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Footballers. That's Lowe's.com slash footballers. 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 Wednesday, November 28th. The show you know and love. The Wednesday show?

Well, no, the fantasy footballers. Oh, this show. Yeah. I do love this show. Are you subscribed? I am subscribed. I have reviewed on iTunes. You follow us on Apple Podcasts? On Apple, yes, I apologize. On Apple Podcasts, I have clicked the bell on YouTube. I'm over on Instagram. You're following on Instagram. Yeah. I'm just checking you guys out. All right. Well, that's good. Andy Mike and Jason back again.

Brooks pulling the levers. Hey, Brooks. How you doing? Excellent. Good. Good. Wednesday, November 28th, as I said, we have pumped the brakes on the show, the Thursday night preview, a ton of mailbag, and excited to get into things, excited to help you prepare for a big week of fantasy football. Many of you fighting for things like bye weeks, fighting for playoff berths, fighting maybe to disrupt. Yeah, just fighting to fight. Just fighting for seating. Fight, fight, fight, fight. Yeah.

So I'm excited. Don't forget, waivers went through. Drop it like it hard. Yeah, a lot of people don't want to drop people. A lot of people had to drop people. And so there may be some good names out there that hit the waiver wire today. Pay attention that could work in your favor that once upon a time.

Once upon a time, Jason Moore about this time of year dropped the joick bell. Oh, that was a bad experience. You picked up that joick bell and you played him against me in the playoffs. Usually. And then I won. Dropping joick bell was a good decision. Right. It was not that year. No. Oh, there he is. Joick!

We haven't heard from him in quite some time. You know what? He took care of business in that playoff matchup. I'll tell you that. So check out your waver and wire. Check out footclang giveaway.com to win assigned Hopkins jersey, assigned Barkley, Jersey, giveaway.com. And definitely check out the website, the fantasy footballers.com. Tons of great articles from our crack riding staff. Oh. See, I paid attention there. Yes. They were our crack staff. Not our crackpot staff. No.

Big difference, huge difference. Yes. One wears tinfoil on their head. Okay, yes. Although, maybe the writers do that. I don't know. I don't know how they do it. I don't know how they do it. Trust the process. But the results. Tinfoil cap. Yes. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Sometimes people feel like fantasy is projecting fantasy results is pretty similar to connecting with aliens. Yeah. I can understand it. Receiving messages from outer space.

Uh, it's Wednesday. So we've got, uh, oh, oh, O'Reilly. O'Reilly. Auto parts. Ow! Pump the brakes with O'Reilly Auto Parts. For Wednesday, who are you pumping the brakes on Mike? All right, I'll jump in here. Yeah, this is a adjust your expectations because this is, you can't bench this player. But it's Joe Mixing.

Running back from the Cincinnati Bengals and he think, hey, he's taking on the Denver Broncos. I mean, I remember way back when Isaiah Crowell ran for over to Hyundai Hyundai, and it was burned into your brain because it was the beginning of the season that the Denver Broncos were a bad rushing defense. Oh, ho. Not so fast. My friend, if you have not.

been paying attention the past six weeks. They are the second worst matchup for fantasy running backs. And now on top of that with the tough matchup, Joe Mixon's quarterback is an old Driscoll. Yeah, Jeff Driscoll taking over. They'll probably focus on the running game. They're going to try to focus on the running game. No Andy Dalton, no AJ Green to help open things up. He will still get the volume, but I think it's going to be a.

tough sledding for Joe Mixed. And instead of that RB1, you thought you had, I think he's just a mid to lower range RB2 this week. You don't think AJ Green is going to play? I do not. So you remember when you guys, remember I made that trade? Trading AJ Green away? Well, yes. That was dynast. I still think he will play next year. Sure, sure. But I mean, I was looking at it as like, that was the Josh Gordon trader. I was like, man, I'm so worried that AJ Green will be projected to come back for five weeks in a row and never play.

Do they have much reason to bring him back right now? No, they certainly do not. Jason and I were, we talking about this on the live stream yesterday? Yes. So we did a live stream. Oh, yeah. Shout out to everybody that tuned in and supported. We did the Giving Tuesday, supported Brandon Marshall's charity for mental health. I mean, incredible stuff. But we talked about this. And I was of the side of why would you even bring AJ Green back at this point?

Yeah, and if he, and my take was if he's healthy, that's why you bring him back because he's a football player and he plays football. But if he's not healthy, if he's not healthy, play football, then you don't have a reason to rush him back. There's nothing really to play for at this point. It's just if there's any risk of re-injury, of for quite risk, creating a nagging injury long term for AJ Green, you have nothing to play for anymore.

So you're pumping the brakes on Joe Mixing, adjusting expectations. I'm pumping the brakes on Baker-Mayfield quarterback for the Cleveland Browns. You'll be careful. The darling of many. But he goes into Houston, a team that's on fire right now with a very strong defensive front. He's never seen anything quite like the JJ Watt, J. Davian Clowny defensive front, and not the most elusive of all quarterbacks. He's fine.

I agree. I agree. But he's found himself with some collapsing pockets and some ball control or ball security issues in previous weeks. It's just going to be a tall task to travel into Houston, face that defense, and have a productive fantasy game. Fair. And so I think you're coming off a week in which he was a top five producer. You need to pump the brakes on that production for at least a week.

Yeah, my pump the brakes this week. He's not in my top 24 running back. So he's going to be a flex consideration. You could start him if you need to because he's... Devin Coleman. Unfortunately. It is unfortunate. Look, if you told me before the season, DeVant Freeman's going to miss almost the entirety of this year, Tevin Coleman would have been thought of as a lock for a top 10 running back. Since...

Devonta Freeman went down in week five. Once he came back and went officially down and out, that's when it's like, okay, it's Tevin Coleman time. We know DeMontza Freeman's on IR. He's going to be getting 15 carries a game. He has averaged just under 10 carries a game from that point on, despite the fact that Edo Smith has just been a talentless.

player on the field, in my opinion. Now, he's doing okay in the passing game. Tevin Coleman has really made it up from some, you know, receiving touchdowns, some big yardage games in the passing game, but this is a matchup against Baltimore that I don't expect them to really be able to win on all the screen game stuff. I mean, and if you're, if you're rushing the ball.

9.7 times a game. He's averaging 42 yards a game since Freeman has gone down, and he's only had one rushing touchdown during that stretch. I don't see a huge scoring output against the Ravens. It's just a bad matchup. He hasn't been what we have hoped he would be. And so to me, Kevin Coleman this week is not a must start. He's a can start, a flex consideration, look at your options, choose accordingly.

I think that's fair. And I think if Tevin Coleman is running better, he'd probably average more than 9.7 carries a game. Yeah. Kind of been a self-fulfilling situation. Chicken or the egg situation. And, you know, there's been a lot of questions coming in about Tevin Coleman's outlook rest of season, which I still think is okay. This is not a, you've got to get rid of this player or you can't rely on him. This is a combination of being a little bit disappointing mixed with the matchup. How about Tevin Coleman or Lamar Miller, Jay?

You shut your mouth. You shut your mouth when you're talking to me. That was pumped the brakes with O'Reilly Auto parts. Pump the brakes with the Riley Auto Parts, better parts, better prices every day. I just had to throw in there. That was too much fun. News and notes from around the league. You know, piggybacking on the narrative of, you know, why play AJ Green if he's banged up at all.

There's been some discussions about the availability of Mitch Trubisky this week. And whether or not he's going to play. In fact, the Vegas lines on that game aren't set because they don't know the availability of Mitch. Do you guys think Mitch Trubisky plays? I don't think he plays. But it's too early in the week to make any kind of declaration. This isn't a drop Trubisky because he's not going to play. I would certainly not do that. But they're playing in New York against the Giants. This is a...

a matchup similar to last week where I think you believe as a team with your defense with Chase Daniel, you can go in there and win and protect your actual star quarterback that you need for the playoffs. For the playoff. The combination of reasons there is why I don't believe they rush him in. I don't think he plays. Someone timestamp.

What just happened? No, I mean, that was, that was low-key. And I don't, I can't believe no one else. I was hoping it snuck by Mike. You just called Mitch Trubisky their star corner bear. I regretted it when it came out of my mouth. And I was like, if I just low-key it and just power through, no one will, no one will timestamp this. And then Mike goes. No, no, I will draw attention to this. I mean, what? Look, it was. It was.

What, six weeks ago? Well, maybe it was for it. It's very easy to tell when it was. You look at his game log and you look at where he sucked and then. Oh, then he would explode. Yeah. Huge first game. That's when. I was the six touchdown against you. That is correct. So that was, uh, that was week four. Yeah. All right. It's, it's been more about two and a half months, but that didn't take long. So it's official. He's a superstar. Um,

The NFL network is Mike Groflow, and I saw another report this morning. Ravens are planning to start Lamar Jackson again in week 13 against the Falcons. Reports came out that Flacco would need to practice an entire week before he came back. I think the Baltimore is so weird because two weeks ago, it was, oh, Joe Flacko doesn't need to take a rep.