Fantasy Football Tight End Strategy: Likely vs. Gesicki

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00:00All right, this next start set question comes in at the tight end position here.

00:08It's Isaiah Likely, Baltimore against Buffalo.

00:11Going to be a great game.

00:12Well, Mike Kosicki, Cincinnati at Carolina.

00:14Joe, as you often say, whomever falls into the end zone is going to be a tight end one.

00:18Likely is used a little differently here, but who do you favor?

00:22Yeah, this is a really tricky one here because I still see Mark Andrews

00:26ranked ahead of Isaiah Likely.

00:28And I just, I don't understand what's going on.

00:30Look now, since week two, Likely has had 40% route share, 8.2% target share.

00:35So that's not great, right?

00:37That's not going in a great conversation, a great direction.

00:40Kosicki so far, I understand, you know, he had that big week two against the Chiefs.

00:45Last week he was fine in PPR.

00:47I think Kosicki, again, is probably the safer play in PPR.

00:50But if you're in a standard league and you're looking for touchdowns, I just

00:53don't think Kosicki has any touchdown equity.

00:54I think it's all Jamar Chase.

00:56It's all Zach Moss.

00:56It's all T Higgins.

00:57It's all those guys, even Yoshi Voss, I think has more touchdown equity in this

01:01offense than necessarily Mike Kosicki.

01:04So I would lean towards Likely and rolling the dice there in this big game here.

01:09Um, but again, the safer PPR play in the full PPR is probably where I would go

01:15with Kosicki and just kind of hope for your eight or nine points and get out

01:19because right now that's getting it done at tight end, you, you, you get eight

01:23points, that's pretty much your tight end one this year.

01:26Especially with Nick Bride out this week too.

01:28Just don't have a lot of options out there.

01:31My gosh, what a difference a season makes.

01:33All right, let's turn our attention to the quarterback position now here.

01:37Anthony Richardson has Pittsburgh.

01:39It's going to be a tough go.

01:40Sam Darnold has Green Bay at Green Bay.

01:44Uh, Joe, it balls in your court.

01:47Eileen Darnold, but I'm not so sure.

01:50Well, I mean, Sam Darnold is QB five this year.

01:54I just want to say those words out loud.

01:57QB five over three games.

01:59He has eight touchdowns, two picks.

02:01This is very similar to that.

02:02You know, we had the Trevor Lawrence conversation at the end with Daniel

02:04Jones, right?

02:05Well, we're just looking at numbers and we remove the names and we just look

02:08at the numbers and we say, oh, look, this is the guy.

02:11And this is really who he is because this is how he's performing.

02:14Well, we could do that in a negative light or we could do that in a positive

02:16light, and if we do it in a positive light here with Sam Darnold, do you want

02:20the guy that's thrown for 657 yards and eight touchdowns and two picks?

02:24I do.

02:25Uh, that's the guy that I want to start in a huge game against Green Bay.

02:29Uh, now Jared Alexander is very good.

02:31He's going to give Justin Jefferson all he can handle, but where's Richardson so far?

02:35Well, Richardson so far is QB 15 on the season.

02:38Uh, he has just three touchdown passes and six interceptions.

02:43Uh, now he does have a hundred rushing yards.

02:45That's the difference maker.

02:46He has a rushing touchdown.

02:48That is where people would say, well, I want to lean this way, but against

02:51the Pittsburgh Steelers defense, that's really been so good.

02:54And I think it's going to do a really good job of containing Richardson, right?

02:57I think if you're the Pittsburgh Steelers, what you're going to

02:59do is contain Anthony Richardson.

03:01Keep them in check.

03:02You have that QB spy.

03:04You try your best to make him beat you with his arm and with his reads, because

03:07that's where his deficit is right now.

03:09He's got talent at wide receiver.

03:11He is still struggling to make good decisions.

03:14So if you're the Steelers, you blitz him.

03:16You try to contain him in the pocket, make him make decisions.

03:20And so far, I mean, this decision seems pretty easy to me, which is I'm going to

03:23start Sam Darnold, even though on paper it's green Bay and it's a big marquee

03:27matchup, I think I'd rather, I think I'm just real safer about what

03:30I'm going to get from Darnold.

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