Week 8 Studs & Stinkers + The Pick-6 Plan, It’s Christmas Time - Fantasy Football Podcast for 11/2

defense in this matchup. I mean, Wilkins scored a bunch, Heinz scored a bunch, and then Jonathan Taylor was seemingly nowhere to be found used very sparsely. We did get some news that Gardner Minch who is going to be inactive in week nine against the Texans. We don't know if it'll be Jake Luton or Mike Glennon, but it shouldn't be Mike Glennon. That is probably. You got me on that one. That was a legit.

I was not expecting that laugh. If they need my input, that is my input. Cliff Kingsbury said that the Cardinals have had two positive COVID-19 tests during the buy week. He doesn't expect them to affect the upcoming week, but you never know. And the NFL trade deadline is tomorrow. Cliff Kingsbury also had a comment on Kenyon Drake. He's not likely to play this week, but they are marking him as day to day right now.

He said it looked more severe than probably what it's going to end up being. Good for Kenyon. And he's made really good progress. So you may only have a week, maybe two of Chase Edmonds having the Lions share, but you always have re-injury risks. So he is somebody you have to roster and be ready to play. And trade deadline, let's just have a moment. Will Fuller, because of the hottest rumor mill, Will Fuller ends up on the Green Bay Packers.

How does that make you feel inside? I think Aaron Rodgers is good. Oh, it's phenomenal for Aaron Rogers. It's probably a little bit bad for Devante Adams, who's just getting every single target right now. I think Andy and I disagree on this based on talking about this in the studio. And the more I've thought about it, the more I think Will Fuller would be great there. Like for Fantasy, I think he would still be great. It's not necessarily an upgrade, but I don't.

I wouldn't view it as the downgrade that I thought at first, and obviously this is hypothetical, but Aaron Rogers has in the past easily supported two, even three top fantasy options in a single season. And if you just watch a sheer amount of opportunities that wide receiver X, not the position, but like variable gets down the field from Aaron Rogers this season and they can't catch the ball, I think it's a huge downgrade.

Yeah, and you're right. We disagree. I think it's a monstrous downgrade. Roger spreads it around. You've got Tunin. You've got Lazard coming back. You've got MVS. You've got a guy coming into a brand new system. You're going to see limited snaps. He's the number one in Houston right now. So I don't, I would be trying to get out of Will Fuller as exciting as it would be on the surface. So I don't know. I can't remember a midseason wide receiver acquisition, you know, working out for fantasy.

Emmanuel Sanders worked out until he got hurt when he moved over to San Francisco. He had a couple games. He had a couple games. Yeah. But he came in as the one on the team and had a couple games. Any other updates? If you want to root for something, Jason just turn off Jason's mic for a second. If you want to root for something tonight, Jason and I are facing each other in a Dynasty League, and I need a miracle. I need Leonard Fernette to score fewer than 5.5.

I'm just going to go with it. Whatever. 5.5 fantasy points and Jason goes down. We know what the people will be rooting for. It's the first time they'll be rooting for Littfordette in their lives. 5.5. You know, six receptions last week pretty much eliminates my possibility of beating you. He's the nickel back. He's the nickel. He's the nickel. If he just scored a nickel, I'd be fine. I would win. That's true. It's going to say he is very similar to Nickelback. Yeah. I don't know.

I don't care for either one. All right. Any other news, Brooksie? How are you doing? How were your teams this weekend? Hey, it was a good week for me. It was? Yeah. A big win. I really needed it. Any catastrophic injuries giving us hope in our Dynasty League against you? It's down to a spiral in that league for me. You do have Zeke, right? Yes. Thoughts on Ezekiel Elliott? No. Who's projected to beat you this week in Dynasty Brooks?

Alborland. Oh, man, the trash talk is flowing. Week 8, it got the juices flowing, apparently. After a 5 and 0, about to be three losses in a row, last three. What a loser. Let's keep him out of the playoffs, please. You're in my division, right? Yes, sir. That yes, sir, had so much behind it. All right, we want to talk studs and duds. First, we want to thank today's sponsor, and that is WGU.

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I mean, you know, if you drafted Mahomes, if you traded for Mahomes, you are thrilled because you got what you hoped for, which is infinity points. I, in our league of record, I climbed upon his back like Tyreek Hill did, and he carried me to victory despite Kenny Gulliday, despite Kevin Coleman, 31 for 42 for 416 and 5. He has a 20 to 1 touchdown to interception ratio on the season.

and he gets Carolina next week before his buy. I will say this. Mr. Mahomes, Mr. Reed, I believe you were up 19, 20 points with 10 minutes left in the game and then threw a, uh, was another 40-yard touchdown or so to Tyreek Hill. Can we just give the ball to Clyde? Well, just a little bit. You were, you were, uh, the game was over. Let's just, let's just, well, they needed to cover.

Yes. And they did. It was a 20 point line that was like, yeah, no problem. I believe the last drive or two, several I don't remember, but they didn't even have my homes in there. I mean, they're just like, yeah, we're done. I want to believe that the other coaches, all of them, they just have a pact. And it's to rub number two's face in the dirt at the end of these games. Rub number two and a number two.

Well, look. Number two. It was embarrassing. It was just embarrassing for the Jets to go. Every single plays the same. I feel like I'm in a Twilight Zone episode. You're down 19 points, 25 points. Let's go first down handoff to Franklin Gore. It's truly insane. There are only 32 human beings in the world that get to be a head coach of a national football team. They have to be bright football minds.

And somehow Adam Gase is still employed as the head coach of the New York Jets. I mean, look, if I was going for the number one pick and that's what the Jets are doing, I would hire Adam Gase. So I guess he is good at his job right now if his job is to lose. But it's really, it's almost disrespectful to football. As a whole. Yeah, to the NFL.

Adam Gase being employed is shameful. Russell Wilson. Unlimited. 27 for 37 for 261 and 4. I'm really glad we have that drop now. Thank you. Unlimited. Because I will use it that many times. Yeah. Russell Wilson was outstanding. He has some decent whiteouts to throw the ball too, and he's good. And their defense, you know.

D.K. Metcalf wants everybody to praise their defense, but Jimmy Garoppolo was not very good, and their defense is why Russ can keep cooking. Aaron Rogers had a nice game, three touchdowns, all of them to Devante Adams, and has San Francisco next week, though, so you might want to cool your jets a little bit with Aaron Rogers. Matthew Stafford. Hey, 336 and 3. All he needed was Kenny Galladay to get knocked out, apparently.

And this is his first three touchdown game of 2020. So are we encouraged? We got Minnesota next week. We are encouraged. We needed to see signs of life. We'll have to hit the laboratory. I'm not sure if he will be the streamer I want to go with heading into week nine. But you can at least have confidence of maybe staff forgot some of his mojo back. I don't know. Speaking of mojo, two straight.

Weeks of more than 30 fantasy points for Philip Rivers. Yeah. 23 for 33. Three more touchdowns. Baltimore next week, sit him down. Sit him down. No. Yeah, I agree. Don't sit. Sitting him down implies that you're sitting him on your bench. Please don't do that. No, just let him live on the wire. Mike? Yes. Justin Herbert, hands very strong, does not drop shoes. He still catches them.

I think this was in reference to your The Shoe is going to drop comment of Justin Herbert, which I believe, you know, I was in a complete agreement. No, it was directed towards both of you. Justin Herbert. Neither have said it would definitively happen this week. Yeah, I said it wouldn't happen this week. We said that it would happen over the course of the year. But not this week. I think we could check the tape. We should. So let me ask you a question, Mike. Is Justin Herbert a 50 touchdown?

quarterback. I'm not going to call him for a 50 touchdown quarterback, but he is an every week starter. Vegas. I don't disagree that he's been unbelievable. We both love Justin Herbert. Yes. I'm saying he's an every week start as a top 10. He has a top 10 play every single week. Las Vegas, Miami, which looks, it looks, it does look a little bit tougher, but so did Tampa Bay. So do the New Orleans Saints. So the Denver Broncos. Stop doubting Justin Herbert.

He's great. He's surrounded, and he is surrounded by greatness. Well, look, this is a perfect storm for Justin Herbert as well. It has a lot to do with the fact that they do not have a running game. They just don't. Joshua Kelly's terrible. They brought Trumane Pope in to try to enliven the backfield, which is not something that you did. You expected, and this is Herbert's team. He had a couple of interceptions in this game. They didn't care. They let him keep throwing the football. So Drew Locke.

I don't know, man. This was wild. This was, look, he had a good fantasy week. He finished as a top option, but he wasn't good. Did anybody watch that game and think, man, Drew Locke looks really good because I did. Yeah, I mean, he did over the back half of the game. I mean, he made great throws time and time again across the middle to Hamilton to Judy. He led a game winning drive. I'm going to give him his due this week. Three touchdowns, 250, won the game.

He's got Atlanta next week. Is he in consideration for you? Nope. Dude, that's my point. I think you got to at least think about it. No, I thought your point was that he didn't look good. My point is he did. Yes, my point is he was not, if he really looked good to you and you thought, man, this guy's playing well, I believe in him. He's got Atlanta coming up. He would be in consideration. He didn't actually look great through the course of that game. At the end of the game, he definitely came back and won the game.

Congratulations, Drew Locke. But he did not win me over as saying he looks great because the first half of that game, he looked pretty terrible. Okay. Yeah, I wasn't prescribing you start Drew Locke. I just thought he played really well. I liked what I saw. Dalvin Cook is decent. Oh, man. Oh, man. Oh, brother. We've said it so many times. Like there are only a handful of players in the National Football League at Running Back.

that are definitively great on a carry-by-carry basis. The Grand Canyon-sized gap between Alexander Madison and Dalvin Cook was on display yet again. 30 for 163 and 3 and 3 through in 2 for 63 and a touchdown through the air. Four touchdowns. I mean, it's Cook. It's Camara. Derek Henry. It's Derek Henry. Probably Nick Chubb in my mind. Yeah, been a while since we've seen him. And then Christian McCaffrey, who's, you know, we haven't seen him in a while.

I mean, just unbelievable performance. Detroit next week. That's going to be a bloodbath. He scored a touchdown on his team's first four drives, which he's the first NFL player to ever do that because that is insane. But playing against Andy in our dynasty where you had Dalvin Cook, I just kept thinking he's going to end with 12 touchdowns in this game. They could not stop Dalvin Cook. Green Bay's run defense is very bad.