MEGALODON Episode – Week 12 Matchups, Turkey Day Awards, Starts, & TONS More! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 11/25

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for the ones who get it done. Fantasy Footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. Hey, good luck, don't. Hey, hey, it fit. Oh, welcome into the show. When things just syllobically fit, it brings me great joy.

The Megalodon episode for 2020. What can go wrong? Hours and hours of fantasy football content. Andy Mike and Jason, the fantasy footballers back with you. November 25th, it's almost Turkey Day. Almost. And we've got a doozy of a show for you. And this is a bit of a, I mean, this is a yearly event.

What's taking place today? Oh, man. People, I mean, you know, you're listening. You've been waiting for weeks. You rose early this morning. You probably had a hard time sleeping last night, knowing what today was, the Megalodon episode. It is finally here for your listening pleasure. And it will, I'm guessing it will get to you in about.

20 hours from right this second where we're recording because that's how long the show is going to be. Yeah, when we do this show, what our hope is is that the producers can get it out by the following Thanksgiving. This show was actually from last year. That's correct. But our, you know, powers of prognostication, we know exactly what's going to happen in the future. And that's why you're supposed to listen to everything we say. That's right. Verbatim.

Very little on the show today. All we have is taking it up to 100, some news and notes, buy, sell, all of our Turkey Day awards, the entire fantasy forecast with 16 matchups. Starts of the week, the boom, boom kicker, and prop it like it's hot. But that's it. That's it. I think I can add something special in there somewhere along the way. You're just going to improv a segment. I'm going to improv a segment. We'll do it. I thought you meant, like, vocabulary-wise, you would introduce some new words to the English.

Oh, no doubt. I will be brought in the heat. Yeah, more substandard words. You already brought in the heat. That's the, I mean, all right.

Happy Thanksgiving, everybody. I hope you all are preparing for a very safe and happy and healthy holiday. Yeah, stay safe. And we have a jam-pack show that we're going to get into right now. You can find us on Twitter at the FF Ballers, YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballers. We called Google. We asked them to kind of expand the upload capacity for YouTube as a whole. So we're going to get this whole show up there.

which will be fabulous, just outstanding. And then we have show 1,000. Oh, brother. Right around the corner. Wow. Two weeks from today, the show 1,000. From what we hear, there is some special stuff happening behind the scenes that we don't even know about.

So I'm already staying tuned for the show two weeks from now. You're going to be. I'm going to be, I'm going to listen to it. Okay. And as long as the plans that you producers are figuring out and the team is figuring out don't involve like another megaladone. Like the length of show doesn't have to expand with a thousand, right, Brooks? We'll see what happens. Oh, great. All right. We're here for those people. That's true.

That is true. And this show is, as long as it is, because we want you ready for week 12. We want you getting into your fantasy playoffs and bringing home that hashtag foot clan title. Just imagine when your family is gathered around and all the football games are on, how smart you're about to sound. Hmm. That's a good point. Yes. Let's take it to 100. Taking it up to 100. Presented by Head and Shoulders, available at Walmart. All right.

Last week, two for three right here on the show. Mike Davis was my pick. He was a hit. Jason, big hit. Brandon Cooks. Yeah, he got it done. They locked down Will Fuller for the most part. But this week is a new week, and we're going three for three. Oh. I'm going to kick it off with a guy that I believe should be a rookie sensation at wide receiver. And, of course, there's about 10 names that come to mind when you think about rookie sensations. This isn't one of them.

Jalen Rager has so far not hit. He has not really done anything that's wowed us. But he's got 93% of the snaps last week. He's back to full health now. He's been above a 15% target share. And of course, the reason he's taking it to 100 is the Seattle secondary. Yes. Who takes it to zero. So it's actually a tertiary out there in Seattle. Yes. It's.

Step down. I think this is the week that Jalen Rager. Would that be up? No? No? No. From two to three? Well, you think that makes it better? Google's tertiary. I would assume so. I would assume that the tertiary assumes that I get to play with more players. Well, I mean, but you've got your primary and then you've got your secondary.

Oh, okay. I see. You see it's a step in. Yeah, yeah. I see where you're going. Okay. We were, we were just. It's always better when you examine the joke closely. Right. Yeah. Let's dive deep. Really works through whether this is funny. Yeah. It could be. It might be. I've had very mixed reviews on Rulio 11. I'm all in. Some people are starting to really get on board. As long as you say it like you're in hook, then we're okay. I did see quite a bit of those. Yeah. It makes sense.

Rufia. All right. I'm going to go with the wide receiver as well. Darius Slayton taking on the Cincinnati Bengals. Look, it's been a while since we've had a top 24 performance from Darius Slayton. It's been a while. He was the number 15 overall wide receiver in week five, but this is a matchup. We talked about Daniel Jones yesterday. It should have a nice week. Slayton's still very involved in this offense. So.

Big play time, taking it to 100. I love this pick. And I am going with a tertiary option myself. Cole Beasley, wide receiver from the Buffalo Bills. The matchup is a plus one against the Los Angeles Chargers. So that's in his favor. Beasley has gotten done on quite a handful of games this year because when John Brown is hobbled, he takes a 25% target share.

And it looks like John Brown is hobbled. So you got matchup, you got opportunity, and Cole Beasley's a good wide receiver when the opportunity presents itself. He's a good wide receiver. He's the kind of wide receiver who, if you just put him into a machine and you made him like 50% larger, like how good would that player be in the NFL? If you just, if you were somehow able to do it and run this in a machine, you know, run the algos, put Cole Beasley in place of Julian Edelman.

Put him in place of West Welker. Cole Beasley would be a national name. He's played very well this year and continues to be a go-to-wide receiver. So that'll be a good one. Take your hair up to 100 with head and shoulders available at Walmart. Mike just did a hair flick, and I am uncomfortable. That hair flick is very...

A little. Yes. Yeah, that's something. You're welcome, you too. Russ would do that. Pick yours up today. Check out next Tuesday's episode. We'll reflect on our up to 100. I cracked my neck when I did. We've got our first Megalodon injury. Oh, my, I cracked my neck on a hair flip. It's time for news. News and notes from around the league.

Did you, Jason was cracking his neck during that drop. Were you preparing for a hair flip? You wanted to be ready? I cannot perform the hair flick. You can try, come on. But no, I was jealous of his neck cracking and I got in a quick neck crack. All right. What's going on today in the world of COVID? That's what we want to know. Jacksonville, their entire defensive coaching staff sent home following a positive test.

So there you go. The Minnesota Vikings have a situation with Adam Thielen. He tested positive and then he tested negative. So, I mean, that's at least a positive sign, I would think, for Adam Thielen's availability. Because if he'll continue to be tested and if he keeps coming up negative, then he's in. He'll play on Sunday. Yeah. So I think he has to just get some more negatives in a row. You've got to get a hot streak of negatives to be in the game. Yes.

Teddy Bridgewater, Christian McCaffrey, both practicing this week in some capacity. Yep, that's a great sign. I think Bridgewater, I mean, we'll just have to wait and see. I still do not expect Christian McCaffrey to suit up. But this, if he's practicing now and then there's a by week, there should be no worry about him in week 14 if that's the first game he's back. Yeah, and it would be nice if Teddy Bridgewater was back, although PJ Walker was good.

You know, for Robbie Anderson, for DJ Moore and company, taking on Minnesota, it's a good matchup. Could you imagine how good PJ Walker would have been for fantasy? If both times that he drove down and got all the way to the goal line, he didn't throw an interception in the end zone. Yeah. That's a very fair point, yeah. I mean, that's negative four points as opposed to plus 12. I mean, he played very well outside of obvious horrible interceptions of the end zone, which you...

You should hold it against them. Yeah, and they were ugly. They weren't like some, oh, a little tip pass, nothing, no big deal. No, it's like I'm targeting my opponent. Chris Carson practiced on Tuesday on track to play Monday night. This is great. I mean, for fantasy football players, seeing him practice, this could have been a nightmare scenario with the Monday night game, is all I'm saying. And instead, we see him practicing, and he's going to be back out there. Here are a couple more running backs.

going to return from injured reserve. Rahim Moster Jeff Wilson. So Tevin Coleman could also be back. Yeah, with regards to Moster and Wilson, they have their 21-day window. They are able to practice. It's not a guarantee that they will be activated for the game, but obviously this is the first step. They can't be activated for the game until this happened. So you might have them back this week. Austin Eccler.

The charges plan to designate him to return from injured reserve this week. It will open up the 21-day window. Come on, awesome. I don't think he gets back this week. I don't either. But he's on his way back. And so you could get one more Belage week before Echler is back out there? I think you will. And I will say this. One final stay in the Bellagio? Yeah. Roll them dice. But when Echler comes back, this.

Because of this injury and the nature of it, I probably will, I mean, almost certainly, I will not play him the first week back. You'll want to see it. I wouldn't imagine that they throw him right to the wolves. I'll bet they ease him in. All right. Here are a couple of news blurbs headlines that came across this morning. Brandon Allen, the Bengals, Brandon Allen, is going to start against the Giants. At what position, Andy? Quarterback. Okay. Tight end.