Week 16 Studs & Duds + Championship Prep - Fantasy Football Podcast for 12/23

Welcome to the Fantasy Footballers Podcast with your hosts, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Welcome in. The Fantasy Footballers Podcast. Monday, December 23rd. Fa-la-la-la-la. La-la-la-la. Christmas Adam. Wow. What a weekend it was.

How about that Devon HN run? So I talked to somebody this morning that won their match on the Devon HN run, which if you didn't watch, the game was over. The Dolphins had the football with under two minutes to go. They could have. They needed to get the first down. They needed to fully run out the clock. But once they did that, they could have needed out. And 50 yards from the end zone, it was one of those plays. And it's ones we've seen before. I remember very vividly. Identical situation for the Colts many years ago. I had a victory secured.

And the ball was handed to Jonathan Taylor on a third and one. Just get the first. And the entire defense pushes up to try to stop him. And he just breaks through the front line and goes to the house. And that's what HN did. Ain't no sliding with my man. Yeah. You know what? I feel like it's like his Nick Chubb has like gone down multiple times. Well, that's what he absolutely should have done. Yeah. But he didn't. Not my man. He's like, we're six and eight guys. I'm taking my touchdown. Was there an HN touchdown incentive that we didn't talk about?

That play, you know, if you were on sleeper where they, you know, the projections, they control your emotions, right? The percentage chance of victory. If you were in that boat, this guy had 1%. It was a 1% chance of victory and one play. And then like a 13 point play or something. And the other, the other guy quit his job, left his family and moved away. No. So he was, it was a wild weekend. It was a lot of fun. So if it went the way that you wanted and didn't have Jalen Hurts as your quarterback. Oh yeah. Oh, that is unbelievable.

That is catastrophic. Yeah. The, if you are listening to this show and you were on the, you're on the losing side of the Jalen Hurts things and you're here, you're like, I need guys. I need, I need a release. Number one, just, Oh my gosh. That debt is. If you want to quit fantasy football, I don't blame you for, for those when it's like, Oh, come on. Everything. I got to the semis. It wasn't your fault. My quarterback. Doesn't that matter? You didn't make the wrong start set. I feel like I would, it might sound stupid, but I would rather lose that way.

I would rather lose with my, with no way. I mean, if I'm losing, I don't want to lose, but if I'm going to lose a game, I want to be able to say my, my star quarterback went out right at the beginning of the game. I got dude. I'm, I'm with you. If I'm going to lose anyway, I don't want the H and touchdown at the end of the game to beat me. I don't want it to be a start set decision. Like, like I don't want to be the guy that started Britain strange instead of Chica Conquo and have it cost you the win.

Oh yeah. Now, would you rather have had Jalen hurts go out there and score five fantasy points or Josh Allen who played the whole game scored 11 fantasy points? Not a lot of those people moving on. In fact, that the, the common denominator in all the championship games that I've seen this morning and who I will be playing against in listener league, because I'm going to make it through is Joe Burrow and Jamar chase. That stack has led Mike to a back-to-back appearance in our dynasty league title game. They're unstoppable. And that combo is just really difficult if they do anything.

And Chase has scored in set. So listen, seven straight weeks, Burrow chase stack has resulted in a touchdown. Seven. That's a record. Seven? Seven straight. It's a record. They showed it on the, on the broadcast yesterday. Well, they, I think they're liars because I'm showing no touchdown for chase last week. Uh, well then maybe, maybe they were liars. Thanks for submarining that. Well, I just want to bring the, the, the facts. Okay. You're right. Yeah. They said seven straight. Maybe they're at home or something like that. But, um, chase has 16 on the year and without a touchdown finished at 22 last week.

Uh, man, what was that Brooks? Uh, let me know if you find that stat, but, but that was one of the common denominators. Was Burrow has seven straight weeks of two 50 and three to 50. That's how you get there. And stacks are so powerful this time of year. You get it right. It's hard to overcome. Um, in our league of record, which many of you are following along, it happened. Mm hmm. Here we are. Al Borland sitting over there. Blood pressure, two 20 over one 80. Al got the, uh, the Jalen hurts fantasy football Christmas gift. I did. It didn't matter.

He did emotionally. Emotionally. It was like facing Jalen hurts, but still scoring 180 points. Yeah. His team has been on fire. Did you really? And by, let me be the first. Did you really score? It depends on Jacobs tonight. I think I've got like one 60 something and still have Jacobs fire. And I have green Bay's defense tonight. Al's in the, he's in the championship game for the first time. There's a 16, 17 years we've been a legal record. Yeah. He hasn't been there. I haven't been there the entire time, but your first opportunity at a title. Yes, sir. And the world will be with you.

I don't know. Because I got a lot of fans out. I snuck in and I have an opportunity to go back to back. And Al Borland has a chance to knock me off this week. And one of the little subplots in our matchup that I was looking at preseason in the draft season, I traded Kyron Williams for Jameer Gibbs and both got, you got Kyron Williams and I got Jameer Gibbs are both in the title game going into the final week. Both guys playing really well. One guy. Do you have any thoughts? Do you have any thoughts on the matchup, Jason?

It's going to be, it's going to be an awesome matchup. You guys have to put your lineups out there on X so that we can like have everybody follow along. It should be really, really cool. And in the listener league, so people can root for owl in the league of record. People can root for you in the listener league because that gives them an extra spot. I guess even tonight, what you, you you're down like a point or two. I'm down one point, but I have the Packers defense. Right. So I'm good. Yeah, I agree. I don't care what I say right now.

I'll set it all up. You're not afraid of no jinx. I'll set it all up to come crumbling down when the Spencer Rattler goes into Lambeau and dominates the Packers defense. But yeah, listener league, if I win that next week, that there will be an extra spot for us to give away during the year. And that's the goal as well as crushing the hopes and dreams of every individual in that league, which we, I think are succeeding at right now. Yeah. They seem pretty sad. I saw one of the managers with a binky or no, a pacifier. Yeah. That's the same thing.

Yeah. Okay. I don't understand why it's called a binky, but it is. We have your reactions to the weekend. There were lots of them and we'll jump in. You submitted them Monday, Monday on X on Instagram. I guess we'll do that right now. Go ahead, Mike. Oh, I'm going to read it this way. Chubba hubba hubba. Oh, not too bad. Uh, Brian Thomas senior. Jaden Daniels. Or a salute to captain James T. Cook. Devon Yee Chan. To infinity and Devon. Uh, what? Oh, big Oconquo. Or chig Ogronquo. I like that one. And just win Jefferson. Jonathan Taylor touchdown. He made up for his mistakes.

For all the teams that aren't in the playoffs anymore. Saquon Gnarly. Jackson Smith win Jigba. It wasn't all good. No. Trey McDied. Yeah. Trey McLied to all of us. And Jerry Doody. Oh, Jalen Hurt. Yeah. Aw. There was Joe Fiction on Thursday. And Patrick Failure Jr. Oh, leave him alone. He's a fifth stringer. Rashad Light. Josh Stalin. Oh. The Stalin. And Cooper Crap. Oh, no. With Pooper Nakua. That's a lot of turds. And, uh, I was going to end it with the innovative pun, Kyle sucks. But we'll go with Marvin Embarrassing Jr. Because, dude. Dude. Not sophisticated, Mike. The Cardinals, not sophisticated.

Marvin Harrison. I hate them. Marvin Harrison Jr. I hate them so much. I can't stand watching the Cardinals. They're the worst. Kyler is not a good quarterback. He's just, he doesn't have it. However, Marvin Harrison Jr., I believe, has everything to be a star. But the one thing I have seen absent way too many times is effort. Well, he's, they, they x-rayed him, Jay. No dog? No dog. I mean, there ain't no dog in there. There's no puppy. Healthy, clear lungs. There's, there's no elderly dog in there. There is, is complete absence. No, it's a pussycat. Yeah. Can they, like, feed him a dog or something?

How do you get dog in this man? So, you are 100% right. Weak hands. We saw him late in the game. Over time, they're trying to get back to the line of scrimmage. Who's the last man getting to the line of scrimmage? Ho-hum. Let's go for a stroll down the lane. Everybody on the team was maximum effort. Run into the line. Get the ball to the ref. We got to go. And then there's, like, Marvin Harrison's like, I don't. I'm too cool for that. I want to believe that the problems of getting him targets has created this situation where mentally he's pressing.

So, the few opportunities he gets, he's, you know, he's overthinking them. I don't know. He's not as good as Brian Thomas Jr. He's not as good as Malik Nabors. He's not as good as Lad McConkie. He might not be as good as Xavier Worthy. So, you're getting to a place where this is depressing. But the issue is. Oh, man. We were so mad yesterday. It's the controllable thing. Like, that's the most frustrating part. He doesn't come back hard on routes. He doesn't fight hard. That's where it's like, you can do that. I know that you can give 100%, and you're not.

It's frustrating. No, and he's now the wide receiver 35 on the season. And a far cry from the screams that we got from Mike Wright on draft day when he picked him. And he said to everybody, no one will ever pry him from my hands in our keeper league. I'm thinking you're going to let people pry. Well, it's weak hands holding on to him. Okay. All right. That's fair. I thought they were diamond. They're paper. Cardinals suck. All right. Let's move on. Welcome to Ready to Roll. Presented by Nissan. All right. I'll leave this one. This week's Ready to Roll.

Final. Ready to Roll. It is the final. We're going to keep this one short and sweet. We're just going to highlight a couple running backs here who sometimes there's wild splits between how a running back performs at home and on the road, which generally speaking, I want my running backs at home. I want my running backs in a, in a, uh, over under where they are heavily favored, but just sometimes it works out that guys are just much, much better on the road. But a couple of players to highlight who are at home and have been just much, much better

by a points per game. And these are, you know, running backs who are types of fringe starters. Ramondre Stevenson, who came, he had an okay game last, uh, yesterday against the bill. The Patriots as a whole had a pretty good game against the Buffalo bills, but Ramondre Stevenson at home has been over six points better, uh, on, on a fantasy points per week. 15.4 at home, 9.1 on the road. And he's at home. It's a tougher matchup against the chargers, but he has been just like the work and everything. He's just been such a better player at home that I think it could give you a little bit

of confidence that he's in that flex consideration. And then Deandre Swift. Like I said, these are lower tier guys that you will be making decisions. And you're hiding. These aren't the only players that have big splits. These are ones that you're highlighting as fringe options as we head into decision. Cause uh, Kyron Williams, there's, there's no decisions. There's no decisions. However, Devon HN, there's no decision. It's worth noting that Kyron Williams is significantly better at home and for Andy and Owl's matchup. He's at home this week, but he's going to kill the sucky Cardinals. Deandre Swift at home has been four points better, uh, in those matchups.

He gets to take on Seattle at home. So that will be an interesting one to watch. And then on the, the road side of it, well, before you move to the road, you got a highlight? Yeah. I think Rashad white is worth highlighting as well. Another play that's been much better at home. And I think you're going to have decisions there, especially after kind of a, uh, more down week, but much better at home. And it's against the Carolina Panthers. So I saw a matchup that swung last night on the Rashad white fumble. Oh no, that play was infuriating. Oh, play was like the most amazing place.

Like nobody this season has held themselves up in the middle of a sack more than Baker. Uh, just pushing off Joey Bosa earlier in the year or, uh, uh, Nick Bosa. And then he breaks through five guys, gets the ball to his player. You're saving the play. Oh my God. Oh, the game's over. Yeah, it will. The, the, the highs and lows of that play were absolutely insane. Road warriors. Uh, just want to highlight the guys from Seattle have, and we're talking about Zach Charbonnet and Ken bone Walker. They've just, they've been better on the road, on the road. And they're on the road against Chicago, which actually coincides with a plus matchup here for

these running backs. Kenneth Walker, obviously back injured. Cause the dude is made out of wet cardboard. Uh, like every, just every time he's, he's healthy, he got a goal on carry. Didn't, didn't get in, but got hurt. I've never seen a player that I can remember ever who didn't get to 10 fantasy points and had eight receptions. He was, he, he had not targets. He, I mean, he had eight targets as well, but he had eight receptions and he did not score 10 fantasy points in half PPR. How is that possible? And he had seven of them in the first half, seven receptions.

And, and Kenneth Walker now has an ankle injury. Yep. So it's something where it's like, this is not just a recurrence of what they're dealing with. Right. I mean, this is just, we need a lot of news actually from Seattle. What's going on. Cause you had, cause look, Charbonnet, if you miss this was listed as a captain for this team. And then everything was Ken Walker and McIntosh. Like Charbonnet was the third guy in. So that'll be something to monitor. I would expect if Walker is out, then Charbonnet is right back into being a great play. And then, uh, it's a tougher matchup.

It's your boy. And coming off of just an absolute disaster of a performance for Rico Dowdle, where the, the, the Cowboys could get nothing going 13 or 23 on the ground. Like he was just, as soon as he had the ball, he was getting contacted and he just, he couldn't make anything happen. Anything special happen. But points wise at home, Rico Dowdle's under 10 points and on the road, he's been a 13 point per game type of a player. He is on the road, tougher matchup against Philadelphia, but the worst it's at least worth considering that they just, he, he's been better on the road.

Last name to bring up only cause it's an Indian owls matchup. Joe Mixon. He has the largest road split of any running back over the last decade, potentially all time. We just looked at a decade and it's number one. He is the 10th most fantasy points per game on the road for any running back. And so, but he's at home at home. I mean, if you look at who he played on the road, you'll understand why. Yeah. I mean, you played, uh, Dallas in Indy and new England, um, the jets defense Jacksonville. He dominated in those matchups for sure. Uh, this week it will be this week.

Interesting. This week is going to also, I don't know how motivated they're going to be. Be it's going to be Ravens. Or the, or the Texans. Well, the Texans really needed to get a W in order to, now they got what they needed from Pittsburgh's loss. So maybe they'll still be motivated to be able to slide into the three seed, but they didn't win against Kansas city. So that made me sad. But the, this week is going to be unique. Cause reminder, there is games on Christmas and Christmas is on a Wednesday. Oh, that's crazy. So the, I, we don't have data to say, you know, like this is what's going to happen one

way or another, but I think it's going to be interesting. Like, do you guys think that they're like the running backs? Do you think that they will have a small edge here that they're, that all the, you know, like the lines are tired and the running backs will be able to get a little bit more points here. I don't know. I really don't. Uh, with the Wednesday Christmas games. I mean, right. It's going to, it's going to be another fragmentation that we had last week where I think I've got four, I have five players. I think five of my players will play on Christmas.