Week 10 Matchups + In-or-Out, Swimming With the Fishes

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Welcome into the show Friday, November 8th. The fantasy football is back with you, Andy Holloway, Mike Wright, Jason Moore. Seven matchups to get through today, the second half of fantasy forecast. Ballers on a budget to close out the show. We've got in or out, the injury updates. We've got Foot Clan Friday today. And let me say something to start the show. That's a good place to begin. If...

You are a huge fan of stat lines in the realm of three for 40, four for 30, four for 42. I am not. We have a game for you. And that's what we got last night between the Chargers and the Raiders. It was a very competitive game. And, uh,

It was a very disappointing game for a number of fantasy players, not named Melvin Gordon. Nope, great game. Josh Jacobs. In the end, very good. And then Echler had the touchdown reception to kind of save the day, mercifully. And Hunter Henry got his touchdown. I think that's it. Yeah, that is that is it. And, you know, if you followed my Twitter through the game, you, you might.

My tilt last night with Philip Rivers, how do you, what are you, suckiness, his terrible ability to not play quarterback anymore, apparently. I was tilting my face off. I know this. You, you moved to the all capital letters for the fourth quarter and beyond in our Slack channel. All caps one word. Yeah, no space. He didn't have space for space. Five sacks. Philip Rivers took five sacks.

Felt like 20. Three interceptions? Felt like 20. Three interceptions on the books and a few more that got called back. 207 yards, two touchdowns, the second of which came at the four minute mark of the fourth to kind of, you know, save you from pure and utter burying yourself beneath the earth. Yeah, I mean, at least this wasn't one of those Jared Goff, Baker, Mayfield, you know, performances where.

You end up negative. How low can you go? You end up with zero. I mean, he had, you know, 15 fantasy points if you're in a six point per touchdown league. But that's still not what you wanted in this matchup in the slightest. You brought up yesterday on our series show. Philip Rivers was leading the league in passing yards on the season, which, you know, seems incredible. We fact-checked that. We did a little bit. And he just had such a terrible game.

Let me be clear. He looked bad. He missed open receivers. Every deep ball was four yards too far. And, yeah, so I'm mourning with all of the foot clan that started him alongside myself. The problem with Philip Rivers is he's generally a consistent guy. But he's playing Rivers is, does have a little bit of a hot potato in it, in which.

His face looks kind of like Mr. Potato Head. Oh, like a hot potato. So it makes sense that he has one to two of these every single year where it looks like he forgets how to play quarterback. I won't blame anybody for not streaming him. No, he should have been a great play. Forward. No, he plays Kansas City next week. But look at, yeah, but I wouldn't mess with him, man. Philip Rivers' offensive line was the problem last night. Philip Rivers is a man with...

his two feet into cement buckets. So those guys need pockets to throw from. He can still throw the ball, but he can't move. You know, Derek Carr has been able to move around in the pocket. I think that's part of why he hasn't been sacked very often. Last night they got him. But another good game from Carr. The Raiders have a very favorable second half. I mean, and as far as the team won the game, they're above 500 and they have the easiest schedule moving forward of almost any team in football.

The problem that I, the only other thing I want to get into here, Mike, is the Walrus. Because Darren Waller, three for 40, there were what looks like five players with four or more targets in the offense. Jalen Richard, Hunter Renfro, Darren Waller, Josh Jacobs, Tyrell Williams. Zay Jones had three, you know, 21 completions.

Where are you? I mean, we talked about this on the serious show too. We compared Hunter Henry to Waller moving forward and said we'd rather have Henry rest of season, but has the league caught on or caught up to Darren Waller to the degree that his floor is a little lower than we thought. I don't know that the league has caught up, but the Raiders offense has expanded. When it started out, they had just lost Antonio Brown and everything went to Tyrell and everything else went to Darren Waller.

That was the offense, or the Raiders passing offense. Now Jalen Richard's getting a little bit more involved. The kind of emergence of Hunter Renfro, they traded for Zay Jones, they traded for Trevor Davis, and it has negatively impacted feeding the Waller's. Yeah, the first three games of the year, that's what we remember, right? Boom, boom, boom, boom. You had the Walleris having top 10.

tight-in performances every single week. Since that time, outside of the first three weeks, he's literally only had, and he was the number one that week against Green Bay, but he's only had one top 12 tight-in performance, and it doesn't take much to be in the top 12. You know what I mean? You get 50 yards. You might be in the top. Well, he had 40. Sure. So, I mean, maybe this is near a top 12, but probably not. I mean, but his finishes 15, 17, 13, 19.

And now whatever this week's going to be probably 18. That's not helping you in fantasy. You're not wrong. You can follow the show on Instagram, Instagram.com slash fantasy footballers on Twitter at the FFF Ballers. The website is the fantasy footballers.com. If you're into DFS, there's a bunch of good DFS articles up there this weekend. Got a new predicting the top 12 quarterbacks for week 10 article up by Kyle and avail yourself of that.

Thanks to everybody who's supporting the show with your reviews over on Apple Podcasts or your subscriptions on Spotify and wherever you're listening. Let's go ahead and take a look at some injuries. What's it going to pay me me, fly? Are you in or out? All right, in or out. Patrick Mahomes. I say in. Yeah, I say in as well. Matt Ryan.

In. In. Lamar Jackson. He'll play. He missed practice. That's why he's in there. With an illness. Matthew Stafford, the back injury, he's going to play. Yeah, I think he'll play. How about this one? Jacoby Berset. This one is tougher. He did get a limited practice in on Thursday. I lean that he will be out, though. Yeah, I do too. I lean in. I think he's going to play. It is a true 50-50 situation. Do you think Jacoby Brissette?

is better for the Colts? Yes. As far as the receiving options and fantasy output? No doubt. I do. I think he's much better. I think he's playable this week. That's the real, yeah. I mean, he's got Miami. Yeah, and Hoyer's playable if Preset is gone too. Lev Bell, in or out. And Adam Gaze came out and says both Lev Bell and Herndon are looking good to go. Dun, dun, done, James Connor.

Yeah, that was a quick turnaround of events where Mike Tomlin on Tuesday felt like James Connor was trending towards playing. And then Wednesday, no, no, it's highly doubtful. So expect to see James Connor back next week. Out. Yes. Yeah. Alvin Camara. In. Christian McCaffrey. In. Yep. Matt Breda? In and out. Yeah, I was going to say. He's a frequenter of in and out. He loves those burgers. I'm kind of excited. Excited for Brita for Monday night. I am.

Rahim Mostert. Yeah, inconsequential. Oh, I like that. Inconsequential. Yes, very nice. Amari Cooper. So he had the whole MRI fiasco going on throughout the week. Apparently, a doctor took a look, and Amari Cooper said, can I play? And the doctor said, yep. So he is trending towards playing. Devante Adams? Yeah, he's back. We know AJ Green's going to be out. T. Yilton, that's going to be an out.

Adam Thielen. Not expected to play this week, no. Josh Gordon, who was dealing with a knee injury, was limited Thursday with an ankle, still supposed to make his debut on Monday night, in or out? In, but I'm not. Consequential. Yeah, I'm not playing Josh Gordon until I see it. Yep. What about this George Kittle situation? He's dealing with an injury. He's got a Monday night game. This sucks. This sucks so much. Why couldn't you do this on a week where you're not the Monday night football game? He's just not thinking of you, Jay. Kittle? Selfish. But.

Pick up Hollister as an emergency play. Yes. If I have George Kittle, because he's a game time decision, and I want George Kittle. I know what the options are on the waiver wire. It's streaming grossness. And Jacob Hollister is part of that pack. So pick him up. Yeah. So all George Kittle owners out there probably need to find someone on the roster they can drop to pick up Hollister. Now, do you think you need to pick up now or do you just want to wait? I think I would rather play Ross Dwellie.

the backup tight in in San Francisco, then I would play roulette with Luke Wilson, Jacob Hollister, and Ed Dixon now, who's supposed to be ready. Ross Dwellie had four catches last week. Red Dead. Well, you can go Red Dead. No. Chris Herndon. I think he's going to play. How much he will play? It could be one snap. Let's let's ask this. All right. Enter out. Your lineup. Out. I.

I think I would play him if I'm streaming and I'm desperate. You're going to answer the question yourself, Jason? I was hoping I got off without asking. No, no, I asked the questions. I would say in. I would be willing to play him this week. Just because the landscape is bad. The floor is low, but he's got a higher ceiling the most waiver wire guys. It's funny this week. I feel like we've talked about like 10 other tight ends in that like landscape bad, but kind of optimistic, whether it's T.J. Hawkinson or O.J. Howard.

I'm playing Gassiki over Herndon. It's decided. I don't... Until I see Herndon out there. I am excited for him to get back out there on the field, but... Oh, excitement is lost on the Jets this year. Jared Cook? In. Okay. Delaney Walker, will he be back? No, I don't think so. He's still not participating in practice on Thursday. Jonu Smith against the Chiefs or Chris Herndon. Oof. Jonu. Okay. Yeah, I guess it's Jono. All right. News and notes is always brought to you by the Sleeper app.

Let's go ahead and get back into the forecast. Fantasy forecast. All right. I was reminded that this is just like a delay to tease the anticipation. I certainly didn't forget at the very top of the show. I certainly did not forget. I always like to hit the segment right at about the 12.5 minute mark, so that's what we're doing. Put Clan Friday. I thought you would just throw it at the end of the matchups. I was afraid I'd forget again if I did that. I was going to.

But it is Friday. So a quick shout out. Brandon Wright. You are the winner. Oh, my brother. Winner of a $55 gift card. Foot Clan Friday winner. That goes to shopballers.com. Every Friday we give out a $55 gift card to those that support us to join the foot.com. All right. Now we're back into the forecast. And congratulations, Brandon. Yesterday, Ravens, Bengals, Bill's Browns, Falcons, Saints, Jets, Chiefs, Titans.

We're not going to talk about them today because we talked about him yesterday. So you can go back and listen. We'll start with the Cardinals Buccaneers game. Cardinals are 3, 5 and 1. Bucks are 2 and 6, and they're 4.5 point home favorites in a game with a very high, 52 point over under. This game is littered with starts of the week. There are four of them in this game. I have Kyler Murray. Mike has James Winston. Jason has both David Johnson and O.J. Howard.