Week 14 Matchups + League Drama, Wheel of Shame - Fantasy Football Podcast for 12/6

The Fantasy Footballer Studio is brought to you by Amazon Prime. To the Fantasy Footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Welcome in. The Fantasy Footballers Friday, December 6th. Welcome in, one and all. Thank you for listening. Thank you for following the show, supporting this podcast of Champions.

Jason Morris here, Mike Wright. I'm Andy Holloway. The Ducers are in the building, Al Borland, Papa Josh, the Falcon. What's up, Phuklan? You know what? There was a little bit of muscle memory. I almost said Judge Ziamati, who is, he is in the shadows. He's always listening in the shadows, but he's not in the studio, which would have been a mistake. He is as bald as Papa Josh. But not as smelly. If we had a, if we had a bald off, Brooks doesn't clean shave. He just buzz shaves. Yeah. That's the next. That's the, it's a step. Yeah, I mean, but that means he's not as bald as Josh. Right. Bick is bald. Right. But I feel like, I feel like when you say bald, it's implied that you can't grow.

I agree with, yeah. So I feel like it's a little bit of a, there are no active hair follicles there if you're bald. Like the most bald person is if like you and Josh and and Brooks, you all just let it grow and then we see how absent certain areas are. I would win that contest if it's only amongst those three. Really? Oh, you would win the contest as in you would be the least bald. Oh, I'd have the luscious locks. I want to see the three of you with like shoulder length hair. just so thin so disgusting let it get a little sweaty we've got matchups today we've got NFL news we've got the fantasy face off we've got the wheel of shame I was thinking on the drive-in just I saw a stat about cousins leading the league in both interceptions and fumbles yeah he's doing work and I thought about the way that things have gone from the New York Jets

And then I thought about the Minnesota Vikings. And just how incredible the NFL is that there are so many teams that thought they fixed the quarterback position. The excitement with Caleb Williams in Chicago or Aaron Rogers in New York or Kirk Cousins in Atlanta. It was like, we did it. We fixed it. And then the despair in Minnesota. Oh, gosh, we're stuck with Sam Darnow. Yeah, I mean, they lost their. Yeah, well, it was exciting. It was exciting. It was going to be JJ McCarthy rookie who I loved. I thought it was going to fit in well in the system. And then it was sadness of, oh, it's Sam Darnold all year. And so Donald in Minnesota. And then the Russell Wilson, Justin Fields in Pittsburgh, right? And Bo Knicks in Denver. Yep. The unexpected quarterback savants. And then the people that thought they had it fixed.

It's weird. Now, would it surprise you to know that Atlanta is leading the division? That is funny. They're in the playoffs right now at 6 and 6. So there you go. That is the worst. I mean, we know that in fantasy football. When you're in your division with four teams and three of them all have 10 wins or I mean, because we use league median, whatever it is. And you look over at the other division and someone is going to get like this is our. This is not a hypothetical. Dino Jr. where Jason and I co-managed the team that is, is universally loved sweeping the nation. Can't stop winning. Universally love. I'm not sure about that part. Everyone loves it. Loves our team. And we're over here. We're fighting for the buy week. We're 11 and 2. Yeah, 11 and 2 fighting for the buy week. Other guy that's going to get to buy? 500. Yeah. What is that? That actually.

I was going to bring the same thing up. It's not the best two records. It's the best two records that win a division in fantasy. Yeah. There's going to be a vote coming up. Yeah. That's dumb. I think that's dumb. Yeah. It is because. But also there's three. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, but also. It's dumb. Well, okay, alternate argument. Okay. The reason that certain people in a division in fantasy have the records that they do is often because the other side of the. of their division is very, very bad. That's why, I mean, if you have a lot of parity, your records are going to be kind of even and then maybe the better team is the worst record because you're not playing bad division mates twice. Yeah, except our entire division is awesome. All I hope is that it goes the opposite after you vote for it. I just hope that next year you have like a, you know, a nine and six record or something and then you, you know. Let's just say the person in third in our division has a better record.

then the person who's going to get the buy week. Yeah. Third in our division. It hurts. You know who's third in their division? The Green Bay Packers. And they're nine and four. Yeah. You know what? They're not getting to buy week. Did that count as an almost upset? What was the line? Yeah. Was the line three and a half? Boom, baby. You covered. I mean, the game started and it was like, oh, the lines are just too good to be, you know, in a competitive game. 3431. It was an awesome game. Yeah, the game, the game itself was awesome. And it was, there were fantasy players that were very, very good. But I think what stuck out for fantasy playoff anticipation were to bad performances. It was, it was, number one, overall, bad performance. Yeah, go ahead and get the wet fart out there. I mean, this was, this was a, this was a, no.

This was an alt-coin rug pull. If you put your money into Jaden Reed, the rug was pulled. Yeah, but who made the money? Was it Jacobs? Nobody. Jacobs made that money. So, Jaden Reed had one target, no catches in a game that the Packers scored 31 points. Now, I will say this. Jordan Love completed 12 passes in the game. So you watched it and you felt that. Short drives that didn't go anywhere. running game that was successful and a big play here and there to get them down the field and, you know, a turnover on a fourth down that short in the field. It's insane of Jordan Love 12 completions and it what you like, yes, Josh Jacobs had a monster fantasy day, but you're like, oh man, he must have ran for like 150 or something. No, 66 yards. Where did these points come from? It just, it was all touchdowns, man. It was short fields. They got inside the five. They gave it to Josh Jacobs. He said, I can.

I can see the end zone. And he scored over and over and over. But the other side was actually what you got from Alamara St. Brown. It was five for 43. His worst performance of the season. Thank you, Mike. You are playing a key role here on this Friday. I'm out. I'm here for the people. That was pain. So Amin Ra, 5 for 43, which he has actually had a pretty bad run. He's been single digits, three straight weeks. And in a game where Jared Gough passes for nearly 300, completes 32 passes, throws three touchdowns, you needed more for Mom and Ron. Now, you've got the fantasy playoffs coming up for redemption. But David Montgomery, Jamir Gibbs, ho-hum, we did what we did. They just do it every single week. I don't understand how they can be so consistent. 11 receptions between them, 29 carries between them, two touchdowns between them.

And nice game from Jameson Williams, five for 80. Yeah. So that's what you got. Christian Watson caught a couple big passes. We're already done talking about lines? The, Tim Patrick? Yeah, baby. Fireball Jones. It's just it's not that I don't want to talk about him. It's that he just in the fantasy landscape, he meant nothing. Yeah, I agree. He represented. Oh, that's not on Monroe. Oh, it's him again? The people will be very sad to learn because our team is so universally loved, Mike. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We made a mistake. And as a commission, I'm planning on fixing this. Of course. Yeah, fix it in your favor. But we played Jaden Reed. Yeah, which for the record, we had put Tim Patrick in. Right. And there was a something happened. A bug in the system. So we're going to.

We're just going to do. I'm starting to understand how the champ, champ, champ happened a little bit, a little bit more. You would not believe how many bugs are in this league. One touchdown from Tucker Kraft. That was nice to see. And Dantavian Wicks, he got involved. It was, okay. Yeah, it was fine. Off of a waiver wire, you should be happy with four for 49. All right. It's Friday. Put Clan Friday. Every Friday we give away $100 gift card to Fantasychamps.com. It's a good reminder. This is the season. Yeah, go to Fantasychamps.com if you need trophies, rings, championship belts, plaques for your trophy. Anything in the championship realm?

That's why they're called fantasy champ. So we give $100. We got that thing on speed dial. Because of the bugs. It's one, no, it's one click for our. It's a red phone. And then a plaque shows up. We've been asking them to add the checkbox. We've been asking them to add the checkbox to just make it an annual subscription. Right. Because I don't want to forget, you know, and just every year it's like, oh, I got to get another trophy. Oh, yeah. Show me last year's. It's in the mail. Yeah. Oh, okay. All right, we give a hundred. There were a lot of bugs. There were a lot of bugs last year. We give away a $100 gift card to Fantasychamps.com and a fantasy footballer's t-shirt every Friday to say thank you to a supporter at Jointhefoot.com. Today's winner. Now, we always read the username. Yeah. And sometimes it's weird. Omega fireball yo-yo walking the dog is the winner today. Wow. Sometimes I wonder if like. There's something going on that even I don't know about. These are random, right, Al?

Correct. Okay. All right. Congratulations. Let's talk news. News and notes from around the league. Presented by USAA Insurance. Today's news for fantasy football, I'm going to liken it to when you start to see volcanic activity and you have to evacuate the city nearby and you see the bubbling and you know, like I'm going to tell you right now we're going to go through these names. Something's going to blow. If you listen closely, you can hear it. Just hold on, hold on. Yeah. Yeah, no, no, it's bad. It's bad because somebody's not playing, gentlemen. Breeze Hall, sidelined again on Thursday. I don't feel good about Breece Hall this week. Oh, man. Tyree Kill, return from a limited practice. Hooray. All right, we're good. Devante Smith practiced in full. Oh, all right. Should be back.

Uh-oh, Malik neighbors, limited with a groin injury. Cedric Tillman, still not practicing. He won't play. Mike Evans, here you go. Give me that sound effect again. Mike Evans, hamstring calf injury, both him and Buck Irving still sideline on Thursday. Here are the two I'm most worried about. D.K. Metcalfe and Kenneth Walker. No. And mostly, my number one worry right now, Kenneth Walker, Breeze Hall. because Kenneth Walker was downgraded. It's an ankle and calf injury, and it doesn't look good. Now, Matt Calf was DMP, DMP in a full practice last week with the shoulder. We've got the precedent that he plays. But the downgrade for Walker scares me a little bit. We have seen Walker essentially like do this where he doesn't practice. So we need runner, Mike. We don't just need Walker. I, yeah, we need the true Ken Bone to show up.

So I'm saying there's still a chance that Walker plays, but the fact that this is what is going on with him right now and being ineffective the last few weeks, which, I mean, the offensive line has really been letting him down. But this is a, you need to have the eyebrows up and be ready. So it does feel scary there. We didn't see DeAndre Swift back at practice yet. We've got new injury report for Jacoby Myers, who was added on Thursday with an ankle. That worries me. Yeah. And Amir Abdullah added to the injury report. So sincere could be in play. Sincere McCormick. That is just, where does that name belong? Is it a Wild West town? Sincere McCormick. Is it like a rail company CEO? Oh.

We just got news. Don't even worry about it. All the key people are back for the bucks, baby. Oh, so, Bucky Irving and Mike Evans? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. All right. So we got some good news. All right. Yeah, but I'm with you, Andy. That Seattle is the, oh boy. It's the scariest one. Oh, boy. Jake Ferguson cleared concussion protocol will return or and return to a full practice. So should return. And then C.D. Lamb's still not practicing with the shoulder, which he said. he'll play. I think he will. And I think he will too, but this is just mediocrely. He'll, if everything goes to plan, he'll get a bunch of targets, have some yards, probably not a touchdown, but the shoulder, I mean, the, you're one, just regular tackle away from C.D. Lamb leaving that game. He's done it twice. For the people out there where you're really struggling with the C.D. Lamb decision, I am fully with you. I had.

I had a roster that's a win and in situation. And last night was like, do I just put James and Williams in? Because if I missed that Thursday opportunity, I don't have a great one. What'd you do? I benched. I saw a CD on Twitter saying, I'm going to play. Held out. I'm believing the man. Believe it with the lamb. Believe in the lamb. Yeah, that was today's news and notes presented by USAA Insurance. Learn more at USAA.com slash insurance. Yeah, you believe. The lamb, but you hope he's not like Keenan Allen was years ago? Yeah, yeah. All right, let's take a break, then we'll jump into the forecast. It's time for Fantasy Forecast, presented by Draft King Sportsbook. Yesterday we covered the Jags, Texans, Jets, Dolphins, Falcons, Vikings, Saints, Giants, Panthers, Eagles, Brown, Steelers matchups.

So we're off to the Pirate Bowl. The Las Vegas Raiders at 2 and 10 taking on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Who's the swashbuckler? Six and six. The Drive King Sports Book Line, Tampa minus 6.5 over under is 46 points. It is a battle of interesting proportions. We have two tight ends that, Mike, you have Kate Otten as your start of the week. No, I don't. Jason, you have Kate Otton as your start of the week. Yeah, thank you. Yep. And both teams struggle immensely against the tight-in position. So, you know, you're always going to play Brock Bowers. Kate Otton, Jason, you are more confident this week. He'll be okay. Would you play Otten or would you play Hawkinson, who's been Red Light Greenlight?

I would probably go Hawkinson over Aughton, but Aughton, I think, is about my tight end nine this week. The matchup, I'm not too scared about the last three weeks. I talked about it yesterday's episode. The matchup is just really, really good for him. His involvement and the targets have still been there. So I think the targets will continue to be there, and because of the matchup being easier, he'll find some success. I think people were surprised to see Rashad White on the field in overtime last week. He had a big run. It was actually, he played well. But the reason being is Bucky Irving had the huge game. Now, Bucky Irving got banged up. Yes. He's back at practice. But if this game gets out of hand, six and a half point favorites, you could see Rashad White get more work on the ground to salt the game away. I'm not saying you don't play Bucky. I'm just saying. Rashad White has averaged 14.3 points per game since week seven. Bucky and White, right? That's the story here. That is the story. You can start both of them. Obviously, Bucky is.

usurped the number one role here, so he would be first. But Rashad White has not gone away or been irrelevant by any means. He's double-digit opportunities every week. I am. I am, can I just bring up? No. Sorry, Jay. I stop. Okay. No, go ahead. I'm a little concerned for Baker. And I know he's your start of the, I know his start of the week. This man's in the blender. I'm in the blender. He's in the blend. Put him in the dryer press. So I've been, I've been, you know, digging deep here because I've got to make the decision. On the league of record, I got Baker Mayfield. I've got James Winston. Laser Mayfield. But he hasn't been very lazery. Like over the last month, he just hasn't actually been that good. Yeah, we know. And we said this. And that's why you're going Winston. I know. I am. Right now, Winston is back in the lineup. What if I give you a wild touchdown guarantee in this one?

A wild touchdown guarantee. I'm going to make, I'm going to give you. Sincere McCormick. I believe that Jalen McMillan scores in this game. Well, that's shocking considering. Is he even on the team? He is on the team. He actually played a bunch of snaps last week. He has done Jack squat as a professional. I have a feeling about him this week. Just throwing it out there. All right. I don't know what the. Plus 400. Okay. Um, his, uh, Still sitting on a season high, 35 yards. Look, this is what I do. I just say what I'm thinking. That's more of a, I'm really let down by him. Yeah, because he, with the absence of Chris Godwin, really thought McMillan would step up. Well, he will. He's going to score this week. On the other side, Ayn O'Connell dealing with an illness, injuries to Madison's Amir White, Amir Abdullah. Sincere McCormick is going to finish the week as the R.B. What?

Well, it really depends on Madison, which Madison was giving limited practice last week and then was shut down. I mean, I think that he is really low-key playable if you're in a desperate situation. So Bowers is in, but what do you do with the Jacoby Myers injury news? And do you try to spot start Trey Tucker or somebody if he's out? I think, yeah, I mean, there should be some value in the receiving game against the Buccaneers. put up a fight against anyone and they don't really have good cornerbacks. So if Jacoby Myers is active, I'm still going to roll him out. I think he's a flex play despite the injury. But if he's out, yeah, this is the type of roster that you can look at and just pick someone up off the waivers and hope to get double digit targets. It's kind of very Parker Washington from last week with the Jags. Okay. I don't think there's a lot else to talk about in this one.

Unless you guys have another name. No, primarily it's, I think the big question is sincere and we just don't know with Abdullah's injury and Madison's injury. That's one where coming up to the weekend, let me ask this. If for some reason Alexander Madison is active in the game, do you start Alexander Madison, put him ahead of sincere? I would. Yeah, if you had to choose between him, yeah. But I would make me want to not start anybody. Yeah, I mean, that's based off of that he was the starter. And the coaching staff, they said a lot of big words about how Zemir White is the guy. And it kept on being Alexander Madison. So I'm saying that of moving that over to McCormick. They were, you know, showering him with some praise. Seattle 7 and 5, they go to Arizona to take on the Cardinals. This is a big game. The Cardinals are 6 and 6. The Draft King Sportsbook line here, Arizona three-point favorites at home, over under of just 44.

A couple of defenses that have been playing great. Two weeks ago, it was only 16 to 6 in this game. And that was a game where James Connor really fell flat in Seattle. This game's in Arizona. It's a battle for the division lead. But the defenses are kind of what has been getting the job done over the last six weeks for both teams. Just to put it in perspective, the Cardinals defense, number two against quarterbacks, number three against whiteouts, number five against tight ends. over the last six weeks. That's how good they've been. Yeah, and unfortunately, I mean, if you look, Seattle games have hit the under in five of their last six games. Arizona games have hit the under and four straight. So it is, you know, this is a matchup that I think a month, two months ago. We looked at and said, oh, I can't wait. This should be great for Metcalf and JSN and James Connor, Marv. And now it really feels like these are.

This is going to be more of a defensive slugfest. And I hope that's not just, you know, carrying over too much from the game we just saw. The last game we saw, we do need to remember when we saw this matchup a couple weeks ago, it was rainy. It was outdoors. So there is some hope for just a better environment to play. And should one or two things break early, you know, that's one of the things about football is like if. If it starts really slow, it can stay slow. But as soon as one team gets going and the other has to kind of be forced to open it up, maybe you can get a back and forth affair. I do expect James Conner to have a significantly better game. I mean, the Cardinals lost that game and they had been on a winning streak on the back of James Connor. And I hope they learned a lesson there because they just didn't give them the ball enough. And the Seahawks are not great at stopping the run. You know,

One of the weirdest things is Metcalf has struggled against Arizona his entire career. He has never hit 60 receiving yards against him. That's wild. That's not true. He's average 5.6 fancy points per game. And we also know he's he's hurt. He's never hit 60 yards. No. The Cardinals? No. Here's his career. 6.0.236, 3158, 34, 37, 10, 59. Two touchdowns in. That's insane. That's right. It's wild. Good job research team finding this. That feels impossible. It really does. Because, I mean, the Cardinals are not like a shutdown team over the last couple of years while DK Metcalf's been playing them many times. So it's not really, you know, that's a fascinating wild stat. I think big picture, both defenses are very good. They put pressure on the quarterback right now.

and that makes it a nerve-wracking game. And then if Kenneth Walker misses? Yeah, we need to run out some names. Just if he plays. Let's say Ken Walker plays. Is he right in into your lineup? Or would you look at someone like Tyrone Tracy against the Saints? I would play Tyrone Tracy. I think that's a good matchup for him. Rashad White against the Raiders. I would play Rashad White. Man. Are you sad? Yeah. I am. But so, I mean, Kenneth Walker. has been contacted before the line of scrimmage on 54.5% of his rush attempts, which is the highest in the NFL. Like I said, the offensive line letting him down, despite him being third highest and forced mistackle rate. I think it's, that was my point earlier in the week about it compounding. Because when you get tackled behind the line of scrimmage a lot and you're a player like him,

You try to do more. You try to do more. You're like, okay, I need to be perfect. I need to get outside. It's Sequin with the Giants. Exactly. So in this game, Jason, you said you're confident in Connor. Connor would be over Walker then? Yeah, Connor would be over Walker. I would do that. Okay. I think Connor's a good start. I think Walker's a bad start. So I don't see many situations where I would bench James Connor and I. would be looking to see if, you know, if I've got a better player to get in over Walker in this matchup. The Cardinals, the Cardinals rush defense has just been really solid. And I, I wonder how much Charbonnet will be involved. It's been frustrating. So even, you know, it's like if Walker's gone, okay, maybe Charbonnet is a good play because he would be fine. Yeah, you got the touchdown opportunities. But if Walker plays, these two guys are probably going to just both.

Stink. Kyler Murray in this game at home favored or Baker Mayfield, who you said you had concerns about. I would play Kyler. Mike, which would you do? Kyler against Seattle at home where he is a... I'd play Baker. You'd play Baker. Perfect. You guys are very helpful. I was asking for a friend of mine. Who's starting in a Dynasty League trying to get a playoff spot. So who would you start? I'm playing Baker. Okay. I'm actually already... I've made that decision. But mine is in part because I have Mike Evans. Trey McBride, play him. JASN, play him. Those guys are locks. And we'll see how this game goes. Buffalo's 10 and 2. They take on the 6 and 6 Los Angeles Rams. If you are a fan of the Seahawks or Cardinals from the previous matchup, you should be happy that the Rams are playing Buffalo because this division is tight in the NFC West. The Draft King Sportsbook Line Buffalo.

Just three and a half point road favorites here. The overrunners 49.5. That is shocking. I think so. I think I would have thought five and a half or six. Yeah, for sure. I mean, the bills have been so dominant. Obviously, they're on the road here. And the Rams are healthy and needing a victory. But I would expect the spread to be. Much, much larger. Defense for Buffalo playing great. I don't know how that changes any of your decisions for the Rams, though. Nope. Cooper Cup, Pook and Akua, Kyron Williams, and logout. Yeah. And then on the other side, Josh Allen currently the favorite to win the MVP, I'd play him if I were you. I agree. I would play James Cook. I don't have them. Well, see that. I was going to make it harder. Yeah. So then you can try to put him in your lineup, but he's not going to save. That's another bug.