Week 6 Matchups, In-or-Out, Boatraces & Cakewalks

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Hey, Footclam. Before we start today's show, I just wanted to say thank you. On behalf of all three of us, the entire fantasy footballers team, thank you for supporting this show over at Jointhefoot.com. Since the beginning, you've been with us as we've grown this independent podcast, and we could not have done it without you. We continue to do it with you, and we thank you so very much for supporting us at Jointhefoot.com. Hey, this is David Johnson, running back of the Arizona Cardinals, and you're listening to the Fantasy Footballers podcast.

to the fantasy footballers podcast coming to you from draft.com studios with your host Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. I see that Hatweek is over. Hat weeks are over. Mike is trim.

It's come to a thrilling conclusion. That ended with me getting a haircut. Yeah. Yeah. Well, congratulations on it. Did you do some beard trimming, too? I did. It's got real tight, real tight. You got to sculpt it up every once in a while. Yeah, well, you're looking nice. My semi-annual haircut. Well, look. Once every six months, that's all I can do. I know getting a haircut isn't the most difficult thing to do. But at this point, you've gotten a haircut.

As far as I'm concerned, that may qualify you to play quarterback for the Giants. Do you want that job? That's all it takes these days is a haircut. We're going to go with the haircut. Let me tell you this. You would still be better than Eli, but you do not. You do not want that job. That offensive line, I mean, look, Eli is playing poorly. I mean, it's absurd. But, and he deserves so much blame. But not all of it. Because that offensive line is.

Unbelievable. I mean, it's... In the bad way. In a bad way. I mean, it's always a race. Every snap, it's a race. What gets to the quarterback first? The defense or the ball? That's how it thought. That's not a race I want my quarterback involved in. No. Everybody wants to say, like I tweeted last night, I said, Eli Manning is as bad as Saquan Barkley is good. And... Factual. You had 80% of the people who have eyeballs. And no, that's true.

It's like an SAT question. Right. And then you have the other 20% that think I'm stupid by not acknowledging the offensive line in the sentence. Listen, they can all be true. You can have a bad offensive line, bad play calling, and a bad quarterback. And that's what we saw last night. We did. I don't think the play calling is the problem because I don't believe that Pat Shermer calls 12 screens in a row. I don't think that's what he's called. You know, that's not like the design.

Pat Schumer's got to be going, oh, that's true. Well, you know what Pat Schumer needs to do then. Stop calling plays that has that as an outlet. But he has to have it as an outlet with the offensive player. I don't know. It's a behavioral addiction of Eli Manning. And the thing is, is there was a clip of Pat Schumer the week before, and you can read his lips. And he's screaming, throw the ball. And he checked it down again after that play. If you want to know what would be different without Eli,

Look at the other side of the football field, where Carson Wentz can escape the pocket, can make a play, can prolong a play. You just need a couple seconds. He's just got both feet and cement, and that's the problem. And this is not the anti-Ely show. This is the pro Sequin show. Oh, my goodness. Is there a better running back? Genuinely, is there a better running back in football? Now, that's, you know.

Reactionary. Sure. But I saw the poll go up everywhere with Ezekiel Elliott and Levion Bell and David Johnson and Todd Gurley and then Saquan Barkley. After what you saw last night. There's certainly better fantasy running backs. Just barely. Just as pure, just as far as pure running back talent, I would still say Todd Gurley is just as good. I would say David Johnson is just as good as far as just pure talent.

Very impressive performance last night by Seek and then Z. You're skipping over Leveon Bell, really? You know, Levy on Bell is unbelievable. He's a freak athlete when it comes to his receiving skills and that's great. But I actually don't put Levy on Bell up that high. I put Levyon at one. That's where I would have it. I see him as like five. Leveon is not as.

physically gifted, like his athletic measurables. He's not as fast. He's not even anywhere close to as fast as Saquan Barclay. But Bell just is a great running back. So the last two weeks for Saquan Barclay, 19 touches total. And then last night he had, by the garbage time, he ended up with over 20. 13 for 130 and a touchdown on the ground.

Nine for 99. Oh, because they decided, they decided to Wayne Galman the end of that game. But 36 and a half fantasy points in our league of record. Absolutely dominant considering you know that the defense knows what's coming. Now, for O'Dell Beckham Jr. owners, are you worried about this situation? I mean, he was fined for his comments last week. I'm sure they...

They were a stab in the heart of lines ownership when you pay him the money he wanted. And he immediately, they asked him, are you happy in New York? And he says, that's a complicated question. You know, you've been paid to be happy at this point. And I get it. It's about the team and the offense and the trajectory and wanting the ball and punching the air conditioner and leaving before halftime.

But are you concerned as a fantasy owner for Odell Beckham Jr? Because last week... Are we talking short term or long term? We're talking this season. Because last week his numbers were inflated with a passing touchdown. He did have a touchdown through the air for the first time all year. But last night you see it. It's all short plays. He has to stiff arm somebody and then try to gain eight yards. I mean, is he not a top 10 guy this year? No, he's definitely a top 10 guy. I mean, I don't worry.

to that degree. You have to keep in mind what we're talking about with this offensive line. The Philadelphia pass rush, that defensive line is incredible. And that's part of why they couldn't, that's part of why Eli every time he dropped back. And I don't think they're going to play that kind of pass rush every week. We've seen O'Dell Beckham have a handful of good games, only one dominant game. But I still see him as a top 10 fantasy wide receiver this season.

Well, they have to force feed him. He is right at, before this past week, he was right at the number 10 on the season. He was only 6'4-44 last night, and I know fantasy owners were very frustrated. My feed was filled with O'Dow Buckham Jr. frustration because the talent is obviously there, the ability is obviously there, but the targets and the downfield targets are not there. Between...

this game against the Eagles and their next matchup against the Eagles. That's what I was going to. Oh, I was going to bring up their next matchup. They play Atlanta. Yes. Washington, San Francisco, Tampa Bay. So, you know, I'm not as worried about Eli or. Would you target him after this down performance then? Yeah, because people are trying to trade him. Yes. You can, I believe right now you can buy, especially because it was Thursday night football. It's one of those games where.

everyone's watching and the narratives are all overdone and you're going to be able to get Odell Beckham on the cheap right now. Okay. So maybe look for a guy that does blow up this next weekend that's in that second tier. Maybe it's a Stefan Diggs, right? Would you swap Stefan Diggs for Odell Beckham Jr.?

That's tough because I think Stefan Biggs is a top 10. I would want to take someone like Robert Woods, my start of the week. If he explodes and you go, no, I look, it's possible because I've seen outrageous things happen on Twitter. People that have Odell that are worried, they think he's worthless. And so would you, okay, maybe not Robert. What about Cooper Cup, the number two wide receiver right now? Would you trade Cooper Cup for O'Dell Beckham?

That's an interesting question. Who would you rather have? What about AJ Green? I'd rather have AJ Green. Yeah, I would rather have AJ Green. We don't want, we don't want Beckham. No, we did. He's just a top 10 guy. He's not a top five guy. That's the problem. I want to trade basically a wide receiver two type with something else for Odell. All right. We have a busy, busy show today, the second half of the fantasy forecast going through the rest of the matchups. We have in and out.

We have the daily dose, per usual, and we're going to get into all of it. And if you missed some of the matchups, they were on yesterday's show, make sure you go back and listen, get all the way caught up so you're prepared to win. That's what the show's about. It's about equipping you to win and enjoy each and every week of fantasy football. That's why we're here year-round, because fantasy football is year-round, man. Yeah, never stops. Never stops. Can't stop, won't stop. It's also Friday.

Put Clan Friday. Well, not only did Sequin have a delightful, wonderful yard reception last night, which was unbelievable. Best play I've seen this year was that reception. I saw the next gen stats from NFL.com. The expected yard after catch for Sequin's reception was 14 yards, and he gained 55.

And if you watch the kind of like the overhead view of how many people are around him, incredible. But not only did he have a 55 yard reception, we have a $55 gift card to give away to a Foot Clan Friday winner whose name is Brian McCarthy. Thank you, Brian. Great name. Brian McCarthy, congrats. Yeah, he's, what a name. $55 coming your way. Yeah, congratulations. A reminder, the week six DFS podcast is up. Mike, Chris.

And Ben recorded that yesterday. Yep. Get you ready for DFS in week number six.

and the signed Corey Davis jersey and championship belt at footclank giveaway.com. We're going to be wrapping that thing up real soon. So if you want a chance to win it, you want to get an entry in there, go to footclan giveaway.com. That's all you got to do. It'll make it nice and easy. Do you have any final thoughts as to last night? Anybody on the Philly side? You want to jump in on the Corey Clement situation? Yes, we should briefly touch on Corey Clement versus Wendell Smallwood. It came out right before the game that Philadelphia.

After declaring how healthy and great Corey Clement has looked that they are going to put him on a snap count. It happened. He played 36% of the snaps compared to Windows. Smallwood is 62%. But it is very clear. While Smallwood is fine and he is functional for the offense, Corey Clement is the much better runner with the extended, or not the, like the foe by.

That comes after a Thursday night game. Corey Clement is the running back from Philadelphia. Clement is a far superior running back. He's better for their, what they want to do. I think he's clearly the goal line guy got it yesterday. The worry is with them. They will split. Clearing cap space, I worry about them bringing in another running back. Whether that's LaShawn McCoy or someone else. But in the meantime, we can't know that. I do want.