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

The next closest is 58% for the Raiders. Mixon's going to eat. Somaget Piran is on the COVID list. He looked good last week from the ankle. So I think Joe Mixen is someone where we talked about it on Green Room. You're very confused. He hasn't been top 20 in a month. And maybe you're considering because of the ankle, because he's been bad four weeks in row, don't play him. I think you're fine against the Lions. And this start of the week, look.

The biweeks are here. You may have to do this. So plug your nose. But I think Latavius Murray is in play. Against the Chargers, they've allowed the most rushing yards, or they're allowing the most rushing yards per game. Latavius Murray is unfortunately still the 1A at the running back position for the Baltimore Ravens. And the Chargers are seventh against the pass. I believe that the Ravens try to go back to a heavier run script, at least for this particular matchup. And Murray should be in line for a touchdown.

All right, we're moving to wide receiver. Mm-hmm. My start of the week is the 26th wide receiver in fantasy football right now. Maybe you've heard of him. Stefan Diggs. Might be the only shot to throw him in there. Sure. Look, the air yards are piling up for him, but he has not been what people have expected. I mean, high draft capital pick, target totals were extraordinary last year. Manuel Sanders has come in. Dawson Knox has made the next step. But this is the week. The Titans are...

ridiculously bad. And look, if you're, if you're hoping for this game to be more competitive, you can look to AJ Brown and Julio, likely being back out there. I'm excited about Stefan Diggs this week. I think he finally gets back into the end zone. And the Buffalo offense, defense. I mean, they're, they're the best team in football, right? Yes. Yes. Okay. Yes. I mean, I think it's, I think it's, five and no, bro.

It doesn't matter. If you play, if the Cardinals and the Bills played 10 games, the Cardinals might take four of them. The Bills are just outstanding on defense, outstanding on offense. My wide receiver started the week. I'm going with Brandon Cooks. He has absolutely been. You got to do the Cook and buy the book. Oh, you want it? Don't be lazy. The last two weeks, we know he's had down weeks, but he still has, I don't know if you know, a 34%.

target share on the season. That is. That's outreach. Yeah. That's Devonte Adams level target share. The Colts secondary was lit up on Monday night football, 442 yards. On the season, they are allowing the highest pass success rate in the NFL. They rank 25th against fantasy wide receivers. Go back to the Brandon Cooks. Well, he is a good wide receiver in a good matchup. My wide receiver start. It's Chase Claypool. It's my guy. Yeah. It's been a really strange year.

For Chase Claypool, it feels like he has done absolutely nothing. That's just like perceptively, that's how it feels. And yet my dude's averaging over 85 yards a game. He's producing really good. And it just doesn't feel like it. But now you can. You can play him with confidence moving forward. Seattle is allowing the third worst over 300 passing yards per game.

I get it. Big Bun. Big Ben is toasted. Big Bun. Big Bun. Big Bun. Big Ben got the big buns. Oh, no. Big Bun. But I like Chase Claypool. Juju is out. The target share should be safe now for Claypool. All right. I like that call. I like him rest of the season. He's a target to me right now. Zach Ertz is my tight-in start of the week. No Goddert. That is part of the pitch here. His catch percentage is yards per catch. That is the pitch. Yeah. I mean, that's the pitch.

But I did look a little deeper into Ertz this year. It's nice to see the yards per catch up. It's nice to see the catch percentage up. And he'll be all right. I mean, that's the sell too. That's his line. Like if you look up the in the catalog, it's, you could grab yourself of Zach Ertz and it's that it'll be all right. Zagherst has a higher target share than Dallas got it. Yeah, it's true. I also love the stat. It's one of the most predictive stats, which you just named the yards per catch up.

That's what he said. He says, nice to see the yards per ketchup. Oh, delicious. Yeah, it's a really good. Big buns loves ketchup. Tampa Bay. Tampa Bay is giving up double digits to the tight-in position every week. Oh, they can't stop. I mean, you can't stop Zachertz. The thing is is you can only hope to contain him. You can't run on Tampa. You got to throw the ball. I like it. I like starting Zacherts a lot.

I believe I would go with this player over him, though, Ricky Seals Jones. We just talked about it. 99% of the snaps. He completely took over the Logan Thomas. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. I mean, how do you leave that out of a start of the week? Well, I just didn't. The game has that crazy high over, under. We talked about how great it is to start against the...

Kansas City Chiefs, and I'm going to stack him with Heineke. I think he's going to be great. He saw eight targets, ran 36 routes, has the utilization and is a talented player. We've talked about Ricky Seals Jones in the past. Very good athlete. I think he's going to have a solid, solid fantasy game. He's one of those guys where you can pick him up off the waivers. He cannot get a touchdown, and you're fine. So if he gets a touchdown, he has a top week.

And I'm going with a deep streamer at the start of the week for the tight-in position. I've been trying to do this. And we're doing okay so far with our hit rate on these streamers. Clearly I prefer like Ricky and the postman and guys over this. But if you're in a deep league, Mo Ali Cox, gigantor from the Indianapolis Colts. Gigantor! Yes, thank you. Houston has allowed...

Top 10 points to the tight end position every single week. And not one of those games has been against Kelsey, Waller, or Andrews. When you play those tight ends, it skews the numbers that you gave up to the tight end position. But Houston's just, they're just bad against tight ends. And Moe Alley Cox has seen 40 plus yards the past two weeks. I think he is in play for a deep streamer. I think that's it for starts of the week. It is. Let's continue the story. Not a more important things.

Jason Moores, ironclad, locked and loaded, 100% guaranteed boom, boom kicker of the week. After my dinner, I boarded a plane, heart set on Scotland. Yelling Braveheart-style, bare-chested, go with the Brown's Chase McLaughlin. That's great. That was great. Thank you.

We're overseas now. This is an international segment. He showed an ability to distinguish between an Irish and Scottish accent. That was on today's show. Are you taking in the game? Like, are you going to the Miami game? Oh, for sure. Oh, my gosh. All right. Without, I will get the rest of the matchups on tomorrow's episode. I want to thank Pristine auction. Devante Adams signed Packers, mini helmet 55 bucks right now. Wait, where's that button? Nope, didn't work.

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