Starts of the Week + Week 5 Breakdown, BOGO - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/8

I'm no scientist, no mathematician. But if Hilton's going to catch a ball, it's because Philip Rivers is throwing it to him. That's a good point. I'm out on T.Y. Hilton. That's great. I was extremely humbled by the T.Y. Hilton stats when I dug into them at the beginning of the week trying to decide on the retirement situation. It's been almost a complete season of games that he hasn't been a top 36 wide receiver. It's like 14 consecutive weeks where T.Y. Hilton has been out there where he hasn't been a top.

It's all the name. If you remove the name, I had to do it this week. It sucks. I love, I mean, I was advocating for Hilton. Bounce back year. You finally got rivers because we knew that Jacoby Brissette wasn't the best solution for T.Y. Hilton. I'm sad about it. It's just reality, though. And this is, Hilton, if he's on your team, he's on your bench. If T.Y. Hilton goes and crushes the Cleveland Browns. Sell. Great. Well, yeah, you could try and sell what I'm saying.

Great. Now you know that if T.Y. Hilton is in a very plus matchup, you can feel comfortable playing it, but I'm just, I'm not taking another punch in the face. Okay. Starts of the week. All right, starts of the week time. Who wants to kick it off? I'll jump in here because it's the quarterback. It is like, dude, I'm so excited to play Teddy Bridgewater against the Atlanta Falcons. Here are the.

Quarterback finishes that the Atlanta Falcons have allowed. 1-1-4-3. Oh, man. Teddy Bridgewater is in a great spot. They're going to have to score points. Matt Ryan, even with a banged-up Julio or no Julio, will be able to score points on the Carolina Panthers. It should be a very fantasy-friendly match up here. I think we have multiple starts here from this match.

Yeah. You're also playing him against me. So that's great. I'm very excited. I'm not just telling people to start him. I am starting Teddy. You're also the president. Yes. I'm also a member. I'm putting Drew Breeze out there as the start of the week. I expect Michael Thomas to be back this week. The Chargers defense. Do you? Well, here's the thing. Sometimes we're like, well, if he's not there, he's a start of the week either way. Okay. The Chargers defense started the year great, but they've lost.

So many defensive pieces. They basically have one good defensive player left. Tom Brady threw five touchdowns against them last week. And I think you can start Drew Brees against the Chargers in this matchup. I'm going to go with Jared Gough against Washington. Let's try this again, Jared. Washington is the seventh best matchup for opposing fantasy quarterbacks. Goff has been hit and miss. He's had some really big fantasy weeks. Two top 10 performances, a couple of bad ones.

This is where he can write the fantasy ship. You guys talked about Higby, maybe ending up with a couple of touchdowns in this game. Washington, a wonderful salve for this Jared Gough passing situation. Cupp, Woods, Higby. I think Gough gets it done. My running back start of the week is Jerich McKinnon. You want a piece of the San Francisco running backs. We kind of laid it all out in the matchup part of the show against Miami. Miami has stopped the Buffalo running backs.

That's it. Those are the only running back crew that people have been able to stop. And that was when it was a mixture of Zach Moss and Singletary. My running back start of the week is in that Carolina Panthers, Atlanta Falcons matchup. Mike Davis, he's just been great. He's top 10 in the last two weeks when he's had the opportunity. He can catch the ball. He can run the ball and against this Atlanta defense. Here's the thing. The Atlanta defense is bad.

everywhere. It's been coming through the air, but they can be beat on the ground as well. And the nice thing with Mike Davis is he can beat them through the air. I mean, you saw him in week two. He was the running back 25 in just that garbage time check down city because of his receiving ability. So I think you've got to start Mike Davis against Falcons. He'll get more work this week than he even got lasted. Trenton Cannon's the backup now. Bonifon is out for the season.

James Robinson against Houston's, my running back start of the week. Houston has been giving up a ton of points to opposing fantasy running backs. Robinson's been as consistent as they come in terms of, you know, you put them in your lineup, and you know you're going to get production, and I think it could be very good this week against Houston. I'm stacking Teddy Bridgewater with Robbie Anderson against the Atlanta Falcons. Here are the points to the wide receiver position that the Atlanta Falcons have allowed. 7th, 8, 6th. That was against the Bears.

The six most points of the week to the wide receiver position to the Bears. And then Atlanta, they finally rallied. They came through and they shut down the Green Bay Packers wide receivers. Except then Robert Tonion had a three touchdown monster game. I'm all in on the Panthers this week. Yeah, they did.

do a good job against Devante Adams and Alan Lazard. I mean, they give up zero points. Incredible. It was impressive work. I'm sticking with my start of the week from last week, Devante Parker against San Francisco. I had John Brown in here, who I think is another great play, worried about whether or not you'll have the ability. So I went back to Devante Parker because, look, he's, I believe he's matchup proof. So long as Fitzpatrick is the quarterback.

He's just going to keep targeting him. He doesn't even need to be open. He just throws it to him. And it's been working. He's got a consistency grade on our new profiles of an A over his last 16 games. And that comes against matchups against New England. That comes in difficult matchups. And I'm not sure this is really, truly that difficult of a matchup. Richard Sherman isn't going to be there. And so I'm rolling with Devante Parker in my lineup.

I mentioned it earlier. It's Justin Jefferson back-to-back, 100-plus yard games for Justin Jefferson. Oh, let's go ahead and make it three. Another 100-yard game for Justin Jefferson this week against the dead last in the NFL against opposing fantasy wide receivers, Seattle Seahawks. This week, Jefferson continues his impressive debut in the NFL. Start him. And my tight-end start of the week, just take a breath.

Maybe plug the nose. If you have to plug them in, I am playing Evan Engram for the New York Giants. The volume is still there. The matchup with Dallas, the Cowboys are allowing top six points to the tight end position. The past two weeks, the Giants will have to throw. Even if the Cowboys get into a script where they just can run Zeke nonstop and maybe we're disappointed with the output of the Dallas wide receivers.

the Giants are going to have to throw. I like the slate and call for Jason's taken up to 100, and I think that Engram is in play. Yeah, I mean, he's, he better come through this with so many targets, so little production, but I agree with you that everything points to him having a good game this week. My start of the week at tight-in is Hunter Henry. He has been disappointing. He was irrelevant last week.

But the Saints have been bad against tight-in. That's why I picked Hawkinson last week, who I thought sucked. And he still finishes the tight-in seven. He got a touchdown. The Saints have had a lot of problems. And Justin Herbert looks to be the real deal. We've had debates on this show this week. Can you trust Justin Herbert? I'm not ready yet.

Like this matchup, he could have a great game. I don't know. I can't trust him. But I can trust one great piece of this offense in such a plus matchup. I'm starting Hunter Henry. I'm going with Eric Ebron against Philadelphia. The Eagles have given up top 12 tight-in weeks. Three out of four of their games this year. Ebron should be able to take advantage. Mike mentioned him as is taking it up to 100 player. Five for 52 in a touchdown. His last game out. I love Big Ben this week. And I think Ebron is a very, very.

Streamable, startable, tight end going into week five. Jason Moore's Ironclad, locked and loaded, 100% guaranteed boom, boom kicker of the week. If you're wanting to fly in a fantasy football rocket ship, then strap on them goggles with the Colts Rodrigo Blankenship.

He left me hanging there for a second. All right. I was just so caught off guard. So to be clear, I want to break this down. I know you do. I could see it in your face. That's why I didn't it's a dive deep. Okay. Rocket ship. Rocket ship. Blankin ship. Ship. So you rhymed. Ship with ship with ship. You couldn't find something to match the initial vowel sound. I think you're burying the lead here. It's really all about flying with goggles.

Oh, I loved that. I love the, I love a theme. I love when it all comes together like that. But I also like you not taking layup. Oh, man. But you crashed this ship, bro. Oh, just, just you wait. Strap on the goggles. Watch if you haven't seen. Oh, he's great. He wears goggles. Yeah. So it's, so it's a perfect rhyme. Rocket ship, blanket ship. Perfect. So like, you could have been like, I hope they don't sink my battleship. So I'm going to play.

Blankenship. That's next week. Okay. All right. Stay tuned. We want to thank Pristine Auction. A Devante Parker signed jersey yesterday went for $55.28 cents. Hundreds of daily sports memorabilia auctions at pristineauction.com. Use the code ballers. Get a $10 credit. And that'll do it for us. We've got more matchups tomorrow. Hopefully some more news to lock down the NFL schedule and get you ready for week five. That's it.

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