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

Yes, against Indy, he was great. It's been terrible, but he's talented. He's good. I will bet on the talent. But he's playing New England. Yeah, that's the tough thing. If you're going to take away. And just give yourself a break for Thanksgiving. Don't think about this decision. If you're going to take away your number one weapon, which the Patriots famously do, if AJ Brown is playing, he's not only their number one.

Weapon. He's their only weapon. All right. So let's take it to the- Just put four guys on. Take it to the test. Brandon Cooks against the Jets. Brandon Cooks, easy. Elijah Moore against Houston. I'll probably try. I'll probably try Elijah. Jerry Judy against the Chargers. I'll probably lean in and hope that Brown gives me a breakout. Yep. Yep. Brandon Ayuk against Minnesota. Stop talking.

I'll take I. You would not. Over A.J. Brown? Yeah. Maybe not. Madness. He's coming off of an injury and three bad games and the Patriots. And he could go out in the middle of the game again. Yeah. That part is sketchy is it's habitual at this point. All right. We don't have to talk a lot about the Titans then. Well, let me just one more question for that is if if McNichols is active.

Do you play him as a flex-type player? No. The Patriots make this easy for me. Any of these decisions I'm having to make about names that I'm already scared to start in neutral matchups, they go away when you're in New England. Okay. So, I mean, that being said, I know one pass catcher does something for Tennessee. And if AJ Brown's out, it might be Westbrook. Aquini. Aquini. Aquini.

But it might, you know, the week before it was Marcus Johnson. And this week it could be Chester Rogers or, you know, FERC or something. So New England has been on fire. They are averaging 33 points a game on offense. Mack Jones apparently doesn't like any Thanksgiving Day pies. Have you seen the... He said I don't like any. He doesn't like Apple. He doesn't like pecan. Have you seen the video progression of Mac Jones and press conferences?

Losing his soul. Yes, it is awesome. He comes in as a rookie. He's so excited. He's happy. He's like bouncing around, bubbly in all the interviews. And now he is a deadpan under the watchful eye of Bill Belichick. This is the way. And it's working. He still seems to be having fun on the field, thankfully. They're playing so good. I was talking to Andy earlier. I was looking at a week 15 matchup. Superman plays good. And what defense is to play. And I saw a matchup against.

New England, a rookie quarterback without great weapons. And I was like, oh, I don't want to play a defense against them. They're just too solid. Their defense is an awesome play this week in and of itself. They've been on fire. They're getting even better. Damien Harris, Ramandre Stevenson. Are they both startable in every game? Yeah, I think for the most part, until proven otherwise, I would start both of them rest of season. Would you flex remandre over any wide receivers on New England? The roulette of Bourne, Myers, Aguilar.

I would. Okay. I would, I think I'd play Bourne over Ramandre. And if it's a PPR, I'd play Jacoby. I think I'm still playing Jacoby overborne for my, I mean, my sensibilities. I totally understand that, but as snap counts, targets. As one who has had Jacoby on his roster now for a bit, it's been terrible. Aside from a backup.

quarterback throwing him a touchdown. It's been brutal. That doesn't mean you have to play Bourne, though. You could play somebody else. Correct. But in this hypothetical, like, Bourne has been good far more often than Jacoby. Would you play Westbrook Aquene? Yeah. Over any of them? Yeah, I would. I'd chase the targets. Okay, okay. Any other pieces you want to talk about in this game? Hunter Henry, touchdown or bust? Yep. All right. Probably touchdown. Yeah. Well, because he didn't get one last week?

Yeah, he's due. The five and six Eagles taking on the New York Giants, three and seven, free of Jason Garrett, the Draft King Sportsbook line Eagles minus three and a half. The overender's 45 and a half. I mentioned it earlier this week. I think the Eagles do have a shot at the playoffs, the offense. It's improving. The defense, it's getting better. These games that involve the Eagles have been hitting the overs. I mean, they've averaged 53 total points the last six weeks.

and they've been fun. And so from a fantasy perspective, you can look at this game and say, hey, Jalen Hertz is always in your lineup. He's the quarterback won on the year. No big deal. Put him in there. He's going to get it done. Devante Smith, I love him this week. Miles Sanders looks good. They did what I thought they do, which is commit to the run, maintain that commitment. And in my opinion, he's a solid start. So Dallas Goddard as well.

It's pretty simple on that side of the ball, right? It is. You're not messing around with other wide outs running back, so. Nope, Devante Smith in, Dallas got it in, and I think Miles Sanders is a very good play. Miles Sanders, shockingly, I mean, because he's been gone for a few weeks and he wasn't, you know, getting a ton of work at the beginning, but he is averaging five yards of carry. And not the yards per carry is everything, but when you're at the five mark,

Like, that's really impressive stuff. On the other side of the ball, Sequin. Is the headline here, he'll be fine? I think so. I guess. Yeah. No, he'll be fine. Will he? Yeah, he will. What's fine? Fine is a player you could start every single week. Okay. Without. Where's the ceiling, though?

I still think he's got ceiling games in him. I mean, you've seen some breakaway plays, and that's what he needs for a ceiling. He needs a breakaway touchdown. If you don't get it, you're going to rely on a baseline of targets, six receptions this last week. Hopefully the offense without Jason Garrett can get moving more, just be better. And if they're better, Sequin Barclay, still getting healthy off of his injury. I'm not worried about Barclay at all. Cadarius, Tony, is the best start at the wide receiver position?

Yes. Yeah. Even though it wasn't a big game, this past week, he was the target leader by far. Actually, I'll cut in news just now. Okay. Tony's dealing with a quad injury. Oh, come on. And is not participating in today's walkthrough practice. So some to monitor. All right. Well, you heard it here first. Darius Tony is no longer a New York giant.

I don't even get that. Monitor the practice reports. If he plays, you're still putting him out number one. Why isn't he a giant? I don't know. I didn't know where to go there. That was where you're going downhill. Did you use all your funny up on the boom boom? Yep, the boom, boom took it all. Siphoned it out. Do you need the hat back? Do we have the Monty hat? What the no longer giants is just so you can understand. Yeah. You know those runaway ramps? The dirt gravel for the truck. Going down a mountain? Yeah. He's no longer with the team.

That was the runaway ramp. That was save me from falling off a cliff. I just have to stop. This is going to ruin the joke and my truck. Did you know? Was you cruising down the freeway without brakes. And then you had something. You had to say something. I had to say something. And then it was up the ramp. There's a, there's an easy pull-off spot. Did you know that you didn't have to say something? What? No. This is an option. You must make the joke. And in Jason's world, you must make the joke. It may not be.

A good one. Like, if you just bailed out of a joke halfway through, I think that would have been much better than the... But then we wouldn't have had the runaway truck conversation. When you're in trouble, I'm going to give you a tip. When you're in trouble with one... No, it's easy. It's a quick thing. Just say dinner butter. Dinner butter. Just say dinner butter. You'll be fine. No, I'm not touching Evan Ingram. The matchup always says yes for Evan Ingram. It's never, ever, ever.

ever okay to do this is one of the rules of the the world it's never okay you're talking about evan ingram who before last week was the top 10 tight end two weeks in a row and Kyle rudolph is hurt yeah i'm talking about him the guy who had an accumulation of yardage that was 15 yards in one of those games 38 and then 12 that is the evan ingram i'm talking about no i i haven ingram is fine to stream this week evan ingram has contributed 35% relevant games in his career so uh yeah

You know he's fine to stream, Jason. He's not fine to stream. Yes, he is. Philadelphia is dead last against fantasy tight ends. He's not a tight end. He still is. And the reason that they are that is because they shut down wide receivers and then the quarterback has nowhere else to go. And you've got Cadarius Tony injured. You've got Sterling Shepard injured. You got Kyle Rudolph injured.

Tom is going to be fine. I think Ingram is in the streaming consideration. I'm not saying top five, but DFS line up. Top 12, yes. Future free agent. Evan Ingram. The Atlanta Falcons at 4 and 6 take on the 2 and 6 Jacksonville Jaguars. Draft King Sportsbook line Falcons minus 1 over under is 46.5 in this one. Atlanta and Jacksonville, these are not good offenses. Atlanta's 29th in total offense, tons of turnovers. Jacksonville doing the same thing. Lowest first down rate in the NFL.

And that's actually the two and eight Jaguars mistake on my part. You were trying to make them two and six, trying to help them out. Just like when I was trying to help the lions out that one week. Then you left like four games off of it and I just read it like Ron Burgundy. I was trying to help him out. You need, Cordarral should be back. He's going to practice on Wednesday. That is important for the offense and that is important for the potential against this Jacksonville defense that has had a couple of decent games. But overall is one that you start your players against. So Patterson,

Pitts, end of list. I'm excited for Pitts to face a defense that I don't think can shut him down. They're still going to focus on him. But I don't believe that they have the personnel to shut him down. So you're going to have a good Pitts week. Yeah. And, you know, the targets are there every week. You just need him to be able to get a little bit more out of him, get into the end zone. Red zone is nice. If you could get there 30th ranked offense, please do so.

But Patterson has been kind of a stalwart in terms of double-digit fantasy points. Right back into your lineup in this one, right? Yeah, I think so. The Jaguars have been great against running backs lately, including a game against Jonathan Taylor, where after, you know, basically an opening drive or two, they shut them down the rest of the game.

But Cordarral's not a running back. He's a wide receiver pretending to be running back who gets enough work in the passing game where I'm not worried about that. He only averages seven carries a game. Exactly. On the other side, I love, I just, I enjoy playing players against Atlanta. It's one of my favorite things to do. James Robinson. Yeah.

Heck yeah, I'm always in. But Marvin Jones, can I interest you? No, you cannot. In a Jamal Agnew-less Marvin Jones? That would be Leviska-Chanalt. I'm playing with Marvin Jones in this game. I'd play them over Chanel. No, it's the Jamal Agnew going down likely, because you saw Chanel go back into the slot a bit last week, and that's the valuable role for Trevor Lawrence.

Marvin Jones could certainly hit a big play against this defense, but I think that the target volume will be to Leviska, unless the Irmaier goes full galaxy brain again and says that, no, Tavon Austin is going to be my slot wide receiver. So you'd play Chonalt over Marvin? I play Marvin over Chenault. Jason, where would you go? Marvin over Chanel. Okay, should we water bet this one? Should we do a little Jacksonville waterback? Yes. Sure.

Waterbet. Nothing like a good Marvin Jones-Laviscus-Thernalt water bet. Now, Jason and I have a $100 bet this year on who will score the next touchdown between Will Disley and Jimmy Graham. It is so much fun because any time that we are reminded that those players are still in the NFL and they catch a pass, we get to shame the other one. And if either of them actually catch a touchdown, it's going to be, we're just going to be clowning on the other one. Dan Arnold, are you right back to Dan Arnold in this one?

Yeah, I'm not allowing one terrible goose game to... That was a long... I felt like there was longer that time. Yeah, I'm not allowing that to get in my way. Everything we're talking about with Agnew being gone, it's not just a matter of who takes that role. It's, you know, we talk about targets are a talent. Who's going to get open? Where's he going to look? Who's he going to have confidence in? And he's got that with Arnold.

The New York Jets at 2 and 8 take on the 2 and 8 Houston Texans, the Draft King Sports Book Line Texans minus two and a half. Two and eight versus two and eight? That's right. Can we get a petition going to stop this? Well, I mean, you don't get from two and eight to three and eight without this game, Mike. The overrunners 45 points. Ask the lions about that. Okay. All right. All right. A tie would be fun. Terrible teams with running backs you might have picked up on waivers yesterday.