What's up, everybody? I am Raymond Summerlin, your host for this edition of the Rotow World Football Podcast,

and I will be joined today as I am every single Thursday by Rich Riebard to talk about the Thursday night game,

as well as the most interesting data points from his worksheet column, as well as Nick Minzio,

who has all the most important starts and sits for the first week of the fantasy football playoffs

week 14 before we get to that however i would like to remind you to rate and review the podcast

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much appreciate it with that out of the way let's talk to rich what's going on rich ray what's

happened here we are me at week 14 which is usually the start of the fantasy playoffs for everyone that made it. And I'm assuming that the people that everyone that's listening to this show probably still is in it. So here we are, man, trying to get that first win. And hopefully you had a buy because there's a lot of star power out there that has a lot of, you know, interesting matchups this week. Yeah, I was very happy about the leagues that I had buys in, you know, Gronks out, Juju Smith-Schuster is out, and that's, you know, oddly. And who would have thought at the beginning of the year that that would be one that might hurt some teams that certainly would have hurt me in a couple leagues. You know, we'd have no idea what to do with Russell Wilson. We'll talk about him later. There are just, there are a lot of interesting situations this week. Yeah, I mean, you, Leonard Fournette, I think, is a guy that is in like a terrible spot. I mean, Carson Wentz has like an interesting spot. Like he's like players you've been riding for most of the season. But, uh, you know, we'll talk about that Thursday night game because players you you have riding in that game, you know, especially from the Saints side, are not in terrible matchups. Yeah, we can get started on it now with the Saints. I mean, the running game. We can just start at the running game. There's, like, I've lost ways to describe Alvin Kamara. Like, I've run out of things to talk about with him because it's not interesting anymore. What do you do with Alvin Kamara? You put them in your lineup and you leave them there. And you put them in your DFS lineups, no matter how high they make the price. And you just leave them there. And they actually have a good matchup this week, especially for Kamara. The Falcons have given up the most catches to running backs this season, and obviously I would expect Camara to add to that total in a big way. I mean, Falcons don't have the most vulnerable run defense. I think that their numbers are maybe even skewed a little bit. I think the run defense is actually okay, but that doesn't matter against this offense. That doesn't matter against Mark Ingram. So I'm not

interested really in talking about that at all. But the passing game, on the other hand, with what Drew Breeze has been doing lately, I mean, you have to really be thinking about starting other people ahead of Drew Breeze at this point, right? I mean, yeah, it depends on the options because he has to have like a pretty stable floor when the matchups have, you know, kind of lined up and at at lanta i mean they've a lot of qb one and five of their past seven games as well so i mean it's one of kind of like uh like you know i could probably get like a usable game out of jubris and then then you know we've kind of been i think i wrote in the worksheet that it was basically like we're at the point where like we can't just count on the touchdown aggression like at this point. Like it's just, it's just fleeting at this moment. And like you look at Atlanta side, I mean, 45% of touchdown scored against Atlanta have been by running backs. So it sets up just the, you know, hook line, and zinker for what the Saints have been doing. You know, and Breeze has thrown, you know, one or fewer touchdown passes now in six games.

It's the most he's ever had in a season while in New Orleans.

So, I mean, yeah, I think as a floor play, he's still fine. I mean, if you're counting on him to get like that 30-point game, like you would in the past in these playoff matchups, like, man, I hope, you know, I've got 30 coming for Breeze. gonna start this Thursday off right.

You know, that's probably not going to be in the cards

because he hasn't been that guy this year.

So, I mean, yeah, I mean, it would depend on. Bree's going to start this Thursday off right. You know, that's probably not going to be in the cards because he hasn't been that guy this

year. So, I mean, yeah, I mean, it would depend on the options. I mean, it's kind of interesting streaming week. I mean, it's tough to go into the bucket deep. I mean, are you going to play Deshaun Kaiser over Juberies? I mean, the most handsome quarterback in the league, are you going to play him? It's a lot.

There's not a lot of like over the moon streaming plays this week.

So it's a lot. There's not a lot of like over the moon streaming plays this week. So it's real interesting. The quarterback position is one of the biggest layouts of the week. And we'll talk about it, you know, as we go on here, because we'll talk about Russell Wilson a little bit later. And, you know, for those that don't know, Mr. Raymond Summerlin, the host of the show, I'm the one given the data points, but Raymond Summerlin is the number one quarterback ranker on the season in fantasy pros. So, I mean, I want to know what he's doing with guys like Drew Brees and Russell Wilson. Well, first of all, after last week, I think that that's probably going to change. Last week wasn't the best. But I will say that I, when you say that Atlanta has given up that many quarterback one matchups, that is true. But so much of that has been on the ground. I mean, they've given up, I think it's the second most yards on the ground to quarterbacks this year. The third most touchdowns, they had that run of three games there where they were just giving up a ton of points on the ground. If you actually go back and look at what they've been doing from a passing perspective, it really hasn't been there. They've given up more than 265 yards through the air just twice this season. They've actually been doing a pretty good job limiting passing attacks. Obviously, we know Drew Breeze isn't going to run the football. I think he hasn't run for more than 15 yards since like

2014. It's been a very long time. And like you mentioned, the touchdowns just haven't been there.

He's averaged 6.4 games with three or more touchdowns since joining New Orleans. A season,

he had eight of those last year. He had 20 combined in 2011 to 2012. That's what we've come to

expect from him. And that's just not there.

He's done that once so far this season. You've mentioned how bad he's been recently. I am not that interested in Drew Breeze this week. You mentioned the most handsome quarterback in league, Jimmy Garoppel. I would start him over Drew Breast. I would start James Winston over Drew Brees. That's kind of where I am with him.

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