Fantasy Football - Championship Studs & Duds + Magic Mike, One More Game! - Podcast for 12/29

The team was atrocious. He just won people championships. Five touchdowns in the final two weeks. Strong argument for fantasy MVP in terms of that stretch. Yeah, from, I mean, I don't remember when Flacco got there, but it's like you can see week six, RB20 with eight points. Okay. I mean, better than the crap he had been giving you, but from then on. Flacco got there week six. And then from then on, it was just, it was double digits at least every week. And then. two top five finishes in the last two rounds of the playoffs one one month does not a season make i mean if you if you look at that first month and and you know you're chase brown my guy you're your jamison william my guy just ask abuka and jamison williams whether a month of the season so funny defines things for you we were looking out i was looking up this morning uh first seven weeks of the season abuka is the wide receiver six through seven weeks

It's a long stretch. And Jameson Williams is the wide receiver 40 through seven weeks. From week eight on, they completely flipped. Wide receiver six, wide receiver 40, basically. The run. You need to stay water. This is why we say you never get to lock in the lineup that you think looks really pretty and then just do nothing. No, I mean, Mike had, he made a trade for Justin Jefferson. He had Cortland Sutton. For the playoffs. Yeah, he had a team that was number one in the league at that point. And he didn't just sit there and rest. He swapped those guys for the Chase Borough stack played against the team you made that trade with in the championship game. And you got the Chase Burrough stack against his Justin Jefferson and Cortland Sutton. Also traded for Chase Brown at the deadline. Right. I mean, the moves were, it's the year of Mike. And say the for Chase Brown, too, if you're in Dynasty, you.

Gotta be very, very happy about the way that things went of me. You go from weeks two through five. That's a running back who for sure is getting replaced next year. Also, I have a chance they just roll with Chase Brown next year and he's the guy again. I would like the NFL to enact more of a collegiate playoff committee. And I would like the Saints to be awarded the South title because they will be more entertaining than whatever's happening in Tampa. or Carolina. So I want the Saints to be given the title to go to the playoffs. I would also like the Bengals to be given the title in the North. Because I don't really want to watch Pittsburgh or Baltimore as much as I'd like to watch Chase Brown and Jamar Chase and Burroughs. So I would like to award those two titles. Do you think Harbaugh, Baltimore version learned his lesson? Like they should have won two weeks ago if they just kept...

giving Henry the ball and then he got so much crap for it's like hey this week we're just giving Henry the ball I hope the way he thought about it was like oh yeah this what you want Right. Let's see how it goes. Oh, see if he can handle it. See if he, I'll give him his career high and carries. I don't care. Let's watch what. Oh. Like when, when Lamar comes back, if they, if they win this week and they get in the playoffs and Lamar comes back and this round one of the playoffs, you should be giving Derek Henry the ball every play. I don't care. Just through the NFL playoffs, just hand it off to Derek Henry.

80% of your place. Does it feel like you had a 1,500 yard and 16 touchdown season, Jason? Yeah, it does. Oh, for Derek Henry? Yeah. I don't think that's the perception from a lot of people. I guess coming off this week, it's hard to not feel like it. Well, yeah, but this season was not one in which we talked about Derek Henry a ton on the studs every week. And yet he just persists as a machine. JCM, hey, guess what? This was cool. Let's just rule, rule Chris Rodriguez out moments before the game due to illness. And J.C.M. had a monster game. Breece Hall. We talked about it. Um, last week. Audrake estimate. Come on. Last week, Jason started the week was Audrey Estimate. And the guy that I. And he played him. The guy. Yeah, I played him in my matchup. I picked him up. I recommended playing him. It seemed like he would be the, the guy. But lo and behold, I forgot about a player who didn't exist basically in Taysam Hill, who became their starting running back.

For one game in the Super one game, which is probably his last game at home in the Superdome. And then they're like, okay, now let's go to what we were going to do. And Adrick Estime, 14 for 94 and a touchdown. That feels good, right? Other than... Feels good and bad. So Jonathan Taylor rushed for more yards than Estimate did against the Titans, who have been a very stingy run defense. Estime as a player has the second most yards against the Titans of all the running backs that they have faced. Yeah. Yeah, it was crazy. Hampton ended up catching eight passes in this game. That saved him. And got a touchdown, Jonathan Taylor, a touchdown, and was 21 for 70. At wide receiver this week, Luther Burden, 23.8. We got word late. Again, I thought I was cursed once again with illness. Chris Rodriguez is the start of the week, right? Goes down to illness. Then I'd named Caleb Williams start of the week, and we get word yesterday as we're like, as I'm driving.

DJ Moore, and then Zakias, both down with illness. You're already missing a dunes day. I'm like, great. But Luther Burden stepped up, 23.8, Alave, 21.9, Jamar Chase, Chris Godwin, and Christian Watson rounding out the top five. Burden is going to be a menace. Yeah, this is one of those, a lot of times people, they don't make the playoffs, they check out. They don't pay attention. They don't keep up with football the rest of the way. You might miss this real, because it's very late in the season, but. Burden's having a breakout. The way that it happened where he started looking amazing and then got injured and then missed the game. And then thankfully that was, you know, prime time. So I think more people saw it. But burden will be very interesting. Next year, you look at this roster, DJ Moore should be back unless they trade him because contract wise. They owe him so much money. But Rome should be healthy and much better.

Then you've got this burden breakout. Yeah. And Mr. Loveland. Yeah. Breakout. Touchdown guarantee. Yes. Oh, yes. Cochene. Luther Burden, Colston Loveland. The future is here. It's fun. Congratulations, Bears. Yeah. You know, it's exciting. And look, you were right there. You could have won this game easily. It was, it's against the team that might get the number one seed in the entire conference. And, um, you know, the playoffs are going to be fun. And Luther burden. Nice that he's not super hurt. Right. Olave ends the year, or is going to end our fantasy season is the wide receiver six, eight for one, 19 and one, getting shucked each and every week. 102 receptions, 1400 yards, and 13 touchdowns is his pace with Shuck. That's his, that is what Chris Olava has done with Shuck. And it's been super consistent. Almost every single game, a good game. One bad game, one mediocre game, and everything else great.

I mean, 14 yards of catch. It is. This is. He's a good wide receiver. Yes, he's always been a good wide receiver. Has been surrounded by garbage. We're rolling out Spencer Rattler and Derek Carr is like this. Stop it. Get out of here. That's not the solution. Then the concussion situation. So the Olave being back to relevance is. The dynasty value of Olave has been a, just a. And I'm going to be honest with you, I would trade him. An M shape. Yeah. Well, is this concussion worry? No, not as concoct. By the way, shout out to Olave. He's going to play 17 weeks. I mean, he's playing next week. And the concussions, it wasn't just last year. Like, he had been knocked out previous years with injury. So amazing for this dude. I would trade him on the sort of, like if you can get this kind of value for him.

I saw a list, and I wish I could find the tweet, maybe Kyle can, of what the other starting cast that Tyler Shuck has other than Olav. Oh, yes. The starting seven or eight players. I mean, it's undrafted players. It's nobody's right. Veilet's hurt. They don't have other receivers. I'm not going to say he's going to Brian Thomas next year, but it has some similarities to me where it's like, you're the only show in town by a wide margin. They should go out and spend some money on some pass catchers next year. And I think that will make a difference on the target share. I don't know if it stays the same. I'm not saying Olavi's a bust. I'm just saying. I think they might be happy with Velae, though. I would guess that they'd add some more. And then Velae hasn't been there in the last few weeks. But he's been awesome. I mean, Oliva is an awesome player. So I don't know what the view is on Dynasty, where you guys have them right now.

In the rankings. It's really tough because when you have a young, talented, wide receiver, that's like what I just drool over for Dynasty. And so it's very difficult. Luther Berden or Chris Olave. Oh, Chris Alave for me. Yeah, I think it's Alave. Ted Arloa McMillan or O'am. Oh, man. I'll go Tet there. Oroa. Thank you. Tetaroa. Nico. What is the age gap there? It's 26. 8 for Nico and 25.5 for Olawe. Then I'll go to Niko. I'll stay with Nico. But Buka or Olave. Oh, man. A buca is 23 years old. Like that would be the, but that would be that that would be that that would trade. Yeah. That's the trade you could do. And I would do it. I'd rather have a buca. So that that's the kind of situation because you would be you still have the concussion risks, but I mean we're we're a year round show. We're going to be talking to honesty stuff. That's the thing is you will have to take.

the risk, the gamble of Olave who's been producing and go get someone else who is underperforming and sit in that for an entire offseason. What is wrong with Tampa? Dude. I mean, Todd Bowles is going to get fired, isn't he? There was supposed to be a defensive team. They can't stop anybody. There was a report yesterday that said, no, Bowles is going to be safe, but it might be time. I think we've seen the best that. bowls can put out there. The defense is atrocious. The offense is taking a step back. Bucky Irving is not himself right now. They didn't have Tristan Wirth, so I realize that. I mean, Baker's missing people. I'm so bummed. They were so fun. Yeah. I think that that's what I mean of like last year that was that was electric and that wasn't enough to get it done. Yeah. Big week for Stefan Diggs. Christian Watson keeps it going.

Michael Wilson kept it going. And Wondale, who I think Jason mentioned towards the end of the week. Big weeks for those guys at tight end. Shout out to the all-time leader. There he is. Big Bright ended up number one. All-time leader in receptions in a single season, Trey McBride, who passes Zachert, who he passed on the Debt chart in Arizona. And Trey McBride. Dude, just the stupidest garbage touchdown. Oh, man. Hey, they still count. That was delicious garbage. Yeah. You got to hit it. Oh, the darkest man can. Oh, man. So got another week for Trey McBride to add to the total. He's at 1119 receptions at tight end. He may be at 130 by the end of next week. With 11 touchdowns, which is like, I mean, that is. Kyler would never. Kyler couldn't. Also, Jacoby, I mean, it ended up okay. It was like, he kind of.

He kind of pumpkin there. I mean. Oh, he really, I mean, the Cardinals were winless with Jacob. Jacob, but I'm saying he was giving us. Yeah. High flying production. It's so Winston, Flacco, whatever. Yeah, it's the same stuff. Jacoby is a very, very good NFL backup. This is 10th season. Like, we know what Jacob is and what he isn't. He's, he is fine for fantasy to come in and, you know, just slinging around a lot. But, uh, yeah, he's, he's a backup. Yep. Yeah, I mean, all the fun that Joe Flacco is providing, Joe Flacco is well below 500 as a starter in the last three years. These guys come in, Winston. They come in, they give us joy in our hearts, and then they lose. Philip Rivers has been a lot of fun, a lot of fun. Yeah. And no wins. Yeah, yep. Trey McBride, number one, Colston Loveland. Over to. Mr. Love Land. And Tanges McBasketball number three. Yeah. So the.

Of everything we were all going through last week, myself included of, what do we do to replace George Kittle? You're like, hey, I went with Brenton Strange. You know, it was, do you believe in Tate some Hill? What has happened here? This, this. It was Toges McBasketball. It was a.k.a. Brock Purdy. It was the answer for both the kiddle and the Bauer situation because Michael Mayer ended up with 13 points number five on the week. And that was the story. We had a big touchdown and a score for. Chigacanquo. That was a man. That was a man touchdown. He's so, he's such a funny guy because he lives for the end of the season. He makes plays like that every year and you're like, oh, he should be like a huge, great tight end. And well, Joanne Johnson, four for 95. Jason started the week. Harold Fanon got in the end zone, thankfully. Gadsden scored again, Barner scored again, Hunter Henry scored again. And we'll take a break. And we'll, we'll talk about and commiserate with some players not on Mike's team.

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The tunnel at the end of the game. Did you see this? No, I haven't seen it. Obviously, they, they stopped. I mean, they, Philly said no to that two point conversion is what everyone said. And I'm like, he was wide open. Yeah. And he's just, Siri on. He's a, you know, he's a loud guy. And he's just like, they can't do no more talking now, blah, blah, blah. And he's doing that down the, down the tunnel. And then he, he does it kind of like to A.J. Brown. If you could see the indifference. on AJ Brown's face. There was no hype. There was no excitement. AJ Brown knew what really happened in that game, which was an offense that threw for 110 yards. I mean, be excited in your wins. Celebrate your win. Talking about AJ Brown? No, no. The coach. I'm saying be excited. You won. You beat the bills. You stopped the two-point conversion. I'm going to say something here. But don't go out of control. I think Papa Josh is more dignified in his victories than Nick Sierra. Wow.

Which is, I mean, look at Josh's face right now. Even Josh knows how undignified he is. And I'll tell you what, when it's when it's going bad for Papa Josh, he doesn't bring his kids in and use them as a shield. Oh man. Philly fans are not going to disagree. No, yes. They're not going to be mad. They're mad at Siriani. Here's a fun stat from Robert Mays. Were you going to read this? I was going to bring up the, the stat. of Sam Darnold. Oh, no, no. Let me finish the Jalen Hertz stat here. Per true media sports, there have been 10 games this year where a team has had fewer than five passing yards and a half. Eagles have three of those games. Holy crap. And they still might win the Super. I don't think this Eagles team, if the offense is playing like that can make it through three rounds. I'll say that. Yeah, the offense has to. Their offense can show up. Exactly. They have the players to do it. Their offense has been bad.

But they still have the same. I mean, Lane Johnson is so much to this offense. They haven't had them. They get them back. All of a sudden, the offense gets healthy and better at the right time. They're literally the Super Bowl champions. It could happen. But no, I was laughing at the amazing truth of Sam Darnold now joining the very elite. Now five pack of quarterbacks with consecutive 13 win seasons. These are nobodies, right? Brett Farve. Tom Brady did it twice. Brett Farve did it once. Peyton Manning did it once. Aaron Rogers and his MVP stretch. And now Sam Darnold. Tom Dunies. Yeah. This is that that Hydra gift for sure. If Seahawks played Philly 10 times.

What's the record? Splitting home? Yeah. I'd give the Eagles six of the ten. I think that's... I feel about the same. Yeah. Yeah. Josh Jacobs. Oh, my gosh. Four, three. Off the injury report, huh? Oops. That is a... That is a fart in the pants. God, that is a scene... Not just air. Yeah. That was a steaming pile. Gamble loose. Imagine going into your title week and you're like, man, I'm going to, I'm going to play Jacobs and Jemir Gibbs. I'm a flex Sake one. Well, the nice thing is you probably did not have to play Josh Jacobs in the championship. Most people did not because of how bad he was the week before. And he kicked me out of the playoffs. So I didn't have to experience that. But I mean, you're talking about literally two active weeks in a row in the playoffs.

where you combine the games and you don't have five fantasy points combined. That's insane. Fork carries for three yards is as embarrassing as it gets. Play calling wise, I don't know how you end up there, but I guess when you don't play any defense against Derek Henry, like, it's a shame for our entertainment as not being a Packers fan. It's a shame that the Lions blew that game. Right. Because this would be, I mean, you'd be sitting here. Going into the final week with the chance for the lines to pass the Packers. Jamir Gibbs 17 for 41. Max Brosmer is just too much. You have Max Brosmer? To overcome. Carson Palmer today is twice the quarterback. Like if you just brought him in, then Max Brosmer. Sequin didn't catch a pass. Jalen Warren and Kenneth Gainwell, we were worried about the fact that, hey, if Green Bay beat Baltimore, they might let these guys rest. They let him rest anyway.

to their own maybe playoff detriment. They scored six points, man. Six points. And both running backs were running well. I mean, 19 carries between Jalen Warren and Kenneth Gainwell in that environment is unacceptable. Michael Carter, sevens for 29. Yeah, that one's... At the end of the day... That one's a big bummer. He's Michael Carter. Mm-hmm. Tyrone Tracy, 14 for 62. That's not the end of the world. Yeah. At wide receiver, this was where people really, you know, we talked about all the different names that showed up. If you add them all together, they don't equal Derek Henry. Well, C.D. Lam, Nico Collins, Amon Ra, those were Jameson Williams. Those were all guys in that list. Tedderall and McMillan won for five. That game was ridiculous. Bryce Young's line. Do you guys...

Know what it is. I know that barely threw for any yards. He threw the ball. 93 yards? He threw the ball 24 times. Okay. And he completed, he completed 58% of his passes. That's pretty bad. 54 yards. 54 total yards? Wait, that's real? 54 passing yards. Yeah. Remember I was telling you how much more fun Shuck and Olavut would be in the playoffs than watching that team or Tampa Bay right now? Yep. Nico Collins, unfortunately, did not catch either of the long bomb touchdowns. Those went to Nolan Higgins. Yeah. He was 3 for 57. Not going to win you the week with that. Ted Earl McMillan, I said it. DJ Moore was sick. Had one catch. Not sick like, yo, that was sick. More like, you lose. Illness. Jameson Williams is two for 37. Part of the golf experience. Jefferson, four for 30.

He literally, when 4 for 30 was like, man, that's, that's pretty good with what Brosmer's doing. That tells you his quarterback situation. Justin Jefferson's fantasy points since week 10. Oh, no. Five, eight, six, one, two, three, 11, five. Those are, those are total fantasy points in a week. I mean, that. Like, if you started like Ryan Flanoy or Isaac to Slaw or Jalen Koker, you were better off, is what you're saying? Yeah, I mean, Justin Jefferson. I don't understand how you can be as good as he is, perhaps the best wide receiver in the entire National Football League, and have a run of that much irrelevance while healthy. I know your quarterback was a backup and then a backup to the backup. That doesn't matter. I feel like if one of the three of us were playing quarterback, we could at least try to get him the ball a little bit more. The first two games after...

Burrow went down. Jamarte scored six points and four points with... Yeah, that was... Who was the pre-flacco backup? Browning. Yeah, Jake Browning. Like this... And that was... You know, when that was going on, it's like, how does this possibly get fixed? And then some miracle is Joe Flacco shows up and fixes it enough that Joe Burrow can come back. But like the fix... Will J.J. McCarthy's going to be their guy next year. Will he be able to be good enough? Man, I don't know. To get Justin Jefferson. Week 16, that was, that was Jefferson. That was McCarthy. And the last couple weeks, his injury, the timing of the injury sucks so much. Well, it's magic, Mike. You were facing Jefferson. Well, I apologize for that. Because I want J.J. McCarthy and the Vikings to be good. I mean, the timing was awful. Since week 10, Drake London basically has as many points as Justin Jefferson.

He's played three games to Justin Jefferson's eight. I mean, John Mechie has more fantasy points than Justin Jefferson. Yeah, where does that take him in the draft? He can't be a first rounder. Right? I mean. I mean, I think. But the name. I mean, bypassing Justin Jefferson is going to be hard in your drafts next year. And it might be to your own peril. For sure. I mean, obviously there's there's no one in the world who's going to say. that Justin Jefferson is not a great wide receiver. Let's have a conversation about another player that I want to know if you think he's a great wide receiver. Last year, he played 69% of the snaps. Nice. He had 1,100 receiving yards, average 1,000 fancy points per game. This year, he's playing 78% of the snaps, has 789 receiving yards and averages 9 fancy points per game. Do you know what I'm talking about? You talking about my little lad? I'm talking about your little lad. He is...

Little right now. 66 for 789 is not what you hoped for. He's still, I mean, he's got six touchdowns. He had seven last year, so it's not like that's the differentiator in the fantasy points per game. Yeah, they have other. Two targets, one for 31. They have other places to go with the ball now with Keenan Allen. Their great rookie selection of pass catchers, including Gadsden, Trey Harris. Um, they've, they've got, huge is the biggest right. And Q's huge was, huge was gone. He had disappeared. He would not factor in this offense and then it all came together. Yeah. So I mean, I don't think lad is any worse, uh, or has taken a step back. It's just he is the type of player where he's not the dominant alpha one for a team. He's a great possession wide receiver when needed.

He's not always needed. He's certainly not needed as much as he was last year. And so I think we discussed this during the draft season. I was pretty low on McConkey for where he was being drafted just because there's a lot of ways that he could not have the same market share. What is Brian Thomas? Four for 39 in this game. Brian Thomas, just to give you the same thing I just did for McConkey, 14.1 fantasy points per game last year, 1,200 yards, 87 and 10. This year, 8.3 fantasy points per game, 45 for 658 and 2. I mean, BTJ was drafted ahead of McConkey. Both were drafted very high. And the dynasty forecast for BTJ, I mean... I think you can still have some optimism. But the long-term deal for Jacoby Myers and the addition of Travis Hunter is not even playing right now.

I mean, Parker Washington was great again. We didn't talk about him in the studs. We should have. He was, yeah. He was outstanding. His after the catch is what makes him special. Yeah, I thought last week was just Sertan on Brian Thomas Jr. And but Parker was really wonder if he's going to be gone, man. I really do. Parker? Yeah, because I just look at. Is he a free agent? No, no, no, no, no, he's still got. Oh, Brian Thomas. Like I just, strange Myers, Hunter. Parker that's that's four names that they've used a lot and they're they're a 13-1 team right he's a on a rookie contract and so unless they are desiring to trade him I think he is really a perfect fit for this team in the sense that he doesn't I mean right now he's not an alpha but he's like even if he's their wide receiver three he's no I'm sure he's not happy that's all I'm saying but the team has to be to have him as your like wide receiver three