Week 14 Matchups + It’s Playoff Time, Bette Midler - Fantasy Football Podcast for 12/11

Let's watch. Let's watch and see what Jalen Hertz does. Yeah, let's watch like Bet Midler style and, you know. From a distance. Yes. I don't want, if I can pivot off of Miles Sanders. Okay, so let's go through the list then. More Bet Midler references necessary on this show. Yes. The frequency this year, not enough. That's true. All right. I'll dig into my Bet Midler archive. I will try to be the wind beneath your guys' wings, okay? And carry you forward. Yeah.

Appreciate it. To me, it's Miles. All right. Now, too many Bet Midler references. It's a very Goldilocks situation. Okay, Miles Sanders. Miles Sanders or J.D. McKissick against San Francisco. J.D. McKissick. Yeah. Miles Sanders. It is PPR.P.R. Or Naeem Hines against the Las Vegas Raiders. Heinz. I would probably just play Sanders and Hope in that one. Okay. Let's go Miles Sanders or.

Jamal Williams against Detroit. I'll play Miles Sanders in that one. I'm going to play the starting. I will play Miles Sanders there as well. But that's tough because it's like I hate the Miles Sanders outlook. I love the Jamal Williams outlook. But he is still the starter. He is going to get. I'm not going to read into his read option excitement because I don't know if that's wishful thinking on his part. This is the same coach that just put Jordan Howard on the field for a ton of snaps last week. Maybe he's basically not getting that in practice and being like, I can't wait to do read option.

And Hope and Doug hears you. Hey, hey, Doug. Now, Jason, based off the numbers you gave of what they're allowing over expectation or preventing, I should say, sounds like Miles Sanders will have negative fantasy points. Because his average is already below nine recently. Yes, he will fumble the ball and be benched. All right. Other side of the ball, though, options outside of Taysam Hill. We talked about him. Camara, Thomas.

Playing both of those guys. Camara for sure. It's not the Super Camario that you have grown to love and adore, but you still need to play him. Michael Thomas, same thing. I mean, it's just adjusting what this team can do. What about the Goddard-Eert situation with those numbers Jason throughout there? Just try to find somebody else? You have no track record with Jalen Hertz and these tight ends either, which makes it tougher.

Yeah, from a distance. From a distance. Falcons 4 and 8, Chargers 3 and 9. Falcons are 2.5 point favorites. It's 49.5 point over under. This is the game that Jason referenced earlier, feeling a little bit of, I guess, disappointment that Julio's not out there so that this can become, you know, so they can hit the over. So we have a back and forth type of game. Obviously, that's still possible. The Chargers have struggled against the run in recent weeks. Now, that's not an area of strength for Atlanta.

because they have a quarterback with an arthritic knee, or I'm sorry, running back with an arthritic knee, and then Edel Smith, and then Brian Hill, which is not an ensemble to take advantage. Herbert is Jason start of the week. Austin Eccler, you're going to play. Keenan Allen, of course. You mean Austin Echler, bestest friend of the Fantasy Footballers podcast? That is right, and that was pretty cool. It was awesome. The show 1000.

Mike Williams was my start of the week last week. He does have an opportunity in this game to take advantage. You can kind of throw last week out. Herbert's shoes fell off early in that game. Yeah. Mike Williams is one of those high upside plays that, you know, we talk about it. You could end up with a bad game, but you could end up with a top 10 fantasy option if you're playing against the juggernaut. I would throw them in my lineup this week. You know, you look at the T. Higgins.

barometer. I would rather have a Mike Williams out there who could catch a deep bomb against a bad Atlanta secondary than someone like T. Higgins. Atlanta's allowing the most 20-plus yard pass plays in the NFL. So that's an opportunity for a big play guy, like you said. It's funny because Atlanta seems to, you know, when Julio goes out, you think, oh, more opportunity for Haydenhurst. Yep, Mike downgraded him. Yeah. And that is the nature of Matt Ryan.

When they get behind, he's not a come from behind fantasy quarterback. When they lose an option, he's not to take advantage of the other options quarterback either, it seems like. Yeah, like I would rather now, I would rather play Logan Thomas if he's sitting on my waiver wire over Haydenhurst. What about the Matt Ryan downgrade himself? Yeah, I'm not. Rulio 11 in play. Don't play Matt Ryan? It is. I don't, Matt Ryan could come out and have a great game, but I'm not, I'm not dancing with that devil.

Jason is making a face. I just realized my... Yeah, I know your dilemma. All right, here's... It's Jalen Hertz and Matt Ryan. Yes. Here's my... Well, not just... All right, here are my quarterbacks for champ, champ team. Are you ready? I'm going to name them all. It's Matt Ryan with no Julio. It's Carson Wince. Oh, wait, nope. It's Jalen Hertz. At least you have Jailen. And Andy Dalton. Who do I start? You start in...

You might have to start Andy Dalton. That is bananas. Oh, no, please. Just remember, this is the team Jason's won back-to-back titles in. This is the team that Jason thought he wasn't going to make the playoffs. So he sold off Julio Jones, who is now out for the playoffs. And Todd Gurley, who was in your opponent's lineup. In my opponent's lineup playing against me. And in that trade, I received David Johnson, who I am playing against him. Oh, that is just pain for that person. Dalton, on the opposite side, beating you in fantasy.

How do you not take that shot with champion? We'll see. All right. We're moving on. Washington football team five and seven. San Francisco 49ers, five and seven. 49ers are three-point favorites. It's a 43.5 point over under. I do expect a low-scoring game without the upside of Antonio Gibson in this game with Nick Mullen's behind center. What are the storylines for you?

The storyline for me, Jady McKissick, hopefully you were able to grab him off the waiver wire because he's going to see a whole bunch of targets and a whole bunch of receptions. I am not in on Peyton Barber. If Peyton Barber is a desperation flex type of a play or maybe your running back crew just got ravaged and you need someone. He will at least see volume, but this is a much different situation than.

Antonio Gibson being the running back on a bad team getting a lot of goal and opportunities. Peyton Barber is not as good as, he is not as explosive or athletic as Antonio Gibson. So just the upside is so capped. Payton Barber could see 12 carries and net 25 rushing yards by the end. Gibson split into two parts. I mean, that's really what happens. You have the early down work from Barber and then you lose all the passing work to McKissick.

That's why both of them against San Francisco is a little bit frightening, but I'd certainly go McKissick. I think that targets will be there. Yes. He did it again. He did it again. Oh, my gosh. Just smashes the ears. It is startling every time. Brooks take away his chair. Al Borland, you don't get a chair for the rest of the show. That startled me again. Yeah, it got me. I should have known, though. I mean, it's kind of on us at this point.

All right, what are you doing with Rahim Moster on the other side of the ball? Because I know you're laboring with this decision, Jason. You weren't impressed last week. I was impressed by Moster. I was not impressed by the workload. Right. Now, that being said, the workload for Moster on the entirety of the season has, it's been more than what we saw last week, but he's not a high volume player. He's not someone that you expect to get 20 carries. You want him to get 12 good carries and break off a 60, 70 yard run. It's very difficult to imagine that happening.

against this Washington defensive front that is outstanding. On the season and in the last five weeks, they're a top six team against running backs. So I think you've got to temper your hopes with a Nick Mullen's lead 49ers against a very good defensive front. Moster is in play as a flex option to me.

I don't think he looks to be a smash start or, you know, a locked and loaded top 15 guy by any stretch. I'll say the, I'm more confident than you are in that. The game script against Buffalo, it wasn't in the, it wasn't the 49ers Mostert's formula for success against Buffalo. Josh Allen played incredible that game. The Washington offense is not as high powered as Buffalo.

It could be an even game throughout, but I expect to see more of, I would, I would project to see Moser over the 13 carry mark. A couple things. One, I think, I think Washington's going to win the game. It's very possible. Two, I love this guy. And I think Mike mentioned it yesterday, but Brandon Ayuk is an option as well. He's averaged 10 targets over his last four games, only a couple of those with Ebo back in. But both players, similar.

functionality for the offense. But I did take a little peek ski at Terry McLaurin since Alex Smith has taken over. And it's been disappointing. He's been out there, but the ceiling seems to have come down. He hasn't scored in a while. It's been outside the top, you know, wide receiver two range for three straight weeks. Not that they're bad games by any means. Yeah, I would say finishing as the wide receiver 26, but your line is seven for 92.

Last week, two for 14. Last week against Pittsburgh was a debacle. It was absolutely a disaster. I agree. But Terry McLaurin is an auto start. Okay. I would agree with that. Logan Thomas? Yep. Yes. Yeah. Jordan Reed. Revenge? No. No? No. I say this in the way that is not meant to be, you know.

Terrible, but I don't think Jordan Reed remembers playing for Washington. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh, it's right. Oh, no. Yeah, that's. I don't feel good about that. I don't feel like it's a big revenge game. Honestly, this, this just is a good Washington football team defense. And I'm not as into Debo and Ayyuk as you two are. There's a low over-under game. You know, last week, the game script and the matchup were both better.

for the wide receivers. And, you know, Debo didn't exactly have a world beating game. So I don't know. Unless one of these guys gets a touchdown, I think you're going to be disappointed. Now, one of those three probably will have a touchdown between Debo, Iyuk, and Jordan Reed. But I don't think I can predict who. Do you know who it's going to be? It's not Jordan Reed. I don't think. No, I mean, he had it last week. It's just the targets are so low. So probability-wise, I figure it's one of the wide outs.

You're right. One of them is going to score. Maybe two. Debo Samuel could be playing the New York Jets and Jason would be out. I don't know why. He hates Debo Samuel. It's stupid. He doesn't like him because he's like injury prone. Yeah, that's not the only reason. Too many targets. Yeah, you don't like... Too many receptions. The Los Angeles Rams. Too much production. Los Angeles Rams, the elite of the elite defense. Debo Samuel 11 for 133. Wide receiver 9 on the week. That's what talked about it. How was Iook in that game? Tell me that.

How was, what did Iyuk do in that game? I don't have that in front of me. Yeah, I yuk wasn't very good. Okay. I don't think he played. So wait. Oh, he didn't play in that game. Oh, so Debo had a good game when he was the only guy. Okay. Okay. Okay. What about last week when Iyuk was, was bad? This is absurd. It is absurd. It is like the wide receiver six all like from week four on last year. The hypothetically. Hypoth, hypothetically.

Brandon Ayuk, the rookie, will just eliminate all of Debo Samuel's targets. I'm just saying that all of Debo Samuel's targets that come behind the line of scrimmage, which are half of them, against the Washington football team front that is very good, doesn't scream fantasy success to me. But he's a man. And so he will run, we know this. He'll have 10 targets. What will he do with him? Sure.

Pittsburgh Steelers 11 and 1 taking on the 9 and 3 Buffalo Bills are 2 point favorites 48 point over under. This is the Sunday night game, which is pretty cool, going to be fun. I'll be honest. I'm a little afraid to play the Steelers defense in this one because Buffalo had such an impressive performance. I know Jason is laboring over the Josh Allen start decision because, frankly, he's been excellent. He's been excellent, much debated, probably one of the most.

Start, sit, tooled players. I'll say this. This is, you know, some breaking news here for the Foot Clan. Sunday Live is my post. Jason will be replacing me on Sunday.

for the Sunday Live. So he will get to experience, I'm sure, just oodles and oodles of Josh Stallion questions. And hashtag live tilt. Yes. That is what I will be doing is life tilting. Top four quarterback three of the last four weeks. He has been truly excellent. You hope that the weather is going to be all right there. I know earlier in the day.