Davante Adams is the first player to drop two touchdown passes, in the end zone, since Robert Royal in 2010. Adams caught two balls for 25 yards. It should have been four receptions and two scores. No joke, you’re 12 year old child could have caught both passes. I don’t care how cold it was. #MiserableEffort
Matt Barkley has a 10.7 yards per target this season, second best in football. He threw for 362 yards against the Packers, the most by a Bears quarterback in the matchup... ever.
Odell Beckham as 10 receiving scores since Week 5, the most in football. He, Randy Moss and John Jefferson are the only three wideouts in league history with 1,000/10 in each of their first three seasons.
LeGarrette Blount’s 15th rushing touchdown, a Patriots single season record, shouldn’t have happened. Could have sworn that Dion Lewis pushed the ball over the place of the goaline the previous play. Blount did nothing with 31 yards on 17 carries. As for Lewis he finally had a nice outing as he carried the ball 18 times for 95 yards (two grabs, nine yards).
Sammie Coates played 31 snaps in Week 15. He appeared just 19 snaps the previous five weeks. #FingerIsBetter
Amari Cooper caught one pass for 28 yards. I admit it. Been wrong about him for a month now. Shocking downturn from the wideout who has just vanished.
Charles Clay caught seven balls for 72 yards and a score against the sad-sack Browns. Clay has scored in 2-straight, his only two of the season, but this was his first effort of 55-yards since Week 5.
Stefon Diggs caught two passes for 13 yards. He stinks. He’s no different than the Tate’s and Landry’s of the world... here one week, gone the next. Diggs won’t be on any of my squads in 2017 unless things change in Minnesota, not unless his price is on the cheap.
Eric Ebron caught four balls for 36 yards, a fourth straight game under 40-yards. He last scored in Week 1. #SoMuchForTheBreakout
Julian Edelman saw 12 targets (six catches for 75 yards). Over his last five games he’s averaging 13.4 targets. #Volume
As he often does, Tyler Eifert vanished when you needed him most. In Week 15 Eifert caught one of three passes for nine yards. He entered the game with four scores his last three outings. Yes, that’s one more score the past three weeks than targets received in Week 15. In four of five outings he’s failed to reach 50-yards, and this effort was his second this season of less than 10-yards (Week 1).
Ezekiel Elliott has 13 rushing scores passing Tony Dorsett for most by a rookie in Cowboys history. He also leads the NFL with 1,551 rushing yards. Elliott has been fantastic in fantasy, but has he been on the field? According to PFF Elliott has averaged 0.11 missed tackles per carry. The league average is 0.138. #ThankYouTeammates
The Falcons allowed one pressure in Week 15 to the Niners. Matt Ryan picked apart the team from the Bay Area with 286 yards and two scores on just 23 pass attempts. #Beautiful
Larry Fitzgerald was solid yet again with seven receptions for 57 yards. Can you believe the last time he scored was Week 5?
Devonta Freeman ran for 139 yards and three scores. He broke three tackles on his nine yard run going full on #BeastMode That is one bad man with the ball in his hands. Tevin Coleman touched the ball 16 times but produced a mere 56 yards in a disappointing effort.
Mike Gillislee carried the ball nine times for 37 yards and a touchdown. That’s three scores in three games, five in six games and seven in nine outings. #TouchdownsAllThatMatter
Ryan Griffin went nuts Sunday catching all eight of his targets for 85 yards. Nearly all of that came in the second half when the Texans moved to Tom Savage at quarterback. Griffin’s value is still tied to the health of C.J. Fiedorowicz (concussion).
Derrick Henry only had nine carries, but he used them to run all over the Chiefs for 58 yards and two scores. He faces the Jags next week, a team he went for 16-60-1 against earlier this season. You can’t start him as anything more than a touchdown or bust flex because he just doesn’t see enough work, but when called up to support DeMarco Murray the rookie has been the #Ballz.
Tim Hightower isn’t a better football player than Mark Ingram. He’s just not. Doesn’t matter if he keeps getting deployed at the goaline though. Hightower scored twice despite producing 48 yards on 12 touches as he was lapped in yards and touches (Ingram had 92 yards on 19 touches). Still, it was Hightower with two rushing scores.
Jeremy Hill has carried the ball 20 times and scored in each of the last three games. Week 15 was brutal though as he produced just 43 yards on 20 carries in an effort that included not one, not two, but three goaline stuffs for the former rushing star. #GottaBeBetter
Tyreek Hill appeared on just 30-of-58 offensive snaps (51.7 percent of the Chiefs plays). He didn’t catch a single pass seeing a mere three targets as Jeremy Maclin returned to being... Jeremy Maclin as the vet caught six balls for 82 yards. Hill scored on a 68 yard carry though, so his owners still got an amazing amount out of his lone touch. #Lucky
Jordan Howard ran for 90 yards and a score, and caught four passes for 23 yards against the Packers. That’s 7-straight outings of at least 77 rushing yards for Howard. #WhyAreFolksStillAskingAbouStartingHim
Carlos Hyde ran for 71 yards on 13 carries against the Falcons. That’s five games in a row with at least 65 yards on the ground. In those five his average effort has been: 101.4 yards on just 82 carries, a mere 13.7 carries a game. #UberProductivePerTouch
Alshon Jeffery caught six balls for 89 yards and a score in his first game back from suspension. That was his first score since Week 15.
David Johnson became the first player in NFL history to produce 100-yards from scrimmage each of his first 14-games in a season. He has 16 touchdowns, one short of the club record set in 1962 by John David Crow. Johnson scored twice and caught four passes for 55 yards (53 rushing).
Duke Johnson ran for 31 yards on five carries. Isaiah Crowell still saw more carries, eight, even though he didn’t produce again (28 yards). Duke also caught five balls for 62 yards. Why the Browns continue to give more looks to Crowell is beyond this scribe.
Colin Kaepernick threw for 183 yards and two scores while rushing for 21 yards on three carries. In 5-of-6 games Colin has failed to throw for 215 yards. He’s also been under 185 passing yards in 3-straight.
Travis Kelce had 4-straight games with 100 receiving yards. He caught three balls for 41 yards in Week 15. Some home? He went for 8-101 the last time the Chiefs met the Broncos who are the matchup in Week 16.
Brandon Marshall saw 11 targets. He caught one pass and dropped two. #Useless By the way, heading into SNF, there were five men who saw 11 targets: Marshall, Demaryius Thomas Jordan Matthews, Willie Snead and J.J. Nelson. None reached 95-yards and only one was over 80 (Thomas seven for 91 yards).
LeSean McCoy has four games this season with 100-yards and two rushing scores. No one has had more since Chris Johnson did it six times in 2009.
Jerick McKinnon caught nine balls for 59 yards. That’s 15 receptions in two games for McKinnon and 20 in three outings. #HeyItsSomething
Ty Montgomery went for 162 rushing yards on 16 carries as he also scored twice in a massive day. Those numbers were augmented by seven missed tackles, a big-time number. I watched the game and was struck by the number of arm tackles the Bears attempted. Ty might have broken the tackles, but the Bears tackling technique was extremely suspect. #GreatGameBut
Adrian Peterson played 12 snaps carrying the ball six times for 22 yards. If you played him and you got burned it’s all on you. #IWarnedYouAll
Bilal Powell ran for 5.3 YPC in Week 15. He didn’t have a carry over 13 yards in a very solid rushing effort.
Terrelle Pryor is no longer startable in any fantasy format. In two games with RGIII under center he’s caught five balls for 22 yards. He needs 123 yards the final two games for 1,000. He’ sgot a jacked up finger now too. #HeMayNotGetThere
The Ravens gave 32 snaps to Kyle Juszczyk. Of course they did. Terrance West had 26, Kenneth Dixon 15. They also changed course and gave West 17 touches and Dixon a mere six. #MakesNoSense
Thomas Rawls had 21 carries against the Rams leading to 34 yards. He produced (-10) yards before contact as his offensive line performed as poorly as any in the modern era of football.
Allen Robinson caught two balls for 15 yards, his fourth effort in five games under 30-yards. #FlabbergastingIneptitude
Ben Roethlisberger simply couldn’t beat the Bengals as he hit just 21 of 36 passes for 286 yards and a score. That’s one touchdown pass in two games and three games, out of his last five, with one or zero scores.
Sterling Shepard has five scores in seven games after scoring in Week 15. He hasn’t hit 60-yards since Week 3 though.
Dion Sims (two scores) and Erik Swoope (score) were top plays at tight end in Week 15. Hence the state of the tight end position.
Golden Tate caught eight balls for 122 yards and a better pass from Matthew Stafford on one of the passes would have led to a score. That pushes his three game average to seven receptions and 108 yards. #FinishingStrong
Michael Thomas went 7-52-1, the score his eighth receiving touchdown of the season to tie a Saints rookie record.
Robert Turbin only carried the ball seven times for 32 yards but he scored twice against the Vikings with one of the runs being a tackle breaking, impressive effort. Frank Gore still carried the ball 26 times for 101 yards while catching four passes, so he still produced even with Turbin stealing the goaline work.
The Vikings vaunted defense, uh huh, wasn’t able to generate a sack in Week 15 against a decimated Colts offensive line. They are generated one measly hit. Andrew Luck went for 250 yards (21-for-28) and two scores, exactly the level of production that should have been expected, even as it seemed like ALL OF YOU wanted to bench him.
Sammy Watkins caught one pass for 10 yards. #WTF
Carson Wentz threw for 170 yards and a pick. There are flashy of excellence with the athletic QB, but that’s two touchdown passes and six interceptions in four games for the rookie. Also, he has a 33.8 QB Rating when under pressure. If he had simply thrown the ball away on every one of those plays, his QB Rating would be 39.6.
Are dinosaurs real? The Rams William Hayes does not believe so. This is a rather hilarious video with Jimmy Kimmel.
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