Tough Decisions + Week 7 Buy/Sell, TNF Preview - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/21

Yeah, and they're on by this week. I mean, we talked about them in the Waver Wire show yesterday. You can drop them if need be. You don't need to because he's a running back that is on a good running team. I want to believe that the way they diagnose the week, like how many weeks you miss is they take out like a tape measure. And they say, where's the sprain? Point to the sprain. And they measure from the ground up. That's right. Each inch is a week. Yeah. So mid to high, this is probably two to three inches up from the ankle. Christian McCaffrey's was.

I mean, that thing was approaching the knee. I was going to ask you, where does the ankle become the kind of leg? On the knob. You can go ankle all the way up to the knob? I'm saying that's where you start the measurement, right on the. Oh, the bottom knob. I thought you were calling a knee, a knob. No, that would be ridiculous. But where does the ankle knob? Where does the ankle stop, I'm asking? Like your ankle doesn't go all the way up to like your thigh. I mean, you ever.

You ever had a sprain bad enough? Is that a super high ankle sprain? It's a quad contusion is a super high ankle sprain? What we did not mention on the waiver show, if you're heading into the weekend, let's say you can drop bench players and you're looking for someone to stash. This is absolutely, you have a complete burner spot going into Sunday. Throw Gus Edwards on the back of your bench because if Mark Ingram misses next week, which we don't know if that's actually going to happen or not,

then Gus Edwards will be in play. And he'll be considered a hot waiver pickup next week. Yeah, they trust him a little bit more than they do. J.K. Dobbins, Dobbins, has more big playability. But they trust the Gus bus. And he can get it done. He can. All right, Christian McCaffrey with the high ankle sprain. We'll miss his fifth straight game in week seven has a shot to return in week eight against the Falcons. Now, Jason, you mentioned...

Oh, yeah. Thank you. I don't know how this happened. I had heard, I think, on Twitter about a week 9 buy for Christian McCaffrey, but that's not true at all. I remember in the preseason time looking at the week 13 buy that a couple of teams have because some leagues, that's when playoffs start, and that's when Christian McCaffrey's buy is. So hopefully you do get at least one more game before week 10. The week 8 is a Thursday night game.

So that's kind of advantageous in this situation. You already know he's out for week seven and week eight. You're going to know, you know, ahead of the weekend. So continue to wait on Christian McCaffrey. And this is not breaking news to anybody with eyeballs. But Sean McDermott admitted John Brown not 100%. I mean, the first play, he's hobbled. It seems like every fifth route he runs, he comes up limping. This has been persistent. This has been re-agravated in practice multiple times.

They need to let him rest. In, you know, the last couple weeks without him, it's not been the same in that offense, in the passing game. All right, a reminder, your waiver claims went through today, most likely. Drop it like it's hot. Drop it like it's hot. Make sure you check and see who was dropped for those waiver pickups by your league mates and maybe somebody that is on by, perhaps.

Perhaps. Sliped through and you can grab them, and then you can kind of laugh and cackle when you... A good hearty cackle. Yes, a hearty cackle. It's cackle season. As they say. All right, we're going to get into the Thursday night preview, some mailbag questions. Before we do that, I want to thank today's sponsor. You're familiar. It's quip. Quip it. You got to quip it. They are here to keep us on track. They deliver those oral care essentials to you.

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Close. It's a tight race. It was an incredible realization when Arizona defeated the Cowboys to move to 4 and 2, the Cowboys dropping to 2 and 4 and much closer to a division championship than the Cardinals were. Well, yeah, because they're in first, all alone in first after the drubbing.

All right, so as Mike would say, we're ready for a real barn burner? Yes. The New York Giants at one in five take on the Philadelphia Eagles with a much better record at one four and one. Eagles are four-point favorites. It's a 43 point over under. A reminder, take your Thursday night players out of the flex. I'm playing Devanta Freeman in this game. Okay.

So he's in my running back position, not a flex position. You got a buy week. I got a Jonathan Taylor buy week. I got to get somebody into my lineup. And I got to hope that Daniel Jones throws him the ball. But it's only a 43 point over under. There aren't great expectations here from a scoring perspective. Lots of injuries and ineptitude to go around so far this year. However, looking at the quarterback position, you know, Carson wins is an option. Who will he throw it to? I don't know.

Travis Fulgum. Will he win? Probably, maybe. It's rough. They're an option. Yeah, I mean, Carson Wins. So many options. Carson Wins is an option because he has ended up a fantasy option. I mean, that's why. 11, 12, and 4. Three out of the last four weeks. He's been a top 12 quarterback. Yeah, I believe he's Jason's stream of the week. And I'm with it. There's a couple leagues where, you know,

I've been living that stream life with Ryan Thick Patrick, and now I've got to move on because he's on to buy week, and he has also been sent to the bench. Carson Wins is an absolute fine option this week, despite dead last and completion percentage. That's not all on Carson Weds. Some of it definitely is. Unfortunately, Miles Sanders is expected to be out. Could they just rule him out? Yes, of course they could. Oh, no.

I know where that's coming from. Yeah. Somebody's got a questionable tag on one of your platforms. Yeah, that would be correct. Our waivers are about to run in five minutes. It'll be great if I had that extra spot for a player. Everyone in the world knows is not going to play, but we can't rule him out just yet. He might just play. So, uh, Wince is an option. Miles Sanders will be out. Great. Scott. Is it though? This is the big.

Talking point is Boston Scott will be the next man up for the Philadelphia Eagles. He has utilized in the passing game. He saw four targets last week. He saw nearly 50% or he was on the field for nearly 50% of the snaps for the Eagles. But man, Jason, you were the OG Boston Scott guy. Where's your confidence level in this matchup for Boston?

Ah, man, it's not very high. He hasn't looked good this season specifically as a running back. He's always fine as a receiver. He's a nice scatback option. And, you know, the Eagles really, really...

need receiving options. So I do expect the Boston Scott will be fine. I put him very similar to Devons Freeman on the other side of the ball. I feel like the matchup is better for Boston Scott. The, you know, the Giants are giving up more fantasy points to the running back, whereas the Eagles have been very stout with a very good defensive line there. But you will have Corey Clement involved in this game. He's not going to just come in and have the Miles Sanders role. And Boston Scott's, you know, a little...

Itty-bitty guy out there. So I think you're talking about low, low-end RB2s, maybe only a flex option for both of the running backs. Week one, Boston Scott was the leader of the backfield for Philadelphia against Washington because Miles Sanders started the season with an injury. That turned into 11 opportunities. That's not great. And it was nine carries and two targets. With waivers going through today.

With the Thursday night game, you have to make a decision on Boston Scott. I mean, everybody has to make that decision. Do you believe that there's upside there or not? Mike, you gave the example. He had an opportunity earlier this year. I made the decision. Look, I have DeVanta Freeman. Am I going to spin Fabb on the difference from Devanta Freeman to and maybe Boston Scott? I feel like Boston Scott has the higher ceiling and the lower floor. Yeah. And so I just went with Freeman. I didn't even bother putting in a bid. I'm not even going to mess around with Boston Scott. Is he going to get 11 opportunities to?

15. I don't know. I agree. The matchups better for whoever is the running back in Philadelphia. But let me bring up some of the more common starts-it questions with Boston Scott because everybody's going to decide tonight. Maybe you picked them up on waivers and you're saying, hey, Boston Scott or Antonio Gibson against Dallas. Gibson. Yep. That's not close. Boston Scott or Justin Jackson against Jacksonville. Justin Jackson. Yep.

Boston Scott or Jerich McKinnon against New England. Jerich McKinnon. That one's much closer to me. You doubt McKinnon so much. He does not doubt McKinnon. He hates McKinnon. The core is just, he doesn't like, I think he got a bad email.

From him. Is that what happened? Do you get a bad, you get a one star? One star review from Jericho. I have no problem with Jerich McKinnon. He cannot, from what I understand, McKinnon, like most players, he can't actually produce fantasy points if the ball's not in his hand. So if they don't give him the ball enough, that is true. That is one of the concerns. We've been down the road before with him, and I've been a little bit back off of him in the week when he was a must start for everybody else. I'm there again. If.

The depth chart changes later in the week, which you won't have the flexibility if you start Boston Scott to figure that out. You won't know whether, you know, Jeff Wilson's in the lineup. If you want to wait on McKinnon, that's fine. He has New England. It's not a good matchup. McKinnon, I think, will do almost nothing on the ground. So that might be the same as Boston Scott tonight. It's very close to me is what I said. I did not say I hated Derek McKinnon. No, we put those words. We put those words in your mouth. Yeah. So you're not playing Boston Scott in. Oh, no. I'm, look, I'm.

I'm really hoping you guys don't put waiver claims in on Boston because I desperately need him on my team right now. Did you hear me talk about Dearnis Johnson? And LaMichael P. Ryan? In my starting lineup? Will you give the listeners the update when our waivers go through a couple moments here? I will do that. And also can you tell us since we're not going to place any more bids? What did you, with that running back rotation in the league where you're sitting three and three? That is correct. And you need a win and you've got La Michael P. Ryan and Deeris Johnson. I'm guessing you spent up a little bit.

Well, I spent up as much as I could because, well, Dearest Johnson took all my fab and threw it into a furnace. First off, I think I was, I think I ended up at like 16 or something and that was really all I could do. I'm, I'm going through yet. I'm imagining that they're going through right now. I'm going to predict you don't get them. I will predict that as well. But I did not bid on him. So good luck, Mike. And so week one, Bossess Scott had those 11 opportunities. But Jason, you mentioned him. Corey Clement.