Week 9 Studs & Duds + Allen FIRED, Barn Burners - Fantasy Football Podcast for 11/4

to the fantasy footballers podcast with your host Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. Jason. It's Christmas time. Yeah, man. Halloween, hello Christmas. I saved it for you. Thank you. You're welcome. My tree's up. No, it's not. Oh, yeah, it is. No, it's not. Oh, yes, it is. Andy, it's Halloween over. Halloween's over. Then Christmas trees be up. Are you on that boat? I broke out all my Christmas vials. Nice. Which, to be fair, is one. Took them all out. I know. Which one? Michael Bublet. It's a nice red colored vinyl. Put that on in the house, listening to Christmas tunes. Of course, it's Christmas time. I told you, I tried your little. Yeah. I tried your method. That's fine. Grinch, you stay over there. No, no. Look, I tried it. Grinch wouldn't have tried it. He loved it.

I don't know if you've seen the film. His heart grew two sizes. He didn't, I don't think the film was based on the second that the Halloween decorations come down. It is Christmas time. Well, we don't know when it started. Yeah. You ever seen the sequel to the Grinch? The best part is, it's Christmas all the time. I tried it. I didn't care for it. It made it feel artificial. It wasn't a natural. There wasn't a sprinkle in the air. You know what I mean? I know what you're saying. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. I don't feel that way. I know you don't. It's okay. I actually thought Christmas time was just related to the news that Dennis Allen had been came. See you later, sucker. I mean, just take the thermometer down. He's not there. Don't rip our wall. What a waste of money. We. Bye. You go. Bye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye. See you later. Oh, so.

Good. After they went two and oh, and I'm starting to look at the next week going, man, if they win, they just got to go 500. I'm going to have to shave my head. And that's where they stopped winning. Yeah, well, he's gone. He's gone. And you know what it is? It's losing to Bryce Young. Dude, we, we mentioned it on the show. Like, the trajectory of the Saints, if they lose this game to Carolina, that's going to get real hot. I didn't know it was. immediately to a volcano. It would be my final straw. I mean, it is a scapegoat thing to a degree. I mean, the injuries have been outrageous for New Orleans, including in this game. I mean, Chris Oliva is one of the biggest storylines that we're going to talk about today. He's in trouble. He's in, like, career trouble at this point. Oh, for sure. I mean, a lot has been made about Tua. His...

His concussion history has been a little bit more in the public eye. It seems like it's always a primetime game. And because he's a quarterback and it affects the whole team so much more significantly. But there's a, there are some significant parallels in the just severity and amount of concussions now, even dating back to college that Chris Olavay has, has had to deal with. So it's, I mean, we expect I are. I don't think he will play football this season. Oh, I hope that is. I don't even know what I hope for. This is one of those things where it's like, I want to be healthy playing football. He was in the locker room after the game. That was the good news. Discharge from the hospital in the locker room. Wanted to be around for the firing, I guess. I heard there's going to be a party here. But I mean, the saints, look, here's what we know. They're going to have a high pick.

They need a quarterback. My Draft King's team was erased the moment that that play happened. Yeah. Dude, that was such a bummer. But at the same time, you can look at the situation for Dennis Allen and say, well, you've lost now, you know, your top three pass catchers. It just kind of, it's just spiral. Ever since we hung the thermometer on the wall, ever since your remaining hair has been threatened. Have you thought about a celebration shave? I have thought of, I mean, I did the shit. I did shave the side. So I'm, uh, you're almost there was like an honorary for you, Dennis Allen. He wanted to show it, but not that much. Yeah, I don't have that much of show. Um, so we have a lot to get to. We've got more news. Uh, we'll give you the latest on Olave and, uh, some of the other, uh, big breaking news of the weekend, including injury reports.

We all know tomorrow's a big day. Trade deadline. Oh, yeah. Trade deadline. Fantasy football. Huge day for our country because the NFL trade deadline is here. Buyers and sellers. We'll see what happens. Cardinals, get yourself a pass rush. Divisional leaders, the Cardinals. Let's go over to. Oh, yeah. Let's check it on the Falcons health. How are you doing down there? Came to work. Congrats, guys. Thank you. Thank you. What a big. I can handily. I can hand it to you. Yeah. Your voice getting deeper there. It's a little raspy today. Yeah. What was going on last night? Barry White over here. Yeah. About six packs. Goodness gracious. He smokes in the bathroom. All right. We've got your reactions to the weekend. And normally I have Jason take a look at these before we hit the button. But I don't think he got to him today. So you guys are riding dirty.

Oh, yes. Well, we'll start with Jason's main man, Divine A-chan. Yes, he is. How about Cedric T.D. Man? Oh, baby. Whoa, Burrow. And we've got a trifecta here. Yeah, Burrow, five touchdowns. Yeah. Jackson Smith win Jigba. Jackpot Smith and Jigba. Yay, S-N. Why am I just? You're a S-N. You're YASN. We got Cooper Yupp. Oh, I love this one. Sequin Backleap. Oh, he farted on that guy. Sequin Beastly. Rico Woutel. Mike Weezy. And Mike, you get this one. Lamar's Powers Bringsay Flowers. Yes. And the weekend, I'll tell you, it wasn't like last week. It was a lot more negative than it was positive.

And we always begin each week with Starvin Harrison Jr. Yeah, Marvin Embarrassin Jr. Or Kyle Pitts of Despair. Her Pitts Creek. How about Puncha Nakua? That's a good one. Pooka Kho. Yeah, and Bree Stalls. Ah, Rahim Moist Tird. Oh, that's gross. Disgusting. Mike, go ahead. Yonathan Taylor. And Samist Winston. Oh, how about Tucker crap? Oh, they're on fire today. Dactose intolerance? Yes. And we'll close it out with A.J. Frown. Dude, I'm never pre-reading these ever again. See, it's better if you don't. It is, but they're not always this good. Moistered. Dactose intolerance? Yeah, I mean. I mean.

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Well, you know, not for your long term. Not for your long term health. Yeah. But for the show's long term health, yeah. I hit the button already. Yeah, you did. I almost did it again. All right. Ready to roll. We're always taking a look at some analytics on this segment every Monday. Something we're reflecting on. We want to bring to light. We got the red zone report inside of the Foot Clan tools. And so we wanted to dive in. Take a look at what teams now at the halfway point are very effective in the red zone thus far. We've got the top six teams. I'm curious your opinion on maybe some actionable fantasy advice you can take out of this information. It's trying to find teams that are maybe they're running too hot or too cold or like Washington. They're running hot, but it could be better. Well, I mean, the truth is these are teams that are effective in terms of capitalizing on touchdowns inside the red zone, inside the 20. And.

Right now, I mean, Baltimore is kind of outrageous. They're sitting at 74% of the time inside the red zone. They're scoring a touchdown. They have 29 red zone touchdowns. The league average, by the way, is 56%. So you're sitting nearly 20% higher than the league average. Buffalo has been very effective in the red zone. Maybe a common theme there. You have two quarterbacks that can move with their legs. Oh, wait. We also have Washington that's been very effective. But that's where I wanted to point out here for Washington. Like Washington, of the teams we're talking about, they're averaging the most red zone plays per game, like over 19. But their percentage is below average. Their red zone touchdown rate is low. There's only 21 compared to like the Ravens who have 29, but red zone field goals for Washington. So that's what I mean of. They could be a team. It could this, how.

Their offense is fantastic. Like the tournament of the Washington commanders is... Bravo. It will probably end up being the story of the season once we look back. But, I mean, if you just, a couple of those field goals, if we turn those into more touchdowns, then this is ludicrous what they're doing. Yeah, you can look at it either direction. You can say they're either inefficient in the red zone, but they're getting there so often that that might go away. They might not stay on the same fiery pace. and then they're not converting touchdowns enough. Or you can look at it as in they're getting there all the time and they could even get better. I think with a rookie there, I mean, you look at right now what's happening is they're moving the ball phenomenally, but they're struggling in the red zone to convert to touchdowns because they've got a rookie who's not used to the condensed field where, you know, the defenders are in position. So I tend to agree with you, Mike, that it could still get actually better.

for the commanders. They have missed Brian Robinson in two and a half games, essentially, which doesn't help your red zone conversion rate. Also, the field shrinks, and, you know, he's been so effective moving in between the 20s. That is an area where a rookie is going to struggle a little bit. Are you saying a good running back helps red zone efficiency? Yes, let's talk about the lions. Well, the lions are there. I was actually talking about Mr. Derek Henry. Um, that dude is insane. You know, since 2007, not many teams have been over 72% conversion to touchdown rates in the red zone. Let me name them for you. You've got the Tennessee Titans, uh, in 2019, which was Derek Henry. You got the 2020 Packers. You got this year's Baltimore Ravens, Derek Henry. Oh, you got the Titans, uh, in 2020, uh, with Derek Henry.

You have the 2020 Steelers, the 2013 Broncos with Peyton Manning, of course. Then you got the Titans with rookie Derek Henry. So it's like, that dude is built different. And I know we talk about like the punishing nature of Derek Henry and the business decisions and whatnot. But when I was watching this last game, yeah, you were pointing them out frequently. It was like, I just, I felt for the defense. I felt for them on a human level. I was like, for their families for their there was a a screen pass to henry where he's literally a locomotive going down down the field and he gets tripped up yeah but the as the camera is moving you see like the defender who was just about to have to deal with him there was a db that was stay like he was standing re was ready oh he was pumping himself up you know like we could do and then i'm sure when the guy ahead of him tackle him he's like yes bodies

Do you see that skinny, skinny DB that truck sticked Henry like last week and just put him on his butt? I think he was, it was at Cincinnati? I don't remember. I remember the play. It didn't make any sense when you looked at the two of them. Came from the side. Yeah, came from the side. Yeah, came from the side. Yeah. So those are your effective teams. You've also got Tampa Bay has been very effective. I mentioned the lions and the. The Bengals are worth mentioning because they're throwing the ball so much. Joe Burrow leads the NFL and pass attempts inside the 20 without Joe Mixin, who has kind of turned off the passing faucet in Houston. Joe Burrow, it's his responsibility. Five touchdowns could have been six this weekend. And so you look at Joe Burrow and say, hey, maybe this is, you know, that's a more predictive one to me. That's not a regression one. You don't have the personnel. Chase Brown is good between the 20s, but you don't have the personnel to.

Derek Henry, the ball into the end zone in Cincinnati. So I think they're going to continue to throw in the red zone. Here are the bottom six. You tell me whether you believe any of these teams improves and whether that's prescriptive for fantasy and picking up players on those rosters. Bottom six, the giant. Nope. The Cowboys have 11 red zone touchdown. That is 10 fewer than the commanders and they're in, they're scoring on 45% of drives. They're in. Trouble. If you read Zach's or Dak Prescott's lips on the sideline, you can tell what everyone knows. He's, he's not happy with the state of the Cowboys. He included himself. Yeah, it was a wee. It was a wee. He basically said we suck. He said we suck. On the sidelines caught a little more emphatic. Oh, yeah. Some words can't say here. Like the Cowboys, C.D. Lamb got banged up. Gee whiz, we suck. That's what it was.

C.D. Lamb just, they kept putting him back in. I mean, him putting himself back in, I'm sure. But at what cost? And then Dack left the game with a hamstring and a hand injury that we don't yet have a status update. But they're, they could be in big trouble. Yeah, the Cowboys, I don't, I don't think that's a positive regression. The Steelers are not very effective at getting there, but. I don't think that's what I'm aiming for. The Packers, yes. The Packers, I think we have seen a multitude of things impact this number. Injury to their quarterback twice this year. Rainy game yesterday. 47% I don't think is going to hold personally. And do you guys agree? No, I agree. Honestly, you know, when it comes to four through six of the bottom, Green Bay, the San Francisco 49ers.

and the Miami Dolphins, those are injury teams that you expect to get better. Tua being gone, Christian McCaffrey being gone, and love being gone. I think all three you would expect to have brighter days ahead from a touchdown scoring perspective. Do we get it? Is it really Christmas this week? Is Christmas McCaffrey coming back for us? I think Christmas McCaffrey is back. The question is just when you- You stay out of this, Grinch. When you open the package, is it something you want or is it another injury? That's it. Any trees up over there in Ducers Alley? Not yet for me. No, okay. My family pushed really hard to put it up this weekend. Oh, so you put the smackdown on it. Team Josh. Falken? Andy. Andy. No tree till December. All right, Barry. Listen, it's not that it's not fun. It's just that what makes it fun, this is such a waste of my breath. What makes it fun is everybody else is doing it.

that's what makes it a fun tradition is you've got Christmas everywhere, not just at Lowe's. You know what I mean? Right. I know. Like, I know you, you buy into big marketing. So the second you walk into Lowe's, you see the trees up, you're like, I got to do what Lowe says. You think I go into home improvement stores, man stores? All right. Hey, that was ready to roll. Thanks again to our sponsor, Nissan and the all-new reimagined Nissan kicks. Take on the city with the Nissan kicks bold new look plus safety features like the Nissan Safety Shield 360 technology that will have your back in traffic. Head over to NissanUSA.com to learn more. Nissan Safety Shield technologies can't prevent all collisions or warn in all situations. See owners manual manual for important safety information. News and notes from around the league. Presented by USAA Insurance. That saints have fired, abysmal, maligned.

Head coach Dennis Allen. Congratulations to all of my friends who are Saints fans. Your future should be brighter. You're going to have a top quarterback next year. And you are a good franchise. Like if I was a head coach on the open market and I'm looking at franchises I want to go to, that is a very functionally well run organization for a long period of time. So. I think there's bright days ahead, just not this season. How? Yeah. I mean, the cap situation's a problem. The cap's a problem and the, I mean, the functionality of the of the team making the decision to keep this head coach is perhaps in question. I think that the, I mean, this was my argument on the bold prediction show of the fact that Dennis Allen was gifted this position by Sean Payton. It was kind of.

I don't think this was the organization really saying this is the best route. It was just kind of like the guy who led us, fooled us, if you will. Yeah, it's very odd that like it felt like a pretty unanimous thing that like outsiders, you know, football fans are like, this guy shouldn't be the coach. You know, have him be a defensive coordinator somewhere. That's fine. But he should not be the head coach. All of us seem to know this. And even it's just so strange to me that these these coaches get in these positions. And we all know it's a bad idea. And it's going to fail. And it's going to set you back. So I think the Saints are a couple years away. Keon Coleman will have tests done on his wrist today. We need to stay tuned for that. Drop the touchdown that turned into an interception in that game.

They ended up winning it anyway. The Raiders fired Luke Gatsy, their offensive coordinator. They fired their quarterbacks coach and their offensive line coach as the team takes the next step towards firing their head coach. That is true. I think Pierce is not long. And they don't have the personnel either. I mean, Drake London left early with a hit pointer in an oblique strain. The early stuff that I saw on this was optimistic. So hopefully it's not a big deal, but I don't think we have a ton of details yet. We talked about Olave. He's in the concussion protocol. Fifth, documented concussion since college, fourth in the NFL, and second, because he had one in week six, which was not long ago. Darius Slatting concussion protocol, A.J. Brown left early with a knee injury, but as of this morning, Jordan Schultz reporting, it's avoided. He's avoided a serious one. That would be excellent news because that looked like a multi-week. Dak, Prescott left early with a hand and ham injury. Hand string.

Also, you know, they weren't competitive. And C.D. Lamb sprained his AC joint. He'll have an MRI on Monday. I put almost nothing into Jerry Jones saying he'll be fine. Yeah, he said he'll be fine because he went back out there for a bit. That doesn't mean anything. Long term, yeah, he will be fine. I do think he'll play through it if it's not showing up on the MRI as anything catastrophic. But that could be something that knocks you out. Basically, that AC joint, if you land on it. in the game, you could be in trouble. He was insane. We've seen this with Tyreek Hill before. The whole game. I mean, we were, Mike, you pointed this out super early in the game was like, oh, Citi's hurting. And then he's playing and he's hurt. And you kept screaming at the TV. Like, why are you leaving him in there? Like, don't do this to Citi. He's going to die. And then they ended up constantly throwing him the ball because he's CEDY lamb. And then he got injured. And he got a real big one trying to catch a touchdown. Yeah. And landed right on it. Couldn't come back. No, he did come back for a two point conversion.

That was the crazy thing. Eric Al Jr., rookie tied in for the Bengals, unfortunately. Oh, that's a bummer. Tor his ACL. I missed that. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, not that I want to diminish the injury in any way, shape, and form, but obviously his performance, his involvement, and he had a bunch of weeks with four catches, his absence is going to mean that the Gassiki week that happened could be stickier. Because sticky sticky sticky. Oh, I mean, honestly, you look at those hands reaching out. Because it was right there, man. You dropped it. No, I did you drop this? Sticky get sicky, baby. All right. I think it's true. Welcome to the nicknames. It also works with his hands. It does because he's got great hands. He's got sticky hands. They don't call him sticky because sticky for no reason, Andy. Yeah, I mean, it's going back to high school. Caleb Williams tweaked his ankle.

Probably going to be okay. That was today's news and notes presented by USAA Insurance. Learn more at USAA.com slash insurance. We'll take a break. We'll get into the studs. I know for a fact that as we come out of that break that Jason's been typing furiously on his keyboard. It's going on. And I think, I think what he's doing is he's adding sticky gisicky to the nickname. Oh, it's added dashboard. Yeah. I knew it. Like our website shows the nicknames and he wasn't going to let that one. No. Fly by. Sticky, that's his, I mean, that's just what people call him. Just, Mike's eyes when he knew so quickly. So, but he, what I'm here for. It might be, it might be a thing. It, uh, we'll see. Germain Burton. Oh my goodness gracious. Germain Burton was supposed to have a game plan built around him. No T. Higgins shows up in pajama pants, skips his Saturday walk through doesn't play in the game. Yeah, if you did not hear the drama that unfolded rapidly, T. Higgins was going to be out.

we've had, we were discussing like, what do the Bengals do here at wide receiver? T. Higgins is so necessary here. Like, I was casting some shade on just, I don't think Yoshivas is that guy for them. Could it be Jermaine Burton? Apparently, the Bengals were doing something of like, okay, let's get the rookie involved who, sorry, rewind just a little bit. Jermaine Burton, electric football player. He fell in the draft specifically because of character concerns. Like we're not sure that this guy has the... The drive commitment. The mental makeup to make it in the NFL, which is just like an unbelievably grueling business for you to be in. This opportunity shows up for him. Apparently they had a huge game plan where Burton is going to be involved. He's going to be featured. He skips the walkthrough.

On Saturday, doesn't call in. Reportedly doesn't call in. Shows up to the game in pajama pants. And then he's a healthy scratch. And it was so frustrating for that to be right there for him. And I mean, someone's got to. This is, we got to get a mentor for this kid. It's, it's all there. But on the path, this is, this will, he will wash out of the league. So fast. This is also a team in a situation that is not going to wait for him. They are, you know, they need to win. They need to win now. And they're not just here to baby this draft pick to hopefully get more out of him. I mean, they want more out of him. But they are, you know, it's just like having him be a healthy scratch. It's like we don't have time for, we don't have time for this. Yeah, they've got to go win games. They could have dealt with it. They could have said, okay, whatever, we don't care. You're right. And this.

Week specifically could be the difference between them taking a first day wide receiver. Yeah. I mean, T. Higgins is moving on. And Jermaine Burton could have been the guy. So disappointing. Yeah. Let's get into the studs. This week's fantasy stud muffins. None of the guys I played. None of the guys I played. I'll tell you that. Jason and I in. What's the opposite of a barn burner? A fart fest. That's what we like to call it. Yeah. I don't know. The opposite of a barn is what? The opposite of a barn? It's a well. Oh, yeah. No, that's good because you raise a barn and you dig a well. Is it the structure that you need the opposite? Or is it? And a well's water and a barn burner. It's off fire. Oh, so we had a well water. I was going to know, like a barn builder as opposed to the burner. Oh, because the burner burns it down? Is the opposite need to be the building or the action that's happening? Whatever it is, we're not going to score 100 points either of our teams.