Week 10 Studs & Duds + Fantasy Enemies, Trade McBride? - Fantasy Football Podcast for 11/13

On today's show, we break down a big weekend of football. All the studs, all the duds, including my guy, Trey McBride. Make sure you subscribe to this channel right now. Leave us some comments about how great Trey McBride is. And enjoy the show. To the fantasy footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. Monday episode.

The Fantasy Footballers Podcast, Mike, the Fantasy Hitman, Jason Moore. I'm Andy Holloway, Al Borland, Judge Diamati, the Rap Scallion, Inducers Alley today. And a lot to talk about. I can tell you this at the top. After 16 years in the same division, we're finally seeking division realignment in our League of Record. Says you. And this is... For the sake of this podcast. For the sake of our friendship. Yeah, we need it. For the sake of our lives. We need it. Jason and I are, we've taken it from just enemies to mortal enemies in the last like few weeks. Oh man. Because we're fighting for like one playoff spot among the two of us. Uh-huh. And every little move and nuanced trade.

You know, every little tiny thing like waking up Sunday morning and having your opponent received Josh Jacobs when he had nobody good to start. And it was traded from by my division mate, Andy. It's always better to use the show for our couples counseling. And so we're looking at it. We're looking into it. We're seeing if people are interested. I don't know if you're a yes vote, Mike. I don't care. That sounds like a yes to me. I don't care. But mostly because I'm not a big baby. Jason is the biggest of babies. I am in the baby. I'm like I'm in the nursery. I need the special. Jason. I'm in the, you were in the nursery together, but the worker is with me. The workers with you. You're on your own over there because she's got to coddle me. You need snacks, a lot of snacks. But I mean, hey, welcome in. This is the show. We are fighting.

tooth and nail for the playoffs all three of our teams now mike we're we had the same record that's that's what's so funny about it is you're like oh it's my division like i'm in the exact same spot as you guys like we're all going to be tied it is funny we and i are fighting for one spot and i are not fighting for the division title that's kind of already gone so it is truly the three of us that are all exactly in the same position. We're just fighting for record and points against each other. More than likely one of the three of us gets in. Possible two of the three of us gets in. It's probably one. One person for sure miserable. For sure. Yes. All three of us cannot make it. Jason, Jason got into the studio today and you're in a handful of leagues, like a lot of leagues. Yep. And he didn't know how any of them went.

Except for League of Records. I had not checked on another league this whole weekend. They were irrelevant. I found out that my 8-1 Super Dynasty team lost to the 1-8 worst team imaginable. They don't even have, I lost to Zach Moss. He didn't score a point. That's crazy. Speaking of which, if there was a victory left to be had, Zach Moss is back where you like him. Yeah. Yeah. On the bench. We had a very busy week of fantasy football, some wild games. Shout out to my boy, Mike, the fantasy hitman, with the call of the year that has paid off hugely for my teams. I took you, this is how seriously I take you, Mike. Mike came out over the by week for the Dallas Cowboys. We had a show, second half sleepers, and Mike went to bat for Dak.

It's not always the easiest thing to do in this economy. Dak has been the best fantasy quarterback in the league. I took it so much to heart that I traded Mike Tua and went and signed Zach off or Dak off the waiver wire. I'm delighted. Yeah. Dak Prescott over his last four games was the quarterback one, the quarterback three, the quarterback two. He may be quarterback two after tonight. And currently the quarterback one, yes. If you think he's going to be the quarterback two after the night. No, I don't. I'm just saying that technically. He scored 50 fantasy points in our league and he did it in basically two quarters because he didn't score any fantasy points in the first. And then he was taken out in the fourth quarter with like 11, 12 minutes left. But also in the third quarter when the game was done and they could have put DAC on the bench for the whole entire second half. What should we do? Let's throw. Yeah.

It was great. Let's keep throwing to C.D. Lamb. And then they took Dack out and they're like, what should we do? We should probably throw it to C.D. Lamb. Oh, Mike was getting the knife twisted. C.D. Lamb has been the best fantasy player out of all players over the last four weeks. Yeah, because this is what you do. Yep. You've been saying it forever. Hey, Dallas. Look what happened. You have an above average quarterback. You have a, it was superstar wide receiver. Let's find out what happens when we throw to him nonstop. Oh, we score a whole bunch of points. Yeah. The verdict is in. A lot of players getting involved. Brandon Cook's at 179 yards. Yes, because when you throw to your superstar nonstop, the team goes, we can't let him beat us again. That's the decision that they make. The entire play is do not let Cid Lam beat you. And then as long as anyone else on the team is competent.

They get easy layup receptions. I don't know if you've seen this. Ian Hartett has tweeted it a couple weeks in a row because it stays true. But the best three fans, the best three yards and I think it's yards. It's the most yards over the last, I believe, month. Over the last month are the three wide receivers that were on the Dallas Cowboys. It's C.D. Lam, Amari Cooper and Noah Brown. Oh, that's funny. And they were all together on the practice field and he keeps posting the picture of it. But yards over the past three weeks, all three of them. Saying like that could have been your team. That was, I mean, look, clearly the Amari Cooper getting rid of him, I think was a mistake. Yeah, for sure. Because he's great. Because he's still been a great player. Yes, and they cut Zeke. Yeah. Like a year later. Yeah, they could have let Zeke go and kept Amari Cooper. All right. Lots of reactions to the weekend, obviously. This is one of my favorite shows because we just get to, I don't know, like we consumed all the games together. Mm-hmm.

But then, like, we power down because we have to and our brains melt. And then we get a comment here in the morning and just react. And you reacted as well because every single week we throw up our Monday Punday thread where you react to the weekend, the good, the bad. And we get sophisticated and read out some of our favorites. Let me start here with Jamirvalis Gibbs. Mike Evans Almighty. Yes. Jalen scoring. Yeah, he was good. Or, um, C. D's touchdowns. Oh, T.D. Lamb. You've heard of Devin's single. Singletary. How about Devin 30 carries? Career high. Wow. And, uh, everybody's favorite. Oh, National Hero. Joshua Dubs, baby. Uh, my favorite is actually Ammon Ross St. Bowling. Mike, you take these next two. Yes, yes. Yay, McBride.

And of course, the exact same thing, but hooray, McBride. Hollywood frown. And how about phony Pollard? And we've been waiting a while to break this one out. Sam LaPorteurte. Yes, and derelict Henry. I locked down. Calvin Midley. Oh, the kids will be upset. Sequin Fartley. Yeah. That's my favorite one of the day. Seguan Fartley. Dude. He is the only player on that team that can do anything. He is a straight up sacrificial lamb. I mean, he is just being offered as sacrifice over and over and over. He is playing for a high school team in the NFL. And they are just saying, I'm afraid you take the ball and get tackled. It's impossible to watch. It really is. Phony Pollard. Let's talk about him for a second, Mike, because.

There were a few bets or last chances that were handed out on the show last week. One of them was to. Neither went well. Quentin Johnston. He was four. Me and Jason made a five for 50 bet. He was four for 34 and a touchdown. You did pay up. I did pay. I was hoping you'd refund some for the touchdown, but you didn't. Yeah, no. I'm, I will. That's a bet, right? Yeah, yeah. But then what about the, you know, Phony Pollard, like you said, if he didn't do it this week, like I saw somebody this morning, they posted, I'm so tired at Tony Pollard, I traded him this morning for Jerome Ford. I love Jerome Ford's end of season schedule, and I'm tired of Tony Pollard. I completely understand. And for me, the rest of season looking forward, Tony Pollard is, it's just adjusting what I believe that Tony Pollard can become.

He's still an okay play. Okay-ish. He gets the Carolina Panthers next week. It's a really good matchup. I mean, we've said that a few times for Tony Pollard. Hey, we're in a great matchup here. I mean, it was 49 to 17 against the New York Giants. Tony Pollard should have had a, I mean, everyone scored. I think everyone scored on the Dallas Cowboys. Tony Pollard on a couple of carries looks good, but he ends 15 for 55. That's 3.7. Rico Dowdell, I mean, it's the end of the game, of course, but Rico Dowdle looked like he had juice. I mean, from my, you know, the view from living in my mom's basement, I don't know what these run calls that Tony Paul, it seems like bad strategy of how they are using him, but perhaps it's everything put together. Bad strategy. Tony Pollard is still not the same player after the ankle injury. Like, don't forget he had massive surgery, and maybe he just, he doesn't have.

He doesn't have the explosiveness play after play. He, you know, kind of his meter runs out or something. But for moving forward, it's, he is just a running back two-ish. There was a, there was a point in the game yesterday where Dallas had scored 35 points, had 4602 yards, and Tony Poller had no touchdowns in 49 yards. I mean, this is just going to be. The no targets is really, that's. a massive disaster. It's going to be added to the annals of history, is going to be filed away in the archives of players that look like they're going to have every opportunity to step up and dominate the league, a Lamar Miller getting traded into a workhorse role in Houston from his explosive role in Miami, and Tony Pollard's now part of the story. And the cursory tale of like, if you thought Rico Dowdle was going to be a threat to Tony Pollard,

before the season, then you're the only one because we all thought it was clear sailing, run heavy team. Part of it, they're throwing around the goal line and it's working. Fergie getting into the end zone? Dak rushing touchdown? I don't, look, I think there's some very difficult decisions to be made for fantasy teams as trade deadlines hit in this upcoming week or two when it comes to Tony Pollard. Yeah, I mean, Tony Pollard has not been okay. He hasn't been like average, not giving you what you want. He has been crushing you. Since week four, he's averaging 7.9 fantasy points per game. I mean, he's scored fewer points than Ezekiel Eglot, Jal McLaughlin, Antonio Gibson. This is someone who has really, really destroyed you, is not coming through. And it's not like I heard it said a lot that it's like,

And it is true how many touches he's had without a touchdown. And so you think, well, the problem is just touchdowns, but it's not just that. Like for some guys when it was Jacoby Myers or Deontay Johnson without their touchdown run, they were still really good getting a ton of work, a ton of receptions. Tony Pollard's been bad, ineffective, inefficient. He's, you know, 3.6 a carry since week four. Two goal line carries against the Giants. Stuffed on both. He's had opportunities. He just has been bad. So, I mean, you've got to adjust your expectations. Like Mike said, this week against Carolina, I don't know how you could bench him. Yeah. But maybe that is one of those things where you do try to trade him on the name. Maybe you make sure Rico Dattle's on rosters. News and notes from around the league. Presented by USAA Insurance.

All right, we do have news to jump into before these studs and duds. The Alexander Madison left early with a concussion. And since that exit, which hurt fantasy players, obviously, the Vikings are signing Miles Gaskin back to their practice squad. Of notes, the split, because that was my big question of Alexander Madison with Kamakers gone to season ending injury. Do they go back to the week one? Well, he's truly the workhorse getting everything, or do they actually try and get Ty Chandler involved? And the answer was they tried to get Ty Chandler involved before the concussion. We had 30 snaps to 17. So Ty Chandler was getting work. Wildcat? And yeah, he got a, Ty Chandler got a Wildcat touchdown. Chandler has juice.

We've been seeing throughout this NFL season at the very least. These smaller guys who have juice, it's working. So he is going to, Ty Chandler, hopefully you picked him up last week because we were saying, Ty Chandler is a guy you got to pick up. He goes from a speculative ad to he will be the hottest player on the waiver wire for a one week rental or maybe more. Derek Carr exited with a concussion as well and a right shoulder injury. There is hope that he'll return after the buy, Saints on by this week. Michael Thomas left early with a knee injury. I believe that hope is from Saints fans, not from fantasy football managers. Because James Winston is a gift. I mean, that guy is crazy. I mean, he is like a blind slingshot. I mean, it is a, he will just chalk, man. The numbers for, for.

Chris Olava. I have. Do you have them? Yeah, it's a tweet from Adam Harstead. Chris Oliva with Derek Carr in 37 minutes. One target. One for 15. Your elite. Your CD Lamb. Chris Oliva here with one target in 37 minutes. And I mean, you might be surprised to hear this. It was not working. The Saints offense was not working. Fire in James Winston. In 20 minutes. Nine targets, seven for 79 with an incredible touchdown reception. And that includes a 24-yard to call back to penalty. Like, Derek Carr, what are you doing? What are you doing? Look, it's, it's, it's, I think you're screwed on both sides if you're the saints. Because we already know this James Winston chemistry. Like the, it doesn't work, you know, for victories. It works great for fantasy.

He should have had four interceptions, I think. Probably six. I mean, there has literally never been. You know, there's always a lot of debate like, oh, we're talking real football, not fantasy. A lot of times when we're like when we're arguing against Arthur Smith about what's efficient, what's effective. Yeah, we care about it from a fantasy football lens, but it's also what works in real football. Like you're hurting your team. James, James is the biggest, most clear example of. fantasy versus reality. He is terrible. I mean, you're not going to win with James. He is terrible. There's the reason none of these 16 teams that needed a quarterback traded for him. Oh, but man, do fantasy managers love that dude? Because nothing helps you throw more than a pick six. Yeah. Just come on. I love James. Yeah, I mean, the numbers are crazy for OLAV. So we'll see, though. You got a buy week. Mac Jones benched on the final drive. Bill Belichick says he's going to take a look at everything across the board.

including maybe getting zappy in there. Including some life choices. Yeah, I mean, at this point, the best life choice for Bill Belichick's future is Drake May or Caleb Williams. So attenuing to play. I was going to say, I think it might be. You think Bill's done? I don't think so. No, no, no, I don't think so. I think he maybe he should be, but I don't think he is. I think the probability is rising every single week. You could be right. I mean, this is a mess. Matt Jones, I mean, you suck. Oh, dude. I mean, I started Sunday live. I mean, the prestigious live event for fantasy football on Sunday morning. I started with a full apology to all of our German NFL fans because the product that we sent them on that Sunday morning was atrocious. Yeah. Yeah, that was bad. And then this is a big one. Devon A. Chan. He's been designated to return from injured reserve. The window is open. The last we heard from.

Mike McDaniel was that so far so good. We need to see how practice looks this week. I think that there might be a very small trap chance going on just because we saw him come back from injury once before and they took a week or two. And they have Jeff Wilson back this time. But he's on the way back. He's going to be probably the most interesting and one of the highest. Like, you know, when we're doing Sunday live, which I believe will be me this week. I would imagine Devon A. Chan's name is going to be one of the highest searched for players because what do you do? He could play three snaps and it would be worth it. Yeah. I can tell you what Jason's advice will be. Yeah. Yeah, you can. Live. Live. Just start him. Put him in your line up. Sunday live. L-I-V-I-N. There ain't no living better than Devon A-chan living. Yeah, that's fair.

So right now, just to throw it out there, Zach Mosser and Devon Eachan. I'm going to go Devon Eachan. And I'm going to guess his stat line at the end of the game will be two for 78 in a touchdown. I mean, it really could be. It's the Raiders. All right. That was today's news and notes presented by USAA Insurance. Learn more at USAA.com slash insurance. Studs of the week. Presented by NFL Sunday ticket on YouTube and YouTube TV. All right. Dack, 26 for 35, 404 and 4. Unbelievable. He's on fire. And a rushing touchdown. First five weeks. He had never finished higher than quarterback 17 and had 58 points over five weeks. Last two weeks, he has 66 fantasy points. It has been delightful. I love it. I mean, quarterback matchups, Dave.

are very important. But what have I told you as Carolina, Washington, Seattle the next three weeks? Oh, I would say that's why I was my second half sleeper. I mean, he's available for trade. Justin Herbert, 27 for 40, 323 and 4. He is figuring it out. And that normally means Keenan Hill. Mm-hmm. Yes. But this is, this is good. Green Bay, Baltimore, New England on the horizon for him. Joshua Dubs. Dude. I mean. Really, really interesting fantasy conundrum with Joshua Dobbs because he's been very good. He's got a lot of high-end performances. In fact, his last three games started. Quarterback seven, quarterback five, quarterback three. He's got weapons. He's got a great matchup. Justin Jefferson should be back this week maybe. Yep. So is this someone that you're rolling with? Like you're picking him up, starting them? Yeah. Probably. I think you can.

The rushing baseline is so. Second most rushing yards for a quarterback right now. Yeah, and he's got, I mean, he has special skills when it comes to evasiveness. Like he's, he's just able to identify when it's time to go. Since week one, he is, his social media game is elite. Well, he's a smart dude. Since week one, his 17 game pace would be 700 rushing yards. Yeah. That's, that's, you know, it's better than the rushing quarterbacks of like Josh Allen. I mean, that's an elite number. It is, and they don't have any running backs either. So I think they're going to give him a lot of opportunities. They might have one. Ty Chandler looked good. Yeah, I mean. Ty Chandler looked fast. I don't know that he's going to be breaking a bunch of tackles and pushing piles, but if they can get him in space, he has juice. Another fun start-sick guy.

for this upcoming week will be Ty Chandler. Sam Hal, 29 for 44, 312 and 3, finishes the quarterback four before tonight. And just got it done. What quarterback do you think he is right now on the course of the season? The whole season, he's the quarterback one fantasy. He has been on a, he's been on his own heater since week five. No bye week yet. I'm going to go. That's fair. No buy week. So this isn't per game, just total fantasy. Oh, he's got to be a top five. I'll go six, QB6. Quarterback three. Yeah. No buy week though. Right, right. Yeah, but I mean, points per game, quarterback nine, top ten quarterback. That's still. It's pretty cool. Yeah. And what they did to their defense is glorious. I mean, they got rid of their defensive line. The Seahawks ended up winning that game. They gave up 29 points. I had to keep throwing. Yeah. Maybe next time throw to your wide receivers, though.

Gino Smith, Brock Purdy, Jared Gough, all ended up with good games. A couple of those were starts of the week. A couple of them. It took a long time to get there. Gino's game was awful until it wasn't. Gough, same situation. And there's your studs at the quarterback position. Quick break. Coming back with some running backs. Well, he continues. Officially on fire. Jamir Gibbs. 14 for 77. two rushing touchdowns, including a goal line opportunity, five targets, three for 35. Like, if you had me bet over under three for 35 on Jemir Gibbs, the rest of the season, every game, I think he's going to be better in that receiving game most often. So this was a huge performance. I would agree. So this is extremely important to pay attention to. There's one of two truths here. Either this is the new normal because David Montgomery was healthy.

He practiced in full all week. He looked great in the game. He had a monstrous, huge rushing touchdown. And so if he's fully healthy and they're saying they're not limiting him at all, well, he was the backup. Jemir Gibbs played 58% of snaps to 38% of snaps for David Montgomery. They used Jemir Gibbs in on the goal line. Not always, but they never used to. If this is the new normal, then... Andy, you're my guy and Jemir Gibbs is going to be a league winner. Although this could also be first game back for David Montgomery. We're going to limit him and then it flips. What are you guys? I mean, Andy, you were saying before this week, you thought that this would be the outcome. So I would imagine after seeing it, you have to believe that this is the new normal. I thought that the team would take an approach rest of season of.

protecting David Montgomery a little bit more than they had. I think they were forced into that level of volume for Montgomery due to classic rookie running back limitations. Like you're learning how to do the little things, like what Austin Eccler talked about with Jemir Gibbs and how electric he was, but then how he would miss some of these obvious things. I don't think 58.38 makes any sense. I think it's going to be much more 50-50 type of situation. hot hand to a degree, kind of comedic that Gibbs gets a couple of goal line opportunities, and Montgomery gets the runaway 75-yarder because you would kind of profile them to be the opposite. But I think both players are, I mean, this is a high T, hit you in the mouth, piss off the Jared golf owners around the goal line like Mike, and just.

win by sheer will type of team. And that's going to involve both these guys. They're both must start the rest of the season. And I'm thrilled for those that stuck with Gibbs through the, you know, oftentimes it's the pattern for rookies, but it doesn't make it any easier to swallow when you get off to a slower start. Jamir Gibbs at this point, he's got to be a top, what, 15 running back, even on the season. He's finished three to one over the last three weeks. Oh, yeah, he's certainly up there. Right now on the course of season, he is the running back 15. Yeah. And he also missed two games. That's before this week, too. That's including this, but that's missing two games. Right, right. I think it will balance more, but it was great to see Gibbs allowed to finish because he was the one on the drive that got them to the goal line. It's nice. Like reward, reward the rookie with an opportunity at least.

John Dodson, six for 119 and one. Oh, wait, that was Brian Robinson in the passing game. Six for 119 and one. He only had eight rushing attempts for 38 yards and Brian Robinson had a great wide receiver game. Because Brian Robinson, elite pass catcher. Let's talk about some career highs. Most carries most yards in the history of his career. Devin Singletary. 30 for 150 and one. I mean, the Texans. Holy crap. Like the on, on Sunday live people, there was a lot of C.J. Stroud questions. And I, I mean, I was pessimistic. I want a jersey on this back wall of Stroud, Brooks. Make it a priority. I was pessimistic. And this was full results over process. Like the results were C.J. Stroud was actually, he was okay for fantasy. But his fantasy line did not indicate how dominant he was against the Cincinnati Bengals on the road. Like,