Week 16 Matchups + Wheel of Shame, Christmas Episode - Fantasy Football Podcast for 12/24

keeper potential in our league, just in case. Well, I'm glad you did it and someone else didn't. Yeah. So that's exciting. Terry McLaurin, it's been very, very difficult. Dallas is, you know, they're going to put digs on him. He's not going to do a lot. I'm just going to tell you the future. He'll catch three passes for 51 yards and no touchdowns. Oh. Okay, that's his final stat line. I just looked it up. Well, what about?

Can you look out some other stat lines while you're there? Is it just for Terry? No, I only have the Terry information. Antonio Gibson, very questionable to play in this game. Hadn't practiced Wednesday or Thursday by the time we're recording this. He's averaging a million opportunities every game. Yes. So if it's Jared Patterson, and then it'll be Jonathan Williams behind him, you know, you have McKissick on injured reserve. You get Taylor Heineke back. I think Jared Patterson is a flex play. If Gibson's out? Yeah, if the toe doesn't.

Go. Yep. I don't disagree. He'll, he should see a bunch of carries. The seven and seven Miami Dolphins who are on fire right now. They've won six straight games. They started one and seven. And they're playing the Norland Saints who are seven and seven. Two teams going the opposite direction. Oh, Miami. And the drafting sportsbook line is going to change. So I don't even want to read this one. Sure. In fact, Brooks, will you take another dive and see, since we've gotten the taste on Hill News?

With Trevor Simeon, I think we probably have a different number in the book because Ian Book is starting. Yeah, doing the cooking by the book here is going to be rough. It is. Miami is the number two defense against quarterbacks, number one against running backs, number seven against wide receivers over the last six weeks. They're one of the best in football. And now Ian Book of Notre Dame fame. Which he's.

Fourth round pick. Ian Book will, as far as just an... About to get cooked. Yeah, probably. But I'm just a quarterback profile of Ian Book. He will run it very similar to Tase him. All right. So the dolphins are favored in this game. And the overrunners 39 points. And I don't know how the Saints can score. I think this will be the singular worst offensive performance by any team in football this year.

This? The Buccaneers did score zero points last week. I think the Saints can do that. Can they score negative? They can give it a go. I know Alvin Kamara is the offense, but stop him and you stop everything else, I feel like. Yeah, well, because Troutman's on the COVID list. Also not because of that. Are you going back to Nick Venet? I think that was the single most useless piece of information that had ever hit the show was Nick Venet and his name being mentioned on the podcast. Hey. No offense. No, I understand.

But it's Camara only. Also, Venet going for 40 yards this week. Oh, baby. Did you say, I like how it was like, oh, and Vinette's about to break out for 40 yards. Oh, it was not a Vinette's going to break out. It's he will give you some points, three to four points. That's not why we're here, Mike. Some people are. We're not here to say, here's a guy who's going to score some points. Yes, we are. No, we're not.

Alvin Camara, no one else on the team. The other side of the ball, you know, we know the Saints defense is great. They just shut out Tampa Bay. They're not going to make it easy on Miami. The way that they win this game is Camara, Camara, Camara, defense, defense. Nine-nothing is the strategy. So it certainly puts a damper on the upside of Miami's office. Yeah, I don't really love anybody over there. Jaylon Waddle's going to climb right back into your lineup because he's active and he's been good. He will. And it gets sicky probably.

Well, they have in pieces, and Devante Parker, you know, he has, let me look at his just photo like game log here. It started rough for him, but he's had some spots where he's been very usable for fantasy, including last week, 68 and a touchdown. These are not semi-final studs, if I could put it that way. Sure. You can't put it that way, but they're going to have to get played. Shoot your shot on a running back. I would play Miles Gaskin. I would play Duke. I would play Duke.

I would chase last week. Do the Duke? The Duky dance? I might. And I readily admit this is chasing last week. This is me personally thinking that Duke Johnson has been the best runner for this team all year was the Jets. I get that. What do you mean he's been the best runner? So I played one game. I know. But the way that he looked against the Jets was much better than anything I've seen on tape from Gaskin this year.

Gaskin ran for more yards per carry against the Jets than Duke Johnson did. Yeah, because he's the backup. I'm just saying if Miles had been given the same opportunities, he would have the same result. Perhaps. Perhaps. Okay. But he wasn't. No, but he was over the second half of the game. And I think it's a, I think Miles Gaskin will get the opportunity. You think Duke, take your chances. They don't give up a lot of points. It's going to come through a touchdown. And it's scary. Both are very risky.

Yeah, I think that's the right way to put it. All these pieces are very risky in this game. The rankings, the start-sit tool. Updates on Twitter at theFF ballers. The website's the fantasy footballers.com. I'm so excited about this. Fantasy face-off, presented by Draft Kings. So, as we knew this yesterday, Jason's not here. He's getting over the flu. He's going to be back next week for championship week. But.

He had the boom boom kicker on yesterday's show, and Al, he subbed in very well. Someone, one of the producers is going to have to share Jason's lineup. I think he's going to be the judge today. I got it. And, you know, Jason won last week. And then I obviously dominated Mike by a score of 122.7 to 121.4. Thank you. So. One stupid to a interception. Oh, so many ways you could have not been the loser.

Yep. But we have lineups to share for you for Week 16 if they haven't been, you know, if there hasn't been news since then. But first we have a wheel to spin, Mike, and you get to spin it. Wheel of Shame. And spin. All right, the wheel is spinning. Jason is the, Jason selected something for you. Upalupa.

sunny day umbrella hat nope sunny day so this one's going to take a little bit of um you know you're going to need to pop that okay let me give you some advice take the hat off why did where who got my why did you give me my sunglasses yeah put on the sunglasses okay do i need to go sand hat off sand hat off because you've got a little got a little sun hat coming in yeah all right so you are i i i i

Where did you find this hat? You know, the internet's a wonderful place. So you are, you are just enjoying a sunny day here on the set. Darling. Now, to be fair, Jason wanted one twice as big as that. That's not probably. But we couldn't get it here in time. That's a waste of materials. So you, I do feel like you, you're probably melanoma safe here. Oh, I go out and do some yard work. I feel like I don't even have to put sunblock on my face. Yeah. So you, uh, and you can speak clearly. Mm-hmm.

I don't know if you can see. Oh, I can see clearly. I see a week winning lineup in front of me. Let's do it. Why don't you kick it off there? All right. Sun hat. I will kick it off at the quarterback position. You look awesome. The side cam you can see nothing. I know some of you are not watching, but Mike is wearing a very large sun hat. Hey, everybody. I'm going my start of the week. I'm going with Joey Burrow.

How much is he? He is 5,900. Ooh, that's a bargain. Very, very cheap for what I think that he's going to do this week against the Ravens. I am going. My face is just shadowed out. It's wonderful. It looks great. I'm going with Justin Herbert at 7200 against Houston. Okay, paying up. Feels very safe with upside. Brooksie, what is Jason have? Jason is also going with Justin Herbert. Well, that's regrettable. Nice. There we go. Mike, who are you running back?

All right, running back number one, Mr. James Robinson, who will be taking on the New York Jets. Why didn't I do that? Making Duke Johnson look like a superstar and at the low, low affordable price of just 5,900 for some reason. Come on. Then I will be taking Mr. Ronald Jones of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who will be their starter, who has averaged the statistical number is a buttload of opportunities.

When Fournette is out. How much? How much did I pay for? Yeah. His salary is 5,100. So you have stud whiteouts, and I am not happy to hear them. I have Cordero Patterson, my start of the week, against Detroit. $6,700, though. I had to pay some more money for him. And then I have David Montgomery at just $5,700 against Seattle's porous run defense. So I thought that was a bargain at $5,700. That's oversight by me not going with that. That's a great pick.

toss it to Brooks, and I know for a fact he's about to say James Robinson. Yes, sir, James Robinson and Alexander Madison. Okay, at 6,800. All right, so he made the pivot today. So he had Dalvin Cook in the lineup. There's no question. Okay. Mike, your three whiteouts. So, and in terms of names, I actually don't have what you call the superstars, but I'm going back to Hunter Renfro at 6,800. I'll take the chance that last week was just...

an off game for the slot machine. T. Higgins is my stack to go with Joe Burrow. I just, I think him. How much? $6,200. I think that him and Chase both have a chance to have great games. Higgins cheaper. And then Van Jefferson, I paid up a little bit. How much is he? $5,500. But I wanted a piece of that Rams attack. Thank you. I wanted a piece, a deep shot against the Minnesota Vikings. I went with a more unheralded piece of the Rams attack. I went with Cooper Cup.

I had him in forever. He's expensive. And then I had to, because of today's news, I made a pivot. 9,100 for Cooper Cup. Yeah. And then I went with my stack for Justin Herbert, Keenan Allen at 7,700. Oh, nice. And then I went with, I went with Johnson in the Tampa Bay matchup. Tyler Johnson. Oh, Tyler? Okay. So he was 3,900, one of the bargains. I like the seven targets. I like the fact that he's going to be on the field the whole entire game.

You won't be able to see him in that hat, but he's out there on the field. Oh, I see it. He's shining. All right. So I see him. Let's see. Who does Jason have? Jason's paying up for a cup. Cup of coffee? All right. Chase Claypool. Whoa. Really? And Antonio Brown. All right. All right. And then, Mike, you've got the last three spots. Yeah. So I paid up for what I consider paying up for the tight-in. I went with Dallas Gaddaer.

Against the New York Giants at 5,100. And my flex is the reason I pivoted out of Cooper Cup because I also have Alexander Madison at 6,800, then paid down for my defense. I'm going with the Jags, baby, against the New York Jets. Come on, Zach Wilson. Give me those picks. I don't blame you. Makes sense. I went Colquemette at Tide Inn. Oh, I love it. 3,300. Very cheap. Yep.

For the third consecutive week, very proud to tell you this. Laquan Treadwell is a member of my DFS lineup. Derek, sometimes you just want some points. They don't change his price. He's $3,500 against the Jets. He doesn't change his production. It's so good every week. It's so good every week. And then I did go cheap. The at-home Atlanta Falcons against Detroit, $2,600. Could be Tim Boyle out there. Happy on defense there. I got to tell you.

I don't hate this look. You don't mind the look? I don't hate it. You look great. I don't hate it. All right. Jason also went with cold combated tight end. Okay. And the Falcons defense. Okay. And the flex spot, he's got Rojo. All right. So did you have Ronald Jones as well? I did. Yep. So you guys are mirroring Madison and Rojo. We have the same three players then. We have the same three running backs. You do that every week almost. Well, James Robinson was 5,900. What's a, what's a man supposed to do?

I don't know, but I know Treadwell will do what he does, which is carry me to victory. Four to 50. All right, that is it for our, I can't look at Mike right now. You're going to keep those glasses. I know that. Those are for you. Those are a gift. Download the Draft Kings app now. Use the Code Ballers this week. New customers can get a free shot at millions of dollars in total prizes. That's the code ballers only at Draft Kings, the official daily fantasy sports partner of the NFL. Minimum of $5 deposit required eligibility restrictions apply. See Draft Canings.

draftkings.com for details. We did it, everybody. Have a wonderful holiday. Yes, truly. And Mike will be with you, Sunhat and all, on Sunday. Oh, I might have to wear this. Yeah. I might. I wish you was bigger. Because I'm so shiny. Ballerslive.com if you want to catch Mike on Sunday morning. Good luck in your semi-final matchups. We love you and will we be full strength next week. Goodbye.

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