Fantasy Football 2017 - MEGALODON Episode – Week 12 Matchups, Starts & More!

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But you better pay attention. You got to be on for the right, along for the right. All right, let's start at the quarterback position. I don't want Jason to get thrown off like last week. Thank you, because I'm not listening. I'm going with Cam Newton. I want to illuminate the world of Cam Newton. Cam Newton is Cam Newton again. Last five weeks rushing yardage. Listen to this. 70 yards. 50 yards, 44 yards, 86 yards, 95 yards. Let's take a quarterback.

Let's take a running back. Let's put him together. Welcome to Cam Newton. That's what you counted on when he was your superstar fantasy quarterback. A couple of years ago in 2015. If he is all in on being himself for as long as he can be himself, then you've got to be in on Cam Newton. Start of the week this week. I'm riding those rushing numbers. The baseline is so high. Yeah, I completely agree. When he runs, that's when he's a fantasy stud.

My start of the week, I talked about how much I love him, but Matt Ryan, he gets the Tampa Bay Buccaneers matchup. He's been playing much better. He still kind of has that, uh, the early season stench on him, where he was very disappointing for fantasy. He was disappointing, uh, people in just NFL, the offense, the Atlanta Falcons offense was disappointing as a whole, but the past four games, each of them he has thrown for two touchdowns, essentially 200 yards, even at a 300 and two game against Carolina.

I love Matt Ryan this week. For me, it's Kirk Cousins. Kirk Cousins has been on fire the last two weeks. You might remember Kirk Cousins at the beginning of the year when he was struggling, when he was trying to use an injured. He starts slow, man. We've got to remember that for next year. Kurt Cousins stinks in the first two games. In fairness, he had kind of a broken down version of...

You know, pass catchers, you had Terrell Pryor, dumpster fired. You know, the Jordan Reed, is he playing? Is he not? What's going on with his health? Now, if you look at the last six games, okay, last six games is a large sample. He only has one game where he didn't throw for 250 yards. And in that game, it was Seattle, and it was 247. So he was really close. Four of those last six games have been over 300 yards passing. His last two games, he's got three touchdowns in a row.

I believe he's third in the league in Yarditch. Yeah, I mean, he's been on fire. And now you face the New York Giants. Yes, they gave more effort. But sometimes effort's just not enough when you're bad. And they're bad. And they're especially bad against tight end. We tell you that all the time with your fantasy team. I know. You're like, hey, you can try hard, buddy. You'll fail. That's the kind of friend. And I cry. And then you put me in the cry closet. Andy, you are correct. Kirk Cousins is third. Number three.

Only behind Tom Brady and Russell Wilson. Yeah, another thing you would have missed on the join the foot podcast yesterday was Mike saying, umro Nuno. Umro Nuno, like Cam Newton. He wears Umro Nuno on his jersey. On his jersey. So it wasn't just Arnold Swaltzneg. Oh, man. It was so bad. We've got to get that out. We don't really need to. There are ways. Yeah, you need to like just put it at the end of this podcast. There are ways to get, um.

Information now? Oh, Mike, can you do that? Can you just put that at the very end? There's no need for that. You're teasing them into join the foot.com. You don't want to ruin that tease. Yeah, no, we won't put it in at the end of this episode. Also, don't join our community. All right. Hey, YouTube? Running back start of the week. I mentioned them earlier. Alfred Morris, look, the chargers are being gashed on the ground. They're 30th against the fantasy football running backs of the league. That's right. That's what they are. Of the league.

This is a Megalodon, man. You got to keep it together. We still have a whole half a show to go. All right. Yeah, he's being gashed. Well, Sean McCoy, they knew he was running last week. I think Alfred Morris, we've seen enough from him. Workload-wise, performance-wise, and they get Tyron Smith back. So, Alfred Morris. I'm going to go with Dionne Lewis against Miami. I'm buying in. I'm buying in that Dionne Lewis will be the primary ball carrier. He will get the most touches of the running back position. He looks.

like Dionne Lewis of two years ago and the matchup. It's the Miami Dolphins. It's an incredible matchup. Another rushing touchdown would not shock me at all for Dion. We've seen that James White, his usage has been pushed down by Rex Goathead. But meanwhile, Dionne Lewis continues to get it done. So he's my start of the week.

Yeah, for me, I'm going back to Washington. You know, starting all the Redskins? I mean, we are. We said that earlier, right? Which is why, you know, this almost upset, I really hope you're wrong because it's going to affect my start of the week. That doesn't mean that it's a bad fantasy game. Sure. Obviously, the almost upset last week was New Orleans. They had a great fantasy production, and you were right there. So.

They can both work out, but Somaget P. Ryan is, he has to be started. This is one of those, like, if you've got him, just make sure you're starting him because he's the only cat in town. He's got, you know, he had 23 carries last week with Rob Kelly out of the way. You already knew. We told you to start him last week. That was before the Chris Thompson injury with Chris Thompson out of the way. He's going to catch the ball a little bit. In a game script where we, at least Mike and I expect Washington and in Las Vegas expects Washington to be up.

By a good margin. Somages a must start. And the fact that he could be grabbed this morning off waivers, still insane. And then the wide receiver position, is that what you're pointing at me? Oh, you know what? How dare you go double Washington? I'm going to go James and Crowder. My start of the week at the wide receiver position, I think he's one of the beneficiaries of the Chris Thompson injury. He takes on the Giants. He has three straight double digit weeks in a half point per reception league. I think he's...

figuring out exactly what his role is, and they're going to need to lean on him and Vernon Davis with Chris Thompson absent. If Kirk Cousins is going to be productive, Cousin, he's going to lean on Crowder. So I wanted to ask you, does this mean that if you had Doxon and Crowder in your lineup, you would start... Half and full? I'd play Crowder, and then in a standard league, I'd play Doxon. So... Okay. In the wide receiver...

I really wanted my wide receiver start of the week to be Demarius Thomas. But with the news of them officially moving to Paxton Lynch as the Denver Broncos starting quarterback, I've shifted over to Mandy Sanders and the information from Scott Barrett that I alluded to. Here's the market share breakdown for Mandy Sanders. 46.5% of Paxton Lynch's air yards, 35% of his targets, 37% of his yards.

and 50% of the touchdowns. So the numbers are still okay, you know, for Demaris Thomas, but this evidence leads me to believe that I think Manny Sanders is slightly a better start. And the matchup against the Oakland Raiders is one that hopefully, theoretically, even Paxton Lynch can succeed in. Yeah, my, my, my, my wide receiver start of the week, we mentioned earlier, it's I like it. I like this one. T.Y. Hilton is a guy. You did it, Jason. You finally got me. Well, I'm, uh,

I'm a T.Y. Hilton. Hi, my name is Jason Moore, and I'm a T.Y. Hilton owner. I have been down on him and telling people, you know, I've pumped the brakes on him. I've said you can't start him last week against Pittsburgh. Because if you look at what he has done with Jacoby Brissette and you got to start your studs, no. You've got, T.Y. Hilton is one of the guys that has really caught fire in those good matchups and disappeared and hurt you big time in all the rest.

This season, he only has three startable games. Just startable. Everything else is literally under seven points in half-point PPR. And that 6.9 is like his best game outside of three matchups.

He played Cleveland, one of the worst in the beginning of the year, gets the wide receiver. Put up seven for 153 in a touchdown. Then you had a game against San Francisco, one of the worst defenses out there, seven for 177. And you had Houston, while they're a great defense against the run. They're horrific against the pass. Five for 175 and two. Look, the Tennessee Titans are a bad defense at the wide receiver position. You're not worried about one for 19?

No, I'm not worried about one for 19. That's what Hilton put up against the Titans earlier in the season. On the road in Tennessee, where their defense plays a little bit better. This game at home, I think T.Y. Hilton is not necessarily a definite must start, but this is the week. This is the starts of the week. No, no, no.

Well, certain weeks. You definitely don't have to start my start of the week. No, we say this all the time on starts a week. Andy's looking like we don't say this. We're not saying you start him over every possible option that you have. I'm saying that every week. I think we try to keep it simple, though, and we just say, look, you start him. You do start him.

I think he will be about the wide receiver 15 or 16 in my rankings. So that's a start. But it just doesn't say, hey, Julio Jones or T.Y. Hilton, you said T.Y. Hilton was your start of the week? No. Yeah, because you're like, hey, here's this cheeseburger. Don't eat it. Maybe you should. No. Oh. Don't eat it. Don't eat it. Take a bite. No. Spit it out. All right. Who's your tight end, Andy? I'm going Jared Cook.

Denver can't defend the tight-in. We talked about it earlier, 31st against the tight-in. The season for Oakland's on the line, I think Jared Cook, he's highly targeted. Yeah. I would start him. I would as well, because you've got a Denver defense that's hard to throw on it everywhere except tight-in. I think Jason hates us right now. He's flustered. I think he might hate us. I don't hate you guys. I love you guys. Megala hate. My tight-end start of the week. You got to feel the burn.

Oh, yeah. With Vernon Davis. So we have one Washington Redskin at each position. That's right. That's right on a team that I think might get upset by the Jones. I believe in Washington huge in this matchup. And I guess with Jason's logic, I would probably still start Rob Gruncowski over Vernon Davis. See? But other than that, he gets the New York Giants, the worst defense.

against the tight end position. Oh, Jason's going to the tomb. And Jordan Reed is not expected to play. Yeah, I'm going to the tomb. The Tomb Raider, Tyler Croft, Cincinnati Bengals face up. He's like the stream, the tight end streamer. It was Doyle earlier. Yeah, it was. Yeah. Tyler Croft, he's got a great matchup. You could start him against Cleveland. Very similar to the Denver Broncos and New York Giants. Those three teams, you start tight ends against them. Okay. That starts of the week.

We did it. Now we're going back into the fantasy forecast. Do I push the button again? Yes, you do. Fantasy forecast. Part two. This time, it's personal. This time, it's a lot more games. The Panthers take on the jets in... Can we get that air conditioning going? New York. We've got a long way to go, guys. 40 point over under. Look, I said Cam Newton's the start of the week. I thought about making McCaffrey just how involved he is. So I like Christian McCaffrey in this game. Look, Greg Olson.

Are you willing to start in the first week back? Yeah, absolutely. Greg Olson is a monster of a man. And if he says he's ready to play, I expect a full workload. And that's, that's targets. See you Muppet or a monster of a man. I mean, I followed you with the reference. I'm not sure how you got there. Yeah. Am I a man or a monster? Am I a man or a monster? Well, Greg Olson's a monster of a man. The question.