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Coming to you from pristineauction.com studios with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, the essence of manhood. Welcome in. It's going to be a good one. We saw the essence of manhood last night. Yes, we did. Carrying the ball for the Seattle Seahawks, showing us what a man is.

Hop on his back. If you're a ram, he'll take you for a ride. Welcome into the fantasy footballers. I was going to combine the words, you know, go, Chris Manson. And then I realized calling him Manson. Not good. Maybe not the way to go. No. That's also just like an actual last name. Charles Manson. He's out there absolutely. Killing it. Oh, wow. All right.

This shows off to a stunning start. Friday, October 4th. It's Friday, man. We're lucky. The fantasy footballers podcast. The most elegant of men, Jason, opening the show. A modern king. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I posted about Chris Carson this morning with the hashtag muscle king. I mean, we have a lizard king. He has to be the muscle king. Sure. I believe it. I mean, even Pete Carroll.

in the offseason was talking, literally talking about how muscular he is. He's like, oh, that guy's like a superhero. And to say that about one of these people in the NFL when everyone is, is impressive. Does it seem like, I mean, maybe it's a contrast situation, you know, you try to stand by people to make you look better? But doesn't it seem like Rashad Penny's on the squishy side of things compared to Chris Carson legitimately? I mean, Chris Carson makes me look squishy.

It's hard to do. I know, right? For a modern king, such as yourself. Welcome in. We've got a great show. It's Friday. Foot Clan Friday. Today's Foot Clan Friday winner is Cody Lee. Cody Lee wins a $55 gift card to shopballers.com. We like to say thank you each and every Friday to a special Foot Clan supporter.

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to do with fantasy football in this show on Twitter at the FFBallers on YouTube. YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballers. And the website's the fantasy footballers.com. So more reaction to last night briefly. I think my takeaways from this game, first of all, it was a great one. Yeah, it was a great game. Wasn't the over under on the game exactly 49 points? Yes. And the game was, I'm...

Curious where you're going. Oh, it was 59. There you go. I was like, they blew that out of the water. I was quick to make that connection because the game was a one and a half point line. The Seahawks were favored by one and a half. They end up winning by one. And then math didn't work in my head. But yes, they hit the over. Brandon Cook's forced from the game with a concussion. He had one run, one catch. Robert Woods almost scored. But the storyline on the Ram side of the offense.

Two players. Cooper Cup, 17 targets. Cooper Cup, to me, is a guaranteed top five wide receiver this year. And Mike, you had so much confidence in him in the off season. I was scared of the knee, but he's picked up exactly where he left off. Nine for 117 and a touchdown. Constantly, I mean, it's just so obvious. 100 yards, four straight games right now for Cooper Cup. Jared Goff wants to go.

is Cooper Cup. And when they're in a third down situation, a red zone situation. A fourth quarter drive situation. He's always open. It's always Cooper Cup. Now, whether he hits him or not, I mean, it was 50-50 last night. Nine catches on 17 targets. But then Gerald Everett is being worked into this offense. Seven for 136. This is madness. Eleven targets, which was the second most on the team. We heard in the offseason, and this was one of the reasons I hesitated on Cup returning to form as well, was the fact that.

This team was running more two tied-in sets with Tyler Higbee and Gerald Everett in the offseason. So I thought, hey, we're going to see some more Robert Woods and Brandon Cooks, maybe Cooper Cups taken off the field to manage the knee. But Gerald Everett, is he a real thing? No, I want to say I do not believe that this is a real thing. I think this was a matchup thing with the San Francisco 49, or with the Seattle Seahawks. I saw some people talking about the matchups that Gerald Everett would be a good play going into this week.

Clearly that was correct. Now, if Brandon Cooks is gone, we don't know the status of him. He left with a concussion, and so we'll have to see if he clears protocol. If not, then I think Everett, you've got to pay attention. But, you know, all the two tight-in sets, what happened the first three weeks when he was the tight-in 47, 23, and 31? Yeah, but to his credit, last week against Tampa Bay, he had eight targets in that game as well. Going eight targets, 11 targets, it should raise your eyebrows.

Because tight end is so difficult to find. Man, did he try to lose that game for them, though? He was like the winner of and the loser of many plays. I mean, the perfect pass from golf that he turned into a nice interception. And then he almost fumbled the ball, like the next drive. On the other side, Will Disley, four for 81, didn't score, but led the team in receiving yardage was consistently, he looks great. I mean, he made some great catches.

Nobody had more than four targets. So the ball was spread around once again. I mean, Tyler Lockett, four for 51 and a touchdown on an improbable back corner miracle pass by maybe the best quarterback in football. We were kind of talking about that. Everything's going to be viewed through the fantasy stats and the statistics. Russell Wilson is allowed to do what this offense is built to do. They give them a certain amount of freedom pass attempts. It's a rushing offense, 27 carries for Chris Carson.

I don't know how you can execute better than Russell Wilson in the offense you're given. I don't know if you can play a quarterback better than Russell Wilson plays it in this offense. So it's unimportant to make him number three or number four or number five, whatever. He was so impressive last night. They won the game four touchdown passes. Chris Carson was 27 for 118, caught a touchdown pass twice. Twice, yeah. It caught the same pass twice.

They actually, if you look at the stateline, Chris Carson had been consistently targeted on the year. There were three or four plays in this game where Chris Carson was the designed pass catcher of the play, and it got broken down by a sack by Aaron Darnel getting in the face of Russell Wilson. He couldn't target him on a wheel route. You had another play that was a screen designed to Carson. He couldn't throw the ball. So I still think they were trying to involve him in the passing game, but these plays were getting blown up.

Otherwise, I mean, D.K. Metcalf had the bomb touchdown reception. I think you're going to see that here and there, but only three targets. Are you changing your opinion on him at all after this game? Yeah, I mean, this is, you know, this is more his skill set, right? Like run a deep bomb. They've been using him in the red zone and it hasn't worked quite as well. But he's a talented human being, right? He's, he's, he's truly a.

an outlier of an athlete, and Pete Carroll's a great coach, and Russell Wilson's a great quarterback. So they're going to find ways to get him involved. The play design was incredible, too, because that was a touchdown on a broken defense. If, like, enforceably by the play call, it really tricked the second day. Yeah, yeah. If Rashad Pinney stands next to Carson and D.K. McHav on the sideline, that's your biggest mistake right there, Rashon. Seriously. So it's one of those things where if, if D.K.'s out on the waiver.

and you need a spot start, and you're deciding between someone like Cole Beasley, who's just a target hog, and you're in a PPR league, or D.K. Metcalf, who could obviously have the higher ceiling. Metcalf can do the bomb, touchdown. I still think I would usually go with. Got to do the bomb. I still feel like I would go with a Cole Beasley on a regular base list just to get the targets. To me, D.K. Metcalf is just, he's a wire receiver on the waiver wire.

that if the buy weeks hit and your bench isn't looking the way you want, he's fine to pick up and play. He's not a guy I'm really stashing, though. I still expect him to emerge over the course of the season. We talked about this on the Sirius XM show yesterday. They're giving him every opportunity to do it. Now, if he doesn't make a play, you know, he should have caught a two-point conversion in this game. They gave him another red zone target on that play. Should have caught the ball. To me, it just will be very difficult. Like, Russell Wilson, we were talking about how great he was.

He threw the ball 23 times, and Will Disley is very involved. They are being very intentional about drawing plays up for him. Four touchdowns on 23 past 10th. Tyler Lockett is the number one wide receiver in the offense. Chris Carson, like you said, he still is getting designed plays for him, so it's hard to, unless you're hitting on the 40-yard touchdown, I just don't see the volume for Metcalf leading to a breakout this year. Do you, what's your takeaway from the Carson performance? 27 carries.

over 100 yards again. Didn't get into the end zone on the ground, but those are just a matter of time. You can't predict it. I thought David Moore was going to get pushed out at the one. He ends up getting into the end zone on that play. Goal line opportunities are going to go to Chris Carson, no doubt. He's the guy. Yeah, he is the guy. That's the thing is like the United States government and Pete Carroll should both just get rid of pennies because they're not that valuable.

I mean, Chris Carson is amazing. All right, let's get into in or out. What's it going to pay me, fly? Are you in or out? All right, quarterbacks, Josh Allen, in or out. He remained in the concussion protocol Thursday, limited practices. I'm going to say in. Today will be the tale for Josh Allen, but even if he's in, I'm not going to play.

I would say in, and I think if he is in, he's a startable guy. Sam Darnold, in or out? Out. That's official, right? Yeah, Gardner Minchoo with the knee injury, limited. I'm going to say in? I hope he's in, so I will say in. You guys know how this segment works? You have to predict in or out. In. Okay. James Connor at the running back position, in or out.

I'm going to say in. The beat reporters have said from Pittsburgh are saying that even though Connor and, you know, Juju and Vance are missing some practices, they're going to be good to go on Sunday. Yeah. So I'm going to buy in. Marlon and Matt? Did not practice Wednesday or Thursday, but he didn't last week as well. I'm going to say in. Sunday night game, though, are you taking the risk? Oof. That's rough you. Yes, because I think that Nahim Hines is a good backup option. If you want to stash him.

because of just what the game script should be. Tevin Coleman. In or out? Out. All right. Damien Williams. In. He's practicing in full. Rex Burkett. In. Devin Singletary? Out. Don't think he plays. And even if he plays, you're not interested in it. No, not yet. Look, with that type of a hamstring injury, I need to see that you're ready to play again. All right, T. Y. Hilton, Sunday night football, another tough decision. This is really tough. I'm going to say that he is in.