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Coming to you from pristineauction.com studios with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Ah, welcome in. Whoa. I, we're going to need to run that one back because I was so psyched out by that intro. I didn't get to...

Tell people it's football time. Oh, no. It's football time. There it is. They were saying it anyways. They were. They were. Trust me, if I had not mentioned it. You would have heard some. My Twitter mentions would be a blaze of nothing. Nothing but, like it's Thursday. It's football time, Mike. Why didn't you say it's football time? That's the voice of Twitter. The Twitter and the penguin from Batman, they're very similar. Yeah, he's the founder. Yeah.

Send your tweets. Welcome in. Thursday, October 10th. We're back. The fantasy footballers fantasy forecast on the show today starts of the week. Jason's boom boom kicker. We've got news to catch you up on. We've got, I want to get your guys opinion on a trade I made yesterday. We had some people, they really enjoyed the trade episode. I also saw some people asking, well, tell us some trades that happen in your league.

Break it down. Maybe it'll give us ideas on trades that I can make. So I want to get your opinion on something that happened in our League of Record yesterday. Got a quick question for you. By the way, you can follow the show on Twitter at the FF Ballers. Instagram.com slash fantasy footballers. We're on YouTube. YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballers will be putting up some waterbet payouts very soon. Indeed. Derek Henry, you turd. Yes, yes. You can write him a letter. Send him a picture of your...

What did he end at? Sopping wet head. 77. I believe that's right. 77 yards. 77 and his touchdown was because Marcus Mariotto ran the ball in, but then was reviewed and was called down on the one. At least you're not better. Yeah. It's me, Derek Henry. I'm humble being your mentions. Here's a quick question. It comes in from Jake in Seattle. He says if you're four and one or five and oh.

At what point do you start planning your roster for the playoffs? He gives an example like Jordan Howard. He has a playoff schedule of the Giants Redskins Cowboys. Seems prime. What are your thoughts on buying players like that with great playoff schedules at this point in the season if you have a good record? I still think it's a little bit too early. There are certain things that I would look at.

I mean, you always plan early, especially to me with defenses. Defenses are one of those things that you're always streaming off the waivers. The defenses aren't always out there to scoop up. And so sometimes you hang on to a defense. It just has an unbelievable matchup in that range. That's something that I'm willing to kind of hold because I don't want to drop them on the waivers, have someone else scoop them up. As far as, like, trading for a player, I'm just trading for...

you know, the best players, the rest of the season, because I'm not streaming most of my players in and out of the roster. I still want to get wins. I'm not worried too much about their end of season schedule at this point. I would say this is probably the first point in the season you start to look a little bit. Because you can't make the judgment call in weeks one and two about what a good playoff schedule even is.

Right? I mean, we don't have trends. We don't know what teams are good and bad. You don't know what teams are great against the run versus great against the pass. You know, home and road matters a lot in the playoffs. So does weather. You got to remember when you get into weeks 13, 14, 15, there are a lot of cold weather games. There are situations like that that you're not going to be able to foresee. Maybe you trade for a great schedule. And two thirds of those games are in the snow. So.

It's not as easy to just say, hey, I've got them lined up, and you do. Like Jason said, you have to get there. And week five at four and one, it can go the other direction quickly. So I wouldn't overemphasize it now. I might start glancing. Jason brought up defenses. I'll share this with the Foot Clan. One of the things I love doing is saving fab dollars by pre-buying defenses. I don't want to compete for the best defense stream the week of. I want to have it the week before.

if my bench can afford it, if my depth can afford it, those type of things. But I do that a lot. I like, you know, it sounds funny to roster two defenses, but it's a rotating situation. And so sometimes I've got one with a great matchup this week. I've got one that I already know I was a great matchup next week. I paid zero fab for either one of them, and I do the same thing the next week. Yeah, towards the end of the season, my roster looks nothing like it does at the beginning, where I have all this depth, I have all these interchangeable pieces. Towards the end of the season, I...

have my bench is full of my handcuffs and defenses. So you need to be, but like, and we don't have trends yet. Sorry, I forgot my point, but back to the trends like you were talking about, Andy. Look at Tampa Bay. Weeks one and two, it looked like, holy crap, their defenses completely turned things around. They're, they're an elite secondary. They just shut down Jimmy Garoppelow, Cam Newton. I mean, they, they just.

They just squelched out any offensive fire from those teams. And then the next three weeks happen. So we are still gathering data about matchups. If you're 5 and 0, though, what I could be looking at is sending out those two-for-one trades to start getting more impact players for my roster. If I'm thinking about playoffs and championships, that's where I'm looking at this point. I'm not looking at matchups yet. 100%. That's where, like,

The team that is 1 and 4 that has Devante Adams, who has really hurt that team, they have to win now. You know, the team that has Tyreek Hill, they have to win now if they've lost their games. If you're 5-0, you can go buy those players. Take, you know, if they're not in this week, you're going to survive, but you have excellent players for the stretch run. All right, hopefully that helps you out a little bit. Let's go ahead and get into the news.

News and notes from around the league. Presented my sleeper. All right. Speaking of sleeper, I was sleeping when I was woken up to Jason sending a message in our slack that... It's very sad. Chris Herndon is going to miss multiple weeks. What's the latest that you've heard on his situation? It's a grade one hamstring tear and...

So he's out this week and most likely next week. When you say that this early, it usually means it's correct. So I would expect him to miss multiple weeks. So he's been a real hurry up and cry situation for fantasy owners, right? Get back from the suspension. Grab him early. Was he doing nothing during this four weeks? Seriously. Did he go for a jog? No, he didn't want to. Did he pop in the AirPods and just take one around the block? I mean, come on. The Friday he was activated. He ran for the first time. He's like,

I'm suspended from doing physical activity. Well, he took it to heart. Yeah, you can't be with the team. So he didn't do anything on his own. Yeah. And now he's hurting. Well, it's just disappointing because the tight-in lands game. Chris Hurton. Hurton. Hurton's hurting. Chris Hurton. David Johnson, this is a couple big stories at running back. David Johnson didn't practice Wednesday. I wouldn't have read too much into this, if not for comments by Cliff Kingsbury.

Missing Wednesday after last week there was a report that is backlocked up. Okay, you know, take a day. Feel better. But Kingsbury said they're still working with David Johnson on his back and said, we'll have to see how the week goes. We're going to try to do some things today. It could be a game time decision for David Johnson. They don't want to rush him back. I think they feel okay with Chase Edmonds. Oh, my goodness. This is why we were talking about Chase Edmonds on the Waverwire show.

So hopefully you were proactive if you have David Johnson. Even if you didn't have David Johnson, Chase Edmonds was a good pickup and stash to see what's going to happen with DJ this week. If DJ is out, Chase Edmonds is a fantastic play against the Falcons. He would be awesome. What if David Johnson is active? Are you tempering expectations knowing that Chase Edmonds is going to have work? Yes.

Yeah, I mean, it's rough because it's such a good matchup. I think, you know, if he's active, you have to play him. But it's definitely worrisome because he could split or he could. If you have both, you're playing David. If David Johnson is active and you have both, you're playing David Johnson. Yes. Todd Gurley didn't practice Wednesday either. No. However, it's been noted that it's a quad injury, a thigh contusion. Mm. So.

Again, not something we would have read too much into until Sean McVeigh talks up the depth at running back and says, fortunately for us, we've got some depth. These coaches. The confidence we have in Brown. There's also going to be a time when we're going to rely on Daryl Henderson. It might end up being this week. Well, that doesn't help. No, and here's another. Because it seemed like Brown would have been the natural handcuff. Are they going to use Henderson? I would still.

expect Brown to get the heavy work. Yes. His, you know, what he's saying can't be ignored. You know, if you're the Todd Gurley owner and, you know, you, you feel like you have to protect yourselves. I see, Mike, are you just running to the way of a riot? No, no, no. So the thing is, is you have to remember the Rams played on Thursday night. This is not a day of rest. This isn't putting him on the, you know, the injury report and listing him with something.

He had extra rest and is injured. And he had other quotes where it was a surprise to them. They did not know that he was injured leaving that game. They did play Thursday night. So they've had a lot of time. They've had a lot of rest. And then he was kind of surprisingly injured. I've got the hebi-jeebies about it. I don't, I mean, like I'm worried, you know, pro football doc. He thinks that, you know, a thigh contusion shouldn't be a problem. He'll get unlimited.

practice this week. It should be good to go. I trust his, he's a doctor. I'm not a doctor. But I, uh, what? I'm not a doctor. Shocking. But the, like, I'm, I'm worried about Gurley missing this week. If Gurley and David Johnson missed, would you rather start Chase Admins against Atlanta at home? Would you rather start Malcolm Brown against San Francisco at home? Chase.

Chase Edmonds. Yeah, it would be Chase Edmonds. There's clarity there to the backfield. There's no worry about a Daryl Henderson. And the matchup is beautiful. Like the concerns for Daryl Henderson, we could be surprised about how things work out with a timeshare between Malcolm Brown and Henderson. But Henderson has played two snaps ever in his career. Like they've had the opportunity to get him on the field.

but they have chosen to have them just sit and learn. I would, yeah, I wouldn't be too worried about a fill-in game. If Gurley went out for the season and the team knew that they were going to have to adjust what they have to offer running back, that's when I become more concerned about Henderson, because the team would need to do more than that. Yeah, it would. Yeah, then it would be darn out Anderson's season. Stop! Stop! Darnel! All right. Case Keenum, expected to start.