Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Wk 11 Studs, Duds, Rising Stars, Updates

Well, he's the next man up if Rawls does injure himself again. But right now, Rawls looks great going forward. Should get 20 touches next week. Well, let's be honest. CJ Michael will be, or Christine Michael, be cut soon. That's what he does. He can come back. Zach Miller, done for the season with the broken right foot. This is super unfortunate. He was having a great game. He's having a great year. Yeah. LaShawn McCoy to have surgery on the thumb. He missed half the game, but they say he's likely to play next week.

But he needs surgery on the thumb. Yeah, I did. The Twitter doctors, his name is escaping me right now. But he was talking about how he was pulled from the game because they couldn't get the thumb back in. And he said this is actually a good sign for, you would think of it worse. But because it doesn't just pop right back in, it heals faster because it's not just that thing where it's going to keep popping out. And so with the surgery.

to release the thumb and get it back into place. Even he agreed. He said he's more than likely going to play on Sunday. So we have doctor approval here. He's the best at getting kind of hurt all the time. Shady? Yeah. His touchdown run was so funny. We put both on hands up in the air. I mean, victory posts for five yards. Ryan Matthew, just like you would, if you had like a little pick six in our flag football league. Yeah. You might do it for 10 yards.

As soon as I intercept the ball, the hands go up. Ryan Matthews and Darren Sproles exited Matthews with a knee injury. Sprouls with a rib injury. Windell Smallwood. Yeah. Hello. Come on down. You're next in line. So and Barner needs to be under. He'll get some work, but sure. But Smallwood would be the guy to pick up as of today. We'll find out more about those injuries. When Doug Peterson comes out this week and says that it's going to be Kenyon Barner. Yeah, you know Smallwood's the guy to get. Char West is in the concussion protocol.

Okay. TJ Yeldon exited with an ankle injury. I think that's somewhat significant. You know, I think four pass catches for Ivory. Ivory. And so that changed the game a little bit with him being involved in the passing game. Ivory led the team in receiving yards. Oh, dear. What? How bad is Blake Bortles? Terrible. Terrible. Mental breakdown and physical breakdown. The mechanics are awful. The team is awful. I don't know who bought into them. I really don't.

Oh, wait, that was me. That was me. Robert Woods spotted on crutches after the week 11 win. Yeah. I'd rather be spotted doing anything else than being on crutches. That's not a good sign for next week. That was very unfortunate for Tyrod. I mean, Woods went down very early in that game. Percy Harvin, a relevant flyer? I have to ask. Maybe. Cody Kessler once again forced to leave a game.

I feel like this is three weeks in a row. Upper body injury now. They're calling it upper. They were saying concussion. That's part of the upper body. Yeah, well, I mean, that would be two for Cody this year, which is that's not good. Yeah. So they've pivoted. Now it's an upper body injury. I was mesmerized that I was able to pick up the Pittsburgh defense for zero fab dollars this past week. You were got lucky I was on vacation. I mean, just, I mean, that was a monster performance from them in the 20s.

Preston Brown, Bill's linebacker, says he believes Sammy Watkins could return in week 12. That's next week. Yeah. You know, for the last, for the last, I don't know, four or five, six weeks, I feel like the waiver wire has been, you know, there's not really been that guy or those guys that you burn that first priority and dump your, you know, fab into. This week, there seems to be four or five guys that could be out there.

due to possible injury and other reasons or coming back from an injury, tomorrow's show is going to be quite excellent. I agree. There's a lot of names we need to talk about, and it's crunch time now. So let's go ahead and get into the stud muffins. This week's fantasy stud muffins. All right, let's start at the quarterback position. We've had big games from Brady for touchdowns. Looked like a monster. I think some people probably tempered expectations with Brady this week with Grunkowski out.

But you saw him just carve up the defense. Next week he has the Jets. So no questions about Tom Brady. Aaron Rogers had another good game, 351 and 3 has Philly next week. Aaron Rogers and the Green Bay Packers have truly become fantasy gold the same way that the New Orleans Saints. Or last year's Jacksonville Jaguars. Yeah. What you have here is a defense that is so bad.

and an offense that is so good that almost every single game, you're going to have a ton of fantasy production. I love the Saints comparison. Yeah, I mean, you have, when you've got a great quarterback and a bad defense, you just want everyone on both sides of that ball because Aaron Rogers is going to go down and score. The Green Bay Packers are going to go down and put 30.

out there and they might lose that game every single game. Those are the type of fantasy games you want to be a part of. So I love Aaron Rogers going forward because his team's going to be down and he's going to have to do it and he can do it. Yeah, I agree. Kurt Cousins. If you streamed him yesterday, you sang songs all night long. 375 and 3. Great game for Cousins. You know, the East is tough this year. I mean, you've got...

The Giants at 7 and 3. I believe Washington's, what, 6 and 3? 6.3 and 1. 6.3 and 1. Heck of a performance by Cousins. Really impressive. Everybody involved Dallas next week. And we got another full on Cousins meme. I don't know if you saw that vine going around. Did he say something else? Oh, yeah. I missed it. Yeah, how you like me now.

but just screaming it. He did it again? Oh, he did it again. Come on. This guy gets fired up. I love it. And just a quick, David Chow at Pro Football Doc, wanted to make sure people follow him. Kirk Cousins, I'm sorry, so next week they play Dallas with Dak. I've been saying I'm very confident in Dak fantasy-wise. He came through again this last week, told a lot of people to start him.

300 yards, three touchdowns. He was certainly a fantasy stud muffin in a difficult matchup. And with Washington next week, I'm curious what the over-under will be on that game because I actually think it'll be a high-scoring game. Yeah, I want to see what Vegas thinks. Because whenever there are those in-division games, that's where I really like to look to Vegas and say, are they expecting this to be one of those? They know each other well and the defense is going to win, or is this a...

you know, all out shootout. All right. Two more names for the stud muffins at the quarterback position. I'm going to throw a third in there. But Russell Wilson. Russell Wilson next week has Tampa this week. 18 for 31. Wait, what is that? Oh, completions. 18 for 31 for 272. One touchdown through the air. Caught a pass from Doug Baldwin. Got a touchdown. Yeah, caught a touchdown. Third week that he's been very productive at the quarterback position. Marcus Mariotta had a good game, put it back together.

After a tough start. I was going to say if you had him, you were like, oh, no, what's going on in the beginning of that game, not looking good. But he's just been doing it every single week. And the 49ers, you know, Colin Kaepernet had two touchdowns again, did enough to get you through the week. You know, five weeks in a row, he's been startworthy. So pay attention to him with these juicy end of season matchups. Let's go ahead. We're going to move on to running backs. Sure. Before we move on to the running backs, though, I want to think.

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You know, I think we know what we're getting with David Johnson and Levy on Bell. They were two huge stud muffins. So let's talk about some of the guys we maybe didn't see coming. Maybe you did. Robert Kelly and Rashad Jennings. Who, Robert Kelly. Three touchdowns always out. Fat Rob. Fat Rob. The self-proclaimed. Did you see that when they do the little Sunday Night Football Corner introductions? He called himself Fat Rob. I mean, that's smart. Look, you're an undrafted free agent. You want to endure yourself?

to America in prime time. You get on there, say, hey, I'm fat Rob. I love the guy. And then you score three touchdowns and 137 yards. I know, you know, I know, Andy, you weren't super high on him this last week because of the matchup. It's true. It's true. But at the same time, we have, you know, I've been saying he's passed my eyeball test this year. The last two weeks prior to this week and now last game, I really believe. So we'll actually talk about him a little bit. Rashad Jennings.

I think is a bigger story here in the sense that, you know, there's all the Paul. Very involved. All the Paul Perkins conversation and what Paul Perkins meant to Rashad Jennings was a loss of opportunity, except there was no loss of opportunity. In fact, this was the best opportunity we've seen. He was super involved in the passing game, very involved, obviously, in the running game. He was the fourth best fantasy running back this week. And I think going forward now, you'd have to say, look, you saw this at the end of last year.

At the end of last year, they started to find something really special with Rashad Jennings, and that led to victories, and they started running and using him. I was going to say this is deja vu. Well, last three weeks for Paul Perkins attempts. Week 9, he had 11 attempts. Week 10, he had nine attempts. And week 11, he had four attempts. So it's been down in three straight weeks with the ascension of Rashad Jennings. He has to protect the ball, but he's on an upward trend. You have to ride him right now. And...

Next week. Cleveland. Hello. And Pittsburgh the week after. So a couple of nice weeks. Rashad Jennings looking really good. And like Jason said, we'll talk more about Robert Kelly, no doubt. Probably, you know, I kind of want to touch really quickly on James White and Dionne Lewis. So, I mean, you could kind of throw James White in there as an honorable mention in the fact that he had six for 63 in a touchdown. He didn't get a carry.

You saw Dionne Lewis get some carries. But what's your impression of that situation right now? It's still very murky. I will say it was Lewis right away. Right at the very beginning of the game. He got two targets, I think, on their first three plays. And he had this one shake and bake where he looks good. You're like, hey, Lewis, he's back. I was watching that and I was paying very close attention because I am an owner of both of these guys. I need one to win out.

I need Dionne Lewis to not be involved or I need Dionne Lewis to just be who he was. The game opens up. First play, he's the starter. He's on the field. He looks great. And then there were sets even on that first drive where both James White and Dionne Lewis were in the game together on the same play. Unfortunately, James White had that great touchdown run. And I think they're going to both be used. That being said, when I watched, I mean, it was just what we saw last year. They look different.