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Jubilant! I throw a touchdown every four passes. Old school, Watson, game to play. It's always nice when a quarterback has the potential to be insane. Right. Welcome into the fantasy footballers podcast Friday, October 26th. Thursday Night Football in the Books. Jason is here. Yes, I am very excited. I have made it alive to the studio after.

A night of Red Dead redemption. Yeah. I was going to say we're all barely here. But we are. Mike is here. I heard from many in my mentions. They said, look, we love the show. We love the podcast. But we get it. If there's no show tomorrow because everyone's been up playing Red Dead, we understand. I said, nay. We shall be here. Well, of course. I mean, I tweeted. Well, you beat the game. Yeah, sure, sure. I played.

played a little bit. I tweeted last night. I was watching Thursday night football and I said, look, Will Fuller, let's wrap this thing up. I got Red Dead to play. I'm sorry. Oh, sorry. Did you call it Will Fuller by name? He did. And then immediately after, immediately after he wrapped up his season, Will Fuller goes down with a knee injury. It has not been confirmed yet, but it's a torn ACL. Yeah. Pro football doc and the actual Texans.

Yeah. Have said that they're, you know. They assume that's what it is. They're waiting for the MRI to. Yeah. I don't think I've, I can remember a time where it's come out that the fear is a torn ACL so quickly from multiple parties. And then it's like, oh, it wasn't. Pragmatically speaking, he was still a worthwhile start of the week. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Monster game, absolutely. There was far more fantasy goodness in this matchup than honestly than I really.

saw coming. Watson was absolutely on fire. Lamar Miller, welcome back to the party. Lamar Miller the past couple of weeks. He's been keeping it hot 133 and 1. Just narrowly missed a really, really long touchdown for his second. Hopkins was nothing through about three quarters. And then he was everything. He was Hopkins once again. It was a crazy game.

It was. And Drake delivered in a big way. He did. Good game from Amandola because he threw a touchdown pass. Devante Parker, welcome back to the NFL. Adam Gase is a buttle. That's a, I think we'll be one of the big storylines. Think about this. You had Kenyon Drake, this unbelievable talent, who couldn't get to the field even after you traded J. Ajai. He was behind Damien Williams. It took that injury. And now you've got Devante Parker first round pick who hasn't been able to get to the field until.

Albert Wilson and Kenny Stills went down. He's been a did not participate coach's decision, you know, not even in the lineup. And now he's like, oh, yeah, that guy's pretty good. So are you in, though? Because that's going to be the questions for everyone. Come waiver time. I know the waiver shows not until Tuesday, but people want to talk about it right now. Are you going to be targeting Parker? I would rather be dead. I would rather be dead than target Devonte Parker.

I don't want ips or butts, candy or nuts. I am out.

If Stills is out, I would be willing to take a fly around park. Okay. If he catches a helmet deflected 46-yard pass in every game, he will be the wide receiver one. If you subtract that play and say it didn't exist because it wasn't even a target to him and I will fully grant. That's not like one of those, oh, if you take his 80-yard run away, no, that was not even targeted to him. It would have been awesome if he had caught every target. I know. But then he was six receptions, five targets. Yes. Don't have been sweet. But if you take that away, he still had a monster game. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, Brock Osweiler. Sure. Tana Hill will be back. Tana Hill has never targeted him. He's inconsistent. He always gets hurt. Maybe you're right. Good luck. If you start him, I'll give you a silver dollar. A pat on the back. Good luck boy. And the other question will be, we finally have seen Deshaun Watson coming back to life for fantasy purposes. But if he doesn't have Will Fuller, it hurts. It's, to me, is a really big hurt to the.

the fantasy production for Watson. The Dolphins did not play defense last night. The secondary took a, they were leaving early for Red Dead. And here's the thing. When you looked at Watson in the previous two weeks, he was atrocious. He did not run the ball at all. He did not have the mobility to get outside the pocket, do what he did last night. Looks healthier now. There weren't, yeah, there weren't really signs of life to him, and he came out and he exploded. And look, we were even looking at some rosters yesterday in our leagues and saying,

You know, why didn't this guy drop to Sean Watson? He's got Carson Wins on his team. Why take up two spots? This breathed a little life into it. And that's the thing that a quarterback with legs can do. It's getting out. It's what Russell Wilson can do. The deep ball becomes available when you can escape the pocket and let elite talents do elite things. But now Hopkins is by himself. So his target share, his volume, his ability to magnetize the ball to his hands. Look, those are all there.

Hopkins gets a bump up from Fuller, but Watson gets a bump down. I agree. And also, Kiki may be on your waiver wire. So just make sure you mentally note that because it's the Thursday game. Sometimes you forget about those guys by the time waivers are rolling. But Kiki's going to get a huge opportunity. Yes. And the targets will be required. I mean, there's just no way around it. All right, it is Friday. Put Clan Friday. You know,

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Oh, Jason. Oh, Jason, Jason, Jason. Did you have a heart attack at Gak? Yeah, I'm not happy because I was so excited for Marlon Mack time to exist. He did not practice yesterday after we recorded the show where I said he's my start of the week. He was downgraded. And that was after being limited on Wednesday. Right. So you don't like to see that. You hope that it's just rest. I'm going to wait because I think we should have a practice report before the end of this. It's really important.

If he's back of practice today, great. If he's out today, then I have to pivot from my start. Matt Brita, in or out. He did not practice on Thursday. That doesn't mean he won't play. He's one of the hardest injury projection guys because he just keeps fucking the odds. Should we just put him as out for all fantasy owners? But the matchup is so good. That's what I was going to bring up. Can you start him if he is active because he's going up against the Arizona Cardinals who have been.

Just. Yeah, and he's, he is the later game, so you're going to have to make a decision early. You should be the mustard owner. Yeah, if you could. I mean, I don't know if he's still on your waiver wire or not, but it would be great to have a backup option. If Burita is active, would you still play the Colonel? I'll play if he's active. Would you play the Colonel? And for those who don't know, the Colonel, of course, is Rahim Mustart, Mostart. Mostart. Yes. Colonel Mustard.

Colonel Mustard. That's why you say Colonel Mustard. It's a pronunciation benefit. Yeah. If Breita is active, it's just a, it's a glory play if you play the Colonel. I would be, I think I would be fine starting the Colonel. I would not. Yeah. Because the way that I see it is, is I don't think Alfred Morris is going to, you know, really have that number two role. So if Breed is there, you're still playing a split backfield.

who's got work, and I don't think they're going to give Breda the whole kit and caboodle, so you'll be okay. Even if he's active, there's a chance, obviously, since it's happened twice already in seven weeks, that he exits again early, in which case the colonel takes over. So I'm a full go for. That's why I say it's a glory play. You're projecting Brita will play, and then go down, and then must people get the work. Lisham McCoy in or out. He is practicing already on the limited basis. He's in the...

Concussion Protocol. He's the Monday night game, though. So unless you're getting clearance by early Sunday morning, you better have Chris Ivory or someone that you can pivot to if you want to rely on Shady. Do you think he'll play? I do. Royce Freeman, in or out? Out. Chris Thompson? He's practicing in a limited basis, but he did last week as well. And he did not play. Eileen.

I lean out as well, but if he's in, or is he right back in your lineup? Yes. Oh, 100%. Peyton Barber? In or out? I guess he's back. I mean, he returned to limited practice on Thursday, so I believe that he will play, which we were talking about Ronald Jones as a low-level running back too. If Peyton Barber plays, you can remove that statement. Let's go with Sony Michelle. No, he won't play. Wide receivers, Alan Robinson. Didn't practice Wednesday or Thursday, in or out?

That's troubling that he didn't practice on Thursday as well. He's completely not practicing. I'm going to lean out. Geronimo Allison, Randall Cobb. I think they're both going to play. Robbie Anderson. Did not practice on Thursday as well. So trending out, but hopefully that doesn't matter. He's an in for me. Real quick, he was not spotted so far today at practice. He's wearing camouflage. Rob Grankowski. He was.