Week 9 Studs, Duds, and Supervillains! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 11/6

We're talking about the studs, the Texans, and we're talking about the duds, Gabe Davis. I hate you. On today's episode, we're going to walk you through this weekend's football. Make sure you subscribe and enjoy the show. To the fantasy footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome into the podcast. That's the fantasy footballers podcast, if you're nasty. And I'm nasty. The nasty boys are here today, everybody. Welcome in. I'm your host today. There's a bear here too. There's a nasty bear. Mike the Fantasy Hitman Wright, your host for the day, joined by my best friend Jason Moore. What's up, best friend? Hello, best friend. Jay Grizz, aka Cardboard Bear, extraordinaire, aka J. Riz. He is loving, uh, he's loving himself, uh, what he's seeing from the bears.

I mean, the process. But he, he did inform us, we may have to have an official nickname change. Oh, really? Yes. Of who? Of the quarterback. Of Bilbo Bagent. Okay. Because we didn't know how to say his name at first. Right. And we thought I was bad. Yeah. So it was Bilbo Baggent, but then it turns out it's Baygent. Right. And it doesn't flow. And it doesn't sound that great. So he has been polling for Secret Baygent man. Secret. All names on this show need to have a fun musical soundbite because that's how we work here. But anyways, welcome into the show Monday, November 6th. Crazy, crazy week of football. A lot of very disappointing things and yet some very incredible things like Josh freaking Dobbs.

Oh, man. Destroying the supervillain. Yes. That is Snidly Whiplash freaking Arthur Smith. No practice. It took, it took Josh Dobbs literally nothing. He walked him off of the, he flew in, went right to the stadium, got the call, and defeated Arthur Smith. Keep in mind, he didn't even get the five days of practice with the first team. He wasn't supposed to start. The starter goes out injured and the backup who doesn't know this system comes in and beats Arthur Smith down for all fantasy football managers. Thank you, Josh Dubbs. Oh, you're giving him the dub? Yeah, I mean, he got the dub. Yes. We are all forever indebted to Joshua Dobbs for the service that he provided in week nine. Oh, what? I was just thinking. I was like, oh, man.

Who am I going to root for this week against the Atlanta Falcons? Who am I going to root for? It's our Cardinals. Yes. And Kyler, let's go. Now, are you- For America! Are you conflicted? No, I'm not conflicted at all. I want a pure and utter beat down of Arthur Smith. You want to sacrifice the number one pick to beat Arthur Smith? Set it on fire. We're not going to get the number one pick with Kyler. Probably not. But- Anyways, follow us on the social media is Instagram.com slash fantasy footballers. The social team is always hard at work putting up incredible content out there and over on Twitter slash X. At the FF ballers. You can follow Jason at Jason FFL. I am at FF Hitman and Andy is at Andy Holloway. Jason. Are you feeling sophisticated? So, so sophisticated. We will start.

With C.J. Wowed. Oh, C.J. Proud. Tank Delicious. Tank Delia, man. Or what about taste some heel, yeah, man? Run Mondre Stevenson. Go forever. Oh, we have a late breaking edition. Cleveland. Westee. And Dalton Kingade. But it wasn't all great. Travis P.U. Smelsey. Pooper Cup? Oh, no. Devin Dingleberry is back. Duky Metcalf. Tony Poo Lard. And my personal favorite, Brett Rippin Farts. And of course, Arthur Smithereens, as he was blown into a thousand smithereens. Smithereens, that's a good word. I don't think I've...

I've said the phrase blown into a thousand smithereens in a very long time, and I'm disappointed in myself. What does smithereens actually mean? They're just, it's a real small something. Really? No, I don't know what it actually means, but when I use it. Small broken pieces. Yeah, there we go. Okay. Smithereens. How did they, where did that word come from? I'm on it. Like, did. From the Irish word smitterini, which means little bits. Okay. Okay. I was going to go into a soliloquy about a man named Smithers who got blown up. Had an unfortunate ending. Pretty dark. Hey, man, I don't know what it is. But that was the puns. Thank you so much for everyone who shared them this week. Let's get into the news. News and notes from around the league. Presented by USAA Insurance.

If you missed it, the Chargers placed Darren Waller on the IR with the hamstring injury. That stinks big time. There's more bad news for the Giants coming up. The Chargers also placed Joshua Palmer on the IR with his knee injury before. We got a fun game tonight. Giants quarterback, Daniel Jones, likely out for the year with a torn ACL. Sorry. They got to confirm with the MRI. Tyrod Taylor's out on IR, which leaves Tommy, not Danny DeVito, and Matt Barkley is on the practice squad. If you saw the Daniel Jones sequence of events, it was a big time bummer of he was trying to evade pressure as Daniel Jones has had to do very, very many times this year, and then just went down non-contact. He thought he could get up and play through it. The very next play.

takes his drop back plants and just crumples goes down like a sack of potatoes and you knew that something was really wrong with Daniel at that point. Yeah, and Tommy Danny DeVito is, man, he's not good enough. There's a couple backups playing this week that are just not good enough to be in the NFL. Well, I mean, he's a, in his defense, he has a third stringer who is not ready yet to start. Yeah, I mean, it's fair. He shouldn't be starting, but right now it looks like he might have to continue starting with the injury to, you know, Tyrod Taylor's on IR with his rib injury. So right as of now, it looks like it's Danny DeVito, who I'll tell you what, man, Daniel Jones, Daniel Jones had been terrible. But if you ever want to look at Daniel Jones like Arnold Schwarzenegger,

Danny DeVito comes in here. You got a twin situation where it's like, man, give me Daniel Jones. Daniel Jones is the Arnold one? Yes, for sure. Kyle is suggesting Carson wins from Matt Ryan, Jay. Carson wins. Well, here's the bet. Here's the thing. The Giants are on their way. The season is done. The season is over. Yes. They've already lost so many games. They don't need to bring someone in to try to win. They just, they need to go after that number one pick. and have, you know, they're in the running now for Caleb Williams. Sure. Yeah, it's probably in their best interest to trust the process for next year. Eagles tied end Dallas Goddard, who fractured his forearm against the Cowboys. He is expected to have surgery missed about four weeks. So probably we're going to see IR, but it is not season ending. Yeah, I would guess that he will go on IR. This.

is unfortunate news, obviously, for Dallas Goddard, for the managers, for the Eagles. However, we did see when Dallas Goddard missed games last year. That is where Devante Smith caught fire. Huge bump. Huge bump up for Devante Smith. Vikings running back camakers tore his Achilles on Sunday. No, this is not deja vu. This is not a repeat. This is a new injury to his other leg. So he is now torn both Achilles. Unfortunately, I mean, that's the end. That is his career. That is the end. The reason that Joshua Dobbs became a national hero, which I am starting a GoFundMe for a parade. Oh, just a parade. And it's going to go from Minneapolis down to Atlanta. Nice. It's going to finish there. It's going to finish at Arthur Smith's front door. Yes.

Okay, yes. Perfect. And look, I mean, I don't know for sure, but I think that the people of Atlanta will also be celebrating that once Arthur is going. I know for sure that, you know, we know some Falcons fans. They absolutely hate Arthur Smith because all people hate Arthur Smith. He is the supervillain. Like, it's been a, like a, what, the self? Self-fulfilling prophecy of him getting himself into this situation where people on the outside are getting frustrated with him and then he just doubles down and then we double down and we're in the quadruple down portion of the back and forth. It's only going to get worse. Oh, yeah. Oh, certainly. So I didn't, I haven't watched any of his press conference yet from the loss.

Oh, I have not either. I really want to do that. There's got to be some gems of him being an onry old, no-it-all man talking down to people. We're pulling the projector screen down, Jay. We're having a whole group viewing. Get the popcorn. Inside of the fantasy footballers headquarters. The reason why Josh Diles was playing is because J. Hall left with a concussion, as did K.J. Osborne. Both were, I mean, were brutal hits. K. J. Osborne was out cold for a bit, but seemed to be. okay-ish. I mean, he has a head injury, but like was, you know, kind of smiling, waving as he was getting carted off. Josh Downs of the Colts, he aggravated his knee injury. He had to exit early, so he will be questionable going into next week. Packers, wide receiver, Christian Watson, was evaluated for chest and back injuries on Sunday against the Rams. He was also evaluated for a concussion towards the end of the game. This guy,

I mean, he cannot stay healthy. No, that's been his biggest issue is staying healthy, although I don't know at this point if that's the biggest issue or if Jordan Love being his quarterback is the biggest issue. It was weird. I mean, it was full Jekyll Hyde because Jordan Love was atrocious in the first half and then was very good in the second half. He was. He was definitely much better. But on the course of the season, I feel like the sample is large enough now. Like, he's had a couple amazing plays. This season, Jordan Love has done some really good stuff. But he is so incredibly inconsistent with that. Like, there's just too much, you know, when 75% of what you're doing is bad and 25% is great, like, you can't be good enough in the 25%.

to make up for the majority of the time sucking. He was so bad in the first half and yet ended 20 of 26. Yeah. So that's 77% completion percentage. 228 yards, 8.8 yards per attempt. One touch. I mean, and then they handled the ramps. That was today's news and notes presented by USAA Insurance. Learn more at usaa.com slash insurance. Studs of the Week, presented by NFL Sunday ticket on YouTube and YouTube TV. Real quick, I want to go back to what you said. They handled the Rams. I just want all credit to be given to Brett Rippin Farts. Because Brett Rippin was one of the handful of guys this week that were so beyond not NFL quarterbacks that it was like, you don't need to watch this game. You can't.

do anything. Brett Rippin was atrocious. Clayton Toon was worse. I mean, it's, it was a problem this weekend, which is why, you know, we're in the studs now. The studs across all positions are just the Texans because it wasn't a huge week for most people. What a game. Yeah, so we start at the top. CJ Stroud, 470 passing yards. That is a rookie record. Five touchdowns. He is currently on pace for 4,800 yards and 30 passing touchdowns. Goodness gracious. Where are you with C.J. Stroud? I'm in love. I mean, we said this super early on in the season. We talked about like, okay, we're calling it now. It's official. He's really, really the real deal. He's good. He's going to be great. For fantasy purposes, I'm still much cooler on him.

than a superstar fantasy asset because I think he's going to be a pocket passer. And obviously, you can stay in the pocket and put up 40 fantasy points like he did. I believe this is the highest fantasy game for a rookie. Maybe of all time. It has to be. I think it's of all time. I know it's more than anything Cam did. And Newton had some crazy great games, his rookie season. Maybe because of rushing. Yeah, but goodness. Usually, though, you're not going to throw for 470 yards and five passing touchdowns when you're in the pocket. You're going to have a really, really solid good career from C.J. Stroud, but he's just not, he doesn't add enough on the ground to excite me for him being a stud future fantasy option. Yeah, I understand. If you didn't see the Texans game, it was.

I mean, it was unbelievable. Just a back and forth. Both teams' offenses were absolutely doing work. You had, you had an emergency kicker from the Texans. Dare a Gumba Wale. Shout out on the puns. There was Dare a boom boom. Wally. Nice. I mean, we've heard that name. His name has come up in the past as like a. a running back who got a call up because of injuries in front of it. A pass catching runner back. And the kicker was hurting. He had to go in and he had to kick. And he kicked a 29-yard field goal that puts them- Super important. That put them up. It put them up. And it was like, well, this game is done. But then the Buccaneers went all the way down the field and they scored and there was 40 seconds left. So this game has done the Bucks one. And the Texas need a touchdown.

No timeouts. And then Tank Dell and C.J. Strout, it was an absolute incredible comeback. I really recommend if you have not seen the highlights from it, go watch. It's a good time. That might have been the game of the year. Between two teams with losing records, it was still absolutely unbelievable. And he is definitely the real deal. So, Jay, we do have an update. In four-point passing touchdowns, that was the highest fantasy output by a rookie quarterback. barely beating out Josh Allen. Okay. And that means in six point, it certainly is because he had five passing touchdowns. So this is the best fantasy performance in a single game for a rookie of all time. That's amazing. Dak Prescott, 374, three passing touchdowns, some unfortunate errors at the end of the game. So for, I mean, if you're a Dallas Cowboys fan, but they played great. The Eagles end up taking the victory. But DAC has now finished as the QB one.

the QB3. He is currently the QB2 and I will be so bold to say the farthest he will fall after tonight would be quarterback three. You don't think Zach Wilson? I don't push him out. I don't. I'm sorry, Zach. But so he's been absolutely incredible. It was Andy's start of the week. My second half sleeper. He gets to play the Giants, the Panthers, the Manders, Seattle, Philadelphia. That is the next, that is the stretch run here. For Dak Prescott, who they are heating up. He and C.D. Lamb are doing incredible things. Jalen Hertz. He's just, he is, every week. It's so ridiculous. I don't understand how he's so good for fantasy. I'm thoroughly, this is going to sound so weird. You know, he was my guy last year. I've got him in all my important leagues. He's like the centerpiece.

for me and i i love the man like the human he's such a awesome dude and i love him as a football player i say all that to set up to say like i've been watching this year and been so thoroughly unimpressed like i'm watching i'm like it just doesn't seem like he's doing anything special you watch josh allen it's like whoa you watch mahomes like how did he he's just he's just like uh let me toss it up here he's just lunch boxing man yes he's just like but every single week here Going back from week two on, here's his fantasy finishes at quarterback. Four, nine, six, three, two, five, five, three. He's basically a, not just a quarterback one, but a top half quarterback one every single week, no matter what. And this was against Dallas defense, which is great. And an injury scare. Oh, man. An injury. I was, I was ready to just. You like, what?

barely even knew what was happening and you're in our slack, just giving up on fantasy football, giving up on life. I can't, I can't lose my man. But then he was fine. Well, to be fair, it was right before the half. So we just didn't know. Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh, Josh Dobbs, 158 and 2, 20 of 30. He did have 66 rushing yards and a rushing touchdown as well, which that's exactly what you, I mean, he was playing. backyard ball. Yeah, he didn't know. He doesn't know the place. He's asking the guys, and he doesn't even know anyone's name. He, the more, like more and more just kept coming out about how unprepared Joshua Dobbs was to play in a football game, a professional football game. And he went out there and he beat the tar out of Arthur Smith. It was great. Awesome. Next week he gets the Saints. I don't think it's going to go as well. No. For Dobbs.

And, you know, nobody was playing Dobbs because he wasn't a starter. And I don't anticipate that you should be playing Dobbs. No, but the good news is I think we saw enough life. Like, T.J. Hawkinson is going to be fine. I mean, he was, he was still getting the regular T.J. Hawkinson treatment. And I think that Addison will be okay. It's definitely a tiered down. It's not the Kirk Cousins Addison you had, but we had the questions of are they, is Addison eliminated? Like. That was the fear for Puka and Cooper Cup. And yesterday, they were eliminated. They were gone for fantasy football because Brett Rip and Farts was just not able to get them the ball. There's targets. There's targets going around. Oh, yeah. They were just not. Yeah, Puka and Cooper Cup super involved in a fake way. Yes. So that's going to be very sketchy moving forward. But the point being, I think Addison.

over the course, we'll be okay. We do have the Justin Jefferson variable of, is he coming back? When's he coming back? I don't think anyone has real information on that just yet. Josh Allen continues to be a stallion and Joe Burrow, 348 and 2 against Buffalo. It was just, it's great continuation of Joe Burrow was back. And we had a little bit of his own scare in this one. I mean, he had a hurt fingee, which was very bloody. And then he had to It was heat or ice. They were doing something to the calf, the calf that he'd heard at training camp, and it was, oh, no. No, no, no, no, no. But he was fine. Please don't revert to early season injured Joe Burrow because that was not fun. I really enjoy the Bengals being great. This is four wins in a row now. And this is two big wins in a row. The San Francisco 49ers, the Buffalo Bills. That's saying, okay, you all counted us out. I counted them out. And he's.

The window is open. They are back. Before we get into the running backs, just going to take a quick break. Be right back. We are back with the running back studs. Jay, you almost played him. You declared you almost played him on your DFS line up. I liked him as a play this week. Rashad White keep targeting the Houston Texans with running backs. It worked out 20 for 73. I mean, it's not very efficient. But 20 carries and two rushing touchdowns and four receptions. He is the running back 15 on the year, gets to take on the Tennessee Titans and San Francisco next. We'll see. Do you trade high? There's just, I don't know, man. I think I, no, no, there are so few running backs that actually get the volume. Yeah. And get 20 carries and four targets. Yeah, 100%. I mean, he's a good, he's a good asset for fantasy. It's just a matter of, um,

Can you capitalize and get more from him off of a number one overall performance, three good weeks in a row, people being needy for him. You know, that's just, personally, I would see if I could try to trade up to someone that I think is just better, you know? Fair. Josh Jacobs, he looked pretty good after the... house clearing that the that ownership went with 26 for 98 two rushing touchdowns but zero targets we don't like to see that is that did he really have no targets he had no targets um the thing is is this is two games with aton o'connell and in the previous one he had a ton of targets so this doesn't make me afraid of like oh no the new quarterback

is going to not target Josh Jacobs. This was also, you've got to keep in mind, a one-sided, just complete beatdown of the hapless Danny DeVito-led giants. So they didn't need to throw, they didn't need to do much. They just kept running the ball. That's why he had 26 carries. He looked good, and man, is that Raiders locker room. You talk about the video, the Stogeys. Oh my goodness. The Stoogies were sparked up. These guys were celebrating like they just made it into the playoffs. Yeah. This was their Super Bowl. Like it was, they're so happy. Game one without the former crew got the victory. Ramandre Stevenson, the plan continues to work. Yeah. He's the running back nine over the last month. That's where, you know, we said, uh,

trade for him at that point. And he's been pretty good. Obviously, he was Ramandre Stephen sucks last week. But he was very, very good this week. He got a 64-yard run as fast as I've seen him look. Six targets. That's fantastic. Gus Edwards. Oh. What? Yeah. What indeed. If you faced Gus Edwards this week, I am so sorry because. It was ridiculous. He had five carries. He had no targets. He had five carries. He had five opportunities in this game. He barely played. He barely played in this game. Gus Edwards didn't hit 20% of snaps. He was in a few times, touched the ball five times, and is the running back six on the week because multiple touchdowns will do that. He also had a 42-yard run. Yep.

It's funny because his teammate, Keaton Mitchell, rookie sensation maybe. I don't know. We'll see. Had 138 rushing yards. Was excellent. Neither one of them played. This was the Justice Hill show. He was in for the vast majority of snaps. Justice Hill, Justice Hill, Justice Hill. This is a tweet from J.J. Zacharyson. Justice Hill, 48 snaps. Gus Edwards, 14, Keaton Mitchell, 13. Right, but Justice Hill, worthless for fantasy, the other two superstars. Oh, unbelievable. Alexander Madison, uh, wasn't, I mean, he came through for fantasy, two for 49 and a touchdown through the air. He still does not have a rushing touchdown. The schedule is the same as Dobbs, but we get Saints and then we, but then we get Denver and Chicago. And Camakers is no longer an inactive Minnesota Viking. It will go back to Madison and Ty Chandler.

A.k.a. it will probably go back to Alexander Madison being a workhorse. It's not the offense that you want a workhorse on. I mean, kind of like Rashad White. Uh-huh. But, again, not many running backs get a bunch of touches, and he's going to get a lot. Yeah. I mean, he's going to go back to what we saw where he, you know, there's 73%, 76%, 80% of snaps, 79% of snaps. He's going to be. you know, an opportunity volume play on a weekly basis. If there's a good matchup, you play them. If there's a bad matchup, you still might have to play him. Yeah. Aaron Jones, are we back? Maybe 57% of the snaps. 20 carries, 73 yards, and a rushing touchdown, and six targets. Maybe we're back. I would say we are back. His utilization looked like pre-injury utilization.

And he didn't appear slow or limited in any way. So I'm going to say we're back. But we're definitely back with this next player. Yes. Jonathan Taylor. It finally happened. 18 for 47. That's not that great. But then we had five for 22 and a score through the air. 60% of the snaps. Snaps. Moss, 23%. Just seven opportunities for Zach Moss has the invincibility superstar ran off. Yeah, it was actually, Jonathan Taylor was actually up to 74% of the snaps. So whatever they're saying, whatever, you know, wink, wink, nod, what happened last week, I refuse to believe them.