Week 10 Matchups + Double Wheel of Shame, OBJ Fallout - Fantasy Football Podcast for 11/12

Like, would you play Ramandre Stevenson if Harris was out or would you play Antonio Gibson? I'd play Stevenson. But you would do it with that voice? Yeah, oh, 100%. The only player from Washington to me that is I'm playing him. Like, for sure, it's Terry McLaurin. And it's not because it's a great matchup, but because Terry McLaurin is at least healthyish and he's a... At least healthy. He's healthyish. And he's a...

He's an elite wide receiver, so I'm going to keep playing him. But Gibson, it's not that I'm like hate benching Antonio Gibson. It's a ceiling benching. I may have found, I may have another better option that I grabbed off of the waiver wire this week or last week. Wow. Kenyon Drake. Man, what do we have, have we heard anything on Josh Jacobs?

I think he's good to go. Oh, he'll be good to go, but is he at least, is he running limited in practice? What I mean is he not on the injury report. Oh, yeah, then. I'd probably still go Gibson. I'd go Gibson then, yes. In McKissick is interesting because of the Buccaneers are going to put up points and that might force McKissick onto the field a bit more. We haven't met the RB 26 on the week. I certainly like McKissick more than like a Kenyon Drake that we just brought up.

And Ricky Seals Jones. Yeah, he's worth streaming. He's my start of the week at the tight-in position. But remember, for those, I have really been trying to find players I can stream. And so he's, if you don't have someone who's locked in, Ricky is interesting. Carolina Panthers at 4 and 5 take on the 8-1 Arizona Cardinals in Arizona. The Draft King Sportsbook line is Cardinals minus 10 and a half. Now, it's interesting that that line has stayed that line, despite the quarterback controversy or, or,

You know, last week we saw the line flip completely to San Francisco, all because of Cole McCoy. No such worries here, although the over under is only 44 points in this game. Panthers have hit the under seven of nine times. Arizona's covered their spread in seven of nine. One thing that people reminded me when we brought up Cam Newton potentially taking over for the rest of the year was, you know, your first reaction is, well, he's going to steal some goal line. There was nobody stealing more goal line than Sam Darnold this year.

Sam Darnal was scoring a ton around, you know, from the quarterback position. So. And in 2018, when Cam Newton was awesome and could steal goal line with the best of them, that's, that was when Christian McCaffrey was unbelievable with Cam Newton and he had a double digit touchdown. So I'm not worried about that. Do you feel better about McCaffrey with Newton? Absolutely. 100%. I agree. And you've got a, you've got Christian McCaffrey back out there.

played 49% of snaps last week. That should go up. Yeah. Yeah, it's nice to see that they actually eased him in. It wasn't what you wanted for fantasy. If you started Christian McCaffrey last week, or at least it's not what you think you wanted. It is what you wanted because now, guess what? He's still there this week. When you left the footcast yesterday, Mike and I had another spirited couple of debates, one of them around DJ Moore.

You know, we talked about how bad it's been, PJ Walker, the Cam Newton future. But you weren't there, Jason. So I want to get your take on DJ Moore in general, how you view him in this game, the Cardinals defense at home. They've been one of the best in the league. Are you making strategic benching decisions with DJ Moore? Is he a lock? He's not a lock. No, I think he's a fine enough.

play. He's talented player. He's, you know, his last few weeks that have been putrid, you've had eight points, ten points. So I don't think he's someone that you have to bench. But he's also someone you don't have to play at this point, not with a backup quarterback, not against a great defense. And I do think that this game ends up being a defensive game for both teams. Carolina is going to come in here and try to win it with their defense against a backup.

quarterback and Arizona is, I think, going to really have to shut down Christian McCaffrey and that side. So it could be a 1714, 1712. Yeah, the 44 and a half points. I know that Arizona's covered at seven and nine games, but I think I would take the under here. This is a game I'm avoiding for the most part. James Connor's been awesome.

James Conner's by himself, and he should probably be started. But I see him as an RB2 this week because Carolina's defense is good. I'm not in love with A.J. Green coming back without Kyler, even though you don't have Hopkins. There's really no one that I'm like, you have. Zach Ertz, sure, you could play him. The only player that you have to play without a shred of doubt is Christian McCaffrey because he's Christian McCaffer. Oh, James Connor is a lock for me. Yeah, I mean, as an RB2, all RB2s are locks.

I mean, he could end up on RV1 in this matchup. It will be very interesting to see how Arizona handles the running back position because, like, clearly they weren't prepared for Chase Edmonds, their starter, to get hurt on his very first touch last week. So that happened, and it's the team, what do we do now? You go to James Connor. You go to the veteran who's ready to take over in those types of scenarios. But now...

Chase Edmonds is out with a high ankle sprain. He is going to miss multiple weeks. What does the time share with James Connor and Eno Benjamin really look like? Eno had an absolute monster touchdown run where he just ran through a defender. He looked very competent. So I'm interested to see does he get in for 25% of the snaps, 35% of the snaps? So he is a player if...

If all of waivers happened and Eno Benjamin is still around, I think he is absolutely worth a Sunday stash of just see what happens. Not that James Connor, like when James Connor has got a bunch of work, James Connor gets hurt and they can't afford for James Connor to get hurt. If you want to have some fun, look at the projection of James Connor since week three. He is on 24 touchdown pace.

with, he's not dropped to target this year. And his involvement in the passing game should go up. I mean, he's 10 for 10 on targets. And so I'm probably on the other side of the Eno Benjamin coin in terms of, you know, I mean, you can obviously stash anyone on your team, but I'm not that enthusiastic about him. He's certainly going to spell Connor. And I think the game script and his success will determine his role where it's, you know, like we said yesterday, where it's.

Could be up to 15 touches if he's having success, or you could see him seven times, you know, in seven touches. Right. The way they were handling Chase and Connor, though, is it was, like Chase Edmonds was essentially a 60 to 65% snap player. And I don't, I can't imagine they're going to say, okay, James Connor, we need you in there 80% of the time. They might, though. They could. I mean, they don't always, you don't always trickle. It's not always next man up on percentages of.

of involvement in the offense, right? I mean, if a main guy goes down and then you have a former workhorse in James Connor, he may just be your workhorse. Yes, absolutely could be. That's what I'm saying. I would stash him and find out. Minnesota Vikings three and five taken on the five and three chargers. Chargers are three-point favorites on the DK Sportsbook. Over under his 53 points. Justin Herbert bounced back was the number one quarterback last week.

These two teams have played in a lot of nail biters this year. Seven of eight games from Minnesota have been one score games. That's insane. They're two and five in them, by the way. The Chargers are four and two in their six of eight games that have been one score games. So it's been, I mean, this should be a competitive matchup. Three point spread in Los Angeles. You know, Justin Herbert got his mojo back. Like I said, Austin Echler, you start him every week.

Kenan Allen did return to a limited practice. He's in your lineup. The question is more like Mike Williams' confidence or is he somebody that you put in there because the upside was displayed to you early in the year and you just need it. Yeah, I think both. I think because of what he did earlier, you play him for that upside. But I also think this is a pretty good matchup. The, you know, it's not the Vikings defense is.

middle of the road, their passing defense and, you know, fancy points given up against wide receiver is fine. They don't have someone on their roster that I think can shut down Mike Williams. The way that the last few weeks, Mike Williams has kind of really been going up against very, very difficult matchups. So I think Keenan Allen, Mike Williams are great. Let me give you Mike Williams in this matchup, or it's right across the field, Adam Thielen.

Against, which the Chargers secondary on the season, they are second against fantasy wide receivers. In the past six weeks, they are fourth. They are a real shutdown secondary. They are outstanding. And for the matchup reason, I would take Mike Williams over Adam Thielen. Minnesota allowing the third highest deep pass rate success over expectation. Yeah. Ironically, Mike Williams hasn't been taking too many deep. So maybe it's a Jalen Guyton day or something.

There's only been one week with both Justin Jefferson and I'm feeling in the top 30 at the same time. I would not imagine that this would be one of those weeks against that secondary. That's crazy. Yeah, it hasn't been good. Now, this is a smash play for Dalva Cook. Yeah. Because the chargers are a funnel defense. They want you to run the ball. They want you to have more success running the ball and lock down your passing game. It's the way I would build a defense.

But the offense for the Vikings, this is great. This is what they want to do. So I think there's going to be a lot of points in this game. This is one where I think I want a lot of pieces. Yeah, no one's had more 15 plus yard runs this year, despite missing time than Dalvin Cook. So he is still the same Dalvin Cook. I was going to ask you about the other cook, which is because of the trifecta of the Parham burglar who steals some touches away from Jared Cook. Oh, yeah, he is. And, you know, even Stephen Anderson last week, do you just?

Is it too unpredictable at the tight-in position to start any of these guys? Yeah, you've got to bail out. They're okay streaming in a perfect matchup. Like last week they were up against the team that, you know, they give up points to the fantasy tight-in position. The Vikings in the past six weeks are number one. So this is, I'm looking elsewhere. Stay away. Yeah. All right. Justin Jefferson, the team came out and said he deserved more targets last week than he received.

He is obviously always in your lineup along with Cook, but beyond that in this matchup, are you looking at Tyler Conklin? Yeah, sure. Conklin is a fine flex option. It's funny because Conklin never has a great game because he just doesn't really score that many touchdowns. But like every single week, I feel like you're playing Gassiki, who can get a goose or whatever. Tyler Conklin's going to get you eight, eight, nine points every week. So if you've got like a massive tight-in problem and you're always swinging for the fences,

might it just be better to throw in Tyler Conklin so you don't get a zero? Here's a crazy stat. On the year, Thielen and Jefferson are 14 and 15 at the position. Only one time thus far this year have both finished inside the top 30 on a given week. So it's been feast or famine for one or the other. Obviously you're going to bet on Jefferson more often, but that's kind of unfortunate. You know, you've had other teams where they all do it every single week.

The Philadelphia Eagles at 3 and 6 take on the 5 and 4 Denver Broncos. The DK Sportsbook line here. Broncos minus 2 and a half. The overrunners, 45 and a half points. What are the storylines from this game that you're paying attention to? Obviously, the Broncos impressed last week on defense, had a game plan, executed it, destroyed the Cowboys. Steady Teddy at quarterback. He is not going to be somebody that brings you back from a three-score deficit, but he can certainly play with the lead, and he can execute the offense.

How are you guys feeling? So my question here for the Denver Broncos, it's not like both of the running backs, they're going to have even work, even fantasy points at the end of the day. Melvante. Yes, Melvante. So I'm fine playing both of those guys. Jerry Judy to me is in, I'm playing him as a wide receiver too. I mean, he is, we're still a small sample here for Jerry Judy, but he at least.

He looks like the preferred target for Teddy Bridgewater. You know, the seven in week one, eight targets this past week on just 60% of the snaps. Fireball is the one. Tim Patrick, Fireball Jones, is the one who came through with the big game last week. So I don't know if I'm chasing those points or not. But the question is, Cortland Sutton, what do we do here? Because he's a good player.

But when Jerry Judy has been on the field with him, he has been a terrible fantasy option, not just a, like, oh, he didn't meet expectations. No, he has been killing your team. I have a thought on this. The team, I believe, looks at Jerry Judy based on just the comments from their staff. A lot of the way that Kyle Shanahan and the 49ers view DeVille Samuel. And so one of the reasons you see issues with Sutton is because they do, it's not just Teddy fades back.