Week 12 Matchups + In-or-Out, All Chewed Up

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Andy Mike and Jason, the fantasy football is with you for Friday. November 22nd. We've got fantasy forecasts. We have some news for you, injury updates, ballers on a budget, shenanigans, I'm sure of it. And the comfort of knowing that there is no way that this show could possibly be more awkward.

Then the... Come on. Why are we starting the show? I don't know. Because we experienced it together. I know not everybody's in that world. I had never watched a Tesla product reveal. But you guys know, for years, I've been like, oh, you know, it would be so cool if they came out with a truck. Yeah, still would. Still would be pretty cool. Oh, and then if you didn't see it, the Tesla cyber truck reveal yesterday, Elon Musk and all of his...

social anxiety, glory, or whatever it is with presenting, they decided to do some onstage demos of this new art. How tough it is. How tough. The problem is the windows are actually made out of the same DNA of James Connor. Oh, yeah. Thank you for tying it together, Mike. You are welcome. Searching for it. But you did not end up with a ordinary truck. I mean, I know some people like it. It's innovative. Is that the right word? It's new.

I'm a Tesla fanboy through and through, and I have a real hard time. But the real experience last night was watching this man crumble as the unbreakable car is completely trashed. He has to stand in front of it being like, hey, everybody, here's our new car. It's a trashed cyber truck. Yeah, they threw a metal ball at the window that was not supposed to break. And it broke. If he was a magician, the...

audience member would literally be sought in half. They would have died. Yeah, the worst was he's like, okay, well, let's just try throwing it at the back window. The next one will get it. Oops. It was an experience. And it was short. It was really short, too. I think it got shorter than planned. We were all cringing. Awkward moments. Something we'll probably have in common with him after today's episode. Yes.

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Just talking about everything and anything, I have no doubt that the off-topic section of that Discord server included Elon Musk last night. Twitter, you can find us at the FF Ballers, all your latest fantasy football news, notes, information, insights, stats, whatever Brooks can take pictures of around the office, occasionally shows up there. And you can find us on Instagram as well, Instagram.com slash fantasy footballers. Let me get your reaction to last night's game. Wow.

Oh, no. Okay. So that was 37 points. For whatever reason, I added another 10 points to the game. I remember to 47, 46.5 point over under. We hit. We hit the under. We did it, fam. Mike got it right on the nose. He said Houston would win and they'd hit the under. I thought Indianapolis would win. Well, I got that part right. But to be fair, I, look, I was not in on Jonathan Williams at all. And Andy, you had the faith of the coaching staff. I've just...

I've been burnt by the coaching staff saying, hey, this is our guy. We're going to move forward. And Jonathan Williams, not only was the guy, I mean, he had an incredible game. 26 carries over and over and over. Another 100 on the ground. A touchdown. He had a few receptions as well to go with it. It was completely the Jonathan Williams show. He really the only player of...

really of any fantasy value for the Colts in this matchup. Yes, for the Colts. For the Colts for sure. I mean, those of you that streamed Berset, like I did in one of my leagues, disaster. It was painful when they're losing to watch them hand the ball off 46 times in a row or so it felt. It was hard to watch T.Y. Hilton on the sideline on a snap count, but then he came in and had plenty of opportunity. He could have and should have had a really good game. Yes. But.

Very uncharacteristically. He had the drops. Like off the top of my head, I know of the two drops, one of them being incredibly egregious. I mean, was 20 or so yards down the field. And had his guy beat. Yeah, he catches that ball. If he could stay in bounds, he's probably a touchdown. So that was very, very unfortunate. Instead, he ends up with three for 18. Yeah, there was no value to be had on Indianapolis other than starting Jonathan Williams.

Naim Hines wasn't worth starting. Jordan Wilkins didn't even get a touch on the offensive side. And then, you know, the Hilton snafus were, I don't know, they seemed a little worse when you watched what DeAndre Hopkins did on the other side of the ball. Not to me. Not Hopkins. They were, but to me, like, as a fantasy analyst of what I wanted, the risk I was willing to take in this matchup, which was, I'll play T. Y. Hilton, he's a stud.

Will Fuller has been garbage the entire year, is injury prone. He's also returning from injury. So the pain of watching my analysis break down where T.Y. Hilton had a crappy game. And then Will Fuller goes 7 for 140. That was a...

And led the team in target. He even got up and grabbed his hamstring after one of those bombs. Like, oh, here it was. We knew it was going to happen. You think that's muscle memory? Right. He's like, after I catch it, I get up and I hold my hamstring. Yeah. You're right, Mike. I will say this. T.Y. Hilton owners had opportunities only played 37% of snaps in this pitch count coming back.

If he doesn't show up on the injury report this week, I would be very optimistic that obviously that number goes up and he's their best receiver. And we've seen enough of T.Y. Hilton over the years as fantasy owners to know, like you said, if he comes down with one of those passes, he's got a touchdown. Very disappointing. If you played him all the way across the board, Ebron, Doyle, by the way, Zach Pascal, no catches. Yes, the werewolf. One target. The full moon was not out. If you missed our serious XM show, you missed the debut of that.

Yeah, so anything else you guys want to add? Carlos Hyde. He looked good on a couple runs, but he didn't do anything great for fantasy. 16 for 67, no touchdowns. Duke Johnson not as involved as you need for fantasy. There really, it was, Deshawn Watson was okay. Hopkins of Fuller were great. It's just Jonathan Williams and everybody else. It's pour one out for all of our, all of our footland members who were facing the Hopkins.

Watson's stack on Thursday night. I was losing on Thursday night or at least feeling like you have now maybe a 5% chance of winning. That is the worst. Well, the worst. In our league of record, I was starting Brissette against Hopkins and Watkins. And at under two minutes. So I pour one out for you. Yes, under two minutes left in the first half. Brissette has 11 fantasy points. They have one each. You're dominating.

Hopkins has one point, and I'm going, I have, I'm the luckiest boy in the world. And I wasn't. What's it going to pay me it fly? Are you in or out? All right. The big injury news, James Connor in or out? Well, it's official. Yes. He's out. Which, honestly, that's nice for fantasy purposes. Yeah, Benny Snell did practice without limitations. He is sneaky. Very. Yeah, I think he's a guy you can and should pick him up and play. Uh,

Rams wide receivers taking on Baltimore Monday night. Brandon Cooks cleared the concussion protocol. He'll be in there. Robert Woods back with the team status for Monday night to be determined. Josh Reynolds didn't practice with an injury on Thursday, but you've got, yeah, with an illness. Illness, so he should be okay to go. But his usage, I mean, it comes down a lot to, is Robert Woods playing or not? And we.

Don't have information on that yet. Are you willing to go to the wire with Woods knowing if you can pivot to Reynolds against Baltimore, a tough matchup? I mean, so yes. Debo Samuel or wait for Robert Williams? That would be a Debo Samuel. That's what I'm saying within reason. If there's a good play out there and I would go as far down as to say Russell Gage, I would be willing to roll with Russell Gage against Tampa Bay. But if you don't have any other good options, then yeah, you would roll.

Woods and then pivot to Josh Reynolds if you needed to. All right. Emmanuel Sanders, Debo Samuel, George Kittle, all limited in practice on Thursday. Kittle expects to play? Yes. He says he feels good. He was excited about his last practice, the current expectation. Didn't he feel really good last week? He did. He says what he said. I think he just feels good all the time. He's George Kittle. Yeah. George Kittle seems like he's got a good life. In fairness, two weeks ago, he was actually pretty honest about.

not feeling good at all and being worried about his ability to play. So the fact that he is now practicing, he's saying it's going well, and he's expecting to play. I'm certainly holding on the tight-in landscape for a kiddle. Now, did he say he's feeling good, or did people just catch him singing like some Michael Bouble? One and the same, Mike. Yeah, he do feel good when you listen to Michael Bubla. You are correct. I think we said yesterday that, look, Kittles...

the kind of player you roster dwelly and if kittles are surprised inactive you can play dwelly i mean you don't want to miss out on an active george kittle tyler locket remained limited on thursday plays philadelphia dealing with the contusion in or out what do you think with tyler locket i think he's in i think he'll play through but that's he's in your lineup yeah the matchup is good and yeah but it's sketchy all right

Brooks wanted to make a real point here at the end of this segment. He says in Rear End related news, it is the seventh year anniversary of the butt fumble, Brooks. Congratulations. Do you have that in your calendar? I got to give credit. That's Kyle. That's a Kyle. Oh, okay. So a very special moment. Kyle, Master of Rear End News. Yes, yes. He has covered all, he's covered the Adam Gaze beat for us.

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And news and notes, always brought to you by the Sleeper app. Let's get back into the forecast. Fantasy forecast. All right, take a deep breath because we have eight matchups to get through. Was that a balloon? That sounded a lot like a balloon. You should have been a swimmer, Mike. That's some air capacity. No, no, there's very little capacity in these asthmatic lungs. All right, all right.

Let's start with the Broncos bills. The games in Buffalo. Bills are four point favorites. It's a very low 38.5 point over under. Brandon Allen against Josh Allen, the Battle of the Allen. I'll take Josh. I'll take Tim Allen. Oh, yeah. My pops. All right. How do you look at Josh Allen in this matchup? Because last week, the number one overall fantasy quarterback.