This is Melvin Gore and you're listening to a fantasy footballers podcast. Welcome to the fantasy footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, come in. It's Friday.
Someone had a double shot of espresso over here. What's the haps? My man, you're on fire. Friday, October 2nd.
No haps, Mike. No haps. It was that game. It's just, yeah, it was the barn burner.
The kicker battle. That game. Was fun and terrible. And it reminds me of, so you know, like, it's dinner time.
Yeah. You're like, oh crap, I'm hungry. I have no idea what to eat. Yeah.
I wear whale past me making a meal. I'm going to go through the fridge, the pantry, and I'm just going to slap something together. And you're like, grabbing all these random ingredients you put together. It looks disgusting.
And then you eat it. Oh, OK, it's better than I thought it did. OK, I got some nutrition. We hit the over.
We had a good time. Yeah. And the few fantasy options that you did play actually came through. I mean, if you played Melvin Gordon, I would say he took it up to 100.
Yeah. Andy, you know, the last run, 43. So that was a 43 yarder just to add on pilot on. You had Crowder have a good game, Jerry Judy had a good game.
It was fun, man. Yeah, you had Judy. I did have James. The crowd was fine.
Like you said, no, fam. He got injured early. The good news is they said that it's not it appears minor. So I expect he'll he'll be back next game.
Sam Darnold, that run. Where has that been? That's called the I'm going to slide. Just got you.
Yeah, I actually be practicing the pump fake slide. It's called no respect. That's what it's called. The defense had no respect for Darnold.
It's been reported this morning that despite being on four with a negative 66 point differential, Adam Gaze will remain the head coach of the New York Jets. That's a good. In fairness to Adam Gaze, he had to play against a third string undrafted quarterback who came for his first start flying across the country. That's no easy task.
It was also no easy task is for be ripping over here, Brett the Ripper. He played a fantastic game. Until like the final half of the fourth quarter was like, oh, he lost all of his powers, forgot how to play football and starts turning the ball. Last night gave me some flashbacks to when I played quarterback in her flag football league for multiple reasons for one.
That Sam Darnold run, that was me because it was so elegant and there was often no respect for your running game. No respect for the running game. And somehow I could sneak around and to the B ripping game was pretty much. That's pretty much me in a nutshell.
Oh, you're looking good. Oh, you're throwing it well. What was that? My wide receiver did me the favor.
That's what Judy did. And then two just ago interceptions, which was my kind of. That was my thing. Twitter at the FF ballers the fantasy footballers.com for the rankings, the start, set to all the player profiles, join the fight.com for the community.
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Signed Jersey. Use the code ballers at pristineonction.com. One announcement before we get into the news. I am pivoting my start of the week.
I'm not going to be caught with Will Fuller's hamstring because this popped up on the injury apart late yesterday after I made Will Fuller, who's got this perfect matchup set up for him. Here's Will Fuller's hamstring knocking on the door again. I'm not going to look, he's supposed to play the report this morning. He's supposed to play.
It's a great matchup. If you've got the fortitude to do it, it should work out if he stays healthy. And he's like, it's me. My hamstrings.
Yes. Don't forget about me. That's why is the hamstring cell gear in the frozen universe? Yes.
That's 100% what it was. It's a lot. So I'm going to pivot. I had Joe Burro as my quarterback started the week.
I'm going to give you Tyler Boy. Tyler Boyd. Oh, started the week. Second.
Last week, 13 targets, 10 receptions, 125 yards. Over the last two weeks, Joe Burro has understood a simple fact about this offense. When you target Tyler Boyd, it seems to work out eight targets, seven receptions, two weeks to go ended up as the wide receiver 10 last week, the wide receiver 16. This is a great matchup against Jacksonville.
So I'll make the pivot, save myself from the Swedish hamstring or whatever. You can't stream loud. No, no, no, no, no, no news and notes from around the league. All right.
We have more COVID news. Come on, man. I'm sorry, Mike. Adam Shefter reporting two more Titans players have tested positive for COVID-19.
That is seven total players, six staff members, mercifully, the league made the right decision, canceled the game. It seems to be contained to one team and Mike, you're making a face. We don't have more news. No, the news is now we have to speculate moving forward.
They have the bills next week. That game, if basically shefter said, if more positive cases come this weekend, that game's in jeopardy. Yeah, where we stand right now, the plan that's been floated so far by the NFL is a very simple, very elegant solution. I think it was, you basically have to move the Pittsburgh and the Ravens game.
Yeah. From week seven to week eight, and that was going to take care of the situation. Now, if you're taking two games off of the docket, you really have a competitive problem going for the Titans. And there's quite the mosaic puzzle for the NFL to figure out if that happens, we don't know for sure that it will, but we hopefully we don't have to deal with it.
Yeah, major league baseball had to deal with a more significant multi-team issue. They got through it. They got to the playoffs, the league not playing this game. That it was an important decision.
And we're all hopeful that all these players, staff are safe, healthy, and it doesn't spread any further. And we get through it. It's 2020 has been a weird one. Did you know that?
I'm proud, man. Stay safe. Take care of each other. Some inner out questions for the week.
Julio Jones is going to play. He's trending in the right direction towards playing. I think he will play Russell Gage as someone that is also trending positively through Concussion, Concussion, so he could be a pivot. What about his teammate, Calvin Ridley?
Yeah, I believe he plays as well. It's the Monday night game makes things a little bit difficult here because you have. So I'd say you're counting on Julio Jones. I guess the pivot that I would be looking at is Mark was valed as scantling, Jason's take it up to 100 player because you're not sure that Russell Gage is going to play if someone has Calvin Ridley, they're also looking at Monday, trying to get their pivot ready.
So you better, you better just throw MVS on the bench right now. All I heard was Will Fuller and a bunch of lineups based on this news. Devontae Adams returned to practice. He did say he wants to be 100% before he plays.
So he will not play 1% under. So if he's not feeling perfect, he will not play that is scary, but smart. Allen Lazard, this was big news. Jason mentioned Mark was valed as scantling yesterday without any knowledge that Allen Lazard was injured.
And here all of a sudden, he's under gone surgery, corn muscle surgery out indefinitely. That sucks for the Lazard King coming off clearly his best game of his career. Yeah. And so MVS will be targeted.
Those tight ends that got involved last week could be more involved this week. And then Aaron Jones will be bears the burden of this offense right now. Michael Thomas. Is he going to return?
You know, they've said it isn't a lock that he's out there. He's practicing in limited fashion. It's too early to tell. I'm going to listen to Matthew Bette's injury podcast.
You can listen to that over at join the foot.com for the premier tier. I'm going to listen to him more than me because there's, there's really no telling the timeline says he could get in, but he probably won't be 100%. So I don't know if they'll put him out there or not. Yes, these saints are the early game on Sunday and we'll have a Friday practice report.
That's what Bette ends up talking about all the Friday practice reports on that pot. Jared cooked it not practice on Thursday. That's not good. Hopkins didn't either.
DeAndre Hopkins ankle injury, Cardinals GM Steve time said it will be up to Hopkins to make the decision if he plays based on that and Hopkins history of playing through everything in his career. I expect him to be out there. This was an injury nobody knew about. Yeah.
So it's not so that makes it not fair. It feels that way. It does. It's like, wait, what Hopkins is injured?
When did that happen? Yeah, my team in our league of record has Beckham, Hopkins and Hunt. All three left the game totally fine, according to all the knowledge we had. And eyeballs and eyeballs and here's back on added to the injury report with the back injury.
Hunt didn't practice again on Thursday. They've said it's not serious, but they're they're not. They're treating it like it's there. Also, we did bring up the promotion of Don trial.
Hilliard to the team that was in response to a special team or rookie that they lost. So that was not necessarily for Kareem Hunt. However, it does help them in the situation if Kareem Hunt still continues to miss practices. So TBD, I mean, you've got to monitor the Friday practice reports.
Make sure you're following our social media account on Twitter. We will put out all the information there. Yeah. Well, I've gained a alerts on Sunday.
Michael B. Live again on Sunday as well with last minute inactive reports. Terry McClure and added to the injury report with a thigh issue. It's not a great matchup.
He was the one. Red skin. We got to get there. Terry McClure in was added.
Are you worried about his availability? I think it played. All right, Chris Carson, Carlos Hyde, both limited on Wednesday and Thursday. I think maybe both play.
Yeah, this is really a wait and see if Chris Carson is active. Are you guys just going right back in? I mean, you probably don't have another choice. Yeah, I grew with Andy.
If he's active, you're going to end up playing. What else do we have DJ chart? Yeah, he's he's practicing, but we we will see. Like the other playing him if he's active because Doug Merone said he's comfortable with him playing this week.
I want to see what his practice status is for Friday. Like if we get a full practice here, then yeah, I'll put him back in the on the other like bigger notes here. And this is just a strategy note. Leonard Ford did Leonard Ford Leonard Ford Leonard Ford net did not practice Thursday.
We knew from news a couple of days ago that all the sudden, it sounds like Leonard Ford is not going to play Ronald Jones becomes very, very interesting for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. But there was also a quote earlier in this week that I had missed, but it was from head coach Bruce Arians speaking about Keishan Vaughn says your time is coming. So I'm not calling for Keishan Bond to break out this weekend, just saying if you've got that empty space and you're looking forward for a strategy early pickup, the there's no guarantee that Ronald Jones is the safe and great play. I would throw Keishan Vaughn on the back of your bench if you have that.
One of the most common strategies I utilize, I'm sure a lot of listeners do. And if you don't start doing it, if you have IR spots, what will happen is every Sunday morning, there will be certain players that are ruled out. You know, the last couple of weeks, it's been James and Crowder who's been questionable and then okay, they rule them out. So I throw them to my IR and I pick up a backup running back.
I pick up some running back that if an injury happens, I get them before the waiver wire Keishan is the name to look for. Hard part there is that we've been completely avoiding the backfield in general. I get it. So I just don't know what his upside is.
G over Nard back to pick up. All right, Brooks, can you do me a favor? No more injuries, please. Oh, that'd be good.
I'm working on it. I'm trying to be one of those George. Yeah, Ian. Yeah, he's back, baby.
And Drake McKinnon. Yeah, in practicing and full of rap. Yeah, everybody's healthy. Yeah.
All right. Match of time. Fantasy forecast. Arizona Cardinals at two and one take on the Carolina Panthers at one and two.
The Cardinals are three and a half point favorites. It's a 51 point over under as Cardinal fans. Arizona residents, I don't want to see the Cardinals offense without the under Hawkins. That would be a significant downgrade.
I think anyone in who's an NFL fan or fantasy football fan does not want to see that outside of the Panthers fans. I don't think the Cardinals win the game without the underhockets. So that'll be interesting. They are favorites right now.
It's a 51 point over under. OK, Jason, you brought up a Kenyan Drake is your start of the week. Great opportunity here against the 31st ranked run defense in terms of fantasy points allowed to the running back position. Carolina, they have struggled.
This is the game that if you could have any confidence in Kenya, Drake, it has to be be this. You have to start Kenyan Drake. You're going to make a mistake if you don't. I realize he's been disappointing.
He's gotten a lot of touches. Hasn't done enough with them. But if you look at the Carolina defense, OK, they're the 31st ranked on the season and you go, well, it's only been three weeks. So that could be really skewed.
Well, let's look back to last year where they were the 32nd ranked Rush. This is a lot better. This is a lot of games running where they just give up a ton of fantasy points to the running back. If the underhockets is in or out and hobbled or less than 100% they're going to need to rely on Kenyan Drake.
He's a must start and that's why he's my start of the week. And I will say this, I will be very concerned. If at the end of this week, King and Drake is the running back, you know, 28 and has 15 touches for 46 yards, I will start to get worried. I will be worried.
Yeah, fully worried. Yeah. You'll move the panic alarm up a little bit. Yeah, but it's not happened.
Every single I feel like this is a make a break week for so many players. And another one is DJ Moore here. DJ Moore might start the week at the wide receiver position in this game. Real quick, though, Mike Davis, the other running back.
He's a must play. Is he a must start as well? Yeah, he's absolutely. They're treating him like Christian McCaffrey.
He's getting the usage. He's getting targets. He's don't you mean miles gasking. They're treating him like miles gasking.
Sure. All right, DJ Moore has the solid match up. I think this is another week where you look at DJ Moore and you adjust your opinion of him if he cannot put up a good performance in this game against Arizona. That's fair.
Yeah, that is fair. But you know, I'm with Mike on this. We drafted these players high for a reason and what they've shown so far this year is not that they are busts. It they just it hasn't happened, but they've been involved and there's a lot of behind the scenes metrics that say, yeah, just stick with it.
And the match up is great. Yeah. Yeah, we'll see what DJ Moore can do if Hopkins misses if he decides to sit down. That's the big one.
Arizona, Kyle and Marie, the passing game. We know the pace of play. Arizona runs a lot of know how to get a lot of offensive production from that wide receiver position. Who is the potential start there outside of the Andre Hopkins?
Is it Andy Isabella who's had a couple of okay weeks? Larry Fitzgerald, who's basically ignored last week, Christian Kirk could be back with the groin injury. It's truly we were talking about this at lunch the other day and we each picked one of those three guys, which leads me to believe that you probably want to stay away. I mean, if you're looking at one of those players or or MVS, I probably lean.
I do lean towards MVS. If I were to take one of these players, I think it would be Andy Isabella for the deep big play hope because I think that the range of outcomes for all three of these players is a really bad game. So I'm going to take who I think has the highest upside. Robbie Anderson is the solid wide receiver to in this matchup.
Yeah, he's a Robbie Anderson is getting the volume to be a wide receiver to three every week. Does he deserve to be ranked ahead of DJ Moore on a weekly basis? He could. He absolutely could.
I mean, the thing is they're both really we have a very, very small data set, but their numbers are close. Robbie Anderson has scored though. So that's a bigger difference between the two of them. Kyle Murray is the QB seven on the week in our rankings.
He was the QB five, five and 10 through the first three weeks. He seems very safe at the quarterback position right now. What if Hopkins misses? Are you pivoting off of Kyler?
I guess Carolina. Yeah. I mean, Kyler was a great, he didn't have Hopkins last year and he was a great fantasy quarterback. So here's a number that a stat that speaks to the variance of the Caroline Panthers and DJ Moore, Teddy Bridgewater, seventh and passing yards, 30th in passing touchdowns.
Like there's Teddy Bridgewater and the receivers are getting it done in yardage. We just haven't seen the scores coming. You think that that that's a result of garbage time for them or being a team that's constantly giving it up on the other side? That's a good question.
It's a good question. But I do believe that DJ Moore comes through the touch on this week. All right. Before we talk about the Minnesota Vikings and the Houston Texans, one, remind all the foot cleanne.
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The Minnesota Vikings own three taking on the Houston Texans. Oh, and three Texans are three and a half point favorites. It's a 53 and a half point over under. I do think Houston wins this game.
They haven't had very much success or an easy scheduled as far. Minnesota. It's just not been pretty. Both of these teams need a win really bad.
And it's a pretty pretty nice over under. Sean Watson. You're going to play the Sean Watson in this game. Calvin Cook.
Yes, absolutely. David Johnson, the top schedule. You got to keep that in mind with David Johnson. He is the RB 21 through three weeks.
So you're saying, OK, maybe not what you hoped. Well, he's played Baltimore. He's played Pittsburgh. He's had difficult situations, found his way into the end zone a couple of times.
David Johnson's in your line. Yeah, he very easily could have been a start of the week this week. This is one of those, you know, can you drink David Johnson? These two guys are bad couple of weeks at disappointing, I should say, not really bad for either.
And the matchup is very good for both. And Alvin Cook is set up for success this week. He's our before by consensus ranking. I think he's my number one overall on the week.
Justin Jefferson is one of the big questions in this game. You have a kind of a philosophical view where you don't want to chase points and fantasy, but chasing points for Cedric Wilson is different than looking at a completely changed opportunity for a rookie wide receiver when they break out. Will Justin Jefferson be one of the top scoring receivers of the week? Probably not.
But I do believe that what they did fundamentally last week, which was shift his role in the offense, increases now, target share, and then saw the results that they saw from it. Look, this team has to throw the football. This is not going to win with the Alvin Cook and defense. They're going to win throwing the ball.
Kirk Cousins has been historically a very competent, accurate passer. I think Justin Jefferson is a player you can start this week against this use and defense. I agree. 78% of snaps last week, nine targets, and they were one point away from winning the game.
I mean, it was a very, very close game with that. When you have a breakout to the two and a hundred and seventy five yards as a first round draft pick, you don't go away. You don't, you don't move from that. Obviously he's not going to do this weekend and week out.
But yeah, I'm starting Justin Jefferson. If you grab Justin Jefferson, you pay a lot of fab or you burned your highest waiver priority to get him. So yeah, he's he's in. Mike, if you had to choose Terri McClaurin, we have that injury tweak.
We've got Baltimore or Justin Jefferson, Terri McClaurin. Yeah, I'm going to bring up a couple of names for you, Andy. OK, AJ Green versus Jacksonville or the rookie Justin Jefferson. I'll probably play Jefferson Brandon Cooks on the other side of the ball from Justin Jefferson.
Great match against Minnesota. Will Fuller variants hamstring? I'll play Justin Jefferson. OK, I would go Cooks, Jefferson, AJ Green Cooks is cooking, sitting one for three right now, which is the same thing Justin Jefferson is doing.
But yeah, I understand people going either either way. Justin Jefferson is so tough. We don't know the floor for him right now. Yeah.
Yeah, well, the floor is two for twenty six. Like that's, I don't like chasing points and I really don't like chasing rookie points, but the situation is there. He is supposed to be this guy. He was drafted to be the Cefan Diggs replacement.
The New York Giants, Edo and Three take on the Los Angeles Rams at two and one. Rams are heavy favorites, thirteen points. It's a 48 point over under. It gives the Rams a 31 point implied point total.
The Giants just under 18. I don't really see this game going against the script right now. The script question marks are Daniel Jones. I fully believe the Rams will do on offense, whatever they want to do on offense.
I think that Darryl Henderson is going to have a great game. Mike, start of the week. And if they need or early enough, if woods and cup can get involved, I think, look, I'm starting all my Rams because right now, Sean McVay has gotten this team. They're the number one in pass and rush success rate.
They're just playing great. So the question marks to me are on the New York Giants side of the ball. Art, you know, the Daniel Jones in a multi quarterback league. Can you start him in this matchup?
You know, Devonta Freeman, you picked him up. What, how bad does it have to be in order to play him? And then you've got guys like Slaton and Golden Tate. I mean, if you're down thirteen points and you're throwing the ball there, there should be fantasy relevance here.
James and Crowder last night got it done. Who gets it done for the Giants? Nobody. Not necessarily.
I mean, I get it with the Crowder. Crowder is easier. If there's one man, right, the Jets and the Giants are the two worst scoring offenses in football. The ment that my perception of the Giants is different than my perception of the Jets.
I think about the Jets and I think complete an aptitude on offense, Adam Gays, they can't move the football. When I think of the Giants, I go, Oh man, exciting. Daniel Jones, he's kind of like Winston. He hears it out.
Somebody's going to have a big game. It hasn't equated to points on the field and playing the Rams right now. You know, Jalen Ramsey roaming on one of these guys. Are you going to take Slaton away and then say, OK, Golden Tate's the guy?
I mean, I just have a lot of hesitancy here. I think I am other than Evan Ingram as a tight end flyer. I am, I think I'm completely out on the joints. It's just my approach.
That's where I am. I'm with Andy that Evan Ingram. I think you can play Rams 21st against fantasy tight ends right now. Daniel Jones is being pressured to leak high over 41% of the time.
I think the MVP of this game will be Aaron Donald, like Daniel Jones. Sometimes you're right. J. Sometimes someone comes through and they get it done.
But there's also sometimes where an offensive line is so atrocious and so overly matched that nobody ever gets anything going for that offense. And I'm going to if I'm going with anyone, Evan Ingram has the seventh most targets at the tight end position. He has not come through at all. So he is a he's a streamer option at best, but that's the only where I'm going.
Oh, only place I'm going. These running backs, no freaking way. Yeah. No, I play anyone from this back.
The Giants have scored 38 points total on the season. And if you want to know how bad it gets when it gets bad, I mean, Derry Slate had the impressive debut against Pittsburgh. The last two weeks, his snap counts have gone up from that game. I think he had nine targets last week, three, seven, three for 33, three for 53.
Went from the number four wide or zero to 82nd and 69th. The risk is just so high. It doesn't mean that Slaton can't come down with a couple. Yeah.
So that means basically if this game script goes the way Vegas and the way that we are projecting is 100% a Darnell Anderson game. You must play Darnell Anderson. Darnell Anderson is that's Darryl Henderson. Yeah.
Yeah. The best nickname of all time. The only player who has a completely different name has his nickname. Mike started the week.
Darryl Henderson. He's going to smash. Yeah. And we know that Cam Aker is not likely to be active in this game.
The difference between Henderson and Malcolm Brown. Brown could get some goal and carries and make you annoyed. I think Malcolm Brown's contract says he's only allowed to score in week one, but he gets to do it multiple times multiple years. Can he try another week?
But fail. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, for sure.
OK. Otto starts Robert Woods Cooper Cup. Yep. Yep.
Tylor Higbee, Gerald Everett. Some interesting. Evan Silva tweeted, the snap counts have gone down for Tyler Higbee significantly from his breakout period of time last year. He was 73% in that run.
He's at 53% right now. Roubts run last week. Higbee 12 Everett 10 at the tight in position. So they are spreading it around a little bit.
Higbee is always a threat to score. And you talk about a matchup like this. I mean, I'd rather have him in my line of it. Not probably.
It's a two and one take on the three and O Kansas City Chiefs. This one's going to be exciting. This is going to be fun. You've got Patrick Mahomes and Cam Newton showering praise upon one another two reporters.
We got a compliment. That's a compliment fight. Yeah. They are going to win the war of tying this.
No, no, no, no. After you know, no, no, after you love what you do with your hair. Cam. Yeah.
They are both big fans of one another. But are you guys a fan of the booty scooter? I did that drop changer your statistical projections. I am concerned for Cam Newton in this matchup.
I they can't say he can shut down the passing game. They're going to be handing it off to running backs a lot on the Patriot side of the ball. That will be the game plan. It's going to come down to can Cam does game get those carries inside the five?
You probably still will, but how many of those opportunities are going to actually show up in this game? So I have Cam Newton everywhere and I am strongly considering in some pivots, a pivot. Like if I can get Ryan Fitzpatrick against Seattle, I am strongly considering making that move. Oh, but my voice of public opinion, but Cam Newton's been running and they'll be down and he'll have lots of fantasy points.
He might. I'm just very concerned about it this week. Well, I want to point out that the mobile rushing quarterback, fantasy extraordinaire, who was down and you wanted a lot of fantasy points from last week is a better version currently in 2020 of Cam Newton. And that was Lamar Jackson.
You were not happy with that fantasy performance. So to speak to Mike's point, I do think this is a pivot week from Cam. Cam was the 28th ranked quarterback last week against Las Vegas. Really?
It was that bad? Really bad. 17 for 28, 162 yards or one touchdown. Nothing on the ground.
So yeah, because freaking sexy, sexy was stealing all the glory. Yeah. And also because they, I mean, it was an easy cakewalk game. They didn't need much from Cam.
Easy, easy W 36 to 20. Yeah, I think that there's some garbage time potential here for Cam in this game, but you're not, you know, the big, the big week he had when he threw for 397 yards, those against the Seattle secondary, you're not going to have that same experience here. He will need other wide receivers to step up this year to be consistent in the passing game. It can't just be Julian Edelman.
He's going to need Nikhil Harry to step up or you're not going to get that kind of yardage. Sony Michelle James White, Rex Burkhead. Gross, gross, gross, gross. Here's the thing Rex Burkhead was great while James White was not there.
Now James White is back in practice. So you go, well, can I trust Rex Burkhead? I'm not sure. I don't think I can.
Sony Michelle has actually been better than you think he's averaging like definitely better than Al Borland thinks. Yeah, I'll bore them. Eight sec guy. Um, you know, he's, he's been averaging about nine and a half a hundred points per game.
Uh, one of the better yards per carry in the league right now, but he's been limited on Wednesday and Thursday with a quad. I don't know if there's anyone here that you can trust. And, and this is speaking as a man who whose desperation has cost him to have Sony Michelle in his League of record lineup. Well, that's because you lost James Connor suddenly with the, with the Covid game.
I mean, it's just these snap counts of 30%, 21%, 38%, for Sony Michelle. I'm out. Are you give me a reaction to Clyde Edwards, a layers debut three weeks into the year. He was the RB 10, the RB 30, the RB 12.
We haven't seen, you know, that explosion game, but heavily involved. How are you feeling about Clyde three weeks? I'm feeling fantastic about Clyde. He's getting tons of opportunities.
You know, his debut 27 opportunities, 1826. And he's like, he's coming through. He's, he's had two RB one games already, two thirds of his games have been as a running back one. And that's with one touchdown, one touchdown.
And that's, that's the outlier for a Kansas city running back. That's why we know they are so good is that the running backs have huge opportunity score touchdowns all the time. So the fact that Clyde Edwards, the layer is getting the opportunities, especially through the past game and is coming through and not scoring touchdowns. I would be very happy to have him on my team.
And if some, if you, if someone in your league is a little bit shook by it, because they're seeing other options have like really explosive games. Oh, please, I will trade immediately for Clyde. Yeah. I mean, he's, he's been disappointing on the ground the last couple of weeks, as far as efficiency goes, hasn't even hit four per carry, but he's been fine for fantasy and the reality is he's on pace for 378 opportunities.
That number is alarmingly high and it's for a great offense. So yeah, I'm, I'm not too worried. You know, he wasn't my favorite prospect coming into, if you remember, pre draft, I was not in on the hype until the location and then I was completely in, but it doesn't matter. He's going to be absolutely fine.
We can't, we can't for fantasy because of this offense. Tyree killers must aren't obviously, I assume we're starting Edelman on the other side just based on how he's played. Yeah. Yeah.
But not with enthusiasm. Nope. Definitely not. Put these players in order.
Sammy Watkins, McCall Hardman, and Keel Harry. McCall Hardman, McKeel Harry, Sammy Watkins. Agreed. Okay.
Watkins was active last week. Yeah. I mean, he was eight targets. You never know when the loser king's going to do something, but your big plays come from a co-hard man.
Right. And, you know, eight targets from Patrick Mahomes sounds great, but seven for 62, that's that's, that's okay. You're not, you're not, you know, saying that at the desk, but, you know, when, when all of a sudden then you look over and it's like two catches for a hundred yards and two touchdowns from a co-hard man. Just 39% snap count last week with Watkins back down from 65% the week before with him gone, but he had to be play.
Almost had a second one. Kelsey. Yep. Okay.
The Buffalo Bills, three and all taking on the Las Vegas Raiders at two and one. The Bills are three point favorites. It's a 52 and a half point over under. And well, you know, we know the story.
We know that you're starting. Oh, Josh Allen. Excellent. The Bills have been impressive thus far.
The Raiders are two and one coming off of a beating at the hands of the Patriots. They're also hurt. I mean, no Henry Ruggs and no Brian Edwards. You might say, okay, well, these guys haven't done a whole lot.
No big deal. Oh, they, they matter quite a bit when they're out there on the field in Henry Ruggs is stretching the field and there's opportunities underneath. Those are afforded to Hunter and Fro into Darren Waller by the deep routes of these other players and whether you're not, you respect Nelson Aguilar. It's a little different.
And we saw last week, Mike, you either tweeted this or shared it with me. The Patriots double covered the underneath routes for Derek Carr, making his life literally impossible. It's like, wait, the check down is gone. I don't know what to do.
Super gone. So Josh Jacobs, he's the RB eight on the year. You're playing Josh Jacobs, averaging 22.7 rush attempts per game. Zach Moss is supposed to be back.
We think I'll be back. Are you playing single Terry and or Moss this week running back for the bills? I, yeah, it sucks because the match up is there. You should want to play the starting running back for the Buffalo bills.
And I, I don't really want to. I am absolutely fine starting to have a single. Okay. Yeah, I think with with with Moss banged up with this matchup against the Raiders, I would I would be absolutely fine.
I mean, obviously it's a matter of who you have. Maybe this is just speaking as a man who has Sony Michelle in his lineup right now. I'm like, give me all the Devin single Terry. I can handle, but I think with the matchup, you can start him with.
They say confidence. They say the grass is greener on the other side. And when you have Sony Michelle active in your lineup, it is actually true. All other grasses green in that situation.
Was that turf green for ever that yellow field? That's super green. Josh Jacobs, Darren Waller have not been on practice reports. They are healthy.
You can put the Waller is in, right? Oh, yes. Last week was tough for Waller is owners. So all right, Tyler Croft big week last week.
Fairwell. Goodbye. One timer. That's, yeah, it's the fun day.
Yep. Put them in your lineup. Anybody else in this matchup that you're looking at now, John Brown. You know, he's, he's had a couple of plays here and there.
We, he is limited in practice. He and with, with what Josh Allen is doing here, just ripping off three, four hundred yard games. Are you going with John Brown? No, because he's banged up.
Are you taking a shot? Are you going cold? Beasley, the Beasley infected with a hundred yard game last week. If I had to take one of those two, it would be beasley.
You saw the first two weeks John Brown was great. Then he got injured. There was a lot of where he wasn't going to play last week. He had two targets for no catches and no yards.
And now he's, you know, not really practicing in full right now. I don't, you cannot rely on John Brown right now. The Philadelphia Eagles at 0211 take on the San Francisco 49ers at 2. I don't know if you guys have looked at the standings.
The NFC East standings. Yeah. The NFC West standings. Well, one of the reasons is the West keeps playing all the East teams.
Yeah, it's not fair. The Redskins are winning the division. The Washington football team, the Eagles. How am I doing this twice today?
The Eagles, maybe Mark Rippins come into mind and I'm going back in time. The more impressive thing to me than Washington leading the division is that the Eagles are a half game out of first. They happen to want a game. They're winless and they are half game out of first.
What a trash division. I think it also just settles it. West Coast is the best. West Coast is better than the East Coast.
Is that East Coast? Luckily, the Eagles, they navigated a tie to position themselves to within half a game. 29th and yards per play the Eagles this year, 29th and past success rate. It's been a chicken or the egg situation for Carson Wentz for quite some time now.
Does Wentz stink or does he stink because he has to target high tower and Greg Ward? We may never know. Well, here's what we know. We know he stinks when he has to target those as his main receivers yesterday's practice.
Literally only Greg Ward was active. That was the only wide receiver on the 53-man roster who was at practice at all, even as a limited participant. That's ridiculous. He has missing three original starters from the offensive line.
You can't trust Carson Wentz at all in the slightest. He doesn't have time to throw to nobody. You know who I think we can finally trust though? Zacharyts.
How are you feeling about Zacharyts this week? You have to start Zacharyts. You drafted him in the eye middle rounds. We've had to, but it's been very disappointing.
Well, with Dallas Goddard out of the way, all of these wider receivers out of the way, the rapport over the years that he has with Earth. I mean, where else is he going with the ball? So yeah, you have to trust Zacharyts this week. Greg Ward, I think you can spot start this week.
Probably. I know the match up is not great, but Greg Ward last week, heavily targeted. He's somebody that I picked up in League of Record as an emergency pivot for DeAndre Hopkins. In case Hopkins misses the game, what do I want as a replacement for a superstar?
I want targets and he had 11 last week. Greg Ward did. There aren't many options. And with Dallas Goddard being gone as well, it's probably Earth's and it's probably Ward and Miles Sanders.
Miles Sanders, who's a Miles Sanders since coming back from the injury, is getting 26 and a half opportunities per game. He was limited Wednesday and Thursday. He's right now. He's a little bit hurt.
So that glue is what he's listed at. Any of you, you guys ever pulled a glute? I have. How do you?
I don't think I've ever pulled a glute, but I've had like a a butt strain. I've certainly sat you along and been like, you've tweaked it. Yeah. Yeah.
Glute week. So you've strained, you've tweaked, you haven't pulled. What are the differences between these? I'm not a doctor, man.
But Brooks, how's your glutes? Just fine. OK. He must work out.
But you're starting Miles Sanders, you know, unless he's shockingly not active. You pretty much have to start. I mean, he should be involved in the passing game for all the other aforementioned reasons. I mean, this is a this team is just in trouble.
Is there any almost upset potential here with Nick Mullen starting a quarterback and all the injuries that the. There should be. I mean, the, you know, I forget who it was. It was calling the San Francisco 49ers.
The 29ers, because they've got about half of their team right now. You're you're missing a bossa and solvent Thomas on the defense and Richard Sherman. And you're starting quarterback and most of the. Most of the moment, I mean, this is really insane that they're they're favored by more than a touchdown with their literal B team out there.