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

the whole stinking game. Their defense is really good, but their offense is what really helped their defense out. Matt Ryan, we've said this before. He's not a come from behind type of quarterback. He's not a when we're down and we're in clear passing situations, I'm going to rack up fantasy points type of guy. And this game was completely front to back all three phases controlled by Minnesota. That's why I give

The Minnesota Vikings, the credit for Julio Jones's poor game, as opposed to, you know, the week prior, right? It's not just Xavier Rhodes. That's why I'm bringing up the Minnesota offense. The week prior, when you're playing a team like Detroit and Matthew Stafford, who is good in those situations, he's used to having to throw from behind and be that gunslinger, and he's going to air it out and, you know, make that work. That's not Matt Ryan's game.

And we also mentioned Minnesota gives up the least amount of explosive plays, which are runs of more than 11 yards, passes of more than 15 yards in the league, half as many as Kansas City has given up this year. And Julio Jones made a lot of his fantasy production on those last week. I'm going to read out some poopers. I want you to give me the most relevant, important pooped in their big boy pants, wide receiver, and tell me what that means for fantasy owners before we move on.

Evans, Mike Evans against Green Bay. Everything was lined up. I'll be the first to admit. I had them at number two on my rankings this week. I expected big things with Winston back. You got that with Bray. You didn't give it with Evans. Brandon Cooks, Stefan Diggs, Corey Coleman, Devante Parker, the two whiteouts in Denver, Deshawn Jackson, Corey Davis.

The lead stories here are the combo of Mike Evans and Brandon Cooks. Those were guys that were, you know, consensus top five wide receivers on the week. Matchups looked perfect. Everything lined up. Quarterbacks healthy and back. And they both absolutely stunk. You only had six targets for Mike Evans. That's not his game. I mean, he was far and away my biggest disappointment this week. If I look at every position, every player, Mike Evans had, you know,

When he started this season, you questioned, we went into this offseason kind of saying, look, Mike Evans, he's not that tier one player. Don't draft him that way. We got destroyed for that, by the way. Yeah, and it looked bad in week one when he comes out and it has seven receptions and 93 yards and a touchdown follows that up the next week with another seven receptions. But since those first few weeks,

I mean, he has not been a volume target player. It's hard to know because, you know, over the last five weeks, four of it was Ryan Fitzpatrick. I hope James Winston figures that out going forward. You've got Detroit, a much better matchup. I think, well, I don't know much better than Green Bay, but at least a good matchup, and maybe they can figure that out. But he was my biggest disappointment. You know, there was the play where Evans went up and had almost a sensational catch. I mean, he caught the ball.

And it looked to me like Tampa Bay should have challenged. It looked like it was a split second. I think he was out of bounds. Yeah, well, regardless. I thought maybe his knee hit in, but he also injured his hand or his arm on that play. I don't know if that factored into the rest of the game being disappointing. Now, that being said, you're not going to sit Evans, but there are players that I just named that you will question starting at all rest of season like Diggs, Parker, Coleman, Demeris, Thomas, and Sanders.

How many of those players can you start rest of the season? You've got your playoffs on the line. If I had to pick one of that group, I'm going to start Stefan Diggs. That's the only one that I would agree with. You know, he's usually better at home. This was a road game, but Case Keenoms looked good. The Minnesota offense, I believe in. Whereas Corey Coleman with Josh Gordon, I don't know about Devante Parker has kind of disappeared. So of that list, I'm okay rolling with Diggs. The others, they need to, they need to warm my bench.

Warm it up. All right, look, Jared Cook disappointed the heck out of me this week. Every opportunity to be involved got five targets, only caught one of them. That's not good. But Jared Cook does what Jared Cook does, which is when you expect something from him, he gives you nothing. ASJ, it continues to be a downturn for his season. Vernon Davis. Not good. What happened? Look, other people are catching the ball, too. What happened? Not good. Jack Doyle.

The ping pong continues. Back down to three for 16. And then Charles Clay. At least the Charles Clay is the Cameron Brate of that roster. When Winston's there, Brate's good. When Taylor's there, Clay's good. Taylor went off the field. Yep. I think that's a fair point. I don't know if you can trust Charles Clay moving forward the rest of the season, just because I'm anticipating the bill's making a move to Peterman. All right. So again, this is why Tray Burton to me.

I just read you a bunch of names. You might not have very much confidence. I have confidence in Carson wins. I have confidence in that offense, the number one offense. I'd rather play those guys than I would, you know, lean on maybe Brissette to find Doyle again or Gropolo to find George Kettle again or something like that. Yeah, I still have confidence in Jack Doyle.

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