Fantasy Footballers - Fantasy Football Podcast - Week 5 Matchups + DJ MOAR! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/6

Episode Date: October 6, 2023

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Welcome in. Friday edition, the Fantasy Footballers. Mike, Jason, and Andy, excited to talk fantasy football with you, get you on the right track for week five. If you're not already on the wrong track for week five. Wait, it's still week five? Oh, man, not for all of us. There are some of us who have moved on. Well, first headline, the end of a three-day saga.

Jason Moore back in a hat. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now that he's gotten the haircut, that allows you to reenter the hat. That is correct. I don't need to get a haircut because I'm going to wear a hat, but every now and then you got to go to a place. Maybe you're not allowed to wear a hat there. You need to be able to do your hair. When you finally made it into this barber stylist,

did they kind of drop confetti, throw you a party for not having a hat on when you entered? Yes, she did. She had the confetti cannon. Ironically, she did the social media thing where she shot the balloon ahead. Oh, and it dropped the stuff. And then confettied me in the face. So it made it a nightmare to cut my hair.

Yeah, there's a lot. It was very ironic. So that saga is over. You've gotten the haircut and you've got the hat back on. And then the other, you know, we have a 60-point game last night to talk about. The Bears 40, Commanders 20. Wow. Yeah.

There's so much to discuss. Yep. We had a monstrous lifetime performance from DJ Moore, eight for 230 and three on 10 targets. Justin Fields was 282 and four, no interceptions, no turnovers, 11 for 57 on the ground. 11 rushing attempts. Yes, sir. no interceptions, no turnovers, 11 for 57 on the ground. 11 rushing attempts.

Yes, sir. And, well, you know, it's been a rough start to the season for our good friend Al Borland sitting over there in Deucer's Alley. Al has, I think you've quit fantasy eight, ten times so far? Definitely, yeah. And part of his roster investment this year that we, you know, coming into the season, we were like, this is a great team. This man drafted very well.

Well, he had the Justin Fields, DJ Moore stack. And through four weeks, he has the least points scored in the league. And then last night happened, and I'm sitting there. I'm watching what's happening, and Al is rejoicing in our Slack channel. He's talking not safe for work, ladies and gentlemen. He's filthy. He's fully excited. Filth machine.

And just gloating. And then I realize he's facing the fantasy hitman. Mike is his matchup for the week. I thought it was just a pure celebration until I realized that there was a man in a deep, dark pit, a pit of despair, who had 92 points hung on him last night. Which, for context of the League of Record,

92 points from his two players, 92 points would have beaten three teams last week. And if he adds, let's say, eight to nine points from the remainder of his squad, that would have beaten half of the league last week. He outscored his own team from last week on Thursday night. So? So Mike is. What are you guys doing on Sunday?

Guess we're looking for something to do. Yeah. There are people listening. Want to hit like the links. Yeah. I mean, Mike is free. Anybody out there? You need somebody?

You need a wingman? You want to, you got to need someone to go to a wedding with you? I am very open. So my schedule cleared out. It was a massacre. And Mike is not alone. I mean, we've heard from so many of you facing. Yeah, I heard from a lot of people.

Oh, I played against DJ Moore. I'm like, so what? I played against both. I played against both of them. My carcass has already been taken, and I am no more. I am just ashes. Yeah, you've been creamy. You're beautiful.

Beautiful vase. The ceremony already happened. I'm done. Mike's final words on the Slack channel last night came after the throwaway final touchdown, and it was just, what the F? Never heard from him again. He disappeared into the mist. Look, I feel good.

I feel good that we told people not to drop Justin Fields. Jason, you were very vocal about, you know, we said chase last week with Fields and more. And then if you wanted to chase Herbert and Komet, you can. It worked out in the sense that Komet was 5 for 42, got in the end zone again. Herbert was very good before the injury. Herbert was 10 for 76, and he didn't play a whole game.

And I've never seen a – The dude was balling. I've never seen a running back room where Travis Homer, Khalil Herbert, Rashaun Johnson all went out in the same game, and the back half of the game was all the fullback. Blazing game. Yeah, so on the other side, I was telling the guys before that, you know, Sam Howell was the start of the week.

And let me tell you, being on Twitter. For you. Being on Twitter at halftime, y'all weren't nice. But he ends up 388-2. That's a great game. He passed the ball 51 times.gan thomas was nine for 77 and a touchdown the leader in the receiving room was curtis samuel what wasn't good is look this team did not run the ball at all in the second half no because the game script was over with so

brian robinson had six first half carries the end of the story um yeah six for 10 in six first half carries, the end of the story. Yeah. Six for 10 in the first half. And the game. Six for 10. Hal had the garbage time, big game, which was nice to see. Thomas had the good game. Otherwise, the storyline is the distribution of targets in Washington is a disaster.

He passed the ball 51 times, and 10 of the 51 passes went to Terry McLaurin or Jahan Dotson. Yeah, you really want a consolidation of targets for an offense for fantasy football. And this was this was not that Brian Pringle got targets. Diamond Brown got targets. John Bates got targets. Jamison Crowder didn't know he was still playing football. He got targets like what are you doing? Washington 11 different receivers receive targets. John Bates got targets. Jamison Crowder didn't know he was still playing football. He got targets. Like what are you doing? Washington 11 different receivers receive targets. Yeah,

that's, that is, and that, that can be fine for the NFL. I mean, you've seen Matt Ryan go out there and distribute it to, you know, a bunch of different players and have a great game, but we're selfish. We're playing fantasy football, and this is not good for fantasy football. It's not just about being selfish. It's your two best offensive weapons are Terry McLaurin and Jahan Dotson. Yes. Oh, Dotson had that one-handed 40-yard catch that was out of bounds, too. That was a bummer. They are great players, and you have to figure out.

If Chicago's looking at this going yeah cool go ahead distribute the ball to your entire team get everyone involved a nice pat on the back we're going to make sure that your elite players don't beat us and you know who's not breaking off a tackle and running 40 yards for a touchdown john bates or james and crowder no that's exactly it after the catch stuff the you know McLaurin drew two deep pass interference penalties because why you targeted him yep he's probably breaking the record for most PIs this year I feel like every time he's targeted they get a PI it's weird I'm not impressed with Eric Bien-Ami in the offense. No. The enemy of offense.

I feel like Sam Howell kind of salvaged the day by himself, standing in there taking hits, sacked five times, breaking through tackles. There you go. It is Friday. Putt Clan Friday. put clan friday well every friday we give away a 100 gift card to fantasychamps.com and today's winner yoda man now is that like the character from star wars yoda but he's a man? Or is that like you are the man, like Yoda man? I think it is, in fact, both.

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Let's get into the news. News and notes from around the league. Presented by USAA Insurance. Well, the headline news right now, Almon Ross St. Brown, the abdomen injury, missed Thursday and missing two days practice. Not good. He said his goal is to play his head coach came out this morning and said they will update us on the status of Almonra

St. Brown uh in the next 24 hours so they don't know if he's going I genuinely think that's kind of the situation is that Dan Campbell is waiting uh to find out if the medical team clears him, if he's capable of playing, and we will find out. Yeah, I do think at this point there are a handful of names that you might want to just start over him if he's active. Obviously, Amin Ra is a great player. We talked about how tough he is. He'll play through injuries. I'm not saying that if he plays, you bench him.

Garrett Wilson. Exactly. Garrett Wilson is one of the names I would do. Nico Collins I would do. Calvin Ridley. I think I go all the way down. DJ Moore. DJ Moore.

Hope you did that one. You know, I go all the way down to probably Marquise Brown, where he's been involved in the Cardinals would be good. Usually I would always start Amon Raw over you know the those other names but when you're factoring in this injury if he's active he might be hampered and limited and this is kind of a situation that could resemble what happened with the 49ers this last week where you had Debo Samuel was injured missed practice was active and I do believe that if they needed him he could have performed but Christian McCaffrey went ham.

The 49ers did not need Debo to do anything. And this is the type of game at home against the Carolina Panthers, the winless Panthers, where you could see a situation where it's like, hey, we don't really need to force the ball to Amon Ra. We're not having to pick up these tough third downs. You know, we're smoking them. Maybe we give them a little bit more rest. So that's why I would sit there and go, okay,

I think these other players are decent starts this week, so I would rather get my guaranteed, you know, 8, 9, 10 points. Yeah, it makes sense. Damian Pierce back to a full participant, so that's nice. Ramondre stayed limited on Thursday, back-to-back limited. The vibes around Ramondre right now are very bad. The over-under is very low. The defenses are very good.

So Ramondre is another person in that category of if you need to play him, you can. If you have other options, maybe Pivot O'Clock, Mike? Yeah. Yes, I'm on the plan of next week jonathan taylor full participant in thursday's practice i would say that we are handicapping his odds of playing at i'm gonna put him at 98 where are you guys at right around there yep kenny pickett upgraded a full participant. He's going to be back. What? They're expecting him to start.

Home game, Baltimore. Kenny Pickett. Oh, okay. That de-escalated quickly. Yeah, it did. Well, he's going to be up for the season. Oh, it looks like it's just a couple of weeks. Well, it's just a bone bruise. It's just a few moments.

It's just a few moments. And he's back. A few moments. What? He did not miss practice. A lot of people would have had surgery, though. Mac Jones mentioned that. No, Mac Jones would not have had surgery. Mac Jones would not

have left the game. Alright, Cooper Cup logged to full practice, expected to play barring setbacks. Yeah, I mean, Cooper Cup and Jonathan Taylor are starting this week, and they should be started for your rosters good news here giovante williams returned to practice on thursday good news unless you dropped 40 fab on

jaleel mclaughlin yep yeah i'm not i'm not even sure like i think this is primarily bad news for fantasy football because people haven't been excited to start giovante you know what i mean it hasn't gone well so it's not like the Javante managers are going like, now it's like, oh, no, I've got to make a decision. If he was out, it's like, okay. And everybody just picked up McLaughlin. So it's like, I think this is just bad news. I mean, it's good for the health.

Yeah, well, Al, do you need Javante this week? Yeah, that decision is less stressful for me now. Oh, okay. I dare you to bench him. He'd be fine. He could probably bench a couple more players. Oh, okay. I dare you to bench him. He'd be fine. He could probably bench a couple more players. Oh, man, if he benches two guys, if this goes too empty on you. He will win.

Headline news, but not headline news because it doesn't matter. Chase Claypool traded to the Dolphins. A 6-7 swap for the player traded for the number 32 overall pick last year. Bravo, Pittsburgh, for what you did. You stole from Chicago. They knew what they had, and they were able to get out. Pittsburgh did a great job. Once you had Chase Claypool, the Bears realized what they had,

and they got out. So I expect them to be cut from the Dolphins real soon. Nothing like Robbie Anderson or Chosen like Robbie Chosen and Chase Claypool down at the bottom of your depth chart hanging out. Let this be something you can look at. When you have people in your fantasy league that want to veto trades, just remember the NFL let Chase Claypool be traded for the 32nd overall pick. And no one in the NFL said a thing about it. They should have passed the veto around.

They let the grownups manage their team. Most people knew it was a dumb decision, but they let it happen. You know that the Ravens organization, when that trade went through, oh, come on. For sure. That's not fair. They would have vetoed it. Don't give Pittsburgh a first.

It was a second, Jason. Well, yes, the 32nd pick, which was a second technically. Well, there you go. By the way, a very humorous little note here from Al Borland. Mike, he said that you can pick his flex for him. Oh, nice. Oh, yes. Oh, boy.

I'll let you know on Sunday afternoon. Yeah, there you go. That was today's News and Notes presented by USAA Insurance. Learn more at USAA.com slash insurance. Fantasy forecast. Well, I mean, you could come back, Mike, if Christian McCaffrey scored five touchdowns, which he's capable of doing. Yes, but it's more of the rest of Owl's team

has to just completely tank the suit the week i don't know if al we'll see him ever again if that were to happen um oh man i i am now i am now rooting so hard against you jeremy and and and before this happened i would certainly have wanted you to beat mike not anymore anymore. I'm on Team Mike. Let's go, baby. I don't blame you. You may need to pivot out of Latavius Murray's in your RB2, though. I mean, I don't know if the ceiling for Latavius is going to get it done for you.

There's not many other options. That's one of those ones where you just play like you play Jordan Mason alongside Christian McCaffrey and just ride 49er touchdowns. Part two of our fantasy forecast, getting into the matchups, part one on yesterday's show. And we're jumping in. Pittsburgh, or I'm sorry, Philadelphia, 4-0. Traveling to take on the Los Angeles Rams, who are 2-2.

The DraftKings Sportsbook line, Eagles, minus 4. The over-under is 50 points. Okay, I'll take it. Easily my favorite game of the week. It is also... Oh, yeah. It's also going to be a good game. Yeah, it is.

I'm excited for this one, like you said. Jalen Hurts, Matthew Stafford at quarterback. Stafford only has three touchdowns in the first three games. He's not been good for fantasy. He has been good as an NFL quarterback. He's been great as an NFL quarterback. He's thrown some interceptions. He does that.

But you watch the speed of the ball coming out of his hand, the angles he's throwing out. Stepping up through the pocket. Worry of health. And he is a little bit banged up from last week, but he still looked absolutely amazing. He's on pace for 5,200 passing yards. He has made Puka Nakua and Tutu Atwell into stars.

And now he gets Cooper Cupback, who has been his touchdown machine. Did you see the video yesterday, either of you guys, of Cooper Cupback practice and them running the step drill? cup back who has been his touchdown machine did you see the video yesterday either of you guys have um cooper cup at practice and them running the running the step drill i heard about it okay so they're running they're running a very um like a standard quick feet drill around uh the cones like a straight line quick feet drill and cooper cup and puka nakua do the drill back-to-back. And it was like the preseason video of Calvin Ridley running the route and Zay Jones running the route. Like, Puka Nakua is amazing.

What Cooper Cup did in the drill was like, oh, oh, you're that good. Yeah, I remember this guy. Yeah, so he'll have a full assortment of weapons. Cup, Nakua, Atwell, Higby. All four of those players, including and Kyron Williams, are all in play. For those of you, did you see it? I'm watching it now. Oh, Puka.

I don't know that. It's not his drill, I guess. It's not his drill. Or that's how they all look other than Cooper Kup. I don't know. I think it's a Puka problem. I really do. It looks so slow and know. I think it's a Puka problem. I really do. It looks so slow and bad.

I think I can do it better. No, it's not as fast as Mr. Cup. But I think when people see the Philadelphia matchup, you're still reacting to last year. But this year, the Eagles defense, 26 against quarterbacks, 28 against wide receivers, 31st against tight ends, other than stopping the run, they've essentially been one of the worst defenses in terms of fantasy production against them.

So I don't think you have another option. Kyron Williams went 27 points last week. I think you keep playing him. They seem to give the ball to their running backs around the goal line and then they have success so far this year. So is there any real hesitation around any option in Los Angeles? Not for me. And they're at home. Yeah. So I do, I do have a little bit of worry, you know, with Cooper cup now seeming like he's going to come back and play, you know, we've talked about who is that wide receiver who's the odd man out is it Puka is it Tutu and I know Mike you you like Tutu as a start this week

just because it's Cooper's first game back I think in the long run that Tutu is the one that loses the snaps I do too but I think that I think Cooper Cup comes back and plays a full allotment like it plays 90 percent of his normal role. So, I guess I'm hesitant to start 2-2. That would be my only hesitation on that side. Jalen Hurts is in. DeAndre Swift, stay in the flames. Last three games, RB2, 13-11.

Yesterday, I tweeted out there's one player who is stuffed more than anybody else in the league. 25% of the time, Najee Harris is stuffed at the line of scrimmage. That's why you think he's bad because you watch him get stuffed on one quarter of his runs. The least stuffed player thus far in the NFL is DeAndre Swift. He has been stuffed 5% of the time. Whenever they show the film from the angle of behind the quarterback, it's unbelievable what this offensive line is doing. You could fit.

I could fit in that hole. Yes. I wouldn't be able to make it far, but I could fit through it. That's impressive. A.J. Brown, Devontae Smith, far, but I could fit through it. That's impressive. AJ Brown, Devontae Smith, play him. I'm a wide man. Story time. Okay, yeah, you're a wide man.

I'm a wide man. Are you talking about the bathroom? I'm talking about the bathroom. Yeah, do it. All right, here we go. Shocking. So we have three bathrooms at our studio now, and sometimes there's an A an a a p and a c

bathroom of course and so i want i want the creme de la creme uh potty room um but also i hate the one next door to i hate it which i i never understood this whole time i'm like why it's solid i was like why can't you pivot solid this, it's not solid. This is the point. I'm learning. I learned. So I brought up to them. I'm like, look, I was transparent and vulnerable, and I said, it happens to you guys too, right? And they're like, what? I go, your leg runs into the toilet paper dispenser where the toilet paper roll is in your way, right? And they're like, no, it's never been in my way. And I'm just thinking, well, that's the the pee bathroom they don't sit down in there so you guys

just have an experience that you don't remember so me and andy and papa josh all clothed went into the bathroom and sat down on the toilet to test to see if your legs run into the toilet paper. Because there's no way it doesn't for them. I'm not like a humongous 500 pound, you know, monster. I'm just wide. And so I go down and Andy sits down. And he's got long legs. No problem. Doesn't run into it.

Josh sits down. No issue. No issue. I sit down. I'm just sitting normal. I don't feel like i'm like you're not you don't have like a wide stance no i'm not like a normal stance spread eagle on the toilet here i'm just sitting down and my leg stretches his leg is obliterating obliterating i got no

room there and this is why i have to have an aisle seat or a first class seat on a plane. I can't sit next to people. I can't. I'm too. I'm just, I've got birthing hips. My leg. You know? Yeah, man. Yeah. My leg has. We know. I've never even grazed the toilet paper dispenser.

It blew my mind. And then when I saw it, I was like, yeah, that looks uncomfortable. It's a real problem. You got to get to side saddle. What is that called? What's that called? Side saddle. That's what it's called.

Side saddle. Full sideways. Oh, my gosh. You got to do that sometime. I'm going to try it out. I mean, if I've got to go in that room, that's the only way now. I'll side saddle it. Oh, my goodness. So, long story short, your birthing hips could fit through the lanes

that are opening up for DeAndre Swift. Yes, that's I wanted to illustrate how large these holes of the Philadelphia offensive line are. Dallas Goddard is the biggest question in this game. Yeah, he is and he's one that hopefully, I mean, I got a lot of people last night. They said they pivoted off

of Goddard and started Logan Thomas and I'm proud of you. I think that's a great call. It's not that Goddard can't perform. It's that Goddard hasn't. Through four games, I mean, this is not a startable tight end. I'd play Zacherts. Hold on. Hold on.

I want to be really, really real here because this is important. And that's disgusting. You're really dealing with it. I am really dealing with it because this is a very good matchup where you beat the Rams is at the tight end position. They play a lot of zone. This is this is actually I want to bring this up like this is a Devonta Smith game to me over an A.J. Brown game.

I mean, they're both going to be great, but like Devonta Smith is their zone beater. A.J. Brown is their man beater, and they're going to be great. But, like, Devonta Smith is their zone beater. A.J. Brown is their man beater. And they're going to play a lot of zone. While that is also susceptible to the tight end position, a quality tight end that could sit in those zones has really been destroying the Rams. Yes. So here's Dallas Goddard, a very talented player, a very talented tight end,

who has had success before in a plus matchup. It seems like you should be starting Dallas Goddard. You're allowed to call the breakout, man. He's been absolutely trash. So I just want to know, this game, because I think a lot of people right now who had Dallas Goddard have picked up Tyler Higbee and they're rostering both of these players. They're basically the same price in DraftKings. Which one of these players has the better game? It's a tough call, to be honest. With Cooper Cupp returning and all the options in the passing game,

Higby has been a product often of opportunity, not necessity. Necessity of opportunity. Yeah, necessity over being the focal point of an offense. Both teams have struggled against tight ends. I would say that I would play Higby in that scenario. Yeah, I would too. But I get it. I think both could have successful games.

This could be the breakout week. They keep talking about it, and talk is cheap. Show it to us. Yeah. All right, we're going to take a break, and then move on to the Bengals Cardinals. I've thought about it through that ad break. I'm playing Dallas Goddard.

Okay. Over Higby? Or just like, you know. No, over Higby. I'm playing Dallas Goddard. All right. The Bengals 1-3. The Cardinals 1-3.

The DK Sportsbook line has the Bengals minus 3 in this one on the road in Arizona. The over-under is 44 points. Speaking of Tyler Higby, Joe Burrow is averaging one fantasy point more per game than Tyler Higby. What? So. Just to highlight, if you weren't sure, is Joe Burrow playing bad? I feel like we are two weeks later or ahead, I mean, of the situation with Justin Fields.

We know the truth. We know what the capability is. But if you need a break, you can take it. He should be able to dominate in this game the Cardinals are the second worst team against fantasy quarterbacks according to schedule adjusted fantasy points given up they're terrible against the run game Daniel Jones had his great game but Brock Purdy was very good in the end against the Cardinals what's weird to me is that when you watch the Bengals play football it the same truths that we will outlay as to why Joe Burrow should be breaking out

and why Jamar Chase should be fine and why everything should go right, all of those things have been true in every single matchup that they've had. It's always been, why aren't you throwing the ball to Jamar Chase more? Why are you getting rid of it underneath so often? All of those things are true. So it's on the road. Arizona's been a more formidable opponent than some have expected. It's just a little shaky, right? Like, you can't play Joe Burrow with five-star confidence.

He's a three-star, I hope you come back to form player. Yeah, I feel like he's a one-star must bench. You know, when we were talking about the matchup for Denver two weeks ago with Justin Fields, this feels very different. To me, I was saying I would start Justin Fields. His bad games were 15 fantasy points, and you knew he has the ability to go nuclear because he did it last season over and over. Now, we know Joe Burrow can go nuclear, but his bad games have been Tyler Higbee at quarterback.

You can't have that. Also, you lose T. Higgins. Yeah, he has not been practicing. Very doubtful. Last week, it was a perfect matchup against the Tennessee Titans, but the immobile life of Joe Burrow in the pocket was not a good experience. He was on his back all the time. I couldn't believe he made it out of there with his right shoulder intact the amount of times his throwing arm got just hammered mid-throw.

So for me, you hold on to Joe Burrow. I think it's going to be several more weeks before he's good, but you put him on your bench. There are like six journeyman-style quarterbacks that I would rather play. Like Matthew Stafford. Sure. I would so much rather play Matthew Stafford than Joe Burrow this week. And should he go off?

Great. You had a good performance. Purdy. Maybe you can have – oh, I would play Purdy. I mean, any – Dobbs in the same game? So that was the real question to me. Was this matchup Dobbs v. Burrow?

I decided to make Dobbs one spot ahead of Burrow in my personal rankings if I had them both I would put the mobile Russian quarterback who's had multiple good performances this year who's playing at home in over Burrow it feels bad but do not drop Burrow he will recover at some point in the second half of the season will be great that being said Jamar Chase is fine Jamar chase you know he's had over 10 targets per game on average yeah he'll get that in this game too he's been loud yeah for sure this is uh i you know sit joe burrow in my opinion play uh jamar chase for sure 12 design runs or 12 rushes by josh dobbs last week plenty design runs. You're seeing the emergence of Michael Wilson.

You're seeing Hollywood Brown on 153 target pace over the last three weeks, kind of putting together a fantasy output that is consistent. James Conner, Zach Ertz, I think all of those guys are in play this week. Now, Michael Wilson is the one where it's like you're chasing a little bit because he had a good week two weeks ago, but it was on two passes, and one of them was a broken play where they didn't cover him, and he just ran wild and free. Now, last week it was seven targets, seven catches, two touchdowns.

If I'm looking at Hollywood and Michael Wilson, I'm just playing Hollywood. For sure. Hollywood is the first read, the more targeted player, the better player. Michael Wilson is a very interesting name that I think you want on your bench. And in, like, DraftKings, he's absurd. You know, that's where whenever you've got these guys that's like, man, I see a sliver of hope for a player that I'm not sure in my redraft leagues if I can get him in. That's where it's really fun to capitalize on them in a draft Kings lineup. I think he's 3,700.

He's sub 4,000 for a player who just went seven for 70 and two touchdowns. All right, Mike, any other thoughts on this game? We've talked about Zach Ertz at length this week. He is viable in this matchup. Tyler Boyd would be a flex consideration. Yeah, I have no. Not my boy. Tyler Boyd, not for you. He's not my boy. Michael Wilson, Tyler Boyd? Michael my Boyd. Tyler Boyd, not for you?

He's not my Boyd. Michael Wilson, Tyler Boyd? Michael Wilson. Okay. Although we are starting Tyler Boyd. Yes. He is a startable player. He should see 25 plus percent of the targets. I'm not going to hit the button for this, but a quick update on Saquon Barkley before we move on to our next

matchup. I said it yesterday. I just have a bad feeling about it. Saquon Barkley before we move on to our next matchup. I said it yesterday. I just have a bad feeling about it. Saquon is running around today. Brian Dable said the Giants' status for the RB will go up until game time. Now, if he plays, you play him. He's Saquon. But you're going to need a pivot option.

Hopefully you have that. What time is that game? That's one of the early ones, 1 o'clock Eastern time. Okay, so you're going to hear, but it might not be until very late. Wow. This guy's been day-to-day for weeks. It's just, like I said yesterday, if it really is a high ankle sprain, it's still a little too soon.

Usually, I brought this up earlier, historically if you have a high ankle sprain, most common you either miss zero games or you miss three games. Those are the numbers that are much, much higher than any other option. He's missed two games so far. So missing this week, the math would check out with just what the norm is. Also, Giants, get rid of him. Put him somewhere where he can be of value.

You realize the Giants are 1-3 and now play Miami and Buffalo? Yeah, you're not going to see a lot of smiles from Brian Dable in the next couple of weeks. The Jets are 1-3. The Broncos are 1-3. The game's in Denver. The DK Sportsbook line Broncos, 2.5-point favorites. The over-under is 43.5.

I'm looking at the Broncos' and the numbers are giving up dear goodness uh 25 points a game to quarterbacks 41 to running backs those are both dead last in the league 36 to wide receivers and why not just toss 13 points to the tight end it really makes this game tough because you you just can't have just can't have strong confidence in Zach Wilson, the player. You can have strong confidence in the matchup. You can have strong confidence in Brees Hall. You can have strong confidence in Garrett Wilson and the targets and the talent, but there is a dependency here. It's like it all runs through the one, whatever, the gear that has to move a little bit is Zach Wilson.

Now, it all sets up for him to be able to do it, but his games, his collapses are not middle of the road. They are kind of utter garbage situations. They're getting benched at halftime with negative fantasy points. That's what could happen. Yeah, exactly, and he played so well against Kansas City, but one of the reasons why is because the team decided to let him throw the ball a little bit.

They knew it was Kansas City. They knew they could not just hand the ball off to Brees Hall and Delvin Cook and not let him throw the football. There's a chance that they can let him chill out. I'm not saying it's going to happen, but there is a chance that they shut Denver down. He threw it 36 times the week before against the Patriots the way that I see this is is actually pretty easy and obvious for the Jets like because of the matchup against the Broncos when you have actual talented players you need to have them in your

starting lineup that's why Brees Hall is in and Garrett Wilson is in the combination of their talent with this matchup says you don't want the opportunity for a huge explosion on your bench. The bad defense means that Zach Wilson and Tyler Conklin, because the Vance Joseph-led teams are just tight end. I mean, Cole Komet went crazy last week. Those players are guys you can start if you really need a pivot option. So outside of those four and that method, I think that's the Jets for me. Are you surprised the Broncos are two-and-a-half point favorites in this one? I was really surprised. I am, yeah.

Give them the home field advantage, Make it be a one point. But I'm surprised it's at two and a half. The area in which the Jets have been giving up fantasy production and fantasy points, their defense has been great against the quarterback and the wide receivers. But the running back and the tight end is where they've given up points. Now, you don't really have a tight end endeavor. You don't really have a running back.

Well, that's the thing. It's like the weakness is, like, I feel like the Jets could come out here, maybe impose their will. You know, you hope you get the production in the passing game early from Zach Wilson and Garrett Wilson because there could be some – you know, Vegas doesn't see it that way. Vegas sees the Broncos as favorites. Russell Wilson has been very, very good in two quarterback leagues.

I've been starting him almost every week where I have him. This is a week where if I've got other options that I could bench, I'd be starting someone like a Brock Purdy over Russell Wilson, Matthew Stafford over Russell Wilson. I would like to bench him this week despite the fact that for fantasy he's been okay. Really, truly. 4,300 yards and 38 touchdowns is his pace. There is not a Bronco I want to start, not one single one,

including Cortland Sutton, who's been good for fantasy. But when we look at our expected points model, we've got a great article coming out by Marvin the Martian every week, and it shows his expected fantasy points is not in the top 40 wide receivers. He's just scored three times. Right, so then you put that up against the Jets, fantasy points is like wide. It's like not in the top 40 wide receivers. He's just scored three times. Right. So then you put that up against the Jets, and it's like, no, I'm looking to pivot off of all Denver options.

What if – Michael Wilson, Cortland Sutton. That's really push comes to shove. That's a tough one. It is tough. I lean Michael Wilson because of the Jets. For Javante Williams, I know he practiced. He was limited. I think there's still a chance that he doesn't play.

So just in that hypothetical, if he doesn't play, does that change things for you at all, Jason, of like Jaleel or Pirine? Not really. I still am Jaleel ahead of Pirine if Javante is out just for the explosive opportunity to just break a playoff. He's got 4-4 speed, but I would rather not. The truth is, whoever spent $40 plus on Jaleel is either dumb because they spent too much or they really need him, and that's why they spent too much. And so this might not be a choice they have. Kansas City's 3-1, and they take on the 1-3 Minnesota Vikings. The DK Sportsbook line chiefs minus 3.5 on the road.

The over-under is a rather delicious 52.5 points. Kirk Cousins has finished as the quarterback 9-2, 4-22. Guess which one was their victory. Right. It was the last one. Yeah. You've had emergent

performances from Alexander Madison for the past couple of weeks. Akers had seven opportunities and 51 yards in the debut. I do think they will work him in more. Yeah, I can agree. Jefferson, don't need to talk about him. I'm sorry.

If you have him, congratulations. We never need to talk about him because you always play him. Jordan Addison is another, you know, he's going to be volatile just based on the fact that he's not out there for every snap and the fact that you know last last game he had one target yeah he was only out there for 58 of the snaps but that was a game where you were winning you were destroying the the panthers despite the pick six in the beginning and it was a game where they thought we're not going to throw the ball much at all so this was a really different scheme than what we saw for the

first three weeks for the Vikings I blame that on the matchup you know against Carolina you know they they they executed it great and Alexander Madison was running really really well I don't know that you're going to possibly put that kind of a game plan in place for the Kansas City Chiefs that being said I to me he is a he's not a must-start by any stretch. No, no, but he's a can start. He's a can start. He's a risky start. When he does catch the ball, it has not been for –

if he's not catching that long pass, it's been kind of short-yarded, Zay Flower stuff. Hawkinson is a must-start. Are you going to go Tank Dell or Jordan Addison? I'll play Tank Dell. Yeah, that's really tough um i see them very very similarly i i feel like i want that i want the big play opportunity of a kansas city chief game here um man is this prime time i don't know where's cousins all right no yeah then addison okay uh jerry judy in that Jets matchup. Yeah, I'll play Judy.

I'm going Addison there. All right. Interesting. Chiefs only giving up 23 fantasy points a game to wideouts. I'm surprised that 21 of them will probably be Justin Jefferson. Alexander Madison or Raheem Mostert? Mostert, for sure. Okay.

Yeah, this matchup's not good for running backs. Chiefs defense, fifth in the league in schedule adjusted. You can play your Chiefs running back, Isaiah Pacheco. He has been back-to-back top 12. He looks really, really good. They've thrown him the ball a little bit. I see the separation between the other options they have and Isaiah Pacheco right now.

And this is coming from a guy that didn't see that two weeks ago and ended up with Pacheco's big game on my bench. But I think Isaiah Pacheco is just solidifying. And we mentioned that he was one of those guys that you forget, that he was injured all preseason and wearing a non-contact jersey through a lot of training camps. It's not the biggest surprise that it's taken some time, but

Pacheco is taking over. Yeah, he's at 4.9 to carry on the year now. Patrick Mahomes, of course. Wide receivers in Kansas City. Oh, man. No, thank you! Yeah.

The matchup is great. Someone willup is great someone will do something someone will do something that's that's a rice rice tony more mbs watson and justin ross i picked up justin ross really i did didn't he have like a snap or something oh yeah he's barely playing okay i mean yeah i picked him up because i feel like the there's a kind of an outcry in Kansas City to get him more snaps because he's he just looks better than the other receivers there Sky Moore's numbers I mean when you talk about any metric that matters as a wide receiver have been atrocious you know I'm not a Sky Moore fan I'm not an MVS fan Kadarius Tony has proven that he will never be on the field more than 15% of snaps.

Not that any one of those guys couldn't get a touchdown, but if I had to put a wide receiver out there to have a big game against the Minnesota Vikings, it would be Rushie Rice. It's a rookie who has looked good. Like Sky Moore as a rookie never looked good. Rushie Rice has looked good and we brought this up. Two different drives, two different plays he was a yard away from a touchdown he gets two more yards um and in a couple weeks ago you're talking about a guy who has a multi-touchdown Kansas City Chiefs game and and Rushie Rice would be the number one

waiver pickup and and play so he's the guy I would take a shot at but I'm not going to start in redraft leagues any any of them. Play Kelsey. Yeah, Travis Kelsey is my wide receiver of choice. Nice. The Dallas Cowboys are 3-1, Sunday night football. This should be fun. Taking on the 49ers in prime time.

49ers have been on fire. They're a three-and-a-half point home favorites, according to the DraftKings Sportsbook. The over-under, 44.5. It gives Dallas an implied point total of just over 20. The 49ers at 24. I believe they've scored over 30 in every one of their games so far. You can verify that.

I will look at that. But you are, well, they've scored 30, 30, 30, and 35. So over 30 in just one game. I – Yeah, I mean, I stand corrected. I hate to bring the facts to you. Scored over 30. You were way off. Scoring 30 is not over 30.

No, it isn't. I'm wrong. Scored at least 30. There it is. There it is. I would have came in here and been like, incredible memory, Andy. You nailed it. But instead, I had to tell you, you're very wrong.

No, I'm like – You're wrong 75% of the time. That is very wrong. It came out that Debo is basically a decoy in the last game, didn't receive a target. Not going to be playing this game at 100%. I need to hear from you two what your approach to Debo Samuel is this week. It's a game where they will need their weapons. It's a tough defense.

They can't simply hand the ball to McCaffrey. Maybe they can, but against Arizona, you could give it to McCaffrey on every play and it would always work. I think in this game, you're going to need to see some more inventive play calling. What do you do with Debo, though, as a start-sit decision? I have him exactly like what we just talked about with Amon Ross St. Brown. I have them literally back-to-back where – You're trying not to – If I've got other good options, other wide receivers that I like that I think can have a good week.

They've got to be good, though. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let me give you a flex decision. Would you rather play – Like you've got Gary Wilson. Asking for a friend. Would you rather play Damian Pierce against Atlanta or would you rather play Debo Samuel?

Not that I'll be listening to you. Not that it's about me. That one is really, really tough in the flex. I lean Damian Pierce. But I'm curious where you are on that one, Mike. I would take the points from Pierce. So, Brandon, you're starting him in a tough matchup. Yeah.

George Kittle? Hey, I mean. Hoping for a little bittle? Yeah, it's like. One catch against Arizona, and that was supposed to be. Extraordinarily disappointing, especially when you have Debo accurately being, you know, an injured, unused player on the field.

That's usually where Kittle goes off. Three points, four points, one point, and 12 on the year. Extreme selfishness from Christian McCaffrey. If I'm being honest, he was just so rude to Georgia. You're going to need him to be a little more selfish. Yeah, you're going to need him to be a lot selfish. I mean, Kittle is a guy where it's like we've seen this for years now. Kittle's bad games.

This is why in draft season he was our number one bust pick. We didn't like drafting him. The reason is because his bad games are not acceptable bad games. They're not where you've got eight points and you're disappointed. They're where he's got three points and he ruins a slot on your roster. That being said, his big games are the exact opposite. He's one of the only tight ends in the league that can go out there and put up 30. If you have him, I would be surprised that you have a better pivot option. You know, like for instance, Zach Ertz, we've talked about,

he's a good play. He's getting enough targets. He is a safe, put him in your tight end slot. But if I had both those players recognizing that Kittle could easily go out there and give me three points, I'm still playing Kittle because it's not that Zach Ertz can't also give me three points. He will probably not. He'll probably get me seven, but those four points aren't worth losing out on 25 extra points from my bench. So that's kind of how I see it. And personally, the second that I get a big monstrous game from George Kittle, I am trading him. What about the tight end on the other side? It's a popular start-sit question on the website. Jake Ferguson. It's very similar

to how I see Ertz because the matchup is not great against the 49ers, but he's very involved. I mean, his target share, let me pull it up real quick. On pace for just over 100 targets. I mean, like 19% weeks three and

four. I mean, that's fine. That is absolutely fine for someone who we got off of the waiver wire or very late in the draft. He did finish as – what? Somehow he finishes the tight end six. Yeah, but how many points? With 11.2 and a half points. It's not bad.

Because he was seven for 77. I'm just – like how are you the tight end six with no touchdown? That's pretty wild. So, yeah, I'm going to keep playing him. Dak features him a lot in the red zone. What about the wide receivers beyond CeeDee Lamb in this game for the Cowboys? I don't love starting them. There's a couple places in a pinch where I have chosen to put Michael Gallup

into my lineup. He's a couple places in a pinch where I have chosen to put Michael Gallup into my lineup. He's been pretty good. Six receptions, five receptions the last two weeks with 92 and 60 yards. You know, he's now two years removed from his injury. He's a little bit younger than Brandon Cooks. He would be the guy that I would choose personally. And I see him as, you know, a wide receiver four. So hopefully you have a better option. Mike, any other thoughts on the, I mean, Tony Pollard, Christian McCaffrey obviously locked into your lineup.

Is Dak a full required benching this week? I don't think he's a full benching. I was going to bring him up. Would you rather play Dak or Joe Burrow? Dak. Yeah. So that to me is, that means Dak is not at full benching he's in a void if possible like right now I have my rank is I'd have Garoppolo in I'd have Josh Dobbs in. I think I'd play Burrow. Over Dak? Yeah because I know I know that Cincinnati is going to be able to put up some points against Arizona.

Dak has been almost as bad as Burrow. Dak is quarterback 29-17, 19-19. Fantasy wise. Which is what we're talking about. I know, but I'm saying Joe Burrow has been a bad fantasy quarterback, and he's been a bad

quarterback. Dak is still playing well he's just not there's no there hasn't been this he's been in a couple blowout wins where it's like okay you're they haven't needed to put up a huge amount of points okay and in I maybe this is just overall a low scoring game but I this is a matchup that like San Francisco is going to score that you just incorrectly pointed out 30-plus points, but at least 30 points in every one of their matchups. They're going to score on Dallas.

That was super embarrassing. I can't believe you said that. To be that wrong, three-fourths wrong. Should we edit it? That was real bad. They might not even be hearing this. The Green Bay Packers, 2-2, taking on the Las Vegas Raiders on Monday night. Jordan Love back in prime time.

Jason, start of the week. Now, Jason, you look like you might have suffered some sort of sitting injury. You just realized something. The Raiders are favored in this game? The DraftKings Sportsbook line Raiders minus one. The over-under is 45. Is that what we're still on? Did they get a new head coach?

That quick? Because I didn't think they had one on Thursday. Well, so you're shocked. It's in Las Vegas. I mean, I know they're home. Now, the Packers, I mean, the Packers. Which way do you lean, Andy? You're better at the lines than I am.

Do you think that? I think it'll be close. You think this is an appropriate line? Would you have set the line as Raiders minus one? No, I would have set it at Packers minus one. Okay. Yeah, the. Still Raiders minus one.

Let's just take a holistic view. I think the impression of week one where Jordan Love went out and they whipped the Bears 38 to 20, and he didn't throw any – I don't think he threw any interceptions, and they went out and smashed them. I think that impression has settled onto people. But since then, they lost to Atlanta. They lost to Detroit.

They were getting their butts kicked in New Orleans and somehow pulled out the 18-17 victory, which is not a lot of points. What's funny is that was the opposite from the week before. That momentum from week one carried right into Atlanta, and they started kicking the butts off of the – The butt. They kicked their butts off? They kicked their butts off in Atlanta

and then somehow lost that game at the end. It was – you're right, though. In New Orleans, or that was in Green Bay, but against the Saints, they were trash and somehow came back and won. This is a bit of an indictment on the offense, I think. I think you're just kind of seeing Vegas say, well, we don't have confidence. We don't believe.

And maybe Jordan Love comes out and impresses, but it was really kind of ugly last time out. And maybe it's also a little bit of a equivocation on the health of Aaron Jones, who didn't play a lot, the health of Christian Watson, who didn't play a lot. The ability of A.J. Dillon. The ability of A.J. Dillon. Who shouldn't play a lot. So, yeah, some of it's injury, some of it's confidence.

And then the Las Vegas Raiders, they do get Jimmy Garoppolo back. Devontae Adams, I think we expect to be back out there. It's a weird one. Yeah, I mean, I do understand it. I'm just surprised because the way that I view it is that the Green Bay Packers offense now is rounding into the shape that they wanted to start the season that they still haven't really had yet which is a fully healthy Aaron Jones a fully healthy Christian Watson so this should be and Luke Musgrave

appears like he's gonna pass the concussion protocol he practiced Thursday so he's on track to play so this should be like a full-go offense against a defense who has been pretty darn bad for a while. So I guess that's where I'm just surprised. I think that the Green Bay Packers will be able to score. Now, for fantasy purposes, who does that mean you can start? It's tough. Romeo Dobbs would be my number one.

I would put him in first because I think he's the highest-rated target. I'd have the most confidence, but it's also hard to bench Christian Watson when you can do what he can do. So I feel like I'm playing both those guys. The last two games, Jordan Love's passer rating was 66 and 69. He took six sacks. He threw three interceptions and had two touchdowns. So maybe a little bit of that.

Now, his fantasy production was fine because he scored on the ground in both those games, but just throwing it out there. Pass rating for Jimmy G on the year is 83. It's really not been bad. Mike, you brought this up, I think, in the studio the other day. Josh Jacobs finally had a big fantasy game last week. And he will continue it. I did see that Adams going out, to me, was very fundamental to it.

Because he got so much work in the passing game. He had 11 targets. But it was an Aiden O'Connell game too, right? It was. That being said, some of his actual runs just looked great. You have to remember that he held out. Fat Thor. Training camp.

He came in as Fat Thor. What happened in that movie? I can't believe that's come true. Yeah. He rounded into shape or thinned into shape. He's still Fat Thor to me. You're saying Josh Jacobs is still Fat Thor? Yeah.

I mean, he was 17 for 58 on the ground. When you watch the actual plays, he looked like he had the juice. So it might not have worked out, but Green Bay hasn't really been able to stop anyone, and I think it's going to keep rolling. It's similar to last year. Josh Jacobs got off to a slow start. I think he's going to have – we know the volume is there, right?

We don't really need to talk about this because no one's benching Josh Jacobs, but I do think he has a really good game this week. If Watson or Jones are active, are you playing either one? Yeah. It would freak me out a little bit. I think I'm playing both. So last game, Jones played 35% of snaps. Watson was, where was he at?

I think he played just under 50%. Yeah, I can see it. I can see both players just taking the chance, getting them out there. Yeah, this is week two, and those guys are good at scoring touchdowns. I would play them both. Okay. Well, time to move on. Oh, yay.

Yay. Fantasy Face-Off, presented by DraftKings. Well, well, well, we are four weeks into the season, and Mike is just sitting there in his second place seat where every week. Sitting in your number two. Hey, we're simmering, boys. It's a nice, light simmer. Number two. Every single week, Mike is finished in second place.

The first two weeks, I was on top, Jason on the bottom. And the last two weeks, well, unfortunately, I have reprised my role as a shamed fantasy face-off loser. You're trying to ride too hot, man. Don't ride hot. Don't ride cold. Just Goldilocks this thing, huh? Hey, Andy.

Yeah. When I finish first this week, I'm going to be rooting for you to finish second. Does that make you feel good? Yeah, sure. I've got the perfect second-place lineup. Oh, okay. All right. Well, let's get to it.

I am the loser last week. Jason won it. Mike was second. I was third. And let's spin that wheel. Wheel of Shame. Well, let's go ahead and spin that wheel. Maybe it'll land on getting a haircut, you know, with a hat on.

Where is he? Is that a silly wabbit? Deezer, cowboy. Flower power. What in the world does that say? That's really small font it says strawberry shortcake oh strawberry shortcake straw bobbleberry strawberry shortcake wait so i need i need like a whole yeah you got it we could do a little uh little strawberry costume change here

oh andy is becoming a huge strawberry. What a sweetheart. I don't want to be that guy, but it's on backwards. Just letting you know. Oh, I have the backwards strawberry? I think you're all right. You got the clasps. I mean, I wanted to see them for real, but all right. You're telling me I need to rotate the strawberry?

Yeah, rotate the strawberry. You could do it. I'm guessing that the other side looks. There goes the stem. Yeah. Oh the strawberry. You can do it. I'm guessing that the other side looks... There goes the stem. Yeah. Oh, man. Come on, man. Hurry up.

The audience is listening. We're good. We're good. We're moving on. Mike, I'm sorry. No, it's fine. I look ridiculous. All right.

Well, now we get to talk about our lineups. Where's the cake part? I just... It's a strawberry. Sorry. I just named it Strawberry Shortcake. That's it. Let's jump in.

It's a low-hanging fruit. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Well, thank you. Thank you, Jason. It's pretty ridiculous. Honestly, it's kind. I didn't put a mask on your face or anything.

There's no lipstick. But. Tattoos. You look stupid. That's what matters. mask on your face or anything. There's no lipstick, tattoos. You look stupid. That's what matters. Well, let's jump in. Quarterbacks. I'm going to kick it off.

Okay. I'm spending $7,100 on a quarterback. I had him. I had him, but I pivoted. Tua Tungavailoa. I'm going to take the bounce back performance at home. Okay. Against the Giants. I had strongly considered both Zach Wilson and Matthew Stafford,

but I went with Tua. So yesterday I had Tua in my lineup, and I switched because of our discussion on would you rather play Tua or Anthony Richardson. And I realized I think Anthony Richardson is the better play this week, and he's $100 cheaper. So you took him. I took Anthony Richardson at $7,000,000 Mike who's your starting quarterback I was in that discussion

I was on the side of Tua but I did not have a hundred dollars so I also have Anthony Richardson well this is setting up great isn't it um well my running back starts I spent 7,700 I'm guessing we all did B. John Robinson yes B. B. John is a check. So he's on all of our lineups? Yes. Check. He's playing the Houston Texans. Well, there you go.

And then my second running back. I'm guessing we all have the same second running back. I pivoted out. $6,300. Nope. Alvin Kamara. I'm taking Alvin Kamara in the PPR. Trying to get them 40 receiving yards on 20 catches.

Oh, he's got – I don't care. Oh, it's so delicious his fantasy output in draft kings was wonderful last week it was wonderful my second running back is David Montgomery at 6600 home against the Carolina Panthers I was wrong favored by 10 uh we're a three for three so far Jay okay so we Mike and I have Anthony Richardson, B. John Robinson, and David Montgomery. I broke the rules. I went pivot right before the show started because I didn't want to match your running back. Well, I was getting that, but I have David Montgomery.

He's in my flags. Okay. I have a very different lineup than you two. My wide receiver core. Me and Jay are going to have a fourth here too. Maybe a fifth. My wide receiver core is Tyreek Hill at 9,000 to stack with Tua. It's Garrett Wilson at 6,000 against Denver.

And it is the previously mentioned. You guys probably both have him now. I found him. I found Wanda Robinson. Yeah, Wanda Robinson for $3,000 because he was just mispriced. Yeah, at $3,000, you have to have Wanda in there for this lineup. Which I assume you both do. I do as well.

At wide receiver, I have Jamar Chase at $7,900 against the Arizona Cardinals. He's still been getting a ton of targets as the talent. Tried that last week. Didn't work for me. I have Adam Thielen, who I had last week as well. Still, he's gone up a little bit in price, but at 5,100. It's a good price. He's just been a PPR machine.

So it's Jamar Chase, Adam Thielen, and Wandale Robbins. So I have the Wandale overlap with Andy. I have Garrett Wilson overlapping with Andy. But I took my stack, baby. I got your start of the week in there, J. I have Michael Pittman Jr. Hopefully, I have Richardson in because of his rushing ability, but you can throw on the Tennessee Titans,

and hopefully Michael Pittman is the one getting it done at 6,400. So I'm completely live with Tyreek Hill. Yes, you are. That stack is going to be very important. All right, rounding it out, I've got a couple of Cardinals. My tight end is Zach Ertz at 3,500. My flex, I went with the heavily targeted recently, Hollywood Brown at 5,000.

He's completely mispriced. And I closed it out with the Titans defense against Anthony Richardson and the Colts. After that good performance last week at just $2,400, I have nothing left in my salary. Earths, Hollywood, Titans. I talked about it on today's episode. I am going with Dallas Goddard over Tyler Higbee at $4,200 in a full PPR against the Rams. I think he should bounce back this week.

I have the Jets defense on the road against Russell Wilson and the Denver Broncos. What's that price? $3,100. Okay, so about $600 more than Titans. Cheap enough to do it, but then, of course, there's no way I would play this week without Brees Hall, who is only 5,400 against the Denver Gashme, if you can, agains.

Is that that DiCaprio movie? Yes. So Dallas Goddard, Brees Hall, and the Jets. I have Hollywood Brown at 5,000. I have the Arizona Cardinals at 2,800 at home against the Bums over there. It's from Cincinnati. And then coming in at just a nice. Spent up a tight end.

Mr. Mark Andrews. Nice. Against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Very nice. Should be fun. Super mispriced. Yeah, I thought we were going to have a match there too. All right, well, there you go.

That is – I'll see if I end up looking like this again next week. Hopefully we can get Mike, Jason. This should be a full – Did you hear that roster? Right in the mid. It really seems like I will be on top or on the bottom because you guys have so many overlapping players. If Tyreek has a bad game, you'll be on bottom. If Tyreek has a ham game, you'll be on top. That's what it seems like I will be on top or on the bottom because you guys have so many overlapping players. If Tyreek has a bad game, you'll be on bottom.

If Tyreek has a ham game, you'll be on top. That's what it seems like. That was Fantasy Faceoff presented by DraftKings Sportsbook. Download the DraftKings Sportsbook app now and use the promo code BALLERS to get $150 in bonus bets instantly when you place a $5 bet on any football game. That's the code BALLERS, only at DraftKings Sportsbook. Now, that's true. Tyreek Hill, Tua, both

players, they got me a W in week one against you two fellows, so I'm hoping that that's what happens. Now, Mike, I have some very sad news for you. Oh, no. I know you were going to go fly fishing this Sunday because you don't have a lot invested. You do have to do Ballers Live. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's fine. That's fine. You can join Mike, ballerslive.com, on our YouTube, all our social channels. Quick, nice, tight five-minute show this week. Uh-huh, yeah. You can follow us, youtube.com slash thefantasyfootballers. That'll do it for today's episode of the show. Shout-out to Deucer's Alley.

Thank you guys for holding it down. We'll be back with you, like I said, Sunday live, and then we'll reflect on Monday. Should be a fun week. I look like a strawberry. Goodbye. Goodbye. Thank you for listening to another episode of the Fantasy Footballers Podcast.

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