Week 9 Matchups + Bad Jokes, Luton Free Zone - Fantasy Football Podcast for 11/6

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Mike, right, Jason Moore, I'm Andy Holloway, welcoming you into yet another episode of the show, number 979. Oh, man. 979? Yeah, it approaches. And if you remember, back in the beginning, years and years ago, we said at 1,000, it's over. We were going to do 1,000 for you, and we are men of our words. Yeah, men of our words. We said 1,000 perfect shows in consecutive order.

And then we'd walk away. Of our words. Love it. And so we're getting close. I wasn't aware of this plan, guys. Yeah, it will affect your employment. Speaking of Brooks, I cannot wait to see what you've come up with for the thousands of episodes. It's going to be so good. Yeah, a lot of planning has gone into this. Brooks has spent many a night sleepless thinking about show a thousand. And it's coming soon, Brooks. Are you ready for it? Are you prepared? Not yet.

It's one of the, it's going to be a rare podcast event. It's a puppet show. So it's going to be, for the podcast listeners, it's not as good as YouTube, but, but it's my wheelhouse. But he's a, but he's a puppeteer. That's his special. Oh, you are a puppeteer. That's right. I remember that story. He's a puppeteer. He's a, a mime, a chef. A chef, yeah. All right, we have a busy show today. We've got a lot of matchups to get into the rest of the week nine.

matchups that we didn't get to yesterday. And we had a Thursday night football game that took place and was a drubbing. Mm-hmm. A beat down, no doubt. Quick takeaways from that game. Devonty Adams is very good. Also better than everybody else. He doesn't make sense. He's open all the time. And then when he's not open and Aaron Rogers throws a ball, you're like,

Oh, man, Rogers. You overthrew him by, oh, he caught it. Yeah, he's been absolutely incredible. And if you are Devante Adams fantasy manager, you are thrilled because you get to start your week with the best possible start. And then Rogers was great again. I started the listener league outs.

with a Rogers Adams stack. Oh. So I apologize to my opponents for ending your week on Thursday night. I mean, it kind of feels that way, right? I mean, that just seems impossible to overcome. Uh, so we'll be here for the tilt if he beats you. Yes. Uh, yeah. And, uh, speaking of tilt, fellas, I was told that Jerich McKinnon had tired legs. No, his legs are fine. Well, I mean, they're, you know, you only had 12 carries last night. I was told that Jamichael Hastie.

is expected by beat reporters to lead the 49ers and carries. Well, you should have been in the meeting rooms, Mike. Oh, man. They did come out last night and say that Kyle Shanahan, they had talked to him. And with the late news about Brandon Ayuk and Kendrick Bourne, both being out of the game, he had built the passing game around 85% of the design.

intended to go to Brandon Ayyuk, and 15% of the design intended to go to Kendrick Bourne. And he had to rebuild the offense from the ground up after they lost those pieces, which obviously involved changing the backfield to some degree. I guess so. And it's just, it was tough, man. If you were a Jamichael Hastie manager, you got nothing. I mean, you got nothing last night. It was the inverse of starting Devante Adams and super disappointing.

McKinnon was okay for your fantasy team with the garbage time last second touchdown. If you have anybody that you know that started Richie James, let me know. But 9 for 184 was really the only wide receiver of relevance. Nothing for Jordan Reed, nothing for anybody else. Yeah, I would say the other big piece of news is that Aaron Jones is fine. When you watched the game, he didn't end up with some supreme fantasy game, but he was playing against the 49ers. But when you watch the game and he literally.

touches the ball every single play to start that game, whether it's a pass or a run. It was like, well, all right. I guess they're not managing his workload. Well, and he said for two weeks that he was feeling good and it showed on the field. They were able to limit his work in the second half due to the game being out of reach. But Aaron Jones should be good moving forward. All right, it is Friday. Put Clan Friday. All right, this week's winner of an exclusive giveaway.

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Other giveaways that we do throughout the year, sports memorabilia from pristine auction. And you can watch the show over on YouTube, YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballers. Let's talk news. News and notes from around the league. All right. Daily COVID update. Chris Jones, defensive tackle, extraordinary from the chiefs on the COVID list. Yeah, and this was a pretty late addition. So I'm skeptical that he would be able to be active.

assuming that this is just a contact situation? We don't know, but that's good news for the Panthers running game, and Christian McCaffrey should he be activated, which we anticipate he will. Yeah, it seems inevitable at this point. The bears have been cleared to return to their facility, which is good news. The dolphins had an assistant coach test positive today. They're in the, quote, intensive protocols, which all these teams are shifting to with any news of positive results, which seems.

to be working, right? You shift to these protocols, and most of these teams have been able to return, play in their games, and so you're happy to see that. There was significant fines yesterday for John Gruden and the Raiders, including the loss of a draft pick, a six-round pick due to breaking protocol because it jeopardizes the rest of the league. Hey, man. Take my draft pick, man. This mask is sweaty, man.

All right. Injury. People have no idea who we were just doing right there because it's so bad. It is terrible. Josh Jacobs, guys, downgraded to did not practice for Thursday's game and they practice. What did I say? Game. That's a fair point. No game. Did not practice on Thursday. Theoretic was promoted from the practice squad. Uh-oh. Now, he missed the practice primarily due to illness. So that's.

comforting in the sense that if someone's missing a late week practice, you want it to be an illness. That's when they come back and play. It's not an injury. But he is still dealing with a knee issue. So you just question, because he's missing and Theo Riddick comes up, you question, man, will we not have him? I've been looking for more information on Josh Jacobs. Right now, I expect him to still play. But you've got to.

Got a monitor tomorrow or today now. Jonathan Taylor and Jordan Wilkins both practiced in full on Thursday. I guess Jordan Wilkins was dealing with a groin injury. Taylor with the ankle. That was a little frightening. That really spooked me. That was a real. That's a scary groin injury live on the show. You might have actually pulled your groin doing that. Once a day. Michael Thomas limited at Thursday's practice. Drew Breeze was actually limited.

in practice due to a shoulder injury, practicing on the side. You have to expect that Breeze will be out there in a very important divisional game against the bucks. You do. You do. But I'm just saying this is a... That was a man talking to himself in the mirror. Yes. I don't want to sound an alarm. And that's why I'm saying you do have to expect to be fine. He says it's minor. But I worry about injuries when you're north of, you know, 40.

When you're up there in age, there was just a foot injury that was fine with Peyton Manning, and all of a sudden it was like, ooh. Take a deep breath. I know. He'll probably practice in full today and we'll be fine. Would you be looking at streaming options? I mean, the matchup. That's what I mean. The matchup is already rough against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Is this kind of, would this solidify that you're going to make the move to stream? Because Drew Brie is a Sunday night. You should have information on Sunday morning.

whether or not there's any concern of him missing, but you would stream? Yeah, I think. Like Ben, Ben Rathlisberger against Dallas. Yes, I would much rather play Ben Rothesburg. Okay. Ezekio Elliott did some rehab work dealing with a hamstring. So we'll have to monitor that. He's been losing some reps to Tony Poller to begin with. The offense, I mean, this is, this is maybe the most difficult situation for a Zieg manager that you can have because Pittsburgh is, look, the only times.

at all that running backs have beat Pittsburgh. It's been on one big play. It's been the Miles Sanders breakaway run. Arthur. Yeah, it's been Melvin Gordon catching a longer touchdown pass. It has not been a, it's not been the Zeke style. Zeke's eight yard chunks. And against Pittsburgh, those are eight inch chunks. Yeah, they're not, you know, what do you do? I mean, do you pivot from Ezekiel Elliott? That's the real. I,

I don't pivot, but I see him as an RB2. I mean, he right now, I believe I have. Okay, David Montgomery or benching Zeke against Pittsburgh. Holy crap. I mean, that's a fair question. I mean, because that's a situation somebody could really be facing. Yeah, David Montgomery against Tennessee. I would probably play him over Zekeill Elliott around. I would play David Montgomery. I mean, Montgomery's been better three straight weeks than Zeke. Justin Jackson against the Las Vegas Raiders. I would put Justin Jackson. Oh, man.

I don't like this world. No. Todd Gurley, who I'm a little bit concerned with, but who's been getting in the end zone, I've got him ahead as well. It's not great. Are you hopeful if you, let's say you're the Zeke manager and you have him in Pollard, are you hopeful that they just say rest up Zeke? Probably. Yeah.

Yeah, we weren't excited about that matchup with a healthy Zieg. Correct. We said Christian McCaffrey should be active. Sonny Michelle returned to practice, not activated yet. Devonta Freeman returned to practice. So, you know, the running back situation in New York, you don't really want a piece of it, but he could be back on the field. Kenyon Drake, been off the field. He's going to miss this week, right? I mean, it's going to be Chase Edmonds this week. And then Matt Brito with the hamstring did not practice.

So Patrick Laird, Jordan Howard. I think Laird is a bit banged up as well. And Dwayne Washington won't be able to be active, right? DeAndre Washington. Oh, did I say Dwayne? I don't know. What's the difference? D. Washington, I don't know off the top of my head need to look into it because we know that the protocol is a player signed off the street. They will have to pass all the COVID protocols.