Week 10 Matchups + Squeeze a Sneeze - Fantasy Football Podcast for 11/13

remain sidelined on Thursday because of the concussion. That is not trending in the right direction for the weekend. No, you usually see them progressing through the protocols if they're going to play. So I would lean that they are out. It is not a guarantee. We saw last week with Alan Robinson. He didn't progress through the week and he's still played. So you've got to pay attention on Saturday. We will know before.

It really matters whether they'll be through it or not. But as of right now, they're not practicing. And going back to the lines, T.J. Hawkinson didn't practice on Thursday due to a toe injury. That's something to monitor because he practiced on Wednesday whenever someone gets downgraded through the week. It's not a great sign. Broncos head coach, Vic Fangio, said that wide receiver Jerry Judy suffered a shoulder contusion during Sunday's game. He's limited. They are hopeful that he will play.

I would expect him. Debo Samuel, San Francisco 49ers, unfortunately remained sideline on Thursday. He had a, uh, he had a hamstring strain a couple weeks. Big hamstring blood. Yeah. He's dealing with the hammy from a couple weeks ago. If he's, he can still make it in, but at this point, plan that he is sitting on your bench yet again. And then he has a bye week. So that is also in there, San Francisco.

You just traded him away in a league because you know you're not going to have him this week and you're not going to have them next week and you want to manufacture wins? That is correct. So I made the unfortunate decision or unfortunately is the wrong word, but I like Debo a lot. I think that down the stretch is going to be very valuable. But if you don't have him for two weeks at this point of the season, you've got to figure it out. Wide receiver, DJ Chark from the Jacksonville Jaguars. He was held out Thursday with an illness. It is not COVID related.

Devonza Freeman re-agravated his ankle injury, and he thinks he's going to play. I don't think so. I don't think so either. The player always wants to play, but if you haven't been able to play for multiple weeks because of an ankle and then you re-aggravate it, I'm doubting he gets out there. And Austin Echler, our boy, he opened up the show. Awesome. Excellent. He tweeted Thursday, the time draws near. So look, maybe.

Maybe you have some chumps in your league who are not paying attention. He's a trade for target. And you can go get him right now. Yeah, I think, you know, we were doing wheeling and dealing in our league of record. And two players that I was trying to target a little bit were Rahim Moster and Austin Eccler, guys who are currently injured if you're playoff bound and you're saying, I want to shore something up. Those teams might need to win now and they're not helping them. If you can buy them on the super cheap.

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Fantasy forecast. The Chargers are two and six taking on the Miami Dolphins sitting at five and three. Shout out to Miami. Getting it done. The transition to Tua, criticized by many, criticized by myself. I was very skeptical for that transition, but so far it has worked out, and they are still in that division.

The Division Hunt finding out if Tua is their guy and getting it done, man. The turnaround of Miami is a feel-good story for this year. This game is a 48.5.5. The Dolphins are favored by a point and a half. Speaking of Tua, Jason, great matchup here. The Chargers, the last six weeks are ranked 28th against fantasy quarterbacks, giving up over 23 points a game. Is Tua?

in consideration for streaming. And I will take that a step further because the answer is yes. I was trying to lead you with the question. But where does he rank amongst your streaming options? So he's my quarterback 15 right now on the week. He ranks behind other options that I think are better. Obviously, if you've got goff, you're going to put him in. But Big Ben, some of those pieces I would play over Tua. One of the things you have to, I mean, it's kind of, it's interesting because of this week's matchup. Drew Locke or Tua?

That one is so, so close. I would say Drew Locke, unless Jerry Judy does not play. If Jerry Judy's out, then that's a major piece Drew Locke has down, and you'd go to Tua. Tua looked great against Arizona last week, but it is worth noting that Arizona, while they have Patrick Peterson, last week, had this crazy series of events where their second cornerback got put on COVID-I-R.

Their third cornerback was injured. So they were playing their fourth cornerback who then got injured in the game. So Tua was playing against half of a secondary. But, you know, the Chargers secondary has been pretty bad this year. So I think he is still streamable. Justin Herbert, big herbs, the herbivore, whatever we want to call him.

He is in. Jason, is the shoe going to drop against the Miami Dolphins? No. No, is that? I thought it was. It was. It was. It was going to. But then they lifted it a little higher and the shoes still got to take more time. Look, I will say this. The dolphins have been pretty good against quarterback. So, you know, the last six weeks, their top 10 defense and fantasy points given up. Their secondary has been great. I expect them to have.

plenty of penalty markers flying around that secondary as they hold and pass interference on Keenan Allen and Mike Williams, which do not go to the quarterback even if it moves the offense. I think the shoe could drop this week, but if I had to bet, I would stay in the flames on Herb. That is how you hedge professionally. Thank you. The wide receivers Keenan Allen is in. I think Mike Williams has approached weekly starting territory. He's going to.

He'll hit you with some variance every once in a while, and it's going to suck when it does. But he is in my every week's start. Where is it for you? 100% he has to be in your lineup. You can't get the game like two weeks ago where he was a top 10 wide receiver or two weeks before that when he was a top five wide receiver. If you're doing that, well, I'm afraid he's going to have a bad game. He's going to have bad games. And he's going to have monstrous games. You have to start him.

Man, I'm reading this note here from Kyle. All six of the Chargers losses this season, one score games. Isn't that exactly what happened last year? Yeah, I think so. And what's crazy is I want to say the year prior, they were doing the exact same. They won them. Yeah, the opposite. They were winning all their close games. But they've been in games. Yeah. Just don't know how to manage the clock. And really, if you have looked at some of these losses, I give credit.

to the coaching staff for letting Justin Herbert really open it up. They are not playing with baby gloves. But in-game management has been Andy Reid levels of bad. And that's saying something. You can still, Andy Reid has showed us, though. You can still succeed. Oh, absolutely. And be terrible at managing the clock. Andy Reid's the second best coach in the entire league. And I would love to have him on my team, even though he does not know how to manage the clock somehow. The running backs in this game.

On the charger side, it is difficult. What we know is that Joshua Kelly will likely be the running back too. What in the world just happened over there, Jason? I saw you flinch. That's called squeezing in a sneeze. You squeezed the sneeze. That's right. My eyes almost came out of my body.

But I am happy to report. Did you ever hear that as a kid? Oh, yeah. If you sneeze with your eyes open, they're gone. They're just flying out of your body. Were you ever brave enough to do it? I don't think it's possible, Mike. I think I tried, but I don't think you can sneeze with your eyes open. Yes. But you don't want to do that because from what I hear, they're going to fly out of your skull. Joshua Kelly, he will be the running back too. Justin Jackson, is he going to play? I don't know.

They're not being very forthcoming with their information. What we do know is he did not practice on Thursday. We assume Justin Jackson is going to be out. They said he needs rest. They talked about resting him for this game. Then he didn't practice Thursday. I'm going to say Justin Jackson is out. For the purpose of projecting this game and how it's going to go, assuming he is out, the question is who is the one? And is it Kalem Blasger, is it Troy May Pope? Or does Joshua Kelly somehow...

Does he become the one? I was declaring him the two, but yeah, he's the two. Okay. So it is very difficult. If he picked up Kaelin Belage after watching him have success, hoping for an incredible revenge game against his former team in Miami Dolphins, he's not on the roster right now. Tremaine Pope came through a couple weeks ago. Unfortunately, he got...

hurt so he missed. Yeah, and when you say he's not on the roster, he's on the practice squad. But he is one of two protected players on the practice squad, which means he is essentially a 53rd man on the roster. They can bring him up at any time. There's no fear, no other team can sign him off the practice squad. That's why he's there. It gives them more wiggle room. I would not be surprised if it's a Tremaine Pope and Kalem Blas show.

The only way Joshua Kelly isn't the RB2 to me is if he's the RB3. I can't imagine him taking over that running back one role when he's looked as bad as he has. The Dolphins running backs also highly questionable. Jordan Howard was involved. You had Ahmed kind of getting some work last week. They want Matt Berita to be the guy, but he's been limited in practice. This matchup is super juicy, Jason. Are you taking a risk on any dolphins running back?

because the Chargers last six weeks 29th against fantasy running backs. No, I'm not going to take a shot on them. With the burrito puzzle piece slipping in here? Yeah, the burrito puzzle piece. And even if it's just Jordan Howard and Ahmed, then which one is it going to be? Who's going to get goal line? Jordan Howard is not going to get all of the work. They have fully committed to that. If I had to pick one, I would pick.

Ahmed, but I don't want to play either of them. The real question to me in this game is Devante Parker. Because we saw last week, a lot of it was pass interference penalties, you know, but we saw... Seven targets, six for 64. Now you have Preston Williams on the IR. Yeah. I think Parker will have to get the ball thrown his way. And the matchup is pretty good.

And I think Mike Gassiki is in play. The matchup dictates it. And on top of that, Preston Williams is out. That means you can feature Mike Gassicki as the big slot guy that he is. Buffalo 7 and 2 taking on the Arizona Cardinals who are 5 and 3. Are the Cardinals? Is this line updated Brooks? The Cardinals are favored? Yeah. Well, they opened favored, but they opened shorter than this, which means people are betting.

On the Cardinals to win this game. All right. Well, this game is going to be fantastic, full of fantasy goodness. Kyler Murray, the quarterback won nine rushing touchdowns this year. That is more than 17 other NFL teams. Just Kyle Murray. You've been so good. When you get down near the goal line and you've got Larry Fitzgerald with short hands, you've got Hopkins on the other side of the field, and you have usually a Kenyon Drake in the backfield.

that can run it up the middle, you just don't have enough guys to stop the quarterback from scrambling out. And it's going to continue to happen all year. This game is the one you want for fantasy. 56.5.0. And I will take the over. Oof, because of this guy. Josh Stallion has been excellent, especially in games with John Brown, who is my start of the week at the wide receiver position.

games where Josh Allen and John Brown have both played the full game, quarterback three, quarterback three, quarterback two. Yeah, I mean, I think the biggest question here is who's the quarterback one on the week and who's the quarterback two on the week? Between these two guys? Yeah, like, is Kyler going to be better than Josh Allen or is Josh Allen going to be better than Kyler? At the running back position, Chase Admonds is Andy's start of the week, 28 opportunities last week. Kenyon Drake has been getting in limited practices. We talked about this in the office. Jason, you said, you,