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

happened at practice, but it's disconcerting. I saw him at practice and he was dancing. So we'll see what happens. Justin Jefferson remained limited on Thursday with the ankle. Jordan Addison limited on Thursday with a hamstring, which by the way, it's very clear that hamstrings got super jealous of groins. Yeah, they are. We got the word out. Because groin's doing big work. Butter, our butterfly stretch push. What do you do for the hammy? That's more of a runner stretch.

Get some runner stretch stuff going on? I mean, it's just the touch of toes. I could never. And over to the front touch toes. I could never do it. Terry McLaur and Stefan Diggs both missed practice on Thursday with hamstring injuries. Good night, man. Stop it. Cam Scataboo is now limited. He is not in a non-contact jersey anymore. Yeah, it was an upgrade for him. And Malik neighbors returned to a limited practice. His knee has been sore.

I don't want to hear sore knee with Malik neighbors. No, no, you don't. Not when you're coming off of an ACL. Don't get hurt, please. Also, unsurprisingly, because I believed in them. Ladd-McConkie did not practice again due to the foot injury. Yeah, it's really, it's really, really tough with Ladd. The upcoming schedule, this is a player who has been playing through injury, and it has not been working. Like, they need to give, the problem is they need them so desperately.

They're 0 and 4. Their offense doesn't work without him, but he's not himself right now. So it's not working with him. I can't fathom starting him. Like if he's active, you know, last week he was active. He, he goosed. He played 34% of the snaps. He's currently banged up. The matchup against Denver. Like, I'm looking elsewhere. I'm pretty excited for next year, Andy, for, because like the my guys, it's a big deal.

You know, we put work into these are guys that we truly believe in. And of course, Foot Clan, like if you support the show and you follow our advice, you go after those guys and people keep track. And next year, they're going to be like, Andy, the worst picks you've ever made. It's going to be really fun. I can tell you right now, some of the best picks for next year.

Ladd McConkey. Alec Pierce. Alec Pierce. I mean, I'm telling you. Caleb Williams, I think, could come back and redeem the my guys. And then Stribbling is like a year away. This, listen. I know you're, I know you're right. I can see the Reddit threads. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Because we've had a good run. The last few years has been great. And this, no one's going to remember they're hurt. That's what's going to happen in the Reddit thread. It'd be like, Ladd had like wide receiver 95. Yes. Yes, that's what it'll be.

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Jayshon straddling, wide receiver 109. Didn't meet expectations. All right, let's get into it. Fantasy Forecast, presented by prize picks. I know it's a long show, but man, I'm surprised you haven't already brought up Mike McDaniels press conference, Jason. Oh. Talking about the running back room and this whole, like, the worst quote from the press conference was, we are playing different running backs based on

You know, the fact that we make the defense is think about three different tackling schemes. Yeah, the defenders are like, did you hear this, Mike? No. Yeah, you're hearing it for the first time. That's not a joke. Please tell me more. No, it's not. Yeah, he's, he was, you know, if you use three backs, then the defense has to come up with three different tackling plans. Yeah. No, they don't. No, they don't. They're not out there. I mean, you see, I was going to do the move where I hit him as hard as I can and wrap up.

But now I can't. Defenses have to prepare for three different tackling plans for backs with various skill sets. We can't tackle the same. These NFL defenders. I mean, not a professional defender, but I don't think that that's a problem. You got them cards over there? I think that there are. We're getting ready for some budget? That's a desperate man. All I'll have these ready for next thing. I will say this, listening to the whole press conference, I watched the whole thing. And my takeaway was it's not changing. Like,

He said a lot of good things about Amarian Hampton, his confidence in him, that he is the starter. And I do think that in the timeshare he will more often than not lead in volume and carries and touches. But it is a time share. As someone who loved Amarian Hampton, that was my my guy, in part because I thought Mike McDaniel was good. My bad. Well, look, if they're winning a game, you might be right about him. That's been the biggest variable. They were supposed to be. That's why he was a pick. This is why I didn't want Devon A-chan on the Dolphins.

I wanted someone on a good team and a good offense. Turns out the Chargers. Turns out. Turns out. Yeah. And I will say this. One of the biggest arguments for it was the fact that they had Slater and Joe All and an upgraded center. And their offensive line was totally amazing. And now they are all gone. At the beginning of the fourth quarter last game, they had four of their five offensive linemen.

We're rookies. He's preparing his Herbro defense is... No, no, no. I'm just saying their offensive line is... I think Jason's bailed. I certainly don't believe it's going to be fixed soon. I will stand 100% by. Amaran Hampton is great. Like I still... I get all the metrics. He is... He is breaking tackles. He's yards after contact. His speed...

his like i'm not sure the vision is where it needs to be that's the only area that i think is a concern to me he can break tackles he can be a goal i'm back i don't you're not passing him the ball over keaton mitchell which is a problem should um by the way yeah that's the cowboy's problem they are not practicing the proper tackling scheme well it was they were ready for baker they were ready oh they didn't know how to tackle no no then they would when they would smooosh jlon in the well they did all the spoofing works against

They, yeah, yeah, but they were just, well, Gainwell got all the hype this week. So they were practicing. They were proud to tackle Gainwell. They're like, which is different. Yeah, you go for the feet on Gainwell. Right. Only. Yeah, Bucky, you got to go for the shoulders. Right. Everybody knows that. Um, couldn't adapt. What a quote. What a, what a bunch of horse garbage. We, I mean, just the dynasty show, uh, that came out this last week, we drafted office of play callers, the office of minds. No one has had a more precipitous fall. Like.

Spoiler. Yeah. We did not draft Mike McDair. He did not make the top 12. Dude, he was the bell of the ball? Yeah. Who was the head coach for the Chargers that we saw? Brut is Staley. They just, we saw melt as he. Oh, yes. You know, you see the president before and after term? Staley in one year went from like looking like a young, youthful coach to like most eight year Obama. A hundred percent. He had a 34 month year. That guy was, that was brutal on him.

But it was also his fault because he kept going for it on fourth and it never worked. He's like, I'll keep doing it. Okay. Here we go. Yesterday we covered Eagles, Jags, the London game, Bears, Packers, Texans, Titans, Bengals, Dolphins, Raiders, Patriots, Vikings, Saints, Browns, Colts Steelers. Six more matchups to get into. We also have the fantasy face-off on today's episode of the show. Let's start with the three-and-one giants. Mike and I were just musing on this this morning. What is this division?

basically saying that at this juncture, I really truly believe all four teams can win the division. I don't even know who, like, let's just, let's do this experiment. I think all four teams could be less than the division as well. Say the team that you're going to, that you think is going to win the division. We're going to do it at the exact same time. Hold on. You got to give me a moment. That you know the four teams. I know, but I don't know which one I think is actually going to win.

Okay. Yeah, give me one second. I just want to look at one little schedule. Oh, come on. This is just a gut thing on how you think they're playing. Just say the team name, not the, not the, you know, city. Ready? One, two, three commanders. All right, we just said three different names. We said three different names and none of them were the current.

Yes. Division leader standing alone at the top, three and one Giants who is in this matchup. Wow. Yeah, the commanders are at home in this one and they're four and a half point favorites. It's a 41.5 point over under. It's a low scoring game. Yeah, the problem with the giants. The problem with the giants is you're like, you know the rest of the year is Winston and McCarthy. Yeah. So you look at what is the, who's the best quarterback in the division, DAC? Yes. And then probably right now, you could argue Jaden and Hertz, who's going to have the better second half.

Both have a lot of injuries. So we'll see. I mean, he's missing Diggs and McLaurin this week. So did we mention Diggs? I guess we'll mention them right now. We did. Diggs is a DMP with the hamstring, McLaurant, the hamstring. Could be Antonio Williams' breakout game. We'll see if that happens. But, I mean, this is a game littered with injury. You have a limited Camp Scada, but you've got a limited Jacoori-Crossimera. You've got a sore Malik neighbors. You've got a limited Isaiah likely. So decision-wise, you know,

Is neighbors in the category, I'm assuming, of if he starts, you play him? Yeah, I think so. What we saw with Winston, you know, 112 receiving yards last week, that if he's active, you're putting him in the lineup for sure. Basically, the report we got this morning from Jordan Renan over there covering the Giants is that neighbors, Andrew Thomas, as a likely Cam Scatibu, are all practicing on Friday and good to go. So let's just plan on scat being out there, neighbors, likely. You know, I think likely showed with the...

target count last week and the fact that the commanders are so bad against tight ends like this is a really good start for him mike started the week and scat you know it wasn't a good game last week for him he just was inefficient scat's been very inefficient on the season work is there volume is there and also you know both him and judkins they got off to slow starts this year but they are coming off of a pretty serious injury that as time goes on i mean we saw that with like tony pollard who had some of that injury it took time before he looked back to himself

after that original injury. So I think Scataboo is just going to keep getting better and better. Would you play Jaden Daniels with the new newly minted left elbow brace? Or Jacobi Berset against Detroit? Oh, man, that one is tough. I am pro Jaden Daniels. I think he's going to still run. But with the injuries to wide receivers, the over and under in the Cardinals game, I think I lean Berset. Yeah, I would play Jacoby as well. Shock against Minnesota or Jaden? Jaden. That one, I'm fine. Going Jaded. Bo Nix, my start of the week, or Jaden? Jaden.

Jacori Kraski Merritt or so he's starting this game or Ollie Gordon against Cincinnati. Let me. That one is very close. I've got them back to back in my rankings. I've got Jacori one spot ahead. One wild thing that happened and it's, you know, more for dynasty leagues and stuff. But Ketron Allen, who got some work early in the season with the signing of Austin Echler and apparently the return of Rashad White, I'm guessing. They cut him. He's gone. That's fat man.