Fantasy Football - Halloween Show! + Week 9 Matchups, WHOOOOOOOOO!!!!! - Podcast for 10/31

The Fantasy Footballer Studio is sponsored by Walmart. To the Fantasy Footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Woo! Welcome into the show. We hope you're watching on YouTube. YouTube.com slash the Fantasy Footballers. Happy Halloween, one and all. Just another regular day here. I'll better be watching for what I sat through. Well, let's go there first. Let me introduce our hosts for the day. We have meowson Taylor in the building. Meow, everyone. Tight in for the New York Jets. And then we're going over here. We got Cam Scadaboo. What is happening? Cam Scadaboo. Oh, wow. The tongue jangling everything. Okay. You, uh, you're doing all right there, Cam?

Feel great, man. Yeah, you already getting better? Yeah. Everything is good. I'm going to be back soon. Yeah, that's a little, that's a few too many bottles on the desk. Um, happy Halloween everybody. I'm Indiana Jones. I think I had the easier path this morning compared to, uh, to Mike. My seven and one culture doing well though. Yeah. Congratulations on that. No, I've really redeemed my entire entire image. I used to play for. the team that this guy plays for. Go Giants. Um, four, four and six. Eating dubs. Eating dubs. Eat my crayons snacks. You got crans snacks today? Yeah, I got crans to eat. Ha. Oh boy. This is Jason was made to play this character. Power food. You're going to power. Well, you're actually going to eat the crans. Okay. No, we are eating the crans here on the show.

Huh? Your recovery is going well. You on some painkillers? Oh yeah. Okay. Oh, yeah. The people's running back himself. Got to watch those cranes. By the way, by the way. If you're watching the show and we've got a great one for you today, we've got more matchups, fancy face off. We got a lot of stuff. If you're watching the show, he has got not only an authentic New York Giants helmet because he has Camp Scataboo. Yeah. Yeah. But this is this was an authentic legitimately. Cam Scataboo's face mask. Game warrant. Let me tell you, Fookland, this is not a, this is not a joke. This is so real. This blew our minds. Like we know how violent football is. Yeah. Guys, this, I, I don't, I don't think the camera on YouTube can pick this up. Maybe we'll put it on socials. This face mask, the metal inside or whatever it is, it is completely broken and exposed from this way a lot of bends, a lot of insane chips.

how hard these hits are until you see. How many of those dings come from a brick wall though? It's a good question. Probably a quarter of them, but I've seen a play. This comes from in game. It is beat up and gnarly. And this, I'm not joking. That's actually Cam Scataboo's. Yeah. Old face mask, courtesy of green grid iron who provided the helmet for us. I was shocked to find out that they refurbish these face masks for the giants. But now you look very authentic. They're who made our set piece as well. Yeah, you look very authentic. I am Cam Scapp. I am Cam. And Mike is just sitting over there looking. Hey, I'm just doing what cats do, man. Yeah. Yeah, we're not breaking tackles. Well, we've got a show. It's Foot Clan Friday. It's news time. We have horrible news. Horrible news today. Oh, yeah, we do. I mean. Oh.

I forgot about it. Can't have cool things in fantasy football. A reminder, join the foot.com is the community. We had a Thursday night game. It was 28 to 6. It was incredible and yet so very frustrating as if you had Derek Henry or you had Zay Flowers and you're watching Lamar throw four touchdowns. You just, you can't, we weren't allowed to have any of those. Derek Henry had a great game. I mean, Mark Andrews got him. Yeah, Derek Henry did have a great game. I agree. By the end, he had over 100 yards on the ground 19 for 110 or 119. Zayfowers of 5 for 64. I'm just saying of like, when you see them get to the goal line and you're like, here we go, Derek Henry time. And they do one, you know, they, they, the Henry run on first and second. He had two goal. I know. I know.

And then the play action and easy touchdowns. It's funny how different we are on this. It's just frustrating. So listening to how we're talking about this is indicative of our teams. Yeah. You had. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I am playing against. I'm with the people. No, I'm with the people. You're playing Mark Andrews like a psychopath. Yeah, I am baby. Oh man. Goal and stuff. I'm playing against Eric Henry. Woo. It was good. Yeah. I, um, you know, Derek Henry himself, it was fine. Zayflowers, five for 64. You can live with it with how it started. Lamar is back. He looked great. The dolphins are. They just let go of their GM this morning. They let go their GM. They did come out and say that. That'll fix it now. They did say that head coach McDonald's will be. Oh my gosh. Yeah. Yeah. He will be the head coach for the remainder of the season. I still feel like they play hard for him. That's how I, yeah. You felt that way last night? Yes. Okay.

I mean, they were outmatched. They also got. I would say that Tua can play as hard as he can and not be good. They took two really bad penalties. Yes. They also missed a 35-yard field goal that would have got it closer in the beginning. The first one, what was the first? I can't even remember it was. Oh, the huge Jalen Wattle catch. Yeah. Where I do. You all right over there. Yeah, well, you're just trying to wake up. Try to fix it. I talk to the rest. I let him know. This is just part of my. Can you, can you try to fix it? Fix what fix my. Yeah, your head shit. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, I feel a lot better now. You feel better? What? Every once in a while. What is happening? He just shattered three bottles on his head. I didn't know I needed protective eye gear over here. Boy, I love me know if you need to borrow the helmet. That's a lot of glass. It's a lot of glass. I am sitting in so much glass. There was passes everywhere. There was a huge jail and water catch. What happens when you eat crayons? I don't know if I would eat this. Oh, he's trying to eat the glass. Oh, and he did. Well, that's not edible. Jaylon Wattle humongous catch gets called back. The penalties on that one seemed a little tiki tack. You had the return, huge return. And there was a penalty on that one, which that one, yes, I technically was, but it's like it's so far away that it would not have impacted the play. It just.

it sucks when it goes down like that i will give so much credit to the guy you always delivers um devon a chan i mean it wasn't a monstrous game but man so smooth just every such a good player i mean when you you were talking about travion becoming you know the a chant you know at some point in time yeah i think using him like that would be appropriate it would be good i just think a chan man he's on another level right now jason needs a dust bust dude my laptop is covered in broken glass yeah yeah that's good there's so much my seat this i made a mistake uh i should glad there's five more bottles on the table i should do four okay uh there's fewer now um we'll move on it is friday put clan friday i've uh dude i should have worn full pants my legs are really hurting with all this glass um

Oh my gosh, you look like you're Donald ducking it over there. Yeah. You, what did I say? He's your petronics in real life. My petronus? Yes, I love Kim Scataboo. More than any player of all time. He is my spirit animal. Get well soon. All right. Foot Clam Friday winner, Say yo. Winning $100 gift card to Fantasychamps.com. We give $100 away every Friday to a supporter at join the foot.com. Let's get to that crappy news. I might need to borrow a bottle. News and notes from Around the League. Presented by Progressive Insurance. Remember, just have yourself a little crayonsnack. We got to have a little crayons. Tell me what's going on. Okay. What in the world are you doing? This is who he is. Okay. He's been hiding this person in his entire life. He also can't see anything. No, he's blind. No glasses, completely blind. I didn't realize how bad my eyes have been until today. How's that green?

That crane looks like it's got some dyes in it. Based on what I'm seeing. Adam Schaefter or sorry, Jaguars wide receiver, Travis Hunter. We had heard there was a practice injury a couple days ago and we were, we didn't hear anything else. Well, he's been placed on the injured reserve with a non-contact knee injury. All of the current comments coming out, you know, it's a four game minimum on the IR. Yeah. non-contact in practice. I am in a matchup of epic importance this week against Al Borland and Travis Hunter. I mean, all the hype around Travis Hunter. We heard the guys you're starting and to lose Travis Hunter is devastated. I almost made him my start of the week this week. The way that they were using him on offense, he pretty much wasn't playing defense. You're still digging glass out of your groin. Yeah, that is correct. My legs are covered in glass. You're just going to have to.

I'm just going to have to deal with it. But he was being used as a full-time offensive player, had his breakout game, looked great. Now, on the flip side, I think there were reasons to be concerned with Brian Thomas Jr. With the emergence of, like if the number one target ended up going to Travis Hunter, obviously that would be bad. However, now BTJ is all alone again. Surely this will fix the problems. I think it will. I genuinely think he's going to have. I don't think so. Yeah, I believe. I think he's hurt. I think that he's way more hurt than they're letting us know. And we're going to have, we're going to get into the off season. Oh, Brian Thomas Jr. had this surgery to clean up this injury that he sustained in training. There are actual implications here for other players. Parker Washington was getting too much work with both guys on the field. Yes, he was. And so Parker Washington.

I will tell you, I'm just signed him and I'm putting him in my lineup. Like, that's who's going to replace Travis Hunter. That's my team where I was counting on him. You know, I would play Alec Pierce over Parker Washington. I would play quite a few players. I mean, you'll see our updated rankings on the website. But this sucks. Yeah. Cam Scadaboo and Travis Hunter, two of the best rookies of the entire year with a lot of promise, like both kind of, you know, getting better every week. And they're gone. Yeah. Why can't we have cool things? You know what, Jake? Can I get out some frustration? Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. There are there are tiny fragments shooting for my eyeballs every single time we do this. The deucers will be here for 10 hours. You got nine lines. That's true. You'll be fine. Yeah, lives, not eyes. You don't have two eyes. Nine eyes. All right, Joe Flacco returned to a limited practice. We did have a quote from him.

Oh, yeah. So Flacco said, he stopped short of saying he's definitely going to play on Sunday, but did say he's feeling good. He wanted to throw to see how it reacted. And he left with a positive reaction. Did you see his other quote that I found quite entertaining? I maybe. Flacco quotes are usually great. It's about a week ago. Because this dude does not care anymore. He's old enough now. He's full de-gaffed. Yes, he is. Whatever he wants to say, he says. Yes. This is the one where he said he used to, when he was a younger player, he'd be in different cities when he travels.

and he'd go to bars and he'd see some dude sitting alone like at a booth or at the bar and he would think oh my gosh i feel so bad for that guy he must be lonely he's sad he felt pity for him and then he goes now now at my age he goes i realized that guy was in heaven yes yes Joe Joe is one of us. 100%. There's nothing better. I mean, if it's Thursday night, Monday night, Joe in the movie theater by and go down to a restaurant, sit at the bar by yourself. Buy my, you know who I got to talk to? Nobody. Maybe the bartender. Oh yeah. Okay. One person. Yeah. It's great. We have updates. DeAndre Swift still not practicing on Thursday with the groin injury.

Luther Burton did not practice the concussion. If Swift is out, Monongai becomes, I mean, the way they're running the football and the matchup, very interesting. Calvin Ridley still sideline. Chigga Concoe are not available. I guess you could try to see if you could catch fire with Gunner? With DK. That's what I was going to say. Chimray? Chimray, Jim Chimery. Or I-O. Manor. It would be an I-O manure. You're going to have to, like, it. Banking on garbage time feels like, you're like, oh, that's an interesting. It's not. It's not a good strategy. No, but DK in the slot with the new coach has been good. That's all I was saying. He has produced. Just such a small sample and you're still relying on camboard. What else do we got? Drake London, Michael Pennix, both limited on Thursday. Did you have something else, Mike? No, I thought we were moving to the next piece of news. Patriots running back Romandre Stevenson did not practice again on Thursday.

You're celebrating injury here on the show. Nope. I'm celebrating opportunity. Yesterday, this is what we got into exchange, and this is what I said. I want to see it. And it's the matchup with the Falcons, they are literally a who knows. Isn't it sad to know that you might not see it still? Oh, yeah. There are many things that could happen. I'm room for him. Take advantage right now, Trayvion. It is full on. I'm so excited. Please don't fumble. I'm so excited. I'm so scared. Yeah. Because. I would be excited to. It lines up. This should be the opportunity for Trayvion Henderson to go prove why he was drafted early second round to prove his status as an elite prospect at the running back position. Will it happen? I mean, you have to be, we were talking about this off air yesterday. You are so scared. Yes. Because the opportunity that you have been waiting for is probably here. Third straight day.

No practice for Ramandre. So let's just assume, and this could obviously change, tune into Sunday live. But let's assume Ramandre doesn't play. Hopefully this makeup is off by Sunday. Doubtful. The opportunity for Trayvion Henderson to be the guy appears. To get your 15 opportunities. Yes. Fully here. And so if this Sunday, Ramondre doesn't play and Trayvion gets seven carries. What does it say? And a target. I don't know how you come to work ever again. That's a barrier. I will come to work, but I will like, I'll let it go. I'll let it go for the year. All right. I will stop being the, now we're all rooting for not that. Legitimately though, as of this moment, I assume Ramandre's not going to play. Where, where is Trevion and your, you know, start sit? Like, are you happy to start him? Yes.

I feel that way too. I feel like I'm... We are so... You have to. We are so negative towards his situation and what we've been seeing, but in other situations, like when an injury happens ahead of a running back. It's like Kamani Vidal. You're like, yeah, I got to play him. He's going to get all the work. What about, let's say, you know, Bam night, start of the week, Mike, against Dallas, and then you have the situation with Menangai. If you put those two in the... Let's say Swift doesn't play either. And you got Monongai Henderson, Bam Knight. How do you order those? Man. I know that's a tough one. It is. And I mean, it might be Monongai. He's playing the Cincinnati Bengals. I expect the Bears to be able to put points up pretty easily. I mean, the truth is, I got one for you. I'd probably play him over. The truth is, if I had all the three of those guys somehow on one team, just where I am with Henderson for what I.

what I believe in need. Henderson would play. It's probably, it may not be the right process for everyone, but this is what we say of, we're trying to give you information to make the best decision you can make for your team. That would be the best decision for my team, because I wouldn't need it. If Henderson had this one shot and went nuclear on Sunday. You'd need it emotionally. Yes. Yeah, if I got, whatever, whatever comes out of it, nuclear, awesome. Terrible. I deserve it. And then I will move on accordingly. Well, and it's one of those things where the way you've been pining for this game, getting it on the bench would really suck. That's what I mean. I would have no choice but to play him. Ricky Pearsall looks like he's getting closer to a return according to Jennifer Lee Chan. Please, man. We heard someone was saying they expect a week 10 return. So that's not this week. Yeah. It's next week. It seems like they need him. I would assume by week 10, Brock Purdy will be back as well.

To me, I made a trade offer in our lead for Pierceall. I try and go get him. And I think this is definitely a good second half sleeper. I sure hope he gets back and doesn't Terry McLaurin. Sure. I'm terrified about it because they've come out and talked about it. Nico Collins returned to a full practice. So is Christian Kirk. So maybe our little, we had a couple of moments of Noel and Hutchinson. Josh Downs, full practice on Thursday. Seems like he'll be back. Brock Bowers, Jacoby Myers, full participants. Pooka Nakua upgraded to full. Nice. I had so many leagues that had to go and pull him off of the IR. It was delight in each one. Because I had almost gotten to the point where I was just... You're like unwrapping up present? Yeah, I was working without him week to week, and it wasn't going as well, and now I get to put him back in. Pacheco not practicing with the MCL, Jaden Daniels, full participant. He'll be back, but no McLaurin. Cooper Cup injury report. If you want to throw Tori Horton into your, you know,

backup option situation. Sure. Hamstring injury for Cup. Horton has flashed at times. And Kyler Murray Limited, I, there's all this rumor right now around Arizona because they pushed back the scheduled press conference for the Cardinals quarterback to speak. And so a lot of people think that maybe that means Jacoby Brissette has been named. Well, there was a practice where non-injury related starter. Yeah, well. Non-injury related. I don't know. The open portion of practice, I believe it was yesterday. The open portion that was available for media to watch, the main starters, Marv, Michael Wells, these guys were playing with Brissette. And so there is a legitimate question right now as to who the Arizona Cardinals starting quarterback is. It's not a guarantee. I thought I saw.

Gannon saying that everything was there preparing for it to be Kyle? He said, yeah, an answer to if, like is Kyler? Early in the week. Yeah. He said yeah. That was his answer. Yeah. And Marv says he doesn't know who the starter is. He's being coy. I think we'll see. We'll see. They have an out. If they want to give, if they want to take another week with Kyler Murray on the bench due to the foot sprain, they can do it. They're not going to necessarily have that opportunity without demoting him later. That was today's news and notes, sponsored by Progressive Insurance, quote today at progressive.com. Progressive Casualty Insurance Company affiliates and third-party insurers, not available in all states or situations. Coverage subject to policy terms, limits, and conditions will take a break. Be right back. I got to be careful when I say take a break. Because you might break something. And he did. Oh, boy. All right. Okay, I heard that. Yeah.

ASMR fans. Pretty. Unite. Is that what? That's the AMSMRs. They're into tonguewags. Tonguags. Woo! I don't. Oh, okay. Lord, that is. I'm app. We're going to have to mark this one as mature. Oh, my gosh. On the app store. Yeah, I mean, but one question I wanted to ask real quick before we get into the forecast, following up on the Kyler discussion, who do you actually want to be the quarterback for Marvin Trey McBride? Are you saying, oh. I mean, it's definitely, it's without a doubt it's Berset. I mean, it's Dallas this week. For fantasy football. Yeah. If you have those other guys, Berset has been so much better. We've talked about the touchdown opportunities over the last like 21 games with Kyler or the last two and a half games with Berset. McBride is way better. The passing yards, I assume will be better. Now, who has more fantasy points between Brissette and Kyler? It should be Kyler because of the rushing upside. But you never.

But even still, it might not be. So, yeah, against Dallas, I especially think that the way Dallas's defense is inept. Their methodology of being so bad fits someone in the pocket. They roll with the defensive strategy of bend, then break. Right. Bind and break. Yeah. Bend and break. Oh, don't say break. The only. Whoa! Uh, the only, I'm running out of bottles. Um, that's good. Bottles and brain cells. That seems good. Running out. Um, yeah, the only thing that could make the Dallas Cowboys defense look good is Kyler. Um, yeah, we, it's depressing to say. He'd find a way. That's, uh, get into the forecast. Fantasy forecast presented by prize picks. Yesterday we covered the bears, bangles, Vikings, lions, Panthers, Packers.

Chargers, Titans, Falcons, Patriots, 49ers, Giants. Is having another snack? They can't see it because you're doing it behind the microphone. I was trying to hide. Oh, you don't want people to see you. You only is your shameful. Eat Cranz snack in one show. Wow, you ate that like a dinosaur. The Indianapolis Colts at 7 and 1. My team taking on the Pittsburgh Steelers who are four and three. Is it tough one for Pittsburgh? Vegas Line Indianapolis minus three. Why is it tough? Because the Colts score all the time and the Steelers love letting you score. Over under 50 and a half points. I didn't know. I'm happy to see it's at 50. 50 and a half because this is a sneaky shootout game that I am pretty interested in for all players. Well, it's one of those. The fact it's in Pittsburgh makes it feel a little bit.

I just heard you move your chair. This is the crunch. You crunch so much glass. Matt, we got to take a picture of just the floor for socials later. This is insane what has happened here. It's due to the breaking of the bottles. That's what it's, I think that's what it is. Yeah. I think it was you breaking like five bottles in your head. I think if you think it's only five, you can't count. No, it was more than that. I forget you went three in a row. All right, the Colts, Steelers, you like the chance of a little shootout action. I mean, this game, this game's, did you cut yourself on the glass? I think I just did. Don't worry about it. Okay, this game is very fun. Daniel Jones is my start of the week, top six and eight weeks. Jonathan Taylor, of course. Michael Pittman is, is Jason's start of the week?

Alec Pierce, like the DFS boys, he's one of their favorite DFS plays of the week. I think he is, I mean, I don't even, I just, I hesitate to even call him nasty, even though I hit the drop. I think Alex Pierce is a very fine play. What's a step up from nasty? Who, which is, it's just not. Filthy? Is what's worse? No, filthy is worse than nasty. Okay. You'd rather have a nasty thing than a filthy thing. It's just a little unclean. I don't know, nasty. nancy's a different category than filthy this is just a dirty boy oh dirty he's a dirty boy he's a dirty boy alec pears don't do the tongue thing okay all right but he's in honestly if you are in a 14 team league josh downs isn't played too um yeah the fact he's practicing in full um you you summed it up i mean tyler warren keep playing him he's been great

This game's awesome. 78% of his points have been in the first half, which is wild. That's the highest in the NFL. They just, they get going and then they go on autopilot. And they go to JT. They run a lot. So far what's happened with the Colts. And this is obviously no guarantee that it continues. But I do think the matchup specifically with Pittsburgh means like I expect the Colts to put up a lot of points and win the game with how they've been playing. But their defense has been really good against running backs. And it's not because they shut down the running game or you can't run on them. It's because they're up. Yeah, you can't come back with the running game. The other two has to abandon the run. So that's where it's like, is Jalen Warren. Jalen Warren's going to be in the lineup for sure. Because he'll be a pass catching back. He'll get, he'll probably get six plus targets in this matchup. But yeah, I mean, this, this is definitely a game where I want most of the pieces. But on the Pittsburgh side, they're just.

the pieces are D.K. and Warren. I'm not going to like Roman Wilson. That's good. But what is your, what's your level of optimism here? Like this was, I am super pessimistic. I am very hopeful. I love the Roman Wilson. I mean, yes. His snap counts didn't go up. The production went up. He was four for 74 and a touchdown. But this was the first, literally the first time of his entire career of any relevance of any kind. I'm really surprised that he has had as much opportunity as he has had and not been good. It's only his seventh game. Is that right? That was, or eight. That was his, he's got, he appeared in. No, seven total games. This year. Wait. That was his seventh game this year. You're right. Yeah, so one last year. So I'm just saying the point being. Yeah, he's still new. I really loved him as a prospect. This is the second time ever he's been over 40% stats. I will keep my eyes on him for sure. And if there's a perfect matchup, this is it. If you're going to be in a game script where you've got to throw the ball, but I can't imagine starting him. Okay.