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Speaker 1: Welcome in everybody to Fantasy pros. This is the Fantasy Football Podcast. Is me Joey Pit Joe Pi's Apia, and it's time to look ahead to the waiver wire for a round one of the playoffs. It's Week fifteen and to help us find the names you need to stream on your way to fantasy glory. Pat Fitzmore is my Patty Cakes and Debro. Derek Brown the King of Bros. Gentlemen, nothing can break my stride today as a Mets fan. Juan Soto is officially in the Blue and Orange. So I mean, I am in such a good mood. Not even Derek Brown can bring me down. That's what I'm saying today. And I'm excited. I've got some playoff teams. I'm sure you guys do too. I've got some teams that are still on the bubble. We'll see what happens on Monday night. Fingers crossed. I know a lot of you are still kind of sweating out some leagues, but Pat, you know we're in this spot here. And if you had been listening to the show the last couple of weeks, we made the stuff withining cuffin jokes, ha ha ha, funny, funny, funny, But the reality is, for those teams that did that successfully, Sunday was the perfect storm of crap in which it turned out to be the best thing you could do. Zach Sharbonay ended up having to play right because ken Walker was out. Braylan Allen ended up having to play because Breis Hall was out. So this whole concept of you know, you don't have to draft the backups, but you certainly do at some point have to stash the backups once we turned the page into November, and I feel like we did our audience a pretty good service. Pat, How are you feeling now that we're on the ninth of December in the playoff hunt here for a championship that people actually probably did listen and hopefully had those insurance policies on lockdown.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I do hope the Kenneth Walker investors were clever enough to take Zach Sharbonay because that was the time and big cash in for those people, the people who and this one you needed to be nimble on Joe the Isaac Grendo because all that went down last Monday, where not only is Christian McCaffrey out for the season, but Jordan Mason too, and I know Grenda was widely available there. So sometimes there's something you said for keeping your powder dry in a year like this when there was not a lot on waivers all year, and certainly not a lot at the running back position. So the people who were left with eighty percent of their fab because they found nothing to spend it on and could go out and get Isaac Garendo, we're probably pretty handsomely rewarded. Although well guess what Isaac Garendo might be no more after yesterday.
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Speaker 1: Oh boy boy. San Francisco goes through running backs the way Steve Cohen, my owner of the Mets, goes through money. But it's okay, I'm okay with it. I'm gonna make so much, Joe.
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Speaker 2: It must be nice to cheer for a team that spends money. As a Milwaukee brewer standing well, I mean.
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Speaker 1: As a Mets fan, we haven't always spent it right or spent it at all. So this is a whole new dynamic for me. I'm still, you know, trying to figure out the landscape. De Bro.
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Speaker 3: All this Smet's love and not one bit of Mets garb on you, right?
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Speaker 4: Oh no, I had.
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Speaker 1: I already did the video where I was wearing everything. This is the Football Show, the Remnants, No, no, no, I understand the Football Show. People are yelling, get me ready to get back to football and I and I will so, Derek Brown. The other thing I want to talk about before we launch into the waivers is this. Every year there's some shiny toy on the waiver wire in round one of the playoffs. It's a good matchup, maybe had a good week, and people start overthinking things in terms of not just picking them up. But do I want to start this guy in week fifteen?
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Speaker 5: Like?
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Speaker 1: Do it?
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Speaker 3: Well?
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Speaker 1: Do I want to go with the horses that brought me there? And I feel like more often than not, that ends up being a bad decision. It's one thing to roster them so somebody else can't use them against you, But then some of these players, it's not just about getting them on your roster to play, it's more getting them on your roster sometimes so other people can't and the gamesman ship there, So how important is that discipline to really have a strong evaluation of Look, these these are the players that I drafted, These are the players that I've been working with these are the players that got me to the playoffs and not taking them out of your lineup for somebody you just picked up necessarily. Oh it's huge, man.
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Speaker 3: I mean you got to look at production, you got to look at who got you there and stuff like. I mean, like, and we've seen this like live streams Joe like with the last few weeks, We've seen Jane Daniels questions. We've seen Josh Allen questions. We hadn't even talked about his Monster Day likes. There have been questions about a lot of players where we're like, uh, do I play Cooper Cup I mean, he had a bad game and stuff. It's like, look, we can get a little bit too much into it and get too cute with some of this stuff sometimes where it's like, okay, just play the players that are good at the thing called football.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's good advice right there. All right, So we're gonna go through every position today. We can do things a little differently. We're gonna go through our favorite streamers of the week, because hopefully in your league, no one else could pick anyone else up. There's no reason for a team that's not in the playoffs you want to pick somebody up. If your league is structured that way, you need to get on the horn to your commissioner fix that right away. So we're gonna start the running back position, and Pat, I want to start with you here. Give me a running back that you feel good about streaming this week off the waiver wires. Should he still be out there in your league.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if there's anyone I feel great about streaming this week, Joe, but I feel okay about Tank Bigsby this week. He outsnapped Travis Etn thirty one to twenty eight yesterday and out carried him eighteen to four. Finished with eighteen carries for fifty five yards in a touchdown against a really good Tennessee run defense. Career high in carries for Tank. But he's been really good as a runner this year, and I believe going into week fourteen, I want to say that he was leading all runners with at least forty rushing attempts in yards after contact per carrie. Like, he's just been a better runner than Travis Etn has been this year. And with Mac Jones and quarterback, you need to lean on the running game. So you know, neutral matchup coming up this week against the Jets and then if you can make it that far with Tank, pretty good matchup against Las Vegas coming up in week sixteen.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Speaking of Las Vegas, let's talk about a running back that we actually mentioned last week as maybe a guy to stash, especially with my apocalypse going around with Sincere McCormick of the Raiders and the backfield didn't get much healthier. And McCormick looks like a guy right now, debro that you can feel pretty good about having on your roster for death, not just for Week fifteen, but maybe rest of season.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, he's gonna be in that friend j RB two conversation after what we saw last week, and we talked about him on the live stream constantly, we talked about on the one Waiver Wire podcast last week, and he's my top streaming guy of the week, and looking at his matchups, I mean you could stream in the next three weeks if you pick him up. He's only fifteen percent roster right now, Like he gets Atlanta, Jacksonville, New Orleans good rushing matchups, and we saw he took over the backfield sixty one percent of the snaps. He almost had twenty touches eighty nine total yards. I understand that this offense is a little bit more gross now that again we're down another quarterback for Las Vegas. But sincere looks like I mean he's breaking tackles, he's getting all the work. I mean the volume he's seeing is RB two level worthy.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Pat, real quick. I want to get your take on McCormick two, because this is a player you know you saw in college have some success. Are you surprised that we've seen that of him in the NFL so far? In this small sample that you've gotten so far with the Raiders.
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Speaker 2: Not terribly. He was a fun watch at the University of Texas San Antonio, so not totally. And like you figure, at this point, Joe, the Raiders just have to roll with him, right. I mean, yards per carry is a bad stat but Alexander Madison is averaging three point three yards per carry this year so far our small sample size, Bitsinceerrera, McCormick is averaging five point five yards per carry and this team is going nowhere. Like he deserves an extended audition down the stretch.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll see. With the health of the quarterback situation in Las Vegas yields, but Tank Bigsby Sinceer McCormick, two guys that might still be floating around there. Again, this is the tricky thing too after Week fourteen and another reason why, guys, I gotta tell you, you know, from a fantasy football perspective, I hate Week fourteen being the heavy bye week. I really do. I don't know why we don't do it in ten and twelve and then have this push towards the end for everybody, because what you see is the way things are structured now at the extended week eighteen, you have this weird compression in the market where six teams are on a buy Week fourteen, all these teams go all in all of these free agents, and then guess what, most of those teams aren't relevant anymore. And now those guys that might have been useful in the waiver wire for other people, now they're not there anymore. And that's kind of frustrating when you look at the way the league has structured the schedule from a fantasy perspective. Again, it's nothing we can do about it. It's just the way it is. But Week fourteen being such a strong buy, we it always feels like nowadays the last two years at least, that you kind of have to make sure you have your ducks in a row before you even get anywhere close to fourteen, and then you end up basically playing with what you have. One thing you can do with the money you have is go over to DraftKings and make some more of it. Because the NBA season is rolling along, Playing Pick six from DraftKings, an official sports betting partner of the NBA, is a way to get even more into the action with your favorite players. It's a super simple way to get started. You first download the Draft Kings Pick six apps, then select two or more players and choose if they'll have more or less of a stat pretty easy like points, rebounds, three pointers, you name it, they've got it. You track your picks for a shot at huge cash prizes, and that's not it. You can even do the Pick six available in most states including California and Texas, Georgia, Missouri, and more so. If you haven't done this already, now is the time and for all the first time Pick six players check this out. New customers pay five bucks, get fifty dollars in Pick six credits. So the fun of the NBA season continues with the most fun way to play fantasy sports Pick six from DraftKings. Download the DraftKings Pick six app. Now use that promo code Fantasy Pros. That's one word, Fantasy Pros. And again new customers get five bucks to play in there. All you gotta do is put your five in there. You get fifty out in Pick six credits only on DraftKings Pick six. The crown is yours.
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Speaker 1: Let's move over to the wide Receivers debro. Why don't you start us off with somebody you feel good about? Picking up and somebody that you are confident in maybe perhaps the rest of season being somebody that could be useful for fantasy championship run.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I know he had a down week last week, but I'm telling people the bounce back is coming in the next two weeks. And that's Elijah Moore entering the game against the Steelers. Elijah Moore, we've seen the big games with Jamis Winston under center. He'd had a twenty one point five percent target share, twenty three percent first reach here. I know, the down game against Pittsburgh, and people are like, you should go back to the well, but you have the Kansas City Chiefs and the Cincinnati Bengals upcoming. Neither one of those past defense can slot stop slot wide receivers. So Elijah Moore going back to the well this week?
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Speaker 1: All right? So Elijah Moore certainly with Tilman having some concussion issues too, that's another one too, where you know less guys around who knows that he gets cleared again. We'll see how the season rolls on. FITZI, let's talk about a wide receiver you feel good about picking up off the waiver wire for Week fifteen.
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Speaker 2: I don't know how good I feel about it, Joe. But Quentin Johnston certainly has some boom potential this week, especially if Lad McConkie continues to be out for the Chargers. Really good matchup against the Buccaneers. You've given up the fourth most receptions and tenth most fantasy points to wide receivers, and Johnston just had a pretty good game against a Chiefs defense that has just been really tough on outside receivers. Five catches, forty eight yards and a touchdown and actually made some tough catches, hung on to one where he absolutely got crushed by I want to say, Nick Bolton. So a nice bounce back game for Quent Johnston after a pair of duds, and he is you know, if Ladd continues to be out the lead receiver for Justin Herbert, one of the best passers.
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Speaker 1: In the league. Yeah, I'll tell you what a bit of grind last night. That game. I remember when the Chiefs games used to be fun to watch. Remember that guy's Remember when Chiefs games were fun entertaining feels so long ago. Yeah, we do. We let Matt Naggy get by too easily, because that's the one thing we can all look at too. Ever, since the offensive coordinator changed to Matt and Neaggi a couple of years ago. I understand that he doesn't have Tyreek Hill to get that, but there was a year without Tyreek Hill that things were still pretty good and a little bit more dynamic. I know Travis Kelsey's gotten older, Debro, what do you think about that? Like, do you think maybe we don't hang enough of maybe some of the play calling being a little lackluster in the Oca Matt Negy, a guy that failed miserably with the Bears who's come back into town and taken over that job a couple of years ago. That ever since, the Chiefs offense has been a little.
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Speaker 3: Meh, yeah, I mean it's definitely got to be part of it, man. I mean, looking at I just don't know if Kansas City cares about like making him look pretty anymore.
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Speaker 1: They're just like, nah, we just care about winning. Yeah, how we do it. It's fine. It's so good depassing.
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Speaker 3: We don't even know if Mahomes can do that anymore. It doesn't really matter. We're not especially efficient and running the ball doesn't really matter. Defense has some holes, doesn't really matter.
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Speaker 1: We just continue to win. Pat Let's say we live in a world where Travis Kelcey comes back again next year, and we get Rushia Rice healthy, and maybe Hopkins decides he wants to play one more year because you know, it's the chief so that he wants to come back and they want him back and they roll all in. Will this year sort of taint your image of the Chiefs offense from a fantacy perspective in twenty twenty five or would you give them a fresh look with fresh health next season.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's an interesting question, Joe, because now we've seen like more than a full calendar year of Patrick Mahomes being a pretty average fantasy quarterback, which is really kind of strange. And it's obviously not the talent level with Mahomes. It's more about the way that the Chiefs play, And so that's going to be a hard assessment. What does happen if we see him with all this weaponry around him, with Kelsey, with the healthy Rashi Rice, with maybe Hopkins back, Xavier Worthy another year ingrained in the offense. So it is an interesting question. I still have not fully wrapped my head around the fantasy decline of Patrick Mahomes.
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Speaker 1: I was very bullish on Mahomes this year, and I have to take a huge l on that because I thought he would get back into those fantasy stratugy here. We did so many good years from him. I thought last year was just like one of those weird anomaly, like sometimes this happens, changing of the guard, all the talent moving in and out, and then things start to get better towards the end of the season, and then this year is more of the same. Like you said, just disappointing, underwhelming Patrick Mahomes, and that's not something we were used to throughout his entire career. The quarterbacks to stream this week, perhaps in your worst situations for quarterbacks and single quarterback leagues, or maybe the quarterbacks you're trying to decide between in your superflex leagues, FITZI, there was an old quarterback yesterday that actually put up some good yardage totals. But unfortunately the Jets always find a way to lose, which I don't know if I'm torn, because I want them to stop losing at a certain point so I can get a better draft pick as a Patriots fan, and then at the same time, I don't want them to stop losing because I'm a Patriots fan. It's really hard, Like I'm really torn about these things. I mean, these are things that keep me up at night. Pat Aaron Rodgers, how do you feel about his matchup this week? And how do you feel about rolling them out there in a fancy lineup if you have to?
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Speaker 2: Surprisingly good, Joe, and I know a couple of weeks ago there were people thinking that maybe Rogers would check himself out in these meaningless games down the stretch with some self diagnosed injury. Hasn't happened. Just had his first three hundred yard passing game of the season, has the dynamic duo of DeVante Adams and Garrett Wilson to throw to, and gets a really attractive Week fifteen matchup against the Jacksonville Jaguars, who everyone except Will Levis throws successfully.
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Speaker 1: Again. So here's a question for you too. Did the Bree Hall injury exacerbate the need in your opinion, to you know, put them ball in Rogers' hands more and be a little bit looser perhaps with some of the play calls.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, apparently. I mean it wasn't like they were doing a lot of business on the ground anyway. Really like they were not a ground and pound team and they sort of, you know, cobbled it together with Braylan Allen and Isaiah Davis, who Isaiah Davis kind of another sneaky play this week because the matchup against the Jags is pretty good for the runners too. But yeah, so both of those guys were used in the passing game also, So suddenly we've got Aaron Rodgers with a pretty full compliment of weapons here, and yeah, maybe they're not going to lean on the running game as much as they might if Breese Hall were around. So it does seem like it's a strangely good set up for the Jets and Aaron Rodgers.
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Speaker 1: Davis almost had another touchdown too, but it was a ball that you get the ground in the end zone to be in. That whole performance from Isaiah Davis, hecause really had to be just incredibly infuriating for anybody who was like really excited about starting. Braileen Allen, that was a real kid.
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Speaker 2: They played. Brailan Allen played one more snap than I saw Davis.
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Speaker 1: Ten for forty three looking at the stats right now, ten for forty excuse me for Davis, eleven for forty three for Braylen Allen. But again, Davis had the touchdown and almost had two. Isaiah Davis had three catches for twenty seven, Braileen Allen four for thirty eight, So it really was just about a true split there. So Davis, maybe another guy in those deeper leagues if you're really hurting at RB, maybe something to think about. Who knows. All right, let's get to another quarterback before we do a quick reminder out there to a lot of the guys. Look, you know, low testosteron effects about thirty percent of adult men in America, and it's okay to talk about this. And if you're feeling drag fatigue, you're noticing a dip and muscle mass, you're trying to stay in shape, it's just not working out because you're getting older. Or if you're sensing a slump in your libido, and if so, these are all signs of low testosterone, it's time to get your testosterone levels checked. And if you have low t kaisa trex is an FDA approof pill that's changing the game in testosterone replacement therapy. In fact, kaisa treks restore testosterone levels and nearly nine out of ten clinical study participants, and its unique formulation bypasses the liver to avoid liver damage, which is very important. It's time to break free from injections, pellets and gels. Use Kaisa trecks and take a step towards being the hero of your life again. To see if you qualify, visit kaisatrex dot com and take the low T quiz today. That's Kaisa trex k y z a t r e x dot com and visit it today and find out if it can help you get back to being the best you that you can be. Let's get to a quarterback. Jameis Winston is always the best version of himself, Debro. I don't care what the stat line ever says. It's always Jameis Winston living his best life. So Kenny live his best life in week fifteen. That, my friends, is the question.
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Speaker 3: Well, I don't know if the Lord's gonna deliver him from pick sixes. But you want to talk about the fly in the ointment of how the chiefs win Jamis Winz just walking in like ha ha, I'm ready for chaos, baby, Like if there's a guy that could bring you.
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Speaker 1: And I say you the Royal, well, the Royal wee pat can we get a radical ruling on that you're the guy for that. There's no royal. You we can't use the royal. You can't make that up.
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Speaker 3: No, Well, Jamis is gonna possibly bring an l for the Chiefs this week if he goes and he throws for four hundred yards and goes nuts and stuff like that, and that's gonna help fantasy managers out there. And we've seen him be a QB one in fifty percent of his starts, and heck, one of these weeks, guys, who's a QB one overall?
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Speaker 1: So yeah, stream.
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Speaker 3: Him, plug him in as your QB two and your super flex lineups. Probably a big Jamis weekend coming, Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Certainly could be. That game is at one Eastern in Cleveland. The Jets are going to be at Jacksonville too, Just that reminder that game is on the road. So maybe that's a good thing. Maybe Aaron Rodgers needs to get out of New York more often. Maybe that's the secret saucer for him. All right, let's move on here to the tight ends. Deebro We talked about Juwan Johnson last week. Juwan Johnson got some fantasy action last week. Again, sometimes it's just as easy as auditioned by subtraction. But speaking of subtraction, Derek Carr injury, Oh god, the Saints have had crazy worst injury luck I have seen in a team in a very long time. And that's saying something because it feels like every week somebody's hurt in the NFL. So is Juwan Johnson still a tight end worthy? Where we are right now in the stratosphere of the New Orleans Saints roster of what's remaining left with.
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Speaker 3: Them, he is And I understand, you know, Okay, quarterback concerns. I mean, this just comes down to they have nobody else left at it outside of him and mvs to throw the freaking ball to. So because of that, over the last two games, Juwan Johnson has had a seventeen point six percent target chair. He has good matchups upcoming. He's average forty three receiving yards over those two games. You throw a touchdown like last week on top of any of those stat lines, and he's going to be a tight end one weekly. So yeah, Jawan Johnson's got good matchups. I'll love streaming him this.
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Speaker 1: Week, okay, pat a streaming tight end this week. A guy that's coming off a bye that has really, you know, had a pretty i would say, under the radar season from a tight end landscape, and one that I think maybe is underappreciated. It's a guy from New Englan. Let's talk about Hunter Henry. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I'll due respect to mister Derek Brown, but I just like I don't want to have to depend on Jake Hayner or Spencer Rattler in my Week fifteen matchup, So I am willing to depend on Drake May. Yeah, as good as he's been, and May has leaned heavily on Hunter Henry, who is averaging in Drake May's eight starts five point three catches and fifty three point eight receiving yards. Again, he's only scored one touchdown. I'm surprised he hasn't had more in the May starts, but he's averaging basically double digit PPR points for you and pretty good numbers for a tight end. So I'm willing to ride with him. I just think the floor is probably safer than you get with any other widely available tight end.
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Speaker 1: I would agree. I think Hunter Henry, you know, has certainly proven that he can be a useful fantasy tight end. Maybe a lower end fantasy tight end, but I mean that's kind of been tight end for the most part unless you had brock Bowers. The brock Bowers has been the truth. Outside of that man, that guy is fun to watch. Imagine if he had a real quarterback. Imagine what brock Bowers would be with the Patrick Mahomes. But we're not going to see that unfortunately. All right, let's get to the defenses, and this is not to be overlooked. I think this is very important when you're trying to scratch and claw your way to points. You know, some teams out there, a lot of managers have been streaming defenses a year, so this is really where the rubber meets the road. This is a spot where I think some teams sometimes overlook where they can get points from. Defense. Spot is one of them. So pat when you comb through the waiver wire, what defense stands out to you is somebody in week fifteen that you feel good about the matchup, good about the points they might be able to create, because every single point matters to advance to Round two of the playoffs.
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Speaker 2: Well, I like the Green Bay Packers show because they have a pretty good two week stretch coming up here. The Packers haven't been forcing turnovers quite like they were earlier in the season, but they have a Week fifteen matchup against the Seahawks. Have given up the fifth most fantasy points to opposing defenses, and you have a pretty bad offensive line that I think the Packers pass rush might be able to exploit. And then in Week sixteen they get the New Orleans Saints, the Derek carr Less New Orleans Saints. So pretty good two week runout here for the Packers. If you're down to the felt on fab money, pick up the Packers and then you will not have to spend on a defense again in week sixteen.
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Speaker 1: All right, let's get to a defense from your perspective here, Derek, who do you think think might be intriguing? Maybe just not for fifteen, but maybe rest of the playoffs as well.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, this comes down to and there was two teams for this week that kind of I bounce back and forth, with one being the Atlanta Falcons going up against desmon Ridder in the show sheet, I just did talk I just did, and then you change right underneath my nose.
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Speaker 1: Do you think I was gonna notice? I think you're just gonna like, no, one I did.
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Speaker 3: Look like any defense going against Desmond Ritter, and I understand how bad the Falcons looked. They have to be somewhere near the top of the list. But man, it's the Washington Commanders and I just talked about Juwan Johnson. They could still throw the ball, he could still have a decent day. But depending on who the quarterback is, we're gonna maybe see sacks, We're gonna maybe see turnovers. And the Washington Commanders defense is readily available. They're out there everywhere and they've been playing better. And hey, guess what what do we see? Maybe a pick six Marshawn Lattimore revenge game. Maybe he's acted this week revenge for what.
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Speaker 1: Being traded to a contender and getting the hell out of New Orleans. Like, if anything, he should be sending them an edible arrangement.
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Speaker 3: A little bit, a little bit of venom still left over from Dennis Allen time.
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Speaker 1: Oh Dennis gone there? Riz is there now yelling at punters that was and clogging toilets. Apparently, Hey man, look, you know you get that big Chipotle burrito. Things are gonna happen after Oh, let's get to the kickers for the week here Debro streaming kicker Week fifteen. Who do you have?
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Speaker 3: We're gonna go Chad Ryland against the Patriots. He's put up double digit points and three of his last six games a ride with him.
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Speaker 1: FITZI a kicker for week fifteen. Who's on the docket Will Luttz?
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Speaker 2: I think he's only rostered in like thirteen percent of Yahoo leagues tied for fifth and kicker scoring this year for the surprisingly potent Denver Broncos. And he gets the altitude lift in Denver at home against the Colts this week.
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Speaker 1: You gotta love that when you get the bonuses for the bigger kicks too, because in Denver that's something that's a little bit more feasible over the years. All right, let's get to the top five waiver wire ads of the week, and just a reminder of you need more help with the waiver wire. Make sure you're using the waiver assistant on my playbook. Download my playbook. Make sure that you sink your leagues for free. You might have gone the whole season, everything's been great, but you know what this is the playoffs. Leave no stone unturned. Use everything you can to make sure you're getting an advantage. Still time to download my playbook wherever get your apps, or go to fancybros dot com slash my playbook and use the waiver Assistant, and also go to fantasybros dot com to see all the waiver rankings, all the waver wire content. Because we're on a championships now, Okay, this is not week six week seven, which is kind of running around. No, you need all the information you can to make the best decisions, FITZI take me through the top five waiver Wire ads for Week fifteen, Round one of the playoffs. What's the top five look like?
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Speaker 2: All right, I've got Tank pigs p at number one, just ahead of Sincere McCormick. But I think that's a coin flip close to it. I could make a case for Sincere over Tank for sure, and number third a guy we didn't talk about, Joe Julia McLoughlin, who I know. It's been really unpredictable. Sean Payton has truly been riding the hot hand. But last week so the Broncos before their Week fourteen by it was Julia McLoughlin leading the way with fourteen carries for eighty four yards and he gets a pretty good matchup against the Colts in week fifteen. Quentin Johnston number four, Elijah Moore number five, and just one more guy. I want to mention to keep an eye on Joe the alluded to it earlier and the uncertain status of Isaac Grendo after his injury. Patrick Taylor is going to be a guy people are going to want to watch, although it's not totally clear, like I think Patrick Taylor would be the guy. But the forty nine Ers did just acquire Izzy Abanacanada from the Jets practice squad, so there's a chance Izzy could cut into that workload. But we know Kyle Shanahan kind of likes to ride with one guy, and he's got a little more familiar with familiarity with Patrick Taylor, who's been on the roster longer.
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Speaker 1: Who'd have thought the Madden curse would extend to the entire backfield of the forty nine Ers this year. I mean, do you think about it? Right, he got McCaffrey on the cover and then at the end like nobody, like, I don't know, he kind of want to stay away from this boy. Maybe maybe mister Vanacanda should rethink this move to San Francisco. I don't know, just say be careful out there, buddy.
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Speaker 2: It's like final tap drummers going down.
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Speaker 1: That was a good Oh my god, yeah, good reference. That's nice Stonehash. All right, let's get to uh de Bro's top five for week fifteen, Debro, what does the list look like?
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Speaker 3: Uh? Sinceera McCormick takes the top spot, Elijah Moore number two. We talked about Isaiah Davis in the great matchup this week. I don't think Breece Hall is back. Uh so he got the goal line work, probably gonna get it again this week. He's number three. Tank is number four, and Patrick Taylor Junior. On the short week, I do think he's gonna be the guy for the forty nine ers because they didn't elevate easy last week. Keishawn Vaughn was the number two running back. I think this could be Taylor's backfield on a short week, so.
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Speaker 1: Welcome in everybody to Fantasy pros. This is the Fantasy Football Podcast. Is me Joey Pit Joe Pi's Apia, and it's time to look ahead to the waiver wire for a round one of the playoffs. It's Week fifteen and to help us find the names you need to stream on your way to fantasy glory. Pat Fitzmore is my Patty Cakes and Debro. Derek Brown the King of Bros. Gentlemen, nothing can break my stride today as a Mets fan. Juan Soto is officially in the Blue and Orange. So I mean, I am in such a good mood. Not even Derek Brown can bring me down. That's what I'm saying today. And I'm excited. I've got some playoff teams. I'm sure you guys do too. I've got some teams that are still on the bubble. We'll see what happens on Monday night. Fingers crossed. I know a lot of you are still kind of sweating out some leagues, but Pat, you know we're in this spot here. And if you had been listening to the show the last couple of weeks, we made the stuff withining cuffin jokes, ha ha ha, funny, funny, funny, But the reality is, for those teams that did that successfully, Sunday was the perfect storm of crap in which it turned out to be the best thing you could do. Zach Sharbonay ended up having to play right because ken Walker was out. Braylan Allen ended up having to play because Breis Hall was out. So this whole concept of you know, you don't have to draft the backups, but you certainly do at some point have to stash the backups once we turned the page into November, and I feel like we did our audience a pretty good service. Pat, How are you feeling now that we're on the ninth of December in the playoff hunt here for a championship that people actually probably did listen and hopefully had those insurance policies on lockdown.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I do hope the Kenneth Walker investors were clever enough to take Zach Sharbonay because that was the time and big cash in for those people, the people who and this one you needed to be nimble on Joe the Isaac Grendo because all that went down last Monday, where not only is Christian McCaffrey out for the season, but Jordan Mason too, and I know Grenda was widely available there. So sometimes there's something you said for keeping your powder dry in a year like this when there was not a lot on waivers all year, and certainly not a lot at the running back position. So the people who were left with eighty percent of their fab because they found nothing to spend it on and could go out and get Isaac Garendo, we're probably pretty handsomely rewarded. Although well guess what Isaac Garendo might be no more after yesterday.
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Speaker 1: Oh boy boy. San Francisco goes through running backs the way Steve Cohen, my owner of the Mets, goes through money. But it's okay, I'm okay with it. I'm gonna make so much, Joe.
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Speaker 2: It must be nice to cheer for a team that spends money. As a Milwaukee brewer standing well, I mean.
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Speaker 1: As a Mets fan, we haven't always spent it right or spent it at all. So this is a whole new dynamic for me. I'm still, you know, trying to figure out the landscape. De Bro.
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Speaker 3: All this Smet's love and not one bit of Mets garb on you, right?
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Speaker 4: Oh no, I had.
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Speaker 1: I already did the video where I was wearing everything. This is the Football Show, the Remnants, No, no, no, I understand the Football Show. People are yelling, get me ready to get back to football and I and I will so, Derek Brown. The other thing I want to talk about before we launch into the waivers is this. Every year there's some shiny toy on the waiver wire in round one of the playoffs. It's a good matchup, maybe had a good week, and people start overthinking things in terms of not just picking them up. But do I want to start this guy in week fifteen?
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Speaker 5: Like?
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Speaker 1: Do it?
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Speaker 3: Well?
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Speaker 1: Do I want to go with the horses that brought me there? And I feel like more often than not, that ends up being a bad decision. It's one thing to roster them so somebody else can't use them against you, But then some of these players, it's not just about getting them on your roster to play, it's more getting them on your roster sometimes so other people can't and the gamesman ship there, So how important is that discipline to really have a strong evaluation of Look, these these are the players that I drafted, These are the players that I've been working with these are the players that got me to the playoffs and not taking them out of your lineup for somebody you just picked up necessarily. Oh it's huge, man.
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Speaker 3: I mean you got to look at production, you got to look at who got you there and stuff like. I mean, like, and we've seen this like live streams Joe like with the last few weeks, We've seen Jane Daniels questions. We've seen Josh Allen questions. We hadn't even talked about his Monster Day likes. There have been questions about a lot of players where we're like, uh, do I play Cooper Cup I mean, he had a bad game and stuff. It's like, look, we can get a little bit too much into it and get too cute with some of this stuff sometimes where it's like, okay, just play the players that are good at the thing called football.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's good advice right there. All right, So we're gonna go through every position today. We can do things a little differently. We're gonna go through our favorite streamers of the week, because hopefully in your league, no one else could pick anyone else up. There's no reason for a team that's not in the playoffs you want to pick somebody up. If your league is structured that way, you need to get on the horn to your commissioner fix that right away. So we're gonna start the running back position, and Pat, I want to start with you here. Give me a running back that you feel good about streaming this week off the waiver wires. Should he still be out there in your league.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if there's anyone I feel great about streaming this week, Joe, but I feel okay about Tank Bigsby this week. He outsnapped Travis Etn thirty one to twenty eight yesterday and out carried him eighteen to four. Finished with eighteen carries for fifty five yards in a touchdown against a really good Tennessee run defense. Career high in carries for Tank. But he's been really good as a runner this year, and I believe going into week fourteen, I want to say that he was leading all runners with at least forty rushing attempts in yards after contact per carrie. Like, he's just been a better runner than Travis Etn has been this year. And with Mac Jones and quarterback, you need to lean on the running game. So you know, neutral matchup coming up this week against the Jets and then if you can make it that far with Tank, pretty good matchup against Las Vegas coming up in week sixteen.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Speaking of Las Vegas, let's talk about a running back that we actually mentioned last week as maybe a guy to stash, especially with my apocalypse going around with Sincere McCormick of the Raiders and the backfield didn't get much healthier. And McCormick looks like a guy right now, debro that you can feel pretty good about having on your roster for death, not just for Week fifteen, but maybe rest of season.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, he's gonna be in that friend j RB two conversation after what we saw last week, and we talked about him on the live stream constantly, we talked about on the one Waiver Wire podcast last week, and he's my top streaming guy of the week, and looking at his matchups, I mean you could stream in the next three weeks if you pick him up. He's only fifteen percent roster right now, Like he gets Atlanta, Jacksonville, New Orleans good rushing matchups, and we saw he took over the backfield sixty one percent of the snaps. He almost had twenty touches eighty nine total yards. I understand that this offense is a little bit more gross now that again we're down another quarterback for Las Vegas. But sincere looks like I mean he's breaking tackles, he's getting all the work. I mean the volume he's seeing is RB two level worthy.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Pat, real quick. I want to get your take on McCormick two, because this is a player you know you saw in college have some success. Are you surprised that we've seen that of him in the NFL so far? In this small sample that you've gotten so far with the Raiders.
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Speaker 2: Not terribly. He was a fun watch at the University of Texas San Antonio, so not totally. And like you figure, at this point, Joe, the Raiders just have to roll with him, right. I mean, yards per carry is a bad stat but Alexander Madison is averaging three point three yards per carry this year so far our small sample size, Bitsinceerrera, McCormick is averaging five point five yards per carry and this team is going nowhere. Like he deserves an extended audition down the stretch.
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Speaker 1: Let's move over to the wide Receivers debro. Why don't you start us off with somebody you feel good about? Picking up and somebody that you are confident in maybe perhaps the rest of season being somebody that could be useful for fantasy championship run.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I know he had a down week last week, but I'm telling people the bounce back is coming in the next two weeks. And that's Elijah Moore entering the game against the Steelers. Elijah Moore, we've seen the big games with Jamis Winston under center. He'd had a twenty one point five percent target share, twenty three percent first reach here. I know, the down game against Pittsburgh, and people are like, you should go back to the well, but you have the Kansas City Chiefs and the Cincinnati Bengals upcoming. Neither one of those past defense can slot stop slot wide receivers. So Elijah Moore going back to the well this week?
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Speaker 1: All right? So Elijah Moore certainly with Tilman having some concussion issues too, that's another one too, where you know less guys around who knows that he gets cleared again. We'll see how the season rolls on. FITZI, let's talk about a wide receiver you feel good about picking up off the waiver wire for Week fifteen.
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Speaker 2: I don't know how good I feel about it, Joe. But Quentin Johnston certainly has some boom potential this week, especially if Lad McConkie continues to be out for the Chargers. Really good matchup against the Buccaneers. You've given up the fourth most receptions and tenth most fantasy points to wide receivers, and Johnston just had a pretty good game against a Chiefs defense that has just been really tough on outside receivers. Five catches, forty eight yards and a touchdown and actually made some tough catches, hung on to one where he absolutely got crushed by I want to say, Nick Bolton. So a nice bounce back game for Quent Johnston after a pair of duds, and he is you know, if Ladd continues to be out the lead receiver for Justin Herbert, one of the best passers.
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Speaker 1: In the league. Yeah, I'll tell you what a bit of grind last night. That game. I remember when the Chiefs games used to be fun to watch. Remember that guy's Remember when Chiefs games were fun entertaining feels so long ago. Yeah, we do. We let Matt Naggy get by too easily, because that's the one thing we can all look at too. Ever, since the offensive coordinator changed to Matt and Neaggi a couple of years ago. I understand that he doesn't have Tyreek Hill to get that, but there was a year without Tyreek Hill that things were still pretty good and a little bit more dynamic. I know Travis Kelsey's gotten older, Debro, what do you think about that? Like, do you think maybe we don't hang enough of maybe some of the play calling being a little lackluster in the Oca Matt Negy, a guy that failed miserably with the Bears who's come back into town and taken over that job a couple of years ago. That ever since, the Chiefs offense has been a little.
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Speaker 3: Meh, yeah, I mean it's definitely got to be part of it, man. I mean, looking at I just don't know if Kansas City cares about like making him look pretty anymore.
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Speaker 1: They're just like, nah, we just care about winning. Yeah, how we do it. It's fine. It's so good depassing.
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Speaker 3: We don't even know if Mahomes can do that anymore. It doesn't really matter. We're not especially efficient and running the ball doesn't really matter. Defense has some holes, doesn't really matter.
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Speaker 1: We just continue to win. Pat Let's say we live in a world where Travis Kelcey comes back again next year, and we get Rushia Rice healthy, and maybe Hopkins decides he wants to play one more year because you know, it's the chief so that he wants to come back and they want him back and they roll all in. Will this year sort of taint your image of the Chiefs offense from a fantacy perspective in twenty twenty five or would you give them a fresh look with fresh health next season.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's an interesting question, Joe, because now we've seen like more than a full calendar year of Patrick Mahomes being a pretty average fantasy quarterback, which is really kind of strange. And it's obviously not the talent level with Mahomes. It's more about the way that the Chiefs play, And so that's going to be a hard assessment. What does happen if we see him with all this weaponry around him, with Kelsey, with the healthy Rashi Rice, with maybe Hopkins back, Xavier Worthy another year ingrained in the offense. So it is an interesting question. I still have not fully wrapped my head around the fantasy decline of Patrick Mahomes.
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Speaker 1: I was very bullish on Mahomes this year, and I have to take a huge l on that because I thought he would get back into those fantasy stratugy here. We did so many good years from him. I thought last year was just like one of those weird anomaly, like sometimes this happens, changing of the guard, all the talent moving in and out, and then things start to get better towards the end of the season, and then this year is more of the same. Like you said, just disappointing, underwhelming Patrick Mahomes, and that's not something we were used to throughout his entire career. The quarterbacks to stream this week, perhaps in your worst situations for quarterbacks and single quarterback leagues, or maybe the quarterbacks you're trying to decide between in your superflex leagues, FITZI, there was an old quarterback yesterday that actually put up some good yardage totals. But unfortunately the Jets always find a way to lose, which I don't know if I'm torn, because I want them to stop losing at a certain point so I can get a better draft pick as a Patriots fan, and then at the same time, I don't want them to stop losing because I'm a Patriots fan. It's really hard, Like I'm really torn about these things. I mean, these are things that keep me up at night. Pat Aaron Rodgers, how do you feel about his matchup this week? And how do you feel about rolling them out there in a fancy lineup if you have to?
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Speaker 2: Surprisingly good, Joe, and I know a couple of weeks ago there were people thinking that maybe Rogers would check himself out in these meaningless games down the stretch with some self diagnosed injury. Hasn't happened. Just had his first three hundred yard passing game of the season, has the dynamic duo of DeVante Adams and Garrett Wilson to throw to, and gets a really attractive Week fifteen matchup against the Jacksonville Jaguars, who everyone except Will Levis throws successfully.
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Speaker 1: Again. So here's a question for you too. Did the Bree Hall injury exacerbate the need in your opinion, to you know, put them ball in Rogers' hands more and be a little bit looser perhaps with some of the play calls.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, apparently. I mean it wasn't like they were doing a lot of business on the ground anyway. Really like they were not a ground and pound team and they sort of, you know, cobbled it together with Braylan Allen and Isaiah Davis, who Isaiah Davis kind of another sneaky play this week because the matchup against the Jags is pretty good for the runners too. But yeah, so both of those guys were used in the passing game also, So suddenly we've got Aaron Rodgers with a pretty full compliment of weapons here, and yeah, maybe they're not going to lean on the running game as much as they might if Breese Hall were around. So it does seem like it's a strangely good set up for the Jets and Aaron Rodgers.
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Speaker 1: Davis almost had another touchdown too, but it was a ball that you get the ground in the end zone to be in. That whole performance from Isaiah Davis, hecause really had to be just incredibly infuriating for anybody who was like really excited about starting. Braileen Allen, that was a real kid.
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Speaker 2: They played. Brailan Allen played one more snap than I saw Davis.
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Speaker 1: Ten for forty three looking at the stats right now, ten for forty excuse me for Davis, eleven for forty three for Braylen Allen. But again, Davis had the touchdown and almost had two. Isaiah Davis had three catches for twenty seven, Braileen Allen four for thirty eight, So it really was just about a true split there. So Davis, maybe another guy in those deeper leagues if you're really hurting at RB, maybe something to think about. Who knows. All right, let's get to another quarterback before we do a quick reminder out there to a lot of the guys. Look, you know, low testosteron effects about thirty percent of adult men in America, and it's okay to talk about this. And if you're feeling drag fatigue, you're noticing a dip and muscle mass, you're trying to stay in shape, it's just not working out because you're getting older. Or if you're sensing a slump in your libido, and if so, these are all signs of low testosterone, it's time to get your testosterone levels checked. And if you have low t kaisa trex is an FDA approof pill that's changing the game in testosterone replacement therapy. In fact, kaisa treks restore testosterone levels and nearly nine out of ten clinical study participants, and its unique formulation bypasses the liver to avoid liver damage, which is very important. It's time to break free from injections, pellets and gels. Use Kaisa trecks and take a step towards being the hero of your life again. To see if you qualify, visit kaisatrex dot com and take the low T quiz today. That's Kaisa trex k y z a t r e x dot com and visit it today and find out if it can help you get back to being the best you that you can be. Let's get to a quarterback. Jameis Winston is always the best version of himself, Debro. I don't care what the stat line ever says. It's always Jameis Winston living his best life. So Kenny live his best life in week fifteen. That, my friends, is the question.
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Speaker 3: Well, I don't know if the Lord's gonna deliver him from pick sixes. But you want to talk about the fly in the ointment of how the chiefs win Jamis Winz just walking in like ha ha, I'm ready for chaos, baby, Like if there's a guy that could bring you.
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Speaker 1: And I say you the Royal, well, the Royal wee pat can we get a radical ruling on that you're the guy for that. There's no royal. You we can't use the royal. You can't make that up.
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Speaker 3: No, Well, Jamis is gonna possibly bring an l for the Chiefs this week if he goes and he throws for four hundred yards and goes nuts and stuff like that, and that's gonna help fantasy managers out there. And we've seen him be a QB one in fifty percent of his starts, and heck, one of these weeks, guys, who's a QB one overall?
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Speaker 1: So yeah, stream.
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Speaker 3: Him, plug him in as your QB two and your super flex lineups. Probably a big Jamis weekend coming, Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Certainly could be. That game is at one Eastern in Cleveland. The Jets are going to be at Jacksonville too, Just that reminder that game is on the road. So maybe that's a good thing. Maybe Aaron Rodgers needs to get out of New York more often. Maybe that's the secret saucer for him. All right, let's move on here to the tight ends. Deebro We talked about Juwan Johnson last week. Juwan Johnson got some fantasy action last week. Again, sometimes it's just as easy as auditioned by subtraction. But speaking of subtraction, Derek Carr injury, Oh god, the Saints have had crazy worst injury luck I have seen in a team in a very long time. And that's saying something because it feels like every week somebody's hurt in the NFL. So is Juwan Johnson still a tight end worthy? Where we are right now in the stratosphere of the New Orleans Saints roster of what's remaining left with.
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Speaker 3: Them, he is And I understand, you know, Okay, quarterback concerns. I mean, this just comes down to they have nobody else left at it outside of him and mvs to throw the freaking ball to. So because of that, over the last two games, Juwan Johnson has had a seventeen point six percent target chair. He has good matchups upcoming. He's average forty three receiving yards over those two games. You throw a touchdown like last week on top of any of those stat lines, and he's going to be a tight end one weekly. So yeah, Jawan Johnson's got good matchups. I'll love streaming him this.
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Speaker 1: Week, okay, pat a streaming tight end this week. A guy that's coming off a bye that has really, you know, had a pretty i would say, under the radar season from a tight end landscape, and one that I think maybe is underappreciated. It's a guy from New Englan. Let's talk about Hunter Henry. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I'll due respect to mister Derek Brown, but I just like I don't want to have to depend on Jake Hayner or Spencer Rattler in my Week fifteen matchup, So I am willing to depend on Drake May. Yeah, as good as he's been, and May has leaned heavily on Hunter Henry, who is averaging in Drake May's eight starts five point three catches and fifty three point eight receiving yards. Again, he's only scored one touchdown. I'm surprised he hasn't had more in the May starts, but he's averaging basically double digit PPR points for you and pretty good numbers for a tight end. So I'm willing to ride with him. I just think the floor is probably safer than you get with any other widely available tight end.
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Speaker 1: I would agree. I think Hunter Henry, you know, has certainly proven that he can be a useful fantasy tight end. Maybe a lower end fantasy tight end, but I mean that's kind of been tight end for the most part unless you had brock Bowers. The brock Bowers has been the truth. Outside of that man, that guy is fun to watch. Imagine if he had a real quarterback. Imagine what brock Bowers would be with the Patrick Mahomes. But we're not going to see that unfortunately. All right, let's get to the defenses, and this is not to be overlooked. I think this is very important when you're trying to scratch and claw your way to points. You know, some teams out there, a lot of managers have been streaming defenses a year, so this is really where the rubber meets the road. This is a spot where I think some teams sometimes overlook where they can get points from. Defense. Spot is one of them. So pat when you comb through the waiver wire, what defense stands out to you is somebody in week fifteen that you feel good about the matchup, good about the points they might be able to create, because every single point matters to advance to Round two of the playoffs.
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Speaker 2: Well, I like the Green Bay Packers show because they have a pretty good two week stretch coming up here. The Packers haven't been forcing turnovers quite like they were earlier in the season, but they have a Week fifteen matchup against the Seahawks. Have given up the fifth most fantasy points to opposing defenses, and you have a pretty bad offensive line that I think the Packers pass rush might be able to exploit. And then in Week sixteen they get the New Orleans Saints, the Derek carr Less New Orleans Saints. So pretty good two week runout here for the Packers. If you're down to the felt on fab money, pick up the Packers and then you will not have to spend on a defense again in week sixteen.
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Speaker 1: All right, let's get to a defense from your perspective here, Derek, who do you think think might be intriguing? Maybe just not for fifteen, but maybe rest of the playoffs as well.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, this comes down to and there was two teams for this week that kind of I bounce back and forth, with one being the Atlanta Falcons going up against desmon Ridder in the show sheet, I just did talk I just did, and then you change right underneath my nose.
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Speaker 1: Do you think I was gonna notice? I think you're just gonna like, no, one I did.
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Speaker 3: Look like any defense going against Desmond Ritter, and I understand how bad the Falcons looked. They have to be somewhere near the top of the list. But man, it's the Washington Commanders and I just talked about Juwan Johnson. They could still throw the ball, he could still have a decent day. But depending on who the quarterback is, we're gonna maybe see sacks, We're gonna maybe see turnovers. And the Washington Commanders defense is readily available. They're out there everywhere and they've been playing better. And hey, guess what what do we see? Maybe a pick six Marshawn Lattimore revenge game. Maybe he's acted this week revenge for what.
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Speaker 1: Being traded to a contender and getting the hell out of New Orleans. Like, if anything, he should be sending them an edible arrangement.
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Speaker 3: A little bit, a little bit of venom still left over from Dennis Allen time.
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Speaker 1: Oh Dennis gone there? Riz is there now yelling at punters that was and clogging toilets. Apparently, Hey man, look, you know you get that big Chipotle burrito. Things are gonna happen after Oh, let's get to the kickers for the week here Debro streaming kicker Week fifteen. Who do you have?
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Speaker 3: We're gonna go Chad Ryland against the Patriots. He's put up double digit points and three of his last six games a ride with him.
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Speaker 1: FITZI a kicker for week fifteen. Who's on the docket Will Luttz?
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Speaker 2: I think he's only rostered in like thirteen percent of Yahoo leagues tied for fifth and kicker scoring this year for the surprisingly potent Denver Broncos. And he gets the altitude lift in Denver at home against the Colts this week.
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Speaker 1: You gotta love that when you get the bonuses for the bigger kicks too, because in Denver that's something that's a little bit more feasible over the years. All right, let's get to the top five waiver wire ads of the week, and just a reminder of you need more help with the waiver wire. Make sure you're using the waiver assistant on my playbook. Download my playbook. Make sure that you sink your leagues for free. You might have gone the whole season, everything's been great, but you know what this is the playoffs. Leave no stone unturned. Use everything you can to make sure you're getting an advantage. Still time to download my playbook wherever get your apps, or go to fancybros dot com slash my playbook and use the waiver Assistant, and also go to fantasybros dot com to see all the waiver rankings, all the waver wire content. Because we're on a championships now, Okay, this is not week six week seven, which is kind of running around. No, you need all the information you can to make the best decisions, FITZI take me through the top five waiver Wire ads for Week fifteen, Round one of the playoffs. What's the top five look like?
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Speaker 2: All right, I've got Tank pigs p at number one, just ahead of Sincere McCormick. But I think that's a coin flip close to it. I could make a case for Sincere over Tank for sure, and number third a guy we didn't talk about, Joe Julia McLoughlin, who I know. It's been really unpredictable. Sean Payton has truly been riding the hot hand. But last week so the Broncos before their Week fourteen by it was Julia McLoughlin leading the way with fourteen carries for eighty four yards and he gets a pretty good matchup against the Colts in week fifteen. Quentin Johnston number four, Elijah Moore number five, and just one more guy. I want to mention to keep an eye on Joe the alluded to it earlier and the uncertain status of Isaac Grendo after his injury. Patrick Taylor is going to be a guy people are going to want to watch, although it's not totally clear, like I think Patrick Taylor would be the guy. But the forty nine Ers did just acquire Izzy Abanacanada from the Jets practice squad, so there's a chance Izzy could cut into that workload. But we know Kyle Shanahan kind of likes to ride with one guy, and he's got a little more familiar with familiarity with Patrick Taylor, who's been on the roster longer.
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Speaker 1: Who'd have thought the Madden curse would extend to the entire backfield of the forty nine Ers this year. I mean, do you think about it? Right, he got McCaffrey on the cover and then at the end like nobody, like, I don't know, he kind of want to stay away from this boy. Maybe maybe mister Vanacanda should rethink this move to San Francisco. I don't know, just say be careful out there, buddy.
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Speaker 2: It's like final tap drummers going down.
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Speaker 1: That was a good Oh my god, yeah, good reference. That's nice Stonehash. All right, let's get to uh de Bro's top five for week fifteen, Debro, what does the list look like?
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Speaker 3: Uh? Sinceera McCormick takes the top spot, Elijah Moore number two. We talked about Isaiah Davis in the great matchup this week. I don't think Breece Hall is back. Uh so he got the goal line work, probably gonna get it again this week. He's number three. Tank is number four, and Patrick Taylor Junior. On the short week, I do think he's gonna be the guy for the forty nine ers because they didn't elevate easy last week. Keishawn Vaughn was the number two running back. I think this could be Taylor's backfield on a short week, so.
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Speaker 1: He's number five. Mary have it everybody, So get out there. Start the road to the championship right now. It's fun. This is what we've all been working for all these many months, is to get there. Hopefully you have and least one team in the playoffs, if not all of your teams in the playoffs, and if you haven't already, subscribe to the channel here again Fantasy Pros YouTube. We're huge, we're fun, we have a great time here talking football. We want you to be a part of it. So ring that belt to lickos Ding for notifications you don't miss a piece of content. We've got amazing content going through the playoffs for you. And of course check out our newest show, Out of Balance, with me and my two best friends, Bogwin and the Welsh, talking crap on each other, talking football, having some fun, a little betting, a little this, a little that, a little song, a little dance. It's got all the above in there, so make sure you check that out as well. That'll do it for us, But the story of the game goes on for Pat Fitzmorris and Derek Brown. I'm Joey P. We'll see you next time. Kids.
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Speaker 1: Annasy CROs
