Week 13 Buy or Sell, Fantasy Algebra & Questions - Fantasy Football Podcast for 12/2

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The fantasy footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Welcome in. Oh, it's football time. Weird. Weird. Weird. This afternoon, yeah. I'm not used to Wednesday afternoon football, certainly not Wednesday afternoon football. Dot com. Wednesday afternoon football.com.

I went there. I went to that website yesterday. I really liked the content. I thought it was a nice website. I thought it was beautiful. Yeah. So we do have. Aesthetically pleasing. Afternoon football today. And no Thursday night football as of now, right? They could do anything they want.

They could move me around whenever they want to. They've been talking about adding a couple of teams to the NFL for Thursday night just for more money with everything going on with COVID. So we'll have to wait and see if Rapid Board or Schefter talk any more about that. That's what we're here for. Absolutely. One week, one week until episode 1,000. Oh, and I still have no idea what that show is going to be because.

Al Borland, Judge Diomani have something they're plotting. I'm excited, man. Darned out. The whole team's in on this. We got Kyle helping and Brian and Schneider. Oh, my goodness. It's not going to suck. It's not going to suck, is it? Oh, of course it is. You just got to be there. Okay. Well, we plan to be. I imagine we'll be a part. Are we even in the, is that show a thousand we're taken out and you guys are hosting? Is that what's happening? Yeah, somewhat.

All right. We need you there. This sounds great. Okay. All right. This is going to be fun. You can find us on Twitter at theFF ballers. Jointhefoot.com is the community. You get the extra weekly episode, all the premium perks, resources, tools, stats, all that good stuff at join the foot.com. Oh, do we have a quick question today, brooksie? We sure do without that Thursday night game. Oh, my goodness. Good question today. All right. Quick question of the day from Instagram.

What are your thoughts on penalties for not setting a roster? So this could be injuries. This could be by weeks. He says, I have a league member that may sneak into the playoffs that stopped playing after week two. Oh. I thought you don't win at the draft, Jason. Look, I'm not going to lie to you. The rest of your league should be a little embarrassed. He says he wants to let people in that have been participating all year. So he's thinking about.

Maybe blocking this autopilot commissioner out. Oh, man. So. Oh, man. I say let it ride. I say you got to beat this computer team. If you want the championship, I mean, you can't let this auto coasting. You know, this is this is someone who put their Tesla on autopilot and went to sleep. And we're just hoping that on the freeway it doesn't crash. You got to stop that thing, man. That's your job.

But it's the job of the other managers, you're saying, not the job of the commissioner. Right. I'm saying you've got to beat that team. It does stink. I will say this. If the manager is completely like out, they're not doing anything. They're not responding to anything. Then sure, it doesn't matter. It's hard after the fact to create rules, though, right? Like, if you didn't have a rule already.

beforehand and now you miss things to say okay well here's what we're going to do backwards compatible uh new rule so this should definitely be an opportunity to create a new rule for the future what what rule should that be can't you just tell that uh manager that you did make a rule back in the beginning because they won't they won't have paid attention so the problem is not for them the problem is for the rest of the league of like who faced

Who faced this auto drafter or the non-compliant manager? I mean, did someone sneak a free win in that time period? Doesn't sound like it. Well, but they're going to sneak in, meaning that this is like the sixth place team. That means that other teams played them when there was by weeks and their best players. I mean, this team clearly has some good players and someone got to play them.

when those best players were on by and get an easy win. So it's tough to retroactively do anything here. Yeah, I don't mind pulling them out of the playoffs, though. I mean, you don't adjust past results, but if you want to put active players or you want to lay out a statement that says, look, if we don't hear back from this guy before the playoffs start, we're not going to give you one of the spots. We've had this come up at times.

You know, on a week-to-week basis, somebody leaves somebody in every once in a while. That's pretty much like you've lit the fuse on being kicked out of the league. I mean, that, and if you don't put that fuse out in the next 24 hours, we've got somebody waiting in the wings for you. Now, Judge Giamatti, you had this happen a couple years ago. Is that right? Yeah, and that's exactly what I did. I made a statement of the whole league just saying I haven't heard from this manager.

weeks and weeks and I've tried to reach out and I want a competitive playoffs and so I just decided that's what we're doing so who did you put in just the seventh place team well of course that person responded right before the playoffs oh of course they did that's my wallet that's my wallet yeah that's what'll happen in virtual oh I'm in the playoffs I'm back okay well that yeah I think that

getting them out of the playoffs if they truly are inactive is important because the integrity of the playoffs will get messed up. Yes, they've autopileted up to now, but whoever's playing them in the first round is going to have an advantage over an autopilot team. So I don't mind that policy. And every league should be, you know, we always say at the beginning of the year, better to play with an eight team league where every manager's active than a 12 team league where you're dealing with this type of thing week to week. So certainly adjust for your future.

But I think Jason's right. You should be embarrassed. This guy got into the playoffs. It happens. I'll say it too as a commission. I mean, it was very clear at the beginning of the year. The expectations to be in the league are to set your lineup every week and that sort of thing. Sure. I didn't feel bad trying to kick that person out. All right. Let's do some buy sell. Buy or sell presented by pristine auction.

All right. Last week, we'll throw this one out. We all bought or sold DJ Chark as a top 29 wide receiver. He wasn't because he didn't play. That's rough. Nailed it. And then Aaron Rogers as a top eight quarterback, Mike and I both bought it against Chicago. I don't blame Jason for selling it, but at this point in time, you don't doubt. You don't doubt. No, if you remember, I did not doubt him. I was taking the field of eight other people with no buy weeks.

That's called doubting Rogers. Yeah, all right. Yeah, I mean, you're lost. You lost that one. I deserve the L. And then Clyde Edwards O'Lear 80 total yards. Jason and I sold it. He didn't get it done. I will say this about Rogers. Somebody sent a message in, and they said, they were doubting Rogers as well. They said, boy, should I play the Eagles D? Darius Slay is going to shut down Devante Adams this week. Am I crazy to potentially play the Philadelphia defense?

Yeah, you crazy, man. Aaron Rogers will get it done against Philadelphia. How Darius Slay do on D.K. Metcalfe. I know. That was his point. He said, Darius Slay shuts down route runners, not physical size. I said, good luck. I think DeMonte Adams is in another tier. But week 13 buyer sell. Oh, boy, this is very special. Brooks put together players with the jersey number 13 as our theme this week. Oh, lucky number 13.

But this is a good one to bring up. Brandon Cooks against Indianapolis. Will he have 83 receiving yards? Set the line at 83. He has hit that mark three out of the last four games, but not by much. 83, 39, then 8585. And two of the opponents were very easy. You got Jacksonville and Detroit in there as far as two that he hit on. Indianapolis, very difficult opponent. I would imagine.

No, but I'm going to hop in here and buy. I'm going to buy that he hits it. We don't know exactly what's going to happen without Will Fuller, but I trust at the end of the day, Deshaun Watson, to manufacture enough yards to stay competitive in the divisional matchup, and it's going to have to go through Cook. So I'm going to buy. Yeah, this is all about what you believe about Brandon Cooks. Can he actually be the go-to receiver in this offense when Kiki QT's at number two, when Jordan Akins is running out of the slot,

a mess in the backfield. I don't think so. I don't think he gets it done this week. I'm going to sell Brandon Cooks hitting that mark. I don't think he can demand. He will be productive, but I don't know if he can. I don't think he goes up very much. Yeah, I'm with you, Andy. Trying to read the situation with no one has wanted Brandon Cooks, these teams, apparently, even though he's been a very productive wide receiver in his career. But can he be?

The man. And I don't think you can either, even though this. The matchup is tough. The matchup is tough, but Brandon Cooks can do this in two receptions just because of the type of player that he is. So one big play and we will be sweating the 85 marker and I'm going to sell. Okay. Yeah, you're absolutely right though. It could take very little time for Jason to end up right on this one. Michael Thomas at Atlanta.

Is he a top 24 wide receiver this week? Two weeks ago with Taysam Hill, number 16 overall. Hooray. Yeah. Last week with Taysam Hill, 43rd. In fact, Michael Thomas is not Michael Thomas anymore. No. Not right now. So buy yourself as a top 24 against Atlanta this week. I'm going to buy it. Okay. It might be.

22 on the week. But I think he gets there because I think Atlanta will be productive enough on offense to force the issue. This is not Denver and what we saw last week. They didn't need to do anything. I mean, Taysom Hill could have thrown the ball zero times and they would have won that game. So I'm going to buy it. Yeah, I'm also going to buy it. We saw him be the first target in what was a more competitive game. You know, the Kendall Hinton.

ish led Broncos. You know, the over under for that game was. Are you saying he played like ish? Or you're saying the hint of the hint of it. I'm saying he was kind of the quarterback, but not really half time. You know, was it? Lindsay was it. They were rotating guys. And you know, the over under on that game was 36 points last week. We should have seen a bad game coming for for pass catchers. So I'm going to buy. He's still Michael Thomas. And despite what Derek Carr couldn't do against Atlanta, it should be a good matchup.

Yeah, the marker for top 24 for Michael Thomas is a bit low, so I will buy. And I don't have enough stats here to play a full game. I just wanted to highlight something that there are, Michael Thomas has played five games, and there is a wide receiver, a rookie wide receiver that I was talking about yesterday. It plays for the New York Jets. His name is Denzel Mims, who is averaging more yards per game.

then Michael Thomas in the same amount of games played. That's where we are. Yeah. Yeah. That is more of an indictment on Michael Thomas's production. Remember when you're at the beginning of your draft and you're deciding.