John Norton ("The Guru") and Gary Davenport ("The Godfather of IDP") are two of the most experienced and knowledgeable IDP analysts in the fantasy football industry.

With Thanksgiving in the rearview mirror and Week 13 already well underway, it's do-or-die time for quite a few IDP managers. Start the right guys and get a win this week, and hopes of the postseason remain alive. Set a lineup full of duds and take a loss, and the party's over. There will be no playoffs in 2025.

We can't have that, now can we?

Giving Thanks

IDP managers are still shaking off the tasty turkey tryptophan, and by Sunday, we'll be four games deep into Week 13.

But before Christmas takes over the world, Thanksgiving gets one more shot. Three months into the 2025 campaign, which IDP are you most thankful for? Who left you with heartburn and a sense of regret only a third plate can bring?

Guru: I am most thankful for the resurgence of Las Vegas Raiders linebacker Devin White. Because I am a Bengals fan by birth and a Raiders fan by choice, I took particular interest in White during training camp when it looked like he was emerging. During draft season, he was the guy I targeted and got in the late rounds of several drafts. I'm thankful that his surprising top-10 performance helped make up for some of those early-round blunders.

One of those early-round blunders was Edgerrin Cooper, who I expected to take a seat at the elite linebacker table. He started well but has fallen off the face of the earth over the last few weeks. Granted, it makes me feel a little better to finally learn that nagging injuries are a big factor in his decline, but that is no consolation on the scoreboard or in the standings.  

Godfather: The first part of this one is easy for me. I don't have as many shares of him as I should, but I'm thankful just to have the opportunity to watch Cleveland Browns edge-rusher Myles Garrett play. After terrorizing Norton's Raiders in Week 12 to the tune of three sacks, Garrett has 18 for the season—in 11 games. If Garrett comes close to keeping up this torrid pace, he's going to obliterate the single-season sack record—and win Defensive Player of the Year honors.

Minnesota Vikings edge-rusher Jonathan Greenard has missed the past two games, but that's only a fraction of the reason why the 28-year-old has been a massive letdown this year. In each of the past two seasons, Greenard has logged at least a dozen sacks. He was a top-five fantasy defensive lineman in 2024. But much like the team he plays for, the bottom has fallen out for Greenard in 2025—just two sacks in nine contests.

Line-ing Up a Win

All right—it's time to shake off the food coma and get to work.

Which defensive lineman will roar in from leftover-land to provide delicious sustenance to IDP managers in Week 13? Who will be the player who disappoints like what looked like regular stuffing until you realized oysters were in it?

Seriously. Oysters? On Turkey Day? Anarchy.

Guru: It's OK to bring out the Christmas stuff now that Thanksgiving is over, right? I'm not sure where leftover-land is, but I'll enjoy watching Tuli Tuipulotu light up the stat sheet like a Christmas tree while I'm munching on cold turkey and microwaved green bean casserole. The Raiders' offensive line is in shambles. They were not all that good to begin with. Now, the starting left side is on IR, and some of the others are gimpy, including the replacements. They gave up 10 sacks to Cleveland last week. I'm not expecting Geno to go down that many times, but there will be plenty of sacks to go around. It doesn't hurt that the edge position averages 10 tackles versus Las Vegas, either.

Who puts oysters in stuffing? Yuck! That's almost as nasty as starting an edge defender like Andrew Van Ginkel of the Vikings against the Seahawks. There have been few worse matchups over the last several weeks. Seattle has allowed two sacks in their last four games combined, and they have not surrendered more than two in a game since week four. Factor in that their opponents' edge guys have averaged fewer than seven combined tackles, and it is hard to imagine much production from Van Ginkel in this one.

Godfather: The Tennessee Titans have been bad in just about every way a team can be bad this season. That includes protecting rookie quarterback Cam Ward, although he shares at least some of the blame for the league-high 45 sacks the team has surrendered. Josh Hines-Allen of the Jacksonville Jaguars had a miserable first half of the season, but the seventh-year veteran has had sacks in back-to-back games and will make it three in a row on Sunday.

After watching Josh Allen get sacked eight times a week ago in Houston, it might seem a little weird to call the Buffalo Bills a bad IDP matchup. But before last week's implosion, Buffalo was averaging just two sacks allowed per game. Pittsburgh Steelers edge-rusher T.J. Watt is an every-week must-start, but don't be surprised if Allen turns out to quite a bit harder to sack in Week 13.

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