Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Week 13 Matchups, In-or-Out, Playoff Push

since he, it seemed like he firmly took over the job. He's going to be the man. When he was the man last year, he was a back end, tight end won for the remainder of the season. Just not getting it done. We have a nice hierarchy here because I just dropped Will Ty to pick up Davis in one of our leagues I played him. So I go tie Davis green, all of which are below 20 in my ranking. So I don't really recommend starting any of those guys if you can avoid it. I don't think the tight end is, is.

Really, the setup. Yeah, avoid this matchup. What do you do with the Giants running game? Rashad Jennings has clearly been the guy there, but he hasn't been doing anything with it. Yeah, but it's still start Jennings. If you're going to start anybody here, I'm okay with Jennings is a low end running back two. Low end running back. Yeah, Paul Perkins has not done enough to take the job. You still don't have to worry about Shane Vareen quite yet. Buccaneers versus Chargers, 47.5 point over under. The overunders have been nice and juicy this week.

Yeah, I think the last few weeks we've had lower totals. And this week, it's coming back to life here. So a beautiful 70 degrees clear skies predicted for the game in San Diego where I think all football games should take place. Is there a way to move just everyone into San Diego? Yeah. Well, what's ironic is they will have a vacancy real soon. I saw on Twitter that they are expected to take the relocation. Yeah, but now this is not.

official. This is something I saw from something. It's just rumors in the bushes. This is rumors in the bushes. That San Diego was looking at relocating to L.A. for the 2017 season. Yeah. As in next season. So they might be out of San Diego really quick. You got a few games left here, Mike, in the city you love. All right. Doug Martin is in. He is my 10th ranked running back. Doug Martin, my start of the week. None of us have him below RB12.

So you got to have him in there. So James and Rivers, I like Rivers more than James in this matchup. But, and I'll just, so my team right now, I'm looking at starting James Winston or Kirk Cousins. And similarly to Jason, I, I'm going back and forth. I haven't made up a full decision here. I almost dropped Kirk Cousins today. But then I got, I got a little worried. And I canceled the drop.

So it's a tough decision for me on those two guys. The wide receivers, though, it is not a tough decision for the Buccaneers. It's Mike Evans or bust. Absolutely. I will say Adam Humphreys, before the last week against Seattle, he did have three straight games of seven targets. So I'm still not going to mess around with Adam Humphreys here. Cameron Brate is the, he's the number two option. He's the number two passing option.

For the Buccaneers. Do you disagree? No, I don't disagree. And, you know, I'm kind of sick of talking about Adam Brate this year. But the truth is... That's good because Adam Brate is not a real person. Yeah. Cameron Brate? Or, yes. Yeah, Adam Humphreys and Cameron Bray. You have fused them into one super player. Yes, Cameron Brate. The reason we talk about them is what you just brought up.

there's just not a lot of ever since vincent jackson went down you're looking for someone to replace that production uh they got rid of austin saffarian jackins and so cameron brayt you know he's got four touchdowns on the year and he's involved and you've got an offense that you usually want a piece of because they're in higher scoring games for me i don't i don't love the matchup against san diego for the tight end

Camera braids not that high in my rankings this week. I agree with your first statement. It's Mike Evans and bust. On the other side, though, the bucks are allowing the second most yards per reception to the tight end. Antonio Gates, Hunter Henry, do you have interest here? I very much have interest there. Both or just one? I'm going to put Gates first. I am of the belief that Hunter Henry will be very good. But when...

When you look at the total number of receptions, it's really Gates' job. And I like him a lot this week. He's my seventh ranked tight end. I would be absolutely happy to start him over most options. Hunter Henry, because you alluded to the yards per reception, you know, Hunter Henry's faster. He's the bigger play guy. He's the downfield guy. So you could certainly have a nice big, long touchdown reception. I just don't trust. I want the volume. I want the trust. I want more receptions.

And right now... You're like Lucio. You pump up the volume. There you go. It's not often we get the Overwatch references in here. Game of the year, apparently. Really? Yeah. As it should be. The video game awards were last night. All right. Well, congratulations Blizzard Entertainment. I guess you're doing okay now. Yeah. Small upstart Blizzard. If Tyrol Williams sits, do you have Dantrae M in interest? I do.

I think at a certain point, we always say someone's going to get it done. I have been kind of anti-inman in the sense that I think that was even... You've been an outman. Yes. Not an inman. I think that's... Was that Andy's pumped the brakes? It might have been. Don Trell Inman? Yeah. Maybe after the big game? After the big game. The reality is he's had two big games on the season and every other game has been a complete stinker. And so you don't want that. But if you have a hurt...

uh, Travis Benjamin and a completely missing Tyrell Williams, someone has to get the job done. That, that to me is, it's going to be Gates. Like Gates to me, uh, I've got Eric Ebron as my start of the week. I'm starting Gates over Eric Ebron. I'm just, you know, to, to me, uh, Gates is pretty locked and loaded here. Oh, Sunday night. Sunday night. Sunday night. My wife, as a quick aside, that Sunday night intro.

uh with um underwood yes with carry underwood my wife loves carry underwood okay so she she's she's a fan she's not an anti carry underwood person but she mocks that little hop she's like she can't move she's when when she's like doing her little weird gallop she's trying to step in rhythm which was a mistake it was terrible because of the the rhythm of the song that just was that was not the correct mistake or correct decision my favorite part of that intro

every single time. I don't know if you've caught this. If you have not listeners, pay just, there's no way you haven't seen it, but just pay special attention to this. The Antonio Brown section where it shows, so Carrie Underwood hops over to him and he does his little celebration, but just pay attention to his face. It is, the way he's just smiling but not moving his face while dancing is highly entertaining to me every single week.

Antonio Brown is entertaining. He's an entertaining guy. But this seems like... Let's get him on the show soon. This is an unintentional. I would... Antonio Brown, if you're listening, we'd love to have you on the show. I think it's an unintentional hilarity, though. That's what makes it even funnier. So next time you're watching the Sunday night preview or intro, just give it a watch. Yeah. Panthers, Seahawks in Seattle. Seattle's favored by seven points. This is a 44.5 point over under the...

the previously surging Russell Wilson, Russell Wilson. Russell Wilson. And then it came back to Earth, cross country against Tampa Bay. He did. And I need to put out a little bit of a, you know, Russell Wilson is my start of the week this week. The reason I made him my start of the week was precisely because of his putrid.

performance against Tampa Bay. And I want people to know I don't expect that to be the new norm. I think that was the outlier. He's coming back. He's at home. But I also want to make sure because this is the week where we can't just assume people know our subtext. People got to get things right this week. And Russell Wilson, if you have him and you don't have another option, that's where I'm saying you could start him. But there are, I'd start Philip Rivers and Matt Ryan and Andrew Luck and Matthew Stafford and Big Ben. Let's go with the weekly or the question of the week.

Or your player? Capernick or Russell Wilson? Yep. It is very, very close in my rankings. They're two players apart. I think I would go Russell Wilson because of, you know, multiple touchdown upside. I would not be, you know, if someone wants to make the other move, I think that that's close enough where you can do that. What you have happening right now for Seattle is you've got their whole defense coming together, finally getting healthy. And so.

This could end up being a lower scoring game than what we've been seeing out of the Seahawks recently. And while Russell Wilson was on fire, the three previous weeks, you know, scoring basically 30 fantasy points, some of those came on, let's call him unique plays, right? I mean, he caught a touchdown. He ran a touchdown when he wasn't rushing much. The one saving grace is that last week he had 80 yards on the ground.

And so that's all he could do was run. But my point was that he could run. He spent the whole first half of this season immobile with those ankles and with the knee. You don't pick up 80 yards on the ground at the quarterback position unless your legs are okay now. Now, this is an opposite game of, we talked about the Bills versus the Raiders. Bills have a strong pass rush. Raiders have an excellent offensive line. The Panthers.

have an excellent pass rush. They are averaging almost three sacks a game versus the Seahawks offensive line. This is my one dilemma with this game. Mine as well. So it's fantastic that Wilson can actually move again. Because if this was beginning of the year, ankleless Russell Wilson, he would be destroyed. He wouldn't make it through the game. But because he can run, Will Doug, will he be able to do enough?

get it to Doug Baldwin, hit Tyler Lockett, who finally looks healthy. I'm going to move. And so just before we move off of Seattle, Thomas Rawls, I'm not starting him this week. I don't like him at all in this matchup. I don't care that it's at home. I'm okay with him as a low-end RB2. That's where I have him ranked. I've got him ranked 19th, which is not, you know, something where you need to start him if you've got better options. You know, I would go with those. But I do think...

With their defense, with Seattle's defense being kind of back in tow, if this remains a low-scoring game, I don't think they'll go away from Rawls the way they kind of had to last game as quick. So my expectations aren't huge. Carolina's rushing defense has been very good. But low in RB2. And on the other side, people have talked about this for weeks. Is Cam Newton still a weekly start?

Now you have the ultimate test. Not against Seattle. In Seattle, are you pulling Cam Newton? I will probably find a better option. Seattle's defense is coming together, and Cam Newton to me is the exact middle of the pack. He is number 15 while we have 30 teams playing this week. So whenever you're not top 12 to me, that says I think you can find a better option for that week. Cam will get enough yards on the ground.

running the ball. He could run, you know, he could rush one of those goal line touchdowns in to where I don't think he's going to be the 30th quarterback this week. But I don't see his upside being very high against this defense coming off of that embarrassing loss for Tampa Bay at home. I'm not really excited about any of the weapons. Calvin Benjamin to me is. Yeah, I don't really want to play Kelvin. Jonathan Stewart finally looked okay after.

Since returning from injury, Jonathan Stewart has done basically nothing. He finally had a monster game. Now you're back into the mud here with Jonathan Stewart. Greg Olson and Jimmy Graham, I'm starting both of these guys. I am as well. I am as well. As much as I'm disappointed with Greg Olson, you know, and Jimmy Graham has kind of not been that great recently. I think that I have Graham.

Let me verify this. You have Graham number one. I have Graham as my number one tight-ins. I've got them number two. I love them. We do not disagree too much. And I've got Greg Olson as my number four. Really, those pieces in a game like this where you don't expect a ton of points, but you've got decent offenses and really good defenses. You use the tight-in. That's kind of the weapon you have to scheme in there. Monday night football, Colts are taking on the Jets and a 49 point.

over under Andrew Luck should be back from his concussion. Ryan Fitzpatrick coming off of, that was probably his best game of the season where he actually looked like an NFL quarterback and not a college quarterback playing in the NFL. When I was looking up some stats for this game and wanting to see the trends, like, you know, we look at everything, but I wanted to look at the trends of these two defenses. I found out that, you know, look, the Jets are not as bad against the pass.

as they, we have this mental, you know, we always have that beginning of the season impression. You just imprint, this is a good defense, this is a bad defense, and the Jets were atrocious. The first five games of the year, against the quarterback, fantasy points given up in six point leagues per touchdown for quarterbacks, they were averaging 31.1 points given up to quarterbacks. That is terrible. Since those first five games,