Week 14 Strategy + Buy or Sell, Catch the Fire - Fantasy Football Podcast for 12/8

You might be right. I think I leaned. He feels safe. He feels safe against the Jets, huh? Yes. Shoot. The rushing baseline feels much safer. I don't think he had a rushing touchdown last week, did he? I don't remember. He had over 100 yards. He saved his fantasy day with the huge garbage time touchdown to Harris. They might be treating him with leeches, too, so he might recover quickly. You guys are right. This is a brutal question. On the road in Cleveland, after Cleveland's

Yeah, I think McLevin is just on by, right? Yes. So important game, well-coached team, at home, slow off. I'm with you. I think I'm with you if you are indeed endorsing Taysam Hill. I am barely endorsing Taysam Hill, yes. I'm just dancing until we get to the next question. YouTube question from Tucker. What are your guys' records in the league of record? Not great, Tucker. Brooks, what are you doing?

I haven't heard much about it this year. Any playoff berths among the three of you? Is Al in a position to destroy you? Look, I'll give you the good news. I'll leave the bad to my friends. I am, I'm nine in four. Al is. That's correct. Al is a game better than me. We just had a head-to-head. He beat me by five points. He's got the bye week. I think seven points separates us in total points on the year. We have had a fun rivalry, which we've never really had due to you not being good in the past.

I plead the fifth, I guess, but I'm focused on this year. Right. It's going well. It is going well. You're doing well. Jason. It is funny to think like, I really love that you're doing well, Jeremy. Very, very proud of you this year. It's just like you're like my little boy that I'm like, he can do it. I'm so impressed. No, my, so I got off to a terrible start. There's a keeper league. And in this league, you sell?

to build for the next year and the teams that are in it by. So I'm at four or five wins right now. Not great. I do have some audio from Mike's team. And in this past week. That audio is in fact too kind. It is a little too kind. To what has happened to my team. This will be a let's what I was looking for. Thank you. And it runs for it.

Week after week. The legend of my bad luck for this fantasy football season will go down historically. But let me tell you, I'm very excited for 2022. Hey, if you ever want to know if we can sympathize with your bad season out there, listener, Mike can sympathize this year. He's had it. And he's had it.

Like, I think I said this in the studio the other day. Like, Mike has earned immense respect for me this year because he has done what we say to do on this show, which is regardless of record, he has fought tooth and nail for victory. He's had horrible breaks. In fact, this past week again, it was like one point. And...

yet he traded for Deonti at the trade deadline to win more games. He's like stayed hungry, which has caused him more physical pain without question. Yes. You should have just mentally. Checked out. Giving up. Moved on. Like people have asked, you know, like what's the best part of the job? What's the worst part of the job? And if you know, never really had the answer for the worst part of doing this podcast.

The worst part, though, I figured it out, is if your job is not fantasy football, you have a bad weekend, Monday or Tuesday, you can, like, walk away. You can get your break. But instead, we come directly in from Monday night football and have to talk about what just happened. And, uh, legit, maybe it's good for you. Legitimately, I think I've had like five.

Monday night football just full disasters that have caused me to lose by two points. And I can't leave. So I'm here for you people because I am a shell of a man on the inside or on the outside. All sides. Like what Jason the, what was your quote after the Phillip Rivers? You talked about like you were just like a.

a shell of a man. I think I was an M&M with no chocolate inside or something. It was like an M&M. Yeah. But that, yeah, that's me. That's me. All right, three very concerned Terry McLaren managers on Instagram. Oh, gosh. Dugan says, should I continue starting Terry McLaurin? Forty Jordy says, scary Terry auto start. And menomaniac says Terry McLaurin, a lot of dots. What do I do? Well.

Terry, I would say, fits the mold of draft bust or disappointment at a minimum. Maybe not full bust. Maybe full bust. I would say that, you know, he's an auto start for me still. Yes, he is for me. But he's more, you know, he's certainly wide receiver two flex category. And there, you have to have an expectation that this is not like the days of Alan Robinson where.

you got a bunch of consistency. This is more, you know, what, four times he's been inside the top seven, so he wins you weeks or comes close to it. And then he's been bad in the other games. And it's not going to be an easy one this week against Dallas, to be honest. So maybe that does take him out of auto start category. Yeah, at this point, you may have players who are better. I still think that he is a, if I have him, I'm starting him because I know what he can do. But the lack of

hyper-targeting is a little annoying. But, oh, he tried a couple times last week and some of the ugliest throws I've seen from a professional quarterback. Yeah, but now remembering, because like over the first eight games of the season, you had, you had four games where he was above 10 targets, but this is a product of Washington winning. This, because this is the football team, like their strategy the last month has been, give Antonio the gives,

The Gibson. Give him the Gibson. Give Antonio Gibson as many carries. I hope that's the play call in the huddle. We're going with the Gibson on this one. We go with the Gibby again? He's been, what, like 30 plus opportunities week after week after week. And it's been working for them. So that's what they're riding with. Yeah, I mean, I don't view Terry McLorn as an auto start. He's certainly a start worthy player. But like, for instance, let me give you a couple names.

Would you start Terry McLaurin or T. Higgins? I would probably, I'd probably chase Higgins right now. I would as well. What about Mike Williams, a very Terry McLauran-esque player, Big Booms, a lot of busts. Who would you go after this week? Mike Williams against the Giants, Keenan Allen question. Yeah, Keenan Allen is probably out, which we did the update for Keenan Allen, if you had not heard, we did the.

Status was revealed. He is a vaccinated player so that he has to have the double negatives 24 hours apart, but that also means that he tested positive. So he wasn't just a close contact, making it pretty unlikely that he plays this upcoming weekend. And so for that particular case, I would take Mike Williams. All right, final one, because he's in the same game. Amari Cooper.

Or Terry McLaurin. Oh, my gosh. Terry. I think I lean the opposite of Terry for all of those. So that's where I say he is someone you just need to take a look at. Don't plug him in your lineup without considering other options, but he is not a bad play. He will have more big boom games. Nothing on the field has looked bad as a talent as a player. I do think he was overhyped.

Sure. I mean, the hype came with a different quarterback too, though. It did. It did. But it also came with the reality that, like, and obviously players make the jump, right? But Terry McLaren had been, I mean, he's pretty much doing, I mean, the end of the year number is going to look like last year. He's going to be the same. He's going to be 21, 22 somewhere in that range. Yeah, I was far more excited for Terry McLaren when Ryan Fitzpatrick was the quarterback. And that's fair. And you never know. You don't know that you can't prove what would have happened there.

And there was still going to be expectations that the defense was going to be good. Sure. And this will be something to track for years to come. Do they throw the ball enough philosophically as a team when they're competitive? Because they might be a team that this defense should be good enough to keep them in games and making Gibson a centerpiece. All right, we have Nicholas Potif says, who is a better start? Kareem Hunt or Tony Pollard. Ooh.

I'm going to go with Kareem Hunt. Tony Pollard has been the better start over the last little bit. Obviously, Hunt has been injured, and Pollard has been a top 24 running back recently, but again, it's been extremely efficient. The touch is the volume. I think coming off of the buy, Kareem Hunt should be healthy. And if you don't remember, before the injury, Kareem Hunt was...

a dominant force. I mean, he was also top 24 every week, but he was putting up number two, number eight finishes on the week. I, you know, Baltimore isn't the best matchup, but it's not one that I would look to avoid. Baltimore over the last month has been atrocious for fantasy running backs, like, as in there shutting them down. Who have they? Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Chicago, and Miami. But that was Cleveland without Hunt. I think that was Kareem's first game.

Regardless, I'm taking Pollard. I find myself in the Pollard camp this week. I think the team, just the amount of media discussions around Zeke and what Pollard's been able to do in the big play and what Aikman coming out and talking about it, they have to give the ball to Tony Pollard. And so with both of them being the number two on their teams, I'm going to go that side. Yeah, I think I played Pollard as well.

All right. What about Cream Hunter Darnell Mooney? Flex question here from Instagram. All right. So Darnell Mooney is taking on the Green Bay Packers? Correct. In Green Bay. I was the anti-Muni guy this last week. And I am not. You were pants on? Yeah, I was pants on. Now I'm pants off. I think Mooney is a very good play. Let me ask you a second Mooney question then because I heard it this morning. Mooney or Higgins? Oh.

Man, that's tough. Because Higgins is kind of on fire. Mooney was on fire. Fire versus fire. Goodness. I think I lean with the quarterback there. I'm going to take Higgins. I like both. But yeah, I would take Mooney over overhunt. All right. Let's go to a rest of season question from Jack Wavra on Instagram because it's brutal. Elijah Moore or Hollywood Brown rest of season.

I feel. Elijah Moore, we have four of the last five games. He has been sensational. Top 24 guy, top 10 in three of those five games. Gets to play the Saints this week. He's my answer. Is Elijah Moore? Yeah, pretty confidently, actually. I mean, the air yards are there. The targets are there. The targets are there. 12, 8, 11. He gets this 12, 13, 10, 7 for Hollywood.

They both. Why not both? Because that's not the question. Elijah Moore gets the Saints this week. How confident are we in Zach Wilson in this matchup? Because the Saints against fantasy quarterbacks and fantasy wide receivers has become a matchup that we are targeting. But Zach Wilson.

He finally had a good game. I understand that, but just on the season, it's been pretty poor. Yeah, I mean, he was a side-eye stream this week. I mean, you wouldn't admit it to people. You certainly wouldn't say it here on the show, but if you did it in secret, you might get away with it. Yeah, yeah, I'm not, I'm not afraid of Zach Wilson as my starter against this.

current version of the Saints that have not been able to slow or stop. So you would take more this week over Hollywood? I would, and when I look at the schedule, I really like both players. This is the rest of the season this week. I like both, but I lean towards Elijah Moore because of the schedule. The Saints, he's got Jacksonville and the Buccaneers along the way, whereas Hollywood has pretty much.

difficult matchups every week. Hollywood's down at 17 on the year now. Elijah's at 29 coming on later. They could end up close depending on the way things trend. Let's talk Thursday night breakdown. Thursday night breakdown. The 6-5-1 Pittsburgh Steelers go to Minnesota, taking on the 5-and-7, Minnesota Vikings. The Draft King Sportsbook line, Minnesota minus 3. I thought I saw minus 2 and a half earlier. They might have been how they opened the week.