Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider.

Matthew Collar here.

The show is always presented by Fanduel, and this is our Purple Insider Fantasy

Shope with Mike Shope of WGR 550 and ADP chasing.

And we have reached the point where if you are still alive in your fantasy playoffs,

congratulations to you.

And this is a big week.

So we're going to look at big players, making big plays in big games.

We're going to go through some of the biggest games around the league and who matters the most.

But I'm also curious, Mike, for those still alive, how they should handle lineups, how they

should think about who to put in and who to not put in.

And one of the things that's been striking me a lot this year, and maybe it happens every

year in December, but I feel like it's been a little egregious

this year is some teams are down bad. And it feels like they may not be showing up for games,

but they still have certain players that are going to matter in these situations. Like,

how do we deal with that?

Yeah, that's a good question. I think when you're drafting, you're not really daunted by teams that you think might not have good seasons. The Jets come immediately to

mind. Justin Fields, Garrett Wilson, Brees Hall, like, okay, well, if they are losing, then I don't mind because that means, I mean, for me, as a fantasy player, positive game scripts, and I can get, you know, production from any of those guys week to week.

But what happened? It went so south. They benched fields. Wilson got hurt and they have

no real incentive to put him back out there. Maybe they will. And then Brees Hall has just really not

hit because the team is that incompetent. So that happens sometimes. Atlanta is interesting here. I

didn't expect Atlanta to go so badly,

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