Fantasy Football - Week 10 Studs & Duds + Broken League, Monday Punday - Podcast for 11/10

So it was great to see those two guys up over 20 points. Those afternoon games sucked for us, the night games for you East Coasters. When it was all 40 to 20 across all three games, boring. Ameca, Bucca, baby. Wow. 20.5 fantasy points, 13 more targets and needed it. Needed the a mecca bounceback game. Yeah. Nico Collins up at 19. He's good at football. So that was nice to see as well. I didn't mention Jalen Naylor because no one will play Jalen Naylor. But there are a lot of people. J.J. McCarthy clearly played him. By the way, I saw this morning someone was very upset. I guess we have to take accountability. Oh, no. What did we do? We are the reason that they drafted Justin Jefferson in their fantasy draft. Oh, okay. And it hasn't worked out.

Because of us. That's on us. That's on us. I don't know what we were thinking, but Jalen Naylor's the guy, and we all should have known it. It was not a great week for Jefferson. And JJ McCarthy, he did the same exact thing, where you can see it on a few plays. Not enough. No, it's not consistent enough. It is, it was 12 targets. for Justin Jefferson. I mean, including a, um, yeah, he was like his accuracy is all over the place. Talk about J.J. McCarthy. 48% in this game. We did have the weird bomb to, to Jefferson in single coverage and the feet caught and Jefferson just fell down and then did nothing. Like he just, he didn't even try to tackle him after the interception. He's like, hmm.

He was watching for those blindside blocks, man. That's what he was afraid of. But so, yeah, it, until JJ McCarthy can turn it on. How are you? Because you traded for Jefferson. Right. And, you know, that was your big trade of the year to try to lock in for the playoffs. You know, he obviously didn't help you this week. Yeah, that's the thing. There's some worry, right? There, I mean, there was, there was concerned when trading for him, knowing that this was a possibility. The. The schedule is much better here. Now, back when I was looking at the trade, Baltimore had not completely bounced back. We talked about that on the show last week that don't look at Baltimore's numbers of the beginning of the year. They are a much different defense now. But Chicago next week, Jefferson, he's still mostly been over 10 points a week. This one was just particularly bad. I believe Baltimore can take the division lead next week.

That makes sense. Five and four Steelers, four and five, Baltimore, three and six, Cincinnati, two and seven Cleveland. And they look like they're back. Yeah. And they, I know they were the favorites before this week to win the division. We talked about Nico. Chris Olavé got it done with Tyler Shuck. Yeah. One of them was a nice down the sideline. DB fell down. He took it to the house. I mean, he was, he had an impressive catch on the sideline. I was going to post some video of him today. Five for 104 and one. It was nice in the first game. I mean, this was the first game without Shaheed with Shuck. Right. I had talked about Shuck last week that I know it was a really bad loss to the Rams. Yeah. But he didn't play bad. He really, really didn't. We, you know, if you didn't watch the game, he looked good. And in this, in this game, he played well again. I think, you know, I'm not saying Shuck is going to be a.

a future star by any means. Zero interceptions, two touchdowns, 282 yards passing, 70% completion. Against Carolina. On the road against Carolina. Let's go. And they got the win. I'm going to pull all those Tyler Shuck cards out of the trash. My Tyler Shook cards are very happy. Yeah. I will say this, man. I love Olava as a wide receiver. I think he is an outstanding wide receiver. And if by some miracle, Shuck is that guy and he has a quarterback and he can do the thing that, you know, we waited for Terry McLaurin to do. We waited for DJ Moore to do. It's like, this is a good guy. He just doesn't have a quarterback. You just need the prescription is neighbors in New York last year. Yeah. It's just like you're the dude. Target him a million times a game. It's your best chance at winning. Shaheed's gone. Shuck can be the Russell, Daniel Jones of last year for neighbors. Oh, man, Russ is sucks. Russ is so bad.

Ladd-McConkey, another great game. Four-for-1107. Ladd-McConkey, my guy finalist, has really, really turned it on here. No, he's been great, and, and, you know, Keenan Allen's paid the price. Yeah, Kenan Allen, another awful game. That was the only player that we talked about that I wasn't comfortable starting of that group. Yeah, hasn't had 50 receiving yards in a month now. You're talking about Chargers, all-time leading receiver? Yeah. I think it's receptions. I don't know if it's yards. Yeah. Probably not yards. Tess Johnson, two touchdowns in this one on just four catches. Five targets for him, 13 for Ibuka. But, you know, Tess keeps making plays. Something to pay attention to if they don't get any reinforcements back in the receiving game. Yeah, while Mike Evans is out, I'm happy to start Tess Johnson any week. When you've got Baker, he can support enough. He can support more than just a Bucca. Well, Roma Dunesay bounce back. Jason, your start of the week.

First play of the game, I think he had a target. And did you see his comments after the game? He just goes, thanks, dad. But 6.486 in a touchdown. JSN barely needed him, but still 5 for 93 in a touchdown. For the people who don't, they didn't realize what happened, Seattle shellacked Arizona 44 to 22. Sam Darnold threw the ball 12 times. Yeah, Sam Darnold had a good game. 12 times. And a terrible fantasy game. And if you didn't watch what happened is you turn the game on and you're like, oh, shoot, I missed a couple minutes. Why is it 35 to nothing? And it was two defensive scores. Back to back. Back to back. So it was just like. Same play. Same player. It was take the ball from Jacoby Brissette and run it in. Yeah. So Darnold certainly wasn't good for your fantasy, but don't go dropping him or something because.

He was fine. I'm going to flag this. Jerry Judy had his first good game of the year, six for 78 and a touchdown on 12 targets, and it was the first game that Kevin's the fancy gave up play calling duties to somebody else. It was weird. It was like he's been invisible this year. Just keep that on your radar. The fact that Jerry Judy had 12 targets. You don't generally ignore 12 targets. Yeah. What is your rule on? These are Cleveland targets. That counts as six targets. Okay. This game was weird. watching him the whole time. Like so many boneheaded mistakes. Well, that is the Judy. A couple weeks ago, he had 13 targets and finished with 43 yards. So you're saying don't pay attention to it. I'm saying I'm not paying attention to it. This was also the Jets after they got rid of Quinn and Williams and Sauce Gardner. The defense is, you know, toast. Jaylon Waddle, great again. Devante Adams great again. And then let's talk about Alex Pierce. Yeah.

Another top 15 finish, back-to-back weeks, four for 84 and a touchdown. Most of it was done in the first half of this game, but seems to be a go-to receiver, and he is just, he's a big hulking downfield threat. They take enough shots his way, and the nice thing is for fantasy is these aren't screens. You know what I mean? They take three or four bombs a game. He is averaging, I mean, since he came back from injury. His average yards per reception is 21.8 yards per reception. Yeah, he had a big touchdown in this one, averaging 7.8 targets per game over the last month. The nice thing about a player like Pierce is you get some, it's a great offense. He plays almost every single snap. I mean, you see him out there all game long. And then it takes like one play to give you like the ROI, right? Like you get you get one 46 yard catch in the middle of the game and like you're not.

burnt by the start and then you've got the upside of downfield touchdown so you know it's it's definitely going to be a pitman and pierce above downs situation there the game turned into all tyler warren in the second half and went from pierce in the first half to warn in the second half they didn't really use downs they didn't really use pitman yeah i wouldn't say all i would say jonathan taylor had a little bit to do in the receiving game yeah uh tight ends trey mcbride is a machine with jacobby brissette wow five touchdowns in four games yep He actually had two. One got called back. Yes. And then that turned into Dorch. Yeah. George Kittle, nice game from Kittle with the athletic, what, extension across the goal line. That was awesome. That could have been like a risky fumble play. That's dangerous. Another good My Guy redemption coming back strong. Joanne Johnson, Dalton Schultz and Tyler Warren rounding out the top five. Dalton Schultz with Davis Mills. It's not just Davis Mills. Dalton Schultz has been.

If you ever paid attention to it over the last month, he has been double digits of three or four games. Well, if I need a new tight in for Gadsden, maybe I'll move on to the closest man on earth. Maybe. Yeah, his last month, he would be on pace for over 1,000 yards, over 100 receptions. Perfect. All right. Perfect. And if you hang out. Oh, okay. That was a little bit of a face off right there. Yeah. Go ahead. I was just going to say Kate Otten had 12 targets. Still a very worthy play. Nobody. nobody gets hit harder than Kate Auden. I, it's crazy, man. I mean, when I turned into the, I mean, when I turned into that game, he's, he's got to be a tiny little man inside a muscle suit, because those muscles are doing nothing. He gets hit nothing so hard on every play. It's like a train wreck. I mean, it is, it is wild. I don't understand it. If you see a player on Tampa, get blown up, I promise you it was Kate Auden.

Yeah. It's not somebody else. It's not somebody else. It was crazy. So there you go. And Theo Johnson, I brought him up. He deserves a shout out. I think he is just, you know, as long as Jackson Dart is available, he has his guys and Theo is one of them. And so 10 plus points in four of six games. I'll take that at tight in. I think that's probably the last tight end we need to talk about though. Yeah, that's fun. You guys want to talk some duds? Yep. Poopped in his big boy pants. There were some big names that weren't winning you the week. I mean, Lamar, Herbert, and Knicks are the big three at quarterback that you probably counted on this week and didn't get you fantasy production to the degree that helped you. Yeah. And Josh Allen as well for about 90% of the game. The Josh Allen game was so egregiously offensive to me because I knew in my head. I mean, I knew what was going to happen. Yeah. They're getting.

destroyed. I mean, the dolphins got destroyed. Yeah, the dolphins played great. This is why we keep bringing up. They play hard for Mike McDaniel still. I don't, that's why firing him seems weird because they've been in so many games, so many close games. They dominate Buffalo. He has a fumble. He has an interception. He's got four fantasy points somewhere in the third quarter. and I 100% knew facing him that I was going to end up with like 30 against me. Sure enough. I mean, yeah, because Jackson Hawks has to catch a 26-yard garbage touchdown at the end of the game. Nice. So I guess he was fine. But Bo Nix, Justin Herbert, Lamar Jackson, you know, Lamar, you're the most confident in the rest of season, probably Herbert behind him and the Knicks third on that list. When you start Bo Nix, you might win.

But you might owe a loss to Bo Nix. I mean, that's how it feels right now. And he should go back to targeting Cortland Sutton. Like I know I love Troy Franklin and he's great. But it's not like he has become the number one wide receiver for sure in the target count over the last month. And it's not helping you, Bo. This is the first time I, this last week where I'm like, you know what? The biggest problem on Denver right now is Bo Nix. Yeah. That's the actual biggest problem with the team. Their defense is a dominating defense. They have great running backs. We'll see if Dobbins is hurt. They've got a wide receiver core that's good enough to get it done. They've got a tight end that's, you know, good enough to get it done. And then Bo Nix is sitting there holding the offense back. Mm-hmm. Just makes me like, like there was a point in this season. You're like, Bo Nix is the 20-year starter for Denver. But at this point, if you have a couple more duds like this, it's concerning. Let's just put it that way. It's funny, too, because, I mean, they won the game.

You know, and they win almost all their games. 10, 9, 11, 10, 12, 10. You're not going to be able to win with 10 points every week. Not in the playoffs. Nope. Not against Kansas City this week. Yeah. We'll take a break. We'll talk about the running backs. With the U.S. Bank's Smartly Visa signature card, you earn an unlimited 2% cashback on every purchase. That's right, every purchase. 2% cash back at restaurants, 2% cashbacks, at the gym which you'll need to burn off those restaurant calories groceries yep you'll earn 2% cash back on those two new tires new outfits new york city getaway all earn 2% cash back noticing a trend so whether you're splurging on concert tickets fueling up for your commute or shopping for that perfect birthday gift for the bestie you'll be earning unlimited 2% cash back on every purchase visit u.s bank

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No, they were living in the upside down. I mean, Miami just dominated Buffalo, which hasn't happened in forever. The NFL is awesome because that can happen. If it all just went according to the script, it'd be really convenient for the fantasy football prognostication, but it wouldn't be a very entertaining product. The fact that Miami can go out and just mop the floor with Buffalo in a game like that. Derek Henry, 2475. He's all right. You can live with that. Quinchon Judkins, 22 for 75. If you guys, Henry, what you cannot live with is the play action touchdowns at the goal line this year seem excessive. I'm not saying, what about the, I'm not getting mad. Justice Hill goal line touchdown. Yeah. That seems offensive. Strange.

But Judkins and Henry, I'm not really, I don't think they really belong here. 20 plus carries, 70 plus yards, you're fine. For what the game was, Derek Henry should have had a lot more points. Ken Walker, you just live here. I mean, Ken Walker. It really was the Madden game that we joked about. Yes. He's playing so efficient. I'm sure he was well over four yards of carry. He was running great. And then they get to the goal line and it's like, Charbs, you're up. No, not just Charbs. Oh yeah, what's other guys made? George Halani. Yeah. Who got one carry in the first half. Yeah, he looked good. One carry in the first, hold on. Let me just double check. Yeah, one carry in the first quarter and then he cleaned up in the fourth. I mean, they got to the 10. They're like, Halani, get in there, brother. Five straight weeks without double digit fantasy points for Ken Walker. Dave. Doesn't been in the top 24 since week four. It really seemed coming into the season like his only worry was injury.

and that if he were to play, he'd be good. He's a Triforce candidate for this week. Okay. Against the Rams? Well, he's not going to do well without the Triforce. That's true. He's not going to do well by himself. He's also not going to have the Triforce. No, he ain't. Save it for Week 12, guys. Yeah, you can do a dual force if you guys want to go in on it. No. Dual force has no power. Week 12, Tennessee. Yeah. Yeah, we can think about it. All right. We can think about it. He may be hurt by then. The thing about the, I mean, the tri force of power.

Now that we know what it's capable of, we have to be very careful. We have to be responsible with it. Yes. Yeah, that's, you don't want to just throw that around Willie. No. Terrible things can happen. No, no, but it was powerful. We talked about the Minnesota wide receivers, Jefferson, Addison. Tons of targets, not a lot of production. Correct. Michael Pittman, this was crazy. This game was, I mean, they scored a lot of points. John the Taylor did a lot of the work. I was surprised they didn't turn to Pittman early. or when this game kind of, when they got behind in this game, I was still surprised that. But Tyler Warren became that guy. He was the first down machine. Sometimes it's Pittman. Sometimes it's Warren. Pierce is just running around down the field. Josh Downs did nothing, returned to punt. They're going in Dubai, aren't they? Are they going into buy? Colts. Let's double check it. Oh. You're not going to have anything from John the Taylor next week. Man, that sucks. What are you going to do? And then the run. Then the run happens, Kansas City and Houston.

The tougher defenses? Mm-hmm. Yeah, it just takes one play. I'm, I will not doubt. DK Metcrap. Dude. Hmm. He's averaged 37 receiving yards of the game over the last month. Hmm. Well, he's paid to average a lot more than that. I mean, that is, that sucks. Like, that sucks. They traded like some, some capital to go get him. They gave him a huge contract. They trade George Pickens away for, I believe, less than they traded, less than they paid for D.K. Metcalf. How's George Pickens feeling about this right now? Here's what some might say. I will be other people. I'll be the voice of public opinion. Okay. But. Yeah. But guys. Yeah. He sucks in football. DK Metcalfe? Yeah. I mean, I think that's an opinion. The opinion is he wasn't worthy of the trade. He wasn't worthy of the trade.

of the opportunity and he can't do enough. Yes, I am the voice of public opinion. He's not bad. I just never thought he was an elite wide receiver. Good athlete, good football player, but this is crazy pants what's going on here. We basically, the math equation for D.K. McCaff now is if you are lucky enough to get a touchdown because he's enormous, you will be happy. Five years. If he doesn't, you will be miserable. He is like $150 million contract with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Like, dude, eat some like protein. Don't just eat candy. You want to be great? He does not. He wants to. He's already paid well. And he already looks like that. Yeah. If I could eat candy and look like that. We would all eat candy. You're not getting me to eat protein. No. Unless it's like protein candy. Oh man. Imagine those farts. DJ Moore, no points.

That's cool because he scored like a million for Al Borland against me last week. Yeah. But no, no points. Brian Ketron World's biggest loser and I managed a team where we had Jonathan Taylor guys in the morning. Did you lose? And we had Garrett Wilson and DJ Moore. Ooh, yeah. Is that a double, double goose? That's double goose. Wow. You want to know how you mitigate a 50 point game from a running back? zeros from two of your other players. Did you end up losing? We are going to lose. Wow. It's funny because I see Pittman. You did it. Yeah. I see Michael Pittman in the, the duds section, but when I look at my roster, Michael Pittman and John and Taylor combined for 52 points. So it's like, that's pretty good. Yeah, you would have been really happy with the 2525. Sure. Who cares how it breaks down. Cortland Sutton.

We talked about him Thursday night football three for 24. You're going to get shaky knees starting them right now with Bo Nix's performances, especially against Kansas City. Kansas City and a bye week after that, I feel like right now the decision is probably going to be, you're not going to be starting Sutton for two weeks. That's wild. Bowers, we talked about it. It was a bummer. One for 31. Hunter Henry, Mason Taylor, T. J. Hawkinson, Kyle Pitts. Yeah. This is the meow list right there. He had way, he had infinitely more catches than Gary Wilson. I'm talking about all, all three of those guys. Yeah, Kyle Pitts, two for 38. Not good. Come on, dude. That was Studs and Duds presented by Lowe's. Lowe's, Sundays are for NFL football. Earn your Sunday with Lowe's official partner of the NFL. Before we close the show out, because we got waivers tomorrow. We got a little time here at the end. I feel like this is your opportunity to go on a rant. Me.

for what is happening in our dynasty league. Oh, goodness. Because what is happening in this... Now, let me say this. We've played fantasy 20 seasons. Brooks, he's not going to like it. 20 seasons, multiple leagues. Every league we're in, our main leagues. There are divisions. I'll set the stage, then I'll let you rant. There are divisions. And the division... See, you don't have to just get that out of the way. They're just... You will get your opportunity. Divisions have been great, in my opinion. Because... It's built rivalries and we've had head to head. Jason and I were arch rivals for 10 years. We had a lot of, we got to play twice a year. It was fun. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. This year something's happening in our Dynasty League. That is truly a war crime. I mean, we are, we are at, we're at a point where I can't defend divisions. The Geneva Convention has been. I cannot defend divisions with what is happening right now.

We have Papa Josh back there in Deucer's Alley, which I'll throw the camera on there. Papa Josh and the falcon have an outstanding fantasy team. They've suffered some injuries. What are they? 13 and 7? In a minute. They will be. Yeah, we will be after they will be 13 and immediately. And over here in my hapless division where I am tanking my dynasty team and everybody in that division is dead, there is a division leader. And his name is Brooks. And he's headed to the playoffs. I mean, he's guaranteed to make the playoffs. He's headed to the playoffs. What's his record?

He's going to be six and 14 at the end of this week. Six and 14. We, it was, he is, yeah, so the, the funny timing of this is we were asked on, on this week's footcast, you're like, hey, if there's something that you could just come in, be like, this is a rule change because I said so. And Jason brought up, I would get rid of divisions. And I was, I was on his side. Andy was still like, I'd, You were, you understood the, the things I like about divisions. And they're not this. There definitely can be, but there, there will be a team in and with a record of 12 and 8 currently not in the playoffs because of a six and 14 team. This is the dragon meme. Yes. Yes. There's one of the dragons and it's Brooks. Yeah. With his tongue hanging out.

Oh my gosh. And it's like I saw this this morning at 6 and 14 versus a 13 and 17. And the 6 and 14 is going to make it. And I there was the first time I've ever thought, we have to change this right now. We have to fix this right. And we can't. We can't fix it right now. But it's so wrong. Brooks better do something because there is a team that will be 5 and 15. right behind him. That team could also get into the playoffs. My rebuilding team will be 2 and 18 this week. You're not out of it. I'm not out. At 2 and 18, I might need to trade up. In that division. We got a trade deadline. I can go get one player. What do? Just get one player. You'll be fine. Amari DiMarcato might win me this thing.

Oh, yeah. Oh my gosh. I had to bring it up. It was at, yeah, it was crazy. Divisions can bring some very fun things, but this is just Papa Josh, you're gonna be happy when you miss the playoffs in this league? Dude, I might quit. Just keep. Do you remember you were talking a big game too before the season? Bro. Our team is great. I don't know about that. I mean, your fourth place in the division. You're back behind Brooks. All righty. Well, there you go. That'll do it for today's show. Welcome back to Al Borland over there, Indusers Alley. Thank you, sir. Good to be back. Fresh off the cruise. We'll be back with a waiver show tomorrow. Goodbye. Thank you for listening to another episode of the Fantasy Footballers podcast. Join our fantasy football community on join thefoot.com. And follow us on Twitter at the FF ballers.