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

So it's not just... Those are a lot of good numbers for your point. I was you saying it's not just Big Ben's history with them. It is their history with all quarterbacks in the last seven, never less than two in a game. And so I think he's safe with upside, has it all the complete Thanksgiving package. All right. Well, I guess since we've been battling and we've got a water bet, I will go to my quarterback, which is the DAC attack himself, Dak Prescott.

You have to stay in the flames when a guy is this hot. He's been absolutely on fire. And Washington should make for one of those high-scoring matchups where, you know, Kirk Cousins and all those weapons, they're going to score. Dallas has a decent defense, but they're not a lockdown defense. This is going to be a game where Vegas is saying it's going to be over 50 points scored, and Dax's going to be able to keep up.

And he's been on fire. He can get it done with his legs. He can get it a rushing touchdown. He could throw multiple touchdowns. And since Des Bryant has been back, Dax fantasy production has been great. You got Dack. You got the Beasles. Start Dack Prescott. More importantly, start Dack Prescott over Big Ben Rafflesburg. Did you guys? Thanksgiving battle. I love it. Did you? You may know this. They both play tomorrow. It's awesome. It's so awesome. I'll be watching that close. You may have already known this. I didn't. I just never even thought about this.

You know his real name is Dakota Prescott? What? I didn't know that. That name is, what are you doing shortening to Dak, man? You got to be Dakota Prescott. Are you kidding me? And my name was Dakota. My name would immediately no longer be Dakota. Do you realize if you have that name? It is for a girl. The doctor walks in. Oh, that's ridiculous. The doctor walks in with a sheriff badge.

The day you're born. If you're born, Dakota Prescott, he walks in with a sheriff badge and a hat, and he puts it on you, and then you go to Westworld. And a whip, because you are an archaeologist extraordinaire Dakota Prescott. That's amazing. Thank you for that insight. Who's your start of the week? You are ridiculous over here, Jason. I know. Speaking of ridiculous. The people like Jason that made him short it to Dak. That's what happened. All right, go on with your start. Derek Carr.

He's been up and down. I pumped the brakes on him a few weeks back because the matchups were not for him. He is not a must start guy for me. He is a matchup dependent guy. And I know the Panthers D. They're re-emerging. But we talked about Luke Keakley. It's unfortunate. He's not going to play. He's very doubtful to play. There's no timetable on his return. Derek Carr is at home. I think the matchup is plus for him. So I'm going to send in the car.

with no hesitation this week. I wish I could give you that drop right now. I feel so disappointed in myself. It's a bold play. What I love about the Raiders this year is that they, at some point in the game, he seems to make some ridiculously big play. Last week we saw it with the fullback. You saw one to Cooper. I like it. Irony here, I'm going to go to my running back start of the week. Ironically, in me and Jason's matchup this week, we have made our start of the weeks the opposite players running back.

I am going with Rashad Jennings. I don't know what else I need to say other than Cleveland's 31st against the run. Rashad Jennings is trending up right now. Cleveland's given up eight touchdowns in the last five games to running backs. And this is a mind-blowing. I had to put this in here. Here's the yardage they've given up the running backs in the last five weeks. 271, 158, 109, 146. You skipped 148. I skipped 148. Yikes is all I can say. Rashad Jennings.

You should be happy you have them on your roster, Jason. Oh. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Blah. Blah. Blah. Blah.

That's the Rawls Royce warming up. That is a bubble machine. That is a creature in the night. Oh, yes it is. Yes, it is Andy Holloway. That is the monster from pitch black. It is all things. It is the Thomas Rawls machines that is coming. And it is coming for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. And those buccaneers are going to hop on their ship and they're going to sail away because the Thomas Rawls Royce.

is officially upon us. Look, he has the backfield to himself. Everyone else not named Alex Collins is gone. Alex Collins is not so good. Thomas Rawls last week, he looked like a man running with a death wish, not for himself, but for everyone who tried to tackle him. He was standing up after every play acting. I was expecting him to just burst out of the clothes turned green.

Because he was a monster. And now was C.J. Pro Seis gone with Kristen Michael gone. And with a nice matchup, three out of the last four weeks, Tampa Bay is giving up 100 yards on the ground. I am, if you got Thomas Rawls on the bench, you made a mistake. I won't. I won't. I'll have them in there against you. Oh, man. Thomas Rawls is going to be so bad. Well, I'm going with, I'm going with another.

Or not another, sorry, going with an old man. Or I guess another old man as Andy went with Rashad Jennings. I'm going with Frank Gore. You know, his original name was Franklin Gorbachev. You did not know that? I did not know that. Is that Wikipedia? Yeah, that's his full name. You just get like a Russian hat? You didn't know he's Russian? No, I did not. He's a rusher.

Oh, that makes sense. Franklin Gorbache. He's a rushing for some touchdowns. The puns are thick at the end of a megaladon in case you're wondering. The wheels fall off. All right, Mike. What's falling off for Pittsburgh? Cameron Hayward, their best run defender. He's out. He's on to IR. Luck is out. We might see the Colts have to rely on Frank Gore a little bit more. He's been spectacular all year. I just read it off too.

If you're not watching the YouTube, you're missing out. I just read off the numbers to these guys. I said, how many times in our scoring, our half-point format has Frank Gore been under double-digit points? The answer was once because he had 9.8. That's unbelievable. He's been spectacular all the year. You round up. Yeah. You got to round that up to 10. He could get even more work, like I said, because Scott Tolzine is...

If he's not worried yet, it'll take about two snaps before he's very worried in saying, Frank Gore, please take the ball away from me. Yeah. Tolzine rhymes with ruptured spleen. It actually does. It actually does. That's funny. I had to go to the rhyme master for his approval. All right. Why don't you kick off the wide receivers then? All right. I'm going with, I gave the Seattle offense a big key. Doug Baldwin.

We go by the NBA jam rules. You got one for me? Oh, look, he is, we go by NBA jam rules on here. The most solid. Very official analysis, very astute, scientific. But it's proven true. Three times you are on fire and he is definitely on fire. He's throwing touchdowns. He's catching touchdowns. He's doing everything possible. He's having monster games. I love him against the Tampa Bay defense. All right. I'm going to go with.

Well, I'll let Jason do it first. Sure. My wide receiver is going to stay high. I think this is, he is already heating up. Now he's going to catch fire this game. That's Julian Edelman. Look, with Gronk out, with Hogan possibly out, we saw last week, Julian Edelman had 17 targets. He was both one of the highest fantasy producers for a wide receiver and one of the players who left the most.

fantasy production on the field with missed opportunities. You put those things together and that is great coming up this week. I think I am fully on board Julian Edelman. You've got the Jets run defense where last time when they faced the Jets, they decided that their game plan was just going to be to run through the air, as we say. And that's going to be your Dionne Lewis, James Light, Julian Edelman.

So Julian Edelman, to me, here is a great play. I'm definitely starting him. I'm staying in the flames with my guy as well, Richard and Matthews. Your guy? Well, no, with my selection for the day, not my guy as in I'm taking ownership of him. Welcome to the train. No, no, I am impressed, though. Richard and Matthews. We did it, Mike. We convinced him of Richard. Hey, he's convinced me. It wasn't you guys. Oh, it's awesome.

Look, he's already a wide receiver too overall for the year. The misconception about the Chicago Pass D is that they're good because they're not. Not for fantasy purposes. They were for a little bit. Not for fantasy purposes. I mean, you go back and you look at the amount of points given up. We talked about how few touchdowns they gave out to wide receivers last year. It's through the roof this year. And they've given up the most. Fantasy points to wide receivers on the year.

at this point now. And the wheels have fallen off. He's the number four, fantasy wide receiver in total points since week five, Richard Matthews is. Number eight in fantasy points per game. Do you know what that is? An autostart. Automatic. Auto start. Number four since week five. And he was available on about half of waiver wires on Tuesday. Look, but for every Richard Matthews case, and to make it...

To tell the truth about this, for Richard Matthews, there's another inman, Benjamin, whatever, Benjamin, right? Where you go and you grab them in, they don't pan out. So people, when you see that in the middle of the year, after you've already struggled, people are hesitant to jump on board. If you get the right guy, you're happy. So Richard Matthews started the week at the wide receiver position, and I'll finish out my starts with Zach.

Or it's eight catches, six catches, six catches the past three weeks. You really, if I just told you that number, that should be enough for you to start a tight end. Yep. Last week he scored, which has been one of his problems. He also had a huge score, called back thanks to Nelson Aguilar, the repetitive error of Nelson Aguilar. Poor guy. And here, you take that.

last three weeks and you mix it up with the great matchup against Green Bay, who was torched by Delaney Walker a couple weeks ago and been giving up double digits to tight ends. It's the Zach Ertz hour. I think it's going to be a great game for Zach Ertz. I'm very confident starting. I'm jumping in here. Gary Barnage. Really? I talked about it earlier. Let me give you some splits. Don't do the splits because I don't want to see that. These are not the Jean-Claude splits. These are

Gary Barnage with and without Josh McCown. Who can say? Two for 27. Four for 50. Okay. Now we're talking about, that's a low-level tight-end one. I can get behind those numbers. The Giants are, I talked about their secondary is very good. I pumped the brakes on Terrell prior. Genoris Jenkins, very good. They're 20th against tight ends for points allowed. They've allowed 368 yards to the tight-end position over the last.

four games. So they can be beat there. It's going to be Josh McCown. We talked about seven of Barnage's 10 touchdowns are from Josh McCown. I think you can play him this week and feel good about it. Okay. I'm going to go with Kyle Rudolph as my start of the week. He has been very hot and then very cold. And then very hot and then very cold. Well, he's...

coming off of a cold matchup, which granted was... Like eating a hot pocket. Yes, exactly. And you're about to get... Solid. You're about to get to that part that will destroy your mouth, as Jim Gaffigan would say. And that's Kyle Rudolph against Detroit. Detroit is the second worst team in the league against tight ends for fantasy production. They have just a hole on their defense that can be filled by Kyle Rudolph, and he wants to fill it up.

You also have Stefan Diggs. Fill it up. You also have Stefan Diggs we talked about earlier who might be either hobbled or might miss the game. You know, two days before game, he's already complete, did not participate in practice. That's never a good sign. So I think Rudolph is one of those guys where Rudolph really usually this year. The holidays are his time too. Oh, you know it. The Red Zone reindeer. You got him on Thanksgiving. The Lions.

In seven of ten games, seven of ten, a tight end has scored a touchdown. Oh, his nose is going to be burning bright. Burning on. It's late in a megaladon and Kyle Rudolph will score a touchdown. You heart at hair fires. To that end, guys, look, real quick, we're each drafting. It's a two-round. It's a two-round Thanksgiving Day draft. We've got to get this.