HR2: Dale vs. Matt

Published Dec 27, 2024, 10:00 PM
There can only be one league champion, as Matt and Dale face off in their league championship this weekend. With tons of trash talk to end the show, the guys also pick a Sunday DFS lineup and make their picks for the weekend slate.

At least is the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on your twenty four to seven Home of the Black and Gold cast in Steelers Nation Radio.

And we are back.

I am Dale LOLLI he is d Matt Williamson, and it is time now for the Fantasy Football Focus here to kick off our number two here on this Friday, and we'll put together a DFS lineup, all right. Looking at the matchups here and what we can do. We're gonna play a ten games slate or ten games to pick from a Saturday night late game and then everything on Sunday.

Okay, so not the first two they can't.

We can't do the two Saturday games in it. So it's just whatever way it works out, all right. That gives us ten games to work with here. So looking at the defenses and special teams, you have the Bills at thirty six hundred, the Colts at thirty five hundred, the Bucks at thirty four hundred, Vikings thirty three hundred, the Dolphins at thirty two hundred, the Rams at thirty two hundred, the Commanders at thirty one hundred.

Have we heard of Winston or dtr Is playing?

They were both questionable on yesterday's they're both limited in yesterday's practice TTRS with a hip. I think Winston is a shoulder, So I don't.

Know, Okay, I was looking real quick. I think I just saw something on my phone, but maybe not. Nope, Okay.

The Eagles are thirty one hundred, the Jaguars three thousand, Saints are twenty nine hundred, the Titans are twenty eight hundred, the Packers are twenty seven hundred, the Falcons are twenty seven hundred, Raiders are twenty six hundred, the Cardinals are twenty six hundred, the Cowboys are twenty five hundred. They're going to see Kenny Pickett. The Browns are twenty four hundred, Giants are twenty three hundred, Panthers twenty two hundred, and the Jets at twenty one hundred.

Okay, I mean we went through this yesterday, Dad.

I mean we have a little more knowledge on some stuff now.

Yeah, and kind of like Miami and Cleveland, there were some cheaper ones I thought made sense. Tennessee and Jacksonville. I probably prefer Tennessee, but I don't see a whole lot of points in that game.

Yeah, that's a twenty eight hundred.

I don't hate that, but we.

Went, we went the Raiders and yesterday plane up yesterday, which didn't exactly work out thus far, but we'll see. We got like thirty eight points out of the four guys we had going in the play last night Thursday night game, so we need the other guys were moving.

Forward Fantasy Bananza last night and listen to the defensive I'm surprised we got almost forty out of Yeah, I said that. I was like, really, yeah, DJ Moore ran, Yeah, he ran. DJ Moore had a productive game.

Yeah, relatively speaking, and Charbonney had a productive yeah. Look relatively speaking.

Yeah. Uh.

Looking here at the tight end position, Rock Bowers sixty seven hundred, Train Bride sixty two hundred, Johnny Smith fifty seven hundred, and Djoku is out.

I'd say that just came across too. Yeah, he is done.

Hawkinson is forty five hundred, Kincaid forty three hundred.

The Packers very vulnerable to tight ends.

The Packers are twenty first.

Okay, I was reading something that are listening to something today about how they thought Hawkinson against that style of defense that's up really well. Kate Aughton is out.

That could get you a cheapye.

His backup is, uh.

We'll get to it here. I'm not sure Brenton Strange is questionable. He is four thousand. Tucker Craft questionable, He's thirty nine hundred, Kyle Pitts thirty nine hundred, Zach Ertz thirty eight hundred, Jake Ferguson thirty seven hundred.

I mean no Cede Lamb, no CD lamb. Yeah, I'm sure they're good against tight ends. Yeah, good, Yeah, I mean Rush is a capable player though.

Right Chig and Kwonkuo thirty six hundred.

Jaylen hesitate to say this. I know you're picking them up to play against me, but they're playing the.

Jat Jaguars, who are twenty fourth against opposing tight ends.

Yeah. But the one thing I did here over in the last twenty four hours is he's much different man verse zone heavy teams, and this one doesn't. Whatever it is, it's the bad one for him, but still I would play him.

Tyler Higbee against Arizona is thirty three hundred, Grant Calcaterra thirty one hundred.

It's not bad. My problem with that one, though, is when Picker came in every ball went to Brown right in Smith.

Yeah, Foster Moreau three thousand.

It's one of those sneaky ones. He gets right looks. Last week in the red zone he could catch. Yah.

Durham was the one I was thinking of. M Payne Durham twenty nine hundred bucks because Carolina is twenty eighth against posing a surprise, right and if.

You look at it, zoom, he'll be on the field all the time.

Paine Durham last week had five catches on seven targets. Really not only one for twenty nine yards.

Yeah. I don't think he's a breaking eighty yarder, but you know, but he was.

He replaced Ot he got seven targets.

I don't hate it.

He is twenty nine hundred dollars.

Say he's got to be dirt cheap, right, Yeah, I'm cool with that. Let's try it, Okay, let's pay up for some big dogs then, yeah, because it's I mean it, just catch two or three balls.

That's the thing with the tight end position unless you're willing to pay up for one of the studs.

And even the studs right now aren't exactly Kelsey in his prime. The he is trusted every week you know with you might get a six, you know, right, whereas Payne Durham might get you a six. Yeah, you know, that's that's what you're looking at. I don't think we've ever paid up heavy for a tight end.

Not this year. It just hasn't made a lot of sense. And twenty nine hundred dollars that's almost as cheap as our defense. We've just spent fifty seven hundred dollars on a defense and tight end.

Like as good as McBride is, he still hasn't got touchdown right well, so his ceiling is like fifteen.

Yeah, you know that's what it is. Quarterbacks Josh Allen eighty five hundred, Jayden Daniel is seventy eight hundred, Jalen Hurts, he's quite, he's not playing. He's seventy five hundred. Baker Mayfield sixty nine hundred, Sam Darnold sixty four hundred, Jordan Love sixty two hundred, Kyler Murray six thousand. Anthony Richardson is fifty nine hundred, but he's questionable.

Tua is questionable. He's fifty eight hundred. If I knew Richardson wasn't playing, Blacko would be really attractive because it'd be dirt cheap.

I'm sure I did look up the weather forecast in Cleveland for Sunday. It's supposed to be in the fifties but raining, it's like a ninety percent chance of rain throughout the game.

And Waddle's on play in and it could be slobby. Yeah, right.

Matthew Stafford fifty seven hundred, Aaron Rodgers fifty seven hundred, Bryce Young fifty six hundred. We talked about him.

I was strongly considered him yesterday, and I think we should still strongly consider him.

Can he Pickett fifty five hundred. Dallas is thirty first against opposing quarterbacks. Cooper Rush fifty four hundred, Michael Pennix is fifty four hundred, Spencer Rattler is fifty three hundred.

Pretty kind against not as their tenth, not as much as you would think Spencer Rattler. We might have gone too far.

Mac Jones is cheaper than Spencer Rattler. He's fifty two hundred dollars, never runs at all, never runs. Eight O'Connell fifty one hundred. They could win that game, They could win, yeah, yeah. Mason Rudolph against Jacksonville's five thousand also runs Jacksonville thirty two hundred dollars or something. Sorry, there's sec thirty second against opposing quarterbacks.

Problem is those backup type guys none of them are runners.

Yeah, you know Dorian Thompson Robinson, he runs, he's forty forty eight hundred. Yeah, he has no injury designation. Really they've come up maybe that's yeah, they've they've come out with their Uh, he'd have to run though, because he's his ceiling for throwing the ball is like one hundred and twenty five.

Yards, right, like Judy's unusable. Yeah, they just rolled out Tillman in the joke.

He'd have to run for like eighty yards and a touchdown to make it worth even at forty eight hundred.

Too cheap. Here with these guys, I kind of like price Young I do too, fifty six hundred. He's been running, he's been running, he's been efficient. Their receivers are good. I consider thieland strongly considered either Yeah, yeah, you just want to do it. He can't be crazy expensive.

Not crazy. Let's let's see what we get there. When we get so running back, SAQ one is eighty six hundred. Do we like that?

The Kenny Pickett is well, I think we like his touchdown potential, forest push stuff, like they get to the one he's he's running the f I would think he's got a better chance of that. To see, you a better chance to catch more balls with or without hurts, probably better chance probably, you know.

And I just think Dallas is twenty second against opposing running backs.

And I would just think that the game plan in general is we don't have our best quarterback, let's lean on our best player.

He's also at eighteen hundred yard eighteen thirty eight. Do they want to get him two thousand in this game or at least, you know, at least make a run at it.

Yeah, and get him over one hundred to day and then yeah, get.

And then maybe they maybe he sits next week or something like that.

No, but don't keep an eye on two thousand. There's no doubt.

Eighty six hundred does a lot.

Oh, I I mean, I'm not doubting he's that a huge game.

B Jeon Robinson eighty two hundred.

I think he's gonna have a huge game too.

Josh Jacobs eighty one hundred Minnesotas or uh yeah, Minnesota's third against.

Opposing running backs. That does privately, they've been good. Yeah.

Jonathan Taylor seventy nine hundred. They're twenty ninth against opposing running backs.

I like it. I know that sounds like it's chasing points, and I would generally say that's a no no. But Richardson is not one hundred percent. He's been getting like eight to ten carries a game, so he plays. I think they run him less the dozen. The Giants have given up the ghost, oh one hundred percent. Yeah, and I think Taylor was very embarrassed by his dropping the ball at the one. Yeah, you know, and since been a monster. I think he goes crazy at this game. Devine Radi Richardson doesn't play.

Yeah, Devin a chan is seventy seven hundred.

He's a lot of ball.

They're fifth, though, against opposing running backs. Tyron Williams is so tventy five hundred. We talked about him yesterday. Arizona's twenty six against opposing running backs.

Probably just lean on him.

James Connor seventy four hundred. He's questioned out Kamara seventy three hundred. He's probably not going to play. James Cook seventy two hundred. Chuba Hubbard seven thousand, Bryce Irving or Irvan Yeah, yeah, uh sixty seven hundred. Tony Pollard is sixty four hundred, questionable, Bryce Hall sixty three hundred.

Yeah, considered him too.

They are thirtieth against the player. Yeah. Aaron Jones is sixty two hundred. Brian Robinson is sixty one hundredout.

This yesterday too. It's a little cheap for Jones. I mean he's one of those guys that doesn't matter what the game script is. Either is running to get the lead or he's yeah, catching the ball.

He hasn't got as many catches as you would think.

It's not a ton so out. I know him in a bunch of leagues, he's been fine.

They kind of limit their looks like they're kind of trying to limit him to under twenty touches per game. Brian Robinson sixty one hundred. Rico Daldell six thousand, Jerome Ford is fifty nine hundred, Tyrone Tracy fifty eight hundred. He questionable, Uh, No, no designation, and Indianapolis is twenty fourth against the Warbacks.

I mean he produces and they throwing the ball.

Rashad White fifty seven hundred again, Carolina thirty second. I'd rather go.

The problem is that you get rather go with Bucky Irving. Yeah. Yeah.

Alexander Madison fifty six hundred has no injury designation.

Do we think he gets seventy percent of the backfield touches.

Or twenty eighth against opposing that's got to be back.

Yeah.

Kendre Miller on the other side of that is fifty five hundred. Vegas is nineteenth against opposing running backs.

Or either one threatened in terms of being the guy. It's not an easy backfield to decipher.

No flash. I think Kendre Miller gets more like Abdullah is still a thing.

Yeah, he so catches the ball.

Yeah, I don't know. I don't I don't love it, love it.

I don't think we have to go into that game too.

Ty J. Spears fifty four hundred, but Pollard may play.

Spear has been good though, he's catching the ball no matter what.

ATN is fifty three hundred. Bigs B is fifty two hundred. If I'd rather BIGS, right, I don't know at this point. Yeah, Abdullah is fifty one hundred. He has twenty point back to back twenty point games in fantasy, just because of receptions, because of everything. If you look at his last week, he had seven for thirty eight, he had five catches for forty seven. He also scored. The week before that, it was three carries for eight yards, but seven for fifty eight.

That's a damn and also scored. He's that cheap and he's gonna get eight targets. He's worth it.

Again, back to back twenty point games.

Shitah, yeah, we could put him in. I said, bigger dogs. I wouldn't mind going after.

That's a nice cheap pivot for a guy. And again, that should be a competitive game.

That's the thing is they're both terrible, but that's easy throws. The running backs just screams for me in that game. Just make things easy on your quarterback.

I'm just like, yeah, yeah, I'm not saying anything below that. Jeremy McNichols is forty six hundred.

The one thing that's interesting about that is he's clearly the two. And Robinson had two bad fumbles last week. I mean he could be in the doghouse with you know, a stumble.

Yeah, and McNichols he did catch four passes.

And say he's a capable receiver.

Yeah, you know so, I I just don't count on it for a lot of points. So it's kind of my problem with Abdulah as well, Like if they get if they get up in that game, you know, which they very well could they could.

Bucky Irving, I think we put him in the other day.

He's in our other lineup. Yeah, I think he's going to be chalky as heck.

Probably.

I don't mind Tyrone Tracy.

At fifty with him being no designation. He'll catch balls.

Single SINGLETARYO but eat into him a little bit.

But they're feature in Tracy. Yeah, I'm going with that. We go Tracy and Irving. Yeah, I was about going even more expensive a tailor or a Bijeon.

Well, if we have enough money left over at the end, well that guess as we can average sixty five hundred durst of the way here. So at wide receiver justin Jefferson eighty three hundred. We went through these the other day, and the top they didn't didn't jump out to me. Nikua is eight thousand, AJ Brown seventy eight hundred. But we now know it's Kenny Pickett. That might not be the worst thing. No, No, Mike Evans is seventy five hundred.

I think we grabbed him the other day.

Terry McLaurin seventy two hundred. DeVante Adams seventy one hundred.

Been pretty good.

Tyreek Hill is questionable. They're both. All three of those guys are questionable. Tyry kill was sixty nine hundred. Brian Thomas is sixty eight hundred. They're third though against opposing are they wide receivers? Malik Neighbors is sixty six hundred, Well we are.

I don't get too investment.

We have the one giant in lioneb Jerry Judy is sixty five hundred.

No.

Cooper Cup sixty five hundred. Yeah, Drake London sixty four hundred.

Does he have an injury dosiation? Okay?

Jordan Addison sixty three hundred, Garrett Wilson sixty one hundred. Jacoby Myers six thousand.

Not terrible. We thought about him aster. Yeah.

Jayden Reid is fifty nine hundred, getting the Vikings thirty second against opposing wide receivers.

I heard today too, they allow a lot of wide receiver rushing production.

That's what he does, so he does.

Yeah.

Davonte Smith is fifty watsons out right, yes you wants Yeah, Deelan fifty seven cheap.

For Davonte Smith. I thought that yesterday too. If they're going to have really funnel to two guys, he's pretty darn good football player.

Yeah, you know, feeling is fifty seven hundred.

Oh, I'm in on that.

Yeah. You look at his production over the last I.

Think you have one down game, but he's been like, five out of six have been strong.

Six targets, seven targets, eleven targets, ten targets. In the last four games, he's got five catches for forty three in a touchdown, five for fifty one, nine for one oh two and didn't score, and then eight for ninety nine but did score.

Yeah, so last two were real good. I'd say put him in. That's a good look up.

Jakobe Myers is.

He's kind of interesting.

Five nine, ten, eleven, fifteen in the last five targets in the last.

Five games, Tim and Bauers, although nobody else.

Yeah, problem is he hasn't scored in any of those games. He's only got two touchdowns this season.

They're gonna put up a ton of points.

Yeah, but I kind of still like the Garrett Wilson. Yeah, Squeaky Wheel and Buffalo is twenty first against opposing Kay, what's the weather supposed to be like there? It's supposed to be raining, well, the same as Cleveland rainy. I don't love that.

No, I don't love that either.

See here, Khalil Shakir is fifty six hunder the same game. Calvin Ridley in a revenge game against Jacksonville with Mason Rudolph a quarterback, is fifty five hundred. I think his usage has been good lately. What did he do the first time against them? I think he scored. If I remember against Jacksonville first time around, he had twelve targets seven for fifty nine, so he didn't score, but he had target Yeah, that was amazing that they lost that game too. They want to win this one. Yeah, I think Ridley gets used.

I'm fine with that. And man Ma shure we would get a big dog.

Now we can go get maybe we got fifteen thousand dollars left here for the final two spots on the roster, and.

We could get a Saquan or a Bijan or a tailor or a Puka puka.

Which one do you like?

The best Jonathan Taylor.

So if we go Jonathan Taylor in the flex.

He's the cheapest. I better the bunch of him too.

Yeah, he's seventy nine hundred. That leaves us seventy one hundred then to spend on our last receiver. That's DeVante Adams, Tyreek Hill, Brian Thomas, Malik Neighbors, Jerry Judy, Cooper Cup, Drake London.

Adams and Thomas are my favorites. Well, yeah, although we said there was weather for the Jets game.

Uh, yeah, that might so if you look at last four games and targets for DeVante Adams thirteen twelve, eleven twelve.

Yeah, they got something going on between the two of them.

He's got seven catches for sixty eight yards in a score, nine catches for one hundred and ninety eight and two touchdowns, nine for one oh nine in a touchdown and five for sixty six in a touchdown in the last four weeks.

Unless you're worried about weather, I got no problem with it.

I don't even know that I'm worried about weather because Aaron Rodgers is going to throw him the ball, yeah.

And he could throw them and wind and Davante Adams.

I don't. I mean, we've started in the last couple of weeks.

They have some blood pack going on or something like they want to end this season at least strong for those two. Yeah, I believe there's something weird going well.

I think Adams knows he's getting cut at the end of the year. Yeah, you're not going to pay what was it thirty five or thirty seven that whatever it is. And Rogers is trying to get cut maybe with the stuff that he's saying about, like ripping Woody Johnson in the median stage. Yeah, then be buddies and yeah, and then they they'll go down Tennessee or wherever it is and they'll be together again, Poncho and Lefty.

Yeah. Yeah, I'm fine with what Adams. I mean, he's been really productive, he's been really good. Yeah, all right, I'm a believer. I got no problem with that. Let's uh lock it in. Imagine if Wilson gets traded and they cut Adams and Rogers isn't back. I mean, like, I mean, obviously they'll add things, but that could be a strange different team.

Absolutely, absolutely, all right. So we got Bryce Young quarterback, Bucky Irving and Tyrone Tracy at running back, Davante Adams, Calvin Ridley, Adam Thielen at wide receiver. We went Old at wide receiver again, Payne Durham at tight end, Jonathan Taylor in the flex spot, and the Tennessee Titans defense.

I'm cool with it all right.

It is locked in loaded. That's going to do it for the Fantasy Football Focus. Matt and I are going to take another break. We'll be back to preview all the weekend's games right after.

This is the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on your twenty four to seven home of the Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

And we are back.

I'm Dale Lolly, he is the Matt Williamson and it is time to take a look at this weekend's games. Matt. Starting off with three games on Saturday.

Yeah, they're not bad. A loaded day of football. The first one is Week's insane by the way, Yeah, I mean the NFL is trying to get me divorced. Is it working? I think so?

You got the nine and six Chargers at one o'clock at the three and twelve Patriots. The Chargers favored by four and a half the over under forty two and a half.

I think they have their way with the Patch.

I do too.

I mean, I know it's a long road trip on an early all that's nonsense, but they're just better and they have more to play for.

And I think the Patriots threw a lot into last week trying to beat the Bills.

They almost did it.

They're going to try to run the football and take care of Drake May a little bit.

And Chargers run defenses. Oh it was solid. Yeah. Yeah, I think they'll get after him too.

Yeah. Yeah, I think they win that one going away. The next game a four to thirty game, the nine and six Broncos at the seven and eight Bengals. I don't want to say this is an elimination game because the Broncos can still get in.

Oh for them. The final week definitely a Bengal.

They play Kansas City, but it's definitely an elimination game for Cincinnati.

They both have a lot to play for.

Yeah, Cincinnati favored by three and a half in the over under is forty nine and a half.

I picked Nver to win it.

I think they went it out right.

Yeah, they got both the got the corners back, which should at least limit those two receivers take away. Of course, their pass rush is really good and their protection is terrible. And I think Peyton and Cincinnati's defense is right bad. It's real bad. I mean it's it's last couple of weeks. We haven't seen it as much because, yeah, they haven't played anybody.

Like if we were ranking the thirty two units offensively and defensively across the league, Cincinnati's defense would be somewhere in the sixties. Yeah, yeah, I agree, And they're only sixty four that were units that we're talking about it. There's some other like offenses right now that are bad, and yeah.

The Saints offense and things like that.

But they've got no reasons for this.

No, right, this is kind of who they are. This is what they built. It's one of the worst in the league. No, I think Denver beats them. I do too.

I think they'll do it. I think Denver will actually run the ball against and they haven't really run the ball. Yeah, you got the seven and eight Cardinals at the nine and six Rams. That's an eight o'clock start. The Rams favored by six and a half, the over under forty seven and a half.

I like the Rams big.

I do too.

I mean, Cardinals put both tackles on IR this week.

I mean like they've been gutty all year long.

Yeah, Kyle has been great. Yeah, and they're not deep, and they're getting hit by injuries and their season shot.

If to watch, if we say somebody's not playing, well, that means we're making fun of them. That's that's how that works. Well yeah. Uh, moving on to Sunday's game, you get the seven and eight Cowboys at the twelve and three Eagles, Philadelphia favored by seven and a half, the over under forty and a half. Kenny Pickett against Cooper Rush.

Yeah, for that reason, I think they can keep it within seven and a half. I wish Lamb was playing, that would make it. Yeah yeah, I mean I might really regret that, but because there's a half on there, I think Rush might be the better player right now. I mean he's he's played okay. I also think given Kenny a whole week to prepare is helpful.

Yeah. I got to stick out to be a bark. I gotta take Philadelphia at home. If if, if, if Ceedee Lamb was playing, I would take the seven and a half.

Yeah, Oh, for sure. He's such a big part of that offense. He just is it's gonna and he's multipliers guy.

Yeah, And I just they're not gonna have enough offense.

I'll take the points, but I don't want to touch it.

I mean, Sakuong might run for two hundred that game.

He might, he might. And I do think the Eagles pass rush is legit and that defense is probably the best in the league right now.

Yeah at home?

Yeah yeah, and they still need something to play for, right right, Dallas doesn't.

Uh, you got the four and eleven Jets at the twelve and three bills. Buffalo favored by eight and a half, the over under forty six and a half.

I'm gonna take the points. I still think Rogers, Adams, et cetera. Are giving it all they got. I don't love Buffalo's defense, but Buffalo has a habit of destroying some teams. They could win this one forty to three. Yeah, I wouldn't be blown away by.

I think the ring levels the playing field a little bit, as we saw in the Cleveland game with the snow. I'll take the eight and a half as well.

Yeah, do take the points. You know, division game.

The Bills are twenty three and five in division game since twenty twenty.

They're starting to take it over when Belichick and Brady ducked out. Basically.

The Jets, on the other hand, are five and twenty three terrible in division games, which is the worst record in the league in division games. Five and twenty three.

Twenty three. How do you look yourself in the mirror?

You get the three and twelve Raiders at the five and ten Saints in a game that nobody wants to watch.

Give me the points.

Las Vegas favored by one.

No, I'm not taking Vegas. I'm taking Vegas. I think their quarterbacks better.

The over unders thirty seven and a half.

I don't think it's gonna be pretty.

Yeah. The Raiders just have more weapons literally actually bowers Yakobe Myers, you know.

Legit weapon. Yeah yeah, and I think their quarterbacks a little better.

Spencer Rattler brutal.

Uh. You Saints are favors anyone? Yeah, it's them and the Giants shouldn't be favorites anybody.

Well, the Raiders are favored oh by one, ye by one?

Yeah, which in their building, in their own building.

Yeah, yeah, you get the seven and eight Colts at the two and thirteen Giants Indianapolis favored by seven and a half, the over under just forty and a half.

I honestly don't think the Giants have any interest in winning. They get the first overall pick. They're happy about it. I don't care if it's Flacco or Richardson. They'll take a different approach, but they still win by eight or more.

Either way, They'll still have the best quarterback on the field, right right right, Yeah, and yeah, I just think they blow them out.

Yuck, yuck.

The four and I'll allow.

I forget this time of year that how bad some teams can get, and then when people start shutting them down, I'm like, many.

Gets really bad.

They could get rough.

The four and eleven Panthers are at the eight and seven Buccaneers Tampa Bay favored by eight, the over runner eight forty eight and a half.

I thought that line's too big.

I'll take the points.

Yeah, me too. I mean, Carolina is very prideful, trying to build something, and the offense is legit. At the Tampa wins the better team. They got a lot to play for.

Carolina's head coach was the offensive coordinator. Yeah, last year.

Those Baker like the back was handed right. No, I think they keep it close.

Yeah, I think they keep that one within range.

I mean they keep it close.

And hears lost last week, did Dallas? I mean they're not world beaters. No, no, uh, You've got the three and twelve Titans at the three and twelve Jaguars and yet another game nobody wants to watch. Tennessee favored by one on the road, even though they lost to the Jaguars at home home. The over under thirty nine and a half.

Yeah, this game is saying thank you to Raider Saints because ninety nine percent of time this would be the worst game on the slate, But not this week. I'll take the Titans.

I'll take the Titans as well.

Yeah, I don't know who the better quarterback.

You can't possibly lose two games to this Jaguars team, right right?

I kind of thinking the same. And they're okay in the line of scrimmage. Youones defensively? Yeah, bad game.

The Jaguars, however, are six and three in their past nine games against the spread.

Really six and three? Yeah, I mean I guess they're not as horrendous as the public things.

Yeah, but yeah, I mean Matt Jones against Mason Rudolph. Can you Pickett Mason Rudolph for starting games this?

Yeah? They are, Yeah, they are the seven.

And eight Dolphins. This is a four o'clock game, seven and eight Dolphins at the three and twelve Browns. Miami favored by six and a half, the over under thirty nine and a half. It does look like it's going to be Dorian Thompson Robinson again.

When I thought it was WinCE and I thought they might win, I thought that. I thought so too, you know, slop it up, Winston gets hot. I don't know if I'm still taking the points or not. I don't know. I don't think.

I don't know how windy it's going to be there. Yeah, that's the kind of the thing that I'm looking at. It's supposed to rain throughout the game.

They don't throw all down the field though that much right, A lot of left and right stuff.

Doesn't have a big arm. I don't know, but I guess sounds about right with the line. Yeah, I would probably take Miami. They need, they need the game.

Their defense isn't bad.

The big game of the day, the eleven and four Packers are at the thirteen and two Vikings. That's a four to twenty five game. Green Bay favored by one. On the road.

I think there's only two four o'clock games, so that's the realies to pay attention to this one surprise.

Green Bay is favored in this game. The over under their favored by one.

According to the change over the week.

The over under forty eight and a half. Even if it's say a Pickham game, which is basically what ye.

Yeah, I think it went from plus one to minus one. You know over the course of the week. I'll take the home team here, especially you're gonna give me a point. Yeah, I think it's a very coin flip type of game. But that is not an easy place to play.

No, no, we'll say this.

So.

Jordan Love was struggling against the Blitz early in the year. First six games for six or seven games which the Vikings weren't Vikings, and that included the game against the Vikings, and in the last six games his QBR against the Blitz it's ESPN staff ninety seven, which leads the league.

Well, no, that's a good offensive coach. He makes a justion throughout the year. Well, and the young quarterback general, they get a lot of eligibles that are catched the ball, and I don't think Watson's playing. I'm not sure about craft. But yeah, yeah, I'll take the Vikes.

I'll take this. I'll take the Vikings as well. Uh, the eight and seven Falcons. This is the Sunday Night game, eight and seven Falcons at the ten and five Commanders. Washington favored by four and a half the over under his forty eight and a half.

I don't know what to think of Pennix, but I do know what to think of Bijeon, and he's been If it wasn't for Henry and Barkley, we'll be talking about Beijeon like crazy Falcons. D's gotten respectable. I might pick him to win, but if you're gonna be four and a half, I'll definitely take it.

Yeah, Commander's averaging just two point six ft six four yards per carry the last two weeks. Yeah, it's they're putting everything on Jayden and Dan shoulders.

It's coming through, but it's hard to live that way. Yeah, does Washington have a lot to play for? I mean, they're gonna give it everything.

But yeah, I think they've clinched a spot.

But They're not going to be ahead of the Packers or Vikings in a wild card, right, So, I mean I think they're I don't think they're locked into the seven, but it's pretty darn clothes.

Yeah. Yeah, I'll take Atlanta in that one.

M HM.

And the big Monday night game, well, at least it was when the season started. Thirteen and two Lions at the six and nine forty nine Ers. Yeah, Detroit favored by three and a half.

The over under fifty and a half. Like Trent Williams have been shut down. They're grabbing O lineman off practice squads and maybe starting them. I think they could wall up to that game.

Yeah, I think the Lions. I mean, this is one of their last potential outdoor games, and I don't think it's gonna matter.

I don't think it's gonna matter. I mean, they translate well enough outdoors golf, gotten better with that stuff. They have an O line.

They're seven and zero on the road this year, which is the longest streak in franchise history.

I'm shock that Lion's not like six and a half seven.

They have lost fourteen consecutive road games to the forty nine ers.

Huh oh maybe it's like a Steeler Eagle thing or something goofy, but it doesn't go back as far. But yeah, I mean they're the same conference. They played each other a little more often. Oh the other note on that one, you can't discredit the Niners eliminated the Lions last year. Yeah, you think they didn't forget that? And that's a team that runs it up.

Oh, they'll have some kind of goofy play throw up and everybody, oh, look.

At Ben Johnson.

Well cute, right, that's it's the same thing.

They'll throw a touchdown a penny.

And I would say about the Chiefs when they did the ring around the ring around a rosie play didn't work, by the way, right right, it didn't work. It was all cute and everything, but the play didn't work. They didn't score on.

It, you know, off like fake fumble stuff and all that.

Yeah, that's all well and good. You know, if you if you win the game.

For a fourth thousand the time. Yeah no, but I think the Lions will not be gentle to the Niner.

I don't think they will either. I think they're gonna want to kick them mother down.

Yeah. I think we're never gonna forget it. That's a Dan Campbell like, that's just how they're built to. We're gonna bite your kneecaps off. That's one of my favorites. I think they win that one big. Yeah.

So that's this week's s light of games. There's a few good ones on there.

There's a couple of real stinkers, but there's some good ones.

So yeah, there'll be some stuff to watch. Is Saturday slates actually better than right?

Good games? Yeah? Decent stuff?

Yeah stuff. It really means something in the playoff race, so be a good one.

Yeah, it'll be fun to get together Monday and see where all this sits, because then we still don't know what time people are playing next weekend and stuff, right, not yet. I thought that would happen by now, but yeah, maybe it'll happen today.

I don't think the Steelers will be playing on Saturday, but I think it largely might depend on what happens in these So.

There's no Monday night games in week eighteen. No, is there a Thursday night game coming up? I don't believe, like a week from yesterday, I bet not. I don't think so, because that's New Year's Day. Well, plus you get a long week. You're also in the playoffs.

There's also a bunch of college bowl games.

And yeah, yeah, but there's Saturday and Sunday. Yeah, okay, yeah, do you know how many Saturdays? I don't Okay, I haven't looked that father, but first off thinking of it.

Yeah, anyways, let's get to another break. He is Matt Williamson. I am Dale Lolly. This is the Drive on the Steelers Audio Network. We'll be back to finish up the show right after this, at least.

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And we are back. I am Dale LOLLI he is the Matt Williamson and Matt we have one more game to preview this weekend.

Last segment of the week. You're gonna pick your score. I'm gonna pick my score. What were talking about last segment?

We have a huge, massive game this weekend between the Lollygaggers and the new Sheriff in Town.

Yes, yes, so is this my second year in the league. I thought it was the third, That's what I was sure. Yeah, and I'm ready to assert my dominance as the new sheriff in town.

I don't know about that, because this is my seventh championship appearance in the last eleven years.

Okay, a lot lesser competition back then before the merger. Okay, all right, so let's go.

Let's go through the lineups here and see who has.

All Right, we might need some the gallery over here might need to chime in.

All right, At Matt at quarterback, Matt has Jayden Daniels.

Yes, I'm pretty happy about it.

Quarterback, I have Jordan Love. I could have played, and I thought about playing last night. Kaleb Williams. Thank goodness I didn't put him in the lineup.

I played golf over Daniels last week, but that was partially because I knew my opponent was kind of a cream puff and I just wanted to high see, you know, high floors. I'm sweating for the fences with Daniels, though, so.

I do believe you have an advantage there because, yeah, Daniels is going to run more.

I was paying attention to it a little bit when we were going through the DFS. Daniels is second, I think behind Allen in terms of cost. Yeah, yeah, but Love could do what. There could be a lot of points in that game. There could be a lot of point He could throw a bunch of touchdown passing the game. If it turns into no Weather, I could see that being a shootout.

At running back. This is where I have an advantage.

Well, one's a monster.

I got Saue and you have Devin and Chan and Aaron Jones.

M quality. No, they're both good players. The reason I've gotten there, Yeah, but one's been a monster, a monster, and I do think Pickett makes him even better. Yeah, I do too, because he's going to get the touchdown. Yeah yeah, I mean that's just the reality of it. In Dallas's defense is not great.

It's kind of the reason why I made a trade for him at the trade deadline, looking ahead to this part of the season, knowing that they had the Giants last Giants. Let's no Washington last week in Dallas this week and they would you.

Rather have Jones or Hall.

I'd rather Jones probably, but it's both the name again, playing against Buffalo's defense, and in that situation again, Rain could help that as well. It's it's close, but I would give my my teamier a slight advantage there. Interestingly, enough at wide receiver. You have Jamar Chase and Garrett Wilson. I have Justin Jefferson and T Higgins. I mean it's kind of pretty yeah.

I mean the fact that there the two Bengals against a good Bronco team, standalone game we're both gonna be watching, of course, and you know it's a division game that could knock off the Bengals. To certain his travel with Higgins and eat him up, or does he battle Chase is left right? It mosses back. There's the key to our game. Could be there's no Levi Wallace out there to just we're just gonna go all over. I don't love where Wilson's trending. I mean he's okay, but there could be some squeak squeak could dfs.

But your other receiver, Justin Jefferson, you've heard of him, right, all right. I'm hoping that Green that Green Bay Minnesota game. We both got guys on both sides of that one.

That for you would be better if it's a Bard and Burner than for me, because you have a quarter.

I want it back and forth. I and I have Jefferson in love, right, I also Joe, Yeah, I want that to be Jarry.

Alexander's already been ruled out. Yeah, it helps, you know, at tight end, but Jefferson and Chase, I mean basically it kind of yeah.

I mean Chase is averaging twenty two point three points per game and Jefferson's at twenty point two. I mean, either one of them is capable of having a thirty or forty point game.

They have a lot to do why we're even having this game, yeah, right right, Yeah.

They were both of our first round picks, by the way, back to back.

Yeah, I think you had ahead.

You had the two slot, I had the seven. You traded back to eight, and that was my choice. I remember first rounds and it was Jefferson or Chase, and I'm like, and that.

At that point, Chase was still holding him out right, yeah.

And I said, I'm going to take the safer pick, and.

Who averages more points This.

Year, Chase has been slightly ahead.

Okay, because he had that one game that was insane.

Yeah yeah, uh at tight end, you've already had Mark Andrews play.

Yeah, it was good, got fourteen point yeah.

Yeah, he was projected at ten point two, so he actually outperformed the Projection.

Got the cheapy touch that which made me happy.

I pivoted from that because initially, I mean initially I have Tucker Craft. He's questionable though, well he's now off the injury that I might I may still may change that. I don't know. Well, you picked up I picked up Chig on kwonk Wo based on the twenty one targets he's gotten in the last two weeks, and yeah, I kind of needed something there. Like, I like Tucker Craft. I think he's a fabulous player, but that Green Bay passing game is so diverse.

You're also heavily invested in that game, right, So I mean, if you start looking at the targets the last few weeks, it's it's seven, five, two and four.

That's not enough. It must Grave is back. It's not enough to get me the fourteen point eight that you got unless he scores, whereas Chig.

And if he scores, you get love points. Right, you know I would probably play.

Jig, Yeah Chig if Chig gets his ten targets for that.

If this is a segment, I just lie the whole thing.

Yeah, well we're through with the We're through with the lying part.

Yeah, that was that was all week long.

But if Chake gets ten targets, he can get the Andrews fourteen point eight. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that's that's kind of my thinking there.

Thing is, and they're not playing a good team.

The flexish position for both of us is interesting. You have Rico dal Dell in there right now against the Eagles.

I don't love it. I think he could go a little bit backwards from where he's been without Lamb against a really good defense. Yeah.

I have Tyrone Tracy in my in my flex spot.

Yeah.

I mean we just Tuck about averaging fifteen point five points per game and Tracy's averaging fifteen point four.

They're almost the same.

Dude. We think both of those teams are going to lose.

Yeah, I don't think either one's in the ideal situation. Yeah, who do you have on the bench you'd even consider?

I have Marvin Harrison Junior against the Rams?

Okay, oh kids? All right? Yeah.

In the last two days, I've picked up I know you've been busy, Amre Abdullah and Kimani Vadell. And I picked up Kimani Vadell because Gus Edwards has been declared out and JK Dobbins was limited all week long, and his question, will come back and play Doll? It might be va Dallas backfield against the Patriots on Saturday. So I'm kind of holding out here and I'll have to make it.

As ye know, You're my only other. I don't really even have another option. I thought about Waddle, but he's gonna He's not gonna play. I mean, the rest of my bench is Tillman, Ferguson, Ray Davis. So I'm going with dald l no matter what. But I don't love his matchup or situation in this one. Yeah, but he's been good. I got him as a throwing in a trade, but he's been good. Worked out well.

Yeah, I got so I had early in the season. I picked up Tyrone and Tracy before he became a thing.

Yeah yeah yeah.

And then I needed a bench spot for during bye weeks and I cut him and my son picked him up. He blew He had a game where he blew up and for some reason my son cut him. It was the game against Seattle. We had a four carry two yard game against Dallas in Week four. Then he had eighteen for one twenty nine and for some reason my son cut him because I think he had he had somebody coming back.

And he didn't bring that boy up right.

I said to him that I saw him. The next day, I'm like, why did you cut him? Or actually, after I picked him up, I'm like, you should not have cut Tyrone. Tracy goes, well, he's not the starter, like he's going to be the starter.

He might have like said, you're going to take him out of the well or something.

There have to be some money in the world. He's gonna end up owing money. When I died on defense, I was going to make the move. I actually put in a waiver claim for the Colts, and you bet.

I did, like two weeks ago, just I knew their last three games or total dr.

I had them on my roster going into last week. But my other defense was the Vikings. I didn't like their matchup.

He didn't want to cut them.

I didn't want to cut the Vikings, and I picked up the Packs last week against New Orleans, which actually worked. I didn't as it turned out, I didn't need that because I scored two hundred and six points. Yeah, and won my semi final game by like ninety but they shut out but they Yeah, I mean they had a massive It was the right move.

I was a dog like.

In going into last week's game, even though I was the number one overall seed. So I just I got to go for the best play possible here.

You were one of the teams you would have wanted the wigh, but you were one of the teams that benefited from actually playing against Josh Allen in the semis. Yeah. I lost two games where my team was loaded and Alan killed me. Yeah, and then a kicker. You have Chase McLachlan's defense game, I have the Packers. Okay, So if it's a shootout that hurts you, maybe, I mean, it helps your other guys. There's gotta be another defense.

Arnold will throws some to another to the other team.

True, but when Jefferson's doing touchdown dances, you're going, oh that was minus four, that was you.

Know, Yeah, I'm not going to get a massive game at I don't know.

Yeah, yeah, we'll see. There's not a lot of great streets.

There's just not. There's because the Colts just the problem is is we had some of the teams that lost carried two defenses all season long.

Yeah, it wasn't much to pick up the reason there's too many on rosters.

Quarterbacks and defenses and tight ends, and I can't say anything. I'm carrying them, you know I'm carrying. I have two tight ends on my bench right now, just because I couldn't cut them all. I have Brenton Stranger out there as well.

Well, this time of year is weird too.

But I'm also streaming tight ends. So after I trade it away Brock Bauers to get.

That's how you ended up getting.

That's part of my saque deal. Yeah, but yeah, so we'll see about that. But I have Brandon McManus against Minnesota in.

That game, so you're heavily invested in that.

I had Jason Sanders, I cut him because I didn't like him going to Cleveland to play in the weather pivot. The Brandon mcmanusy's kicking indoors. I want the track meet in that game, see how it works out.

And I have the Tampa kicker.

Yeah, I had been living with the Washington kickers all season long.

Yeah, and I think kick a lot of field.

They kick a lot of field goals.

But so my son gets a kick out of this because he's throwing big in the fantasy now too. The experts projected me to win by five or something like that. Yeah, and my son's always like that. He's like, who should I start that? Blah blah blah blah blah blah. And he's like, yeah, but ESPN says this one's gonna score eighteen fifteen.

I'm like, can't look at that.

I'm like, Mike, I know more than that. Yeah, I'm like I used to be those people. I mean, like they would hire me to do that. Well, the experts, I love to get cocky with him. I'm like, don't listen to him. Caleb, you have the best resource on the planet in the house. Caleb Williams was supposed to score.

His ceiling or his projected score going in the last night's game, was twenty three point six.

Who Caleb Williams. Oh yeah, yeah, he's yeah, he scored nine point eight. You would think you'd throw a touchdown or there'd be a touchdow back. Yeah, yeah, true, But yeah, I would have played love either way. Yeah.

I mean a guess I was a better player. He's a better player. It's a bigger game. Yeah, yeah, and again I expect to track meet tight game there. So on your bench you have waddle watch on my bench. DeAndre Hopkins, the Broncos defense, Jared Goff, Ray Davis, Jake Ferguson, and Cedric Tillman.

Who's well, he's out.

He has no injury designation this week.

Yeah, No, he's been ruled out. Has he been rolled out? Yeah? Him and the Jokuho I saw this morning.

They haven't. I guess they're just shutting Tilman down for the season.

And I assume. So, yeah, denver d is great, but I'm not playing this week. Yeah right, I mean, I'm gonna definitely play the Colts against the Giant.

That's why I mean. I I actually released the Vikings defense to pick up vidalar Abdullah because I'm not going to play him. And it doesn't matter after this week. They've been great all season long.

Next week means nothing for us.

Right, We're done.

Some leagues they just have like if you win it, they give you ten bucks or whatever. It's a winner take all kind of league. Yeah, so not necessarily have. Yeah, so that'll be the watch on ESPN. It's a feature game coaching advantage to Williamson.

It's a close it's it's you have you came into this favored by like five. Like I said, I was a ten point dog going into last week's game and I won by ninety.

So yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right what you're like to be.

I mean, you know, if you look for the star power and we both have star power both. Yeah, you know, there's a reason why we're in this game.

So I don't know how much time we have, but as much star showing it goes we want. Yeah, Matthew Berry put out his way, way, way, way way too early top fifty picks for twenty twenty five. I thought you'd get a kick out of this because Chase is one, Jefferson is two, Barkley's three, you know they're all in this game.

Yeah.

Then Bijon, who's not a chan is five. So then then you got to wait a little while. But we talk about star power, we have four of what he projects me the top five picks in next year.

Is really chasing Jefferson. If you look at the first round, are two of the few guys that actually hit in this year's first round of all the receivers, I mean the tyrone, we were picking seven and eight.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. That worked out well. Meat trading from two to eight was very betterful.

Who would you have taken it to? I would have taken Bije on it.

Too, because McCaffrey went one. We didn't know things. Back has been fine. Yeah, I think that was my pick. And I liked Haul too, but I favored Bijon. Yeah.

I traded Okay, Yeah, I mean I I actually not to toot my own horn, but my draft was pretty darn good. I mean I took Jackson, Smith and Jig but late. Yeah, I got Brock Bowers as the last tight end. Everybody else had already taken a tight end. I took Brock Bauers. I had Drake London in like the third round. I'm trying to think, but I bet my valuable pieces that I traded the acquire Saquon, Barkley and Presaul.

My best value had to be Daniels. Yeah. I mean that was like.

I was going to take him. You took him, and then I took love Lo and behold, we're both in the championship.

And I think that was my first quarterback taken.

That kind of shows you this. You know, the teams that had Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson made the semi finals. That's who we played last week, but we advanced and they did not see.

The thing is it's twelve team league. The two of us are both, you know, ruling it. But the other ten fellas they could just listen to the show. They could because we can't listen to there.

We end up talking through this stuff and a lot of times we end up sniping each other on things to pick up and.

Oh yeah, yeah, I didn't love us picking next to each other. I knew I was going to take the deal when I moved from two to eight or whatever. We thought there was eight good players. I'm like, oh, we're picking right next to each other in the middle of round. We're gonna snipe each other. We spent three months talking about this. I knew you weren gonna take Richardson or a Chan. They were two guys you were down on.

But you know, yeah, anyways, that's going to do it for today's show and.

For the week. Best of luck to you, Best of luck to you.

He's someone talking all the smack this week. You should see the text that have gone out.

I don't even know those dudes, you know, some of them, A couple of there's a couple of people in the biz.

Yeah. Anyways, that's going to do it for our show today and for the week. Matt and I will be back on Monday. We will have shows on Monday, Tuesday. Guys, we have a show.

Here's a New Year's story. I guess we'll figure it out. Yeah, and we'll let you know we get there. Nobody tells us whether we're doing a show New Year's Day or we have no idea, but we will do a show in New Year's Eve, I guess at some point. And then we'll be back Thursday, Friday for sure to preview the Steelers Bengals at one o'clock work.

Well, we don't. We don't even know what.

We don't even know what time the game is next. Yeah, right right.

I assume it's gonna be a one o'clock game on Sunday, but who knows, could be something different.

I guess Monday we'll have some of these answers. We'll have answers, yeah, for sure, as well as the champion of the league.

You may not know that yet. Anybody playing Monday night. No, no, we'll be decided. Okay, it'll be decided that. Okay, you go. But anyways, for my partner Matt Williamson, who's going to lose this weekend. For Justin Miller, who wishes he was in his championship game in his fantasy league. For Tyler Vettmeyer making sure our video gets out there on YouTube.

I am Dale Lollie.

We thank you for listening to this edition of the Drive on the Steelers Audio Network.

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