Week 12 Studs & Duds, Rising Stars, Tub of Mashed Potatoes

Juju also had a monster we 13 for 189 and 1 had the 97 yarder. That kind of helps. These two guys each had a 90 plus yard touchdown catch. Did you see how many targets Juju had? That would be 17. So I'm playing a game. You're playing a game. Monopoly? I've got it. It's called fantasy football. Okay. And I've got Antonio Brown and the other guys got Juju.

Your star. Your star is good. You're a huge fan. It was so difficult to watch the guy that I have been high on for so long and love so much. Just destroy my face. And the thing is that sucks is every time that there is any kind of pass to an open wide receiver wearing that Steelers jersey.

It's always Antonio Brown in your mind at first. You know, it doesn't matter if he's on the other side of the field. Like, oh, Antonio Brown lined up to the right and now is deep past to the left. It's still like, is that Antonio? Did he cross the field? And every time it was choo, yes.

Well, 17 times. Yes, 17 different disappointments for you. Yes. On a Sunday afternoon. That's what it seemed like. One 97-yard disappointment. What, uh, what, give me another name. Give me another stud at the wide receiver position you want to talk about. There were some big ones. Talked about Tyler Boyd. Calvin Ridley had a nice game this week. David Moore would bring up. Huh? I didn't know if he was still talking about David Moore. I would bring up Emmanuel Sanders because this is, you know, all the, all the love for Cortland Sutton.

that was shared. A lot of that was due to the schedule opening up, and everything went Emmanuel Sanders way. I mean, Mike was playing against him in an important game, and it was just left, right and center. When the game was on the line, you know, Case Keenham was looking to Emmanuel Sanders, ended up with 86 yards, a touchdown, 12 targets, and the forthcoming schedule, this is why I was, we're going to get into Rising Star soon. I was going to bring up.

Philip Lindsay, who he's not going to be my rising star, but I just, he has totally turned the corner of my mind of being an okay fantasy player too. He is a great running back. He's just really great. But their schedule is Cincinnati, San Francisco, Cleveland, Oakland championship. So I really like Emmanuel Sanders. Mike? I think that the interesting thing was just the success of the

the Seattle wide receivers, both Tyler Lockett and David Moore coming through with huge games. Doug Baldwin, he played. He played football. That's about all you can say about him this year. It's just been disappointment. He's been active. If you're in a 10 points per being active league, he's still. He's got some points. The problem is the other. The other guys also were active. Yeah. They may get the 10 point bonus. Yeah.

That's not a good league. That's a bad league format. Julian Edelman had a touchdown, T.Y. Hilton again, 10 targets, 7 for 125, found a way to break a big play. And then Dante Pettus. Yeah, Pettus was the next name I wanted to bring up. I think C.J. No, I don't know where you guys are. I think C.J. Bethers starts next week. And I think fantasy owner should be happy about it. Hmm. Interesting. I don't think Mullins is back out there. Kyle Shane didn't sound very happy with him. He had a really bad game against one of the worst defenses in football.

You know, you figured he'd come out and have a better game against Tampa Bay. He didn't. So I think C.J. Bethers is going to start. And Dante Pettis has really taken a massive uptick in terms of snaps. Now, it really helped him. It was in his favor that Marquis Good One did not play for personal reasons. Pierre Garson continues to just be old and broken down. But before that had even happened, Dante Pettis had taken over and he's a full-time player now.

So are you interested in him long term? No. Seattle, Denver, Seattle? No, this was a one week. This was a perfect situation for Petit. I love Petit's Dynasty. Happy to have him on the roster. But no, I mean, you're talking about this was a game in Tampa Bay, the best possible matchup where you didn't have Garsohn. You didn't have Goodwin. Goodwin wasn't missing, you know, for an injury. So he should be back. Petis is, it was just a.

A cute job. Hope you played him in DFS. Not much to see there. Hey, Jermaine curse, Andy. Yeah. Six for 66. Oh, no. The curse of the curse. The curse of the curse. And after that, he dropped. He also had one touchdown. Yeah, he dropped another touchdown that could have taken him off of the mark of the beast. Yeah. Yeah, that's why he dropped it. Adam Humphrey's six targets a touchdown. Mike Williams, Keenan Allen.

They both scored. Mike Williams was up to seven touchdowns on the year. I thought he could get to 10. Let's see if that happens. Tyrell was questionable. He was active. And then don't forget DJ Moore. I want to bring him up again because he didn't score this week. He's not going to be at the very top of the fantasy rankings. But don't forget about him. Eight for 91 on nine targets. The arrival of DJ Moore is real. And last week we were talking about Treyquan and DJ Moore. Treyquan did not play.

But DJ Moore did, and he played well. He's got Tampa next week. Then Cleveland, then New Orleans, then Atlanta. Yep. DJ Moore. Yep. You got to look at him. You got to look long and hard. Mm-hmm. Tight ends. Eric Ebron. Two touchdowns. Jack Doyle, one touchdown. Oh, Ebron. Hey, he had seven targets this game. Rob Gonkowski alert. Yeah. He caught a touchdown, guys. That's great. A long touchdown.

Yeah, three for 56 and a touchdown on seven targets. David and Joku caught a ball and was carried into the end zone. I didn't see the play live. Crowdsurfing, yeah. And you guys were talking about it. And then when I saw it, it lived up to expectation. So go watch the David and Joku touchdown. There's like nothing you've ever seen before. Cameron Bray got in the end zone. Yeah. I mean, it's exactly what you hope for. You know, James Winston out there loves to target Cameron Brate near the red zone. And right off the bat starts the game off of the touchdown.

Rising Stars of the Whig. Certainly not my dynasty team right now. No. No, no, no. Supernova. Yeah. Too early. Yep. My rising star is the Gus Bus. Gus Edwards running back for the Baltimore Ravens. Man, I almost threw Orioles out there, Brooks. I almost, you would have liked that. Oh, yeah. 23 for 118, 5.1 a carry. Alex Collins was not active, and Gus delivered.

And to me, it's very likely that Baltimore sticks with Lamar Jackson at quarterback. They've won a couple games in a row. Gus Edwards is getting the job done. They're doing what they want to do with him, which is, you know, they want to use him for 25 carries. They don't want to put it all on Lamar Jackson and Lamar Jackson's arm. They did not run the ball with Lamar Jackson nearly as much this week as they did the week before, which lowers his risk of injury, which is something you have to do with a quarterback, even if he's as talented as Lamar Jackson is.

Gus Edwards has a strong end of the season in those lakes. Yeah. We talked about the schedule coming up for Alex Collins. This is the same schedule. Same team. So I like it a lot. My rising star is Baker Mayfield. You know, he showed so much in preseason. And early in the year, you could see the flashes of what you saw in college. But then it was like, eh, you're still the prounds.

There was a stretch of really bad play. Yeah, you're playing poor and you stink. But since Hugh Jackson has been gone. Todd Haley as well. And Todd Haley, sure. Since the change. The Hugh Jackson defender. Well, no, it matters more that Todd Haley's gone than it does Hugh Jackson. Todd Haley's one's calling the play every week. Since the change at coaching head coach and offensive coordinator, Baker has been fantastic.

He has the second highest passer rating over that time behind only Drew Breeze. And if you look at his last four games from 8 through 12, he's on during that four game pace would be 3,800 yards, 44 touchdowns, and 8 interception. So he's been awesome. Now the question is the schedule because we had talked earlier in the year about what a nice schedule.

the Browns had coming up, and now they have completed that. They had the Tampa, Pittsburgh, Kansas City, Atlanta, Cincinnati, which was just all great, and he performed well. The reason I'm making him My Rising Star is I think he's good enough over these next more difficult weeks to still be relevant. Houston, Carolina, Denver, and then Cincinnati again, this time in Cleveland Championship Week, you got to keep your eyes on him.

You know, he helps. I'll pump the brakes on him right now. He'll be my pump the brakes on Wednesday for sure. Yeah, with the Houston match. The first week of that schedule against Houston is going to be the most difficult. But he's shown that he was worthy of being the number one pick, that he looks to be the best quarterback in this draft class. And so I'm rising on him. I am a baker believer. All right. My rising star is Austin Echler. It's not often that you are given a guy who.

We'll slot right into it with a running back two floor with a running back one ceiling at this point of the season. He's a tremendous pass catcher. I agree that perhaps he's not going to get 15 carries every single week that Melvin Gordon is out. But he might get 12. And on top of that, add in six or six or more receptions like he did this past week, Austin Eckler is going to be the highest priority waiver claim.

if he happens to be on your waiver wire. All right, so the Gus Bus, Gus Edwards, Baker Mayfield, Austin Eckler, the rising stars this week. Brought to you by Fantasychamps.com. If you need a trophy, ring jersey, check out fantasychamps. Pooped in his big boy pants. All right, let's find out how concerned you guys are in terms of fantasy, the fantasy futures of some of these poopers from Week 12. Aaron Rogers, we talked about it.

All the implications 17 for 28, 198, and 1. But guys, what's up with Carson wins? The past two weeks for Carson wins, not being good. And Matthew Stafford had maybe the worst game of his career. You know how judges are impartial? They're above the case that they oversee. You mean like Giamatti? Sure, like Giamatti. But sometimes the case that gets drawn, they are.

connected to it in some way, and they must recuse themselves. Yes. I hate Carson Wentz so much right now on a personal level for destroying my last two weeks. He's a likable fella. I am such a Carson Wentz fan, but the last two weeks, he has just looked, he's walked right up to me and just spit in my face and said, ha ha, you started me again. So I recuse myself, because I can't give good...

Like I know I am biased right now on Carson Wins. You guys, I am a listener now. Talk to me about what? What is Carson Wins? I'm concerned. They have to face Washington next week. That's not a defense. I'm excited to have Carson Wins face. Something's a little off in Philadelphia. They snuck this win. Maybe this win gets them on the right track. It looked like they were going down to the Giants.

But then at Dallas, at the Rams, and then Houston for championship week, you have to make plans as a fantasy owner that don't include Carson Wins for that championship week against Houston. The variability of Carson Wins, he showed us what the floor can look like the last two weeks. It was linoleum. Oh. No one likes that. No one wants a little on the linoleum floor. I'm with you, Jason, that I am struggling big time.

because as far as just pure numbers, not fantasy, but just NFL numbers, he was good, a 71% completion rate, 20 for 236 with a score, a pass a rating of over 108. His yards per attempt are solid. It just wasn't a fantasy day. When they got inside the 10, it was run, run, run, run, run every time. And they got like one touchdown out of that, pass the ball. Also, I want to see stats on.

What is his passerating targeting Golden Tate? Because those two, they're not on the same page. No. Which makes sense late, you know, midseason arrival, but it hasn't been good for him. How concerned are you about James Connor? It seems like he had, you know, Levy on bail there for most of the season. He was the motivator. And he was lighting that fire right, right on his butt, under his butt.

I'm not concerned at all about James Connor. And now James Connor two dudd weeks. I'm not concerned in the slightest. Could he get three dudd weeks? I play Brooks next week and he's got James Connor. Could I get a triple play? I doubt it. I doubt it. I mean, you just can't be concerned. When a guy does what James Connor did for as long as he did it for an offense with an offensive line. People have bad games. When they're back to back, they feel worse. They feel like a trend. It's not a trend. James Connor is going to be.