Pump the Brakes, Championship Week Q’s + Great Eyebrows

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To the fantasy footballers podcast. Coming to you from Draft.com Studios with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Hey, hey. Welcome to the podcast. Thank you. I am so happy to be here, Mike. That one got me. The fantasy footballers podcast. I'm your host with the most for today. Not Beetlejuice. It's me.

Mike the Fantasy Heyman Wright, joined by my best friend of all the time, Jason Moore. How are you doing me? Jason Moore. Very similar to Mario. I'm doing great. You want to know why I'm doing great? Very similar. Very similar to. Look, if there's anyone you've been compared to. Oh, it has to be Mario. It's Mario. Because overweight a little plumber super hops. I mean, you can jump. You're jumping ability. I can jump over that flagpole, Mike. Okay. I can prove it. I can jump over that them.

their flagpole. Did you ever make it over as a young lad? Yes, not without cheating. It was game genie. Game genie. Yes. I don't think, is it really possible? I don't know. Because I tried it a hundred thousand times without codes. You usually get it right in the grondel. And here's the crazy. Yes, you do. You're riding that flag. And then you bounce. You're taking that flag down for a real special ride to the bottom. But no, what's crazy is like...

The fact that you could put a code in and jump over. Says it's possible. There's a world on the other side of the flag. I've done it, but I couldn't do it without a code. This is not a video game podcast. This is a football podcast. The fantasy footballers, welcome, and this is going to be a great show. We got the mailbag. We got pumped the brakes. We got the news. And you can watch it all. What? What? The news?

Incredible, Mike. Yes, we have the news. If you want to watch this ridiculousness that is happening, YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballers. Make sure you subscribe. You click the bell. Follow us on Twitter at the FF Ballers. You can follow my personal at FF Hitman. Jason is at Jason FFL and Andy is at Andy Holloway.

Don't worry, ladies and gentlemen. Andy will be bringing his incredible analysis to the show tomorrow. He will be here for the matchups. The three of us will be together for all the matchup previews. This is the last day the dad is away. So we get craye. Yeah. Craig, craye. And make sure you check out Foot Clan giveaway. Hey, Jason. What? Along with the news, it's also Wednesday, which means.

Oh, oh, oh, O'Reilly. O'Reilly. Auto parts. Yes. Good work, Brooks. Best work you've ever done, Brooks. That was the best one of all time. All right, Jason, we're going to let you kick off the pump the brakes. Brought to you by O'Reilly Auto Parts. Who are you pumping the brakes on? I'm pumping the brakes on someone that feels a little scary to pump the brakes on, right? Because last week you went into the week thinking it wasn't going to be a great week.

for this player and they dominated. So now you're going to this week thinking, well, it's not going to be a great week. Why wouldn't they dominate again? But my pump the brakes is still going to be on Kinney. Goladay, the smoothest route. Oh, but they're so smooth. I know. I'm going to pump the brakes on this? How can you? I'm just going to slowly pump the brake. Depress the pedal. Yeah, look. You can't pump the brakes. I mean, that's a, yeah, you got a gentle.

What would that be? You're the music, man. What would the move be on pumping the brakes? No, you're going to put the three. What's the little kick drum? The little kick drum? Is that what the kick drum? Okay, nailed it. The bass drum. I'm going to hit the bass drum with my foot. Pump the brakes. That's not a, that's an immediate though. Okay, I'm slamming the brakes. Here's what's going on with Kenny Galladay. Last week.

He dominated seven for 146. Against the bills. Against the bills who have been pretty good against wide receivers, great against quarterbacks. They moved him into the slot. Yes. He was not shadowed this last week. We verified this yesterday, Mike. We looked at kind of the routes and the matchups and how they played against Kenny Gala Day. Sometimes the bills used their main corner, was Tredavia's White, to shadow, and they chose not to.

You know, it worked out okay. They, you know, they were, uh, it was a good game for them overall. But Kenny Gala Day had a good fantasy day. Xavier Rhodes for the Minnesota Vikings and the entirety of the Minnesota Vikings defense is much better than the bills. And they shadow most games. So Rhodes, yeah, Rhodes is a shadow corner and he is a complete shutdown corner. Exactly. When, when, when he was on Marvin Jones the last time that.

These two teams matched up. He did nothing. There's really no other guy other than Kenny Galladay to focus on. You've got Matthew Stafford injured with a back issue. I'm still, and the reason I'm pumping the brakes is because of the big week against Buffalo. I'm not playing Kenny Galladay this week. It would take a lot. I mean, if you're telling me Kenny Galladay or Dante Pettis, sure. I would go Kenny Galladay. But, you know, if there's another.

good option, which this is championship week. You've got depth. You've got a great roster. You're in it. I'm not going to play Kenny Gulliday in most situations. All right. Jay Gras wants to chime in here. That's right. The bear. The bear is pumping the brakes on Matt Barita and Jeff Wilson because they're playing Chicago. That makes a lot of sense. And I think you can pump the brakes on them just fine. That's, yeah. I mean, this is just a, that's a Homer call over there by the bear.

What's next? Pumping the brakes on Dante Pettus? Really? I am going to take this as our annual opportunity. Look, we love all members of the Foot Clan. We thank you so much for your support. But we know, and I'm talking to you, Bill, Frank, Sally, Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim and Jim. Jim and Jim.

Look, I know there's some of you out there. You got that week 17 championship week. You can't, you cannot do it. You cannot have your championship in week 17. Too many terrible variables exist of your superstar players possibly not playing. Wait, wait, wait. Are you pumping the brakes on those people? Yeah, and their leagues.

Get body. And their leagues. Hey, I still love you. But this is the reminder. Write it down in your little notebook and say, we got to talk to this league commission. We got to get this fixed. This rectified. Because a championship in week 17 is not a championship at all. You know, next week during week 17, we're going to get some arguments out there. We're going to get some people saying, uh, hey, look.

I love football. I want more football. Week 17. That's the final week of the regular season. Play some DFS. Go to draft.com slash ballers. Yeah. I mean, it's just. There's things you can do. It's just a super dumb argument. That's all we would say. I mean, why not stop? Why not stop to the Super Bowl? Huh? But if I'm going to pump the brakes on a player, it's Cam Newton. Yeah, that shoulder is. It's the Panthers passing offense. But Christian McCaffrey's fine, but I'm very concerned about that man.

and his health and his wide receivers. That was pumped the brakes with O'Reilly Auto parts, better parts, better prices every day. Jason, we teased it hot and heavy. This is incredible. It's time for the news. What? News and notes from around the league. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Ram signed running back. CJ Anderson. Ha-ha!

Eat it, everybody. Todd Gurley is considered day-to-day, like we said, with knee inflammation. So they brought in the stud. The beast himself, last year's thousand-yard rusher for the Denver Broncos, who has now been signed and cut by no fewer than 22 teams this season. Look, here's the real deal with the signing of C.J. Anderson. This shows a couple of issues with health.

So you have the health of Todd Gurley, obviously, which they're playing against the Arizona Cardinals. You want a week to rest Todd Gurley. This could be that week. And, you know, it doesn't appear to be any kind of like MCL issue. So this is one where, look, just a little bit of rest could help. But it also is indicative that Justin Davis, who is the backup to Todd Gurley now that.

Malcolm Brown is on the IR. Justin Davis is hurt. John Kelly, who was sensational in preseason. Sensational in college. There's still rumblings that the team is not impressed. I think that's why they brought in the veteran, especially for past protection situations. And I'm trying my best not to cause an alarm here because I don't have any inside information. This is just.

Me reading the tea leaves. I really think that Todd Gurley sits this weekend and you need to be prepared. We talked about all the running backs you could have picked up on waivers. Last night, hopefully you got Jamal Williams. Hopefully you got Kalin Bellagio. Damian Williams. Damian was somebody because you have to be ready. If you're sitting there. Is it worth? If you're being the grasshopper.

thinking that everything is perfectly fine and your opponent is the ants planning for winter and you show up Sunday morning and they go oh Todd Gurley's not going to play you're going to have a really really bad weekend so here's the question Todd Gurley let's say ruled out now I don't believe he sits I think there's a chance you don't sign CJ Anderson for no reason I think Todd Gurley will still play but let's say he does sit

So you've got three names now. You know, it's not clear cut. You've got John Kelly, the rookie, who they don't seem to like a lot. They don't believe he's ready yet, but he's healthy. CJ Anderson, the vet, who's a good pass protector. He's right off the street. He's right off the street. Doesn't know the offense. And you've got Justin Davis. Let's say he is healthy. Todd Gurley's out. Justin Davis is in. Can a fantasy football player play one of those three guys? And if so, who? As of right now.

I can't even give a good answer. So the answer is no. The answer is as of right now, you can't choose one of those to play until it comes out from the team or from beat reporters very close to the situation. If Gurley is rested, then you've got to monitor. I would pick them all up. Like, you know, I would rather have like Pokemon? You got to collect them all, man. Rams running backs. Maybe one of them will evolve. Turn into something special.

Ooh, like level three. Yeah. You know, maybe become legendary. Maybe we get a bulbosaur. It's possible. Maybe. So I would pick them up, but you can't start, you can't start them unless you're looking for the absolute glory play, which I will be honest, Foot Clan. I have CJ Anderson in this dynasty league going up against Brooks, and I'm currently starting Dante Pettis against Jay Grizz's bears. And I, the temptation? Yeah, I know. Oh, you want me to play CJ?