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

The biggest question for Greg Olson's return is the impact on Devin S. Scrumptious, because he has certainly been a benefactor of Kelvin Benjamin out of town. Greg Olson on the sideline. Will scrumptious, aka Devin Funches, receive the targets that he needs to have a good game, six targets, seven? I mean, so he's averaging right around that seven target mark. Will that stay there or will that dip down to an average of four or five? I'm willing to lean on him again this week.

Yeah, I am as well. You might see as Andy suspected that it's Russell Shepard that takes the target hit if they're going to Greg Olson. Could be McCaffrey that takes a little bit of a target hit too. Absolutely. And you always need to keep in mind and remember that a good offensive weapon, he doesn't just steal targets. Sometimes he adds targets to the team because you're picking up drives and you're getting first down. So you can't just say, okay, if he gets seven targets, somebody loses seven targets. It could be better. One of those targets converts a third down into a first down.

You get more tries. Yeah. All right. So on the other side, Matt Forte, he's banged up. There's a lot of concern about his health going forward. We don't think he's going to play. Is Belal Powell startable? I don't think so. Belal Powell is startable in the right matchup for sure. I like him. But not against Carolina. Not against Carolina. Carolina has been, you know, they're the fourth best team against the rushing, against the running back. And so Belal Powell.

He's good. He's not great. So maybe a flex in a need if Forte is out. But you still have, I mean, it's not like he then just gets everything. You still have him competing with Elijah McGuire for touches against a really good defense. If you're curious about Powell, how many catches do you think he has the last two weeks combined? Zero. One. He has one catch over the last two weeks. That's mismanagement. I mean, that's.

Where he's at? 9.7.7 points, 2 points last time he played against Tampa, which looked like a great matchup. We all expected that. 10 for 30, only one catch. That's the problem. He used to be checked down Sally. Get on the ball in space. Robbie Anderson, despite the tougher matchup against the Carolina Panthers defense, I think you have to start. Wide receiver two, wide receiver three. Right on that. I'd call him a low end two. Stills or Robbie Anderson? That's a great question.

It stills assuming that Matt Moore plays. Matt Morris is playing. I would go Robbie Anderson. I would go Anderson too. Scrumptious versus Anderson. Oh, man. I'd go scrumptious. I think I would as well. Jason, who would you go? Yeah, I think I'd go Devin S. Scrumptious. All right. Any other questions on the New York side? Are you willing to start anybody else? I mean. Safarian Jenkins is still, he's still in play. And he can check and always drop it like it's hot.

Safarian Jenkins might be on your waiver wire. After the by week. Tried to trade for him in our Riders League this morning. So I agree. Austin Saffarian Jenkins, he's a good, by-low candidate right now. He's still been involved enough to start him. Let's talk about the Bears taking on the 9-1 Eagles in Philadelphia. Good luck, Chicago. 13-point favorites. The Eagles are, I don't have any question about them being able to hold up.

They're into this equation. Any questions? You know, the bears have had so many of these close games that you don't expect from them this year. I think everyone expected the bad record. They're three and seven. Yeah, they found a way to lose those close games. Yeah, they did, but I think that they played, they've been playing. That's what losers do. So much better. You find a way to lose when the game is close. But I agree with what you're saying. This is me trying to give them some more. No, they look good. They actually look like. Jordan Howard. He's going to be a thousand plus yard rusher again.

They were close last week. Trubisky brought him down the field and they just missed the field goal to tie it to sentence overtime. Does that make them like? They're the almost upset of the years or are they hateable decent? No, they're lovable losers. They're losers that you're kind of like, you know, they're going to be okay. That's how I look at them. Sure. They need weapons. I mean, Trubisky needs weapons. Oh, and speaking of a weapon.

As they call him in the kids call him, I believe is the human joystick. Yes. According to pro football reference, Tariq Cohen, who was an absolute sensation during the early part of the season when they were actually giving him snaps and touches. And then they just completely moved away from him. But welcome back. Look at last week. It was the second most snaps of his career. Nine carries, four receptions again last week. A flying Superman touchdown? I mean, you.

What do you make of Tariq Cohn? Was this just a flash in the pan? Or has the team said, hey, maybe this guy who's really good at football, we should give him opportunities. Yeah, it's tough to trust him. I mean, you know, we recommended cutting him the week before because if you look at his utilization, I mean, he hadn't had more than one reception since week four. It was the return of Benny Cunningham relegated him to the back of the line.

Right, and not only that, but so you have one reception since week four, or no more than one, and then you have five touches on the ground in the last three games combined. All of a sudden, this last matchup comes out, and he has the same snap percentage as Jordan Howard, is incredibly involved, and it was worth it. So he, to me, right now, is a pick-up and hold, because I can't trust him right now. I can't just go, oh, they've decided to go back, because what if they just decide,

based on the game plan like they did the previous three weeks. Legerrett Blunt or Tarry Cohen. Ooh, I'd go Blunt. I would go Laguerre Blunt. Bilal Powell, we just talked about it or Tarry Cohen. I think I'd go Powell. Yeah, Powell. Okay. I'm just trying to figure it out. No, that's good. Jordan Howard, locked and loaded. Absolutely. No options at the past catching position. Well, I mean, those are you saying, Don Trell Inman, after they acquired him late in the season in that trade, I mean, he.

his first game in, he was already the wide receiver won, eight targets, six for 88. Last week, not great, but three for 43. So is there any interest with the Eagles defense? I mean, their 19th against the wide receiver position. Nope. Not for me personally. I mean, it's kind of like the Deonti Thompson situation in Buffalo where he flashed a little bit, but I just don't, I don't know. Do you answer the question for yourself? Do you think he would play him?

Yeah, probably not. Would you play him over Aguilar on the other side of the field? No. Because Aguilar has slowed down a little bit? Yeah, even with slowing down, I would still bet on the higher-powered offense. Okay. Carson wins, locked and loaded. Alston and Jeffrey, been scoring. I think he scored in three straight weeks. Zach Ertz, you're going to start him. Jay, J. J. J. LeGarrett Blunt, Corey Clement. Mike in the office yesterday, he said, you know, we've got this Dynasty League that we're in together. And...

We keep starting other players than Corey Clement because it doesn't ever make sense to start Corey Clement. But he keeps scoring and he keeps finding himself involved in the offense. Is it time to kick your knees up, climbing time? I would be all about it if Ajai didn't just arrive and I felt like maybe they're working him into the heavier workload. A Jai's snap percentage is shocking. If you look, he was like the third.

you know, highest. So he was low on the rushing, for all the running backs there, he had a very low snap percentage. That leads me to believe that they are still in the process of working. It was actually a few, he had fewer snaps than his first game with Philadelphia.

Well, right, because, you know, while the beginning of that game was still close, I think halftime was 9 to 7, it quickly escalated out of control in the second half. And the game against Denver was out of control as well. Just for that theory, yes. Yeah, Blunt had 13 carries. Ajai had seven last week. Yep, I know. It's a mess. I went back and I looked...

I looked at the game log of snap play-by-play, and it really, really was a mess. You had JJ take the first snaps. On that first drive, you had Legeriblund come in super early. You had Kenyon Barner come in early, and Corey Clement. All four will be involved. So it's tough, but you have such a good offensive line and a good offense where I think you can start these guys. But the bears are not a great matchup. It's interesting that the best two teams in football right now.

have the least defined running back situations between the Patriots and the Eagles. They both have a three four-headed monster in the backfield. The thing with at least you can feel confident that Lewis is kind of that the grinder right now. Right now. Right now. Right now. Right now. But when you have a jai. Don't forget your turduckin. When you have a jai. No way, that was sweet potato casserole. Aji and Ligarrett Blunt who essentially do the exact same thing. That is really rough for fantasy.

The Eagles defense, they've hit the opposing quarterback on 12.3% of plays that's the highest in the league. They're my favorite defense of the league. Good luck, Mitch. They're my favorite defense this week. All right, Seahawks, you lost a close one. Why don't you play the 49ers? Travel into San Francisco. Take on the 49ers this week. Russell Wilson. Russell? Some people don't. I think now it's the Megalodon episode. Tell him why his name is like that. One of us made. There are a lot of those inside jokes people don't always understand.

I think it was you, Mike, that pronounced it kind of like that one day on accident. Yeah. And it reminded me of the double dribble. Double dribble. The, which shout out to double dribble. Yeah. The N.S. Classic. Yeah. And so it just stuck. Russell Wilson. Russell Wilson. All right. So Russell Wilson, it's a no-brainer.

He's great. You're starting him. Yeah. Doug Baldwin, no brainer. He's great. You're starting him. And Jimmy Graham's been on fire lately. 49ers defense has been bad. Yeah. But you wanted hear what would be nuts. If there was a Mike's almost upset of the week, this would actually be it. Yeah? It would. Because it's just, it's a divisional game. It's San Francisco at home. I had a little twinge.

You thought about it? Making a second one. Because so I might be with you on that. Seattle just does this. In division when they're on the road against lowly opponents, they often forget to show up. Not that I'm still playing them all for fantasy purposes. I'm just simply talking real NFL. In week two, the Seahawks beat the 49ers in Seattle, 12 to 9. Exactly. Exactly. And now they're on the road. But.

Like you said, Russell Wilson. All the starts stay the same. J.D. McKissick, we talked about him yesterday. Smooch's? Yeah. Start Smooch's. All right. I'd put him out there over Paul Powell, for example. Yeah. Would you guys agree with that? In a PPR, certainly. I can agree. What about a point per smooch league? Point per smooch is. I think he's number one. Would you play him in a standard point per smooch's? Yeah, for sure. Not just PPR.

Right, yes. If it's a standard, if I don't get anything for receptions, but I get a point for every smooch referenced, then he's- If people could have seen our Slack chat during the game on Monday night, we're just sending- The amount of kiss emojis and lip emojis, innumerable. He came through. We're ridiculous. All right, pick one. Paul Richardson, Tyler Lockett. Paul Richardson. Richardson. Richardson. Richard, yeah. All right, me too.

The 49ers. Who's going to run the ball? It's Carlos Hyde. And I don't care about this, the fifth ranked against running backs for fantasy, the Seahawks defense. I don't care. Carlos Hyde dominated them on the road last time. Carlos Hyde is a great running back. Can you play him every week? Can you dominate from the bench? He's not going to be on the bench. He's not going to be on the bench. He had 17 carries last week. Matt Burita got, you know, he looked.

good and he'll be involved. But last week, 17 carries hasn't had fewer than 12 carries since week six. So Carlos Hyde is absolutely the starter. He is being used like that. Sometimes when you see another guy like Matt Brita come up and have good games, you assume that they've come at the expense of the starter. By the way, they were on by last week. So you're going back two weeks for the 49ers. But I get what you're saying. And I agree with you. I just.

Matt Barita just ends up having these weird games here and there. Yeah, he just gets touchdowns. Marky's Goodwin? The good? 83 yards receiving. The bad one reception? I would play him. Would you play him over Deshaun Jackson this week? Ooh, that's an interesting question. I think I would. I think I would. I think that my gut is telling me I haven't completed the final rankings, but I think that I would. Okay. Jason, what do you think? Cool. I would.

I'm trying to think. I would lean with the vet here. But that should show. So I would go with Deshaun Jackson over going. But that's the area where Goodwin is startable, even in this matchup against Seattle, which usually strikes fear into people. The Foot Clan is aware of the injuries that Seattle has sustained to their secondary. I think you can't, you can start both of these guys.