Fantasy Football - Week 11 Studs & Duds + My Guy Redemption Tour - Podcast for 11/17

Kyran back into the end zone because that's what he does. Chase Brown, 18 for 99. The My Guy Redemption Tour includes Chase Brown at wide receiver. The My Guy Redemption Tour includes Tetaro and McMillan, 8 for 1, 30, and 2. This was the definitive kind of explosion game for Tet McMillan on the year. And it seems that when you throw him the football, good things happen. Yeah, he's really good. Michael Wilson. We said it 15 for 185. I don't think we were expecting. Not that. No 18 targets. You were you were basically making the argument that Brissette's going to go out there and throw for whatever he throws for 250 yards. 250 minimum. If he throws for 250, the majority of that probably goes to Michael Wilson. You didn't know he was going to throw for almost 500 yards. No. And in the way the Cardinals defense is playing, he will need to do that in order to keep them within 20.

Frickin stupid team. Nico Collins, nine for 92 and one. Yes, yes. He is, his target share is up with Davis Mills, 5%. Get him going. His yardage is up, almost double. His fantasy points, it's been great. Three weeks of double, I'm sorry, his last four games, double digit targets. That's because he's really good and bigger than everybody. Yeah. Get him going. This was the guy. We said to play, if you're playing a Packers Whiteout, two touchdowns for Christian Watson. And they were, that's second one. That was both of them. Oh, yeah, they were. There was the one in the corner and then the, Watson was the guy right? That is like it was dog mode. Yeah, he had the one, the dog mode one in the corner. And was he the guy where the ball seemed to just go through like so many hands and he, catching that ball is almost impossible when you're trying. It was great.

Yeah, great games there. Jamo, four for 88 and a touchdown again. He has been a top 10 wide receiver two straight weeks, top 16, three straight. He has scored in three straight. He is getting targets. He is part of the offense. With Sam Laporta out, it just adds this floor, I think, that exists now for Jamo. I mean, he gets the ball in the rushing game a little bit. I... would not dare to promise you who will be a league winner, but the window is cracked open for it. Yeah, and the schedule looks good. The Giants coming up this week, and then they play Dallas in three weeks. You know he's going to score there. Yeah, yeah. The Debo Samuel experience is good this week, 7 for 74 in a touchdown. Mariotta played well. Again, he kind of goes out there and Jacoby Brissets it a little bit. JSN 12 targets 9 for 105. Didn't score in this one.

on pace for nearly 2,000 yards gets Tennessee next week. You're going to keep playing him. And then Drake London was 7 for 119, but you're not going to have him for a bit. And I don't know who's catching the ball there. Find the Michael Wilson for Atlanta. Does it exist? I don't think so. Yeah. We know it won't be Kyle Pitts still somehow. I mean, Mooney and Pitts, they will get the majority of the receiving yards. Yeah, Mooney, Mooney would be the one to, I mean, because Cousins has given him some games before. Ooh, what are we getting, is it Cadill-Hodge time? Mm. All right. Don't they, do they, they don't have Ray Ray anymore, do they? No, no, no. Okay. Hey, Tray McBride loves Jacoby Brissette. Yeah, he does. Another week atop the tight-in ranks. Because Jacoby.

realizes that the best tight end in football can also catch touchdowns. It doesn't just have to be yards, Kyle Murray style for him, can also get touchdowns. I think it's more that Bursad's able to throw touchdowns. Yeah, possibly. He has scored in five consecutive games through the air, and that was six touchdowns in five games. Tighten two, three, six one, one. Double-digit targets in four or five, and the one he didn't was nine. It's... Really good. Really, really good. George Kittle, Travis Kelsey, Mark Andrews with the 35-yard rushing touchdown. Where he looked so fast. Like he gave all of his energy for that play. It was a pretty clever. He was running the tush push, but it was a fake tush push and a rollout. And man, 35. So kind of play that if it gets grown up, you're like, that's the dumbest play call I've ever seen. Yes. But when it works, you're like, that's the smartest thing I've ever seen.

And do we care about AJ Barner's 11 targets? 10 for 70 for AJ Barner. Maybe. I mean, keep an eye on it. You know, I mean, he was he was the, what, the tight end 12, two weeks ago? He's got, I mean, maybe some waiver talk tomorrow about AJ Barner. Maybe, maybe. And the most important tight end of the week was Darnell Washington. I can't tell you how many times I've watched the play. If you haven't seen the play, Go to X and just search Darnell Washington. You'll see it. It is the coolest most dog play of all time. I mean, he just, he takes the souls of three other men. How are the defenders so small? He is, he is enormous. He is too big. He's too big for football. He's like 300 pounds. He should be illegal. That's as close to Shaq. Why is it taken three years for this to happen? Like,

He was such a fascinating prospect, you know, back in 2023. Friar Meuse. Well, and they, and they, they like using him as an offensive lineman as a blocker because he is a man. Get him on the flats and people are just bouncing off of him. Yeah. Yeah. Just punish DBs. Watching a small cornerback try to have to tackle that man. It's just fun. And it's, it's just entertainment. I think he had like a third and 16. as well that there was there was a db just holding his foot and he leaps in through the air like pulling that guy forward with him for the first down before we move on to does jason i do need to check on something because i saw it with my eyes and i don't know if you're ready to do it but colson lovelin colson lovelin in the middle of the field he broke through some tackles yeah he looked like he fell forward dogglin what do you are we with cats and doglin man cats and doglin i'll go

Colston Loveland. Okay. All right. Let's talk duds. Pooped in his big boy pants. Everyone else. All of the other players we didn't name. Yeah, the, I think I saw more Lamar Jackson pun submissions than anything else. That game, honestly, both the, both AFC North games. I mean, Derek Henry, I guess, and Gainwell, but. Not many people played Gainwell. Both of those games were... Yeah, you didn't go what you wanted at all. Were wild. I mean, the Cleveland Browns were... They were hanging tough with the Baltimore Ravens. I got a message on X, and I guess I'll just apologize for the answer. Oh, no. I guess. I mean... Did you say play Lamar? It was Lamar or Jacoby. And it was like... Come on. Of course it's Lamar. And someone said, Lamar, Jacoby... I think Jacobi might have a better floor, is what they said. And I go, I always, always play Lamar.

Yes. You always play Lamar. What this week. It didn't work out at all. What an idiot. I know. I'm dumb. Lamar, yeah, just 193 passing yards, barely ran the ball. You see Miles Garrett has more sacks than like five different teams. More than the Ravens. He's got more sacks. He's got the same amount of sacks as the Ravens team. 15. He's all pays for 25 and a half. Their defense is, it's really, I think it's the best defense I've ever seen on a bad team. Because if you're that good, if you're that good of a defense, your team. is good. But that's how bad they're off. I almost pivoted off of them five times this week to other defenses. And I just, you know, whatever, the matchup situation. The Browns? Yeah, I have the Browns. And they're playing Baltimore. And I'm like, well, you know, maybe I should play Dallas against Vegas. Like I even got there or Chicago against Minnesota or Minnesota against Chicago. I had probably five claims in it. And I just kept cancel them going like, I don't want to lose the Cleveland defense and like.

I just showed that it can still work against a good team. I did the same thing with Cleveland as like, I don't want to drop them, but there's no way. I can't play these guys against the Baltimore Ravens. I know. I'll play the Chargers against Jacksonville. Oh, no. That's about a 20-point swing. Oh, no. That's what happened? The Chargers were negative in the format that I played. There is matchups and there's talent and sometimes it just works out. They scored. Obviously, Cleveland did. Amar Jackson didn't do much. Jalen Hertz didn't do much. Had a rushing touchdown, no passing touchdowns. That game. So I want this to be the example for people because.

You know, we're fantasy. We want offense. We, you know, we joke about not wanting defense and low scoring games. Sometimes there are low scoring games where the offenses suck. But every now and then you have an NFL game where two defenses look so incredible that they are shutting down the offenses. And that's the classic example given of like a defensive battle that is awesome to watch. And I present this as Exhibit A in, no, it's not. No, it's not because those two defenses, they were awesome. They were incredible. I mean, the Eagles defense, the Lions defense, they showed up, they showed heart, they showed talent and skill, and that game stunk, man. No one enjoyed that. Can I submit a proposal to you? I'll allow you to submit it. Dom-related proposal. Okay. If you're going to get that game, can we have it snowing?

Yes, absolutely. Can it be howling winds and snow and like mud everywhere? Well, see, that is part of the problem. Part of the problem for the week, it was howling winds in a lot of games this week. We've talked about it before. Rain doesn't really affect the passing in that much. Unless it's pouring. Yeah, unless it's pouring. Wind is really the thing that affects. Wind, earthquakes. Right, right. I think hurricanes. A tornado. Tornadoes are bad. Terrible. Those always. But what is, what is Jared Goff's body made out of where, just like the cold? I mean, he seems like he plays well indoors, but you put him in any sort of. I mean, he's a California boy, Mike. I know, but that's when I, but he just, he was so bad. He's surfing in the sunshine, man. He was under pressure. I mean, that's, that's always been, even when he wasn't. Go look at Green Bay tape a week ago. There's just no way to do anything.

There's not. Philadelphia's defense. They're going to win another Super Bowl with the worst offense. And AJ Brown will be like, I want out after two rings. That's what's going to happen. That defense is. They're that good. And if their offense, see, Hertz can do enough in the playoffs to make a play or two down the field that Devante Smith or Brown. And then you're happy. So a friend of the show, Rich Rebar tweeted this out. So the Eagles are now averaging 6.4 passing plays per game of 10 or more yards. That is ahead of only the Jets at 6.3. I think I read something, and I'll butcher the exact quote if you want to find it, Kyle. It was basically last night's game was the worst EPA per play for a Philadelphia Eagles game in like three years on offense. And it was the best defensive EPA per play in three years for the Eagles. So literally, again, masking all the problems. We do have a little bit of breaking news here. Bad news.

Yeah, that actually is bigness. Eagles five times. Sorry about this if I mentioned the Super Bowl. Lane Johnson suffered a Liz Frank injury. It is not expected to be season ending, but he might go to the IR. Well, yeah, I mean, that's the injury that J.K. Dobbins has, which he just had to have surgery for. Maybe this one's not going to be surgery, but that's bad. Yeah. Lane is kind of important. Yeah, Jared Goff was 14 for 37, by the way. He was so bad. That was so bad. I mean, he couldn't connect with Omina Ross St. Brown to save his life. No, he couldn't. No, he couldn't. And that killed people. And they are always in sync. I mean, they were like mind melded and every pass was uncatchable. Speaking of uncatchable, nine was not very good. No, no, no, no. J.J. McCarthy was. He had nine turnovers in his last four starts. Is that count for anything? J.J. McCarthy was not good.

And on top of that, the Minnesota Vikings receivers were not good either. There were a couple big drops. There were multiple huge drops where maybe they have gotten to the point where they're just so shocked that the ball is actually anywhere near their hands. They're like, whoa, whoa. No, I think, I think it's, I think McCarthy's been a bottom third quarterback at best. Yeah, he has been very, very disappointing. You look, 52% completion percentage, 56% completion percentage, 48 and this week 50. I mean, that's unacceptable. Yeah, you can't win games when you can't complete 60 plus percent of your passes. And then Mahomes, not good this week. Caleb Williams, I mean, Jason said it. It's everyone else. Matthew Stafford, you know, he threw for two, but it wasn't a big fantasy week again. And right now the regular season MVP, is this the most recent odds, Kyle? Correct.

Matthew Stafford plus 135, Drake May plus 220, Josh Allen plus 500, Patrick Mahomes plus 550. Stafford in the lead. Yeah, and May by quite a bit. Let's get Drake May up there. He's right there. He's getting the easy schedule criticism right now. Drake May? Yeah, because the Patriots have the easiest schedule in the league, like if you look at all their matchups. So the reason they're nine and two is they don't play nobody. I mean, what else are you supposed to do? Yeah. It's fair, but. He has looked incredible. He's looked like perfection. Yeah, we'll see what happens with some bigger matchups. But we'll take a break. We'll come back with some running back duds. This episode is brought to you by prize picks. The weather might be changing, but the feeling of being right never gets old. And right now on prize picks, you can get $50 instantly in lineups when you play your first $5.

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The Cleveland Browns, I'm trying to remember. I think it was 16 to 10. It's like the Browns were winning. And my fear for Judkins was game script. Like if the Ravens get out to a two-scored lead, we're going to see someone else at the running back position catching passes and Judkins won't be on the field. He was on the field. They were winning. He got a lot of work, 17 carries. And he wasn't bad with it. It's just one of those things where because they weren't down and they weren't passing, he didn't have a reception. He didn't get a touchdown.

So it's like, it's a normal game. Yeah, yeah. Breece Hall was okay, 14 for 58, didn't score. Did everything he could. The passes. I want to talk about RJ Harvey. Yeah. He was, he's in the duds, right? And I saw a million puns submitted about RJ Harvey. Um, first game without Dobbins. J.J. Zacharisen tweeted this, 65% of the running back rushes, 9% target chair. He played 38 snaps, Jaluma, Glofflin, and, uh, Biday tied for second with eight. He was 11 for 30. He didn't do much with him. Three for 20 in the receiving game, no touchdowns. I guess if that, because Mike, you made the point, like if those numbers continue, right, if you get all those snaps and those rushes, it's going to be, it'll work out fine. 65% of the attempts in a 10% target share, like, that's delicious. Good things will happen. That's very good. I guess I do always worry about the impatience of the grumpiest man alive.

and he is weird and uses other backs. So it's like if somebody gets going in a game, does he stay with them? I don't know. The utilization was fantastic. They beat the Chiefs in a, you know, in a divisional matchup. And I, they're going to buy coming out of the buy. I think you're going to see even more RJ Harvey. And I will, I will love to have him down the stretch. I will point out that championship week is against the Chiefs again. Because it's, you know, the chiefs have shut down pretty much everybody. It's very difficult to. I mean, did you guys? Did you see Sean Payton get truck sticks by the ref? Yes. Oh, I did not. Oh, yeah. Sounds great. And then got it and then got a flag called on him. Yeah. Can I respect the coach and hate the guy? Sure. Absolutely. Yeah, sure. Because I do. I mean, I, you know, championship week. That's, that could be tough here. But after.

Well, you guys were dead on. I like it. I think RJ Harvey is going to be very solid for the next month after the by week. You guys were dead on about the workload. Woody Marks. Yeah, he took over. Nick Chubb just three. It didn't work out, but the work was there. Yeah, it didn't work out on the car. Yeah, 18 for 44. Wow. Yeah. David Montgomery, six for 27. You're always playing a little roulette with Monty. Especially against Philly, my goodness. David, I wouldn't have started. Like, are. I just kidding. I had to start him. I'm just kidding. You had a bye week. I mean, I guess 9.6 last week, 10, two weeks ago. Montgomery feels like not a very good play. No, he doesn't. No, he doesn't. And again, the play calling, we need to be paying attention to recent trends with Dan Campbell, too.

And like it seemed like Monty's Dan Campbell's guy, right? So we need to watch the utilization right now with the play calling change. Obviously it was Philly. But we all know that Jemir Gibbs, you need to have that acceleration and that big playability in a game that's a dog fight. Yeah, I think the fact that it was Philly and it was a very, very tough defense, they just focused on, hey, we've got to have Gibbs out there more and more and more. I think in different types of matchups like we saw the week prior. where I believe both Gibbs and Monty got 15 carries apiece. This was just one of those like nothing is working. The past game doesn't work. We have to get Gibbs out there. Mike, the Ken Walker game was good. The Charbonnet game was bad. And so were Tony Pollard and Taj Spears, who seem soups irrelevant on that roster right now. Just like a heat check on Walker. Where are you guys? It was a huge game, but, you know, since the by week, he's getting more.

snaps and more opportunities the last month 17 opportunities 13 15 19 i i think my position on walker is that Tennessee next week there's a law of averages with the touchdowns that were it was working against him right like jason said he's got to do it from 15 to 20 yards out he can do that right but he didn't have to this week he got out his was inside the five yeah so so i think i'm more optimistic about him ending up with a touchdown here there i'm still not optimistic that the utilization will satisfy anyone it was funny that his carry inside the five if you if you weren't watching the game he also had one call back they were yeah they were yes in like a super hurry-up mode they had to rush yeah like keep them on the field yeah I mean it was funny when I'm watching that I was like they're gonna be so pissed because they can't what's you doing out there they can't put Charbonnet in the way they want to they had to keep them out there and oh my gosh yeah hey someone take a knee act like you're hurt Ken Walker I mean

incredible he could score touchdowns so um i mean still like terrified rb two three category okay yeah i think you can start him though if you're getting around 15 opportunities a week say that out wow yeah say that you heard about a friend of yours that might start him yeah no i i have someone that i know who might be forced into it and you definitely shouldn't play him but you can start him okay all right um We'll throw the panic meter out here in the wide receiver room, see if you're worried about anybody because there's some names. Jamar Chase was bad. Three for 30, got shut down by Ramsey. And now Mike gets suspended for the New England game. Would have to go to Baltimore in the next one. And then in Buffalo for the next one, I'm not saying trade him. I'm just saying it could be a rough stretch. It'll be fine. But it probably won't be. It'll be fine. Land McConkey.

Cue and Keenan, they were like, and Gadsden, we were like Herbert. It was the Chargers. They got, they, they spread their legs. Uh-oh. And the Jags just punted. I mean, right in the gregs, right in the groin. Right in the no. They, they got straight full. Both both of them. I mean, you must have a wide foot. Yes, exactly. I think this is where you went, huh? I mean, that's what happened. They, they, that's not real. I mean. I'm just saying. I get what you're saying. Andy, we knew when he was discussing median that we were going to have problems. We were on a ride today. Yes. I had a bad weekend. Oh, yeah, you did. He's like, I'm going to get in there on the Monday show and we're going to go full spread boot analogy. Amman Ra 2 for 42 on 12 targets insane. Insane. 12 targets for Alman Ra is normally 11 catches. Yeah. They were just off. And this was the fewest catches on 12 targets.

since Josh Dotson in 2017. And if I had the old clip, I'd play it while we could. The name I haven't heard in a while. No. Ameca, Abuka, nine targets, five catches, 40 yards. Oh my gosh. Wow. We found it. Impressive. Yeah. Yeah, whatever. He's going to get nine plus targets the rest of the year. I'm okay with that, but it was a down week. Adunze, two for 41. Led the team in targets. I try to find some silver line, Eddie. With six, yeah. Rashi Rai, six for 38. We talked about Mahomes struggles. Xavier Unworthy, five targets, three for 25. Devante Smith just one catch for eight yards. That cooked one of my teams. I moved him in there and, whoops. Devante Adams, eight targets. Perfect stat line for one. The goal line wide receiver. For one for one. Yeah.

that's and that was his thousandth career reception it was funny because in the locker and you watch the post game speech when he can't be happy mcvay comes in and mcvay's i mean the team is thrilled they they got that walk off missed field goal win uh i did my part tough divisional thing but it was funny you got you caught one catch on eight targets and he comes in and he's just like he's screaming mcvay's just screaming your thousandth catch like you know it's like yay it was like yeah but it's you had a bad game yeah uh yeah uh down down game for jlin waddle three for 52 whatever uh going into the buy he's fine d k mackaff dick mackave doesn't have big boy pants anymore

No, he don't even allow him in this section. No, he is switched. His pants have changed. I don't know, man. I feel like, no, he's got a wee baby toddler pants. I think he, toddler pants. There's no way D.K's fitting in a toddler pants. Exactly. He's humongous. Constricting. I, I make the argument that he had a very good game for him. Oh, because you got to. Yeah. Okay. Five for 49. Not bad. You know what happens every game with Metcalf? The first drive. The first drive he makes some catch. And then he makes a big old first down symbol. And you're like, let's go, Metcalf. And then poof. He had two catches right away. And then it, I think it took until the master of disguise, Mason Rudolph showed up. And then we finally got more targets for DK Metcalf. That's that. So are you hoping that it's Jason Rudolph? I don't know. I don't know. Listen. I mean, no, because then he used to start a quarterback for Pittsburgh.