Happy New Year and welcome to the IDP+ Advice Show for Week 18. While I'm not a big fan of Week 18 fantasy championships, here to try and help you out. We're going to talk as we do every week about snaps and playing time for IDP. We talk about alignment, injuries, waivers, players to pick up. We're going to throw in some dynasty tidbits and with that, let's go ahead and get started. [MUSIC] >> All righty. I hope everybody did have a Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays. I'm filming this on December 31st, getting close to midnight here. But I want to have this ready for you all as you get ready for your Week 18 championships for those that have it. But also some that might be dynasty looking ahead and starting to prepare for the offseason as well. So look, I do want to begin by apologizing also for missing the start set show this past Sunday. I know Michael and Sean did a fantastic job in my absence. In-laws got ill, had to drive to Louisiana to check on them. So apologies for the last minute not being able to be there. But hope Michael and Sean took care of you all and help you to move on and win your championships. As always, I ask that you please leave your comments, give us a thumbs up if you like it. Subscribe to the channel if you haven't subscribed yet, that's very much appreciated. And with that, as we do every week, we're going to go division by division, which will allow you to jump around if you're looking for certain teams. And we're going to start with the NFC North, as we always do. And we're going to start with the Chicago Bears. So here we go. Of course, the Bears played the Seahawks in what was a dreadful offensive game. And as a result of that, both teams were so bad. There was a low snap counts on both sides, including the Bears, only playing 52 snaps on defense. I guess that bad Seattle just played a horrible, but they did win. Leading tacklers topped out at six combined tackles across TJ Edwards, Edmonds, and Collard Garden. So you're not going to get the kind of IDP stats you want when your team's only playing 52 snaps on defense versus that average of around 65 ish that we're looking for. The edge defensive end story was interesting when I started looking at the snap count percents, though, for you all. Montez Sweatt, who is typically in the low, maybe mid 60s, was all the way down to 48 percent. Demarcus Walker, who's been in the low 60s to actually mid 70s, anywhere in that range from like 61 up into like 72, 73, he was down to 42 percent. Now, Sweatt did get a sack when Geno Smith got tripped by one of his offensive lines. And it was a really cheap sack, but he did get a sack, but it wasn't exactly like he dominated the line, whatever. But anyway, the rest of the edge players. Jake Martin and Darryl Taylor went up from the low 30s to the low 40s. Daniel Hardy went from 3 to 19 percent. Dominique Robinson went down from 22 to 12 percent. Austin Booker, 14 percent, he went up to 21 percent. So a huge rotation. The top players, Walker and Sweatt coming down, others moving up. This has me very concerned from Montez Sweatt next year with the caveat that there are probably a new coaching staff and they're paying them a lot of money, but it's something we need to watch. Maybe they just weren't happy with him and Walker's productivity, OK? Gervan Dexter returned from the injury list, played 56 percent of the snaps. Chris Williams, who I talked about briefly last week. There was a second defensive tackle in terms of snaps with 46 percent. Yeah, I know they have a sack. Pickens, the other rookie, well, not rookie, but a second year player. You've drafted the same draft as Gervan Derrwin. Gervan Dexter, excuse me, they have Andrew Billings, but Chris Williams, just there's something about when I watch him, he's pretty active. On the safety side of things, Elijah Hicks was inactive due to injury once again. Jonathan Owens played 100 percent as a result of that. Kevin Bayard and Owens each had to combine four tackles. Not very good. So that lack of playing time really hurt the stats for these guys. Moving on to Lions vs. the 49ers in what was pretty exciting Monday night game. Let's talk about linebackers because it's always interesting to see what the Lions do, OK, with that, with all the injuries they've had. Jack Campbell played 100 percent of the snaps. They played 65 snaps in total, so right on average. Campbell had nine combined tackles, led the team. So that's about roughly what you would expect for Jack Campbell on an average number of snaps. Trevor Nooski was second on the team with 66 percent of the snaps in linebacker the week before his 38 percent, then he was inactive. The previous week to that was 64 percent, so he's been bouncing all over the place, but he's apparently the number two linebacker with the caveat that Jalen Reeves and Mabin first week off of IR, activated for the 21 day practice window. He actually played 62 percent of the snaps, only had two solo tackles, not very efficient for all those snaps. Reeves Mabin may end up jumping Nooski for the second most linebacker snaps when we look at that big game they have against the Vikings next week. Ben Neiman played 28 percent, Zeke Turner played 9 percent, Anthony Pittman, 6 percent, Jamau Adam 0 percent, Juan Alexander was released and re-signed to their practice squad, David Long was completely released, claimed by Tennessee as a side note, failed the physical there and now is a complete free agent at this point in time. So that's the line's linebacker core and the net of all that is playing Campbell, but you're not expecting a linebacker one and linebacker two type of stats. Maybe as a linebacker 30, you're potentially playing him. I say that with this other caveat about a lot of teams may rest, linebackers who have just bumps and bruises when they would normally play going in because of week 18 in them not having anything to play for, something you have to watch throughout the week is watching those injury reports who's being ruled out, et cetera. Mike Robinson and Terry Norna played the majority of the snaps at cornerback on the outside. Malefan Wu, I don't want to put your first name, starts with I, if you ought to, Malefan Wu played only 59 percent the snaps this week after playing 80 percent the week before. Now it was interesting, he did play 58 percent of the snaps he did play in the box slash slot row. The week before that it was roughly 69 percent, so down a little bit. So I did a little bit more digging. So why was that the case? Well, we looked up Brian Branch here and what we saw Brian Branch did is that he was the last two weeks in particular, he's been used much, much more in the slot. I put that in caps on my show notes as I was getting ready. So that was the emphasis reason for the emphasis there. He also had a deep reduction in what he, a big reduction in playing deep safety as well. This week, for perspective, I'll give you last few weeks. This week 5 percent deep are at wide corner, 95 percent close to the line with slot box or D line, okay? Last week 8 percent deep, 92 percent close to the line, all right? Two weeks ago, 37 percent deeper wide corner with 27 percent of that in the slot. So in the slot for perspective, it was 57 percent this week of that close to the line percentage, 75 percent last week, the previous week, only 27 percent of the slot. So when I say closer to the line, remember that quote, it includes slot that includes being in the box of the line backer and being along the D line, just as a reminder, okay? So that's the differential bottom line. He's played a lot more slot and a lot more closer line the past two weeks because of all the injuries they've had a corner back and when Malefan will coming back from engine reserve that's helped as well, okay? Kirby Joseph, of course, had two big picks in this game which in big play scoring certainly helped you out, okay? Let's go to the Packers. The Packers played a whopping 73 snaps on defense against the Vikings. I say whopping that we'll have some bigger whoppers that we get into the show in terms of snaps played. They had inactive, Jayir Alexander, they had inactive Evan Williams, so two of their starters in the secondary, Quay Walker, who's typically their green dot Mike linebacker was also inactive. So what did that mean for the team? Eric Wilson once again replaced Quay Walker, played 100% of the snaps, he had nine combined tackles. Kind of a little bit on the weaker side considering they played 73 snaps but nine didn't kill you if you played him. Adrian Cooper played a season high, career high, 99% of the snaps. So finally, the transition has occurred to where he is in number two linebacker. He'll be next to Quay Walker and of course he was running all over the field. He tied for the team lead with 11 combined tackles and four tackle for loss. He motors around the field. Now Troy, when did make some, was it eight when I'm sorry, whoever was the analyst for me, it wasn't eight when, forgot who it was, but anyway they commented on how he was running around the field. He was sometimes missing the assignments, but he must be improving on those assignments to the fact that they played him now 99% of the time. Isaiah McDuffin, in case you're wondering, he only played 40% of the snaps. So he's clearly slipped it, slipped it to that number three linebacker role. At the safety position, a savior McKinney played 100% of the snaps. Javon Bullard played 94% of the snaps. Now what was interesting is Bullard, looking up his stats, he played 49% deep, 50% in a box slash slot. He ended up having one slot actually at wide corner. That was probably in a man-to-man situation when his man started inside and then went out wide. He taught for the team lead with an 11 combined tackles, which is pretty good considering he played about 50% of his snaps deep. So very productive, but that's usually a outlier situation when that happens. Zane Anderson as a side note, left with a concussion as Devontae Wyatt. Zane played 15% of the snaps before he left, 73% of that 15% was deep. So basically he played 11 snaps, eight were deep. So when Zane's in there, that's how you could see how he was going to be used. He's probably going to play more that Evan Williams role with Evan Williams being out with a concussion, pushed him out, put him out of the game and forced him to move Bullard around. That's what basically happened. The Vikings in that same game against the Packers only played 63 snaps on defense. Blake Cashman 100% led the team with 11 combined tackles and one and a half sacks. We recommended Cashman in this show last week. I heard also Michael and Shawna got to listen to a replay of them recommending Cashman very strongly as well and hopefully he took that advice and played him. Ivan Pace was activated from IR, but I've been cautioning throughout the year and it was very similar in this week that he only played 33% of the snaps, only had three assisted tackles. Usually even with 33% of the snaps, he's hyper-efficient from a tackling perspective, did not happen this past week. Now Patrick Jones injured his knee and only played 13% of the snaps off the edge. Thus Dallas Turner jumped up from 23% that he played the week before, up to 40%. Now Turner's snap counts have been like a yo-yo as well. Our up and down is probably a better way of saying that. So in perspective, 40% this week, then 23%, then 49, then 35 and 32 if you're working backwards. So he's been up and down a little bit. Now he did have one plate. He got one sack. So when you get one sack, for those of you that have been listening and kind of learning about IDP and all, if you have one sack, that means you got one tackle, one solo tackle, one sack, one quarterback hit, one tackle for loss. So he got the ones across the board, so that one play gave him all those stats. At the safety position, Harrison Smith, 100% of the snaps, four combined tackles, 58% deep. I'm buying him 94% of the snaps, four combined tackles, 64% deep. Not good. For either Smith or buying him playing deep that much. Josh Metalas, 76% of the snaps is all he played, tripping part of that to the return of Ivan Pace. He had three combined tackles. He only played 4% of his snaps deep, but if he's only going to play 76%, remember earlier this year, I was talking about the fact that buying him has been playing that deep row. Metalas were playing closer to the line, but buying him and Metalas were both playing between 80% and 90% of the snaps a lot, particularly when Pace was active, now the pace was active. There's that risk of that happening again. Week 18, they're both risky plays because of the potential lack of volume. As we're going to go ahead and switch now to the NFC East, as we're doing that, I just want to put a shout out for IDP Plus, and we have the 20% off promo code with props. So you could still use that to become a member. 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He only played 42% of the snaps in his first game back. Of course, when he was playing earlier this year, Johnny Newton was working his way back from those foot surgeries and foot injuries. He is now, he normally plays in the mid 50s, he was down to 47%. So this Allen coming back could create a little bit of rotation, particularly for this week 18 game with Allen and Newton. Deron Payne was down a little bit, he was down about 75%. He had been in the high 70s, a little bit low 80s kind of thing. So you could see a three person rotation. You're probably not relying on any of these guys in your fantasy football championship. But I just wanted you to be aware if you're in deep leagues where you're forced to play one of these folks. At the linebacker position, yes, Bobby Wagner and Frankie Lulu both played 100% of the snaps. Wagner only had six assisted tackles, no solos. Now remember, Wagner's 35 years old, folks, and he is a free agent. He only signed a one year deal. I promised some dynasty tidbits, Jordan McGee, who was a fifth round pick, who they spoke very, very highly of in the preseason. But he's had some injury problems during the regular season, he's been playing with special team some. He might be someone in deeper leagues to stash on the end of your bench before we head to the off season before you might have to deal with him and free agency later on. Just in case Wagner retires or they decide not to resign, Frankie Lulu had only one assisted tackle. That means he has basically pooped the bed for us Lulu owners in two of the last three weeks really badly. Haven't seen that they're using him that drastically different. Just haven't gotten the productivity. So anyway, and a lot of that came from the big plays and the sacks in particular. And just not delivering. That was the risk with Lulu. We knew it when he signed with Washington this year that he could be used in a little bit of Mike Parsons type role. So not necessarily I was in the box, but on the edge, et cetera. And so Lulu, it's really hurt us late this year. Jeremy Chin, 31% of his snaps were deep in case you're wondering. Only five combined tackles. More Sean Latimore missed the game because of an injury. Michael Davis started instead of Benjamin St. Juice. And of course, one of the things we loved about St. Juice is he was just good enough to get on the field, which means he got targeted a lot and had a bunch of tackles. Well, Davis played about shoots. It was in the 70%, 73% range. I forgot to mark that down. He did get hurt for part of the game and St. Juice came in in his place. But when Davis was better, he went back in, but he, man, he was like burnt toast. He was burned so badly with Michael Davis, they're going to have to fix that next year. Mike Sander still continued to play a majority of his snaps on the outside. Juan Martin led with eight combined tackles, and he also got an interception along with an extra pass defense, so two pass defense in total. That's a fluke outlier game when you are playing that deep, that many snaps in that you have eight combined tackles. Don't count on that going forward, everybody. Okay. Let's go to the Cowboys versus Eagles. They played 66 snaps on defense. Eric Kindrix was active and played 100% and had a close to typical Eric Kindrix line. Instead of 10 combined tackles, he only had nine, but he didn't have a tackle for loss. Maris Luafau, very disappointing in that he played 95% of the snaps, but only had four tackles, three, which were solo. One of the things he does try to make big plays and force fumbles and things along those lines, but boy, the tackle count surely wasn't there. It was very disappointed from a tackle count perspective. Case you'll wonder, Nick V. Hill played one snap, Devone Clark paid two snaps. You don't want any of these, either one of those guys in your dynasty, hard for me to say for my LSU guy, Devone Clark. Michael Parsons played 71% of the snaps. Ghost had played 85%. Parsons did get a quarterback hit though, unfortunately, no sack. Ghost and continues to be productive from a tackle floor perspective. This week he was four tackles. He also got a pass defense, so he's been in that four to five tackle range. Nothing sexy about that, but continues to have that floor if you need someone. Donovan Wilson, if you're watching the game, in case you weren't, left with an injury, so he only played 69% of the snaps. I couldn't say very nice 69 since he got hurt. Juanier Thomas played 28% in his absence. He may recall Juanier Thomas was carted off a few weeks ago, and it was thought that he was going to be out for the year. He was not. He missed a couple of weeks of practice. Practice again was active, and he was the backup for Donovan Wilson. If you're in a deep league, you're desperate because of injuries. Players aren't playing. Juanier Thomas, if Donovan Wilson is out, a safety three, low in three high in four for Thomas, and speaking of people that got burnt, not only did Michael Davis get burned as we talked about earlier, but Andrew Booth, oh my gosh, another burnt toast situation. He got torched. There's probably a better way of saying it. Diggs was out, a room, whatever, who are you in the corner back, who is a former lion. He got hurt again, went back to IR, Kimon Hall was hurt, so they were forced to play Booth and boy, it was bad. Okay, so you might have liked a little bit of his stats that you saw, but stay away from that. Don't touch that, folks. The Giants versus the Coats, a huge upset. Coats laid a big fat egg, but we're talking about the Giants here first. They played a whopping 78 snaps on defense against Coats. Michael McFadden was inactive. Darius Muasal moved into that role, that previous old Caracay, then McFadden. Now it's Muasal. He played 100% of the snaps. He only had eight tacos through which were solo. That's pretty weak considering 78 snaps and playing 100% of those. Not exactly exciting stats for the UCLA rookie. Ty Summers played 86% of the snaps. He had a career high and led the team with 11 Tacos, but only three of which were solo, which means great, he was hustling and helping out, but didn't generate stuff necessarily on his own. Some of you might have seen Isaiah Simmons chasing some receivers and ball carriers. He only played 12% of the snaps. Dane Belton continued to play in the Tyler Neuben role. Of course, Neuben went on a high over at that ankle injury. Belton played 100% this week, after only 90% last week and 100% the week before that. Eight Tacos, which I believe was a career high for him. He also had two past defenses in an interception. He played 42% of the snaps deep. So the last couple of weeks, he's played a little bit more deep than he did that first week when he took over for Neuben in the middle of the game. Jason Pinnock, who have been pronouncing Pinnock but apparently it's Pinnock, 94% of the snaps. He also had a career high of 10 Tacos, seven, which were solo. He played 53% deep. So when the Giants played 78 snaps, it means the Colts were able to effectively move the ball enough and admit the safety was up there having to make Tacos because they were blowing through the front seven of the Giants. Brian Burns and Kavan Thibodeau. Brian Burns did not get a sack but he had a quarterback hit. Kavan Thibodeau did have a sack while Burns had six TAFos. Thibodeau had two Tacos. I mentioned it once earlier this year but I think it's worth calling out. So here's another dynasty tidbit. If you are a Thibodeau owner, sell him while he's still got a good name and reputation. He's just, according to PFF and as a reminder, and I was also going to say a reminder, a lot of these positioning stats I do get from PFF in terms of lineman on the field. One of the things they do talk about and have stats on his pressure win rates in Kavan Thibodeau is pretty low in that. So a lot of Stassi had last year. He may have had more luck into being chased to him as opposed to him winning a lot. So I'd be looking to potentially trade Thibodeau. Okay, let's move to the Eagles. The Eagles played 62 snaps against the Cowboys. Now remember this is a blowout game so it had a big impact on snap percent folks. And the Kobe Dean didn't play because of an abdomen situation. They don't have anything to play for really in week 18 so the Kobe Dean probably won't play again. It'll be interesting to see who doesn't, who doesn't play for the Eagles. Or Burke starting his place but once again only played 82% of the snaps. Let the team attack was with eight. Sank Bono only played 79% as a result. Jeremiah Trotter Jr, another fifth round linebacker rookie, played 37% of the snaps. Because of the blowout. Three tackles, one of which was solo and got a half a sack. In deeper leagues and you start looking at some of the players on your bench, taking a shot on a few of these fifth rounders and stashing them on your bench. As I mentioned earlier, you know, here's another one like Jordan Mcgee with Jeremiah Trotter that you could potentially stash. Okay? Because Zack Bonn is a free agent, he was only signed for one year. So that's something we need to watch for. And Orton Burks is a journeyman kind of player. Josh Sweatt did play after leaving the last game with an injury, which was great. But he didn't play his normal compliment of snaps because of the blowout. Jalix Hunt, who a couple of times I have shot it out on this show, played 50% of the snaps, has six tackles for which are solo and one tackle for a loss. He is someone to stash folks, keep on bringing that up. Okay. We're going to move to the NSC South next, but before we move to the NSC South, I do want to mention, I've mentioned a couple of times, I will be doing dynasty content. I won't be starting next week though. So what I'll ask you to do is follow IDP plus on X slash Twitter. Also, follow me at Ricky Rod 66. And by the way, I forget to mention that as I do at the beginning of every show, every show. I'm not Ricky Rod 66, hopefully most of you have been listening in and knew that, but just in case. So follow IDP plus follow at Ricky Rod 66, and we'll be announcing when I'll be doing these shows. Of course, if you subscribe to the channel, sign up for alerts, you'll get some of those alerts as well. Okay. Let's go to the NSC South, as I mentioned earlier. Let's talk about the Bucks who absolutely dismantle the Panthers. The Bucks only played 47 snaps. Folks, I didn't go back and look into all the research, but that is absolutely one of the lowest snap counts for any defense in any game this year. So what does that mean? You're not going to have a lot of IDP counting stats. In fact, Zion McCollum, the cornerback led the team with six combined tackles. No one else on the team had more than three combined tackles. Now, I think most people have learned, but just in case when I use the term combined tackles, which I've been using previously, that means a combination of solo tackles and assisted tackles. So if I say something like six combined four, which were solo, that means four solo tackles, two assisted tackles for six combined tackles, just a little bit more education for those that weren't familiar with that. Okay. Back to the Bucks. No one with more than three combined tackles, as I mentioned, at least collage of cancer, Diabi, and even Anthony Nelson, who I know, at least one person had to play in a very deep league as his edge person, at least all three of those folks got a sack. Antoine Winfield was out, Christian Ision was put on injured reserve, Jordan Whitehead returned, played 100% of the snaps, returned from injured reserve, that is to be more specific. He played 51% of those snaps deep. You would hope for a little bit less than that for sure. Mike Edwards played 63% of the snaps that he played deep. Kavan Meriwether, who had left the last game with an injury, did play this week, but he only played 23% of the snaps. That means it's the Edwards and Whitehead show, at least until Winfield comes back and then it'll be back to the Whitehead and Winfield show, okay? Not much more to talk about from them. The Falcons versus the commanders, of course, this game went into overtime and the Falcons played a whopping 84 snaps. I told you we'd have some big snap counts coming a little bit later and that is one of them. Jesse Bates led the team with 12th tackle with 7th solo, 1 sack, great that he had that outlier game, part of which was driven up by the 84 snaps, but Jesse Bates has tended to play more of that deep row. Someone don't go chasing those points from last week, folks. The linebacker snap percentage, Kavan Ellis played 100% of the snaps, 9th tackle second on the team, also had an interception, which was great for him. Nate Lamb and 41%, JD Bertrand, 31%, so Lamb and 41%, Bertrand, 31%. Bertrand pulled in a sack and he was actually blitzing and they were using Kavan Ellis more as a decoy a couple of different times and then they dropped Ellis out and then had Lamb and blitzing the other side, Bertrand blitzing the other side, not Lamb and so that contributed to Bertrand getting the sack and getting close to another one that I saw when watching the game. Lamb and Bertrand cannot be played or trusted, folks. Six tackles for Lamb and five for Bertrand, those are combined tackles. That was with 84 snaps with that kind of snap count, can't play him. Matt Judon played 61% of the snaps, his best game of the year, production-wise so far. He had four solo tackles, a sack quarterback hit two tackles for loss. Say that even though he had a sack and a pick sixth the previous week because he had more sack, more tackles, excuse me, but at the age 32 we're not chasing Judon for next year, folks. I'm trying to trade him. In fact, I would use this as an opportunity to say, "Look how well he's played the last two weeks." He finally started using him right late in the year, et cetera, and try and trade him when we get to the off season. Nebuchad he played 47% yeah, he got another sack, but we're still not chasing on with Nebuchad he folks, don't do it. Even though three of the last five games, I believe it is he's had a sack, but we're still not chasing him. Let's go to Panthers versus the Bucks. If the Bucks only play 47 snaps, that means the Panthers are going to play a lot more and they played 77 snaps, folks. It was a blew up, blew out game. Josie Jewell was inactive. They already have Shaq Thompson, Kevin Wallace, Claude Charielis, so there are four top linebackers, one injured reserve. What does that mean? First Jacobi Wyman who played last week, he actually played 86% of the snaps this week was third on team with 10 tackles, seven which were solo, got a half a sack as part of that. He had a quarterback hit, and he actually got a pass defense as well, so pretty productive on 86%. Once again, that was 77 snaps, keep that in mind, but the pain, the defense was so bad. Maybe they'll play that much again. He's worth a risk of playing. Now the other linebacker spot, Chandler Wooten, he started a game for the Panthers earlier this year. Right after that game, he was released, wasn't picked up eventually signed to the 49ers practice squad where he's been sitting. Panthers, because of the injuries, signed him off to 49ers practice squad and immediately put him in the starting lineup, and he played 100% of the snaps, and led the team with 14 tackles, seven which were solo. So Wyman had 10, Wooten had 14, Wooten 100%, Wyman, 86% of the snaps. That's how it played out. You don't have to be the best player, but opportunity can give you snaps. We see it in running backs a lot of the time. You can see it in linebackers a lot of the time. That's what happened here. Not someone who's not someone that we want for dynasty, but if you're a pinch for week 18, you can probably play either one of those guys, assuming Josie Jewell is not playing. If Jewell's playing, it's not clear if it's Wooten or Wyman that's going to play, I'd be really careful about that, and if I had to place a bet, and I'll look at my crystal ball, if Jewell comes back, my bet is actually Wooten, not Wyman, would play the number two linebacker role. But that number two linebacker role for the Panthers, once again, only plays 75% to 85% of the snaps usually. Keep that in mind as well. He's Sean Robleson, only played 49% of the snaps. Usually all three of those folks are much higher, blow up game, they didn't play as much. At the cornerback position, I had to give a Caleb Farley shout out, because another burnt toe situation for a guy, a former number one pickle of the Titans. Four straight weeks of 0%, JC Horns out, Chamorre Smith Wade is out, they throw him out there. He got toasted, he did play 100% of the snaps, but he got toasted pretty bad. Had the safety position, Xavier Woods and Damani Richardson once again played 100% Jarden Fuller, Healthy Scratch, Nick Scott, 0% of the snaps on defense. They wanted to try out Damani Richardson, see what they had with his undrafted free agent from Texas A&M. I think what they should have learned, if they had, you know, they should have learned by the middle second quarter, is Damani Richardson is not someone they can rely upon for next year. Don't go chasing his snap count, don't go chasing his stats, don't do it, folks. He was an undrafted free agent. I expect them to trust that position in free agency in the draft this coming year. You can say goodbye to Scott, you can say goodbye to Fuller on the Panthers for next year. Let's move on to the Saints to wrap up the NFC South. The Saints played a whopping 78 snaps on defense against the Raiders. The Raiders won the worst rushing teams in football, the Saints, okay. Just as a side note, most of y'all know, but in case we have any new listeners, the Saints are my team, Saints in LSU, I don't hide it, I want to make sure everybody's aware. So I try not to be biased when I'm talking about them, but I do vent sometimes and here's venting. Okay, Amir Abdullah in his career, the 31-year-old running back had never rushed for over a hundred yards. Until this past Sunday against the Saints need us say more about them needing to blow things up. Okay. DiMario Davis, 100% of the snaps, Pete Werner, this week they decided to play them 90% of the snaps. 90%, 80%, 70%, 90%, 70%, you just never know how much they're going to play them hard to trust Pete Werner in that situation. Now they both tied for the team lead with 13 combined tackles, which, you know, with 78 snaps, that's what we typically expect to see something on the 12-13 range as opposed to the 9-10 range. So nothing too exciting from that regard. The snap count drove that up. I will give a shout out to Colin Saunders. That big man at least he's hustling and trying, he had seven tackles, three, which were so low. So I was sprinting down the line to chase down along the sideline to play the week before fighting hard to get a tip off for an interception that he should have had, but his own man got greedy and tried to take it away from him. I'm talking about you Alante Taylor and cause it's going complete, but Colin Sanders really playing hard. Not someone we're going to chase his stats, folks, but just a shout out to him. Cam Jarden, 53% of the snaps, probably his last home game for the Saints. Three tackles, including a sack, a quarterback hit, two tackles for loss. So a very nice way to probably in his Valley Saints career, I expect you'll be wearing another uniform next year for salary cap purposes. I expect them to have to move on. Now, Carl Granderson, down to 56% of the snaps this week, folks. That was after 52% the week before, mostly this year he has been the high 70s, high to mid 70s. And that's two weeks ago, in the 50s, obviously the coaching staff has disappointed in his performance or they just decided they, you know, Tano Pasigno, who they activated off IR finally because he had a Achilles injury in the off season and was, you know, finally activated him and they're trying to give him his opportunities and paid Turner and Chase Young and Isaiah Foske play a little bit, you know, maybe trying to give all these guys a chance, but regardless, Granderson got taken way down. I do expect a different coaching staff next year. As a result of that, hopefully they'll figure out how to use Granderson better. You might be able to get him on the cheap. Alante Taylor played 97% of the snaps. Good news is that only 81% was at outside corner. So he played a little bit more in the box or slot and along the D-line and so forth, but two solo tackles, two pass defense. Once again, we've talked about it on the show a lot, how they're utilized is key and we're Ugo Amati, let me talk about Ugo Amati, then we'll come back to that in a second here. Ugo Amati only played 48% of the snaps, four tackles, three solo, one pass defense, okay. We talk about a lot of cornerbacks, but for the folks that are new and there's a reminder at all, when you're playing a lot of outside cornerback and not playing a lot in that near the line, slot box or on the D-line, hard to generate stats a lot of the time, okay. Ugo Amati took over the role that Alante Taylor had close to the line of scrimmage in that box slot D-line role and has been very productive. Last week, not as much because there wasn't as much 11 personnel for Washington commanders. Again, this week, the Raiders play a lot of two tight ends, some three tight ends. You see a lot of Brock Barra, you see a lot of Michael Mayer, see some Harrison Bryant, see some, what's his name, John Shocker, I believe he is then a draft free agent. He played a lot of tight ends, Terrace Marshall was their number three wide receiver. I think he played like 38% of the snaps of 33%. So in those kind of situations, that slot cornerback, that nickel cornerback, whatever you want to call it, is not going to play as much snaps limiting their opportunity ability to get those IDP stats. So that's what happened with Amati this week. Moving Taylor from that slot role to the outside has killed him later in the year in terms of the stat count now. And so that's what we have going on folks with the Saints, okay? All righty, we're going to move to the NFC West and as we are doing that, I want to remind you that we will be doing our start sit show again this Sunday at 11 a.m. Eastern, 10 a.m. Central, to once again help you folks playing in week 18, we will take a couple of dynasty questions but we do want to primarily focus on start sits for those that have a championship game. Like I said, we'll do more dynasty stuff and we'll take a lot of questions from the dynasty side of things as we move into the new calendar year but we'll answer a few of those but we're trying to focus primarily on start sit this Sunday morning, 11 a.m. Eastern. Sean is already confirmed to be there and it looks like Michael be there as well. So you have three of us to help you out, okay? NFC West, let's talk about the Cardinals played there against the Rams. They only play 57 snaps, which is on the lower side obviously Kaiser White played a hundred send the snaps, led the team with eight tackles. Matt Wilson returned from injury, played typical Matt Wilson, roughly 72% of the snaps in up with six tackles combined, Zavin Collins, who had played like 75% last week. So I wanted to track and see what happened this week, you know, he was down to 63%, three assist attackers, one quarterback hit, nothing too exciting there but because he had that higher snap count, wanted to see how that would translate. Baron Browning, 53%, where he's gotten some sacks in previous couple of weeks did not happen this week. One assist attack when he's pretty much a sack or nothing folks, which looking at what Baron Browning, still like his upside though, particularly in a Jonathan Gannon defense, if they do resign him, he is a free agent at the end of this year. Buddha Baker played a hundred send the snaps, but that low snap count certainly hurt him. He's actually third in tackles folks in the NFL going into this past weekend. I'm not sure, I haven't looked up where he finished after week 17, but going into week 17, he was third in tackles in the league. Missouri, Franklin, Leiden, that's great from a safety position as a side note. That's the kind of numbers you want. I'm actually traded for him in a dynasty league about midway through the year because I love that tackle floor and what it brings and then anything he gets on top of that tackles for loss quarterback hits a sack on the blitz and just gravy on top. 49ers versus the Lions on Monday night, they end up playing 71 snaps. I'm going to start off with their leading tackler who was a cornerback. Diamadore Lanore, he led the team with nine tackles, five of which were solo and a hundred send the snaps. What was interesting though, he played 85% of the snaps in the slot or the box. So what was happening is when they were just in two wide, he played on the outside, but whenever they were three wide, he was the man that moved to the middle and Bernardo Green and Isaac Hietom, the item, YAIDOM, however you pronounce it, were the two guys that played outside and Lanore went into the slot. Back to what we're just talking about with the Saints, Lanore playing that much in the slot. Obviously, he was a leading tackler. That could bode well for him as we look ahead to next year if that's how they will continue to use him. Of course, he just got that big fat contract, so I expect him to play a lot. Nick Boza had a freaking wild game, 87% of the snaps, so that was great to see after he had that oblique injury or two obliques that were injured. Luckily, he didn't get a concussion on one of those plays and he was able to come back in the game. There's eight tackles, five solo, two sacks, four tackles for loss, four quarterback hits, particularly in big play scoring or even heavy tackle scoring systems. He should have done really well for you, particularly for those that were in week 17 championships. Drag Greenlaw did not play. Shanna Hand talked about the fact that he would be out the next two weeks. They weren't going to play in these last two weeks, so he didn't play in week 17. He's not going to play in week 18. In fact, on Tuesday afternoon, before I filmed this show, Drag Greenlaw was officially put on IR. I wish they would have done it last week because that was kind of annoying because then a lot of leagues you could have put him on IR and then picked up someone that stashed on your bench like a Jordan McGee or a Jeremiah Trotter as an example, but I digress. Dee Winters ended up being, as we talked about in here, he was going to be the linebacker to replace Greenlaw. That's what happened. He played 87% of the snaps a couple of times. He did have to go off the field with injuries, but he did come back in. Eight tackles and three solo, Demetris Flanagan-Fowls played 21% of the snaps. Jalen Graham played 15%, Tatum Bethune played 6%. As a side note, Devanjay Campbell didn't play any snaps. I get it. He was suspended. We all know that. Sorry. That's a bad joke. We move on. Don't, hopefully you didn't hang up after that one or are disconnected to whatever. Blake Mustafa played 97% of the snaps. He played 49% of those deep, which contributed to only four solo tackles. Teleno Hufanga played only 79% of the snaps. I haven't seen anything injury-wise. I was reported. He played 57% of the snaps deep, but he ended up with six tackles, five of which were solo. But when we have him playing that much deep, that's the money we don't want to trust. So we'll leave it at that. Jayar Brown played 24%, but he is, as we've talked about the past few weeks, he is the number three linebacker, assuming number three safety when Mustafa and Hufanga are active. Moving on to the Rams versus the Cardinals. The Rams played a whopping 79 snaps on defense. Christian Roseboom played 90% of those. We're seeing him in that 90 plus percent range. He's usually hyper-efficient from a tackling perspective, but he only had six tackles. Three of which were solo on 90% of 79 snaps. That ain't good, folks. Obor Spades played 71%, which is typical for that number two linebacker role. He has fluctuated, but he's starting to kind of normalize in that low 70 high 60 range as the number two linebacker. He actually led the team with 10 tackles, five of which were solo. He didn't look quite as lost last this past week as he's added previous weeks, so he started maybe get a better feel for the game, and I'm kind of regretting that I traded him. But oh well, we'll see how that plays out next year. Cam Carroll played 97% of the snaps. Now last week, he played 74% deep. This week it was only 52% deep. Quentin Lake played 100% of the snaps. He played 84% in the slot boxer D-line, which is where we like him. Unfortunately, he only had five tackles for which were solo. He played 79 snaps. I mean, think about that. That's really bad for that kind of positioning on the field with that many snaps. Quentin Lake is someone who, if you may recall, or if I'm recalling correctly, was a seventh round draft pick, maybe sixth round, out of UCLA. Anyway, late round, let's just call it that. He's someone that, if you've got him on your roster, dynasty tidbit, trade him. We'll talk about it in the off season about repeat top 12 rates of repeat top 12 rates at all the positions, including safety. Safety is low, I'll tell you, it's usually around three. So Lake is someone you're trying to sell high. Jim Kinchen's on the side note only played 62% of the snaps, 80% deep, last week 76% deep. So he tends to play deep when he's out there, but he's not out there, but 80% of the time, excuse me, 60% of the time roughly. Jalen McCullough, we said, don't chase it last week. He was back down to 28%. That's what we expected to happen. Byron Young had a huge game for an edge with ATAC was five solo, and he got the sack with the ones, which means he got one sack, one tackle for lost, one quarterback hit. Brain fist, two more sacks, three quarterback hits in total. Another very solid game for brain fist with the young talent they have affront with fist with Kobe Turner, with Jared verse, with Byron Young. The future is very bright for this Rams defensive line, an area to target next year in your redrafts, or even if you're looking for dynasty trades. Go after those front four for the Rams. Seahawks versus Bears, I need to pick up the pace a little bit here. They played 62 snaps on defense against that putrid Bears offense. Four players tied for the team lead with a whopping six combined tackles each. So in other words, it's not allowed to talk about from the tackle side of things. Ernest Jones, 100% six combined tackles. Tyrese Knight only played 74% of the snaps, six combined tackles. Now the team had seven sacks and 10 quarterback hits given that Bears sorry offensive line in Caleb Williams holding the ball too long was part of the reason that I was so much higher on Jaden Daniels and Caleb Williams in the off season, not just because I'm an LSU bias fan, but because of Caleb Williams ad libbing so much and holding the ball so long things along those lines, it just had a bad feeling with time to it would take time for him to break out of that guy digress. Draymont Jones was back up to 52% of the snaps and only had one tackle. Uchinen Noosu. He was up to a season high 67% in his fourth week back. He is considered to be one of their two top edge players along with boy Moffat who played 72% in snaps. Now Noosu, four tackles, three solo, he had the ones meaning one sack, one TFL, one quarterback hit. He also had a pass defense as well, Moffat four solo tackles and a pass defense. Noosu, if you're in a week 18 final and if you sit not there on waivers because of the injuries all year, he is someone I would be considering targeting once again, I'm not going to play him over Trey Hendrickson for example, I'm not going to play him over TJ Watt for example, but depending on what you have, Noosu on the edge is a very interesting play. Leonard Williams continues to be a freaking beast with 80% snap count, five solo tackles, two sacks, three tackles for loss, four quarterback hits, the man's an animal, he is putting himself into the top five defensive tackle range or interior defensive lineman for next year folks. We've got to consider him there along with the Jeffery Simmons of the world as an example. Devin Witherspoon had also had six tackles, they were all solo and part of that he got a sack and three tackles for loss, although he didn't get a quarterback hit stat wise. So sometimes they give them credit for like when they chase them out of bounds, I didn't see this specific play, but it was just interesting that he didn't get a quarterback hit on it, but he did get the sack. Kobe Bryant, six combined tackles, remember he plays deep 89% of the time, hard to trust that similar with Julian Love, who doesn't play quite as deep quite as much, but played deep a lot. He only had five tackles, five combined tackles. All right, we are going to move to the AFC East and I am going to pick up the pace a little bit and leave out some of the tackle counts in some cases to help you hopefully try and keep this to the 90 minutes that typically try and do. He only played 63 snaps because it was a blowout game, Terrell Bernard, 59%. Baelin Spector had been put on IR, Nicholas Morrow, who they released previously was resigned, but it was Joey Andreessen who played the other 41%, 59 plus 41 gives a year 100. Matt Milano returned from injury again, he played 56% of the snaps. Once again, blowout, he didn't play that much, Dorian Williams ended up playing 40%. Okay, so there's your bill is lying back to the situation. Both Bernard and Milano appear to be healthy, they'll be your starters, the thing to worry about about the bills for your public services announcement for this week, they have nothing to play for. It certainly sounds like listening coach Sean McDermott that the starters may start, play a series or two, and then they will be out. For example, he said it sounds like they're going to start Josh Allen just to keep his consecutive game started, stat going, and then he'll be sitting shortly after, and the same thing could be said for probably Bernard and Milano and Greg Russo and Ed Oliver, James Cook, et cetera. So be careful by playing your bills this coming week, everybody, oh, sorry, the safety position almost forgot, Taylor Rapp returned and played 100% of the snaps, 46% deep. The more handling was inactive again, it was co-bishop, not Cam Lewis who played 100% of the snaps, co-bishop, he played 54% deep. So I checked that out for you all as well, thanks to the PFF once again, Cam Lewis still played 44% of the snaps, but if Hamlin's out again, which is likely given what I just talked about about the bill, so you could see a lot of co-bishop and Cam Lewis at the safety position this week, everybody. Von Miller, AJ Epinesse, Ed Oliver, all had full sacks, Greg Russo had half a sack in that game. So at least they gave us a little bit of productivity, let's move to the Dolphins versus Browns. The Dolphins played 79 snaps on defense, that's a heck of a lot, hard to believe they played that against a DTR-led offense for the Browns, but that's what happened. It was a bit of a blowout later in the game, so some of the starters did not play as much as normal. In fact, you'll see that a bunch of them came out at the 90% snap mark starting with Jordan Brooks. He had left the last game with an injury, he was active this week, played 90% of the snaps, led the team with nine tackles, including a tackle for loss. Now last week when Brooks was injured, Duke Riley came in for him and played his other snaps last week, and Duke Riley played the other 10% of the snaps when Brooks was out this week. At the other linebacker position, the Mike, the Green Dot position, Anthony Walker was inactive, and instead of Riley playing, it was Tyrell Dodson that played 100% of the snaps in that Walker role, and he had a career game with 15 tackles, eight with, which were solo. He had an interception, which means he also got a pass defense, he also got a quarterback yet. Monster game for Tyrell Dodson. If dolphins haven't something to play for, obviously the playoffs, if Anthony Walker's out, we're very comfortable playing Tyrell Dodson, we're very comfortable playing Jordan Brooks. As a side note, Jordan Poir, Jevon Holland, Kater Kahoo, all played 90% of the snaps. Jalen Rams, the 85%, but that goes back to the blows I was talking about earlier. Chop Robinson played 66% of the snaps this week. His previous season in high career high was 67, so he was right up there with that. He unfortunately only had one tackle this week, so he's now at six sacks in his last nine games instead of eight games that he was last week. He doesn't get too many tackles beyond the sacks at this point, but he's doing well or even better as the year is progressing pressure rate, pressure win rate according to PFF. He's someone in sack, big play scoring systems to consider for next year. Let's go to the Jets versus Bills. They played 70 snaps in this true blowout game. Even in this blowout game, Jamie and Sherwood played 96% of the snaps and Quincy Williams 100%. Both finished with 10 tackles, five solo win tackle for loss. That was pertinent and interesting that they finished with those same exact stats. Andy Williams was returned from a hamstring injury. He only played 43% of the snaps. Not clear if it was the hamstring, the blowout or combination of the two that impacted him. He's usually in the high 60s, low 70s, but he did not play very much. Hassan Redick, once again, only 57% of the snaps were two solo tackles. Hopefully he gets in a better situation next year. I don't think he's washed up just missing the offseason in so many games, the Jets situation. Redick, maybe you target cheap and dynasty. He's around age 30. Keep that in mind as well though. Will McDonald was back up to 73% of the snaps. No tackles, no sacks, he did have two quarterback hits. He's similar to Chop Robinson in that he's a sack or bust for the most part top of player. The safety story this week, Chuck Clark played 100% of the snaps for the second week in a row. But what was interesting, he got put on IR on Monday. Not sure what happened when he played 100% of the snaps, but then he got put on IR. He still had eight tackles, which was great, but it will probably be the Tony Adams, and I'm speculating the other safety will be Ashton Davis. Here this year, Tony Adams did play closer to the line the first couple of games. When Chuck Clark was on IR coming out of the preseason, I expect Tony Adams to play closer to the line. More of that box row, Ashton Davis to play a little bit deeper. That is a gamble. Part of the reason though I believe that is Isaiah Oliver is going to have to stay at the cornerback position. Sauce Gardner left his pass game again, reactivating his hamstring. I think they'll need him in the cornerback position that he, being Isaiah Oliver, which opens up the safety snaps for Adams and Ashton Davis. What was a five person rotation? Not too long ago is basically back down to two, with Bills being on IR and Oliver having to play cornerback and Clark being on IR. Moving on to the Patriots versus the Chargers. They played a massive 79 snaps in a very embarrassing game. How did they play that bad against the Chargers when they played so much better against the Bills? They played 59 snaps the week before defense. I digress. I think Mayo is in trouble after one year. Be careful with snap counts because this was a blowout game. Key on white on the one hand only played 51% of the snaps. Part could be blowout, but I did see him being injured during that game. I did not see him come back into the game. I didn't have a chance to watch every play though, but between the injury and the blowout, I doubt if he did go back in, watch the injury reports for key on white. Jabril Peppers is inactive again with that ankle injury. Dugger played 96% of the snaps, second on the team with Tacos with nine combined. He played 62% close in line, 38% deep. That's not bad. Nine combined Tacos. Pretty good. He was on 79 snaps though, so maybe it could have been a little bit better after all. Marte Mapu, third round rookie from last year from Sacramento State, 75% of the snaps. He played very well last week and about the same amount of snaps played very well again this week with seven combined Tacos, but he did play 50% of the snaps deep. Had around 230 or 63, 230, maybe the next regime will play him more as a linebacker than as a safety. Jalen Hawkins played 34% of the snaps. He played 67% of those deep. Line back inside of things. To buy 75% Christian Ellis, 62%. Seon Taki Taki, 39% he did have eight combined Tacos did Taki Taki, but remember we're not chasing Taki Taki. He is a number three slash number four type linebacker on a team per se, not from a fantasy perspective, and more of a special teamer. Bingles versus the Broncos as we would now move to the AFC North, and let me flip the banner there to AFC North, okay, they played only 60 snaps on defense. The Broncos played a whopping 90 snaps in that overtime game. Jordan Rankin's inactive again was finally put on injured reserve with this illness that he has. It was actually put on the NFI list, I should say, not on injured reserve. It's sort of an injured reserve list, but it's a non-fable injury list. BJ Hill as a result this week played a whopping 90% of the snaps, a season high for him. So if you're desperate at defense tackle in session Terrier, playing him this coming week isn't the worst thing in the world to consider doing, okay, now last week's full goal was Chris Jenkins. I told you he only played 47% of the snaps. He did get two sacks, but don't go chasing it. This week his snap count was down to 37%. So even though he got the two sacks last week, they bumped Hill's playing time up. They took Jenkins time down. That tells you all you need to know right there. So hopefully you didn't chase him. Sam Hubbard out on the edge again with that PCL injury he has, didn't get put on IR because there's still have a chance to make the playoffs. Trey Hendrickson, 82% of the snaps were played. It wasn't the best of matchups when you look at the Broncos and points given to edge players, but he did at least get you half a sack and a couple of quarterback hits. Joseph Asai all the way up to 83% of the snaps. Very, very effective game with eight tackles, five solo, half a sack and a pass defense. So Joseph Asai, once again, your deeper leagues, 83% that means that man was running all over the field and played a lot of snaps. You can take the chance and your deeper leagues of play in Osai in your championship game in week 18. Miles Murphy down to 40% from 52% was interesting Cedric Johnson jumped up from 9 to 18% week over week and he had two combined tackles including a sack as part of that did Cedric Johnson. Miles Murphy played 40% of the snaps, no stats, zero, zilch, goose egg, nothing from Miles Murphy. So talked about it previously, Miles Murphy is one of these later round first round picks that isn't most likely going to pan out from an IDP perspective, try and sell him if you can using the legacy first round pick, third year breakout, blah, blah, blah, next year. At the linebacker position, Kim Davis gathered 100% Jermaine Pratt, 83% of the snaps. Densee, anything from an injury perspective that would say something was wrong with Pratt. So watch out for injured reports if you're playing in week 18. Kim Davis gathered, only had six combined tackles and one tackle for loss for her disappointing Pratt, seven combined tackles and a pass defense. Very disappointing in that week 17, whether it be your semi final or finals, they really let us down here folks. You can see any linebacker playing any other snaps according to the snap count percentages. Those rolling to the plate, check on the Pratt for injuries as we go into week 18. Genostone 100%, Jardin Battle, 88%, Von Bell, 30% with absolutely no stats, did Von Bell, no stats whatsoever. Jardin Battle continues to play a decent amount deep, which isn't good. He played 49% deep. That is not going to be good for IDP and he only had five combined tackles. Browns versus Dolphins, they played only 60 snaps on defense. It was a bit of blowout later in the game. Looking at the defensive end, the edge side of things, a corn quote was inactive, which means Miles Garrett played 87% of the snaps, Isaiah McGuire played 90% of the snaps. We're not chasing Isaiah McGuire for the record when you hear that he had three tackles, two solo, a sack, two tackles for loss and three quarterback hits. We're not chasing that. We're going to watch, but we're not chasing it right now. Miles Garrett had two more sacks, almost had a third, but they didn't give it to him. The quarterback had kind of fallen down and Garrett was the first one to touch him, but they didn't give him a sack on that one. There's nothing to trust in the remaining defensive end edge players by the Browns leadership team, i.e. head coach Kevin Slafansky and their defensive coordinator. So you saw a little bit of camp Thomas as an example, but it's really Garrett McGuire unless a corn quote goes back from injury. The linebacker story, Jordan Hicks played 52% of the snaps, seven combined tackles and quarterback hit before he left with an injury. Diabate, 70% of the snaps, exactly 70% for the second week in a row, Devin Busch was up to 57 from 41% due to the Hicks injury. Winston Reed actually even got in 8% the undrafted free agent rookie. So that's the Browns linebackers. It's a mess unless Hicks plays. There's an interesting tidbit on J.O.K. There's a tidbit that I saw that there's a question if it's crew ending this neck injury that he had. So be very careful trying to be smart and say, "Oh boy, he was great until he got injured and so I'm going to trade for him to have him for next year because the owner might not realize how productive he was before he got hurt." If that piece of tidbit, I'd be very careful by trying to acquire J.O.K. in Dynasty leagues, folks. Shelby Harris was out again this week. Michael Hall was down to 53% from his 62% was nearly as productive as the week before. Still someone in deep leagues were stashing from an interior defensive line perspective. Michael Hall, that is. Shelby Harris is old, we're not doing him. On the safeties, Delpit played his number 100%. He only played 7% deep, leading the team in Tacos as Delpit. Once again, another one of these safeties with a high tackle floor, unfortunately they're not blitzing him nearly as much as they have in the past. So he's not creating those big play sacks and hopefully that'll change next year. But at least he's got that tackle floor. Ravens only played 56 snaps against the Texans in a complete blowout. Kyle Hamilton and our Darius Washington, as well as Marlon Humphrey and Brandon Stevens, also all of them played 89% of snaps before they were relegated to the bench for the rest of the game because of the status of the blowout. Oh, look, Hamilton played 64% of snaps deep, Washington 74% deep. Elkhwan Smith, once again, he, too, also played only 89% of the snaps. Outside of Elkhwan and Marlon Humphrey, no one else had more than four combined tackles. As a result of that, there's not much more to talk about other than that Christian Welch and Trent Simpson both played 11% of the snaps. If you pay attention to 89 and 11, that's your 100. So they were the people that went in, they being Welch and Trent Simpson, when the game was a complete blowout. That's when they got their defensive snaps. Okay, going on to the Steelers real quick. They played 62 snaps of defense for the second week in row exactly 62. The Sean Elliott return, I warned you all, Fitzpatrick. Well, I gave you the good upside that says if it's Elliott's out, Fitzpatrick's going to play closer to the line, which he did last week, and I told you last week if Elliott comes back, Fitzpatrick is probably going to go back deep. What happened? Elliott return played 94% of the snaps played only 12% deep. Fitzpatrick played 100% of the snaps. He did tie for the lead with seven combined tackles with the team, but he played 50% deep this week. Last week he only played 24%. The previous two weeks was 72 and 64. In this championship week, don't trust Minka Fitzpatrick, even though he led the team this week in tackles and in the previous week, you know, played closer to the box and was very productive, including having that interception. Stay away from Fitzpatrick is my guidance. Patrick Queen played 100%. Landon Roberts played 53%. Wilson played 47%, 53 plus 47 is 100. Now interestingly enough, on Tuesday, Cole Hochum began practicing. Cole Hochum, devastating injury last year was a starter for the last year. Part of the reason they saw Queen is they knew with the devastating injury he wasn't going to be able to play a lot this year, but Hochum was activated to start playing. If someone dropped him in your dynasty leagues, someone to potentially pick up and stash, who knows? And by the time playoff comes, it could be Queen and whole complaining and not Roberts and or Wilson, something to watch, folks. Okay. Cam Herrwood continues to maze at age 35, playing 81% of the snaps and being productive. T.J. Watt and Alex Heismith, Watt, 79%, Alex Heismith, 84% of the snaps. Nick Herbig played 37% of the snaps. 21 plus 16, which is the two percentages that Watt and Heismith didn't play. 21 plus 16, he was 37, 37% is what Herbig played. A pure three-person rotation across those folks. Why? Treston Smith was made inactive for the game. So he wasn't even on the 47 that played this week. It wasn't because of injury either. So that's going to be your rotation. You can't play Herbig at 37% or 35 or 45, but that's how much they think of Herbig. That's what's going on there. Okay. We are now going to move to the AFC South, folks. And as we're doing that, just another plug 5DP+ for those that are watching and those that are listening, IDP+ use the promo code PROPS, you will get 20% off and earlier in the show, I talked about all the great things you get. Let's go to the AFC South, the coach versus the Giants. They played only 56 snaps on defense. The Giants went through the coach's defense like a knife going through hot butter. Let me just shoot right through it. It was something else. Zaire Franklin played 100% of the snaps as he typically does, and he had a massive game, so I'll give him credit. 14 tackles, 7 solo, 4 tackles for loss. Now he did give us a dud in week 16, which I'm bitter about as you can tell by the way I said that, but came back here in week 17 for those that were able to move on. EJ speed played 98% of the snaps. Now, very disappointing, only 5 unassisted tackles, not a typical EJ speed game. I wonder if this had something to do with that knee injury that had him up the week before. If this was a case, they should have had Jalen Carley's playing in his spot. They shouldn't have had him playing, and I'm sure he probably end up hurting several folks in their fantasy playoffs last week. Not sure I'm trusting EJ speed if you're playing in week 18. Jalen Carley's was the number three linebacker, but it only played 32% of the snaps. DeForest Butner and Grover Stewart both played season, high snapper, since the defensive tackle, 89 and 70. So obviously that didn't do much good as the Giants just went through the coach defense so quickly that they only need 56 snaps to score 45 points. Now, I know there was a special team to touch on, but still, Nick Cross only had 7 tackles, 7 combined tackles that is, part of that was attributed to the 56 snaps that they played. Now, Slim Reaper, I hope you took the advice and looked, you know, because I responded to your question on YouTube, I said play Brandon Jones over Nick Cross, I hope you listened to me and took that advice and played them, and I hope it helped you to get a championship or at least move on to the playoffs, whichever way it was. The coach for man defensive in rotation continued. Now, next year, Samson Ebbecom will be coming back from injury, but Deo O'Deyingbo is going to be a free agent and I doubt they're resounding after drafting Lot 2 in the first round. That means that they're going to have at least at four defensive in rotation situation, which could be bad for all four of those guys and not giving us the snap count and the IDP results that we're looking for as we think of hit to next year. Jaguar's versus Titans, the Jaguar's played a very nice 69 snaps on defense. Foye Lewickon played 100% of the snaps. Yes, he led the team with 11 combined tackles, including one tackle for loss in the past defense. However, he played 13 of the 69 snaps in the slot, which was 19%. He played two of the 69 snaps at deep safety from an alignment perspective. Not sure how that rotation ended up happening, so that was 3%, so 22% of his snaps were outside of the box. At least he still gave us 11 combined tackles on that 100% of the snaps. Devin Lloyd was at 70%, six combined tackles, at least he got that interception, which includes the past defense, of course. Vintra Miller was an active Chad Muman, 9% of the snaps. That's how Lambax played out. Josh Allen Hines and Trayvon Walker told you all that they had a chance for a good match up here. Josh Allen's Hines was very productive, taking advantage of that match up with six tackles, three which were solo of sack, two tackles, two quarterback hits. Trayvon Walker did have two combined tackles, a sack and two quarterback hits, so each one got a sack. Mason Smith, the second round rookie out of LSU, played a 67% of the snaps, which was a career high for him, two tackles and a sack. This bolts well for him. Some people say I got to LSU bias, but there's a certain amount of him that does remind me of a young Chris Jones who played at Mississippi State, so I watched a lot of SEC football through the years. Mason Smith is someone in your deeper leagues to target for that interior defense of line such defensive tackle position. Larnail Savage was inactive, O&J Cisco plays 100% of the snaps. He had eight combined tackles, which was a season high for him. What have we learned about when you have this outlier from a tackle perspective? Don't expect it to repeat next week. Be careful about chasing Cisco's points. Andrew Wingaard was the other safety at 100%, Antonio Johnson only played 30%, so it looks like he's dropped a fourth in the safety list of safeties for the Jaguars, with Savage being one, Cisco two, Wingaard three and Antonio Johnson four. Deaf chart, I couldn't think of it, Deaf chart, my goodness gracious, must be getting tired. It's getting closer to New Year's Eve here in Austin, Texas, and that's a record this. And versus Ravens, the 63 snaps played by the Texans in this blowout game. Because of the blowout impacted snap counts, Daniel Hunson, excuse me, Daniel Hunter 51%, Will Anderson 48%, Daniel Hunter only two combined tackles, at least Will Anderson got you three combined tackles and half a sack and a couple of quarterback hits and a pass defense, but because the blowout didn't come through for you. Toto Christian Harris Hewitt, each one of them only had five combined tackles with Toto 83% of the snaps Christian Harris, 70% Neville Hewitt, 46%. Here's the tricky thing now for those of you playing week 18, Aziz Alshai here on Monday was removed from the suspended list after serving his three game suspension. I do expect Alshai here to move into that number one bike green dot position. And right now, I'm assuming because Toto played 83% of the snaps, Harris played 70%. So I'm assuming that Toto's the number two, Harris is the number three, but that's risky. I do think Alshai here will be back at 100%. But boy, there's a little bit of a gamble if you need to play Texans linebackers here in your fantasy football championships. If you're playing week 18 Eric Murray played 83% of the snaps, you'll have the team with nine tackles for which were solo. He played 71% of the bot in the box. That's D line. It's a slot. Kamori Lasseter, who played some slot as well in cornerback position in cornerback. It looks like he's going to move back to the outside and at least in practice. Miles Bryant was getting more of those slot snaps as opposed to Ocuda on the outside and Lasseter moving to the inside. So that's what it looks like for the Texans. But boy, there's a lot of gamble is going to week 18 given those moving pieces and all the injuries they've had and they're working around. Lastly for the Titans versus the Jags, the Titans defense only played 58 snaps. Kenneth Murray went on IR. Otis Reese was inactive. So how'd the linebacker position played out? As we pretty much told you, Luke Gifford 100% Jerome Baker, 95% Cedric Gray played 0% after having those 15 tackles last week. Worn you all that that was a big risk, you know, James Williams only played one snap. Todja, he wasn't the guy either. So that's how it played out. Gifford and Baker, Gifford led the team with eight combined tackles and a pass defense. Baker had six combined tackles and got you a sack and he got a pass defense as well. So, but I'm not trusting Jerome Baker, I will be willing to take a chance on Luke Gifford and week 18. Jeffrey Simmons, considering the Titan situation and he's, quote, a star player, one of the highest played players on the team, one of the highest played interior defensive lineman in the whole league, still 95% this week after 94% last week from a snap comp perspective. Five tackles through which were sold on a quarterback yet. So he's still giving it his all folks, even when there's nothing to play for for the Titans. Amani Hooker was inactive, Mike Brown played 97% of the snaps in his absence. We're not going to trust Mike Worley in our championship games. Finally, we're going to move on to the AFC West and I do have a lot to talk about on the AFC West folks. As a reminder, starts its show this Sunday to 11 a.m. Eastern, 10 a.m. Central, we'll be there to help you if you are playing in week 18. We want to help you win your championship. The Broncos versus the Bengals, the Broncos played in that overtime game a massive 90 snaps on defense. That's basically almost one and a half games. So you would expect a lot of IDP counting stats and you absolutely got that from a lot of folks. They also got seven sacks against Burrow. They were destroying the interior, the defensive line. They were getting pressure of the offensive line of the Bengals. They were impacting the edge as well. But we'll come back to that in a second, but start off Riley Moss led the team to 14 tackles as he returned from injury, 11 of those was absolute was solo, 11 were solo. But he was absolutely destroyed, abused, whatever word you want to use in his first game back from injury. Not sure what happened. Maybe he shouldn't. They brought him back too soon, but he got destroyed. But cornerback required leagues. If he's not a hundred percent and he's playing and they're going to pick on him like that, huge opportunities for him from an IDP perspective. Zach Allen played 94% of the snaps. One of the things which is amazing about Zach Allen, he plays 85% to 100% of the snaps roughly every single week. Boy, did he have a freaking monster game. Him and Nick Bosa up front were really impressive. Seven combined tackles for Zach Allen. Three and a half sacks, two tackles for loss, six quarterback hits. There was one drive also. He got basically back to back sacks that both of them were overturned due to injury. Excuse me, not injury, by penalty, excuse me. So Zach Allen, monster game, hopefully you played him, hopefully you've been playing him. People thought I was crazy earlier this year when I was making comments about playing over Chris Jones, things along those lines, keeps Zach Allen in your lineups. Cody Barton played 94% of the snaps. Now he disappointed with only six combined tackles in the past defense on 90 snaps. Folks, that's embarrassing. This is one of these guys. Yeah, he's playing a lot, doesn't make him a great linebacker. Be careful about drafting him too high next year. Justin Sterner was back to 67% of the snaps. He had only four combined tackles, one of which was a tackle for loss. Not very impressive. What was interesting though, Drew Sanders played 10% of the snaps, which is nine. Basically 90 snaps and 10% is nine. Not basically it is nine. This is his second game back from injury. Last week he played one snap lined up on the defense line right over the middle. Nobody blocked him and he got a sack. This week on those nine snaps he had four tackles, one of which was solo. He played eight of those in the box and one on the defensive line. Now one of my brother in the industry, when I had tweeted out to watch for Drew Sanders as he's coming back from injury, look for him to potentially be the number two inside linebacker next to Barton. I got some DMs that said I didn't know what I was talking about, but at least so far maybe I did speculate correctly, maybe my crystal ball was correctly, I would not trust Sterned this coming week, particularly for all the marbles. I would expect Sanders's snap counter to go up somewhat. I would expect Sterners to come down a little bit more. I still think Barton plays about 100% of the snaps. Nick Bonito played 80% of snaps, which was his highest snap counter of the year, by the way, in terms of percentages. He did get two combined tackles, one pass defense, two quarterback hits, unfortunately he didn't get a sack again this week after that monster run he had, but he's still hustles, he's still creating other tackles and making other plays besides sacks. You still play Bonito, folks, don't give up on him. Jonathan Cooper, 77% of the snaps, a very good game for him for an edge play with four combined tackles, one and a half sacks, two quarterback hits, you get it. Don Drey Tillman only played 22% of the snaps and got a sack, Joan Ellis, 27% of the snaps all he played. So Bonito and Cooper's snap count went up in that very meaningful game. Zach Allen was in the 94% range, so you could see they were trying to play their top players less than rotation, unfortunately they still lost the game. Brandon Jones only played 93% of the snaps, not sure why he missed a few snaps, maybe it was to give him a rest, not sure, didn't see anything about any injuries. He had 13 tackles, nine solo, so once again, Slim Reaper, I hope that's who you played over Nick Ross as I recommended to you. PJ Locke, 94% of the snaps with nine combined tackles, charges versus Patriots, another blowout game, so you can't read anything to it, but a few things we will talk about first, no one had more than five combined tackles, and that was Christian Fulton and Troy Dye, so right off the bat, not good when you have that kind of blowout, Dayon Hindley, or Dayon Hindley played only 72% of the snaps and had a complete frickin' goose egg. It wasn't that he was hurt, it wasn't that coaches were mad at him and he wasn't playing, he played until the blowout happened, and he just played a goose egg. But that's going to mean a lot of people going to remember that next year, and he's going to follow a little bit in IDP drafts, and we're going to pounce on him and take advantage of that. Dinsell Perriman was inactive, so it looked like it was probably going to be junior Colson as the next linebacker up, oh no, they went back to Troy Dye. Troy Dye went back up to 81% of the snaps this week after 2% the week before, had five combined tackles. Junior Colson was back down to 28% after being a 56% last week, four combined tackles in a quarterback hit. They must not have liked what they saw in film from Colson, went back to the more experienced Dye, who is kind of just a guy from a player perspective, but they went back to him, disappointing for junior Colson, maybe next year we'll see better from him. Derwin James, similar to Hindley, only played 72% of the snaps, he got the twos, which means he got two solo tackles, two combined tackles, two which were solo, two sacks, two tackle for loss, two quarterback hits. That's two plays, you got all those stats, hopefully you played a big play scoring league that helped you out, and he also got a fumble recovery to boot. So those big play scoring leads, that was fantastic. I did check how much he played deep, because I like to compare him and Kyle Hamilton, Derwin only played 29% of the snaps deep, versus what you heard me talk about with Kyle Hamilton earlier. Elijah Mowden left the game with a serious injury, he was put on IR out for the year, it's a febrile injury requiring surgery for him. Cleo Mack, a sack, Tulli T, a sack, Bose, and Dupree did not, Dupree's snap count came up this week, Max and Bose went down, because of the blowout of the game, okay, that's how that finished. The Chiefs versus the Steelers, the Chiefs actually played their second most snaps of the year in defense with 75. This became a bit of a blowout later in the game as well, as well as a result, Bose didn't only play 79% of those 75 snaps, Tranquil, 72%. At least Bose kind of did something with eight combined tackles in two pass defense. I didn't look up, and I should have, sorry folks, if that was roughly near as high for the year, which I think it is, we have had one game better than that, but just a disappointing year for Bose. Tranquil had nine combined tackles, but once again, they sat out late. With Chris Jones, an active Tarshan Wharton, because of their lack of depth at defensive tackle, played 95% of the snaps, he had three tackles combined, he had one sack, two quarterback hits, but we're not chasing Tarshan Wharton, folks, okay? Tranquil Connor was inactive, so the safety position, Justin Reed, 84%, of which he only played 24% deep did Justin Reed. Good news for him. Brian Cook played only 72% of the snaps, 78% deep. Jayden Hicks, 71% of the snaps, he played 64% deep, so we're not chasing Cooker Hicks as a result. Justin Reed is a free agent as a side note, it would be interesting to see how they play things, particularly with Chamari Connor. I can see a situation where Connor takes over the Reed role, and they get into the corner back to play the slot, because Connor is probably better off at safety than he is at the corner back slot, slot corner back. The corner backs, the only one I'm going to talk about here is Christian Roland Wallace, that's hyphenated Roland Wallace, playing 67% of the snaps. He led the team with actually 10 combined tackles, six of those 10 were solo, 96% of his 67% were in the slot sash box, that's consistent for two weeks a rope. Unfortunately, he's not playing quite enough snaps, and probably if when Connor comes back, he'll be relegated back to the bench, but Roland Wallace is someone to keep an eyeball on on your watch list to see how the whole corner back situation shakes out and the safety situation for the Chiefs during the off season. Michael Dana had five combined tackles, two sacks, three tackles for loss, we're not chasing Michael Dana, folks, we're not taking that chance in our championship weeks. Let's go to the Raiders. The Raiders played only 60 snaps on defense, Robert Spelain, 100% of them he played, and he led the team with eight tackles. He got a sack as part of that and two tackles for loss, and he had a couple of pass defenses as well. The Saints offense was really bad in the second half, and as a result, the Raiders defense only played 60 snaps. Outside of Spelain and Trevor Morig, no one had more than four combined tackles, Devine Diablo played a season low 53% for any of the games that he played, and of course, there's some games he did play where he had 0%, but when he did play 53% a season low, Kailavon Chase on from LSU played 80% of the snaps. He wasn't in the 90s like he had been the previous weeks, but he still got you a sack if you played him. Tyree Wilson, the number one draft pick from 2023, 67% of the snaps, half a sack this week. I told you don't chase Isaiah Pullam-Mau, because last week he had those 11 combined tackles that don't chase, don't chase it this week for combined tackles. You did get two pass defense that helped a little bit out, but don't chase him. Thomas Harper had a half a sack and one interception as the number three safety for the Raiders. He only played 45% of the snaps, and we're not chasing Thomas Harper, the undrafted free agent. That's the scene Nate House playing 80% of the snaps, two injury prone from my liking. We can watch the Raider cornerback situation next year as well, but in my IDP drafts for next year for redraft, I'm not going to target Hobbes just two frickin' injury prone, okay? In Butler, 77%, Jonah Lauulu, 75%, what's interesting is some of the websites are getting Adam Butler and Matthew Butler, the Raiders confused. Matthew Butler has been inactive the past couple of weeks. Adam Butler is a 30-year-old out of Vanderbilt who's been productive for us, and he did have a half a sack again this week. Adam Butler is the one that we're playing, but be careful if you see these inactive reports you see Adam Butler on it, it could be a mistake when it's supposed to be Matthew Butler because I did see that error on Sunday when I was catching up from checking on my in-laws and so forth later on Sunday evening, and I did see that as an issue, okay. That kind of wraps up all our divisions in the conference. Remember to follow IDP Plus and me, Ricky Rod Reig at Ricky Rod 66 for more information of the off-season shows that I'm going to do, we talk about rookies and dynasty and we're going to do some projections and we're going to talk about top players at different positions and so forth. We're going to have a lot of good stuff for you all. 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