Week 14 Studs & Stinkers + Weekly Rewind, Awesome Ekeler!

They are not good at football right now. Well, and you might have been playing this guy and need a substitute. That's Rashad Penny. Serious knee injury. It sucks, man. Unlikely to return this year. Even the ever optimistic Pete Carroll. Oh, yeah. You know it's bad when Pete Carroll is significant. Yeah. Yeah. So it's an ACL. Players were throwing prayers up, David Johnson to tagging Rashad Penny last night. And Rashad Penny was finally.

Getting the career going. Last year looked like a first round. Bust. 5.7 a carry this year. It was embarrassing for him. Was really getting into the offense last couple games. Unfortunate. Speaking of unfortunate. Oh, my good. This freaking guy, man. Stinks. Maybe it's not for you. Darius, guys. His body doesn't like football. MCL sprained. Well, his knees certainly don't. I mean, he's just dealing with knee injury after knee injury. Adrian Peterson.

is going to have the lion sheriff carries again. I mean, he was. Yeah, he's back. I mean, right back on the radar, you're looking at DeAndre Washington and Adrian Peterson. They play the matchup. They play Philly. Not the best. Terrible. Not the best. Yeah, give him 25 carries. You can be, you'll be okay. 25 for 65. No, he's had some big games this year when people thought he couldn't run on. Yeah. 25 for 75. Maybe. At this point, you might take it. Yeah. Oh, yeah, you would.

You forget that he went out there against some bigger opponents and, yeah, all right. He's Adrian. He's looking it up. Well, no, I mean, he put up 108 on Buffalo, but Buffalo can get beat on the ground. Yes, I can. He put up 81 on San Francisco. That's impressive. He put up 118 on that Dolphins vaunted defense. What was the San Francisco? 81. All right. It's pretty good. Yeah. Are you happy with that, though, for a guy that doesn't catch passes? You were, you just said you're happy with Bilal Powell, 17 for 70.

Okay. But if you're in a PPR, he added a couple points there. He catches past his buddy. He catches one to two every three weeks. Jags, wide receiver. This sucks. DJed chart in a protective boot using the scooter. That's not normally a good sign of being active the following week. And you miss the Miami Dolphins. Both Devante Parker and Albert Wilson were knocked out with a concussion. This really sucks for the...

Amazing schedule that Devante Parker has? Oh, yeah. For Devanti Parker and the streaming possibilities. I mean, the party we were going to have when Ryan Fitzpatrick was winning championships. But you can't do it anymore. If he's down Devante Parker, unfortunately, got to abandon that ship. Yeah, and it really sucks the most. I don't think for those who were looking to play him next week or the next week, it's those that just played. I mean, I would have happily, more than happily. I would have.

been thrilled to be rolling out the Ryan Fitzpatrick and Devante Parker stack this last week. If you did that, Devante Parker leaving early completely trashed to the fantasy outcome. There was huge disappointment to all the Foot Clan out there that were rolling with them. We can't predict concussions well enough. Yeah, when he faded, you know, stepped back to pass and didn't see Devante Parker, he just ran. He did. That's pretty much what he did. No one was open.

And then Calvin Ridley also left with an abdominal injury. We'll follow up there. Jared Cook, head injury, likely concussed, left the game after two monster touchdowns. Two catches, two touchdowns. Yeah, he had a great fantasy. He, Mike Evans did it. You're happy with the result you got before he said, I'm out of here. And then Mark Andrews exited early with a knee injury. So far from Ian Rappaport, the knee injury suffered by Mark Andrews is considered minor.

Do you make anything of Patrick Mahomes? He injured his throwing hand very early on in the matchup. He did end up. I mean, he played the whole thing. But it's now been a while since you've had the Mahomes game from Mahomes. I am not going to read any more into this past week when you're on the road of New England than I would the week before. So if Mahomes is out there, you know, what options do you have? Yeah. I mean, what options are you going to go with?

If you're staring down James, if you're staring down James Winston or Patrick Mahomes, what's the matchup for Mahomes next week? Patrick Mahomes is going to be at home against Denver. Yeah, I mean, I'm going to play him. Yeah, I am too. Patrick Mahomes. Just presenting the news. I know, I know. He's not putting up five touchdowns a game. You're right. All right tonight. James is.

Putting up five touchdowns again. No, no, no. James is at Detroit next time. Oh, man. Oh, you mean when we play Adam, right? In league one. But with no Mike Evans. All right. So Monday night football updates. The week is not over. You've got Carson Wentz versus Eli Manning this evening. Eli Manning gets the start. Golden Tate's going to play. Evan Ingram is out. This as per usual. Well, and everyone expected him back. I'm glad we were kind of saying.

We weren't confident in him. Yeah, with the Monday night game, you couldn't be. And Nelson Aguilar is a game time decision if you were in on the Watkins Aguilar. By the way, you're wearing Lizard King shirt again? Yeah, well, I wore it because I assumed I won.

The bet. You didn't even bother to look? I did not. Because where did Sammy walkins finish? Because we made one of those really amazing bets. The will Sammy finish in the top 44? That's right. Which I said no. No. And then once you saw his stat line, you were like, shoot, I lost, which was. I was like shoot, maybe I lost. I saw the stat line. I was like, all right. I probably won. But unfortunately enough.

wide receivers had good games this week. And he was wide receiver 47. Oh, and with a game to go. So 48. 51. Yeah, 48 with another. Yeah. We'll see if he's in the top 50 by the end of tonight. Oh, man. I don't like Sammy Watkins. All right. Before we get into the studs and the stinkers, I want to say about the Capital One Walmart rewards card. You can earn 5% back at Walmart online. You can get those games for your kids, headphones for dad, a laptop for mom.

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looked very good, too. This wasn't just, oh, he kind of pulled it out with a couple of big plays. Drew Locke, 22 of 27, over 300 yards, three touchdowns. On the road. And Cortland Sutton owners are correct. Yes, they are. Yeah, I mean, he's on the road at Houston, not a good defense, but Drew Locke going on the road, I would have bet just about anything he'd have a poor performance, and he did not. It was Drew Locke and Noah Fancho. All right, let's.

Talk about Drew Brees. That game was unbelievable, and I'll be completely honest. I saw it going the exact opposite way. I thought this was going to be a battle of two unbelievably good defenses, and, you know, the offenses will get enough done because they're obviously 10 and two teams for a reason. But holy moly, that San Francisco, New Orleans game was awesome. Yeah, it was insane. Drew Brees, almost 350 yards, five touchdowns.

No, I mean, I didn't see this coming either. This was a big whiff. I was looking to pivot off of Breeze when you face a San Francisco defense that had shut everybody down outside of basically Kyler Murray. I mean, nobody had put up a big performance against him. Lamar did enough against them, but Drew Breeze in the pocket against San Francisco? Six touchdowns. He had a rushing touchdown. Sorry. He was unbelievable. And he lost. I'm pretty sure he had five.

He had five passing and a rushing, so he had six total. I don't think he had five. Did he have five passing? He, yeah. He, he had six touchdowns? Yes, he was unbelievable and he lost the game. Oh, my gosh. I thought the five included the rushing. Drew, well done. Yeah. And you lost. Not well done. What a loser. Not well done. What an idiot. Well, then I take it back that James was the number one on the week. He was probably the number two. James had 456 yards.

He had four touchdowns through the air, one rushing, three interceptions. But James won. Yeah, he's a real winner. Yeah, my goodness. If only the Saints had James Winston. Yeah, they could have won. They could have scored more than 48 points. Huge performance from Jimmy Garoppolo in the same game as well. Four touchdowns, 350 yards. They did win the game since week nine. Here's his fantasy finishes. Two, 22, two, two, three.

31. Oh. Four. Oh. So I'll be honest on my dynasty team. I didn't get a lot of those good performances in my starting lineup. I got one or two of them, but it's been hard to predict. And him on the road in New Orleans didn't expect it. Uh, no. Huge performance, not started by many. But he gets to play Atlanta next week. All right. Ryan Tannahill, 21 for 27, 391 and 3. This is bananas, man. They keep winning. And the next week.

It's Houston. Okay, dokey. Keep it going. Oh, 100%. I am, he is my favorite NFL player right now. I am so in love with Ryan Tannahill. He is so good for that team. He's accurate down the field. He's going to A.J. Brown left, right and center now. And A.J. Brown, I don't know if, you know, I pointed this out to Mike when we were watching games yesterday. He has now hopped up two of the previous three games into the 90%.

snap count. So he's completely overtaking that wide receiver one role. I mean, he's just been so great for this team. Andy, you brought up there talking about a long-term contract for Tannahill. He's a guy that I think you can, it feels like you can trust him with confidence. Well, this should help. J.J. Zacharisen, since Ryan Tannenhill took over at starter, only the Ravens have scored touchdowns at a higher rate per drive than the Titans have.

When you have a running game like you have in Derek Henry, a solid defense and weapons that can break plays open like A.J. Brown, that's the recipe to win in the National Football League. And now they have a chance to win this division. Ryan Tannel keeps starting him. He's got Houston. Then you'll have a tough decision about New Orleans, but they will be at home in that matchup. Deshaun Watson.

It was all garbage time and nobody cares. Oh, the garbage man can. Right, Jason? I care. Garbage time pisses me off, man. Deshaun Watson sucked. He had a bad game. He was terrible. They got blown out. And then he just had a bunch of garbage points in the end where for fantasy. It wasn't really in the end. It was more like second quarter on because they were down 31 to 3 or something in the second quarter. He did end the garbage time with an interception. So he at least got.

Some come up and... Yeah, well, a little bit, but I think there was like 25 seconds on the clock when he got his last touchdown as well, down 25 points or something. So he... Do you have two rushing touchdowns? Yeah, he's... You know who didn't suck, Jason? Oh, oh!