Week 11 Studs & Stinkers + Weekly Rewind, Peanut Butter Dwelley Time

He got to play the Cardinals again. Yeah, it's one of those things you want to look for on your schedule and highlight and circle whenever your players get to play against the Cardinals. I believe eight of his 18 touchdowns on the season are against the Cardinals. Yeah, he had four more in this one. They don't get to play the Cardinals anymore. No, twice a year. Dak Prescott, big game, 444 and 3.

He's been absolutely awesome. Again, you've got another one where you go, okay, now the schedule coming up, you've got New England, Buffalo, and Chicago. That is... Two-thirds on the road. That is, if it's possible to be worse than Lamar Jackson's schedule, Dak has found a way to do it. Yeah, that makes him a very questionable start. I mean, in New England and in Chicago, you know, Buffalo at home, maybe? I'm not, I'm probably not going to start. I mean, he'll be on that cusp where you might have to, but if I can

Bench Dak, even though he's been on fire against New England. In New England, I will. That doesn't feel like a very nice reward for this game. It's not. It's not a reward. But I would reward. If Lamar Jackson was playing in New England next week, I would play him because the rushing capability changes the equation. Dak is a good mobile quarterback, but he's not a break the NFL rushing record type of weapon.

Pivoting off of Kyler Murray would have been a mistake if you did it. I did it in the listener league for. How'd that work out? Poorly. Poorly. Who'd you play against? You? Yeah. I played. I forgot. I played Kyle Allen, Jason. Thank you. You know, I almost played Kyle Allen against you in our League of Record. We're going head-to-head in two different leagues. And I chose to not do that because he is Kyle Allen.

Don't hold you. Philip Rivers hasn't played yet. I think I've made the right move. I think my odds are heavily in that favor, but Philip Rivers could easily say, hold my beer. I guess since it's just us here today, in the listener league, we're tied. Yes. And you have Austin Ackler, I have Keenan Allen. So whoever wins that head to head is going to win the match. Yeah. The match. And then in the league of record, we are just about tied. I'm up a few points.

And you have Pat Mahomes ever heard of them. I have Philip Rivers and Tyree Kill. Now, you were supposed to have Pat Mahomes and Robert Woods. That's true, Jason. That's true. And you, being a wise fantasy analyst, saw Robert Woods and thought, I need to put him in my flex. He's a late Sunday night game so that you could pivot, right?

No, Jason. Oh, no, no, no, no. I drink your tears. You do. We'll see if you can find some yourself tonight. Patrick Mahomes can avoid Tyreek but score 40 and then I've got a shot. All right, Driscoll had a big game. Kirk Cousins. What a comeback performance. Some big time throws. Really impressive. This week was bizarre. Every game that was like supposed to be a clear blowout.

started with the team being dead. Like the lions were way big up on the Cowboys right off the bat in that game without Matthew Stafford. The Cardinals were up 16 to nothing on the 49ers. The Vikings were getting smashed, smashed at home. And all three of these teams came back and won. And Kirk Cousins' complete second half story. 29 for 35. He was great. I mean, he did basically everything.

he could do to get them back into it and it was just enough. I mean, listen to this. Over the last five years, when you're trailing by 20 points by the half, you're 0 in 99. Not anymore. So now they're 1 in 99. 1%. Easy math. Thank you. Yeah, you did it. You did it. All right. We'll move on to the running backs. It was a weird week. If you want to know how good Christian McCaffrey is, they got their...

Keysters handed to them in this game. They scored three points. Yes. And he was the number one fantasy running back on the week. That's impossible. Not for Christian. I mean, he is. Brooks, do you remember that time we traded for Christian Caffrey in the League of Record? Yes, I do. Oh, that's great. Mark Ingram was number two on the week. He had a couple of touchdowns in the passing game. Gus Edwards even broke a long run in that one, eight for one, 12, and one.

He's just in the handcuff category. If Ingram went down, oh, my goodness. He is a major handcuff. We don't bring him his name up as often as Alexander Madison, but he is every bit in that same conversation. Gurley, 25 carries, 97 yards, one touchdown. Will it continue against Baltimore, Arizona, Seattle? Will you see this kind of volume from Todd Gurley? I think you are going to see a heavy workload from him. And about this. I mean, this isn't a game where you.

were getting old Todd Gurley 30 points. I mean, Malcolm Brown got one of the touchdowns, and they really were able to bottle. In fact, the first quarter for Todd Gurley, he had his most rushing yards in the first quarter of his career, and he's had Monster Games. So they got off to a strong start, but then they were pretty much able to bottle him up and didn't do much as the game went forward.

Zeke had a nice game. Joe Mixen, your start of the week, ended up with another good performance. He's running them together. Joe Mixon's looking great. Joe Mixon's a guy you can play, obviously, bad matchup coming up against Pittsburgh, but I think when you've got a guy who's just going to get the ball at nauseam, you stay in the flames and just change your expectations for what you're going to get. All right, before we touch on wide receiver studs, we want to thank Lightstream for sponsoring today's podcast.

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Which is, again, very, very impressive. It just means it's easy. Yeah, it does. It does mean that. And we'll be talking about flushing away some performances here soon. But let's go to the good. John Brown had a monster game. Nine for one, 37, and two, 14 targets, huge game. Do I get credit as my pivot start of the week? Even though my start of the week was. Yeah. Because I had two starts. It was brown and brown. Well, this is. Marquise Hollywood Brown.

It was my actual start of the week. Yeah, and then he stunk. Yeah, but John Brown was like if you're not sure Marquise is healthy, start of the week. Right. So I'm just going to say I won. Well, the listeners may not say that if they've started Hollywood. 50 plus receiving yards in every single game. That's John Brown. He is their number one receiver. When they throw the ball, that's where they go. Only Michael Thomas can match that number this year. Denver, Dallas on the schedule. Baltimore, Pittsburgh, New England.

I mean, he's the wide receiver 14 on the season, been unbelievably consistent, and now you get to see the talent, the big blowup potential, which he clearly has with his lightning speed. All right, let's talk about Chark Nato. Mm. DJ, Chark, 8 for 104 and 2. Here's the more impressive number. 15 targets. I know you asked me last week, am I worried about DJ Chark with Nick Foles? The answer was no, because of the talent.

And that talent demanded 15 targets in this game. He's the wide receiver, five on the year. And he's got much better matchups in some of these other top-end wide outs to finish the season. I went back and forth on my rankings, kept thinking, okay, we haven't seen him with Foles.

they don't have the rapport. I've got to move him down. And then I went, well, no, he's too talented. I'm going to move him up. I went back and forth all the way up until Sunday game time. And it's so nice to have a definitive answer. He is the number one for that team. It is not Mike's Sweetie Deity. And because of his talent, I mean, one of those catches for a touchdown, it wasn't some great, incredible pass that, you know, it was just he caught the ball in the middle of the field. Then he turned on the jets and said, I'm faster than you. Yeah, second catch is incredible too. So, I mean, DJ Chark.

He's a league winner this year. He's one of the few guys I think that should be in the conversation along with Lamar Jackson's. You got him so late in best ball leagues where you're going 18 rounds. He was more often than not draft. I was going to say he was a free agent pickup. So, I mean, he's been, and now you've got a wide receiver one locked in the rest of the year. He gets to play Tampa at home. He gets to play Oakland. He gets to play Atlanta.

Although Atlanta may be the best defense in football now. The last two. All right. I'm going to name some guys that had big weeks but aren't in the, you know, haven't been in the upper echelon category. You tell me who you have the most confidence in moving forward, okay? Calvin Ridley finally did it. He had a big game, 8 for 143 and 1. Randall Cobb had another big game, 4 for 115 and 1. Michael Gallup, 9 for 148. Debo Samuel, a reprise, 8 for 134 on 10 targets.

Yeah, there's a lot of great options here. If I have to say who I've got the most confidence in, I don't know if it'll surprise you or not. I mean, I've spoke confidently of this player coming up rest of season, and it's started to come to fruition, but it's Calvin Ridley. Even though Michael Gallup just looked amazing, when it comes to Gallup and Cobb, we just spoke about Dax's schedule, and I checked, and it's the same schedule that his wide receivers have.

So they're going to be on the same team for the next few weeks. And that's just a schedule where are you really going to start Michael Gallup in New England? Randall Cobb in New England. But give me Calvin Ridley against Tampa Bay all day. The Saints, the Panthers. You know, I think Calvin Ridley has shown, look, he's the first round.

NFL player. He was drafted to be a star wide receiver. He's shown plenty of flashes and now the opportunity with no Mohammed Sunu, no Austin Hooper. It's his for the taking. Yeah, I agree with that. It's kind of incredible. Amari Cooper, all of his monster performances are at home this year. I don't know if you know that. I did not know that. At Washington, he was the 30th, at New Orleans, 37th, at New York Jets, 94th. And then this game was in Detroit when he stunk it up. And, you know, Randall Cobb and Gallup took advantage of,

Very little production from Amari Cooper. Or Amari Cooper had very little production because Michael Gallup and Randallup just went to work and were open ad nauseum. Yep. So you like Ridley the most of that group. I get it. The upside potential. Debo is interesting as well. He's demanding targets. And...