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Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score

Thanksgiving Day Recap: Tony Pollard, Deebo Samuel, Jordan Love and More! (11/24 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score

CBS Sports

Sports, Football

4.9721 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Recapping all of the Thanksgiving games! How much do we trust Christian Watson and Jordan Love? Is Tony Pollard back!? We also discuss Deebo Samuel, Zach Charbonnet and more. 

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0:00.0

Recapping three Thanksgiving football games right now on fantasy football today and five.

0:09.0

What is going on, everybody? Welcome to the show. Adam Azer here solo tonight. It is actually

0:15.0

about 1240 a.m. so it's no longer Thanksgiving, but I hope everybody had a great, great day with family and friends. I hope you enjoyed the football games as well, not exactly the most exciting day of football. But let's start, let's give some thoughts on every game. Green Bay 29 and Detroit 22. Is Jordan Love? Is this breakout for real? Is Christian Watson back to being somebody that we can trust. Unfortunately, they have the chiefs next week.

0:37.7

So I think things might be a little bit different.

0:39.5

I think the Detroit Lions happen to be one of those teams that's just a great matchup for the passing game. I think that they stink against the past, quite frankly. But you have to be encouraged by what we're seeing from Jordan Love. Matt LaFleur talked about it after the game. He's more comfortable in the offense now, and it's allowing them to be more aggressive.

0:54.8

He's completing a lot of deep passes.

0:57.0

Christian Watson, he now actually has seven or more targets in four of his last seven games. Just the last two times it happened, he did absolutely nothing with it. This was really encouraging. Again, I don't love him against the Cheaps next week, but I will love him against the Giants the week after that. So I think for Green Bay, you've got to be very encouraged by what you're seeing offensively for them. I think the start percentage for Jordan Love, 27% was way too low. AJ Dylan, nice that he got the work. We knew this was a tough matchup. Next week, it's kind of easier run defense, but an interesting matchup against the Chiefs if Aaron Jones is still out. But the bottom line is trusting Jordan Love more. Christian Watson, matchup dependent. And remember, this is still a guy in Jordan Love that chooses a different receiver every week. Where is Romeo Dobbs this week? So maybe it's Jordan Reed, Jaden Reed, maybe it's Romeo Dobbs, maybe it's Watson who gets it done next week. On the other side of the ball, not really much to take away. I think it's kind of annoying, actually, that Jared Goff scored over 22 fantasy points. He did not play a very good game, but he gives you an okay game there for fantasy. And Montgomery still has a really good role, and it's a little frustrating for the Jimir Gibbs manager. Dallas 45, Washington 10.

2:02.5

They just blow out every below average team.

2:06.4

It's unbelievable.

2:07.9

They crush these teams, and it has to be taken into account.

2:11.2

I didn't really love Sam Howell this week.

2:13.0

He was okay.

2:14.1

He scored 17.3 fantasy points.

2:16.1

He threw for 300 yards.

2:17.4

He rushed for a touchdown.

2:19.0

And I thought Dallas would kind of control time of possession is the exact opposite.

2:23.4

Washington had the ball for almost 37 minutes. I don't have a lot of major takeaways from this,

2:27.6

except I'll say I don't care at all. I'm not moved by this Curtis Samuel performance.

2:31.9

Okay, yeah, this is that random game with Kurt, where Curtis Samuel goes off. We've bought into him before. Last year we brought into him a little bit, I mean, to a degree. This year, I'm not falling forward again, so he's not going to be a waiver-wire priority for me. McLaurin, I think, can get back on track against Miami. Well, you know, I'd like to see how Miami does against Garrett Wilson, because they could be a little bit scary with Ramsey and Howard healthy now.

2:54.7

But I think McLaurin, at least you like the targets.

2:57.4

And we saw it with Brian Robinson.

2:59.0

If Antonio Gibson's playing, Brian Robinson, to me, is not a must start running back.

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