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

So where do you turn? I did pick up one of them. Did you pick up Rex? I picked up the David Johnson. Is this in our League of Record? It is. Okay. And I think I'm happy. I think you should be happy.

I really do think you should be happy. The Jets are the worst team at stopping running backs. By a wide margin, they've been the worst on the season. They've been the worst in the last six. Look at any stretch of games. The Texans have been the worst team at being running backs. That is fair. That is fair. But we have seen games with a little bit of fantasy relevance. We've consolidated. And we've consolidated. You got rid of Philip Lindsay. Was cut. So I think David Johnson and Rex Burk had can.

Both be started. Can we cut that clip out? I want it for the archives. Here's the good news. Talk to me when they both have a touchdown this week. Rex Burkhead, 18 rushing attempts. That was his most since week one of 2018. That's a while. And David Johnson does, in fact, have two carries that went for more than 10 yards this year. Fire. Is that for the year?

One thing that we have seen from them throughout the year, and to Jason's point, is that regardless of success, they will always run the ball a million times. That is what they do. They don't succeed at it. I mean, Ingram doesn't. Lindsay didn't. David Johnson doesn't. Burkhead doesn't. Did you get a yard? Go get another one. Establish it. Like, if some way Royce Freeman is activated for this game, then this, David Goli went back to our shows about three years ago because he has just assembled all.

All of these running backs that I loved at one point for fantasy football. And he's like, oh, now is the time, 2021, put him together. You think you listens to the show? I think his podcast is playing them in the wrong order. He started with our newest and went oldest thinking it's newest. Yep. Tyrod Taylor did end up a top 12 quarterback last week with 104 passing yards. I would. Taylor or Joe Burrow? Taylor. No, I'll take Burrow.

I'll take borough. Taylor is, Taylor can give you 107 and nothing. Yeah, that's true. But his rushing ability, he had two rushing touchdowns. Superman. That was pretty cool. And the matchup, I think I want the mobile quarterback. Ticks for 28 on the ground. Two touches. All right. Zach Wilson? No, thank you.

Is Elijah Moore the only wideout you're starting this week? Are you willing to kick the tires on James and Crowder who somehow ended up on our Dynasty League waiver wire? Did you see this? Our Dynasty League? Yeah. What? I mean, he's on my roster now, but. I did not see that. You don't usually look for James and Crowder. Who cut Crowder? What?

I tried to look in the Dynasty League just in case something shows up. And, you know, last week is Cam Newton and this week is James and Crowder. That's Andy never not working. Newly minted Dynasty player for my team. Wow. That's, well, congratulations. That was actually Brooks. When we were talking about the dynasty fab, which I have a bunch of yesterday and you said you had none, I was about to mention, like at that point I was like, oh, I can just tell you I'm going to sign Crowder and it's hilarious. Then I remember like Al Borland was sitting there.

And luckily he wasn't smart enough to pick up on that. He's always listening. Yeah, what a dummy. Never listening. That's what we. Never eaves dropping. I am only starting Elijah Moore at wide receiver. I can easily see a good game for Corey Davis. Or James. Or James and Crowder is just you got to take your shot on someone. And I want the shot of the young rookie who is on fire.

Okay, you have Brandon Cooks on the other side. Yeah, I'd play him. Good play. Okay. Can we not talk about this game anymore? Let's move on. Los Angeles, the Chargers, six and four, taking on the Denver Broncos who are five and five. Fun divisional game here. Drafking Sportsbook Line Chargers minus two and a half in Denver. Over under is 47 and a half. Very different game scripts for these guys to win ball games. The Chargers are up tempo, fourth and neutral pace.

Pass sets up the run. Denver plays slow. They have hit the under and eight of ten games. They like to establish the run and they can do it because they have Melvin Gordon and Giovante Williams, take pressure off for Bridgewater and his newly rich Cortland Sutton and Tim Patrick and Jerry Judy. Mike, you talked about Noah Fantz. So you're kind of, you know, if Melvin's in, which I've heard you say earlier this week and Javante's okay and Fant is in, what do we do with the wide receivers for Denver?

Only Jerry Judy for me. For these, when it's this type of a timeshare, you have to chase just the volume. And when all of them are active, Jerry Judy is the one who gets the volume. And I know that Cortland Sutton has the mega deal, but that mega deal was signed after he's only seeing three targets a game, essentially, when he's active with Judy.

Maybe he was preserving himself to make sure he got the deal, and now he's ready to break out. Yeah, I'm not sure that I really want to start any of the wide receivers. A three-way time share against a really good pass defense. I think that this is, you know, we've talked about it for a couple of years now. The personnel and the chargers are much, generally speaking, they're better against the pass and weaker against the run. It's evened out over the last six weeks. But I like Melvin Gordon and Giovante Williams coming off of the buy. I'm going to have my eyes on it.

to see if maybe that shift starts to happen where it becomes maybe a 50-50, 55-45 type. But we'll see. Other side of the ball, Herbert was the quarterback one last week. Echler was the running back two last week, only because of Jonathan Taylor. He's on pace for 1,600 total yards and 22 touchdown. 22 touchdowns. He's a beast. And then Keenan Allen has been solid, not spectacular, but solid. Also known as Keenan Allen.

Should we go, can I go back to Austin Ackler? Should we be mad at Austin Echler? Yes. I thought, I thought about it today as I was driving in. Listen up, Austin. He was on my, he was on the board as one of my guys. Sure. No, he was like one of the guys I was closest to. And he was one of the guys I was closest to. And the reason I didn't pick him was, he was on our show. And he made it seem pretty clear that he's, that he was probably not the goal line guy. Yeah. That was what I took away from it.

He's totally the goal. Yeah, 100%. Oh, man. He's so good. He just gets, he scores from anywhere, too, in the passing game. So Keenan, solid, Mike Williams, is this, was last week's performance a wake-up or was it just a temporary stirring? It does not give me the confidence needed to have him be a smash start. It's great to see that he's not.

injured, he's capable of doing a big splash play that is going to make him a top 10 wide receiver on the week. That's all great. I'm fine to start him, but my expectation is not that he's going to be the 10, 12, 16 target guy that we saw earlier in the season. He's gone back to the role of being the 5-6 target wide receiver, and I think we need to act accordingly with ranking him that he is the number two.

All right, moving on. The Rams at 7 and 3 take on the Green Bay Packers, who are 8 and 3. This should be a fun game in Green Bay in Lambo. Packers minus 1, the D.K. Sportsbook line. The over and under is 48 points. I'll take that. Green Bay has covered 9 of 11 games, highest in the NFL. And so Los Angeles. They've got to figure some stuff out. They lost two straight games. They went on the buy. They lost Robert Woods. They got Odell Beckham.

The Packers defense has been absolutely dominant at home, and they've allowed 17 points, 17 points, 10, and zero in the last four games. In fact, you know, I'd be a little bit worried about some of these Rams offensive players. There is a thing that makes you say, okay, I just trust John McVeigh to figure it out, but they've struggled for a couple games and figuring it out is not as simple as.

You know, just throwing guys out there. Sometimes it takes time. Sometimes it takes, you know, never happened for Baker and Odell. And we spent two years saying, yeah, they're going to get on the same page. Eventually, that page was, you know, your walking paper. So Cooper Cup is always in your lineup. But beyond that, do we have confidence on the Rams side of the offense? I'm still starting Darrell Henderson for sure. He's.

You know, he hasn't always been great. He was sputtering before the buy week, but he has six touchdowns inside the five. He's tied for the third most. If the offense can get it going, and I said earlier, I believe Matthew Stafford has a bounce back game in this one. I'm absolutely putting Henderson in my lineup. Agreed. What about Beckham and Jefferson and the other wide receivers, Mike? Man, I'm still rolling with Van Jefferson. Over Beckham?

Yes. See, I will play Beckham this week over at Van Jefferson. Where do you weigh in, Jay? I would not play Beckham. I couldn't play Beckham because I would never have him on my roster. No, it's over Van Jeff. Talk to the people. But to the people, honestly, I would prefer Van Jefferson. Some of the comments being made about him still trying to get integrated in. He's had a couple of weeks. I feel like he should be. He's had kind of a week. You're talking about Van Jefferson? I'm talking about Beckham. Like he had the game where it was essentially.

trade into the game and then he's had the buy week to get assimilated. But I think they're both. I think Van Jefferson knows the scheme more. And that's the only reason I go with Van. It's not like I'm pounding the table over here saying that Jefferson must be played. No, I know that. And the thing for me is it's a trend. Like Van Jefferson has played bad football for a while. His catch percentage is under 50% over the last four weeks. It's only 57% on the year.

He is getting targeted seven times a week, eight times a week. But other than that big play happening, there's a reason the team went out and replaced him, right? We don't think about it that way. Like they went out and literally replaced Van Jefferson with O'Dell Beckham Jr. and spent the time and money to do it. That's a fair point. Now Jefferson's necessary. But that's why I'm going to put my hopes into Beckham over Jefferson. No, that's fair. And what I wanted to follow up and say is while I am a Van Jefferson over Beckham, I'm not.

either. You know what I mean? Like I think both of these players... You're a pass. I think both these players have a decent, mediocre line. At the end of the game, both guys are going to be four for 50, and they're going to have helped the offense. Give stats to Stafford, but I just don't love... To Statsford? Statsford. Yeah, I don't love either player. Aaron Rogers? I'll play. I'm. A.J. Dillon? Yep. We don't expect...

Aaron Jones back out. No, the MCL sprain was given a one to two week timeline. This would be week two. And the way that the Packers handle injuries, Jones will be out. You think so? Yeah, I do. Okay. One to two does imply one is a possibility. So I'm just surfacing that. If Jones is active, you play him? Yes. Oh, yeah, yeah. MVS or the Beckham Jefferson choice? MBS. Wow. I would go with the... But might be right.

I go with the Rams side unless Alan Lazard misses another game. Tyler Higby. What do we do with Tyler Higby? He has not finished above Tide in 9 on the week. Are we just finding a better option with higher upside? Yes, we are. Man, he should have caught that touchdown pass last week. That would have helped. Yeah, send in the doctor. Okay. No, Higby hit, Higby had a touchdown in week 10. Last week? Yeah. Oh, okay.

Should have caught all the other passes. He was the tied-in-nine last time we saw him. He doesn't generally, like I'd play him over Conklin any day of the way. I would as well. He's not a terrible start. He's in the Schultz tier, and if you prefer Schultz, then do that. Yes, he's on the field, you know, last game, 98% of snaps. That's what you want. And obviously, the last couple games, the Rams have struggled offensively.

If they get it going, it's better for him. It's funny. He hasn't been above the Titan 9 on the year, and that's kind of a stat. But he has been a top 10 tight end four times. It's 10 or 9? It's, it just comes down to it's been so disappointing of what he could have become. Yes. Big beast. Yeah. Which, I mean, to be honest, that.

Potential still exists right now. Yes, it does. Because of losing Robert Woods and because of the tumulted wide receiver, if Beckham doesn't end up integrating, which he's yet to do for most. He's a free agent, by the way, Beckham for the dynasty segment. He's 29 and a half or whatever. If you looked at the Rams, the last time we saw them, so it was the first time we saw them without Robert Woods, but they got just shellacked by San Francisco. And I think it was the absence of Robert Woods of