Week 11 Matchups + Wheel of Shame, Pinching Pennies - Fantasy Football Podcast for 11/19

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The Bengals at 5 and 4 take on the 5 and 4 Las Vegas Raiders. Inexplicably, to me, at least, the Drafking Sportsbook line, Cincinnati minus 1 on the road. Oh, you disagree. The over and under is 50 and a half. It makes very little sense to me. I don't know why Cincinnati's favored. I can tell you. Okay. Tell me. There's evenly matched teams in Las Vegas is at home. Yeah, maybe. I wonder, question, worry.

how much Henry Ruggs actually mattered to opening up this team. Obviously, you know, they went and got to Sean Jackson, but it's not the same. The last two weeks have been smash matchups, the Kansas City Chiefs and the New York Giants. They put up 14 points and 16 points. Okay, okay, okay. So I'm just worried that Ruggs actually...

mattered for Derek Carr, mattered for the passing game. You can focus on Darren Waller even more right now. And the offense has just been struggling. So when I first saw the line, I was 100% with you, Andy, that I was like, whoa, the Raiders are at home. So this is a trending thing with the Raiders offense. That's how I feel. And I did think about taking a dart throw on no DJax this week in this matchup. Oh, my. He was out there a little bit more.

Last week had a catch, I think. Let's talk about it from a fantasy perspective. Joe Burrow is Jason's start of the week. He mentioned it on yesterday's show. So you like this matchup. Obviously, the Raiders have struggled against opposing fantasy quarterbacks. They're favored. So Joe Burrow can get it done here with Jamar Chase, T. Higgins and company. Yeah, and part of that company is C.J. Uzama, who could easily get a touchdown against the 31st best defense against tight ends. 31st ranked.

31st best. That's not good. That's not good. But when you say it, 31st best, then they don't feel as bad. Yeah, because somebody might be like, out of 100? And then you're all right. You're like, no, it's out of 32. Can you play T. Higgins? Mike. You can. Legally, but I mean, should you? I mean, he's been strange because the volume is there. You know, since returning from the injury, he's seeing at least six targets a game.

Had a game in there with 15 targets that did not turn into production. But his yardage totals are to the point where he's like a wide receiver three with a good quarterback. And the amount of yards he's put up, he should have more than two touchdowns. So yes, I do think that you can play him as a like a low end two. All right. Joe Mixen. He's been a top four running back in three of the last four games. You always play Joe.

On the other side, I want to get your, like, without looking, where do you think Josh Jacobs ranks right now in terms of fantasy running backs? On the year? Yeah. Oh, man. I really don't know. I would guess running back 20? I'd go lower. I'll go like 24. 25. 25. He is not. You lose, Jason. The volume hasn't quite been there. A disaster against Kansas City. Seven for 16. No touchdowns. Hasn't scored in a couple weeks.

What do you do with this player that generally leaves for a few minutes due to some sort of issue and hasn't been good? The offense, you just talked about the points scored? Like he has not been able to carry the load. If Ruggs was a key to opening this offense up, Josh Jacobs has not done it. Yeah, I mean, he's someone that you're probably going to start because he's, you know, but I don't know that he has a great game. The nice thing is when he's been having.

poor games or has not been smashing. He hasn't been really crushing you other than this past week. You know, he's been getting 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 points. And he's getting receptions too. Which is crazy. Yes. It's taken too long, but it's good to see. I don't know if any of that's from Gruden leaving. We've talked a lot about Josh Jacob's splits in games he wins. He can get the ball more. Right now they are the underdog. So I think Jacob is someone you just...

Close your eyes and start, and you hope that he falls in the end zone a couple of times, but he'll be okay in the meantime. You messing around with Derek Carr at home in this one? With the uncertainty at the – I mean, the matchup is all right. In the last six weeks, 24th against fantasy quarterbacks, the Bengals defense. Yeah, I'm probably looking elsewhere. I would rather play Cam Newton than Derek Carr.

Kenyon Drake, 32% of snaps. The shoe, I guess, dropped last week. Mike's lack of confidence in the workload, just 4 for 16. No one could run the ball. Are you messing around with Kenyon Drake at all? Nope, probably not. Hunter Renfell on pace for 98 receptions. He's in your lineup. Yeah, he's a great PPR option. They use them around the goal line as well. And Darren Waller? Yeah, he's auto.

He's an auto, but the expectations have not been met, huh? They have not been met, and it does not matter. If he sucks every single game the rest of the year, you will start him every single game the rest of the time. We have not hit the drop almost at all this year. Maybe that's the problem. Let's get the Walrus going. Forget that on YouTube. We have the animation for that one, and that is Mike in the Wallerisk. No, that is a live dancing wallerous.

Oh, that's not you. No. No, I would never. Okay. Do you think I'm a fool? Do you want to answer that? No. Okay. But you will be one later when you spend the wheel. Oh, yeah. All right, Dallas. Dallas at seven and two, taking on the Kansas City Chiefs, who are six and four. Oh, brother. The Draft King Sportsbook line, Chiefs minus two and a half at home. Over under is 56.5 points.

this I'm afraid of like being too confident in it being yeah that's what you want it to be that's where I am I was on the the the DFS show the fancy footballers DFS show that came out today and we talked about this game and that like obviously there's a lot of history of these super exciting games being a trap being a disappointment the defenses step up

But man, if they don't, this game could get out of control with fantasy points. I am going to err on the side of I want pieces in this game. I want the, you know, you brought up earlier, Andy, that you would take Michael Gallup over Brandon Ayuk. It's because of the matchup. It's because of 56.5 points over under 55 degrees clear weather at Arrowhead. I think that is our first ever weather.

related. I find that doubtful. Yeah, look it up. Prove me wrong. But with Dak and Mahomes, it's just one of those things where you trust both quarterbacks to just get it done. And if they do, if they can go tip for tat, a lot of goodness. Now, is that Tet or that's tat? Tat, like a, like a tattoo.

Interestingly enough, the chief defense, number four against running backs over the last six weeks, an area they've really improved upon. Zeke is in your lineup no matter what, but you said you want pieces in the game. Do you want any piece of Tony Pollard? Not especially. I mean, I think I would start my name is Jeff over Tony Pollard, but they're very close to each other. Kenyon Drake or Tony Pollard? Oh, Tony Pollard. Okay.

Darrell Williams on the other side. Is he an auto start if Clyde is sitting? Yep, yep. All right. And then Tyreek and Amari Cooper. Always in your lineups. But what do you do? And C.D. Lamb, of course, who's been? You know, I quizzed you guys the other day. I don't remember what podcast we were on. Maybe it was a footcast. Who knows? But like C.D. Lamb since week three has been like. The second best. It was Cooper Cup, then C.D. Lamb, then D.bo.

Yeah. So C.D. Lamb has been amazing. Should be amazing again in this one. And dart throw wise at the wide receiver position, would you mess around with Byron Pringle? I don't think I'm throwing the dart. You know, I've got the stance. I've got the dart perfectly balanced. Once you pop, you can't stop. So if you put them in your lineup, he's stuck there? I'm hoping that the Kansas City Chiefs make that decision.

It could be DeMarcus Robinson on any given week, too. But we saw Hardman get actively demoted this past week. I need to see at least two weeks of that demotion and Byron Pringle being the number two guy before I have the confidence to start him in a redraft. If you want to dart throwing DFS, or wait, is this a Sunday night game? No. Okay, if you want to dart throwing DFS, I'm perfectly fine going with Pringle here, but...

If you want to stash him and put on the bench for one more week to watch, that's fine. I'm not playing those games. I know that the targets are all going to consolidate to their main guys. And you still have Andy Reid telling Josh Gordon, just wait. We're going to get you involved. So there's just too many other ways that could go outside of Tyreek and Kelsey to rely on one of them. Breaking news. I'm going to qualify to his breaking news. We already talked about the game.

But I got an update for Elijah Mitchell. Oh. John Lynch, general manager of the 49ers, said he will be a game time decision. Uh-oh. He said Mitchell suffered, quote, the type of finger break they thought he could function with, but surgery might have been different than we anticipated. Lynch said that pain tolerance is not an issue, but he has to be able to function. My name is, Jeff. We will take it till game time. So despite the strange optimism around the surgically repaired Elijah Mitchell.

What I was saying, like, I don't understand. If you have Elijah, be ready to make a switch. You might not have Jeff, hopefully, of all the shows in the world, we've been, we've told you to stash Jeff Wilson for so long. And, you know, sometimes stuff like that works out. Sometimes it doesn't. Hopefully you have him because you've been listening and that is an easy pivot for you. The question at this, we got a big sneeze in the back there. What just happened? Hardcore. Is that a gunshot?

Had to sneeze. Oh, my goodness. Next time, hold it in. Yeah, man. His eyes would have exploded out of his head. That was the most powerful sneeze I've ever witnessed. Are you okay, Brooks? I apologize, Foot Clan. Did you guys, did that get spread around when you were a kid that if you hold your eyes open and sneeze, they will pop out your head? I thought you meant to what he sneezed and spread around because this room has got whatever he's got. Yes. I felt it. Hit me in the...

Oh, no, now I've got allergies. Sonic boom. Arizona, 8 and 2, traveling to Seattle to take on the Seahawks, who are 3 and 6. The Drafking Sportsbook line, Cardinals minus 2 on the road. Over under, it's 47 and a half. We talked about it in the news section. The running back room for Seattle is hurting. Chris Carson is not going to play. Alex Collins doesn't look like he's going to play. So some combination of Rashad Penny, DJ Dallas, Travis Homer.

Stay away. Yeah, it's really, really not good. I don't even know who to recommend starting in a tough matchup. The Cardinals have been a great defense, and I think that this game projects to be more of the divisional defensive struggle, not the offense. You know, I love, if you tell me you get Kyler Murray and Russell Wilson, in general, it sounds like you're going to have a great offensive outpouring of points, but.

You've got Russell coming back too early from injury. You've got Kyler coming back from injury. You've got the Seahawks defense having stepped it up over the last six weeks. They're top five against quarterback, top six against wide receiver. And the Cardinals defense is good. So I think this is going to be more of a slug fest. I'm looking at the, you know, if Kyler is in, James Connor seems like the best play in this game. He's the ultimate confidence play for me. Yeah, I love him.