Playoff Primer + Week 10 Buy or Sell, Fence Sitting

That you still love him. Look. You want Terry to know you mean nothing personal. Terry, the Tenacious Z will welcome you back. Just pass waivers. Have nobody pick you up for a week. And then nobody bid up high on you next week because I've got very little fab. And you are welcome back. Yeah. There you go. There you go. I think it meant a lot to scary Terry. Thank you. Thursday night breakdown.

I think this is going to be a fun game. The Chargers at 4 and 5 taking on the Raiders in Oakland. The Raiders are 4 and 4. Divisional matchup, a 47.5 point over and under. The Chargers are one-point favorites in this one after the big upset win. Totally cold on the show. Against Green Bay last week. So Thursday night football. Derek Carr playing great football. On film looking great. The stats look great.

two passing touchdowns in five of six games. And he's just looked great. And this is not a matchup that I'm going to love him in. This is a team that's seen him a lot. This is a team that they're number six in fantasy points given up to the quarterback. Their top 10 against running back or wide receiver and tight end, this is one of those funnel defenses where they say run the ball on us, but you're not throwing the ball. So I'm not in love here.

with the past weapons that I have grown, you know, Hunter Renfro's kind of broken out. Tyrol Williams has been surprisingly very good on the year, and Derek Carr has, I agree with you, been playing great football. I'm not excited about any of them in this match. You got the Walleris? Sure, the Walleris is fine and safe because even if he has a lower-than-ceiling game, he's at tight end where you don't have choices. And if he goes, you know, five for, let's just say,

55. That was pretty delayed and I'm very sorry. Um, you know, that's still a really good game at tight end, which is gross, but like, you'd be like, oh, that's so. We. This is the push comes to shove games for me. Sorry, Mike, did you want to expound on something? I have an aside here. Okay. Because we have our soundboard that we use for, for the drops and for the hilarious hijinks and entertainment. Oh, yeah. Yeah, we've got all sorts of stuff in there. We really need like a 55 button.

I thought about things like that. Like the easy button that you can just, you don't even have to think about it. You just smash that thing. Yeah, you know, and again, I've thought about that. Let's just put it that way. Well, let's, hold on. Let me take it a step further. I believe the technology exists. Oh, of course it does. To get one of these boards here? No. One of those boards. Look, I enjoy making a living. I enjoy having a job. There's just some things that I would not, you know, you don't give your car keys to a four-year-old. That's all I'm saying. All right. You give me a board or you give me a 55 button.

Which one again? I don't... How about this? Make a note. On-show ultimatums are dangerous. How about this? How about you give me a board or I'll just start doing this? I couldn't see what I was touching, but I could still reach it. That was pretty frightening, honestly. The 55 button I think we'd be okay with. Thank you. But I also think you might abuse it, so I'm a little scared. No, we know. Only when the number 55 approaches. Which it will approach so much more often. I cannot control that.

I was going to say this game's going to come down to. Look, I've talked about Derek Carr is not being sacked. What makes this Chargers defense special is the pass rush and their ability to, I think that's where this matchup is going to be defined. Philip Rivers, you know, Jason, I know you're streaming him this weekend by Apocalypse. I'll be honest with you. He's fine. He's a glass of 2%.

Oh, 2% is great. Well, sure. It's, in fact, the best milk. But at the end of the day, you're drinking a glass of milk. You're not, it's not chocolate milk. It ain't a milkshake. You're not drinking something. It's nutritionally fine, but you're not getting something special out of it. And that's not, Rivers hasn't given you a special game on the year. That's all I'm saying. Last week, start of the week was Matthew Stafford against the Raiders because the matchup is great. And Stafford has the giant game opportunities. But.

Philip Rivers, especially now with the change in office coordinator, they want to run the ball more. You saw that for one game. I don't expect a giant ceiling here, but he should have a very solid game. I mean, the Raiders are second to last, and fantasy points giving up to quarterback. It's a tough call, man. Three games this year, Philip Rivers has thrown zero touchdowns, including the win against Green Bay last week. So do I expect zero against this defense? No, I don't. I just don't know if Philip Rivers.

I think I'm saying goodbye to the upside of Philip Rivers. What about the upside of Austin Echler, who played on a season low, 34% of the snaps last week? He's a player I'm trying to pivot from as I prepare for the playoffs. You know, we have, our league one team has gotten a lot out of Austin Echler. I'm not excited to start him in the fancy playoffs. I'm worried about where this is trending. And if you think it's trending that direction, 34% of snaps, you limit your upside.

And maybe you need to move on. Here's what's crazy about the 34% of snaps, okay, which is easily his lowest all season. His previous low was 45, but he's been in the 50s, the 70s. Let me read you his last five games carry counts. Ready? Three, five, five, three, and then last week on the season low 35%, 12 carries. There's 70 yards. I mean, so they're not.

going away. When he was on the field, they were utilizing him. I think the worry is, does the passing work go down? Which is more valuable. Which is definitely more valuable, especially for Austin Eckler. He still had four targets, four receptions last game. So I think he's a monitor situation, but I'm not like jumping off a cliff yet. All right. I think that's fair. I think we need to see a little more from this offensive coordinator situation. And they were up 19-0.

That explains all the carries for Gordon and the carries for Eckler a little bit. Keenan Allen. This is it. Oh, you're calling your shot? Is your make a break? No, this is Keenan Allen bounces back. This is when he finally has a good game. I have tweeted a number of stats over the last day and a half. One of them being targets in the NFL since week five. Keenan Allen's had a rough time, fantasy-wise, but he is still being targeted heavily.

I want to, this is the whole equation with Hopkins and his slow start Evans. We talked about it on the show yesterday. I buy into that. Keenan Allen is too good. The targets are too consistent for Keenan Allen not to give you that game eventually. And if it doesn't happen against the defense that ranks 31st against wide receivers, maybe then you go cry in the corner. Yeah, it's really a matter of will the Raiders be able to score on the Chargers?

easily make this a higher scoring affair or not obviously a divisional game. These teams know each other pretty well. Vegas has set the line right in the middle where, you know, it's tough. Because this could be a high scoring game. This could also be a very low scoring game. Thankfully, Josh Jacobs has been the engine for the Raiders, and this is a winnable matchup on the ground for Jacobs. He could do some serious work against the Chargers who are giving up.

23.1 fantasy points per game to running backs. A wild stat here. Sorry, I got to pivot back to the Chargers. Paul Chartier and good friend of the show tweeted this out. No Chargers wide receiver has scored a touchdown in their last five games. That's positive regression is coming. A bounce back is coming for Keenan Allen. Yeah. I feel like I would have said that after three games.

Yeah. And then four games. But you're right. All the more reason it's closer. It should. It's definitely close. Oh, man. The matchup is fantastic. Hunter Henry is must start. Must start. Darren Waller must start. The Raiders were terrible against Titan last year. They have kept up their 30th against tight end this year. And so that's a weakness for them and a strength for the Chargers, which is great news for my Philip Rivers start.

All right, and we did get an update on Evan Ingram during the course of the show. An MRI is being sent to Dr. Robert Anderson for a second opinion. A little bit of a sore foot, but now his status for this upcoming week is uncertain. I've been disappointed. Obviously, injuries has played a big part for Evan Ingram, but one of the areas, too, that I expected him to kind of lead the league in is that yard after catch number at tight end. You know, he's up in that he's in the upper echelon there, but he's not leading the way.

inconsistent year for him. And now fantasy owners wonder, are they going to be able to rely on him for the playoff push? Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, it's tough. There are certain doctors you just don't want to hear their names spoken. This is one of them? Yes, Robert Anderson and James Andrews. Exactly. Stay away from my players. All right. We want to thank today's, we want to thank our studio sponsor, pristine auction. Kurt Cousins, a sign Kirk Cousins jersey. Ooh.

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