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With your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Welcome to the Fantasy Footballers podcast. I'm glad that you're here. Oh, I am as well. And you know who else? I'm glad that Jay Grizz is here. Jay Gris is always here. Jay Gris never, never abandons us. He has, uh, he can't move, Jason. No, I saw someone on Twitter.

They were saying that, you know, they've listened for a long time. And they always assumed that Jay Gris was like a producer who just sits in and doesn't really say much, thought he was hairy or something. We make fun of them. And then they went to YouTube and found out that no, Jay Griz is indeed a seven foot bear. So go to YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballers. He certainly is. And he fills in when one of us cannot be.

at the show. And that one would be Andy Holloway, who's, he'll be back on Monday. But I am here. Jason is here. I am your host today. Mike the Fantasy Hitman Wright, joined by Jason Moore. You can find us on Twitter at the FF Ballers and you can follow our personal accounts, which Jason has a tale to tell today from his personal account, which is a very good follow. You find him at Jason FFL and you can find me at FFF Hitman.

Before we get into the news, you got to jump into that quick question. This one comes in from Mike McKinish. I got psyched out by the Mike with a Y. Ooh, I think that's meyke. All right, meyke McKinish. Is it good or bad strategy to two set your lineup based on your opponent's lineup, i.e. starting the quarterback to your opponent's wide receiver, vice versa. How do you handle that? Do you let...

the other person get inside your head and affect how you set things? Oh, certainly not. I don't let them get in my head. However, your opponent... You get in their head. You're darn right, I do. Your opponent and your actual matchup of your team versus the other team makes a huge difference. I mean, you've got to factor all of the things in. There's no week where I set my lineup without looking at my opponent. Who is...

my opponent. What is my record? What is their record? And what type of team are we? Am I playing a guy or gal that is just have a monster roster? You know, they're putting up 150 points a week, in which case I know if I want to beat them, I'm going with the home runs. I'll throw in the Deshaun Jackson play where it's like he can go off for that 90-yard touchdown. So I factored that in. It is.

more rare that I would actually play a specific player because of team makeup. But there is a situation where I like playing the pass-catching option of my opponent's quarterback. I don't like the opposite. I don't either. Because obviously every single time that a quarterback throws to a wide receiver, the wide receiver outscores the quarterback on that play because they're getting...

point per 10 yards, whereas quarterbacks usually get, you know, 0.25 yards. And then in most leagues, touchdowns are four for the quarterback, six for the positional players. So that's where if you're playing a really great team, you know, I would choose to put in Devante Adams, if I had a, you know, similar replacement, if I'm going up against the team that has Aaron Rogers, for instance. I'm basically identical to everything that Jason just said that.

I take the look. It's like the game plan. You're getting ready for a team. You got to know how to attack. And if that, if that team stinks, then you go with the floor. Yeah, you go with those safe guys. You just don't want to put up a dud and let your opponent sneak in a victory. No, those sneaky victories are the worst. Unless they're yours. I love those victories. I put up 50 points in one. I always credit my, my defense in those situations. Yeah, your defense has been clutch.

By defense, I mean you're doing nothing, right? But you take all the credit because that's what you do. If you want to find out how we are, who we would start in what order, we have our rankings. And they are available on the website, the fantasy footballers.com. And of course, you can join our fantasy football community with all kinds of things for the show, like an extra episode, which we are recording today. Oh, let me just.

Pause for a second. And that's jointhefoot.com. Yes, join the foot.com. That's our Patreon community with all of the listeners here that are, you know, the official foot clan. And we do this Thursday show every week, the footcast where it's just your questions, the questions from the listeners over on join the foot.com. And that show usually is a little bit crazier than this show. It's a little bit like you're just with friends. The top button is undone. For sure. We don't ever wear pants. Never wear pants. Never wear pants. Never.

And the thing is, is dad is gone. So the Thursday, I've all week been looking forward to the footcast because the footcast today is going to be crazy. It absolutely is going to be crazy. And another perk from help and support the show at join the foot.com. You get access to the flex rankings. That's what everybody always wants. On top of many, many other things. But now it's time to talk news. News and notes from around the league. Take it away, Jason.

All right. Do we need this? Yeah, I'm going to need some music here for a journal entry. For the diary? For the diary? First, I have to apologize to my followers and to myself. I had this wrong concept about a man named Tyler Eifert. Hadn't heard much. He had been injured as he is want to do. He's one, yeah. Yeah. But they're on their by week.

His original timetable looked like he should be able to be back around now, the extra week of buy. I thought, wow, he's a sneaky good pickup right now. And I looked in my leagues, and I found him on two different waiver wires. I picked him up. I picked him up $1 over you. You were trying to pick him up. Oh, so I go on the Twitter sphere and I say, hey, people, look for Tyler Eifer, pick him up. This is a long diary. This is so long. We're out of music. 45 minutes later.

He's getting back surgery in Los Angeles. His season is over. You're welcome. I will try to not have that poor of timing on my sneaky pickups from here on out of my control. So if you did not decipher the ramblings of a man man. Yeah. Tyler Eifer is undergoing back season or back surgery. He is out for the season. A player who is back though, Jordan Reed. Washington tight end no longer listed on the injury.

Injury report. Sounds like we're full go for Jordan Reed. That's what you want to see. I mean, you don't want to see Jordan Reed struggling through injury. You want to see him not on there. He's a full go. He doesn't, he's not worried about his shoulder or his chest or his head right now. So he's a must start. It sounds like Rob Kelly is a long shot running back for Washington. So that means Somaget P-Rine time. Samage is going to get 20 plus carries and they face the San Francisco 49ers.

That's a great pickup, a great start. I mean, you could play him this week, assuming that Rob Kelly does indeed miss, which I think right now. Yeah, I think he's going to miss. Packers News, Jordy Nelson and Ty Montgomery have both been practicing, which that's, I mean, that's great news for Jordy because that would say he's going to play after missing the final drive last week for Montgomery. You still don't know. He practiced last week. Right. It's no short thing that he's going to start. If the ribs are indeed broken.

the pain tolerance. You can practice. Your own team is not going to be smashing you in the ribs when you know you've got broken ribs. You can practice them full. But doing that in the game is very different. I'm not confident that he's going to start this week. And if he does start, I think he's a risky play. And there's even reports from ESPN Rob Domovsky says the Packers could start Aaron Jones regardless of Ty Montgomery status. So, I mean, you if Ty Montgomery.

is active. And they say, okay, Aaron Jones is starting. Time Montgomery is going to be active. Do you start either of them, both of them, neither of them? Jones. You would still start Jones? I would still start Jones. With Time Montgomery active? Yeah, because he has broken ribs. That's high risk. And their running backs are in fish. And they look like the Michelin Man because they throw on that giant Kevlar vest.

They're kind of waddle through the line. It's a, it's a bad look. You've got to let time Montgomery rest. Speaking of resting, Corey Davis is out again for the tights. Heal up, Corey Davis. Yeah. Good news out of Chargers camp. Mike Williams, early, early first round rookie wide receiver, he is expected to play. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. He is expecting to play.

Oh, I stand expected to play. I stand corrected. And when I see, you know, players coming out, you know, who was, like Mike you potty was like, I'm 100% going to play. Oh, you're on IR. Yeah. So look, he's close. I mean, the report before this was he's very close to being back. And what that means to me is he's not back. I mean, when you're very close, that means not all the way there. Now he's expecting to play.

That's good news. You're not going to, no one in the world would start him. I don't even know if you need to pick him up yet. I would agree with that. But what we can say for sure about Mike Williams is when his back is back, he'll be back. All right. You're not sure. It was a back injury, Jason. I got you. I just, you know, they can't, they can't all be winners. That was a slam dunk. Really? Yeah. We're going to have to put up a bowl. Judge Giamati, give me a ruling on that pun. Judge.

He wasn't ready. He wasn't ready. He wasn't ready. Get in there, Judge. Bad joke. Oh, no. Yes. No. Good judge. I thought it was good. Sterling Shepard, New York Giants. He did not practice Thursday. He is not expected to play with the ankle injury. And we have an update for the Philadelphia Eagles who are playing tonight. Right tackle. Lane Johnson is out. And this is a big deal. Bad news. Yeah. Now, so Lane Johnson.

basically missed half of this last game. So we have current season two Carson Wins data that shows he wasn't horrific with Lane Johnson out. So there's reason for hope. But listen to the splits here for Carson Wins and his early career with and without Lane Johnson because he's got 11 games with Lane Johnson and he's got 10 games without Lane Johnson when he was suspended last year. And they are not close. You're talking about with, with Lane Johnson in there.

20 touchdowns to five interceptions. In the games where Lane Johnson was not there and the pressure was able to get Carson Wentz much easier, six touchdowns versus 20 and 12 interceptions versus five. So in tonight's game, I mean, you know, we talk. The Panthers are a very good defense. Panthers are a great defense. They've got, they're able to get pressure on you. Without Lane Johnson, that's going to be, that's going to be tough. And I think Carson Wins is a guy that you.

You can start. I think I've got him ranked as my 13th quarterback, which says to me, I hope to not start him. I'm always going to want to talk 12 guys. But you definitely need to be a little bit more worried about Carson Wentz on the road. No Lane Johnson. Great defensive matchup tonight. Yep. Absolutely. And just recall last season, Carson Wentz came in. He was setting the rookie world on fire. He would great play. No mistakes.