Week 15 Studs & Duds, Rising Stars, Cute Fruit

Yeah. I mean, I look at pictures and I say, I don't see it. But there was, Brooks agrees with me. Oh, yeah. When you brought it up yesterday. No, I agree. They showed him on the sideline. They showed him on the sideline. And you said it. And I was like, oh, yeah. But when I just look at pictures, what do the pictures have the glasses and the beard? No. Because that's the entire thing. It's, it's really just he has thick black frame glasses and a gray beard.

And I'm like, oh, it's Steven Spielberg. I think he was wearing a hat, too. Yeah. It was like, it was perfect. Oh, Stephen loves hats. All right. Tyree Kill had a down game. Do you worry about the foot? A little bit. A little bit I do. It's irrelevant. You're playing them. Of course. Yeah, you just have to play these guys. You know, big disappointing games from Josh Gordon, worst game of the year.

Jarvis Landry right when you thought you could trust him. Tyler Lockett. Tyler Lockett's been cold locket. Frozen Locket. Yeah, that's dunk. Yeah, Jarvis Landry, though, gets the bangles. Things are going to be fine for Cincinnati. Nick Chubb almost made this list. He would have certainly been on there if it was not for that 40-yard run right at the very end of the game. But.

Just want to clarify. And he wasn't involved. He will play the Bengals. Oh, that's going to be fun. Yeah. So he'll be fine. Chris Godwin. What? Really? Chris Godwin? I mean, I don't think a lot of people were playing Chris Godwin against the Ravens. Yeah, fair enough. Fair enough. But with the gooseer. Because you could say Adam Humphreys, four for 23. I mean.

James Winston going up against Baltimore. This was a situation where you were going to reluctantly play Mike Evans and bench everyone else. And that would have worked out for you. So these last two guys I want to talk about, you just brought up Leonard Fournette, when do we stop making excuses? Corey Davis, Cortland Sutton. When are we stopped making excuses for several weeks ago? Okay. I mean, I think we kind of called him out and said he's not.

He's not a... He's just not ready yet. Yeah. I mean, we thought coming out of the buy, getting rid of DT, the schedule was opening up, and he had, you know, he's had one good game since then. Cortland Sutton is not someone that you should be trusting because Case Keenham isn't playing like someone you should trust. I hoped this week because the coaching staff was saying they want Keenum to push the ball down the field, that he would do it. And it was like...

It was literally like that pissed him off so much that he said, I'll show you. I'll show you. I'm not throwing it even to the line of scrimmage. It's only backward past screens. That's all I'm doing this whole game. I've never seen a player. No one puts Keenham in a corner. So terrified to throw the ball down the field. It's, I mean, he makes, he makes old school San Francisco Alex Smith look, look like, you know.

rookie year Joe Flacco, who's just airing it out 40 yards down the field every point. I'm going to be honest. Tracking that analogy was like high school trigonometry. Yeah, it was I could have gone with more recent. What just happened? I could have gone with more recent examples, but those were the first thing that popped in my head. I, what is going on in there? I had to go with rookie year Joe Flacco, not Pat Mahomes.

Right? Not like the guy that's torching the league throwing the ball. People don't even remember rookie year Joe Flacco. No, I know. Rookie year Joe Flacco does not hold up. That's like that was the worst. That was one of the worst analogies of all time. Take third year Johnny Unitas. Sophomore year Brett Farve and mixed in a little rookie Fran Tarkington. That's what I'm talking about. Oh, what an idiot. All right. At the tight end position.

If you were disappointed by your tight end, good news. Everyone was. Everybody was. Seriously. I mean, what tight ends did well? Because we thought, we read them all. We thought Kelsey had a bad week. Right? Like, we were disappointed. No, he was amazing. It was very good. Eric Ebron sucked. Zachert sucked. Rob Grunkowski. Sucked. George Kittle was okay. George Kittle. Three for 51.

I'll tell you what, Andy would say he sucked because there was, he let him down big time, and there was that play. I think it was like first quarter. Yeah, well, that was on Mullins, though. Mullins missed him running free. Wide open for a 60-yard touchdown. He overthrew him. But then he made up for it when he hit Garrett Selik on a wide open 60-yard touchdown or whatever it was. Jared Cook, bad game. Cameron, great. Bad game. Jimmy Graham. Oh, bad game.

David and Joku, bad game. I mean, eventually you got to say good game. Right? That's what I'm saying. David and Joku had 30 yards. George Kittle had 51. That was a good game this week. George Kittle, you're forgiven. Why is he on this list, Brooks? That's not fair. Does people expect more at this point? Yeah, I mean. In the landscape, you're right. Andy definitely would have put him on. Anybody with George Kittle who lost would have put George Kittle on this list. And here's a good example.

Let me read some of the top tight ends of the week since we've read all these names. Garrett Seleck. Yeah. Amazing. Oh, Jeremy Sprinkle. Whoa. Oh, I forgot about. Yeah, number three tied in on the week. His cupcakes are delicious. They are so good. Lee Smith bawled out. Oh, don't forget. Tyler Conklin. Oh, Tyler Conklin. Such a good game. Yeah.

It's one of those things where it doesn't matter if you're tied-in had a bad game. Congratulations. We got rid of the tight-in position this week. Hopefully you had Trey Burton or Evan Ingraham, Vance McDonald. Those are some of the only relevant players who could have been started that performed well. Honestly, George Kittle was tight-end 11. So, yeah, Kittle, you're amazing. Yeah, what? Come on. You're going to put the Titan 11 in the list? I regret it. Okay. Yeah. You should.

What do you regret more, Brooks? Putting George Kittle in the tight end list or how much you have been strutting around talking about how your team is unbeatable in the championship game. I regret putting Kittle in here. Oh, he's got no regrets about his championship. That's what I'm talking about. Bracogadocious this. Oh, man, he's insufferable. We have time for one question for mailback. When you do one question for mailback, do you do the drop? You have to.

Mailbag. Mailbag. Double-up. This one's from Kyle in South Dakota. After Sunday, my opponent has no players left. I have DJ Moore in a one-point lead. Do you bench him? So one point is usually my threshold. One point is within the range of stack corrections. So...

If it's only one point, I think I have to play him. So my point is, if you had a two-point lead, I feel like you're beyond the stack correction limit. You'll probably, you know, even if you lose a point or your opponent gains a point, you're going to be okay. But what if you lose a point and they gain a point, Jason? Oh! I've just, I've just poked a hole in your two-point theory. I think that the chances of that are super-duper rare. I'm sure the chances that DJ Moore

on his one play of the game gained zero yards and fumbles and then leaves with an injury. Yeah, I'm going to play DJ Moore here. Yeah, I would play him as well. Although, what was the most recent? I feel like we talked about on the show. We've talked about it a couple of times. Jared Goff, someone needed like half a point and he got negative two and lost. Disgusting. The, the mood that I was in last night.

watching that game of Brandon Cook's not scoring points. I mean, I had rallied the troops. I had you guys into this game. Oh, yeah. You were in it. That loser, Brian Kethrin. Oh, what a loser. He was in it. Our good friend, Jeremy, we were all rooting for Brandon Cooks and everything was there for him. Game script said perfect, perfect for Brandon Cook. I lived upside down for 20 straight minutes. All I know is last year.

you and Andy had to face off in the dynasty championship. Yes. While Brooks and I had to look on. Now the tables have turned. They certainly have. You and Andy get to watch Brooks and I go head to head. And I look, Brooks, congratulations on your championship. Oh, come on. I mean, you're unbeatable. And we all know it. You don't like that, Mike? No. All right. No. No. Mike is against our concession.

Look, strategy. Yeah, I'm all for complaining about during in the game when things are not going well, but do not, do not concede. You haven't even won your matchup tonight. That's true. All right. I will wait to concede until I am in the championship game. I mean, Breeze and McCaffrey, they've never blown up for big games or anything.

Oh, you get out of here now, Brooke. Brooks is talking smack. I wish I had a dart to throw at you. I'm in a room of babies. Grow up. And baby Josh is gone. Yeah. Somehow we lost one baby and I gained two while I was gone. Well, good luck to everybody tonight. I know a lot of games still out there on the line. Yeah, with the Panthers and the Saints. Best of luck, Fookland. We will see you tomorrow for the waiver show.

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