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

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We did it. We played all of the week 12 games. That's right. We did it. We did it. Who do you think you are, I am? And here we are. It's week 13. Yeah, we kind of. I mean, we kind of did. They all happened. The checkbox was completed and all the games were checked. But two of those games were, I don't know. They didn't feel like.

They didn't feel like NFL football. Like professional football? Right. When you've got a wide receiver playing quarterback off the practice squad. And Wednesday afternoon football.com, just let's retire that. Yeah, I agree. I like the time slot. The game was, I mean, look, that's, that is an AFC North game. That's, that's what all the games between the Ravens and the Steelers feel like.

It was a weird time for it, and it would have been a lot better if Lamar Jackson was on the field. But Mark Andrews and Mark Engelman, J.K. Dobbins and Cleas Campbell. Ben Rothesberger played way above his final stat line, his wide receivers. I don't know what was going on there. They were saying that the field was wet. And, but.

I don't know. Just dry your hands off, man. Everybody was dropping everything. People were fumbling. What was happening? The Ravens clearly greased the Steelers gloves. I mean, there's no other way. It was unbelievable the amount of drops. Big Ben should have had a monster game. Claypool should have had a monster game. Deontay Johnson. Eric Ebron should have had an even more monster game. And they dropped so many balls. That was the thing. Without Lamar Jackson and without the Steelers able to catch, it was just brutal to watch.

When you spend the majority of the week in COVID protocols trying not to catch anything, it carries on into the game. All right. And there it is. But we're here. We did get to week 13. So that's good. And come on now, Jason. We had a, we had a laser strike from Trace McSorley. I was going to give Jason credit. 70 yard Hollywood Brown touchdown.

You said that Hollywood would really step it up with McSorley behind center. What I said is his problem is Lamar Jackson. That's true. I don't want to say, I told you so, but I told you so. It took the third stringer to get it done. It's tempting to, you know, I know we're playing for a division in our league of record, Jason. It's tempting to just slide Hollywood in there with Benny Snell against you. You really should. Our matchup means.

Very little for the playoffs. Yeah. We have a busy show today. Week 13, Fantasy Forecast Part 1 starts with the week. The boom boom kicker taking it up to 100. The show's about to take it up to a thousand. Oh, baby. Episode 1,000 is next week. I'm excited to find out what's going to happen. Oh, yeah.

I mean, when Brooks chimes in like that, you know he's doing something special behind the scenes. I am really stoked looking forward to it. I mean, it's not every day you get to do your final episode. Oh, my gosh. Well, I almost posted it. I said it's actually Jason's final episode. We're pushing him into retirement. Mike and I have certain equity marks that we want to hit. And there's just really no way to hit it without pushing somebody out the door.

But Wednesday should be a great show. Make sure, make sure you tune in. Is that when it is? Is Wednesday? I thought it was Thursday. Wednesday? What year is it? Where am I? YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballers. If you want to watch the show, we'll be back into the studio tomorrow. Appreciate everybody sharing their, you know, Spotify put out their like most listened to podcast metrics. Wrapped up or whatever. Yeah. They wrapped it up.

They wrapped it up and they gave everybody their little badge of who they listened to the most. So people have been sharing their footballers, spitballers, metrics with us. And they're delightful. Yeah, yeah, thank you very much for that. And all the support on Apple Podcasts, subscribing, reviewing the show. We do this year round, so we really appreciate all the support out there. And the website's the Fantasy Footballers.com. I think we mostly talked about the Wednesday afternoon game.

I guess the takeaways that I would throw out there. Ebron, very heavily involved, could have had an even bigger game. 11 targets was the headline there. Benny Snell was the clear workhorse, only three carries for McFarlane. So if Connor was to miss next week, Snell is an option for fantasy players. Guess Edwards was atrocious, fell into the end zone, which really still kept him in the single digits. It was just a...

bad offensive performance for that. It was a bad game. What I wanted to point out from the running back situation on the Ravens was how much Justice Hill was used. And that to me is not a, oh, let's get back on the Justice Hill train. That thing ran off the rails years ago. But it puts even more confidence to me in the transition happening to J.K. Dobbins. I had similar thoughts. Every time I saw him running ahead of Gus Edwards, it made me feel like,

they're preparing the team for for jk david's but that could just be wishful thinking and uh you know trying to project our desires on it all right let's take it up to 100 taking it up to 100 presented by head and shoulders available at walmart i i hear that drop mike and uh you know a thousand episodes there's been a lot of drops and uh you know so many you've done most of them jason and i we handle some of the riffs obviously but uh you've you've handled

100% of them. And somebody shared their air guitar video. It was so good. Did we retweet that on the main account? We're about to. We really should. Yeah, we'll take care of that. Yeah, someone was listening to the show with their toddler there. And the toddler starts rocking out, man. It was fantastic. Air guitaring the intro to the show. Yes. All right. Last week, Mike ended up with the hit on Cole Beasley, thanks to his

Wonderful. Passing work. Yeah, passing work. Week 13 taking it up to 100. Mike, why don't you kick it off? Because it ties into the top of the show. Yep. And I'm going with J.K. Dobbins taking it up to 100. I am, I wasn't, look, I was not confident enough to make him my start of the week at the running back position. But I wanted to highlight that I am, if I have Dobbins and I'm in a flex league, I've been waiting to play him.

I am now doing it with confidence. He is taking on the Dallas Cowboys, who, of course, just gave me the Thanksgiving miracle of Antonio Gibbs season. But it's been all year that you've seen monster performances, the Cleveland backfield in week four, Arizona. Remember when Kenyon Drake was left for dead? And then Kenyon Drake had a monster game. So the matchup is good.

And I believe that they are making the transition that J.K. Dobbins will be the leader of the timeshare. And hopefully he's on the field about 60 to 65% of the snaps. All right, Jason, who's your taking it up to 100 player for week 13? It's going to be Rahim Moster back from injury. And last week, you saw him get a good amount of utilization. He had 16 carries, but he didn't do much with it. He ran for 2.7 a carry, which is the opposite of what he usually does. He's a big.

breakaway play guy and against the Los Angeles Rams. We've been saying this for, you know, last month and a half, is you've got to take them as one of the elites of the elite, even against running backs. They shut them down. They are top five defense against running backs. He got a touchdown, but didn't do much. This week against Buffalo as a home game, granted they're in Arizona. I think Rahim Moster is going to just scorch the field, have a

All right, and I'm going to go with Christian Kirk, actually, wide receiver for the Arizona Cardinals. He had a three weeks stretch where he was very impactful for fantasy players, but now it's been three weeks since we saw that. They're going to need Christian Kirk in this game. Larry Fitzgerald might not be back out there. DeAndre Hopkins will be lined up against Jalen Ramsey. This is a must-win home matchup for the Cardinals.

You're going to have some deep shots to Christian Kirk in this one, and he's going to be the wide receiver that needs to take advantage of his opportunities if Arizona is going to win it. And so I'm going to go with Christian Kirk for my taking it up to 100 player this week. Now, Mike, Jason, you can take your hair up to 100 with head and shoulders available at Walmart. Get those flicks out my face. No, get them out. Get them out.

And check out next Tuesday's episode. We'll reflect on how right I was. Okay. We'll do it then. All right. Let's talk news. News and notes from around the league. I will throw this in there for Ravens News real quick. The PCR test from this morning, I believe there were no additional positives. So it does seem like maybe that outbreak is under control of sorts.

Roger Goodell has talked about maybe implementing some localized bubbles for personnel heading towards the NFL playoffs to try to take some control. I think they had 146 positive tests last week. So it's a reflection of what's going on around the country right now. So hopefully they can stay safe. And some more news, COVID-related, Adam Thielen, Jonathan Taylor, both activated off of the reserve list. Fantastic. Yeah, that's good. That's nice.

Zach Ertz activated from injured reserve. Oh, okay. Is the Dallas Goddard experience coming to a close here? We've had a couple of nice weeks. Hopefully not. Goddard looked like a viable option. No, I don't think it will be. I mean, if you think about it, Richard Rogers has been better than Zach Ertz was when he was on the field. And in reality, last year, Dallas Goddard was a usable fantasy asset even when Zach Ertz was.

really good um and and playing well so i i think i think goddard is here to stay and that's that means here to stay as a as a top you know six or seven tight end which still is going to stink some weeks but uh zackert isn't isn't taking dallas goddard's you know fantasy production away heads up would you play goddard over earths right now yes yes

Okay. Todd Gurley, Julio Jones, both limited in practice on Wednesday. We'll monitor their status for the upcoming week. Daniel Jones didn't practice. We don't think he'll play. All right. This is good news, potentially. Lyons interim head coach, Darryl. Optimistic about DeAndre Swift's chances of returning this week, I think he'll be back out. Are you guys with me? Yeah, I do too. It's not a great matchup, but you're going to plug him in. He was just so on fire before the unfortunate concussion.

And then we've talked a lot about, you know, Will Fuller heading into a, it's a contract year. He had the suspension after breaking out of sorts and staying healthy. We haven't really noted that fact with Kenny Galladay. And yet he's been injured throughout the year. He did not practice on Wednesday. Not a good sign could miss his fifth consecutive game after missing some earlier in the year. And Kenny Gallaudet is a free agent as well, gentlemen. Obviously a difference maker and has been healthy traditionally.

Or historically, I mean, any thoughts to, you know, does he stay on this team and do we want him there? I think when you fire your GM and you fire your head coach and you're trying to, you know, rebuild, I think this thing is going to be torn down to the nuts and bolts. I don't think any player outside of maybe Swift is.