Fantasy Football - Playoff Primer + Trade Targets & League Winners - Podcast for 11/12

to the fantasy footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. And a special welcome to you, Jason. Yeah. That's right. I'm back. I'm alive. You guys. He's in a better place. You guys were hoping you got 50%. No, sir. We didn't even get to make 50% jokes that got so serious. You were actually legit. I was actually worried. Yeah. Well, welcome in Wednesday, November 12th. It's a full, full house today. Jason is alive. It seems like most people, most people on YouTube seem to think that we were covering for a hangover. Oh, yeah. That's what the majority opinion was. That would have been way more fun. What were we covering for, Jason? The vacuum. That's what we call it when both ends go out.

And then the vacuum exists in your insights. I hate to interrupt here, but the deucers actually got you a little care package. Okay. It's kind of like an emergency kit in case this happens again. Yeah. Oh, we have a basket. We've got a basket. Oh, thank you. Wow. There's a. Oh, we got a clock. There's an alarm clock. An alarm clock. A limbo couldn't wake up. Wait a second. Let's walk through this Jason. Why don't you tell the people on the podcast what you have in this beautiful gift basket as you. Okay. Very kind guys. Yeah. I really appreciate you.

We were worried about you, brother. The deucers really care. Well, first of all, it's impossible to open. I can't get into it. Well, let's just take a look at what's in there. Oh, we got depends. We got to do it. So now I can, I can still show up and do it live. Right. No, you don't have to worry about it. Who's doing depends now on, on television? Is that Emmett? Was it Dion? And Emmett. No, I thought it was Emmett. Peptobizmo, some tom's. and an alarm clock very there's some barf bags in there too oh that's great man because you cared about both ends the only thing that didn't arrive in time was your life alert device well thank you guys so you're very good round of applause for all the people love it jason today oh they really love it and this was just bad luck right just a run-of-the-mill random food poisoning it wasn't my fault

that the tenderloin I made was so good that I decided to eat it after it had been on the counter for I don't know eight hours I thought the microwave would fix things oh my did you really yes oh gosh I'm on your side I would have not thought twice it was delicious that's a lot of hours on the counter it was too many hours it was too many hours and look do you somewhere out there Somewhere out there, there are two helpful blinds installers who also ate this meat. Now, it's a couple hours before I did. Yeah, there's only one. But there's only one left. Yeah, Jay, you got them. Hopefully, you guys are okay. Well, Al, welcome back. Glad you're here. Refrigerated meat. Oh, man, it only took 3,000 shows for somebody to just not.

Make it. Yeah. And I know you felt bad, but physically is what we were worried about. We have a Wednesday episode of the show today. Thursday night preview NFL news to talk about backup options mailbag. And. And you got a gift basket. So if you start to feel anything. Oh, I got my pepto on lock. And you got it on lock. Congrats. Pook, Newcomb, still in the lead of the Megalabole. No, reclaimed. He's back. Oh, that's right. Smokey the bear had taken the spot. But Pook, Newcomb, Smokey the Bear, in the lead for the Megalibole. If you don't know what that is, if you're new to the show, we have a tournament, a massive 20,000-plus player tournament that starts at the beginning of the year. It's one of a...

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Did you say fart, fart, fart? Yes, that's what he said. One of the best jokes ever made on our show. The FF is. We got to want people confused. Poop, Poop Simmons. Oh, man. We got to hit a button and go into it. Backup options, presented by Progressive Insurance. Every Wednesday, waivers go through in your leagues, and we take a look at the most dropped players and make some suggestions, some backup options to pick up. Off the waiver wire, we call it, what do we call it? Backup options? Well, we, no, I know we call it backup options, but every week when we say to check the waiver. Oh, drop it like it's hot. We say keeping on who people also released on waiver day. The most dropped players on sleeper over the last 24 hours, Justin Fields, should always be the case. Every Wednesday, we should be dropping Justin Fields. Running backs, Isaiah Davis, after Reese Hall didn't get traded, Chris Rodriguez after the injury, Tank Bigsby.

Jacori Crosky Merritt, Singletary, Manuel Wilson, some of these for backup options. And then Kyle Monongai getting the drop. I don't like that. You know what he's capable of. I think Chris Rodriguez and Kyle Monongai are weird drops. I'll also throw out Dalton Kincaid, who is being dropped in a lot of leagues. He's been too important at the time in position. He doesn't appear to have a long-term injury. I would not be kicking him to the curb. Well, if you didn't get the waiver wire ads you wanted, here are some backup options. I will go with the world's slowest yet effective tight-in. Dalton Schultz is on a run. He's getting it done. He really is. He's been very solid over the last month. Tighten eight, seven, and four in three of the four weeks, double digits in three or four weeks. Targets have been up there, 11 this past week, eight the week before. Maybe Davis Mills likes going his way a little bit more than C.J. Stroud did.

But gotten to the ends on this past week, you know, you could do a lot worse than what, nine, six, seven targets or sorry, receptions in those games. And so I think he's an interesting kind of emergency play at the tight end position right now. Gadsden, does he play this week? I don't know. Doubtful. Thankfully, the Gadsden entry was not some kind of season ending. Big injury. The MRI was pretty clean. But yeah, I mean, obviously, if you have Gadsden, you are maybe in trouble this week. I'm going to throw out a guy that you two should have talked about yet. I did listen to the show yesterday. Great job. You are right. But Tyler Badegh, Tyler Badey, from the Denver Broncos, he is, I mean, the injury right now to J.K. Dobbins, they are.

it's kind of gone back and forth. It's like, oh, he might go on IR. Now I think the latest thing is like, oh, he's probably going to avoid IR, but that's in the conversation, meaning he's not going to play this week. Like his, his foot is legitimately injured. I do not believe the Dobbins plays this week. I think that RJ Harvey will be awesome, a must play type of player, but this is a system with Sean Peyton that they always utilize multiple backs. Tyler Badegh will be working. He's always liked him more than we thought he should or should. Yeah, for sure. He's still going to be the two-minute drill, the passing down back, who's already been involved. So certainly a player that needs to be picked up. And what I'm seeing on obviously waivers are running this morning, but prior to these waivers running, zero percent rostered. So he should be out there. That's a pretty low percentage. All right, I'm going with a situation where you can't play him this week.

But also, you know, waivers are going through. Let's get ahead of it. Let's get those options ready for next week as well. It's the San Francisco 49ers. They will be playing at Arizona. The offense has been better. Jacoby Brissette, apparently the only quarterback over the last four weeks who has been in the top 12 each and every week. And then they get Carolina, Cleveland, a by week in Tennessee. So. The upcoming schedule here for the 49ers DST, make sure you get out ahead of it because they'll be on the waiver show next week. All right, that was backup option sponsored by Progressive Insurance. Quote today at progressive.com. We have news. News and notes from around the league. Presented by Progressive Insurance. All right. Well, we did get the unfortunate update to the Travis Hunter situation undergoing season-ending surgery to repair a torn Elcio.

No significant damage. Hmm. Hmm. Yeah, it's, well, it wasn't an ACL and it'll be a much shorter recovery and he'll be very healthy going into next year. But season cut short for the number two overall pit. I get that, but I'm not a doctor. I think the last L and LCL stands for ligament. It's least crucial ligament. Oh, well, that's good. You didn't know that? I did it. I knew it was ligament. I just didn't know the beginning. Crucial. But yeah, it's unfortunate, but I'm glad it's not an ACL. He will be a very, very interesting discussion going into next year, assuming Brian Thomas is still, you know, there and healthy and they're going into the season. There will be some people who will be all the way in on Travis Hunter. He had his breakout game right before being injured. He's obviously very talented. The draft capital is enormous. I think I'm going to be out. I think I'm going to be out on Hunter.

Just because there are so many different avenues for failure, we still don't know how much he's going to play on defense, maybe coming into next year. His breakout game was like, okay, let's stop the defense thing. Put you on offense the entire second half, have that breakout. Next year, there's just a lot of question marks on how it could go wrong, whether it's Brian Thomas actually getting it together, whether he's playing on defense, whether it's coming off of an injury. There's a lot of, like, yellow flags to me. We have the J.K. Dobbins. We just talked about it, you know, not on injured reserve yet. I'm still nervous about it. Honestly, I think he could end up there. But hip drop, tackle, foot injury, you know, this is the Bucky Irving situation, too, where you had, you know, is he back soon? Is he not back? We'll see what happens with J.K. Dobbins. Can't report on too much more.

James Winston is going to start a quarterback for the Giants. This is a breath of fresh air. Brian Davel would never. Well, Russell Wilson would never make me happy if he was the starter. So James Winston. I don't think it's a coincidence. Well, perhaps not. But here we go. Darius Slate and Viable. Oh, yeah. Awesome. This is so great. Wondale Robinson. I'll start Wondale Robinson in a PPR league. We're going to tell you about. I might start Jalen Hyatt. Who do you got? Who you got? I'm going to go Oleshefsky. You know who else he would start? The Alpacres D. Yeah. You would start the heck out of them. Yeah, no, that's why we love this move. It's so perfect. James is throwing 303 and 3. That's what he does. 300, 3 touchdowns, 3 interceptions. Does it make?

Theo Johnson more viable for you because we talked about Theo Johnson's a potential pickup but he's only kind of been good with Dart and as it like if we went back to Russ I would imagine that Theo Johnson would not be correct really part of the offense so every we don't know where James is going to no James doesn't know where he's going to go yeah but it's going to be awesome I think it's just some hope I mean with dart out and if Russ was starting we'd all be just deflated. Benching all giants. Yeah, we would be super bummed out. What else do we have on the news front? Chris Rodriguez is expected to play. Okay. The shoulder injury, not severe. He did get into the ends on this past week. It's still a three-headed monster when it comes to Mick Nichols and JCM. And Brent and Strange, the practice window is open. What else is going on? Strong likelihood that the pack, this is off-season stuff, but the Cowboys.

Strong likelihood that they franchise tag George Pickens. Don't do this. I know. I saw this report and I was like, don't do this. Come on, man. Don't do this. Jerry. Jerry. What do you may don't do this? You're saying pay him? I'm saying pay him or let him go. George Pickens on a franchise contract over the off season is going to be just barfulrific. Like, hey, is George is George going to show? It's going to be the entire off season. Is George Pickens going to show up? Is it going to hold out? That's funny. I don't have that perspective on this at all. I think this is the best case scenario for Pickens and the Cowboys. It's the best case scenario. They can't afford to pay him and CD Lamb that money. And then he gets to stay in a great situation, playing for a contract, which I feel like George Pickens' personality needs to be playing for a contract. But he's doing that right now. I know. I'm saying like he was a second round pick. He hasn't had his payday yet. I just, I feel like if he gets, if he gets put on the franchise, I don't think he's going to like it very much.

Uh, yeah, I mean, it's a lot of money. It's, it is a great scenario for fantasy. Okay, you're saying you're just worried that he will be dissatisfied. Yes. And that is possible too. For fantasy football, I do think it would be great. That's that's for him. Oh, yeah. For him to be a cowboy. If he plays on it. If he goes to the open market, he will be the highest paid. Raider of all time. Yeah, exactly. He will make a lot of money and go somewhere bad and not be good for fantasy. Yeah, so maybe he would be okay with the money. Let's hope for that. That was News and Notes, sponsored by Progressive Insurance. Quote today at Progressive. Progressive Casualty Insurance Company affiliates and third-party insurers, not available in all states or situations. Coverage subject to policy, terms, limits, and conditions. We'll take a quick break and jump into the Thursday night preview. This episode is brought to you by...

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What they've done the last couple of weeks has, they're legit. I mean, I know when we were talking on the divisional previews early this offseason, I was pretty hyped on the Patriots believing in Drake May and Vrable. But I believe it. And to me, it's all three phases. They're just playing really great football. I am the most hyped about these Northeastern jerseys they're going to wear. Oh, we got some special jersey. Yeah, is this there? We have these Nor Easter Patriots jerseys. What word are you saying? Nor Easter. It's a type of storm? Yeah. Really? Yeah. Nor Easter. For example, let me use it in a sentence. You had two nor Easter's going.

uh in the lower and upper half of your body yesterday where you might be confused jason it's very specific it only takes place in the north and only on easter oh okay it's a very specific oh it's up there in the north easter storm what why are you british that was what was that also while we're piling on jason Grow your mustache back. I'm trying. It looks so bad. You looked like you shaved it again. No, man. Did you throw some of that up? No, I mean, what in the? I'm so sorry, everybody. I mean, I should just miss like two weeks. Or just wear a groucho marks. Oh, that's a good idea. That's a good idea. Put something on your upper lip. Yeah, I apologize. Um, okay. Sorry, I don't want to make us sick here. New York is playing the Patriots. New York is fresh off a dub with 52 passing yards. Hooray.

Um, you want to play any player not named Breece Hall on the Jets? Negative. Can we make this simple? Yeah, very simple. There are no. So we have our start sit tool on the website, the fancy footballers.com. Um, we collect all the data from the start sit tool every week. And we, we have a, you know, what, a couple hundred of them that show up on the, the main start sit page as the most popular questions. There are zero players in this game from our, most popular start sit questions. There are not decisions to be made for the Jets. If you have Breece Hall, you play him. We don't have a sit-sit tool. No, the sit-sit tool would be on fire. It would be like, do I sit to Rod Taylor or Justin Field? Both. It's all the tool says. You sit both. On the other side, I mean, Drake May has been incredible. Trayvion Anderson, I think we are playing regardless of the status of Romandre right now. 100%. I will say like, and I'm not.

I wish I was, I wish someone else could bring this up than me. Okay. Because I just don't want to be like, I think there's a disbelief that I want Trayvion to succeed, which is fine. I've, I've said what I've said about the real, I've been realistic with how Vrable treats the running back room. Yes, and he, Vrable has so far done that. In that game, you had the breakaway runs. If you were to sum up everything else he did, he was at about 1.9 a carry. Yes. And we watched it. I mean, you and I watched the tape together, and he had basically almost three breakaway runs. One of them, you know, you're not going to get the play at the end of the game most often. That was a goal line defense. They were trying to stop the run to get the ball back. And, you know, you break the first line of defense. You're going to go to the house. And he did that. He almost broke one on the first play of the game. You know, the other stuff looked okay. He's definitely not.

a pile mover. I mean, that is very, very evident. Not that Devon A. Chan is or anything like that. But Gibbs can finish a run with power, right? Gibbs is in a different category to me. A. Chan, probably a little bit more power from what I've seen, a little bit more arm tackle breaking than what I've seen from Trayvion so far. They will use both guys if Ramandre is back. I have, I don't know. I don't know what Vravo will do. I think it would be. stupid to go back to it like if i think the point you made yesterday mike just to to illuminate i want to bring it up again because you made the point of like you only get a game like this from chavion when you give them opportunities enough of them to pop something right like his strength in the offense is the big play you give him five or six carries he doesn't go anywhere you're depressed and he's also going to try to hit that play in each of those five touches

which is like that it's like a ken walker problem interesting of the guy he's like okay well i don't get on the field very much i'm going to show you what i can do uh yeah the point was just if remand like remandre against the box last week that nothing close to that happens like if remandre is the one getting all those carries maybe he breaks through and you're like oh sick a 10-yard run we did it so What will Ray will do? We just don't know. Henderson's very nice 69-yard run this last week was longer than any run in Ramandre's 789 career carry count. So, yeah, that's not happening with Ramondre. I do think if he's back, he will 100%. This will be a split. This will be a split backfield. I think it'll be close to 50-50 rest of the way. That still might be enough to allow you to weekly start Henderson.

I would start Henderson over Ramandre if I had both. This is a perfect matchup in the sense that the Jets have, you know, they kind of purposely destroyed their own defense before the trade deadline last week. They're 12 and a half point home favorites. That's great for the running back. So yeah, I mean, Trivion should be in. We haven't talked about Sivan Diggs probably since week five's number five overall finished, or at least not that often. He's been the number 55, 26, 35, 26, and 22 since then. Double digits the last two weeks, three of the last four, nothing ceiling-wise. But Kashon Booty, the hamstring, I would imagine they give him another week off. Yeah. With the 10-day gap after that with the hamstring injury. It seems like that. Yeah, Stefan Diggs, he's fine as a floor play here. It, as they just keep proving it over and over of you aren't quite sure who it's going to be. Mack Hollins.

If people weren't paying attention, Matt Collins had 10 targets. He was six for 104 last week. He was the one who got the volume this past week. So Diggs is fine for floor, but the roulette wheel will spin. All right. Anything else from this game? You want to talk about any interest in Hunter Henry at all? If I had to start Hunter Henry or Mason Taylor, I would probably go. Henry or Theo Johnson. I'm going to, I think I'll go with Hunter Henry. All right. Get it out of the way on Thursday. Figure out what you got at the tight end position. Get it out of the way. Okay. We have a special segment for you today as we wrap up the Thursday night preview. Let's get into it. Playoff Primer. Well, the playoff primer. Here we are. What an episode we have prepared for you. What is your overall?

perspective on the matchup discussion because we want to look over teams and situations positionally that look really good right now for the playoffs right you don't want to overemphasize matchups you don't want to under emphasize it but you know we had league winners in this category last year that had that were dialed up for success you had jerry golf ending up as the quarterback one we kind of knew it was going to be good when he had the matchup Buffalo, Chicago, San Francisco last year in weeks 15 through 17. You saw this with a great matchup for Tajay Spears, who ended up a top 10 back in those weeks. You saw this with Brian Thomas Jr. who had a perfect schedule and then a perfect finish at wide receiver 1 over the last three weeks. Jalen McMillan, right? Lower tier guys with good matchups, broke out and had big weeks. Even Chigga Conquo. I think our Conquo is like, that's the big one to also point out. It's like the matchup does matter.

While at this point of the schedule, you can't guarantee a defense won't figure it out. See the Baltimore Ravens. But if you find, like you've got to chase the trend at this point. Trade deadlines are coming up. Yeah, you've got 10 weeks of information. If you're wanting to take a shot on the schedule, now is the time to do it. And they do, it does matter. Like guys just perform better against defenses that give up points to that position. Jason, maybe briefly talk about the schedule adjusted. versus points given up. We have a strength to schedule two on the website where you can sort by either just total fancy points given up to the position or schedule adjusted. And we default to schedule adjusted. So if you click off of that, you can see just the total. But schedule adjusted is a better way to look at it. What it's doing is you are you are factoring in who these defenses have played. And I think the easiest way to understand is looking at the tight in position. Yes.

Some teams don't score points at the tight end position. They just don't even have one that they throw the ball to. You know, you've got a guy, you know, it's like every week you're averaging like 20 yards to the tight end position. So then when a defense plays against that team, oh, they shut down the tight end. They goose them. You know, it's like, well, everybody does. That doesn't matter. Did you play against Travis Kelsey? Yeah, I was a sample that week or something. You know, so what it does is it basically takes a look at the average of your opponent. So, you know, I'm playing against the Cardinals. Trey McBride averages X amount of points per week.