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

Yeah. All right, offensive coordinator Mike Gross says it's looking positive that the Philly offense will get Alshon Jeffrey and Nelson Agalore back. It's funny because last week it was looking real positive that they were getting Alshan Jeffrey and Nelson Agalore back. Give him another week and I'll bet it comes true from last week, which is this week, which is true. That's going to make the Carson's failure all that much worse for you. It's all about the hand. I thought it was all about the wide receivers.

I'm saying the only way that Carson can have. He's going to be fine. All about the O line. What about Lane Johnson? He's back. Okay. All right. I hope he has a good game. Me too. Gerald Everett, day to day with a knee injury. This is one that is going to be very trepidacious for fantasy owners this week. Yeah. Titan's a difficult position. Gerald Everett is lined up to play Arizona. The singular best matchup that has ever anyone in history of mankind is known about. Yeah.

But Gerald Everett has now consecutive games in which he's played 17 or fewer snaps. He was a 50 snap-a-week guy before these past two games. But against Chicago, banged up. Baltimore, banged up. He's dealing with a knee that he hyper-extended in the game, but he was also dealing with an ankle injury. Well, the ankle was getting better, and he's like, I got a pivot. And so, yeah, he hyper-extended the knee. He says he's fine, but they're saying day-to-day, I do think you can throw Gerald Everett out.

If you are desperate out there and, you know, when you look at touchdown upside, throw him out? I'm saying into your roster. I think if you're desperate. Out to get in, baby. You still could throw him out there into your line. Got it. On the field. Throw him out on the field. Throw him out on the field. But there are better options. We'll talk about it in our starts of the week. I don't want to bury this. Elijah McGuire worked out for the chiefs. You wonder if it means that, you know, they could just be working on that emergency list. But.

They've been banged up. They've had LaShawn McCoy with the concussion thing. And then obviously Damien Williams, more severe injury could mean a few things. Maybe keep that Darrell Williams' Lashon on your roster. For sure. I mean, I haven't seen any definitive update on Damian Williams. But when Elijah came in, the first thought I had was, okay, Damian Williams is hurt. Remember when the Cardinals were dealing, working out a few guys, Zach Zinner and Alfred Morris? You don't do it for no reason. Not just like.

Elijah's my buddy. Coincidence. I want to bring them in and just... Sometimes you want to just watch a good workout. Right. Yeah. Sure. My Saturday is open. Yeah. Elijah, what are you doing? You just reminded me that we have to go work out today. Oh, man. On a mega? On a mega day. Mega workout. I'm on a megala cry. All right, don't forget drop it like it's hot. Your waivers going through today. Check out who people let go of.

A lot of tough decisions. And people are playing for one week right now. So I got a text from a friend yesterday. Brought up some pretty big time names. Which one do I drop? You know, people thinking about, I don't know, David Johnson. Is he going to end up on waiver wires this week? And what do you do if he does? Do you really roster a guy like that? People want to know. So Sony Michelle gets brought up as a drop candidate. People are going to drop Sony Michelle this week. I know they are.

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That's what I was going for. We're going to kick off. We're barely even started, man. He's saving it. He's saving it to get through. I see this. Somebody put a very big emoji of a turkey to remind me that it's the Thanksgiving Day games, and it's a little distracting. What is that thing called, the thing that hangs down from the turkey? Oh, we've had this discussed. Brooks, Brooks, Brooks, you're the gizzard. Is it a gizzard? No, it's not the gizzard. Every year we want to.

We want to get ready for this. Now, Mike made a very... Wait, the red fleshy bit hanging off the turkey's beak. They're called the snoods. Oh, that's right. The snoo. Show me your snooze. It's a family show. Mike. Turkeys, they're everywhere. What a scarf on. Are we sending snoot picks? Oh, if you want a little... I'm more impressed with my turkey sound now that I've heard a real turkey.

Or was that me again? It's hard to say. I'll never tell. My favorite part of this, if you want to glance into our process is at the very beginning of the week, we knew we were going to break out these Thursday games. And I think I sent like a note to Mike. I'm like, oh, yeah, make sure you get our announcer guy to give us a drop. I don't want to do it. Give us a drop. So you've got this long drop and then just the gobble in the middle and then the rest of the drop.

Very well done, though. I was impressed. I like the references in there, too. All right. Set your lineups for Thanksgiving Day, which means you've got three games on Thanksgiving, and you have a number of players that you want to get out of your flex spot and into your positional spot so that if something happens, if you need to pivot from T.Y. Hilton to, I don't know, a running back. You need to be able to do it on Sunday morning, so make sure you're not locking yourself down.

in the flex position, right? All right, the bears at 5 and 6 take on the lions. At 3.7 and 1, the bears are 3.5 point favorites with a rather dismal 38 point over under. 38 points. Yeah. That is rough. There is the possibility that this combined with turkey consumption may put you into a sleep state sooner rather than later. Is this the first one?

Actually, it is. Yeah, it's the 1230 Eastern. So this, one of the big question marks here that we, we don't know yet is the Jeff Driscoll situation as to whether or not he'll be playing. He's dealing with a hamstring issue. If not, then. Who's the backup, Jay? I believe it is pronounced David Blow. I don't, I don't know for sure. Yeah. Is that how you would pronounce that, Mike? B-L-O-U-G-H? I would.

Not blah. Blah. Either way, it's going to blow. Maybe in more emphasis on the G.A.'s. Blach. Yeah. Oh, it's German. Yes. David the Blach. God bless you. It is I. Here's the thing. David Blach. Now presenting David Blach. Oh. Oh. Now I am from Transylvania. David Blach.

I mean, the reality, look. Somebody spreads the sweep. Came out of him. The sweeping tables across the table to Mike, and he goes, wah. A garlic. Here's the thing. We've got a lot of matches to get through, guys. We've got all day to do this show, my man. I think Driscoll plays. I don't think there's any chance he's not out there, to be honest with you. I think he's going to be out there. The problem is Driscoll has been, you know, he's.

He says it's definitely gotten better every day. Oh, that's good. Each and every day is hamstrings feeling a little bit better. The problem is what has helped Driscoll in both fantasy for himself, but also in opening things up for broken plays is his rushing ability. He has been a very mobile quarterback. We're talking about, you know, you look at his 37, 51, 63 rushing yards in his three games.

And if he's got a hamstring issue, yeah, he can stand in the pocket and throw the ball. But I think this is going to be very bad against a good bear's defense. So what the lions are going to try to do, obviously, is run the ball. That's where the bears have been susceptible. And there's a lot of questions about both Scarborough.

Can you trust him? Can you start him? You look at the bears and you think, oh, that's a terrible match. If they're one of the best defenses in the league. But against running backs, that is not true. They've been beatable on the ground. And Scarborough, he's getting more than 15 carries. He's doing work with him. You can't trust him, though. No, but I think you can flex him. And by that, I mean, put him in your running back slot, moving a better running back to flex because he's an early game. But he is.

I think he is a startable option. See, I guess I just disagree with that. If you're dealing with a limited Jeff Driscoll and you're dealing with maybe David Blach. Then you're in a position where there's one thing that you need to slow down here. I don't think that you have a high ceiling in this game. I would try to flex someone else myself. So, Mike, why don't you weigh in? Because differing opinions. I think you can flex. So that would be a bowflex? Yep.

Absolutely. It's just it's hard to find a running back who's going to get 15 or more carries. Fair enough. And I mean, do you go with the narrative of, okay, Jeff Driscoll's out so the running game won't work as well? Or Jeff Driscoll's out. They lean on it. They're going to lean on the running game. I think he's going to get a lot of carries. But to speak to Andy's point of.

I do agree that the upside is limited here. You know, I have been madly in love with Philip Lindsay. His matchup last week was great. He's taken over the timeshare. And it hasn't worked out, even though he's actually been very good and been getting carries. The reason it hasn't worked out for real fantasy success that you're hopeful for is because the offense as a whole is not scoring. They're not in scoring positions. And, you know, when you've got that third string.

quarterback running the show, it does limit the whole offense. So while I already said, I think he's a flex worthy player, I do think your upside is limited. Benny Snell or Bowflex? I would go Benny Snow. Okay. If you need to swing for the fences, right? If you're in the position where you're playing against a great team and you need a high score, then I would not say he's your option.

All right, the Lions defense has not been good this year. 25th against fantasy quarterbacks, 31st against fantasy running backs, which in a normal circumstance, you look at Mitch Trubisky and David Montgomery, and you say, well, they should be must-starts. In your mind, are you looking at both of those players? Like Montgomery, we've talked a lot about. This should be a smash start for him. He's getting almost 17 opportunities a game, but do you like him more than Bowflex? If not here, where?

That's the truth, but maybe it's nowhere. Right. And you've talked about it. You have already been on record saying you would drop David Montgomery as a landmine situation that someone else would get him and try to play him. I think... I'm playing Benny Snell over him. Yeah, and I would play Benny Snell over him as well.

But if you've got David Montgomery on your roster, I think he's probably going to be in your starting lineup. This is, you know, the lines have not been able to stop the run. And there are legitimate questions to whether or not the last few games have been an ankle issue for David Montgomery. Obviously, as time goes on, ankles heel. So, you know, it's tough because he's been putrid. He's been as bad as anyone not named Kalem Blage in the league. But you're going to get...

I mean, what about in this game, both Scarborough or David Montgomery? I lean David Montgomery in the sense that. Everything in me tells me that's the better play. Because you should be playing David Montgomery, but I'm afraid of getting burned again. Yeah, it's, it's rough. But I think Mitchell Trubisky in this matchup that is easy for quarterbacks. I brought it up last week in the Allen Robinson start. Trubisky is a significantly better quarterback quarterback against the bottom 10.

passing defenses, and the Lions apply here. In Week 10, Chicago beat the Lions 20 to 13. Trubisky had 173 yards, but he had three touchdowns against this Lions D. Goladay was 3 for 57 and 1 in that game. When you look at the wide receiver position, you've seen a small emergence from Anthony Miller in recent weeks, targets, receptions.

Yeah, he's somebody, you know, Alan Robinson, you've got to play him this week. And Taylor Gabriel is dealing with a concussion. That makes Anthony Miller. Anthony Miller is interesting. Like what you were talking about, Andy, 11 targets two weeks ago, nine targets last week against the Giants, six receptions in both games. He's not setting the world on fire, but he's trending in the right direction, and it's a very positive matchup for him. And he's a talented player. Sure. Would you be waiting?

on T.Y. Hilton or hitting some of these Thursday options while you have them. Like Anthony Miller, you know, you said the concussion for Gabriel, Miller, I think has had eight targets in consecutive games. Miller? I just said it, 11 and 9. 11 and 9. Sorry, eight receptions then. Six. All right. Well, I didn't like, I don't listen to the show. Yeah, I would know. I was too busy looking up, uh, uh, David Blauque.