Week 3 Matchups + Andy's Wild Night, Wheel of Shame - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/24

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Welcome in. I was going to give you it's money time. I'll worry you, but I went too long. Yeah. Thanks for stealing my thunder. Andrew Holloway. So selfish. Oh, welcome into the show. Just an ordinary Friday morning. What a game. What a night. Welcome to the fantasy footballers podcast. I mean, I think I could literally make the joke. I don't know what happened last night in a way.

Yeah, why don't you tell the people what did happen? Because I know a lot of people follow us on social media. They're excited for the show. They're like, I can't wait to hear it. But many, many people out there, I would call them wonderful idiots that aren't following us on social media, but I still love you, might be unaware of what just, of what you did last night. I still in complete shock and disbelief. There's so much to the story. But the headline is it's somehow, some way.

On the heels of Mike's tremendously sad, I lost $40,000 story. Cool. Why are we bringing that back up? I entered the Draft Kings Millie Maker for Thursday night. The showdown. And we are brand new to the DFS world where we can participate in these. And genuinely, and Brooks, you know this, about 30 minutes before we left the office yesterday, I told Jason, I said, I love these Thursday night millymakers. They're really fun. Gives you something to do.

You can track all of the action easily. You're following along. Yeah, I mean, you're watching one game, right? And we're so used to nine games on Sunday. We both made a lineup. Yeah, I'm like, Jason, these are fun. We should do it. You're like, oh, yeah. I did. Oh, I cashed, man. I did. My lineup did very well. I cashed. I think I got 30 bucks. I won. You sure did. Oh, man. First three. Yeah. I somehow won on two.

lineups. And I mean, I'm just shocked. My wife was giving me such a hard time for even participating in any of this. And it's somehow this. How's that feel? Somehow that didn't get redeemed with the victory. But I won first place and $46,000. We've had three weeks. Arizona took us three weeks to take one down. Let's go. And so a couple headlines here. First of all.

I'll say this publicly so that I follow through with it. But if it weren't for Jason, I'm not sure I take down the millie maker. So I'm giving him one sixth of my winnings. Oh, all right. Let's go. Because we're leaving. Yeah, but I was like, hey, Andy. No, you left early yesterday. You left early yesterday, Mike. Shoot. Jokes on you. You would have had the same lineup. But no, what was funny is, you know, these Thursday night contests, you have a captain.

and that player gets 1.5 times their normal points. And then you have five flex players. And so my lineup was Sam Darnold as my captain. DJ Moore had a great game. Brandon Cooks had a great game. Then I went with Davis Mills. Not a lot of people went with Davis Mills, the other quarterback. A lot of people went with the Panthers D, which I understand. And then Anthony Miller is sitting there at $1,000. I put him in. And I got one spot left, and I'm kind of looking, we're walking out the door.

And I'm going, man, what's this spot? Is it Jordan Aiken's for a couple thousand? Is it Terrace Marshall for a couple thousand? And then Chuba Hubbard's like, oh, you're building a non-CC lineup already. Why not throw Hubbard in? And I'm like, yeah, that makes sense. He goes, what if CMC gets hurt? Oh. So I realized that this is not a good night for everybody. Yeah. But the second headline here, guys, I'm the same person.

that you know and love. I, just because I took down the millie maker. You have been incredibly humble. We showed up. I'm the same person. We showed up to a lot to interrupt guys, but Al. Andy had a rush delivery that just showed up. He said it's important. Okay. Oh. Anyways, I'm the same guy. Got a new hat. I'm the same guy I've always been. And I just want you to know that. Quite the fancy. I'm going to stay humble. Oh.

Oh boy, we do have a jam-packed wild and crazy show that I will wear this hat for the remainder of. Including our draft king segment at the end of the show, which means one of us is spinning the wheel of shame. Yeah, that's me. It's Mike. It's not me. It's me. And so no chicken mask for me today. We have nine more matchups in the fantasy forecast. Let's briefly hit.

last night's game. Beyond me winning. The big news here is obviously Christian McCaffrey. The injury is devastating. And, you know, in the league of record, I have CMC. So I am with the people out there that spent that first round pick. It is devastating. It is just horrendous. And I know the scars and the feelings of, you know, you want to label it. You want to say he's injury prone. He let you down last year.

We don't have follow-up MRI data yet to know how severe it is, but if you follow some of the clues of what happened when it was in the game, the importance of Christian McCaffrey there, how quickly...

He was ruled out along with him, calling himself immediately off the field. You have to presume it's going to be a multi-week injury, not just a little, you know, it's a little tight. I don't think this is going to be an Austin Ackler situation. I think this is going to be something that sidelines him for a while. I expect that we will get news in a couple of days as to whether or not he goes on the IR. And that'll be that three-week timeline. So we'll know if we think he's just going to miss two weeks.

or if he goes on the IR, we'll know he has to miss at least three. And so that's going to be, you know, we'll talk about this a lot on Tuesday's waiver show. But Chuba Hubbard will obviously be a very, very important pickup. And I see Andy smiling over here because, look, the rich get richer. In our league of record, I am playing against Andy. And I have Christian McCaffrey had. And.

He picked up Chuba before the week, you rascally dog. He was never not working, man. Yeah. And DJ Moore is great. I mean, the breakout continues for DJ Moore. DJ is fantastic. 12 targets. Oh, it was amazing. And Darnal just missed him. They get your holy snikies in there. Yeah, you did. And Darnel just missed him late in the game on a, on a deep shot that would have housed, but unfortunately overthrew it by about half a yard.

What do we do here with Robbie Anderson? So what's interesting here? Besides crying, because we've established that crying is fully allowed and encouraged in fantasy football, sometimes very necessary. Robbie finished one for eight on only two targets. So it's disconcerning for sure. I do question, obviously, if CMC misses time. In this game, it's different, right? It's very different when a player...

gets injured midgame versus you know you're without a player and you're installing a new game plan. And you brought up Christian McCaffrey as a big reason to worry about Robbie Anderson coming into this season. He's the primary target. Do you think the role changes for the weeks that he's out? Not really. Not really. I don't. And I think a lot of this has to do with Sam Darnel.

And the game plan and the way that he has eyes for DJ Moore and the way that they're drawing up these plays for him. He gets out of the pocket. He rolls left. DJ Moore is this crosser that's not what Robbie's doing right now. And I mean, you stare at three weeks into the season and you've got better fantasy production from the Dan Arnold's and the Alex Erickson's and Tommy Trimbles in the lineup last night. You know, it could be better for him without.

all of the targets, but Chuba will get targets. Chuba wasn't there last year, right? Like the, Mike Davis was. So, yeah, I don't know. I mean, it's got to be better than it was last night for Robbie Anderson. He just signed a huge contract. So if you want the counterbalance, it's he's paid to be an integral part of the offense. It just didn't go that way last night. They also were in a game where, like you said, it was disrupted on offense and they weren't going to be threatened by the Texans offense. So.

I think it gets better. I don't know if I'd go as far as to say I'm buying low on Robbie, but there are going to be people out at this point. I think there's a lot of people that want to drop Robbie. Don't do that. And that's, I would not drop him if he was on my roster. I would also commend and remind people not to to toot here, but like you said two weeks ago before the Saints game, go trade for DJ Moore now. You called your shot and you said that this game would be big. Hope you got them.

Because you're not going to trade for him anymore, just like you said. You had to buy him two weeks ago. If you did, thank your local Mike. Yeah. That was by high. And now it's. That was by high. Now you are. I don't think you can anymore. And we did. We, we said in week one to get rid of Robbie. Because it was a one touch. When you get a one catch for 57 and a touchdown, that is a sell chance. You're not going to, you're not going to sell them on one for eight last night. Right. On the other side of the ball, it's Brandon Cooks and nothing. Dude. What?

Brandon Cooks. He's so good. Like, I mean, I was, yeah, I got the DJ Moore. I apologize for fading Brandon Cooks because he's been outstanding. Why don't people, why don't teams want Brandon Cooks? Meanwhile, he's just, he's dominating. He dominated with General Davis Mills. Like this guy. Do you think this could be like a not on the field problem, like a bad body odor issue in the locker room? Oh, man. He's one of the, he's, he's all natty. Yeah, I don't know, man.

It doesn't make sense, especially when he's gone through teams that have incredible coaches, right? Like, who's good at identifying talent? Would you consider Sean Payton and like Bill Belichick? Yes. And they all shipped him out. But they all brought him in as well. So you got to see both sides of it. Here's a Kyle, the editor extraordinaire, just pointed this out. Among wide receivers younger than 28 years old.

Brandon Cooks has more receptions than Calvin Johnson did, more receiving yards than Antonio Brown, and a higher yards per target than Randy Moss. It's crazy. He's so good. All right. Well, it is Friday. Foot Clan Friday. It's Foot Clan Friday. We give something special away, and why not give away a DJ Moore signed jersey? Yeah, baby. DJ Moore signed jersey from pristine auction.com is going to Josh Dow. Josh Dow, congratulations. You win this week's giveaway.