Week 15 Matchups + Wheel of Shame, Mike Implodes - Fantasy Football Podcast for 12/16

Dallas is going to get a couple easy touchdowns off turn. I think Zach Wilson will be better this week. I really do. Well, better than a dumpster fire is just a dumpster. That's fine. It's still not a place you want to be. Agreed. I agree. I just think I think he'll be better. That is, I have not heard that as a quote. I don't know if you just made that up. That is a great quote. Better than a dumpster fire is still a dumpster. Quote of the deck. Cheers. Not a quote you want to be associated with as an NFL quarterback, but it is a good quote. Yeah, I've got Kyle sent to me the Mike Evans touchdown odds here on draft kings. We're going to make some money off this. All right. Well, the New York Giants are 7.5 and 1. The commanders are 7.5 and 1. Jason, you asked the other day, why did they put those darn ties into your playoff scenarios? It's because teams keep tying this year.

The drafting sportsbook line, Washington, minus four and a half, the overrunners 40. They literally tied each other two weeks ago, but this time it's personal. Can we do it again? Tie again? The winner, yeah, a tie, another tie. Do two ties count as like a win for both teams? I think basically. Yeah, basically. Yeah, because it's like half a win. The winner of this one gets a leg up on the wildcard game. Washington is the leader in controlling the ball game, controlling the clock, running the football. Their defense has been top 10 against all positions over the course of the year, especially good against running backs and wide receivers in the last two weeks. You don't have headliners, right, in the receiving game for the Giants. So, you know, it's hard to come into this game and say, wow, Darius Slayton is the guy. Well, you know, Isaiah Hodgins is scored in two straight. Richie James gets short area of your work.

I guess Darius Slayton is the one that you would start of those options. Yeah. Darius Slate or Corderole Patterson asking for a friend. Wow. Very important you get this right. Please. I think I'd play Slayton. Yeah, that's where I lean as well. Sequin Barclay. It has been a rough ride of late. I don't know if it gets better on the road against Washington. Yards per carry down it. Have we heard anything about his? Next situation. I believe he was removed from the injury report entirely. So he's been given a clean bill of health. I would imagine he gets much better utilization. Daniel Jones is an emergency start because of his rushing prowess, but it's still a nervous start in this game. I think Washington is going to, I mean, they're pretty heavy favorites at home. I think they're going to control the ball game, the running game. I don't know. I don't have a lot of optimism around.

finding value on New York. I don't know if you guys are different. Yeah, no, it's at least the last time we saw the Daniel Jones against the Manders. It was 12 carries, 71 yards on the ground. So maybe, and that's like, that's a much higher carry count than he has been averaging for the last six games or so. So maybe there's just something the way that they're playing defense that Daniel Jones is exploiting. Here's a player I'm really unhappy that I'm facing this week. Terry McLaren historically torches these giants. Average is 10 targets, seven receptions, almost 100 yards, half a touchdown. The Giants defense has been rotten against whiteouts over the last six weeks. They've been falling apart. They looked good in the beginning of the year. They were holding teams to low scores, squeaking out some close victories. But their defense is one to target right now, pretty much across the board. So yeah, McLaren is in your lineups. Brian Robinson and Antonio Gibson. Do you have any confidence with Johan Dotson, who's?

I mean, we've got four games back. The snaps have increased each and every time. And then this last time we saw him was against the Giants, nine targets, five for 54. What were his targets the week before? The one before that? Yeah. Against Atlanta, it was one. Yeah, see, I just don't. But his snaps jump from 61 to 79%. Yeah, I have a hard time thinking that he has enough guaranteed volume. Like he can obviously get a touch. He can have a big play. He's great player, bright future. But in the playoffs, I don't think I am confident enough that he'll have six plus targets to put him in my lineup. Well, I mean, the matchup's much better for the Washington commander. So would you go the Dotson with the fears that you have or Darius Slate? Slayton over Dotson. Okay. Nothing like that playoff decision for somebody. Brian Robinson's double digits fantasy wise, three or four games.

Antonio Gibson limited due to the foot again on Thursday. Did you say Brian Robinson was limited? He is limited due to the quad injury, yeah. That's pretty brutal. Brian Robinson looked like he was in line for at least a safe floor with a decent chance of a touchdown. So I was warming on the idea of getting Brian Robinson in here as a running back too. With both of them limited, I think you need to. wait and get some more information, see what the Friday reports look like. All right, anything else from this game you guys want to cover? Can we move on? Moving on. The Rams are 4 and 9. They take on the Packers on Monday night, 5 and 8. Draft King Sportsbook line, Green Bay, minus 7. The overrunners 39 and a half. Probably not the Monday night matchup they were expecting when they booked this one on the schedule. What? Baker Mayfield? Well, I mean, that'll be fun, but the records are not what they expected. Probably thought you'd have a couple.

You know, 11 win teams at this point in the season or something. Both defenses are giving up a ton of yards right now. Neither doing what people expected. So what are the big decisions you're looking at for this Rams Packers matchup? I think Aaron Rogers, we've brought his name up several times. This is a matchup where I'm, you know, he now is a streaming option for some of these injured teams. You lost Kyler or, you know, you've lost Mike White. I think he's the guy I'm looking to pick up simply because his weapons are together and whole and healthy for the first time pretty much all year. The fact that you've got Christian Watson's breakout.

where the defense is going to have to say, we've got to worry about him. I mean, you know, you might have the Rams putting Ramsey on Christian Watson, opening things up for a Lazard, and you've got Cobb and Dobbs and Tunyon. So to me, it's hard to pick exactly which wide receiver other than Christian Watson you would want to start, but I do think that Aaron Rogers has a good game. Is there a chance that the Rams just can't do enough on offense where that passing game gets a little bit stifled? Yes, certainly. The Rams offense stinks. We're going to be talking about. Did you know Baker was named the offensive player of the week? Awesome. I think it's a fair thing. Justin Jefferson, how many receiving yards did he have less? He broke the Vikings franchise. Oh, way more than that. It was like 225. That's disrespectful. Yeah. Baker Mayfield did not have a great game. He had a great.

Two drives. Yeah, but one, I mean, off, I get it. Like flying over from the East Coast and learning a playbook basically overnight and then beating a team, which you were heavy underdogs. Having a Hollywood ending in Hollywood. Yes, I mean. Precisely. All right, well, then let's talk about the Rams. Let's not too bad. Can you play, put the wide receivers in order. Like there is a league I'm thinking about playing two to out well in this week. I think he had nine or ten targets last week. And you're, that's, that's a wild. With Baker playing a bunch of snaps. So last year, or sorry, last week, two, two, nine targets turned into five for 50. If he gets that amount of targets, he will always get two to four rushing attempts is kind of my. So I'm looking at that and saying, well, is this more of like the McCle Hardman type of, uh, you could get a random game here or there.

Maybe. Are you playing Skoronik over Tutu? So I imagine the 61. That sentence. I imagine the 61% snaps for Tutu that had to be the highest of his career. Yeah, Scoronic was out there for 100% of the snaps, was just right there in the targets, had more receiving yards. I would definitely be playing Ben Scoronik ahead of Tutu Atwell. Okay. Cam Acres. If you are cool with either you get 40 yards. Or you get 40 in a touchdown. If you're cool with that, then, yeah. Cam Acres is someone that I would not want to start, but he would be the back to have last week, 42% of snaps to Karen Williams, 30%. But that was way down from the week prior, where you hoped that you saw, oh, okay, so Cam Acres is now going to be the, you know, 70% utilization. I don't think there's any trust that can be put into these backs. He had the...

If you remember, he had the fumble, and then he was, it seemed at least watching the game that he was penalized because of the fumble. And then it came back in later. And you'd play him over, Camakers. Yes. Okay. All the rankings and starts it tools on the website, the fantasy footballers.com. A reminder again, the DFS live stream today at 2 p.m. Eastern. We do have, we got another segment. Fantasy face off, presented by Draft Kings. Well, you're not going to get the whole witchcraft thing on the almost upsets unless you take power from somewhere else. Yeah, there must be balance. Last week, I had it in the bag. All I needed was like Gino Smith not to go on a timeoutless drive against Carolina that was meaningless to they were losing no matter what. Jason was conceding to me as he always does on the old Slack channel. And then Gino threw a touchdown to Marquis Goodwin and here we are. Let's spin it. Will of shame.

What does Andy get to do this week? Spin the wheel! The wheel of Andy! All right. Cowboy, Joe Dirt. Oh, boy. So, Sun City. What in the world is Sun City? For those people that are unfamiliar with Sun City, Arizona has a city called Sun City that is an elderly retirement community. Pretty good bulk of that does look really nice. You're not done. Oh, yeah, you got to. Rock them shades. You probably just got your eyes checked and dilated. And then you've got a... Oh, and a steering wheel. You're going to be driving real slow. That wheel's way too low. You've got to hold that thing up into your fat. Like, yeah, that's... There we go. Now we're Sun City driving, baby. Get those arms of work now. Who had the idea to come up with a steering wheel prop? Well, this is good. The world will never know. I can get my eyes dilated today. This is perfect.

We are jumping into these lineups. I am loving this way more than I thought I would. The bald cap is outstanding. Well, let's dive in. I can at least see. Let's see what meaningless lineup I roll out there this week. Why don't you guys start? I don't know if the order matters. Sure. I will kick it off. And the here's what happened to my lineup. We sit down to record. My lineup was already set. Mike White was my quarterback. And there was some news right before we had to record the show. So I had to make a pivot. And my lineup, I just, I liked it way too much. So at some point, at some point, Fookland, try and spot where I had to bail out and save a bunch of money so that I could get an adequate quarterback. But I was able to get Dak Prescott into my line up. Let me pull up. What's the cost there?

Jack Prescott's got 6,200 against the Jacksonville Jaguels. My start of the week. I like that. He wasn't in most of my builds, but I think he's great for the price. I went a little bit higher. I'm with Justin Herbert. 7,200 to have Justin Herbert. The Draft King Sportsbook line is over 300 passing yards just for his. you know, expected output there. So I think he has a great game against Tennessee's pass funneled defense. So just to be clear, $6,200 for DAC, $7,200 for Justin. Oh, Jalen Hertz is coming. Jalen Hertz is my quarterback at $8,200 against the Chicago. Wow. That was my original quarterback until last night. I had heard. I played with Herbert and Dak throughout the week.

All right. Yeah, you like how I look? This will be really fun. This is a good time. I can't remember the last week where we had three different quarterback, such a big deal in our lineups. All right, Mike. Let's hear those running backs. All right. I am going with Super Camario Alvin Camara at 6,800 against the Atlanta Falcons at home. I'm choosing to believe that he will be having the big week. And my other starting running back is. Miles Sanders against the Chicago Bears at 6,500, the Draft King Sportsbook. It's sitting at, they got his rushing line at 68 and a half while he's averaging 82 yards per game or per week and the Chicago Bears. Like if you beat them anywhere, it's on the ground.

I'm excited for miles this week. Seems like a bad line. I'm going to make a little notesky here. Mr. Moore, who are your running backs? So I also have Alvin Camara at 6,800. Matchup looks good and the price is right. And I have the Yeti. Derek Henry at 8,000 against the Chargers defense that hasn't been able to really bottle up the run. Transform to the Yeti. My running backs. Starters here, Derek Henry, 8,000. So I also have the Yeti. And I'm going with Rashad White again against the Cincinnati Bengals. Okay, okay. The PPR baseline for Rashad White. He's only 5,400. I'm going to bottle that up this week and hope for a big game. My first wide receiver, it's Elijah Moore. He was supposed to be stacked with Mike White's and his price at $3,600 when you have to scramble to get a lineup together before recording.

It's pretty hard to replace a player that is priced right there. You say your blinker. That should have been on the whole time. Yeah. Honestly, as soon as you got the wheel. So I needed him to unlock some other things from my roster. Mike Williams, big Mike Willie sitting at 6300. I believe Jason started the week. Yep. So I like that with your Herbert. Going to be giving me some juice. And then. Jamar Chase against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at 8,300. I have accepted my fate that T. Higgins is limited, possibly out. Tyler Boyd has a broken hand. Jamar Chase, last man standing, and he is good enough that he can get it all done. Yeah, Jamar Chase is great. He is also in my lineup at 8300. I also have Elijah Moore at 3,600. Yeah, I imagine.

And at wide receiver, I have big Mike. Wow. So we are the same at wide receiver. We're not very different. I have Mike Williams and Elijah Moore as well. Okay. Where are you guys saving your money? But I do have Devante Smith. I have Devante Smith, 6,400 stack with Jalen Hertz. Come on back, Dallas, got it. And so there you go. The last three, Mike, tied in flex and defense. So, uh, Hold on here. I go up to you. So my, my tight end is, uh, Chica Conquo at 3,100, uh, with Traylon Burks and his situation. And then my flex is Tony Pollard at 7,100. I don't necessarily love that I have DAC and Pollard, but what are you going to do? And my defense is, uh, the Houston Texans and $2,000. Oh, no, against the Kansas City Chiefs. They may go negative on me.

But that was the only way that I could move from Mike White to I spotted it. I spotted it, everybody. Even with these glasses on, I could see that. Wow. Yeah, if I had to guess where you saved your money, it was probably right there. He just jammed Dak in, bottomed out the defense, and we moved on. Jason. We all make our choices. Tight in, flex, and defense. My tight in, I've got Greg Dulcich at 3,600. I also did not spend up. I mean, you want to know where I saved my money. It was more on the flex. I've got Nelson Agilor, 3,400 playing wide receiver. We don't know, but it looks like Jacoby Myers and Devon DeVos Parker will be out. And at defense, I've got the Broncos in Mile High against the...

Our against our hapless Arizona Cardinals. So that'll be a tough, you know, we'll have to wait and see if the Broncos or the Texans are better. Chiga Conquals might tied into 3,100. Figure one of you would have him. The Broncos defense is my defense at 2,700. Darnock. I'm really hoping you win Texans. And my flex is Ezekiel Elliott at 6,200. So we have Pollard and Elliott across the field from each other. Can't wait to lose this week. I had the Broncos. Yeah, that makes sense. That was in the Mike White build. And my $100 of remaining salary can't even get me up to the Titans. No, no. That was fantasy face-off presented by Draft King Sportsbook. You can download the Draft King Sportsbook app right now. Use the promo code ballers to get $200 in free bets instantly when you place a $5 bet on any football game. That is the code ballers at Draft King's Sportsbook. All right, that is going to do it for today's episode. Boy.

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