty five to five hundred players
in it. There is no draft. This is the Choppionship
and the championship. You get to just pick your favorite
fourteen players from the playoff teams, but the catches twofold
(14:33):
one can't change your roster later. You're locked in. These
are your fourteen players for the whole time, and you
can only have three per team and for this format
in particular. And you also were chopping the bottom twenty
five percent of teams every week, so you'll have to
be really thoughtful about how many chiefs and Lions. You
are safe to put on that roster. You're not gonna
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get points for them in the first week. There is
a bench so you can bench those guys. You don't
have to start them. But two different ways to play.
You can play for free, you can play for cash.
You can play with your friends in private leagues. There's
all these ways to play. Guillotine leagues dot com. Packers
taking on the Eagles. Let me hit you with this one.
(15:15):
Dallas Goddard all but forgotten in an injury riddled season.
Nobody really talking about Goddard. He had two significant injuries
that derailed a lot of his fantasy production for most
of the year. And Grant Calcata, I mean, I don't know,
maybe even outscored him for fantasy points. I don't know,
probably not because he was terrible. But you're going up
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against the Packers getting hammered by tight ends. Since Week twelve,
they've allowed per game averages of just under six catches
for sixty yards. If you apply that to a full season,
that would put the Packers as the sixth worst tight
end defense by yards. And Connard's gonna get almost all
of those almost six catches and sixty yards because the
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games that in which he played, Grant Calcata does nothing,
so Goddard gets pretty much all the tight end looks
when he's healthy. He's healthy now. Last week, in a
game in which the Eagles did not play most of
their starters for most of the game, they did play
Goddard for thirteen snaps. In those thirteen snaps, Scott four
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receptions for fifty five yards. That's right, Yes, So you
get the feeling that that was a very concerted effort
to get Dallas Goddard the ball Scott because I think
they just needed to get some rhythm for him, get
some catches, get tackled a few times, get Godard back
into playing rhythm because he's just missed so much time,
(16:43):
and this is a nice opportunity. I think I've got
the Eagles, by the way, do you have I've got
the Eagles going to the Super Bowl? I have Buffalo,
I have Buffalo and Philly.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Who do you have? I have Buffalo and the Lions.
But I don't have a problem with the Eagles. Call.
If I was to pick like backups to both of those,
that would be Ravens Eagles.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Okay, so yep, I would go Ravens Lions. So I
think you and I are. It's very chalky. We're all
ones in two seeds for these I just don't see
anybody going to Philadelphia and winning. And then if the
Eagles are going to travel to Detroit in the NFC
Championship game, I just don't. I just think the Eagles, Uh.
I think the Eagles would be able to score points
(17:23):
on that battered Lions defense. Yea, the Vikings couldn't, but
I think the Eagles would.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Ye.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
All right, Let's go to our next game, which is, yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Before we do. For some reason, I wrote down Packers
Eagles also, but I got I got one for the
next time.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Well, you know, if you've got if you've got a
Packer Eagle you'd like to talk about, let's do it.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
I was going to talk about, well, you know, gain
well potentially in a you know, run out the clock
situation with the Eagles, But I was also going to
talk about the potential trap in Dotavian Wicks.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Oh all right, because a lot of people do our
rostering him going like all right, Christian Watson's out, I'm
gonna yeah, I'm gonna go Wis for long bombs.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
His snap percentage goes up approximately thirty five percent when
Dobbs or Watson missed, So it goes up from forty
two percent on average with when it's a full compliment.
If one of those two miss it goes up to
seventy eight percent. Wow, his targets go from three a
little over three to a little over six. He doubles
(18:22):
over doubles his targets.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Okay, So it's all good news.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Outside of the Vikings game where Watson left like after
eight snaps and then Wiggs had to step it up
and they can't like it was a ton of garbage time. Yeah,
from way behind. That was a good game. Other than that,
two for twenty, four for thirty, four for forty nine,
four for forty three, and five for forty nine. He
has in top fifty yards except for that one Vikings
game all year long. Yeah, like it. If you if
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you look at the numbers and his route participation in
the numbers and his drops, true, he is he is
not putting up really any double digit fantasy days even
when those players are out. I mean, you can bank
on he's gonna get a lot more snaps, targets, et cetera.
But it's a possible trap spot. Okay, if you're simply
pushing him in.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
I like that angle watch bow. Milton's gonna go off.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Yeah yeah, Malie Keith will be scored two touchdowns. All right,
your fantasy. Good for them if they do.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Personally, we'll be happy for the Milton family. Yeah, Washington
commander's taking on the Bucks. Who you got here, Scott.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Yeah, I'm I'm going with Alamides a Chias, good old
Alamides is a Kias against what for most of the year,
good percentage of the year was a bottom five pass
d for for a decent amount of it, Yeah better lately, Yes, better.
That's that's why I said for a decent amount of
it it was much better lately. But it's also against
the team that is definitely going to put up points
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and Washington is going to definitely have to keep pace with.
Over the last month or so, alamade Is a Chias
has jumped into this seventy eighty percent snapshare. He has
become that number two behind McLaren. He's scored three times
in the final two weeks of the season. The last
week he's targeted four or five times. I think he
only had two for fifty one but he has been
known to have those deep plays. If there's a guy
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that's like McMillan is too obvious, Evans is too obvious,
Bucky Irvan's too obvious. If there's a guy that's not
quite obvious for either of these two teams, that might
be Ilamide's a kias.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Alamides a kias. All right, I'm I'm listening to that.
I kind of like Austin Eckler, Okay, yeah, sure, as
a as you know, I'm not a Brian Robinson believer,
never have been. I think he's a very ordinary runner
who should be more powerful than he is. And I
wonder if they don't, you know, out of if with
the dearth of targets, I wonder if he's not sitting
(20:46):
on a few targets. I guess you absolutely you know
that could be. What do you think is zach Ertz
in this game? Does he interested?
Speaker 3 (20:52):
All?
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Not a lot of good tight ends in the playoffs?
Four the highest five scoring tight ends in fantasy football
didn't make the playoffs?
Speaker 3 (21:00):
That did? Did he? Did he get all of his
fantasy playing that final week where he was like five
catchesn't a touchdown or whatever? How much does he have
left in him. I haven't looked at the snap percentages
on on Earth.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
It's very high. I mean he plays almost every snap.
John Bates is a total afterthought there.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Yeah, sinate it. We think he should be something at
some point. He just never really showed up.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
And Earth's played well this year, you know. And I
think I think he's got three touchdowns in the last
four games something like that. For Art, He's he's done
pretty well lately.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
So I'll interested three three in the last two games.
Six catches, five catches, three touchdowns last Yeah, he's that.
That is the big thing about Earth's is he scores
a ton.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Yeah, we'll take that.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
He scores an absolutes. I'm gonna see how many touchdowns
he had because he scored a lot.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
I'm gonna I'm gonna guess like seven, which is not
half bad.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
And by the tight end positions seven exactly. We go
seven exactly, you know, but all seven came from six
of the seven came from week eleven on.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Yeah, so better lately. Yeah, he's the anti Tray McBride,
anti tra McBride.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Yeah. Former current cardinal McBride ran and mandas touchdowns out
of town.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Vikings taking on the Los Angeles Rams first, and this
is not sleeper territory at all. I just think Kian
Williams sitting on a big game here. The Vikings run
defense had been great Scott for the first thirteen weeks
of the season. The Vikings ranked top three, top three,
and basically every run defense metric you can think of,
(22:49):
yards per carry, success rate, EPA, yards after contact, dv away,
anything you want. Vikings are top three again.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
And top one. If you take jam Gibbs out of.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Yeah, right, you remove Jamir Gibbs and then since week thirteen,
here's your Vikings run defense ranks in yards per carry twentieth,
rush defense EPA, seventeenth, yards after contact, twenty first, run
defense success rate thirty first for the Vikings run defense.
So I think Kyron Williams is sitting on potentially a
(23:20):
really nice game against Minnesota. You know, we'll find out Minnesota.
You know, maybe Minnesota reverts to previous form. Their whole
defense is healthy. They have every defensive starter. You would
you know, you would think that this that is such
a luxury at this time of time of year. I
gotta believe there isn't another team in the playoffs that's
rostering every single starter on defense.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
That's that's incredible, especially since we've had some key injuries
this year, but all of them seem to be in
the two to five week for riding.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Right right right, yep, all right, So now my deeper
sleeper is DeMarcus Robinson, but it's a weird one. Scott
So he scored twice in the week eight meeting against men.
Three targets on three targets as very efficient. If you
apply that to a full season, he's got twenty nine
touchdown Robinson is on the field constantly as a seventy
(24:12):
four percent snap share in four straight games and fourteen
different games this year, he's had a seventy four percent
snapshare higher. But here's where it gets weird. Three the
last four games, zero catches. Now, he had a shoulder injury,
but he was still out there running all the routes
and everything. Apparently with the shoulder injury, they put him
out anyway and just had him be a decoy. I
(24:34):
don't know, I mean, why not just run two two
out well or something?
Speaker 3 (24:36):
I think Robinson right exactly, he's actually draw the coverage.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
But last week DeMarcus Robinson seemed to be healed from
the shoulder injury. He didn't miss any time in practice,
and he showed up with three catches for seventy two yards. Nice,
So I think he's healthy now. And then there's the
whole issue of Cooper Cup, who has been a massively
dreadful fantasy producer lately. In half point PPR, Cup has
(25:03):
scored three fantasy points or less in four of the
last five games, so bad, unbelievable. He had a touchdown
in one of the one of the last five games,
but the other four his best game was three catches
for twenty seven yards. And here's the killer with Cup,
and you and I talked about this a few hours
ago off air. He's played twelve games. In the first
(25:25):
six healthy games that Cup played, he had seven end
zone targets. In the most recent six games, he's had
one end zone target. And you told me one red
zone target.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Yeah, one red zone target.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
I mean for Cooper Cup. So Sean McVay is apparently,
I mean, that's not that is not a coincidence. Sean
McVay is not throwing the ball. It's not scheming the
ball to Cooper Cup.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Yeah. Yeah, if anybody's going to figure out, like figure
out what is working or what he wants to work
or what he thinks will work best. It's Sean McVay,
and clearly he doesn't think that's what's gonna work best.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Correct. Correct. So there's something Sean McVay knows something we
don't about Cooper Cup. Maybe he's holding back Cooper Cup
for the playoffs. He's gonna spring it on the Vikingsha,
Cooper Cup's fine. Haha, here's fourteen targets.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
I did hear a rumor that he has switched from
cereal to pancakes at the breakfasts. Oh, it's going to
be a bit He's getting it in and out of
cut slower because of the pancakes.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Wayed down by the pancakes. What's the best pancake?
Speaker 3 (26:34):
I don't I don't know what the best pancake. I
just like pancakes. Are Are you talking like blueberry or
charge the chip or I just have regular old pancakes? Honestly,
you do.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
I offer you a blueberry pancake or a plane pancake,
you would go.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
The plain pancake. Why I like blueberry pancakes? Don't get
me wrong, I just I just I just like a
good old pancake.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
You mentioned chocolate chip, but you know me with.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Burgers like I don't.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Pre playing, you have nothing on the burger.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Maybe a garlic aoli once in a while, but yeah,
plane usually that's it. I just I just like the
maiden stuff.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
About twelve years ago, I ordered chocolate chip pancakes and
I felt I felt weird about doing it because I'm
an adult.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
In twelve years ago, my kids do the chocolate chip
with sprinkles and stuff. Yeah, you know how, it was delicious, awesome.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Oh, it was so good. I was like, Okay, I
can't I can't get in the habit of ordering chocolate
chip pancakes. They're delicious.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Well, I haven't eaten lunch yet, so maybe I'll mix
up some chocolate chip pancakes. I've done it for my kids.
I've just never had them myself.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Do you put them in the batter or do you
sprinkle them on top after it's on the ground.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
I have done both. I have absolutely done both. I
have found that when you sprinkle them up on top,
then you're flipping them over and like.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
They're all on the tim Yeah, and that's that could
be bad. But they'll get they'll get warm and gooey.
The thing and the problem with putting them in the
batter is you don't necessarily get the even distribution. Yeah,
and for chocolate chips, maybe it's as big a deal,
so you can put a lot more chips in. But
for blueberries, right, you might put twenty in the whole
batter and then you do a scoop and you might
only get three in that scoop when you're really when
(28:09):
you really want more, like you know, six per scoop
or whatever. Yeah, that made the catch with the blueberry pancake.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
I think, Oh, man, this is two shows in a
row where we get well you and Brian last last
week and meeting you this time.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
We're going really, oh, it's deemed well, we're used to
filling two hours, so right now our run time is
about is a little under a half hour, a little
more with spots, and so.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
You know, we're used to killing time. This is filling
a lot of time, So why not pancakes.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Pan pancakes, hashtag pancakes, tweet us people.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
My wife does, She's like, oh, give me a brand pancake.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
What a brand? Bran brand? Oh a brand pancake? No?
I don't think I can do that.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
I'm out. I want just I just want the regular.
I don't want the wheat pancake. I don't want. I
don't want it healthy. Basically, it's short of it.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
No, even those super protein pancakes, I'm like, ye, give
me your normal.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Is where you put it the protein powder.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
No, there's like Kodiak or whatever. There are certain types
of pancake pancake like you know stuff, yeah that is hot,
way higher in protein that you can have.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
A few years ago, I was visiting Atlanta for a
music a music festival called Shaky Knees, And I drove
up to Chattanooga, Tennessee, from Atlanta, and I let my
friend Joe Bryant, our mutual friend Joe Bryant, know that
I was going to be in Chattanooga and didn't give
him much notice and he couldn't join me. I was
hoping he could drive from Knoxville to Chattanooga, butod he couldn't.
(29:33):
But he said, you have to go to this restaurant
called Aretha Frankenstein. Okay, And like, okay, and it's a
breakfast place.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
That name is a Frankenstein A little bit, isn't it
is it is a Frankenstein and go in and a.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
That was really cool. They had all these vintage cereal
boxes all over the walls, which is really cool, like
cuisp and you know all of these all you know,
all these all from the like the nineteen fifties and
sixties and seventies Cereal boxes, and that was really cool.
But their signature thing is these gigantic thick pancakes the
full size of a plate and about three quarters of
(30:12):
an inch thick. Wow, And it was delicious.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
That would fill me up the entire day. I wouldn't
even have another meal.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Correct, And that's how it works. But it turned out
I found this a few months ago. Aretha Frankenstein sells
the pancake mix in a box and from Amazon, so
you can't normally get it on stores here in Minnesota.
I think it's probably very localized to the greater Chattanooga
area to buy the box. But I was able to
(30:40):
get it here, and so we made some Aretha Frankenstein
pancakes over the holidays and it was very good. It
wasn't as good as them making it in the store,
but it was still very good. But it was still
very good.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
It's like the red Lobster Chedderbay biscuits. You make them
on your own with their thing. It's it's it's good.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
It's just the same. They've got all the stuff, right,
they got it.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
There's something I got a question for you about about
something similar Frankenstein. So doctor Frankenstein was the creator of
Frankenstein's Monster. Was Cookie Monster created by Doctor Cookie? Is
that is Cookie Monster? Not?
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Okay? The distinction here is it's Frankenstein's apostrophe s Monster
versus Cookie Monster. I think this is a very important possessive.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
I think you're probably right.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
But I am interested in Cookie Monster's parents. What do
they look like? You know, is Snuffalopogus actually one of
the parents, because that's what Snufalopagus like dips in every
now and again to check on Cookie Monster.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Yeah, he's not a helicopter parent. He's just everyone's well.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Just now you know that they don't allow Snuffoalophagus on
the show anymore.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
That, and I can sort of understand.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
I don't know if you're going with a joke.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
He not exactly. This is serious. It's because so the
premise for those that don't know is snuff Snuffleophagus would
make an appearance on Sesame Street and then the but
no parent, no adult would ever see Snuffalophagus, and he's
a giant, you know, he's a giant, like elephant sized, right,
(32:17):
and no parent would see him, and the kids would
be like, hey with Snuffalopagus, and the parents would be like, no,
it's not And they ultimately decided they didn't want kids
to get in the habit of like being deceptive or
tricky with parents about like whether or not they had
seen somebody like if you know.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
I see, I don't know, I see.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Yeah. It's so they took snuffle Stuffle off of this
the out of the show, which is a little.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Sad, but times happened, then things change, yep, it does,
all right?
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Yeah, thanks uh. I appreciate the U six of you
that got to the end of that boring discussion on
pancakes snuffleophagus.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
And I think the listeners like that stuff.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
I don't know, maybe think they do. Maybe I don't know.
Maybe we need our own off topic show FFW off topic.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
And pair it with whiskey Wednesdays. Oh yeah, off top.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
We need to bring that back.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
I got it.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Before I leave. I want to see all these whiskeys
you got for Christmas.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
I have some of them here. I think some of
them are gone now.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
But what do you mean gone? Is stolen? Or just
drink them all. It's only it's only been three weeks
or two weeks since Christmas. No, you getn't have polished
off eight b.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
In law's house or may be done on the fridge.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
We'll see, okay, all right, we'll look forward to that.
Thanks for listening. Everybody back next week. We'll break down
all the games next week as well, and Fantasy Football
Weekly style. We'll talk to you then, Bye bye. Fantasy
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