Fantasy Football 2017 - Halloween Special, Week 9 Waivers, Trade News

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Let's get nuts, Foot Clan. Hey, everybody. Welcome to the show. Oh, it's going to be a good show. Tuesday, October 31st. I can... Happy Halloween! Barely hear myself.

You can barely hear. Due to this costume. You can barely see. It's like an echo. I feel like I'm talking in a large atrium. And you also have a nose whistle that I really hope is picked up on the show a few times. I'm also blind. If you don't know what we're talking about, it's Halloween. If you've never heard of it. Every October 31st. It's a new thing happening this year. But you've got to go to the YouTube's.

YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballers and see the problems that we are all experiencing right now. Hey, I love your costume. Oh, Andy. Yeah. I love your costume. Oh, I love your costumes. One of us. We have such a jam-pack show that we cannot focus on the lore. Yeah, it's a great show today. Also, I am very fat. I've got a big Ben Rothesberger helmet situation going on. You look like a burnt marshmallow. I am.

You're just oozing out. Oh, man, squeeze out of that mask. Oh, it's terrible. I need to tuck the chins back behind. Oh, welcome, everybody. The judge is here, too, by the way. Judge Giamati. We have waivers on the show today. We have Monday night football. We'll talk through what happened last night. We've got news and notes. We've got the madness. That is the trade deadline and things that may be happening. All right, I've got to take these gloves off.

That may be happening on the actual show today. We have a trick-or-treat segment talking about some fantasy playoffs. Oh, and we have streaming quarterbacks. It's two hours today. Let's get a me. Megalodon. All right. Let's get into the quick, quick thoughts from last night's game. 2919, the chiefs take out the Broncos. Broncos are reeling at the quarterback position. Yes. There's talk of...

Brock or Paxton Lynch, who just returned to practice, taking over for Simeon. Where are you guys with this entire offense and the upside? I mean, we've seen with Indianapolis, now with Green Bay, when the quarterback situation hits the skids, so to speak, which is actually the new nickname for Trevor Simeon, the skids. It's not a good nickname. 19 for 36, 52 rating, 197, three touchdowns. Nope.

QBR 43. Three interceptions. What did I say three touchdowns? That was in his dreams. Yeah. The decision making of Trevor Simeon is just gone off the cliff. The first few games, he at least looked competent. He's going to make mistakes with Trevor Simeon. But I don't know how you move forward with him if you're the Denver Broncos. If you want any kind of chance to compete, you're three and four. So you're not.

You're not totally out of the wild card situation. Your division hopes are probably toast. The next few games are really tough on them as far as NFL, the Philadelphia Eagles and the New England Patriots. I mean, the last report I read was that it would most likely be Paxton Lynch. Do you honestly, I watched Paxton Lynch playing the preseason. He's terrible. He couldn't handle preseason defense. Yeah, that's called phoning in the season. Yeah, if you put Paxton in. Yeah. So would you put Brock in? Brian Hoyer was cut.

by the 49ers, and we're going to get into tons of news. Brian Hoyer would be your best option in Denver, don't you think? Or do you just want the conservative run game approach? Batman, you got to talk into your microphone. Am I not? Well, you keep leaning back. Oh, you get away his costume. Oh, sorry. I'm leaning back because my nose is whistling. We're trying to offer a high-quality Halloween product. Well, Brian Hoyer, I think we'll get into Hoyer, but he's going to end up somewhere else, absolutely. But just running through the rest of this game.

The receivers for Denver, I had hoped for Demarius Thomas, five for 66, not the end of the world, but certainly not what you were hoping for against the chiefs who brought Amar Cooper back to life. The running back situation for the Broncos is interesting. It's so dumb to me because, you know, Andy and I, similar to how you and I might, we argue over Melvin Gordon. We were arguing last night as we watch this game.

over C.J. Anderson because I'm still a C.J. Anderson believer. Andy is not so much. And every time Andy would speak bad about C.J. Anderson, he'd do something good. He'd rip off another 8, 9, 10-yard run. He looked great. And he still got the bulk of the carries. He got 15 carries the next best, I believe, was 7. But he needs more because the other guys, in my opinion, weren't getting it done. I mean...

Well, I mean, Booker was getting to Dunn and Booker got the, I believe it was from the six and he scored. Yes, Booker looks good, but he needs to be, you know, in the role he's in. Right. We saw when he took over. Fantasy owners cannot trust C.J. Anderson or this offense. He's been single digits two or three of the last five weeks. He may be the best runner, but he's the best runner on a bad offense right now that has three running backs that all flashed last night.

and he's a running back 2-3 cusp guy. That's what he is. Yeah, that is what he is. He's a guy that you hope gets 20 carries. It's certainly disappointing after the first two weeks where, you know, he was averaging nearly 100 yards and, you know, 22 and a half carries a game. But for a guy you can't trust, C.J. Anderson running back 24 in a half point PPR. That's a very startable running back. He outscored.

Karim Hunt, which, no, I'm not worried about Hunt, but he outscored Forte. He outscored Doug Martin. That's what a two, three means, Mike. He's running back 24, you said. But you can't trust him because he's put up single digits three of the last five weeks. Eight carries, nine carries, ten carries. You have to start him. No, you don't have to start him. I am a believer, but I don't think you absolutely have to start him. A lot of that ranking comes from week two when he had over 30 fantasy points. No, I'm talking about this week.

This past week he was okay. 15 for 78 on the ground, caught another ball for seven yards. Right. In our format, he was 10.5 points. That was fine. That was, but that's, I mean, you're not excited. No, but you have to start him. The other side of the ball. I'd rather start James White. The other side of the ball, you were super happy if you were a Travis Kelsey owner. And if you were a Tyreek Hill or a Kareem Hunt owner. Or an Alex Smith owner. Sure. Well, yeah, I mean, Alex Smith was disappointing.

Kareem Hunt, very disappointing and Tyreek Hill devastating. He did very little as a wide receiver and he threw an interception as a quarterback. Kareem Hunt. Don't worry about it. Not only don't worry about it. To me, after this week, I would say Kareem Hunt going up against one of the best rundies in the league in Denver and Dak Prescott having that, you know, torrential downpour in Washington. Those are my two targets this week. If I can steal them from a team who.

is afraid that this is the new normal. I certainly will be trying. This is the first game of the entire year that Kareem Hunt did not have over 100 yards. Right. In all per, you know, between receiving and running back. Well, I don't think anybody thinks he sucks. I think the majority of people are going to stick with him. But I would target him. The Broncos have shut down Zeke, Shady, Melvin Gordon. I mean, it was the weird one was Orleans Darkwa.

had a big game against them. That was, you know, whatever, one game fine, but those are superstar running backs. And Jay Ajai next week. You're predicting he will be shut down? We'll talk about that later. News and notes from around the league. Much like Big Ben and a helmet, I am in a torture chamber right now. I cannot see. Do you need me to take over? No, you, what did I just do? Welcome to the show. We've got a great show plan for you today.

I am a blind man flying a ship here. Of darkness. No, no, no. I'm okay. Lightful. On Twitter, you can find us at the F.F. Ballers. There's my nose whistle. All right. Let's move into the news and notes. Jay Ajai, Monster News this morning. You talk about going nuts. He's been traded to the Eagles for a fourth round pick. Guys, this is monster news. If you're a J. Ajai owner.

We had just hit the panic button. He struggled. Adam Gase apparently despises the man. You're super happy if you're a Gai owner. Yeah, you have to be. I was saying off air yesterday, count me as someone that would not be surprised if this week, this was before the trade. Right. If J. Ajaya gets five carries max. Because I saw everything Adam Gates was saying as, look, I'm done with you. I mean, he left Ajai, you know, he left him away from a game week one last year, didn't even travel with the team.

Adam Gase is the type that will send a message. And this is great news. You're going from one of the worst offensive lines in the league to one of the best. The worst offenses, period. Yeah. Not even just the line. Zero carries inside the five yard line this year for J. Ajai in Miami. The number one team in the NFL inside the five carries is the Philadelphia Eagles. But will, what are you guys expecting for the split of the carries? So the Laguerre Blunt is still there. He's been.

okay now clearly i mean if you're going to give up a fourth round pick even though that doesn't sound like much to fantasy football players NFL teams care about their fourth round pick to give it up for a running back i expect it's it's going to be messy or do you expect jay to come in and by next week kind of assert himself as the primary one two i believe he will absolutely assert himself as the primary back he is a far better running back

than LaGarrett Blunt. Leggaret Blunt's looked okay. He's gotten the job done, but clearly the Philadelphia Eagles are saying we need better. And I don't think they're happy with what Wendell Smallwood has done behind him. They've had some injuries to other guys. And they wanted to, you know, not make Carson Wentz have to throw 650 times this year. So this coming week, it's going to be really hard. Week one.

You go against that aforementioned Denver Broncos run defense that has looked outstanding this year. Then you go from there to a buy week. So I don't think you're going to see Ajai Golden Philadelphia Eagle value until three weeks from now. But three weeks from now, I expect that Ajai is a rock solid, you know, RB1, maybe, you know, top 15 if not running back, which.

was not going to happen with the Miami Dolphins. So as an Ajai owner, you're thrilled. Yeah, I think you're just thrilled for a new opportunity because you had seen, you know, you've heard this song being played this year. I'm not, I'm not guarantee it guaranteeing a top 15 player there. I think you have more opportunity, less volume. I think that's what Ajai needs, honestly. You could be right, but he's been trying to hit the home run all year long. The offense of lines much better.

Last year when, sorry to interrupt, last year when we were like, is this breakout real with a giant? I went and I rewatched every single one of his snaps. The one thing that I found from a jai's running style is that every single time that he had a hole to run through, he picked up, you know, seven, eight, nine, ten yards. He's a great head of steam runner. But if you could touch him in the backfield.

He crumples as if he's, you know, got no muscle in his body. And this year when you watch the Miami Dolphins, he's just been hit, you know, two yards behind the line, left, right, center, every play. And I think the Eagles will open up a hole on the majority of plays, and he'll take advantage of that. Obviously, this hurts blunt rest of season significantly. Wendell Smallwood, he's out the door, basically, in terms of value. And like Jason said, the Denver game, then the bye week.