Starts of the Week + Wk 14 Matchups, Jason’s Back!

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to the fantasy footballers podcast. Coming to you from draft.com studios with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Welcome. Are you talking to, you're talking to the audience? You're talking to this fellow over here. Jim. Lovable. I am a gem. That's right. I'm so happy to be back. This is good to be back America. Welcome back, Jason. Oh.

I would call it a bit of a surprise because, you know, using injury designations late last night, you were more of a questionable. You was a doubtful. Yeah, I was downgraded. You could have gone. You were downgraded. And then you worked it out before the game. Nothing if not a zombie. I'm back from the dead. I'm ready to eat brains, I guess. Okay. You're nothing if not a zombie? You had a little boom boom action going on.

I had, I would say that's accurate. That's your comeuppance. Boom, boom. Boom. Up and down. Boom, boom. Welcome back. Don't get us sick. All right. I'll try. I tried to leave orbit. We have fantasy forecast on the Thursday show today. Starts of the week. Boom, boom kicker. Just the boom, boom kicker. No other boom boom. And some big news that broke yesterday. Yeah. We'll get into that as well.

The full trifecta back in full force and getting you ready for, you know, a big week, 14 matcha. And there are some people out there, and I've read about it that, I don't know, two weeks ago they went into the game, they went into your matchup, and you had Kareem Hunt and James Connor and A.J. Green. And Emmanuel Sanders. And then you don't got any of them anymore. Yeah. Hey, fantasy football is tough, man.

This is true. So we're here to help. And that's what today's show is all about. I want to get into the Emmanuel Sanders news in lieu of a quick question because yesterday I got the sleeper alert. And it was not good news. It was Emmanuel Sanders going down in practice. It said it didn't look good. Then Denver said they feared a tort Achilles. And then it was confirmed.

Torn Achilles tendon for wide receiver Emmanuel Sanders of the Denver Broncos. He is now placed on IR. His season is over. It's going to be a long road back. We wish him the very best. It is a very difficult injury to suffer. It's also very difficult. When you look at, Denver might have moved on from him regardless in this offseason. Yeah, and just to piggyback on that next year, Emmanuel Sanders would make $10.2 million. He would make that.

but they can cut him for a $2.6 million dead cap hit. And it's a tough business. It would not shock me at all to see that happen. With this timeline of his injury. Let me look at Deonté Foreman. I mean, he's back. I guess Deontay Foreman running back for the Texans. But he's a young man. About the same time last year. Yeah. Emmanuel Sanders is about 10 years older. Yeah, the timeline for recovery says he's not ready for the start of the season at all. So how you could keep him around.

He probably won't play next year. Yeah, I mean, that's the truth. He's probably cut and maybe he'll sign for a playoff contender to leave. Yeah, maybe. But that's a lot harder, too, than even coming back on a roster where you know the playbook. And it's coming back late next year on another team. I mean, he was on pace for 1157 yards, the second most of his career. He's having an excellent season. The Denver Broncos are on a hot winning streak. Hot streak. They're the...

They're the new Cinderella for the playoffs. And then in practice on a Wednesday, you lose your second best offensive weapon. And you don't expect it and you didn't expect it when Demarius Thomas was traded to be both in the hunt, which they are. I mean, I said it earlier this week. I thought they were going to make the playoffs because of their schedule compared to Baltimore's. I thought that Denver might sneak in. But now you have to lean on Cortland Sutton.

Deshawn Hamilton. Tim Patrick. Andre Holmes was signed. I mean, it's a third man. But Deshaun Hamilton, just speaking for fantasy fallout, Deshaun Hamilton is the player to add. I mean, I don't know if he's going to do anything this year, but Hamilton is, was drafted to be the replacement for Emmanuel Sanders eventually. That time came sooner than they were expecting. But Hamilton is a very polished wide receiver. He's.

His routes are incredible. Matt Harmon. Polish like a gem. Yeah, a gym. A gym. Like a gym that's been working out at the gym. Matt Harmon, who does reception for the ultimate draft kit, Hamilton was one of his shining stars, one of those middle round guys that could turn into something. So I'm excited to see what Hamilton can do now that the opportunity is fully his. Okay.

Yeah, he is, I mean, the thing is, we say, oh, he's probably not going to do anything. Someone has to. There's just no, this is an NFL team that has lost, you know, over a quarter of its targets. Sutton's volume is going to go up. Someone's going to replace some of the volume. Deshaun has to chime in there. What's crazy, if you look at his snap percentages, you know, most of the year he's been under 25% snaps. Two weeks ago got up to 50% last week. Emmanuel Sanders obviously not injured yet. It was up to 79%. So Deshaun Hamilton was.

getting more trust. It didn't turn into anything yet, but at least the coaching staff was saying he should be on the field. Now he has to be. For fantasy owners that are concerned with this season specifically, Cortland Sutton is the beneficiary when it comes to target consistency, reception consistency. He'd been kind of a three-catch guy. I put him more in the four-five catch baseline, which for a guy with his size, Red Zone prowess,

big playability, that really raises his, you know, flex-worthy type of consideration to me. I would be, I'd feel very confident starting him. I don't, you know, Philip Lindsay is going to get a ton of work in this offense. Case Keenum is not the engine that's moving this offense. It's the defense plus the running game right now. Check us out on the web, the fantasy footballers.com. Twitter is at the FFFballers.

If you want to follow Jason, do so at Jason FFL. Mike is at FF Hitman. I'm at Andy Holloway. We're on YouTube. And Jason, you move your hands and emotion of... I was greeting the YouTubers. Oh, you're Whitton. You're Whitton. Yes. Oh, you're Jason Whitten. Is that the Ted Thompson or the Jason Witten? Oh, Ted Thompson is the clap. If Jason Witten were to clap, that's the Ted Thompson. Yeah.

Did we get Tony Romo as the head coach of the Arizona Cardinals? Working on it. I'm in full. I'm working on it. I, honest to goodness, this is not a joke. I heard a rumor. I saw it on Twitter somewhere that the Arizona Cardinals were looking at Tony Romo. I saw on Twitter a rumor that the Arizona Cardinals were looking at Tony Romo for that coach. I don't remember the Twitter account. Yes, it was a verified account, so you know it's trustworthy.

Good. The idea of us creating our own rumors on Twitter and then coming on our show and saying there's a rumor going around. It's been reported Andy Holloway on Twitter at Andy Holloway. Tony Romo may be the next head coach of the Arizona Cardinals. What else could we do? Well, we'll learn over time. Just what power we have or don't have. I believe Mike calls this fart sniffing. Yes. The boom boom coach of the week, Tony Romo.

Let me just say one thing real quick. Being an Arizona sports fan right now is real, real bad. But people don't care about us. I know they don't. I know they don't. But there were some. Paul Goldschmidt traded from the Arizona Diamondbacks yesterday for... Who? Yeah, Paul Goldsman. The Cardinal Sons and Diamondbacks are now a trifecta of dumpster fire levels. So I'm just saying it's all fantasy all the time. We have conjured up.

local sports fandom to be so poor in Arizona that it's just fantasy football. That's all we can live for. It's all we can focus on that. We don't have a choice. Fatherhood, fantasy football. That's it, you know. Some quick news before I get into the forecast. Markey's Goodwin returned to practice on Wednesday. Jason, how much does this temper Dante Pettis hope for you? It does. It tempers it quite a bit because the only times we've really seen Pettus hit is when Goodwin has been out of the way.

I'm happy he's back. I'm happy he's over his personal issue as a Pettus owner who was literally, you know, I have him in my starting lineup. I was, I was a little disappointed. You don't think that is possible Goodwin with his ability and using his role of spreading the field, opening things up, that that.

Can't possibly help Petis? No, 100% that's possible. Okay. I mean, if Petis, I mean, takes over, say, the Garsohn role and Goodwin looks at his... Absolutely. Then he can succeed. He's got the talent to do so. But the issue is we haven't seen that yet. And so I don't want to go into the fantasy playoff weeks. These are the weeks where... It's also got a Mullen's dependency fallacy. Right. These are the weeks now where we shift from really going...

absolute bottom of the barrel when it comes to streamers. And we, you're talking to playoff teams and the playoffs with good rosters needing to start against great teams. Sutton or Pettus? You're all over Sutton. Yeah. Mitch Trubiskey practicing in full for Sunday night against the Rams. So that's good news for the, uh,

For the offense. Yes, it is. Melvin Gordon remained sideline at Wednesday's practice. I don't think any of us expect Melvin Gordon to play this week against Cincinnati. I'm pretty sure that they can beat Cincinnati. It's super unfortunate. For Melvin owners. If Melvin Gordon against the Bengals, it probably put up 250. Yeah, not impossible. Look at what Philip Lindsay did last week. Carry on Johnson. Remain sideline at Wednesday's practice. He won't be back this week either. We'll get a full kind of.

inventory of the injuries tomorrow on In-N-Out, the Friday show, as we always do, the last kind of update before the live stream, which, by the way, the live stream on Sunday. Oh, yes. I'm taking it over. Yeah. Mike's going to be gone that day. I'm going to step in. I kind of joked. Like, there was a couple nights ago Mike thought maybe he was getting whatever Jason had, right? Yes.

And we already had had Jay Gris on the show. And I was starting to visualize having to come in here and have me and two bears, which is really the kind of like professional legitimate thing I want on my resume. My resume. Because I want my grandparents and my family to be like, what did you do today for work? And I said, well, I had a hard day of work. It was me and two cardboard bears on a set, talking fantasy football.

But I started to, you know, I started to think a little bit about, you know, how do I one man show this? I'll probably be throwing it to Brooks and I'll get one word answers. Oh, yeah. I'll be hitting the crickets drops, right, Brooks? Yep. Yeah. And so this is my, thankfully, that didn't happen in Jason's back. But, you know, this will be some time, me and the foot clan. Just hanging out on Sunday morning for Sunday live. And we'll have more injury updates then as well. You guys ready for the forecast? Yes, sir. Fantasy forecast.