Week 15 Matchups + In-or-Out, Cookin’ by the Book

but probably a victory for the Eagles in this one to get them to 500 to compete. It better be. And I believe is the Dallas game next week, Brooks? Yes, the Dallas Eagles game is. That'll be exciting. That will be an awesome. Who won't lose? Yeah. Somebody won't lose the division. Now, I will say this. I'm looking up the last five weeks of the Redskins for specificity and looking how they have been against certain positions.

22nd against quarterbacks, 22nd against running backs, 28th against wide receivers. They've been pretty stout, meaning they're very difficult to score on. But tight ends have actually, they've been the fourth best matchup. And now you've got across the field, the Zacherts Dallas Goddard show. Yeah, I mean, you're always playing Zacherts anyways, and he's been the number one tight in for a while. But it brings Dallas Goddard into the picture a little bit.

I feel like I've said that so many times about Dallas Goddard over the last four weeks. I'm done with the narrative of there's limited weapons. Like that one doesn't matter to me. What matters to me is something like that where they're very vulnerable to the tight-in position. But, you know, he hasn't had smash games in the absence of Nelson Aguilar, Alshon, Jeffrey, etc. He had a touchdown against New England, but it hasn't been a gold mine like you hoped for. Right.

Because the offense has just been stagnant and slow and slow pace of play and just kind of difficult to watch. And last week it was ugly until it wasn't at the very end. When you were waiting for, at least I was waiting for these injuries to cause Dall Scottard to be more involved in the actual, like more snaps. But the last two weeks, he's been out there, you know, 57, 68% of snaps. There's been so many plays. He's not even on the field.

You know, I'm curious about that from a coaching standpoint when you need pass catching weapons. When they needed them, it was Joshua Perkins at the end of the game. Exactly. So that's why. I'm wondering if he was injured or something. But it makes it hard to trust God or even in a plus matchup without the other weapons. No change in the status of Jordan Howard at all. So we're going to go going to go into this game with Miles Sanders and Boston Scott. I'm not chasing the Boston Scott points. Okay.

I know that he was picked up everywhere, and I guess you kind of have to do that. But, you know, this was a pivot midgame. This was Miles Sanders banged up. Well, Miles Sanders dehydrated. He had the cramps. Yeah, he was out for a little while. He needed the IV. Do you look at Boston Scott with flex, like relevance? I look at him if you're a desperate person in need.

I am a desperate person, Mike. Well, then Boston Scott, could I interest you in a running back who had 128 total yards? Yeah, I mean, he was great. I believe he was the running back seven last week. He was the spark plug that got them going. And now, you know, out of Philadelphia, everybody's talking about, they're excited about him taking on that Darren Spurl's role. Now, would you rely on that for a playoff matchup? If that's the role that they're really excited about, I mean, Darren Sproles was.

very limited in terms of touches. So I think you've got to question him in the same way that you've got Patrick Laird. You know, Patrick Laird is not doing it on the ground. He's doing it as a receiver, same as Boston Scott. Yeah, I would take Patrick Laird easily. Okay. Well, then that means you're not playing Boston Scott. Yeah. If it's an easy choice for Laird, Scott is not in consideration. Laird is on that running back two edge.

And for Miles Sanders, he didn't come through with any fantasy game of note. It was one of those that was tough because they finally got on the goal line. He had the cramps. He was off the field as Boston Scott. He got stuffed on the goal line. But he still had 20 opportunities in his limited snaps. 56% of the snaps last week. I think it goes back to predominantly Miles Sanders. You could still count on him in this matchup. Well, the Eagles had to come back last week.

They had to battle back, and that's where the pass-catching, you know, Sprolesy role is more prominent. Otherwise, Nelson Aguilar didn't practice Wednesday or Thursday. I don't think he's going to play again. Alshan's on IR. Orthega White's side is not good enough. Not yet. Greg Ward is Greg Ward. Yeah. And then on the other side, you got Terry McLaurin, who plays for the Redskins. Last week, he was actually, you know.

I'm okay with Terry. I'm okay with Terry this week. Eagle secondary is defunct. See Darius Slaten last week. So you're okay with Terry? Yeah, I'm okay with him because the Haskins is at least feeding him. I mean, like 12 targets three weeks ago, four, that one against the Carolina, that game kind of fell apart. But seven targets against Green Bay, four for 57 with a touchdown. I'm okay playing him. When I say, okay, he's a three. He's a flex type.

of player he unfortunately where he was kind of emerging as a two but i would play i love i love mccloren's uh ability but i i'm not playing terry mccloren since week seven so this is a a very large sample now that we're you know in week 15 do you know what wide receiver he is and this is including his his good game this last week he is wide receiver oh and he saw that one coming

Yes. So, I mean, I'm just not relying on Haskins based on the fact that McLaurin is good and can get open. I just don't want to do that in the playoffs. Yeah. Yeah, I like him. I'm with Mike on this one. Eagles showed me what happens against their secondary, but it's just, it's tough. It's not an exciting game. And Adrian Peterson is a fine volume play, as we've been talking about. Adrian Peterson or Patrick Laird. Adrian Peterson.

Oh, I lean layered. Layered. Yeah. I'll take the pass catching. All right. Brown, six and seven Cardinals three, nine and one. They're at home, but they're three point underdogs. This line is changed, I believe. I think it was a two point line yesterday. Maybe I'm wrong. 49 point over under. Kyler Murray has been real bad the last two weeks, both at home. I believe he was Pro Football Focus's worst ranked passer in both weeks. Yes. Congrats.

Arizona, the defense allowing 294 passing yards per game. This is why Mike has Baker Mayfield as his stream of the week. Yeah, you can, you can rely on it. They've been, the Cardinals have been massacred by everyone not named Duck Hodges. He can kill ducks. But what do you do with Kyler? Because I, I, there are multiple, uh, people that have, you know, texted me, messaged me.

looking at the James Winston hand situation, looking at other streaming options, like Ryan Fitzpatrick, and saying, do you go Kyler at home against the Brown's defense? Or, you know, because before the two bad weeks, Kyler had been pretty darn good. But Cleveland hasn't allowed a 300-yard passer. They're okay, middle-of-the-pack defense. What do you do with Kyler? I mean, you, I think Kyler can be.

started because of his rushing ability. You look at the Browns and, you know, the last five weeks, when they've been beaten, you know, by Fitzpatrick, who has turned into the running game as well for the Miami Dolphins and Josh Allen, they can be beaten by mobile quarterbacks. So that's kind of why I'm okay starting them. I'm not thrilled to start, Kyler, because obviously these last two weeks have been...

horrendous. Would you rather stream Baker off the waiver wire or pick up or play Kyler who's on your team? I would rather play Kyler. I would rather play the home quarterback who has a better history this season of good fantasy finishes, who also has the rushing baseline that Baker doesn't necessarily have. The upside, if one of these guys was to go nuclear, I would assume, you know, if one guy gets four passing touchdowns,

It's probably Baker, but I would think the safer options, Kyler. Mike, are you on the Baker side? I am, yeah. They're pretty close. Our consensus rankings have Baker at 10, Kyler at 12. Eileen, the guarantee of Baker, because I feel like the way Kyler is playing right now scares me. Yes. All right, in the backfield in Arizona, David Johnson did have a touchdown last week.

but I believe he had five touches in the game. David Johnson had three carries and two receptions, so you are correct. But they were all good touch. Six yards per carry, though. They were all good touches. Like when you watch, when you watched, yeah, I mean, what are you going to take away from him, Mike? Yeah, I will. Why, what are you going to take away? I mean, he played better last week. He had three carries. Yeah, and they were good carries.

Are you saying you don't think he has a chance of taking more of the market share this week? No, yes, that is what I'm saying. They gave him three carries. I concur. I wouldn't touch David Johnson and fantasy with a 10-foot pole, hoping. Grinch style. That somehow they see what they did last week. They're going to give him more work, enough work to be fantasy relevant. I mean, that's not to say he didn't look good on those three carries, but you can't.

bank on all of a sudden he's going to get 10 to 12 touches this week because he was good on his three carries last week. He had 21 snaps, Drake had 38, Edmonds 11. There are a lot of fantasy owners of David Johnson in Dynasty leagues and Keeper leagues that would like to see some production from him. And it was a better week last week for David Johnson than it had been in like five weeks. Yeah. If we're talking long term, Kenyon Drake is.

a free agent after this year and David Johnson is still under contract so it's not you don't abandon all hope if you have them on your dynasty league you're not feeling great about it but there's there's at least a sliver of hope Nick Chubbs in your lineup cream hunt is he in your lineup the number five startsick question this week is cream hunt versus Rahim Moster

Yeah, I mean, Kareem Hunt, his involvement in the passing game, I've had, I feel that a lot of Kareem Hunt questions where I haven't necessarily gone hunt because the other options were great. But Kareem Hunt, listen to his fantasy finishes since he's been back. The running back 18, the running back 30 against Pittsburgh, the running back 16, 16, 15. I mean, he's just pretty consistent because of that pass catching work, and this is a plus matchup. So I think if you want, he's a running back too.

Week in and week out so far. All right. Other question marks in this game? I'd stay away from David Injoku now. The knee injury. That's not what he was coming back off of IR for. It's a new injury. So, you know, he came back with the wrist. I'm not looking at Ricky Seals Jones at all. Revenge game. Sure. No, I'm not either. I just wanted the joke. And then Jarvis Landry is Mike's start of the week. Yeah, he's going to crush.

Odell Beckham, you have to play him against Arizona if you're going to, I mean, right? Yeah, yeah, you do. You have to. Yeah, reluctantly. Christian Kirk, eight for 95 last week against Pittsburgh. I thought that was a good performance from Christian Kirk. I think he's a wide receiver two, three.

situation. Yeah, he's my wide receiver 21 this week at home in a matchup against the Browns that are middle of the road. Kirk has looked fine. I mean, this is really just which Kyler are you going to get. Because if Kyler comes out and has a good game, then Chris Kirk's going to have a solid performance. Larry Fitzgerald, Mike, you're looking his way at all? No. Nope. Unfortunately not.

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