Halloween Leftovers, Inside Injuries, TNF Preview

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Happy Halloween, Greggy? How are you doing? Doing your best? Ben? Still? I love it man? What good man? Indeed? I got the I got the must ask going, I got my shoe going. And then you mustna I got my Bend Stiller, Proba, my Globo Jim. I'm I am wearing such tight clothing right now. It feels like I'm not wearing any clothing at all. I think I think some viewer would prefer if you weren't wearing clothing. Um, maybe maybe one percent

of our viewing audience, Craig, We'll take it. I'm pretty sure we're wishing that I was wearing more clothing right now. I don't know about that. Man. I think you look I think you look fantastic. Frank Stample, I am Gregg Sauceman. Welcome to the Fantasy bfas the Halloween addition normally, like, I love your costumes. I've had some great costumes in the past. Yeah, you really went all out. But this year it just it just didn't happen. But a helmet

or something. We gotta we gotta do something. Go put on that hat over there, I got a hold on. Go get just the skeleton door. Really, I don't know, you know, you would look like you put the hat on, you would look like the guy from uh Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Like, try something, you didn't dodge it. You're a coffee dodgeball player. You can dodge a pen. Good at dodgeball. I'm good at dodgeball a pen. You can dodge a ball. It's a wrench. You didn't dodge the pen. Oh my coming

through a wrench at you. Yes, you'll find one. I do participate in a dodgeball league. And Greg susten while he walks out of here and breaks everything. I do participate in the dodgeball league. So that's why kind of sparked my interest in this Halloween costume. Fun fact, my fiance she's going as one of the average Joe's. So there you go. That's what we've got going on for Halloween. You which average jew is? Whichever one you wanted to be,

just wearing an average Joe's costumes. She's got the red headband and everything. Oh so, would you say she's Peter la Fleur? Where Peter? Where's she? Um? The bald guy who wears uh, wears the red headband. They got laziest tastes and all kind of blazes. You give me, like Milton, which one's Milton. He's Milton in the office. I got his name, and he's the one that reads the magazine. The fat guy Milton is his name in the office, not in the office, in that office space. I haven't

seen office space. That's why you're saying the office. I'm like, Greg, you know, I watched a lot of the Office. I don't know anyone name. You want Barry, You don't watch Barry. I do not watch Barry. All right, So it's Stephen Root. Is the actor's name, Oh, Stephen Route. You don't know Stephen currently googling Stephen Root. He plays Oh I know this. Yeah, he's um Milton in the office space. He was also in Dodgeball. I think that's why I brought it off. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

he's the guy with the glasses. I just said that. Yeah, he's got the wife that cheats on him. And it gets to angry, it gets to mean, precisely, that's him. You're lucky. I don't have my my fitness Consiglietti Michelle with me here. Greg. In Dodgeball, he is Gordon Gordon. That's correct, that's right, all right, um, Frank. The Washington Nationals are the world sir, champs. Yes they are. You watch the game last night. I watched a lot of the game in the background while I was taking all

my notes for this week's Fantasy Football slate. So I had a lot going on last night. I was watching The Knicks on my phone. Always got this crazy setup going on Wednesday nights because there's so much happening. Two laptops, one laptop with the research, one laptop I'm in putting the research the phone. We're watching the Knicks on the phone, the TV. We've got the World Series on the TV. So Wednesday's a lot going on. I did not get to watch any wrestling, so probably catch up on some

a E W this weekend. Watched n XT this morning before he came to work because I have time to watch an wrestling. Last night, even watching the NBA, I was watching the World Series Steph Curry tough break. Literally I wanted to ring out in the World Series. I heard Gab go off this morning about um about a j blah blah, and like, Alex, you gotta test this dude, like you were there, Like I don't really care, Like everyone could have their takes and that's finally, I don't

get involved in people's takes. But this take was so bad, man, Brian, you were there too, Like it was so bad these takes. Let it's lose because the Astros lost. The Nationals are old school, Like, what, yeah, you're telling me the Nationals don't use analytics either. He was just like, you know what's Adam heat HadAM eating? He doesn't try to hit the home run or cares about a launch angle. He just hit a clean saving up the middle, and I'm like,

who said that? He like, what? We should probably set him up with John Sterling. They can go hang out. Got a meeting. That a huge hit, don't get me wrong, but like analytics, that is so john Sterling though, right, because John Sterling will will always call out, well, if the shift wasn't in play, the Yankees would have had that one. But he doesn't call out all the times that the Yankees get out because they have players in the shift. Right. Here's the thing. So here's the thing

about last night. And I want, obviously I'll watched the whole game last night. I don't really have a problem. I only have a problem one thing that Adia hinged it last night truly, and no issue personally pulling Greeky when he did it eighty pitches, he walked the borderline walk. I get it allowed the solo home run because that was an egregious call to agreed. So here's what happens. Right, Let's say he doesn't Oldrinky. Next batter single walks. Now

it's two on, next batters up. Now you're pulling Drinky right now, there's no question you're pulling Grinky. But you put Will Harris in a better spot. And maybe Will Harris wasn't the guy. He was tired, fine, but he's been your guy all postseason. You don't want to bring Garrett Cole or different starter in in that moment in the middle of man. You don't want to do it.

You're bringing the guy that's been the best. And if you want to make the case that Joe Buck did last night, it was like, hey, this is when you bring in Robodo. So okay with that. That's a fair critique, But no issue of pulling Grinky when he did. My issue with Hinge the only issue I had. Vases are loaded. Now the season is on the line, right, you're down, so you gotta keep it where it is at two runs. You don't bring Hosie your kitty when you have Eric

was sitting there. Now you can't do Yeah, I either would have left Granky and personally or I would have rather them go to Garrit Cole, right like Garrick's super frustrated after the game, you know, putting on his Scott Boris hat. I'm no longer employed by the Houston Astros. Freaking good for the New York must say so myself. But yeah, garrit Cole should have ended up in that game last night. He was ready to go on the program.

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I watched it recently. I watched it back on my flight from Poland, and he was wearing a baggy button down shirt, and I think there was a point where he was wearing a fedora. Absolutely, yeah, absolutely, it was crazy. He always had like a weird drink in his hands. It was crazy about this shirt. We're make shifting costumes right here on this Crazy about this, this baggy button down shirt. About its fifteen years. You've had that for fifteen years. I had this at least since I like

my junior year of college, so like thirty five years. Yeah, thirty five years. So it's been through a lot. Greg back back in World War Two. You know, I didn't even know they made shirts like that. He looked great, Look great, you're killing it. But let's let's do some fantasy football, all right? Should we get to um the leftover portion? Let's go, let's hit it. Who was left in your waiver? We'll tell you right now. It's time in the left didn't get your fill from the waiver wire?

Now I want more. The BFFs has your leftovers? Watch this? Never mind, give me a whole lot of it. It's leftovers time here on the BFMS hopefully have a lot of candy leftover. A little bitte later on tonight the first we'll tell you who's left over on the waiver wire instand and we begin, Rankie, Well, begin with Detroit and specifically your boy having on your less about that your boy Danny um in Nola. Jim Sage was talking about him earlier today on the Van Noel Hurry up.

People are believing in Danny a but he's been kind of good. You've talked about him a lot this week. We know about Marvin Jones, we know about Kenny Golladay. Would you actually pick up and start Damn Nola this week? I do have them ranked outside of my top thirty six, but not far outside. He is. He's right there and I'm definitely intrigued in this matchup. Back to back games with eight receptions for Danny m and Dola played right around sixty of the snaps last week. Both he and Golah.

They have the best matchups against this Oakland secondary according to PFF and Oakland's giving up the six most Fantasy points to opposing wide receivers. This game has a fifty and a half over under. We expect points back and forth I do like Danny Amendola in the spot Greg, I would be uh, I would be adding him. And if you got someone on a bye week, I think he's a start. Absolutely bet Danny Avendola, if you're desperate, consenters starting him. Indeed, what about your New York Jet.

I'm Marius Thomas. Ronny Anderson is so part of the team. Do you start to Marius Thomas sweep. I have to marry Thomas in a similar range as Danny Amendola this week. Rankings will be out soon on the road to experts

dot com ding. But I do have him behind Danny Amendola because there's still three name there's still three y receivers here for the Jets, and we do have our concerns over this Jets offense right like, we expect him to do well this week because the Dolphins are thirty second in past defense TV away, their thirty one in defensive yards per play so far this season. The Dolphins are very bad Damarius Thomas. The targets have been up, but ultimately I am trusting Matt Stafford and Alliance offense

over to the Jets right now. I don't think adding to Marus Thomas is a bad idea, Greg in deeper leagues. This stretch run coming up for the New York Jets the next six weeks is a really, really good schedule. But if you're asking me between Damarius and a Mendola, I lean a Mendola, but I do like adding to Marius. Let me add another piece to that conversation at the wide receiver position that brings me to Oakland. We're on. D Renfro called the first touchdown of his NFL career

last week. You talk a lot, Frank this week during the waiver wire portion of the week. How much you like Derek Carr here? You like how to Renfro too. I have him behind both Danny Amundola and Damarius Thomas personally. Here again, another really good matchup going up against the Detroit Lions. They've allowed five touchdown scores to wide receivers over their last three games. Darius Slayton with two touchdown

catches last week as well. The problem for Renfro is that he played a season high sixty four percent of the stats last week. That's actually a good thing, but the problem is it's still only sixty percent of the snaps, so there's a few other names mixing and matching on the outside. Za Jones. Tyrell Williams obviously led the team in snaps scored a touchdown in every game he's been in so far. I'm intrigued in Hunter Renfro, but I don't think that he needs to be added the way

that the other two have. It is a very good matchup, though, good matchup for Hunter Renfroll. We'll see this game. This game is gonna be high scoring. I would project yeah, yeah, fifty and a half total right now, one of the highest in the week. That's pretty high. Um, let me go outside of the wide receiver position and obviously go back to tight ends because Titan has been such a disaster. I think that Jack Doyle in one league as my

tinancas I don't know what else to do. Frank, he was left over on two on Wednesday morning, so I wind up picking him up in the first come, first served portion of the week. I think he still likes to end. Yeah, he is. I don't actually have anybody else to choose from, So what do you think can I do that? Yeah? I'm actually very intrigued by the Colts tight ends, trying to figure out which one now that's a that's a different question. I'll try my best

to answer it right now. On the season, Jack Doyle and Eric Ebron uh the target share very similar, Jack doylecent of the target share, Eric Ebron twelve percent of the target share. But Doyle is still playing more snaps,

he's running more routes. They've both been inconsistent, but I think this is a matchup that they're actually going to try and exploit with their tight ends because the secondary for Pittsburgh has played really, really well since they've acquired Minka Fitzpatrick, and they're allowing the eighth most Fantasy points to opposing tight ends. So I actually have both of

these guys inside my top twelve this week. Right I'm I'm really hedging here because I have them kind of ranked back to back, and I'm hoping that they both perform well. Probably won't, or at least one of them performs well because the Fantasy proves how they do their rankings and it's like, oh, you've got a lot of points for it. Yeah. Ultimately, I do like Jack Doyle a little bit more than Ibron because he plays more and he runs more round streaming tight ends. I can

take up instead of Jack Doyle. Do you have higher in your rankings and the Oils in your top twelve, But Darren Fells is also inside of my top twelve. You're playing against Eric Darren Fields, so that doesn't work for you. How about t J Hockinson. I have him ranked inside my top twelve as well. Again, we go right back to this game between the Raiders and the Detroit Lions. We could basically just use this as our Raiders and Lions preview for tomorrow, Greg and we won't

have to talk about the game. But ultimately I'm gonna not doing this. Then t J Hockenson, the targets have been inconsistent for him, but Oakland is giving up the third most Fantasy points to opposing tight ends this year. They've allowed six touchdowns two tight ends, and again, what we're looking for for a streaming tight end is someone

that can score a touchdown. So I actually have Hockinson ranked higher than both the Colts guys because there's only one Detroit Lions tight end as opposed to too for the Colts tight ends, so you don't really have to worry about you know, I'll do I decide between Ebron or Jack Doyle. Yes, Hockinson has been inconsistent, but it's a really really good matchup going up against Oakland. Alrighty, So that's it for the tight end position. Oakland's offense

has been great this year. Defense not so much. So much at all. I feel like a great job. You can just say that on repeat every single year. Right. Well, normally the Raiders offense isn't very bad. Yeah, but this year their eighth and yards per play, it's very good. There's twenty three in yarks per play on defense? What is that? What are you drinking? I cannot tell you? Okay, creation are you allowed to drink alcoholic beverages on the show? I never said you weren't. I'll keep that in mind.

Who knows what I'll come back with that? And it's marathon call. It was just like all morning, you haven't seen me all day. I have not kind of needed it, you know that? Is that is very fair? Yeah? All right, um, let me get to the running back. Let me get to the running back spot here. There weren't many running backs obviously to choose from all the way over wire in general this week, the leftover portion of the running

back position admittedly not how about Jeff Wilson. He still might be out there in some leagues, Greg, And we don't know what's going on yet for tonight. A lot of people have been asking us. Ultimately, we don't have the answers we can speculate. I don't think either Raheem Moster or Matt Brita place tonight, Gregg. And if that's the case, like we said all week, we talked about most do as an ad this is a good matchup going up against Arizona. You know that they're going to

run the football. They are first in the NFL and rush percentage of San Francisco forty niners. They're not just gonna give Tevin Coleman thirty touches tonight. If both Brita and Mostard are out tonight, Jeff Wilson is elevated to a flexi play. Would you start Jeff Wilson over your boy Mark Walton? No, I mean the Jets have been that bad. So it's actually interesting, right, So the Jets are second, their second in the NFL in yarks per

carry against running backs. They do really good in that department, but they've been giving up so many touchdowns because teams are just driving down the field on them. Their defense has been on the field so much so when they get in that area, they're allowing a lot of touchdowns. And they're also allowing a lot of receptions. Last week, Leonard four Nette had a career high seven receptions against

the New York Jets. The week before that, James White had seven receptions as well against the New York Jets. So Mark Walton last week had six targets. You can expect targets again this week, and I think there's gonna be some receptions. I know normally. We spoke about him the other day and we said, no, if you have a wide receiver that is in a better spot, like

a Chris Conley, that you can look that way. But if you're just asking me Mark Walton versus Jeff Wilson, even if those other running backs are out, I will go with Mark bone. I think it's a good match against the Jets. One more running back left over to get to before Virginia joins us in a few moments. Trey Carson, Detroit Lions starter could be out there. What do you think he is outside my top thirty six. So I like those other guys way more, especially if

the forty Niners, uh, Mostard and Brita are out tonight. Okay, fair enough, all right, We'll take a break here. When we come back, Virginia Zakis, I mean Inside Injuries, will join us or get the latest on that Brita and Rahee Moster and more. Are you ready for the nation's first and only, free, twenty four hour network dedicated to you The betting and fantasy sports enthusiast. Sports Grade will provide you with a real time content, statistics and gaming

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the type of Virginia Zaka has been said Injuries? What's happened? Virginia? Hey guys, Happy Halloween, Happy Halloween. You're you're not dressed up? I was a little more concerned about getting a costume for my dog this year than I was for myself. So, what is your dog dressing up as? Um? His name is Tiger, so he's dressing up as a tiger. I thought you're gonna go Tiger Woods. I thought you're gonna get like a red polo for the dog. Okay, that's cool, that's cool. I gotta dog. Do you have a um?

He's a cavapoo, So a Cavalier King Charles poodle mix. That sounds adorable. He looks like a little Teddy bear. He has adorable. That's awesome. Dog, Frank, you're a low one on that, Greig. I don't want to dog. No. I don't no animals ever for me. Ever, I grew up in a household with a lot of animals. I learned my lesson no more animals, sorry, Bud. Let's move on to the inside Injuries portion of the program sponsored

by Virginia. All right tonight Thursday night football. It is the San Francisco four nnor is taking on the Arizona Cardinals and there are a plethora of running backs that are banged up in this one. Virginia on the San Francisco side, you over Heea Moster and Matt Breta. On the Cardinal side, David Johnson Chase Edmonds both ruled out. I know it's a lot to unpack. In Navy, Johnson hasn't been ruled out yet, has been ruled out this this morning, or maybe not ruled out. Schefter said he's

not playing night. Okay, so that's ruled out in my mind. But anyway, all four running backs may not play tonight. I know it's a loaded question in Virginia. Can you help us break it down? Yeah? I think the forty Niners are, you know, seemed to be in a slightly better position than the Cardinals. But Um, Brita and Mostard are both, um, you know, looking questionable. It seems like both of them have a pretty good chance to play as long as their pregame warm ups go well. Um

Mostard is dealing with a knee injury. We're showing a Grade one mild knee spring. Um should be healthy to return, we're showing in week ten. But he's a very high injury risk tonight. Um, Thursday night game is really not helping him in this situation. Uh, you know, Brita's dealing with a what looked like a low ankle sprain. Unfortunately, he dealt with ankle injuries throughout what seemed like almost

the entire two thousand eighteen season. UM. He always seemed to return much faster than we expected, UM and played pretty well, but reaggravated his ankle over and over again. And I'm a little bit worried that that's what's going to happen tonight. So I think starting either of them is going to be very very risky. UM. The forty niners could end up just kind of seeing who looks better on the first few possessions and then go with

that guy. Could be a true split, but both are going to be very very risky place tonight due to their injuries. UM. Like you said, it doesn't look like David Johnson is going to play as he recovers from that ankle injury. That we're showing a healthy to return date next week. So we're hoping if he doesn't play tonight, he'll have close to three weeks to fully heal and he can really get healthy UM and be good to go after that. UM. And then there's Chase Edmunds already out.

We're sharing the great two hamstring strain, which is a more moderate strain. UM. We're actually showing he shouldn't return until week twelve UM, and this is expected to be a multi week absence, so it could be a while before we see him back out there. Pace Edmonds has the buy in week twelve as well, so we're looking

at him potentially not returning until week thirteen. David Johnson would be surprising if you play tonight and everything I just said the last segment about me expecting Matt Brita and Rahee mostered not to play tonight, It's false according to Virginia, So just pay attention before tonight if those guys are rule out that we like Jeff Wilson, but ultimately if they play, then obviously that puts Jeff Wilson

off our radar. Virginia, I want to ask you about James Connor, obviously dealing with this a C joint in his shoulder. He said on a radio interview earlier in the week that he does expect to play. What does the algorithm say regarding James Connor, should he be able to play in this game and what would his injury risk be if he does play? Yes? So We've seen quite a few running backs this year with this injury. The same injury, UM, A milder a C sprain. Um.

You know, it's one of those shoulder injuries. It's painful to play through, but especially as a running back, it is possible. Um. The real concern is if he takes a big hit or if he lands hard on that shoulder again the same way he originally heard it. Um, he may not be able to finish out the game. But hopefully it's more of a pain management issue. Tonight. Um he did or this weekend. Um, he did avoid a classical fracture, which was a concern initially. So that's

good news. UM, So we're saying that he should be able to play this week. He is a high injury risk, but he was already a high injury risk because this season already he's had quad, ankle, and knee issues, and in the last few seasons he's had some injury issues as well. So high injury risk, but his health performance factor is above average, so our algorithm is saying he should actually play pretty well through the injury. That's just kind of surprising. James Connor. The rare good news from

that from Virginia. I like it, especially for us as a as a James Conner owners, Greg, Yeah, again, rare good news. We'll take it. We will take it for sure. All right, Let's continue on Virginia, and let's with our players rank that includes D D Westbrook. We saw him leave last week early, didn't really play all that much this week there in London, and he's practicing a limited bases here thus far this week. Yep. So he was officially limited yesterday. UM. It sounds like he's back out

there again today. So that's obviously good news. But I am pretty concerned about him, considering it's something he's dealt with over the last few weeks and he aggravated. UM. It's always more concerning when a player aggravates an injury because that likely means that they made it worse the second time. We are showing a healthy to return date not until week ten. UM. Had he just sat out last week, he would have been, according to our algorithm,

healthy to return for this week. But because he played re injured his shoulder, UM, it's getting pushed back a week. So he is a high injury risk. UM, and his health performance right now is below average, so we don't expect a great game from him. If he does end up playing, which it's looking like he's going to, Well, that is music to my ears, Greg, because while we never root for injuries here on the show, Chris Connley is someone that I am very, very fond of this

week in fantasy football. So even if DD Westbrook goes, he could be limited, might even have a chance of leaving that game as well. So I'm not going to change my stance on Chris Conley even if D D. Westbrook plays this week. We're speaking with Virginia zakas of Inside Injuries. Happy Halloween, Virginia. I want to ask you about Patrick Mahomes. Limited participant in practice yesterday. He's going

to be limited again today Again. It's still kind of feels like they might be bringing him along too quickly. What's is you when it comes to Patrick Mahomes. The fact that he's on the field practicing, does that mean that he's going to be good to go and play this week? Yeah? I still don't believe he should play this week. Um, he was limited last week, limited again

this week at practice. Unfortunately I haven't seen any clips of him moving around yet, but that would sort of help us to sort of get a better feel for how his knee is progressing. But you know, just two weeks after dislodating his right knee clap, it's still very unstable. Um. And you know, even if he wears a brace and he's been doing extensive rehab, two weeks just isn't enough time for it to be strong enough quite yet. So

still worried about him. Um. We actually are showing that he has a healthy to return date in week twelve. I don't actually expect him to miss that much time, but he is going to be in that high risk category until he hits that mark. Um. I'm thinking next week is looking a lot more realistic. Um. And I would also love to see him get in at least one to two full practices before they run him out there. Yeah.

So I'm actually watching some video right out on Twitter that was shot yesterday from Rob Collins of Fox four TV Kansas City, and it's just Patrick Mahomes jogging around a little bit. But he still looks ginger personally, So I don't know. I mean, it's gonna be interesting to see. I I know Billy Hayes has a question in the chat, like do you play a quarterback tonight. Do you play a Garoppolo tonight or do you risk Mahomes playing. It's a tough one, you know. I think I don't tough

to be honest with you, would just go with Garoppolo. No, No, you wouldn't because they don't throw the ball enough correct, especially tonight where I think they're gonna run the ball a lot. There's enough quarterbacks out there. We've spoken about it, Gardner, Minshew, Derek carr Um, Daniel j. And you have that luxury where tonight, if you decide not to play Garoppolo, you can just drop him and to pick up another quarterback that plays on Sunday or something that there is one. Yeah,

you can do that. Yeah, I know. Well in any league you could just drop the player now before tonight, before the game starts, and you have an open roster spot of eilble Yes to cover yourself in case Mahomes doesn't play. Absolutely, I think that's where I would go. I agree with you. I take the shot of Mahomes, even not at full strength. If he's active, you gotta play this Viking second is not what it has been. Man. We saw Kate Keenam tearing them apart last Thursday night

before he got hurt. Of course, we're talking to Virginia Zaus here of inside injuries, and Virginia I wanted to hit on, um the Lady Walker, would you know? It was like a crazy boring one. But then what the Lady Walker is to do? Smith was really good last week? And I know Walker has didn't play either really of the last two weeks. Didn't practice yesterday. The Titans by is coming up. Do you expected walking to me back? It is not looking like he's gonna play this weekend.

He didn't practice yesterday. Um, it sounds like he's dealing with pain in that ankle that he suffered that gruesome injury to last year, the fracture dislocation that forced him to miss the entire season. Um. You know, aggravations like this are pretty common when coming back from such a serious injury, and I think they're going to be very very cautious with him. Um, given the severity of that injury last year and his injury history. He's got a lot of injuries to his name. So I don't think

he's going to play this week. Our algorithm is showing that the earliest he should play is week ten, but week eleven or twelve looks a little bit more realistic. Virginia we saw earlier today they announced a timetable for Joe Flacco. And while you know Joe Flacco himself is not all that fantasy relevant, he was getting the ball to star receiver Courtland Sutton so far this year. So what do we have regarding Joe Flacco. Do we expect

him to play again the season? He's out four to six weeks um, according to Adam Schefter, dealing with a bolding disc in his neck. We have Virginia, Sorry, Virginia's frozen right now, So Joe Flacco will find out from Virginia regarding Joe Flacco. But Brandon Allen expected to start this week, and obviously, you know that has uh huge implication, implications on the value of Courtland Sutton, who has been

so so so consistent. Sutton Noah Fan, two guys that we were kind of excited about coming out of last week's game with Joe Flacco and Virginia. Will we have Joe Flacco anytime June? So they're saying he's expected to miss four to six weeks. Our algorithm is showing a ten week optimal recovery time for this herning at a disc in his neck. Um. They're saying he doesn't need surgery, which is good news, but this is still a very

painful injury. UM. And unfortunately too, he's going to probably have to take you know, around four weeks off from the throwing so that his neck can heal. Um. It's just not realistic for him to get you know, fully healthy and that amount of time. UM. I also think it is possible that in the off season he could undergo surgery if his neck doesn't feel one, um, you know, within a few weeks after the season's over. But I

think he's got a shot to return. But if I had to guess, I don't think he'll be back out there late in the year alright, So Joe Flacco could be done with his time in Denver, which hopefully is in bad news for something, and maybe in the NFL as a starter. For sure, he's likely a backup moving forward. Virginia, We appreciate the time is always I am excited to see pictures of Tiger. I mean, a great night, enjoy trick or treating with Tiger. Well, I'll talk to the

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of teams yourself. Right, and you see a line that's kind of out of wax, something that just really does not you know, make sense to you. Let's say this week the Jets are minus three in Miami gets the Dolphins. You're saying, well, there's no way like the Jets are gonna win. They're gonna blow them out. They're gonna win by say fourteen points. That's the one that you obviously would jump in on, because then you know, for every

point that's past three, we're talking to eleven points past it. Like, if you really think the Jets are gonna blow out the Dolphins this week, and that's something that you look you look into, but you really really have to be confident. And I think there's there are times where you can tell that a line looks out of whack and you're like, I feel really good about this team plowing out this

other team. That's where you jump in. Okay, let me move on, Frankie, and let me get to it's just a Thursday night football before we get to anything else. So leanna make sure we hit that Cardinals and uh Niners tonight ten point favorites are the San Francisco in Arizona. The latest word that I've gotten, I've gotten my Twitter feed has gotten in regards to Matt Breeda and his

availability tonight. Do we're not his running back Matt Brito, who's listening to Questionable with ankle injury, is playing tonight versus the Cardinals. He felt good this morning, so he's ready to go. Do you trust Matt Breda? Can you start him? He should be flextion because it's a really good match. I must pull the game or ask the

question that answered. I mean you can answer, go ahead, Greg if you want to me personally, I don't think that I can get him in there unless I'm unless you're talking about like Matt Breeda versus Trey Carson right, Like really didn't right? Right? So here's the thing with Brita's starting You can't start Jeff Wilson. Correct with Britta starting, although Jeff Wilson still might have a good game if Brita leave. There's just no way you're gonna know. You

can't start. Whee most there assume he's active. I have no idea. Well, at this point it doesn't matter because Matt Breed is already act. So now you're the only one that you feel super confident in is Kevin Coleman, which is which is actually amazing, because that's an amazing part. The amazing thing is on Tuesday or top Waiver wire ads Jaylen Samuels, Most there, Jeff Wilson, Oh, maybe irrelevant

this week. That's why it's so tough to do waivers that early in the week, right, We're really just going based off speculation. Earlier in the show. I speculated that Brita and most We're not gonna play comes out thirty minutes later that Matt Brita looks like he is going to play tonight. So me personally, Greg, I'm gonna have to put him back in my rankings because, as I mentioned, I was ranking as if he was not going to be in tonight. But you look at some of those

flex running backs. Greg let's kind of run down this list here, would you start Matt Brida over let's say Las saw McCoy against the Vikings as if we're talking about in the in those flex that flex running back discussion, I would start Matt Brida. Matchup is a lot matched, a lot better, and unfortunately, given how last week ended, there's no guaranteed the John mcoy as a starter on his team. Even that is fair. What about Matt Breeda versus the other side of this game, Kenyan Drake. So

I'm really glad you bring up Kenyan Dreda. Right, So David Johnson is not playing. Jason Emmons was ruled out three days ago, which means Kenyan Drake, as Cliff Kingsbury said, it's going to be mixed in. What does mixed in mean? I don't know. He was acquired three days ago, by the scene, that's not exaggeration, Frankie, three days ago he was acquired. Takes a school. Now you're like, in the two days he's had one practice with this team. I understand he knows how to catch the ball onto the

backfield and and the ball run the ball. I get that. I'm absolutely starting that Breda or Kennyan Drake tonight. I just Kenny's fair to have Kenyan Drake inside my top thirty six at running back or is that who aggressive? I think it's aggressive, and I think that Kenyan Drake will be used. And let's say that two minute drill where he here your pass blocks, stay in your pass block, where you go out for a route. I think that's what he specializes in. And then Zack centers, so bad man.

But it's a revenge game. Ralph is a revenge game for Ralph, and and those are likely the three running backs that we're looking at being active here. I'm still gonna have Kenyan Drake ranks inside of my top thirty six for tonight, so he is in that conversation as a flex running back. But Greg is right, I mean, this is a very risky situation. We have no idea

how much work he's going to see. I kind of air on the side of he's that much better than Zack Zenter and Alfred Morris that he probably is going to see double digit touches in this game. And the way to attack to San Francisco forty nine. Look, their defense is awesome. They are tied for first in yards per play on defense with the New England Patriots. They are first in the NFL in past defense dv A way, they're fifteenth in the NFL in run defense dev away.

The way to attack the San Francisco forty Niners defense is by running the football. Greg, how about this. They are allowing four point four three yards per carry to opposing running backs this year. That's actually higher than you would suspect. They're only allowing the second fewest fantasy points to running backs because they are playing so many games with leads that opposing teams have to try and pass

to get back in the game. Against San Francisco, they've just been blowing teams out left and right, so teams haven't really had the opportunity to run the ball against them. But the way to attack this forty Niners defense is by running the football. I am not condoning Kenyan Drake as a must start. He is not an RB two. He is in the discussion as a low end flex

as a low end RB three. On the other side, Tevin Coleman obviously really really like him in this spot, coming off a game where he just scored four total touchdowns going up against the Cardinals, who just allowed Latavious Murray to go for a hundred and fifty seven total yards and two touchdowns. One of the best run blocking offensive lines in the game right now without their two starting tackles. This is just absolutely insane what the San

Francisco forty Niners are doing. I think we get fifteen plus touches from Tevin Coleman in the spot Greg and I am one with Gaymorency on Tevin Coleman's seven. I'm not touching just the rushing. I'm not trusting touching, just the receiving. I'm going with the rushing plus receiving. The total yardage over at the Vandals Sports book. You can get that at eighty and a half tonight. He might just do that on the ground that is minus one. So I am in on the over on Tevin Coleman's

rushing plus receiving for tonight. It's interesting because when Dane and I were talking about there's a Monday night, and think you might have been in all of the conversation like, all right, what number are you banks havin Coleman at and he usually been him over ninety four rushing yards? You know, now I'm not gonna do that. You been him over eighty four rushing yards? A hundred four over eighty four? You would do that? Would you put him

over seventy four rushing yards? Absolutely? He's total number And he said what one? He said total numbers one rushing yards. I believed game said this morning, sixty nine. Yeah, man, I'm in you know that for sure. Yeah. So he's been back since Week five. He's played four games with the San Francisco forty Niners. He's actually only cleared this prop twice. The reason why he's been so valuable for fantasies because he's scoring touchdowns left or right. So he is,

you know, only two. He's only covered this two out of the last four games. But I think tonight against the Arizona Cardinals, based on the spread that we see in this game right now, the forty Niners are laying ten points in San Francisco, they're likely playing with the lead, and I think it's a good spot. How about this, Greg, Since Tevin Coleman has returned, he's averaging sixteen point three

rushing attempts per game. He has six total touchdowns. He's the RB five overall over the last month of the season. He's absolutely getting it done. As some people would say, Greg, yes they obviously what could you start Kyler Murder? It dook about Gimmy a little while ago. He doesn't. He's pass the ball enough. So don you start Kyler Murray?

You can, you shouldn't, because again, the San Francisco forty Niners are first against against the past in terms of past defense DVA so far this year, Greg, you tell me if I'm overreacting. I have Kyler Murray ranked as my twenty first quarterback in a super flex league. I have Kyler Murray, Jimmy Garoppolo, Ryan Fitzpatrick, and Gardner Minshew. I am actually flirting with benching both of the quarterbacks that are playing tonight, starting Minshew and Ryan Fitzpatrick. Am

I crazy? I just don't know what to expect from the quarterbacks in this game. Kyler Murray has five total touchdowns over his last five games, Greig, he has three passing touchdowns and two rushing touchdowns. It's not what you want to see. He hasn't been getting it done from a fantasy perspective. He's been running the ball more recently. I mean, he didn't do it last week against the

New Orleans Saints. But now you're talking about a game where he's likely playing from behind based on the spread that we have in this game against a defense that is just feasting on opposing quarterbacks right now, they get after the quarterback. Kyler Murray is gonna be running for his life tonight. His offensive line is not a good one. He's going up against one of the best pass rushes in the NFL. Greg, I don't feel good about Kyler Murray one bit. I have him as my QB twenty one.

I would be streaming Derek Carr over him. Gardner Minshew's inside my top ten. I would use James Winston over him. I woulduse Sam Donald. I have Ryan Fitzpatrick ranked one spot higher. Greg, start my quarterbacks Ryan Fitzpatrick, Kyler Murray, Jimmy Garoppolo, Gardner Minshew. I think Minshew is the one that that's locked in. I would lock him Minshew. I would probably start Kyler Murray. I would go Murray Minshew. Jimmy doesn't throw the ball enough. It's a good matchup.

I understand that against the secondary. Patrick Peterson is back, but we just saw he was back last week for three seventy three and three. He was a great matchup. He didn't throw the ball enough. Hyler Murray could do it with his legs and his arm. That's what I would do. No, that's fair. It's just this is one of those that where I'm it's like I said, I'm easy. I'm going to be debating it right up until game time.

Minshoe is the one lock for me, and then I have to choose my super flex between those three, and it's a tough spot obviously. George Kittle, you love him tonight, going up against the defense that allows the most fantasy points to opposing tight ends. I like his prop tonight as well. I think it's sixty nine and a half. Nice. George Kittle definitely going over his prop tonight as well. That's why you know, I think it's a good spot for Emmanuel Sanders as well. Sanders is low and wide

receiver three. For me, he's like barely inside my top forty because again, I don't think that they're gonna have to throw the ball all that much. But he is matched up against Tremaine brock greg and according to PFF, that is the best matchup tonight for all of the

forty nine is wide receivers. So I'm starting to talk myself into all right, Garoppolo, if we like Kittle and if we think Sanders has a solid game, then we kind of have to like Garoppolo, Right, I'm just trying to figure out Garoppolo versus Kyler Murray tonight, and a lot of people might have that decision for themselves if they're playing the show down. So as of now, I

do have Garoppolo ranked tire. You know how you shout out of Slate tonight, right, you start like Zack Xander Alpha More, it's gonna be one of those of those crazy It's gonna be Tolin Drew. If you're listening, that's how you're gonna win on under grands. And actually he should be telling us how to do it because he's been doing very good at it. You're not Pego Samuel Rushi touchdown something crazy like that. Greg. I like the

under tonight, and I'm not getting the way. I'm not getting in the way of the San Francisco for the night. If I had to choose, I'm laying the points. I like the under boarding. The side that Tevin Coleman problem is what you want to do. They show you subscribe on YouTube, smashing that light button, follow us on Instagram. Sports Grade TV. He's Frank, I'm Greg. We'll do it all go tomorrow, we hope. Are you ready for the nation's first and only, free, twenty four hour network dedicated

to you, the betting and fantasy sports enthusiast. Sports Grade will provide you with a real time content, statistics and gaming intelligence unlike anything you've ever seen before. Located both in the heart of New York City and inside the FanDuel Sports book at the meadow Lands Create He's live eighteen hours a day. You just serve you the fanatic. This is sports gride. Get all the grid. So what did that happen? What did happens? Here's what you missed

on the BFPS. Two laptops, one laptop with the research, one laptop I'm in putting the research the phone. We're watching the Knicks on the phone, the TV. We've got the World Series on the TV. So Wednesday's a lot going on. I did not get to watch any wrestling, so probably catch up on some a e W this weekend. Watched an XT this morning before he came to work because I'm time to watching wrestling last night, even watching the NBA, I was watching the World Series. Um, Steph

Curry tough break. Literally I wanted to bring out the World Series cause I heard Gabe go off this morning about um about a j Hanen out of blah blah blah, and like, Alex, you gonta test this dude? Like you were there, Like I don't really care that everyone could have their takes and that's finally I don't get involved in people's takes. But this take was so bad, man, Brian, you were there too, Like it was so bad these takes.

Analytics lose because astroids lost. The Nationals are old school, Like what, yeah, you're telling me the Nationals don't use analytics either. It was just like, you know what, because Adam heat he had am eating. He doesn't try to hit the home run or cares about a launch angle. He just hit a clean save up the middle. And I'm like, who said that game? Like what? We should probably set him up with John Sterling. They can go hang out. Don't meant that a huge hit. Don't get

me wrong with like analytics. That is so John Sterling though, r because John Sterling will will always call out well, if the shift wasn't in play, the Yankees would have had that one. But he doesn't call out all the times that the Yankees get out because they have players in the shift. Right, here's the thing. So, here's the thing about last night, and I want obviously, I'll watched the whole game last night. I don't really have a problem. I only have a problem one thing that Ajia hinged

it last night. Truly had no issue personally pulling Grinky. When he did it eighty pitches, he walked the borderline walk. I get it allowed the solo home run because I was an egregious call to So here's what happens. Right, Let's say he doesn't pull Grinky. Next batter single walks. Now it's two on, next batters up. Now you're pulling Drinky right now, there's no question you're pulling Grinky. But you put Will Harris in a better spot. And maybe

Will Harris wasn't the guy. He was tired, fine, but he's been your guy all postseason. And you don't want to bring a Garrett Cole or different starter in in that moment in the middle of man. You don't want to do it. You're bringing the guy, that's been the best. And if you want to make the case that Joe Buck did last night, it was like, hey, this is when you bring in Robodo, So okay with that. That's a fair critique, But no issue of pulling Grinky when

he did. My issue with Hinge the only issue I had. Vases are loaded. Now the season is on the line, right, you're down, so you gotta keep it where it is at two runs. You don't bring the hosie your kittie when you have sitting there now you can't do. Yeah. I either would have left granky and personally or I would have rather them go to Garrit Cole right like super frustrated after the game, you know, putting on his Scott Boris hat. I'm no longer employed by the Houston Natros.

Looking good for the New york Y, I must say so myself. But yeah, Garrett Coles should have ended up in that game last night. He was ready to go