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Hope your waivers went well. Yeah, I hope so, too. Oh, no. We got 30 minutes until ours run. Yeah, they happen live on the show. It's exciting. It's scintillating, especially because Jason promised me yesterday he would outbid me by $1 on every one of the players I want. Oh, impressive. And you said you would do that by logging into my computer. Yeah, so I know exactly. And figuring out my bids. Yep. I'll tell you what's going on over here. Pro tip. You want to know what's happening over here? Hacker.

with Team Barrels McLeonade. What's going on, Mike? I got nine moves. Wow. Ready to go. League of Record? You're darn right, League of Record. Wow. Your team must suck. See, I can't make. I was thinking about putting a bunch of waivers. Hold on. What's your record, bro? Oh, my gosh. This is so stupid. Andy, are you undefeated in that league? I actually am. I'm undefeated. Oh. How's your team doing? Are you in the playoffs right now? Talk to me in 15 weeks, my man. I will.

And you can kiss the ring. I hate you so much, Andy, for beating my team that should go undefeated. I can't drop people to the waivers. That's my problem. I can't make moves because who am I going to drop? Devonta Freeman? I mean, I got to bench him right now, but not dropping them. Welcome into the fantasy footballers podcast for Wednesday, September 12th, 2018. We're here. We've got a jam-pack show, pump the brakes.

We'll catch you up on all the fantasy football news and information you need. We're going to do stash or trash on the show today. We'll preview the Thursday night game, and we might just get into the Foot Clan mailbag as well. Maybe. Follow us on our newly minted 100,000 follow our Twitter account. Oh! How did we sync up our YouTube and Twitter to be hitting the 100K mark at the same time? I think what we did is we started this show.

One time. That's probably what I was. At near identical pace. That's fair. That's a good, good analysis. At the FF ballers. YouTube is YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballers. You can catch Sunday live featuring the hitman. Mike with some fantasy football starts, news and analysis right before the games on Sunday morning. YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballers free to everyone.

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caught another three passes for 18 yards on four targets, had eight fantasy points. Frank Gore was nine for 61, had a couple of those. Oh, wait, is that Frank Gore moments in that game? He is infinite. He is Gore. He is infinite. He is, he is Gore. He did nothing to damage his timeshare capabilities in this game. So how do you feel about Kenyon Drake? How do you feel about Frank Gore? I watched this game, you know.

in several broken up parts over seven hours. And I thought Gore looked good, but I thought Drake looked good. So I thought Drake looked great, actually. Oh, yeah. I mean, I believe even the commentator on the broadcast said Kenyon great at one point. I'm not too worried.

about this. A lot of times... We did it on purpose, though. He probably did it on accident. Right. Or he listens to the show. Probably the latter. You know, if you're just box score watching, if you're just basically looking at the end, you go, oh, Frank Gore had more yards than Kenyon Drake. But, you know, if you go back and do some film analysis, Kyle...

Borgignoni, he's getting back-to-back shoutouts on the show here because he's doing such good work. He went back and watched and he basically said, you know, the difference in the offensive line play on those plays between when Gore was running through, I believe he said that even Baby Josh could have run successfully through those massive holes that Frank Gore had. A statement that I dispute. Oh, of course. Absolutely false. I mean, there's no way, baby Josh, he would have fallen down because keep in mind, I think he's still crawling.

You are anticipating that baby Josh does not fumble the handoff. Thank you, Mike. That's a good correction. But the snap percentage was just so heavily in the favor of Kenyon Drake. 7429. I'm not. That doesn't add up. Well, they can be on the field at the same time. Oh, thank you. Thank you. Saving me here. I'm like, how many snaps were in this game? It was a very long game. Not concerned about the time split. Not concerned about Gore being the guy.

I think it's a by-low opportunity for Drake, actually. Just a lower game for Drake. All right. It is Wednesday, which means, oh, oh, O'Reilly. O'Reilly. Auto parts. Pump the brakes with O'Reilly Auto Parts every Wednesday. We pump the brakes on some players for the upcoming week. And Mike, why don't you kick it off with a pump the brakes.

For week two. Sure. My real pump the break that I wanted to go with was actually Jason's fantasy team when he ends up O and 2 and just tilts off the face of the planet. If you start O and 2, you will lose his mind. You will lose his mind. This is what's great about, you had all these picks, you work towards this season, and you could, you know.

He can't even talk about it. I was the second highest score, and I didn't underperform. What if you're the second highest again? Well, then I will leave the show. All right, I'm pumping the brakes. I talked about I'm concerned for him earlier on an earlier show, and that's Derek Henry. I did not like his usage. He was the starter, and they tried to get him going. He simply.

did not get it going. And Dionne Lewis was clearly the better running back. He out snapped Derek Henry. He out touched Derek Henry. He had more third down work. My eyes enjoyed watching him more. It's very troubling for Derek Henry, who granted he had a monster touchdown run that would have completely changed everything for his fantasy football performance. It got called back on a holding call that had nothing to do with the run, unfortunate part of football.

It's unfortunate for my fantasy football team because if that had happened, I would be selling the crap out of Derek Henry right now. Look at this huge fantasy day that Derek Henry had. Now we have to take on the Houston Texans. The Texans were able to completely shut down the running game of Rex Burkhead and the New England Patriots. I'm very concerned for him in this particular matchup and season long as well. If Dionne Lewis is that much better.

than Derek Henry, which I think we all agree that Dionne Lewis is the better running back. It's DeMarco Murray and Derek Henry all over again, except now DeMarco Murray is Deion Lewis. This coaching staff knows that. They know what Derek Henry is. The problem with Derek Henry all offseason was the draft price because it was imbueing something to him that the coaching staff didn't imbue when they went and signed one of the best runners in the league in Dionne Lewis. Yeah. Right? I mean...

Derek Henry in and of itself, you told me he's a seventh, eighth round pick. I'm interested. He's flexing in my role. But then again, people that did spend on him, they have to make decisions now. And you're telling them, hey, pump the brakes. Yeah. And the expectations might not be. The full rankings are not done. Like Jason said, those will be up by about midday. We're going to really dive in. On my particular team, half point PPR, I'm looking, or I will be looking at Derek Henry versus Bilal Powell this upcoming week.

Yeah. And as of right now, it's pal. It's probably going to be Bilal Powell. Last week, our pump the brakes. Jason, you went with Jimmy G. Solid. Pump the brakes in week one. Sweet. What's your week? Yeah. Sweet. Are you still? He's over here managing to Owen, too. He can't get out of the funk. All right. I'm going to go. We want the funk. I thought my pump was greggles. Oh, no, that was the week prior.

Two for two. All right. Let's go. Where are you? Yeah, seriously. You're not present. Come back. Present right now. All right. My pump the brakes this week is a Hall of Fame wonderful wide receiver. Larry Fitzgerald. I've talked about for the last several months. His home road splits have been a real issue. He is not as good on the road as he is at home. And he's going on the road to the Los Angeles.

Rams who have Marcus Peters and Akeep Taleb and a pass rush that is going to destroy frightened Sam Bradford. Now, if you're in a full PPR, he should have enough targets to where, you know, maybe he gets seven for 60 and you're okay with that. But I think that, that to me is his ceiling. I feel like seven for 60 is he had a great game. I worry that his floor is...

You know, he's going to get four for 30 in a matchup where... I believe the line in that game is 12.5 points. What? I mean, the... I'll take it. Am I wrong about... No, it's 12.5 points. I mean, the game script should be good for trying to go to Larry. He is the number one wide receiver. And I will also acknowledge that, look, last week against the Raiders, it was Jared Cook who killed them from the slot.

So Larry is going to be playing in the slot. It might not, you know, maybe he'll be a volume play. But I have my worries, and he's one of those guys where I'm not saying you have to, I'm not saying definitely don't start him, bench him. But if there are other good options, I would be willing to sit Larry for a week and play if there's another play that I think, look, this guy's going to have a great week. I'm not going to be fearful because of the name Larry Fitzgerald.

Last week, my pump the brakes was Rex Burkhead. This week, I'm actually going to surprise people, including my two co-hosts who were surprised I went with this. I'm actually going to pump the brakes on Patrick Mahomes. Patrick Mahomes was the, I don't know, my best friend this past week. Certainly. But the reality is that going on the road to Los Angeles is not going on the road at all. There was a clip of the Chiefs.

Chargers game after they scored a touchdown. Not only is the stadium not filled with any Charger fans, but it's all red. I mean, this was not an intimidating road matchup for Kansas City to start the year. No Joy Bosa and company. It's going to be a whole other ball game going into Pittsburgh. Two of his four touchdowns last week were shuffle passes. Tap passes. Tap passes. He was 15 for 27. Patrick Mahomes has a bright fantasy future. And this game,

could surprise you. He could go on the road to Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh's defense, you know, you can beat him. But I, this is a, would you rather, would you rather start Patrick Mahomes on the road against Pittsburgh or would you rather start Big Ben at home? Right. Who I'm going to start over Patrick Mahomes. Sure. I would start Tyrod Taylor this week over Patrick Mahomes. Ooh. Tyrod Taylor on the road in New Orleans. Tyraud Taylor is a great, a great play this week. I mean, I don't blame you there. I,