Week 12 Buy or Sell + Triple Mailbag, Sneaky Tank

But there's no security in this game, and there's going to be a distribution of carries across whoever's active. I found the button. Oh! Andy's almost upset of the week. All right. What about Carlos Hyde, Duke Johnson? I will play both of them. Carlos Hyde continues to see the ball a ton. He's averaging nearly 17 opportunities a game. Is it because they're at home you like the Vegas line?

And no, he's a running back who gets opportunities. Like 17 opportunities a game usually leads to usable fantasy production. I agree on the Hyde side. I don't think I agree on the Duke side. Yeah, I'm not excited about either of them. I mean, the reality is Indianapolis has been very good against the run. They're the sixth best as far as fantasy points given up against the running back position. Carlos Hyde has been surprisingly good.

You know, he was the running back 18 last week. His previous game was the running back 16. That's a startable asset, but that's not a must-play guy. And when you're in a tough matchup, that I expect to be high. I would take the over on this game, which is rare for me on a Thursday night game. But if that happens, then you would see more Duke, presumably, than Hyde. And I'm not really loving either of them.

All right, Indianapolis does have the highest pass rate inside the 10-yard line this year. This is what we're talking about with Brissette ending up with good touchdown totals. Ebron last week, you know, disappointing, didn't practice Tuesday. Doyle, who had three consecutive solid weeks, pure goose and not just like a few bad targets. We're talking zero target goose for Jack Doyle.

And then Darren Fells let people down as well. So the tight ends are kind of who are you forgiving and willing to play this week? Or is it none of them? Look, I mean, I think it's both of them. Ebron and Doyle, I think, are both startable assets once you're past those top eight quarterbacks. Even off of the goose, it's shocking that he didn't get a target. But he's still out there. He's, you know, he was out there on 65% of snaps. And you go back the.

previous weeks touchdown in each of the week before for Doyle four for 61 the week before that but compare them to the like the waiver I was going to say I think I would take all of those guys the Goddard Hollister Griffin Ryan Griffin yeah I would take all those over Doyle yes Griffin Hollister and Godder I would play over Doyle or Ebron yeah I think it's too much risk for me man it's too much that goose is too much risk the shared snaps I want them

It's tough. It's tough. You also didn't have reset. I mean, you didn't have reset for the last game that he goose either. But does it make a difference to you if Hilton's active for that prescription? Not really. Would you play Noah Fant? His target share is absolutely incredible since Sanders has gone, but he's got the matchup against Buffalo. So, Jay, would you play Fant over one of the Colts? I would not. I would. I would definitely. I would. Yeah. Maybe we should bet that one.

I'm not going to bet on these guys who whoever gets a touchdown wins the bet. And, you know, trying to predict those is bad. The only reason I wouldn't bet on Fant. Eleven targets last week. I get it. And wait, for who? No offense. And he finished as the tight end 19. He was four for 60 with the red zone target to end the game. That wasn't that bad. Sure. I'm just saying.

How many targets did Jack Doyle have last week? Oh, come on. The one week sample, it's a zero. You've got me good on the one week sample. I'll go 11. I'm going a career of Jack Doyle being involved in an offense. You'll probably just play Philip Rivers if I know you. And I'm going from a career where there has been, how many top 12 performances in the career of Noah fan have there been? Well, he's a rookie. One. One.

I'm just saying, if you want to talk sample size, I can be dumb to. I just love hearing you talk positively about Jack Doyle. No offense could jump over Jack Doyle in his baby hands. That is probably accurate. He's becoming more and more involved. All right, Hopkins, highest target share over the last month, he's going to be in your lineup. And if you are desperate, if Fuller's out, you know, you could go with stills because of the snap count, but it really hasn't manifested into production. Yes, when they played.

You know, Indianapolis in week seven, I believe he was four for 105. But it just hasn't come to fruition yet. He seems very scary to play. Indianapolis beat Houston 30 to 23 the last time they played. It was at home or it was in Indianapolis. Any other takeaways from this game? Not really. Anything else you want to get into? All right. Let's do it. Mailbag. Mailbag.

Something a little different about that, Mike? You're in a slightly different range? My throat hurts horrifically bad. Oh, really? Yes. I did not know this. I'm playing injured, and I didn't tell anybody. Don't tell the NFL. It's better that you didn't, because we might have had you not do it, and that would have been worse for our listeners. Oh, you should have heard Jason warming up before the show. He thought he could do it like a Frank Sinatra. Like a lounge? No, no, no. Do it. Do it. Okay.

Mailbag. Mailbag. That was more Elvis. That was pretty rotten. Yeah. That was the new place. This is why I knew I had to step in with the beat-up voice. I'm really glad you put them on the line. Then you still subjected the listeners to that. Well, I think you can do better. Mailbag. Mail bag. Oh, gosh. All right. If you have a question for the fantasy footballers.

If you're still listening, head to the website. The Fantasy Footballers.com, click the submit a question button. You can also dial our voicemail hotline 302464 TFFB. Keep them short, keep them brief, keep them concise to the point, and we'll get to them on the show. Let's start with an Instagram question from Andrew Pot 17. Do you prefer total points for or head-to-head record as a tiebreaker for playoff seating? I prefer total points.

I think that that is the best indication of who was the better team on the season. You know, in the NFL, I think they would do that if they only played offense, you know, but they don't. We don't play defense. So I know a lot of arguments are, well, the NFL does it this way. They can't do it the way that we can do it in fantasy. So I think points four is the best tiebreaker. I agree. I understand like if you.

miss out on the playoffs to a team that you beat head-to-head. That kind of stinks. But you're looking at the season long, what teams better? I agree with you. Yep, total points. All right, voicemail question. Hi, ballers. This is a Steve from Maryland, member of the Foot Clan and a Spitwad. Calling today with a would-you-rather question. This week and rest of season, would you rather start Devonte Parker with Fitzmagic as his quarterback? Or Alan Robinson with either Jason's favorite, Mitch Trubeskey.

or possibly Chase Daniel throwing the ball. Thanks, guys. Congrats Brooks on the engagement. Oh, yeah. Oh, Brooksie. Brooksie is a fiancé now. Chonsei. Chonsei. My fiancé. All right. I'm going Devante Parker. It's no question. I'm going to Bonte Parker if you're talking rest. Who are you going? Devante Parker, if you're talking rest of season. I think DeVante Parker has a great schedule.

He's been far more consistent. He's got the better quarterback play, yada, yada, yada. I mean, higher baseline to me. I agree. I am on record saying that I believe, that I love Devonte. Yes, you are on record. This week, I am more inclined to play Alan Robinson. The New York Giants is a great matchup. I think there's been so much made of the Trubisky situation that they're going to try to get him involved. And it's not like he's been bad. Like, he's had.

Alan Robbins. Yeah, okay. No, at Trubisky has been and is the worst. But Alan Robinson has had plenty of good games this season. Doesn't he had two real stinkers in a row or something like that? Yeah, Alan Robinson has had, so three of his last four games have been poor. They've been games. I mean, four ago it was not the worst, but two of the last three have been terrible. That being said, he's also got plenty of games inside the top 24th position. So.

It's just a matter of, okay, the matchups. Yeah, the matchups is great. You didn't like him against the Los Angeles Rams last week with Jalen Ramsey. You didn't like him against the Los Angeles Chargers a couple weeks ago with, why do I always want to, I always want to say it's Harris. But yes, Casey. Those were tough matchups for him. The New York Giants, this is a good matchup for Alan Robinson. Cleveland, but if you have to decide one now. For the rest of the season, it's Parker. Then I'm going Parker.

as well. Parker's schedule coming up is Cleveland, Philly, the Jets, the Giants, Sincey. Yeah. That's the championship week. I mean, I think it's just... Hallelujah. Passing volume matters a lot. Like, I think we all think Alan Robinson's a great wide receiver, probably better than Devante Parker is, but... I am fairly confident at some point, I think it was like week three. There was a, like, a quick question that was...

Will you ever start a Miami Dolphin this year in fantasy football? That was a legit question we were asking. Yeah, but now they've won two of their last three games. I wonder going back if we made mention of if Fitzpatrick takes over, maybe then we'll start a lot. Because that feels like what would have happened then. Here's a scary question. Hey, ballers and love the show. This is Randy from Virginia calling. I just had a quick question to my playoff. But I'm just, is it wrong?

tanked for playoff positioning. I probably can't get a buy in my team. My appointment in week 13 is already eliminated from the playoffs. So I just wanted to get your thoughts on that. Thanks. Yeah. Oh, I get it. I've been there. You're looking at the bracket, the seating, and you're going, oh man, if I lose this game, I'm going to have a much easier run at the playoffs. It's wrong. It is wrong. So here's how it's wrong.

The question was, is it wrong to openly tank? And it always is. You have to be sly about it. You got to slide in like, ooh, I don't really believe this is the better matchup. I mean, you can't just put in garbage players. You can't leave your roster unfielded, but you are making the choice as to who to play. They don't know what you're thinking behind the scenes. Go with real high variance players. I think you guys are right.

I mean, you can't get on the high horse and say that you're going to do everything for the integrity of the entire league in every circumstance without, you know, it's disingenuous to your own team's chances. And if you believe that your team gets better by losing a matchup, it's hard to resist that human nature aspect of it. I've seen professional teams do this. Right. It's difficult in fantasy because somebody, you have to realize somebody else is going to pay the price for what you do.

somebody else will miss the playoffs somebody else will miss their seating based on the fact that you're making a decision about your team and i that's where the balancing act is somebody else might miss the playoffs when i put my best team in there and kick them out i mean it's hard because you can't you you have to draw a line in the sand yes and if you don't draw the line in the sand it leads to problems for your league for example what's to say you don't get a question about it's in my best interest to drop good players because

They will get picked up by another team that will beat an opponent that I need to have beaten. That's in the best interest of your team.

But then you're damaging the integrity of the league there too, right? It's a slippery slope. If I drop players so Mike can pick them up to beat Jason because I want to make the playoffs over Jason, that's the same logic. But that infers, you know, kind of like a one-sided collusion where two teams are working together to beat one team. That's always going to be wrong. The line in the sand to me is obviously collusion is a clear line in the sand. Two teams cannot work together to beat a team. And then the other line in the sand.

And I think this should be a rule in all leagues is you have to field a legitimate roster. You can't leave people off your roster and be like, oh, I'm benching my team. That would be objectively wrong. Yeah, I think as long as you're playing guys, it's hard to say that playing a suboptimal chance to win is the wrong thing to do if it's the right thing for your team. Now, having said all that, it's real easy to look at.

the matchup coming ahead and then you screwed the pooch on your process and now you've put yourself up against a team who blows you out and you didn't think you could miss the playoffs but all those other teams won and then you lost how would you feel this week jason because you are in our league of record you're like tied with two other people you have more points you're you're in the playoffs how would you feel if one of those other teams did that to the opponent that you needed to have defeated how would you feel here's the thing here's the thing i wouldn't know