Week 12 Studs & Stinkers + Weekly Rewind, Endangered Penguins

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Not sure where to start today. We can get sophisticated in a moment. Sure. I will say it was really close to not being three of us today. Oh. Very, very close, yes. I died? You were looking up certain hotlines. That's right. Jason, and I know people, they've heard the stories and the tales and watching Jason Lose and Tilt is more entertaining for all of us, except for him, of course. Last night he was in another...

number one scoring versus number two scoring battle. Which is just impossible. Yes. The amount of times this has happened this season, statistically, some math wizard out there just needs to see how impossible it is that I am constantly in the first against the second or maybe third highest score of the week. You've often...

reminded us that you are Truman from the Truman Show. So obviously this is all being... It's all a plan. It's all, yeah, it's just like writing a story for an episode. Okay, that's a pretty cool story. Yeah, it was not most weeks for you, but this week you ended up in a situation where you had lost with the Kittal touchdown. You were upset and, uh... Look, I made a pivot early in the morning from Carson Wentz once Alshan was out. I made a pivot to go to the waivers.

and grab Ryan Tannahill and A.J. Brown put that stack into my lineup. It came to fruition. I should get, I have the highest points in the league. I'm going to win. All that needs to happen is that, like, Kittle can't have a giant, I'm up 30, and I'm going against Kittle and Aaron Rogers, and I've got Mostert. And Moster is pretty much not involved in the game. Has like, you know, I don't know, two carries.

Aaron Rogers is sucking, and then Kittle goes off. And that bomb touchdown to Kittle, I lose. I lost. It was over because he's still got Aaron Rogers, who's in a game script to come back, and all I've got is most are. What's after life, Jason? I mean, no, I'm sure you, but you died. I send it. Did you look down on your body? I blacked out.

I don't remember. I turned the game off. I genuinely turned the game off. I was so proud of myself. We have our house decorated for Christmas. We've got these three like Christmas penguins by the fireplace where I was watching. Christmas penguins? I don't know. Let's move on, Mike. From the North Pole, I assume. And so there's these three Christmas penguins. Like I said, Mike, just move on.

I can't believe that those penguins are intact right now. You wanted to kill the penguins? I saw, I visualized the smashing of these paintings. They were destroyed. They're hollow. I mean, we would be picking those up for weeks. But I just stormed off upstairs, turned the TV off, and I was done in a black hole. And then later I get a message that peaked my interests from Al Borland, my opponent.

And I was like, wait, what happened? No, I don't have a chance. I already lost. Rahim Oster saved your life. And I imagine you'll be painting pictures of him for years to come if this ends up winning you a title this year. So it was an eventful night. Jason did not come out on the wrong end of it for once. I did it. Yeah, I know what you're saying, though, Mike. Like, right?

It's the near-death experience. Like you, some people, you know, they say you see, it's like you're looking down at yourself and he probably saw his body on the couch. He saw the postmates guy coming to the door from, you know, from that angle. But he just, he saw dead penguins. I looked down on dead penguins. That's what I saw. All right. I have more to add, but let's go ahead and jump into Monday Punday reactions. Get sophisticated with you. Hmm. Not lock it. Not locket.

Baker Yeffield. What? He did it. It's simple and yet true. It's sophisticated. Oh, no, Mike Amari Gooser. He's dead to me. Hey, on the road, he's certainly dead. He is dead to me. Jalen Samuel. Okay. That one was purposeful. We've got Ryan Tannah Thrill. Although I did hear Tanny Tilly Tills, y'all. Yes. Not bad. Keep them coming. Noah can't.

All right. No one can't against the bills, by the way. Laemason Crowder. Oh, yes. Ah, Cyrell Williams. And Tyler, I'm a real boyd. The Boyd is back in town. Yes, yes, yes. Mike can't handle the Amari Cooper.

Goose, despite the, I'm sure, intellectual acknowledgement of the rain and the wind. And I've heard you talk about rain and wind before and the matchup with the number one defense. And yet you are here in this visceral place because you sort of apologized to him three weeks ago. And he's repaid you with three catches for 39 yards over like total in two games. Yeah. Yeah. And I apologize to him and he threw poop in my face.

and he is completely dead to me. Yes, I acknowledge all of those things. Right. You know, he was up against it. You know who else was up against it? The entire Dallas Cowboys office. Did Randallup have zero receptions for zero yards? He did not. Did Michael Gallup have zero receptions for zero yards? No, he had receptions four yards. Yeah. Mike is unhappy. In fairness. He costs us a league one victory. In fairness. He actually has cost me multiple victories across my leagues.

Well, that's on you for rostering him. You are always against Amari Cooper. He did have a very nice reception that was called back on a penalty, and then he almost caught that ball at the end of the game. He sure did. In fairness to him. I like his defense was he almost caught a pass. I will add this, though, because we're finishing up week 12. In a lot of leagues next week is the final week before the playoffs. And...

We talked all week, you know, our streamers, and then a lot of the topics on last week's show were related to who's going to be that secret player to win you a title. And two of the top four quarterbacks on the week, their names were brought up last week. Baker Mayfield, Ryan Tanna Hill, Mike, you brought up Sam Darnold at times during the week. I just want to illustrate why.

Those names are brought up and what happened this week. Here are the top quarterbacks on the week. Very important week for a lot of fantasy teams. Number one, Ryan Tannahill. Number two, Sam Darnham. Number three, James Winston. Number four, Baker Mayfield. Kyle Allen, Ryan Fitzpatrick. Those are the top six names. The Kyle Allen one is mind blowing. Yeah, no one in the right mind. Last week I played him against Atlanta. He's terrorizing here two weeks ago. But...

I'm illustrating that. Mitch Trubisky was number nine, okay? Jimmy Grappler was 11. The only staples, Breeze at 7, Josh Allen fought his way to 8, Deshaun Watson, and 9. So people will win titles with streaming quarterback. Yeah, matchups matter at the quarterback. And it takes guts. It takes guts. It takes a little bit of luck. But Ryan Daniel is the fourth best playoff schedule. Baker has the best playoff schedule for the quarterback.

Both of those guys are going to be relevant every week the rest of the year. Yeah, I mean, I agree. Baker has looked good over the last few games. Even in his, you know, before this week, when he had very difficult matchups, he still outperformed what other quarterbacks were doing against those.

defenses. And so you kind of have a glimpse of it. And then you have Ryan Tannahill. The reason I went with him in our scoring format, he had yet to have a start below 24 fantasy points. He's just been really, really solid with this offense. I mean, you've got a stack against Derek Henry and play to that. And then those play action over the top there. And Donald has been good now three games in a row as well. So yeah, these are important names. 18. Russell Wilson. 19. Aaron Rogers. 20. Carson wins. 22. Matt Ryan. 23, Dak Prescott.

So it doesn't mean you pivot. It just means that you got to look at the weather now. That's affecting games this time of year. And you've got to look at these opportunities to take advantage of matchups. Yeah, this was the first week where weather...

had an impact on several games where you saw it. I mean, that was part of what made me pivot away from wince. The Alshunding out and the weather is supposed to be bad. And then obviously with the New England game, we knew that that was going to be. And the thing is, this is why you follow us on socials, watch Mike's live thing. Because through the week, when you're listening to the pod, that's the one piece where we try to have knowledge. You know, we'll talk about, oh, it's expected to be cold or windy or rainy.

But you don't always know on a Tuesday what the weather is going to be like in real life on Sunday. So make sure you're following there for those updates this time of year. Yeah, I mean, the truth is, our rankings, even though they go up every Tuesday afternoon, they get changed the most heading into the weekend. And so the start-sit results, that type of stuff gets adjusted. That's just fantasy football life. Let's get into the rewind. Weekly Rewind.

All right, we did find out this morning. Eric Ebron, Colts tied in, going to injured reserve. He needs procedures on both of his ankles. I've never seen that before. Like the double up? Both ankles needs surgery? It's almost like. I'm getting one done. It's a twofer. It's like a bogo. Yeah. It's a buy one, get one. Okay. All right. They're like, well, we can make you stronger in both. I feel like the only way. The only way that like you have surgery on both angles is, oh yeah.

I jumped out the window. Right. And landed poorly. It's possible. But he'll be out, which means, you know, you can glance Jack Doyle's way. If it goes the way of this past week for the Indianapolis offense, you're pretty much sitting back, waiting for them to hand the ball off five times in a row and hoping that your guy is the one on the other end of the one pass per six plays. That's how it felt. Ryan Griffin was signed to a three-year contract extension before the game over the weekend.

This is a commitment to a guy that's been very productive. And there it is. He scored again. Sucks for Herndon. Yeah, Julio Jones exited with a shoulder injury briefly, stayed in the locker room after halftime, missed a portion of the fourth quarter, obviously didn't deliver the kind of game you hoped against a...