Week 4 Matchups + Swedish Hamstrings, In-or-Out - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/2

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This is Melvin Gore, and you're listening to the Fantasy Footballers Podcast. The Fantasy Footballers Podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Welcome in. It's Friday. Someone had a double shot of espresso over here. What's the haps, my man? You're on fire. Friday, October 2nd. No haps, Mike. No haps. It was that game.

It's just, yeah, it was the barn burner. The kicker battle. That game was fun and terrible. It reminds me of, so, you know, like, it's dinner time. Yeah. You're like, it's dinner time. Yeah. You're like, oh, crap. I'm hungry. I have no idea what to eat. Yeah. We're well past me making a meal.

I'm going to go through the fridge, the pantry, and I'm just going to slop something together. And you're like grabbing all these random ingredients. You put together. It looks disgusting. And then you eat it. You're like, oh, okay. It's better than I thought it'd be. You're like, okay, I got some nutrition. We hit the over. We had a good time. Yeah. And the few fantasy options that you did play actually came through. I mean, if you played Melvin Gordon.

I would say he took it up to 100, Andy. How long was the last run? 43? So that was a 43 yarder? Just to add on pilot on. You had Crowder have a good game. Jerry Judy had a good game. Look, it was fun, man. Yeah, you had Judy. I did have Judy. James and Crowder was fine, like you said. No offense. He got injured. Yeah, left early. The good news is they said that it's not, it appears minor. So I expect he'll be back next game.

Sam Darnold, that run? Where has that been? That's called the, I'm going to slide, just got you. Defense stopped. Every defensive player kind of thought it was pretend or something. Yeah, I feel. Quarterbacks should be practicing the pump fake slide.

It's called no respect. That's what it's called. The defense had no respect for Darnold. It's been reported this morning that despite being 0 and 4 with a negative 66 point differential, Adam Gaze will remain the head coach of the New York Jets. That's a good one. In fairness to Adam Gase, he had to play against a third string undrafted quarterback who came for his first start.

flying across the country. That's no easy task. Agreed. What's also no easy task is for B-Rippin over here, Brett the Ripper. He played a fantastic game until like the final half of the fourth quarter. It was like, oh, he lost all of his powers, forgot how to play football and just starts turning the ball over a bunch. Last night gave me some flashbacks to when I played quarterback in our flag football league for multiple reasons. For one,

that Sam Darnold run, that was me. Mm-hmm. Because it was so elegant. And there was often no respect for your running game? No respect for the running game. And somehow I could sneak around. And two, the B-Rippin game was pretty much, that's pretty much me in a nutshell. Oh, you're looking good. Oh, you're throwing it well. What was that? My wide receiver did me the favor. That's what Judy did. And then two just, uh-go interceptions, which was my kind of, that was my thing.

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Closkey. Congratulations, Matthew. Thank you for supporting the show. Yeah. And you can... Mr. Clusky. Coming in. Mr. Clutchkey is what it should be. Yes, that's right, Jason. Pristineauction.com is where we got that sweet signed jersey. Use the code ballers at pristine auction.com. One announcement before we get into the news, I am pivoting my start of the week. I'm not going to be caught with Will Fuller's hamstring.

Because this popped up on the injury apart late yesterday after I made Will Fuller, who's got the perfect matchup set up for him, here's Will Fuller's hamstring, knocking on the door again. I'm not going to, look, he's supposed to play. The report this morning, he's supposed to play. It's a great matchup. If you've got the fortitude to do it, it should work out if he stays healthy and he plays. It's me. The hamstring. Don't forget about me. Why is the hamstring cell?

gear in the frozen universe. That's 100% what it was. Big someone blowout. So I'm going to pivot. I had Joe Burrow as my quarterback start of the week. I'm going to give you Tyler Boyd. Tyler Boyd started the week. Stack attack. Last week, 13 targets, 10 receptions, 125 yards. Over the last two weeks, Joe Burroughs understood a simple fact about this offense. When you target, Tyler Boyd, it seems to work out. Eight targets, seven receptions two weeks ago ended up as the

Wide receiver 10. Last week, the wide receiver 16. This is a great matchup against Jacksonville. So I'll make the pivot save myself from the Swedish hamstring or whatever that was. Yo-hoo. Big hamstring blowout. Oh, no. No, we don't want a hamstring blowout. No. News and notes from around the league. All right. We have more COVID news. Oh, come on, man. I'm sorry, Mike.

Adam Schafter reporting two more Titans players have tested positive for COVID-19. That is seven total players, six staff members. Mercifully, the league made the right decision, canceled the game. It seems to be contained to one team. And Mike, you're making a face. We don't have more news, do we? No. The news is now we have to speculate moving forward. They have the bills next week. That game.

Basically, Schefter said, if more positive cases come this weekend, that game's in jeopardy. Yeah, where we stand right now, the plan that's been floated so far by the NFL is a very simple, very elegant solution. I think it was you basically have to move the Pittsburgh and the Ravens game. Yeah, from week seven to week eight. And that was going to take care of the situation. Now, if you're taking two games off of the docket, you really have.

a competitive problem going for the Titans and there's quite the mosaic puzzle for the NFL to figure out if that happens. We don't know for sure that it will, but we hopefully we don't have to deal with it. Yeah, Major League Baseball had to deal with a more significant multi-team issue. They got through it. They got to the playoffs. The league not playing this game, that it was an important decision.

And we're all hopeful that all these players, staff are safe, healthy, and it doesn't spread any further. And we get through it. It's, um, 2020 has been a weird one, guys. Did you, did you know that? I've heard, man. Stay safe. Take care of each other. Some inner out questions for the week. Julio Jones. Is he going to play? He's trending in the right direction towards playing. I think he will play, uh, Russell Gage is someone that is also trending positively through the concussion protocol. So he could be a pivot. What about, uh, his teammate, Calvin Ridley?

Yeah, I believe he plays as well. It's the Monday night game makes things a little bit difficult here because you have, so like let's say you're counting on Julio Jones. I guess the pivot that I would be looking at is Marquois Valde's scantling. Jason's take it up to 100 player because you're not sure that Russell Gage is going to play. If someone has Calvin Ridley, they're also looking at Monday trying to get their pivot ready. So you better, you better just throw MVS on the bench right now.

All I heard was Will Fuller in a bunch of lineups based on this news. Devante Adams returned to practice. He did say he wants to be 100% before he plays. He will not play 1% under. So if he's not feeling perfect, he will not play. That is scary but smart. Alan Lazard, this was big news. Jason mentioned Marquez Veldez Cantling yesterday without any knowledge that Alan Lizard was injured. And here, all of a sudden.

He's undergone surgery. Yeah. Core muscle surgery out indefinitely. That sucks for the Lizard King coming off clearly his best game of his career. Yeah. And so MVS will be targeted. Those tight ends that got involved last week could be more involved this week. And then Aaron Jones will, I mean, he bears the burden of this offense right now. Michael Thomas. Michael Thomas. Is he going to return?

You know, they've said it isn't a lock that he's out there. He's practicing in limited fashion. It's too early to tell. I'm going to listen to Matthew Betts injury podcast. You can listen to that over at Jointhefoot.com for the premier tier. I'm going to listen to him more than me because there's really no telling. The timeline says he could get in, but he probably won't be 100%. So I don't know if they'll put him out there or not. Yes, the Saints are the early game.

on Sunday, and we'll have a Friday practice report. That's what Betts ends up talking about, all the Friday practice reports on that pod. Jared Cook did not practice on Thursday. That's not good. Hopkins didn't either. DeAndre Hopkins' ankle injury, Cardinals, GM, Steve Kimes said it will be up to Hopkins to make the decision if he plays. Based on that and Hopkins history of playing through everything in his career, I expect him to be out there. This was an injury nobody knew about. Yeah.

So it's not, so that makes it not fair. It certainly feels that way. It does. It's like, wait, what Hopkins is injured? When did that happen? Yeah. My team in our league of record has Beckham, Hopkins, and Hunt. All three left the game totally fine according to all the knowledge we had. And eyeballs. And eyeballs. And here's Beckham added to the injury report with the back injury. Hunt didn't practice again on Thursday. They've said it's not serious.

Yeah, but they're not. But they're treating it like it's serious. Also, we did bring up the promotion of Dantrell-Hillard to the team that was in response to a special team or rookie that they lost. So that was not necessarily for Kareem Hunt. However, it does help them in the situation if Kareem Hunt still continues to mispractices. So TBD, I mean, you've got to monitor the Friday practice reports. Make sure you're following our social media account on Twitter. We will put out.

All the information there. Yeah, we'll have game day alerts on Sunday. Michael will be live again on Sunday as well with last minute inactive reports. Terry McLaurin added to the injury report with a thigh issue. It's not a great matchup. He was the one red skin. Oh, man. Washington football team. Yeah, I forgot. We got to get there. Terry McLaren was added. Are you worried about his availability? I think he'll play. All right. Chris Carson, Carlos Hyde, both limited on Wednesday and Thursday. I think maybe both.

play. Yeah, this is really a wait and see. If Chris Carson is active, are you guys just going right back in? I mean, you probably don't have another choice. Yeah, I agree with Andy. If he's active, you're going to end up playing him. What else do we have? DJ Chark. Yeah, he's practicing, but we will see. Are you playing him if he's active? Because Doug Marone said he's comfortable with him playing this week. I want to see what a...

his practice status is for Friday. If we get a full practice here, then yeah, I'll put him back in. The other, like, bigger note here, and this is just a strategy note, Leonard Ford did, Leonard Ford. Leonard Fork, Leonard Fornett did not practice Thursday. We knew from news a couple days ago that all of a sudden it sounds like Leonard Fornett is not going to play. Ronald Jones becomes very, very interesting for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. But there was also a quote earlier,