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Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. Welcome into the show. Andy, Mike and Jason, back with you. A confusing Tuesday morning. Why is that? Well, I'm not sure what I watched last night. Oh. It's, I can't even find an analogy to quite fit what took place on the field with the Philadelphia Eagles.

won the game are now tied atop the division record-wise. I believe the analogy you were looking for is James Winston. That is the entire – I tweeted out I've never seen someone play so bad and so good in the same game referring to Carson Winston. Everybody was like, well, what about – what about Winston? And that's how I feel about the game as a whole. It was a terrible game. It was not good football. It was trashed to watch the first three quarters.

It was kind of exciting. It was an overtime victory. Huge fantasy success out of garbage. It's super confusing. It's like you spent your whole evening snacking on stale food. And then at the end, you're like, oh, I'm full. Like mostly. I had a meal, but did I have a meal? That's James Winston. That's what I'm saying. Winston is easier for me to see. Is James Winston a good quarterback? Yes.

Is James Winston a bad quarterback? Yeah. Are you confused about James Winston? But at least James gives us exciting moments. And at least we're talking internally here. It's like, oh, without Mike Evans, James might struggle a little bit. And here you are with Carson Wins, who doesn't have Alshon Jeffrey, Deshawn Jackson, Nelson Aguilar, fourth most drops in the league. He stinks, but it's a, it's a, and.

Right? It's not an or. It's not Carson Wins either he stinks or Doug Peterson stinks or the wide receiver stink. It's like, and. And so it's hard to find the blame because, I mean, I waved goodbye to you guys on our company Slack channel at halftime because I couldn't take recommending Carson Wince in this matchup and what was taking place on the field.

And he ends up with 330 plus passing yards, two touchdowns, 67% completion percentage. Great game. Great. What happens? And that ended up, I have been trying to spend it all morning trying to think about it. But I want to believe you're at it like a table with trigonometry books out. Like you're just trying to figure out what you saw. But he's trying to think about it. He's not thinking about it. He's just trying to. That's right. Like if you were playing against Zach Hertz.

in the fantasy playoffs. And that dude had done nothing until the final two minutes of the game, then ends up somehow scoring two touchdowns. That is one of the worst beats. Or on the other side of the ball, one of the greatest comebacks. Like, Zacherts is now a favorite player and hated player by so...

many people in fantasy football. He won't even understand what happened to his popularity, just being absolutely severed down the middle. And you're 100% right. My favorite matchup, and there were many of you on social media that were sharing your stories good and bad, my favorite one that was so shocking was an owner that needed 30 points. Oh, yes.

30 points from Zackertz and needed Alshan to score zero. They didn't turn the game on. They knew they had no chance. But we all do this. We rationalize like, okay, I got no chance tonight. But, you know, if Zackertz put up 30 and Alshan doesn't catch a pass, I win by 0.5. And that's what happened. That's what happened. And really, you know, Carson Wint salvaged a top 12 night. What didn't happen was Alshon Jeffrey.

uh did nothing for you basically i guess that is what did happen he did nothing for you he got hurt and destroyed and now he's having an MRI alshan geoffrey once again injured and you know today's a waiver show so jeffre said he reportedly quote felt something pop not good i mean he's he's done he's he's done for this year and this is

Which makes Carson wins. It makes Carson wins a little dicey. Even though the matchups are still good, it's one of those things where you go, can you trust a guy who has not looked great. Like, nobody can watch that game and say Carson just looked great. At the very end, he did what was necessary, had a couple of good throws. He looked good in the last five minutes. I mean, Boston Scott really helped bail them out. I don't know if he got the game ball, but he should have. Yeah, he was good.

Little jitterbug out there reminding me of probably why Sean Peyton had him in the backfield for a little while in New Orleans on and off. All right. Congrats to everybody advancing to the week 15 semifinals. If you had the bye week, welcome back. Yeah. Hope you enjoyed your time off. Your stress-free situation where you didn't watch Zach Ertz rip people's hearts out. I imagine that regardless of the weather where you live, you were...

in the pool like Adam Sandler with like a drink with an umbrella in it during the bye week. What day is it? And now you're back. You can find us on Twitter at the FF Ballers. You can always get an extra episode each and every week at jointhefoot.com, our community. What else from last night is worth looking? I mean, Darius Slayton is you can't.

You can't ignore what just happened. Five for one, 54 and two with Eli Manning. I mean, I was concerned about Slayton. What was going to be the rapport with Eli Manning? We've seen Eli make things happen with Sterling Shepard. Shepard had a pretty terrible game. He still had seven targets, but four for 28. Darius Slayton came through with two monster plays in the first half. And then, I mean, the Giants offense completely.

turtled up and vanished in the second half. They really seemed like they wanted Philadelphia to win the game. Maybe. I mean, when you try to run a flea flicker to go deep, that's an aggressive move that didn't work. Sure. But I mean, you put up, did they score in the second half? No, the Giants scored all their points in the second quarter. And then they did nothing.

Golden Tate was a huge disappointment, just one catch. Sequin Barclay was a huge disappointment. He had... On the season. Three receptions for one total yard. 17 for 66 on the ground. I didn't think he looked particularly bad running the football. I don't know if he's... Statline shocks me. Yeah, it's not good. He had a lot of cool stiff arms in the game. He did.

You know, he looks like a good player, but they're just not. The involvement is the same as it was last season, and now you're seeing the downside of having a player at the running back position on a bad team. Yeah, yeah, let's move on. News and notes from Around the League, presented by Sleeper. It was the second time this year that Darius Slayton had 100 yards receiving in two touchdowns in a single game. Impressive.

First time a rookie's done it since 2014 when three players did it. That was Mike Evans, O'Dell, Beckham, Jr. and Alan Hearns. He's the wide receiver 19 since week eight. I'm just saying you look at the second half of the year. He's been decently consistent. I would say he's a very exciting dynasty prospect moving for it as well. I mean, very good season. Daniel Jones and him already have a rapport, and that'll be the...

combo for a while there, so can't disagree. Calvin Ridley out for the season. So there he goes. Yeah, it's wild where it's the waiver day. Normally at this point in the fantasy playoffs, you have maybe a spot where you're like, maybe there's somebody off the waiver wire who could come in and improve my team. But if you saw all the injuries that happen, this is actually a, and.

A very interesting waiver show, a very important time for you to patch those holes in your teams. I mean, like I've seen people saying I had the buy week, but I had I had Ridley. I had Mike Evans. I had Mark Andrews. And like now there's like some concern about Lamar Jackson playing on Thursday. Alshan Jeffrey's gone now too. And Alshund like Darius Geis is out. Rashad Penny's out.

I mean, this is a bad week. I believe James and Mahomes dealing with injured hands, like you said, Lamar. It is a weird week because there's two thought processes that go through your head now. One, maybe you're replacing an injured player, or maybe you have one spot on your team. Hopefully you've got the depth in the team, and a lot of you out there aren't in panic mode. But the other side of it is, like, you have opponents in your semi-final week, and there are players out there that will have opportunities.

And do you put them on your bench instead of their bench or instead of their roster? Yes. You have to look at your opponent. If they lost a guy or two and they're going to be scrambling for a running back on waivers and you're set, but you can drop a wide receiver and pick up that running back, keep them away. You have to do it. Yeah, that's absolutely right. And defenses. Look at protecting yourself against a really good defensive matchup. Mike Evans out for the rest of the season.

Rashad Penny out for the rest of the season. Mike Evans is expected. That one's not confirmed. I mean, Bruce Aryan said he would be shocked if he plays again this season, but he's not on IR yet. Yeah, that's what I mean. Yeah, absolutely. That's Jeremy Fowler also reporting that he's expected to miss the rest of the season. Pete Carroll, like I said, Rashad Penny's gone. Chris Carson is going to, he was already a top.

touch guy, but then that was getting infringed upon by Rashide Penny. This week against Carolina. Holy crap. I hope you have Chris Carson. Yeah. And I hope you're not playing against Chris Carson. Darius Geis has been ruled out for week 15 in MCL sprain. That's the best news. Darius guys has ever received. He got an NCL sprain. Honestly, he probably was thrilled to hear that if he was going in for an MRI.

James Winston is expected to start. He has a hairline fracture. He received a second opinion yesterday to find out whether he could do further damage to the hand. If he continued playing, they cleared him to play. He played the second part of the second half with the injury. That was the part of the afternoon when Ryan Griffin came into the game and people thought he had gotten benched. And then he came in and...

What I don't understand is if you're looking for an opinion that says, okay, well, if you play, you're not risking further damage. How does one have a hairline fracture in their hand? And then it goes and plays football. And if he hits his hand again, how would it not get worse? I think you always have the opportunity to break bones again. But I think it's just saying it's not structurally, it hasn't caused it to where it's going to.