Fantasy Football 2017 - Week 12 Studs & Duds, Rising Stars, JULIO-splosion

Well, there you go. First pick by the Raiders in 357 pass attempts. And if you saw the pick, it was incredible. It bounced around like a pinball. And then Navar Bowman caught it on the ground. While he was laying on his back. That's the way it's going to go on for Denver and their fans right now. Damian Williams exited the game. Shoulder injury. He's not going to play in week 13. So now you're looking at Kenyon Drake.

He's going to be more involved. I think he could be a flex play. I love Kenyon Drake. If he is the only guy in town, he has the talent. The issue has been he hasn't been getting the ball. I really like him. It was ironic, though, right when he comes in. When Damien Williams goes down, I'm like, oh, you know, Kenyon Drake is going to be a legit starter. Kenyon Drake comes in. First thing he does. Fumbles the ball. Yeah. Michael Crabtree and Akeed Talib. They were kung fu fighting.

This was a... Everybody was Kung Fu fighting. A big old fight. They both got ejected. They probably will not be suspended because they were ejected, which we were watching this game, and I was, you know... I don't know what you're hoping for, though. If you started Crabtee, you probably were hoping he wasn't ejected. And at least if he suspended, you could predict when not to put him in your lineup. So if you had him in your lineup and he gets thrown out in the first quarter, he gooseed you.

Yeah, that was a really bad one. And, you know, Crabtree lost his cool, but Akeep Talib was the cause of this. For the second year in a row, he ripped the gold chain off of Michael Crabtree's neck in game. I always, you know, I see that in movies. Like someone rips the necklace off someone, and I think, like, you can't do that in real life. That would hurt so much. Yeah. Keepeelib says, watch me.

Yeah, and then Crabtree did the whole, like, I'm going to punch you in your helmet. Yeah, this year, this has been the year of punching helmets. I'm going to break my hand on your helmet. Watch me. I want to go into like an MMA gym, and now that's part of the new training regimen. They've got like the dummies, you know, the fighting dummies, but they all have helmets on. So you can practice like, you know, the eye gouge through the mask. I haven't seen a lot of, like in the Roman fighting when they have the helmets on. I haven't seen a lot of the, you know, punches to the.

Punch us to the helmet. No, no. You want to go neck. Yeah. Well, we got a lot to teach. Yeah. That's another podcast. Josh Gordon's going to play in week 13. So there you go. It's exciting. Yeah, it is. There have been some, you know, there have been some plays that Dishon Kaiser's made that make me think he's on this level. He's on the NFL level. I mean, he's stepped up in the pocket. He obviously can run the ball a little bit, but he may, you know.

He made an amazing pass to Corey Coleman that Coleman just dropped in the back of the end zone. He hit him exactly where. I mean, Corey Coleman was in triple. He was in triple coverage on that play, and he threw the ball, threw him open perfectly, and then Cory Coleman just dropped it. A lot of players didn't play this past week. Juju sat down, Robert Woods, Stirling Shepard, Devonta Freeman. We'll catch up. Juju had the tiny hamstrings. Right. So he had to sit because his hamstrings were too small. Miniatureized. Yeah.

One other thing before we move on from that, you know who looked like, I mean, this is, you want to talk about small sample size. We're talking piquito, like itty-bitty hamstring-sized sample. But when C.J. Bethard went down. Garapolo came in and in like under a minute drove the ball down on the Seahawks and threw a touchdown. He looked good on that rollout.

He looked good on that rollout is the perfect summary. I was going to say he threw two passes. Yeah. So he converted a fourth down. He'll be the starter next week. Yeah, he should be. If he's not, then I don't know what you're doing because Bethard was not good in this game. It was a whatever the opposite of a bounce back is. What do you call it when you bounce to the bad place? I think that's just you fell down. Fell down. There it is. All right, stub muffin time.

This week's fantasy stud muffins. All right, I want to focus on the very, very fantasy relevant stud muffins of the week. Let me give you an example of what I mean. Brett Hunley was a stud muffin this week. And is irrelevant. I don't want to talk about Brett Hunley. Broken plays. You don't need to start him. If you're going to play in the playoffs, you're not going to want to start him. However, you had a very nice game from Philip Rivers.

Against Dallas. 434 and 3 has Cleveland next week. His schedule coming up. Philip Rivers is definitely worth talking about because his entire schedule coming up. Cleveland, Washington is, I don't know, middle of the pack. They're not the easiest. Kansas City's been terrible. The New York Jets. And then if you play in week 17, shame on you. And then you'll also get to face the Oakland Raiders. So he has no worries coming up. Philip Rivers is a...

You know, he's usually one of those back-in quarterback ones at like 10, 11, 12 finish of the week. He is going to be on fantasy championship rosters. I really believe that. That team is one game out of first place. They have everything to play for. And you're going to be going, if you're in your league going up against Philip Rivers, don't breathe easy because you have a top-tier quarterback and you think that you're going to, you know, look at the top-tier quarterbacks right now. Alex Smith was somebody you could count on. Mm-hmm.

Drew Breeze. Oh, Drew Breeze. Dak Prescott. Yeah. Oh, don't. Dak is destroying my heart. So, all right. So you got Carson Wins, Tom Brady, Russell Wilson. They're great, good, but irrelevant. Here's a guy that I think is really relevant. He was almost my Raising Cain's Rising Star of the Week. And that's Case Keenum. Case Keenum has looked like a legitimate NFL.

Pro Bowl quarterback. He was so prolific in college. You're going pro bowl? No, he does. He looks like a like a top tier quarterback in the NFL. He is, he's making.

The use of every single one of his weapons. Kyle Rudolph looked great. Adam Thielen looked great. Stefan Diggs. I think he is a player who you're going to be able to, you know, for those teams that are awesome because they drafted quarterbacks late and they're just stacked at running back in wide receiver and they stream. Philip Rivers, Case Keenham. Those are two guys that I think need to be on your radar. I understand Keenham this week against Atlanta and staying in the flame, so to speak, but I am not going to be confident going into my fantasy playoffs.

with Case Keenham, who at the drop of a hat could be benched in a bad start. And then he's got at Carolina, Cincinnati, Green Bay. I would hesitate a little bit with that. But he's been playing great. No doubt about it. I agree with you at Carolina. At home against Cincinnati, I think I would be fine firing him up and then Green Bay's, you know. Okay, Big Ben. Big Ben had another big game because they're at the point now.

Where this game shouldn't have been as hard as it was, yet their defense let them down, a lot of broken plays. And Big Ben and this offense is now at the point where you kind of just feel like every time he steps back in the pocket, they're going to move the ball. But the problem is these were back-to-back home games. We've talked about this for Big Ben a lot. He is a stud at home and he's off on the road. And if you look at his schedule coming up, I don't like it at all. You go on the road.

to Cincinnati. That's bad. Then he gets a back-to-back home stretch, which is like, oh, okay, great. But it's Baltimore, one of the best secondaries in the league, and New England, which, yeah, early in the season, that might have looked good. And I will say this, New England will probably put up points. So Big Ben might be fine there at home against New England, but their defense is not. We're doing something this week, Andy. Why don't you tell them what we have coming this week on these defensive matchups? Yeah, we're going to break down.

some recency with the defensive statistics this week as we go into our matchups on Thursday and Friday. Specifically, we're going to look at the last four or five weeks and kind of reset your mind in terms of how you look at these plus matchups, negative matchups. Look, defense has changed over the course of a season. Defense has changed from, look at New England. I mean, New England went from a sieve.

to a very competent defense. And so we're going to break that down and make sure you have the most recent picture on the show this week. You don't want to miss that because that'll be an opportunity where you are going to take advantage of your opponent because your opponent's going to be looking at the little green plus matchup. The Patriots right now against quarterback, if you just look at ESPN or Yahoo, and you go, oh, they're the 29th against the quarterback. They're terrible.

That's not true at all. The last three weeks, they haven't given up a 20-point fantasy game to a quarterback. They're great right now, but you're feeding into that. Whoa! Breaking news. Tell me what the breaking news is, Andy. Is it a sponsor? Yeah. You know what? It is. I definitely didn't accidentally hit that button with my right index finger.

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And all he did was go 87 for a touchdown on the ground and 101 in a touchdown through the air. He is the greatest weapon in football right now for fantasy football purposes for Sean Peyton. And he is not much fantasy relevant to talk about with him. You start him. He's just unfathomably good. Jamal Williams. Jamal Williams, you know, the much bigger storyline. Second slash third string.

running back for the Green Bay Packers rookie that has been thrust into the job because Aaron Jones got injured. I want to say T.Y. Yeah. T.Y. Montgomery has his cracked rib issue that he's been dealing with. But Jamal Williams looked really good last night. We'll talk about him more. He is my rising star this week based on the performance. Some of the things, the ways he was being used last night. Obviously, Ty Montgomery is coming back. So there might be a little bit of a...