Week 8 Matchups + Chase Injury, Busted! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/28

Where do you have T. Higgins? Is he a top 12 play? Yeah, a top 10 play. Top 10. Yeah, I would have him as a top 10 option. He is, like Andy said. He is a wide receiver one in real life. He's only the wide receiver two on his team because of Jamar Chase, who's now gone. So you have the number one target, the clear number one target, a talented player for Joe Burrow for a Bengals team coming off a Super Bowl that looks like they could get back to a Super Bowl. So I'm fully in on T. Higgins and I'm quite a bit in on Tyler Boyd through this next month-long stretch. And mixing keeps dealing with touchdown issues. Joe Burroughs scored three straight times.

on the ground, so three straight weeks. So that's been a problem, but Mix-in has been still pretty good for fantasy purposes, got in the end zone last week. Hayden Hurst is a good play, but he's got a groin and ankle injury. McGroin. Yeah, I mean, his targets will go up without Jamar Chase as well, and he's been relevant enough to be in the mix for a streaming option. The other side of the ball. I think the real big, interesting question here is Kareem Hunt. Mike and I were looking at the utilization of the fact that he's, even though the last two weeks have been just... The touches are way down. Yeah, he's not touching the ball much. He's actually playing the same amount of snaps. Stefanski came out and talked about...

Like, it was bad luck. Like they're not trying to go away from him. And so I believe it more because of the fact that the snap counts kind of backed that up. So whatever Kareem Hunt was doing before, I expect him to touch the ball a similar amount. But it's a bad, bad matchup this week. The Bengals defense is very good. And, you know, Cincinnati's favored by three on the road here. There's a couple teams, Cleveland, Denver, that if they lose this week, I'm pretty sure they're fire sailing some of these players. I mean, Judy Hunt will be. Oh, Bengals. I mean, I think those guys are gone. Oh, man. If the Bengals can beat the Browns and Kareem Hunt can go to a good offense that wants to give him the ball 20 times a game, let's go. Keep your eye on Harrison Bryant. I wouldn't play him, but you can keep your eye on him in a less likely situation, you know, like a.

Necessary Mr. Necessary Situation. Donovan People's Jones as well without David and Joku. Donovan People's Jones has been more involved. Mike said it last week. And then he had six more targets, caught all six of them. Been over 70 yards three or four weeks. Harrison Bryant was, he was only a fourth round pick because he was coming out of a smaller school. But he was a very interesting prospect and award winning tight end. I am keeping an eye on him that with those tendencies of Jacoby Preset, does that just kind of keep moving, moving forward where David and Joku was, he was very involved in the offense. Do they completely shift away from that? Or do they get Bryant 5 plus targets? Mike and I are starting Harrison Bryant in our Dynasty League. We don't have really a choice. I wouldn't be super excited, but hey, let's root for him. But we'll be watching.

Well, ranking starts it too on the website, the fantasy footballers.com. Oh, I'm so excited. It's time. Fantasy face off, presented by Draft Kings. What a delightful week it is, one in which I won and did not lose, and Mike lost and did not win. I'm very excited. I'm happy. Are you? You're looking forward to this. I am just happy for you. Thank you. Because. Had the record-setting streak continued yet again, we may have lost you for the season. Do I get like any sort of like immunity for multiple weeks because my team scored 200? No. No, you don't. Just going for that. All right, let's do it, Mike. You ready for this wheel? Bring it to me. Wheel of shame. All right. Spin the wheel. This should be fun. Spin that wheel of shame. All right.

Uh, banana face safety first. Joe Dirt. Joe Dirt. And. Oh, Busted. Wait, am I Rob? Are you are busted, Mike. Oh, busted. Oh, no. You're in big trouble. Okay. So they are bringing me handcuffs. Well, that's not all. Those are the last step. No, no, no, no, Jason. Hold on. Oh, hold on. Let him put on the rest of his hands. Let him put on the rest of his. put on his outfit. You are busted for committing some sort of crime, Mike. My lineup was a crime last week. Yeah, it was. And no joke, bro. What an idiot. Get your ski mask on.

Oh, boy. Oh, yeah, this is everything I dreamed of. All the hair coming out there. You need to put your gloves on because otherwise you're not busted. The hair is a real situation right now. Oh, I was going to go away. You got the gloves first here. We got, he can't see. He can barely breathe. I don't think you'd be a good robber, Mike. You know, well, usually if I was going to rob a place, I would have this. I'd have more time, and I wouldn't be doing this live. Oh, I mean, your hair is not conducive for a ski mask. Nor is my beard. All the hair popping out of the few eye holes and mouth hole. Can we get Rob Grancowski, Rob Grancowski saying busted again? Do we have that? In a second. Okay. Well, not so tight there, friend. Goodness gracious. Okay, I'm in. Oh, this is wonderful.

Let's kick off our lineups. Oh, you look so dumb. I'm going with Daniel Jones at quarterback. But I feel great. So, Daniel Jones. 5,700 against Seattle. Wait, what's on this Daniel Jones? Just the floor talk. Well, no, it's extremely risky, but he's extremely cheap compared to the options I like more. What's his price? 5,700. Okay. So look, if I could have afforded it with the rest of this roster, I actually would have gone to it. But I had to make some choices. And Daniel Jones has. a bad floor that could cost me the week, but he has a rushing upside that could help me. So I'm going that direction. All right. I paid up. I did it. And I put in Jalen Hertz, even though he was 8,300 in this week's lineup. See how expensive that is? It is very, very expensive. I had to go with some cheap options elsewhere for sure. But, you know, usually in these cash game lineups, whoever has the best quarterback ends up usually winning. Boston.

Mike, you're up. I paid the lowest price of any of us because I went with Andrew Dalton. We're live here, three different quarterbacks. Hold on at 5,500 against the Las Vegas Raiders who have not yet, not yet allowed anybody to finish outside of the top 10 at the quarterback position. One thing that I was able to do with Daniel Jones at the quarterback position was load up on big boys. Derek Henry, Saquan, Barclay. Oh, no. Derek Henry and Saquan, 8,400, 8100, both guys in my lineup against Houston and Seattle. This beard situation is just all. The Derek Henry play is great. One of those could be a slate breaker if he goes for 204, which he's capable of doing. I as well have Saquan Barclay. I've got another big boy there at 8100, and I have Tony Pollard at 6,100 against the Chicago Bears.

I have D'Andre Swift in his return at 6,800 in that matchup against the Miami Dolphins. I really like that matchup as potential for a shootout. And then I have the new King Kenneth Walker at 6,500 against the New York Giants. The matchup isn't great. However, if you look at the line on Draft King's Sportsbook, Ken Walker's rushing prop is 79.5, while Barclays is 83.5, and yet Kenneth Walker is thousands cheaper. All right, at wide receiver. It's going to be interesting. I went with Jalen Waddle at 6,700. Okay. He is listed as questionable. If for some reason he was declared out, I have Devante Smith as a pivot. Wondale Robinson for 4,700 is locked into my lineup. And George Pickens for 4,700 is my other wide receiver. So you've got the triple giant stack, right? I do. Daniel Jones, Saquan, Barclay, Wondale Robinson. I have Wondale Robinson as well at 4,700.

alongside him another $4,700 wide receiver, had to do this thanks to Jalen Hertz up top, which is George Pickens, hoping that with Kenny Pickett. Didn't really listen to my life? No. Why? When he said he had George Pickens? Oh, I did not listen to that part. Yeah, I noticed. I know you're distracted by the masked man with the beard flowing through his mouthhole? With all the, the. hair that's popping out of the places it shouldn't be. I'm real comfortable, though. Thanks for asking. And my wide receiver one is Chris Olave. Only $6,000. Seems very under value there. You know I got Chris Olive if I got Andy Dalton in there. So I got that stack rolling. Then I have the new improved. He's back baby. DeAndre Hopkins at 7,400 against the Minnesota Vikings. Let's get 10 plus targets. And then I'm riding the snake.

with DJ Moore. Yeah. Coming in at 5300 against the Atlanta Falcons, the absolute juiciest of matchups for wide receivers. Let's see if Walker can do it one more week. Wow. That's impressive. My flex is Tony Pollard at 6,100. Me too. So we all have Tony Pollard. Yeah. And then my tied in Noah Fant at 2800, trying to make up for the absence of DK Metcalf there, very cheap. And I went with the Panthers defense against Atlanta at 2800. I have the Manders defense against the Sam Ellinger-led Colts. My flex is Rahim Mostert, only down at 5,900 against Detroit. Should be a smash plan. I went with Irv Smith Jr. only $3,500 against that Arizona Cardinals team that gives up a lot to the tight-in position. Yeah, I went back and forth with, do you go Tony Pollard to Rahim Mostert, but I stuck with Tony Pollard.

because I, you know, I respect the game and I didn't want to have a late change there. Unlike some people in this room. This was my lineup yesterday. And they're tight in. I got Mike Gassicki at 3,800. See if we can get some correlation there with that Miami Detroit game. All right. That was Fantasy Faceoff presented. And I have to be quiet there, sir. You are under arrest. That was Fancy Faceoff presented by Draft King Sportsbook. Download the Draft King Sportsbook app right now and use the promo code Ballers to get $200 in free bets instantly when you place a $5 bet on any football game. That is the code ballers only at Draft King's Sportsbook. By the way, the report that we have on Ezekiel Elliott being out that comes from 105.3, the fan, their Twitter handle through an interview with Jerry Jones, who is generally...

tied into what is happening on Sunday morning. But that is the report that we had on Zeke missing the game. So there you go. Also, the Halloween show. It is going to be a spectacular event. It is Monday. Which is unfortunate because I'm dressing as a burglar. On Monday? Oh, boy. Yeah, you blew my big surprise. Boston. Yeah. So that'll do it for today's episode of the podcast. Thank you for tuning in supporting the show. Thank you for your reviews. And to everybody at Jointhefoot.com for supporting this independent podcast. Mike, say goodbye. Time to escape. Goodbye. Thank you for listening to another episode of the Fantasy Footballers podcast. Join our fantasy football community on Jointhefoot.com. And follow us on Twitter at the FF ballers.