Starts of the Week + Week 10 Breakdown, Loose Moose - Fantasy Football Podcast for 11/7

So you're going to get, this is a home game for the Saints, and you're going to get some new juice and excitement and vigoration from both sides of the ball. This one I could see being an upset. Oh, not me. But I hope that. It's three and a half. And divisional games like this, it just reminds me of the Colts Jacksonville years where when they played each other, it was very, very close. But they don't have any wide receivers. Alvin Camara is going to get work to the bone. So that's good for fantasy. His rushing receiving yards line combo. Goose! 11. 11. What? Yeah. Heck, yeah. Yeah. And I know what his... Try to guess how many opportunities he had last week in total. Can't guess. I know the answer. Try to know the answer and say it out loud. 38 opportunities? That's crazy. For a player who started his career as...

He was undersized. You know, he's always going to be efficient. He's never going to be one of those guys that gets, you know, a ton of work because, you know, I remember back in the day, Sean Peyton was like kind of leaked that someone somewhere to get a bar or something said Sean Peyton was calling Alvin Camara a little soft or weak. I don't remember years ago. That is what happened. But now all of a sudden, Camara is like he can, he's just give him the beaten. He'll take it and he'll keep going because you can give him the ball all the time.

His work in the passing game is going to be outrageous. First of all, and we'll talk about this episode, but the Falcons. Right now. The Falcons are always giving up a lot of pass catching to opposing running backs. The fact that the opposing running back is Alvin Camara, who is getting a lot of pass catching because there are no wide receivers here. Do we need to ban him from what? From our Drag Kings lineups? That. That would be fun because he certainly will be in my lineup. We're just going to spend $8,600 or something, all of us to. Yeah. You get, look, he's totally banned, guys. Oh. Totally banned. I would agree to it. I would, I would have the fun. I agree that you two have banned. All right. Okay. No, it's, it's not in your lineup? I don't have my lineup. I haven't set mine yet, but he will be in my lineup. If we want to have a gentleman's agreement that he's not in there, that's fine. Sounds like we might have screwed ourselves, Jason.

Sounds like you might have screwed us. I didn't bring this idea up. You said you'd agree to it. No, I did. Yeah. No, I would. It wasn't my idea. Well, I think I threw a full line. No, he's in. He's in there. I threw like just a quick lineup to be in our tournament. Come here. It is in there. So what are we doing? Am I taking him out? We can have this discussion and decide for tomorrow. We'll offline this. Yes, Bijan. His rushing line is 75 and a half. You play him. Alger could get into the end zone in this one, the Saints.

29th against the run. I do think Alger might be one of those touchdown guarantee type of weeks. Donnell Mooney started the week at wide receiver. Pitts not only had a bad week against the Saints in week four where he was goose. He had a bad week last week, one catch, and he's dealing with a hamstring injury. You know, you talk about he just feels like a risk this week. Yeah, he does. He is risky. Drake is out. Drake will be limited no matter what. So the matchup the last six weeks, the Saints defense is 10th against fantasy tight ends. So, I mean, it's just like who, what waiver wire guy? Like, are you doing our, are you putting the underpants on over Kyle Pitts? Not if Pitts was active. No, I wouldn't, I'd just try to play Pitts. I'm just a little nervous about what you're going to get. I get that. What about, what about, like Hawkinson. I'd play over him. Yeah, and Hunter Henry.

I'd play Hunter Henry over Kyle Pitts. I'd be very fine doing that. I think you'd protect yourself against the hamstring injury. See what happens on Thursday Friday as well, practice report-wise. So Taysam Hill, maybe. Maybe you could do it. He was the tied in five last week. What we don't know is how much does the new coach love Taysam Hill? Like does he have just... an unstoppable, unconditional love for Taysam Hill like Dennis Allen and Sean Payton. Yeah, everyone does. If you meet him, if you meet him, the Coloni wears. I cannot imagine. The pheromones are unstop. The pheromones. I can't imagine that just because the head coach changes here that they would stop using Taysam the way that they have. Five targets, five chinks on the ground. That's pretty good. The, the pronunciation of the interim coach here, Kyle, I do you, it might, is it Darren Rizzy?

Can we get any answer, Kyle? The Rizzler. Yeah. Oh, the Rizler. That's what it's saying. Like, it's just in this world of Skibbitty Toilet Ohio Riz and you got to, can you have a coach who's got the Riz? I mean, that's a pretty good sign for those saints. To be fair, Dennis Allen had the least Riz. Oh, yeah. Sometimes you got to. That reminds me. Pop it out. You like I had. Not it. Just. Pop out. Yeah, it's just, it is, that's Andy Holloway. It is the real problem with the sentence. You just, you just pop off. You don't, you know, you're not popping it out. The other one, yeah, you're going to jail. Look, I had thought of that Camara story in forever and it's like, so if, with Sean Payton being a bit of a mentor for Dennis Allen, how are we surprised that he's mad at running backs and calling him socks? Well, I mean, to be fair, Sean Payton sucks and it's Alan sucks. And their defensive coordinator.

To be fair, Sean Payton. What was his name? Greg, Greg Williams. Oh, yeah. That dude. Hey, guess what? He sucks. Peyton is a good coach. I stand by that. He sucks. You've always been very anti-Shon Payton. I am not. He's a sucky person. He might be an okay coach. I think those two things are never, they never have to be connected. No, no, they don't. You think Bill Belichick's a good dude? I think Bill Belichick's a good coach. Yes. He's a good coach. He's a terrible dude. Maybe. Yeah, maybe. I don't know. He might be funny. Very few people that are just doing one thing and one thing only are very good people. Wow. That's very philosophically deep and powerful. This is impressive knowledge you have. It's just hard to detour. Like the best of the best. They have a late, I mean, do you watch the Jordan documentary? Jordan's a butthole. Jay, here you, Andy Holloway. Andy reads a bad person.

Andy Reid is very focused on football. Sometimes and the best of the best, but Reed's pretty cool. Mike Tomlin, bad person. Bundle Ruski. Bundle Rusky do. Oh, man. All right, maybe I should be less exhaustive in my kind of. Yeah, you could just cut it off at Sean Payton. Could we just leave it at Sean Peyton sucks? There you go. I don't think so, but yeah. You like him? I do. I do. Are you big Peyton? I'm big Peyton. I think he's got a massive ego, but what successful coach doesn't. That's almost what I literally just said. You just made the same argument. No, you said that ego is not necessarily equal to bad person. Not a good trait. I love this conversation. The nuance, the nuance here. All right. Nuisance is good. Sure. Sure. San Francisco, four and four, Tampa Bay, four and five.

We have. Wow, San Francisco's favored by six on the road in Tampa Bay. That is a little bit surprising to me. I agree. Oh, Andy is locked. No, no, no, no, no. You guys talk about the game. This podcast is out of control. All right. Draft King Sportsbook line. Quick check over to Duce's Alley. Okay, all three. They're all there. All right. The 49ers are favored by six. The overrunners 50 and a half. This is juicy. We won in on this game. This one is. This is probably the most fun matchup of the week. Do you feel a little bit like Baker Mayfield with how injured his offense is just hanging on for dear life? Like he's just. He's waiting to push the clock back from midnight. He's like, you know what I mean? Because you're waiting for a pumpkin to happen that clock strikes midnight and he goes back to old Baker. But he's doing everything in his power. I mean, he looked so good in such difficult situations last week against Kansas City.

Obviously, the San Francisco 49ers, they are a good defense, but I agree with what you were saying earlier, Andy, that they're not the team of last year or the last several years that have just been unstoppable on both sides of the ball. This is a above average team. Now, the sportsbook line being minus six on the road, maybe I'm just wrong. And coming off the by, the Niners are ready to just go out there and dominate. But the Buccaneers have showed so much fight. that that line surprises me. I mean, I think San Francisco will play very well in this game. It's 2822 in the implied point total. It's just, can we be excited for fantasy purposes? You've got Rashad White, kind of a resurgent Rashad White, double-digit fantasy points in three straight. What do you do with Rashad White here, though, of like it was six opportunities against the Chiefs? It was 12 the week before. I mean.

like his opportunities aren't changing is what I'm getting out of those first five weeks before his injury. He's on pace, but he's just producing more. So are you buying into the uptick in production? So are you starting? He's startable, but it's, you know, it's not what he was last year. For sure. Because Bucking Irving is a very, very good player. Still limited with the toe injury. Going to be that way every week. He's a better runner. But Rashab White has found a way to. even score on the ground in recent weeks. He has looked better on the grounds. I mean, maybe this is better for him. 4.8 and 6.3 a carry on limited touches. Their offensive line is also played much better than last season. I think that's a part of both Bucky Irving and Rashad White's success. If Sterling Shepard is dealing with a hamstring and hip and Jalen McMillan dealing with a hamstring, and then you've got Trey Palmer and Rakeem, Jared, if you have to pick one in a game with a nice over under.

I would play McMillan. That is who I would play if they were active. I thought a lot about this this week. I thought you were saying if McMillan and Shepard are out. No, no, no. I was saying if they're all there. Yes. I would play McMillan. Yeah, 100%. I'm not going to chase the very last drive of Serling Shepard just because the injuries have been there. And I don't believe he falls where you'd want him to in the pecking order with everybody healthy. Yeah, nor nor does he. fall where you want him on explosive athlete at this stage in his career. So I would agree if they're all out there, McMillan would be the one in. I don't know the McMillan's going to play. He didn't practice Wednesday. It's only a Wednesday, but with a hamstring injury that's already kept him out of a game, that's usually a multi-week injury. Kate Otton obviously is in everyone's lineup. Fantastic start with all these injuries we didn't even bring up. Obviously, Mike Evans and Chris Godwin not playing. Kate Otten is absolute must start.

material, you'll just have, you know, eight plus targets in this game. Do we know if McMillan is out formally already? Can we look into that? No, I don't think so. He's not listed as out. We can double check it, but he is on sleeper. He's listed as questionable. Okay. I saw some people talking about him being out. It would, he's trending to be out with a late week camstring injury ruled. It doesn't make it to the game. It doesn't practice on Wednesday. I would say it's. longer odds. Debo and John Jennings are both in if they play. If they don't play. Wait, he's practicing today, Kyle? Yeah, I was just going to say it. So it's the opposite of out. Jalen McMillan, Sterling Shepard, and Greg Gaines all practiced. We don't know in what. Take back what I said. Today was a walkthrough for what it's worth. Okay. So this is not, you know, they want him to be part of this, this game. TBD on the health. Tomorrow's practice will be everything.

On the other side, Barack Party, Andy's start of the week. I'm in on that. And then our fantasy football king should be back. Christian McCaffrey, whose DK touchdown odds are minus 215. What? Christian McCaffrey's anytime touchdown odds on DK is a minus 215. That basically just, if you're not sure what that means. That means the flat out expectation is that he's got, that's 68% odds that he will score a touchdown in this first game bet. That is absurd and correct. Right. It's 100% correct. I got to bet it one way. I think he's going to get a touchdown. Are you nervous? I'm not nervous. No. I'm not nervous at all. Only cowards are nervous. I don't know. That's so stupid.

Christian McCaffrey will 100% be in every single lineup for everyone that drafted him. How were you when you had to do the finger prick for the blood test? Would you say cowardly? I would say I was a lion. A cowardly lion. Yes, I was, oh my goodness. I couldn't even believe. how big a baby I was, knowing how big a baby I am. People on this podcast have no idea what we're talking. So listen, we all started having this conversation in the office about what blood type we are. Some people knew what it was. Some people said their parents knew what it was and they started texting their parents. And we, you know, we found a pack of 10 blood tests on Amazon and the whole office was testing for our blood type. Mike and I are a positive.

They've got this little, you know, this spring-loaded lancet. You just put up by your finger push a button and it just snaps and then you'll bleed a drop of blood. Or in the case of Jeremy and I, bleed everywhere. No, this thing was a, like, it was a little sword. James Bond could kill a man with that thing. Oh, for sure, but he's very talented at that. Anyways, what was the, oh, yeah. So, I mean, I know I'm a big baby. Jason had a hard time using the small lancet. I couldn't get myself to push a button. I was walking around trying to hype myself up. But as they say, only cowers get nervous. That's right. That's right. To play Christian McCaffrey. To play Christian McAfee. Look, it's going to be exciting. It's going to be exciting to see him back out there. And you want to see them get through the game. You want to see them, you know, reach the end of this matchup of Tampa Bay. Be healthy and go into the next week knowing what the 49ers have. And, you know, whether this negatively impacts George Kittle long term, that'll be interesting to see. Yeah.

Just because you've had to lean on him so much, like he's been far and away the number one tight in. Maybe that softens. It should. Touchdowns is certainly that's an issue. George Kittle has six on the year already. I don't think this has a negative impact on. Christian McCaffer coming back because we've seen Christian McCaffrey with when there is one of the wide receivers, Debo or Brandon I.U. With Christian McCaffrey active, we've seen enough games of that. And Kettle's been awesome. Well, but not the number one tight in is what we're talking about. He's number one overall. George Kittle touchdowns throughout his career. Once he became a start, 5, 5, 2, 6, 11, 6, and he's currently on 6. Like he is running really hot. And Jordan Mason, who's one of the league leaders in rushing, has three rushing touchdowns. I guess my only point is. Chris McCaffrey's going to get one a week. While he is the number one, I don't think he's being propped up.

by six touchdowns. That's not an outrageous number. He's on pace for 100 receptions and 1221 yards. I mean, those are facts. If you're him and then haunt about that. But 12 touchdowns? I mean, that would be a career high. Yeah, but it's, I guess I'm just saying I don't think, I don't believe at all that George Kittle will go down to become the tight end six while you're missing. He's still a top five guy. I'm saying like rest of the way. Yeah. Obviously, by the end of the year, he'll be there because he already has established. All right. Let's jump into the parley parte to close out today's show. All right. Yeah, okay. All right. Looking good, Jason. Oh, you too, Mike. You look like a king over there. Mm, mm, mm, mm, mm. A king. You know what? King of the castle. You're a king because you went with a running back over on receptions. Yeah.

And I'm a king. I went with a running back over on receptions. Last week, we both took Devon A. Chan. I said over three and a half receptions. Actually, if you went on the DK Sportsbook app, it was over four and a half. Don't matter. He had eight. He had eight. And Barclay over two and a half. He had three. So you did it. So what are you doing? Well, this week? Yeah. Well, I'm taking running back over receptions, baby. I'm taking. Alvin Camara is over four and a half receptions. I can't believe it's only in four and a half. Against Atlanta. We talked about it, 38 opportunities this last week. The last six games, here's his reception count. 765, 666, Mark of the Beast. He only needs five to cover this line. He has no Chris Olave, Super Camario. I think we'll cover that line. I'm going James Cook over two and a half receptions against the Colts.

Last two weeks, it's been three and five receptions. And the pace should be running pretty quick here with Buffalo a 26 point team implied total going with James Cook. Over two and a half receptions. Andy, who's your over running back reception total? I don't just do the same things that you guys do. I know. I know. Like wear crowns? Well, look, I tried to take Tyreek Hill over 72 yards, but somebody with a crown in this group. Not me. Talked me out of it. I'm not going to name names. Aaron Jones, 60 plus rushing yards against Jacksonville this week. He averages 71 and this is a team that gave up 159 to Barclay, 127 to Jacobs. 60 seems like a low bar for Aaron Jones. It does. So we'll see. That was Fantasy Forecast presented by Draft Kings Pick Six. Download the new Draft Kings Pick Six app now and use the code ballers. That's code ballers for new customers to play $5 and get $50 and pick six credits.

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