0:00There is nothing good to say about the
0:02New York Giants right now from a fantasy
0:04football perspective. We have another
0:06young star quarterback going down to to
0:09an injury. Cam Skattebo is now in a
0:12three-man running back by committee. And
0:15Malik Nabers himself gets hurt. So,
0:18we're going to have to figure out what
0:19the hell we do with these guys. And I'm
0:22going to be honest,
0:24I I don't have much good to say. So, so
0:27much of this is going to come down to
0:29the health of Jackson Dart and when
0:32Jackson Dart officially comes back. So,
0:34I'll go ahead and pull this up, but
0:36obviously bunch of different things
0:37happened in this game. Just in case you
0:40did not see it, um all right,
0:41essentially at the very beginning, we
0:44have this video of Dart getting nailed,
0:46his knee going in the wrong direction,
0:49right? Now, I am no doctor.
0:52A lot of people in the Flock League live
0:54stream thought that they had opinions on
0:56how long he may or may not be out for,
0:58but I see that I see him on the ground
1:01in so much pain.
1:04And I assume he's done.
1:06I assume the knee is obliterated. Of
1:09course, I'm an idiot, so it's not like
1:12I'm able to speak with any type of
1:13confidence, but what has come out since
1:16then
1:18is um we were told that Jackson Dart is
1:21going to be okay and they're still
1:23undergoing further evaluation. Sounds
1:25like sideline test didn't point towards
1:28ACL involvement, hopefully only MCL and
1:31not a full tear. I believe the following
1:37statement that we got right near the end
1:39of the game is that per RapSheet,
1:42Jackson Dart is believed to have
1:43suffered a sprained MCL based on initial
1:46exams. Dart will get an MRI on Tuesday
1:50after initial X-rays were negative. Um
1:53let me go through and just look up
1:56quickly
1:57What the expected timeline would be for
2:00a sprained MCL? Now, obviously, I would
2:02assume every sprained MCL is a little
2:04bit different. And also, what's going to
2:07suck is
2:10One second, let [snorts] me look this
2:12up. What is the average time missed from
2:14a sprained
2:16MCL for a QB?
2:19But, here's the problem is even when he
2:21comes back, the expectation should be
2:24that his first few games back, what
2:26makes Dart so damn exciting is his
2:29athleticism, is his movement ability,
2:31and that is going to be limited severely
2:33here. You at least have to assume that
2:35will be the case. Now, a grade one mild
2:38sprained MCL is about 1 to 2 weeks. A
2:41grade two, which is a partial tear, is
2:43about 2 to 4 weeks. And a grade three,
2:46which is a complete tear, is about 6 to
2:498 plus weeks. So, we don't exactly know.
2:52There was a video that um went viral
2:55circulating on the sidelines where
2:58Giants trainer supposedly told
3:01Amar Ball that Dart would be out 4 to 6
3:04weeks. God knows if that's true. It's
3:05probably not.
3:07Um so, we have no idea with Jackson
3:09Dart. But, what we can say with
3:11confidence
3:12is that if Jameis is the starter,
3:17wrap it up. It's over. GG's.
3:20Jameis Winston looked like
3:23he shouldn't have a roster spot, let
3:27alone be able to see the field in any
3:29real game action.
3:31Obviously, the box score, hideous.
3:3511 completions, 27 attempts, 111
3:38receiving and passing yards, and an
3:40interception with zero touchdowns.
3:42Unbelievably bad, truly.
3:45Like
3:464 yards per attempt and with zero
3:48touchdowns and the interception, the
3:50adjusted yards per attempt is probably
3:52two.
3:56Going over to the running backs, you
3:58would like to say, "Okay, maybe they
3:59lean on the run a little bit more,
4:00right?" They have no quarterback, they
4:02have no passing game. Can we be excited
4:04about Cam Skowronek? Well, they got to
4:06the goal line once in this game. You
4:07know what they did?
4:09They took Cam Skowronek out, and they
4:10put Najee Harris in.
4:13They used Devin Singletary and Najee
4:15Harris in a three-man running back by
4:18committee with Skowronek.
4:20Now, Skowronek did targets out of the
4:22backfield, which is nice, of course.
4:25But, ultimately at this point,
4:28like
4:29I feel like we got to move him down our
4:30rankings. Let me see where I had Cam
4:32Skowronek coming into this in my running
4:34back rankings. But, if this is now a
4:36garbage team and a garbage offense, and
4:39Cam Skowronek, you do have to worry
4:40about
4:43um
4:52the committee stuff. I had Skowronek at
4:54running back 19.
4:56At this point,
4:58I would trade Skowronek for Montgomery.
5:00I'd send him for Etienne. I'd
5:02hell, I may rather have Chuba Hubbard
5:04over Cam Skowronek right now.
5:06I'm going to move Skowronek down to
5:07running back 21 behind David Montgomery
5:09and Bashaud Breeland. We will wait to
5:12see what comes out about Jackson Dart.
5:14Maybe we get good news tomorrow about
5:16Dart. Maybe we are told, "Hey, he's only
5:18going to miss a game or two.
5:19He'll be back in 3 weeks." Which at this
5:21point, that'd be great news, and I would
5:24be less concerned about Skowronek
5:25because this wouldn't be a garbage team.
5:27And then going over to Malik Nabers,
5:31I have no idea what to expect. I
5:34When Nabers first went down, he looked
5:36like he was in so much pain that
5:40um I thought he I thought he was cooked.
5:43Right? Searching Malik Nabers, right
5:46shoulder, same one injured in college
5:48and several times since. Reminder he
5:51elected no surgery for a partially torn
5:53labrum. Fighting with the DB here may
5:55have aggravated it with resisted
5:58forceful arm elevation.
6:01Um
6:03He fell to the ground.
6:05He looked like he was in so much damn
6:07pain.
6:10He came back into the game
6:12and he did not do
6:14anything else.
6:15He had 1.1 fantasy points
6:18before leaving with the injury.
6:21He comes back and he finishes with 1.1
6:24fantasy points.
6:26I don't know how serious this injury is
6:28for Neighbors. I don't know if this was
6:30just a result of the offensive
6:33dysfunction where Jameis Winston was
6:35truly horrendous
6:37or if Neighbors
6:41is really dealing with it and they threw
6:42him out there as a decoy.
6:46But no matter what,
6:48I feel like if you have Malik Neighbors,
6:51you have to lower your expectations for
6:53him rest of season.
6:55Like at this point, I had Neighbors wide
6:57receiver seven. I'd rather have Olave,
6:59I'd rather have Pickens, I'd rather have
7:01Nico Collins.
7:03Hell, honestly, I'd rather have Drake
7:05London now. We'll get the update with
7:08Neighbors tomorrow, I'm sure about his
7:10injury and the Dart injury. If the news
7:12is bad, he's falling further.
7:15If the news is good, maybe he jumps
7:16London again cuz obviously with London,
7:19the Falcons offense has been garbage,
7:20but you at least have some hope with
7:21Michael Penix coming in Thursday. But
7:23regardless, I'll continue to update that
7:25Malik Neighbors injury as we get more
7:27information tomorrow, but I'm going to
7:29be dropping him to the bottom of this
7:30tier because I would very clearly way
7:32rather have like Nico Collins, Drake
7:34London, George Pickens, even with
7:36Collins injured because
7:38um at least we have some more
7:40information about the call and stuff.
7:43Now,
7:45let's
7:47move this over
7:50and look at the Rams situation.
7:55So,
7:56for the Los Angeles Rams, they were
7:59massive favorites coming into this game.
8:02Like, again, y'all know I pull this up
8:04over and over and over again because I
8:07do think it's extremely relevant data.
8:10Uh a lot of people were in on the
8:11Giants. The Rams were a six-and-a-half
8:13point favorites. The Rams projected to
8:15be in a massive, massive bounce-back
8:17spot.
8:19And obviously, game's thrown out of
8:21whack. You have no idea what would have
8:22happened in terms of the Rams
8:23defensively, but offensively, they were
8:26able to effectively move the ball down
8:28the field.
8:29So, again, I'm going to continue to use
8:32this market data to try to figure out
8:35how many points offenses we should
8:36expect to score. Like, for the Thursday
8:38night game, one thing that's very
8:39interesting to note is now that Michael
8:42Penix is announced the starter, I was
8:44expecting these
8:46um odds to move dramatically, but the
8:48Falcons went up with a 2% higher chance
8:51to win the Thursday night game. The
8:53Packers went down with a 2%. And right
8:55now, for the Michael Penix stuff, the
8:57Falcons projected total is 19 and a half
8:59points.
9:01So, the markets are telling us that
9:03Michael Penix isn't supposed to be some
9:04savior of Atlanta here, even if I have
9:07hope and I want to believe that London's
9:09going to be just fine now. Of course, if
9:11y'all want to check out any of those
9:12markets, link's in the description. It's
9:14in the comment section live chat. Use
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9:18your account after you deposit your
9:19first 10 on Polymarket.us, which is
9:22available in 49 out of 50 states. But,
9:25the Rams were set up in a massive
9:27bounce-back spot. That's exactly what
9:28happened here. Um even with no Puka
9:31Nacua, Matthew Stafford looked
9:32incredible. Stafford looks like when the
9:35offensive projections are good for the
9:36Rams and it's a good match up. Stafford
9:39very much can be a play. I feel like an
9:41idiot I feel so dumb so so so dumb not
9:45picking him up in my six point passing
9:47touchdown league. Looking at the running
9:49back usage, I don't want to look at the
9:50Kyren Williams split. There's a lot of
9:53the Blake Corum carries that he had. It
9:55was in the second half of the game. This
9:57game was a blowout at the very end. The
9:58fourth quarter Blake Corum looked great.
10:01He was breaking off big plays, looked
10:03explosive every run seemed like it was
10:0510 yards pretty much. But again, fourth
10:08quarter usage, I don't want to sit here
10:10and say that like oh Kyren's fumbling is
10:13a problem because Blake Corum also
10:15bounced the ball off the turf at one
10:17point in this game.
10:19And then going over to Davante Adams,
10:22Davante Adams puts a statement out there
10:25this week that he is nowhere remotely
10:28close to being washed.
10:30I had Davante Adams coming into this
10:32game wide receiver 23.
10:38God dang.
10:42At this point Adams wide receiver 17,
10:44wide receiver 18?
10:46Somewhere around here?
10:49He looks just as good as he did last
10:52year. Now of course, I do want to say a
10:53couple different things with this. He
10:54had the 10 targets, 195 receiving yards,
10:56two receiving touchdowns, eight
10:57receptions. Doesn't get better than
10:58that. But also you had no Puka Nacua in
11:00this game. Once Puka does come back in,
11:03Davante Adams is going to fall back down
11:04to earth. We had talked about that for a
11:06lot this off season that in the games in
11:08which Puka would be expected to miss,
11:10Adams would be a top five wide receiver
11:12and that's exactly how things played out
11:14here. Terrence Ferguson looked damn good
11:17as well. Terrence Ferguson had nine
11:19total targets in this game.
11:21Now of course tight end usage elevated
11:23because it's Puka Nacua, Terrence
11:26Ferguson, and then a bunch of tight ends
11:29for this Rams offense. But Ferguson to
11:31come through and really separate himself
11:33from the rest of the tight ends in this
11:35offense, I think it's that's great. I
11:37would have Terrance Ferguson as a tight
11:38end that you can look at off the waiver
11:40wire, but I will say with this as well,
11:43um I think he's probably a must-start
11:44name whenever you have no Puka Nacua,
11:46but when Puka Nacua is back, it's going
11:47to be a little bit tougher. No other
11:49wide receivers are relevant here
11:52for the Rams, but I guess we forgot to
11:54talk about Isaiah Likely. Isaiah Likely
11:56had a game in which you just saw so much
11:58volume, right? He had 10 targets, but
12:00it's so difficult to update Likely in
12:03the rankings and nowhere to put him. I
12:04had Isaiah Likely at tight end seven in
12:08the ranks coming into this inside the
12:10same tier with Kraft, Likely, Kittle,
12:13Kelce. Um I probably preferred Kittle
12:16over Likely at this point, but
12:18realistically, I don't want to mess with
12:19the Likely ranking too much cuz we know
12:22it's a sprained MCL for Dart, but we
12:23don't exactly know
12:25what extent it is. Is he going to be
12:27missing one to two weeks, four to six
12:28weeks? We'll get more information
12:29tomorrow. And we should get more
12:30information about the Malik Nabers
12:32injury stuff tomorrow as well, but in
12:35general across the board for all Giants
12:38right now, if you were to trade for
12:40them, if you were going to value them in
12:42fantasy football, you would need a
12:44discount on them in comparison to the
12:46where they were at coming into this game
12:48given the injuries.
12:50And with the Rams, I don't want to over
12:53I don't want to think too much about the
12:54running back split cuz again, um game
12:56was a blowout. Davante Adams, top five
12:59wide receiver in any game in which Puka
13:00Nacua misses. Terrance Ferguson, looks
13:02like he can be a worthwhile start any
13:04game in which you have no Puka Nacua.
13:08But, um I think that's all I got for
13:11y'all.
13:12I really appreciate you, ladies and
13:14gentlemen. Thank you so much for hanging
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13:27Christmas, but I got to end this, go
13:29ahead and record a waiver wire video now
13:31that we know all the injury stuff, and
13:33yeah, I will see you in tomorrow's live
13:36stream.