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Coming to you from pristineauction.com studios with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Ladies and gentlemen, it's football time. Welcome to the podcast, the fantasy footballers podcast. That is, I'm your host, Mike the fantasy hitman Wright, joined by my best friend of the week, Jason Moore. That's me, I'm here.

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Welcome to the show on today's show. We're going to talk about that Thursday night game. What a game it was. Some ups. Some downs. Oh, man. Oh, my goodness. Foot Clan Friday. And don't worry. Again, in Listerland, you thought, hey, where was Foot Clan Friday last week? Well, there was an oversight. But we made good. There'll be two winners today. So don't worry. Does that mean we get two drops?

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Jason, this Thursday night matchup, the Chiefs, the Broncos, if you miss the game, you look at the box score. Holy crap, 36, Patrick Mahomes and crew, they dominated. Oh, man. The Denver Broncos, you've got to start with the lead story. Patrick Mahomes dislocated his right kneecap on a quarterback sneak. It looked bad.

The reports are all over the map. The chiefs are awaiting an MRI. And the quote, if there's no damage, the best case would be around three weeks. It could get worse than that. I have had my inside sources because one of my best friends, his wife is a doctor. And she said if it's just a dislocated kneecap, no problem. Like he should return soon. But.

That's without knowing the MRI damage. Allegedly, the spirits were high after Patcham Holmes exited the X-ray room. So at least on the surface, it seems like the Chiefs are not worried. Jason, are you worried? Yeah, so.

minimum, you're missing three games here. The hope is that if he doesn't need to have surgery right now, that he would be able to wear a knee brace to stabilize the patella and be able to play. Now, the thing about his schedule is if you were to play that out, then that week three is right before, missing three games, and then coming back, that's going to be a Chargers game right before their by week.

This is your franchise guy. So maybe that three weeks turns into four games, which turns into five weeks, which is yuck. There's also the possibility that they, they being the chiefs, force him to have surgery now. A good friend of the show, pro football doc, he believes he will definitely need surgery. It's just a matter of whether they make him do it now or whether he's going to wait until the off season to do it. Similar to what happened to Matt Stafford, he had this injury, I think, in 2009 or so.

and played through it and then had the surgery in the off season, the team might not want to risk the long-term effects. Because if he comes back without the surgery, there is a heightened risk of more long-term effects. So we'll have to wait. We'll have a lot of information today. This is the perfect example of make sure you're following the accounts on Twitter, on Instagram, because we'll have news today. We will share it.

But he's gone for a couple weeks, and that means your Tyreek Hill is massively hurt. Yeah, so let's talk about it. So Matt Moore, as far as a backup quarterback goes, you could do worse. You could do way worse than Matt Moore. He is, in my opinion, very competent. I think that he can get some wins, the upcoming schedule of Green Bay, Minnesota, Tennessee, and the Chargers. I think Matt Moore can hang and give you enough that the Kansas City Chiefs have the ability to win these games.

keep the chiefs in the hunt while they wait for Patrick Mahomes. The fantasy implications, though. Now, do they trade for Kenny Stills? Oh, man. Just because of the connection and they probably should. The best friends with Matt Moore and just have him throw bombs? Or could that become Tyree Kil? Could Matt Moore say like, oh, this guy's even better than Kenny Stills? I didn't think it was possible. You saw it on the one that Tyree Kil took to the house.

that play, they kind of highlighted it on the broadcast, but it looked like that was just a connection between Matt Moore and Tyree Kill to me. Obviously, I'm not the coach. I don't know what play was called, but it looked like Tyreek was just running a crossing route, and then Matt Moore saw the open field and just threw him open, which is what you should do when you have a speedster like Tyree Kill. So hopefully things won't be just a complete downturn for Tyree Kill and crew.

I mean, it will. It will be a massive... It'll go down, but see, that's what I'm trying to argue. Will it be massive? I think it will be massive. The difference between Pat Mahomes to Matt Moore is a massive difference. The total fantasy points between those guys will be drastic and therefore the weapons will. Now, that's not to say you can't start...

Tyree Kill or Travis Kelsey, they'll be startable assets, but they're not going to have those weeks where they're the number one at the position regularly or top five. I think you're going to see kind of like what's happened with Michael Thomas. He's still been a startable asset, but he's not dominating on a weekly basis outside of one game. So what about the running game here? Yeah, that's what I want to talk about. Talk about devastating. Damien Williams.

As, like, I supported Damien Williams. I was part of the truther category. Jason certainly was not as he sips his mug. It feels good to know that Andy Reid knows the truth about Damian Williams. Because he has been left in a body bag. Yeah. After Damien Williams came back, got a whole bunch of work, and then has been thrown to the side. LaShawn McCoy was the starter. Daryl Williams was almost the exclusive third downback. And you can look at the box score.

and that Williams, Damien Williams, he got some work there in the fourth quarter, but the game was out of hand, and they put Damien in, and Damien was super ineffective. Yeah, Damien was nine for seven. He had, go ahead. He had less than a yard per carry, whereas Shady was 12 for 64. He looks like the better player, and they're putting the better player on the field. That makes sense to me. Now, on the Denver side of the ball. Oh, goodness gracious. I felt.

as good as I could feel and as bad as I could feel with these two running backs. Because on our serious XM show, I made the bold proclamation that Royce Freeman will get a touchdown tonight. Like you put me on the spy. I said, yes, he will 100% get a touchdown. He did. But my start of the week was Philip Lindsay. And that feels bad. That feels really bad because the Kansas City chiefs who have averaged...

the last four weeks giving up 190 rushing yards, and then they lose their best defensive lineman and Chris Jones was out again. And then Philip Lindsay all of a sudden couldn't break through the Chiefs. I couldn't wrap my head around why the Chiefs all of a sudden could play great defense. And I will say this. I wondered if there was some rallying nature because the pick six or the sack fumble, the sack fumble six.

Pick six just sounds so much better. Sure. Was right after the Mahomes injury. You know what I mean? But they were, well, I mean, aside from the first drive, the Kansas City defense was dominant. And to me, it looked like Tyrone Matthew was living in the box. They didn't have to worry about Joe Flacco throwing the ball. So they just completely sold out to stop the run. And it worked because that's a good point. Because the offensive line for Denver cannot hold up. Henceforth.

Why they were my streaming defense of the week, Jason. Hey, look, I was, I owe you an apology on that because I was not with you on that streaming defense of the week. I know a lot of people, they believed in you, they picked them up and they played them. I know you did. And everyone who listened to you is a better person for it. That one felt, you don't get them all right. But that one feels, when you, when you get a call right on an island game, it feels really, really good.

Just remember that the next time I get something wrong. Any other takeaways from this game? Cortland Sutton is super good. Yes. Manuel Sanders was able to get enough work that you weren't disappointed that you started in 5 for 60. No offense. Holy crap. It's exactly what I've been saying. The matchup was perfect, but I don't.

I'm not going to trust. And the opportunity was perfect as well. Absolutely. I mean, you know, he's not ready. The game is too big for him as a rookie right now. Five targets walked away with one reception for seven yards. Two brutal drops that I can think of off the top of my head. It will be better for no offense, but perhaps it is not the rookie season. All right, Jay, let's talk about players who are going to be on the field. What's it going to pay me me, fly? Are you in?

Sequin Barclay. He's practicing it full this week. He's in. Just in time. Which Wayne Galman. Irrelevant. Yeah, irrelevant as well. Todd Gurley. Todd Gurley, McVeigh has his, yeah, looking good to maybe possibly play whatever. If I've got to pick right now, I would say in. I still think he is up in the air. So that would relegate Malcolm Brown to nothingness. Has not participated Wednesday or Thursday.