Fantasy Football - Week 11 Studs & Duds + My Guy Redemption Tour - Podcast for 11/17

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1:42Welcome to the Fantasy Footballers Podcast with your hosts, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright.

1:58Oh, welcome in. Put a little dirt on the end there. I don't know, man. It can't all be the same, Mike. Oh, I know it. Not all weeks are the same. Oh, this week. Yeah, this was a week. This week sucked, man. This week was truly insane because I feel like it's weighted very heavily. like this week injury wise horrifically bad for a lot of teams out there horrifically bad and then but then like i mean my team just crushed like if you played brissette and michael wilson you were fine like me that wasn't that wasn't supposed to be the brag that it sounded like it's more of the there were many guys who went nuclear this weekend i saw it written out as week 11 w-e-a-k like that's how I mean you can just look at like we play in median leagues meaning that those leagues are where you you play where half of the league what the score of half the league you get a point for being on the thank you for jumping up hold up let me explain the unexplainable um yeah okay but yeah so every every week there is a score of basically what the the sixth best team scored and it's usually around 125 points would you say for our league it's the league average yeah it's just it's just the league median man not everybody plays in that no but why'd you say the sixth best i mean it's just we're all having a good time here listen the point is is the average score in leagues is way down this week that's what the point was is the overall what was ours in our what is it projected right now like 108 yeah well i mean i think it might be lower than that yeah it's at 92 or so it's at 92 right now and i think based on looking at the league there were it was a have and have not situation your team yes struggled none of your players scored points there were a lot there were like six or seven other teams in the same boat which is going to allow al borland to get a stupid median win and continue to stave off watering no matter how many points my team scores sorry sorry that became quite personal but it was a um it was weird and like you said there were injuries there were big performances but there were a lot of duds there were some you know the my guy redemption tour continued in a big way i mean george kittle travion and jameson had big weeks that's it's nice uh tet mcmillan yeah tet got into the end zone twice we were just talking about him needing to have that game and he did jason's been on on the tet mcmillan uh you know celebration tour for three or four weeks and you got a monster game from him so there's some some good to reflect on we got all of your monday pun day submissions you know i don't know if you are aware of this but i went out this week and i traded everything for you know to to go hard and win you went all in and um so one of my decisions about 500 one of my decisions was i I went out and I traded away my third round pick for my choice of Roma Dunze.

5:16Oh, no. Or Tett McMillan. You could have taken Tett? Yeah. I feel like the man. I preferred Rome. I wanted Rome. He's been a top 10 receiver. Well, at least this week. I feel real bad about it. Well, I didn't know you had the choice. Yeah. And you've been the Tett McMillan stand. Yeah. No, I chose to make the offer for Rome. Yeah. And now you are in a coliseum of sadness. Yeah. It'll get better. You had JT on by. You don't know what a week's supposed to feel like. This is what it's like for everybody all the time. Jonathan Taylor leaves and my team's like, ah, okay, guys, we take this week off.

5:52Do you know how much heavy lifting he was doing? I mean, literally every single player on my team except for one scored five or fewer points. That's insane. I wonder if that's happened a few other times you didn't notice because Jonathan Taylor had 57 points. But we got all of your reactions, and I will tell you, It was at least four to five to one negative pun submissions because of the way this week went. To be holly and jolly. Right. No, so let's react with your submissions here. Monday, pun day for Monday, November 17th, week 11. Here we go. Let's get sophisticated. All right. Well, Jason, I'll let you start it off there.

6:37Oh, all right. Well, Tedaroa McMillions. Yes. Hooray McBride. And Yavion Henderson. Trey Vion. Henderson. Okay, what about Christian McCaff three? Yeah, yeah. And this guy. Oh, how about this? Kenneth Runner III. That's right. We knew it was going to happen, Mike. Yeah. Nico Ballin. Oh, Meat Higgins is back. Yeah, and Travis Etienne Zone. Oh, and To Infinity and Bijan. And the bad. Oh, no. Sham Darnold. And Sam Darnold. Amon Ross St. Clown. How dare you? Mecca Egpuka? What is happening? Justin Hurtbert. RJ Hardley. Ricky Disappearsall. That's a good one. Aranda Sadston. Yeah, his teammate Sad McConkie.

7:27Woody Farts? Come on. He got a lot of carry. Lame Marge action. Yeah, this is the best one. Quinch on Butkins Devontae Whiff Get a whiff of that Butkins Cade Forgotten Oh man Cade Forgotten Thank you Instagram at Fantasy Footballers At the FF Ballers on X Thank you for your submissions Not bad right I don't know how they think of these things No It honestly takes a lot of effort for me not to put all, it's all butt and farts and poop. Children out there, we would never. Let's talk some news. News and notes from around the league. Presented by Progressive Insurance. You see, median score, I'm going to break this down a little bit.

8:27The sixth highest team. If you take the top five, you subtract them out. Man, it was great because you took over you just yeah yeah i thought it was important for people to understand get out of the way i got this you people still don't understand what it is no no goodness no um well didn't think we'd have this happening oh man the league is now looking into a spitting incident that took place between jamar chase and jalen ramsey um jamar chase was unaware that this game was being filmed i mean how many cameras you got on this oh i didn't spit no i didn't do that i don't do that yeah well yeah you did dude this wasn't ai i mean so the he could miss a game i think he will actually yeah it jalen if you missed it jamar chase and jalen ramsey ramsey got the better of jamar chase all day and chase was getting frustrated there you know things are getting heated he ends up chase grabs ramsey by the face mask and like is screaming at him i was a little surprised that no there was no flags there but they let that one go and then like two plays later ramsey does it looks like what is the same thing like grabs uh chase's mask but he also does a punch motion he gets booted right away and you're like oh well i guess i guess jamar chase got the better of Ramsey.

9:51And now there's videos of Chase's pretty clearly spitting on Jalen Ramsey. Jason, explain what spitting on someone is. So when you've got this saliva and it's in your mouth, but sometimes you usually swallow. Usually? Sometimes? Sometimes, but then if you were to do the opposite, and then it goes out. That's what Jamar Chase did. Because Ramsey got kicked out of the game and jamar chase didn't i would guess he will because they normally call that sometimes if you get kicked out it's the game served almost yeah so i'm i'm guessing that jamar will probably end up missing a game all right well um we'll see we've avoided it long enough it's injury assault time um before the weekend began sam laporta we should have known it was coming sam laporta placed on ir with a back injury so he's missing at least four games That escalated quickly.

10:47Yeah, that went from like Wednesday, you're kind of limited. His back is hurting, and he's not going to play for a month. J.K. Dobbins also placed on IR. It was a concern. It was a Lisfranc injury. It is a hip drop tackle to a Lisfranc. And it seems like it will be season ending, certainly for fantasy purposes. He already underwent surgery. I think they're hopeful that if they were to make the Super Bowl, he could play. Yeah, I saw that language, too. but it's just that come on what if you make it to the super bowl it's because rj harvey took off but the laporta injury um especially again we we saw the lions offense didn't do anything and jameson will still had a monster game so laporta being out the priority to give i mean it's like the most plain thing to see the routes have changed i mean that jameson williams is getting the ball on crossers yes where he's faster than everybody this is how if you only threw the ball deep only threw the ball deep to Jalen Waddle.

11:45That's what they were doing with Jamison Williams to begin the year. When you get Jalen Waddle across the middle, he's faster than everybody. Use the speed. Jalen Warren was evaluated for an ankle injury. He said this morning he could have returned. Oh. But Kenneth Gainwell got the majority of the snaps after the injury and went crazy again. Gainwell looked great. He really did. 26 fantasy points for old Al Borland. Stupid pants over there. Aaron Rodgers exited early with a left wrist injury. Didn't return. undergoing tests i heard uh some concern of a slight fracture this is left wrist yeah it's his non-throwing arm he's pushing to play but we'll have to wait and see we had a mason rudolph stash oh he's got a mustache it has to make him look better than what he looked like before it looked like someone who's trying to disguise themselves i'm not mason rudolph oh no um i'm jason rudolph drake london was injured but is not believed to have suffered a major knee injury that's good news except michael pennix in the same game there were multiple reports yesterday that said it's not believed that he suffered a major knee injury and now this morning it's looking hard enough season ending knee injury potentially for michael pennix he's seeking a second opinion which is always a bad sign and uh it's going to be kirk cousins probably who I have confidence can lose as much as Michael Penix can.

13:13I think he can too, but I will say this. It feels very unfair for Kirk Cousins where it's like he's going to get now his second start, and last time he had no Drake London for that start. Now it's like, Drake, take a week off. This is not a major knee injury. Let's make Cousins look bad. It's going to be so bad. I forgot about that. I would have a little bit of concern that it was just really good for Drake london with michael pennix whether the team like he had back-to-back number one weeks michael pennix that's where he goes with the football it's probably not the best thing to win the game is my thought and kirk cousins is probably going to spread the ball around at least a little bit more like not that you would binge drake london it's just when you're cruising at number one oh yeah i kind of don't want to change no don't love it and don't love it for bijon because i I think the offense is just worse with Cousins.

14:04Josh. Do you realize five of the last six games for Drake London, he has been a top five wide receiver on the week, man. That's exactly it. I don't think it stays there. No. Josh Jacobs. Just taking a look at Jacob. Exited early with a left knee injury, undergoing more tests. He exited twice. Yeah, he tried to come back and then left again. They also believe he avoided a significant injury. I hope it's not the same people. We're talking about panics. That doesn't mean you don't miss time. Just means you don't miss the season. Jordan Love evaluated for a concussion, came back to the game. Calvin Ridley came back for a minute and broke his fibula.

14:43Oh, man. He's out for the season. Oh, it was a bummer. Chimray DK left with a concussion, was ruled out at halftime. I even think Iow Manor got hurt in this game. Everyone got hurt. Kamani Vidal. Yeah. I mean. It was a red light week. Yeah, you hate to say it. He didn't return. Thigh injury. That whole team. I mean, they didn't make the trip. No. I mean, that was the bloodbath of the week. The Chargers got shellacked. And Justin Herbert was just getting beat up. Yeah, that offensive line is, there isn't one. Is that the offensive line that Pat McAfee was, I think that's the one that he was highlighting.

15:24Did you see that clip? Mm-mm-mm. I mean, because when they introduced the offensive linemen, they show their pff ranks and he went through the pff ranks on on the chargers and it was literally it was like and he did it in a really funny way too he's like all right you got makai becton here 31 of 32 then you got this guy 29 of 29 you got this guy he's 29 of 30 like the offensive line or lack thereof now you have justin herbert that is getting yeah i mean herbert got knocked out right before halftime. I mean, he got this thing with a full pile drive into the ground. Looked like he might have been shaken up.

16:00He came back, but, man, he was getting beat up. Good time for a bye week. Yeah. We have Dylan Gabriel leaving with a concussion, and then Shadour Sanders comes in. Oh, we got to see. That was the event. Do you realize? Did you see the news this morning, Justine Anderson reporting? That was the – It's got to be very positive for Shadour Sanders. She seems to like him. It was the very first snaps he's ever had with any of the first team offensive players. Yeah. So that's cool to do out there in the fourth. And I get it, you know, Stefanski, that Dylan Gabriel, a.k.a. Gillen Dabriel, is your guy.

16:37But you still might want the backup QB to get some snaps and get some reps. No, it's ridiculous. That seems very weird. But it's a good chance that he's going to start again this week. Kyle's reporting other backup QBs, so that's pretty normal. I would think that if you have two rookies that you would want to at least get Sanders some of the reps. Yeah, it's very normal for your backup to not be taking first team reps. That makes sense, but it's not very normal for your starter to be Dylan Gabriel. You know what I mean? So if that is your starter, you know at some point you're going to see the other guy.

17:12We have an update. Drake London suffered a PCL sprain, so he's out this week and potentially more. is he on any of your teams yeah he's my main dynasty wide receiver how'd that league go i didn't look at did you win better than i mean nothing yeah i'm gonna win there but okay yeah nothing could have gone as bad as league record the other injury news because there's more amari demarcato exited super early in the cardinals game probably would have been pretty good considering there were 57 pass attempts and he would have caught some of them yeah maybe instead uh 18 of those went to Michael Wilson.

17:48Tyler Higby, ankle injury. That's one you might want to keep a little bit of an eye on because the snap counts between Terrence Ferguson, the rookie tight end who I like a lot, and Higby were both around the 40 % mark. Colby was the one who ended up with a touchdown. Oh yeah, you're right. Revenge game. Yeah, Bashal Tootin, he was good and then left with an ankle injury. That one, too, I'll have to break some more things down, look more into it because Tootin was getting a lot of work. He was playing over ETN. It was very frustrating. Wasn't ETN a start of the week by somebody this week? Or maybe not.

18:22Maybe. I don't know. Let's say yeah, because it was great. Yeah, I was feeling bad about that because of the Tootin involvement. Jackson Dart still in concussion protocol. CJ Stroud probably not ready to return. Maybe he won't be ready to return until they lose. Goodness. That might be it. There were some dots in that game by Davis Mills to win the game. I know he wasn't great the whole time. No, no, no. I'm saying big play, big throws, sideline ball to Nico. Nico's really good at football. It's forever ago, but it's like General Mills, before they drafted Stroud, he seemed like a guy who might get a chance to actually be a starter.

18:56And I think his neck looks – it doesn't look longer. Just the same length? Same or less. He's not growing anymore? Same or less. Maybe he did some shoulder work. I mean, gravity. He's just getting older. You know what? He needs to work out only his traps. Yeah, traps only. Exclusive. Absolutely. All right. That was news and notes sponsored by Progressive Insurance. Go out today at Progressive.com. Progressive Casualty Insurance Company affiliates and third-party insurers not available in all states or situations. Coverage subject to policy terms, limits, and conditions. We're taking a break. Well needed.

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21:12All right. It wasn't all bad. This week's Fantasy Stud Muffins presented by Lowe's. Well, this is the week you want if you got them and the week you fear if you're facing them. It's Josh Allen for all of the touchdowns. Six touchdowns. yep 303 through the air six for 40 and three on the ground this game was drunk because yeah first of all the game went back and forth lead change every drive for the majority of the game it was incredible football but from a from a fantasy perspective you're telling me josh allen has six touchdowns you're telling me baker has a great game and that the bills score 44 points and the Bucs scored 32 points.

22:01And you're like, but you can't. You're like, where did it go? Ibuka, bad game. Tez, bad game. Bad game. Zero. Like anybody you would start had a bad game. With 70 points scored. Where did they go? I was like, it makes no sense. Where are the points? You're just leaking out the bucket. Horrible. Everybody. It makes no sense. No, you're right. Well, one of the catches, the 42-yard touchdown was to a player who I can't remember or name right now for the Bills. Because they mixed up their entire wide receiver room. Shavers? Yeah. Keon Coleman's benching. Yeah, Keon was. Gabe Davis now. He's like, I've been here the whole time.

22:49Tyrell Shavers. Yeah. You know, spot start of the week. I'm sure if you go back to the tape, you'll find that. Josh Allen, 42 fancy points. b-b-b-b-b-b-bryce Young, 31 fantasy points. Okay. See, just throw touchdowns to Ted. Yeah. And you get fantasy points. I've been trying to tell you. Jacoby Brissett broke the regular season record for total completions in a game with 47. Not the Cardinals record. No, no, no. The NFL record. The NFL record. 57. When you go 47 for 57 for 452 yards and three touchdowns and you get blasted, the Cardinals were blown out, I will not be surprised if there are firings this week.

23:33I mean, it was already reported that they are safe. I got bad news for you. Well, no, I don't mean like Gannon. I just mean a fall guy. I just mean a coordinator, maybe special teams after that 98-yard kickoff return. Maybe we toss a couple of assistants into the trash can. I hate this team. I hate this team. I hate them so much. They are the worst. Bursette now in five starts has been a quarterback one in every single one of them. He's been great. He didn't have Harrison, so he turned Michael Wilson into the leader in total receiving yards in a game. Nobody's had more than 185. Michael Wilson.

24:15Yeah. Wild. I made a very late pivot from Luther Burden to Michael Wilson this week. Oh! Very late. I don't remember who we said Wilson over on the show. I think we brought him up quite a bit. We brought him up as just nasty. It was nasty, but holy crap. Nasty, beautiful. Yeah. Justin Fields with 19 fantasy points. And Brock Purdy back from injury. Cardinals the perfect foil to get that team going. Brock Purdy loves George so much. Yeah, Mike's been waiting for this for so long. Oh, man. Running backs, top scorers of the week. Sean Tucker, who looked amazing, we brought him up as like, dude, this is going to happen at some point in time.

25:01Rashad's been that bad. You have to give him the work. And what was more impressive to me was not just the between the tackles running. It's the fact he looked so fast in the receiving game up the right side of the field on that touchdown. They got him the ball in space another time. Hard to bring down super fast. This is where the points went for the Buccaneers. Sean Tucker said, give me that. And he was great, but it's the perfect example of Sean Tucker's life. It's like, ah, great, he's overtaken, and then Bucky's going to come back. Yeah, right to the bench. Yeah. Right to the bench. Right.

25:34CMC keeps going. I think somebody tweeted directly at Hitman, all your dudes are doing it this week. Yeah. CMC, Travion, back to back. And, I mean, long ago, Sean Tucker was my dude. Yeah. You're on fire right now. Yeah. This is it, guys. I got to leave. Yeah, you got to. That's it for me. Yeah. Seriously. Goodbye, everybody. Tucker, McCaffrey, Henderson, Bijon back into the end zone. He heard what we said about how many more touchdowns Travion had than him on the year. And he's like, Algiers still got one. Give me two more. We'll see what happens with the Kirk Cousins. Gainwell had the big game.

26:11Etienne ended up with two scores. Derek Henry looked great against Cleveland and ended up over 101. and one a chant unstoppable even when he's having a bad game he's not going to in there it's it's amazing he i don't think he can have a bad game um boy he got a big old garbagey uh last second one of those uh you throw it to the guy when the clock's running out and he just gets to run a bunch of yards that was nice uh james cook got into the end zone in the receiving game okay nice game they play on thursday and then there was a drive in this game for seattle where it was all Charbonnet and Helani and I sent Mike a note and I was like what is happening with Ken Walker this is the least reliable player ever and it Walker was already very efficient on the day now 16 for 67 and scored and they and caught passes I mean he had he had the bulk of the work this is why you had a week of weeks Mike we bring him up as the only the only bruise upon your current hot streak and he comes out and puts up 20.

27:13Yeah, you just – I mean, Sam Darnold. But, yeah, four interceptions. Like, Sam Darnold was not playing well. He was not seeing the field. And it still took until – like, they almost won this game. They missed a field goal as the clock expired to win this game, or they lost 19-21. Sam Darnold's playing terrible. And it took until the second half for them to finally be like, well, fine, I guess. Okay, fine. We'll let Ken Walker go. Go! What happened? And you know what? He must do something on the sideline every game. Yeah. It's so weird. It seems like unlikable for some reason. But he had a great fantasy day.

27:55Jameer Gibbs wasn't good on the ground, was great in space again, 5-for-1-07 in the receiving game. Devin Singletary scored twice, even though Tracy doubled up the rushing yardage. Yeah, Tracy looked good. Yeah, they both looked good. They use Devin Singletary more in the short yardage area, so he's not going to be quite as efficient. But around the goal line, Tracy hasn't had a carry inside the five-yard line all season. Devin Singletary has four. So it seems like that's more their plan. Kyron back into the end zone because that's what he does. Chase Brown, 18 for 99. The My Guy Redemption Tour includes Chase Brown at wide receiver.

28:33the My Guy Redemption Tour includes Ted Aroa McMillan 8 for 130 and 2 this was the definitive kind of explosion game for Ted McMillan on the year and it seems that when you throw him the football good things happen yeah he's really good Michael Wilson we said it 15 for 185 I don't think we were expecting not that 18 targets you were basically making the argument that Brissette's going to go out there and throw for whatever he throws for, 250 yards. 250 minimum. If he throws for 250, the majority of that probably goes to Michael Wilson. You didn't know he was going to throw for almost 500 yards.

29:16No, and in the way the Cardinals defense is playing, he will need to do that in order to keep them within 20. Frickin' stupid team. Nico Collins, 9 for 92 and 1. Yes, yes. His target share is up with Davis Mills, 5%. Get him going. His yardage is up almost double. His fantasy points. It's been great. Three weeks of double-digit. I'm sorry. His last four games, double-digit targets. It's because he's really good and bigger than everybody. Yeah. Get him going. This was the guy we said to play if you're playing a Packers wideout. Two touchdowns for Christian Watson, and they were that second one.

29:54Well, both of them. Oh, yeah. There was the one in the corner, and then Watson was the guy right. That is dog mode. Yeah, he had the dog mode one in the corner. And was he the guy where the ball seemed to just go through so many hands and catching that ball is almost impossible when you're trying? I mean, it was great. Yeah, great games there. J-Mo, 4 for 88 and a touchdown again. He has been a top 10 wide receiver two straight weeks, top 16 three straight. He has scored in three straight. he is getting targets he is part of the offense and i with sam laporta out it just adds this this floor i think that exists now for jamo i mean he gets the ball in the rushing game a little bit i would not dare to promise you he will be a league winner but there's the the window is cracked open for it yeah and the schedule looks good the giants coming up this week uh and then they play dallas in three weeks you know he's going to score there yeah yeah the uh debo samuel experience was good this week 7 for 74 and a touchdown mariotta played well again he kind of goes out there and jacoby brissette's it a little bit um jsn 12 targets 9 for 105 didn't score in this one on pace for nearly 2 000 yards gets tennessee next week you're gonna keep playing him and then drake london was 7 for 119 but you're not gonna have him for a bit and i don't know who's catching the ball there find the michael wilson for atlanta does it exist i don't think so yeah we know it won't be call pitts still yeah somehow i mean mooney and pitts they will get the majority of the receiving yards yeah mooney mooney would be the one to i mean because cousins has given him some games before oh what are we getting is it could daryl hodge time all right don't they do they they don't have ray ray anymore do they no no no okay hey train mcbride loves jacoby brissette yeah he does another week atop the tight end ranks because jacoby realizes that the best tight end in football can also catch touchdowns like it doesn't just have to be yards kyla murray style for him can also get touchdowns i think it's more that Brissette's able to throw touchdowns.