MEGALODON Episode – Week 13 Matchups, Turkey Day Awards, Starts, & TONS More!

A rope that hangs on the tree. Take it easy. Take it easy. What does the rope look like? Just, well, Philip Rivers is now on the tree. Oh, come on. Philip Rivers is on our Christmas tree commemorated forever. A joy to you and a, in a hardship to me. Yeah, I wanted to remember that. It was one of the big highlights of my season. There's two sides to this. Like, I took the brunt. You were the sad side. But do you now love Philip Rivers because of this? Well, no.

No. I guess in a way. I mean, I would love Philip Rivers if I was on the other side. I guess in a way I do. I took the. I love what he's done for me. Yeah. Patriots 10 and 1 taking on the Houston Texans in Houston. The game is a 45 point over under. Patriots are three and a half point road favorites. Lay of the land with Tom Brady. So you wonder what you're doing with him or whether you're doing anything with him.

He's the quarterback 24 since week 7. You are not playing Tom Brady. He is not moving this offense in a fantasy-friendly direction at this moment, and they have a great defense so they don't really lose. Brady is smart enough to do what he should be doing right now. I think if they had a bad defense, you'd see him throwing the ball away less. Right now he's leading the league in throwaways because he knows he doesn't have to go down and score a ton. And that also doesn't want to get hit.

Sure, but I believe that if they had a bad defense and he thought, I've got to score 28 points in this game to win, I think he would try to extend things, force the issue a little bit more. He knows his defense has him here. So yeah, you're out on him. His weapons aren't great. You're out on all of his weapons not named Julian Edelman. That's absolutely true. And if you want to know, look on the other side with Deshaun Watson in the quarterback position, Watson is a fringe QB1 for us this week.

Right at the 12 cusp, you're talking about looking Nick Foll's way, Dak Prescott's way, looking Kirk Cousins way. It's a tough decision because you know that while Watson could do enough to get you 20 points, he's not going to be the linchpin of a victory for you this week. Yes, they're at home. That's the only reason I'm okay with Watson. But he's not going to get you to the fantasy playoffs this week. And we've seen actually a low side of him.

fantasy-wise over the last few weeks. Yeah, he's not what Lamar Jackson is this year, where Lamar Jackson just breaks everything right now. Deshaun Watson can completely busts. All those quarterbacks you listed Andy, Cousins, Foles, Josh Allen, Darnold, Darnold, I would play all of them over Deshaun Watson this week. Which stack would you rather have? Deshaun Watson and DeAndre Hopkins against New England or Sam Donald and Robbie Anderson. Donald. I thought you were going to just say Brady Edelman.

Would you rather have Brady Edelman or Watson Hopkins? And I think on that side, I'd probably go Brady Edelman. On that side, I would... Man. That one I think... It's ironic because I would take Hopkins. Once again, I'm just looking at my own matchup where I've now got the Darnold Alan Robinson against Deshaun Watson Hopkins. You are in this week where you are trying to battle for seating, you would face Watson Hopkins against New England. Yes.

Come on, baby. Go Patriots. Hey, here's a cool stat if you're not named Sonny Michelle. He's forcing a miss tackle every eight rushing attempts. That's ahead of Frank Gore. That's it. That's all it's ahead of. You can watch with your eyeballs. Sonny Michelle has a moment here or there of burst, generally going downfield, not going to the edge. His turbo depletes real past.

You wonder if that has fitness post-super Bowl. He's a youngster. Degenerative knee. Did he not come into this season? Well, I agree with that. That could be part of it, Mike. But he has not looked the same regardless. James White, just one catch last week. Do you just throw that away and put it back out there? It was a game that was so unique with the weather and the situation there. I was watching intently. Different rules.

It felt like it. Different field size. They just kept, you know, they kept grinding away with Sony over 20 carries. They just, you know, that was, that was the feel of that game. And so I don't take a lot from that game for fantasy. James White has been pretty consistent this year. I don't think that he's going to experience what he did last week this week, is my point. Do you play Will Fuller in any circumstance in this game? Mike, preferably not.

Okay. Jason? No, I don't. The 8 and 3 Vikings take on the Seattle. Seahawks on Monday night football. This game's in Seattle. Vikings are 8 and 3. Seahawks 9 and 2. Seahawks 3-point home favorites. It's a 48.5 point over under. It's going to be a good game. Monday night football, Viking, Seahawks. Woo! Yeah. Yeah. Russell Wilson, he's in your lineup at home against Minnesota. No question. You do have question marks everywhere else, though.

Chris Carson Rashad Penny. Could see a timeshare situation. Before last week, Chris Carson had 15 or more carries in every single game. Last week, a couple fumbles and a healthy Rashad Penny meant you didn't get what you wanted from Chris Carson. You've been able to ride him for the majority of the season. We do have him ranked higher than Penny this week, but there is risk now. I still expect him to be the starter, but I think it would be.

almost impossible that his workload does not get eaten into in this matchup based on what happened last week. And if there is a significant split here, it's just going to cannibalize both players in a negative matchup. Minnesota has been very good against the run. Their top five, I believe, only giving up 16 and a half fantasy points per game. Because they play against the run with their terrible secondary.

Right. They're like, we'll stop the run. Well, that's exactly what Tampa does. Yeah. Yeah. And so, you know, you don't need to run on them. You can throw on them now. And so there's worries here for either, for either party. Rashad Penny is a guy that, you know, huge waiver wire pickup. But low upside this week. I'm probably not starting him. If I spent the money and I got him, I'm probably not starting them yet. You don't have a clue what kind of workload. And it's a bad matchup.

Yeah, I don't disagree. And ultimately, these guys are both going to get opportunities to start the game. If one guy gets the hot hand, that's when you could see that player put up fantasy production over the back half of the game, but it's a tough team to have a hot hand against. Tyler Lockett, you're throwing out last week. You're playing him. He's at home. Mike, you got the start of the week of D.K. Metcalf. Yep. Look, last week, it didn't come to fruition for Josh Gordon. Did not see... No, I'm done. Yeah, I think Gordon's gone, and Metcalf, you can be confident in. And he was...

Metcalf had some ups and downs in that game, some dropsies. Yeah. He could have had a monster performance. Jacob Hollister. Minnesota allows the second highest opposing tight-in market share Hollister last week. Could have had a very easy touchdown. We've all said we'll go back to the well with Ambercrombie. Yep. I think Abercrombie can have a very good game here. Russell Wilson's been averaging 2.8 passing touchdowns per game at home this year. The tight-in position is basically do you get a touchdown?

So, you know, these are the bets you make on guys where it's like, oh, okay, things. There's enough reasons to believe probability of him getting a touchdown is high. All right. Secret MVP candidate Kurt Cousins. Since week five, he is the quarterback six in fantasy. I do believe you can play him in this game. But Jason, do you have the prime time fears for Kirk Couss? You know, I looked into a lot of the prime time narrative. His record in prime time is Terribla.

That's bad. That's worse than terrible. The reality is his fantasy production. How do we make a word that's worse than terrible? What if we just mispronounce it? Genius. But the stats. Genie ooze. That's less than genius. Right. The stats have been pretty good for Kirk Cousins. He said, was that another duck fart? A duck fart all over the place.

Yeah, I'm fine with Kirk Cousins. I, you know, especially he's getting, feeling back as the expectation. So I think you can play him. I'm not too worried about the primetime Kirk Cousin. Buy yourself, Kyle Rudolph, a touchdown in three straight games. Does it become four? Seattle's defense is 29th in fantasy points, giving up.

to the tight-in position. Kyle Rudolph should be a start of the week. Seattle is... Wow. Seattle is... I thought about it and then the feeling thing made me shaky. Yeah, but if you look at fantasy points above expectation at certain positions, Seattle is...

really, really bad against tight-ins. It's like a low-key Arizona. You don't see it as much because of the matchups and who they've played, but... You don't want to be a low-key Arizona at tight-in. No, you don't. So I think he is absolutely in consideration.

This game's got a nice over under. I take the over. I think it's going to be a back and forth battle. Seattle allowing the fourth most passing yards per game. Minnesota, the second most wide receiver fantasy points allowed over the last four games. Mike speaking about their secondary. Looking at the weather here. I mean, it's too far out. This is Monday. Everything could change. But I saw negative four. And I was worried. But that was, it's 42 degrees. Dash 4.

miles per hour wind excellent weather don't worry about the weather i was about to be baffled by this seattle weather seattle going through a real tough time it's the vortex is back front coming in we play games in uh what like mexico city in london have we ever thought about doing some up in the uh great north the north white north no just up in canada like doesn't canada want some games buffalo's played in canada before north north of that i let's go up

Yeah, I said the North Pole. Well, that's a little too high. We got a Goldilocks this thing. Greenland? Is that acceptable for you? I don't know. But here's the one thing I just got to get this out because I was talking about this to, I believe it was to you, Mike. Why do we build not don't? Why in the world in today's day? We have the technology. We don't build not. No, there are. Yes. No, we don't. The majority of new stadiums have.

rough situation. If it has been built in the last 10 years and it doesn't have a root, shame on you. It's bad for the fans, bad for the, like, oh, we play rough up here in the north. It's like, the fans aren't, the fans don't want to sit out there in snow. Just put a roof on it. I hate. That's a very, very strong end of megaladone show take. Speaking of end of megal. Well, we're not there yet.

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