Fantasy Football Today - Start or Sit (AFC)! Start Gaskin? Sit A.J. Brown? (10/14 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Episode Date: October 14, 2021

A little dynasty chatter to start the show and then we'll tell you who we love this week (7:10) and who we're avoiding (10:30). Darrel Williams is the Start of the Week and you should expect a solid game from him. Are we sitting A.J. Brown? Do the Patriots RBs have any appeal? Also, can Adam pressure Heath into changing a DST ranking (16:00)? ... News and notes (18:30) and rankings discussions (22:00) on Myles Gaskin, Chase Claypool, Courtland Sutton, Michael Pittman and Devontae Booker ... Start or Sit for Seahawks-Steelers (29:30), Cowboys-Patriots (37:15), Bills-Titans (44:40), Raiders-Broncos (52:30), Chargers-Ravens (1:01:30), Dolphins-Jaguars (1:07:15) and Texans-Colts (1:10:40) ... Email us at [e-mail] Follow our FFT team on Twitter: @FFToday, @AdamAizer, @JameyEisenberg, @daverichard, @heathcummingssr, @ctowerscbs, @BenSchragg Watch FFT on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/fantasyfootballtoday Join our Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/FantasyFootballToday/ Sign up for the FFT newsletter https://www.cbssports.com/newsletter You can listen to Fantasy Football Today on your smart speakers! Simply say "Alexa, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Football Today podcast" or "Hey Google, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Football Today podcast." To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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BetMGM operates pursuant to an operating agreement with iGaming Ontario. This is touchdown. Oh, he's done it again. Now here's some combination of Adam, Dave, Jamie, Heath, and Ben. What's going on? Welcome to week six. Thursday really sneaks up on you. You know, you're doing your waiver claims, and then all of a sudden, bam, we got football. We got the Bucs and the Eagles tonight. Adam Azer, Jamie Eisenberg, Heath Cummings.

We are going to talk about seven AFC home games. Looking at the full slate guys jamie i'll go to you first favorite game this week favorite game this week um i know it doesn't there's nothing that really pops to me i mean chargers ravens is that is that the one that should be a good one oh i guess i mean there's just you know a lot of things I want to see. You know, I want to see the Jaguars-Dolphins game. Yeah, that's true. I want to see the Giants game. For comedic purposes?

What? For comedic purposes? No, I want to see Miles Gaskin. Does he get used again? I want to see Trevor Lawrence have a good matchup. I want to see these. I mean, that's, you know, I like those little things. Sure.

And Miles Gaskin is one of the most activated players. When you look at the most activated players who was on a bench last week and started this week, I think McCaffrey is number one right now. How many started fantasy points did Myles Gaskin have last week? Whatever he had times.2. Only 20% started last week. And I was actually thinking about that because Mike Asicki, for example, he had four

catches for 48 yards, something like that, maybe like 42 yards. And I was thinking, is that good? Is that okay in PPR? Is that acceptable? He was 17th at tight end in PPR last week. But seven of the guys who finished ahead of him are not fantasy relevant and were probably not started in any league. That's not incredibly deep. So he was actually a kind of a top 10 tight end in that respect. So started fantasy points matter to be Heath. I just,

they just don't exist. You know, they're theoretical. That was, um, did you just say he was kind of a top 10 tight end in that respect in terms of tight, tight ends that were actually being started?

Like, does it matter that David Njoku outscored Mike Kosicki? I am looking forward to using that argument in the future. About a quarterback specifically. Yeah, no, I think it doesn't matter. No, I'm really looking forward

to Bengals and Lions. Okay, okay, yeah, me too. But Heath, what I was saying was there's nobody in the world, I think you agree with this, no fantasy manager in the world started Davis Mills over Patrick Mahomes last week. So it doesn't – Oh, incorrect?

I started Davis Mills over Patrick Mahomes. I started Kadarius Toney over Rondale Moore, and both of them turned out well. You made a very interesting dynasty trade last night. Maybe – this will be as far as dynasty trade Twitter polls. I think it'll be about as close to 50-50 as you can get. I didn't understand it. Yeah? I traded Marquise Brown.

I understand that. I didn't get it. Right. Marquise Brown and Kadarius Toney for a first and a third round pick in the 2022 draft, which just like that sounds like, man, I gave away Marquise Brown and Kadarius Tony for a first and a third round pick in the 2022 draft, which just like that sounds like, man, I gave away Marquis Brown and Kadarius Tony. Yeah,

it does. The fantasy manager I traded with is Owen five as he's going to win games now. Not very little chance of being any better than the third worst team in the league. Okay. And I would like, would you trade marquise brown and cadarious tony for naji harris of course no no not dynasty what do you mean you guys are way more well it is a giants fan and a gators fan so that makes a little bit more sense well i mean would

you would you trade naji harris for i mean would you trade uh like where would you trade Najee Harris for... I mean, would you trade... Like, where would you put Kadarius Toney at dynasty-wide receiver rankings right now? That might be the biggest difference here. I don't know. Probably top 20? Yeah, see, he's like 35th for me. So that's probably... But if he has three more games like this, where is he?

Well, I mean, if he has three more games like this, he's number one, because only six receivers ever have done what he did last week. Okay, if he has three more games like this he's number one because only six receivers ever have done what he did last week okay if he has three more games with the average of the last two weeks what where is he probably top 20 yeah but he here's the thing how are you i maybe because you're just so bad at tanking that you started davis mills over my homes and whatnot but how are you not going to finish with a top three pick that you just traded away? Oh, no, no, no. I just traded for the top three pick. I traded

Caderius and Marquise Brown. Oh, I'm sorry. I will now have two of the top three picks. Okay. Yeah. Interesting. Interesting. But I think it's the fact that you only got a third back in return for that. Like Marquise Brown's worth more than the third. Well, a top three picks worth a lot more than cadarious tony to me i don't know marquise brown and cadarious tony for jamar chase right now have you have gotten marquise brown for a

first and that's it um not a top three first no all right let's get into the afc home games interesting trade i love how i love he Heath's involvement in this Dynasty League. I mean, you are always giving us fodder. It is great. Well, I just love the fact that, like, Jamie is always ready to say I should have gotten more in trades. He never offers me anything for these guys that I'm trying to trade. Well, I mean, I, first off, you wouldn't have accepted a first for me because I'm going to be at the back of the first round. Right. No chance.

And we did trade. We did make a trade. You gave me Darrell Williams for a fourth. We did make a trade. You gave me Daryl Williams for a fourth. There we go. Okay. See, I was ahead of it. There you go. All right, nice.

This sounds like a fun league. Good for you guys. Well, you're in it. Not really. We've got four... We share all the success except the money. Yeah, and the lineup decisions and all. I get the emails.

We got four teams making some some long trips and two of them play at one o'clock chargers at ravens one o'clock rams at giants one o'clock seattle at pittsburgh's the later slate and so is arizona at cleveland i'm not quite sure how many miles arizona that's not the same thing, yeah. Cleveland's pretty... Ohio's fairly east. But yeah, the other three are pretty long trips. And two 1 o'clock starts, something to keep an eye on. What about the London game?

Yeah, but it's both teams going. And from the same state. That doesn't count. Well, it doesn't, you know. But anyway, something to keep an eye on. We'll see. Because sometimes that matters for us.

I don't think it will in these cases of the Rams and the Chargers. Players you love. Jamie, who do we got? Who's the start of the week? Darrell Williams. Fourth-round caliber player. I think you're going to get, you know, you got to keep it within expectations. So he's the start of the week.

And I don't think, barring a two-touchdown game or just something completely wacky happening, he's going to be a top-10 guy. But I think he could be a potential top-15 guy. And we saw last year, I referenced this on Tuesday, in the two playoff games, he got 12 PPR points in those two outings. One was a four-catch game. One game he scored a touchdown. This is against Cleveland and Buffalo.

Stakes were obviously a little bit different. Washington's defense is tough you know so he's gonna have some some you know he's gonna have to be a little creative in how he gets his production i think because he's gonna have to be involved in the passing game but you got a banged up tyree kill right now who missed practice on wednesday uh you have clearly no clyde everett hilaire and i think the blueprint on how to play the chiefs is out there of dare them to run and make patrick mahomes be patient play play these guys play off these guys and and don't let them get the big play so i think williams is looking at about 15 total touches i think he'll find it find the end zone they've

given up five touchdowns to running backs if you factor in uh five touchdowns running backs in the last three games um in terms of the the washington football team but if you factor in cordial patterson's numbers uh if you're considering quarter of Patterson's numbers, uh, if you're considering him a running back, then three running backs have gotten at least 18 or more PPR points against them. So I hope there's a big week coming for Williams, but the way that I would,

I kind of anticipate him finishing is more of a number two running back that you could trust. Daryl or Damien. Daryl. Daryl or Fournette. Uh, Fournette. All right. Heath, who do you love?

Chase Claypool. I guess it's because of the questionable tag. He's still only started in 64% of leagues, but he had the same injury last week and caught five passes for 130 yards against the Broncos, so I think he'll be okay against Seattle. I just think the Juju Smith-Schuster

injury probably means that Chase Claypool is going to be a high-end number two wide receiver for the rest of the season. And this week against Seattle, he and Deontay Johnson might both be number one wide receivers. He is actually among the most activated players. So that star percentage is going up, but it's not all the way there.

Most activated would probably be a better segment to do on Friday because a lot of people are going to set their lineups for the first time today. But we're doing it today because we didn't have glaring rankings disputes that I found.

But we'll look at the most activated players like Myles Gaskin and Chase Claypool. All right. Keith loves Chase Claypool. How about you guys? Chase Claypool or Daryl Williams? I'll give that to both of you.

I'll take Daryl and non, Claypool and half or full. Okay. We are playing the Fantasy Football Today Start-Sit Challenge all season long. You can go to cbssports.com slash start-sit to play. Each week, answer 10 questions. Start or

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It's very fun. Why not? Give it a shot. Heath, who are we avoiding this week? I'm a little bit worried about whoever the Patriots starting running back is. I mean,

we're expecting it to be Damian Harris. I would absolutely avoid him. I think this is a bad game script for whoever's... Now, Brandon Bolden might be a fine flex because he might catch six passes

for 15 yards and be a top 24 running back if you only consider running backs that were started in 70% of leagues. No, I'm talking about like 30% of leagues. But I just don't think the Patriots are going to be able to run that much. They've been much more pass heavy this year than what we anticipated. And I'm not sure that you can know who's going to get the carries after Harris' fumble last week. And the Cowboys have seen the fewest rush attempts by running backs per game. They're basically tied with the Bucs.

It's not because they have this vaunted run defense. We know why it is. I mean, they score a lot of points, and they make you throw. He said, Booker, I do think, had 16 carries last week, but that was out of the ordinary against Dallas. Jamie, who are you avoiding? I would like to avoid A.J. Brown. I know he's been struggling. Only one touchdown on the season, and better days are ahead, so buy low now, but the Bills' defense is tough. Offensive line's bad for the Titans. Julio Jones may now play, so who knows what the target

chair will be. It feels like it's going to be a bad game for the Titans if Julio Jones may now play. So who knows, you know, what the target share will be. It feels like it's going to be a bad game for the Titans if the Bills defense shows up like it has been. So the only one I would start clearly is Derrick Henry, but he's not even a top five running back for me this week.

Will he be the first running back to have more than 45 rushing yards against the Bills? Yeah. I mean, you're still starting Derrick Henry, but if this was a regular slate, I would say he's an avoid for sure in DFS.

Okay. All right. So some high-end guys there. And yeah, well, at least I guess no. One high-end guy in A.J. Brown. But yes, the Patriots running back is going to be tough to trust this week as well. I am going to avoid grammatical errors. I probably shouldn't have said um to start the sentence. Grammarly would not have been happy with that. Everybody use grammarly.com slash FFT. Go there, get a discount. Grammarly.com slash FFT. That's G-R-A-M-M-A-R-L-Y dot com slash FFT. You'll get 20% off Grammarly Premium if you sign up there. This is really great. You write something, you put it right into Grammarly. Grammarly gives you quick suggestions on how to make your writing more effective, more concise, more clear, better vocabulary. You're going to get that just regular vocabulary replacement. That's one of the things, but also just how to make your message stronger if you want to communicate better. So if you're writing something for work, if you're coming up

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I know the Eagles have three top 10 picks. Yes, they do. Three top what picks? Five, six, and 10 if the season ended right now. My God. They are tanking the right way. They're not even trying to tank. Good for them.

So are you going to pick the Washington football team to win the NFC East now? Because you picked the Giants first. Yeah. Then you picked the Eagles. Yeah. And the Eagles won, I really believed. No, the Cowboys.

The Cowboys are going to have that by Thanksgiving. On Thanksgiving, they will clinch. Which crappy team are going to have that by Thanksgiving. On Thanksgiving, they will clinch. Which crappy team do they get to play on Thanksgiving, I wonder? Probably the Giants. Probably Washington. Yeah, they'll clinch that division.

We got some news. You think they have a shot at the onesie? Yeah, because they're going to beat up on their division. Yeah. All right. The NFC West is going to beat each other up at some point.

Yeah. Cowboys. The NFC West is going to beat each other up at some point. Yeah. Cowboys still defensively. Go ahead. How good is the NFC West now? Well, two teams are great. Seattle, yeah. The Cardinals and Rams, yeah. Yeah.

But the 49ers will still sneak in there and give you a game and beat you. They almost beat the Cardinals. Hell, the Cardinals, I don't remember the score. 17 points or something like that? Cowboys-Raiders on Thanksgiving. I'm getting hungry. Okay. Here's a new segment. It's called Let's Make Heath Change a DST Ranking.

Okay? I bullied you inappropriately and wrongly the last two weeks into moving a DST ranking. Okay, I bullied you inappropriately and wrongly the last two weeks into moving a DST up. I don't know if you actually did. Now I'm going to make you move one down, Heath. You are way too high on the Ravens DST. You have them fourth going up against the Chargers. The Chargers are making a cross-country trip,

and that's really difficult on opposing offenses. I don't feel like I can't. When I saw this, I wanted to move them down a little bit, but with the history of the last two weeks, I think I need to let it ride. I have the Ravens defense in a lot of leagues, and if I have a really bad player on my team, I understand you might want to drop and start somebody else

because you don't want to go against Justin Herbert. He's been on fire. That's fine. I'm not dropping the Ravens because of this matchup, though. All right. They do allow the fewest points. They haven't been that good. They allow the fewest points to chargers to DSTs. And yeah, the Ravens haven't really been the Ravens this year.

They've only had one standout game as far as a DST goes. But all right, Heathath stick to your guns make the anti-age i expect i mean there's really after after you've brought this up the only fair expectation is a defensive touchdown okay it'll probably be on special you know i'm just looking at you know and and obviously i don't know exactly the scoring in this league by comparison to most but do you know the dsts that rank better than the ravens right now i know a lot of them cowboys are number two i know that oh the lions oh wow the bangles the titans it's crazy i mean i mean i i would i would expect them to be better i don't you know

think he's wrong by hoping things will turn around for them but but it's been bad. Well, they've played really a gauntlet. They've played the Chiefs. Yeah, I mean, that Colts offense, juggernaut. Yeah, well, they don't have the pass rush they used to have. Exactly, that's the problem. And their secondary has fallen apart a little bit with injuries. It's just tough to rely on. Actually, who do they play?

They play the Chiefs, they play the Lions, the Colts. Raiders and Broncos, right? Okay, so they haven't had that tough of a schedule. I'm sorry. All right, news and notes. Dalvin Cook practiced, but we still don't know about his status. Damian Harris did not practice, but they're optimistic about him. We'll see.

Heath already said not feeling Patriots running backs. McCaffrey's 50-50 to play this week. Jarvis Landry could be back this week. Go ahead, Heath. I think the McCaffrey one's kind of big because we just kind of thought he was going to come back and hopefully he does. I mean, would you start? You leave McCaffrey. It depends on what you have on your bench, but I think you'd have to start Fournette over

tonight. Yes. Hopefully he's back. Look, wouldn't it be great to see Dalvin Cook versus Christian McCaffrey instead of Madison versus Hubbard? Imagine that. I mean, look, wouldn't it be great to see Dalvin Cook versus Christian McCaffrey instead of Madison versus Hubbard? Imagine that. I don't know. I got a lot of teams that would like to see Madison versus Hubbard.

Jarvis Landry could play this week. He's about 65%. He didn't practice on Wednesday, though, so that's a bad sign. Okay. DeAndre Hopkins has an illness. He should be fine. We'll see if Chris Carson practices today. He missed practice on Wednesday.

The plan was to get him to practice today. TJ Hawkinson missed practice, and we haven't really talked about that as he has struggled, but he's dealing with a knee injury as well. Would you start Zach Ertz tonight or TJ Hawkinson? Ertz. If Hawkinson practices today, I'd stick with him, but otherwise, Ertz.

Joe Burrow is on voice rest. So, what's his name? Blake Shelton is not going to be happy about that. Is that his name? The guy on the voice? Yes, it is. Yeah, all right. See?

Shelton. Shelton, right? I was going to make a joke about if we punch you in the throat, does that mean you'll stop talking? Yes, it does. Chandler Jones for the Cardinals, not expected to play, and neither is Rodney Hudson. He is out this week, so that's their top pass rusher

and center, starting center out this week for Arizona. Tuatango Bailoa looks like he's going to play. He had a few players mispractice that seems like no big deal unless they miss again on Thursday, and even then we're not sure, But Allen Robinson, Damian Williams, Justin Jefferson, Nick Chubb. Right now, we're going to assume they're all playing.

Kenny Galladay is not going to play. Adam Thielen also. Adam Thielen, thank you. Kenny Galladay is not going to play, but the other three Giants wide receivers practiced. So are we expecting Tony, Shepard, and Slayton? Yeah, to think about that for a second. I think at this point, yes, you have to expect them to play.

Tony obviously is playing. He was limited. The other guys were limited also, but they're coming back from injuries. So yes, I would anticipate at this point those three guys playing. Well, you name three Giants wide receivers, you start with Tony. You just want to say Tony, Tony, Tony. But yeah, Slayton exists. Daniel Jones is on track to play.

They're optimistic about Daniel Jones, but he needs to clear the concussion protocol. Sammy Watkins mispracticed. The update I saw was dealing with his brain injury. And when I read it, I was like, ugh, don't play. Well, if you said dealing with a concussion, then when they call it like that was like oh don't play well if you said dealing with a concussion then i i hate when they call it a brain injury it's scarier for sure right yeah uh julio jones was limited in practice so um did you get two by hilton too oh yeah yeah what so he was activated he's got what's the deal he's only one day activated for

practice yes not for games yet right he's still eligible to be in an IR spot in leagues. Yes. This week. That's why he's coming back. He owns them, right? Oh, he owns the Texans. All right. Uh, 62nd rankings discussions.

Again, I couldn't really find good disputes. Uh, we'll look at the most activated players and just tell me if you're comfortable starting them. Miles Gaskin. So these are guys who were mostly on the bench last week. Fantasy managers are getting them in their lineups. Miles Gaskin in London against Jacksonville. Comfortable starting him? Ish.

Okay, comfortable ish. Okay. Comfortable ish. Yeah. I, I think in PPR, I would start him over the replacement running backs. I'll talk about this a little bit more, uh,

later in the show, but the Jaguars are a team that they get a ton of rush attempts against. I think the second, third, most rush attempts against teams run on them second, third most rush attempts against. Teams run on them. That is not the Dolphins' MO. They are last in the NFL in rush attempts.

I'm comfortable with Myles Gaskin as a number two running back in any format. I think the thing that we saw last week was they reshuffled their offensive line again, and it seemed to be a little bit better. But you have T two coming back. And so, you know,

you got to hope that the offense that they were hoping to run, which they only got to run it for a game and a quarter is going to be on display. And so if you didn't watch that game last week, how can you say, or if you watched that game last week, how could you say Malcolm Brown's upon Ahmed need more touches in miles gasket?

He's so much more explosive than those two guys. Now, granted, he may not hold up in pass protection as well if you're looking at it from a size situation because he's not as big as Malcolm Brown. But you can't tell me that their 65 offensive coordinators saw that game and said, oh, let's put Malcolm Brown back there again. He's got to play more. Hopefully, it's a sign of things to come. And as far as the – I don't know how much of the Jacksonville teams run against them. Dolphins don't run thing

we can tell anything about because Jacksonville is almost always behind. And so the opposing team always has a game script that would cause you to want to run. And the dolphins have just had some absolute disasters of blowouts and they've, and they've only won one game. So I don't know how much the Dolphins want to run. Yeah. This would be the opportunity for them to do it more, for sure. Chase Claypool... I will say, though, if you are stuck in a deep league,

Malcolm Brown's not a bad flyer, because if there's somebody that's going to be plunging into the end zone from a short yardage situation, it's probably him. Chase Claypool is on the most activated list. I think we're pretty good starting him, right? Yeah. 100%. Okay. Cortland Sutton is on the most activated list. I think we're pretty good starting him, right? Yeah, 100%. Okay. Cortland Sutton is on the most activated list. He must have been sat last week against the Steelers, had a big game, and now he faces the Raiders,

who believe it or not, are third best against wide receivers and second lowest yards per pass attempt allowed, which is weird. Starter sit Sutton this week. Border lines must start guy. So number two, number three receiver. I think you're going to see a little bit of a regression statistically.

You know, I don't think he's going to do that again. I think this is a game where the Broncos can run with a little bit more success. So I like Javante Williams a lot, but it's hard to get away from Sutton after seeing what he did last week, you know, with Teddy back. And if the Raiders offense shows up and this game gets as Pete Prisco would say loose, then Sutton's gonna have a big game, you know, so it's, it's hard to sit him this week. Yeah. It's I mean, just like last week week it was easy to look at it and say man he

really has just been good against the jackson against jacksonville now he's had two good games but two of his three bad games one jerry judy played the other teddy left with a concussion so i think as good as he's been in those two games it's almost i mean it's almost a tyler lockett type situation. I'm going to start him. Okay. Claypool over Sutton? Yes. Gaskin or Sutton?

Gaskin. Gaskin. Okay, next up on the most activated list, Michael Pittman coming off his best game. Facing the Texans who have not allowed a receiving touchdown to a wide receiver since week one. That is weird. Is Michael Pittman a slam dunk start? I think similar to Sutton.

Not a slam dunk, but you should feel comfortable about it. The targets have been there for him. He's been all over this for the last month know month of trusting him um blindly which has worked out and you know came through against the Ravens uh great catch you just have to wonder if T.Y. Hilton plays you know and and if how much that will impact things but I think Carson Wentz is in a nice groove right now and I wouldn't be surprised if the Texans move the ball whether they score is another story but you know if if the Texans move the ball, whether they score is another story. But, you know, if the Texans do score, and as we saw last week, they have to throw,

he'll probably be six plus targets. My guess is five plus catches. I would probably put him in the ballpark of like five for 75 with a chance to score. Yeah, he's a number two wide receiver. I'm mostly just starting him. All right, Pittman's been, has a really nice PPR floor. I think it's something like 12 or more PPR fantasy points.

He's kind of like Jacoby Myers with the possibility of scoring a touchdown. There you go. And Devontae Booker is also on the most activated list. So we've got Gaskin. He wasn't activated last week? That's weird. Gaskin, Claypool, Sutton, Pittman, and Booker. Where does Booker rank among these options? Gaskin, Claypool, Sutton, Pittman, and Booker. Where does Booker rank among these options?

Gaskin, Claypool, Sutton, Pittman. Behind all of them. Yeah, but I'm still probably... He's behind all of them, but he's a running back. And so I think in most situations, I'm probably starting him. Is he behind all of them if Daniel Jones plays? Behind all of them. Yeah, Jones won't have an enormous impact on my projection of Booker.

All right. And those are your most activated players, and we're starting them, so I guess that's why they're activated. Let's go to the games. By the way, I wish we could dedicate 30 minutes to how the hell did Davis Mills score 30 fantasy points against the New England Patriots in Week 5? I mean, come on.

You got Chris Moore and Chris Conley. You can't stop the Chris's. I'll go back to something. I think it was like whenever I went to Caesars in D.C., we were doing an event, and it was the night of Davis Mills' first start against Carolina. I said, I think he's the right kind of bad quarterback for fantasy

purposes. He's not shriveling up and scared. He might throw four interceptions, but he's like a young man's Ryan Fitzpatrick. But I felt so strongly about sitting Brandon Cooks. If I had rankings, I would have been the lowest, except Frank had him in the 40s. And that's Frank Stample. I probably would have been somewhere around there. And I don't know if I got it right because I thought Davis Mills was going to have a terrible game. He had a great game and Cooks was still really bad. But I

would have been right. I know, but I don't. But the way it happened was totally wrong. You know, I don't know if I would have felt good about it or not. Because if you had told me Davis Mills was going to score 30 points, I would have said, OK, start Brandon Cooks. Then again, the Patriots are pretty good at locking down number one receivers. All right, and we'll talk about that later.

Yeah, that's the thing. I mean, remember last time Amari Cooper went there? It was Stephon Gilmore. But he was also a little injured, but he had a terrible game. I think he had one catch. He is also a little injured now. Seattle is at Pittsburgh. Stat of the game.

Hey, Tyler Lockett, he's a deep ball guy. You know, this and that. You can't trust him. That might be true. But in 2020, he caught 10 touchdowns. Seven of them were from six yards out or closer. In fact, 2020, he wasn't really a deep ball guy. But this year, his touchdowns have been from 23, 69, and 63 yards.

So let's start with the Seahawks wide receivers. And Heath, start or sit? I mean, it's going to depend on who you have. I would start Claypool and Sutton over both of them. I would start Pittman over Lockett. But I've got Metcalf as a low-end No. 2 and Lockett as a high end number three. And so I, I, I think in most situations, like, unless I've picked somebody up off the waiver

wire that I really like, I'm probably still starting both of them. Jamie, would you start Sutton over or would you start Claypool over Metcalf? I would start Claypool over Metcalf. I agree with everything he said. You know, I think which you would maybe struggle with the Seattle guys is Tony, the guys who got picked up. And in PPR, I would probably start Tony over Lockett. But otherwise, I would start the Seattle guys over him still. And I would start everybody of the main guys in tonight's game. So the three Bucs guys and Devontae Smith over both Seattle receivers.

I do have Devontae Smith behind them. Tony is one I didn't mention. I've got him right between Metcalf and Luckett. But if Shepard and Slayton are both active, I'll probably have him behind Luckett. Okay. I don't think most people are going to bench Metcalf because he's just different. behind Lockett. Okay. I don't think most people are going to bench Metcalf because,

you know, he's, he's just different. You know, I mean, you saw him catch a touchdown from Dino Smith last week, you know, Lockett's in the midst of another one of his slumps. And so without Russell Wilson there,

it's easier to get away from him, especially given the draft capital, you know, Metcalf was by, by most accounts, a second round pick Lockett was, you know, four 5, or 6, depending on how your draft unfolded.

So you may have other options that are better than Tyler Lockett. So while he's quote-unquote slumping, he did have 10 targets last week, but his fantasy production is slumping, he's an easier guy to get away from. I don't know. I would

read you my team because I think it's relevant in terms of a Metcalf decision, but I don't want. I would read you my team because I think it's relevant in terms of a Metcalf decision, but I don't want people to hate me for reading my team. I promise. Please read your team out. I'm not trying to set my lineup here, but we have three receiver spots

and a flex, and we have Mike Evans, DK Metcalf, Marquise Brown, Devante Smith, Chase Claypool, plus Chuba Hubbard, and yeah, thatuba Hubbard and Chuba Hubbard, basically. And I might have to sit Metcalf.

Now, I'm going to start Metcalf over Devontae Smith. There's no way I'm starting Smith over Metcalf. That's exactly what I would say. I think a decision gets tougher if you've got Metcalf in your flex and McCaffrey's ruled out. Yeah, so I'm going to start Claypool over Devante Smith. And Thursday night, yeah, never mind.

That's never mind. I was thinking about Thursday night. Okay, all right, we'll move on. I'm sorry. I was not trying to. Just there are decisions to be made with DK Metcalf. All right, my bad for that detour. Don't start Geno Smith, although you could, you know, 2QB league.

What are you going to do? And then let's talk about the running backs here. So give me the scenario, Jamie. Start and sit if Chris Carson plays and then if he doesn't. I would like to avoid the Seattle backfield. You know, again, you got that potentially bad quarterback play. Steelers have been awesome against the run. I think they have a touchdown to running back, if I'm not mistaken,

on the season, rushing or passing. That is true. And Carson, less than 100%. If he's in, there's going to be shuffling in and out with him and Collins. If the game gets sideways for the Seahawks and the Steelers have a lead, however it happens, you could see Carson coming off the field. So I would, at best, their flex plays. Collins, if there is no Carson, Carson, if he plays, I would just, you know, I would

play Gaskin over him. I would play Booker over him. I would play Darrell Williams over him, Damian Williams over him, Ricky Williams over him. You know, I think it's going to be a bad game for the Seattle running back. I want to clarify something from before. It may have sounded like I would start Chuba Hubbard over DK Metcalf in full PPR. I guess that would be a somewhat difficult decision if McCaffrey's out.

What would you guys do, Chuba Hubbard or Metcalf? I would start Hubbard. Yeah, if Metcalf was out, or if McCaffrey's out, yeah. Okay, and Seattle tight ends? No thanks. Let's go to the Steelers here. Ben Roethlisberger. Start or sit?

Seahawks are just not good. Start or sit Roethlisberger? There is very, very few people who are going to start him in a one-quarterback league unless you're desperate. And you can certainly make an argument for him versus Carson Wentz, for him versus Taylor Heineke, versus Teddy Bridgewater, you know,

the guys that were picked up this week or have been picked up in the last couple weeks, Sam Donald as well. I think in two quarterback and super flex leagues, he's a great start, you know, because he's coming off his best game. And I don't know if this is, you know, addition by subtraction, because obviously you don't want to lose Jujus Mischuster,

but now you're having to throw the ball down the field more because those other guys do things differently. Now, maybe he just dumps the ball off Najee Harris at nauseam like we saw a couple weeks ago when Juju had the rib injury, but I think this is just an opportunity for him to have to be more aggressive down the field, and this is an opportunity to do so. I would start him over Tannehill.

I'd start him over Sam Darnold who some people have started lately but I think he's 18th at quarterback for me so I really don't want to start him if I'm streaming, I would rather stream Heineke I would rather stream Carson Wentz I'd rather stream Teddy so I don't really want to

I don't know if this is the case for you guys but this was the first week in any of my leagues, I'm pretty sure, that I picked up a quarterback with the intention of starting. I have not streamed a quarterback yet. And the only reason I'm doing this is because I'm the Russell Wilson manager in that league. But I don't know. Have you guys streamed a quarterback yet? It's weird to say.

Yeah. that league but i don't know have you guys streamed a quarterback yet it's weird to say yeah um i'm in a 14 team league where i drafted trevor lawrence and justin fields so luckily i had donald for the last uh i think two weeks because i think i definitely played lawrence in week one i think the last two or three weeks i played donald this week i'm playing heineke over donald and in our idp league um my quarterbacks were Ryan Tannehill and Trevor Lawrence. So I'm playing Heineke. I picked him up again. I'm playing Heineke this week as well. Okay. I could be wrong. Maybe I'm forgetting, but it's just that

if you drafted one of the top 12-ish quarterbacks, you really haven't needed to go to the waiver wire. As long as it wasn't Ryan Tannehill. Right. Burrow was drafted as a top 12 guy in some cases. I have none of either of them. Najee Harris is top four. The Seahawks give up so many receiving yards to running backs.

This is just a great setup for Najee. And start both Pittsburgh wide receivers. And I'm guessing no on the tight ends? No tight ends. No, but it is something like if you're a desperate situation and you're trying to get ahead, I think their bye is next week, if I'm guessing no on the tight ends? No tight ends. No, but it is something like if you're a desperate situation and you're trying to get ahead, I think their bye is next week, if I'm not mistaken, for the Steelers week seven.

But if you are looking week eight and beyond, if you want to pick up Fryer-Muth, just to see, because James Washington's banged up. He was limited in practice. Ray-Ray McLeod, they brought in Anthony Miller. So they're going to replace Juju with somebody, and maybe it's just more targets and opportunities for the tight end. So if you want to stash

Pat Friermuth in a deeper league, why not? Just to see what happens this week and then maybe what happens beyond. Pittsburgh DST is at last check. Second for Jamie, third for Heath, ninth for Dave. So start them up. Okay, Dallas at New England.

Stat of the game. Mention this one. Cowboys see at New England. Stat of the game. Mention this one. Cowboys see the fewest rush attempts in the NFL. And that should be good by running backs. That should be good for Jacoby Myers. His two good games were the two games where the Patriots just did not run. They fell behind against the Saints. They didn't even try to run against the Bucs.

But wouldn't you have said, just bringing up your Davis Mills thing from earlier, if you were to say that they were down 10 in the third quarter, I think it was, down at halftime, down in third quarter, that Joe Kobe Myers would have had a great game, right? Yeah, I would have thought so. It's disappointing. Yeah, but the only thing I think you've got to worry about with Myers, and I'm still starting him,

but is how much of the tight end's improvement, certainly Hunter Henry's improvement, is going to take away targets for him. What do you guys, well, okay, so overall, what do you think about Jacoby Myers? You said you're still starting him, but as what? He's a low-end number two receiver in PPR. Like, I would start him over Tyler Locke in PPR.

I'd start him over A.J. Brown in PPR. I think this is going to be another game where he's getting double-digit targets because I think the Patriots are trailing. How confident are we that the Patriots are going to be trailing, at least significantly? Do you think they give the Cowboys a game the same way they gave the Bucs a game? Yeah.

Early. I mean, first off, the Bucs, that was a game in the rain. Tom Brady, who knows what he was thinking, you know, in that game because it was so probably emotional for him. The Dallas offense, and this is not to say anything because the Bucs offense is fantastic. The Dallas offense is a machine right now. Like, they're just doing whatever they want to. And, you know, with the way that they're running the ball and their defense is playing great, like, you can make an argument that Dallas' defense,

maybe right now just because of how the secondary is playing, might be better than the Bucs' defense. So I don't know how the Patriots score. Well, the thing is their defense, going into last week, they were giving up the second most yards per play. I think it's third now. So you can move the ball on their defense, but they lead the league in

takeaways. Don't turn the freaking ball over, but he's got a rookie quarterback here. Mac Jones is conservative. He's safe in terms of how he throws the ball. That's why his completion percentage is so high. Certainly, that's why it was so high against the Bucs.

The Patriots have offensive line concerns. They have backfield concerns you know their defense hasn't been great you know when they face some top tier opponents uh not named brady and and and you know you saw last week they got exposed a little bit all right so if myers is still worth starting is anyone else are you starting hunter henry this week yes or henry okay. Henry over who? He's a top six tight end for me, so I'd start him over Hawkinson. I'd start him over Ertz. I'd start him over

Gusecki. I'd start him over... I mean, I like Henry. He's playing well. Let's go to Dallas. Dak? What's that? Can we? Yeah, let's go. Weather's amazing

in New York right now, so no thanks. I'll stay here. Dallas, Dak Prescott is about eighth overall. He's a good start. Tonight, Prescott or Hertz? Hertz. I have Hertz higher. Okay, start Zeke. Pollard, any interest in

flexing Pollard? He's a good flex. Yep. Okay. Yeah, he's got at least six PPR fantasy points in every game. I think I have Pollard ahead of Damian Harris. Wow. Yeah, PPR for sure.

Well, but Pollard has, yeah, I guess so. He did have four catches last week. Okay, got back there. He's been up and down in that regard. All right, so the wide receivers are much more interesting. Let's talk about Amari Cooper and CeeDee Lamb. Heath, how do you feel about them? By the way, I was wrong. Last time Amari Cooper went to Foxborough,

it was two years ago, he had zero catches on two targets. What do you think about Cooper and Lamb this week? Very, very similar for me to Metcalf and Lockett for a different reason, obviously. Their quarterback's fine, but the matchup's really difficult slash interesting. So they're both borderline number two, high-end number three wide receivers for me. I would prefer to start Lamb over Cooper. I would in full PPR.

I've got them a little bit higher in non-PPR than I do PPR because the pass volume has been so low for Dallas. I don't know that you can expect more than four or five catches for either of them. I would start Robert Woods over them. I would start DK Metcalf over them. I would start in full PPR. I'd start Pittman over them. In non-PPR, they're more

number two wide receivers. You agree, Jamie? 100%. Yep. How about Darrell Williams and Devante Booker and Damian Williams, these waiver-wire running backs? Are we starting them over Cooper and Lamb? Damian in PPR, yes.

Probably non-PPR also. Daryl in non-PPR, yes. Booker, no. I just don't have a lot of faith in Booker. Okay. By the way, I didn't mention this, but going back to that Steelers-Seahawks game, the Steelers actually give up the second most fantasy points to wide receivers.

Only the Colts have allowed more receiving touchdowns to wide receivers than the Steelers. Don't know what that's all about. If this was Russell, then it's easy to say you're just going to start the guys without question. People in their mind, Steelers defense, oh, that's's a horrible matchup it hasn't been so far for wide receivers and really wasn't last year either so i just want to throw that out there but of course we're factoring in the quarterback um and then yeah you know number one receivers have not done all that well against uh new england brandon cook's a great example cory Davis was terrible. He's not Amari Cooper. Mike Evans was solid. He was shadowed by JC Jackson.

He had seven catches for 75 yards on 12 targets. Okay, I think, oh, Dalton Schultz or Hunter Henry? Schultz for me. Cowboys DST or Steelers DST? Steelers, but I like both. Steelers. Yeah, all right, so you can start the Cowboys DST. You can start both of those DSTs Steelers, but I like both. Steelers. All right, so you can start the Cowboys. You can start both of those DSTs, obviously.

Cowboys are... Cowboys would be a good candidate for you to say, I'm way too low on a DST. I don't know that I feel... I was thinking about that, because you have the 13th. That was one. But again, if they don't get turnovers,

they're really not... I'm not convinced that they're a good defense. They just have been able to get the turnovers. Who has more catches in this game? Who has more catches in this game? Ezekiel Elliott or Trayvon Diggs? I'm going to go ahead and go out on a limb and say Trayvon Diggs does not have an interception in this game.

All right, all right. Let's take a quick break. When we come back, Monday Night Football, Buffalo at Tennessee. Can you start interception in this game. All right, all right. Let's take a quick break. When we come back, Monday Night Football, Buffalo at Tennessee. Can you start any Titans in this game other than Derrick Henry? And we have already talked about that, but which Buffalo wide receivers

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I'd love to see if Julio Jones could play in this game. But your stat of the game, I gave it earlier. No running back has more than 45 rushing guards against the Bills. We can just laugh at that. That, you know, Henry will get there. Trend of the game, though. This is kind of interesting. Carries inside the five-yard line.

Zach Moss has three. Josh Allen has two. Devin Singletary has one. So that's good for Moss. How about targets in the green zone? That's 10 yards or closer. Dawson Knox leads the team with four. Diggs with three, Sanders three,

and Zach Moss has two. So does Gabriel Davis. Cole Beasley has zero, by the way. So that's just, you know, you got the two players who have been kind of surprising in Moss and Knox. They are getting opportunities

where it counts. Jamie, when we look at this game, what do you think? I mean, any surprises here? You really like Zach Moss. You already talked about A.J. Brownlee. Any strong takes on fringy players in this game, Buffalo at Tennessee?

I mean, it's hard not to like Zach Moss at this point, what he's done. You know, 11 or more PPR points in the four games that he's played. I think he was over 70% of the snaps against the chiefs. So he's now starting to dominate playing time over Devin Singletary. He scored in, in three of the four games that he's played four touchdowns overall.

So, I mean, he's, he's creeping into, you know, must start territory at this point, you know, especially with the bi-weeks and the injuries.

So, you know, I, I think you gotta be excited about this and this titans defense i mean if urban meyer had remembered james robinson's name in the second half he might have had an even bigger game after having over 100 yards in the first half 250 yards he would have gotten to right he would have got 250 yards um so yeah so moss is is good uh if if not great as a starter and then emmanuel sanders you know i i think we're starting to see uh i don't want to say Cole Beasley is getting phased out,

but he's falling to fourth, at least in perception of the guys you can trust, of the passing options. Diggs, Knox, and Sanders feel like they're ahead of Beasley. I mean, there's going to be a Beasley game at some point, but in non-PPR, it's easy. Bench Beasley for sure. In PPR, he's at best a third receiver. Would you guys start?

I think Diggs is going to have his breakout game and he's going to be so much better than he's been so far this season. And I do think even outside of Beasley, because I'm pretty much done with Beasley until he has a big 9-for-90 game, and then we get sucked in for two more weeks. But I do think when Diggs finally gets back to what he was,

or 90% of what he was, it's probably going to be a bad thing for either Knox or Sanders. I don't know which one. I'm starting Sanders as the No. 3 wide receiver. And then back to Moss Moss because Jamie referenced it. That was the big – last week was the big turning point for me with him because it was a career-high 74% of the snaps. If it's a timeshare with Josh Allen, then nobody's better than a flex.

But it was not much of a timeshare last week. I guess what worries me about Moss is... Timeshare with Allen or timeshare with Singletary? Timeshare with Singletary. Like, he was still only playing 50-55%. Yeah, no, you said timeshare with Josh Allen. Well, no, I mean, if it's a timeshare between the two running backs

and you've got Josh Allen doing what he does in the running game, then nobody's better than a flex. So, just one thing I want to point out. Going into the fourth quarter, he had basically the same amount of carries as Devin Singletary. Moss is their fourth quarter guy. Since he's come back, he's played four games.

He has 16 fourth quarter carries to seven for Devin Singletary. So, they've been just pummeling teams, basically. Maybe they'll do that again. But if they don't, I don't know that you're going to get that garbage time. Touchdown or something from Moss. Just one thing to consider here. But you guys have him in the top 24. But he's getting all the high-level touches.

I mean, that's the thing that matters. You know, so... Uh, yeah. But he, yeah, yeah. He's got two, three catches in three or four games. What was I going to say here? Would you start Moss or Manuel Sanders? Moss.

Yeah, Moss. Would you start Moss or Manuel Sanders? Moss. Yeah, Moss. Would you start Moss or Devante Booker? Moss. I might move. I've got Gaskin, Darrell Williams, and Booker all back-to-back-to-back in one order or another, and I've got Moss right behind them, and I just might move Moss ahead of the three of them.

Okay. We talked about the wide receivers here, and Tennessee allows the most fantasy points to wide receivers. They, yeah, they stink. And I,

and I don't like, I'll just still stand for my guy, even though I'm, I'm all in on Zach Moss as a starting running back. I don't think as a boomer bust flex, Devin Singletary is a terrible play because of his big play ability and how bad the Titans defense has been. Yeah.

I think that's a great point, Heath. And I think some people are going to start to get to the point where are you dropping Devin Singletary? Don't do that because Moss has still got that injury track record. And they're still playing him. You know, even though the snap count was so skewed one way, you know, I think it's closer to 60-40 as opposed to 70-30, you know, or 75-25 in this case.

So I think you're still going to get Devin Singletary games. You're still going to have Devin Singletary moments. You know, I don't want to get to a point where we're sitting here on a Tuesday and saying, why are you picking up, why did you drop Devin Singletary? You know, don't do that yet. He's not at that point.

Dawson Knox is top seven, and the Titans actually give up the second fewest points to tight ends, but they have not really faced any good ones. They gave up 68 yards to Dan Arnold, 64 yards to Dan Arnold last week. So Knox is a start. Knox or Ertz?

Knox or Schultz? Rank those three. Knox, Ertz, I'm sorry. Schultz, Knox, Ertz in all formats. I've got Schultz, Knox, Ertz, and non-Schultz, Ertz, Knox, and PPR. Ryan Tannehill is a sit. We really respect and fear the Bills' defense.

It's a tremendous unit. Derrick Henry is a start. And then A.J. Brown is outside the top 20, but we'll do some flex questions. Brown or Zach Moss? Moss. Moss. questions brown or zach moss moth moss yeah i've i've got uh both the cowboys and both the seahawks ahead of a.j brown and davante smith tonight man okay let's see a.j brown or emmanuel sanders brown still brown do one more damianian Williams or AJ Brown?

Williams. Probably Williams. Cool. One more IDP guy. If you still need to pick somebody up, because I just did this last night, pick up Rousseau after his good game against the Chiefs. That tightens the offensive line as a disaster, so he may get another sack or two.

And an interception or two. Go Canes. So like watching his high school highlights. Yeah. He was a really awkward wide receiver, wasn't he? Just, just robotic.

Yeah. Not, not meant to play wide receiver, but I love Gregory Rousseau, uh, led the nation in sacks and basically the only year he played in college. Yeah. I mean,

that defense is so good. It is, yeah. Because their defensive line is just so much better than it was last year. Yep. It's bigger. And they did that without Milano, too. Right. So, yeah, in case you want the numbers,

Meikle Hardman is the only wide receiver with more than 63 yards against the Bills. That includes Deontay Johnson. That includes Tyree Kill, Terry McLaurin, Brandon Cooks, Byron Pringle. And the Bills DST is a star. Well, Heath, you're way too low on the Bills DST. You got them ninth. All right.

I may move A.J. Brown up now. Las Vegas is at Denver. And stat of the game, I did reference this earlier, but I find it so weird that the Raiders have this pass defense that's been so good so far. Third fewest fantasy points to wide receivers. Second fewest passing yards per attempt allowed. So I don't get it.

There are some things that you just don't buy this early in the season. And I don't get it. I don't see how their personnel is that good. They also have some injuries in the season. And I don't, I don't get it. I don't, I don't see how their personnel is that good. They also have some injuries in the secondary, but it is happening. And you already talked about Cortland Sutton. So I don't even know how much we need to go into this, but if you're thinking about Teddy Bridgewater as a streamer this week,

do you fear this matchup at all? I like, I, they have played Justin Herbert and Lamar Jackson. So I don't want to say they haven't played anybody, but Lamar Jackson, it was week one want to say they haven't played anybody. But Lamar Jackson, it was week one before the passing game was really going great. They've also faced Jacoby Brissett,

Justin Fields, and Ben Roethlisberger. That would help you be a great pass defense. I would think that they would be a decent pass defense with those matchups, with Jackson, Herbert, and those three. I'm surprised that they've think that they would be like a decent pass defense with those matchups with Jackson Herbert and those three. I'm surprised that they've been as good as they have been, but bridge. So where do you rank Bridgewater in terms of streamers with Heineke and

Tana? I, I'll throw Tannehill in there. I know he's not a streamer, both of them in there. Bridgewater, Tannehill, Heineke,

Roethlisberger. I would go Heineke, Wentz, Bridgewater, Roethlisberger. Yep, exactly. Okay. All over Tannehill?

Yes. And what about Derek Carr? Would you start Derek Carr over any of those guys? No. I might have Carr still over Roethlisberger, but behind Teddy. It's going to be such a weird game for the Raiders because you just don't know where they're at emotionally with everything that's going on with Gruden.

Did they give up on Gruden last week, which certainly would be understandable with what that locker room is, with what any locker room would be. But now do they come out and we're unified as a group and we're going to come out and play. The Broncos, I know they're a good team, but they're not indestructible. And the Raiders can certainly have some success here.

Josh Jacobs has a great history against them, so we'll see how he does. But defensively, this pass rush has been the reason why their pass defense has been good because they're eliminating a half a second or a second getting to the quarterback. And so that's what I think has helped them early in the season. Can they get back to doing that this week? So we'll see. I think Crosby and Nassib and Gawkway,

they need to get to the quarterback and do a good job for that second day to hold up. Starter sit Josh Jacobs. It's hard not to start him at this point, right? With the four catches each the last two weeks. Yeah, he's a low-end starter. He's been awful. My God, running the ball. 3.2 yards per carry.

But he's not been awful in terms of fantasy production. No, he hasn't. He scores touchdowns and he catches passes. Okay, so how do you like him compared to the replacement guys? I would start both Williams guys ahead of him. I would start Gaskin ahead of him in PPR. I'd start Jacobs and Non. He's a top 20 running back.

I think if you have safer options, you can go the safer route, but it's hard to get away from the goal line opportunities and the passing game work. Now, the one thing I guess you could look at and say if you want to really be concerned about Josh Jacobs is Peyton Barber practice in full. So now we get to see what this backfield rotation looks like. With Gruden out of there, does Kenyon Drake get more opportunities?

That's exactly what I was going to say. You would think so, right? Because if those catches go away then you've got a guy averaging 3.2 yards per carry against a really good run defense what if peyton barber gets like eight carries to spell jacobs and jacobs does all the passing game work that would be wonderful that would be great yeah i i don't know i. I don't, I think it's a good point that we have, like it could go any of six directions between those three running backs. And we really have no idea.

I think I have no Josh Jacobs shares. I didn't draft him at all. So, you know, if you're concerned about the art for carry and the, the change in coach and the return of Barber, and you have some of these other guys, Williams, Booker, or both Williams, Darryl, Damian.

You can even look and say that matchup-wise, maybe Javante Williams and Melvin Gordon have a better opportunity. Gordon's a little bit banged up. But if you want to say matchup-wise, and I know, Adam, you like to look at explosive plays. I mean, Javante Williams has a 31-yard carry or more each of the last two weeks. I think this is going explosive plays. I mean, Javante Williams has a 31-yard carry or more each of the last two weeks. You know, he may have...

I think this is going to be a big game for Javante Williams personally, but I'm still starting Jacobs over him because of split. Now, if Melvin Gordon's out, Javante Williams for sure. Yeah, I would start Zach Moss over Jacobs. Would you? Yeah. I'm not there yet, but I might be. Okay. So, Kadarius, Tony or Josh Jacobs?

Tony in PPR. Jacobs in none. I won't even ask you. Don't worry about it. Any wide receivers for the Raiders worth starting? Renfro in PPR is a number three receiver, but nothing more than that. Okay. A good number three receiver, but nothing more than that. Okay.

Good number three receiver, I would say. Darren Waller is number three behind Kelsey and Andrews this week. He didn't practice on Wednesday, so just keep an eye on that. If he doesn't practice on Thursday and you have to make a decision with Zach Ertz, hopefully there's a report. Jamie's got a feeling about Javante Williams.

Heath, do you? What feeling do you have? I have no feeling about Javante Williams. Heath, do you? What feeling do you have? I have no feeling about Javante Williams. I said this on FFT yesterday, I think. Every week, it feels like, man, this might be the Javante Williams week. And every week, we get to the end of the week, and Melvin Gordon had two more carries.

So I'm just going to keep treating them both like flexes. Gordon slightly ahead of Williams until it changes. And then the first week that it changes, I'll probably have Williams as a low-end number two running back. Yeah, you hope that they can have a lead in this game because in the first three games of the year against the Giants, the Jaguars and the Jets, those two guys

ran the ball a lot. The last two games, I believe both of them have had single-digit carries. It's been around nine. But have they lost each of the last two games? They lost to Pittsburgh, and I don't remember. Yeah, they lost to Drew Lockham. Right, right. So you like to see.

They want to run the ball. They want to run the ball. I think the thing for me that I like about Williams, he's got three catches each of the last three weeks. So he's being used in the passing game. Melvin Gordon's dealing with a couple of different injuries. He didn't practice on Wednesday, I think, with a hip injury. I think last week it was a knee injury. So he's being used in the passing game melvin gordon's dealing with a a couple of different injuries he didn't practice on wednesday i think with a hip injury i think last week it was a knee injury so he's not 100 and if williams keeps breaking away like he has eventually he's going

to find the end zone on one of these runs you know he should have scored against pittsburgh um he got tracked down from behind but a 31 yard carry i think was 49 yard carry against the steelers you know so the the the big play potential is there for him. And so all it takes is probably another three or four carries ahead of Melvin Gordon. And maybe he has a chance for a huge game. Okay. Cortland Sutton is a number two wide receiver.

Although am I wrong about that for you? Heath, do you have a much higher than that? I've got him as a high end number two. I had to pull back a little bit on the projections, but he's right around 13 or 14. Okay. We talked about him a little bit earlier.

If you want to hear about Cortland Sutton, go back to the 60-second rankings discussion segment. You can check the time codes always in the episode description. Time codes are approximate, probably within 30 to 60 seconds of the actual time. And Noah Fant, he's top 10. Dave's really high on him as in top 6. You guys have him closer to 10.

Schultz and Knox and Henry and Ertz, they're ahead of Noah Fant. How about Kosicki or Noah Fant? Fant and non-PPR, Kosicki and PPR for me. But they're close. I don't think there's much difference. Yeah, this is the first time I've really thought about this question, and so no offense over Mike Kosicki.

I'll make the change. All right, great. I'm happy to help. Denver's DST is top four. Stardom. Chargers at Ravens. Oh, you forgot a guy. Tim Patrick has been playing really well.

Oh, sorry. You were right. I did forget Tim Patrick. 12 or more PPR points in every game but one. The one game he didn't was when Drew Locke came in for Bridgewater. So, you know, it's almost like what Heath was saying. Like, you know, what games do we throw out for this Broncos passing attack? You know, he even had that with Judy playing.

So Patrick, I think, is a very safe fill-in wide receiver that you can still find in some leagues. And just getting the job done. I didn't know this, but I looked last year. fill-in wide receiver that you can still find in some leagues and just getting the job done uh i was uh i didn't know this um but i looked last year he had no drops he had the most targets with no drops of any wide receiver last season um so he's he's reliable and productive and we'll see what happens when when judy comes back but for this particular week you know we'll see like you said adam if this past defense is good but But Tim Patrick is a good number three wide receiver

for people that are struggling to find some replacement options and good flex play also. Chargers are at the Ravens. Are there any players that are obvious starts that you have any fears about? That would be the two quarterbacks, three wide receivers, and Eckler, I guess, and Andrews. Any players here that we're nervous about?

No. Heath doesn't do the like him, don't love him segment that we do on HQ on Friday of guys that were starting blindly, basically, but have some trepidation because of the matchup. Marquise Brown would be that guy for me this week just because the Chargers defense has been so good

against opposing receivers. But you can't get away from Marquise Brown at this point. Originally, when I did my rankings, he was closer to 20. I'm like, what am I doing? He's just been so good. But they've been so good against opposing receivers. And we'll see if they can keep him in check and keep him out of the end zone.

So it'll be a good test. Yeah, both of these teams. Both of these teams faced Tyreek Hill and did really well against them. Baltimore, only one wide receiver has scored more than 14 PPR fantasy points against the Ravens, and that was Michael Pittman last week,

who was, I don't want to say lucky, but had, you know, that big play. You can't necessarily rely on that. They've been really good against wide receivers. Tyreek Hill had 14 yards. But they were picking on, I forget the cornerback. Avent or something? Yeah.

Averitt, I don't remember, something like that. Yes, him. Tyreek Hill had 14 yards against Baltimore. Cortland Sutton had 47 yards. So they've done well against number one. It's also like, you know, we can't sit here and say, Sutton, you got to throw out that game for him. You got to throw out that game for the Ravens secondary also

because that was Drew Locke. It wasn't entirely Drew Locke, though. Well, I mean, it was Bridgewater not getting a full game. Yeah, fair. And then as far as the Chargers go, I mean, look at the wide receivers they've faced. McLaurin, the Cowboys, the Chiefs, the Raiders, the Browns, and they've been really good.

So, okay. These guys are starting. I mean, Keenan Allen, people might be frustrated with Keenan Allen. You have total faith in him this game? Total faith. Yeah, like, you're not starting Pittman over him. You have total faith in him this game? Total faith. Yeah, like you're not starting Pittman over him. You're not starting Tony over him yet. At least you shouldn't. I'm not starting to Patrick over him.

You know, like, yes. Okay. There's going to be big games coming. Yeah, I don't really even know why people are questioning Keenan Allen. I agree with you, but I mean, no, I don't agree with that entirely. I understand why they are questioning him. I think we all consider Keenan Allen to be a great buy low, but I understand the concerns because he's never been the number two wide receiver, you know, and people see him. I understand, but just just like generally speaking it's when this happens

it's we take a guy who was drafted in round three or something and he's had a really bad season and we're like man can we keep like aj brown can we keep trusting aj brown keenan allen has had a couple of monster performances i think he scored at least 20 fantasy points or 19, 14, 20, 10, and 13. Or his PPR totals. Even if it's not what you paid for, that's a must-start wide receiver. That is what we paid for.

What more do you expect? If you're in half PPR or non-PPR... In half or non-PPR, it's a different story. Yes. Plus, he had 100 yards in each of his first two games. He's had 50, 36, and 75 in his last three. So it's recency bias.

This has always been the problem with him is he's a format guy. So he'll give you good games in non-PPR. He'll give you better games in half PPR. He's going to give you

great games in PPR because that's the type of player that he is. Are there any tight ends that you would have picked up off waivers that you'd start over Jared Cook this week? Like a Dan Arnold? Zach Ertz, Hunter Henry. Yeah, Ertz and Henry.

And I would consider Dan Arnold too, to be honest with you. Arnold as well. Okay. Then that's pretty much it. And you should pick up, again, like what I said about Fryermuth, if you have a deep league, pick up Donald Parham. He's starting to play more. He scored in two straight.

And I think at some point there may be a switch coming. Yeah, and I think if you are in a shallower league, because I'm guessing he's rostered in deeper leagues, and you have a roster spot, maybe take a look at Rashad Bateman. 25% rostered. Sammy Watkins getting about eight targets 7-8 targets a game 7-8 in each of his first 4 games and then he left the 5th one with an injury

but Bateman's an option there Ravens running backs avoid? yes 2 more games Miami at Jacksonville Jacksonville is allowed 100 yards to five wide receivers. Real quick on the Chargers. Do we think that Kelly's now the guy behind Eckler of the rotation?

I think they're still searching for the guy. They would like for one of them to. Maybe Kelly's taking it, but I think Kelly could lose it next week. Jackson was hurt last week, right? He was inactive. Right, but wasn't this Kelly's first game being active? But is that because of Jackson being inactive? I don't know.

I think it's probably. I don't know that this is the best running back handcuff. It's probably, you know, it's a share. It's a timeshare, right? Yeah, you would like to see one of the three guys emerge because, God forbid, something happens to Eckler.

You'd like to see who's going to be their trusted option. The thing that's different with them this year from past years is Anthony Lynn's not there. And so there's not a second guy that's getting 10 touches. That's true.

Like Josh Kelly got two carries last week. All right, let's go to Miami and Jacksonville here because we have to. Which quarterback do you like better? Mark. Tua if he plays. We'll do this as if Tua's playing.

It seems like he will. You'd go with Tua? I would go with Tua. Gaskin, we have discussed a plenty. What about Waddle or Parker if he plays? I would consider Waddle a number three receiver. If Parker is out, if Parker plays, I would avoid both.

I would consider Waddle a number three receiver regardless, and Parker a number three if he plays. Mike Kosicki is top 10. A little disappointing last week, but in terms of started fantasy points, he was probably top 10. Just saying. Jacksonville allows

the six most fantasy points to tight ends. That's guys like Farrell Brown had a good game. CJ Uzama had a huge game. Michael Pruitt caught a touchdown last week. Over to the Jaguars side, Lawrence is actually 14th for Dave and Jamie, or close to that. And he does not have him in the top 24. You can look at the overall numbers for the Dolphins, and they look like a bad defense.

I would say they were a below-average defense before the Bucs game. Their numbers look a lot worse because of what brady just did just at my yeah they they gave up 17 fantasy points in week one then 20 to josh allen then 25 to derrick carr in overtime then 21 to carson wince right and then the rushing touchdown that got taken away from him because he slid too soon. That is true. That did happen to Josh.

I don't, I don't think that for me, the dolphins are not one of the matchups that matter. Like, I think they're just average, maybe mediocre, but they have allowed the most pass plays of 20 plus yards. So that is something to keep an eye on.

Uh, and, and that was even before keep an eye on. And, and that was even before the paid, the bucks game. They were very high there too. So they're giving up some big plays. With that said, you obviously we're going to start James Robinson.

He's top 10 in both formats. Who, I guess who's the best wide receiver in this game? Marvin Jones. What? What? Who's the second best? Wow. Marvin Jones. Waddle. Who's the second best? Waddle.

Marvin Jones. Okay. So we've got the same top two, Marvin Jones and Waddle. I'm trying to think. A.J. Brown or a receiver in this game? No, A.J. Brown. A.J. Brown. Okay.

Dan Arnold or Evan Ingram? Arnold. Arnold. Dan Arnold or... Now, just like there's nothing. You said it. It's Cook. Yeah, right. It's Jared Cook. I still start Higby over Arnold.

I would start Ertz over Arnold. You like a DST in this game? The Dolphins. Yeah, I like the Dolphins more than Jacksonville. Okay. Yeah, almost every team's been really good against Jacksonville, but Bengals on that Thursday night, the only exception there.

Houston was good against the Jaguars. Tennessee's DST was good against the Jaguars. And that brings us to Houston and Indianapolis. Stat of the game. I doubt this matters, but I'll give it to you anyway. The Texans allow the most fantasy points to tight ends. And they haven't faced great tight ends either. They faced Knox.

They faced Henry. Tommy Trimble had a rushing touchdown. Chris Manhurts had a touchdown. I don't know. Mo'Ally Cox has not been a complete non-factor. Is he something? Do you have him ranked in the top 15? He's a touchdown

or bust guy. I like that he had 50 yards receiving last week. So, trending in the right direction. But, we know what Mo Alleycox does. He has a good game and then he disappears for a month. Yeah, like they have three tight ends that they're throwing the ball to, and Cox will probably be the best,

but I wouldn't be that surprised if any of the three guys leads the Colts tight ends. I'm not starting a Colts tight end. The only Texan that people are going to start is Brandon Cooks. Like him or love him this week? I like him a lot. Yeah? I like him a lot. Yeah, I like him a lot. The Colts are giving up

a 9.8% touchdown rate. Their past defense has been just dreadful. Alright, so that's Cooks. Start him. Carson Wentz is in that streaming category. I think, Heath, you have him 12th or did you drop him? He's 12th or 13th. Yeah,. Start him. Carson Wentz is in that streaming category. I think Heath, you have him 12th or did you drop him? He's 12th or 13th. Yeah, I like him.

Okay. A little bit better the last couple weeks and worth starting over Derek Carr. Worth starting over Tannehill. Tannehill and what about Sam Darnold or Sam Darnold against Minnesota or

sorry, what the hell's his name Carson Wentz yeah I go Wentz for sure the only reason I would stick with Darnold is like I feel like this could be a game where they just run all over the Texans oh yeah yep so start Taylor what about Naeem Hines

no not the game script for him there is no game script for him it's so weird. You know what? His week one was against Seattle, and Seattle, that's what they're so bad at, passing game running backs, defending them. And other than that, he's had one good game.

So people are going to lose faith in Hines, certainly. Michael Pittman is a number two slash, no, call him a low-end number two wide receiver. Top 25 in full PPR and six to eight catches in four straight games. That's just a tremendous floor right there. Pittman's a start, and that's basically it. We've actually talked a lot about Pittman.

Cool. Anything else from this game? Hilton would be a number three receiver if he returns. Colts DST. Start them. Start them. Start them. Yeah. This is a pretty good week for streaming DSTs, you know?

You got the Dolphins and the Steelers in some leagues. You got the Colts. You got the Bengals. Packers. Good week. Enjoy it. Thanks to Heath and Jamie we will talk to you

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