Week 14 Studs & Stinkers + Soul-Crushing Tilt - Fantasy Football Podcast for 12/14

24 for 33, three touchdowns, 267 through the air. They dominated Houston. Thoroughly. Derek Carr, 31 for 45, 316 and 2, ran for one as well. Oh, the classic car. It's a pretty crazy week. Week 14 was pretty crazy. But think about that when you're talking about four of these top five options were Carr, Drew Locke, Trubisky, and Tua. And, I mean, that's just...

That's the way everyone saw it going, right? Yeah. And Russell Wilson, he had a good game, too. For that one, which is nice. 36 passing touchdowns a career high for him. Jalen Hertz? Man, 167 and 1, but the bigger story, 18 carries 106 yards on the ground. Jalen Hertz was, this is exactly what you wanted to see for fantasy. This is why we said, you know, yes, pick up Jalen Hertz in the hope that you can play him the following week because you can't.

You can't have the confidence. If you have the swag to put Jalen Hertz in and would never see him against the New Orleans Saints, then a tip of the hat to you for making a tremendous call. But now Jalen Hertz is the streamer for next week. Yeah, and Arizona and Dallas as the next two weeks. It's beautiful. I can't even think about that game. I can't think about that game because of that Miles Sanders run. It was.

delightful. Yeah. I am. Miles Sanders has had two good games this year. They've both been against me. I hate him. His great games have been against you. But the best part of it is both of the games that Miles Sanders blew up in Pittsburgh Steelers, New Orleans Saints rushing defense. And it was really one run again. Yes. Yes. Which is the, aside from the huge touchdown run, Miles Sanders was very pedestrian. Congrats to all of you who had Miles Sanders and had the.

guts the plan. I know Mike was tilting even on playing him that morning. Can you imagine? No. If you had benched Miles Sanders. No. And up to the moment, Foot Clan, like, if you're out there and you benched Miles Sanders for an option that I do not blame you in the slightest. Here's where my playoff tilt was. I had picked up Chad Hanson from the Houston Texans because Brandon Cooks was out.

I was legitimately thinking about playing Jamal Adams and Chad Hansen and putting Miles Sanders on my bench. That's how freaked out by the matchup I was, and it turned into I can't lose with Miles Sanders on my bench. That was the only reason why I played him. So all the fear out there, I had an equal dose of it. Taysam Hill ended up with a good game, 291 and 2. And he finally threw the ball to Alvin Camara.

Well, that's nice of him. Yes. Probably helped his numbers. Yeah, he'd be like, hey, Tase him, you know you get credit for that, right? He's like, wait a minute, but he's a running back. I didn't think I could throw to him. All right, running back studs. A couple starts at the week. Jonathan Taylor, David Montgomery, huge games. Montgomery only had 11 carries in a game where they blew them out. And he had 113 and 1, including a huge touchdown. He only needed one, carry. Yeah, Jonathan Taylor, 20 for 150 and 2. Oh, baby. His last three games, he's the running by 13, 3, and 2.

So he has been playing to his schedule perfectly. He seems to finally have a rhythm with the offensive line, something he hadn't been able to do. Naeem Hines, very limited snaps in this game. And we talked about Miles Sanders. Now, Derek Yetty himself. Oh, the transformation is complete. 26 for 2, 15, and 2. He made up for lost time. Last time was last week. Found time was this week. He is actually, he only needs to average. I know, Jason, don't participate in this.

Take out your earbuds if you need to. Because this was your demise. You got yetied. If I had Christian McCaffrey, there's no, I lost my six points with Mike Davis on that bitch. Well, yeah, yeah, we know. It sucks. Derek Henry can run for 2,000 yards if he averages 156 over the last three weeks. He will. He might break the record. Yeah. So pretty, pretty, pretty good for.

Derek Kennedy, which makes the matchups like the Detroit matchup, which is great. It makes it more difficult when you see like the Tannahill decision in the coming weeks. If you know what this team's going to be about, I think Tanyhill's a good start. It's just you kind of understand what the situation is. All right, Mike Davis. Okay, this is not Jason's part of the show. Talk to me about Mike Davis, Mike. No. I will not. So Mike Davis.

to kind of echo Jason's feeling before the matchup. I mean, like, the results say that playing Mike Davis was the right call and not playing Rheem Mostert was the right call. But, I mean, things had trended poorly. They were trending poorly for Mike Davis. So he seemed like he had lost his gummy berry juice where he was losing his powers. And, I mean, his line is.

Really not that impressive. 11 for 51 in the ground, five for 42. Like, that's fine. But two touchdowns. Touchdowns is the difference maker always for fantasy football. No question. Austin Eccler was involved through and through nine targets, nine catches, 15 rushing attempts. Huge game. I love Justin Herbert that Justin Herbert knows is that he needs to get the ball to Echler. And then Alvin Camara, I don't know if this is a result of Taysam Hill.

being smarter. I don't know if it's a result of Camara being healthier. Ten target, seven catches 44 yards, had a touchdown on the ground. Nice to see. I'm sure you played him, so he actually performed for you. Yes. Huge wide receiver days. Tyree Kill, another two touchdowns. Stefan Diggs, at one point in the game last night, and he went 10 for 130 and 1. Almost won the game for Jason in a way that probably added to the bill for.

The Mexican food. There was a deep bomb at the end of the game that was, it was like, it would have won you it. I was like, there's no way. They're not even passing anymore. And then I look at Diggs. He's on the left. They drop back. He bombs it to Diggs. I stand up. I scream. I'm like, go, go! And he drops it. And I threw something on the ground and stormed out after that.

and I didn't see anything else in the game. Remember, like a week or two ago you said, you were trying to be dignified in the feet? I did remember that. I thought about that in the shower this morning. I was trying. And I was, and I thought, this is, this is where I got. I realized I need to have more grace when I see someone lose at a sport until I need to have grace for them because I think I'm better than that. I am not better than that. I've got to work on it. Uh,

Yeah, this is called rebound till. After you made that proclamation, this is the worst I've ever seen you. There was a point in the game against the Pittsburgh defense where Stefan Diggs could do whatever he wanted to do. It didn't matter. I mean, they just went to him over and over and over and over again, and he was dominating. So leads the NFL in receptions, a complete machine.

All right, he's fully 100% on fire. A big part of Mike's victory. Seriously, what? Boom, Shakalaka. T.Y. Hilton, seven targets, five, for 86 and two. Does T.Y. Hilton know that, like, there were a lot of games before the last couple weeks? Uh, no. He could, he could have showed up like this? T.Y. Houston next week. Oh, yeah. What happened? Well, here, just to give you an idea of what he's doing, the last three games where he is.

I mean, he's totaled 277 yards and four touchdowns and 17 receptions. That would be a 16 game pace of 1,500 yards and 21 touchdowns. That is levels of TY Hilton. We haven't seen since. That's high T. That's high TY. Yeah. That's not a low T. We had gotten low TY for two years. He may have saw a physician. Maybe Von Miller coming out and saying like he doesn't think Andrew Luck is done.

Got T.Y. Hill and remembering the good old day. I don't know. I don't know. It's incredible, though, because next week, he's a must start against Houston. I call it start of the week. You can have it, Chase. You can have it, yeah. Alan Robinson, 13 targets from Trubisky. He's been kind of resurrected by Trubisky. He is getting the red zone targets. Yep, and he's going to be a great play through the playoffs. Calvin Ridley, Devante Adams, AJ Brown, you expect to be.

Expected big things, got big things from them. KJ Hamler, two for 86 and two, nothing you can do with that. Three targets. Yeah, I mean, other than say he's a good player and he's probably going to be a kind of a sneaky player over the next couple of years if they figure things out on offense. Nelson Aguilar, DeAnd Andre Hopkins, Brandon Ayuk. Sixteen targets for Brandon Ayuk. And what are the odds of the Debo's back next week? I would put them very low. Very low. So Iyuk could be a league winner too.

Also, I know you mentioned Nelson Agilor, but he was so impressive to me because this was a little different. This was like more possessiony, more, you know, it was 11 targets, nine receptions. He was just a huge, huge part of the offense through and through. On the course of the season, he's been very good, but it's all been touchdown based. You know, he ends up to find the end zone. But I, you know, I think we got to give him his credit, especially coming up with the Los Angeles Chargers, probably a good pickup.

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at Walmart. I don't even know what happened at Jason's house last night. I don't know what happened for hours last night. But if the police broke in and hauled them off, I'd be like, yeah, that makes sense. Yeah. We get it. We knew. Yeah. Yeah, that makes perfect sense. Tighten studs. Kelsey is unbelievable. He leads all pass catchers with 1,250 yards. That's more than Metcalfe. That's more than Tyreek.

But Andy, he's a tight end. No, no, no. He is a Greek god. He is Zeus. He's, I mean, he's for 136. You have to imagine at this point, just a handful of games left. Mahomes will actively try to make him lead the league in receiving yards. Yeah. Just to be another, you know, checkmark on this Hall of Fame career. Yeah, he is going after the tight end rec receiving yards record.

I agree with you, Mike, which makes you knocking me and Travis Kelsey out of the playoffs all the more painful. Mike Gisicki, 5 for 65 and 2. He hurt his arm at the end of this game. He's been on fire lately. Erb Smith ended up 4 for 63. Big Irv. Big Erv. Rudolph was out of this game. And we didn't see a lot of Irv until the second half. And then he came up with four catches. Hawkinson, 6 for 43 in a touchdown, been very reliable.

Very consistent. Eleven targets. And Robert Tunyon back into the end zone again. It's kind of his thing. Yeah. It's Roger's thing, too. They both have a thing and it's in the end zone. All right. Let's move forward to a... Oh, I'm so excited. This is... Can we go to Jason's solo cam here? Thank you very much. Stinkers of the week. Presented by odor eaters. And Jason. Also presented by me.