Starts of the Week + Week 6 Breakdown, Bye-pocalypse is Coming! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/14

So I wouldn't put a 50-50 Christian McCaffrey back out there. All I know is they're three and two and they won three games with him and they lost two games without them. That's fair. So get back out there, Christian. Mike Williams, non-participant. Al Robinson didn't practice with an ankle. T.G. Hawkinson didn't practice. Darren Waller didn't practice. Of those four names, Hawkinson is probably the biggest concern. Yep. Hawkinson is the biggest concern. He struggled with the knee injury for the last couple of weeks. You got the report that he.

Hopefully we'll play last week, and he did, but he hasn't been doing great for Fantasy since his knee injury popped up. So it's bad to see him not practicing. Giants, Sterling Shepard Limited, Cadarius, Tony, limited. Shepard has said he will be back. I just, oh, he scoffs at his shepherd. No, I only scoff because it's the player saying that, so it doesn't always mean what. Yeah. We've heard it before.

Go the other direction. But yeah, all signs point to Shepherd being back. And Damien Harris did not practice. Beat reporters out of New England this morning. Believe that he'll miss the game. Melvin Gordon missed Wednesday's practice due to a hip injury. Just a small comment. Mike Boone is active and back. The free agent edition for the Broncos. So he will take some snaps from Giovante.

Denver, don't do that to us. It'll happen. Don't, Denver. Because you want to see Giovante run wild. Yes, I do. And if you, I mean, like you could, you can play both Gordon and Javante right now, but you're not, you're not getting what you want out of either player. And if you add Mike Boone into this, that will be sad. I feel like Jason is making some waiver wire adjustments. I might just be looking at what I'm bidding on Ramandre Stevenson.

Might or might not be. Julio Jones returned to practice. I saw some people that were at practice saying he looked good. Tua, Tung of Iloa, after getting ribbled, expected to suit up. All right. Against Jacksonville in London, barring setbacks. So maybe a glimmer of hope for this offense in Miami. Any other updates you've heard, Brooks, before we move on?

Nothing yet. All right. That was today's news and notes. We'll let you know if something happens over the next hour. Some of the teams getting out there for practice. Make sure you grab the Sleeper app. They're the leader in breaking news alerts. They will let you know what's going on as well. Subscribe to the Breaking Alerts channel after you download the app. Just get into the forecast. Fantasy forecast. Guess that means I'm not getting Ramandre Stevenson. Probably not because you spent all of your fab on...

The missile? Earlier this year? Yeah. So I would just delete your... Why didn't he get picked up in our league yesterday? That's what I want to know. He was on my pickups, but he was below some guys that I got ahead of him. Yeah, yeah. This is, I wish that I had talked about the Damien Harris news, like, I don't know. Nine minutes from now. Did you have any bid in on him before just now? Yeah. Okay. Hey, you're a stupid show. That's stupid podcast ruining my game. Mm-hmm.

London, we get to do it again. You guys excited to get up early? All right. Now, Mike, you're doing your Sunday live before the London game, right? Oh, yeah. Yeah, tune in 4 a.m. Pacific. The Dolphins at 1 and 4 taking on the 1-5 Jacksonville Jaguars. Dolphins minus 3. That's the Draft King Sportsbook line. Overrunners 47. Jason, what stadium? Are they in again? Oh, the Tottenham Hutspur Stadium. Wait. Wait.

I'm coming from Ireland. It's near enough that I'm going to come and see this game in London town. Oh, boy. Now we need more London games. I'm glad you knew that was Irish. Is Jacksonville going to win this game? Probably not. Not with Tua coming back. No, probably not. But there is some juicy fantasy opportunities in this game just because the defenses are so bad. I mean, the Miami defense.

We spent years saying that they built this team the right way. What's going on? I mean, 27th against quarterbacks, 31st against running backs, 28th against whiteouts. It's the curse of benching Ryan Fitzpatrick. Oh, great. What do you get, Miami? Oh, wait, that's happening to Washington's defense right now. Oh, Ryan Fitzpatrick. What does he do? What? Does he disarm like the defense's animosity? Are they so? I don't know, but this, it's just, this is now a trend. Pure karma.

Wow. All right. So I like Trevor Lawrence in this game. He was a top 10 quarterback last week. We'll talk about him later. James Robinson is a must start every week right now. Especially against Miami. I mean, he is, he had a career game last week. And he could have gotten even better if he had another goal on carry. But he is so safe right now at the running back position. The real throw your hands up and just play them, I guess, is Marvin Jones and Leviska-Cenault because. Can you?

I think you can. I think you can. I think Andy is right. I think I can. If I'm going to choose one of these two guys, it's going to be Marvin Jones over Viska, because we saw with Loviska changing how he's playing since the DJ Chark injury, I'm not as convinced he's going to have manufactured touches. And while he is explosive and could certainly do great things with it where you can put him in your lineup, we have a lot of history from Marvin Jones knowing he is a great NFL wide receiver. He has not gotten the targets, has not gotten it done the last couple weeks. But in the end,

He is the best wide receiver they have in a winnable matchup where, you know, the 47.5 point over under, you could, it's a good line. If the offenses do anything in these games, I could see it going back and forth in this matchup. The defenses haven't been good. So I think Marvin Jones is someone you can throw in your flex and hope. Now, it's worth noting.

because this game, if you're on the West Coast, it's probably starting before you even wake up. It's starting in five minutes. If you're going to play Marvin Jones, put them in your wide receiver slot. Sure. Just like Thursday night players so that you have that flexibility later in the day, the afternoon, the evening games. Yeah, Tua returning could bring a little bit of hope of that over getting hit and this game being more of a shootout than a blowout. Dan Arnold, I think you can play him at tight end.

very involved last week in his first kind of full week, not a short week after the trade. And then on the other side, you know, are you rolling Miles Gaskin back out there because of the Jacksonville matchup and the fact that he had a big week? It seems hard not to. Yeah, it does. I think the matchup says you can rely on Gaskin. The 10 targets are good. Obviously, there's a quarterback shift here. So, for instance, I'm really...

curious, maybe skeptical is the right word as to whether or not you can start Mike Gassicki. He's been great. The matchup is great. So it's like, okay, keep rolling with Gassiki, except when those targets started coming was when Tua went down and Berset came in. So there is shifting, you know, I think we all three have starts of the week right now that are somewhat available. And I would start them over Gassiki.

despite how well he has been just because of the quarterback shift. No confidence at wide receiver right now with Miami. Jalen Waddle has been not good, and Devante Parker did not practice on Wednesday, missed last week. That would be my saving grace for Gisicki confidence is that they're still limited at wide receiver this week, then he'll become necessary. For Gaskin, too. Yeah, for Gaskin.

Green Bay, 4-1, taken on the Chicago Bears 3 and 2 in Chicago. Drafking Sportsbook line here. Packers minus 4. Over under is 44 points. It's kind of a messy game. I mean, the Bears' defense has been really solid this year. They've given up a couple big plays, but fifth against quarterbacks, 10th against running back, six against tight ends. The wide receiver position, it's not like you were deciding on Devante Adams here. He'd be the only wide out I'd start for Green Bay. Is this a pretty...

straightforward matchup to project? Yeah, it really, really is. There are basically three players you're playing when looking at both sides of the game. I mean, Rogers is in your lineup because he's Aaron Rogers, Devonte, obviously, and Aaron Jones you can rely on. AJ Dylan has been creeping towards Flex appeal, but I don't think he has it in a matchup against Chicago in a divisional game. And then on the other side of the ball, I'm not touching the Bears.

Oh, I'm playing Damien. Oh, I guess. For sure. For sure. Damien Williams. And people picked up Khalil Harbor. They need to know whether they can start him. It's just, it's really tough to trust an offense that you're not confident can score enough points on the field. I don't think Alan Robinson is going to miss the game. I mean, he has been an Iron Man over the last few years. But if he did, I'd be willing to roll the dice with Darnell Mooney.

That being said, I don't think he's going to miss. So this game becomes more simple. I think Mooney is interesting from the standpoint of game script where the Chicago Bears have been very run heavy. They get a lead. They sit on the ball and they just hand it off over and over. Sometimes game scripts don't go the way you think because on paper this is very easy that the Green Bay Packers are going to be up. But if that does happen,

As I would project that the Packers are able to score points, they will have no choice but to throw a little bit more. And thus far, the connection of the quarterback is for Justin Fields, the rookie, that connection is with Darnell Mooney. I think that Mooney is worth a flex play to me.

Would you, let's say Alan Robinson. I'm not playing Robinson. Let's say Alan Robinson is out. I'm not playing either of these guys personally, but I'm curious, you guys are talking about Mooney being someone you could play, especially if Fallon Robinson was out. Would you play Mooney or Jacoby Myers against Dallas? Probably Jacoby. Yeah, I'd lean Jacobi Myers. Okay. So that's the level of. Mooney's been seven or more targets three times. He's a week removed from 125 yards. And so if Robinson was gone and a blowout, I could see it working for him. He hasn't scored this year.

Not that Jacobi Myers has ever scored, but seems safer to play Myers. I would play Mooney over, like, Leviska-Schanalt. Over Beckham? Dude. Beckham just literally, last week was the worst of all of it because they scored 42 points and he was 2 for 20. Like he was 100% disappearing. Beckham was not involved. Yeah, he not involved.

His name should be Tim Patrick. The way that it's set up. The way it's set up, Cleveland, I would project them. They'll be able to control the ball. And we're still a few days out, but at least weather-wise, we're starting to get into that area of the year where you at least have to consider it. And it sounds like a little bit wind. Which would be, it's not like you abandon all your skill players because of wind.

But you might say, well, I'm going to 10%. I'm going to move these guys down 10%. And that might be enough to change your decision. And I don't like to speak well of O'Dell Beckham for fantasy. But I do think there is a situation where last week was a game of happenstance where they were running the ball really, really well. And they had a couple of giant breakaway plays from David and Joku. Sure. That just took the passing work away from, you know.

other options. So the week prior, Odell looked okay, but the weather is worth at least bringing up. All right, before we get to the Cincinnati Bengals, Detroit Lions game, I want to thank today's sponsors. Babel is here. If you are going to a destination where maybe you don't know the language, it could be challenging to do just about anything, the simplest tasks, how to order, how to read a menu, how to, you know,

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