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

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Jason Moore and Mike Wright. Ah! Where we're going, the vocal range doesn't even exist. Welcome to the Megalodon! Oh man, this morning we got sick kids, we got broken legs, we got sick wives. Ain't nothing getting in the way of this show. No. We had a Megalomorning for all of us. Drama.

Dad drama, dad life. Yeah. Jason thought his daughter broke her leg this morning. Mm-hmm. Happy to report she did not? No, she did not, but, I mean, it didn't even matter. Even if she did? I said, get out back. Oh, go deal with it. We got a Megalodon show. Put some dirt on it. Put some rub some dirt on my life. Of course not. But, yeah, this has been a crazy morning. And that won't even come close to the craziness of this show that we're bringing right now. This is the Megalodon episode.

You're extra special, extra long, jam-packed Thanksgiving Day celebration. We've got every matchup on the show today. We've got starts of the week. We got pumped the brakes. We got some Turkey Day awards. We got a special little something later in the show. It's going to be. It's all special. Incredible. I think they want to hear your Megalodon again. Oh, mega, mega, mega, Megalodon. Thank you. Thank you.

I want to start out with a very special segment here. We have an article being released today. The Turkey Day Awards. That was okay. That wasn't bad. I liked it. Yeah, I liked it. Turkey Day Awards. It's on the website from Kyle. Our editor. Oh, the brief. The Borgoggin. Yeah. Yeah. So Kyle wrote this article. Here's the thing.

We have not read these three awards, and I want to read the description of these, and I want you guys to come up with who fits these Turkey Day awards, okay? The first award. It's an overdone turduckin. A fat overdone duck cooked in a chicken stuffed in a turkey. You paid a ton of money for this fat blend of a bird, but you just can't eat it. Instead, you just have to look at it and wonder what could have been...

Who's that? There's only one answer for this. Who do you think that is? David Johnson. Oh, no. Yeah, it is. It has to be David John. Even if maybe the Borghogan gave the award to someone else, but my overdone turduckin would go to David Johnson. I, you know, usually, that makes complete sense, right? Burned you, you can't eat it. It was so expensive. It's delicious. You're right. It is David Johnson. But there's plenty of answers. I'm taking the injury out.

And so if you're talking non-injury guys, that's fair. I'll give you a hint. It is non-injury related. Well, I'm going to Marco Murray. He was also that first round type of cost, and he has burned you several times this year. You know what the answer is. Oh, who did he? I don't. Who did he give it to? Oh, Terrell Pryor is the overdone for injury now. You'll get stuck in the mud dumpster fire.

That's fair. That's fair. Terrell Pryor is the overdone turduck and the other ants dressing and stuffing. Uh-oh. That's this next award. That's trouble. You never really know what it's going to be like. So this is the other ant who brings the dressing and the stuffing. You know, we all have that ant. It could blow your socks off and have everyone at the table ranting and raving, or it could make your stomach so upset. You will feel the effects for days. Ooh. I feel like the easy pickings here would be Amari Cooper.

It can be delicious, but most of the time, vomits. And like Thanksgiving, it comes once a year. But I'm going to go Tyreek Hill because he's so. That was my answer. Back and forth. I'm going to go with Golden Tate. Clippity clump. Clipity clump. Ping pong. Golden Tate, been a little bit like that this year. He's been mostly good, though. All right. Well, yeah, I'm with Jason. I would go with Tyreek Hill for the other aunts dressing slash stuffing. The answer from editor Kyle. Oh, it.

Amari Cooper. Yeah. All right. I like Mike's point, though. I think that means the other ants dressing and stuffing is it makes you sick most of the time. Yes. Yeah. All right. The sweet potato casserole. All right. This is a heavy, hearty, and delicious food. Incorrect. For those first few bites, but you can only have so much before it makes you sick. So the first few bites, but now it makes you sick. So the first few bites, you didn't actually get any on the spoon. And I was like, this is fine. Yeah.

And then you get that sweet potato. Kyle's sweet potato casserole. Just, if substitute whatever food is very heavy, feels good, and then you can't have any more. We'll go cheesy potatoes. How about that, Jay? All right, that's fair. I'm surprised you didn't go wedges from Jack in the box. Oh, that's later. Heavy, hearty, delicious for the first few bites, but then it makes you sick. Who do we have that was delicious to start the year and now you're just, you get nothing?

Can't eat anymore. Not even if you wanted to. Well, see, here's the thing. The first guy that comes to mind, I'm still going to eat. I'm going to keep at it. It's Kareem Hunt. It's Kareem Hunt. I know the answer to this one. Okay. You wait like you actually know? No, I actually know the answer to this one. And who started real hot? We're talking about somebody that is droppable now, but delicious. Oh, Jordy Nelson. Oh, that's a good one, but no. Dang it. That was a great.

That's a great answer. Who was one of your favorite first couple weeks? Martavis? You were cruising along. Was it Stefan Diggs? Mike. Gillisley. Oh, yeah. I was like, you can't drop Diggs, but yeah. You can drop Mike Gillis. I know. Pour one out. Pouring out for Gilly. It's a turkey day. Gilly Gilly. There's, and there's far more available. There are.

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Where we're going, we very much need left tackles. So it is Wednesday, which means. Oh, oh, O'Reilly. O'Reilly. O'Reilly. It's like you got scared. I had to take it to another level. It's a megaladone show. It was very creepy. Pump the brakes with O'Reilly Auto Parts. Each week we pump the brakes on somebody that had a big performance. Tell you to.

Be careful about your expectations in the coming week. We've got obviously three games on Thanksgiving this week, and we've got a busy Sunday, Monday, important weeks for your fantasy football team. We want to get you ready. We want to get you right. And we're pumping the brakes. But who are we pumping the brakes on? Mike, you got a sad face next to your guy. Oh, no. We got to pump the brakes on the Abdullah Express. We cannot give him the full foghorn. They are. I know he's got a couple touchdowns the last couple weeks. Amir Abdullah.

Honestly, I still believe in the talent. I still believe in the player. But if you look at the fantasy scores over the last couple weeks, you're not bad, right? You're getting, oh, well, I got an RB2 here. But here's the deal last week. He dropped back down to 46% of the snaps after his season high 60% two weeks ago when he actually had a pretty solid game. Now he's going to take on the Minnesota Vikings. I...

would prefer to avoid that situation, if at all possible. So just a message out there to the people who are just, you're just cruising the box score. You're not even the box score. You're cruising the fantasy points in total saying, hey, double digits. Let's, let's fire up the Abdullah Express. It's sad for me, but I must say no. Yeah, and I don't believe in the talent, not as a featureback. I think he could be a very great.

third down weapon guy, get him in space. But he gets arm tackled too easily, in my opinion. And that's a, it's a fair problem. I've always wondered, like, since he's been in the league, Theo Riddick has been there. And he's already got that role. But it almost feels like if Riddick wasn't there, Abdullah could go into a role that fits kind of what he excels at more. And I don't know. I'm going to continue the pain for Mike, because I know Amir Abdullah.

was his guy. You're going to do me dirty. I'm pumping the brakes on Keenan Allen. Oh. Careful. I'm sorry. Careful. I remember when I pumped the brakes on to John Watson. Look, I know that Keenan Allen had a monstrous otherworldly week, but he has stunk in great matchups this year when he played Oakland, the Giants, New England, Kansas City. He didn't have good weeks. And this was a unique situation last week. And it was called Nathan Peterman, who's still throwing interceptions.

Did you see he was named the AFC defensive player of the week? Oh, no. Someone tagged us with a meme on Twitter sphere. I was going to give you a lot of credit if that was an adjacent original. It was not. I give credit to the someone I don't remember. Twitter. To the Twitter spirit. Look, pumping the brakes isn't about throwing a guy away. Pumping the brakes is about having fair expectations. Unfortunately, I'm pumping them on Keenan Allen. That was week 11.

The previous 10 weeks did not make me think this was coming, and they had short fields and Nathan Peterman. So I'm going to go, I'm going to go keen on that. Yeah, I get that. I would just put it. Hadn't scored since week one. No, absolutely. I would just put the disclaimer out. This pump the brakes is not accepted by the entirety of the fantasy footballers community. It's fair. Okay. My pump the brakes, I'm pumping. This is like a self, you know, I'm looking in the mirror saying. Yeah, you are. Jason, I know you like this guy. I know you've been talking them up.

And you say he's really good and he's the starter, his role is secure, and I believe all those things. But I got to pump the brakes. Don't do it this week with Alex Collins. I really, really like what I've seen out of Alex Collins. This last week he had a great week. You know, I mean, you've got a guy here who got 20 carries, got a touchdown last week. He's got the volume. And that was with Danny Woodhead back. Okay. So the Baltimore Ravens rushing game isn't the best, but it's clearly become Alex Collins as that lead first, second down, you know, on the ground runner.

Here's the problem. He's going up against the number one most difficult matchup for on the ground runners. Number one most difficult. Wait, for on the ground runners? As opposed to the running back position, catching passes out of the back. They're all on the ground, bro. Danny Woodhead. He's on the ground.