Week 8 Studs & Duds, Rising Stars, HUE-ge News!

He's going to be on the waiver show. And right now you can play him because Russell Wilson trusts him. Brandon Marshall is gone. Yeah, I was jettisoned into space. When I went to put in my rising star, I wanted to put in David Moore. And you had him. I think Brandon Marshall's role is his now. And so I, oh, that happened three games ago. No, but I didn't have to think about it. I actually believe it now. So, no, I like this start of the week. My rising star. Ed.

It should be, except the star was already risen. He was, you know, the- Thirty-one years old. He's getting ready to get that career kicked off. The North star is already in place, my friends. No, my rising star is Jack Doyle. I pumped the brakes two weeks ago on Eric Ebron because Jack Doyle was coming back. And while Ebron did have the touchdown, what Mike was just saying about the snap counts, the routes run, how much are you on the field kind of matters for how much you can do on the field. And so...

You've got Jack Doyle in his three starts. He's rocking the 90 plus percent snap counts. He's always on the field. He runs so many more routes than Eric Ebron. And if you look at what he's done, I mean, he's had, what, 10 targets for seven receptions before. Now this last week, seven targets, six receptions, 70 yards. The schedule, obviously, is not...

perfect for them. I'm not saying he is a must grab, you know, play now stash. You want to call Ed Dixon a tight end one. Jack Doyle, if he plays as a tight end one. Yeah, I mean, Andrew Luck has, and Frank Reich, the whole Indianapolis Colts, I think they are finally clicking and I believe 100% in their offense. I don't think there's going to be another game this season where they're not scoring 25 points. And Jack Doyle is a huge part of that. Watching the game, I was.

talking to the TV because I needed Eric Ebron, and I'm like, Raiders, Jack Doyle is just going to the center of the field and standing still, like six plays in a row, he's just catching, it's like. Invisibility club. Guard that guy. It was ridiculous. So, yeah, I mean, he's a huge piece of that offense, and I want Jack Doyle going forward, especially with how crappy the Titan landscape is, how unreliable. I want the targets, the snap percentages, the routes run, and the quarterback.

That's what Jack Doyle presents. My rising stars are the Cleveland Browns. They're about to ascend. But for real, it's DJ Moore. This is why we've been talking about in the past couple weeks that the pedigree was there, the first wide receiver taken in this past draft. He had never played more than 50% of the snaps, shot up to 71%. The two carries is extremely interesting to me.

that he received yesterday, not because you can count on that every single week, but it was the team, I believe, realizing, okay, we got to get DJ Moore going. We got to get him implemented in the system. We have to force touches. He is, and if you don't know who DJ Moore is, he plays for the Carolina Panthers. He was five for 90 in terms of receiving yards this past week. I think that he is on an upward trajectory for the remainder of the season. I don't know how high he can climb for fantasy purposes.

But I think he is, if you hadn't already been stashing him, he's looking far more, less like a goatee and more like a mustache. Oh, okay. All right, that makes perfect sense. Pooped in his big boy pants. David Moore or DJ Moore? I'm sorry, David, yeah. Yeah. David Moore or DJ Moore? So I'll take D. Moore.

Well, you would be the one to ask about this, Mr. Moore. Yeah, I guess that would be, that would make sense. That's your last name. It's your last name. Yeah. That's your. If I had to pick one of these guys, I think I would pick DJ Moore. I mean, I, the touchdowns are very nice coming from David Moore. The volume isn't there now that Ed Dixon's there stealing everything. I mean, it's going to be tough. But I think the talent is clearly on the, I feel like opportunity has been there for David Moore.

Talent is there with DJ Moore. And if he's going to start these 70 plus percent snap counts, then I think the fantasy value will come. And we're starting to look ahead. Fantasy playoffs for the Carolina Panthers passing attack is very juicy. All right. Let's talk about some does. James Winston, Drew Brees. I mean.

You can't really do much with the Drew Brees game. It's not his fault. I mean, 18 for 23 for 120 and 1. The defense stepped up. The defense made some big plays. You had the ridiculous pick six. It was just unfortunate if you're a Drew Brees owner. Yeah. I mean, remember, since that first loss, similar to last year where the Saints looked like their defense was terrible last season. And then it was like, oh, no, they have a great defense. We're starting to see them.

do the exact same thing this year. And so I worry about Drew Brees a little bit rest of season. They picked up Eli Apple. Yeah, they picked up, you know, some pieces for the defense. I really genuinely think Drew Brees is, like he's a trade candidate for me. If I've got him, I'm shopping him right now because he's got a huge name. He's been great this season. But if Mark Ingram and Alvin Camara start rushing in more touchdowns like last year and the defense stops the shootouts, you're going to have what you had last season with Drew Brees, which is.

He's pretty much always the quarterback 13 or 14. You're disappointed. All right. Fantasy owners need some answers, guys. Isaiah Crowell, Matt Berita, Chris Thompson, Colonel Mustard, Rahim Mustard. And then Corey Clement. I mean, there are a number of poopers in this group. Carlos Hyde, six for 11. I mean, no, we didn't expect the world from Carlos Hyde this week. Probably expected more than six for 11. Yeah, so Crowell.

It was the matchup. He was playing against the Chicago Bears. Next week, he will get the Miami Dolphins, and he will get the volume against that team. He's going to end up as a great play. Berita is just, he's like a walking mash unit. You never know if he's at when he's going to be healthy, when he's not. The matchup was there. He was supposed to be limited. One thing to point out. Are you doing a mash?

Oh, my goodness. Oh, that is way, Pat. That is, that is way over the heads of our audience. Hello, fellow young people. Yes, the match reference, no good. One thing to note about the Arizona Cardinals matchup that has been so incredibly juicy. Obviously, Matt Breed, a torched in limited action. The Cardinals several weeks ago.

They actually switched this week. Now, I don't know if this was, the press conference was said it was because this was the second time they were playing against the Niners. They wanted to show something different. But it could just be the moment that people have been waiting for for Steve Wilkes to switch to their base offense of the new 4-3. Defense. Defense, sorry. Because usually what they've been doing on first or second down is playing nickel.

and people are running all over us. This game, they didn't do that. They actually played the 4-3, the base Steve Wilkes' defense, the fact that they actually won the game, and now they're going into the buy week. I wouldn't be surprised if when they come out, they continue to roll with their base 4-3 and maybe stop the run a little bit. So it's something two weeks from now, we'll have to remember, because the matchup always looks so enticing right now for Arizona. It might not stay that way. What do you do with Corey Clement? You hold them, you bench them.

You drop him. He's not worth it. He's not worth holding. Smallwood and Josh Adams are better players on that offense. I've seen it long enough. I mean, they don't trust Clement to give him very much. I mean, five touches on the game. Josh Adams looked like the best running back on the team by far. You've got a buy week coming up. I don't got time to mess with Cory Clement. Yeah, I mean, with the buy week coming up, if you need someone else, if there's a great waiver wire pickup, sure, I'd be willing.

Otherwise, I'm still stashing him. I remember early in the season, it looked like that as well. He said, hey, we got to drop Clement. That was after week one. And then injuries happened. J. Jai gets banged up. Everyone was, Darren Sproles got banged up. Corey Clement had some solid fantasy week. So I'm preferring to stash him if I have that luxury. Chris Thompson, what do you do with him? Stash him.

Yeah, I mean, Atlanta, Tampa Bay coming up, those are perfect Chris Thompson matchups where they could be high-scoring shootouts, have to dump the ball off. I actually like Chris Thompson going forward. He would be a guy I'd be willing to target in a trade because you could probably get him for nothing. What do you do with T.Y. Hildon, wide receiver, one catch, 34 yards, the buy week coming up, huge disappointment. You just hold on. It was, take your lumps. Doug Baldwin, two for 26.

That's a bigger concern. You know, basically last week he was six for 91 on eight targets. So he had stepped up. You were hoping to see him maybe get a little healthier. Chargers, Rams, Packers on the horizon. So three teams that are likely going to put Russell Wilson in a position to need to score, need to throw the ball. But do you readjust your expectations for what Baldwin is? You have to. He has, I mean, week four, he was five for 41. I mean, that's not a.

destruction of your team is not what you're hoping for for Doug Baldwin, but he's had one game where you were happy that you played him. And you may not even even played him. You may have benched him. Yeah. For context, Larry Fitzgerald has two. And Larry Fitzgerald has two. And Pete's on the waiters right now. Yeah. Kenny Gallaudet, the three targets in the last two games, which is, uh, that's a problem. If you, if you need to count on somebody, we talked about him. Alshan, four for 35. He had the Jaylon and the Ramsey match up.

He's got the buy next week. Don't worry about Alshan. And then John Brown, three for 28 on seven targets. This happens. When you have a high air yard guy, if he doesn't come down with the big player two, you are going to hurt. Yeah, and you're still going to play him. I mean, when you've got a Deshaun Jackson, John Brown, you know, Tedgin slash, you know, Treyquan Smith, when you've got that speedster roll high air yards, you have to just be willing to get a zero.

to take your chance at the 25-point game. And then I was alluding to it earlier, but the tight-ins, the tight-ins hurt you this week. David and Joku. Thankfully, the tight-ins might not have hurt you because you played other people who the Titans hurt them. For instance, if David and Joku was your tight-end and you faced off against C.J. Uzama, you ended up pretty good. Neutral. Because you both scored zero. Or if you're the Jimmy Graham owner and you played up against Trey Burton.

You ended up pretty good. Jimmy Graham, one for 21. Trey Burton, three for 18 on four targets. I guess the question that I have for you is, are you alarmed by any of the usage? David and Joku basically had no targets on this game. There was one PI on him, but you had seen such an increase in usage, such a reliance from Baker Mayfield. Now you've got a change at the head coaching position.

is David and Joku, do you just need to move on and not worry about it? Is this like the Hunter Henry Goose games last year where you just kind of say, well, I don't have a choice. Yeah, exactly. I mean, with David and Joku Jimmy Graham and Trey Burton, you just have to go, well, that stinks and then keep playing them. They're as good as any other options out there. You're not going to pick a guy up off of the waiver wire right now.

Maybe a Dixon, you know, but, you know, that's going to be in the caliber of Injoku Graham Burton. So you hold those guys, you keep playing them. And you brought up a perfect example in Hunter Henry twice last season, just complete goose eggs. And he had a great year overall. So you just, you got to roll with the ugly tight end punches. This was Baker Mayfield's lowest passing yardage of the season, including the game where he played half of the game. A lot of grimacing in this game from Baker Mayfield. Yeah. A lot of interesting decisions.

Jason, upcoming week, Kobe Fleener, Ed Dixon. Who do you? I'm going to say Ed Dixon. And one more question for you guys. Who's a cell high candidate after this past week? Do you have somebody that pops into your mind as a cell high candidate? I can probably jump in and give you some of the scoring leaders if you don't already have one in your mind. Yeah, I mean, there's a couple options. I would say.

Kenyon Drake. Drake is the name that pops up for me. He has hit, Marvin Jones. He has hit on two weeks recently, and he can do it. We've said that. Yes, he can do it. But if he doesn't score, you're going to have a bad time playing Kenyon Drake. You know who I would. Lamar Miller? Are you in on him now? I hold them. Yeah, I think Lamar Miller's. When I researched the Deontiformin injury. I'll sell him to Jason. I'll buy him. Hugh Jackson.

No, how about this? How about Tyler Boyd? No way. Listen, Tyler Boyd is going to net you a ton. He's a wide receiver one and has been great. He goes on by. Then he's got the Saints with their defense kicking in and then Baltimore. So if over the next month you get basically three crappy games from Tyler Boyd and you're able to flip him for someone that maybe is past their by that's a great option, maybe you need running back depth. I'm not telling anybody you must sell.