Week 9 Matchups + Wheel of Shame - Fantasy Football Podcast for 11/5

The volume was insanity of his share that he was getting of the running back attempts. Jeremy McNichols is still in play for me. The Rams, you know, they aren't the same Rams as yesteryear where you can get fantasy points from the running back position. And if I remember correct, I think they've given up like the eighth most running back receptions.

So running backs, that's kind of where offenses are trying to target them is dumping it off to the running back, and that would be McNichols. So I see both of these guys in play as we try and see the Titans reveal what they're going to do with the running back situation. Who do you like more? I like Peterson more. I like Peterson more. I like McNichols more. Darrell Henderson's locked in, Stafford. Yep. Same goes for Cooper Cup and Robert Woods.

We were talking about Ayuk earlier. Would you play Van Jefferson in this matchup against a very bad Titan secondary? Yes. Or would you play Ayuk? I'd play Van Jefferson. I would as well. You've seen the correlation of Deshaun Jackson. Like when Deshaun Jackson's doing his thing, it's at the expense of Van Jefferson. And that has shifted in the last couple weeks. And now Deshaun Jackson's not even on the team anymore. So I think Van Jefferson is going to.

stabilized. Not that he's a, he's not going to be consistent every single week, but I think his opportunities will stabilize. Marvin Jones or Van Jefferson. I'd play Van Jefferson. I mean, Tutu Atwell's gone as well. I mean, Van Jefferson is, Tutu Atwell is not ever there. No, I know, but the point is, he being Van Jefferson is now a 90% snap player on a great offense. I know it's hard to play a.

wide receiver three with confidence, but he is locked into that role and I want a piece of the offense. Are you guys done with Tyler Higby? He's a tight end. No, you can't be done with him. He's going to have his matchups where it's okay. He's certainly been disappointing this year, didn't go into that hopeful step-up role. Well, when you have Cooper Cup taking everything for the passing game, there's nothing left for Tyler.

Yeah, Cups been very selfish with his dominance. The Chicago Bears at 3 and 5 take on the 4 and 3 Pittsburgh Steelers on Monday night football. The DK. Sportsbook line here, Steelers, minus 6. The overrunner is 39. 39 is not a lot, guys. I don't know if you knew that. That's not a lot of points. I am aware. Let's just get right down to it. I mean, are you playing any bears? I mean, if David Montgomery was active, would you play any Chicago Bears? No.

No. Okay. And if he's not active, you would play Khalil Herbert. Correct. Yep. That's the Bears. End of list. Next team. Only one Pittsburgh game, by the way, has hit the over in the entirety of 2021. So I think what we've been prone to do or players have been prone to do is say, this is the week that Pittsburgh has a blow-up week. Pittsburgh doesn't have any blow-up weeks. They sometimes win. But they don't have blow-up weeks on offense. That's just not what they do. Moderately inflated.

They score slightly, they score what, they stop the other team from scoring, but they score what you expect. Big Ben has never been playable. Naji's always playable. He is just too, you know, too much of this offense. He's averaging 17.7 fantasy points per game and has been a top 12 running back every single week. Mike, you brought him up as maybe the, you know. After the week one, dud. Yeah, week one. What did I say? Didn't I say since week one? I'm sorry, I missed that part if you said. That's okay. That's okay, Mike.

I'm all the way over here. So it takes, what, like eight minutes from my voice to get there? Deontay Johnson. Yep. He's a lock. Jamar Chase and Deonté are the only wide receivers to score double digits every single week. I have, I have him in my dynasty league, but I just can't get him anywhere else. Like I've tried to trade for him. I want the automatic nature of Deontay Johnson. Like, he is automatic every week, guaranteed points. And I can't get him because other people are smart.

Yeah, it's tough. And as much as we love saying the Muth is Luth, I don't think this is a great matchup for Pat Friar Muth. I would look elsewhere if you can. I would rather start Tyler Conklin over. Yeah, I would probably start Higby. I mean, the Bears have been really good against Tid N is a very low over under. You're hoping that Pat Fryer Muth gets a touchdown. And if he doesn't, you know, it's, I think.

I think if Conklin and Fryer Muth don't get a touchdown, then Conklin will outscore the Muth. I am not in any way, shape, or form laughing at your analysis. I think that's accurate. I am, however, laughing at the fact that Kyle the Borgogan has decided to rebrand Jimmy Grandpa to Jimmy Bedpan. Oh, no. He ran 40. He's run 46 routes this year. And according to Kyle, he has the amount of fantasy points as Teddy Roosevelt.

So I found that analysis very humorous. They brought him back and paid him so much money. His elusive rating is zero so far this year. So, I mean, this is not, I mean, he's had an illustrious career. Yes. I was watching some old Saints highlights the other day. Oh, it was the best. And it was the best. Man, I was actually watching the, do you guys remember the game with the Giants and the Saints where there was 13 touchdowns? Beckham had three of them.

You had Marcus Colston and Brandon Cooks. And like, I was watching this game with Breeze. And it's like, man, they had so many weapons. C.J. Spiller was on the Saints. It was crazy. But otherwise, you know, Chase Claypool right now is too risky. It's too risky unless you are a deeper league multiflex. Ayuk or Chase Claypool? Yeah, I mean, honestly, I'm going to play Brandon Ayuk this week. I'm going to do it. Okay. It doesn't, that didn't feel good. That didn't feel. Does somebody have a bucket?

I need a bucket. I would play chase. Yeah, no, just screw that. Play chase. Play chase Claypool over Brandon Ayu. That is the correct answer. Sorry, guys. I want to apologize. You can check out all of our rankings. If you have starts-it decisions, we have a starts-it tool. We have a ton of tools over on the website, the fantasy footballers.com. So you've got to check them out. It is time for the fantasy face-off. Fantasy face-off, presented by Draft Kings.

All right. I'm so happy to report that Jason lost last week. It was not me. And I wasn't in studio to even pay out my wheel of shame. That is being picked. You still haven't. You haven't accepted your second loss. You will. Oh, yeah. I know I will. I know. I'm just banking it. But I didn't lose this past week. Mike was victorious. I had Derek Henry. And so I lost. Yeah. And.

Mike and I were pretty darn close. Mike snuck out the win. We've got rosters for this week, but let's go ahead and spin that wheel first. Wheel of shame. I hope I just land on goatee. I feel like I'm already doing it. The shame is already there. All right, let's give her a spin. Let's see. We got farmers hat, no, fake mustache.

No. Oh, really? 90s tough guy. Well, this certainly goes with my goatee. Oh, my gosh. What is 90s tough guy? Oh, my gosh. Are you kidding me? What is he just get thrown? You got to describe this, Mike. Yes. So he will be starting with the first part of his costume, which is supposed to be a bald cap. It's pretty see-through.

Uh, but he, transparent cap, but the bald cap, not doing, it's full job, but he'll be going with a bald cap and a giant gold chain. With a goate. With a goatee. Yeah. Okay, we've got a 90s tough guy. The glasses are really betraying this a little bit.

Let's ditch the glasses here. Oh, yeah. There we go. No, it looks like a pirate. You look like a 90s WWF guy or WWE. Is that the worst bald cap that's ever been made? This is, this is an unacceptable bald cap. I mean, you can see right through it. It's like you've got a tail. Your skin is coming off. It's like I can see the bald through the bald. Oh, I see what you did there. You already had a bald cap on, buddy. All right, let's get to some lineups.

I'll start us off at the quarterback position. Oh, you look ridiculous. I am going back to the well that I lost with last week. It felt bad for most of the game. He ended up as the number one quarterback, though. I have Josh Allen in my lineup against Jacksonville. Okay. Well, I'll jump in real quick because I have Josh Allen in as my quarterback. I do not. I pivoted down slightly from Josh Allen. I have Lamar Jackson against the Minnesota Vikings.

Okay. All right. Go ahead with your running backs, Jay. At running backs, I have Zach Moss with Josh Allen and Alvin Camara paying up for him as my number one running back. I have Austin Echler and Dalvin Cook as my two. Oh, my goodness. Yes, sir. You have Josh Allen, Cook, and Austin Echler. Those were my, so I originally built my lineup with Taysam Hill.

And those were my running backs as well. So congratulations of doing it with Josh Allen. Who you got at running back? I have canceled out Andy's Austin Eckler with my own. And I've canceled out your Zach Moss with my own. Okay. A lot of overlap here. Wide receiver. I have Amari Cooper, T. Higgins, and Hunter Renfro. Oh, that's interesting. But you got Andy. I went with the Josh Allen to Emmanuel Sanders stack to bounce back. Manuel Sanders cheaper this week.

Then I went with Jarvis Landry. I went with Jarvis Landry with the exhale for the Cleveland Browns and Brandon Ayyuk of the San Francisco 49ers. There it is. There's that savings. I got Brandon Cooks taking on the Miami Dolphins. I also have Amari Cooper in there. And then I was supposed to have Devante Parker in my lineup. And then this morning the news came in. So I had to quickly pivot.

With my quick selection, I went with Cadarius Tony against the Las Vegas Raiders. I don't mind that. I don't mind that. At 5200. All right. At tight end, I have Tyler Conklin, conch. No surprise there. At Flex, Keenan Allen, paying up having a little bit better flex and at defense the Panthers against Mac Jones. All right. I went with Dallas Goddard. I did pay up a little bit at the tight end position. I think it's going to be a huge week.

for Dallas Goddard. I went with A.J. Dillon as my flex. Okay, that's interesting. A.J. Dylan. And then I saved a bunch. I went with the Chiefs. I went with the Chiefs defense. I think they're one of the cheapest on the week, but opportunities for turnovers with Jordan Love. I don't blame you. Yeah, taking on Jordan Love. I got Mark Andrews in my tight end spot because I wanted the Lamar Jackson stack with somebody. And Andrews has been just an absolute monster.

I'm holding my breath. I'm going with Tajay Sharp here against the New Orleans Saints at 4,200 for my flex. And then I have the Carolina Panthers as well at 2,600. Yeah, I'm not. After hearing all three of the rosters, I am not happy you both share Amari Cooper because he was in my lineup and then out. And then now when he succeeds, I will fail. I must your wide receivers. Who are your wide receivers? Emmanuel Sanders, Jarvis, Landry, Bann, and Iuke. Okay. Yeah.

Yeah, I know. Yeah. That's why Austin Eckler, Dalvin, Cook, Dallas Coddron, and AJ Dillon. I had to... What I need, I need Jason to complete the 90s tough guy. I need you... Give me a cut of you're a WWF wrestler, and you're talking trash to the wrestling. Oh, no problem, man. Listen, my lineup's going to crush your lineups so hard. You're going to have children to say, you're not my daddy. Where's my dad?

Give me that man. Oh my gosh. That was outstanding. And to be clear, again, this bald cap looks like you peeled off some leg skin and just pulled it over your head. I mean, this is, you have flaps of skin on the side. It's more like I'm going to rob a bank with panty hose, but it doesn't go over my face. Or you're about to go for a swim or something? Yeah, it does look like a swimmer's cap. Which 90s tough guys. I mean, come on.

A reminder. Those were our week nine lineups. No, it looks like a latex glove. He managed to get it on your head. That's true. All right. You know, I'm Benjamin Franklin. Download the Draft Kings app right now and use the code ballers. This week, new customers can get a free shot at millions of dollars in total prizes. That's the code ballers only at Draft Kings, the official daily fantasy partner of the NFL. There's a minimum $5 deposit required eligibility restrictions apply. See DraftKings.com for details.

Oh, there's your spiky hair. Now you're the tough guy. Oh, man. Wow. This is a week. Can we end the show? Is this, can we call this? Brooks, can we end the show? Are we allowed to end the show? Yeah, I think it's good. That's good. What if you join Mike on Sunday live one hour before kickoff? Please do. That would be a good time. And Jason won't be there. He will not be there. But ballerslive.com if you want to do that.