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

cold water thrown on that situation. But he was great not only in the running game, but he was electric in the passing game. Joe Mixon, monstrous game, going to talk about him at length. On Sunday morning, I tweeted to everybody's apparently dissatisfaction that I felt like a really good game was coming for Joe Mixon. Now, this is a little bit of a boy who's cried wolf situation because we've called the breakout a couple of times for Joe Mixon.

The matchup on paper didn't seem like the time. But the way Joe Mixon's been running and the commitment they've made to him, I just felt like he was going to have a good game. And he went out and put up 23 for 114 and a touchdown, another three for 51 on three targets through the air, season high in snaps, season high in touches.

You'll take 165 yards. Yeah, so he's my rising star this week. We'll talk about him. Tevin Coleman. Tevin Coleman. 19 for 97 and 2. Exactly what you hoped you'd get at the Vanta Freeman sits, which he did. Lev Bell was Love Bell. Marshawn Lynch, not a rising star, but worth talking about. Definitely worth talking about because Marshaun Lynch, you know, he had such momentum coming into the season. And everyone was excited. They drafted him in the.

Third round, you know, that's probably his average draft position. And he was a necessary starter that let you down so much. Necessary. Necessary? Necessary? Is it necessary? Keep going. RAP, Ripthorn. Anyways, yeah, I mean, he was a starter as an RB2 for your teams, and he let you down so much.

that people were dropping Marshawn Lynch, picking them up off of waivers or trading him for nothing. And that's kind of stuck with fantasy owners is that you can't trust Marshawn Lynch. But if you actually look at his last few games, he's been getting stronger as the season's going on. Now, don't get me wrong. I think Jalen Richard is a better running back there. We were talking about Marshaun Lynch looks slow. Yeah, I don't.

I don't know if I agree with the better running back. He's certainly a more explosive running back. Yeah, I mean, it's just, I guess just speed-wise. But last night, against a very good Denver defense, they gave him the ball 26 times. He got a touchdown 67 yards, same as the week before, 44 yards through the air involved in the passing game. So it's just a matter of utilization. If they continue to give him the rock.

He's been double digits in carries the last three weeks. That's really good news. Now, I do caution people because a lot of the forced reason for the carries is the combination of you're playing a really good secondary in Denver, and also you have no Michael Crabtree, and also you have no Amari Cooper. You kind of...

We're forced to run the ball more. And Denver had no offense. I mean, but they're playing better on offense in general. They're winning some games. They're going to be fighting for the division. And then it got New York, Kansas City, and Dallas, the next three matchups, which I'm not intimidated by. I just don't want to play March on Lynch in Week 16 in Philadelphia. No. We know what that does. Fillian. And we're going to talk about one of the more disciplining players in the week, Jordan Howard soon, who got to play Philadelphia this week. And we saw how that turned out. But Lynch?

Look, he has an opportunity to score every single game right now. And as long as they can move the offense a little bit, it's important. Rex Burkhead, 13 for 50 in a touchdown, two for three in a touchdown. I have my take on him. I'm sure you have a different one. But for me, I'm not overreacting. Two receptions for three yards. The touchdown's there. The goal line carries were there this game. But...

I don't know when to play him or Dionne Lewis. Now, those are the two you can play. And if you want to just say roll both out there every week, I understand that argument. But I still like Dionne Lewis a lot more rest of season. Yeah, I would 100% agree that Dionne Lewis is the much better running back to have just because of his consistency in carries. You have double-digit carries for Dionne Lewis since week six.

And we're going into week 13. He is their primary ball carrier. He's still involved in the past game. I completely agree with you. But I think what we have seen is Rex Burkhead has taken over for James White. James White has become unstartable. The last three weeks, you've got Rex Burkhead two out of the three weeks with double-digit carries and far more receptions than James White, who has only four receptions in the last three weeks combined. So James White.

They're saving him up for the playoffs. It could be right. He may have a bigger role in the playoffs than he does in the regular season. Wide receiver studs, look, Julio had a Hugh. Julio Jones. Oh, man, there's an article. Julio explosion. Yeah, there's an article that the Borgoggin, Kyle, the editor, has up on our site. It's basically the top 10 PPR wide receiver performances since 2000. Spoiler alert.

Julio's performance this week made the list of the top 10. I believe he actually created this article last year based on a Julio monstrous game. So maybe every single year we'll just update it until the entire list is just Julio. I think this is why you play Julio Jones. Because even if you're disappointed, he will win you weeks alone once or twice a year. And he's still Julio Jones. He's incredible.

Speaking of Incredible, Antonio Brown. Yeah, you're going to go ahead and start those guys. They're locked and loaded. Now, there's two guys. Yeah, I mean, who do you want to talk about? Go ahead. Robbie Anderson. Robbie Anderson is a must start player. He's scored in five straight games. He has hands that are impressive. His speed is, I mean, when I watch him, I go, wait, how is this diminutive little player actually dominating out there? That's a new word, right?

Really? Yeah, I think so. I think you invented a word. That's what I do. I think is, you mean, like, what's the word I'm looking for? Diminitative? Well, that's, that's got to be a new word. Is that a demutative? Dimmutative is a word. There you go. What does it mean? What is the definition here? Extremely or unusually small. Boom! This world. You know, a lot of people, Foot Clan.

I know that you were tracking with me. And you're like, oh, yeah. Hold on. Hold on. Listen to this. It's exactly what I meant. Diminutive. Is that what you said? That is, I think there are multiple pronunciations. Diminative. Okay. All right. Well, anyways, he is extremely small and he's been dominating, but it's been so consistent. We saw last year when Bryce Petty took over and just peppered him with targets. If you are going to target Robbie Anderson a lot,

Despite the fact that he's an undrafted free agent out of nowhere, he is productive. You've got to stay in those flames. I'm most excited about the 10 targets. Yeah. I mean, generally he's not a 10 target guy. Generally, he's a deep threat. You need that one touchdown. In this game, McCown was looking to him. He was improvving with him. Robbie Anderson, absolutely a must start. 146 yards, two touchdowns at one of those touchdowns. Holy moly. Impressive. It was very impressive.

How about Keenan? Keenan Allen. Pumped those brakes. You might want to start my pump the brakes based on the last two weeks. Unless Keenan follows the Larry Fitzgerald protocol, which was to stink the week after. But Keenan Allen went unbelievably crazy. 114-172 on 14 targets. Unstoppable. Jameson Crowder? I'm going to just.

Follow up to pump the brakes with my start of the week, Jameson Crowder. Seven for one, 41 and a touchdown. We'll just cancel those out and make me a neutral analyst this week. Is that okay? Yes, that's absolutely fine. Crowder was a great call with Chris Thompson being out of the way. They utilized him in a lot of different ways. And you saw it through the game. Seven for 141 and one is a top, it's a week winning type of performance from.

a wide receiver that a couple weeks ago, you were getting off the waivers. And then Marvin Jones, despite the matchup with Xavier Rhodes, six for 109 and two touchdowns. More often than not, he's coming through for you. And he's pretty much in the must start category as a wide receiver two until further notice. Yep. And I definitely need to give a shout out to Devante Adams. He was my rising star last week. I said, look, he's doing it enough week in and week out with...

Brett Honley, that you need to start him. And I did not take my own advice. And I played C.J. Anderson in our Dynasty League over Devante Adams. And it costs me the week. Shame on me. I am going to throw out my start of the week today. Oh, whoa. Oh, doodum, don't do, don't. It's going to be Cooper Cup next week against Arizona. And I'm going to tell you why. Sammy Watkins and Cooper Cup, both made the stud muffin category. Watkins was four for 82 and one on nine targets. You've got to be.

Loving the nine targets with no Robert Woods. Cooper Cup was 8 for 116 on 11 targets. Sammy Watkins is going to get the same treatment that Marquis Lee received this past week. By the way, Marquis Lee was completely and utterly shut down by Patrick Peterson. If you are not another worldly talent against Patrick Peterson, you might as well go get into a closet. You're not going to get an opportunity to make a play. I expect Sammy Watkins to be the shadowed wide receiver, especially with Robert Woods out.

They'll shut Watkins down. I think Cooper Cup feasts against Arizona next week with Jared Gough. So he's going to end up my start of the week this week. You also had some, you know, the standard Adam Thalen performance this week. Amari Cooper did score before the concussion. If Cooper's out, next week they get New York, are you all over Michael Crabtree? If Cooper's in them all over Michael Crabtree. I mean, I think he's a great player. I mean, I will say this. If Cooper's in, I think it's better for Crabtree. Because Janoris Jenkins,

has... Well, he's going to miss time. Is he? Genoise Jenkins is going to miss time. Oh, well, then great. He may miss the rest of the season. Fire him up. Brooks, can you do a little update on the injury check for Janores Jenkins? Get back to us? Yes, sir. Devin Funches continued his post-Kelvin-Benzhen-Gentaire with... 12 targets. I mean, it was funny. The commentators, if you were watching that game, they literally said... Devon Funches are bust. Yeah, and then he threw it right to Devin Funches again.

I mean, he is the centerpiece. And with the foot reaggravation for Greg Olson, Funches continues being a must start. He's very similar. Robbie Anderson, Devin Funchus, Jameson Crowder. Those are three guys that are those middle of the pack. A couple weeks ago could have been possibly waiver wire pickups that are going to help win Footland titles. Devin, who? What was that? Oh, that's a good point. Devin S. Scrumptious. And a...

Jonas Jenkins, likely to miss time, could need season-ended surgery. He's going to be out of there. You're going to want to start up your Cooper Crabtree, no matter who's in there. Gronk. He's pretty big. Yeah, he's good. Zach Ertz, welcome back to being great. 12 targets. You got to love that. Kyle Rudolph, he had a good week. Only four targets, but two of them were touchdown. That's going to help. It's efficient. Just imagine if Ertz had touchdowns on half of his targets.

Six touchdown game from Zach Ertz. That would make that top 10 list, even for wide receivers. What do you make of Ricky Sealed Jones? Hey, listen, we need a timeout here. Foot Clan. Foot Clan assemble. If you are in Arizona at a game, if you are on the road at a game that Arizona is playing, if you are watching at a bar or you're at home and the Arizona game is on and Ricky Seals Jones.

catches that ball. I need, I need you to give me your best seal. And let me just say this. Jason did that so much yesterday next to me in the studio. It was so fun. You are going to enjoy. You did it one time when Jermaine Gresham caught the ball. Yeah, I thought it was, I thought it was Seals. But I'm telling you, you are going to enjoy your football experience given that seal on Seals Jones. Here's what happens now. Gabber and Seals Jones.

They've got something going on. And Gabbard's played well. Cardinals beat Jacksonville this week. And Seals Jones was four for 72 on six targets with a touchdown. The opposing defense seems to not know what he is for a little while. And he's very fast. And he's found his way into empty spots on these defenses where I'm now looking at him saying, maybe.

And I think you should say maybe leaning towards, yes, last week we cautioned people away from Seals Jones because he was literally, he was only on the field. Wait a second. Right. But Steve Kime, the general manager for the Arizona Cardinals, listened to him this morning talking about Seals Jones.