The Halloween Show! Week 8 Studs & Duds + Fantasy Greed - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/31

The Fantasy Footballer Studio is brought to you by Samsung Galaxy. Visit Samsung.com to learn more. To the Fantasy Footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Ah! Welcome in! Happy Halloween! Happy Halloween Foot Clan. Welcome in to the fantasy footballers. Yeah, man. Monday, October 31st. Well, we did it. We did it. We made Jason sweat profusely before the show even began. There's nothing like wearing a fur coat under a trench coat and then throwing wigs and beards on. So we've got you paying homage today, Mr. Moore. Yes. The late great Robbie Coltrane.

Rubius. Rubius Hagrid. You're a lizard, Sammy. Mike is sitting here as the dude and then. Yeah, man. What I am. I'm saying it's the white Russian. And I'm not weird out. I'm not weird Al. I am Greg Dulcich. Oh, send in the Dulcich. And it's our Halloween show officially. That was a spooky Sunday. Yeah. Yeah, it was for a lot of people. I mean, there were just such huge performances. Yes. I'm not over it. I understand. Ooh, it was not a good Sunday for you. I was wondering at what point of the show we would get into it. I wish that, and I said this yesterday, we chose the wrong career. The average, the average person is allowed to rage quit fantasy football every five years. We don't have that choice, Rubius. No.

And so, no, I, I, uh, you sent him in. You played Greg Dulcich and he did great. It was pretty good. Yeah. And, you know, dragged down at the one. If he had gotten in, that would have been cool. But, uh, four for 87 for the D. Hey, that's not too bad. That is not bad at all. I'm sure you were happy. I know you were happy because when that performance happened, you were happy. I made, I made two, uh, Made two midweek trades for Tony Pollard and two a tongue of Iloa. How did those work? Oh, great job. You must have won. No, I lost by 0.20 thanks to the last dump off by Daniel Jones into the hapless arms of his miscellaneous tight end that meant nothing. And, hey, it meant something to that guy. And if I had played Kyle Pitts, I would have won.

Because, of course. That's the way it goes. But Kyle Pitts taketh and Kyle Pitts taketh away. We, uh, he taketh and he taketh away. That's right. He doesn't give. No giving. Uh, we, we do celebrate the weekend with some Monday pun day each and every week. We asked for Halloween themed, uh, puns this week to commemorate what was a, a pretty wild weekend in fantasy football. Beginning with, unfortunately, Rahim Gostert. Oh, he was missing Daniel Bones. Or Tyreek kill. He murdered. Once again, there was Remonstor Stevenson. Or Skarek Carr. Andy deserved one of these. A pits or treats. There was the pits. And then you got the Silence of the Lamb haters. Haters.

De Haunted Foreman. He haunted me. What is this? This is good. Jonathan Taylor Tombstone. Or DeAndre Happy Halloween. You had Gus Dreadwords. Or doodily doot. Devante Adams family. I don't even... That's the whole Raiders. The Raiders were the Adams family. It's not even a good one. Jacoby Michael Myers. And Darnell Booney. Oh. Scary also faced him. Yeah, there is nothing quite like losing to DeHanta Foreman either. Yeah. Yeah, running backs don't matter. Am I right? Yeah, they don't matter unless you had one of the five that just blew the league up this week. Yeah, I had Derek Henry go for over 200 yards and two touchdowns, and he's not the running back one or two this week. Well, uh, positive regression for Mr. Alvin Camara.

Yep, I hope you were listening to the DFS pod and maybe played around with that two touchdown Alvin Camara. I have so many hairs in my nose right now, guys. Oh, I can't, I can't see anything. I mean, usually YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballer. The deucers are dressed up as well today. If we want to. Yeah, baby. And they're in deucers alley. Look at that. Oh, look at that sign. You've got to go to YouTube immediately. Oh, yeah. We've got Conan O'Brien in the middle. We've got a just a literal pickle. He's a pickle baller. Yeah, he's a pickle baller. And then we have how we see Josh all the time in our heads. That is right. Which is the jester. Josh, why didn't you dress up?

Yeah, it's Halloween, man. Yeah, man. Come on. Get it. It's my natural luck, man. Yeah. Looking good, fellas. We've got studs and duds on the show today. Some news to talk about because you can't escape a weekend without a few injuries. News and notes from Around the League. Presented by USAA Insurance. And Foot Clan, I want you to follow along with me. I know Jason began the show pretty uncomfortable. So on a scale of 1 to 100, where did you begin the show? Where are you now? Uh, I started a hundred is is maximum discomfort. Max, I started at 24. I'm at a 28 right now. Oh, you didn't go up that. Slowly. No, no, no. But I think the longer this goes and the more sweat and hair gets in my eyes, uh, I think, I think it'll escalate quickly. It'll ramp up. Yeah. You're the best part to me is, well, there's a little bit bigger today. Well, yeah, because it's a big, putting on the weight. Uh, no, you would day.

But you're without your glasses, you have the commitment to being Hagrid. You can't see nothing. No. That's true. If you, if the fuckland could see my laptop screen right now, it is zoomed in. And you're, I mean, you have a fur. There's like, you're just in a regular costume, but you, you are. You feel like you can't move for some reason. Yeah. I don't understand it. You're acting like a statue. You're allowed to move, man. It's easier said than done, gentlemen. It's just a wig. You can turn your head. How do you do all that groundskeeping? Barely moving like that. All right. We had, we had news that the Bengals are not putting Jamar Chase on IR. All right. That's a treat. Yeah. Not always, I'll say this. We've done this long enough to know that that's not always the right decision by a team.

We've had many times that they haven't done it and then they've kept them out longer than the IR. Yeah, I mean, it's really... Flexibility, right? Sometimes when a team does not put a player on the IR, it is a sign that they are going to miss fewer than four weeks. This is the hope. When you've got a superstar like this, someone that's so important to the offense. Like we saw this with Keenan Allen. They didn't put him on the IR. He missed... the full IR time. They just want the flexibility in case that player can get back quicker than expectations. They're too important to the offense. It's worth the roster spot. And so that's what's happening with Jamar Chase. I don't think he plays in the next month. Tyler Higby exited with a neck injury came back into the game. And then at the end of the game, Cooper Cup. Yeah. Injured his right ankle.

was seen with the ankle wrapped and limping following the game and the world came to a stop. It's complete garbage time. I mean, the game was over and done with. This is why it's like I still don't really understand when. Yeah, Daniel Jones should have taken a knee. Good point, Jason. He should have. Like the NFL should do that more when you're out of it. And, you know, there's two minutes left in a game and you're down three scores or whatever. That's laying down, man. That's soft. Zeke would never do that. Just stay healthy. That's what you should do. Unfortunately, he got injured. And because it was at the very end of the game, he had a full game. I think this is going to be missed by some people. So would you, like, if you were, if you, if you had Cooper Cup right now, would you consider trading him away? No, no, they've said they thought he, Bush League. They think that he dodged a bullet and it's just a minor. Yeah, see, they think it's a minor injury. Well, that's just don't know. I don't know. No, there's, there's no possible way I'm trading.

the number one wide receiver on the, like, I'm kind of scared he might have a bum ankle for a week or two. I don't know if you saw this, Al, because I know that the, I know that the betting line on Cooper Cup's receptions was seven and a half. Did you happen to follow along? I took the over. Yeah, but did you follow along to what happened? Oh, no, I didn't. You were here and he had seven receptions in the first half. Do you know when he got his eighth reception? I don't know. One minute and 14 seconds left in the fourth quarter. When he got his injury.

Yeah. Wow. No, I had no idea. I mean, he barely hit the line and you were walking out of here thinking you were a wealthy pickle. Yeah. Thanks, Coop for getting it done. It wasn't just a full garbage time catch because it was important to some people. That's right. Christian Watson came back and then he left concussion. This guy, man. That was really sad. He finally gets back from his hamstring injury, goes out with a concussion was ruled out pretty early. We'll have to wait and see if he's available to play next week. He's. Still someone that I am wanting to stash, even though Romeo Dobbs, of course, on my bench had a good week, as did Michael Gallup. Devante Parker exited with a knee injury. They basically got good news today on that. Not looking too serious. Jonathan Taylor. Foo, man. Aggravated his ankle injury at the end of the first quarter. It was five for 38 before the injury. Came back. Was 11 for 38. Didn't get in on the one yard line. Just one of many of my players that didn't.

It was an interesting strategy that the Colts employed. They had Sam Ellen Ginger with his debut. I mean, like he had some ups and downs, but the part that really hurt the team was Sam is taking like all of his snaps and shotgun. Yeah. And so they get down to the goal line and they're in shotgun. And they give the ball to Jonathan Taylor who loses like three or four yards instead of the normal under center. Under center, what are the odds that Jonathan Taylor gets in from the one? I mean, like 80 plus percent? Yeah, we saw this. Jonathan Taylor's rookie year when they started out in the shotgun, I think it was at Philip Rivers. And then they figured out like, oh, man, we can run a much better running offense, you know, when we are under center instead of in shotgun. And they've got to figure that out quick for Jonathan Taylor. I'm looking at the numbers here last year.

when Jonathan Taylor was a monster, 47% under center for what it's worth. Okay. So I wanted to see how bad it was. I mean, the truth is, is he's not healthy right now. Right. And then Ellen Gerr didn't check the ball down at all. I mean, he had his season high in receptions last week. It's super concerning and frustrating if you have Jonathan Taylor because you don't want to trade him for pennies on the dollar because he's Jonathan Taylor. But at the same time, you're not getting anything. To help your roster. I mean, you're... But the positive news, because it's out there. The Johnny Taylor Tilt is real. I just got tagged in a tweet that was, this person could trade four. They would get Jonathan Taylor and trading away Gus Edwards.

and Cortland Sutton. Oh my goodness. So the people who have Taylor are... Can't do that. They're furious. Well, I would take... You could do that. I'm sorry. I thought you were saying that he was trading Taylor away. No, no, no, no. He would get Taylor. So this person. So, I mean, on Smash and acceptance. Look at... Different team, of course. But the point is, look at Alva Camara. Look at how the season started for him. It was... A catastrophic first round pick. He was bad. Then he missed a bunch of games with injury. And you're like, when the heck am I going to get good Alvin Camara? And then elite running backs, they turn it around. The last three weeks, Alva Camara has been great. And then the, you know, the crescendo of this week into being, oh, well, there's like that Christmas Day Alvin Camara that I was hoping I'd get in the first round. So do not.

I would not tilt trade Johnny Taylor. Is there any situation where you could? All I heard was yada, yada, yada. He didn't get me point three more to win me my week. Yeah, I hear you there. I feel you there. But remember, this is a long season. There's a lot of weeks left. And even if he's not at full strength for the next two weeks, there's so much football left. Keep playing. Keep playing Jonathan Taylor. He's going, like Mike said, the elite running backs, they're going to be good. He's just injured right now. I would be paying mine to whether Dion Jackson needs to be on your roster right now, though, because they could give him a week. We'll see how practice looks. Irv Smith got hurt again. Yeah. Same old for him. MRI today. Mark Ingram out as well. And we will be on watch for the trade deadline, right? We've got that coming very, very soon. This Tuesday. Tomorrow at 4 p.m. Eastern. Now.

I mean, the most clear path here for a trade is Kareem Hunt to the Los Angeles Rams. The fact that they were running out Ronnie Rivers as their primary running back, which Darryl Henderson had been dealing with illness over the week through practice. So it's like that sucked. If you were counting on Henderson, we weren't expecting Ronnie Rivers to be the guy for the Rams. But with the Rams loss and the fact that they did that, Do you kind of foreshadow that is more likely to trade for Kareem Hunt or does that not change your opinion at all? I personally think it's more about the Browns tonight. I think that if the Browns lose, they are basically OUT of the division. I think it's going to be too far gone. If they win, I think they're not just wanting to get rid of Kareem Hunt for anything. But if they lose tonight's game, they're probably thinking Kreme Hunt doesn't help us do anything of relevance this year now that we're out of it.

Let's get a pick for him. He's not on, you know, under contract for next year. So that's what I'm watching for. You guys ever refresh your scores and hope they changed before? Oh, yes. I remember losing to stupid Jester Papa Josh by 0.2 points earlier this year. I checked that score all the time for any kind of update. You're still going back? You lost to you. You lost to stupid gesture, Papa Josh? Yes, I did by 0.2 points. That was today's news and notes brought to you by USAA Insurance. Learn more at USAA.com slash insurance. Let's get into the studs.

This week's fantasy stud muffins. Where are you at now, Jay? I'm at a 33. You're at a 33? It's escalating, but I'm feeling good. I got a fan on my legs and I'm not wearing pants. So this is really helpful. That is not a joke. No, no. And from what we understand, Hagrid did wear pants. Sometimes. Okay. Sometimes. I've read the book, so I'm kind of an expert. You are an expert. All right, quarterback studs, Tua. 29 for 36, the highest rated passer in football. 382 and 3 looked great. And you can look great when you've got Jay and Laudeau and Tyree Kill. Yeah. Does the passer rating take into account like if this wasn't Tyree Kill that he had thrown the ball up to that the receiver is not coming down with that pass? Well, I mean, look, I'm going to give to a 100% credit. Wow. 100%. I'm not, this is not too dog on him, but there were.

Tom Brady has Chris Godwin and Mike Evans. But I'm saying Tua played a very good game overall. But there was at least two deep passes that were just drastically underthrown. And it was Tyree Kill's speed being able to stop and come back to the ball and then just his overall skills. But that's why you do it. You know that he will save your bacon. But it's like the cardinals. The passer rating. That's all I was asking. No, no, the pass rating does not factor in how good the wide receiver is. It's certainly helpful. But for fantasy purposes, this is why you can continue to trust Tua. He's got Jalen Waddle. He's got Tyree Kill. And he is a good enough quarterback to just get it done with those guys every single week. So Andy, I know you've been talking about you grabbed Tua for this week's matchup on Justin Herbert's bye. And now going forward, you have a legitimate, a real question of like,

Do you just keep rolling with Tua, especially while Mike Williams is out for the next month? I think you play the matchup there. I think I'm going to play the matchups. And the truth is, is Tua's got two weeks now that are better than anything Herbert's put up this year. And they play Chicago next week. So something to look at. Jalen Hertz, another big first half. Dude, someone keep pace with the Eagles, please. Seriously, I kept, I literally pulled up the Eagles schedule, praying that they played like the bills at some point this year because nobody could keep up with them. So he has a monster first half and he has a sprinkle in a little bit later. But he only had two rushing attempts, which is by far his lowest of the season. And it didn't matter because he didn't need to run. Bomb after bomb after bomb to AJ bomb.

Try it out. Didn't like it. Thank you. And we'll talk about A.J. Brown here in a minute. Yeah. Justin Fields. Yeah, baby. Are they figuring this offense out in Chicago? I think you have to say that they are because this is now, what, three or four weeks? His three game pace on the ground is 1,303 rushing yards. They are utilizing him properly. Yeah. So we got three weeks in a row. QB 13, 8, 5. and currently sitting against Dallas. Yeah. And the Chicago Bears were in this game. If you look at the final score of 49 to 29, like, wow, they got shellacked. I bet the Bears put up some garbage points. But deep into this game, the Bears were keeping pace until Dallas, the much better team eventually pulled away. But this is very encouraging news for Justin Fields here. Oh, man, the run for Justin Fields, Miami, Detroit.

Atlanta. And what Andy... Justin Fields, baby, let's go. Well, Andy said, as far as are they figuring it out? Yeah. That is true. You're downloading a new software. Yeah, they look at how they started the season. You had 28 rushing yards, 20 rushing yards for Justin Fields. And then... Now, I mean, they are opening him up as a running back. They are utilizing his strengths. He hasn't been anywhere near that since that point, 47, 52, 47, 88, 82, 60. Yeah. He is his baseline of rushing now that they're utilizing him the right way is outrageous. And so as a fantasy asset going forward, Justin Fields is more than a streamer. He's a top 12 quarterback right now. Yeah. He's real. This, I mean, this is great. It's.

Yeah, you suck, Matt Nagy. Oh, it's official. Oh, he sucks. Oh, gosh. I thought we had to trade, trade news there. Dak, Prescott, Kyler Murray, Kurt Cousins, Marcus Marietta, all showing up in our studs. The one I want to talk about is Dak, even though it sucks because I played against him and I hated it. It was beautiful to see him back. The throws looked good. He spread it around. Gallup was involved. And they're going into their buy. Because they're going on the buy and Dak showed me enough that he's back, I think if you're struggling at tight end, maybe kick the tires on Dalton Schultz. Because the only worry I've had for Schultz is injury, but he's going into a buy week. So you might be able to get him and the rest of the season if the Cowboys offense is clicking. I think that's a good play for you. All right, quick break and back with the running backs. All right, let's talk about the bountiful week for running backs, starting with Alvin Camara.

Super Camario, 18 for 62 and one rushing touchdown, but better than that. Nine for 96 and two touchdowns on 10 targets. Yeah. Through the air. Yeah. He went bananas. And his target share, his target share while Jarvis Landry and Michael Thomas have been out is just outrageous. We've been talking about this. The touchdowns haven't come. But he's not finishing the year with no touchdowns. He's going to be great. Hopefully you were able to trade for him over the last couple weeks. And they were just dominant. This was a game that just, the game script, you didn't need to use the whiteouts very often. They shut out the Raiders. Yeah, they were just, they were dominating on the defensive side. Derek Henry, 32 for 219 and 2. Ho-hum. That's actually lower than I would have.

He expected watching the game. I told you he'd make it snow. If there ain't no snow on the ground, he can make it snow. For the record, there was snow in Vermont this week. So this is unsurprising. I believe this is he now has tied the NFL record with six games of 200 plus rushing yards. I want to say. Against one team? No, just in general. Four of them are against the Texas. And I want to say it's like four in a row. Like, I can't wait for the next Texans. The last four games against Houston, 219, 250, 212, and 2.11. Oh, so yes, I wanted to say that. Snow on the field. And he's mashed up with the Houston Texans. That is, uh, it is super sane. That's a security threat for the entire country. Yes. He has nine touchdowns in those games. Uh, Tony Pollard. He only had 14 carries and it turned into 131 and three. I also played him, by the way. I traded for him and I played him and he's supposed to auto win you the week.

But no, I played the next guy, Deonta Foreman, who also had three touchdowns. But the Tony Pollard people, the hive on Twitter right now, just losing their minds with the, see, I told you if you make Tony Pollard the starter. And I don't think our argument against Tony Pollard has never been that you put him in a full-time role as the starting running back for the Dallas Cowboys. He's going to be dominant for fantasy purposes. It's just. The team loves Zeke, and specifically the man who writes the checks loves Ezekiel Elliott. Jerry Jones was asked after the game about Tony Poller's performance and Jerry, no, dapping him up at this, then says, yeah, but we go, we're going as Zique goes. Jerry Jones already put in the kibosh. Two weeks from now, back at Green Bay, we know who the starter is. It's Ezekiel Elliott. Tony Pollard, there's nothing he could do.

to become the starter while Zeke is healthy unless he kills Jerry Jones. That's maybe the only thing he could do. It's spooky. Jerry's pretty old. Yeah, he is. He might not have to do much. Oh, come on now. You know who did way much? Christian McCaffrey. Oh, baby. I feel like we skipped the Deonti Foreman credit. Okay, go back to Dei Ante Foreman. Can we go back there for a second because 26 for 1118 and three is worth. Worth a sentence or two about the future for Deonta Forman. DeHonte Forman? Yeah. Yeah. Speaking of Christian McCaffrey, who needs you? Right? He's gone and Deonta Foreman looks awesome. He's far enough removed from the Achilles injury where people can just ignore that and all of a sudden he, I mean, he looks great. The coaching staff was saying that he reminded them of Derek Henry and you saw it.

This was one of my favorite players coming out of college. Deonta Foreman was great. His weight adjusted speed score was outrageously high. I was all in on Foreman. And then the Achilles got him. But if he's back and he's in this role and now I know Chuba was gone, right? He's got the angle injury. Chuba's going to come back. But after this performance, I don't know that you can, Chuba will be involved. It will be a timeshare. But it was. Chuba as the starter and Deont of Foreman as the backup. I think that flips. Deont, like, Foreman was still coming out on third downs and things. He just, this was, this was the perfect storm for Foreman to have the monster game. The Atlanta Falcons are just terrible on the defensive side of the ball. They allowed him to stay in the positive game script where they could keep running it over and over. And because the defense is bad, you get huge plays. So I'm not, while, while Foreman is still in play as like,

I need help at the running back position. I'm putting him at the flex. Next week on the road against the Cincinnati Bengals, I am not expecting 26 for 103. Yeah, but do you know who they play in two weeks? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They're back to play in the Falcons. So maybe you don't trade Deont-Forman. There was a stretch in this game where there was 10 consecutive scores. Yeah. This game was wildly entertaining, which was, as everyone predicted. That Ingram injury, a grade 2 MCL sprain. He'll be out three to four weeks. So they'll make a move. We have McCaffrey, Jason. You can now talk about the batting the cycle. He had a rushing touchdown, a receiving touchdown, and a passing touchdown has not been done since Ladani and Tomlinson in 2005, almost 20 years. And that was against.