Week 11 Matchups + Bringing the Hammer, Wheel of Shame - Fantasy Football Podcast for 11/15

The red zone target last week without the sun is a touchdown, right? You have to look at that and say he scores on that play. He was wide open. The play was to him. But gosh darn it, the sun. The home field advantage. The home field advantage got it. So lamb is, you're not going to sit lamb down just because of this move. That is not happening. We now know that Rico Dowdle is the guy. It's a little too late here, McCarthy. Daylight dollar short. Yeah, like if you would have done this. Week one, your team is a lot better. Is this validation for you? Do you feel a semblance of validation? My face says, of course it is. Oh, thank you. I don't know, I don't know in what world you could live where this isn't validation for Mike's take on Rico Dowdell. It took nine weeks for them to decide he's better than a cooked. It took nine weeks for Mike McCarthy to stand up to Jerry Jones. Sure, that might be what it was because he's like, I'm getting fired anyways. I'm going to play the better player.

Yeah, I mean, I completely agree. Rico's looked pretty good. Now, this is a tough matchup. It is. So I think he's, I think he's a flex option. Total yards for Rico versus Jerry Jones's age. Oh, I'm taking Jerry Jones's age for sure. Oh, that's, oh, that is very funny. Rico is not crossing 100. He's 82. He's 82 years old. Wow. His face doesn't look at you. I thought he was looking good for 100. Instead, he's looking bad for 82. Looking bad for 82 is a top five insult on the earth. Planet Earth of all the things you could be told. Look, it is, it feels good. It feels very validating that they're officially saying, hey, Rico's going to be our guy. He averages three receptions a week. That's what you're hoping for is the, I mean, I just gave the, you know,

you're hoping between 60 and 70 rushing yards hopefully you get that in the tough matchup plus then you just juice it up with with maybe four receptions for you know 15 to 25 yards and then you're you're okay with that but it's going to be tough the one thing I do love that we saw last week was that he had three targets three receptions because we weren't sure Rico had been involved in the passing game And so that had been great. But now with the backup quarterback coming in, you're not sure if they're going to check it down or not. RICO only played 52% of the snaps, still had the three receptions. So I, you know, he's fine. He is fine. He is fine. He's an every down player on the team you don't want to watch. Right. Now, C.J. Stroud on the year, do you know what he is in points per game? Because I got that number. And let's just say it's been a number that has been working its way through today's episode. Oh. He's the quarterback 14.

23 23. 23. 23. That's what I was going to say. That is, I mean, that's going to say that, but I said something. Yeah. It's demolished. He, look, he's your start of the week, Jason, the matchup against this Dallas defense, the return of Nico. My only worry on him underperforming your expectations this game is not needing to. It becomes a complete Joe mixing game. They slowed Detroit down. Like their defense looked really, really good. Five picks against Jared Gough and that offense. What can they do against Cooper Rush? I agree. They might not necessarily need him. But I do genuinely think that Nico being back, Nico will get his. Nico will get an over-the-top touchdown in this game at some point. And that goes to C.J. Stroud. That's why I'm okay playing him.

Nico is obviously for all of us the top 10 wide receiver play this week. He's going to be in. I'm really, I like him a lot. Yeah, yeah, I'm sure you do. You ever do the move where you trade for somebody and then you go watch all their highlights? Yeah, I've done that. I did that. That's not good. I went and did that. I went and watched all of the Nico. Never going back to the pants store. So mixing, of course, Nico, of course. You can play Stroud. And tank is fine. Yeah, and tank is fine. And don't play the slowest man on the planet. That would be Dalton Schultz. That's Dalton Schultz. Who has a D.K. receiving line of only 33 yards. You ever seen people run in place? That's what he looks like to me. It's so funny to me that like Dalton Schultz of anyone to just be macho man. Getting the hammer every week. Elbow drop from on top of the cage. She's like the.

What is these Donald Schultz, man? Leave him alone. He's a doctor. All right. He was three for 66 in that game against Detroit. I will be rooting to see Trey Lance in this game. I have to admit. My man. Oh, yeah, me too. My man. By the way, Jake Ferguson out with an illness right now, not out for the game, out for practice, and not really somebody you can rely on. Is he down with Cooperitis? Um. Yeah, I would be down. Yeah, I'd be like, ooh, my stomach hurts. The sun, the moon. Where's the moon, Jerry? All right, it's time. Well, go ahead, Jay. Before we move on to the fantasy face-off, I wrote a note down. I'm not feeling great about my bill's prediction. Oh, yeah. You're pulling back on demolished. I'm pulling back on demolished. Oh, man. Are you pulling back on win?

No, I do think they pull out the win. I was going to joke that you were going to backtrack to the point where they win by negative four. No, it's going to be, it's going to be tough. I, you know, I think I. Yes, because the chief's offense is not great. Their defense is top tier. I just forgot how many weapons that the bills were missing. Yes. At the beginning, I was so excited. We were going through the game. The chiefs. The first loss of the season that I just jumped the gun. And I got to be I got to be a little bit more intellectually honest. So this is me. You know what? Taking my, you know. Yeah, it's good. It's humility. Yeah. An immediate L. Their pre-apology. Until. No, no, no. If they demolish them, this will be a gigantic L now. I should have just tried to get lucky. Okay. Now we can move on. Here we go.

Fantasy Face Off, presented by Draft Kings. All right. Last week, I was able to end up on top 112, Jason 109. Remember the gnomes zone? That was good times, guys. Mike 94, and he gets to spin the wheel before we reveal this week's lineups. Wheel of Shame. All right. Spin it. Oh, yeah, spin that sweet wheel. I saw a mall cop and ice man. Saw something with pizza. Pizza face. Freebird? Free bird. Let's. Free bird. Remember that beard with the white hair last week, Mike? Yeah. And how it kind of lived on me and Jason for a while. Yeah. Time to climb in. Oh, man. I could see the white hairs flying through the wind.

Oh, fantastic. To be fair, I didn't know what was going to do that. Well, I, you know what? I bought this a long time ago. So, uh, I can't even fit. We really, every time we buy something, we have to wonder. I literally can't see anything, guys. That's fine. You can't. No, I'm like I, like, it can't. My eyes don't reach the eye holes. The face is too big. Here's the rules. I'll send the thing over. You can send it over. Okay. Or you can read it and then you have to climb back into that. disgusting mask. Oh yeah, this thing is everywhere. I think you can wear it just like that. That's, that's looking real good. Oh, man, you're just blowing that hair everywhere. We ate those beards, Mike. We ate them. Eat up, Eagle. I am. Free bird. All right. My quarterback this week as Mike figures out what to do. I'm going with Russell Wilson. I'm taking.

Wilson at 5,900. My quarterback is Russell Wilson. I'm taking Russell Wilson at 5900. Guess what I have Russell Wilson. Unlimited. You guys both sounded like you weren't going to do that earlier this week. Unlimited. It was a ruse. I've had him in all week. I know. Okay. My running backs this week, guys, I'm going with a couple teams playing at home. Devon A. Chan, 7200 at home against Las Vegas. Just too good of a matchup. And I'm taking. David Montgomery. I'm going the Montgomery route at home against Jacksonville. In a game, they should blow them out. I'm taking Montgomery over Gibbs in this, 6,500. Wow. I am going. What is this supposed to work? Well, people with normal heads, there are eye holes. There's an eye hole up at the top. This is my forehead. That's my forehead, dude.

What? All right, go ahead. You can emerge for breathing purposes. So, Andy, we're identical so far. Are you serious? I'm serious. I have A-chan and Montgomery, 7,200 and 6,500. We'll see if we can do the first ever identical matched lineup. It's never going to happen. We're very close because I have Devon A-chan at 7200. But I'm going to take the better Detroit Lions running back. I will take Jemir Gibbs. Yeah, okay. All right. So that's ironic, though. Same matchup. My wide receivers, Jason. We'll put it to the test. We obviously all have pickings. We got George Pickens. Yeah. I got Pooka Nakua against New England at 7300. Who, spicy. I've got Calvin Ridley at home, 6,200 against Minnesota. Wow. I really do like those players quite a bit. I would say I like them even more than my two, who I like, which is D.K. Metcalf at 6,500 and Joanne Jennings at 5300.

along with Mike is a dead man. I do have Calvin Ridley and George Pickens, but I went Cortland Sutton against the Atlanta Falcons at 5,900. Yeah, Sutton's a good price. He was in my lineup before I pivoted to Ridley. I might regret it. Davis Allen, 2,500 in tight end, too cheap for to save some money. And my flex is actually, I'm doubling up on tight end. I'm taking T.J. Hawkinson, the PPR machine. The peepy machine. The peep machine. DJ Hawkinson. Okay. Alan Hawkinson and the Browns defense against New Orleans at 2,600. Okay. I have, I've got Dennis Allen, Davis Allen as well. Oh, Dennis Allen and tied in. 2,500. I've got in my flex. I've got Kareem Hunt.

against Buffalo Mike's start of the week at 6,700. And crap, at the bottom, the Titans, 2,300, their defense at home against a great Minnesota offense. I'm just hoping Darnold can. Were they the cheapest? I don't think they were the cheapest. They're very low, though. But they're only 2,300. Mike, your final three? Dennis Allen, aka Davis Allen. Then I do have Joanne Jennings as my flex at 5,300. And I went. The Cleveland Browns. Yeah, that's who I got. Your guys' defense really outdid my defense last week. Yeah, that helped a lot. And I feel like I would rather have the Browns and the tights. Neither of you guys went the peepee machine. No one went to, only you went with the peeping machine. Oh, man. Oh, gee. Oh, man. I preferred Hocles, but how many machine. We've done the wheel of shame for a while, Mike. Where is this on the scale? I mean, it's, it's really not that bad. Like the.

Bird is the word. It's just I literally can't. It's impossible to even get it close to being able to have visibility. There have been multiple times this year where we've looked through some stuff. But when I emerge, it goes in my mouth for wheel of shame. And we've, we've had like people put put it on and go like, would this fit Mike's head? Like we don't, like they don't make. After this, I need at least someone else to verify that this is ridiculous. I put it on. I could see through the eyes. Seriously? Yeah, it's a real big head size issue. I mean, that's all this is. What we need to do is we need to get, you know how there's those shoe stretchers? You put. Yeah, yeah. We just need to get a, we need to get a, do they make. Is it a basketball? It's not even close. It's not even remotely close to you being able to see.

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