Starts of the Week + Wk 11 Matchups, Pounce Back Candidate

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They call that the, and he, he lets LeBron James bathe him. That's a strange direction. Thursday, November 15th, welcome to the fantasy footballers podcast. We have a great quick question. Fantasy forecast on the show starts out of the week. And Jason's boom boom kicker, of course. Jampack show. Did you remember that's today? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Okay. He's probably smirking because he came up with some elaborate, beautiful wordsmithing rhyme. Oh, no. Certainly not. I am.

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Well, we should have at least been extras in that movie. At least. Quick question. Today's quick question, by the way, comes from the Reddit community out there. If you're on Reddit, if you're on the Fantasy Football channels, you know that we lurk. We're lurkers. We see what you're talking about. We listen. We did an AMA. NAMA on there. And I like checking in with the Redditors. So what we did this time is we...

posted and asked for a quick question. Whatever got voted the highest is the quick question of the day. So here you go. Who is the player that will be on most championship winning teams? This is a fun thing to look at at the end of every season. Alvin Camara had a big role last year in championship. Todd Gurley. Yeah, Todd Gurley was decent. Yeah, kind of decent.

Who is the player that you think will be on the most championship winning teams this year? We're heading into week 11. That's six weeks left. Yeah, usually the most common are later drafted running backs who pop and hit hard. This guy wasn't super late. I mean, he was early, but he was back of the first, maybe fell to the second in some leagues. But when I'm just looking at, you know, all of the...

you know, different variables coming together at the same time. It's Christian McCaffrey. He is the clear-cut workhorseback. He's been excellent this year. Half-point format. He's the running back seven on the season. I believe he's got five touchdowns in the last two games that got rid of C.J. Anderson. And his playoff schedule is, I mean, we've talked about it with Cam. Cam could, you could put Cam in this conversation too. This conversation? This, oh.

No. I like it. What? I'm not. I told you guys before the show, I didn't get a lot of sleep last night. So I would expect more of the same. So here's the, here's the playoff schedule starting week 13. Week 13, the Panthers play Tampa Bay. Ooh, Christian McCaffrey just torched. Then Cleveland. Then the Saints. That's going to be a high scoring game. And Atlanta in championship week. Oh, my. So I, you know, there's, there's.

He's been a target in a couple different leagues. I've not been able to acquire him. I have no doubt that I'll be facing him in fantasy playoffs because I've faced him like four times this year already. And it's not fun. He's very good. I'm actually going to, maybe not the name you'd expect. But I'm going to throw O'Dowell Beckham Jr.'s name out there as the name I think will be on a lot of fantasy championship rosters, mostly because if you bought him lower because of the way the offense was performing.

He's been great. From week five on, he's the number three overall fantasy-wide receiver. He's scoring. They're force-feeding him. And O'Dowell Beckham Jr. is everything you hoped he would be despite the offense. And I think it continues. They have a very juicy playoff schedule as well, some opportunities there. And I don't have to worry about whether they're going to binge guys because they're going to make in the playoffs. Yeah, I believe they play the Colts in the championship week. So that's a very nice, a nice thing to hear.

And for me, it's James Connor. He fell into the lapse of nearly everyone who had him. I know some people traded for him, but I would say the majority of fantasy players scooped him right up off the waiver wire, which means it's legitimately possible that you have Melvin Gordon, Christian McCaffrey, and James Connor all on one team. Free, like Jason said.

Waver wire running backs who pop and become top five guys like Alvin Kamara did last night. That carries you. And it, I think usually it happens like halfway through a season, guys like Nick Chubb. But James Connor was before week one and has absolutely shaken things up. I think that answer is the most likely to be accurate because of the fact of what you said, you could end up with if you drafted a girly.

Well, hopefully not Bell. But if you drafted Gurley or Hunt or Camara, Barkley, and then you got to pair him with Connor, that's just very, very powerful for winning a fantasy title. And now the pathway is perfectly clear for Connor to continue dominating. Not a lot of news. We'll get into it during the matchups today. So we'll progress and jump right in. Fantasy forecast. A couple of reminders. We have the Thursday night game.

We previewed it on yesterday's show, but take your Thursday night players out of the flex spot, put them in a dedicated positional spot so that you have more flexibility later. We remind you every Thursday. And further on that, if you have a Monday night or a Sunday night player, we don't talk about this too often, but it's good practice to put those players into your flex position. So that should something happen, you have the ability to, you know,

pivot to a running back or a wide receiver or a tight end someone else that can be used in that flex get them out of your running back wide receiver slot that's such good advice jason yes mike uh as always will be on sunday live one hour before kickoff on youtube youtube dot com slash the fantasy footballers check it out subscribe click the bell and we'll let you know when mike is live this this bell will show up it will toll oh yes um

Did I throw you off your game there? No, just a moment of silence for those that drafted Leveon. The four and five Cowboys take on the four and five Falcons. This game is in Atlanta. The over-under is 48 points. The Falcons are three-point favorites. Let's break down the matchup. Matt Ryan right now is averaging the most passing yards per game despite the disappointing performance last week in Cleveland. And this is an important game. Both teams fighting for a playoff spot.

If you lose this game, you're probably not making the playoffs. Both teams four and five, they need a win. So where will they turn for fantasy value purposes? Where will we find value? I think there's quite a bit of value to be had because the game is in Atlanta. Dallas's defense won't be quite as good, and Atlanta's offense will be better, which means if they're scoring and the new DAC with Cooper combo has to keep up,

I think you're going to have a lot of fantasy relevance here. Usually it's Zeke and Zeke only, and then it's, you know, multiple pieces from the Falcons. But I think you can start, I'll start with Austin Hooper. I think he's actually in a week with a lot of bye weeks. Obviously, he's coming off a great game, but that was after two duds in a row.

This matchup bodes well for him. Dallas is middle of the pack, being at home and a high over under. I think Hooper is definitely a guy you could, you probably should start this week. And we'll talk about three of the players from this matchup in our starts of the week segment. But I'm definitely with you. I'm chasing the receptions from Hooper. I mean, when you decide on a tight end, let me ask you this.

Because we've talked a lot about Eric Ebron on the show, on the footcast yesterday, on our live stream yesterday for the join the foot.com supporters. Would you rather start Austin Hooper in this game and chase the 10 receptions or start Eric Ebron in his matchup and chase the three touchdowns? Because in either case, there's an argument to be made that there's going to be a lot of regression, but do you chase the touchdowns or the reception totals? I would chase the receptions when you can. There's very few.

tight ends that have the potential to have, you know, eight plus receptions in a game. And if you've got one of those, then your baseline is usually a little bit safer. I have Austin Hooper two spots ahead of Eric Ebron currently in my rankings. Interesting. Yeah, I think it's pretty tight. I have, yeah, I've got Ebron. It looks like slightly, nope, just behind Hooper as well. Yeah, I have Hooper a little bit higher. How are you guys feeling about