Fantasy Football - MEGALODON Episode - Week 13 Matchups, Turkey Day Awards & More - Podcast for 11/26

11:46Mike Wright:Yours is insane, and yet it's not at all. It is not.

11:49Andy Holloway:It's not insane.

11:51Mike Wright:It's not insane at all.

11:51Jason Moore:But when you hear it, you're going to be like, I'm not doing that. What a terrible podcast. Not the podcast, just the pick. I mean, it doesn't ruin the whole podcast. That's the New Orleans Saints defense. I'm telling you, you should pick them up. Yeah. You look at the New Orleans Saints, one of the worst teams in the league, one of the worst records. You think, okay, you don't want to touch that with a 10-foot pole. Right now, and I know every league is so wildly different with defensive scoring. I'm going off our league of record, which is standard enough. We kind of nerf it a bit. They're the 16th points scored at the position.

12:27Jason Moore:So they're not 25th, 28th. They're not one of the bottom-dwelling defenses. They've put up points. And when you look at their actual game log of who they've played, they played the Rams, good offense. The Bucs, good offense. Chicago, good offense. The Patriots, good offense. And they didn't put up any points there. But then they played last week Atlanta, bad offense, 12 fantasy points. Carolina, bad offense, 11 fantasy points. The Giants, bad offense, 19 fantasy points. It's like when they've had a good matchup, they've shown out.

12:57Mike Wright:Oh, they can't possibly have a run of the three best matchups in football.

13:01Jason Moore:Well, let's take a look at their playoff schedule. Their playoff schedule is Carolina again, who they put up double-digit fantasy points against, the New York Jets, who are way worse than Carolina, and then the Tennessee Titans. Two of those, the first two, are at home. I mean, it's a perfect schedule for a defense that I think is definitely good enough to put up points against bad matchups.

13:25Mike Wright:It's also one that your league mates will dismiss immediately and is sitting out on waivers and no one will pay attention to, and that's how you win championships.

13:32Jason Moore:Assuming that my saying this on this show right this second doesn't sway you guys, you jerks, I have a$0 bid in$0 on the Saints right now because who's putting a bid on the Saints?

13:45Mike Wright:All right, he's got a$5 bid, Mike. He's got a$5 bid. That was a setup. I am being honest. Yes, he's being so honest. Because there's no way. I have a negative$2 bid.

13:52Jason Moore:There's no way that anyone out here put a bid on the Saints prior to this.

13:57Mike Wright:No, no, you got it. I mean, it shocked me, and then you see the schedule, and you see the evidence, and it makes sense. So that was Backup Options, sponsored by Progressive Insurance. Quote today at Progressive.com. Let's talk news.

14:10Jason Moore:News and notes from around the league. Presented by Progressive Insurance.

14:17Mike Wright:I am oh so happy for, oh, Marion Hampton, the 21-day practice window has been officially opened the celebrations in the streets omarion hampton buck yirving are they here to save your fantasy season maybe they're not here to save your

14:34Jason Moore:fantasy season but they're here to bring you a championship if you've had a good season with them you know what i mean like if you're going to the playoffs i think that their playoff run will be special and worthy of of a championship run it was funny yesterday on the footcast i was talking to mic i was like i've been scouring for any omari and hampton news and there was none and then

14:55Mike Wright:mid-show it's like oh his windows opened up yeah it's um i'm watching video of him at practice oh what's he doing everything oh well actually i'm just watching him run through some of those little like the things the drill the drill but he looks uh he looks healthy so we'll see from what i've heard that's tough running through those things yeah um they fight back yeah what what is this quote greg roman on hampton's ankle injury back on october 9th the injury is easily corrected easily fixed it's not a complicated type of things that was back in october uh it took it

15:30Andy Holloway:was more complicated than mr roman anticipated things can be easy and still take a long time

15:36Mike Wright:yeah we we did have a comment from uh jim harbaugh on the carry split between vidal and amari and Hampton after his return he said quote we'll see how this week goes or the week goes but we'll see

15:46Andy Holloway:Hampton's on his way back Brandon Cooks I'll just throw it out like I thought about saying Vidal should be the backup option because we don't know a hundred percent that that Hampton is going to play this week oh for sure so yeah I would say that I'm still very just keep it in the 50 keep it in the back of your mind that Kamani Vidal is one of the most dropped players in the last 24 hours and it's not a guarantee that hampton plays it's a great point and they're heavy favorites

16:12Mike Wright:i think they're seven and a half point favorites this week nine and a half oh nine and a half yes

16:17Jason Moore:okay really yeah i feel like that line yeah i think that went up yeah maybe because of hampton so if if hampton plays what's the match this week miami or i'm sorry uh las vegas

16:30Mike Wright:totally different city right no they're right next to each other yeah i mean pretty close but They get confused for each other a lot.

16:37Jason Moore:And it's not in Las Vegas. The Miami of the desert. In Los Angeles against Las Vegas. But if Hampton is active this week, are you plugging him immediately? Oh, yeah. Okay. Mike, would you – your roster is desperate for Hampton.

16:52Mike Wright:My roster has Chris Rodriguez in it right now.

16:53Andy Holloway:More than likely. We fielded a question on the footcast yesterday. It was like, is Hampton going to – is he going to be back? because they were talking about guys like Alec Pierce at the Flex 2. It's like, yes, I would put Hampton right back in. All right, I've got two names I'm curious about. Okay.

17:12Mike Wright:He's not even looking at me anymore.

17:15Jason Moore:Okay. Rico Dowdle, who didn't get a lot of work, now plays the Rams this week, one of the toughest matchups. But he's been great. Hampton first game back. Which way you go there? I'm now happy he's not looking at me. Wow. I've got another hard name after that.

17:33Andy Holloway:I honestly would need more news, but I would probably just play Rico as of now.

17:38Jason Moore:And then Kareem Hunt. Pacheco is back. I would play Hampton. Okay. All right. Squeeze them in between them.

17:46Andy Holloway:Yeah.

17:47Jason Moore:Yeah. Yep.

17:48Andy Holloway:That's what you do. Hampton sandwich. Okay.

17:52Mike Wright:Hey, guess what? JJ McCarthy not expected to play this week due to the concussion. Or ever again. Help me.

18:02Andy Holloway:there was there were rumors of the offseason for changing mccartney i know we got to get out of

18:07Jason Moore:this man it's not good i think he's got one of those paper chains it's like every day taking one off yeah but i think the offseason ends his career so i i think we actually need to play now

18:20Mike Wright:because i don't think he because they don't go into the offseason without a fix or a potential

18:25Jason Moore:fix you have they will get a fix there were already ridiculous rumors that they were going to go after Daniel Jones, which they're not going to be able to. It seems impossible. But, yeah, they're going to look – they're not just saying, well, we drafted him and he's our guy forever. Seattle, Washington, the next two weeks, if maybe he misses a couple – Not Seattle in Washington. Seattle and Washington. Yes. The two next matchups are Seattle, the city and the franchise, and then Washington, the commanders. after that Dallas and the Giants maybe that's a good time to bring him back uh give him a chance

19:03Mike Wright:yeah if you you've got to show them something before this season ends or they will show you the door um or you're going to be a backup for sure and that could be I mean that's just like I see that as the most likely outcome the most likely outcome is J.J. McCarthy's a backup next year for the Vikings and that is just what a complete change in every dynasty yeah I'm not

19:26Jason Moore:I'm not ready yet to make that declaration. I still think that there is a large percentage that can get it fixed. I don't want to be too recency biased because the recent eye test has been. I mean, that's all you have.

19:41Mike Wright:It's also his entire career. Fair. Unfortunately, it's just a short period of time. I just don't understand what you can even do from this point out. You don't play this week. So you've got weeks 14, 15, 16, 17, 18. You've got five weeks. Better show something right then. and you better do it like multiple games for them to have a chance of making you the starter um they have too many good players you you think justin jefferson and addison are going to stand idly by and you say yeah next year we're going to go with the same dude it's more of a rosen situation is what it is i wonder if they should go after josh rosen yeah you know what i mean kevin i was going to make a compliment like no rosen's season was way better oh my gosh yeah Yeah, I'm sorry.

20:21Mike Wright:It's not a pile-on thing. It's just realistic. Teams don't have time. And when you have Hall of Fame wide receivers and you've got a defense like that and you've got – yeah, it's just rough. Bucky Irving, he's going to practice all week. He will be cleared to suit up on Sunday versus the Cardinals if he avoids setbacks. That is reporting out of the Buccaneers official site, Scott Smith, and Todd Bowles' comments on Monday. So, Bucky Irving, welcome to the party, pal.

20:45Jason Moore:Last week when they sat him down, they basically said they expect him to play this week.

20:49Mike Wright:And then Jeremy Fowler says there's a realistic possibility, a realistic possibility, that Jaden Daniels returns to play in week 14.

20:59Andy Holloway:Commanders have lost six in a row. I get the verbiage. When you're talking about what we saw happen to Jaden Daniels' arm, and to think that he's going to play football again this year, you have to say it's a realistic possibility.

21:12Jason Moore:I know it's his non-throwing arm, but don't RJ3 this thing. RG3? Yeah. You said Jay, but it's okay. Oh, did I? It's not a big deal. Robert Griffin. Robert Griffin. I just don't want, you know, don't rush him back. This team isn't making the playoffs.

21:28Mike Wright:See, that was a big comment about the Burrow situation, too. It's like, I don't know if you watched the press conference with Burrow. I didn't know. He sees all these things about, like, well, why are you bringing me back if I don't have a chance to make the playoffs? He's like, I'm a football player. He's like, you get hurt. It happens in football. Then you rehab. And then when you're ready to play football, you come back and play football. yeah it's like this all the other stuff doesn't make any sense this idea that i'm not going to play just because of this or that and i i i get it like i mean it's the same thing with jayden

21:57Jason Moore:daniels like you you're a football player i agree a 100 with that like like you shouldn't not play just because you're out of the playoffs like teams that aren't making the playoffs don't just bench all their starters but what you shouldn't do is rush a timeline back from injury that could potentially make things worse. Both of these guys, let's say the timeline, Burrow's playing this week, that is astronomically ahead of the optimistic timeline that he was given at the injury.

22:26Mike Wright:They didn't play him on Sunday. So they didn't rush him back. You could have played him Sunday. They lost the game. They probably don't lose that game with Joe Burrow. Joe Flacco made some bad mistakes in that one and it was close. So I feel like they're doing what you're saying. Because they could have rushed him.

22:40Jason Moore:I hope so. I just don't want to see either of these guys get injured again.

22:43Mike Wright:Yeah. That was News and Nodes sponsored by Progressive Insurance. Did I miss something? Oh, Josh Jacobs. Oh, this is a big one. My bad. Josh Jacobs is expected to play on Thanksgiving. Yeah, baby. Gobble, gobble. Need him. Yeah, and then Jaden Reed, basically a game-time decision. Head coach said, you'll find out on Thursday.

23:01Andy Holloway:I mean, if he didn't have sunglasses on and, like, lower them down, like, you'll find out Thursday, then he did it wrong.

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25:59Mike Wright:Some people have actually compared the Masters in Augusta two like the same level of prestige oh yeah awards yeah and you'll kind of you'll understand that when you hear the intro to the segment

26:25Mike Wright:a tradition unlike any other well we're back we uh we do this everywhere every single year

26:31Andy Holloway:Just so people are clear, that is Jason doing the voiceover of the turkey.

26:37Mike Wright:Yeah. Yeah, amazing impressions that this guy could do of farm animals. Moo. See? Is there a cow in this room? Holy crap. It was incredible. Yeah. There's more to come. Yeah. Oh, frightening. All right. Every year we do some Turkey Day Awards. We're playing along with you. We don't know who Kyle and Brooks picked for these official awards. Last year, well, we'll start here. The Thanksgiving meat, right? Some of you is turkey. Some it's ham. Jason, I know you're a ham guy.

27:08Jason Moore:No, Jason's a tenderloin now. Yes, I am. How are you? I got two ready to cook. They're brining now. Okay, just cook them. Oh, I cooked them. I cooked them. The problem is eating immediately after the cooking. Well, the problem is. Don't leave them on the counter. I think two hours is fine. Why do any hours? Yeah. I mean, you're saying you don't go back for leftovers at Thanksgiving. You eat, and then the food's still out. It's fine at that point. Eight hours.

27:32Mike Wright:Yeah, you play the game and win the prize. All right, last year's Thanksgiving meet, which we call the showstopper and MVP of Thanksgiving Day, last year's winner on this show, Saquon Barkley. Play along at home. We don't know who they picked, but who's the answer for you guys on the 2025 showstopper MVP right now? three guys oh yeah yeah there are well so there's johnny taylor uh-huh there's christian mccaffrey

27:58Andy Holloway:and jsn uh-huh jsn those are the three and like i was gonna say john making a late push towards towards it well that's i was gonna say it's it was johnny taylor but i'm wondering if this particular week i know was like was that enough to sway the jury of the turkey vote for the jsn

28:15Mike Wright:side i don't think it's gonna be cmc i think it's gonna be taylor json so i'm i'm gonna stick with

28:21Jason Moore:I'm going to stick with Taylor. Me too. I'm going to go JSN. Because this is the meat, I think you're forgetting about them mashed potatoes. But we'll get there. I'm going to go with the meat being JSN. He's a big honking meaty man. What? Jonathan Taylor. Okay. That's a different name. Yeah. Jonathan Taylor. Andy and I are in lockstep. You're going JSN?

28:42Andy Holloway:Let's hold on. What are the mashed potatoes? The mashed potatoes is the next one. Most consistent, dependable? They could all be JSN. No. Just make the pick. I'm going Jason. All right. The pick, the winner is Jonathan Taylor. Loser pick. Jonathan Taylor. You know who's a loser? Last week's Jonathan Taylor, Jason. How was that?

29:00Mike Wright:I got a big L last week. All right. The mashed potatoes, a rich, buttery glob of mashed potatoes. Jonathan Taylor. Of mashed potatoes is what everyone needs to add. Body to the plate, the most consistent, dependable dish for a Thanksgiving day. Last year, the winner was Derrick Henry.

29:15Jason Moore:Has to be Jason. He's had like one game outside the top 13 at wide receiver.

29:20Mike Wright:something i think you could um okay i i want to go cmc i mean it's one of those two for sure i'll go cmc i'm going christian mccaffrey the winner is jackson come on man two for two baby who made up this stupid game not you uh the burned dinner rolls gosh you put in so much time and effort you prepared the meal but unexpectedly the rolls were burned sometimes you just have to scrape the carbon shavings off and throw it away in sadness this is this is not a good award Last year it was Travis Etienne who was maybe the biggest bust in fantasy. This year. I've got my name. I've got my name too.

29:55Jason Moore:I think he's burnt. Right now he's literally in the garbage. I'm going Brian Thomas Jr.

30:00Mike Wright:It does feel like that's got to be the pick.

30:02Andy Holloway:He was like a second rounder. Consensus? Yeah. It is Brian Thomas Jr.

30:07Mike Wright:Which, congrats to Jacksonville on two consecutive wins. Jacksonville doing work at the burned in a row.

30:15Jason Moore:they're really hoping they get to play the Cardinals again.

30:19Mike Wright:We've got the Mike Wright special, which is the jack-in-the-box here. The random dish somebody brought because, well, they're convinced Thanksgiving food is trash and outdated. Time to stop with the old way of thinking. Open your eyes and realize this could be the best thing ever. Last year it was Baker Mayfield. This year it's a tie between two winners. Oh.

30:39Jason Moore:Was there, like, voting? I don't know. I thought Kyle just picks all this. I have no idea who picks these.

30:44Mike Wright:It's two winners in the - I have two.

30:48Andy Holloway:That's good, because I got two nominees.

30:50Mike Wright:I think Rico's one. Rico is one for me. I think Rico's one.

30:54Andy Holloway:So I've got two names, yeah. And my second name, I'm trying to think, is Michael Pittman.

30:59Jason Moore:Oh, I love that. I don't think that's it, but I love that. Rico's more of a headline maker. I'm going Rico, and I'm going Stafford.

31:06Mike Wright:Okay. Because Stafford is not been a fantasy star. Apparently, this means Brooks and Kyle couldn't agree on this one, So they both demanded that it was their guy. I think Stafford and Rico. Okay. Are we going with that?

31:18Andy Holloway:We all agreed on Rico. Yeah. I'm going to stick with Pittman. Okay. The answer is Javante. Oh, yeah, of course.

31:26Jason Moore:Goodness, that's a good answer. Javante and Rico. Javante is a better answer than Rico. And Rico.

31:31Mike Wright:Yeah, both of those are perfect. Okay. Well, one out of two. And, yeah, funny. All right, one more award. Is that right? We have the pumpkin pie guy. So delicious. You don't want too much of it.

31:45Andy Holloway:Apparently on the YouTube, there was a legend. Oh, this is the new one, right? There was a legend made last year where someone talked about eating an entire Costco pumpkin pie. And then just really, really caught on in the YouTube comments. Weird stuff happens in those YouTube comments.

32:03Mike Wright:So what is the definition of the pumpkin pie guy, though? Delicious.

32:07Jason Moore:It's delicious, but you don't want too much. So you need it for a small amount of the season? I don't know. I don't know.

32:15Mike Wright:Kyle, do you have a summary for us, Kyle?

32:18Jason Moore:Explain what this represents.

32:21Mike Wright:If you get too much of it, you will throw up. Okay, so Kyler was the winner last year. So, okay, too much, you'll throw up. I have no idea. Boom bust? Is that what that is? Yeah, I mean, that's how I feel. I feel like it's maybe a Jameson freaking Williams. Jameson Williams is who came to mind. He will make you throw up.

32:38Jason Moore:He's delicious. He can have great performances. Oh, yeah. But he takes care of you. He's like, don't have too much. Okay. Yeah, that's my pick. I'm going to take that plate back. I'm going to give you a plate. There's nothing on it.

32:51Andy Holloway:Right. I think we're going to go with J-Mo, but I will also nominate Roma Dunze.

32:58Mike Wright:Okay. Oh, it was a tie again. Quentin Johnson and Jameson Williams.

33:03Andy Holloway:Oh, yeah, huge. Boy, they are going goose for goose. Yeah, the goose eggs, really.

33:09Mike Wright:Who'd you rather have rest of the season between those two?

33:12Andy Holloway:I think James. I think it's J-Mo. I think it's J-Mo. I should shut up. Because of the Laporte injury.

33:17Jason Moore:I'm going to go huge.

33:21Andy Holloway:Very close.

33:22Jason Moore:Yeah.

33:23Mike Wright:Okay. Well, there you go. There's your Turkey Day Awards. We will jump into our starts.

33:31Jason Moore:Starts of the Week. Presented by Tostitos.

33:37Mike Wright:Okay. It starts of the week time. Week 13. We've got games on Thursday, Friday, Sunday. I don't think we're playing in a different country this week so there's that but every team is playing no bye weeks I'm going to start with my start of the week at quarterback Dak I'm going Dak I need to hear this Andrew against Kansas City you let me know I don't need underpants this week when you have George and you got Seedy catching the football please learn to catch you yeah do you see his comments he's like no he made some comments in the press about like he gave all the like political answers of like you know it doesn't do you any good to focus on the negative you know and figure you know and focus on the problem you need to move forward and he goes but we know what the problem is i need to catch the blanking ball but i'm gonna go with dak this is a home game for dak crucial part of the season highest over under of the week i think dak and mahomes are going to be incredible in this game this is dak For all the ups and downs and all arounds, it's quarterback four in fantasy points per game on the season.

34:45Mike Wright:He is playing great football. He has two elite pass catchers. A must-win game that I think, look, Dallas, your defense is getting better. You're not stopping Patrick Mahomes in this game. I think it's going to match or surpass that 52.5 points, and I love that. I want the hot. You're into this.

35:02Jason Moore:I'm just so happy to, because I have to start him. It was basically him or Purdy, and Purdy's got a terrible matchup and was terrible last week. So I'm starting, Dak, and I'm happy about it.

35:11Mike Wright:Yeah, I saw Purdy hit the old waiver wire for you.

35:13Jason Moore:All right, I'm going to go with a revenge game narrative, a well-deserved start. Sam Darnold. Oh, yeah. Sam Darnold at home against those Vikings who said, we don't need you, we've got J.J. McCarthy.

35:28Mike Wright:Aren't they 11.5-point favorites?

35:29Jason Moore:They are 11.5-point home favorites, so that's one of the reasons I like this. You expect them to score points. He's been an efficiency monster all year with JSN. Number one in yards per attempt, fifth in passer rating, sixth in passing yards. He's completing 74 % of his passes at home. And the Vikings, they are reeling. Lost five of their last six. They have no quarterback. And they're going to be looking across the field longingly at Sam Darnold. They're going to be like, I remember you.

36:00Mike Wright:Who would have thought? I know. If you told us in the beginning of last year, while we were talking about Darnold being the starter in Minnesota, that a year from now, they'll desperately miss this dude. Wild. I'm going with Bo Nix off of the bye week. I would actually put Bo Nix in first, and then I scrolled down and saw you beat me to the show. He's playing at Washington.

36:20Andy Holloway:He's coming off of the bye week. We like that. A little bit of extra time to prepare. The commander's pass defense, 27th in schedule adjusted points to the quarterback, dead last in passer rating allowed. and even though it has not been anything consistent for Bo Nix, he's still the quarterback 10 because he has spike week ability and I think that this is one of the weeks.

36:43Mike Wright:All right, moving on to running back start of the week. I'm going Woody Marks. Going Woody Marks against Indianapolis. This is a huge mungus game officially. Dude, it's crazy. It is a huge game. If Houston wins this ballgame one, they'll move to what? Four straight wins. you will be 7-4 and then that will put Indianapolis at 8-3

37:06Andy Holloway:so Houston would be 7-5 and the Colts would be 8-4 if Houston wins

37:13Mike Wright:if Indy wins the game that puts the division, they have it it's insane if Houston wins

37:20Jason Moore:and they could genuinely, if you're on a 4 game winning streak do you go back to Stroud? in the middle I mean, I know you're going to go back to Stroud. He's your future. I do. I do, too.

37:33Mike Wright:Yeah, because you want to win a Super Bowl. Man, I want to make the playoffs. But Woody Marks is the pick. Since their week six bye, he's averaging 16 opportunities a game, 61 % of the snaps. And over this win streak, he's been a key part. The change at running back. Nick Chubb has one red zone touch in three weeks. Marks has 14. I mean, Indianapolis is on a really, really bad run right now. Like you use our schedule tool, strength of schedule tool, and you limit it to the last five weeks. Indianapolis is 26th in schedule adjusted fantasy points to the running back position. That has been a major trend is Indy not stopping the running back, and Woody Marks gets all the opportunities.

38:16Mike Wright:I want to give people confidence to play him this week. All right.

38:20Jason Moore:Mine is not a confidence play. Mine is a must play. R.J. Harvey at Washington. Oh, man. I'm telling you, you want to start him. He's coming off the bye. I expect Harvey to see the lion's share of the workload this week. He saw a season-high 61 % of the snaps last week. Wasn't a great fantasy output, but that was against Kansas City in their last game. The Chiefs have an awesome defense. Washington right now, look, the Broncos are a touchdown road favorite. The Commanders are 27th in rushing yards allowed. 24th in explosive rush rate, 27th in yards before contact. That is perfect for R.J. Harvey to have his post-by breakout rookie game.

39:04Jason Moore:And I'm starting him. You're thinking it's going to be huge mungus too? I think it's going to be huge mungus. I'm starting him over Kenneth Walker. If Bucky's back, probably Bucky, Quinshawn, Javante. It's Harvey time? Wow. He's the top 15 guy for me this week.

39:18Andy Holloway:All right. This one's a little scarier. You need to put on a pair? I don't think we do. Okay. It's Kenneth Gainwell against the Buffalo Bills. Oh, hey, there's the bay turkeys. What are you looking at there, Jeremy?

39:32Mike Wright:I want to check in here. I'm sorry. I was getting Kenneth Gainwell's card ready to bring up on the screen. No, we don't have time to do that. Just checking in, though. How's the temperature check back there in Deucer's Alley? How's the?

39:43Andy Holloway:Kenneth Gainwell on the board. It's very hot. How's the comfort?

39:49Jason Moore:The nether regions are very. Josh has been complaining about that a lot. The seam on this thing is not good. A little toit. A little not good.

39:58Andy Holloway:Toit, like a toiger. Okay, sorry. Kenny Gainwell. Here we go, Kenny Gainwell. And this is just trying to figure out what the Pittsburgh Steelers are doing. Jalen Warren is still a good play this week. But even – go back to the game that Warren got injured. Gainwell was already taking a huge amount of the work. This is a full timeshare situation, and both players can get it done. And Kenny G has been a top 12 running back back-to-back weeks. He has four games of six or more receptions on the season. I would have for sure thought that that would be Jalen Warren's job locked up, but they have really gone to gain well in that situation.

40:37Andy Holloway:Only McCaffrey, Hanna, and Bijon can match the four games of six or more receptions. The Bills are a run funnel, 28th and yards before contact allowed, 30th and schedule adjusted points to the running back position. I think you this is not a time to shy away from what Gainwell is putting on the field I have a

40:53Jason Moore:question for you then oh between the two of them no okay I so I have this decision I saw this in um the doc and I made a I made a swap I put Kenneth Gainwell back in the lineup but that was over Yoshivas so Andre Yoshivas or Kenneth Gainwell oh man I think

41:14Andy Holloway:between the two of them I'll probably play Gainwell I'm playing Gainwell the fun play is Yoshi on Thanksgiving for Thursday

41:26Mike Wright:wide receivers? yep Michael Wilson is my start of the week for sure Tampa Bay you mean Calvin Johnson? I do mean Jerry Rice the Cardinals they are cooking on offense it's just there's so much productivity in this offense right now Michael Wilson you know you might say Harrison he's coming back I don't care I don't care they're playing Tampa Bay 27th in schedule adjusted fancy points to wide receivers over the last five weeks you can take the targets down from 18 or 15 to 10 and you can be content there this is something they've unlocked in the offense. The Cardinals have the second highest rate of 15 plus yard pass plays over the last month.

42:14Mike Wright:That's where Michael Wilson's been great. He can go compete. He can go high point a ball, competitive catch guy, touchdown threat. I think you stay in the flames with Michael Wilson slash Jerry Rice.

42:25Jason Moore:I went to put him in the dock because of, you know, assuming that Marvin Harrison is back, which I think is fair. Timeline, he should be back he could miss but I think it's important in Marv's first game back you continue starting Michael Wilson he has been too good in sync with Brissette my start of the week at wide receiver

42:43Mike Wright:Christian Watson by the way there are the first thing I see on Twitter about Marvin Harrison is a letter from a fantasy player saying dear Marvin Harrison please take the time you need to get your body where it needs to be and come back in week 14 with a vengeance sincerely a Michael Wilson manager.

42:59Jason Moore:Yeah. Do you see Gannon's comments on it? It's like, he'll be ready whenever he's physically ready and mentally ready to play football again. What?

43:06Mike Wright:Huh? When he's physically and mentally healthy to play, he'll play. I get it. Yeah.

43:12Jason Moore:You've got to have confidence that you can take a hit.

43:14Mike Wright:You had an organ removed from your body.

43:15Jason Moore:But it was just a funny, like I hadn't seen that one before. It's like, you calling him weak?

43:21Mike Wright:Next week it'll be like, when he's mentally ready to play, he'll be back out there. Yeah. He just cuts the physical part out. Dude, he's physically ready. They're really doing a good job of sitting all their best stars.

43:32Jason Moore:Christian Watson at Detroit. Since returning, he's averaging 71 % of snaps. This one's interesting. 57 receiving yards per game. He's been the most consistent Packers wide receiver over the last five weeks. He is, I think, their best wide receiver. He leads all Packers wide receivers in end zone targets and deep targets. So basically, the targets you really want, those are the ones he's getting. This is a high over under in Detroit. They're going to have to pass to keep up with the Lions. And Detroit plays man coverage at the highest rate in the NFL. 42 % of their dropbacks are in man. Watson leads the team in first read, target share, versus man.

44:09Jason Moore:One-on-one, he will be a problem for the Lions.

44:11Mike Wright:I also am independently and not impacting the Watson start of the week. I just hope that Reed is back. Because I want to be able to think about Jordan Love in the world of fantasy football again. And right now you can't with just Watson and no Tucker Craft. And so I'm looking for – I want him back so that game is fun. I think that will make the Detroit game more exciting. Well, you'll find out Thursday. Thank you. Yeah. That's true. That's true.

44:36Andy Holloway:Mike. I alluded to it. It's Yoshifas versus Baltimore Ravens, so I'll keep it quick. He's going to be on the field for almost every single snap. And referring to the Ravens against the wide receiver position over the past five weeks, you know, Chicago, Minnesota, and the Jets all scored above their expectation in terms of wide receiver scoring. So it's not completely solved yet for the Baltimore Ravens, and I think that if you are desperate for a guy, he's right there on the waiver wire for you.

45:08Mike Wright:All right. Well, this one is – this is Mark Andrews. It's Mark Andrews at the tight end position, and it might be real, real good. because Cincinnati can't see the tight end position.

45:20Andy Holloway:They don't know what it is. Mark Andrews' line at the end of the week is going to be two for 17 and two. And three touchdowns. Yeah, baby.

45:31Mike Wright:One rushing touchdown. No, I think Mark Andrews is as much of a lock for a receiving touchdown this week as any player in the game of football for week 13. And, you know, how bad is Cincinnati's defense against the tight end position?

45:45Jason Moore:Start Isaiah likely. That's how bad. I mean, that's how you probably could.

45:48Mike Wright:They are on pace to allow the most fantasy points to the tight end position in the history of the NFL.

45:53Jason Moore:Yeah.

45:53Mike Wright:And this is not like we're enough weeks in where they probably know this is a problem and can't fix it. Like last week you made Hunter Henry the start of the week. Hunter Henry hasn't really been startable at all for weeks. And then he was the tight end one.

46:04Andy Holloway:He was the tight end one. Andrews is minus 105. For a touchdown? Yeah. Yeah, that makes sense. So they're saying it's going to happen. Play him. Are you playing him, Jay?

46:13Jason Moore:I am. I am. Yeah, of course. Over Gadsden, though? Over Gadsden and over Pitts. And over Waller and over all your other. And over Waller who isn't playing. Yeah, I'm playing.

46:23Mike Wright:You heard of the taxi squad. He's got a tight end squad.

46:25Jason Moore:Yeah. My tight end start of the week, Dalton Schultz, the doctor who Andy pooped all over yesterday. I'm here to inform the public that the doctor is tied for third most tight end targets over the last month. Last week, we said to not play him. The Buffalo Bills are one of the best defenses against tight ends. But if you look at the five games prior to that bad matchup, his pace was over 100 catches and over 1 ,000 yards at tight end. The Colts, on the other hand, are 28th in schedule-adjusted fantasy points allowed to tight end. And, Andy, you brought up how important this game is. The doctor will be heavily involved.

47:04Jason Moore:He's going to have tons of patience this week.

47:07Mike Wright:Okay.

47:07Andy Holloway:I'm going with Juwan Johnson of the New Orleans Saints Saints taking on the Miami Dolphins. The Dolphins are 29th in schedule adjusted points to the tight end. 27th in receiving yards per game allowed to the tight end position. And since the trade of Rashid Shahid, since the move over to Tyler Shuck, it's like it's Juwan and it's Chris Olave. We are of a pretty consolidated target tree in New Orleans. What did he do last week? Last week, seven targets, six for 46. Okay.

47:36Mike Wright:Yeah, I had thought about starting him last week. I was a little nervous still.

47:38Andy Holloway:Yeah, and it won't be beautiful. I don't think Juwan's going to be the number one tight end of the week, but I think he'll be a top five guy. You like him more than Loveland this week? Ooh, that's a tough call. Loveland's against Philly. Yeah, I think I do. The process would be Juwan over Loveland. That's Mr. Loveland. I'm sorry, Mr. Loveland. Juwan has the fourth most receiving yards at the tight end position this year right now. He's been solid. We haven't really had our super spike week yet, so maybe it's this week.

48:15Mike Wright:He had a little injury blip. Yeah, he did. And then you've had the trade, and maybe it's time to get back on board. That was Starts of the Week presented by Tostitos. Tostitos is the proud chip-and-dip sponsor of the NFL again this season, sold nationwide online or at your local grocery store. Visit Tostitos.com for more information. Dude, I love them.

48:33Jason Moore:I love the Deucers episode. But the Megalodon episode, I enjoy it because we're usually trying to keep this tight, not go too long. And I feel like I don't care at all about the time in this episode. They do. Yeah, they care. They want us to hurry it along.

48:52Mike Wright:My favorite part, every time I hit the Deucers camera, it's a slow head shake from Al Borland. Yeah. He's just like, who is really committed to wearing the hat no matter what? Wow. He's got the hat on. Yeah. It's even extra hot with the hat. I mean, you are just a shadow man.

49:07Jason Moore:But before we move on. Okay. Since it's the Megalodon, I got one special thing for the Foot Clan out there. Hit it, Jer. What? What? That's right. Jason Moore's Iron Clad. Locked and loaded. 100 % guaranteed boom, boom. Oh, my gosh. That's right, baby. All the people are going to be so happy. Oh, yeah, like a true ranch hand, I mounted the mega and began screaming and flinging his poop. Oh, my God. Armed with two tons of duka and I, his trusty bazooka, we laid waste like the Raven's Tyler Loop.

49:55Mike Wright:Oh, I did not expect that to ever return to this show. And it will never come back again. I do wonder how much of this was you discovered a kicker's last name was Loop. Yeah, I could rhyme that. I could work with that.

50:08Jason Moore:You could not resist. Finally, someone gave me something to work with. Tyler Loop.

50:12Mike Wright:Yeah.

50:13Jason Moore:Okay. Well, that was, I'll be honest.

50:17Mike Wright:You know what I thought you were going to do? Because I saw you whisper earlier, right before the show. I had a guess. I thought you were going to put yourself in the ring of honor. I thought you were going to put yourself in the ring of honor. I thought you were coming to the ring of honor. I should have. Oh, my gosh.

50:31Andy Holloway:I thought that was 100 % what was going to happen. I've got to make a note.

50:34Mike Wright:But you did a great job. Well, shoot, let's take another.

50:38Andy Holloway:Guys, it's just me. I know. It's the fantasy footballer's ring of honor. It's just you.

50:42Mike Wright:I don't have that gumption. You've got to self-introduct yourself. All right, we will take another quick break and come back with our fantasy forecast.

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52:06Mike Wright:I mean, I can see the Twitter comments. They're going to be thrilled. You brought it back for the people. For the people. On the Megalodon Show. Full of poop. As always. Yeah.

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52:26Mike Wright:you were his trusty bazooka very very nice all right we said it already no bye weeks this week we have three thanksgiving day matchups so we'll jump right into the thanksgiving day slate the green bay packers is seven three and one going to detroit detroit seven and four the Vegas line Detroit minus two and a half the over under 48 and a half I feel like I was pretty wrong about Detroit coming out and kind of doing what they wanted to do last week I thought after the loss they would do that they end up in overtime slow start but then Jameer Gibbs was like I got this yeah but it took overtime I mean they should have lost that game it it um it shows me that you know it's kind of like it's not Buffalo because Buffalo I think we've seen more significant issues.

53:16Mike Wright:But it's a little bit like Buffalo in the fact that not every game has gone the way Detroit's games went last year. They've struggled a little bit. They're figuring things out on offense. They've had to change play colors. And I think this game is going to be pretty exciting. I think the two and a half point line, Green Bay did win in week one, 27-13. This division is 8-3 Bears, 7-3 Packers, seven and four lions uh that tie might come into play in a big way this year but um you know you look at what the detroit offense has done with dan campbell calling the play 64 neutral pass rate it was only 51 with john morton he's a big fat liar also about david montgomery's workload yeah because when push comes to shove gibbs gets it done yeah i mean last week i thought would be a

54:04Jason Moore:good week for Monty the same way that you thought it would be a good week for Detroit. Yeah, that they'd be in control of the game. Yeah, exactly. But this, ironically, projects to not be one of those games. And so you would not think this is a good game for David Montgomery, that they will require Jameer Gibbs to have the bulk of the work.

54:26Mike Wright:Jameer Gibbs has been targeted on 38 % of his route since Dan Campbell took over the highest rate of any player in the National Football League. Makes sense. that's not the problem in this game in terms of your start sit decisions you play jameer gibbs and if josh jacobs is active you play him with a slight terror in your soul because it's detroit

54:45Jason Moore:and it might not be a full workload yeah i mean i i've got i've got jacobs right now and it's like i'm starting him over definitely over david montgomery um but he's in that category i'm looking at Chris Olavi I'm looking at Roma Doonze currently I have uh Josh Jacobs started over Roma

55:05Mike Wright:Doonze and that hurts yeah I mean it um I feel like I would do the same is there a world where you know Mike you talked about Kenny Gainwell right in that committee situation do you see any world in that you would play Emmanuel Wilson after what he did last week if Jacobs is active

55:24Andy Holloway:oh i i can see an argument for it but i would expect that if they timeshare that when they get close to the end zone like the high value touches will still go to jacobs so i think that i wouldn't be excited to play wilson yeah and it's a tough matchup i mean the lions have for

55:43Jason Moore:years been one of the the most difficult rushing matchups yeah these these are you know the the

55:47Mike Wright:packers defense is great the running defense for the lions has been great christian watson jason you made him your start of the week. I am curious if I pan over to Mike here. If you're looking at the boom bust of Christian Watson and the boom bust of Jamison Williams, last week was very painful for those that had the three straight weeks of Jamison Williams dominance. Which of those two players would you play in your lineup this week?

56:13Andy Holloway:I lean still Jamison Williams. I do remember he had multiple big plays called back because of dumb penalties. I'm with Jason. I like Watson. I'm playing him as a wide receiver 2-3 type of a play this week, but Jamison Williams is there too, and I think the ceiling is still higher for Williams. Maybe it's just narrative and stuff, but Jared Goff has been pretty good on Thanksgiving over his last four or five years.

56:43Mike Wright:Are you making a Jordan Love decision this week? No. And Goff, no, because of the Packers' defense?

56:51Jason Moore:I think Goff could be in play. I'd certainly start him over Jordan Love, them being at home. But there's probably better options out there.

56:59Mike Wright:Anybody else from this game you guys think are worthy of talking about? Other wide receivers on Green Bay that you care about? I mean, if Jaden Reed comes back, are you willing to play him? No, but I'd be a lot happier for Jordan Love. Yeah. And then Monty is hitting the bench, Jason? Yeah, Monty is time to bench him. I would not want to play him. percentage of rushing uh attempts at running back for him 48 33 25 i mean he hasn't been inside the

57:25Jason Moore:top 20 at running back since week five it's wild because he is he is probably the most valuable insurance back should something happen to gibbs but outside of that he didn't used to be an

57:37Mike Wright:insurance back no no he didn't you always had the amazing strength to start him like i've been expecting this to happen in this backfield for the last two years for two years and it's always been monty finds a way to score and that's a little bit of why the offense doesn't seem the same because they'd have those first drives of the game and you'd have the touchdowns by monty it's been a little off i agree the kansas city chiefs at six and five take on the dallas cowboys five five and one get that over under i mean this one is important kansas city minus three and a half in Dallas over under 52 and a half.

58:15Mike Wright:This is exciting. This is a fun game for Thanksgiving. I hope so, man. I mean, you're going to end up with either, you know, Kansas City could be back at 500 after this one. Dallas, they're fighting for their lives. Huge comeback win last week. I mean, I don't know. The defense is improving. So, we'll see what happens. Dak is my start of the week at quarterback. Mahomes, you have to play him in this game.

58:44Andy Holloway:Yes.

58:45Mike Wright:And the news, we had some reports on George Pickens' injury. Knee, calf, but he was limited on Tuesday. A knee calf? A knee calf. Yeah. His knee calf hurt it. That's how I like my coffee. Okay.

58:58Andy Holloway:Swish!

59:00Jason Moore:Oh.

59:01Mike Wright:Swish! Jason just took four seconds to get it. Yeah, I was struggling. Yeah, but he's dumb.

59:10Andy Holloway:I don't actually like my coffee like that. And, of course, the Falcon loved that joke.

59:15Jason Moore:All right. How does that make you feel, knowing that the Falcon enjoyed that joke?

59:20Andy Holloway:I said swish, and I will say nothing else. Do you have a prediction in this game? Of a winner?

59:27Mike Wright:Yeah. Every time I've tried to pick Dallas to be the almost upset and pull it off, they always have that letdown game. That's what I'm worried about in this one.

59:35Jason Moore:I am terrified of the massive letdown game from the Cowboys because the Chiefs defense is really good. Now, the Eagles defense is very good. But there is, whenever there's a divisional game, Cowboys, Eagles, they're used to seeing each other. They get up for that. Obviously, you get up for the Chiefs and Mahomes and all of that. But I think there's a world where the Chiefs come in here and shut down the Cowboys. That's my biggest fear. Spank-a-pot-a-man. I love the 52-and-a-half point over-under. gives me more confidence to play the Cowboys players. I think the hardest one right now is probably Javante.

1:00:11Mike Wright:Yeah, the Chiefs number two against running backs only giving up 13 fantasy points a week, but I think you probably start your RB7 on the year.

1:00:19Andy Holloway:Javante or Trevo Henderson against the Giants.

1:00:23Mike Wright:And that matchup is really good for Trevo.

1:00:25Andy Holloway:Okay.

1:00:26Jason Moore:And like I said, I would play RJ Harvey over him. So I'm not saying like bench Javante, But I do think if you have good options, there might be in consideration for it.

1:00:35Mike Wright:So can I make a counterargument? Yeah. Philadelphia was the running back four. So I'm looking at his tough matchups on the year. Green Bay. Are you talking about week one? Yep. Green Bay, he was the running back 14. That's a tough matchup. Denver, tough matchup. Running back 10. And then last week against Philly, running back 19. So I guess.

1:01:01Jason Moore:He's going to be involved.

1:01:03Mike Wright:I feel like you're going to have a decent floor that isn't going to go away.

1:01:07Jason Moore:I would agree with that. He's got a floor of seven and a half points.

1:01:11Mike Wright:kareem hunt was dominant last week's 30 opportunities and 100 yards and a touchdown as a pacheco should be back are you still going kareem hunt over pacheco i would definitely go

1:01:22Jason Moore:kareem hunt over pacheco i think if they get around the goal line it's going to be hunt hunt is great there and and you're looking for touchdowns i don't really want to start um any of them but definitely it would be hunt as the the first man up are you in agreement mike Yeah, I lean that way.

1:01:39Mike Wright:But do you feel a little bit hesitant on both of them? Yes. Okay. Yeah, the rushing defense in particular for Dallas, they were 25th in terms of fancy points allowed. They're number 10 now in terms of the last six weeks. So they have shored that up. Receiver-wise, is it Rashi, Rice, and no one else? Yep.

1:01:59Jason Moore:It's definitely not Xavier Worthy. He had eight targets last week. That was his most in months, and it still was an irrelevant game. He's an explosive athlete. that could get a touchdown. The matchup is great against...

1:02:08Mike Wright:I was going to tell you, he's my touchdown guarantee for the week. For real?

1:02:11Jason Moore:Yeah, Xavier Worthy is. Well, then you've got to play him. What? That's my touchdown guarantee. If he gets the touchdown, you're going to be happy you played him. And you heard it here. It's a guarantee. It's been a while. Andy is personally guaranteeing for your lineup.

1:02:22Andy Holloway:I feel like, man, if Worthy gets a touchdown in this game, it will be a big one. Wow. That's my...

1:02:29Jason Moore:I'm changing my opinion,

1:02:30Mike Wright:and I'm definitely starting... That's my touchdown guarantee of the week. Okay. Xavier Worthy. I have a strong conviction on that one. Jake Ferguson would be the one player the Chiefs have struggled against tight ends over the last six weeks. Would you play Jake Ferguson or would you go back to Kyle Pitts after a down? Ferguson. You'd go Ferguson? Yes.

1:02:50Jason Moore:Yeah, I agree.

1:02:51Mike Wright:Just love the over under and situation in this one. Mm-hmm. All right. Cincinnati is 3-8. They take on the 6-5. Baltimore Ravens are last Thanksgiving Day game. the Ravens have the highest implied point total of any team in week 13 at 29.3 against Cincinnati Baltimore minus seven over under 51 and a half you I mean for Thanksgiving Day games to have a 48 and a half 52 and a half 51 and a half yeah we're we are loving it Thanksgiving's that is three sick turkeys right there three sick turkeys on Thanksgiving um I'm all for it let's get the points. Cincinnati, 3-8. It'll be Joe Burrow's return. So, are you excited about that?

1:03:40Yeah!

1:03:42Jason Moore:Is that

1:03:44Andy Holloway:the... I mean, the dude hasn't played football in a very, very long time. That's the save by the bell. Yeah, so excited, so scared. Yes, you must be. You must be excited and scared for Joe Burrow. Hasn't played in a very long time. Historically, not a fast starting quarterback at the beginning of the season. So I wonder if that hangover happens to him against Baltimore. But if I have him, I'm playing him over, I mean, it's like Goff or Burrow. I'm playing Burrow.

1:04:15Mike Wright:You're playing Jackson Dart over Burrow? If he's healthy and back out there?

1:04:20Andy Holloway:Man, I will have to make that decision, but as of right now, I would just play Burrow.

1:04:23Mike Wright:The crazy thing is Baltimore's defense, number three, against fantasy quarterbacks in the last six weeks. number four against running backs two against tight ends it is their defense has been great

1:04:33Jason Moore:it's been a big deal and it needs to be because Lamar is banged up um he has not been running the same I mean he's dealing with now the the toe injury so yeah their defense has stepped up and and I I worry a little bit about this game usually when you see the Bengals and the Ravens a high over under um the Ravens defense being as injured as it was early this year the Bengals defense being what it is you just want every piece in the game um and this is a prime time turkey day game it has everything you want but man Lamar just scares me with the way he's been playing lately

1:05:15Mike Wright:this is a pretty important game for getting back on track for Lamar for your like if he struggles at home with the highest implied point total of the year it will feel against Cincinnati you will have trepidation towards the fantasy playoffs yeah and they these two teams play each other uh in three weeks wow yeah lamar right now in this matchup i don't see how you sit him down even with the bad performances derrick henry it's cold outside say no more i mean derrick

1:05:43Jason Moore:henry at this time of year if you adjust for schedule the bangles are 32nd of 32 teams uh What if you don't adjust? 31st. So, yeah, I think that the snow – I mean, stay safe if you're in Vermont because you're going to get snowed in.

1:06:03Mike Wright:Start of the week, Mark Andrews in this game at tight end. You won't have T. Higgins. So, Mike, you have your start of the week of Andre Yoshivas. We've talked a lot about this game. You're playing Chase, of course, and you're playing Chase Brown, who's been a top 15 running back in five consecutive weeks.

1:06:18Andy Holloway:Yeah, the question will be Samaje Pirine, who is fully practicing. He's going to play. I mean, it was not hard to see an uptick of work for Chase Brown while Pirine has been out, I believe, with the ankle injury. I don't think Pirine comes in immediately and takes all of his work back, but that will be the thing to watch if you got Chase Brown. Okay.

1:06:42Mike Wright:And then the Zay Flowers every week, we say the same thing, which is?

1:06:45Andy Holloway:Yeah, sure.

1:06:46Mike Wright:High floor and a six-foot ceiling, which works for him. It does work for him. Give him a seven. I'll give him a seven-foot ceiling. He's comfortable in six. Yeah. He's fine. All right. Black Friday game, Chicago, eight and three. The Eagles, eight and three. Oh, boy. This is when things could really get wild for Chicago. If they could find a way here, which I can't find the way that they find the way, but you don't know. I mean, Philadelphia seven-point favorites over under 44.5 that's not a lot. Man, this is a battle between teams that have been awesome in one-score games, which I could see this being.

1:07:29Mike Wright:Chicago's 6-1, Philly 7-2. The 2-3 seed in the NFC right now behind Los Angeles. I mean, Chicago already is a great story. Chicago as a possible bye-week contender, that's an incredible story. and these are two teams that turn the other teams over a lot. Chicago's number one in turnover differential. If you win one score games and you turn the other team over, your quarterback can run like his tail's on fire. I mean, the frenetic, Mike, you guys had been in here and had your little like, oh, crap, oh, crap, oh, crap, oh, crap, like the way Caleb plays quarterback. I saw it this past week with Jason.

1:08:07Mike Wright:It was like, oh, my gosh, every play feels like there's one second on the clock. It's crazy. Yep.

1:08:15Andy Holloway:so sorry now we gotta take a break for real life cause sometimes on this show we hate giving our advice we give it but we hate it because this is what we're going to be doing

1:08:29Mike Wright:oh my gosh

1:08:31Andy Holloway:and I last on this Saturday I had messaged Kyle and I was like I put the receipt in there and I said am I crazy to think that the Saints might be our playoff DST

1:08:42Mike Wright:This is legal record. Jason brought it up on the show today.

1:08:46Jason Moore:Just because you said that doesn't mean you made a bid earlier.

1:08:48Andy Holloway:I already had a bid in on it. I 100 % had a bid. Jason's so happy. My bid went up. Yeah. But my bid was already$3. Oh, you. And yours was$0.

1:08:58Mike Wright:And then I made the joke that his bid was really$5.

1:09:00Andy Holloway:Yeah, so I went to$6. To$6.

1:09:02Mike Wright:Yeah. So you just took the Saints D.

1:09:05Jason Moore:Yeah. And Jason, you don't have them. I don't have them now. I didn't realize what was happening. What a terrible... The Saints suck, Mike.

1:09:14Andy Holloway:trust me I know I was very he's so mad I wasn't even going to pick them up this week I was going to wait I saw it in the dock

1:09:26Jason Moore:until I put it in the dock I gotta do it now

1:09:30Andy Holloway:I knew you were going to be in on them

1:09:32Jason Moore:so had I not done that I would have got them for zero just like I expected very possible

1:09:38Mike Wright:hey brother you got a lucrative fantasy football podcast that you help run

1:09:42Jason Moore:I don't care. I want a championship and league of record. I'll trade it all. Yeah.

1:09:48Andy Holloway:But the bid was already in. It got increased. So hey, you siphoned Fab away from me for nothing. Okay. Well, farts.

1:10:01Mike Wright:Do you need a turkey outfit? For Mike. Okay. All right. Back to this game, Chicago-Philadelphia. Caleb Williams. This is wild. He's been a top 10 quarterback six times. He's been QB 20 or worse five times and nothing else in between. He's never been quarterback 11 through 19.

1:10:20Jason Moore:It's really tough to think that he's going to be top 10 this week against the Eagles defense. The, you know, Caleb can get under pressure, can get rattled. We enjoy watching him, you know, when he drops back and gets pressure, just going like, oh, no, no, no, no, no. So, he's been playing great, making plays, passing touchdowns, finishing well for fantasy. But the matchup really is difficult to say this is a week to plug Caleb in your lineup. I would be trepidatious. I mean, they're only implied for 18 points.

1:10:55Mike Wright:And he's had his big games, a lot of them against bad defenses.

1:10:58Andy Holloway:The ultimate streamer, Jacoby Brissett. Oh, Brissett for sure.

1:11:02Jason Moore:I don't think Brissett is a streamer anymore. I really don't. He's just someone you need to be starting every week. I agree with that, but it's roster percent.

1:11:10Mike Wright:I'm sure it's still available. It has to have gone up. Brissette is in lineups for me this week everywhere. I'm not even thinking about the Jordan Love, Brissette, those type of questions, golfer Brissette. I'll just play Brissette. Jalen Hurts, though, you play him, you play Saquon, you play A.J. Brown, and then you make sure Devontae Smith is okay.

1:11:30Jason Moore:Right. He's dealing with a shoulder chest injury. He did not participate. Shoulder chest? Shoulder chest. Did not participate in practice on Tuesday, so just monitor that. If he plays, you play him. It's a great matchup against the Bears. They give up a lot of fantasy points to wide receivers. The real question is the wide receivers, just all the receiving options. All the pass catchers. Roma Dunes, a DJ Moore, Colson Loveland. I'll say Luther Burden's name, but you shouldn't be starting him.

1:11:58Andy Holloway:I'm still on Team Stashim. I agree that the most likely outcome is it doesn't happen for Burden this year, but he is the type of player in a situation where over the last four or five weeks, he could really take off.

1:12:12Mike Wright:I just don't agree.

1:12:14Jason Moore:What do you do with Odunze? The first month of the season, he was the wide receiver three in fantasy. He has continued since that time to be the target leader on the team, and yet he is the wide receiver 44 in fantasy, and he's pulling a seedy lamb. apparently when I bring guys onto my roster they don't know how to catch the ball that's true you put too much pressure on your guys that's what it is you're a real Vrabel that's fine, Vrabel gets it done they need to perform under pressure

1:12:47Mike Wright:well they're not for you look I still look at a Doonese as a must start type of guy now this matchup would you start him over Josh Jacobs? what tier are we in? no I would not start a Doonese over Jacobs Earlier, I agreed with you. I'd play Dunze. Or I'd play Jacobs. Christian Watson, Roma Dunze. Is that a question for you? Troy Franklin, Roma Dunze. Michael Pittman, Roma Dunze.

1:13:09Jason Moore:I would play Michael Pittman and Christian Watson ahead of Roma right now.

1:13:12Mike Wright:I mean, Houston's not a good matchup for Pittman either. Those are back-to-back in our ranking.

1:13:16Jason Moore:That's true.

1:13:17Mike Wright:Troy Franklin, though. I might play him over both those guys this week. Yeah.

1:13:22Jason Moore:I thought about making him a start of the week.

1:13:25Mike Wright:Troy Franklin, Troy.

1:13:27Jason Moore:Just all Broncos all the time. Yeah, I mean, it should be a good offensive.

1:13:32Mike Wright:Would you play Shakir with how much of a target share he's been getting, or would you play Roman Duns, eh, Mike?

1:13:36Andy Holloway:I would play Rome.

1:13:38Mike Wright:Okay. It's going to get better, Jay. It might. It's going to get better. Colston Loveland or Brenton Strange against Tennessee?

1:13:46Jason Moore:That's Mr. Loveland. Mr. Loveland. That's the love maker. Hashtag love maker. Did you say or Brenton Strange? No, don't search that one.

1:13:54Mike Wright:Okay. um britton strange against tennessee or the lovemaker this week i'm going britton strange

1:14:01Jason Moore:i completely agree with what you guys said yesterday on the waiver wire show though that if you if you need a roster one tight end the rest of season for loveland is far more valuable uh than strange so i you know on a weekly basis i would start strange but i'd rather have loveland

1:14:18Mike Wright:one thing that is working in strange's favor is the the way the wide receiver room has changed since he had left, right? You have no Hunter, no Brian Thomas Jr. Parker Washington can't carry it all. I'm kind of interested in that, and I think I would go – I think I'd play him. He'd be the one over the upside of Colston Loveland this week. Philly's just such a good defense. The other receiving options, DJ Moore just randomly shows up at times and then is gone at other times. I just hesitate. And the running backs, I feel the same way. It's just a little nerve-wracking this week. Everybody on Chicago, it feels a little bit scary.

1:14:56Jason Moore:Yeah, I mean, it's funny. DJ Moore is a guy that you really can't play. I mean, he was two touchdowns last week, 20 points. And then a month ago, he was 21 points with a touchdown, a big game. And outside of those two games, he's pretty much been irrelevant the entire season. Yeah.

1:15:13Mike Wright:Anybody else from this matchup you want to talk about, Mike?

1:15:16Andy Holloway:DJ Moore's three games over 10 points. Yeah.

1:15:18Mike Wright:that is how many games does uh i guess the dunes they probably is a lot more than that

1:15:22Andy Holloway:uh rome yeah he's got to have more so uh six okay yeah we uh that's it for the that's the

1:15:31Mike Wright:black friday game that one will be fun too yes that one is an early game though right about one o 'clock our time three eastern that's what i'm seeing i guess i've never i haven't considered

1:15:44Jason Moore:of the time as a reminder we talk about it every time that there is a you know Thursday night matchup to get those guys out of your flex and put them in your lineup but with so many games being early this week double check and make sure all your Thanksgiving and your Black Friday players put them in the running back and wide receiver slots leave your flex open uh as the week goes on yeah that's a big deal this week so what we'll do is we'll take our uh we'll take

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1:17:59Mike Wright:All right, into the Sunday matchups we go. The dudes just look so stupid.

1:18:04Jason Moore:I was thinking that. They look so stupid. One of them's got their mouth full of snacks. Falcon, tell me how it feels in the costume right this second. Pretty good. Yeah, yeah. Just caught red-handed. A little Megala snack. Yeah, just eating, munching away on our dime over there. On our dime?

1:18:21Mike Wright:Like our employees can't eat? Well, not the men.

1:18:24Jason Moore:You can't eat on my watch. Who dare you eat those snacks? Hey, who paid for that snack, huh? You did. So? What is the... You're trying to attack him. You just have nothing. Look, we're in the middle of a show. You could say he's got too big of a bite or whatever he's eating over there. I've been chewing that for 12 minutes.

1:18:43Mike Wright:I've been watching. Only been on break for like 10 seconds. All right. We are back into the Sunday game. San Francisco 7-4. Cleveland 3-8. Vegas line, San Francisco minus 4-1⁄2. The over-under is 36-1⁄2. The line opened at 40, but it's down to 36-1⁄2. I think that makes sense. We do have some weather. Oh, man. We've got some weathery concerns here. just a nice 38 degrees out rain snow wind potential cool um you got shador two weeks

1:19:17Jason Moore:of practice for shador oh he grew up kind of living that hard knock life i don't think this weather is really going to affect him much he's uh yeah yeah um well i'm excited that he's playing

1:19:30Mike Wright:again yeah but uh wasn't the most impressive week for brock purdy we know this and it probably won't me again like if you have the browns defense like they're in like i just i let jacksonville's defense go i'm playing the browns the browns are just too good they sack the quarterback they have the weather situation i still don't understand how christian mccaffrey is open on every play for a pass whenever they want to do that for all of eternity but yeah i don't know how complicated this game really is for fantasy purposes i'll be excited to see a shador start uh but christian McCaffrey you know you're playing him.

1:20:04Mike Wright:Quinchon Judkins.

1:20:05Jason Moore:Yeah he's a good start. He's at home. Yeah. Bad weather you're gonna have to run the ball and you can the the the 49ers defense is really middle of the pack. They're not terrible. They're not great. So I don't view them as anything but an average defense at this point.

1:20:20Mike Wright:You could argue they're on the more terrible side.

1:20:24Andy Holloway:Yeah they've had a lot of injuries but yeah I agree. No because of the injuries. Sure.

1:20:30Mike Wright:George Kittle you play and I don't know if you touch another player in the game I don't think you mess with wide receivers from San Francisco against the number one pass defense in football

1:20:39Jason Moore:yeah it's not a great matchup I obviously I think most everybody would say that uh Juwan Jennings would be the player to target yeah I suppose he doing okay Kittle is Kittle is the He's got to be recovered by now. Deep breath, Juwan. Yeah, I think it's Kittle, McCaffrey on that side, Quinchon, Judkins on the other, and that's it. This game is real easy. No Fanon? No, I don't think so. I don't want Shadour in bad weather. I mean, Shadour, I feel like, could end up throwing for 100 yards. And so it's like, okay, great. maybe Fanny gets you know 40 % of all the yards I don't know that would be what he had last week

1:21:27Andy Holloway:4 for 40

1:21:28Jason Moore:yeah Njoku's back as well so I'm not excited about any pass catcher

1:21:34Mike Wright:have you guys have you punished me by just like removing the button from my screen is that what it is are you trying to I don't get a button on this one are you trying to upset this oh okay I don't even get

1:21:47Mike Wright:Andy's almost upset of the way I mean, I wouldn't blame you for taking it off the board. It was not intended. To be clear. But I'll go with the almost upset here in the weather game for Cleveland and that defense after we saw that from Purdy. All right, the Jacksonville Jaguars. Winners of two consecutive awards for the burnt dinner rolls, if you don't know who the Jacksonville Jaguars are.

1:22:14Jason Moore:Oh, yeah.

1:22:15Mike Wright:Taking on the 1-10 Tennessee Titans. defense Vegas line here Jacksonville minus six and a half over under is 41 and a half

1:22:26Jason Moore:so has there ever been a least like less impressive seven and four team like I look at the Jaguars and I think their defense is is it's pretty good they're one game out of the division I know but it's like I don't view them as this really tough opponent now obviously here going to play Tennessee they're probably going to be eight and four uh the Titans have only beat the Arizona Cardinals in a game that the Cardinals gave away but the Titans are playing better football it's just an interesting like when I look at Jacksonville they feel a little phony to me they're

1:22:58Andy Holloway:they're putting up points you know 30 against Vegas 29 against Houston that they lost but 29 points 29 against Houston is 35 against the Chargers and 27 against Arizona they did maybe

1:23:12Jason Moore:i need to give them a little bit more respect because they beat the tarnation out of the

1:23:15Mike Wright:chargers yeah they they would be in the midst of a great winning streak if they hadn't blown a

1:23:21Andy Holloway:huge lead against you yeah that was all in the fourth quarter right pretty much

1:23:25Mike Wright:so maybe they're okay yeah but i i think they're as funny as as mr uh like i think he's done a great job and travis etn has been awesome he's been a top 12 uh running back in four consecutive games he's too important to the offense I feel like right now with the absence of Brian Thomas Travis Hunter I feel like you can be like are you feeling confident about Travis Etienne Jason are

1:23:49Jason Moore:you worried about the when the shoe's gonna drop no I mean it's a matchup thing to me so I am feeling confident about uh Travis Etienne this week playing against the Titans in a game where you're you know favored by basically a touchdown um Travis Etienne there it was scary a couple weeks ago, Tootin seemed like he was the hot hand, was running ahead of him. Then he got banged up. He practiced though and played last week and he was very much not. It was the ETN show. So I'm not sure if that's entirely because of health and just kind of resting Tootin a little bit more, but I'm not worried about ETN.

1:24:26Jason Moore:I think he is a good play this week and most weeks he's going to be a good play. I mean, what is he? He's a running back one right now on the season. He's top 12. The last month has been fantastic. And then I think the big question is Brian Thomas Jr. We talk about it a lot. Usually with a high ankle sprain, you missed three games. He didn't go on IR. He has missed three games.

1:24:47Mike Wright:I think we had a comment. Liam Cohen saying they'll take it day by day with Brian Thomas Jr.'s ankle return. Definitely need his presence.

1:24:55Jason Moore:Yeah, I think Brian Thomas should be back this week.

1:24:59Mike Wright:Okay.

1:25:00Andy Holloway:Are you?

1:25:01Mike Wright:If he's not, I'm very confident in Parker Washington. Let me put it that way.

1:25:04Jason Moore:Are you immediately playing Brian Thomas? I would play Brian Thomas if he's back. I mean, it's obviously a matter of who do you have, but if we want to look at some options. Alec Pierce. Alec Pierce against Houston, I would go Brian Thomas.

1:25:20Andy Holloway:The new hotness, Wandale Robinson against the Patriots.

1:25:26Jason Moore:That's a disgusting question. Yeah, I'll go Wandale. Yeah, I think I'll go Wandale.

1:25:30Mike Wright:There was a Quinton Johnson or Brian Thomas Jr. question on the site. for those nauseated that want to become more nauseated. Johnson against the Raiders. I'd play huge. You play Michael Wilson over Brian Thomas Jr.

1:25:45Jason Moore:Yeah, I'm going to stay in the flames of those guys, the Wandales and the Michael Wilsons, the guys who have really come on strong. I will play them and give Brian Thomas a week, but if I don't have a...

1:25:54Mike Wright:I don't think he's going to play, man. Yeah, you really don't? No.

1:25:58Andy Holloway:And where are you at on Jacoby? I mean, Jacoby's all right. We've been ramping up 44%, 65%, 84 % of the snaps.

1:26:06Mike Wright:I'm fine. Four for 50 with the touchdown. Tennessee's 30th against wide receivers.

1:26:11Andy Holloway:Is it contingent on Brian Thomas? Yes. Okay. Yeah. So if Thomas is out, Jacoby's in?

1:26:16Mike Wright:Yeah, honestly, like if Brian Thomas is back, it gives me a little bit of – You don't really want to play anyone? Sort of. And even Brenton Strange gets a little more nerve-wracking for me because I like the consolidation of targets, and that would make me a little nervous. We talked about Chimray DK in the backup option section on the other side. I don't if you want if you're desperate if it's a bigger league you need somebody I think he's okay to throw in there but not with high expectations sure and then if you're in like nasty boy deep dynasty leagues please pay attention to the involvement of uh their young rookie tight end Gunnar Helm the last two weeks it's been uh pretty good six for 51 this past week so just keep an eye on him for deeper leagues maybe somebody you pick up off of the waiver wire and stash in that

1:27:02Andy Holloway:situation but would it does it does it surprise you guys like it does me that tony pollard is like he played the last two weeks it's like he didn't he's he's getting 20 i haven't i haven't

1:27:15Jason Moore:really thought about tony pollard he is in quite some time he is getting so much opportunity i believe he's on pace for 260 plus opportunities that's 16 against seattle 13 against houston i It's wonderful. If you tell me I get a running back with 260 plus opportunities on a season who hasn't missed a game, then he's got fantasy value and there's none. He's on pace for 800 yards on the season.

1:27:38Mike Wright:Since they fired their coach, he's on pace for 600 and zero.

1:27:42Andy Holloway:Kyle's message, he's currently on pace for what the lowest fantasy points per game of any running back with 250 touches. He's the invisible man. He really is. That's what I mean.

1:27:51Mike Wright:He's the invisible.

1:27:52Andy Holloway:He's like he's on IR while he's playing. And that does not mean that Spears is getting anything done. Oh, goodness no. Which is weird. How is no one doing anything? Bad team. Bad, bad team. But they scored 24 points.

1:28:08Mike Wright:Yeah. Tim Ray D.K. returned a kick. Oh, yeah, yeah. I guess that's fair. Anything else from this matchup?

1:28:15Andy Holloway:No, please no. Please no.

1:28:16Mike Wright:Houston 6-5. The Colts 8-3. This is more fun. Vegas line here. Indy minus 4.5 over under 44.5. implied point total of 20 for Houston 24 for the Colts there have been a couple games this year where Indy just doesn't feel overpowering right like they've had the games where they seem like a machine you've had a little bit of a down spell for Jonathan Taylor at least um not really I mean you had the bye week and then you had to come out of the bye week and he didn't win you your week and that's considered a down spell for him but sure was um all of the what a pathetic loser all of the losses for Houston on the entire year, all five of them are one score losses.

1:28:53Mike Wright:So they have been in literally every single game. And really the underperformance of the offense has probably been the difference. Couldn't make big plays at the end. They have been making them. All their losses have been against playoff teams, the Rams, Buccaneers, Jacksonville, Seattle, and Denver. So Houston, I think is much better than people give them credit for. And you're starting to see it now with the way the defense has played and the fact they're above 500. And then this game is a, what would you call Jason a lit litmus test litmus litmus test with an in down with the

1:29:23Jason Moore:litmus um yeah so I'm seeing a note CJ Stroud is expected to return for this game does that I mean does that give you more confidence or less confidence I I'm still on team Stroud's better for you yeah that Mills is not for the Texans I'm saying like Nico Collins yes if you're starting nicole you're starting dalton schultz like dalton schultz has really been much better with you know it could just be happenstance of of the time and the the specific there was a couple good games in

1:29:53Mike Wright:there with stroud though i was gonna say that he actually he put up a quarterback four week against baltimore when they were still struggling but he also put up a quarterback four week against san francisco in week eight so out of his last four starts you had two top five performances I think it's probably being overplayed. Their defense has been carrying. Stroud is, I mean, Davis Mills has definitely executed the offense very well. But I think it's a lot like Mac Jones and Brock Purdy. You could kind of be like, oh, man, we've won the games with Mac Jones. But it's like, do you get to where you need to go with Mac Jones, or do you need to bring Brock Purdy back for that?

1:30:28Mike Wright:So I don't, you know, I like Woody Marks in this game. You always play Nico Collins. Jason, you like Dalton Schultz in this game, which, you know, So I think those are all exciting matchup plays. On the other side, Jonathan Taylor, Daniel Jones. Like where are you with Daniel Jones right now and the other options that you might have?

1:30:46Jason Moore:There has not been one quarterback one performance against Houston. They just made Josh Allen look inept. I mean, they were in his face every single play, and he had one of his worst games of the season. I can't imagine playing Daniel Jones in this matchup.

1:31:04Mike Wright:I got two names that are in the start situ for Daniel Jones versus. Let's hear it. Joe Burrow on Thursday. Burrow for sure. And then the other one is Jordan Love against Detroit. I think I'd be willing to go Jordan Love there. I'm going to go Jordan Love there, yeah. So does that sap your confidence for Pittman and Pierce? Yeah, I mean, even Tyler Warren?

1:31:24Jason Moore:The matchup is definitely one where, like, I've got Michael Pittman. He's in my lineup, but I'm holding my breath. I don't expect it to be great. the matchup for Pierce probably even lower lower confidence looking elsewhere. Pierce or Slayton? Slayton's just been dealing with the hamstring issue. Pierce or Michael Carter in a flex? Pierce. You're going real low. I'm going to my line. You're going to your line. Mike knew it right away. Who has these disgusting questions? Who's grossing me out, man? Of course you're playing Pierce.

1:32:00Mike Wright:over Michael Carter? Yeah. That's all I have it set up, boys. Congrats. Trying to survive. Okay, so Tyler Warren, he's your tight end. You're going to play your tight end. Yeah. And I think Warren can have a pretty instrumental role in fantasy championships this year. I think you're going to have some opportunities there. When you get into the fantasy playoffs, um Tyler Warren is going to be right there for you anybody else in the receiving room I mean six targets last week for Christian Kirk Jaden Higgins been making some plays

1:32:35Andy Holloway:are you going beyond Nico I think that Higgins is an okay play but no I'm not going to force him in

1:32:44Jason Moore:yeah I agree and to speak to your point Andy in the playoffs the Indianapolis Colts have the third best strength of schedule for the playoffs at the tight end position so Tyler Warren's been kind of a little bit down after his hot start to the season. But he's got that dog and the schedule will open up.

1:33:03Mike Wright:Alright, Mike's fantasy defense, Mike Wright, not in the League of Record. The New Orleans Saints at 2-9 take on the Miami Dolphins at 4-7. I was waiting for the head shake, Jay. Oh, does this make you feel any better? Hey! That does make me feel better. Hey, Doozers, you guys look too good. Can we get your best gobble? I can't believe we didn't ask for that.

1:33:22Jason Moore:Well, one at a time. One at a time. All right, that was Al Borland. That was pretty good. Not bad. That was not as good. And you never disappoint. All right, I'm going to put hashtag triple gobble into the vocal cords. Oh, hashtag triple gobble. Triple gobble? Okay. That might be it. I've got some in consideration here. The only problem with triple gobble. It's like a triple gobble. I know this is my problem and mine only. But I always want to put two Ps in the word triple. Oh, triple. You're the only one that will do that, though. Tripipple.

1:33:55Mike Wright:Tripipple double boom. I don't think that'll be a problem for the rest of the world. So we'll consider that one as well. We'll announce that hashtag soon enough. I've got three in consideration right now. So we'll see. The Saints, 2-9. Miami, 4-7. Miami, minus 6 in this one. Over under 41.5. Okay. Not a lot of start-to-date decisions coming out of these next two matchups, but let's go to the big names. I think that is, you know, eight hands on every week's start. You don't have to talk about it. I think on the other side, you're having the Devin Neal conversation, right? You're going to see Devin Neal with opportunity.

1:34:29Mike Wright:I think the five catches on seven targets last week was interesting. One of the reasons that you like Juwan Johnson is this has been consolidated, right? It's been Olave and Johnson. Devin Neal can get worked into that rotation. They're heavy underdogs, but...

1:34:44Jason Moore:I like Devin Neal a lot. I think if you picked Devin Neal up, you probably are going to play him this week. I see him as a running back, too. Not that he's got some crazy ceiling this week, but the involvement. He should touch the ball 15 times in a game against the middle of the road defense against the run. And I believe Devin Neal is talented. So not that he's, you know, elite by any means. He's a sixth round rookie pick, but he's not. He's very competent.

1:35:15Mike Wright:Olave is in your lineup. Waddle in your lineup. Yeah. Juwan Johnson is Mike's start of the week at the tight end position. The Miami storyline this year has been so weird because they are still fighting for their coach. The over-under in this one is just 41. Gross. So, you know, HN, you know, is going to be fine. He just gets so much work. I hope we get another bounce-back game from Waddle. I hope that's, you know, I think he's been – you're shaking your head. You're not so sure.

1:35:49Andy Holloway:I mean, I'm playing him pretty much no matter what as a top 15 option, but the Saints defense, like we pointed out, they're not the worst. And right now, I mean, they're 11th against fantasy wide receivers over the past six weeks, so it's been tougher.

1:36:06Mike Wright:Let me ask you some Devin Neal questions because four of the top eight start-sit questions on the entire week are Devin Neal. Yeah. So these are the names that people are deciding on. Devin Neal or Woody Marks?

1:36:21Mike Wright:i'm very much on the i think i'm the woody mark yeah we've he's got more experience right now

1:36:26Jason Moore:i'll lean woody tyrone tracy jr or devon neil i have devon neil one spot ahead christian watson or devon neil i'll go christian watson and then devon neil or aaron jones senior that one's pretty interesting um i'll go aaron jones senior yeah the

1:36:45Andy Holloway:yeah maybe the split between him and Mason was interesting last week of Mason finally looked like he was okay on the ground

1:36:58Mike Wright:yeah I think you start to get that offense just had to find something Atlanta's 4-7 the Jets are 2-9 the Vegas line here Atlanta minus 2.5 in week 13 over under 39.5 gross um okay Aaron Glenn

1:37:19Andy Holloway:Thanksgiving is just siphoning all the good games yeah the Falcons Jets battle

1:37:23Mike Wright:is not one that I'm going to be glued to the Kirk Cousins Terod Taylor matchup these teams quarterbacks faced off against each other in 2015 that was a minute ago they were both top 5 quarterbacks that week boys

1:37:41Andy Holloway:oh man it was just 10 years ago just yeah you know just you know just 10 years yeah it's a

1:37:49Jason Moore:lifetime honestly how impressive is it that tarod taylor is still playing 10 years later like he's he's had a still around long career yeah how old is tarod taylor is he older than brissette

1:38:03Mike Wright:no yeah way older 36 yeah you know brissette's only 32 interesting he feels like he's been around forever.

1:38:10Andy Holloway:Taylor has made over$82 million.

1:38:14Jason Moore:Oh yeah. He got a, he got a starting contract.

1:38:16Mike Wright:There's a, there's an Instagram handle. This guy only does reels. And all he does is say things like, um, if you had made, you know,$50 ,000 a year since George Washington was born, you still wouldn't have made as much money as a third string backup. This guy, like he's got, he just, Every day it's one of those guys that you're like, like Luol Deng has made more money than if you made this much per minute since George Washington was born. But Tyrod Taylor's done good work. Good for you, Taylor. Yeah. Yeah, that's crazy. All right, Bijan, play your Bijan. Play your Brees Hall.

1:38:52Jason Moore:Yeah, it's a good matchup for Brees Hall. The Falcons' run defense has kind of evaporated early in the season. It seemed like they were going to shut people down.

1:38:59Mike Wright:Who what are they? Who what are they? Nobody knows.

1:39:03Jason Moore:How? Why? With Kirk Cousins. Do we have an update on Drake London? He's doubtful. Okay, so without Drake London, that version of Kirk Cousins, which is the only version we have seen so far, is going to set the Jets up to be a little bit more competitive in this game, have more opportunities for Brees Hall. So I'm happy to play Brees this week.

1:39:22Mike Wright:If you want to strap on a pair of significantly protective underpants, John Mechie could be okay he's been the wider series 17 and 13 the last two weeks there is it is a little bit enticing with how bad the Falcons have been and you look at a situation like Alec Pierce for example or a more uh you you know even Christian Watson Watson I'd play but when you look at a matchup and you say hey do I want to go for the one big play type of guy or do I want to take a shot at John Mechie getting more targets?

1:39:59Jason Moore:No, I agree. If you look at what happened, so he got traded to the Jets three weeks ago. The first week, 16 % of snaps was not involved. Makes sense. He just arrived at the team. The last two weeks, 82 % and 86 % of the snaps, both weeks of touchdown, both weeks, decent yardage, 45 and 65 yards. They need him. and you know he he came in as a good player he's a second round pick maybe a little bit overdrafted missed the beginning of his career with the cancer situation but he's still a young

1:40:35Andy Holloway:guy 25 years old I like taking a shot at John Mechie I got a nasty one for you Mechie or Jordan Addison I play Mechie I think I'm going Mechie there yeah that's where we are yeah no and uh

1:40:49Mike Wright:Kyle would like you to know Mason Taylor. Zero forced tackles on the season. What do you mean forced tackles? Missed tackles? That's probably what he meant. Forced missed, yeah. He said forced tackles. Mason Taylor forces tackles all the time.

1:41:03Andy Holloway:Even when there's not a defender around. He forces tackles.

1:41:06Jason Moore:How about Mechie versus Chemerade Dike?

1:41:11Mike Wright:I'd see them about the same.

1:41:15Jason Moore:Don't pick.

1:41:16Mike Wright:I'll play them both with my roster, probably. Darnell Mooney on the other side or Mechie? Mooney. Kyle Pitts. Or Mechie? No, just Kyle Pitts. I'm just saying the name out loud. Kyle Pitts. It's not even a question mark. It's just the name. He plays.

1:41:34Jason Moore:He's there. The punctuation after Kyle Pitts' name is a frown emoji. It's just Kyle Pitts frown.

1:41:42Andy Holloway:Kyle Pitts last week was two for 25. the team scored 24 points against new orleans he is so there was no drake london remember we had

1:41:51Mike Wright:mr necessary at tight end yes he is truly charles unnecessary he's mr unnecessary it i he makes no

1:41:59Jason Moore:sense and he honestly he had a couple big plays that he dropped um in that game and kyle who

1:42:04Mike Wright:could they have drafted instead of kyle i can't remember i can't remember man every person on

1:42:09Jason Moore:planet earth no but who was the point after him some wide receiver for the bengals oh my gosh can't remember his name what is it it's uh jamar or something like we're chasing that name yeah

1:42:23Mike Wright:okay he didn't want to say it he's still hurting arizona's three and eight the tampa bay buccaneers six and five tampa bay is struggling right now yeah tampa bay they are favored three-point favorites at home over under 44 and a half some optimism that baker mayfield will be able to play in this game. He is a tough son of a gun. He is. That's a dog. Laser. Yeah, he is.

1:42:45Andy Holloway:But if he plays, I think that's a tough start. The Cardinals on the season and over the last six weeks are 10th against fantasy quarterbacks. You know who's out now?

1:42:58Mike Wright:Walter Nolan. Oh, are you serious? Already declared out.

1:43:02Andy Holloway:Oh!

1:43:03Mike Wright:Yeah, so I don't think Will Johnson or Walter Nolan will be out.

1:43:05Andy Holloway:But the Cardinals defense against quarterbacks has been good, and you're one hit, one good hit, and then you've lost your fantasy quarterback.

1:43:18Mike Wright:Yeah, playing Baker versus being happy Baker's playing for the other players are two different things. I would not try to play Baker. I would try to find another option. The over-under is pretty low, but I want him to play. I want to see him behind center with Bucky Irving returning, with Emeka Ibuka. They have a connection with Godwin being back out there. He only played a very small percentage of the snaps. They're working him into the rotation. It's just better for the game. And the Cardinals did a really good job of giving Brock Purdy his confidence a couple of weeks ago. So we will see what happens.

1:43:53Mike Wright:The other report is that Bridgewater is going to get the majority of the first team reps as they wait on him. Both of those things should happen. Baker can play without him and Teddy needs him. so we'll see Teddy's not the worst right from a backup quarterback perspective he looked okay worst I mean where are you with Ibuka if Teddy started I'm still starting Ibuka if Teddy's

1:44:13Jason Moore:starting he he targeted him enough it didn't work out they didn't connect a lot but also in that last matchup um you know it was much more difficult for Bridgewater and Baker the Rams rush pass defense was just annihilating that offensive line with Walter Nolan out I don't think the Cardinals are going to really make it as difficult for Teddy. So I'm fine. I'm not starting Teddy. I'm not starting Baker. But I am starting Ibuka regardless of who the quarterback is.

1:44:44Andy Holloway:By what I can see here, Teddy hasn't started a game since 2022. Well, he took some time off from football.

1:44:52Mike Wright:Yeah, he was – well, yeah, to coach football.

1:44:54Andy Holloway:Yeah, coach football. But I'm just saying, I mean, he was on the Detroit roster, at least for a little bit. uh what i'd say i'm just like that's a long time for us to have not seen teddy throw tampa has been

1:45:10Mike Wright:statistically quite awful giving up 25 points a game to running backs what do you do with the cardinal running back room this is why i brought up michael carter earlier because you know bam knight michael carter as of right now that seems to be the guys that are going to play in this game you don't think it's trey benson i i haven't seen a single report about Trey Benson playing in this game? Has anybody seen anything? Competitive advantage. I don't have any reason to believe Trey Benson's playing.

1:45:34Jason Moore:The reason I have to believe that he could play is that at the end of last week it seemed like there was a real chance for him to play. So given that he basically has to start this week or next week based on the 21-day window and that he almost played last week, I would not be shocked if Trey Benson plays. If Trey Benson plays, I'm happy to start him. as am i um if trey benson is out you know there's you're unhappy to start other players yeah exactly

1:46:01Mike Wright:yes michael uh michael wilson not michael thomas he's much better than michael thomas michael wilson the start of the week uh for yours truly would you play michael wilson or abuka oh my goodness that's right that's right uh hard hitting question i would go let me let me go to

1:46:19Andy Holloway:the deucer cam what you think about it i know what the answer is i just don't know if i'm strong

1:46:23Jason Moore:enough to say it right yeah i'm not strong enough if marvin harrison is inactive i will go michael wilson if marvin harrison is active i will go abuka see you know what i find interesting here

1:46:36Mike Wright:and this is really going to hit just the youtube crowd we've got the cardinals right and we've got tampa bay they look very similar but we didn't go like we don't go home road on the matchup jerseys

1:46:47Andy Holloway:huh no okay do you know how much that's double the work it just looks like it's red on red helmets are different yeah yeah okay sorry i mean it's a long show guys i mean do you want to do you want it to be like the alternative uniforms as well i think there's a home and road jersey

1:47:02Mike Wright:mike i think that's just the way the slippery slope the way the world works i don't feel like thank you that's not that hard we're trying to be efficient here oh you're wanting then you're like oh we're gonna get the color rush yes no i don't need that i don't need color i just want home and

1:47:14Andy Holloway:road the graphics guy is shaking in his boots right now this is like a don't make me do it

1:47:19Mike Wright:when we introduced these graphics for the youtube we did it apple style we limited the total package so we could release an update ah nice you know what i mean yeah could have done it right the first time but whatever check out ios 27 uh trey mcbride play him please all the time and then if if harrison's back i'm moving away from dorch if he's not i think dorch is still a dart throw If there's no Harrison, would you play Dorch or Mechie?

1:47:46Jason Moore:Dorch or Mechie? Probably Dorch. I mean, last week, nine targets, six for 53, a touchdown again. So, yeah.

1:47:53Mike Wright:Nobody gets up in a game where they're down by a bunch and is more excited about a nine-yard catch than Greg Dorch.

1:48:00Andy Holloway:Greg Dorch. He stunts on them when they're down big.

1:48:04Jason Moore:It's so tough because if you're not a star player, if you're not part of the core of the team, then it really is about you to some degree and so you score this touchdown how are you not celebrating even though you're down a ton i don't know i i simultaneously i watch a guy celebrate when he's down and go that is embarrassing like if you catch 100 passes on the year or you

1:48:28Mike Wright:catch 10 passes on the year the 10 you catch are 10 times more valuable to you and so then on the

1:48:34Jason Moore:other side i'm like i get it man go celebrate you just got that touch that's what dorge does

1:48:38Mike Wright:the Rams the number one seed in the NFC at nine and two take on the Carolina Panthers who are six and five the Rams are 10 point road favorites the over-under is 44 and a half and uh I enjoyed the uh Rico Dowdle social media tweet yesterday of just the befuddled emoji emoji just the face of like I don't understand why I got six carries yeah there

1:49:02Andy Holloway:that was a coaching catastrophe to you had the the first and goal on the one or maybe even the half yard line and you don't give rico any chances that's ridiculous the second half opens up you know maybe they maybe they will actually look and be like but why aren't we giving rico the ball they give rico the ball huge chunk gain no more rico that was it and what what are we doing here man this the the reason that your team is in the position is in is not because of bryce young is because of rico dowdle so don't let the one game last week of the 400 yards be like no this is who

1:49:41Mike Wright:bryce is it just makes you nervous this week yeah because the rams are such a great defense and a

1:49:46Jason Moore:great running defense and it's like they are number one on the season of fewest fancy points given up to the running back position they average um if you if you adjust for the schedule they've played 13.5 fantasy points and half PPR to the running back position. So now you know Chuba's going to get some of that, and it's going to be split with Rico. It's a worrisome start for me where I do look at other players.

1:50:08Mike Wright:I'm sorry. I'm looking at the start-sit questions. This one makes sense, right? Rico Dattel or Woody Marks, what would you do? I could see going Woody Marks. I'm fine with that. I can see it. I see DeAndre Swift or Rico Dattel. Another reasonable question. Sure. And then I go down to one of our more recent ones, and somebody out there, I'm looking at you,

1:50:24Jason Moore:somebody just typed in this is recent okay jonathan taylor or rico donnell oh man that's tough my guy my guy my guy what are you you're in the streets man yeah what are you come on i'm gonna lean jonathan taylor yeah no and just because of the matchup

1:50:41Mike Wright:uh tedaroa mcmillan scored again last week saving the week he scored in two straight he's on pace for about 80 and 1107 i think tedaroa you you just play him yeah absolutely did you know now

1:50:53Andy Holloway:No, he hasn't had a bye week. Okay. So that does factor in. Ted Rowe McMillan is a top 10 fantasy wide receiver on the year. Wide receiver? No bye week? Correct.

1:51:05Mike Wright:What's his points per game? I bet he's about 18, 19. 11.4. Yeah. No, no, no. I meant rank. Sorry, sorry. Jason gave me the points per game number. That's a really, really bad guess. I meant where did he rank? Because you said he was 10 or 9 on the season. I'm just curious if somebody has that. I'll figure it out for you. He's 18. Yeah, that's how he – there you go. That's how he feels, and that's great. That's fine. Is that some – do you have some – Ahead of Roma Dunze. Gosh darn it. It's not amazing. It's good. You didn't let me down as a rookie, but your top ten pick, like I could see being a little disappointed.

1:51:43Mike Wright:I think the hype is –

1:51:45Jason Moore:You want to know what I love about it? We haven't finished this season, and he's going to finish really strong. I mean –

1:51:51Mike Wright:Well, if they give Rico six carries a week, he really will.

1:51:53Jason Moore:Yeah, I'm thrilled to start Tedaroa rest of season, and I do think he's going to be special down the stretch.

1:52:01Mike Wright:Puka, Devontae, play them. Kyron, play them. It's not hard. The Stafford decision, also you can play him. It's looking like a magical year. They are by far the favorites to reach the Super Bowl in terms of the Vegas odds.

1:52:16Jason Moore:They have the best combination in the league right now of offense and defense. They don't have a weakness on either side of the ball. They can run the ball. They can pass.

1:52:26Mike Wright:You can look at Philly and Kansas City, and they've got great defenses, and you're like, well, their offenses are okay. Right. This is like a cruising offense. Minnesota's 4-7. The Seahawks 8-3. This should be interesting. Seattle minus 11-1⁄2. Over-under's 41-1⁄2, and the Vikings are just – their season's done. It's done. It's very, very done. Yeah. So what does that mean for the fantasy production in the playoffs? We had talked at the trade deadline time about the amazing schedule for Jefferson. This is why I think it's devastating that he's got the concussion. Now, maybe missing the Seattle game in Seattle is okay.

1:53:05Mike Wright:But beyond that, you better line up J.J. McCarthy for four straight, five straight weeks and cook. Or you'll be cooking at an in-and-out.

1:53:15Andy Holloway:The implied total for Minnesota at 15 is not.

1:53:20Mike Wright:15 points.

1:53:21Andy Holloway:Yeah, there's not a lot of faith coming in here for the other quarterback.

1:53:25Mike Wright:Jefferson had the lowest line he's ever had in any sportsbook last week. It was like 69 yards. Yeah. It is 62 this week, which is his new all-time low. The switch to Brasmer, not encouraging when you're not at home and you're playing Seattle in Seattle. It's really hard to start any Vikings with any confidence this week, including JJ for me from Aaron Jones to Devin Neal because of just how overwhelming this feels

1:53:53Jason Moore:yeah the the matchup the projected point total it's it's not a good look for Minnesota right now it hard to imagine I mean less Max Brosmer comes in here and just really surprises and you go oh okay there's a quarterback competition but keep in mind when JJ McCarthy was not active Carson Wentz was borderline dead couldn't move or use physically yes the less half of his body he already had the injury to which he then immediately afterwards you know had season surgery and they're like yeah you gotta Carson we can't go to Bronson you gotta get back out there Carson so I you know I don't think they were sitting there going we got something special back here

1:54:39Mike Wright:it seems like because of the way the game script is 26.5 implied point total on that low over under

1:54:45Andy Holloway:like kenneth walker is really in play again kenneth walker it it unfortunately has not translated to really special production but bro i'm pretty happy well i mean just yeah double digits let's go you had a top 12 against the rams uh six and a half a carry last week they did it again though last week yes that and that's what i was going to bring up is the snaps and the opportunities they have really shifted to walker they didn't give him chances i mean they gave him red zone opportunities

1:55:17Mike Wright:last week he had three attempts inside the the red zone yeah he had one inside the 10 he had one

1:55:22Jason Moore:inside the five yeah but they he did have the drive where he got him down there and then they

1:55:26Mike Wright:switched to sharbs and sharbs got in yep no i it's that's already is yeah yeah i mean walker is

1:55:33Andy Holloway:I love Walker is a good play but are you playing charbs like are you going to chase no the

1:55:39Mike Wright:touchdowns I'm not okay I I think the the workload seeing him out there so much I mean six carries for charbs you are you were playing for one carry yes you are what I'm just saying

1:55:50Andy Holloway:in this matchup where Seattle is at home favored by 11 and a half points yeah I lean more you would

1:55:59Jason Moore:imagine yeah i would oh i would play walker over but yeah you'd imagine that there's a good chance sharps could get a touchdown monongai or sharps sharps charbs or jordan mason sharps yeah and all that i like montan guy more i couldn't say his name right but i like him more

1:56:15Mike Wright:monongai monongai jsn i would play him yeah this week is a tough decision mashed potatoes like that yes sir yeah and uh jefferson i think that's the biggest i'm gonna go look at the start sit tool right now? Yes. With Jefferson and I'm going to see his name. I just imagine people are going to be worried about Jefferson. I mean are you? He's barely in my 24 right now.

1:56:38Jason Moore:I've got one for you without looking at what people are asking but Justin Jefferson or Michael Wilson?

1:56:47Mike Wright:Let me go to this camera here. What are we doing here, turkeys? What would you guys do? Get on the record. What would the turkeys do in that one? Michael Wilson, Justin Jefferson.

1:56:56Jason Moore:There's zero chance I could sit Justin Jefferson for Michael Wilson, personally.

1:57:01Andy Holloway:Do you know how to use a mic, Josh? He's trying. Oh, Josh's microphone doesn't work.

1:57:06Jason Moore:Oh, fantastic. Good work, producers. And I mean that. Good work in muting Josh. That's what we always dreamed of.

1:57:12Mike Wright:Yeah. It'd be great if we reversed his mute button so every time he tries to talk,

1:57:16Jason Moore:he's muting himself yes um you're doing it to yourself come on come on max you got it no i i

1:57:23Mike Wright:don't want to play jefferson in this game and i would have the guts to sit him i'd play a buka we could move the camera back oh no we can't oh yeah there we go uh wandale or justin jefferson

1:57:35Jason Moore:playing wandale troy franklin or justin jefferson well i'll play jefferson then christian watson jefferson okay no more further questions we'll take a break

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2:00:15Mike Wright:How many games do we have left? I don't know.

2:00:19Andy Holloway:How many games? Just make it stop.

2:00:21Mike Wright:Buffalo, seven and four, Pittsburgh, six and five.

2:00:24Andy Holloway:Okay, we can do this. Oh, is that it? We can do it.

2:00:27Mike Wright:The Vegas line, Buffalo minus three and a half, over, under.

2:00:30Jason Moore:Quick nap, guys.

2:00:31Mike Wright:Are you running out of gas?

2:00:33Jason Moore:I've been out for a while.

2:00:37Mike Wright:Get this guy a smelling salt. Do we have a smelling salt over there? Throw me the salts. Oh, wait. That's a hole. Oh, oh, oh. Definitely hit me in the face. Here you go, Jay. All right. Let me get you through the last three. Mike, you want one? No, I don't. Mike's shaking his head. No, I don't. We'll share, Jay. We'll share.

2:00:54Andy Holloway:I know what I can do. You take the first sniff. I know. I know. They don't make me feel energized. I love that smell, though. They just make my nose and my eyes burn.

2:01:06Mike Wright:All right, I'm back, baby. Buffalo, 7-4. Pittsburgh, 6-5. Buffalo, minus 3.5 over under, 47.5. Okay, well, they signed. Who'd they sign at wide receiver? Brandon Cooks? Brandon Cooks, yeah.

2:01:23Jason Moore:That'll fix it. Our problems are solved. What is Buffalo doing?

2:01:27Mike Wright:If you could smelt down a bunch of receivers into one, right? Like a medal? Sure. Just making sure you follow the smelting. Yeah, smelt.

2:01:38Jason Moore:Yeah, you dealt it. I'd swish.

2:01:41Mike Wright:So I just feel like they might need to not waste Josh Allen's prime, is all I'm saying. You play Allen. This is an interesting game. You play James Cook, of course. And then I'm starting to feel more confident around Khalil Shakir right now. ever since we saw, I mean, last week was big. It wasn't great the weeks before, but from a target share perspective, like over the last five weeks is on pace for 125 targets. And so if I get 125 Josh Allen target pace, I'm okay with that. I don't know if you guys are like Shakir or Justin Jefferson.

2:02:15Andy Holloway:Apparently that's the question. I'd play Jefferson. Does Brandon Bean's television only, are you still smelling that? Sorry, I wanted one more whiff. Here you go, Jay. Yeah, my left nostril is way too open. I've got to open that right one now. Does Brandon Bean's television only play games, like NFL games from like five years ago? Is that why they get those wide receivers?

2:02:38Mike Wright:Yeah, he only watches. He's like, this is Brandon Cooks. He's doing great work. They're just adding Gabe Davis coming back. That's what I mean. It's weird. Yeah, so I don't think it's complicated, though, start-wise on Buffalo's side, right? It's Allen and it's Cook and then Shakira and an emergency? yeah coleman is he gonna come back no we don't even know if he's playing ball but if he is he's not gonna be in my lineup oh i forgot we have mailbag too yeah yeah we'll get uh we'll get a triple gobble mailbag oh yes yeah we will you remind me we had mailbag we're gonna do that all right yeah kenneth gainwell got my start of the week the little pat on the butt jaylen warren

2:03:15Andy Holloway:is of course in your lineup too right yeah yeah both of them are in play and then we expect to see aaron rogers back out there but does it mean much i don't know if this offense really functions

2:03:25Mike Wright:much differently. I don't think you look at Metcalf and go, oh, thank goodness. Thank goodness he's got Rodgers instead of Rudolph.

2:03:32Jason Moore:No, but you still start Metcalf. Even if that was Rudolph. Is it Metcalf or Justin Jefferson? Oh!

2:03:41Andy Holloway:I would go Justin Jefferson. Eight targets two weeks in a row for DK Metcalf. Eight targets two weeks in a row. Turns that into five for 49 and five for 22.

2:03:52Mike Wright:Can we call him the candy man because he only eats candy for food? I mean, it makes me feel better. I feel like that's the candy man or a doonzae.

2:04:02Andy Holloway:It's killing him the candy man is too good.

2:04:05Jason Moore:The candy man can. On the podcast yesterday, we basically said he was turkey. It's the big, beautiful, special thing that's really overrated.

2:04:15Mike Wright:I don't know why people feel like they have to attack turkey just because they like him.

2:04:19Jason Moore:No, I'm not attacking. I still like turkey. You just think it's overrated? Yes, he's very overrated. D.K. Metcalf got a$150 million deal. He is not a true wide receiver one.

2:04:30Mike Wright:A big part of turkey is the dressing. Yeah. Like putting the gravy on it, I mean.

2:04:34Jason Moore:Yeah, so put D.K. Metcalf on a good team. His gravy is Aaron Rodgers. The gravy's gone bad. Gravy's a little old.

2:04:42Mike Wright:That's like some... Gravy's been sitting out for four years. He has. So Metcalf is a scary start. I mean, Shakir or Metcalf in the same game. I'll probably go Metcalf. Jacoby Myers against Tennessee. Metcalf. Okay.

2:04:57Andy Holloway:That one's closer than it should be. I'd go Shakir over Myers. Okay.

2:05:03Mike Wright:Any other questions from this game? Any other thoughts? We've talked through all the main players.

2:05:07Andy Holloway:No. The Bills are good against tight ends. You want to know why he's struggling? Which is actually good news for DK Metcalf. Okay.

2:05:14Jason Moore:When it comes to Jonu and Pat Fryermuth and big old Darnell, Washington, and more than any of those three, Arthur.

2:05:25Mike Wright:Remember Darnell Anderson? Oh, yeah.

2:05:27Jason Moore:Arthur Smith wanting to get his tight ends involved. This is not the matchup where he's going to be able to do that. So DK Metcalf should have a few more targets going his way.

2:05:35Mike Wright:Shout out to Ben Fennell for this stat, but this is why Metcalf sucks. Steelers did not complete a pass of 20 air yards in the month of November. But the month of November is almost over. Zero completed passes of 20 more yards. Winston did it five times against Detroit by himself. Did he catch one as well over 20? Jameis should be everybody's quarterback.

2:05:58Jason Moore:I agree. Jameis should be everybody's quarterback. We talked about this. The NFL is so fun. Jameis should be the backup to all games. To all teams. And if any starter gets injured, he comes in and goes, go deep.

2:06:10Mike Wright:The Las Vegas Raiders at 2-9 take on the 7-4 Chargers. The Vegas line, L.A. minus 10, over under 41.5. The Chargers, correct me if I'm wrong, their last game was a spanking at the hands of Jacksonville. Then they go into the bye week. So, not that all the Raiders games aren't a spanking for the Raiders, but they're heavy favorites here. 10-point favorites. That implied point total for the Raiders is 15 points. That's wild. That's low. That is...

2:06:39Jason Moore:It'll be a lot more than the Raiders scored against these Chargers in Week 2 when they put up 9.

2:06:43Mike Wright:Yeah, 20-9 game in Week 2. Gino was, once again, hot farts in that one. 56 % completion percentage, three picks. Bad passer rating. And it's not getting better for Las Vegas. They're just firing coordinators until Pete runs out of them and then he runs out of town. Justin Herbert, though, are you revitalized with your confidence with the Chargers because of the matchup? Even though they were so disappointing.

2:07:06Jason Moore:The matchup along with the bye. I think they really needed the bye week. I'm hopeful that Omari and Hampton comes back, which will open things up. Their issue is they've lost their two left tackles. I mean, their left tackle and then their right tackle became their left tackle. And their offensive line has been a real problem for Herbert. Max Crosby will be an issue, but he's really the only one. The Raiders don't have a great pass rush despite having Max Crosby. So I expect better things from Herbert. I'm okay with starting pretty much all of the Chargers. not all of them are going to hit but yeah I mean it would go in the order of Ladd I'm thinking it would go Ladd, Huge, Gadsden, Keenan.

2:07:53Mike Wright:I'm fine with that order. It's Ladd at the top. Yoshi Voss where does he fit into that order though? Somebody like Andre Yoshi Voss. I think probably ahead of Huge. So then it's Ladd, Yoshi. Yoshi. I want to see Hampton back out there I want to see the split. Like, I wouldn't – let me put this out there. If Hampton plays, don't freak out if this game isn't the game. Right. Right. For Omari and Hampton. I think you could see a lot of Kamani Vidal as well. He's really earned the respect of the coaching staff. And, you know, Hampton, they could ease him back in to the situation is all I'm saying.

2:08:31Mike Wright:Ashton Jens, he hurt his ankle. We think he's okay. This is Wednesday, right? We're early on the week. but I mean you don't other than Bowers do you Bowers and Gentry?

2:08:43Andy Holloway:Yep that is it.

2:08:45Mike Wright:And you will not get plenty probably. Probably not. Sunday night football Denver do we have a Monday night game too? Oh they straight up lied to us when they said three games left. It was four. I'm looking at the deuces over there and they're nodding. It was four. I realized it about two matchups ago.

2:09:05Jason Moore:Hot in that costume? You snooks.

2:09:08Mike Wright:You know what? Turn your masks around. I don't want you to be able to see. Oh, that actually works.

2:09:14Jason Moore:Oh, it does work. Turn them around. Rest of the show.

2:09:18Mike Wright:That's it. Oh, my goodness. Triple gobble over there. Let's move on. We've got 100 games left. Denver, 9-2. Washington, 3-8. Denver, 6.5-point favorites. Over-unders, 43.5. Weird game to me. both teams coming off the bye Commanders have lost 6 in a row Broncos have won 8 in a row there is a non-zero chance that Jaden's back in this game

2:09:44Andy Holloway:I don't think it's very high

2:09:46Mike Wright:I don't think it's very high either

2:09:47Andy Holloway:I'm still going under 10 %

2:09:48Mike Wright:they're at home in Denver I don't know what you are on offense

2:09:52Andy Holloway:I know what you are on defense and I love you you're a great defense defense is elite their offense is going to be just fine in this week? yeah

2:09:59Mike Wright:you don't think Dan Quinn can get this thing going on defense coming out of the bye week against Denver?

2:10:05Andy Holloway:I do not.

2:10:06Mike Wright:Find the weaknesses in this offense and shut them down?

2:10:10Andy Holloway:Because despite any weaknesses, the commanders can overcome that.

2:10:14Mike Wright:With their lack of personality.

2:10:16Andy Holloway:And let their weaknesses become their strength.

2:10:18Jason Moore:Yeah, and if you've got Mariota, it hurts their defense as well. That's going to set the Broncos up for potential shorter fields or more time of possession. So, yeah, I think we all like the Broncos' offense. We're all very, very hopeful. that the Broncos can come here to the Washington Commanders, who are 30th against quarterbacks, 30th against wide receivers, 27th against running backs, and put up an offensive performance. We are all extremely hopeful. But also...

2:10:48Mike Wright:In the back of your head.

2:10:49Jason Moore:In the back of your head. You're going, they've had these opportunities before. Vegas? Remember the Vegas game? You come and just fall on your face. So it is scary. I believe in R.J. Harvey. I think he's going to be outstanding this week. R.J. Harvey Dent? Yes, I believe in R.J. Harvey Dent and I am I believe that he will be a big cog to this engine running well

2:11:17Mike Wright:Bo Nix is your start of the week at quarterback Mike, I agree with that take there, now are you playing Franklin over Sutton? No Was that a was that some sort of train?

2:11:33Mike Wright:I'd play Sutton. Jason?

2:11:36Jason Moore:I would play Sutton.

2:11:38Mike Wright:Sutton or Bucky Irving?

2:11:40Jason Moore:Sutton or Bucky Irving? It's a top question. Oh, I would play Bucky Irving if he's got it for sure. Yeah, it's like a top question.

2:11:45Mike Wright:Would you?

2:11:45Andy Holloway:Yeah, just right to it. Right to it. I think I'd play Sutton.

2:11:48Jason Moore:Straight to starting.

2:11:50Mike Wright:Pity City or Troy Franklin?

2:11:54Jason Moore:Oh, man. And this week...

2:11:58Mike Wright:I got two buttons I can push. Pittman against Houston. I got a good pity or a bad pity? Which one do you want? I'll push this one. Okay. All right. All right. On the other side, Debo, he's kind of had a couple of nice weeks in a row, right? Wide receiver 28 and 10. I would feel better with Jaden back out there. And I'm still on the Chris Rodriguez side of running back right now for Washington. He was the most impressive runner of the year.

2:12:25Andy Holloway:um i chris rodriguez i think we mentioned it on the way of a great matchup of like i want to pick him up i don't really want to play him this week we do have breaking news dan quinn saying that terry mcclorn will practice this week oh so this is where i'm forgot about him this is where i'm

2:12:41Mike Wright:like if jayden's back out there with terry like you got to remember they have not had that this year right any any like lack of i feel like the jayden daniels excitement wore down it's been injuries but it's also you have had no Terry all year so it should look worse right it should be more of a struggle so um that would be nice that would make this a much more exciting game so Jaden Daniels is returning to practice but has not been cleared for contact yet so and it is unlikely that he's going to play so it'll probably be Mariota with but he's been good Mariota's been Mariota is a pretty good Mariota is a decent streamer with

2:13:19Jason Moore:If Jaden Daniels gone this week, it's probably the week you want to avoid at the Broncos defense. It's just been so outstanding.

2:13:26Mike Wright:Let me tell you, the last three games for Mariota, 213 passing yards, okay, against Kansas City. He also threw for 213 against Detroit.

2:13:34Andy Holloway:Oh, no way.

2:13:35Mike Wright:But then against Miami, he threw for 213. No way. No, he did not. Yes, he did. 213 and he stops. The governor is on there.

2:13:43Jason Moore:He's like, I hit him.

2:13:44Mike Wright:I got to run now, guys. But 49 rushing yards last game. I mean, that is a quarterback nine finish. I think Mariota, you don't probably do it in this one against Denver, but you got to know that he can provide a little bit for the offense, which gets him in the red zone, gets him Chris Rodriguez opportunities. Debo, he's thrown for a touchdown in every start.

2:14:00Jason Moore:Minnesota next week, the Giants after that, depending on Jaden Daniels.

2:14:04Mike Wright:Yeah, Jaden could have a little bit of an impact on the old fantasy playoffs. He could. As could McLaurin. Who knows? Monday Night Football. This is the last one, right, before the fantasy faceoff? Monday Night Football, the Giants 2-10, the Patriots 10-2. New England seven point favorites over unders 46 and a half.

2:14:21Andy Holloway:It's all right. Despite the records, this is actually an exciting game.

2:14:25Mike Wright:Yeah, I'd be looking forward. I mean, to Jackson Dart being back out there against Drake May. Yeah, that'll be so fun.

2:14:33Jason Moore:That's awesome. And the best part is if Jackson Dart doesn't play, still awesome. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Jameis Winston.

2:14:41Mike Wright:Oh, yeah. That's so much more exciting. Why don't teams use him? Yeah. because he's crazy. Jackson Dart, Drake May, though, both fantasy options this week that you should play if they're out there. You want to get word on the concussion protocol situation for Jackson Dart.

2:14:57Andy Holloway:He's practiced. He's listed as a full practice. He's still technically in the concussion protocol, but you've got to think if you're playing Monday night and you're practicing in full on Wednesday, you are trending in the right direction.

2:15:10Mike Wright:Tyrone Tracy in his two starts, 19 and 20 opportunities, running back 14 and 13. I have watched these games with an eye on his performance, and I actually think he has looked pretty good. I agree. Pretty tough running. I kind of think he's all right.

2:15:26Jason Moore:Yeah, the running game. And the thing is, is it's still a split. Like Singletary has had 16 and 14 rushing attempts in the last two weeks. At the same time that Tracy's getting all that work, they've been in these games. And so that's the question. It's like, are they going to be in this game as well? I don't know. They seem like they're similar to the Dolphins. This is a team that is not good.

2:15:48Mike Wright:They're not 2-10 in effort.

2:15:50Jason Moore:Right. They're actually going out there and giving it the old college try.

2:15:56Mike Wright:Regular season MVP right now, Stafford the heavy favorite, Drake May right behind. And nobody else is particularly close in this moment. Makes sense. Travion Henderson going up against the Giants defense. I was very close to making Henderson my start of the week. yeah very i would love to start henderson i did it last week so i wasn't going to do it again but um i don't have as much confidence in digs right now obviously last week they took advantage of cincinnati not knowing that tight ends play but kayshawn booty's back the snaps will be near 100 this week i think kayshawn booty is close to my touchdown guarantee too i think whoa a three pack what do you mean three pack well you gave uh oh because i said andrews might have a shot at one

2:16:37Andy Holloway:Yeah, Andrew's worthy.

2:16:39Mike Wright:Those two are just like high odds. There's only one guarantee, and that's worthy. Oh, okay. I'm just saying, Booty is up there on players that I have confidence in this week. Like, I'd play Kayshaun Booty in this game.

2:16:50Jason Moore:Yeah, I mean, it makes sense. You've got a team at home favored against a matchup that's not too difficult, and Booty's had a lot of good games this year. We were worried with him coming back off of the injury, how long will it take to get involved, and he had 80 % snaps last week. So I think whatever you thought he was before the injury is what you should look at him as going forward.

2:17:14Mike Wright:And then, look, Wandale, you can play Wandale Robinson and I think you might be even more excited if it's Winston versus Dart. Yeah. Because Dart's going to run the football a little bit more and I think Winston's going to go right back to the well and the well is Wandale.

2:17:26Jason Moore:If Winston is starting, Wandale becomes, I feel like, a borderline must start.

2:17:32Mike Wright:So you agree with that? Yeah. Anybody else in this game? Hunter Henry, are you just kind of letting that be a blip on the radar? Are you playing him?

2:17:41Jason Moore:I mean, there is one league I'm playing him in, but I'm not. He is not someone that I would recommend to play this week.

2:17:48Mike Wright:He went seven consecutive weeks since his last top ten performance before he gave you this past week.

2:17:52Andy Holloway:Yeah, Henry's a solid matchup play, but this isn't the matchup.

2:17:56Mike Wright:Okay. All right, we did it. We just got through all the matchups. and the show's not even over. Oh, no, we're not done yet. Two more segments. We thought we were done. When do we announce the hashtag?

2:18:09Andy Holloway:Whenever we want. Do you want to give it right now?

2:18:10Mike Wright:I feel like we should.

2:18:12Andy Holloway:Okay, because you don't want people to just go to the end of the show.

2:18:15Mike Wright:I feel like it's between Huge Mongus, Boom Boom, and Triple Gobble, and my vote is Triple Gobble. Oh, Triple Gobble. I'm fine with Triple Gobble. I think hashtag Triple Gobble.

2:18:23Jason Moore:Yeah, and for those that don't know, there's only one P in triple.

2:18:27Mike Wright:Thank you.

2:18:28Jason Moore:Yeah, well, how many Bs are in Gobble? There's two. Sure there are. You're a 1B gobble? Oh, yeah. It's a triple gobble.

2:18:40Mike Wright:You don't know how vowels work, do you? You never learned how vowels work. Double dribble. Nikola Jokic leads the league in triple gobbles. That's what it hits for me. All right, there's your hashtag, triple gobble. Go on to X, tag us at the FF Ballers, and let us know you got through the entire show. Hashtag triple gobble. and uh there there they are there's the triple gobble right over there oh man and if i knew their mics were working i'd make them do it again now is that a strategic mic break so you don't

2:19:11Jason Moore:have to do the mailbag in a minute nah i fixed oh yeah yeah okay well we've got the uh the fantasy face-off first fantasy face-off presented by prize picks

2:19:31Mike Wright:all right well let's jump right into it we have already uh put the shame on the deucer so let's get into it quarterback position last week i think jason you and i both went three for four on the pick correct um i don't know you missed the digs one is that what it was that is also correct and then i missed the higgins one uh this week at quarterback i'm going to start with Jordan Love and I'm going to take more than 10 and a half rushing yards. Oh, you're going back to the well. That is my favorite play of the entire year has been the rushing yards for Jordan Love. It has worked so many times.

2:20:08Jason Moore:Oh, we've been...

2:20:09Mike Wright:And it's the Detroit game. I too have Jordan Love 10 and a half rushing yards. I was hoping I'd be alone on that one. I know Al Borland loves it.

2:20:17Jason Moore:That's wonderful. So all of our picks this week are on Thursday Thanksgiving so we are doing a uh a triple gobble here um my quarterback is your start of the week Dak Prescott Prescott Prescott Dak Prescott at home against Kansas I'm taking his completion percentage his projection is a very nice 69.8 okay and I am I'm going to say less than that. Okay, I wasn't sure which way you'd go. That's a high bar. Against Kansas City, he hasn't really been throwing for 70 % most weeks. That'll be fun to watch.

2:20:57Mike Wright:I'm going to go less. Every pass. I know.

2:20:59Jason Moore:The completion percentage, if you haven't played with one of the completion percentages, it's so fun. You're so invested on every single pass. You're like, oh, yes. It got called back to penalty.

2:21:11Mike Wright:All right, Mike, your prize picks projection for quarterbacks.

2:21:13Andy Holloway:Going with another one of the sneaky prize picks, fun ones. I got Jordan Love. Oh, you got Jordan Love? Oh. Completions in his first 10 pass attempts. Okay, how many?

2:21:24Jason Moore:I'm going to guess.

2:21:24Andy Holloway:The line. Six?

2:21:26Jason Moore:I'm going to guess projection is. The projection is.

2:21:29Mike Wright:Six and a half?

2:21:31Andy Holloway:Seven and a half. Six and a half. Okay.

2:21:33Mike Wright:And you took the.

2:21:34Andy Holloway:I'm going more. Okay. I'm going more.

2:21:36Mike Wright:Okay. My running back. Get that screen game going with Jaden Reed, maybe? well this is cool yeah yeah my lineup has two running backs in it

2:21:51Jason Moore:perfect oh boy but at least you got four players give me a moment

2:21:58Mike Wright:yeah unless you want to consider one of these to be look look my running back which running back are you taking my running back is going to be Keaton Mitchell my Green Goblin more than nine and a half rushing yard.

2:22:13Jason Moore:That's one attempt, brother.

2:22:15Mike Wright:And I've got plenty of time to grab a tight end here.

2:22:17Jason Moore:Okay. That's funny. I pulled it up. Nobody flagged this when I sent it over? I was going to say, we send these over ahead of time. Why not? Team effort. Why not? That's on me. My bad. I'll share the blame there. It's probably on me, too. A little bit with Andy. my running back is Derrick Henry against Cincinnati his projection is 17 and a half rushing attempts he is annihilating that every week I think that they are going to win with defense Lamar is not the mobile Lamar that we're used to right now so I'm taking more than 17 and a half from Derrick Henry

2:22:56Andy Holloway:I have Javante Williams the projection is 2 and a half receiving targets is this a goblin Nope. Oh. No. I was very happy when I saw this one. I'm taking the more. That projection feels very low.

2:23:11Mike Wright:I just realized we probably sent all this over to Price Picks already, too.

2:23:17Jason Moore:No, not that one. We only send one of each of you. Oh, that's right.

2:23:20Mike Wright:That's right. Yeah, yeah.

2:23:21Jason Moore:Oh, that is worth mentioning on Price Picks. They now have the feature. Are we in? Yeah, I think so. You can scroll down on the homepage and find one from the three of us. What do they call that, Al? Yeah. I think it's a player pack, if I remember. Player pack from the ballers?

2:23:36Mike Wright:Okay. My wide receiver, maybe unsurprisingly because of my touchdown guarantee, I'm going Xavier Worthy, more than 36.5 receiving yards.

2:23:44Andy Holloway:Okay. All right. This is a good find real quick there.

2:23:47Jason Moore:And I do have a tight end. My wide receiver is my Green Goblin. I'm taking Jamar Chase at 59.5 receiving yards. Beautiful. I'll go more net. Good work. Okay.

2:24:01Andy Holloway:Layup. I got Christian Watson, Jason's start of the week, his projection for the Thursday morning matchup, 48.5 receiving yards. I will take the more.

2:24:13Mike Wright:And this one I've thought about all week long and definitely convicted about it. I'll go Mark Andrews more than.5 touchdowns. And I do get it on receiving or rushing, which he could take a little.

2:24:28Jason Moore:Speaking of rushing, my tight end is Mark Andrews. More than 0.5 rushing yards. He is being used as the tush-push guy right now without Lamar. So we both have an Andrews. I just need a fourth and one.

2:24:44Andy Holloway:Yes. Give me a fourth and one for the Baltimore Ravens.

2:24:47Jason Moore:A little Thanksgiving fun.

2:24:48Andy Holloway:My Green Goblin, hopefully it's a layup. It's Travis Kelsey, 39.5 receiving yards. Oh, that feels easy.

2:24:55Mike Wright:All right. Every week we've been building lineups based on projections on the prize pick app. We all do quarterback, one running back, one wide receiver, one tight end. Usually. Usually. And the reason we have ducers dressed up as turkeys this fine Thanksgiving episode is because they lost last week. So that was Fantasy Face Off presented by Prize Picks. Play along with us on Thanksgiving. And check out our Fantasy Footballers player pack live on the app right now. Now use the code footballers and get$50 in lineups when you play$5. Well, it's triple gobble time. Get ready, turkeys. Triple gobble time.

2:25:35Jason Moore:Mailbag. Presented by NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube TV.

2:25:42Andy Holloway:I wondered who was going to do the bobble.

2:25:44Mike Wright:Yeah, we got some gobbles in there. Let's jump into the mailbag here. We got a voicemail question to kick it off. If you have a question, you can go to the website, thefantasyfootballers.com, or dial our voicemail hotline, 302-464-TFFB. That's 302-464-TFFB. First question here, voicemail. Looks like it's about George Kittle. Happy Thanksgiving, Ballers.

2:26:05Jason Moore:Quick question. Do I sit Kittle for Gadsden? A little concerned about Kittle playing on the road in Cleveland in bad winter weather. Thanks. Nope.

2:26:16Andy Holloway:Nope. I understand it, being afraid of the weather, but if Purdy is in, then I'm not going to sit in Kittle. Then with Kittle, you'll win.

2:26:26Jason Moore:I will not sit in the Kittle. Kittle's been amazing. It's been a long show, man. It's been a while.

2:26:35Andy Holloway:Without fumes.

2:26:37Jason Moore:and Gadsden doesn't have I realize the weather is much better but Gadsden the Raiders is a good matchup for the Chargers but not necessarily for tight ends they're top five against tight ends

2:26:49Mike Wright:yeah next question it's a Wondale question Chad in Virginia I can't believe I'm asking this asking this but Metcalf versus Buffalo or Wondale versus New England

2:27:01Jason Moore:I'm gonna go Wondale

2:27:04Andy Holloway:I think it's Wondale I think it's one deal. Full PPR, too. Is there anything else about DK's injury? I mean, he tweaked, I think, his ankle. He came back in the game, but I wasn't sure if maybe that was going to hinder him yet.

2:27:19Mike Wright:No, but you just don't want to mess around with any variables with the Candyman. Matt in West Virginia, non-PPR.

2:27:27Andy Holloway:It's way better than DK Mike Caff that our website still has on there. Oh, yeah.

2:27:32Mike Wright:Wait, that's a nickname for him? Oh, yeah, Mike Caff. I don't even remember what that's from. In non-PPR, Javante Williams or R.J. Harvey? Javante Williams or R.J. Harvey?

2:27:44Jason Moore:I said this earlier. I gave him as one of the examples. I would play R.J. Harvey over Javante this week.

2:27:49Andy Holloway:They're very, very close in my rankings. As of right now, Javante's at 12, Harvey at 15. I don't mind, though, going with Harvey.

2:27:59Jason Moore:Yeah, they are close. I've got Javante just two spots behind Harvey in my rankings.

2:28:05Mike Wright:Okay. Jerry in Long Island, New York. Hey, Ballers, huge fan of the show with Lamar banged up and honestly playing like doo-doo for fantasy for me of late. Am I crazy to bench him for Stafford? Now that is a good question.

2:28:16Jason Moore:It is because when you say, am I crazy to bench him, I want to say yes. You don't bench Lamar Jackson, the highest overrunner of the year against Cincinnati on Thanksgiving. You want that. But Stafford has been a revelation. He's top five quarterback right now against Carolina. if I had both of them

2:28:37Jason Moore:I'm not going to watch Lamar Jackson on Thanksgiving without him in my lineup it's close and I think you have full permission to go to Stafford that's not a crazy decision I would be going Lamar what about you guys

2:28:53Andy Holloway:I'm looking at my opponent how many points do I need safe points

2:28:59Jason Moore:the crazy thing is what you're saying is that safe is Stafford

2:29:01Andy Holloway:Yes, I am.

2:29:03Mike Wright:This question is a little bit maybe not the one to end with, but we're going to do it anyway. Drew in the United States of America. Oh, bonjour. Why are you guys trying to act younger than you are?

2:29:13Andy Holloway:What?

2:29:14Mike Wright:Your dislike for cats has really turned me off to the show. All three hosts should get tested for early dementia, especially Jason.

2:29:22Jason Moore:Yeah, mine's not early dementia. I was born this way. Hold on. Young people like, wait, old people like cats?

2:29:30Andy Holloway:Nobody likes cats, I think. that's my understanding there's cat people kittens are great

2:29:35Jason Moore:I just don't know what the correlation between being young and hating cats so young people hate cats is what this guy's saying um is that what that is

2:29:48Mike Wright:young people hate cats I don't know old people like cats and that's how you have the cat ladies and stuff like that

2:29:56Jason Moore:right that makes sense cat ladies are never young cat ladies are sad old ladies with a dozen cats.

2:30:02Mike Wright:Here's a little Thanksgiving message for the world for the United States of America and beyond Thanksgiving is just ours If you like something or you don't like something cool I don't have to like somebody else doesn't have to like what you like Why are you trying to act so young? With your opinions With my opinions

2:30:25Jason Moore:Stay young everyone

2:30:27Mike Wright:stay young all right never grow up that does it for our gobble gobble mailbag right now new users can get nfl sunday ticket for the rest of the 2025 regular season for only 48 offer ends december 1st new users only terms and embargoes apply no refunds commercial use excluded now don't you dare say the hashtag oh don't say it again absolutely not because people skip to the end

2:30:48Jason Moore:you knew i was gonna i knew it that's my host that's the host i put the finger up not happening You listen and you get rewarded. You skip, we skip you.

2:30:57Mike Wright:Okay. All right. On that note, thank you once again for joining us on the Megalodon episode. I'll go to Deucer Cam here as we sign out and say, have a wonderful Thanksgiving with the families, a wonderful break for so many of you out there, and hope you enjoy the Megalodon. I'm grateful for the foot plan. Me too.

2:31:18Andy Holloway:I'm on the way, Jack in the Box. And the producers.

2:31:20Jason Moore:See you soon. Goodbye. Thank you for listening to another episode of the Fantasy Footballers Podcast. Join our fantasy football community on jointhefoot.com and follow us on Twitter at the FFBallers.

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