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to the fantasy footballers podcast. Coming to you from pristineauction.com studios with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Welcome in. It's playoff time. Hey! Hey, hit him with the playoffs. Hey. What's going on? I like that Kyle Rudolph intro. He was so measured.

In his excitement. Me. Just wait for tomorrow. We've got DeKaff Metcalf. And you're listening to the fantasy footballers. Oh, my goodness. You know, I tweeted. DeKaff Metcalf. Yeah, and that one wasn't even Booger. I mean, that was just, uh, it was one time Booger was silent during the entire.

Monday night game. They got to roll with that because that's something I would do. The silent booger? No, I, no, I'm saying the silent booger. No, I'm saying I mess up players names all the time and then it becomes a great moment for the show. Yeah, we got a player nickname. We could have had Decaf Metcalf. Oh, we've got it if we want it. Well, it's not ours. Tessitore. You're right. We never, we never set out to like nickname players that always happened because. Geread Gere was not well thought out. I.

I'm good for 10 to 30 tweets about Booger every Monday night because I never go into Monday night remembering what I'm going to experience. Like I think I'm going to watch Monday Night football, but then I always get punched in the face with the Booger Mobile. Yeah, we had a listener league member that was saying he was over a friend's house, watched the game, and was just thoroughly enjoying it, and then realized halfway through because he was at his friend's house, his friend had the game kind of muted. And so he's like, oh!

Oh, this is why it's going well. I've turned to the corner. Have you gone to the radio? No, I just, the boogerisms are just so wild. You're in. Like much not the way he would probably want me to be enjoying his commentary. I like Kurt Warner. Kurt Warner. The tweet. Yeah, some people said for those of you that hate booger, you can turn on Kurt. You know, Kurt is great with Kevin Harlan. And then he just posted, he goes.

Yeah, this. I mean, the truth is those two guys are amazing. When I'm driving around and I can't watch a game and I'm listening, very good. It doesn't get much better other than the, you know, the NBC Sunday night crew. That's my next favorite. All right. Congrats to those of you now officially in your fantasy playoffs. Indeed. I had a really.

You know, we're in a ton of leagues, too many probably. Yep. And I had a couple leagues where I missed by like one by five points, one by six points. And Jason, you had one league that was super close. Stupid Phillip Rivers. Yes, where you blame one man, not the man who played him, but the man himself. If he doesn't throw that interception, I'm in the playoffs. I know, I know. But I was really excited because my son, my eight-year-old, who just started loving fantasy football.

I got home yesterday, and he had thought he had missed the playoffs. And I get home, and he had done all the math himself on the total points on the season and realized that if Dalvin Cook scored 0.1 points, which seemed pretty good, and Josh Gordon had to catch a pass for 10 yards. And I knew in my heart right then that that was not locked and loaded. I knew, and he just thought he could do it. And he watched with such excitement, and Josh Gordon got one catch.

for 10 yards on his only target of the day. And he won and he made the playoffs. It feels good, man. And he was so excited. The photo you shared of him. I mean, that kid was about to pop. Oh, he was so happy. Yeah. And then I, you know, he woke up this morning and realized that our joint team had missed the listener league playoffs by five points because of Chris Carson. And he was sad again. So he knows the true spirit.

of fantasy, which is... Look at your failures. It's the negative things that happen. They just weigh so much heavier. But congrats to everybody who did make the playoffs. We've got some very exciting weeks ahead. A couple of things at the top here. We are doing a giving Tuesday live stream today to support Stomp Out Bullying. This will be on Facebook live at 530 Eastern, 230 Pacific. That's Facebook.com slash...

The Fantasy Footballers. This is a charity that we partnered with, I think, two years ago on the Giving Tuesday livestream. So we're looking forward to doing that again. Bring your questions. Whatever you've got will be live again. Facebook.com slash the Fantasy Footballers today on behalf of Stompout Bullying. Also, congratulations to the Snood's Megalodon winner. Many of you tweeted your completion of the Megalodon episode.

Chris Martin is the winner of a $100 gift card to... A.k.a. at Bug Jedi. Oh, yeah. That is his handle. Underscore Jedi. Thank you. Sorry, Bug Jedi. $100 to shopballers.com. The bug Jedi. Chris Martin winning that. You can find us on Twitter at the FF Ballers if you wanted to see my very excited, happy playoff bound 8-year-old. I posted the picture at Andy Holloway. Jason's at Jason FFL. Mike is at FF Hitman. Mm-hmm.

And let's kind of weave our way back into the Monday Night Football Recaps, so to speak. It was a very exciting game. There was a lot of fantasy production. You were happy, I think, with what you got out of Russell. It wasn't, you know, top end numbers, but two touchdowns, 240 yards. Both Wilson and cousins saved their fantasy days at basically the end of the game. You had a combined...

What is that? 38 carries between Chris Carson and Rashad Penny. Carson with 23 for 102 and one. Fantastic. Rashad Penny 15 for 74 and one touchdown on the ground. One in, uh, through the air. Oh, fantastic. Fantastic. Decaf Metcalf went, uh, six for 75. Oh, he was full calf. But the real heartbreak came at the expense, you know, anybody with Tyler Lockett. There were tons of people that went into Monday night needing.

A catch. Just anything. I mean, you were better off with Josh Gordon. Zero catches for Tyler Lockett. After the game, it was brought up by Pete Carroll that he was very sick. Eight members of the team were sick with the flu, which I think this hit New England as well. But that don't get you no points, acknowledging that he was sick. He's no Michael Jordan.

Oh, yeah, but it does provide. He was out there, Mike. He didn't take the game off. It does provide at least a little bit of confidence in playing him next week knowing that. I mean, those illnesses that have been going around, they're legit. And I'm glad you brought up New England because we talked about how, you know, I talked about Brady looked old and the team just looked out of sorts. But they literally flew in two separate planes. I mean, that's how sick they were. Separating the healthy from the sick.

It's true. And then really not a lot of fantasy production on the Minnesota side. Stefan Diggs had some drops. Didn't really give you a great game. Cousins 276 and 2 is good. But then Delvin Cook was the story. Nine for 29 and a touchdown. But basically he got hurt. There was some concern he might have fractured the collarbone, something to that extent. Ended up coming back out there. And he says he will definitely be ready for your fantasy playoffs in week 14. We'll see. Yeah.

The player says that. I think he'll be out there. I can't imagine, I mean, eight and four, him back on the bench, not getting treatment. Maybe. Important game. That's where my money's at right now. It's Monday. I mean, sure. It's hard because. It's not Monday, though. They were also. It's also Tuesday. Yeah. Giving Tuesday. But on Monday, they were also in a very important game against the Seattle Seahawks. It's true. Like.

He was talking about, well, you know, it's precautionary. They needed to win that game against Seattle to be in the division race with the Green Bay Packers. So I don't know. You had a pro football doc talking about it, like that Daven Cook has already, he had injured the shoulder in college. Our own Matthew Betts talked about his concern that this is usually a multi-week injury. We need more information, but.

Alexander Madison skyrockets up the priority list, especially if you have Davin Cook. And if you've been listening to our show and you have Davin Cook and don't have Madison already, shame on you. Well, it might be one of those situations where since the majority of our listeners do have Madison. Yes. Cook being active could really, you know, he could be limited. He could be somebody that shares the load. He could re-injure the shoulder.

So there's something to be said about, you know, just a clarity of who to start that we're going to need to get over the week with seeing whether he practices or not. I doubt he practices very much. It's probably going to come down to the weekend. So anything else from the game that you guys wanted to get into? Not really. I think that's Kyle Rudolph keeps getting it done when Adam Thielen's out.

Kyle Rudolph gets it done. But I do think the expectation now is that Thielen will be back. He was so close to being, you know, he was a surprise inactive here. I think he'll be back next week and Kyle Rudolph's run probably over. Do you think Rudolph will ever consider using two hands to catch the football? Why? It looks so much cooler when you do it with the one. I just asking. News and notes from around the league. Presented by Sleeper. All right. We'll fly through these before we get into the waivers.

Adam Gay said Sam Darnold is being evaluated for Bruce Ribs. We'll find out whether he's, you know, he's a pretty good streaming candidate this week, so you hope he's healthy and ready to go. He didn't play like a good streaming candidate last week. Good chance Darrell Williams doesn't play in week 14 running back for the Kansas City Chiefs. This is from Andy Reed. They play the Patriots. You know, when you look at the season and what's happened in Kansas City, and obviously Darwin Thompson's name is going to get brought up today.

The only real happy fantasy owners through the duration of the season with the backfield have been, I think there have been a couple of Damien Williams games, maybe one LaShawn McCoy game. You really haven't had, you can't bank on it, right? This is not the situation in Indianapolis where if only one or two guys are there, you just know they're going to put up a great game. You are taking some risk, and then you throw in the Patriots, and you've got a real.

issue there. So I don't think you ignore Darwin Thompson on the waiver wire, but right now I'm just hesitant to believe that one of those guys is going to give you a, you know, playoff winning week. Julio Jones trending upward to play for week 14. Austin Hooper returning to practice. That's great news. This was not so great news. Frank Reich, quote, hopeful T. Y. Hilton will return this season.

You know, is a fantasy owner going to be confident playing him at all the rest of this year? No. I mean, if you're worried about getting back this season, that means you're not back this week. And then you're going to be in a playoff matchup where he comes back and he has really struggled to get healthy. When he's come back, he's been limited. So, no, I think T.Y. Hilton is someone I would, you know, I would assume I do not have this season. And then Chester Rogers.

fellow Colts wide receiver. He's missing the rest of the season with a fractured knee. Zach Pascal will be brought up once again on the waiver show. Pascal and Doyle. Yep. The last one and I don't, you know, we're going to. We also have the T.J. Hawkinson's on the IR if you hadn't heard that. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. He's on IR. Don't play him. Just, just saying. Okay. Gardner Men, she's going to start this week.