Week 15 Studs & Duds, Rising Stars, Cute Fruit

but for fantasy purposes as a whole, because I think that Robert Foster can make Josh Allen a safer play. And instead of having to just rely on Josh Allen running for 100 yards or a score every single week, he actually has a complementary weapon. If they can get one or two more pieces around him,

Then maybe people are happy that they have Josh Allen on their fantasy team. Well, I think right now people are happy that you have Josh Allen on your fantasy team. If you look at the last like five games he's played in, he's pretty much a quarterback won in all but one of them. So, you know, Foster has been great. I think you could trust him and move forward with him. It's a true addition by subtraction situation with Kelvin Benjamin, as it usually is. My rising star, look, it's low-hanging fruit.

But sometimes the most important, most delicious fruit is right there easy for the picking and you don't want to get too cute with it. It has to be Derek Henry. Derek Henry. Cute fruit. Cute fruit. Derek Henry himself. The cutest fruitest. Derek Henry. He's like a cutie. Two weeks ago. Yeah. Those are delicious. Yeah. They're easy to peel. So easy. Brought to you by cuties. Not a sponsor.

Look, Derek Henry two weeks ago, we all know. He had one of the best games of all time in fantasy football with four touchdowns, 238 yards. Absurd. Yeah. Right. But he's Derek Henry. We've got a large enough sample size. He's not going to get it done, except he got the ball. And this is what I talked about this last week, who's was what if that performance changes the coaching staff's mentality and says,

We're giving it to him. And that's all they did. All game long. 33 carries for Derek Henry. It is bananas. And it turned into 170 yards, two touchdowns. This was on the road. Derek Henry, if you look at his home road splits, they are very different. He is a home player. Where is he playing next week? He's playing at home coming off of two.

monstrous games, and he's playing against the Washington Redskins. Yes, the Washington Redskins, they did not give up much, you know, in the way of points to Leonard Fornett. Yeah. But in fairness, nobody does right now. Leonard Fornett has just been a bum.

The Redskins have given up monster games. I mean, Sequin, Aitem Alive, the Philadelphia team, I mean, the last several weeks before Leonard Fornett, Washington's been ran all over. Their offense is so bad, they're not going to outscore Tennessee's good defense to the point where we can't just keep giving Derek Henry the ball. Derek Henry will get the ball 25 times at home next week. He'll have over 100 yards. He'll have a touchdown. I mean, Derek Henry, to me, is an RB1. Right.

Like, you must start at this point. So he is truly my rising star because three weeks ago, I wouldn't have dreamed of playing Derek Henry in your fantasy championship week. And now it's, I wouldn't dream of not. Oh, do you know Derek Henry's 16 game pace the past two weeks? I want to hear it. Oh, these are fun. 400 attempts. Oh, that's a lot.

For 3,264 yards. How many touchdowns? 48. Nice. He's so good. That, that, look, extrapolating small sample sizes is fun. It's always fun, but that's one of the most ridiculous ones I've ever heard. 3,000 rushing yards, 48 touchdowns. There you have Robert Foster, Derek Henry.

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pooped in his big boy pads. Dak Prescott, Andrew Luck, Jared Garf. Jared Barf, man. I mean, Jared. 339 yards and no touchdown. He did throw two interceptions, though. Jared Barf. I mean. Oh, no, wait. No, he had one touchdown, right? No, the... Oh, he was short. He was short by inches. I was so upset because I had Reynolds pretty high.

in my rankings. And I was like, yes, perfect. And then he was an inch short. But luck and golf really letting people down this week. Unfortunate. James Winston, but, uh, I think everyone had pivoted away from Winston against the, the rape. Yeah, I'm, Winston didn't hurt people. But the, the three pack, and I'll include Dak in that 100%. Okay. Dak, because he, he had done enough the last few weeks. I think he was our streamer, um,

The matchup was good. The offense was clicking with Amari Cooper. He had done enough to prove that you can start him. And then he did nothing. Worse than nothing. So we got to talk about those three guys, Dak, Luck, and Gough. They're very different. Like Andrew Luck, zero worries about. They won the game. They were up in a manner of which they shut out the Cowboys. The Cowboys were complete. They scored zero points. That's what a shutout is.

They did not need Andrew Luck. Thank you for clarifying. That's what I'm here for. They didn't need Andrew Luck to throw the ball to score a ton. And that's not the usual MO. So I have no worries about Andrew Luck. Next week against the New York Giants, I don't think it's going to be the same thing. If you survive anyways. Right. If you survive. Or if he's dropped and, you know, you pick him up. There's no one with golf in the championship, right? At this point.

after the back-to-back weeks of, I mean, maybe he's on your roster, but if you played him last week and this week, and what do you do? I don't know, man. The high-powered Rams offense, silence of the Rams. I mean, tell me if this is, and this is my analysis, but it's also very difficult because I have Brandon Cooks on my team. And so as much as we try, sometimes the self-bias and your team, it filters in.

But as I'm watching the game, the lack of deep shots to Brandon Cook's and Robert Woods over the past few weeks, to me, that's the difference. Like the first half of the season, it seemed like about one every four passes. Jared Goff would just go for it because his receivers would make a play. And I'm not seeing.

him air it out nearly as much. So I do see him going deep enough, maybe not nearly as much. And the reason for that is the league is cut up that it's always play action. You know what I mean? Like the play action really got people early in the year with Todd Gurley. It would give a lot of time for golf to sit back there and look as the defense has all come up to stop the run. That's not happening. So I think the shots aren't there to take as much. And I would just, I would add this.

Goff has been inaccurate. I mean, Goff's deep ball accuracy, the first half of this year, was something to behold. It was beautiful. I mean, you would always, we'd always joke that, like, how does every Rams wide receiver get two yards wide open on every single play? But they would always be hit in stride. Beautiful, perfect throws. And now there's a lot of balls that are not catchable coming from Jared Goff. So I am a little worried. Now they get Arizona next week.

Matt Ryan, number one quarterback this week, was not stopped by the Arizona awesome defense. So, you know, maybe it's a get right game, but I doubt a lot of people with golf are in the... Against that Philadelphia secondary, that should have been a get right game. At the running back position for as many amazing performances as we had, Philip Lindsay, Sequin Barkley, Lamar Miller. Also known as Andy's two running backs. Oh, man.

That, yeah, that was, that was a tough Sunday morning. Leonard Fournett, Kenyon Drake, and then, man, and Sony Michelle, I think those were the really, really disappointing players of the week. Yeah, you can't, is there anything to take away? Because Philip Lindsay gets to play Oakland, Sequin plays indie. No, so that's, Fournette plays Miami, who just got absolutely.

burned at the stake by Dalvin Cook. Yeah, this is, so with Philip Lindsay's a couple of bad games in a row for him, I'm still not worried, especially with the Oakland matchup. I would start Philip Lindsay without any hesitation. Sequan, I mean, come on, of course. You're starting him. Every player has a bad game. It doesn't matter if you're Antonio Brown, if you're gronk, Aaron. Every player has bad games from time to time. Hopefully you were able to overcome that. Lamar Miller is worrisome.

Lamar Miller left with an injury, and he's got Jacksonville. So, I mean, he might be someone that if he's playing, you don't play him. Fournette. He's got the Eagles this week. Oh, that's, that's right. The Eagles. Yeah, Week 17, Jacksonville. It's so easy. He's not the same. Jeez, Jason. The Leonard Fournette, he's a real question. At what point do you say?

He's not that good. I'm just saying at what point, dude? Oh, no. I've been such a Leonard Fournett believer until about a month ago. And then every week, my belief has just continued to go downhill where I go, you know, I think it was two weeks ago. I tweeted out, like, why isn't Leonard Fournett better than he is? And that was early in the game, and he proceeded to have the worst game imaginable. I mean, uh,

Well, the worst game imaginable until this last week. Oh, two weeks. Yeah, two weeks ago was actually worse. But Leonard Furnett, he's going to be interesting heading into next year for, for fantasy purposes. What, where does he go in drafts? Is he viewed as this locked and loaded top five running back volume or speaking for volume? Yeah, I mean, I assume next year he'll be.

in, you know, the back of the top 12 running backs. He's still going to be a bell cow and he still got the talent. Things went wrong with injuries this year. A lot of excuses will be made. But I guess that's what I'm saying is when do we stop making excuses? Do we do it championship week against Miami who, as you said, I would play him. I would too. Yeah, I would too. But it's going to be one of those like, fool me three times. Oh, man, yeah.

The wide receiver position. Honestly, the absolute collapse, at least comparatively. Let's be fair to him. But Adam Thielen, what happened? Eight straight games of 100 plus scoring in all but two of those games to now the past six weeks has surpassed 100 yards.

Once. Yeah, this last game was really upsetting. That was a heartbreaker. You know, two weeks ago, five for seven. Heartbreaker. Five for 70 is a good game. It's not great, but you're not, you know, that you shouldn't be super disappointed. You're very disappointed because you got used to Adam Thielen being a top three wide receiver week in, week out for the first half of the year. But, but this week.

Two for 19 is a horse of a different color. That was the first game with the new offensive coordinator, a new play caller. And, you know, you worry a little bit. But when you score 41 points, Dalvin Cook goes wild, you know, you don't really need Adam Thielen that much. I still believe Adam Thielen is going to be the number one target and is a worthy player. So I'm not that worried. Okay. Are you? No, no. But what about this?

Oh, yeah, just when you thought it was safe to put Amari Cooper into your championship lineup. He got you. He's fine. Amari Cooper is actually fine. And next week, Tampa Bay, I'd play him. Look, the Colts team deserve a lot of credit.

I mean, they got up for that game. I was watching the defense flying around. I mean, Frank Reich has, he's inspired me and I'm not even a cult. That's because he makes high class movies. That's my reference to, I'm bringing up on the show that I believe that Frank Reich is actually Steven Spielberg. Oh, gotcha. Yes. You have said he looks a lot like Steven Spielberg. Like he's coming off of the success of Ready Player 1 right into coaching the Colts.