Week 14 Studs & Duds + Fantasy Sabotage, Monday Punday - Fantasy Football Podcast for 12/12

turned into a great game for Jerry Judy. He was found guilty of being a great wide receiver this week. Justin Jefferson set the Minnesota franchise record for receiving yards in the game because he had 223 yards. It's, it's funny because he makes it look so easy that like I kept seeing good plays from him throughout the game, but I had, I just had no idea throughout the game that it was to that level. He's so good. Some of the catches he makes, they're like impossible, but then it's not like a lot of wide receivers. They make these impossible catches and then they have to fall over and he just makes an impossible catch and then just like, it's like, okay, now I'm running now. Yes, in stride. Jamar Chase, kind of the Justin Jefferson counterpoint with the absence of all wide receiving options for the Cincinnati Bengals, 15 targets, 10 for 119 and a score.

He gets Tampa Bay, the Patriots, and the Buffalo Bills. Kind of an unfortunate end of season schedule, but he's Jamar Chase. Tyreek Hill. Just keeps doing it, man. He just keeps getting done four for 81 and a score. And he had the fumble recovery into a touchdown, which sucks that you don't get the yardage there because he. Oh, is that how it's counted? You don't get anything of that? I don't think so. It's like a fumble recovery. It's not. Interesting. Yeah, so it should have, he did more than the fantasy points he got, but he got enough. I mean, the guy is unbelievable, unstoppable. Even in a bad game from Tua and from the dolphins, Terry kills fine. So you're telling me that like when we see those end of game hook and ladder scrambles, and like there is the weird scoring of who was the wide receiver that lost the? That was Devantus Smith. Yeah, DeVantzis Smith lost yardage.

because of the fumble, but you cannot gain yardage. That seems broken. You can't take away without giving, right? Well, right. There needs to be balanced. You can't have good without bat. Yeah. And this seems this seems wrong. Okay. I'm going to talk to the NFL about this. The Chargers wide receivers, Mike Williams, immediately back to huge production, only six targets, but he caught all of them for 116 yards and a score. Keenan Allen. is back doing Keenan Allen things 12 catches. 92 yards on 12 catches, but that's a PPR factory. Yeah, I was really happy that you and I had basically changed our tune midweek and said he's practicing in full. Mike Williams. Yeah, Mike Williams should be back in your lineup because earlier it was like you probably don't want to play him first game back. And that would have felt really bad having six for one, 16. Yes.

But that was great next week. First round of the playoffs, Tennessee. Oh, yeah, baby. Yeah, that feels good. DJ Chark kind of highlighted last week as a potential just right off your waiver wire into your lineup because of the juicy matchup with the Minnesota Vikings. Turned into six for 94 and a score. Juju! Hey, welcome back. Against the Denver Broncos 9 for 74 and his score gets Houston and Seattle. Delicious. Zay Jones, the spot starts just keeps getting it done. The outrageous, I mean, Evan Angram took almost everything from Trevor Lawrence. But it feels like, how is all this production happening? And then Krisha Kirk's over there with like, what, 50 yards or something? Well, that's because these guys went off.

Not everybody. Yeah, it's like MVS, you know, didn't get a bunch of yards because Juju and McKinnon got it. You just, when you got a lot of mouths to feed, and Zay Jones and Evan Ingram were hungry. They had an appetite and Pleasure Lawrence said, I'll feed you. Sounds so dirty. Yes. So dirty. I like it. I like it. Chris Moore of the Houston Texans Monster game, 10 for 124. Andy did pivot out of. Yeah, so this is worth bringing up. On Friday's show, Andy has, Andy said, I am not doing another mid-show pivot. He did say that. He said that. And the reason he said that is because his last mid-show pivot lost him what would have been a win. Well, he lied to himself and he lied to y'all.

Because he did a mid-show pivot out of Chris Moore into Rashad White. He would have won. Easily. He lost. And that, man, there's, there's, you can't. Here's the thing. In fantasy. When you do a transaction that costs you something, you just can't do that again. Because if you lose a second time the same way, like, oh, I'm not going to do this last second, you know, lineup adjustment. You know, you got a 50% chance to lose, but one of those is going to feel so much worse if you do it to yourself twice in a row. It's the old adage of like when you're taking a test and it's a multiple choice, like you go kind of with your first instinct of what the answer is supposed to be, unless you know 100% like, oh, no, I missed, miss red. So he should have gone with his first read there with Chris Moore, dirt cheap.

I mean, monster game. Yeah, you had no Nico Collins and you had no Brandon Cooks and Chris Moore had 10 catches for 124 yards against Dallas. So that's pretty impressive. Adam Thielen. Oh, hey, good to see you. Adam Thielen. Thank you for showing up now. 7 for 65 and a touchdown. The fellas for the Seattle Seahawks. D.K. Matt Kaff 5 for 71 to score Tyler Lockett. Cannot be stopped. How many games in a row are we at? That's got to be six. Is that six? Six games in a row with a touchdown? He's on freaking fire. He is ridiculously good. And never like when you're talking about the best wide receivers in the NFL, here's Tyler Lockett. I mean, I don't know how many years in a row he's asked to do it because you don't bring him up. No, he's not in the conversation. Jefferson, Jamar, Cooper Cup.

He's not even, he's not even given the respect because D.K. Metcalf is there. Right. He's not even like the best wide receiver on his team. Tyler Lockett, wide receiver eight on the season right now. Wide receiver eight on the season. Let me tell you his fantasy, just for fantasy, not even real life. His fantasy finishes over the last five years. Wide receiver 15, wide receiver 14, wide receiver 9, wider receiver 13, currently the wide receiver 8. The dude is awesome. Yes. He's fantastic. Let's, let's give Tyler Lockett his due. Uh, Richie James. Okay, he had a great game. Seven for six, seven for sixty one and a score. Donovan People's Jones turned into Voldemort's favorite weapon here at the end of the game. This was a road game. Oh, it was a road game. So Mori Cooper was contractually not allowed.

to have a good game. 12 targets for People's Jones, turned into eight for 114, gets the Ravens and the Saints. Coming up here, the guys from the Eagles, they continue to get it done. They got it done. Touchdown for both of them. Andy's started the week, Devont Smith. He's just been awesome while Dallas Goddard's out. I'm going to be really interested to see if this is a level up, and it's like he just is a bigger part of the offense going forward because he should be, or whether. The siphoning off of Dallas Goddor being there. Yeah. Because you know what the truth is. I know. I know. I do because Dallas Goddard just adds another weapon. Because he is also very good. Yeah. Shoot. Uh, here we go. Main event time. The tight end. Evan Angram. Can I interest you in 15 targets to a tight end? I thought he had 10 catches. 11 catches. 11 for 162.

and to catapults into the tight end four on the season. Is this prescriptive? No. Probably not. He gets the Cowboys and the Jets the next two weeks. Very unfortunate. But you want someone that is prescriptive? Let's go. Chig. Oconquo. And he's start of the week. Start of the week, six receptions, 45 yards and a touchdown. Did he have a two-pointer? He did. He had a two point conversion as well, had an awesome week, was the, is the Titan 2 so far. He plays for the Titans, by the way. Right. Rookie tight end for the Titans. The next two weeks against the Chargers and the Houston Texans are good matchups for Titans. I think if you're scrambling and, you know, you, there's, you made the playoffs. You don't have a solution at tight end.

You want someone that is necessary to the offense. And right now without Traylon Burks, obviously if Traylon Berks comes back, there's less guarantee of targets going Chig's way. Which it was a concussion for Berks so that he could be back this week. Yeah. He's a name to know. And honestly, probably still out there on some dynasty waivers. Yes. So pick him up. He's a very athletic passing the eyeball test young. Rookie tied in. David Najoku came through 759 and 1. It feels like it all came on like one drive where Voldemort's like, oh, this, I should throw to that guy. And then went back to People's Jones. Very strange game for the Cleveland Browns. Dawson Knox. With his, with a helicopter touchdown. But it was a weird hell. He froze in midair. Usually helicopters. Oh, yeah, is the horizontal. Horizontal. This was like a flip. Yeah, but it was weird because it was more than a flip.

A flip is like 360 degrees vertically. This was more than that. Like a Mick Twist. Yeah. It was really impressive. And when you watch the replayer like, did the ball cross the goal line? No, he's not going to score. He didn't touch the ground on that flip. He's in. He paused in midair. It was very strange. Dalton Schultz, the doctor continues to be a huge part of the Dallas offense. Ten targets. Six for 87. Got to feel good about that. And then the muth got. moderately luth he scored a touchdown he had a nice slant route for a touchdown he's very difficult uh look by the way that was studs of the week presented by made well don't wait to upgrade your denim game go to madewell.com today get $20 off your next pair of jeans use the code footballers 20 trust me made well it's sensational clothing but to go back to the mute for a little bit the what is going on with him like the snap

counts to me this are like the snaps keep fluctuating in a very strange way and they were down again this this week he had six targets three catches so now it's been three straight weeks with with three receptions you got the touchdown this week so you're happy about it because three for 33 if you got that from the muth without a score that's that's a bad week but what are the Steelers doing here that the muth is not being allowed to get luth. Yeah, the last two weeks, 55% of the snaps, two weeks ago, 56% of the snaps this week. I cannot answer the question of exactly why he is not as involved. I do think that you're going to keep playing him. I'm not worried about it. He is talented enough, necessary enough that he'll be involved.

That being said, the issue here is not his talent or even his snaps. It's always going to come down to just the quarterback play, which is subpar. It might be back to Trubisky now, at least for a week because of the Kenny Pickett concussion. Yeah, so, you know, either way you're going to stay trying to get Luth with the Muth. Yeah, and it's just, it's all you can do. Put him on the field. So weird. Speaking of guys who let you down, pooped in his big boy pants. Holy Derek Carr. Yeah, it was Thursday night, but not good. It's worth highlighting again of just how bad it was. 11 completions, 137 yards, two interceptions. And that was when they were favored by a touchdown because no Aaron Donald and no starting quarterback. And, yeah, to a 10 for 28, 145 yards, one passing touchdown, QB 17.

This, I mean, now he's going on the road against Buffalo, gets Green Bay, closes on the road for fantasy purposes against the Patriots. It's been a minute. Since the by week. Man. So he had, you know, four games before the buy where he was, you know, great. Quarterback 11, quarterback one, quarterback four, quarterback three. Since the buy now, we're heading into a month of troubles. Quarterback 18, 17, 17. He's got Tyreek. He's got Waddle. So he's got a baseline. He's not someone that's going to go out there. Well, a base of the QB17 baseline is not. Yeah, you're talking about. That's off key. That's out of tune. You're getting to the teens of points. And that's not what you want as a quarterback. Certainly not good enough fantasy finishes for playoffs. And on the road against Buffalo, that's scary. Dak Prescott, it happened. This was, it happened even with.

The game script that said it shouldn't happen because he was necessary. But DAC only finished with 284, one touchdown, had two picks, wasn't great. Hopefully you pivoted away. That's kind of where we ended up by the end of the week. We were looking for different options. I'm deleting this entire game from memory. It's irrelevant. They didn't show up. The Texans were excited. And these human beings are going to hit the reset button and probably. be more back to the teams we saw prior to this week. Sequin Barclay, man, it was such a bad spot to be in. He popped up, I think it was Thursday, maybe with the neck injury. And it was, oh, that's strange. He was still practicing. So it seemed like we had video footage of him practicing. Okay, Sequin Barclay should be fine. And then you had Coach Dable come out and say these things of like, well, he might.

play. I think he might. He might miss. He's going to get an MRI to see if he's okay to play, like medically, whether he should or not. And then he was active. Unfortunately, that turned into very low snaps against, and then against the Philadelphia Eagles, nine for 28, two receptions for 20 yards. So they talked about this. They said that they had a plan to have Sequin on a snap count. But it wasn't this low. What happened in this game was that the Eagles just. whip the snot out of them. It was a blowout pretty early, and then they said basically they were going to have him a little bit more limited, but not as limited as it was, but the score was out of hand. So if you've got an injured star player, you're not going to throw him out there when you're down three scores, you know, and risk his body. So that was unfortunate. It's going to be hard to decide if you made the playoffs with Barclay. I mean, adding insult to injury was he had three carries inside the five.

Yeah. Three. Oh, you were holding your breath because you needed San Juan to have a bad game. Yeah, but I mean, I get it. Fook Clan out there, there's many of you counting on San Juan Barclay. So the fact that you had this lovin output of, you had to play the game, but do I play Sequin Barclay, which I don't have Barclay in any teams, but I 100% would have played him. Right. Because I feel like that was the right process. Three carries inside the five, and he still is in the poopie pants club for the week. I think next week he's going to be someone that.

you need to take a long and hard look at. He is not an auto start, assuming he is active against Washington, who's had a really tough run defense. You would expect that to be a lower scoring divisional game. It's not that you can't start Sequin. It's that he is not an auto start. You need to actually say, what am I expecting to get here? And is there another player who could have, you know, a bigger day? You know, I'm sure we'll get the Zonovan Knight versus Sequan Barkley questions later. And we won't want to answer them. On the Cleveland Browns here, let's have a quick conversation. What, what do you do here with Nicholas Chubb, who small sample of playing games with Voldemort Watson? But in both of those games, Houston, Cincinnati, he will be finishing outside of the top 24.

It feels like they don't want to give him as much work. They keep giving the ball to their $200 million quarterback, and that's turning into bad fantasy performances for Nick Chubb. Are you confident? This is just, we'll wash our hands of these past two weeks and move forward with Nick Chubb with full confidence against the Baltimore Ravens coming up this week. Yeah, I mean. Because it's dicey. Yeah, you're not going to bench Chubb. He's not injured. You're going to adjust expectations. This next week against the Baltimore Ravens, I think, should be a decent week for Chub because it's divisional matchup. They've probably got a third string or at least a backup quarterback playing. So you don't expect them to hop out to a lead the way that the Bengals were able to against them. And, you know, that's the type of game you need to rely on Chub a little bit more.

But he is, you know, three of his last four games, even before Voldemort came back. Yeah, but that was just one, you had one down game against the Buffalo Bills compared to an entire season. Yeah, of dominance. Yeah, nine straight games of being incredible for fantasy football. And it's really falling apart here at the end of the season, frustrating. The Detroit Lions DeAndre Swift popped back up onto the injury report last week. popped right back into the role that he was playing when he was on the injury report of six carries, four targets, didn't get the bailout touchdown because Justin Jackson came in and got a rushing touchdown. 36% of snaps. That is the really upsetting number. So assuming that if super upsetting. I mean, you're just going to watch and see if DeAndre Swift is back on the injury report this week. We all know the answer to that. He's going to be. Yeah. And then they play the Jets.

He's probably back on your bench. Travis E.T.N. continues his streak of poor performances. It's on the field a ton, but 17 for 32. The matchup was terrible against the Titans. Didn't stop, I mean, the team from being incredible. It's a terrible matchup against the run, I should say. But no targets for E.T.N. Very strange. The Buffalo Bills running backs, as we mentioned, the answer was none of them. Rahim Mostert. This one was very strange because he was the starter. Like the information that we had of, is it Jeff Wilson? Is it Rahim Mostert? It's kind of been all over the place two weeks ago. You know, it was Moster. It looks like he's the starter. He was yet again. Then Jeff Wilson leaves the game with an injury. And two is playing poorly. And you can run on the chargers. And yet Rahim Moster 11 carries 37 yards. One catch.

Very, very, very disappointing output for Rahim Mostert. The Seattle Seahawks are running backs. So they were last man standing situation. Is it Tony Jones? Is it going to be Travis Homer? Good friend of football. Good friend of fantasy football. Adam Schifter. came out Sunday morning, letting everyone know that his sources expect Tony Jones to, in fact, be the starter over Travis Homer. He played five total snaps. But he was not the start. But he was not, I will say, this information, because Schifter is a trusted inside source in the NFL, it spooked me off of Travis Homer being like this really strong play to, if you're out of options.

Homer should be okay in a PPR. Travis Homer played 90% of the snaps. Oh, that's awesome. Great. If you got scared off of him for fantasy football, you dodged a bullet because he was terrible. Nine carries 26 yards, three targets, two receptions, eight receiving yards was pretty worthless for fantasy. Obviously, he was the guy over Tony Jones Jr. And, um, Neither of them were the guy. Proud of you. You made it through that name. Thank you. San Francisco 49ers are the next matchup up. And so honestly, like, I've been loving Gino and obviously Lockett's been on fire. Metcalfe is just awesome. Man, this is going to be a tough decision to make when it comes. Like, I'm not starting Gino against the 49ers. Michael Carter of the Jets into the pit of despair.

feels borderline not rosterable because Zonovan Knight is that dude the matchup is great against the Detroit Lions but not great it'll be great for Zonovan Knight Latavius Murray was not able to necessitate his way to fantasy production had five targets for negative one receiving yards total so that's cool what happened What happened in Denver this last week? Latavis Murray was like the only bright spot of knowing you're going to get volume. He goes bad. Russell Wilson comes out and he's fantastic. What a world. What a world we live in this week. Jalen Waddle, gross, four targets, two for 31, the Buffalo Bills, pass catchers.

Hopefully you didn't need a big game from Stefan Diggs because he gave you garbage. Three for 37. They were playing, though, in the massive advantage of the freezing cold rain. Oh, yeah. And then the snow. So, I mean, it worked because the bills won the game. Put a roof on it, man. It was, it was freezing cold rain to start the game, which is worse than snow, eventually turned into snow in a tough matchup against the jets. I mean, this was one where we kind of. saw this coming, but there's no way you can bench Stefan Diggs. Which makes it all the more painful because you know, you know deep down inside with the weather report with the matchup. I'm probably getting a stinker here from Stefan Diggs. But then when the stinker shows up, you're still shocked and you're really mad about it. But here we are. The Cowboys wide receivers also had a bad game. Shocker, because Dak had a bad game. Mike Evans, Chris Godwin.

It was 5 for 54 for Chris Godwin, so PPR-wise, not the worst. Had a really strange, what should have been a touchdown to Chris Godwin because it was an end zone target. Kind of got knocked up into the air, and then Russell Gage came down with the errands pass there. Mike Evans, 4 for 44, had a 70-yard touchdown. I don't believe you. I don't believe you. It's deleted from my memory. I mean, it's deleted from the record book. I'm just letting everybody know that Mike Evans had a wide open 70-yard touchdown that got called back. It was a hold. When you saw it, it just was like, oh, man, it's such a bad break here for Mike Evans. Mari Cooper. Mike Evans. He was on the road. Oh, back to Mike Evans. What do you do? What do you do? Asking for a friend. Nine targets. Nine targets. He had nine targets two weeks ago.

Finished with four fantasy points. Had nine targets this week. Six fantasy points. Seven fantasy points in between those two. Seven fantasy points the week prior to that. I mean, it's a month of him being awful. So what are you going to do? Well, I'll definitely start Christian Watson over him. But I am genuinely, I am at the point where I am actually, my call is Mike Evans or Joshua Palmer. And this is Joshua Palmer. with Mike Williams and Keenan Allen. And if I had made the Joshua Palmer decision every single week, it would have been right. It's just, so it's, it's really tough. Now, this next week against Cincinnati, oh, man, I, I just, I know the 70-yard touchdown. That's, that gives me hope and, you know, some glimmer, some silver lining in the massive,

storm cloud, but we're going to the playoffs. We need big games. Why has Mike Evans been so bad? It's a fantastic question that I don't have the answer to. Mari Cooper, it was on the road. Yeah, we knew that. Christian Kirk, big time letdown, five for 45. Speaking of big time letdowns, Mark Andrews, who, I mean, we're talking now, week six was the last time you got... Mark Andrews. I know he's been injured inside of that, and Lamar Jackson's also been hurt, but what do you do? He was two for 17 with backup quarterbacks. We had at least some hope because Tyler Huntley kind of overtargeted him. Mark Andrews last year when Huntley had to come in.

That didn't really happen. Well, Huntley left the game, played 60% of snaps. Sure. He played, yeah, a little bit over the half of the game, but six targets, two for 17. I mean, there's, it's very easy what you do with Mark Andrews. You start them. You wipe your tears and you say, what if it's third string quarterback, Anthony Brown, who is an undrafted free agent. I don't have the stones. The only, the only option. that is possible, right? Like that would be out there on waivers is probably Chig Oconquo. And Schmevin might be out there. Schmevin might be out there. But the last two weeks for Schmevin, which have been great, he's had great tight-in matchups. This is a really bad one. He is not matchup proof just because he has a good game. Right. Like Evan is out. Evan, I'm not starting Evan Ingram next week. Chig has a good matchup next week. If Traylon Burks is out, I think some people.