Week 13 Studs & Stinkers + Bruce Wayne, Alfred, and MMMBop - Fantasy Football Podcast for 12/7

But he had a monster week, and he's got two straight weeks in a row where he's been good. Snaps, Taylor led, 48%, Heinz 33, Wilkins, 19%. Las Vegas, you start him. Houston, you start him. Championship week against Pittsburgh, that might be a question mark. But right now, Taylor has moved himself into every week's start.

Yeah, I mean, he gets enough volume even though he doesn't get the volume that you want. It stinks when you see Wilkins on the field and when you see Heinz running ahead of him. But, you know, this is a good overall offense. He is a good enough player, 130 yards and a touchdown. He can get the job done. He kind of reminds me of what it's like to play Kareem Hunt this year, where it might be a little rocky, confusing drive-to-drive.

But more often than not, statistically, he's worth playing. And so it started the week last week, right? Well, yeah, he didn't play. And Jason bet on him this week. So came through in a huge way. We've seen his running back share get back to a healthy margin where you had those three weeks after the buy, 31% of the carries, 32, 26. He looks pretty good. But then we're back to 69%, 54%. Dalvin Cook, huge game somehow.

Didn't seem like it because of the goal line stuffs and yet nine targets, six for 59 through the air. James Robinson always gets it done. He is great. He's great. Yeah, he really is watching. He is such a fun player to watch because you're never going to see him not get something extra on every play. Every play he'll break.

One little thing, bounce it to the right hole. So consistent. Yeah, I mean, he's been absolutely amazing as an undrafted rookie. Chris Carson put together a great game. Ended up with a receiving touchdown towards the end. It looked pretty good to me. Jason started the week had 70% of the running back touches. I think Carlos Hyde was irrelevant entirely. Adrian Peterson, two more touchdowns with DeAndre Swift out. That's four touchdowns in the last two weeks without Swift. That's fun.

Wayne Galman, 16 for 135. Hello, Wayne Galman. Fantasy playoffs, Arizona, Cleveland. How about Wayne Galman's backup? Robin. Oh, yeah. Alfred Morris. You were so excited. How are you going with a Robin joke when he's named Alfred? What's Robin? He's the butler. That's a good point. Bruce Wayne and Alfred. That's a really good point, Mike. His name is Alfred. And you went Robin.

Wow. I should have gone the butler. Goodness. So Bruce Wayne Galman and Alfred the butler. Yeah. That sounds perfect. Got it done. There is no Batman, but there's still Bruce Wayne and Alfred. But yes, Wayne Galman against Arizona and then Cleveland. Yeah. Okay. The Joker. Here we are. It's funny because I really liked it. I was like, all right, there you go. Corey Davis.

Moving on to wide receiver studs. Corey Davis, Devante Adams, Justin Jefferson. Jefferson actually more yards, more targets than Adam Thielen in this game. And he's so fun to watch. He is. He is outstanding. I mean, this rookie, I don't know if everybody realizes if you don't have Justin Jefferson on one of your teams, you might go up against him every now and then and say, oh, this is a good player. He's.

He's the wide receiver four on the season as a rookie who, you know, if you remember, the first two weeks of the season, he didn't really do anything. He wasn't a starter at that point. He is as good as it gets in the NFL. I mean, you could put him up there with anybody outside of Devante Adams and Tyreek Hill. You say, who's great? You could put him there with Adam Thielen and say, who's better rest of season? Adam Thieland or Justice Jefferson. It doesn't matter.

Phenomenal. Since week 3, 90 for 1,511 pace. The last four weeks, 108 for 1648 and 16 pace for Justin Jefferson heading into your fantasy playoffs, including two straight top 10 finishes. Marvin Jones had a huge week, 8 for 1, 16, and 1. What's funny, Mr. Wright, is that the next guy, T.Y. Houston, I mean, Hilton.

who went 8 for 1, 10, and 1. These are the two players I had to decide between in my matchup with Brooks. T.Y. Hildner or Marvin Jones. I hope you went Marvin Jones. I didn't. I went T.Y. Hilton. I thought I made the right call. I know. But it's sometimes in football there are things that are simply irrational. Yes. They make no sense.

You don't know why you can continue to bet on it. But T.Y. Hilton against the Houston Texans. I don't know why. And watching him play, the dude was always open. He was, he looked like. Tough catches. He looked like young T.Y. Hilton, just getting it done. And it's why is this happening now? Yeah. And here's the thing. I don't know. If he has the physical water in Houston. If he has the physical ability to do that, he did it.

Like yesterday, we all watched it with our eyes. He can still get open, catch balls, be a dominant player. Why can't he do this in any other game? Well, it's going to be tough this week because he has Las Vegas on the schedule. He should be good. Eight for one, ten, and one. But Jason. Yeah. That's his first 100-yard game since week 16 of 2018. Yeah. Is Andrew Luck his quarterback then? Who's he playing two weeks? Houston. Oh, baby.

We're back. Houston, you have a problem. Yeah. And it's T.Y. Hilton. So that's three, three, if he has a good week, this week against Las Vegas. He'll be on fire going into the Houston matchup. You'll have no choice. I lost Will Fuller in that league. And now I'm going to have to decide whether to play T.Y. Hilton in the playoffs. Oh, man. And he is. And that's just like a ticking time bomb of, you know it's going to explode in your face one of these weeks. Oh my gosh. I'm going to play T. Yilton two weeks from now.

Yeah, I'm going to. I'll bet you play them this coming week two. Well, now I got the buy, Jason. Oh, shut up. Hey, real quick, I want to go back to... Which means I get Houston back to Hilton. I want to, that's true. I want to go back to Justin Jefferson. Oh, that's fine with me. Yeah, I know. You're madly in love with Justin Jefferson. He got that start week three. That's when he started to get more involved. From that point on, he is the wide receiver three.

ahead of D.K. Metcalf. I mean, if you think about how good D.K. Metcalf has been, how much publicity. He is not as good as Justin Jefferson, nor is Adam Thielen on just total fantasy points scored. Only Tyreek and Devante are ahead of Justin Jefferson. Be still my heart. All right. James and Crowder, two touchdowns. We talked about him and Darnold. They have a connection. They do. Tim Patrick.

I tweeted this morning, Tim Patrick is a great wide receiver, but he does not have a cool enough name to make the fantasy players believe in him. Yeah, I stand with you in this team. I like Tim Patrick a lot. Let me tell you the nickname, the best nickname I've heard, though. Okay. Because people brought up some names that we can call him. Good friend of the show, Jamie Eisenberg, says that we should call him the magician because he makes Jerry Judy disappear. I like it. Two great touchdowns from Tim Patrick.

But Drew Locke is, you know, like dependable's not the word I would associate with him. Like if I needed to be picked up from the airport and I called Drew, what are the odds I'm taking an Uber home? 1,000%. I would not let Drew Locke watch my dog. Oh my gosh. Like the easiest job in the world. All you got to do is put some food out and some water. You know, he's leaving the gate open. Yeah. Oh, for sure.

Yeah, Drew Locke is the absolute worst. But with Tim Patrick, so just talking about his consistency, if you look, he got injured in week eight since that time in the last five games. He's been a top 36 wide receiver every single week with the only exception being when they didn't have a quarterback.

I mean, you look at that game. That game just doesn't count. No. You know, they had one completion for 13 yards in the game. But outside of that game, he's been top 36 every week, and I think he's a reliable flex option. Yeah, he's a good player. Speaking of opportunities, taking advantage of Kiki QT, nine targets, eight catches, 141 yards. If you picked them up,

which we told you pick them up, see what happens. It's interesting. Now, he's got Chicago next week and then Indianapolis. So I don't know if you have the confidence, but. But this last week was Indianapolis. It was a tough matchup already. So if you're going to get nine targets. Well, I was wrong on Jordan Akins. He only had two targets in this game. Chad Hansen got a lot of targets. Here's what you know.

Does Sean Watson's good enough to get outside the pocket over and over and over and over and over again? He's always going... Thank you. I mean, he... We're right there for you to come in with the skib it up. I did say I wanted to make a Hanson joke, huh? Yeah. We put it on the T, the ball fell off. There's a man he reliant. Yeah. There we go. Chad Hainesville. But Watson's going to throw the ball.

And it's not going to be Brandon Cook's every play. Brandon Cooks does not demand that kind of target share physicality. QT made a big mark in this game. Hansen made a big mark in this game. Yeah. Rashad Higgins. Rashard Higgins. All the wide receivers for the Browns. Jarvis Landry, Donovan, People's Jones. Jarvis Landry started the week. 10 targets, 8 for 62 and 1. Certainly the more reliable option. Feeling, great game. Hopkins came through 8 for 52 in a touchdown.

And Michael Thomas, Michael Thomas, nine for 105. Yeah. And that's, you know, part of why you don't, unless you've got a great option, you don't sit people like DeAndre Hopkins even in tough matchups against Jalen Ramsey. And you're not sitting Michael Thomas, but if you have Michael Thomas round one in the playoffs against Philadelphia, you will taste some hill. Be nice to get Breeze back for that game. That's a little uncomfortable. Darren Waller had 17 targets.

Got 13 passes. I did not realize. 200 yards. Two touchdowns. Wow. I mean, that's nuts. So what do we think? Darren Waller, a pretty good player? Pretty good. Oh, go, go, get you. 200? It's a six best fantasy performance by a tight end ever. I literally, so here's the thing. I'm looking at this number, this stat line, and I can't decide what's the most outlandish part.

Is 200 yards the most outlandish or is it 17 targets or is it 13 receptions? Each one of those numbers is so outlandish I can't even wrap my head around it at the tight end position. And then Travis Kelsey played second fiddle this week with a mere 8 for 136 and 1. What a loser. Mike gets sicky, nine for 88 and a touchdown. If you double Travis Kelsey's targets, he still doesn't get to Darren Waller's targets. So maybe I know what the most impressive number is to you. Yeah. Wow.

Mike Gassicki has two straight top 10 weeks and five straight weeks inside. Well, that doesn't matter. Two straight top 10 weeks. Let's focus on that. He is relevant again. And the 11 targets was huge. There is only one play at the goal line for Miami. I don't know if you guys noticed that. Oh, I had. A really bad kind of fade throw to one of the three tight ends. Only to the left side of the end zone. Jump up and get it. Never throw it to the back shoulder. Just throw it right at the back of the defender where the wide receiver cannot.

actually get to the ball. Right. Over and over and over. And Parker, Parker got opportunities. Kisiki got opportunities. Dan Arnold, who I benched for Jordan Akins, had two touchdowns. Two catches. 61 yards, two touchdowns. That's what you get when you mess with the postman. Yeah, I'm not doing much with those numbers. Cole Komet, seven targets, five for 37 in a touchdown. More involved. People should know. Cole Komet's getting a lot more of the snaps now.

He's the Bears rookie tight-in, and he is their starter now. The transition has been made from Jimmy Graham to Colquemette, and you need to take note of that because Jimmy Graham has gone down as Cole Comet has gone up. Robert Tunyon, five targets, four for 39 in a touchdown. Always a threat for the big play. It's what we said all week. Jason's start of the week. Tighten four on the year keeps trucking. If you're not playing Tunyon at this point, you are doing it wrong.

And if you are, you might be in your fantasy playoffs. And Hawkinson has been necessary each and every week, seven for 84, solid, tight in three on the year. I like that we spent so much time on these studs, by the way. There's a lot of, there were a lot of really good performances this week. A tight end three. Yeah. It was a great week. It was just fun. A lot of good performances, not a lot of injuries and bad things that happen, great finishes, high scoring games. Let's have more of this.