Championship Studs & Duds + Sack Races, #RightBrooks

Unbelievable. What a world. Elijah McGuire, Monster Week, Damien Williams. Did it again. Darren Sprouls, Doug Martin. Oh, Doug Martin did have a-crampus. 21 for 101. Yeah, it's crampus season. Sonny Michelle? Finally, the touchdown and a hundo on the ground. Didn't you play Alfred Blue over Sonny Michelle in some league or something like that? I did. Yeah. I was dumb. Sequin Barclay.

Barkley's been really held in check. Actually, the end of the year for Sequin Barclay. Now, he'll undoubtedly be the number two running back off the board next year. Number two or three picks. Two or three. I think in some leagues you see him go one. I think in some leagues you see him go three. The end of the year, the last two games were the first kind of glimpse at, oh no. If that offensive line can't open holes for him, his yards per carry work.

junk over the last two games. Now, he still finds a way to get it done, but it was an underwhelming fantasy playoff performance by Saquan Barkley. Now, you said he'd go number two because obviously Derek Henry's number one, right? Yep. Yeah, you're number one guy for the fantasy playoffs. I wanted to bring this up. You just talked about Alford Blue about how Mike played him, and I was, you know, Alford Blue only had four carries. Yeah. And, you know, a lot of tweets. I think Harmon had found a gym that,

Matt Harmon had found a gym that over the last four years, every December, Alpha Blue had a game with more than 20 carries. So everyone was expecting, oh, this is just crazy. He's going to get more. And it was all Deonté Foreman. It was foreman. And so I looked up Foreman's line. I don't think he had a yard gain, did he? Oh, he was. He was awful. Seven carries for negative one year. Yeah. Awful. Yeah. Well, and Alfred Blue, in every game in his career that he's had more than 10 carries, his average is three yards of carry. He's one of the worst running backs in football. Yeah. He is.

He is like the, if you were doing create a character and you picked running back on a video game and you didn't put any of the points on it, you just had the base, like 60s across the board, that's very disrespectful. It's true. It's true. Derek Henry, 21 for 84 and 1, people were disappointed. Yes, they were disappointed with his great.

Finish. So what is the truth of Derek Henry? People will want to know and we'll have in a whole off season to discuss it. I don't know. But the truth of Derek Henry is that I'm confused. I mean, we watch football all the time. We have got 16 weeks that we have processed and digested and he didn't look the same the last three weeks. He looked different the last three weeks to me. I've watched plenty of Derek Henry.

He was more decisive, more powerful. They opened up some holes for him. They had jet sweeps featuring Derek Henry. So they were being more innovative in their play calling with him. What happened? Here's the interesting thing to me. It's not just how he looks, but it's the utilization. Because even though he was getting, you know, starts the year with 10 carries, 18, 18 carries, it was still always a split with him and Dionne Lewis. Is that the real problem, his rhythm? Well, I...

I don't know if that's entirely it, but I do know... It is to me. That they now see him as the feature back. And that is not... Dionne Lewis had been involved all year. In fact, there was a time right after their buy week where you saw no double-digit carries for Henry and, you know, tons of carries for Lewis. But the last three weeks, they've been winning and they've been winning on...

the back of Derek Henry with a massive amount of carries. So going into next year, I'll project him to have that role because they're winning. They're heading towards the playoffs. But I'm still not going to draft them. Like he will be Fool's Gold to me because I don't want the risk of the floor that could come that we've seen. And he'll go around other good backs. Yeah, it's all going to be about the draft price. Does he end up in the fourth round? Oh, no. I think he ends up in like the second round.

I really do. Derek Henry's name, his athletic profile, but carries at the end of the season, I think people will get, there will be people saying he's a top 12 back. And there's more to come, right? I mean, they win, they make the playoffs this week, and then you see more Derek Henry in the playoffs. If he ends on a high, because they, this is what's amazing to me about the NFL. I am so in love with the NFL, if you didn't know. Because this year we saw.

The best high-profile offenses we've ever seen, the Chiefs and the Rams. And we have seen the ascension and rebirth of defense with the Bears and Ravens. And then you've seen these kind of strange winning teams with the Seahawks and the Titans. And so you have three different different ways to win, right? Like if I looked at the Titans and Seahawks, I'd say,

They are run first teams that are sporadic on defense. But then the Bears and the Ravens just shut you down on defense. And, I mean, who wins a Super Bowl? I don't know if it's going to be the offensive. Saints? Because they have enough on defense to shut you down, probably. I mean, they'd be my favorite, too. Somebody asked me the other day at a Christmas party to pick somebody right now, and I go, I guess New Orleans. But.

I don't know. And that's what's great about. See, you asked me who's going to win the NBA championship? I can tell you the answer. It's the Suns, the Phoenix Sun. For sure. Antonio Brown, welcome to further fantasy lore. Week 16, 14, for 185 and 2 on 19 targets. Hashtag right, Brooks? Oh. Well, let me ask you this. Devante Adams or Antonio Brown, who goes higher in next year's draft.

Uh, it, that's a good one. I think, man. I mean, next week, Brooks, we're going to do a simulated first round. That's what we're going to do. I would love that. That'll be a lot of fun. That'll be fun. And I think, um, I think Devante Adams will sneak ahead because when as soon as juju, you know, people start doing their numbers in the off season, they're going to bump juju up. They're going to bump, uh, you know, Antonio Brown down a little from his.

history and that'll place him probably behind. Adams was unbelievably consistent. Off the top of my head, I think he had 14 weeks as a wide receiver won. Which is, like running backs do that? You know, the best running backs. Zeke does that, where he's very consistent, doesn't have a bunch of dud weeks. Wide receivers don't do that. Antonio Brown, who's the best, the most consistent. He does not do that over his career. If you believe that Rogers will have some hype with the new coaching staff and whoever they bring in, then...

That'll probably translate to Adams. Adams would probably go a spot ahead of Brown. But it'll be close. Yeah, it won't be very close. And Brown vaulted himself into the wide receiver two spot. It's fun that at least there's a conversation now because it was just for three straight years it was, well, Antonio Brown. Antonio Brown. It was like when Calvin was the one. Right. It's just fun to have some more players in the game. Robert Woods, big game. Six for 89 and a touchdown had a rushing touchdown as well. He's wide receiver nine on this season. He's great.

He's a great player. I can't wait to draft him next year. He'll be undervalued. Yes, he will. Hey, Robbie. What's up? Robbie Anderson, nine for 140 and a touchdown on 13. Targets. I mean, that was a roller coaster of a ride with Robbie Anderson from the start of the week getting absolute, I mean, first week of the season, getting absolutely nothing. I think it had the one target. It was the deep touchdown. It was.

Holy crap, you have to bail out for Robbie Anderson. Then he was gone forever. And now he's back. Here's all, it's not complicated. And he's the new hotness. It's not complicated. And by the way, they'll have a new coaching staff as well. Yeah. Here's all that, this is all you need to know about Robbie Anderson over the last three years. Competent quarterback play. Massive fantasy production. That's it. That's the whole equation. It's not complicated. When Josh McCown was competent at quarterback, he dominated. Sam Darnel's been competent the last three weeks.

Robbie Anderson has shown up. All you have to do is watch the film. He's just like Robert Woods in the sense that the film tells the story on those two guys, and Robbie Anderson has elite. His ball tracking skills are elite. He's a good player. Right. And now there was no Quincy Nunwa again. That helped too. Yeah, I mean, curse, dealing with some injuries. Robbie's next, his 2019 season will be difficult to project. He will be a jet. We do know that because.

They can keep him as a restricted free agent that will probably translate into some nice soap opera off-season drama. Did he officially not receive a suspension or is some of his off-the-field stuff still possibly pending for next year? That will be interesting to look into. I believe he avoided suspension. Yeah, I think I remember that too, but I wasn't sure. Yeah, he'll be interesting. Doug Baldwin.

7 for 126 and 1 on 12 targets. The highest graded receiver in the NFL, according to Pro Football Focus this week. Highest graded in the NFL since week 13. Thanks, Doug. My fantasy MVP who crushed me all season. So it's week 13. That means he was a playoff superstar. Oh, sure. You did make him your start of the week. Yes, he was my start of the week. In honor of his fantasy MVP. And he, you know, he's certainly the MVP for some people.

Oh, yeah. He won people. I mean, he won people. Championships. The last two weeks he's been. You know, I don't want to play in the first round? I don't want to play Seattle. Yeah. Dallas. That's fair. Dallas. You don't want to play Seattle. Michael Thomas. Michael Thomas? 11 for 109 and 1. I consider this some nice redemption for fantasy owners that limped their way with him into the title game. He showed up for you.

And then some big kind of anomalous games from Nelson Aguilar and Mohamed Sunu. Aguilar can always do this. If he gets loose for an 83-yard touchdown, he generally has a good game after that. Mike Evans, T.Y. Hilton, some good games. Hilton, he doesn't practice. He just plays, my friends. He plays hurt. Just plays. Big tight-in week, Zach Erd's Kyle Rudolph. Hey, Kyle. Oh, man. This is going to distort his entire season.

He jumps all the way to tight-in seven because of nine for one, 22, and two, including a Hail Mary. Half-time Hail Mary that was almost an identical recreation of the Aaron Rogers throat, Richard Rogers, a couple years ago. It was amazing. You don't draft Kyle Rudolph under any circumstance. Jason is even agreeing. Look, I've been the Kyle Rudolph supporter over the years, and no, I completely agree. You can't draft Kyle Rudolph to be.

Your guy. If you're streaming, we had a couple starts of the week hit this week. Evan Ingram, 6 for 87 on 6 targets. Chris Herndon, 6 for 82 and a touchdown on 7 targets. Also, another player I really like. I just like him. Mark Andrews, 2 for 83 in a touchdown, got loose for a deep ball. I just, the profile, the size, the speed. Mark Andrews is somebody to keep your eye on. You haven't seen Hayden Hearst break out.

I mean, they have 16 tight ends, but pay attention to Mark Andrews. I think he will be the one to emerge over time. Let's transition perfectly into Rising Stars. Rising Stars of the Whig. So I'm going to throw a quick, like this wasn't.

my rising star, but I'm going to say Mark Andrews is a dynasty rising star on the back of that. While watching this last Ravens game and seeing how they used him, the thing that kept running through my head is the way that there were all these snaps where Mark Andrews was not on the field and they were using Nick Boyle in a way that Mark Andrews can succeed in, but Mark Andrews wasn't on the field. It was Nick Boyle. And Mark Andrews is just...

significantly better than Boyle, but he's still a rookie, still, you know, he's got ways to improve in blocking in other ways. But I just checked, and Nick Boyle is a, he's basically a free agent. He's not under contract. So the Dynasty Outlook for Mark Andrews.

Well, I think Lamar likes him. I think Lamar's got higher percentage throws to those tight-ins in that read-option system. And then it does come down to targets, like you said, though. I mean, you're not going to get by with two targets. It's just the talent is there. My rising star is Chris Herndon. It's the tight-in for the New York Jets, 6-4-82 and a touchdown. Again, competent quarterback play and an athlete that can do everything you need from the tight-in position. Hernden look great.

And if they trust Donald more and more, right now with what they have on the roster, he's the second best pass catching weapon. So huge. Yeah, possibly. It's my rising star of the week. Rookie Deshaun Hamilton has been an absolute target monster. 30 targets in the past three weeks. Yes, it has not turned into huge success. PPR has been just fine averaging.