Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Wk 12 Studs, Duds, Rising Stars, News

Cough up some of your breakfast. But he had to put back in place and he led a touchdown drive because the Raiders are awesome. Lamar Miller limped off the field with an ankle injury at the end of the game. I saw this play. You're going to have to monitor Lamar Miller once again. Yeah, we'll talk about Akeem Hunt on tomorrow's Waver Wire show, see if he's worth picking up. Jeremy Hill left with an ankle injury, returned in the start of the second half, finished the game.

He was out on the field. He didn't have the production we would have hoped for, but the snap counts were there. Well, he was, you could see he was not at full strength as well. Chris Ivory got off to a hot start, looked good, and then left the game of the hamstring injury. This was bananas because you had T.J. Eldon doesn't practice all week. There's no news updates. You have to fully expect him to miss. Oh, he'll miss, right? Oh, guess who's active? T.J. Eldon, you think, I'll tear up your papers of...

of hoping that you can start Chris Ivory. See, if you had the policy of just not having any papers of any Jaguars, you wouldn't have had a conundrum. That's very fair. However, if Chris Ivory's going to miss some time, I don't mind picking up Yeldon. You heard it here first. Mike and Yelden. Volume. Sitting in a tree. All right, John Brown exited with the hamstring injury, as did Alan Hearns. All the Cardinals wide receivers actually.

retired. Oh, don't forget. Patrick Peterson did too, and he has a painful knee injury and may be in trouble. John Brown, we talked about it. You know, Larry Fitzgerald is the only guy you want to own with any confidence on that offense other than David Johnson. So Tyrol Williams left with an arm injury. Inman with a concussion. Possible. Possible. He was cleared. So, ho-hum. You're going to have to pay attention to that wide receiver core once again.

Andrew Luck returned to practice today. That's good news. He'll play. And the league, did you guys see this? The league's looking into Thursday night football. I did see this. The contract is still through next season, so everything will be status quo. But after that, I mean, they're taking some shots here in the media of the ratings are down. The NFL is oversaturated. I think getting rid of Thursday night football is good. I love...

as much football as possible, but I just don't think that these games are good for the league. Well, it's not like you're going to miss any games, right? I mean, you're still going to have the same number of games. You just won't have that exclusive primetime spot. I can't imagine them not adding a second Monday night game. I was going to say, I'm fine. Which is better. Yes. Well, it's better for the West Coast people. That stinks for East Coast people. Well, I just mean it's better for the players. You don't get these Sunday to Thursday short weeks. I mean, those are tough.

Those are rough. And sometimes you get a Sunday night to Thursday short week, right? Right. What was the Sunday night game two weeks ago? Do you remember? I can not recall. Was that Washington? I think whoever it was, one of those teams played on Thanksgiving. And it was like, you know, you go Sunday night to Thursday afternoon. That's rough. I know Washington was complaining on Thanksgiving that they basically didn't get a practice. It must have been Washington because Cousins has had two primetime games in a row.

Just dominated. Yeah. Two games in a row. How you like me now? Yeah, he's playing well. He's going to get bills. We'll talk about him right now. Okay. This week's fantasy stud muffins. All right. Don't start your defense against the New Orleans Saints. No, no, no, no. But Andy, the Rams are a really good defense. It doesn't matter, voice of public opinion, because Drew Brees went 28 for 36, four touchdowns.

ran a touchdown in because he's really good. An old Sean Peyton, I have to imagine there was some happiness in his heart as he ran it up on Greg Williams. Oh, you just looked him in the eyes and said, eat my butt. They were up. Is that what he said? He's on record. He said that. They were up by like 20 points.

when they ran that trick play where Willie Sneed threw the long touchdown pass to Tim Hightower. It was a full, yeah. Here you go, Greg. Welcome back home. Yeah, that was, you know, but everybody's starting Drew Breeze. So that's just a great game by Breeze. Kaepernick 29 for 46 for 296 and 3 came two yards short of tying this game. Pretty body bended.

Yeah, his body bent in half by Nadamukkah. I said bended. Yeah, bended. Jason. Bended like Beckham. Yeah, he was great. He ran for 130. 113 yards on the ground was absolutely awesome. I've been telling people, pick him up for the playoff run if you don't have one of those frontline Drew Brees type of guys. Yeah, we'll talk about him in a second. Kurt Cousins, 53 attempts. 41 of 53. I believe he broke the record for completions in this game. I'm not positive.

But 41 for 53, 449 and 3, playing well. Schedule isn't great. Arizona, Philly, Carolina, but probably can do enough in those games the way he's playing right now. Yeah, he'll be a very tough character the next couple weeks as if you're with, if you're like me, I've been saving James for the fantasy playoffs because he gets the Saints twice. Meanwhile, I've been streaming in Kirk Cousins. I mean, I'm.

Hard to bench. That's a situation coming up here in the next couple weeks. As you said, a quarterback controversy. There is a quarterback controversy for my fantasy team. All right. Trevor Simeon, Ryan Tannehill and Big Ben all had big weeks. Who's the best playoff guy among those three? Man, no one really has a favorable match. I'm going to take Big Ben because of talent between those three.

But again, not really a favorable playoff schedule. I'm looking elsewhere between these, from these three guys. I would rather have a different quarterback. There were so many quarterbacks this week that were horrible for the entire first half. I felt like I just kept typing in messages to you guys on Slack saying so-and-so has 50 passing yards in the first half. They're just, they stink. Cam Newton.

Terrible first half. Blake Bortles, terrible first half. And these guys just end up turning things around. And Simeon was the same way. I mean, you have, what was it, half of his production were those two plays to Emmanuel Sanders. You notice that some weeks, so all the games start, you know, at two different start times, pretty much. You know, sometimes it's 205 and 225 out here for the afternoon game. But.

You notice certain teams are always in these games where the second half gets going, right? And every game's in the fourth quarter. And then you look in one game's like, it's like eight minutes left in the third. Yes. And it's always the saints. Because they pat. I mean, all the passing in those games stops the clock so often. These games feel like they lasted forever. I felt the same way with the...

the Cam Newton game with Oakland. So other honorable mentions, I want to mention Philip Rivers, who had a three touchdown game and has Tampa, Carolina, Oakland, Cleveland over the next four weeks. Great schedule. Schedule. You know who should be mentioned? Matt freaking Berkeley. Oh, my goodness. What? He looked pretty darn good. He should have won the game. Oh, my goodness. I mean, the drops were insane for Chicago.

They were crazy. But the reason that there were so many drops is because the guys that you were throwing the ball to were, I mean, fourth tier wide receivers in the NFL. I mean, these aren't guys that you expect to get it done. You got guys like, obviously, Cameron Meredith was there, but he wasn't. It was Marquise Wilson and Deontay Thompson. Yeah. Who? I loved listening to the announcers go.

He's definitely going to be looking for Thompson here. I was like, yeah, he's... Over the course of the game, he became, like, the go-to. There was 10 drops in that game, including two touchdowns that would have tied the game. I want to bring some attention to something here. I'm going to give him credit. Although Brooks, our production coordinator, who works on these docs with us, he put in Tyler Goff. Ooh.

Instead of Jared Gough. That's the level of respect that we have been giving. More like Tyler. Jared Gaff. No, more like three touchdowns, but he played against the Saints. He was okay. He made a couple of throws that I thought were much better than what Keenham could have done. Yeah, I will say this. What it does do is it helps, Mike, your quarterback controversy when you're deciding between James Winston against the Saints or.

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All right, stud muffins at the running back position. The two guys that surprised me the most this week were Mark Ingram and Jonathan Stewart. Yep. Mark Ingram had the concussion concerns during the week. He's been splitting time, not to mention facing a Rams defense whose front seven I thought could contain the Ingram. But he could not be contained. No, no, no, no. 14 for 146 and a touchdown. Also caught a 21-yard touchdown pass.

has Detroit, Tampa, Arizona, and Tampa coming up. And suddenly, that's pretty delightful. He seems like his resurgence may continue. Yeah, he's, he's been rising in snaps. I know that he's still in the timeshare. Timmy High Tower is still heavily involved. But only on Willie Sneed passes. Mark Ingram is by far the better back when you watch. All right. So Jonathan Stewart, two more touchdowns for Carolina.

You know, he's been great. Yeah, he's, he is what he is. Jonathan Stewart. Yeah, he didn't surprise me that much in this game. Mark Ingram certainly did, especially with the concussion issues during the week. Jay Stu, he gets the volume. This next week, he's going to Seattle. That's a little bit scarier proposition. But if you look at his playoff run, goodness gracious, you've got San Diego, Washington, and Atlanta. When you come to rushing defenses that don't scare me. I'll take it.