Fantasy Football - Week 16 Studs & Duds + Mike's Blood Sacrifices - Podcast for 12/22

It's nine carries for Rico, six for Chuba. No one can get in the flow. You at least had the six targets for Rico Douda, but it was against Tampa Bay. That was a big time bummer. And I don't know if we mentioned him. We probably could have. Amarian Hampton was definitely a stud this week, got into the end zone. Kamani Vidal only had five total carries. Second game removed from the injury. It's nice to see what the plans are for him, even going beyond into next year. Like, it's going to be the Amarian Hampton show. Yeah. And he's. He's looked way better than he did earlier in the year. Yeah, I don't have his final stat line in front of me, but he had a pretty good game, and he looked the part. So other duds. Hampton real quick, just for you, Andy, 16 for 85 on the ground. Only one for 10 through the air. We'd like that to get bumped up. Scored, right? He did, yeah, currently the running back 15 on the week. Getting into the duds at the wide receiver position, where there's some names that stood out to you, I mean.

Drake London. Drake London was very disappointing. Yeah. And you would say, oh, well, it was his first game back and maybe, you know, they were easing him in. He had eight targets. He just didn't do much with it with Kirk Cousins. There are three for 27. Very disappointing. And then Amun Ra is the best wide receiver to have the worst game. Because he's automatic. He's guaranteed. He's, you know, you just assume I'm getting 15 points from him. as kind of a baseline and four for 54 at the end of that game. I think honestly Pittsburgh needs a little bit of credit and love, especially from me because I haven't been doing that. But when we talk about all these teams getting in the playoffs, I feel like the one that is just dismissed. Dismissed outright is the Steelers because old man Aaron Rogers and they're just kind of this treading water above 500 team. But they've they've done some good work. I mean, they're.

They lost JJ Watt and they shut down the lions. I mean, for most of the game. They lost them because they also never had it. Oh, T.J. Watt. Yeah. Gotcha. You got them. The, the, the perfection of fantasy football that Omina Ross St. Brown and Jamison Williams both had like, Jamo was fine. He's five for 70. But I'm saying, Jared Goff had a great game. Those two guys did not. Trevor Lawrence had a great game. And yet Brian Thomas Jr. and Jacoby Myers. Did not. Did not. Yeah. That's called the old knife twist. Yeah. Matt Kaff was just four for 42. Yeah. Had a touchdown called back in this one. We'll see what happens with all the discipline stuff. He's come out and kind of said what he said. Yeah. He said what the fan said. Said words you do not say. And then Nico Collins, four for 59, was double covered all game long. A mecca Abuka won for 40. At least he got a four-yard bomb. Dude.

The downfall of Abuka is, it's impossible. How do you start like that? And then we get here. I don't, we're going to have to study this. He was like the best wide receiver in the NFL for the first half and is irrelevant. Well, when you're averaging in 155 passing yards, you basically cut in half the production of Baker Mayfield that he had in the first half of the year. And you then split it. Jalen McMillan is on the field a lot. There were a lot of plays I was watching. where Abuca was off the field and Jalen McMillan was on the field because of personnel packages. And it seems like first read, second read is still Evans and Godwin, whether that's good or bad. Trey McBride, we talked about it. Bummer. Jake Ferguson keeps not getting it done. Aranda Gadsden, just one catch for seven yards. That was disappointing. Where did that sound come from? Mike's mouth. Oh, okay. I thought it might have been your or something else. Colston Loveland, just three for 30 on it.

Mr. Loveland. Nothing from the Bears because there was nothing from Josh Allen. Nothing from Andrews and likely again. Colby Parkinson or as you called him, Parkinson. And then Kelsey did nothing. Darren Waller, three for 40. The Kelsey one, you know, when you were talking about, hey, incentives. A thousand yards was within reach for Travis Kelsey. And if you haven't heard Travis Kelsey talking lately. It is. About the Chiefs. He was talking about Patrick Mahomes returning from injuries. Like, yeah, the Chiefs will get Patrick Mahomes back. Not we. No. And he was talking very much as a man who will be done. He, I mean, I think he was pretty close to retiring last year. But they were like, hey, we were so close. We got to run it back. And then coming into this week, he had, you know, just under 800 yards, three games to get to 1,000.

I thought maybe they would try to force feed Travis Kelsey. And that was not the case. He had six yards. Another dud, I mean, Audric estimate, I know we mentioned him a little bit, but one thing that that reminded me of talking about Kelsey, the fact that he's about to retire, you know, potentially the emotional side, the man. Tasum Hill was someone that on the course of the season, you forgot he existed. he had done nothing he was still there literally nothing yeah i mean he was he was basically not really a part of this team and we just forgot like that was his potential final home game for the saints and they talked a lot about that after the game and it was like a just it was a big whiff and a miss because in the running game it was like oh yeah i mean 12 carries for tasem hill

Which we're looking at that whole Estimate versus Evan Hull. That's just a complete oversight. So Taysam Hill. What was the number? Kyle, you probably saw it of like he's now the first player to have. A thousand. A thousand receiving, thousand rushing and a thousand passing. Yep. In the history of the NFL. He threw one of the two touchdowns, by the way. Yes, to Olave. Olave. Because if Shuck had thrown it, it would have hurt Mike in one of his leagues. Right. So it's like. Listener league. Yeah. Oh, good, good, good, good. Listener league. So he's like, hey, you know what? I need you in there. We got it. We got to win this for the footland. Someone else throw this touchdown. And then they listen to Mike. That was Studs and Duds presented by Lowe's. Loz knows Sundays are for NFL. Earn your Sunday with Lowe's official partner in the NFL. We would keep going, but we can't. Mike has to get back to his yacht repairs, which are a burden, a brutal, because he has to tell those guys what to do on my yard.

Oh, my goodness. Do you know how much money I would have to spend at our draft, Jason? So you need Jonathan Taylor to outscore George Kittle by about? By a lot. 11. By 11. All right. Oh, my gosh. I hope you lose. I hope you lose so bad. And we need George Kittle to score fewer than 10 in Dino Jr. Do you have any matchups still going out? Yeah, I do. You do? What ones? It's going to be me and Mike facing off on the Dino Championship. Oh, I just meant this week. You don't have anything you're waiting for on Monday night football? No, sir. Just waiting to get out of that? The bears. Yeah, okay. Also, the bears still suck. Go pack. Oh, oh, man. Oh, man. That feels like he has to do it for another show or something. That feels like a prison break. All right. We are done. We'll be back tomorrow. Good luck tonight. Goodbye. Thank you for listening to another episode of the Fantasy Footballers podcast.

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