The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Dr Roto Gives His NFL Week #14 Predictions

Episode Date: December 5, 2025

Dr Roto Gives His NFL Week #14 Predictions 

You're so shameless. The 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. 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. And Ross, did you know that Dr. Ordo, besides being the number one fantasy football expert in America, is an accomplished volleyball player and coach? How about that? I did not know that. How about that, Rodo? It's awesome. It's a great sport.

The tournament's getting fired up. Isn't it? This weekend? Yes. Rodo, how the hell are you? I'm doing great. I was so proud of your daughter. I'm kidding.

You'd be a starting center at URI. I hope so. We got to get her day. Our goal is to be 8-10 freshman of the year. We're going to work on that for next year. We've got to get up there first. No pressure. right, no pressure.

All right, let me ask you this because I think the Cowboys are toast the rest of the way, and there's other teams that are already long set and done. How are we feeling generally speaking about the Vegas of the world, the Jets, some of our fantasy football players that are long out of the playoffs?

Can we still thrive on them on Sundays? Are we worried as hell about how ambitious they are? Like, I'll give an example. George Pickens last night against the Detroit Lions. Man, didn't it look like he was jogging in the field? I mean, there was a play at the end back through that bomb. He just laid up. I mean, I don't know whether he's injured. I'm not

sure what's going on. But when you want a big contract, which we know Pickens does, you can't be doing stuff like that. So I think you ask a really great question. So years ago on Sirius XM Fantasy Sports Radio, I had Jake Ariens on Bruce Ariens' son. And I was talking about, you know, our teams trying for next year's top pick. He goes, players don't think that way. Players want to win, right? Even if they haven't won a game all year. Nobody wants to lose. So I think the key is in fantasy. Look, is Ashton Genty still a good fantasy player? He is. He's just on a bad team. I think what you're going to see as we move forward are these incentives. And I know that happens a lot in week 17 and 18. If this guy gets a certain number of yards, he gets an extra

$250,000, extra $500,000. You got to pay attention to those things. So when I see those things, I'll certainly bring them up on air for people because that'll help deciding who to start. But obviously, this is why when we draft early in August, we want players on good teams because players on the bad teams like the Jets, they're not going far. All right. Speaking of two teams that had lousy weekends last Sunday, Pittsburgh was atrocious in the second half. Baltimore kept turning the ball over.

How do we feel about anybody in skill positions between the Steelers and the Ravens this week? You're going to laugh at me. I think I told you last week I liked Carolina to play well against the Rams, and they did. I think Lamar Jackson's got great. week. I do. I think he's going to have a great week. Just when you bury guys, just when you think that they're going to do nothing, they start to do something. Now, Pittsburgh also plays a lot of single high man coverage, and that's Zay Flowers loves that. So Lamar does Azee feels like something that's going to win people money this week in DFS. I think Lamar is a good play. Mark Andrews is a good play.

Derek Henry's a good play. On the other side, I don't really love any Steelers. I mean, maybe D.K. Metcalfe, but I don't love it. Maybe Jailen Warren. But I think I think Baltimore rolls on this one. I'm hoping you're right about Zay Flowers. He got me a minus 4.4. I've been better used just forgetting about the position and getting zero as compared to my I mean had two fumble. Terrible. It's terrible.

I digress. Indianapolis and Jacksonville did you see what Jonathan Taylor didn't do against the Texans defense this past week and what does that mean for this week at Jacksonville? I think there's going to be a really good game. It's one of the highest scoring games on the slate

and look, they have to feed Jonathan Taylor. He hasn't had one of those three touchdown weeks in a long time, right? So maybe he gets won this week, but I think this will be a competitive game. Daniel Jones in play. I really like Michael Pittman this week, and I really like Tyler Warren, and I like Taylor. On the other side, will we ever see a Brian Thomas Jr. game? This could be it. There's no Sauce Gardner, so there should be no excuses. And also Brent and Strange, Indianapolis, very soft against the tight end. Strange has been terrific since he's been back from the IR.

I like him a lot. Cincinnati shocked the world and knocked off the Ravens last Sunday on Thanksgiving. They're going to Buffalo this week. First of all, where are we on T. Higgins? And how do you like this matchup between these two teams? Yeah, last I saw T. Higgins is expected to play. So that's a great thing. So you've got Cincinnati firing on all its cylinders.

Now, the other thing is Buffalo without two key defensive players. So, Terrell Bernard, their best linebacker is out, and Joey Bosa is out. So you're not going to get the pass rush. You're not going to get some tackling. I think there's going to be a wide open game. So let's talk about the players you want. You want Josh Allen. You want James Cook.

You want Shakir. I'm hoping that Dalton Kincaid comes back. If he comes back, he's a must-play Cincinnati is the worst team in the league against opposing tight ends. If not, I'd play Dawson Knox, no problem. On the other side, Burrow, great start. Chase Brown, great start. Higgins, Chase, load up this game.

This game is in the 50s. It's the highest scoring game on the slate. I think it can end up in the 60s. Wow. All right. Jane Daniels, sounds like he's back for the commanders. Will it make a difference for them at Minnesota? I think, look, it'll make a difference, and he's certainly back. I think it helps Debo Samuel.

I mean, Jack Ertz, Terry McLaren. This could be a wide-old. open game because you have two defenses that haven't been great. So the question is, everybody's done well against the commander's defense. Can J.J. McCarthy? Because if he can, then, I mean, isn't Justin Jefferson finally in play? We haven't seen Justin Jefferson do anything in quite some time. I think another guy is really sneaky as Jordan Mason if Aaron Jones is out and he's not a sure thing. So I love Justin Jefferson. I potentially love Jordan Mason. On the other side, I'm with you on Daniels. I'm with you on McLaurin, Debo Samuel, and Zacherts. I'll stay away from Chris Rodriguez.

We as America, except for the windy city, Roto, are waiting for the Chicago Bears burst, bubble to burst. Is it happening in Green Bay this Sunday? Yeah, I think it bursts. I do. So right now, Kyle Monong guy is questionable. Romo Dunez is questionable. He's a little bit more doubtful than questionable. But so a sneaky start is, I like Luther Burden. I think he's interesting in this one. I obviously like DeAndre Swift. On the other side, one of my locks the week, it's not no lock of the week, but it's close.

I think Josh Jacobs has a game. I think he has a game. I think he scores. I think Green Bay is a better team. Chicago has been, is extremely well-coached, and they're schemed up, but they're not really that good. I don't know how they're doing it.

I really don't. So I like Jacobs this week. I like Christian Watson. I like Romeo Dobbs. And like I said, burden might be a DFS flyer. This game between Philly and the Chargers on Monday night is so intriguing. Chargers want to keep momentum and keep solidify their spot in the AFC Waldcard.

Philadelphia has been mid for about six or seven weeks. We don't like West teams going east. How do we feel about East teams going west? And can Jalen Hertz with get that mojo back for that Eagles offense this Monday night? I don't know. This game feels messy to me because you have two good defensive teams. of good offensive players, but look, Justin Herbert's not 100%, that's for sure. I expect Hampton to be back and I expect him to be integrated in that offense

and running the football with Vidal. I like Ladd-McConkie a little bit, but do I lack any of these receivers? Gadsden McConkey, Keenan Allen, you start them, but this is not one of those boom weeks, right? This is one of those games where it's like, I don't know, 24, 21, 21, something a little ugly like that. On the other side, I don't know whether A.J. Brown makes a big play. I do like Barclay a little bit. You always play Jalen Hertz, but man, it's so hard to watch Jalen Hurts. If they got rid of the tush push, I mean, this guy would be a below average quarterback. All right. Now, 713, 212-5-790. If you got a question for Roto, 7-1-3-212-5-790, we'll take those in the second

segment. Houston Texans defense, best defense they've had maybe in the history of the franchise. worst at the second best of the very worst. They are playing hot. They're beating up on good teams. Their second quarterbacks, Buffalo, Indianapolis, an impressive run as of late. But going to Kansas City, different animal, cool weather. Mahomes having a great season, but he's

got a decimated offensive line. I've set it up for your, Roto. Forgetting about the end result in who you like or don't like in terms of winning the game, who we playing and who we sit in between the Texans and the Kansas City Chiefs. Yeah, you don't want to start Texan running backs.

Okay, if they are going to win this game, I think it has to be with C.J. Stroud. And then it has to be with Nico Collins. Dolan Schultz has been great. And by the way, Jaden Higgins is coming into his own. He's looked pretty darn good recently. So I think all those guys are in play. You're not going to start Woody. You're certainly not going to start Nick Chub.

Just don't even think about those through that for a chub. But if the Texans can just stop the chief's pass rush and give Stroud a little time, Stroud, Collins, Schultz Higgins are all potentially. decent starts. On the other side, easy-peasy. Mahomes, yes, Rice, yes, Kelsey, yes. Forget Cream Hunt, forget Pacheco. Were these on the borderline, if you like to have one of those, you know, Sunday night, Monday games, I have no problem starting him. But I think this is, this game is all about defense. It's all about tactical, you know, maybe more punts than we're used to. So sadly, this is not a boom fantasy game. This is more like field position, field

goal, you know, Fairbant, Butker, guys like that. So be careful starting too many guys in this game. So you think it's going to be low-scoring? I think that all of America at this point thinks it can be a low-scoring game.