Week 12 Studs & Stinkers + Weekly Rewind, Endangered Penguins

the last place secondary in football. Yeah, this was, the Falcons had a lot of, a lot of injuries through this game. They lost several pieces. Obviously, you already lost Hooper. I think Brian Hill was out at one point. Julio was out for a while. Yeah, it was a rough injury game. I guess there were some whispers in the bushes around the Jags, who with Nick Falls have, I believe, yet to win a game. That's correct. Doug Merlin said he has not considered a quarterback change.

From watching those games, I don't know if a quarterback changes the solution when you give up 400, 500 yards to Ryan Tannehill and Derek Henry. Yeah, Foles did not seem to be the issue for the Jaguars yesterday. There was nothing where I was like, man, he looks like Trubisky here. No, it was giving up points on every play on the defensive side. Robert Woods is, quote, looking good wouldn't commit to him in the Monday night game. Good hair day. That's so weird. Why, well, this is this is. Gamesmanship, right? This is McVeak.

So he's going to play, right? I assume that he is going to play. Your options, if you need backup plays, you could have Josh Reynolds on your bench. You could have Gerald Everett flexed in over Woods. If Woods got sat down again, we expect him to play, and I don't expect him to have a high ceiling against the Ravens. Yeah, and, of course, Brendan Cooks should play as well. So this will be first time in a little while where you've got the three stooges together. I did not rank Brandon Cooks very high at all this week.

That's fair. So we'll see. Weekly rewind, news and notes brought to you by the Sleeper app. Do not miss a single piece of fantasy football breaking news. Multiple ankles. All that kind of news. Also, I mean, I didn't throw it in, but Gigantor season. What is the day? It is the 25th of November. It is the time. It is the year of the Gigantor. Mo Alley Cox. Back up.

to the backup. Mike never concerns himself with context. Oh, my goodness. I just saw what is above my head. Wow. What a George Gittle picture? A George Kittle picture. Would you have been able to handle that had you lost? No. Growing out of your head. If I came in and just now noticed after the loss on his bomb touchdown that he was above my head. But I don't believe books would have done that. Yeah. This was an homage to owl.

The picture is George Kittle spreading his arms out wide in a posture that Al Borland clearly walked around his house in after the touchdown. What is the tattoo on his left bicep? Is this squiggly line? It is a, it looks like a mountain range, Mike. What is going on there? It's to symbolize the peaks and valleys of fantasy football. Let's get into the studs. This week's fantasy stud muffins. I don't believe that any of the podcast listeners could see it.

No, no, that's true. They can't. But I want to know if you know what's going on with George Gittle's tattoo here. All right. We did mention him. Ryan Tannehill was a monster. Two rushing touchdowns, two passing, some big plays. In his five starts, he's been the quarterback 13, 11, 5, 11, 1. From what I understand, the reason he went to Tennessee to begin with was because...

He was not going to go to a place that he didn't have the opportunity to take over as the quarterback. He was ready and he's got incentives. And on the sideline, one of the saddest things that has ever been witnessed was Marcus Mariotta on the side. He had his helmet on. Yeah. He was ready to go. I'm ready to go, coach.

The whole time, every time they went to him, his helmet is on him. I'm like, I've never seen this before. I've never seen a backup. Just staying warm? He's got his helmet on completely ready to go play. But Tanna Hill's been great. And the news around town in Tennessee is that they believe he could be their actual future, not just like, hey, he's playing well.

But they think maybe they found the guy that can get them to where they want to go. So that's important. He'll have to get paid, though, right? He's a free agent. Yes. Oh, man. Oakland, or I'm sorry, is it Indianapolis the next one on the schedule? Then Oakland, Houston? That's nice. Very nice. Those are playoff weeks. James Winston is so James Winston. He does what he does, man. He always gives you, here's how the timeline goes in my head. You play him.

Right? You stream him. We said to do it. We pivoted to him from Wince and in our league one. And he always likes to start the game. Real cute. With like a sack fumble and then maybe do like a little tip pass interception. Maybe I pick six. Oh, yeah. He's willing. And then you want to die for playing him. You're like, this is the biggest mistake I've ever made in my entire life. You rage quit watching TV. Sure.

And then he always ends up in the top five or so. And I believe six straight games of 300 yards. So he threw two interceptions. He may lead the league in both touchdowns and interceptions, which has been done once before. And he's James Winston. They won the game. Yeah, Sam Darnold, Kyle Allen. We talked about these guys earlier. Baker Mayfield, Monster game, revenge game. Darnold Baker, they were both starts of the week this week. Ryan Fitzpatrick. I've never seen a player.

celebrate so heavily. He wants to, I was talking to Jason about this yesterday. Like Ryan Fitzpatrick is, I love this man so much. He wants to win. He is old. He is 37 years old. He is playing 37. He is playing 37. Look, he is playing for nothing for nothing other than that he loves playing football. You're 37, aren't you, Jay? I, oh my gosh, I am. Wow. I was like, no, I'm 36.

But I am 30. So Fitzpatrick just wants to win so much. Don't you get the feeling that like Fitzpatrick when he's 57 will, and his team is down eight touchdowns in a C league flag football team? He will run. He'll take up running. He will be just as excited. Yes, 100%. He's just, he's a competitor. And, you know, there's some guys that you don't have the right when you're down multiple scores to celebrate, totally get that. But if you're Tana Hill, this is.

You're Fitzpatrick? Yes, if you're Fitzpatrick, you're 37 and you just probably got truck sticked on your way to the end zone. You celebrate. You crack open up Pepsi. All right. Running back studs. Let's go Leonard for net. He scored guys. He scored two touchdowns. He did. That's supposed to be illegal, but he did it anyway. Did you see what happened after he scored?

He did the thing that like a sailor does. And when they get back to land and they go smell the ground, like they step on to ground for the first time. Like the, like the, uh, he hadn't been there in months. Like Robin Hood. That's what I was thinking out of the boat. He grabs the sand. Oh, yeah. Yeah. He had 97. Robin of Loxley. The big part is what's so fun about owning, uh, Fournette and fantasy, having them on your roster is that regardless of the game script, he's out there on third down. 12 targets. Yeah, 12. And this.

This is something we're like, okay, Foles takes over. How's it going to affect Farnett? How's it going to affect Chark? 12 targets, 9 for 62, a troubling defense, yet he never leaves the field under any circumstance. Yeah, and his playoff schedule is fantastic. This week, Tampa Bay is not a great matchup for running backs, but after that, the Chargers, the Raiders, the Falcons in the playoff weeks, Fornett is just, he's been absolutely excellent this year. All the injury concerns and the pass catching.

concerns, you know, he still was involved last year, but those were some of the issues. I mean, he's put all that to rest. Derek Henry. He does Derek Henry things. Super fun, I believe, to have him run in a monster touchdown, and then they fumble the ensuing kickoff, and he takes the next carry directly into the end zone.

Two touchdowns in 14 seconds. Yeah, it was basically like a 71-yard double touchdown. That's what you got from Derek Henry. But I do have a stat I want to pull up here for you from Rich Rebar. His past 16 games played, Derek Henry has 303 rushing attempts. He has 16, 1,616 yards, which is 5.3 a carry. He has 18 rushing touchdowns.

with a touchdown in 12 of 16 games, and then he has two receiving touchdown. So 20 touchdowns in his last 16 games played. The narrative on Derek Henry is often, well, he needs a touchdown. He can't score. He needs the touchdown to be relevant because he's not a pass catcher. Well, here's the thing. He gets one. He gets, he gets too. He's just been a beast. You can't at this point say anything other than he is awesome. I mean, obviously we knew Combine-wise. He's one of the.

most physical freak athletes of all time. And, you know, you've seen that. I mean, people don't want to tackle this guy. I sure wouldn't. No. No, and he wears people down in the truest, like Bill Callahan way. Right. Like he actually makes you depressed. Marshaun used to do this. Yes. You just get tired of dealing with it. Christian McCaffrey was great again. Nick Chubb had a monster game. He's such a good runner. He's the RB6 on the air. And then Jonathan Williams from Thursday.

That was a big game. We've talked about him, but 26 for 104 and 1. Let's not forget. Jonathan Williams could have some relevance. And then what do we make of this? Rashad Penny. Yeah, this one's tough. Rashad Penny ended up 14 for 129 and 1, had a 58-yard touchdown jaunt. Looked great. And Chris Carson fumbled twice. In a row. Back literally the same drive. Fumbled. They recovered.

then they went for a handoff and he thought it was a fake. Yeah. And Russell was unhappy. Oh, yeah. Now, he did get back in the game after that. He wasn't benched at that point, which was good to see. But obviously, this is a concern this season. And when you combine it with Rashad Penny's, I mean, people want to know. Like, should we be worried about Chris Carson? You really, he's not going to leave the field. There are a nine and two football team. He's been literally a top five touch leader.

on their way to 9 and 2. That's my takeaway. Will Rashad Penny earn himself some more time with this? Yeah. I think you'll probably see a couple of games where the total touches for Carson is down. I don't think he's in jeopardy of losing his job because you can't trust Rashad Penny in that office to do all of the intricacies that Carson has done for a long time. The thing that surprised me, and this was before the fumbles. So on the game as a whole, you have Chris Carson with eight carries and Rashad Penny with 14. But prior to the fumbles,

Penny was out touching him. Right. Yeah, Carson didn't look great yesterday. No, something was weirdly off. We were talking about when we were watching that game. Mike and I were like Chris Carson was in La La Land. Yeah. Hey, before we move to our wide receiver studs, want to thank today's sponsor. Quip. Quip wants you to know the one single discovery that matters most for your dental care. It's simply this. If you have good habits, you're good, man.

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It was a Godwin week. That means a lot. And he was, he was so good. I missed both of the touchdowns of his live. And when I came back and saw each, they were, they were just all. They're preposterous. He's so good, man. Yeah, he won a lot of people. Their matchups this week went seven for 184 and two on eight targets. Jarvis Landry revenge game came to fruition. Oh, the revengeiest.