Midseason Review + TNF Preview, Stone Cold - Fantasy Football Podcast for 11/3

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Welcome in. Welcome in, welcome back, the fantasy footballers for Wednesday, November 3rd. The goatee persists. You're welcome. Welcome in, Mike Wright, Jason Moore, Andy Holloway. Lots to talk about today. We've got news. We've got our midseason review today, which I'm really excited about. We've got the Thursday night preview. How are you boys doing?

I'm doing fantastic. Another wild night for me of slaying dragons doing real heroic man, cool man stuff. Super cool. Not nerdy stuff at all. The coolest of cool. Super cool. I was, I'm obviously cool. I've got to go tea. So I'm feeling great today. I think all the, you know, everyone looks at me and goes, check out that guy's go tea.

I really liked when you came in this morning and you had the leather vest on. Right, of course. And shorts. Darn right. You got to go. You just went full stone cold Steve Austin. That's right. Save that. Oh, Stone Cold. That's another car. I mean, you could keep this thing, Jay. And you can go Walter White next year. Yeah. You can hang on to Walter White. Stone Cold's a great option. Awesome. I woke up to the self-esteem boost that I saw YouTube comment said, you know, Andy.

And he looks pretty sickly. I hope everything's okay. I haven't been sick. I'm fine. This is my normal. It's my normal face. Just my normal sickliness. Just how he looks. Yeah. I get that all the time. Not with sick, but they're like, like, you mad? Nope. Just my face. Yeah, no. This is just, it's just me from the front, man. I'm sorry. I'm sorry I shave my face. But I'm glad to be back here.

My son is doing great. We're well. I'll be back in studio next week. And shout out to both of our producers, Judge Giamati, Al Borland, for making things sound mighty nice with me remotely recording. They are fantastic. And I don't like to compliment them in public, but they do such a good job. I know. I'm thinking about... Producers, please delete that from the audio recording. Strike that. You're only a good producer if you strike that.

No, we should put them on payroll at some point. I agree. Well, let's remind you about our Twitter at the FF ballers. Jason at Jason FFL. Mike at FF Hitman. I'm Andy Holloway. You can find us on all social media platforms, Instagram.com slash fantasy footballers. We're on TikTok. We're on YouTube. You can see how gross I look on YouTube.

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Because our Megalobole leader is still Hindu 1974. Foof, all right. He lost. He lost, but he's still the leader. What a loser. But 7 and 1 in the Megal Bowl. And it looks like Jones Mark J10, only 10 points behind. Well, we're interested towards playoffs, aren't we? They started a little earlier in the Megal Bowl. They do. Yeah, week 12 will be the beginning of the playoffs.

And then that's when, like, Derek Henry's promised to be back by Dan or... Yes, definitely. Let's do some buy sell. Buy or sell presented by pristine auction. What's happening here? I'm getting... I'm winning the buy sales now? I mean, this is not normal. It's crazy. I got all three last week. That's crazy. Stop clock. It's right twice a day.

That did these two weeks. Week 9, Buy or Sell, let's go here. Received a trade offer for this player, or rather sending this player in my way yesterday. But Buy or Sell DJ Moore against New England this week. Is he a top 20 wide receiver? Man. He's been top 12 weeks, two, three, and four. He has been a wide receiver 26 or worse, weeks five through eight.

still averaging 9.5 targets, but, you know, a same darnal target is not the same as a regular target. Nope. So what do you guys say? Yeah, I'm going to sell this one. I think that, you know, New England, we talk about it every week. They take out your number one option. Last week we summarized that that could be Mike Williams. Mike Williams was certainly taken out. And I think that here's who I know isn't the number one option. It's not Darnold. They're not afraid of Darnel. But if they can shut down DJ Moore and let.

20 targets go Robbie Anderson's way. That's how New England's going to win. So I will sell on DJ Moore being a top option. What if Christian McCaffrey is back? I think that's helpful to DJ Moore. They'll have to focus that direction. And we'll get into McCaffrey in the news. I'm not thinking he's back, but I will sell either way. I will. We've got to be positive here for DJ Moore. Because if I have DJ Moore, I'm playing him.

I'm going to buy top 20. Let's get McCaffrey back on the field. Like I have influence or power over these things happening. But he's just, he's such a good player. And the volume is there for it to be such a whiff for four straight weeks. Well, I mean, I guess, you know, six first 73. That's not the worst in the world. That's what he was wide receiver 26 against the Giants. That's close.

But I'm going to buy it. I will buy that DJ Moore returns back to the top 20. What's helpful for your buy is that there are four teams on buy. That's right. You didn't consider that, did you? I did not consider that. I will sell it despite that hot fact. New England is going to dismantle this offense. Maybe if McCaffrey comes back, there's a chance. But I just don't know if DJ Moore can get inside that top 20 without scoring. I don't think he scores. So I guess I'll sell it.

All right, Kyle Pitts facing New Orleans, 10 plus fantasy points. So the bar is low here. What are we doing by yourself? I'm going to sell this. Obviously, the two weeks prior to this last week, he was, you know, 20 points. He doubled this line. He is very important to the team. He is athletically gifted enough to do it even if the coverage is rolled his direction.

All that being said, this is a bad matchup because the New Orleans Saints are very good against tight end. And that's really now their primary focus with Calvin Ridley being out. And we saw this last week with the Carolina Panthers. They actually put Stefan Gilmore on pits. And that's just too much for a rookie coming in to be like, yeah, I know you're a really talented, physically amazing NFL receiver. But let's put a pro bowl caliber.

corner on you and if, you know, if the New Orleans Saints take that same game plan, that same approach, you know, what if Marcus Latimore goes on Kyle Pitts? No, he's not, it's going to be a bad night for Pitts. That's how I view it. I will sell. I am going to, oh, goodness gracious, Jason. And did you meet that's, okay, you threw me off. You mean Marshawn Latimore? Yeah, yes, yes. It's like, yes, Marcus Latimore? What's his cousin?

Fair enough. Ten points. Ten points for Kyle Pitts without a touchdown. Very difficult against the New Orleans Saints. That game, man, that game's going to be not very much fun to watch, which we'll have to break down in the next couple days. But yeah, I'll sell. I'll sell Kyle Pitts hitting the 10 points. I'm going to buy it. You're right. The Saints are.

outstanding against tight ends. He's not a tight end. They're awful against wide receivers. They're giving up a ton of points to them. And he's a whiteout. So I think he gets to the 10 point mark this week. I'll buy it and stand alone on that one. Last one here, Darrell Williams, who despite the emergence of Derek Gore, still ended up in a pretty good place, fantasy-wise, last week. Darrell Williams running back for the Chiefs, taking on Green Bay.

We got some news about Green Bay today. We'll get into momentarily. But is Darrell Williams the top 20 running back this week? I will quickly jump in and just say, I will buy this against Green Bay. I think he'll do enough in the passing game to just sneak in there with all those buy teams you mentioned. Yeah, I'm going to buy it as well with the top 20. What I want to highlight here and ask what's going on with Kansas City. So the last month for Darrell Williams, five targets, four.

Four, six. Where is that with your first round pick, pass catching specialist running back? Clyde Edwards Aller, like, obviously not right now because he's hurt, but I'm saying at the beginning of the season, where are these targets? And you're like, nah, you know, undrafted Daryl Williams, that's our dude. What are you doing?

Well, hopefully they've changed kind of their approach as the season's gone poorly for them. You know they won't. And when Clyde comes back, they'll actually give him targets because he's a good pass catcher. No, I'm not saying they will. I'm saying hopefully, maybe. This is a really tough line for me. I think top 20 is low enough where I really want to buy it. If Aaron Rogers was playing, I would 100%. This would be a done deal. I would be buying it. But in this matchup, if Kansas City is out to a lead, I think you're going to see some Derek Gore. He is a better.

runner looked like it on the field but his their worry with him is past protection well if they're not if they're able to actually run the the clock out against jordan love i think gore could really come in but 20 is a little too low uh i will buy this with you guys all right that was buyer sale brought to you by our friends at pristine auction make sure you use the code ballers when you go to pristine auction dot com you'll get a ten dollar credit towards some sweet sports memorabilia got christmas coming up

Yeah, that's a good way to surprise somebody with something special. So let's talk news. News and notes from around the league presented by Sleeper. We just got more news just now. Odell Beckham Jr. excused from practicing. Oh, that's cool. Not practicing today. He's been excused from it. May I be excused from this show? Yes. No. Oh, Brooks says no. Brooks is the boss.