Starts of the Week + Week 13 Breakdown, Spotty Starts, Funny Jokes - Fantasy Football Podcast for 12/3

Not a sponsor. He's very regular. Never will be now. He's extremely regular. And yet, I'm actually, here's the best part of this whole situation. Brooks and I are playing in our dynasty league for the division and a buy. Okay? I have CMC on the buy and he has some injuries. He's playing Devante Booker against me.

And I am playing Frank Gore against him. Yes. Yes. And that's what we're, that's going to break down the division and the buy. Welcome to, uh, two flex dynasty extravaganza. I, who would you rather have Devante Booker or Frank Gore in this game? Well, obviously Frank Gore if Josh Jacobs is active. What if he's not? If he's not, I would definitely rather have Devante Booker.

Really? Yeah, you want the running back who's, you know, on the team that's favored by eight points. It's projected to score more. I mean, that's always going to be better. Jaylen Richard is, I believe, practicing and going to be back. That's fine. Okay. I would still rather. I don't. You see how I said that, though, like in a way that it mattered? Right. No, it's very important. I was like, he's back. Baby. It pains me to say this. If I had the button and we had Mike's almost upset of the week.

I would be hitting the button. Oh my. Do you want to borrow it? You want to borrow it? Yes. No, no, no, no, no. I choose you as tribute. I didn't pick one this. Oh, I choose you as tribute. Here it is, man. This is Mike's Andy's almost upset of the week. I will say this in your defense. What the, what the Raiders have done all season is played to their competition. Exactly.

I mean, they go and they face Kansas City almost beat them. They do beat them once. And they look like world beaters out there. And then, you know, they play the Browns and they put up 16 points, you know, and the Falcons is last week and put up six points. So yeah, I don't blame it. I don't blame it. Look, it's an almost upset. They don't even have to win. This is an eight-point spread. So what happens to John Gruden?

If they lose this game to the Jets after what happened last week. I think his face will literally remove itself from his body. I mean, who can get redder? Bruce Ariens or John Grun? Bruce Ariens is, I mean, he is always. His is more permanent. But Gruden, when he gets fiery, and he would be, he would be hot. All right. James and Crowder, Bashad Perryman, Denzel Mims. Welcome to the Bengals part two. Pick somebody that you're willing to play this week.

I hate tempering Denzel Mim's expectations because I love him so much and I loved him coming into the year, but he's not at the top of the list for me. I mean, I'm supporting MIMS, but if I have to pick between the two of them, I'll still play Perryman over. I just wanted, all I've been trying to highlight is that, like, the separation between Pairman and Mims is really not that big. Yeah, I think that's probably fair.

Yeah, that is fair. I would pick Perryman over him just because he's he's gotten it done. He's gotten the touchdowns. But I still wonder about Crowder. He's worked his way back from the injury that kept him out a couple games. He's been, you know, he's been terrible since he's been back. But at some point, I do think he'll get healthy. I mean, you saw him the first. He's only got one game with Donald since he's been back too.

Right. And, you know, early in the season when he had Darnold, you had 13 targets, 10 targets, 10 targets. He was the guy that you wanted and was reliable. He also didn't have MIMS back then. That is true. MIMS was not available in the beginning of the season. You find somebody else for all. You want to win this week? Don't find Bengals and Jets, whiteouts and lean on them. All right, let's do starts. Starts of the week.

One of our promises to you out there for Klan is that you won't hear Bengals or Jets wide receivers in this segment of the show. Speak for yourself. Oh, come on. I'm just joking. Okay. Look, if any of us was going to just, I feel like you would switch it. You'd be like, oh, yeah? Okay. Watch this.

Don't tell me how to live my life. That's right. All right. Let's go to you, Mike. Let's have you kick this off at the quarterback position. All right, my quarterback started the week. It is Tayson Hill against Atlanta. He was the QB4 against them in his first start ever. I get that the Falcons defense has been a little bit better as of late. But the fact that we have seen Tayson start two times and in both those games he has carried the ball 10 times.

Your baseline is at least 50 yards on the ground, and the ceiling is multiple touchdowns. And, I mean, he threw for over 200 yards against his Falcons defense as well. So he can do that if he needs to unleash that part of his game as well. Jason? I'm going with...

Derek Carr, no, I'm just kidding. I wouldn't do that in bags, back weeks. I'm going Ryan Tannahill. I've been talking about it all week. I really love Tana Hill this week at home against Cleveland. He's been extremely efficient. Fifth in fantasy points per dropback, completing 70% of his passes in the red zone. This is the highest overrunner of the week. I think that the passing games will come into play.

for both Cleveland and Tennessee, with Corey Davis stepping up and A.J. Brown being a weapon. I mean, Ryan Tannahill's been really, really, really good for fantasy a lot of games. But this last six weeks, he's had a murderer's row of quarterback opponents, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Indianapolis, Baltimore, Indianapolis again. And even during that stretch, he's been a top 10 quarterback the last two weeks. So I think you have to start Ryan Tannehill unless you've got some.

phenomenal option. If you want a little cherry on top of that start of the week, Titans coach Mike Rabel just recently came out and said they need to throw the ball to Derek Henry more in the screen game. They do. Oh, yeah. Which would help because one of the problems with Tandy Hill ceiling is that Derek Henry is kind of successful in the red zone.

If he failed more, it would be easier on Tannenhill's numbers. All right, I'm going to go with Kirk Cousins as my start of the week against Jacksonville. Nice. They've been especially awful against opposing quarterbacks. Top 12 performances given up to them for the last five weeks. He was my extreme of the week. And since I chased my extreme of the week, Derek Carr last week, this has to work out. Jacksonville's 30th on the year. Regression. I know. It's a 52 point over under. And Cousins has been a top five quarterback.

Two weeks in a row, guys. I don't know if you realized that. Top five. So he's also been a QB1 for three straight weeks. I'm going to go with Kirk here. And I'm throwing a confidence play for Miles Sanders against the Green Bay Packers. He needs it because I don't have it. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Andy is the one who has pushed me to put this out there into the universe. Everything Mike says, I say the opposite. Ready, go. Yes. The matchup against Green Bay, it is juicy. Green Bay has given up top 10 production to the running back position.

every game but three this year. That is a matchup you want to exploit. Before the Seattle meltdown in front of everybody, Miles was averaging 20 opportunities a game, and that's including the game where he got hurt. So I'm back in with Miles Sanders. He may not be, you can adjust and say he's not elite through the rest of the season because of the offense, but I still think that he's a very strong play.

All right, Jason. At running back, I'm going with Chris Carson. Man, did he look good this last week? He caught the ball well. He ran fast. He ran so well and looked so good and was very well rested after the game because he only had 34% of the snaps and eight carries. So they were, I mean, this was that Seattle implosion game you were talking about where the Philadelphia offense just fell apart. And I, you know, they were able to say, okay, let's let's really, you know, not rely on Chris Carson for this game.

By the way, he finishes the running back 18 last week on those limited touches. I expect the touches to go up. Philly was a good run, D. You know, they're a negative opponent minus 2.2 fantasy points over opponent's expectation. The New York Giants, they're the opposite. They're plus one, two. So I think with a full workload, a good matchup, Chris Carson is going to be, he's going to be a league winner, I think. He's going to be a league winner, I think. He could be. He could be. I think Chris Carson's going to dominate.

All right. My opportunity knocks. I'm going to go with David Montgomery against Detroit this week. Lions are the worst against the running back position over the last five weeks and also the entire year as well. So I just want you to understand they've been bad consistently. They even made Duke Johnson look good. And you know that the passing game Montgomery is involved. Five plus targets each and every week. He's coming off his best game of the year. He's been an RB two or better in five of six games. David Montgomery against Detroit, start of the week.

Sometimes those stats aren't fair because, you know, it's just who they played and what running backs they had to face. But taking that out of the equation, they are still the dead last by a wide margin. They stink at stopping running backs. You know what's interesting, too, is Darrell Bevel is talking about pace this week with the Detroit offense. So there could be more opportunities, just total snaps in this game because pace doesn't mean success. It does mean that you might get off the field even quicker. So we'll see what happens.

It means my opportunity. Yeah, it does. Exactly what it means. All right. I said it before, but my wide receiver started this week is Corey Davis taking on the Cleveland Browns. Before Weathergate started taking place a couple weeks ago, Cleveland was the second best matchup for fantasy wide receivers. And then they hit all the three straight games of really bad weather where people just couldn't score on the offensive side of the football.

And we get back to regular weather. What happens? Oh, rookie Colin Johnson, in his first substantial game action of his career, drops four for 96 and a touchdown with Mike Glennon as the quarterback. And if you look at Corey Davis, man, he has been consistent. He's only the wide receiver 34 on the year, but he is only finished outside of the top 36.

two times this season, and that includes three games inside the top 24. Corey Davis has been very, very steady. Is this as close as we're getting to this year's Devante Parker? Is it Corey Davis? Sure, I get that. I know Parker set the world on fire, but Davis has really surprised people.

Because he was left for dead. That's what it is. It's not that he's as good as Parker was last year, but it was the, we assume this guy is no good. He'll never be okay, left for dead. And then it's like, oh, no, he's a good wide receiver. And I like the call, Mike. I mean, I talked about it early. This is the game I want pieces in. And so my start of the week is Jarvis Landry on the other side of the ball. Everything you were talking about with the weather. I considered him.

With the weather games, three horrific weather games in a row, four of the last five. And I was, when Odell Beckham went down, I was really thinking Jarvis was going to be something special. We haven't had the opportunity to see it. And again, last week, good weather. And all of a sudden, you had 11 targets, the clear leader, eight for 143 in the touchdown. He looked good.

I like, yeah, and that's the other thing is I had been worried about the ribs. He'd been playing with some broken ribs. He looked good. So if he's healthy and he's the number one target and the highest over under of the week against a plus matchup against Tennessee, I think Jarvis Landry is going to have a second big week in a row. All right. I'm going to take a little bit more of a chance here at my wide receiver start of the week, but I'm going to go with Mike Williams against the New England Patriots. All right. New England has been giving up some bigger performances to wide receivers lately.

I'm going to do my cooking by the book. This worked with Brandon Cooks a couple weeks ago. Will Fuller was, you know, the number one in this matchup and the number two, which is Mike Williams compared to Keenan Allen. Got it done. I'm going to go with Mike Williams here. I think he has the opportunity to score in this game. And when he scores, he's a top 15 player. So, you know, Justin Herbert, I do believe that you see a bounce back performance from him. They can move the football down the field. And so I'm going to go Mike Williams.

Am I tight end grasping at straws start of the week? Oh, is Noah Fantt versus Kansas City. Wait, Jason, what is that face? Please be good. All right, well, here's my explanation for it. Over the last month, Kansas City has given up the third most points to the tight end position, average, giving up the third most points. And to be fair to those numbers, that was Darren. That was Rob Grunkowski.