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

All right, welcome to the tougher part of the Rams schedule. Last week, they had Minnesota this week. They have to play the Saints who are on fire and they play them at home. 53 and a half point over under. And I was shocked to see the Rams favored at home. I mean, they've been a great team this year, but the Saints have been stomping in. Yeah. The Saints have been stomping in. Oh, stomping in. It's really.

That's a good, it's a good song. It's a good ditty. I was hoping Mike would finish it out. Oh, and the saints. You're marching in here. All right. Begladon. All right. You start losing your mind a little bit. Yeah. With the 53. When did the IVs get here? Brooks? Can you roll in the IV?

With the... Look under your feathers. Oh, Oreos down there. Oh, Oreos are down there. Yeah. I'm never leaving. Did you see a... Pause, pause, pause. Yesterday I was at the Tarje. Oh, very fancy. And, man, they've got... The Oreo game is just... They just throwing everything out there. I saw... So you got the white chocolate-covered Oreos. Which are the best. But they've got them... They are literally the best. They are so incredibly good.

Oh, man, Mike, I have done a punch you. I was not angry at the starts of the weak area. But like, look, if you don't like them, that's fine. Shut your mouth. Nope. I will not. Oh, my gosh. I will not. This is going to be what breaks up the fancy footballers. I will not allow big white chocolate to infiltrate this area. Big white chocolate. It's a conspiracy. Did you just knock something down? Yeah. O'Dell Beckham. I mean, you're just, way to stomp on the people who are already down.

But white chocolate, this is, it's a conspiracy against the world, really, that white chocolate is good because it is, in fact, not. Well, Mike is losing fans. That's fine. You better lose fans. All right. Oh, that's just stupid. Let me move on. It's like a white chocolate. The whole point, first of all, they're holidaying those up, and they're out there, and they're advertising them, and I saw them after I paid, and I still almost went back through the line, but I didn't. But they have hot chocolate Oreos. Hot chocolate Oreos that have coming out. What?

is the difference between a hot chocolate Oreo and a regular chocolate. From what I could tell. From what I could tell, there was a chocolate cookie on the top, like a normal dark chocolate cookie cookie cookie cookie cookie. Then there was a brown chocolate cookie cookie on the bottom. Then I'm guessing the cream is a little more marshmallow. Is there like Swiss mist sprinkles on there? I don't know, man. And then they also had cookie better ones. Or do they say, they're like, okay, now that you've opened the package, throw in microwave for 30 seconds. I don't know.

I don't know. Well, we need to know. Mike is on. Jason's on tilt. I am genuinely on tilt. White chocolate sucks. This is white fudge. This is white fudge covered Oreos. First of all, do you like them? Do you like them cold? Do you like to go there? I'll go there. White fudge sucks. Oh, man. Do you want a ruling from the judge? Yes. Oh. Yes. Give me a. Oh, we're going to go to court over this. Fantasy court. Dude, Brooks. With Judge Giamati. The plaintiff.

Mike of Fantasy Hitman Ride is accusing the defendant Jason Moore of excessive love of Whitefoot. How do you plead, Jason? I plead guilty as I should be. Make your case, guys. I already did. Make it quick. Here's the case. It's a holiday special that comes out every year. It treats people with the magical flavor of white chocolate. It's, it's.

unbelievably good. If you actually have it with milk, which seems weird at the beginning, you're going to find out that it's, it's, it's right. It's another level to life. And, uh, I rest my case. Another level to life. That is a compelling argument. It's too sweet and it's terrible. All right. I need a ruling from the judge. I rule in favor of Mike. Yeah. What the? Yeah. Eat it. Eat it. And not eat white fudge because that stinks. Oh my goodness. Well, this is our last show.

We're done as a company. There's the reason I asked Mike if he would like a rule. Oh, I know. I know. Brooks is fired. I felt it. Brooks has been fired, Mike. Jason is done. I think we were talking about. Megaladone. I think we're talking about the Saints and the Saints. We're not friends. You've been Brooks trade. He's Megaludan. Yep. I think we're talking about the Saints and the Rams, guys. You want to continue? Yeah, let's continue. You're not sitting Gurley. Gurley's going to play.

Yes. You're not sitting the number one and number two running backs lately, Camara Ingram. Correct. You're not sitting Thomas or Breeze. Does Jason face away from me now? Oh, he is. I've never engaged with you on this show. What's up, dude? I love white chocolate. Just me and you, Andy. Yeah. All right, Jason Williams. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Jason Williams. White chocolate. All right. Cooper Cup or Sammy Watkins? Cup. Yeah, I think you've got to rely on Cup. Cup seems to you. You two are agreeing? Who? You and Mike? I don't see anybody else here. Cooper Cup.

plays more of the same type of role that Robert Woods has done. Sammy Watkins has been used in that field stretching, never target him role. And so I do think that Cup is the actual beneficiary here when it comes to the Woods targets. However, I think both players are, that being Watkins and Cup, are startable assets this week. This is creeping me out. He's just staring right at me the whole time. People want to know, can they roll Jared Gough back out there?

I try to avoid it. I'll try to avoid his splits against top defense. It's not good. And now you've lost Robert Woods for a couple weeks. I would prefer not to start it. Kobe Fleener surprised last week. Is he a streamable option? No. You talk a lot about Tyler Croft and Austin Hooper and Hunter Henry. I don't buy into it. I don't buy into it at all. You of all people. Yeah. I mean, I know I've, I've been the resident Kobe Fleener apologist here. And I'm happy he had a great week.

And if there is another team out there that perhaps could get up into a big lead on the Saints, we've seen the Rams do that to teams that we don't expect them to. But losing Robert Woods, I believe, does matter. They are at home. But last week, the Washington Redskins got out to a big lead, a lead that we assumed the game was over. And when they had to come back and just throw the ball like crazy, I mean, you look at.

Mark Ingram had a great game last week. He only had 11 carries, but he still was the primary ball carry. That's how much they threw the ball. And if they're in that situation against the Rams, sure, Kobe Fleener will be okay. But I don't expect the Rams without Robert Woods to be able to get out to a big lead. I mean, we just, you know, in agreement said that we don't think we would prefer to start Jared Goff this week. I like that they're home. I think it'll be a competitive game. I'm not going to be surprised if they win it.

Real quick, mailbag question from Andrew in Louisville. Should I start Breeze or golf or pick up Dalton? Oh, that's interesting. I think I might play Dalton. It's not like Breeze. To me, Breeze has not earned himself in Auto Start this year. He's around the 12th best quarterback. Right. So I'm going to go Dalton against Cleveland. I think I'm okay going with Dalton. You have the Rams who.

They're the fifth best. There's seventh best against, sorry, fifth best against a quarterback, seventh best against the wide receiver. I mean, I expect Mark Ingram and Camara to be dominant forces, and we could see another situation of the Saints just completely leaning on the run. Yeah, I mean, that is a reality with how the Los Angeles Rams stack up. You've got to have some red courage to start Andy Dalton. Yeah. All right, the Jaguars. Red courage. They take on the.

Arizona Cardinals in Arizona, Jacksonville, 73 right now. Revenge game from Bond bombshell time. Nothing like Blaine Gabbard and Blake Bortles in the same game together. Blaine Gabbard getting the start again. I feel like I need that Spider-Man meme. I told you guys this week. I'm the most worried about Adrian Peterson in terms of relying on him for the playoff run because you just don't know when a good game versus a bad game is going to happen.

I thought we'd see better from him last week against Houston. We didn't. Now you've got to take on Jacksonville. And while Jacksonville's defense is insanely good, I think they're running and rushing defense. They're only middle of the pack because they would choose to be. I mean, it's when you defend the pass so well that all your opponent can do is run the ball, your totals are going to be higher than how good you are at stopping it. I think they realize that, look, Arizona, they want to put it on Blaine Gabbart, not Adrian Peterson.

I'm not very excited about anybody in this game. Other than the fact that Larry Fitzgerald's home splits are so good, and he lines up in the slot more. So maybe he avoids AJ Bouye and Jaylon Ramsey. What do you guys think? What's the headline for you in this game? Are you avoiding Cardinals? I'm going to play Fitz, like you said, home game. Do you want to play the number one tight end from last week? No. No. No Ricky Seals Jones? Rickie Seals Jones. Or it.

I was just trying to get you to. Yeah, you can't play him, but do, are you interested at all in Big Gresh? No. There was, there was success to the tight end position last week. It just was not Big Gresh. Yeah, that's, that's why I wouldn't start him. Yeah, it's really tough. I'm not even sure I, I love Larry Fitzgerald in this. I don't love him. I just would, I'd be willing to start him.

Yeah, it's tough. He's the start of the week. And the Jacksonville Jaguars, since they made that trade with Buffalo, they've been very good against the run. So Adrian Peterson, I'm avoiding every single cardinal other than, you know, if you need to flex in Larry. You're avoiding Larry, wide receiver four? No, I said other than if you need to flex in Larry, I'm okay. But everybody else. I guess I'm coming.

off of a week where I pumped the brakes on Larry and he proved me wrong. Blake Bortles against the Arizona defense. Do you want any piece of that? Maybe. It's definitely interesting. You want it? Is he a 12 to 15 guy? Do you want Tyrod Taylor or Blake Bortles? Probably. Tyrod Taylor, for sure. Yeah, I think it's Taylor. But that, you know, like 14 to 16 range. So a possible. Gough, Gough, Bortles? I would take golf. I mean, that.

Man, I think I would take Bordle. The over under in Arizona is only 38 points. Yeah. And I think if you look at that 38 points, the percentage chance that 7 to 14 of those points are scored by Jacksonville's defense is pretty good. So I just don't see a lot of fantasy upside here. I'm going to start Leonard Fornett if I have him. No doubt. You know, Larry, if I need to. Yeah, I think you go Gough versus Bortles because you've got.

Vegas seeing 54 points out of that game. Right. Yeah, that's fair. All right, the Raiders, they take on the Broncos. The Raiders are at home in this game. I talked about Jared Cook earlier, start of the week. Paxton Lynch gets the start in Denver. We've actually talked a lot about the Denver side of this equation. At the running back position, Booker, R.C.J. Anderson. Oh, man. I'll see you've got both of these guys. You've got to pick one. Where are you leaning?

The Raiders are right now 27th against fantasy running backs, giving up 23.1 points per game. They also stink against quarterbacks and tight-ins. So we saw, you know, it's funny. We said, oh, man, if this could only be a two-headed monster. And Booker and C.J. Anderson would both. Two-headed worm. Thank you. Booker and C.J. Anderson would both be valuable. Well, that's basically what we saw last week. You know, Jamal Charles was not used. And Devante Booker became the primary. 4.9% of snaps.

This week for Jamal Charles. Exactly. And so, you know, in this matchup, because it is an easier matchup, I think I still lean with C.J. Anderson. That being said, I don't blame anyone, especially, look, if I'm in a full PPR, then I would much rather rely on the baseline of Booker.

Mike prefers Emmanuel Sanders over to Marius Thomas this week, gave those reasons with Paxton Lynch and his history. This is a wait and sea week with Paxton Lynch too. I mean, just seeing what you have in this offense, what can improve with a new offensive coordinator and new quarterback? All right. Derek Carr, Lynch, Crabtree and Cooper. What are we doing, guys? This Broncos defense, they're not the same, but they're still fantasy points. You know, they're only giving up the fourth least in the league.

But they give up touchdowns. They do give up this freakish thing where they don't give up yards, but they give up touchdowns. Break but don't bend, they call it. Nice. I don't really want to play. Crabtree? I like Jared Cook. Crabtree kind of got back on, and for those of you who are a little disappointed by him, the target counts last week were there. Sure. He got back up to the double-digit targets, but only ended the game.

Six for 51. No touchdown. Hasn't scored in a little while. Three weeks. Yeah. Crabtree's fine as a two. I don't love it. I don't think that there's tremendous upside, but I do not want to play a car. Yeah. And my original pump the brakes was actually not Alex Collins. It was Marshaun Lynch. He's had more involvement over his last two games and has been okay. This just doesn't appear to me to be the matchup.