Week 14 Studs & Duds, Rising Stars, Say Hello to My Kittle Friend

We know the story, 17 for 238 and 4 when you get into the running back studs. Sequin Barclay is super good at football. 14 for 170 and 1. You get the feeling at any given moment, on any given play. I mean, you see the best? Let me ask this question because I was talking to some people yesterday. And I don't want to just be like, okay, Gurley had his worst game of the year. Barkley ran for 170. But is there a pure runner in football? Like if it's Barclay, David Johnson.

Ezekiel Elliott, Todd Gurley. Levi-on-Bel. Those are the five that you're thinking about. Maybe. I mean, I don't think there's a better peer runner than Saquan Barclan. I don't think there's a better running back. I don't think there's a better pass catcher. Maybe David Johnson could be in the past catching category, but Saquan Barkley is the best running back in football. He does not.

require the offensive line like most players do. I mean, we've seen David Johnson struggle this year without the good offense around him. We've seen Todd Gurley struggle when Jeff Fisher was there in a bad offensive line. There's a lot of metrics that track the offensive line versus the running back and the two most reliable places that I've looked at before. Todd Gurley has been the same.

the last three years as far as his tracking. What has changed so dramatically is the offensive line. Sequin, what if they actually get an offensive line in the future and an offense? He's just, he's ridiculous. His balance, his vision, ran for another 170. I think he's been over 100 for four straight games. He's going to, I think he's just behind Gurley and Zeke for the league leader at that category. But next week, set it, forget it. Tennessee at home.

play them, and then Championship Week, you get Indianapolis for Sequin Barclay. Zeke was great again. I mean, he's right in that category, 28 for 113. He's awesome, and he's got Indianapolis coming up. And he was a wide receiver as well. Yeah, 12 for 79. Wow. I mean, that's just, that's what we've always dreamed about with Zeke. And I know, Brooks, you're on the other side of the bracket. I'm hoping to meet you in the championship.

Between the two of us, we've got a 50% chance of getting that championship. I guess you and Mike had the buys in the league of record. So the ballers are representing, 50% chance in two different leagues. So we'll get one. That's math. Damien Williams. Thoughts on Damien Williams, Jason. I know you're a huge fan. Oh, man. You've spoke his praises for years. Talent-wise, you've said. Talent-wise, I do think that he is among the worst. But he must have such a good attitude.

in practice that he two touchdowns jason yes two touchdowns eight for 14 so it's very efficient um got a touchdown and then he had another pass catching touch he he'll be involved i don't Spencer ware was dealing with a couple injuries yeah i mean during the game he was yeah at one point annie and i thought he broke his collarbone the way he went down and stayed on the ground and was grabbing it but um we'll we'll keep an eye on that

Who would you rather have as a platoon running back moving forward? Damian Williams of the Kansas City Chief, Jalen Samuels, for as long as you get him in Pittsburgh, or Jeff Wilson, Jr. If I knew that all three were, you know, if Jalen Samuels and Jeff Wilson's situation was not changing, I would want both of those guys ahead of Damian Williams. All right, Joe Mixing kept running hard. 26 for 11 and 1. Great matchup next week. Oakland at home.

Christian McCaffrey was great again. He should have had three touchdowns, ended up with two. That's if you're really greedy. He just got 12 touchdowns in his last seven games. Nice. Chris McCaffrey. I'm really excited not to play him next week. It looks like I'm not going to face him in our league of record after the buy, and I face him like, what, four times this year? Because he kept getting traded, right? Yeah, he kept getting traded to my opponent, and then he would just score a billion points against me.

Well, it is, I'm interested to see what happens next week because New Orleans has pretty much shut down the running back position. But Christian McCaffrey, because he's utilized the way he is. I thought you were going to tell me they're going to trade McCaffrey in the NFL ahead of next week's matchup. After the deadline, just because of Andy Holloway's team. But that'll be interesting, kind of, you know, two forces. He's just too involved. Yeah, I agree with that. Wide receivers. Oh, my goodness. Oh, we're hanging.

I don't know what that dance was I just did. It was terrible. It wasn't really a dance. I wasn't into it. Let me see you go. Much better. It was worse. Amari Cooper 10 for 217 and 3. What do you do? I know you play him now. It's got Indianapolis Tampa coming up. But how good is Amari Cooper?

How consistent will he be on the Dallas Cowboys heading into next season, assuming he gets an extension? It's the targets that he, I mean, he'll head in, he'll get all the money in the world from Jerry Jones. And he probably should. There were three and five when they traded for him. They're eight and five dominating the division. Yeah, they've won every game since they've had him. He was clearly, they were lacking a number one. And the thing is that I like about Amari Cooper. His talent has always been there. He just disappeared in targets.

So often, that's never going to happen with the Cowboys, it seems. They're so committed to making him the one and involving him in the offense, almost building the passing offense around Amari Cooper that the talent has the opportunity to win out. Well, you know, Cooper's never been consistent. That's been the problem. He's had boom games. Oh, his whole career. It's just.

The consistent targets and being treated like the number one is the difference. You know, you heard those rumors from Gruden on the way into the season, right? All the talk of Cooper, but the targets, their car's consistency, whatever it was, didn't work out. What if one team had Mac and Cooper on it? That'd be a good, that'd be powerful. Oh, Omari Cooper and Killeo Mack? Yeah, that'd be a powerful team. If you could trade for both those guys, just imagine your future.

Future would be bright. Really quick. I traded Amari Cooper in a league this year part way through the year when Dallas traded for him. I traded for Taven Coleman. Yeah. How do you feel about that? I am now against. That made me lose this week. I'm against Amari Cooper. Oh my gosh. How did Kevin Coleman do this week? He's on my bench because he has not panned out. So I, uh, that stinks. I'm sorry to hear that, Brooks. I was tweeting last night and, uh, Power Go on Twitter wrote.

As a reply, I think I was talking about how bad golf was playing. And his reply was just, thank the Lord I have Amari Cooper. And I thought to myself, who in the right mind thought that that would be a statement that someone was going to say eight weeks ago? Thank goodness Amari Cooper saved me in my playoff match. But this is the NFL. Juju, Julio. Julio.

Big games from Juju Smith-Schuster and Julio Jones. Julio touchdown Jones. Yes. Thank you very much. Yes, 1400 yards for five consecutive seasons now for Julio, two touchdowns on 11 targets. It was going to even out. I was not sure. I mean, he's the one guy where he had a long enough history, but man, since he started scoring touchdowns, he just does not want to stop. If you take a look at that little, you know.

What is it? Six-game stretch. He's on a 16-game pace of 13 touchdowns. T.Y. Hilton, 9 for 199 on 12 targets. He must be pretty disappointed. Whether he didn't hit 200 or they didn't score. That he didn't hit 200. See, I would be happy with the 199. I wouldn't. Yeah. Dallas, New York on the schedule for Hilton. You love seeing that. Luck is having a great season, averaging 8.5 targets.

95 yards and 0.7 TDs against Houston historically. He just played great. And he saved a lot of people who had disappointing weeks from other players. Kenny Stills, 8 for 135 and 1 with Ryan Tannahill on nine targets. One very important lateral. One extremely well-executed lateral. I had Kenny Stills on my bench in the dynasty. I was very disappointed. I bet you play him next week and he stinks. That's kind of his category. I don't think I'll play him in Minnesota.

Yeah, exactly. So he'll do well, though. Just let me know if you're benching him or not. Let me know if, what's his name? Matt Moore is the quarterback. Hey, 8 for 135. I don't think he's on the roster, but if they sign him. Big plays from Jarvis Landry. Three for 57 and one through the air, two for 54 and one on the ground. Goes into Denver next week. How confident would you be in riding this wave that Jarvis Landry has? I'd be pretty confident. Denver's bad at all phases of football. And, well,

Their defense has been playing very well lately. I was a little bit strong. No, no, no. Hold on. I apologize to Denver. My brain did a Jason Moore thing, and the Denver-Cin-Sin-Sin-a-Roo happened. In your brain. In my brain. Because they're real close to each other. Yeah, well, they're-geographically. They're close in color. And that's genuinely what did it. Oh, like the teams? They're orange.

They're both orange, so sorry. But I corrected my mistake. No, I would still ride the wave. I mean, the last two games, Landry has been great. Baker, we talked about him. We talked about him the last month. Every single week, he just looks like he should have been the number one pick that he was. And he's fantastic. So could Jarvis disappoint? Could he disappear? Yeah, because if...

They scheme him out, but the thing is, is... He only had three catches this week. They just worked him into the running game, and it worked. Yeah. I think he's a bit fools gold this week. People were talking about dropping Jarvis two weeks ago. Yes, they were. I don't see the fool's gold. Okay. Julian Adam, nine for 86 and one on 12 targets. Every play. One of them went into the end zone? Every other play. It was Gronk and Julian. It was like the Patriots of old. Yeah. And then Tyree Kiel was 8 for 139 on a bad heel. Still faster.

He's faster than all the defensive players with half a foot. Yeah. So hopefully he uses the half a foot and plays on Thursday. It doesn't make me want to cry. No, no, no. Get healthy. Brooks, do you realize my two League of Record wide receivers are Odell Beckham Jr. and Tyree Kill? Yeah. I was feeling real good about three days ago. I bet you're happy with the buy. Actually, you didn't even need that. You had Odell Beckham in your lineup because you were on by. It didn't matter. Yeah.

And in a league where you try to score more than 100, you had 167 points? Yeah. You have not had your kicker yet. Yeah, Kittles pretty good. That helps. Speaking to Kittle, Studmuffins at the tight-end position, seven for two, ten, and one on nine targets. Shame on you, Kyle Shanahan. You couldn't get him one catch for five yards in the entire second half to get him the all-time record at the position. Do you realize how bad that is? Really? Really bad.

And I watched the post game press conference with Kyle Shanahan, and he gave a game ball to George Kittle. And he's like, 210, right? Right? I think 215 is the record. No. Good game. Is that true? Yeah. He's like, it's probably on me. He goes, it's probably on me. He didn't care. Wow. But neither did fantasy owner. Seven for two, 10, and one. I love this, this accuracy level on Madden. Did you know, do you know what Madden's catch after the catchability is for George Kittle? Yeah.

It's 99. It's, it's, boom. I don't know. It's a note. I hope it's the truth. He has a very cool ability to change direction without losing his speed in open space, if you notice that. His hips are on like this little road. He's got hips that don't lie, Brooks, is what I'm saying. Oh, Shakira is so proud of her son, George Kittle. Yeah, very, very related. How large he has grown. What do you do with Hinton next year? With Hinton?

With him next year. George Kettle. I mean, you're getting your quarterback back. I think you have great confidence in George Kittle next year because of Kyle Shanahan and the offense. Is he the tight end four? Behind who? Ertz, Kelsey. Ertz, Kelsey, and Gronk? He's ahead of Gronk. Interesting. Yeah, he's ahead of Gronk next year. Yeah, that makes sense. No injury risk. Or I can't say that with either guy, but less injury risk at the age than Gronk.

Kittle is really, really good. And this breakout season instills confidence in the office to feature him. He needs to be featured regularly. And he does, he has these big plays all the time. Gronk was back, though, 8 for 107 and a touchdown. This is what everybody's been waiting for. All the Gronk owners are crying because they're not in the playoffs. Right. I was going to say.

The first week of the playoffs, they go, that's what I drafted you for. Now, let me ask you this. Genuine question. Yes. We both watched the game. We saw Gronk on every other play. Have you, because my opinion was like, man, I don't know if I've ever seen a worse looking 107 yard. Every play to me, Gronk looks like an old man. He looks between prime gronk and modern day Antonio Gates. He's like right smack dab in the middle of me.