Week 11 Matchups, In-or-Out, Sharts & Ladders

because of the over-under, because of the stout defensive fronts, because of the fact that this is going to be a lower-scoring affair. I mean, you're at 44.5 point over under. Both backfields, you're going to see a little bit of a split, right? I mean, Dalvin Cook, we expect to be. I think this is the week that Dalvin Cook takes over. Yeah, taking over, though, this week is going to be difficult against Chicago. Fair. And Jordan Howard, Tariq, look, the Bears running backs have average 3.1 yards per carry.

since week seven. And you have an offensive coordinator who is content to say, well, if you're going to run at that clip, I'm just not going to run. I'm just not going to run it as much. So, you know, Alan Robinson, you're starting him if you got him. Adam Dealing, you're starting him if you got him. Stefan Diggs? Yeah, he's going to be out there. You know, how do you feel about Cousins versus Trabisky in this matchup? Mike, you're the lowest on Trabisky right now. Yeah, but I would still rather play Trabisky over Kirk Cousins.

You would? Yes, for sure. Just being the home matchup. Well, the home matchup, and like you said, if it's actually a lower scoring game, which it certainly could be, I'd rather have the quarterback who could give me 50 yards on the ground. Do you want to go official sit for Kirk Cousins this week? He is for me. We have him at QB18. I think that's an official sit. Yeah, he's my quarterback 19. That's not. Sit of the week. It's not what you want. I mean, this is a game where you set it. You're starting most of these players.

But you need to temper your expectations, maybe swing for the fences with your other flex players and hope you get lucky. And there's somehow a shootout that – because they both have good offenses here. I think the biggest question is the running – is Jordan Howard. Who wins the game? I've got the Bears taking it down at home. Yeah, I'll take the Bears. But do you start Jordan Howard? I'll go with Jordan Howard. I try not to. Yeah, I really try not to as well.

He's my running back. If I have to, I will, but my policy is try not to. Jordan Howard or Peyton Barber? I think I have Peyton Barber. Yeah, I have Peyton Barber one spot ahead right now of Jordan Howard. I have Jordan Howard ahead of Peyton. But, I mean, that's the tier we're talking about. Yeah, I would take Jordan Howard and hope he falls over into the end zone a couple times. Derek Henry or Jordan Howard. I'll take Jordan Howard. Gross. Howard.

the nine and one chiefs take on the nine and one rams Monday night football sixty three and a half point over under the Rams are three and a half point favorites I didn't even feel like this what like when I was consulting my you know the oracles that I consult I didn't even consider this one as a I would be allowed to make it an almost upset because obviously the chiefs can win this ball game it's going to be a high scoring affair

Look, Tyreek, Kareem Hunt, Patrick Mahomes, Jared Goff, Todd Gurley, Brandon Cooks, Robert Woods. Those are your must-starts. So what do we need to talk about here? There is literally nothing. How fun this game is going to be? There is nothing to talk about in this game. If you have a player in this game, you start him. I guess Josh Reynolds. Like, that's the only. And Sammy Watkins. Sammy Watkins. You start Sammy Watkins. There. You do? Yes, you start Sammy.

This game has a 63.5 point over under, and I could have closed my eyes and said, whatever number it is, I'm taking the over. I don't care. I mean, Watkins is a wide receiver too this week. Yes, but the problem is the injury of he's the Monday night game. We think he's going to play. He's expected to play. But what happens if you get to Monday night and then all of a sudden you have to pivot to Randolph or Chris Conley? He's exceptionally probable. Like Watkins is on the very, very, very probable.

side of things. He's exceptional. He's exceptionally probable. He's relevatory. Relevate. The only way that Watkins... I would relevate him in my rankings. The only way that Watkins doesn't play this week is if he has a setback. Correct. And you'll know that before Sunday. Brooks is like giving me the... I don't know. I'm more with Mike. You got to have a backup plan. Of course you do you think that. Watkins is playing. I don't want a gooseer to...

Make you lose the week. Have a backup plan of Josh Reynolds. That's fine. Now, do you, have you ever used GPS, Brooks? Yes. How many backup maps do you have in your car? You seem like maybe you would have two or three backup maps. Oh, yeah, I got the Atlas. Yeah, yeah. No, I look, if you don't feel comfortable, you want a backup, go for it. Josh Reynolds is the ideal backup or Chris Conley. I was going to say, you prefer Reynolds over Chris Conley?

I prefer Reynolds over Chris Conley, yes, but I'm fine with either. I think I would go Conley if Watkins is actually out. I just love that this game was actually moved to Los Angeles. I was worried about, okay, it's going to be high relevation in Mexico. The field conditions were poor. But relevant to what? Relevant to what? But the fact that this is in Los Angeles.

That city is going to be amped up. I mean, I just, if this game hits the under, I'll shed a tear. I will cry. You realize the ticket situation for this game is so bad that on Thursday night football, they have to announce that there's still tickets available for it to help out. What? It was a late shift, right? Like, I mean, you don't have, and they gave away.

Props to the league for doing this. They gave away tons of tickets to first responders. That's awesome. Who had come out to support those going through the, obviously fight the fires, protect homes, protect people. And then tons of those people are going to the game. But there are tickets available because it was a late shift. Los Angeles. If I was living in Los Angeles, there is zero percent chance I'm not at this game. Like, this is going to be a blast.

It better be. Any injury updates since the show started, Brooks? Anything new that you are aware of? Just Mixing is participating in the walkthrough, but I can't tell if that's limited or full practice yet. Is he jogging through the walkthrough or walking through the walkthrough? Participating. Is he getting a participation ribbon? I hope so. See, I feel like I asked Brooks about injury updates, and now I'm deciding that he's like the spider from Game of Thrones where he's got his little birds.

out there with information. Any of your little birds letting you know about anything, Brooks? No, nothing, nothing yet. Anybody we need a backup plan for? Sammy Watkins. Wow. Yeah, yeah, okay. Well, you never know. Do you have a backup to the backup? He's got Conley and Josh Reynolds. Good for you. Boy Scout. Stashed them both. All right, no injury updates in, so we'll go ahead and get into the Daily Doe.

The Daily Nose. Brought to you by Draft. All right, each and every Friday this season, we are jumping in a quick three-person draft, 1V-1V-1. Mike, are you going QB-only for us this week? Is that what we're doing? I did. Those are pretty fun. Yeah, and there's, there are two really good picks, and I'm picking third. The QB-only drafts are my favorite to do, just because we are such not top-heavy QB type of...

analysts. So it's fun to get to take. There are three great picks here, Mike. Don't make the wrong one. All right. I won't. I get the first pick. My rankings up until this morning actually had, were the same at the top as Andy's. But there's no way I'm not taking Drew Brees in that game at home. He's throwing 80%. I figured Drew Brees was the guy I would end up with. Drew Brees actually shifted my number one this morning based on...

all of the different adjustments going on. I will go with Patrick Mahomes. You're not taking your start of the week? Mm-hmm. Oh, wait, you're talking about Eli Manning? No. Jared. Jerry Garth. People don't, people still didn't understand yesterday when I said, look, I'd still, if I had golf in Mahomes, I play Mahomes. But my projections say that their razor-threat and golf has a couple more points. That's an average. If you're looking for who has the chance to throw six touchdowns, which is how I play fantasy football, it's still Mahomes.

All right. Because of the Tyreek Hill effect. All right. So I was on the turn. So I got Jared Gough and I also took Mr. Booty Scootin, Cam Newton against Detroit. And I am one pickaway and I will be very upset here in a second. He's trying to, do you know who he's trying to take? Well, I had my thoughts, but I ended up. You gave it to him. Yeah, I did. I took Matt Ryan. Oh, I am so happy with that. I want Carson Wentz. I want both sides of that. Drew Breeze and Carson Wentz back and forth game.

I will be very happy with that. And I'm going to take a guy who's just, look, it doesn't matter his matchup. He's been on fire in Andrew Luck. Andrew Luck's been everything we hoped he would be coming back off of that injury. And credit to him for doing that. I'm going to take Dak Prescott solely for the purpose of softening the blow of Jason playing him against me in our League of Record. I know he's going to be good. So I want to know that I got something out of it when I'm beaten by him.

And on this turn, I went with the cheeseburger in a helmet, Mr. Ben Roth with Berger. Wow. That's your... It's absolutely true, but when you say it out loud, it sounds very mean. Sounds very mean. I mean, you called him a cheeseburger in a helmet. That is pretty true, though. I mean. Oh, he's real good at football. And of Sean Watson. All right. Oh, you're taking the risk. I'm taking Ryan Fitzpatrick, looking for some Fitzmajorie.

Yeah. It's always the bench risk. I'm going with Philip Rivers out of order of my rankings, but I'm still going to take the guy that was ahead of him in Mitchell Trubisky. I am worried about that Bears, Minnesota Vikings game being low. But look, Mitch has been on fire. And like you said, Mike, he could very easily have 50 rushing yards, which in fantasy football stupidly is the equivalent of like 3,000 passing yards. That's a perfect math.

Yeah, what was, what's the word? I didn't remember your stupid word. Let the word go. Let it die. Let it die. All right. What are our teams? I've got Drew Brees, Carson Wince, Andrew Luck, Philip Rivers, and Mitchell Trubisky. My final pick was Eli Manning, by the way. Because. Come on. Come on. Because he's plain tip of me. Holmes, Ryan, Prescott, Fitzpatrick, and.

Eli. So I got Fitzpatrick and Eli in the same matchup. I'm going for matchup plays this week. Gough Newton, Rothesberger, Watson, and I finished it up with Marcus Marriota against the Indianapolis Colts. The match of this is oh so delightful. Before we close out the show, I want to remind you about Fandul. It's never been more fun or easy. It's the place to play. If you're not a fantasy expert, go check out the Gridiron Pickham contest every week. Like I said, simple. Just pick a winner.

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You're getting a new tree. We're getting a new tree. Okay. It is already being shipped. It gets here, I think, tomorrow. We had like a nine-foot tree, and I said, 12? What is this garbage? I need a 12-foot tree. We're rearranging our house and moving our dining room table. Cutting a little notch in your room? So that we can be in the higher ceiling area and put a Christmas tree there. It's on. That's what I like to hear. I think I'm going to put the lights up this week. Yeah. I think this weekend, which means.

50-50 shot. I'm not here on Monday. Oh, that would be terrible. My ladder skills have declined. Equally to age increase. Yeah, it's even exponential at this point. Like every year that goes by in life, my skills get four times worse on a ladder.

They really need to make that Christmas lights gun from the Jim Carrey Grinch. Oh, to shoot them up. I would decorate my house like crazy. It's just crazy because I was thinking yesterday we've been this is just musing on life. But I saw that free solo movie in theaters, which is Alex Honnold Climes El Capitan in Yosemite, which.

Without a rope. Without a rope. Three thousand feet, three and a half hours. It's insane. The movie's great. I loved it. Not a sponsor. But I've been watching these interviews with him, and he talks about being a kid and how he used to climb up on the roof. And I used to do that all the time. Like heights were no object to me from the years of, from when I was a newborn baby, I was climbing things until I was like, you know, 16 years old. And from that point on...

It's been a downhill... I got halfway up a ladder one time. I'm trying to hang them on a two-story. And I had borrowed the ladder from the neighbor, right? So he brings it over, and he's watching me. And in front of my neighbor, I can't get halfway up this ladder. Something happened. Yeah, you want to know what it is? What? Tell me. Fatherhood? No, as you age, your understanding of gravity... Gross. Okay.