Halloween Show! Week 8 Matchups + Spooky Start/Sits - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/30

[laughs] [laughs] Welcome to the Fantasy Footballer's Podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. [laughs] Okay, I'm amazed. That's pretty good. Oh, man, that looks so good. I mean, I'm the fantasy reaper. Welcome into the show. Happy Halloween, everybody. I mean, the set, the set. We don't know about this stuff. Oh, you stayed late, Al. Which by the way, if you're just joining us, you've got Mr. Butterfly Stretch himself. You guys stretch now, boys. Keep them growing. It's nice and loose. You know what I'm saying? Nobody has a butterfly stretch. Nobody. What is the voice? That's your character? [laughs] I am the fantasy reaper. Yes. I have taken names all year long. Oh, you tried to take another one from us. Are you blaming me for Christian Watson? Yeah. Well, I let go of my grass upon him and he came back to me. I overpowered you. And we've got Ted. Oh! It's 1999. Yeah. Can you feel it? Fred Hurst. The dream come true for Mike. I don't have a mustache and it's really gross. Oh, you look real. Why you like Mike? I came scataboo last night. I came downstairs and had a rest. The wife was not happy about it. Yeah. You did it. That makes me happy. Yeah. The doosers we've got, we've got a Packer game referee. Oh, look at all the flags. Author of the script. Very nice. Oh, Al Borland with thousands of flags for the record. Yeah, that's why you won last night. [laughs] And I threw a flag on us. I'm saving this. And the electrical substation, the Falcon, dressed up as the electrical substation himself. I know for a fact he's very uncomfortable in that outfit. Which makes me very, very happy. Papa Josh dressed up as a deceased man. The invisible man's art. Yes, the invisible man. He is Kevin Bacon from that one, Hollow Man movie. Yeah, Hollow Man. Oh man. Smash to Purrb costume. Yes. We had a Thursday night football game. Can we get Kyle on the screen? Is that part of our production capabilities? Well, look into it. Well, look into it. Because he looks amazing. News to talk about, guys, a game last night fantasy forecast. Wheel of shame. It's hard to even. What else can you talk about in this game? But the dog. The dog of all dogs. Back from the hospital. You can't mean Josh Jacobs. I know that for a fact. You talk about the touchdown machine. Oh, Jason. Jason. He's a touchdown machine, man. Just caping. Yeah. Coping as hard as he possibly can. How did he do for fantasy? 39 yards rushing. Yeah. Okay. 20 fantasy points. 90 out of 90. When there were. There have been 90 games in which somebody had 20 carries. And that was the least efficient game of all of them. Yeah. Yeah. What? But what do you do with that? What do you do with that? 21 for 39 on the ground. Oh. Oh. Oh. Trying to stuff on the fly over here. You got to leave that in. I'll just get a screen grab. Yeah. I do. There you go. That's so much smarter. So Josh. Did you say the part where you. That was amazing. So Jacobs had 27 touches. 27. For 52 yards. The fewest yards per touch in Packer's history. For a player with 25 or more touches. To be fair to him. Yeah. He looks super fat. Yeah. And not go to football. And is outscoring Jonathan Taylor. Christian McCaffrey. James Cook. On this week. No, on a per game basis. He's played through two games. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. He's averaging 18. Do you want to play the bank on it game? He's basically averaging what beach on's average. Look, eight games for the Packers. Nobody has surpassed 50 yards rushing in eight games for the Packers. Yeah. It is an offensive line problem. As much as I would like to just blame fat Thor. Oh. The flags. Yeah. I got another flag for saying bad things about the Packers. That's right. I can't say much bad. But it was Tucker Kraft day. Yeah. I mean, six for 53. And a touchdown. Yeah. Matthew Golden. The infinitely targeted Matthew Golden. Seven for 79 and a touchdown. So. Okay. It's going to sound rude. And is he really that good? He is that good at being open all the time. Okay. Okay. Yes. I will accept that because. Wolf. Well, it's crazy because he. He drops a touchdown. It wasn't over the shoulder. That was tough. And then he just comes back and gets wide open again for another touchdown. Yeah. Everybody knows that Golden is going to get every target. And it doesn't even matter because he's just open all the time. Yeah. Now, do you have a picture of Ruffio from Hook? Yeah. Look at him. Look at Ruffio. That is fantastic. Bang a ring. So we had Golden. And then you had the man, the dog, Christian Watson. I've never seen anything like it. He puts up a hundo in like five seconds, goes to the hospital. Coffin up blood. With his broken ribs. He apparently has a broken rib. What's coughing up blood? He didn't want to go. People get surgery for that. But he. Well, they took him. They said we have to go check something out. And they went to the hospital. I guess they checked it. And everything was good. And then like a WWE superstar, he just kicks open the door of the of the ambulance. I mean, it gets back on the field and gets targeted with a hospital ball. Immediately. Jordan love. What was that? You already sent him to the hospital. It was the dream when you have a player go out injured to have him return. Like people thought maybe this was over for weeks. It's not like Watson hasn't had piles of injuries. On the other side, Chubba was absolutely a dominator. Seven catches. 22 carries a touchdown. 81 yards on the ground. Jalen Kocher. I was day with a touchdown at the end on fourth down. They could not give Bryce Young a moment in the pocket. Yeah. I would make fun of Chubba's inefficiencies, but that was pretty good. But compared to Josh Jacobs, he was an absolute superstar. He actually, well, I mean, he was over for a carry or for a carry on the dot. So, right? Chubba? Yeah. No. You need to learn how to math again, man. 20 carries for 80 yards. 22 carries for 81 yards. That's, oh, man. That's so far on. Are you kidding me? That's 3.7. That's under four. In the world of yards per carry, the decimal matter is a ton. I'm just saying, you know, 20 for 80 is four. Right. But that's not what you want. No, I know. But it's pretty close. It's pretty dang close. It's inefficiencies are a matter of two carries for one yard. He had a great game. I mean, he was alive. And he kept breaking tackles the whole game. Seven receptions for 38 yards. Yeah. How many carries were losses in the backfield where there were four defenders, four yards deep? I mean, he had big plays. He had an 18 yard run. He caught the ball. The offensive line was horrendous. I tweeted out because, look, because Bryce Young sucked. And I was like, man, did the clock strike? Midnight on on Bryce Young. Oh, fellas, I struck a nerve. Oh, really? Bryce Young. Hi. They're out there. Oh, my God. The pitch forks were out for me. You're like, you don't, you don't know ball. How you don't know ball? You don't know ball. It's like, I get it. What? The offensive line is horrible. Yeah, it is. It's horrible. Like the pressure rate was, I think, in the mid 40%. He wasn't good, though. That's. It was a combination. It was good if you got out of the pocket every once in a while. But I thought it was, it was interesting for, for Bryce who, like, completion percentage wise has not been good now for, so three weeks. Since the by-week, he completed 51% of his pass is 52 and 56%. 200 yards at 56% completion rate. That, like, that's old Bryce Young. Mm-hmm. That's Bryce, the Bryce Young that, that isn't good enough. So I just, it was very funny to me of, have like, they're like, no, everything is just the offensive lines fall. Is it? Is it? The offensive line is terrible for Jordan Love. It's terrible. Right. Jordan Love, maybe, maybe. Not compared to the Panthers last night. The pressure rate was very different. Yeah. But people, people have bad offensive lines. It's so tall. Yeah, no, I am the fantasy. It's weird looking over. Yeah, I'm large. I'm very large. Thank you, Kyle. I'm a little bit pressured on a higher percent of dropbacks than Bryce Young this year. Josh Allen, Drake May, Jaden Daniels. Oh, he's coming after you, Bryce Truthers. I, look, I want Bryce Young. You get him made more place. It was a tough environment. You're in Lambo. I want Bryce Young to be good. Yeah. We all want Bryce Young to be good. We want to be able to count on Tatt and Coker and things like that. Absolutely. It is Friday. Oh, my God. You know, I'm, we didn't know any of this was going to happen. Now I'm excited for every drop. And if you didn't do every drop. Oh, yeah. That's going to be a problem. Hey, check this out. Well, not every drop. It's one show, man. That's a lot of work for $100 gift card every week to a full clan supporter. For this one's extra from join the foot com. Uh, it's not spooky. Mike, it's spawning 633. No, I was saying the gift card. Oh, I got you. I thought you thought the name was, I don't even have the name in front of me. Uh, spawning 633. Congratulations. You get a hundred bucks coming your way. Let's talk news. News and notes from around the league. These are outstair. This is awesome. Oh, wait, hold on. Add Caleb Williams to the quarterbacks pressured on a higher percenters of dropbacks. Uh, I believe is Caleb the most accurate quarterback in the league right now. I would be surprised. But it sounds like it sounds like you think he is. I know that actually don't know that number because Caleb is completing 71% of his past. Uh, so no, he is not. It looks like she do her standards is one for one, baby. 100% completion, right? Uh, but if you want to go with some of the actually playing Joe burrow is leading the way. Okay, Caleb is right behind. Christian Watson confirmed dog. We talked about it. He seems like he's okay. We'll monitor it this week. I mean, yeah. DJ Moore, Dalton, Kade remained limited yesterday, keep an eye on those. That's gross. Lamar, Jackson, practiced in full. He'll be back. Here's a red alert. Carnell Tate did not practice again on Thursday. Not expected to practice today and is likely to be listed as doubtful. I got him. Ladies and gentlemen, I got him. Yeah, Carnell Tate is, is not playing. And so the Titans are doomed. Yeah, it's, it's going to be a Halloween horror show for the Titans this week. Mike liked it. Yeah. That's my line. I'm waiting for it. And I delivered him, uh, Jameer Gibbs, Almond Ross, St. Baron, both listed as healthy and back to full practices, which we thought Aaron Jones returned to a limited practice. So he may get some time this week. Okay. Breeze Hall remain limited. It's hot in here, man. It's really hot in this warm in those reapers. This is my winter reaper outfit. And I needed my summer outfit with the board shorts. Some sleeveless. Yeah, I needed the like tank, the tank version of this thing. Oh, mama. Um, oh, man. If I died in here, the irony, uh, all right. Breeze saw limited braille and Allen upgraded to fall. Ameka Buka. This is a red alert here. We heard he shed the non-contact Jersey. And then today, not practicing and they're expecting him to be listed as out. It's not official yet, but they're not expected to have a Buka back. I'm curious if this is Baker shed the glove. Oh, that's good. I'm still not going to start him until after he plays well. I'm curious if this is known to be concussion or because he's got the concussion and the foot issue, and I'm just curious which one it is. Because if it was, if we find out that this is for sure, he's not progressing through the concussion protocol. So it would be a little bit. You know, who's time it is? So you know what, uh, what player gets an upgrade if a Buka's going to be out, Jay? Oh, Ted. Why did we get another flag on the table? That was roughing the afro. I don't know. Okay. Yeah, Ted Hurst could get a chance to not be started by. AJ Brown downgraded to a DMP on Thursday and it's not going to practice Friday. And this is not his hamstring. This is the, this is a knee issue. This is the knee issue he's dealt with for years. This is the knee issue that the Rams pulled out of their, they were interested in trading for AJ Brown. And then when they looked at the degenerative knee, they decided we're not going to give up, you know, the, the capital for that. What was the knee again? The degenerative knee. Okay. Yeah. This, and so we're trying to talk about a serious injury. This is a show that should be watched. You're playing games with our back screen. This one, like this isn't, uh-oh. This is for sure. For me, as a, uh-oh. You could miss, uh, I mean, this is something that's bugged him for years. That is red alert for. Yeah, I mean, I, I don't think he's going to play this week. Trevo also not seen on Friday either. It was listed as an illness yesterday, but not out there today. I mean, Trevo is no longer in any starting conversations. He already wasn't. Yeah. That's fair. RJ Harvey added to the injury report with a knee injury. Saequan, Devonte Smith on TV and Wix all did not practice on Thursday. Saequan was seen practicing today, but Smith and Wix who missed last week. That's a cool combo. Smith and Wix. Uh, what is it selling? Sounds like a Smith and Weston. Oh, yeah, it's a brand. Thank you. Yeah, it's a brand. It's a brand. Do you ever heard of Nike? It's a brand. Um, but Smith and Wix, I, I don't know if we can expect them this week right now. In Jodarian price, the 21-day window is open. Did you say Weston? Yeah, I did. Like the hotel. Yeah, I did. And I said Smith and Weston. Oh, it's not the brand, but it is a brand, though. Weston is a brand. It is. Yeah, it's a lovely hotel chain. Uh, and Jodarian price could be back soon. I feel like that news was really all over the place. Oh, man, those, those Seattle Seahawks running backs. Well, I look, I've gone back. I mean, there are, there are a lot of explosive plays from Jodarian price. His role in this offense is going to be committee, but he's going to make plays on this, on this offense because, you know, and Charbonate was good enough to take carries from Walker last year, whether you believed he should or shouldn't. They believed in him enough. Like they're going to give the ball to those guys. They're not going to be in the market to trade for somebody. And we'll see if price can have a better second half of the year. We'll be right back. Let's jump into the forecast. Fantasy forecast presented by Pricebeaks. I'm, I'm in awe, I'm in awe. If there's one episode a year that you need to go to youtube.com/thefantasyfootballers, it is the Halloween show each and every year. If you want to see Ted Dursh reborn. You said you came down the, uh, the stairs today and the wife was like, cool, no mustache. And I was like, I did it for the nookie. She was like, no, get your mustache. Oh, man, matchups we covered yesterday. Ravens, bills, Titans, bangles, Cardinals, Cowboys, Vikings, Lions, Raiders, Jets, Browns, Steelers, Falcons, Buccaneers, six to go. Colts, Jags starting us off. Colts are two and five circling the drain, trading their best players. Jacksonville looks good each and every week. Four and two coming off the buy 10 point favorites. Overruners 46 and a half. Wild wild. Leading the division and by when I say leading the division, Jacksonville's four and two, the Colts are in second at two and five. Did you realize that? What's there in the Texans are two and five and the Titans are one and six. Wow. Right now, Jacksonville just owns everything. By the way, the Reaper has an Apple watch. I noticed that on the camera. You kind of know what time it is. That's right. You got to set your appointments to pick people up. Travel Lawrence is my start of the week. Jason, you went with Bayshall tooton. Parker Washington is a must start every week. Let's say you had to start another pass catcher for Jacksonville. It would have to be Jacobi Myers. Is that over Britain Strange? I would go with Brent Strange. Yeah, I mean, either one is fine. Britain Strange is probably a more. A player that will be started more because he's a Titan. And I've got him as a low in Titan one right now. He's like my Titan to 11 or 12 on the week. So he is startable, whereas obviously I don't have Jacobi Myers in the top 10. But Myers is coming off, you know, a 10-target game. So I would say that he is certainly worthy of being in the. Yeah, he's a flex play. Brent Strange over the past three weeks is getting more involved. We got a 23% target share. There was. We have actual thunder going on in massive amount of thunder. You probably won't come through. No, but it feels like Halloween. Yes, this is weird. The other. Did you finish your thought there when the lightning started? The other side, question marks galore. How much work does Jonathan Taylor get? If. And does it say something about the trade? Josh Downs requested a trade. It's really hard for me, not that I would ever start Josh Downs. But I don't know how much he's playing. Keenan Allen? He's here for the records. He's the one dude that could get. I mean, to me, I would play Keenan Allen. Keenan Allen has also requested Josh Downs get traded. Yeah, Keenan wants receptions. And he's. I think he's gonna get a lot of targets in this game. This is a good matchup for receivers. It's a past funnel defense. It's very difficult to run on the Jags this year. And decently easy to pass on them. And you're going to need to pass the ball. So I actually think both Josh Downs and Keenan Allen with with Tyler Warren out are okay plays this week. Keenan's on the countdown. Well, I mean, Tyler Warren's expected back, isn't he? You just said that Tyler Warren out. I thought he was expected back. He's been limited this week. I think there's that change things for you, Jason. If he plays. If if Tyler Warren is active, I'm less, I'm less bullish on. So he's trending in the right direction to play. Okay. Which is what we thought in the beginning of the week. I am, I'm nervous about Warren. Yeah, I am nervous about every single offensive piece. Well, I'm sick because of the injury. Yeah, it's a Jacksonville defense that is pretty good. It's a cult's offense that been pretty much a disaster. It just it this game's not even you know it's on the road. I just feel like it could be a bloodbath. Yeah, I think it will be. I mean right now what is what's the line? Minus ten. Yeah, that's I think that's the expectation is is a good spanking culture. The only team in the NFL to lead and trail in every single game of the season. Impressive. That might not last. The Los Angeles Chargers. For John and the Taylor sorry they're like we're if we don't trade him because we want to build around it. Yeah. The running back. Yep. But what they did was get rid of a legendary guard. Yeah. Who still he started. They got a lot for them. They did. But I'm saying he's you'd call it. They got about a sauce about a sauce gardener of the forum. Oh no, no they didn't get one. They didn't they didn't I feel like they didn't get much for him. I thought that I can't remember it. But I remember feeling like it was okay. But my point is like you're building around running back and yet you made your defense worse and your offensive line worse. Right. Like yeah, I mean there it seems like they're seems like they're tearing it down. That does not compute. He's still the face of the franchise. I I keep going back and forth on whether or not I do. I don't know. As of this moment, I think they just have to they have to trade them. Well, the river mill or five. Yeah, it was a three and a five. Yeah. I mean, you you were going to have to extend him. So the story there was Chris Ballard chose not to extend him and then you got Chris Ballard. Well, yeah, well, Chris Ballard. Sure. I'm just saying. Chris Ballard is the one that decided in the offseason not to extend him. And then, you know, that meant that his commitment to this team long term, what they were going to do was going to change. So I'm just insane. Yeah, we are getting the most lightning and thunder I've ever heard an air zone. I think you're bringing it man. I'm not sure some station. Yeah, I I feel terrible about starting anybody on the Indianapolis Colts outside. We did just get Tyler Warren will play. Okay, so he's active. I'm nervous. The chargers, oh and six. The Rams three and four Vegas line Los Angeles minus six and a half. What? That's wrong. Yeah, somebody put that in wrong. There's no way the chargers are favored. That would be the Rams by six and a half. The over unders 45 and a half. I watched the doc live update in front of me. One letter off. He said, yeah, that's true. Dude, it's just like a decimal for the yards precarious. It's just one. It's just once. A little tiny little detail. You're trying to argue that 20 for 80 and 22 for 81 are vastly different. Yes, I am Jason. It's not vastly different. That's why I'm okay. Goodness gracious. The the chargers. Where are we? We get to play the Rams. McDaniel's still employed. That's where we are. We in Harbaugh was the quarterback for the chargers. They went one and 15. That was the last time he and any capacity lost seven consecutive games. It was 2026 years ago. The offense for the chargers. I don't think people like we know it's been bad, but it is not bad. It is the worst. It is the worst points per game. 30 second. EPA per play. 30 second. EPA per dropback. 30 second. Turnovers per drive. 30 second. They are abysmally bad. Who do you start? I'll start. I'll play lab. He's a full practice. He's going to be back from the concussion. Maybe the time off. Yeah. He's maybe he's a little healed. We've only seen a little bit healed. Maybe we've only seen a healthy lad McConkey for part of one game. Yeah. And he was very good. He is incredibly important to this offense. He's talented. I will still play him if he's active. Everybody else. Hard pass. Hampton. Hard pass. If I can get away with it. I don't want to start any other chargers tonight. I'm hopeful that coming out of the buy. Maybe they helped figure out the offensive line a little bit because that's the core issue here. The pressure. They can't run. The offensive line has been bad. You can't pass because every time he drops back to pass, he's got guys in his face. Hopefully they fixed some of the offensive line scheme issues or whatever it is. But until we see that, it's kind of like Baker. Like I want a game proven once. I got some names for you. Well, by the way, Herbert's prize picks projection on passing yards is 202. That is the third lowest of any quarterback. I that makes sense. I mean the let's discuss. It just feels like not going to be the first win. Hampton or Jonah Coleman against Kansas City. Oh, against Kansas City. That's a brutal decision. I would play Hampton. Jonah. Man, let's see Jeremiah love. Jeremiah love. I think it's a great play this. Jordan Mason against Detroit. Aaron Jones is going to play Detroit stops the run. I'll play Jordan Mason. Well said, Andy. Well said. We're getting annihilated. This is unbelievable. I mean, I don't think this is going to come through in the audio, but we've done this. We've been in this studio for I think all of our cars have exploded with hail. Like six years, seven years. I've never we've never had what's going on outside like this. No, there's a decent chance of power goes out. True. Because of the substations here. No, I think I think Hampton and Hampton are Braille and Allen in a committee. That's the last one before I talk about the round. Is Breeze Hall going to be back? I mean, he's been limited all week. I think he was getting limited practices in last week too. So trend wise, it would seem like he would, but there's a chance. So Breeze battery backup, right? A little bit. Aaron Glenn, let me throw a flag on that. Oh, I can't reach him. A questionable for the game as he looks to return from the quadricep injury. That's all we got so far. I didn't say anything and you're throwing them at me. His aim was poor. I think he was trying to get it to the Reaper right now. Matthew Stafford in the Rams. Where are you with this offense? You're not going to have Adams for a while though. There was a report. I want to mention this. The most recent report on Devonte Adams is that they expect him to be towards the front end of the six to 10 week situation. That's good enough, which I think would be week 13. Kyron Williams, Blake Corham, Blake Corham's outscored him for three consecutive weeks in terms of average or the average has been better for three weeks. Kyron's been still very, very good. Both of them, I think you start in this matchup. Yeah. Pukinakua, he might not be 100%, but he's 100% in my lineup. Yeah. We have five plus catches and 15 consecutive games. That's the longest act of streak right now for Pukinakua. I think that's it. I don't know if I get, well, Colby Parkinson did not practice Wednesday or Thursday. Yeah. That narrows it down. That is the, so if Colby Parkinson was healthy and active, I think I would rather start him over Higby as a younger guy more touchdown threat. I mean, Davis Allen is scored in recent weeks. If Colby Parkinson is out, then I think Higby is someone that you can throw in there again. I think you've got enough options that tied in. Yeah. To not mess around with the, I'd play, it feels like a feast or fame in situation. I'd play a conque over the Rams, guys. Yep. I'd play, I'd play mayor over the Rams, guys. Fryer Muth. Yeah. I think I would. I mean, you can try to go back to the well there, but that's not an area where the charges have been vulnerable at all. They're number two in the league against tight ends. So that concerns me. Like I would at least want it to be favorable if I'm taking that risk. Sure. I don't know if Jason, you played Chig over Higby. I would play Chig. Yeah. I mean, genuinely, no joke. I have about Chigby. I have this question in our league of record. Chigby, if I can get both, and we don't have those other level guys on the waivers right now. So like, you know, the question is Mark Andrews, Mike Gassicki, Cade Aughton, Darren Waller, those are the names that you're going to be choosing between the Rams guys. Well, yeah, fair. You know, the Rams guys versus that level of player. By the way, Matthew Stafford, if you weren't aware because the Rams have been kind of a weird story so far this year, he has a head of pace for passing yardage from his MVP season. He's leading the league. So there is opportunity every week. It's just being spread around. Like you said, you had a Parkinson, Higby, Davis Allen, Mumfield, you know, different play at the both running backs or catching passes. Just, but Stafford kind of fits the mold to me of like the, you brought up Donald's second half. Like Stafford's kind of being completely ignored. He's probably a spot start emergency start type of guy. He is, but it's them. This is the most perfect Matthew Stafford line last week against the Las Vegas Raiders. The team scored 35 points. He threw three touchdowns and he was the quarterback 12 with 17 and a half points. He only had 195. So that's low for him compared to the rest of the year, but like three passing touchdowns and you sneak into the top 12. The Chiefs are five and one. They go to Denver to take on the five and two Broncos who got right against Arizona because all teams do Vegas line Kansas City minus one and a half over under 40 and a half. enough. It's a battle for the top of the AFC West division. This is the game where Ken Bohn went wild in week one, 31 to 10. I am not scared of Denver's rushing defense anymore. They are not good. And you can look to, you know, even the Cardinals last week, you know, bam, not getting opportunities. The Cardinals didn't have their top guys. There were still a handful of plays where I was like, man, this doesn't seem like the same rushing defense. They're 20, third on the year and fantasy points allowed a little bit more middle of the pack when you adjust for, when you look at adjusted, but I am not afraid is what I'm saying. Ken Walker should be able to bounce back in this one. My home's I'm afraid. I wouldn't be playing him against agreed. Was he right? If he came back, are you going right back to the well with rice? Are you trying to like Caleb Douglas or was he right? Douglas off of the big game. I've still played rice. Yeah, at that level, I'd go rice. I'm not looking to shove him in the lineup, though, coming back off of the hamstring issue that is kept mopper waiver hotness. I think both have the chance, you know, for big games. Rushy Rice has the chance for re aggravating the hamstring issue that's kept them out. And this isn't a good matchup. I agree with you. You can run on the Broncos, but their past defense is, you know, is one of the better ones out there. McCoy, Lemon, waiver, hotness against Washington. Oh, man. With, uh, Wix and, and it seems like they may have probably missing. I think I go, McCoy. Okay. Jonah Coleman, part of the storyline here with Denver on that side, Bonix. Jonah Coleman, I have a very important question, Jason. His prize picks projection. Oh, gosh. It's 55.5. We round down, baby. That was the crash. Yeah. Yeah. I wasn't sure if he was willing to do it, but you see Dobbins sarcastic locker room comments with the dog. He came off looking not good spicy. Yeah. I mean, he thought he was going to get him. No, he, he, it was a bad look to me. Like, I've always liked taking Dobbins and I was like, he's making or like kind of trying to justify. He was, he was making them tell him how good he was. Yeah. He was like, how'd I do? How was my run? He's like, what was my app? I was, I was dominating. Then we blew him out out and, you know, I got some more rest. And maybe that is what happened. Genuinely, you can make an argument that Dobbins was first man up and got more work early and, and when they were blowing out the Cardinals, then, uh, you know, that was more where Jonah Coleman took over. Maybe, but also Jonah Coleman is a potential future. And JK Dobbins isn't. And JK Dobbins has been terrible. Maybe you were okay in the beginning of that game against the Arizona Cradinals, but you have been terrible this year. So I think they have to move Jonah Coleman in, especially as a team that is considering their one of the teams that has reportedly called on Jonathan Taylor. They've been in the hunt over the last couple of years every time a big name. They wanted Walker. Yeah. They want to Walker. They wanted Christian McAfry when, when he was up for, so if I'm them, I've got to throw Jonah Coleman out there and say, let's see what we got in this dude. If we really try to rely on him. Dobbins is 3.4 a carry. Are you starting Dobbins or Coleman? If you had them both, because a lot of, a lot of Dobbins managers have picked up Coleman. I think I would go Coleman over over Dobbins. Yeah. I will talent at least, even if I don't, I wouldn't bet on Coleman getting more work than Dobbins, getting the first touch over Dobbins. None of that. But if they both got 10 carries, I would certainly bet that Jonah Coleman would do more with it. Yeah. This is not a full confidence. I'm saying, Coleman, I just, I believe that Coleman's going to take over Jalen Waddle, limited on Thursday with the chest injury in one game in seven weeks as a top 24 pick out of my life or top 24 finish. So you're not messing around. No, neither am I the New England Patriots at four and three Drake May on fire taking on the one and five dolphins. Just got the first dub games in Miami. Vegas line is New England minus seven over under his 43 and a half on the 18 implied points for Miami. New England going on the road to take on the dolphins. We heard all the news about AJ Brown. It doesn't seem like, like I'm at the point with AJ Brown based on the performances, the way he looks. And now this news, if he's active, I'm not playing. What do you think about that? I think that's fine in this game. Yeah. I mean, the dolphins have not given up any good games to wide receivers on the season, basically. They're people can just win other ways. Yeah, they can win other ways. They've got a good corner. So, yeah, I mean, if he plays, I'm not playing him. And, you know, there might be areas here where, you know, maybe if you're doing, if you're doing price picks and you want to look pop Douglass's way or Hunter Henry's way or whatever, because they'll get a little bit more work. I think 100 Henry's a great play. Yeah, but I'm not sure that I would want in my, in my leagues to start just because AJ Brown is out, I'm not going to go ahead and throw another wide receiver in confidence in this man. Yeah. Like, so Drake May, Ramondra Stevenson and Hunter Henry are your three patriots. Yes. And Henry, I do feel strongly about I play him over again. Cade. I play him over strange. I think pits is a discussion, depending on whether you want some more upside, like Henry's not going to go off for 80, nine yards and two touchdowns. No, but he will go like seven for 54 with a chance to touch down. Yeah. On the other side, I would Corey, go ahead. Corey Kiner should be stashed. Sure. Absolutely. In the final. Corey, which Corey Kiner running back for the New England Patriots. He's, he's gotten a couple carries here and there over the last few weeks. Looks like he's got some juice. And with everything that's going on with Travion Henderson of him being bad at football, being injured, seeming like the team had just, just their, they're losing their patience with, with Henderson. They want to trade him. Have you seen him? And I can't block a thing. It's unbelievable. You put it out there and you feel more incompetent as an office in totality. I mean, you can't have him block. You cannot, if you put him out there, put him out there and we've seen this with other players where the way that they help pass protect is a leak out and you dump it over. Don't, don't let him block anybody because he can't do it. I had my head in my hand because then the defense knows when Travion comes. Sure. It's a play for him. I mean, it's just, it's really, really tough, especially for a player who in college was known as a great pass protector. I don't know what happened. They need to trade him. Please, Patriots, trade him, trade Travion Henderson and give him, I'm not saying he'll be better somewhere else and figure it out. But dude needs a fresh start. He's not going to work. Yeah. Give him a chance. Ollie Gordon. He has a must start at this point. He just gets too much work. Caleb Douglas. Is he, he was a hot pick up this week. He's looked good in his two starts. You find the gets consecutive starts where he's healthy. I, I don't think it's the end of the world to throw him out there as a flex this week. I, I thought that Malik looked better last week. Not good. Not going to go that far, but he won. And I think they've scored over 20 points and back-to-back weeks. I don't think it is going to be easy to do that against this Patriots team. But yeah, I mean, Caleb Douglas. He, would you play him or Metcalfe? I'd play Metcalfe. Okay. I thought so. But would you play Ted Hurst? No, no, no, no, no. So I'm very excited that Baker's glove is gone and he may be throwing the ball a bit more. But so Caleb is like kind of more desperation flex for you. Can you feel that? Yeah, but I think he's a fun one to throw in there. Sometimes you put a desperation flex where you're like Antonio Williams, my, my sleeper or Caleb. I would go. I'd be willing. I would go to Caleb. Okay. Yeah. All right. Let's take a break and we've got some Sunday night Monday at football to talk through and we still have the fantasy face off. All right. At home, obviously, during that break, you were probably butterfly stretching like we were. Stretch them out. Please. So hopefully you're growing. Keep those ruins loose. Keep it growing. It's great. That's what we always say. Philadelphia two and five Sunday night football taking on the one four and one commanders. Vegas line is Washington minus six over under 40. Someone has to win. That's how that line feels. Goodness gracious. The Philadelphia offense is dead last in yards per play this year. Sean Manion might need to start updating his link in profile. Yeah. I'm sorry. No, it's fine. He was a good quarterback. I never said he was a good offensive court. He was you hoped. He was a good quarterback, huh? Yeah. College. I was going to say like a lot of years is not starting. Jaden Daniels. Because they were see Derrick Henry's high school stats dude. Pretty good. What what are your starts at difficulties in this one? Because I feel like Philadelphia is basically we could spend the rest of the show discussing the disgusting with Philadelphia. What do you do? Running back. What do you do? What do you do? What do you do with Goddard with Tanner McKee? The the Philadelphia running back situation is difficult of. I mean, Pierce's I are. Safe one. Yeah. So it was it seemed like it was going to be easy halfway through the game. Last week when Barclay re injured himself and Damien Pierce was getting all the work. You're like, okay, he'll be a top waiver pickup. And then he has an undisclosed injury. Take some out. He goes to locker room. He goes on to IR. So he's gone Elijah Mitchell had been brought up and then Elijah Mitchell's getting all the work at the end of the game and yet Now jaden blue is on the active roster, but Elijah Mitchell was was put back on the practice squad That's just transactional. Yeah, I think so. I'm I do believe that it's gonna be Elijah Mitchell as next man up Should say one not be able to go and even if Okay, I guess would you say one place? Are you even gonna play Barclay after and he scored if Barclay plays all play Barclay If Barclay doesn't play, I'm not playing anyone I think it would be the commanders are the third worst matchup for fantasy running backs right? Yeah, exactly. No, that's why I'm not playing anyone else. Barclay is is good enough if he's healthy He's not gonna play though. I mean, I mean, I feel like this is a hypothetical that's not happening He didn't practice yesterday didn't practice Wednesday. Well, I bet you he's playing. I'm saying I do I'm saying I think he could be active, but he's not healthy Hmm, and it's a Sunday night game. So you would be if you'll be shocked if he doesn't start the game I'd be nervous about playing him if you're locked in to Barclay this week It's Sunday night. You need to have an escape hatch. Yeah, if you're going that route then you can have Elijah Mitchell I guess yeah, you know available on 200% of leagues Sir, not in the League of records. Oh man. You're on it Makai lemon was seven for 67. Would you rather play Makai lemon or Caleb Douglas? Makai lemon. Yeah, I'll go lemon if Smith or Wicks are active. Does that change? Yeah, a little bit. Yeah, for sure if Both of those guys have not practiced it all this week. So you guys have ever been in a Place that's 200 to 250 degrees Yeah, well, I mean it makes sense like my old body It was who's warming that thing My my old body you should have dressed up as your old self for Halloween. Oh My god, give me a month. I could do it Now I mean you're working out obviously with the butterfly stretches in the yeah staying loose. Yeah, look at him You're a little more tan today too. Yeah Oh boy, you messing around with Darius Cooper if Smith and Wicks are out. No, no I would expect this to be the game where like that bounces around, you know, it's a Goddard It's a Cooper. It's a lemon. We'll see Rishad Wattard Goddard should be fine He had seven targets last week at tight end a good matchup. Yeah, should be yeah, should be fine the other side Rashad white should be starting a football game 2026 a game not only not only a football game guys a football game in which The commanders are six point favorites You got to play for satellite. Yeah, you probably do He should get enough work and while the eagle's overhampton. Yes, the Eagles are the Good run defense and usually because their offense is Good They're able to like lock people down But their offense is not kept up the other teams have the lead the other teams are winning And so you continue to rush you can so they're so bad. Yes, well, that's what I mean They're now they're middle of the pack and I think a lot of that is their offense their offensive struggles I has hurt their defense. So I'm not scared at all. It's not a matchup. I'm avoiding Mike You are confident in digs as a start of the week. Yes, I've got chigga conco So we have a couple of past catching options for Jaden. Is that made Jaden a pretty solid start this week? You guys would always play him I'd play Jaden. Yeah, and then if you're looking for a sleeper and Tony O'Williams this week could be interesting Yeah, he did you play him over lemon Mike? Or would you go to lemon just with the if And the injuries matter for that decision. We're finally going to see this team without McLaren as part of the gameplay. Yeah Man, it's a tough one. I think I do. I think I'm going to play Antonio Williams. It regardless Williams being available in leagues going into this weekend is silly he should he should be stashed every week. He absolutely should be rostered in or he's stashed and every single yes in case the Game plan is now without Terry McClure and we have we are putting Antonio Williams into more of that role I would personally definitely be on the macaillam and start decision just because of a consolidation of targets If you like chagging you likes to fund digs Maybe it is Antonio Williams and those other two guys, but you don't you don't know on the Eagle side assuming that Devante Smith and Duntavian wicks don't play I mean macaillam and should have a more guaranteed workload and I think he's a better receiver. Yeah, Kyle Gorgon by the way more than Tanner McKee fair Kyle the board. Go again with like He said he he's feel sad about his life knowing he's going to start Rashad white Rashad white over Amari and Hampton in in real life, which is depressing. That is A visible the bears and Seahawks face off on Monday night football five and two bears who just made the big acquisition of Jeffrey Simmons The four and three Seahawks who looked like their old selves last week When it comes to the defensive side where this one's in Seattle. Yeah, it's in Seattle. They're favored by three the overruners 46 and a half The odds to win the NFC right now The 49ers are favored the Seahawks are second The Rams are third The Vikings are now fourth and the bears are fifth. Wow the Vikings are ahead of the bears Seattle's defense is number one in yards per game allowed. They looked Absolutely unstoppable or I should say They stopped everything last week It makes for some interesting ceiling discussions around the bears offense this week on Monday night football I cannot see a world where the bears come out and Vote race Seattle. I don't either. So it's you know Seattle at this point You know the Seattle defense is entering that category where you're like I'm just gonna play them no matter what As it is. Yeah against anybody correct because They're just that good and they can make that you know, they make one big play Caleb's got a lot on his shoulders this week. This is brutal. I think this is brutal We've been talking about the Vikings like man. Can you really start guys against the Vikings? They've just been shutting everybody down the Seahawks of the Seahawks are just as good and this one is in Seattle I mean right now when you adjust for schedule there are number two against Quarterbacks number one against wide receivers number three against tight ends number five against run-back Would you be playing like were you saying you play Minnesota against Detroit in Detroit because it's a I would play the Minnesota defense. I yeah, they're they're one of those teams who are right now I am willing to play them regardless of matchup. So Where's the confidence level on burden leveling a dunesay It's whipped there. They're they're all well not all sorry swift is a must play colston level is a must play and burden and out dunes air I can't imagine I have someone else on my roster that I'm playing over them Jayson is the only pass catcher you care about for Seattle. Yeah Emanuel Wilson the only running back you care about this week Certainly unless we hear that price or Charbonne are active Would that change Emanuel Wilson for you it would I like Emanuel Wilson when he's getting 24 caries But that's not gonna happen if if these other guys are active. I don't believe would you be keen and out on or row with dunesay Keenan okay, I would I would too. Let's make sure Kyle Do we know if Jeffrey Simmons will be active? I assume not with the trade just happening They're still discussing right now. Okay, that makes sense Mike variable injury updates for you. AJ Brown is gonna be listed for as questionable They will see where he's at tomorrow before traveling to Miami Trevo questionable Brian Robinson junior backup for the Falcons out Shane Steichen confirming that Josh Downes trade request was made and despite that he's going to play And then Jonathan Taylor John the Taylor despite The trade rumors will be playing as well. Well, maybe they will highlight Josh Downes or get him that This year has been punishment Yes, it has But we'll find out where is the punishment like they actually forced targets to Josh Downes Yeah, I'll tell you what getting a lot of Daniel Jones targets is a pretty big punishment this year man It's been rough. All right face off time Fantasy face off presented by prize picks All right, you two gentlemen tied last week on the Sunday slate. We were 10 of 12 by the way And then the tiebreaker ended up being tiebreaker didn't go as well Don't worry about that Mike did not win. They're sure he is shamed. Yes We So not having my mustache now for an extended period of time with just my chin beard I mean, I'm wearing the shame right now guys. We'll put another piece. All right, that's fine. I hope it's a mask spin it Spin that wheel. Wait, where's the wheel? Oh, I hear frantic. Let's throw a flag. Oh, no, wait, where does this substation go? We're wait, were you in the bathroom? He was getting ready to bring the the okay. Yeah, he's doing He's fine. Um, shall we. Oh, there it is. Oh, look at that. Oh, it's a spooky wheel Pumpkin zombie. Mommy's boy disco Dracula Tater [MUSIC] Tater. >> He's a potato. >> This is, it's not complicated. >> It's pretty simple. It looks a lot like the Mona Lisa. >> There is a zipper on the front mic. >> On the back. >> If you need it. >> I know what I mean. >> I wish the Mona Lisa had a zipper. >> Yeah, you were, you were having a hard time. >> Yeah, it feels like the zippers are real good call on these type of costumes. Oh, you get armholes too. This is easy. This is easy. >> You are Mike is a potato. >> I'm a potato. I told you, I've already got, well, you go to my camera. >> Can we put the, you can still see the moves. >> Can we put the fronters on the potato? >> Oh, yeah. >> Yeah. >> I feel like it works. There we go. That's the potato. >> Come on. >> Oh, hopefully I could see. >> Okay. >> All right, we are into our lineups here. Let's start at the quarterback position. Let's start with the potato. >> Oh, wait, wait, hold on, I gotta, I was, I gotta be. >> Okay, let's start with the Richard Simmons. >> All right, this is my Green Goblin. I'm gonna go with Trevor Lawrence more than 179 and a half passing yards. >> That's low. >> That is very low. It's a Green Goblin. And because it is me picking one of the easy Green Goblins, we know how that will not, it will not. >> I have a Green Goblin at quarterback as well. It's Joshua Allen. 224.5 passing plus rushing yards. I'm taking them more. >> I have Dak Prescott against the Arizona Cradinals, but it's a little different. It's rushing yards. 9.5, less. >> Oh, that makes so much better. >> I was so happy to hear that. >> Dak has not been running. He's been getting beat up a little bit. I think, I don't think you need to run against the board. >> Yeah, I was so happy to hear Dak's rush. I was like, he's not gonna get it. >> No, I know. >> And then you, you tricked me. >> Jason, let's go to running back. Running back, I have Mr. Jalen Warren, who's been sensational. >> It's so good. >> We've talked about, we think Pittsburgh's gonna handle their business in this game. And if they do, 14 rushing attempts for Jalen Warren. I'm taking more. He's getting more every game and should. >> I have Javante Williams in the cardinal game. 17 and a half rushing attempts. I think he's, he's been getting a ton of work. I think 17 and a half is reachable. >> It's warming up in this potato. >> Imagine being in this. >> Well, imagine being in a big potato. (laughing) >> I got Jalen Warren as well. >> You know, no way. >> I mean, cool, thank you. >> I got Jalen Warren as well, but I went receiving arts 23.5, we're going more. >> Okay. >> Wide receivers. >> Wide receivers. I'm going with Josh Downs. I think the highlight of the matchup is, you're going. >> Oh man. >> You're going narrative. >> The matchup is so easy. Come on, Josh Downs. Do something. >> I just, but he's Josh Downs. >> Third, look at the previous eight weeks. >> 32 and a half receiving yards. Not much, you can do that on four receptions. I'm taking more. >> So you got receiving yards 32.5. You've been pretty good at hitting the ones that don't sound like they're going to hit to us. But then they all work out like Malachai Field. Zay flowers. I have Zay flowers as well. >> I wonder what we did here. I went 8.5 targets. I'm taking the floor. His targets, it was at 8.5. Because I'm at receptions. >> Yeah. >> Six more. >> Okay. >> That'll be fun. >> If you get yours, I'll probably get mine. >> Yeah, I can't believe the difference. >> I get mine. >> You'll probably get yours. >> Any drop. >> Any missed target. You're going to be like, ah. Zay flowers. A drop. Jason. Don't be stupid. >> Tight ends. >> Tight ends. I am going with Michael Mayer, who, Halloween. 25 and a half receiving yards. He's been really involved. I'll go more than that. >> Oh, I have the most boring, I mean spooky. Tight end here. Daniel Belinger. >> What? >> Do you know who he plays for? >> No. >> I don't. Not the Giants. >> He plays with the Tennessee Titans, gentlemen. >> Okay. >> I told you, this is going to be the one that you will laugh. Daniel Belinger. 6.5. Longest reception. I'm taking last. >> That's my pick. >> How many receptions of game is he getting? >> About one. >> Oh. >> All right. >> Now, if he doesn't get a reception. >> Yeah, I win. >> Then he wins, yeah. That's fantastic. >> Yeah. >> My tight end is my green goblin. It is Brenton Strange. It is 14.5 receiving yards. More. >> There you go. Mr. Potato closing us out. That was Fantasy Face Off, presented by Price Picks. Download the Price Picks app. Now, and follow our profile at the FF Ballers today. 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