This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. Hello, everybody. Welcome into the Fantasy Pros Football Podcast. I'm Ryan Wormley, joined as I am every Tuesday by Andrew Erickson. Buddy, we are talking week 15 predictions. Yes, that's right. We are into the fantasy playoffs for just about every league out there. This is week two of this iteration of the show. Once you get past the trade deadlines, this is kind of what the show turns into. If you missed last week, just a quick refresher. We're going to be doing some predictions. We'll go five to one from each of us. First four, kind of in order. The last one is our sort of best bet of the week. And we're going to track and see who does better throughout the season here. We had our first episode of this, you know, version of the show last week. We're going to continue it with this week and the next few and really see who does better Erickson. Before we dive into how we did last week, just a quick, you know, check in here at the playoffs. How did you do? How many playoffs did you make? How many buys did you earn? How is your sort of overall, I hate using the word portfolio,

but how is your portfolio looking here as we embark upon the fantasy postseason?

As the kids like to say, it's pretty mid for the most part. I snuck into all my fantasy

playoffs for the most part as the number six seed. So all you got to do is get to the dance. Anything can happen. I'm probably going to lose one team week by week as the, as I get exposed a little bit here because I didn't have a ton of dominant teams, except the one of that in the content team league where I was the number one scene actually had to buy this past week. So I also think I had another league where the playoffs started last week, which I don't understand why. Point of order, I was number two seed and also had a buy this last week. So let's you, the two of us are really representing that content league strong here. It's not just you. Don't, don't take that away from me. Yeah. And I probably would have been screwed if I didn't have the by because I... Oh, I totally would have been. My team scored like 80 this week.

I would have been screwed if I didn't have the buy week because I... Oh, I totally would have been. I might have scored like 80 this week. I would have had to start to Ron Taylor who got injured. So that would have been really bad because I had Drake May out of biweek. So Drake May's back. Pacing the bills this week. It could be a shootout. So yeah, looking forward to it. Week 15 playoffs are here for the majority of leagues and this is the time where hey time to show out weeks one to 14 doesn't matter anymore it's zero zero it's winner take all losing go home

let's break it down and with some of these predictions get people set for the week at least the

start of the week some quick accountability for me uh 14 leagues i was in this year. I made the playoffs in 11 of them and four of those I received a buy. Ironically, one of the three leagues I did not make the playoffs in, I had the third most points scored this season. It was just dumb luck and, you know, sometimes it works out that way. But 11 out of 14 plus four buys.

So I feel pretty good. I've had a few years in a row where I got a lot of teams to the

semifinals and then lost in the semifinals in almost every league. So I'm hoping we don't have

that repeat itself, but sure feels like it's shaping up that way right now.

Quickly, before we get into the predictions part of the show, any thoughts on Monday Night Football for the listeners? Any recap here from Eagles Chargers? Obviously, I was predicting that the Eagles are going to smash the Chargers, clearly did not happen. Just any fancy takeaways? I mean, a game like that with so many turnovers, that's inherently fluky, probably not going to happen again. And it just kind of throws the rhythm of the whole game into whack. I mean, Jalen Hertz had a play where he had negative four points. I have never seen that in my whole lot. I doubt anybody has. I didn't look it up. I mean, I thought that the Mahomes catch for negative 10 yards was going to be the biggest and negative play that we see from a quarterback, but Jalen Hertz took the cake with, again, he threw four interceptions, had the fumble on one of his interceptions, just terrible day at the office for Jalen Hertz. But bounce back spot for the Philadelphia Eagles next week against the Las Vegas Raiders. Sicle and Barkley looked good. Again, ripped off an explosive 50-yard touchdown run the Chargers who have kind of been a boomer bus run defense. I think it's kind of status quo with the Eagles players. Again, we know that their offense can be bumpy at times. Again, it was a tougher matchup Chargers defense has been good. I think more of the story was the Chargers offense with Omeringhampton coming back. Still kind of a split committee with Kamani Vidal, kind of being the, he started the game, but pretty good had that 60-yard catch on the first drive. Hampton ended up scoring. Hampton did out touch him in the red zone, which I think is pretty key, five to one, and I would expect Hampton to probably take on the 60% in a 60 kind of 40 split. I just don't think we'll go back to Hampton as, oh, 80% of the snaps because Vidal's been

really good for the most part for the Chargers kind of filling in.

So I think he's going to still have a role.

But I will say the Chargers turned into a much heavier run offense with all this Justin Herbert

injury injuries on their offensive line against the Eagles defense.

Their pass rate over expectation was negative 12% in against the Eagles.

It was plus 4% every other game or from weeks one through 13.

And he was constantly under pressure.

I believe that from next gen stats, they had that Justin Herbert was pressured on 68% of his dropbacks, which is the highest pressure rate

of any quarterback this season.

And you know who he's facing next week?

Is the Kansas City Chiefs who pressured CJ Stroud on 54% of his dropbacks on Sunday

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