Start/Sit Decisions + TNF Preview, Buy or Sell - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/20

I know the matchup's outstanding, but Kansas City's defense did look better last week. I mean, we were kind of all buying into some Taylor Heineke Kool-Aid, and it didn't manifest. Tana Hill going from zero last week to three against Kansas City. I'll sell it. I think he gets... Well, he had one because he had a rushing touchdown. He did have a rushing touchdown. No passing, though. Correct. I'll sell it. I think he gets to two, both through the air, and Derek Henry, Derek Henry's.

Yeah, that's what it comes down to is the, does Derek Henry, when the coin lands, there's a land on Derek Henry and they're inside the five, so you know it's more than likely going to be Derek Henry, even though, you know, Tannenhill did steal one for himself. I'm going to buy it. I'm going to buy that Kansas City will be scoring a lot and that just like the game against the bills, Tennessee will have to score a whole bunch and this.

As great as Derek Henry is, the variance of a touchdown turning into a passing touchdown, it has to happen at some point. So I'm going to buy it for this matchup. Yeah, this one feels like I'm going to be wrong. I'm going to sell it just because of what we've seen so far this season. I mean, just turn around and give the ball.

to Derek Henry and get out of the way. And you're not going to get credit for that. That being said, I think Tanna Hill is a good streaming option this week. I expect a lot of points of this. This is a great line, Brooks. I really struggle with this one, but I will sell. I think he gets two touchdowns. We need Mike Vrable to watch some of this Kansas City tape. Tap pass. Oh, tap pass. Yeah.

To who, though? The problem is, too Derek, Henry. Henry can't go. He's not a horizontal runner. You got to, they got to figure that out. How do you do a tap pass with someone running from behind you? You just turned to hand it off and you slightly drop it forward. Did you see his false start on? Henry's, yes. Yeah, where he almost fell over. Where he was leaning forward. Did you see how many times they did, they did these shotgun hand-offs to him?

and I've never seen, I think it's one of his advantages. I've never seen a player get to the handoff faster. And I think he's doing that lean. I think he's doing that forward lean before the snap and timing it up because he comes off of that so fast. It was impressive. Riffs, you better get your eyes on this. I think you can lean. I just think you can't fall. You can't go Carmelo and full pump fake it. Let's, let's thank.

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Brooks brought this one up. Odo Buckham Jr. The quote that what he found is he hopes to be a game time decision. That's hysteria. Hopefully I can be a game time decision. If that's the peak, you should sit him. Backup quarterback. Yeah. I mean, he hasn't been worthwhile without a grade three AC joint sprain. Kevin, Kevin, Stephen. Steven. Steven Kaffanski.

I said Jarvis Landry will move around at Tuesday's practice. Is this the kind of information we're getting out of Brown's camp? This is where they're at, hopes to move around? You have to understand. This is great news if you're in Cleveland right now. This is as good as it gets. The news of like, oh, man, he's going to move around. He's going to play some dance dance revolution. I mean, it's just. No, he's just going to get a little sweaty. I talked about the vibes last week of that.

Cardinals Browns game. And the Browns just sucked up all of the. They're like, we got all the bad vibes. We'll take it all. They're starting left tackle. They're starting right tackle that missed last week. Those guys are not practicing so far. I haven't seen an update from today's practice. But that's not good. There have to be, Case has to throw it to someone, right? Yeah, I mean, you would look at the tight ends. So you look at Injoku. You'd look at Hooper.

And Joku was also on the injury report this week. Yeah, you look at Donovan People's Jones, I guess. And then or even, what, Demetrick Felton. Yeah, yeah, that's true. It makes sense if you look at what the Cardinals without Chandler Jones last week were able to do. And then you look at a good pass rush from the Denver Broncos. It gets scary. Cadarius, Tony, trending the wrong direction, very unlikely to play.

Kenny G is still not practicing. What a disastrous first year in New York for Kenny G. I'm going to throw something out there that is going to disgust you. Oh, I love it. But I'm, Dante Pettis had 11 targets last week. What? Did you just invoke the name of Dante Pettis? Dante Pettis had 11 targets. You have Sterling Shepard and Noah.

I loved that guy. He is going to start in two wide receiver sets with no Tony, no Goladay. Is he on the bottom of your waiver boy, Andy? I'm not going to comment. Delightful. But Dante Pettis is a one week desperation. Hold your nose. Tell no one. I want him to dominate. So bad. I want him to dominate. Get a touchdown. Run up to the camera and say, take that shit of hand. I mean.

He looked so good as a wide receiver, got in Shanahan's doghouse, and he got taken back behind the shed and put down. I don't know what you're talking about. I never believed in that man. Oh, man. Dawson Knox underwent successful Tuesday surgery for his fractured hand. Oh, I'm glad it was successful. And, um, has anyone ever said like that report would be so funny? We had an unsuccessful hand surgery. He's going to come back in on Wednesday.

For another try. We just couldn't find the broken bone. We're going to give it another go. All is as it was before the surgery. Except now he's going to scar on his head. Yeah. Dawson Knox Center went unsuccessful surgery. It does seem like a really unnecessary adjective here. Yeah, you should just say surgery, right? They've all been successful this far. A few weeks is what we're hearing.

on Doss and not. He has the bye week this week. You were already prepared to be without him, and then the hope is that he could come back a little bit quicker. If he misses, you know, two weeks, one game, I think that's fine. That's fine to hold him. Obviously, they have not chose to put him on the IR, which would necessitate three games four weeks. Because it was successful. Right. So I think you just got to hold him through this. All right. Paris Campbell, like I said, I are.

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question button on the website, the fantasy footballers.com. We'll go ahead and kick this one off here. A lot of questions about this, about sacrificing a week for your roster due to by apocalypse. I have a team with 17 players missing this week in Dynasty. 18 man roster. 10. It's unbelievable. 10 by weeks, 7 IR players. Twitter question number one comes from Sam.

Is it ever okay to accept a loss during a big buy week? Unless I drop one of Thomas, Tony, Herbert, Lamb, Moss, Sanders, I can't even field a full roster this week. My thought is it is better to lose one week than drop someone who makes my team better moving forward. I have different thoughts, but I'll let you guys begin.

My thoughts are you have to start a full active roster. I don't think it's within the Geneva Convention rules of fantasy football to allow an empty roster spot. So you new buy weeks are coming up. You've got to make your transactions. It doesn't mean that you have to, you know, I think there are situations where you can make a decision that isn't necessarily, you know, looking the best, but you.

you're making that transaction for a reason that you think helps your team. But that would be my, that's where my personal baseline is. And really, this is like a league by league thing. I think a league could come together and say, yeah, you think that's best for your team. That's fine. Vote on it. Agree. Or a league would say, absolutely, you can never have an empty roster spot. My personal barometer, that's what it is. You can't have empty roster spots. So you say you've got to drop Thomas, Tony, Herbert, Lamb, Moss, or Sanders.

Cadarius Tony, you could drop Cadarius Tony. He's currently injured. I know he's the new hotness. You might have to try to bid and get him back if you want him a week later. But you won't. Or, yeah, or you won't get him. But I think personally, and this, I don't think this is a hard and fast rule. This isn't one where there's a universal answer, but mine would be you have to feel the full roster.

Yeah, I lean that direction. But what I would say is just make a transaction. I mean, there are a lot of leagues that I've made trades specifically for Bipocalypse where I'm maneuvering my roster so that I'm not in your position where I'm having to concede. You don't know how many wins you're going to need to get into the playoffs or how perfect the season is going to go or how many injuries are coming your way. Even if you're making this decision, you should try to win. Because you might luck into a win. We've seen teams with...