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Cam Skattebo is called Jason's favorite player and Patronus, imagined emerging from a spell by running into walls; the show then explicitly praises Jason for being completely in on Skattebo and persuading another host to follow.
The Skattebo persona is a human smelling salt and crayon eater who prepares by hitting his head against a hallway wall. The riff says unexpected math ability would reveal a concussion, then turns his ripped postgame shirt into a Memento arm note reading 'I am a running back.'
Every Friday the show gives $100 to a random jointhefoot.com supporter. This selection's difficult username becomes Tyconicus117 and is treated as the name of a Greek hero or god before the prize is awarded.
Mike's inability to split-screen a Monday doubleheader prompts a search for spare devices and a TV tray. Mike has no tray, Jason confirms that his folds out nicely and supports dinner in front of the television, and he escalates the defense to a fork-and-knife steak; when Deucer Cam checks the crew area, one off-camera voice reports having no tray.
The show calls Mike to spin the Wheel of Shame and lands on Lizard King, a bearded-dragon head with air holes but no mouth opening. Mike can breathe, is told he looks better, and must speak through one nostril while continuing Fantasy Faceoff.
Still wearing the Wheel punishment during Fantasy Faceoff, Mike explicitly names his running-back selection Ken Bone Walker and takes the combined rushing-and-receiving projection.
Cam Skattebo dominates the episode's personality. The show explicitly praises Jason for being completely in on him and calls Skattebo Jason's favorite player and Patronus—one that would emerge from the spell by running into walls. The hosts call Skattebo a human smelling salt and crayon eater, remember footage of him repeatedly hitting his head against a wall before a game, and joke that a concussion would turn him into a math genius who refuses crayons. Later, after he tears off an athletic shirt, they imagine a Memento routine in which he writes 'I am a running back' on his arm. FootClan Friday documents another community ritual: every Friday a random jointhefoot.com supporter receives $100, and this week's hard-to-pronounce Tyconicus117 is promoted into a Greek hero or god. A Monday doubleheader exposes Mike's lack of a split-screen arrangement and leads to Jason defending his folding TV tray, including eating steak from it; the show checks Deucer Cam and finds no tray there. Mike then receives a live Wheel of Shame spin. The Lizard King option puts him in a bearded-dragon head with air holes but no mouth hole, so he speaks through a nostril and is told he looks better. His Fantasy Faceoff card also returns to Ken Bone Walker, while Al provides a live injury-name spelling at the close.
The Fantasy Footballer Studio is sponsored by Walmart. Welcome to the Fantasy Footballer's Podcast with your hosts Andy Holloway, Jason Moore and Mike Wright. Welcome in. Friday, October 10th, the Fantasy Footballer's Podcast. Jason Moore, Mike Wright, Andy Holloway. Welcome in one and all. Lots to get to today.
Thank you for joining us. Thank you for subscribing and following the show. Thank you for watching the show over on YouTube. We got a scat trick last night. Scataboo Yakashu! He is my favorite player. He's your, what's the thing in Harry Potter when you have a... My Patronus? He's your Patronus. Not Horcrux. Your Patronus is Cam Scataboo. Yeah. Like you would see the... I cast the spell. He comes out and just starts running into walls. This is like, we're from Arizona. We all watched him play at Arizona State. 104 players were drafted ahead of Cam Scataboo in this draft. And I'm not saying he's, you know, Barry Sanders.
We're not saying he's the next greatest thing in the entire earth. But it's a tragedy that 104 players went ahead of him because of how productive he was at the college level. 1,700 rushing yards on the ground and 600 receiving yards through the air. Those are numbers that only like Christian McCaffrey type of collegiate performances have ever done. And he did it. And then everyone's like, nah, we're good. It was... So if you followed the dynasty pod at all over this offseason, it was, you know, for me, I loved Trevo Henderson the whole time. I wasn't as hot and bothered by Hampton as other people, but it was like Scataboo.
I'm putting him at three in my running back rankings until the NFL tells me they don't want Cam Scataboo. And then the NFL did. And I was like, oh man. Fourth round? Mm-hmm. Behind Trace is like, ow. Behind Bashal Tootin? And it felt like such a... It was so deflating that the NFL... And the NFL gets things wrong, obviously, but when it comes to running backs, it's the opportunity that when you're a day three guy, the NFL could be so wrong about you, but because they've drafted you there, they have other guys in their plans who are ahead of you, and
things have to break right. And the Tracy injury came at just the right time for Cam Scataboo. Yeah, there's a lot that we could talk about with that situation. I'll start by praising Jason for not only being completely in on Scataboo this week in the Philadelphia matchup on Thursday night, but you persuaded me on the show to be in on Scataboo because you had walked through the storyline of the opportunities and how massive they are. And we got where Jalen Carter was not going to play, and Tyrone Tracy got a few snaps, but it's a heart and soul thing for this team.
It's changed the entire landscape of the way their team... And Jackson Dart is a huge part of the equation, too. He's great. If Russell Wilson is the quarterback of the Giants, I do not believe that Cam Scataboo is putting up numbers. Because he's not near the goal line. Exactly. The offense is so much worse when Russ is playing, and so it was the unknown, is Jackson Dart going to be good? In the NFL, it looked like it in preseason, and so far through three games, we've had two electric performances. It's so impressive. There's no Malik Nair. Yeah, he doesn't have his number one wide receiver.
There is Slayton. They were... Little Jordan Humphrey, though. They were hyped up on the crayon eater himself. Cam Scataboo is now like... Scataboo is now like... Yes, I forgot about that. He is now such a part of the personality of this... Yes. Of the hope of the city. Him and Jackson Dart. Yeah, both of them. They have transformed how people... How are... Tyrone Tracy... The country feels about the Giants. ...is no longer allowed to eat into Cam Scataboo's workload in a massive way. Now, not to say that they won't get him more involved in his first game back, but... Yes.
But, like, it's done. It's done. Scataboo is their leading guy, and then they'll spell him when they need to with whoever else. He is the human equivalent of a smelling salt. Yes. For the team. And it was... What a psychopath. Yeah. In the best way. The quotes... I was spending last night on Twitter... Physicality! Yes. The quotes from his teammates, they all are... They're not bashing him, but they are confused by him, and they love him. But it's like... Every single one just said, he's so loud. Did you see... He's an idiot. Yeah, he's an idiot. Have you ever seen the famous clip when they're following Arizona State onto the field, and
they're walking through this hallway, and all the players are... It's just a normal walk onto the field. And you walk directly by a man who is just hitting his head against the wall over and over again. I have seen that. And it's just Cam Scataboo prepping for the game. Yeah. It's like a little pre-CTE going on. Goodness. It was wild. You can't give CTE to CTE. No, no, no. You can't. He is the human incarnation. But look, that's what they said. The C in CTE is Cam Scataboo. He can no longer fail concussion tests because his... Permanent. His baseline is way past fail.
It's compared... Look, I told you... He's like... When he's concussed, he's like a math genius. Yeah. They're like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Whoa, you gotta sit him down. Cam, dude, you're talking about physics? What are we doing here, man? Dude, you gotta sit down. No more square roots. Have another crayon. Yeah. Question. Are you willing to eat this? And he's like, no. Uh-oh. He must be concussed. I feel like we could riff on this all day. Yes. The truth is, is this was the game on Wednesday. I'm like, I'd really love to make this my almost upset, but I can't do it.
There's no way it's going to happen. Ooh. This is why the NFL is better than every other sport. Yeah. It really is. You should not have been able to double up the Eagles. Without Malik neighbors. And you just. At halftime. I was like, no problem. Yeah. You still. No problem. You still want to make that bet on the Eagles. You know they'll come back. Philadelphia is still going to take it. The problem is the second half Eagles offense has been. It's the worst one in the entire league right now. Like on a number of metrics, they are the worst. And what's crazy is last year they were pretty good.
This system that we have seen in place, like they have been winning with their great run game, their great offensive line, and their great defense. If those things aren't gelling, you know, they had one of their guards out, and obviously Carter was out. So if they don't have this great run game, and they don't have this great defense, all of a sudden you have an offense that looks uncreative. And I don't blame play calling on this one. This game was lost on a couple of bad decisions and bad plays by Jalen Hurts. You missed. You can't miss that play to Devontae Smith down the sideline.
Oh, that was brutal. That was a free 90-yard touchdown or whatever it was. And look, I made the touchdown guarantee that proved to be wrong. I think A.J. Brown was 6 for 80 in this game. He had opportunities around the goal line. But the pass to the left that got picked off that basically ended the game. I mean, you get three there, the game is a one-score game. Yep. But in breaking route with nobody, it's man-to-man. A.J. Brown's wide open in the middle of the field. Like Jalen Hurts just objectively played poorly in this game. Saquon has not been able to get the running game going at all throughout the year.
It was wild because this is the sixth game in the career of Cam Scadaboo. It's a three-touchdown game for Scadaboo if you missed it. Saquon has never had one. What? 96 games played in his career. He's never had three rushing touchdowns in a game. Cam Scadaboo has had three in his sixth game. So we just did – Wednesday's show was we did a redraft, you know, first two rounds of fantasy, kind of a rest-of-season check-in. And I took Barkley at six, I think. And, like, my reasoning was I feel like the Eagles are safe. They're stable. They're just – their defense is going to be great.
And that's just one game after that. But when it's the Giants and you're 12 for 58 – What's with A.J. Brown? Like, two – like, Jalen Hurts and Saquon Barkley both said that they met with A.J. Brown this week and that the offense met together. Everybody said they met together and A.J. Brown's just like, no, we didn't meet. Well, and it was weird because you – What? And everybody else confirmed that it happened. Yeah, the interviewers are trying to ask whether or not he's, like, just being coy about it. And he wasn't. He's like, I don't remember that. He was kind of smirking, and he's just like, I don't recall.
He's like, you've got to ask them. I don't recall. I don't remember that. It's all cute and funny and eye-rolly when you're 4-0. It's not as much when you're 4-2 and you've lost two in a row. And Philadelphia normally gets things figured out. They have a good head coach and structure. But right now – How do you feel about Saquon Barkley rest of the season? That's where I was going to lead. Because Saquon Barkley could have and would have set the all-time rushing record last year if he played in his final game. You know, he was over 2,000 yards. He was awesome.
Right now, we're five weeks in. He is on pace. Well, let me ask you this. Do you think he's on pace for 1,000 yards? Yes. He's not. No. He's on pace right now for 920 yards on the season. Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't have taken him as high in the redraft situation just because it's hard to have that much work. That was the narrative in the offseason. Derrick Henry, Saquon Barkley, a lot of work, older backs, and right now the Eagles just look worn out. Like, the run blocking, they look like a team that has been doing it for a really, really long time that's running out of gas a little bit.
Well, next week is at Minnesota. You can run on Minnesota, so that will be very interesting. And then they get the Giants immediately at home the following week. Dallas got it. It was awesome. 9 for 110 and a touchdown. It's the fourth straight week, I think, with a touchdown. Yeah. I will not deny Dallas Goddard what he's doing, but when Dallas Goddard, on a team with A.J. Brown and Devontae Smith, and Dallas Goddard is getting 11 targets compared to 9 and 5 for the other guys, that's not a great offense. That's why you score 17 points. Yeah. He played 89% of snaps, 11 targets.
He had nine targets last week, and this is the decision maker. It's not that Goddard was bad. It was exactly what I was saying all last year about the Dolphins. Johnnie Smith, good for you, Johnnie. You're doing great things. But your offense is not best when it runs through Johnnie Smith instead of Tyree Kill. Yeah. And Jalen Waddell. And here, throw to your stud wide receivers who are not just eight yards and under. Well, Goddard matched his season high in touchdowns already. He's never had more than five in a season. And he's got five. He's had five in the last month.
So, Wandell ended up six for 84 and a touchdown in this game, which did not feature Darius Slayton. Little Jordan Humphrey, four for 55. Jackson Dart's line was 17 for 195 and one. And he ran for a touchdown, 13 for 58. There's only three quarterbacks in history who I think threw the first two or three starts, 50-plus yards rushing. It was like Jalen Hurts, Lamar Jackson, Jackson Dart. He is up there with... With... And he... I was saying he's balling out, and two seconds later he was down on the field hurt. Mm-hmm. Like, the way he's running, he's going to get hurt.
Yes, he will. You cannot... And he's going to get fined, in my opinion. Oh, that play! For his sideline helmet first leap of... Like, wild leap into the opponent's face. That wasn't the one that I thought. Oh, no, that's the one he'll get fined for. No, he should get fined for a different one. No, the high five, he's not getting fined for. That was awesome! The high five is fine. That was my favorite play. I rewound it. So, if you don't know, one of Cam Scadaboo's touchdowns, he was called short by the line judge. One of them. Yeah, one of them.
He runs in, and he's got just one hand up. You know? He's standing with one hand up, calling for basically the fourth down. And Jackson Dart's over there, like, yelling at him, like, what? That was a touchdown, and then after a minute, he just high fives the guy whose hand is up. That was awesome. I thought you're not allowed to touch refs. If you give him a cool high five, it doesn't matter. Yeah, from time to time, these things slip through. Yeah, he launched himself into the defender's helmet, and so I will be completely shocked if he doesn't get a fine for that one.
All right, we've got to move on. It's Friday. Put Clan Friday. Sometimes I wonder if the random selector just wants to make it difficult on me reading the names. Every week on Friday, we give $100 away to a supporter at jointhefoot.com. I am really trying to work out how I would pronounce this. Oh, I got mine. Tyconicus117. I was going to go Tyconicus. Tyconicus117 it is. Sounds like a Greek hero. I would go Tyconicus. Tyconicus. Whoever you are, you've won $100. Oh, okay. Thank you for supporting the show. $100 to fancychamps.com. Tyconicus, the Greek god. News and notes from around the league.
Presented by Progressive Insurance. All right. Alvin Kamara remained limited on Thursday with the ankle injury. We'll see if he continues to progress or not. Kyler Murray did not practice again. Didn't. Kamara was limited. This one is he's not practicing at all. So if he doesn't get out there today, it will be Jacoby Brissett, which Marvin Harrison said he'd be cool with that. Did you say Kyler? You said Kamara. Because you said Kamara. I was saying Kamara was limited. Kyler was completely not at practice whatsoever. Oh, wait. He's practicing today. Okay. Oh. By the way, the line was sitting seven and a half during the week, and it hasn't moved
from what I had seen. So it looks like he's going to play. Quentin Johnson remained limited Thursday. By the way, you want Kyler to play. I know you just booed. I know. That was not really. You would like him to play for Marvin Harrison Jr.'s sake and for the offense and McBride. Chuba Harbor did not practice again on Thursday. It seems all but guaranteed he will miss another week. I think they are missing, the Panthers, a pretty important offensive lineman did not practice as well, which could be a problem for the Rico Dowdle 200-yard repeat, but we'll see what happens.
Wait. Are you saying? Maybe not 200 again. Are you saying Rico's not going to get to 200? We're talking 160 to 180. All right. Yeah. Lamar Jackson did not practice again. Jose Flowers limited again. The big news that we saw this morning, like Chris Godwin is not expected to play. Right. For the Buccaneers. And we won't have Mike Evans. We probably will not have Bucky Irving. So you're talking about just amplifying the Kate Auton opportunity at the tight end position. And a big bow. And who was that? Emika a big bow. Would you play Juwan Johnson or Kate Auton now with Godwin out?
Juwan Johnson? Juwan. Oh, oh. I was sorry. I heard Juwan Jennings in my head. I was like, that's... I would still go with Juwan. You would go with Juwan? I would. Jason, he's your start of the week. Would you play Kate Auton or Juwan Johnson? Oh, man. Kate Auton had 81, 4 for 81 last week. He does. I'm not saying he's a bad play. Yeah. Who else is going to catch the ball in Tampa Bay this week? I think they're both fine. I'm going to stick with Juwan Johnson. What else do we have? We have Juwan Jennings returning to a limited practice.
There you go, Mike. There you go. Brock Purdy did not practice again on Thursday. Mac Jones limited. Ricky Pearsla did not practice again. If you had to bet right now, I think it's going to be Mac Jones again, and it's going to be... I think Jennings will play. I don't know that... That would hurt your Kendrick Bourne. Yeah, it would. Xavier Worthy did not practice. He was listed on Sleeper as doubtful, but I don't think he's officially listed as doubtful, but he did not practice Thursday after a full participation Wednesday. I think he's dealing with swelling issues. Xavier Worthy feels a little bit like a nervous...
They're going to lay off the salt, man. ...like a nervous play right now with the week-to-week, how healthy are you argument. So I don't know. If Juwan Jennings is back out there, does it change your view on Tonjes, by the way? No, just because he's so beat up. Tonjes McBasketball or K-Dotten? I think your ceiling is better with Tonjes of the fluky two-touchdown game. More likely for him. But floor for K-Dotten is probably higher. That was News & Notes, sponsored by Progressive Insurance. Quote today at Progressive.com. Progressive Casualty Insurance Company affiliates and third-party insurers. Not available in all states or situations.
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