MEGALODON Episode - Week 13 Matchups, Turkey Day Awards & More! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 11/27

Fantasy Footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. It's turkey time. Yes. For losers, it's Jack in the Bucks time, everybody. For the winners. Eat your dry bland bird. You know, I'm making a turkey this year. Really? First time in my life. From scratch? I brazed it. I've plucked it so you're you are in the transformation to Jason Moore becomes a chef you are the one doing the I am making I'm making the bird I'm a spatchcock a turkey and I'm gonna what you're making up words now that word spatchcock I'm gonna well there's our hashtag

Okay, I guess we got that one out of the way. What? Spatch cocking is. Oh, come on, man. It's a normal thing. It's just a family show, Jason. It is a totally real normal word. It's a cooking method that involves removing a bird's backbone so it can lie flat while cooking. Yes, I'm going to take that spine out. Hold on, hold on. I'm going to spatchcock that bird. Hold on. We have a cooking method. You remove the bird's backbone, which that makes sense. And they're like, hey, D spine. No, no, no. Spatchcock. What? Who made a that word? I don't know, but I think it was a 17 year old boy. At least like dispatch. Dispatch.

Oh, dispatcher. Yeah. Well, I wouldn't go there either. Listen, welcome in to the Megalodon. Oh, the Megalodon episode is off to a hot start. Ordinarily, we do some special stuff on the Megalodon episode, which we will be doing. We're giving away a signed Justin Jefferson, Jersey, a signed Y.N. Jersey, a signed Breece Hall mini helmet. We get to talk about him in the news. But I want to know about this turkey. Tell me more about this spatchcocking. By the end of the episode, somewhere throughout the episode, we will share an official hashtag. And you can tweet, tag us, and share the hashtag. And we will give away that sign memorabilia to a lucky Megalodon winner. We have.

hungry for more NFL news we got turkey day awards we got starts of the week we got we got the thanksgiving day games we got the parley partay we got the black friday game we got all the sunday monday games we've got the fantasy face off we got the wheel of shame did you say the friday game yeah okay the black friday game so making sure we didn't and by the way yeah i want to return if we want to return to the bird because time is not of the essence today yeah we're fine if we want to return to the bird we can return to the spatch cocking that's fine well

Was there more to the story, Jerry? Was that kind of the... He's just going to be... That was the... That was the... That was the... It's what... I'm doing that immediately following this recording. Going home, taking out that spine. Got to do a dry brine for... From now until... This guy. Unbelievable. I was going to say, first of all, it doesn't sound like a dry bird. It sounds like going to be very moist and delicious. Oh, yeah. Second of all, we got honeybake ham on the table alongside the turkey this year, Mike. Nice. So I know that you, like... You hit the top of the show with It's Turkey Time, loved it. Then you submarine it with your kind of ridiculous Jack in the Box Thanksgiving Day routine. Now, we learned yesterday on the footcast that you are going to have the Thanksgiving of your life because you've managed to ditch the family. To ditch your family. No, not the entire fam. Most of them. The wife and my daughter are going.

They're going to take the two-hour trek to do a bigger Thanksgiving with the in-laws. And I'm like, I can't afford that time. That's four hours of driving. I got three games that I need to. It's my job. And I take my job seriously. Yes, yes. So me and, me and the boys. Staying home. Oh, man. Just football, video games. And Jack. Ultimate cheeseburgers, maybe a bacon ultimate cheeseburger. I don't know. I don't know what's going to happen. No spatch cocking. on your no not not needed thanksgiving table so you just like throw a glove on and just like rip it rip it no or is there a process no you need shears you're cutting through bones it's uh okay all right it's pretty gnarly actually you know it's uh okay okay well uh welcome in like i said pay attention to the official hashtag will reveal it at some point during the show

even if we might know what it is already. We'll see. You got to listen to the end because maybe it changes. We will jump right in. Welcome to Hungry for More, presented by Uber Eats. Well, we'll mention some players that we are hungry for more production from as we head into the fantasy playoffs. But before we do that, I do want you to fill in a sentence for me. Thanksgiving. The table, Thanksgiving meal, is incomplete without what, Jason? Stovetop stuffing. Stovetop. Specifically stove top. For me, it is the canned cranberry sauce. Mike, put yourself in a hypothetical situation where you're at a real Thanksgiving. What would it be for you? I'm old. I've been to many Thanksgivings. And for the rights, it was a, I don't know what you would. I don't know if there's an official name for it, but it was essentially an orange gelatin.

uh not a jello like a fruit but a gelatin and then it would have mandarin oranges oh yeah i know i don't know the name of that it's a tasty treat that's your go-to you know another thing that is more specific to my thanksgiving's kind of a it's it's a weird tradition but when you start the cooking you put a bowl of black olives on the counter and you eat them as you cook interesting I, that's the second time this week. I've heard somebody tell me that black olives and green olives are a big part of their Thanksgiving. They should be. They're delicious. Yeah, you're, I feel like olives are very polarizing. Yes, they are. Like, you either love them or you're like, what, gross? Yeah, I'm on the gross side. Do we have? Have you ever seen them? Yeah, they don't look great. It looked bad. We're over a dude. You put them on your fingies. You have like little like bugles? Yeah, like bugles. You put them on your fingers.

You can carry 10 at once? Oh, my gosh. Sliding over to Deucers Allie, Al Borland, Papa Josh, the Falcon managed to make it in. I doubt the day after Thanksgiving they'll be in. There's a long episode for you guys to make it through. Favorite Thanksgiving, like the must have Thanksgiving Day side. Do you have one, Al Borland? Stuffing. Just, oh, good. Had to think about it, but it's pretty boring. I'm with Jason's stovetop is an absolute requirement. It's the only time of year I eat stuffing. Huh. Do you eat stuffing any other time of year? No. Not really. Do you always talk into the side of your microphone or is I just today? Yeah, you are very thin over there. I apologize. There you are. Oh, I can hear you now. Falcon. Give me a good gravy. Okay. Yeah, that makes sense. Give me a good gravy. Gravy in, gravy out. Look, hello my voices. Give me a good gravy. I talk directly into my microphone. I'm just so much better than howl. Oh my gosh. My hungry for more candidate, Tua.

I went with Tua because I could have chosen some player on the dolphins who have been performing well on offense, but it's really Tua himself. Since he's returned to Miami offense, 27, 27, 23, 34, 34 points. Took him a while to warm back up after he was on the shelf. But 76% completion rate, 7.5 yards per attempt. And the truth is, despite all the Janu, Waddle, Tyreek. A. Chan fun discussion. As Tua goes, this offense goes. We've learned that this year. If he's not on the field, they're nothing. When he is on the field, I think eventually it's going to work out for most everybody. So as you go down the stretch, I want to see Tua perform great. I'm hungry for more 300 plus yard performances because I think you're going to be happy with those players. And that includes Waddle. That includes Tyreek. I think Tua will be the key.

to your championship. Mine is so similar to yours, Andy. It's Jordan Love. I am hungry for the passing offense of the Packers to be great. And last year, it doesn't feel like it's good this year. You know, I feel like we're waiting for the special magic of last year where he threw for 4,159 yards, had 36 total touchdowns. He missed two games this year. And then, you know, there was. A weather game here. Last week was a blowout with three touchdowns rushing for Jacobs. But I think you'd be surprised to realize right now his 17-game pace is actually slightly better than last year. 4,239 yards of 34 passing touchdowns. But this week in primetime on Turkey Day, I... Facing Tua. At home, I really want...

something special, magical. You know, he's been way better at home. He's averaging 261 passing yards, 2.6 passing touchdowns at home. And then, you know, the stretch run coming down, you know, to the playoff weeks where you've got Seattle, you've got New Orleans, you got Minnesota. Those are matchups that I really feel like could be league winning matchups for if Jordan Love comes through and does what he can do, which is throw. three to five touchdowns in some of those type of matchups. I want that. I want that to happen. Yeah, it's been the Jordan Love experience this year has been marred by some injuries to him, but also receivers going in and out of the lineup. And you really haven't had, you have not had a run.

He's not had two top ten performances back to back this year. So that's what you've felt. Yeah. Mike, do you have a hungry for more guy? Yeah, mine is super selfish as I was consuming the this weekend's games. Couldn't help but notice the Seattle Seahawks got down to the goal line. And instead of putting in superstar Ken Bone Walker, they put Charbonnet in there. So I am hungry selfishly. And hopefully there's plenty of fantasy managers out there as well. More can bone touches inside the red zone? What is happening? More bone zone? It's the bone zone. It's not the Charbon zone. That's ridiculous at this time of year. And it's just, this is the part. It sounds like Jason's turkey is also the no bone zone. That is. You're taking some of it out. Here's the thing. This is where I need the Seattle Seahawks to listen in to us nerds. Incline the year. Yeah. Look, Zach Charmone.

36 out of 45 qualifying running backs in rush. Qualifying? Qualifying. Qualifying running back. Qualifying running backs. Is that how he gallops? Is a rush success rate. 36 out of 45. So essentially, it is a negative play so far this year. Whenever Zach Charbonnet is running the ball, just stop it. Give it to. I thought some of it was he was banged up in this last game. Because he came off the field, he had like a little bit of an injury. Walker? Yeah, I think he missed. Probably. But I don't care. Give me 50% of Ken Walker. You know, you've got a lot of analytics to talk about the success rate that when Charbonnet is there, it's a negative play for them. And I don't think you need any of that. Because if you watch the game, you don't have to be a nerd with your spreadsheets to be like,

why is the slow plotter in around the goal line versus the guy that always scores touchdowns when you give him the chance near the goal line? All right, that was hungry for more. Presented by Uber Eats where you can get the best deals on game day food all season long. Uber Eats, the official on demand delivery partner of the NFL. News and notes from around the league. Presented by USAA Insurance. Okay, we do have news. We got to break some news for you. It's big because we have Thursday, Friday, Sunday, Monday games this week. J.K. Dobbins out this week, up in the air after that. So we got confirmation. We were talking on the waiver show about Gus Edwards. He was at the tippy top of our list. But we also just didn't know how long term it would be. It's a knee sprain. Dobbins injury onslaught for his entire career continues. Yeah, I mean.

Him staying healthy for, we had talked about this with Dobbins, the fact that they had the buy, he had so much work on him, and eventually you felt like it was going to come. I'm going to expect that this is a multi-week injury, but it does not seem like they're putting them on IR. So at least for now, we know that you could play Gus Edwards this week. Azam Pacheco, a full practice participant on Tuesday. They're the Friday game. It seems like he's going to be back on the field. Matt Nagy's talking about the fact that the best part of having now Kareem Hunt and Pacheco is that you're not going to have one guy get more worn down by the fourth quarter. I mean. That sucks. I mean, that's the quote of Nagy talking about that is basically being like, hey, now we can keep them both fresh and split the load, which is like, okay. That's 100% what they're doing. That's fine for your.

for your team for you but what about my team what about my fantasy roster especially if like kareem hunt happens to end up with goal line carries or fourth down salt game away carries i will say this and he's recovering from injury like pacheco is coming back from an injury why would they overwork him well not only not overwork him but i think they will barely work him I think they will work him back in a little bit. That's my expectation. And we'll talk about that soon. You're talking like what John and Dan Brooks got last week? Or a little bit more than that? Okay. Yeah. But Kareem Hunt for this week, I think it's still a good start. After this week, I get worried. Speaking of worried. This is the biggest news. Uh-oh. Jets running back, Breeze Hall.

He's not practicing. You're like, oh, okay. He says knee soreness. But their head coach said he's still hopeful Hall will play on Sunday. It's a wait and see. The problem here, Breeze Hall tweaked his knee against Indianapolis before the buy. Yeah, they're coming off of the buy and he's not able to practice. This is such a bad signal. Oh, man. Now you don't have him anywhere, right? I have him everywhere. He's hurt me all year long. And now he hurt himself. And so. This is why- Don't worry, Jay, you can play Braylon Allen. No, he can't. No, he can't. No, he can't. What are you? Yeah, this is the first thing I did. I went and I looked, I'm like, oh, well, of course Jason has Braylin Allen. He's not right and dirty. You go get him. Yeah. We've been sated on the show. We have. You should listen to the podcast. You go get your insurance running back. Yeah, I got mine. Trey Bins is on my bench. Yeah, but you picked him up off of waivers. Briline Island wasn't there for me to get it. I would have gone and got him. I traded for Algeria and Corum. Oh.

I fired Al Borland, so we can all do things. Oh, sorry you didn't know. You forgot to. When you got big time running backs who, like Braylin Allen, we've said it on the show. I mean, you just watch him this year. Braylin Allen looks like if Breeshall misses time, Braylin Allen is going to go in and be great for fantasy football. That's why you have to go so hard after those guys. So. Outside of dunking on me for riding dirty, which is my fault. Yes. Braille and Allen could be a league winner. Their schedule down the stretch for running backs is perfect. We brought this up about midway through the year about how important Brailleen Allen is as a backup. And if Breast Hall misses time, which isn't a guarantee yet, but if he does miss time, Braylon Allen, I think will be better than what Breast Hall was being because he will have it all.

There's nobody that can vulture him on the goal. He will just be a real dominant fantasy asset. Yeah, it's wild news to get this morning after the biweek, not having heard about much of that on the buy week. But if for some reason he's out there in any league, you need to... Are you speaking slowly because you're looking at all the... Oh, I looked at all the leagues we were in... You know what his roster percentage is listed at? What's that? Try to guess. Braylin Allen? Let's go. It's going to be 40 something. Yeah, it's going to be like 38% even though it's 100% of all my leagues. 30%. Yeah. 30%. Yeah. So if for some reason he's out there, that is a priority addition. Tommy DeVito has a sore forearm on his throwing arm, but he's hopeful he can play. Now, we have a picture. We have a picture in our dock. This is not a real photograph. No, it's been modified. All right.

Someone's got to tweet this out. This Schneider did that. Jason. Okay, well, this is a real problem. This picture, Al, I don't know if you can get this on the screen, maybe. Oh. Or on a back screen. Yeah. Give me a sick. Oh, man. You can't believe everything you see on the internet. This is a real picture. This man's arm is shattered. It is so broken. Do you remember the picture of Jaden Daniel's elbow that looked? I mean, that looked just as fake. And it turned out it was a real photograph. Something was weird on the angle of his elbow. So I didn't know what was going on. He does not have a full noodle bonus arm. All right. We'll show the picture when we get it. But Drew Locke taking first team snaps. Oh, here it is. Yeah. Oh, my God. Yeah. Yeah, that's good. That's a sore throwing arm. That's been doctored.

Just a little bit. The Giants don't have another quarterback that they can just sacrifice the team with. They might be forced. They do have another one they can sacrifice. Well, I'm saying Drew Locke gives them a better chance to win. Yes. In my opinion. But not that great of a chance to win. You know what I mean? No, it's a better chance. It's just improved. But you'd be much happier, I think, if you've got Malik neighbors. Drew Lock was playing. Daniel Jones, signing with the Vikings. I believe that was one of the five teams mentioned on the show yesterday. Well, we were just going through. Well, no, it was just, it was, it was selective. It was the teams that Jason, Jason highlighted good franchise. And so you start to think about who is capable of helping you, like, we've already seen it with Darnold. Like if you need a Daniel Jones, which you might, like at least you've got a head coach or an offensive coordinator. Yeah, going to a McVeigh tree offense for any quarterback who's trying to rebuild their.

image and get that shmany it's a great decision so viking signed daniel jones for depth and uh the commanders in a sign that brian robinson junior and aust necler might be in trouble they signed chris rodriguez to the active roster yeah we figured that was coming which he uh he has had some snaps this year but it's more about just the depth chart and the fact that they may need to uh what did he have like a less chris rodriguez himself had 11 attempts by the way in week nine. And I think they're only missing one of the running backs in week nine. So maybe just something to pay attention to. You never know, no matter how vocal somebody is about that depth chart, no matter how many times you hear Dylan Lauby's got a big game playing coming and get zero carries. Just keep it in your mind if you want to, if you've got a spare bench spot and you want to toss somebody down there. Chris Olavik, quote, in a good place in his recovery, still seeing specialists and not practicing. So that was, yeah. Yeah, he's okay.

And Greg D, former Halloween superstar here on the show, Greg Dulcich claimed off of waivers by the New York Giants. The weirdest thing of just Greg Dulcich has a tight end for the Broncos, highly drafted, has like a good rookie season. For a rookie tight end, this guy. Very impressive. Played extremely well. And Sean Payton just hated this guy. Hey, he's been inactive since week four or so. Too much sexy. Maybe. You know what I mean? I'd be intimidated hanging around this guy. Yeah, there's a reason I dressed up like him. The likeness, just perfect. I'll bet Peyton would have cut Troy Palomalu. You know what I mean? Been like, handle it. Not that hair's too lush. Too lush. That was today's news and notes presented by USAA Insurance. Learn more at USAA.com slash insurance. Do we have a drop for this next segment?

We do. Is that this turkey button? It is. I'm a little disappointed. You weren't the one that provided the gobble. How do you know I didn't? Yeah, I think. Because your gobbles are better than that one. You're elite. You're in the top 1% of goblers. All right. Thank you. Thank you. That's quite the compliments. Yeah. Thanksgiving is a heck of a holiday. Yeah, there's so much fun words we can use to describe it. Listen, every single. Turkey Day. We give away the Turkey Day Awards. It's an opportunity for us to try to guess the winners here. We do it every year. All right. We'll start with the Thanksgiving meat. So the showstopper, the MVP of Thanksgiving Day. Last year it was a tie. The fantasy kind of MVP at this point in the season, it was CMC and Tyreek Hill as a tie. We need to guess this. This is not, I don't even know who selected this.

Was it Brooks? I imagine Kyle Brooks producers combo. Could be a team effort. So who do you think the showstopper MVP of Thanksgiving Day is? I definitely have my vote. Yeah, I had, um, I had looked at this yesterday and because there were two winners last year, I thought there were going to be two this year and I was going to put both Lamar and Derek Henry. Yeah, no, that's, that's where I was going. But I think the answer might be Sequin. Oh, man. I think the answer, I'm going to go with Sequin as the Thanksgiving meet. I'm going to go Lamar. I am going to go Lamar as well, but the fact that you guys are not even mentioning Jamar Chase's name is. It's not enough with him missing some time. Or sorry, with his without Higgins, he had some lower production weeks. Sure, but he is currently averaging 19.6 points per game. He should be in there. And the wide receiver too.

which just let me double, is Amon Rae St. Brown, right? Yeah, he's the wide receiver too. Okay. Amin Ra is at 15 points a game. Jamar is almost five points a game better. But that's not happening on the regular. He had a 50 point game. I mean, I'm going to go with, I'll go Lamar. Okay. Yeah, I don't know. It was slow for Chase though, right? Is that why it feels that way? It got off to a slow start. Okay. The answer? It is Sequin Barclay. Okay. It looks like it's Sequin Barclay. Is Kyle with us? I'm here. And so the people can hear you. I'm going to have you reveal the answers since you were part of this when we get done with our guesses. Are you cool with that? I can read. I can do it. Okay. The next one is the mashed potatoes or as we call them Tiffany's mass potatoes because that is Jason's wife who makes the rich, buttery globs of mashed potatoes that everyone needs to add somebody to their plate, aka it's the most.

consistent and dependable dish for a Thanksgiving feast. For me, this is the Lamar, the dependable Lamar. That's where I'm going to go. Last year's winner, by the way, Amon Ross St. Brown for dependability. Two years ago, it was Nick Chubb with the hashtag Thanksgiving. I'm going, I'm going to Derek Henry on this one because it's been every single week. So I'm going to, I'm going to go to the, this probably isn't the answer, but I want to give him a shout out. He has not had a single bad game, but he has missed two. So that's probably why he's not in there. George Kittle has been as. Oh, if Brooks is involved, it could be George Kittle. Rock, solid, steady as possible. Yeah, I'm going Henry. Okay. That could be it. What is the answer? Kyle. It's Derek Henry. Yeah, baby. Derek Henry, the most consistent dependable dish on Thanksgiving Day. We'll go with the burn dinner rolls. Oh, man. So, yeah, this is. This is the player.

that is best represented by the burnt dinner rolls that were supposed to be part of the meal, but then unexpectedly burned and you got to scrape the carbon shavings off of them and throw them away. Last year it was Miles Sanders after the offseason signing in Carolina. The burned dinner rolls this year. This is an easy pick for me. Who is it for you? It's the running back that was taken just before Kyron Williams and Derek Henry. Travis E.T.N. Oh. That's called a woof. I mean, you took him ahead of two of the best options you could have had. And Travis ETN has gone from, I mean, you forget how high he was drafted. He's gone from that to like, I think you should roster him. I would, I would not drop him. Yeah. I think ETN is a good answer. I think Harrison would fit the bill, Marvin Harrison a little bit. I think Bruce Hall would fit the bill a little bit. But.

I guess I will go with, I'm trying to think of proportion of, I'm going to go with Harrison. I'll go with Harrison. It's all about that average app position of how much they burned you. Back of the first round hurts. Do you have an answer, Mike? Yeah, I'm going to go with a guy who I loved and massive L on the season. I'm going Jalen Waddle. Yeah. Okay. Kyle, what do we got? Jason was spot on. It's ETN. Yeah. Yeah, it's been like non-existent. That one makes sense. That one is just, that's hand on the stove. You know what I mean? And held down. He was drafted one pick behind Harrison, but for what it means to your team with the running back position and how, like Harrison's had games. Yeah, that's why I didn't go, Mark. All right. The next award, the Mike Wright special, the jack in the box, the random dish that somebody brings because they're convinced Thanksgiving food is trash and outdated. Yeah, yeah.