Week 10 Studs & Stinkers + Andy Returns, Hoptimus Prime! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 11/16

The MVS caught the ball. He's still got 40 yards to run for the end zone. And as he's going and players are trying to catch him, there's the ref that's in that part of the field that's kind of running alongside. It gets in the way of a player, gets shoved in the back, and then blocks the other defender. It was fantastic. Yeah, it was spectacular. And Cole Beasley, we brought him up. I mean, I know that the Bills fans are hurting today.

But I'm still rooting for you the rest of the way. I mean, this is a team playing great. And Super Bowl pick still think they've got a shot. And now Miami and Buffalo fighting at the division. And the Patriots starting to put it together. So it could be a fun finish there. 13 targets 11 for 109 and 1 for Cole Beasley. If you look at the game log of John Brown and Cole Beasley next to each other, you see basically three really good games from Cole Beasley. And all three are when John Brown.

was either not active for two of them or what happened in yesterday's game and he got knocked out. Yeah, it just makes sense. Diggs is going to get his and then it's, do they have enough to go around? Willie Sneed ended up five for 64 and two. Okay, not worried about it. I haven't thought about Willie Sneed. About four years? You haven't had a need? No, but I like Willie Sneed. Yeah, sure. I wish Hollywood Brown would.

Do that, but he just highlights that there can be production at the wide receiver position. That's true. Deontay Johnson, Chase Claypool, Juju Smith-Schuster, all in double digits to targets. Deontay, 6 for 1, 16, and 1. Claypool, 4 for 56 and 2, Juju, 9 for 77, and 1. And you could thank James Connor for all of this production, because I'm sure they would have liked to just run the ball and keep their lead, and they couldn't, because James Connor is.

He's just not that good. Well, I think Jonathan Taylor has been watching James Connor film. Yeah, I mean, those two, they've been working out together. Goodness. Just running into butts. That's what they do. Just run into butts. But Deonti was great again. I mean, if you look at these three players, you know, Juju's been putting up double-digit games every single week. Juju feels back, man. Well, he's got that number two rollback.

That's true. You know, when he dominated, he wasn't the focal point. Andy brought this up over and over and over for the last two years when it was like, we haven't seen him without Antonio Brown. And he's never proven that he could do it as the one. In fact, he kind of proved he couldn't do it as the one. But now with Claypool and Deontay Johnson becoming focal points for defenses and Juju's just so, you know, this big slot wide receiver, he's much more of an afterthought.

Yeah, and it was a great week. Now, if you're, I mean, this is kind of pointless to do. Deontes kind of at the top of all of our list moving forward, but Claypool is big play. I mean, he had plenty of other opportunities in this game. Juju is more steady. Who would you rather have rest of the season, Claypool or Juju? Is that team dynamic? Yeah, team dynamic, but more often than not, I would say Claypool.

I actually thought about trying to trade for juju. That's where he's at. Wow. That's a big step. Yeah. I mean, just as, you know, like a second flex. Yeah. Don't read into it too far, Mike. Don't tell anybody. Don't tell anybody. Marvin Jones got it done again without Gulladay. 10 targets, 8 for 96 and a touchdown. T. Higgins continues to get it done. 7 for 1, 15, and 1. It'll be an interesting matchup next week. Washington's actually number one against.

Fantasy wide receivers show. Marvin Jones said, ha, ha, ha, to that. That's true. He did. Stefan Diggs, 10 for 93 and 1, DJ Moore, had a DJ Moore game, 4-496 and 1. DJ! DJ! Disintegrating Curtis Samuel's value in the process. Holy crap, it did. All right, tight-ins were rough, guys. I can't believe we even have a studs part of the show for Titans. It's Rob Grankowski, who was the Titan 1. He was the Titan 1. He had two catches. He legitimately...

had three targets, two receptions, and is the best thing you could have played at tight end? Which means that you and your opponent, unless you played Gronk, you probably both just got nothing from the tight end position. There were three tight ends that were, you know, fantasy relevant starting guys. Mark Andrews, Hunter, Henry, and Rob Gronkowski. Outside of those three, every other tight end that you started, it doesn't matter whether it was anybody. Insert.

All tight ends, they all stunk. You didn't start Logan Thomas everywhere? I did not. Yeah, yeah. It was crazy. Stinkers of the week, presented by odor eaters. All tight ends. Tight ends. This is the tight end week. Did you have Darren Waller? Did you have Jared Cook? Did you have T.J. Hawkinson? Did you have Evan Ingram? Did you have Dallas Goddard? Did you have Noah Fant? Sorry, they all stunk this week. Every single one of them.

Yeah, and I guess since we're just on the tight ends, we'll get the tight end stinkers out of the way. Is there anybody that you're worried about moving forward? Like Waller, you play every week. Hawkinson, you probably keep playing. What about Goddard not producing with these opportunities in back-to-back weeks? He seemed like somebody you might have wanted to load up for the playoffs. Noah fans have been stinky. Dallas Goddard did have to leave the game for a portion to be. He was evaluated for a head injury, so I don't know if that factored in at all.

I have never received more trade offers for Travis Kelsey than this week, this week after these. Wait, in the League of Record? Yeah. Yeah. People are wasting their time trying to get Travis Kelsey from you. You've got to try to find someone on tilt. This guy is one of them. Of course I am. I mean, look, I respect Andy so much that I'm not even going to send him a trade offer for Travis Kelsey because that's stupid. What's wasting my time and it's wasting his time. Multiple people have not just made offers. They've said,

what do you want just name it right name your price just name your price and i'm looking at the situation i'm going i can't name a price like there's no combination of players that equals like what if mike i tell you hey trade me a roster spot that's worth 10 points more than everybody else you play rest this season you get a bonus position it's it's yeah i mean it's basically like saying i get one extra roster spot i get what would you what would you trade in your league for a roster spot

I get another flex. Like a starting lineup spot. Yeah. Yeah. It's unbelievable. So, yeah, I have not traded Travis Kelsey. Of course not. I've hung on to him. Let me just say I really hope. And I mean this as a dear friend, I really hope that you lose out and do not get in the playoffs. Thank you. You're welcome. I trust that you thought that already before this week. It is a compliment. But please don't make sense. Yeah. Yeah. I know. I know.

All right, quarterback stinkers, Russ. Uh-oh. Russ was, uh, what do you, what do you do? Do you, is it disrespectful? People will think that we're biased because we're Cardinal fans that we won't give Russes due. But, um, what, two more interceptions in this game? Uh, you, you play Russell Wilson, especially against the Arizona Cardinals on Thursday. He's going to be perfectly fine. This.

is more a, we need to highlight the Los Angeles Rams defense. We have not given them the respect that they deserve. Jalen Ramsey shut down D.K. Metcalfe. They have a pass rush. They have a good pass defense. See, the Rams aren't thought of as the Steelers, the Ravens, these juggernaut defenses, but the Rams are crushing people. They are crushing fantasy values.

That's more of what it is to me, not more on Russ. And the thing is, is their identity is kind of the same as those big teams. It's like the running game now and playing defense and putting golf into a play action pass situation when he needs it. But Russ, look, he can't do everything. Their defense isn't holding up. He's made a few more mistakes recently and that was enough to get some losses. Now, last year he was a great fantasy quarterback by the end of season ranking, but his consistency ranking was 13th.

It begs the question, you know, is there a worry that you're going to have more of that this year? Probably not. No, I don't think so. I mean, I agree with Mike. I think this is a full credit to the Los Angeles Rams. We couldn't watch a snap of that game where Russ dropped back to pass and wasn't fearing for his life. I mean, that pass rush was dominating that offensive line. And, you know, if you look back, this is his second.

Bad game on the season. That's still really, really good. I expect Arizona, Philadelphia, New York Giants, New York Jets. That's his upcoming schedule. Russ is fine. They also need Carson back. Chris Carson will help Russell Wilson. I believe they are undefeated with Chris Carson and have not won without Chris Carson. Oh, there you go. Oh, Russell Wilson for MVP? Is he even your own team's MVP? Oh, my goodness.

Take that top man. Oh, my goodness. All right. Derek Carr, Drew Locke, Carson, Wins, Jared Goff. I don't, I can't handle Goff being here because golf played so spectacularly. Yes. 27 for 37 for over 300. And yet. And the team scored four touchdowns. Now, what I understand from this is that he believed that the five-yard line was actually the pylon. And so he kept throwing them.

And then they'd go in and they'd just take a knee on like the four and then they'd be like Malcolm Brown come in. Or Darrell Henderson come in. Or Cam Acres. Everyone gets a rushing touchdown. If you were like me, I played golf instead of my homes in a league. And a lot of people played golf. Well, it was still a good call. The process was perfect. The result was painful because no touchdowns, which was the first time since I think week one.

for golf. And then Wins, we thought. That's what, what do you guys make of Carson Wins here? This is a massive turd. Yeah. It honestly is. I can smell it. Yeah. I can smell it. Yeah. I can smell what happened. Yeah. But like moving forward, what do you do with Carson Wendt? Do the opposite of your instinct. Just do the complete 100% opposite of what you think of Carson Wins. If you think he's going to be good, he's going to lay a turd. If he thinks he's going to be bad, he's going to surprise you.

and run for a bunch of yards. Yeah, that is, that's tough. That means sit him the next two weeks because I think he's going to be good. He's, you know, Cleveland and Seattle. Yeah, Cleveland and Seattle are very plus matchups in general. What did I say? You'd have to put the blindfold on to play him this week? Yeah. Yeah, and you probably needed to keep it on once the game was over because you didn't want to see the fantasy stats. And then Drew Locke was awful. I just saw that he is completing. You want to know what percentage of passes he's completing when he's under pressure?

Zero. Very impressive. It's 31%. So, but he knows how to dance in stuff. No, he doesn't. No, he doesn't. All right, running backs, are you worried list? James Connor, 13 for 36, back to back, massive disappointments against terrible defenses. So on the field, so while this was disappointing, this is not a panic alarm. Sure, you.

You get worried when your fantasy running backs put up back-to-back bad games. But Jacksonville, it's a plus match upcoming the next week and 88% of the snaps for Connor. I'm not freaked out. Yeah, it's one of those things where I was more scared the prior week in Dallas when he...

wasn't given that many opportunities. I like the fact that he was still the guy this week. He was very inefficient in a plus matchup. So I don't necessarily look at Jacksonville and say, oh, he's going to have a monster game. I don't think you can project monster games for him anymore. But the utilization did say 81% of the carries. This one, yeah, 81% of the carries with the carries going down. It's a little concerning when I see, you know, the last three weeks, 15, 9, 13 games.

that we're in control with Cincinnati. I'm just saying that there's a little bit of disappearing that can happen with Connor when you're putting up 22 rushing yards, 36 rushing yards. I don't know. Like the team, maybe they're trusting Big Benmore now. You know, something's a little bit different. Their strength is that trio of wide receivers. And so it makes sense that they're saying our offense is better getting it to them than James Connor. And they've become, you know, they've been running the ball less and throwing more.

I would say I'm far more concerned with these next two players. Mike Davis as that superstar backup waiver wire sensation gets to take on Detroit. And then in the Denver Broncos running backs, Melvin Gordon. Philip, like Philip Lindsay is not, he wasn't really playable unless you were just incredibly desperate because of the opportunities. But now Melvin Gordon, like right now sitting at the running back 38, hot off the heels of a running back 52.

Hot off of running back 33. I mean, when they're both there is Melvin, how do you even start Melvin Gordon? His name is still, his name's still in lights and shiny and you are drawn to it. But how do you play him? I mean, you try not to. You do what you can to. I mean, next week, let's say everything stays status quo for the Chargers. Are you playing Kalin Belage or Melvin Gordon? Probably. Who do the Chargers play?