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

to the fantasy footballers podcast with your host Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Welcome in the fantasy footballers podcast. If you're watching on YouTube, we're focused on one camera right now. And it is the camera of a man who is dead. Well, I have no soul. It was.

Taken from me by Mike Wright. The fantasy hitman. So did he end up winning? It's not over yet. Let me check in on what I need. I've got Jonathan Taylor. Yeah. That is pretty cool. And my team did fairly well. I, you know, they showed up. Obviously, Josh Jacobs. That sucked. Got five points there. But I just need doing some quick math here. Uh, Jonathan Taylor needs to outscore Christian McCaffrey and George Kittle by 60. So, um, Mike went new. I mean, Mike just like he, he really would happen. Whipped me like a rented mule. And he took some anger out. Yeah, you, your day went from, because you, you talk a lot of pessimism all the time. It's a coping mechanism. I'm sure your doctors have talked to you about that. Yeah, many times. Um,

And so you had been like last week, you thought you're going to lose last week and then you won last week and then this week you said you were going to lose to Mike. But in your, in your heart, my heart, you thought, what if I win a championship? Well, in the beginning of the day, things were going well for both of us. Dak was a little better than Burrow to start today. Yeah, Dak got off to a good start. Burrow got off to a good start. We're just going to be a fight. And then, and then everything changed. i think when chase like jake paul oh you did you broke your jaw in two places yeah yeah you uh the chase brown stack with burrow twice uh right in your face here's the truth jason went home about right then here's here's the truth mike had the most magical weekend humanly possible it really was i don't know what happened yeah mike yeah mike

is in almost every championship that matters to us. There's a couple. The listener league right now, you've got a little bit of... The magic of the listener league didn't completely come through. No, because you had a concussion of Trebo in that league. I should have easily won against... Currently... We are the top two projected totals. So, I mean, that's how it's got to go. We have another league where it was like my one saving grace. That'll be the title game I'm easily in. I have Puka, James Cook, Devon A-chan. I stopped checking on that league. Mike stopped checking on it. And then all of a sudden we see Jalen Warren go for a 45-year touchdown. And I think to myself, I think I'm playing Warren someplace. And I go and look and it's against Mike, but I'm like, whatever. I'm still pretty. At one point in the middle of the morning, I'm projected to win by 70.

65 points. And then I was like, oh my gosh, Jalen Warren. And then he did it again. Yeah. Jalen Warren was a pretty good pick. I mean, the way Jason feels isn't even as bad as the way Al Borland feels because I'm going to the deucers alley right now. Oh man. Al Borland is wearing and let me be clear. Al Borland is the biggest Packer fan on the planet. We had a Christmas party on Saturday night. He had a bet apparently. I learned five minutes ago he had a bet with Jake. the biggest Bears fan on the planet. And while the Bears came back in a miraculous fashion, I at one point after the ending of the game, I glanced outside my backyard and saw a grown man throwing his cheesehead into my pool umbrella. That man was Al Borland, who is now wearing a Brian Erlacker jersey, I believe, with Jay Gris back behind him. And you got a Bears mug. How are you feeling, Jeremy? Yeah, how are you doing?

It's not my best day. Duh bears. There it is. There it is. He's got some contractual obligations this morning. It's a man of honor. It makes me feel happy. It's because suffering around you. Misery loves company. Yeah. I am miserable and it makes me very happy. Jeremy to see you be miserable. How does that make you feel? Slightly better. Dabairs. There it is. So there is pain, all of our good fortune absorbed by Mike, who is living a good life right now. And we are here to reflect on a semi-final weekend. There still has one game left. Still have Philip Rivers on a Monday night football evening where John Jennings and Christian McCaffrey and Brock Purdy and George Kittle have relevance tonight and Jonathan Taylor. So we will get into it. We have your reactions from the weekend.

Some stuff went really, really sideways. I mean, there were a handful of players that from out of nowhere, oh, by the way, the team that Mike's going to beat me with with Jalen Warren, he also started Quentin Johnston from, from injury to 19 points. It's the Cowboys. Yeah, I get it. I get it. But he was so like not even going to be active. And then he was, I just can't take it. But we had some players like Tray McBride that everybody counted on that didn't have big weeks. We had, um, Jacobi Brissette, right? The matchup was so perfect and he's under 15 fantasy points. So there were some some disappointments for sure. We'll reflect on all of that today. Don't forget we're here all year round after the season. The footy awards, the Truth Series will be into the draft and free agency. It all happened so fast. So you can stay with us. YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballers. That is the best way to view.

uh dead man in a bear's jersey inducer's alley youtube dot com slash the fantasy footballers he is a dead man in a bear's jersey who is also in our dynasty finals oh i'm sure he's very happy about that but i feel like his skin is crawling to have that jersey on what if that was sent to his what do you got what he got to say about that turn i feel like such a traitor the bears So there you go. So it's like every time we talk to me. Yeah, he has to, he has to throw it to bears in there. Yeah. Did you have fun at the Christmas party? Oh, good question. Yeah. We kicked some butt at Cornhole. We did. Da Bears. He is an honorable man. I'll give him that. We sent the call out on the Twitter sphere for your Monday Punday reactions. Strong feelings on a semi-final weekend. So let's start with the good.

Tremendous Lawrence. Oh my goodness. Yeah. Broncos who? Pooka nukem. Bazooka. James Cooked. And truly, Kenneth Greatwell. Yes. Jared go off. Yes, it's a... Jared, go off. That's a tough one. Go off. Jason kind of butcher. Trying to make it more like golf. Yeah, but you ruined the pun. Jalen scoring. Chase Crown and Trace Brown. Yeah. Three touchdowns. Smashed and Gentie. Holy crap, Ashton. Ashton. Ashton. And Jason, yeah. Chris Olav. Hey. Hey. Hey. All those Olave touchdowns, I knew how happy. Worthless. You would have been if they had mattered. We had some bad like Amunrah stained brown. What? Oh, and runaway McBride. Oh. Trey McWy. Why? Yeah. Trey McHide.

And we got the combo Jackson Fart. Josh Fakubs. Uh, fake London. Colby Fartkinson? Yeah, that'll work. Oh, man. Oh, this will cost me a league. Rico doubt it. Yeah. Oh, this didn't help me. Audrick overestimate. No. That's a good one. An D.K.O. Metcalfee? What? I don't know why the... It's D.K.O. But yeah, but what is the M. Caffee? I was tracking the whole time and then I think the Y must have gotten thrown in by somebody there. Do you try again? Yeah, KO. DKO. That's great. Yeah. Well, there you go. Freaking DK. Metcalfe. That guy. Well, I mean, I'm going to, I'm going to. More interested in punching fans than playing football. Yeah, I don't know. I'm going to try not to overdo it on Metcalf, not knowing what exactly.

happened or what exactly was said because i think reports it could be awful this morning came out and said there were racial slurs oh yeah it i assumed it was about like the worst of the worst not that you should punch him yeah and it's the i mean that the whole situation is unfortunate but also was his fancy points yeah yeah that was uh that was intense we had we had a lot going on this weekend let's talk some news News and notes from around the league. Presented by progressive insurance. All righty. The league is looking at that situation. Monday night football updates. We have no Ricky Pearsall. I heard on the Metcalf thing that someone would one of the reporters was covering and saying the the precedent is more than likely a fine. Really? Yes. Wow. Is it because he didn't make direct contact? Yeah, but I don't know. This is what they said that the precedent like.

of course it could be upgraded to this might have been pro football talk i can't remember who was saying it but it could of course could be upgraded to a game but i would assume a suspension hitting a fan is like that that's that's where you've got to set a precedent for the future of like it doesn't matter what's said it doesn't matter if they throw a cup on you yeah you you can't Do that. Yeah, I mean, it's, it's just brutal. I would be shocked if it's just a man for life. Yeah, I'd be, I'd be shocked if it's just a fine. We'll see what happens. Sean McVeigh said, Devante Adams is not expected to play this week. I thought he was maybe going to play last week. Lies. McVeigh is one of the biggest liar coaches. It's really, we forgive him because he prints. He's so awesome. Yeah. So it's like that's fine, but you cannot take him at his word. It's really unbecoming.

Sean McVeigh. Yeah. Tell the truth. Super Bowl champion liar. That doesn't sound too bad. Quinn Sean Judkins suffered an ankle fracture and a dislocation, very similar to Scataboo. Bad one. One of those where they don't show the replay and you're sad that you saw it live. Yeah. Jordan Mason left with an injury didn't return. Aaron Jones, not to be outdone, left with an ankle injury did return. That one. Watch this. That one was a. Big bummer of both guys were in a great spot and then both guys were just banged up. Yeah, and then Jane Giam McCarthy went out with another injury. X-rays negative. He'll have an MRI on the hand. It might be Max Brosmer next week. It's weird that the x-rays were negative to me. Just because he was ruled out so quick. It was like, hey, he's going to the locker room, ruled out the rest of the game. It's like, well, he went and got x-rays and then they're like, it's negative. He can't play. That's one of the Christmas, uh, Christmas Day games. Yeah, I mean, he's got a.

Got some tendons or something ripped up in there. Lamar Jackson exited late in the second quarter with a back injury. And I'm not going to say Mike was facing the Lamar Jackson manager with a negative projection. And then he totally just pulled that out of his butt. I don't know what you. But that's what happened. I don't know what you sacrificed. Like what kind of. Yeah. Do you still have all three of your white goat or a child? Are all your three personal problems still? Okay. One of them's around. But, oh my gosh, you had to sacrifice two? He's two championships, guys. Okay. One per. Rules or rules. I mean, yeah, so Lamar left and the Ravens are ready to leave the playoffs because let me just stress this again. Josh Allen, go win your championship right now. Because no Lamar, no Mahomes is the most likely outcome. I mean, the fact that right now, it seems.

highly likely that the Ravens, the Chiefs, and the Lions don't not make the Super Bowl. They're not in the playoffs. Those would have been the three highest like preseason. Maybe I had the bills in there. Those four teams were probably the highest picked teams to like, who's your favorite Super Bowl winner? And three of those teams aren't in the playoffs. Now the Lions and Ravens, I think, have slim. slim chances if everything went right and they went out and the right teams lose, but they're probably all missing the playoffs. Right now the AFC is a Broncos, Patriots, Jaguars, Steelers, Chargers, Bills, Texans playoffs. Josh, but this is. You got to get it done. Yeah, this is this is either, I mean, if you just look at it and this is what will make it exciting, right, like you're either going to have.

Josh Allen accomplished the dream and the goal. Or you're going to have a monumental moment for either Bo Nix, Drake, May, or Trevor Lawrence, right? You've got three young quarterbacks that haven't had those, or Justin Herbert, right? Or Aaron Rogers does something that we don't like. Oh, my goodness gracious. I mean, at least it's a storyline. This is why the NFL is so much better than every league is because, I don't know, there's so much can happen with injuries, so much can happen with the... Yeah, Detroit, 8% chance to make it Baltimore, 11% chance. Well, and real quick, just on the Baltimore game, as Underdog tweeted it out. Derek Henry had zero touches after putting the Ravens up 24 to 13 with 13 minutes left in the game. Like, it's inexcusable. And I watched Harbaugh. What? I watched Harbaugh talk about it afterwards. And he said in hindsight, he wishes he had Henry there, which is the thing that is frustrating about that is it's.

You're the coach? But it isn't hindsight? Yes. It's not hindsight. Everyone watching it live was like, what the heck? The commentators, literally Collinsworth was like, I think the other team's got to be sending a Christmas card to not have Derek Henry on the field. And the excuse from Harbaugh was, well, they were rotating and he was supposed to come back in on that drive, but the drive stopped. But why do you think the drive stopped? Why are you rotating? Why do you think the drive did not continue going? It was because Derek Henry wasn't on the field. You dummies? And this is not, this is what I promise. This is not fantasy football related. I got the points I needed from Henry and I'm sure most did. There's probably some teams that are real frustrated. They fell a little short. But like football, what are you, like Derek Henry is destroying the Patriots. They could not stop him.

Every play was just easy for him. So insane, man. And then you do two plays. Well, it's not like their entire season was on the line, right? No, I know. And then it's like, as soon as you do a not Derek Henry, it's like, oh, shoot, our drive is over. That's what they call it. They got a play sheet and there's a side this is Derek Henry. And then they have the not Derek Henry side. I mean, let's give it to Keaton Mitchell twice on this really important fourth quarter drive. I mean, just they won't see it coming. I mean, he should have come out and said, yeah, he twisted his ankle.

As soon as Lamar left the game, it was. Oh, you know what the rest of these are going to get 30 more touches. And they're like, no, that would be too easy. Well, I mean, it's wild. 24 to 13. We're going to, a big part of tomorrow's show on waivers is going to be talking about teams with playoff motivations. That's still. You know, this is the time of year, playoff motivation, and then the contract incentives for veterans and big time players. Right. Yeah, I mean, you're going to see like the Lions, right? I mean, they're still kind of playing. Yeah, Baltimore, too. But it's, we saw it with the Chiefs this last week. Yes, we did. Back on track with the almost upsets. When those great. Goodness. When those really great teams, not the.

average franchise, but the ones that aren't used to being out are out. It's different for them. Did you see that? So Detroit, it's over. The only way Detroit makes the playoffs is if they win their final two games and Green Bay loses their final two games. Well, speaking of that happened. Speaking of Green Bay. If that happened, how mad would you be, Al? Pretty mad. Dub bears. Thank you. Jordan. If you missed it, Jordan Love was knocked out with a concussion. And apparently Malik Willis, who is the backup quarterback for Green Bay, is pretty sore from a right shoulder injury suffered in the loss. Oh. Who's playing quarterback for Green Bay this week? And you got the same situation with the Chiefs. Gardner Minshu. Yeah, insane. That's insane. It looks like a torn ACL. I don't think it's confirmed, but that is the fear, which means that's what it's probably going to be. Do you guys want to yell some more? Bryant knocked out with a.

Car crash. I mean, he got hit so hard. Concussion, neck injury, went to the hospital, was discharged. What are you doing? Sean Payton, Bo Nix, your team is down 14 points with how much time was it left? Andy, do you remember it? It was like a minute? No, it was 30 seconds and they had 90 yards to go down 14. 30 seconds. Yeah, right around. And you throw Pat Bryant a crosser hospital ball. Yeah. And he literally ends up in the hospital. For nothing. For nothing. Now Pat Bryant just on his career now has this massive concussion for literally nothing. Freaking morons. Goodness gracious, man. Yeah, this thing where like we try to lose by less is an insult to all the players involved because it's not week two. It's not week three. We're like, okay. Let's get some stuff going. The game is over.

Your team is positioning for a play. You're currently the number one seat. You know who else could have been hurt on that play? Bo Nix. Bo Nix could have been hurt on that play. So idiot. Your offensive linemen, it's so embarrassing. And guess what? After the injury, what did they do? They need it out. They need it out. Well, I mean, they threw a flat and then nobody tried to do anything. It's okay. The fans understand there is a minute left and you're down by two touchdowns. It's impossible. Yeah, it was embarrassing. Just knee it out. Josh Allen was evaluated for a foot injury. I believe this was the second lowest fantasy production by Josh Allen in his entire career. So you talk about like, if you went into your semi-final with Josh Allen-Train McBride, you felt so good. And this is fantasy football. You did everything you could do. It won't feel any better today, but you didn't make a mistake. Yeah. You just. You need.

You need some fortune and luck in the place. Yeah, you lost the luck there. That was news and notes sponsored by Progressive Insurance. Quote today at progressive.com, progressive casualty insurance company affiliates and third party insurers, not available in all states or situations. Coverage subject policy terms, limits and conditions will take a break and we'll hit the studs. This is funny before I get into the studs. I believe that... Al Borland technically told one of our, told Brooks not to play Josh Allen and to bench him. What's great advice. Incredible foresay. What exactly made you so convicted about that, Al. I'm playing against Brooks this week. Oh. Oh, yeah. Anything else to say? Dubairs. Thank you. Yeah, you did win. So congrats on that one. Let's talk studs. This week's fantasy stud muffins presented by Lowe's.

True contenders? Goodness. Yeah, for sure. Trevor Lawrence. Number one. What? And I watched, Mike and I were watching this game. I think we were all watching this game. Every play was decisive by Trevor Lawrence. That's the word that I would use the most. Decisive, but also accurate, good decision making, escapability in the pocket. This is the best defense in football, one of the best defenses. You put up a number one fantasy production week. You win by two scores on the road in Denver. There's nothing more definitive than what Trevor Lawrence did this week with this team. And they made the commitment to Jacoby Myers. He has a big role on this team. Britton Strange was great. Mike's start of the week. Yeah. And, you know, I don't know. I'm just so impressed. Trevor Lawrence, we.

We were kind of like quietly mentioning, you know, when the stretch of good runs were going on. You're like, are you guys watching Lawrence? Like things, somehow, what, are we in year, what, five? We're in year five, over halfway through year five. And all of a sudden, you're like, something has clicked. Trevor Lawrence and this Jags team just, they look fantastic. He's the quarterback four. Yeah. And before the by week, before the by week, Trevor Lawrence had appeared in the top 12 for fantasy quarterbacks. one time. Through seven games, he was just hot garbage for fantasy. They ran some updates on the software. Well, that's the hope. I see that biweek split for him. And you look at this is the first year with Liam Cohen, the system figuring it out. And that by week, he came out. He was 59% accuracy. He was 59% accuracy going into the biweek first half of the year.

He's been up in the mid-60s most weeks since then. The yardage hasn't changed, but his quality of passes has really gone up. He was on pace for 21 touchdowns prior to the by week. He's on pace for 34 after the buy week. So to me, it's just like the system is clicking. It's so, I mean, it really is a testament to that head coach. It is. Matthew Stafford, Justin Herbert, Joe Burrow, Jared Gough. Those are the rest of the top five scores of the week. You know, Mike, you said in one league you had the Burrow Gough decision to be made. Yeah. It would have been a two and a half point decision for you. Yeah. It wasn't looking that way for Jared Gough. No, I-Goff performance was very much like Taylor. I'm still pretty shocked. And Jared Gough was one OPI from another touchdown. Also, what in the world was that last play?

What in the world was that entire last minute of that game? It was drunk. Yeah, but I mean the games, the game ended five times. They're like, nope, there's a penalty. I still just don't even under, I honestly, maybe you guys can the way the guy called it. The way he announced it. Oh, man. Which somebody summarizes basically like, like, Rick rolled him. You start with like, hey, there is a touchdown on the field, but also screw you, no touchdown. That was the announcement. I love this like, he's like, The ruling on the field was a touchdown. And the crowd goes crazy. But there was a penalty. You know, the final. The final sentence was there was no touchdown. You started with there's a touchdown and you ended with there is no touchdown. I, there's probably protocol. Gotta go. Where the way that the refs have to say the, you know, say what happened during the play. Not on that one.

None of that all goes away and you just say. Those were inside thoughts. You say there was a penalty on the offense. The game is over. It's like the doctor from arrested development. It's like he looks like he's not going to make it. Oh my gosh. No, he just looks like he's sleepy. Oh my gosh. He's. He's all left. Oh, is that the reveries getting out of town? Yeah. So look, that game was crazy and it was super consequential as well. Justin Herbert had a great day against Dallas. We can't be too surprised about that. The Dallas Cowboys allowing the most fancy points per game to quarterbacks of the last five years. Just kidding. All time. We thank you for your service. Yeah, they have, they have been. They're the real MVP. You want a footy for best performance in here. Yeah, yeah. In fantasy, it's Dallas defense. Yeah, they should be up there. I want them in contention for a vote. I wouldn't mind sending all those guys an award. It's the only one they'll get this year.

Joe Burrow. Do we have any health update on Marcus Marriota yet? Because, oh, I'm sorry, Mariotta. There you go. Mariato. We now have like three. I know. I was going back to blowing around. I was going back to the draft there. He did you play the Cowboys next week? Yes, he does. I see. I see. Now I understand. I thought that was just you breaking in for one of your teams in the middle of Stugs for no reason. No, no, it was the Cowboys. Joe Burrow got it done and then has Arizona. Joe Burrow got it done and Mike was fine because he, like in our league, our scoring, you can, you usually win when you hit 130. That's like a high score. I think I was projected about 130, got near there. Mike is currently projected for 190. So it was, it did nothing mattered. You.

But Joe Burrow didn't play with like a whole quarter left. He did the entire fourth quarter. It was unbelievable. He did all this damage. It's unfair that he's like not the quarterback one on the week. He was a point or two off. He would have had probably six touch. He was the best quarterback of the week. If Miami, if guys, uh, Quinn, you were. Oh, it didn't work out. No. I mean, it worked out. We were to write his name in the duds if anybody had started him. And if his name didn't already sound. Ew. It, I mean, it worked out for McDaniel of the report coming out that morning saying most likely scenario was Tua's gone. Coach McDaniel will keep his job. They lose. They get a little bit of a better draft pick. It worked out for them. Drake May finished the job last night. MVP votes heading that direction. Man. Do you need to thank Todd Monkin? Yeah.