Fantasy Football Podcast for Week 13/14

The next guy, Kenny Stills, has another big game, five for 162 with a touchdown. He's playing against... Will he keep doing this? Yes. Now, if you followed my writing, because I've been doing... Who doesn't? Well, it's almost nobody. Fair point, right? Everybody. Because I do, I started the season doing writing up for the Saints. I was full force on the Kenny Stills bandwagon. Just...

humongous. I was writing because Brandon Cook's ADP was just skyrocketing out of control and I kept writing people. You know, Kenny Stills is going to be this guy and Kenny Stills got hurt. I don't know if you recall this. No, I do. He was kind of, and he was trying to come back for a bunch of weeks. In training camp and then he ended up losing his spot to Cooks. So this is a kind of a late round. He's not really replacing Cooks though.

But I'm saying Cooks had the spot. The starting spot? Yeah. Where... I thought Stills has been out there. He has, but he wasn't getting the snaps until Cooks went down. As many? Yeah. Okay. And the targets. Yeah, okay. I don't know. So it's a late round, toot my own horn. Actually was right. You're tooting your horn. That's the first time ever. But I really... You've got to do it, man. You've got to point out when you're right.

You mean like when Trey Mason, your start of the week goes off for 900,000 yards and three touchdowns? Yeah, we'll get to that. Just making sure. But I like Kenny Stills moving forward. You'll probably hear more about him later. Yeah, yeah. Wow, this cannot be right. Is it? I'm looking at snap count percentage for Kenny Stills over the course of the year. They said he only played 25% of the snaps against Pittsburgh. Is that right? No, that can't be right. You should check that somewhere else when I go through one of these next ones.

Because he, yeah, he was 51% the week before. I don't know. That can't be right. No. Especially when you, Jimmy Graham played like 55% of snaps. Yeah, that's crazy. So who was playing? Well, I didn't know if maybe with the lead they, you know, you're off the field quite a bit. Maybe. Strange, yeah. All right. But if teams play Graham the way the Steelers did, that's why Stills was so open. I don't think another team's going to do that.

Yeah. And even if they do, not throwing the ball at Jimmy Graham is ridiculous. Well, if you saw the coverage, why would you, the guy's wide open? He didn't need to. Why would you not throw to the wide open player? Next three guys that will go through real quick here on the stud muffin side, this is a position that honestly we just talked about. Jimmy Graham.

One of the best, even put up a goose egg. So people are scratching their head at this position at tied in. I know you've been bouncing around which guys to start. Keith Miller, Jordan Reed, and Kobe Fleener all had big weeks. Miller was 8 for 82. Reed, like we talked about early, was 9 for 123. And Fleener was 4 for 127 and two touchdowns, and he had a couple big drops. Right. There's chinks in the armor for all of these guys. Yes, absolutely. Keith Miller is traditionally an up and down guy.

Period. He's needed sometimes. Sometimes he's not. He sometimes he blocks a lot for Levy on Bell. Jordan Reed, he went out and had a good game. I think he's probably the best of these three moving forward. I saw Colt McCoy's numbers of what percentage does he throw to a tight end, and it is drastically higher than the league average. Yeah, I believe that. And then Kobe Fleener, he's going to get Dwayne Allen back, and honestly.

he's up and down too. I mean, I like Fleener if Alan was out for the rest of the year, but it's not the case. I would agree that Reed is probably the best option of these three, even though, although his matchup is rough. Yeah. So, all right, let's move it home. Poop in his big boy pants. All right, we're going to talk about some every week starters that struggled and just give us,

are two cents about if you should be worried or not. I'm going to start it with Tony Romo on Thanksgiving disaster. 199, no touchdowns, two picks. Not good, my friend. And it was a very favorable matchup at home against the Eagles. It was a division game, so sometimes those can get wonky, but the Eagles have been allowing just tons of yardage through the air, and the Dallas was shut down.

The run game was actually held in check pretty decently too. So moving forward, do you have Romo concern? We're in the first round of playoffs. Romo has Chicago. Yes. Are you still starting him with confidence? I am still starting him if he's the guy that got me there. The confidence piece is I'm wavering on it a little bit. And the reason being is they're losing games.

and I think they need to get back to what they are good at, which is letting him manage the game a little bit and let DeMarco Murray run on that Chicago defense, let Julius Randall, let Lance Dunbar get the rock. I don't have concern to the degree that I don't think he'll be productive, but I think his ceiling's going to be capped because they're going to have to get back to what they've done well when they've won games. Right. Because they're in jeopardy of, I mean, what did they start?

They were really hot like the Cardinals. Six and two. And I think they've lost like three or four or something like that. I would agree with everything you just said. I'm in that predicament where I'm going into the playoffs and I have Romo. And I was texting you after Thanksgiving because I was already kind of locked into the playoffs. But it's just this is not what you want to see. I think that's really what it was. It was kind of like a bad omen. Right. You were like...

Some people will not start Romo because of that game. Is it the Omen or did he just get his worst game of the year out of the way? Right. Yeah, that's... Because Chicago is a very favorable... I wish we could tell you. For sure. For those wondering, yes, I'm still going to start Romo. There you go. And I'm generally a streamer. The Chicago defense doesn't hurt. If I see a good matchup with a streamable option...

I am not scared to take it. But this week, I'm going to stick with Romo. Sounds good. Yeah, I just put him on the list because it was funny. Yeah, Peyton Manning. Yeah, bench him for your fantasy playoffs. I'd go with Metenberger? Yeah. No, Manning had just an off day. He didn't need to have a big day. Because C.J. Anderson did everything. Goodness.

Second straight game of the 160 plus yards for Anderson. We've been talking about the fact we're really fortunate because in our league, the guy who picked him up off of waivers who's been blowing up with him, he just narrowly missed the playoffs to everybody's. And Anderson. It's everybody's benefits. Who else he got on there? Matt Forte was, he ran the ball five times last week against Detroit for six yards. He did go six for 52 in the air, but no scores. That one seems completely game-plan specific.

because they were playing the super stout Detroit run defense. I will say this, that, no, the Bears are against Dallas. I'm not too worried about the Dallas run defense. They're okay if McLean's in the lineup, but he goes in and out, in and out. It's a concern that I think it's, is it week 15 that the Bears play the Lions again?

I believe so. Yeah, because the Bears play, I think, uh, if you play at New Orleans in the final week. So let's say you, if you're in the playoffs and you happen to make it to round two because you've been riding your stud Matt Forte, you still have to play him, but that is, that's going to stink. Mm-hmm. If they come out and they let Cutler just throw it a bichillion times again. Yeah, there's just no way you bench a guy like that. No. So you just have to live with a bad matchup. You have to really hope that he gets an air touchdown.

Mike Evans had his first kind of subpar game in a while. In a while, yeah. But he was facing the stout Detroit defense. He plays Detroit this week. Oh, okay. Oh, yeah, last week was Cincinnati. Yeah. That game that he couldn't get out of bounds on the last play. The Bucks should have won. Yeah, they did everything they could to lose that game. But Mike Evans, did you see that clip of him basically just demolishing that teeny DB?

No, I didn't see this funny clip where he's running down field and the DB is trying to muscle him up. Basically just give him some contact at the line. Right. So the DB jumps in the air. It looks like a small child. And he jumps in the air to where he's off the ground and Evans hits him while he's in the air and just sends him flying down the field. It's pretty funny. I have to look it up. Lovey Smith, please get Mike Evans a quarterback because he is going to be a beast.

Yeah, no serious. If you can get him some accurate passes. And then... Just because it was funny. Yeah, we talked about Jimmy Graham, too. He's not a guy you're sitting, obviously. But that was... There are people not in the playoffs because of Jimmy Graham for sure. Luckily for me, he's on my team, but I didn't need him this week. But had I needed him and he did that, my Jimmy Graham bitterness goes... Yeah, that'd be infuriating. Starts flying up. So let's go ahead and see if we can help you out. This is playoffs, man.

How many leagues are you in? That you are four. Your mind is in? Okay. Oh, my mind is in two. Yeah, yeah, two big ones. Are you in the playoffs in both of them? No. I remember I missed the playoffs because of my Disneyland disaster.

That's right, that's right. I would have made the playoffs if I had not done that move. That feels wonderful. Yeah, awesome. You and I have been Snake Bit in our Fantasy Pros League where we lost by 0.22 two weeks ago, and then we lost this week to a 3-9 team that put up the most points in the league. Yeah, highest point total. We're probably going to miss there. We'll see. But let's move it on. Starts of the Week. All right, we wrote these starts of the week yesterday, so I actually have to change my start of the week. I didn't review it.

Yeah, you have Brian Hoyer. Because I was all in on Johnny Football, and Brian Hoyer starts. This is why we waited. So here's another piece of news. Yeah, yeah. Oh, gross. Let's go backwards. Hey, I got my defensive streamer.

Start of the week is the Cowboys D, which is a really scary one, I think, for a lot of people to start. But here's why they're at Chicago. They're on Thursday night football, and Chicago's D gives up a ton of points to defenses. It may be a big risk, but if you're looking for a D, you don't have one stashed for week one, you might not have a lot of better options. So who's your defensive streamer? I'm going with the Giants. The Titans are 25th and points allowed. I don't trust, even if Mentberger plays.

I mean, one good shot to his throwing shoulder. One good shot, he's out again. And then who's in? Jake Locker. Yeah. That would be delicious for any defense. No doubt. The Giants don't necessarily have the strongest D. They did lose to Jacksonville. However, they lost on the strength of Jacksonville had two defensive scores. Yeah, Jacksonville didn't score much. I mean, they didn't move away. So I like the Giants this week, and they should be widely available.

Yeah, that's a good pick. Tight-end, I'm going to go with Kyle Rudolph. Like we said, the tight-in picture is a sea of mediocrity right now. Oh, it's gross. But he seems to be finding his way a little bit. He's healthy. The Jets can't defend the tight-end worth anything. Right. And Bridgewater's best friend is normally his tight-in. He's an underneath game manager type of guy. So with Rudolph, watch his peak.

Uh, probably about five for 50 and two touchdowns or something like that, where he gets, gets a couple goal line looks. So that's, that's his peak, I'm saying. I wouldn't expect it, but I look for him to have a good week with a touchdown. Uh, I'm going with Jason Whitten. He, the bears, the 32nd, which against tight hits. They've been finally throwing to him again. Yeah, that's kind of the why I like him. He's been, last week was terrible, but I think last week's kind of the anomaly. You have to, you have to throw that. The what now? Anomily.

Okay. I had an extra... It was an extra syllable in there. So I'm going back to Jason Witten to have a... And, like, while going through these starts this week, the kind of stream-type low-level options were very difficult this week. I don't know if you had as hard a time as me, but I just... I had a very hard time finding good, exploitable matchups for...

low level or waiver wire guys yeah it's it's tough too because we're trying to pick people that are on the fence and is being startable not guys that are guaranteed starts but also guys that aren't irrelevant to you as playoff teams so um at wide receiver i'm going to go ahead and go with piergar song oh no that's bold what are you doing it's bold right what are you doing gonna pump the brakes on this one i do i i i