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

Those three are great when you've got volume with those defenses. I think Jay Stu is going to be a very helpful playoff run piece. David Johnson and Ezekiel Elliott were great again. Devanta Freeman had a monster game. Lev Bell was awesome. Excuse me. LaShawn McCoy is really, really fast. I was going to say I was rotating Leshaun McCoy. You're starting all those other guys. McCoy started the game horrendously, much like a couple of those quarterbacks, Mike alluded to.

McCoy ended 19 for 103 with two touchdowns, and almost had a third. He had a 75-yard run, so when you look at 19-for-103, you could do the math and see how the rest of that game went for him. It was not easy, but when you've got a guy who can break that off and a guy that can do it in the passing game as well, you're pretty much safe against all matchups. Don't forget we have our Raising Cain's Rising Stars coming up very soon. Before we leave running backs,

Talk to me about Carlos Hyde's future right now. He had a pretty good game, 13 for 65, also scored a touchdown, caught some passes. So do you like Hyde moving forward as an RB2? I'd like him. Look, we talked about the volume. And Carlos Hyde is the guy getting the volume, Chicago, Atlanta. These are fine matchups. I said this last week, and I'll say it again. I think Carlos Hyde is an RB1. I don't think he's an RB2.

He's the centerpiece of that offense, even though Colin Kaepernick might look like it right now from this current week, when you've got an offense that wants to have as many plays as Chip Kelly's offenses do, and you've got Carlos Hyde, who's involved in both the running game and the passing game, your matchup, you know, proof there. He had five receptions this last game. Chicago, New Jersey, Atlanta, and L.A., pretty much only the New York Jets are the – did I say New Jersey?

The New Jersey Devils. It's hard to run on ice. I was going to say, do you know what sport? Yeah, but, you know, that's the only tough matchup for a running back. And really, he should be able to catch enough screen passes to be involved. So I really like Carlos Hyde. He was in consideration for my rising star. And he's not in a stud muffin category here. And we've been talking about him all year long. Kenneth Dixon.

finally won the snap battle. He was tied on carries, had the exact same carries. But he had 17 touches. So maybe. I feel like I said that every week. Double digit fantasy points. But you got to grab these guys if you're in need of a running bag. All right. We're going to talk wide receiver stud muffins now. You know, you have your expected, expected Antonio Brown.

You're Mike Evans. Apparently you can expect three from Antonio Brown because I do at this point. Mike Evans, I think people doubted against Seattle. And he put that to bed in about three minutes. And O'Dow Beckham Jr. had two more touchdowns this week. So those are the three big guys that had great weeks. But there are a lot of other names worth discussing specifically Taylor Gabriel and Tyree Kill. Now Hill, I'm going to talk about in a minute. But Taylor Gabriel, two more touchdowns. You have to start him.

At this point, I mean, we were talking about how he had three weeks in a row of 16 fantasy points, and then he just torched that. They use him. He's a weapon, right? He's not a great wide receiver, but he is a great weapon. If they can get him the ball in open space, he is extremely fast, and that's how they are using him. They'll run him, you know, on a jet sweep. They'll give him the ball. He scored twice on runs, on runs. They weren't even.

Greens, were they? I think they were considered passes of technically because they went forward. But the best part of the entire Taylor Gabriel experience this weekend was the Atlanta Falcons tweeted out from a picture from their official account, a screenshot of Wikipedia documenting that the Cleveland Browns had released him. You know what's crazy? They released him. You know, for years when he was on Cleveland.

He was always one of those guys like, this guy's talented. Watch for Taylor Gabriel. You know, you would draft him in those deeper leagues thinking maybe Cleveland could figure out how to use him. Well, they couldn't. And thankfully he's not on Cleveland anymore. So grab and start Taylor Gabriel. And then Marquise Wilson, we talked about it. He had a pretty solid game here. Emmanuel Sanders. And then the man, Michael Thomas. Oh, he's back. He's.

Is he in every week started for you, or is he in every week started when they're in the dome? Well, certainly I will play matchups with Drew Breeze. When they're on the road, if Drew Breeze throws, you know, half the touchdowns on the road that he throws at home, you've always got the situation with the Saints, right? Where you have so many mouths to feed, and usually with Drew Breeze in, you know, 75% of the matchups and 100% at home.

you have enough volume where you can feed all of the mouths. None of the children are going hungry in New Orleans. And so I'm fine starting him. If you look at his schedule coming up, I think he's got a pretty good playoff run. Well, here's the thing. We talk about Tampa Bay. They get to play the Saints twice. It said, oh, well, the Saints, they get to play Tampa Bay twice. Right. Except the Buccaneers are surging at the right time. We've had.

uh three tremendous performances in a row by the buccaneers defense against chicago the chiefs and then seattle who by all accounts the seattle offense looked like they were rounding in the form getting ready for their playoff run and tampa bay said uh no you can score uh a field goal

I am not. Five total points. Yeah, I'm not buying into Tampa Bay's defense as the elite defense we have seen. First of all, you've got Kansas City where their defense isn't that electric. And yes, Sanford, Seattle, we expected more of. And they do have a good offense. And Russell Wilson looked healthy and he was running. But I, I was talking to Andy this morning, you know, Tony Dungy.

last week was kind of calling this as a game where Seattle, because of their schedule and where they had to go, he said Tampa Bay was going to beat Seattle. And he said that last week because he saw, you know, Tampa Bay is going to be coming off that high winning against Kansas City. And Seattle's going to be terrible schedule. Yeah, cross country. It's just going to be bad for them. And, you know, kudos to Dungey. He called it. But I think that that that.

That's kind of what I'm going with. I think it was more situational football than just a great Tampa Bay defense because I don't think Tampa Bay has the pieces to really be a great weekly defense. All right. We got to talk about him. Brandon Marshall. Hey, Brandon Marshall actually had a good game. He almost had a monster game. He just missed on a second touchdown. What do we do? What do you do?

Well, I mean, you certainly have, yeah, as I say, you certainly expect Brandon Marshall to do, have these type of games. But, yeah, I don't blame you for benching him. We played New England and he'd been terrible. Yeah. And noon, I had a good game with Marshall. Well, and that's what he needs, right? I mean, people ask me, what is it? What's happened to cause the change in Brandon Marshall? Because he was great in the beginning of the season. And the only thing I can.

kind of look to is Eric Decker. That's the obvious thing. Eric Decker went out around the same time, and so the offense itself sputtered. And Fitzpatrick, yeah. Well, Fitzpatrick has sucked, but Fitzpatrick was, you know, the quarterback those first four or five weeks when Marshall was good. And so I look to targets. And the target volume says that Marshall should be safe. He is still one of the league leaders in targets. Fitzpatrick has not been good enough on those targets to actually, you know, give them enough catchable balls.

But I do think you're going to end up starting them. That's why I was really happy about the buy week last week where I didn't have to sit them. I started them this week. I'm happy. And going forward, I think you got to put Brandon Marshall in your lineup. Tight ends that were stud muffins this week. Rule 86, obviously. Worth mentioning, Kelsey, great game, 8 for 101. And Eiffert, one of my favorite playoff schedules and situations has Philly, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Houston for the last four weeks.

And look, Tyler Eifford is one of a few reliable targets that Andy Dalton has left. Yeah, I was. And that's a double-edged sword, just like it is for Jeremy Hill losing. I mean, man, it was tough seeing Dalton struggle the way he did picking up third downs. Brandon Lafell sucks. I mean, Brandon Lafell is just, he is, he is a wide receiver three.

and he is thrust into a wider receiver one role right now, watching that game and just seeing like, if there is a 50-50 ball, I can guarantee you, Brandon Lafell is not getting that. It's not 50-50? No, that's like a 2575. All right. Brandon Lafell or Justin Tucker rest of the season. Oh, Justin Tucker. Throw up the old 2575 ball. Go ahead and give me Justin Tucker.

I'll give you heavy odds on that. All right, all the studs from today's show will be on article form on the website as well, the fantasy footballers.com. Let's get into our rising stars. Raising Keynes, Rising Stars of the Week. All right, you guys kick it off. Oh, okay.

All right. I will, I'll start since we've talked about him a little bit. Get mine out of the way. The amazing story of how I gave Colin Kaepernick to Andy this week. And he trounced my face with his fantasy goodness. With his fantasy hooves? But here's the reality. Clif Clop. Clif Clip. Here's the reality with Colin Kaepernick is that it's not just this week.

This week is not an complete outlier out of the norm. I mean, it's certainly the highest fantasy points he's put up so far, but he has not been bad. In fact, since he got the start, okay, he started in week six and took over for Blaine Gabbard. He's the number seven quarterback in fantasy football during that time. He is 0.6 points behind Tom Brady's average over that time.

What? Yes. Tom Brady is the sixth best quarterback since week six. I'm not saying, you know, go trade. You certainly are. Go trade Tom Brady for Colin Kevin. I am not saying that. But what I am saying is he's a viable option that, I mean, he was your third choice off of waivers this week, right, Andy? And because I took your first. Yeah, that was just because he's traveled to Miami.

Right. But he still had a monster game. Yeah, he had a monster game. Chicago, New York, Atlanta, L.A. for the next four weeks. That's what I was going to bring up. So that's why, to me, he is a rising star, should be on a roster and probably started in at least half of those matches. If you wanted to trade Tom Brady for Kaepernick, you couldn't even do it because Kaepernick is only owned in about 22% of leagues in ESPN.

So you could trade him through the waiver wire. And it would just get vetoed. So there's no chance. But don't do that. I'm not saying trade Tom Brady for Colin Kaepard. The gazelle. When you can run the ball. When you can run the ball, your baseline rises. It goes way up. It's not like he's had a stinker. 23, 13, 33, 28, 2443. You would have been happy or content in every single week.

All right, my rising star, my Raising Kane's rising star is Tyreek Hill on full display last night, the first player with a rushing touchdown, receiving touchdown, and kick return touchdown in a single game since Gail Sayers did it in 1965. And look, I feel like that's wrong. Didn't David Johnson do that last year? No, it wasn't all in one game. Oh, all right. Correct. Five of the last seven weeks, he's helped your fantasy team.

catches over the last three weeks. Ten, four, nine last night. He's doing it. He's a weapon. And they're using him more and more. And you could say you can make the argument, okay, Jeremy Maclin's been out. Yeah, it definitely helps him that Jeremy Maclin's been out from a wide receiver perspective. But they are using him in so many different ways. He's just a dynamic weapon. And Andy Reid knows how to use dynamic weapons. He doesn't have Jamal and Charles out of the backfield anymore. All of a sudden, Tyreek Hill.

is a piece of that puzzle. And obviously last night, amazing. Plus, plus, really important here. He also high fives people while he's running into the end zone. Amazing. Also, if you're... What else can you look for in a fantasy option? I'm sure he's already picked up if you're in any kind of return yardage league. But he's, if you're in that and you've got him on your team, just start him. He won me multiple leagues yesterday. I started him in two different leagues.