Transcript of Week 5 Matchups + Cowboy Collapse, Wheel of Shame - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/9

Welcome to the Fantasy Footballers Podcast with your hosts Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Welcome in.

Friday, October 9th, the Fantasy Footballers Podcast. That little bit of levity you hear in the air, it's just eye rolls and conundrums from Thursday Night Football.

That game, that game was—

what if people—

that game was a— look, it was a disaster, but it wasn't at the exact same time.

No, it was a good game.

I was over here pleading, begging George Pickens to have a big game.

Oh, I accidentally cleared my board here to see your prediction. You were pretty close though.

His prediction, I want to say, was like 7 for 115 and a touchdown. It was something right around there. And he ended up 9 for 130 and a touchdown. So pretty, pretty good.

So I wanted George to have a great game, but not at the expense of everybody else on the Cowboys.

I mean, this was, I I think the first time an 0-4 team won on the road against somebody since 1975.

Won't be the last time this week.

The Cowboys. So Pickens had 8 targets, 4 catches, 63 yards in the first 3 quarters.

They went to him immediately.

In the 4th quarter when CeeDee Lamb went out.

Yes.

5 catches.

No, they went to him the whole time.

67 yards and a touchdown in that span. The, you know, You followed up a week where CeeDee Lamb had 21 targets and 17 catches with a week where they barely had the football. The only time Dallas had the football and had drives, CeeDee was out and the report was quad contusion. He got hit in the quad in the same spot that he got hit last week. He's got 10 days to recover. They're not expecting, you know, that's not going to be a salve for your fantasy team because CeeDee ended up with 2 catches for 9 yards.

But that's a disaster.

Pickens had a big game. Javonte saved his day with a touchdown. The story of the night, Bucky Irving.

Holy crap.

Yeah. I mean, it was just like the dude, 21, 165.

I mean, and 2 touchdowns.

You can, it's fair. Yes. Bucky's the story is the Dallas defense. Not only did it not improve, it may be worse, which is awesome. That was, well, I know it's awesome as long as Dak Prescott doesn't look like a pumpkin, which he did last night.

He looked so bad. Forgot how to throw with any accuracy. He missed. And then he had 2 drops, the 2 that he actually puts onto people.

Ferguson.

He was awful. Dak was awful because the throws he was making there, back foot, they were skittish and scared. It was a terrible game. But the Dallas defense, like, if you want to know why it isn't good for the offense, last night's the perfect example. They were a terrible defense last night and the offense sucked. Because they gave up an 11-minute drive to Bucky Irving and Jason Superstar Jalen Daniels.

Joe, that's right. I knew what I was doing, picking up Jalen Daniels. Yeah, I will say this. Since we're talking about the Cowboys defense, we need to give a little bit of credit as well to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers defense going into last night prior to them pretty much shutting down the Cowboys for the vast majority of the game. They were top 10 against quarterbacks, top 10 against running backs, top 10. against wide receivers. They have been a good defense. You don't think of that when they're an 0-4 team.

That's a good point because Todd Bowles, that's the one thing he's always been able to do is kind of scheme up a defense that probably had a lot to do with it. It looked like Dak was under pressure a lot. He couldn't settle into the pocket. He missed CeeDee wide open for a bomb touchdown, which I've rewatched a lot of times. And that was, and it was because he was you know, skittish in the pocket. But Bucky, 21 for 165 and 1, caught a touchdown pass, scored twice from within the 6. Dude, all this is so comforting for those who have been hearing Kenny Gainwell, Sean Tucker talk.

Because that's what it has been. The hilarity of last week where it's like Sean Tucker, did he score last week?

I feel like he did. Yeah, he did. Oh yeah.

Like the short yardage is Sean Tucker. And then we leave the game and Robinson It's like, we got to figure out how to get Gainwell and Tucker the ball more. And they're like, sight, see Bucky Irving inside the 5, which we haven't done in his rookie year.

He was on fire and they stuck with him, which is what a good offensive coordinator does.

Yeah, you had to. I mean, his big 72-yard run was not what it usually is. When you watch an NFL game and someone has a 72-yard run, it is almost always a lane opens up and a guy explodes. This was not, this was Bucky's like, oh, I'm, I'm stuffed.

It was Frogger.

It was, it was completely Frogger. He's just jumping to the left, jumping to the right with going all the Cowboys jumping, diving into an empty spot that he just moved out of. I mean, it was all Bucky. So he looked fantastic a couple of, you know, going into last year's draft, he was, I think, ADP like the running back 7, which felt maybe higher than what his ceiling should be at that point. And obviously he disappointed, had a bad injury year.

That's actually crazy to look back on. I didn't realize it was that high.

Yeah. And so now it's like, that's, he looks like what he looked like coming out of his rookie season. It's—

The gap is wildly different from Gainwell to Bucky Irving or from Sean Tucker to Bucky Irving.

Yeah, but Gainwell got 4 carries. Chris Godwin got a carry. Ibuka got a carry. So they're not like, This isn't a timeshare.

No, it was, it was a big game for Todd Bowles because if he blew it at the end of that one, he was probably saying goodbye to this team.

They tried.

Well, it was nonsensical what happened.

Dude, I am, I am all for it.

You're Mr. Go For It.

I am destroy. Just snuff the flame. Everything. No chance. You're on the 1. And even I'm like, That's a 3-score game though. If you just kick it, then they have to score 2 touchdowns and something else. Like that's, you just take the points.

Yeah. What else?

So you got to be able to get a yard and they almost blew it.

Ibuka got into the end zone, not through the air, but on the ground on an end-around run, 14 yards. But he had his first double-digit scoring day, probably the first one since you benched him or something out there.

But I mean, he hasn't scored double digits since I believe week 10 last season. So it's been a minute and I wouldn't doubt if people did bench him. him considering Baker's gone.

Oh, I would have benched him.

And so yeah, they just need Baker out of the way and Jaylon Daniels to come in here and set up scoring opportunities.

Baker might be back soon, by the way. They were talking on the broadcast a little sooner than expected.

Like if Ferguson doesn't cause that interception at the end of the game with the way that the momentum was going, Dallas was going to score.

Absolutely. And even before it was wide open when he caused that interception, by the way, they would have been at like the 12 on first down and Also, DaRon Bland dropped a game, a potential game-tying pick 6.

It was an easy one. Dallas did everything they could to lose this game.

Papa Josh could have caught that thing.

Well, let's not. Yeah, I've seen, I've seen stone hands out there.

He couldn't take handoffs for him.

Wait, was that the nickname? Yeah.

Only because of the catching was like stones trying to catch a football.

It's better than lobster claws, all I'm going to say.

Okay.

I know who that is.

All right. It's Friday.

Foot Clan Friday.

Yeah, we had one guy that would catch, catch kind of last.

That's more like the, I call that the seal clap.

Yeah. It was more of a seal clap attempt.

Yeah.

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News and notes from around the league. All right.

The CeeDee Lamb, I just mentioned it. He missed most of the 4th quarter drives that mattered, which It was unfortunate because he would have been, you know, he would have had 3 or 4 catches on those drives.

Sure.

Bruised quad, not, not long term. I guess it was a bruised quad from the week before. You saw him come into the game a couple of times, like on the goal line for the 2-point conversion because he didn't have to sprint down the field. But the nice thing is—

And easily would have got the 2-point conversion if Dak was not being such a dumb dumb that game.

Dak looked incapable of throwing accurate passes.

That was weird. So disappointing.

But long extended, you know, time to get better for him. All right. You guys ready for all these injuries? I mean, Mike was just talking this morning.

Yes.

I don't know if you want to talk about that. We were complaining a little bit about the nature of injury reporting right now.

It's so—

with first to market versus first accurate to market.

It is so completely broken. We have, we've already had multiple instances this year of of people, of somebody reporting, hey, this person's, they're practicing limited. And because of the way that fantasy football on social media works, you're like, okay, this starts then spreading around. You're like, okay, that's what happened. So why would I need to go back and double-check that? Because it's like, right. You know, you know who was practicing on, on, what was it? Thursday or Wednesday? It was like T. Higgins was practicing. No, he wasn't. He got marked as a did not practice. You know who was practicing yesterday? Stefon Diggs. Actually, no, he was, he was on the side with the trainer and now he's not going to practice today. Like, we got to get it together. Beat reporters. We are, we rely on you for good, accurate information and it cannot be so broken right now and so frustrating how the stuff is happening.

Please. I will say the, the, the Friday Injury Blitz podcast that we have will come before the weekend. Matthew Betz puts that together. He waits for the official injury reports to come out so that we, we kind of know actually what's going on versus what's just being kind of talked about.

This is perfection. Thank you for finding this, Matt. Matt just sent a screenshot of, we have a tweet from—

Yeah, let's, let's just mention both.

This is a tweet from Underdog saying Rhamondre Stevenson knee officially limited in practice. And then a tweet from 30 seconds later from RotoWire Rhamondre Stevenson knee was officially listed as a non-participant in Wednesday's practice.

Both cannot be true, people.

Come on, man.

Here's the problem. And I agree.

I can't do it. I'm not there.

The injury blitz is great on Friday to get the full information that you need. But fantasy is like by nature supposed to be something you quickly react to to make moves and things like that. So it's just frustrating, I think, to not have the most reliable information all the time because people want to be first instead of right.

Official injury report, just for clarity on that one, since we're not— The update for Rhamondre was limited participant Wednesday and Thursday.

Goodness gracious, man.

Okay. All right.

Devontae— This was supposed to be the easy part, was us getting the new— Yeah.

The official part.

And then the suffering was the, oh man, this guy's hurt.

Well, here's Eagle injury updates for you. Dontayvion Wicks added to the injury report with a hamstring. Devontae Smith did not practice hamstring, doing rehab on the side. Saquon Barkley not expected to play with a hamstring. So triple yoo-hoo in Eagles country. This is such the game that the Eagles, like I'll tell you right now in our pick them.

They end up winning?

I picked them.

Really?

I did. I picked them.

Because the defense is going to step up and—

It's just the kind of slog in London that, you know, Jacksonville, we'll see. I don't know. It's just a gut feeling. Kyle Minungai, turf toe injury playing. Basically his playing status uncertain for the next 1 to 2 weeks. I guess he's been dealing with this. It was a DMP on Wednesday and Thursday. I don't think it was a—

What's it? I don't know.

Okay. That's not going to be helpful. But, but they, they did say he had been dealing with some injuries, been playing through them, trying to play through them. He was a DMP though. So there's a chance Swift is alone. He's expected to play. He was back at a limited practice. Ashton Ginty was downgraded to a limited participant on Thursday.

I'll throw it out because it's like the belief that DeAndre Swift is able to go. It's the belief. And then Manungai with his turf toe injury, I just did it for a very low cost investment.

I saw that.

Roschon Johnson should be picked up just in case in certain leagues, just in case.

That's actually super smart.

Turf toe is, is Sometimes like guys miss multiple weeks to come back and they're not even nearly as effective. I remember, I think it was Antonio Gibson's rookie year, like he was crushing and then he got the turf toe and it kind of fell off. It just, you, you be, be proactive with these injuries.

Ginty was downgraded to limited, was a full on Wednesday. So that's something to monitor. Breece Hall, Adonai Mitchell ruled out for the Jets. Bengals wide receivers, that's a big headline for the week. Ja'Marr Chase returned to a limited practice Thursday, is in uniform for today's practice. Friday's practice. Tee Higgins did not practice again Thursday, not spotted so far today. So Tee Higgins, it's a matchup against Miami, right?

Yes.

So you could see a player that has been historically injured a lot get a week off. We'll see what happens with Tee Higgins. Chris Olave limited on Thursday with a foot injury.

And they're saying that this is new. This is not the knee problem that, you know, you saw hyperextended on that last garbage time drive.

Nothing to do with it.

I mean, if it's a foot, it probably is nothing to do with it. He didn't injure his foot on that play, but that could mean it's worse. That could mean that it happened at practice, but it's, it's just concerning.

I saw him at practice and he was dancing. So we'll see what happens. Justin Jefferson remained limited on Thursday with the ankle. Jordan Addison limited on Thursday with a hamstring, which by the way, it's very clear that hamstrings got super jealous of groins.

Yeah. Hey, they are. We got the word out.

The groins were doing Big work.

Butterfly, our butterfly stretch push. What do you think?

What do you do for the hammy? That's more of a runner stretch. Get some runner stretch stuff going on.

I mean, it's just the, just the touch your toes.

I couldn't ever do it.

And over to the front, touch toes.

Could never do it. Terry McLaurin and Stefon Diggs both missed practice on Thursday with hamstring injuries.

Good night, man. Stop it.

Cam Scadaboo is now limited. He's not in a non-contact jersey anymore.

Yeah, it was an upgrade for him.

And Malik Nabers returned to a limited practice. His knee has been sore. I don't want to hear sore knee with Malik Nabers.

No, no, you don't. Not when you're coming off of an ACL. Don't, don't get hurt, please.

Also unsurprisingly, because I believed in them, Ladd McConkey did not practice again due to the foot injury.

Yeah, it's really, it's really, really tough with Ladd. The upcoming schedule. This is a player who has been playing through injury and it has not been working. Like they need to give— the problem is they need him so desperately. They're 0-4. Their offense doesn't work without him, but he's not himself right now. So it's not working with him. I can't fathom starting him. Like if he's active, You know, last week he was active. He, he goosed, he played 34% of the snaps. He's currently banged up. The matchup against Denver, like I, I'm looking elsewhere.

I'm pretty excited for next year, Andy, for, because like the My Guys, it's a big deal. You know, we put work into, these are guys that we truly believe in. And of course, Foot Clan, like if you support the show and you follow our advice, you go after those guys and people keep track. And next year they're going to be like, Andy, the worst picks you've ever made. It's going to be really fun.

I can tell you right now some of the best picks for next year. Ladd McConkey.

Alec Pierce.

Alec Pierce.

I mean, I'm telling you, Caleb Williams, I think, could come back and redeem the My Guys. And then Stribling is like a year away. This, listen.

Never lost this early.

I know you're right. I can see the Reddit threads.

Yeah.

Oh yeah.

Because we've had a good run. The last few years has been great. And this, no one's going to remember the hurt. That's what's going to happen in the Reddit thread.

It'd be like, Ladd had like wide receiver 95.

Yes.

That's what it'll be.

Gosh dang it. All right. Lamar Jackson did not practice again on Thursday. We don't think Lamar is going to play.

No, no, we don't.

All right. We'll take a break.

We'll jump into the forecast.

DeSean Strickland, wide receiver 109.

Didn't meet expectations.

All right, let's get into it.

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I know it's a long show, but man, I, I'm surprised you haven't already brought up Mike McDaniel's press conference, Jason. Oh, talking about the running back room and this, this whole, like the worst quote from the press conference was, we are playing different running backs based on, you know, the fact that we make the defenses think about 3 different tackling schemes.

Yeah. Yeah. The defenders are like, did you hear this, Mike?

No. Yeah.

You're hearing it for the first time. That's not a joke.

Please tell me more.

No, it's not. Yeah. He's, he was, you know, if you use 3 backs, then the defense has to come up with 3 different tackling plans. Yeah. No, they don't. No, they don't. They're not, they're not out there.

I mean, you see, I was going to do the move where I hit him as hard as I can and wrap up, but now I can't.

Defenses have to prepare for 3 different tackling plans for backs with various skill sets. We can't tackle the same.

These NFL defenders.

I mean, not a professional defender, but I don't think that that's a problem.

Got them cards over there.

I think that there are—

that is—

we're getting ready for some budget.

That's a desperate man. All right.

Well, I'll have these ready for next week.

I will say this, listening to the whole press conference, I watched the whole thing and my takeaway was it's not changing. Like he said a lot of good things about Amariyan Hampton, his confidence in him that he is the starter. And I do think that in the timeshare, he will more often than not lead in volume and carries and touches. But it is a timeshare. As someone who loved Damarion Hampton, that was my, my guy in part because I thought Mike McDaniel was good. My bad.

Well, look, if they're winning a game, you might be right about him. That's been the biggest variable.

They were supposed to be.

That's why he was a pick.

This is why I didn't want De'Von Achane on the Dolphins. I wanted someone on a good team and a good offense. Turns out the Chargers aren't.

Turns out.

Turds out. Yeah. And I will say this. One of the biggest arguments for it was the fact that they had Slater and Joe Alt and an upgraded center. Their offensive line was totally amazing. And now they are all gone. At the beginning of the 4th quarter last game, they had 4 of their 5 offensive linemen We're rookies.

He's preparing his Herbro defenses.

No, no, no. I'm just saying their offensive line is—

I think Jason's bailed.

I certainly don't believe it's going to be fixed soon. I will stand 100% by Amari Hampton is great. Like I still, I get all the metrics. He is breaking tackles. He's yards after contact. His speed, his like—

I'm not sure the vision is where it needs to be. That's the only area that I think is a concern to me. He can break tackles. He can be a goal line back. I don't, you're not passing him the ball over Keaton Mitchell, which was, is a problem.

Should.

By the way, yeah, that's the Cowboys problem. They are not practicing the proper tackling scheme.

Well, it was, they were ready for Baker.

They were ready for Baker.

Oh yeah. They didn't know how to tackle.

No, no. Then they would, when they would smoosh Jalen in the, in the pocket.

Well, they did all the smooshing works against Baker.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But they were just, then they were—

Gainwell got all the hype this week. So they were practicing how to tackle Gainwell. They're like, which is different.

Yeah.

You go for the feet on Gainwell only.

Yeah. Bucky, you got to go for the shoulders.

Right.

Everybody knows that.

Couldn't adapt.

What a quote. What a, what a bunch of horse garbage.

We, I mean, just the Dynasty show that came out this last week, we drafted offensive play callers, the offensive minds. No one has had a more precipitous fall. Like spoiler.

Yeah.

We did not draft Mike McDaniel. He did not make the top 12.

But he was the belle of the ball. Yeah.

Who was the head coach for the Chargers that we saw?

Staley.

That just, we saw melt as he did the thing. You know, you see the president before and after term. Staley in one year went from like looking like a young, youthful coach to like post-8-year Obama.

100%. He had a 34-month year. That guy was, that was brutal on him. But it was also his fault because he kept going for it on 4th and it never worked. He's like, I'll keep doing it.

Okay.

Here we go. Yesterday we covered Eagles-Jags, the London game, Bears-Packers, Texans-Titans. Bengals, Dolphins, Raiders, Patriots, Vikings, Saints, Browns, Jets, Colts, Steelers. 6 more matchups to get into. We also have the fantasy face-off on today's episode of the show. Let's start with the 3-1 Giants. Mike and I were just musing on this this morning against the 1-3 Washington Commanders, basically saying that at this juncture, I really truly believe all 4 teams can win the division. I don't even know who, like, let's just, let's do this experiment.

I think all 4 teams could be last in the division.

Say the team that you're going to, That you think is going to win the division. We're going to do it at the exact same time.

Hold on. You got to give me a moment.

That you know the 4 teams.

I know, but I don't know which one I think is actually going to win.

Okay.

Yeah. Give me one second. I just want to look at one little schedule thing.

Oh, come on. This is just a gut thing on how you think they're playing. Just say the team name, not the, not the, you know, city.

Ready?

1, 2, 3.

Commanders.

All right.

We just said 3 different names.

We said 3 different names and none of them were the current division leader standing alone at the top, 3-1 Giants, who is in this matchup.

Wow.

Yeah. The Commanders are at home in this one and they're 4.5-point favorites. It's a 41.5-point over-under. It's a low-scoring game. Now the problem with the Giants, the problem with the Giants is you're like, you know, the rest of the year is Winston and McCarthy.

Yeah.

So you look at what is the, who's the best quarterback in the division? Dak.

Yes.

And then probably right now you could argue Jaden and Hurts, who's going to have the better second half? Both have a lot of injuries.

Probably Jaden.

So we'll see. I mean, he's missing Diggs and McLaurin this week. So did we mention Diggs? I guess we'll mention him right now. Diggs is a DNP with the hamstring. McLaurin, the hamstring. Could be Antonio Williams breakout game. We'll see if that happens. But I mean, this is a game littered with injury. You have a limited Cam Scatabello. You got a limited Ja'Cory Cross-Guimara. You've got a You've got a sore Malik Nabers. You've got a limited Isaiah Likely. So decision-wise, you know, is Nabers in the category I'm assuming of if he starts, you play him?

Yeah, I think so. What we saw with Winston, you know, 112 receiving yards last week, that if he's active, you're, you're putting him in the lineup for sure.

Basically the report we got this morning from Jordan Renan over there covering the Giants is that Nabers, Andrew Thomas, Isaiah Likely, Cam Scadaboo, are all practicing on Friday and good to go. So let's just plan on Scat being out there. Neighbors likely, you know, I think likely showed with the target count last week and the fact that the Commanders are so bad against tight ends. Like this is a really good start for him. Mike's start of the week. And Scat, you know, it wasn't a good game last week for him. He just was inefficient.

Scat's been very inefficient on the season.

But the work is there.

The volume is there. And also, you know, both him and Judkins They got off to slow starts this year, but they are coming off of a pretty serious injury that as time goes on, I mean, we saw that with like Tony Pollard who had some of that injury. It took time before he looked back to himself after that original injury. So I think Skadaboo is just going to keep getting better and better.

Would you play Jayden Daniels with the new, newly minted left elbow brace or Jacoby Brissett against Detroit?

Oh man, that one is tough. I am pro Jayden Daniels. I think he's going to still run, but with the injuries to wide receivers, the over-under in the Cardinals game, I think I lean Brissett.

Yeah, I would play Jacoby as well.

Chock against Minnesota or Jayden?

Jayden.

That one I'm fine going Jayden.

Bo Nix, my start of the week, or Jayden?

Jayden. Jayden.

Ja'Korey Crosby, Merritt, or— so he's starting this game— or Ollie Gordon against Cincinnati?

Let me— that one is—

I've got them back to back in my rankings. I've got Ja'Korey one spot ahead.

One wild thing that happened and it's, you know, more for dynasty leagues and stuff, but Kaytron Allen, who got some work early in the season with the signing of Austin Ekeler and apparently the return of Rashad White, I'm guessing they cut him. He's gone.

That's fat, man. That is wild.

So it's JCM, White, and Ekeler. You know, in some regards, it's kind of, kind of more secures JCM for that first and second down role because If anybody was going to be able to beat him for that, it would have been Kaytron. And it's not happening. But Bill right now is not playing well. 37th in yards per carry, 39th in percentage of runs stuffed at the line of scrimmage. The offensive line was a major concern coming into the year. You already have an injury to your quarterback because of that in part. And you have an inefficient running game.

I also think the absence of McLaurin and the absence of Diggs, if they're both out for this game, they're going to focus on the run and make Jayden Daniels have to really beat him through the air, which is—

Yeah, with Antonio and Diontae Brown.

Yeah, exactly. It's going to be difficult. We've seen that with, you know, the inefficiencies for the Houston Texans running game when Nico's not there. The defense can really just focus on a bad offensive line and take advantage.

Yeah, that's, that's why I'm not too worried about that.

Sneaky DFS play this week is Chig Okonkwo.

Sure.

Because he's coming back and they don't have receivers. And so much like we were liking Gesicki with maybe when we thought maybe Chase and Higgins wouldn't play. It's something to pay attention to, not something to count on. Denver at 2-2 taking on Jason's Los Angeles Chargers.

Don't do that. Don't do that.

My team only has one win.

The Vegas line is Denver -3.5. Over-under is 41.5. This puts Denver, yeah, I mean, 3.5 road favorites here against the Chargers. I mean, this is one of the games in the gauntlet. gauntlet schedule for the Chargers that you're like, well, they might be able to get that thing done. It's not, I mean, this week against Denver is a lot better than in Kansas City next week or technically at home, but on the road against the Rams the next week. So this is another chance they have. This is the first time the Broncos have been favored on the road against LA since 2017.

Man.

Here we go. Fantasy football starts in this one. Mike and I have some Denver Broncos this week.

We do.

I have Bo Nix as my start of the week.

It's more of a Chargers thing.

My start of the week is the Chargers suck.

So what other decisions are you doing? What does the wide receiver room for Denver feel like to you right now?

So Jalen Waddle, his PrizePicks projection is sitting at 6.5 targets. healthy enough. You have like Pat Bryant is now, he won't be a part of this game and this game plan. So I, I feel, I think I feel pretty good about Jaylen Waddle. I even think if you like desperate times, Courtland Sutton is not the worst play this week.

Yeah. I think Waddle is a good play. You saw, I mean, obviously Sean Payton went out and Sent sun, moon, and stars, paid the man and talked about how he was going to use Waddle. Waddle has not been utilized in that way. He's taking over play calling duty. I think we're going to see a big game from Jaylen Waddle here.

Man. Yeah, I think 4 weeks in, you've been disappointed. So you'd like to see the breakout start to happen.

The offense as a whole has been bad.

I mean, everything's been a checkdown from Bo Nix. He has not been pushing the ball down the field, certainly not successfully. That's what I mean. When Waddle was joining this team, you know, late in this offseason, it was like, wow, they really need him going back and watching Bo Nix on deep shots. They needed Waddle and it still, it hasn't worked. Hopefully the play calling change helps and the matchup against the Chargers helps.

Just the decisions. RJ Harvey, the running back for the Denver Broncos, is currently being targeted on 44% of his routes.

Too much.

That's way too much. Bo, what are you doing? If that's what's going to be happening, then take those fantasy points.

How bad has the LA offense been? Dud last in EPA per play, 31st in points per drive, barely ahead of the Dolphins.

And this is a tough defense.

It's a very tough defense.

Denver. So I expect the offensive line for Herbert to part the ways and allow him to get smooshed all game long.

Well, in that case, I don't think it's the best matchup for the Hampton trifecta of backfield situations. So like Emmanuel Wilson should be starting for the Seahawks, right? And Harvey's on the other side of this one and Braylon Allen. Like, are you taking Hampton over any of those 3?

I would play Braylon Allen. Who are the other names?

Emmanuel Wilson.

I would play Wilson against San Francisco.

Harvey, your start of the week.

I would play Harvey. If you're in a standard, maybe Jeremiah Love over him, over Hampton. Yeah, I think so.

He's, he's worth Detroit better. He's looked better with the ankle injury at practice recently. I, I still think Hampton is a low-end starter. I've got him as my running back 24.

Yeah, he's not a, he's not a bench, but he's more like a, I have him at running back 23 right now.

Losing 2 offensive linemen on an offensive line that was already not performing sucks. Trey Harris. I mentioned him because you're not playing Quge anymore. Ladd's probably missing. Gadsden is— Gadsden's— he got 8 targets last week. Maybe he benefits from, from missing pieces, but Trey Harris has been a little bit more involved on a snap count basis. You know, you remember him from last year, 93% of snaps last week.

He's a good wide receiver. It's just a really difficult matchup. And if you don't have the other guys and you could focus on someone, I'm not, I'm not really excited to start any Charger, to be honest.

The Detroit Lions at 2-2 take on the 1-3 Arizona Cardinals in one of the games of the week here. Vegas line is Detroit -5.5 on the road. Over-unders 54.5.

We round up. 55!

We do.

We do. 30 implied points for the Lions. The highest of the week.

Revenge of the blobfish.

Yeah, he's back.

Can the Blobfish get revenge? I think so.

Yeah.

Arizona. Here's what I don't know. I don't know if the Blobfish is calling plays all year.

Oh, I agree with that.

I don't know if that's going to happen.

It certainly feels like Dan Campbell might have to pull a Dan Campbell this year.

I feel like this entire conversation was confusing for some people. It might be, but it would have been more confusing if we had said, look, at some point Guns Mahoney is going to take over play calling from the Blobfish.

Thank you.

All right.

Perfect.

We're talking about Drew Petzing, offensive coordinator for the Cardinals.

Mike, I would have said it earlier if I had remembered. Former offensive coordinator. I couldn't place his real name because I've called him the Blobfish for so long.

You did start that.

I did?

Yeah.

Oh, I thought that was a Mike thing.

No, that was you. You started it.

Well, have you ever seen a Blobfish?

I've seen Drew Petzing.

All right. The Cardinals are real, real bad on defense. But guess what? So are the Lions.

Yeah, they are.

Did you see their defensive coordinator press conference where—

Oh yeah. I called the right plays.

It was like they blitzed 8 times and 7 of the 8 plays were great for the opposing offense. And then he's like, they were the right calls. And then he's like, well, what, what, what do you explain the, the fact they didn't work? Well, they were the right calls.

Okay. Cool, man.

They didn't seem that way.

I mean, his— he— the only way that you can justify is the players.

Yeah.

The players didn't execute on the correct play call. And sometimes that can happen. But I will say, all 8 times, at some point you're not executing on your personnel groupings.

So we have starts of the week littered in this matchup. High over-under. Jacoby Brissett's in there as Mike's start of the week. Jason, you've got Goff. Michael Wilson is your start of the week at wide receiver. Jamo is mine, as is Sam LaPorta. If you look at the—

Start anyone.

I mean, the defenses are atrocious. This is why Jeremiah Love, even if he— they said he's fine, but even if he's a little limited, the opportunity is going to be there.

And Tyler Allgeier is a, is a break glass in case of emergency type of back that could easily score a touchdown here.

Yeah, I was going to say, who's got a higher chance of scoring a touchdown this week, Hampton or Allgeier?

I think Hampton, because if they get around the goal line, it should go to him. Whereas here it could still go to Love.

I mean, the get around the goal line part for Arizona, there are 5 more points implied for that offense. I think, I think it'd be interesting. But Michael Wilson, yeah, he's 30 targets in the last 2 weeks. He's an auto start. If you're wildly desperate, Marvin Harrison Jr. plays for the Cardinals.

He does. He runs a lot of routes. In a high over-under game.

Marv or Trey Harris?

Marv.

I'm doing Marv.

Marv or Darius Cooper?

Because I have that choice. I have that choice in our top league.

What about Darius Cooper who has—

For Philadelphia.

For Philadelphia.

That is the worst because he's got 3 touchdowns, right? Marv does score. Like Marv has like 14 touchdowns in his career. Now it's 1 for 11 and a touchdown. But Cooper's probably playing 30% of snaps and Marv's going to play 95%.

No, Cooper's going to be probably up near 100% of snaps if Dontavian Wicks is out and DeVonta Smith is out.

Hmm.

I, I, Kyle has asked the question, if not now, when for Marv? I can, the answer is never.

Did you see that Marv?

I am not going to do this, Mike. I'm not standing by. Mike was the blobfish originator.

Oh, what?

Because in the Slack he said, I started it. Be quiet. Let Andy take the credit. He doesn't want to go down as the blobfish inventor. It's so mean.

It is mean.

That's why I assumed it wasn't you.

Listen, those at home that are like, oh, you're calling a person a blobfish. He was our offensive coordinator.

Yeah, this was, uh, yeah.

If I called my kid a blobfish, that's okay. You can't call my kid a blobfish.

No, that's rude.

Do you understand the rules of names? Anyways.

I do dislike him. I don't, I don't know how he got, how did you get that job? I don't know. It's nonsense. They're like, yeah, that team that can't win games and sure they put up yards, but they didn't really score any points. That's the offense I want.

I mean, just start everybody in this game. Obviously McBride, Amon-Ra, and Gibbs are your best starts.

Did you guys see that Marvin Harrison hired agents? Like he, he, yeah, he didn't have one.

That's why that NFLPA contract thing with his jersey didn't work.

Yeah.

He did hire an agent.

Strange timing.

Could be. I mean, I don't, I will not be shocked if at the deadline, if this continues.

I think that's the implication is why did you get an agent now when a trade or something might be going on?

Yeah. Yeah. We'll see. I mean, do you want him out of Arizona?

No, I want him to play well. That's what I want. I want him to develop into what he, he was legitimately a great prospect.

I wish I could grow lollipops in my garden, Jason.

He was legitimately a great prospect.

But I can't. All right.

He played different in college. You could have been like, picked anything in your garden?

You could have said like cash and you went lollipops.

Just something that can't happen. I wanted it to be fanciful.

Okay.

Blobfish is throwing me off. All right. The 49ers 4-0 against the 3-1 Seahawks.

Here's a game. Yeah.

And it's got a decent over-under. Seattle -3, over-under 45.5. I mean, the 49ers have been lights out. The efficiency the success of Brock Purdy. I would say that, you know, I've watched the Seahawks. They have a— their defense is ranked very well. And I had this philosophical question with Mike this morning. Jason, I'm gonna let you answer real quick. Where do you lean more often when you're choosing a defense for fantasy? When it's a mid-tier to lower-tier defense with a great matchup, example being Bengals, they're middle tier facing the Dolphins who haven't scored more than 13 points.

Yeah.

Versus, I mean, you've got Seattle who at home, very good. They're 2nd against quarterbacks, 2nd against wide receivers. They're 6th in fantasy points scored, but you're playing an offense has been pretty much carving people up in the 49ers.

How do you generally lean in these situations?

Generally, I will take my great defense like the Seahawks are and I will bench them and pick up. I'll roster 2 for the week that they're in a really bad matchup. If the Seahawks were playing against the Bills.

So you lean towards the opposing offense more than your defense.

Correct.

kind of talked about it depends on the week, but he kind of sometimes goes the other way. Obviously it saves you a roster spot versus rostering 2, but I was just curious what your inclinations are on a normal basis.

Yeah. Sometimes it like, right. I gave Andy my example right now. I have the Baltimore Ravens in the League of Record against the Falcons because that was like a couple of weeks ago. That felt like it was going to be a great matchup. Now it feels not like a great matchup and Tyler Huntley is starting, but the Ravens play the Cleveland Browns next week and I don't really have the spot to put a second defense. So as of right now, I don't know by Sunday what I'll do, but right now I'm probably just going to gamble and, and throw the Ravens out there.

Do we have to hit this button?

If we're in between matchups, we should.

We're not in between matchups. Well, let's finish this one.

Yeah.

Breaking news on the way. Soon.

We've never had a teaser for breaking news. That's usually interjected.

Emmanuel Wilson will be the starting running back for the Seahawks this week. His PrizePicks projection has him at 78.5 rushing yards with receiving included. Wow.

Rushing plus receiving.

Rushing and receiving.

He's, he's a solid play. The San Francisco 49ers are giving up so many receptions to the, to the, to the running back position. So I like, I'm very interested in Wilson.

JSN is an auto start every week. How are you feeling about Darnold right now in terms of, you know, is he just on the back burner in terms of starting options for the moment?

Yeah. He's a low-end streamer for this week.

It was wild because that game he had against Washington, right? They lost the game 33 to 31. Do you know what he finished on the week for that game fantasy-wise?

Well, didn't he end up with like 4 touchdowns or something?

He was the number 1 quarterback.

Yeah.

So the game they lost, he was number 1 last week, back down to 17 in a game they won. Brock Purdy, do you temper expectations going on the road to Seattle?

Yeah.

Yes, you do.

Yeah, you do.

You play Bo Nix over him against the Chargers?

No.

I think I do. It's funny, the San Francisco 49ers have like Shanahan just has McVay's number. We saw that whether it was the jet lag, you know, Australia thing to start the season, but they always They always kick the crap out of the Rams. The Seahawks always kick the crap out of the 49ers. And so I think that the Seahawks are going to, despite the fact that the Niners have been awesome, they're undefeated. They've looked like one of, if not the best team in the league. I think the Seahawks at home are going to handle this pretty well. Seattle won the divisional round last year, 41 to 6.

Mike Evans. Didn't practice on Thursday, still managing the rib injury, seems to be willing to play through it. Is he an active then start always situation right now? I mean, last week with the injury, still put up double-digit fantasy points.

Really tough matchup.

But he's right around 10.

Like, would you prefer just go same team, Mike Evans with the looming ribs or Deebo?

I think I go Deebo. Deebo's looked really good. I, you know, I don't love either of these players, but if I had both of them on the roster, One of them could go out at any second in this game. So I would, I would lean Deebo there.

You guys remember that tease for the breaking news?

Yeah, I do.

We'll get to it right after this break.

Oh no.

How much time has to pass before it's no longer breaking and it's just news? Ooh. Are we still good?

Yeah, we're definitely still good.

Broken.

Breaking news. Broken news.

So the news that we're getting right here right now is that Ashton Gentry is not at practice again on Friday and has been limited with ankle and foot injuries. The foot is a new addition to the injury report.

He—

and while this was breaking news and during our break, I moved Mr. Mike Washington into my lineup.

Mike Washington will become a very fun sexy type of play. Huge, huge playability.

You guys feel good about that back there? Mike Washington joining my lineup, guys?

Oh, is this a dynasty maximum points thing?

I told him my entire goal in life at this point is to steal their pick.

Gente on Sunday, man, he came through with a bunch of receptions and everything, but he looked like a very hurt man. So this is, I don't think this is very surprising.

Yeah, that's big time. And obviously if Mike Washington is somehow out there still, you need to make sure that You acquire him.

Mike Washington is 93% rostered on Sleeper.

Yeah, he's done enough. He had that splash play 2 games ago. So that's big news. All right. Baltimore 3-1 Sunday Night Football taking on the Falcons. The Vegas line here, Atlanta -3. The over-under is 43.5. I am on team Falcons, man.

I think that they look rejuvenated.

I think they're going to cover here. I'm very much on the Falcons side of the equation. I mean, and this is just a matter of, I think their offense, which has been the number one offense the last 2 weeks.

Hold on. Brooks is updating me. I guess I was on a dynasty team when I looked at Mike Washington's roster.

Oh, only 36% on redraft.

So redrafted is down. So redraft, go get him.

Yeah, that's, that's a big deal.

Thank you, Brooks. I was on the wrong league.

Baltimore, Atlanta, Atlanta minus 3, over-under 43.5. You know, we should have Zay Flowers and we don't think we're going to have Lamar. So you're going to be relying on Tyler Huntley to go on the road against the team that has been able to put up a ton of points. If you had told me this was just going to be a defensive battle, I would say, I think Baltimore will win that game. But the way Atlanta is playing on offense and the weapons that they have and the way Penix has been playing, I just feel like There's a momentum to that offense right now that I don't, I don't look at this Ravens defense, 25th against wideouts, 17th against quarterbacks, 12th against running backs, 15th against tight ends. They're a little bit better when you start adjusting for schedule, but I still look at that data and say, well, we're still forming that a little bit. So I just don't think that they're a good enough defense to slow down what we've been seeing. Do you guys disagree?

No, I don't disagree. I don't look, when you were saying you were talking about the Ravens and they got the fouls, I don't view the Ravens as A great defense that is worthy of a bad matchup. The question is just, is this a bad matchup?

Yeah.

We've only got 2 weeks. And in those 2 weeks, the Falcons have looked unstoppable with Michael Penix. I don't necessarily think that that is what their baseline is either. However, they're on fire. Their crowd is super, you know, they're going to be insanely into this game. at home. And without Lamar, yeah, covering the spread makes sense. But as far as matchup goes, I'm certainly not afraid of the matchup for Bijan or Drake London, nor would I be afraid of any matchup right now. Those 2 guys are so safe. Kyle Pitts, on the other hand, I don't know.

Dude, what is going on with Kyle Pitts?

I, I, honest, honestly, what's going on with Kyle Pitts is unneeded. It's not anything he's doing wrong. It's just Hey, why don't I just throw the ball to Drake London first? Or why don't I just give the ball to Bijan? And it always works.

When you're the number one offense the last 2 weeks, that means you don't have to defend yourself against utilization of Kyle Pitts.

Yeah. I mean, Drake London's utilization has been incredible. Last week he, he only had 96 yards because he was completely shut down. Completely unneeded in the, in the second half of that game.

Here's what I mean by what is going on with Kyle Pitts though. Kyle Pitts just signed a very lucrative extension with the Atlanta Falcons. The numbers I have are that he has played on 59% of Atlanta's routes. A pass-catching tight end who has as many catches on the year As Austin Hooper.

Oh, we got news. Breaking news.

Kyle Minungai has been ruled out formally.

Pick up Roschon Johnson, everybody.

Oh, update on the Mike Washington roster percentage in the 9 leagues I'm in. 100%. Yeah, I know.

It's a weird thing when people are engaged. It seems like that's impossible, but we have to at least report what the actual truth is. Yeah. There's home, there's home and casual leagues out there. People listening, you should be picking up Roshon.

Roschon definitely needs to be picked up.

I don't know if I'm playing Roschon.

No, you're not playing him if Swift is active. You're just, but if Swift, if Swift also misses the game, which is in, you know, the realm of possibility, then Roschon becomes like a must start.

Yeah. It consolidates a great running game against a bad running defense to one dude. Circling back to this game though, London's a lock. Bijan's a lock. Kyle Pitts. 10% target share. You're probably not playing him anytime soon. And, you know, he's always going to be capable of that crazy wild breakout game with a big play. He's athletic. But I mean, you got my point. My counterpoint to Mike is this. You signed Kyle Pitts.

Yeah. To an extension. Yes.

Because of your, I mean, he didn't produce for them for all of the time he played for them before the extension. Whatever he's doing, they're happy with it. Yeah.

Yeah, it's good enough.

It's good enough to walk and do other things.

They need him there. And honestly, if Drake London goes down, we know Kyle Pitts can step up. He's, he's an important depth piece for them.

He is capable. That's just a weird amount of money to give a backup running back.

But this game is really, really, really easy to me. I mean, it's start both single running backs, Bijan and Derrick Henry, start both of the solo wide receivers, Zay Flowers and Drake London, and check out. I'm still starting Zay Flowers even though Lamar's not there.

But I'm not happy about it.

Not excited about it. I mean, the 2 catches, it's wild. The 2 catches for Zay last week that were great were pinpoint placement from Lamar. So he can get separation.

That is true.

They were perfect.

One of those throws. Perfect throws.

Unbelievable. But Zay is getting wide open. And if, I mean, if we're just going to have backyard ball, probably.

The Buffalo Bills, our Monday Night Football game is a great one. The Buffalo Bills 3-1, the Rams 2-2. Vegas line, Los Angeles, the Rams favored by 3, over-under is 54.5. Second highest implied point total for the Rams at 28.5 or 28.8. This is, this is exciting. I mean, the last time we saw these 2 teams play, the Rams won 44-42.

Oh, gorgeous.

The Rams offense.

Yes.

The Bills defense being suspect. Are you being game perv again?

Are you being a game perv?

I want this game.

Monday night? Yeah.

Oh my gosh. I want this game. Yeah.

Just start everybody. Just start, just start everybody.

Oh, what did he say?

What did he say?

Yeah.

I mean, what about Dalton Kincaid who has been invisible? He's pulling a Kyle Pitts the last 2 weeks.

I'm still, Playing him. He is, yeah, a little bit of the Pitts, a lot of the Pitts, I guess, for when you've started him. The routes last week were down. I did see a clip of Josh Allen pulling his best, best, his best Dak where they were on the goal line and Dalton released and was like, Throw me the ball, Josh, because it would have been a free touchdown and he didn't do it. So we're still 50-50 on Dalton Kincaid. I am leaning on the side of, I still, I'm going to put him out there and believe.

Yeah, we, we have a bunch of great starts here monitoring the DJ Moore situation. Tyler Higbee seems like—

Tyler Higbee is a fine start at the tight end position in a game.

Fine young start.

Yeah, not young. But he's a fine old start, 33 years old. But, you know, 11 targets. Yeah, I'm very in on DeVonta. 6 targets last week. He's had over 60 yards in both of these games that we've had. You know, we've had Puka back and they just, all of their tight ends are gone. They're, they're, they're left with Higbee. And so Higbee is a fine enough start. I don't expect a monster performance.

Would you, same game, Higbee or Dalton Kincaid.

I would want the upside of Kincaid. I do think that maybe the floor is higher with Higbee, but if you get 7 points versus 4 points, yeah, I don't really care.

Generally not a huge deal.

I want the chance at a, you know, 15, 20-point game, which I think that's only on the Kincaid side.

Did you guys say that you'll play Keon Coleman even if DJ Moore's active?

We didn't talk about Keon Coleman.

So I mean, that, that was a conversation you had in your head.

Yeah, it was yourself.

Well, I know you said start everybody, so I just wanted to make sure that I I drilled down a little bit here because I think it's confusing. I think Khalil Shakir is always going to get his Malik Washington targets. So that doesn't really change. It's just, I don't know if I trust Keon Coleman with DJ Moore back.

I don't, I don't either. I think that—

So you lied. Well, I mean, you lied when you said start everyone. You're a liar. You're basically saying you're a liar.

When I am a liar, I would not start Kanata Mumfield. I can go if you want.

I can pull up the top targets. Okay. You don't think Keon Coleman is a real— I mean, Keon Coleman is a— The biggest free agent signing of the week. I think it's worth a talk.

No, it is.

He is an automatic start to me if DJ Moore is gone. If he is back, I think you can throw him in there just to have pieces of this game, but he's not a must-start.

Okay. Would you play Trey Harris or Keon Coleman with DJ Moore back?

I'd play Keon Coleman.

Yeah. Keon Coleman.

Injury updates. More of them. Stefon Diggs officially ruled out for week 5. Jayden Daniels will play in week 5.

And they said Terry McLaurin is trending in the right direction as well.

They did. Zach Taylor. Said that Ja'Marr Chase is in the protocol. Tee Higgins will be questionable. Jason, what were you going to say?

I was just saying I'm very happy that Jayden Daniels will play in week 5 because we'll talk about him in just a second.

Oh man.

Okay.

You risked that?

Yes, sir.

Now, you know, it's, it's Jayden, not Jalen. Oh shoot.

Not again. The line was so low.

The line was so good. No, you're saved by the fact he played on Thursday Night Football. Let's jump in.

Fantasy Faceoff presented by PrizePicks.

Well, despite going 3 for 4 and missing—

What a loser!

Missing one by 4 yards from being perfect, I am somehow, some way this year—

We are crushing these.

Did I mention how close to perfect that was? Yeah. All right. Let's spin that wheel. I'm ready to be so ashamed.

Did you talk about how close to perfect I was?

So ashamed. Spin it. I'm so ashamed.

I get you.

You were technically perfect as well, right?

Yeah, I was perfect as well. Technically speaking.

Yeah.

All right.

I love a technicality.

What does that say? Run, Forrest, run.

Oh, very nice.

Who am I? Uh, do you not understand the reference? Yeah, it's really not, it's not hidden.

It's kind of in the name.

Uh, why do I have a lady's wig?

You're putting the beard on like a mullet.

Oh man, you put the beard on the back of your head.

Now do you know why I was confused? Yeah.

Yeah. I don't know why.

Uh, you put the beard on like a mullet. There you go.

There he is.

There he is.

Run, Forrest, run.

That's pretty good.

I mean, it's bubblegum.

It's not the most, I mean, I'm breathing a lot of hair. All right.

Could have been worse.

Yeah.

You were 3 for 4, so I took it easy.

Thank you. Maybe, guys.

I don't know.

I thought it was a lady's wig.

All right.

Why don't you guys talk more than me?

Okay. Look, I'll go right into Jayden Daniels at quarterback. I have him more than Who? Jayden Daniels, the quarterback, more than 30.5 rushing yards. Now I think there's a lot of fear over there, like the elbow.

Yeah.

Is he going to run? Yeah, he's going to run. He's going, he's going to run the ball. That's part of his entire like presence on the field. And 30.5, I think, is a projection that, you know, he pretty much always hits that. Obviously the projection is lower.

I think it's a really scary one.

Yeah, it's probably the scariest one of mine, but I'm fine with it.

That's fun. My quarterback is my Green Goblin. I'll be taking Jared Goff, 209.5 passing yards. We'll go more.

Well, my quarterback is my Green Goblin as well. It's been a trend this year and it is a name you probably didn't think I'd ever utter. Justin Herbert.

Oh no. Oh no.

His passing yards projection is 149.5. I'm taking the more.

Okay. Yeah.

Makes sense.

Also, part of your costume is you have to have Juwan Jennings in your—

Oh, no.

Jennings. Jennings.

Okay.

Now I understand.

All right.

What does that have to do with the girl wig?

At running back, this is my Green Goblin. Bijan Robinson, more than 13.5 rushing attempts. Nice. That will be very easy. All right.

Oh, says Mr. Green Goblin.

Have you ever gotten a Green Goblin? Yeah, I was, I got my Green Goblin last week.

Gotta drop a little hate. I apologize, everyone. I'm still starting him on my fantasy team. Don't worry about that. But Derrick Henry, 84.5 rushing yards against the Falcons. I'll take the Leds.

Yeah, without Lamar, if you do think that the Falcons are going to win, you're going to end up—

Well, I look, I'm still going to play him. You can still, Get a touchdown. And Henry is the kind of guy who can destroy this on one play. But I think that the way that the Atlanta front is playing right now, I'll— Okay.

I don't mind that.

Well, this one's not— I mean, this one got stronger as the show went on. I'm taking DeAndre Swift, 68.5 rushing yards. I'm taking the more.

Ooh.

Yeah, me too. That's the— if he is active and Minungai is out, that feels like a Green Goblin. At wide receiver, I'm going with a teammate of DeAndre Swift. I'm going with Rome Odunze, who's been out there getting it done. His receiving projection is 41.5 receiving yards, and I will take more than that.

All right. I'm going Michael Wilson. I'm going back to the well. The projection has jumped significantly since last week, but I want— look, it's the Lions. We're going in 74.5.

Oh, you're going more.

More.

I love it.

Yeah.

Wow.

I mean, with 30 targets in 2 weeks, it'd be weird if that stopped.

Why take, why take Michael Wilson when you could take his teammate Marvin Harrison Jr.?

Oh man. What are you doing? He wants to wear another wig next week.

If the theme of my thing is dirty, dirty Justin Herbert, dirty Marvin Harrison. Not a Green Goblin, but 32.5 receiving yards.

Oh, I know it's not a goblin.

More.

Because if it was a goblin, it would be less.

Oh man.

You know, you don't have to do that, right?

I did it.

Okay. Are we— so tight ends, I'm going with Mike's start of the week, Isaiah Likely.

Okay.

His projection is same as Rome, 41.5 receiving yards. I will take more on that line. It's a great matchup.

Hey, we're going for it, man. We're right. You want to talk dirty? How about dirty Greg D, Greg Dulcich against the Bengals? Let's see if it can keep working. 25.5 receiving yards. We're going for it, baby. Greg D all the way.

Ironically, my, my tight end also has a 25.5 receiving yard line that I'm taking the more on. It's Tyler Higbee. I'm taking, I'm taking Tyler Higbee more than I'm all more. Look at us, how positive we are this week. All the mores.

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