MEGALODON Episode - Week 12 Matchups, Starts, Turkey Day Awards & More! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 11/24

starting dynasty piece. It's nice because if you can do that and you need to start him this week, you can do that as well? On the flip side with Chris Godwin, if he leaves and goes somewhere else, do you think his value goes up or down? I think there's a potential for it to go up. I do. Really? Yeah, because he's going to get paid a lot of money. And you are in a situation here, at least of late, the last couple of years where it's a three-headed monster. I think Godwin is the player that could go at least have neutral value someplace else at his age, being only 25 years old. You know, Mike Williams.

uh is interesting juju i you know you have to bring him up yeah you do because at 25 years old with his with his pedigree there's a chance he makes a lot of money now it might be on a franchise that you're not happy with he seems like the kind of player that the you know the raiders or the jets or the you know one of these teams that pays big money for big names i mean possibly because we expected him to have a market last year and there there wasn't

I mean, it was the Ravens allegedly offered him more money than the Steelers, and he said, no, I'm going to come back and try to rebuild my value with where the team where I'm comfortable. And then he got hurt. Yeah, and there really wasn't value, though, or long-term value for anybody last year outside of Kenny G's deal because. And Nelson, yeah, yeah, that's true. Oh, man, yeah. And then, yeah, we'll look at tight ends as well. Mike Gisicki's an unrestricted free agent, Dalton Schultz, Evan Ingraham's going to.

depart, I think. Zach Ertz, a lot of talk in Arizona about bringing him back. He is right now the tight-in four on the year in total points. That's crazy. And so he's a good fit for Arizona. Like the free agents, the two that stand out to me, it's not necessarily those players. It will be the fantasy fallout of those players leaving. Like for Tyler Conklin, Irv, Big Irv Smith up there in Minnesota.

He, what was he like had a meniscus tear or something right before the season? So it was a lost season, but he wasn't up and coming tight end. And I think that he would be doing what Conklin is doing right now and more. And I understand it's hard to hear from me because I've supported him before. But if Dalton Schultz finds a bag of money for a different team,

Blake Jarwin is still under contract and still getting paid a decent amount of money, and he could get that Dalton Schultz roll back next year. I'm not standing for Jarwin again, but just saying that is in the realm of outcomes. I also want people to be aware of the situation. Yes, Dr. Schultz, I'm sorry. In Los Angeles with Jared Cook. Yes. Donald Parham. Donald Parham is 24 years old, attached to a great quarterback. He is,

an exclusive rights-free agent, so he'll be back. Yes. And Cook will not be. So Parham, I think, has some juice and some potential in that offense. You just need it to be consolidated into fewer tight ends there with Stephen Anderson and Parham and Cook. He is such a good dynasty target. I think so. And he'd be nothing. You could throw him into a deal. People would probably, it almost alerts people when you throw them into a deal of like, wait, why should, why would you even want this player? Would you trade if you're a good team?

And so your pick's going to be low. Would you be willing to trade a second rounder? Like a lower second for Parham? That's too hefty for me. It's a little aggressive. Okay. Because I think I can get a top drafted tight in in the second round. Yeah, sure. But I hear what you're saying, and there's potential there for Parham in the future. David and Joku, a free agent as well. The big three tight ends of 2017. Oh, yeah. O.J. Howard, David and Joku, and Evan Ingram. They will probably be changing teams.

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All right, Turkey Day Awards. We do this every year. I'm 20% Dalmatian. Are there any dogs with huge heads? Oh, yeah, there are. You don't need DNA for... Yeah, bulldogs. All right. You're the bulldog of the show. Bow, wow. Wait, that's a blast from the past. Wow, wow. All right. Every year we do the Turkey Day Awards and...

We don't know the actual winners. Who picked these? Was it you, Brooks, or was it Kyle? Is both of us? Oh, okay. Consensus answers. I love mocking him. I don't know why. Thanks for getting this cool, fun segment ready. All right. So the first award is titled Tiffany's mashed potatoes. Tiffany is Jason's wife. It used to just be the mashed potatoes, but she makes the best in the world. So it's the Tiffany's mashed potatoes. Let me describe them. A rich. Dinner butter.

She uses great dinner butter. A rich buttery glob of mashed potatoes is what everyone needs to add body to their plate. It's as dependable as they get, and we all know butter makes everything better. That is the descriptor. What player matches that description? I do not know these answers, so we are taking our guesses. Look, it's hardy, it's dependable, it's delicious, and it's going to, you know, it's big. And you know who else is big? Jonathan Taylor Thomas. Yeah.

I'm going with Jonathan Taylor for my... As dependable as the mashed potatoes. My dependable delicious mashed potatoes. I think I'm going to go with Cooper Cup. Okay. I mean, no one more dependable than Cooper Cup week in and week out. I think if Cooper Cup is dependable with the target totals and stuff like that, who do you got, Mike? You got a guess? I mean, it also could be Jalen Hertz. He has been very dependable. But I'm going to go...

I'll go with the running back. I'm going to go with Jonathan Taylor touchdown. It is Cooper Cod. Oh, come on. You know what's funny is that that is what I wrote down as my first answer to this. And you pivoted? Well, when I got to the end, the very last one I saw was just the MVP. And I thought, well, that's got to be Cooper Cod. All right, the burn dinner rolls.

This is the second award. Gosh, you put so much time and effort in preparing the meal, but unexpectedly, the rolls got burned. It's a disappointment. Sometimes you just have to scrape the carbon shavings off or throw it away in sadness. Alan Robinson. It has to be, right? It has to be Alan Robinson. If it's not, then someone else has been a massive disappointment. Dinner rolls are great. You burn them, you got to throw them away. Yeah.

Alan Robinson is great. You drafted him. Whoops. He burned you. You got to throw it away. Yeah. And he went higher than some of the other disappointments out there. So it is Alan Robinson. I just checked. The winner, Alan Robinson is the burned dinner rolls. Unanimous. And I'm very sorry because he is not entering free agency with the same gusto as he would have, as he did last. As a dynasty manager that has him, I was looking at my roster today. And I'm thinking, oh, I, I, you had a plan.

I had a plan. I was waiting to be able to trade him for a young stud and a pick. Whoops. But now it's like he's got to go somewhere and because now I'm. I legitimately looked at your roster like last night and this morning. I'm looking deadline and I saw him on there and I did not envy your position at all. I was like this guy was something completely different in all of our minds and fantasy. I literally, you know, assuming that Alan Robinson plays this week, which I don't think he does. He's not going to.

If he was, I made the decision to still start Robbie Anderson over him. By the way, real quick follow up there. Darnal Mooney has been limited. We do need to monitor that heading into the Thursday game. Oh, okay. He was limited last week, too, I think. All right, the sweet potato casserole. This is a heavy, hearty, delicious treat for the first few bites, but you can only have so much before it makes you vomit all over the floor, and thus completely ruined Thanksgiving and your family calls you a no-good husband.

That's a descriptor I didn't remember from days gone by. Healthy for the first few bites, but then it doesn't work out. That's Mike Williams. I mean, got off to just a fire start. And if you continued starting them every week, you've been mostly throwing up. I think that's the right answer, but I think Patrick Mahomes fits it as well. Hardy few bites and then kind of, it's been tough. Yeah, it's got to be Mike Williams.

Oh, there's another good answer here. It's none of the above. It's DJ Moore. Oh, of course. Yeah, that was much. Those are both good answers. It started wonderfully. Yeah, DJ Moore and Mike Williams share a story. We got a puk and rally situation here for DJ Moore, though. You think? Yeah. We'll find out this week, puke and rally. Wait, wait, who would you rather have rest of the season? Mike Williams or DJ Moore? Mike Williams. Mike Williams. Okay. I would go DJ Moore.

Yeah, I get it's close, but it's quarterback. Okay. The Mike Wright Special Award, which is, you know, Mike is famous. If you're new to the show, he's famous. Famous, yes. For bemoaning. End the sentence. Bmoaning Thanksgiving turkey and turning to Jack in the Box for his meal of choice. This is a random dish that somebody brought because, well, they're convinced Thanksgiving food is trash and outdated. Time to stop with the old way of thinking. Open your eyes and realize this could be the best thing ever. I'm going James Robinson.

Always looked at as, yeah, you know, it's like, he's not good. He's this afterthought, but actually he's great. So that's how I interpreted this question. Well, I'll turn over a new leaf here, and I will go with Jalen Hertz. I think he has convinced me that the way he's progressed as a quarterback, more on the field than the fantasy numbers, which were always there. But I'll go Jalen Hertz. I think I think I've got to stop with my old way of thinking. I like it.

I like the Jalen Hurts one call a lot. I'm going to go just somewhere else. I'm going to go with the ultimate new hotness. Mr. Jamar Chase, wide receiver for the Cincinnati Bengals. Oh, well, this answer is better than all of them. The actual answer is Cordero Patterson. But that's like old busted new hotness. It is a random dish. Nobody thought they didn't think to bring it to the table and suddenly everybody wants a bite.

I mean, that's the perfect name because if it really is the winner of this category, we wouldn't even think of them. Yeah, that's perfect. Yeah, way to play into that. Yeah. All right, the last one, the Thanksgiving Day Turkey, of course, the showstopper, the MVP of Thanksgiving Day. That's got to be JTTT. I was going to Cooper Cup, but I have now switched to Jonathan Taylor. I agree. Which is the answer. Jonathan Taylor is the MVP. I think Derek Henry was well on his way to compete for that award.