Fantasy Football Today - Week 13 Start or Sit (12/01 Fantasy Football Podcast)

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Starting point is 00:00:56 If you or someone you know has concerns about gambling, visit connexontario.ca, T's and Z's apply. Let's get those lineups set for fantasy week 13 right now on FFT Express. And four games already in the books. So you might be playing catch up or you might be playing with a comfortable lead or maybe neither. But hope Thursday and Friday went well for everybody. I'm Adam Azen with Heath Cummings and not a ton of news items today, but let's start.

Starting point is 00:01:19 Let's get going here with a couple of players who are on IR. J.K. Dobbins is on IR. He's out at least four weeks. Austin Eckler with a concussion. This one surprised me. He's on IR. He's out at least four games. They have a bye coming up, so four games. But Dobbins with the Falcons today,

Starting point is 00:01:35 Eckler with the Titans. Anyone to pick up in these situations? So I wanna make sure Kamani Vidal is rostered. Of course, obviously Gus Edwards. And I wanna make sure that Jeremy McN Vidal is rostered. Um, of course, obviously Gus Edwards, and I want to make sure that Jeremy McNichols is rostered because Brian Robinson dealing with an ankle injury, he's going to play today, but we don't know for sure how effective he's going to be. We've seen, uh, McNichols have success when Eckler was out in the past.

Starting point is 00:02:02 I think he's won 20 fantasy points with Adam in week four. McNichols have success when Eckler was out in the past. I think he's won 20 fantasy points with Adam on week four. Yeah, and Vidal is only 22% rostered. Gus Edwards has really struggled to run the football. So they might, maybe they turned to Vidal, maybe they turned to Haskins though, but yeah, pick up Kamani Vidal if you can. All right, so why don't we start with Brian Robinson?

Starting point is 00:02:20 He is gonna play, he has a really bad matchup, but he doesn't have Austin Eckler here. Eckler usually gets, I think about three, four targets a game. Um, do you, do you like Robinson more with Eckler out? Not really in this game. He's a low end RB to, I'd rather not start him terrible matchup. Okay. Uh, I don't understand. You know what, Heath,

Starting point is 00:02:44 I don't know why you have an echo. It's weird cause I don't understand. You know what Heath, I don't know why you have an echo. It's weird because I don't hear it, but everyone else does. So if you want, you can hop off and I'll, I can do it solo. Whatever you tell me is better. Yeah, I guess probably. Yeah, I guess probably hop off. All right. Sorry about that folks.

Starting point is 00:03:00 I will give this a shot. Okay, CD lamb is he hurt his shoulder, but he should be fine for next week. That's the good news. But if we look ahead to today's action here, and you can all let me know if I still have an echo, or if it was just Heath? I think it's just Heath.

Starting point is 00:03:17 Okay, so, all right. Cedric Tillman is out for Monday night. So that makes, I think that makes Jerry Judy a little bit better, although I do think it makes it a little more likely that he's gonna see Sir Tan, but I still think it makes him probably a borderline two, three wide receiver. Trevor Lawrence is expected to play.

Starting point is 00:03:36 So I think it's a great matchup for Trevor Lawrence. Houston's really been struggling. Jalen Petrie is out now, so they are beat up in the secondary, but I'm not gonna start Trevor Lawrence. This is really an Evan Ingram thing, and it's a Brian Thomas Jr. thing. It makes me feel a lot better about Evan Ingram. All right, Heath, I think Heath's gonna try again.

Starting point is 00:03:54 Heath, let's see. Yeah, I'm trying again. Got it? No? It was like a fist pump, and I didn't know if it was celebratory or not. All right, so anyway, I think I'm starting Evan Ingram now

Starting point is 00:04:10 and Brian Thomas Jr. I'm gonna start too. I'm a little bit worried about Trevor Lawrence leaving the game because he's not 100% but it's his left shoulder. But if he takes a big hit, you never know what could happen. I'm not gonna play scared though. I'm gonna be bold and I'm gonna just trust Trevor Lawrence to stay in the game and deliver for Brian Thomas Jr.

Starting point is 00:04:25 who I basically think is a must start wide receiver. The big one for me is obviously, and for everyone is this San Francisco Buffalo game. And there could be a ton of snow for this game. So check back with us. We're gonna have our live stream at 1130 AM Eastern and we'll see what the situation is there. We'll hopefully know a little bit better, but probably not.

Starting point is 00:04:44 But it's not looking good. And I don't trust Brock Purdy that much anyway. So we're obviously sitting Brock Purdy. There's just, you are not starting Brock Purdy. Who are you starting for the Bills to start with that? James Cook for sure, Josh Allen for sure. I would say Khalil Shakir. I would start him probably ahead of Jerry Judy,

Starting point is 00:05:04 definitely behind Brian Thomas But you know, it's not gonna be a big game We're not gonna start Dawson Knox or anything like that because Dalton Kincaid is not going to play not gonna trust to Mari Cooper or Keon Coleman, I'm not expecting good pass volume in this game. So it's Alan. It's cook and it's Khalil Shakir I think is kind of safe on San Francisco side McCaffrey is a start and then with Purdy playing you know this is a real toss up here. I have Joann Jennings in a few leagues and I'm probably gonna leave him in in one league and I think I'm gonna flex Brian Robinson June but I have to think about that. It's a full PPR league. Brian Robinson jr. is not someone I want to trust in this in

Starting point is 00:05:41 this tough matchup so Jennings it's to be a game time call for me at one o'clock between him and Brian Robinson Jr. in a PPR league. But that kind of tells you where I'm at with the 49ers passing game. I'm not super optimistic about it because not only is it going to be snowy, could be two to three feet of snow, but Trent Williams is out their left tackle. One thing to note, kind of a sneaky injury update is that Najee Harris and Jalen Warren have a much better matchup this week than we thought.

Starting point is 00:06:09 Sheldon Rankins is out defensive tackle with him off the field. The Bengals give up half a yard more per carry to running backs, but also Logan Wilson, their linebacker who plays every single snap, he is likely out. So that makes their run defense a lot worse. Trust Najee and Warren, you know, at your own risk. I don't think they're great stars, but they have a better matchup. Devante Smith is questionable. He's probably not going to play Tajay Spears is questionable. He's not really a huge

Starting point is 00:06:35 difference maker, but he makes Tony Pollard a little bit worse if he plays and Breece Hall is expected to play so you are going to start him. It's a good week for Heath to not be able to be on the show because there aren't a ton of for Heath to not be able to be on the show because there aren't a ton of tough calls in my opinion, just based on the injuries. There aren't a lot of injury updates for you. So we're gonna take a quick break here

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Starting point is 00:07:38 I said I was looking up some stats on Marvin Harrison Jr. And look, things people, we know what happens, right? Everyone throws on Minnesota, they give up a ton of fantasy points, second most fantasy points to wide receivers. Marvin Harrison Jr. has one catch this year for zero to two area yards. So think about like a wide receiver screen or anything at the line of scrimmage, one catch. He has eight catches of zero to five area yards. That is basically the lowest among any wide receiver that's a must start guy that hasn't missed time with injury.

Starting point is 00:08:11 So he gets no layups, he gets about six targets a game and I don't trust them to throw to him anymore, any more than six to seven times a game. If he gets more than that, it'll probably be great. But I'm gonna go with Darnell Mooney over Marvin Harrison Jr. JSN or Garrett Wilson in PPR? Pretty tough question.

Starting point is 00:08:27 Jets are a lot better against slot receivers than the last opponent. I think it was Cardinals that JSN faced, but I'm still gonna go with JSN. I'm gonna go with Garrett Wilson here. I'm gonna go with Garrett Wilson. One thing I'm pretty sure he'll get is targets. Will they be good targets?

Starting point is 00:08:42 I don't know, but I'm gonna go with Garrett Wilson. Hope he bounces back. Khalil Shakir, Brian Thomas Jr. I'm gonna go with Brian Thomas Jr. here. George Pickens or T Higgins in full PPR. That one is pretty darn close. I will go with George Pickens. James Connor or Marvin Harrison Jr.

Starting point is 00:09:03 Ooh, that's so important. In full PPR. I don't love James Connor or Marvin Harrison Jr. Ooh, that's so important. Full PPR. I don't love James Connor. Yeah, Philadelphia's got a really good run defense. Connor does catch a lot of passes though. He has 28 targets in his last seven games. He's coming off an absolutely terrible game. I am gonna say, let's go with James Connor on this one here. That's,

Starting point is 00:09:25 that's tough though. Look, I don't have rankings, so it's hard for me to just refer to them. So I apologize for the delays. Nick Chubb or Khalil Shakir. Nick Chubb or Khalil Shakir. I'm going to go with Khalil Shakir. You got Nick Chubb, who basically never catches the ball. And he's got a really tough run defense. This is a bad formula and this is a PPR league. It's a bad formula for Nick Chubb. Joe Burrow or Jaden Daniels. So Jaden Daniels scored about 20 fantasy points in the fourth quarter last week against Dallas. He's not quite playing well enough for me.

Starting point is 00:09:56 I think it's a pretty easy matchup, even though on paper, the Titans are really good against quarterbacks. They have lost so many pieces in their secondary important pieces. And they're one of the worst defenses over the last five weeks or so, as they've played some really tough teams.

Starting point is 00:10:08 So I think both these guys are gonna be good, but give me Joe Burrow, and I will read just a few here, just a few more. Khalil Shakir, Devante Adams, I'm gonna go with Devante Adams. Remember, the thing about Shakir is that most weeks he scores about 12 points. He's always giving you double digits,

Starting point is 00:10:23 but it's not an impressive one. And then Jonathan Taylor or James Connor PPR, another tough one here because Taylor never catches the ball, but I'm going to go with Taylor. I'm just a little worried about Connor. I know he could have a really good game. I'm thinking he's going to be about the 12 point range. He's so involved in the offense, but you know, Minnesota's run defense is no joke. So I'm going to go with with Jonathan Taylor here in a better matchup and hope that he scores. And then last one here is Anthony Richardson or Russell Wilson. Yeah, I'm going to take a chance here on Anthony Richardson.

Starting point is 00:10:58 I think, you know, like I said on the on the preview show, I think on Tuesday and on Wednesday said he had a lot of opportunities. They missed them against the Lions. I think we kind of saw the Lions defense get exposed a little bit against the Bears too after that. And if those opportunities are there again for Anthony Richardson against a bad New England defense, I think he'll hit on half of them.

Starting point is 00:11:20 And a lot of those are big plays. So give me Richardson over Russell Wilson. Thank you so much for watching everybody. I'm sorry this probably was not what you expected, but we'll have better advice for you at 1130 AM Eastern when Dave and Heath join me and we will talk to you then on Fantasy Football Today. Thanks a lot and good luck in week 13. The Paramount Podcast.

Fantasy Football Today - Week 13 Start or Sit (12/01 Fantasy Football Podcast)

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