Fantasy Football 2017 - Week 9 Matchups, In-or-Out, Big News

You know, maybe it's like, oh, someone else is here who could play wide receiver. I got to step up my game. Well, and took him eight games to finally catch a higher percentage of his passes. You're right. Let's talk news. News and notes from around the league. All right. This was a surprise as well. Pierre Garcin, injured reserve. 49ers placed him on injured reserve yesterday, ended his season. Now we have to ask the question, contractually obligated to cover all teams. Is it Markey's Goodwin?

Is that who you want to own? I mean, to me it is. I don't, I want to own him more than I do Taylor. Well, I mean, like, Aldrich Robinson could step into that possession role. Goodwin is not the... Goodwin's been surprisingly, like, consistent this year. Sure, and he's okay, but he's not the possession guy. He's the big play guy. George Kittles and Bits, maybe he gets a little bit more of that target action. But generally speaking, I'm not...

super interested in the replacements. I had just talked yesterday how much I was looking forward to Garoppolo maybe bringing that Pierre Garcin value back up. You also had mentioned how you were a Pierre Garcin owner. Yeah. Yeah. Mr. Fantasy Reaper. Speaking of being an Andrew Luck owner, Andrew Luck is now on injured reserve. This is an unfortunate situation. There are a lot of people who felt like maybe the cult were misleading teams, the press.

I don't think that's the case. This was just a case of basically look, the shoulder hit a wall in its recovery. Because he had come back to practice, started throwing. Everything was going the right direction. And then he stopped progressing. And unfortunately, now you have to take a break. Andrew Luck is on IR. And now you hope that he can recover and be healthy for next season. I expect him to be, but look, I'm not the one to say that. At the beginning of this year, I expected him to see the field like a lot of us did.

Yeah, he has been basically prescribed more rest. Several months is the quote of rest. So you're talking two, three, maybe four months of rest before you start throwing. He does not at this point in time need another surgery. But the question is going to come up in three months. If he starts throwing again and has pain again after that much rest, then you're talking.

real long-term issues. So it's true. It's too early to know. You'll just have to, if you're in dynasty or even in redraft, just monitor this offseason. If in three months he's back, he's throwing, he's just training, he's rehabbing, and there's no setbacks. He timeline-wise should be absolutely fine for week one. If there's a bump in the road, all bets are off. Yeah, and the fact that there's even a possibility that is really unfortunate. No, there is a,

Another really, really big piece of news. The Texans did sign Matt McGloin. Oh, McGloin. Thank you, Jason. And T.J. Yates. And T.J. Yates. And if all three of them. But T.J. Yates doesn't have a funny name where we get to say McGloin. If you melt all three of those guys down and cast them into one quarterback, you may have 60, 70 percent of Deshawn Watson.

I'm thinking more you got like 80% of Brian Hoyer. Yeah. That's wrong. Yeah, that's fair. Let's talk Zieg, guys. Yeah, there are actually big news. All right. Here, what is that noise? Does this have to do with our listener league? What are you doing? What is happening? He thinks we're going to get it. No, no. The NFL, swinging the ping pong battle. Zeke swung it back. That was a ping pong? Yeah.

Really? Hmm. That was tough. To each the wrong. No, that's a ping pong? That's, that's a suction cup. Yeah, that's a suction cup. That's climbing up the building, you know, with the. No, just keep it going. I mean, that's totally a ping pong, bro. Here's the deal with Zeke. Brooks, can you give us a verdict on the ping pong battle? It's not going your way. Are you sure about that? No. All right.

So with the Zeke news, the back, I agree with the ping pong analogy. I don't agree with the ping pong sound effect. Like he said, there's a man in a black suit scaling a skyscraper with his spy tools. Wait, is that more ping pong? There you go. Well, that's a clock. That's a clock. That's a batter. It's still better, but it's a clock. That's a grandfather. Ahuga. Is that a ping pong battle? No? Yeah, no, that's perfect. Great ping pong.

uh sound effects here i'm sweaty we need the guy from police academy yeah let's get him in here so with the zeke news does anybody know the news yes i do um so zeke is now he's been granted his stay which means he will he will oh great ping pong sound effect mike that was on point do that again dude oh man big pong is on point all right um

What was I saying? Okay, so Zeke is absolutely playing this week. That's been written from the court, even in the document, says he is playing this week. After that, once again, all bets are off. So now we are pushing into the fantasy playoffs should his suspension come up. We already were. No, I know, but we're pushing deeper. You were only going to miss the first game. Now you're missing week one and week two of the fantasy playoffs if he's suspended after this week. Why isn't he considering fantasy owners?

Seriously. So self. Now, there's a better chance, you know, than there had been that maybe he's not spent it at all this year. The truth is, Zika will be suspended. There's no, there's no doubt that Zika will be suspended. It's just when? Can he push it all the way to next year? Because for some reason, that's valuable. Or can he push it another week or two back? I wish, I mean, this is just the worst case scenario. So a little story here, Andy and myself are head to head.

in the listener league. The listener league that, you know, we, in the offseason, we try to get a couple listeners in, and you should be crafting your submissions even now for 2018. But we are head-to-head. We're both five and three, and I was projected to win. I got Alf in my lineup. Ooh, nice. Guess who has Zeke? Andrew Holloway does. I didn't realize you had Alf there, buddy. Yeah, so I just lost a star running back, and now he just gained one, and you're projected to win by 12 now.

Oh, that's good. Anyways, moving along. So there's very little information. If you have Alf or DMC, I know it sucks to keep holding them, but you have to because you still could be one more week away from having a guy who now would take you all the way to the Fantasy Championship week. So you have to hold it. Doug Peterson, still deciding if JJ is going to play at all on Sunday. Suddenly, that becomes a very...

scary situation if you have a giant you're counting on him you need to have a backup plan we saw calvin benjamin not play last night right but at this point if a coach on friday is still saying well maybe maybe he'll play maybe he won't then if he plays can you even trust him if he plays no i mean i don't before this news this was kind of the expectation we don't know how much he's going to touch the ball and when he does it's against the horrific league great uh denver defense

You didn't pull it back. You just kept going. I just dig. You'll get out the other side. Just keep digging. Sure. Mike, you're going to be on Periscope on Sunday morning. I will. That's good. An hour before kickoff. Game day alerts. Those will be out for footclan members at join the foot.com. An hour before kickoff. And we're going to talk some injuries. What's it going to pay me fly? Are you in or out?

You expect Joe Flacco, Jay Cutler, to play? Yes and yes. Yeah, Jay Cutler is practicing in full. Devonta Freeman? Yeah, it was. In or out? In. They're saying it was a stinger. Lamar Miller? Yes, he'll be in. Terrence West. I expect out. I agree. That makes it easier. Still not practicing. Easier for Alex Collins owners. Emmanuel Sanders. He's expected to return this week, so I'm going to say in. Devante Parker? Practicing in full. In.

Jameson, Crowder. I missed Wednesday and Thursday. Right after the breakout game, now he's not practicing. He's, I think, going to be a game time decision. Hamstring issue. It's tough. If he was out, does that raise your Josh Doxon stock? Your Stockson and Josh Jackson? Probably not. Would you play Josh Doxon or Marquis Goodwin this week? Doxon. Against Seattle? Oh, that's right. The matchup. I'm looking elsewhere.

I promise I can find someone on the waivers better than those options. All right. Those are the two guys that you may have to play. But I will say this. If Crowder does play, you don't play him. Not with a hurt, hamstring missing practice against Seattle. There you go. Corey Davis. In. In and exciting. Yes, welcome back. Marquis Lee. I think he's going to be out. I agree. Hasn't practiced Wednesday or Thursday with a knee problem. Would you play hernes over those other guys I mentioned? Yeah, I think I would. Cole Beasley, concussion.

I think he's going to play. Yeah, practice on Thursday. Has he passed concussion protocol? Do we know for sure? I haven't. You normally can't practice if you haven't. Well, you can do some stuff. Okay. Yeah, I don't know what the nature of the practice was. We can. He'll probably be in. Jeremy Macklin. I'll say this. Usually when guys are practicing, they're passing enough of the protocol to where they end up playing that week. Macklin and Wallace from Baltimore. I think Macklin will play. I don't know if you can trust him.

with the injury history this year of just in and out of games. He's in. You can trust him. Start him. Oh, all right. It's a good matchup. He's been great this year when he's got Joe Flacco. Okay. I think Macklin's fine. Oh, all right. What about Wallace, Mr. Raven whisperer? He has cleared the concussion protocol. He was added to the injury report for a back issue on Thursday. I think he plays. He's the three-eyed Raven. Ooh. Oh.

Kenny Gallaudetay. It's jagged. Nothing smooth right now. All right. A lot of bad notes. Jordan Reed, Zach Ertz. Was that a ping pong ball? Yes, it was. Good call. This is a bad time to say I practice my ping pong sound all morning long. Oh, man. I hope that that is true. That's in or out. Read out. Ertz, you need to monitor that situation. Limited with a hamstring.

believe he'd play, but you really do need to be prepared for him to be out. Man, if he's out, I'm just throwing this out there. You could do worse than Trey Burton. In the games that Ertz has missed, Trey Burton has been good. This is a matchup that needs the tight end. Trey Burton. Remember how much you were talking about? Grankowski might miss some games, and that's the one reason you like Ertz? Was that yesterday's footcast? Yes, it was. I do remember. Zach Kurtz doing you a favor here.

Delaney Walker, Martellus Bennett. Delaney Walker has not practiced this. He's out week. I think he's out. Let's say you have Walker and there is absolutely nothing similar to Ertz pivoting to Trey Burton. Same team. You can pivot to Johnny Smith and feel at least okay about it. Yeah. I concur. All right. We're going to get into the fantasy forecast the rest of the matchups. If you didn't catch the first half, they were on yesterday's podcast, which is still available for free.

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