The Halloween Show! + Week 8 Matchups, Candy Comps - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/30

Somebody has to win this ball game, and I think it will be Philadelphia. Dallas is just, they've looked terrible on defense. They're allowing 200-plus yards rushing as a team in three of the past four games. It's so sad that Miles Sanders is. Yeah, I knew that's what you were thinking. It stinks, and it is an opportunity for Boston Scott. It's...

It's just unfortunate. Miles Sanders doesn't give to take advantage of this opportunity. Oh, what if, what if he is active? He didn't practice on Thursday. But if he's active, you're playing Miles Sanders? I will. I can't imagine not playing. I would as well. What's hard, though, is I don't know if we're going to get a definitive announcement before the opening games on Sunday that a Sunday night football player is going to play. Like if you've got, let's say you got Boston. You managed to pick up Boston, Scott, and he's been filling in for you while Miles is out.

Yeah, then if Miles plays, I'll make the switch. But you probably don't have a pivot option. Like, because Tampa Bay, New York right now, they're the Monday game. Could be Fournette, Freeman. Yeah, maybe Fournette. You know, Galman. Well, yeah, Wayne Galman, because you're playing the game of, is Devante Freeman going to play? Because if Freeman plays, then Wayne Galman in an already terrible matchup, is you, you don't want anything to do with that. But.

Fournet. I think Fournet is a good option. And Fournet might be on your waiver wire. So if you want to take that dance with Miles Sanders, Fournet is a good pivot. Part of the fact that I'm not expecting Sanders to be out there lends itself to, you know, Carson Wins carrying the load again. He's running the football. He has a rushing touchdown in five of the last six games. He's my start of the week. You know, more rushing touchdowns on the year than Lamar or Watson or Tannahill or Russell. Combined. So Wince is just basically running wild.

finding Travis Folgo, maybe Jalen Rager, and maybe Boston Scott in this game. Zeke, you know, you're kind of stuck with Ezekiel Elliott. Let me ask you this, Adam. It seems like a question for you. Do you just kind of clench your cheeks and bear it? Do you just start? Well, first off, I've never clenched my cheeks. Okay. So I'm not familiar with that phrase. All right. But, yeah, Ezekiel Elliott, the volume is there, man. You just got to play him.

And with Zach Martin progressing through the protocols, practicing in full, if he's back, that would be phenomenal for Zeke in a somewhat tough matchup. Now, if I had a pump the brakes player of the week, to me it would be Amari Cooper. That is a player I really, really want to pivot off of and bench, if possible, even though he's been good, because.

Now we're down to third string quarterback play with Darius Slay. The matchup, you're going to look and you're going to say, oh, the matchup looks good. The Eagles give up a lot of points in their secondary. But always to the wide receiver two and three. They have been, Darius Slay's been locking down on the wide receiver one for opponents. So the, the triple threat here of low over under implied team total. A lot of triple threats today. Oh, man. I mean, singing, dancing. What's the third one? Acting. There you go.

A lot of triple threats out there. But I just, I worry a lot. Because one, you don't know that he's going to be the number one targeted guy. You don't know the tendencies of Danucci. And he's got the hardest, most difficult matchup on the other side of the field. Amari Cooper or Hollywood Brown. That's right. That's terrible because I'll take Amari Cooper. He's going to catch seven passes no matter who's the quarterback. Okay. Amari Cooper or Cooper Cup against Miami.

I'll go cup. Yeah. Okay. And last one, Amari Cooper or T. Higgins versus Tennessee. T. Higgins. I'll go Cooper for sure. Start of the week. Yeah. Yeah. You know, Cooper is not a ceiling play. No. I mean, Ben Danucci is probably starting this game. Start your Eagles defense. Avoid C.D. Lamb and Gallup. Avoid Dalton Schultz. Play Travis Fulgum. Richard Rogers is Jason start of the week at the tight-in position.

So there you go. Dallas defense, start them. Tampa Bay, five and two. Giants, one and six, the Monday night game. Tampa Bay, 12-point road favorites. I mean, this is not very far off from the Kansas City matchup in the sense that, you know, Kansas City is at home, 19.5 point favorites. The Buccaneers are on the road. They're 12-point favorites, almost two touchdowns. 45-point over-under gives the Giants just 16 points in this game. So the question I have for you guys is, can you find fantasy value on the giant side of the ball at all?

in this game or is it just, is it a Jets policy and you're just benching everybody? It's really, really close. I do think that in a PPR league, Sterling Shepard is okay because Tampa Bay is going to put up a lot of points and the Giants are going to have to throw the ball and he's going to get, I don't expect a good game for Shepard. I expect a high floor game. I would be surprised if he leaves this game with fewer than six receptions.

That might only be for 60 yards, but in a half PPR league, I think you're fine there. I don't want the running backs here with the offensive line not practicing against this Tampa Bay matchup. I mean, look what it did for Josh Jacobs last week, who was great. And now you're saying either a hurt Navanta Freeman or a Wayne Galman. No, thank you. Or a Wayne Galman? Yeah. Yeah. All right. On the other side of the ball, what decisions are you making for Tampa Bay?

Brady, you play him. He's been great. 18 to 4 touchdown interception ratio, five touchdown week. He is getting it going in this offense. He won't have Chris Godwin this week, but he still has the fallback plan of Mike Evans, Rob Gruncowski, Scotty Miller. It's got to be a good week for Brady, does it not? Yeah. He's energized himself with some plant fuel. It should be.

It should be a decent game for Brady. Primetime Brady right now, too. Primetime show of the world. You got Antonio Brown on the sidelines. He's going to want to show off. Say, just wait to see what you're going to get. I'll say it could. But the hesitancy of you're talking about the shoe dropping for Justin Herbert. Now, different player, obviously. But if Denver can't score against the Chargers and you're worried about Herbert, Daniel Jones and the New York Giants against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

I mean, do they just, do you have the faith that Bruce Ariens kind of has been known to run up a score when he has an opportunity? The touchdowns may not be bountiful. They don't need to be bountiful for Tom Brady. I get it, but this team is one that they do run up the score. They want to win big. They want to show off. They want to make statements. Over the last five seasons, Tom Brady's covered in 75% of the games, he's been a double-digit favorite in.

And 77% of the games, he's faced a team that's under 500. He's a step on the throat of your opponent type of guy, not a run the clock. Well, they're going to score four times. So what does it break down to? I mean, that's the implied point total. That's what I would expect. And, you know, at least two of those are Brady. So I guess it's a question about yardage. You know, comparing it to Herbert, I think the Giants defense is a step back from what Denver is to. But.

Yeah, I get what you're saying. I mean, not having Godwin or Brown out there yet, maybe it seems like some of the ceilings down, but I wouldn't be surprised if Grankowski ends up with a pair in this one. He's a good start in this game. Agreed. How are you handling the running backs of Ronald Jones, who was on a tear, immediately seated way to the new, quote, nickel running back, as Bruce Ariens has coined Leonard Fournette. When you have a chance to throw the ball to Leonard Fournette, you have to take it. You have to take that shot every single time.

So how are you handling those two guys? Are you still playing them because the matchup is still mighty fine? Are you only playing Ronald? I think you can start both players. I would play Ronald first because of the giant line and the fact that, you know, rushing touchdowns, I still think will be his. And I think you can play Leonard Fournett because he's, it's nice when the.

the second running back on a team that you're wondering if you could start gets the targets. Because it really, it says that both players are startable. It's kind of like the Nick Chubb, Kareem Hunt situation. Just neither player is quite as good. Also an injury update for you, Foot Clan. Joe Mixon officially out. Oh, Giovanni time. We had the exact same thing happened last Friday. Joe Mixon declared out during the show. So.

Let's move on. We've got one more segment. A reminder, Mike will be live, Sunday live one hour before kickoff. The Foot Clan Game Day alerts will be over at Jointhefoot.com, getting you ready to go. Prop it like it's hot. Presented by Monkey Night Fight. All right, weathery or not, I'm calling a bluff here. Derek Carr, I'm going to take more than 281 passing yards against...

Cleveland. He's done it four out of the last five games. Derek Carr has been on a roll yardage-wise. Cleveland just gave up 406 yards to Joe Burrow. This game, outside of weather question marks, which were still a few days away, it projects to be a pass-heavy barn-burner type of game, just like we saw last week with Cincinnati. So I'm going to lean in here. My favorite week eight prop on Monkey Knife fight is the 281.

passing yards for Derek Carr, and I'm going to take the more. I'm taking AJ Green. His line is four and a half receptions, and I will take the more. He has seen double-digit targets the past two weeks. It looks like AJ Green is finally getting acclimated. They're finding the right way to use him after he had his extended time off. Joe Burrow is throwing 42 times a game right now, and the Titans...

The Titans are going to score against the Cincinnati Bengals. They will have to throw. Burl will probably have to throw another 42 times. I expect AJ Green to receive more than four and a half receptions. It's a great one. I love that one. That is the layup of the week, if you will. I can't imagine him with four or fewer receptions. Unless he limps off the field. Well, always a possibility. I'm taking Matthew Stafford.

versus Indy. His line right now is 275 and a half passing yards. I'm taking less than that. You know, last week until Todd Gurley accidentally gave the Lions a whole other drive, he wouldn't have gotten there. Prior to that, he had four games in a row where he's averaging 235 passing yards. They're using Matthew Stafford as they want to this year, which is as a game manager. Indy is a very good defense. I don't love his potential to.

outscore or out throw 275 and a half this week. Yeah, especially with the matchup, I really agree with you on that. I do think things could evolve a little bit more positively for Stafford. He still had two games this season without Kenny Galladay, and that's going to distort some numbers. But I like it. India's just been a formidable D. You can check out Monkey Knife Fight this week. You can get involved with some of these prop bets. They're so fun. Ballerspicks.com.

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It doesn't take a whole lot of learning. You're not... Call your shots at a couple of plays. You're like, I like this player. I'm going to go in on it. Absolutely. All right. Have a healthy and safe and enjoyable weekend. And we will. We'll see you on Monday. Goodbye. Thank you for listening to another episode of the Fantasy Footballers podcast. Join our fantasy football community on Jointhefoot.com. And follow us on Twitter.

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