Fantasy Footballers - Fantasy Football Podcast - Starts of the Week + Week 7 Breakdown, Weather Worries - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/16

Episode Date: October 16, 2025

Fantasy Football show for Oct 16, 2025. It’s football time! Matchup previews and Week 7 start/sit decisions on today’s episode! Plus, Starts of the Week, injury updates, and more! Get prepped and set your fantasy football lineups for Week 7. Manage your redraft, keeper, and dynasty fantasy football teams with the #1 fantasy football podcast.(00:00) Intro(02:25) NFL News(09:10) Starts of the Week(09:45) QB Starts of the Week(13:20) RB Starts of the Week(21:45) WR Starts of the Week(22:05) TE Starts of the Week(27:20) Fantasy Forecast(29:15) Rams at Jaguars(35:50) Saints at Bears(38:00) Dolphins at Browns(41:50) Patriots at Titans(47:50) Raiders at Chiefs(53:10) Eagles at Vikings(01:01:20) Panthers at JetsConnect with the show:Subscribe on YouTubeVisit us on the WebSupport the ShowFollow on XFollow on InstagramJoin our Discord Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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We'll jump right in. It's a busy show. We've got matchups. We've got starts of the week. And we got news. News and notes from Around the League, presented by progressive insurance. Well, Brock Bauer's not practicing. He seems all but seven days out for this week.

And then Jacobi Myers, knee and toe. His head and shoulders are fine. It's okay, maybe. He didn't practice. There's a lot of rumors going around right now of, you know, trade rumors for Jacobi Myers. So when you didn't know a guy was injured And then there's a lot of seemingly A lot of smoke

Let's throw a bunch of things in there We got the knees, we've got the toes Yeah, so You don't want to overdo it You don't want to be like Oh man, he's so hurt And then the trade partner's like, wait a minute Yeah, this is that hurt

What about his head and shoulders? The team is saying they don't want to trade So we'll see Yeah, we'll see what happens DJ Moore They should, he's doing nothing for them did not participate in the walkthrough the Jacoby stuff is so weird

like how he's not producing? Yeah, how did I think it's more Gino and he didn't want to be there to start the season so there's got he wanted money yeah I mean he asked for a trade so yeah I know he's in the last year of his contract he knows his future's not there

he has to be traded they said no he's playing but they're not going to build a new offense around him I mean that's not going to happen when you're not part of their future Yeah, he's in the last year of his deal. So he's just trying to get some more guaranteed money. Darnell Mooney Limited on Wednesday, 49ers. Most of them don't practice anymore.

Ricky Pearce. Most of them don't play anymore. Joanne Jennings. George Kittle Limited. Jennings Limited. Purdy Limited. So the Kittle and Purdy Limited, those are good news. You know, those aren't players that have been playing that now are missing practice.

Those are players back in practice. I was looking into this yesterday, Marvin Harrison, Jr., who left early with a concussion. on Sunday. He was technically limited. He would need to practice on Friday. I think if he practiced on Friday in full, we could feel good about him playing this week. Kyler Murray Limited. We'll see if he misses another week or not. Josh Downs. This is a bit of a... Yeah. Is it an actual concussion? Yeah, it was a concussion and it was after the game. I think it was something in practice. So this makes it... Oh, that means he's probably going to miss. Very likely he misses the game.

And he was sort of a waiver pickup. Puka Nakua officially did not practice on Wednesday with the ankle injury. He was also considered a long shot for the week. Chuba Hubbard Limited. Dave Canales said on RICO Dattle, he's earned the right to help this team and we'll find a way for him to do that. 50-50 seems to likely... That's better than we'll see. I'm really curious.

Do you think Chuba plays this week? Do you think he's back right now? Because we've been talking about what do we do when Chuba comes back with Rico Dowdle, but there's a chance is just doubtle again and then obviously you play him and if Chuba comes back do you feel like they give him a full allotment if he's recovering you know is it 7525

for a couple weeks there's questions there I think I'm playing Rico no matter like if you were going to play Rico I'm playing him as usual like you might have a lower ceiling of Truba tuba is active but I can't I can't imagine with the

calf injury that he has been recovering from that he goes right back into a ton of carries. Terry McCorrin, limited at practice. Could be back. Good news for Jaden Daniels if he gets back out on the field. They need him.

Especially if Debo is really dealing with the heel injury, which, you know, the first week he was dealing with it, he still produced, had that late fourth down touchdown that nobody expected. But last week, not productive for the first time in a while, he could be hurting. And then it's all of a sudden it's like, if both of them didn't go, Luke McCaffrey, Jalen Lane, Zach Hertz, C.D. Lamb, limited on Wednesdays.

Yeah, baby. Practice. Mike, very excited for Kettle to return. You're very excited for C.D. Lamb to return? False. Okay. I'm very excited for both because my Dino Squad has C.D. Lam. And false.

I am very excited for both because George Kittle is a my guy that I really want to succeed. Everyone's excited. Yeah, this is just good news to have these two guys back. Trade offer. Here's a question for you. Would you rather have Citi Lamb or Gibbs and Flowers? Oh. Gibbs and flowers.

I've got to ask this one this morning. Or Cedee Lam. I'm curious because it's like Cedie Lamb seems like he's got the maximum super value right now on the return as well. I'm going to, I'm probably going to keep the Gibbs side. Jason's eyes got really big. Yeah, it's an interesting trade. I'm usually when you are near the same tier or in the same tier at running back and wide receiver, I'd rather have the stud running back over the stud wide receiver.

And then you add flowers. And then you add flowers. I think I'm on the Gibbs side. The question is just C.D. Lamb might be in the tippy top tier. He could. Yeah, yeah. Right now seems like he's in, he's kind of missing out on that, you know, CMC, Bejohn, Jonathan Taylor tier. I think Flowers is a by-low right now. I was going to say it. That was the next word out of my mouth. Zay Flowers should be a by-low with the return of Lamar Jackson.

Right now, he's just kind of faded into the mist, and then you have the history of not being as great of a player and fantasy-wise. and it's a time to get him. Yep. Mike Evans expected to practice Thursday. Okay, which is good because I mean that's injured in week three. That's like a Wednesday. They are the Monday night game. So this is a on schedule.

Yeah, they're expecting him to play. What's going to happen this week is he's either he's going to practice and play or he's going to have a setback. I don't think there's a world where he's practicing this week and then doesn't play off the hamstring. his hamstring always terrifies me for the setback but hopefully they've taken the right amount of time they may be feeling a little pressed

with no Ibuka and no Godwin so that scares me but don't press too hard no no Mike you take it easy you get back right you make sure Baker wins the MVP how's your hamstring Mike are all Mike's hamstrings somewhat correlated both of yeah we we have a hive hive hamstring yeah so how yours are good

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It's week seven and we're getting into the matchups today. We're getting into the matchups. We got some weather news to talk about as well that we'll need to What's that about? It's the way the world works, Mike. Get a roof. Get a retractable roof, you dummies.

It sounds very much like, get a room. Yeah, get a roof. Get a roof. All right, my starts of the week. We'll get into all of them. Mine are all bounce back candidates. of mine, a little bit of a encouragement, right?

We're so reactionary week to week. Jason's been pretty good at picking out these players that they have a down week and then they get it going. Ladd-McConkie, two straight great weeks. An example of that. Minor bounce back candidates and I'm starting with his quarterback. I'm going Justin Herbert

this week, bouncing back. He's not been very good. He's not been a top 10 quarterback since week, three. This is a dome showdown. Jason, you'll be happy. dome. They got a roof. Fantastic. Indianapolis, Daniel Jones, 48 and a half point over under. Chargers favored, and they remain a pass-heavy team, and they're going to continue to be without Hampton. It's not

that Vidal didn't do a good job, it's just that they need to lean on their best player, and it's Justin Herbert. Their third in pass rate over expectations, or expectation, and teams are chucking it against Indianapolis. They are 26th in terms of fancy points allowed to quarterbacks. It's a good matchup for him. All right, my quarterback's start of the week is Jared Garf. Ah, Jared Goff. You can start him in certain matchups when you want gargantuan outputs,

and this is one of those weeks. They are playing on Monday night football. I sure hope so, because we, like, we've been calling for the golf weeks, and it's really just one. You might have been caught. This is a golf week. This is a blow-up week. Monday night football against Baker, 52.5 point over under. There's a difficult team to run on with Vita Vaya there. You pretty much have to throw on the Buccaneers. And they're 26th and yards per attempt, 24th and scheduled justice fantasy points allowed to quarterbacks. This is at home in a dome, huge. Everything is lining up to be perfect. And usually what I love about golf, and maybe it's been a couple of weeks where it's not that way. But over the course of his career, Goff is predictable. Gov is like, you can be like, oh, yeah, this is this is a golf game and it works out well.

We've seen this with pretty much every game Tampa Bay has been in. Baker's going to do enough to get stuff done. Hopefully Mike Evans is there. And if he does, if he can score on the Lions enough, the Lions are going to have to throw the ball. So if I had Jared Goff, I can't imagine binging him this week. All right. I'm going right back to it, man. C.J. Stroud, off of the buy week.

I think he can be streamed yet again. Your name is what's your name? My name is Jason Moore. Whoa! No, I do. I like Stroud. It makes sense. You got it last time. Yeah. It's a lot easier when you're calling it against a Baltimore Ravens that is

playing Juko guys in their secondary. But last time we saw him, 244 and 4. He is completing 71% of his passes. He's also running a bit more, 3.6 rush attempts per game. You know, just a little tiny floor. Maybe there's a mistake. Okay, we're covered up by 15 to 20 rushing yards. And it's the matchup. Seattle is a good defense, but the way that teams have been scoring on them, or getting fantasy points, it's through the aired. Over the last month,

26th in passing yards allowed per game, and 25th and completion percentage allowed. And I mean, you're talking Arizona, Tampa Bay, and Jacksonville, all scoring above their expectations. So I think that Stroud is in play. All right. Last week, the big storyline, Quinshon Dudkins was one of the, oh, nice. The big, uh, Punday commonalities. Bounceback week. It's Miami, Quinn Sean Judkins. He was coming off three straight top 12 weeks. They fell flat. Oh, that's the wind. Yeah. You're not throwing there. That's not a very strong wind sound. It's, it's filtering it. This pop filter is doing a.

That's much better, Mike. It's not that art So this is the game that is red alert On the weather front Miami Cleveland This morning They said gusts of 50 to 60 miles an hour Which I don't believe

With sustained wins We're early but you got to pay attention Dealing Gabriel might blow away In those In those gusts But it's sustained 30 plus mile an hour Winds with rain Some sweet boomerang passes

I think Quinn Sean Judkins alone in this matchup, whether notwithstanding would be a great bounce back because the Dolphins rush defense might be the worst in the NFL. You don't care whether the weather is bad? I don't care whether the weather. Yeah, don't put a roof on it.

I don't care. Quintan Judkins is going to take care of business and I think they're giving up 130 plus yards a game to running backs. And Judkins is so good. Like, don't freak out. Like last week, I know it hurt and it's stunk and that's going to be part of being a part of a battle.

offense sometimes but let's go bounce back number two quenchon juggins i like it my start of the week this week is jalen warren tonight in the thursday night football matchup he came back off of an injury was involved quite a bit he had you know 53% of the snaps average 4.8 yards a touch looked great against a really tough brown's defense last week and now he plays against the bangles rush defense that they're in contention for the worst rush defense in the NFL 29th in rushing yards allowed per game, 30th in yards before contact allowed, and they're dead last in schedule-adjustive fantasy points allowed to running back. So whether it's on the ground or through the air, Jalen Warren is in a great spot tonight. How can he possibly hit a ceiling? Knowing that

Caleb Johnson is going to siphon all that work. Caleb Johnson is going to have one drive-killing touchdown run, but the rest will be. The rest is okay. And that's part of why I wanted to make Jailen Warren my start of the week is so that people know. To repent for your... Not to repent. So that they know, like, Jalen Warren's the dude there, obviously. He has been playing great ball. He's the one that Aaron Rogers trust. He's the one that Mike Tomlin trusts right now.

It's never too late to repent, though. He's doing... It's never too late to repent. I love that advice. I can always... I'm not going to repent of my Caleb Johnson love. Not yet. Okay, we'll talk to you tomorrow. Yeah. Jordan Mason versus Philadelphia. If Caleb Johnson fumbles, it's the

funniest thing that has never happened. The best news is here. We're set up for success. If Caleb Johnson does nothing, great, don't come me. If Caleb Johnson gets that touchdown, fantastic. Oh, you're going to dunk all over. You're darn right. From half court. I'm going with Jordan Mason against the Philadelphia Eagles. It's a buy week. You always love that.

Guys getting a little bit healthier right now. Jordan Mason's at 31% of the team's total rush attempts and targets his workhorse percentage. Anything over 30% is elite. and I know Carter being out last week certainly helped Camp Scadaboo but it's just the Eagles right now are looking like a run funnel defense 26th and rushing yards allowed

31st in percent of run stuffed at the line of scrimmage like guys are getting going if Jordan Mason is not getting he's one of these guys if you're not stuffing him at the line he's going to start ripping off chunk yardage he's going to be hitting big play so I like Jordan Mason a lot bounce back number three

he was Cortland nothing last week traveling all the way overseas for one reception and 17 yards on just three targets but I'm taking Cortland Sutton to bounce back against the New York football giants who were now excited to watch play football with Jackson Dart and Cam Scataboo but I'm taking Cortland Sutton he had been a top 20 wide receiver in four of the first five weeks he is the go-to receiver for Bo Nix if Bo Nix is going to get it going it's going to happen with Cortland Sutton and the Giants or 26th and schedule adjusted fantasy points to wide receivers. Trust in Cortland Sutton this week.

What's going on, Jason, you are, are we pausing the starts of the week for a second? Yeah, we're pausing. What happened? Why's that? We're pausing. Why is that? Why is that? What did the trade happen? Yeah, trade happened.

Oh, oh, no. I don't even, I don't have. I got a breaking news. We'll go. What? Breaking news. Woo, baby! All right, this sucks.

Yes, sir. Oh, no. Yes, sir. Mike's team is very, very good. Mike and Josh are the two leaders in the league of record. Jeremy, you're a gentleman. And Jeremy, pleasure doing business. Also, part of the trade agreement.

Jeremy, I'm going to slap you across the face. Brian Ketran, you're an awesome dude. Oh, that was part of it. Oh, that's funny. That's part of the trade agreement. I think that's how we got to go through. Mike is sending away an injured Garrett Wilson and an R.J. Harvey, two young, good players, and his second round.

He finally strikes. Which is the biggest ammunition we have in our league. And he's receiving Justin Jefferson and a later pick back. Two, like, I mean, Gary Wilson, great keeper. Obviously, he's going to miss a couple of weeks. And Harvey, I think, is a, in our format, a very good keeper. Yeah. I understand it from both sides.

I don't like it from my side. There is a arms race at the top of our league right now. This side of here. Wow. Okay. Did you pull that? reference, Jeremy? Oh, I thought you.

Okay. I was like, it was really short. That was a follow-up boy. I was about to talk about my wide receiver start of the week, which is not Justin Jefferson. It is Rushi Rice right off of suspending mind. Can we talk about Rushie Rice is ridiculous? Hype video? Ridiculous hype video for multiple reasons.

Okay. Let's talk. One, what you're returning from. Yes. Was there an injury? Are you battling back from a tough rehab? Yeah. Or a felony.

Which one? Which one is it? I think it was two felonies. And then the second part is to use a customized logo in the Rashi Rice return. Oh, well. In the video itself. Oh, is that the return? Yeah.

It's the return because he's a Rashi Rice. Go on. Anyways, look, according to that video, he has been. I can't wait to see Deshaun Watson's hype return video. Oh, man. Justin Tucker, where's Justin Tucker's video? All right. Rushy Rice, he's been working out like crazy according to that video.

LJ Simpson coming back. You know, ESPN's Jeremy Fowler reported that the chiefs are going to allocate a heavy workload to Rice as soon as possible. Because he is coming off of a suspension and not an injury, there's no, you know, ramp up, no getting healthy, no worry about, you know, those type of things. And, you know, the match up here is perfect. The Raiders are running an absurd amount of zone. They're running cover three or cover four at 62% of the time. That's the second highest in the NFL. Last year in those games we saw Rice dominate, he was targeted on four.

43% of his routes versus those coverage. So we've had a lot of questions already this week of like, do I wait and see with Rushy Rice? And this is, I'm making it my start of the week because it's like, no, you don't wait and see. You've waited to see, but you want to see him in your lineup. I'm putting them in my lineup. Immediately.

Any wide receiver can dud. You've got to just, you have waited long enough. Most likely you are not a 6 and 0 team. You are 2 and 4 and been waiting. And so now's the time. Plug them in your lineup. Get what you're going to get. And I think you're going to be thrilled with it.

And, I mean, probably a puff piece, but yesterday it was like, Chiefs immediately going to heavy workload for Rishie Rice. So I'm very excited for it. I kind of snuck it in, I think on Monday, it was like, oh, you know what, D.K. McCaff, I'm really liking the position that he's in. He's taking on Cincinnati. It's tonight. Touchdown in four straight games. No one on that team can handle his physicality since he's 30th and schedule adjusted points to the wide receiver. position. I mean, honestly, the

Bengals are that team where you could put anyone in, but when you have top tier players like D.K. Metcalfe, and maybe you don't think of Jalen Warren as a top tier guy, but he might be turning into one, and just all Steelers tonight, I'm pretty excited. When it

comes to the Trey Hendrickson injury, that favors D.K. Metcalf way more than Jalen Warren, because they'll replace him with someone that might be better at stuff in the run, but if you give Aaron Rogers time to throw, he's going to find met cow my final bounce back start of the week it's a b ounce back for what for mason taylor that's good uh it's carolina it's mason taylor it's no garret wilson it's probably no josh reynolds

it's an 18% target share in the season it's a throw the last one out because they didn't throw at all it's a meow mix start of the week mason taylor bouncing back against carolina and oh yeah the Panthers are the worst in the league against that position. Let's put that on social media. Andy Holloway, start of the week, Mason Taylor. There you go. All right. This is like my Rushdie Rice coming straight off of suspension.

I'm throwing George Kittle in the lineup. What is this hype video? Straight off the injury. He didn't have a double felony. So you only really hype up those coming off of, you know. Make sure that he's going to play. Yeah, I mean, obviously you're going to play. Is this whether he plays or not, you're still starting him?

One of those? You know what? I'm going to be so bold as to say yes. Okay. Whether he plays or not, I'm starting him. George Kittle. Sunday night with a Tanges Mick backup. Yes. Yes.

Nice. Yeah. Tongis Mick backup on the Sunday night game, you'll be fine. I expect George Kittle to play. And I don't care if the matchup is good, if the matchup is bad. Right now, like Atlanta looks great against tight ends. They haven't faced anyone elite. It doesn't matter.

George Kittle is going to finish this season as the tight end won in points per game. They need him so bad. And in his splits with Brock Purdy, who looks like he might be trending to play, you know, he's averaging 12.6 fantasy points per game and 66 receiving yards a game over three years. It's not a small sample size. So Kittle, right, right to my lineup. Brooksie makes a great point here.

A.J. Barner plays on Monday night. Should Jake Tonjesman basketball not be there? AJ Barner is a fine pick up and play. Should you be waiting? George Skiddle, yeah. My start of the week, I had this in before. I got alerted to a weather situation. This might be the one most okay. Yeah, actually. It could still work. Harold Fannin Jr. against the Miami Dolphins. Look, David Najoku seems like he might miss. And might be traded. Oh, I have not seen those.

There's trade rumors for David Njoku right now. Even more of a reason to go pick up fan. Absolutely. If he doesn't have to split any of that. that tight-end pie, then he should be seeing a bunch of targets. But I like him this week. Miami's tied for the fourth, allowing the fourth-most receptions to the tight-end position. With Najoku, he's on pace for over 105 targets on the year. Harold Fanon, and the average up the target for him with Dylan Gabriel.

I mean, he passed it 52 times. I think there were three that went 10 more yards. He's built for wind games. Right. I mean, they use him short. These aren't deep routes. So even if it's, if you get to Sunday and it's windy, but it's not these catastrophic healthscape of winds, then you're probably, you're going to be fine. It is really worth noting. Like, you have to tune in to Sunday live with Mike an hour before kickoff because when we're talking on a Thursday, when we're talking on a Thursday about the weather, it can look catastrophic and it can really be okay. And it can be the opposite. There could be a different game where it's like, oh, Chicago looks okay. And then, you know, it turns out there.

Yeah, Chicago is on the... They're on the radar of caution. Man, nothing I like talking about more than weather. Yeah. It's what makes fantasy fun. It's what makes the NFL fun. It's what makes it a real man's game. If you put a roof on everyone, we cannot have some games forecasted with a tornado like we do this week.

Do you realize that? I do. I do. I did not. It is a... No, that's the tornado. Oh, okay. I would actually say a tornado, even with a roof, is a... pretty big problem. That's fair. That's fair. Yeah, the roof is not really going to stop the tornado.

The roof might be a bigger problem, to be honest. Oh, great idea. Sub-terrain stadiums. Oh, you guys would love that. Dig deep. Why don't even put the lights on? Well, no. How are you going to see? We can put electricity down. That's not out of the realm of comp. Why would you say something so stupid? Why would you say something so stupid? I don't like bad weather. I like some weather. I like the open skies. Yeah. Well, I mean, we are team retractable roof. It's just easier say team don't. Yeah, but Yeah, retractable roof is where it's at. Yeah. If you're going to push, I'm going underground. Yeah, I will too. I will too. I'll be there with you.

But the lights on, Mike. It would be the world's most expensive stadium? Stadium ever built. Yeah, because that's a, that's called a hard dig. Yeah. Oh, you hit that Kalichi. All right. That was going to tell you it's not there. And then you're going to, we know rocks. That's an Arizona joke. That was starts of the week, presented

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Let's talk about it. Fantasy Forecast, presented by prize picks. Texans and Vikings coming back off the by, Bills and Ravens going to the buy. Lamar Jackson getting healthy. Hopefully the bill's defense as well. I do want to pan over to Ducer's Alley for a moment. I know Al's probably hard at work over there, but I need a first reaction. You've had Justin Jefferson for a while.

He was part of your championship team last year. He's Justin Jefferson. Yes, sir. First few moments knowing he's not a member of your team. How does that feel? Do you feel settled? Are you comfortable with this trade? No.

I think it was fine But it sounds like you don't really Like that you traded Justin Jefferson To a potential champion I can see it going both ways So I'm just gonna hang out here on the fence Well you see you're the You were half of it

Yeah Do you, I mean he's not Was he gonna be your franchise player? He was And now? Gary Wilson will be Okay Oh man

For it too Kyron Harvey and McBride Will be my keepers Yeah So he's got another guy for his lot now, though. That is correct. That was part of it. I only had a franchise and two keepers prior to this trade, and so now it filled out my keeper situation. Man, I can't believe you got that. Mike is dangerous. Mike is

dangerous. He acted like yesterday. He was just like, oh, everybody's trading their two's away, their threes away, and I'm feeling really good, even if things go bad. I don't have, you know, I get to the trade deadline. I got all my picks. I got the trade deadline and then he struck. Like a tornado at a football game. If you didn't get Justin Jefferson, for a two, you strike because you can't usually get that done. Let's go to London. Again, the Rams, 4 and 2, Jacksonville, 4 and 2.

Jacksonville just basically lives in London every year. Vegas line, Los Angeles, minus 3 over unders, 44 and a half. Jacksonville lost last week. The Rams lost Pooka Nakua last week. The start sitting this game does feel fairly

straightforward. I guess the debates are around some of the peripheral flex options. Brian Thomas had the big bounce back last week. Almost had two touchdowns. Still went eight for 90 and one. Devante Adams and Brian Thomas locks, right? Kyron Williams, he's a lock.

Yeah. And you have Blake Corum did not practice on Wednesday with an ankle injury. I mean, it's six opportunities per game, but if Kyron gets four more... Yeah, I mean, we've seen Kyron last year get 90% snaps. He can do it. Yeah, he can do it

and he'll be great doing that. This is not been an easy team to run on on both sides of the ball here. You got Travis E.T.N. and Blake Corum, who are looking like true war courses for their teams. They have... Warcorses. War horse. Corum gets more touchdowns.

E.T.N. gets more passes. They're looking like war horses? No, that's... That's a Conan O'Brien joke. Clip-clop-clop-a-clop-clop-a-clop-clough. But neither one of these guys has an easy matchup here. So I'm not... I mean, Kairin is like locked in,

but I'm not very bullish on ETN in this matchup. I'm going to make a statement that I don't feel is very safe, but I do believe in. I think you want to trade for Travis Hunter. Wow. Okay. I didn't see that coming. I think that you're going to see it get a lot better,

a lot faster than you might imagine. He played 78% of snaps after a week of 67% of snaps, than 56 before that. Like the work is going up. Liam Cohen came out this week and he said, do ball. But he also said that he wanted to draw more first read plays for Travis Hunter. You got to understand this is an acclamation process.

This is a guy that they, I think, have tried to split the fence on. But when you don't get the practice time you need sufficiently on one side of the football, I do expect it to come along slower. You saw the big play two weeks ago. Last week wasn't good, but the snap counts went up. The targets went up, and it's what I believe. I just believe that Travis Hunter might become a bona fide flex play every week. I would, the question for that, then, Andy, is this week he plays the Rams.

They are currently eighth against fantasy-wide receiver. So the matchup is already really tough. Next week is the buy week for Jacksonville. I can definitely see after the bye week, Travis. Hunter really seeing it up. And maybe that's your moment. So I just worry about the big game coming. He's probably dirt cheap right now, but after this week, if he has another dot and then

has the buy week, he'll be on the way to water. I was just going to say, if he has a bad week this week, he will be dropped by everybody because they don't want to hold a guy who is currently on pace for 500 yards, you know, has not had a single decent game and then is going into a buy. You're going to drop him. But that might be the right time to scoop him up. So the replacement guys over here on... He made one big catch that won a matchup for Jason over me.

Thank you, Travis Hunter. Yeah. Thank you, Andy, for trading me, Travis Hunter. The replacement guys of Jordan Whittington, who played 92% of the snaps, Tutu Atwell, was limited with the hamstring, but we know that Tutu... Tutu has just made so much money in the NFL, and he keeps sticking around on the Rams.

And honestly, when they find themselves depleted... He's one touch, man. Tutu one touch Tutu just he can show up So are you You have Tutu and Tootin in the same game Is that right? That's a lot of Tuts

Tutu Tootin That just seems like the kind of thing we'd focus on But so it like the Ram or I'm sorry The Jags are You have to beat them through the air Do you have any interest in the replacement of Whittington or Tuton or Tudu Do you feel strong about one or the other

Whittington is the one that I would definitely play over Tutu Tutu you're waiting for a bigger play I think Whittington, you're going to see almost 100% of the snaps. So it's what... Yes, you should. You know, that is, to me, very interesting. Yeah, Wittington should be okay.

I do have like the little worries in the back of the mind of just being this London international game that so often produces a dud overall. But Whittington would be the guy ahead of Atwell for me. New Orleans, one in five, taking on the above 500 at this point in the season for the first time in a while or so it seems. but we'll see if it keeps going. Chicago Bears, who are three and two, the Vegas line, Chicago minus four and a half, the overrunners 46 and a half. The Dennis Allen revenge game

we've been waiting for. You get the defensive coordinator of the Bears who was the former head coach of the Saints who Jason loved, just loved him. I just thought he was a really solid head coach who built up his team and wasn't just, you know. Like demoralizing them?

Oh, man. I don't know if you ever hit one of them. Kendrae Miller. Oh, Kendra Miller will be playing with the fire of a thousand sons. Yeah, yeah. Oh, man. So this is true revenge for Kendra. It is worth noting.

I know we talked a lot about the game in Cleveland with the dolphins and the Browns being a bad wind and a bad weather game. Potentially, this is another one that has the potential to be 20 mile an hour winds, you know, rain. Right now it's projecting. just before the game, but this could be a bad weather game, which when those wins get above 15 miles an hour, especially if they're above 20, that's where you see more work going to the running game and less work in the passing game. Caleb Williams is the quarterback seven so far in fantasy points per game. DeAndre Swift had the Monster Week last week, 14 for 108.

You had Roma Dunzee, who he had his first kind of down week, had the touchdown called back. You know, you're kind of on lookout for what's going on with DJ more this week. Does that give Luther Burden more opportunities in the offense, who is still running behind Mr. Zakias in snaps and routes? I have this simultaneous, like, will it, won't it happen with Luther Burden? Sometimes I want to believe the DJ more injury could lead to more work. He's a really good player that I like. It's just a matter of how consistent it could be for Luther Burden.

I think I'm very hopeful. I'm optimistic here for Luther Burden to get it going on the second half of the season. Chris Oliva was limited. Alvin Camara limited. Or actually he didn't practice on Wednesday, but that's Alvin Camara. Chris Olavet limited on Wednesday with a hip injury. He is leading all wide receivers in expected fantasy points per game. Expected fantasy points per game, eh, whatever.

That's kind of a product of the offense. I need actual. So Joanne Johnson, we're kind of done there. Colston Loveland, just keep an eye on him, but he, you know, he finally overtook Komet and routes. He's getting healthier. Are there questions on this start-s-it situation here in this game? I mean, the question is, it's just based off of bi-weeks and injuries,

is Kendrae Miller playable? I mean, the Bears, you can beat them on the ground. He has seen 39% of the snaps the past two weeks. He can be a DFS dart throw because you don't expect people. people to play him and whatnot and he'll be he'll be cheap but I can't imagine in most leagues that you're going to put someone in not getting enough work I mean the matchup is there and the revenge is there and all that so you you can see kind of the narrative for it happening but throwing him into a starting lineup right now it feels like you've got to have more options

guaranteed for opportunities so I tried to take advantage of Mike's trading mood during the show yeah what you and I sent him an offer I thought it was a good one it was it was I countered. I had to push back a little. He did counter it. It was, it was, I'm thinking about it. I get remandre. Yeah. And Andy gets a third round pick. Yeah. Oh. I countered with, I get remandre and the remainder of Andy's fab, and he doesn't get anything. Ah, so. But I'm considering, to be honest, it seems

maybe reasonable. Gotcha. So for him to be allowed to release Ramondre. Yes. You must pay me. He's got to give you Fab. So I'll put him on my roster. Doing some live trading here on the show. Miami, Cleveland. Cleveland. The wind will howl in Cleveland, both one and five teams. So the wind is already howling in the locker rooms for these two franchises. You had two come and apologize for all of his comments from last week. Kyle was very fascinated to find out this is the first time in 19 years that two left-handed quarterbacks will start in NFL games with each other.

Oh, what? Great news. Jason finds left-handed throwing gross. So ugly. I got great news. If they're both left-handed, you can just watch this game in a mirror. I will do that. And everything is okay. That's great, man. Thank you. Because if just one of them is, then you've got to keep switching off.

Yeah, I'm just switching teams. Just watch backwards. No, that's great, man. Thank you. I don't like it. It shouldn't be allowed. Why does it weird you out? You're left-handed.

I know. That's the best part. Yeah. I mean, he's gross. Then you're gross. I am gross. It's just self-loathing left-hander. Yeah.

Dylan Gabriel, to a tongue of Iloho, the matchup, we never really wanted Cleveland minus two and a half favored at home. Overrunners just 39 and a half. I had shared this morning and I will go and find the direct quote so that I am. Yeah, Andy Slater had tweeted, they could have 50 to 60 mile an hour wind gusts. National Weather Service says this is a system worth keeping an eye on as a stronger storm may materialize. In the current forecast, 94% chance of rain, 36 mile an hour. 65 degrees so I don't know who that is the the sources that I usually look at are are not having it be that high but it certainly is I mean this is just you put the you put the red flag

up to make sure you come back and look at this that you're prepared for pivot options ready things change weather changes Devon Aitjant RB4 on the season he's been great Judkin's start of the week bounce back week in my opinion with the matchup the bigger question marks. You don't play pass catchers for Cleveland. You just don't do that unless it's Harold Fanon and the tight-in position is different and he could be fine.

Yeah, I agree. It makes it very, very easy. It's Judkins and a potential Fanon on the Cleveland side. Do you realize how many targets Jerry Judy got last week? What have we talked about these Cleveland Brown? No, no, I just want you to know the number. I don't know

the number. If you've asked Jason, it is... A thousand times. Targets don't matter. He turned 13 targets into 43 receiving guards. That's impressive work. I couldn't do that. Good grief, man. No, you couldn't. Yeah.

We have Darren Waller, four receiving touchdowns in three games. We're feeling, how are we feeling? So I have Darren Waller. I made that trade to acquire him as my attempt to fix my tight-end position. because of the weather and a good Cleveland Browns team I picked up Mousin Taylor your start of the week

and so I've got a real decision coming down that will probably not be made until Sunday as of right now Darren Waller's in the game if the you know if the weather goes really really bad that morning and it looks like wow it's going to be so hard to throw in this then I will pivot off of Darren Waller

and to comfort people out there with Darren Waller because it was only two for 12 he did have the touchdown so it wasn't horrifically bad but the snaps were up very nice so he would yeah he was at the 69 percentile of the snaps

so it's like he is still ramping up the ramp is endless no this ramp is it's a long ramp very comfortable to walk on this is not some yeah it's a smooth grade yeah the grade is no walking imperceivable a handrail not on this ramp

no no no you don't need it uh new england four and two The Titans, one in five Vegas line, New England, minus seven on the road. Overrunners, 42 and a half. Also have some rain and wind chance in this one. Mike McCoy taking over the Titans. Oh, boy. I really want Cam Ward to look better than he does.

But it doesn't look good. No, it does not look good. And so, you know, seven and a half point home favorites is where you end up with the way this offense is playing. You know, it's kind of getting messier, I think, in Tennessee because it's an offense you don't love, but now you have a backfield that is going to be shared. Tadje Spears played 59% of the snaps last week. Tony Pollard just 43%.

So now you have to split. Like Tony Pollard was at least this solid 10 points due to volume. Calvin Ridley didn't practice, not likely to play in this one. Maybe you start to pay attention to Chigaconko a little bit, but you can't trust this offense. No. I had brought up Alec Gio Manor, maybe he's the number one target, still not trustworthy. There are a lot of players on the other side of the ball. I'd feel way better playing, like Kashon Booty last week, who took advantage of the, you know,

Stefan Diggs kind of, you know, they played the slot really well, and Booty took advantage, scored twice. Would you play Booty? Would you play Sterling Shepard with no Abuca and no? I think I'd play, are you staying over Titans? No, no, no, no. I'm sorry. I'm saying Cashon Booty or Sterling Shepard. Shepard. Oh, okay, I got you. With no booty, no Godwin. Or sorry, no, Abuka, no Godwin. I'd be tracking the Mike Evans news. If Mike Evans,

let's see, if Mike Evans plays, what I play Shepard over Booty, I I know, I would chase the, I'd chase the fire. Give me three words, three words to describe your current feelings on Trayvion Henderson. Three words? situation, three words. Either of you can contribute to the pile.

Frustrated with talent. Frustrated with talent, so yours is more of a sentence. With was one of your words. Yeah. Mike, Vrable eat doo-doo. I had two other words.

I had two other words there. Hence the boss had to cycle through the roll of decks real quick. Romandre Stevenson led the team in or led his season high in snaps last week,

72%. The Titans are 30th against running backs this year. If you had to start Travian and Ramandre, you're playing Ramandre? With that snap count? Yeah, I think you have to right now. I mean, you have to pick one of them. You don't

have to. I just can't imagine playing someone that is getting in the 30% of snaps over the person playing 70% of snaps, even if the person behind him is more efficient, which they are. Also scored more fantasy points last week. I mean, who's going to get the opportunities if they're around the goal line? Ramondre probably.

Right. And so, yeah, I would play Ramondre over Trayvium. Both are difficult plays. I think I'd still play Henderson. You're going to get some value at the running back position against Tennessee Titans. I mean, they are down in the vast. the majority of their snaps the second half it doesn't matter if they've got a good defensive line or not which there's isn't the worst in the league but they get worn out the other team's

going to run a ton and when you run a ton that to me says it's a remandre game not a hinderson game now if it's a blowout i'm with you on that i think that that's what's going to i could see a world where if it's a blowout all of a sudden hey let's get henderson more work at the end but um you know I have personally, I took the first week coach bump against the spread, which at the time was seven and a half points. So I don't see it being a blowout. That's where I'm on the Ramandre side. All right.

You know, if you need a start, Hunter Henry is always someone you could take a look at, but it's not been great. He's the tight end nine on the season. If he catches a touchdown, you're happy, which is basically all the tight ends. But the matchup is not there. No. And Drake May, it's been great. Drake May is playing very, very well, completing seven.

73% of his pass is 20 plus yards down the field, which is wild because the league average is 40%. And you love that. You love that they can trust him to go down field. It's going to be a game that I think is not close. Yeah, May is currently the quarterback's six. He's been excellent. Yeah, he's one of the, you know, there were some names in the offseason, those later round picks that you were looking at saying, you know, you take the shot here and there, and he's been one that's worked out. So we'll take a break and we'll jump into some more matchups.

The Las Vegas Raiders at 2 and 4 take on the Kansas City Chiefs at 3 and 3. Something going on behind the scenes? Maybe. I just know Jason. Jason's just kind of. Are we still trading? Jason's just kind of got this look on his face. He's mentally working through some things.

I am. I don't know. Lock in, man. Ah, it's just. Remember yesterday when we thought something really dangerous was happening? And he's on his phone and we're like, is the family okay? He was just betting on Caleb Johnson to score a touchdown. Priorities matter, man.

Oh, it was great. It was great. Are we going to have to pause the show? Yeah, is everything all right? Yeah, we're, but he got the bet in. My family's okay right now. I think, I don't know. I haven't heard from him forever.

But that's probably a good sign, right? If you haven't heard anything forever. Yeah, no news is good news. No news is good news here, so. No news is good news. I can't find them. All right, the Raiders, two and four, the Chiefs, three and three, the Chiefs, 11.5 point favorites.

Overrunners, 45 and a half. In the games in which the Chiefs have been double-digit favorites, which is 29 times in the Mahomes era, they are 26 and 3, with two of those losses coming. against the Raiders. Divisional matchup. So do you want to get a quick bet in on the Raiders then?

Money line? No. No, thank you. I do believe I picked the Raiders to cover, but I certainly wouldn't put money on it. The Kansas City Chiefs have looked awesome. You know, they're getting Rushy Rice back. The defense is playing well. Mahomes is playing outstanding.

He's running the ball so much. He's obviously a must start right now. He's the quarterback one on the season. he's on pace for 4,300 yards passing, 32 passing touchdowns, and 630 rushing yards. Now, I am curious, and this will be telling, like, a lot of his rushing attempts come because I feel like he has nobody to throw the ball to on a lot of the plays. Yeah, seems like it. And now he's got Rushy Rice, so it's like, does this make the Chiefs better and Mahomes

worse for fantasy? Because instead of rushing yards, it's like, oh, you know, he would have Rushy yards instead of rushing yards? Yeah, exactly. Rushy yards are worth less. It's an interesting thought, and it might hold true. Although he is, you know, the passing touchdowns could go up, having more weapons. He's on pace for 4,300 yards right now. But he had never hit 400 in a season.

Wow, and he's on pace for 630. Wow. Rashi Rice, your start of the week. Where does that put the other guys in the receiving room? Worthy is still startable. The other guys, it will be. the ancillary one of them might do something nothing predictable I wouldn't be chasing it

Kelsey I think remains who he has been which is it's okay it's a decent tight end play the running backs I think are what's interesting here of with Riceback with an 11 and a half point being favored I think that they like Cream Hunt could be playable

of, you know, you've got to pick your spots here, but predicting game script can make you look like a buffoon a lot of the time. I don't think it will here. I think that the Chiefs are going to smoke the Raiders here, which could put Kareem Hunt in line for like a bunch of second half work

of just run out the clock. You have Ashton Jinty sitting at the RB11 on this season with a 19% target share of the last two weeks. That's what we need. Talk about what happened to Jacoby Myers. Well, you've got 20% of your targets going to the running back position now, and it's worth it for this team and this offense. Yeah, I mean, this is what you want to see. You know, we complained after three weeks and we as fantasy community with the utilization, the workload, what we've seen was deserved.

That was when we had Gentie as one of our trade for candidates. And since then, he's had 23 opportunities, 21 opportunities, 27 opportunities. He is necessary if this team wants to do anything. So he's obviously going to be started, but I think he will, should be very good, pretty much rest of the season. And bench the rest of the past catchers, right? No Jacoby, no Tucker, no bash, no Bowers is going to play. Correct. But what about mayor? Mayor is potential. Like, that could be a pivot if the weather is super bad elsewhere. Mayor last week targeted on 35% of his routes. And, you know, he's a good tight in in his own right.

Like he was drafted in the second round. He was. you know, he was in a weaker, tight-in class, but he was one of the, you know, at least two best in that class. And then they went the next year and got Brock Bowers. And so Michael Mayer disappeared. Well, in the game, we only had one game because Mayor was missing with a concussion when Bowers went out. Last week was the first time we saw Mayor and no Bowers. He had five for 50 in a touchdown. So I think he is in that, you know, break glass in case of emergency. Do you like meowson or mayor? Miaoson is all. alone. At least here, Mayor, while he doesn't have Bowers, he still has Myers and

Trey Tucker and Jack Bash and Thornton. Yeah, but Eden Meowson has Justin Fields. Justin Fields. Okay. Michael Mayer has Gino Smith. We can do this forever. We can do this all day. It's a good counter. And pay attention, Travis Kelsey, he averaged two receptions fewer per game when Rice was a full-time player. He's, so I have moved him down in my rankings, and he's still at the point where you're pretty much going to have to start him, but he scares the tarnation out of me because what we saw in the three games with Rice last year was a 14% target share was unusability from Travis Kelsey. They work in the same area of the field. And so my eyes, he's going to be in my lineup. My eyes are going to be all over Travis Kelsey. If he comes out and has a dud,

I will be, you know, if I have Travis Kelsey, I'm looking to pick up someone in case his season is kaput with with rice in place the eagles are four and two minnesota's three and two the games in minnesota the eagles one and a half point road favorites the overrunners 43 and a half the viking's coming off the by week eagles currently two straight win or sorry two straight losses that's very different those are different um you know the eagles reeling a little bit it doesn't take much to make the entire Eagles like the media storylines in Philadelphia terrible like you just won a championship

you're 4 and 2 the sky is falling situation you gotta remember last year they didn't look great in the first half of the year but this is a team that can get it going the Eagles defense last week it was no Jalen Carter right and that was part of the key to scatabum

three touchdowns but on the year the Eagles 26 and rushing yards allowed. It leads to your Jordan Mason start. We have you know, Jalen Hertz v. Carson Wins? Probably. Yeah.

You're saying probably as a new. No, J.J. McCarthy is not going to play. It will be Carson Wins this week. J.J. McCarthy will play, you know, again, the season Carson Wins isn't going to hold the job over him. I can't imagine that world happening. His ankle is just not good. I mean, there was all the it. It was him talking about it.

about his ankle saying the ankle is getting there. I wouldn't say it's 100% right now. So they're going to, they will wait. When you say selfishly, I want to play, but we have to be smart here. That says I'm not playing. Yeah, that means the smart thing is not playing. Right. So if he plays, it's like, I'm doing the dumb thing, man.

Yeah, I would say if he had said, selfishly, I want to play, but we have to be dumb here. I would expect him on the field. Yeah. Sequin Barclay, just averaging 52 yards rushing per game, third fewest rushing hours per game by a reigning rushing leader since the merger. So the big concern in the off season, which, look, it was a terrible and scary thing to utter when you have a season like that. It was like the cumulative effect of 400 plus opportunities on the way to a Super Bowl. Statistically speaking, doesn't lend itself towards a huge season the next year. That's a tough, unrepeatable career-making season.

It's a hard thing to do. It doesn't mean you can't get it going. doesn't mean that he can't cruise into the playoffs. But right now, it's not been a good ride for Sequin. And are you adjusting him tier-wise in your mind when he comes to trades? Tier-wise from where you drafted him. James Cook? No, I don't think so.

I would still be on the Sequin side. But, you know, I would certainly be on the Jonathan Taylor side. Like, you know, in draft day, you everyone took Seqon well ahead of Jonathan Taylor. And that adjustment has been made. but I still believe like he hasn't looked bad and that's the difference is sometimes you watch these players

after these massive workload years and they kind of fall off they don't break tackles they don't look great you know the last two weeks five yards of carry four point eight yards of carry he had a 58 yards receiving two weeks ago he he doesn't look bad to me now their

offensive line isn't as strong as it was last year they they've had an injury to their guard and you know the team's offense is not creative it is hurt without kellen more but i also think this is a obviously as a well-coached team from the top they have been in the super bowl two of the last three years if you look at super bowl odds they're not being looked at as some bad team so i you know i i'm not i'm not concerned with sayquan as like a i think he's a running back

to rest of season it's you're getting sayquan but you haven't gotten a big play yet. His long on the ground this year was this past week at 18 yards. But he had he had six of those last year, six like 40 plus yard touchdowns or something like that. He doesn't have a 20 yard run yet. Yeah, that that's the difference. And those are hard to repeat. Yeah. They just are. Um, Mike, any thoughts on Justin Jefferson? I like him a lot. I like that he's on my. Oh, I'm muted. Yeah. Oh, what happened? Mike? Where'd you go? Help me. Oh, how did it is. Help me. Oh, I'm standing on your mic. Jason. We're looking over to the producers and Al just points right at my, uh, Jason. You put your mute button in my radio and talk about your stupid Justin Jefferson.

Jeremy, we got to talk about our friendship after the show because it's, uh, it's on the next. We do too, Jeremy. You guys new best friends? We are, we are great friends. Um, who's FaceTiming each other? Tune in Monday to the spitball. Yeah. Um, the thing we went after Jefferson because, I mean, number one, he's Justin of course you want him on your team, but it's the rest of season wide receiver schedule

is number one is Minnesota. Oh gosh, you how do you like that? It was an aggressive play, well, Jason didn't think it was aggressive, I felt it was, to go after not just a great player, but go after a schedule run here at the end. A cake

walk of a playoff schedule. Yeah. Oh boy. Oh, boy. Perfect. Perfect. He's happy. Jason's happy. You knew I was going to go in at some point. I didn't think you would be able to acquire, like, the best wide receiver in football. Uh-huh.

With a second rounder. I mean, it's rare for that. Usually when those grab in our league, usually when those grab a player of that caliber, it's because they're in. It's a Malik neighbors. It's like you don't get them helpful. No, those are for a four. Yeah. Maybe you got to learn how to trade.

I guess so, man. neighbors you can get him every day for a four straight up but you do have T.J. Hawkinson now. T.J. Hawkinson. Oh, did we make a trade? Just one target inside the 10 this year. T.J. Hargis. I see here. Jefferson and I raise you away. T.J. Hawkinson. I got to make moves, you know.

If you're over here getting Justin Jefferson. Oh, yeah. Viking for Viking. Yeah, you don't want to know what? T.J. Hawkinson's target's going to go way up when Jefferson goes down. Oh, come on now. Oh, watch out. Yeah. Be careful. Now he's fighting with injuries. Let's not do that.

We like Jefferson. You play him. AJ Brown, Devante Smith. The target chair has been amazing for AJ Brown. I still think it's going to work out fine. I do, too. I think AJ Brown is someone to trade for. It's been horrifically bad. He may have already been

traded in your league. And I still think it might be worth going after him. Really tough matchup this week. You know, the Vikings, they are number one on fewest fantasy points given up to the wider seer position including number one if you adjust

for schedule and who they've played so it doesn't look like like this is the Vikings are more of a run funnel yeah so it seems more like a Sequin game than AJ Brown or Devante Smith not that you're not going to play those guys I mean Devante Smith is probably on the bubble

where you're looking at your other options and you say okay I agree you know with Josh Downs if he doesn't play would I go Pittman or Devante Smith, I'd probably go Pittman without Downs. I agree. What about freaking Dallas Goddard? So I was going to say, like the two weirdest tight ends on the season are

Dalton Kincaid and Dallas Goddard. Because they are players that keep performing that no one. That no one believes in. Goddard has been the number one tied in two of three weeks. And it's not like the week he didn't do that. He still scored 9.4 points. Like his last three weeks have been... And to be honest, which we've talked about

the touchdowns bailing him out because, or We're not bailing him out, but amplifying what he's done. He has had seven or more targets, which is an outstanding number for a tight end in three of his five games play. Which is a product. I mean, we have a different offensive system and coordinator. Like maybe this is more something to buy into is all I'm saying. Yeah, I don't mind that at all. I almost, I was kicking myself last week because I almost picked him up and started him in efforts.

But he played early in the week and I lost out on his massive game. Carolina 3 and 3 New York 0 and 6. The Jets. The Jets. Did I put an S in there? No, you put an extra T. A Jets. Yeah. Like Jester.

Like Jettus. Like 0 and 6 and lost their best offensive player. Yeah. And Gary Wilson. And may lose. They have you right where they want you. Not believing. I don't believe.

They are only one and a half point home underdogs to Carolina. home underdog they opened his favorites so that has moved yeah maybe the uh the knowledge that josh reynolds would also miss their only productive wide receiver from last week at all that caught a couple passes i mean you didn't even have allel lzard play last week it was erin smith rookie doesn't matter alan lizard did not play it was personal um oh that's right yeah yeah wasn't injury but he didn't he didn't play and so no no garret wilson no josh Reynolds. Brees Hall is tweeting free 20.

He may get traded at some point soon. Could. Mason Taylor, that's the one guy you can take the shot on. Mason Taylor's going to get a lot of targets. And in the, I have seen the comments

upon the incredible social media post of me saying weird things about Mason Taylor that I didn't actually say. By our own team. Yes, by our own team. I mean, the comments, shockingly very negative for a team that put up the game they put up last week. But that was last week. This is a much different situation.

Justin Fields for how awful he can be. He can also be excellent and complete a bunch of passes. The previous week, 12 targets, nine catches, 67 yards from Mason Taylor, five for 65 the week before with a 27-yard catch. Still hasn't gotten into the end zone. That's always possible for a tight-in. Well, that's a dog zone. Okay. So I don't know if Mason's allowed.

Yeah, meowson. Yeah. Yeah, he may be the perfect start. Oh, yes. Oh, we're back. You never know. Rico Dowdell, please play him. Yeah, you got to.

Keep doing it. Tedaro and McMillan, play him. Man, I still worry. You have some doubt, too? If Chuba is active, I'm going to take a look at who I have on my roster. Oh, my gosh. I mean, if Rico Dattle ends up with 50% of the work, this is a good, defense you're playing against. The jet's

only chance in this game. Let's not call it that. It will be malpractice. It is a defense. Mow practice? No. I'm not doing puns right now. I'm saying it will be malpractice by the Carolina Panthers to not give Rico another go. There is a big gap between

30 and 31 points, which is what he's done to irrelevant. Almost 400 rushing yards the past two weeks. I would bet you I'll make you a bet. I'll bet you 12 fantasy points or more, RICO doubtle. I'll bet you $100.

Half PPR? Yes, half PPR. Yeah, the only format. Yeah, thank you, Mike. It needs to be said. We haven't said it enough. That's only if Chuba's playing. No, I mean, obviously, if Chuba's not playing,

I love RICO this week. Yeah, sure. Sure. If Chuba's playing. All right. I'll take less than 12 and a half. Okay. Okay. I set the line at 12. That's the bet. Well, I won't take that.

Okay. All right. There's a true meow right there. All right, Ted McMillan, you can play it. Yeah. Justin Fields is to roll the dice and find out. Do you get number three, number six, number eight, or number 35, number 30? I mean, look.

Caroline is a team you can play it. Yeah, the matchup is not scary, but the fact that. No wide receivers. Yeah. Garrett Wilson Once Garrett Wilson is back then I will be comfortable playing fields I'm gonna go bench

I'm gonna go bench yeah like I'm deciding between my every week is Bo Nix or Justin Fields this will be Bo Nix feels like Justin Fields in this game is gonna have 80 rushing yards and a bad fantasy game which is darn near impossible

yeah that is the other side of just he he goes old Chicago Bears Justin Fields because he doesn't have people to throw it yeah and he just he gets over a hundred rushing yards. Brees Hall, how about we throw him the ball one time? Brees is going to get a ton of targets in this game.

He's going to get all the workload. He'll be focused on by the defense, but I think Brees Hall is a great play this week. Yeah. All right, that was fantasy forecast presented by prize picks, mix and match players from football, basketball, and baseball. To build your dream lineup today, use the code footballers to get $50 in lineups.

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