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November 15, 2024 • 39 mins

It's Fox Sports Radio's official fantasy football podcast! Dan Beyer and Mike Harmon open the show with their immediate fantasy takeaways from the Eagles vs. Commanders Thursday Night Football matchup. Later, Mike shares his positional rankings and Hot Plays of the week, Cold Sores to avoid, and the Fantasy Ninjas you may want to consider sneaking into your lineup! Plus, the best streaming defenses to grab off waivers this week, Dan's Oasis Song and Pointsapalooza!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You want experience during your football season, Well, buckle.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Up, sweet cheeks.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
We've got all the experience in the world. This is
I want your flex with Dan Bayer and Mike Harmon.
Mike and Dan break down everything you need to set
your lineups, from position rankings to starts and sits. The
guys help you make those hard decisions. And now let's
get your flex ond. Here's Dan Bayer and Mike Harmon.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
It's not the murderer's row of teams on by this week.
I mean Arizona's on by, Tampa's on by. You also
have Carolina and the Giants, so that means, Mike Harmon,
you got a lot of big names, a lot of
big teams playing in Week eleven in fantasy football. Started
out Thursday night with the Commanders and Eagles playing quite
the matchup, and it'll continue with some monstrous affairs like

(00:56):
the Chiefs and Bills, Steelers and Ravens, Bengals and Chargers,
and so much more.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Yeah, there's some great matchups on paper. We'll see how
it plays out. Because after ten weeks of this NFL season,
am I optimistic? No? No, because it's been a lot
of bad football played. But you know we started off
Week eleven with this Thursday Night a fair the Eagles,
the lean right. I kept saying, if it keeps on
rain and the levee is gonna break, I'm not gonna

(01:21):
dishonor Robert plant by trying to do an impression here,
but a little led Zeppelin with big play drives only
to be failed by Jake Elliott. So hopefully you didn't
get too crushed by miss field goals, because some leagues
will absolutely decimate you for a guy missing. But eventually
offensive line wore out. Barkley goes over two hundred total yards,

(01:45):
grabs two touchdowns for you, and you roll through. Now,
if you're a Jalen Hurts fantasy owner, you were salty.
You got your rushing touchdown button through the air just
two twenty one. I guess it's a solid day because
you get saved by the rushing touchdown. But let's call
it what it is. You were expecting more in this
battle as we got things going. Aj Brown five for

(02:06):
sixty five that was under his over under I believe
was eighty two and a half for the game. Devonte
Smith virtually non existent, so difficult. But the more interesting
side is the other side fellas Bryan Robinson finds the
end zone with his sixty three yards. Austin Eckler makes
a couple of big plays, receiving eight for eighty nine,

(02:27):
zach Ertz six forty seven and one nice game. Hell
of a game for him. Jade and Daniels once again
with a step up in class. And we've seen this
a few times. Look, if folks are going to keep
piling and bludgeoning Caleb Williams along the way because they
you know, when the schedule was easy, he feasted. I
gotta be fair and look at Jayden Daniels a little
bit the same way because I'm still trying to find

(02:49):
Terry McLaurin. Anybody find him on the field.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
Yes, scary Terry was for different reasons. Yeah, what was it?
Fourth quarter? He got his first catch?

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Yeah, one catch, ten yards. Two tars gets Daniels through
the ball thirty two times. He targeted his top guy twice.
Credit vic fan. You credit the Philadelphia defense for scheme,
But I don't know how many games you're winning if
that guy's only seeing the ball thrown in his general
direction twice.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yeah. Well, the good news is they'll be an overcorrection
the next week?

Speaker 2 (03:19):
So can he threaten to get someone benched or fired?
I mean, because that seems to.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
Be well, I'll tell you what. Then, the way my
luck is I'll be facing Terry McLaurin next week. Oh
very fantasy league. I am all right there it is
the look back on Thursday. Let's dive into these week
eleven matchups. Mike Carmen has your top five players at
the wide receiver running back position, but you know we
always start with the quarterbacks. Mike, who's in your top
five this week?

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Let's jump off right out the jump, Lamar Jackson as
stingy as the Steelers are second best against quarterbacks. Lamar,
you're looking at the last four twenty nine points per game.
They're putting up great numbers, integrating more weapons into that offense,
and obviously the balance with Derrick Henry. I think this
one gets into some pretty good numbers for our fantasy purposes.

(04:06):
Forty eight and a half being the total Josh Allen
number two against Kansas City last four games. Because we're
trying to do the rolling thing of what we're seeing
as opposed to season long, looking at twenty one fantasy
points per game, Kansas City mid against quarterbacks about seventeen
points per game. He looks like he will have Amari
Cooper available to him even if Keyon Coleman misses another

(04:30):
one here. So more compliment of weapons for Allen plus
the legs give me him in what is a big
proven spot for the Buffalo Bills, brock Party against your
Seattle Seahawks. Sorry, Dan, twenty three points per game his
last three looking at Seattle squad again. Kind of the
middle of the pack against opposing quarterbacks for fantasy purposes

(04:52):
thus far. Jared Goff going up against Jacksonville. It's Jacksonville.
Do I need to say anything more than that? No,
I don't think so. And finally, Jordan Love against the
Bears the first week of my whole life. Guys, you
know what, I crossed a fifty barrier first Packers week
of my life, where it is like the eighty fifth
story of a week related to the Bears. Nobody gives

(05:15):
a damn about this game, like it is so far
off the radar with all the other fires they're trying
to put out. Did you say something about Tyson Bagit
was it his dad? Did his dad give that to
a radio host? What did DJ Moore say? Did DJ
Moore say anything? Did Cole Comet say anything?

Speaker 3 (05:33):
Like?

Speaker 2 (05:33):
It's a whole week of radio and TV appearances of
everybody said, wasn't me man? They're doing a full on
shaggy twenty four to seven. Hey you got the Packers
on Sunday? Oh yeah, I guess we do. Give me
Jordan Love. This week He's had a couple of muted performances.
His last three times out near nineteen point performance followed
by a six point seven and then an eleven point

(05:55):
nine Bears best against the Posy Quarterbacks. Guess what a
lot of disarray, a lot of problems, opportunity here for
Jordan Love.

Speaker 3 (06:02):
Okay, just quick side note, would you take Bill Belichick
if he like is like I want the Bear's job?
You good with that? Or are you like all right,
we need someone to take care Caleb Williams.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
Did need someone to take care of Caleb Williams.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
As much as I look, I love Belichick. I love
the the brash tacks, I love the broadcast Belichick. I
always loved the chalk talk thing he did in local
Boston media. I would always find the video of that
right where he'd be standing at the little podium good badly.
He diagram plays even if it was an eighty yard tech.

(06:37):
They didn't leave anything out. If it was a big play,
consequential play that even made him look bad, he went
with great candor and gave you a two minute breakdown
of why it failed. So I love that part about him,
But I think at this point what they should have
done last year, and like, you can't correct it. I
don't have a time piece from Harry Potter, or I

(06:58):
can't fly around like Superman, or I don't have the
Gauntlet from Marvel. See what I did there? I took
us in the three Mutant Nerd intervals right there. But
I can't turn back time like chair. How about that?
Now you're thinking the other three I did not, So
you will. You will at some point in time. But
just the idea of we can't, you know, relitigate, why

(07:22):
did you bring back Eberflus because he was under contract
and you're the Bears, that's what you do. But building
on sand and you watched it with Waldron in Seattle,
the idea that that was really ever gonna work, And look,
Caleb bears a lot of the blame. Bad habits, not
getting rid of the football, the offensive line. I don't
care what Pro Football Focus says. It's not the Bible,

(07:45):
it's not the tablets coming down from the mountains. They've
been bad upfront as well. So all of it to say,
there's no continuity. And as much as I'd love Belichick
there because him in the Chicago media, my god out great. No,
I need an offensive guy because I also can't choose.
I can't predict how well Bill Belichick's going to hire

(08:06):
a staff dan. Yeah, like that's the bigger thing. I
may like him and he can coach him up, but
if he's getting to pick the groceries, and especially if
he's going to pick the coordinators, no things.

Speaker 3 (08:17):
Oh man life. I look into the life of a
Bears fan from one Mike Carmon.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
I hope was dangerous a while ago. Nan nine weeks ago. Yeah,
let's go Bears. A White Sox season.

Speaker 3 (08:33):
Yeah, I was gonna say it went over. Tennessee is
a long long time ago. Unfortunately. All right, let's get
to the top five running backs for Week eleven. I
don't think we're gonna get any Bears in this one,
but we shall see. Mike Carmon your top five running.

Speaker 2 (08:47):
Backs, Yeah, you're probably right. How about Joe Mixing going
up against Dallas died for third twenty four points per
game allowed. But Christian McCaffrey back against Seattle, He's back
in the passing game. Look for him to be in
a big spot here. Forty seven and a half is
the total. They're nearly a touchdown favorite. I would expect
him to take on a big workload here as they

(09:08):
try to get ready for the stretch run. I'm still
a sucker for eight chan. Part of it is because
I see the Las Vegas Raiders on the other side,
and it seems like everybody's pushing and pulling towards Shdor
Sanders and maybe his old man. So I'm not expecting
a monster effort out of this squad in this one.

(09:29):
Seventh most generous to opposing running backs Breeze Hall again. Ian.
I don't know why I'm going down this Jets rabbit
hole again, but I will going up against the Colts
and Anthony Richardson. And that's why I pull the trigger
here is I think you might be operating on a
couple of short fields before it's all said and done.
And then Jamiir Gibbs in a big spotlight going up

(09:51):
against the Jags. Look, you can pass on him, you
can run on them. Like we get into that deception
kind of point in the year, and we'll do it
a little more as we look at you know, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, whatever,
it's like, Well they're first they get they only give
up seventy yards per game on the ground. Yeah, what
do they give up in the air. Let's talk about
that for a second. Why am I running the ball

(10:13):
if I can throw it around the yard, So you know,
you have those kind of circumstances. But yeah, Jimior Gibbs
cracks it. And then the bonus pick at number six
was Kyron Williams going up against New England because they'll
do what the Bears didn't and actually run the ball effectively.

Speaker 3 (10:30):
Well, the Rods are gonna need it. They're gonna need
to bounce back from what happened Monday against the Dolphins.
And eighth Chan speaking of the Dolphins active in that
passing game as well, it'll be Dolphins Raiders used to
be a much bigger deal. Yeah, when we when we
were younger.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
I might go watch a tape of that instead.

Speaker 3 (10:48):
I wouldn't blame those are your top five running backs
for week eleven. Now your top five wide receivers for
a week eleven, not from nineteen seventy four, but from
twenty twenty four, Mike, and who do you got.

Speaker 2 (11:01):
Hey, Nico Collins, welcome home. Going up against Dallas in
the return. Remember back in the day, eight targets, ten targets,
ten targets, fifteen targets, load them up once again. We
give him the top spot against the sink and fail
in Dallas defense and an opportunity for C. J. Stroud
maybe to get right here pukin Takua going up against

(11:22):
New England. Look, I don't have to think that they're
gonna put up a bunch of points. He just needs
to catch a bunch of footballs like he did this
last week eighteen points. Then he had the muted I
got thrown out of the game effort, and then followed
up with another eighteen point performance, middle of the pack.
New England against the pass again. I don't think they're
gonna pile up points, but I'll take the movement between

(11:42):
the twenties. Jamar Chase against the Chargers a little bit
of a counterintuitive thing because we know how good the
Chargers d is, but you're not stopping this guy fifty
five points last time out, before that, seventeen to six,
twenty point four, and then a mid teens game. I
mean even on his worst day, we're in the mid
teens for Jamar Chases. Everybody starts thinking, what's he worth?

(12:05):
We do this with baseball players the first time I
can remember with a wide receiver, what's that final contract
going to be? And then George Pickens, how about we
actually get a Steeler in a top five?

Speaker 3 (12:14):
All right, shock and awe?

Speaker 2 (12:16):
He was what last four weeks? He's seventeenth and the
moon ball from Russell Wilson makes him happy because he's
got an opportunity to go up and use athleticism, make
a play. Doesn't have to be a precise route runner
here and may get to the spot, which justin Fields
wasn't going to find him out anyway. But now, but
now he could go up and make a play, and
with Mike Williams running on the other side, offers a

(12:39):
little more opportunity. And let's face it, they're gonna have
to win a shootout against this Baltimore squad. They are
the worst in the NFL against wide receivers. And then
finally I was gonna flip a coin, flip a coin,
and it came up on Justin Jefferson going up against
Tennessee again. A little bit of a counterintuitive play. Fourth
best team against opposing wide receivers. But you're looking at

(13:00):
a guy over the last four weeks and you can
take it out full season. Even with Sam Darnold maybe
having some struggles the last couple of weeks, five interceptions.
He did have a two ninety and three touchdown two
weeks ago against Indianapolis and put up the ball for
grabs against Jacksonville. I really wanted him to shove it
in Doug Peterson's face. I really did. It's like, you

(13:21):
guys have a million bleeping questions in your locker room
and you're taking shots as to whether this guy's any
good or not. How dare you? How dare you? And
then he went out and it wasn't great, but you
still lost. But the joke's on me. When he gets fired,
he's still gonna get a giant novelty check to go away.

Speaker 3 (13:39):
Absolutely, absolutely, so.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
Yeah, Justin Jefferson gets the nod looking at nineteen to
twenty five points his last four weeks.

Speaker 3 (13:47):
The Vikings Titans game in the running for worst game
of Week eleven, and it's not the Viking's fault.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
Yeah, totally thirty nine and a half the total.

Speaker 3 (13:55):
There, Yeah, Saints and Brons is like, don't forget about us,
Rams Patriots, same thing.

Speaker 2 (14:03):
Anyways, Bears Packers is forty forty or forty and a half.

Speaker 3 (14:07):
I would say Alts. I knew Ian was gonna say
Jets Colts, but I still think there's intrigued with the
Jets and now with Anthony richardson back. But outside of
those three crabby games, we got a lot of good ones.
The NFL should put the Panthers and Giants on buy
more often, I'll tell you that much. Here are your
top five wide receivers four week eleven of the National

(14:29):
Football League season. And we've got a lot more to
get to. Mike's got his Ninja's Colt soores and hot plays.
Ian is sitting there with his streaming defenses, and I'll
give you all points of Paloza Survivor pick and more.
This is I want your flex. You got your top
five rankings. You have Mike Harmer, you got me Dan
byer Ian Roddy's the executive producer. Now it's time for

(14:50):
our hot plays for week eleven. The guys who didn't
make the top five rankings. But guys, you got to
get into your lineup. Mike who we got.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
Let's get it started. Russell Wilson kind of hand ringing
when he got the job. Well, the moon ball works,
makes big plays. Mike Williams comes in, doesn't need to
have a lot of catches, just the one that counts,
and for fantasy owners, that was huge. Now going up
against the Baltimore defense that's been how should we say,
devoid of a pass rush, devoid of any type of

(15:20):
holding on in the secondary, lots of space to run
through a spring field or in this case of fall field.
Second most Fantasy points allowed to quarterbacks thus far Russell
the last three weeks twenty four to nine, thirteen to eight,
and nineteen point one. Let's get him over the twenty
point mark again this week in a huge game with

(15:42):
a lot of AFC implications. Here we look at CJ.
Stroud going up against Dallas muted numbers, but he gets
Nico Collins back, so that should help to maybe push
away a little bit of the hand ring for all
the wrong reasons into his play of late five point three,
twelve point four, eleven point five, eleven point eight. Those

(16:05):
are his last four weeks.

Speaker 3 (16:06):
Ouch.

Speaker 2 (16:07):
Yeah, we're talking back end QB two opportunities. But against Dallas,
Michael Parson is doing a good job of drawing. Now
we'll just see whether he can get his defense to
play again. Reminder, when he was healthy and really playing well,
and they were fully healthy, they got run over by
the Saints. That's our secret, guys. David Montgomery, boy, he'd

(16:29):
look good in a Bears uniform. Last he's rolling up
going against Jacksonville fifth worst against opposing running backs. Gibbs
was in the top five, Montgomery not far behind Fellas.
Fourteen points is the spread for this one. Fourteen in
an NFL game, which means you're running here. You know,

(16:51):
you can go down the list. Maybe Billy Simms will
get a couple of carries to close this one out.
All right, Yeah, let's go Jonathan Taylor going up against
your Jets in they're in the middle of the pack now,
so I mean it's worked, but teams finding a little
bit of success.

Speaker 4 (17:06):
Well, he's gonna Founce. He's gonna feast against the Jets defense.
They have not been able to stop the running.

Speaker 2 (17:11):
But here's the thing, though, you sell out because you
got Richardson, and again it's not an endorsement. Joe Flaggo.
We're done with that. I got hoodwinked like everybody else.
But against Richardson, man, how many guys do you throw
into the box? Everyone eleven? Pretty much just full sell
out here. But I'll take Jonathan Taylor to give me

(17:31):
a top ten performance this week. Kareem Hunt eighteen points
per game over the last four Buffalo second worst against
running backs thus far. Deebo Samuel against Seattle, looking for
a little bit of a breakout game that you got
the last three for him, seventeen point performance and a
seventeen point six in there. I'll take it. Opportunity Courtland

(17:53):
Sutton seventeen, twenty three and nineteen his last three games
Atlanta tenth most allowed, and then DeAndre Hopkins. He's got
really bad bookends outside of that one big explosive performance
four point nine, twenty eight point six and then a
nine point six. But against Buffalo again, looking for an
opportunity for some fireworks with a forty six total on

(18:18):
this one, Buffalo a narrow two point favorite.

Speaker 3 (18:21):
Of course, the big news are the Chiefs on Thursday
is that Harrison Butker is going to miss a month.

Speaker 2 (18:25):
So how crazy is that?

Speaker 3 (18:26):
Yeah, if you need to replace, if you've got him
on your team, you're going to need a new kicker
because he will not be kicking for the next four
weeks at least as he's headed for ir.

Speaker 4 (18:36):
The amount of one score games that they've been into,
that's actually kind.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
Of big for them.

Speaker 3 (18:41):
Yeah, that's a really good point because he's been really good.
And they signed the Jets practice squad Kickerrader.

Speaker 2 (18:52):
Yes, how about that?

Speaker 3 (18:54):
And then on Thursday Night Football, I see a graphic
that the Jets were one of three teams without a
fifty yard field goal this year, and I was like,
oh wow, what they have? You know, Zerline, he's got
the leg. But that's and thus my eyes were wrong.
I think that was one of the cases.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
But hey, once upon a time, Greg the leg.

Speaker 3 (19:13):
Yeah, do what you will with the with the kicking position.
But Buffalo ain't going to be easy either. Of course.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
Now I have to go look that up. The Greg
Zerline thing.

Speaker 3 (19:23):
I'm like, realty I thought that.

Speaker 2 (19:25):
I know it was terrible.

Speaker 3 (19:26):
Yeah, but I'm telling you if it. If I'm wrong,
I apologize and I blame it on my eyes. But
I believe that the Eagles were one of I thought
the stat was that they were one of the three
teams to not have a fifty yard field.

Speaker 2 (19:39):
Yeah, Zuline was over one from fifty plus.

Speaker 4 (19:41):
Yeah, I was gonna say, No specific fifty yarder came
to mind for me when you said that.

Speaker 2 (19:45):
So, I mean as a league, we've got we're breaking
records right by the end of the year, they're going
to shatter any previous mark of fifty yard field goals.
But yeah, Greg zerline, once time we're pat waxing poetic
about a kicker.

Speaker 3 (20:04):
Just a good, good note for the lineup that could
maybe slide past you if you didn't hear it or
didn't know about it. All right, let's get to the
cold soars, the guys you don't want to play Harrison
Butker would be one of those. But Mike, let's get
to the guys that may not have the best Sundays
or Mondays in this case in Week eleven.

Speaker 2 (20:21):
Well alluded to it a little earlier with the Puka
Nakoua cracking the top five. Not expecting massive numbers out
of Matthew Stafford going up against New England. We haven't
seen Stafford really put up the point totals. Kyron Williams
has been effective in the red zone when given that opportunity.
I know, only three point six three point seven yards
per carry, but you'll get a New England defense that's

(20:44):
been pretty steam stingy against opposing passing games. We go
big game hunting with our other guy, and that's Joe
Burrow going up against the Chargers. You're not going to
shut him down entirely, but you're getting used to feasting
as he's done so many times, you know, with those
thirty point performances where you're starting to get all chesty. Well,

(21:04):
fifteen points per game, that's all the Rams are allowing
to opposing quarterbacks. So maybe he outperforms. But this is
where we're definitely looking at our kicker position. We're definitely
looking at it between the tight ends on our roster
and maybe finding a defense like Ian's going to give
you a little bit later where we've got to steal
a couple extra points. Because I'm not expecting massive effort

(21:27):
out of burrow in this one. Aaron Jones going to
against Tennessee averaging about eleven points per game is last four.
They're tied for thirteenth. Stingy defense again. Offense, we can
have all sorts of debates about their quarterback play and
decisions that they've made in terms of personnel, but defensively
they continue to bring it. I'd be remiss if I
didn't at least put one bear on here. DeAndre Swift

(21:51):
against Green Bay thirteen points per game is last three
out Packers twentieth. So no great shakes one way or
the other on this one. I'm just curious to see
what kind of offensive effort you get coming out of here? Right?
Are they going to try to force feed it? Does
Roshawn Johnson start taking on a bigger load just because
he's the North South guy, and now you just try

(22:13):
to impose some will give Caleb Williams some second and
four second in threes to work with, etc. I would
expect even if he wasn't the source of any acrimony.
DJ Moore at least gets some targets. But DeAndre Swift
I think might be the biggest loser here in terms
of how this thing shifts maybe bigger in the passing game.

(22:35):
Maybe I'm gonna win there. But from the run game,
I'm not expecting much against the Packers. I wouldn't be
surprised to see a full no show effort by this
squad given all the givens. But hey, maybe they'll surprise me.
Drake Londi going up against Denver third best against wide
receivers and then Josh Downs the best still the best
against wide receivers for fantasy purposes are the New York

(22:58):
Football Jets. Anthony Richardson back under center. I think you
got a better shot with one of the secondary or
tertiary receivers. I think Downs gets erased when it's all
work works.

Speaker 3 (23:09):
Out the cults. The possibility though, of Anthony Richardson chucking
on eighty yards at least his back, No, that is
just that there's that excitement, and then there's the car
wreck of the Jets. But it could be the car
wreck of Anthony Richardson, which then yeah, it trickles down
to Josh Downs. I mean, if we get a ten
for thirty two, I mean not for one of those performances.

Speaker 4 (23:32):
Who's incompetence is gonna win out in that game is
going to be the big question.

Speaker 2 (23:37):
Your fifth kicker is going to be the difference.

Speaker 3 (23:40):
I honestly feel like if you would combine Aaron Rodgers
and Anthony Richardson, we'd get the greatest quarterback of all
time and then the worst quarterback of all time. You
know it would be Yeah, it would be this guy
with extreme athletic ability, with the strongest arm, but yet
the pinpoint accuracy in this mobility. And then you'd get
the body of a forty year old that can't hit

(24:02):
the broadside of a boy.

Speaker 4 (24:02):
Yeah, it's like Aaron Rodgers athleticism paired with Anthony Richardson's
decision making just the worst possible quarterback accuracy.

Speaker 3 (24:12):
Yeah, the whole deal. Yes, that would be quite the
quarterback that we could combine.

Speaker 2 (24:17):
I just think it's funny, right where we get the
fun of Richardson when he plays. It's the all right,
do I trust one of these guys to catch an
eighty yard bomb? It's not a he might get eight
targets and three or four catches. No, it's all right.
Could he run a hundred one?

Speaker 3 (24:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (24:34):
That's the game we're playing for daily fantasy or for
wishing and hoping at the back end of a lineup
right the boomer bust. I desperately need a win. I
look at what you know, the odds win probability right
for most sites. Now they put that up in their
matchup and they're like, all right, I got a twenty
percent chance. But if I put Alec Pearson instead of

(24:54):
insert receiver here, maybe, just maybe he catches lightning in
a bottle. It's that crazy. No, I think I love
the base of this offense. Nope, I'm wishing on hoping
on a winging up prayer. And this isn't even the
old school, Dan. I mean, you and I have been
doing this long enough. It used to be the all right,
they'll be down by twenty one points, so he'll be

(25:16):
winging it around. This is legitimately first quarter kind of consideration.
When it comes to Anthony Richardson.

Speaker 3 (25:23):
It's tough. And yeah, I mean again, the highlight that
made Anthony Richardson was the double spine at Florida. And
you know, I just whenever I see that, I just think,
all right, Redchard sophomore and he needs time. So I
still think that. I still think the Colts have a
lot of time and the Colts under you know, they

(25:44):
came under a lot of criticism. Pat McAfee one of
the louder voices of what's going on. There's others locally.
I actually don't mind what they did in this situation
of bringing him back as the starter and putting Joe
Flack out. You thought you wanted to see if he
had a playoff team. He wanted to see if you
could do what the Brons did last year. Flacco was
still doing what he was doing. You don't have a

(26:05):
good enough defense, so now you got to go back
to the kid. I actually really don't have a problem
with it. I know it feels wishy washy, but you
lost the two teams that we expect to be in
the playoffs or at least challenge for it, in Minnesota
and Buffalo, but you didn't get it done. Now it's
time to figure out what Anthony Richardson really is well.

Speaker 2 (26:24):
And look, Houston didn't go and run and hide, right
because they've been dropping games and staying within arms reach.
If you can maybe find a little bit of something
with Richardson down the stretch.

Speaker 4 (26:36):
And you know, you know how Josh Allen and Lamar
Jackson ended up developing as passers was by actually playing.
So I feel like Anthony Richardson getting actual playing time
is kind of crucial here for the Colts.

Speaker 3 (26:49):
Yeah, it's you know, it's it's interesting because people would,
let's say, you know, I think they have the timeline
of Jordan Love, That's what I'm trying to say, and
to work with him. And if you have the luxury
of a Flaco, maymbe they should have played Flacco earlier.
I don't know what Flaco is, what Flacco is. So
if you're going with Richardson, you're going with Richardson. I

(27:11):
see your point. Ian. I don't know if there is
any true perfect way, but for someone that didn't get
a lot of snaps, I think that your point is
probably valid. So a lot of snaps in college, meaning
because of the limited career that he had there. So
all right, let's get to the Ninjas for a week
eleven of the NFL season.

Speaker 2 (27:30):
Finally, as we go through, how about the one time
we will touch on Cleveland and New Orleans? All right,
maybe twice? Give me Jameis Winston and Elijah Moore in
this match. You all right, let's get a little bit spicy.

Speaker 3 (27:42):
I thought you were going to go with Ian's Alvin
Kamara pick on the Guillotine League. Not that he would
be a ninja. He wouldn't be, but Ian spent a
lot of money for Alvin Kamara this week.

Speaker 2 (27:53):
I didn't have a choice. I didn't get Kamara was out.
There is a little bit of the honesty of a
Gopher broke. My bears were part of my downfall in
that Guillotine League. I'm gonna go pour one on the curb.
But Jamis fifteen points per game is last four Looking
at a New Orleans squad, we know where we're at

(28:15):
in the season. Big win last week, got a little
bit of a balance with the coaching chains and everything else.
That was one week thing back to it. Opportunity here
bo Nicks against Atlanta. I don't know how much of
a sleeper he is or ninja anymore. He's seventh amongst
quarterbacks for the last four weeks overall, and you got
Atlanta giving up up nineteen points per game. That's seventh

(28:38):
in as time I mean estimate Ian's joke from last
time going up against Atlanta time it's time, so you
know they're tenth best against opposing running backs. But I
like what Denver's got work two and a half point favorites,
a little Atlanta a little bit banged up coming into

(28:59):
this matchup, so perhaps an opportunity I'll get suckered in
again with the Rico Dwell is now the number one
running back for doubt. I don't know what the hell
that means, but it's a Monday night football game, so
let's get with somebody in there that gives us a
little bit of juice. He did have a sixteen point
performance a couple of weeks ago Houston fourth best against

(29:20):
running back, so something's got to give in that one.
Ricky Piersall going up against Seattle twelfth most twenty eight
points per game to wide receivers. It's all about target
practice here as to how much he's actually getting. And
then we already gave you Elijah Moore. So short list
as we have four teams on by some big matchups,

(29:41):
a couple of scrub matchups we want nothing to do with,
but fun part of the calendar coming up because for
some of these squads, dan Ian, we really get into
a divisional play for the first time, which really is
going to change up some of our fantasy outlooks on
them as well.

Speaker 3 (29:57):
There they are your hot plays, Cold Soares and Ninja's
four eleven. We aren't done with the information. Ian Roddy's
got some streaming defenses, and I'll throw some stuff at
you as well. That is all next right here, and
I want your flex all right, let's get to it.
He's Mike Karmen. I'm dan Byer Ian Roddy's our executive producer.
Find Mike on X at Swollen Dome. You can find

(30:19):
me at dan Byer on Fox. And I've been this
whole Blue Sky thing this week does so. I signed
up about I don't know, ten months ago, and it
made a couple of couple of posts and then I
kind of just let it be. I didn't do anything
with it, and now everybody's all Blue Sky and I
was already in on the game, so I don't at
dan Byer b e y e R.

Speaker 2 (30:41):
Here you go. I had apply, applied a while back,
and I never heard. I never got an automated notice
one it ghosted and so I went and I signed up.
I was actually able to get my name, all right,
So I'm actually at Mike Harmon something I've never been
able to do because the truck driver and all of
those other guys have always taken my name.

Speaker 3 (30:59):
That was my same thing as well. I was excited
I got Dan Bayer and not Dan Bayer music guy
holding a guitar, none of that. Are there multiple Ian
Roddy's Ian Do you know on Blue Sky?

Speaker 2 (31:14):
No?

Speaker 3 (31:15):
On Twitter? Because you have the underscore? Did you have
to because somebody else already had?

Speaker 1 (31:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (31:20):
Yeah, there's another Ian Roddy.

Speaker 2 (31:21):
That's why I put the underscore.

Speaker 3 (31:22):
That's right. He's a forty seven year old Liverpool found
from Keustle Rock.

Speaker 2 (31:26):
Yeah don't.

Speaker 4 (31:27):
I don't think the guy's been active for years, so
that's what can I just have it? Other Ian Roddy,
if you're a listener, I want your flex.

Speaker 3 (31:37):
When the other Ian Roddy said it, Ian is not lying.
This Ian Roddy signed up June of twenty twelve. His
last tweet was August eighteenth of twenty twelve, so this
was just like a thing to do in the summer
of twenty twenty twelve.

Speaker 4 (31:51):
I was twelve years old the last time this guy tweets,
and I can't have his user name.

Speaker 3 (31:57):
Come on, how about this? June twenty third, twelve, Hi, Alan,
do you need me to send Jim to you to wait?
I'm drunk? Hi, Alan, do you need me to send
Jim to bring you some gas?

Speaker 4 (32:10):
So that was it was still at the point where
you're treating it like it was a text message.

Speaker 3 (32:14):
Yeah, yeah, right.

Speaker 2 (32:20):
Oh man, I'm still kind of pissed that Ian said
I was twelve years old. I may have flipped him
off multiple times. Oh man, Oh wow.

Speaker 3 (32:33):
He did respond to someone on New Year's Eve of
twenty twelve, so I didn't see the reply. But yeah,
eight following eighteen and just nine followers. That's the regular
Ian Roddy. If you want our Ian Roddy, I got
to go to Ian Roddy underscore. All right, what do
you got for streaming defense this week? Ian?

Speaker 4 (32:50):
Yes, we got three this week. Gonna start with the
Green Bay Packers, who I like to go to a
few times at the beginning of the beginning of the season,
but fifty rostered, so they should be out there for
about half a league's They're playing against Mike's Bears. As
we've heard plenty of Mike's passionate rants on tonight's show.
They've been struggling, so in the three game they have

(33:12):
been struggling.

Speaker 2 (33:13):
Gee, how about the understatement of the year.

Speaker 4 (33:17):
Well, you want a specific stat here, actually have in
the three games since their bye week, Caleb has not
thrown a touchdown pass and they're own three.

Speaker 2 (33:25):
So averaging nine points per game.

Speaker 4 (33:28):
Right, So for the time being, the Bears are a
team to target when looking at the streaming defenses, and
the Packers are a good defense to begin with, you know,
in their own right.

Speaker 2 (33:35):
So I like the Packers this week.

Speaker 4 (33:37):
Again, only fifty percent rostered, so if they're out there,
try to grab them. Next the New Orleans Saints forty
five percent rostered, so even more available than the Packers.
They're playing the Browns, who The Browns are coming off
a bye week, which I don't love, but I still
like the matchup itself. We all know Jamis Winston has
that reputation for throwing interceptions, and prior to the bye

(34:00):
he actually threw three against the Chargers, so you know
he's still that Jameis Winston is still very much alive
and well, opportunity for turnovers are gonna be there for
that reason, and the Saints are fourth in the league
with twelve interceptions on the year, So come on Jameis
Winston against the team that's fourth in the interception fourth
in interceptions. I like that, So Saints. And then last

(34:21):
but not least, the Rams only twenty five percent rostered,
so the most available out of these three playing against
the Patriots. Drake May has been good, but Drake May
can only do so much. So you know, in the
four games, May has played the whole game, the team
has failed to score twenty points. So I'm I like
the Rams this week.

Speaker 2 (34:40):
Yeah, last four weeks, they've got a seventeen and a
twenty two in there for you, Ian, So opportunity knocks.

Speaker 3 (34:45):
Hey, we said those games would be ugly. Why not
take the defenses.

Speaker 2 (34:48):
In some of those show exactly it'll end.

Speaker 3 (34:51):
Up cashing in, all right. I got a couple of
Survivor picks for you. Detroit is the obvious one because
of the spread Mike talked about significant, you'd probably get
a lot of Lions, and with Mac Jones starting against
the Jaguars, if you wanted to go different and wanted
to get some value, I actually think that there's value
with the Saints in that game against the Cleveland Browns.
You're probably not picking New Orleans too many other times.

(35:11):
I don't know how much Cleveland really wants to win.
The more they lose, the better it is for the organization.
But I don't see a lot of excitement coming from Cleveland.
And again, I just have questions about Jamis as a quarterback.
I'd actually would rather have Derek carrs my quarterback that
Jamis Winston. And I think they just have more than

(35:32):
Cleveland does. So the Saints would be my other survivor
pick if you wanted to go that route. My points
of palooza, guys, Actually it's Monday night. I think that
we're gonna get a little bit something more from Cooper
Rush and the Cowboys. Mike McCarthy naming Rico Dowdell. Now
they're unquestioned running back. That's great and all, but I

(35:55):
hope that it opens up a little Ceedee Lamb seems
to be fine and off the injury report, Mike, you
talked about CJ. Stroud struggles. We're gonna kind of go
against the grain here and maybe Cooper Rush and CJ.
Stroud end up breaking out. We get a little bit
more points than we thought we would.

Speaker 4 (36:11):
Let's get some chaos going, all right, Yeah, Collins is
coming back too, so there's yeah, I like that.

Speaker 3 (36:16):
Yeah, yeah, it could just be you know, I just
we like Cooper Rush as a backup and we've seen
him have success. It just wasn't there against Philadelphia. Maybe
the added week, maybe how things work out. Not that
Dallas has a ton to play for, but let's just
let's go risky with that one. And finally, our Oasis

(36:36):
song of the week, We're going to Talk Tonight, which
is one of the better slower songs. You get Noel
on the lead vocals. And since I said talk tonight,
it's going to be a night game. I like Justin
Herbert to show us stuff against that Cincinnati defense that
still is just having trouble stopping anybody. I don't know
who Justin Herbert is going to be throwing to. Maybe it,

(36:58):
you know, still be Mayq, maybe Joshua Palmer, who knows,
but give me Justin Herbert. You know. Now, got a
bunch of running backs in that Chargers backfield. Maybe that's
who the Bengals will try to focus on. So Justin
Herbert will be my Oasis song because if Joe Burrow
on them, do put up some points against that defense.
Chargers are going to have to do something. Should be

(37:19):
a fun one on Sunday night.

Speaker 2 (37:20):
Sunday Night football, that'll be fun, I debated, going I
looked at tickets, thirty bucks really parking.

Speaker 3 (37:30):
I again, I've yet to be at an NFL game
at so far, and I said, I got to change
that this year. And there's only about seven weeks left,
and so better I better get my button gear if
I'm going to actually do it.

Speaker 2 (37:42):
So still time dance, Yeah, still time.

Speaker 3 (37:45):
I would be on the air up until about you know,
fifteen minutes before kickoff, so that's the only tricky portion
of it.

Speaker 2 (37:51):
But oh, I can get a police scored for you.

Speaker 3 (37:54):
Well, I'm excited for Week eleven. Guys should be u
you know, great matchups as we talked about, and hopefully
some fantasy success tipping point For me, I'm pretty much
out of it in a couple of other a couple
of leagues, but I can get a win this week,
maybe it'll still you know, keep me locked in. And
for any of those in the same position, we hope
you do the same. And if your fantasy league is

(38:15):
lostn't or I just keep listening to the podcast because
we like to have a fun time.

Speaker 2 (38:18):
I think that's a good tag right here.

Speaker 3 (38:20):
Yeah, yeah, we're still gonna have enough.

Speaker 2 (38:21):
Grab ass and we'll probably yell against your the team
or players. Notice I added an S there that screwed
you week after week will be the uh the mouthpieces
for your vitriol.

Speaker 3 (38:35):
And remember you can always tweet at Ian Roddy, but
it won't be our Ian Roddy. Get him at Ian
Roddy Underscore. Find Mike at Swollen Dome and you can
find me at dan Byer on Fox, or you can
hit me and Mike up on Blue Sky as well
with Mike Harmon or dan Byer. That's b E y
e R if you didn't know. So for Ian and Mike,
I'm dan Byer. Best of luck in week eleven and

(38:56):
we will talk to you when it's all said and done.
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