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

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I am here. What a Monday. Simblance of the three of us. What a day to be alive, gentlemen. The birds are chirping. Tweedly deep. Oh, I'm so happy for you, Mike. Fantasy football. Oh, butter. There's part of me that acknowledges this is why you listen because our hearts and our souls are invested into our leagues. And then there's part of me that is this.

Just wishes none of you wanted to show today. How are you doing, Jason? On a scale of one to ten. On a scale of one to ten, I'm doing all right. I've gotten back up to about a one. So, um, you were in the negative. I was, yeah, I was certainly, uh, negative for an update. But do, do, do, um, so I chose to play, uh, long story short, a bunch of toil and effort and I, uh,

I left Mike Davis on the bench. I loved James Connor and Rahim Mostert in the lineup. I could have picked anything else than what I did and I would have won. I didn't win. I lost. And you lost, you had been losing some weight. I had been losing some weight. I then did my best to undo that last night. Yeah, you said you had a very large order from the local Mexican joint. The filibirto's 40.

The Philbert knows four years, as we call it. That's 100% right. And I don't know if you two gentlemen realize this. So we play in three main leagues together and the fourth with our second dynasty that Andy is not in. Thank you. Mike and I share a team there and we're on the bye. Yes. We're still friends in that league. Fookland, I highly recommend getting the bye.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I was undefeited. I was undefeated on the buy. I mean, those are great. Those are great. But in those four leagues, so I made the playoffs, all four in the main three. It's not even, Monday night football hasn't happened. I'm out. I'm out all three. Well, I'm gone. It's over. And that is the first time now in six years.

that I will not have a championship. You got nothing to live for them in one of our main leagues. So I quit. Yeah, last night. That's quite a run, man. Six straight years of the three main leagues? Five, five straight. So this is the sixth. And I will. That's a really good run. It's Monday, December 14th. We do have a lot to cover whether we want to do or not. And Mike and I were head to head in our league of record. I'm going to lose. Yes, probably it's the, the,

The matchup is not over. I told you I wanted Monday night to matter. It barely matters. I need, I want the world out there. Put your hearts together. I need Lamar under 20 points. Lamar under 20 points and Mike won't be here tomorrow. That is accurate. But it looked like a blowout. I have 145 points. I was beating Mike into submission. Our game broke down into a way that what did I relate it to?

Oh, like we were taking turns at the dentist. Yes, that's right. Because all my players were in the morning games. And we have nine screens up at the office. And I'm scoring. David Montgomery. And every single one of your players went off. Robinson, DeAndre Hopkins. And Mike's watching it all. And he's got nobody going in the morning somehow.

I had Dalton Schultz. So he went in, he went back into the dentist first and you could hear the drill. And he's screaming a little bit and there's pain. They didn't numb him up well enough. And he literally gives me the death line, which is, I can't catch you. It's impossible. You win. Which I should have like put on paper and had a notary come and certify that because that would have been great. Stop the count. But when I, now, to be fair, when I said that, Jason.

Was there any way that I could have possibly come back? No, there was no way. Every single one of your players would have to get bomb touchdowns over and over. And they did. And that's what I have T.Y. Hilton, Calvin Ridley. If you, Keenan Allen, they just score after score after score. Miles Sanders. But never fear, guys, because I have Deontay Johnson in the night game. Oh. So here we are. And I, you know, I came in. I told Mike, I've kind of turned the page. I haven't.

It was a lie. I lied to Mike this morning. Welcome in, Monday Punday. You want to take all these, Mike? I can. Take all the good ones. You'll take the happy ones. Yeah, you take the happy ones. Okay, we will start with Jonathan Yaler. Chase Claystool. No Orleans defense. Oh, that's good. Oh, I have to find a good one. Oh, smiles, Sanders. Oh, my gosh. Oh, why don't you take the Deontay one, Andy? Oh, you mean Deontay dropson? Yeah. Or drum.

Dropante Johnson? Whatever. Dropante? I don't. I've thought of all of them. I'll take this one. James Goner and Rahim no starts. How about Calvin Ridwee? B.O. Biovanni Bernard? That's the best one. He's got B.O. No, that's good. That might be the funniest one I've seen. Biovanni Bernard. Bori Davis and weak Elliot.

Yes. I know Brooks got knocked out of the Dynasty League thanks to weak, Elliot. Yeah. Could ease that by as well. All right. You can follow the show if you want more of this sweet content. At the FF Ballers on Twitter. The Fantasy Footballers.com is the website. If you go to at the FF Ballers on Twitter, you will find just various memes of Jason slipping out of his chair.

Yeah. My cry face meme is taking the internet by storm. I may have had a part in that. I regret nothing because it's incredible. Yeah, we will get through this, Jason. We will get through this. Because we have to to get paid. All right. Into the news. Weekly rewind. At this point now, we're focused.

On championships. That's right. Yeah. On getting the ones left. Let's focus on the listeners and me. Okay. All right. Dynasty League. I'm going to focus on that. Take one second. We're friends again. Yes. In the Dynasty League, we're best friends. How good would it feel to be Mike right now? I mean, I would, I'm just thinking like. I just am holding on to the miraculous hope.

that he feels the opposite tomorrow. Oh, just in case, like we start the game off, Lamar. Bomb touchdown. And it's great. And then all of a sudden, nothing from then on out. Yeah, I was going to start with the pick. Yeah. If he starts with the pick, I will, I will tilt into a turtle shell immediately. Follow along. Follow along for my 5% chance. Sure.

All right, the Dolphins placed Miles Gaskin on the COVID list. We knew that before Sunday. It ended up being DeAndre Washington. He was the starter. He got most of the first and second down work. Patrick Laird was in on third down. And, you know, I got to say, I'm pretty impressed with the Dolphins performance on Sunday. They're missing their top five or six pass catchers. And they were missing their top three running backs. And they still took the Chiefs to the brink. Huge game from Tua. Very impressive.

I believe that their playoff chances go up dramatically. Well, they're fighting with, you know, like Baltimore. So we'll see what happens tonight. David Johnson was placed on the COVID list. We knew that before Sunday. This one stunk. Yeah. 49ers wide receiver, D broke Samuel, exited early with a hamstring injury and did not return. It was instantaneous. It was like the.

I think the first or second offense of play was to Debo, and he looked great, got around the corner, was running like a man, and then he was like, oh, I ran too hard. Then he was running like one of us. Yeah. You saw the hitch and the giddy up immediately. Devastating. And then he slammed the helmet and you went, oh, that's a game ender. Yep, yep. Fantasy football on display. Really disappointing. He was my start of the week.

Great matchup. Iuk had a huge game after Debo left. Mike Williams exited with the back injury. He's always hurt too. Noah Fant exited early. Always hurt. Dealing with an illness, they said. Matthew Stafford left hurt. Stafford got crumpled up. Yeah. You know he's real hurt when he leaves because he just doesn't leave. Alex Smith, calf strain. He left early. Dwayne Haskins came back in. I think it's been what for it?

Four troubling weeks for McLaurin and less confidence than ever in what that offense can do with him right now. Brandon Allen did not return, bone bruised, Bengals quarterback, and there you go. Yep. So we have studs and duds to talk about today. So I'm going to push this button. This week's fantasy stud muffins. All right. I mentioned it before. Tua. Tua had a huge game, 316 and 2.

and ran for one, six for 24 on the ground. Thank you. Fancy playoffs next week, New England. No, no, thank you. No, England. No, there is, no, no confidence in that. Aaron Rogers leaves the NFL, 39 passing touchdowns, four picks. Is that a good ratio, 39 to 4? He has 39? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Holy crap. And he throws it to that Adams guy, and then they always score. Adams is a real delight to have in your fantasy leagues. I highly recommend it.

I feel like somehow as his skill has ascended to maybe the best in the league, he's also become larger, but not just like muscles, but also like taller and faster. Like he just looks like a man among boys. I think it's just his presence. His presence. Yeah. Yeah. He's, he's a man. I may have to, we may need to move that drop. Drew Locke. Oh, Mr. Irresponsible.

21 for 27 280 and 4 it was the worst 21 for 27 for 28 and 4 I've ever seen because that stat line is perfection he was yeah that's that's amazing that's a phenomenal perfect stat line and you know watching the game it did not feel like that but maybe that's the preconceived notions of his irresponsibility