If I Were a Head Coach, Week 17 Starts & Matchups

Benchings, and you don't really have a lot of question marks as to who will actually be out there. I love Kenny Goliday this week in Green Bay. Agreed. I love Jamal Williams this week. At home, Jamal Williams was a microscopic amount of points behind Chris Carson for the number one running back last week. He is... He did get about five quarters, though. Yeah, he did, but he was putting up big numbers before that.

just the pass-catching ability. Equanimia St. Brown, I think he's banged up. He had his best game as a pro last week. Where are you looking for starts and decisions in this game? Look, this is the championship week. You roll out Jamal Adams. Jamal Williams and Devante Adams. And of course, Aaron Rogers. I'm not going to trust any other. I'm not going to trust Jimmy Graham at tight end or any of the other wide receivers who could. What about the glory, Jason?

Jake Cumerow. Nope. I did add him in a dynasty league yesterday. I wanted to. I just couldn't find a spot for him. But he played on 63% of the snaps. I mean, he had the big play. And he was playing frequently ahead of Mark Westfield as Scantling. Three for 68 and a touchdown. I mean, this guy is a practice squad hero, a, I mean, a preseason hero. And.

Why not? Why would the team? Because it's the championship and I've got a better roster. No, I know. I know. I get that one. I understand the reason is not to play him. I'm talking for Green Bay though. Oh, sure. They're done. And you're the championship and I got a better roster. Yes. If you're Green Bay, yeah, see what you got. Find out. Yeah. Devonte Adams needs two catches to break Sterling Sharps Packers single season record of 1.12. Will Devante Adams be overdrafted next year? I don't think it's possible.

You don't? I don't think it's possible to overdraft. The thing that it's kind of been, you throw to the left the Devante Adams if you're in Rogers. And then on the right, you pull the lever and you see what comes up on the slot machine, whether it's Marquez. And you hope somehow, you hope somehow that Devante Adams cross the field. When you look to the right, he's in the spinner. Yeah. And then for the lines, I agree with you. Kenny Galladay is a great play. Does that make?

Stafford an okay play? No, nothing makes him an okay play. He's averaged less than 200 passing yards per game over the last eight games. Wow. I can't play him up in Green Bay. He seems to do enough so that Kenny Gallaudet gives him a wink on the way off the field. But other than that, there's not enough volume. Now, the one thing I'll point out, being in Green Bay, this is 26 degrees, 18 mile an hour wins.

So I still trust Devante Adams. This is part of why I won't, I won't touch any other wide receiver. I mean, this should be the Jamal Williams show. Jamal Williams should be one of our starts of the week. He is. Great. Excellent. And unfortunately, it looked like two weeks ago that maybe Zach Zener running back from the Detroit Lions was shaping up to be, okay, we're going to be desperate in the later weeks. He's going to get the volume. But then Legerick Blunt.

Got far more carries. Not far, but three more. Far more inefficient than Zach Center. That's his ML. I was hoping for the Zach Zinner League winner rhyme. Oh, that's, oh. It was there. It's really Zach Zinner's fault. No, you know, it's Matt Patricia's fault. I blame him. Is he staying around? Because nobody talks about Patricia. Yes. So. I believe he'll stay around, yeah. You can still rhyme with not winner. Like, Zach Zinner is not a winner. Zener's dinner chicken dinner.

No? Come on, Zach. Nice PubBG joke. Yeah. Five and ten Jags take on the 10 and five Texans. Texans are seven-point favorites. Houston can win the AFC South if they win this game or if they lose, follow the way to the sixth seed. I don't know how they can lose. I really don't. I don't see any way, shape, or form that they can lose this game. I would take the Texans and the points seven at home.

against Jacksonville. And look, I know, Mike, you brought it up. I got a snake, man. He is back. I do not have a snake, man. I do not have a snake. You know, you're playing DeAndre Hopkins and Deshaun Watson. The question marks for the Texans' offense. Now, I think a sneaky play, DeAndre Carter? Maybe. Demarius Thomas, the torn ACL, PPR value for DeAndre Carter, you look at what?

you had with Kiki QT. Now, maybe QT's back and that would change things. But what do you do at running back? I mean, Lamar Miller, Deonti Foreman? I think Lamar Miller gets run. I know he was out last week, which was a surprise at least to me. But, yeah, they need to win this game. It's important for their seating. And Lamar Miller should be healthy enough to return. I expect them like you, Andy, to be winning this game. So I'm...

I'm totally fine starting Lamar Miller, assuming, of course, that he's active. If he's not active, I don't think you want to play with the backups. DeAndre Carter had 75% of offensive snaps last week. Not bad. And that was with some Demarius Thomas, 6 to 7 target, 61 yards. I would start him with the same confidence I would have started Kiki QT had he been healthy. What's your confidence level in Leonard Fournett? That he didn't even practice today. Is the biggest question.

I mean, he is right now three straight games under 50 rushing yards. In the last three games, he has over 40 carries. That's awesome. That's what you want. That's like, okay, great. So you've got good fantasy production, except like Andy just said, he hasn't hit 50 yards in a game. 36, 46, and 43 total rushing yards. It's hard to trust him. Is it possible he doesn't play? I would play. If he's not practicing today? I mean.

It's a meaningless game. He's still supposed to be the future of your franchise. I wouldn't play him, so I think it's possible. And the word was, I don't know if you guys had seen this report, because T.J. Heldon was a healthy scratch. Heldon, huh? Wow. T.J. Yeldon was a healthy scratch. And it's actually a Yelty Scratch. Thank you. T.J. Heldon, Yelthy Scratch. Yes. And the report was they were doing that to help him out.

Because he's going to be a free agent, and these games are meaningless for the Jacksonville Jaguars in terms of they can't make the playoffs. So they were saying, okay, we'll let you sit so you don't get hurt right before you're about to sign or try and sign a contract. Here's the problem. Jacksonville drafted Leonard Forenett to build around him, to be the centerpiece, to be the roots of the offense. But if he's hurt all the time, you already saw the kind of...

meaningless trade for Carlos Hyde in the middle of the season, which was not a vote of confidence in Leonard Forenett's health. You brought up the free agency. I just don't know if they're fading on him, and that will carry on into next year. Fournet will be a perceived value next year. Whether he will be an actual value, I think the jury's going to be out. But I think what it'll be is he'll be at a draft point next year where if he stayed healthy next year, he's probably worth the pick.

You'll see the confidence with what do they do with Carlos Hyde? Because yes, he's an aging back. He can still get it done. He would be 4.75 against the cap if they keep him. But he is a $0 dead cap hit over this offseason. So if they want to bail out and not pay a 28-year-old running back $5 million. Yeah, he's gone. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. The contract.

seems like he would be gone. So if he comes back, that'll be, I think that would say a lot for the team and their expectations. I would not be surprised if there was a more, a splash free agent signing at running back for Jacksonville. Somebody, somebody's name that you're like, oh, wow, I didn't expect having Pullman to go there. When they got Chris Ivory after drafting Yelden. Yeah, something to that. Or, yeah, no, no, you're right. Yeah, it was. Yeah, it was. Before we move on to the next matchup.

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Just a chinty little... There ain't nothing chinty about this, Jason. No, it's nice. Nothing chinty about this like your dynasty title. My dynasty what? The title. Championship. DeAndre Hopkins will be a... That was one of the names that came up a lot in our top 10 list. Yes. Where does he belong? Like he was my number 10 in a PPR league over Tyreek. And people don't know where to put players, but...

The Tyreek Hopkins, I would take Tyreek in a standard league. I really would. Yeah. I would take Hopkins. Yeah. Which I, maybe that's what he deserves. The 4 and 11 Jets, Jets.S. I love the Jets. Oh, no. I do. Oh, Jets fans. I'm sorry. I love the Jets. I'm so sorry, Jets fans. I'm moving on from the Browns. The Browns are already there. I've already brought them to where they need to be. I'm moving on to the Jets. I brought the Jags, too.

I mean, this is, this is. Yeah, but do you not see the, the correlating theme of, yeah, the head coach is always fired. And the teams are always terrible. Todd Bowles is going to get fired too. But if I put my, what do you love to Todd Bowles? If I, yes, I do. If I put my team, he really likes. No, that's great news for the Jets fans. If he loves Todd Bulls, Todd Bulls about to be gone. He loves the Cardinals too.

Uh-oh. This is what's... No, I haven't adopted the Cardinals. This is my kind of underdog team of the year. And I'm taking the Jets as my underdog team of the year next year. And look, that means good things for you. Although Jacksonville had a bad year. Yeah. The 4 and 11 Jets take on the 10 and 5 Patriots, Patriots 13.5 point favorites. It's a 45 point over under. And, uh, yeah. No, no, no, no. Andy's almost upset of the wig.

Come on, you know. Mike, you saw what I saw. That's too big of a line. Almost two touchdowns. Stop it. Sam Darnold's playing well. The Patriots offense is not. Well, this game's in Foxborough, so I think that's part of it. Here's what I know. Todd Bowles is going to get fired. Here's what else I know. Everybody loves Todd Bowles. Every one of those players loves Todd Bulls. They're going to play their heart out for him in this final game. The Jets, they're going to almost upset the Patriots this week. Sam Darnold, Robbie Anderson.

Chris Herndon and company, Elijah McGuire with a big week last week. I think you can start all four of those players this week and no one else on the Jest. Do you agree? Yeah. I mean, I'm not crazy about starting Sam Darnold. I hope you can do better. That's a solid point. I guess I really meant the three position players. But Eliza McGuire, Robbie Anderson, and Chris Herndon has really turning into something special. Going forward, for him to be doing this in a rookie season with a rookie quarterback,

I'm going to, I'm going to look his way next season pretty early to take a step forward. My dynasty team has been saddled with this Rob Grancowski fellow you've heard of. Yes. I expected slightly more production, Mr. Three touchdown, Grancowski this year. But I was really happy that I had Chris Herndon on the bench, not thinking that, you know, at the beginning of the year he would be much, but at least I have some insurance.

Saying all that out loud made me really sad about Rob Grankowski. Here's an interesting fact. Mike Clay tweeted this out. The Patriots have run the ball on 75% of Sony Michelle snaps. They have thrown it on 77% of James White's snap. So if I was a defense, I'd be looking at who's in the game and what's going to happen there. Can you start Sony Michelle this week after the 18 for 116 and 1 at home?

Against the Jets, I think the answer has to be yes. It has to be yes. Regardless of what we think of the line being too extreme, I think the odds are still heavy favorites that the Patriots will be leading and will still win the game. And if you're at home leading, you want that running back. I mean, you look at the, when you take a large sample size, teams that win a game at home,

their running backs perform on a week-to-week basis. So I think Sony Michelle is a very good play. It's interesting to me as just an aside that Nick Chubb and Sony Michelle, I mean, they were linked, same school, both high draft capital running backs. But the way they played in Georgia, Sony Michelle was far more of explosive. He would get the receptions. No, that.