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

Okay, because I was wondering, that sounds a lot like one of those, hey, let's not hurt a rib, let's not hurt a shoulder before game time. I bet he's active based on that report. You hope so. Are you playing Mr. Kenyon Drake? Oh, yeah, you made a little dynasty trade for him. We were all surprised. You kind of paid up for it. The problem we've seen. Big Drake fan? You like the Drake? Yes. Love the Drake? You call him on a cell phone? Love the Drake. No.

Yeah. How does it feel? It feels pretty good. It feels bad. The 2 and 8th 49ers. Wait, wait, wait. We also have an update here from our community tab poll from last episode on YouTube. Yeah, let break it down. So we had this whole discussion debate about Eli Manning, Philip Rivers, are they Hall of Famers? So we had four options. Eli gets in. Philip Rivers should get in. Both should get in or neither should get in. The leading.

poll option from you, Foot Clan, over on YouTube on the community tab, is that both should be inducted. Second place is that only Phillip Rivers should be inducted. Very few people believe only Eli should be inducted. And then about a quarter of you think that neither should be inducted. And I would agree with a quarter of you. Very interesting. It's always a fun hypothetical game to play where you say, okay, what if Eli was originally

going to be a charger. I mean, he said he wouldn't go there. And Philip Rivers, if he was a giant, would he have been capable of winning them those two titles? You just... Yes. I think both will get in. Yeah, I mean, it's easy to say yes, because we all believe Philip Rivers is a better peer quarterback than Eli Manning. So being a better peer quarterback and being a better clutch quarterback, those can be different things. It's true. So the two and eight 49ers take on the three and eight Buccaneers. This game is a 55. What did I say?

Three and eight. Oh, soon to be. No, this is a three and a half point line. The Buccaneers favored, 55 point over under. And we talked about Nick Mullen's already. This is a great implied team total for the San Francisco 49ers. The last few weeks, Vegas has not expected many, you know, much production coming out of the 49ers offense. But this week should be a...

great back and forth fun affair between two offenses that can do enough on the field against two defenses that can't for some fantasy fun. I brought up Marquis Goodwin earlier. I think he's a great, you know. Great flex play. A great flex play. One of those guys where you're just shooting for a really big game. Any Goodwin or Deshaun Jackson or, I mean, also a great play in the same matchup, those type of guys, you look for the matchups where.

there's going to be a high over under because that usually is helped out by one of those bomb touchdowns. So I like both of those players in this game. I think you're right. I mean, ultimately, T.J. Hernandez, by the way, threw this out there. The Tampa Bay quarterbacks are averaging the ninth most fantasy points per game ever. So. That's a dollar well spent by me. I was going to say, maybe a dollar well spent for Mike, but can you finish the game? Yes.

Can he actually help Deshaun Jackson become productive is the question? Because when this happened, I've got Deshaun Jackson flexing in this week in a dynasty league, and I just grimaced. I just said, uh, yes, he got James. You certainly should have because James Winston loves Mike Evans. He loves Cameron Brate and he likes big guys. Well, and also a good friend of the show, Mike Taglier, shout at the tags, who says, Adam Humphreys, since.

Week 8 in PPR formats is the wide receiver 13 pronounced with an Humphreys. Double up. Double up. Since week what? Since week 8. So 8, 9, 10, 11? Just saying that, yeah, I mean, I don't know if I buy in. In football terms, that's, well, you never buy into Humphreys, but he puts up points. Not always. It's really hard. He doesn't always put up points. Yeah, he does not always put up points. I feel like you're beazling me right now.

I don't want to be forced into a Beasles. As soon as he do buy in, then he is. He is absolutely Beasley. He is Cole Beasley. And a lot of the whole, hey, he's been the wide receiver 13 comes from three weeks ago at Carolina when he had all of the touchdowns. Okay. Well, how about this? Since week six, he is averaging it. These are not wide receiver 13 numbers, but he's averaging.

Four and a half, 65 yards, and half a touchdown per game. Look, I get it. Those are solid flex numbers. All those numbers you're throwing me in a small sample size, though, have built him up to be the 39th ranked wide receiver on the season. So here's the problem. Look at week four against Chicago, okay? Six for 36. Yes. That's the Beasley line. And I'm not saying, you know, look at two weeks ago, two for 53, six points.

Like he loves six points. Six points is what he aims for. If he accidentally scores a touchdown, he's disappointed in himself. My point of bringing up Adam Humphreys was more the dissension we've seen from Deshawn Jackson. Yeah, look, that would be a good question, I guess. Would you rather play Adam Humphreys than, Mike? You've been over Deshaun Jackson. It depends on what I need. You've got to take a look at your roster. Do you need that Nitro button in your flex? But...

If I need that safe, what I think can be 8 to 10 points with some upside because Humphreys has been catching some touchdowns, I would play Humphreys. We've talked about a lot of these players already. We talked about essentially, you know, Matt Breda, start of the week, 132 and 2, the last time he was out on the field. Nick Mullins, Mike, you really like him. Markis Goodwin. Jason, you said, look, he's got a great shot at a big play. He's definitely a...

shoot for the moon type of guy. And oh, by the way, because people will be mad. We didn't say his name. You should play George Kittle. Yes. There's your analysis. Number one. Tied in on the week. I don't blame you. Anybody else from this matchup you want to discuss the merits of? Pierre Garsohn did not practice. Oh, no. Dante Pettis. We need to talk about Peyton Barber. Oh, certainly. Last week, over 100 yards and a score on the ground. The 49ers, the past six weeks are 18th.

against the position that's not a that's not a bad play look it feels really good how bad ronald jones has been for fantasy this season you're kicking a man when he's down he's not even playing yeah it's really kind of a i'm fine with that all right i'm 100 no i i need a reconsider did you expect him to score more points when he was inactive no but i definitely expected him to not be healthy scratches throughout the year um

But I'm happy that it's happened. He hasn't done that since, like, the third week. Yeah. He, uh, look, it's not been a good year. We don't need to talk about Ronald Jones. Yes, fair. But I like to. Okay. If you look at him, though, he's averaging one touchdown per game. If you'd look at just the game from the 21st of October. That's a really good sample size there. So, yeah, you're really missing the mark there. But, yes, Peyton Barber is a good play. I mean, I agree.

RB2 or flex, though? I've got Peyton Barber right now as running back 24, so he is the last RB2. Peyton Barber, Adrian Peterson. Peyton Barber. The Cardinals, the 2 and 8 take on the Los Angeles Chargers, who are 7 and 3. They are 12-point favorites in this matchup. They just lost to the Denver Broncos due to some very poor clock management at the end of that game. A 45 point over under.

The must starts in this game include David Johnson, Melvin Gordon, Keenan Allen, and Philip Rivers. Is there another must start on either roster? Jason, you just started Larry Fitzgerald last week. He had two catches, but both were touchdowns. He was staying away from him on the road. Yeah, on the road. I mean, I loved Larry last week, got the multi-touch downs, but no, on the road, Larry's not the same player at this stage of his career. This isn't a good matchup to boot.

So if you've got a bad match up on the road with Josh Rosen as you're starting quarterback, that's three strikes you're out. No, I'm not starting Larry Fitzgerald. All right. Very well. Ricky Seals Jones. You out on him, Mike? Yeah. I'm not out on Ricky Seals Jones. I'm out, man. They're going to have to throw to somewhere. The chargers have been much better against wide receivers. And this isn't just the last six games.

or this season. If you really go back the last few years with this, you know, core group of their star players on defense, with the pass rush, Joey Bosa there, we talked about this, you know, with Jeff Hirman a couple weeks ago. You want to beat that pass rush. You throw quick passes to the tight end. I think that you could do worse than Ricky Seals Jones because they've got a pass to somewhere. And I think Larry and Kirk are going to get locked down. All right.

Let's talk about Antonio Gates' big performance from last week. He had the best game of any tight end in the National Football League last week. And I think people want to know, is this an anomaly? Or are you going to see better production from him? Does this mean that Philip is going to look his way a little bit more? Not excited. No, I think it was just a one game. 35% of snaps in that game. It seems like an outlier. I think the...

The reports are that Antonio Gates is still tired from that game. He's catching his breath. Not surprised. I mean, he did. He's been on oxygen since Sunday. He may have, he may not be running as fast as he used to. He may not be on the field as much as he used to be. Still got soft hands, man. You throw the ball around him. Yeah. He comes down with it. Scooping it near the ground. There was one catch last week. I'd much rather play him than Ricky Seals Jones. It was under thrown. Really? Ricky Seals Jones is trash. Pure.

unadulterated garbage. Okay. Would you play Seals Jones over Gates? I'm going to give you a chance to back up your man. No, but it's close. I don't think it's a home run, but I would probably play Gates over Ricky. The five and five dolphins take on the five and five Colts. Seems like I should push this button. It just seemed like the right thing to do. The Colts are nine point home favorites and a 51 point over under.

That's a lot of points implied for the Colts and Andrew Luck and company. I guess that's why Jason loves Marlon Mac so much. Well, we have been updated. Ryan Kelly, the sensor for the Colts will be out. That's a massive deal. I mean, their offensive line. We talked about it, I believe, yesterday or earlier this week, about how improved it has been. A part of that has been Ryan Kelly. He's been awesome. This hurts Marlon Mack. Now, this is not me saying you shouldn't start him.

or that I'm even pivoting off of him being the start of the week. This is just one player. But he probably won't end up at running back eight in my rankings. For instance, I said he was ahead of Joe Mixon. With the starting center being out of the way, I'll probably start Joe Mixen over Marlon Mack. But I do still, I mean, Marlon Mack is a talented player for a great offense. And Andrew Luck has just been world class. At least three passing touchdowns in seven straight games.

He's been incredible. Yes. Yeah, you contrast that with Kirk Cousins, not having any games over that, too, and he's got seven straight. He's a machine, and he spreads the ball around. That's the thing. He finds the open man. He's got enough mobility to make the play outside the pocket. So, Martin Mac, you like him. Maybe you temperate a tiny bit due to the Ryan Kelly News that just came through.

T.Y. Hilton, a big week last week. I don't think you can count on any other wide receiver on that team, but T.Y. Hilton is the man. And then Eric E. Bron. We talked about Jack Doyle. Mike loves Jack Doyle, four for 43 last week. Eric E. Brown's a great play, too. I mean, both of them are good plays. You can, you can start either one.

in your tight end and you're going to be fine. Eric Ebron, because he's not on the field, we talked about the low snaps. He's a touchdown dependent guy. He is a touchdown dependent guy. But if you want to put odds on who gets the touchdown, one of the three touchdowns Andrew Luck's going to throw, Eric Ebron will be near the top of the list. Over the last six weeks, the dolphins are the 27th best against tight end. So it's not good. That's great for Ebron, great for Doyle.

Great for Mo Alley Cox. Oh, Gigantor. Gigantor. Man, I love that guy. I love watching him featured. So this is something where, yeah, seriously, this is something where early, I think this was like preseason. The season has started yet, and you were talking about this.

guy. You didn't even know who it was. You're just like, there was this guy. You'll know him when you see him. Who was so big. He was just. And then we're watching a different game as, you know, as we're learning who Mo Ali Cox was. It's him. That's the guy. And you're like, well, clearly that's the guy. He is. Bill Braskey thinks that Moe Alley Cox is huge. Bill Braskey. What's funny is if you, if you look at Moeally Cox,