Week 5 Studs & Stinkers + Dak Fallout, Fumble Jones - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/12

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Jason Moore and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. Monday, October 12, the fantasy footballers. Back with you. Another episode of the show, like we do. Every day. Every day. Twitter at theFF ballers, the fantasy footballers.com is the website. Jason Moore, Mike, the fantasy hitman, right. I'm Andy Holloway.

Jason, how are you doing this fine Monday morning? I'm doing very well. I feel rejuvenated from the weekend. I'm excited for a hopeful Tuesday night football. It's going to be a great week.com. Yeah, we got some good news this morning, right? We understand that there have been no more positive tests for either the Patriots, whose game was delayed, or I guess postponed to next week, or the Titans. So far so good. Who we hope are playing on Tuesday.

More than us, the NFL hopes, is playing on Tuesday rather than completely turn the schedule upside down. So, yeah, that's good news. I, you know, I wake up in the morning. We're on the West Coast. I reach for the phone. I say a prayer. And we check the news every day. So, yeah, lots going on. We've got studs and duds on the show today. The weekly rewind, some injuries, some fun stories from the weekend.

Fun for some, not as fun for others, and it's Monday Punday, so let's get sophisticated. Oh. Mike, I'll let you start this. Oh, yes, I will start this with Chase Yay Pool. Okay, okay. We've got Dalton Shucks. Smile Sanders. Oh, gosh, that one was annoying. Wait a minute.

Josh Jacobs. Who let double yay puns in here, Brooks? It's a, yeah, it was me, actually. Oh, Andy. Clyde Edwards, Mech, Lair, or? Clyde Edwards, Nowhere. Yeah, yeah. Terry McSnoren. He was the order to be 22, fellas. DJ Moore TDs, please. Oh, yes, yes. No, Allie Cox. Gigance, snore. Gigant snore. C. Bamb. Oh, Bamb.

DJ Chart. DJ Chart. Tyler Higbust. Or Mike, you can take the last one. Oh, yes. Finish us up. Zach Hertz. We should really begin the show with your reflections, your analysis, your unbiased observations on Zach Hertz. Do we have the audio? Because if we could throw out of the audio, I mean, I guess I could just repeat it when I say, hey, guys, I think Zach Hertz is washed.

The evidence for your claim has been further added to, what did you say, 15 yards receiving over the past two weeks. Yeah. In weeks when there was no Dallas Goddard or receiving options where somebody named Travis Fulgum is now a dominant wide receiver. And Zach Ertz has all but disappeared. Yeah. When you go into- Just like his separation. When you go into the boss's office and you're like,

Hey, hey, boss man, I'm looking for a raise. You know, I'd really love to secure my place on this team. Yeah, Brooks does that almost every week. And they're like, okay, you know, show us your worth to the team. And he's like, okay, Mr. Bossman, don't worry. I'll show you my worth to this team. There are two options, Mike. There is option one. You're right. And Zach Ertz is not the same player anymore. Right.

based on what, I mean, I was watching with you. You have an attention to DETA because he's been your starting tight end in our league of record. The other option is that it's a Nodale Beckham Jr. situation from last year where there's some sort of injury that there are no other options. There's no option to say Zach Gertz is elite and Carson Wins is missing him. Yeah, the separation is gone currently. And then you had the play where he just, like,

Zachertz is a big dude. He is a big, strong dude. And then someone who looked to be 50 pounds lighter than him brought him down on the one yard line. And it was Zachert's last year or two years ago. Zackert easily scores a touchdown. And he just got taken down like a, like a pillow full of feathers. Yeah. So I will give him the benefit of the doubt. Something may be going on that we aren't aware of. What do you do now? What do you? As a fantasy manager? Yeah.

Nothing. If, and this was the regret. I woke up. I looked in the mirror and I said, I knew I should have tried to trade him last week, but his name was Zachertz. And I felt like I was on this island of, I need to bail out on Zachertz. I got in and everyone's like, no, we got, let's give Zachertz some more time. And now it's, now it's done. No one will trade me for Zacherts. That is accurate. I looked at your team last week and I thought to myself.

You've got Zach Gertz. I might go make a deal. And then I went and I looked at our rosters and went, what if he's washed? He might be, well, I'm not, I don't want to hold the bag. So I didn't offer you anything because I think it really hasn't looked good. All you could do is, if you have Zach Gertz at this point, all you can do is wait. I mean, you could bench him in roster two tight ends, but no one, no one is going to trade.

For Zach Kurtz right now, it gives you anything of value. He'll get a Jimmy Graham touchdown here soon, and then you trade him. Yes. Yeah, there are a few players in the probably should trade them this week after a touchdown category. Let's get into the Rewind. Weekly Rewine.

All right, the Bill's Titans game, it is scheduled for Tuesday at 7 Eastern. It is still scheduled for Tuesday at 7 Eastern. The Titans had another positive test on Sunday morning. It was from a staff member that had not been in the facility for the last two weeks, so they are hopeful. This is why the NFL hasn't instantaneously just canceled this game the way they did the Patriots game. There are a bunch of ramifications from the Patriots Broncos having to take a week five by. The message is check your schedule. Pay attention. Don't.

pretend that it's all the same. I would add, don't, you can't really plan ahead for your buy weeks. You know what I mean? If you're looking and you're like, oh, these players are on buy in week nine, I need to make this roster move. You don't know. The buy weeks are going to be utilized for schedule changes. And even teams that are not affected or have no COVID results on that team are going to be affected scheduling wise. Yeah, for instance, the Chargers who originally had a week 10 buy, then now have a week 6 buy. So there are adjustments. That's a good point. You just.

We don't pay a lot of attention to buy weeks in general. If you listen to us before the season, it's not a huge impact of the way we draft because we know that we are navigating these rosters. There are players like Zach Ertz and others that bust and move out of your lineup. So continue to not pay much attention to this. This year is a survival of the fittest. You've got to make due. My personal team in League of Record is just, oh, man, it's not been fun. But this is, you know.

This is what you've got to struggle through. And on that note, the Megalobole, so we've talked about in our home leagues. We're making this thing with these Tuesday night games where you can roster a replacement. You announce who it's going to be. For instance, if the Tuesday night game doesn't happen, I've announced that Jared Goff on my bench will be my starter over Josh Allen. So I would get him. And I know we've had a lot of people in the Megalabole reach out and say, okay, well, you know, what are we doing there?

That's a lot of work on a commissioner for updating 11 other teams. There are 7,000 teams. The Megalobole is a slug fest. This is a prove your worth. You're going to have to deal with all of these things. Play your best roster. Make your best decisions and guesses. Go to work. That's, that's it. I mean, the message here is shoot your shot. Shoot your shot. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, it's not how we would want it to be.

for anybody this whole COVID Enigma year. But it is what it is in the Meglabel. Like you said, it's over 8,000 teams actually. And we have one main commissioner kind of administrating bad situations in that league. It's just impossible for him to get through it all. Yeah. So no commission changes. Just start who you think has the best chance of score on the most points this week. I have not been, I mean, injuries happen all the time in the NFL.

But the Dak Prescott injury specifically this past weekend was one of the worst that I can remember when you factor everything together. Carted off the field, a compound fracture of his ankle, a dislocation, and an instant surgery last night, which went well. Thoughts and prayers with Dak. It was so sad. Wild. So yesterday, Andy and I were here at the studio, and we had...

We had our own Slug Fest going on. We were matched up just coincidentally in our League of Record and our Dynasty League. So we were going back and forth. It was a super fun day. And the Dak Prescott injury happens. We're like, wait, what happened? Oh, and then the air of the room just completely went out. And it was like, man, fantasy football is, this feels kind of weird right now, but just like football.

You know, next man up. Andy Dalton is now the starting quarterback. It sounds like for Dak, he will be ready to go. So, like, this is, I know the discussions online are the long-term contract for Dak. He was playing under the franchise tag. He only had the one year of guaranteed money. Dak should be back, and he should still receive the money that he is truly deserved as a franchise quarterback. If they're confident of the return, Mike, I was telling you yesterday, I wish Jerry Jones would give him it tomorrow.

I wish that was the motivation for the rehab on the way back. But like you said, it's a lot of money, too. You've got to know a player is going to be okay. But let's talk about the fantasy fallout of that situation because there are injuries every week. And obviously, DAC is high profile, but also has implications on C.D. Lamb and Amari Cooper and Michael Gallup. And I think Dalton Schultz, you know, it seemed like he was a pickup last week that you could throw into your lineup. He has one catch this week. And now you have Andy Dalton moving forward.

He doesn't seem to be the player that I would go pivot to if I had a Zach Ertz. No, the way that I see it is it takes all of these wide receiver receiving options and moves them down to 75% of what they were. Now, 75% of what they were is still good. Amari Cooper and Michael Gallup and C.D. Lamb will be decent players. Dalton Schultz probably not worth it now. The other three, I think, will take a hit. But I also think Andy Dalton himself is...

going to be 75% of deck. And that is really good as far as someone on the waivers. So it's, you know, we'll talk about it more in-depth tomorrow. But I think all three wide receivers take a hit across the board. All right. This was one aspect of our slug fest that Mike and I were having. Delvin Cook left week five against the Seahawks last night with a groin injury. It really seemed like there was no way.

They could stop him in this game. Devon Cook was on his way to having like a season performance against the Seahawks. They could not stop the run and that was evidenced yet further. Alexander Madison, the backup for Minnesota came in, put up a hondo on them as well. Davon Cook, had he not left with the groin injury, man, what could have been? Unfortunately. Yeah, so he'll have an MRI today. We don't know how long he'll be out. I assume.

probably at least a week. At least. And he did come back out on the sideline, seemed like he wanted to give it a go, realized he couldn't. Well, he went out back on the field. Oh, he did? Yeah, he took one snap. It was a passing play, and then he tapped out. He said, no, this is not a good idea. That is encouraging to me from the perspective that if you get to that point, he wasn't grimacing and pain in the locker room. He was trying to go back out there. Maybe it'll be a shorter-term injury. I will remind people, though, with Madison just carving up the Seahawks defense.