Starts of the Week + Week 10 Breakdown, Never Not Working - Fantasy Football Podcast for 11/11

Oh, brother. That's right. Never leave. Never leave. We didn't even need to change the graphics. I mean, he is meeting with the, he being Cam Newton is meeting with the Carolina Panthers today. And, I mean, recent buzz is that this is, you know, Ian Rappaport says this is a legit possibility that he signs with them. Sam Darnold is going to be out a while. It makes complete sense from,

The standpoint, not the, of working with Matt Ruhle, but comfortable in the city, comfortable with DJ Moore. Half a game out of first, or a playoff spot. You're in contention. And if you're looking at like, well, we don't really think that PJ Walker can carry us into the playoffs while we miss Sam Darnold for four to six weeks. Like, I mean, Sam Darnold, and he could be out even longer. You just, you're not 100% sure. So this makes complete.

complete and total sense, and Cam Newton immediately becomes interesting for fantasy. Yeah, Cam Newton will be able to run the ball. He will be interesting for fantasy. I don't know that he really lifts up the wide receiver core. I know we feel like anything and everything is an upgrade to Sam Darnold, and pretty much that's true. But the last time we saw Cam Newton, he wasn't that great either. But these veterans who are past their prime and even bad can still get the job done. Look at Ben Rathlisberger, right? He's terrible.

But Deonte is solid. You know, obviously, if you're dumbing it off the Naji, that's great. And the Muth is Luth. So I'm excited. I hope Cam signs. Does that change your outlook on DJ Moore, up or down? Changes my confidence in McCaffrey's weekly success. That too, yes. DJ Moore, up or down, not really. Neutral? Yeah, pretty neutral. Cam, he throws it few and far between. He did in New England, at least, you know. But he showed that you can.

With him, you can win a game dirty. Oh, yeah. With a solid defense and a play here or there, first downs, him running. And he's already thrown the ball 10,000 times Chris McCaffrey in the season. I guess the occasional goal line sneak may hurt McCaffrey. So that's happening. We also have a report that Beckham is going to take some time, Odo Beckham Jr. A few days away to pick his new team. Seems like he won't play this week. It's very selfish.

I mean, this is, you know, changing his entire life, but we are impatient, and I feel like you should do it immediately. Yeah, you feel hurt. Right, personally. Yeah. Alvin Camara dealing with a mild knee sprain. Didn't practice on Wednesday. I was looking at total touches per game. I mean, he's averaging over 22 touches per game. This is, you know, Henry's gone, so he's basically tied for first in total touches, and here you are with a knee sprain. This is why you went out and traded for Mark Ingram if you're the Saints.

We don't know what this weekend's going to be like for Camara, but it seems, I guess it seems like good news that this is considered a mild knee sprain as opposed to something more definitive. Yeah, he's, at the least, he will probably seed more work this weekend to Mark Ingram at worst. He'll be out. Godwin, Allen, Keenan Allen, that is, did not practice on Wednesday. We'll see and monitor their situations.

The Chris Godwin is one that you need to look at just a little bit more closely because they're coming off of a buy week. And when a player misses after a full week of rest, that's concerning. And they signed Bashad Paramount to the practice squad. So there's been some transactions to say there is potential for worry. Yeah, was that more Antonio Brown related though? Do we know? Well, I think they've been expecting to be without Antonio Brown for a long, long time. So I thought they expected him to play after the buy.

I think we expected him to play. But remember, Bruce Ariens came out and said right when the injury first happened, he might be gone for a while. Okay, James Robinson didn't practice Wednesday. Earlier in the week, Irma Meyer said he expected him back. We'll be monitoring Thursday, Friday practice reports, let you know if he'll be back out there, which is pretty important for a lot of fantasy teams. Claypool is going to miss some time. Not season ending. It's a toe injury. Week to week is the way they're talking about it.

Clyde Edwards Allaire designated for return from injured reserve. Same with Chris Carson. Both were limited on practices on Wednesday. So they have 21 days to be activated. It's not a guarantee that they will play this week. They could both or either. So you'll just have to monitor as we get closer to the end of the week. If they are active, are you playing them? Carson, yeah. I mean, it's probably a yes for both.

And what else do we have? Dawson Knox returned to practice in a limited fashion. Could be getting him back soon. Hopefully this week. Logan Thomas, this is not good. His injured hamstring felt sore coming out of Monday's workout. So are you more pessimistic about his return at this point? Yeah, sore is not injured, which is good. I mean, people are sore after working out. So it could be okay. But it's just like Mike said when you're coming off a bye. This is...

far more than that. He has an injured hamstring that he rested for a month. And if he's, you know, if all of a sudden after he gets back out there for the first time, he's feeling it, we saw this with Curtis Samuel. And Curtis Samuel has not been playing football. So it's not a, not a great sign. Jamal Williams didn't practice on a Wednesday. Noah Phant was activated from the reserve COVID list, which.

Albert O could miss. So you're right back into Noah Phant being interesting. Yeah, and it's a good matchup. Who do they play? Great matchup. I can't remember off the top of my hip. Eagles. Thank you. Yeah, Eagles are, I just saw this this morning. They're giving up the completion percentage for quarterbacks facing the Eagles is 75.5%. That is the best in all of football. So if you're looking, I mean, Bridgewater was brought up as a streaming candidate. That's why. We also had another piece of news that broke yesterday.

We got to the bottom. Donald Parham. Oh, very important. For the Chargers. It is not Parham. He came out and he set the record straight, which is greatly... Thank you. That is greatly appreciated. So Parham. Did he do that because we brought it up? I think it has to be. We're very influential. Well, I mean, the timing is just impossible. We asked the question and then the player tweets it out. So, Donald, thank you. Thanks for listening. Mr. Parham. You are...

now one of our favorites. And we did say that regardless of what you said, we were going to go with Parham. Maybe that's why he came out. Maybe it was Parham. And he's like, well, the footballer said no matter what it's Parham. So at everybody, it's Parham. That's probably what happened. Latavius Murray didn't practice. He's doubtful for tonight's game. He's not going to play. No. Sammy Watkins, full participant, expected to play barring a pregame setback. He kind of had a pregame setback last week. It was.

Not feeling so good, sat him out again. It's interesting because he's fragile.

In his games that he's played, he's had over a 20% market share. I was listening on the drive-in to someone from the Ravens camp talking about this situation saying they're not, he's not even sure yet in 12 personnel, whether it'll be Sammy or whether it'll be, you know, Hollywood is the one. And then he's not sure when it comes to Bateman who's looked great and Sammy Watkins, who's been involved, who will be that too. So it will be interesting to watch tonight to just see.

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I get Brooks laughing in the background. He likes a good plug. Brooks loves a good plug. Not a hair plug, though. But George Kittle is a part of that animation. And it's nice that he's back into fantasy relevance, right? Yeah. We've had to wait a long time, but the matchup is good. He was great last week. And thanks for being back. Thanks, George. Appreciate you. Yes.

All right, we talked about the Thursday night game on yesterday's show. So if you're like, hey, where's that game? That's where it is. There is a chance for rain tonight. Little bit rain. Little bit rain. Not a lot of bit? Nope, not a lot of bit. It was sunny this morning, but they said the weather forecast could, could rain a bit. Could do a little bit. A little bit rain. All right. The Atlanta Falcons at 4 and 4 playoff bound. Take on the six and two Dallas Cowboys who just got their butts handed to them at home by the Broncos. Draft King Sportsbook Line don't care.

Cowboys, minus eight at home. The over under is 54 and a half. Oh, darn it. Well, you round up. And this is our show. We do what we want. Parham! Last week, the Dallas offense, it was a disaster. Now, you did have the recovery for DAC.

managers in the last four minutes salvaging the day. He really was fine for fantasy because of two meaningless stupid drives against me. And let's talk about these Falcons for a moment because it was kind of, I don't think we expected them to be competing at the level that they're competing, right? You lose Julio Jones. You have Calvin Ridley is essentially out, right, for maybe the whole season.

Matt Ryan looked like trash to open the year. You know what I mean? He looked like it was over, it was done. He was aged out and he doesn't have the weapons the first three weeks of the season. And he's looked great over the last month. But little did we know. And Mike Davis has been a complete and absolute waste of a free agent signing, not producing. And here you have Cordero Patterson. And Cordero is number two in the NFL.