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Yahoo Fantasy Forecast

Week 9 Preview: RBs to stash in the second-half and goodbye to Dalton & Flacco

Yahoo Fantasy Forecast

Yahoo Sports

Football, Fantasy Football, Fantasy Sports, Sports, Nfl

4.3 • 790 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

With Liz Loza out Halloween-ing, Matt Harmon is joined by Yahoo’s very own Scott Pianowski for the latest fantasy football podcast.[Play in Yahoo’s NFL $250K Baller. $10 entry fee and $25K to first place]And with Halloween on the mind, there are some scary situations in the NFL, starting the Steelers backfield, which is a true house of horrors right now. James Conner, Jaylen Samuels, and Benny Snell are all either dealing with injuries or trying to return from them. Seems like Samuels is ready to go, but nonetheless, Scott and Matt break down these situations (3:20).From scary RBs to terrifying QBs, we got confirmation that Kyle Allen is returning under center in Carolina for at least one more week, even though it seems Cam Newton will be making his grand return soon (8:10), Andy Dalton was outright benched in favor of Ryan Finley for the Bengals (16:25), and an injured Joe Flacco will give way to Brandon Allen at QB for the Broncos (21:00).Week 9 marks the beginning of #HandcuffSZN, as a prime second-half strategy is for fantasy managers to start adding handcuffs to elite running backs (23:00) Some options include: Alexander Mattison, Gus Edwards, Ryquell Armstead, Tony Pollard, Darrell Henderson, and Reggie Bonnafon. Mark Walton is another option worth adding who is actually a starter, and maybe even Darwin Thompson is a sneaky add?Scott and Matt also discuss the value of Raiders players (like Tyrell Williams and Darren Waller) in the second half (36:25), as well as why you should be caring about second-half strength of schedule (40:05).After discussing all that, our experts preview some interesting Week 9 matchups in Chicago vs. Philadelphia and Jacksonville vs. Houston (45:25). They then wrap up the show giving some daily fantasy bargains and fades for the week (52:35).Oh, and don’t forget to join the Week 9 NFL $250K Baller daily fantasy contest. Just a $10 entry fee! $25,000 to the first place winner!Please remember to rate, review and subscribe on your podcast provider of choice and send us your questions for future episodes on Twitter @YahooFantasy.Follow Matt @MattHarmon_BYBFollow Scott @scott_pianowskiCheck out the rest of the Yahoo Sports Podcast family at https://apple.co/2Abi8jk or at yahoosports.com/podcasts See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0

Hello, you've reached the Yahoo Fantasy Football podcast, and it's just me this week.

0:07.0

And this week, I'm joined by Scott Pienowski, and we are talking about the Pittsburgh Steelers' scary running back situation.

0:13.7

Kyle Allen will start in Carolina for at least one more week.

0:17.2

Dalton and Flacco benched, sort of.

0:20.6

Some running backs that you need to stash in the second

0:22.8

half of the season. Why you should care about strength of schedule right now, we preview

0:27.9

Chicago at Philadelphia and Houston, quote unquote, at Jacksonville, and we finish up with

0:33.3

some daily fantasy bargains and fades.

0:38.4

Hurry up and listen.

0:39.1

Bye.

0:47.9

Hello and welcome to the Yahoo Fantasy Football podcast where the bus is being driven by me.

0:50.2

Liz Loza is gone, not forever.

0:51.3

She'll be back on Sunday.

0:52.0

I don't even know.

0:53.5

She's, what the hell is she?

0:57.1

Yeah, she's, I don't know. So we're like, she's like making candy corn cocktails on her Instagram. I don't know what the hell is going on with Liz these days, but she's not here.

1:01.6

Point being. Apparently Halloween is just a national holiday where you just don't get to go at work. It is 10 a.m. on the West Coast. You don't care about that, but I've got my

1:11.5

protein shake from a thoroughly mediocre workout. I've got a coffee over here. I've got water. But most

1:16.4

importantly, I've got on the other end of the line, Scott Pienowski. Scott, how the hell are you?

1:22.1

Doing great. Doing great. Yeah, I think it's very suspicious that Liz is taking her by week the same week as the Cincinnati Bengals.

1:27.7

I don't think that's a coincidence.

1:29.1

I think there might be some link here.

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