Week 5 Matchups + Cowboy Collapse, Wheel of Shame - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/9

Welcome to the fantasy footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. Friday, October 9th, the fantasy footballers podcast. That little bit of levity here in the air, it's just eye rolls and conundrums from Thursday night football. That game, that game was, what? If people...

The game was a... Look, it was a disaster, but it wasn't at the exact same time. No, it was a good game. Like, I was over here pleading, begging George Pickens to have a big game. Oh, I accidentally cleared my board here to see your prediction. We're pretty close, though. His prediction, I want to say, was like 7 for 115 and a touchdown. There was something right around there, and he ended up 9 for 130 in a touchdown. It's pretty good. So I wanted George to have a great game.

But not at the expense of everybody else on the Cowboys. I mean, this was, I think, the first time an O and Four team won on the road against somebody since 1975. Won't be the last time this week. The Cowboys. So Pickens had eight targets, four catches, 63 yards in the first three quarters. They went to him immediately. In the fourth quarter when C.D. Lamb went out. Five catches. 67 yards in a touchdown in that span.

You know, you followed up a week where C.D. Lamb had 21 targets and 17 catches with a week where they barely had the football. The only time Dallas had the football and had drive, C.D. was out, and the report was quad contusion. He got hit in the quad in the same spot that he got hit last week. He's got 10 days to recover. They're not expecting, you know, that's not going to be a salve for your fantasy team because C.D. ended up with two catches for nine yards. But Pickens had a big game. Javante saved his day with a touchdown.

The story of the night, Bucky Irving. Holy crap. Yeah, I mean, it was just like the, dude. 21, 165. I mean, and two touchdowns. You can, it's fair. Yes, Bucky's the story is the Dallas defense. Not only did it not improve, it may be worse. Which is awesome. That was, well, I know. It's awesome as long as Dak Prescott doesn't look like a pumpkin, which you did last night.

He looked like he forgot. He forgot how to throw with any accuracy. And then he had two drops, the two that he actually puts on to people. Ferguson. He was awful. Dak was awful because the throws he was making their back foot, they were skittish and scared. It was a terrible game. But the Dallas defense, like, if you want to know why it isn't good for the offense, last night's the perfect example. They were a terrible defense last night and the offense sucked.

because they gave up a 11-minute drive to Bucky Irving and, you know, Jason's superstar J-Lon Daniels. Oh, that's right. I knew what I was doing, picking up J-Lon, Daniels. Yeah, I will say this. Since we're talking about the Cowboys defense, we need to give a little bit of credit as well to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers defense. Going into last night, prior to them pretty much shutting down the Cowboys for the vast majority of the game, they were top 10 against quarterback's top 10 against running backs top 10.

against wide receivers. They have been a good defense. You don't think of that when they're an 0 and 4 team. That's a good point because Todd Bowles, that's the one thing he's always been able to do is kind of scheme up a defense. That probably had a lot to do it. It looked like Dak was under pressure a lot. He couldn't settle into the pocket. He missed CD wide open for a bomb touchdown, which I've rewatched a lot of times. And it was because he was, you know, skittish in the pocket.

But Bucky, 21 for 165 and 1, caught a touchdown pass, scored twice from within the six. Dude. This is so comforting for those who have been hearing Kenny Gainwell, Sean Tucker talk. Because that's what it has been. The hilarity of last week where it's like Sean Tucker, did he score last week? Yeah, he did. Like the short yard is just Sean Tucker. And then we leave the game and Robinson is like.

We got to figure out how to get Gainwell and Tucker the Ballmore. And they're like, Sight is Bucky Irving inside the five. I mean, he was on fire and they stuck with him, which is what a good offensive coordinator does. Yeah, you had to. I mean, his big 72-yard run was not what it usually is. When you watch an NFL game and someone has a 72-yard run, it is almost always a lane opens up and a guy explodes. This was not.

This was, Bucky's like, oh, I'm stuff. It was Frogger. It was, it was completely frogger. He's just jumping to the left, jumping to the right. With going all the Cowboys jumping, diving into an empty spot that he just moved out of that. I mean, it was all Bucky. So he looked fantastic. A couple, you know, going into last year's draft, he was, I think, ADP, like the running back seven, which felt maybe higher than what his ceiling.

should be at that point, and obviously he disappointed, had a bad injury. That's actually crazy to look back on. I didn't realize it was that high. Yeah, and so now it's like that's, he looks like what he looked like coming out of his rookie season. It's the gap is wildly different from Gainwell to Bucky Irving or from Toronto to Bucking Irving. Yeah, I mean, Gainwell got four carries. Chris Godwin got a carry. The Bucca got a carry. So they're not like, this isn't a timeshare. No, it was, uh,

It was a big game for Todd Bulls because if he blew it at the end of that one, he was probably saying goodbye to this team. They tried. Well, it was nonsensical what happened. Dude, I am, I am all for. You're Mr. Go For. I am destroy. Just snuff the flame. Everything. No chance. You're on the one. And even I'm like, that's a three-score game, though. If you just kick it, then they have to score.

two touchdowns and something else like that you just take the points yeah but also you got to be able to get a yard and they almost blew it abuka got into the end zone not through the air but on the ground on an end around run 14 yards but he had his first double digit scoring day probably

the first one since you benched him or something out there. But I mean, he hasn't scored double digits since, I believe, week 10 last season. So it's been a minute, and I wouldn't doubt if people did bench him considering Baker's gone. Oh, I would have benched him. And so, yeah, they just need a Baker out of the way. And Jaylon Daniels to come in here and set up scoring opportunities. The Baker might be back soon, by the way. They were talking on the broadcast a little sooner than expected. Like, if Ferguson doesn't cause that interception at the end of the game.

With the way that the momentum was going, Dallas was going to score. Absolutely. And even before. Because he was wide open when he caused an interception, by the way. Yes. They would have been at like the 12 on first down. Also, Duran Bland dropped a game, a potential game tying pick six. It was like Dallas did everything they could to lose this game. Papa Josh could have caught that thing. Well, it's not. Yeah, I've seen stone hands out there.

You couldn't take handoffs. Wait, was that the nickname? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Only because of the catching was like stones trying to catch a football. It's better than lobster claw is all I'm going to say. Okay, I know who that is. All right, it's Friday. Put Clan Friday. Yeah, we had one guy that would catch, you would catch kind of like. I call that the seal clap. Yeah, it was more of a seal clap attempt. Yeah.

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It was unfortunate because he would have been, you know, he would have had three or four catches on those drives. Sure. Bruised quad, not long term. I guess it was a bruised quad from the week before. You saw him come into the game a couple times, like on the goal line for the two-point conversion because he didn't have to sprint down the field. But the nice thing is... And easily would have got the two-point conversion if DAC was not being such a dumb-dum that game. That looked incapable of throwing an accurate pass. That was weird. That was so disappointing. But long extended, you know,

Time to get better for him. All right. You guys ready for all these injuries? I mean, Mike was just talking this morning. Yes. I don't know if you want to talk about that. We were complaining a little bit about the nature of injury reporting right now. It's so. With first to market versus first accurate to market. It is so completely broken. We have, we've already had multiple instances this year of, of people, of somebody reporting, hey, this person's, they're practicing limited.

And because of the way that fantasy football and social media works, you're like, okay, this starts then spreading around. You're like, okay, that's what happened. So why would I need to go back and double check that? Because it's like, you know, you know who was practicing on, what was it, Thursday or Wednesday? It was like T. Higgins was practicing. No, he wasn't. He got marked as a, he did not practice. You know who was practicing yesterday? Stefan Diggs. Actually, no, he was on the side with the trainer and now he's not going to practice today.

We got to get it together. Beat reporters. We rely on you for good, accurate information. We cannot be at every camp. It's so broken right now and so frustrating how the stuff is happening. I will say the Friday Injury Blitz podcast that we have will come before the weekend. Matthew Betts puts that together. He waits for the official injury reports to come out so that we kind of know actually what's going on versus.

What's just being kind of talking about. This is perfection. Thank you for finding this, Matt. Matt just sent a screenshot of we have a tweet from. Yeah, let's just mention both. This is a tweet from Underdog saying Remandre Stevenson, Knee officially limited in practice. And then a tweet from 30 seconds later from Rotowire, Remandre Stevenson Knee was officially listed as a non-participant in Wednesday's practice. Both cannot be true, people.

Come on, man. Here's the problem, and I agree. I can't do it. I'm not there. The injury blitz is great on Friday to get the full information that you need. But fantasy is like by nature supposed to be something you quickly react to to to make moves and things. So it's just frustrating, I think, to not have the most reliable information all the time because people want to be first instead of right. Official injury report, just for clarity on that one, since the Ramandre. For Ramandre was limited participant Wednesday and Thursday.

goodness gracious man okay all right uh devante that was that was supposed to be the easy part was us getting the new in like the official part and then the suffering was the oh man this guy's hurt well here's eagle injury updates for you dantavian wicks added the injury report with a hamstring devante smith did not practice hamstring doing rehab on the side sequin barclay not expected to play with a hamstring so triple yoohoo

in Eagles country. This is such the game that the Eagles, like I'll tell you right now in our pick them. They end up winning? I picked them. Really? I did. Because the defense is just going to step up and. It's just the kind of slog in London that, you know, Jacksonville, we'll see. I don't know. It's just a gut feeling. Kyle Munungai, turf toe injury, playing, basically his playing status uncertain.

for the next one to two weeks. I guess he's been dealing with this. It was a DMP on Wednesday and Thursday. I don't think it's a guarantee. I don't know. Okay. That's not going to be helpful. But they did say he had been dealing with some injuries, been playing through them, trying to play through them. He was a DMP, though. So there's a chance Swift is alone. He's expected to play. He was back at a limited practice. Ash and Gentie was downgraded to a limited participant on Thursday. I'll throw it out because it's like the belief that Dandre Swift is able to go.

It's the belief. And then Monongai with his turf toe injury, I just did it for a very low cost investment. I saw that. Roshan Johnson should be picked up in certain leagues just in case. That's actually super smart. Turfto is a problem. Sometimes guys miss multiple weeks that come back and they're not even nearly as effective. I remember I think it was Antonio Gibson's rookie year like he was crushing and then he got the turf toe and it kind of fell off.

Just, you be proactive with these injuries. Gentie was downgraded to limited. It was a full on Wednesday, so that's something to monitor. Breece Hall, Adonai Mitchell, ruled out for the Jets. Bengals wide receivers. That's a big headline for the week. Jamar Chase returned to a limited practice Thursday is in uniform for today, Friday's practice. T. Higgins did not practice again Thursday, not spotted so far today. So T. Higgins, it's a matchup against Miami, right?

Yes. So you could see a player that has been historically injured a lot, get a week off. We'll see what happens with T. Higgins. Chris Olavé limited on Thursday with a foot injury. And they're saying that this is new. This is not the knee problem that, you know, you saw hyper extended on that last garbage time drive. Nothing to do with it. I mean, if it's a foot, it probably is nothing to do with it. You didn't injure his foot on that play, but that could mean it's worse. That could mean that it.