Week 12 Matchups + In-or-Out, All Chewed Up

Summary

Fantasy Footballers Podcast Summary
Episode: Week 12 Matchups + In-or-Out, All Chewed Up
Release Date: November 22, 2019
Hosts: Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, Mike "The Fantasy Hitman" Wright

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1. Introduction and Early Discussions (00:00 - 05:00)

The episode kicks off with a lighthearted discussion about Tesla's Cybertruck reveal. The hosts share their opinions on Elon Musk's presentation, particularly focusing on the notorious incident where the truck's supposedly "unbreakable" windows shattered during a live demonstration.

Notable Quote:
Jason Moore [02:22]: "If he was a magician, the audience member would literally be sawed in half. They would. They would have died."

2. Recap of Recent Games and Player Performances (05:00 - 12:00)

The hosts delve into the recent performance of the Indianapolis Colts, highlighting Jonathan Williams' standout game with over 100 rushing yards and a touchdown. They critique Ty Hilton's limited involvement and unfortunate drops, contrasting it with DeAndre Hopkins' performance.

Notable Quotes:
Mike Wright [04:16]: "Well, I got that part right. But to be fair, I. Look, I was not in on Jonathan Williams at all."
Andy Holloway [05:00]: "Yes, for the Colts, for the Colts were a disaster."

3. Injury Updates and In-or-Out Decisions (12:00 - 22:00)

The discussion transitions to important injury updates affecting fantasy lineups. James Conner is officially ruled out due to injury, while Benny Snell shows promise by practicing without limitations. The Rams' wide receivers, including Brandon Cooks and Robert Woods, have varying statuses affecting their availability for next week's games.

Notable Quotes:
Jason Moore [08:33]: "Well, it's official."
Andy Holloway [09:24]: "That would be a Debo Samuel. That's what I'm saying."

4. Week 12 Matchup Forecasts (22:00 - 57:00)

This segment covers eight key matchups for Week 12, providing detailed analysis and recommendations for fantasy players. The hosts debate whether to start or sit players based on their performances, matchups, and potential upside.

a. Broncos vs. Bills: Josh Allen vs. Brandon Allen

The hosts discuss the tough decision between starting Josh Allen, the top fantasy QB, against a formidable Broncos defense, or pivoting to Baker Mayfield with perceived higher upside.

Notable Quote:
Jason Moore [14:40]: "I don't think it's a forced pivot, but when you have that choice, it's a little bit difficult."

b. Lions vs. Redskins: Jeff Driscoll vs. Dwayne Haskins

Analyzing the Redskins' offensive struggles, the hosts recommend starting Terry McLaurin over struggling quarterbacks like Dwayne Haskins.

Notable Quote:
Mike Wright [19:04]: "So no, they're not. And they Dwayne Haskins needs to throw Terry McLaurin the ball."

c. Seahawks vs. Eagles: Carson Wentz vs. Russell Wilson

With Carson Wentz facing a Cowboys defense and Russell Wilson leading the Seahawks against the Eagles, the discussion centers on the reliability and matchup advantages of each quarterback.

Notable Quote:
Andy Holloway [29:45]: "I think they're going to try and maybe they won't be able to get it going, but they're going to try to focus on the run here."

d. Cowboys vs. Patriots: Dak Prescott vs. Tom Brady

A critical analysis of whether to start Dak Prescott, who is excelling, over the unpredictable Tom Brady facing a staunch Patriots defense.

Notable Quote:
Mike Wright [42:28]: "Yes, I would [play Dak over Brady]."

e. Packers vs. 49ers: Aaron Rodgers vs. Jimmy Garoppolo

Examining Aaron Rodgers' performance against a top-tier 49ers defense, the hosts debate the potential for Rodgers to exceed expectations.

Notable Quote:
Jason Moore [43:02]: "I never put it quite like that, but I did today. So you would play Dak over Brady?"

f. Ravens vs. Rams: Lamar Jackson vs. Jared Goff

The powerhouses Lamar Jackson and Jared Goff are discussed, with Lamar's exceptional performance this season putting him in a top-three QB spot, making Jared Goff a less favorable option.

Notable Quote:
Jason Moore [54:33]: "Lamar is incredible this season. He's in a top three quarterback seven of 10 games."

5. Ballers on a Budget: Value Picks for Fantasy (57:00 - 62:34)

The hosts introduce the "Ballers on a Budget" segment, highlighting low-cost players who offer significant upside for fantasy managers looking to save cap space without sacrificing potential points.

Notable Picks:

• Mitchell Trubisky: Recommended as a value quarterback at just $7,000 on FanDuel, especially favorable against a weak defensive opponent.
• Benny Snell: Suggested as a budget-friendly running back option for his expected increased workload against the Steelers.

Notable Quote:
Andy Holloway [59:13]: "Mitchell Trubisky, what is a good DFS play this week? His splits between top 10 passing defenses and bottom 10 passing defenses..."

6. Closing Remarks and Community Engagement (62:34 - End)

The episode wraps up with acknowledgments to sponsors like Pristine Auction and promotions for the podcast's community platforms, encouraging listeners to join their Discord server and follow them on social media for real-time updates.

Notable Quote:
Andy Holloway [63:57]: "Thank you for listening to another episode of the fantasy footballers podcast."

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Key Takeaways:

• Player Evaluations: Emphasis on starting consistent performers like Jonathan Williams and Terry McLaurin, while cautioning against volatile players with limited upside.

• Injury Monitoring: Critical to adjust lineups based on the latest injury reports, especially with key players like James Conner ruled out.

• Matchup Importance: Strong focus on analyzing player matchups against defenses to maximize fantasy points potential.

• Value Picks: Encouragement to leverage budget-friendly players for strategic advantages in fantasy leagues.

• Community Engagement: Active promotion of the podcast's online communities for enhanced listener interaction and support.

This comprehensive summary encapsulates the episode's core discussions, providing valuable insights for both seasoned fantasy football enthusiasts and newcomers looking to optimize their lineups for Week 12.

Transcript

[Andy Holloway]

Foreign to the Fantasy Footballers podcast. Coming to you from Pristine Auction.com Studios with your hosts, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore and Mike Wright.

[Jason Moore]

Oh, welcome in yet another exciting episode of the show on the the way. Andy, Mike and Jason, the fantasy footballers with you for Friday, November 22nd. We've got fantasy forecasts, we have some news for you. Injury updates, ballers on a budget, shenanigans. I'm sure of it. And the comfort of knowing that there is no way that this show could possibly be more awkward than the.

[Mike Wright]

Come on.

[Andy Holloway]

Why are we starting the show?

[Jason Moore]

I don't know. I do. Because we experienced it together. I know not everybody's in that world. I had never watched a Tesla product reveal, but you guys know, for years I've been like, oh, you know, it'd be so cool if they came out with a truck.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, still would. Still would be pretty cool.

[Jason Moore]

Oh, and then if you didn't see it, the Tesla cybertruck reveal yesterday, Elon Musk and all of his social anxiety, glory or whatever it is with presenting. They decided to do some on stage demos of this new tough.

[Mike Wright]

It is how tough the problem is the windows are actually made out of the same DNA of James Connor.

[Jason Moore]

Thank you for tying it together, Michael.

[Mike Wright]

You are welcome.

[Jason Moore]

Searching for it, but you did not end up with a ordinary truck. I mean, I know some people like it. It's innovative.

[Mike Wright]

It's.

[Jason Moore]

Is that the right word? It's sure, it's new, but I'm a.

[Andy Holloway]

Tesla fanboy through and through and I have a real hard time. But the real experience last night was watching this man crumble as the unbreakable car is completely trashed. He has to stand in front of it being like, hey, everybody, here's our new car. It's a trashed cybertruck.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. They threw a metal ball at the window that was not supposed to break, and it broke.

[Andy Holloway]

If he was a magician, the audience member would literally be sawed in half. They would. They would have died. Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

The worst was he's like, okay, well, let's just try throwing it at the back window.

[Andy Holloway]

The next one will get it.

[Jason Moore]

It was an experience.

[Mike Wright]

We.

[Jason Moore]

And it was short. It was really short too.

[Mike Wright]

So I think it got shorter than plans.

[Jason Moore]

We were all cringing. Awkward moments. Something we'll. We'll probably have in common with him after today's episode. Yes, it is Friday.

[Andy Holloway]

Put clan Friday.

[Jason Moore]

All right. Congratulations to Philly Stacks. Philly stacks wins a $55 gift card to Shopballers.com every Friday. We like to say a little Special thank you to everybody supporting our independent [e-mail] the fantasy community. You guys are amazing. We just started a Discord server for those of you over there and it's been really neat to see the community just talking about everything and anything. I have no doubt that the off topic section of that Discord server included Elon Musk last night. Twitter, you can find us at the FFballers. All your latest fantasy football news, notes, information, insights, data, stats, whatever Brooks can take pictures of around the office occasionally shows up there. And you can find us on Instagram as well. Instagram.com fantasy footballers let me get your reaction to last night's game. Wow. Oh, no. Okay, so that was 37 points. I, for whatever reason, I added another 10 points to the game. I remember to 46 and a half point over.

[Mike Wright]

We hit, we hit the under.

[Jason Moore]

Got the under.

[Mike Wright]

We did it. Fam.

[Jason Moore]

Mike got it right on the nose. He said Houston would win and they'd hit the under. I thought Indianapolis would win.

[Mike Wright]

Well, I got that part right. But to be fair, I. Look, I was not in on Jonathan Williams at all. And Andy, you had the faith of the coaching staff. I've just, I've been burnt by the, the coaching staff saying, hey, this, this is our guy. We're going to move forward. And Jonathan Williams not only was the guy, I mean, he had incredible game. 26 carries. Just over and over and over. Another hundred on the ground, a touchdown. He had a few receptions as well to go with it. It was completely the Jonathan Williams show. He really the only player of, really of any fantasy value for the Colts in this matchup.

[Andy Holloway]

Yes, for the Colts, for the Colts were a disaster.

[Jason Moore]

I mean, those of you that stream Berset like I did in one of my leagues, disaster. It was painful when they're losing to watch them hand the ball off 46 times in a row or so. It felt.

[Andy Holloway]

It was hard to watch Ty Hilton on the sideline on a snap count. But then he came in and had plenty of opportunity. He could have and should have had a really good game.

[Mike Wright]

Yes.

[Andy Holloway]

But very uncharacteristically, you had the drops.

[Mike Wright]

Like off the top of my head. I know of the two drops, one of them being incredibly egregious. I mean was 20 or so yards down the field, had his guy beat and yeah, he catches that ball, if.

[Andy Holloway]

He stay in bounds, he's probably a touchdown.

[Mike Wright]

So that was very, very unfortunate.

[Andy Holloway]

Instead he ends up with three for 18.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, there was no value to be had on Indianapolis other than starting Jonathan Williams. Naim Hines wasn't worth starting. Jordan Wilkins didn't even get a touch on the offensive side. And then, you know, the Hilton snafus were. I don't know, they seemed a little worse when you watched what DeAndre Hopkins did on the other side of the ball.

[Mike Wright]

Not to me, not Hopkins they were. But to me, like as a fantasy analyst of what I wanted, the risk I was willing to take in this matchup, which was I'll play Ty Hilton. He's a stud. Will Fuller has been garbage the entire year, is injury prone. He's also returning from injury. So the pain of, of watching my analysis break down where Ty Hilton had a crappy game and then Will Fuller goes 7 for 140.

[Jason Moore]

That was a punch and led the team in target.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, he even got up and grabbed his hamstring after one of those bombs. Like, oh, here it was. We knew it was going to happen then.

[Jason Moore]

You think that's muscle. You think that's muscle memory, right?

[Andy Holloway]

He's like, after I catch it, I get up and I hold my hamstring.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, you're right, Mike. I will say this. Ty Hilton owners had opportunities. Only played 37% of snaps in this pitch count coming back. If he doesn't show up on the injury report this week, I would be very optimistic that obviously that number goes up and he's their best receiver. And we've seen enough of Ty Hilton over the years as fantasy owners to know, like you said, if he comes down with one of those passes, he's got a touchdown. Very disappointing if you played him all the way across the board. Ebron Doyle, by the way. Zach Pascal, no catches.

[Mike Wright]

Yes.

[Jason Moore]

The werewolf one target.

[Mike Wright]

The full moon was not out.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

If you missed our SiriusXM show, you missed the debut of that.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. So anything else you guys want to add? Carlos Hyde looked, he looked good on.

[Andy Holloway]

A couple runs, but he didn't do anything great for fantasy. 16 for 67, no touchdowns. Duke Johnson not as involved as you need for fantasy there really it was. DeSean Watson was okay. Hopkins and Fuller were great. It's just Jonathan Williams and then everybody else.

[Mike Wright]

It's poor one out for all of our, all of our Foot clan members who were facing the Hopkins Watson stack on Thursday night. Was losing on Thursday night or at least feeling like you have now maybe a 5% chance of winning.

[Andy Holloway]

That.

[Mike Wright]

That is the worst, the worst in.

[Jason Moore]

Our league of record. I was starting Brissette against Hopkins and Watkins and at under two minutes.

[Mike Wright]

So I pour one out for you.

[Jason Moore]

Under two minutes left in the first half. Brissette has 11 fantasy points. They have one each. Deshaun Watson has one point. Hopkins has one point. And I'm going. I have. I'm the luckiest boy in the world and I wasn't.

[Andy Holloway]

What's it going to payment fly. Are you in or out?

[Jason Moore]

All right, the big injury news. James Connor, in or out? Well, it's official.

[Mike Wright]

Yes, he's out. Which honestly, that's. That's nice for fantasy purposes.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. Benny Snell did practice without limitations. He is sneaky.

[Mike Wright]

Very.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, I think he's a guy you can and should pick him up and play.

[Jason Moore]

Rams wide receivers taking on Baltimore Monday night. Brandon Cooks cleared the concussion protocol. He'll be in there. Robert woods back with the team status for Monday night to be determined. Josh Reynolds didn't practice with an injury with Thursday, but you've got. Yeah. With an illness.

[Mike Wright]

Illness. So he should be. He should be okay to go. But his usage, I mean, it comes down a lot to what is Robert woods playing or not? And we don't have information on that yet.

[Jason Moore]

Are you willing to go to the wire with woods knowing if you can pivot to Reynolds against Baltimore, a tough matchup.

[Andy Holloway]

I mean, so, yes, with Debo Samuel.

[Jason Moore]

Or wait for Robert Woods.

[Andy Holloway]

That would be a Debo Samuel. That's what I'm saying. Within reason. If there's a good play out there and I would go as far down as to say Russell Gage, I would be willing to roll with Russell Gage against Tampa Bay. But if you don't have any other good options, then, yeah, you would roll woods and then pivot to Josh Reynolds if you needed to.

[Jason Moore]

All right. Emmanuel Sanders, Debo Samuel, George Kittle, all limited in practice on Thursday. Kittle expects to play.

[Andy Holloway]

Yes. He says he feels good. He was excited about his last practice, the current.

[Jason Moore]

Didn't he feel really good last week?

[Mike Wright]

He did.

[Jason Moore]

He does what he said.

[Mike Wright]

I think that just feels good all the time.

[Jason Moore]

And he's George Kittle.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah. George Kittle seems like he's got a good life.

[Andy Holloway]

In fairness. Two weeks ago, he was actually pretty honest about not feeling good at all and being worried about his ability to play. So the fact that he is now practicing, he's saying it's going well and he's expecting to play. I'm certainly holding on the tight end landscape for a Kittle Now.

[Mike Wright]

Did he say he's feeling good or did people just catch him singing like.

[Andy Holloway]

Some Michael Buble one in the same mike?

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, you do feel good.

[Mike Wright]

When you listen to Michael Booblay, you are correct.

[Jason Moore]

I think we said yesterday that look, Kittle's the kind of player you roster Dwelly. And if Kittle's a surprise inactive, you can play Dwelly. I mean, you don't want to miss out on an active George Kittle. Tyler Lockett remained limited on Thursday plays Philadelphia. Dealing with the contusion. In or out. What do you think with Tyler Lockett?

[Mike Wright]

I think he's in.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

I think he'll play through, but that's.

[Jason Moore]

Is he in your lineup?

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, the matchup is good and. But it's sketchy.

[Jason Moore]

All right. Brooks wanted to make a real point here at the end of this segment. He says in rear end related news, it is the seventh year anniversary of the butt fumble.

[Andy Holloway]

Brooks, congratulations.

[Jason Moore]

Do you have that in your calendar? I got to give credit. That's a. That's, that's Kyle. That's a Kyle. Okay.

[Mike Wright]

So a very special master of rear end news.

[Jason Moore]

Yes, yes. He has covered all.

[Andy Holloway]

He's.

[Jason Moore]

He's covered the Adam Gaze beat for us for the duration of the season. Game day [e-mail] with every single player you're looking for active inactive News Sunday live. Mike is on all of our social media platforms. YouTube, Twitter, wherever, Facebook, Instagram live. One hour before Sunday kickoff, tune in. Mike will break down the injuries. Mike will break down some start sick questions. He will likely break down, break down.

[Mike Wright]

Just break down period.

[Jason Moore]

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[Mike Wright]

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[Jason Moore]

And news and notes always brought to you by the sleeper app. Let's get back into the forecast.

[Andy Holloway]

Fantasy forecast.

[Jason Moore]

All right, take a deep breath because we have eight matchups to get through. Are you a. Was that a balloon?

[Andy Holloway]

That sounded a lot like a balloon.

[Jason Moore]

That's. You should have been a swimmer, Mike. That's some air capacity.

[Mike Wright]

No, no, there is. There's very little capacity in these asthmatic lungs.

[Jason Moore]

All right. All right, let's start with the Broncos Bills. The games in Buffalo bills are four point favorites. It's a very low 38 and a half point over under Brandon Allen against Josh Allen. The battle of the Allen.

[Mike Wright]

I'll take Josh.

[Jason Moore]

I'll take Tim Allen.

[Andy Holloway]

Oh, my pops.

[Jason Moore]

All right, how do you, how do you look at Josh Allen in this matchup? Because last week the number one overall fantasy quarterback and people want to know, like one of our biggest start sit questions on the week is actually Josh Allen in this matchup against a Broncos defense which gives up 12.8 fantasy points per game on average to the quarterback that's third best in the League versus somebody like Baker Mayfield, which has the Smash matchup against Miami. Are you willing to, you know, kind of Josh Allen's monster game, rear rear view window. This is a tough matchup. I'm going to go Baker.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, I'm not. I don't see Josh Allen as someone you need to bench just because it's a tough matchup. He's been very, very consistent. You know, if you're in a six point league, a 20 point score every week. Last week was the first time he finally had a monster output. However, the upside is very limited here. So I don't think you have to bench him. I think Baker has a ceiling this week that Josh Allen doesn't have. Now, his floor, Baker's is probably lower. He doesn't have the rushing baseline. But I'm going to take the shot at having the bigger play. So between those two players, I would, I would go Baker.

[Jason Moore]

It hasn't really just thinking about this season. When you've played, when you haven't played a top tier quarterback in a top matchup, it has burned you at times. Lamar Jackson, people, the New England game, you moved away. It burned you. Kyler Murray, last week in San Francisco, I pivoted in one league to Kyle Allen. That burned me big time. They lost me the week. So there is the train of thought of, look, Josh Allen's got you this far. Like you said, I don't think it's a forced pivot, but when you have that choice, it's a little bit difficult.

[Andy Holloway]

It's just one of those things that you look at the Denver Broncos on the stream finder how they've fared against quarterbacks. Last week, Kirk Cousins got it together in the second half, had a good week. That was the eighth most fantasy points given up to the position prior to that week. I mean, through the first 11 weeks of the season, 10 weeks of the season, they had not had a quarterback inside the top 15 all year. So I do think the ceiling is going to be difficult in this matchup.

[Jason Moore]

All right, Brandon Allen is completing a sweet 49% of his passes. Is there hope for Cortland Sutton in this game? Is he kind of an auto play? The way Devonte Parker still had a decent game against these Buffalo Bills last week, which was a little unexpected. Are you playing Sutton?

[Mike Wright]

I'm still going to play him. It's his similar to like everyone in this matchup. I mean that 38 and a half point over under is. It looms heavy on these fantasy players. So you're not looking for ceiling necessarily. But Cortland Sutton is just, he's been far, far too good to bench even in the difficult.

[Andy Holloway]

So in this game you've got Cortland Sutton and John Brown, two guys who have been very good this year. Who would you take in this matchup? Because I think Eileen Sutton here.

[Mike Wright]

Eileen Sutton as well.

[Jason Moore]

I would play John Brown. Yeah. I'd play the home number one dude again versus the Brandon Allen led side.

[Andy Holloway]

They are back to back in my rankings.

[Jason Moore]

Okay. Yeah. I think consensus wise we have Brown three spots higher as a group. John Brown the wide receiver, 15 on the year. Sutton the wide receiver, 16 on the year. Both with monster target shares over the last few weeks as well, both with difficult matchups. So it's, it's maybe this is the game of not a lot of upside if a 38 point over under is any indication. You know, Devin Singletary played 74% of snaps. He's playing a lot. He's not give him the ball. He's not getting as involved. And when he has had opportunities over the last two weeks, he hasn't had that big play that has kind of propelled him up the rankings. You okay with him?

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, I'm still okay with him. Again, it's a low over under here and I honestly, I think the under, even at this low of an O and under over under could get hit like. I just don't see these teams scoring on each other a lot. So the upside for any player here is very limited. But Singletary still been playing well. 15 carries last week for 75 yards. That's a five yard a clip. But you don't get a touchdown. He wasn't really involved in the passing game much. So you're disappointed. I'm still rolling Singletary though, because he has been involved in the passing game before. He just wasn't last week.

[Jason Moore]

It's interesting. In our consensus rankings, three rookies, David Montgomery, Miles Sanders, Devin Singletary are back to back to back this week. Right on that edge of RB2 range. Other decisions in this game. Jason really likes Philip Lindsey start of the week at the running back position. Doubled up Royce Freeman and carries last week has a lot of upside. I think that about covers it.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, I agree. In the trend of Brandon Allen still not throwing to his running backs continues. And if everything is actually really shifting over to Philip Lindsay like they said it would this past week, then Royce Freeman is. You're just really hoping he falls in the end zone, right?

[Jason Moore]

No, you're not wrong. And that 49% completion percentage might go up if you targeted like players. It might a few yards from the line.

[Mike Wright]

But hey, I'm not going to tell Brandon Allen what to do.

[Jason Moore]

No, you can't.

[Andy Holloway]

I'm just going to play the Bills defense.

[Jason Moore]

Seems your odds of becoming a professional quarterback are much higher if your last name is Allen. Because we've got what Kyle. Kyle Allen. Brandon Allen. Josh Allen. All right, the Lions three six and one take on the Redskins at one and nine. The Lions are three and a half point favorites. It's forty one and a half point over under in the a matchup of matchups Jeff Driscoll v Dwayne Haskins it's been difficult to watch the cement shoed Dwayne Haskins in the pocket. Doesn't seem to recognize what's happening on the defensive side of the ball coverages. It's been difficult. I'm sorry Redskins fans. It has not looked like he's heading the right direction, which brings up Terry McClaurin and his upside. He is. He's got a large target share, but there aren't. They're not a lot of good targets.

[Mike Wright]

So no, they're not. And they Dwayne Haskins needs to throw Terry McLaurin the ball. He did come through three for 69 yards this past week and the one target they missed on or some sorry, not. Not missed on, but they had a huge connection of 30 to 35 yards or so but it ended up getting called back, which puts McLaurin at a very solid game, about 100 yards. So I'm still going to play him because he's going to get the targets. The matchup is there. The Lions are 22nd against fantasy wide receivers. An interesting note. Detroit has allowed a quarterback 1 performance 8 weeks in a row. I think this trend ends this weekend with Dwayne Haskins. I will be shocked if he ends up in the top 12 somehow, but I'm still going to play his number one weapon.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, if you're not going to play.

[Jason Moore]

Him here, you're not playing him rest of the season. That's the hard part, right?

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. And I think with his speed you always have, even at the end of a game and you know it's four minutes left, the Redskins are down and McLaurin's had a bad game. You still have hope because he could take anything.

[Mike Wright]

Pretty much what he did last week.

[Andy Holloway]

I was playing against him, it was like yay, no. So I am fine starting him. The real question on the Redskins side of the ball is the running back situation between Adrian Peterson and Darius Geist. Word is coming out that Adrian Peterson is a little bit more banged up. He did get banged up last game and then Geist came in and looked good. I think Geist might be a sneaky start here where he has a. I'm more willing now. I've flipped where Geist is a guy that I would be willing to start now.

[Jason Moore]

I don't disagree. The Lions are dead last in the league and fantasy points given up to the running back position. One of our top start sit questions from the website is actually Darius Geist versus Bo Scarborough, the running back for the Detroit Lions in this matchup. I would start guys over any running back in this entire matchup. That's. I've been an Adrian Peterson apologist, but with the injury news where this team is at, I think Geist will have his opportunities.

[Mike Wright]

Callahan says agent Peterson's going to play.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, he will.

[Andy Holloway]

He will get that honorary first few.

[Jason Moore]

But I have. I have more confidence in Geist than I do Scarborough. McKissick, Peterson, Chris Thompson, I think is practicing again. So both. Scarborough is kind of the bigger question mark. I think if you play a Detroit Lions running back this year, it's. You're going to get burned.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. Yeah. Since Carry on has been out, they haven't been able to fix it, but Scarborough would be the guy to start. I see those two in this game very, very near even. I would lean with the talent of Darius Geist.

[Mike Wright]

You mean Scarborough? Scarborough and Geiss.

[Andy Holloway]

Yes. I would lean with the talent of Geiss over Scarborough, but both, I believe, are startable flex options.

[Jason Moore]

Jeff Driscoll has been the QB12 and the QB5 the last two weeks. He also has rushed for 88 rushing yards. And we can't ignore it because it's, you know, you have to look at Golladay and Jones through the lens of who's throwing in the football. And Driscoll has gotten it done. Even though Golladay had a bad week last week, Jones had a big week. That's not that foreign to what's happened with Matthew Stafford. So Marvin Jones, Kenny Golladay, they play Washington. Washington is, you know, not a stout defense and both players are going to have opportunities to make plays. They're the wide receiver, 10 and 11 on the year. I don't see how you bench these players.

[Andy Holloway]

No, you. You've got it. You've got to have them both in your lineup for the chance of big plays in this matchup, you know, and likewise, I think Jeff Driscoll is a streaming option there are better. I mean, he's, he's lower, but if you're in a two quarterback league, he's a guy that should be started right now. This is a very winnable matchup and he's been good.

[Jason Moore]

All right, before we get into the next matchup, I want to thank today's sponsor. You've heard me talk about him before. It's Handy. Look, if you've ever hosted a holiday get together, last year I hosted the footballers holiday party at our house.

[Mike Wright]

Indeed you did.

[Jason Moore]

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[Mike Wright]

Whoa.

[Andy Holloway]

Unfortunately. What? We have to go to the next matchup.

[Jason Moore]

Oh, you're not excited to talk about it? I haven't.

[Andy Holloway]

Dude, this is three, man.

[Jason Moore]

Look, I was gonna say it's three stinks.

[Andy Holloway]

I was gonna say we had to go. Broncos, Bills. Oh, it's got a low over under. I'm a little, you know, upset. It might even hit the under. Let's go to the next matchup. Jeff Driscoll, Dwayne Haskins, Redskins.

[Jason Moore]

No, no, no. It's gonna get better, Jay.

[Andy Holloway]

All right, well, let's talk about the Mason Rudolph led Steelers against the Ryan Finley led Bengals. I want to talk some fantasy. None of this is relevant. I mean, Benny Snell, Jalen Samuel, maybe. Did you just not Jalen Samuels, maybe James Washington.

[Jason Moore]

No, it's a 38 point over under. The Steelers are favored. It's in Cincinnati. I think that this game stinks. And yeah, like Benny Snell, you can take the shot. But there's a. From what I've seen in this backfield, it's as much about competency to, you know, try to protect the passer and just know what's going on. Jalen Samuels, I think, is going to unfortunately have a very high snap count. And so my confidence in Benny Snell is not very high. He is a dart throw, but it's a low over under on a team that struggled. It's just not. There's just not a lot to get excited about. Tyler Boyd, you can't play him right now. Juju's not in there.

[Andy Holloway]

And you're right in the sense that if you look at the Bengals on the season, they really appear like they're. Do I have to? No. But it looks like a team that can be destroyed on the ground, and much of that was the first five weeks of the season. Since week six, their ranks as far as what they've given up is 14, 14, 18, 19, 23. They're middle of the pack against running backs for fantasy points given up. Now, if you've got this split with Snell and Jalen Samuels, then how do you really.

[Mike Wright]

Jalen Samuels.

[Andy Holloway]

Jalen Samuels.

[Jason Moore]

No, no, no. We're trying to work through it. This is a technique.

[Andy Holloway]

Sometimes you got to. Over.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

Okay.

[Andy Holloway]

Over. Go over the line.

[Jason Moore]

Mentally, you need to put three S's at the back of his name.

[Andy Holloway]

Right.

[Jason Moore]

That's the important thing.

[Andy Holloway]

So I think you're right. You know, you get excited when injury news comes out and there's someone on the waivers that you can grab and put in. But you do have to temper that in reality, which is the offensive line has not been as dominant as in years past. Obviously, they aren't getting the job done for Jalen Samuels and is going to.

[Mike Wright]

Be split and Jalen Samuels just not get the job done.

[Andy Holloway]

Sure. But can be Snell.

[Mike Wright]

Benny Snell. Week six against the Los Angeles Chargers. 17 carries, 75 yards, a reception for 14 yards.

[Jason Moore]

Like, you could definitely take the shot. I don't disagree. Vance McDonald, Benny Snell, Joe Mixon, Jalen Samuels. Those are probably the relevant names.

[Mike Wright]

Oh, I'll play Joe Mixon, please. You were asking who I'd start.

[Andy Holloway]

Joe mix it for 500.

[Jason Moore]

Jason is Joe Mixins.

[Andy Holloway]

Yes.

[Mike Wright]

Thank you.

[Andy Holloway]

Because he's.

[Jason Moore]

I think we can really get down this rabbit hole and spin Jason up.

[Andy Holloway]

Tyler Boyd has been a squeaky wheel. Thank you. Tyler Boyd's has been a squeaky wheel. And, you know, maybe he gets more targets Are you going to play with the Ryan Finley Flames? No. Because you gonna get burnt.

[Jason Moore]

What flames?

[Andy Holloway]

The ones that are coming right at your face.

[Jason Moore]

Okay.

[Mike Wright]

They're. They're definitely like the flames on like a Guy Fieri shirt. Do you really have just not hot at all.

[Jason Moore]

Do you have excitement for James Washington because of the setup or is this team going to be able to win just by gaining 2 yards of carry with Jalen Samuels?

[Mike Wright]

I have interest in James Washington. Yes. But when I say interest, I mean like a wide receiver 3. But he had to me in this matchup against the bagels. He does have wide receiver 2. Upside.

[Jason Moore]

I'm having a hard time with this matchup. Hearing the right things. I. The Cincinnati bagels is what I thought I heard you just say delicious.

[Andy Holloway]

Can we talk about food instead of this matchup? Because that would be.

[Jason Moore]

What would you like to get into? I heard you had some carbs last night.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, I had carbicide after. Just look, this is not my year in the league of record. I'm switching over. I'm the champ in the Dynasty league. That's now the only, only, only league that matters from here on out.

[Jason Moore]

I wasn't going to bring up the league of record situation.

[Andy Holloway]

Good.

[Jason Moore]

But I do applaud our producer Borland for the way he listened to me all week about Jonathan Williams. I said that he's the only player you could play from that game on the Serious show. And he walked right out of this studio and put him in his lineup.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, he did. And then I believe he just blew you a kiss.

[Jason Moore]

Did you blow me a kiss?

[Andy Holloway]

Yes. Yes, I did see that correctly.

[Jason Moore]

That was a 22, 23 point kiss in our league.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. It was awful as the Marlon Mack owner knowing he would have destroyed your face after I traded for him from you. To have Jonathan Williams destroy my face.

[Jason Moore]

No, no, no.

[Andy Holloway]

Really hurt.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. Yeah. This is a better game to talk about. And I think the moral of the story over the last three games that we talked about was the fact that the upside is kept the high end upside is capped by the weapons or if anything this year we've learned you need real backup quarterbacks in the NFL as well. They matter. Seahawks 8 and 2 take on the Eagles 5 and 5. The game. The game's in Philly.

[Andy Holloway]

Here we go.

[Jason Moore]

And The Eagles are one point favorites. It's a 48 point over under. I think that's the right line. I think it's going to be a tight game. I like the Eagles by about a point. Yeah. Russell Wilson, Carson Wentz. We've talked a little bit about Wince. He's had a real difficult schedule. Dallas, Buffalo on the road, then Chicago and New England at home. Seattle's allowing the fifth most passing yards. Wentz can be played this week.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, wins can be played. I really do worry about the health of his receiving core. Coach Doug Peterson said that Alshon Jeffrey is trending in the right direction. I think that's important because it is Nelson Aguilar. While we mock him, you know, because it's fun and because it's easy, he has missed the last couple practices entirely. You know, I mean, Jordan Matthews, Andy, your. Your love affair, man. Jordan Matthews, who you think is best wide receiver sarcasm has ever played. Mack Hollands. These guys are not good enough wide receivers to sustain a good fantasy game from Carson Wentz. I think El Sean Jeffrey needs to be out. If Alshon was out, I would be weary starting wins. Even though this is a plus matchup.

[Jason Moore]

Okay. I think that's. I think that's fair. I think Miles Sanders will do a little bit of work. Jordan Howard yet to be cleared. So Philly hasn't really found five or six drives in a row type of, you know, this whole season. You think you got something, then you don't. You think you got something, then you don't. So there are question marks there, but Seattle is vulnerable. Russell Wilson, Chris Carson, they're in your lineup. Tyler Lockett, Mike, if he's active, yeah.

[Mike Wright]

I'm going to play him.

[Jason Moore]

Okay.

[Mike Wright]

I got 29% targets here over the last month. Tyler Lockett is the.

[Jason Moore]

The.

[Mike Wright]

He is the receiving offense for the Seahawks.

[Jason Moore]

If he's not active, are you playing Josh Gordon?

[Mike Wright]

Oh, my goodness.

[Jason Moore]

Are you willing to take the shot? You know, Metcalf will probably be in your lineup for sure, but Josh Gordon, he's had some time now.

[Andy Holloway]

If Lockett is not active, I think I would be willing to play Josh Gordon.

[Jason Moore]

I think I would, too.

[Andy Holloway]

That will force his snap count to be up. This is a great situation for him with a phenomenal. I mean, you know, we talk about playing Hollister because of Russell Wilson, and so if Russell Wilson has Josh Gordon on the field a lot, then Josh Gordon's going to have some really nice balls fall right in his lap.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. Yep, he will. Jacob Hollister, Zach Ertz, Dallas Goddard. Goddard is my start of the week. The number three start. Sick question. Dallas Goddard v. Ryan Griffin. Eileen, the Goddard side. But Griffin has been so good. I like both players. I don't see a reason to fight.

[Andy Holloway]

Over this you don't need to disparage either guy. They're both startable. I would go Ryan Griffin.

[Mike Wright]

Now, this is news to me. So the return of Red Dead Dixon was apparently very overstated.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, because he's on ir.

[Mike Wright]

What happened?

[Andy Holloway]

He came back, he tested it out. He thought he was good. Obviously it went the wrong direction and they said, well, you're done with us. You know, you never got started.

[Jason Moore]

You know what they call that? That's the Herndon.

[Andy Holloway]

Yes, that's right.

[Mike Wright]

We got Herndon.

[Andy Holloway]

He got Herndon again.

[Jason Moore]

He got Herndon. But that does secure Hollister.

[Mike Wright]

It does.

[Jason Moore]

You have to like the opportunity there.

[Mike Wright]

Look, Hollister's always have great locations. The real estate in the mall, they're always right there.

[Andy Holloway]

Honestly, if Tyler Lockett is out, we talk about Gordon at getting an uptick, but I think that the short.

[Jason Moore]

Oh, Hollister gets a huge uptick. Yeah.

[Andy Holloway]

Abercrombie is going to have a real nice time out there.

[Jason Moore]

Absolutely. Philadelphia hasn't allowed a lot of rushing production, but that's not going to slow you down with Chris Carson. He's been one of the leaders in total touches that can offset the, you know, defensive front of a, you know, for fantasy purposes. So there you go. Anybody else from this game you want to talk about?

[Mike Wright]

Is Nelson Aguilar have any worth to you?

[Andy Holloway]

No. Nelson, I mean, you know, he hopes to practice today, but missing talked about.

[Mike Wright]

The passing or the fifth most passing yards allowed by Seattle. Nelson Aguilar.

[Jason Moore]

Yes. If Jeffrey misses, I will play Aguilar.

[Mike Wright]

Okay. That's what I was trying to get at. Aguilar, I know was many moons ago now in the fantasy season, but when he was the last man standing, he came through with a big game.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, it's just comfort level. You can see it on the field when these guys, when these guys are missing. Carson Wentz is going to look Nelson Aguilar's way and then Aguilar is going to look into the stadium lighting when he attempts to catch a pass. So that's what's going to happen. The Jacksonville Jaguars at 4 and 6 take on the Tennessee Football Titans at 5 and 5. It's a 411 1/2 point over under the games at home for Tennessee, they're favored by three and a half. Ryan Tannehill, he has an opportunity to continue to surprise for fantasy purposes. It is strange. I brought him up on the serious show. It's a strange thing, Mike, you brought it up when you don't know who his best passing option is yet. He's finished his last four starts. QB 13, QB 11, QB 5, QB 11. His playoff schedules the fourth best in fantasy. You brought. I brought a Baker yesterday with a great playoff schedule. Tannehill has a great one. Oh man, he's throwing the ball around.

[Mike Wright]

I just, I just want Ryan Tannehill, Baker and Ryan Fitzpatrick just as like the top quarterbacks over the fantasy playoff.

[Jason Moore]

Weeks just be strolling down the yellow brick road arm in arm.

[Mike Wright]

That'll warm my heart on a cold winter's day.

[Andy Holloway]

Some men just want to watch the world burn. You just want to watch the whole fantasy world get turned upside down and sit back with some popcorn.

[Jason Moore]

I expect this game to be a pretty interesting one, but a big bounce back game for Leonard Fournette. Touches wise. It wasn't a great first game with Nick Foles back.

[Mike Wright]

Well, they got boat race.

[Jason Moore]

That was a lot of it. They basically Doug Marone came out and said, look, we needed to score quick. Of course they didn't get back into the game doing that. But getting boat race, that would be. I don't think that's going to happen against Tennessee in this one. The over under seems to imply that it won't. And Leonard Fournette is the motor of the offense and I think Doug Marone has said he wants to get back to it. Do you agree?

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. I mean, look, they lost last week. They weren't giving Fournette the ball because they felt like they couldn't. I think they're going to make a concerted effort now. Nick Foles is back second weekend and they're going to get Fournette the ball more. They need to. I mean, and this is a really even matchup. These are like the two most average teams in the league. Their defenses are pretty good. They're not great. They're not bad.

[Mike Wright]

They're okay.

[Andy Holloway]

Ish. The running game is pretty good. I was not like outstanding, but it's not bad. I mean they both have good running games.

[Mike Wright]

I've. I've seen worse. I've seen better.

[Andy Holloway]

Their quarterbacks are pretty good.

[Jason Moore]

Not bad.

[Andy Holloway]

Nick Foles, Ryan Tannehill, they're getting the job done. They're not bad, you know, medium. So I mean that's. This is a game where I think you're going to get average games from a lot of these players. Fournette, Henry, Chark, those guys are obviously going to be.

[Mike Wright]

You got an average game from Henry. Jaguars 20 allowing the 24th best at the fantasy running back position. And Derek Henry has just been smashing people.

[Andy Holloway]

Well, and specifically if you remember Derek Henry loves to smash the Jaguars, so maybe you get a great game against from Derek Henry. But, yeah, I mean, I'm looking at these three as you're clearly starting Fournette, Henry and Shark, right?

[Jason Moore]

Yeah.

[Andy Holloway]

Is there anybody out there not doing that?

[Jason Moore]

No.

[Andy Holloway]

And is there anybody else you're starting from this game? What about Delaney Walker? If he's active, would you put him in there?

[Jason Moore]

No.

[Mike Wright]

No.

[Andy Holloway]

Nope.

[Jason Moore]

No way.

[Andy Holloway]

Not. Can I interest you in Dee Dee Westbrook pass. AJ Hard pass. Yeah. So it really is. This game has no decisions.

[Jason Moore]

No.

[Andy Holloway]

They've all been made for you. It's Fournette starting Henry, starting Chark is starting. Don't start anybody else.

[Jason Moore]

Unless you like Ryan Tannehill at home as a streaming option. I'd play Tannehill over Driscoll, for example.

[Andy Holloway]

I would play Driscoll over Tannehill.

[Jason Moore]

I will not make a bet. I want it. You did want to bet?

[Andy Holloway]

I did want it.

[Jason Moore]

Driscoll, Tannehill bet.

[Andy Holloway]

Those are my favorite.

[Jason Moore]

All right, that's fine.

[Andy Holloway]

I've got a plan.

[Jason Moore]

It is getting colder out here. That's a toilet water in Arizona. So these water bets are getting a little bit more expensive.

[Andy Holloway]

It's like in the Nips.

[Mike Wright]

It's getting a little bit colder in Arizona. Only Arizona.

[Andy Holloway]

Yes.

[Mike Wright]

Right. The rest of the United States not getting colder.

[Andy Holloway]

And you know, when I think of where it's coldest, it's usually Arizona.

[Mike Wright]

Do you realize.

[Jason Moore]

Look at your beanie, Mike.

[Mike Wright]

I know, like, but I want people to realize it's 54 degrees.

[Andy Holloway]

I mean, it's practically snowing by noon.

[Jason Moore]

It'll be all right. Cowboys. Cowboys at 6 and 4 take on the Patriots at 9 and 1. The games in New England, you might as well have thought the Patriots lost last week the way that Tom Brady was acting in that press conference. But it was a disappointing offensive performance and there has to be a little bit of concern about, I would say, predictability in the offense. You don't really know where production, if any, will come at the running back position for New England. You don't really know outside of Edelman, if you have any other options in the passing game with Jacoby Myers, Nikhil Harry and injured Mohammed Sanhu, who, by the way, reports have said he could miss multiple games. Reports are saying he may. He might try to practice on Friday.

[Mike Wright]

We don't know.

[Andy Holloway]

I think those things can both be true.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah.

[Andy Holloway]

I think you can miss multiple games while getting in limited participation in practice.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. And then Philip Dorset, who could be a kind of interesting play. If Sanu sat down dealing with a concussion and Dorsett is kind of, you know, he needs that one big play. Last week it was a pass from Julian Edelman. So I don't, you know, Brady. I don't. I don't even want to play Brady this week.

[Mike Wright]

No.

[Jason Moore]

Let me. Let me ask the question. Are you playing anybody but Edelman on the New England side of the ball against a very good Cowboys defense?

[Mike Wright]

I'm willing to play James White.

[Andy Holloway]

He's just.

[Mike Wright]

He's just super steady.

[Jason Moore]

That's fair.

[Mike Wright]

You're like, I'll get my RB 22 points.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. And if Dorsett is active, I think I would play Dorsett. Assuming that Sanu is out. Dorsett's been. I mean, I know you could say, oh, it's on the back of touchdowns or whatever, but he's. He's had plenty of relevant games for fantasy and, you know, I think you can do worse for. He's had more than that. I mean, it depends relative. You know, when I say relatively good.

[Mike Wright]

Games, I think it's four. And it's the four games that he has scored. You pull up his consistency chart.

[Jason Moore]

He's the wide receiver. 49 on the year. So I think there's risk, especially with Nikhil Harry now being active like Harry last week, if Dorset doesn't catch a pass from Edelman. He's back in the 60s to 80s. So there. I don't disagree that you could take.

[Mike Wright]

Your shot on him, but Cowboys defense is.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, the Cowboys defense has been pretty. Pretty darn good.

[Jason Moore]

I don't. Yeah. I don't think you're messing with Fourth.

[Mike Wright]

Fewest fantasy points allowed to the wide receiver position. Eighth against quarterbacks. I think you're right, Andy. This is for me, this is really, really brutal. I'm willing to play James White. Willing to play Julian Edelman. What the heck do we do with Sony Michelle?

[Jason Moore]

Nothing.

[Andy Holloway]

And you're not playing.

[Jason Moore]

You're not playing him, I don't think. Are you. He's in the running. Let me ask you a couple of questions.

[Mike Wright]

He's in the Dorset zone.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. Let me ask you. James White or Darius? Guys, Bo Scarborough.

[Andy Holloway]

James White. Any kind of PPR league.

[Jason Moore]

Sony Michelle or Darius? Guys, Bo Scarborough.

[Mike Wright]

Wow.

[Andy Holloway]

I think I.

[Jason Moore]

The last three weeks for Sony Michelle. Seven fantasy points. Three. Five.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

I mean, oh, my God.

[Andy Holloway]

That's such a good touchdown.

[Mike Wright]

That's a demonic question.

[Andy Holloway]

I think I would go from the.

[Mike Wright]

Mouth of a demon.

[Jason Moore]

That was from Mordor. I did. It did come in via Instagram. From the great eye. Yeah. Jason is sitting there just breathing in and out.

[Andy Holloway]

It's really tough between guys and Sony there.

[Jason Moore]

Sony?

[Mike Wright]

Sony, Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

I don't think it is and I hate to admit that, but right now there's no predictability there and I don't know what the team, the team's confidence that Sony Michelle has wavered on the other side, by the way. I didn't mention it. Patriots 6 1/2 point favorites, 45 point over under Brady. Could be some light rain in this game.

[Andy Holloway]

Brady, who's such a big name, people still continue to start him in your home leagues. He was the quarterback eight through the first six weeks. Since that time, basically the last five weeks, he's been the quarterback 23. He's not a usable fantasy.

[Jason Moore]

Would you play Dak in on the road over Brady, though?

[Mike Wright]

Yes, I would.

[Jason Moore]

Dak is actually leading the league in average passing yards per game. That is a baseline helper, right?

[Mike Wright]

Yes, this is the baseline.

[Jason Moore]

I never put it quite like that, but I did today. So you would play Dak over Brady?

[Mike Wright]

Yes, I would. Dak Prescott's been absolutely incredible. You just talked about how benching high level quarterbacks, even though the matchups have been tough lately, has. It's been a poor decision.

[Jason Moore]

New England's allowed just one top 12 performance.

[Mike Wright]

Was that Lamar?

[Jason Moore]

It was Lamar. Next highest was QB16. Zeke, you play him. The wide receivers are where it gets messy. Amari Cooper, do you start him and then just be willing to take your lumps?

[Andy Holloway]

It's really. Yeah. I mean, you might be in a position where you have to do that. I would love to be able to pivot. But then you say okay to who you know. Are you really going to start a Russell Gage over Amari Cooper?

[Mike Wright]

No, no.

[Andy Holloway]

Flat just fantastic. So I think in most leagues you're going to end up just putting Cooper in your lineup.

[Jason Moore]

The truth is, Amari Cooper, I know the matchup, it's not good. It's as. It's bad. But one on one, he beats people. He's going to beat people. And so if he's on the field, I think you'll get it. You'll get three or four plays and that might be enough. If you got four for 80 out of Amari Cooper, that would be.

[Andy Holloway]

Oh, you'd be thrilled.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised at all if he could put up four for 80. So Amari's going to. Unless you feel really, really strong about an alternative option.

[Andy Holloway]

Michael Gallup, you've brought this up before, but I Want to reiterate it? Amari Cooper at home so far in PPR leagues this season is averaging 27.26 fantasy points per game.

[Jason Moore]

That's a lot.

[Andy Holloway]

That's a lot. On the road, he's averaging 10.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah.

[Andy Holloway]

27 and 10 is the split.

[Jason Moore]

10 would be a home run here if we can get.

[Andy Holloway]

Now it's 10.

[Jason Moore]

Maybe that's the lens you look at the Cooper start. If you're cool with 10, light them up.

[Mike Wright]

Yep.

[Jason Moore]

But Michael Gallup, Randall Cobb, a lot of risk with them on the road in this matchup. Gallup has been playing well. I think he does need Cooper on the field to surprise in this game. But I'd be looking to flex another player personally. Would you rather play Michael Gallup in your flex or Benny Snell?

[Mike Wright]

Is this a PPR league?

[Jason Moore]

This is a half point.

[Mike Wright]

But what if it was a PPR league?

[Jason Moore]

You'd go Gallup in a ppr.

[Mike Wright]

I would play Gallup in a ppr.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

And Benny Snell in a standard.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

Okay. All right. And then Randall Cobbs played well too. But again, you're on the road. You're against New England secondary.

[Andy Holloway]

It is a tough slot corner matchup. You know, you've got two different narratives here. One of the one on one individual matchup and one of the scheme of the Patriots to take away the primary options from the Cowboys, which would be Cooper and Gallup. I think who could have a sneaky good game is actually Jason Whitten. I mean, the Patriots are not afraid of Jason Whitten. You know what I mean? Like, they're not going to be like, we've got to take him out of the game. So it's one of those things where if you're in, you know, look, he's going to get five or six receptions.

[Mike Wright]

So do you mean like a good game? Do you mean like against the Giants where it was nine targets, eight for 58?

[Andy Holloway]

Yes, exactly. That's what I'm talking about. You're in a PPR league. You're thrilled with that.

[Jason Moore]

All right, Jason, I can get you a little more hyped here. Sunday Night Football, we flexed into the Packers 49ers. I love this game. Packers 8 and 2, 49ers, 9 and 1. A 47 and a half point over. Under 49ers are three point home favorites. Here we go. Jimmy Garoppolo gets to take on the packers at home. If he plays a team not named Arizona. He's averaging 217 yards and 1.3 touchdowns per game. That being said, I think this is an interesting game for Jimmy g and the 49ers passing attack. Green Bay, they're one of the few offenses that you look at and you say, hey, when Jimmy G's had a decent performance, it's been against teams that can put up a few points. And I don't think any of us are expecting, I mean, Vegas has them as an implied point total of 22.25. On the packers side, I think Rogers will get some things done. And you haven't quite seen the seamless running game from the 49ers lately. So when I look at tough decisions with Emmanuel Sanders, Debo Samuel, George Kittle, I look at it with, you know, if I miss, I'm missing upside. Do you agree with that? Do you think that if Debo Samuel can have another strong performance in this.

[Mike Wright]

Game, I certainly see it as in the range of outcomes. I am a bit concerned about just how banged up everybody is and I know he came back in the game, he finished and he had a really strong performance in back to back weeks and his target share is safe. But I do have concerns about his shoulder.

[Jason Moore]

So are you hands off on these guys knowing that it's a Sunday night game, decisions to be made? Would you pivot to a Kendrick Bourne? Would you, you know, the way that someone would move from Robert woods to Josh Reynolds?

[Andy Holloway]

I would not personally, I. You know, this is a really good pass defense for from, you know, I think if you are the San Francisco 49ers and you're looking at this matchup, you're seeing a team that can be beaten on the ground and you know, you've got to get that going with some of your injuries to your wide receiver core. So I think they're going to try and maybe they won't be able to get it going, but they're going to try to focus on the run here. They're going to try to get Tevin Coleman and either Breida or Mostert going. And unfortunately, you know, we don't know if, if Breida is going to practice today. It's a Sunday night game. So when it comes to who's the RB2 for fantasy, I don't think, I don't think you're going to know here.

[Mike Wright]

Andy, I'm going to throw out some names for you to test your desire to play Debo.

[Jason Moore]

Sure.

[Mike Wright]

All right, so Debo, who's been limited in practice, it sounds like he's going to play, but do you risk going into Sunday night with Debo or would you rather play Michael Gallup against the Patriots?

[Jason Moore]

I'll play Debo.

[Mike Wright]

Golden Tate against Chicago.

[Jason Moore]

I think I'd lean Tate.

[Mike Wright]

Okay. And then let's say Jameson Crowder against Oakland.

[Jason Moore]

I'll play Crowder.

[Andy Holloway]

Crowder for sure.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

I think both. I think both of those are a little safer, but, yeah, that's about where you're at. I'm not too concerned about the injury, for what it's worth, but Kyle Shanahan has insinuated there could. Those could come down to the wire. I think that's a bit of gamesmanship. I think it's true with Emmanuel Sanders because he's been dealing with the rib injury. But if I had to handicap it right now, you know, you go in or out on those three, I think all three play. I think Emmanuel Sanders plays. Could be limited snaps. Debo plays, Kittle plays.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, I think that's.

[Jason Moore]

Do you. Do you go back to Mostert, Jason?

[Andy Holloway]

No. You know, Moster is one of those things where I, you know, Breida is trying to practice. You know, they said he's going to miss one or two weeks. He's missed one. If he's active, I don't think you can deal with most of it at all.

[Jason Moore]

And if he's inactive, though, you're not touching the Colonel.

[Andy Holloway]

If I knew he was inactive, I would put the Colonel in. The problem is, it's Sunday night.

[Jason Moore]

I think you'll know. I think you might know today. Right. He was sidelined on Thursday. You get a practice report today, we might know.

[Mike Wright]

You might.

[Andy Holloway]

But.

[Mike Wright]

But that's the fact that it's a Sunday night and you're planning on playing Raheem Most or who. I mean, he's already a. A lower end option.

[Jason Moore]

Fair. Fair.

[Mike Wright]

And that would be a situation where you don't want to be caught in it.

[Andy Holloway]

You've got him locked into your lineup, and then if you do that, make sure he's in your flex so that you have, you know, that way, know your escape plan. Exactly.

[Jason Moore]

Aaron Rodgers has finished outside the top 25 times. San Francisco is allowing 143 passing yards per game. That's the fewest in the NFL. This is another player versus matchup situation. You know, quarterback versus the difficult matchup. Kyler Murray got it done last week. Will Aaron Rodgers be able to get it done in San Francisco?

[Andy Holloway]

You know, so far this year, if you look at the home road splits, it has been, you know, he has not been as good. Aaron Rodgers, that is, outside of Lambeau, he Has had a couple big games.

[Jason Moore]

Oakland.

[Andy Holloway]

Oakland. Well, Oakland, I believe, was that in Kansas?

[Mike Wright]

Kansas City on the road was solid. That was three.

[Andy Holloway]

That was the one good road game was in Kansas City. This is a road game against a top tier defense. And so I do worry a little bit about Aaron Rodgers in this matchup because he has not been as good on the road. And then the really tough. I mean, this pass rush is so legit. You know, Richard Sherman's got the secondary playing well, so, you know you're not going to bench Rogers over.

[Jason Moore]

Under 250 yards for Aaron Rodgers.

[Mike Wright]

I'll take the under.

[Andy Holloway]

I would take the over, but I've got it like 266, so I'm not excited.

[Mike Wright]

Would you play Aaron Rodgers or would you play Jameis Winston against the surging Falcons?

[Andy Holloway]

I would play Winston.

[Jason Moore]

I think I would too.

[Mike Wright]

Would you play Derek Carr against the hapless jets or Aaron Rodgers?

[Andy Holloway]

I would rather play Derek Carr, but obviously it's close. I mean, they're, they're right next to each other in my rankings and I look at it and I.

[Mike Wright]

What if I told you that Derek Carr has rebranded and now he is Derek Cybertruck.

[Andy Holloway]

Oh, Aaron Rodgers is in my lineup.

[Mike Wright]

Fragile.

[Jason Moore]

Send in the truck.

[Mike Wright]

Repair the truck.

[Jason Moore]

Repair the truck. Aaron Jones, he's gonna play for you. Jamal Williams. Are you willing to flex Jamal Williams? Do you like him more than a guy like Scarborough or Guy?

[Mike Wright]

No, I'll take the other. I'll take the other guys.

[Jason Moore]

Okay. Yeah. San Francisco's defense is legit. Devonte Adams is in. No other pass catchers for Green Bay.

[Mike Wright]

Correct.

[Jason Moore]

Ravens. Rams. Monday Night Football.

[Mike Wright]

Oh, yeah.

[Jason Moore]

That'll be fun. Ravens 3 point favorites on the road against the Rams. That is. That is all you need to know about the 2019 football season. Ravens are playing exceptionally well right now. It's a 46 and a half point over under. You're in a situation now where the Ravens offense and defense are both ascending at the same time. And you're seeing it on the field each and every week. You just, it's very, it's just very difficult to slow down this offense when you, when you can't contain Lamar Jackson and you can't contain him.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, you, you. Yeah. You cannot contain a guy that's faster than your three fastest guys. Like, if you could put them together, it's, it's really. But the defense for the Ravens has just been outstanding as well. You know, early Monday I was, I was thinking, you know, Goff was protected better and he's at home. And you know the. Lamar Jackson's going to be putting up points and so Goff could be a top 15 quarterback. Look, the Ravens have only given up a top 15 quarterback two times on the year. Once it was the quarterback 14. So you're not happy with that. And the other time was Patrick Mahomes. So, yeah, he's pretty good.

[Mike Wright]

Who was the 14?

[Andy Holloway]

14 was Baker. Ooh.

[Mike Wright]

Oh, that's right. They beat the Browns.

[Andy Holloway]

Beat the Ravens in Baltimore.

[Jason Moore]

Do you guys see this? Jalen Ramsey tweet.

[Andy Holloway]

Yes.

[Jason Moore]

He says so. Michael Vick. Hey, how would you stop someone like. Well, kind of like yourself, but the 2019 version, I need tips.

[Andy Holloway]

That's funny.

[Jason Moore]

Which. That's wonderful. Lamar is incredible this season. He's in a top three quarterback seven of 10 games. You never benching him. Jared Goff, he's got. He's up against it in this one.

[Mike Wright]

He's a bench.

[Jason Moore]

Full on bench. Mark Ingram, big game last week. Todd Gurley, 25 touches. I think they're both in your lineup. Hollywood Brown. Hollywood, what do you think?

[Mike Wright]

It's. It's a super sketchy proposition here against Jalen Ramsey and the Rams. The Rams have allowed the. The second fewest 20 plus yard pass he plays. And honestly, that's what you have to get with Marquis Brown. He has to hit on his big plays or you end up like a performance last week where 2 for 20 or something. Plus matchup against the Houston Texans, 2 for 23.

[Jason Moore]

It's true. It's true. Cooper cup last three weeks. Bye week, goose. And then 3 for 53. Brandon Cooks, he's been out. Robert woods, we don't know if he'll be back in there. The one thing we do know is that Josh Reynolds has played basically every snap when one of these guys has been missing, but he's got the illness right now. So. You know the Raven secondary playing so well upside capped.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, very much so. I mean, Reynolds has been fine. You know, he had the big game when he had to come in with Brenda Cooks left with the concussion. 3 for 73 with a touchdown. But 3 for 40, 3 for 49, 3 for 55 in those. Those are fine. Replacement wide receiver, three numbers. But Jason, is your confidence, is your confidence in Josh Reynolds stay the same if Robert woods plays?

[Andy Holloway]

No.

[Mike Wright]

Okay.

[Andy Holloway]

No, I'm only putting Josh Reynolds.

[Mike Wright]

I'm not factoring that. Brandon Cooks is supposed to be back. So if all three of the three musketeers are back for the Rams, then Josh Reynolds becomes.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. And I Hope right back to the bench for the sake of Monday Night Football that the three are back. You know, we want to see this line is protecting golf better this last week. One, you know, a very small sample, but they were, it was, you know, addition by subtraction. They lost two of their terrible O linemen and the replacements came in and said, yeah, we were better than those guys.

[Jason Moore]

How many, how many pass attempts did he even have?

[Andy Holloway]

Oh, 18, I believe it was very, very low.

[Jason Moore]

But also to not give up sacks if he hands the ball to Gurley 25 times.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, but the point is they were succeeding early in the running game. They were opening up lanes for Gurley, which actually allows the play action that Goff thrives in to work. And you know, he had a couple, you know, you look at the Josh Reynolds touchdown that was called back and the Cooper Cup 50 yard touchdown that was an inch away from being a.

[Mike Wright]

Touchdown and then was touchdown inch away from a turn.

[Andy Holloway]

Sure. But my point is those plays happened in real life and if those two things just, you know, the inch is further and the holding that didn't affect the play isn't called, then you're looking at golf last week as a monster fantasy option. So this is why, you know, I, if he's got his three musketeers, you could be surprised. But I'm not, you know, I'm not going to, I'm not going to roll with golf this week. I'm just hopeful.

[Mike Wright]

Okay, Mark Andrews in, but then do you roll with the counterpoint on the other side? Gerald Everett, who last week 1 for 20, he really wasn't on the field. I'm assuming his injury that he was dealing with throughout the week held him back because he was only on the field for 26% of snaps. Do you have confidence in the flip flopping Mount Everett?

[Jason Moore]

No. And part of it is the discussion about the three musketeers being back on the field. And you, and you mix that with the Ravens defense and Jared Goff's inefficiency, the limited passing attempts, the injury to Gerald Everett, I would actually be really trying to pivot away from him this week, personally. By the way, over the last 18 games that Jared Goff has played, his touchdown to interception ratio is one to one and it's 18 touchdowns, 18 interceptions. It's not a lot of upside, especially because I remember the one time he had a good game this year against Atlanta. Mike, you called that game. It's been a long time since we've seen Jared Goff put up a Monster Performance.

[Andy Holloway]

Ballers on a Budget presented by fanduel. All right, I'm going to kick this thing off. I'm going to kick it off with a player that I have, I don't believe ever recommended before, but I'm pretty confident in it. I talked.

[Jason Moore]

Would you say you love him?

[Andy Holloway]

Oh, yeah. He's my favorite.

[Mike Wright]

Jason?

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, no, I'm doing it. Look, Mitchell Trubisky, what is a good DFS play this week? His splits between top 10 passing defenses and bottom 10 passing defenses mixed with his splits home and on the road. He has had great success at home against bad defenses. Well, he's at home. He's against a bad defense. He is also only $7,000. To give you an idea of how low that is on FanDuel, here are the only quarterbacks that you could possibly get cheaper than Mitchell Trubisky, and they're basically the same exact price. You've got Mason Rudolph, Dwayne Haskins, Brandon Allen, Kyle Allen and Ryan Finley. I mean, those are the worst of the worst we've seen.

[Jason Moore]

Is that an injury risk built in the fact he could leave the game?

[Andy Holloway]

It could be in the sense that he left the last game.

[Mike Wright]

Injury and performance risk.

[Andy Holloway]

Absolutely. And what I'm not saying is, like, I wouldn't recommend him necessarily in your redraft leagues because, you know, it's season long and what you do affects. But this game, you're taking a shot on a guy that's super cheap, who could go out there and easily throw two or three touchdowns or run a touchdown in as well. And you know, Alan Robinson's my start of the week because I believe Trubisky can succeed in this matchup.

[Mike Wright]

Mike, I'm going with Benny Snell. I'm taking the free square at the running back position. $4,500. And this is assuming he plays, which he's been practicing in full without limitations. He gets the Bengals. I quoted the game he had against the Chargers. It was very strong. I believe that the Steelers have. They've seen enough of Jalen Samuels to know that he is not the the option that they need to actually run the ball. He can catch the ball just fine, but he can't run like Benny. And I'm not saying Benny Snell is an incredible player.

[Jason Moore]

No, you're 100% right.

[Mike Wright]

But he's going to get the opportunity. I think Pittsburgh's defense is going to actually swallow Ryan Finley whole like a snake, and they're going to run the ball out and Benny Snell is Going to see the ball or get, you know, 12 to 15 touches.

[Jason Moore]

I imagine it's better to be eaten whole than chewed up.

[Mike Wright]

Is it?

[Jason Moore]

I don't know.

[Andy Holloway]

Then you. Yes.

[Jason Moore]

Jason is so positive.

[Mike Wright]

But here's the thing about.

[Jason Moore]

So you get chewed up, it's over chewed up.

[Mike Wright]

You're gonna have a few real, real painful moments. You get swallowed whole, you're swimming in, like stomach acid as you just dissolve.

[Andy Holloway]

If I'm swallowed whole.

[Jason Moore]

Not if I brought a knife with me. I'm cutting my way out.

[Andy Holloway]

I was gonna say if I'm swallowed.

[Mike Wright]

Whole or you probably suffocate.

[Andy Holloway]

I have a chance to survive. I can wait.

[Mike Wright]

What animal are you breaking out of?

[Andy Holloway]

It's gotta be a whale man who's swallowing me whole.

[Mike Wright]

I sit like a snake. This is a. This is the anaconda from the movie Anaconda.

[Andy Holloway]

Then I'll take out my pocket knife and I will cut my way out.

[Mike Wright]

Your pocket knife?

[Andy Holloway]

Yes, I always have it on me.

[Jason Moore]

You don't have a pocket knife, do you?

[Andy Holloway]

I'm a manly man and you've got. Maybe I'll take out my leatherman.

[Jason Moore]

You've got plastic silverware in your pocket, right?

[Andy Holloway]

It's a spork.

[Jason Moore]

All right.

[Andy Holloway]

It's so practical.

[Jason Moore]

So it works with everything.

[Mike Wright]

Rice or meat, it doesn't matter.

[Jason Moore]

I'm going to go with the Russell Gage double up. He was my start of the week. He's 5,300, whereas Calvin Ridley is at 6,700. I think both are nice plays this week. I also just want to bring up the fact that Hollywood Brown, who is kind of a, you know, he's a tough, massive, boom, bust opportunity. He's only 300 more than Russell Gage at 5600. But I think Russell Gage at 5300 is very interesting. With Hooper out and the matchup the way it is, no team, you know, the Tampa is the worst in the NFL in terms of past defense. And so I think you have an opportunity. You can join the Fantasy footballers leaderboard series. You can go to fanduel.com Ballers Do it details each and every week. It's brand new. You get a chance to win an all expenses paid trip to Arizona, the frigid land of Arizona, and come hang out with us.

[Mike Wright]

Oh, let me check in, guys.

[Jason Moore]

Is it up to.

[Mike Wright]

We're at 56.

[Jason Moore]

Okay, so we've. We've skipped right over it. All right. We want to thank our studio sponsor, Pristine Auction, a Devonte Adams signed NFL football cleat. Those are always so cool to me. It's not. You got the jerseys that are amazing, the footballs, but then an autographed cleat that would display. Well, Right.

[Mike Wright]

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[Jason Moore]

Well, I hope it is. I want the game worn. I want that. I want the stink of success in my house.

[Andy Holloway]

Even if it's not. I'm gonna take it outside and mush it into the grass. Yeah. So just little blades of grass on the cleats.

[Mike Wright]

The grass is not the problem with a game worn cleats.

[Andy Holloway]

No, I know. So I found the solution. Oh, it looks game worn.

[Mike Wright]

Are you gonna put it on stinky? But are you gonna put it on your foot?

[Jason Moore]

No, no, no. He just wears one. He's like wobbly around the house. Pristineauction.com use the registration code Ballers. That'll do it for us. Don't forget to check out JoinTheFoot.com. get the game day alerts on Sunday morning and check out Mike. He does Sunday live each and every week before game time.

[Mike Wright]

Good luck this weekend, foot clan. Goodbye.

[Andy Holloway]

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