Week 6 Studs & Duds + The Impossibles - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/18

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Welcome in. The fantasy footballers back for Monday, October 18th. Welcome into the show. Mike, the fantasy hitman is here. Jason Moore somehow made it in. And I'm Andy Holloway. We can't tell the whole story. It's too long. Because let's just say Jason had an eventful weekend. Let's just say that I was on the side of a freeway at night, dark.

With kids and dogs in your car, you know, the quintessential broke down on the side of the road situation. No cell service. No cell service. Oh, yeah. But not once, but twice. Two times. Same weekend. I imagine that full story will go on the spitballers. Yeah, I'll bet it was. It's a good story. Oh, man. But you made it in. I did. I'm here. Somehow some way.

Mike and I still have just one third of the company. I don't know how that. We were almost there. Busy week of football. We still have a Monday night football game with a lot of fantasy football implications tonight. You can find us on Twitter at the FFBallers Instagram.com slash fantasy footballers, the community of.

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Uh, it's Monday, which means we get sophisticated with our reactions from the weekend. Some Monday Punday for you. I like this one. I'll start it. C.D. Lamborghini. Ooh. T.D. Lamb. Simple. Delicious. Delicious. What about feeling hot, hot, hot. I like that you did it in the voice. Terry McSnornin. Oh, Antonio Gibschen. Oh, no. Chase Clay Pooh.

Play puddle, maybe. Chase Deadpool. Oh, no. Austin Eakler. JT.T. Jonathan Taylor. Touchdowns. Oh, he was good. Marquise, Hollywood frown. Yalen Waddle. Jalen Waddle. I like that one. Jailen Wowdle. It was a weird start to the Sunday. And, spoiler alert, I did not win.

our Draft King Showdown. In fact, I lost. Which through six weeks, my condolences. It's your second loss. It's completely even. We've all lost three times. That's right. It's almost like we all do this professionally. But there were so many irrelevant players scoring touchdowns. Oh, the entire morning. A whole morning. Chris Herndon. The first like hour and a half of football was like, just give relevant players a touchdown, please. But.

We got through it and week six nearly in the books. How many losses do the Cardinals have? Oh, man. Let me count them. Done. Oh, six and oh, baby. All right. All right. I've got to cut that off right there. We can't get ahead of ourselves. No, we've got a tough matchup coming up against the Houston, Texas. A revenge game. I did send out a little thank you tweet. To Houston?

Yeah, when I saw Hopkins and Watt running into the tunnel together celebrating, I just know what freedom felt like. Yeah. All right. That's enough of that. Although if they did go undefeated, that's 20 and 0, right? Because the Patriots would have been 19 and 0. Yeah. So would that be 20 and 0? Three playoff games? I guess so. Yeah. Okay. I'm not planning ahead or anything. Sure. But that'd be cool. News time.

News and notes from Around the League, presented by Sleeper. I think the Steelers were 11 and no at one point last year. Yeah, they were. I'm also old enough to remember when the Phoenix Suns were 2 in the NBA finals. Yeah, but being humble is so much less entertaining. That is true. Boring. Boring. All right. Jason, any thoughts on Christian McCaffrey being placed on injured reserve Saturday morning? No, I don't have any thoughts because I'm dead inside. And...

The internal monologue has been cut off, completely strangled. So, yeah, he's on the IR, so there was apparently a setback, you filthy liar, liar, liar head coach, who I'm not even going to name you. You don't deserve it. Oh, you have turned. I was talking about these, whatever this mystery team is, being one of my new favorites. And here they're, their head coach lying to us that there's been no setback.

And yeah, so you're going to miss at least two more weeks. Six games since 2019 for Christian McCaffrey. What if there was a setback, but he just didn't know about it at that time? Then I will forgive him. Okay. What about the fact they lost three straight? Are they still beloved? Wait, how many games have they had no Christian McCaffrey? Three games. Oh, those three, yeah. Have you seen the numbers for Sam Darnel between those three games in these last? Yesterday was a bar fest. That being said, he had eight.

Drops. Oh, yeah. Dropy Robinson didn't make it into the names. Oh. Well, his name is Anderson, so. Oh, yeah. Dropy Robinson'd be a weird name for it. Would it be the first time on this show? No, no, we've set the precedent. We can say your name anyway we choose. Chris McCaffrey on IR, it sucks. I think some people had maybe shipped off Chuba and thought they were, McCaffrey was going to be back. I mean, he almost played last week.

Yep, you did. Thankfully, where I had, when it looked like McCaffrey was coming back, I traded for Chuba. And obviously too late to do that, but let it be known if your stud running back is injured or pops up with any kind of injury designation, go get the backups. Chris Carson. Yeah, it's time to ensure. And Russell Wilson were both placed uninjured reserve this weekend as well. So you saw the Alex Collins show and Travis Homer and DJ Dallas. I mean, it was a.

A group effort to run the ball as much as possible, which you need to do with Gino Smith and thoughts from last night. I mean, they were much more competitive than I thought they were going to be. I mean, I think that. But Metcalf and Lockett are kind of what I was bringing up where there, I mean, there's reason to be. Lockett deserves a full bench at this point in time. Yeah, I don't, I would not want to play him. It's unfortunate. All right. Well, Kareem Hunt.

suffered a calf injury. It looked very serious. Carted off. Carted off. MRI today. In tears. Yeah, this was a nasty injury. And it was kind of awful because Mike and I were watching this game together. And I mean, I'm not going to blame me, but it's your fault. I'm sorry, America. Mike literally just said, he goes, hey, Andy, has Cream Hunt ever missed a game due to injury? No, you.

I did. Right before the injury, I was talking about his durability. Like five minutes before. He's talking about how he never gets hurt. And then right when the injury happened, what did you two gentlemen say in unison? That Jason traded for a Kareem Hunt. Yeah. So whose fault is it really? Yeah. It's just the shows. I'm, yeah, I mean, we don't know the severity, but Matthew Betts expects an IR stint. I've still worried about the Achilles with the fact that he was in such. He was just not able to do anything. We'll see what happens.

because Nick Chubb's already out. So De Ernest Johnson is going to be one of the biggest pickups of the week. I do think that the injury news on Cream Hunt is going to be extremely important because if it's Achilles, that's at his age 26, one year left on his contract. It's probably for all intents of purposes a career ender. Like if you're in, I traded for him, of course, in a Dynasty League. So I'm waiting with baited breath to just see like.

Come on, calf strain, I are stint, and come back in a couple weeks and be good the rest of the year. And next year, we're just, we've got to make sure it's not that Achilles. Baker Mayfield hurt his shoulder again. It looked very painful. Then he went into a blue tent, got a magic shot and went back out on the field. But he says he's going to play. He's very uncomfortable. It's going to be painful the rest of the year for him. Beckham, shoulder injury, left for a while, came back. Dak, calf strain. He said he could have played on it.

He also has the biweek, so I'm not worried. Cadarius Tony. This was unfortunate. He ruled out, aggravated the ankle. He was cooking. And the play that you should go watch just because it's like an incredible football move where you know how a receiver frequently they will catch and then just spin to the other direction with the defender barreling down on him. Well, he did a double move. He spun and then.

Just immediately changes direction the other way. The defender is left in a puddle of their own shame on the ground. And then unfortunately, during the tackle of that play, he got hurt. But he was cooking early. And then this injury led to just a full meltdown from Daniel Jones. Antonio Gibson. He left the game due to shin re-injury or pain or whatever he's dealing with with the stress fracture. And then he left later.

due to a calf injury. So I don't know if they're separate. They made it sound like they were different injuries. Everything I've read said that they were different injuries, but, you know, maybe they're not. Maybe they're the same problem. Why? Like a couple weeks ago, we had a week where everyone was injuring their ribs. And now this is like Gibson calf, Chubb calf, Hunt calf. The only one not hurting their calf is Mcalfrey. Oh.

That was bad enough that I liked it. It's cathartic. Yeah. Let's get the pain out. That was terrible. Alex Collins, hip and glute injuries. Another glute index. So that's maybe why you saw DJ Dallison overtime. Latavius Murray exited late with an ankle injury. There's some concern for a mild high ankle sprain. Okay. Well, Lev Bell, Devonta Freeman are going to get.