Week 16 Studs & Stinkers + #FootClanTitles - Fantasy Football Podcast for 12/28

Not that they will, but they could because they have a great defense, a good running game, but you have to have the ability, the capability to go out and compete with a Chiefs scoring offense or a Ravens or anybody. You're not going to win a Super Bowl with Tua right now. If you bring in Fitzpatrick when you're already down 18 against the Chiefs is too late sometimes. Yeah. Otherwise, he'll have to do a.

No look, face-masked, Hail Mary, 15-yard penalty, saving you, and it's not going to work in the playoffs. Thank you for bringing up Ryan Fitzpatrick. Yeah, he deserved it because he's not going to show up in the fantasy stats, but that was a fantasy finish. All right, Somaget P. Rine went 13 for 95 and 2 while Gio had 131 total yards himself. Yeah, running on the Houston Texans is easy.

Well, in fairness, throwing on the Houston Texans also easy. Yeah, also easy. David Johnson. Oh, can we get in that Johnson? 12 for 128 and 1. He earned that musical interlude. I mean, we were talking about how he wasn't running the ball. He's just being used as a receiver. He said, wait and see, 128 on the ground. He's been outstanding this year. He looked good.

He did. He looked physically good. And he's still under contract. I think, you know, he's a player next year will be a... It's insane. Was that the Jay? Thank Johnson it's Friday? That's right. That's why I was saying. He, I mean, he busted the week he got hurt in week nine against Jacksonville. That's fine. But other than that, one bad game.

The entire year. Week two against Baltimore was bad. And so you thought it's crazy. It's that early on, you know, when it happens early, you just, you project that out. But he was basically the top 24 running back almost every single week that he played this season. Yeah, yeah. And it'll be interesting if they keep Will Fuller there. I mean, they have the quarterback. But he has dealt with injury year after year after year. Yes. So that is the only kind of tough part.

With him, AJ Dylan. AJ Dylan, do we still have that drop? I hope we did. Of course we do. Oh. And it was chilly out. 21 for 124 and 2. Look, the baby Yetty. Talk to me about the future for AJ Dylan. The future for AJ Dylan should be.

The range of outcomes, it's still pretty wide because Aaron Jones, if you don't know the situation, Aaron Jones is a free agent. Jamal Williams is a free agent. There's a reason the Green Bay Packers spent a second round pick on A.J. Dillon when they were not running back needy this year, and they were a team set up to make a Super Bowl run that could have used a second round pick on someone on the defense. Another...

alignment, just anything besides a running back. Wide receiver. A wide receiver, although Devante Adams is just. They don't need another one. But if Aaron Jones does leave and they don't resign him, then the future is incredibly bright for AJ. That decision is brutal because Aaron Jones is. Yes, a difference maker. Next level elite difference maker like a Dalvin Cook, but he's going to be expensive. Very. And.

So that's a really difficult decision. Yeah, I mean, if I was the, you know, usually when you're playing GM, it's, it's, you know, and I feel like it's easy because we're not in it. We don't have the pressure of fans. We're not really. But in this decision. And we don't know them. We don't know them as people. Right. In this decision, I don't know what the right answer is. I do. I think it, if I had to come to my conclusion, since you know yours, I would let Aaron Jones walk and not pay top dollar for a running back when.

my running back position will be fine. Yeah, and the thing is, is running backs get hurt all the time. So that's not my solution. My solution is to franchise tag Aaron Jones. Okay. One more year, run it back. You're going to go 13 and 3 again. I mean, two straight 13 and three years with Aaron Jones and Aaron Rogers. I would try to run it back like that. Dylan's your depth piece. Let Jamal walk. That's what I would do. Never forget that Derek Henry.

he felt like a bust or irrelevant because he was drafted to a team that had to Marco Murray. He spent years just not playing football really like AJ Dillon has started out his career. Yeah, I think the real difference between them. I mean, obviously on the ground, Jones is better too, but it's that passing game work, the flexibility he gives Aaron Rogers in the passing game. Jeff Wilson, 22 for 183. My name is Jeff. Wow. That's the most yards in four years.

by a single running back on the 49ers in a game. The Shanahan system is incredible, and they just keep finding these running backs that nobody else wanted. It's funny considering having to pay Aaron Jones and having that conversation, and then here's Jeff Wilson after Rahim Mosterd, after Kevin Coleman, after they tried to pay a guy. They tried to have a high-priced running back, and then he got hurt two years in a row.

Yeah, that's the brutal part. Yeah. Jonathan Taylor, another two touchdowns ended the year RB 13, 3, 2, 15, and 7, 18 for 74 and 2. He will be an extremely interesting offseason draft. How high does he go? He'll be top 10. Yeah. Yeah, the potential. JD McKissick.

The touchdown that could have won people championships. Jady McKissick was, yeah, we're ready for it. Yeah, didn't catch me that time. Yeah, nice try. He was not having a good game, and then he was. A deep bomb touchdown for a running back will do that. He smooched for your fantasy team. David Montgomery ended the year incredibly. 7, RB7, RB1, RB7, RB1, RB9.

And he got pulled at the end. Yeah, for like a large part of that game against Jacksonville. Went 23 for 95 and 1. Two more targets. Good for you, Montgomery. Yeah. It's great. The way he ended this year, I'm really curious where he goes next year as well. I mean, we're going to be into those discussions soon enough. And it will be fascinating to see where the recency bias goes and how good he's been. I mean, and do they bring back Mitch Trubisky?

The last five weeks of the season, he was the running back too. He was more valuable than Dalvin Cook, more valuable than Derek Henry or Aaron Jones or Nick Chup. The only player who outscored him in the last five weeks was Alvin Camara. I remember being devastated because our main league, you put three players into a lottery to keep and only two remain on your team and one randomly goes back into the draft. It's the way we do our keeper system. I remember being devastated.

when I got stuck with David Montgomery instead of Joe Mixing. Oh, how funny. When you think about vetoing trades, everyone, remember the story of Joe Mixon and David Montgomery. All right, wide receivers. Devante Adams is unstoppable. If you try to press cover him, you've lost. If you try to off cover him, they just screen him the ball. They do everything that we tell.

people to do when you're like, well, just throw it to him every play if he's really good. Oh, okay, we will. Oh, you're not going to play him up on the line? Just throwing the ball instantly and let him run. Okay. Yeah, I'll do that too. He's so good. Actually, that's kind of not true in the sense that I remember a play early in the first half. They drive down and Aaron Rogers, they're about the 10, 12, 15 yard line or so. And he throws it.

over the head of Robert Tunyon in the end zone. Do you remember that play? I have Devante Adams, and Devante Adams was wide open. Just, you know, had he targeted him every single plate, they would have had one more touchdown. He is, he is unreal. I feel like his target share, which is astronomically high, needs to be doubled. Mike Evans, 12 targets, 10 for 181 and 2.

quietly the wide receiver 9 on the year now and was actually has actually been super consistent once they brought A B in. Do you see the stat and the dock on Devante Adams? Uh, from from Kyle the Borgogan. Yes. If you took away all one hundred and nine of his receptions.

So you're taking away all the PPR scoring. Oh, the PPR points. Yeah, I didn't read it because I didn't understand it. You take away all the PPR points, 109 receptions, take them all away. He would drop from the wide receiver one to the wide receiver two. That's unreal. And this is a player that's missed, he missed two games due to injury, right? Basically three. Wow. All right. Mike Evans has been great. Antonio Brown has opened things up for him, and Brady's kind of figured some things out.

Michael Gallup went 6 for 121 and 2. Andy Dalton had a game. I mean, Cooper had a good game. CD Lamb had a great game. CD Lamb had a great game. And this is actually over the last month, Gallup has been pretty good, which is weird. Because he was so, he was so bad. I mean, coming into the season, Gallup was one of my favorite.

draft season picks. He was a late round guy that I felt like was being disrespectful because he's talented. But over the last month, Michael Gallup finished the season really, really strong. You imagine playing Michael Gallup over Tyler Lockett all these past like six, seven, eight weeks? Oh, you'd be dominated. He's the wide receiver 10 over the last month. Jameson Crowder had a huge game for the Jets through a touchdown pass, seven for 92 on the ground, or I'm sorry, through the air. Nelson Aguilar again.

Five for 155 and 1. Brandon Cooks. Okay, yeah, I'll take it. Brandon Cooks was 10 targets, 7 for 144 and 1. Brandon Cooks, really the only wide receiver that did anything in that game. Kiki QT and Mbop did nothing. M-flop. M-flop. Bad. Jujun, 13 targets, 9 for 96 in a touchdown, despite not being out there.

or seemingly not producing in the first half. It was a big second half for Juju. He just had to stop dancing on them logos. Yeah, I mean, it's probably for the best. Yeah. You find that funny? Yeah, I find that somehow that story was like headline news. You turn on ESPN. They're talking about Juju has said he will stop dancing on logos. He's dancing on the logo. So what?

That's not changing how he performs on the field. When he goes up for a reception, he's not like, man, I danced on that star and then he drops the ball. What's funny to me was how it was before that. The reason of its headline news is because this was used as such locker room material and the players would be pissed off. He's dancing on our logo. It's like, they really care that much. I was just always surprised that it's like it's that big a deal.

Like, okay, it also didn't matter when they were 11 and 0. It was the logo, the logo dancing wasn't getting those teams fired up. Yeah, he was dropping passes before, after and during all of those. And he will continue to drop passes. Yeah, now it was just a matter of the team was getting asked so many questions about it. He just stopped so that the questions would stop. Adam Thielen had a nice week. T. Higgins. Brandon Allen difference. Yeah. T. Higgins and C.D. Lamb. I can tell you right now, those are.

Those are like my, those are two guys that in 2021, I will be drafting everywhere. Well, the rookie wide receivers, they have so much potential. Absolutely. But some of them, like Justin Jefferson, will already be a locked and loaded top pick. But if you're looking for the Calvin Ridley, the guy that's going to break out and take over the clear cut number two or number one role for the team, those are the two guys, Higgins and C.D. Lamb that I'm looking towards. I'm just, I was going to move on to tight ends,

I'm remembering in our dynasty league that you traded Julio Jones to acquire C.D. Lamb, two first round picks and Hollywood Brown. Well, I think that one was a second round pick. Hollywood Brown was in my trading Todd Gurley for David Johnson and a first and Hollywood. Oh, my goodness. Nice work. Thank you. Really glad I took that down because you've rebuilt your team. Jimmy Grandpa, four for 69 and two at the tight-in position.

Jimmy Graham. He's still good at doing that. He really is. He's great at scoring touchdowns. He's great. Especially when they're wide open. Well, those, but even all the contested catches he makes, you can line him up one-on-one, and he seems to catch it almost every time, which is something Austin Hooper can't do. Right. Oh, my goodness. Catch the ball, Hooper. Hooper still had a good game. Like, for a tight end, Hooper was very good, a special fear in a PPR league.