Fantasy Football - Week 12 Studs & Duds + Jason’s Trade Regrets - Podcast for 11/24

21:13No, because that was limited. Jacoby's new. Oh, okay. The ship had sailed. Oh, okay. All right? But Jacoby has been really, really good for Arizona. He's turned Michael Wilson. He's the only receiver with 10 catches and 100 yards in back-to-back games of anybody this year other than Puka. That's what he's done. And the last two games, he doesn't even have Harrison. So, look, I'm not saying he brings wins to Arizona. I'm saying he brings fantasy consistency to Trey McBride, likely Harrison. Just a watchable offense. Ah. That's all we're asking for. Our bar is very low, and Jacoby Brissett is doing it.

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24:15Jameer Gibbs is good. 49.9 fantasy points. Emmanuel Wilson, number two, Derek Henry, Ashton Jinty, James Cook. How does Emmanuel Wilson's performance make you feel, Jason? It makes me feel not good because I had Josh Jacobs. I'm probably going to go 0-2 this week unless Brock Purdy goes off. And Josh Jacobs is in my little IR spot. I couldn't help but feel like when Devontae Adams was scoring last night, I knew exactly the implications for you in our league because that was, you know, you're rooting for some other teams. Yep. Yep. I'm rooting for other teams to win and lose, not just in my matchup.

25:00But this wasn't a great week for me. It's not great. I put up 135 in dynasty against Mike, and I will probably lose with the third most points. That's fun. I mean, the worst part of the week, bar none for me, was Jameson Williams' disappearing act. That was the most depressing thing ever. He had this huge crossing route for 40-something yards. It got called back. If you want to know why he didn't catch any passes, you might want to look to the 12 targets and 11 for 45 that Gibbs added on top of his two breakaway touchdowns. If you get bonuses for big plays, he's really good at that. I mean, 219 rushing yards with two breakaway touchdowns is enough completely.

25:44And then to add 11 receptions is that's not fair. There's only one other running back ever with a 200 yard rushing game and 10 catches in a game. Is that LaDainian? Miss Tomlinson. Yeah. Yeah. Man, I miss him.

25:59Fantasy Footballers:He was a cheat code. Yeah. So Emmanuel Wilson was 28 for 107 and two. Derek Henry, I got some video from Boots on the Ground of Vermont. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I retweeted it before the day. Yeah. And you knew what that meant. Yep. Ashton Gentry ends up 17 for 50, but the big deal here, eight targets, eight for 58 and one. Offensive coordinator change, so we'll see how that factors in. But it is nice, the fact that since the bye week, five targets, five targets, eight targets, eight targets. That's what you want to see for fantasy goodness with Gentry, especially if he's on a not great offense.

26:35He can't just be the ball carrier. He needs to be involved in the receiving game. I mean, that's a 93 reception pace over the last four weeks. And Judkins in the same game had two touchdowns. He went out hurt, didn't he? Did he? Yeah, Judkins did miss some time. I mean, you had, you know, I was the only person on the planet that started Dylan Sampson in a lineup. oh congratulations i knew that sweet screen pass touchdown was coming from should do her but um james cook travis etn great again and then cream hunt 30 carries for 104 30 that reminds me an old school that's a cedric benson line right there that i i mean like an andy reed an andy reed team a dude with 30 carries and of course they won Yeah.

27:25Of course they won. That was so – The Colts, yeah, they won. The Colts also lost. Yes, I would agree with that. We knew it was coming way too soon. Indy played the Cardinals not lose offense. Yeah. And then they lost. Yeah. Kenny Gainwell, 10 for 92, six targets. Wow. He had basically two touchdowns called back. Yeah, he did. So impressive by Gainwell even with Jalen Warren. in he he did out snap um and out target warren yeah i think warren had zero um also going back to judkins i forgot they should do or just came off the field for those plays yeah they just direct snap to judkins on them chase brown 19 for 107 most looks like the hater aid over there from the ducers in their prize picks lineup didn't work out did not work also how did you get out of we were wondering this we were wondering this wait what you got out of building a lineup so You literally couldn't be shamed because you missed the show.

28:25Fantasy Footballers:I was shamed because I missed the show. You get out of the potential. Yeah, we thought that was a little. To be fair to your situation. Like maybe you should go down with the deucers. I gave months notice. No, no, no. That's fine. I'm just saying. I'm not a 30 minutes late. Oh, I'm not going to make it. Forget my situation. He's punching back. He's punching back. How did you get out of even the potential? Like usually we submit a line up. Did the deucers lose? Yeah. Yeah. We all won. What are we talking about here? Yeah, that's fair. Goodness gracious. We were scared for a little while. That's fine.

28:57So Chase Brown, I believe that's the most rushing yards against the Patriots all year. Yeah, it was good. We'll see who their quarterback is next week. Chase Brown, it's weird, man. Chase Brown was just, he was toast. He was absolutely toast. And then as soon as Flacco got in there, he's been awesome. Are you scared about having Burrow? Joe Burrow. jsn is so good oh my gosh he's on pace for 2029 yards which no wide receivers ever hit 2000 yards before he was eight for 167 and two he's had 11 plus fancy points in every single game it's wild there's only been four to ever do that or three other ones adams antonio brown michael thomas this this is just he has not had a game outside the top 10 not like a decent like top 10 wide receiver on the week since week four yeah it's he's accounted for 47 of the yards for the team in the receiving game it well i mean it's like it's amazing waldron saw this guy and was like nah you know what screen passes everything close to the line scrimmage that's what we got to do with this he doesn't got it this guy doesn't got what we need freaking insane jason a moment I think for you to focus upon this next name.

30:13Wandale? Yeah, I think you spent four weeks not saying his name. Yeah, look, so Wandale, I was saying this while we were watching. Just 14 targets, 9 for 1, 56 and 1. And used down the field. It's very similar to the JSN thing where it's like, obviously they had the change at head coach. And so we've got a new kind of offensive system happening here in New York. And it's wonderful because usually what they do with Wandale Robinson, who is not a tackle breaker but is very good at getting open so they have him get open behind the line of scrimmage throw him the ball and then get tackled it's like use him down the field and they did 14 targets nine for 156 and one uh jamis was just there are two games this year where he's a top five receiver wandale in both of them 17 plus yards per catch you got to remember the previous four weeks, 9, 11, and 11 targets.

31:05So you're like, awesome. Wide receiver 32, 32, 48. So this was a big difference. Obviously this is a Jameis Winston game, so hopefully they can see some of this. There was also, Darius Slayton came out, caught the first pass, tweaked his hamstring, was out for a lot of the game. He did come back later in the game. We were so confused. Yeah, it was really, it was like why, Slayton missed most of the game, so that was somewhat helpful. I mean, do you buy into Wondell next week, Jackson Dart back? are you plugging them in your lineup like the same way that you know i mean i think wandel's definitely he's in the same tier as like starting in alec pierce which is not bad you're going to have i mean the targets are crazy so if you can give me a guaranteed nine targets which seems like you'll get you should usually start that player amanrast brown was awesome george pickens incredible he's tied with puka for number two and fancy points per game yeah it's wild he is on pace for a bag of cash i projected him out over the season and it was a bag of cash he has over a thousand yards already wide receiver filthy rich next year on the year on pace for 1600 yards 12 touchdowns and unlike his usual like you know that's on 79 catches on pace for 103 receptions just because he totally can do that just manimal place too it's on a regular basis it's great here he is AJ Brown 10 targets 8 for 1 10 and 1 had another one that he couldn't get the foot down it would have been a second touchdown there you are um there you are Peter uh DJ Moore Devante Adams Rashi Rice all big weeks and let's shout out Michael Wilson while we can 15 more targets 10 for 118 what yeah again we talked about it and then Parker Washington 5 for 71 and 1 another great game from we are in year three of michael wilson and they've never once tried to do this if michael wilson's dad was as loud as marvin harrison maybe he we would have heard from him so this is pretty wild guys i'm looking so last year 2024 michael wilson finished the year with 71 targets for 47 receptions, 548 yards.

33:24This year currently has 71 targets, 47 receptions for 534 yards. That's wild. How do you wrap it up? How does this possibly happen? Jacoby Brissett and Marvin Harrison being gone. And I wouldn't really fully sit him down just because Harrison comes back. No. I think he's going to be in contention for some of these matchups for a flex play. He very well might be, but he will move to the third target because obviously McBride and Harrison will be one and two. All right, we have top five tight end scores of the week. Jason, your start of the week was the number one tight end on the week, seven for one, 15 and one.

34:04Hunter Henry. We watched this game with just – it was just like Hooper Henry, Hooper Henry. I was – the one prize picks projection that I missed was the Diggs fantasy score. And I kept waiting for them to throw, I don't know, to any wide receiver. I mean, the Bengals are so bad at guarding tight ends.

34:24Fantasy Footballers:They're just like, oh, I'll just keep throwing it to the tight ends. That's easy. It's wild. Henry was awesome. Colston Loveland was my start of the week. So our start of the week was 1-2. Yes, there you go. Four for 49-1. Trey McBride was third. Colby Parkinson, who, you know, it's not Ferguson. It's Parkinson taking over in Los Angeles. And then Brenton Strange back from injury, 5 for 93. Something to pay attention to. And a friend of the show, J.J. Zacharyson, tweeted out that this was Loveland's highest route participation since Cole Komet has been back. And I hate that. I am so upset about what I saw because Luther Burden was very involved.

35:05Luther Burden also getting more involved. The offense looks great. They're winning games. Oh, I know why you're upset. I'm so happy for the Bears fans. Yeah. For Caleb. This is a Roma Dunes egg. But Roma Dunes egg. Yeah, this is a Jason Trader for Rome two weeks ago. It feels bad. Do you know who our starts of the week were at running back, Mike? Please tell me. In honor of you being gone, our starts of the week were Travion Henderson and Kenneth Walker, your dudes. Yes. Both top 20 backs this week. They were? Yeah. Also, was it just me who thought Henderson scored on that one play and they should have challenged it?

35:38I was watching from a – It was debatable. I was at like a sports bar. That wasn't the Jennings goal line carry? That was something else? No, there was one where Hendo looked like he got in.

35:48Fantasy Footballers:It was on one of their 20 goal line plays that they still never scored on. Against the Bengals. I told you I can't control what Vrabel does. He does weird stuff. There's a lot of Jennings on the goal line. Then Ramondre's back. It's going to be a little bumpy. All the first opportunities were Henderson. Henderson didn't get in. Then they're like, okay, let's try Ramondre. Ramondre doesn't get in. Okay, let's try Jennings. Why can't we beat the Bengals on the game? Henderson does it. How about that? Yeah. All right. We'll move on to duds. Hooped in his big boy pants. We need to have a conversation.

36:27Yeah. Because we watched Lamar Jackson this weekend. 13 for 23 for 153. Second straight week with what? Like 10, 11 yards rushing. They had like 80 yards against the Jets in the first half or so. They were down to the Jets for a long time, but we were talking about it. Lamar does not look the same. He's been on the injury report, missing practices. He's hurt. There are so many plays where you watch him and you're like, oh, that's a Lamar play. Why didn't he take it? Why didn't he run? Why didn't he go? Why didn't he take the outside? There was one specific we were watching where he had the first down on the outside and he cut it up for no reason.

37:04It was clear to me he didn't think he had the speed to get to the outside. But the last four weeks rushing 5 for 14, 9 for 36, 4 for 10, 7 for 11, that directly translates to his quarterback 15, 29, and 23 finishes. He has one passing touchdown in the last three weeks. He has not surpassed 200 yards. And now you get – I mean, you got Cincinnati this Thursday. Then you get Pittsburgh. Then you get Cincinnati again. And then you finish your fantasy playoffs with New England and Green Bay. That seems a little bit frightening. You're just going – I mean, the truth is – You're going to get healthy, Lamar.

37:37You're going to end up riding Lamar, and he's either going to get healthy or you're going to be bounced, right? Yeah. There's no alternative? I would not move on. I mean, I can't imagine. There's no Jacoby Brissett alternative? So Jacoby Brissett is the name. I saw that question. Multiple weeks, that question. Yeah, Jacoby Brissett is the name where maybe with Lamar's injuries, you picked someone else up. Maybe if it was a couple weeks ago, maybe you got Jackson Dart, and you're rolling those two guys on a roster. you know some weeks you're gonna but you just said I mean two of the next three weeks you play Cincinnati you're not gonna not play Lamar in either of those games so I really do think in the end it's it's like you're just holding your breath and you're hoping he gets healthy and gets back to doing Lamar things for the first time in his career no touchdowns of any kind in back-to-back weeks for Lamar that's crazy and the Ravens have won five in a row so there you go Josh Allen, we saw it.

38:34Houston seems to be his kryptonite. Jordan Love. Houston's everybody's kryptonite. They haven't given up a QB1 performance all year. Yeah, that's wild. Jordan Love, 14 for 21 against Minnesota for just 139 yards. That's not good. And we're hoping that we get Jaden Reed back because his practice window opened up. I don't know if we reported that here on the show. Jaden Reed's practice window. So he is out there practicing. Oh, boy.

39:02Fantasy Footballers:Yeah. One good quarter. J.J. McCarthy. Ooh. 12 for 19 for 87 passing yards. Guys, I'm getting concerned. I think you were getting concerned when you traded J.J. away last week. Yeah. Not McCarthy. Justin Jefferson. I mean I think he's bad I mean like you want to everyone everyone the devil's advocate is going to be six games yes you want to give quarterbacks especially more than six games before you make a final definitive decision on does that guy have it can he be a franchise quarterback can he be a starter but as of right now this is tragically this it's not just wow man it's not going well this is tragically bad uh yeah and you don't want to see the comparisons oh man tell the jamarcus russell comparison first six career games you want me to go yeah line by line well or do you or you want me to talk about him being marcus russell has more yards yeah anthony amico tweeted your interceptions uh better completion percentage a much better passer rate took fewer sacks pretty much across the board is better than jj mccarthy's first six i mean mccarthy's thrown three times the interceptions of jamarcus russell mccarthy now ranks 851 out of 852 in epa per drop back among passers only jamarcus is worse you you need to again it's six games and this is green bay anthony that'll be the excuse because Jalen Hurts looked terrible against Green Bay.

40:49But, ew. I mean, this is unacceptably bad. Anthony Richardson last year threw for 57 % completion percentage. And that was like so bad. You just can't do that in the NFL and be an NFL quarterback. That's so much better than what J.J. McCarthy is throwing for so far. It's compounded. And, again, last week it was, I'm sorry, Raiders fans. And you all got on board and agreed. This week it's going to be, I'm sorry, Vikings fans. Because you're at the basement of your division. You're going to stay there for now. I mean, huge win by Chicago. Detroit's great. Green Bay's better than you. They proved it.

41:23But the problem is that it's compounded by letting Daniel Jones and Sam Darnold walk out of your locker room. Yeah. And it also just validates, like, there was a panic attack happening, and I feel like it permeated from some beat reporters and people in Minnesota through a game, through two games. It was like, uh-oh. Like, is Max Brosmer going to get opportunities two games into your career, you wondered. McCarthy didn't come back quickly from injury, remember? It was like, oh, it had a little Trey Lance feel to it. It's like, oh, let's put a literally broken Carson Wentz onto the field and not a healthy McCarthy because we've got to work on the footwork and we've got to get things going before we get him out there.

42:07He looks like a guy who has an NFL caliber arm. If he was just in a backyard and he's throwing a football, you'd be like, oh, okay, that guy, he must be an NFL quarterback. But then he gets in the pocket and they take the snap and he has no idea what to do. If you were to hire one coach to fix him, it would be Kevin O 'Connell and he's not fixing him. Kevin O 'Connell has gotten workable performances from guys like Josh Dobbs, Nick Mullins. There's more. There's a laundry list of quarterbacks where you're just like, guys who... Not Kellen Mond. but yeah and it i mean we got it we got to change this guy's number this is i completely got it we can't be nine you have to forcibly remove his number double zero that's fine i think that's probably a bad mental i give him 11 11 or something the problem is that mccarthy in his own right that's the whole discussion and then for our show and for the fantasy community i mean I saw all the Addison and the JJ.

43:09I mean, like, Justin Jefferson's been deleted from the earth. We have seen this with Hall of Fame wide receivers in the past. Larry Fitzgerald. Larry Fitzgerald went into quarterback purgatory in Arizona. Remind me. What was his stinking name? Skelton? John Skelton? There was Skelton and then Anderson, the guy from Cleveland. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, you can delete a player. Last year going into the season, I was down on Justin Jefferson because we have seen this many times in the past. Even first ballot Hall of Famers, when they don't have a quarterback, they can't be a top five fantasy wide receiver.

43:53It wasn't like Larry forgot how to play. Obviously, later in his career, he got a better quarterback in Carson Palmer or in Kurt Warner, and he was fantastic. it turns out it turns out that the issue is still quarterback and Sam Darnold was actually good it wasn't that he overcame Sam Darnold last year or lifted Sam Darnold up completely by himself Sam Darnold's a pretty good quarterback Calvin Johnson in 2009 was held to like 900 yards and 5 touchdowns he had Orlovsky and Drew Stanton at quarterback We've seen this happen before. We had sub-thousand-yard years from Andre Johnson because he had Ryan Mallett in Case Keenum at quarterback.

44:40We talked about Larry Fitzgerald. We've had that. Hopkins, too. Remember, Hopkins had that one year where it was like, oh, is DeAndre Hopkins not good? Steve Smith, Hall of Famer, 550 yards with Jimmy Clawson. That's where you're at right now. Yeah. So are you afraid for dynasty? I mean, we were putting the dynasty wide receivers in order yesterday, and we're going, okay, yeah, Jamar Chase, I think he belongs at the tippy top. But how – JSN, JJ, one of them's got a quarterback. Oh, I would take JSN over Jefferson for sure. Yeah, and then do you – Amon Ra? Yeah, I mean – I don't know. I would take Amon Ra over Jefferson.

45:19The Vikings will have a chance to do something, but, I mean, your options are going to be very, very limited.

45:26Fantasy Footballers:letting this is when go is wild this is gonna be so disgusting but but at the same time not letting donald go after the complete collapse at the end of the year if you had held on to him people would have lost their minds too i'm gonna be so stinking upset when kyler is a viking next year and is great i'm gonna be like this is this is what happens though when you spend the draft capital that you did on jj mccarthy because you felt handcuffed okay let's if mccarthy doesn't exist Daniel Jones is the starter of this team. Yes, you let Darnold go if you're mad about the playoffs, even though they were 14-2 in the regular season or whatever, 14-3.

46:05Then Daniel Jones is your next man up because he goes and he's the starter in Indianapolis, but you can't do that because you can't pay him because you've got the cheap rookie contract for McCarthy. Yeah, I believe Jones chose to leave. I think the – if I remember you right, Conley – Yeah, because of course you chose to leave because you were getting a backup contract to play behind – Well, he was, it was, where do you think you can end up being the starter? He chose wisely, although he would have also chosen wisely. Right? I mean, yes, he would. It was Richardson or McCarthy. If Daniel Jones were the backup, he would have been starting.

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48:32Oh no, Jason. This is very... Oh no. I mean, Jonathan Taylor. This is 100 % appropriate. I mean, you can't. He has the biggest pants. Yes. So 16 for 58. Yeah, you know those clown pants where they got the hoop? You can fit two people in them. DJ Giddens climbs in the pants with him.

48:52Fantasy Footballers:I'm in there. I'm in there, buddy. You're in Taylor's pants, huh? Yeah, they're full of doo-doo. It's not nice in here. I mean, he was the running back 24 so far this week. I knew you were going to say that. That isn't appropriate. That's why I had to set it all up with how big his pants are. you get to play houston next week that's not great it's not great but i mean he's jonathan taylor so just just seattle san francisco and jacksonville in the playoffs we talked about how difficult his schedule was down the stretch and we said well you know what it's not it just doesn't matter i mean he also could be okay the running back one against a decent run defense two weeks ago so yeah i think you just got to keep playing him saquon barkley 10 for 22 against dallas he did catch seven passes his runs were two negative one two seven two one one five one two maybe maybe dallas's front seven is what we what they're trying to build kenny clark and quinnon williams next to each other it's stopping the run that's what they wanted to do i look i would never give jerry jones any credit other than for looking ancient but they their defense is better like we We kind of talked about it last week.

50:03I thought about playing him against the Raiders. It was a bad start to the game, but then they got it together. They literally, the defense won the game for him. When you get down 21-0, you don't give up another point. And Quinnen did, because he got banged up. It sounds like he's saying he will play. Yeah, he took a pretty big shot to the ribs, I believe. That was Saquon. Yeah. I've always wondered that with, like, you saw Scadaboo doing this. When you do the little, oh, I'm going to give a chip block. just freaking spear the guy in the ribs a little i know it's a little dirty a little dirty but this is a violent game you're playing to put the other guy on their back kyron williams 12 for 46 this was a disappointment in a game that got you know at it's weird put away quickly you would think he would have had more production john tucker 12 for 42 a letdown from your expectations and hopes, but it was that game again.

50:57And the Rams defense is very, very difficult to run on. DeAndre Swift, who played fewer snaps than Monongah, also didn't score and also was 8 for 15. Yeah, this was super. And fumbled. Yeah, and then Monongah got more snaps too. Super interesting. What's going on with the Bears is they are taking their youth and putting them forward more and more. I mean, this was a week where they. Yeah, with Burden and Loveland. Burden, Loveland, and Monongah all kind of usurpated their previous roles while starters are healthy and and it worked and they won kios and commit and swift yeah not so much so i'm i'm very like binoculars on the bears right now next week to see does this continue does this you know is this uh going to stretch towards the playoffs with them getting more youth involved it's it's interesting man you've got to be excited how many weeks in a How many zero has Mononghi scored?

51:51Is it four? It's at least three. I think it's three. Three straight. Okay. Jason, where are you with the invisibility cloak tossed upon David Montgomery? Yeah, I don't think you were here yet. I was talking about it this morning with the guys. Like, I can't start David Montgomery anymore. Jameer Gibbs is too good for them to take them off the field. I think that their offense took a step back. and so to take a step forward requires Jameer Gibbs. They're like, okay, alright. We were going to try to save him up, but you asked for this and now Jameer Gibbs is just taking so much work and it works and my only hope is something that Gibbs wins the lottery and he's done playing football.

52:41Yeah, that he wins the lottery

52:43Fantasy Footballers:and says, I'm going to take the rest of the season off. I will not even let you speak that way. I wouldn't get on the wrong plane and ends up in the wrong city for a week. David Montgomery is a is a league winning insurance option. And that's it. Is he? Oh, absolutely. If if if Gibbs went down and Monty was the whole shebang there, he would be he wouldn't do what Gibbs did last year. He'd be top 12. Yeah, he would. He'd be an unexpected running back one added to to a roster. which again Mike I appreciate you not letting him speak of that Travion was 18 for 66 what like that's this isn't pooped Brooks he had 65 % like I guess when you in that matchup in that matchup with star of the week yeah I get that 20 it's fine why does Ramondre have two carries inside the five what are we doing no no I will not allow you to be upset at that because the answer of why he got those carries is because Henderson didn't get in the end zone when he got the opportunity first.

53:48Henderson was one carry inside the five. And he got three yards. I think some of them might have got called back because he was down there ahead. Some of them were innings. No, Travion Henderson had the one carry I was talking about where I thought he scored. Pushed two guys out of the way, almost scores, gets three yards, and we're giving Ramondre two carries for nothingness. It's just so dumb. He's bigger. yeah yeah yeah and that always works uh wide receivers these are these are bad bad bad conversations i mean these are not small names justin jefferson emeka abuka uh roma dunze jameson williams oh man hello darkness what hello darkness my old friend everything about that game against the giants told me that jameson williams was going to be involved they were down and then and then suddenly in the middle of the game i turned to jason i was like do they do they trust him for a comeback because they trusted amin rah a whole lot yeah no so and abuka what is he going to be rest of the year if we miss some weeks with baker not great i mean the rams are awesome teddy went to him um but it really is a matter of i think teddy will be fine and abuka will be fine in light matchups but against the rams that was just too much for for teddy two gloves and mecca abuka has no weeks between wide receiver eight and 24 he's either top seven first or your last or you are like a disappearing act what's crazy is you look at his last five games and four of five have been duds and yet he hasn't had fewer than eight targets in any of them no and he's still leading all rookies in yards and in touchdowns and despite the struggles and now Godwin's back.

55:34He has more yards than Tett. He did as of the pre, he did last night when they were reporting it on the game. And Tett hasn't played yet. Who's that? Sorry everyone. Sorry Mr. McMillan. Sorry Mr. McMillan for shortening your name. Let's see. It's really Mrs. McMillan. The reason he doesn't like it is because he feels like he's disrespecting his mama. Yeah I mean what is your opinion of that situation if you have a name if you're born with a name that can be shortened I feel like you should have to accept all possible variants without offense that's my opinion on everybody you might not prefer it but yeah if I call Jeremy and you don't like that deal with it like when I used to call Adrian Peterson sometimes I would call him AP I know his nickname was AD right like come on but you see how i got there right those are initials and you hate do you hate jare no i don't hate it oh okay i like jay better you like jay better that's my name jason jay yeah yeah i hate when people call you jay oh you do yeah i do that sometimes no i know you do and i look up every time because it's like jay is oh because you're just you're like that should be about me yes and he's jeremy like if mike wanted to be called michael but somebody called him mike Like, how dare you?

56:57He can't be offended. You can tell me you prefer it. Yeah, because, I mean, Michael is, that's about his basic of it. No, that one's basic. Tedaroa is actually like, that's a cool name. I don't want to be called Drew. Right. I don't like that. Oh, I was. Is that one legit? I'm just remembering my brother-in-law, his name is Randall. Uh-huh. If you call him Randy, he loses his mind. Does he really? That's a different name, though. No, no, Randall Randy? I mean, come on. Okay, A-P-A-D. You see how we got there? I mean, so he doesn't like Randy? No, no, no, no. Well, you know, there you go. What do you call Jameson Williams?

57:41I know. Yeah. And you know what's going to happen. He's going to go off against Green Bay on Thanksgiving. He's going to do something big. Against Green Bay? I don't know, man. It's one play. He's a one play guy. Save it for Dallas. it's so overwhelmingly frustrated. I told Jason I don't care about my matchups this week. I don't care that my starts of the week did well. I don't care that anything I said was good or bad. All I care about is the fact that this dude who had just put together four out of five great weeks who was my guy at the beginning of the year is don't goose. That's what I kept saying from the first quarter.

58:15Just don't goose. Then he has the big play and we're like yes. He had a couple. He had a play. It's like okay no goose. Call back. Then later huge play. Monstrous play. Call back. It's like ah. Not his week. I don't want to go past Roma Dunze because I don't know what to do with him, and I need your two expertise on this. Roma Dunze in the first month of the season was incredible. I mean, he looked like he was going to be a top five wide receiver. He was on pace for 21 touchdowns and 1 ,200 yards. Since that bye week, he has had two good games and five bad games. I haven't looked at this log in a while.

58:53In seven games, he's on pace for 867 yards and two touchdowns. Yeah, one touchdown since the bye in seven games. The first month was, I mean, he was running way too hot. You can't be putting up 37 yards, 62 yards, 69 yards and put up a touchdown in each of those games. That's too hot. It's like a bucca at the beginning of the year. Too hot for expectation. Yeah. So then the answer is what? The answer is you'd rather have Roma Dunze? Like, should I be starting Michael Pittman over Rome every week? Oh. generically speaking. This is a real question. It's a real question because this is Chris Olave, Roma Dunze, and Michael Pittman.

59:29I've got to start two of those three every week. And I thought Rome was locked in. My heart wants to tell you to just keep going to Rome because he's obviously got the talent to give you those big games. On the road against Philly. On the road against Green Bay. At home against Cleveland. At home against Green Bay.

59:46Fantasy Footballers:Did you look at his schedule before? No, I didn't look at his schedule. He was the wide receiver 10. He was a second year breakout. out. I just went and got my guy. Oh, man. Then I tried to trade you for him, and you could have gotten Jameson. Well, that would have been the most me and you trade ever, because Jameson on fire, and this week I give him to you, and he gooses. Alec Pierce won for 26. That was a dud game. You could kind of see it coming against Kansas City. I actually played Slayton over him, so I did nothing for myself. Christian Watson, 5 for 49. Okay. Romeo Duds here just two for 23 and Diggs two for 20.

1:00:25Kelsey Goddard, Kyle Pitts. Kyle Pitts, two catches. Kelsey had a touchdown. See how stupid playing him is. Yeah, I mean, in a game where I played him, I picked him up and I played him. I played him over Mark Andrews, which, I mean, genius. One for nine versus two for 25. But they both stung. Did Andrews drop that touchdown or did the DB knock it out? I don't remember. Jason called it a drop when he watched it. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, no, he dropped it. I thought live that it was knocked out, and then the other angle was like, no, that was just dropped. It's weird to think that a game involving, you know, this is the Lamar story, right?

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