Week 17 Studs & Duds + Monday Punday, RB Redemption Tour - Fantasy Football Podcast for 1/3

I mean, he blew that away. He might have been the best pick in the fifth round. That's, he is insane. And if you have him in a dynasty league, can you imagine how happy you are? You have. I am very happy. You have a decade of dominance barring any kind of catastrophic injury. Imagine drafting Travis E.T.N. Over Jamar Chase. Thanks, Daniel. Oh. Ah, Mon Ross St. Brown. This dude. Oh, man. This dude. Holy crap. I'm like.

Jamar Chase, you kind of expect him to have a big game. Amun Ross St. Brown has gone nuclear over the final stretch of the season, 8 for 111 with a touchdown, had a rushing touchdown, was doing this with Tim Boyle. He is so impressive and moving forward with him on a dynasty team, you've got to be very happy as well. He has done...

Everything you could dream of for a rookie. Amun Ra literally means the sun god. Oh, yeah. Like the sun god. Like raw. I don't know if it's Amin Ra, but obviously Ra is the sun god. Yeah. I mean, what an awesome name. And this dude just, oh, man. You don't, you want to know what scares me. Like going forward, he has established himself as, you know, the.

A building block for the lines. They are going to build upon his foundation as they should. They got a special talent. He was a fourth round pick. He got special talent, great pick, and he has shown that he belongs and he can dominate. But going into next year, like, I will have the Brandon Ayuk fears. Brandon Ayup. Fair. Torched the world the second half of his rookie season was, you know, the...

you know, the number one guy by a country mile in that stretch for rookies. Okay. To try and be a little bit balanced here, let me read something off to you. The stretch run. Minnesota, Denver, which 8 for 73 against Denver is very good. That's good. But Minnesota, Arizona, Atlanta, Seattle. It's not a murderer's row. No, no, it is definitely not.

I don't want to try and take anything away from what he has done. It's been fantastic. DK Metcalfe. He caught six passes and three of them were touchdowns. So welcome back. Devante Adams, whole hum has a monster game yet again. Braxton Barrios. Kyle, do you want to jump in here on Braxton Barrios and give your analysis? He haunts me. For the listeners, Braxton Barrios was in Kyle the Borgogun's championship lineup.

And then he removed him right before the game for Cortland Sutton. And then it was no longer a championship lineup. Yeah. And he plays for the Jets if you don't know who Braxton Berrios is. He will be interesting to pay attention to. He's real shifty. But that's not something. Like people are, you're not going to chase this. No, no. I'm talking about just longer. This isn't the first time Braxton Berrios has done something this year. And like.

he'll be overlooked. So am I wrong to not give two farts about Braxham Berrios? I think you are wrong. Because I don't care. Not this year against Buffalo, but you realize that this is now three straight weeks as a top 24 wide receiver. And one was against Miami, one was against Jacksonville, and this last one against Tampa Bay. I don't know. It's an impressive run here. Cooper Cup also had a good game. Jacoby Myers, kind of touchdown. Good for you.

And, oh, we, we, of course, have to mention Zay Jones, Jason. Zay Jones, 10 targets, 8 for 120, a career day for Zay Jones. Yeah. Yeah, I made the decision. It was tough, but I made the decision to start Kishon Vaughn over Zay Jones in defiance of.

of your opinion, and you were right, but it don't matter because we still won. It did not matter. At the tight-end position, freaking Noah Fant, of course. Of course, because the process is there. Against the Chargers, they just bleed points to the tight-end position. I believe the last time these two played, I went with Noah Fant is like, he's my start of the week. I think he's going to be great because the matchup is there, and he just, nothing. And then, of course,

He finally comes through. I don't know how many lineups he was in, but no offense, great game. 92 yards and touchdown. Gronk. Gronk. Andy started the week. He absolutely came through here. Double-digit targets. And then the big guys, Andrews, Kelsey, Goddard, they all had pretty good games. But then Tyler Higby. Thanks, Higby. Where was this the rest of the year?

Yeah, I mean, this was pretty nice. You know, nine targets, six for 69. And, yeah, I think he was more relevant for DFS lineups. He was good value. That was his highest yardage total of the season. Yeah, but I doubt many championship lineups were playing Tyler Higby. All right. I tried to spend some extra time really celebrating the players who took on the championships. But of course.

There is the other side of the coin. It's got to be done. We must all grieve together and place to blame where it belongs. Pooped in his big boy pants. Tua and the entire Miami Dolphins, or as a pun that I liked, but it didn't make the cut. It was the Miami Golfans, as in that whole team is going golfing because they were eliminated from the playoffs. And it was just a bad game overall.

Yeah, they scored three points. And Jalen Waddle was relied on by a lot of people. He let you down. Tua's matchup against Tennessee's secondary looked great. So he was a streaming option for a lot of people out there. And he definitely let you down. But I think the quarterback, there were two quarterbacks that really, really, really, really hurt you. Yep. One of them was aptly named Jalen Hertz.

Jalen Hertz has. And not that he was bad. No, he was fine. 214 passing yards. 44 rushing yards. It just so happened that all of the touchdowns were running touchdowns. Boston Scott rushed him in. And if you had just tap past them in, then Jalen Hertz would have had a great game. But unfortunately, and he is one of those quarterbacks that helped get you there.

A lot of people in championships with Jalen Hertz because he was so consistent. He only had one bad game the entire rest of the season. And then his second bad game came championship week. It's devastating. Matthew Stafford in a juicy, the juiciest matchup of the weekend against the Baltimore Ravens secondary. He threw for over 300 yards and two touchdowns, but he also threw two interceptions.

He let everybody down. I mean, I think we all thought he was going to, I thought he was a smash play. The matchup was great, the weapons that he's got there. And like you said, 302. That's, that's solid. Yeah, I mean, you'd be happy with that. But when you throw the picks, and he's been throwing a ton of picks, and one of them was a pick six, I can't believe they came back and won this game. That's so upsetting. But, yeah, so I think a lot of people lost with Matthew Stafford. We got, we got to go full music for this one.

Dalvin Cook. Oh, my goodness. Nine carries, 13 rushing yards, three receptions for zero yards. The news came out that he was going to be available and active. Because he was off the COVID list. He was off the COVID list. The celebrations that came from Andy and I'm sure all Dalvin Cook managers were.

I'll bet if you look at your bench, you had someone that scored a whole lot more than Dalvin Cook because Dalvin Cook scored nothing. He had nine carries for 13 yards. Brutal. Right alongside him, though, DeAndre Swift, four for 32, two receptions for seven yards. That is called, uh, that's the showcase. Just when I was starting to love Dan Campbell. Oh, no.

God's Mahoney, you screwed so many people over here. Because you said you were going to unleash him. You were going to give him all the work he could handle. You were going to, you don't come out and say those things and then have him get four carries, which he had 32 yards on four carries. Why? Because he's great. There were so many times they were down around the goal line. And it was like, why aren't, just give it.

Just give it to Swift. He'll score a touchdown. Swift looked great, but you didn't give him the ball, which is fine. First came back from injury. Sure. Just don't come out. And for no reason, nobody's telling you that you have to say these things that you're going to get him the ball a ton and make sure. I mean, had he not said, had Dan Camel not said those things, I think most fantasy managers would not have put DeAndre Swift in their lineup. I wouldn't put him in my draft game's lineup. Definitely would have been scared. It was 100%.

based on what Dan Campbell said. Brooks says more like guns baloney. Oh, baby. That's how you roast someone on this show, Brooks. Guns baloney. Oh, Cordero Patterson against the Buffalo Bills who have been.

a matchup to take advantage at the running back position. This one you could see coming, though, because he has not been very involved. All of his utilization, the first part of the year, really has gone away. The previous two weeks, he had two targets in each of those games. Andy was really struggling with, do I start Cordell or not? The matchup is good, but he's not been involved. And I think, you know, most managers were looking at other options that,

appeared better than Cordero. So hopefully you didn't start him. Yeah. I figured, I mean, at the halfway point, the waiver wire pickup of the year, it was locked up. It was going to be Patterson. We'll see. We'll see how people are feeling about him, which I'm referring to the footies episodes, which will be coming up in the next few weeks where we celebrate and we give out the most prestigious award, not just in fantasy, not just in sports.

Not just in entertainment, but it's the greatest. All medium. It's the great. All media, all mediums. Thank you. This is the greatest. It's the highest honor. Yeah. Anyone could ever receive. You are waiting to hear that your footie is in the mail. Like, I have, uh, my, my inbox is just stuffed with Nobel Prize winners. And it's them just being upset and ashamed of their career choices because they know.

They may have this Nobel thing, whatever. They'll never get a hoodie. Nobel Schmobel. The amount of bribes, you know, cash left under my mats, just like, please. I mean, I'm very grateful. I'll take it all. We do accept bribes. That is something really important and unique about us. We openly and actively let you know. You can buy your way to these prestigious awards. Zeke. Whoops. Uh-oh.

Uh-oh. He has bottomed out. Uh-oh. Nine for 16 rushing two targets for one reception of 14 yards. That was not good. He's going to be an interesting name for the truth series coming up in the next few weeks. We'll take a look and really look at his future outlook.

I know I felt bad about my trade for a while with Andy in our Dynasty League. Sure. Trading away Zeke, but getting Mark Andrews in a first. Seems fantastic now. Feels pretty good. Seems fantastic. Melvante, the combination of Gordon and Giovante Williams in a great matchup. The two of them combined for 73 rushing yards and 31 receiving yards, except that was split into two players. So the Broncos have. They stunk. The Broncos have imploded.

The Broncos looked like a really strong team about to peak. And then all of a sudden, the last three weeks, they have, like they felt like they were locked, you know? Right. And then they got locked. Drew locked. But even before it was locked, I mean, this is three weeks in a row, three losses. Here's their points put up in those losses. 10 points, 13 points, 13 points. The team's just falling apart, gone home. They're gone fishing.

They're golfing. Also golfing, Antonio Brown, as he moves into his new career, three for 26. That was devastating for fantasy football. Tyreek Hill, six for 40, and that is now four of five weeks outside of the top 40. He gave you the number two overall performance against the Chargers in week 15 in the crazy week. But other than that, he had a deep.