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Week 16 Hopes & Fears + Weather Worries, Ride or Die - Fantasy Football Podcast for 12/21

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Week 16 Hopes & Fears + Weather Worries, Ride or Die | Fantasy Football 2022 - Ep. 1355

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Episode notes & curated moments 14 records
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Arizona time stands strong like a saguaro

The Spotify Live time changes repeatedly inside the show document because Arizona no longer matches Pacific time. The hosts propose announcing only Arizona time, making the rest of the world adjust, and standing rooted like a saguaro; the later time-zone debate again favors Arizona or Mountain for early football.

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Elimination empties the fantasy tum-tum

A host explains that once all fantasy teams are eliminated, ordinary NFL football becomes enjoyable again because nothing is happening in the tum-tum and no player-specific outcome matters. The room adds savings on Pepto-Bismol and post-defeat meals.

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Jalen Hurts freezes Jason's semifinal brain

The office finds Jason staring only at the League of Record rather than working. He describes himself as frozen, wilting, and struggling to exist after the Hurts injury, with Geno Smith still provisionally behind Hurts; later he is afraid to address his semifinal roster at all.

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The annual offseason show slate returns

While explaining the move down to two weekly episodes after the season, the hosts preview the Footie Awards, Truth episodes, and 10 Things to Remember as the familiar offseason calendar.

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Brooks moves the Ride or Die lines

Ride or Die begins by recording Jason's rare three-pick strikeout. Brooks is credited with preparing difficult Week 16 thresholds, reports that the Amari Cooper line changed during the show, and voices the Jerick McKinnon top-15 question after direct address.

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Voldemort turns Amari Cooper into Harry Potter

The hosts casually use Voldemort for Deshaun Watson without re-explaining the established name, then say Watson's weak passing has transformed Amari Cooper into a Harry Potter.

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The Lizard King graphic needs no team mark

Sammy Watkins returns to Baltimore, and the hosts celebrate that their team-neutral production jersey needs no update. Watkins changes teams so often that whichever roster is most hurt will pick him up; direct video briefly overlays his crowned, caped Lizard King character.

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Almost-perfect surgery is bad surgery

A report that Tyler Lockett's surgery went perfect leads to a binary scale: surgery is either perfect or bad. Jason says hearing 'almost perfect' from his doctor would feel bad because it necessarily means something failed to go as expected.

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Jason's Kittle trade returns in the semifinal

Jason sent a pick and George Kittle for Dalton Schultz earlier in the year, earned a bye while the trade worked, and now faces the recipient. Kittle's monstrous bye-week performance no longer misses Jason; the semifinal becomes a direct Schultz-versus-Kittle judgment, with Garrett Wilson also under franchise-tag consideration.

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Schmevin can schmevin in Schmevin's heaven

The tight-end question repeatedly mutates Evan Engram into Schmevin, uses the name as a verb, returns to Schmevin Schmingram, and says a believer has lived in Schmevin's heaven before selecting him over Dallas Goedert.

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Kyle and Papa Josh convene the collusion tribunal

A listener's opponents publish exact quarterback pickups and FAB bids to ensure no overlap against his Hurts-less team. The office had already debated it with Kyle and Papa Josh. On mic, Kyle says managers need backup plans and FAB, wants everyone to field a roster, likes chaos, but agrees coordination for one opponent's benefit crosses the line; the hosts distinguish independent moves and even propose freeing a quarterback to counter the plot.

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Mike hoards two quarterbacks to inflict pain on Jason

Asked whether an eliminated manager should remove quarterback options from Jason, Mike reveals that Jared Goff and Daniel Jones are already secure on his roster. Keeping them is his contribution to inflicting pain, though he distinguishes the keeper league and says roster improvement would still control any drop.

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David Blough's vampire rules finally make sense

A David Blough possibility prompts the rule that he can play because the Cardinals game is at night. The hosts reconstruct the three-year-old Hotel Transylvania 'blah, blah, blah' origin, confirm that sunlight would turn him to dust, allow domes without UV lights, and imagine cold-weather stadiums using crowd-sized tanning lamps for vitamins.

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Episode notes

Arizona's refusal to change clocks scrambles the Spotify Live announcement, so the hosts propose publishing only Arizona time and standing like a rooted saguaro; the later mailbag again favors early Arizona football over East Coast midnight finishes. Eliminated Mike can watch without fantasy distress in his tum-tum, but Jason freezes over Jalen Hurts and spends the day staring at his League of Record matchup with Geno Smith currently starting. His semifinal opponent is the manager who received George Kittle plus a pick for Dalton Schultz, creating a direct playoff judgment of Jason's trade. Brooks runs Ride or Die, audits Jason's prior strikeout, and voices moving Amari Cooper and Jerick McKinnon thresholds. The desk casually reinforces Deshaun Watson as Voldemort and repeatedly turns Evan Engram into Schmevin Schmingram and Schmevin's heaven. Sammy Watkins's production jersey is deliberately team-neutral because he keeps joining whichever roster is most hurt; direct video briefly overlays the crowned, black-suited, red-caped Lizard King. Tyler Lockett news creates a binary surgery scale on which 'almost perfect' is bad because something necessarily went wrong. The mailbag becomes a collusion tribunal over written league-wide instructions to buy every quarterback away from a Hurts manager. Kyle and Papa Josh debated it before the show; on mic Kyle favors big-boy pants, preserved FAB, and individual chaos but rejects coordinated action for one opponent's benefit. Eliminated Mike already keeps Jared Goff and Daniel Jones rostered to inflict pain on Jason. The close revives David Blough's three-year Hotel Transylvania association: Blough is a vampire limited to night games and UV-free domes, with cold stadiums imagined as crowd-sized tanning booths. Published video confirms the ordinary three-host desk, opening WITH THE DUCERS aliases, repeated live Brooks/Kyle/Jeremy booth cuts, the Ride or Die bumper, and the Watkins overlay. The time document, saguaro, fantasy stomach, Hurts screen, surgery scale, tribunal, vampire, UV dome, and tanning stadium remain dialogue-only.

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Footclam, we have a great show for you today. We'll check in on Jason, see his mental health after that Jalen Hertz news and what he's doing with his team. We know a lot of you are in the exact same situation. We've got ride or die on the show today. We're previewing Zach Wilson and the Jets on Thursday Night Football, jumping into the mailbag and a whole lot of fun stuff on today's show. So make sure you like, subscribe, and enjoy. The Fantasy Footballer Studio is brought to you by Samsung Galaxy. Visit Samsung.com to learn more. to the fantasy footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. The Fantasy Footballers podcast, Wednesday, December 21st. Welcome into the show, Jason, Mike, Andy, the deucers. Oh, he's deusin. We are... What day is it?

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Very close to a very important week. We will get football tomorrow. Hopefully we get ourselves a game. We were discussing just before pressing record the perils of this Thursday night. Perils of this week. But yes, this Thursday night kicks off this week. I'm just saying that we were discussing a little bit of the difficult matchup. But also the weather and the weather this week is outrageous. It's probably the coldest overall week of football in recorded history. And the issues go well beyond. Like we got a good Miami Buffalo game in the snow or in the cold, you know, and then eventually the snow in the fourth quarter. But when you look at some of this potential sustained winds, gusts in these matches.

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matchups. It's something to be concerned about. I mean, on one hand, the worst game of the week looks like it'll be New Orleans in Cleveland. And I don't know if there were past catching weapons you were, you know, counting on, I guess, to secure your fantasy football title. They were nerve-wracking starts regardless, so maybe it makes it easier on you. But there are some matchups, the Buffalo game again this week, cold in Kansas City. where these forecasts may determine wins and losses more than we want them to. Yeah, and unfortunately may determine how those wins and losses come. It'll be much more in the running game, less than the passing game for the windy games. Wind is a much bigger deal than rain and snow, especially there are two games this week that are going to be 20 mile an hour sustained winds, gusts up to 40. Insane. So.

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Something we'll be covering in our matchup previews this week, which we will take care of the Thursday night game on today's show and then jump into all of the week 16 matchups tomorrow along with starts to the week. We have ride or die today. We have the mailbag. We've got Spotify live this afternoon at 3 p.m. Pacific, 6 p.m. Eastern. That's a lie. That's the wrong time. Is it? Yeah. It's 4 p.m. Pacific. Nah, no. It's 3 p.m. Yeah, we aren't on Pacific anymore. So. Oh, that's right. Great job the first time around. Nailed it. I see the times changing over in our dock. Well, it's 4 p.m. Mountain. Okay. What time is it central? What are you thinking? We'll do five. Okay. Yeah. Sometimes it's hard being here in Arizona where people change around us. I say we just start giving Arizona time. We stand strong like the saguoro, rooted deep.

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Yeah. Mike has a real strong point there. If we just do everything Arizona time, the rest of the world has to adjust to us. It would be super helpful on the show. Yeah. Why is no one here? They don't know when we're doing it. Join thefoot.com is their fantasy football community. You want a bonus weekly show all year long. All the premium rankings. Come hang out. Yeah. A quick question of the day comes in from Twitter. Brandon wants to know after you get bounced out of the playoffs, how do you feel your time? The dip in fantasy focus happens quickly. I stay involved in all, but I'm not reading as much or listening as much aside from the ballers, of course. Well, of course. Yeah, I mean, this is the, you know, there are seasons of life. I don't think that fantasy is very healthy at the same obsession level for 365 days a year.

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Things change. We go down to two shows a week once the season's over. And so I don't think it's a, I think you could take a little breather here and there, but, you know, you definitely go from waiver wire obsessions to more downtime. Yeah, and I will tell you what I do. When I hit a year, all my teams happen to be knocked out of the playoffs. I've got nothing to prepare for. You know what I do? I enjoy the NFL. Because I watch football games and there's nothing going on in my tum-tum. And I just, I'm like, oh man, it's like, well, who do you want to win? I don't care. I just want great football. No longer is it. Who do you want to win? Christian McCaffrey, that's who I want to win.

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So I just, I enjoy sports. That is a really, really good point, Mike. I don't, I, I, I haven't remembered that this last week. I don't know what it's like. This last week, I had all my teams either out or on by and I just didn't care. And I loved watching. It was like such a great different experience just watching football going to me. Man, what, this game is fun. You'll save a lot of money on Peptobismol. Yeah. You'll save a lot of money on your post defeat meals. Oh, man. That's, that's the one that gets me. Jason dealing with Jalen hurts. Jason looks worse than after a long workout these days because he's working out in the brain. Yeah. All the different scenarios yesterday. He was just staring at the screen. I don't know if Jason got any work done. No. Because every time we looked over at his station, it was.

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It was our league. That's all he was looking at. I'm frozen and wilting inside, guys. I'm really struggling to exist this week. Any changes to your current starting quarterback behind Jalen Hertz? Still Gino Smith right now. We also have, you know, a bunch of fun offseason shows coming up, the footy awards, the truth episodes, 10 things to remember. So we'll recap. We'll have some fun. And, uh, Hopefully we'll have some titles to celebrate. Sure. And you can always DFS. Yeah. You know, we got two sharp guys. You can listen to them, Fantasy Footballers DFS' DFS podcast. Sharp brains, not sharply dressed. Well, one of them dresses sharp. Yeah? Yes. Not telling you who, but all you got to do is just watch. Yeah, just see the video. Just look. One of them rolled out of bed through, didn't change, just kept the pajamas on. Nothing with their hair.

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Just let it be as they woke up. As team hat, I don't mind that. I don't do anything to my hair. It just exists. All right, ride or die time. Ride or die, presented by Chevrolet. Last week, Jason struck out. Oh, did I? Very impressive. Yes, yes, yes. I don't know if I've seen that from you this year. No, I do not believe that has happened. I've had a very solid year, not a very solid week. But Alvin Camara did not end up as a top 15 running back. This is another week coming up where he faces Cleveland in a potentially rainy, windy game where you say to yourself, self, this is when I should be able to play Alvin Camara. This freaking guy, man. I mean, he had over 100 yards last week. You know, he didn't have a bad playing game, but.

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He had a bad thing. Like, well, like her bad playing game. My point is like in the NFL, he did not perform poorly. He just really let you down for fantasy. No touchdowns. Wasn't really involved in the receiving game. And yeah, the Saints offense is just a fart factory right now. 21 carries for Alvin Camara. What are we doing here? Balance that out. Like just what with with some receptions like two targets. It's so bizarre to me what is happening. In New Orleans, they've, look, unfortunately, they've become, like, my favorite punching bag because you have, you have guys like Alvin Camarra. He is the rock of your offense, superstar running back, has the contract to prove it, 62% of the snaps. Got a whole bunch of opportunities, but, like, 62% of the snaps, and then you're, take some hill, just tons of money. Not really playing a lot.

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Olave, the snaps went down. Oh, no. Oh, that makes me sad. Yeah. Olave's snaps went down, like, which maybe he's dealing with some injury. Got a hamstring. And it's, but it's like all of these guys who are your featured players are part-time players. It's, it's blowing my mind what they're doing over there. Jerry Judy, we looked at 10 fantasy points. Mike and I rode with Jerry Judy. He ended up. barely getting that. And then two passing touchdowns. I was the only one to stand with Tua last week against Buffalo. Week 16, right-or-dye predictions. Brooks has prepared some tough ones for us. What do we have? All right, guys, and this line has already been lowered since the show started. I just saw it change. Amari Cooper in the weather game, as you mentioned, versus Saints. Can you get to eight fantasy points?

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which is our, we mentioned the truth episodes coming up. That's our metric last year for under eight points as a bust performance. So we know the weather's bad. This is the lowest over under game in a decade. We know Voldemort has not been slinging it. He's made Amari Cooper into a Harry Potter. I mean six points, five point two, seven point eight. What's nothing to do with them? I'm going to ride. Okay, you think he gets to that eight fantasy points? I think it gets to eight fantasy points, yeah. I'm thrilled to hear you ride. I am going to choose die. This is, I mean, if you look at his past three weeks, he hasn't hit eight fantasy points. This game's makeup is, yeah, I know you said that. I'm saying, I'm saying this game's weather is worse, and he hasn't gotten there. So I will, I do not believe this is the week it changes. It seemed like you're very sure you were going die when that line was set.

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Mike? It's a ridiculously low line that Amari Cooper should easily surpass. I mean, one catch in the end zone will take care of it. But I'm going to go, oh, man. I'm going to, I'm going to say die. All right. Great. I'm riding with Amari Cooper. That feels awesome. Yeah. Brooks, what's our second ride or die prediction? All right, guys. The new hotness, Jerich McKinnon. Oh, baby. Back to back, running back one finishes. Will he be in the top 15 this week versus Seattle? This is a brutal situation because I think we would all say that Jeremy Ken is not the number one running back in fantasy football. But he has been for two consecutive weeks. There's been a lot of room for him to roam and find free space.

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Top 15, that's definitely achievable if you're catching passes. Seattle, I think they'll keep up a little bit in Arrowhead. So top 15 is our, okay, so top 15 and Jerich McKinnon has been above the top 15. How many times this year? Two. That's my guess. That's my guess. Yeah, the answer would be two. I believe he was 16 a couple weeks before that. It has been a trend for his opportunities. I think you have to, I'm going to go ride. I'm going to go right. I don't think he gets, he does what he has done in the past couple of weeks. But I think the team is finding success using Jared McKinnon. And so that is a recent trend. I think we'll continue enough to be top 15. I definitely want him in my lineup. Yeah, I'll jump in here. That's what's difficult about when we're playing these types of games. Because to me, McKinnon's about as close to a must start running back too as we get at this point. You have to stay like he's on fire.

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NBA Jam rules state you must play Jerich McKinnon. But top 15 is really rich. So it's like you don't want to say die and then. Technically he's just heating up, right? No, no. No, running back 16. Oh, 16. Yeah. That's green. Green means good. Like I don't want to say he's not top 15 as in don't play him. You're going to have to ride or die. I know, I know. I'm just, I'm trying to lay it out here. I'm going to ride. Jason, I'm going to ride. Jason, are you? Yeah, I have them at running back 15. It's tough to not take the field to grab onto that last spot. With you two riding, I'm going to choose die, but I echo what you're saying. I'm playing Jerich McKinnon. I'm staying in the flames. To me, this is whether or not the touchdowns happen to go his way.

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The touchdowns will be plentiful for the Kansas City Chiefs offense. The last few weeks they've all gone to Jerich McKinnon, or at least several of them have gone his way. Those three matchups, he's had multiple touchdowns of two and a touchdown in the third. If the touchdowns happen to go to Juju Smith-Schuster and more to Travis Kelsey this week and who has just such a great matchup against Seattle who can't stop tight ends, then I think Jerich McKinnon has a good game, doesn't crack the top 15 if he doesn't get a touchdown. And the final one here, Brooks set the line.

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for Zay Jones. Oh, man. At seven or more targets. Here we go. And Zay Jones was the name that was brought up before the show. We were talking about decisions being made. You got to play them on Thursday. The rain, it could be coming down. So seven plus targets in nine and 13 games. The last five weeks, Zay Jones is on 174 target pace. This team hasn't been able to run the football very well. They've also found a lot of success in kind of... broadening what Trevor Lawrence is allowed to do in the offense. So I am a ride, ride, ride man this week. I think seven or more targets. Zay Jones is kind of where he's starting to look. We saw three touchdowns last week. I think he can get it done. I think the Amun Ross St. Brown line for the Lions last week.

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against these jets is what you'll see from St. Jones. I really like that this line is set on targets, not the results of those targets. I think that the matchup against the jets, the potential weather problems in this game might make a few of them uncatchable with pressure in his face or maybe Sauce Gardner might find his way to one of those targets or two. I'm going to ride with the target, so I do think he gets thrown the ball seven plus times in this game. I agree. I'll ride with the targets. It doesn't guarantee success. Well, beyond the right or die, do you think that Zay Jones is going to have a worthwhile fantasy week? I have him as a three right now, which is definitely playable in almost all formats. The tremendous success, three of the last four games, but like I said, seven targets doesn't guarantee success. He had that against Detroit in week 13. Seven targets turned into two for 16.

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So bad targets doesn't mean that he will be incredible, but I'm still going to play him. The last five weeks to Jets, fancy points given up to wide receivers. Oh, interesting. 15.2 to New England. 17.8 to Chicago. Okay, those are not wide receiver cores of note. Right. Minnesota 26.6, Buffalo 14.1. And that was, both of those games were on the road. Then Detroit last week, 27.8, that was the most that they've given up, I believe, since week three. So it's not been easy going against the Jets. And so that'll be, it'll be actually, I'm looking forward to Thursday night. I really am. It's funny because you guys brought up the fact that, what was it? Was it Denver and the Rams? This was like supposed to be this.

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you know, Christmas Day game. A gift to us all. And then you've got like Jets Jacksonville on Thursday. And at the beginning of the year, we probably would have been saying, what a junk Thursday night game. Whereas I'm looking forward to it. The Jacksonville Jaguars control their own destiny. The Jets, there's a lot of storylines there. You can't have a game be much more important for both teams than this matchup is. I mean, you've got two teams fighting for their playoff lives. It's great. Yeah, and Zach Wilson. I mean, theater. Yeah. Some people love horror movies. Trevor Lawrence looking good. Can he continue that against a really tremendous defense? Zach Wilson looking bad. Can he continue that? Probably. Can he continue the trend? That was right or die presented by Chevy Silverado. Learn more about Chevy Solverado at Chevy.com. I was hoping that maybe after all that staring at the computer yesterday, Jason, you had made the tough decision to start Zach Wilson tomorrow. Oh, I don't.

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I don't have. Corey Davis might be playing. I don't have the heart or the strength or the willpower, the courage, any of those to do that. I know, but I wish I could pay you to do that. All right, news time. News and notes from around the league. Presented by USAA Insurance. You're underestimating that if you went out and you got a dominant performance from Zach Wilson on Thursday. That would be so intimidating to your opponent. The rest of this players may lay down. Well, then I might do it. We'll find out. So this week, week 16, you got a Thursday night game. You got 11 Saturday games. So the main slate is Saturday. Got three Sunday games on Christmas. And then you got Monday night football. So what I am seeing there from the schedule is my wife will be unhappy with me. Oh, yeah. Yeah, we're in quite a pickle here.

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This is, I mean, this is football all the time. Christmas weekend. I mean, yeah, I'm celebrating. This is going to be great. Yeah, it's going to be wild. Some news for you, Nick Chubb, didn't practice on Tuesday due to a foot injury. Now, he's a Saturday game. So Tuesday's the new Wednesday. That's the hope. There's several players here that basically. popped up as did not participate on Tuesday. You don't usually see that, but it's very common for them to not participate in Wednesday. The practice schedule, though, is shifted forward today. So there's hope that this is, you know, one of those situations where they're just resting them, but because some of these players have new injuries popping up.

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Like it's actually listed as foot injury. There's fear. Well, I mean, has Nick Chub missed any Wednesdays due to a foot injury? No, but we had the exact same thing happen with the exact same injury with Derek Henry earlier in the year where he popped up on a Wednesday that he has not missed with a foot injury. He went on to play and has not missed any time. So there's hope and there's fear. Yeah, one eyebrow up. Right. Yes. One eyebrow. Chris Olavé didn't practice due to a hamstring injury. This could explain a little bit of the snap. situation for Olave and the lack of production if he's been managing a hamstring, another one to watch, one eyebrow up, maybe two eyebrows up on that one. At this point, how do you play Olave with any semblance of confidence? With the wind and...

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With him being just poor for fantasy. He's been on a downward trajectory. The snap counts have been going down. He's got a fellow rookie wide receiver who's been running more routes than him. And then you've got the injury. I think this is a one eye closed situation. Wait, a wink? No, more like a, you know, you're squint. And you're looking, you're just looking through one eye. One eyed wins? Yeah. Like the, you know. Are there rumors of Carson Wentz starting again, by the way? I. I thought I saw some rumble. I'm sure those will start spiraling around. When you said Wince, I just. Yeah, there was, I saw a quote from Rivera saying, you know, whence being healthy kind of makes things more difficult. But I haven't heard that he's going to take over yet. But so of the past seven. 26 mile an hour wins. Of the past seven games for Chris Olave, he has been sub wide receiver 40 in five of them.

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Yeah, he's brutal. He's not been good because the, I mean, this is what we're talking about with Camara. Like there aren't enough regular chances for the saints to make you excited. And I think Oliva is a full bench as of right now. Yeah, I would agree. How do you play him in 26 mile an hour win on a 32 point over under with a hamstring? Because the red rifle's going to cut through. Oh gosh. Pugh, pew, pew. Yeah, the Saints have, they scored 21 points this last game, which isn't a ton, and that was the most they've scored in a month. Is there, do you guys love Sean Payton, right? Yes. He has a football coach. I think that he's a good offensive coach, yes. Okay. So you do, is there any thought that that was just a breeze thing with Sean Payton? Oh, for sure. Yeah. Until, until, until I've, the coach proves otherwise, I mean, I will.

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I will believe that he is a good offensive mind and yet have skepticism that he goes into a different situation that it may not be as good. Okay. I'll bet Peyton gets to pick a situation where he has a quarterback is my guess. But it's like Bill Belichick, like Tom Brady is gone and they had a, you know, a little bit of success last year. They're doing okayish this year. And it's just when you're tied to a Hall of Fame quarterback, It covers up a lot of mistakes. That's fair. Jalen hurts. That's a DMP on Tuesday. I think it's a presumed DMP because did they not practice? Did they practice? I don't know if there was an official. I don't think there was an official. The word is like, you know, you got the coaching staff saying that they're going to have a game plan for both of them. I mean, on a Wednesday, if I'm betting, I'm betting he's sitting out.

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So, Jason, Jalen Hertz, I guess the conversation is this. If Jalen Hertz does play, right back in, no hesitant? 100% back in without hesitation for me. I don't think there's any waiver, wire, even guys that you had. previously had. I had been holding on to Gino because he's got a great match up against Kansas City. Andy, you brought up Jared Gough this morning beforehand, who I would play over Gino. If I had those level guys and Jalen Hertz is active, Jalen Hertz is 100% in my lineup. Ryan Tandahill, status uncertain uphill battles. Team signed Josh Dobbs off the practice squad. Tandahill doesn't look very promising for this week. Nope.

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And you can say goodbye to Chica Conquo and Traylon Burks if he's back and any pass catcher if that's the case. This was, you know, the Ravens, they're hurting, man. Devin Duvernay on to IR. They signed Sammy Watkins off of waivers. He's back. I'm so happy we have the non-marked jersey for Sammy Watkins because he just keeps. You never know what team he's going to be on on any given week. Whatever team is hurting the most. That's who will have to pick up Sammy Watkins. Jacoby Myers Limited due to a concussion. What? This is one to monitor. He played this last week. He cleared concussion protocol and played. Oh, his head slammed on the last play. Oh, no. Did not see because all we saw was Mac Jones hitting the ground. I did not realize it. And then we've got.

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Ken Walker didn't practice due to an ankle. On the Tuesday. On the Tuesday. Tyler Lockett, finger surgery. He may only miss one game. Because the surgery went perfect. You can, he was supposed to be gone. Well, yeah, I mean, you assume he was going to miss a couple of weeks and they hope to get him back at the end of the year. But man, surgery went perfect. So that's, I mean, isn't that kind of this? That's the goal of surgery. Yes. The goal of all surgeries is to go perfect. If a surgery can only go one of two ways. Perfect or bad? No. Well, Jason, the surgery went almost perfect. How does that make you feel? That makes me feel like it went pretty bad. Like if I had a doctor who just finished working on me and he said the surgery went almost perfect, that would go.

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What went wrong? Because something did not go as expected. No, almost perfect. That's bad. It's bad on the scale of surgeries. Is it? Yes. I feel pretty good with almost perfect on a surgery. What if it's your heart? Almost. We almost got it perfect. I just feel like perfect is hard to achieve. Did you fix the issue mostly? Mostly. All right. AJ Dillon cleared concussion protocol. That's what I say. It was weird of what was going on with him, but he won't be back. Don't know, no, no, no. Bambi Anscaronic. Hey. Unfortunately, he's out for the rest of the season with a calf strain. So, sign up your two, two at Wells. Also, the Rams Center, I believe, is done for the year. I think I saw that. So they're, they're, as we've said, they're closing up shop. Play your streaming defenses against the Rams. The opposing team trying to get into the stadium.

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