Week 13 Matchups + Wheel of Shame, Slush Factory - Fantasy Football Podcast for 12/3

It is Friday. Put Clan Friday. All right. Mel 254, you are the winner of a D.K. Metcalfe signed jersey. I believe that jersey also comes with three targets from Russell Wilson, three targets. So congratulations. You are victorious. Thank you for supporting the show at Jointhefoot.com. And thank you to pristineauction.com for supplying a signed DKMetkaf jersey to give away. You can go.

To pristine auction.com. Use the code ballers. Get a $10 credit. The Muth shirt is flying off the shelves at shopballers.com. And to open another box. People want to wear it for Christmas or something, maybe. Give it for Christmas. Yeah, you could do that. To yourself. So are we done with News, Brooks? Do you have anything else? I don't think we have any dishes. Is Brooks still here? You still with us? I am here. He's back there producing.

AKA he's making pancakes. No, no, no, no. Real quick from the Bears matchup yesterday, Bears Cardinals, Justin Fields is limited again. And then Dalton, Andy Dalton still got the starter reps yesterday. Yeah, I think it'll be Andy Dalton. If, since this is a podcast and even on the video on YouTube, you can't see Brooks, it is important to me that we paint the picture.

When he is not actively speaking, he is answering a number. There's a phone bank, and he is checking the news. He is picking up phones, slamming them down. What do you got on this guy? What do you got on that guy? It's like QVC over here. It's absolutely outstanding work back behind the cameras, Brooks. Like, Schefter and Rapaport, actually. They get it from Brooks. Yeah, everyone thinks that they're out there hustling.

tracking down leads calling it. No, they just call Brooks. And Brooks basically says, yeah, I'm going to give this one to Schifter. Yep. And nope, I owe Rappaport one. Yep. And thankfully we get most of them. Yeah. Thank you, perhaps. After Schifter. And it's ridiculous. Oftentimes he does sneak the word over to sleeper because they send out the breaking alert. And you should grab the app and make sure you get that channel. Let's talk matchups. Fantasy Forecast.

All right, we covered the Buccaneers, Falcons, Cardinals, Bears, Chargers, Bengals, Vikings, Lions, and Giants on yesterday's show. Eight games left, beginning with the Philadelphia Eagles at 5 and 7 taking on the New York Jets, who are 3 and 8. The Drafking Sportsbook line, Eagles minus 7, the overrunner is 44.5. You had your first kind of real stinker from Jalen Hertz last week.

because I chose to play him in our DFS lineup. And I wanted to choose the safest player possible. But there's no such thing. You should choose him again this week. Yeah, we'll see. We'll see. We've got that coming up as well. This game has slow and ugly written all over it. The Eagles have averaged 40 rush attempts per game over the last six weeks. It almost feels like the crowd was heard by Nick Siriani. And he said, okay, you want to run the ball?

How about this? I'll show you I can run the ball. Yeah, we haven't spoken enough of Miles Sanders, but somehow he's none of our start of the week. Because he was, he was banged up. Like if he was entering the practice reports and everything of, uh,

when we had to make those decisions, he definitely would have been in contentious. Yeah, but full practice on Thursday. So he's back. He's going to be the dude, and this matchup is outstanding. You just talked about how many rushing attempts per game. You combine that with the Jets' lack of a rushing defense, and if he can't do it here. Oh, he's going to. Oh, yeah, he will. The funny thing is, is that multiple times this week, I thought about three different Eagles running backs to be the guy I'm in on.

this week. There was a Boston Scott part of this week. There was a Jordan Howard part of this week where I was like, I'm going to put him in a DFS lineup because he, oh, no, wait, he's hurt. And then Miles Sanders, as enticing as it is, he's never been a top 12 this year. And so, you know, 40 attempts a game, he had 10 opportunities last week, and I know he got banged up. Yeah. So it's like, you're right. He should be a smash play, but I can't help but be a little bit worried by the questionable tag on all

of those running backs. You saw Kenny Gainwell out there again. You know a lot of those attempts are Jalen Hertz. It's like there's five running backs. Sure. But I think Jordan Howard is trending to be out. And if it's down to just Sanders and Scott, then I'm playing Sanders. And I would project him at least as a top 15 running back. Okay. Jalen Hertz, right back at it against the Jets. They're the 30th ranked defense against opposing fantasy quarterbacks in the last six weeks.

Devante Smith was Mike's start of the week, expecting a bounce back. He did not practice on Wednesday due to illness. We don't have a reason to believe he'll be out. And Jason made Dallas Goddard at the start of the week at tight end yesterday. So it's really, when the Jets are your opponent, there's a lot of confidence you have in starting players against him. That is true. Zach Wilson? No. No.

I wasn't suggesting you started him. Like, how dare you infer by saying his name? I thought you were asking the question, and I was just making it easy for everyone. Elijah Moore did see eight targets, but it's not a week that I'm excited about. Do you guys agree with that? Yeah, I mean, the Eagles have been great against wide receivers. On the season, they've given up the third fewest fantasy points to them. Darius Slay has been awesome in coverage.

The fact that I love Elijah Moore's talent, I'm in on him rest of season, but there's still Crowder, there's still possibly Corey Davis here, and it's a tough matchup. So I would. Can we land all jets? I would, I would, yeah. Are we grounded? Including running backs. I think I would land all jets. Yep, we're grounded. All right. Do you agree with that, Mike, at the running back position? Because.

You saw Austin Walter come in out of nowhere, get 10 opportunities. Tevin Coleman saw 19 last week, but we liked Ty Johnson before the week. I feel like this is a bit of roulette. It's a really good run, D. We did like Ty Johnson. Tevin Coleman actually popped up because they were in a positive script. And I do not expect that to happen. So it's hard to argue for the Jets, but if I'm starting a running back, I would go back to Ty Johnson and expect him to be.

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Two and nine Houston, Texas in Houston. No, this is not my almost upset of the week. Oh, man. Colter, nine and a half point road favorites. The overrunners, 44 and a half points. There has been some rumors that the team was considering only flying Jonathan Taylor to this game. And they realize they need center to snap the ball. That's correct. So it's just going to be the two of them. Two on 11? Two on 11. But it will be enough to get by the Houston Texans. Honestly, I don't think that's fair to the Texans.

I'm sorry, Houston fans. I was actually saying, like, how it's hard right now to envision being a fan of this team without a real identity and a lot of direction. When your headlines in Houston are which washed up running back did I sign this week, things are not going well, and I just don't see a world that they can, you know, divisional game. Sure. They're at home, but I don't see a world where they can get it done. Indianapolis beat them 31 to 3.

This year already. Indianapolis has actually beat their team implied point total in eight of the last nine games. So there's a 27 point implied point total for the Colts in this game. And they normally beat it. I mean, there's very few players on the Colts side of the ball that I don't actively want in my lineup. There's four guys. I'm fine.

playing Carson wins. I think he's okay. Michael Pittman's going to get back to be in Pity City. Oh, we got a rebuilt after the last couple weeks. And the city is Houston. You got T.Y. Houston, you can throw in there in a pinch. And of course, Jonathan Taylor, who is the best running back in fantasy football right now. So this is one where I'm, you know, kind of firing up all of those players from the Colts.

Is Jack Doyle after the number one overall finished last week, six for 81 and a touchdown? Was this mostly a product of just facing Tampa Bay? I think so. In the game script. Okay. So you're not chasing a one week wonder with baby Hanson? No, I mean, before that, three for 30, three for 31, one for one. Brandon Cooks did not practice Wednesday and Thursday due to illness. He's the wide receiver 24 on the year.

He had averaged 107 receiving yards a game. The first three weeks of the year, it's down to 48 a game since then. Brandon Cook seems like less of a sure thing at this point in the season. Do you guys, is he a real?

starts a decision for people right now? I think he is. If it wasn't for the illness, I would be confident to throw him into the lineup. He's still going to get the targets and the market share. It's not a great thing to share. But if you get enough of it, you'll be fine for fantasy, which is what we saw. But you combine the fact that he's missed multiple practices with illness. And you've seen this. A lot of teams this year, I mean, Lamar Jackson.

missed the game. David Johnson's dealing with the same, I presume the same illness, something going around there, mispractice the same days. So I, you know, I just don't know. The running game, I'm not really wanting to attempt, you know, the Indianapolis Colts have a good run defense. So I don't know if there's anyone on the Texans that I could play. Brandon Cook's in a pinch. Remandre Stevenson against Buffalo or Sexy Rexy in this game? Remandre. I play Remandre. Okay.

I think here's the better question. Brandon Cooks or T.Y. Houston? Brandon Cooks. Yeah. Yeah. I cannot get myself there. I just can't do it. Yeah. To where I think that, you know, the, to be disrespectful, the corpse of T.Y. Hilton going out there, a shadow of what he once was. He just, he just did it this year to Houston. I mean, four for 80. I know. I know. But that was still only good enough for 30, you know.