Week 9 Studs & Stinkers + Weekly Rewind, MUSCLE Wilson!

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I'm a grown man. I'm healthy. It's your turn, Mike. It's your turn to get down with the sickness. Well, it's actually Brooks's turn. Brooks is locking that down right now. Monday, November 4th, Halloween is over, but we got tricked this week in plenty. Certainly. Lots going on. We'll get into the stinkers of the week, the fantasy stud muffins. We've got...

injury news. We've got Monday Punday. We've got all the fantasy football reaction of the weekend. We've got starts of the week that we're either very good or the worst of the worst. Sometimes that happens. And we just have to take it on the chin, right? I mean, sometimes you feel really bad at your job. Every now and then. I'll say this because, look, this is recorded.

You know what I mean? We can't get away with nothing here. We put it out there. We get things right. We get things wrong. We get things right more than we get things wrong. But when you get something wrong, it's the only thing you remember. Yeah. It actually, if it makes you feel better out there, Fookland, we melt into the couch with sadness when that happens. When Alan Robinson catches one pass. Or when DJ Chark and Chris Conley.

Had Gardner Minchew. Went out for tea in the midst of their game in London. It's the only explanation. So there were, I mean, there were good starts, but sometimes, I mean, you should see us around the studio. Sometimes you're like, okay, well, all right, that started that we didn't work out. But he didn't kill you. That's how we comfort ourselves so that we can sleep at night. Right. And then sometimes they kill you. And sometimes you don't sleep. That's true. So we've got a lot of reaction from the weekend. I have some takeaways that I think are.

going to be helpful for those of you going into the fantasy playoffs. I'm sure my cohorts here have some as well. Let's go ahead and jump into Monday Punday, get sophisticated to start the show. We put it out on Twitter. I believe when I checked this morning, there were 666 replies to the tweet, which made me feel very scared. But let's do it. Oh, yes.

Yes, Christian McCary me. He sure has. Fantasy MVP for sure. Oh, here's a bad one. Phony Michelle. Oh, come on. One trick, Sony. Eh. Gardner Minch. Ew. Or Gardner Minpoo. Gardner Minpoo. Gardner Minpoo with his wide receiver DJ chart. Yes, yes.

Sometimes you gamble and loose. Oh, let's keep it going on the same theme. Devon Tard Adams. Monday poop day. What's happening? Key Nunn, Alan. Oh, goodness. Jacoby regret. Oh, the guy got, he got stomped on. Yeah, he's got something emcellish. What did I call that when Mahomes got it? Oh, man, what did you? Curplunk, yes. Whoa, a fant. Muscle Wilson. I like that one.

D.K. second half. All right. I not like that one. Danny Amindola. Ooh, here's a sad one. Robbed. Robbed me Anderson. Yes. More like robbed me aganderson. Over and over. Jonu myth. That's pretty good. And Jason. Yeah, I got this one. Deshaun Jack Squaw.

Oh, so, there were lots and lots and lots of very good ones. It's a good way to get it out. You notice, though, the Monday Punda is a perfect psychological microcosm of fantasy football because 80% of them are about what went wrong. You always remember. I mean, this is, you know, a psychological scientific.

truth too show to show as well you know there's there's studies talk about how you remember things that happened bad so much more yeah you know tom brady has six rings and he remembers the ones that he lost you know the helmet catch um and things like that stick with you more so you know that that stinks it's true it's true we've got a lot to get into today i encourage you to check us out on youtube

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We mentioned on Friday we knew Josh Gordon would find a new home. He found a good one. He ended up in Seattle. Josh Gordon claimed off of waivers from the Patriots by the Seattle Seahawks. Pass is physical. Hopes to play Monday night against the 49ers. That does not seem like a great place to start Josh Gordon on your lineup. But I said a lot of things on the show about Josh Gordon. The things he was up against to be relevant in fantasy football.

And I can't imagine a better landing spot than a team that has Russell Wilson that's willing to push the ball down the field, escape the pocket, do some of the things that they do on offense. Wilson is arguably the NFL MVP. He's the leader in touchdown passes. He just came off a monster week. And Josh Gordon gets to replace David Moore or, you know what I mean? Like he is a significant improvement.

over the replacement. As you see, I'm glad you brought it up like that because he is certainly, if Pete Carroll's anything, he's a loyalist. He's not going to punish D.K. Metcalf, who by the way, number three fantasy receiver this week, evolving every week, part of their future. He's not going to punish Tyler Lockett. He's going to use Josh Gordon and it's going to be at the expense of Jerome Brown, David Moore, you know.

help with Will Disley out. You saw Hollister catch two touchdowns this week. Gordon has the opportunity to have splash games. But much like any player in this offense, it will come on the efficiency of Russell Wilson. How do you feel about the signing? I mean, I was shocked that he got that far, as were the Seahawks. You know, they were shocked. They were 28th in the list, and they got to him. So all the teams that, you know, you thought.

might claim him, you know, everyone wanting him to go to the Eagles. They could have teams avoided it. They did their due diligence and decided against it. But I think it's good for Seattle. I do wonder. It's good for Russell. It's great for Russell. He's who it's best for, just another solid weapon. I do wonder going forward if it's a little bit of a negative for D.K. Metcalfe because they both have that similar skill set of just being a...

monstrous human being that can go down the field, catch a jump ball. So maybe now those get split a little bit, but it's too early to tell. Yeah, I can agree with that. I also find it, is it wrong of me to be rooting for like this strategic play that the Patriots made was to wait for the trade deadline, release him into waivers so that they could avoid him at all costs.

going to a contender. Is it bad for me to really, really root for Seattle, New England to meet now in the Super Bowl and Josh Gordon to get to make a triumphant return? No, that'd be awesome. That'd be pretty fun. All right, this sucked. Adam Thielen re-injured the hamstring in the first quarter of week nine. He fully goosed your fantasy team. Oh, he goosted my listener league team where I lost by less than a point. He was close to coming back on the short week last week.

So we expected him back this week. And because of that, I, you know, if I had, if I had Adam Thielen, I started him. And I think most people did. Yeah. And that sucked. And so now when he comes back for the first time, which he'll probably miss. I mean, usually when people reaggravate an injury, it's a little bit longer timeline. And now you're going to have a really hard time trusting that start. So this is, this is terrible news for Adam Thielen owners.

Yes, it is, Jason. Terrible news for Deshaun Jackson owners, finally active, aggravated his abdomen injury. Don't worry. He'll be good in a couple weeks. Well, yeah, and you don't know what's what. Doug Peterson said basically they pulled him precautionary-wise. He said he felt something, pulled him, examined him, said he's okay. A couple weeks is what Doug Peterson's saying. But at this point,

They've got their bi-week. He's just destroying your fantasy. Do they know the season's almost done? Well, they've got the bi-weeks. Then they've got the New England Patriots. So, I mean, you're not going to play in the next two weeks. It's really tough, though. You know, if he were to come back for that playoff stretch of Miami, the Giants, the Redskins, I mean, that'd be great, but you just can't keep holding him forever, right, and hurt your roster. I mean, I talked to all in the offseason about...

not drafting Karim Hunt because it's a detriment to your team to hold someone that's taking up a bench spot. And that's, that's what Dijax has been all year. I think you probably need to move on. Yeah, I'd rather like, I'd, I'd rather have my handcuff than Deshaun Jackson. Alshan Jeffrey tweaked his ankle in the fourth quarter. Carson Wentz is crying in the corner of a room somewhere. Jacoby Brissette exited with a knee injury.

It has been diagnosed. It's a sprained left MCL. Oh, so we don't have the MCL-ish injury comments anymore? No, it is. They have dropped the ish. Okay. That's always good to know what you're dealing with. So we'll see if he's able to return. It could be a, what, a couple weeks, potentially? Yeah, probably. You know, call me crazy. I don't think Brian Hoyer is a bad backup anymore than...

uh, Jacoby Brissette is. So I don't, I don't expect the Colts to necessarily miss a beat, depending on the other injuries they're dealing with T.Y. Hilton and, and, um, you know, if, if Hilton is out. Kelly. Right. Their center. Uh, can Brian Hoyer spin the ball laces out potentially? Oh, goodness.

That was unfortunate. Have you never seen Ace Ventura? Yes, that is one of the more instructional videos that they show NFL holders. I've never taken a snap. It might shock people. I've never taken a professional snap in the NFL. All right. Good to know. But if I'm the holder, I am very, very aware it's laces out. Well, it was great because he spun it.

laces in yeah like it wasn't he caught it laces out exactly whoops let me fix this i've been told to spin it i've got money riding on them uh maybe that just gives adam vintry a nice excuse for the shankopodontas yeah that's the thing is like there's no way those laces made the ball go that far to the left right i've always wondered that where you hear the kickers they want they don't want to kick into the laces but