Week 5 Studs & Stinkers + Weekly Rewind, Kerplunk!

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Oh, welcome in. Welcome into the show. Andy Mike and Jason back with you, the fantasy footballers podcast. Week 5, nearly in the books. Got a little kiddle, little OBJ tonight, a little baker, little chubb. But most of our games are in the books. That's right. That's right. My League of Record team has been, as if you've been listening, it's been crushing 166 points two weeks ago.

Unfortunately, I lost. And then, of course, there was the story last week. I scored the second most in the league with 132 points in this league. That's kind of where the scoring is. And I thought, you know what? I'm not going to go out like this. Second most, but I lost. I'm going to overdo it. I'm going to score 150 points this week. Well, there's something on Jason's mind to start the show today. And I lost with 150 again. I thought you were coping.

with it, but you were preparing just for the opening of today's show. No, you're correct. I'm coping with it right now. It's not fun. I'm sure our listeners have all been there. I've been there. It's painful to, I mean, Mike, you play in a league, one of your money league, where you get a point for winning your matchup and you get a point if you finish in the top half in total scoring because you and your league.

You can't cope like Jason can cope. So you need a little... I would like to change the league setting in our league. Jason yesterday, as he was seeing the inevitable loss, was like, no, Mike, tell me more about this system where the top half gets a point. He's got a little notebook out. He's taking notes. It's not fair. To be like the second highest scoring team three weeks in a row and lose is infuriating. It is.

It's less infuriating when you get a cheap win. Those feel great. But it can be very difficult. It can be tough. You've had a very, very good team. I told you last week. I'm just going to be starting all of your opponent's players as my starts of the week on the show. My predictive analysis will be dumbed down to throw the algorithms out the window, throw the fantasy points against out the window.

And just play who you're, would it let me know that Josh Jacobs was going to score 30 fantasy points against the Bears if I just looked at your opponent. That's right. It's all you got to do. All right. Well, we've got a lot of reactions, not just from Jason, from the week five matchups. Every Monday we like to step into the Monday Punday. Extraordinaire. We've got. Welcome. I am the walrus. Poo-poo do-doo. Oh, me.

It was inevitable, you had a down game. Well, look, those who saw the game script of the Raiders being up 17 points on the bears, raise your hands, and then look in the mirror and say, yes, I am a liar. Also, where's Waller? That's all right. Legon McCoy. Oh, that's very French. Legon McCoy.

Stulio Jones. Oh, come on. Oh, that's not fair. Well, follow it up. With Puleo Jones. This is a sophisticated show. Hammy Watkins, yes, yes. Sammy Squatkins. Yeah, not good. Melvin Gordone. This is my favorite one coming up. And then we've got Duck, Duck, Mike Evans. Filop.

Flop? Oh, like flop. Flop rivers. Careful with that word. Okay. Delaney needs a walker. Yeah. Charknato. Oh, they can be good. A positive one. And DJed Chark Week. Okay. That summed up the week. Sammy Watkins did the thing that you dream of if your opponent has him and you need them not to score any points, which is start the game, be active, get hurt on the first play, and never see them again. To be fair, if...

I talked about this on the Sunday Live. It was madness to see all the notes. You know, we go through the injuries, who's in, who's out, kind of the late breaking ones. And then you cover, these are the players who are questionable. You need to monitor their health. You need to have a backup plan just in case. And I think there was four guys in that Sunday night game. Marlon Mack was a game time decision. Damien Williams was expected to play, but then there was a weird...

Shadow of Doubt cast. Sammy Watkins was a late edition. T.Y. Hilton may not play. So you spun the wheel. Three of those guys played and Sammy Watkins was the one who pulled up and left right away. I think, Andy, you have pointed out that his season. Yes, I tweeted. Has been basically the career of Sammy that everyone's frustrated with gets off to this enormous start. Amazing talent, game one. Then you just kind of.

It disappears weeks two through four. You get caught and then he gets injured. And then he gets hurt in week five. That's a perfect summary of six years of Sammy Watkins. Now, I'll be honest. I felt like a darn fool after week one saying I don't want Sammy on any of my teams. But who's crying now? The lizards out there. Not me. That's for sure. Our king has let us down.

Yeah, I don't know. I'm surprised we're here again. But hey, you can follow the show on Twitter at the FF Ballers. Follow Jason at Jason FFL. Send him a warm condolence message. I need it. Follow Mike at FF Hitman. I'm at Andy Holloway. And we're giving away a signed Saquan Barkley, Jersey.

I think he may be back on the field before the giveaway even ends. Footclankgaveway.com. Madness. Go and enter. You'll get a chance to win it. We'll give it away at the end of the month. So check that out. I think it's time for the rewind. Weekly rewind. All right. Wayne Galman exited with a concussion. That's too bad. Yep. As did Mason Rudolph, a very scary play. Mason Rudolph.

Wayne Galman, both concussed. Sammy Watkins, the hamstring injury. Patrick Mahomes, if you watched the game last night, tweaked his ankle. Who put this verbiage of he tweaked his ankle? His ankle was. That's a tweak? Was kerplunked by a 300-pound man? We don't have, we don't put kerplunked down. No one knows how to spell that. We can figure it out. It's a K, right? Of course it's a K. Okay. But my point is, let me reread this. Patrick Mahomes.

curplunked his ankle in Sunday's week five lost to the colds but is expected to be fine. If you corplunk your ankle, Mike, you're not fine the next week. You don't play through it the whole game and then they're fine next week. This is a hard tweak. It's a hard. He'll be limited in some practices and he'll be fine. And the thing is, if you had Patrick Mahomes last night, it was very, very, very, very painful.

To watch. Because I said this. Imagine having a 300-pound man step on your ankle. Which was also painful. Way worse. For Patrick Mahones. But it was equally painful for my fantasy team because the Colts did exactly what they needed to do. The beginning of the game summed up their game plan.

the chiefs go down the field, you hold them to a field goal, then you take up six minutes on a drive. You couldn't stop them if you tried. If you ran the ball every single player with Marlon Mack that entire game, you would have run it straight into the end zone. If they hadn't to flip the ball out left to Jordan Wilkins and lost 10 yards, Marlon Mack would have run straight into the end zone on that play too. It was a dominating, impressive performance by a great offensive mind in Frank Reich.

Great offensive line. And a great offensive line. And a great offensive running back in Matt. Because there's a different, like, Jordan Wilkins was fine. I mean, nobody looks like Lev Bell more like more than Marlon McDonnell. I wanted to say he looked like a real herky jerky version. Yeah. Like Levy on Bell when he's waiting. He looks real smooth. Marlon Mack's kind of like, like a little, little frantic. But he still gets it done. And I'd message you guys about I was, I had to watch the game on delay. So I couldn't react in.

live to it, but when Frank Reich went for it twice in one drive on fourth and short when you're supposed to go for it, and he didn't read the old man cremugian football book that says, you gotta take the points. And he actually used math and game analysis and broke it down and said, yeah, we need to go for it because our probability is very good that we get it. I got sweaty.

You got a little hot and bothered. I felt feelings that I haven't felt in years. I needed to call a doctor. Uh-huh. Okay. Dangerous. It was so great. Here's the thing about the analytics on that. The odds on converting aren't the only piece of the pie. The odds on converting are a part of analyzing that decision. Also, the odds of winning when you actually get it, factor into the analytics.

look at it and you say, if I get this fourth down, I have a 72% chance to win instead of a 52% chance to win. It should motivate the decision. That's the secondary analytics that they started to use. They've converted, I believe, eight or nine consecutive fourth down plays, and it's just smart football. Unless you don't get it, and then you get fired. I mean, that's the other side of it. If you haven't earned kind of tenure with your,

team with the ownership and all that stuff you can't take those kind of chances frank i would argue i would argue if you want to earn tenure with your team take those smart chances and win more games and then earn the tenure just imagine what matt and aggie's thinking up now after seeing that game philip dorstett exited with the hamstring injury did the same exact thing as sammy walkins marquise brown held out the majority of the game after his touchdown with an ankle injury we'll monitor that

David Johnson apparently played through a bad back in the game. Now, it didn't stop him from hitting a season high in total yards. He also looked pretty good on the ground, which we hoped to see against Cincinnati. But Chase Edmonds was pretty good, too. So for some reason, David Johnson missed this week. Chase Edmonds would be the only guy against Atlanta next week. Oh, my goodness. That would be very nice. Josh Jacobs briefly sidelined with an elbow injury came back in. Darren Sproles left with a quad injury.

Well, you know what? I'm going to give him this. I'm going to give him. What are we doing here? Oh, yeah. Okay. Jay Gruden was fired today. We have a note in here that he still isn't sure who his quarterback is. I don't blame him. And I'm going to stand on he had no chance. No, he did not have a chance. With the roster and injuries that he suffered in that time, I actually think he consistently outperformed.