Hi, she was seven, I'm back. So today I wanted to talk to y'all about how to know he is not the one, okay? So a lot of women refuse to see red flags. They refuse to see how a man really feels about him through his actions. They deny and they are in denial 90% of the time, okay? So I'm here looking from the outside and kind of telling you what lets you know that this man is not the one for you. He's not into you like you are into him, okay? Now, if y'all hear some noise, there's construction going on, they're building a house across the street. So bear with me. Okay, so the number one sign. To let you know that this man is not the one for you is that he does not put you on his priority list. You're not even a priority. You're the last one he calls. You have to text him. You have to call him. You have to make plans if you wanna see him, okay? You're like the last thought on his mind. That's number one, okay?  This lets you know that you're just there when he needs you whatever kind of way he needs you in, okay? And 99% of the time he is with his friends. That's sign number two. Sign number three, he doesn't spend any money on you, okay? If you have seen a man a few times and he hasn't spent any money on you, has not tried to impress you or anything, he's not the one, okay? So if he has not done those things and you're still hanging on, it's time to let go, okay? Now there's more, okay? If he is always talking about ex-girlfriends or baby mama or this, this and that, that means secretly he still cares about that person or it's not over that person. Even if he's talking bad about them, he's still talking about them. They're still on his mind. They are the subject of your conversation, okay? So technically he's venting to you to make himself feel better so that when he does go back to the other person, he's calmed down and, you know, he feels good about the situation. So that's another sign.  It means he's venting to you about his problems with her so that he can go back and feel confident to face her, okay? The next red flag is he's not trying to commit to you. He doesn't want to title with you.  He doesn't want to call you any of those names, okay? If you can't get a formal introduction as a girlfriend, then he's not the one, okay? And this is after dating at least a couple of weeks or months, okay? You shouldn't be hanging on for a title after at least two months of dating. If you're been dating two months and he hasn't claimed you yet, he's probably not gonna claim you any time soon, okay? The next thing is if he tends to not text back like after you ask him something important or, you know, something, something, something, if he doesn't text you back like a priority, like, okay, I'm here, not necessarily like right then and there, but at least within the same 30 minutes to an hour. If he hasn't text back in the same 30 minutes to an hour, you know he ain't the one because communication is terrible, okay? Unless he's like, you know, unless he can't have his cell phone where he works and you know that and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, but in a normal situation where you know he has his phone and he doesn't text you back within 30 minutes to an hour, no, okay?  Okay. So these are red flags that these guys are not into you. If you have to always make the first move in like sex or to get affection, this means, you know, now some guys are not affectionate, you know, in public, but in private, if you're having to make the first move all the time, he ain't the one, okay? So just know that ladies, if you're chasing behind a man who's not really putting you on top of his list, you're wasting your time and you need to get out of it and you need to find someone who chases you, okay? I know a lot of women have issues and they're like, well, all the men that I like don't like me. Well, you know, you gotta find a guy that likes you and who will chase after you, okay?    Even if you don't even like the guy, go see what it feels like, you know? You might just be like, oh my God, I can't go back to those other guys. I gotta stay with this type of man because this is where it's at, you know? This is how I wanna be treated, you know? And you'd be surprised. Sometimes guys who don't look like they're all that and who treat you really nice, their looks start improving.  A man who can take care of a woman, provide for her, chase after her and make her number one is sexy, you know?  Even though he's not the best looking thing in the world, they're gonna say, oh my God, look how good he treats her. Oh my God, I wish I had a man like that.   I mean, on my teeth. But they'll be like, oh my God, I wish I had a man like that.  He's kind of cute, or I could get a guy like that or something like that, yeah, you know? So don't focus so much on looks, ladies, because you're gonna be missing out on being chased, being fond after, being put first.  And I think when women do that, they have low self-esteem, they don't feel like they're worth anyone else chasing them.  And then you wonder why men don't stay with you very long. They won't stay with you very long because you don't give them a chance to chase you, or they didn't want you in the first place, you know what I'm saying? A lot of men can't say no to women who make the first move and chase them because it's so rare, you know?  Oh, yeah, okay, I'm gonna hit it and quit it.  You came after me, I didn't approach you, okay? So you have to think about it. I know a lot of women are like, why can't a woman approach a man? Because that's why. Because if you approach a man and they treat you like trash, well, they can later say, well, I didn't even come up to you, you came up to me. You know? I never wanted you, did I come up to you? Exactly, that's why you never chase a man. And you never approach a man. A lot of guys will find it flattering, but for the wrong reason, you know what I mean? Oh, this woman came up to me, she wants to give me some, okay? Now, I didn't come up to her, which means I'm not really truly interested in her, but I'll take what she's offering. That's what it is. It's flattering because it's an offer. But if a man really wants a woman, he's gonna see her from across the room, and he's going to get his mind together, get his words together, prepare a speech to go and introduce himself. He's gonna try to impress you. He's gonna offer to buy you a drink. He's going to smile. He's going to try all the tricks in his bag to get you interested in him, okay?  Okay, I'll give it to her, and then whatever. You're not a priority. Okay, you want to be the one that someone walks across a room for.  What's your name? Or, hi, my name is Something Something, nice to meet you. You know, this is too forward. Men are like taking back by this, and they're like, oh my gosh, he must want some. They're not thinking, oh, this is future wife. They're like, I didn't even come for you, you know, but I'll take it. So ladies, you have to remember that, you know, some of these commercials that you see on TV with women going up to men and stuff like that. Yeah, it's empowering and all that stuff, but at the end of the day, if the man didn't come after you, he really never wanted you.  Move it along.  Unless you hook him and make him yours, and he's that kind of guy who will follow behind you, you know, that's fine. But majority of the time, a woman who approaches a man doesn't get the best relationship because the dynamic and the balance was off in the beginning, so it doesn't really ever truly work out. I know a lot of guys who were dating women that actually came up to them, and they always cheated on them, and they always had other women in their house, you know, because they already knew. They want me more than I want them, and they'll put up with my BS because they approached me.  So ladies, that's why I always say, don't go up to a man, let them come to you. If no man come to you, you need to go home and reassess, okay? Maybe this wig ain't working for you. Maybe the hair color is not working for you. Maybe you need to wear a different outfit, some different colors, some different shoes.  Sometimes that's what it is, or maybe you need to go out alone. You have to understand that sometimes men don't approach women for certain reasons, and it's not because of how they look or anything like that. Sometimes it's who you're with or how you're presenting yourself to the public, you know? If they see you talking to eight different guys, they're not gonna approach you.    You can't sit there and see what he's talking about if you know he's not what you want. Because the one that you do want is sitting there watching you. And if you get approached by eight different guys and you entertain eight different guys for 20 minutes each, he's not approaching, I'm sorry. Okay, and guys know this is true. They will watch a woman from across the road and see how they act with other men.  I can't, you know, she probably got eight kids, you know, no.  Okay? Anyway, I know a lot of women have problems getting approached and it's how you act, okay?  You're noticeable because you're not like everyone else. You know, you're sitting there in peace, happy within, you're not looking for this attention, you're not doing this, you're not doing that. So it's easier for a man to approach you, you know. If you're approaching every man and getting shot down and going from man to man and guys see that, they're gonna be like, oh my God, look at this. Mm-mm-mm, you know, I might take her home, I might do this, I might do that, but that's it, you know. She's desperate. So ladies, be aware of how you look when you go out. Be aware of making the first move is the wrong move, okay? Don't, I never talked to him, like when I was single, I never talked to a man unless they talked to me first. Why? Because I never did that and because I knew that if a man wants you, he will approach you. Point blank, they can be sitting there looking cute, I would just ruin their self-esteem. They could be sitting there looking cute, nice, nice, watch, you know, obviously have money and I would just look right past them and walk to the bar and be like, I make them approach me, I do not approach me, I never did, never will, never have.  So yes, you have to let them come to you. Otherwise, you're too easy.  They have to work for that stuff, okay? They have to work for it. And I know a lot of men are gonna chime in, well, that's why I don't like playing games. Y'all like playing games more than anything in the world. That's why y'all have football, basketball, golf, hockey, Olympics, all that. Y'all love competition, y'all love sports.  If you watch a TV on Super Bowl Sunday, okay? Men like games, they lie to make it easier for them to get what they need. Don't ever listen to a man that says he doesn't like competition or games because that's a lie. They like it, okay? Even though they don't, even subconsciously, you know, if someone else is after you, that makes you even more alluring to them because now it's a competition, okay?  So ladies, don't ever let people tell you not to play games and this, this, this, and that.  The women who play the games always win because we're always like three steps ahead of men and we are very intuitive. We have lots of ways to manipulate and men fall for it every time and then they like it in the end. They like it, okay? They really do. I know this is gonna seem crazy, but underneath it all, they really do like it. They're fascinated that you would actually go through this depth to get them to be right and to improve themselves and to be better men, you know?  And they'll be thanking you. So ladies, if the man doesn't approach, he doesn't want you. Don't approach men unless you want to enter into an unbalanced dating relationship. Go years without a title.  So take it from me. I'm telling you, don't do it. It's not worth it, all right? I'll see you later. Bye.


Snatch drunk! Quick shout out to Dubious Gaming Online who sent me this game. Vice Project Doom for NES. It's something I've never played before, but I knew of the game because it was on the cover of Nintendo Power once before, back in May of 1991. That's when the game came out in Japan as gun deck. But for whatever reason, it didn't get a US release until November of that year, and by then the Super Nintendo was in full swing, so this game kind of got lost in the shuffle. And that's disappointing because this game is a fantastic blend of like five different games, taking its influences from games like Ninja Gaiden, Power Blade, Spy Hunter, Xanaac, and the adventures of Bayou Billy. You start out with a couple cutscenes that are stylistically similar to Ninja Gaiden. The story is deceptively simple though, in the future a weapons factory is run by aliens in disguise, and they've developed a food source that doubles as an addictive drug for humans, and it's up to you, Detective Kwan Hart, to stop them. The cutscenes do a great job sprucing up what's otherwise a pretty basic story. After that, you're suddenly playing Spy Hunter, but with a much more shoot-em-up feel to it. You beat the boss pretty easy, but next is a side-scrolling level. You get three weapons, a plasma whip for short-range attacks, a gun, and grenades if the situation calls for projectiles. The game does a great job matching the capabilities of these weapons with both the level design and the enemy patterns, so you're always switching between the three items. If there's one word to describe this game, it's variety. Vice Project Doom has something for everyone, and it does each of those things really well. The level design is diverse with some scrolling levels, and some fixed view levels that remind me of Power Blade. There's two overhead levels that look like Spy Hunter, but play more like Xanaac, and there's two sniper shooter levels, like something out of the adventures of Bayou Billy, but executed much much better. That's 11 stages overall with a ton of variety. The game's bread and butter, though, is the platforming. Each level really stands out as unique, both aesthetically and in design, and that goes a long way from keeping the platforming from getting stale. The train level here with the lightning flashing is memorable. Vice Project Doom kind of reminds me of certain Super Nintendo games like Sparkster, Run Saber, or even Mega Man X, where your character is really overpowered with all sorts of abilities and weapons. And yeah, the difficulty does kind of suffer because of that, but it's just so much fun to power through this game, using all of your abilities to annihilate everything in your path. It's a really satisfying game to play through, even if it's a bit on the easy side. Don't get me wrong, some of the bosses are pretty hard, but this isn't in the same category as Ninja Gaiden or Castlevania. I'd comment on the music, but to be honest, most of the music in Vice Project Doom just isn't that memorable. Every track has kind of a sameness to it, with the same tempo, so everything kind of blends together. I'm not sure I'd call that a flaw, just maybe I missed opportunity. Otherwise, Vice Project Doom is totally worth tracking down. It's a surprisingly strong third-party NES game that I never hear anyone talking about. It's one of the most ambitious 8-bit titles I've ever played, with lots of big ideas and a wide spectrum of variety in the gameplay, and it fulfills its ambition in spades.


And I didn't know there was a campus here in New King's that the Open University had a campus. So it was a bit of a sort of revelation to come down and it was a sunny day like today which probably helped but then I remember coming for my interview and I was a bit early so I sat I sat under some trees I remember and just sort of was calm and tranquil and quiet. I had a very similar feeling when I came here kind of during the summer and then seeing the like the physical space and the actual campus of the Open University was not what I expected I've always been in kind of a more traditional setting and then it actually felt really nice and the immediate like contact that I had with my supervisors as well as fellow colleagues it was just it was a very like mature environment but kind of also very open and flexible. For me coming to the Open University was a bit of a curveball and my friends reacted in that way when I told them that I was coming here because I come from a fairly traditional academic background and I'd wanted to do a PhD for a while but taken some time out to think about what I might do and I chose to come here and I'm so glad I did. It's proved to me that it's really open to really different backgrounds. It's genuinely genuinely part of what I love about being here because our end result is almost identical but our starting places are probably very very removed from each other. I went to a particularly not very nice education establishment where double not getting beaten up on a Wednesday afternoon was my favorite lesson so I left education and I worked for myself for 20 plus years. I love being a PhD student I love being around people who love to learn and to do the research I think it is a fantastic community to be part of. For me it's just been such an experience I think meeting other students from other parts of the world so in my department and in our area for example we've got students from Bangladesh, India, the Czech Republic, Kenya, Nepal, myself you know I came from Nigeria through Canada somewhere. You have such diversity of experiences and of thoughts and of ideas that really really contribute to whatever work it is you're doing. So I think that's really kind of another beauty of the OU because you're not kind of distracted by maybe like the undergraduates which is not always necessarily a bad thing but you know you're like you're really focused with with peers at kind of your level and you understand what you guys are going through. I think the peer group where you now can have those intellectual conversations with with academics who may be working on something similar to to your area of work and you know you can even ask them questions about about the particular work and I think it exposes you to you know new ideas or other ideas within the within the discipline that that can inform your work. I think the fact that you are you are on campus you know is you are all here you can make those things a bit more easily you've got access to those people because they they're not running around giving lectures to undergraduates all the time so that's a big advantage as well and so yeah I think you're exactly right there are there are just those opportunities to to link across different areas and my first day here I walked into the lab and there's a board on the lab and the lab currently has I think it's 81 people from 23 countries who speak 17 different languages and about 10% of those are PhD students it took me I would imagine a year to 18 months to get over the terror of the supervision meeting and realizing that it wasn't a teacher sitting there with a big red pen ready to go wrong wrong it was an actual a collaborative developmental process with your supervisor and alongside that then you have the other PhD students in STEM because there are massive highs there are massive lows and I know there are some bits of this that I don't think I would have got through without the support of both the supervisor and the rest of the faculty and I think that that you know we are on a journey together and it's supportive it's friendly and it's very non-competitive which is the key thing I think I know of some universities where it does seem like it's a rivalry so if you kind of look at the the OU and kind of their history and what they what they stand for in terms of you know open access and really believing that education is for everyone I think they still hold so true to that to that mentality and you see it kind of manifests in in the PhD groups because you know like you said it's just it's it's so different and and even international students that come in they they just feel welcomed because at the end of it they value people who are passionate about learning yeah so for me the main reason I think that I would recommend other students come to the University would be probably because of the flexibility and just having you know you can be on campus all the time you can be off campus so just yeah for me that flexibility has been a massive thing and a massive reason why why I came to the Open University and yeah the expertise the people that you work with like you said they're world leaders in the fields in the research when I compare what others receive and what what I receive studying here just the overall support you know these are great reasons to to consider studying at the OU for me it's been a amazing to be an institution where interdisciplinary research is so natural and it's so much part of what is done here I think the the quality of supervision is incredible and the support they offer along the way and I think that's that's really what stands out to me as being the main reason why I would recommend it to others the Open University is on the cutting edge of world-class research that's going on what the Open University has done in terms of the European Space Agency and collaborations with that particularly with Apollo at the moment the I say the level of research is world class and it is outstanding and to be here and to be part of that is phenomenal


Welcome everyone to JSA TV Live, the live streaming newsroom for data center professionals. I'm Jamie Scado-Cutaya of JSA and today we are speaking with investors, data center platform owners and energy specialists as they converge right here at Platform Congress along the French Riviera. So bonjour everyone, I'm Jamie Scado-Cutaya, joining me today we have Vincent Barrow. He is the vice president of Secure Power and data center business for Schneider Electric. Welcome to JSA TV Live, Vincent. Nice to be with you Jamie. It is a pleasure to have you here on this beautiful gorgeous day and the event is definitely kicking up. You can feel the energy on the floor and of course this is the inaugural Platform Congress event and we're so excited to be part of it Schneider of course here in a big way. Tell us why do you believe Platform Congress is such an important event for our industry? First of all there's a lot of energy today but I can tell you there was a lot of energy last night as well. Yes, they did the initial cocktail reception. Exactly. So as you can see despite of it there's a lot of people today here and mainly in conference now. I mean why is it really interesting because we know very well as Schneider's organizer so even for us it was a bet, let's be honest because it's the first one. But we know that the team of Gregory, Philippe etc. have a huge track record in the industry in this type of event so it was a non-brainer and as we can see today it was the right choice to be there.  What is really interesting and not expected is I mean first of all winter is coming so we know unfortunately with last year experience that in winter comes as well as COVID. So I think it's maybe the last opportunity in Europe and definitely in France to be each other. Let's see. Yeah. Finger crossed that this year would be better. So that's great and as we all know there's a geopolitical situation which is weird and to be all together today give us certainty to share all our problems, all our questions and it's great to confirm some assumptions that we have and how will we work together in the future for this industry. I'm going to agree more and time is of the essence. The timing of this so critical, so much at risk today and sustainability being of course a founding pillar of Schneider these days. Your efforts within the digital infrastructure community is really a big theme on display here at Platform Congress as well as you know a major part of your core values at Schneider. So can you tell us some of the initiatives your team is currently working on in terms of sustainability? Yeah. So first of all sustainability is not a new topic for us so more than 15 years we do sustainability so it's really core for DNA and the best way to prove it is really to see the type of acquisitions that we did from day one. What is the real topic that we see at the moment is really electricity 4.0. So what this means is how to be more efficient with the energy is really to mix digital and electricity. More digital, more electricity is really the future of sustainability and definitely what we do is to support our customer through the whole life cycle from consulting, services, infrastructure, software. I mean we have a lot of solutions but clearly what we see a lot more at the moment. Hello lady. It's really to talk about the digital twin. Yes. How do you manage fully digitally your infrastructure and your energy management is a big topic and as you can see with Schneider and as you said we are a lot of people there to support and work the talk because the main topic is now it's time to act so you need supplier who are able to do and the good thing is we have the solution to support our customer with their challenges. Yeah. So what advice do you have for data center providers as we're further pushing growing together to keep sustainability and energy at our core focus? Do you have any advice for us? Yeah, first of all I think as I said it's time to act. So when we talk about data center infrastructure you talk to three years in advance so if you don't plan now and if you don't talk to the people in the industry who know how to manage it you will be in trouble. And we did a big research with Forester which really show that customer but even employee are looking to see more sustainability and purpose driven topic. If you don't take care of it now you will be very fast in trouble because you will lose your business and you will lose your customer. That's right. It's not a nice to have it's a must have and it's a competitive issue now buyers are coming to us saying I want the more greener data center and Schneider can get you there right? Yeah and the thing is I mean if you thought in the past maybe we see sometimes that's really building quick energy in order to do it then to solve it or maybe it's dead. So you have to really think CAPEX but as well OPEX and then of course services because at the end of the day I mean you need to be sustainability but sustainable but at the same time to be resilient so the equation is not easy to do and you need people to support you and that's what we do. That's right. That's right. Alright so shifting gears just a little here to another big industry topic the edge. What are the biggest hurdles that you see operators running into regarding edge deployment and how can Schneider's eco structure solutions help? So the main problem with the edge is in fact we talk about hybrid infrastructure so you have the link between big data center cloud anywhere in the world then you've got the medium data center and the small data center which are at the edge what means edge because the world is sometimes here it's a real world is how you are closer to the people to do better that's the main topic but if you want to manage it with less people how do you do this and what does eco structure we help you to standardize your infrastructure with the right products with the right solution and at the same time to really drive them I give you one example and I'm based in Switzerland so I can talk about banking if you have a bank with large data center with confidentiality and with small branch if you don't have people in the branch to manage it how do you manage that right and that's what we do we are on play you call Schneider yes I love it I love it so where can our viewers go to learn more okay so to learn more easy our website and I mean we have people everywhere in Europe so just reach us and that's it that's it guys Schneider electric.com thank you so much thank you very much for your time here on JSA TV and thank you viewers for tuning in as always and stay safe guys happy networking


I have so much I need to talk to you about right here right now So buckle up hit that like button and let me talk first things first I want to talk to you about Gear Locker Gear Locker is a program that I've been working on is more of a community-based thing not really a Freedom thing specifically more like a community thing that freedom has allowed me to do and talk about here on their channels Thank You Freedom The for those of you who missed it or maybe don't watch my videos cuz you'll like me The general idea is this I come to you and I say hey guys You got anything YouTube related you don't want or you don't have a use for anymore Send them to Gear Locker and then Gear Locker will find people in the freedom and YouTube community to be like Yo, you need a webcam this guy. Give us one. There you go Hey, you need a new monitor this guy. Give us one. Here you go Hey, you need a keyboard this guy. Send us one. Go for it. The general idea is that Sometimes we end up with extra stuff like for instance very shortly I will be sending this webcam off to a very lucky person who I have chosen But we'll talk about that later Also, I've got a CPU tower that is in need of a little bit of lovin I think it might need a hard drive and a copy of Windows But other than that fully functional and probably better than you know, some of the other PCs out there who knows That I will be putting out there but The reason I want to talk to you about this is because Gear Locker is so much more now as it sits right now Because for the most part, I will be entirely covering the shipping feed personally. That's me I Have to figure out exactly how I'm gonna do this I'm thinking about setting up a PayPal where you know other generous people who are like, this is a great idea they can send in Like a better word donate funds for shipping, but I'm thinking I'll probably end up doing this about twice a year Once in December ish like right maybe right before like, you know early Christmas type stuff and then once probably July, you know somewhere, you know about six months away from that just because Hey Christmas in July my question to you about Gear Locker is this are you excited? You have anything you think you might send big small maybe you have a mouse layman laying around I don't know you're tell me the next thing I want to talk to you about is If you could pick one specific topic for me to talk about what would it be? I would very much like to involve the community that would be you in what I'm doing here This only works if it's a two-way street, and I'm curious what it is you'd like me to talk about You know, I like to do things in a very interesting kind of way, you know Words Seeing as I can no longer speak I'm gonna go ahead and let you go with that till next time I'm Anthony wait a minute. No, I am not Anthony yet The third thing I want to talk to you about is this I recently decided to start myself a nice little channel called YouTube comm slash Anthony Smith You should find a link down there Subscribe not subscribe come over and troll me, you know once or twice a month daily. I don't care Yeah, so here's there's that Anyways till next time I'm Anthony like subscribe comments, please


What is up everybody? Welcome to Thursday night football and the Fando fantasy Q&A I am your host Brandon Gadoula. I'm the managing editor at number fire calm you can find all my content over there, but We've got a great game from a DFS standpoint for tonight between the Steelers and the Vikings. It is a game with low upside quarterbacks With some historical optimal trends based on similar like comparable games where Quarterbacks aren't really the best MVP. I mean, they're still the best MVP bets based on probability, but we get we get a lot of running backs in Optimal lineups in games with these sort of low to middling totals tight ish spreads. So But you know, that's gonna put on the radar not to Harris talk about what's going on with the Vikings running backs for tonight. So welcome on in settling get those questions ready because this is a Q&A you can get your questions in on You tube twitch Facebook Twitter for tonight I know we're always trying to focus on this single game slate for Thursday talk about DFS strategy Look at some historical optimal lineups match ups Slate simulations, but I always get a bunch of start sit questions Which I will get to but I would say Go to number fire calm check out my start sit column It shows basically every relevant player and their odds of hitting certain thresholds For QBs and tight ends. It's top 12 weeks for running backs and receivers The odds that they finish is the top 24 player and it gives you a better idea of how certain players compare how, you know, how How big a gap is between? Player a and player B. So check that out. But again, I can run some simulation stuff for start sits but I'm here to focus on This Steelers of Vikings game. So as always, I'm gonna go over some high level stuff about this game Get those questions in and then I'll catch back up After I go through the top-down view for tonight. So again Steelers at the Vikings It's gonna be in a dome 44 and a half point total Steelers three and a half point road underdogs here money line One minus 180 for the Vikings for the Steelers plus one at 52 The main injury news that we have for tonight is that it does sound like Dalvin cook is going to play barring a setback Which is a little bit telling it's not that if he feels good, he will play it's he's on track to play barring a pregame warm-up setback so Given that information, I think that we do have to proceed as if Dalvin cook will be in the usual Dalvin cook role Maybe scale that back a little bit, but it does make Alexander Madison a little bit harder to justify both in season long But also in DFS for tonight and then Chase Claypool is expected to play. He's cleared with his toe injury. So those are the skill level injuries that I think are very important to go over And then I will show you guys some match-up information some historical optimal lineups and then I'll get into those questions for tonight and for this weekend so the Vikings here Are pretty decent against the pass according to some number of fire metrics including passing that expected points per drop back allowed And passing success rate their top 12 in both of those stats If you adjust their fantasy performance allowed to quarterbacks based on individual quarterbacks that they faced They're a little bit weaker 21st in terms of fantasy points allowed per drop back to opposing quarterbacks We get the inverse here with the Steelers defense bottom, you know outside the top 20 in passing that expected points per drop back and success rate allowed a little bit tougher with some opponent adjustments in terms of Adjusted fantasy points per drop back now Yeah, one one team is 13th and adjusted fandal points per drop back allowed the other 21st But it's pretty small gap all things considered. I know this adds up, you know over a full game of drop backs But it's just a good reminder of why I really put stock into outlier match-ups. So You know bottom five bottom six top five top six everything else in general across every stat you look at Teams are pretty close to the league average of the league media and whatever you're looking at there Speaking of outliers though. We have a pretty weak rough rush defense from the Vikings In terms of net expected points per carry allowed and success rate allowed again pretty good on a per carry basis in terms of player level adjustments But generally when we have we have those outliers that means that they're kind of having some touchdown luck with what they're allowing For the Steelers, you know sub par across the board there And then as far as the past catching goes we have You know top half but not outlier numbers against running backs allowed to running backs here Some pretty solid receiver match-ups and some pretty tough Tight-end match-ups. So I think that kind of tells us a little bit here where we could get some You know rushing potential from the backs in this game specifically, Najee Harris, Dalvin Cook The receivers in a pretty good spot match-up wise One thing that could really lead to this game being a bit ugly though Is Pittsburgh's pace they have really slowed things down. They've been slow most of the season on they are 28th in Context adjusted pace a non-garbage time pace This looks at their pre snap win probability between when they're whenever the pre snap win probability was between 20 and 80 percent So just sort of out, you know thrown out the outlier plays wherever they're trailing up by a lot or ahead by a lot They like to slow things down the Vikings though top ten in pace And both teams make make up for you know about league average are a little bit better in terms of pass rate Now as far as these optimal line-ups in comparable games, I think this is really key But keeping in mind that we have low upside quarterbacks here So I think this could be even skewed a little bit heavier to to the other positions But across this the single game optimal line-ups that I have in my database up to this point The quarterback position is made up 47 percent of optimal MVPs in this split So on this split I'm looking at 84 games with the spread of one and a half to five and a half and a total of 42 and a half to 46 and a half quarterbacks still the most likely To be the MVP at about 42 percent However, that's a drop of about five three About five points from the overall split average and for running back. We see over a ten point boost You know that kind of makes sense, right? These are not super high totals and the way that quarterbacks accrue huge games is with multiple multiple touchdowns lots of yardage Running backs though can get there on you know Heavy yardage within tight games where you know It's a back-and-forth game Stud running backs are involved on the ground and through the air and then with you know solid But relatively low totals all things considered one touchdown can be enough to set them apart receivers bumped down a little bit but Within this matchup again, we have Ben Roffusberger Kirk cousins Haven't really flashed a ton of high-end upside for the season I think we could expect this to bump down even a little bit more and I'll show you guys my sims whenever I get some questions Which could speak to the probability that these quarterbacks actually do finish as the MVP for tonight one thing that was surprising digging back through comparable games is that the It's actually more likely that the underdog produces the optimal MVP About 54% of the time compared to 41% in the overall split across all the games And then we just get more of a mix here Pretty sure last week. We had the the favored quarterback about 40 40% likely To finish as the MVP. We don't get any specific position split quite that high this week, so I think that that speaks to this type of game, but also these two teams in general kind of Fit that and then quickly here Not a bad night for kickers according to comparable optimal line-ups about 41% of line-ups similar to this Have had at least one kicker in a lineup compared to 34% in the overall split Okay, so that should kind of get you guys on the same pages to you know How I'm viewing this game from that high-level approach and I'll dig in to these Questions starting with a question from Grimfan on YouTube any love for Ray Ray McLeod and James Washington Or just go straight to KJ Osborne. Okay This is a good time then to bring up the simulation results These are based on number of fires median projections and some range of outcomes that I call dynamic they account for things like a dot receiving work for Running backs and then I simulate things out 10,000 times and see what what's most likely to happen Of course, all it takes is one iteration for You know in the Sims to produce it an optimal lineup But we want to see how likely certain things are to happen. So specifically with Ray Ray McLeod James Washington. I'm probably Look, I mean it's a single game slate Virtually everyone is in play in a single game slate, especially with anyone with some path to production but Ray Ray McLeod even at 6,500 a little bit hard to justify from that standpoint with Chase Claypool being cleared to play and then With James Washington seven thousand He's actually a little projected a little bit lower by number fire And so neither of these guys have more than a point six percent chance to finish is a top five score now If you you know think about this, they don't need to be a top five score They're gonna be a top six top seven top eight score still make an optimal lineup, but for you to say that you're basically saying in this case either been an office burger is Effectively producing an MVP output, which we haven't really seen and he's supporting multiple past catchers or This game is basically Dauv, Najee, Justin Jefferson And like Deontay and they all go off and the only way that you can really get up to all four of them Is with the punt level play? I would say that I'm probably not there as building blocks just because of Chase Claypool being back Pat Fry moves sort of been the de facto Number three for them. So I'm probably not going to say that they're building blocks But I definitely don't think that they're bad plays especially If you are playing one of those two angles that I just laid out and you really need the salary as for KJ Osborne much better median projection 6.9 here Not really likely as an MVP candidate We shouldn't surprise this but 10% likely to finish inside the top five in Fando points at 8,000 He's been their wide receiver three for the whole season his snap rate really dipped The past few games but without him feeling out. We did see his snap rate his route rate climb back up So I think that With KJ Osborne being such a better play, I don't think he'll be prohibitively popular in terms of roster rates either So I would say For the most part go to KJ Osborne unless you're building tons of lineups Grim fan asking any defenses worth streaming tonight So I'll pop over here. I Don't really look at streaming defenses too much but Um Even I don't know even with Even with like the lowest total you kind of actually want totals to be a little bit higher You want more passing you want up tempo as far as Your defenses go neither defense seems to be rating out particularly well Pittsburgh down here at five and a half Minnesota six and a half you could probably do a little bit better Um So I'm not really anticipating chasing either of these defenses even where I need a defense in my season-long leagues Question from Zachary on Facebook Freeman or Foreman Okay, so Do you want to foreman Devonte Freeman? I can run this one through the start sits simulator that I have I'll leave it at half because I don't know I will say I'm absolutely gonna say Devonte Freeman regardless as to what this Spits out here Freeman last week played 68% of the snaps For Baltimore a little bit closer than I thought much higher implied team total for Tennessee but Freeman played 68% of snaps Had about a 55% route rate. It's one of the best workloads that a Raven's running back a scene in a long time I'm pretty sure I tweeted this out in the offseason, but since 2016. I think there's been one Running back for Baltimore who's actually eclipsed a 70% snap rate in a single game. He was Buck Allen like four years ago They're always gonna be a bit capped within his offense Do you have to be foreman coming off of a 50% snap rate game with Dantro Hillier? But Jeremy McNichols seems likely to return. I don't know what that's gonna do to the workload So Freeman is being treated as the RB one Foreman could be the RB one. He could also be the RB three So I'm gonna go pretty easily with Devonte Freeman in that matchup a question from John Hollywood Brown or OBJ Okay, I'll run this one through there, too I'm gonna lean Marquis Brown though. I Should probably have many years Hollywood though because it's one of the best One of the best monikers in In all of football So, yeah, again that low total for the Ravens this week 19 and a half just the 41 point Overunder but Otto Beckham did kind of bail himself out. He had two catches I think 20 heat yards last week and a touchdown the role wasn't quite as strong You know, he was banged up leading into that week, but you know Marquis Brown has been this team's wide receiver one He's really been getting elevated treatment hasn't the production hasn't been there because Lamar has been sub par But I wouldn't expect that to stick. I'm gonna go with Marquis Brown here in that matchup for week 14 Tyler's asking flex spot non PPR standard league. Okay Don't get a whole lot of those The spreadsheet's not even sure how to react to that I guess hopefully doesn't crash But a flex button on PBR Pollard earths or golly day so Pollard is I Don't know what his status will be. That's a tough one if he doesn't play a Brain doesn't really think in terms of standard, but I would probably go Regardless of okay, so if Pollard plays I'd go Pollard because his workload should be there Even if he's not a hundred percent that Matt that game is a pretty promising one overall if he doesn't go I'm gonna go with Zach urge for sheer touchdown equity because his his His teams imply team total What's that ten point two five points better than the Giants with Mike presumably Mike Lennon. That's kind of the reports I've been seeing I Think that it's pretty easily Zach urge for that touchdown equity If Tony Pollard doesn't play Okay, D Westbrook worth a look tonight. I can pull that up. He's gonna rate out poorly four and a half points as a median So, let me look at let me switch over to my stat sheet here. What did what exactly did he do last week? With feeling Very limited D. D About 44% of snaps 61% of the routes just the two targets negative two yards 11 year at 8 not bad one downfield target again, I think that this could work. I really think that with the We don't really see a lot of non quarterback lineups be optimals I Kind of think that you could have that happen this week where tonight I should say not this week because the quarterbacks are so low upside so Westbrook doesn't really stand out but if you play like one one Swipe it like a Westbrook Or the the Steelers guys because you're building around like you want to jam in Najee Dalvin Deontay and or Justin Jefferson. I don't know what that salary would leave you with exactly I can actually check that out. I should do that So let's see here, let's go Najee Jefferson Deontay D'alve and it's a pretty hot start. I think that those are the types of lineups where I'd be most inclined To roll the dice with the DD or Ray Ray McLeod or James Washington Kind of just kind of just kind of shorting the quarterbacks because they just don't rate out as high upside and speaking of that Their top score odds. Let me sort this by top score odds Najee Dalvin leading above Cousins Jefferson Ben Roth is burgers that I love I don't I don't think I've done a show yet Where a quarterback said such low odds to finish as the top score and this comes from Ben's low upside performances all season but also the stud workloads for guys like Najee Dalvin Jefferson, so I really think that there's a case to be made for I know it wasn't high on like Ray Ray McLeod James Washington or really DD Westbrook But I mean you can you can do that and you can eat some salad You can leave some salad on the table and just sort of bet against the quarterbacks tonight if you want But frankly outside of KJ Osborne, none of the value receivers have solid cases for me to sit here and kind of build them up for tonight Question from Paul Hilliard or Freeman Yeah, so that's gonna be this similar case I just laid out with Beyonce foreman with Jeremy McNichol is probably coming back this week It's gonna be Freeman for me for I really like Devonte Freeman I think that he's in play on the full slate than the main slate at 6300 on Fandall I I don't really play running backs with so many question marks But if he's gonna get RB one treatment sort of light feature back treatment Devonte Freeman for me very much the play there Paul's also asking Madison or cook. So again, this goes back to the The news that Dalvin cook is going to play barring a setback. So it sounds really likely that he is Fine, you know as fine as you can be after that the shoulder injury that he had And that he's gonna play as much as he can really play With that I would have a hard time seeing Dalvin cook with these reports Being the the the secondary option behind Alexander Madison So I think I would go down and cook based on how these reports are making this situation sound a question from Bucks I start KJ Osborne or Keenan Allen Or KJ Osborne or James Connor So I don't know if it's an all three or two different Leagues Keenan Allen as much as I want to say just play Keenan Allen We're not gonna know obviously by tonight if he's going to play it sounds like he's probably not going to play this weekend because of COVID protocols I think KJ Osborne is totally viable though. I can run him through Changes at least a half It's not gonna look too pretty Next to Keenan if he's even projected so Keenan's Keenan's partially projected and then who else was it James Connor? So Keenan's partially projected because of the protocols, but I don't think I'll play I'm KJ Osborne though Honestly, not that bad of a play on you know, if you're if you're really looking for a Plug-and-play option. So again, I'm not a hundred percent sure if you're asking which of the three But I would definitely rank them Connor Osborne Keenan just because it sounds like Keenan's so unlikely to play Okay Okay, Grimm fans asking Jalen Geithner Josh Palmer. I talked about this in pretty pretty much in detail I did a trend on the Chargers offense on today's heat check podcast Which I recommend everyone checks out the the podcast they do with my co-host Jim Sonnis. We go over the main slate I did a trend on the Chargers Which is gonna be the Chargers playing from ahead because they're heavily favored against the Giants But then it morphed into the Chargers potentially without Keenan Allen most likely with Mike Williams from the vibe I'm getting but one thing that to really be optimistic about is that Justin Herbert has been Good with Keenan Allen off the field. He's also been good with Mike Williams off the field So it's a good spot if I have to pick one though, I think I'm just gonna go Guyton I know he has the issue of not a not a great target per route number Compared to Palmer, but Guyton's been their third option for like the whole season It just stands the reason that if anyone's gonna play, you know, a hundred percent of snaps outside of Mike Williams again Assuming he's healthy. It's gonna be Guyton. He's gonna be out there most likely on the two receiver set So I would just lean with Guyton there between the two question from Shane Van Jefferson or Russell Gage Osborne or Julio Jones in a PPR. I don't know if it's all four or if it's a you know But I'll rank them all hopefully that'll help and I'll run through the Sims as well just to get some sort of Vibe check here. So van Beach KJ and Julio, I kind of like Julio here. Yeah, I kind of assumed that Julio would right out in tops there We haven't seen him yet play without AJ Brown But if he's healthy enough to play in this matchup, I think that you kind of just lean with Julio primarily Especially over Osborne again, I don't know if it's a an all four or like, you know, sort of a 2v2 But between Van and Gage, I'm gonna go with Van instead of Gage despite what the projections here have to say Like the like the offense more Don't love the matchup for Gage. So to rank them I'd say Julio Van Gage Osborne if it's Van versus Gage, it's gonna be Van for me. And if it's Osborne versus Julio, it's gonna be Julio for me question from Joe should I start cook? So I mentioned this a few times. I feel pretty optimistic with Alvin cook We will know if he's going to play Early like if he if we get news that he sits then you just remove him and you don't have to worry about it It's not like it's a Sunday thing And the reports are that he's expected to play barring that setback. So it sounds optimistic So I feel pretty good with Alvin cook's workload For for tonight, sorry seeing Dalvin or Jared and a much Not sure what that means So she she clarified pick one sorry yet, then I'd go wholly over in this four-person matchup. No worries At all, but sometimes it's hard to to read these sometimes and really kind of think things through so I just didn't know if is that 2v2 and Sometimes I get those Grimfans asking Higgins or shepherd To your sterling. Thanks for that although, I don't know There's not another shepherd and to me, there's only one Higgins anyway, and it's always tea But again, I don't care what this says. I'm gonna go with tea Higgins, but I might as well throw these up here But tea Higgins in games that he has played and Jamar Chase has played and Chase has played in all of them T Higgins has a higher target share incrementally Compared to Jamar Chase, which is just fascinating, but tea Higgins has also been just pretty good overall He's not been as good as Jamar Chase, obviously But things have been leveled out. Higgins was a little bit banged up. Seems like he's back at full health now and he has just been Kind of the 1a Realistically the 1b in this offense. I know burrows hand is a bit of an issue But he seemed like he from the quotes that I saw he said he had like no issue going under center That he didn't really foresee a situation where he wasn't going to play T Higgins also, yeah, I know we want that downfield work But you know the 49ers their mid-level to a little bit weak against the downfield pass They're 18th and passing a dot allowed 20 second in yards per target allowed on Downfield passes so they're beatable downfield but T Higgins also can get some some Receptions some targets closer to the line of scrimmage if that's what it takes for them to move the ball I feel pretty good with that one For this week Question from Larry van Jefferson or Darnell Mooney. That's a good one. I haven't thought about Haven't thought about He bears because of their status not on you know Sunday night like not on the main slate or Thursday Which is what I focused on primarily up to this point on Thursday the sim see it really close That's for PPR. I'll set it to half. Just be a little bit safer here Um That that keeps it a little bit closer. So this one is like why I like simulating stuff I mean, I just like simulating stuff anyway, but it's a it's a half point difference So if you're looking at projections, you're gonna say, okay, Darnell Mooney If you're looking at range of outcomes and the odds of these guys get to 15 points about the same Mooney's 20 point odds, you know, definitely higher But does they get to 10 really not that different and again, we're looking at sub 50% there um Anyway, so like, you know, and then it comes down to Offensive expectations the implied team total for the Rams 24.25 for the Bears 15.75 I know that the Sims slightly prefer Darnell Mooney that range of outcomes slightly prefer him But I'm gonna have a hard time really clicking in Darnell over van based on such a big gap an offensive expectations It'd be a little bit different too If that implied team total wasn't 15.75 That's crazy. That's crazy low That might actually be one of the that might be the lowest of the season don't quote me on that, but that's I'm gonna go van I know I'm kind of Stuck on this one, but I'm gonna go van I think it's close enough Especially with the probabilities being relatively close overall a question from Jerry Brady or Herbert Brady for me I'm a little bit close to time here keep this one I won't simulate this stuff, but Herbert just might be without he's likely gonna be without Keenan Allen Mike Williams might not be a hundred percent But you know, he might be he might be feeling fine. I don't know but with he's not gonna be practicing all week With her with that happening. I'm fine Going Brady over Herbert Brady's Averaging I think 324 yards against top four adjusted past defenses this season His time to throw is better against high high pressure teams than it is against like non like teams outside the top 10 They really figure things out. So I'm gonna go Brady there Dalvin or Jared Whistler when he just said cook. Okay, is Debo go for Sunday. I'm not sure Larry I Really don't know. I would kind of presume that he isn't but I think we can wait and see there Because we don't You know, if Debo if Debo's healthy, you're gonna play him if he's not then we just go somewhere else Your fan is asking should I pick up Devonte Smith? Depends on who you drop but I think Devonte Smith still primed for a You know solid end of the season even though that the Eagles aren't throwing a lot his market shares are phenomenal Did you sing Justin Fields starting for the Bears? Yeah, talked about this on the heat check Last week, I guess. Yeah There is not surprising, but they're super run heavy They're faster, but they're super run heavy with Justin Fields That's another reason why they're implying team totals low because Justin Fields has been not particularly great So yeah, Van over Mooney and there and then final question for the week PPR flex KJ Osborne or Melvin Gordon. That's really tough because it would be Melvin. I Don't know if he's gonna play it something he's gonna play I would most likely assume that he's gonna play so I would I would just play it safe And hold off for Melvin For Sunday, that's gonna do it for today's show. Thank you for tuning in. Thank you for all the questions I know we didn't really go over this the Sims too much about the Thursday night slate But again, thanks for the questions. It always makes it a lot easier to spend this half hour It's always fun to go through some Sims I know that there's a lot of uncertainty around this weekend with the question marks around some injuries You just gotta stay tuned to the news. That's it's just more and more the case the later on we get Into the season big. Thank you to Joy Affleck for producing the video side getting your questions featured on the screen It's gonna do it for for me for the week best of luck tonight best of luck this weekend