Week 9 Matchups + Ducer Daycare, Fantasy Faceoff - Fantasy Football Podcast for 11/1

limited practices for Travis ETN on Wednesday and Thursday. Limited practice for Tank Biggsby with the ankle on Thursday. Game time decision with the chest injury for Brian Thomas, game time decision with the shoulder injury for Gabe Davis, and you've lost Christian Kirk for the season. Other than Evan Ingram, who is locked into your lineup as the last man standing, who was formerly hurt? Other than Evan Ingram, how do you even play this week with an afternoon game? Like the Brian Thomas decision, if you're staring down players playing in the early window, Is he good enough against Philadelphia, whose defense is now top six against every position? Is he good enough to wait for? I think he is good enough to wait for, but like this Sunday, so the afternoon games are the Bears Cardinals. I mean, I got some of these Brian Thomas ones, like Josh Downs or Brian Thomas Jr. I'd go Josh Downs there. I feel comfortable enough. Okay.

Darnel Mooney or Brian Thomas Jr.? Mooney? I like the matchup with the Cowboys, and we got the word that Diggs is, was it unlikely or he's not playing? I can't remember what the verbiage was. Trayvon Diggs? The report this morning, cornerback for the Cowboys, calf tear of some sort, unlikely to play. And I think that Micah Parsons was also unlikely to play. So there's enough there that I'd go to Mooney. Is this a weird situation where you would, if you needed to, like, handcuffed the wide receiver? To who? Gabe Davis. But Gabe Davis is also. He is. He's a game time decision. You don't want to get caught with like, no. And on top of that. Your pants and your underpants down. Correct. The underpants is Gabe Davis. So to, so to speak. And he just, he's, he's been Gabe Davis. He hilariously has been the player we, you know, like, hey, Gabe Davis is an okay player, but he is, he is done.

virtually nothing here. We have the two touchdown game, and other than that, he's been under eight fantasy points or catastrophically worse in every game. He should be good. He should be a lot. He should be. Well, I'm just saying now. I'm not saying in the past. In the past, he should not have been. But if you take away Christian Kirk from the offense and you're dealing with an injury and he should be back out there, then he should be better. He should be better. The question is, is he good enough? to take advantage of the opportunity that is now in front of him. And I think that that is... Yeah. I think that's probably... Probably no. I'm not saying... I'm not ruling it out completely, but it's not a fire that I'm going to play with. So are we just... Let's wait and see what happens in... Like Jacksonville with Travis E. And I've already had the approach if I want to see him do it on the field before I play him. Yeah, no, thank you. Think Bigsby, you probably... Game script-wise, this is bad for him. It is. Heavy underdogs dealing with an injury where Dearness Johnson could get snapped. Yeah, he's not...

Tank big to me. Assuming E.T.N. is out. Tank is not a must bench, but there's, hopefully you have a better option. This game stinks, man. Chicago's 4 and 3. The Cardinals are 4 and 4. Why are you smirking at? What is going on? He's just smirking like a crazy person. We're trying to have a show over here. You're distracting the host and that's distracting me. I can't even talk, Falcon. What is going on? Just the side conversation with Josh and I. You're doing a show. Well, I got to get brought into this. He said it. He said the quiet part out loud. He's having a conversation during the show. Did you know that our entire job right now is a conversation? That is public. That's what a podcast is. It's our conversation. It's all it is. You don't have microphones. I'll try and keep them under control. I mean, out of control back there. I mean, I don't have to publicly shame you. You're going to have to read the notes live on air. That's what's going to happen. You're going to have to stand up in front of the class.

And talk about Susie. I like Susie. You think she likes me? Let me try this again. The Bears 4 and 3, the Cardinals 4 and 4. Cardinals 1.5 point home favorites. The Runders 44.5. What do we do here, Mike? Who wins the football game? Who do you think wins the football game? I don't know, man. I don't have a read on this game. Both of these teams are so. strange of having what should be an awesome offense that just disappears from on a week to week basis. Jackal hide for both offenses thus far. Yes, very much. There have been weeks where playing Caleb would have been smart and there's weeks where it's been a disaster, three games outside the top 28. Kyler, three of us last fort, quarterback seven, six and ten with a terrible game against Green Bay in between where the offense looked like it forgot the playbook.

That's what I mean. I don't. So what does that translate for you? Is Caleb, you know, is Caleb the better play than Kyler in this game where the Cardinals defense is 24th against quarterbacks? The Bears are fourth. But in recent history, Kyler's been better. If I have the two of them, I'm going to play Kyler. I'm going to stick with that. It's like who, looking through the game long here for Caleb, he was awful against Washington. He was great against Jacksonville and Carolina. Shocking stuff was, for fantasy, not so good against the Rams, was pretty good against the Colts, which shocking stuff. So he has beat up. His good games are just against terrible defenses. I don't know. Is Arizona's defense, are they terrible? I don't. That's what I mean, I don't have a full read here because they get so hot and so cold.

depending on the week. Cardinals have won two straight games. They are technically the leaders of the NFC West. They play at home. Connor was Jason start of the week. His rushing line is a ridiculous 71.5 because they're giving him everything, which is awesome. It's also a little scary. Like if you have James Connor, I would be putting Trey Benson on your team. I am not enjoying a roster spot being taken up by Trey Benson every week. I have been tempted to drop Benson. I would not do that. And I can't do it because I know. Not at this point. I know that Connor can't play a full season. Yeah, not at this point of the season. I would keep Benson there. James Connor is the, it's such a hilarious situation of, of course you want him to get the ball all the time. Like this is fantasy football. I want my running back getting all the volume. But it's James Connor.

So I don't want him getting all the volume. So it's fun. But he's been fantastic. We brought up the tackle breaking stat the other day that he's just far and away. 47 force-miss tackles next highest in the NFL is 29. He is bawling out. And he is, James Connor, like if you're not paying attention to the Cardinals, James Connor is the engine of the offense. It should be Kyler and Marv and Trey McBride, but it's James Connor. Marvin Harrison, four solid games, four dud games. He's in. You know, he's in your lineup. McLaren had a good game against Chicago last week. Trey McBride, of course, since 2000, the most total receptions and receiving yards for a tight-in through seven games without a touchdown. Yeah. Trey McBride has been. He's due. He should be. He has been awesome for football. He's been awesome for fantasy. Just he, man, give him two or three touchdowns on the season.

And the way that people think about Trey McBride is so different. How do you view the three whiteouts on the other side of the field in Chicago? The, I mean, it's. Oh my gosh. What? What do we got now? Well, in ever-present distracting the show capabilities. Uh-huh. Papa Josh and company have made a ridiculously large trade in our league of record. Oh, is that what's been going on? Possibly. We're working trades in the middle of work. I think it's the old mama jokes, but what is the, what, what just happened? Jason, Jason tilt trade. I mean, we traded. You traded with Jason? He got rid of Puka and Pacheco. Wow. So he picked up Nico and Jonathan Taylor and Jalen Waddle. So he tilt fested. Wait. Jason got the better players. He did. Yeah, but we got great players and picks. So.

Okay. Also, Jason went all, Jason's going all in on the season. Jason went all in. Good for him. And, yeah, so he traded Pacheco, Puka, and a couple picks to get Taylor, Waddle, and Nico. That's wild. That's wild. And I'm facing him this week. Not Nico. No, not Nico. Interesting. Okay, sorry. This is, I mean, look, this is what happens. Jason, Jason was melting. Jason was a puddle of Puka and Akua sadness yesterday. He was a puddle of rage. What if Puga just plays and is great this week? We're still waiting to hear. Yeah, but then he just doesn't have to deal with it. The Bears, the Bears wide receivers. Thank you for producing the show so well. The Bears wide receivers are, it is baffling. Like Roma Dunesay is, he's out.

We have one good game, and the other ones are like 40 yards apiece, like three for 40. DJ Moore, who should be, or not, sorry, he definitely is their number one. He should be taking advantage of a lot of these matchups. He's got one good, like one great game and a couple good-ish ones. I don't know that you can play them because we keep saying, hey, it's a good matchup. DJ Moore should be good in this one, but he keeps disappointing. You feel that way with DJ Moore? Yeah, definitely do. What four point four points this week? Four against Jacksonville, 25 against Carolina. That was the huge game. 9.7, 11.2. Those are fine. Yeah. But that's not, like, that's not number one stuff. That's a wide receiver three. Cole come at this week? I'm not nearly as in on, I'm just not as in on this offense. Like, Cole commit has, is the same thing of two great weeks and then.

He's fine for a touchdown upside. The six and one lines take on the six and two Packers, the Drafking Sportsbook line Detroit minus two and a half going into Lambo. The overrunners 48 and a half. We should have Jordan Love playing in this game. He's been a bit volatile. He's going to be an injury risk because you can get knocked out. It's almost impossible at the professional level to prepare yourself for. game speed with an injury. This is why this happens all the time. You can have full practices. You have to escape the pocket one time with the defensive line of the lions chasing you down and it can become risky business. But with him in the lineup, it makes Jaden Reed, Romeo Dobbs, Tucker Kraft very, very relevant. Yeah, they're all playable. Josh Jacobs, limited on Thursday, averaging 20 opportunities a game, play him against Detroit, even though that

Is the number one ranked defense? Yeah. Play him, but expectations of what he will give you this week, you should adapt those. On the other side, Jamir Gibbs and David Montgomery are locks every single week. Gibbs is at 6.4 a carry this year. If Montgomery went down, I want people to understand that Gibbs is so far and away the number one running back in football, it's wild. And inversely, I think Montgomery would be right in the mix. He'd be pretty close, yeah. You know, Montgomery is the fourth most carries inside the 10. They don't seem to be really 50-50ing that. It's more Monty around the goal line with the occasional gifts. It's the full Monty. It's the full Monty. Thank you, Mike. I think. Almond Ross St. Brown, touchdown in five straight games. Play him. Leport is my start of the week. His D.K. receiving lines at 40 and a half. I think you're going to get what you want from him this week. This is a fun game. It's easy. Yeah, and high over-over, so you play your guys with confidence.

The Rams at 3 and 4 take on the 4 and 4 Seahawks, NFC West, Divisional Battle, DK Sportsbook Line Rams minus 1 on the road. Is that surprising to you? It's not. Is it because of the injuries? Well, there's some of that. It's also like Seattle is kind of, they started hot, and I don't think they're as good as that starts. Like weeks 4 through 8. So weeks 1 through 3, 4th. talking about their defense, fourth in points per game allowed, second in yards allowed. That was Bo Nix's first start. That was Jacoby Berset. That was Skyler Thompson. Then you start playing, you know, better veteran quarterbacks, Gough, Daniel Jones, Purdy, Cousins, Allen, and their 30th in points per game allowed, 31st in yards. So that, I think that's where, despite the Seahawks being four and four, I think the Rams are the better team. I still think it's an interesting line on the road.

but it speaks to Metcast's availability. Has this line changed at all with the Puka practice news? Can we get the confirmation that this is still Rams minus one? We'll double check. Thank you. So, like you said, Seattle's defense had an easy road. Kyrant, of course, 10 straight games of the touchdown. What about the bone zone, Mike? He, you know, struggled a little bit last week. By the way, Rams are still one-point favorites. Yeah, remember last week was, Very strange of the, he lost like 20 yards on the botch snap. The team was getting boat raced, so they just kind of sat Walker down because he was coming into the game questionable with the illness. So I would expect that we're back to full Ken Bone Walker this week. I'm starting with no concern. Cooper Cups receiving line 63 and a half. It was a little slow going last week.

Wait and see on Puka. I wish I had more information, but they didn't give us much. No. He didn't have media availability. He's either in or he's not. I can tell you what Jason thinks about him. He's no longer on his team. Jason just can't, he can't handle the stress. So he wants the, he wants Nico coming back from a hamstring injury. That's what his next opt-in is. I'd probably feel better about that. Okay. What else do we have in this game? Jason and Tyler Lockett. Last week we thought we'd get better performances. Jason has one finish inside the top 24 this year. It's not been good, man. No, it is not. Even when he gets targets, he doesn't produce. No. Like, are we, are we changing the future expectation of Jason at this point? A year and a half into his career. I think that's fair. This isn't a completely bail on him. Maybe you're talking dynasty type of stuff, but I mean, he's averaging 48 and a half yards, nine yards of,

per completion, five catches a game. It's not nothing, but the fact that we haven't seen him, you know, take more advantage of like these guys getting hurt. Like last week with DK out to be, I mean, I guess the game was, it was okay. It was seven targets, six for 69, 11 and a half yards per completion. So that's not the worst, but when you're getting boat raced, you would expect some artificially inflated numbers. The Sunday night game is the Colts at 4 and 4 with Joe Flacco and the 5 and 2 Minnesota Vikings in Minnesota who are five point home favorites according to DK Sportsbook over under 47 and a half. Sorry, 46 and a half. Flacco has been really, really good. The plate volume has been through the roof with him at quarterback. You've been really happy with Pittman and Downs. Downs is my start of the week.

In three games with Joe Flacco, Josh Downs, his average 10 targets, eight receptions, 72 receiving yards. Do you go beyond those two names? Alec Pierce, if you want to get crazy. I mean, he had the, which ones were the Falaco games? So four, five and six. Pierce had, week five was awesome. He was three for 134 with the score. But the other games, like the sandwich there was right before it was one for nine. And then zero for zero was the follow up. It's a real sketchy play, probably DFS. The numbers for Jonathan Taylor with and without Anthony Richardson in the last couple of years. It's a little bit better on the rush attempt total. A couple more rush attempts per game, couple more yards per game. Fairly similar scoring, but you're certainly not going to get... I expect the targets to go up. You're certainly not going to get a, you know, vultured touchdown around the end zone.

The targets have been a little bit higher pace. Maybe an extra half a catcher game. Taylor, you're playing. Joe Flacco, are you adding him in redraft leagues if you were in need at quarterback? Yeah, I think you can go ahead and do that. Like, he's right in line of these streaming type options. Let me pull up some names for it. It's like, would you rather play Gino against the Rams or Joe Flacco? Yeah, Flacco. I mean, the Vikings, especially this week with them being a pass funnel, Tua against Buffalo or Joe Flacco. Yeah, that's going to be a Flacco. I'm going to play Flacco there, too. I got to, you know, I got to modify my rankings over here. Aaron Jones has the highest snap percentage of his career. Did you know that? I did not realize. I know I'd have been going way up, you know, time share. Yeah, the, this one, they did not time share it. No, I mean, Ty Chandler's been, he just hit waiver wire.

in our league of record and he's not going to get picked up. I mean, you love Sam Darnold this week. Eric Jones. We'll say, I think at this point of the year, Ty Chandler is not a, he's not a bench player that like, oh, you know, I can put him in in a buy week. But we are getting at the point where of the season where these, you're going to want some insurance running backs on your team if you have space for them. So I think that Ty Chandler, Blake Corum, those types of guys, we're. We're at the point where they shouldn't be on the waiver wire because it's, if, like, if Aaron Jones, if he gets lost or whatever, I'm not going to curse him with injury. But if he's out, Ty Chandler is, you're doing a full fab dump to get Ty Chandler on your roster. Jefferson, yes, Hawkinson. If you have an emergency at tight end, otherwise we would like you to wait and see.

And just be happy if he, if he has a better than expected game. His receiving lines at 38 and a half, you know, that's not, that's not wild. I'd be playing Kincaid. I'd be playing Andrews. I'd be playing Erds. What about you, Mike? Uh, yeah. I think, I think that's about it. You cannot be on a snap count, but still be rotating and being acclimated. Right. You can, it doesn't have to be an injury-related snap count to still ease your way back into an offense. Yeah, I can agree. And Hawkinson's been away for a long time. Right. They're heavy favorites as well. So this game could get, if it's not Hawkinson early, it might not be Hawkinson late. Sure. Monday night football is the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at 4 and 4 and the 7 and 0 Kansas City Chiefs who are eight and a half point home favorites, according to the DK Sportsbook.

The overrunner is 45 and a half. We spoke at length about Baker Mayfield yesterday. Or maybe it was the footcast, I think. I think on the footcast. Yeah, it was the footcast. I was talking about the fact that they're, you know, Joe Flacco and James Winston specifically when you know that they're taking over an offense. You don't necessarily pay mind to whether they have elite weapons because you know they're just going to throw the ball, you know, 40 times a game. I think this is Baker's team. And I think Baker. is going to throw the ball a ton. We love Kate Otten in this game. Mike was quick to bring up Jalen McMillan, who he said he's hungry for more. I think still we're in the hungry for some category. Yeah. But I think that's possible in this game. His receiving line is 41 and a half. It's not the matchup you want. You think it's possible for this week? I do. I do think it's possible because Baker throws the ball a ton. He's on pace for 4,600 passing yards and 45 touchdowns, and it didn't change without Evans and Godwin.

And now Sterling Shepard did not practice with the hamstring. He got hurt during the game. So they might be down another guy. I like McMillan. He's going to be on my bench this week if I can help it. So what about the running back room? I feel like people are going to have a lot of questions about. You know, Bucky Irving and Rashad White and what you do in that situation. Well, we do have the news of Bucky Irving didn't practice on Thursday. He's got the toe injury. We heard from the coaching staff that this is just, it will be a management of the toe injury the whole year. So don't get overly freaked out when you don't see Bucky Irving practicing. Like he's still going to be on the field. This year, Yahoo Fantasy pointed this out, Rashad White. Zero rushing touchdowns, three receiving. Bucky three rushing, zero receiving.

The yin and the yang. Yeah. I think Bucky's much better runner, but Rashad White is a better pass. He's probably better for fantasy. Kareem Hunt. It's this draft king's touchdown odds are at minus 260. That is wild. So the expectation is very much that Kreme Hunt will score a touchdown at some point in this game. I mean, you got an implied point total of 27 for Kansas City. Cream hunt has been a machine. And, you know, it'll be fun to watch this game on Sunday night or on Monday night and see, you know, is Hopkins more involved? Just 32% of snaps last week. I do think that's going to happen. Whether it's this week or not, I'm still watching and waiting. The conversation I want to have more is savior worthy because we don't have. So since the by week, you know, when everything, you know, changing here for them, he doesn't have production.

But he has eight targets in each of the past two weeks. Eight against San Francisco went three for 19. Eight against Vegas went four for 37. Again, no production there, but a 32% target share, a 23% target share. Is he someone that if he's on your way for why, you're going to go pick him up? I think he should be rostered. He's just, he's one of my least favorite type of players to play. Because this offense. isn't going to run through Xavier Worthy. No, but he's a rookie. We're in the second half. He got, I mean, he got the post-by-week rookie bump. You know, it was, he was basically four targets a game. So do you think this could be the beginning of an upward trajectory? This, he is. We've got to get Hopkins more snaps too, so you could see him taking some of what Worthy's availability is, you know, Hopkins barely on the field on those two weeks after the by week, too. He just, Worthy as a player that.

I think it's a good gamble to go out and get worthy right now before the boom has happened. All right, Kelsey, play him. Mahomes is still a streaming option at best. I mean, last week, he threw two touchdowns. He was quarterback 15. So you are aiming low with Mahomes. Yeah, that's a great matchup, though. I'm going to play him. Wow. T. Higgins marked is doubtful. That's your injury update. We're going to take a break, hit the face off. Fantasy face off, presented by Draft Kings. So Jason's not here, cowardly, cowardly decision to focus on Blockbuster Trades, not his son this morning because Blockbuster Trades is going through. I think he is in the war room. But listen, Jason has to spin this wheel at some point. He does. I think we've decided if he loses again this week.

He's spending it early next Friday. Yes. Whole show. Whole show looking like an idiot. More so. Yeah. He does have a Mohawk now. I think. I think he does. I don't know if he's made adjustments. Last night he sent a picture through where he still had the Baker Mayfield beard, the Mohawk, and he was wearing overalls, and there was not a shirt under those overalls. That's the way you got to do it. But this was a Halloween event and led him to trade away his players. So listen. Who's got his, who's got his, uh, his lineup? We, we just got to paste it to someone here. Jeremy, you, you, uh, take over. Yeah, Al, you are, you are in charge of his lineup. But so just reminder, next week, if Jason loses, it'll be a full Friday shame. If, unfortunately, Andy, or I lose, it'll be a double. A double, yeah, two spins, two spins during the segment. This week, Mike, why don't you kick it off at quarterback? I will do that. I have, uh,

Dackery Prescott against the Atlanta Falcons at 6,300. That's not a good name. It's not. No. Who doesn't like a good Dachary? Who does, uh, okay, okay. Yeah, I heard, I heard it like Zachary. Well, it does run. But Dachary, I'm seeing it in my head spelled like a Dacquery, like a drink. Yes. And Al's nodding like he knew that. I saw it like a Zachary. And I thought that was dumb. All right, listen. But now that it's like a strawberry deck. Now it's great. It's so much better. Yeah, it's super good. Al, who does Jason have? Jason's going with Jalen Hertz for $7,800. That's expensive. Paid up. Paid up against Jacksonville. I am going bargain shopping here. I am taking the matchup, the return. I guess I have to hit this. Oh, baby. Send in the car. What's his price? $5,600. That is not nearly.

Low enough. It's $2,200 less than Jason spent. So I've got it made up elsewhere. Yeah. Do you hear about Dackery? It's only $6,300? I did. I did. That's a good pick, but he's been bad. And Carolina's been bad. So at running back, who are you two running backs? I've got Sequin Barclay against the Jacksonville Jaguars at $8,200. And I've got Devon A. Chan at $6,700. Well, before you jump in, now, those are my two running backs. I've got Sequin and A-chan. That is upsetting. 8,2,667. I was really excited to have Sequin. Yeah. Because I think he's, is he the most expensive? No, Derek Henry's a little bit. There's no way Jason has him with Jalen Hertz. Jason does have Devon A-Chan. Yeah, 6,700. And he has Kyron Williams at 8,000. Hmm. He spent. So Jason's got money spent those first three picks. Yeah. You're up. Wide receivers. No, you're up. Oh, I'm up. Okay.

Well, I'm playing Daughery, so I'm playing CD Lamb at 8,800. I'm going Drake London. Hopefully we get some back and forth here in this Dallas, Atlanta game. He's 6,700. And here's why I ran out of money. Yeah. So it's not the worst here at wide receiver, at least. It's Cedilman against the charges. He's still 4,300. So this is fun, Mike. Are we just matching the whole time? I have C.D. Lamb at 8800. I have Cedlund at 4, 3,300. Goodness. And then my, I had money here. So 6,100 for Chris Olavet, the stack with Derek Carr. Okay. Are they, wow, 61? Yeah. That's a good price. Yeah. Jason is also going with C.D. Lamb and Cedric Tillman. And then he has Jacoby Myers. Okay. Well, that means the final three, tight end flex and defense. Oh, get ready, everybody. Plug your nose. It's Mike Gassicki at 3,100.