Last Straw Players, Pump the Brakes, Manly Men

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the fantasy footballers podcast coming to you from draft dot com studios with your host andy holloway jason moore and mike right welcome in i see mike is broken out the hat week continues hat week there's on a cardinals cap today you're enough days removed from the lost that you can wear a cardinal cap yeah we're we're on to week five now yeah

I see if you had asked for a hat from, I don't know, Christian Kerr, Gloria Fitzgerald, Ricky Seals-Jones, any of those, they would have dropped it. They would have dropped it. Yeah. Welcome in Wednesday, October 3rd, 2018. It's another day. Another day in the neighborhood. That's what they say. We've got some great segments prepared for you today. Pump the brakes. Last straw. We're revealing our last straw players. Players that we're giving you one last chance.

And then we're kicking you off our teams vindictively. Yeah. Oh, we'll click that button so hard. Click. Yeah. That was a loud click, Mike. Jason, how are you doing today? I'm doing all right. You know, the middle of the week, the hump day, the Wednesday is like, okay, man, I'm just getting over last week. I'm doing all my research for this coming week. And so my mind is like a knot.

So who knows what you're getting from me today? I mean, the things that'll come out of my mouth will shock and awe. Had a quick story I thought was funny to share. You reminded me because Loz was kind enough to sponsor the show. Yeah, yesterday. I know, I'm going to do some man stuff. Yeah, oh, yeah. I got one of those. Hard not to these days. Nest thermostats? Yeah. Oh.

I've never changed the thermostat. I installed this bad dog upstairs. I was, I tested it. I'm so proud of myself. I go down. I'm flexing for the family saying, look, look what this dad accomplished. We eat dinner. You know, everything's going fine. We go upstairs to go to bed. It's 83 degrees upstairs. Not working.

No, it was working just in the opposite direction. Oh, you hooked it up like backwards or something? Yeah, well, I guess I'm taking the blame. I thought I followed the directions appropriately, but somehow the wires were crossed. Something about a heat pump reversal. I don't know. But instead of cooling the air, the upstairs for everyone to have a pleasant sleep, sleep, I was heating it. That's really funny. So it's 8.30 p.m.

Yeah. And I'm scrambling to fix the stupid thermostat. It worked before. Oh, it sucked. I have my own nest thermostat story. Look, I've installed them at my house. Three of them did three of them in half an hour flex for the family. They were impressed. They gave me the clap. Jason. Oh, it's so easy. It's not easy. Andy says it's so easy. So, yeah, I got him for my house. Yeah, I said, I got this. I was like, Andy, you've done these. Yeah, hook it up. Come on over.

And I said, no big deal. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I'll just do this real quick. Yeah. Rips his shirt off. Yeah. This is how, man, does it? Yeah. Well, how'd that turn out? Well, you broke my air conditioning unit. You tripped something and the fuse broke and I had to get a professional out there. Because I knew that story, I made sure I had turned everything off. Yeah. So thank you. Yeah, no hot swapping. No hot swapping on the thermoset. All right. Follow us on Twitter at the FF ballers all year long.

We're here with you every day, helping you navigate your league. Have some fun. Jason got trolled live on the show yesterday. It was incredible timing. He received his 0 and 4 balloons from his week 4 opponent. Still going to be the tramp. Okay. We'll see. YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballers. We're throwing some highlights up there as well every day. Thanks, baby Josh. You are, you're doing a good job over there. He's nodding.

He's nodding like a baby. Because he doesn't have a microphone. Baby Josh does not get to speak on the show. It's risky business if that, yeah, no way. Footclan giveaway.com, sign Corey Davis Jersey Championship Belt. You can check that out. And our rankings are up later today. It's Wednesday and, well, you know. Oh, oh, oh, O'Reilly. O'Reilly. Auto parts. All right, pump the brakes. Our weekly pump the brakes segment with O'Reilly Auto Parts.

Jason, who are you pumping the brakes on heading into week five? Look, I'm pumping the brakes on a star rookie running back with multiple touchdowns and over 100 yards doing it more efficiently than any running back in the history of football. A lot of people rushing out to grab Nick Chubb from the waiver wires. I think there are plenty of people those Chubb truthers who will say, you know what?

I'm plugging them in. I want the breakaway touchdowns, which clearly he can provide. And I'm saying, whoa, whoa, Nelly, let's slow down a bit. Because he had, are you told Booth Willie? Do you really think people are. I'm coming out of the booth. Do you think people are starting Nick Chubb? Apparently. Who's starting Nick Chubb?

Every single time that a player goes off for a monster game, there are those people in certain leagues that want to chase those points. And here's the thing. News came out saying that they want to get Nick Chubb more involved. So it's someone. Hugh Jackson said that. Exactly. Yes. Baby Huey himself, baby Huey Jackson wants to get.

Nick Chubb more involved. So I think that there will be people plugging them in or at least making large waiver bids to get the hopeful future star running back. And I'm pumping the brakes majorly because, look, he had three carries. He also had three snaps. Three times he got on the...

field. That's 100% touch rate, though. That is true. I mean, highly efficient. And I liked Nick Chubb. I liked his tape coming into college. I had a note that basically said, look, if he goes to a team with an awesome offensive line, he's going to be great because you get him with a head of steam and you're not stopping him. We saw that this last week. If he goes to a team with an average or mediocre line, I think he's going to get taken down a lot behind the line of scrimmage.

But he's not going to get the work. But Jason. Oh. But Jason. Wow. That's quite a voice of public opinion. Yes, Mrs. Public opinion. If you gave him 15 carries, he'd have 10 touchdowns. Exactly. Wrong. That's what I'm pumping the brakes on. All right. He extrapolate too much. He got three snaps, and he was a change of pace guy. I'm not really worrying about it. If you want to pick him up, if you've got a burner spot, because...

Maybe he becomes. I think he's a fine stash. Sure. But he's a handcuff. Yeah. I agree. I'm going to jump in here. My pump the brakes. If you're the hide owner, maybe you think about it. Yeah. That'd be the, yeah. Sure. Yeah. Running backs are dropping like flies these days. So a high upside stash, Nick Chubb, I think is an okay play for your fantasy team. I'm pumping the brakes on someone last week who had himself a monster fantasy game.

The number three quarterback on the week, over 460 yards, four passing touchdowns. I'm pumping the brakes on Andrew Luck. I don't want to play him this week. Short week. Playing the Patriots will be without his top two weapons. And that means, yes, I am including Jack Doyle as a top two weapon for the Colts. The same two he was out last week. No, he had T.Y. Hilton last week. For a small part of the game. For the, for.

most of the game. But he is out. We're now dealing with Ryan Grant, Pascal, Chester Rogers, and I think that the Patriots figured some things out last week. You had the 3-0 Dolphins who maybe they weren't, they didn't look as good as their record, but to just completely shut them down offensively. Ryan Tannenhill had 100 passing yards. And they're at home again. And Locke is missing his biggest.

Big play weapon. This is what the Patriots do. They start slow. They figure things out. It's not the beginning of the end. Nope. It's the end of the beginning. Yes. The Patriots are about to rise. And I think that Andrew Luck is in their sights. You got some Batman forever going on in my head now. The end is the beginning is the end. Remember that? I don't. The only thing I remember about that is. Smashing Pumpkins, I believe. Oh, is that the Smashing Pumpkins song? Oh, I just remember. You remember that, Brooks?

It's time to kick some ice. I think we referenced it in the fire and ice and fire show. Did Batman Forever come out before or after baby Josh was born? Oh, way before. What year were you born? 1996, he says. Oh, maybe. Why don't you vet that? Wow, that's a legitimate question. That is really upsetting. Okay, Batman Forever was 1995. So that came out before. You avoided that thing. Good for you. You remember that movie, Josh, when you were one?

You need to chill. That was bad. My pump the brakes, and I'm sticking with it, not that you can listen to me anymore. I mean, I'm looking at last week, right? Mike, home run, pumped the brakes, Isaiah Crowell. He basically pumped the brakes entirely. He didn't even start. Right. The car didn't move. Right. It's in the driveway. Yeah, he forgot to let the e-break off. I mean, this wasn't even a bad game. It was a no game.

Marvin Jones, Jason. He had a very mediocre week. Didn't get the touchdown just like you projected. And then I pumped the brakes on the greatest player in the history of the NFL. Your process was sound. Calvin Ridley. It was, Jason. Get out of here. Yeah, I mean, Calvin Ridley. A guy who's on the field for what, like 40% of snaps. Also, less targets than Sunnu and Julio Jones and yet two touchdowns again. Yep. So we'll stay in those, what do you call that? The ice water.

I'm pumping the brakes on Philip Lindsay, my start of the week last week, who did perform as the start of the week. And I'm pumping the brakes in the context of, look, he is not an auto start to me. He still needs a good matchup to play him. And you have to put him in this category of basically, you know, Royce Freeman's great, Vance Joseph's stupid, Devante Booker's there. And because of that, you need Philip Lindsay to get into the end zone for you. If he didn't do it last week, he's not an auto start.