Fantasy Football - MEGALODON Episode - Week 13 Matchups, Turkey Day Awards & More - Podcast for 11/26

Fantasy Footballers Podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. Is that Richard Nixon? Oh, I'm not a shark. It's one way to start it off. Welcome in Wednesday, November 26th. Woo! The Megalodon episode is back. Jason Moore. Have you had your caffeine this morning? Always. I'm ready to rumble. There is two caffeine sources on this table. Oh, Jason has two of his own? I have my coffee. Oh, you've got to be, I mean, this is going to be ours. Yeah. Boys, I mean, we've got three days worth of content to jam into one show. I mean, we will be, let me set the stage here. By the way, I only introduced Jason, but Mike Wright is here. I'm Andy Holloway. Great show today. It would take so long to just go through all the things we're going to talk about, but it'll be.

You know, we're going to get you ready for week 13. We've got fancy playoffs on the horizon. But, you know, the point is, is it's going to be a very long show. And we've got a long, you know, we're just going to be here a while. By the end of this show, like I feel so good right now. I feel great. Yeah. By the end, I hope I'm just a sweaty mess. Yeah. Just a puddle. Just a puddle. Just like, I've given it all I have. Right. No, we will have. I don't hope that. At some point during the show, we will have a special hashtag that we'll share. And if you go to Twitter at the FF Ballers, you tag us, and you let us know the hashtag, you'll be entered to win a Jamar Chase signed jersey, a Josh Jacobs signed jersey, and a Colston Love Land signed mini helmet. Mr. Loveland. Mr. Loveland. Oh, I do declare.

So just stay tuned. We don't know what this hashtag goes. No, we never know. It's, uh, it'll, it'll, it'll come from the depths of our souls. Um, so we, we got a, we got a lot today. Now, last week, Mike, Mike wasn't here. And just to kind of set up this day, uh, Mike wasn't here. And we did our prize picks fantasy face off, which we'll do again today because it's part of the Friday show and everything's in today's show. Turkey Day special. Turkey Day special. I mean, we got. Thank you. And, um, The deucers got Voluntold. They got the opportunity. They got the chance to come and shame. Show what they got. They could have shamed you. They could have shamed you. Yeah. But they shamed themselves. And I felt like on a mega show, maybe mega shame would be appropriate. Yeah. No waiting. No waiting. We didn't want to wait until the end of this show because who knows if they're even employed at that point. Right. And they are right now.

So we said, hey, we'll go ahead and spin that wheel a little bit beforehand. So let me go to Deucer's Alley over here. We've got Turkey one, Turkey two, Turkey three. Oh, you losers. Josh is thrilled. Josh is Joe. When I was saying, I hope I'm a sweaty mess. What I really meant is I can't wait to see what a sweat. How hot are you three gentlemen in those turkey outfits? It's very warm. Now, it's also hard. they're very smelt oh no yeah then you do have to produce the megaladone josh your eyes your snood is looking great yeah nice snood bro um also the the the because we gave these guys their costumes this morning and you look amazing uh it did say one size fits most are you all in are you all in the most category today i i think looking at it only matt the falcon

fits his costume the other two guys i'm just outside of most yeah so the shame today is to do a do an entire show dressed up as three incredible turkeys well we'll pan the camera back at at random times today but um very excited we better get this thing going uh first thing we'll do shout out our megalible leader m taylor 97 in the lead right now going into week 13 out of 20,000 plus entries into the Megal Bowl. Two weeks left, be in the top six in your league. I'm in second place right now, so I will be in the playoffs. I'll be seeing everybody in the playoffs. Yeah, that'll be fun. And then each week of the playoffs, the top half will move on. And our final week, the number one score of the week will be your Mega Bowl champion and be in the...

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You can go ahead and follow us on Instagram, Instagram.com slash fantasy footballers as well. And if you want to see three turkeys producing a show. And you do. You can go to YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballers. Make sure you subscribe. Click the bell. Mike will be live with you on Sunday for week 13, answering your last minute questions or freaking out about the injury reports or both. So let's get our first segment started. Backup options presented by progressive insurance. Well, your waivers went through. and we're looking at the most dropped players on Sleeper over the last 24 hours. Joe Flacco leading the way at the quarterback position. Well, that makes sense. We know Joe Burroughs going to start on Thursday. People letting go as Sean Tucker, Bayshall Tootin. I'm not sure when Bucking Irving will be back, but your window. I think it might be happening. You know what's crazy is in part of the news today, Omarian Hampton also coming back to practice. They might both be back at the same time. Right. But we don't know.

Jacori Crosky Merritt, people letting go of him on the wide receiver front. Pearsall, one of the most dropped. Keon Coleman, Darius Slayton. The Slayton thing hasn't happened for, you know, there have been opportunities. It's just injury. It just hasn't worked out. Yeah. And that's happened in before when he's had opportunity. He's been a little banged up. But let's get into some backup options. You didn't get the player you wanted on the waiver wire. So I'm going to, I'll jump in here first because for some reason this player's on the most dropped list. I get, I think we talked them on our waiver show.

And it's Yoseva. I totally understand why. I made the mistake when I was looking at waivers originally. It was like, oh, Chase is back. Right. And you forget about T. Higgins. Like, this is a great pick, Mike. So it, look, is it, is it, is it. Wait, is it is. Is it Yosevas or Yosevas? Yoshi. It's Yoshi. Yosci. Because do you remember, yeah, I remember, yes, I remember calling him Yoshi, but just saying there's. No, I'm not sure which one is correct, but I know which one is right. Yoshi. Yoshi. All right. So Yoshi. Apparently he's being dropped out there. And he has a, to me, you could pick him up and you can play him tomorrow. Like he's got the Thanksgiving game. We're actually going to be talking about him again later on this show. Because Chase was out. He saw 83% of the snaps, seven targets for it for 61. And the big one is T. Higgins is out. He's already been ruled out as of yesterday with the concussion. And with Joe Burrow back.

There will be plenty to go around, plenty of opportunities at least. And while the Ravens, the defense has gotten better as of late, it's, I'm still, like with Joe Burrow at the helm, I'm not scared to put him out there as a replacement type of a player that is available because we all run into situations where we need someone right off the waivers right into the lineup. And I think Yoshi fits that bill. Well, my backup option, I'm going to keep throwing his name out there. You need to pay attention to it, especially with Cam Ward. playing a lot better right now. It's Chimre DK, the wide receiver for the Tennessee Titans. This is kind of wild since week seven, so the firing of their head coach. He leads the Titans in receptions, receiving yards, first downs. And only Tetero-McMillan and Emeka Abuka are the, those are the only two rookie wide receivers with more receiving yards since week seven than Chimre D-K. He is a super explosive player. Like you have potential for...

a score in the in the return game from him, but also if you get him the ball on the screen game and he can break something loose. I mean, he is entering the flexible territory, but you kind of run away from the Titans. So I just want him, you know, he's a rookie. I love this call because Chimre D.K has, he got off to a slow start. The Titans did. Cam Ward did. And so you just, sometimes we just discount it. We just go, well, I'm out OUT on that whole situation. Chamoy-Dike, you mentioned it yesterday, Andy, but he's on pace right now to break the all-time, all-purpose yards. Like, he is that good of a punt returner. And you're not just that good of a punt returner because, like, man, the blocking scheme is excellent. I mean, they're doing good work. But it's because he's a really good athlete in the open field. So I love paying attention to a rookie in that situation. Yeah, no doubt.

All right. I'm going to name mine. Yours is insane and yet it's not at all. It is not. It's not insane. It's not insane at all. But when you hear it, you're going to be like, I'm not doing that. What a terrible podcast. Just the pick. I mean, it doesn't ruin the whole podcast. The New Orleans Saints defense. I'm telling you you should pick them up. What? Yeah. You look at the New Orleans Saints, one of the worst teams in the league, one of the worst records. You think, okay, you don't want to touch that with a 10-foot pull. Right now, and I know every league is so wildly different with defensive scoring. I'm going off our league of record, which is, you know, standard enough. We kind of nerve it a bit. They're the 16th points scored at the position. So they're not like, they're not.

25th, 28, they're not like one of the bottom dwelling defenses. They've put up points. And when you look at their actual game log of who they've played, like they played the Rams, good offense, the Bucks, good offense, Chicago, good offense, the Patriots, good offense, and they didn't put up any points there. But then they played last week Atlanta, bad offense, 12 fantasy points. Carolina, bad offense, 11 fantasy points. The Giants, bad offense, 19 fantasy points. Like when they've had a good matchup, they've shown out. Oh, they can't possibly have like a run of the three best matchups in football. Well, let's take a look at their playoff schedule. Their playoff schedule is Carolina again, who they put up double digit fantasy points against the New York Jets who are way worse than Carolina and then the Tennessee Titans. Two of those, the first two are at home. I mean, it's a perfect schedule for a defense that I think is definitely good enough to.

put up points against bad matchups. It's also one that your league mates will dismiss immediately and is sitting out on waivers and no one will pay attention to. And that's how you win championship. Assuming that my saying this on this show right this second doesn't sway you guys, you jerks, I have a $0 bid in $0 on the Saints right now because who's putting a bid on the Saints? He's got a $5 bid, Mike. He's got a $5. That was a setup. I am being honest. Yes, he's being so honest. Because there's no way. There's no way that anyone out here put a bid on the Saints prior to this. No, no, you got it. I mean, it's it shocked me and then you see the schedule and you see the evidence and it makes sense. So that was backup options sponsored by progressive insurance quote today at progressive.com. Let's talk news. News and notes from around the league. Presented by Progressive Insurance.

I am oh so happy for O'Mary and Hampton. The 21 day practice window has been officially opened. The celebrations in the streets. O'Marringhampton, Buck Irving, are they here to save your fantasy season? Maybe. They're not here to save your fantasy season, but they're here to bring you a championship if you've had a good season with them. You know what I mean? Like if you're going to the playoffs, I think that their playoff run will be. special and worthy of a championship run. It was funny yesterday on the footcast. I was talking to Mike. I was like, I've been scouring for any Omari and Hampton news and there was none. And then mid shows like, oh, his windows opened up. Yeah, it's, um, I'm watching video of him at practice. Oh, what's he doing? Everything. Oh. Well, actually, I'm just watching him run through some of those little like the things James Campbell. The drill, but he looks, uh, he looks healthy. So we'll see.

From what I've heard, it's tough running through those things. Yeah. They fight back. Yeah. What is this quote? Greg Roman on Hampton's ankle injury back on October 9th. The injury is easily corrected, easily fixed. It's not a complicated type of things. That was back in October. It was more complicated than Mr. Roman anticipated. Things can be easy and still take a long time. Yeah, we did have a comment from Jim Harbaugh on the carry split between Vidal and Omerian Hampton after his return. He said, quote, we'll see how this week goes or the week goes. But we'll see. Hampton's on his way back. Brandon Cook's. I'll just throw it out. Like, I thought about saying Vidal should be the backup option because we don't know 100% that Hampton is going to play this weekend. Oh, for sure. So, yeah, I would say that I'm still very 50-50. Keep it in the back of your mind that.

Camani Vidal is one of the most dropped players in the last 24 hours, and it's not a guarantee that Hampton plays. It's a great point, and they're heavy favorites. I think there's seven and a half point favorites this week. Nine and a half. Oh, nine and a half. Yes. Okay. Really? Yeah. That's the current line. Yeah, I think that went up. Yeah. Maybe because of Hampton. So if Hampton plays this week, Miami. I'm sorry, Las Vegas. Totally different city. Right. No, they're right next to each other. Yeah, I mean, pretty close. But like, they get confused for each other a lot. If, um, and, and it's, it's not in Las Vegas, the Miami of in Los Angeles against Las Vegas. But if Hampton is active this week, are you plugging him? Oh yeah. Immediately. I know you, okay. Mike, would you? Yes. Your roster is desperate for Hampton? My roster has Chris Rodriguez in it right now. More than likely, we had, we fielded a question on the footcast yesterday. It was like, is Hampton gonna, you know, just.

Is it going to be back? But because they were talking about guys like Alec Pierce at the Flex 2. It's like, yes, I would put Hampton right back in. All right. I've got two names I'm curious about. Okay. He's not even looking at me anymore. Okay. Rico Dowdell, who didn't get a lot of work now plays the Rams this week. One of the toughest matchups. But he's been great. Hampton first game back, which way you go there? I'm now happy he's not looking at me. Wow. I've got another hard name after that. I would honestly would need more news, but I would probably just play Rico as of now. And then Karim Hunt, Pacheco is back. I play Hampton. Okay. All right. Squeeze them in between them. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. That's the, that's what you do. Hampton sandwich. Okay.

Hey, guess what? JJ McCarthy not expected to play this week due to the concussion. Or ever again. There was, there were rumors to the offseason for JJ McCarthy. I know. We got to get out of this, man. It's not good. I think he's got one of those paper chains. It's like every day taking one off. Yeah, but I think the off season ends his career. So I think we actually need to play now because I don't think he, because they don't go into the off season. without a fix or a potential fix. They will get a fix. There were already ridiculous rumors that they were going to go after Daniel Jones, which they're not going to be able to. It seems impossible. But yeah, they're going to look. They're not just saying, well, we drafted him and he's our guy forever. Seattle, Washington the next two weeks, if maybe he misses a couple. Not Seattle in Washington. Seattle and Washington. Yes. The two next matchups are Seattle.

the city and the franchise against, and then Washington, the commanders. After that, Dallas and the Giants, maybe that's a good time to bring him back, give him a chance. Yeah, you've got to show them something before this season ends, or they will show you the door. Or you're going to be a backup for sure. And that could be, I mean, that's just, like I see that as the most likely outcome. The most likely outcome is JJ McCarthy's a backup next year for the Vikings. And that is just, What a complete change in every dynasty. Yeah, I'm not ready yet to make that declaration. I still think that there is a large percentage that can get it fixed. I don't want to be too recency bias because recent, recent eye test. I mean, that's all you have. It's also his entire career. Fair. Unfortunately, it's just a short period of time. I just don't understand what you can even do from this point out. You don't play this week.

So you got weeks 14, 15, 16, 17, 18. You got five weeks. Better show something right then. And you better do it like multiple games for them to have a chance of making you the starter. They have too many good players. You think Justin Jefferson and Addison are going to stand idly by and you say, yeah, next year we're going to go with the same dude. It's more of a Rosen situation is what it is. I wonder if they should go after Josh Rosen. Yeah. You know what I mean? Kevin was going to make no. Rosen's season was way better. Oh my gosh. Yeah. I'm sorry. It's not a pile on thing. It's just realistic. Teams don't have time. And when you have Hall of Fame wide receivers and you got a defense like that and you got, yeah, it's just, it's rough. Bucky Irving, he's going to practice all week who will be cleared to suit up on Sunday versus the Cardinals if he avoid setbacks.

That is reporting out of the Buccaneers official site, Scott Smith and Todd Bowles' comments on Monday. So, Bucky Irving, welcome to the party, pal. Last week when they sat him down, they basically said they expect them to play this week. And then Jeremy Fowler says there's a realistic possibility, realistic possibility that Jayden Daniels returns to play in week 14. Sanders have lost six in a row. I get the verbiage. When you're talking about what we saw happened to Jane Daniels' arm. and to think that he's going to play football again this year. You have to say it's a realistic possibility. Yeah. I know it's his non-throwing arm, but don't, don't RJ3 this thing. Like let, R.G-3? Yeah. You said J, but it's okay. It's not a big deal. Robert Griffin. Robert Griffin. I just don't want, you know, don't rush him back. This team isn't making the playoffs. See, that was a big comment about the Burrough situation, too. It's like, I don't know if you watch the press conference with Burrow.

Because he talks about, he sees all these things about like, well, why are you bringing me back if I don't have a chance to make the playoffs? He's like, I'm a football player. Yeah. He's like, you get hurt. It happens in football. Then you rehab. And then when you're ready to play football, you come back and play football. Yeah. He's like this. All the other stuff doesn't make any sense. This idea that I'm not going to play just because of this or that. And I, I get it. I mean, it's the same thing with Jaden Daniels. Like you're a football player. I agree 100% with that. Like, like.

You shouldn't not play just because you're out of the playoffs. Like teams that aren't making the playoffs don't just bench all their starters. But what you shouldn't do is rush a timeline back from injury that could potentially make things worse. This, if he, both of these guys, like let's say the timeline, you know, Burroughs playing this week, that is astronomically ahead of the optimistic timeline that he was given at the injury. They didn't play them on Sunday. So they didn't rush him back, right? You could have played him Sunday. They lost the game. They probably don't lose that game with Joe Burrow. Joe Flacco made some bad mistakes in that one and it was close. So I feel like they're doing what you're saying because they could have tried. I mean, I hope so. I just don't want to see either of these guys get injured again. Yeah. That was News and Nodes sponsored by progressive insurance. Did I miss something? Oh, this is a big one. My bad. Josh Jacobs expected to play on Thanksgiving. Yeah, baby. Gobble, gobble. So. Need them.

Yeah, and then Jayden Reed basically a game time decision. Head coach said, you'll find out on Thursday. I mean, what if he didn't have sunglasses on and like lower him down, you'll find out Thursday. Yeah. Then he did it wrong. He's a spicy individual. Mr. LeFlor. That was news and note 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. Let's take a break and then we're going to get into the Turkey Day Awards, a tradition, unlike any other. Some people have actually compared the Masters in Augusta to like the same level of prestige as the Turkey Day Awards. Yeah. And you'll kind of, you'll understand that when you hear the intro to the segment. A tradition unlike any other. Well, we're back. We do this everywhere, every single year. And just so people are cleared. That is.

That is Jason doing the voiceover of the turkey. Yeah. Yeah, amazing impressions that this guy could do of farm animals. Move. See? What did I tell? Is there a cow in this room? Holy crap. It was incredible. Yeah. There's more to come. Yeah. Oh, frightening. All right, every year we do some Turkey Day awards. This is, we're playing along with you. We don't know. who the, you know, who Kyle and Brooks picked for these official awards. Last year, well, we'll start here. The Thanksgiving meat, right? Some of you is turkey, some it's ham. Jason, I knew you're a ham guy. No, Jason's a tenderloin now. Yes, I am. Are you? I got two ready to cook their brining now. Okay, just cook them. Oh, no, no, I cook the last. The problem is eating immediately after the cooking. Yeah, well, the problem is on the counter. I think two hours is fine.

Why do any hours? Yeah. I mean, you're going to, you're saying you don't go back for leftovers at Thanksgiving. You eat and then the food's still out. It's fine at that point. Eight hours. Yeah, you play the game and win the prize. All right. Last year's Thanksgiving meat, which we call the showstopper and MVP of Thanksgiving Day. Last year's winner on this show, Sequin Barkley. Play along at home. We don't know who they picked, but who's the answer for you guys on the 2025? Showstopper MVP right now. There's three guys. Oh, yeah, yeah. There are. So there's Jonathan Taylor. Uh-huh. There's Christian McCaffrey. Uh-huh. And J-S-N. And J-S-N. Those are the three. And, like, I was going to say Jonathan Taylor. Making a late push towards it towards it. Well, that's going to say it was Johnny Taylor, but I'm wondering if this particular week was like, was that enough to sway the jury of the turkey votes? For the J-S-N side? I don't think it's going to be CMC. I think it's going to be Taylor or J-S-N.

so i'm i'm going to stick with because this with taylor i'm going to go j because this is the meat i think you're forgetting about them mashed potatoes but we'll we'll get we'll get there um i'm going to go with the meat being jsn he's a big honking meaty man what or jonathan taylor okay that's a different name yeah jonathan taylor and i are in lockstep you're going json let's hold on what are the the mashed potatoes the most consistent dependable They could all be. No, just make the pick. I'm going Jason. All right. The pick. The winner is Jonathan Taylor. You know his loser. Last week's Jonathan Taylor, Jason. How was that? I got a big L last week. All right. The mashed potatoes. A rich, buttery glob of man. Jonathan Taylor. Of mashed potatoes is what everyone needs to add body to the plate. The most consistent dependable dish for a Thanksgiving day. Last year, the winner was Derek Henry. Has to be J.S.N.

He's had like one game outside the top 13 at wide receiver something. I think you could. Um, okay. I, I want to go CMC. I mean, it's one of those too for sure. I'll go CMC. I'm going Christian McCaffrey. The winner is Jackson. Come on me. Two for two, baby. Who made up this stupid game? Not you. Uh, the burned dinner rolls. Gosh, you put in so much time and effort. You prepared. the meal, but unexpectedly the rolls were burned. Sometimes you just have to scrape the carbon shavings off and throw it away in sadness. This is not a good award. Last year it was Travis E.T.N. who was maybe the biggest bust in fantasy. This year, I've got my name. I've got my name. I think he's burnt right now. He's literally in the garbage. I'm going Brian Thomas Jr. It does feel like that's got to be the pick. He was like a second rounder consensus. Yeah. It is Brian Thomas Jr. Which.

Congrats to Jacksonville and two consecutive wins. Jacksonville doing work at the burned dinner roll. They're really hoping they get to play the Cardinals again. We've got the Mike Wright special, which is the jack in the box here. The random dish somebody brought because, well, they're convinced Thanksgiving food is trash and outdated. Time to stop with the old way of thinking, open your eyes and realize this could be the best thing ever. Last year it was Baker Mayfield. this year it's a tie between two winners oh oh was there like voting i don't know i don't know how this gets picked all this i have no idea who picks these it's two winners in the um i i have two that's good because i got two nominees i think it's i think rico's one riko is one for me i think rico's one i've got so i've got two names yeah my and my second name i'm trying to think is michael pitman