Week 10 Matchups, In-or-Out, Capes & Shadows

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Welcome to the show. Back again. It's Friday, November 9th. Oh, it's Friday. And we are the fantasy footballers back again talking football. That's what we do. Had a fun Thursday night game. We're going to talk about some very interesting things on the show today. Wow, Jason. Just an amazing... What a call. I've got some good juju going on. A call. You just...

You sifted through name after name. You found your way to a potential start of the week. I hadn't heard of him until yesterday. Yeah, well, you heard of him pass number one. Juju Smith-Schuster, your start of the week. I didn't see it coming. Wow. How do you feel?

Uh, my Twitter timeline exploded. Thank you. Fuck clan. It was, it's a fun way to start a game when you, uh, get made fun of saying, oh, really you're going to juju. And then I'm like, I think he's going to have a really big game. And then it was like, boom, off to the races, 75 yards. How do you feel what? What was, that was a 75 yard touchdown. Yeah. Correct. How do you feel about the first play being a 75 yard touchdown and then getting, uh, 90 total receiving yards on the day? Totally fine with it.

I would be very disappointed. You'd be very disappointed in 90 yards and a touchdown? If the first play from scrimmage is a 75-yard touchdown pass, yes. That's because Mike is traditionally the greediest of the three of us. So, yeah, I get that. You get that score. He's the one that's upset when Todd Gurley weighs down. Oh, get that out of my face. I was not. I was the defender of Todd. So congrats on your. But that's because he wasn't on your team is the point.

If he was on your team, just like when you used to have shady, and he'd be going out there and putting up these monster 30, 40 points, and you'd be so pissed when they pull him. Yeah, well, that would be, I'd be upset at the coaching, yeah, because it's always a bad mistake when you pull my players off the field. He's greedy. He's very greedy. Fantasy football greed is okay, though. You can want more points. That's fine. But, yeah, nice start. We've got so much to cover today. We've got big news to talk about or...

You know, I uphold our listeners about Lev Bell, James Connor. We're going to get into that shortly. You can find us on Twitter at the FF Ballers. And, yeah, like I said, there's a lot going on. We're going to get right into the Thursday night recap. And I'm going to start here. Oh, my nuts. James Connor, last night, people wondered why I wasn't on the field. He got placed in the concussion protocol. It was weird, though, because even before the blue tent.

experience for James Connor. In the first half, he was getting pulled off. They were putting other guys in. I know the sideline reporter came in and said that Tomlin just wants to rest, uh, rest Connor a little bit, but it was his usage was strange to begin with. Then you have the concussion protocol, which we somehow he passed, but now he's back in the concussion protocol before the concussion protocol. I remember thinking when Samuels was on the field or Ridley, but I remember thinking it.

feels like Tomlin is trying to figure out, or the offensive coordinator, whoever's putting them in, is trying to figure out, how do we use two backs? Right. Because it was very not Steelers. And now Levion Bell is in Pittsburgh. He's asking for the sticks. He thinks he's up. Yeah, you tweeted out, it's safe to say. It's time to pass the stick. I like it. It's safe to say. Yeah, I don't know what that means. James Connor has been crushing, man. James Connor's crushing your bank account and his is.

performance at the beginning of the game was so impressive. He's got that little shimmy that he does at the line of skirmage. But look, fantasy owners need to prepare because it's going to happen. And Lev Bell's going to come back on Tuesday. I'd put that in, I mean, I put it in 95%.

Yeah, I don't, we should not report it like it's a done deal. It's not a done deal. Because there was another report from the athletic that Levi and Bell is still considering not showing up at all. It's, it's an absolute total disaster. And nobody has 100% satisfactory news on it except for Levion Bell. Yeah. And he's not telling anybody. Even Ian Rappaport at the beginning of the day yesterday was like, nobody knows if you're showing up.

But more and more reports started trending yesterday where the leadership in Pittsburgh believes he's going to be back. I tweeted out yesterday, 10,000 of you voted, said, look, if Love Bell reports Tuesday, what is James Connor rest of season? And here's what you said. He said 41% of you said RB1 rest of season. For Connor? For Connor. I don't believe that myself. 40% of you said RB2. So 80% of you believe he's going to be an RB1 or an RB2.

12% of you said RB3 and 7% said RB4 or worse. I probably fall myself, and you guys cast your vote, but I fall probably, I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt. I'm going to put them in the RB3 category, but it's probably... That's the benefit of the doubt? It is. I was going to say between RB3, RB4 is kind of where I'm at. I would lay in the RB2 area. It's...

Interesting for all of Levi-on-Bel's success and how great he's been as a running back for this team. Goal line work has never been the calling card of Levi-on-Bel. I mean, on the ground, last year he was successful with the nine touchdowns, but before that, seven rushing touchdowns, three rushing touchdowns, which are fine. I'm good with those numbers, but when you're an elite running back who's on the field,

80, 90% of the time, you expect a little bit more. And James Connor has been very successful in that role. So it would not shock me to see at this point the timeshare and then go to James Connor at the goal line. It's possible. Which would keep him in that running back two category. Yeah. The offensive line is outstanding for Pittsburgh. And so I know that there's been a lot of like.

apples to apples comparisons to James Connor's numbers at this point in this season and Love Bells. Look, this is a great offensive line and offensive system. I think you're going to lose just about every one of those receptions that Connor was getting. Very possible. And I think Love, and then you get the concussion worked in. It's going to be very interesting for fantasy owners. Last night, Pittsburgh came out, set the world on fire, 5221. They defeated the Panthers. They stopped the Panthers winning streak.

It was just one of those games for Carolina. They just, they came out. They had an impressive drive. They scored. Christian McCaffrey had three touchdowns. They did not want to guard Christian McCaffrey. No, especially that first drive. And in the passing game where they decided to ignore him on a couple of touchdown passes. But it was a weird game. I mean, Cam Newton didn't really rush the ball. Their offensive line struggled immensely, the defensive pressure from Pittsburgh. And it was a game that.

I don't think it ends up this way in Carolina, plain and simple. The momentum, the ball rolling down the, you know, mountains, so to speak, just kept gathering points and it just washed them away. Yeah, Big Ben is not throwing five touchdowns in Carolina. That's why, you know, when we're, you know, talking about this game. Love Ben at home.

We loved the matchup being in Pittsburgh. Makes a lot of sense. I mean, everybody got involved. Jalen Samuels. You get a touchdown. Vance McDonald. You get a touchdown. Ju-Ju. You get a touchdown. Jesse James. This is an Oprah Winfrey situation. Yeah. Infer McCaffrey, if you played against him this Thursday, I pour one out to you. Brooks was messaging about and I said, hey, this reminds me of one, AJ Green.

cost me a matchable on Thursday night and it was the worst. Wait a minute. You didn't play against them, Brooks, did you? Did he? In Dynasty Brooks? Did you play against Christian McCaffrey? No, you didn't because I did. And guess what? This is a fourth time I've had to play him in nine weeks. And he's terrible to play against. Listen, this was...

Christian McCaffrey, this was his highest fantasy output of his career. It was, according to Tristan Cockroft, this was the highest output of fantasy points for a Carolina running back in the franchise history. And that's pretty crazy. Three touchdowns. A long, you know, DeAngelo Williams and Jonathan Stewart. Three touchdowns will do that, though. Any big takeaways from the game, it was nice. Like, Vance McDonald didn't make an appearance for a while.

And then all of a sudden got a little screen, got the touchdown, made a couple plays so you were happy if you started him. Yes. Any other thoughts from this game? I mean, my only thought from this game. Greg Olson underwhelmed. Yeah, he did was the Pittsburgh defense, their defensive line just looked unbelievable. And so going forward, you know, I want to factor that in. I want to remember how they're starting to click.

Yeah, they've been a much better defense week after week. Yeah. I mean, that's just what's been happening. And you know how much Mike loves Joe Hayden. I mean. That is true. How'd Devin Funches do suckers? Poorly. Yeah. How'd the Carolina Panthers do? Yeah. Chris McCaffrey did. Mighty fine. There were points scored by the Carolina Panthers. The Steelers thought, you know how we can win? Let's play 11 on 10.

We're going to play 11 on 10, and we've got one more man than them. Now, we're not going to guard Christian McCaffrey, but those other 10 guys, we're going to lock down. It worked. It is Friday. So much going on. Let's do this. Foot Clan Friday. Today's Foot Clan Friday winner is Alicia Fernandez. Hey, Alicia! Congratulations. You win a...

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information practice reports. And then Mike is on Sunday live an hour before game time every single Sunday. That's where the magic happens. That is where the magic happens. It's where something happens. Something happens each and every week. Let's do it. What's it going to pay me it fly? Are you in or out? All right. In or out, Chris Carson. He's going to be a game time decision for Seattle. I...

honestly don't have a read on if he's going to play i don't want to play him for my fantasy team though i could say that well they did say he was pretty much going to like before the week they said he wasn't going to get any practice time in so instead of yeah it this i'm seeing nothing to change i'm guessing he is active for the game limited in work yes uh like davis time mike davis to me is a is a strong play and if for any reason chris carson is out mike davis becomes must play okay