Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Wk 13 Studs, Duds, Rising Stars, News

right when Thomas left the game. And it was a great play by Thomas trying to make the interception. But Cam Chancellor crashed into him and he cracked his tibia. I will say shout out again to at Pro Football Doc. I mean, we need to get a clarification on this. He's done for the year, basically. But for as far as his career.

The difference between a tibia and a fibula fracture is six to eight weeks or six to eight months. So hopefully we can get some confirmation here. Fibula is what Thomas Rawls went through at the beginning of the year where he came back. Yes. That was a fibula fracture. All right. And then Larry Fitzgerald, just a note here, became the youngest player to reach 1100 catches. Jumped Chris Carter and Marvin Harrison and still getting it done. He's got to be the most.

consistent wide receiver two you could ever have on your team. If you pair him with like an Evans or somebody like that, it's just a great solid week-to-week guy. They get the ball to him. You notice how many screens they threw to Larry Fitzgerald this week? It won't because there's no one else that they want to throw the ball to. Yeah, that's really tough there. John Brown was a gooser. All right, let's talk about the good before the bad. This week's fantasy stud muffins. Plenty of names I'm not going to say right now.

But I'll mention Joe Flacco. Joe Flacco, everyone's quarterback one coming into the week. Goodness gracious. 36 for 47, 381 and four touchdowns. He was. They just destroyed the Dolphins. Dennis Pitta received two of those. I'm sure he'll be in this list. Perriman. Even Broushad Perriman was a wide receiver won this week. Yeah. Carson Palmer had a great game too, 300 yards and three touchdowns at home against Washington. So even though he only had Larry and.

Gresham to throw to, it seemed like. He still got it done. Those are really the only two. Oh, David Johnson. No, I'm saying quarterback-wise, Joe Flacco and Carson Palmer were really the only two true standout stud muffins. I would count Stafford. I was just going to say, you could throw Matthew Stafford into that list. But his expectations were so high in that New Orleans game already. But he certainly had a great game. 341, two touchdowns. Also added 22 yards on the ground.

So here's a question for you. The one thing I see out of these two stud muffin quarterbacks, Flacco and Palmer, is Flacco just did this against Miami. Who Carson Palmer plays next week? You know, Flacco went out 36 for 47, four touchdowns. Palmer just had a good game. Now, would you start Palmer next week is the question. I'm not buying into this. For Palmer? Yeah. The Baltimore Ravens line was spectacular.

Cameron Wake was absolutely shut down as a pass rush and one of the best pass rushes in the league. But the Baltimore Ravens offensive line was just so stout that they could not get pressure. The Arizona line is the opposite of stout. So this is not a thing where it's A plus B equals I'm starting in Carson Palmer automatically. That's good perspective. Brock Osweiler had an all right game. Who did he outscore this week, Mike? Brock Osweiler.

outscored Big Ben, Matt Ryan, Aaron Rogers, Tom Brady, Cam Newton, Russell Wilson. The list goes on and on. I should have played sad music in the middle of that. Oh, my gosh. I'm just impressed that I didn't throw up while you said that. Yeah.

You kept it down. I did. Running back stud muffins. There were plenty of these guys. David Johnson. Jordan Howard. Jordan Howard. 32 for one, 17 and three. Jordan Howard. They just lean on him. They climb onto his back. The defense was able to keep it close against San Francisco. It was snowing in that game. So I don't know how much that played a factor. But clearly the game stayed close enough for them to just ride Howard. Rawls. Rawls. I mean, do you expect this to continue?

It's tough, man. The schedule for him is not the best. Green Bay, Rams, Arizona. But that whole first half, before he went out with the concussion, with the concussion scare, I should say, that man looked unbelievably. Possessed. Just fast, powerful, could not be tackled. He didn't look like that in the second half. Maybe he had just, because he was out of game mode, possibly. But he looked unbelievably good.

Devanta Freeman had another great game. You're now talking about a guy who's put up, what, five rushing touchdowns in the last five games, throwing an extra receiving touchdown in that time period, really rounding into form for fantasy playoff contenders. Yeah, he looks fantastic and he catches the ball, which makes Freeman no matter what. So 15 for 56, you know, that's not what you want at your running back.

But four for 49 through the air. So, I mean, he goes over 100 yards. Yeah, even in a standard format league where he's not getting all the credit for his great pass catching ability. He's the number seven running back through week 13. Clearly on the season, you're happy with him. And I agree. Looking forward to the playoffs, very few guys that look better than Nevada's Freeman right now. All right. I've got a, I've got a question for you, gentlemen. I'm going to read you some, this is half point scoring.

All right, I'm going to read you some numbers. These are the last six weeks for this player. You tell me who it is. 21, 11, 33, 13, 18, and 26. It's running back. Those are rushing yards? No, those are, those are half-point fantasy. Oh, my goodness. I was like, this is terrible. You're like, T.J. Yeldon. I know. Whoa, I was not with you there. You're like, Jeremy Hill.

21, 11, 33, 13, 18, 26. Monster numbers is what I'm saying. In that span, eight rushing touchdown in the last six games. What am I talking about? Is that Latavius? Latavius. That's Latavius Murray. I love Latavius. I originally, before this season, had him as my fantasy MVP. Yeah. And I did not believe it could possibly happen after the first.

four, five, six weeks. Whatever's going on there, man. That team is good. Here's the thing. They just find a way to win games and they're never out of it. They were down so big the Raiders were and somehow they came back and smashed them in the face. But I... The Buffalo Bill's, yeah, the Buffalo Bills got out to a big lead and they came back. I am fully convinced.

I don't see another team that reminds me so much. Like the Dallas Cowboys and the Oakland Raiders are just, they're mirror images to me. And I am fully convinced that if the Raiders did what the Cowboys do and decide we're going to run the ball 55% of the time and just smash them in the mouth with that O line, they could have the leading, you know. You could argue that's what they've been doing. Here's his carries for the last four weeks or getting towards it. 20.

12, 19, 20. So he is getting the work. That offensive line is probably the second best in the league. The difference between Oakland and Dallas to me is I don't think there's any way that Dallas, if they got that deficit against the Buffalo Bills, I don't think they're coming back from that. I don't think they have the offensive firepower. Fantasy-wise, you're a Latavius owner. You need to sign Jaylen Richard. Yes. Because he had nine carries this week, which was his career high.

in carries for 53 yards. He is the handcuffed to own. For sure, for sure. DeAndre Washington was... I just dropped DeAndre Washington last week for Jalen Richard. He is the guy to own. All right. You know, Lev Bell had a great week. You know, you're not sitting Lev Bell. There's no story there for fantasy owners. Here's the one... I'll give you some more honorable mentions and then we'll talk about one more guy. Melvin Gordon played well. Terrence West had a good game. Limited work. He had touchdowns.

Sure, but it definitely slowed the Dixon trained up. A lot of those guys got slowed up this week. We thought that, I mean, Dixon last week, he had been rising in snaps, finally out snapped Terrence West, but West seemed to be the guy. While Dixon was more efficient on the ground, this is a, this is just a time sure. No one's going to take over as we had hoped for the fantasy playoffs. All right, Lashaw McCoy.

The slippery fish. The slippery fish, 17 for 130, 7 for 61 through the air. Incredible. Great. And yet still left fantasy owners wanting a little bit because Gillisley took two touchdowns from him. And this was not situations where LaShawn McCoy busts off a huge run and they pull him out at the two and they put Gillisley in for one play. When they got into goal line situations, Gillisley was out for multiple plays at a time. He is.

And then did the job. Yes. So as fantasy players, I got Shady McCoy. I'm, I'm super frustrated with this. But it is what it is, man. But you're also happy. I was going to say, you poor baby. Well, it's like those long touchdown, those long runs, if they get in the end zone, then you're. I'm just saying that this is not a situation where you go, oh, well, I got to hold out the hope that Michelle McCoy's the goal line back. Oh, he's not the goal line back, but he'lllessly. He's going to be fine. You start him every week.

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But then there's the Golden Tade and Tyler Lockett and Albert Wilson and Brandon Lafell. Tedgin Jr. Fricking Tedgin Jr. after I pumped the brakes on him. He said, you know what? First I'm going to take out Earl Thomas. And then I'm going to make you look dumb. The best part of... And now armed by Cam Newton. Holy moly. Yes. He threw it 300 yards. I did the math. It looped around the earth. Right. And then into Tedgan's hands. The best part of the broadcast for Ted Gann, Chris Collinsworth.

finally starts to commend Ted Ginn for rounding into form as a wide receiver on a drop. Yeah. The next play, Ted Ginn drop. You get the good with the battle of Ted Ginn. Yes. You get the wheels and then you get the drops. The wheels, the deals, the steals, and the peels. You had a couple guys that have been.

disappointing over the last several weeks that also stepped up a little bit. You had Dea Andre Hopkins finally get a touchdown. Oh, my goodness. That was glorious. He still was only three. It wasn't glorious. Everybody had him on their bench. No, no, no, no. There are plenty of people that still started DeAndre Hopkins. Even questions I was fielding this last week. Not my opponent. There were still questions I was fielding this last week. This guy are Hopkins. And, you know, you reluctantly still answer Hopkins because he has that opportunity. But he was still only three for 58.