Week 12 Studs & Stinkers + White Knuckle Starts, GibSZN - Fantasy Football Podcast for 11/30

If I am not mistaken, at least at this point, the Giants are leading the division now, and they will be without their starting quarterback, rough. And then Philip Lindsay exited with the knee injury. He was actually the starting quarterback technically. He was the first snap at the quarterback position. He was. And he looked like he could run it all right. And Chris Carson, he's supposed to return tonight. And then what are you hearing about Jalen Hurts, rumors?

Well, he got a bunch of first, well, I shouldn't say a bunch of. The report was basically that he was getting some first team reps in practice ahead and that they are expecting to see an increased playing time for him at the quarterback position. I mean, who knows? This could be smoke. This could be. It's very bizarre. I, you know, I think what it is is it's basically the last chance. It's flashing a light into.

you know, Carson Wins's eyes to see if they're going to die later or not. Are you here? Are you with us? Because we're going to put them in. We're going to look. Look, he's taking a first team rep. He'll get in if you keep sucking. So expect to see him soon. Yeah. I mean, it, it makes the, you know, streaming Carson Wince discussions. Wait a minute. Very doubtful. The NFC, the NFC, East, which is so bad you just brought up that the leader now has a backup quarterback.

The Cowboys have their backup quarterback. Alex Smith was a backup quarterback. If Jalen Hertz was a third string quarterback at the beginning of the year. If Jalen Hertz can complete it and the NFC East can have entirely backup quarterbacks, that's what that division deserves. Yeah, yeah, it's ridiculous. And the Lions fired Matt Patricia and their general manager. And the-

Former Lions players all rejoiced with this. They did. Kenny Galladay. Eric Ebron was like about time or something. Nobody liked them. It's the opposite of a players coach. Darius Slay was like, oh, I thought I was the problem. I mean, I've never seen that type of a social media outpouring from players and former players. So the former Gimley and my axe jokes, he finally got the axe? Is that what happened? Yes, he did. Okay.

All right. Let's get into the studs. This week's fantasy stud muffins. Oh, is it not fun to watch? Patrick Mahomes play football. He threw up a 462 and 3. Oh, casual. Sidearm casual, 462 and 3. Absurd. It was like 400 in the first half. I mean, if they needed him, he could have done more. That was a lot of fun. First player in NFL history with at least 30 completions and 300 passing yards in four consecutive games.

It is delightful. It is delightful. Deshawn Watson, Kirk Cousins, Aaron Rogers, Tom Brady, big games. Yeah, I mean, Deshaun Watson, absolutely nuclear now that Bill O'Brien is out of the picture. The question will be for him, those fantasy playoffs, man, Chicago and the Colts. I mean, the Cincinnati Bengals, that's a delightful championship week matchup, but Chicago and Indy, that's...

It's tough. I know that they got beat this week, but overall, those are on the road, too. Those are tough. Those are not who you would prefer your quarterback to be playing. But at this point, how can you doubt Watson? Yeah, it's really tough to bench him. I mean, you know, you look at Aaron Rogers last night against Chicago. He was just fine with his four touchdown passes, made it look very easy. So, yeah, that'll be.

really hard to decide whether you're going to bench him or not. You almost hope for horrific weather in that Chicago game to make the decision easier for you. And then Kirk Cousins had another nice game. I mean, 307 and 3. He looked great, didn't have Adam Thielen and yet, and didn't have a great game from Cook and yet got it done. So it might have been part of it. You know, Cook's injury forcing them to, you know, they were down 21 to 10 in that game. And then Tom Brady put together, you know, a better fantasy week than probably what he put together on film.

It's so difficult with Brady because he has all of these weapons. And you know Bruce Ariens is, regardless of the downfield success of Tom Brady, he's going to keep taking the shots. And he did have some success in this game. Couple to Gronk, one to Evans, one to Godwin. So, you know, Minnesota, Atlanta, Detroit, he's going to be a white knuckle fantasy playoff starter. That's apt.

Yeah, he is, but he's just, he really hasn't looked good. I mean, he had a good fantasy game, but if you watch the film, he, he, he doesn't look in sync. He doesn't look that good. And I mean, you, you want to talk about 345 yards from Tom Brady that looked as bad as it gets, and 211 from Aaron Rogers. It looked as good as it gets. It'll, it'll be white knuckle indeed if you end up having to start him. And that's the decision.

Andy, you and I are going to have to make with Josh Allen and Tom Brady heading into these playoff weeks. And speaking specifically of that week 14, I know Allen has Pittsburgh. And I can tell you right now, I cannot imagine playing Josh Allen. I'm going to play Tom Brady and just hope and pray that the goat can get it done. So it's going to be tough. Before we talk about the running back studs this week, and there were many.

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The transformation is complete. Hide everybody because the Yeti is about to rain destruction upon all. He had 30 fantasy points by halftime. He was, Indianapolis didn't have the Forrest Buckner in this game, and you could tell. This was just a great game from Derek Henry. This was why I tried to trade for him everywhere and failed. It's going to be rough, man.

Going into a fantasy playoff, looking at Derek Henry on the other side. Oh, man. Jacksonville, Detroit, Green Bay. If I had to pick three teams for Derek Henry to play for me.

Those would be the three teams I'd pick. Oh, my gosh, Detroit and Green Bay. In our league of record, the manager with Derek Henry is right on the cusp of missing the playoffs. If he doesn't get like 12.9 fantasy points from Dallas Goddard tonight, then he's out. And we're all rooting for it. Oh, we are rooting against him. We do not want Derek Henry in them playoffs. Over the last five games, Derek Henry, I mean, over the whole season, he's been great. He's been great over the last five games.

Do you want to know who has more fantasy points in their last five games at the running back position than Derek Henry? Yeah. Trick question. Antonio Gibson. Oh, baby. It's not a trick question. It is Antonio Gibbs season. And we're all celebrating. None more than my co- Oh, my goodness. This is the definition of a fantasy MVP. You knew that this was going to be a process for Gibson.

in Washington, and yet this is the time of year, right? What better time than now to have potentially stolen a top five, top ten running back in the late rounds, if you got them early, if you drafted early, or in the middle rounds, if you waited. And 20 for 1, 15, and 3, unbelievable. It has been an unbelievable season for the rookie. The best part for Antonio Gibson moving forward is,

We have not scratched the ceiling for what Antonio Gibson could become for fantasy. We don't know that it will happen. But the past catching, I mean, that game, that Thanksgiving game where Gibson was snagging terrible throws off of the ground, just proved how good his hands are. And then you have the burst plays. He's got the speed that he could take it to the house if the lane clears up.

Man, I love Antonio Gibson. He's the running back five on the season right now in half point PPR. Oh, baby. Latavius Murray had a, we'll do a separate full podcast for you, Mike. We'll do a full Antonio Gibson, maybe just release a new feed, just one episode a day, two hours a day. Latavius Murray at Denver, 19 for 124 and 2. I think, I mean, when I see this stateline from Latavius,

I know Jason played him in Dynasty. He had no choice, and it ended up winning him a week. But there are players right now. Alvin Camara is going to come up, and then you have what Zika is doing. And you're looking at these kind of stalwarts of the space, and you're saying, what's happening? I mean, we did mention last week that he's out snapping Camara. We don't know if the Camara injury is playing a part. Obviously, Tason Hill not throwing Camara, the ball is playing apart. But Murray 30 snaps. This is a team that can run the football.

How do you look at Latavius moving forward? I think you look at him as someone that I think you can start him. I mentioned him on this last week, at least only Waltasem Hill is the quarterback. Obviously, when Drew Brees comes back and the short passing game to the running back, that's when they're going to have Alvin Camara on the field more and utilized in the right way. And Camara is obviously excellent. I don't think you're going to bench Camer. He still looks good on the ground. But I think this is more about.

you know, Latavius Murray's involvement while, I mean, 19 carries after, you know, having 14 opportunities the week before, he's just involved enough where he's a flex option. All right. Nick Chubb, he's good. He's ridiculous. Yeah, he's incredible. Chain mover, 19 for 144 and 1. Plays Baltimore, the Giants, the Jets, and the playoffs. I don't care. Get through Baltimore.

Yeah, which isn't as hard as it has been. And he leaves the NFL in 20 plus yard runs despite missing like, I don't know, five weeks. So James Robinson, is this the true fantasy football MVP right now? Off of waivers or last pick in the draft? Yeah. Unbelievable. He's definitely the, I imagine when the footies roll around.

that this will be a clean sweep for WaverWire Hero for James Robinson. He was drafted in a few leagues as all that news was shaking around with the release of Leonard Fournett, people taking their chance on who it's going to be. But his stranglehold on the running back share is unlike anything we have ever seen, a tweet from Good Friend of the Show, J. G. Zach or recent, James Robinson has 194 attempts this year.