Week 15 Studs & Stinkers + Along Came Pollard, Hurts So Good - Fantasy Football Podcast for 12/21

is making the jump. One of the biggest reasons is Stefan Diggs. I mean, your accuracy goes up when you throw to a player that is always open and makes spectacular catches on the reg. Correct. Corey Davis, another huge game, four for one, 10, and one on a long bomb. Love, I'm so happy for Corey Davis. Yeah, I feel like Corey Davis and Nelson Aguilar have combined this year to be the Devante Parker of the season. It's like, you get, you get overdrafted in the NFL.

by a team who they make a slight overcalculation of what you could do. Like they take you to be a one, so you're expected to be a number one. When he's just, he's an excellent number two wide receiver. Yeah, and the truth is, is he also had a quarterback problem. Sure. And that could have been what Nelson Aguilar did too. Yeah. Yep. All right, Robert Woods, Antonio Brown, Antonio Brown finally hit on that bomb. We've been waiting for it. Yep. He hit on it.

They take the shot every week, but this time a 46-yard touchdown. Brandon Ayuk. Nine for 73 in a touchdown. It kind of came along slowly in this game, but he's been incredible. He is, uh, his target share over the last five games is a pace of 202 targets. Man, what happens though? Championship Week with, if it's C.J. Bethard.

I don't care. Yeah, it's irrelevant. CJ Bethard, I mean... Get the ball into I use hands, let the rest happen. Yeah, I completely agree. And the way that they manufacture touches for their wide receivers, I could care less. I do wonder if Kittle will be back next week, though. It's possible. And Bethard and Kittle, they've had some good times together. They're Bethard friends. Oh, please, Mike. No, I liked it. Oh, you liked it? I was expecting this. Or this. Oh, no.

I liked it. Yeah, you would. Darren Waller, Travis Kelsey, huge weeks. Kelsey is so good. Yeah, very good. I'm going to be keeping him in our keeper league just for the record. We were discussing. Yeah, where does he belong in the draft if you could draft this year? Yeah, if you're redoing the draft. This year? With the knowledge. He's easily a first round. Right, but where? Where. What spot? Because we were basically debating the is he, could he be the one-on-one?

For the advantage of the position. I think you take him probably third or fourth. That's why does he belong next year? The problem is with Travis Kelsey is just his age. And he has been in, he has been an Iron Man. Like how many games has Travis Kelsey missed in the last four or five years? I don't think any. I don't think any. I believe it's none. And he's now.

31 or 32. This will be the fifth consecutive year he finishes number one at the position. Which is just absolutely unheard of. And part of that is health. And he's just, if you can get this again, I think you can get this at least one more year. Then you take him. Let's pretend you can. Probably fifth or something. Let's pretend that you can get this for one more year considering you've gotten in for five consecutive years. Then I'm, if you can get this, I would be fine.

taking him at like the third or fourth. I would still take. I think it's going to be fun to see. I still would take Dalvin Cook, Christian McCaffrey, Derek Henry, those type of guys. He's going to get pushed back in the first round for sure. But just knowing that the injury rate of a running back compared to what Travis Kelsey has been compared to that positional advantage, you're getting a top 10 wide receiver in your tight end spot. In Travis Kelsey's career,

He basically missed his rookie season in 2013, had one game. Since that point in 2014, he has only missed one game. In 17, 16, 16, 15, 15, 16, and a full season so far. The positional advantage when you have him going up against your opponent every single week is.

And while it's still a onesie, it's a onesie position, meaning you don't need more of them. So that's why running backs, wide receivers, that's why we draft them higher. But the difference here, you know, quarterbacks are a onesie position, but you can replace them so easily. Right. You pick up Jalen Hertz off the waiver and you have an awesome, you draft someone in the 10th, 11th, 12th round that are great. You can't replace tight end. You can't. Tighten suck. Mm-hmm.

Yeah, I think because of the fact he doesn't miss games and is such an advantage over the other players of the position, there's a strong argument that he belongs in the top five. That's fine by me. It's just an interesting discussion to be having. Noah Fant. Yes, a fan. I know, I know. I can't believe that wasn't in the pun day. I knew when we made enough of a big deal about it, he was going to do something like this. Sorry. I thought you should just say Noah. I was wrong here.

Take the L. 11 targets. Woo. Mr. Irresponsible was responsible with this target share. Logan Thomas, 15 targets, 13 for 101. It's crazy. That's incredible. 13 catches. It was J.D. McKissick and Logan Thomas in every play. Yeah, until the end, then McLaurin finally got in on it. Mark Andrews, Hunter Henry, Tyler Higby. Yeah. Four for 67.1. Andy started the week. Oh, that was great to see.

Great to see. We're getting closer to grandma's segment. This is good. Stinkers of the week. Presented by odor eaters. All right. We mentioned that this player might struggle. Elite pass rushes seem to be a big problem for Russell. Russell Wilson. Yeah, 18 for 67, one touchdown. 121 yards passing. I doubt you won with him in your lineup this week.

No, he was very limited. Limited. Limited. I mean, D.K. Metcalf, Tyler Lockett. This was a huge letdown game from Seahawks offense. Goodness gracious. That got you far. They helped get you to the semifinals, and hopefully you withstood a victory. We have him down right now in our system. As the QB 27, there's still two more quarterbacks that have to play.

Oh my goodness. Get 1201 total passing yards. One touchdown, one interception. Yucky. Yucky. Yuck do-do. Oh, that's painful, man. Yeah. It's really, really difficult right now. Russ has not been cooking. No. He burned something. He has been bad. And what's so stupid is that right now he is the quarterback five.

on the season. I mean, those things just aren't fair. Still 11 over the last five weeks. Oh, that's fun. But this was atrocious. And then Jared Goff was just goffel? Yes. I mean, they lost. They lost to the Jets. Do you want that on your resume? They had a 17.5 point line. They were favored by 17.5. I don't remember the last time. I took them to cover. I mean, the goodness. Did you see, uh,

Jonathan Blevins had a 12-team parley. Yes. Yeah, yeah. He had 11 of 12 right. The last one was the Rams. Just winning. Just winning. Which is the most easy and obvious thing of all time. I would have cashed my check. And you know what? Adam Gase, you never cease to impress me when I think you can't do anything stupider.

You go and totally redeem yourself. He doesn't care. He's not going to be there next year. Oh, man. I mean, this is the... Did you see that back page that they showed on the broadcast last night in New York? Was it Lawrence Weld? It's the Lawrence Welp. Lawrence, question mark, Welp. It is very funny. He goes to the Jaguars as of now. The strength of schedule tiebreaker. The Jaguars have the easier strength of schedule. So if they both finish with one win, which seems probable,

then the Jacksonville Jaguars get the number one pick because the Jets beat the Los Angeles Rams. The whole system of like your team is better off if you lose. It's, it stinks. It's tough to swallow. Did you guys listen to what's Travis Kelsey's brother, Jason Kelsey? Are I getting the name right? Yeah, Jason Kelsey from the Eagles. Yeah, the Eagle. Did you hear him talking about?

about picks and winning and no oh i did yes it was a great quote it was and he was making the point that you know in football because of how many players are on the team one draft pick generally doesn't necessarily define everything now obviously with a quarterback it can but it can also go the other direction right i mean whether it's you can make the wrong pick you could also have trevor lawrence say he doesn't want to play for jacksonville or new york as well sure um but i'm just saying that that you get it

You get a better pick. You get a better shot at taking the player that you actually want by losing. It's just it. It's the way it works. It's the way it works. But this is why we, let me translate this to fantasy football for a second. We do something in our league to prevent the clarity of knowing that finishing last gives you the number one pick, right? The NBA does this.

And we have the lottery for the bottom four teams for the first round. Now, we go reverse order of standings beyond that in the draft. But for the first round, if you're in the bottom four teams, your name's getting picked out of a hat for who gets that first pick. So that way there isn't some incentive to be dead last. So that way you can pull the ultimate Adam Gay's move and just. Just like walk down the path because Trevor Lawrence is the most hyped quarterback.

By the media. Since Andrew Luck. Andrew Luck. Number two. That's the pick they're going to have. Andrew Luck, that graphic was incredible. I did not know that we had that. Number two. Oh, fabulous on YouTube. But Andrew Luck, he was hyped. He was a hit. I mean, he suffered unfortunate injuries and then retired because of them. But Andrew Luck was on his way to being a franchise quarterback. Oh, absolutely. If you're a Jets fan and you've won this game,

You watch Trevor Lawrence drafted to the Jaguars go have a great career because Adam Gase won a game and who will no longer be a part of your franchise next year. That's all I'm saying. Number two. Is it, that's going to feel really bad, really bad. Yeah. It is. And we'll see what happens. Not that they can't get a, like there's other quarterbacks in the draft that you could take at number two. Josh Fields. Yeah. Justin. Justin Fields. Yeah. Or his brother Josh.

Which would be a worst pick. Is he a draft eligible? Be worse pick. He's eight years old. That's where they say the name wrong. Oh, no. All right. We won't linger on the stinkers too long. But Todd Gurley is the player that I was going to bring up because Todd Gurley had one carry for negative one yards. I mean... He did have a pretty insane one-handed catch. Cool. Cool. Cool.

Wait, so did he finish with negative points or not? No. Oh, okay. I saw that he did. Jason, you ruined it. Did he fumble? He had two receptions for 15 yards. Oh, he had two points. Jason, your grandmother finishes last. Oh, my grandmother didn't beat Todd Gurley. At one point. I don't know the order of operations. She must have been leading at one point. Yeah, he may have had negative points at a point. But he, it sucks. Probably shouldn't have played him.

It sucks that Todd Gurley is. She beat him on the ground. She beat him in the running game. It sucks that Gurley is toast, but Todd Gurley is toast. Yeah. It's sad. Yeah, it is. And what a weird year, too, right? Where he just, he gave you some value. And yet, it's over. Kenyon Drake, Mike Davis, Chris Carson, Cam Acres. Oh, Kim. Cam Acres.

Kareem Hunt. Stinkers this week. Wayne Galman last night. Nine for 29, no touchdowns. Very Bruce of him. And Dionne Lewis was on the field a lot. Alfred Morris ran a lot better than Wayne Galman did. His tank ran out. Like he's like, he gave it everything he had, but it's just he's depleted now. Brooks would like us to remind you this was the George Clooney version of Bruce Wayne. That is an excellent, excellent point, Brooks.

That was a rough movie. Was George Clooney the worst? I don't know that he was. Was he the worst? He's worse than Val Kilmer. No, I think Val Kilmer was my least favorite. And I love Val Kilmer. And I love George Clooney. Oh, Val Kilmer's fantastic. Yeah, George Clooney. I mean, these are all wonderful people. George Clooney was real bad. That was that movie, it was the movie combined with Clooney. Yes, the movie was. Because Mr. Freeze and. Oh.

I miss one-line. I miss awful, awful one-liners in movies. Like, they're too campy now. That has to be in only a comedy movie. Like, this wasn't a comedy movie. This was a serious, you know, action film and then it's like just. What's because is Arnold? Arnold is the king of one-liners. Of terrible one-liners in action movies. Yeah. All right. He had to split. Pretty much. Chris Carson. I.