Week 11 Waivers + Full Stream Ahead, Legal Cheating - Fantasy Football Podcast for 11/17

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And you're listening to the Fantasy Footballers podcast. The Fantasy Footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. The Fantasy Footballers podcast. If you're happy. Andy Mike and Jason back with you Tuesday, November 17th. It's my father's birthday today. Oh, well, happy. Happy birthday.

Papa Skids? Papa's kids. That's right. I hope you're playing pickleball wherever you are, father. I know you are. I know you're playing pickleball wherever you're at. It's kind of what you do. Yeah, it's what you do now. He's at the age where pickleball is the full-time job. Yes. What do you do? I play pickleball in the mornings. I take a break. I play a little pickleball in the afternoon. It's really. And then I eat at dinner around 4 p.m. And then I play pickleball for my evening.

Yeah. But the dinner is pickles, of course. Yeah. Welcome into the show. Mike is joining us remotely. What up everybody? Contact tracing, yo. We were like, uh, look, we want you here, but not here. You know what I mean? Yeah. We want you here. Got the fun phone call, so we're taking it safe. Yeah, I will be here. Uh, which means that, uh, next week, Jason will find some form of exposure and he will be at home.

I got my finger to the nose first, and so I was out. By being out, I mean, I've been here. All right. Well, yeah, so we've got a show today. We've got a waiver show today. We're going to talk about some of the big pickups for the week. I think there are some interesting names to discuss. And you're at the point in the season where, at least for me, in the leagues that I'm in, it is, it is.

laser focus on the week ahead. And everything else, I'm not even paying that much attention to. If you're in a competitive league, we're fighting for a playoff spot. It's this week, win this week, worry about next week and figure it out. Obviously, if you have a nice record, if you know you're in the playoffs, you're looking more towards some playoff schedules. You guys did the primer last week.

And you're paying attention to all of those things, streaming defenses that you want on your roster for down the line, things like that. But right now in a lot of leagues, you're paying attention to winning this week. And so hopefully we can help you with the waivers today. We've got the streaming quarterbacks as well. A reminder, we have a giveaway. Brooks, that's still up, right? Footclan giveaway.com? Yes, sir. About or exactly?

Exactly. That was a very specific number to be about. Maybe 12 and some extra hours. Okay. I was going to say about 12, 12 days, three hours, four minutes. Footclank giveaway.com, signed Kenny Gallaudet, Jersey, if you want to get in on that smooth giveaway. And then YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballers. If you want to subscribe, click the bell. You'll get access to all the shows over there and then anything extra we throw up on YouTube. The Fantasyfootballers.com is the website. We've got some team.

profiles. Mike, do you want to talk about those for a second? I know that they're kind of your baby. Yeah, I'm super excited to get these things up. You know, we're always trying to figure out there's so much data out there. How do you look at it? How do you organize it? So we are grabbing things, you know, if what you're used to on the player profile, like the usage tab, well, we're going to break that down for teams and you'll be able to filter. So, you know,

through the weeks, whatever, three through now, the San Francisco 49ers, what wide receiver is receiving which percentage of the targets, spot trends as they are happening, get out in front of your competition because look at running backs, you know, timeshares, who is rising to the top of a timeshare and some other stuff with game lines and things will be in there. They're going to be really, really cool and really functional.

Yeah, so we had the player profiles come out on the website earlier this year, and now we've got the team profiles, and that will all be integrated very soon. And you'll get to, it's like a quick glance, too, at a team and see how they're trending. So reactions to last night's football game is that it's hard to watch the Bears play football. It's hard to watch any game in which they are a part of it. That is true, because their defense is so good and their offense is so bad. And that's just a hard thing to watch because.

You don't get offense in Bears games. You just don't get to watch anything fun. Now, if you're, I would say, over 60, and you remember them good old days when the defense wins championships? You remember the Mud Bowl? Yeah. Maybe then. There was nothing like the Ice Bowl. You really enjoyed that game. Some hard hits. But otherwise, I would say that the Bears are.

easily the most unwatchable team like you'd think oh it's got to be the jets no people put up a ton of points on the jets right fun to watch at least half of it not the jet side but no i agree and now you didn't i mean you thought that it was bad with david montgomery now what do you think about the office what a star he is

I love the announcers talking about that too. Like, oh, he's just such a fundamental piece of this moving offense and what are they going to do without him? The answer is nothing. The answer is absolutely nothing. They will do nothing. Nick Foles passed for 106 yards. So disappointing. And then on the other side, you know, Dalvin Cook is Delvin Cook. You always get production from him. Justin Jefferson quickly ascending to the top of my favorite player list in the NFL. Loved him coming in. Love him even more than now that he's dropping 100-yard games.

You know, every other week. Yeah, it's incredible. He is such a gamer. He's a great route runner. He's got speed. He's got everything. So an ascendant talent there. And Adam Thielen coming up with two touchdowns to save his fantasy day. Otherwise, I don't want to linger here. Yeah. The news Nick Foles was carted off the field during the last minute of the game. That matters. But they've got their by week. And I think they're hopeful that he'll actually be okay.

coming back. Oh, and we found out what can stop. We found out what can stop to have a cook. It's a, it's a B to the B's. Oh, you're talking about the, uh, the unfortunate. Didn't get the wind knocked out of him, but the ball was a little lower when he landed on it. The winds probably came out. Everything came out. Yeah, he was, uh, he was in a bit of ping. We're talking about that before the show. Um, you know, that's not, that's not good, but he, he's okay. I'd rather him be, I mean,

He might not, but I'd rather him be writhing in pain from that than a knee injury. And we also had Jimmy Goose. So just when you thought maybe you could play him, he reminded you he's one of the not Travis Kelsey tight-ins. Yeah, the Bears scored 13 points, and they had a 104-yard kick return for a touchdown. Yeah. Yeah, which he's incredible at that. Cordoroy Patterson. Core, yes. Yeah. Unbelievable. All right, let's talk news.

News and notes from around the league. I'm going to just reveal the secrets here because I'm looking at Mike. I'm looking at Mike right now. And we have some technology set up to remote in. We knew that this season was going to be a little bit weird. And so Mike is remoting in. And one of the idiosyncrasies of being in the remote format is that all of our shows audio drops are at like a volume level.

That is dangerous. It's a punishment. It is a punishment. Somehow it blasts the eardrums. I forgot that that one was coming. So I took that one at 100%. All right. News and notes to get into the Giants. A player tested positive for COVID on Monday night. Self-isolating, contract tracing. This is becoming rather routine. Two or three teams, four teams a week.

They seem to go to the ultra protocols and manage to get most players on the field. For instance, the Browns last week went into those protocols. They are reopening their facility now. And Andy Janovic, their fullback is on the COVID list, but they're able to get back to practice. This was big news. Drew Breeze, multiple rib fractures on both sides of his chest. They said five broken, or not broken, but five fractured lung or.

Ribs and a collapsed lung. Five lungs. He's down to four lungs left. But he also has a collapsed lung, so no laughing matter there. No, he's legitimately hurt. They don't have a timetable for his return yet, but he'll miss several weeks with this. And now there's the James Winston show. Oh, well, wait, wait. We don't know who the starting quarterback is, John Payton.

But it's James Winston. You will see plenty of, you know, of a tight end playing quarterback. Maybe, maybe. Because I was reminded yesterday, I mean, when Breeze went out last year and Bridgewater came in, you saw almost no Tasum Hill because he's the backup quarterback at that point. And so they basically didn't even use them. So there are a couple different thoughts. Now, Peyton not declaring Winston the starter is something to pay attention to. We'll know on Friday.

And it could be Taston Hill. I mean, James Winston came in, took a few sacks, threw an interception, didn't look great. It's probably Winston. I think we all expect that to be the case. I'm just saying it's a tough call. Like I would still be picking up Taston Hill under the chance that he's the guy or has opportunities. But I, you know, last year they didn't use him. Yeah, I was listening to Mike Triplett this morning. He's one of the best beatwriters for the New Orleans Saints area. He was saying it's just James. This is James's audition for the future of.

you know, being maybe the quarterback for the Saints. But, yeah, I mean, if it came out and Taysam Hill was the starter on Sunday, I guess I would be very surprised, but not shocked. Yeah, if you have Jamis on your dynasty squad, you got to take the silver lining here. James gets a chance to earn a starting job and maybe even the Saints job, but to Andy's point that you made yesterday,

kind of in passing. Tayson Hill, at least on ESPN, I don't know where else, but on the ESPN platform, Tayson Hill has tight end eligibility. Now, Matthew Berry, a friend of the show, put a tweet out saying that ESPN is going to add quarterback eligibility to Taysam Hill because they don't know who the starter is going to be. It's already been added. Yeah, so it's been added. But the point is, Taysam Hill should probably be picked up regardless in the off chance that he is the

starting quarterback and you can play him at tight end this week because they won't take his eligibility away at the tight end position. This is playing fantasy football. It feels kind of dirty, but this is playing within the rules of the game that you are given. Yeah. Yeah, that's why he's kind of wide range of outcomes. But if he was the starting quarterback and the fact that he runs the football,

He can Tim Tebow his way to fantasy performance. Yeah, and in a tight-in slot. I mean, we've said for years, for years and years, if you can play a quarterback in a tight-in slot, you always do it. Yeah, it's one of your biggest. It's one of our sayings we're famous for. We wrote our book, and that was one of the big points. One of the major points. You can find that on Amazon. But yeah, I mean, it's literally cheating, but legal. Right. Which is right up your alley. Right up my alley, man. It sounds perfect.

Legal cheating by Jason Moy. It's another book he's coming out. Yeah, I'm working on that as we speak. All right. Drew Locke, rib injury. His status against the dolphins uncertain. Dolphins are a tough matchup. Drew Locke has been a, other than a couple quarters, been pretty disastrous. Apparently he can only play against Prevent D. And he's pretty good at that. Tyler Lockett, bit of a knee sprain heading into Week 11 against the Cardinals.