Pump the Brakes, No-Bell Prize Winners, Counting Crows

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Coming to you from Draft.com Studios with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Ah, welcome to the podcast. Oh, oh, stick to landing, man. Russian judge is not impressed. Maybe. 649 shows was okay. 650. Too much. Maybe I was a little bit. Choked up.

I mean, I was, clearly. But maybe it had to do with, you know. Oh, no. Maybe it was my way of dealing with it. Sure. Maybe I just choked on some spit. I don't know. Sure. Speaking of choked up, we'll get into the football. But I finished the new Adam Sandler show. Oh, yeah. The ending is fantastic.

It's incredible. You're talking about the Netflix special? Yeah, his Netflix special. Now we're going to get accused of sneaky Netflix ads. But this is not. This is legit. I watched this last night and I was getting emotional. It's like he thanks to everyone for growing old with him. I'm like, holy crap. Yeah, that's you. Adam Sandler's been a part of my life for 20 years. Yeah, you realize all of a sudden you're, that it's you. And then I looked in the mirror and instantly 5,000 wrinkles just appeared on my face. They were already there. They sure were. No, they were!

Wednesday, November 14th, 2018. So you were more emotional about Adam Sandler than you were Lev Bell, is what you're saying. Yeah, Lev Bell, I've already removed him for my life. We'll talk about that momentarily. We have a great show today, the Thursday night preview, a ton of Foot Clan questions, some mailbag for the upcoming week, some news and notes, lots going on. I wanted to remind people, I mean, next week.

Is this right? This is correct. Megalodon. Is Thanksgiving that close? Yeah. Yeah, it is. It's the 22nd? Yeah, you can't, you don't get the feeling of like terrible food. The Megalodon episode is the 25th. Megalodon. It's the 21st. So, I mean, this is a big deal, guys. It's a huge deal. Yeah. This isn't not a regular show. It's the megalad. No, you got to start preparing yourselves now, Footland 2. Hydrate.

You're going to have to hydrate. You probably need to fast the morning of to make sure that your body is prepped for the longest show that we do every year, the Megalodon. Do people normally consume a Megalodon in one city? They have to. It's rule. It's the rolling the strong. You don't start it. If your job starts 30 minutes from now and you start that podcast, you are an hour and a half late to work. It's by rule. Well, you can't listen at work.

Correct. You've got to dedicate yourself. What if you, what have you keep? The Megalodon. If you keep the earbuds in, though, while you walk from the car to your office, you just can't let it stop. I mean, I think that's the key. Sure. All right. No matter where you're moving. You can listen however you want to, Fulclaim. Don't listen to Brooks. Get out of here. 650 shows is just about enough of you. Megalagon. All right, Megalodon next week. Yeah.

That just basically means a really, really amazing show. Yeah, of course. That's very long. Yes. Yeah. Brooks won't be able to handle it. At the FFBallers on Twitter, YouTube.com slash the Fantasy Footballers. Join the Foot.com is our fantasy football community of more than 7,000 of you Foot Clan out there that are hanging out and get various perks, premium projections, flex ranks, all that stuff at Jointhefoot.com. Like a live stream today. Yeah. No doubt about it.

Jason just remembered. Ah, yes. Thank you very much for reminding me that we have a live stream today. In some ways, you could call each live stream a surprise live stream. Because we are not very good at, you know, like it gets planned out ahead of time, but then Brooks walks in and goes, today's live stream. And then we all, you know. Oh, yes. We're like, yeah, let's do it. And then we're lying. You push a button. It is Wednesday, though. And on Wednesdays. Oh, oh, oh.

O'Reilly. O'Reilly. Auto parts. Pump the brakes with O'Reilly Auto Parts. We thank them for sponsoring this segment. Who are you pumping the brakes on for week 11? I'll jump in here. It was originally just going to be Adrian Peterson against the Texans. I'm not expecting very strong things, especially with the offensive line of the injuries for Washington. But I'm going global. I'm grouping them all together, and I'm saying I'm pumping the brakes on.

Washington's offense the past six weeks, only the Houston Texans rank top five against the quarterback, running back, and wide receiver position. This is not a matchup that I want in on. So if I have other pieces that I can plug in, I will pivot away from Adrian Peterson and the like. Well, I mean, there's an argument to be made that pumping the brakes on Adrian Peterson and pumping the brakes on the Washington offense are.

Sononymous. One and the same? They may be the same thing for most fantasy owners. Well, I mean, look, Doxin's a touchdown maniac these days. Maurice Harris is obviously incredible. But, no, I get it. That makes sense. And I'm taking a similar approach. I'm pumping the brakes on the Bengals offense without A.J. Green. It hurt. We said it on the show. We said, ugh. Like, I want to be all in on more targets for Boyd, but it doesn't. It changes everything. It changes what's available to Boyd. And then Mixin, we said maybe it'll affect him. Well, both guys struggled last week.

They play Baltimore coming off the by this week. They have recently fired the defensive coordinator. It's a bit of a, they're teetering on the ledge here. They did add your favorite coach of all time, though. That's a good point, Mike. You don't, you don't see a big, huge Axon bump coming for this Bengals offense? I see a huge axon. A huge nothing. I see nothing. Look, Andy Dalton, Tyler Boyd, Joe Mixon. Look, you're starting Joe Mixon. Right.

You're probably starting Tyler Boyd if you own it. But I'm not expecting big things this week from anybody on that offense against Baltimore without AJ Green. Tyler Boyd is not an auto start for me. You need to look at your team and see if he is the best option. He very well could be this week because he'll have the targets. He has the most routes run on the team. But he's not an auto start with a bad matchup if the Bengals are struggling. I agree.

pump the brakes is going to be on a guy that started so hot that you just assumed he is an every week, every week must start for a garbage position. That is Jared Cook of the Oakland Raiders. Now they lost Amari Cooper. He's got to be great. The problem is Jared Cook has sucked. He has not been very good at all. This reminds me of something because this is pretty rare, a very rare occurrence in the brain of Mike Wright.

I had a dream last night that I was hanging out with John Gruden. And we were driving around. This is called a nightmare, my friend. No, it was awesome. We were driving around at a truck, and I'm asking him, like, candid questions about, I'm like, oh, hey, so which quarterback are you going to draft? And he just laughs. And I talked about how you, like, well, would you, would you have traded Derek Carr if someone would have given you a two? And he says no, but a one.

He said that? I was like, John Gruden, you're being so honest right now, man, I love it. That's fantastic. What do you say about Jared Cook this week? Says stinks. Yeah, there you go. So here's the thing. Jared Cook, first four games of the year. He was on pace for 104 receptions, 1,480 yards, eight touchdowns. You go, he's just going to be great. The last four games, including two without Amari Cooper, 48.

reception, 624 yards, four touchdowns. He's not a must start this week specifically. I mean, Jared Cook is still a startable tight end going through most of the weeks going forward because it is so garbage. But it's a very low over-under game in Arizona. So they're on the road. There shouldn't be a lot of points put up by either side of the ball. It's the lowest over-under in the week. Exactly. So just a lot of arrows put it this way. He's not in my top 12. So if you're in a 12-team league.

I believe there are 12 tight ends I would start ahead of Jared Cook this week. Did you have any dreams last night, Jay? I'm sure I did. But you don't remember them? No. I think I was in the back seat and in the front seat was... Me and John Gruden? Mike and John Gruden. Yeah, I had a very different dream last night that I was the guitarist for the counting crows. We'll have to bring this up on our spitballers podcast. So I've got more problems than either of you at the moment. Let's talk news.

News and Notes from Around the League. I now realize, I mean, just how strange that sounds if you didn't know that, like, we had been joking about the Counting Crows song. There's no context. Like, there's no context. Like, I'm just a 34-year-old man. Mr. Jones. We were talking about the Mr. Jones and me song about Aaron Jones. And then that turned into listening to Counting Crows around the office. And now I'm the guitarist. Congrats. Are they touring? I doubt it.

So congrats on your retirement. The only thing they're doing is that little video special on Monday Night Football. Oh, they're next. Yeah, it's like them, Bush, Dishwala. Who else is in on that? I don't put Bush in that category. Bush is great. Bush was on it. They were already on, man. I'm saying in the category of like, oh, that's fair. Oh, of 90s alternative? Yeah. That's fair. News and notes from around the league. Spin Doctors is next week, by the way. No doubt about it.

Spin doctors. We see you. All right. This is the final bell. Look, I, it's, this is difficult. This is the end. This is the end. This is great news. We don't have to talk about Love Bell anymore. That's the great news. I put out a tweet. I said, look, some of you need to deal with your hatred, your anger, your sadness, your toil, your drafting of Love Bell early. I said,

Give me your puns. Give me your puns. Give me your end of Lev Bell puns. Now, one of the first responses I got says, I'm sitting out on the puns in hopes of long-term pun security next year. But for those of you who were living in Levi-on-Hell this year, the bell has told there is no bell at the ball. And if you drafted him, you're the honorary winner of the Nobel Prize. Oh! Oh!

Oh, yeah! There's the way. Oh, that feels so good. But Lev Bell did not report by Tuesday's 4 p.m. deadline. He is out for the remainder of the season. I had a listener. Send me a screenshot. They dropped Lev Bell to pick up Eli Manning. So I was physically ill after seeing that for a couple of hours. This is good news for fantasy football, though, because now there is a stud running back in Pittsburgh. If Lev Bell came back, you don't know. Yeah.

Is it, is it Bell? Is it Connor? Who's the, you got to talk about it? This is just great. There's clarity. If you had Bell, cut him. He can't play. He's, like, by rule, he is out. No, if you have Connor, there's a bridge situation. Oh, yeah, you got a backstorm. You're punting love. It's a quick follow-up for James Connor. What is your level of enthusiasm or, I should say, confidence for Jalen Samuels? Uh,

As the handcuff? As the handcuff for James Connor. Plenty. Yeah. I mean, that's who they have brought in, especially this last game. Also, I believe on Yahoo, he still has tight end eligibility. So. That'd be pretty sweet. That would be absolutely bananas. Certainly does not on ESPN. I'm not sure about sleeper, but. Yeah, he was a tight end in college, technically.