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

I would rather start Powell than Matt Oziata, you know, if you're looking at guys like that. The real question in this game comes down to what do you do with Brandon Marshall. The Patriots are known for taking out the best weapon of the opposing team. Brandon Marshall has been pooping his big boy pants. With Fitzpatrick. They're together. Yeah, and Fitzpatrick has been terrible. It's a nasty, nasty situation. It's really tough to know what to do with him. Two dudes. One diaper.

Oh, yeah, pretty much. I can tell you, you know, right this second I have chosen, and it could change, but I've chosen to start Brandon Marshall over James Starks. James Starks going to Philadelphia. And Brandon Marshall in this game, I mean, he has not been good for a while. And really, it's because of Ryan Fitzpatrick. But with Fitzpatrick, I mean, he had several really good games this year.

You know, eight for 114 and a touchdown. Four for 89 and a touchdown. Those Eric Decker games? For 101. Brandon. I believe one of those was post Eric Decker. Brandon Marshall or DeAndre Hopkins this week? Marshall. Brandon Marshall or? No, I'll go Hopkins. I'm switching. You mentioned Devante Parker earlier. Do you start Marshall at Parker? I can't believe that you have to think about that. I know. That's the world we're living in. Marshall. I would go Marshall, too. What about Marshall Crabtree?

Crabtree. Crabtree for sure. Marshall Edelman. Edelman. Edelman. Yeah, okay. A question for you guys. Sure. Let's say that Chris Hogan is out again. Yes. Malcolm Mitchell against a beatable jet secondary. Is this a wide receiver three? Yes. I love Michael Keating. I was making this point to Jason yesterday that I really do believe in Malcolm Mitchell's ascension based on how Tom Brady talks about him. That doesn't mean anything beyond what you just said.

That he's a three. But, you know, Hogan's involvement is not high quantity target. So I think there's a place for Marshall. Or I'm sorry, for Mitchell. Mitchell. Yeah. So that's my take on that. But basically we're saying Mitchell over Amandola. Is that, is that what you guys believe? I would. I would. Because, you know, that's. Because I consider last week a bit of an emergence. So I would take, I would try to, you know, if you're, if you're in deep leagues, flyer zone, I'm flying with Mitchell.

Yeah, I would as well. I mean, we haven't seen, you know, in the second half of the season, we haven't seen Danny Amandola with more than one game over two catches. So Malcolm Mitchell, he looked great early this season. Now, if you're in a league in where you reward players for selling out on every catch to the maximum, Amandola is actually the number one rated wide receiver. Must start. Mitchell played.

85 and a half percent of the snaps last week. That's great. You're starting blunt. You're starting blunt. Do you start Lewis or White if you had to choose between them? Lewis. Lewis. I agree with that. I agree with that. Would you start Lewis or Belel Powell? Powell. I think I would start Lewis. How much do you think that? Oh, certainly not enough to water, but.

Certainly not enough. Don't you owe it to Dionne Lewis. He's been on your bench all year. Don't you owe it to him to waterbed on him? No, I've got him currently on my bench. I'm starting Brandon Marshall over him, and I don't feel good about it. So don't you put that evil on me. Don't mess with my snack. Count of knowledge. I talked about it earlier with Martella's Bennett, but I still think Bennett is a startable player here. Don't, don't read too much into last week's lack of production. Tom Brady went.

Where the guys were open? He went to Julian Edelman. We talked about San Francisco very susceptible to slot receivers, and that turned into 17 targets for Jules. All right. Chiefs, Broncos, what I think is a very interesting, exciting, low-scoring Sunday night football game. Inept offenses. Divisional matchup. I love watching players disappoint fantasy owners. That's just the most fun. No, it's not.

Kelsey, though, is coming off a great game. I really like Kelsey. You know, last week you saw Tyreek Hill produce some production. Well done, Jason. The Meglodon takes another soul. The Meglodon takes another. Yeah, that's good. You want to produce production. Goodness sakes, that's going to end up on a Twitter account that I don't want it to.

Guys, what are you doing in this match-up? I mean, I don't like Smith. You can't play Smith. I don't like Simeon. You can't play Simeon. Spencer Ware, you can roll out there. I don't like any of the running backs on the Denver side. You don't, I'm okay with him. With who? With Booker. Oh, I guess you've got to. He's been disappointing, but he's still been the main guy. There was all those, oh, Capri Bibbs, he's going to get more work. Yeah.

Because Booker's still the guy. I don't know what he's thinking about. Oh, I'm just, I'm looking up things on Travis Kelsey in the past defense for Denver. You know, when, when it comes to who you start from Kansas City, I think you look at the running game and you look at Travis Kelsey. I think you can start those guys and that's it. Do you know how many points that Kansas City is going to score in this game? Because I can tell you. Oh, please. I would like to know. 13. 10.8.

Wow. Because the Broncos defense allows 10.8 per game and the Chief's offense averages 10.8 per game. Well, there you have it. So it's 10.8. And Spencer Ware, we had big expectations for him last week. He was still okay. Where's he been? The Bahamas. Well, it's not been what you wanted. He's still a fine play this week. You can beat the Broncos on the ground.

All right. And to your point, the Chiefs have allowed four rushing touchdowns. Oh, no, not to your point. Yes. They've only allowed four rushing touchdowns, which is first in the league. So good luck, Booker. You better catch some passes. Are we still good with Demarius and Emmanuel? I'm as good as I've been all year with those two. Would you agree with that? Yep, feeling fine. If Macklin misses again, you...

I just bump. Tyree Kill? No. Conley? Nope. Burt. Keep going. Kelsey? There you go. It's probably good. We're at the guessing part of the show now. Got finish strong, man. Monday night, football. I think by then I will have digested some of the Thanksgiving Day meal. We're almost to the starts of the week. That's right.

Very soon. Very soon. Packers Eagles. Packers Eagles favored by four with an over under of 47.5 points by Vegas. First, what are you taking? You think more points than 47.5 or less? More. Yeah, I'll take the over. I think Wins is going to have an okay game in this one. We've seen the Packers defense or lack thereof. I'm going to take the under.

Okay. It's tough to take the under with how bad the Packers defense has been. But I guess what I'm saying here is that the Eagles defense in Philly has absolutely just decimated some really good offenses this year. I mean, you saw it when Big Ben went over there and they trounced him. That defense, when they are at home.

plays electric, and that scares me a little bit for all of the Packers' love. I mean, you're still going to have, you're definitely starting Aaron Rogers, and you're starting Jordy Nelson, and there's a lot of questions. I mean, you, you know, Adams, Cobb, do you start those guys because they've been putting up so many points over the last few weeks? Yes, I do. I'm going to start Adams this week. I've made that decision already. I think that, you know, you're in a position here where.

I would take the over. That's just my side. Now, what is unfortunate for fantasy owners is the Wendell Smallwood situation. Because if you went out and signed him today, you might have a great play. But it's Monday night. So if you aren't the Sproles owner or the Matthews owner, what do you do with Smallwood? I mean, if you're in a flex position, maybe you can grab an emergency guy from, you know, I don't know.

Maybe it's Nelson Aguilar or something. Yeah, unless there's breaking news over the weekend, I'm with you that if you don't have Sproles or Matthews, then I'm not trying to play small. But I'm not counting on that. Yeah, that's the thing, is he could be great, but you're high risk if you don't have those other guys. I mean, you're looking at probably like Richard Rogers grabbing him off the waiver. That's what I mean. Or maybe it's cook.

I mean, I don't know what it is. You're not happy. No, you're not happy. You know, the good pieces to play here are certainly your Jordan Matthews, your Zacherts. To me, I think both those guys should be fine against the Green Bay's defense that has just become full-blown inept. The Green Bay's, indeed. The Green Bay defense. Yeah. No, I know what the Green Bay defense is. I don't know what the Green Bay defense is. I didn't say that.

I don't know what the Green Bay's defense is. And here, just to speak quickly to the point of how different the Eagles defense has been when they are at home, I want to read you the fantasy points that quarterbacks have put up against them and whether it was home or on the road. Because it started with Big Ben putting up eight and a half total fantasy points against them in Philly. Then they went on a road trip to Detroit and Washington where they gave up 27 and 23 points.

Then Minnesota came to Philly, granted not the best offense, but still only 9.4 fantasy points scored in that game, followed by another road trip to Dallas and New York where they gave up 32 both weeks. Then Matt Ryan, right, the number one offense of Atlanta goes to Philly, and he only scores 18 points in a six point per touchdown league. They go on the road.

Russell Wilson scores 29. Now they're back at home. I'm just, I am saying that the Green Bay offense that has been on fire is, they will impress me if they put up another 30 points in this game. The one thing about the Green Bay offense is I feel like they can both struggle and produce fantasy points for Aaron Rogers at the identical moment. It's really true. But very, very good points there. I mean, you may have to temperate. I would talk more about Zach Gertz, but I will in a minute.

Are you gentlemen ready to move on here? As soon as you answer this question, it just came in off the presses from a friend. Okay. We're talking about Jordan Matthews. Jordan Matthews, Robert Kelly or Dante Moncrief? Robert Kelly. Kelly. Okay. Then Moncrief or Jordan Matthews? Matthews. All right. Asking for a friend? Just completely unrelated to the lineup that I just set. Sweet. Starts of the week.

I'm starting pumpkin pie clearly at this point in time. My wife's pumpkin pie is something to be revered. It's a first round draft pick. If we were drafting, if we were going to draft Thanksgiving Day, we should do this after the starts of the week. We should do a Thanksgiving Day draft that. And I'm just saying I have to give a shout out. I have to. Because I am not always Mr. Homemake. Everyone's always, oh, you got to try my homemade. You know, sometimes look, stove top is better than your homemade stuff.

I like the cranberry in a can better than any of that other stuff. So the real cranberries, no thank you. Give me that. Give me it in a can. Give me that wobbly gelatin. Sometimes you just look, when a company like Stovetop has perfected it, they're done. And so I hear all the time, oh, you've got to try my homemade pumpkin pie. I love pumpkin pie. I love it. But give me the Costco pumpkin pie because it's just great. I know it's great. It's pumpkin pie. And your wife.

was like, no, no, no, you got to try my homemade pumpkin pie. I hear that all the time. You're like, oh, she makes it great. It's the best. And I'm like, I hear this all the time. Yeah. I was almost brought to tears with how good this pumpkin pie was. It was the best thing I have ever. I mean, it was. I know you were hesitant because your first slice was, it was thinner than a normal Jason Moore slice. I didn't want to eat it because I didn't want to have to tell Bree, this is really good. Thanks. Instead, I got to be like,

You're leaving this here, or we're not friends. So, anyways, shout out to your wife's pumpkin pie. That voice you did was exactly what Big Ben does when Marcus Wheaton catches a pest. Very, very good, very good. All right, starts of the week for real before we do the impromptu Thanksgiving Day draft. I'm ready. I'm going with Big Ben. Look, I've put it out there already. I've made a water bet. Big Ben is my start of the week at the quarterback position.

I know the numbers. I know him on the road, and I know I disagree completely with Jason, which makes this great, because one of us will be really right and really wrong. I can't wait to gloat over you. Well, look, he's going to have to do something different than the last two games against Indy when he had 10 touchdowns and zero picks. Look, I think Pittsburgh needs to win. They're in a dog fight for that division. The cults of giving up 16 touchdowns to quarterbacks in the last seven games.