Fantasy Football 2017 - Week 14 Studs & Duds, Rising Stars, Is Dak Back?

I have confidence to play him. I want to give some people more context for those decisions because these decisions could win you your fantasy championship. Right. Theoretic is the kind of player where, look, Jerich McKinnon, DeMarco Murray, Derek Henry, these split timebacks, if Theoretic is alone in that backfield, because that's basically what he was this week. Snap count wise, Tian Greene barely got on the field. Theoretic was basically alone. I'm saying...

You put Theoretic in for Jerry McKinn, and you might win your week. And you have to go a couple years back, but Theoretic has been a dominant fantasy player before. He let the league in receptions. At the running back position. At the running back position. All right. Those were the Raising Cains, Rising Cains, Rising Cains, Rising Cains, Rising.com to find your nearest location. So you.

You went Fulcaniac, Mike? I split it with the wife. Oh, okay. All right. I thought maybe... I would not be here this morning. Poopped in his big boy pants. Would that have been where you were? Exactly. All right. Well, this is the part of the show where we will mourn with those who mourn. Yes. Marcus Mariotta. At this point...

He doesn't have it. He has kid shorts. He doesn't have it. He does not have big boy pants at this time. Well, then after the game, they're like, Mariotta was playing with a knee injury. Oh, get out of here. Yeah. After the game, someone ran up with scissors and just cut his pants into kid shorts. They didn't even go to his knee. He's going to San Francisco next week. I do not have confidence replacing Carson Wentz with Marcus Mariotta.

I don't either. Even with the Giants of, yeah, sorry, the 49ers have won two straight games. They're actually, they've been okay on defense over the last six weeks. And Mariotta, he's just not getting it done. Blake Bortle's greater sign, Marcus Mariotta equals sad emoji. There you go. But it is a true statement. Matt Ryan. Oh, had a tough week. Andy Dalton looked horrendous. And Matt Ryan looked horrendous. What are they playing for?

in Cincinnati. I mean, Dalton came out in this game. Yeah, it was one of those things that was weird. It was like he came out and he's been playing terrible. But it was also because the score was out of control. This is normally when you bench your starter so that they don't get hurt. I feel like this is when you might have wanted to leave Andy Dalton in there. Alex Smith, he came off of his Monster Week and had a good matchup. If you were an Alex Smith owner, we need to mourn with you because it looked great. He had two touchdown throws.

to Travis Kelsey, one where it was reversed and taken away down at the half yard line. And the second one reversed. I mean, two, like called touchdowns on the field. You're super happy. Can you play him? No touchdowns. Next week against the Chargers in Arrowhead, though. Yeah. It's not a good matchup. I would look elsewhere. Okay. And then he has Miami at home after that. Derek Carr.

What happened? I'm not a huge Derek Carr fan and that's been expressed on the show, but what happened? I thought he was better than he is. He forgot how to play. This is an example where, again, the matchup didn't pay off. Marcus Peters was pulled, suspended by the team. This was already the defense giving up the most explosive plays in football. He hypothetically got Cooper and Crabtree back. Now it ended up only being Crabtree.

And he goes out and goes 24 for 41 for 2.11 and 1 and throws two picks. I'm with you, Foot Clan. If you started him, I, you know, one of my playoff matchups where I did not have the buy, I started Derkar over Dak Prescott. Yep. I'm out. I would not have been. So, I mean, watching the game, though, you know.

The analysis of Derkar is that right now he is not a good quarterback. He's just there with Mark Smariota. You can't rely on these guys. They're not playing good football. You talk about overthrows, underthros. I looked to Mike at one point, and I said, I don't know who it is, the FBI or whatever, but someone that's in charge of this needs to investigate the...

like bank accounts of Derek Carr and see if he's betting on Kansas City. Oh, that's a very... You don't want to make that accusation. He was so inactive. It was a joke. It wasn't obvious. Kind of. It was in jest. At this time last year, Derek Carr was the MVP candidate in the AFC before he broke his late. But at this time last year, Derek Carr...

always laid eggs against his divisional opponents. Well, and it's one of those, it's just sad because we didn't get to see Carr finish his great year. Right. Last year. Because he broke his leg, went out in the playoffs. Now we don't get to see Wins finish his great year. Say, nor Mariotta. Nor Mariotta last year. See, this is, I, you know what, I forbid it. No more injuries. Brooks, Brooks, ruling. Can I please get an official? Can I get a ruling?

Can I get a ruling? What? I think that might be out of my control. Yeah. Wait, does that control? I don't want to say it, but I'm going to say it. Does this mean that Carson Wince is going to be really disappointing next year? No, don't say that. We don't need to go there. Give them, give the man time. Give the team and their fans some hope. Running back poopers. DeMarco Murray and Latavius Murray. They are. Are you guys, I had announced kind of weeks ago that I was done with DeMarco Murray.

Have you guys joined me on that side of the field? If you can be done with him, sure. I mean, I was a Joe Mixing owner. I had to play to Marco Murray. Fair. Mixing was out. Fair. So look, Murray right now, he's not scoring the touchdowns. He's, now this is a game where his counterpart, Derek Henry struggled immensely as well. He actually ran, he was worse. He had 2.5 a carry. But Murray, you can't play him right now. I mean. And that's the problem is you can't play Murray.

But because the team continues to play Murray, you can't play Henry. Henry's the type of running back. He needs to, well, if he gets you a fourth quarter, 75-yard touchdown, you're feeling really good about it. But Derek Henry is the kind of running back that needs to gain momentum over the game. And they're not going to give that to him, at least this year. So Latavius Murray and Derek McKinnon against Carolina didn't get much done.

Jerich McKinnon was much better in this game, but neither of them were fantasy contributors. Christian McCaffrey. Man. He was not involved. Jonathan Stewart was dominating. Yeah, but even in the passing game, only having four targets. You know, Greg Olson was back out there, but didn't catch any passes. Just a disappointing playoff performance for McCaffrey. Certainly. Another disappointing. Not as disappointing as Lamar Miller. The two guys that disappointed me the most that, you know, because.

Okay, some of these guys were mentioning, I didn't necessarily expect them to have big games, but two guys that I thought for sure were going to be great plays this week where Lamar Miller and Somaget P. Ryan. Yes. They were all alone, each one of them in their backfields with good matchups. And neither one of them, I mean, they basically did the exact same thing. They got around 50 yards, which is not the worst ever. I mean, it's not, you know, it's not like they finish with 20. But that's...

enormously disappointing. They really did hurt you in fantasy playoffs. This is where you've got to score a lot because you're playing the best teams. And they let a lot of fantasy owners down this week. Yeah, I expected a lot more from both of those guys. P. Rhine, 17 for 45, has Arizona next week. And Jacksonville for Lamar Miller. So I don't think either one of these guys. They're not going to bounce back. No.

and then none of the running backs for the Jets. The Jets' entire offense, you could have just, if you just wanted to usher them, you know, away off the field at the beginning of the game, once McCown, you know, McCann was struggling to begin with, then he gets injured, goes off the field. There was nothing there for the Jets in Denver. Yeah, I would say the Jets as a whole pooped their big boy pants. Yeah. Yeah, that's fair. Because they've been pretending to wear big pants lately and.

And then I think they just put them on so that they can fill them up. They like walk out like the kid who puts his dad pants on and says, look at me. But I was I was super disappointed. I mean, I really had bought into the running backs here in this matchup as well as McCown and just huge disappointment. Shame on you. Here's the disappointment we saw coming. Maybe not to this degree. But Mike Evans. Man. Facing Darius Slate 2 for 25. Mike, you asked the question on Sunday. Yeah, because we get the questions all the time.

where's my confidence level with Mike Evans? And I always say, you got to play Mike Evans, because on the season, he's been fine. He hasn't been, he hasn't lived up to his draft stock. He's still a wide receiver two. Barely. Probably not anymore. Well, coming into this week, he was a wide receiver too, which means it's fine. You should have played him every week. But now in the past two weeks, we have 58 yards total.

on four receptions, very disappointing, but gets at the Atlanta Falcons next week. D.D. Westbrook or Mike Evans? See, that's where we are now, and it stinks. And I would still play Mike Evans. I would, too. He's the Kareem Hunt of the wide receiver position right now. The name is humongous, but the production is a little bit scary. Atlanta, they can, you know, they can cover the wide receiver, but he's at home.

Atlanta's been pretty solid against wide receivers. See, this is one of those situations, though, guys. Jason, you brought this up. Some players, look, Tampa and Cincinnati are in the same boat, guys. They both have a head coach that's probably going to get canned. They're both in a what are you playing for situation, whereas Atlanta is fighting for the playoffs. Yeah, and it's still this particular matchup, if you're talking, what is Tampa Bay playing for?

They're playing to screw their divisional opponent. So I don't, I'm not calling for Tampa Bay to pack it up in this match. Robbie Anderson and Jermaine Curse were awful. Hey, more Jets. Yeah. Sterling Shepard played, I think. Yeah. Two for 16. Terrible. Horrific. Emmanuel Sanders, something's not right right now. I think we know that. And now the stats, they bear that out. One for 16.

And then T.Y. Hilton, I don't blame him. He was in the snow game. He was in the Snow Bowl. Everyone in the Buffalo game gets a pass. Yep. I mean, that game, if you have not seen it, another way to put it would be everybody in the Buffalo game didn't get any passes. Right. If you have not seen pictures of it, let's say you're not on Twitter, just go watch a highlight film of that game. It is unbelievable. It's really fun to watch. It was so fun because every player, when they were running, they look like me.

But like me running on AstroTurf, they were running through, you know, two feet of snow and they were just lumbering big guys. It was awesome. Jordy Nelson, nothing. Not anymore, maybe. Could be sneaky. If he's on your waiver wire, you could grab them. I'll start him next week if Aaron Rogers is in. And then Josh Doxon against Casey Hayward struggled mightily. He could be a bounceback candidate against Arizona. We'll see. He might get.

Patrick Peterson. He will. Jimmy Graham. Tyler Croft, Greg Olson, Benjamin Watson, all combined. If you got to start all four, if you were the flying V. If I said, hey, you get to start all four of those tight ends, three extras. If you get zero points. If you get, hey, Cameron Bray.

was one for 11. Great Disappointment. He outscored. Bray outscored those four combined. You know, I don't feel as bad about Stephen Anderson anymore after reading these names. No, I feel really bad. I'm sorry, man. Tom Savage going out didn't help, but Stephen Anderson. Well, also disappointing. He dropped his opportunity. There was a nice 20-yard pass. Yeah, he did. He also had, I mean, Ricky Seals Jones did nothing. David and Joku did nothing. Charles Clay did nothing. Yeah, most of the tight-in stunk this week. I mean, that is a...

That is a bad run right there. Yep. All right. We do have a game tonight. Any updates on the Monday night football game, Patriots, dolphins? Nope. Rex Burkhead, your start of the week. Still feeling good about that? Chris Hogan's going to play. Oh, yeah. That's the update is what to expect from Chris Hogan on the Periscope yesterday. I think about 30% of the questions were Chris Hogan related. And.

There's the upside obviously exists with Chris Hogan. He's shown it the entire year. Add that with Grunk out. Could be a good game for Chris Hogan. But here's also the problem. He could come out and run three routes. He could go Amari Cooper. Yeah. So I advise people away from Chris Hogan, hopefully. If possible, hopefully you started somebody else. Would you play Kenny Stills over him? I would have. Would you play Devante Park over him?