Week 15 Studs & Stinkers + Weekly Rewind, AJ Crown & #FootClanTitles

But that was it. That was it. That was it. That was it. 200 yards. One touchdown. That's it. That's the bust. Quarterback 20 on the week so far. Oh, there's still more quarterbacks to play. Oh, thank goodness. Thank you, Aaron, for not making us look stupid. We appreciate it. Unless, you know, unless someone played you. Well, they don't appreciate it. Yeah, but they didn't. I mean, that's fine. They went against us. Oh, so you don't mind it. Now, I do, I do want to remind people.

When I was talking last week about the Minnesota championship, I was saying I reverted to to play, play bench because I want Rogers against Minnesota. Minnesota's secondary has not been good. But we'll see. It's on the road, and Aaron Rogers has been much better at home. You might have just better options out there than Rogers anyways. All right, bad games from Jimmy G. I kind of thought he'd do well at home against Atlanta, and he did not. 201.

just didn't work out. Sanders, Debo had some drops, which he's dealt with a little bit this year. Yeah, I mean, Atlanta has been a good matchup for quarterbacks to play against and Jimmy Garoppolo has been on fire the last several weeks. You've got the trio of Kittle and Sanders and Debo now locked in. Everything was ripe for him at home to have a big game. So he was a huge disappointment.

Yeah, that was Mike brought it up, why people feel a certain way about Jimmy G. And it's because he doesn't really give you, like he just has some dud games. Yeah. Some very extreme, um, dud games. You know who else has some dud games? Phil Rivers has a lot of dud games. He loves taking the ball and saying it's your team's ball now. Do you know how many turnovers that the Chargers had in that game? Are you aware? No. Take a guess. I don't know five. Seven.

That's a lot. They turned the ball over seven times. Everybody fumbled. Yeah, Melvin Gordon. Melvin Gordon. Very nice. Seven for 28. Two fumbles lost? Yeah. You know who else stunk this week? He's not in here. But Matt Berita, real stunk. Two fumbles on four carries. Now, that's bad bad. That's where he mustered is locked and loaded next week. That's hard to do. To fumble twice.

when you only get four opportunities. Melvin tried. I mean, he had seven tries and he fumbled twice. Yeah, that was bad. But nobody's starting burrito. At least Melvin, that wrecked you. You just forgive and forget the situation for Melvin. He's got Oakland next week. He got the honorary benching for a while. You saw a lot of Justin Jackson come in. Then he did get back in later in the game. So I think they'll just, you know, they're moving on. They know Melvin Gordon is not a guy that just fumbles every time he touches the ball. All right. And then Derek Henry.

Derek Henry was out a lot of this game dealing with a hamstring injury. You're going to need to monitor that this week. It's amazing that 21 for 86 with no catches was, you know. It's a dud. Yeah, it is. For what you needed? Yeah, I mean, it feels like he was okay. I mean, got a bunch of carries, 86 rushing yards. Came back in the game, right? Yeah, it did come back in the game late. So, you know, the reality is, and this is the problem with Derek Henry.

86 rushing yards is really good in general. You go and look at the studs of the week, and a lot of them had around 80 rushing yards, and then they added 40 receiving yards or something like that. But he doesn't catch the ball much. Yeah, I don't really care. No, no, no. Because he just didn't score. Exactly. If you don't score when you're Derek Henry, then you're a dud game because you just don't add enough in the passing game to be able to have the floor high enough.

Dudrick Henry. Is that what you said? Oh, that's what Mike. If he was here, Mike would have said that. I would have accepted that. Yeah. Dudrick Henry. Leonard Fernette, 15 for 42. Yeah. Not good. Now he's, he's usually immune to this. 20 touches. Seven targets, five receptions. So if you aren't in a full PPR league, you were okay, but certainly disappointed, especially in a very winnable matchup.

at Oakland. This is now a couple games in a row that Leonard Pornett has just kind of stunk after he seemed so consistent. I thought Devin Singletary looked good. Oh, he looked great. But for fantasy purposes, he was single-digit guy. I mean, he had two catches for two yards. He fumbled. He had another fumble they didn't lose. He has Derek Henry's line. Like, Derek Henry was 21 for 86. Devin Singletary, the exact opposite body type, was 21 carries for 87 yards.

So he's one yard better than Derek Henry. Yeah, and then I feel like at this point, Philip Lindsay's done in your lineup because there's been multiple matchups in a row where you thought Philip Lindsay was going to be something. Yeah, I get it, but I don't. He plays Detroit next week. I don't think he's done because of that. I think. You're not willing to let him go. You're probably not in the title game, so you don't have to think about it because Philip Lindsay let you down. There are enough listeners.

Jason was catching a piece of fuzz. For those of you listening at home, he paused to catch a piece of fuzz that was floating in the air like a wisp. That's called. Did you make a wish? Good audio. I wished to be as good as Joe Mixon at running the ball. All right. Philip Lindsay wished that as well. I mean, this is absolutely Mondo turd, seven for 32. Now, it's in the snow. Do you forgive him? Yes, I forgive him because Detroit will forgive him. Are you sure? Yes.

You're positive. I am positive. Yes, Philip Lindsay will be a fine play this week. Philip Lindsay was supposed to be a fine play against Minnesota, Buffalo, the Chargers in Houston. And he was a fine play in one of those. Sort of. I mean, yes. Houston was supposed to be a smash play. I'm just disappointed. As soon as it was kind of like, hey, people aren't paying attention to Philip Lindsay. He's like, this is why. And then David, meh, Gummery, 14 for 39.

You saw this coming. Oh, yeah. Every single Sunday live question with David Montgomery I was trying to pivot from. Those are the best. Like the best are when there's an easy and obvious answer that a lot of people have. Like a lot of people didn't know what to do with David Montgomery. And that one was like, oh, that's easy. You don't play him. Ronald Jones, Peyton Barber, both disappointing. Every time they got the ball, it seemed like it was a cursory. Like, I need to check the box of running so that I can throw with James Moore. And they were both.

Pretty disappointing. LaShaul McCoy, Darwin Thompson to speak to the Lindsay matchup. Nobody ran the ball well in that game, although Darwin did have more work than we've seen in the past. So it's kind of interesting. And he was much better with the work he had than LaShaul McCoy was. Do you know LaShawn McCoy was late to the game? Oh, come on. I believe it, though. What? Because of the snow? Yeah, because of the snow. There were three players that were a little late. I...

I'm just saying maybe. I don't know if that factored in, but it's pretty tough in the snow, man. It's just, it is a fact that he was like. All right. Tell me how this happened, Brooks. We've got a wide receiver duds. You had, what, 44 points scored by Dallas. Was that their final total? Yeah, I think so. Yeah. Amari Cooper had one catch. Michael Gallup had one catch. Five targets combined between the two. So that's, that's, that shouldn't be able to happen. Here's the cool thing. Amari Cooper, Michael Gallup.

and Randall Cobb. They combined the three of them in a game where the Cowboys scored over 40 points for 22 yards. 22 receiving yards between your first, second, and third receivers. And that's all thanks to Randall Cobb's negative three total yards. They just ran the football. Gallup's six. I mean, even Dak. You'd expect more than 202 from Dak. So, you know, it's like we played Amari Cooper.

And we played him over Devante Parker. Yeah, was dumb. That felt bad. We still got the W. It could have been a capital W, but it was just a lowercase W. W is a W. But now that, and it felt bad. And now it's like, okay, I don't know if we can stick with Cooper. But looking at this now, Cooper dominated 19 yards. I mean. Amongst the other whiteouts? You compare that to Gallup and Cobb.

who combined for three yards. Cooper was fantastic. Look, you can throw on Philadelphia. It's going to be hard not to start these guys, Cooper and Gallup, in Philadelphia, where Dallas won't necessarily be able to just, you know, 45 rushing attempts this game and a dominating halftime lead 28 to 7. Two running backs with 100 plus rushing yards. Yeah. But it does show you that if the game plan goes the way Dallas wants it to, Dax's not throwing for 300 or 400. He's stolen for 200.

Edelman, two for nine on five targets. This was a very late rankings pivot for me because more and more news, Edelman's starting to equivocate on whether he was going to play in this game. Thinks he can give it a go type of news. Cincinnati's been better on defense. Edelman banged up. I'm not saying that you benched him. I mean, you probably didn't. Almost nobody did. But he had one of the biggest duds of the year, and he's been one of the more consistent players in all of fantasy.

He had averaged 16.4 fantasy points per game over the last nine. And this was a pure, it was basically like you didn't play a wide receiver. Yeah, I was going to say this is one where you have to pay attention to the Edelman News. He's going to miss practice this week. But late in the week, the Thursday, the Friday, how involved is he, is he, you know, healing up better? Because if he's as injured as he was this game, it's going to be really hard to trust him in your championship.

Speaking of trust, I mean, what do you do with Kenny Gallaudet in Denver next week with David Blow? Who, I mean, it was not smooth for Gallaudet. It was whatever the opposite of smooth is. Seven targets, three for 44. You cannot trust Gallaudet next week. He was my start of the week this week. Clearly a smash play where you knew they were going to have to throw the ball and it was against Tampa Bay, who is not close to the worst. They are by, they are to the wide receiver position, what the Arizona Cardinals are.

to the tight end position this year. And so the fact that he couldn't get it done, and what really sucked is at the end of that game, there were a couple of bomb throws to Goladay, the one in particular where it had to be a 40-yard throw, and it went right through his hands. So this is a bad game. I apologize. And he should do. The process made sense, but the result made you cry. Three for 44.

on seven targets. You know, it's not Julian Edelman bad two for nine, but it's going to help you lose, and that's not good. No, and same with Emmanuel Sanders and Debo. Robert Woods and Brandon Cooks were the two duds on that garbage time. I disagree because Brandon Cook's four for 46. I feel like that's a step in the right direction for him.

Well, the eight targets, four catches? Yeah, step in the right direction, not for your fantasy line. No, Jarvis Landry was a huge, both Landry Beckham along with Baker. I guess Baker had the two touchdowns to Ricky Seals Jones. What was that? I don't know. I was starting to be a seal, but I realized I don't do that.

That's why you stopped. Yeah, that's why I stopped. That's why you stopped. Well, that was, it's like a baby seal when he's getting born. It's real quiet. Yeah, I think those might be. Have you ever heard my impression of like a, like a ping pong ball? Yes, great. See, it's very similar to a clock. I'm really good with sound effects. You're like, uh, I'm like Justin Watson. You're like that guy from police academy who can just do anything with his voice. That's right. That's right.

Stefan Diggs, four for 76. Adam Thielen, just three for 27 on three targets. The matchup was tough. Thielen coming back. Hopefully he didn't play him. I wasn't willing to play him, but you're going to have to make a decision on him next week against Green Bay, though. Are you looking at Thielen as a flex option next week if he's practicing in full? I mean, he'll be in consideration for a flex option. Yeah, he will. And if DJ Chark is out, D.D. Westbrook, only two for 14.

I was not going to touch Deity with the fact that he was dealing with the injury. He had left early last week. Conley was the only kind of maybe. But, you know, if Chark is out again, they face Atlanta, are you done with Diti for the year? I don't think you have to be done with Diti for the year. Watch the practice reports. I mean, you know, two weeks removed from whatever was hurting him. Obviously, he stunk this week, and maybe you don't want to keep rolling with that. I'm fine with that. I think there are better options, but I don't think he's just dead in the water.

All right, we have another stinker for Hunter Henry. It's, it's been, it's been a while now. So here's what's crazy. In our league one where we are, you know, going to the championship, we had Darren Waller and Hunter Henry. Yeah. And after a couple of great Hunter Henry weeks, once he got back, we knew we needed to trade one of them. And we turned Henry into Amari Cooper.

and him plus stuff, and it was a great trade. But we regretted it for several weeks because Hunter Henry, we said we traded the wrong tight end. Clearly we should have traded Waller and kept Hunter Henry. Had we done that, we would be out because Darren Waller had another fantastic game. And Hunter Henry had another dud, so you just can't always tell. Waller 8 for 122 on 10 targets. Hunter Henry ended up just 2 for 29.