 The time of the year to be thankful in the NFL is coming up this week as Thanksgiving will bring us the usual doubleheader between the Detroit Lions and the Dallas Cowboys, not facing each other, each hosting their own individual home games this coming Thursday. We've also got a slate of Sunday games coming up with the Cincinnati Bengals taken on the New York Giants. Without their starting quarterback, Joe Burrow, the number one overall pick, suffered a torn ACL this past Sunday against the Washington football team. The question is, when will Joe Burrow return? Will he return in time for 2021, midway through 2021, or do the Bengals elect to hold him out for the rest of the season next season and then just play him in 2022? We're going to talk about that and much more on this brand new episode of Time2Football, including week 12 news and notes going into this week of football. Hello everyone, welcome to a brand new episode of Time2Football. My name is Sasan Khan, the host of this show. Something that's also coming up on this show later on, since it is Thanksgiving, we want to get into the Thanksgiving spirit. We thought we'll mention every single team, every NFL team, and one individual thing that they're thankful for for this 2020 NFL season. It's going to be lots of fun. It's Thanksgiving. We thought we'd just get everybody the day off. We're going to go out of town pretty soon. My hot brunette wife is looking at me wanting to wrap up this podcast. She's actually in the room right now. She wants to grab lunch, so she's like, hurry up. Just get this podcast roll in, film it, and we need to go and leave out of town. So this podcast is actually going to be a very short edition or a shorter edition. I don't know if it's going to be around 30 minutes, 45 minutes or so, but it won't be usual 45 hour long podcast that you see every single week. You're going to notice the chat on YouTube. Ask any sort of questions that you guys want. I'll be in the chat. I'll try my absolute best. I'll be in and out of the chat and you can ask any sort of questions that you have for fantasy football because we've got lots of action coming up on Thursday. You guys want to get your team set. You guys got a lot of players that play on the Texans in the Lions game and also in the Cowboys in Washington game. So if you have any sort of questions, I'm here in the chat to help you guys out. And if you guys are listening to this on the audio experience on iTunes, just know that we have a YouTube channel, youtube.com slash time to football. Jump up on there. We come out with much more content every single week on our YouTube channel. And if you don't want to listen to or watch an hour long 30 minute video, however long it is on YouTube, just go over to the podcast app, listen to us on the go, rate and review our podcast, five stars, nothing less. We have much to talk about in a very short amount of time on this episode. But first, before we get into everything, we have to give our most prestigious award to a player every single week. And that is the hungriest player of the week. Hungriest player of the week, the one that wanted it the most. If you guys watch this weekly show every week, you know that we don't give this to the best player, the one with the best stats, the one that just had all these great numbers weekend and week out. No, we give this to a player that is very underrated, that is overlooked every single week. An honorable mention was Taysem Hill. He was an honorable mention. I thought about him because the hungriest player of the week is awarded to someone that takes the most of their opportunities that is given to them, the one that plays hungry. But instead, I figured everybody's going to be talking about Taysem Hill. I figured that the check down the NFL's Instagram account that stole this award for me in 2019 when I came up with this award in 2013, I haven't checked who their hungriest player of the week is just yet, but I bet it's going to be Taysem Hill. So instead, I'm going to name someone that is a little bit more underneath the radar that deserves a lot of credit this week. Respect the specs. Rodrigo Blankenship, the Indianapolis Colts kicker is deserving of the hungriest player of the week award. Four out of five of his field goals converted, he missed a field goal earlier in the game. The Colts were down 14 to 28. No hope it seemed like for the Indianapolis Colts, but Phillip Rivers and the Colts offense just continued to march down the field, and that's where Blankenship continued to shine because when the Colts couldn't get into the end zone, he converted field goal after field goal after field goal gave the Colts a chance in this game. They tied it up, went into overtime against the Green Bay Packers in a thrilling game, and that's where Blankenship came out, kicked the 39 yard game winning field goal against the Green Bay Packers and led the Indianapolis Colts to a victory against one of the better teams in the NFL. And that is why Rodrigo Blankenship is this week's hungriest player of the week. Much deserving hot rod deserves that award. It is week 12 of the National Football League. What we do every week is we recap all the news and notes going into this week's slate of games. Starting off with the most important news, breaking news that we just got before we started filming this episode, and that is that the Baltimore Ravens in the Pittsburgh Steelers game that was scheduled for Thursday night football, Thanksgiving night has been pushed back because of all the COVID-19 issues that the Baltimore Ravens have been dealing with, and this game will not be happening on Thursday night. Instead, what is happening on Thursday night is absolutely nothing. So enjoy that time with your friends and family. Christian McCaffrey is likely out yet again, but he will be practicing this week. Given that he is practicing this week, that does not mean that he's a clear cut favorite to start this week against the Minnesota Vikings. Instead, Christian McCaffrey, they want to play it safe. He's already been hurt earlier this year with a high ankle sprain. He has an AC joint problem in his shoulder right now, so they want to play it safe. The Carolina Panthers do. And if they can get away with starting with Mike Davis and Curtis Samuel at the running back position, they're going to go ahead and go with that, rest Christian McCaffrey for the week 13 by and then week 14, go guns blazing, get Christian McCaffrey loose, get him out on that field. Another player that's been injured, Austin Eckler at the running back position, designated to return from IR. His status for this Sunday is unknown. We don't know if Austin Eckler will be returning in this week's game for the LA Chargers against the Buffalo Bills, but it is promising to know that they have activated him off of IR or designated him. There's a difference. They've designated him to return. He has a 21 day practice window where he can be practicing and then the Chargers are going to make the difference or going to make the decision to see if Austin Eckler is capable to play this week for the LA Chargers would be a game changer if he can. I know they're running back, that is hurt. There's just going to be running back after running back after running back that we talk about. Chris Carson practiced fully and will likely play against the Philadelphia Eagles. This was on Tuesday that he practiced in full on that Monday night game that's coming up this next week. Chris Carson is likely to play for the Seattle Seahawks against the Philadelphia Eagles going back to his workhorse role with Carlos Hyde in the mix as well. The 49ers have activated Raheem Mostert from IR, has dealt with a couple of injuries this season. Raheem Mostert, this is encouraging to see that the 49ers have Raheem Mostert as a possibility to play this week for the San Francisco 49ers. They've been dealing with a lot of running back injuries with Tevin Coleman, Michael Hastry on IR as well, Jarek McKinnon seems like every week he's not on or back to full strength just yet. So Raheem Mostert will be a difference maker for the San Francisco 49ers. Going into the quarterback news, starting in place for Joe Burrow which we're going to be talking about later on in the podcast, Brandon Allen who has been a starter in the NFL before for the Denver Broncos will be starting this week instead of what we presume to be Ryan Finlay. Brandon Allen will be starting in place of Joe Burrow this week against the New York Giants. The bill's activated Josh Norman the cornerback from the COVID-19 list. He hasn't played week six or since week six because of him being on that COVID-19 list but also with him dealing with a hamstring injury. So the fact that he's been activated right now or designated to return off that COVID-19 list is good news for that bill's defense against the LA Chargers. The Steelers can be the first team to clinch a playoff spot if they were to win this game against the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday and the Las Vegas Raiders and the Miami Dolphins both were to lose their game. So the Steelers who are undefeated can clinch a playoff spot guaranteed if they go 11-0 and then they suffer the losses the Raiders and the Miami Dolphins do. On the flip side, a team that's not having the greatest amount of success, you go from 10-0 to 0-10. The New York Giants are the first team that has been mathematically eliminated from the NFL playoffs that happened last week with their loss and then other teams winning some games as well. So the Jets, I know, Powerhouse, New York Jets, favorited to go on to the Super Bowl will no longer have a chance to make the NFL playoffs. And then finally, we want to wrap it up with the Hall of Fame. The semifinalist for the Hall of Fame have been announced and some modern era finalists that you guys might be familiar with would be Peyton Manning, Calvin Johnson, Charles Woodson, Jared Allen, Rondick Barber, Alan Fanica, Rodney Harrison, Tori Holt, John Lynch, Richard Seymour, Fred Taylor, Zach Thomas, Heinz Ward, and Patrick Willis, all modern era finalists, semifinalists for the Hall of Fame. That's not set in stone just yet. They're going to break that list down even further and we're going to have less and less players making it in. But those are some modern era players that you guys might be familiar with. That was announced earlier this week. Moving on to the topics for today's show. First off, we wanted to talk about Joe Burrow and the injury that he suffered. We were watching that game on NFL Red Zone and it was a very gruesome injury with Joe Burrow suffering an ACO injury. You could see in a slow motion that his knee kind of popped and it did not look promising at all. So Joe Burrow is out for the remainder of the season. What we're going to talk about though is what does that mean for the Cincinnati Bengals moving forward and not just for the Bengals but also for Joe Burrow's future with the Bengals. So what I mean by that is that he tore his ACL late in the season. It's late November, almost December and the fact that he tore it now is not good news. If you were to tear your ACL at all in the NFL season, you'd want it to be more so towards the beginning of the NFL season so that you have a chance to recover and come back fully for the start of the 2021 NFL season. However, this could be a year long injury. Joe Burrow could sit out until November of next season. So it's almost guaranteed that the Bengals are going to have to come up with a plan for a backup quarterback. And maybe Brandon Allen is that plan. Maybe Ryan Finley is that plan. We don't know but going into 2021 for the start of it, we presume that Joe Burrow will not be the starting quarterback for week one of 2021. However, we have seen in the past of players that have suffered ACL injuries that just have these Superman recoveries and they're able to just come back and just be wonderful. We saw it with Adrian Peterson a year removed from his or a year prior to his MVP season. He suffered an ACL injury, came back was the MVP of the NFL. So it's not out of the question. He came back early. It can happen. So Joe Burrow, that could happen depending on his rehab and his recovery process, but it's not likely. So what does that mean for the Cincinnati Bengals knowing that you're going to be without Joe Burrow? Well, mathematically, you're still alive in the NFL playoff hunt. However, you have little to no chance with the NFL playoffs. So it might be just a decision at that point for Zach Taylor and the Bengals front office as well to just bite the bullet and just be like, Hey, we know we're not going to make the NFL playoffs. We're alive, but a lot of stuff has to happen. We have to win out and then other teams have to lose out. And it's just almost near impossible for us to make the NFL playoffs. I'll give you an example. Some of you guys are fantasy football fans. I'll explain my fantasy football journey this season for 2021 or 2020. And that's that. If you've been watching this show for week after week, I've been explaining about the injuries that I've been having on my fantasy football team. I drafted Saquon Barclay, I drafted Odell Beckham, Levy on Bell, who got fired. I had Debo Samuel, Dallas Goddard was out for a long period of time. And it's just been a bad season. And even though mathematically right now, two weeks away from the fantasy playoffs, I'm still alive to make or I have a chance to make the fantasy playoffs. I know for sure I'm more than likely not going to make it. I have to win out and then other people have to lose. And it's just I have less than a 1% chance to make the fantasy playoffs. So what I decided to do is I decided to make a bunch of trades and I decided to help my team out and preparing. Okay, I'm not going to make the playoffs. We have a losers bracket. And what we can do is if we win more games in the losers bracket, that helps our chances for a draft pick next season. So I just made some trades. I'm still playing fantasy football. I'm still encouraging and or being encouraged and playing well and in fantasy football and trying to help build my team to be the best it can be so that I can get the next or an amazing draft pick next season. And I think that's what the Cincinnati Bengals should do. Just go down that route of preparing for 2021. Not worry about the NFL playoffs this season and just move forward. Look ahead to 2021 and come up with our plan and see if Brandon Allen or Ryan Finley can be the replacement for the beginning or the first half of the 2021 season. Next year will Joe Burrow be back? I don't know. And it might be that he could be fully recovered by October or November. But you got to make a decision at that point. Do you sit him out for the remainder of the season and just look forward to 2022? You could have two rebuilding seasons and it might not be ideal for the Bengals who had promising offense. It seemed like with three great wide receivers and up and coming quarterback and a great run game as well with Joe Mixon. You just got to work with what you got. And I think for the future and the long sense it might be best for Joe Burrow just to sit out for the whole entire 2021 season. That was a similar situation to Andrew Luck where Andrew Luck was expected to be playing when he was injured preseason. I believe it was 2017 for that season. We thought he was going to be playing for the Indianapolis Colts. Oh yeah, he'll be back in week one. No problem. Then it comes down to week two, week three, week four. Oh no, just give it a couple more weeks. A couple more weeks. Place him on short term IR. Oh well that means he's out into week eight at least. And then all of a sudden he just doesn't play at all all season long and he just missed the whole entire 2017 season. That same situation could happen with Joe Burrow. But if you're watching this podcast on YouTube, interact with us. Leave your comments in the chat. Leave your comments down below. What do you think that the Cincinnati Bengals should be doing with Joe Burrow? What is the smartest move and what do you believe is going to happen for the Cincinnati Bengals? We are going to continue progressing in this podcast with naming one thing that each NFL team is very thankful for. I'm excited about that. It's going to be lots of fun. But first, before we get into that, we have to give a quick shout out to Manscaped. Jingle balls to the walls, fellas. Listen up. Untrimmed pubes are a thing of the past. It's time to gear up and get yourself the gift of shaving this holiday season. I'm talking about the Manscaped Perfect Package 3.0. This has helped me out so so much in my own personal life. I'll just leave it at that. That's why this revolutionary company Manscaped has designed the electric trimmer. 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I'm going to be taking jabs. All right, but it is all light. It's nothing too crazy. So don't get sensitive. Don't get offended. I don't hate your team. I'm not biased. Okay. If anyone should be sensitive or offended, it's me. When you guys comment right now, comment down below 28 to three because I'm an Atlanta Falcons fan. So make me offended, make me sensitive and make me mad when you guys comment that and then we'll be even. All right. So first up, we have the Arizona Cardinals. One thing that the Cardinals are thankful for. The Cardinals are thankful for quarterbacks that look like toddlers when they run. Kyla Murray, I don't know what it is about him. His running style just makes him really, really fast MVP candidate. The Cardinals are very thankful for him despite the way that he runs. The Atlanta Falcons, thankful for the two weeks that they get with Julio every single year. Man, injury, then not injured, then injured, then not injured. And now we're in the process of him being injured. He's a game time decision this Sunday coming up. So Julio, thankful for the two weeks. Baltimore Ravens, thankful for running back depth with J.K. Dobbins and Mark Ingram both out. It's a picture of Lamar Jackson. So I think you guys can make the connection. So why not just put Lamar Jackson in this game against the Pittsburgh Steelers at running back and then you can get the goat, the meme on TikTok, Trace McSorley in at quarterback. I think that'd be pretty cool for the Baltimore Ravens to do. The Buffalo Bill is much like the Ravens. Thankful for running back depth at quarterback. Josh Allen just seems like he's doing it all. Doing it all. Devin Singletary, Zach Moss, no, they don't leave the team in rushing or even carries at that for that matter. It's Josh Allen, their quarterback. The Carolina Panthers, thankful for players sucking with Adam Gase. So they can sign somewhere else and do well. It's a picture of Robbie Anderson. So I'm pretty sure you guys can make the connection right there. It's Robbie Anderson. It's Devonte Parker. It's Ryan Tannehill. It's Kenyan Drake. There's so many examples of players getting out of the reins of Adam Gase and doing well. And Robbie Anderson just made the Carolina Panthers thankful for Adam Gase. The Chicago Bears, thankful for, you know, this is the same exact slide that I used last season. I did the same exact thing last season in an episode of Town of Football and the same thing for the Chicago Bears. I did not write anything at all because I could not think of anything that they were thankful for. So thankful for. Let's just leave it at that. The Cincinnati Bengals, thankful for the three good games that they get out of Joe Mixon every single year. That's right for you guys that own Joe Mixon and fantasy football. You guys can, this one hits home for you guys. That one three touchdown game that he had earlier this season, that panned out, was against the Jaguars, I feel like, or I believe it was against the Jaguars that Joe Mixon did well in that game. And then after that just kind of fizzled out and really didn't do much. And now you're just going to have to hope that you get just in time for the fantasy football playoffs. So three good games. Joe Mixon, thank you for those three good games this season. The Cleveland Browns, thankful for bad weather, making their secondary look better than it actually is against the Raiders, against the Eagles. This was supposed to be more of a high-scoring game on the Eagles side or on the Raiders side, because the secondary has given up a lot of big plays this season. But thankful for the bad weather that the Cleveland Browns defense being the beneficiary of that bad weather. The Dallas Cowboys, thankful for the NFC East. What a division. What a division. The Devereux Broncos, thankful for the Chargers not being able to finish games. Yes, I am referring to that one game-winning touchdown to KJ Hamler from Drew Locke against the Chargers. But it was not just that. The Chargers have also been on the other end of some blown leads or some given up or last-minute plays just causing them to lose games. Anthony Lin and the Chargers have. So the Broncos are thankful for that one trade because it helped them pick up a victory against the Chargers earlier this season. The Detroit Lions, thankful for Matt Patricia for some reason. I would be surprised if he retains his head coaching job at the end of the season. So, Lions, thankful for Matt Patricia. The Green Bay Packers, thankful for not needing to draft help for Aaron Rodgers because Devontae Adams. That was a huge deal. Everybody was like, they needed a wide receiver on that team, got Jordan 11 instead, didn't get any wide receiver help in that draft. And now we see why because Devontae Adams is the go-to guy for Aaron Rodgers. And not just the go-to guy, but the every go-to guy or every play guy, it seems like for that matter, is Devontae Adams. The Houston Texans, thankful for the mess that they have to clean up caused by Bill O'Brien. Oh my gosh, no draft picks in the first round and the second round. They couldn't deal any of their big-time players like Will Fuller or Brandon Cooks away. And they have no draft capital in the early rounds, it seems like so. Bill O'Brien, thankful for what you've done for Houston. This is sarcasm, by the way. The Indianapolis Colts, thankful for Alpha Tools making fun of nerdy kickers so he can be motivated to make the NFL with his well-endowed energy. We're talking about the hungriest player of the week, Rodrigo Blankenship. All the guys that made fun of him growing up for wearing glasses with the helmets, for being nerdy, for being skinny, he proved people wrong. And now he's a big-time kicker for the Indianapolis Colts and he helped them beat the Green Bay freaking Packers. So you, Rodrigo Blankenship, hot rod, are the freaking man. Jacksonville Jaguars, thankful for Doug Marrone for some reason. Again, just like the Detroit Lions. I don't know why Doug Marrone was not let go last season, but you know, according to him, it's Garner Mitchell's fault for the lack of success. All of his fault. Nothing else. The Kansas City Chiefs, thankful for the Chiefs being so good that no one has noticed that Harrison Butker has missed six extra points this season. You may not believe it. One of the best kickers in the NFL has missed six extra points. No one talks about it. His job is under fire because it didn't help them lose any games or didn't cause them to lose any games. So Harrison Butker still retains his starting kicker position. I mentioned that because I'm kind of salty and I know that because Harrison Butker is my kicker on fantasy football and I've lost three games this season because of missed extra points by Harrison Butker. If you just converted those, I would have won. The Las Vegas Raiders, thankful for not moving on from Derek Carr, even though they low-key wanted to. They may deny it all they want. Mike Mayock, John Gruda may say, no, Derek Carr is our quarterback, but there's been rumors. There's been insiders and they wanted to move on with Derek Carr. I'm pretty sure that they're thankful right now that Derek Carr is their starting quarterback. The Los Angeles Chargers, thankful for COVID-19 allowing little to no fans to attend NFL games so the internet can't make fun of their lack of a fan base. Last year, we mentioned the Los Angeles Chargers in this thankful segment. We mentioned how they have almost no fan base and now COVID-19 is drowning that out and nobody's talking about it because there's no fans in the stands. The Los Angeles Rams, a team that does have a fan base, thankful for Best Buy for inspiration. This has been a trending topic. You can mention Ikea as well for the inspiration for their uniforms. The Miami Dolphins, thankful for the 7th playoff seed because man oh man, that is the big difference maker for them making the NFL playoffs this year. Brian Flores, very underrated head coach, has been doing very well this season and it's between them and the Tennessee Titans right now for who's going to get the 6th or 7th seed. So Miami Dolphins are very thankful for that 7th seed. The Minnesota Vikings, thankful for that one Lizzo song being the reason why Hassan's hot brunette wife knows who the Minnesota Vikings are. Is that true? Yeah, she's nodding ingredients. It is very true. The New England Patriots, thankful for the success of Tom Brady because Pat's fans have actually been fans of Tom Brady this whole time, not the Patriots and you may deny it all you want and for you guys that are loyal Patriots fans, I commend you because you guys are freaking awesome. I don't care if you're a loyal Patriots fan and you started being a Patriots fan in 2011 when they've already had three Super Bowls under the belt. That's cool. As long as you stay a Patriots fan, I'm cool with that. But I know people and I'm not going to mention any names that have been Patriots fans in the past and now all of a sudden they're Tampa Bay Buccaneers fans and they have nothing to do with the Tampa or the New England Patriots. Never talk about them, never watch their games. It's all about Tom Brady. So just telling it how it is. New Orleans Saints fans, thankful for Roddy White. If you have no idea what I'm referring to, Roddy White has had a fantastic history with the New Orleans Saints, the one-time great wide receiver for the Atlanta Falcons. Just recently, when the Falcons took on the Saints, he made fun of the Saints for starting Taysum Hill at quarterback and then Taysum Hill destroys the Atlanta Falcons and Sean Payton retweets Roddy White's tweet making fun of the New Orleans Saints after they defeat the Atlanta Falcons. So Roddy White, thank you for the motivation to the New Orleans Saints. The New York Giants, thankful for the NFC East. What a division. The New York Jets, thankful for it being Week 12 and Adam Gase is still the head coach of the Jets. How does this happen? There are some rare things that can occur in this world and Adam Gase being the head coach of the New York Jets currently right now is one of those rare things. The Philadelphia Eagles, thankful for the NFC East. What a division. The Pittsburgh Steelers, thankful for drafting another good wide receiver with the vlog so they can collab. I don't know what it is about Juju Smith Schuster or Chase Claypool. They both have big followings on YouTube. They both come out with YouTube videos every single week and they both collab. So for you guys that are up and coming wide receivers going into the NFL, just create a YouTube channel, create a vlog and then the Pittsburgh Steelers will draft you. It's usually how it goes. The San Francisco 49ers, thankful for preseason football this year so players are conditioned and decreased the risk of injury awaits. The Seattle Seahawks, thankful for bubble yum. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers, thankful for unlimited money. How are they doing this? One guy signs with the team and then all of a sudden everybody wants to sign with that team. The Tennessee Titans, thankful that special teams has to be a part of football. Oh my gosh, special teams has been, what a ride for the Tennessee Titans on special teams with the kicker position with Stephen Kosaski early on, still here and there missing some kicks for them. And then the punter situation recently with Trevor Daniel and Kern just now coming back and being the starting punter it seems like for the Titans. So special teams, it's pretty rough. And then last we're going to go with the Washington football team last and definitely least, thankful for the NFC East and that will wrap it up with the teams that or one thing that each NFL team is thankful for this holiday season. Moving on to the last segment we've got fan questions. You guys submit your fan questions to us in the YouTube comments of the Stortz and Sitz videos. I savage or salvage through these YouTube comments just bob and weave past these Asian bots. They're just commenting after, or comment after comment after comment on these videos. Just savage to that to pick out you guys and your questions. And I want to give you guys an opportunity to have your questions answered on this show. First one, we're going to answer a question from username chow pick one for flex, Jonathan Taylor, Geo Bernard or Chase Claypool. So Chase Claypool, man, I love him. He's a good wide receiver. The thing is, I just don't trust the Pittsburgh wide receiver court because yeah, all three wide receivers could go off like that game against the Dallas Cowboys. It seemed like all three wide receivers did fairly well. But then last week you had that game against the Jacksonville Jaguars, where Deontay Johnson seemed like a number one wide receiver. Chase Claypool got a touchdown, but then Juju Smith Schuster was kind of left high and dry. So at that point, it's a coin toss with Pittsburgh wide wide receivers. And if I had a Pittsburgh wide receiver as my wide receiver to yeah, I would start them if I had no other choice. Absolutely. If the matchup is great because that offense is very high powered. Why wouldn't you why wouldn't you give your Pittsburgh Steelers wide receivers a chance? But if I could refrain from that and pick someone else, someone like Jonathan Taylor, I would go with that. I know that Colts running back committee approach can be a coin toss as well, but I trust Jonathan Taylor, who just got 22 carries last week against the Greenby Packers much more than Chase Claypool. So I would start Jonathan Taylor. Good intentions comments. T Higgins, AB or Rager love his avatar by the way. I'm gonna go with AB on this one. Rager has kind of sort of been a letdown as of late. He's been getting the targets, but this offense with Carson Wentz just needs to get more in rhythm. Okay, this, they just need to be in rhythm for me to trust Rager moving forward with T Higgins. We know the quarterback change right now with Brandon Allen. I wouldn't drop Higgins just yet, but keep them for now. Put them on your bench. AB, however, has been seeing many targets from Tom Brady as of late. And that's why I would put your trust into Antonio Brown. Rosemarie Brown, who has watched the show in the past, has commented and chatted with us before. She says pick or asks pick two full PPR, Wayne Gaulman, Darius Layton, Sterling Shepard or Juju Smith Schuster. I just explained about Juju Smith Schuster. It's a coin toss. So if I can stay away from him, I would. Sterling Shepard is one of my starts of the week. And that's why I would pick him if I had to choose between him or Juju Smith Schuster. It's going to be Sterling Shepard, even between him and Darius Layton. Layton has had cold games and hot games here and there while Shepard, since he's come back has been consistent. So I would pick Shepard over any of those wide receivers. And that leaves one more spot open for you. And that's why I would pick Wayne Gaulman, grew up just 10 minutes away from me, watched him play in Grayson High School, very underrated back. Wayne Gaulman has a good matchup against Cincinnati and I would start him and Sterling Shepard on the New York Giants against the Cincinnati Bengals. This next one, XT Cone Life comments. Should I drop Raven's defense for Saints? So thankfully with that game getting pushed back, you have an extra three days to see this before you make that decision. But yes, I would drop the Raven's defense over the Saints if I had the opportunity just because Raven's defense has been a little bit of a letdown as of late in the last two games against the Patriots, which they were supposed to be doing well against. And then the Tennessee Titans, so they prove that they're not matchup proof. However, with the Saints, they've had maybe one or two bad games this season, but that's about it. They're the fourth best defense in the NFL right now as far as fantasy points this season. So I would roll with the New Orleans Saints who have a pretty good schedule as well in the fantasy football playoffs. This next one, Sam Grimm has also been commenting on this video or on these podcasts before. Alrighty, Matty Ice or Taysom Hill. I'm going to go ahead and go with Matt Ryan. I got a lot of hate in the comment section with one guy even threatening to never watch my videos again because I stated that Matt Ryan is a start this week against the Las Vegas Raiders. But I'm going to go ahead and say, yes, you can trust Matt Ryan with or without Julio Jones. It's going to be Russell Gage that steps up into place of Julio Jones or maybe even Hayden Hearst, who a couple of games back had a good showing with Julio Jones hurt. And I trust him much more than Taysom Hill. Taysom Hill was good for the tight end position. He did well for it. So congratulations to you guys. You more than likely picked up a win if you started Taysom Hill at tight end because you had two quarterbacks in ESPN. But this offense when I was watching that game, the way that Taysom Hill throws, he was accurate, but I kind of clinched every time I saw him throw. I was like, oh man, this could be an interception. And there were a few plays that could have been interceptions. So I know the rushing ability is there for Taysom Hill and other Denver Broncos past defense has not been the greatest, but I like the matchup with Matt Ryan, someone I trust way more. And against the defense that's much weaker and has a better matchup than Taysom Hill. George Alamonis comments, pick two, Shepard, Taylor, Montgomery, Swift, Montgomery, I don't think he's going to be playing this week. Maybe he will with that bi-week. Maybe he's going to be recovering fully. But even with that, I still don't trust him. I really don't. He had great opportunities to excel when the matchups were right and he did it. So I don't trust Matt Montgomery until he were to step it up and then you can put him into your starting lineup. For Swift, there is a possibility he does play on Thursday, but I mean, I doubt it. I really do. And this is coming from Deandre Swift's owners. I would keep your tabs on this so I don't think that Swift is going to be playing. That leaves Shepard and Taylor at that point, which I would start, which was one of my two picks earlier in another question. But if Swift does play, yeah, absolutely. I would play Taylor and Swift in that aspect. So I would go in those situations. That's what I would do. This last one is from Taj Prasad. Start Rams defense or the Dolphins? The Dolphins have been great. The Rams have been great. If you need to pick a defense for the remainder of the season, it's going to be the LA Rams because of the fantasy football playoffs and the schedule that they have. They've been great. And for this week, however, I'm going to go ahead and put my trust in the Dolphins. So the Rams are the better option long term, but the Dolphins for this week against the New York Jets, I like my odds there because against the San Francisco 49ers with Debo Samuel returning with Raheem Moster being activated off of IR. I feel like this, we've seen in the past, Kyle Sheehan, the 49ers offense can get very creative and that could be trouble for the Rams. So pick the Dolphins at least for this week over the Rams. And that'll do it for this episode of Time 2 Football. Hope you guys enjoyed this episode. Don't forget to like this video. Leave a comment down below. Subscribe to this channel so you can stay up to date when we come out with more weekly shows every single week. And if you guys are listening to us on iTunes, thank you for listening to us all this whole entire time, whether it be on your travels during the holiday weekend or whenever it may be. 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