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Build it. Beautiful. To the Fantasy Footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. It's Friday. Friday, Friday. Come on down. Mike's happy. You were clapping like a seal. Yeah, that was a really weird clap. That was a very weird clap. I forgot we have video of the show. Yeah. You were stupid.

Welcome to the show, everybody. This is the Fantasy Footballers podcast, if you don't know by now. Maybe they don't know. I know. Well, we welcome new members of the Foot Clan with arms. Our arms are so wide open. You could call us Creed. I was going to say, didn't we used to make a lot of Creed jokes? We did. I think we had a show once. I don't think it was a long-running... I think it was like a year ago. Yeah. And I made about three or four episodes worth of Creed jokes. Yeah. They should come back.

We've got a really good show for you today. We have a bunch of injury updates, news, things like that. We have our fantasy forecast where we are previewing the... Did I say that word right? Prevuring? Previewing, previewing the week three matchups. We have our full stream ahead section with a drop this week. And we did pretty good last week on our streaming quarterbacks. So...

Pretty excited about this week. We have our Daily Doe section. We're talking with Fantasy Sports Network's Chris Meaney. It's good stuff. You're excited? Excellent. You don't have to convince me. Excellent lineup today. I have a quick question for you guys. But first, let me tell the people how they can find us. You can go to the website, the fantasy footballers.com. If you have a question, you can click to submit a question button. And if you're desperate,

If you need an answer, if you want to guarantee that we get back to you, there are some options for you this weekend to do that. So you can get an answer real quick on a trade or on a waiver or start and sit. You can also check out our fantasy football community on Jointhefoot.com. We have over 500 listeners on there answering questions, talking to one another about their teams. We're on there. So check that out at Jointhefoot.com. You can find us on YouTube.

You might be watching right now on YouTube. Comment and say hi. You know what else is on YouTube? The week one and week two water bets. That's right. Yeah, we paid those out yesterday. We all had like an equal amount of losses. Yeah, but it was good times. You can see the app that we're working on. We're working hard. I believe that it should be ready soon. Yeah. Soon. Completely free. Yeah. Free app. Spin the water wheel.

Lose a bet, get wet. I've had a lot of people say that they're already making water bets and just waiting for the app to come out. That's great. I just can't wait to start seeing the videos hit Twitter or YouTube. We've got to have an official hashtag so we can find them. Oh, that would be very smart. So quick question for the day. Which two running backs lead the league in elusiveness with 12 missed tackles by defenders? Hmm. Okay, I know one of them. Yeah, because you cheated beforehand.

because, no, no, I just, I looked in my brain. You looked in your brain and found the answer? Yeah, but it's Geo Bernard. Geo Bernard. Geo Bernard is one. Do you know the other answer? I do not know the other answer. I'm going to, but I already got one, so now it's Jason's. You got one. The two guys that come to mind would be Forset and Abdullah. I'm going to go Forset. No. All right. It is Carlos Hyde.

Carlos Hyde is actually... Part of elusive rating is also being able to run people over. Correct? True. Apparently, yes. You just have to dodge a tackle. Believe it or not, Gio and Hyde had 12 missed tackles on them in the running game and three missed tackles in the passing game each. So the question for you is Gio Bernard, I guess, and Hyde, are they underrated? Gio Bernard could be underrated if he gets the usage. What's interesting is...

It was just the Gio that we saw last year compared to this year. And I honestly, I think it's role where they were trying to make Gio do things that he's not built to do, that aren't his talents and his physical traits. Don't tell me what I can't do. And that's what they tried. That's what they said. And then Gio Bernard sucked and he couldn't think was getting three yards of carry. Now when you give him the opportunity based around what he can actually do and you have Jeremy Hill.

when he's not on the bench, of course, to fill in the gaps. I think Geo, it could be, he can be a flex play, a weekly flex play. So for the Bengals themselves, they represent an offense that has a lot of fantasy start-worthy guys then, because you can start Geo, you can start Hill, you can start Eifford, you can start, obviously, A.J. Green, right? Yes. And then Dalton on occasions. Dalton maybe this week. Maybe. Maybe. So, all right, let's go ahead. You guys got anything else that out, or can we get into the news?

News it. News and notes from around the league. All right, let's do a quick blitz of the very exciting, pretty much the best game I've ever seen. New York Giants and Washington Redskins game from last night. Okay. Ruben Randall had a game. Dang it, Rubin. We were wondering where you been. But Randall had pretty much like what I'd call a garbage time touchdown.

Yeah, the touchdown was Garbage. Seven for one, 16, a touchdown. Yeah, but you can't argue with that stat line. No. But the big thing that people want to know about is the breakdown of carries with Washington. Now, Washington got behind quick and early, and so their game plan was to catch up. Right. So not a lot of production from either player. However, Matt Jones had 26 snaps, and it certainly looked like a team that was trying him out as that lead back.

It looked to me like they're going to split carries, but that they like Matt Jones more. Early in the game, when the game was not out of hand or anything wrong, Matt Jones was the one getting drives first. First came Alfred Morris. He was the first person to touch the ball, but then they took him out immediately, put Jones in for like two consecutive drives, and at the end of the game, he ended with a lot more snaps. And to me, I think Matt Jones is the...

going forward, the guy you start here. I'm going to give you my hot take on this. Okay. I think Alfred Morris is the type of running back that needs rhythm and needs to wear a defense down. I'm not sure that a split type of situation is going to be very good for Alfred Morris. And it seemed like he was disappointed when he ran off the field. He was not as productive as Jones. Neither guy was productive at all, really. And Matt Jones, though, had a touchdown. Yeah. He just, for like the fourth time.

among running backs in the NFL this season fumbled going into the end zone, which was disappointing. But Matt Jones, had he done that, he would have salvaged his day a little bit. And Alf, you could see when they would call him off. He was upset. He was, it wasn't like, okay, this is part of the plan. It was, really, you're taking me off again? That's what it looked like. And for those wondering, Chris Thompson, just because of game script got the majority of the snaps because he's the passing down. Big, big game. So the,

The question is, I mean, it's all three of these guys are so game flow dependent that I don't know if you can confidently start any of them. I will confidently start Matt Jones. I think that even we've seen the Redskins when they get down, they still run the ball.

They are a run team, and I believe Matt Jones is the guy who they're going to start. So I personally on my teams will confidently start Matt Jones, depending on who's on my lineup and what their matchup is. I'm not going to play them against. I would say I will confidently play Matt Jones, matchup dependent. Did we see that, though? I think we saw that. We saw them run the ball? They had 17 total carries across all running backs when they got down. Chris Thompson had eight catches.

So I think that's just a difficult thing to assess. I agree with you, though. I would start Matt Jones moving forward based on what I saw last night, snap-wise. So completely agree there. I think Matt Jones is the guy. If you're an alpha owner and you spin a pick on him earlier, then you're in trouble. Well, when I say they get down, last game, they were down last night, right, nine points, super early, 10 points, and they were still running the ball.

But then it got out of control. I mean, what was the game? It was 25 to 3 or something. I mean, I'm not saying they're going to run the ball when they need to score, you know, when they're down three or four possessions. Obviously, they're not going to run the ball then. But if they are down in a game, one or even two scores, I do think they're going to run the ball. Your point's not lost. They were the leading rushing team going into the game last night in terms of commitment to the run and into yardage. Did they really only have 17 runs? 11 for Jones and 6 for Morris.

If I have Captain Kirk as my quarterback, I'm going to commit to the run as well. Wow. We don't need to talk too much about it. I will say this. Jordan Reed had a really good game that could have been much bigger had a couple throws gone his way in the end zone. But big game for Reed, if you started Reed, you're happy. So we're going to talk injuries. Moving forward, Reed is a tight end one. You play him until he's hurt. I agree. So we're going to go ahead and talk injuries and see if you guys think some of these guys are playing. What's it going to claim it fly? Are you in or out?

All right, we're playing in or out, Andre Ellington. Out. Yeah. Chris Ivory. Oh, he popped up yesterday and himself. Don't use that word popped with that, with the groin muscle. But he popped up and personally said he's not sure if he's going to be able to play with a quad and a groin. I'm going to say in. I'm reluctantly saying in, if you are an ivory owner, protect yourself with Bilal Powell, who becomes a fine start. I am an ivory owner and I think he'll be out.

Reggie Bush, looking doubtful. Out. Out. Jason Witten? In? Probably in. What about Brandon Cooks? Brandon Cooks is interesting because he's now missed multiple practices. He's insisting that he's okay. So I'm going to say in, but that's a situation to watch. Do we get to see Todd Gurley debut this week? I think so. I'm going to say no, but it looks like he's going to be in. Maybe we'll see him for a snap or two. Yeah, not workhorse, but I think he's going to get eased. The time has come for Gurley.

Get ready. Get ready. I think by next week, he's going to be relevant. He'll be startable after next week. Fantasy owner sure hopes, though. This is week three, four. I think in week five, you'll be able to start him. All right, Devante Adams and Eddie Lacey are both Monday night games. So this is important. Yeah. Are they both playing? Are they not playing? I'm saying Adams in and, man. I think they both might play.

These guys are harder to know because you'll know more on Saturday. But what do you think right now? I think Lacey out. I would say Lacey out. All right. Dwayneux. Out. Out. Lorenzo Tally Farrow. Who popped up and I'm saying he's out. Prashad Perryman? He's just back at practice. I don't think he plays this week. I agree. What about the concussion situation with nuke? Nook. Nuck? Nuck. Nuck.

Did I say nuke, though? Nuke. Duke. Duke, nuke him. Nuck, yeah. Nuk. Newk. Nook Hopkins. Nuk in the defense with touchdowns. I think you were. Is he in or out? Thanks, bro. Yeah. Tevin Coleman. Broken ribs, I'm saying out. So out of every fantasy lineup. Is Devante Freeman startable? Yes. Gross. Start him over this next, Sky Lamar Miller.