The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Dr Roto Gives His NFL Week #13 Predictions

Episode Date: November 26, 2025

Dr Roto Gives His NFL Week #13 Predictions

Ooh, 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 flop. I don't know which wide receiver I need to drive. Oh, 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 sports radio. We present to you the good doctor on the sports talk 790. 713, 212, 5790. If you want to join the conversation, 713, 2,1, 2, 5, 790. Good, Doctor, we got three, well, two really interesting games. One's mid, but nevertheless, we've got to get our fantasy teams ready because we are down the home stretch for the postseason. Good point, MT.

Happy early Thanksgiving to you and yours. There's the 1 o'clock game. It's been moved to 12 from 1230 to 1, in case people are remembering those 1230 games forever. Love that Packers-Lions matchup. Chiefs Cowboys should be a really good. one, Cowboys surprised people last week, surprised me for sure. And then Bengals, Ravens, start your Ravens tight ends because every tight end does well against the Bengals. But I'm with

you. I would think in the Lions Packers game, take a real close look, obviously at Gibbs and take a look at David Montgomery. St. Brown is in play. Don't love James Williams as much in this one. For Green Bay, I like Romeo Dobbs a ton. Josh Jacobs is expected back. So I think those are your two main guys there. Chiefs Cowboys, I think this is one where look for names we haven't heard from in a while, maybe like a Xavier Worthy, Pacheco is due back, Hollywood Brown, Dallas runs out a lot of mixes their coverage up a little bit. I could see Worthy against Dallas's man coverage doing well. For Dallas, you got to be it on CD Lamb. He was awful last week, right? He knows it. Schottenheimer knows it. Jerry Jones knows it. Everybody

knows it. He'll be better this week. So you don't want to count. him out. Hickens is good to go. Adam Schaefter gave him the blessing. He's going to play. Giovante Williams has been good no matter the matchup, which is interesting. And now under your side, we're going to see Joe Burrow. Surprisingly, he's back. It doesn't feel like there's any reason that he needs to get out there. But he should be fine. Jamar Chase is going to play. T. Higgins is out. So everybody out there needs to know that. Mike Jaseki is a really great start if you're looking for a tight end because it always seems like he plays well when there's only one of those receivers there.

All right. There is a complete rundown of the games. And we've got other specific questions we can get to Dr. Roto in just a couple of minutes. Look, I had Jemir Gibbs. The man who chose Sequin Barclay first over Jemir Gibbs is very upset.

Hey, man, why are we going to call this out right now? Let's move on. What pick did you have in the draft draft Ross? I don't remember four or something, five maybe. I did Sequan over Gibbs, yes. I know I was worried about David Montgomery Oh yeah

Let's not do that again Gibbs might be the number outside He could be the number one player in fantasy Honestly all right thank you for bringing it up That is such music to my ears Thank you Roto for that so very much Well you know I wanted to let somebody else win Roto I was back to back to back champions

You can't win four in a row The arrogance that is unbelievable What arrogance? Yeah I just talked about how stupid of a draft picked I made Yeah, but then you need to bring up the four-time champions or whatever you were. Yeah, so you're zero time, but that's all right. One for the thumb.

Hey, so the Ravens have won five straight games, and we were just talking before you joined us about we think they're going to win the NFC North. Are we seeing a significant uptick in everybody than Lamar has been back there, or is it just more about just Lamar being back there and putting up his normal numbers? I think we're forgetting the defense. The defense is finally healthy, right? Roquan Smith is missing games, the guys and the secondary were missing games. they were a complete and utter mess. So when the Ravens don't have that imposing defense and Lamar, as we know, was injured,

they just couldn't find themselves. But luckily, they're in a division of honestly some bad teams. Cincinnati's terrible. How does Zach Taylor have a job? Does anybody know? Because I don't. Cleveland, I mean, they're rolling out Chedore Sanders who actually look good against the Raiders,

if that's even possible. And then you have the Steelers who, I mean, are just back and forth. Some weeks the defense is good. Some weeks the defense is bad. I mean, Aaron Rogers is done. They don't throw the ball to their wide receiver. So Baltimore is likely going to win the AFC North,

and I don't know if they're a great team or not, but it doesn't even matter. 713-212-5-7-90. We'll get your questions in for Dr. Roto coming up in the next segment. All right, bears and Eagles. Everybody jumped in and watched the Eagles get out of the 21-0 lead, and then Pickens and Prescott did their thing. There were some turnovers in the mix.

are we a little nervous about Eagles position players against Chicago on Black Friday? Not at all. I think that Eagle game was just a little shocking. I mean, Saquan fumbling. You saw so many fumbles in Dallas just seem to get more confidence. The Bears

are not great. They are a week. Were they eight and three? They're a week eight and three. I mean, they've gotten lucky in some of these games. The luck has to run out, and it runs out against an Eagles defense, which is terrific. I think they're going to smother Caleb Williams. The One guy who I think is really interesting for the Bears is Kyle Monong guy.

This guy looks like he's shot out of a cannon. So the more they can get him the football, the better they can run the bears, the more chance they have. But I don't see it. I think A.J. Brown has a good week. I think Dallas Goddard has a good week. I think Sequin could finally have a good week for Ross. It feels like it's been all season for this since we've even said that.

But I think the Eagles win this game by, I don't know, seven to ten. You brought up Shador Sanders. Are we starting to use some Browns players now with him back there? It felt like it was a very fast start, but a cool finish for the Browns offensively. Well, I mean, look, what happens is by this point, just bad teams, you're able to take advantage of bad teams. The Raiders are awful.

I mean, really awful. And to make matters worse, I don't know if people saw this. Ashton Genti got injured, like on the last series. Somebody, please tell me why he was even out there. I don't know. But there's a chance he could miss this week. So getting back to Sanders, yeah, he looked good. He threw a five-yard pass to Dillard.

Samson, who ran the ball like 70 yards for a touchdown. I mean, he at least threw the ball to his wide receivers, which Dylan Gabriel hasn't done yet at this point. I mean, are they playable? I don't think so. I think the 49ers are really good. I think the 49ers may be honestly one of the top three teams in the NFC West behind the Eagles and behind the Rams.

Speaking of the Rams, I go to Charlotte this week. Did the Panthers become human last Monday after a loss against the Niners, Dr. Roto? You know, the problem with the Panthers is this. They want to run the football. But you have to stop the run. When I was watching the game with my son, he was home for Thanksgiving, we're watching the game. Carolina didn't even get the ball for the first 10 minutes of the first quarter. My son said, I think Carolina's going to have the ball twice in the first half.

Didn't it seem that way? If you can't control time of possession, you can't win. I love Rico Dowdle and fantasy. When Carolina is controlling the line of scrimmage, when they're running the ball well, Rico Dattel's like a 20 to 30 point player. When he doesn't, Rico Dattle is going to get like six. to eight points. Against the Rams, the Rams control the line of scrimmage.

Stafford has been amazing. Puka Naku has been amazing. So be very careful with your Panthers players this week. I wouldn't play Bryce Young. I don't really want to play RICO Douddle. Tertoya McMillan is a great receiver, but I just think this is a really tough matchup. You've got Adams, who's a must start.

You've got Kairn Williams, who's a must start. Puka and Matthew Stafford is having an MVP season. All right, let's get to the local game. Texans and Colts. The Colts literally, I think we I had a report around from Indianapolis yesterday that the running back, Jonathan Taylor, ran the ball one time in the fourth quarter. Shane Stocken can't do that two weeks in a row, correct? Oh, no, not at all. I mean, you know, Malik neighbors got caught by saying some crazy things and they had to delete the post, but he wasn't wrong.

It's like, why are teams doing crazy things at the end of games? Why were the Giants throwing the ball at the end of the fourth quarter? Why were the Colts not giving the ball to Jonathan Taylor? Does anybody know? I mean, sure. I don't care if Kansas City was playing good run defense. You still give the ball to Taylor because all he needs is a crease to go and make a big play. This is a really good football game.

I think a lot here is going to depend on Woody Marks, our friend Woody Marks, and Nico Collins. But right now, I think it's harder to throw on the Colts than ever. Kenny Mort is back in the slot. Sauce Gardner is there. Charvarius Ward is there. That's tough. I think the Texans, I don't see a pathway to success unless, one, they pressure Daniel Jones all game long, and two, Woody Marks gets really involved in this offense. Because I can see Nico being shut down.

Sauce Gardner is a tough matchup.