MEGALODON Episode – Week 12 Matchups, Turkey Day Awards, Starts, & TONS More! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 11/25

because he's gone. Oh, man. I mean, here's it. I know I'm wrong because even though they hid the answers from me, I can see the amount of space. And Robbie Anderson doesn't fit in this amount of space. So you can take another shot. I may have abbreviated something. Oh, Robbie A. You don't want me to give up is what you're saying. Mike, do you have any other names coming to mind? I mean, the first name that.

Hot start, big fart later on? The name that came to him was Alan Robbins. What about Tyler Lockett? I'm changing my answer. Oh, that's a good one. I'm changing my answer. All right, Jay, what's your answer? I'm going to name Heinz. He was the waiver wire pickup in week one. Everyone spent all the money on him. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he was a big disappointment. You know, later on, it's like, oh, he had another good game. You have another bite and you're like, this is good. And then as you take a second bite, you go, no, wait, this is sweet potatoes. They're gross.

I mean, I'm swayed on Hines. I'll go Jonathan Taylor. Okay. Okay. First few bites seem like we're on to something. Then we weren't. All right. The answer is, oh, come on. It's Robbie Anderson. It is Robbie A. Yes. Why did I change? Wait a minute. It's Robbie A. He wrote Robbie A. No, I was joking because that would be so silly. Oh.

Wow. You're the silly boys. Also, Andy, you did not get it correct. I know. Darrell Henderson, Jerich McKinnon, also candidates. Jerich McKinnon, that's a good one. Yeah, I know. Robbie Anderson, Brooks is bringing up past six games outside the top 30. It's a problem. But it's like the kind of problem that you don't understand because he's getting, I mean, we're going to talk about him later. Yeah.

He's getting a ton of targets. He hasn't been crushing you. That's the one nice thing. He's been getting eight, nine, ten, softly. Yeah, paper cuts. All right. This is the Mike Wright Special Award, which is, you know, if you don't know, Mike doesn't participate in the traditional Thanksgiving feast as much as possible. He participates in the going to jack in the box feast. That is correct. The random dish that nobody.

that somebody brought because, well, they're convinced Thanksgiving food is trash, outdated. This is a time to stop the old way of thinking. Open up your eyes, realize that it could be the best thing ever. I've got my answer. I've got mine. Well, go ahead. Mine is a Mike Wright special. I'm going with Antonio Gibson. Oh, okay. Antonio Gibson. I get that as new, but I feel like he was already, you know, people already knew it was good. Yeah. I'm going to go with Cream Hunt. Change the old way of thinking. Secondary option as a.

running back one i'm thinking more along the lines of i'm going james robinson you just you you you know coming in you didn't think he was anything special he was this undrafted free agent it's like no jack in the box is delicious this is really good just keep eating uh i think we're going to triple with this let's see the answer as james robinson oh yeah it made sense once you gave your other reasons other candidates chase claypool oh yeah mike davis

Okay, sure, sure. I get that. All right. Last one before we start the Thanksgiving Day matchups. This is the Thanksgiving Day turkey. This is the showstopper, the MVP of Thanksgiving Day. The MVP. This one's easy to me. It's Dalvin Cook. Yeah, I think Kyler is close in contention there. Close, yeah. But Dalvin makes the most sense at a fundamental position. What do you think, Jason? Yeah, I mean, hmm. So.

Kyler would have been who I picked, but he's already been given an award. I don't think you would double down. I agree. So now I'm wondering, could it be Travis Kelsey, but tight end isn't quite as important as running back? Oh, man. Andy, what's your answer? I agree with Mike, and I also cheated and looked at it. It's Dalvin Cook. Yeah. Then I have not answered yet. I also will go with Dalvin Cook. No, your timer ran out.

Alvin Camara, another candidate there for sure. So, do we have a, do we don't have like a special drop Brooks for like these Thanksgiving Day matchups? I mean, you could hit the Turkey Day one again. I think we should. Seems like the right thing to do. The fact that there is no, I mean, there's no, there are no words. So it could really represent any segment we want. It could be the only drop we have. Yeah.

All right, Thanksgiving Day. We have three games. A reminder returning from the buy this week, the Bills, Bears, Giants, and 49ers. There are no buys this week at all. Also, if you happen to make it through this podcast with time left, maybe you're traveling. There is a special DFS pod just for the Turkey Day games. If you're playing DFS, you can listen to the fantasy footballers DFS pod. That is true, Jason. Thank you for highlighting it.

That show has been well received this year. It's been awesome. In spite of its hosts. Right. I couldn't believe it because those two guys are the worst. And maybe that's part of the intrigue of the show is you kind of are spinning most of your time. Is Betts the worst or is Kyle the worst? Yeah. That's the worst. Really tough to figure out. I mean, they're both so terrible. Right. But definitely tune in.

Terribly great. Terribly great. We love you guys. All right. Houston at 3 and 7 taking on the Detroit Lions, who always play on Thanksgiving. Texans are three-point favorites. It's a 51 point over-under. Okay. Romeo Cornell has been good news for Deshaun Watson since Bill O'Brien left. He's averaging 35 rushing yards per game.

Got his first rushing touchdown last week. He's been a great performer for fantasy football purposes, which, based on that way the year started, this would be the inverse of the bad roles that eventually you burnt. This is like they look bad, but then you're like, oh, wait, no, that's really good. Like you thought you weren't going to get to enjoy. But Watson is in every week's start, right? So he's out there against Detroit. I wanted to make him my start of the week again. But I felt like it was, it's just.

Too obvious because if you have Deshawn Watson, how in the world would you play someone else? I agree. That would even extend to somebody new to the scene like Tasum Hill, right? You're playing Deshaun Watson over Taysam. For sure. These are a couple of terrible or terrible, if you're Charles Parkley, run defenses. Houston's allowing the most rushing yards per game. That's nice. And then Detroit's allowing the most fantasy points per game to the running back position, the most rushing touchdowns.

And here you are with two situations that it's like talent versus opportunity. And there's not a lot of talent to go around right now. This is a, hopefully not, but it feels like this is the trap. The giant piece of cheese is there. But you could see the box is being helped up by the stick. And someone's just waiting to yank that string as I go for the piece of cheese. Now, for DeAndre Swift.

was out last week, the rookie running back for the Detroit Lions, was out last week with the concussion. He is participating in limited practice, at least on Tuesday. We don't know if that means that he will clear the concussion protocol and play. If he plays, he's in. Swift is a smash play yet again. But are we going to go back to trying to guess between Adrian Peterson, Carry on Johnson?

Neither of them came through, and it was a really plus matchup for the running backs for Detroit last week. You can put carry-on out there in desperation mode if Swift misses. Yeah, over Peterson. And it's enticing when you're looking at your waiver and you're saying, oh, I need a desperation start at running back in Houston's so bad. But I don't want to play any of these players if DeAndre Swift isn't out there. I don't want to play Duke Johnson.

I mean, he would be the only player that I would, I wouldn't, I wouldn't dabble with Kerry on anymore. You know, watching, both of them are competing for five points. Watching the game last week, there was just, you know, he's gone to play video games and given up his NFL dream. But Duke Johnson, I think that could be the trap. That could definitely be the trap because, you know, the last six weeks, you know, Detroit is as bad.

as it gets. They're the worst in the league of fantasy points given up to the running back position. And Duke Johnson, you know, has Deshaun Watson, who doesn't really target the running back, which is kind of his deal. That being said, you know, what we saw last week was against New England. And that was a much more difficult matchup than this. Two weeks prior to that, Duke Johnson against Jackson was a top 10 running back. So I don't think it's out of the question that you could start Duke Johnson.

It could be a trap, but I'd be willing to do it personally. Because I think Duke Johnson himself is talented. Oh, gosh, no. If they get up in the game, they can hand him the ball. Like last week, you only had 10 carries. You know, the two weeks prior was 16 carries and 14 carries. They don't get up in games.

Well, the Lions might have something to say about that. Well, I know the Lions didn't score last week, but Matthew Stafford, this is a, on paper, this is a good matchup for Matthew Stafford. He should be able to take advantage of this. He had been on a hot streak of games where he was performing, had a long touchdown called back last week. I just, we're different on this one. I don't have any confidence that Duke Johnson can perform for my team. Will Fuller, yep. Brandon Cooks, sure, absolutely.

Otherwise, that's where it ends. I don't know if Randokob went on IR, but that was a possibility. Or was it? Stills is hurt, too, I think. Oh, Kiki QT. He's back. He's back, baby. Marvin Jones? Yeah, I think you play Marvin Jones. And we don't think Amundola will be back out there. So I think is Marvin Jones and nobody else. And Hawkinson. Yeah. Yep, and Hawkinson. And that's it.

for that matchup. The Washington football team taking on the Dallas Cowboys, both teams three and seven in a battle for the NFC East. I mean, look, if the Eagles lose, this could be a battle for the division lead. Oh, that juicy four wins. Yeah, it is ridiculous. But I think we can all agree. Go football team.

Sure. Cowboys, well, not Brooks. Brooks doesn't agree with that. Do you even want this? Do you want the title of the worst first? Heck yeah. Okay. I would take it. Cowboys, three-point favorites. It's a 46 point over under. And this is Alex Smith v. Andy Dalton. Just what we all expect it. It's 2016. Yeah. And that's totally fine. This is a rematch from week seven where Washington won 25 to 3.

We did see signs of life last week from Dallas's offense. I have picked Washington in this game, however. The Washington defense second high is sack rate. That is going to be a problem for Andy Dalton. Some mistakes to be made. They did shake things up with the Dallas offensive line last week, and it seemed to have it paid some dividends. Sure. Yeah, I agree. But what do you do fantasy-wise in this game? Because despite the intrigue of division battle,

You have must starts in Antonio Gibson and Ezekiel Elliott. Gibson at this point is an every week must start. And Zeke had signs of life last week. So those guys are kind of locked in. But what do you do? J.D. McKissick, snaps dropped quite a bit last week. We've heard rumor of Gibson getting more and more playing time in the offense. It's the game script to me. I'm not at the point where I'm ready to say Antonio Gibson will out snap Jady McKissick the rest of the way. I don't think that's going to happen.

It's what do you believe about this game? Do you think that Dallas can get up on Washington? Washington's defense is very, very good. If Dallas can get up, then you're going to see a lot of Jady McKissick, and you'll see those targets return to closer to the last couple weeks than...

the previous. Yeah, last week when they played the Cincinnati Bengals and then lost Joe Burrow halfway through the game, that Washington defense just dominated. I mean, Cincinnati didn't score 10 points, so that wasn't where you needed the McKissick-style play. That was where you want to grind the clock. So it really is a matter of, do you believe that Dallas can score on the Washington football team and, you know, have this be a game that hits the over, or do you think the football team defense is going to...

be what they've been the last several weeks and be a little bit too hard for Andy Dalton. And that's what I believe. In which case, it shouldn't be a McKissick game. McKissick or Duke Johnson, Mike? Oh. In a flex. Wow. Half point. That's a great question. Duke. I would as well. All right. Terry McLaurin, you always play him. What about this guy?