Fantasy Football 2017 - Week 13 Studs & Duds, Rising Stars, Game Genie

many people that you're going to get on waivers that can help you win a championship this late into the season. So Mike Davis is my rising star. He reminds me of the way he runs right now. He reminds me of the way Rawls ran before he ran out of gas. Ooh. Yeah, pedal to the metal, but you run out of gas quick. So someone else will be the starting running back for the Seahawks next year. Next year, yes. All right. My Raising Kane rising star of the week. He would have been my star last week.

So I'm very glad that you weren't here. I wasn't here. So I'm very glad it came through again. Rex Burkett. And I know there's, I know, I know. There are many of you rolling your eyes out there. Well, it's, it's Dion Lewis. No, it's Rex Berkin. No, it's Dean Lewis. Guess what? It's both. Yeah. But is absolutely Rex Goathead. Since week eight, when he really returned from his injury, he's been the running back eight in half point.

points per game. He is the goal line back. We saw Dionne Lewis bust off a huge run. Unfortunately for Dionne Lewis and Jason Moore, Dionne Lewis was tackled at about the one. And then they said, okay, well, here comes Rex Burkhead, our official goal line running back and gets two carries and came through with pay dirt. In the last two weeks, he's getting 15 total touches. I hate Rex Burkhead. You get 15 total touches.

on the Patriots and you're the goal line bag. You are a weekly must start for me. I agree. I agree. It's a two-man show there and you can start both of them. You're going to be happy when you do. I will let you know that I'm going to tweet out a picture of Jason when he watched the second Rex Burkhead touchdown happen. I was unaware that there was a photograph. Well, there's a screen cap, really. You want the video? No. I don't know if it'll make you feel better, Jason, but I was playing a win and in.

in my money league. And I was facing against Rex Burkhead. It doesn't. Doesn't help. So the nail went into my heart, but you were luckily standing right behind me. Right. So it also went into your heart as well. Great. This is, that's great news. Literally in our league in our league of record league versus the dynasty league, Brooks has my wide receivers. This is the fun part of multiple leagues. He had my two starting wide receivers. So everything they did was good and bad.

Simultaneously. Did I want to win and get a buy week, or did I want to stay undefeated? The second one didn't happen. Yeah. Oh, is that Brooks? Is this breaking news? Yes, sir. Hit the button. Hit the button. Breaking news. Rico Suave, aka Ben McAdu, has been fired. Yeah, I think we all saw it coming. They didn't fire the GM? No. Not yet. Right now, I mean, that could be coming. They could be walking down the hall.

But as of right now, I believe it has just been McAdoo. All right. We'll get into that in just a minute. I do want to remind people, Rex Goathead, because I'm reading it. Rex Burkehead, Trey Burton, Mike Davis, the Raising Cain's Rising Stars of the Week. Remember game day tastes better with Raising Cain's Tailgates full of fresh 24-hour, marinated, hand-battered chicken fingers and fresh-brewed sweet tea. Visit raising canes.com to find your nearest location slash.

Live the good life. I'm going to throw that in there. All right, so Bob McAdoo out the door. Ben. Ben McAdoo. What did I say? Bob. It doesn't matter anymore. It looks like it, Bob. Doesn't matter anymore. He's gone. Ben Macca gone. You think they, that's way better. Dang it. It was right there in front of my face. Well, you're out of practice. I am. How was the teacups?

Oh, do you want a true story about the teacups? Give me something from Disneyland before we talked pooped in the big boy pants. All right, so the Disney trip was fantastic. Got to meet a couple of Foot Clan members while on Disneyland. What's up, fellas? But I am, I wouldn't say I'm not old old, but I am elderly. I am roller coaster old. I can't go on them anymore. I used to love them. I can't do spinning. I can't do G forces. Wow. I can't handle it anymore. I'm so shamed.

And embarrassed, really. It sucks for me. It's like I lost a part of my life. But so it was the kids are, you know, of course they want to go on the rides. They want to go on all of them. And unfortunately, my middle son is right on that threshold. He's not old enough to go on and by himself. Right. And his older sister can't take him. So one of us has to bite the bullet. So I went on the teacups. Oh, no. Oh, no, no, no, no. No. Well, we went on a few, but.

They were asking for the teacups and I was like, let's go. Let's do this. Not only did I go on the teacups, I spun that thing as hard as I possibly could. And I sat there in a trance with my eyes closed. Eyes closed. And it was actually, it actually worked almost the entire time. Really? Until the ride was done. And I almost fell out of the teacup. I almost fell out. There's vomit everyone. And then everyone's like, where are we going? Like dad needs to sit down.

That's funny. I'm going to see this. I'm incredibly surprised that your middle son could not go on the teacups by himself. Because he's not seven. Wow. That's the rules. The rules. Teacups seven and up. All right. They check IDs. That's right. Well, because they ask kids. How old are you? The kid's not going to lie about it. Oh, I know. I hate that. I go to like the buffet and I'm like, yeah, he's three. No, daddy. He's four. Shut your mouth.

It's free 300. What are you teaching your kids? Pooped in his big boy pants. Yeah, because it's like, how old are you? I'm six and three quarters. We may or may not have had a, when we did our live shot here in Phoenix, the Foot Clan showed up, and we had a dad bring his kid. And this was, there wasn't like drinking going on, but it's a bar, so they only allow kids in of certain ages. And I remember, like, you know, this kid asked the fantasy question. He loved the show. He came up afterwards, and he goes,

Oh, how old are you? And his dad, his dad goes, 14. Because he could get in there. All right. Tom Brady, for all of his consistency, decided, hey, let's lay an egg in Buffalo. 21 for 30. Rex Burkhead didn't help out because he ran them in. 258, 258, no touchdowns. Wow.

Tom Brady was fine. I mean, if you look at the game, he started a little slow, but the offense got moving. He laid a fantasy egg. But absolutely laid a fantasy egg because the touchdowns were rushed in. If you missed him screaming at the offensive coordinator. Oh, man. He gave McDaniels the business. He was not happy. Let me, I don't know if I should get into this or not. This is twice now. Thumbs up or thumbs down. I don't know. I have no idea where we're going. Brooks, what do you think? Give me a ruling.

Let's do it. Okay. So, don't do it. Tom Brady freaked out. Yes. Freaked out on the sideline. We've had situations. Now, O'Dell Beckham Jr. brought this up this morning. He thought there was a double standard there because he's freaked out on the sidelines before and gets, you know, destroyed in the media. Des Bryant has freaked out on the side and got destroyed. Now, Enquambold.

This is why I said, I don't know if I want to get into it. And I think that you have, I just think he should be held to the same standard. Absolutely. You know, he should be, that being said, he's a quarterback and a quarterback specifically, regardless of any of the other nuances. Nuances to the situation. Generally, I mean, they're the ones dealing with the offensive coordinator in that way. But he should be held to the same standard. Absolutely. And he freaked out. Yes. And so Brady.

We were saying this. From that point on, it kind of seemed like he was a little on tilt. And look, they got it done. They're the Patriots. They won the game, but it didn't help your fantasy team. And then you had Gronkowski at the end of the game, not be able to control himself. He's, yeah. Gronk better be suspended. You think he'll be suspended? He concussed him. I mean, it was a cheap shot. Now, you want to talk about double standard. Imagine someone had taken that cheap shot at Tom Brady. That player would have been kicked out.

and suspended the next week. Grancowski better be suspended next week. Yeah. I guess we'll see what happens. Tyrod Taylor, we talked about the injury, but he was not good. Fortunately, we were off of him this week because it was tempting in the beginning of the week to say, hey, look, opportunity, floor, baseline. It didn't feel right. The way New England's been playing.

Nobody's scoring any points. The opportunity for upside was not there. They only gave up three points to Buffalo in this game, and then Taylor had the injury to boot. Matt Ryan let people down against Minnesota at home. Very disappointed. Great opportunity for them to really be in the playoff hunt. Now they're out of the playoff picture as of today. Trevor Simeon. Man, he was horrific. He was so bad. Every time I looked up, he was throwing the ball to.

like with his eyes closed. There was a point, uh, I think it was even in the third quarter where neither Emmanuel Sanders or Demarius Thomas had caught a pass. Yeah, that is not good. And then you move into running backs. My biggest disappointment of the week is Jordan Howard. Goodness gracious. Everything was lined up.

I was really, really, you know, you always have percentages kind of of how much you believe in a picks. You know, you believe strongly that a guy is going to perform well, or you think maybe he could. I firmly.

was in the camp of Jordan Howard was one of the safest plays this last week at home against San Francisco, the team that wants to run the ball and give him the ball so much. And Jordan Howard ended the game with only 13 carries. I feel like that's just a gigantic mistake. I have to ask the question. I know we have a lot of guys to talk about. But Jordan Howard, at Cincinnati, at Detroit, been Cleveland, where is your confidence level for Howard? Is it in the two range?

I'd rather roll out Kareem Hunt at home for three games in a row against than I would Jordan Howard, right? They're near the same, but I'm not sure. The balance isn't there in that offense. It's hurting Jordan Howard. I still believe in Jordan Howard. Yeah, I do too. I'm not off of Jordan Howard saying that, you know, you should, I would not say you should bench them, including next week in Cincinnati. I actually think Cincinnati right now lately, their run defense is overrated.

Here's the problem with Howard. Last four games. 15 carries, 15 carries, 7 carries, 13 carries. One big game, three duds. So he's 25% on producing on expectations in those games. Now, the matchups, they were pretty good. I mean, Green Bay, at home, stunk. San Francisco at home, stunk. Now, he got beat by Philadelphia. Okay, you're in Philadelphia. I just think that, I just don't know.

I don't know what to say. Yeah. Any week he could have a big week, but I'd rather play Alex Collins. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Then Jordan Howard. Alex Collins on fire. Yeah. All right. Disappointing weeks from Crowell. Duke Johnson wasn't that good. To quiz Rogers didn't have that opportunity. Yeah. I don't think he. No, he absolutely pooped people's teams because if you didn't, if you weren't up to the day, up to the, you know.

That's why you got to be on Twitter. Yeah, well, you should, for sure. You should be on about an hour before game. If you have the ability, you should be looking at those things because news came out that it was going to be Peyton Barber getting the bulk of the work. If you looked at our rankings late right before game time, you would have seen the switch in our rankings where Jequiz Rogers fell and Peyton Barber went up prior to game. But if you didn't notice that. Yeah, not everybody has that opportunity. Yeah, disappointing. Then he just smoked you. Danny Woodhead.

My second most disappointing player of the week, I expected bigger things from Woodhead. This game turned into a blowout. I think that helped Alex Collins quite a bit. But Woodhead was three carries, two receptions. I'm super disappointed. It's got Pittsburgh, Cleveland on the road. Maybe those games, the game script turns a little bit better. Pittsburgh seems like a Danny Woodhead game because you expect Pittsburgh be able to score in Pittsburgh. I just don't know what a Danny Woodhead game is yet. We cannot forget.

This is very important. We cannot forget that Danny Woodhead has not been a fantasy relevant player in Baltimore yet. That's the fact. He hasn't done it yet. So I don't want to imbue too much, even though I thought he was going to be a guy that would win people leagues. Lacey, irrelevant, Rawls irrelevant. Let's talk wide receivers. Julio Jones. Oh, man. Did you just share some of last week's points with this week? Just spread it up. Just split them. How does this happen?

How does this happen to players like Julio and Amari Cooper? You come off a game where the team realized, okay, let's funnel all targets to the best wide receiver. Look, when you're eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and all the jellies in one bite, that's not that good of a sandwich. Here's the truth. Watching this game intently because I had Matt Ryan going in a very important matchup for me, the Minnesota Vikings had the ball.