Fantasy Football Podcast for Week 12/13

He's 6.3? 230? 438, 40? Yeah, I mean, those are pretty freakish measurable. You saw him go 90 yards and pull away from safeties. Yeah. I would actually make my number one waiver claim. Boom, Dan Heron. That's who I would go with over Latavius Murray. Offense then. You're going with the offense over the player. Heron is...

Do you know he was gone in our league? Yeah. Yeah, I didn't realize that. And I had picked him up. He was, during my debacle story of picking up waivers, I was picking up Boom Heron. Nice. But the reason I like Heron, number one is the offense. They score tons of points. The Raiders do not score. Totally fair.

He's already got a role. He's already has the coach's trust. He has, he's Ahmed Bradshaw now. And Bradshaw was putting up. You think he's Ahmad Bradshaw? I think he is. I think he was. You don't think how much, you don't think that Richardson lost time because of his illness? No, I don't. Okay. I'm not going to buy it. I would, if he didn't, then I'm kind of on board with you. The, I just saw a stat come through of how many carries.

Trent Richardson has 230-something carries as a colt. He's averaging like 3.3 yards of carry. I mean, he just, he can't get it done. And Heron's got juice. The only downside, I would say, is Trent Richardson got the touchdown. It seems like he will probably still get the goal line work. But I think Heron's going to be.

Heron will start getting those dump touchdowns too, is what I think is going to happen. It would not surprise me if Heron usurps him. Also, I will throw this out. For those who are in some kind of keeper or dynasty league, if you're in dynasty, I'm sure he's probably gone. I don't really play any dynasty, so I don't have expert opinion on that. But if you're in a keeper league,

Grab Dan Herron immediately. You like him. Well, do you think Bradshaw's coming back next year? I don't know. And Trent Richardson's clearly not the guy. I mean, right now you're looking at... How old is Dan Heron? I do not know that. But what I know is right now he's a super cheap option. He's on your waiver wire. And part of why I picked him up...

for my money league. It's a keeper league. And here's an opportunity for a guy who I can keep. He costs me nothing. And by the time the draft comes around next year, he might be a one of those exchange. He might be a top two-round pick. Yeah, that's a fair point. Fair point. Another guy we want to talk about is a guy that was on the Pittsburgh Steelers a week ago. Ligarup Blunt, he came in. He got every garbage carry, which is a huge category.

if you're a New England Patriot running back is garbage time. And he took them all. Jonas Gray got no play because he was late. Because. Yeah, because he was late. So what do I expect from this? I expect Lageret Blunt to get the work down the down. Do you? I do. And I expect it for a couple of reasons. One is because Jonas Gray is a youngster. And I think that you have to remember, New England made the AFC championship game last year. And they did it on the back of Lageret Blunt.

They did. And for him to come in, I just think that he'll go with who, Belichick will go with who he trusts. And he knows everything. So I'm not worried about a transition. Yeah, I find it very difficult to get all in on Legerick-Blunt just because he's a New England backfield. Yeah, all-in isn't necessarily what I'm saying, but if there was a guy to choose going for between the two, I'm picking one. I'd say your points of...

He that the Pats wrote him last year, I think is very valid and somewhat sways my opinion. Because I was going to say I'm not even, I'm not waiver prioritizing him. I mean, he's going to be in my priority list, but he's going to be four or five. Gotcha. Where I'm probably not going to get him. So a couple wide receivers. Highest on the list is Jarvis Landry, who has been playing.

very well lately. Ryan Tannenhill is, I think, become... Yeah, talk about him a little bit. Tanya Hill has become an every week starter to me. He still has lower games, but the... I'm not saying I'm putting Ryan Tannenhill in elite Rogers Manning territory, but I'm saying he's a lower end of QB1 who... I mean, he torched the Broncos, who not very many people...

saw that coming. And he runs. So if he gets you 40 yards, I mean, if you're in a four-point touchdown league, that's a touchdown pass. And so I've been on the Ryan Tanahill train. I've been driving that thing for a while. So I do like Jarvis Landry. Let's see. Andrew Hawkins, who benefit, I think benefits greatly now that Josh Gordon is back. We saw...

The underneath routes were there for Hawkins. Yeah, that whole offense changes. Yeah, the Browns are, man, they could be a good team. Allegedly Jordan Cameron's coming back this week. They finally have their running game figured out. So it's strange to say, but, you know, watch out for the Browns, and you pay attention to them for fantasy. They're just a lot healthier than they've been. So that's always funny. James Jones.

John Brown, I like John Brown a lot this week in particular. I like John Brown a lot because I like the Arizona Cardinals and I've seen what he can do. He's very talented, but the Falcons are not good. I think John Brown is a good reach play this week. Justin Hunter, I'm still not, I'm not getting back on that. Neither am I. He caught a deflected touchdown.

Anybody. Tim Wright, man, it's hard to know. With the state of tight ends, you, I guess you might as well take that risk on Tim Wright, because if you don't have, if you don't have one of the top guys, if you don't have Gronk or Graham, you're doomed. Yeah. It's trouble. And a last guy, let's see, you should. Oh, then we should take this moment. Fantasy football players, the bye weeks are over. Get.

your handcuffs on your team i am always in shock when this doesn't happen we we talk about this all the time and let's say you wanted to have a couple uh flyers and things for by weeks whatever get your handcuffs you do not want to be that guy going into championship week and your stud rb goes down and the backup because you you left nile davis on the waiver wire

for someone else to grab so you... It's just a risk you can't take. You cannot take it. There's no reason right now to not have your handcuff. Also, Andy and I are huge proponents of this of streaming defenses. Look ahead at the playoff schedules. Try and grab a defense, maybe even two defenses. Could be the difference between a title. Yeah. Defense wins championships. Even in fantasy football. In real life and fantasy football.

It's true. That's, yeah, I mean, honestly, we've seen this in a couple of our leagues. That kind of preparation is what puts you through the playoffs. We've faced each other in a couple leagues head-to-head in the title game in the past two years simply because I think looking ahead a little bit more. Yeah. Which actually saying this out loud makes me worry that some of our league mates are actually going to listen to that. It's fine. Because it's too late already. We're both already ready. It's too late. We've got our defenses. But, I mean.

uh like a couple years ago i went for getting into the playoffs i looked okay if i can make the title game let's see i believe it was a chargers versus jets matchup and i grabbed them like week 13 just in case and then i played them and they got me plan to win play to win 15 points that's right so let's move it on yeah starts of the week you're all right

Starts of the week slash streams of the week. There you go. These are lower level players who we like that's maybe on your bench, maybe on your waiver wire, and we think they deserve a shot. There you go. My quarterback started the week. I'm going with Eli Manning. He's got a fantastic matchup with the Jacksonville Jaguars. They're 24th in fantasy of going against a QB. And Eli torched the...

What, Dallas Cowboys? I couldn't think that's weird. I was going to say Mavericks. Dirk Novitsky. Eli's a way better football player than the Mavericks. But 3.38 and 3. So I like Eli Manning a lot as a spot start for if you're going to stream. Quick, quick aside. Did you, have you heard any of these Jets jokes that are going around?

Uh, they're all over Twitter now where it says, what do the Jets do, uh, what do Jets fans do after they win a game? No, I haven't heard. Turn off the Xbox. Oh, they've been pretty good and it's total distraction, but they are one terrible team. All right, my start of the week is, by the way, if you're looking for, if you're looking for defenses that are, uh, going to be good in the playoffs, you might want to look at those that play the Jets. Um, Andy Dalton's my quarterback start. Oh.

I hate to use them, but Tampa is just not that good. And Dalton's getting back into the swing of things now that AJ Green's back. And honestly, having Geo back for some of those dumpoffs, I mean, Indie Dalton was really bad three weeks ago, but he had a 30-point game after that. So Dalton is the start of the week this week. This week. With the wacky Chicago DJs coming in. I know. It's gay and select. Whoa. Hey, I just sent your microphone.

Yeah, now I have to shift in my seat. By running back of the week, I'm going back to a guy who I've disliked, I tried, I fought, I scratched my way to not jump on this bandwagon, but I'm jumping on. Dunard Robinson. Oh my goodness. He's playing the Giants. The Giants have an awful run defense. DeNard's numbers have actually been going down every single week, but...

When you're going up against the Giants, you've got to start them. So I'm going with Robinson. Nice, nice. I like it. I am going to go with Trey Mason against the Oakland defense. Trey Mason's beginning the work. I think that's all there is to it. The defense in St. Louis is keeping games close and keeping teams off the field. Trey Mason did not get the work when the Saints could have kicked a field goal to tie the game on what the two-yard line or something for.

The Saints? Sorry, the Rams. St. Louis is what I meant. Oh, yeah. That was bad. How do you not run there? Yeah, they should have won that game, much less overtime at a minimum. That was tough. Ridiculous. They've had a lot of close losses. That team is good. They are not a bad team. I actually was very nervous as a Cardinal fan for that game. Because if the Rams were, I thought they would beat the Chargers. And if they did,

I mean, they're right back in the hunt. Are they really? What's the record? I think they're at five wins. Oh. So they would have been at six, just like the rest of the NFC West. All right. My wide receiver, I talked about him a little bit earlier in the waiver, John Brown. He led the team in targets last year. Drew Stanton likes to throw to him. Drew Stanton likes to take chances with him. Atlanta is 26th against wide receivers.

And if you watched any of the Seahawk Arizona game, you saw that John Brown has, he has some talent. John Brown is going to be amazing. He's a rook. He made some ridiculous circus. Sideline catches. Yeah, sideline circus type catches. Yeah, absolutely. My wide receiver start of the week, I'm going to go with a guy that was pretty unknown two weeks ago. Charles Johnson.

the Minnesota-wide receiver who has got a great rapport with Teddy Bridgewater, and he's actually got 18 targets over the last two weeks. He's getting massive snaps. He's playing pretty much the whole game, and he faces Carolina this week, and Carolina has been vulnerable. So I'm going to jump on the bandwagon here and ride Charles Johnson as a streamer. It's interesting. You also look like you have giant intestinal fortitude if you are starting Charles Johnson, and it pays off.

Intimidation factor. Tide end, I'm going to go with Brent Selleck. He is the on-field tight end, and Dallas is 31st against the tight end. And Selleck actually has been having some production since the Sanchise took over. Yeah, and Ertz is banged up a little bit too. So Travis Kelsey's my start of the week at tight end. Zeus. Zeus. Even though Fassano's back, Denver doesn't know what they're doing.