Fantasy Footballers - Fantasy Football Podcast - Starts of the Week + Week 8 Breakdown, Big Bye Decisions - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/23

Episode Date: October 23, 2025

Fantasy Football show for Oct 23, 2025. It’s football time! Matchup previews and Week 8 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 8. Manage your redraft, keeper, and dynasty fantasy football teams with the #1 fantasy football podcast.(00:00) Intro(03:10) NFL News(11:20) Starts of the Week(11:55) QB Starts of the Week(15:20) RB Starts of the Week(19:20) WR Starts of the Week(21:30) TE Starts of the Week(24:45) Fantasy Forecast(26:15) Dolphins at Falcons(32:20) Jets at Bengals(37:45) Browns at Patriots(44:35) Giants at Eagles(52:10) Bills at PanthersConnect 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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Starting point is 00:00:00 The Fantasy Footballer's Studio is sponsored by Walmart. Welcome to the Fantasy Footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. about time. Will! Yes, it is. Thursday, October 23rd. The Fantasy Footballers podcast, Jason Moore,
Starting point is 00:00:46 Mike Wright. Mr. Mom returns. Skoll, my Vikings fans, my brethren. Yes, yes. You were not on the show yesterday. Correct. So you don't. Good, man.
Starting point is 00:01:00 And that's what I hear. You don't know the fact that that's my almost upside of the week. I don't even, dude, you miss one day. You miss one day. And I feel like I have no idea what's going on.
Starting point is 00:01:13 Like, where's the game? Is it in Minnesota? What's the line? No, I have no idea. No, no. It's not, okay,
Starting point is 00:01:19 I'll catch you up. I could look it up, but I'm not going to. It's not in Minnesota. It is in Los Angeles. It's the Chargers is who they're playing. That part I knew. Okay.
Starting point is 00:01:29 And they are three and a half point underdogs. Oh. And so that was the pick. That was the almost upset. I can dig it. So there you are. Football tonight. We're just one week removed from an incredible Thursday night game that nobody saw coming with old men.
Starting point is 00:01:47 Is Aaron Jones playing? I believe he will play. It is not a guarantee. He's trending towards playing currently listed as questionable. And I assume that a breaking news segment. will interrupt me as I speak. How do we convince him... Realistic chance to return tonight.
Starting point is 00:02:04 Two hours ago, yeah. Realistic chance to return. You don't like that. As a Jordan Mason manager. I prefer it not to... Mason is still playable with it the first game back for Jones. What if the man, Aaron Jones, just wants to play some football tonight?
Starting point is 00:02:22 I think he does. Is that okay? Dude, the Vikes could use some help on special teams. Okay. Maybe defense. You can check out the community, the footclan at join thefoot.com. Join us and get access to premium tools and resources throughout the season, our in-season app. The expanded StartSit tool, the lineup optimizer, customized waiver wire tool, and we are working on a trade tool that will hopefully hit the Foot Clan here in the next few weeks.
Starting point is 00:02:57 We'll see. We're trying to make sure that we launch a. great product. So that's the plan right now, but we are testing our new trade tool and all of those tools available at Jointhefoot.com along with an extra episode every week. Let's talk some news. News and notes from Around the League. Presented by Progressive Insurance. That means you also, if you didn't listen to yesterday's show, Mike, because you were playing Papa Bear at home.
Starting point is 00:03:25 Robleau. Hooky? Yeah, you're playing hooky. You also, missed, we gave the Falcon the opportunity to read the disclaimer for progressive. He did exactly as you would expect. I can imagine. Legal actually let me know that we can't do that anymore. Is that accurate? Yeah. This is not a formal
Starting point is 00:03:42 disclaimer if the letters are all jumbled? Exactly. Okay. Yeah, those are big words. Those are a lot of big words in succession. A lot of big official words there. It was great. And then he did the mailbag as well to try to like kind of redeem it. Which was worse. We had to memorize that though. We did not want him reading
Starting point is 00:03:58 mailbag because the mailbag drop those that are listening on the podcast we we made sure that your hearing wasn't damaged yeah to be fair i was overruled i said not to edit it uh i felt like it was a danger cared about drivers and people on the road yeah um but if you what you heard was not nearly as bad as what we heard yeah yeah it was he was bad mike um no i believe it. Hassan Haskins formerly out for this evening. Oh, silky smooth. Luscious Lachs, Vidal Sassoon.
Starting point is 00:04:32 Yeah. Wait, what? Luscious Lox. No, no, no. It was the accent. I can't imagine that Vidal Sassouin is American. He's some kind of... Well, it might be a... I mean, you're just of his descent. He's got a foreign accent like the one
Starting point is 00:04:48 I just did. Exactly. Clearly he was from Austria with Arnold. Vidal Sassoon Schwarzenegger Let me wash your head Oh So okay Get to the bottom bird
Starting point is 00:05:04 Vidal Sassoon place of birth Yeah Hammer Smith London in the UK We let's be very clear We did not for a minute think that he was American Okay We just didn't think what you said made sense Okay do it again but London
Starting point is 00:05:17 Yeah Oh Bad start Bad start Bad start Okay Hold on I gotta get I got to get into my little lad
Starting point is 00:05:28 I got to get into the You gotta get English I got to get into the The mood Yeah the Queen's English Bains on toast Okay Beans on toast
Starting point is 00:05:37 Let's just locks Videl Cessoon There you go All right Dude that was so British Thank you Thank you It was very
Starting point is 00:05:48 I like how you got into it though That was smart You gotta find your phrase Yeah I've heard people they need the one phrase that can lock them in. Right. Beans on toast. Bains on toast.
Starting point is 00:06:01 Man, they eat some stupid food there. Dude, I look at it. I understand that people are super disgusted by seeing it. I bet that thing rips. Those beans on that toast? I had it. Not bad, but they eat some stupid food. They eat some, I'm sorry for everyone that is in London.
Starting point is 00:06:17 You just want there, so you're in authority. Right. Like, I'm pretty much, they eat. Some awful. They have, what's it called? It's like black, it's like blood sausage. It's disgusting. Sounds terrible.
Starting point is 00:06:32 I mean, it's worse. And you like a lot of stuff. Oh, yeah. I eat garbage. From the dumpster. That Vegemite is Australia. Vegetalian falcons. Good Lord, man.
Starting point is 00:06:42 Read a book. Someone cut his slack off. My goodness. What's that mean? All right, listen, I want to get back to Kamani Vidal because he's going to be alone, but I don't really love him tonight. Do you? volume will be fine
Starting point is 00:06:54 I do think that both of these teams can be run on so yeah he's an okay play to me okay yeah I mean top 20 type okay all right Aaron Jones questionable with the hamstring might return Lamar Jackson
Starting point is 00:07:10 returned to a limited practice on Wednesday you know I had told Jason yesterday we were talking about this I think there was a lot of alarm that he hadn't practiced but to me when I think about my franchise quarterback recovering from a hamstring injury. Every day you get to rest it is a better situation for you playing well on Sunday and not re-agravating it. And it's not like he is the type of
Starting point is 00:07:33 player that, like, well, he's got to practice. Yeah, he needs a bunch of work to know the playbook. Right. He is clearly in charge of this offense, knows what he's doing. I think the more physical rest you can give him the better. DJ Moore. DeAndre Swift and Cole Cometal did not practice on Wednesday. We'll monitor those. Calvin Ridley did not practice. He had missed. last week with the hamstring. Chris Olavé did not practice. This one is a little bit more interesting. He's still reported that he's expected to play,
Starting point is 00:08:01 but I want to pay attention to it and monitor it because it was like a late addition ankle injury. Yeah. Yeah, it was when I saw that, I kind of giggled. Not because I want him to be hurt, but because you and I had had a perspective. In the shower this morning, I was like, if he misses, I'm going to reoffer that trade.
Starting point is 00:08:20 Yeah, he had Jason have been trying. trying to trade for Marvin Harrison with some bigger pieces. And then he hadn't realized that he wasn't going to have Marv this week. And then he was a part of it. Do you ever have Marv? No, no one has a question. Brock Purdy limited on Wednesday with the toe injury. Ricky Pearsall did not practice.
Starting point is 00:08:39 Man, Ricky. I wanted to make, like, Pierceaw was in the finalist for second half sleeper. I like that. Because I'm like, he's been forgotten completely. He was leading the league in receiving yardage before the injury. But also, like, Ricky Pearsall's story. the NFL and I'm not talking about the shooting of course talking about after that it's been a lot of injury like that has been a problem so we'd love to see him back out there but nobody's really
Starting point is 00:09:02 stepping up like if kendrick born can come off the street and put up 100 plus yards in back to back weeks it's right there for pierceau i agree but he's got to get back mhm josh down's limited on wednesday with a concussion we think he'll be back we don't know christian watson said quote my plan is to play yeah okay this makes sense he He basically has to, right? His 21-day window was opened two weeks ago, so I think if he doesn't play this week, he can't play. Okay.
Starting point is 00:09:31 Then his plan should be to play. Right. Yeah, week eight against the Steelers, Watson should be back. Nico Collins, Christian Kirk, didn't practice. Kirk missed the week. Nico with the concussion, we'll be watching that. Normally with the protocol, you've got to practice kind of on Friday to get back for Sunday. Michael Pennix, Jr., limited with a knee.
Starting point is 00:09:49 I thought he had a foot or toe situation. I think it was always the knee. But, yeah, he's at home this week and is a decent streamer if he's active. I think I might have added him as my starting quarterback in place of Jaden Daniels this week. I mean, it is, Jaden Daniels being out just adds to the bi-week situation, making it harder. Really stinks that he's a Monday night football. Yeah. I mean, would you rather play Michael Pinnish Jr. or Mariotta in place of Jaden with running?
Starting point is 00:10:19 The matchup is not good. The weapons are not good. So like Mario for Mario da, I have the exact same. In the listener league, I've got Jaden Daniels and I was trying to make that decision of like, so I went after Mario was there and I was like, I'm going to prefer flacco over him. I won't know on Sunday, so I'm going to have to start somebody. And I don't want to run Marioato without weapons and a tough matchup. Okay.
Starting point is 00:10:47 Yeah, makes sense. Any other news we have? A.J. Brown didn't practice due to a hamstring injury. It's new news. We'll keep monitoring. Most Wednesday not practicing things are just completely like I are irrelevant to me. I don't pay much attention to them. All right. That was news and note sponsored by Progressive Insurance Quote today at progressive.com. Progressive casualty insurance company affiliates and third party insurers,
Starting point is 00:11:12 not available in all states or situations. Coverage subject to policy terms, limits, and conditions. Let's get into the starts. Starts of the week, presented by U.S. Bank. Are confidence plays this week, all the more important with six teams on by? I imagine most lineups, a flex spot is going to be a player you're not particularly comfortable with this week. A lot of, like I said, quarterbacks taking the week off, six teams on by. Your opponent's probably in the same situation. We want to give you some confidence plays.
Starting point is 00:11:50 let's start at quarterback guys. Jason, you want to take it away? Sure. I'm going to do something I don't usually do. I don't love doing starts to the week on Thursday night football. I did it last week with Jalen Warren. It worked out all right. I'm going to do it again tonight at quarterback. Justin Herber, I think is a great play this week. He's the quarterback four on the season. He's putting up ridiculous numbers. He's on pace right now for 4,600 and 32 passing touchdowns, while doing something far more exciting that he doesn't usually do, he's on pace for career highs and rushing, 73 rushing attempts for 452 yards. No quarterback in the history of the NFL has ever rushed for 450 yards while throwing for 4,600 and 32 touchdown. So whether that happens or not, that's just what he's doing already.
Starting point is 00:12:38 And the Chargers, they currently rank third in passing rate over expectations. So in those neutral game scripts, what are they doing? I know that... It's very low T. It's low T, but it's, you know, it's high H. It's putting the ball in Justin Herbert's hand. Yeah, it was a Herber, Harbaugh, whatever. Okay.
Starting point is 00:12:57 Quarterbacks. They are... The strength of this team right now is to pass the ball. They have great weapons. You know, they've got four legitimate great weapons, and that's not even counting my dude, Trey Harris, who is awesome and will someday be awesome. The Vikings are a pretty good pass defense, but they do rank 24th and schedule adjusted fantasy points given up to the quarterback position. So I think you could start Justin Herbert this week.
Starting point is 00:13:25 I'm going, Bo Nicks, baby. We're taking on the Dallas Cowboys. It's what we want. It's the highest overrunner of the wind. I'm taking the Denver Broncos, baby. You don't need to say anything. Well, I'll add a couple things. We should have.
Starting point is 00:13:38 There's a lot of Broncos in this section. I was going to say, we should just literally every Thursday, have. a start of the week as whatever team is playing the Cowboys. Start all of them. Unless it's Bill. Right. No, what? Mike. Mike. Did we get a new, did we final? We didn't finalize it.
Starting point is 00:13:57 I was going with the sad shoulder shrug though. I'm just a bill. Cowboys, 31st in yards per pass attempt. Dead last in adjusted completion percentage. Dead last and schedule adjusted fantasy points to the quarterback position. It might take until the fourth quarter with the way that the Broncos and Bo Nix have been playing, but good news. There's a fourth quarter. Yeah. No, Bo Nix got to
Starting point is 00:14:25 follow that up. Jason doesn't like it, but this is the week for me. I don't love it, but Christian Watson helps. Jordan Love. I'm going to go start of the week, Jordan Love at Pittsburgh. You have to pick your spots with him. He has a, he's had a lack of true blowup games this year, and it's masked how efficient and good he's been at quarterback. And we've talked about this at length yesterday. He was my second-up sleeper. 15 yards per attempt right now. Fourth and past success rate, number one, and expected
Starting point is 00:14:50 points per dropback. You know, this is not the Steelers defense that we used to have. Just asked Jason. He had negative one points from them last week. Thirty-first in passing yards per game allowed. 31st and schedule adjusted fantasy points a lot of quarterbacks. The quarterbacks are doing major work on
Starting point is 00:15:07 Pittsburgh and Christian Watson coming back. Jordan Love, he has played well. They just haven't asked him to do as much. Still dealing with the recovery of injury for Josh Jacobs. We'll see what happens in this one, but I like Jordan Love, especially on a week with so many buys. Yeah, I'm going to go with J.K. Dobbins. We talked about it. They played Dallas. The Broncos, I mean, J.K. Dobbins. He has been good. Had a disappointing week, but he's been top 24 running back in six of seven weeks so far. The only guys that can claim that right now are Dobbins, Josh Jacobs, Scataboo, A. Chan, Bijon, C.M.C. and Jonathan Taylor. That was a pretty long list.
Starting point is 00:15:43 But it's a long list of only... That sounded like a lot of people. But it's only, like Jonathan Taylor, the stud of studs. Christian McCaffrey, the stud of studs. Yeah. Bijon. Stut if you say that again. Bejohn Robinson is the stud of studs. Okay. It's the Bejohn minute. A. Chan, Scatababoo, Jacobs. My point is, all those guys are like, you don't even question. You don't think, should I start? Should I pivot to someone? And then there's Dobbins, who's there with them, and he's been really good. He is clearly the leader of this offense. The Denver offensive line is outstanding. The Dallas defensive line is outstanding for the other team. So they're giving up everything to everyone other than Bill. I am going to
Starting point is 00:16:24 start J.K. Dobbins, no problem. And I'm going with Chase Brown against the Jets. Okay. With the matchup. It's not great. However, we are. Second half sleeper for Jason. I like it because we're chasing a heavy home favorite here. The Bengals currently six and a half point home favorites and the receiving floor it's actually okay we have the eighth most targets
Starting point is 00:16:46 of the running back position and Joe Flacco I don't know how much you dove into because I wasn't here for the show of second half sleepers that I had but the yes he was on both of our list is like not our main names
Starting point is 00:17:00 but you and I both had him on our Flacco yes Flacco is my my belief in Joe Flacco is at an insane an irrational point right now of uh like i i picked them up as a backup i have bow nicks this week and for the league of record i picked up joe flacco i spent over ten dollars of fab just to make sure that because because no other person's crazy enough to spend 10 bucks of your fab on joe flaco
Starting point is 00:17:28 especially when you're not starting them but the the schedule for the Cincinnati bangles moving forward is redonculus in terms of schedule adjusted point to the quarterback positions. I think that, and that trickles over to Chase Brown, of course, just saying I wanted to get my piece in of where I am with Joe Flacko. And it's, it's frightening to believe in such an old man with such a bad offensive line. Mike Tomlin doesn't come out and get angry about situations like this very often. I think he knew what we're knowing now that.
Starting point is 00:18:00 He is so calm, cool, and collected, and he was so pissed. He was so pissed about that Flacko move. He knew what it meant to get Flacco more than we knew. Yeah. All right, Mike. Oh, speaking of Tomlin and the Steelers, we mentioned yesterday that the Aaron Rogers was going to Green Bay.
Starting point is 00:18:17 This game is in Pittsburgh. Yes. Well, we don't know. Maybe he's going to do like just a little round trip. Right. Flight just to check in and then go back to the game. Yeah, a little typo over on this side of things. Sorry about that.
Starting point is 00:18:31 That at symbol. We had wondered if he was going to get booed. Aaron Roger. Probably not going to get booed at home. No, I don't think it'll be cheered. Unless, yeah, I mean, if he sucks all the game, it's not. Mike, you'll be happy. Jordan Mason is my start of the week.
Starting point is 00:18:46 Okay. Confidence play against the Chargers. A true run funnel. We reviewed that yesterday on the show. Both teams are the same in that regard. But 29th and yards before contact, the Chargers. Over the last six weeks, the 28th best in fantasy points allowed to running backs. Jordan Mason is going to get the majority of the work,
Starting point is 00:19:08 even if Aaron Jones is back. I like the almost upset and I like Jordan Mason to get into the end zone maybe twice in this game. Maybe two times. We'll see. That'll be a lot. My wide receiver started the week. Roma Dunesay. He is coming off
Starting point is 00:19:22 of a couple of disappointing weeks. Wide receiver 58, wide receiver 63. But this last week, the Bears had easy work. They ran the ball like 700 times. They didn't need to throw it that much. They were in the lead. This game against Baltimore, and I'm hoping that Lamar
Starting point is 00:19:37 is active. I still think he will be. They need him desperately. There's a 49 and a half point over under in the game. That's awesome. The Ravens are beat up on defense. Their 28th in schedule adjusted fantasy points allowed to wide receivers. And they play man coverage 39% of the time, which is the third highest rate in the NFL. Rome is great there. 35% target share fourth highest in the NFL at that coverage. I think this is a perfect matchup for Roma Dunes. A. If I've got them and I'm questioning two bad weeks in a row, I absolutely. plug him in. I'm stacking my Denver Bo Nix. I'm going with Cortland Sutton
Starting point is 00:20:11 and I really just want to highlight like it has not been this, the floor has been low, but the ceiling has been pretty good here for Cortland Sutton. One of four wide receivers this year with five or more weeks of 13 or more
Starting point is 00:20:27 fantasy points. You know, JSN, Puka, Omnara, Cortland Sutton and you obviously those guys are plug and play. Sutton may not be there yet, but in the right matchups, you put him in and you take that ceiling. Well, I am confident
Starting point is 00:20:43 he'll be back out there and I want to highlight how good he's been. Chris Olavé against Tampa Bay, two touchdowns last week. Only Jemar Chase has more targets than Chris Olivae on the season. Only Pickens and Devante Adams have more in-zone targets, which seems hard to believe. It's been
Starting point is 00:20:59 a functional offense for New Orleans at times. And so you have to throw on the Buccaneers. That's that's going to be the game plan. Camara's been banged up. They just lost Kendrae Miller. They're 24th in yards per attempt allowed. The Buccaneers, that's how you beat them. Monitor the injury. That was a surprise yesterday. But the fact that Nick Underhill, the most trusted beat rider in New Orleans, instantly said he's expected to play on Sunday.
Starting point is 00:21:28 I'm going to keep him in there for today. Yeah, at tight end, this one is depending on David Najoku, but I do not believe Najoku plays this week, and if that's the case, I will be plugging Harold Fanon into my starting lineup. Through seven weeks, he has the fifth-most targets and the fourth-most receptions among all tight-ins. You might not realize this, because
Starting point is 00:21:51 he hasn't been getting in the end zone. Dylan Gabriel isn't good enough to throw touchdowns, but he's on a 17-game pace of 78 for 7004 yards. There's on, literally in the history of the NFL, Bowers, Laporta, and Shockey, Jeremy Shockey, going back. Those are the guys who have hit 70 and 700.
Starting point is 00:22:09 And now you have David Nijoku, who is in his own right on pace for 65 and 600, who is probably not going to play. I think Harold Fanon is great. The Patriots are a fine matchup. They don't, like, they're not one of those perfect matchups for a tight end that can't guard them, but they are just average. They don't shut down the tight end position. They've allowed the eighth most receiving yards to tight ends this year.
Starting point is 00:22:30 So Harold Fanon, you know, if Najoku's out, definitely start him. And then if he's not out, my start of the week. Look, I would double down from what I did last week. The goose of George Kittle, you're still playing George Kittle. Every week, if he's active, he's in your lineup. This is a brutal tight end start of the week layout and schedule for us. When you miss one day, you don't always know what's going on. But I had Juan. I liked him.
Starting point is 00:22:57 I liked that the business was back. We had seven targets, five for 79, targeted on 23% of his routes. And then I've been doing a little quick checking. apparently he was in a red contact No contact Yes he went to just hop on the back Of my start of the week Just go yeah
Starting point is 00:23:13 Please Do you want to just Do you want to rock a little Tucker craft Against Pittsburgh? You know how I feel about Tucker Kraft Yeah Yeah they're throwing Kate Otten Yeah you could
Starting point is 00:23:22 Kate Otton's a great start this week Sure Kate Otten's start of the week Nice Who's he playing? Who knows? New Orleans I think it's best to
Starting point is 00:23:30 Like Joan Johnson is unfortunately entirely capable of giving you a great week at any moment, but also entirely capable of being historical Juan Johnson. This week is solid. But obviously if he can't play, then he's not. No, he'll score less if he doesn't play.
Starting point is 00:23:52 Tucker Kraft against Pittsburgh. He has been a beast yards after the catch again, two years in a row. Steelers giving up the fifth most of the tight-in position, and it is the other side of the Jordan Love start of the week. So that will conclude, I think, all of our starts of the week unless somebody got hurt in the matter of the last five minutes. That was starts of the week presented by U.S. Bank Smartly Signature Visa Card.
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Starting point is 00:24:56 And half the NFL goes onto the byweek. Jaguars, lions, Raiders, Rams, Seahaw. all taking the week off. How happy are you that the Cardinals are off this week? It's a relief, I suppose. I just love the fact that on Sunday, I don't have to watch. No, it's good. It's nice.
Starting point is 00:25:15 They should take more by weeks, honestly. I think Al said the other day when we were talking about it, moving to 18 games, and then maybe two buys. Why can't we just, can we just take a week off of football? Like the whole league, like the machine? The money printing machine? Take a week off. They don't turn money printers off.
Starting point is 00:25:36 You're right. The reason they're going to 18 weeks is for more money. It is not for player safety. No. It's not for quality of life for these guys. It is so they can make more money. Yeah, they probably won't do that, huh? No.
Starting point is 00:25:53 Miami 1 and 6, the Falcons. They'll do like a in, they'll go NBA. They'll be an in-season. season tournament. What a stupid. Well, that's where I was going to actually, I was going to joke about those, like, Pro Bowl games move into, like, that week.
Starting point is 00:26:06 But then it's like, that's not a biweek for players if they have to do stuff. So, yeah, they won't turn it off. All right, Miami 1 and 6, taking on the 3 and 3 Atlanta Falcons where they're cozy in their nest at home. The Vegas line atlanta minus... Bird joke. It was a bird joke.
Starting point is 00:26:20 Yeah, it was. It was a bird nest joke. All right. Atlanta minus 7 and a half. The overrunners 44 and a half. The end for Mike McDaniel is it's coming it's coming i thought it was supposed to be last week yeah i mean it's about time it's about timing now okay so we'll see i don't know why my voice is correct you're gonna find
Starting point is 00:26:43 hair well yeah there's a time in your life you're gonna be a lot of changes there's a comedian whose voice does that constantly and it's really funny it's like all his rants are like a prepubescent boy rants um the second week in a row lefty lefty Michael Pinnix, Jr., turned a ball over. Mere match. And we just talked about it. The Falcons have just been so much better at home. At home, Michael Pinnock Jr. is averaging 287 passing yards.
Starting point is 00:27:11 Yeah. They are three and three. I'm guessing they had three games at home. They have had trouble on the road. Yeah, Kyle's confirming that that is the case. You know, Mike McDaniel was the offensive assistant over in Atlanta. They did lose week one at home. and then one on the road against Minnesota.
Starting point is 00:27:31 They lost by three points at home to the Tampa Bay about the years in week one in a close game where their defense still looked very, very good. But at home, they beat the commanders, they beat the Buffalo Bills, they look outstanding. And then on the road, they got shellacked by the Vikings. They got shut out by the Panthers. And then pretty much owned by the Niners.
Starting point is 00:27:53 The Vikings. Oh, that's right. That's right. They won that game. the opposite it's a hot thursday yeah so 22 to 6 that at symbol so for for hey by the way we didn't misread the ad symbol we just yeah we read it read the one put in the dock that's what we did and then we talked about it way too much uh what did you think of darn out mooney last week i was very upset by him because he's three for 68 no no no i was very upset i thought he looked
Starting point is 00:28:27 really good. That was what was upsetting. Drake London, which hurts Drake. Yes, that Drake London is who this offense needs to run through. He has obviously put up some outstanding weeks recently, you know, two weeks ago, 16 targets, 10 for 158. Mooney was back. He still had 28% of the targets. It just didn't work. It didn't work out as well. He had somewhere else to go. To be, Frank, Mooney should have been a, talked about more on the Waverwire show. He's a valuable wide receiver that will get work when he's active in the right matchups. This one might not be the perfect matchup because I don't think the Dolphins' offense is going to do much. They're beat up, they're banged up, and the Falcons defense at home has been
Starting point is 00:29:17 great. They're number two against quarterback, so I don't think two is going to put up a bunch of points, in which case great Bijan game, less passing for the Falcons, is my expectation. Beat up is more severe than banged up? Like on the scale? Yeah, for sure. If you're banged up, you've got a hurt toe. If you're beat up,
Starting point is 00:29:35 you're bruised and battered. Yeah, you're in a walking boot. Okay. That's booted up. Right, which Bryce Young was not booted up. Did you see that? I did. Didn't practice. Play Bijon. Still play Drake London. Kyle Pitts, on pace for 85 receptions.
Starting point is 00:29:51 He is certainly fine on a 16-by week. Yeah, this week it's okay. Tua, I mean, this offense, where are you with Waddle right now? I mean, I feel like, you know, you came out after the injury. He was the wide receiver four, I believe, and then the wide receiver is 17, and then last week it was just kind of, you know, it's Cleveland. It was on the road, and it was a disaster from the jump. I feel like Waddle.
Starting point is 00:30:16 Bad weather. I feel like you don't want to, yeah, bad weather. I feel like you don't want to overreact to, look, you've got to play four quarters of football, and Jaylon Waddle's their best wide receiver. Yeah, Waddle's a great play. My only worry with him was injury because, you know, he left that game. There was reports that he was injured. Looking at the week eight injury report from the Dolphins, he is not, you know, he wasn't even listed on the Wednesday.
Starting point is 00:30:39 So he seems fully healthy and good to go. Well, let's see. I'm seeing a tweet here from Omar Kelly. Oh, yeah, he's one of the best over there. And he says, this is six minutes ago. Jalen Waddle didn't work with the wide receivers while the offense was out there. He was doing a rehab assignment, which means he's battling an injury. Yeah, that was six minutes ago.
Starting point is 00:30:58 Wow. He was not on their injury report yesterday, so that's wild. Yeah, that's about Waddle for you. Devon H.N. is one of three players in the NFL this year with 400 plus rushing yards, 200 plus receiving yards. CMC. Bjean, A. He's a machine. Yeah, he's been awesome.
Starting point is 00:31:17 And, you know, you don't mess around with anybody else. Darren Waller went to IR and Tua, you know, I could, I'd start nobody over Tua, which would get me two and a half more fantasy points than he scored last week. Wait, did Tua really have negative two and a half fantasy points? That is correct. Wow. Yeah, Tua had in our league negative 2.9. He was 12 for 100 with three interceptions. He also fumbled the ball three times.
Starting point is 00:31:47 yeah it's pretty amazing that's hard to do and yet through all that a chance still managed to score over 11 points against yeah against cleveland so he's he's he's matchup it's pretty yeah i mean a jane is is a great play waddled tbd on the injury i guess and then that's it for the falcons or for the for the dolphins the falcons defense right now if you adjust for schedule they are number one against tight ends number two against running backs number three against quarterback's number four against wide receivers are one of the most difficult matchups in fantasy. The New York Jets are 0 and 7.
Starting point is 00:32:22 They get to take on the Cincinnati Bengals, the resurgent. Bengals. Vegas line Cincinnati minus six and a half. At home, overrunners 44 and a half. Here comes our hero, Joe Flacco.
Starting point is 00:32:39 Jamar Chay... I mean, T. Higgins was the name we brought up on the second half sleeper list yesterday. You know, sauce guard is not even playing in this game, most likely, dealing with a concussion. If he plays, you know, it doesn't really change how I'm starting and sitting these guys the way that the Jets defense has played this year. You know, Joe Flacco is a streaming candidate, 45 plus pass attempts in both of his starts. It's, like, the numbers are really profound, and we were trying not to knee-jerk reaction this
Starting point is 00:33:07 and say it was just going to become, you know, so much better with Joe Flacco, who struggled immensely in Cleveland. Like Flacco wasn't doing anything in Cleveland to provide fantasy value for anybody But so far, Jamar Chase and T. Higgins each have two times as many receptions per game and receiving yards per game with Flacco than Browning. It reminds me more of the, what was it, two years ago,
Starting point is 00:33:29 Joe Flacco experience where he was on the Browns where he was surrounded by a good team. Like that offense, it wasn't just Joe Flacco. It was he had, you know, Amari Cooper was not washed out yet. So that's where I'm like, oh, man, it sure seems like this is something that we're going to want to buy into. It does occasionally wear off when stuff like this happens. But, I mean, literally, that's like getting eight quarters of Chase and Higgins with Browning for the production that's Flacco is giving them. On the other side, I mean, you already talked about Chase Brown at length.
Starting point is 00:34:06 So to conclude the Cincinnati side, and you play both wide receivers, and it's pretty easy on that side. but on the Jets side, it's just a complete... Hoof, man. Travesty. I mean, they're trying to keep a competitive advantage. Mike, you've got the new... What, the budget magician? Aaron Glenn.
Starting point is 00:34:24 Hmm. My guy. I'm trying. He literally came out and said that it was an advantage. Like, I want to like Aaron Glenn. I really, like, the dance of just... I know they ended up losing that game, but it was like the passion. I just...
Starting point is 00:34:39 I love it. He's with his guy. And it has been a disaster. And then you go to one of my most hated situations of football. The, oh, we have a competitive advantage. We don't know if it's, uh-oh, uh-oh, guys. Is it Justin Fields or Tyrod Taylor? The Bengals don't care.
Starting point is 00:35:01 I kind of get it. I would get it if there were different styles of play. They are very different styles of play. Tyrod and Justin Fields. Massively different styles of play. There is one of them. Justin Fields is a genuine threat in the running game. Tyrod Taylor is a pocket passer.
Starting point is 00:35:15 So to me, those are... Taylor doesn't run as much as Fields. They both... One of them is like compost garbage. And then the other one is just the garbage you can't put it. Which one is the compost? I don't know. It doesn't matter.
Starting point is 00:35:30 They both stink. There you go. So it's probably going to be Terad Taylor this week. Briece Hall was limited on Wednesday with the injury. Breast Hall is the only guy you can play. complain, but it's not with a lot of joy. I think, I know that it's going to be very difficult off
Starting point is 00:35:46 of a bust week, but I actually think Mason Taylor is Meowin Taylor is fine. Last week, you had a good matchup against Carolina. They're 29th against tight ends, and it didn't work out. He was like three for 30 something. It was unfortunate. Justin Fields
Starting point is 00:36:02 played as bad as you can play. I believe Tarad Taylor will be the starter this week. We don't know, but regardless, Mason Taylor is needed. The Cincinnati Bengals are the worst of the worst. They are the matchup where you target tight ends always,
Starting point is 00:36:18 and the fact that he is so needed here, I think Mason Taylor is... I don't think that's wrong. I think that's right. Process is, I get it. Yeah, but I will remind you. You laid it up. Taylor,
Starting point is 00:36:31 meo, had a good matchup last week. Fields was terrible. Taylor played 54% of the snaps last week for the Jets. No, that's not true. That's not true? 93% of snaps. I think you must be looking at a wrong number. Okay. I've got 93% for, no, no, no. Tyler, you're saying quarterback-wise.
Starting point is 00:36:53 I thought you're saying Mason. No, no, no, Mason played the whole game. I'm saying he had half a game with Terod Taylor. Fields was terrible and we want to put all the blame on field. Taylor played half the game at quarterback. And Taylor was still the other Taylor. There's too many tailors. Yeah, I bet Mason Taylor's three for 31 came in that half, though. It did. It did. He was shut out.
Starting point is 00:37:12 Yeah. So. No, I, and Gary Wilson. And that's a fine play at the position. Are you playing Garrett Wilson if he's active? Yes. Yeah. If he's active, he's too good of a player.
Starting point is 00:37:21 Especially in this matchup against Span. Would you play Arronday Gadsen tonight? Or would you play Mason Taylor? I would play Gadsen. Yeah. Yeah, I think I would too. I would. I'm going to chase the dragon.
Starting point is 00:37:35 I'm really hopeful for Gadsen. Well, and you don't want to watch the Jats. That is such an advantage. Cleveland's two and five. They take on the New England Patriots who are five and two. The Vegas line is New England minus seven. The overrunner is 40 and a half. I was doing a live stream last night and somebody was like,
Starting point is 00:37:53 why is Mike Grable so stupid? I said, and I said he's not. He's not stupid. He's not stupid. I said it would be a discussion. He is stubborn, though. He can, I mean, is it stubbornness or is it good coaching? When you're five and two,
Starting point is 00:38:07 when you're five and two, if you're two and five and five, If you're two and five, we can have the discussion about the coaching. Totally fine. You know, if you have a bad running game and you're two and you're two and it's working, you're not. So get over it. It's just, get over it. Trayvion's not going to be the dude right now. If an injury happens, maybe he's the dude.
Starting point is 00:38:27 If Ramandre fumbles six more times in a game, maybe he's the dude for a little bit. If whatever they're waiting for in practice starts happening and they give him the ball more, he will be there when he should be there. Vrable is a great coach whatever's going on behind the scenes is not Trayvion is not ready yet if I'm in a dynasty league
Starting point is 00:38:45 I talked about this on the dynasty show that came out yesterday I'm taking my second round pick for next year and I'm offering him in every league for Trayvion Henderson is a good player who's on what will now be a good team going forward is not his time yet
Starting point is 00:39:02 no and if he had been drafted by the Bears with the next pick it might have been his time all right oh man that world would have been glorious. Yeah, yeah. So the Vegas line, New England minus seven at home over under 40 and a half in this one. It is Cleveland and Dylan Gabriel trying to get through the New England Patriots.
Starting point is 00:39:20 That'll be hard. I mean, the Cleveland defense was unbelievable last week. I don't feel like we really... All season. I don't feel like we really said much about them. The story line was how bad two it was, right? And it's like, oh, Dylan Gabriel doesn't throw the ball down the field. they demolished the dolphins it was 31 to 6 yeah it was they were one of the highest scoring fantasy football defenses it's not going to be easy for new england to score in this game i agree
Starting point is 00:39:48 they will win i think they will win but it's not going to be you know i don't think it's one of those fire up all of your patriots with with excitement i don't know who i don't know are you playing your boy Drake may no oh my boys remandre yeah you know you too your boy you too love you too love you know of Ramandre Stevenson. No, no, no, no, no. Why are you lumping me in with Andy? No, you're just too late. I see the true.
Starting point is 00:40:12 We drew a line in the sand, the Hendo people, said if you're not with us, you're on Ramontre's side. There is a huge fence, Mike. This is the Great Wall of China that I'm standing on. I'm standing on the Great Wall of China. Ramandre's over there. Henderson's over there. I am straight up on that fence, and this is a big one.
Starting point is 00:40:28 Well, it was easy last week. Are you playing Andy's guy, Ramandres Stevenson? I mean, look, he had 18, 18 opportunities last week. Sure. Or 20 opportunities. as 18 carries against the Tennessee Titans. You're not going to... The Browns are the number one scheduled just a defense against running backs.
Starting point is 00:40:42 I am looking to not play Ramandre. I don't think you get a choice this week. It's probably true. It's perfect. It's perfect for Ramandre. You don't want to play him. But if you're going to get 75% of running back snaps for an at-home team, that's a seven and a half point favorite, heck yes, you play that. Would you play Ramondre or Aaron Jones if he's active tonight?
Starting point is 00:41:01 Ramondre. I think I go Ramondre. What about, uh... Oh, you're going Aaron Jones. I would go Aaron Jones. I would go. What about like Woody Marks against San Francisco who took over the opportunities? I would not. I'm playing remandre. You know he was 14 opportunities two weeks ago for 1.8 fantasy points.
Starting point is 00:41:17 Oh, I know it. I know it. Absolutely. And it was against New Orleans. They haven't been home in three weeks. He's the equivalent of the Cleveland targets. It's like his opportunities, you got to just cut him 50% and that's what you should expect. And then you go, well, he was inefficient.
Starting point is 00:41:34 I don't care about it. If the fantasy points put him in the top 20, like they've done for two of the last three weeks, I don't care how he does it. Yeah. If it's a falling into the end zone, if it's a screen pass that works out, I just don't understand what team you have out there in the world where you can bench a starting running back at home as seven and a half point favorites and play a flyer. I'll play an empty spot. Well, I know you will.
Starting point is 00:41:59 Although you just said you play him over Aaron Jones. Oh, crap. I don't know what's happening. I do think, you know, booty's been good. He's, there's just, I feel better about him making a big play than I do about accumulation via Stefan Diggs in this game. But I don't know if that's the right thought. So you tell me. The booty has been very efficient. I mean, last week it was, he had 55 yards. I mean, hey, on two catchers.
Starting point is 00:42:25 Two catch and not just two catches. It's two targets. And a touchdown. The, the two weeks ago, five targets, that's his, that's the second most targets he's seen all year. So do you, are you out on the wide receivers in this game? I think, I prefer, I prefer to be out. If I had to start one, it would still be Diggs. Diggs has had seven or more targets in three of the last four games. I think he's the one. Personally, I would like to bench my Patriots in this matchup.
Starting point is 00:42:52 I do, you know, I really like that they are at home. That will be helpful. But the Browns, the Browns defense is legitimately scary. Matthew Golden against Pittsburgh or a Patriot wide receiver. Golden. Yeah, that's a good question. By the way, Drake May right now is 116.4 pass rating, which would be the highest ever by a quarterback under 24. So on the Dynasty show, I did my film review of Drake May, and I don't think I've seen better film.
Starting point is 00:43:24 Like there's nothing he could do better than what he did on every single play. Not true. He completed 12 of his last 13 passes of 20 plus yards. It means he missed one. Yeah. Could have done that better. It wasn't his fault. Probably not.
Starting point is 00:43:39 If you want to play Drake May, whatever, do it. He's going to run the ball. You know, he had 62 rushing yards last year. Michael Pinnock's at home, Drake May. Drake May. I would go Drake Me. Yeah, how do you go away from that? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:43:51 They're implied point totals 23.8. I get the matchup. Drake May is, Drake May is just in. Play him forever. Yeah. He's plug and play. Judkins in logout? Judkins and Fanon and log out?
Starting point is 00:44:05 Yeah. Yep. If Najoku's not going, obviously Fanon, pretty good matchup. And if Nojoku's back, you're off of Fanon? Yeah, if Najoku's back, they split too much. I mean, you've got two tight ends on pace for over 60 receptions and over 600 yards. That's incredible for a tight end on a team. But if they're both doing that, then neither is special.
Starting point is 00:44:25 Okay. We'll take a break and get into the next, the second Giants Philly matchup. Well, the New York Giants will attempt to recover from the most devastating loss imaginable. They are two and five, and their recovery plan is to go to Philadelphia and take on the five and two Eagles, who are seven and a half point home favorites, over under's 43 and a half. You know, the Giants had the very impressive 3417 victory. It was the coming out party for Scataboo and Jackson Dart. It was two weeks ago, and it was in New York.
Starting point is 00:45:05 With no Jalen Carter. Yeah, yeah. It's not going to be quite. Do you see Vic Fangio, their defensive coordinator, talk about lessons learned on Jackson Dart? I did not. He came out and he was in a press conference. He basically said,
Starting point is 00:45:21 every quarterback needy team in the league has to be kicking themselves right now that they didn't take Jackson Dart. He is a believer. Yeah, okay. I mean, I think I am too. You're going to have rookie mistakes, no matter how well you, you play. I would say that what?
Starting point is 00:45:41 You basically put Jackson Dart into a situation in New York that is not an advantageous one, not a ton of weapons that are like proven. He's having to piece it together with, you know, Wondale Robinson and Lil Jordan Humphrey. And he's still getting it done. It's because of his legs. The dude is running. he is averaging 8.3 fantasy points
Starting point is 00:46:06 not rush attempts 8.3 fantasy points from the rushing work that is for context here Josh Allen in his career is averaging 6.8 Lamar 7.2 Jalen Hertz 8.2 and that includes all of his tush push
Starting point is 00:46:22 touchdowns. He's going to get hurt, isn't he? Oh yeah! Oh yeah! Jackson Dart can't play 17 games this way. No human can other than Camp Scataboo. I know everything worked out for fantasy last week against the Denver Broncos, just with, I mean, how drunk that game
Starting point is 00:46:38 got, but at least needs to be pointed out on the road against a very good defense. He completed 46% of his passes and he ran five times for 11 yards, 2.2, which we talked about it. You quarterbacks
Starting point is 00:46:54 can't really run on Denver, but it's the question of, okay, you're facing an elite defense on the road and you're completing less than half of your passes. You just wonder, did something get seen on tape? Jason, you were, you helped the Foot Clan out in a big way two weeks ago with Cam Scataboo and the confidence play against Philly. I think at the time, we didn't know Jalen Carter was even going to miss that game.
Starting point is 00:47:21 Cam Scadaboo on the road here, you're not moving away from a top 24 guy six straight weeks, are you? There's no chance that you have a roster that you can bench Cam Scataboo. any week the rest of the season. Hide your crayons. He's going to eat them all. Or ship your crayons to New Jersey so that he can eat them all. Or I guess they're in Philly this
Starting point is 00:47:41 week. But yeah, Cam Scataboo, way, way, way to... They've got crans in Philly. Way too involved. The last month, he has not had fewer than 20 opportunities to touch the ball. That's an insane number. So are you done there?
Starting point is 00:47:58 Is it... Are you comfortable with DART? You comfortable with Scataboo? And then the only other thing in that game. What about like Wondale versus like Alec Pierce who had the big week? No, I don't think I'm playing Wondale. I am going to be watching Darius Slayton. He is a guy that I'm not starting. I have picked up in a couple of leagues. I hope he is starting. He was a limited participant with that hamstring injury on Wednesday. If he plays, I'm paying
Starting point is 00:48:23 attention. I think he will be good in certain matchups the rest of the season. Okay. Mike, do you agree with that? Do. Okay. The real question is Dallas Goddard. He's so funny. I saw Goddard or Gadsden and it was like, I basically just said, look, I'm a sucker. I'm going to follow the athleticism of Gadsden and see if we can. No one cash in on that versus the touchdown luck of Goddard. No one believed in Dallas Goddard for the first six weeks of the NFL season while he was the tight end one. And then everyone was like, all right, I guess we got to. I guess we got to believe. And then he goes out there and scores three fantasy points. Gotcha. Yeah. He's only going to do whatever you don't want. So just cut him. Yeah, I mean, you might not have a choice this week. He's a weird tight in. I mean, he's played enough football to know that you get Goddard games from time to time. Would you play hammer pits at home? Pits at home. Okay. DeMonte Smith, AJ Brown had huge weeks last week. AJ Brown monitor the hamstring injury, probably not serious. but also these guys have been banged up both of them over the course of the, you know, before the season. Sequin Barclay, we've had lots of discussions here. He's the RB 17 on the season. He has not broken a 20 plus yard run, which is pretty wild considering how, I mean, he had 11, 15 plus yard touchdown runs last year when you include the playoffs.
Starting point is 00:49:56 He didn't do that one time the year before in New York, and he hasn't done it one time in 2025. and he had 11 last year. It was one of the few points that you could say in the off season when we were like, well, you like Saquan early in the draft, but it's pretty hard. It's pretty hard to score from 20 plus yards away all the time. Hasn't happened. Does it start happening?
Starting point is 00:50:23 You guys do not look like gentlemen that have strong answers for this situation. No, I mean, would you trade Cam Scataboo for Saquan Barkley? Because that question I've seen and that one is a real I would keep Barclay No no no That's the opposite question
Starting point is 00:50:39 If you had Cam Scataboo would you trade for Barkley Oh would Yeah I think straight up And Jason you said no I would rather have Scataboo I believe that your highest game totals will come from Barkley
Starting point is 00:50:54 Barkley's not a bad back He's going to have his touchdowns He's going to have big monstrous games and I think it will be difficult for Cam Scataboo to have monstrous games. He already had a multi-touchdown game. That's great, but you just don't think that these giants are going to regularly do that. But his floor is so, so high. And right now I think Barclay, he's not involved in the passing game.
Starting point is 00:51:19 It hasn't been for basically two years. And he's been inefficient. I mean, you look at like, here's some guy. Who has more yards per carry on the season? Saquan Barclay or Woody Marks? Who has more what? Yards per carry. We just made fun of how the attempts in Houston are,
Starting point is 00:51:42 you cut him in half, and then Woody Marks is inefficient, because he's running for 3.3 a carry. Woody Marks is. That's what Saquan's running for right now. I mean, to the Barclay's best game this season has been 16 points. Scataboo has passed that three times It's a wild one It is
Starting point is 00:52:01 Didn't think we'd be here But here we are Did we We did not talk Buffalo Carolina yet Buffalo 4 and 2 Carolina 4 and 3 Games in Carolina Buffalo minus 7
Starting point is 00:52:16 The over under is 46 and a half Okay The bills They get a buy week to recover from back-to-back losses, I don't think that's going to help Carolina very much. No, that's why Buffalo's on the road favored by a full touchdown. And, you know, this is a good get-right game.
Starting point is 00:52:39 You're not going to have a letdown from Buffalo because they're coming off of two losses in a row where they're taking Carolina easy. They're going in there to, you know, lay a beating down. And you think that will happen? I do think that will happen. He has never. Josh Allen lost three consecutive regular season games in his career.
Starting point is 00:52:56 That's crazy considering his first two years, he was terrible. Yeah, Carolina's defense has been much improved. That's been one of the reasons they're above 500 right now. Last year it was the number one target or up there as the top target in the league this year. Number six against the run, number nine against the wide receiver position. We spent the first few weeks of the season talking about how good James Cook had been. it's slowed down a little bit for him, but do you expect him to get back on track?
Starting point is 00:53:25 A couple of softer weeks after top 10 performances in four straight. Yeah, it's a good game script. The Panthers rush defense has looked much, much, much better than last year. So I don't look at them as like a pushover defense, but it still matters whether you win or lose a game. You know, James Cook has lost two games in a row, and it's been tougher sledding. if you end up doing what you know Vegas thinks which is winning by a touchdown you're going to have a lot more carries opportunities in the game so he's in and then in the passing game for the buffalo bills it's really hard to determine like oh it will keon on coleman get a touchdown will you know Josh Palmer have the bomb to me it's don't concade this is like the the panthers still limited yeah I mean we don't know for sure 100% that he'll start but it it seems like he
Starting point is 00:54:18 he will start. I believe he will. And if he is, I'm playing him. Honestly, if Dalton Kincaid does not go, I think Dawson Knox, sure, is probably a better stream off of waivers than all of your like middling kind of crappy tight end options because the Panthers, that's, that's where their defense gets beat. Yeah, that could be a really scary one, I think, because I don't know what the targets. I don't know if you get more than two shots. You guys, I don't know if you realize this. This is big news. Huge news.
Starting point is 00:54:55 Based on the last two years. Did you know this coming week is National Tight End like National Tight End Week? It's this week. Okay. The last two years Yeah. On the, on the, like I literally made a Slack notification for myself last year because on
Starting point is 00:55:11 National Tight End Week it was like every single team knew it. and they threw touchdowns of tight ends it was crazy where did this even come from i don't know did george kittles start this i have no idea but they're there's no national wide receiver week and running back week and there's just like the forgotten tight ends but this is the week so i think we think we got lucky so what you mean this this day that we just made up uh-huh you're saying it's not correlated um i'm saying it might not be um uh Carolina is
Starting point is 00:55:47 probably going to have Andy Dalton as their started this week. We don't know for sure. There's a DMP for Bryce Young on Wednesday. I really find Big running back questions here. Yeah, I mean, I think it's just... The Buffalo's a run funnel. They are. It's going to be a split.
Starting point is 00:56:04 If you have to start one, you would start Dowdle because he's been awesome. That's what you would do. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I don't think that's what I would do. You would start Hubbard over Dowell based on the opportunities? Yeah, I think if you had if you had chuba and you signed out and played him while he was hurt and you have both and you got to start one i would play chuba myself but i again that's what makes it a difficult
Starting point is 00:56:26 question like mike said yeah for sure you're making you're you're just i mean if you've got one of those two guys or you've got vidal sassoon in tonight's game i probably go i'd play i'd play satsun man i just don't like vidal this week really i got a bad feeling about it okay he had the one big week Obviously, it was impressive. He sucked last week. With Haskins gone. Maybe enough volume. Maybe just enough volume.
Starting point is 00:56:52 Yeah. But I also like Minnesota to win the game, and I feel like their defenses. That's even better for Vidal. I mean, I think he's had nine combined targets the past two weeks. Okay. So you'd take the solo work of Badell? I think I would. I could see that.
Starting point is 00:57:04 If I'm playing one of the two, I'm playing RICO. I just think he's a better player. And it could be just a circumstance of it just hasn't hit yet. but Chuba does not have a carry inside the five yet. Yep. And I know he's been hurt, but he also was the main starting running back for those first few weeks.
Starting point is 00:57:24 Try to guess Ted McMillan's fantasy positioning on the season. We're seven weeks in. On the season? On the season, Ted McMillan is the wide receiver. He doesn't have a lot of, he's got one touchdown. Like 26? That's a. Oh, does he have two?
Starting point is 00:57:37 Yeah, he got the two in that game. Oh, in the same game. One game with a touchdown. I'm going to go right there. I'll go 25. Okay. Should have gone the other way. 27 but I would I would say that you have not we still haven't had that game that you're like
Starting point is 00:57:54 yeah he's arrived there's not been a he's arrived forced feed him the ball he is a dog there's a there's a quarterback change presumably this week and when Andy Dalton came in last week he targeted Xavier Leggett quite a bit seven of Xavier Legat's 10 targets were from Andy Dalton in limited time what was that all about I don't know. However, my point is, we're waiting. Seriously. I don't know how prescriptive can that be. It's not prescriptive.
Starting point is 00:58:25 I think Tet McMillan is waiting for this breakout game, and all of a sudden he's going to have a quarterback coming in who is practicing this week as the starter working with Tet. Tett's going to eat this week. He's going to be a great start.
Starting point is 00:58:40 He's my start of the week. What? Yeah. I'm adding him. Start of the week. You're that confident in him? Do you think he'll get up over that 33-yard mark he's been hitting? I believe he will get over 35 yards. He still frightens me. I don't know why it hasn't happened yet. I get it.
Starting point is 00:59:00 It's Carolina. What are you doing? Alec Pierce or Tet McMillan? Like that question is a really good question. It's a real question. Alec Pierce has been good, gets targets, gets targets from a quarterback that can get his wide receiver of the ball. I would definitely go Tett there.
Starting point is 00:59:19 Okay. All right. I will I'll make you a waterbed on that one. All right. I will accept. Water bet. 35 yards. No, that's not the best. The best not 35. It was Alec Pierce versus Tet McMillan. You don't get to name it afterwards.
Starting point is 00:59:35 Goodness. A couple updates for you. No sign of Garrett Wilson at practice for the Jets. What was all this chance of playing? This is more exciting. Terry McClure and Debo Samuel both practicing today.
Starting point is 00:59:49 Or they're both going to practice today. Does that make you... Yeah, that would help to Mario. You know, I want to say yes, but I am not excited to play the Chiefs in Kansas City. I feel like you're going... The game script for that will be, yes, you're happy those guys are back, but how many first downs does Washington get? Mariota will run for 45 yards. Yeah, I'm...
Starting point is 01:00:15 I signed Mariotta to play in place of Daniels, and I'm going to pivot. To who? Michael Pennix. Okay. All right. In our very thin waiver wire. I bet you wish you would have paid $10 plus for Joe Flacco.
Starting point is 01:00:31 If I had the fam, I would have. Thursday, Texans, no Nico, no Christian Kirk still. Cream Hunt not practicing on Thursday for the Kansas City game, Breschard Smith. We talked about him on the waiver show. more opportunity coming as way and that was fantasy forecast presented by prize picks. Join millions
Starting point is 01:00:49 of users and sign up for America's number one fantasy sports app. Use the code footballers and get $50 in lineups when you play $5. We'll have our fantasy face-off tomorrow where one of us will spin the wheel of shame. I don't even remember that wheel.
Starting point is 01:01:06 That's the way you make sure you spend it soon. It's those type of things. Not scared. I'm playing against me. Whatever the opposite of a heater is a freezer yeah you're in a freezer i yes my body is barely active your heart rate is low every friday mike is hyperventilating from some sort of mask he is wearing just just we got to bring one more catch instead of the mask of victory we got to bring the mummy back if you lose if you like do we wrap him live yeah well yeah i mean josh we let josh wrap him yeah did that oh man yeah you
Starting point is 01:01:43 don't remember when then I had to go to the doctor because he broke my nose. No, you did not have to go to the doctor. No, I didn't really. Goodness gracious. But that was, that was brutal. That was the worst one ever and it shouldn't have been. It was just because Josh was a jerk. Oh, he like smashed your nose.
Starting point is 01:01:57 Oh, his nose was on his cheek. We'll catch you tomorrow, Foot Clan. Goodbye. Thank you for listening to another episode of the Fantasy Footballers podcast. Join our fantasy football community on join thefoot.com and follow us on Twitter at theFF ballers.

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