Week 11 Matchups + Staying Water, Taysom Hill News - Fantasy Football Podcast for 11/20

career up until he was a charger, never believed in his situation or his talent. What you've seen in the last two games says, Blush, Blush should be in your lineup. I mean, 40 touches in the last two weeks and a great matchup and nothing changed around him. I really, I will play Belage if I've got him. There's no part of me that has ever wanted to add to my fantasy football resume, the fact that I traded for Kalin Belange, but it's now part of my resume because of this week's matchup. Le Michael P. Rine.

Reports out of New York is that he's going to see a bigger workload. However, Adam Gaze did highlight the fact that Frank Gore has been the best player on his team, which then highlights the fact that his team is 0 and 9. So, P. Ryan, with the hype of a greater opportunity, we must remember, my friends, a great opportunity on the Jets is not the same thing as a great opportunity elsewhere. I am tempering expectations, but I do believe that he is...

somebody to monitor and should certainly be rostered. Yeah, he feels like you pick him up, you stash him right now because this is a great matchup against the Chargers. They are 27th against Fantasy Running Backs the past six weeks. It has been a matchup you generally can exploit. So I don't think I have the confidence to play the Michael P. Rine this week, but pick him up and see what they do with him.

My buzzer went off. We cannot talk about the Jets anymore on this show or we violate advertising contracts. So the Green Bay Packers at 7 and 2 take on the 6 and 3 Indianapolis Colts. I'm excited for this game. The Colts are favored, and I think they win the ball game. I'm picking them in all of our office picks pools. I think the Colts are going to win this one. The Packers are a bewildering team in some ways. Obviously, Aaron Rogers has been incredible this season.

We do have question marks around Devante Adams, around Alan Lazard's availability. And the Packers have just like someone's flipped a switch off for them at times this year, the Tampa Bay game. They've had to come back. I mean, the Jacksonville Jaguars were staying competitive. It's weird. I think they're a great team, but I think the Colts are a great team too. So that's where I lean. How do you guys see this one playing out with the question marks around Devante Adams? Yeah, I mean, that that is the

the differentiator to me as to how this game plays out without Devante Adams, I would certainly take the Colts in this one because I don't think MVS and a limited Lazard is going to be enough to, you know, move the ball on a great Colts defense. But if Devante Adams is there, I mean, the Packers, one thing that I've seen from the Packers is that they absolutely love.

to have the chip on the shoulder. They love to be disrespectful. They love to be the underdog. And if they've got Devante Adams and Aaron Jones ready for this game, I would take the Packers in this game on the road against a good Colts team because they're underdogs. All right. Green Bay is dead last in pace of play.

The Colts are 22nd. So there is some, you know, with the defense is being pretty formidable here. You know, yesterday we were looking in our League of Record at, you know, fantasy points produced by the defense. And I've been able to ride the Steelers all year long. Well, the Colts are number one. The Steelers are number two. The Colts defense is consistently producing a week after week, which is going to take a little bit of the top off of the Packers upside here.

And if you don't have Devante Adams, I don't know if I have confidence. Like, are you going to bump up Robert Tonnan and play him this week with Adams off the field? Are you going to play Jamal Williams? Other than Aaron Jones, where are you making moves in this offense without Devante Adams? It would be Robert Tunyon for me. Tons of fun. We saw him come through in those couple games with Devante Adams out.

And so, like, he's at least proven himself to Aaron Rogers as a capable guy when he needs to be called upon. He just hasn't had to be called upon the last couple weeks. So I would bump him up back into that tight-in one conversation. Yeah, and I think the biggest question that other people will have is MVS, whether or not with Devante Adams out, MVS last two games. Markquez Voldemort, Scantling, whether or not they could start him. I would not be starting him against. He who shall not be started.

Yes, he who shall not be started. I wouldn't, he's not a one. If he goes into that role and the defense is focusing on him, he might have eight or nine targets, but he'll end up with like 44 yards on four receptions. So I, I'm going to avoid MVS. He does tend to fold when the pressure's on. Sorry, yeah, go ahead, Mike. I'd say how about Michael Pittman, the Colts rookie wide receiver who looks great, looks like a potential breakout is coming for him over the second half of the season. However,

Jair Alexander, Green Bay Packer's shutdown corner is back at practice from he was dealing with the concussion problem. We don't know for sure that he's going to play, but if he's back at practice right now, you would expect him to play. Aren't you happy that he's recovered from his injury and he's back at practice? I saw you make a face to say otherwise. You know, it's a head injury. I think you really need to take some time here to air and make sure, you know, for your long-term health.

specifically because I have Pittman and I would like to play him if Jair Alexander is out there that makes it much, much more difficult. The question is I know we've made the transition officially and for sure that Pittman is the wide receiver one for fantasy purposes. But would Jair Alexander be on Pittman or would he still be on T.Y. Hilton, you know, on the other side of the ball. He'll be on. He'll be on Hilton in my opinion, for sure.

Pitman's involvement in this offense, I don't have confidence in starting him because this is a pretty formidable wide receiver defense to begin with. And Pittman's got one good game in the National Football League. And there was some gadgetry to his production last week. I'm not going to anoint him because if I know one thing about Philip Rivers is he's fairly target agnostic here. He is not locking in on one guy. It can be Pascal. It can be Doyle. It can be Burton. It can be...

Heinz for all we know. So I don't look at Pittman and say, man, this guy's demanding all the targets in the offense. I think we saw a good game from him and I'm not willing to start him here. How about the running backs for the Colts? What do you do with Heinz who now has NBA Jam rules say that he is heating up? We know the matchup is great on the season. The Packers are 31st against fantasy running backs. They allow rushing yards. Is Heinz in the flex? Are you?

What do you do with Johnny Taylor, the chosen one from the drafts? Are you playing any of these guys if you can help it? I think Heinz would be the person you'd put in, not only because of the hot hand, but because he's the only one with some sort of baseline.

with, you know, the receptions. Since that weird week, too, where he only had one target, you know, he's getting 4.6 targets a game from that point on, and the matchup says that you could play him for an upside. It's risky business, though, because the hot hand approach is legit. If Jonathan Taylor comes out,

and looks good, they'll keep giving them a ball. If Jordan Wilkins comes out and does that, which he won't, they would keep giving them the ball. So I have a hard time. I like you definitively say that Jordan Wilkins will not. But Jonathan Taylor could, although I don't think we have seen Jonathan Taylor this entire season come out and look like he has the hot hand. And Jordan Wilkins did have a 20 for 89 hot hand game three weeks ago, where he finished as the running back six.

Yes, there has been one time in his career, and it was a few weeks ago. That's more than zero. That's, well, I mean, look, Jonathan Taylor, you look at the beginning of the year, he was extraordinarily relevant for. Yes, for fantasy. For fantasy. So. But the mittens, he wasn't wearing mittens at all. So, yeah, need to get him some mittens.

The Dallas Cowboys at 2 and 7 take on the Minnesota Vikings at 4 and 5. Vikings playing some better football of late. Mike's shaking his head. The Vikings are 7 point favorites, 48 point over under. I'm sorry. I'm shaking my head at the fact that the Dallas Cowboys are 2 and 7. We are heading into week 10. The divisional leaders are 3, 5, and 1, meaning the Dallas Cowboys are at 2 and 7 are not out of the playoff race.

Oh, yeah. There's a Judge Giamatti with his Cowboys fandom. How proud would you be if you made the playoffs with a record like that? Not very. They are in the contention for either a top five pick or a playoff spot. A home field playoff game. Yeah. At least this year. It's 2020.

Yeah, at least this here home field doesn't matter quite the same as it usually does without the fans there. So if the NFC East has to host a game, at least it'll be hopefully fanless. Let me run something by you here. You just see how it lands. Andy Dalton Super Bowl MVP. How does that sound? That sounds awesome. Get to the playoffs, make it happen. Some men just want to watch the world burn, and I would love that. That would be Andy Dalton Super Bowl MVP is how the 2020 season should be culminated.

But yes, as of right now, I don't think they get by the Minnesota Vikings. So 2 and 8 is in their future. The Vikings are playing very good football right now. They're battling back to 500 in this game. Dallas has lost four in a row. They are coming off the bye week and they get Andy Dalton back. Dalton went through it, man. He had a concussion and he had COVID. He said he's still dealing with the recovery from COVID.

I mean, you better pay attention to that. I don't know if it's locked and loaded that Dalton's going to start. Yeah, I think he will based on the comments I heard him talking about feeling good. But you're right. And it might not matter. I mean, is there any situation where me confirming that Andy Dalton is in the game is going to transition all of your starts and sits for the Dallas side of the football? Yeah, I think it actually does because, yeah, one of them. And it's Amari Cooper. Amari Cooper was.

You know, he was relevant. He wasn't great, but he was relevant when Andy Dalton was there. He was the clear number one target in the offense, which is what you want, some kind of indication that he will be the guy. You know, when the third string and fourth string quarterbacks came in behind Dalton, it was just whoever I can find first and get the ball out of my hands. And there was no clarity. So I don't know that you can really start Gallup or C.D. Lamb with confidence. But if Andy Dalton is there,

I would still be starting Amari Cooper. Okay, Thielen and Jefferson should both be started without question. Jefferson has been on fire lately. Thielen always a touchdown threat. Had a couple last week. Oh, my goodness. We're bringing it back today. Yes, sir. I love it. Yeah, Adam Thielen, he's our wide receiver nine on the week against the Dallas secondary. We'll see if they can get things patched up a little bit.

on the defensive side of the ball. We've seen several teams do that in the second half, you know, Minnesota being one of them, right? Minnesota has been a better defense in terms of pressuring the quarterback in terms of making plays in the last few weeks when they had been before. Dalvin Cook, you play every week, but Ezekiel Elliott over the last month, 68 yards, that's what he's averaging per game total, not just on the ground, with no touchdown. So how far down do you move him?

in the starts of decisions. Jason made the point. You got to stay water, right? You cannot be loyal to names and former production and hope to make the playoffs in fantasy football. You have to be loyal to the week. I've got the interim question. I know the name, I think. Do you? I think, is it Kalin Belage? It's Kalin Belage, baby. I could feel it. I'm playing Kalin Belage. I am playing Kalin Belage. Oh, no. We're now on the record.

We just put that out in the delete, delete. Yeah, I abstain. Dalton does, uh, you abstain? Yeah, Dalton would help me a little bit with these. We can't run for office anymore, Andy. Right, they'll pull this up out of the archives and said this man, I can hear the ads already. Yeah. I mean, Ezekiel Elliott is. He once said it, Kaelin Belage. Ezekiel Elliott now is James Connor, Kenyon Drake. The volume is there.

That's a fair comp. And you're going to start them more often than you're not. And you're hoping for a touchdown or something like that. That's what Zeke is now. And those are serviceable, necessary quality pieces for a fantasy roster. They're not the piece that puts you over the top to the championship like a Dalvin Cook or like usually Ezekiel Elliott. But that's the mold that I've got him in now is just a volume play that you're going to start most weeks that's going to finish somewhere in the RB2 range.