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

It hurt. You didn't have the reliable guy who hits a dig route or hits an in route for five and gets that first down. And he threw it to Higby and Higby just dropped him. Maybe Higby becomes that by the end of the season. The Vikings at 5 and 5 take on the San Francisco 49ers who are also 5 and 5. The DK Sportsbook line here, 49ers minus 3 and 1 half. The over under is 48.5. This is such a huge game for both teams. Being at 500, fighting for the 6-7 seed in these.

conferences. I had a hard time deciding who to take in this line. I really did. I took the 49ers to cover in the end, but I think both of these teams can win this game. Both need it. And the 49ers, I just, I like what I saw from them the last time they were out there on the field. Let me see if I can sway you. Do it. I'm going to start Kirk Cousins in the Dynasty League. Now you, you know what? Now I believe in the 49ers even more.

Yeah, that wouldn't sway him. No. He picked the Niners. Well, he just, he was like unsure. Oh, you take me off the fence? Yeah. Oh, yeah, it's a golden. I mean, Footland. Mike played me in the Dynasty League last week and benched Kurt Cousins. And that was all it took. Yep. And if you played him, what would have happened? I would have won. How many times is Kurt Cousins on your bench the actual reason you've lost this year? This is probably the same amount as four to five? The same amount as.

When I played Kurt Cousins, he was the reason I lost. Oh, no. He is really unbelievable. Wait, does that mean he's responsible for every one of your games? Yes, he is the pain of my existence currently. Cryptonite for sure. He is the kind of quarterback where you say stream him, but it's been hard to identify which games. He doesn't care about matchups when it comes to streaming. He's just either great or he's terrible. Well, both of these teams, the Vikings and the 49ers are conundrums because they can beat anyone.

You put either one of these teams against the best. You put them in the Super Bowl, they can win. And they can lose to anyone. They just, they're wacky. So this will be a crazy fight. Hopefully. Now, have the 49ers won a game at home yet? I don't, I don't believe so. Really? I'm not sure. Both these teams started one and three and four. The Minnesota offense, 31, 27, and 34. That's the point totals the last three weeks. It's going to be hard for San Francisco to slow them down because they've been.

forced feeding Justin Jefferson, and it's been working. So Dalvin Cook and Justin Jefferson, and I'll throw Adam Thielen in there. Those three players feel like locks in your fantasy lineup. Yeah, I would agree with that. They are pretty much locks. Also update the 49ers, the Rams victory was at home. On the other side, Jimmy Groplo is my start of the week. I think this is going to be a fun one. I think he's interesting.

And then Elijah Mitchell, do we have anything new other than the day-to-day report on Elijah Mitchell? I'm going to do some digging. You talk. Nothing new other than he was possible to play last week and now he's day-to-day. So I think my expectation has been that he will be active, but you're going to play whoever it is. I'm still playing Jeff Wilson, despite disappointing, if Elijah Mitchell is out. He got the work. We tweeted out the –

play of him wide open for a, I mean, I could have thrown a touchdown pass in that play and Jimmy G just unfortunately missed him. Let me put that to the test for you. Would you play Jeff Wilson if he's the started? Assuming Eliza's out. Which as of 17 hours ago, San Francisco Chronicle just calls him iffy for the game. Oh, he's playing. Oh, because if he means playing. I don't know what if he means. That's where they need to go with with all reports. Yeah. But Jeff Wilson.

in this matchup against Minnesota or Romandre Stevenson. Jeff Wilson or Damien Harris. Jeff Wilson. Really? Yeah, if he's, if he's alone in this matchup, I will continue to. You'll give him a shot. Yep. Okay. You agree with that, Mike. I do. Debo Samuel, don't need to talk about him. Sometimes you have to push a button though. No.

We are giving away a Debo Samuel Jersey. Oh, we should give that hashtag. Oh. We're towards the end of the show. Yeah. This is the moment because this is a hard to find. No one's skipping to this part. My vote is hashtag dinner butter. Oh. I'm with you. Okay. Because that's not going to be a hashtag that other people tweet often. No. We'll find you and we'll enter you. Let's make sure. Maybe dinner butter is a thing. But no, you just tag us and.

Put the hashtag in there and let us know that you made it through. I'm looking. And apparently there, in the history of Twitter, there is one. One mention of dinner butter? One back in June. That's how original you are, Jason. Back in June of 2014. Was it me? If it was Jason. No. Had a heck of a meal. Love me some dinner butter. All right. Let's do it.

If you tag us and you put dinner butter hashtag in there, we'll enter you to win the Debo-Samuel's sign jersey and let us know that you made it through the Megalobole or the Megalodon. And Brandon Ayuk, last three weeks, it's been good, bad, good. That's the world of a wide receiver or a...

Third pass catching option. Which is okay. He is in for me, especially like as a flex type of a player. Minnesota struggles against fantasy wide receivers. Flex IUC or Jeff Wilson? Ooh. In a lone Jeff Wilson. Okay. Over I agree. George Kittle touchdowns in three straight. You play him. He's your tight end. Sunday night football, the Cleveland Browns at six and five take on the Baltimore Raven seven and three. They shouldn't be seven and three. My goodness.

They keep finding away. They found away last week with Huntley coming back at the end of the game against Matt Nagy. And then they found away with the 66 yarder. But hey, credit due. Good teams find away, right? Drafking Sportsbook Lion Ravens minus three and a half at home. The over under is 45 and a half points. I don't know what to make of Cleveland in general. They feel like the Monty Python. It's just a flesh wound skit. Black Knight? Yeah, where it's.

pretending that it's all right and just every week they're just trying to survive and they're surviving. I mean, they're in the playoff picture despite being last in their division right now. So Lamar did practice. He's starting to feel better. He goes right back into your lineup. Absolutely. Devante Freeman running back for the Ravens in your lineup. No update on Hollywood Brown. I misreported earlier in the week that it was an illness for Hollywood Brown.

It was Bateman that had missed the practice due to illness. The report from the Ravens was that Brown was a thigh injury, not an illness. So that is something we do have to continually monitor this week. And if Lamar plays and Hollywood misses, you could find to get that Rashad Bateman breakout. I think Bateman would, if Bateman is alone at wide receiver and no Hollywood.

He becomes to me like a must play. I would I would play him over, you know, we've talked about so many of these questions, the Jerry Judy's and Cadarius Tony and all these guys that are like, yeah, you can play him. I'm not sure. I would definitely play Bateman over all of them if Hollywood is out and Bateman and Lamar Jackson are in. Mark Andrews, of course. He's on pace from 95 receptions and his usage is going up. He's crushing.

Nick Jobb is a machine. Yeah. Per Scott Barrett leads the NFL in yards after contact for the last two years. You know the story. But Kareem Hunt, the quote from him, see how I feel during the week, but I'm definitely thinking I'm going to play. That's great. Yeah. And then I would put him back in as a low-end running back too. I would not touch wide receivers because they're too hard. I mean, they don't even get enough targets in this offense sometimes. So Austin Hooper is a, like Hooper or Higbee?

With the limitations that Cleveland has. Hooper or Ingram? Ingram. The question here for Hooper is, I need more information, and it's Wednesday, but we need to know, is People's Jones okay to play? Is Anthony Schwartz okay to play? If those guys are out, then Hooper becomes much more interesting. He saw a good volume, right? Yeah, seven targets last week. Didn't turn into a lot.

The problem, a problem for this team is, unfortunately, Baker Mayfield. And it's, he's hurting. He is in pain. Like you, if you're watching any of these games, you're going, this guy should be sitting. I know we all, we, we, you commend a player. Oh, he's so tough. He's playing through all of his injuries. Baker looks like he is at the point where.

The head coach. Scott Staring. Yes. Like the coach should make the throw in the towel. Like Case Keenham is going, even the play of Case Keenum gives us a better chance to win because Baker is just so beat up. Yeah. You expect him to get up and be facing the wrong direction, take the snap backwards, not know where he is. He's hurting. It is a brutal year for him. And every week he takes a massive shot that he barely gets up from. But then he goes and he keeps playing.

Yeah, I mean, we all see that. I will say as a DFS dart throw, Donovan People's Jones and Anthony Schwartz, the only reason I bring them up as that is because the Ravens just every single week give up a bomb touchdown. It's there, it's just, it's so automatic right now. You know, Mooney had one last week that those two guys are speedsters who can get deep and we've seen them do it a couple times.

I feel like it might be more likely for sports to get back out on the field coming off the concussion versus the groin injury for Donovan People's Jones. Seattle at 3 and 7 Monday night football game taking on the Washington football team who are 4 and 6. The DK Sportsbook line is Washington minus 1 at home. The over under is 47 points. And Washington's on a roll right now. If they win this game, they'll be...

You know, they'll be on the outside, but they'll be in the mix for that last spot. And they have a bunch of divisional games coming up. 29 points, 27 points, and a couple of wins in a row over good opponents. They had a gutty win last week. That was not Carolina imploding. Carolina got off to a strong start, and I think they played well. And then Washington just out played them down the stretch. Defense has improved, especially against running backs, which, you know, if you needed a reason not to play Seattle running backs,

above the reason that you already have. The Washington defense number nine in the league over the last six weeks, reinforcements have arrived by way of Curtis Samuel and Logan Thomas maybe getting back as well, which could reinforce the streaming ability of Taylor Heineke, who, you know, I think is a great option this week. Heineke's six top 12 performances, so when he hits, he hits. He is the quarterback 15 on the season, you know, in total points. But that's, I don't think that

accurately paints the picture of how Heineke's been very useful for fantasy football. Not that you've always been able to call it because you weren't playing him against Tampa Bay, but number 12 against Tampa, number seven against Carolina last week. He's been better than a lot of other quarterbacks that people are counting on. Ross is Mike start of the week on the other side of the ball, that quarterback, and then D.K. McHouse from the start of the week of wide receiver.

Tyler Lockett is always a risk, but always has a big play. And against Washington, it seems like he'd be all right. Yes. And so you end up in a situation here where do you like the over in this one at 47 points? If Russell Wilson and DK McCaff can do what you guys think that they are going to do, then absolutely the over will hit. I am still skeptical of Russell Wilson. It seems to me that...

You know, the Draft King Sportsbook line, the fact that a four and six sub 500 team, I know they're at home, but they are favored over Seattle with Russell Wilson. I mean, you love to see it. But, yeah, I'm worried that Seattle's offense just continues not clicking. Okay. I think that's all the matchups. Brooks, do you have any? You're not hiding from us. Any matchups I haven't. At this point, I don't even know. We did it.

Are you looking around, Jay? I just wondered if there was one under the table, but there wasn't. If there were more matchups, then I wouldn't have to spin this wheel. But, uh, nevertheless. Fantasy Face Off, presented by Draft Kings. My lineup took a bath last week. I mean, you had, you had Dak Prescott got doing nothing because C.D. Lamb got concussed. Who was also in your lineup? Yeah. And then Rashad Bateman, we, Jason and I left him in, even after the Lamar News. It was a disaster. I lost, uh,

badly. That is one of the toughest things about when we do this segment, we're picking them what I feel like is early on Friday and now we're doing it super early on a Wednesday. But as a tip, if you're playing, make sure, you know, Saturday night, Sunday morning when the latest news, check the lineups that you've made and find, you know, run a fine tooth comb over them. Yeah, no question. We have had pivots when players have missed or news has happened. We've pivoted. So, all right. I'll spin it.