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

But he should have had a monster game. He dropped a touchdown. He dropped like three other. He should be the number one tied in on the week with 150 yards and a touchdown. And instead he was like, okay, that's a solid game. Yeah. Jimmy Graham genuinely adds a benefit to a team, which is something that, you know, he's not the old Jimmy Graham running seam routes and breaking huge plays. But he's still this level of Gronk, who also had two touchdowns, this past week and was huge for your fantasy team. So.

Stinker time. Stinkers of the week, presented by odor eaters. All right, this will be a more difficult segment for a lot of people. Maybe cathartic, though. You need to work through, you need to hear the players that let you down. Do you? Well, you need to hear the shame a little bit. Oh, if we shame them. Right. I mean, they're literally in the stinkers of the week. Right. Just bringing them up is shaming them. Drew Breeze, Teddy Bridgewater, Tua, Tung of Iloa.

Drew Breeze is not his fault. It's Alvin Kamara's fault. Yeah, 311 yards for Drew Breeze. Just all the touchdowns. I mean, if you played Drew Breeze, I feel so bad for you. Yeah. Because you hate, like, it reminds me of the golf game against Seattle. So I was just going to bring up when he was your start of the week and you watch the game. He's like, oh, he's excellent. He's playing well. He's playing great. It's just the fantasy points are all going to the running back position. That stinks. You know who didn't play well and hasn't been Teddy Bridgewater?

I mean, he started the year looking like he was a solid option for a solid team, and I don't believe it anymore. He's not, he's flat out not good enough to go where the Panthers want to go. And I'm not talking. Move him in Dynasty, if you can this offseason before something hits the fan. Absolutely. If you're in a two-quarterback league, move him. Would you do that with Tua? Yeah. What's the future for Tua? The future is not Tua. The future.

I mean, I will just be, so they have the number four. Players have to develop, right? Absolutely. He needs to develop, but he's being utilized in a way that I don't know is going to develop him. And the reality is they have the number four pick. Now, I'm not saying they're going to draft another quarterback because that would be, that would kind of be resetting the clock. And I don't know that at the number four pick, there's a quarterback that's that much better than what you've gotten to a.

But I just, I have a hard time personally believing he is the answer. He went a pick ahead of Herbert, right? That is correct. Yikes. Swinging to miss. Yikes. All right, Dwayne Haskin stinks. He finished as the quarterback 36 on the week. In a week he started. Yeah, 28 pass temps. That's plenty. Oh. And I don't know if we'll ever see him start a game the rest of his life. Yes, you do.

He won't. You know he won't. No, he won't. I don't know. He walked out of the facility. The team was trying to get a hold of him. That one was a little bit misinformed. Yeah, there was kind of blow up that he didn't go to the mandatory reporter, you know, the post game press conference. He was actually told.

No, no. He was told, yeah, get out of here. If you leave now, you'll beat the traffic. He was told that Heineke's going to do that. He was told that He was going to do the post-game presser, and then he made himself available after it started coming out that like, oh, he didn't show up. Okay. Yeah, he's never playing again. No, he's not. These were some disappointing weeks from players that you probably had in.

your lineup. Justin Herbert just had one touchdown pass against Denver. It was really nothing driving down the field either. It was a screen pass that Echler found his way into the end zone. That was disappointing. QB 17 finished for him. Ryan Tanyhill, QB 18 finished for him. Thankfully with him, there was the Snow Bowl, because he was someone, you know, I had been looking at, and it was an easy pivot off of him.

I don't know if it was easy for many people. Well, a couple. I'm saying I think that there were other options. Like, for instance, perfect example. I was looking at Ryan Tannahill and Mitchell Trabisky. And it was like, I would have gone Tannahill beforehand. But as soon as the weather started looking bad towards the end of the week, I would have switched to Trabisky. How can Rogers play in that? It's an unfair advantage because.

He's so good at it and other people aren't and it looks like they're going to have everything come through Lambeau. Yeah, and it helps that he just stands back there. I mean, the offensive line is so underrated for so many of these teams. Part of what is a struggle for Arizona and Kyla Murray is that there's no time to sit back there and pick a part of defense. And Roger sits back there and he's doing like, I don't know, calisthenics or long division. I mean, he's got time.

makes a huge difference. And then he's, because he's got players that will get open after time, you know, goes by. Yeah, Kyler. Kyler had a bad week, 31 for 50, 247, no passing touchdown, 75 rushing, but didn't. Huge disappointment. Huge disappointment. I mean, we, we overcame. We had Kyler as our quarterback in the Dino Junior League. We overcame it, but he had 16 points. And, I mean, really, really disappointing this next week against the Rams, if you, if you overcame and you're in the championship.

I don't want to rely on Kyler. The difference between Cliff Kingsbury and some of the better play callers in football is such a wide gap that I just don't know what hope there is for Cliff to reach that level. He gets destroyed by Sean McVeigh every time they play each other. He's nothing on the – like I wish Eric Bionomey. I wish that was the new Cardinals head coach next year. Oh, yeah, yeah. I think he's going to be a great coach. He is. They even Mike Kafka. They're going to lose two assistants in Kansas City this year. And I don't –

blame the teams that go and get those players. No, Andy Reed's coaching tree is great. You just don't see any of the ingenuity in Arizona. And I think a lot of it is masked by the athleticism of Kyla Murray, where he can take a play that is a horrible play call and then it turned it into a 46-yard run. Anyways, that's a little hometown frustration out here. They can make the playoffs next week by beating the Rams. Beat the Rams. And Sean McVeigh. They don't do. No. All right, running backs, there's a couple Grinches in here.

Mr. Grinch. Wow. Both of them grinched out. Yep. John Jacob. Russell, a quarterback. All three Grinches were bad. Was yours Russell? I thought yours was Lamar Jackson. No, mine was Russell Wilson. It was definitely without a doubt Russell Wilson. Russell Wilson or Andy Dalton. You remember the whole game? I will bet you anything you want. No, no, no, no. Okay, I want $1,000 bet.

He said he would bet anything on $1,000. Who was the Lamar Jackson one? He was considering Lamar Jackson. I said I was considering Lamar Jackson. But you didn't make it Lamar. No, we played a whole game called Russell or Andy Dalton. Yeah, that's right. I accept $1,000. You made a bet with yourself. I didn't make the bet. Also, had you played Andy Dalton over Russell Wilson, you'd be feeling.

Pretty good. Josh Jacobs was one of the Grinches, 13 for 69, no touchdowns, no receptions. Mike Davis was another Grinch, no targets in the game, 14 for 28 on the ground, did have a touchdown. That wasn't enough to make him a success for your fantasy team this week. And they used a lot of Rodney Smith in that game. They used a lot of Curtis Samuel. Yes, they did. Melvin, Gordon, Lev Bell, Wayne Galman, DeAndre Swift.

also in the stinkers at running back this week. Swift, everybody on that offense that had a chance was destroyed by the $38 million man, Chase Daniel, who is the worst player. So bad. I mean, he looked, you're 100% right. I mean, nobody on this list gets a free pass outside of DeAndre Swift. DeAndre Swift, it was not his fault at all. You can't do anything with Chase Daniel.

thrust into the lineup unexpectedly and not able to move the ball at all. Darrell Williams out carried Lev Bell. That exactly. That's where I was going to go with this question. Week 17. It looked better. Kansas City is going to bench their starters. Does that mean that Levion Bell is going to be playing week 17? Yes, it does. Or does that mean that Daryl Williams is going to be playing week 17? Probably means Darwin Thompson is going to be playing week 17. I'll bet it means Daryl Williams will play.

But Darrell Williams, if they weren't benching them, he would be the player I would easily start over Levion Bell. For next week, you're saying? Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah, I don't know if you're going to see a lot of either one. We'll have to get a read on the week. William seems important to this offense with Clyde potentially missing the playoffs. Wayne Galman's time has ended in a big way. Wide receiver. He's out of money. Bruce Wayne has gone broke. Wide receivers.

that had disappointing weeks. Tyree Kill, six targets, four for 65. They had him going early, and then it fell apart. So hamstring injury coming into the game made me lower him in my rankings because, you know, by all intents and purposes, going against Atlanta was a good thing. But a little concern there. DeAndre Hopkins, 12 targets, 8 for 48. The targets were there. Kyler wasn't there.

There was a blizzard. Now, A.J. Brown had eight targets, four for 43. Corey Davis was a full-fledged gooseosaurus. I mean, this was, this feels like you spent time earning our trust back, the potential back, and then Corey Davis was gone. I don't, I don't, again, I don't blame him.

Tan Hill was not good. Yeah, Tant Hill was not. He's, you know, he spent the majority of his career in, you know, Miami. And now he's playing in a Blizzard, very difficult to have a good fantasy game through the air. I think people will blame him because he turned himself into a must-star. That's fine. I will take the value. DK next year? Yeah. Really? Corey Davis? Yeah. Corey Davis. He's a good draft. He's a good player.

D.K. Metcalfe, eight target, six for 59. Tyler Lockett, three for 44. He's the wide receiver 41 over the back half of the year. Yikes. Tyler Lockett is doing his best first half of the year, Hollywood Brown impression. Basically. They're like almost inverse situations. Together, they were one good player. I mean, this isn't like he's okay.

This is like I'm looking at these games and I'm seeing 58, 64, 73, 47, 47, 6659. Yeah, he's someone that I think over the last few weeks we have, you know, talked about moving on from not having to start him every week because, you know, you got to stay water. I guess I'm more thinking future. Oh, yeah, certainly future. I mean, look over the, over the back half of the year, Russ.

was not the same. He wasn't good. We talked about it in the deep ball accuracy and all of that jazz. But, I mean, think about how dominant D.K. Metcalf has been, unlike Lockett. And over the last eight weeks, D.K. Metcalfe is not a wide receiver one. He's the wide receiver 17. Yeah. Oh, since week 10, Tyler Lockett has averaged 8.3 points in a half point PBR scoring format and D.K. Metcalfe 11. Right. They both have been.

And Russ has been outside the top 12 in five of the last seven games. And then the two that he snuck inside of was eight and 12. So no big games from Russell Wilson since week eight at all. They stopped letting him cook. He's not even reheating in a microwave right now. No, they took away all utensils, no forks, no knives. He's doing nothing. That's right. He's got a cork on his fork to protect his eyes. What?

It's definitely week 17. What the heck does that mean? Anybody? It's an old school dirty rotten scoundrels joke. Oh. Someone out there got it. Oh, okay. Oh, no. I respect. I like the rhyming. I have respected deep reference. That's made specifically for five people. That's right. Those are my favorite. They will.

Love it. Robert Woods, DJ Moore, Brandon Ayyuk. Brandon Ayyuk was destroyed by Kittal's return. Yes, he was. But that's unfortunate because he was dominating over the last half of the year and did nothing. Two targets. Yeah, I mean, Kittle led the team with around 95 yards. Nobody else had more than 20-something. T.Y. Hilton, three for 60, seven targets. Not a great game. Q.T. Hansen. Bad. Robert Tunyon.

was a huge disappointment. Had the end zone target, but was one for 17. That is unfortunate. Yeah, as well as Hawkinson, we kind of, we've brought it up over and over. He had a Chase Daniel problem, but obviously going into the game, you were relying on Hawkinson. And he was in your starting lineup. And Tyler Higby and Dallas Goddard also disappointing weeks. Three catches each, no touchdowns.