Week 4 Studs & Stinkers + Picture-in-Picture - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/5

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Andy Mike and Jason, the fantasy footballers, back with you. Monday, October 5th, the roller coaster ride continues. We got an extra Monday night football game here. Oh, yes, we do. And we're excited about that fact. Oh, yeah. I am super excited. A little perturbed, they went with the overlap. Like, I understand that, you know, look, the prime time, the ESPN. They...

ESPN game. They actually did move it back. I don't know if you guys realize that it starts like 40 minutes later than it usually does. I have to admit something. Oh, no. This was my fault. Oh, you, like the scheduling? I asked them to overlap it because my wife said that any more football and we were going to have words. So I'm, I asked for the overlap so I could, I could watch them both. I'm sorry.

But you got to go back and forth unless we bust out like some 1992 pip technology. You guys remember? Remember picture and picture? 1990. Pip, yeah, Pip was the jam. It was like the smallest, most useless screen in the bottom left corner, but you could move it. Oh, you can move it to any corner. Whichever corner you want, you got it. Hard time figuring out how to get a certain channel you wanted in there. Sometimes you pip something you didn't want. You would just be pipping the exact same channel you were already on. Yes, you were.

Case you wanted to see it a little smaller. Yes. He's too mad on that. Oh, but we do have two games tonight, and that's good news because despite the fact that Cam Newton is not available, I'm sure, you know, you've been following the news, and we thought maybe we wouldn't have a game. We thought maybe we wouldn't have a Saints Lions game. It turned out...

there was a negative, a false positive test for the Saints. So, you know, it's something where you wake up in the morning and you receive the information that you have no control over and then you make the best adjustment you can make.

Yeah, and this morning, the Tennessee had the first day where their tests were negative. Congratulations, Titans. Yeah. Get it together, man. Well, the nice thing is Ian Rappaport, I heard him on Sirius XM this morning saying that basically if the tests are good from here on out, they'll be playing the bills. So hopefully it can rearview mirror that. Yeah, it's just, it's an unfortunate situation, but fantasy football players, you know.

We're removed from the realities of, I mean, the health and safety of the players and the communities is the most important thing. We are reacting. We are a fantasy show. All of our advice is related to how you get your league functioning the best way possible during an unexpected time in our league, much like the week before when we thought that we might have a Tuesday night game for Tennessee, Pittsburgh. Or I guess that was this past week we thought we were going to have it.

We've made accommodations in all of our leagues for alternate situations. We should have a game tonight and we're excited about it. You know what I'm excited for? What are you excited for? Monday. A lot happened yesterday. We like to react in the most punny way possible. It's the only way to handle the pain. Oh, this is pretty good.

We're all Henderson? Yes, that one was directly from Mike the Fantasy Hitman Wright. What about Malcolm Every Down Brown? He certainly was. That's unfortunate. And then DJ No More. DJ remorse. CD bam. T.D. Lamb. Joy Mixing.

Oh, yeah. That's simple, but true. That's a... A Kittal goes a long way. Why did I read that one? I don't know. Miles Blanders. Kenyon mistake. Kenyon mistake. Oh, no. So we went from Potty Miller to... Oh. Hottie Miller. Scottie, too, hottie. This is the best we had, Brooks.

It was a rough week for the puns, apparently. Look, through a lot of them. We had about 600 submissions. You could have gone Kenyon Flake again. Yeah. How are you feeling? Jason? I don't want to be here. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Last week, you had a nice fantasy week. You went six in all of your leagues, all of your picks and predictions. They worked out. Yeah. And you were feeling good. I was on top of the world. You beat me in fantasy last week. Cushing me into a tailspin. Crushed me.

And, yeah, I was where you were last week. Now, this week I got like, you know, Odell Beckham Jr. scoring a touchdown a minute. I've got Joe Mixing throwing three down. Hello. And then you didn't have the same week and you did not stay the whole day yesterday. No, I took off a little bit early, you know, because.

Kenyon Drake. And you go to McDonald's on the way home? I did not. I ate sushi last night. Okay. I said if I'm going to, if I'm going to eat my pain away, I'm going to at least do it with somewhat healthy food. Okay. But yeah, I mean, look, Kenyon Drake, I issued my apology about halfway through that game. It's, it's no hope for, no hope for a 75 yard touchdown run in the second half of the game. I mean, it didn't look good. The, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the

didn't match what he was doing. He looked slow. I don't get it because I remember watching the first week looking like he made some special moves. Legitimately, I'm going to go back today and I want to watch all of the. I can tell you some of what's going on. King and Drake plays. Some of what's going on. It's an X's and O's problem in Arizona. What they're doing is they're spending a lot of time.

On early downs, run-down situations, instead of giving the ball to Kenyon Drake, they don't have Max Williams, they're run-blocking tight-in, and they're throwing wide receiver screens. They're running through the air, as we say. And by running through the air, of course, I mean being tackled behind the line of scrimmage. These wide receivers are in the wide receiver screen game. It has gone south for Arizona over the last two weeks. The offense is completely discombobulated, and the prescription is the New York Jets next week. Which makes this Kenyon Drake situation.

all the more difficult for you. But the prescription was the Carolina Panthers this week. Well, no, I think that that's one of those narrative over reality situations. Carolina was a team, new pieces, new coach, new quarterback, and...

They won the previous week. We only have a three-game sample size in Carolina. They're probably better than we thought they were. Sure, as a team, but as a run-stopping defense, they were the last place all last year and second-to-last place so far this year. We've definitely seen enough to know that they- Well, that's true. Detroit, the week before, worst on running back defense, and Drake did nothing there either. Yeah, you want to know the prescription apparently for bad run defenses? It's the Arizona Cardinals.

So we'll see this week against the Giants. But I do agree with you from a fantasy standpoint. One of the biggest problems is the targets aren't going there. I mean, this is a player that the previous season when he was involved on the Arizona Cardinals was on a great three-down pace. You know, it was a player that was targeted 70 plus times on a 16-game pace. And it's not happening this. Perhaps the walking boot was not precautionary.

Perhaps his foot is messed up. Just saying, like we forget just a couple weeks ago, Kenyon Drake was walking around in the boot. It's a good point. He also went out injured at the end of the game. He did. Three minutes left. You will find out for sure because, well, I guess not for sure, but Kenyon Drake took a really hard shot. We have to wait on his injury status. We haven't heard anything out of Arizona yet. But Chase Edmonds will be a hot waiver pickup. And if Chase Edmonds is the starter next week,

and is good, I think you have your answer about what's going on with Kenyon Drake. Well, man, yeah, it's process over results. I mean, you're not going to hit on every single player. And AJ Green's one I'm not going to hit on either. I mean, AJ Green, I want to have a fantasy retirement ceremony on Wednesday. There are a number of players. Now, I'm trying to tow that line of, you know, for fantasy players. These are not dead to me.

dead to me type of mentality. This is a fantasy retirement. They play for their professional teams. They may contribute here and there, but they're done for fantasy. There are a number of players in that category this year, and AJ Green is most certainly one of those players. Yes, he is. All right. Find us on Twitter at the FF Ballers. Jason's at Jason FFL if you want to console him. At FF Hitman, if you want to talk to Mike.

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Correct. And it is Brian Hoyer, who will be the next man up. The game, like we said, it's tonight. Sonny Michelle, out of tonight's game. Devante Adams, out. Yeah, this is a fun one. The Devante Adams, where he was questionable, it really seemed like he was trending to play. There are, I mean, you actually have a couple more options now of because of the Kansas City and New England game being pushed back to tonight.

Now, you could be like me. I was all in on Devante Adams playing. I needed to Devante. I needed him to play. So I will be making a last second waiver move, probably grabbing like DeMarcus Robinson, Robert Tonion, maybe JJ Taylor. We'll see who actually ends up on my roster. And then we will be crossing our fingers and praying for miracles.

Yeah, Adam seemed unhappy that the team was holding him out of tonight's game. To be honest, they're undefeated. He's had injury, history lingering issues before. I think if there's any doubt about his health, it's probably the best news for him, not for fantasy players this week. What's rough for Aaron Rogers and the Green Bay Packers, they are now without their top two wide receivers. Jason's taking it up to 100 player. He feels like a good play. Since the pressure is...

going to be on Mark Osvales Scanley. Since you named him as you're taking it to 100 player, they have lost Helen Lazard for six to eight weeks, and then Devante Adams was ruled out. He's taking it up to 100 as far as on the depth chart. We'll see what happens when he's the only thing now that the defense has to focus on. Did you see that Drew Sample did not take it to 100% catch rate this past weekend? I did see that. I believe he caught that touchdown, to be honest with you. He had another another. But I'm focusing on the touchdown.

Nick Chubb exited the game early with a knee injury, cautious optimism from the Browns that he did not suffer a catastrophic knee injury. MRI is coming today. At that point, we'll find out whether or not he's going to miss some time. Seems hard to imagine he doesn't miss a week or two. Agreed. Austin Echler is the more serious concern. If you watched the injury, it's being reported as a hamstring injury, a hamstring and a knee.