Week 13 Studs & Stinkers + Weekly Rewind, Guice Guice Baby

All right, Ryan Fitzpatrick went crazy. Devante Parker had the best game of his career. He was a beast. I'm so happy what is happening with Ryan Fitzpatrick and Devante Parker. Like these, these are the fantasy things that bring me joy is when this, just the stinkiest of, of, I.

Fantasy trash. They're actually gold. I love that, you know, early in the season, whenever it was, you know, several weeks ago, five or six weeks ago, when I said I love Devante Parker, I believe we cut that sound clip out to play at my funeral. Yes. And we'll never hear it when it's right. It's like we don't come back to it. Not if you die soon. That's true. Fingers crossed. You'll be a genius.

303. That's what Mitch Trubisky, Tom Brady, and Carson Wentz put up this week. Oh, Tom Brady. You garbage can. Yeah, that was, that's not. This is not fair. It's not fair. Brady looked. I mean, I was thinking. Thank you. Brady looked horrific for most of the game. He looked. I was walking to my car this morning and thinking, is this the time?

where Philip Rivers and Brady, like, are the old men starting to show that they're getting washed? And you can never, because of the Patriots, you know, they've still got Super Bowl runs in them for the next six or seven years. But it just felt like...

It felt like watching them. They were a step slow. They couldn't move around the pocket like they always have. They missed throws that you just don't, you don't see Brady and Rivers just missing throws for the last five years. And that's what you're seeing. And then, of course, he ends up with a good fantasy game. Well, and Deshaun Watson was the story of the evening. 18 for 25, 234 and 3 had a rushing touchdown, had the receiving touchdown.

What's kind of crazy to me, and this is why I've been a Bill O'Brien supporter since he's been there, is that two or three times a year, they show up in big, important games with a game plan to win. And this was a game where Tom Brady and the offense couldn't get bailed out by the super defense because Houston had a game plan to win the ball game. And they did. I mean, it was just well executed. They should have those game plans more often. They should do that.

More than twice a year. Well, you're not wrong, but they are a good team. They're a good team, and they have Denver, Tennessee, Tampa on the schedule to finish out the year. Watson balled out, and here we are. I mean, making New England look mortal. They no longer have the one seed.

You know, that belongs to Baltimore now. A lot of people out there benched Deshawn Watson because of the matchup. I'm happy that, you know, we were saying he's not a must bench guy. I didn't want to play him. You saw it with Dak. Back had a good game against, you know, the Patriots. It was the fact he was at home. Yeah, big time. I was super afraid of him on the road, less afraid at home. But at the same time, you might have pivoted. Now, if you pivoted to Jared Goff, you're happy, you're fine. I mean, that's beautiful. He did you.

Can I play the Cardinals? Next week. Everybody. Okay. But if you pivoted to Darnold. No, that wasn't good. No, that wasn't good. Or Kyler. Yeah. But Jared Goff, 424. He was, he had more yards in the first half than I think he had in the previous two games combined. Is that true? Arizona. Yeah. Arizona plays. Like, you know how sometimes you got like, they're.

They're manned up, and they're on the ball, and they're jamming them. Or then they're like, and there's off coverage, and they play off 5 or 10 yards. They play off 15, 20. Well, you've got to give them that cushion. The cushion is... You don't want to get beat deep. That's right. I mean, we watch this thing out here. They're coming off a biweek. Arizona looked as bad as a team could look this week. They were rusty.

You know? Yeah, you're right. I think that they were too rested. They were too rested. They were trying to get back in a game shape after that by week. I mean, they were so bad. I couldn't even, you know, we're in Arizona. We are Cardinals fans and watching this game just from that perspective was like, man, this team sucks. It was gross. Yeah, it was ugly. They have no defense whatsoever. So whoever they're playing.

I believe Pittsburgh next week, decisions to be made in Pittsburgh. There was a play. Vince McDonnell. Oh, my goodness. Nick Minnet. Why not? Sure. Roll them out. Higby rolls out. And he was well covered. And they missed the play. And I said at the studio, I was like, oh, my goodness, the Cardinals just guarded a tight end. The next play was a touchdown to Tyler Higby. Yeah. Like they had one good coverage.

All game. Yeah, it was a one-time thing. Running back, studs. It's the group we all expected. Darius, Geist, Rahim, Moster, and James White leading the way. Moster 19 for 146 and 1. Against Baltimore. Against Baltimore, 42 snaps. Tevin Coleman had 10 snaps. What do fantasy owners do with Kevin Coleman, Mike? Dude, I don't know. I mean, I didn't, I was fading.

Tevin Coleman in this matchup, plus you added in the fact that they had some weather issues there where it was going to be wet conditions. I didn't really like Coleman. This wasn't, though, that I don't like Coleman, so I'm going to pivot to the backup running back. But Coleman, we have kind of highlighted over the last couple weeks that Coleman, he looks like Fantasy Fool's goal. He came out after the injury had that one massive game where he got...

like three touchdowns on very limited touches. It seemed like he was going to be the guy. Then Matt Berita goes out. But Coleman is just, he is not a safe running back to. He has upside every week, but he's not safe. Yeah, we brought it up a couple weeks ago. The fact that if you take out that monstrous game, his weekly average was the running back 27. It's only gone down since we brought that up. I mean, he's not even an RB2.

He's, you know, and when you're playing RB3s, you're not winning in your normal weekly matchups. The question, and we'll dive into it more tomorrow, about the waivers, who do you pick up? Is Breedda coming back? Is Mosterner to must grab? Is Coleman injured? Was there something more to the benching? Yeah, it's going to get complicated. They have New Orleans in New Orleans next week. No, thank you. And Matt Burrito, I think, will be back. He was very close to getting back this past week. It will muddy the waters. And if you're leaning on Tavern Coleman,

You're in trouble next week. Darius guys had 10 carries. Ten. That's not a lot. That you want. Not according to Carolina. They said that's just, just enough. That's a plenty. 129 yards, two touchdowns. Do you really have two? Yeah. In my matchup, here's a little peel back the curtain. In my matchup, my opponent who has pretty much a super team.

What a loser, Julio Jones was out. He had to pivot from Julio to his bench. And who did he throw in? But Darius Geis. That jerk. Adrian Peterson, in his own right, was 13 for 99 with a touchdown as well, which means combined they put up, what, 228 yards and three touchdowns on the ground against Carolina? You can run on the Panthers. Aaron, no, who plays Panthers next week?

I was thinking it was Green Bay. Yeah. Whoever it is. You've been starting running backs, yeah. Oh, no. Devanta? You ready? Oh, no. I don't know. I'm not ready for this. Don't you want to? So James White. James White had had a horrible previous week, but they were playing from behind the whole game. And the garbage time thing came to fruition. Has Kansas City next week? You could be in a similar boat next week.

James White, you can play moving forward. Miles Sanders, 17 for 83. Finally. And also had five catches for 22 yards and a touchdown. I don't know when we'll see Jordan Howard again, to be honest with you. So Miles Sanders, the majority of all the work, you know, I saw JJ talking about we've had this narrative of committee backs in Philadelphia and they just want to do a committee. Well, they don't want to unless they can.

with the talent that they have available. If it's Howard and Miles Sanders, they do. If it's Miles Sanders and Jay Jai, they don't. Miles Sanders takes the vast majority of all the work. He had a nice game. They have New York and Washington coming up. So Miles Sanders may be one of the players that gets you to the championship games. Yes, this next week against the Giants, if Jordan Howard is out again, then Miles Sanders isn't a great position yet again.

And Todd Gurley, Jason started the week, big week, 19 for 95 and 1. And Ronald Jones. Don't forget Ronald Jones. What? Pete Barber! 17 for 44, Mike. The process was sound. And two, two touchdown. Come on. When did Pete Barber become the starter again? What happened? Yesterday, Mike. It was yesterday. Jake.

Why can't you inform me, Bruce? Do you honestly think he has like a magic eight ball, Brucearians, that has... Of who to play? Of which guy to roll out, because you just can't ever know. It's one of those situations where if you just, if you're in a league where you get the backfield, if you just say, I get the Tampa Bay running backs.

You know, there are leagues like that out there where you get the position of a team. Then you are so stinking happy with Tampa Bay's running game this year. They've been very good. But in normal fantasy leagues, it's impossible. It's literally been probably the most destructive running back situation in the league because every single time through the year where it seems like there was a glimmer of trust, the rope was pulled out from underneath you. He shook the ball. The rope.

Yeah, the rope. Because you're standing on a rope. You stand on the rope. You don't want the rope pulled out from underneath you. I said it. I knew it was wrong. Step one. Don't stand on a rope. Yeah. Because someone could pull it. Because someone could just yank it out from under you. The rug. The rug is what you should be standing on. When the tight rope gets pulled out from underneath you. Oh, yeah, that's scary.

Top it to your death. Teach me for standing on a rope. No, every league that I was in, I saw Ronald Jones in lineups, and those teams normally had Peyton Barber on their rosters on the bench, and it costs you. So, hey, we want to pause. We want to get into, we want to thank our sponsors today before we talk about wide receiver studs, which means talking about Harry's. It's holiday season. Say goodbye to dull, cliche gifts. I don't need no more socks. I don't need a wallet.

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