Transcript of Week 8 Matchups + Spicy Starts, Wheel of Shame - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/25

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Welcome in. Friday, October 25th. Jason Moore, Mike Wright, Andy Hollow, the fantasy footballers. We had a Thursday night football game. We've got news, we've got the forecast, we've got matchups, we've got the Wheel of Shame, we've got a lot going on. And I just want to say, right here at the top, I saw nothing.

You saw nothing.

I saw nothing.

The end of the game?

You are team ref. I saw nothing.

Yeah, I expect nothing. Then big ref all the way.

Let me give you my perspective of this. The player should sell this thing on the field. If you can't overcome a little tiny twist of the head, you aren't a football player, NFL style. We don't mess up.

We're the refs. Man, that sounds pretty big ref over there. Mike, yesterday, you came in. You gave us a real It's football time because you knew it was going to be great. I told you. Honestly, we really did have an awesome... We had 58 minutes of awesome football.

Well, look, I appreciate what Kevin O'Neill did at the end of the game. If you're not familiar with how the game ended. The Rams were ahead by eight points. The Vikings got the ball back late with under two minutes to go, backed up near their own end zone. There was an egregious facemask that took place in the end zone that somehow every referee was blocked from seeing.

There were only three or four people in the entire world who didn't see it?

Well, but it- One of them was looking straightforward towards it. In their defense, it happened far away from where the ball was.

Like two and a half feet. Yeah.

Look, the face mask took place. It was not called. It turned into a safety. The game was over. Kevin O'Neill came out and I did what a head coach should do in this situation, didn't dwell on it, said, We're not going to just focus on one call. The game went, you had, whatever, 58 more minutes that you could have put yourself in a better position. I mean, that's the line, right? You never want to be in the spot where one play, one penalty, costs you the game.

You don't want to be the head coach where you just lost the game, and now you're going to lose money because you come out and tell the truth about what the refs did.

They were not able to... I mean, they came down and they looked like the most perfect offense ever. This has been the Vikings, by the way. I believe Sam Darnold's over 80% completion in the first quarter this year. The script, every coach has got the script, to start the game. Kevin O'Neill's scripts are real hot. They're like, nice. But you can't script the whole game. We've learned that. You can only script a quarter. That's all you could do. You run out of ink.

Defenses obviously make adjustments. The first four drives of the game were touch downs. It was awesome. But we're burying the lead here, fellows. The lead story of this game is Puka's back, baby. Oh, I hope you played him. But listen, a lot of people out there had Puka. They weren't sure. There were reports of he'll be limited, and maybe you didn't play him. You should not be unhappy. You should not be sad. He got away with an injury-free game where he showed he is that dude, and the win gives you a little bit of peace over the Stafford-Darnold trade not happening, which is probably the biggest pook of fear I had.

Yeah, it doesn't seem realistic for that to happen when... They did acknowledge teams have called about Cooper Cup, but this team ratted off a ton of wins at the end of last year. Now, they've got their pieces back.

Yeah, this is great news.

Even their punt returner was really good running the football in this game.

I believe he's on pace for 24.

He got his job back at the end. I don't know if you saw that.

He got to return one of the late punts?

Yeah. I think it was the last.

It's a high leverage. Was it the final punt? High leverage situation.

Kyron's pretty good.

He's great.

He's great. He's unbelievable.

No Blake Coram, but he's decent.

Yeah. So great game.

Kyron was great. Aaron Jones didn't get into the end zone. He was efficient, but he did not have a big fantasy day.

No, but he was the workhorse.

Which has been the case now. If you look at Ty Chandler's his Snap counts, they've been in nothing.

Yeah, but this one was 46 to 2.

Yeah. Ty Chandler is like straight up insurance.

What's the tool song, Jay?

Oh, yeah. What is that? Is that 46 and 2? Is it? Yeah, that's okay. I was like, That's the song.

Justin Jefferson was 8 for 115, did not find the end zone. Puka, 7 for 106. Cooper Cup did score 5 for 51. He looked like he was, ironically, the one that got off to the slowest return.

Yes.

Just didn't quite look like himself.

But- Puca played 32% of snaps.

Well, and you said this yesterday when the news report was breaking that he's going to play a limited allotment, which he did, 32%. You said verbatim, the plays that he plays, they're going to go to him because when he's on the field, they're just going to design plays for him, take advantage of it, and then get him off the field. They did. Demarcus Robinson scored twice on two catches just to twist.

If you're mad about anything, just be mad about DeMarcus Robinson.

Yeah, because this is the one time you couldn't have... You wouldn't have played DeMarcus Robinson. You would have tried to play him all these weeks. You didn't have other receivers. He finally gives you two touchings.

You know what's ironic about this? I think this is actually the offense that is best for DeMarcus Robinson. Demarcus Robinson is not an insurance wide receiver. He proved that. When these two guys went down, he can't step up and be a one for an NFL offense. But I drafted a lot of best ball shares of DeMarcus Robinson coming into this year based upon what he did at the second half of last year when they had Puka and Kup healthy. The defenses are focused on those two guys, and DeMarcus Robinson could be a great three here. So going forward, a DFS play or deeper league. A deep league where you just... I've seen people have the tweets where it's like, No, I'm in a deep league. I got to get people who are not rostered, who I could throw in a lineup for a start. I think going forward, DeMarcus Robinson might actually be that better with Puka and Cooper than he was when he was, quote, unquote, the one.

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Yeah, and it's third and goal, so we're not running the ball here. No false starts.

We're looking to drop back. We don't want to lose 10 yards here.

That's the way it doesn't happen. So let's just keep it above board.

Here we go.

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Calvin Ridley remains sidelined on Thursday.

Whoops. That is not good. We hope that the Wednesday mispractice was a veteran day of rest when you completely do not practice on a Thursday with a foot injury, which I believe Calvin Ridley has dealt with a foot injury in the past. It's a little bit scary. I know he was your second-half sleeper, but that- I don't remember that. That's good. Yeah, this is concerning to me. I think most people probably weren't starting Ridley. Maybe with Hopkins being traded out, they're like, Okay, I can start him. I would pump the brakes on Ridley if he's actually got- Ridley has Masonitis. Yeah. Okay, that's fair. But you're going to have Levititis when he comes back.

But that's at least She'll throw it down the field.

I'm looking to see if we have any practice report updates for today on Calvin Ridley, because they don't have the owner of Hopkins, by the way. They can't borrow him for one more week now that Ridley is going to be out. Not that their passing game can work, but I'm like, I searched for Calvin Ridley, right? And I'm getting the top tweets. And I don't like that the third one is, I can't believe Andy Holloway doubled down on Calvin Ridley. This will either be the biggest fantasy comeback or bust of all time.

Again, you didn't have to do it.

Right. That is true, Mr. Dell. Travis ETN limited again on Thursday ham string injury. My position on Travis ETN is, prove it on the field before you are going to prove it in my lineup.

Yeah, they've said he's a game-time decision.

I doubt he plays. I really do. I think they're going to... With how well Bigsby has been playing, I don't have any inside information. It just seems like if he's limited and he's a game-time decision, and this is a ham string that you can re-aggravate. If he plays, do you play him? No. If he plays, I don't play him or Bigsby, personally. Or Dianes Johnson. I'm just out on the Jaguar's runningbacks. If he's out, I think you're going to probably end up playing Bigsby. It feels like it could be a trap.

The nice thing about Bigsby is he's good at playing the runningback position. Sure. So he can make the most of the tight portion of the game. Tua Tunga-Vailoa cleared concussion protocol. Will start in week 8 versus Arizona. Here we go. Tyreek Hill was added to the injury report on Thursday, but then later declared healthy.

Yeah, I mean, all receiving options are healthy.

This is pretty frequent with Hill. Yeah, Jalen Waddle, still limited on Thursday with the quad injury, but very exciting. This is good news. Zay flowers returned to practice on Friday. He had missed Wednesday and Thursday. He was a Monday night football game. So when you talk about Giving a guy a break, giving him an up, and he hurt himself in the game.

But that's why I was very concerned. Once he hurt his ankle, I don't know if he did anything else. He was in the game, but it was, Oh, is this? He went back in the game, he was able to play, and then it swelled up, and now he's unable to play the following week. But it's at least good news. And if Zee plays, I'm playing him as usual.

Bucky Irving didn't practice on Wednesday or Thursday. He did warm up, and we've seen him practice on Friday. We'll monitor that. Jonathan Taylor and Chris Olave joined the full practice club.

Yeah. I mean, these are two important players you need back. Chris Olave, a full practice on a Thursday in concussion protocol signals that he will probably tomorrow have the meeting with the independent neurologist and presumably be given the green light. That is the normal progression that almost always happens at this stage. So I would expect to have Chris Olavie. And then Jonathan Taylor, high ankle sprain, missed the three games. We talk about how high ankle sprains are usually zero or three games missed. He missed it. Fully practicing, he's back.

We-told you it was mild.

We have D. K. Metcalf not practicing Wednesday or Thursday with an MCL sprain. He was going to try to practice today was the last thing I saw. Jaden Daniels didn't practice Wednesday or Thursday, not spotted at practice today. I would say he is Jaden D.

Yeah, the The reports were- D for doubtful.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, yes. That's the old adage that everyone knows.

Yeah, it sounded exactly like doubtful. In addition to him not being present for practice today- You know the city, Dallas, the big D.

It's the big doubtful.

For sure. That's what I always think about the big D. So Jaden Daniels was not at practice. However, there were three other quarterbacks there. So it's I would be blown away if he played football this week. Would you say he's downfall? I would say the full word. Yeah, I would say he's doubtful.

That's exactly the answer. Debo, returned to limited practice, so did George Kittle. Sunday night, have a plan. Did not practice Wednesday or Thursday. Juan Jennings didn't. Doubtful for this week.

He's Daniels.

Yeah, Juan D. All right. Lad McConkey didn't practice Wednesday or Thursday. He has not looked himself at all. He had such an opportunity without Quentin out there and them desperately in need of help, and he's not been available.

Yeah, he's playing through an injury, but he's clearly injured. He didn't look great. The fact that he's missing practice on a Thursday completely Currently, I don't think this is a player I want to start until you see him healthy again.

That was today's news and notes presented by USAA Insurance. Learn more at usaa. Com/insurance. We'll catch you up with any other news that breaks during the show, the illustrious Deucers. It's a full... Oh, wait. It's not a full allotment over there.

We're missing one again.

One, two.

I see Papa Josh. I see Al Borland.

Hold on. One, two. No, I don't see all three of them. Papa Josh, are you here? I am here. Okay. Al? I am here.

Okay. Falcon?

We need a Falcon insurance.

Yeah, we're taking out a big policy.

We are hemraging productivity.

We don't know where he is. We're not saying where he is, but we don't... He's not?

I'm not not saying where he is.

The betting market does have odds.

We've got the forecast. We're jumping in.

It's time for fantasy Forecast, presented by DraftKings Sportsbook.

The big D is a different... It's a different thing for the Falcon.

You know what I mean? Honestly, growing up in the right household with our stomachs, It was the big diarrhea, 100%. It has caused some issues.

Thank you for letting us know that. With the vernacular. Okay.

Yeah, cool.

You're saying that's what you called it? Yes. The big D? I'm I thought you were saying that's what we experience a lot.

No, this is 100%. If you go to my father and you say, What is the big D? He'll say, It's diarrhea.

Of course.

Of course, granddad. Without flinching.

What would one exclaim something with that phrase?

Well, in my household- How did that go?

Play that out for us. You just got back from another Chipotle dinner out with the family.

You're like, Oh, got the big D?

Oh, okay. If my son came and asked me, I would say, Please leave the room. That's what I would say.

Yesterday, we covered the Eagles, bangles, Ravens, browns, Titans, lions, lions, cardinal, dolphins, jets, patriots, falcons, buccaneers, packers, and Jags. If you don't hear us talk about those teams, that is why you We can go to yesterday's episode, listen in. Get our breakdown. Eight matchups left, starting with the Indianapolis Colts, who are four and three, taking on the five and two Houston Texans. The DraftKings Sportsbook line, Houston minus five. The over-under is 46 in this game. Here we go. What are you two laughing?

We're laughing because if we were letting it go, man, you said Indianapolis super weird. I did? He said Indianapolis. Yeah. And so we just gave each other a look like, Did he say it wrong? And we both confirmed- Did I?

Did you catch it?

No, I did not.

You've never been to Indianapolis? I have not. It's the new Francis Ford Coppola movie? No? All right. That's a good joke. Houston won 29, 27 in week one. This is when we saw Anthony Richardson deliver a couple of big plays. His passing prop in this game is 186. He has the lowest adjusted completion rate, the highest off-target throw rate, the lowest catchable throw rate, and he's playing a defense that at home, I'm just not encouraged by what we've seen. I know Jason, you got rid of Anthony Richardson. You did manage to acquire $2 a FAB to lose Anthony Richardson.

I could have just cut him to the waiver, and instead, I got richer.

Yeah, sure. But look, Richardson, to me, is not- It doesn't even make sense. He's not an option.

I apologize.

No, he is not.

The quotes are super easy, man. I think he is an option for some. I've seen questions where you're- As a quarterback, too? As a quarterback, too. Look, In a lot of leads, the guys that you want to play are... For instance, here's the one, Patrick Mahomes or Anthony Richards.

Mahomes, for sure. Easy.

Okay. How about Aaron Rodgers? Yeah, Rodgers.

I'd play Rodgers.

Those are both Richardson to me. And here's why. Richardson obviously has a very, very low floor. He can go out there and score 5.1 fantasy points like he did against Chicago.

8.8 last week, 5.2 the next week, 9.9 the week before.

Or 26.1 like he did week one against the Houston Texans. He has a ceiling that a lot of these quarterbacks just don't have.

Rodgers can score 26 points. Mahomes can score 26 points.

Mahomes hasn't scored 20 points in 20 games. I mean, That's slightly hyperbolic, but I think he scored it once in the last 20 games. So this is a player who still has boom potential. I agree.

Everything we have seen is- Are we going to have this conversation every week, though, genuinely? I'm not saying that as a... When don't we have it?

We are going to see it every week because- No matter what? No, not no matter what. We're going to see it every week because he is going to put up 20 plus points in one of these next two or three games. It's just you can't have those physical attributes, the ability to throw ball 80 yards down the field, the ability to- Houston, Minnesota, Buffalo, New York, Detroit, New England, Denver, Tennessee. It's a bad stretch run. This is why I was going to cut him. This is why I traded him for $2 a FAB. I'm just saying there are teams that you're going up against a tough opponent. Your team looks like you are the big underdog. I would throw Anthony Richardson in there for the chance of a 30-point game. That's all I'm saying.

I get that. There's league, of course, you're going to play him. But in a 12-team league where you're looking at the waiver wire and it has legitimate options. I would agree with the start of Donald.

Bo Nicks is a better start.

I would play Bo Nicks.

Bo Nicks has been pretty good with his rushing ability.

Drake May. I'd play Drake May.

Not against the Jets. I would go Richardson there.

So the May. Drake May is where we're at? Yeah. Jonathan Taylor should be bad. Play him. I'm cool with that.

He is a full play. Other than that-You can't play the wide receiver.

No, you can't. If you were going to play a wide receiver, your best bet might be Alec pierce, and that is a pure dart throw. You got to connect on a bomb. I don't think you could start Pitman down.

I'm okay starting Pitman. If I have to start any of them, that's who I'm starting.

The gamble with Richardson is that in four or five games, he's been 10 or fewer completions, so you have to distribute that among the options?

That's why I would go Alec pierce, because four or five... If you've got five- Oh, I play pierce, too.

I'm with you on that.

If you've got five completions, four of them might go to Pitman for 40 yards, but one of them might go to Alec pierce for a 60-yard touch down.

Joe Mixon has played three full games this year. He's been the Rb2, the Rb2, and the Rb3 in those three games.

And he's looked the part. He's breaking tackles, he's looking fast. He is a must start every week. He's healthy. Sorry. So the question is just, I think, personally, I'm definitely starting Stefan Diggs. My start of the week in take Dell is not like anti Diggs. He has earned those quick and easy targets. I'm also starting take in this matchup just because the Colts have a beatable defense. I think the coaching staff, Stroud himself, everyone is trying to get tank Dell involved. He hasn't looked bad to me on film other than the drops. He's dropped three really important balls.

I think what's interesting to me is I think the Texans are in a position, and this is where my view is different than you with Stroud in this game, is that the recipe to win without Nico Collins is the running game. It's to successfully run and play defense. I think that's the identity of this team at this point in time. Defensive head coach, the running game is dominant. And so I just don't see the need. Now, look, if Richardson comes out and he hits two of those bombs and Stroud's in the throwing situation, I'm going to be super wrong.

Well, I think we're both actually more in sync than you think. Even though we are taking different sides on the Stroud start, I like him this week. You are right. The end of this game, if the Texans are out to a lead, they're going to be able to rely on Joe Mix and win. But I don't think C. J. Stroud is going to have difficulty having success in the passing game for the first half. I think he's going to carve them up. So that's where it's like, even if you can run, you're going to pass. And when he drops back to pass, he's going to find success.

Last week, the Colts did win the ball game. That's right. Against Miami.

Yeah.

16 to 10. They've won against Miami and Tennessee the last two weeks, 16, 10, 20, 17.

Okay.

There aren't other options here in this game. New Orleans, two and five. The Chargers are three and three coming off the Monday night football loss to Arizona. The DraftKings Sportsbook here, Chargers minus seven at home. Over Under is 41. I heart the Chargers defense in this game. I would love to play them because I feel like the best situation you can have for a defense is the fact that you won't have an opportunity to get blown out. And to me, with Spencer Rattler at quarterback. I got a snake, man. I don't think that that's a possibility.

I am fine with the Chargers defense here. I am not fine. I'm not excited about players in this game. I want to read to you I want to read you six words based upon this season and the six weeks played for the Chargers. The words are, and this is the result of the game, under, under, under, under, over, under. That is the success rate of the Chargers games hitting the Over, Under, the line, because the way they're playing football is dirty, ugly, boring, slow, and it's been successful enough for this franchise.

I'd like to know what's the over-under on their implied points, though.

24 is their implied.

For this week, I'm just saying, are they hitting their team-implied total?

Are you asking whether we think they're well?

No, I'm saying for Jason saying, They keep hitting the under. Well, are they hitting what their point total should be.

Sure, I can look that up. That's not as easy to find at a glance. But my point is more the game script of the entire both teams. I'm talking about the Saints and the Chargers. This was my issue with the Cardinals players last week. It was like, this just looks like it could get ugly. I want to start Chris Olave. He's the number one target here. I don't love it as much with Spencer Rattler. You're going to start Alvin Kamara. He's the number one option in the whole offense, but it didn't work well last week with Spencer Rattler. So you're not expecting big games from either of these guys, even though you're probably going to start both of them. That's what I'm saying is this isn't going to be a barn burner. Both teams are very, very slowly paced.

Well, and then the chargers struggle in the red zone. So they take up a bunch of time, they move it down the field, and then they kick field goals.

They do have their favorite player back, more than likely. Taysam Hill was limited Wednesday, full practice on Thursday. I'm not saying I'm playing Taysom Hill. I'll be interested to see what does the offense look like when you have Spencer Rattler and Taysom Hill is back.

I would try, personally, not to play Olave. Chris Olave has- His line is at 47.5. Yeah, I would try not to- It's not that great. I would try not to play him. I mean, this is a player that... You take away the game he was injured, right? Who cares, right? That game is thrown out. This is a player that was with their car, right? On pace for 74 receptions, 935 yards, and three touch downs. It's just a little questionable with what we saw from Spencer Rattler. I thought that was the worst quarterback play in a full game- It was very bad. That we've seen from anybody. It was very bad.

Would you go tie the locket against Buffalo?

Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah, I would. My point is I would try to find somebody else. I'm not saying you will, but I would try to find somebody else.

That hurts my feelings. That hurts because I can't find anyone else, Andy, and so all you're What you're doing is insulting me.

Well, didn't you play Puka?

Oh, yeah. Heck, yeah. Puka and Olave.

If you had had Olave, though, yesterday with the limited snaps of Puka, would you have done it?

No, I would have played Puka over Olave no matter what. I was bullish on Puka coming in, even on limited snaps. Also, to answer your question, Mike, they're 500 against their implied team total. Three times they've hit it, three times they haven't.

It's a low over-run during the game anyways at 41, regardless of whether they hit it or not. Herbert has not been an option for fantasy. None of the wideouts. This is an easy game. Dobbins is the start of the week, and I'm playing him. The Saint's defense has been the most abysmal at tackling and defending the run. Olave is a maybe to me. Would you genuinely... This is probably... Okay, I'm not even going to ask it. It's Olave. I was going to say, like James Winston starting, and you've got pass catchers for Cleveland, or do you go Olave with Spencer Rattler? I go Olave, yeah. I think it's possible that Judy and Tillman both outperform Olave because of the passing volume.

Ironically, I agree with you. I would go Olave over Judy, over Tillman. But if this was a flex option, I would put Najoku ahead of Olave.

Buffalo's five and two. They take on the four and three Seattle Seahawks. We will talk about that game in just a moment. Going to take a quick break, and then we'll talk Buffalo. All right, back to the 5-2 Bills against the 4-3 Seahawks. The NFC West is 4-3, 3-4, 3-4, 3-4, 3-4. We saw the Rams get a W Right back in the mix. In this game, Buffalo's three-point road favorites, the over-unders 46.5. It feels like Amari Cooper is going to be a stabilizer in terms of the way we view the flow offense, and it's week-to-week consistency. To me, I feel like now that you have a player like Amari Cooper, we no longer have to look at every week as Josh Allen has to piece it together with a bunch of inconscients consistent options. It looks like, to me, that Cooper is this foundational piece that's going to make Dalton Kincaid fit into the right slot, that's going to make Shaqir fit into the right slot. Are you as optimistic about what he represents to the offense as I am?

I am. The way that Josh Allen has played in his career, he's awesome, but he loves to throw to guys that are open. He finds a guy with separation, and he laserbeams the ball. That's not the rest of the core. Keion Coleman is like a 50-50 jump ball guy that's not getting separation. Same with the Mac truck. They finally have a player who not at the line of scrimage like Shaq here, but someone that can go 15 yards down the field, run a crisp route, and find space, and then that's where-Catch it with his body. Yeah. Why is Cooper It's developed into a body catcher.

It's easier.

It's much more difficult.

No, it's easier. You don't have to lift your arms up. I'm saying literally, you barely... Look at this. You can barely...

Oh, I see it.

Now watch this.

For the listening audience, raising your arms all the way above your head to catch a ball is more work than just halfway raising them up. But yeah, I still like Cooper. His receiving line for this game is 54 and a half receiving yards. That's a fine line for a wide receiver one. I'm a little concerned. My big question, and this is personal, Gino Smith. Gino Smith has been on fire. He's been playing great. He's been playing some really nice-looking ball. He's just a tier below the way Baker Mayfield has been playing. Baker has been completely on fire. Baker has been throwing the touch downs. Gino has been doing everything but the touch downs, but they've looked very similar as far as pocket movement, quality, accuracy of passes, decision making. It's just the touch downs been there for Mayfield and not for Gino. But in this game, you do have a little bit of rain projected, 12-mile-an-hour wins. This isn't a worry bench receiving options, but it's not optimal conditions, and you don't know the health of D. K. Metcalf. Where does someone like Geno Smith sort into your quarterback rankings right now? Because I've had a real difficult time with him this week.

I think you brought up the fundamental decision decision-making piece, which is D. K. Metcath's availability. I don't want to start Gino leaning on just JSN and Locket against a passing defense that's 10th against quarterbacks, eighth against wide receiver, so far this year, it gives me hesitation because Metcalf is the... You talked about him struggling with touch downs, and Metcalf is the touch down maker. Yeah. I would be trying to make my decision based off of Metcalf.

Dak Cusco on the road against San Francisco or Gino in this matchup?

If I had to choose today? Yeah. I don't feel great about Metcalf today, so I'll go.

I'd go Dak as well.

I'll go Dak.

Lineup adjusted.

Schedule-wise, It's a much harder matchup for the quarterback and the wide receiver. Andy said that. Seahawks are going to be getting in the zone all day, guys.

In the Bone zone. The Bone zone. Obviously, you start Kenneth Walker. Get Bill's defense has been pretty good against quarterbacks, against wide receivers. They have been terrible against runningbacks. This is a run funnel. So Kenneth Walker is- He's limited with illness.

I mean, this guy's... What's going on here, Kenneth? Take a multivitamin or something.

Yeah, get on some IVs. There's a lot of illness going around the NFL this past couple of weeks.

He popped up late at the end of last week with the illness, was downgraded to questionable, played. He didn't play his normal amount. He still looked awesome. And then he popped up again with the illness. It's weird.

If Metcalf misses, there's been questions about Locket, questions about JSN. Are those guys Is Locket a must start at that point?

Not a must start, but a find.

Would you play either of those Seattle wide receiver over Khalil Shaqir in the same game where- I would.

If Metcalf is gone, I would play both those guys over Shaqir with the addition of Amari Cooper.

What about Dobbs? Would you play both of those guys over Dobbs against Jacksonville?

No, I expect that the Green Bay passing offense is going to go out there and go hard in the paint. You have a much higher odds of a countdown to me for Dobbs. I would go Dobbs.

What's the feeling on James Cooke right now? I think with Ray Davis emerging, with Cooke's injury, we are not living off the high of the first couple of weeks. We know he's the main guy, but have you cooled it all on James Cooke and where he's headed?

I have not. He's still coming through. I get it. This past week against Tennessee, that was his worst performance. Also didn't get his target- Despite scoring? Yes. I mean, he's 12 for 32 on the ground. That's not very James Cooke-like, and getting no targets is also strange. But he was still close to his normal amount of snaps, so he's in as regular for me.

Kenneth Walker, by the way, in this game, he is currently the Rb4 in points per game, just behind Saquon in the mix. And so if you don't understand how good he's been, or you feel like maybe the manager of Kenneth Walker doesn't understand how good he's been-We know.take advantage.

What's his rushing line?

62.5..

That's a nice baseline to have.

Dalton Kincaid, start of the week. That's an area where Seattle struggles. I really want to see this as a breakout game for Kincaid, where he's going to start entering the streaming tight-end category for me personally. That's fair. Keep an eye on Keion Coleman as a complement with Cooper, because it was a big game last week for him.

Going back to Dalton Kincaid, I think Kincaid already is a streaming option where I would look if there was another good option, if If I had picked up David Najoku, I would be willing to pivot. However, for streaming candidates, you play the matchup. This is a great matchup. So even if Dalton Kincaid is a streamer, he should start in this game.

The Carolina Panthers at one and six travel to the... Oh, boy. They travel to the altitude in Denver. Oh, boy. Denver is really playing good football, four and three. Denver, 10 and a half point favorites.

What's that face?

That was the 10 and a half.

That gives Carolina 15 points. The over-under is 41 and a half. The Denver defense is delicious. This game opened at minus seven, and then the Bryce Young news came out, and now it's 10 and a half.

And now Deontay is out.

Deontay Johnson is out.

Oh, man. Good. Smart.

But don't worry. Patrick Sertan, full practice on Thursday.

It's for the Panthers side, it is legitimately- He doesn't even know who he has to cover now.

I don't think he has to, man.

Sertan's like, I'm back. Where's the Whiteouts?

I want to bring up some history. No, he's out. In our first season, playing flag football. Oh, my God. You know where I'm going, don't you? No, I I swear to you.

Wait, what are you talking about?

I swear to you, I had the exact same thought of, Do I bring up this story? Yeah.

What story? In the first season of us playing flag football, which was now like, I don't know, 15 years ago.

Which was a ragtag group of guys approaching middle age who had very little to zero football experience.

We go out there in the first season. Here's how the first season went. Towards the end of the season, we scored a countdown. We celebrated like we won the championship.

That was our only countdown of the year. Yes, it was.

But we had a game where we were playing a good team, and that team had a word I don't want to say. He was emphatically letting us know that his team is way better than ours. Because he was playing basically the safety role, and he was playing that from the crisscross applesauce position.

He sat down.

He sat down, and he played in the secondary sitting down. He sat, and we couldn't score on them.

We were playing seven on six.

That's Sertan doesn't need to cover anyone.

It popped into my head and I'm like, I don't do people care about this? But I thought it immediately.

Sertan should just try that on for size because it is a mind game, and I'll tell you what, it worked. That was some great defense. We really imploded. Now, for the record, was four or five years later, as our ragtag group got it together, We did win the championship in that league.

Would you get a penalty flag if you sat down?

I don't think so. Would that be considered taunting? I don't think so. You're being very inactive. Did you point or did you put the thumb up? Because then that's a weapon.

The question on the Panthers side, only question for me, do you play Chuba? The matchup, the full-strength Panthers against the Broncos, you're already like, I don't really want to play Chuba. Now, Oh, man. Can you play Chuba?

I think so. You play him the way you're playing Ramondre with the confidence- Which one of those two are you playing?

Ramondre or Chuba?

I would play Chuba. He's been a top 24 wide receiver or running back in five straight games on a one in six team. So it's volume, it's passing game. I just think you just put him in there. I literally have that choice in dynasty. Chuba in my lineup.

Okay. All right.

I don't like the matchup, but it's just over the course of the game, you had a parlay partay on Chuba earlier this year with four receptions. I think three of the four came on the last drive of the game. You do get garbage time.

What if I told you, though, Chuba in games where Bryce Young was the starting quarterback, Chuba was running back 66 and 26?

I would go back to last season, the second half, where Chuba was on a heater, and that was all Bryce Young.

Yeah, it's too limited this year in those two I'm trying. He wasn't getting the work as much.

I am trying very hard to bench him.

Would you actually play? I've got another name for you. Because personally, I would go Ramondre Stevenson over Chuba, but okay. How about Raheem Mostert?

Yeah, I'd play him over Chuba.

Against the Arizona Cardinals with Tua there.

He's going to get a ton of work. Okay.

What about Madison against the Chiefs?

I would play Madison.

Man, I think I go Chuba there because both defenses... Madison and Chuba have both been pretty good, surprisingly good, but Chuba is better than Madison as a player. Yeah, Chuba has actually looked much better. They're both terrible defenses or good defenses.

Good luck. Bo Nix has been averaging 36 rushing yards per game. Bo Nix is in play this week against Carolina. You might need to just ignore the name and just play the player in the situation. Javante, Mike start of the week, a rushing line at 64 and a half. We'll take it. Great opportunity there. I do think that the ball finds Courtland Sutton this week. I'm not trying to play him, but I think Courtland Sutton is going to get back to- More zero targets? Yes.

And Troy Franklin could be a DFS dart throw or a glass in case of emergency player. He was going to be in my lineup if Puka was not playing.

Are you going to play anybody else in Carolina? Like, take a shot on him? No. So Thielen is out. Absolutely not.

Thielen is out.

Deontay Johnson is out. Okay. Xavier Laguette is a rookie. And then we're talking about what? Jalen Coker? Absolutely not. I mean, Bryce Young is not set up for success in this game. This is not the one you want to get him in on.

No. But Jotavian Sanders, DFS dart throw.

He's been limited, though.

He's been limited with a very interesting injury. But the last two weeks, 13 total targets, five for 49, six for 61. I mean, I don't know. You're not having a great game. I'm just saying DFS.

Yeah. Play your Broncos and keep pounding. Kansas City, the Chiefs, 6-0, taking on the 2-5 Five Las Vegas Raiders. The DraftKings Sportsbook line, Kansas City minus nine and a half on the road. The over-unders 41 and a half. Start up your cream, Hunts. I think Patrick Mahomes is a streamable quarterback. Mike, if you were Bo Nicks or Patrick Mahomes?

Oh, my gosh. I think I'd go Bo Nicks.

That's okay. Yeah, I'm not going to fight for Mahomes. I just think he's an option. I'd play him personally over Richardson.

Yeah, my rank, I have Bo Nicks on my top 12. Mahomes is currently at 15.

I love Andy Reid's comment on DeAndre Hopkins' arrival saying, when they asked him whether he's going to play, he said, Why wait, right? Have you seen my wide receiver room?

Andy Reid is a national treasure.

He's delightful. But Hopkins will help. Hopkins will help move the sticks.

Are you playing Hopkins immediately, like Andy Reid?

I mean, his line is 37 and a half. I don't I want to. I think it'll be limited snaps. I think it'll be... We had two of these situations last week with Devante Adams and with Amari Cooper. Cooper got in the end zone. Hopkins could score. I can see Andy Reid 100% creating some specific plays inside the 15 that are Hopkins. That makes sense to me. So I do think he's got a shot to score.

Hopkins or Courtland Sutton?

I play Hopkins. At that point, I would play Hopkins as well. I expect the running game to take over for Denver at some point. Yeah, you're going to need a countdown to be happy with Hopkins. I agree with you. Andy Reid could design up a player, too, but that's just such a limited... It's not like Mahomes has been throwing a lot of touch downs. And so if you're trying to say... The reason Cooper had a good game last week was he had a countdown. He didn't run that many snaps, wasn't in that many packages. He was 4 for 66. With a countdown, it was great. Without that countdown, you'd be like, Oh, no.

Mahomes, yeah. He has not thrown a countdown in two consecutive games against New Orleans and San Francisco. There's a chicken and egg factor of losing Rashi Rice and losing talent at wide receiver. But they also know that they can hand the ball to Cream Hunt 52 times and win this game. Their defense, outstanding against the run. That's why Madison is terrifying, although his rushing-receiving combo line is 61 yards.

He is scary in just the matchup. If Alexander Madison were completely alone, I'm not saying Zamir White is a good player at all, but Zamir White is actually healthy again. He was only in on 14% of the snaps. It's been up and down between who's getting the snaps and the opportunities between him and Madison. Madison keeps scoring touch downs, which was an impossibility last year. He can't stop now. But so Zamir White's return plus the defense here. Madison is a... He's a pretty desperate running back start.

Jason, you said that Dalton Hincaid is streaming tight in. Is Travis Kelsey a streaming tight in? He's had two good games, and the rest have been disappointing.

No, I think Travis Kelsey is more than a streaming tight in. You're going to start him every week. I'm not looking at the matchups. But if you are looking at the matchups, the worst team at guarding the tight-end position is the Kansas City Chiefs themselves. And Brock Bowers, obviously, is, by most people's rankings, he's the tight-end one right now going forward. He's the one that you are most assured of around 10 targets a week. He's going to catch a lot of them, get yards, he can yack. We did see week one. It was ironic because week one is part of why the Kansas City Chiefs are number 32 against tight end because they likely went nuts against them. However, they completely schemed Mark Andrews, at that point, the presumed major offensive weapon at tight end. They took him completely out of the game. So maybe they roll some of that to Bowers, but either way, you're starting them.

All right, let's move on to a very important Sunday night football game, right? We have Jaden Daniels and the commanders.

Jaden Daniels?

That's a better way to put it. Jaden Daniels. We did get an update. They pushed him today in practice.

Like over?

And they said that they will assess how he responds to the work that they did. It will be a game-time decision. So this is big.

Sunday night making your-GTD? Yeah. Sunday night. So your pivot. Wait, we have two Monday night games? Oh, no. Wait.

What was the order? We have Dallas and San Francisco Sunday. That's not Sunday night. They flexed the- That's where I got really confused. Yeah, we've got our doc backwards here. Okay. Or did they flex it back?

What? What is going on? I thought it was Sunday night.

We were told that the Bear's Commander's game had gotten flexed into primetime.

That was a couple of weeks ago.

Did it get unflexed? Can you unflex?

Deflexed.

I don't think you can deflex.

Can you deflex, Crooks? The NFL can do what it wants.

Was the report wrong? Crooks. What time are these games?

Can you deflex?

Nfl schedule. I think you can deflex by not working out for a while, but I don't know.

All right, well, let's talk I'm not going to talk about the bears. The bears and commanders are in their afternoon.

Okay. All right.

I swear we all Mandela affected that.

I'm going to find the report.

There's a parallel universe somewhere where that is the Sunday night football game. But anyways, it's not.

So then you've got more flex? Yeah, that's great news.

If you're waiting on Jaden Daniels.

It was flex to the late afternoon.

It was previously an earlier game. Got you. So we were right on the flex, wrong on the spot. You got it.

All right. Are you playing Jaden? If Jaden is active, are you playing him, or are you trying to find a streaming option?

If Jaden is active, I am playing him. Because when I look at this week's options, I think that a lot of the streaming players are mediocre to bad. The players that you would have in consideration that have been playing well, like Geno Smith and Baker Mayfield, who you might be like, Oh, yes, I'll be fine to wait. You've got major major red flags there. I would have played Darnold if that was my decision because it projected to be good. He was my quarterback eight. Outside of that, I don't think most people are going to have... I'm not going to Kirk Cousins, Bo Nicks, and those types.

I also want to really quickly just correct something I said on the show yesterday that was wrong about Jaden Daniels. I compared him and Kyler and said they were only a point apart in points per game. That was because off the cuff, I was looking at our stats, and I didn't take out the injury game for Jaden. They're about five points apart. Yeah, that's- Four and a half points apart. That's much better.

But since they are the afternoon game, Bo Nicks is in the afternoon game as well. If you're going to ride with Jaden, that would be my suggestion.

Yeah, that one is workable.

Go pick up Bo right now.

Jason, you literally took the risk on Apuca knowing the upside, and the upside of Jaden Daniels is tremendous. I also don't believe that this team at five and two is willing to jeopardize him. I think if they him out there. They think he can play the game.

Yeah, it's just the ribs, man. One sack, and he- It could limit his running game.

Yeah.

It's dangerous, but he's been so good.

Caleb has been good as well. Caleb Williams. His passing line is 227.5..

That's really nice. That's what I was wowing. The 227.5 as a passing line for the rookie coming in. That's great.

You have Swift, Moore, Allen, Adunze, and Kameh, all weapons available to him now. You have a defense that struggled against wide receivers this year. Washington given up almost 30 points to them. You want Jaden to play because you want this game to be an exciting back and forth. I still think it's possible with the way Mariota played last week that you do get an exciting performance. It's not Jacksonville, right? Chicago is not playing Jacksonville again. But the last... His evasiveness, opening up plays down the field. The fact Cole Kometta's completely got the stranglehold on the tight-end position again, which he should have from the jump, that was a mistake. The fact that this office is- Classic Waldron. Hey, the office is coming together. I'm going to give Waldran credit for what... Look, Swift has been valuable for three eight weeks. Caleb has been good. Keenan scored a breakdown. Dj more has had good games. This is what you wanted to see.

The number one start-sit question right now is one that you literally have your League of Record team. You have Kyla Kyler Murray and you have Kyler Williams. This is a very interesting question. I know where I lean in this.

They're both on the road.

They're both on the road. The matchups are Kyler's against Miami, and obviously, this one is Kyler playing against the commanders.

I could tell you who's in my lineup right now. Who do you think it is?

I think it would be Kyler. It's Kyler. I would play Kyler.

I would as well. And again, contextual to your league, I also have James Connor. I don't want double exposure to the Cardinals on the East Coast, Miami, good defense.

What do you do, though, with the pass catchers? Because I think DJ Moore is just... He's in your lineup. It hasn't been great. You have one really strong game. Every other game is just For me, it's more in combat, and that's it. It's so weird. The passing line is 227, which I think that's fine. That's fair. But where does it go? These are Houdini yards just disappearing into the ether because DJ DJ More has not been... Romo Dunzey has been catastrophic for fantasy football, and Keenan has not been good either. He just caught two touch downs last week.

If you are wanting success- Where are these yards going? I can tell you where they're going. Dj More and Cole Komet. Each have a 24% over the last two weeks of the market. Half of the teams' yards- Of the yards or the targets? The yards. Okay. The yardage is going to DJ More and Cole Komet. That's over the last two weeks. But that's the trend that we're hoping to see more of Caleb. You throw out the beginning of the year where he was struggling, throwing for 80 yards or whatever. If that's what he does, then the answer is nobody. If you're looking for the answer in a positive game, it's those two players. I agree with Andy. It's DJ Moore and Cole Komet. I'm not going to do the Alan Odunzey stuff right now.

I agree. Terry McLaurin, what do you do if Jaden is missing in this game? Are you trying not to start him?

Yes, I am trying not to start him if he misses.

Olave or Terry McLaurin?

That's a great question. They're in very similar situations. I lean towards Olave personally.

I'm a little on the TMC side.

Yeah, I mean, I get it, but the difference maker for me is that the Chicago Bear's passing defense is really good. I believe that will be harder for the backup quarterback to do work against.

However, 6 for 98 last week.

The quality of the backup quarterback is much better. Mariota, greater sign, Spencer Rattale.

Brian Robinson, top 24 in every game he's played, you play him. Yes, you hope he scores. Zackerts is always a break glass tight-end. I mean, he's been a top 10 tight-end three times this year. He's been not bad three other times. So, yeah, we did get a Senator countdown last week.

Oh, yes, we did. I am the Senate.

2025, everybody.

We have Sunday Night Football, Monday Night Football to talk about. We'll take a break, come back with those exciting games. All right, Dallas, three and three. San Francisco, three and four.

Last place, San Francisco, 49ers.

Yes. Thank you, Mike. Let's go to the Falcon and get his thoughts on it.

Oh, is that why he's not here? Is this depression for his Niners? I get that. Being in the last place, being behind the Cardinals? Yeah. That's embarrassing.

You must be so embarrassed.

No retort, broadly. Look, Dallas needs to win this ball game, but the 49ers are four and a half point home favorites. The over-unders 47. This is a very consequential game at this stage of the season for both teams. Dallas can slip to three and four, or they can be back above 500 and on the right track. San Francisco could slip to three and five with hopes that McCaffee comes back. Already lost the Iuk. I would say that Brock Purdy had... He had his struggles last week, and we know the struggles the Dallas defense has had. Vegas has it as San Francisco minus four and a half. We're waiting on news on Debo. We don't think Wabjian Jennings. You've got rookies in Ricky Pearsall and Jacob Cowing trying to fill in the gap. They're going to lean on the running.

Yeah, this is the Jordan Mason game. His rushing line is at 80 and a half yards. That's the line that Dike is setting for him. Like Andy said, the passing weapons are gone, and the matchup. The Cowboys, one of the worst teams against the run. If you're adjusting for schedule, they're 26th. Mason was right back in last week. It was up in the air. Is he going to be there with the shoulder? How much work? The answer was all of it. Mason is in with full confidence.

Dallas is running defense. I doubt they fixed it over the break.

Yeah, the nice thing is they are coming off of the break. They are getting a couple of defensive players back. So this is if Dallas wants to make noise, make the playoffs, both these teams. I mean, this is such an important game. I do want to remind people, I mentioned this tweet on Wednesday from Jamie Eisenberg, but they're talking about Dak coming off of the buy, how awesome he's been. In seven career games after the buy, Dak Prescott averages 28.1 fantasy points, and he only has one outing over that span with fewer than 22.3 fantasy points.

Yeah, I'm fine playing Dak.

If you want, I think this one's closer than you'd think. Jalen Talbert will be on the field for 90 plus % of snaps in this game. I would probably to play Jalen Talbert based on the game script and the quarterback over Chris Olaven. That's spicy. I think that's where the names are going to get people.

That might be. I am a little concerned. I mentioned this earlier, a little bit concerned about the weather on the West Coast this week. As of now, 65% degrees, big chance of rain. Percent degrees.

Out of what?

Percent degrees out of...

Out of the Imperial scale. But the 14-mile-an-hour wins Wind is really what has an effect on the passing game. This is not like red alert again, but we're still a couple of days away. We don't know how it's going to be. Going to Tolbert on a late game where you've got to have made your decision early in the week, that's a little scary for me.

Are there other decisions here to be made? I mean, Dak is not... Other than leaning on his out of the buy, the matchup itself is not ideal. Their implied point total is 21. Purdy's in the same game. Both of those guys have been on waivers or streamers. Are you playing Dak over Purdy then?

I would, yes.

We talked about Mason. Debo, if he's healthy, this might come down to a game-time decision. If he's active, are you playing Debo?

I am going to play Debo if he's active. With Brandon Iyuk and Juan Jennings off the field, they will need him. Obviously, last week, the illness kept him completely out of the game, and they did need him in that game. So it's scary, but he tweeted to a kid that he's good. He doesn't want to let that kid down. Is it like a Baybrooth? You know what I mean?

That's good as in like, I'm not in the hospital, I'm going to die, kid. Don't be scared.

He needs his lungs to play football.

Does this mean that Ricky Pearsall should be in play against a bad Cowboy's defense? If you are, if you If Debo is-Yeah, he's in play even if Debo plays.

I think so, too. I think he's-I would play Pearsall over Tolbert. You need a... Debo has his role in this offense, and with no Juan Jennings and Ayuk, I think Pearsall will get his target.

Yeah, I agree. For the runningbacks of the Dallas Cowboys, as much as I want to say- Do they have any of those? As much as I want to say, Let's go Daudl, I don't know what they're going to do. My hope is that they went into the bye week, they went back to the film and said, Why were we such big, stupid dummy dumb-dums and bow to the knee of Ezekiel Elliott's complaints that he's sad and not getting the ball? I'm hoping that they see that and go, We have to go, Rico Doudo moving forward, but I can't say with confidence that that will happen.

His DK rushing line is only 45 and a half, so there's not a lot of confidence and success here.

Jake Ferguson, how are you feeling about him? He's been a little disappointing in the opportunity that had been presented him, at least the last game.

The Cowboys have been disappointing. As the Cowboys go, so will Jake Ferguson.

The Monday night football game, we get the Daniel Jones, New York Giants. Can we stop primetiming them?

Yeah, they do not belong.

They feel like they get primetiming. Sometimes so much.

Well, they're from New York. Makes sense.

No, it shouldn't make sense.

No, I'm just saying I understand the business side of it, but the play side of it is awful.

Look, the Adam Malik neighbors, that's really exciting. But what in the offseason was the huge thing of...

It doesn't matter.

I get the Jets.

Man, I've been waiting to watch them without Saquon.

You're like, Hey, Roger is back for the Jets. Let's put them on primetime. Okay, I get it. What are we doing with the Giants?

The nice thing for the NFL is if they put on the biggest fart fest crap show of all time, ratings are going to be fantastic.

Yeah, we all watch it.

Exactly.

They don't care. Hustle Wilson in this game, man.

Pittsburgh at home. What's the over and under?

Thirty-six and a half.

Oh, Blarf. Bullarf. That is the lowest-Unlimited. Over-under for a Monday night football game since 2010.

Look, the Giants defense is not- You did this NFL. They're not a pushover defense. And Pittsburgh is obviously going to be able to stop the Giants offense. So then from a fantasy perspective, ewe. Look, neighbors and Pickens are going to be in lineups, but I don't know if their stat lines are going to... I don't know if the box score is going show you something special at the end of this week?

I think Nabors and Pickens will both be fine in this game because there's such a consolidation of targets to them. There's really no other options. The running game is interesting because you've had Tyrone Tracy on a heater, but Devon Singletary came back and you had a bad game, even though Tyrone Tracy still had 67% of the snaps last week. Six for 23. Yeah, it was a very disappointing game. I don't think you could start either one of those running backs against the Steelers. Najee Harris?

Yeah. Najee, you're going to play because they're going to be ahead. They're six-point favorites, if I didn't mention it on the DK Sportsbook. His line 62.5. Look, Najee is just going to get the rock, and he looks good. I'm not one to say that.

No, you're not. That means it's real. He's the Rb 19 on the year right now. Yeah, and feels like 18. You know what I mean? Oh, you bet you. I watch him like, he leaves.

It feels like a 17, 18 range.

He's looking even better than he's performing.

No, this is more fun to be on the bad side It's the right of it. I'm concerned for Najee.

If I have him, I'm starting him as a running back, too, until I see otherwise, but just projecting-For this game. Projecting this game in the future of the Steelers.

Is this a Jalen Warren statement or what?

Everybody's back.

Do you think that the Muth can get Louthe at all with Russell Wilson? He was 2 for 51 last week. He's only had three targets in three straight weeks. Is it- No.

I think the Muth is a fine streaming option. When you look at the streaming options, this is a bad matchup. It's a low over under. You've got a top six defense against tight ends in the Giants. This isn't one where I'd be like, That's the matchup I'm playing a streamer.

More updates on Jaden Daniels. He said he felt good at practice, wants to play, It's not my decision. Something that Mike Evans would never hear. And then Todd Bowles said, Bucky Irving will play, barring a setback.

That's good.

So there you go. I can't wait.

Oh, all right. Let's not do this. It's better to be good. Fantasy Face-off, presented by DraftKings.

By the way, I got a lot of social media heat on my lineup from last week. It was first place without a quarterback. Just so you know, the heat that I got, that I was going to be back in the shame, I was on top.

I will say this- And somebody else was it. Whatever my costume is, which was deserved from a bad performance, it better be good because of two things. One, you've been telling people, just wait till Friday. And also this morning, I get in, and this is the first time this has ever happened. Andy tells me as a warning, I need to send my lineup to the deucers just in case.

Well, you have a glasses issue.

Okay. All right.

If we put you in any mask, you may not be able to see.

Don't read too much into this.

Let's go.

Wheel of Shame.

All right, something's going on with the eyes. Let's roll this wheel.

I saw a pizza face.

Yeah, Mike, take us through it. Frat boy.

The Blender. Andy Reid.

Now, we have a very...

Do I have a red shirt?

No, bro. Here you go. We got the whole gear. You start here.

Okay.

You I got to get the glasses off, probably. Just for the play-by-play, there is a Walrus. There's a Walrus mask going on. And then Jason's got to... You got to put this hat on. I can't see anything. Okay, put the hat on.

There's no eye holes. The eyes are covered. Yeah, that's why we needed your lineup. Okay.

Well, you got to put the headset on, though.

You got to put... Wait.

Oh, man.

Andy?

Is that you? That's me.

Oh, boy. Andy Reid.

I got some creative things coming.

Youtube. Com/thefantasyfootball. I hope you can use Hopkins this week.

Is he going to play?

I hope so, but he's not in my We don't have King's lineup.

Can you hear me? Yeah, we can hear you. Sort of. Yeah, you sound great. You look great.

Yeah.

Why are we not on the solo camera right now?

Right now, let me walk people through what I'm seeing. Okay. I have whatever this is.

That's a nostril. That's a nostril.

I can see one little speck. I'm looking through a key hole here.

Like a speck of light?

And I'm just looking through my nose, and I could see right now-We better get into these lineups. Right now, I see 18.1 on my screen. I don't know what it means, but that's the amount of vision I have. Al, do you want to- That's the fantasy points per game for one of your runningbacks. Okay, I see that now. I move to the left. All right. All right.

Look, we got to get into this. Quarterbacks. Al, who does Jason have a quarterback?

I could do this. Can you do it? I'm going to look I'll go through my nose and come out on top. I've got Jordan Love.

When he talks, his jaw's moving a little bit.

Jordan Love is- That's the truth? Jordan Love is 7,100. He's going to throw five touch downs this week.

Why is the truth moving? It's like fit in his face.

When I breathe, it's very difficult.

Oh, my gosh.

How does it smell? It smells like-A Walrus?

It smells like plastic. Nice whiskers.

Thank you. I've got I'd love to.

I knew you would, both of you, and I don't live that life. I know you should play cash. I got Joe Burrow. I got Joe Burrow at 7,000 against Philadelphia at home.

Don't mind it. All right, Mr. Reid, who's that running back for you?

I've got Breese Hall and Devon Achan. Breese Hall sitting at 7,300, and Achan at a disgustingly offensive. Can't read it.

6,200? Okay. What is something like that?

Who do you got, Mike? That's correct.

I have the King.

Henry. Was he like 9,200?

8,100 for Derrick Henry. Spinning up. And my start of the week, Javante Williams at 6,000.

I knew Javante would be in there for you. I do have Breese Hall with Jason at 7,300, and I went with one of your favorite players, Andy, Kareem Hunt.

Did you just talk to yourself? No, he's talking to Mr. Reid.

You're Andy Reid right now. Kareem Hunt is 6,300, and I'm taking him against Las Vegas, running out that clock, carry after carry after carry. Brees Hall, Kareem Hunt.

There is a greater than zero % chance I pass out before I finish these lineups. Hurry up. All right. My wide receiver, I'm going with A-Chance teammate, Tyreek Hill at 7,000. I've got Jaden Reed to stack with Jordan Love, and I've got Tim Patrick. Tim Patrick found it at 3,500 without James.

You got a fireball in there.

Yeah.

I'll be shocked if Andy doesn't have Tyree kill because the 7,000 is just too- If you don't have Tyree kill, you're doing it wrong. It's absurd. My stack, I'm going with Romeo Dobbs over Jaden Reed, and then I got- He's trying to get a breath right now. Don't do that. No cheating.

Breathing is cheating?

Yeah. Mike, who are you three? Who are you three? Tyree, Romeo Dobbs.

When I breathe hard.

T. Higgins, 6,500.

All right, stop doing that.

You're going to make yourself pass out.

T. Higgins, and who else?

Romeo Dobbs.

I've I've got A. J. Brown at 8,200, T. Higgins at 6,500, and Tim Patrick at 3,500. Jason, you got to get through this lighter.

I will die in this mess. I've got Kate Otton at tight end.

Yeah, 3,500.

Jivante Williams at flex. Okay, 6,000. And the bears defense against, hopefully, Mariota.

Okay, that's some overlap. I got Kate Otton. We got to get through this. I got the bears, and my cheap play is Cedric Tillman at 3,300.

I've got Otton at 3,500, Rashaad Bateman at 4,300. And the Chargers defense against New Orleans.

You're going Tyriekless.

I'm going Tyriekless. 3,300. I'm going Tyrieklus. I am surprised. Yeah. Look, we got to get through this. That was fantasy Forecast presented by DraftKings Sportsbook. Jason is going to pass out. Download the DraftKings Sportsbook app and use the code Ballers. That's the code Ballers for everyone to score up to 100% profit boost on any NFL touch down parlay. Only on DraftKings, the Crown is yours. We're going to get out of here. Kill me. And youtube. Com/thefantasyfootballers if you want to see a man struggling for breath. Goodbye.

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