Fantasy Football - Midseason Review + Trade Targets, TNF Preview - Podcast for 10/29

The Fantasy Footballer Studio is sponsored by Walmart. To the Fantasy Footballers Podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Welcome in the Fantasy Footballers podcast Wednesday, October 29th. I thought you had a Dodgers shirt on, Mike. It does look like it does. Oh, yeah, it does. That would have been a problem.

It's not, it's a no effect. They're in the World Series, right? And that's actually happening? Yeah, the World Series is going on right now. Look at my knowledge. Who's the other team? Oh, man. It's not the Marlins. I didn't know who it was until yesterday. I know the Marlins were close. And you guys don't know who's in the world. No, I do now. Okay. I also know it's two to two. Yes, it's two to two. All right. Yeah. I'm so knowledgeable about baseball. What is, uh, so what is this other mystery team? The Toronto Blue Jays. Oh. Oh, that doesn't count. Name some of their top players historically. Historically? Yeah. Bo name it. Bo name it. Okay. We're good. We're not a baseball show. We're a football show and we got a busy one today. Thursday night preview. Backup options. I think there's probably like three or four franchises in Major League Baseball that I could name any player from any time. You're saying there's only a few that you could name a player. That I could name a player.

And almost all of the historical players I could name were from the Yankees. Roy Halliday, right? And he passed, right? He had like a, I thought he had a tragic passing. You know, I think you're right, but if you're wrong, it's even funnier. No, no, no, he had a, well, it's not funny. Even funny. The man had a tragic passing, but I know him because he was, back when I actually played baseball video games, he was in there. He had a, I think, a circle change that was just so nasty. Oh, man. That was a good time. Yeah. Well, there's your baseball segment. NFL news to catch you up on as well. I have a problem. Okay. We know. I have a problem in one of our leagues. Our League of Shadows that we play with Rich Eisen, I did not bid enough. I'm looking at the waivers that just went through. I did not bid enough for Tyrone Tracy. I was the second highest bid. I did not bid enough for Cream Hunt. I was the second highest bid. Yeah. But my running backs this week are currently Omarian Hampton, Quinn John Judkins. Bye.

Sequin Barclay. Bye. So I have to start two. Oh, so that's your problem? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Looks like I will be starting Emmanuel Wilson and Samaj-P Ryan. I would still just- Can't get better than that. I would start the best of my bi-week players. Yeah. They genuinely might- They have the best chance of scoring this week. We have our, well, Pook-Nukum, still in the lead for the Megalibble. I think that's two weeks in a row. Impressive. On Wednesday, we check in with the 20,000 plus of you in the Megalobul, Pugnukum in the lead, Smokey the Bear, still in second. Unless that wasn't updated. I think there's a chance. There's no way those two were still in the lead. So you're going to have to tell me. There's a chance. Someone didn't do their job. I want to know who to yell at. The leader right now is Pook Nukum.

And the second place team. Smoky the bear! Someone did their job. They're doing their job. We're so good at work. Two weeks in a row. Yeah. Good work. Unbelievable. Good job, everybody. Good work, Brooks. Man, I really wanted to bury someone. Over on X, you can follow us at the FF Ballers. Jason is at Jason FFL. Mike at FF Hitman. I'm at Andy Holloway. If you want to follow us. Individually, we have backup options to kick off today's show. Backup Options, presented by Progressive Insurance. WaiverWire went through this morning. It did, which we do have terrible news about our chopped league. Oh, oh man. The person with Brock Bowers, aka the ring, aka seven days until you get chopped, was second to last. Oh, they were going in. They were projected to lose. One Xavier worthy touchdown away from losing and getting chopped with Bowers, but.

That curse is currently 14 days. On hiatus. Oh, it's happening next week. The most dropped players on sleeper over the last 24 hours. Obviously, Kirk Cousins, we know why. Joe Flacco. This one, yeah. I was talking to Jason because we have the segment every week. I think it's very helpful. You don't always get the waiver guys you want. People dropping Joe Flacco is insanity to me. I know why, though. I understand that he's hurt. No. No, that's not it. Okay, please enlighten me. This happened because there were six teams on by with quarterbacks people had. Flacco was the pickup for the one week and they're going back to their staple at quarterback. Now, you're saying you should roster two quarterbacks. I don't know if that's the case in every one of these situations. I think in most situations it is the case. What we have seen from Flacco in his three games are two great games, one good game. And the last time he was a starter in 2023, he had nothing but good games. So there's kind of.

he's at least someone that you should be holding. I don't think that's the case if you have Lamar Jackson. I don't think that's the case. That's fine. But I mean, if you're looking at that would have been one of the situations that maybe he was a filling for. Let's go to the bye weeks. Kyler, give me flacco. Jared Goff, give me flacco. Trevor Lawrence, I'll take flacco. Gino is already on. Please don't mention his name. I'm going through the quarterbacks who were actually on by. Stafford. I mean, I think it's flacco. Maybe there's going to be weeks. Yeah, I think the Jaden and the Lamar managers were the ones filling in a lot. But yeah, I agree with you. Like, Joe is a, but he's hurt now. Yeah, he will be back. Which compounds the issue of rostering multiple quarterbacks. Like, I don't. And, you know, I get sometimes you need a spot, but it's like dropping him to a potential opponent. I just because of the ace, because of the shoulder, we got the report that he is.

day to day, I think it was. Yeah. With the, the AC joint, I would not be dropping Joe Flacco. People dropped Kyle Monongai, which I don't understand because he's getting over 50% of snaps. Yeah. People drop Bashard Smith, which, again, you have an injury now to, did you guys mention this on the show? We did. We found out afterwards. MCL issue for Isaiah Pacheco, which will. Week to week. I mean, it looked like Cream Hunt was done. Done. And then he scores twice last week. He's like a bad penny. And now just keeps coming back. So I'll just jump in. They honestly need to trade for somebody. They're the number one. There are rumors. There are rumors. For who? Brise or just somebody? Of them trading for the running back. But I'll jump in here. My backup option is Breschard Smith. If people dropped him, that's now a big whoopsie with the Isaiah Pacheco injury. We don't know.

If Pacheco will miss time for sure, but when someone is classified week to week, you have to imagine it's at least one, if not multiple weeks. It's an MCL. Like he's not going to play this. Right. And then the split between Kareem Hunt and Smith, we don't know how it's going to shake out. I mean, Kareem Hunt, I think, is still the more valuable of the two. However. Like, Breschard Smith, he has juice. We've seen Jerich McKinnon have dominance on a short of, very small amount of touches for the Kansas City Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes. So I think that he, if he got dropped, he should be picked up. Yeah, I'll hop in then. Mine is one of the three most dropped.

players it's it's a defense it's the indianapolis colts that's a lot of players and i yeah i don't understand why the colts are getting dropped across many many leagues this is a team that has i mean they they're playing good ball in all three phases of the game but in our scoring in the league of record we are they're the number three defense right now they're scoring a lot and the way that they're scoring matters. I realize the other team's going to have to go for it on fourth, catch up. Maybe they end up giving up a lot more yards, a lot more points. But they are getting after the quarterback. I'm looking at the last few weeks since week three, four sacks, three sacks, four sacks, two sacks, three sacks, four sacks, they're getting it done every week. And then they're going on the road to Pittsburgh. The Steelers' offense is not some juggernaut that I'm afraid of. And then they're at home against Atlanta.

Look at your leagues. They are getting dropped everywhere. I don't really understand why. Pick them up. When you have a defense, I'm sorry, when you have an offense that is scoring the way that the Indianapolis Colts do, which they currently have the most points per drive of any NFL team since 2000, the way that things are going right now for them. That turns into a negative game script, which is it can be a positive for your defense. If you know that the other team has to throw, that's the... That's when it's much easier to get a quarterback sack. Pin your ears back and go. That's when interceptions happen. That's when interceptions for touchdowns happen. So I'm with you. I think the Colts should be picked back up. I think you're going to see Cleveland hit tons of waiver wires because they're going into the biweek. And that's another defense that's a high-scoring defense that you could stash away. I got a gross one. Yeah, you do. But this is the game of football. I mean, yeah, double nasty. Nick Chubb.

So I didn't know who you were going with, but if I may look for a button, there you go. Okay. That's a trip. That's a triple. Triple nasty. Disgusting. I mean, it is, uh, it is something you need to pay attention to because you can be disgusting and gross, but you're talking about who you're starting this week in a bi-week situation. I would love to have Nick Chub. And, and by the way, I got him in one of our leagues and you were bidding behind me. He had 17 carries. When this team is playing at home or they're playing ahead, Nick Chubb is their guy. There's no comment about Joe Mixon ever coming back. He's not running well, but he, 17 carries is 17. He's running. He's running. He's actually outpacing Woody Marks in yards per carry, in rush success rate, in forced mistackle rate. You look at last week, that game script in particular, if they are ahead, you know, they're at home three of the next four weeks.

Do you know that they're once again against Denver? Yeah, we talked about it. At home. Yeah. They are in a tremendous defense. There are a lot of game scripts that happen for this team where they get it going. I mean, Nico comes back. They're at home. Their defense gets cooking against Denver. We know Denver's offense randomly turns off. 17 carries is 17 carries. It's all I'm going to say about that because nobody wants them on the roster. But you could go out there and you can play what? Like a... a Monongai or a Tajay Spears, Bershad Smith, if I have that many guaranteed touches, something good can happen, and it has happened for Chub this year. He's had games where he's been productive from a fantasy perspective. He's been the top 20 running back two times. I mean, this was the most opportunities he's had on a season. I don't want to ignore that. Sure. I found a funny stat here that I had not realized because Woody Marks had a great game.

uh his you know the the counterpart here for the houston texans rookie woody marks who was i mean scored 13 points and a half point scoring format good enough for running back 19 on the week solid but the funny stat is he had four catches including a monster 50 yard reception woody marks yeah i saw that play yeah you know his final receiving line it's got to be sub 50 four for 49 with a 50 yard reception yeah yeah i mean it's uh That just tickles me when that stuff happens. It's not going to be easy to predict either of them ever being productive, but I don't think a player that can get 19 opportunities should sit on a waiver wire. That's all. I can agree with that even though it's disgusting. Yes, it can be gross. All right, that was backup options sponsored by progressive insurance quote today at progressive.com. Let's talk some news. News and notes from around the league. Presented by Progressive Insurance.

We talked about Joe Flacco dealing with an AC joint sprain. It leaves his status up in the air for this week's game against the Bears. This is usually one of those injuries. You can take a shot, go out there and play through it. Yeah, it was the first time since the trade, though, where you do have that momentary panic with... like chasen higgins it's like oh my gosh what would happen if if their hero uh went down and didn't play like no it's a very joint sprain is one sack i mean it's one that's true that and you come down on the shoulder and you're out of the game it's a very fragile situation but if you have any cincinnati bangles skill player you better be lighting prayer candles yeah that joe flaco plays it is a fragile situation guess who's back if he's gone browning yeah

That's how you say it. That's how they call him up too. A browning. Get in here. Oh, man. And take off your blindfold. Isaiah Pacheco considered week to week with a sprained MCL. We just talked through the implications there. Dan Quinza, Jaden Daniels will practice on Wednesday. He looked like a happy guy on the sideline of that game. There's a lot of optimism. He'll be back for my matchup against Al Borland. The Falcons. Some updates from head coach Rahim Morris, Michael Pennix. I feel really good about, he feels really good about Pennix coming back. Says Michael's in the building and in meetings. We'll see how he does in the walkthrough. Yeah. Yeah, they'd like to. Can you fail at the walkthrough? I guess if. Can you limp through a walkthrough? Yeah, when you got a bum leg or foot, whatever it is, I don't remember. Drake London expected to practice this week. That'd be good. Yeah, we like that. George Pickens and the Cowboys have not engaged in contract extension talks of any kind.

Of course not. Yeah. What do you, this is guys, this is Jerry Jones. If anything, if George Pickens gets re-signed to the Dallas Cowboys, it will be way too late and costs them way more than it should. Yeah, if you're the agent for George Pickens, you're not even remotely considering an extension. This is, I want that market. I actually think it's that he's likely he's gone. Yes, the mark exactly. He is going to make so much money. The way he's playing this year and wide receiver needy teams, he'll top the market. It does seem that way. Trying to pull up the wide receivers who are free agents right now. So you got Evans, Kirk, Debo, Jacoby. Yeah. Trying to scroll to see if there's anyone. It's George Pickens. Close to noteworthy as Pickens. But it doesn't seem so. Okay.

Deonte Johnson, the free agent himself, the eternally free agent, Deonté Johnson visiting the Giants. And then full practices for Lamar Jackson, he'll be back on Thursday. Giants got me super desperate. Yeah, that's, uh, yeah, we'll see. I mean, you got to, I know coaches are competitors, but they're, they're buddies. They all know each other. They're in a fraternity. And he's played for all of them. Yeah. Yeah, you're like, they got to be like, dude, you don't want them. You can call. You can call three of your buddies to be like, hey, what? what happened with Deante? And they're going to tell you and you're going to not want to sign him. Yeah, it's the arrested development bit. Maybe it'll work for us. It never works.

Maybe it'll work for us. No, I doubt he sees the light of day over there. Because once he visits a team, that's when they get to know him. Yeah. That was news and notes. Sponsored by progressive insurance. Quote today at progressive.com, progressive casualty insurance company affiliates and third party insurers. Not available in all states or situations. Coverage subject policy terms, limits, and conditions. We'll take a break. We'll hit the Thursday night preview. This episode is brought to you by prize picks. The weather might be changing, but the feeling of being right never gets old. And right now on prize picks, you can get $50 instantly in lineups when you play your first $5. Prizepix is the only app that offers stacks, meaning you can pick the same player up to three times in the same lineup. You like Josh Allen this week? How much?

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juicy. I mean, this is the highest. It's gone up since I took the under. Yeah, I did hear about that. If you missed that story, you listened to the end of yesterday's episode. Yeah, Jason. Jason. Do you just scrolling that up and smash buttons? I was trying to be quick. Are you a button? You have no idea how quick I was. That news came out and I was on top of it. It was so quick that I didn't even get the right game. The button mash better. That should be your Instagram. Baltimore heavy favorites on the road here against Miami. The, uh,

You know, the offense is going to get Lamar Jackson back. We had the defense perform better last week. You know, Lamar came out and said what we all know at two and five. Every week's going to be a win or go home game. It's do or die every single week. It's the position that the rival Bengals were in last year with Joe Burrow and the slow start that they had. And I really think if there's anything you can do, you don't have much time. The game is tomorrow. But if there's anything you can do to trade for Lamar, to trade for Derek Henry.

I think rest of season these guys will be, they're like the scariest people that I don't want to face rest of season. The number one easiest schedule for quarterbacks, number seventh easiest for running backs, 10th for wide receivers, number one schedule for tight ends. It is juicy. Their defense is not going to stop people. And they're going to win. I mean, they might win every game here on now. It's all business, Jason. You see they got, they got rid of the games. Oh, I didn't see that. Yeah, Lamar said, get this stuff out of here. What games? Like games in the locker room? Yeah, like ping pong and I think there was maybe some arcade machines. It's all gone. So he's hurt, but he gets rid of their games? Yeah, that's right. Okay. Well, look, I do think Miami could keep it close. They've been playing well. It is confusing because Miami has been a tremendously bad rushing defense. And then they go and shut down Bijon last week on the road. I feel like Atlanta shut down Bijon.

I mean, the Kirk, Kirk shut down. I mean, it was a mess. Both teams are tied for dead last and offensive plays per game, but the Ravens now have an implied point total, the highest of the entire week. You play Lamar when he's healthy. You do that every week, just like you do with Devon A. Chan in this game, Derek Henry in this game. You know, Waddle, he's an every week start. Absolutely. I mean, since Tyreek has gone down, he's the wide receiver four, the wide receiver 17, the wide receiver four, and he had one down game. at wide receiver 87, but every wide receiver has down games. You're going to be involved. This defense isn't good. But even in tough matchups, I'm going to be starting Jalen Wattle. Zay Flowers. I think he is a wide receiver two category. He's going to be started with Lamar with this awesome over under. Now, Jason, you made a comment before we started the show that you had picked up Mark Andrews to play in this matchup. I know that you have been playing this.

It's like a roulette game with six bullets in the six chambers. Yeah. It's just a lot of really good odds for you and the tight end. That is exactly how it feels. It doesn't feel like you have probably no optimism for this week? No, so I picked up Andrews. This is a good matchup for tight ends. Lamarro is coming back. Touchdown opportunity is there. He will absolutely wreck me. That means this is an Isaiah likely game. I have been saying. This is where I'm going to be paying attention, is Isaiah likely. We have not yet seen one game where Lamar and likely are together. This was to start the year, there's a lot of conversations like, who would you rather even roster going into the season? Andrews or likely. Well, likely got hurt. Then Lamar got hurt. Now we're going to see like what they might have planned coming into the season. Now obviously I just.

put my chips on mark andrews mark andrews is you know 60% snaps has been really involved in the offense obviously had a career high in touchdowns last year i think you do we need to try to talk him out of this yeah so you you know his points right mark andrews yeah i think yeah he had tough man he had the one game of 24 points but i mean i i i don't care about anyone's points when lamar jackson wasn't playing i could care less about that's fair that's fair we could talk about zay flowers and No, that's, so you think this will be one. Yeah, I just think this is a game where I would take the over. I think a lot of points will be scored with Lamar Jackson back against the Miami defense. And so I want pieces of this game. All right. Any other, you know, have you been watching Ollie Gordon? Do you think he's going to become a player you care about it at any point? I don't think so. I think he's a good player. He was the RB 18 last week, is why I asked. He had 10 carries for 46 yards.

He has the potential to get into the end zone. And a 20-yard touchdown reception. I think it was pretty fluky. It was fluky. He's still not getting enough opportunity. I mean, he played 30% of the snaps. He is a good insurance option for Devon A-chan. Devon A-chan is an undersized back, and if he goes down, it'll just be Ollie Gordon there. So he's a fine backup, but no, I don't think he's not going to break out wall. Like my nun guy where I'm. you know in desperate times you could put mona guy in as a flex i don't think you can i wouldn't do that with gordon okay yeah i was just curious about that um what about malik did we do we talk him me meh me leak okay yeah it's pretty risky i knew he was in the top 20 but it was yeah four for 36 i mean he's just that's disappointing

Yeah, I mean, 22 yards, 30 yards, 36 yards. I did a film study when after Tyreek went down watched a bunch of Malik Washington. I was just so disappointed. He's very fast. He is, I said this. There will be big plays that he has this year. I just don't know that you can predict him. I mean, you could say, hey, this is the Ravens high over under. They're going to need to throw the ball a lot. Maybe this is the game where he has one and that's fine. But that's all you're doing. You're just kind of like guessing. that he might get a straight line speedy play. I don't think he's a very good wide receiver. You're going to keep Jameson Williams or Alec Pierce on your roster. Yes, yes. Let's move on. Review Osores Rags. All right, we are getting into a midseason review here. We're at the midpoint, man. I know, looking at... We are cruising. Yeah. Looking at the top players in each position after eight weeks, what we think will change, what is surprising.

It's super interesting. I mean, these lists are great to review. At the quarterback position, Mahomes is number one. He's tied right now for the second most fantasy points per game. He's averaged in his career. Unbelievable. So Mahomes is one. Lamar Jackson is two, obviously has missed time. But you had QB 3 and 3 and 5 for his missed games. Alan at 3. Jalen hurts it 4. And then you get some new faces. I mean, it's Drake May. at number five. He is the only quarterback in NFL history with a completion percentage above 75% and nine plus yards per attempt. He did it again last week in an impressive fashion where you start this game. You're being slowed down by Cleveland. You're getting sacked by Miles Garrett. You commit a turnover. You commit a fumble. And then you just bounce back and dominate the rest of the ball game. He's been outstanding.