Week 13 Dilemmas + Buy or Sell, Fantasy Q&A - Fantasy Football Podcast for 12/1

It very well might be under the radar. He is currently the wide receiver 14 on the season. Granted, has not had his buy yet, but he's just been fantastic. Can I ask you an Indy Hollowayette follow-up question? No. All right, I'll allow it. Let's shut it down. Jalen Waller, D.K. Matcalfe rest of season. I think I would take Jailen Waddle. Oh, my gosh. D.K. Metcalf obviously has the higher ceiling. If everything hits right for both players, it's Metcalf in a landslide.

But the ceiling is not the only concern here. Yeah. Are we going to start getting some squeaky wheel situation for Metcalf? I mean, the first eight weeks was on pace for 1232 yards and 17 touchdowns. Last three weeks on pace for 390 yards and no touchdowns. I don't think it's a matter of demanding and asking for more targets. I think it's a matter of can the quarterback get him the ball. There's a reason why Gerald Everett has been this.

dink and dunk king over the last three weeks. It's because that's where Russell can get the ball right now. Are we going to get the end of season? This is how injured I was. Russell Wilson's story. Oh, 100% because I watch all these news conferences. He's like, I am fine. I can do everything. You know, he's pushing through being that good soldier. I can't wait for going into next year having him talk about how.

that it was, how much that affected his play. Because right now he's saying it's not. And later he will say it. A couple of questions that aren't start sit decisions, but still very important, Jason. Twitter question from Blankenstein. Can I have hashtag dinner butter at breakfast? I.

Highly recommend dinner butter for breakfast. I know it sounds like you can't because that would be breakfast butter. But if you have breakfast butter or butter, breakfast, it's just a worst. Butter, butter, butter. Um, so yeah, I mean, for sure 100%. I, I have dinner butter for all of my meals. You can, you can have dinner for breakfast. Absolutely. Breakfast for dinner. Don't let the social construct tell you you can't have a cheeseburger in the morning.

You do what you want to do. Are you telling me I could have a glass of orange juice in the afternoon? What? Absolutely. I mean, it's very acidic. I don't know if I recommend that. Yeah, you're going to need some thumbs. Okay. You're opening up my world. This is a question from Instagram, Adam Charles. Mike, what is Jay Grizz's origin story? Oh, the origin story of Jay Gris. Well, uh,

A mama bear and a papa bear got together. All righty. I remember it. Yeah, I remember it was like Jason's first extended absence from the show. What I don't remember is where or what happened. I don't know if it was a illness or you had just a family vacation. No, I think it was planned. I don't think it was an illness. Yeah, we knew who he was going to be out of town for a little bit. Because we were thinking about like, you know, there's going to be an empty chair on the set.

And I knew that I wanted to put something that was like a life-sized cardboard cutout of something. And literally I sent Mike a text and I was like, what do we go with here? Yeah, we went, we had a like Chris Farley from Tommy Boy was an option. We had a really muscular guy in a swimming trunks. Yeah, but we didn't want to just replace Jason with Jason. Right. So we went with the. And then I said, and then I was like pick an animal and.

And that's why he's named Jay Gris is because he was the stand-in for me. But I, this is, so this is the first time that I think I've heard that you had the option of Tommy Boy from. Yes. I mean, Chris Farley from Tommy Boy. Are you, why did you go with the bear? It seemed more outland. Awesome. It seemed he was very big presence. Oh, man. If Chris Farley was a part of this show.

Yeah, that's true. You guys made a mistake. There might have been some licensing issues. Who cares? You know, nothing a little jail time can't fix. Could have given him a mustache. You know, Jay Grizz is listening, right, Jason? I want to watch yourself. I mean, that's a good point. But, you know, Chris Farley could be watching too. Yeah. Oh, okay. Sure. All right. An update for you, no sign of Antonio Brown during the portion of practice.

Today. Let's get into the breakdown. Thursday night breakdown. You don't want to forget the breakdown. No, never. It's at the end of the show, but you don't want to forget that it's there. You want to remember the breakdown. All right. Well, here's the thing. At this point of the NFL season, I don't know what day of the week it is until Andy opens the show and says, hey, it's Wednesday and I go. Okay.

Okay. The show is your calendar. Yes. Yes. Dallas at 7 and 4 taking on the New Orleans Saints in New Orleans. Saints are 5 and 6. Draft King Sportsbook line has the Cowboys minus 4.5. Over under is 47 and a half in this one. So New Orleans is sliding. I mean, four straight losses. Dallas, not much better. Three out of the last four.

They struggled against the AFC. It's a get right game for someone. Yeah, well, I think part of that confidence comes with that getting his receiving options, at least some of them back. He did piece together a good fantasy output at the end of last week, but it wasn't looking great. The offense has struggled without Lamb and Cooper. Lamb should be back for sure. Omari Cooper, his story is he didn't practice.

And I think he's another player that today's practice report is going to pretty much tell the story. It's hard to see him playing, given the report that came out yesterday, of him being still very symptomatic with a cough. But still in the building. That's a little strange. But I don't think he's going to be in the cardiovascular shape to play a football game. Yeah, and the Saints are getting reinforcements as well. They'll get the right tackle back. You have Alvin Camero, Mark Ingram.

And Ingram seems 100% to play. Camara was limited on Monday, Tuesday. There's always the chance that they have to give them one more week. But they're under 500 now, and it seems like they need to get them in the lineup. Yeah, I mean, it's tough because you look at what the Saints have gone through over the last month. It's just been a putrid slide into becoming a bad team. Like you look at them now and you say,

They're one of the, you know, they're playing for a pick. But the reality is they've dealt with a massive amount of injuries. And if their offensive line is better, and if Alvin Camara is back, and if Tayson Hill is there, there's no reason that this team can't rebound. They're not out of the running. And I think that they'll have a good showing on prime time. I expect a good game here. And if Alvin Camara can get out there,

That does enough for Tayson Hill, where I think Tayson would be a good start. Camara is always going to be started, and that would only be good for the options on the other side of the ball. I think you could have, you know, this is a game right now, 47.5 point over under, so it's still leaning towards a slightly higher score. I think there's fear that both teams could not show up, but I think both teams show up. Yeah, I don't.

No? No, I don't. I think this Norlands defense will do enough to slow down the running game and put it all on deck. And I don't know. I'm worried. I'm afraid of the stinker and maybe because of that will get a great game. But, you know, you're not starting wide receivers for New Orleans, are you? No. With Tassum Hill back behind center, there's going to be probably less volume in general and no definitive number one.

Yeah, if I had to start one, it would be Trequan Smith, but you can't make me. I won't try. And then Dak, I mean, you have confidence. You're going to play Dak. Are you going to play Zeke with confidence against the number four ranked rush defense over the last six weeks, number one on the year? I mean, I guess you. You, yes. If it was Zeke or Pollard, let's say you have Pollard because you wanted to ensure Zeke, are you actually playing Zeke over him?

I am going to wait for a little bit more of the news to come out, but yeah, I'll probably go with Zeke. Given the most recent thing, Zeke is practicing in full. He has no idea what anyone's talking about with his injury. Jerry Jones, kind of being the puppet master here. I mean, Coach McCarthy's going to be out, right? Correct. Because McCarthy's on the COVID list as well. So maybe you get some calls from up above saying you will play Zeke. From God?

Well, that Jerry Jones may view himself in a certain light. But it's the defense for New Orleans is so baffling of, I mean, the last six weeks, they are dead last against fantasy quarterbacks. They're 27th against fantasy wide receivers. They, it seems like they stop fantasy running backs because they can't stop fantasy wide receivers and quarterbacks. I think maybe for some bigger picture.

analysis of the Zieg situation, all of the concern, all of the worry, all of the Pollard talk over the year, all of the injuries, all of the no DAC. He's the number seven running back on the season. He's been inside the top 20 the last four weeks, including a top 10 performance. Like he is not killing you by any stretch of the imagination. It's not as good as it was from weeks two through five, but at the same time you...

Okay, so let me ask this. You have less of a chance of a really bad game to submarine your week on a Thursday with Zeke than Pollard. You said he's been in the top 20. In this game, buy or sell? Okay. Late show edition. Top 15 for Ezekiel Elliott. On the week? I'll sell it. I would sell that as well. Top 15, I would buy it. Well, great. Okay. I need him to perform a couple leagues. Thank you, Mike. You got four teams on buy, right?

Yeah. So, I mean, this makes it a little bit easier to get in the top 15. Michael Gallup ended up 5 for 106. Now, it was a bad start. People were losing their minds over the fact that he wasn't showing up. And, you know, there's a lot of talk about he may make himself a lot of money. If he can perform in this game, I don't know if he made himself any money, but he had an okay game. If Cooper is out, are you willing to look at Gallup as a flex this week?

Opposite of C.D. Lane. I'm willing to look at Gallup whether Cooper is there or not. As a third option? I think so because you could very well see Cooper having managed limited snaps. You know, Mike's talking about the cardio level of him coming back from this. Right. I think that Gallup will be involved in this passing attack. And usually, you know, the Saints.

The wide receiver two and the second and third option against them is really where they give up the points. Obviously, you're going to start lamb. But I think Gallup is a fine flex option this week, whether or not Amari Cooper plays. And you have Cedric Wilson who, Cedric Wilson, who was. He was a star last week. I mean, he hit on a bunch of big plays. He got banged up in that game. He was a did not practice on Tuesday. So you could have it.

It could be Noah Brown, Michael Gallup, and C.D. Lamb. If that's the case, I am going to play Gallup as a two with, you know, with a decent amount of confidence. Dalton Schultz? Sure. I mean, it's... I think the doctor is a fine play. He wouldn't be my start of the week this week. It's not a perfect matchup for him, but he's been...

utilized enough. And I would be as confident in him. You know, if you're talking him or Higby, I would go with, I would go with Dr. Schultz. Well delivered. Take Thursday night players out of your flex. Don't forget to do that. And we want to thank Christine Auction for supporting the show. There's a Stefan Diggs signed bills logo football on auction right now, $31.50. That ends tonight. Use the code ballers. Ballers. Baller.

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