Week 12 Studs & Duds + Tilt Town, Impossible Situations! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 11/27

You know, and he throws the ball while running. It's pinpoint. It's exactly where the ball needs to be every single time. Yeah, he had a 50-something yard catch to tank Dale called back in this game, too. He did, he did have one kind of boneheaded decision there on the was like taking a sack or? No, no, when they, it was. Oh, yeah. Third and short or fourth. It was fourth and one. It was fourth and one. And then, and he chucks up a bomb. And it was. Oh, I love it, baby. It was. CJ, just. He wasn't on the run enough for it to be accurate. But look, let's talk Dynasty. Who do you want? Like where is C.J. Stroud in the hierarchy of Dynasty quarterbacks at this point? He's rocketing up. Yeah, he is rocketing up. He's still below the. He hurts Alan Mahomes. All the super mobile quarterbacks, yeah, those guys I would have above him. Kyler or Stroud?

I think Kyler for fantasy. I still think Kyler's running is going to put. Does that mean you put Kyler ahead of Herbert? He's in that same tier to me. Okay. Yeah, I agree. He's in the tier with those guys. Lamar. Connected to Tankdale for multiple years now because they're both rookies together. And this is one of the things where you don't need Bryce Young to be as good as what you've seen from CJ Stroud. CJ Stroud has looked like an absolute superstar. But the excuses of. Well, you don't have the greatest weapons. You don't have a good offensive line. And it's like, well, yeah, now, now at this point, we're like, well, Tankdale's a superstar. Nico Collins is a superstar. These guys weren't, you know what I mean? Like the tank Dell was, was drafted behind Jonathan Mingo, who, you know, the money given to Adam Thielen is more than anyone that's on the Houston Texans, more than Nico Collins. So it's like, are the weapons?

making CJ Stroud. I think CJ Stroud's taking advantage of the weapons a little bit more. The Bears traded the number one pick, which was Bryce Young, and they received DJ Moore. They received the first round pick, which is their offensive tackle. They received the second round pick, which is their cornerback. Then they got another first round pick, which is now, right now it's the number one pick. Yeah, it's Caleb Williams. And they're going to either take Caleb Williams or, I mean. Trade it for another haul. I mean, if they trade that pick for a haul, that means that their number one pick got traded for just like 10 assets. Oh, by the way, another second rounder in that mix as well. It's wild. When you play the game of quarterbacks and you lose, you die. Trevor Lawrence, another big game, thanks to the rushing touchdown on top of a passing touchdown. Calvin Ridley looks good right now with Zay Jones back.

Although he did drop a wide open touchdown. He dropped a wide open touchdown and it was weird. I'm pretty sure he had no yards in the first half. And like everything Calvin Ridley did was in the second. He's a weird guy right now. Stafford had the big game. Let's talk running backs. Kyron Williams. 16 for 143 on the ground. 6 for 61 and 2 through the air. 200 yards. So that's where all the yards that cup and. Nakua didn't get went. Also, Higby, two touchdowns. But Cleveland, Baltimore, the next two weeks. You're going to start him. Yes. He's, you know, this isn't a, this isn't a debatable. I'm not sure. The matchup is bad. Let me look at who else I should have in there. Kairn is getting so much volume. He's a workhorse. He's looked great. I would not be benching, Kairn. It is, he has taken.

advantage of the best matchups, that's for sure. I mean, his last, ironically, the last two games he's played against Arizona. There's the running back two and running back one. He was RB4 against the 49ers in week two. Yes, yes, he was. I believe he was on a six touchdowns and six games streak in that run. So I'm not saying don't bench him. I'm just saying 37 points might not be in the cards for the next two. No, it won't be. Two weeks. Christian McCaffrey. 37 points is probably in the cards for him. Every week for Christian. Philly? It doesn't matter. Tough matchup. Don't care. Yeah. Bejohn Robinson, 16 for 91 in a touchdown, six targets, caught one through the air. It's the first 20-point fantasy game of the year. Getting red zone work and not surprisingly scoring touchdowns on them because he's really, really good. And look, Arthur, I mean, I said this right before they went to buy, but it's like,

He might be self-reflecting, okay? Maybe. Like, I know we've coined him the butthole, but I've watched, I've watched, I've watched some, I've watched more press conferences with Arthur Smith this year than I think of any coach I've ever watched. I know his voice so well now. If I hear him on a radio station while I'm driving, I know immediately that's Arthur. And I hate to, I hate to. Oh, no, don't you dare. No. But I kind of like some of his logic sometimes. And I'm seeing good things. Oh, man. No. I feel like he's a, he's an Arthur sympathizing. Maybe it's like Loki or like the Scarlet Witch. He's like he's a bad guy, but he could do some good. You know, like maybe he's no. Look, I mean, if he gives. If the Sith take over the universe, it'll be pretty good. I'm just saying, we got to give credit. Kyle.

You're on the microphone, right? I am. And you're a lifelong born and bred, you know, bleed falcons red type of guy. You buy any of this from Jason? I like Jason's optimism. I'm not going to lie. It's refreshing. Now, are they in the playoffs right now? They are. They're leading to the division. Under 500. I think he had a very, like when I saw the end of that game and Arthur Smith was handshaken and high fiving. That was a man very relieved to get back into the wind column. But you know what? Using your best players, kind of one of the keys that I've always had. It is. Mike, when you coach your kids league, do you often focus on the better players for victories? When I'm allowed to. Oh, yeah. I guess you might have some. It's a rec league. So we have some. But when you get to the playoffs, is that what Arthur thinks this is? Maybe. Next week is going to be.

Must watch television at the New York Jets for the Atlanta Falcons. Oh, man. I will be, I will legit be pumped to watch that game. Because of Bejohn? No, just for all of the implications. Like, they're off of a 30, a three game losing streak. Yeah. And if they go. They're favored it on the road. And if they go lose to the Jets team that I just watched play on Black Friday, I mean, that'll be incredible. Well, right. Well, Isaiah Pacheco, 15 for 55. Two touchdowns, five catches. Just a solid day's work. Yeah, very, very involved. You know, when you get 20 opportunities and you're getting passing work and you're on a great offense, you just, you keep rolling this next week against Green Bay is a very plus matchup for running back. Enjoyed everybody tweeting at me how bad my start of the week where he mustered was.

halfway through, three quarters of the way through the game. But he was not a bad start. No, 24, two touchdowns closing it out strong. Woo! Thank goodness. Gets to play Washington. One of the most hilarious touchdowns of, like, he wasn't sure he wanted to score that last one. Is that what that was? Yes. When he was running parallel with the, when he got through the whole line with the time running out, he was looking around trying to see. Am I allowed to do this? Do I? Do I finish this touchdown? Do I lay down? What am I supposed to do here? I guess he didn't get any signs. So he just scored a touchdown. It's like Zay Flowers. Jay Flowers waved it off. He's like, I know you told me get down, but I need this. He should not have scored that touchdown. But fantasy managers are very happy he did. Two touchdowns for him as well. I guess we'll talk about him. Jonathan Taylor, two touchdowns. Josh Jacobs with the breakaway dominant first half. And then goodbye. Heading to the bye.

and they lost. Derek Henry, two touchdowns. Mike started the week, the Yeti. The snow in Vermont is undefeated. Tony Pollard scored again. Romandre the man, the plan. He looked very, very good. 21 for 98. Touchdown. Yeah, got a touchdown. Got five targets, caught all five of them. Did not get to 10 receiving cards. But the fact that that. Stevenson put up the game that he put up with the amount of turnovers that the Patriots had from both of their quarterbacks. I mean, that's a great game. There was a point yesterday morning, Mike and I were in the studio. Jason was out of town and six games were on. And we were like a quarter through these games. There had not been a touchdown. There were, I mean, Zappy and Mack Jones were taking turns throwing the worst interceptions he ever seen.

Tommy DeVito was like trying to get his best sack posture in place before the hit. I mean, some gross football yesterday morning. But winner, Tommy DeVito. Winner, Tommy DeVito. Winner, sorry, yes. Chuba Hubbard had a monster game. What? Chuba. Chuba had five targets, 5.47. There was a lot of checkdown Charlie stuff going on, 14-4-45 and a touchdown on the ground. In fact, Miles Sanders had more carry. So if you're looking at like... What could change with the head coaching change? Like you could see more Miles Sanders. He was awful, but you could see more. And then Najee Harris ended up. Dude. 15 for 99 in a touchdown. The offense in Pittsburgh put up yards for the first time in a long, long time. Yeah, weird. Guess who they play next week? Oh, no. For real? Are they Arizona? Arizona. Oh, my goodness. So Najee and Warren, shall we claim them as starts in the week already? I'll go Najee.

I'll take Warren. Dang it. If you didn't see the run, Pittsburgh already favored by five and a half. If you did not see the- Not enough. The, the Naji run where it's, I mean, it's an incredible highlight. It's the normal thing. He made no sense. No, no. He runs forward, gets a good gain, runs into the pile. And it becomes the huge pile of, I don't know, like 10 guys all trying to push each other backwards or forward. The pile kind of moves. Kind of moves. And then the pile disintegrates. But remaining is Nachie Harris, who then runs like another 15 yards. There's like one of those cartoons, you know, when the cartoon scram, like the fight happens, it's a big dust pile. And then it keeps going, but somebody comes out the other end and just keeps going. Yeah, it's notchy. It was very funny. Mike Evans, two more touchdown, six for 70. He's on fire. Almost had a third. I mean, before the week, he was the wide receiver seven on the year. What a great call.

I'm very happy that that worked out. I mean, he's just been so consistent, too. At this point in the year, he is, is he in double-digit touchdown range yet? No, he's at nine. 850 yards receiving already with six games left and seems to be the go-to guy for a team that has now lost. Six of seven. And every game, it seems like Baker has a chance to come back in. Yeah, they're in most of these games. They don't seem like a bad team to me. They get to play Carolina next week. And they'll prove my point. Tyree Kale, 12 targets, unstoppable. Jalen Waddle, big game, 8 for 114 on Black Friday. Did you guys watch the Black Friday game? Yeah, I sure did. I made myself. Yeah. Wasn't the best watch. Zay Flowers, two touchdowns, one through the air, one on the ground, and not a lot of yards. No, no. The touchdowns saved the day here. The consolidation happened.

with the absence of McCall Hardman, the absence of Cadarious Tony, and then one monstrous play. Rashi Rice, baby, 10 targets, 8 for 107 and a touchdown. Every time he's touched the ball this entire year, I think everybody has watched and said, why isn't he touching the ball more? And sometimes it's really discouraging because the way he touches the ball is the screen game, and you're just like, does he not have the ability to score? I mean, even, let's just be fair. Like the Rashi Rice touchdown. was one of those, you know, crossing routes, five yards from the line of scrimmage. And he just turned the corner and turned on the jets. And it was a monstrous touchdown. But, you know, for whatever reason, he's not super involved downfield. But when you take away some of the other options, man, it paid a big dividends. For Dynasty and for the rest of the season, the fact that he's not really used downfield as much as you would hope for, you know, a primary wide receiver, that gives him.

an easy and clear path of being upgraded for fantasy, for just, you know, being more involved in the offense because he can. I don't believe that we've seen anything that says he can't be used successfully down the field. We've seen a couple good deeper plays on the season. They're just manufacturing short yardage touches for, not just him for the whole offense. I'm really disappointed with, I mean, you can't. You can't argue too much. You know, they scored 31 points and there's still a great team, great offense. The chiefs are. But I do feel like you look at all the stats post-Tiree Kill leaving. And it's like Patrick Mahomes is just everything is a checkdown. Everything is the screen. Everything is an underneath shorter than 15 yards. It's like. Let's have the discussion because you're going to have, I mean, you bring up a good point, Jason. He has Patrick Mahomes has two games where he has finished inside the top six. Okay?

Two out of 12, or I'm sorry, two out of 11 games. Yeah. Even this past week, you finish at quarterback eight, which is fine, but it's 20 points. 16, 15, 5. 33. That was great. Against the Chargers. 17, 19, 13, 25, 21, 19. Do you have confidence? Because you always have. Do you have confidence going into your fantasy playoffs locking the homes into your lineup? Hmm. I think it's a really hard question. It's tough because two bench Mahomes, you would have to have high level of confidence in the replacement. So like if you had picked up Dak, I think the only other name I can think of. There is another one. The only other name I could think of that's like you could easily have him available. Sure. C. Joe Stroud is because C.J. Stroud has just been way better for fantasy. I was in a league where a few weeks ago, the manager had Mahomes and Stroud.

offered me Stroud at the time. I turned the trade down, offered me Mahomes instead, took the trade. Whoops. Whoops. Maybe, maybe, maybe whoops. Their defense is very good. They're also just, their fantasy playoffs are New England, in New England, then Las Vegas and Cincinnati. They're not scoring the way they usually. Las Vegas is not a great matchup for quarterbacks usually. Cincinnati is a great matchup. What was the first week? New England. New England's fine. In New England. Just stinks. If you want to see C.J. Strouds, you're talking about at Tennessee, which is a very good matchup for quarterbacks, then Cleveland, not good. And then, of course, Tennessee again, because that Texans and Titans. I think what you're lacking are the battles. I mean, the Charger game was much more of a, you know, like we saw with Philadelphia and Buffalo.

But you're not having teams put up big points against them. That's my worry. That's the concern I have. After week three, I started talking about him. I've got massive worry about Mahomes because this defense is legit. And if he doesn't get into shootouts, like he can go out and put up 40 fantasy points. We know that. But he might not need to. And they might just say, hey, let me give Pacheco another 15 carries and five dump offs. And those dump offs, they go a little bit to Mahomes, but they're not going to score as much. They keep the clock moving. They keep the Chiefs winning. They don't put points up for fantasy the same way. Devante Smith seven for 106 in a touchdown. Nico Collins and Tank Dell. Nico did the work in the second half. Tankdale did the work in the first half. Both scored. I couldn't believe. Tank Dell seemed like he was going to end the game with 700 yards and 12 touchdowns the way it started. But he did disappear the second half. It was.

very troubling. I had a lot of players disappear and not even performing the second half. I felt like Jason, you were you were casting spells or mixing some sort of brew over wherever you were. You just stopped all the second half. I genuinely by that point, I all hope had been lost. I didn't even care at that point. I wasn't even like hopeful. I was just like, okay, let's move on to next week. Gabe Davis, six for 105 and a touchdown. He's back, baby. Shove him in your lineups. Just kidding. He's on by. Yeah, thank goodness. Stefan Dig, six for seven, four and a touchdown. Thank goodness. Bye week is the favorite. It's my favorite week to have Gabe Davis on my roster. Oh, man. I would never do. If he was starting next week, like, people will chase that. Oh, I will chase. I'm like, no, I can't do it. I'm so happy he's on by.

Who? He does. When are you actually happy? Like, I'm genuinely happy that my player is unavailable. That's ridiculous. Yeah. Calvin Ridley, big game. Debo, nice game. It was cool to see. Watson, five for 94 in a touchdown. This one made sense to me just because you had some injuries at the wide receiver room, but nice to see it happen. I mean, I get that. What didn't make sense was the Packers. dominated. Just absolutely throttling the lions. I mean, that was a shock. What is going on with Jared Goff? He hasn't looked great. He was thinking about that turkey and gravy. His mind was not in the game. Two weeks ago, you had the three pick game against, I think it was the Bears, and they were horrifically bad. At home. And then the whole first half, Jared Goff looked like he totally forgot how to play quarterback. I,

It was a very, very strange situation. Michael Pittman? 13 targets? 10 for 10. Also update. Had I made that trade and put Michael Pittman over Josh Downs, I also win. Yeah. But to be fair to myself, I told you I regretted it way before this. I said I was wrong and I win and I was just proven. That's why I only said, hmm. If you could go back. If I could go back, I would take the train and I would win. I would have Michael Pippen. I'm a dummy. Keenan Allen. Such an idiot. Why didn't I do it? Mike might pay more attention to his vindictive stat tracking than he does his own team. Yeah. Who does it? Way more fun. Over the course of the weekend, they were like, Mike was turned down on multiple Pitman trades, and he's just tracking each of those team scores to see.

The player they chose to go and over Pittman, whether it wasn't just you. I mean, he was tracking. Yeah. Another guy in our league. Oh, man. Just to see if he could dunk on him. It's my start of the week. And also going up against Tennessee, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh the next three weeks. Would be a great guy to have. I hope you have Michael Pittman. Great guy to have. 16 more targets for Keenan Allen. He can't do it alone. And, um, but he can't do it for your fantasy team. He sure tried. And he sure was alone here. Yeah. Oh my God. Or doesn't exist.

Quentin Johnston, another drop. Doesn't exist. I mean, he just has no weapons there. Have you seen the memes going around? Because Quentin Johnson is the one who. Huge also got banged up. Cuge had the, uh, at the draft. He told him his mom to quit her job and she'll never have to work again. And it's nice. I hope that's true. Uh, Tyler Higby, two touchdowns out of nowhere. Pat Fryer. This was the big story. Yeah, baby. Nine for 120. The first, I mean, honestly, did he have 120 yards? On the season? No, he no way. I believe he had 60 total yards or so. I'm on it. He was on pace for 200 yards on the season. Yeah, he had 60 yards. Yeah. And then he was 9 for 120. You know, you could call it an outlier if this had happened under Matt Canada, but maybe, just maybe. They made it a focus to throw it to the middle of the field. If you look at the passing charts under Matt Canada, it was all to the boundary.

And that was the problem where Pat Friamuth is not running routes at the boundary. I will say that, you know, Cincinnati is one of those matchups that we've targeted all year. They're great, you know, they can't stop the tight end position. So I'm very hopeful that this is offensive changes with Canada out and having a really talented being. That was what we talked about when I, when we talked about the trade I made for Friamuth is like, he is talented. Pat Friar Muth is a very good NFL tight-in. Yes, he is. And if they choose to use him that way, he will be successful. They chose to use him this way. You hope that going forward, this is the new normal as opposed to just the game plan against Cincinnati. But I could see either one being true.

And then nice games from LaPorte and Kelsey again this week. Thanks again to our sponsor of the Studs. We're talking NFL Sunday ticket on YouTube and YouTube TV with NFL Sunday ticket. It's never been easier to keep up with all of your fantasy players and Gabe Davis. Watch the rest of the NFL season for half the price at 174 bucks when bundled with YouTube TV. Sign up at YouTube.com slash fantasy footballers. Terms and embargoes apply no refunds. Poopped in his big boy pants. Well, Tua. Yeah. Brock Purdy? Well, just hold on for, because to, to me, too, you know, go rewind like three weeks or go or so. He was one of the six quarterbacks. We're like, no, I'm good. I put two in no matter what's going on. And, you know, since week eight, he was the QB nine at just under 22 points, then 12 and a half, then 17, now eight.

I didn't like the schedule over the back half of the year at all. Yeah, but I'm saying it was a rough schedule, but it's Tyreek, it's Jalen Waddle, too. It can have these huge explosive games. Is it back to I'm really looking at the matchups? I mean, Washington and Tennessee should be fine. Your playoffs are the Jets, Dallas and Baltimore. That's a problem. From here, I think Tua gets you to the playoffs because Washington and Tennessee are the next two weeks. Should be great. But the playoff weeks, if you can find someone else that you're confident in, maybe make plans in case you see something along the way that says, yeah, I've got a better option for a great matchup in week 15. Pretty disappointed. Justin Herbert is not his fault. He's just all alone, man. He's just all alone doing his best. But he got, I mean, Keenan had a fumble, Echler had a fumble.

They didn't have possession of the ball. Four turnovers, I think. Oh, my gosh. That whole first half, it was like they had the ball 90 seconds. I'm just watching, waiting for Echler to do something. And he can't because the second they get the ball, they play fast too. So it was like they are moving. They are on the line. Their three and outs are like, I hope you didn't go to the bathroom because you're not going to understand why Baltimore has the ball again. No, their players went to the bathroom instead. Lamar Jackson. There are weeks. You don't need him. You just don't. Yep. He's got a little bit of the same Mahomes issue with the defense being really good. Shootouts are what you want. And there's not been a lot of shootouts for Kansas City or Baltimore. And to be fair, like the Chargers defense looked really good. They were bottling up. I mean, you talk about like you don't need them. They kind of did here. They only scored 20 points and that really was the majority of the game. They were.

you know, in the teens. I'm going to say some tough stuff now because we're moving on to running backs. With the last four weeks, Brise Hall, 16 for 50, 13 for 28, 10 for 23, 7 for 25. 2.7 a carry over four weeks. Breeze Hall is finished 27, 30, 13, 29. Seven receptions for 24 yards. Yeah, nine targets from Tim Boyle is why I'm not worried because over the last several weeks, The place where he's giving you good games is in the receiving work. So I'm happy with the targets. You're concerned for sure. He might not win your league. No, I agree with that. He is not a superstar when the offense can't score 15 points. It's crazy. I mean, he's very much, he's in the Sequin situation, which is up next, which is, you know, Sequin is 12 for 46. The disappointing thing here was you only got three targets to Sequin.

He only had one catch. So it was a huge. Now he goes on by and not going to help you this upcoming week. Eckler, Gus Bus. Eckler is concerning. Like because. Is that two single digit games in a row? Breece, yes, it is. Breece 32 and 34. It looks explosive still. You know, you see usually every game he's got some 50-yard run come back on a hold. But he looks the part. He's just usually got five guys around him. Echler right now looks like something is wrong. He does not look explosive or special. His yards per carry down from 4.5 to 3.8. Yeah. And even in the receiving game, he's got a lot of drops. He's fumbled it back-to-back weeks. His top speed is non-existent. Yeah, I mean, I think.

I think I can hit 15 miles an hour. 13. No, no, no, that's what I'm saying. Oh. I think I can hit 15. You think you can beat him. Right. I mean, not in general. But like right now with whatever's going on with him, it's really concerning. I mean, the next couple weeks are you, what do you do with? I feel like you're stuck playing him. I mean, the snap count was at least at 80%. But there are a handful of these running backs. You don't know what to do with. I mean, this next guy, I am. flabbergasted. I have no compromise. James Connor. James Connor went six for 27 in this game. He had four catches for five yards. James Connor played the same snaps that Michael Carter played. James Connor had six carries and Kyler Marie passed a ball 45 times. James Connor, I didn't see him on the field in the second half. I'm sure he was there maybe once or twice, but he legitimately had no carries. He only played 42% of the snaps and it seems like right now with the system, he is not the