Week 14 Studs & Duds + Monday Punday, Sneak N’ Leak - Fantasy Football Podcast for 12/13

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Jason Moore and Mike Wright. Welcome in. Monday, December 13th, the fantasy footballers podcast, Mike Wright, Jason Moore. Andy Holloway here. One more game left in week 14, but many of you out there may know your playoff position already. Did you get in? I hope so. Do a little dance. Mm-hmm.

Make a little love. Did you get the buy? Keep down tonight. I hope so. I didn't because Al took it. Al took the buy and he did it with all the points. I was hoping he needed to, I took care of my business and Al needed to lose and I could have taken the buyback. But then.

Whoopsies. Yeah, Elle's team went nuclear this week, and all I needed was another hundred points, and I could have caught him. Yeah, he had a big, big week. It's not even over. The Cardinals play the Rams tonight in Arizona. Two-thirds of this crew here will be at the game.

So you two gentlemen will enjoy that in person. Hopefully the Cardinals can win a game at home because they've only lost two games this year and they've both been at home. One to Carolina. Well, don't say that. Well, you got to write the ship. I mean, I guess we were there for one of them. I was going to say we weren't there, but we were. I remember that. Al liked that night. But also, I believe it would be the first team to clinch the playoffs. Cardinals are not technically clinched yet.

I believe that the Minnesota victory was also at home, which if you remember, we should not have won that game because Minnesota missed a chip shot field goal to lose. There was a lot of fun things that happened this week in fantasy football, and we'll get into all the studs on the show and talk through the duds. There's some injury news you need to know about. I mean, you're kind of holding your breath. If this week didn't matter that much to you getting into the playoffs.

Then it was like, please don't get hurt my players. And some of them did, and we'll talk about that as well. You can find us on Twitter at the FF Ballers. We once again put the thread out on Twitter looking for the best puns of the weekend. Let's get sophisticated. Yes. Well, who is that? Melvin scored them? That's not a... Did you put an M at the end of that? Oh, so long in. Okay. How about Travis kills me?

About Derek the garbage man? Hmm. Send to the garbage. Icky Seals Jones. Or Ricky Seals groans. Dalton Shucks. Dalton Sharts. Oh, come on. Or maybe you got no mixing. Oh, for what about Frasad Dollar? Cheech. That's a Jason one. He loves those ones.

Hunter Rinro! Whoa! Or funter, Renfro? And taste some bills. Man, what? Dollar, Dollar Bills, yo. He has taken the mantle from Jalen Hertz as the worst quarterback great at fantasy. I mean... He wasn't even good the whole game. No, he was terrible. He was awful the entire game. He was, I mean, he...

He should have been way better against the Jets. Of course, he was, is he the number one quarterback on the week? No, I don't know. Probably Herbert and Big Ben's up there. Aaron Rogers. Yes, your start of the week. But it's just ridiculous when you can rush for, did he get 100 rushing yards? He was close. Well, that last touchdown run was so late in the game. And they just, the defense was like, eh. Yeah. Did you hear what Alvin Camer said about it? No.

Yeah, I did. No, I didn't hear this. He said, your blank should have gone down and stayed in bounds. Wow. But Taysam wanted the fantasy stats. They wanted them points. All right. Thank you, Taisal. You were played by many. Join thefoot.com is the fantasy football community. Get the extra weekly show, tons of tools and resources. It's getting to the news. News and notes from around the league. Presented by Sleeper.

Well, we did get news ahead of kickoff that Jets rookie phenom wide receiver Elijah Moore was placed on IR. Yeah. Unfortunate. That stinks. But going into next year, we can't forget how good he was. We need to remember that going into next year that he broke out. Mm-hmm. DeAndre Swift, rumors swirling that he is a candidate to be placed on injured reserve.

not to help you in your fantasy playoffs. That is another disappointing piece of news for those counting on him in the playoffs. Yeah, I mean, I feel like you should. If you're the Lions, you've got your W. Now you're playing for next year. Derek Henry is supposed to come back, but it won't matter to your fantasy team. The earliest would be week 18 against the Texans, likely for the NFL playoffs, but not the fantasy playoffs. Hopefully he stays healthy. There's a re-injury risk with that foot.

This weekend, you also had the COVID dance going on with Daryl Henderson, Miles Gaskin, Jamal Williams, David Johnson, and then Keenan Allen didn't play due to COVID-19. I'm going to be, this is going to be something that impacts the fantasy playoffs. Because it will. Every week.

You are getting a handful of surprises. And with the winter season, what's going on around the country and the case numbers, it's inevitable that you're going to have some of these players test positive. And so this is just hope it's not your guy. I mean, Jamal Williams, we thought he'd be playing this week. David Johnson, we thought you might be able to.

sneak him in an emergency, and they were both surprised inactive. Daryl Henderson had the injury. We were wondering, but now you know he's out tonight against Arizona. Yeah, the Keenan Allen plays on Thursday night. He missed this last week. Brandon Staley expects him to be back. So that's good news. Yeah, that's going to be quite deep. For the fantasy playoffs, many people starting this week, and you're going to start with Chiefs, Chargers, Thursday night football. I mean. Oh, baby. The Chargers.

played well again. Herbert's been on fire. Mahomes, the offense, getting it together for the Chiefs, so many fantasy players throughout that game. And one of them, we hope, we'll be back out there. Austin Echler, who left with an ankle injury, says he expects to be fine moving forward. Brandon Staley said he could have returned to the game if necessary. I don't quite buy this because I still think there's a chance he's back for Thursday, but you just don't know how these things respond.

If he was going to return, it was going to be with a mummy foot because they spent about 15 minutes and 10 rolls of tape just going over this ankle over and over and over until it was about four times the size it's supposed to be. He still has not been able to get the shoe off. They're trying to get the tape off. It's now part of him. Yeah, it is who he is now. But yeah, I mean, we see this all the time. Guys, even when they come back in the game and they play.

after the ankle injury day two day three the ankle swells up and it gets worse so it's really hard to say like oh we know his ankle's good already these players tape up the ankles a little bit before anyway right yeah they go into games of them all right they don't just risk it i was like because we should pre tape well but i mean when you pre tape then you lose some of the agility flexibility that you you have you just but your ankles a little more protected cream hunt also an ankle injury yeah uh like

Also a head coach that says you could have come back in the game. Lamar Jackson, Mike, ruled out early. Mike's luck continues. Look. Mike's fantasy season continues. Yes, yes. Yes, thank you. Lamar to the left. So we'll just, we'll do it quickly because I've done. Do we have to? Yes.

I was heading into the final week here. I just, I want to get this W, you know, let's salvage something in the final week. I'm still trying to win. Keenan Allen, oh, he's out. Okay, what do I, how do I respond? I'm going KJ. Osborne, big game. Like, off, right off the waiver wire. Well done. Nice maneuvering.

Took care of that. Heading into the weekend. Jamal Williams, he's going to be my guy. I've had him all year for this moment. Oh, and he's a surprise and active, but fear not. For I picked up Rashad Penny. Oh, baby. Off of the news that he could be truly the 1A. He had the 10 carries this last week. I have stashed the Tennessee Titans defense for three weeks just for this moment against the Jacksonville Jaguars. They were great. My team is going off.

All you need. All I need is a quarterback. Just to score some points. You know what? Just give me, Lamar, just give me that worst game of the year that you already had. And he said, no, I will be the one quarterback catastrophe of the season. I saved it just for you, Mike. Just for you. One point. And, uh, come on.

Some of our League of Record members have already sent you gifts this morning for that defeat. Yeah. Yeah. So it'll be a long offseason for Mike. Goodness gracious. Hitman. Taylor Heineke exited early. They're optimistic he'll be back. That game became very fun at the end. Terry McLaren exited with a concussion. That was less fun.