Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - MEGALODON Episode - Week 12 Matchups, Trade Tips, Starts, + Much More!

Stefan Diggs, their number one wide receiver. He was limited Monday. He did not practice on Tuesday. If he does not get in a limited practice today on Wednesday, you better expect Stefan Diggs to sit in a good matchup for him. So Rudolph is even more enticing. All right. What are some of the big question marks from this game? Because I think you're asking whether or not you could start Stafford at home in this matchup.

I mean, the Vikings pasties great, but I'd look elsewhere personally. It hasn't been good. Yeah, I agree. And what we have seen, Mike mentioned this, but what we've seen pretty much this whole year is that the Lions kind of played to their competition. You know, if they're playing a really great prolific offense, then they will be a really great prolific offense. But against the Vikings...

You know, I don't expect this game to be one that really gets out of hand unless the Vikings are scoring special teams and defensive touchdowns. I am still, would you play the Vikings defense special teams against the Lions? Sure. Yes. Sure. Yeah, I mean, the Vikings defense has been making big plays, Corderle Patterson, in the special teams game. I think that you can definitely do that. Theo Riddick had been limited this week, but I think he's the one guy that.

You know, I'm very comfortable starting him in that running back two category this week. Do you guys agree with Theo Riddick? Completely. Yeah. Would you start Riddick or would you start at Ingram if he was healthy? I would start Riddick. Yeah. The Minnesota Vikings run defense has not been good over the last, you know, four or five games.

They have given up career highs to three different players on the ground. So I think Theo Riddick is a somewhat safe player. Riddically had four carries last week. Yeah, it's a different running back. So we'll see how they defend on there with decent linebackers against Theo. I can tell you who I'm not going to play in this game. I'm going to steer clear of the Golden Tate Marvin Jones duo.

I don't know who it's going to be. I'm sure one of them has a great chance of getting a touchdown, but I would like to avoid it personally. You just, you can't predict it. You've seen this year, players are getting burned by starting these Lions wide receivers and a matchup against Minnesota to boot. I'm staying clear. I'll say Adam Thielen, if Stefan Diggs sits, sneaky snort, and Cordellarpe. Is he banged up?

No, I said if Stefan Dick sits, Cordero Patterson led the team in targets last week. Yes. He is a sneaky snart, as we would say. All right. Aziata, can you do anything with him in this game? You can play him. I think so. I mean, he doesn't. Sorry. He doesn't do much, but he gets in an end zone often enough to be one of those. If you have to start a running back, you've got injuries. Yeah. He's got a much better chance at a touchdown than most of those like,

you know, running back 30 plus out there on the waiver wire. Can you stream or should you even be tempted to stream Sam Bradford against the Lions defense that has allowed 2.2 touchdown passes per game. I mean, that is, if you get 202, that's your streaming standard, right? Yeah, it's, it, I wonder if Jason's going to force me into starting Sam Bradford this week. It's not terrible, but there are likely better options on your wire. You'll be lucky.

to play Sam Bradford. I hope he drops this whole bench and a couple starters. No kicker, no defense, 18 quarterbacks. Yeah. The Redskins take on the Cowboys. The Cowboys are seven-point favorites in this game. I know that Jason and I have made a bet about Dak Prescott, but I love Prescott in this game. And then Kirk Cousins. How do you like me now? Yeah. You know you said that right to the GM. Yeah. As he should. And then he gave the GM a Nugie.

Right at the end of that conversation. Did he, that's an emasculating conversation for the GM. Two yells of, how do you like me now and a noogie? Did cousins just stare him in the eyes and do the Mansell? Real quick. You better pay me. Point of clarification, because I, I couldn't, I didn't see it. And I could not tell if it was a joke or not. Did he really give him a noogie? Yeah, well, I mean, did he really like, you know, do the. He did, he did the little kid rub on the top of the head to end of the hug. Right.

He said, how do you like me now twice, right in his face? And then he gave him the rub on the top of the head. Talk about a team with players you can love. You got fat rob. Oh, yeah. You got fat Rob making fun of himself, being a great, you know, player. And then you got Kirk Cousins. I am falling in love with Washington. Crowder. Yeah, Crowder's. And then Garston, who wants the ball in every single play because he thinks he's the best player in the late. He's pretty good. He's pretty good. All right. Let's get into the fantasy questions of this game.

Look, I wanted to pump the brakes on Rob Kelly because I want to pump the brakes on anybody who scores three touchdowns that runs similar to Matt Aziana. He's better than Oziana. No, he is. And I cannot pump the brakes on 20 plus carries. I cannot do it. Nope. It's illegal. It's not allowed. Yeah, you've got to start. So I love Rob Kelly. I mean, you have to play him. Yeah, I was going to say you have to start him until he proves otherwise that he's not going to be productive. I think his usage is so.

high in an offense where you cannot focus on the run. You can't do it. There's just too many weapons for Washington. You're not going to be stacking the box, and that sets, not to mention, Washington has one of the better offensive lines in the league. You combine all those things, and you tell me I get, you know, we've always said, opportunity is greater than talent, and I can't imagine a much better opportunity.

then what Robert Kelly gets to run behind and with the weapons behind him, it's kind of reminiscent. It's like a poor man's Dallas situation, a slightly worse offensive line, maybe a slightly worse offense. Yeah, I mean, they're right about even. Redskins give up the fifth least sacks per game on Cousins. And look, to me, 51 point over under. There should be a lot of fantasy points in this game. And I know it's early, but it's my. Oh, already.

Andy's almost upset of the week. I love it. Seven points. Even the Cowboys seven points in this game, I think the Redskins can cover. I think the Redskins can, uh, sure. Give them seven points. I think they can win this game. This is a, look, I don't remember the last time we had a Thanksgiving day game where every team playing was at 500 or better. Every single team playing on Thanksgiving is 500 or better. Of course you can't remember that because the lions always play on Thanksgiving.

So, I mean, it's been a while. And, yeah, it's just, is there anyone in this game that you want to bench? No. Well, Vernon Davis. I don't think you bench Brian. I'm sure you're, you've got a case of the Beasles. Wide receiver, too, Cole Beasley? You certainly do. I don't feel, I mean, Dijax. Limited practice expects to play. I don't think I play Dijax. I agree with that. I wouldn't play Dijax, and I wouldn't play Vernon Davis after his goose egg last week. Would you play Witten?

Yeah, he was in consideration for when I was looking at the starts of the week. I think he's an okay play. It's not the best. I think Zee. You could get away with it. I think Zee could have a monster game. You could. For sure. All right. The last Thanksgiving Day game before we get into all the other matches. Scott Tolzee. Scott Tolzee. Who is now a nine point dog at home against the Steelers.

I know that I am the biggest hypocrite on earth after talking about Big Ben the way I did, and then betting on Big Ben, and then hint, hint, he's my start of the week this week. But I just love this matchup. It's just too good to be true for me with Big Ben. I know it's on the road, but he's in the dome.

He's got Scott Tolzing on the other side. You're going to get some short fields. His potential for a high touchdown game. And come on, the Colts defense. This is why you listen to this show because sometimes we just flat disagree with each other. I don't like Big Ben in this game. This is a perfect trap game for me. He's down a lot of his receiving weapons. He's on the road and he's against an offense. Marcus Wheaton is not a weapon.

How many times do we have to say that? Okay, you could say Darius Hayward Bay is not a weapon either. I do say that. Sure, and you could say that Sammy Coates is not a weapon as well. No, what Coates is a weapon?

My point is he has none of them. He has none of them. And it's better to have them than to not. You just saw him go up against a great matchup in Cleveland and do nothing. Part of the reason he did nothing is because he didn't need to. You know, I mean, look, Lev Bell was amazing. He had 100 yards in the first half against the Colts with an offense that's not going to be able to score.

I don't like this game script for Big Ben on the road. I think Levium Bell is going to eat. Antonio Brown will be fine. And Big Ben will probably be quarterback 11 or 12. Okay. I love our bet between Dak and. Sure. No, I'm double down. Look, a lot of what I have, the last two times that he's played, the Colts, Big Ben has 10 touchdowns and no interceptions. And both of those games were in Pittsburgh. Right. But, yeah, I don't think Tolzine and the Colts are going to do nothing in this game.

But we'll see. There's just a funny tweet here. Someone had tweeted at Hasselbeck. Oh, to bring them back? Say, hey, you got any plans for Thanksgiving? And he replied. He said, it's tempting. It's like, I've got intense turkey bowl plans, but I'm not expecting an MRI x-rays or any type of protocol afterwards with Scott Tolzine.

Should be expecting. I hope the health insurance is good, my man. Yeah. Well, yeah, Andrew Luck's been sacked 35 times. There's a reason he's not playing on Thanksgiving. In this game, are you, I think we're still starting Frank Gore, right? He's just been too consistent with him. Of course. Very good in this matchup. But the real question mark comes, I think, with Dante Moncrief. Sure, start him. You would? I'd still start him as well. Man, I'm.

I think that he is an okay play, but I'm guessing that most teams have options I would prefer over Dante Moncrief as the wide receiver two with Scott Tolzine. And if you look, I think in the last 21 games for Moncrief, he's only had more than 65 yards three times. Yeah, he's a three to me. I mean, he's a three. He's a three because the Steelers defense is not great. I mean, you got a 26th rank passing defense. These teams are both five and five.

you're looking at the Bortles effect here for Tolzine at the end of the game. That's your hope if you're hoping for Moncrief and Hilton. But you have to. I mean, look, look at what happened last year. I mean, we went through this with Andrew Lux injuries last year. It wasn't pretty for the wide receivers. Right. And you have Mike's.

theory that the backup quarterbacks come in and throw to the wide receiver two more than to the wide receiver one i i agree with that theory a lot of the times because they just avoid the best corner on the other team and that's why they're not throwing to the one that would that would give a little bit more credence to moncrieff versus t y hilton but it's a scary proposition without what come on me no no thank you um we're going to move on now to the sunday games we have a lot

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