Week 16 Matchups + Mike's Back, Wheel of Shame! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 12/20

Kendrick Miller's rushing line's at 51. Like, you're playing a Dowdle over a Kendrick Miller, right? Yeah. You're playing a Pollard, even with the health concerns, over a Kendrick Miller? Yeah. If Pollard is active, I'm going to be playing Pollard. Let me read you literally the most popular start sits on the site. Ford or Kendrick Miller? Ford. Miller or Taylor? Miller or Downs? Miller or what? Miller or McMillan? Oh, Patrick Taylor. Miller or Tracy? Miller or Dowdle? Miller or Pacheco? Miller or Spears? Miller or Bryan Robinson? So, Kendrick Miller's a big question for people. He is the biggest question of the week.

And I wish I could tell you I've seen enough film of Kendrick Miller to have the confidence that he's going to do great things. I have seen enough film of Kendrick Miller to have confidence he can do great things. I've also seen enough film of Spencer Rattler to not be sure that Kendrick can do great things with this offense. You have no Chris Olave. You have no Kamara. You have no Taysom Hill. You have no MBS. You have no Derek. Yeah. You have no MBS. This offense is just kind of a skeleton crew. Would you take the over-under on their implied total of 14.3 points?

Because I'm taking the under. Yeah, I would probably lean towards the under. So, I like Kendrick Miller. You can always end up voluming your way to a good game and getting a touchdown. But I am so against this specific matchup and the belief in the team that most of those options, not all of them, but most of them I would go the other way. You'd play Kendrick Miller or Josh Downs? Because it would be a flex decision for people. And it definitely should be a flex. This is a Monday night football game, so get them out of your running back slot.

I think I would go Kendrick. And Madison, the Madison-Kendrick Miller decision? I would go Madison. That's a fair question. Jordan loves my start of the week at the quarterback position. Jacob's been amazing. What do you do with the roulette of letdowns that you get in Green Bay receiving options? This is such a plus matchup. You know, Jaden Reed, I don't see the split right in front of me here. He was like the wide receiver seven through the first ten weeks. It's been like the wide receiver 46 since then. He was so juiced from week one, though. Let me go look at his actual numbers.

But it was like two huge weeks. Week one was four for 138 and a touchdown. 31 points in week one. And that's kind of how it goes with him. Like, are you playing him? I mean, there are a lot of people with injuries. No more David Montgomery. I know Kyle's in that situation. I don't think he's a horrifically bad play. But you're... Is it Watson? Is it Dobbs? Is it Reed? What's the order? I would put Watson at the top. That's where I'm at. Yeah, I would as well. But I trailed off because I'm... My confidence level is not high.

Yeah, Dobbs got the touchdowns last week. Oh, man. And that... Snatching that one right off the ground. Did you see his interview about that catch? I did not. He's very... He was very Kawhi Leonard. He was like... Romeo? They're like, talk about that catch. And then he just like kind of sat there and he's just like... Yeah, I just like I caught the ball. I was like, all right. Yeah. Because we don't have to talk to everybody. That would be... Yeah, no, we know that, Mike. We know... I'm saying, talking to the athletes, like... That's not... Their job is to go play football.

The only message we would have gotten from Mike this week would have been a small message that just said, I am dead. Yeah. And then you would have let us know. And that would have been it. But you're back. And just in time. Just in time. Fantasy Face-Off. Presented by DraftKings. Well, well, well. Last week I managed to bring it home. 151. You dominated. And then Almond Ra stole my second place. Yes. Thank you, Almond Ra. Jason won by two points over Mike, making Mike the shame. It's time to spin. Wheel of Shame. All right. Spin the wheel. Right back in the studio.

Just in time for the Wheel of Shame. I hope it's something that covers my mouth breathing. Ho, ho, hopeless. Oh, what do we got? Oh, we got a full Santa gear? It's holiday season. It's the holiday season. Okay. So we got a coat. We got a coat. We got a beard. We got a wig. A wig? Yeah. Merry freaking Christmas. All right. You're going to have to go to someone else. We're going to need about a five minute break. Go to my camera. What is this? And then we'll reveal Santa Claus. Ho, ho, ho, hopeless. Hide Mike for a minute while he transforms.

Yeah. I mean, what do you have on your Christmas list this year? Well, I can't say it yet. I want to go sit on Mike's lap here and let him know. I wouldn't recommend it. Oh, no. Probably not the right time. Yeah. I mean, Cole in the stocking in the form of Brees Hall. You've already got that for Christmas. Oh, yeah. Yeah. All I want. Oh, this is good. I hope we bought this wig from the same place he bought those darn troll wigs for us so that he can breathe it for the next six to eight years. But here's what we'll do.

I'm working on it. No, no, no. We'll pan back to you momentarily. I think the beard looks a little higher quality here. Yeah, no. We spared no expense. Spared no expense. This is good. This is very good. All right. Well, I'll get it started. We've got our fantasy face off for the week revealing our lineups. I am going to right a wrong. I mean, not that it was a wrong. I won last week, but I'm actually going Aaron Rodgers this week. 5,600. He's at home. He's been playing great. And I'm taking Aaron Rodgers in the savings. Wow. Okay. I'm going to go take even more savings.

You forgot the glasses, Mike. I'm going way down. You can go ahead and bring the camera back. At 4,500. What? Michael Penix, Jr. Oh, this is good for us, Mike. This is good for us, Mike. I'm just playing wild this Christmas season. All right. Scared money don't make money, Jason. Michael Penix, Jr. Oh, yeah. You're in? You're done right. I mean, he's playing. Whoa. What do I look like? That beard is not the best. That beard is growing out of your eyes. What? That's not a mustache. It's above your nose. Lower that down. That's supposed to go below your nose, Mike.

You got to put it below your nose. Yeah, yeah. There you go. That's where the mouth hole is. All right. Yeah. There we go. You look like jolly old Saint Nick. Yeah, Michael Penix. Did you go Michael Penix? Yeah, he's playing the New York Giants, and he's $4,500. Yeah, no. I paid a little bit more than you did. My running backs, Jameer Gibbs, 7,500. James Conner, 7,100. Same. Jameer Gibbs and James Conner are mine. So, we are just eating up that money, sharing those running backs. Oh, I got plenty more money. Devontae Adams at 7,100, stacking with Rodgers. Marvin Harrison, all the way down at 5,400 now.

It's too much for Arizona. And Malik Washington at 3,700 is my savings. My savings is gross. I thought about going to Malik Washington and just burning $1,000. I've got Keon Coleman at 4,700. He was my savings. I've got your start of the week, Jackson Smith and Jigba. He's a great play. And Brian Thomas Jr. at 6,300 in that Jacksonville game. I like Brian Thomas there. I have Malik Washington at 3,700. I have Juwan Jennings, hopefully correlating in the same game at 5,900. And then, who's this guy? Oh, Jamar Chase. I figured that would be the case. That's a lot of quiche.

That is the gap between your Michael Penix and Rodgers is the gap between Chase and Adams. Right. My tight end, no surprise here. Chigakonkwo, 3,400. My flex. You might know him as Devon Achan, 7,400. Oh, nice. And I'm going Titans defense in the upset that I picked earlier against the mistake prone, Anthony Richardson, 2,600. Go listen to that Brian Callahan conference. You're going to like it. I've got Chigakonkwo at 3,400 at tight end as well. My flex is going to be very interesting. It's a chase off between me and Mike. You've got Jamar Chase. I've got Chase Brown in the running game at 7,700.

So I paid up for the running backs. And then I've got the 49ers, Shanahan against Miami and Tua. I have Trey McBride because I'm told he's going to score a touchdown every single week at 6,200. Even if he doesn't score a touchdown, the dude is just PPRing his way into greatness. I'm running 12 personnel out yet again. Currently have Brenton Strange in there at 3,500. I'll probably have to pivot to Chig because he's like right around the same amount of money should Strange not play. And then I'm going with the other defense, Andy. I'm taking the Colts. I'll take the home team, 3,000, against Mason Rudolph.

Ho, ho, ho. Well, we did just get some breaking news here, Nick Sirianni, talking about A.J. Brown's knee injury, which just popped up on the injury report Thursday. Oh, no. We'll see, he said, about whether he'll practice today. Oh. We'll see about whether he'll practice. Okay. Something to monitor here. We do have an Injury Blitz podcast coming out soon. I actually have Devontae Smith, 54. Uh-huh. Now we have an Injury Blitz with Matthew Betts coming out soon. That was Fantasy Forecast presented by DraftKings Sportsbook. Download the DraftKings Sportsbook app now. Use the code BALLERS. That's the code BALLERS to take advantage of special daily promotions.

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