MEGALODON Episode – Week 12 Matchups, Starts & TONS More!

it's really hard. Like I'm not blaming to Marius Thomas or Golden Tate, but it's hard to be like first on mind for a guy like Deshaun Watson. You know, he's just not happening for him. Yeah, this is you can start Deshaun Watson. You can start Lamar Miller, but it's not great matchup for either guys. You must start DeAndre Hopkins. You must. And then the DSTs, I think you can start both of them in this game. That's it. You're done. Don't start anyone else.

Couple of injury or one injury update at least since the beginning of the show. AJ Green remained sidelined at Wednesday's practice. Weird. However, Marvin Lewis said he will practice later this week. Well, he will practice later this week in a limited fashion so that they can say he's trending up and then he's not going to start. Oh, I got one more. In or out. Do you think he'll be in or out, AJ Green? Out. I stay with that. Brooks. One more, big one. Mitch Trubiskey, doubtful for Thursday. Makes sense. Oh, my Chase Daniels looking so good.

Uh, let's get into the daily dose. A daily dose. Brought to you by draft. All right. What are we doing for the daily dose today? We're doing the turkey day draft. Woo. We're limiting ourselves to the Thanksgiving day slate. And I have the first pick here. There are a lot of options. Yeah. Surprisingly for, for limiting ourselves to just the three games. Oh my goodness.

Man, you're on the clock. I'm on the clock, and I think that the options at running back are a little bit more limited, so I'm going to take Super Camario with the number one pick. That's 100% my view on the Turkey Day games, so I'm not going to let Ezekieli pass me by. No, stinking way. You guys are idiots. I was so happy that this guy fell to me. Kevin Coleman. Drew Breeze is so high, so much higher above. Look, there's not that many quarterback options, right? I mean, there's only.

six quarterbacks and one of them is Chase Daniels starting so, or probably. I'm so happy he got to me and Mark Ingram could end up as the best running back. I'm going to stack Drew Brees with Mark Ingram. Jason, you are 100% incredibly correct. Matt Ryan, welcome to their team. I got to get the last quarterback I care about. Cool. So that means I don't have to worry about the quarterback position. No, you don't for a very long time. That means.

I am going to go with Mr. Julio Jones. Julio. Julio Touchdown Jones. I apologize. The way a snake draft works, Mike, is you get to pick one more player. Awesome. Michael Thomas. Dang it. That sucks. You're going to win with Michael Thomas and Julio Jones. Oh, man. I wish she hadn't done that. It gets a little thinner pretty quick.

So I guess I'm going to go ahead and bank. I'm going to bank on Treyquan Smith playing. And I'm going to take it. Ooh, that's dangerous. You're dancing in the fire. I like that pick. I feel like I have to take Kenny Goladay. He's my start of the week. And I believe in him. At this point now, I feel like with your wide receivers, Mike, I have to go upside. I have to go high upside. And I think there's safer options out there. This guy could be a bust.

But I'm going with Calvin Ridley because he could have the two touchdown. Yeah, that's the same view I took with Triquan. I'm going to go Tavin Coleman, stack him with Matt Ryan. Maybe you get a little swing pass action. So I'm completing my team here. And I need a quarterback and a running back. So I'm actually going to go with the pretty rare stack. Oh, are you going to Stafford? I'm going to Stafford, Theo Riddick. Sure. That's not bad. I like that.

man, Alan Robinson's sitting out there and I'm going, do I want the Chase Daniel Island Robinson situation? You know you do. But the options are, they're just not great. I bet you wish you had Julio Jones and Michael Thomas. You know, I'm just going to take Amari Cooper. I'm going to take Amari Cooper and stay away from Alan Robinson. I've got to take a running back. I've got great options like Ligarra Blunt and Zach Zinner. It's just awesome.

No, it's really between Adrian Peterson and Jordan Howard, and I am taking Jordan Howard. That's the way I would go. So my team is for this Thanksgiving match of Turkey Day, I'm going Stafford, Camara Theoretic, Julio Jones, Michael Thomas. I've got Drew Breeze and Mark Ingram, Jordan Howard, Kenny Galladay, and Calvin Ridley. Matt Ryan, Ezekiela, Tevin Coleman, Trequan Smith, who could sit. That would stink. And Amari Cooper for my Turkey Day slate.

That was The Daily Dose. Check out Draft.com slash Ballers to play along with us. And no Megalodon would be complete without some Megalabag. Mailbag. Mega mail. Wow. Have you ever sung a different word? Of course. Okay. Come on now. Megalemail. This show 655. Ain't my first rodeo. Welcome to the mailbag. Visit the website The Fantasy Footballers.com. Click to submit a question button if you want to send us a question.

and you can dial the voicemail hotline. 302464 TFFB. You got to shorten those up, people. Oh, the voicemails? Yes. Oh, that's... You want them to make the show. PSA from Brooks. Dropping the hammer. So we got a bunch of voicemails, but you had to take them out. Yeah. Once upon a time, my fantasy team had a number of players. Yeah, they're a handful of them. Why are there wizards calling us? Number one?

Thanks, Magellan. Yeah, well, if you are a wizard, you are free to call the voicemail line at 302464 TFFB. We do not discriminate against those with power. With or without magic. What about light or dark side? We don't discriminate whatsoever there. All right. And, yeah, Muggles, you can go ahead and call us out. That's fine, too. Kevin in Phoenix has a question for us. He says, I've clenched a first round buying my league. And I've already...

I already got the defenses for Chicago and Houston. Should I consider picking up a third defense like Denver? So my second and third round opponents have fewer streaming options. Absolutely. If your team can afford it, I love doing this. Really? I play defense with the defense. It depends on what the burner spot is. But if this is like a wide receiver four who's just there for depth purposes, I'm with Andy at this point. I'm going to disagree. And I'm going to disagree based on the time of it. Okay.

You're talking about a buy week that's still, if you've got the buy week, there's what, two more regular season games and then the buy. So we're talking four weeks from now is when you're going to need this next level. It could be next level. It could also be dumb because he's saying you've got to insure some of your property against injury. You're probably two weeks from now going to be able to pick up that third defense if you need. I think you're too early on it. But I agree in general. Once you get to the playoffs, playing?

Keep away. Playing defense against other teams, that is legit strategy. Let me ask you this. Would you rather pick up that third defense or would you rather pick up Spencer Ware or Malcolm Brown? Oh, 100% handcuff. I would much rather have, because one of those two can become super valuable over the next two weeks, whereas the defense can't. All right. Oh, that's a tough name. Jinviel.

Nviel in Orlando. I think I did nail it. Oh, nice. Would you trade Levion Bell for Dalvin Cook in a dynasty league? No. No, Levy on Bell is going to get a monster contract. He'll go to a team that is not...

Great probably, you know, Jets and Oakland Raiders. There's other better options out there you can dream for, but you prepare for the worst. And the worst case scenario is he goes to a bad team with so much money that he's guaranteed volume and he's a back-end RB1. I heard he's going to hold out next year for, he wants the two years worth of. You better be dreaming of Houston or Indy. Oh, Indy. Yeah. Jonathan and Louisville, Kentucky, would I be crazy to start Melvin and Eckler against Arizona in a PPR league?

It's not crazy. All about your options. Yeah, you probably have a better option. Because Austin Echler, in general, is going to be in the, you know, as far as like projected rankings, what's it going to be in the 30s? Yeah, but I think he's talking about also do the Chargers manhandle the Cardinals and then Melvin Gordon gets a quarter off. Let me ask you this. Would you rather start Austin Echler or Theoretic?

Theoretic. Isaiah Crowell. Yeah, I'd rather start. I'm not rolling Echler out there. I'd play Echler over the PPR over Crowell. Echler was okay last game, but here's the thing. The Cardinals went on the road to Kansas City and played pretty darn well and did not put them in a position where they should do that. That was the lowest scoring game of the year for, I'm not, I'm just saying it's possible. I could counter that saying they went home against the worst team in the NFL and lost. They did lose, but it wasn't a matter of giving up 40 points. Right. And so is there a blowout here?

Probably. But the Chargers lost last week, and I don't know, maybe I got burned by starting Ackler a couple times when he didn't get that touchdown. He hasn't scored in a while. That's just my take. And Arizona, shockingly, the last five weeks, they've only given up one touchdown to a running back. All right. Christopher and Cincinnati hayballers. I know someone in my league antsy and going to drop.

MVS after a bad week. Would you pick them up over Corey Davis? Yes. Yes, I would too. Now, Mike, we're ending this Megalodon episode here momentarily. And a reminder, go to footclan giveaway.com. Let's never stop. Footclan giveaway.com is where you can win a sign Sequin jersey, signed DeAndre Hopkins jersey, signed Michael Thomas Mini Helmet. Head over there. That contest went up today. Now, you said by the time the show got over, did you have something you wanted to give away for...

Those that made it through the Megalodon in one sitting. Now, this is more honor system, isn't it? No, well, it'll be the honor system of you're going to have to jump on the Twitter. You're going to have to tag the FF ballers, and you're going to have to use the hashtag. Use the hashtag. You don't know what hashtag. He's making it up right now. Well, like I wanted to pivot and have it be like, because like Thanksgiving is not very good, but I know you guys would.

would be against that. Let's pick something out from the show. What happened? What happened on the show? I blacked out. There's only two things. There's two things that are infinite. Frank Gore and the Megalodon episode. So, Mega Gore. You come up with it, Mike, if you're not happy. Is he got to be able to spell it right so that we can see it on Twitter? I was going to say tag us with hashtag infinite. That's what I was going to go with. All right. There we go. Hashtag infinite.

And you're going to get yourself a gift card to shopballers.com. We're going to pick one? Yes. Okay. Not everybody. No, no, no, no. No, no. So, no, no, no. So, no, no. So many shirts out there and we'll be so broke. Yes. It'll be great. Yes. All right. We'll pick a winner. Jump on the Twitter. Tag us. Hashtag infinite. And you're going to win yourself a $55 gift card, possibly. Possibly. One of you. Could I get the Hammerhead Shark voice again one more time? Goodbye, guys.

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