Fantasy Football - Week 14 Matchups + Wheel of Shame, TNF Reactions - Podcast for 12/5

Yeah, your dream's coming true, Jay. I know. It's like Aaron Rogers is going to show up and he's going for the first time ever give them a sub 500 record. Denver, here's your palindrome. Denver 10 and 2, Las Vegas 2 and 10. Yes. Vegas line is Denver minus 7 and a half on the road over under is 40. But that gives Denver with the heavy favorite line 24 points. Las Vegas with a cool 16 competing with Tennessee for, ooh, gross of the week. You remember this was the week 10 game in Denver that was a horrific 10 to 7 game. The Broncos have won nine straight games, but their last four wins have been by 10 points. Every single. A combined 10 points. That is the smallest margin of victory for any team in a four game win streak in NFL history. They are squeaking pie. Just. I really wanted them to lose to Washington just to teach him a lesson. Yeah.

And they still won the stupid game. It feels like every year there's a team that just the ball always bounces their way for that season. Last year it was the Chiefs. This year it's the Broncos. And the ball bouncing their way even in before the game, Max Crosby, who was limited on Wednesday, did not practice on Thursday. Of course. So if, I mean, if he's gone, now all of a sudden you can go. They could win 11 to 7. Yeah. The wild thing about this. Do you want your spanking now or in the playoffs, Denver? Take it now. Lose this game. I don't think they can get a spank. Go out there and lose. Lose the game and get your spanking. Motivate your team to know that it doesn't just always work. Their defense is too good to really ever get blown out. I can't imagine a team going out there and putting 35 up easily on the Broncos. The part that's hard about Denver is like if Las Vegas.

One great Brock Bowers play, okay, you got seven points. You return a kick because that doesn't involve their defense. Sure. And you got 14, and then you're like, does Denver win or not? I mean, that's how the offense feels? It's why we have a hard time talking about wide receivers. I mean, how many times in the last two years have we been like this week? It's Marvin Mims has finally really reached the way to destroy Franklin. He's finally going to be the pap. Bryant is the guy you want to be Evan Ingrams who's coming up and Corlin Sutton's sitting there touchdown or bust and I don't know. It's just 10 and 2. Okay, congratulations. But I don't know who to play. Yeah, I don't know. It's funny because they should score in this game. This is a good matchup. They also should have the first time. Yep. Right. And so I'm still playing Sutton this week. Yeah, I would put him.

first in the list. He does, you know, in the last three weeks, which I think you've got to look recently because the Pat Bryant, Troy Franklin, Marvin Mims, whoever the two is has kind of been rotating. And Cortland Sutton has the most targets, the most receiving percentage of receiving yards, the highest fantasy points. So I think to me it's Cortland Sutton and check out. Keep your eyes on Pat Bryant and on Troy Franklin, but that's... playing wise it's just sudden if pat bryant and who is now of course limited with a hamstring but if bryant got into this game puts up or is on the field for another 70 plus percent of the snaps maybe the following week all considered even green bay is a tough matchup in two weeks but i'm i'm with you it's i'm going to go courtland sutton harvey it's so weird

Harvey should. Harvey Gentie Bowers, you play all of them. Yeah, Harvey should. The advanced analytics on RJ Harvey are not good. I think the biggest question is maybe Bo Nix. I was going to ask you Bo Nix or Lamar. I would go Lamar. I don't, Bo Nix hasn't especially big. I would go Trevor Lawrence over Bo Nix. Okay. Chicago's 9 and 3, Green Bay 8, 3 and 1. Green Bay 8.5, or sorry, 6.5 point home favorites. No respect to the number one seat. Over under is 44 and a half. That is wild. This is the first time in 40 plus years that a number one ranked team is six plus point underdogs. That's chalkboard material right there. Write that up. You think they have a chalkboard anymore? That's whiteboard material right there. And what a big deal. I mean, this game, there's a lot of...

Huge playoff games this week. They play again in week 16, these same two teams. So my goodness. 18 degrees is the current projection. When you start getting below 25 degrees, that's where you see an impact. So we'll have to pay more attention as we get closer to know whether or not, you know, that's going to hold. But usually when you worry about, you know, hourly, like, is this weather going to impact the game? That's more specifically on rain, on snow. Like, we got to be closer to know if that's going to come. The temperature is pretty predictable. So this should be a freezing game. Big decisions for fantasy managers. I think, by the way, I realize you never even hit your to slaw drop at the beginning of the show. He caught a touchdown, Mike. I think people deserve one. Come on. I wanted the lights.

Where the heck are the lights? No, no. If he had, if he had came down with that second touchdown. Do we not have any lights? I did. I thought they were working. I tested them. Oh, we actually did. Gosh. You thought wrong. Kyle the Borgogan. He tried it again and it didn't work. Sorry. Kyle the Borgorgian tweeted this one out. Rookie wide receivers with four receiving touchdowns on fewer than 10 receptions. Isaac Tesla. That's it. He should have had. At least one more. If we had one more, it would have been it would have been pants off. Is that just become his position? Like you play wide receiver, you play tight-in, you play touchdown. Like that's it. Tislaw is just, he's our touchdown. Touchdown guy? Yeah, he's a touchdown guy. That's it. I'm just, I wanted to see it, man. I wanted to see if it would work. Oh, I thought you meant the lights. Yeah, I did. Oh, no. That will never work. Caleb Williams, Jordan, loving this one.

What a big game from Jordan Love on Thanksgiving. I mean, that was. Yeah, that was very nice. Those are the games that really tantalize you and make you think that, you know, you could get that every week. But it doesn't happen that way. And are you worried about him in the cold or do you embrace the Green Bay home matchup and think that, hey, at least on paper, the Bears defense gives it up to quarterbacks. They give it up the wide receivers. Yeah, I mean, I was really excited, like similar to Jordan Love, Christian Watson. His target share over the last three weeks, 20%, 33%, 36%, and this is a matchup where you want to throw on the bears. And so, yeah, on paper, I really like the combination of Jordan Love, Christian Watson. The weather does scare me. Usually, I'm having Kyle pull up the data. We've done the research, but I forget every year when we come back to see how significantly it impacts the run-to-pass ratio. So usually bad weather will.

be good for running backs and bad for wide receivers in the passing game. So I'll get that in a second. Is it good for a running back who's just been hurt nonstop for a month? I doubt it. I don't know. Maybe is that like an outdoor cold plunge where your recovery is nice? Right. The inflammation will be gone. Or does it just keep everything too tight? You rip it. I don't know. I don't know. I'm scared. I'm scared to every Josh Jacobs play. As the Josh Jacobs manager, this is, he is the player where every play I watch and I go, just get up fine. Time slows down and you're micro analyzing every movement. I'm not, I'm not analyzing the movements. I'm analyzing how he stands up. After he gets tackled, I'm like, how are you standing? You get right up. Oh, that you took a second. He's like, no. Christian Watson, Target share is, yeah, ballooned for three weeks. I'm still starting that.

Christian Watson or Brian Thomas Jr. Jason? Oh. That is really interesting. I let me finish finding this data on the weather and I'll get back to you. I'd go Christian Watson. I'd play Watson. Roma Dunzee has not been practicing. It might open up a little bit of a window for DJ more confidence. I'm not going to say Luther burden confidence, but. Luther Burton's possibilities. Yeah, that's fine. And Mr. Loveland. Oh, Mr. Loveland. Averaging five targets for over the last six weeks. I can live with that with touchdown upside. That's passable. Although the Packers, they shut that tight-end position down. Over the past six weeks, the Green Bay Packers are allowing an average of 4.1 points to the tight-end position? That's not a lot. That is. That's not a lot. Ooh.

And Matthew Golden still plays for Green Bay? Is that, do we think he's, is he on the team? Oh man, him and Worthy. They can just, no. Who hit that? No, no. Who do you think? The Packer's Bay boy back there. Green Bay boy. No. You work on the lights. You don't hit that drop. No, Matthew. I was answering your question. Matthew Golden and Xavier Worthy could just hold hands, skip down the lane and just be, hey guys, remember how fast we were? Both first rounders, right? Yeah. Whoops. Fast first rounders sometimes go sideways. Yeah, what was, what, Hayward Bay? Yeah. At least Xavier Worthy. He was real fast. Xavier Worthy, though. Rugs. Oh, come on. Well, yeah, that's too fast. Xavier Worthy, thank you, Swish. No, I don't think. Xavier Worthy had production in college. He had production as a rookie and was.

utilized like Matthew Golden didn't have produce no I'm just saying Matthew Golden didn't even have college production well he still hasn't gotten any targets either just like college all right I think we covered that one we'll take a break we'll jump into some more here's the typical holiday pattern you tell yourself you'll be thoughtful and then you panic at the last minute you buy a gift card this year skip the panic and give an aura frame enjoy unlimited free photo and video uploads simply download the aura app connect to Wi-Fi and start adding memories in seconds every gift can be personalized with a custom message that appears when it's first turned on a pretty nice thoughtful little touch for any occasion you know i know in my life all the parents the grandparents nothing means more to them

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Kareem Hunt, Bam Knight, okay. We're in RB3 decision-making territory. Yeah, all of those players, it's who do you, well, who do you think scores? Man, I think I personally would play Devon Neal over Bam, and I think I played Rodriguez over Bam. Yeah, Bam Knight's been top 20 in three straight weeks. He seems to, I don't know, we keep thinking he's hurt and then he keeps having okay games, but yeah, I don't mind those. They're managing him for playoffs, you know, what they care about right now. So Blake Corum, does that put him in a flexible category? Is he not quite there? The only reason that I think it could be flexible is if the matchup, if, you know, the high spread of the week, if they end up just dominating, they might want to give Kyron more rest and Corum more work. It's the highest spread of the week? Cardinals at home? Yeah, it's one of the best teams in the NFL against one of the worst teams in the NFL.

The math checks out. Yeah, it's tied for the highest spread of the week. Yeah, I mean, I would prefer to play someone else other than Blake Corum. He is getting involved, and that is impactful for Kyron Williams. But I don't know that he's getting involved enough where you're not going to be happy if he doesn't end up with a touchdown. Opportunities. So it was ramped up there. I mean, you had three games in a row of 13 opportunities for him. Then it dropped to 10, then seven, and then seven this past week. Is Matthew Stafford your start of the week, Jay? Yes. Okay. Yeah. So Matthew Stafford, it should be pretty good against Arizona. And the nice thing about Arizona, at least, they're going to lose. I mean, we know that. But they could put up some points. You know, Jacobius found a way against even the best opponents to, you know, seven straight top 12 finishes. That's incredible. I mean, you brought it up sometime this week. Since he's been a starter, like his 17-game pace is 5300 yards.

and 31 touchdowns. That is fantasy goals. He's going James. He's going James. Puka, Devante, play them. Michael Wilson, great opportunity. If Harrison misses, even if he doesn't miss, I think Michael Wilson's okay. I agree. And you can't run on, you just can't run on the Rams. Houston. Yeah, the only question I was just going to say, the only question is if Marvin Harrison plays, do you view him as a... Good play or? I just think the targets will be there. They've been there with Jacoby Brissette. He had seven last week before he got banged up. I think he's good for eight, nine point minimum if he plays. Houston, seven and five, Kansas City. Six and six. Vegas line Kansas City minus three and a half. Another super consequential game. The overrunner is just 41.5. Two of the best defenses in football. Kansas City on the outside looking in. They could go sub 500 in this game.

and huge for Houston, right? They will be tied with one of those other two division mates if they win this game. The Chiefs have flipped the script on last year. Remember how annoying, always winning the close ones was? They're one and six in one score games. That's just not a mark of Mahomes and Reed in recent history. And the Texas defense is so tough. Yeah, they're very, very good. This is sort of the... kind of matchup that I think is the worst for Kansas City possible. You know, when you don't have Tyree Kill and you don't have prime Travis Kelsey, you know, I think Rashi Rice is a really, really good player, but he's also not like, he's not built to function the way that a Jamar Chase, Calvin Johnson, Justin Jefferson is. He's a different player. And I don't know if he's enough on this roster talent-wise to get through a defense like this.

Yeah, I mean, they need a lot out of Travis Kelsey in this game, and it's not a good matchup against Tyden. This is not a good matchup against anybody. I mean, you look on the season, the Texans are hysterically their number three against quarterbacks, number three against running backs, number three against running back, number three against wide receivers, number three against tight ends. Who do you have win in the game? I've got the Chiefs. It's just like... Just because they have to? Yes, exactly. It's the script. I mean, they just have to. They have to win. They don't make the playoffs if they don't win enough games from here on out.

and the chiefs are going to make the playoffs and everybody in the world knows it. So it's like they just have to. I don't know how. I could totally see how the Texans who have been playing great and their defense is outstanding could take it to them. But the rules are the rules and they're not allowed to win the game. Are you allowed to win a week with Woody Marks in your lineup? Because it's a rough matchup. I would really not want to play. Bam Knight Woody Marks. Oh, two. awful matchups that is like i know uh i would go woody over bam i think that's bam nico collins has been a top 10 wide out in three or four weeks he's he's big strong fast good play him in your lineup and then just uh probably try not to play too many other players in this matchup two very good defenses and um you know it will be cold outside and nico's gonna sneak his way back into the top 12

It's Nico. Okay. I'll allow it. Okay. Yeah, Rashi Rice, of course, you play him and Nico, but I'm kind of nervous about everybody else, including the quarterbacks. I would agree. Would you play Lamar or Patrick Mahomes? Oh. Oh. Houston still hasn't given up a top 12, right? They have not. The entire season, and they've had a... Hoosh. And Mahomes was number one last week. I would go Mahomes, but... Kyle says he has the exact decision in our chopped league. Oh, yes. You have Mahomes Lamar decision, Kyle? I would play the healthy quarterback. Yeah. Kyle, which way are you leaning right the second, Kyle? Right now I have Mahomes in, but my heart wants Lamar. Don't screw it up. Philadelphia, Monday night football, taken on the Chargers, both teams eight and four, Philly two and a half point road favorites. The overrunners 41 and a half. Since the by week, the Eagles.

have scored 10, 16, 21, and 15 points. Oh, Blarf. All their games are hitting the under. This was at 41 and a half, so it's adjusted. This would be the lowest of any of those matchups. Both teams are really good in one-score games. Philly 7 and 2, Los Angeles 4-1. The Chargers offensive line is a major concern. But we just found out yesterday that Jalen Carter is out in this game for Philadelphia. Right. You know, this was, it was the Scataboo game, right? that scataboo had the three touchdowns against philadelphia jalen carter missed that game well technically he played he technically played his way out yeah he played a snap and then scataboo went crazy it does change one snap one spat yeah yeah it just changes the way i look at hampton because if you're talking about committee you know we we heard it would be committee with bucky irving it ended up being all bucky irving i don't think hampton has the the kind of established right yeah yeah you don't have enough you don't have enough film on him

No, but I do think that it does open the door. It cracks the door open to where I'm like, okay, if I am staring down the Devon Neal, if I'm staring down the Bam Knight, Kareem Hunt, Woody Marks. Or Hampton? My heart wants to go Hampton. I would play Hampton. I would play Hampton. The question. And Jalen Carter being out confirms it. Can you play Vidal Sassoon as well as Hampton? They have come out and said that he's played like a number one. He deserves what he's gotten because he's, I mean. Vidal's been playing very well. You look at what happened last week against the Eagles, where you had Manungai and Swift just run all over them. Yeah, but that was the line. No, I agree. You're going from a great offense of line in Chicago to a just depleted, injured, missing offensive line for the Chargers. Red light, green light narrative says this will be a bad one for Vidal. It's held true too long. It's held true since week six. Great, bad, great, bad, great bad.

You just got the great. Man, I want to play Hampton so bad. Right, don't we all? You know, if he comes back, I want to throw him out there. Okay. Sequan or RJ Harvey, if you had that decision. Saquan has been just kind of okay. I would play RJ Harvey. It's a great matchup. He's got the chance for touchdowns, and Barclay is going to get more work than RJ Harvey for sure. But the touchdown upside, I mean, man, Saquan has not been very good this year. The Chargers against running backs on the season is not great, but they have tightened it up in the last six weeks. You see the huge limited shoulder injury situation? I see it now. Yeah, Quentin Johnston was limited on Thursday. We'll keep monitoring that. I don't know if it was in practice injury or something he's taken care of, but we hadn't seen that before. You're always kind of looking for some insight, I think, with the Chargers in terms of can you bend towards...

Gadsden having a good game or Keenan Allen being involved like I think Glad McConkey's the one that's confirmed solid good to go but in a matchup like this that might be where you stop the conversation yeah and Justin Herbert let's not forget Justin Herbert if he plays in this game he is playing in this game one week removed from hand surgery and it's a little bit concerning it's a pain tolerance thing who do you have one in this game I almost push the button but I I just don't The push comes to shove of this offensive line and then the defensive pressure from the Eagles. I don't have the conviction in this one. I see it really heads up. I might even lean the Eagles. Yeah, I would take them. AJ Brown, Devante Smith, you put them in your lineup? Yeah. The offense has not been great, but you got to play those guys. And I'm not sure there's other start decisions we haven't talked about. I mean, yeah. Well, Dallas Goddard. He stopped getting away with it.

Stop scoring touchdowns like crazy. Yeah. Oh, we have updates. Yeah, we've got a few. Worthy. Breaking news. Not about worthy, but worthy updates. Marvin Harrison Jr. has been ruled out. Oh, my gosh. Also, over, under. 18 targets? Yeah. In addition to that, Cardinals news, there was just reported. Kyler Murray not expected to play again this season, as he's, quote, not progressed as they had hoped. You see his TikTok? Yeah. He said, weird year, never again. Yeah. And I don't know what the never again means. Probably Cardinals playing for the Cardinals. It's definitely in the realm of possibilities. Also, update, reminding myself of now that we're back into the cold weather months, if there is not wind and there is not snow and rain.

cold freezing weather does not really have a big impact. Okay. So I would, to answer that question earlier, Christian Watson, Brian Thomas, I'd be on the Christian Watson side. Don Kincaid will be questionable for week 14. T. Benson is ruled out for the Cardinals as well. Oh, he is? Yeah. Okay. On the Tray Benson news, we've been saying. That's a plumber. Well, we've been saying. You are like so upset about Tray Benson's absence. It's a shame because he had the opportunity. I think he would. dominate yeah to be really really good it feels like it'll be Connor again next year maybe could be um for that contract he is not technically unallowed to play again this season oh because of the when they started because when they started he has to Wednesday so if they activate him by Wednesday he could still come back that's good to know that's good to know yeah so because people are like should I just full drop Troy Benson right now I guess the answer is

Just keep on your I-R for now. Wednesday night, you should. We can't possibly have enough time for another segment, do we? Oh, we can do this forever. Fantasy face-off, presented by prize picks. Any chance Al wants to do the shame just because of the whole, like, massive lighting, snafu? Not a chance. Okay. Will of shame. By the way, I tried pretty hard not to be the shame this week. We went. We tied on on Sunday. Well, actually, no, we tied on Thanksgiving. Tight on Thursday. Then we tied on Sunday. And then we almost tied on Monday. Almost tied on Monday. But I, freaking Juan Dale. You did it. I'm the shame again. Spin it. Spin the stupid, stupid, stupid wheel. And don't pick a mask that's going to cut my face open. But you might have. All right. What does that say? Happy little trees. Oh, there's a little Bob Ross.

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It's an incomprehensible amount. Mind you, I also might not even have a good lineup this week. Because let's start at quarterback. My quarterback pick of the week is Marcus Mariotta more than 211 passing yards. Stick with it. This is going to be just a live pivot. Whoever starting. Jaden. Whatever's starting. Whatever their projection is, I'm taking the more. I like what I've seen from the Washington. passing offense with Mariota and I'm not going to lose confidence with Jaden coming in if that's the case. So that's where I'm going to go. Let me just put that down here. Mine is Jacoby Brissette. His projection is 248 and a half yards. He has not not hit that in forever. Not not. Not not. Who's there? Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Slam dunk. Oh yeah. So I'm taking more than that. Obviously, no Marvin Harrison.