Starts of the Week + Week 11 Breakdown, Goose Burns - Fantasy Football Podcast for 11/18

and Ramandre's on my bench. Yeah. So that's how the, the process says that is what it has to be. That does not mean that Bill Belichick can't come out and be like, gotcha. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I mean, I thought about playing both. I thought about, we got a two-flex league. I thought about putting Ramandre in there in place of Jeff Wilson this week with the, but Jeff Wilson has this stuff around, you know, Elijah Mitchell might not play. So I'll probably just roll Damien Harris out there. But, uh,

I think that's a good decision. Speaking of decisions, Cordero Patterson will be a game time decision tonight. We speculated on the Wayne Goldman usage early in the week, talked about the fact it was a blowout, talked about the work. I mean, he has more juice. He looked better, but at the same time, you're in a blowout. So it's hard to draw big time conclusions. Arthur Smith came out and said, look, we knew we had to play Thursday. You're getting blown out.

that's why you saw a heavy dose of Galman and Rosen. So he put him in the same category. That means it's Mike Davis. It means that Mike Davis is more likely to get the snaps to work if Cordero's not in. Now, if Cordero's in, a lot of people might, I mean, do you just play him? Yeah, I would play Cordero Patterson if he's in just because of, assuming you're in any kind of half-p-pr or full PPR. I think the targets will be there. You know, I still expect.

New England to focus on Kyle Pitts, whether they can stop them or not. That's a human problem. Be better for Pitts than for Cordarral to be back. Yeah, absolutely. Better for Pitts for Cordero to be there. And Calvin Ridley, if you want to come back. Julio, if you want to come back to also better. Honestly, if, if Roddy White. Roddy White, come on back.

Tony Gonzalez, he's not doing much. If Kyle Pitts could be like the third option in an offense, he would just, you couldn't stop him. Honestly, you saw the breakout performances from Pitts, the ones that went up above and beyond. They're like, you know, number one on the week when Calvin Ridley was back. Taking their top off the defense, somebody to think about, they're going to have to fix that position in the off season if this Ridley thing is not short-lived.

Cordero if he's active or Darrell Williams this week? I would go Cordero. I'd go Darrell. We're both going Darrell. It takes a lot, guys. I just got more core strength. The good news is, at least the way I'm projecting it, I don't think you'll have to make that decision. You think Cordero's going to sit? I can't imagine Patterson plays. I do agree with that. All right. Well, Chris Carson didn't practice on Wednesday.

It's not good. Pete Carroll basically said he's not progressing the way that they had hoped. So you're looking at a situation where he could be, you could be singing this song every single week where they just keep waiting and waiting and waiting. He could play. I mean, I, Alex Collins. Right now you can't count on him on your fantasy team. No, you cannot. Alex Collins looks to be very important. Obviously, at this point, he's rostered. He's been picked up through waiver wires. But I would, I would be willing to kick the tires on a trade offer. He hasn't done much.

over the last couple of weeks at all. I mean, you're talking five points, four points, five points the last three weeks. The fantasy managers are not going to want to hold on to this guy. But at the same time, this has been an offense mostly without Russell Wilson that he's been there. And then a hobbled, weird Russell Wilson in the snow. It was so weird watching him this last week. It was like he didn't, he was not the same. And Carol came out again. We got to establish more.

He has quadrupled down on they need to establish the run. And if Carson needs some time to get back, it's not the greatest matchup, and I don't know if Russell is over his weirdness. Well, he'll never be over his weirdness, but if he's back to full strength on the field. Don't we have that? At one time we did. Unlimited. Yes, I didn't know there was video to it.

It's against Arizona this week. That's hard. But then Washington, San Francisco, Houston are good matchups for the running back. All right. Kyla Murray limited on Wednesday. Limited. Limited. He says, I hope so. I'm pretty close. He was followed up in that. And they said, who makes that decision? He said, you know, are you going to play this week? He said, I hope so. They said, who makes that final decision?

And he paused, he thought, like, am I allowed to say? So, if he's the one that's going to make the decision, it's not a doctor thing or coach thing, and he's saying he hopes so, I'm leaning towards him being in. DeAndre Hopkins did not practice on Wednesday. Expect him to be out. There's still the by week next week for the Cardinals, which could keep Kyler out. Definitely will keep Hopkins out. James Robinson did not practice.

They said, Ian Rappaport said that it seemed minor and precautionary, monitor that. But yeah, but of note, it is not just the heel, at least what was on the practice report, it was the heel and knee, which that would be new. So that probably precautionary because it's just Wednesday, but it's something to pay attention to. Elijah Mitchell did not practice on Wednesday. Kyle Shanahan. Is that because he just had surgery? It's due to the surgery. Oh, no, B reporter says fine. Kyle Shanahan did say he expects him to play on Sunday. Oh, that's great.

I, um, that's, that's good that he's going to be out there. I do think you'll see, uh, my name is Jeff. A little bit more. A little bit more. He's a good play this week. Uh, Alvin Camara return to practice. Big news for Alvin Camara managers. Tony, Tony Brooks, James Jones, Jr. also was designated to return from IRC could be back soon. Tony. I don't think it matters whatsoever. No, Mark Ingrams, the guy. Yep. Uh, chiefs may not activate Clyde Edwards O'Leary again this week. They may wait.

for the buy week. In fact, I think they will. Sure. I mean, given that, you know, when you can hold a player out one game and you get two weeks of rest, who's coming back and if you off the injury, it makes a lot of sense. DeAndre Swift, limited in practice, Jamal Williams returned to a limited practice. Let's pay attention to that into the weekend. This one is a problem to me. Alan Robinson didn't practice at all due to a hamstring injury.

They're coming out of the buy week. So this is something. Pay attention. That is new and could be a problem. We'll be talking about the Baltimore-Chicago matchup. Might be time for the werewolf. Moon is out. Oh, is that a Mooney? That's a darnel Mooney. How long have you been sitting on that one? The werewolf. About one and a half seconds. He wrote the word Mooney down.

On his piece of paper. But the werewolf was all the brains in his brain. Right. That was more of the heart. But yeah, I mean, it was certainly. The werewolf. It was from deep within me. The truth is Mooney's already been. The number one target. Alan Robinson has not been. But you take Alan Robinson out. I think there is a solid game opportunity here for Darnel Mooney. For.

Colquamette will see a bunch of targets. Well, it's the ladiest on Latavius. So he did, he technically returned to practice was limited. At least the video that was circling around the socials looked like a man who was very hesitant. Limited. Like gingerly walking around. So we'll see. They released Levi on Bell, so I would.

presume that Latavius is coming back. It was like a walkthrough, like it was half speed. And I've never seen someone look bad at half speed. You know, it looked like, I don't know. It was bizarre. If the game was today, I don't think he'd be playing. Chase Claypool returned to a limited practice. So we'll see. You know, that week to week timeline could be getting closer. Jeremy McNichols didn't practice in the concussion protocol. This one's weird because.

I don't recall anything being said about McNichols suffering a concussion. But, I mean, if we're in the protocol here on Wednesday and there's a chance he doesn't play, we talked about Giante Foreman looks like the best running back. It's only two weeks, but the snapshot and the percentage of the running back attempts, it did go up for Foreman, and they're playing Houston. So like Foreman becomes

interesting? Yeah, I think it's a good descriptor for the situation there. More injury updates on tomorrow's show as well. We'll have the Injury Blitz podcast in the afternoon for Matthew Betts to keep you apprised on making those starts-sid decisions which are, I mean, they're hard. They're tough. You want to make the right call. And the more information you have, the better. So that was today's news and notes brought to you by Sleeper, the leader in breaking news alerts. If something's going on in the injury world, you're going to hear about it first.

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has the bills home seven point favorites over under is 50.5. 50.5. Sorry. That was a bad one. I just couldn't. I mean, it's no werewolf joke, but it's all right. Buffalo won in the playoffs 2724 last year. Josh Allen went crazy, got him over the hump. And let's break this thing down for fantasy players. I'm really, really excited for.

the Buffalo passing attack in this game. This is a perfect matchup where I think the Colts are going to be able to do enough. It's really difficult to project anyone to have a good game against the Bills. The Bills' defense has just been unstoppable right now or very stoppable in defensive terms. So the Colts with Jonathan Taylor on fire, the breakout of Pittman, I think they'll do enough to where the bills are going to have to put

put up points. And it is hard to run on the Colts and it is easy to pass on the Colts. So it's a really wonderful matchup to me. And I, you know, when I'm building, you know, our draft Kings lineups for tomorrow's episode, I've been wanting pieces of this Buffalo Bill's passing game. Well, and it helps because I agree with you. And I think the on the fence decisions, which to me are like Emmanuel Sanders.