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

You're looking up, definitely. Well, certainly looking up. But, I mean, this was a, he was a basketball player. He was VCU. I mean, he was, he's 6-6-2. He's minimum. He's known for basketball, and he looks on the field. Those numbers do not give this man justice. If you put him and like George Kittle, who's just as big as the numbers you just said. He's 6-6 going on 7-6. He's 6.6 going on 7-6. Maybe he's just wearing like.

He's got lifts. He's got, yeah, he's got platform shoes on and a huge helmet. Platform cleats. Platform cleats. I don't know what it is. I want to see that in Photoshop real bad. He looks bigger than other tight ends. I want to see platform cleats. Got go-go cleats. Oh, man. Him or Yao Ming at the tight-in position? Oh, Yao Ming for sure. I'm not allowed. I don't want to talk about the dolphins. Do you guys want to talk about the dolphins? I think you can play. Not it.

Ryan Tanna Hill is going to start. Don't start him. No. Kenyon Drake is in a non-contact. I'm not starting him. Because even if he's active, high risk. High risk. He gets hand on that shoulder and he's out for the game. The only guy that I would be willing to start is Frank Gore from the Dolphins. What about Danny and Mendoza? Danny Mendoza or Mr. Humphreys. Whoever else you say. So Humphreys. So just for the record, Danny Mendoza.

You gave me those averages, right, from Adam Humphreys. Here's Amandula's last five games. He's been great. Eight catches, six catches, five catches, five catches, seven catches. Can you tell me how many of those games came with Ryan Taylor? Yeah, the problem is those were in Brock Tover. Sure, but last time Tanahill played, he had Joachian Grant and Albert Wilson, too. So you can't just chalk it all up to Brock Osweather. The only players running around on the field right now are going to be Danny Amidola and Kenny Stills in a game where Indianapolis is going to pile up points. Amidola is safe. I think he's...

I think he's sneaky, Mike. I don't think he goes beyond safe into sneakyville. Would you play him over Isaiah Crowell? Asking for a friend. This must be a little decision you've got to make. Hold on. No, definitely not me. That's Brooks. I would play him over Isaiah Crowell in a half-point league. Done. What do you mean, done? My friend. My friend just made the change. The seven and two.

N-1, Steelers take on the 4-and-6 Broncos up in Denver. Broncos are three-point underdogs in this game. I think that's interesting. I think it might be a closer game than we expect. Really? You do? Well, I mean... Broncos at home, they just upset the... Yeah, when I say, then we expect, I guess I'm speaking of the everyone, because the three-point line is not a big line. Jason was saying the Broncos just upset the Chargers. Chargers, yeah.

So, and, you know, being up in Denver, you look, the Steelers pulled it out last week, but it wasn't pretty for a while. So we'll see what Road Big Ben can do. Right. James Conner's got the backfield all to himself, but didn't do it last week against Jacksonville. Jacksonville's defense has been very good against running backs this year for fantasy purposes. The Broncos have not. They're middle of the pack. On the season, they're,

bottom half against the running back. So I think this is James Connor is going to be fine. He's a must start. Antonio Brown must start. Juju Smith-Schuster must start. Are they, you know, slightly downgraded on the road? Maybe, but who cares? No, you don't care about those. No. Did you mention the van stance? No. Are you doing the van stance? Yeah, I mean, look, you've got to do the van stance when you're in the back half of the tight ends. We've talked about this before.

He has as much volume as any of those crappy tight ends out there, but he has much more ceiling available. So you're going to start Vance. Vance McDonald or Austin Hooper? Vance McDonald. Vance McDonald or Jordan Reed? Jordan Reed. Jared Cook. That one's tough. I think I've got to go cook. Okay. Philip Lindsay. Yes. He's real good. He's just. The matchup stinks, but I'm not letting that effect how I see.

I like that he's at home. Are you looking Royce Freeman's way at all? No. Desperation flex. You'd play Isaiah Crowell over Royce Freeman. Yes. Okay. Emmanuel Sanders. Pittsburgh gives up the fifth most points to slot-wide receivers. Cortland Sutton, who do you prefer between those two? I think I'd take Emmanuel Sanders. Not because they don't love Sutton, but because Sutton only catches three passes a game. So freaks me out. From here on out, I think Sutton's going to be.

Didn't we say that before last week, though, and they caught three passes again? No. We said after this, last week I was saying after this week, he's going to be great. What about the Joe Hayden effect? Mike, you speak so much of the Joe Hayden effect. I remember Jason saying his schedules glorious, and now I was thinking about Joe Hayden. Yeah, the question will be, does Emmanuel Sanders continue his role in the slot? The...

the answer to that. We're talking about the trade of Demarius Thomas. It has been that Manny Sanders has been the slot. Deshaun Hamilton, kind of the guy, rookie for the Broncos, who could replace Sanders in the slot. He's banged up again. Another knee injury for him. So Manny is safe there, which to me puts Joe Hayden on Cortland Sutton, who's averaging 20 yards of reception. And it's sketchy, man. I have him as a... I have Sutton as...

A three, a lower level three this week. Yeah, no, it does make sense. What you just laid out makes sense that Emmanuel Sanders will stay in the slot because of Deshaun Hamilton's injury. Corlin Sutton will be on the outside with Joe Hayden. So I do temper some of my excitement from the team matchup here. When you look at it on an individual level, I would certainly play Sanders over Sutton here. James Connor, pretty high on your rankings? Yes. I don't need to check. Yep.

Sunday night football, the four and five and one Packers, take on the five, four, and one Vikings. Let's get rid of these ties, guys. It takes me too much time to read them. Mike, you're all about efficiency. I'm with you, man. How about you get two ties that gets the count as a win? So that way they can either, they can either shoot for the second tie. Does anyone have two ties? No. No, there's not a joke there either, Mike. There was. I was going to go with like a...

Clip-on joke? No, like a Michael J. Fox Family Ties joke, but that would have had crickets all over it. Well, then I'm just explaining what I was thinking about. Yeah, and I know, you're fine. You don't get crickets for that. I pumped the brakes on my family ties. I think Mike is legitimately worried about crickets now. I think what did it hurt? Did it hurt? It hurt him bad. Inside. Inside it got me. So, uh, if the Packers upset the Vikings at home who are three and a half point favorites, 47 and a half point over under.

They'll both be five, five, and one. So not the season you expected from the Vikings, but this is football, guys. This is what we said before the season. I said, I think the Vikings are going to have a worse season than this perfect projection everybody has because, not because they don't have good players, but because it's football. It's hard. It's hard. And when you, the defense is what it comes down to. The defense, Mike Zimmer must be just, his temperature must be rising minute by minute of every game because everything in his template.

comes to fruition, minus the defense. You know what I mean? And they can't run the football right now either, which is the biggest problem. That's the biggest problem is the lack of ability to run the ball because the defense has been, has done, they're doing enough on defense that they should be winning more games. Well, let's play a game of bounce back. I'm going to ask you guys who can bounce back this week from this matchup because there are a number of players that maybe you're wondering about.

We started with Kirk Cousins. Does he bounce back? Yes. Jason says he started the week. Yeah. Let's go to Adam Thielen. He had a pretty down game. Does he bounce back? Yes. Yeah. Let's go to Dalvin Cook. Does he bounce back from his putrid performance? No. No way. Wow. I'm surprised we agreed on that. You both said no. Yeah, he's a no for me. I mean...

I've got him at 14. I think he's got an okay game ahead of him. Yeah, he has. When I say no way, that's not to say you can't start him. He's the starter. He's got an okay match, but he's at home. They're favored, right? Yeah, they're favored at home. I just, that was an emotional, visceral reaction. I was going to say, it really was, wasn't it? Because that was in no way. No way is like, I'm going to punt him off the bridge, no way. I just am so mad at Dalvin Cook. He has ruined people's seasons. You're bitter. Other people. You're very bitter.

And that's also you, right? Yes. I mean, I just, I'm so sick of waiting for Dalman Cook. He's at home. To be great. I'm so sick of that. And then... Does MVS bounce back? Marquez-Valdes Scanling? He was on the field for the majority of snaps last week. Does he bounce back with, you know, Rhodes covering Devante Adams, an opportunity for NBS to, you know, do a little bit more?

I think he'll do more than he did last week, yes. You mean the one catch? Yes. What are we thinking? NBS the last two weeks. Four receptions. Okay. The last two weeks, the majority of his snaps have come in the slot, which I don't necessarily love. I mean, Aaron Rogers, you know, he's a throw it deep, go outside. I'd like MBS to be used more like that, more like Treyquan's being used. I agree he should.

have a bounce back over his last few games, but he's not a must start here. We have met wide receiver 28 on the week for context, so that is outside that wide receiver 2 range, but just barely. Mike, if you were in a position, you know, you're making that decision, right? Mr. Danny Amandola, Marquez Valdez Scanling, or Isaiah Crowell, which of those would you rather play? Oh, I think it's Amandola. Okay. Just the safety of, I mean, I'm not moving away from MVS. I'm not letting last week destroy all of that.

So like I said, it's a roster construction decision. Robert Tanya, greatest tight end in history? Yes. Probably. I mean, of course. Dumb question. Move on. I love your... He's on... This is where Brooks wants us to put the, like, put it in italics, like sarcasm. Who? Yeah, who? Robert Tanya, the tight end that caught that long pass? I mean, we would have made it much start of the week, but it's too obvious. Everyone's starting it. Speaking of not obvious.

Do you have actual interest in Lance Kendricks, who seems like he would be the replacement for Jimmy Graham, who has been putting up nothing? Jimmy Graham has not done that much. And coming into this season, we did all the research and everybody did. There was so much done on the Aaron Rogers' tight end.

Is it actually worth anything? Has he just not had anybody since Jeremiah Finley? Is it a lack of who the titan is? Is it a lack of the offense of McCarthy utilizing it the right way? Yada, yada, yada. Jeremy Graham hasn't been good in general. And now you're downgrading that for a team that there was a lot of debate whether or not there was even value to that position on the Packers team. So no, I'm not digging deep into the Lance Kendrick's well. No, I'm not either.

don't want to replace bad production with bad production. And why would you start Lance Kendrix over Robert Tonian? That's a fair point. Thank you. Fair point. Hashtag sarcasm. Hashtag don't do it. Yeah. But he's better than Zach Erzo, right? Oh, for sure. Five and five Titans take on the seven and three Texans on Monday night. Football. Okay. Yeah, this is a. This is a.

Hands off. Finishing the week with a real zinger. Real fart. Yeah, that's the word you came to mind for me, too. A real toot. A Monday night toot. Oh, man. And guess who we get to commentate this game? This is just, I might not watch it. Look, Glenn, we might not have a recap come Tuesday morning. I'd be like, I didn't watch. I couldn't get myself to watch the Titans Texans with that commentating group.

We don't know if it'll be the blonde bombshell, Blaine Gabbard or Marcus Marietta, but the defense for Houston, they are stepping up in a big way. You need, pretty much you need all the stars to align for production to come from Tennessee's offense in general. And that goes for Corey Davis, who I was not excited about after his big week because he's Corey Davis, right? Yeah. Two good weeks on the year does not a season, you know, it doesn't give you confidence. Dionne Lewis, Derek Henry, you pump the brakes on both of those guys. The only player that you might like,

look at as Jono Smith, but you're taking the same dart throw. You're doing everywhere else a tight end. I am not talking about the Titans a gift. Stop. Okay. On the Texan side, more interesting, but you pump the brakes on Lamar Miller. You're always starting DeAndre Hopkins. Deshaun Watson, it's not a great matchup. The Titans are a good defense against the fantasy quarterback. And so. Demarius Thomas, you don't start him. Get away from me. Look, if Demarius, if they brought Thomas in,

just to open things up for Kiki, then they've done their job because I would much rather start Kiki than Demarius Thomas. But I'm not starting Kiki this week either. Demarius was basically, he was going up against Denver in his debut. They forced that him a couple quick targets to get him involved. And then he has not organically been a part of the offense since that moment. That's basically that you're facing similar things as Golden Tate in Philadelphia, where if you don't manufacture a few targets intentionally.