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Mike's well-timed TeSlaa electricity cue opens the show. Brooks says it sounds louder, a producer admits increasing it two percent every use, and the desk demands a bright-yellow studio, seat buzzers, and a next-morning lightning package if TeSlaa scores. Owl is still making the effects late in the episode, before Mike triggers the favorite drop at the close.
Jonathan Gannon's terse injury answer makes the desk demand that Gannon go into a cannon and be fired away, with either the sun or moon accepted as the destination.
A wide-receiver reveal triggers rapid commands to show Andy, return to the speaker's camera, and then cut to Jason while the desk repeatedly asks what could go wrong.
Kyle's prepared Jameson Williams and TeSlaa bullet points are discarded. Later, his Mason Taylor missed-tackle fixation earns a rest-of-show assignment; called the kitty cat reporter, Kyle meows and confirms that Taylor alone has at least 20 receptions without forcing a missed tackle.
The show previews the next Fantasy Faceoff Wheel of Shame. An unidentified losing host acknowledges that it is his punishment and is reminded that he had two tiebreaker chances before the episode closes on Mike's TeSlaa cue.
The produced opening names Andy, Jason, and Mike, then immediately celebrates Mike's timing on the booming Isaac TeSlaa cue. Brooks observes that it sounds louder; an unlabeled producer says it rises two percent every use. The desk commissions bright-yellow lighting and seat buzzers, with a hard deadline if TeSlaa scores that night. Later, Kyle's prepared Jameson Williams and TeSlaa bullet points go unused, Owl is reported busy making the lightning effects, and Kyle receives a new live assignment: determine whether Mason Taylor is uniquely incapable of forcing a missed tackle. Addressed as the kitty cat reporter, Kyle answers with a meow and terse confirmations that Taylor stands alone among players with at least 20 receptions. Other film-ready beats include rapid camera commands during Starts of the Week, a proposal to fire Jonathan Gannon from the Gannon cannon into the sun or moon, and an unidentified Fantasy Faceoff loser acknowledging that the Wheel of Shame awaits after two failed tiebreakers. Mike closes by triggering his favorite TeSlaa drop and asking Isaac not to let him down.
to the fantasy footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. That was a pretty good scream there. All of that was pretty good. I didn't even feel like the electricity was that loud, maybe because the intro is playing. Is that a new cut? Or is that the same one? Same one. Oh, man. Well timed, Mike. I'm impressed. He was ready. He is ready. The only thing that made me really sad is we do our, uh, the prize picks for Friday face off. And I can't do anything from the Thursday game. Yeah, I know. I like wanted to do JMO stuff and everything from this game tonight. More, more, more. I, it's more more. No, um, I can't believe we got an, it's Tesla time. Of course we did. He's only in one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve of our top 15 start sit questions of the week. Oh, that's, uh,
I don't know if that's because of yesterday's show or it was already that way. I mean, we're talking Metcalf, Devin Neal, Troy Franklin, Devon Vele, Alec, Piers, Quentin Johnston, Roma Dunzee, Jaden Higgins, Chris Godwin, Chris Rodriguez. It makes sense because the matchup is there and it's the, it's like a free entry into the game tonight. Into that matchup. It like off your waiver wire. It is. If you didn't have one of the players who are. you just established on your roster. You didn't, you don't get in on the action. But Tesla is like, anyone, if you wanted to pay up on the waiver wire, you get a, you get a chance. It's a scratcher. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, 100% Tesla is a scratcher and you don't always win at scratchers, but you can't win if you don't play. You know what I mean? Well, and Brooks said, it's also a nice excuse to pivot from a disappointing player. Like if you, if you're staring D.K. Metcalf down as a star and then you go.
There's this dude that has this electricity drop. Who are you starting? Yeah. So I mean, I've played DK enough to know that I don't want to do that. Yeah, he looks like a like a 90s fitness instructor. Is that Chuck Norris? I mean, goodness. Yeah, Brooks just said that drop does feel louder. I make it 2% louder every time I put it. I'm surprised if we don't do the red light or we should do yellow light while that happens. How did you not overproduce that? Yeah, my bad. I mean, you overproduce everything. Listen, I apologize. Okay. It should have been bright yellow through the entire studio.
Get it fixed. Little buzzers in the seat that go off when he hits it. Just give you a budget, boys. I'm going to make it happen. Oh, crap. Welcome into the show. It's too late. Because if he doesn't do something tonight, the world will turn on him. Yeah, but if he does something tonight, this has to be ready for tomorrow morning. Oh, yes. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. We have a big show for you. Starts of the week today, the fantasy forecast. Getting into week 14 matchups. It is playoff time or just about. We're going to get you in there or do our best to get you in there. YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballers. You can watch the fantasy hitman on Sunday live this week. He will be live an hour before kickoff to get you primed with last minute. This time of year there's a lot of last minute weather adjustments, unfortunately. And he'll be ready for you on Sunday morning. So subscribe. Click the bell over there.
Join thefoot.com is the community, all the premium inseason tools, the ultimate dashboard, support the show, get an extra episode of the show every week, the footcast. That's it, join the foot.com. It's time for news. News and notes from around the league, presented by progressive insurance. I have to start with the most mind-blowing news. It just caught me so off guard. The Ravens signed. Oh, yeah. They signed Mark Andrews to a three-year $39 million contract extension with $25 million guaranteed. This was a player that felt like they were actively trying to push off the roster during the offseason and draft season. Oh, yeah. You paid, Mark. Yeah, I mean, he wasn't under contract after this year. This was going to be a one and none situation. They're going to move on to Isaiah likely, who now Isaiah likely is, he also is not under contract.
Oh, he's probably gone. Yeah, he's probably gone, and Mark Andrews is the new future for the Baltimore Ravens. Wild. Did not expect that at all. But an update for tonight, Alman Ross, St. Brown officially listed as questionable for tonight's game. He has not practiced at all. We are not expecting him to play. If he plays, if he plays, please don't play to slah. Yeah, it really. That is a very, very important, if this, then that. I am in full agreement, and it would create such a... You're in a horrific situation. You're in majority agreement. You're not in full agreement. I think you'd still be like, yeah, the matchup. I'm playing here. Yeah, exactly. You're not going to stop me from playing him. But, I mean, if he, if Alman Ra plays, that's just like, how do you, how do you not play him? And then every cut he makes, you're going to be like, oh, no. Yeah, there will be a re-injury chance for sure. Oh, man. Woody Marks will be fine for week 14 against the Chiefs. He was a DMP on Wednesday, but DiMico Ryan's came out and said that.
Parker Washington, not practicing. We are not expecting him to play, but we will monitor the practice reports. Brian Thomas Jr. with an opportunity. Britain Strange still with the opportunity. And Jacoby Myers producing quite well for just arriving to the team. And they're winning ball games. Kalmanungai Rome Adunzei didn't practice on Wednesday. You can't play him if he doesn't play, Jay. No, I can't. I mean, it's tough on a Wednesday. I haven't heard anything overly negative where you expect them to be gone, but it's worth paying attention to because these aren't players that have been missing Wednesday practices. These aren't veterans that you're just used to giving that Wednesday day off. So we'll pay attention tomorrow.
Jim Harbaugh said Omarian Hampton is on track and looking good for week 14. He also said a bunch of complimentary stuff about Kamani Vidal. Yeah. It should be both of those guys. He said the proof is in the pudding with the way he's played. He's played like a number one back. And, quote, it warms the cockles of the heart. It warms the cockles of the heart. I mean, in December, this is the time of year to have the cockles of your heart warmed. Yeah. And Vidal Sassoon is providing that for Mr. Harbaugh. Rico Dowdo will remain the team's primary early down back, according to Dave Canales. I mean, they're on by, but that is an interesting piece of information to put out there. Trey Benson, Marvin Harrison, Jr. both didn't practice on Wednesday for the Cardinals. Jonathan Gannon said, quote, we'll see about Benson. Oh, Gannon. Gannon, into the cannon. Oh, yeah. Get out of my life. The Gannon canon. We need it. In the sun, the moon. I don't care where.
It's funny because that is out of our atmosphere. When things were looking up for the Cardinals or there was hope or optimism. I mean, we were 2 and 0, by the way. You know this, right? We were 2 and 0. Yeah, with Kyler. They're now 3 and 9. Week 1 was the Saints. Well, I don't remember who Week 2 was, but I thought it was like the softest opening. It was. We played against nobody. Yeah, the Saints were the opening matchup. Marvin Harrison Jr. House is healed doing Okay, says Jonathan Gannon. He's giving no responses at all. He is, I mean, Gannon was like, oh, all kind of rosy and kind when things had hope. And now, while your team is doing bad and you're coaching poorly, you're like, I'm a grump. Yeah. We'll see. It's just like, what a turd. That being said, both of these injuries seem significant.
Marvin Harrison Jr., they tried to get him back in the game when he hurt his heel last week. He wasn't able to stay on the field, and now he's missing practice right now. So this is like worrisome for me. I'm not sure I would really even want to play him if he's active for fear that this is a reaggravation. And then Trey Benson, if he doesn't play this week, he's done for the year because his 21-day window is coming up. Big names for today's matchups. Drake Lund did not practice with the PCL. T. Higgins returned to a limited practice trying to get back from the concussion protocol. Dalton Kincaid Limited. Crystal Lave didn't practice re-agravated his back issue. So we're monitoring that. Mike Evans, Jalen McMillan, both limited, and their 21-day windows are open. That doesn't mean they'll play this week.
That was today's news and notes, sponsored by Progressive Insurance, quote today at progressive.com. Progressive Casualty Insurance Company affiliates and third-party insurers, not available in all states or situations, coverage subject to policy, terms, limits, and conditions. Starts of the Week. Well, Mike, I'll let you kick it off with your quarterback start of the week. Week 14. It's a big one. I will say this is a interesting and hard week for starts of the week where it's like the no-brainers versus the where you're trying to find the matchup in the the good plays, the sneaky plays. It's a tougher week for it. But this week I'm going with Trevor Lawrence. I think he was one of our streamers of the week. But I think he is worth a start. We got the over under at 48 and a half. That's the third highest. He has been a top 12 quarterback in four of the past five weeks. And the Colts defense, they're just, they're beatable. They're 28th in passing yards per game allowed. And 27th, the pressure rate. So they're not getting to the quarterback. They're not stopping the pass. Trevor Lawrence.
For all of his flaws, I think that he's in play this week. Well, my stream of the week is my start of the week. Jared Goff himself. Jared. Gerard. Highest over under the week. We already know about this. The Dominator himself, he can propel you into the playoffs. Dallas has been a punching bag all year long against fantasy for fantasy quarterbacks. Dead last in yards allowed. But don't worry. Also dead lasting points allowed. Nice. We're just going to be dead last in everything. Goff can be dead first in your lineup. I mean, you could call that first. Yeah. You don't have to call it last. No, no. It's going to be great. Golf's going to be awesome, regardless of the Amon-Raw situation. Yeah, he'll be fine. The matchup is great. I'm going with Matthew Stafford. He's coming off of a week where he threw a pick six and another intercept. They lost, shockingly, to the Carolina Panthers. I think it's time he's going to get that MVP odds back.
Up over Drake May again. He's number two right now in the odds. The Rams have the third highest implied team total. This is a really, really cold week. Like all around the country, it's going to be games in the 20s, some snow. I love that this is just in a dome, kind of protected. He also ranks number one in passing touchdowns, number two in passer rating, and he's facing the lowest pressure rate in the NFL. The Cardinals. aren't a scary defense. So I would have Stafford in my lineup this week. At running back, I think you can play Devon Neal this week against Tampa Bay. Whoa. The opportunities are there. Like week 12, 74% of the snaps, 14 opportunities. Last week, 82%. And he got up to 17 total opportunities, ran a route on 71% of the dropbacks. And since week nine, the bucks have struggled a bit against fantasy running backs.
We had the Trevo game, James Cook, Bam Knight had over 15 points against this Tampa Bay defense. So it's not a ceiling play, but if you're looking for someone who's just going to get a bunch of opportunities, then Devin Neal and still be able to do something with it. I think he's playable. We know about the run funnel for the Buffalo defense. They're dead last in rushing touchdowns allowed. 34th. 31st and yards per carry allowed 30th and schedule. 30 forced. Look, it all leads to Chase Brown of the Cincinnati Bengals against Buffalo this week. If you had the patience to stay with Brown, you've been rewarded. It was not a great start to the year. Not only was the team injured, but he was awful. And yet he's basically doubled his fantasy production from week six to 13 per week from where he was at the beginning of the year. I love Chase Brown against Buffalo. All right.
All right, I'm going with Quinn Sean Judkins against the Tennessee Titans. If you look at the full season, the Titans are really, really bad against the run. If you look at the last month, they've been getting much better against the run. However, this is still a situation where I am absolutely playing Quinn Sean Judkins. It's very rare to find the Browns in favored games where you expect them to win. They are in this matchup. They're four and a half point home. favorites. And he's getting all the work. He's getting all of the red zone works. Six rushing touchdowns inside the red zone. That's as many as Henry or Jemir Gibbs. Since week six, he's the only player in the NFL with 100% of their teams carries inside the five yard line. So I think he's got great touchdown opportunities here in this game. All right. A wide receiver. Okay. Oh gosh. Come on. Come on. Guys. Hit the button. Come on. Come on.
Go to Andy. That's fine. Also, give me the camera. Guys. This is perfect. This is perfect. Come on. What could go wrong? Come on. It's Jameson Williams. Come on. Go to Jason. Go to Jason. It's Alman Raw. Let's hope Palm and Raw doesn't play, guys. My wide receiver, I'm going with Michael Wilson in that... Okay. So the news on Marvin Harrison is negative. I don't know for sure if he plays. I'm scared to play him, but Michael Wilson still had seven targets in a down game last week. He was still very involved. Two out of the last three games, we know. He was amazing. You cannot run on the Rams, like at all.
Bam Knight is not going to get it done against the Los Angeles. I run from them. Yeah. And so they're going to have to throw the ball. Jacoby's going to throw for 250 plus. And I think Michael Wilson will be the number one wide receiver at the end of this game over Marvin Harrison. If I had both and Marv was playing, I would play Michael Wilson. I just don't want people to completely go, hey, Wilson had a bad game. Marva's back. So you can't play Wilson. I don't think that's true. At the tight end position, it's. Going to be insert Buffalo Bills, tight end. They're playing the Bengals. We love the matchup. And I think we are, the latest that I've read on Dalton Kincaid is that it's trending to be, he'll be active. And I'm just saying, like, if I have Dalton Kincaid and I've been trying to piecemeal a tight end position from just the scraps on waivers, I would go right back to Dalton Kincaid. It carries risk because of, you know, missing time with, I'm pretty sure it's a hamstring.
Always risk of reaggravation, but he's been out long enough that I think once he's back, he will have success against the Cincinnati Bengals. And should he miss, I think rolling the dice on Dawson Knox if you're in a deeper league does make sense. It's because the... Bengals defenders don't see tight-in position. Yeah, somehow they don't, which is wild because tight-ins are generally humongous. Yeah, they don't see it. You know me. I'm famous for a few say things. Kids don't do drugs. That's one of the ones I always do. I always say that. And then I always say don't play Kyle Pitts. But this week I'm going to say play. What are you doing? Kyle Pitts. Last week, eight targets. You get to choose this, man. Seven for 82. What are you doing? I don't think London's back. And I think Pitts is guaranteed for five in about this many.
Seattle cannot defend the tight end position either. He will not goose you, which is a big accomplishment for the tight end position. All right. I'm going with a better tight end. I'm going to go with Britain Strange against Indy. He returned after two months off with back-to-back top five finishes. Last week, he was on the field for 83% of the snaps, had 45 yards in a touchdown. You know, if you're constantly getting goose eggs or you don't know what to do, you need, you know. to have more than five points at the tight end position while hoping for a touchdown. I think Strange is good. He's also got a great playoff schedule coming on. And this week takes on the Colts defense that ranks 28th and schedule adjusted fantasy points. 31st in receiving yards allowed to tight ends. So I think the matchup is good. The fact that you've got Parker Washington dealing with his injury as well. I'm happy to start Brenton Strange this week. All righty. There you go.
Kyle made all these bullet points for JMO and Tesla. We're not using any of those. We'll take a break. We'll get into the forecast. Fantasy Forecast, presented by prize picks. It's week 14. The 49ers, Giants, Panthers, and Patriots are taking a week off. For my understanding, the Patriots, actually, they wanted to play, but they couldn't find anybody with a worse record than the teams they've already played. Right. And they're like, I guess we'll just face nobody. It's tough, man. It's going to be. It's tough. It'll be fascinating. I'm not. Yeah. I mean, it's basically the top picks in the draft. Like if you want to look at their schedule, it's the top picks in the draft. You get New Orleans and Tennessee and Cleveland and Atlanta and the Jets and the Bengals and the Giants. And this is what we saw. I mean, they beat Tampa Bay. That was a tough game on the road. I want to give them credit for that. They beat Buffalo. 2320 on the road. They did lose to the Raiders. And Pittsburgh. But.
You played the schedule in front of you, so the Patriots this year are, I mean, obviously they're playing a fourth place schedule. You always want the fourth place schedules. That works for, you know, the 49ers. They got the easy schedule. They're winning games, the Patriots. Last year, this was the commanders, you know, and it was like, oh, how is it going to, how are they going to fare when it's not the easiest schedule out there? And it's tougher. Yeah, no, I look, we, I think Drake May is awesome. I think having him a part of the story this year being a favorite as a young quarterback. We were talking about the quarterbacks that were drafted last year with Jaden and Drake May and then Bo Nix and, you know, Caleb Williams. Like that's a great new crop of quarterbacks. And J.J. McCarthy. And I'm true. And me. It's not quite what we've gotten this year either. Like we have Jackson Dart, who I think excites everybody. Mm-hmm.
Tyler Shuck has impressed me. Tyler Shuck is he's not special but no I I get like nobody will draft a quarterback with because they're jersey sales are not high that's all I'm the top three I'm on on film I'm just really I am still came with came to me the other day I just told this to Mike he's like dad dad listen we got to buy Tyler Shuck cards we got to buy Tyler by the he's like I believe I believe in him. And I said it'll be tough because they're going to be at the very tippy top of the draft, maybe the number one pick. And Tyler Shuck is the Brandon Whedon of his generation. He is older. Yeah. And you have to make this judgment call right away. Do you build your franchise around him? And I just think it's going to be a hard, hard, hard, hard sale. Because he might be more career backup type guy. I don't know.
The way this year ends may determine what they do, because they could trade the pick to a quarterback needy team. We already know their situation at the cap. They need more quantity of rookie contracts. Yeah, the truth is, Shuck is playing for his job right now. Because if he goes out there and wins two or three more games along the way in the last month, he's going to literally stop them from having the pick that will allow them to get, you know, the number one or number two quarterback. All righty Seattle 9 and 3 Atlanta 4 and 8 that's our first matchup and Vegas line here Seattle minus 7 I made Jason a Mike at lunch yesterday this was funny I had just seen the brand new Super Bowl odds Rams are number one plus 435 or 425 whatever and I made them try to guess the team that was number two in the Super Bowl to make the Super Bowl and we took about 10 guesses we got we nailed three four
5, 6, 7, 8. Yeah, you got them all. But not number two. But number two is the Seattle Seahawks. Yeah. Same division as the Rams. Over under here, 44 and a half. Kyle's note, birds of a different feather don't flock together. He's not feeling good about his falcons right now. Seattle's number one in point differential and points per game, Sam Darnold. It has not been good for fantasy the last four weeks against Arizona, the Rams, Tennessee, and Minnesota. Should be better this week. It should be better this week. We have seen the opportunities for Kenneth Walker increase as they should because Mike has a, he's just having a month. I get just, but he could, you know those, those carries inside the five? Ken Walker could do that. He can do that just as well as Charbonnet. I don't think that's true. I do. Sharbonnet's been really efficient in, on those carries. Like, he's actually been a very good, like I don't blame them.
for doing something that's succeeding. You know what I mean? It's kind of like I want to be really upset that Tyler Algier in this same game is used. Like, come on, Bijan can do that. But also, Daggummit, Tyler Algier's good too. It sucks. Yeah, yeah, it's, it should be a game that Seattle comes out and has a good performance for fantasy. Jackson Smith and Jigba should get right back on track. It is, it was very. strange because he had been just so automatic. And last week, they kind of took him away. They still took care of business. We haven't seen Rashid Shaheed at all. I mean, he's four for 37. You talk about Jacobi Myers. Very strange. Jacoby Myers in Jacksonville has done a lot. Rashid Shaheed has maybe a foot still on the plane is what it feels like. Four for 37. And that's not like in one game. That's total since joining the team. Yeah. He is like a half.
He plays about half the snaps. He's just not getting targets. So decision-wise on this roster, it's not that complicated. I feel comfortable with both running backs if I had to. Yeah, this seems like... On the Seattle side, you're saying both Walker and Charbonne? Yeah, just gambling that you're going to get a touchdown from Charbs. Seems like it should be one of those weeks. And, you know, the Bijan performance last week, number one on the week. You'll love to see it because it had been a little bit up and down. And they let him get a touchdown. They let him. Yeah. Yeah. He's very nice. He actually, if he goes five or six games without one, he turns in a ticket. And then they let him redeem it for one goal line opportunity. And then Alger takes the rest of him. Yeah. But Drake London, if he's active, if he's back in this game, I assume you go right back to him. I would. It's a tough matchup. I look, I'm hoping they don't play him this week. Just give him one more week to rest and have him come back in a better matchup.
Start of the week, Kyle Pitts, I know you guys reacted strongly, but I think it'll be fine. Process-wise, it makes sense. What's hard about Kyle Pitts is the process is just, it doesn't matter to him. He doesn't care about our stats and when he's supposed to be good. He just is like, I'll be good, you know, once every six games or so. Yeah. Yeah, I tried to pick him up to playing this week. because i i don't have george kittle yeah no it makes sense and i i'm not messing around with anybody else yeah i like darnel mooney he's not done it kirk cousins is he's not i mean he's on the way out i mean it's quite clear the arm is not the same and that's changing a lot of the decisions he's throwing 20 out of 24 passes under 10 yards it's gross so there you go it's always a bummer to yeah i mean i'd the decline happily play seattle's defense yep oh yeah
Cincinnati, 4 and 8, Buffalo 8 and 4. This is a huge game. Palindrome game. Huge game. I mean, we have Buffalo 5.5 point favorites. Over under is 53 and a half. Nice. The line opened to 51 and a half, so it's gone up. I think maybe, based on that news today, we'll get T. Higgins back. If you're limited on Wednesday, there's a decent chance you could be cleared by Friday. And so that would be big for the Bengals. It was, it was. interesting news because like as of t t higgins was not going to be able to but let me do on a wednesday that should bring you some optimism so what are your starts it challenges in this one mike uh i don't know that there's really any challenges that because the bengals are always easy it's everybody you know it doesn't matter about the matchup and then the the the
Over on the bills, Josh Allen and James Cook, of course. I like Dalton Kincaid. I like Don't Kincaid in general, but I really, really like him this week should he get back. And we just, the wide receivers still have not provided us any value, which is, it still doesn't make sense that Josh Allen can do Josh Allen things without wide receivers. Yeah, it's been, I mean, this game is pretty important to Buffalo too, right? Cincinnati needs it for their best shot at, I mean, I think there's a legitimate chance Cincinnati makes the playoffs. There is. I really, really do. I mean, they have, if they get through Buffalo, they control their destiny at home against Baltimore, right? You get to face your division, mate. Then you play Miami and Arizona. Okay. Then you play Cleveland. So, like, these next two weeks are going to determine everything, but if they win them both, I think they're going to make the playoffs. And I think they're, yeah, the division record is.
quite good let me go double check that yeah i think they're three and one in the division so they're they're thanks joe flacco mike thomas not happy i have um i've i've seen some of the playoff estimators and the matchups and it is realistic that the bengals could make the playoffs even if they lose this game they still could in a somewhat realistic way jason uh mike mentioned that Yoshibos was, you know, a backup option if T. Higgins misses the game. With a high over-under like this, I don't mind you trying to get a piece of that at 53 and a half. I was a little surprised to see that the over-under went from 51 to 53 and a half. There's, I mean, you could throw in snow, but there should be snow in this game. Very, very cold weather, 20 degrees. So, you know, I could see this.