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

I moved on to the boxer briefs, and they're just better. But one of my life rules is you don't jump in front of a stampede. Now, I don't know if you guys make that a rule. I call that the Mufasa rule. Yeah, 100%. But Brooks, I mean, do you have this rule in your life? I do. Yeah. Don't jump in front of a stampede. That's how I feel about these Falcons going up against the Saints right now. This is a stampede. I don't want to touch anybody other than Julio Jones. Oh, see, I...

I mean, I get it. I completely get it. You have a couple weeks in a row of Falcons not looking great. And of course, the Saints are just unbelievable. But I have a rule that is if there's a 60 point over under game in Vegas. Yeah, I like that rule. I take the players and I put them out there. Look, the Falcons have had two bad weeks in a row without it out. The Falcons are not a bad offense. They had a, right? They had a great game.

In week three, when the Falcons scored 37 points. Was that against the Saints? That was against the Saints. Yeah, I mean, this is one of those games where you're in division. The last two weeks, the Falcons know they're pretty much out of the playoff run. They have very little left to play for. You're playing against the Browns. They did not get up for these games. But this is an indivision game against your getting all the news division rival. You know what you sound like?

You sound like me talking about the Eagles last week going up against the Saints. Sure. And the Saints' offense. The implied point total in this game, despite the overrunner, is just 23 points for Atlanta. That's on par with what Cleveland and Chicago are supposed to do this week. I get it. But you are sounding like me the last two weeks with Atlanta. I'm done with it. Yeah, I am still willing to take a shot on those pieces. Tevin Coleman, I think, is going to be a fine play.

Julio, obviously, and Matt Ryan. I don't like, I wanted to. Where do you have Coleman? I have Coleman right now at 19. I have Coleman. Say, I have him 19 as well. Let me see. So you would still play him. You're just, yeah, absolutely. But I'm not, I'm not looking at it as a bonanza for the Falcons. I'm looking at it as, okay, though, you know, they're going to have to throw the ball, obviously. But I'm not going to count on Matt Ryan to be, like this game.

You're saying you can't trust Ridley or Sanoo to the point where you're going to. Yeah, or even Matt Ryan did the degree of giving you a top five week because three weeks ago, I would have looked at this game and said, you start every Falcon expecting their best. But I don't think that's the case. Fair. I would start Calvin Ridley in this game. That's the one guy I would still be willing to take. I think he's shown enough as a rookie where in the right. You would start Calvin Ridley. Yeah, I would be willing to start Calvin Ridley. I think he's been like single digits for a while now.

Yeah, I mean, they haven't put up a lot of points. But I, I, you know, look, they're implied. Five, five, six, 1855. They're implied total of 23 and a half. I don't know if you can bet just team implied totals, but I would, I would bet the over on that for the Atlanta Falcons. How would you know? I would. Would you, uh, whoa. Oh, just between you and me? Yeah, 23 points. 23 and a half. That's what it is. Waterbed. Yeah, this is perfect. This is perfect. We'll see if your confidence, uh,

in Matt Ryan works out better than the Carson Wentz experiment this last week. Speaking of confidence, the New Orleans Saints offense. Are you starting anybody from that offense? Yes, please. The answer is yes. Drew Brees. Yeah, they're implied total is 36, by the way. So Alvin Camara, Super, Super Camario himself has been on, he's doing Super Camario level things. Oh! He's grabbing that star power, but he's been sharing. Sharing is caring.

That's what my kindergarten teacher taught me. He's been sharing his caring with Mark Ingram, who... He's great. I had... Jason kept the faith. He did. He did. I was getting a little shaky there on Mark Ingram. I was upset. I even mentioned this. You did. I was upset that Mark Ingram had such a good week because I wanted him to somehow stink last week, and then I could make up my start of the week against the Falcons, because let me tell you.

He should be everyone's start of the week. He's just too obvious. Like the Atlanta Falcons against the running back position, you play the running back against the Atlanta Falcons this year. And Mark Ingram is going to have a great week. So if he's on your bench, like Mike, you've got four great running backs in your league record. Mark Ingraham is my RB2. Right. This week. He's in. He's your overall RB2. What? Is that what you said? No, no, I'm saying like on my team, Jason talked about I have, no, Melvin Gordon's my RB1.

In my rankings, though, Mark Ingram. I've got him number seven. I've got 12. I'm at four. Yeah, I don't. What? Wow. That'll probably change. But right now I have Camara at one and Ingram at four this week. Wow. Your Algo loves him. Yeah. Yeah, no doubt about it. Goodness. Yeah, the matchups. It's as good as it could get. And he's looked good. So if you combine those things, that's great. Let's talk real quick. I mean, Michael Thomas, you're going to play him. Yeah. If Treyquan Smith actually misses the game.

which maybe he will, maybe he won't. Does anyone else interest you from this team? Austin Carr is a steep sleeper. Does Benjamin Watson get more involved? If Treyquan is out, Benjamin Watson. I'll glance Benjamin's way. Yeah, okay. Give a glance. Give a glance. A sweet romance. What? I love. Leave the rhyming to this guy. I love Ben Watson. That's what I'm saying. All right. I really love him.

Let's move on to the Sunday games. All right. We're through Thanksgiving. You've had a few naps. Okay. Probably more than a few. This is about the point in time right when Thanksgiving ends where I'm deciding one simple thing. My coffee is so cold. Yeah. Yeah. Mike is not happy. Baby Josh, can you come in here and get him another cup of coffee?

Baby Josh can do this live during the show. This is what interns do. If you guys have like a sprained ankle. Yeah. You could put your foot in. I can pour this coffee on it. You're right as rain. This is ridiculous. We need ice and someone get this man. Come on. Come on, baby. The last. Come on baby. Fill it up, man. I need all the all the power I can get.

You bought the wrong mug. Clearly. You bought the mug that's cool. Wait, don't say you bought the wrong mug. We're drinking out of our fantasy footballers mugs from shopballers. No, I'm saying. You're talking bad about our product. The cooling mug. He got the one that cools it. I guess. So what I was going to say is this is the point when these games end where I'm deciding, do I want a fourth and fifth piece of pumpkin pie? And the answer is always yes. It is always yes. And then there is a little regret.

but mostly sleep. Sunday games, the 2 and 8 Raiders take their winning streak on the road to take on the 5 and 5 Ravens. The Ravens are 11-point favorites, despite not knowing who their quarterback is right now, and they should be. Wow. Vegas almost always refuses to put a line. Don't care. When you don't know who the quarterback is, we got to wait and find out. They listened to the show, obviously. Vegas is very in tune with what we're doing here.

And I said, look, your stream of the week is going to be whoever starts for Baltimore. And that's good enough for them. That's good enough for me. So let's start on the Baltimore side because it's more fun to talk about that side. Lamar Jackson, what's the ceiling? What's the floor for him if he starts this week? Because Mike, you said you don't think Flacco's playing. Correct. Let's just presume Lamar Jackson's in there. The ceiling is like the third quarterback because he's not, his ceiling is not going to be what.

like Drew Breeze is able to do, you know, the top multi-toucher. Right. I mean, thankfully you have no golf, no Mahomes this week. So some of those big huge multi-touchdown games are out. But his, I mean, he was what? Was he 10th or? 13. Oh, he was 13th last week without throwing a touchdown. Or running for one. And having only 100-something passing yards because of the stupid way that fantasy scores running for quarterbacks. But it does. And so exploit the system.

You know, the awful exploit that is Lamar Jackson. I love watching him play. But if he's in there, he's a fantastic start. And I literally had to stop for a second on my roster. I have James Winston and Lamar Jackson. Oh, no way. No, I, but I had to consider. Okay. I mean, I went James. Oh, starting one or the other. That's fine to consider. It would be James easily for me. Okay.

But you have to at least acknowledge the fact that there's a world where James struggles mightily and ruins. You're not going to get ruined by Lamar Jackson if he starts the game. He's the least ruinable quarterback because if he runs the ball at all, you're fine. If he throws 100 yards, two interceptions. Yeah, and runs for 100. He's going to be just fine. And here's the thing. I will say this. I think his ceiling is top three because I'm not starting a pass catcher for Baltimore because I don't know what part of the game plan they'll be.

but when you have a player like John Brown, who's one of the best A-DOT players in the league and can break a long touchdown, one throw. If you take Lamar Jackson's normal stat line and you give him one 60-yard touchdown to John Brown. Yeah, he's going to be. He's a top three guy. So, but are you with me? Are you not starting any of the past catchers? Correct. So then for Baltimore? Yeah, and so then it's Gus Bus. For Baltimore, he says, we're, go ahead and throw in the Raiders too.

None of the past. From this game. The Raiders, the only player I'm thinking about, the only player I'm even glancing at is Janlon McArts. Jared Cook, I think. Jared Cook is. Yeah, that's fine because you can't, there's not a lot of options. Right. I would play Jared Cook. And just real quick, let's talk about the Baltimore running backs. Alex Collins versus Gus Edwards. Where is your confidence boarding the Gus bus? I've got Gus as an RB2 this week.

So you believe the switch has been made? I believe the switch has been made. That's not to say Alex Collins will go away, but I have Gus ahead of Alex Collins in this week's rankings. And, yeah, I mean, I'm starting Gus Edwards running back for the Ravens in most situations this week. I have them at 21 and 29 in case you want context for the separation. Which order? With Gus ahead. So as of right now. So you would play Gus above all those.

Guys, we pumped the brakes on. He's basically at that exact same position. I'd actually, yeah, I have him just ahead of AP. You know, the matchup's great. I mean, it's all about that matchup. If you had put them in a tougher matchup, then I'm not necessary. Oh, baby Josh just delivered some fresh coffee. Oh, that's so warm. Is it hot? It is piping hot. This is great service. Thank you, sir. How do you feel contributing to the show like that, baby Josh? So great. He said so great. Yeah. They can't hear you.

But I did ask him a question, so I don't really blame him for answering it. No. Did we say you would play Richard for Oakland? Okay. Yeah. Yeah, I would play Richard. Who would you rather play between Jalen Richard or Theo Riddick? Because it's not a great matchup for Theo. I'll play Theo. Theo Riddick. Okay. Shear volume of catches. And you just don't know what Gruden's going to do with the backfield, although it was nice to see Richard get.

14 touches and 11 carries. Like he's been the checkdown guy, but 11 carries is kind of nice. Maybe they're seeing what they got in it. Yeah, I think that was more of the ankle injury for Doug Martin. The 3 and 7 Jags take on the 3 and 7 bills. Wow, the Jaguars are 3 and 7. Yeah, I mean, focus on the food, people. The bills plus 3. So they're 3 point underdogs at home. This is an atrocious.

An atrocious 37.5.5. Under. Oh, well, the thing is, is, yeah, 37.5.5. Over under. Which is why I love both defenses. I love them. And that's probably going to be your best plays in this game outside of Leonard Fournette and Shady. I think you can play both of those players because I don't expect either team to just get out to a monstrous lead. You have two pretty good defenses here. Even though the bills have been much maligned, their defense.

I don't even play. I do not. I try everything in my power not to play Shady McCoy this week with the way Jacksonville completely shut down James Connor last week and the fact that there's there's just, it's scary to me. I mean, obviously. Yeah, I mean, I get that. Obviously, you're going to be in a position where you have to play it. But let me put it in perspective. I have it at 31. Wow. Because I don't think he's matchup proof. Like the Sean McCoy's situation in the volume.

it's concerning. And with Josh Allen coming back, he hasn't shown quite the propensity to throw the ball to McCoy the way that the other running backs had. I'm just bodying LaShawn McCoy. I get that. LaShawn McCoy has not been a must start every week, but his volume says that you can start him if you need to. For me, the projecting for the volume is looking back at their last game, which was two weeks ago.

The reason they were able to get him such incredible volume was because they weren't scared of that offense. That offense being the Jets and Josh McCown. I don't think Buffalo will be intimidated or they're not up against anything going against Blake Bortles and this Jacksonville offense. Do you have them much higher? No, not necessarily, but I'm just, I'm painting the picture where I think that McCoy is an okay play. I haven't met 30, so not much higher or not much higher than you, 80.