Week 6 Waivers + Full Stream Ahead, Miracles & Nightmares - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/12

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And Mike Ride. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages. Welcome to the podcast. That's the Fantasy Footballers podcast, if you are so nasty. And holy crap. I don't even have eyebrows anymore. That game. The NFL has been sensational this year.

Sensational. Our primetime games, we are getting spoiled with what we are able to watch on Thursday, Sunday night, Monday night. The drama. Oh, my goodness. But if you miss the game, or if you just turn it off at halftime, from the extremely boring yuck fest of the first half of last night.

Hey, you missed. Yes, you did. We will get into that. But I want to welcome you into the podcast. I'm your host for today, Mike, the fantasy hitman, right, joined by my best friend. Oh, he's doing a little shimmy. Little shim. It's a little shim, big nasty little shim. Let's go. And the cardboard bear extraordinaire, Jay Gris. He's holding it down over there. Do we have a bear roar somewhere? I don't know. But he's holding it down.

Thank you, Jay, for jumping in here. Andy will be back tomorrow. If you want to watch this show, we are on YouTube. YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballers. Follow us on the socials. Twitter is at the FFBallers. I am at FF. Hitman. Jason is at Jason FFL and Andy is at Andy Holloway. On today's show, we're going to talk about this Monday Night game in just a moment. Where there's smoke, there's fire, a couple players. Will they continue?

what they are doing, or will they just reside in the smoke, not actually igniting end of fire? News and notes, a lot, a lot to go over. And then the waiver wire, which, I mean, this is a crazy waiver wire this week. There are a lot of different choices. A lot of options and the first week of by week. So, and a lot of injuries this last week. So when you combine the amount of players that went down with the amount of players that are just,

gone from playing this week. Very, very important waiver wire week. And we have a giveaway going on right now. We are giving away a signed... Darren Waller jersey. Go-go-go-ca-choo. Footclan giveaway.com. It's completely free to enter. You just do a couple things for the... to support the show. And you're entered to win that jersey. Monday night. We went into halftime. Mm-hmm. And it was...

Ten to three. Ten to three. The Ravens. Forgot how to play football. Yes. On both sides of the ball, they were actually extremely, extremely lucky that it was just ten to three? A couple.

Had a red zone turnover for the Colts that looked like the Colts should and could just dominate that game. Yes. Early on, you had Jonathan Taylor breaking off. Yeah, almost the first play from Scrimmage was a 70 plus yard reception. Just beautiful. And then the second half, apparently Lamar Jackson woke up.

and said, oh, where am I? I should play football. And I was, so I was in a position. I talked about this late on yesterday's show where I needed either basically a goose from Hollywood Brown or a massive performance, depending on which league I cared about. And at halftime, I'm like, okay, let's go. He hadn't caught a pass. Lamar hadn't done anything, complete goose. And it went all the way to the other side. Yes, it did. So.

The final stat lines, Carson Wentz, over 400 passing yards to touchdowns. Lamar Jackson, 440-plus passing yards, four passing touchdowns, and added 14 carries for 62 yards on the ground. Lamar Jackson went full nuclear reactor, and on top of that, then you had Mark Andrews, almost 150 yards, two touchdowns. Hollywood Brown. Oh, yeah.

9 for 125 and 2. Love that guy. This was a night, and I tweeted it out. I can't remember a Monday night game where things swung so wildly where people needed miracles to happen, and they were just handing them out. It was just being.

Oh, what's this in my pocket? Oh, here's another Monday night miracle for you. Oh, here's a combination of 80 plus fantasy points for you. Meanwhile, of course, for every miracle, there were nightmares, people sending in screenshots of I had a 1% chance given by my platform. And I needed Lamar and Mark Andrews to do something that was humanly impossible. And yet here we are. Here's a couple quotes from people in their stories of last night.

Lamar and Andrews got me back from a 90 point deficit. That is absurd. That's crazy. Came back in one by 0.4 points thanks to Lamar and Hollywood final overtime score. So that person needed six touchdowns plus 400 passing yards and overtime. They needed it to go to overtime. They needed even more. Just impossible for that to happen. My favorite one, though, and this is.

the other side of the coin. I was up by 80 going into Monday night and I turned the game off at halftime. I woke up losing by one. I mean, I am so sorry for your loss, but I'm also so excited for their win. The fantasy scores this weekend were astronomical. So, I mean, like our own Al Boyland scored

Like, an obscene, obscene amount of fantasy points. In our half-PPR league. It was like 170 plus or something. 150 is usually a guaranteed win. That's like the highest of the week. In our league, 120 is, that's an incredible week. That's great. You're more than likely going to win. 150 points is a guaranteed win. He had over 170 points. And then Mark Andrews, he lost, goes 150 and 2. And.

Owl was this person who could have woke up and realized that he had unfortunately lost and passed away. The owl carcass was on the ground in the morning. So that was a wild, oh my gosh, just an absolute wild game. Jonathan Taylor, monster performance, two touchdowns, Michael Pittman. Yeah, he's the name that we need to bring up.

Okay. Because we have been seeing and saying to trade for him because the targets, the targets, the receptions, they've been there. He hasn't done a ton for fantasy. If you look back at his game log, you're like, meh, mediocre finishes, but he just hasn't been getting the touchdowns. He had another seven targets, six for 89, and got the touchdown this week.

So you see the upside, and I think it's legit. I think he's the one for this team. I'm not scared of when T.Y. Hilton comes back at all. Pitman is the alpha here. Is there anything else you want to speculate moving forward from this game? Like, where is Hollywood Brown?

for you. Just like a quick off the cuff here, rest of season rankings. He's top 15 wide receiver. Okay. He's just so consistent. He's necessary to the team. He appears to be the number one read. And again, similar to Pittman, he has Rashad Bateman coming to the team at some point soon, probably next week. Because it was very, it was, was he going to be active for this game? They decided not to do it. There was their first round rookie pick. But this is a rookie coming in.

to an established dominating Hollywood Brown. I don't see him. There's just no reason to break up what is clearly working for the Ravens. And if you just take away or maybe give the dropped passes that hit Hollywood in the hands. You just give him one of those. He's the top three guys. But the consistency, week after week after week after week after week after week, after week, going back to last year. Yes. You cannot go away from Hollywood. Hollywood.

You want it again? Yeah, dude. Oh. To add to the Rashad Bateman speculation of, I think he should be stashed at this point. Sammy Watkins left this game very early with an injury, so there could be an immediate position for Rashad Bateman to step in and make some noise. Also, one other thing worth noting. I think Harbaugh is a very good coach, personally, and he has always tailored his...

game plan to his team, right? You saw a completely different offense when Joe Flacco was the guy than they made it for Lamar. And when you lose all of your running backs, when you lose J.K. Dobbins and you lose Gus Edwards and you're signing these guys from 2016.

This is where Lamar Jackson is a passing quarterback. You know what I mean? Like obviously he got it done on the ground and still can. But as a team, you know, Tyson Williams, four carries, Latavius Murray six carries. Devonts Freeman, one carry. This isn't the Ravens of last year because the personnel can't be. So when you're talking about Bateman, when you're talking about Hollywood, when you're talking about Mark Andrews, the pie was so small last year.

because they were able to just dominate on the ground. They can't do it this year. So I'm not too worried. I'm actually excited for the prospects of the receiving game. And I think that covers Monday night football. Lamar completed 37 of 43 passes. That's pretty good. Oh, that was a sensational game. Hopefully you were on the right side where you woke up and you were a winner. Let's move on.