Playoff Primer + Week 10 Buy or Sell, Fence Sitting

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Andy Mike and Jason back, the fantasy footballers. It's Wednesday. Jason's head bobbing with the music. Oh, I mean the music's so good. Thank you, Mike. You're welcome. Is that new? Is that a new? It is. It is. Oh, nice. Very nice. Every time I hear it, it's new. We've probably got a 30, 40, 50 remixes in the archives. Not from you, but just from like the listeners over the years.

Uh, maybe like three. We, no, it's more than that. We've got some eight, we've got some eight bit versions. We do. We have some, there was at least one person that did it in all horns. We, yeah, I think Andy's right. I think we've got 30. Yeah. Every year, every year, every year for listener league, we get like 10 entries that are based around our songs. Don't get insecure. I mean, yours is still the best. Oh, no, that's what I was going to say. The hard part about remixing a masterpiece. Yeah. When you come after the king, mm-hmm. This is tough.

Yeah, it's difficult. Don't miss. Good luck tracing the Mona Lisa. Tracing. That's what I do. I put the paper right up on that. No, that's fine. Oh, man. Picture. Hey, I have a megalible update. Mega. Yeah, we've got a Megalodon show coming this month, as always, leading into the. The Megalable. Thank you. No, the Megalodon. There's only one. Well, let's get into the Megalable update.

I wanted to take a look. We've got a couple weeks left here before playoffs. And there were over 7,000 teams that entered the Megalibol. And there are currently 61 undefeated teams remaining. Impressive. And if you are in the Megalibol, you can head over to join thefoot.com. You can see we posted a huge update about how playoffs work.

and total points, and we'll have a winner soon. The top three from every league will go on. It's points based, not necessarily records based from that point forward, and rosters will be locked. So there's no moves you can make. Plan ahead. Yeah, so there were 491 leagues, 7,692 foot clan participants in 61 undefeated teams remaining.

And then I wanted to take a little look, see at what players are the most common on the undefeated teams. Number one, Christian McCaffrey is on 20 of those 61 undefeated teams, the Patriots defense on 16 of them. Lamar Jackson's on 14 of them. Then it goes Mike Evans, Dalvin Cook, Cooper Cup, Russell Wilson, Leonard Farnett, and... Oh, ho!

Well, Google YouTube. Yes, we have Darren Waller there as well. So I thought that was kind of interesting. Congrats to everybody who is in the running to move on and potentially become the ultimate Meglabel champ. I mean, that is an accomplishment. 7600 plus teams and you're the champ. Yeah, that will be really cool. And of course, you will be in the listener league for next year. Yes.

And a reminder, follow us on Instagram, Instagram.com slash fantasy footballers. You can follow Mike on Twitter and Instagram at FFHitman. Yeah. Follow Jason at Jason FFL. Yeah. You can follow me at Andy Holloway. Yeah. And the communities join the foot.com. We've got a Wednesday show, which means we have some buy or sell. Buy or sell, presented by pristine auction.

All right, it was a good week for Buy or Sell last week. We did an AFC East edition. We all went four out of five. It's really crazy because the one that each one of us got wrong was a different one, but we all went four out of five. Yeah, Mike, you lost on the Devon Singletary 10 total touches. He ended up with more, obviously. I lost on the Devante Parker 10 fantasy points. Oh, doubted Devonte Parker. Yeah, how dare I?

And then Jason lost on the John Brown over five catches. Seven targets. You should have done it, John. So seven targets. And what's funny, he was four for 76. I mean, that's a great game. That's a good game. Yeah. I feel like I won. You lost. I won. All right. NFC North edition for week 10, buy or sell. Devante Adams, top 10 wide receiver performance this week.

against Carolina. Last week, he was 7 for 41 on 11 targets, played 45 snaps. That was 83%. Panthers 24th against the wide receiver position. Do you expect Devante Adams to reenter the top 10 this week? Buy yourself. I am buying the Carolina Panthers. It's a fine matchup for fantasy wide receivers. It was his first game back.

which unfortunately he didn't come through. However, 11 targets, 11 targets from Aaron Rogers and the way that Aaron Rogers had been playing until last week, I will buy that Devante Adams is back. Yeah, I'm buying it completely. I mean, you come in your first week back, you get double-digit targets, a winnable matchup. I buy him top 10 for sure. This one's really tough for me.

I don't have a heavy, like I'm 51-49 on it, so I will sell. I'll sell Devante Adams last week. Disappointing, offense seemed out of sync. Top 10 is a high bar for a wide receiver, so I'll go ahead and sell it and, you know, be the contrarian here. All right. All right. Number two here. Stefan Diggs, is he a top 12 wide receiver against Dallas? Thielen didn't play.

He was the number one wide receiver in week six, the number six wide receiver in week seven. Then he was the 15th wide receiver against Washington, and then last week disappeared. Oh, if these trends continue. He will actually go Marty McFly photograph and disappear. He'll be a wide receiver 160. I'm going to sell top 12 against Dallas. I don't have enough confidence. Top 12, a high bar, hasn't done it.

The last two weeks, so I don't think he's going to do it this week against Dallas. Kirk Cousins has been playing fantastic football on the season, but I am going to sell here. Even with Adam Thiel and expected to miss this upcoming game, the Dallas defense has been very good. Over the course of the season, if you take the wide receiver position as a whole and say, how many times have they given up a top 12 total points to the fantasy position?

It's only been once on the season. But who was it against, Jason? Bizarrely, it was against the New York Jets. They got it done. But Wins didn't get it done. Daniel Jones didn't get it done. I mean, they haven't faced a ton of stiff competition. So I'm going to sell. Yeah, man. Diggs is an enigma. The mystery continues throughout this season.

Top 12 was just so high, so I will sell as well. All right, we all sold that one. What about Matthew Stafford, who's on a roll averaging 312 passing yards per game, having a career year, goes to Chicago. This week, 300 passing yards for Matthew Stafford. What do you think? Buy yourself. It's an easy sell to me. I mean, that's a high bar against the Chicago Bears defense. I'm out. I'm selling as well. I love Matthew Stafford, but they've given up a 300-yard game one time out of eight games this year. So I'm selling. Who was it?

Who was it? Was it him? You just had the stat. I was wondering if you had it. Yeah, I could pull it up for you. I'm buying. Oh. I'll buy Stafford with 300 yards. He's just. It was actually Case Keenham. There you go. He, I get that the odds are certainly against him. Flacco actually got close. And the way. Bridgewater, too, they got close. The way that they are playing and calling plays for Matthew Stafford, which is 500 every other play.

I'll buy it. Well, in your defense, since Carriott Johnson went down and their running game is pretty much non-existent, he is not just, he's averaging 312 passing yards on the season. But over the last three games, I mean, he is, he's on fire. Here's his lines over the last three games. 364 yards, 352 yards, and 406 yards. It's been the right recipe for him.

He's got above average weapons, a below average defense, and no running game. What's funny is like, what's old is new again is this is who Stafford used to be. Like when Stafford first came in the league, he was an absolute gunslinger with Calvin Johnson just chucking a deep all the time. Then he was turned into a game manager, which.

To his credit, he was succeeding at. He was a good quarterback, a good game manager. Now they're letting him open it up again. I'm a big Matthew Stafford fan in general. He's one of the more resilient, durable quarterbacks anymore. You know, that wasn't something when he came into the league. Now it was not. And now he is. All right. So we've got Mike buying that one. You might end up right. What would you do with the, I assume if Patrick Mahomes is coming back, you're not going to stay with Stafford against Chicago. Would you go right back to Mahomes?

I probably would. Yeah, I definitely would. All right. How about this one? The other side of the ball in this game. David Montgomery, who's been given a great opportunity lately, 20 total touches. Buy yourself against Detroit this week. In week nine last week, he had 17 touches. But it feels like all of them happened in the second half. And then week eight, he had 31 touches. So 20 is a nice line.

Yeah, it's a pretty high bar. I think this is a matchup that he will be involved in. They'll be able to run the ball. I'm going to buy that he has 20 total touches. I think so, too. Right now the Lions are 32nd in the NFL and points given up to the running back position. Carry counts over the last four weeks, 25, 33, 20, and 34. I don't think Cohen and Mike Davis are going to steal too many. I'll go with bye.

And just to be contrarian, I will double down with my Matt Stafford having a solid game, taking the ball out of the hand of David Montgomery, at least for a high carry count. So I will all sell. Incredibly consistent analysis. Well, I don't want the fence to hit me in the crotch. Well, that's neither do I. Jamal Williams. Fent sitters, Jason. When you sit on the fence, where does it go? I got you. I wasn't there. That went right over my head.

Better over your head than underneath. Yeah. Right. Jamal Williams, will he be a top 20 wide receiver? No, there's a running. Sell. Okay, my mistake. Let's go. We're all selling the wide receiver one. Yes. But at top 20 running back, which saying that out loud, you're like, well, that seems like a, you know, difficult task for the quote unquote RB2 in Green Bay.

However, you look at the last four weeks, he's been a top 20 running back, all four of them. So are you buying that he makes it five straight? He has been there on the back of receiving touchdowns. He has one in each of the last four games. Jamon Williams has five receiving touchdowns on the year. Just like we all projected. That's an outstanding number at the end of the season for any running back. I'll be honest.