Week 8 Studs & Duds + Monday Punday, Blame Mike - Fantasy Football Podcast for 11/1

because Melvin Gordon, you cannot replace Derek Henry. You can't because there's one of him. So it doesn't matter who you try to get. You're not. You're correct. This is going to have to become a more past, happy, past-centric team. But they do need a running game. And getting Marlon Mac or getting, you know, Tyson Williams or someone like that, it's not going to do anything for you. It's not good enough for a true, you know.

pretty much locked into the playoffs team that wants to contend. Someone like Melvin Gordon, he will be enough. He will suffice to help run most of your similar offense, be able to score around the goal line like Derek Henry does. And you tell me that the Broncos who have their future in tow in Giovante Williams wouldn't take a draft pick for Melvin Gordon at this point? I'm telling you they won't because they are four and four.

Like the Broncos are playing to win. Now if they were, I guess this is Jacksonville, you know, which we have some Jacksonville news as well. I'm just saying a team with that type of record, then yes, you need to trade. But it's not fair because their record is shallow and fake because the three of their four wins were the three worst teams in the league. Yeah, but they don't look at it that way. It wins a win, man. Yeah, they should look at it that way, though. Yeah, they could consider it.

James Robinson exited the game with a foot injury. We heard it, I think it was a heel injury. They have said he's managed, it's not a significant injury. So he is day to day. Week 9, that status is in question, though. Yeah, it's great, great news though. It's funny because we left yesterday and not worried about Derek Henry and worried about James Robinson. We come into today with the reverse. Right.

Jay Glazer also reported, Kyler Murray dealing with a medial ankle sprain, and the Cardinals are hoping the extra rest allows him to not miss games. So that's a wait and see. That would be a massive blow to the Cardinals and a massive blow to fantasy football. James Winston, the New Orleans Saints quarterback, suffered a knee injury. It is believed to be significant. If you watched it happened, he is not horse-collared, but like-swisted like a horse-call. Yeah, dragged down from the back.

The knee does things that the knees are not supposed to do. He tried to walk off the field, went down. This is incredibly unfortunate for James. It's like, the Saints, man. The New Orleans Saints just beat the Super Bowl champions, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, a team that is.

along with the Buffalo Bills, one of the favorites to go back to the Super Bowl this year. They did it, half with James Winston, and half with their third string quarterback, Trevor Simeon. Trevor Simeon, I believe when he went down, it was 7 to 7. What? So they did it entirely in one way with Trevor Simeon. And Taysam Hill, there's a lot of questions of, okay, trade deadlines coming up. Are you going to go try to trade for a...

Jimmy Garoppel or someone like that. And Taysam Hill is expected to be back on Wednesday. I don't know the entire health, but I think he will be their quarterback going forward the rest of season, whether he gets back this week or not will be determined this week. Yes, Taysam Hill is expected to clear the concussion protocol by week nine. Taysam Hill goes right into being a legit fantasy quarterback. Start of the week, call it.

Okay, you called it. Sam Darnold had to exit the game in the fourth quarter with a concussion. Rob Grunkowski saw one target and then left the game with back spasms. That's a bad beat, man. That's a bad fantasy beat. Hopefully, Gronk is okay. If you didn't see the Sunday night game, Dak Prescott was warming up, but he did not play. It didn't matter because Cooper Rush.

Took down the Minnesota Vikings. I don't know, man. The Minnesota Vikings took themselves down. Woof. Woof. They were at home. Woof. Against Cooper Rush. They put up, what, 16 points? Woof. Gross. I am so sorry for Minnesota Vikings fans. You have such a hard run of it because you always have a good team. But you just always have heartbreak. It's just not fair to the Vikings fans. And also, I'm so...

upset with the Minnesota Vikings. Yes. Do better. Yes. Also, I have heard on the social media is that it's my fault because... Oh, it is your fault. You heard. In the Dynasty League, I have this magical power where whichever quarterback I start, they play bad. And it's between Kirk Cousins and Daniel Jones. So...

Daniel Jones about to go off tonight. Put the bets in. If Daniel Jones has a monster game tonight, he will have a monster game tonight. We all know it because it's happened every single week of this season. I have no choice but to factually believe that I am causing these things to happen. If you look at the crazy game logs of Christian Kirk, you posted this in our company. Of Kirk Cousins, yes.

Yes, of Kirk Cousins. And you look and he scored 26 points, 31 points, 31 points, 12, 15, 34, 15. Guess which ones Mike started him for? It was all of the bad ones. It's incredible. I am very good at this. Good job. T.Y. Hilton exited with a concussion. He has already been ruled out for week nine because they play on Thursday night.

The Bears running back Damian Williams. He exited with a left knee injury. It didn't turn into a great game for Khalil Herbert, unfortunately. Now, Khalil Herbert was a little banged up in that game, too. Is there any news on him? I haven't seen anything yet. Producing staff. See if you could find out the latest on him. Just a moment. Miles Sanders, I don't know if we had talked about it on the podcast yet, but he is on the injured reserve, so he will miss three games. And as, you know, as I thought, Kenneth Gainwell.

The running back to while Miles Sanders is playing. So naturally he's going to see a bump up. Maybe Boston Scott takes some work. But Kenneth Gainwell should be. You did also say that you thought Boston Scott was a good start. You'd start both of those guys. You shouldn't. Yeah, no, I was half right. Yes. Boss Scott was a great start. The running game against the Detroit Lions, great. Kenneth Gainwell at the same time as getting his opportunity.

promoted, got demoted. He was the clear third back in the rotation. If you look at the end of game carries, you might say, oh, he was number two. He was not. He had one carry through the first three quarters, and then they were up like 41-0, and in comes backup quarterback and Kenneth Gainwell, who's apparently, I don't know how that happened, why that happened that he just got. The first report, we solved anything like this.

was actually during the warm-ups to the game. Someone was reporting the surprising news that Kenneth Gainwell was running with the backup quarterback and the second stringers while Bosses Scott was taking all the first string warm-up reps, and it was just surprising. But I think that was one of the biggest hurts this week. Yes, and we were talking about perhaps the addition of Miles Sanders' snaps and opportunities as his share was going up.

Maybe that was less about Miles Sanders or more about Kenneth Gainwell. So it will be a situation to monitor because Sanders is going to miss two more games. Boston Scott could be a plug-and-play guy. Coach Pete Carroll of the Seahawks acknowledged on Friday that Chris Carson is in danger of missing the rest of the season with his neck injury. This sucks for Chris Carson and that locks Alex Collins in here to a pretty strong role. Robert Tunyon, the update.

It was confirmed. You saw it coming. We knew it, yeah. But it was confirmed. It is a torn ACL, so he will miss the remainder of the season. The update for tonight's game, Sterling Shepard and Cadarious Tony are now both projected to play. So that's great. Well, of course. Of course Cadarious Tony is going to play. Oh, yeah, because Daniel Jones is about to ball out. You're the Giants fans. You're welcome. You are welcome. Had I not, had I started? Had you played? Yeah.

Daniel Jones, I mean, Daniel Jones would be probably gone at the first quarter mark. Cadarious Tony would not be playing tonight. So you are welcome, Giants fans. That was today's news and notes presented by Sleeper, the leader in breaking news alerts. Download Sleeper. Join the Breaking Alerts channel. It's faster than every other source. And before we get to the stud muffins this week, want to thank today's sponsors and fight camp. The holidays are coming up. I mean, they're here right now.

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Fantasy Footballers listeners get 10% off their first month at BetterHelp.com slash footballers. All right, Jason. There's a lot of studliness that needs to be talked about. Mm-hmm. Let's go. This week's fantasy stud muffins. Josh Allen. I don't know. I don't know how. Unbelievable. So, you know, in the Draft Kings lineup, I paid up for Josh Allen, which was a huge mistake.

About three quarters of the game? Yeah, because he had done nothing. He was, you know, I was trailing and Josh Allen did. He finished as the check's notes. Quarterback won on the week because at the end of the game. They had three points at halftime, right? Something like that. It was horrificly bad. But it goes off about 250 passing yards, two scores, and then, of course, eight carries four, 55 yards on the ground and a score.

This is the exciting one. Mike White of the New York Jets, 37 of 45, for 405 yards, three passing touchdowns against at that moment the AFC leading Cincinnati Bengals. But Mike White came in and said,