Week 7 Studs & Stinkers + AB Signing, Witches on Demand - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/26

read from beat reporters so far. We'll have more reports tomorrow if you need to get back on the Claypool train. Andy Dalton took a nasty hit. He's in the concussion protocol. You know, at this point, you're looking at defenses against Dallas. I mean, they're a disaster. I heard, Mike, you talk up the Washington football team's defense on the live stream Sunday morning saying, I know, I know it didn't work the week prior, but you were still in. Hopefully people.

did that because it worked out pretty well against them cowboys. Another big injury with some implications here. 49ers running back, Jeff Wilson suffered a high ankle sprain after scoring three times. Jeff Wilson, he couldn't be stopped. No. Until the injury, but. Yeah, McKinnon could be stopped by not giving the ball to McKinnett at all. Which afterwards, Kyle Shanahan came out and said that was basically the plan. He's been getting a lot of work and they wanted to give him rest.

So, yeah, that seems like a line. I mean, to be honest, he's been getting a lot of rest in previous games, if you recall. He had multiple games of not getting any involvement. And Jim Michael Hastie, and I'm going to throw this out there, this is who you need to look at. You need to look at Tevin Coleman. He's on waiver wires. Jeff Wilson's likely to miss some time. Most of it won't be back. Hastie is a placeholder. McKinnon, they don't want to overload. Tevin Coleman is

was a long shot to return this past week. He could be back next week. Coleman could have a huge workload right upon coming back. Yes, he could. And Debo was getting, Debo was a running back in this game. One of the reasons McKinnon was barely used is because they used Jeff Wilson and Debo, Samuel, out of the backfield over and over and over again. Now, he pulled his hamstring. This team is just, if you line them up in the backfield, their health meter goes down halfway before the play begins.

That's the way it seems. Well, that's because their turbo is on. And when you run the entire time on turbo, you run hot. Yeah. But seriously, here's what we know. Whoever the running back is, they will be valuable for the 49ers at Kyle Shanahan's team. You got to read the tea leaves.

And, you know, someone call a witch. Right. We just from Robin Hood. You can call them. You don't have to go to their like little cottage in the woods. They've updated, man. Really? They understand. Can you FaceTime a witch? Yeah. 2020 is the year of the witch. So yeah, they're up to date. Is it? Yeah, that's what I've heard. It's like doctor on demand, but a little bit different. They got bills too. They got to figure things out. They got bills to pay. They got new eyes of newt to buy. Yeah. But if you can get.

You know, if you can get the ingredients to the witch, then finding out who the starter is for the 49ers will be really valuable. Okay. That's some good advice. Also, if it's Kevin Coleman, then we know Andy is a witch. That's right. Philip Lindsay, concussion. Hey. Yeah. Nikiel Harry, head injury.

He was probably not on your roster anymore. There were some surprise inactive this past weekend beyond Joe Mix. And Aaron Jones was inactive with a calf injury. He wanted to play. We're learning the lesson. The lesson for Green Bay is if they want to play, but the team doesn't want them to play, they don't show up on the field. I love it. I love it. If you're a Packers fan, you have to be saying, thank goodness that the team is not doing the thing where it's like, get out there, you wimp, play through it. This is like, no, stay healthy. We want to.

play for a championship. Yeah, it worked for Devante Adams. Right, yes. Who was held out. He wanted to play. Stadams. Yeah, Devante Stadams, who was held out. And I believe that was the most yardage of his career. So. Well, and the thing is, is they win the games anyway. I mean, they figure it out. Austin Hooper, we talked about it. The appendectomy was a late inactive, could miss week eight as well. I think we've had this happen in the past. Players have missed one game before. They've missed two games before. More often, too.

Emmanuel Sanders was placed on the COVID list at the last second, and then everybody's favorite sleeper Marquez Callaway went absolutely PPR monster. Yeah, he did. And no, nobody knew that was going to happen. And we did, one small note, we forgot one of the matchups on the Friday shows. Some people were bringing that up. We accidentally somehow, one of the matchups was lost in between Thursday and Friday, and we didn't find it anywhere.

It will be released in the lost episode. But here's what it said. It was the Packer game, and we were going to say start Devante Adams. That's right. And sit Aaron Jones. That's 100% correct. So, I mean, there you go. We should do these afterwards. That is so much easier. Yeah, because then we would not recommend to start Darren Fells like I did. And get a nice fat gooster. Oh my gosh. You know what?

Thank you. The Darren Fells thing was so terrible for you, Mike, because sometimes you make a deft free agent move and you feel like you're the king of the world. And you, on Sunday morning, you picked up Darren Fells League of Record. Hooper had been knocked out for you. Zach Ertz has been knocked out for you. You're like, man, I'm the man here. I just snuck Darren Fells under my roster. And it came down to actually a hard situation or a hard dilemma of like, do I pick up?

Darren Fells, or do I pick up Harrison Bryant's? Yeah, you went with, I picked wrong. You chose poorly. Yeah, I did. All right, before we get to the stud muffins, look, if you want to choose wisely, you want to choose pristine auction for all your sports memorabilia, your entertainment memorabilia. Right now, they have a World Series auction, a special auction dedicated to baseball.

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I guess. Goodness. Joe Burrow, Justin Herbert, getting it done this week. Herbs. Burrough on pace do break the passing yardage record, big herbs, taking care of business. Justin Herbert has been so good. It's unbelievable how good he has been. I love him. I do too. I love him. I love watching him play football. I love any team. Like we talk about Anthony Lynn. The plus is the minuses. This team's had some tough breaks.

Injuries. Anthony Lynn trusting his rookie to throw the ball down the field to Virgil Green and Jalen Guyton and these players is so impressive to me. And it matures Herbert at a faster pace and he's having great success and he's a fantasy football option. Yeah. He has five games. He's a great option. He has five games under his belt.

His 16-game pace, I think you two know how good Justin Herbert's been. I think you'll be blown away. Here's his 16-game pace, 4,934 yards, which would, I believe, Andrew Luck has the record at 4,300 yards. Yes. On pace for 38 touchdowns. On pace for, I believe, nine interceptions. This guy has been un-

believable, and that's adding a pace of 387 rushing yards. He's just been phenomenal. Now, this isn't going to hold up. He's not going to do that for a season. He might not do that next week against Denver, whose defense has been better than I expected. So if you have Herbert, do you look to try to trade him? I'm trying to trade for him. Really? Yeah. I have a, I mean, look, he looks great. He has the weapons. The team is letting him go.

I still have a little bit of a hard time trusting it. Pass the by. I'm in on Herbert. I'm 100% in. The schedule for him is incredible. We'll see how he does against Denver. He does have them in week 16. I'm not scared to play Herbert against the Denver Broncos. But that's really it. That's it. Maybe a game against New England. You could be a little bit worried because their defense comes and goes.

Other than that, there are no scary matchups for Justin Herbert moving forward. Kyler Murray, 34 for 48, 360 and 3, another 67 on the ground on pace for just about 1,000 rushing yards, 16 rushing touchdowns. Going into the buy week, it's Kyler and it's Russ at the very tippy top of the fantasy quarterback list. Kyler has more points, but Russ had the buy. I think Russ is a little bit higher on points per game.

But these are the two, I mean, Kyler's the only quarterback with a, you know, top 10 performance every single week. Right. I mean, it's been unbelievable running the football consistently and the difference that DeAndre Hopkins makes to this offense, having a trusted target. It's been impressive. If you haven't seen the clip of Kyler Murray, so DeAndre Hopkins had a monster touchdown, like it was a 70, I don't know, whatever, a huge touchdown.

When this past week? Yeah, this past week. The Hopkins touchdown was like 30 yards. Oh, it was only 30? Yeah. Okay. But anyway, so they go, they had a great camera shot of Kyler's face. Oh, yeah. And Kyler is, he's scanning around. He sees Hopkins in single coverage and he actually smiles. And like an involuntary smile. Like it just made him so happy. Like a giggle. Like, oh, wow. Here we go. It's, it was.

Like seeing that in real time is unbelievable. That whole play was broken too. That play, the ball was snapped with his, he wasn't even looking at the center. Nobody moved on the offensive line. He turns to the left, throws without the laces, and just drops it in the bucket. I didn't know if that was on purpose or not. Like, was that the design? No, no, no, no. They were all looking to the sideline and it just got screwed up. But delightful. Tom Brady was unbelievable. What I, what you.

liked seeing from Tom Brady, and we said it might take a little bit of time to acclimate, is he's taking the throw that's there. If it's Scotty Miller, cool. Godwin, yep, Evans, I'm not going to throw you the ball until six minutes left in the fourth quarter. Don't care. Gronk? Sure. He's just taking what's there, which is how he's always had success. It's how he's put up prolific numbers in the past. And then, you know, took it to about 1,000 this week.

Joe Burrow, like I said, he's on pace for 4,600 yards. That'll break the record. And he can do it because he's been there since day one. Russell Wilson, another monster week. Kyle the Borgogan pointed out a weird stat quirk about Russell Wilson. He's actually been bad on third down. It's shocking. 44% completion rate, which is 31st on third down, 31st passer rating, 30th on yards per completion because they pretty much just don't have third downs. Well, it's a small sample size.

third downs this season. They just get first downs every first down. That's made up, right? That is made up, of course. Baker five touchdowns and then a bounceback week from Aaron Rogers because Devante Adams has nine to ten yards of separation on every route no matter where he is on the field. So impressive. Big running back weeks, Jeff Wilson, James Robinson. Nice to see from Robinson, right? After he's had a couple of ho-hum weeks, the team has struggled, are you, you know,

Buy, sell, hold. What are you looking at with James Robinson? I'm not buying him after this week, but I'm certainly holding him. I think he's the real deal. I think the workload is going to be there for him. And yeah, so I would be willing, I guess I would be willing to buy if you can buy cheap because of the buy. If, you know, someone who's saying buy on the buy. You buy the buy. Um, down on the bay you.

But yeah, I mean, usually I don't want to, you know, go and pay up for a guy who drops 30 fantasy points and is going to cost you a lot. But if the manager is struggling with bi-week issues and needs to make a move and you can do it at a good value and you've got the time, I believe, my point is I believe in James Robinson for the rest of the season. Yeah, he put my dynasty team on his back this week, won me a week because of the big game. I will let people know.