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Oh, let's do a show. Welcome in. It's Tuesday. It's Waver Day. September 25th. Somehow, some way, we're through week three of the NFL season. Andy Mike and Jason, the Fantasy Footballers podcast back again. Straight into your ears like a podcast.

Oh, like only a podcast can. Like only a podcast. I guess that's not even true. If you're watching on YouTube, I was going to say, we're straight into the eyeballs. Right in your eyeballs, as they say. YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballers. If you want to watch a grown man cry, today's the day. Jason, before the show, I, see, I thought maybe he had like a one-day tilt, Mike. I was looking at him yesterday. Sure.

He, like over the course of the day, he slowly became more and more sad with the fact that he was inevitably facing defeat in our League of Record. And I thought this was a one day thing. Now, we got up and we went to the gym this morning and he walked in and I said, hey, are you doing okay? And while he wasn't doing okay. And so this is more of a permanent situation. And then we get in here and, you know, we're about to start the show and he says,

He says, carry me, boys, carry me. And I heard bury me. So I don't, Jason's status check. Status check is this. Still verified? My, still verified, they do not take that away for losses. My co-owner, Brooks, I've heard of him. Correctly said before the show, he said, hey, Jason, the people need you. And that's right. They do. There are plenty of people out there.

right now with great teams. I mean, we know, I know someone who's been posting in the listener league from a different league, screenshots where they are the highest point scorer in their league and they're 0 and 3. Oh. I mean, that stuff happens. If you are in a rut, don't give up. You can win. And so here's what I'm, here's my promise to the Foot Clan. I might, I might go 0 and 4.

But I am winning the championship this season. This is my promise. I'm calling my shot right now. I will win the championship. Brooks and I will win the championship in our league of record this season, and I am currently 0.3 and might even go own four. It's just going to happen. It seems a lot more Casey at the bat than Babe Ruth right now. Well, we're going to find out. He's already got three strikes, though.

Yeah, you can have your baseball. Here's the reality. See, we've done this. We've done this show long enough. We see every story. When title time comes, we get piles of emails and tweets and YouTube comments from the 0305 people. Oh, yeah. And it happens every year. Every single year. And one of the things that happens is the other teams in your league that are struggling, they freak out.

We had it happen this week in our dynasty league. They throw their hands up and go, well, I guess I suck. So I'm going to trade my good players away. And guess what? You just lost competition. You have less teams to compete with. You got a free win come week eight or nine or ten or whenever you're matched up against them. And here's the other pro tip. A lot of times people are always saying, how do I get trades to happen in my league? I'm not the best trade. Give me a trade tip.

Best trade tip imaginable. And you've said this before, Andy. Go to the teams in your league that are also 0 and 3. Look at who has a losing record. It is so much easier to get a trade done with someone who is 0 in 3, 1 and 2. Then it is someone's 3 and 0 and they go, well, I don't really want to break it up. You know, look for the good performing players or the guys you want on bad teams and make something work there.

And this show is the waiver show. We also do stash and trash on the show. We'll have our quarterback streamers. We'll get you right for week four coming up and let you know kind of who you can drop, who you can let go up. Now, not everybody's in Jason's boat, right, Mike? No, I'm not. I'm good. Yeah. So we're going to help you out too. Hopefully you're doing well. Now, Footclan giveaway.com, you can go over there, completely free. Enter to win a signed Corey Davis jersey.

and a championship belt. That's this month's giveaway, footclaim giveaway.com. And let's talk about Monday night football in lieu of a quick question today because it was an exciting game. It was an up and down ride for Fitzmagic, tragic, pick, Fitzpick, Fitzpick. I've heard. Oh, you heard Pittsburgh. Yeah, there was a sign of welcome to Fitzburg. Yeah, I mean.

It's interesting because the debate that everyone wants to have, and mind you, another 400-yard game for Ryan Fitzpatrick, but he had the three picks, took some sacks, he had a bad QBR. He had a fine fantasy day. I mean, you know, it wasn't what you hoped. It wasn't a top five performance. I obviously started in a six-foot hole, but when you throw it for 400 yards and three touchdowns, you salvaged your fantasy day. You were just fine with him as your starter.

On this season, second in the league in total touchdowns thrown. First in 20-plus yard completions. He has 18 of those, number one. 820 air yards, the second most, 576 in the NFL. And he is still the number two in passer rating. I do not think that the Buccaneers bench, Ryan Fitzpatrick. I think they'll play him. What do you guys think? 100%. I lean that way as well.

Brooks just pasted in the picture. I don't know if you saw his reaction, Ryan Fitzpatrick's reaction to one of his completions where he went wide-eyed like an absolute maniac animal. It was awesome. It's incredible. But it was funny watching that game because there was a quote that had come out before the game that said, I don't remember if it was the GM coach who was saying about Ryan Fitzpatrick, but saying,

As long as Ryan Fitzpatrick doesn't do something incredibly stupid, he will be the starter. And then we saw three quarters of absolute stupid happen for Ryan Fitzpatrick. He, not three, I got that. We saw a half of it. And he made the decision difficult because he came back, nearly won the game. I'm with you guys. I believe that Ryan Fitzpatrick stays the starter for week four. Ronald Jones was a healthy scratch again.

This is not good. But Peyton Barber is atrocious. That's why it's so bad. You have... I mean, Peyton Barber has been not... I mean, we told you last week don't start him. I mean, you cannot start him. But 8 for 33, they have no running game. Is this true that Ryan Fitzpatrick is the first quarterback in NFL history to have 400 plus yards in three consecutive games? And to start the season, yes. To start the season. So...

Peyton Barber is trash to me. If we're a preemptive stash or trash, do you agree? Or is he a stash? Because he's a starting running back. I mean, you normally make that argument. But like Jordan Wilkins and Jamal Williams, and there's a lot of guys that are kind of like, you have them on your bench and you never want to play them.

I'm still stashing him because he is the starting running back for an NFL offense. A high-powered offense. A high-powered offense. He got a couple carries. You know, he had a chance inside the five, and he got down to like the two, almost scored a touchdown. So it's there. And if you look at these first three games, they've been shootouts, just unbelievable. And that's kind of, you know, look at the teams that they're playing, the Saints and the Steelers, these high output games where.

It's hard to run the ball from a game script standpoint. So I'm not throwing him away yet. But yeah, Ronald Jones is, I mean, what do you do? Sean Wilson. He'll be active. Undrafted, free agents. Yeah, right now, I mean, you expect Jones will make it in there eventually, but you don't know. And I watched Peyton Barber take a handoff yesterday, and then he was trying to get the edge. I baked a full ham.

in the time that he got to the outside. So they got to fix something on the running game. That's hurting them. James Connor was having an atrocious game on the ground until the final drive. Until the Bucks knew they were going to run the ball. What was that all about? Busted off a 27-yarder and turned, I think he was at that point. It was ridiculous. He was like 11 for nothing. Yeah, he was running about one and a half. And he ended up 15 for 61, caught five passes. So he was okay for you. Big time games from.

Vance McDonald, four for 112 and a touchdown. If you listen, did you hear his interview after the game? No. They said when you saw Chris Conti, which by the way, Chris Conti, the strong quote safety, he had been truck stick by Charles Clay a couple years ago. Vance McDonnell, they go, okay, what were you thinking there? He goes, ah, just crush him. He goes, I just wanted to crush him, just destroy him, just absolutely pulverize him, just make him feel it. And that was his answer.

It's just such a contrast to the Clay Matthews can't hit the quarterback. And then you're, he basically twisted his neck into a pretzel on the stiff arm. And that's legal. It's comedic to me. But Big Ben. I mean, Big Ben has more fantasy points the last two weeks than Pat Mahomes does. So for all the Pat Mahomes hype, do not lose sight of what Big Ben is doing for fantasy right now. Correct. And Juju Smith-Schuster in the slot is like a cheat code.

9 for 1, 16, didn't score but had 11 targets, and is a monster. This is what I was talking about in the offseason because it's not three games. It's the second half of last year. It's since Ryan Shazir has been gone, Ben Rathlisberger is the number one quarterback in fantasy football. He's been unbelievable. And now you add juju, who's unbelievable next to Antonio Brown, you take away Lev Bell, who is?

obviously a better runner than James Connor. James Connor's been admirable, but he's no Lev Bell, and you just, you keep slinging that rock big Ben. Yeah. I was just on Twitter and someone said that we need more Jay Gris on the show. He hasn't been around in a little while. Sorry. I want to highlight the fact that he is a cardboard bear. Mm-hmm. So maybe he brings a little, maybe you think he brings a little more than he really does. I'm not sure.

Other fantasy takeaways from this game. To me, Chris Godwin was a takeaway. He dropped a couple passes. Passes, I think, that if you want him to be a reliable guy, he's got to make those catches. But he also made a couple catches that were pretty special. And he had 10 targets. I think he's a guy you got to pick up. Oh, I was going to say. Godwin is he just a must start at this point until Ryan Fitzpatrick leaves the lineup. For all.