 Hey everyone, what's going on? I am Greg Sausman, joining you today for the final time this football season. But Jim Son is a fan, let's have it, Jim. It's all good, Greg. I'm excited for Super Bowl Sunday. It should be a really fun one. We get to watch two borderline genius offensive minds and Kyle Shanahan and Andy Reid. We get to eat some Andy Reid, mac and cheese, watch some really fun players. So I haven't been as excited for Super Bowl in a very long time. I am ready to get things rolling. How are you doing? I think you're gonna say you haven't been as excited for Super Bowl in about 365 days. I'm like, yeah, same dude, I'm with you. Well, last year was Jared Goff and I was more so just nervous the entire time. So as we get to, I get to sit back and just enjoy this year because I'm not gonna look like an idiot if Jared Goff fails. So I get to just ride this one out and enjoy whereas that wasn't necessarily the case last year. Fair enough, we'll enjoy all of it this year and we'll start by enjoying the Beatrix and the Aura and the Mystique. It is Patrick Mahon. We're talking about DFS, our top players for this week and Mahomes, well, he's the number one player. In fact, both quarterbacks on our list, which makes sense, you need to play one of them. Mahomes, well, he's the better one. So let's start there. Yeah, we're starting off with a no-brainer here, Greg, but Patrick Mahomes is a no-brainer for a reason. I think that he is kind of the default guy you should plug in as your MVP for this single game slate as well because if you look at him against top pass defenses this year, Mahomes was an outlier in the positive sense. The average 0.34 passing net expected points per dropback against top 10 teams. That was a full 10th of an expected point better than anybody else that at least 100 dropbacks, Matthew Stafford was second. So Mahomes was head and shoulders above the rest. He was not phased by good pass defenses this year. So I think he should be able to move the ball against his Kansas City defense. And the other thing that helps out Mahomes from a fantasy perspective is that he has been running more recently. His pass three games, seven, seven and eight rush attempts. Those are really good numbers which help boost both his floor and his upside. So I know it's very obvious to say Patrick Mahomes is in a great spot for fantasy, but he really is. There are a lot of incentives to not use Mahomes as your MVP because you want to be different and that is an easy way to be different is by changing up that MVP slot. But if you're playing things straight up, Mahomes is head and shoulders above everybody else in this game from a ceiling perspective. So if you're playing things straight up, Patrick Mahomes should be on every roster and it should be your MVP. You want those double points to get with Patrick Mahomes. You pointed out that he's running more than he has all season long. You got to like that over rushing prop too. When it comes to Patrick Mahomes, a lot to love here. Mahomes, the no-brainer to be in your lineups as your MVP. Don't be stupid, make the obvious call. Mahomes as your MVP. If you want to go to a different quarterback or go in a different spot, you are able to do that and that's with Jimmy G. Garoppolo, I have this feeling in this theory, Jim, that for the last two weeks, all we've talked about is how the Niners have gone back to basics. They're a running football team and they just ran all over the Green Bay Packers and they thought they had a better chance of rushing the football for 30 yards and passing it for 30 yards. And that's been the narrative all throughout these bye weeks. I have a feeling for whatever reason, Kyle Shanahan's gonna come out and just start throwing the ball down the field. Is that crazy? I don't think it's crazy, partly because if you look at the matchups here, they've got a pretty distinct matchup advantage with George Kittle over the middle of the field against his Kansas City defense. And the reason that Kyle Shanahan was running the football so much was because he could and he just, he could run it as often as he wanted, but this time the Chiefs are gonna score points, which means the San Francisco 49ers are gonna have to throw a bit more, which increases the volume for Jimmy Garoppolo. And yeah, the volume has been down for him recently, but overall the efficiency this year for Garoppolo wasn't honestly that bad. He does make some really bad decisions like he'll throw a stupid pick at some point, but overall he's still got good efficiency marks making up for those interceptions with good plays elsewhere. So we're going to get inflated volume from Garoppolo this weekend just because the game script should favor that. And we should see decent efficiency too due to the matchup edges that guys like George Kittle are gonna have in this game. And I would expect Kyle Shanahan to be aware of those advantages and exploit them potentially like you said early on in this game. So I do expect the Chiefs to win, which does influence a lot of the way I'm playing the single game slate, but if they do win that means Garoppolo will throw more often. So I think even in the line of story you assume the Chiefs win, especially if they win a close game, pairing Mahomes with Garoppolo makes a lot of sense. And if you do want to change things up and not use Mahomes as your MVP, Garoppolo's a pretty good choice in those neutral game scripts. So I think I'm on board with you where we could see additional passes by Kyle Shanahan this weekend. If he does decide to be more aggressive Garoppolo should benefit. He has shown to be capable when he has to throw this year. And I think that this is a good spot to break that out once again and see what he can do. So Garoppolo, $14,000, a $200 discount from Mahomes. You can fit both those guys in the same lineup pretty easily. Absolutely, no, Jimmy G, if we believe that the Chiefs are going to get off, that means they'll score a lot of points. Jimmy G and his Niners team is gonna have to come back. They just can't run the ball all game. Jimmy G's had his moments, as you mentioned, the New Orleans spot, the most famous and obvious one. I really believe Jimmy G could throw for a ton of yards in this game, making him a fine start this weekend in DFS. Let's go to the running backs here, Jim. Damien Williams, another one of these no-brainer options. We've been on him all playoffs long. The Super Bowl is no different. Yeah, absolutely. With the role he's been playing, it's really hard not to like Damien Williams. Now, from a salary perspective, he is the same salary as Jimmy Garoppolo and $500 more than Raheem Mostert. So you could think that potentially you are choosing between Garoppolo and Williams for a lineup, but you can actually fit all three guys with Mahomes in there. And I'd be inclined to do so. There's some really good value plays in the slate, two of which we'll talk about later on. So I'm okay being kind of top heavy here and going with Damien Williams once again. His role in the playoffs has been superb, playing a lot of snaps, averaging 14.5 carries and six targets per game. And both, he's gotten both carries and targets near the goal line, which gives him really big touchdown upside. So if you're filling out a lineup where you assume the Chiefs win this game and kind of run away with it, I think Williams is a good contender for your MVP slot as well, potentially above Mahomes. That would make your roster different from a lot of rosters in your pools for this weekend. I think that there is a lot of incentive to do so. So if you think the Chiefs win this game by a pretty good margin, Williams is a contender for MVP. I'd still prefer Mahomes straight up, but Williams, at least intriguing in those spots for sure, Williams, a lot of touchdown upside, should get yardage both as a rusher and as a wide receiver. So even though he is the same salary as Garoppolo, I have the value place to get there and the appeal for Williams is really high. He is my favorite running back for this game. My favorite running back as well. And I think, fine, to consider an MVP, I think you have to go up Mahomes, but Damian Williams is going to be very involved in this matchup. I'm excited to see what he does in his first Super Bowl appearance. Damian Williams in a really good spot here against San Francisco 49ers. Up next, we'll go to George Kittle, the tight end for the San Francisco 49ers. Kittle and Kelsey, both options, of course, on this slate. You want to talk about Kittle over Kelsey. How come? Yeah, I think that we've kind of forgotten how involved George Kittle is in this 49ers often, just because they haven't thrown it all the past couple of weeks, and that's justifiable. Because if they get ahead, they're probably not going to throw it once again. So there are concerns around Kittle and lineups where you think that the 49ers run away with things, but that's not my baseline assumption for this weekend, a lot of some lineups that do that. But overall, I think it'll be either a neutral script or a game that she's winning pretty handily. In both those scenarios set up for additional volume for the 49ers, and when they throw, the ball goes Kittle's way pretty often. He has 31% of their targets from week 13 on, which is where Devo Samuel's role increased. And Kittle also has 33% of the team's red zone targets so far in that same sample. He's actually nine to one to score the first touchdown on Fandall's sportsbook. I think that's a pretty interesting number, and I think that translates well to DFS. He's $11,500. He is 500 cheaper than Tyree Kill. I love Tyree Kill for this game. He's a thousand cheaper than Travis Kelsey. So there is definitely an opportunity cost in going with George Kittle. But if you look at the matchups here against his Kansas City defense, I think that Kittle is kind of a matchup nightmare for them. He's gonna face Tyron Matthew at times, but he's also 60 pounds heavier, seven inches taller than Tyron Matthew. So I don't think that's necessarily a bad matchup despite how good Tyron Matthew is. I think that Kittle is really attractive at 11-5. We've kind of glossed over him because they haven't been throwing, but I expect that passing volume to be up, and I expect Kittle to do well, given the matchup advantage he has. So George Kittle is someone I think we should make sure we're not overlooking here at 11-5. I agree, 11-5 is a fine price for Kittle, and it's a matchup nightmare for any team, and that's where both Kelsey and Kittle are. But I think people are gonna forget about Kittle a little bit because it has been very quiet playoffs for him. But when they need to pass, they're gonna go through their main man, that's George Kittle. I've always expected a Gronk-like moment for him. I think we'll see it in the Super Bowl this Sunday. Let's go to some of these, not lesser-known players, but certainly cheaper price players. We'll start with Debo Samuel, and I think we're still waiting for that big Debo Samuel moment as well for San Francisco. Do you think we see it in Super Bowl 54? I think the nice thing, Greg, is we don't even need to see it at his salary because he is only $8,500, which is really cheap. He doesn't need to have a huge game to pay off in your single-game rosters, but a pretty big game is within his range of outcome. So to answer your question, I would not be shocked if we did see that here, because again, the key sample for the 49ers is week 13 on, that is when Debo Samuel's snap rate went up in a game where both Kittle and Manny Sanders were healthy, and in those games, from week 13 on, Samuel has 21% of the team's overall targets, but he also has 30% of the deep targets and 27% of the red zone targets, which means he has a couple of paths to upside, and we've also seen this 49ers team get him involved as a rusher pretty often. He's had a bunch of rush attempts in this time. They want the ball in his hands because they know what he can do after the catch, and Kyle Shanahan knows what he's doing. He is doing that for a reason, and that says to me, they want the ball in this guy's hand as often as they can get it there. If you're filling out a single-game roster on Fandle, you need at least one player from each team, and if I'm going with a cheese-heavy lineup where I assume that they run away with things, I need 149er, and I want to lower the salary of that player, and I think that Samuel fits that pretty well because that would be a script that sets up for more pass attempts. That benefits him. He is cheap, which means I can jam in all the expensive cheats, and I also think Samuel is pretty attractive in the neutral scripts as well because that salary is so low. He kind of fits wherever you want him to be, whatever script you think this, whatever way you see this game playing out. I like him more than Emmanuel Sanders, even though Sanders is $1,000 cheaper. I just think that the dedication that the 49ers have shown to getting Debo the ball should force us to put him into our rosters. I think that's what I like best about Debo Samuel as well, Jim, is that no matter which game-flow you think you're going for, Debo Samuel makes sense. If you're stacking your lineup with Chiefs, you think that Chiefs are gonna score all these points and run away, well, you're gonna need Debo Samuel, or the Niners are, to come back. If the Niners play their ball control game, who's the best shot at a big play? It's Debo. You're right, you don't need it at that salary. It sure is nice. I like Debo Samuel over Emmanuel Sanders as well. I think he makes a fine case to be in your lineups on Sunday. One last player to get to, Jim, and that brings us to Nicole Hardman over the Kansas City Chiefs. Hardman, I feel like people are kind of circling around him for this weekend. I'm not really sure why. I think DeMarcus Robinson is an equal case. I know the big playability of Nicole Hardman, but you've been all over Sammy Watkins. He's not here. I know the price is a little bit higher for him. Why Hardman over a guy like DeMarcus Robinson? I think it's because of what we saw in those first two playoff games. If you remember in the divisional round, DeMarcus Robinson dropped like 15 passes in that game. In the second half, we saw more Nicole Hardman sprinkled in. And then in the conference championships, Nicole Hardman actually out snapped DeMarcus Robinson and ran 22 routes according to pro football focus, which was the most routes he has run in a game this entire season when Tyree Kill has been healthy. So I think that they saw Robinson kind of struggling and they said, okay, let's unleash the speed with Nicole Hardman here. But the other thing that I like about Hardman is that he's kind of a disaster for this 49ers defense because they have had 11 wide receivers get at least eight targets against them this year. And five of those 11 ran a four, three, nine, or better in the 40 yard dash at the combine. Nicole Hardman was much faster than that. Basically what this means is they struggle against speedy wide receivers. That means Tyree Kill again, a pretty fun play in a potential MVP bet for this game as well. But Nicole Hardman is $6,000. We know he can convert on just a single target and cash that in and pay off for daily fantasy. And it's $6,000, he opens up a lot. If you want to jam in Mahomes, Garoppolo, Damian Williams, you need a value play to help get you there. I think that Emmanuel Sanders and Deba, Samuel are in that discussion, but if you want a little bit extra leniency, I might look towards Nicole Hardman. He is $6,000. He has electric speed, which is kind of scary for this defense and his role did seem to expand last week. So I'm going to buy into Nicole Hardman. I know it is kind of popular. I've noticed the same thing too on Twitter. There's a lot of Nicole Hardman hype, but I think based on the role change he got in the conference championship, that hype is justified. The snaps up for Nicole Hardman. I know DeMarcus Robinson's been the guy all season, but potentially not here in the Super Bowl. We'll see if Hardman can get involved. We'll see if Hardman can win you all the money on Fandale during the Super Bowl. That's it for us here for the Fandale Harrier. Jim, it's been a fantastic season. I'm excited for what's next. Yeah, we're not done with football talk just yet. We'll talk more about that next week. Also get some golf in there. It should be a lot of fun, but it was a fun ride. Greg, appreciate it. And we'll talk to you again soon. Enjoy the Super Bowl. You as well, my friend. Tomorrow, Gabe Moretzi will join me and give us his best bets for Super Bowl 54. You don't want to miss that. So for Jim Sannas, I'm Greg Sussman. Have a great night. We'll see you back here tomorrow for another edition of the Fandale Harrier.