Week 12 Studs & Duds + Monday Punday, Injury Tilt! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 11/29

Cordero Patterson is the RB 8 on the year. It's craziness. Cordero Patterson. Stud. Yeah, bona fide stud. I mean, he is the offense. One, wasn't, like, you would, you had hoped he would play because he was coming off the ankle injury. You didn't know. It was a game time decision. He goes in immediately, I think in the first quarter, tweaks the ankle on a, gets tackled low, goes down, looks hobbled.

Then just comes back in and has even more production. So Patterson, if you scooped them up in week one, you're living, living the good life. He has scored 41% of the team's touchdowns. Yep, checks out. Elijah Mitchell, dominated. 27 for 133 and 1, 6 targets, 5 for 35. This was, he had 70% of snaps, 91% share of the backfield touches. Who is?

Who is the Snap Goblin in San Francisco? Is it Elijah or is it Debo? Because if you have Debo, you don't like Elijah Mitchell getting carries. And if you have Elisa, you don't like Debo. I think if you have Debo, you're fine with Elijah getting carries because Debo's on the field doing other stuff. Okay. But he has not, Elijah Mitchell, has not handled less than 72% of the backfield touches. John Daigle tweeted that out. Seven full games he's played. I think there were people who thought.

because I had spent massive fab on him early. A lot of people did. That the rosy prognosis for Elijah was just biased. But he owns the backfield. Jeff Wilson is a debatable cut. I mean, he, I think had one touch in the game. Wow, really? Yeah, I mean, he was useless. And that's what Trace Serman being hurt. Well, because Debo is a running back now. And Debo might.

be missing time. So don't cut Jeff yet. It's just crazy because Jeff wasn't good when he was alone. Yeah. Austin Ackler, Giovante Williams, Josh Jacobs, Miles Gaskin. The gas man broke the red light green light and delivered another huge game. I mean, 18 points, 17 points, 5, 13, 7, 15. I mean, he's going to be in the top 15 on the year at this point. And Dantrell Hilliard, Mike, 12 for 132 and 1.

He was on Sunday Live. He was one of the break glass in case of emergency players. Oh, boy. I mean, I didn't expect 12 for 131. He had a huge breakaway touchdown. It will be. Running back for the Titans in case. Yes, yes. That would be one we need to specify. And Deontay Foreman didn't have a bad game either. No. Against the Patriots. They're going into their by week. And it's hard to gauge right now.

Does the team like Hilliard enough that when Jeremy McNichols is back from his concussion, that this is what they stay with. So that'll be a discussion for tomorrow's waiver show. Let me ask you a question. Would you rather play Giovante Williams or Miles Gaskin rest of season locked into your lineup? Because you look at their game logs. They're very similar with on game, off game. The snap counts for...

The Broncos, Gordon was 53%, Javante was 47%. Touches were Gordon 18, Javante 17. So for that I've got to look at the schedule. The Giants, that's fine, but then you have a buy week for the Miami Dolphins. Jets, that's fantastic. Saints in Tennessee on the road to close out the season, though. So I'm going to... Is that to close out the fantasy season? Yes. I'm going to go with J. J. J. Dillon, 2469. Dude.

Nice. Yeah, it is nice. And I understand, like, if you're just box score hunting and going, well, that's not very many yards and that many carries. He also scored in the air. Yeah, he had five targets, caught all five of them, A.J. Dillon continuing to ball out when it comes to the targets and the receptions. But these were, like, the defense knew exactly what was coming. And it was the Rams rushing defense. So A.J. Dillon was up against it, but he.

Just kept getting hard yards. And it is, was there that cackling back there from the hard yards? Oh, yeah, I got me. Okay. Let me give you some perspective over the last three weeks. Okay. 294 attempts is the pace. Okay. 73 targets is the pace. This is caught every pass thrown his way in the last three weeks. This is, we're, it's, we're not through this season yet, but this is troubling for next year. For up.

I guess and for the remainder of the season. With A.J. Dillon proving himself to the team, how do you not get him on the field more? I'm all in on that. I'm all in. I've made the transition because A.J. Dillon does things that Aaron Jones cannot do. And Jones does things that Dylan cannot. They're very different players, very complimentary. And the way that running backs are used these days and the way that they're breaking down, how do you not?

feed AJ Dylan and those giant quads. And how do you not give him short yardage? How do you not give him goal line? How do you not give him end of game? And targets. Yeah. Like the giant man has soft hands. Oh, they're so soft. Oh, yeah, he is. Woo! Jaylon Waddle, nine for one, 37 and one. He's now the wide receiver 14 on the year. 10 targets. Absolutely massive game. Looks great. Has a rapport with Tua.

has the Giants coming up, and then the buying, then the Jets. So Jalen Waddle could be on championship rosters this year. He certainly could be, and it was tough to buy into Waddle, not the talent, not the draft capital, but it was always these guys are coming back. Will Fuller is coming back. Giovante Parker is coming back. Maybe they're not.

Maybe they're just never coming back. And Jalen Waddle is actually this good. We finally had a what looked like a downfield shot. You saw the yards after catch. He is a good wide receiver. Will Fuller's on a one-year deal. Oh, yeah, he's gone next year. He's just irrelevant to the future plans of this team. And Waddle's been so impressive. Adam Thielen had two more touchdowns. Wide receiver seven on the year.

There were two things we said before the year that were going to happen, that the fantasy world was probably just, ourselves included, was probably undervaluing. It was Adam Thielen and it was parts of the Rams offense. It was like these two things are just sliding underneath the surface. And sure enough, like Thielen is just cruising along. He's, he can not. He's unstoppable in the red zone. I don't understand how it happens. But he's like, that's where he makes his money.

He even had a, I think he had a pretty long, his second touchdown was a little longer. I mean, he has nine touchdowns in the red zone this year. Nine of his. Ten touchdowns on the year. He's unstoppable. Yeah, the, I think Kyle said he dropped kicked the TD regression metrics in the face. Yes. Yes, he did.

Mike, your guy. I'm going to call him your guy. That's fine. Kendrick Bourne, six targets, five for 61 and two. I don't know how he got down the sideline with four guys tried to push him out. Just tiptoeing through the tulips, man. But Kendrick Bourne's a fun player to watch, to be honest with you. He made two great touchdown receptions. He's averaged the touchdown every six catches this year. So you're like, why does he barely play? Well, when he plays, they go to him. And Jacobi Myers had a good game too. Yeah, finally. Jacobi. Once he benched him. All right.

Speaking of players that had a good game that probably on your bench. I mean, I didn't think you should start him. T. Higgins ended up with six for 114 in one. So what do you do now? A whole season of disappointment, a huge breakout game. But I mean, how many passing yards did Joe Burrow have? Well, look it up. I know that Jamar Chase is probably showing up in the other section of this show. Yeah. Joe Burrow had.

190 yards. So he had 190 yards and Richard, I'm sorry, Higgins, T. Higgins ended up with 114 of them. That's a good market share. Yeah. If you can keep that up. So I guess, chargers next week. Tough secondary. Debo, one catch, six for 66 and two on the ground. Is that right? I believe so, yeah. I thought he had more rushing. No. No. Okay. But Debo just continues to get it done.

Two touchdowns on the ground. He has scored on the ground three straight weeks. So beat goes on for the number two overall wide receiver in fantasy. What did you make at the Dijax game? Three for one or two and one on Thanksgiving. I mean, he had the big play to start off the game. I believe he had the first touchdown of the game, not that anyone would track that for any financial reasons. And then, I mean, he's just, he's a part-time player. It was nice to see.

him have some of the speed still left, but he's not someone I'm going to count on. Van Jefferson, nine targets, three for 93 and one. Odell Beckham, 10 targets, 5 for 81 and 1. Both players heavily involved 10 targets for Cooper Cup. I mean, you talk about target distribution. It was perfectly even across all three players. Cup still went 7 for 96, so a quiet, nice game for Cup didn't score.

But all three players played basically every single snap of the game, which is something you want to see in fantasy. Yep. Probably means that Van Jefferson is under value. Yeah. I mean, he's a weekly play. He's not a, I wouldn't call him a wide receiver too, but a flesh five. Would you rather have him or Beckham? Probably, probably Beckham. I feel like maybe Van Jefferson's more reliant on a big play. Yeah. But obviously Beckham had to have the big play this week to perform too. And if Cooper Cup just gets his throw.

slightly in the bounds of where you can be in, then Van Jefferson would have had two. That's right. Tight-in studs. Jack Doyle, six for 81 and one. What? Nobody played him. Baby hands. But you know who they did play, Mike? They played Dawson Knox, three for 32 and two. He's still the tight-in six on the year despite missing two weeks. Yep. Rob Grankowski.

Start of the week, seven for one, 23. Gronk is here to stay. Yes, he is. Mark Andrews, 10 targets, 4 for 65 and 1, ridiculous catch. Yes, although the one-hander? Yeah. Now, did that? It did? Yes. Okay. I was pretty sure that when that started, because the catch in the yards for Lamar, they didn't show up right away. And so people were panicking, but they did count. Okay. Yeah. I mean, and, you know,

10 of those targets. He caught four of them. The defense caught four of them as well. Yep. Yeah, when you target it, what, he had four interceptions when targeted. Lamar forced the ball. Now, if he had not done that two of those four interceptions, you would have won. That is correct. All right. Dalton Schultz, seven targets, three for 46 and one, had one called back as well. The doctor was working on the holidays. Yeah, Jason's start of the week. I think he had ended up number one in my rankings going into the weekend.

at tight-in. Shultz? Yeah, which obviously he didn't finish number one, but he was up there. Fryer Mewth, 4-440 and 1. He's in an elite category now of rookie tight-ins with six-plus touchdowns. Hawkinson ended up scoring and Joku scored. Jimmy Graham scored, so I won $100. Yes, the people were very excited for that bet. Yeah, Jimmy Graham scored before Will Disley. There's a very important bet on the show, so that's why Jason is not here today.

He's out trying to find $100? He is. No, he's just embarrassed. He put his, he didn't bet on Jimmy Graham, which is a safe bet. And he's set. Shall we move on to the more depressing section of the show? Yeah. Poopped in his big boy pants. I don't know how to feel with Cam Newton because I was the one of the three of us that was like, I can't believe you guys have confidence in him against Washington. He goes out against Washington. He's fine for fantasy. Right.

But then he just lays just an egg of eggs. I mean, five for 21. Two picks, both were ugly. Yep. Got benched in the fourth quarter. Also true. Matt Ruhl comes out and says, yeah, he's going to be the starting quarterback. But some convoluted response about like, but, you know, he hasn't seen a lot of the pressure in the fourth quarter. So we wanted to get PJ in there. We didn't want Cam to get hit, but it implied like, oh, we're cool with PJ getting hit.

That's not nice. What in the way? Can you, does this game disqualify him from, from you being able to play him? He's got the buy, so it doesn't matter that week, but then Atlanta. Two more weeks of practice with the team. Yeah, let's wait and see what the news is because that match up against the Falcons, that's juicy. Lamar Jackson, got to put his worst career fantasy performance for Mike in the Dudd section. Yep.

Four picks. Yeah. Yeah. For those counting along at home, my starting quarterback the last two weeks for my most important league, that would be eight combined interceptions. So you don't win. Do you not? You don't win. Negative eight. That's a two QB league, right, Mike? No. No, that's, thank you. Thank you for clarifying that, though, Brooks.