2nd Half Sleepers + TNF Preview, Doubling Down - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/27

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The fantasy footballers back with you. Spectacular show in store. Oh, heck yeah, man. We will, we'll be talking second half sleeper picks, which is a fun show. Each of us have a couple of guys that we think you should go acquire or expect big things from in the second half of the season. Yeah, guys that can turn it around. They've been asleep, and it's time to wake.

Or maybe they haven't been completely asleep or need to turn it around, just turn it up. Maybe they've just been like, they've been okay, but just you wait. That is correct. We're also going over the Thursday night preview Cardinals Packers game. You heard Chase Edmonds intro of the show. Do you guys realize that Chase Edmonds is averaging 5.8 a carry on the year through seven weeks? I need him to do more, though. You need him to get more carries. Yeah, I would like some more fantasy points.

Mr. Edmonds. Does it help to know that he had the most attempts, rushing attempts of the year in his most recent game? Did he have a great fantasy game? Yes. Then yes. He had 15 carries for 81 yards in the game, 5.4 a carry, caught a past, just outside the top 24. So was that great? No. No. So 26.

It is passable. I mean, he's 22 on the year. I mean, I don't know what your expectations are there. Oh, look. This is a player before last week. We said that this week you want to trade for him. It's going to be a little, you know, that window is closing as they play on Thursday. But I do think Chase Edmonds would be a good qualifying player for today's episode. The Cardinals in general are a target for playoffs, fancy playoffs. They play Detroit.

then at home against Indianapolis, and then they play Dallas. So those three games in a row for your fantasy playoffs weeks, 15, 16, and 17 are attractive, whether it's, you know, whoever you believe in there. If it's Edmonds, Connor, Kyler, Hopkins, I mean, the list goes on with the talented Arizona Cardinals. We have the Spotify Green Room show this afternoon. If you have not joined us, we would love to have you.

We do it live every Wednesday at 3 p.m. Pacific, 6 p.m. Eastern. I've done it all year long. It's a good time. It's fun. You can hop on to the Spotify Green Room app. It is free and check that out. And then the current megalible leader. We've got to announce this. Megalabole eater. Can you read the name for it? It's sort. It's like you said megalable eater.

Sure. I mean, he is eating up the competition right now. And he being Hindu 1974, he is 7 and 0 with 1,175 fantasy points scored on the season. And if you have joined us after the beginning of the year, the Meglabel is our world record holding. It's the largest fantasy. It is, without a doubt, verified by us, by us with 10 to

20 minutes of looking that it is the largest fantasy league in existence, especially when you consider like act, you can trade, you've got waiver. How many people? How many people? 15,000 plus people. You know what you go with is you should go with voted number one. What does that mean? Doesn't that sound great? It sounds great. Voted number one. But Guinness can't come and be like, no. You got the record for being voted number one. I googled is.

The Meglabel, the largest fantasy football tournament. I didn't see no. Okay. That's, it's verified. Let's do some buy sell. Buy or sell, presented by pristine auction. Finally got the better of you, too, this past week. It's been a while. We. You sneaky snook. Mike and I sold Josh Jacobs as the top 10 running back. Yeah, nailed it.

Michael Pittman. We all bought five or more catches. Didn't expect the rain. He ended up with four. So we all lost that one. And then Ryan Tannahill, Jason and I sold him as a three or more total touchdowns against Kansas City, which he had one passing, one rushing. Yes. And someone else on the team had a passing touchdown. That's right. That's right. Although he had no rushing. Yeah. Buy yourself for week eight. These are wide receivers returning from the biopocalypse.

Keenan Allen, is he a top 18 wide receiver against New England this week? I am smashing by. Oh, smash. Well, hello. I have had to do some soul searching this week on my convictions around the Chargers versus New England. And I have chosen to throw my hat into the confidence area of the equation. Equation, yeah, where you're at home?

That's huge. Off the buy, that's huge. I think Keenan Allen is one of the players that the ball hasn't bounced his way, so to speak, in terms of consistency thus far. But I will take him as a top 18. I really like Keenan. Going forward, he is a player, I think, worth targeting. We'll talk about him a little bit more. The line of 18 against New England, I'm going to sell. Right now he's only done it once on the season, but in the top 18.

obviously he has a long history of finishing the top 18. If this was full PPR, I would say yes. But I think for him to get to that mark, he has to get a touchdown this week, which could happen, but I'm going to say he doesn't get a touchdown this week. I will sell the top 18. For what it's worth, New England, currently 19th against fantasy running backs. How about against wide receivers? Yeah. That's what I mean. There you go. All right. Now, the age old tale.

of Bill Belichick takes away your number one weapon. Yeah. Is that Mike Williams? Is that Mike Williams or is that Keenan Allen? Because you can't hyper focus the defense on both of them. And I think that to shut down the chargers, it does start with what Mike Williams' role is in this offense. So I'm going to buy that Keenan Allen sneaks inside that top 18. I do like that narrative.

All right, Chase Claypool, buy, sell, 70 or more receiving yards against Cleveland in Cleveland. He's hit that mark three of six weeks. I'm going to let you guys go first on this one since I jumped in early on the last year. I'm willing to go first on this one. This is a buy for me. Chase Claypool is a good wide receiver. Got a week to rest because we saw him two weeks ago when he was in a really good situation, did not come through, but he left in the first quarter with a...

with a little bit of an injury, came back and tried to play through it. So with the week off and this matchup against Cleveland, I'm not very scared of the Cleveland secondary with what Chase Claypool can do.

Yeah, I mean, this is a, whenever you're looking at Claypool, it feels like a coin flip. Does he have a great game or does he kind of disappear? And I'm going to bet on the talent. I think he is very, very talented. Like you said, off the buy, he had been dealing with, you know, from week four, the hamstring issue seems like he should be fully healthy with no juju. I'm going to bet on him having a really good game. I will buy.

Well, he was really, really talented. The three weeks he didn't get 70 receiving yards as well. So I will sell it on the road just with Big Ben having two weeks. Well, it says he hit the mark three of six weeks in our dock. Oh, well, that's incorrect. So, okay. Was it? No, that is correct. Mm, fight.

Stap fight, step fight. But that's because he missed a week and week four. Yeah. He did not hit the mark. So we're counting games you did not play. In fact, I think we need to, I think we need to amend it again. I think we need to amend it again because he also did not hit it last week on by. So he is really not hit. Three of seven weeks? Yeah. This is trending in a terrible direction. I have to sell. I will, I'm going to sell it. Uh,

What Claypool's situation equates to is Big Ben has to overcome his desires to throw the ball underneath to Pat Friarmoot. Oh, Sluth. Or to Naji Harris or Deonté Johnson. And then they have to hit on that deep shot. It's not going to be 10 of them. Not going to be five of them. He's got to hit on that deep shot, and he might. But I'll sell it just to be different from you too. And then Amari Cooper.

versus Minnesota, five or more receptions. Bye. I will start first. Wait your turn, Jason. Amari Cooper from weeks two through five had three receptions every single game. That was what he was doing. It wasn't that great. He obviously, we remember he never missed time, but he was injured. Coming off the by, I have to believe he's healthy. I think Minnesota is a good team. I think there's going to be a really exciting game.

It's indoors. There's no weather worries, and Amari Cooper is great. So I will bet on the talent and buy. How did he do during the buy week, though? Oh, he missed the mark again. Five or more receptions against Minnesota. I will buy. I think he will get to five. Well, that's an in sync. Bye, bye, bye, bye. Thank you. Very nice. That was buy yourself.

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to see how he's doing emotionally because yesterday's waiver show did not time up well because, I mean, I guess it did for me because I didn't think you should spend anything on Alan Lazard. But I didn't know he was going to have COVID. So Alan Lizard also on the COVID-19 list, Devante Adams, Alan Lazard, seemingly the top two options for this offense are gone.

against the aforementioned Cardinals defense that has been very, very good this year. I was sharing before the show. They've given up 5.3 points in the second halves of games. That's what they've averaged, given up per game. And now you take away Adams, you take away Alan Lazard. You know, the natural reaction here is to turn towards three players. Aaron Jones, who you were starting anyway.

And then Robert Tunyon and Randall Copp. Because otherwise, you could take a shot if NBS is activated, which the comments yesterday we were laughing at, right? It was like, yeah, there's reason for some hope for him to be activated. And then, you know, Amari Rogers, Malik Taylor.

trail off here? Yeah, there's different options. I mean, it's really unfortunate. The Cardinals so far this season have been very good against the run for fantasy purposes. They are number three. So Aaron Jones, it's not a great matchup, but they're going to need him. They're number one, I believe, against tight-in. So it's like, okay, Robert Tunyon, they're going to, oh, dang it. They've really not given up anything to that position. So that's where I do lean MBS. Obviously, he would have to be activated, which is another layer. The current expectation is.