Fantasy Football 2017 - Starts of the Week, Week 11 Matchups, Disappointing WRs

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Coming to you from the Playdraft Studios with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Ah, it's time to have another show. You're at UFC on us. It's time. Now, I'm ready to have a show. Mike, you seem exceptionally ready for a show. Hold. I'm ready. Okay. I knew that. And Jason.

Jason just had a piece of a cracker. Some crackers, and I was warned to not eat dry crackers right before a show where you talk for an hour, and I said, I'm fine. It's 8.50 in the morning, and we hit the record button, and he takes the bite of a cracker. In fairness, it wasn't, like, just a cracker. Was this a saltine? No, it was a... One of those called Bellavitas. Yeah. It's like a little breakfast. Snack? Snack. I look, I like to eat.

Pretty much 12, 13 meals a day. Yesterday you were talking about a breakfast that you have between lunch and dinner. Yeah, it's the most important meal of the day. That's what I keep hearing from people. Doesn't matter when you have it. I never miss. I never miss an afternoon breakfast. No. Says Jason. It's just true. We have a great show. Matchups for week 11? Huh? Week 11. Is that a question? Yeah. Were you calling from a walkie-talkie?

Week 11 matchups today starts of the week. Jason's boom boom kicker of the week. Maybe some mailbag. We'll see some news and notes. I'm excited to talk today about a number of important fantasy notes. The big one being that Ezekiel Elliott, he's dropping his case. He's dropping the appeal. They're dropping all of that stuff. And this is the last time we're ever going to talk about it. It makes me so happy. The thought.

I remember thinking, you know, a couple months ago, this is going to be like the Brady situation. It's going to go into next offseason. And in the whole off season, we're going to have to keep talking the same narrative for two years. Nope. Nope. It's over. I feel so great about never talking about this again after this moment. That's why you ate a cracker this morning. You were just celebrating. Yeah, it's a celebration cracker. I like to do those after every little victory.

All right. I woke up today. Chomp, chomp, cracker. That was a successful sleep. I think I'll have a cracker. I've brushed my teeth. Chomp, chomp, chomp. You always want to go right before and after. Right before you brush your teeth, eat a saltine. Enjoy that teeth brushing. Oh, this is a good show. This is a really good fantasy football show.

Quick question of the day. Let's talk about disappointing fantasy wide receivers thus far in 2017 and who you guys think are going to finish the year a lot stronger than they've been. Des Bryant thus far, wide receiver 24. Demarius Thomas thus far, wide receiver 26. And then Keenan Allen, somebody almost asked about on yesterday's show, wide receiver 29, basically all tied with each other, only four fantasy points separating them. Rest of season.

So what do you think? Who's the best of those three rest of season? And any other thoughts you have on, you know, Keenan Allen, I think big disappointment. Yeah, I mean, the nice thing about Keenan Allen versus Des Bryant, if you're just looking at two of these three, Keenan Allen didn't cost you as much. I don't think the disappointment. I mean, you're talking about the wide receiver 24 or the wide receiver 29. One of those guys was back-end first round, you know, or the second. And then Keenan would often.

fall into the fourth round, and he got off to a hot start, which is why I think you're disappointed lately. That being said, DAC is the much better quarterback than Philip Rivers, but the schedule coming up, I think for the Los Angeles Chargers is really great for the passing game. I mean, you've got, so Buffalo this week.

Maybe not the best. But then you face Dallas and Cleveland. And you got games in the playoffs against Kansas City and the Jets. I really like those matchups for Keenan Allen. And I think that's your vote. That's my vote. I would go, Des, if it weren't for his current injury worries. I'm going to vote Demarius Thomas. Scored me a couple weeks in a row. Oakland, Miami, New York, Indianapolis, Kansas City in week 17.

But four of those matchups, solid. Yeah, I'm going to go with Demarius. Even with the quarterback situation. That's exactly why I'm going with Demarius Thomas is because Brock Osweiler, not only does he target Demarius Thomas, just all over the field, when they get into the red zone, Demarius Thomas is his go-to weapon. And I know that he was the tight end machine.

in Houston, but you go back to when Brock was playing games in replacement of Peyton Manning, he would go to Demerries Thomas and throw touchdowns to Thomas. Would we have two games of Brock Osweiler starting? That's correct? Yes. One touchdown per game with Brock Osweiler as the quarterback. So this is a projecting thing of if Brock is the quarterback the rest of the year, which we certainly don't know that.

Paxton Lynch has officially been moved to number two on the depth chart. They could go to him at some point. I think that point's going to be quick because you say one touchdown a game. Yeah, that's what Demarius Thomas is doing. That's also pretty much what the Broncos are doing while he, you know, Brock Osweiler has only thrown one touchdown to each of those games. He's thrown three interceptions and they've lost those games. So I don't think Brock Osweiler is the starting quarterback. And when they go to Paxton Lynch, I don't want Demarius Thomas to be my relied upon guy.

Sure. Look, the reason that they are at 26, 24, 29, they all have some warning signs. Some warts. Some warts. Need to get that doctor. Good vocabulary, Jason. You should have a cracker. The wart remover? I should have, I should just have a cracker pile. The best player in that group is probably Des. Dr. Schultz. And the best quarterback is Des. But nobody picked him.

But nobody picked him. I think, I mean, I said it. Because we're all kind of like meant about injury concern. Injury plus no Z. Well, if the question for me is, if Brock Osweiler is the quarterback for the rest of the season and you feel like that's going to happen, it's Demarius. Otherwise, it's Des Bryant for me. All right. All right. We talked about the big news. Zeke withdrawing the appeal. We just talked about the fact Paxson Lynch was moved up on the depth chart. Otherwise, you're not really looking at any headline news. We'll get into.

in or out on the show tomorrow. And we'll talk about some of these players like Philip Rivers, Danny Amandola, limited in practice, whether we think they're going to play, Sean Kaiser. There was a bit of news that came out about Aaron Rogers. He took snaps from a trainer. He's eligible in week 15 and hoping to return. But obviously, this is a David Johnson situation. You don't come back unless you're in the playoff hunt. I definitely in my head heard you say Aaron Rogers was taking snaps from a train.

Harder to do. Yeah, that's how you get ready for the NFL. I was going to say not recommended after collarbone surgery. That's all. Dare I say never been done. It has now because you just announced it. I would say that you might have buried the lead. There is one pretty big headline news story that we did not yet get to, which is the Megalodon is coming. The Megalodon episode next week.

Enjoy your Thanksgiving football with the Megalodon. You feast on the Megalodon, and then you feast on the Thanksgiving dinner. Well, here's what you do. You listen to it. You watch it on YouTube. YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballers. The Mega Degeladon? Yeah. And then you share it with your family around Thanksgiving, around the table. Honestly, I think we need to start a new tradition, new Foot Clan tradition. Oh, I can't what you do this.

Christmas time, people a lot of time before they open the gifts, read the Christmas story, all these things happen. Thanksgiving morning. The family, they all run downstairs. They fire up the hi-fi stereo. You sit around in your PJs and you listen to the Meglodon episode as a family. We are overtaking the Macy's Day parade. Is this correct? Get out of my face. Parade. I've had enough with your floats. Old busted. Yeah. It's the new hotness and that's getting ready for the three.

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All you have to do is buy another six at $199.99 each. 20% of our audience got that reference. Columbia House? What is it? BMG? Yeah, whatever. Okay. Moving on. Twitter at the FFBallers, the fancy footballers.com, and then the communities join thefoot.com. Come hang out with us at join the foot.com. You can give us feedback on ideas like podcasts on vinyl. We listen. We may not do that if you tell us not to do it. Let's talk forecast.

Fantasy Forecast. The more I think about the economics, the less I think it's going to work. Yeah. It was a good idea. It's too bad. I mean, that's a fantastic idea. It's such a good idea. All right. Let's talk. You get your week 10 news in week 12. Yeah, at best. At best. If everything goes according to playing. It's too bad we don't get to have previous seasons that are like,

You know, relevant. The hits? Oh, get the hit. Remember this good old hit? The start of the week from week seven? Yeah, 2014. All right, the lions. We're talking matchups. All right. The lions, they take on the bears in, what is this? The Wizard of Oz. What? I think he's going with the reference of the lions and tigers and bears. Oh. 41 point over under the bears, our three point underdogs. That was deep.

And, well, what do we think the big takeaways of this game is? Who are you excited about? Who are you not expecting much from in this matchup? You got to continue to be excited about Golden Tate, 56 receptions on 71 targets. I mean, that's basically a 79% catch rate. That's best in the NFL. He has absolutely gone nuclear hot these past few weeks, about a month of incredible play from Golden Tate.

So that's what you're excited for, honestly, on the Detroit side. Because meanwhile, while that's, Golden Tate's a sure thing for the Lions, I don't think anything else for the Detroit Lions is a sure thing, fantasy speaking. It's a division game. It's on the road. And the Bears defense is quietly sneaky good. They're allowing the fourth least points to the quarterback position. The fourth least to the tight end. I'm sorry, Jason.