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

Yeah, yeah. We kind of stopped the discussion, but if Zach Moss is out, oh man, Devon Singletary is in. He is, like I would start him over great, I would view him as a top 15 back this week. I can't imagine you can't get him in your roster. There is at least one report that somebody heard. Is this a good report to even report? It was shared by Dave Richard. Richard. I call him Richard. Yes, you do.

Dave Richard for CBS. Dave Richard? Dave Richard? Davy. Davy. Yes. Get the name right. We heard that Remandres Stevenson will be ready to play, but Damien Harris might not be. Wow. So flowchart that one. Remandre is in. If Harris is out. He will be active. They don't have a choice. Now, do they have a choice that they screw us all again? Yes. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

This is good. Hold on. Let me make a little tradeoffer here. And we can move on. Dawson Knox, if he's back, are you playing him right away? Yes. Yeah, sure. It was a broken hand, broken finger situation. So his legs are good to go. I would put him right back out there. He will need the hands for the catching. Oh, I get that. But I'm saying if he's healthy, I'm not worried about are they going to ease him in or any of those things. It's too late, Mike. I'm already picturing him catching the ball with his feet.

And it's a pretty funny mental picture. And impressive. Now, in your imagery, is this, he takes to the air and, like, scissor clamps down on the ball or when the ball is thrown to him, he goes into a handstand. It's much more gymnastics. He's tumbling. He's tumbling, and then during one of the upside downs, he catches it. Oh, all right. Do I worry about the fall? Yeah, the injury on, you're going to, you're going to land on your head.

If you catch with your feet, you can land on your back. Yeah, still injury risk. Tuck and roll. Okay. Also tough to maintain the possession. You might want to take the shoes off. Now we're getting really weird. The Detroit lines at 0 and 6 taken on the 5 and 3 Pittsburgh Steelers. Drafking Sportsbook line Steelers minus 8 at home. The over under is 42 and a half. Did we say the 0 and 6 Detroit Lions? That's not accurate?

I'm going to check my sources. We're going into week. Oh, and eight. Oh, and six. At one point, they were 0 and 6. Couldn't let that one go. That's because Brooks tries to stay away from the Detroit Lions in our dock. And I don't blame him. Yeah. I think one of the questions on our green room show yesterday was, are we doing it? Are we going to Detroit fans want to know? Oh, are they going undefeated? Are we doing 0 and 17? Are we making history?

Did you say undefeated? No, they're not. Going defeated? What do you call it? Fully defeated? Winless. Yeah. I like defeated. Yeah. They were fully defeated. They have been going defeated for quite some time. Sorry, Detroit. You know, this game, however, it has a ridiculous 42.5 over under. And the advice might be smashed the under. Pittsburgh, they've hit the over twice on the entire year. Detroit.

averages 16.8 points per game. They've hit the under and five of six, and the Steelers defense is outstanding. I mean, this is not a game. This is not a game that will contain explosive performances. No. Because Pittsburgh games can't do that anymore. You always play Naji, and you always play Deonti. There's one player who could have an explosive game.

Naji is who you're saying. Yeah, I mean, he could... Naji just has games. Right. They're not explosive. 2.8 a carry last week, 22 for 62. 3.6 a carry the week before. 26 for 91. This has been a 3.6 year for him. Yes, the end of the game fantasy stat line could be explosive, but the process of getting there will be drawing drive after drawing drive. Not a huge... That's a good word. Oh, thank you. I just assume it's a real one.

Yeah, I'm looking it up to be sure, but drawling with an L? You tell me. My name is Simon. That's not a word. I like to do drawling. I didn't forget what you were going until the end, but that was outstanding, Mike. Oh, you're getting two dines today. Wow. I can't. Yes. I cannot find that word anywhere. What were you looking for? No, I was looking for drawing.

And I got there. And I was complimented for my use of it by use. We all, because it sounded like a robust. Yeah. Like, ooh, I had never heard that before. Yeah, well, add it to your arsenal and tell people don't Google that. This game is, is, wait, it's a real word. How are you spelling it? D-R-A-W. Yeah. I'm not seeing that word. Brooks just posted it. It's to speak with lengthened or drawn-out vowels. Yeah, it's a southern drawl. Okay.

What a guy you are. Incredible work team. So in this game, it's really, I think there are four and a half options to play. Okay. Noggi is locked in. Deonti Johnson should be locked in. They are. Yes, 100%. No one is safer. So let's move to the other side of the ball. There's two plays to me that are still, you're going to put them in your lineup. It's DeAndre Swift and T.J. Hawkinson. I'm not messing around with the wide receivers.

I know it could be Amon Rae St. Brown or Khalif Raymond, you know, people will have games. I'm just not, I don't hate myself enough to deal with trying to get lucky in a bad matchup. And then the- Against the O-N-1 Lions. Yes. The question here is Pat Fryer Muth. Can you stay Luth with the Muth? The lions are...

you know, just average against tight-in. I would say yes because of Claypool's absence. 100%. That's exactly what I was going to say. So let's put. He's a goal line. You know, he's better than, he's probably better than Hunter Henry. It's not just goal line. Like he's getting, he is. He's been luth in the midfield. He is a part of this offense. So there's three names. I want you guys to order them. Dawson Knox, Dalton Schultz, Pat Fryer Muth. I'm going to go with the.

I'm going to go with Dalton Schultz, then the Muth, and then I will go to Dawson knocks off the injury. Yeah, because Schultz has been great for the majority of the season, I'll still stick with that probability, but I think it's very close between him and Muth, who I choose to play. I think Dawson's like 95% of snaps. Muth is in the 70s, these two weeks without Ebron.

But how do you not chase number two, number one finishes for Pat Fryman? Yeah, and it's not just touchdowns. Like he's getting actual target volume. So luth. Broxie, should we do one more matchup or should we do starts? Starts of the week. Starts of the week. All right, week 10 starts of the week. I'm going to go with my quarterback here. It's Dak Prescott against Atlanta. The DAC is back in a big way.

Atlanta giving up a ton of points to opposing quarterbacks, 23 fantasy points per game allowed on the road to quarterbacks. They got no pass rush. And Dax's going to deliver in the other minutes of the game that aren't the last four minutes with all of the weapons that he has. So I'm going to go with that. My guy will be the last four minutes of the game. Don't watch it. It's Jalen Hertz at Denver. He's going to be bad, which means he's going to be good for fantasy.

That's how it has happened for him over his short career. The matchup looks scary against Denver, but Hertz has a higher floor than the waiver wire guys. You're talking, I like Trevor Lawrence, but I'm not going to start him over a Jalen Hertz in games. And this is the real takeaway here. In games where the Philadelphia Eagles have been three point plus underdogs, dating back to last year, he has averaged 27 fantasy points per game. So he's in my lineup. And I...

I like Ryan Tannenhill this week against the New Orleans Saints. They have given up a QB quarterback four points and back-to-back weeks. And the Titans, they will try to establish it against the Saints, but I don't think that they will be able to. And they're seeing a bunch of passes. They have the third lowest pressure rate in the league. And it's like Tanna Hill gets it done from a clean pocket.

Running back start of the week, starts of the week. One word for you, Melvante. Oh, delicious. I get to play them both? Well, if you have either one, you should play them. It's how I like my noodles. Melvante? Yes. Melvin, do you get that joke? Oh, yeah, I do. Thank you. What is the joke? I'm not what version. Aldente? Oh, okay. Yeah, that'll work. That's a noodle thing, right? That is a noodle thing. You want them perfectly al dente. That's a good noodle joke.

Melvin, Gordon, Giovante Williams. I'm playing both of them. There's been three different weeks this year that they're both in the top 24. Giovante Williams is good. Really good. And it's so difficult because I've wanted to go and make the end of season investment on him. I'm still scared. But it's going to be great this week. Philly is 29th against the run. Fourth most rushing yards allowed.

And they're also, they're allowing the third most running back fantasy points. And they're doing it to non-elite running backs. Like Chuba Hubbard had 133 total yards. And Leonard Fernette had 127 total yards and two touchdowns. So it's going to be good this week for both of those Denver running backs. I love the name.

I'm going to go with a smash play of Darrell Henderson this week in San Francisco. He is going to be a top five running back. This is a reminder that he is elite for fantasy. Last week, the Rams, they sucked. He was the running back 37. But he is second in the NFL and touchdown expectation behind only Jonathan Taylor. Tied for second-most touches inside the five-yard line. If you remember last week, San Francisco was gashed.

by James Connor. They've allowed the fifth most 10 plus run yards and ranked 28th in yards before contact. So I don't be afraid of last week's Daryl Henderson. Plug and play. And I tweeted this out on Tuesday because the Nick Chubb COVID information came out after the waiver show. I said, Dearness moves to my top pickup of the week because of what he could represent.

And it's a dude that got it done against the Denver Broncos 22 for 142 yards and two rushing touchdowns. And the Patriots, while they, I get it on paper, it looks scary. But three straight weeks, they've given up top 12 points to the running back position. And so I just, and of course, if Nick Chubb is active, this is, I'm not playing Dearness Johnson, but just saying like, if you held onto them or if you grabbed them off with a waiver wire, if Nick Chub is out.

I'm getting de earnest in my lineup as a running back too. All right. By the way, we do have an update here, Mr. A.J. Green. Is he off the COVID list? Is he off the COVID list? Okay. Is that interesting to you at all in the fact that it does it seem likely to you that Hopkins, I mean, he didn't practice again today. I don't expect Hopkins to play. I agree. Kyler could play in Hopkins.

Couldn't. And if that situation happens, that AJ Green is interesting. Just throwing it out there. If Kyler isn't playing, I'm probably not going to mess with AJ. All right. My wide receiver start of the week, I'm actually going to go a little deeper here. I'm going to go with Marquez Callaway of the New Orleans Saints. Oh, there you go. But I'm going to mention Deonté Harris at the same time because I think both of these guys are worth a start. Tennessee is dead last, like I said, against the wide receiver position. They've allowed the highest opponent wide receiver target share. And I'm...

You know, Calloway's number of routes run has picked up recently, 40, 32, 38 in the last three weeks. I think it'll be Simeon, which means a more consistent Winston-like passing offense as opposed to what Taisal might represent. Is Cameraslow? Do they need to use these wide receivers? I think Calloway is a startable asset this week. All right.

Yeah, and I'm going with the guy that Andy said he didn't really love. I absolutely love him this week. I think Julio Jones is a smash play. I think he's very interesting. The Saints are not actually a good pass defense. They are giving up 34 fantasy points per game to wide receivers.

There's two wide receivers there. A.J. Brown and Julio Jones. Julio looked good last week despite his fantasy finish because they were dominating that game. And you've got Marshawn Lattimore, who's going to be on the one. And the one isn't Julio there. So, you know, they're allowing the six most fantasy points to wide receivers, fourth highest opponent completion rate. They've been beat by the Falcons, the Giants, the Patriots, the Panthers have beat up.