Fantasy Football - Starts of the Week + Week 16 Breakdown, Semifinal Time! - Podcast for 12/18

better. So just let the knee swelling go down a little bit. Get in that game. Take that first hit. It's going to hurt a lot. The knee's going to swell up. The coach staff's going to say, you're done. He's going to put two hands up, say, I'm staying on the field. Don't ever take me off again. He's going to score 12 touchdowns. Good job. Josh Jacobs. All right. It's good for him, Mike. Officially good for him. We're all curious to see if Joe Burrow can get it going from a fantasy perspective. He has only had multiple touchdown games. twice in his five starts. That is not ideal. Last week was abysmal, obviously, the, what is it, two interceptions in each of the last two weeks, but Buffalo and Baltimore. I don't know what the chances are of T. Higgins making it back, but I have... You would like him back. I have always been on the side of for the Bengals and for Jamar Chase, T. Higgins is better to have on the field.

one of the touchdowns or two of them, the touchdowns might go to T. Higgins when he's on the field. That is an option. But the team is just better. Your chance of having a monster Jamar Chase game to me goes up if T. Higgins is playing. So Joe Burroughs in your lineup, Mike. Yeah, Joe Burrow. And if people want to hear my decisions, it's like in the dynasty league, our main dynasty league, I could go Joe Burrow. I could sit with my stack or I could put in Jared Gough. As of right now, I have Joe Burrow in over Jared Gough. In the League of Record against Jason, I have Joe Burrow. I could choose to pivot to Jackson Dart against Minnesota. As of right now, Joe Burrow remains in my lineup. Chase Brown has been good. Yeah. Chase Brown, because he's catching all the passes, Somaget P. Rhine is getting way too much work if you have Chase Brown on your fantasy team.

He is, I mean, what, 16, since returning from injury, 16 opportunities, 7, 15, P. Ryan will still get work. The Dolphins, I am so fascinating. I've been trying to find, to no success, like interviews with Dolphins players post the two a benching. Because, you know, sometimes a coach is fired and you get that first game bump. from the team. It's very common. They beat their spread usually on that first game for the interim head coach. I feel like this is almost the opposite. We did hear from Tyreek. From Tyreek, yeah. He did put a tweet up saying peace. Yeah. I don't think this is one of those moves that the team who has been rallying and playing hard, like for instance, the last six weeks, this is the number one.

most difficult matchup for running backs in fantasy points given up. Like the dolphins have been shutting down the run. They've been motivated. They've won their previous four games before this last week. And now benching Tua. I feel like it's demoralizing to this team. Now, I don't know that for sure, but that's how. It's a very official white flag. Yeah. I mean, you're not, it's not a galvanizing move. And so I worry that this team is going to start having some players. making business decisions and phoning it in. I still can't wrap my head around this decision. Are you playing Waddle? I think he is an okay play if you don't have those others. Bangles shockingly good against fantasy wide receivers, as in shutting the deal. Yeah, I mean, it's because you just pass to the tight end. I mean, we've seen it despite this last week when Lamar only completed eight passes and that's all he needed to do to beat the Bengals, every single week it has been the team's

tight ends are open and so you don't throw to the wide receivers you can play him but all those other guys that i mentioned joan johnson uh parkinson and obviously gadston i would play those guys over waller if t higgins is active are you willing to take a semi final week chance in this yes yes with the concussion situation yeah yeah if he's out over mccloren yeah i would j more um i'm kind of excited for dj more I think I would still go T. Higgins. The Jets are 3 and 11. They take on the 4 and 10 New Orleans Saints. By the way, if we didn't say it and you need to play H-N still. He's the only one I'm playing. Don't play Waddle. Don't play Waddle. I'm not going to play Waddle. I'm not. You're not starting Quinn Ewers? No. I'm saying the hope, if you have Waddle is like, okay, Quinn Eur is and just comes out and throws 28% of his passes to Waddle. I'm not, I'm not banking on it.

Saints and Jets take on one another. New Orleans minus four and a half over under is 40. Right now the top picks in the draft Giants, Vegas, Tennessee, Cleveland, Jets, Arizona, New Orleans. So if I'm doing cardinal math correctly, the Cardinals will win. New Orleans will win. Yeah, New Orleans is winning this game. Oh, okay. You like New Orleans. Minus four and a half. Tyler Shuck! I like, oh, I do, yeah, we'll talk about Tyler Shuck. I like Brady Cook on the other side of the field if I'm starting the New Orleans defense. Brady, Brady Cook has thrown two intercepts, which you are. In his first match and then three in this past week against Jacksonville. How does I make you feel, Jay? You remember when I started? Not great. Remember when I started the Dolphins defense against a rookie quarterback? Oh, what was it? Book?

Yeah, for New Orleans. And it was over. Do you remember that out? Do you have any recollection of that one? Nope. It was like the third play of the game. Al had like a lead on me and I needed a defensive touchdown and it happened so fast. That's the one you have printed on the wall in the office. That's right. I do have the screenshot printed out. Yeah, it's coming back to me. Do you still see that? Yeah. Okay, estimate, start of the week for New Orleans. Tyler Shuck is still in, like with this matchup in this game, Tyler Shuck is sort of a break glass emergency start situation. Olave, you know, without valet, Olave seems like a must start in this one. And then Joanne Johnson, you expect him to come in and kind of. He'll be target number two. Yeah, I mean, his targets the last two weeks four, four before that nine and seven. He's good for four targets. I don't know if his ceiling is through the roof, but.

If you got to go, let's play them against the Jets at home. Yeah. On the other side, are you starting Adonai Mitchell, John Mechie? Adonai is, I think he's okay. The Saints defense is very strong, seventh against wide receivers on the season fourth over the past six weeks. But if you're trying to find someone who's going to get volume, Adonai Mitchell will get it. A 27% target share over the last month. And, or my 27% of targets is, That's a top tier piece of the pie. All right. That is going to do it for fantasy forecast presented by prize picks. They have a great boxing max discount this week like Anthony Joshua needing just 0.5 punches. That's right. Against Jake Paul. Point five punches. I think he'll probably hit that. And use the code footballers to get $50 instantly in lineups when you play $5. There you go.

We have more matchups tomorrow, the fantasy face off, the Andy Holloway Wheel of Shame, and then we'll be back on Sunday. Brought to you by Andrew Hall. Yeah. Welcome to Jackass. We'll be back, though, Sunday live. Is it me this week? It is. Yeah, it's me. It's me. And we'll get you ready right before kickoff. Make sure you're following us over on YouTube for that. You can find us on Instagram, Instagram.com slash fantasy footballers. on X at the FF Ballers. And you can check out our free Discord channel, ballersdiscord.com. If you'd like to be a part of the community, you can check that out. We are going to say goodbye for now. But hello tomorrow. Another episode coming your way to get you ready for week 16. Send me final time. I bet Jason hopes he doesn't practice tomorrow too. Goodbye. Thank you for listening to another episode of the Fantasy Footballers podcast.

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