Week 11 Matchups + In-or-Out, Magic Eye Jealousy

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Oh, welcome in. What a night we had. Friday, November 15th, the fantasy footballers. We've got a jam-packed show. Was that a proclamation of, like, the future of what a night we had, but the night hasn't happened? Nope. It was more a reflection on last night. And look, we're in week 11. And I want to set the table here. We're in Arizona. We don't.

move our clocks, right? Correct. We're one of the, us in what, Hawaii? We don't have daylight savings time. I hear Illinois is on the way. Are they really? That's what I hear. Well, I'm not going to get into that. That's for spitballers. But the daylight savings thing that happened during the war, and we just keep doing it. But we don't move our clocks. And so when everyone else does, out here, the games are on an hour later. And so.

Look, our families are so supportive of this show. We do the show every single day. We do extra shows. We do the serious show. We're busy during the season. And sometimes it's hard. Like my wife understands, I got to watch these evening games at home, but I feel for her. It's work, honey. And I do, yeah, and that's how I say it. Right. Very solemnly, because I, you know, it's really. Daddy has to work. I'm in the coal mines every Monday night, Thursday night. But.

You know, it was getting late last night. It's 21 to 7 and there's two minutes left in the game. And I'm like, I'm going to cut and run here. We're going to watch a show together. I get into bed. I pull up the, I'll check slack one more time. What, Miles. Holy. What on earth? Crap. Not what I expected to find. Yeah, it was, it was insane. I mean, I was just blown away. I was, I was shook a little bit. You were.

tilting, unbelievably for what had happened. Ten minutes afterwards, I'm still sitting on my couch, kind of just taking it all in. And it's weird. I wasn't like emotional about it. Weeping. Yes, I was, I was weeping. But it was just like, man, I just couldn't believe what I saw. I couldn't believe it. And I wanted to know every ounce of information about it from every player and every, you know, it's just such a crazy thing. Whenever there's an event that happens that has never.

Nothing like that's ever happened before in sports. It's a wow. It's a wow moment. There were probably people out there who they still haven't seen it. If you missed the end of the game, it was already out of hand. Miles Garrett tackles Mason Rudolph, a little bit, give him a little bit of extra oomph for a game that was already over. It caused a ruckus and a melee.

Then Mason Rudolph kind of tries to rip off Miles Garrett, rip his helmet off, to which then Garrett... From the bottom. From the bottom. From which Garrett then pulls Rudolph up by his face mask, takes his helmet off, and eventually swings Rudolph's helmet like a weapon at Rudolph, hits him on the head. Fortunately, for really everybody involved, it was not the actual crown of the helmet. But this is the first time I've seen...

a helmet taken off and used as a weapon. That's the summation of what happened. It was insane. I did find Twitter to be Twitter. Oh, because it was like, you know, it was like a competition of how much punishment Miles Garrett dessert. Right. Five, seven games, his whole season, two seasons. Put him in jail. Put him in prison. He is going to be in trouble. No question. Big trouble. You know, Baker came out and Baker was shook.

Baker's interview was as transparent as he could be. He didn't equivocate, and some may say, well, you should have, you know, your teammates are going to like that you were just open and honest with what happened. Whatever. I mean, this goes beyond the scope of protective leadership at the quarterback position. This goes into the realm of exactly what Baker said, which was, you know, this is inexcusable. Inexcusable. And beyond a rivalry, it endangers the other team. It.

We can't comprehend. We were talking before the show how you get to the point with five seconds left in a game you're winning to lose control like that. And I liked Miles Garrett before this incident. He was more of the mild-mannered. See him on hard knocks, teaching the other players in a very mild-mannered way. He's kind of wired differently. He lost his school. He'll pay the price. And for fantasy purposes, you know, it's not much of a tale.

But my goodness, what an evening. Yeah, I mean, for fantasy purposes, we've been talking about picking up the Browns defense. They looked good tonight. They've got a stretch run of great games. Now you're definitely going to be without Garrett. You could end up being without other players, too. But to speak to the actual game, Baker Mayfield had himself.

A good fantasy outing. He's kind of recovering. This is three straight games in a row now for Baker. That things have outperforming expectation. The wide receiver won for the Browns is continuing to come through. Oh, very nice. Jarvis had another good game. Yeah, it's amazing how Odell can manage to piece together a 60-yard game, no matter when his targets come, started the game on fire. And then, yeah, the touchdowns, they were there for Baker.

Got it done. Heck of a touchdown catch by Carlson. And before he got pummeled, Mason Rudolph was unequivocally awful. And Jason brought this up yesterday. He found a little stat nugget that was insane. And he brought it up on the Sirius XM show, which is that other than, I think, game one. His first start was in San Francisco on the road. Mason Rudolph. Mason Rudolph. And then he's played seven games now. Well, now eight.

And that was the other six games were all at home. He had not really gone to the road. This was his second road game in seven games having been played. He was six at home, one on the road. And this is why Vegas had the line with the Browns winning. Mason Rudolph is terrible. And if the Browns get up, there's no way he could come back. And then the Browns lose James Connor. I'll say James Connor is pretty. And they lose Juju Smith-Schuster. And they lose Deontay Johnson. It was.

It was a wicked night. The exact worry I brought up on serious was if the Browns get up 10-0, I think the game's over. Right. Because Mason can't will him back. And we also now, maybe we examine this before we move on to the rest of the show, but it hasn't paid off to jump right back in post-injury on anyone lately. David Johnson, Deshaun Jackson, Adam Thielen, now James Connor.

The AC joint injury, we talked about it early in the week. That's a risk. You knew it was a risk with the shoulder. And here we are. So I had the exact same thought that you're having when it comes to Emmanuel Sanders. Right? Emmanuel Sanders leaves the game. He was injured. Now he's coming back. I think he's going to play this week. But maybe that's just not worth the risk. Even though he torts the Cardinals a few weeks ago, maybe you say, I've got another good option.

Let me wait for these guys to be healthy versus trying to call my shot and get their first game back. Yeah. And then maybe that brings up Austin Hooper for the playoff run. If he's out three or four games, we talked about that a little bit yesterday, too. Do you have the trust to hold Hooper and play them right away in your fantasy playoffs? The. This gets a little, it gets a little, you don't want to miss the upside. It's hard for you to be in that situation, but it's what it is. So it is Friday.

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Let's go ahead and get into the news. And we're going to be modifying, tweaking the in-and-out segment a little bit. I wanted to let people know that. Because we record this show Friday morning, you still got Friday afternoon practices. And because we put up game day alerts on Sunday, Mike is live every Sunday morning, an hour before game time with injury updates. We're going to try to focus this down into the core.

Big time injury news, making our projections just on those guys. And then we're going to, you know, if you follow us on social media, like I said, the game day alerts at join the foot.com, you'll get updates on some of the middling players at that point. So without further ado, what's they going to pay me it fly? Are you in or out? Just a few big names. Marquise, Hollywood, Brown, didn't practice Thursday. Never practices. Do you believe he's in? Yes.

Yeah, I'm worried. So you'd start it. Right now, make the start declaration. If he's in, I start him. David Montgomery went down with an ankle, a rolled ankle on Wednesday, defined as a lightly rolled. But didn't practice Thursday. Our own Matthew Bats has concerns about his availability. I do too. And Mike absolutely does, for good reason. He plays Sunday night football.

you, if you don't want to mess with injury, it's not like Montgomery is a guarantee to get you production. If you need to pivot for safety purposes, I think you just do it. Yeah, and that's my plan. If I'm a David Montgomery owner and I can pivot, I would. Mike, I assume since Rahim Moster is your start of the week, if Brita is out and Montgomery is active, who are you playing between Moster? Yeah, okay. Montgomery is not just availability. It's re-injury.

risk, and he's going to be heavily taped, but I'm not playing him this week. I mean, you've seen how good David Johnson's been with a bum ankle. Right. Bad. Real good. Emmanuel Sanders, enter out with the rib injury. He'll play. He'll play, but I mean, who's to say he doesn't take another roll-up hit and have to leave the game? So if you can pivot, pivot. Alshon Jeffrey, he did not practice on Thursday, and head coach Doug Peterson says pretty iffy for Sunday's game against New England. This has been the...

The story for Alshan Jeffrey over the last few years is just kind of doesn't seem to recover quick and deals with injuries for a prolonged period of time, in or out, Alshon Jeffrey. Out of my lineup, I mean, he's a borderline guy if he's healthy against the New England Patriots. I'm not starting against the Patriots. Exactly. This could end up being a blessing in disguise for fantasy owners that are forced to look elsewhere. Yeah, fair point. Jordan Howard is well on the Eagles dealing with the Stinger. Has not been cleared for contact.