Week 14 Matchups + Wheel of Shame, The Device - Fantasy Football Podcast for 12/10

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to the fantasy footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome, man. Oh, man. I am super rested. Is that true? Yeah, well, I mean, like, it was 23 to nothing at halftime. So I just turned it off and went to sleep. Sure you did. And I assume I missed nothing.

Well, it was the Vikings. Yeah. So I got a bunch of sleep. That was the part you forgot was that it was when it was 29 to nothing, I was with our man Brooks and I turned down and I say, how is Minnesota going to lose this game? Because it seems impossible, but we know there's a chance. If they had lost the game, it would have been the NFL record for the greatest regular season comeback. And Zimmer?

his soul would have left his body and he just he would have what's left peace out i'm out i'm out of here man i can't no way i feel like at that point his job would have left his uh person as well yeah there are the rumors there's horrocks of mike zimmer hidden all around in case that happens uh welcome to the show friday december 10th we'll talk a little bit more about that game last night it was a fun one it ended up being really entertaining

uh news and notes injury updates the forecast with more matchups today we've got the wheel of shame that i'm not spinning oh that's great i believe i won i'm not spinning so one two i guess that means mike is spinning it is yes take your point eight victory victory yeah yeah last place guy um but let's let's roll back into last night's matchup the device

Went for 27, 205 yards, two touchdowns. Unbelievable. He had a 17-yard pass catch. Dalvin Cook was unbelievable. He should wear that thing all the time. It looked as though the device was also providing nitro boost because between the holes that the offensive line were providing him and the speed at which he found every one of them. He ran. He had.

He had five 15-plus-yard runs in, like, the first quarter. Every run was at least nine yards. It was like, nine yards was like, oh, man, that's kind of, all right, go get him next time. Bad run. Sorry, even more importantly, unscathed. You saw the interview after the game. It feels great. Ten days off playoffs, Dalvin Cook. You want those two together. And really, to me, in this game, when it was all said and done, 36, 28.

Minnesota, they covered, they won the game by the skin of their teeth. There was only two disappointments in the entire game. Alexander Madison, who ended up with three points. He was not flex. He ended up not being a good flex and ended up not being. I would assume most people did not start him once they knew Dalvin Cook was active. I don't think that's true at all. I told people not to start. Well, not everybody listens to you. Well, they should. I mean, there was definitely reason to play Madison of

Like, by the time kickoff hit, it certainly had trended in the direction that this is going to be Dalvin Cook back to a completely regular type of a game flow. But there was still, Davin Cook is just a few weeks removed from a devastating injury. And like the chance of him playing a full game, like there was a high percentage chance that he would.

would get knocked out, and then Madison would see a whole bunch of touches. Also, if the game stayed with the game script for the first half, he would have. He also got some goal line, or red zone opportunities, just didn't do anything with him. And then Tyler Conklin, two for 20, no touchdown, two targets. Honestly, the, the Conklin, if you're mad at Tyler Conklin, I think you just be mad at Pittsburgh. Because the reason that Tyler Conklin had that situation, like, Kirk Cousins,

I mean, he ended up having to throw the ball 31 times, but it's, Herndon had a catch, Cook had a catch, conch had two, and then you know that Justin Jefferson is going to get his, but other than that, it was like, KJ Osborne had the bomb, which if he doesn't have the bomb touchdown, he's extremely disappointing.

They didn't have to throw in the entire first half. It's funny because Jefferson really had an actually disappointing game. Oh, for the way it was trending. 15 targets. When Jefferson catches 7 of 15 and 3 of them were almost touchdowns. Three additional. He could have legitimately had four touchdowns in this game where it basically in the end zone hit him in the hands. 7 for 79 and a touchdown is a bad game for Justin. On the other side of the ball, I'm a genius. I mean, at the end of the day, I'm a brilliant person. I mean, I definitely.

wasn't writing in the slack. The Big Ben. Yeah, I'm the smartest man alive. What a great start of the week, Andy. 300 yards, three touchdowns from Big Ben. We'll definitely be a quarterback one on the week. Great start of the week. I may or may not have posted in our Slack channel two sentences. It said, this is the worst start of the week in the history of our show, maybe in the history of the world.

But by the end of it, he was fine. So I was sweating it. I didn't want to give bad advice. I was so scared. You guys know that I almost didn't do Big Ben on the show yesterday. Sometimes you get lucky. And he had 107 passive rating. He ended up bringing them back. Najee Harris, the nice thing about him is if the Steelers in a positive game script, he's part of it. And if they're in a negative game script, he's also part of it. Or a regular, just neutral game script. He's also part of it. 20 for 94.

Ended up with a touchdown reception. Yeah, Najee Harris ended up with a monster game. Like, for Dalvo Cook being 202, like, Najee Harris is not that far behind him in actual fantasy scoring. The Steelers finally woke up at half time. Watching the first half of the game, I know they were commenting about it of these guys, they're just not ready to play football, and they were not.

Davenkook was incredible, but a lot of that was just was the offensive line, providing him the opportunity to do whatever he wanted to do. But the Steelers did come through here. Naji, Monster Game, Deonti, an okay game. He also should have had at least one touchdown off the top of my head, maybe two. And then Claypool ended up having a,

Claypool. Very strong game. Yes. Clownpool. Chase Claypool. Clay poop. Made some really boneheaded decisions as a young man on the field. Can I speak to him momentarily? Sure. I'm not going to lecture you. I'm going to ask you a simple thing. Go get yourself a Kurt Warner. Go find your Kurt Warner. When Larry Fitzgerald came into the league with the physical skills and abilities that you have, Chase,

He had the blessing of Kurt Warner coming along. And Todd Haley. Like Larry Fitzgerald Fred has taught Haley a lot. Well, and you saw Mike Tomlin. He gave him the Todd Haley treatment. But Larry was not the player he became. Correct. Larry was arrogant, had the ability to do some of the things that Chase is doing. He needs himself of Kurt Warner because the physical gifts and abilities on a game when you're benched and you make.

arguably five boneheaded plays. I mean, he messed up a block that cost them a first down. Yes. He got the personal foul penalty by putting his finger in the face and the inexplicable. Let's do a little first down dance when you should have run the ball to the line. They end up knocking the ball away. It cost them five seconds. Maybe another play at the Red Zone. Unbelievable. But I just, you want to see a player like this mature. He's a young man and he's making idiotic decisions this year.

And I think it's directly correlating to a failure of a season in the vast scheme of things where people expected the step forward. And it seemed like from day one, maybe, you know, a player that makes those mistakes on the field probably isn't working as hard as they should be off the field. Perhaps. I mean, Deontay Johnson had a very similar pass block with that got, or a run blocking with that got Najee destroyed in the backfield as well. But like the.

That catch, on the past interference catch where Chase Claypool was horizontal, and like on the initial play, it was, oh, sweet, you know, Claypool drew the past interference. And my son's like, no, he caught that. I couldn't believe he caught him. And I was like, oh, you child, be quiet. There is a grown man watching this football game analyzing. I do this for a living. And the replay, I'm like, oh, he caught it. I like how you call all your kids child, too. That puts them in their place. Yeah, when I'm trying to.

disparage him and let him know he made a dumb proclamation. I couldn't believe it. Maybe son. That's what I mean. And Mike Tomlin came out and said he benched him because of the, then they asked him, well, do you think that it, you know, it had the effect it was supposed to have? I don't know. I don't know. The hope is that Claypool can go back, really reflect on this because what he can do on a football field is a.

It is like top percentile wide receiver. And now Big Ben is going to be three or four weeks in the top ten. So it's unbelievable. It's also Friday. Oh. Put Clan Friday. I just wanted to say the Muth was Luth again. That's a good point. But then Harrison Smith knocked at Luth at the end. To be fair to Friar Muth, I'm not sure many people would have caught that pass.

when you have just a full T-bone collision in the end zone. I can't imagine, though, if he had caught the game winner. Well, it would be a potential tire. But, oh, he would have been the luthist. All right, Foot Clan Friday, we have an item to give away from pristine auction.com, and it is a Justin Jefferson signed jersey. And the winner is Toasty underscore. Toasty. Lotki. Congratulations. You win a signed jersey. You can go to pristine auction.com.

All of you out there that didn't win and find your own. Use the code ballers for a $10 credit. News and notes from Around the League. Presented my sleeper. I have to. One more comment about Dalvin Cook. Sure. I have him everywhere. Right. Some not by choice. I had to trade an injured Derek Henry and a keeper laid to go acquire him.