Fantasy Football 2017 - Week 11 Matchups, In-or-Out, Three-Headed Worm

piece of news that broke. A funny quote from Fournette, so we'll get into that. What's it going to pay me it fly? Are you in or out? Philip Rivers. He's in. He practiced in full on Thursday. Still in the concussion protocol. But if you're practicing in full, that means you're on track to clear it. Drew Stanton, Deschon Kaiser? Stanton's out. It's the blonde bombshell, Blaine Gabbard. Woo.

He's going against Houston Texans. Kaiser has practiced in full. I mean, he came basically right back in after the bruised ribs coming off. Possibly, you'd say his best game as a pro? I would say definitely his best game. So he's going to play. He will start. All right, four net. Yeah, I haven't heard of the play, right? Here's the quote. He says he's not looking forward to playing in the cold weather. I hate the cold, period. I sleep in the heat. That's just how I grew up. Mentally.

I'm just trying to get my mind ready. It's the little things. You take a little hit in the cold and it hurts. I wouldn't mind if it wasn't cold. Wow. That sounds one. Congratulations Leonard Frenet for being drafted by Jacksonville then. Yeah. I mean, can you imagine if the Buffalo Bills select Leonard Fornett? Oh, no. Speaking of this is a good time. And actually, Fornett is not practicing today as a report. Yep.

I talked about this a little bit on the DFS show, which Fantasy Footballers DFS podcast that's available. The new episode came out today. I, there's something weird going on with Leonard Fernette. I know that last week they called it a violation of team rules or whatever. Two weeks ago. Yeah. But, I mean, we're going on over a month now of this ankle injury where he, oh, he could have gone back in. Sure, he could have gone back in. That's why he missed the.

That's why he's- Following week's game. Yeah. That's why he's missed a month and he's still missing practice. Are you raising your threat level for him missing this game? I don't know if I'm going to put it out a miss, but this is exactly why I talked about Blake Bortles as my start of the week that they will be forced to use him far more than they want to as a team. Coming to fruition here. Time Montgomery, in or out. I'm going out. Out.

It looks like he's not going to play. Danny Woodhead, any new information? Brooks, have you seen anything about Woodhead status? That seems to be one we're in the dark on. They have done a good job keeping that under wraps. I haven't been able to find anything of note, which leads me to believe he will be out. I would expect to hear things if he was practicing in a meaningful, full participant way, getting first team reps, you know, getting those beat reporters would.

would be letting us know. Yeah, there's, I checked in with the bushes. Oh, yeah? For some whispers. Nothing? I've heard nothing. Devonta Freeman? I'm not expected to play. Out. Yeah. Isaiah Carrell and her out? He's had a shoulder injury. A couple days of limited practice. Yeah, I believe that he will play. Eddie Lacey? Monday night football. If all of all the things in my life, I don't want to lean on Eddie Lacey on Monday night football. No. With an injury update. I agree. I, I wouldn't want to do it. I think this is actually more.

Let's say you had Thomas Rawls. That's more impactful for people with Rawls. If you had Rawls and then you're waiting for Monday night. Find a different option. Well, okay. But let's say you can't. Would you then, with an active Eddie Lacey, would you then play Lacey over if he was active. Yes. If they're both active, I'm playing Lacey for sure. That seems like a situation. Also, you have gone all in on the Seahawks. Mistakes were made. Yeah, your season is over. It doesn't matter. Just keep listening so that you can get information for next year. I saw somebody who heard you say,

If Chris Thompson's your RB1, you're now making the playoffs. Oh, I knew I'd get. And they said, watch me. They said, I'll be back. Just wait. So we'll see if they're right. Wide receivers laundry list here. Let's go quick. Alshan Jeffrey. In. Demarius Thomas. In. Julio Jones. He, Julio Jones is back to us not practicing. Yeah. Marquis-Lee. Same thing as Julio, but I'm going to say in. Alan Hurons. No, I don't think he'll play.

Kenny Stills. He got injured in practice. He's expected to play, but whenever there's an injury in practice, you always need to keep a special eye on it, not that very many people are rolling Stills out as a wide receiver three. Right. Amandola and Hogan? Amandola, I would expect Chris Hogan. I would not. I agree. Will Fuller? Out? Yeah, he's definitely out. John Brown? He didn't practice again Thursday.

You know, if he plays, because of this injury, I'm not going to play him. But I think he might miss. Jordan Reed? He's a game time decision. The last thing I had seen on Jordan Reed was that he had the setback and that he has pain when decelerating. So, if you just get tackled, you don't really ever have to decelerate on your own. Jordan Reed, you go full speed all the time. Yeah, if he, you're like the bus from speed. It's.

Drop and roll. That's what you got to do. You don't slow your legs down. You just fall and come to a skidding stop. Yes, exactly. I can't slow down. Similar to the Thomas Rawls Eddie Lacey, if you have Jordan Reed and you have Vernon Davis and you have both of them and Jordan Reed is active. I'm still playing Vernon Davis for sure. We got an update yesterday that Tyrone Smith is going to be out. Left tackle.

Extraordinaire for the Dallas Cowboys. What does this do for your cowboy projections? It certainly hurts. You know, it moves DAC down a little bit. However, I don't think people need to overreact and expect what happened last week. Chaz, the backup is now, again, the backup. Typical Chaz. Okay, he is, he has been demoted and he is not going to be the guy out there. Now, who's going to be out? No, no, no, you might say exactly. Well, who's, you know, that means the third stringer who.

You know. Who couldn't pass him on the death chart. Yes. Promise you he's better. I make a solemn swear he's better. There's just no possible way he is as bad as what we saw from Bad Jazz. Bad Chaz. Oh, Bad Chaz. Bad Chaz. Here's the circumstance that exists in this game. Two ways to look at it. The one thing we do know is Dak Prescott, it's all on his shoulders.

Right? And that can be good and bad in fantasy. You put a guy in that position where everything's on his shoulders. You may get DAC out of the pocket more. You may have him having to escape, run, use his legs, great for fantasy, use his arm, great for fantasy. You can't lean on the running game. Those narratives. And then you saw last week where under fire sacked a lot, drives got stopped so you didn't have scoring opportunities. It's all on DAC. And I would still put my fantasy chips on DAC. This is a divisional game.

He has the ability to perform at an MVP type of level, and I'm going to put my chips on that. And then, like you said, maybe they go down from giving up six sacks on that side to two. That'd be a nice two drives that don't get destroyed. A quick idea for the coaching staff in Dallas. Put the running back on the left side. Slow down, Mike. Slow down. Or maybe, maybe put a tight end on the left side. Slow down. I don't understand this system you're describing.

There has to be something that we don't know about. I would go with a six-man-o line. There has to be something we don't know about why they didn't do that last week. But it just seems like stupidity. It looked like a game plan they locked in on because they thought they'd be okay. And then they did not adjust. After like the fourth sack, Shaz like, no, guys, I promise I got this. Don't forget. All these in and outs. Guys, I promise. We'll have updates. This time. On Sunday morning, Mike is on Periscope on Sunday morning.

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Fantasy Forecast. Okay. If you missed any of the, if you don't hear us talk about a game today, it's because we talked about it yesterday. Yesterday was the first half of the matchups. So if you missed it, go back, listen to that episode, and you'll be all caught up with all the important matchups, start-sit decisions for those games. The Chiefs, 6 and 3, they head to the reeling giants. They're 10.5 point road favorites. Mm-hmm. This one's going to be ugly.

I do believe it's going to be ugly. This is a all chiefs situation. Sardomal. Yeah, absolutely. Alex Smith. Cream Hunt. I honestly think that all the people who are freaking out about Kareem Hunt and you're like, oh, the numbers are going down. He's not going to touch. I think this is the week that people can shut up about that.

Yeah, Kareem Hunt this week is both of our number one running back, so I agree. I mean, you were going to start them no matter what, but this is a truly get right. Both of our being you and Mike? Yes. Okay. I was following what Mike. I don't think the podcast could see who you are looking at. Sure, sure. But yes, Mike and I. Mike and I both have Kareem, number one. All two of us here at the studio, we really. We have them up. The whole group of Mike and I, the entirety.

Now, I think this is going to be a good offensive output for Kansas City. The New York Giants just have not looked good. Now, their defensive tackle, while he returned to practice, has been dealing with injuries. I mean, it could just get even worse for the Giants. Now, on the Giants side, you do have the number one target at the tight-in position. And that's having an angle. 72 targets. Most in the NFL this year.

You expect him to be involved in this game, Sterling Shepard, then be able to do enough against Kansas City? Absolutely. I think that there's fantasy points to be had for the Giants. When we say it's going to be ugly, we're just talking about the actual NFL game. I didn't mean to cut you off, Jay. Were you going to say something about the Chiefs? I was actually going to say something about the weather. This is another one of those games that is over 15 mile an hour wins.

So is what's being projected, which, you know, that's great for, you know, the Kareem Hunts of the world. Even I would say when you look at someone like Tyreek Hill who is used to taking those kind of, you know, crossing routes or finding a scene where he'll get the ball 10 yards down the field and then he'll run the additional 70. I think that that could work in Kansas City's favor. Eli Manning, starting stream of the week for me this week. So I think it's just going to be.

opportunity for him to throw the ball, probably some garbage time. And I think 250 and 2 is something you can get away with there. I also think you need to stay with Orleans Darkwood. Do you? I was just going to say I would probably look for a different option. If Dark was like that third running back who you're kind of playing matchups with.