Fantasy Football 2017 - Week 6 Matchups, In-or-Out, Zeke Update

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I botched the joke a little bit. You botched the joke. Hold on. We'll redo that. Wait, well, I'm curious, what day is it? Mike? Yeah, we could do it. Dad's away. The boys are going to play. And it's Friday, which also means Foot Clan Friday. It is Foot Clan Friday. That means that we give a $40 gift card to one of our supporters over at Jointhefoot.com just for being a lovely person supporting the show.

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There was not just football. There was a great game. It was an excellent game. You had drama till the very end. The Eagles took on the Carolina Panthers. The Eagles won that game 28 to 23. Jason, what are your big takeaways from this game?

Big takeaways. So I think the Eagles defense getting healthier going forward. I'm going to. And they weren't fully healthy yesterday, but they still were getting done. They still could have room to improve there. But they, you know, they got Fletcher Cox back. He made a big difference. You know, when it came to the running game on the ground from running backs, Carolina could not get it done.

at all, not even close. And so I credit... Well, you don't like four for eight from... From Christian McCaffrey? Four for eight. Well, what was Jonathan Stewart's line? He was actually an inverse of that. Instead of eight yards, he had eight attempts. And instead of eight yards, he had negative four yards. Negative four yards. So, yeah, that run D looks completely legitimate when they're healthy. So I will take that into consideration. Carson wins. He looked, he looked very good.

He was also the benefactor of some short fields because he was 16 for 30. I mean, under 54% completion. Still had, you know, 222 yards, three scores. So a very high QBR rating. But his defense really did help him out turned into a good fantasy play. On the other side, Cam was still a passable fantasy play because he had the rushing touchdown and the passing touchdown. Cam is, look, this was not a very good performance. Cam is.

Cam. What I mean by that is that we joke about him being a bad quarterback, mostly because he's not a good quarterback. As far as, well, to be more clear, he's not a good pocket passer. He's just there compared to, I mean, he's great compared to me, but he's not a great pocket passer compared. You got to give yourself some credit to him. I can throw a spiral. I've seen you throw a ball. You can go at least 20 yards. At least. In the air.

Yeah, oh, your air yard data is great. It's incredible. You know, three interceptions should have been like 17. I mean, the amount of times he threw the ball to a defender about the same as he threw to his team, I did love the involvement of Christian McCaffrey. He is in the passing game. He is 14 targets. More and more and more a go-to outlet.

I think he's going to be safer and safer as the year goes on. Love that. He had a double-digit receptions. Also, how's our water bet looking? We started out pretty good for me on the Kelvin Benjamin versus Devin Funches rest of the season. You certainly did. Calvin Benjamin 9 for 99. That's a great game. He will remain the go-to target. He'll have bad games. He'll have good games. But he is the go-to target as far as from the wider. Well, to be fair, he had 13 targets. Funches had nine.

but was only able to reel in three for 36. So the targets were still there for Funches. So while, I mean, the, the waterbed of Funches versus Calvin, I mean, when we did it, it was, it was close. It was a, you know, a heads up pick him. Sure. But for those who if you played Funches, I'm not going to get down on him after this week. He had enough targets. The opportunity was there.

I thought you were going to jump in with something else. Anything else from that game stick out to you? Alshan Jeffrey looked good. I said I would buy him last week. Aguilar did it again. Yeah, hard to trust. Hard to trust. The secondary weapon there, you know, some weeks it will be Aguilar, some weeks it will be Tori Smith. You know, you just don't know who to trust, but he did look good. You know, you can't trust. That's Zach Ertz, two for two, two receptions, two touchdowns. Yeah.

He's my guy. Not yours, Andy. Oh, he's officially one of my three my guys. All right. Let's move into the news. News and notes from around the league. Big news yesterday broke right before the football game. Big news. The NFL has reinstated Ezekiel Elliott's six game suspension. The court ruled in favor of the NFL. So that means right now.

Ezekiel Elliott is currently suspended. Correct, kind of. So we could probably do an entire hour long episode on Ezekiel. Oh, let's do it. That sounds really fun. Let's not. This is, if it's, if it hasn't been messy enough, it's, it, there's no more clarity.

that has been brought to the table. In fact, right now is probably the least we have known. Yes, he is currently, as of this moment, while we were recording Friday morning, he is currently suspended. By rule, there is a 14-day window to file a petition. During that time, he could probably get a stay on that ruling. Meaning, he will most likely, in this 14-day window, be unsuspended. Is that a word? Sure. It is now.

Which means week seven against the 49ers. I expect him to play. I don't, that's not a long-term, you know, fix, which means when you're picking up Alf or you're picking up DMC. We'll talk about who to pick up in a second. You might not know for three weeks. They're on by this week, 49ers next week where Zeke might be active and then the next week finally figured out. And that's not to say.

that he doesn't get to push back the whole season again. I mean, the fight, it just goes on and on. What do I have to do to get Andy Holloway suspended for six weeks so I can remain in the host chair? Yeah, I don't think that one's going to happen. He's excited to get back. People are excited to have him back. I'm excited to have him back. But maybe you guys can, like, arm wrestle for just hosting duties. In arm wrestle? Well, we probably got to find out a little bit more fair. I will smash him like a bug.

All right. Let's, uh, Marcus Wheaton is out four to six weeks. Was he in? I, not in my lineups. Not anymore. He is out. Not in my heart. Oh, we have an update from Brooks. You guys got a backup. I was going to back him up. Oh, oh, sorry for the year. You guys got to talk McFadden. Oh, yeah. I was going to back him up. That's such a bore. It's not a bore. It's actually really important. All right. Really murky. So Jerry McFadden has been the healthy scratch, which means nothing really.

In terms of trying to read the situation. Backup running backs are often healthy scratches. Look back to last year Cameron Ardus Payne was the healthy scratch until Jonathan Stewart was hurt. And then Cameron Aris Payne was the primary ball care. Yeah. Mike Clay tweeted this out from Todd Archer back in the day. Todd Archer, ESPN reporter for the Dallas Cowboys saying does Darren McFadden's week one?

deactivation mean that Alf would be the backup. And his response was not necessarily. He said the Cowboys spent all summer preparing McFadden to be Elliott's replacement had the suspension taken effect. So he believes it would be Darren McFadden. That's from Todd Archer of ESPN. However, more recently, still a while ago. One month ago, there is a shout out.

A definite shout out for the find here. Scott Barrett tweeted out from Chris Akranets. Nailed it. Yeah. You know, an article, and this was actually Scott Linehan, who is the offensive coordinator for the Dallas Cowboys, which I think I would take him more serious. You know, he's closer and actually in control. Very good source. Very good source.

But, you know, he talked about, this is a quote from the offensive coordinator of the Cowboys about a month ago. He said, quote, we were preparing Alfred before the thing with Zeke came final for the week, Linahan said. He had taken a lot of reps with the first group, to be honest with you, and we felt like he earned it at that point. He was also great in preseason. He talked about that. So who's it going to be? Eileen Alf right now. You have officially switched your stance. Yeah, I think, I think.

Scott Linnehan knows more than I do on the situation. Yeah, the real answer is you got to get both on your team if you can. Now, obviously, that's not a very realistic option for the majority of people. Darren McFadden is owned in a lot of leagues because the Elliott owner was prepping and it seemed like McFadden would be the guy. So if Morris is there, you do add him immediately.