November 11, 2019 • 45 mins
Marcas Grant, Michael Fabiano and Graham Barfield are back together to recap Week 10 of the NFL! The guys start off with the biggest news of the week like LeSean McCoy's snaps being managed and Devonta Freeman leaving the game due to a foot injury (5:26). Next up, the trio went over the biggest questions from Week 10 surrounding Kyler Murray and Baker Mayfield (14:10), plus they also asked what is real or what is fantasy mirage (25:21)? Finally, Marcas, Graham and Fabs give you some potential waiver wire pickups to help improve your team for Week 11 (38:40).
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another edition of the NFL Fantasy Football Podcast. Its spearman
MG Marks ran alongside the Fantasy Hall of Famer Michael
Fabriano and the Fantasy viper Graham Barfield, and uh, Week
tin was sort of weird. I say, I know we
say this a lot, but Week tin was with a
lot of weird things happened, probably more on the field
in terms of than just in fantasy. I'm salty, bro,
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I'm still picking up my face from melting off from
Cooper Cup not catching against one of the teams that
had been the worst against the slot. And not only that,
Drew Brees coming off a freaking buy at home against
one of the most just vulnerable past defenses in the
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entire freaking league. Ten points, ten, no touchdown. It was
the lowest point total that a Drew brees Sean Payton
team has ever scored in a single game nine first
time they've ever not scored double digeon points against Atlanta.
And if you're a DFS guy, I had all kinds
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of stacks with Breeze and Michael Thomas and the rest
of my team's killed. I had Aaron Jones, I had
I had some some tremendous lineups this week. Okay, Ronald Jones,
great play, Christian Kurt I love what the hell is that? Like?
I don't outside of being frustrated with the Cowboys who
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I'm done with Garrett. I've been done with Garrett about
a hunter time during the Senior I've done with him again. Like, really,
dak is carving the vikings up and you don't keep
throwing the ball over one. It was established in the
fourth quarter, he was having a bad day. They sold
out to stop him. Keep throwing the damn ball. Anyways,
I mean, I digress, but this was a weird, weird
and Alvin Kamara too, Avin Maro. I know Marcus likes
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to trash PPR, which is fine, and I respect his opinion,
but I mean, like, if you're in a standard scoring
league and you have Alvin Kamara, he has sucked. He's
the touchdowns, he's been awful. Yeah, they've not been there. Saints.
Saints couldn't move the ball yesterday, which was just bizarre.
I mean, dan Quinn relinquishes, uh play calling duties and
that defensive line actually came to life, like yeah, yeah,
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they give up how many sacks? Five or six? Yeah,
it's so bad. And we'll talk about that too, because
that that was one of the bigger head scratchers of
the day around the NFL. I mean, you had you
have the Saints losing, yeah, the Chiefs losing to the Titans. Um,
you had a lot of weirdness going on on the
field in the National Football leagu on Sunday. So we'll
(03:01):
talk about that, some of the big questions of the week,
a handful of things that happened yesterday, and we'll get
to the bottom of whether they were real or whether
they were mirages. And then, of course, because it is Monday,
we will take a look at the waiver wire, which
shockingly has quite a few names on it this late
in the season. Maybe not huge blowout names, but it's
names that could certainly help you get through the next
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few weeks, so definitely we'll talk about that as well.
But before we do all of that, we'll go behind
the glass and talk to our faithful producers, Sere, Edward L. Murphy,
Esquire Murph, what's up. I don't have any football takes.
I'm kind of footballed out, but I will say I
get that. I love um your run nuns are always
very clever and funny, and I love this one, giving
paying homage to Oasis, who hopefully reunites, because apparently like
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this is the year I guess going into is the
year of a lot of bands reuniting, like like Raging
Machine coming back, Black Crows, my my chemical Romance. So
it's like, why not Oasis? I would pay tons of
whatever I have my bank acount because they liam and
all together and Raging gets the Machine coming back together.
Now it's just just like, I don't know, it's like
years too later. I was gonna say, I don't know.
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I feel like, you know, the way of the world
today is is kind of set up for Rage Machine
to come down. We need again. It's just like I
just not the original race really a new one we
need to reboot, all right, that's fair, that's definitely fair,
although I would say this if if Oasis does, you know,
reunite and come back, how long before Liam and Nol
have some big blow up that just submarines the whole
You have to hope if you get tickets on the
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tour it's one of the earlier shows because there's a
good chance that like he just might walk off. It's
just as much as like, you know, I'm a metal
guy in a freaking Molly Crue shirt. Um, you know,
I like, I like some of their music. I never
really got into them though, Like they have a bunch
of really good songs, but it's not something that I
really listened to like a lot. But I know a
lot of people incited about the big The big knock
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on them was that they were trying to be Beatles
clones a long time, which I don't know. Um yeah,
I feel like the Beatles did so much stuff that
it's hard to have a successful career, not at lea's
take a little bit from them. They're Yeah, they're just
a band that everyone knows, like Wonder Wall, the like, Oh,
that's kind of like cheese it on for me. I'm like, listen,
not to be one of those guys, but like, listen
to a couple of their Deeper Tractor earlier stuff and
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like their first album. It's like, that's a good rock
and roll fan. Like, I don't know, I'm a big
fan of theirs. Yeah, yeah, no, I you don't look, man,
I was a big fan of a lot of this stuff.
So it'll be interesting to see. I think. By the way, Eddie,
you know Can'trell is doing um an acoustic set downtown
Yeah on December seven. Yeah, I'm gonna be checking out.
That's gonna be fun. So all right, in the meantime,
let's do some news. Uh, we'll start with a little
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bit of kind of weirdness. I talked about some of
the weirdness, but one of the weirder things from the
week that las Shawn McCoy was a healthy scratch last
week or on Sunday, I guess I should say I
did not play at all, And afterwards Andy Reid said
it was in order to quote manage him the right way.
I don't oh fabs that Twitter was buying that. I mean,
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McCoy had been playing poorly than you've been having fumble problems,
you know. Yeah, and then guess who fumbles. Uh yeah,
Williams was out in fumbles. Um, so, I mean, I
guess the question is, like, what do we what do
we do here? The Chiefs backfield had been hard enough
to figure out already. Now if we're just healthy, scratching guys,
I mean, can we buy back you know, Damian Williams,
what are we doing? I don't know, man, I mean
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this has been the same thing for the Chiefs backfield
the whole year, Right, He's got a good matchup this
week though, Yeah yeah, I look, look, I mean he's
got a good matchup coming up against the former San
Diego Chargers. Yeah yeah. McCoy getting scratch yester year was
definitely not something I think we were all kind of
prepared for. Um. At the same time, though, I mean,
he came out and played a ton and I thought
outside of the fumble, I thought Damian Williams looked pretty
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good and obviously last week he ripped off a big
run play sixty eight two snaps. I mean, dar Daryl
Williams and and Darwin Thomps were basically not involved there. Um.
You know, if McCoy does kind back, I think by
now we know what Shady is at this point in
his career. And I also think we know the Chiefs
are you know, they're going to lean back towards giving
Damian Williams the lion share of the touches. The previous week,
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Williams was on the field over snaps too, So maybe
this thing is kind of shifting towards Damian Williams, is
you know, hand a little bit more um kind of
kind of going back and in his favor. But at
the same time, you know this is still liable to
just turn into you know, Lashawn McCoy getting ten fifteen
carries next week? Am I the only one that wants
Darryl Williams to be like the featured back there? No, no,
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you're not number one. I loved watching him play because
I see thirty one and I see priest Homes and
it's like, oh man, nostalgia. But he was damn good
when he got an opportunity. Whatever. Who cares what I want? Yeah,
no one, No one cares about what we think around
now exactly Marshawn Lattimore week to week. Suddenly next week's
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match up against the looks much better for Jens and
Mike Evans. Mike Evans wasn't playing well enough already now
he's not gonna have to face is one of the
few players who's had his number two. Yeah yeah, other news,
this one impacting you already for Monday night. The chances
are you already know about this in case you don't
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listen to this before the Monday night game. But George
Kittle is doubtful for the Monday night game. Um, any
of you guys interested in a Ross Dwelly perhaps, yeah,
if you're desperate. I mean, if you didn't get a
chance to pick up like I don't know, well Jack Doyle,
Mike is sicky you failed, Yes, even though child Rudolph
who was out there. Rudolph was out there. If you
didn't get a chance to get one of those guys, yeah,
sure him or Hollister your top place for tonight. But
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I think this is a huge Manny Sanders game. Yeah.
I know me too. George Kittle thinks screwed me in
our Dynasty League because I go, I go twelve personnel.
I have Hunter, Henry and George Kittle, so um, and
I and Hunter played Thursday night, so I had him
as my flex and Kiddle is my as my tight end.
And then the news comes Friday that like, oh man,
he's not going to practice again and things are bad.
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I'm like, god, damn it. So then I had to
play John nu Smith, who led the Titans and targets
and catches but didn't do anything with him, which inevitably
kept me from starting Damian Williamson. Now I'm probably gonna lose. Yeah,
oh well, oh well, um, so hopefully the hopefully for Kittle.
This is not a multi lead sort of thing, because god, god,
what if we don't have Kiddle for a couple of weeks?
And awesome? Moving on, Austin Hooper, who left the game
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with a knee injury on Sunday. He is reportedly going
to miss some time. Now we don't know exactly how
much time some actually equates to, but this is where
we are. So Austin Hooper, who was the type who
is the tight end one who didn't do much but
he didn't get a touchdown, so at least gave you
a decent mind of production before he left. Now he's out. Um,
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you know, I know we're gonna get to do Waiver
Wire a little bit later. But I guess this makes
Luke Stocker in play. Now, Oh my god, people. Man,
if we don't have Kittle and Hooper next week, we're
we're gonna be looking at some pretty dull, drum, tight
end options. Once. Well, although we did that, I mean
this week we had some. We had some heroes. Yeah,
we had Kyle heard Off. He was a hero. You know,
we had some. We had some pretty good plays there,
Jared if Cook was a hero. And if you were
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bold enough to play Howard he o. J Howard was
a hero. Yeah, I wasn't bold enough or smart enough
to play. Yeah, you know what, Remember I remember we're
talking on Friday about the Greg Olson thing. I went
in and took him out for John Hu once I
saw that Corey Davis was doubtful. I still won, but
god darn it, and now Olson's gonna get the Packers
of struggling, I know. I mean, no one expected Kyle
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Allen to come out and play as as well as
as they did. I mean, they're even in the snow there.
That was was fun. I love watching snow games. Yeah,
I love watching snow games from my couch. Asked me
to write, I don't want to have no interest in
playing or seeing that it was slipping around the ice. No,
thank you, dude. I when when I grew up in
Connecticut and from time to time I go to, uh
the old Patriots Stadium, you know what I mean, and
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they had like steel benches, and uh, I went to
a couple of those games in the winter when it
was really cold and snow and it's awful. I mean,
your your your asses frozen. Yeah. I was gonna saying, yeah,
it's awful. It's awful. So God bless those lambeau Field
Cheese headman because they're a lot brave and I am,
that's for sure. Yeah. It just seems really unpleasant pretty
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much in every way. Uh. Speaking of the Atlanta Falcons,
DeVante Freeman left Sunday's game with a foot injury, so
he's going to go have an m R. I on that.
I would think, Graham, at some point during the week,
we may see the Falcons signed somebody off the street,
because you know Smith is now on I R. So
that that leaves them with just Brian Hill in that backfield.
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So regardless I think of what happens with Freeman, they've
got to at least add another body at some point
that they do. You mentioned it, you know Smith's on
I R. Brian Hill came on plate. I thought pretty
well yesterday and we need to go back and rewatched
see what he did. But falcons, falcons going into New
Orleans guys yesterday and and just stomping stants and shutting
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down their offense. Outside of Michael Thomas was I was
just not. I was not completely. Nobody saw that. I
had some dude I had a I had a mute
him on Twitter who like took a shot at me
because I told him to start Drew Brees and you know,
I'm like, dude, yeah, people are insane. You're you're a clown.
People are insane. Clown. Yeah, there's you know, sometimes you
just learned not to, you know, put stock into what
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people are. I know, but sometimes it's frustrating. Hurt people,
hurt people. And that's probably that that should be Twitter's tagline,
actually hurt people. May have maybe that would have been
your quote at the end of the show. After this week,
oh man. Last bit of news. James Conner is expected
to be back this coming week. He's been missing time
with a shoulder injury, so hopefully he's back on the field.
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It's been weird because Jalen Samuels has played well, but
not so much as a running back. I know they're
trying to kind of shoehorn him in as a running back.
Trey Edmond has been the actual running back there, and
and Jalen Sanguels is sort of like a weird pass
catching hybrids. What it was at Inc States. You you
kind of played tight end, he played a little full back,
played special teams. He still played special teams for for
them yesterday. Yeah, I think it's like the first starting
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running back in the league. That that's what they're down
to place special teams and start for their teams. Which,
by the way, Trey Edmonds had an interception yesterday, which
is sort of wild. I don't know if you I
didn't even Yeah, the Rams ran a fake punts and
Johnny Hecker through it, and I believe Trey Edmonds is
the man who got the interception. Uh Now, I think
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in most leagues, you know, he would he wouldn't get
the points, but it would be the specialty. And by
the way, the Steelers defense and special teams, we talked
about this on the show Friday, that defense is freaking sick. Yeah,
like they're putting a Patriot kind of number. Yeah, yeah,
look at the toys. They're not putting up twenty plus
every week, dude. They had twenty two yesterday. They have
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been scoring points like crazy, man. Yeah, they have really
guess they got this week at front seven is so nice. Yeah,
they've got the Browns and then the Bengals in week twelve.
That that trade to get well for that cost, But
it's worked out absolutely. So there that's pretty much everything
you need to know. Alright. Some of the big questions
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from week ten is it gets ready to wrap up?
Of course there's the Monday night game, but everything else
is in the books already. So a few things I
looked at from the week, and uh, figured, let's let's
kind of let's kind of break this down a little bit.
So let's actually let's start with we're talking about the
Steelers defense. I mean, are they the best defense in
fantasy football right now? I mean, the Patriots kind of
got carved up by Lamar Jackson the last week. The
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Niners have been good, but they're starting to show show
some cracks a little bit, especially if their schedule gets tougher. Um,
I mean, are the Steelers they look like a league
winner right now? Dude? I think so. This this Patriots,
this pitch of schedule is about to get a lot tougher.
They're gonna play Dak, They're gonna play to Shawn, they
gotta play homes over the next couple of weeks. And
we just talked about their stars yesterday seventeen against the Coast,
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a week before thirteen against Miami, which is strange. In
the last three games, the worst performance was against Miami
previous to the by fourteen eleven nineteen eleven. I mean,
this is Banana is good like again, this is like
Patriots good um. And you guys mentioned Cleveland Cincinnati and
then Cleveland again and then you're at Arizona Buffalo and
then Jets in the Super Bowl for fantasy championships. Oh yeah, man,
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I mean the Steelers defense is just must start material
at this point. That front seven is nasty and getting
Minka is obviously just set them over the top. Yeah.
Imagine if the Steelers had an offense like I was
thinking yesterday. I'm like, imagine Rams Steelers like last year
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big Ben Connor Brown against Girly like the and the
good Ram Jed goff I cut Jared goff I had
him and one Leingue I cut him done. He stinks,
he's regressed, he's awful, his schedule is tough. He's got
the Bears this week, good luck with that, and he
is he's killed he I mean outside a cop who
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was awful this past week, because Golf is just a
brutally bad quarterback at this point, like there is no Ram,
not one, not one that you can trust. Last year,
Gurley was just dynamite, Woods was incredibly consistent, and Cup
was great before he got hurt. And the only actually
the only guy who can trust in this offense right
now is freaking Gerald. That's it, yeah, right now. I
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mean the m w to beat the Rams is so
so simple because their offensive line is so bad, so bad.
If you can knock Golf off his spot and pressure him,
which obviously the Stealers have a ton of talent to
do it, right, Yeah, I mean, that's that's the right
And next week the Rams get the Bears. Good luck, Yeah,
have fun with who really that's gonna be? That's that
could be like a six progress this year to ye,
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they're still extremely good, still very good. We've done a
great job limit and I honestly feel like that's sort
of where Golf's downfall began last year when they played
the Bears and they roughed him up so serious, they
really got him confused. And from then on, I think
teams sort of, look, not everybody has the talent that
that Chicago does on defense, but they sort of use
that blueprint a little bit to try and get Golf confused.
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We definitely saw in the Super Bowl without a doubt,
and I think teams have started doing it this year
and and and it has not worked out. You know,
we're going to really find out the truth about Todd
Gurley next week. We really are. The Bears can't stop
the run, that they just can't they and that that
has been the one thing that Chicago struggled with all
season long on the defensive side of the football. And
if Sean McVeigh does not make every effort to get
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Todd Gurley at least twenty touches in that game, then
we know that Todd Gurley's clearly not healthy and is
not someone that we can rely on fantasy, although we've
sort of we've sort of found that out over the
last few weeks based on the numbers. But this should
be this should be a Todd Gurley game where they
lean on him to control the time of the time
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of possession and keep Pittsburgh off the field, I'm sorry,
and keep Chicago off the field. And if if Gurley
doesn't get that many touches in this game, this should
not be a blowout because the Bears offense is not
that great either. With with your bisky, if if the
race three touchdown, with your bisky, listen, I'll put Marcus
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Grant in New Jersey. I'll throw him out there against
that defense and you'll have to fifty and touchdown a lift.
You may throw a pick, but you won't have a
bad stat line. This is the week where we're gonna
find out if we can trust Todd Gurley during the
fantasy playoffs. This is the week. It only took your
biscuy a half to get ready here. He just said
to get warms warmed up yesterday to get going. You know. Yeah, um,
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they they're gonna have a different quarterback nation speaking of
the Rams, and and this is not you know, I
hadn't planned to talk about this, but it comes up,
so let's get to it right. Todd Gurley did not
have a kerry did not have a touch in the
fourth so stupid. Yesterday stupid. After the game, Sean McVeigh
was asked about it and he says, let me just
pull the quote right here, uh quote that was kind
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of just the rotation. Sometimes it's where we're getting because
I'm on both sides of the headset and there's a
lot of trust for our coaches to really be able
to say who's in and I'll click and I'll kind
of click back on and we know what we're going
on a stupid I like, I don't, I don't get it.
And last year we kind of heard this in the
playoffs into the Super Bowl that you know, we couldn't
get in a rhythm going, so we couldn't run the football,
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we couldn't get Todd involved. Like, I don't, I don't understand.
I'm beyond ignoring Sean McVeigh and what he thinks about
Todd Gurley, what he says about Todd Girl in the media,
because it's just been wrong for a year now. I mean,
he's he's just outright not been truthful about not only
Girl's health but his usage and just I mean, girly
is what he is at this point, right, But how
do you not how you don't give him a touch
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at all in the fourth call. This is also this
is also a coach. I didn't give him the ball
enough in the Super Bowl. I mean, especially in a
game that was close. It's not like they were getting
blown out. I know, and Girly was good man average
six yards to carry. What it's worth, I thought Girly.
Girly does not have the same lateral agility, not even
close previously. But I thought he looked pretty decent yesterday.
That was definitely some of the best he's looked all year.
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I didn't get it. And he scored what seven and
a half points something like to seven It's just seventy
three yards. I don't get it. Next week, I mean,
next week we'll find out if we can trust Girly
in the playoffs. Yeah, which I'm not. I'm not optimistic,
not optimistic staying in the division. It is Kyler Murray
a QB one for the rest of the year. I mean,
I know it's one thing to play well against the Bucks,
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but let's go back to last Thursday when he had
a really nice game against the forty niners defense. The
schedule is fairly nice. I mean, he's got the Niners
again this week? Are you really playing on the road
against your beloved Maybe I'm not somewhat lucky in Arizona. Okay,
it's I know, I know, I get it. He didn't.
He had he had fewer than two points going into half,
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and then he had that e d a yard touchdown
to Isabella which saved his bacon. Okay, I don't see
that happening in San Francisco. If I've got a quarterback
that I trust, maybe a little bit more than Kyler Murray,
uh like Josh Allen, I would play over him next
week because he's got Miami. I don't think he's a
must start this week. But he has been everything that
we sort of expected him to be. I mean, like
in the preseason, I thought he could be a top
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ten quarterback. He's probably The next three games are really tough.
I mean, they get Niners, then the Buy and then
they have the Rams and Steelers, and you know, for
what I mean, say what you want about the Rams,
but we just spent five minutes talking about how good
No dude, seriously, man again, I love Kyler. I love him, Yeah,
I love him to It's this this little schedule stretch
he's not Lamar Jackson. He's not Lamar jack He's not
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a guy that you're like, I don't care, Patriots don't
care throwing him off right now. Yeah, I'm not going
there with Kyler, but I do love him, all right,
I love him. Um. We talked about this a little
bit at the top of the show. Right there's the
Falcons Saints game. I mean, that was the one where
everybody kept checking back on the score and like, is
this is this really happening? Or that this exactly? I
don't know what was strange in New Orleans seeing that
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the Saints weren't scoring any points against Atlanta. Are that
Kan Barkley had thirteen carries in one yard one yard
against the freaking jack He had one more rushing yard
than all of us to find. And he's something that
he ain't right. He's not well. He also went for
X rays after the game and he's not right. I
don't know if we've heard anything about that. I have not.
I have not read anything. They have a Byowee coming up,
but it's a little time for him to rest. Um.
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But yesterday, I mean, was that more about the Falcons
maybe figuring some things out defensively. Was it about the
Saints maybe overlooking I'm trying to I'm trying to wrap
my head around exactly what went sideways. I'm letting you
take this one because I'm Falcons. Hats off to the
Falcons front seven man. They did a good job pressuring
Breeze and kind of knocking them off their spot. Breeze
dropped back to the past fifty five times. Alvan Kamara
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and Latavius Murray combined to get nine carries in this game.
So I was a little bit surprised to see Sean
Payne in the Saints lean so heavily on the pass.
I thought this was a good game for for both
Murray and Kamara potentially to get going on the ground.
And for whatever reason, you know this, the Saints offensive
line and um just really struggled to stop this this
pass rush. I thought the Falcons did a good job
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firing up some some kind of you know, pretty unique
blitzes and some stunts to kind of confuse Breeze, and
it worked. I mean, it's it was at their plan
to just well to just play awful defense until New
Orleans and priest right, it doesn't matter though, I mean,
Dan Quinn like dan Quinn relinquished, no no, no, right,
yeah yeah, Mark said, talked about yeah yeah, and it's
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just uh just further cements like what what is dan
Quinn's actual job, right yeah, and it's like what execut here? Um?
So there you go. Um. Oh. By the way, I
feel like we don't talk enough about Michael Thomas this year, right, Well,
he's just so I mean he's like it's just like
he's just so consistent. You just plug him in, you know,
you just go about your business and you don't worry
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about him. His game logs this year are seriously a
thing of beauty. I mean it's it's literally they're they're
so consistently ridiculous. It's it's absurd. He's got I think
he's got over eight yards or a touchdown in every
game so far. And and now he's got Dampa coming
up next. Yep, yep. So uh there we go. So
Michael Toom's just just good. Uh. Last big question from
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the week, Um, is Baker fixed? Now? He had that
he had to touchdown passes for the first time this season?
Like is he is he okay? Now Pittsburgh Pittsburgh coming up?
Sitting him don't want him. And you know what his
best games are, like seventeen points. They played Pittsburgh. That's
twice in the next week. Yeah, the only time. And
I don't have the schedule up in front of me,
but I know the only time that I'm gonna even
consider playing Baker Mayfield this and when he plays, I've
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just blown away that this was his first game with
more than one passing touch two. I mean, that's just
that's insane. He's so no, he's got him ten weeks
to get there. Pittsburgh did Miami in week twelve, so
he's just starting. Then, then then Pittsburgh week thirteen, No, no,
thank you. Then he's got Cincinnati. Then he's at Arizona
and then Baltimore in weeks sixteen. So there's gonna be
some games where potentially he can help you. But we're
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also like going to be through our heavy bye weeks
here coming up, right. So we've got four teams on
a buy this week. We've got four teams on a
buy in week twelve, and then we're done, and then
it's turning and then Turkey times. I mean, it's amazing
how much this change is week to week, and we
sort of know this, right, But a couple of weeks ago,
it was so bad for the Browns and we were like,
I don't know that I would trust Baker even in
a good match up. Now he comes out and has
a nice game, um, you know, against what is on
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paper at least a pretty decent defense in Buffalo, and
now we're like, oh, well, you know, the schedule is
actually kind of nice, so maybe, uh, maybe we can
slot him in there in good matchup weeks. So yeah,
well we'll have two of them at least. Yeah, So
I don't know, there you go, all right, So now
looking at things that are real or mirages from the
past week. Uh, and since we're talking about Cleveland, let's
let's start here. Because Kareem Hunt had a pretty nice
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game seventy seven yards on eleven touches, I mean, didn't
find the endzone right, And so it was a situation
where both those guys were also on the field a
lot at the same time. And and you know, we'll
talk about Arizona in a second, but I felt like
the Browns used their two running backs the way I
was hoping the Cardinals would use their two running backs
right where you had you had Nick whether you had
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Nick Chubb in the backfield, you had Kareem Hunt kind
of split out wide, or and the slaughter would have
you and he was like a pass catcher there for
this offense. I mean, can we count on this because
it's something we can kind of believe in going forward
with with Kareem Hunt. Now, hats off to the Browns.
They had a plan for Hunt and it worked. I
do think in a way this is something we can
count on because they have not had a number three
receiver all year long. They've been just been kind of like,
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either through injury or suspension, they've been just scratching the
bottom of the barrel for trying to get some production
out of their third receiver spot. And Hunt was that yesterday.
I will say Chubb still played eight percent of lot
by the way, and he's just I just think, if anything,
Hunt is going to be the receiver in this situation
and Chubb is clearly the lead the lead run. Have
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you guys ever seen a worse sort of attempt or
what was it? How many attempts to score a touchdown?
I don't need that. I've I've seen a worst team
down that that was bad. If you're gonna run the
ball just at least once, try to spread them out,
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just try to spot about if you're gonna run the
ball that at the three receivers on the field once
and try to get a little bit of spacing. My god, yeah,
whatever it was, it was. I mean, look, I'm not
a Browns fan. So at some point he became comical, right,
like just kind of watching them try to do this
and and not being able to score. And like even
the times they tried to pitch it to Nick Chubb,
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you just had two or three bills the find they're
just waiting on him as he got to the Yeah,
They're like, come on, just waiting on him as he
got to the edge, and you're trying to see if
he could score a touchdown there. All right, So we
go from Cleveland, where I felt like they used their
two running backs well to Arizona, which was kind of
a cluster. Um, David Johnson looked he was he was
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running like he had a boulder. He doesn't look right
at all. Um. He did line up in the slot
or out wide a few times, but a lot of
times it was just you know, he was in the
backfield or Kenyan Drake was in the backfield. It was
sort of a weird split and look and not not
like Drake was great yesterday either. I mean, neither one
of them really gave you a whole lot of Marcus
Grant PPR super six catches six yards um. At this point,
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I'm just one doing like is David Johnson, because I
don't know what you do with him, Like nobody's gonna
trade you for him, can't can't play him really much
coming up. I mean, it's just it. I almost just
wish at this point that the Cardinals would say, you
know what, he's not right, Let's just sit him down
for however many weeks. If we gotta put him on,
I r so be it, And like one, it saves
them the the trouble of trying to shoehorn him into
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the offense. And for us selfishly, it means if we
just we just know for a fact that he's just
not going to be playable, you know, the car the
Cardinals are just they're dying to have some some bodies,
some decent bodies to go but out their receiver Andy
Isabelle again pop yesterday. But I'm with you, man, like DJ,
you know that the Cardinals have their buying week twelve,
And if he was this banged up, why didn't they
just rest him these next two weeks and and just
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let him sit but let Kenyan Drake kind of do
his thing, kind of rotting your guys play Andy Isabelle
a little bit more. It's just DJ looked just extremely
it was. It was very man like. And you know,
again he's got the Niners coming up on the road,
so you can't play him. Maybe you play Drake. He
had that huge game against him, you know, last time.
Again it was at home, not on the road. So um,
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And I think a lot of it also is going
to depend on what we see tonight in this game
against Seattle. San Francisco comes out and beats the Seahawks.
Like there's still people out there that that don't know
that they're for real, because you know, they haven't really
beat that great team they beat the Rams. They're not
a great team. Um, Marcus, you know, I know he's
he's looking forward to this contest, But I mean, you
know that Niners, that Niners team comes out and beat
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Seattle on their home field tonight. Man, They're gonna have
a lot of juice for the following week in the
game that they should certainly win. So, um, that's gonna
be interesting. It's gonna be very interesting. I mean, you
guys are right selfishly, I want I just freaking give
the ball to Kenyan Drake when when Edmunds comes back,
he can be the backup until David Johnson is ready.
Keep him on the sidelines because that I have him
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in wondering. I didn't play him, I didn't touch him.
I just don't trust him. And that's that I don't
trust him anymore. I could promise you after that game. Yeah,
it was not great. Um, Like I said, Kenyan Drake wasn't.
He wasn't an great shake's eye. He wasn't Like I
just you know, it's sort of like what we asked
for in Tampa right where we just want one of
these guys to be the guy. How do you, by
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the way, how does your guy fumble like that yesterday?
And then Ronald, yes, Barbara comes in and plays the
final possession. We're all loving Ronald Jones. Finally happened. It's
finally gonna happened. He's ready to down the sidelights. No,
it's near him and he fumbls the just dropped it,
just dropped it. We just scored twenty points. Come on, no,
(30:29):
he did. But then like, but now there's that like
you're like a little worried because that final possession it
was paid Barber who got it in the end zone.
You're like, also after like three tries to um and
they've got New Orleans coming up, and their defense is
really tough against the run. I've I've always I've always
had this theory that just to spice up the NFL,
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there should be one game unannounced where they just played
with a greased up football, right just just you know
they did. They did that in a playoff game Cowboys Seahawks,
where the ball went right through Romo's hands as as
Martin Grammatico would have would have a Grammatic Cortez, No,
I think it was Grammatico. I go back and look
(31:10):
and uh yeah, that was the vassline ball, which which
also like in that game, by the way, like everybody
kind of you know, almost got a first down. Almost
he could have got a first down without scoring a
tipsdown and almost got a first down which would have
kept the drive going. Yes, yeah, that's more more more
fuel to my Cowboys fire today too, many people remember
that Romo plays like his click key moment when he
(31:31):
was just like one of the most entertaining quarters. It
really was. Think about it, like, I mean, being a
Cowboys fan, you know, it was certainly fun back in
the nineties. Lately, though, I mean lately we've actually been
you know, winning division. It's not really that great whatever.
You know, we've got into the playoffs, Carloss every year
and it's just playoff. We we know what the problem
at heartbreak are. I mean, maybe not as much as
(31:53):
the Saints last year, let's put it that way. But
I mean, like you remember Aaron Rodgers throw to Jared
Cooke who couldn't catch a cold on the sidelines, and
then Mason Crosby nailed that field. I mean, the Cowboys had.
It's a real heartbreakers, and that was one of them.
For me. Man, that's the Vassiline balance. Yeah, Man, telling
you like that would be I'm gonna I'm gonna write
Roger Goodell about that. See if he wants to see
the Competition Committee wants to put that into effect next
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be really interesting. Um. For the second time in three weeks,
Darius Slayton had a two touchdown game, I know, like
the whole two touchdown thing is not going to happen regularly,
But just bigger picture here about him kind of working
more into the rotation, especially you know, Sterling Shepard dealing
with concussion issues. Uh you know, I hopefully Evann Ingram
is back after the by and what have you. But um,
(32:36):
they need they need a compliment to Golden Tate in
that offense. And I'm starting to wonder whether or not
Darius Slayton has kind of become that guy. Yeah here,
so here's the Yeah, he was awesome yesterday and he
was the hero that everyone wanted and no one started
let's put it that way, right, Um, but they've got
to buy this week, and you've got four teams on
a buy, so can you afford to pick him up
(32:59):
and sit on a oster spot for two weeks? And
then Shepard might be Sterling Shepherd might be back, And
I've been told that Evan Ingram will be back after
the bye week, So it's not as if there's going
to be that many targets available. So like Slayton should
be like one of the three or four top pickups
off the waiver wire in any other week. I don't
even know that I would put in acclaim form with
(33:21):
the use him this week with the bike coming up.
You're right, it's kind of crazy that Slayton had seventeen
catches coming into this game and he just goes freaking
yesterday and yeah, just insane. And obviously the two scores,
so four teen targets for Darius Slayton. Yeah, it was
that was that was not projected, and Golden Tate still
had a monster game. Golden Tate did. Yeah, he has
still had of touchdowns. There are guys, are are we
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ready to affix the the dreaded bust label on sake
one Barkley. No, No, I mean he's he's a disappointment. Yes,
I'm not gonna I'm not gonna say he's a bust um.
I mean, I'm just trying to look at where he is.
I mean, I'm scrolling. He's he's RB eighteen right now.
I mean he also missed one a couple of games
with the high ankle sprain. Um disappointment. Yes, I I
(34:08):
can't quite go with bust Okay, all right, I'm just
I'm just saying, you know, alright, Okay, yesterday, Yes, the
last two games combined twenty three point six points. He
had the huge game against Troy because everyone crushes them,
seventeen points against Arizona, which I mean seven and at
seven point seven in Tampa Bay his last game, that
was the game that he got injured. Um, I don't know, man,
(34:30):
I mean, if he's out again, Uh, if it's gonna
make more time, I mean, at least they have a
bye week. But um, the good thing is that the
matchups down the stretch are really favorable. He's got Chicago,
Green Bay, then Philadelphia, which has got a tough run defense,
then Miami and then Washington, so he could more than
make up for it if he's able to come back,
and hopefully he is. That is really nice. You know. Obviously,
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I think it's probably it's probably likely that Barklay is
less than one. I mean, high ankle sprains tend to
tend to nag, and it's something that's probably been over
the last months since he came back. But last year
Barkley ripped off so many long games, and this year
we we saw it kind of early in the year
he had a couple of huge plays, but since he's
come back from the hankle spring, that kind of the explosive,
big rushing plays have not been there, and I think
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that's kind of what sunk is total yesterday. I just
I mean, my god, one one, I mean, I got
that's I mean, I gotta, I gotta talk to our
research guys. But I mean, like that's that's that's terrible. Yeah,
giant saw that. I mean that is just awful. John's
offensive line was overwhelmed yesterday by the Jets. I feel
(35:35):
bad Eddie. I see he's breaking out the clean up man.
I feel like Eddie has Eddie. Eddie has gone into
you know, the chase for Chase, right, that's kind of
where you guys are now, right, the chase for Chase
Young orally switched the tank mode ready. I would say that.
So Daniel Jones is gonna end up being one of
the more popular fantasy sleepers next year. Last he showed
he's showing some. I mean, he he's either had really
(35:57):
really huge games or really crappy games, but he's getting
this year of experience under his belt. Next year, you know,
you would assume everyone's gonna come in healthy. You know,
they'll do some work on the offensive line. He's gonna
end up being a sleeper. Yeah, last three games, nine touchdowns,
one and pick, so he's all about seventy six times.
But I mean, you know he needs to he needs
to get into the tiki barber Jamal not fumbling just
(36:20):
like that. That counts as a fumble technically, but like
he just got snatched. That was a That was a
badass play. Yeah, if Daniel Jones can figure out the
the fumble the fumbling issues be pretty fun for fantasy
because around Yeah, exactly, he'd be pretty fun. Yeah, he
got he just got his chain snatch by Jamal at him.
That's what happened. He got crap someone who started the defense.
(36:41):
I was I was very happy. That was the man
Jets defense had. Like nineteen they should have a decent day.
They had a good game. Yeah, last reel in miurage,
I mean Howard scored a touchdown like for the first
time in like ever. Um, it feels like if flow
chart lives. Yeah, all right. Isn't it strange that the
only stud tight end to stay against them this year
(37:01):
was Evan Ingram. Right kind of game, But Evan Ingram
is the only tight end who hadn't had like a
huge game against Ingram had a few bad drops in
that game too, that you're right that that's so weird
that is, isn't it? Because I mean, look, we had
a tight end against them, just not the one we predict.
It's in fantasy football fun. I don't know why you
guys play it. This is ridiculous. Um aside from the touchdown,
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I mean O. J. Howard four Texas for forty seven yards,
which in this day and age of tight ends, right,
that's amazing. It's like that all day. Um So, I
mean the bigger question is like do I do I
think that this is a thing now? I mean, can
we can we count on this? I mean the sainting Look,
they're playing the Saints next week. I mean buy in,
especially now if we're lovable, especially for losing Austin Hooper
(37:43):
for several weeks. He's sort of in play, right. My
guess is that is gonna end up on my site list.
Yeah this week. Look, if I mean, if you've been
holding onto O. J. Howard for this long, good on you,
and if you played even better on you, because I
definitely was wrong about it. But uh yeah, I want
to see way more. We've got to see at least
a couple of weeks where Howard is is at least
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involved in this offense, because for the entirety of this year,
until he got hurt, it was just the Godwin in
Evans Show. I mean, Howard was just around like three
or four targets per game. It's just that I just
don't necessarily think it's something we can trust. But obviously,
it was finally great to see him. It just took
him ten weeks to finally see an O. J. Howard appearance.
It was great, it was it was fantastic. So good
on you, all of you people who played him and
(38:24):
actually got something out of it, and that for those
of you who didn't. Well, previously to that point, the
most we saw O. J. Howard was that stupid foul
ball he caught in the playoff game, right, but that
was that was that had been his best catch all
year long. It's true, was catching a foul ball at
a baseball game. Um. Alright, so let's like a quick
look at the way for wire before we wrap this
thing up. You know, there is Slaton we talked about again.
That's probably one you want to wait on or unless
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you're really really hurting and you can wait a week. Um,
you know that's one of avoid there. Brian Hill. He'll
be the number one guy this week. If if, if
Devonte Freeman's injury will keep him out, then Brian Hill
is going to be just lined up and ready to go.
I keep putting Jamison Crowder in here because he keeps
need to be picked up. I think he's I think
he's he's rostered in like it's less than thirty percent.
(39:09):
I believe it's like that is Jets bias if I've
ever heard it. Um go get him, man, because he's
getting targets. I threw to Maryus Thomas in here because
very quietly, he's seeing a lot of work that the
numbers aren't necessarily huge, but he's getting a lot of targets.
Robby Anderson's dead. Rob I don't know what happened, man.
He means just evaporate. But he had with three targets
and one catch for eleven yards something like that. He
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was just a ghost against Miami two. I thought that
was an amazing spot for him, and yeah he failed.
Yeah he's I mean, there is a reason why there
were rumors that the Jets are trying to move him
at the trade deet. There's reasons why. Well, also Jets.
But yeah, it's just it's not been a good year
for Robbie. Now it has not at all, which has
been a surprise. Then a lot of us liked him.
Hunter Renfro is still out there, and he's another guy
(39:51):
who's you know, he didn't score a touchdown last week,
but Derek Cars looking at his direction a whole lot more.
Derek Carrs. I really like Derek Car's next to oh
Mark you really if you yeah, if you need a
streaming quarterback this week, Derek Carrs should be on your
list of players to pick up. Absolutely Bengals, Bengals and
Jets next two weeks and he plays the Chiefs and
a likely shootout. It's pretty pretty good little schedule Firs
(40:11):
that really likely shootout, but a game that really has
big divisional implications. Now, I mean with the Raiders winning
the Chiefs losing the a f C West is I
would love to see the Raiders make the playoffs. I'd
love it, especially for all the folks up there in Oakland.
Man like Derek. Good for the folks in Oakland. The
one last ride before they go off to Vegas. It
(40:32):
would be fun to see you know, I don't know
the odds of them getting a home playoff game, but man,
that would be wild. They give one last home playoff
game at the Coliseum. Uh, there would be many clouds
of smoke emanating from from the black hole and elsewhere
around there, which would be it would be hilarious and
awesome to watch. So therek cars on the list. Luke
Stocker we talked about with Austin Hooper on the shelf.
(40:52):
Looks like for a couple of weeks. So he's out there. Ye,
Nick Foles, you get you get start Nick Foles this week? Uh,
finally playing the Cold Switch. Yeah, that's sort of a
middling matchup for him, but he's back in your life.
If you need a quarterback streamer, let's do it. Yeah. Yeah.
Jack Doyle, straight double digit performances, my favorite plumber. Yeah,
I mean look and and Erkybrown still has the drop
(41:15):
seas so so Jack Doyle is still going to be
in our lives. Ricky Brown had a he had a
Kalin bellageesque game yesterday. Bro, did you welve targets? Bro?
Did you see targets? Did you see the ball get
ripped out of his hands in the end zone? It
was early in the game. Yeah, that was it was
like first drive, in the first drive, I had a
touchdown and it literally got The other part of that
(41:36):
is hopefully Jacoby Brissette is back next week. Yeah man,
I mean it's the Cults ever missed Jacoby prict Yes, right,
I mean yesterday was sort of a reminder of why
Brian Hoyer has been a career backup that they looked
crap even as a doin how many the Dolphins defense
probably pretty they've kind of muscled up the last pretty game.
They're still they're still vulnerable. I'm not saying that. Yeah,
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they're not the Steelers right now, but you know, they've
been a little bit tougher. And then it's the holl
of day season. So we we told you to you know, uh,
he told you to pick him up last week if
you were hurting every game that Adam Thealen is out.
Kyle Rudolph is a legitimate number one fantasy tight end
if you're hurting at that position. And now with Hooper
out in Angerman to buy and all the injuries a
(42:19):
legitimate and that catch that he made in the back
of the end zone the first one, I was a
saying that was the thing, of which I'm pretty sure
Kirk Cousins was trying to throw that ball away. Whatever. Man.
And by the way, I talked about it too. Sometimes
when you follow a team, you just know a team.
And I like Kirk Cousins this week, and he gave
you almost nineteen fantasy points. It's because the Cowboys had
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faced a lot of crappy quarterbacks and Aaron Rodgers didn't
have to throw the ball because Aaron Jones scored four
hundred touchdowns in that game. And the only quarterback that
we really stopped was WinCE and that was it. And
and Kirk Cousins, now he's got Denver. Denver is a
different story. I don't know if I'm playing him against Denver,
but the Cowboys defense is not as good against quarterbacks
as you might think. Yeah, so, yeah, Kirk Cousins is
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I would say this. Kyle Rudolph's ascent has also sort
of coincided with the Vikings decidy, like, hey, maybe we
should throw the ball every once in a while, right, Um,
you know, he's been stage check. Maybe maybe, Like Vikings
ownership had told Zimmer, hey, we're paying this guy a
lot of Martin maybe we should let him throw the
ball a little football. By the way, Karl's Boys Detroit
next week. Matthew Stafford, I mean I missed him. I
(43:26):
mean Galla Gallada had that one touchdown, which was that
was an incredible Yeah, he struggled yesterday, but I mean,
like I yeah, we need Matthew Stafford back in our lives.
Hopefully he's going to be able to come back from
that from that back injury, because I do not want
to live in a world where I have to start
Kenny Galladay with Drisco thrown on the wall. Oh, by
the way, uh, just from the fun quotient. Next week
(43:47):
we get Houston and Baltimore Shawn Watson v. Lamar Jackson.
That is going to be so much fun. That's for
a fun quotient. That's high on the list. He thought
Lamar Jackson had a big game this past week where
he might do the same thing against he might putts Man.
That's insane. That's insane. So before we get out of here,
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another edition of the NFL Fantasy Football Podcast. Its spearman
MG Marks ran alongside the Fantasy Hall of Famer Michael
Fabriano and the Fantasy viper Graham Barfield, and uh, Week
tin was sort of weird. I say, I know we
say this a lot, but Week tin was with a
lot of weird things happened, probably more on the field
in terms of than just in fantasy. I'm salty, bro,
(00:52):
I'm still picking up my face from melting off from
Cooper Cup not catching against one of the teams that
had been the worst against the slot. And not only that,
Drew Brees coming off a freaking buy at home against
one of the most just vulnerable past defenses in the
(01:13):
entire freaking league. Ten points, ten, no touchdown. It was
the lowest point total that a Drew brees Sean Payton
team has ever scored in a single game nine first
time they've ever not scored double digeon points against Atlanta.
And if you're a DFS guy, I had all kinds
(01:34):
of stacks with Breeze and Michael Thomas and the rest
of my team's killed. I had Aaron Jones, I had
I had some some tremendous lineups this week. Okay, Ronald Jones,
great play, Christian Kurt I love what the hell is that? Like?
I don't outside of being frustrated with the Cowboys who
(01:57):
I'm done with Garrett. I've been done with Garrett about
a hunter time during the Senior I've done with him again. Like, really,
dak is carving the vikings up and you don't keep
throwing the ball over one. It was established in the
fourth quarter, he was having a bad day. They sold
out to stop him. Keep throwing the damn ball. Anyways,
I mean, I digress, but this was a weird, weird
and Alvin Kamara too, Avin Maro. I know Marcus likes
(02:19):
to trash PPR, which is fine, and I respect his opinion,
but I mean, like, if you're in a standard scoring
league and you have Alvin Kamara, he has sucked. He's
the touchdowns, he's been awful. Yeah, they've not been there. Saints.
Saints couldn't move the ball yesterday, which was just bizarre.
I mean, dan Quinn relinquishes, uh play calling duties and
that defensive line actually came to life, like yeah, yeah,
(02:39):
they give up how many sacks? Five or six? Yeah,
it's so bad. And we'll talk about that too, because
that that was one of the bigger head scratchers of
the day around the NFL. I mean, you had you
have the Saints losing, yeah, the Chiefs losing to the Titans. Um,
you had a lot of weirdness going on on the
field in the National Football leagu on Sunday. So we'll
(03:01):
talk about that, some of the big questions of the week,
a handful of things that happened yesterday, and we'll get
to the bottom of whether they were real or whether
they were mirages. And then, of course, because it is Monday,
we will take a look at the waiver wire, which
shockingly has quite a few names on it this late
in the season. Maybe not huge blowout names, but it's
names that could certainly help you get through the next
(03:22):
few weeks, so definitely we'll talk about that as well.
But before we do all of that, we'll go behind
the glass and talk to our faithful producers, Sere, Edward L. Murphy,
Esquire Murph, what's up. I don't have any football takes.
I'm kind of footballed out, but I will say I
get that. I love um your run nuns are always
very clever and funny, and I love this one, giving
paying homage to Oasis, who hopefully reunites, because apparently like
(03:43):
this is the year I guess going into is the
year of a lot of bands reuniting, like like Raging
Machine coming back, Black Crows, my my chemical Romance. So
it's like, why not Oasis? I would pay tons of
whatever I have my bank acount because they liam and
all together and Raging gets the Machine coming back together.
Now it's just just like, I don't know, it's like
years too later. I was gonna say, I don't know.
(04:04):
I feel like, you know, the way of the world
today is is kind of set up for Rage Machine
to come down. We need again. It's just like I
just not the original race really a new one we
need to reboot, all right, that's fair, that's definitely fair,
although I would say this if if Oasis does, you know,
reunite and come back, how long before Liam and Nol
have some big blow up that just submarines the whole
You have to hope if you get tickets on the
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tour it's one of the earlier shows because there's a
good chance that like he just might walk off. It's
just as much as like, you know, I'm a metal
guy in a freaking Molly Crue shirt. Um, you know,
I like, I like some of their music. I never
really got into them though, Like they have a bunch
of really good songs, but it's not something that I
really listened to like a lot. But I know a
lot of people incited about the big The big knock
(04:46):
on them was that they were trying to be Beatles
clones a long time, which I don't know. Um yeah,
I feel like the Beatles did so much stuff that
it's hard to have a successful career, not at lea's
take a little bit from them. They're Yeah, they're just
a band that everyone knows, like Wonder Wall, the like, Oh,
that's kind of like cheese it on for me. I'm like, listen,
not to be one of those guys, but like, listen
to a couple of their Deeper Tractor earlier stuff and
(05:06):
like their first album. It's like, that's a good rock
and roll fan. Like, I don't know, I'm a big
fan of theirs. Yeah, yeah, no, I you don't look, man,
I was a big fan of a lot of this stuff.
So it'll be interesting to see. I think. By the way, Eddie,
you know Can'trell is doing um an acoustic set downtown
Yeah on December seven. Yeah, I'm gonna be checking out.
That's gonna be fun. So all right, in the meantime,
let's do some news. Uh, we'll start with a little
(05:40):
bit of kind of weirdness. I talked about some of
the weirdness, but one of the weirder things from the
week that las Shawn McCoy was a healthy scratch last
week or on Sunday, I guess I should say I
did not play at all, And afterwards Andy Reid said
it was in order to quote manage him the right way.
I don't oh fabs that Twitter was buying that. I mean,
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McCoy had been playing poorly than you've been having fumble problems,
you know. Yeah, and then guess who fumbles. Uh yeah,
Williams was out in fumbles. Um, so, I mean, I
guess the question is, like, what do we what do
we do here? The Chiefs backfield had been hard enough
to figure out already. Now if we're just healthy, scratching guys,
I mean, can we buy back you know, Damian Williams,
what are we doing? I don't know, man, I mean
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this has been the same thing for the Chiefs backfield
the whole year, Right, He's got a good matchup this
week though, Yeah yeah, I look, look, I mean he's
got a good matchup coming up against the former San
Diego Chargers. Yeah yeah. McCoy getting scratch yester year was
definitely not something I think we were all kind of
prepared for. Um. At the same time, though, I mean,
he came out and played a ton and I thought
outside of the fumble, I thought Damian Williams looked pretty
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good and obviously last week he ripped off a big
run play sixty eight two snaps. I mean, dar Daryl
Williams and and Darwin Thomps were basically not involved there. Um.
You know, if McCoy does kind back, I think by
now we know what Shady is at this point in
his career. And I also think we know the Chiefs
are you know, they're going to lean back towards giving
Damian Williams the lion share of the touches. The previous week,
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Williams was on the field over snaps too, So maybe
this thing is kind of shifting towards Damian Williams, is
you know, hand a little bit more um kind of
kind of going back and in his favor. But at
the same time, you know this is still liable to
just turn into you know, Lashawn McCoy getting ten fifteen
carries next week? Am I the only one that wants
Darryl Williams to be like the featured back there? No, no,
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you're not number one. I loved watching him play because
I see thirty one and I see priest Homes and
it's like, oh man, nostalgia. But he was damn good
when he got an opportunity. Whatever. Who cares what I want? Yeah,
no one, No one cares about what we think around
now exactly Marshawn Lattimore week to week. Suddenly next week's
(07:53):
match up against the looks much better for Jens and
Mike Evans. Mike Evans wasn't playing well enough already now
he's not gonna have to face is one of the
few players who's had his number two. Yeah yeah, other news,
this one impacting you already for Monday night. The chances
are you already know about this in case you don't
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listen to this before the Monday night game. But George
Kittle is doubtful for the Monday night game. Um, any
of you guys interested in a Ross Dwelly perhaps, yeah,
if you're desperate. I mean, if you didn't get a
chance to pick up like I don't know, well Jack Doyle,
Mike is sicky you failed, Yes, even though child Rudolph
who was out there. Rudolph was out there. If you
didn't get a chance to get one of those guys, yeah,
sure him or Hollister your top place for tonight. But
(08:36):
I think this is a huge Manny Sanders game. Yeah.
I know me too. George Kittle thinks screwed me in
our Dynasty League because I go, I go twelve personnel.
I have Hunter, Henry and George Kittle, so um, and
I and Hunter played Thursday night, so I had him
as my flex and Kiddle is my as my tight end.
And then the news comes Friday that like, oh man,
he's not going to practice again and things are bad.
(08:57):
I'm like, god, damn it. So then I had to
play John nu Smith, who led the Titans and targets
and catches but didn't do anything with him, which inevitably
kept me from starting Damian Williamson. Now I'm probably gonna lose. Yeah,
oh well, oh well, um, so hopefully the hopefully for Kittle.
This is not a multi lead sort of thing, because god, god,
what if we don't have Kiddle for a couple of weeks?
And awesome? Moving on, Austin Hooper, who left the game
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with a knee injury on Sunday. He is reportedly going
to miss some time. Now we don't know exactly how
much time some actually equates to, but this is where
we are. So Austin Hooper, who was the type who
is the tight end one who didn't do much but
he didn't get a touchdown, so at least gave you
a decent mind of production before he left. Now he's out. Um,
(09:44):
you know, I know we're gonna get to do Waiver
Wire a little bit later. But I guess this makes
Luke Stocker in play. Now, Oh my god, people. Man,
if we don't have Kittle and Hooper next week, we're
we're gonna be looking at some pretty dull, drum, tight
end options. Once. Well, although we did that, I mean
this week we had some. We had some heroes. Yeah,
we had Kyle heard Off. He was a hero. You know,
we had some. We had some pretty good plays there,
Jared if Cook was a hero. And if you were
(10:05):
bold enough to play Howard he o. J Howard was
a hero. Yeah, I wasn't bold enough or smart enough
to play. Yeah, you know what, Remember I remember we're
talking on Friday about the Greg Olson thing. I went
in and took him out for John Hu once I
saw that Corey Davis was doubtful. I still won, but
god darn it, and now Olson's gonna get the Packers
of struggling, I know. I mean, no one expected Kyle
(10:27):
Allen to come out and play as as well as
as they did. I mean, they're even in the snow there.
That was was fun. I love watching snow games. Yeah,
I love watching snow games from my couch. Asked me
to write, I don't want to have no interest in
playing or seeing that it was slipping around the ice. No,
thank you, dude. I when when I grew up in
Connecticut and from time to time I go to, uh
the old Patriots Stadium, you know what I mean, and
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they had like steel benches, and uh, I went to
a couple of those games in the winter when it
was really cold and snow and it's awful. I mean,
your your your asses frozen. Yeah. I was gonna saying, yeah,
it's awful. It's awful. So God bless those lambeau Field
Cheese headman because they're a lot brave and I am,
that's for sure. Yeah. It just seems really unpleasant pretty
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much in every way. Uh. Speaking of the Atlanta Falcons,
DeVante Freeman left Sunday's game with a foot injury, so
he's going to go have an m R. I on that.
I would think, Graham, at some point during the week,
we may see the Falcons signed somebody off the street,
because you know Smith is now on I R. So
that that leaves them with just Brian Hill in that backfield.
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So regardless I think of what happens with Freeman, they've
got to at least add another body at some point
that they do. You mentioned it, you know Smith's on
I R. Brian Hill came on plate. I thought pretty
well yesterday and we need to go back and rewatched
see what he did. But falcons, falcons going into New
Orleans guys yesterday and and just stomping stants and shutting
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down their offense. Outside of Michael Thomas was I was
just not. I was not completely. Nobody saw that. I
had some dude I had a I had a mute
him on Twitter who like took a shot at me
because I told him to start Drew Brees and you know,
I'm like, dude, yeah, people are insane. You're you're a clown.
People are insane. Clown. Yeah, there's you know, sometimes you
just learned not to, you know, put stock into what
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people are. I know, but sometimes it's frustrating. Hurt people,
hurt people. And that's probably that that should be Twitter's tagline,
actually hurt people. May have maybe that would have been
your quote at the end of the show. After this week,
oh man. Last bit of news. James Conner is expected
to be back this coming week. He's been missing time
with a shoulder injury, so hopefully he's back on the field.
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It's been weird because Jalen Samuels has played well, but
not so much as a running back. I know they're
trying to kind of shoehorn him in as a running back.
Trey Edmond has been the actual running back there, and
and Jalen Sanguels is sort of like a weird pass
catching hybrids. What it was at Inc States. You you
kind of played tight end, he played a little full back,
played special teams. He still played special teams for for
them yesterday. Yeah, I think it's like the first starting
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running back in the league. That that's what they're down
to place special teams and start for their teams. Which,
by the way, Trey Edmonds had an interception yesterday, which
is sort of wild. I don't know if you I
didn't even Yeah, the Rams ran a fake punts and
Johnny Hecker through it, and I believe Trey Edmonds is
the man who got the interception. Uh Now, I think
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in most leagues, you know, he would he wouldn't get
the points, but it would be the specialty. And by
the way, the Steelers defense and special teams, we talked
about this on the show Friday, that defense is freaking sick. Yeah,
like they're putting a Patriot kind of number. Yeah, yeah,
look at the toys. They're not putting up twenty plus
every week, dude. They had twenty two yesterday. They have
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been scoring points like crazy, man. Yeah, they have really
guess they got this week at front seven is so nice. Yeah,
they've got the Browns and then the Bengals in week twelve.
That that trade to get well for that cost, But
it's worked out absolutely. So there that's pretty much everything
you need to know. Alright. Some of the big questions
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from week ten is it gets ready to wrap up?
Of course there's the Monday night game, but everything else
is in the books already. So a few things I
looked at from the week, and uh, figured, let's let's
kind of let's kind of break this down a little bit.
So let's actually let's start with we're talking about the
Steelers defense. I mean, are they the best defense in
fantasy football right now? I mean, the Patriots kind of
got carved up by Lamar Jackson the last week. The
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Niners have been good, but they're starting to show show
some cracks a little bit, especially if their schedule gets tougher. Um,
I mean, are the Steelers they look like a league
winner right now? Dude? I think so. This this Patriots,
this pitch of schedule is about to get a lot tougher.
They're gonna play Dak, They're gonna play to Shawn, they
gotta play homes over the next couple of weeks. And
we just talked about their stars yesterday seventeen against the Coast,
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a week before thirteen against Miami, which is strange. In
the last three games, the worst performance was against Miami
previous to the by fourteen eleven nineteen eleven. I mean,
this is Banana is good like again, this is like
Patriots good um. And you guys mentioned Cleveland Cincinnati and
then Cleveland again and then you're at Arizona Buffalo and
then Jets in the Super Bowl for fantasy championships. Oh yeah, man,
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I mean the Steelers defense is just must start material
at this point. That front seven is nasty and getting
Minka is obviously just set them over the top. Yeah.
Imagine if the Steelers had an offense like I was
thinking yesterday. I'm like, imagine Rams Steelers like last year
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big Ben Connor Brown against Girly like the and the
good Ram Jed goff I cut Jared goff I had
him and one Leingue I cut him done. He stinks,
he's regressed, he's awful, his schedule is tough. He's got
the Bears this week, good luck with that, and he
is he's killed he I mean outside a cop who
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was awful this past week, because Golf is just a
brutally bad quarterback at this point, like there is no Ram,
not one, not one that you can trust. Last year,
Gurley was just dynamite, Woods was incredibly consistent, and Cup
was great before he got hurt. And the only actually
the only guy who can trust in this offense right
now is freaking Gerald. That's it, yeah, right now. I
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mean the m w to beat the Rams is so
so simple because their offensive line is so bad, so bad.
If you can knock Golf off his spot and pressure him,
which obviously the Stealers have a ton of talent to
do it, right, Yeah, I mean, that's that's the right
And next week the Rams get the Bears. Good luck, Yeah,
have fun with who really that's gonna be? That's that
could be like a six progress this year to ye,
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they're still extremely good, still very good. We've done a
great job limit and I honestly feel like that's sort
of where Golf's downfall began last year when they played
the Bears and they roughed him up so serious, they
really got him confused. And from then on, I think
teams sort of, look, not everybody has the talent that
that Chicago does on defense, but they sort of use
that blueprint a little bit to try and get Golf confused.
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We definitely saw in the Super Bowl without a doubt,
and I think teams have started doing it this year
and and and it has not worked out. You know,
we're going to really find out the truth about Todd
Gurley next week. We really are. The Bears can't stop
the run, that they just can't they and that that
has been the one thing that Chicago struggled with all
season long on the defensive side of the football. And
if Sean McVeigh does not make every effort to get
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Todd Gurley at least twenty touches in that game, then
we know that Todd Gurley's clearly not healthy and is
not someone that we can rely on fantasy, although we've
sort of we've sort of found that out over the
last few weeks based on the numbers. But this should
be this should be a Todd Gurley game where they
lean on him to control the time of the time
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of possession and keep Pittsburgh off the field, I'm sorry,
and keep Chicago off the field. And if if Gurley
doesn't get that many touches in this game, this should
not be a blowout because the Bears offense is not
that great either. With with your bisky, if if the
race three touchdown, with your bisky, listen, I'll put Marcus
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Grant in New Jersey. I'll throw him out there against
that defense and you'll have to fifty and touchdown a lift.
You may throw a pick, but you won't have a
bad stat line. This is the week where we're gonna
find out if we can trust Todd Gurley during the
fantasy playoffs. This is the week. It only took your
biscuy a half to get ready here. He just said
to get warms warmed up yesterday to get going. You know. Yeah, um,
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they they're gonna have a different quarterback nation speaking of
the Rams, and and this is not you know, I
hadn't planned to talk about this, but it comes up,
so let's get to it right. Todd Gurley did not
have a kerry did not have a touch in the
fourth so stupid. Yesterday stupid. After the game, Sean McVeigh
was asked about it and he says, let me just
pull the quote right here, uh quote that was kind
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of just the rotation. Sometimes it's where we're getting because
I'm on both sides of the headset and there's a
lot of trust for our coaches to really be able
to say who's in and I'll click and I'll kind
of click back on and we know what we're going
on a stupid I like, I don't, I don't get it.
And last year we kind of heard this in the
playoffs into the Super Bowl that you know, we couldn't
get in a rhythm going, so we couldn't run the football,
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we couldn't get Todd involved. Like, I don't, I don't understand.
I'm beyond ignoring Sean McVeigh and what he thinks about
Todd Gurley, what he says about Todd Girl in the media,
because it's just been wrong for a year now. I mean,
he's he's just outright not been truthful about not only
Girl's health but his usage and just I mean, girly
is what he is at this point, right, But how
do you not how you don't give him a touch
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at all in the fourth call. This is also this
is also a coach. I didn't give him the ball
enough in the Super Bowl. I mean, especially in a
game that was close. It's not like they were getting
blown out. I know, and Girly was good man average
six yards to carry. What it's worth, I thought Girly.
Girly does not have the same lateral agility, not even
close previously. But I thought he looked pretty decent yesterday.
That was definitely some of the best he's looked all year.
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I didn't get it. And he scored what seven and
a half points something like to seven It's just seventy
three yards. I don't get it. Next week, I mean,
next week we'll find out if we can trust Girly
in the playoffs. Yeah, which I'm not. I'm not optimistic,
not optimistic staying in the division. It is Kyler Murray
a QB one for the rest of the year. I mean,
I know it's one thing to play well against the Bucks,
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but let's go back to last Thursday when he had
a really nice game against the forty niners defense. The
schedule is fairly nice. I mean, he's got the Niners
again this week? Are you really playing on the road
against your beloved Maybe I'm not somewhat lucky in Arizona. Okay,
it's I know, I know, I get it. He didn't.
He had he had fewer than two points going into half,
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and then he had that e d a yard touchdown
to Isabella which saved his bacon. Okay, I don't see
that happening in San Francisco. If I've got a quarterback
that I trust, maybe a little bit more than Kyler Murray,
uh like Josh Allen, I would play over him next
week because he's got Miami. I don't think he's a
must start this week. But he has been everything that
we sort of expected him to be. I mean, like
in the preseason, I thought he could be a top
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ten quarterback. He's probably The next three games are really tough.
I mean, they get Niners, then the Buy and then
they have the Rams and Steelers, and you know, for
what I mean, say what you want about the Rams,
but we just spent five minutes talking about how good
No dude, seriously, man again, I love Kyler. I love him, Yeah,
I love him to It's this this little schedule stretch
he's not Lamar Jackson. He's not Lamar jack He's not
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a guy that you're like, I don't care, Patriots don't
care throwing him off right now. Yeah, I'm not going
there with Kyler, but I do love him, all right,
I love him. Um. We talked about this a little
bit at the top of the show. Right there's the
Falcons Saints game. I mean, that was the one where
everybody kept checking back on the score and like, is
this is this really happening? Or that this exactly? I
don't know what was strange in New Orleans seeing that
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the Saints weren't scoring any points against Atlanta. Are that
Kan Barkley had thirteen carries in one yard one yard
against the freaking jack He had one more rushing yard
than all of us to find. And he's something that
he ain't right. He's not well. He also went for
X rays after the game and he's not right. I
don't know if we've heard anything about that. I have not.
I have not read anything. They have a Byowee coming up,
but it's a little time for him to rest. Um.
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But yesterday, I mean, was that more about the Falcons
maybe figuring some things out defensively. Was it about the
Saints maybe overlooking I'm trying to I'm trying to wrap
my head around exactly what went sideways. I'm letting you
take this one because I'm Falcons. Hats off to the
Falcons front seven man. They did a good job pressuring
Breeze and kind of knocking them off their spot. Breeze
dropped back to the past fifty five times. Alvan Kamara
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and Latavius Murray combined to get nine carries in this game.
So I was a little bit surprised to see Sean
Payne in the Saints lean so heavily on the pass.
I thought this was a good game for for both
Murray and Kamara potentially to get going on the ground.
And for whatever reason, you know this, the Saints offensive
line and um just really struggled to stop this this
pass rush. I thought the Falcons did a good job
(22:54):
firing up some some kind of you know, pretty unique
blitzes and some stunts to kind of confuse Breeze, and
it worked. I mean, it's it was at their plan
to just well to just play awful defense until New
Orleans and priest right, it doesn't matter though, I mean,
Dan Quinn like dan Quinn relinquished, no no, no, right,
yeah yeah, Mark said, talked about yeah yeah, and it's
(23:15):
just uh just further cements like what what is dan
Quinn's actual job, right yeah, and it's like what execut here? Um?
So there you go. Um. Oh. By the way, I
feel like we don't talk enough about Michael Thomas this year, right, Well,
he's just so I mean he's like it's just like
he's just so consistent. You just plug him in, you know,
you just go about your business and you don't worry
(23:36):
about him. His game logs this year are seriously a
thing of beauty. I mean it's it's literally they're they're
so consistently ridiculous. It's it's absurd. He's got I think
he's got over eight yards or a touchdown in every
game so far. And and now he's got Dampa coming
up next. Yep, yep. So uh there we go. So
Michael Toom's just just good. Uh. Last big question from
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the week, Um, is Baker fixed? Now? He had that
he had to touchdown passes for the first time this season?
Like is he is he okay? Now Pittsburgh Pittsburgh coming up?
Sitting him don't want him. And you know what his
best games are, like seventeen points. They played Pittsburgh. That's
twice in the next week. Yeah, the only time. And
I don't have the schedule up in front of me,
but I know the only time that I'm gonna even
consider playing Baker Mayfield this and when he plays, I've
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just blown away that this was his first game with
more than one passing touch two. I mean, that's just
that's insane. He's so no, he's got him ten weeks
to get there. Pittsburgh did Miami in week twelve, so
he's just starting. Then, then then Pittsburgh week thirteen, No, no,
thank you. Then he's got Cincinnati. Then he's at Arizona
and then Baltimore in weeks sixteen. So there's gonna be
some games where potentially he can help you. But we're
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also like going to be through our heavy bye weeks
here coming up, right. So we've got four teams on
a buy this week. We've got four teams on a
buy in week twelve, and then we're done, and then
it's turning and then Turkey times. I mean, it's amazing
how much this change is week to week, and we
sort of know this, right, But a couple of weeks ago,
it was so bad for the Browns and we were like,
I don't know that I would trust Baker even in
a good match up. Now he comes out and has
a nice game, um, you know, against what is on
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paper at least a pretty decent defense in Buffalo, and
now we're like, oh, well, you know, the schedule is
actually kind of nice, so maybe, uh, maybe we can
slot him in there in good matchup weeks. So yeah,
well we'll have two of them at least. Yeah, So
I don't know, there you go, all right, So now
looking at things that are real or mirages from the
past week. Uh, and since we're talking about Cleveland, let's
let's start here. Because Kareem Hunt had a pretty nice
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game seventy seven yards on eleven touches, I mean, didn't
find the endzone right, And so it was a situation
where both those guys were also on the field a
lot at the same time. And and you know, we'll
talk about Arizona in a second, but I felt like
the Browns used their two running backs the way I
was hoping the Cardinals would use their two running backs
right where you had you had Nick whether you had
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Nick Chubb in the backfield, you had Kareem Hunt kind
of split out wide, or and the slaughter would have
you and he was like a pass catcher there for
this offense. I mean, can we count on this because
it's something we can kind of believe in going forward
with with Kareem Hunt. Now, hats off to the Browns.
They had a plan for Hunt and it worked. I
do think in a way this is something we can
count on because they have not had a number three
receiver all year long. They've been just been kind of like,
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either through injury or suspension, they've been just scratching the
bottom of the barrel for trying to get some production
out of their third receiver spot. And Hunt was that yesterday.
I will say Chubb still played eight percent of lot
by the way, and he's just I just think, if anything,
Hunt is going to be the receiver in this situation
and Chubb is clearly the lead the lead run. Have
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you guys ever seen a worse sort of attempt or
what was it? How many attempts to score a touchdown?
I don't need that. I've I've seen a worst team
down that that was bad. If you're gonna run the
ball just at least once, try to spread them out,
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just try to spot about if you're gonna run the
ball that at the three receivers on the field once
and try to get a little bit of spacing. My god, yeah,
whatever it was, it was. I mean, look, I'm not
a Browns fan. So at some point he became comical, right,
like just kind of watching them try to do this
and and not being able to score. And like even
the times they tried to pitch it to Nick Chubb,
(27:10):
you just had two or three bills the find they're
just waiting on him as he got to the Yeah,
They're like, come on, just waiting on him as he
got to the edge, and you're trying to see if
he could score a touchdown there. All right, So we
go from Cleveland, where I felt like they used their
two running backs well to Arizona, which was kind of
a cluster. Um, David Johnson looked he was he was
(27:33):
running like he had a boulder. He doesn't look right
at all. Um. He did line up in the slot
or out wide a few times, but a lot of
times it was just you know, he was in the
backfield or Kenyan Drake was in the backfield. It was
sort of a weird split and look and not not
like Drake was great yesterday either. I mean, neither one
of them really gave you a whole lot of Marcus
Grant PPR super six catches six yards um. At this point,
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I'm just one doing like is David Johnson, because I
don't know what you do with him, Like nobody's gonna
trade you for him, can't can't play him really much
coming up. I mean, it's just it. I almost just
wish at this point that the Cardinals would say, you
know what, he's not right, Let's just sit him down
for however many weeks. If we gotta put him on,
I r so be it, And like one, it saves
them the the trouble of trying to shoehorn him into
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the offense. And for us selfishly, it means if we
just we just know for a fact that he's just
not going to be playable, you know, the car the
Cardinals are just they're dying to have some some bodies,
some decent bodies to go but out their receiver Andy
Isabelle again pop yesterday. But I'm with you, man, like DJ,
you know that the Cardinals have their buying week twelve,
And if he was this banged up, why didn't they
just rest him these next two weeks and and just
(28:43):
let him sit but let Kenyan Drake kind of do
his thing, kind of rotting your guys play Andy Isabelle
a little bit more. It's just DJ looked just extremely
it was. It was very man like. And you know,
again he's got the Niners coming up on the road,
so you can't play him. Maybe you play Drake. He
had that huge game against him, you know, last time.
Again it was at home, not on the road. So um,
(29:05):
And I think a lot of it also is going
to depend on what we see tonight in this game
against Seattle. San Francisco comes out and beats the Seahawks.
Like there's still people out there that that don't know
that they're for real, because you know, they haven't really
beat that great team they beat the Rams. They're not
a great team. Um, Marcus, you know, I know he's
he's looking forward to this contest, But I mean, you
know that Niners, that Niners team comes out and beat
(29:25):
Seattle on their home field tonight. Man, They're gonna have
a lot of juice for the following week in the
game that they should certainly win. So, um, that's gonna
be interesting. It's gonna be very interesting. I mean, you
guys are right selfishly, I want I just freaking give
the ball to Kenyan Drake when when Edmunds comes back,
he can be the backup until David Johnson is ready.
Keep him on the sidelines because that I have him
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in wondering. I didn't play him, I didn't touch him.
I just don't trust him. And that's that I don't
trust him anymore. I could promise you after that game. Yeah,
it was not great. Um, Like I said, Kenyan Drake wasn't.
He wasn't an great shake's eye. He wasn't Like I
just you know, it's sort of like what we asked
for in Tampa right where we just want one of
these guys to be the guy. How do you, by
(30:08):
the way, how does your guy fumble like that yesterday?
And then Ronald, yes, Barbara comes in and plays the
final possession. We're all loving Ronald Jones. Finally happened. It's
finally gonna happened. He's ready to down the sidelights. No,
it's near him and he fumbls the just dropped it,
just dropped it. We just scored twenty points. Come on, no,
(30:29):
he did. But then like, but now there's that like
you're like a little worried because that final possession it
was paid Barber who got it in the end zone.
You're like, also after like three tries to um and
they've got New Orleans coming up, and their defense is
really tough against the run. I've I've always I've always
had this theory that just to spice up the NFL,
(30:49):
there should be one game unannounced where they just played
with a greased up football, right just just you know
they did. They did that in a playoff game Cowboys Seahawks,
where the ball went right through Romo's hands as as
Martin Grammatico would have would have a Grammatic Cortez, No,
I think it was Grammatico. I go back and look
(31:10):
and uh yeah, that was the vassline ball, which which
also like in that game, by the way, like everybody
kind of you know, almost got a first down. Almost
he could have got a first down without scoring a
tipsdown and almost got a first down which would have
kept the drive going. Yes, yeah, that's more more more
fuel to my Cowboys fire today too, many people remember
that Romo plays like his click key moment when he
(31:31):
was just like one of the most entertaining quarters. It
really was. Think about it, like, I mean, being a
Cowboys fan, you know, it was certainly fun back in
the nineties. Lately, though, I mean lately we've actually been
you know, winning division. It's not really that great whatever.
You know, we've got into the playoffs, Carloss every year
and it's just playoff. We we know what the problem
at heartbreak are. I mean, maybe not as much as
(31:53):
the Saints last year, let's put it that way. But
I mean, like you remember Aaron Rodgers throw to Jared
Cooke who couldn't catch a cold on the sidelines, and
then Mason Crosby nailed that field. I mean, the Cowboys had.
It's a real heartbreakers, and that was one of them.
For me. Man, that's the Vassiline balance. Yeah, Man, telling
you like that would be I'm gonna I'm gonna write
Roger Goodell about that. See if he wants to see
the Competition Committee wants to put that into effect next
(32:15):
be really interesting. Um. For the second time in three weeks,
Darius Slayton had a two touchdown game, I know, like
the whole two touchdown thing is not going to happen regularly,
But just bigger picture here about him kind of working
more into the rotation, especially you know, Sterling Shepard dealing
with concussion issues. Uh you know, I hopefully Evann Ingram
is back after the by and what have you. But um,
(32:36):
they need they need a compliment to Golden Tate in
that offense. And I'm starting to wonder whether or not
Darius Slayton has kind of become that guy. Yeah here,
so here's the Yeah, he was awesome yesterday and he
was the hero that everyone wanted and no one started
let's put it that way, right, Um, but they've got
to buy this week, and you've got four teams on
a buy, so can you afford to pick him up
(32:59):
and sit on a oster spot for two weeks? And
then Shepard might be Sterling Shepherd might be back, And
I've been told that Evan Ingram will be back after
the bye week, So it's not as if there's going
to be that many targets available. So like Slayton should
be like one of the three or four top pickups
off the waiver wire in any other week. I don't
even know that I would put in acclaim form with
(33:21):
the use him this week with the bike coming up.
You're right, it's kind of crazy that Slayton had seventeen
catches coming into this game and he just goes freaking
yesterday and yeah, just insane. And obviously the two scores,
so four teen targets for Darius Slayton. Yeah, it was
that was that was not projected, and Golden Tate still
had a monster game. Golden Tate did. Yeah, he has
still had of touchdowns. There are guys, are are we
(33:45):
ready to affix the the dreaded bust label on sake
one Barkley. No, No, I mean he's he's a disappointment. Yes,
I'm not gonna I'm not gonna say he's a bust um.
I mean, I'm just trying to look at where he is.
I mean, I'm scrolling. He's he's RB eighteen right now.
I mean he also missed one a couple of games
with the high ankle sprain. Um disappointment. Yes, I I
(34:08):
can't quite go with bust Okay, all right, I'm just
I'm just saying, you know, alright, Okay, yesterday, Yes, the
last two games combined twenty three point six points. He
had the huge game against Troy because everyone crushes them,
seventeen points against Arizona, which I mean seven and at
seven point seven in Tampa Bay his last game, that
was the game that he got injured. Um, I don't know, man,
(34:30):
I mean, if he's out again, Uh, if it's gonna
make more time, I mean, at least they have a
bye week. But um, the good thing is that the
matchups down the stretch are really favorable. He's got Chicago,
Green Bay, then Philadelphia, which has got a tough run defense,
then Miami and then Washington, so he could more than
make up for it if he's able to come back,
and hopefully he is. That is really nice. You know. Obviously,
(34:51):
I think it's probably it's probably likely that Barklay is
less than one. I mean, high ankle sprains tend to
tend to nag, and it's something that's probably been over
the last months since he came back. But last year
Barkley ripped off so many long games, and this year
we we saw it kind of early in the year
he had a couple of huge plays, but since he's
come back from the hankle spring, that kind of the explosive,
big rushing plays have not been there, and I think
(35:12):
that's kind of what sunk is total yesterday. I just
I mean, my god, one one, I mean, I got
that's I mean, I gotta, I gotta talk to our
research guys. But I mean, like that's that's that's terrible. Yeah,
giant saw that. I mean that is just awful. John's
offensive line was overwhelmed yesterday by the Jets. I feel
(35:35):
bad Eddie. I see he's breaking out the clean up man.
I feel like Eddie has Eddie. Eddie has gone into
you know, the chase for Chase, right, that's kind of
where you guys are now, right, the chase for Chase
Young orally switched the tank mode ready. I would say that.
So Daniel Jones is gonna end up being one of
the more popular fantasy sleepers next year. Last he showed
he's showing some. I mean, he he's either had really
(35:57):
really huge games or really crappy games, but he's getting
this year of experience under his belt. Next year, you know,
you would assume everyone's gonna come in healthy. You know,
they'll do some work on the offensive line. He's gonna
end up being a sleeper. Yeah, last three games, nine touchdowns,
one and pick, so he's all about seventy six times.
But I mean, you know he needs to he needs
to get into the tiki barber Jamal not fumbling just
(36:20):
like that. That counts as a fumble technically, but like
he just got snatched. That was a That was a
badass play. Yeah, if Daniel Jones can figure out the
the fumble the fumbling issues be pretty fun for fantasy
because around Yeah, exactly, he'd be pretty fun. Yeah, he
got he just got his chain snatch by Jamal at him.
That's what happened. He got crap someone who started the defense.
(36:41):
I was I was very happy. That was the man
Jets defense had. Like nineteen they should have a decent day.
They had a good game. Yeah, last reel in miurage,
I mean Howard scored a touchdown like for the first
time in like ever. Um, it feels like if flow
chart lives. Yeah, all right. Isn't it strange that the
only stud tight end to stay against them this year
(37:01):
was Evan Ingram. Right kind of game, But Evan Ingram
is the only tight end who hadn't had like a
huge game against Ingram had a few bad drops in
that game too, that you're right that that's so weird
that is, isn't it? Because I mean, look, we had
a tight end against them, just not the one we predict.
It's in fantasy football fun. I don't know why you
guys play it. This is ridiculous. Um aside from the touchdown,
(37:22):
I mean O. J. Howard four Texas for forty seven yards,
which in this day and age of tight ends, right,
that's amazing. It's like that all day. Um So, I
mean the bigger question is like do I do I
think that this is a thing now? I mean, can
we can we count on this? I mean the sainting Look,
they're playing the Saints next week. I mean buy in,
especially now if we're lovable, especially for losing Austin Hooper
(37:43):
for several weeks. He's sort of in play, right. My
guess is that is gonna end up on my site list.
Yeah this week. Look, if I mean, if you've been
holding onto O. J. Howard for this long, good on you,
and if you played even better on you, because I
definitely was wrong about it. But uh yeah, I want
to see way more. We've got to see at least
a couple of weeks where Howard is is at least
(38:04):
involved in this offense, because for the entirety of this year,
until he got hurt, it was just the Godwin in
Evans Show. I mean, Howard was just around like three
or four targets per game. It's just that I just
don't necessarily think it's something we can trust. But obviously,
it was finally great to see him. It just took
him ten weeks to finally see an O. J. Howard appearance.
It was great, it was it was fantastic. So good
on you, all of you people who played him and
(38:24):
actually got something out of it, and that for those
of you who didn't. Well, previously to that point, the
most we saw O. J. Howard was that stupid foul
ball he caught in the playoff game, right, but that
was that was that had been his best catch all
year long. It's true, was catching a foul ball at
a baseball game. Um. Alright, so let's like a quick
look at the way for wire before we wrap this
thing up. You know, there is Slaton we talked about again.
That's probably one you want to wait on or unless
(38:46):
you're really really hurting and you can wait a week. Um,
you know that's one of avoid there. Brian Hill. He'll
be the number one guy this week. If if, if
Devonte Freeman's injury will keep him out, then Brian Hill
is going to be just lined up and ready to go.
I keep putting Jamison Crowder in here because he keeps
need to be picked up. I think he's I think
he's he's rostered in like it's less than thirty percent.
(39:09):
I believe it's like that is Jets bias if I've
ever heard it. Um go get him, man, because he's
getting targets. I threw to Maryus Thomas in here because
very quietly, he's seeing a lot of work that the
numbers aren't necessarily huge, but he's getting a lot of targets.
Robby Anderson's dead. Rob I don't know what happened, man.
He means just evaporate. But he had with three targets
and one catch for eleven yards something like that. He
(39:29):
was just a ghost against Miami two. I thought that
was an amazing spot for him, and yeah he failed.
Yeah he's I mean, there is a reason why there
were rumors that the Jets are trying to move him
at the trade deet. There's reasons why. Well, also Jets.
But yeah, it's just it's not been a good year
for Robbie. Now it has not at all, which has
been a surprise. Then a lot of us liked him.
Hunter Renfro is still out there, and he's another guy
(39:51):
who's you know, he didn't score a touchdown last week,
but Derek Cars looking at his direction a whole lot more.
Derek Carrs. I really like Derek Car's next to oh
Mark you really if you yeah, if you need a
streaming quarterback this week, Derek Carrs should be on your
list of players to pick up. Absolutely Bengals, Bengals and
Jets next two weeks and he plays the Chiefs and
a likely shootout. It's pretty pretty good little schedule Firs
(40:11):
that really likely shootout, but a game that really has
big divisional implications. Now, I mean with the Raiders winning
the Chiefs losing the a f C West is I
would love to see the Raiders make the playoffs. I'd
love it, especially for all the folks up there in Oakland.
Man like Derek. Good for the folks in Oakland. The
one last ride before they go off to Vegas. It
(40:32):
would be fun to see you know, I don't know
the odds of them getting a home playoff game, but man,
that would be wild. They give one last home playoff
game at the Coliseum. Uh, there would be many clouds
of smoke emanating from from the black hole and elsewhere
around there, which would be it would be hilarious and
awesome to watch. So therek cars on the list. Luke
Stocker we talked about with Austin Hooper on the shelf.
(40:52):
Looks like for a couple of weeks. So he's out there. Ye,
Nick Foles, you get you get start Nick Foles this week? Uh,
finally playing the Cold Switch. Yeah, that's sort of a
middling matchup for him, but he's back in your life.
If you need a quarterback streamer, let's do it. Yeah. Yeah.
Jack Doyle, straight double digit performances, my favorite plumber. Yeah,
I mean look and and Erkybrown still has the drop
(41:15):
seas so so Jack Doyle is still going to be
in our lives. Ricky Brown had a he had a
Kalin bellageesque game yesterday. Bro, did you welve targets? Bro?
Did you see targets? Did you see the ball get
ripped out of his hands in the end zone? It
was early in the game. Yeah, that was it was
like first drive, in the first drive, I had a
touchdown and it literally got The other part of that
(41:36):
is hopefully Jacoby Brissette is back next week. Yeah man,
I mean it's the Cults ever missed Jacoby prict Yes, right,
I mean yesterday was sort of a reminder of why
Brian Hoyer has been a career backup that they looked
crap even as a doin how many the Dolphins defense
probably pretty they've kind of muscled up the last pretty game.
They're still they're still vulnerable. I'm not saying that. Yeah,
(41:56):
they're not the Steelers right now, but you know, they've
been a little bit tougher. And then it's the holl
of day season. So we we told you to you know, uh,
he told you to pick him up last week if
you were hurting every game that Adam Thealen is out.
Kyle Rudolph is a legitimate number one fantasy tight end
if you're hurting at that position. And now with Hooper
out in Angerman to buy and all the injuries a
(42:19):
legitimate and that catch that he made in the back
of the end zone the first one, I was a
saying that was the thing, of which I'm pretty sure
Kirk Cousins was trying to throw that ball away. Whatever. Man.
And by the way, I talked about it too. Sometimes
when you follow a team, you just know a team.
And I like Kirk Cousins this week, and he gave
you almost nineteen fantasy points. It's because the Cowboys had
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faced a lot of crappy quarterbacks and Aaron Rodgers didn't
have to throw the ball because Aaron Jones scored four
hundred touchdowns in that game. And the only quarterback that
we really stopped was WinCE and that was it. And
and Kirk Cousins, now he's got Denver. Denver is a
different story. I don't know if I'm playing him against Denver,
but the Cowboys defense is not as good against quarterbacks
as you might think. Yeah, so, yeah, Kirk Cousins is
(43:03):
I would say this. Kyle Rudolph's ascent has also sort
of coincided with the Vikings decidy, like, hey, maybe we
should throw the ball every once in a while, right, Um,
you know, he's been stage check. Maybe maybe, Like Vikings
ownership had told Zimmer, hey, we're paying this guy a
lot of Martin maybe we should let him throw the
ball a little football. By the way, Karl's Boys Detroit
next week. Matthew Stafford, I mean I missed him. I
(43:26):
mean Galla Gallada had that one touchdown, which was that
was an incredible Yeah, he struggled yesterday, but I mean,
like I yeah, we need Matthew Stafford back in our lives.
Hopefully he's going to be able to come back from
that from that back injury, because I do not want
to live in a world where I have to start
Kenny Galladay with Drisco thrown on the wall. Oh, by
the way, uh, just from the fun quotient. Next week
(43:47):
we get Houston and Baltimore Shawn Watson v. Lamar Jackson.
That is going to be so much fun. That's for
a fun quotient. That's high on the list. He thought
Lamar Jackson had a big game this past week where
he might do the same thing against he might putts Man.
That's insane. That's insane. So before we get out of here,
a happy Veterans Day to all all who have served.
(44:10):
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