The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Dr Roto Gives His NFL Week #12 Predictions

Episode Date: November 21, 2025

Dr Roto Gives His NFL Week #12 Predictions

Waiver claims have to be made And I've got trade proposals For lying my way My first round pick Turned out to be a big fly. I don't know which wide receiver I need to drop. Ooh, Dr. Roto, give me the news. I really don't know what I should do.

My quarterback keeps getting sacked. I've got a bad case of fantasy blues. It is the fastest 30 minutes in Major Market Radio. present to you, Dr. Roto, with us and with us today, and then back with us next Wednesday before the Turkey Day. Dr. Roto, first of all, good afternoon. Secondly, we were talking about this during the show today. Are the Texans a must play defensively regardless of opponent? Yeah, the defense is great. Wish the offense was nearly as good, but the defense is terrific. I mean, look, the bills have major issues. They don't, I mean, Shakir is probably

a number two in most teams. They don't have. number one. They can't stop the run. And they couldn't protect Josh Allen. Now, I know the Texans, you know, front seven is pretty darn good. But when you have those three issues, I mean, Josh Allen and James Cook are two great players, but they're not going to the Super Bowl yet again. And I thought the Texans looked really good last night. All right. So let's go to that. So if I knew the Texan, the Bill's runs defense was so bad, my partner here, Ross, who I'm playing with in fantasy football, went with Woody Marks yesterday. Seventy four yards is good. That's good for real-life NFL, but 7.4 from my running back is

underwhelming in fantasy perspective. It is. So what happens is that, you know, touchdowns are everything. So even if you play in a PPR format or a half point PPR, right? So you, let's say it's a full point PPR and Woody Marks goes for 74 yards and he catches one pass for 10 yards. It's not enough. It's not enough. You need that touchdown. So the problem with Woody Marks is he's not, you know,

some games he has scored touchdowns, other games he's been stopped in the one yard line, what, like 18 times it feels like? They run that same play in the one-yard line that doesn't work. So, you know, certain guys have value. Why does David Montgomery have value? He's not better than Gibbs, but he finds the end zone. So in fantasy, if you're trying to decide which player to start, always lean if it's 50-50 with the guy who you think is going to score.

All right. Game of the week in the NFL is Indianapolis at Kansas City. The Colts, Daniel Jones, looks human the last couple of weeks. How does he do against a Kansas City defense and who we sit in and start in that game? well he looks human because the offensive line's not been protecting him right so when he has time he's pretty good but he hasn't had any time to speak of and i don't think the chiefs are going to give him a lot of time look you're going to start jonathan taylor but this is not one of those jonathan taylor generational weeks right he's not going for 200 yards he'll be solid you know it's definitely playable i don't really love michael pitman i love tyler warren i think alec pierce is certainly in play

Josh Downs is in play. On the other side, Rishi Rice, Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelsey, stay far away from Chiefs running backs. Pacheco should be back. That's not necessarily a good thing. But I think Mahomes, Rice, and Kelsey are in play. I mean, this is desperation now time for the Chiefs. If they lose this one, I was listening on the radio today,

it's like 29% chance to make the playoffs. Yeah, it is a convoluted mess in the AFC. All right, a game that we wouldn't necessarily be overly concerned with, but because the Texans won yesterday, Can the Arizona Cardinals put up enough points against Jacksonville defense to make things interesting in Phoenix this week? Yeah, I mean, look, the Cardinals have been sensational for fantasy managers, right? Because they've been falling behind by so much that Berset, that that team, this lineup, M.T, the team that won the Draft King's Millionaire Maker last week was Berset, Dorch, Wilson, and McBride with Christian McCaffrey. That's crazy, right? Ross is laughing. It's true. And then they had Bijon and to try.

McMillan. I mean, that's got you paid. That's fed families last week. So do I think that happens this week? Probably not. We still love McBride. We still like Michael Wilson. Trey Benson's not back yet. We're hoping for next week for him, for Hampton, and for Bucky Irving. Hopefully all those guys come back next week. On the other side, ETN, I've been trying to see here. I'm not sure. Give me one second. I want to get this out. He's still questionable. If he doesn't go, I love Bachel Tootin. This kid looked really good last week before he left with an ankle injury. He's expected to play.

So Jacobi Myers is in play, and Tootin would absolutely be in play if he stands out. This Tootin guy was Ross's lock of the week, by the way, in fantasy football. Just give me a little heads up on that. That's not true, but I got my eye on some Tudin. He's been wanting to say that all day long, Dr. Roto. I'm just telling you that right now. Hey, New England and Cincinnati, can we get every single human being that we have on fantasy teams for these two? teams to score touchdowns because it feels like it could be a very high scoring affair it could be it could be

so look we're playing drake may right now travion henderson owners i'm sorry remandre stevenson is back this week my son has henderson he's upset i'm upset for him look stevenson is going to get at least a third of the touches and he's going to get the gold line touches so henderson's going to have to score those 18-yard touchdowns which he might be able to do against cincinnati they're that bad hunter henry i mean I don't know. I wouldn't make him a lock of the week, but he, I mean, Cincinnati is dreadful against opposing tight ends. He's in a good spot. So is Stefan Diggs on the other side. Is Joe Burrow going to go? I'm not sure. I know that Chase Brown is a great play, and I know that T. Higgins is a great play, especially Chase Brown. All right. Let's get to some NFC action.

No Jackson Dart for the Giants against Detroit. Am I scared about playing too many Detroit guys? because it could get up to a 28-0-0 lead, something big like that, and they reserve guys for the second half? Golf, yes. Montgomery, yes. Gibbs, yes. Sam Laporte is out for the year. I don't think Brock Wright is doing anything. So St. Brown and James and Williams, yes, yes.

I think they put up 40 on the Giants. I do. And look, could James Winston do something crazy and throw over 260 and maybe a couple touchdowns? Sure. And could Isaiah Hodgins get maybe eight for 80? Maybe. But who cares?

The lion's all in on the lions as well. Let's go to Philadelphia Dallas real quick before we get to the calls. Right. So basically what I was saying was Devontas Smith is in a really good spot this week because Dallas rolls out a lot of zone. But Dallas's one defense looked better last week, guys, Williams and Kenny Clark. So once again, I don't think this is a great Saquan-Barkley week. Hertz will have to play better if they want to win.

So maybe we finally get Hertz to Brown. I know we're going to get hurts to Devonta Smith.