Fantasy Football - Starts of the Week + Week 15 Breakdown, Coach Jokes - Podcast for 12/11

Well, that just, yeah, that happened afterwards. All right, Ben Senate. Someone double-checked us. I won't mess with that. We'll go Ben Senate. I've picked him up wherever I can in hopes that he does take the Zachert's role. I'm not. I thought you just picked him up for the chance to maybe play him against Mike to taunt Mike with him. Well, that was just icing on the cake in that league. But, no, I mean, I do think he is someone where at the waiver show next week, it could easily be like, okay, he's the number one tight end pickup. The matchups are coming up are great. He plays Cincinnati or no, Dallas in the championship week. But we don't know enough, but we have not seen enough to start him this week. Correct. But I would like to, like, what's so brutal about it is you can't start in this week as much as that would just be glorious for me and my love of the player. Can't start him this week. Next week is Philly. Right. So like even if you're holding them for the championship week, let's say the senator.

does something this week and you're like oh i can't really play him against philly and then he has a bad game against philly well no i can't i will put him in my championship against you yeah the the situations that exist where ben senate is playing for teams seem it's also for dynasty purposes yeah yeah this is looking for that that's more what i'm looking for is is can we have what four games or so can ben senate really take that trade take that trade take that role for washington The Las Vegas Raiders are 2 and 11. They take on the 8 and 5 Philadelphia Eagles. Philadelphia minus 11 and a half. The overrunners 38 and a half. They should not have a problem here. Can he picket? 38 and a half in their favor by 11.5. Is that the starter for the Raiders? That is. Yeah. Kenny Pickett will be starting with the shoulder injury to Geno. Former backup for Philadelphia, right? They had a little bit. I forgot about that. The Eagles are going to win.

Yeah. Do they cover 11.5? I don't know. Yeah. Probably. How does Las Vegas possibly score? I mean, it's not possible. Their implied total is 13 and a half. Do they get to 13 and a half? I don't think so. No. 10? Okay. 13 and a six. Just two field goals? Oh, you know, you know that Carol's going to kick them field goals. Yeah, you will. He has a chance. Let's say they get to 10. Okay. I'm not sure the Eagles cover. That might be true. The Eagles offense has just not been putting up a lot of points. A.J. Brown has, though, number five, number one, number 12 in their three straight losses. Hopefully he's happy. Saquan got it done with the big run last week. You play Saquan. You play A.J. Brown. Devonte Smith, he makes me a little nervous. He's in a lineup for me. The matchup's good. I'm just going to go with it. But you wonder how much they're going to need the whiteouts in this one. The defense plus the running game.

That's my worry. You want to get it early. You know, first half, you hope Devante Smith is involved, gets one of the early touchdowns. Yep. And, man, I mean, you can play Brock Bowers and you can play Ashton Genti and you can pray. What are you doing with? It's a play and pray. With Goddard, who, nothing. I'm magically jumped up to 10 targets. Yeah, I'm doing nothing. Way, way better matchups. Just too many people. What are you doing with Jalen Hertz? I'm going to keep playing Jalen Hertz. You can always push a couple of touchdowns in. He was obviously abysmal this last week with five turnovers and, you know, two fantasy points. Did you see the video? But while he's been playing bad, well, yes, I did. While he's been playing poorly and the Eagles have not been scoring a lot and Jalen Hertz has not been dominating for fantasy, he has still been good. He's still putting up fantasy points where it's like you start him. There was a NASCAR video of a police officer that showed up at a guy's house.

Oh, yes. Doing a welfare check. And the guy who just comes to the door, he's like, dude, the Eagles lost. He's like, are you going to harm yourself? He's no, I'm not going to harm myself. The Eagles. Seven saw a Facebook post he made after an Eagles lost. I mean, the Philadelphia, they take it serious, man. They do. They do. They, um, oh man. Only Philly fans could be so, so full of hatred for their current Super Bowl champion Eagles. Like the. You guys are the current Super Bowl champions. And you hate yourselves. Yeah. You hate the team and the coaches and the quarterback. And they, I'll swap. I'll trade you. Trade it all to the Cardinals. Yeah, you can. Not only that, they have a 91% chance to win the division. Yeah. Yeah. You're going to be in the playoffs, man. With an elite defense. Yeah, you're going to probably win the Super Bowl. No. I thought, I thought the Buffalo Hills were. Probably going to make the Super Bowl.

Well, I thought it was Green Bay. You're probably going to make the title game. My point is they have as good of a chance as anybody, despite all the sadness. There's still a very good team. It's just lopsided where they're getting it done. Speaking of lopsided, New York 3 and 10, Jacksonville 9 and 4. Jacksonville playing well with the highest implied point total all year, 27.5 against New York. New York with a 14 point implied point total. This game is somewhat similar to the previous one. Good defense for Jacksonville. They're 13.5 point favorites. The over under is 41 and a half. But I mean, you play your Jacksonville Jaguars. Yes. Lawrence, E.T.N. BTJ. Jacoby Myers. Grant and Strange. Yeah. Start them all up. All are in play. I also think in a, you know, if you're in a deep league, you backed into the playoffs, you maybe have Josh Jacobs and he gets injured or whatever. Tootin despite playing 3%. Like this is a game where I'm hoping that somehow.

the Jets can score enough to where this doesn't become a second half, you know, rest E.TN and put in Tootin, but I could see that world existing. I see no world existing where I like anybody on the Jets this week. No. And that includes Brees Hall. I would be trying not to play him if I could. He was limited. Brady Cook might start. Limited in practice. This is not. Literally no jet. Not even. Brady Cook, all due respect, sounds like a creative player on Madden. Like they just spun one up. printed him out, and he's replacing Tyrod and, or Tarot and Justin Fields. It's going to be a really long day for you. And it's in Jacksonville. This game is. It's not a, I won't be watching that one closely. I mean, I have some, some, or at least near when I've eaten food. I got some Jags. I got some Jags offensive players that I'm going to be watching. The Cardinals are three and ten. They take on the eight and five Houston Texans who are on a roll. Houston, nine and a half point home favorites.

Over under's 42. Here we are again, Cardinals, just 16 points. Implied point total. This is the largest spread of the entire C.J. Stroud era for Houston. This is the largest spread for the Texans since week six of 2018. Wow. They have won five in a row. Their defense is incredible. They can run the football with Woody Marks. Nico Collins is on a roll. The Cardinals are going to have a really, really hard time. Their offensive line, It took another hit this week. Paris Johnson is out for the year. They have no running game. This is the Cardinals right now. This is why they lose every game despite the fact that we come in here and tell you Jacobi Reset is awesome with 45, 47, 49 pass attempts. They don't have a running game of any kind. So Jacobi can string a few completions together, gain some yardage, then they can still not score and they can still not move the football. The Cardinals still get sacked. It really comes down to, like, Trey McBride, there's no way I'm benching Trey McBride.

But it's Michael Wilson should again, you have to do the algebra. If Marv is out, then Michael Wilson becomes at play. The matchup is horrifically bad. I'm playing him over the duties of the world. Okay, so there still is enough confidence that he'll see what the double-digit targets. Yeah, 10-11 targets. All right. Yeah, I mean, this game, again, the Cardinals, one of the rules of the NFL, they will have to possess the ball during the game. Yeah. That's one of the things that they're going to make them do. It might be three plays. Yeah, this is a tough one because what Michael Wilson and Jacobi Berset have been doing has helped people sneak in the playoffs. And, you know, we've talked about like this isn't, this has not been a situation where you should pivot away from these guys. This is the first time, though, where I really do think the Cardinals are going to struggle. And the only way that the.

offense and the passing game works against this team that has shut down everyone that is at home is going to be like, you're just praying for garbage time. Let me ask you a couple names here. Michael Wilson or D.K. Metcalfe. Michael Wilson or Jacoby Myers against the Jets. I think Michael Wilson, like, they're number one, the Texans against quarterbacks and wide receivers, but it is fully consolidated. They have nobody. Marvin Harrison, all their other, you know, they already lost Dors. They lost everybody else. It's consolidated to McBride. It's consolidated to Michael Wilson. And I think he's double digits. Okay. I think Michael Wilson's 10 points. So it's still very startable. To me, he is. Not to Jason. Not, I'm not super excited. Right now I have him as my wide receiver 26. So that is someone that you're going to start in the flex. That's, you know, in there. That's probably 8 to 10 points, right? Yeah, somewhere around that range. So you talked about Woody Marks, your start of the week, Mike. You're playing Nico.

Jason, you said pay attention to Jaden Higgins earlier in the week. Yeah, I mean, Jaden Higgins has been pretty good. You know, not necessarily like a great fantasy option. Decent. I mean, he's been top 36 in the majority of his games after the buy, and he's a second round rookie. This is a good matchup. So I think you could throw him in an emergency, but he's also an emerging wide receiver. So I'm just happy to see him. be really good. And if you watch the actual Texans games and how they come about, there have been so many really important times, really big necessary plays where they're going to Higgins and he's making the play. He's making a, you know, just a man move. And that's to me really exciting for the future of a young wide receiver. What happened to Noel? I know, right? It's really a bummer, especially around Christmas. Oh, the first.

The top five starts two questions. I'm going to rattle them off real quick before we close that. You ready? All right. Emeka, Abuka, or D.K. Maccaf is number one. I'd play Abuka. Maccaf. Elmari and Hampton or Emeka Abuka is number two. I think it's safer to play Hampton, but if I need to Kaboom in the playoffs, I'd play Abuka. Number three, Emeka, Abuka, or Christian Watson. Goodness gracious. Wow, they're all in a Bucca. It kind of makes sense because you're making decisions today for the Thursday game. Christian Watson or Abuka, I'm going to play a Bucca. I'm going to play a Bucca. It's Denver, by the way, for Greenback. Yeah, that's. Okay. That's, that's. Yeah. Isaiah likely. I'm going to play likely. I will play likely. Come on, Philip. And then Joe Burrow or Drake May is the last one.

Oh, that's interesting. They're back to back in my rankings. I mean, I was like, you're not going to sit like, but yeah, I guess if I've got Burrow, I think that, you know, the only people I would sit Drake May for realistically would probably be Burrow, Matthew Stafford, Josh Allen, and maybe. Not Lamar? Yeah, no Lamar. That was Fantasy Forecast, presented by prize picks, joined millions of users and sign up for America's number one fantasy sports app. Use the code footballers to get $50 in lineups when you play $5. And you were saying that Jacobs News is good again? Oh, it's so, dude, you are getting prepped for a huge workload. Just so rested. Go get them. So rested. Go get them. You mean, go get that rest. Go get that rest. Go get that workload. Get them Zs. Oh, man. Goodbye. Thank you for listening to another episode of the Fantasy Footballers podcast. Join our fantasy football community on join thefoot.com. And follow us on Twitter at the FFBallers.