Week 12 Studs & Stinkers + Weekly Rewind, Endangered Penguins

A huge way. 10 for 148 and 2 on 13 targets. Beckham also had a nice game, 6 for 84 and 1 on 8 targets, but Landry beat him out again. Beckham finally scored. Yeah. And right when he came out of the slot on that play, I knew Beckham would be open for a touchdown, but then you wondered, does Baker take the shot? Does he make the throw? And he did.

DJ Moore has been outstanding. We've been talking about him for quite a while. The numbers he had been putting up without scoring, almost the Leonard Fernette of the wide receiver position. But he scored twice, six for one, 26, and two. He is fifth in receiving yards. And he's playing with Kyle Allen, who played really well. Really, really well. You see that Kyle Allen has the upside to have monster games, but he can implode as well.

Regardless, when the targets are coming, you know, you've been talking about that over the last couple weeks, Andy, how many targets, you know, DJ Moore's been leading the league in the last stretch of game. So, yeah, he's great. And talented. First round pick. Don't forget, this is what he's supposed to be. It's kind of like the breakout we've seen of Cortland Sutton. It's not just like, oh, who's this guy? He's been playing well. It's like, oh.

He was drafted to be a superstar wide receiver, and now he's showing that he can be. Yeah, actually, both Jarvis Landry and DJ Moore are now within one point of being a wide receiver one on this season. Do you think either of those guys ends up finishing there? Yeah, both. Yeah, I think both have a legit shot. If I had to pick one because of the upcoming schedule, I think the number one wide receiver for the Browns would be there, which is Jarvis Landry. I mean, DJ Moore's schedule is not half bad either. Washington, Atlanta, Seattle. That's the next three. The targets are so safe.

for both of these guys. I think they end up there. All right. DeAndre Hopkins had the big game Thursday night. A.J. Brown, four for 135. Jason streamed him to his best career game in terms of yardage. Five targets. You're always playing with fire with any pass catcher in Tennessee because the offense is Derek Henry. Well, and AJ Brown. I mean, AJ Brown, he came through because he had the huge play. And if you look back at...

It's just what he has done for his game logs and for fantasy football. If he doesn't hit on the big play, then it's a pretty bad fantasy. Yeah, and to speak to that because, you know, people are seeing, I streamed him, I did. I was down. In fact, in this matchup between me and Al Borland here, I lost Marlon Mack, and he played Jonathan Williams while I...

stupidly played Jordan Wilkins. So I started out in a giant hole, and I knew I had to come back. The upside, you know, you have certain players where their floor is very low. AJ Brown's floor is still very low. The targets just aren't there for him, you know, four targets two weeks ago, five targets even this week on a monster. But you've seen massive big play potential. So he's the type of player you play in those situations where you need...

a ceiling. Yeah, I was going to say, I don't, I don't chase him, but he's another player that's going to continue to emerge. And if Tanna Hill comes back next year and just get him some targets, man. A.J. Brown, if we can get him in that eight to ten target range, he's going to be a monster. He'll be a monster. All right. Michael Thomas is incredible. Yes. James Washington ends up with the game we hope for from Devlin Hodgett. The James Washington touchdown is a.

thing of beauty where a little bit of a clown show on the defense because someone fell down. But then James Washington's incredibly timed stiff arm to put the DB on the ice skates and have him fall down. It was a great play by Washington. But that's really what his fantasy day of three for 98 in a touchdown was.

One big touchdowns. One big score. It was huge. Alan Robinson, Jason's start of the week, ended up six for 131 and one on 10 targets that took them a while to get going. They eventually did. Calvin Ridley, your start of the week, six for 85 and a touchdown on 14 targets. Well, you've got to give the wink to Russell Gage, eight for 76 on 10 targets. That's a wink, a wink of a performance. Oh, absolutely. Eight for 76 from a guy like Russell Gage that you're picking up off of waivers to play over some bad matchup or injury.

player or like a marie cooper yeah i mean yeah you're certainly happy with eight 76 uh are you interested in gauge moving forward just in the right match of yeah and i'm looking at his schedule no all right very very well hey debo is officially on fire for fantasy purposes with his two targets well he had a touchdown and three consecutive games

in the teens? He's clearly a valuable real-world asset for the Niners team. You do worry about the targets going forward. Now that Kittle was back and Emmanuel Sanders was on the field, but he's broken out, right? That's official. Three solid fantasy games in a row, two of which had plenty of targets over 100 yards. He can get it done whether or not you want to stay in those flames. You know, next week of Baltimore, probably not. Probably not. Probably not. But the last three games he has.

Really, four of the last five. He's had double-digit fantasy points. Are you jumping into the fire at all with Robbie? Robbie Anderson, who went four for 86 with a touchdown. Touching on a back-to-back game. I think you can because of the matchup. Cincinnati, Miami, I'm willing to flex Robbie Anderson. You're playing with fire. He's not a high target guy either. Tyler Boyd, five for 101 and one. The squeaky wheel got a few more targets. Got nine of them. Ended up playing well.

I'm not buying in. To Boyd? I am not buying into Tyler Boyd. He's had plenty of targets on the season, and he just hasn't been that good, and his quarterback is terrible. He had a great game. Has the Jets next week? At home. I get it. I mean, he... What is buying in mean? Are you willing to flex Tyler Boyd? I mean... Robbie Anderson or Tyler Boyd. Cole Beasley or Tyler Boyd. I would order those. Robbie Anderson, Tyler Boyd, Cole Beasley. Okay. That's interesting. I think I still...

Who else are they going to throw to in Cincinnati? His touchdown was such a duck from Ryan Finley. Exactly. The ball was like spinning on its horizontal access. And he also had a bicep reception, which was pretty incredible. Yeah, he's a good player. Yes. Just needs a quarterback. There's a few players that you look at and you're like, will they ever be freed from the shackles of their circumstances? Like you watch Terry McLauran play. Every play.

Every play Terry McLaren makes is a special play. He's always open. And it's all the hands catches and, and always wide open. He had a touchdown. There wasn't anybody within 40 feet of him. And he gets airmailed by Haskins. And you're like, are we going to deal with this for Terry McLaren for multiple years while Haskins is taking selfies on the sideline? I think Haskins is doing a good enough job of replacing himself. So I don't, I don't think we're going to have to deal with it for a long time. They won. They won. Which is.

Bad news for their pick. And, you know, speaking of Tyler Boyd and the Cincinnati Bengals, they are almost locked into that number one pick now. Pretty close. It would be very difficult from here on out for them to lose that spot. Hey, this is why you wait on George Kittle, six for one, 29 and one, including the monster touchdown. Too good to bench for the likes of Dallas Goddard. The tight ends, I don't know if you guys realize just how gross it was.

This week. But here's, so the big three at the top, Kittle Ertz, Jared Cook. Monster games. If you played them, you're extremely happy. But they were followed up by Gassicki, Caden Smith. Everybody's. Logan Thomas. Oh, quarterback for the Arizona Cardinals several years ago. Ryan Griffin and Greg Olson, those were guys you played in Eric Ebron. But number 10 here, I mentioned him in passing. Jaden? Jaden, Graham.

who came out at a 50-yard reception right to start the game. Does nothing else ends up as the tight end 10 on the week. Yeah, Dallas Goddard stunk it up, fumbled. Eagles offense was ridiculous. Ryan Griffin had the touchdown, but he was just three for 13. Yeah. Yeah, you're bringing up guys that ranked fifth on the week that had 28 yards. Logan, yeah, three for 13 was Ryan Griffin. He was the titan seven.

He had a great week. He was a good play this week. He had 13 yards and was a good play. That's the Titan landscape. No doubt. Stinkers of the week. Presented by odor eaters. All right. We had some guys stink it up, pooping their big boy pants. No one more than Matthew Ryan. Start of the week. Yeah, this one was an unfortunate.

Fart of the week. Yeah, look. 23 for 46. 271. It was bad and I don't really understand why it was bad. Like watching the game is just, you know, obviously he missed Julio at times. It just wasn't working. But, you know, you watch other, you know, I watch Carson Wentz and I get why it's not working. You know, why it just everything is.

Nobody is open. No Lane Johnson, no Alshan, no Dijacks, no Nelson Aguilar, no Jordan Howard. And in this game, yeah, you missed Julio for a while, but you've got other options here. And it just, this isn't a defense that can stop many people. And Matt Ryan did not get it done. Well, what's funny is Ridley did. But it was his touchdown came from Matt Schaub. Yeah.

That's funny. One of the things that, you know, we remember from yesteryear when the Falcons were a really good team, Matt Ryan is not a garbage time quarterback. When he's down, right? Like, it's really weird. Usually when a quarterback's in a real down position, they got to play catch up, that's good for fantasy. Matt Ryan has never been a garbage time quarterback. He just doesn't, you know, when they're really down and out, he doesn't get the job done. Yeah, Russell Wilson?

Not a great fantasy game. Just 25 passing attempts. There's 13 completions. Russell Wilson has been quarterback 14 or worse in four out of his last five games. I want to say something here. What's happened with Russell Wilson and Amari Cooper is very bad for us, Jason. Very bad. Are you counting them? Yes. It's very, very. What's your defense after counting them?

Oh, it's not a defense. Oh. I wasn't trying to defend. I was just shocked at the fact that, you know, this is week 12 we were in. So he's going to be one, two, three, four, five, six. Six of his 12, no math wizard, but I think that's half of him. Yeah. Where he's outside the top 14 at the quarterback position. Well, and this is why I said it's bad for us. Because we are, we already kind of knew Mike didn't have the ability to really apologize wholeheartedly.

We witnessed it. And now he never will. No, it's impossible. Because his staunch, stubborn lack of apologies are being proven over the back half with Cooper and Russell in a way that will just steal him and his cold heart. Wait, hold on. It sounds like what you're saying to me. That you're right. I won't apologize because I was right. You won't apologize because of your cold, dark heart. That's what I heard. I'm saying that.

Look, Cooper deserved an apology at the time. Russell deserved an apology at the time. And yet, you are right. Yes, mistakes. I will never apologize again. I know. That's my lesson learned. That's the whole point of what I'm saying. Sorry, honey. I might have been wrong, but I learned something once upon a time. Russell Wilson taught me something that in the end I'll end up right. Look, are you happy or sad that you have Russell Wilson?

I have, that's a great question. I don't have him anywhere because of where my stance was at the beginning of the season. And that, week seven, that felt really, really bad. But the people who have Russell, are you happy to have him? You traded for Russell in our dynasty league. You've got a great team. You're competing for the title. Are you, on a whole right now, are you happy with Russell? I am because I would have lost weeks. Those big boom weeks, I definitely would have lost without him.

Yeah, he can win you a week for sure. The last five, QB, 18, 17, 1, 14, 18. Gets to play Minnesota, then the Rams. It's just interesting. It really is. The nice thing is, by the way, Brooks and I, oh, go ahead. The nice thing is with Russell is these bad games, right? You know, 15, 15, 17, those type of points. Those are bad games you can absolutely still win.

He didn't crush you. And that's why I think Brooks is right to say you are happy with Russell because he either comes out and just wins you a week or he still does enough to where if the rest of your, he's not. You were beat at the position those weeks though. Yes, but he's not Kyle Allening you to, you know. Sure. Nothingville. No doubt. No doubt. Brooks and I very, very likely that we're facing head to head in our dynasty league and the winner is in the playoffs and the losers out.