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Happy New Year to all.

I'm Mike Dempsey, along with Football Guys' own Bob Harris.

That includes you, Bob, New Year.

But the same drill here, we're getting you ready for the fantasy weekend.

Starting with Saturday and the San

Francisco 49ers, George Kittle, is expected to be back in the lineup for the Niners. Do you trust

him, though, coming off an injury? I know he has incentive to play well because it's an important

game, but a guy coming off an issue like that, are you trusting him fully? Yeah, I mean, I think if the 40 diners are willing to play him in a game of this magnitude, as you mentioned, they're one of the handful of teams with a genuine motivation to win. I'll go with it because, man, the best pieces of this offense have been on fire. I know it's a tough matchup, but I'm going to have some faith in Kyle, Sean, and Brock Birdie in the top pieces here to overcome a tough Seattle defense. I would have Kittal in my lineups. Well, two teams that are

also playing very hard are Baltimore and Pittsburgh, obviously winner wins the ASC North.

Loser goes home for the postseason. Lamar Jackson worked fully yesterday, Bob. How do you

feel about him versus the Steelers this week?

I don't feel great playing 2025 of Omar Jackson, right? I mean, he's not been the guy we've seen over past seasons. This year he's played 12 games. So it's not a huge surprise that he's quarterback 20 on the year. But I went and look the last time he played 12 games in 2022, he finished the season, his quarterback 14. But his 19.8 points per game

that season ranked seventh among all quarterbacks. This year in his 12 games to date,

Omar's average 16 and a half points per game that ranks 17 among all quarterbacks. So I think

we have to come to grips that we're playing in with hopes he returns to something we haven't seen

much in recent weeks. And that's a guy who scored more than 20 points. He's done it five games this season, but only once since

week nine. On the Steelers side of things, Darnell, Washington, their big tight end was placed on

injured reserve. Maybe could come back if they made it all the way to Super Bowl, but out for now.

Calvin Austin, they hope will be ready. We know D.K. Metcast serving the second of his two-game suspension, Bob. So is there a Pittsburgh pass catcher that you are comfortable putting in a lineup this week? There is not. I mean, I love Calvin Austin, but I wouldn't be comfortable with him in a lineup in an important game. Some will be looking for Pat Firmuth to rise up. I'm not looking for that.

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