Fantasy Football - Starts of the Week + Week 9 Breakdown, Awww Shucks! - Podcast for 10/30

ask for much more than that. Mike, you brought up how bad Pittsburgh's defense has been on some of the pump fake stuff with your Daniel Jones start. Josh Downs is hurt. So Michael Pittman is one of those guys where I think people are waiting for it to stop. And I don't, I don't think it's Michael Pittman. The city is strong. Yeah, the city, they built that city with huge walls. What's the taxes like in that city? No taxes. No taxes? Not pity city. I feel like you guys have paid a lot of taxes over the years. Oh yeah, yeah. It's on a year by year basis. We had to rebuild the city. Yeah. And we rebuilt it with former taxes. Now we're just living in luxury. Now you're a tax free environment. Absolutely. Okay. Just clarifying the economics. No, it's important. All right. Free internet. I'm going with Colston Loveland. Okay. Apparently Mr. Bigglesworth.

Jason. Yeah, that's right. Oh, yeah. You missed that when you missed that. I missed the show and you named him Mr. Biggles. We, to be fair, Kyle named him Mr. Bigglesworth. That is not, um, because he, yeah, no, I agree. Nelson Taylor has no dog in him. And I'm telling you, Colson Lofton has no dog in him. None. Okay. So wait, Mr. Biggles, is that a cat? That's right. You don't remember Mr. Biggles wish? Yeah. From what? Austin Powers. Oh, man. Oh, that's, that's a cat in Austin Powers. That's right. That's Mr. Bigglesworth. How does that work there, Al? Okay, you're petting the cat. He's petting the cat, the hairless Mr. Bigglesworth. It has been like 20-something years since I've seen the movie. I just need a refresher. I will say, I did think about that leaving yesterday's shows like the majority of our audience has no idea that Mr. Bigglesworth is a cat, but they get it because Colson Lovel doesn't have that dog. Is this depressing to know that it's 28 years ago when that movie came out? Yeah, it's a little bit of print. Yeah. Um, I will.

I will say, just like Mason, Meowson Taylor, you don't have to have the dog in you to be good at fantasy football. I love this start of the week. So here's the argument for him. But no dog. That's fine. Well, TBD. Cole Kemet was out last week. And finally the number 10 pick of the draft saw season highs, 81% of the snaps, five targets. It only turned into 38 receiving yards, but we saw a target inside the five. We love that. And it times up with the matchup that. The Bengals are dead last. You say this is the best matchup for tight ends. Yeah. So you get the opportunity. You get the matchup. I like it. I think I think we could start him. I also think you can start Kyle Pitts this week. The name might bring a grimace to your face. Maybe the theme of my search. Hold on. Hold on. Because Andy, what happened was I when we were talking about Colston, I was like, wait, are you going back to Colson love? Yes, of course we are. Because you're your comment. What was my comment? Let me set it up. During the show.

I was like, okay, well, you guys, you better come up with a cat pun right now. And there were some that were thrown out. There were three options. And they were, and Mr. Bigglesworth was the best option. That's where we got. By far the best option. That's how bad the other two options were. Katsten Loveland was right there? Oh, yeah, that's what I just said. Yeah. I said, was that not good enough for you? That would have won? Yeah, because it's like, I mean, that one seems really. And no one came up with. Wait, Jeremy. You can't miss any more shows. I miss a day and I can't.

No one could come up with Katsten Loveland. Or Jeremy came up with Colston Miaoland. Wow. Did you call him out on the show? Yeah, it was so bad. Why do you think it's Mr. Bigglesworth and Cheshire Loveland was the other one? He took the word meow and jammed it straight into the name. Colston. What was the second? Miao and did. Wow. Gaston is right there, guys. Caston Lovelin. Oh, are the creatives on the show. Is that better than Mr. Biggles were? I mean, I feel like that be. Yes. All right. Okay. Sorry. Can I get back to saying another disgusting name? Yeah, that's fine. Start of the week, Kyle Pitts at New England. Pitts has the third most receptions among all tight ends. That is not a lie. He's on pace for 114 targets, 95 receptions. He is a safer floor at the tight end position and the Patriots suck against the tight end position. If you watched the game last week that the Patriots eventually dominated, do you remember the play that Harold Fanon?

scored the touchdown on i do because there wasn't anybody in his zip code he was wide open he was wide open that's their weakness and um they are almost dead last in schedule adjusting his tight-ins i'm going kyle pits it's a good one all right we've had too many disgusting names i'm going to bring up a star brock bowers He is back. You've been waiting for this is the return. And people, I've seen a lot of, did you know that the number one question right now? Oh, man, I wanted to boo you for using this as the name, but now I know our number one question is a Brock Bowers or somebody. Yeah. The number one question right now, and I'm curious where you stand on it, is Brock Bowers or Gadsden. What a world are they coming into this year?

Somebody also asked about Gadsden versus like Q's. And my opinion on both of these answers is actually the same. It's just that like, why not just write it? Yeah, you're three. What is the NBA Jam rules, right? He's on fire, yeah. He's on fire right now. Is he at three? No, he's at three. Then he's heating up. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa. No, I think he's at three. Okay, so three weeks ago, seven for 60, pretty good. But he was the tight end 17. Seven, no, no, that's, that's heating up. That's your heating up phase. All right. That's fine. You're not on fire yet. We'll say he's on fire. But I stay in the flames. It saves me watching the. Would you start him over Brock Bowers? I would do that this week. Yes, I would. Okay. So I would start Brock Bowers personally. I think the Tennessee matchup, their sixth against tight ends. That's who Gadsden's facing. I mean, Bowers should be great. Bowers should be great. He hasn't played since week four. And the Raiders offense has absolutely just been terrible.

since then. They really need him. You know, I expect them to be pummeled with targets at home against the Jags. That sounds so violent. Yeah, I mean, if Gino can do some push-ups and I want him to pummel, Brock Bowers with the ball. But the Jaguars, they're 24th and schedule adjusted fantasy points allowed to tight end. So I'm putting him right back in my lineup. I know he wasn't good before leaving. He's been hurt. He's been pummeling. Gino's been pummeling the opponent with interceptions. We've been waiting for this moment. And so I'm giving permission to put them right back in my line. I think most people. I talked to a couple of people. Gadsden versus. I think I'd stick with Gadsden. Okay. All right. Most people that have waited for Bowers will be playing Bowers. I've talked to a few this week that are like, I didn't wait this long to trade him away. I didn't wait this long not to get him in there. But if you picked up Gadsden and you have that decision, I get it. I think both will be fine. It's not anti-Bowers. It's pro what's happening with Gadsden.

That was, yeah, that was starts of the week presented by U.S. Bank's smartly signature visa card. Visit us bank.com slash smartly card. To learn how you can earn cash back on every purchase, the creditor and issuer of this card is U.S. Bank National Association pursuant to a license from Visa USA Inc. Some restrictions may apply. It's time for the forecast. Fantasy Forecast, presented by prize picks. Well, by Apocalypse is over, but we... We still got four teams on by. We get the Cardinals, Jags, Lions, Raiders, Rams, and Seahawks back. We lose the Browns. Oh, darn, I can't play Jerry Judy. Oh, Buccaneers, though. Yeah, that one's big, Baker and Ibuka. Yeah, and then the Eagles, that's a huge one. I am super worried about my team in the chop league because I'm being like Hertz and Sequin. Oh.

carrying me right now. The by week is... And then the Jets. Well, I mean, the timing for Judkins, Barkley, and Garrett Wilson. To get healthy? Yeah, and the bucks. I mean, a Bucca gets some more time. Get him a week off. Yeah, absolutely. So let's start out here. First matchup of the week to talk about today, the Bears at four and three. Taking on the Cincinnati Bengals, who are three and five, the Vegas line of Chicago. Three point road favorites. The overrunners 51 and a half. You like that. I mean, that's 27 and 24 points. Yeah, we were here last week with Lamar. At that number? Yeah, I mean, well, I'm saying. That's the expected when they expected Lamar to play. Yeah, if there's an announcement that Jake Browning is starting for the Bengals, that 51 will greater. Yes. The.

Joe Flacco starts for Cincinnati. He's averaged, the team has averaged nearly 30 points a game. With Jake Browning, it was 12. The 50 point might drop to 39. If you want to know the difference on how we feel by Jemar Chase, look at that. You average three times the points. You can be a little bit more confident in the offense. With the shoulder injury, there is definite worry there. If you do look at this and say, I want to take the under, I want to make a wager. Please don't do it for future weeks. Just do it on this game. You need to look at both teams. To me, this matchup with Joe Flacco is very easy. I play everybody. A little worried about the shoulder, a little fragile, but you still play everybody. So I think it's more helpful to think about this. If it's Jake Browning, how do you approach those three guys?

I play Chase and that would be Jamar Chase. And I sit the rest down and I cry and I even get depressed about the pass catching options on the other side because the Bears want to run the football. That's what they do and they do it well. And if they don't need to do a lot of passing, that sucks for Odunzee. Yeah. And usually against the Bengals, you can do whatever you want. So if you want to run the ball, you're going to succeed. It's a user's choice type of. Yeah, it's just what do you like to do that. What if you want to?

If you want to run it, we're dead last against it. You want to use the tight end? We're also dead last against it. You want to do quarterback stuff? We let you do quarterback stuff. Like how far down though for Chase Brown? So let me like, uh. Bam Knight or Chase Brown? I mean, I'm going to go Bam Knight for sure. What about Rico? against green i would go rick i'd go rick i was i was interested on prize picks i was looking this kind of liking riko like those quotes yeah so not only that but i was looking on prize picks those re quotes and the uh the projections for rushing yardage between riko and chuba vastly favored good rico like like that was i mean it was like he earned it yeah no he did he flat out really earned it um took an injury i don't want to i don't want to i don't want to

get too much on the if Joe Flacco doesn't play though because I think Chase Brown's a great play this week like I would play Chase Brown over Bam Knight for sure should Flacco start I think the expectation the current line says that Joe Flacco should start and will Chase Brown was I wanted to make my start of the week is such a such a good match up here the Bears are not a good rush defense and Chase Brown's been on fire or is he heating up I think Let's check the rules here. I think it's fire. No, it's on fire. Yeah. He's on fire. He's had three good games in a row after, you know, opening the season with Jake Browning being so terrible. And. Jake Browning is a fire extinguisher. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He did. I mean, he's.

That's safe. It's really important for safety. Yeah, no, you need them around the house. But you want them like tucked away where no one can see him. Let's presume though, right now, I mean, the line says Flacco's starting. So with the rushing attack by Chicago, you know, we just talked about it. Fancy points allowed, the Bengals are last against running backs. You're going to start DeAndre Swift. If he's healthy, he didn't practice, but nobody did. What about Kyle Mononga? I mean, he's been at 40 to 50% of snaps. He's been more productive. It's the best matchup for running backs. They like to run the football. Are you interested in a flex play there? I think it's sketchy because he's getting on the field more, but his percentage of the running back attempts, it's kind of held at 39. That's what has been in the last two weeks, 25% the week before, and then pretty hit or miss with the targets. If you're talking about the battle of the backups, like you have to start a backup running back. I'll give you four.

Backup running backs. Perfect. Personally, I think I would like Monongai the most. Is Jordan Mason against Detroit in Detroit? Okay. Commonongai in this matchup. Rashad Smith at Buffalo. Mm-hmm. Or R.J. Harvey, but at Houston. I would take Smith with... I think it would be hard to sit Harvey down after that game. I would take Mononga. When I'm looking at the backups, I'm looking at the options, the game script, the potential for a touchdown. And I don't think that in Houston, there's going to be a lot of points. So that's where I would be playing Monongai. But he is a backup. You're not going to be starting him. Oh, I'll be starting him. No, you'll be starting him. Yeah. Minnesota's 3 and 4. And we talked about Loveland, start of the week for Mike at tight end. So. Any fears with the dunes A? I don't, I mean, I don't imagine. Not a few boys. Yeah, I can't put him down.

or sit him down. Oh, yeah. We don't need to put him down. Oh, no. We're doing great. Detroit, five and two. Vegas line, Detroit minus eight and a half, over under is 48 and a half. I don't know who the Vikings are. They don't know who they are. But I know that getting on track doesn't usually involve going to Detroit to play the Lions. No, this is a big bummer of a. Re-debue for J.J. McCarthy. I mean, there is still, is there still a chance that Max Brosmer would start over McCarthy or is it solidified? No, it's solidified. I believe yesterday JJ took every first team rep. He is healthy. He will 100% be the starter in this game. So in terms of, you know, the schedule and what McCarthy has in front of him.

It gets better after this week. You get two home games back in Minnesota against bad past defenses after this week. What is your opinion of Jefferson and Addison this week on the road, implied point total of 20, heavy underdogs? How are you looking at the Vikings overall? Game script-wise, I think you'll be all right. The lions will put up points. And while they are, like, the lions are a, I think, a scary defense in the real NFL. I mean, like, your chance of getting your quarterback hit a lot. It's pretty high with the Detroit Lions. And Hutchinson just made some money. Yeah, congratulations the Hutchinson. Got that bag. But in, like, in terms of fantasy, though the lions are beatable. The last six weeks, they're 25th against fantasy quarterbacks, third against running backs. So I agree that Jordan Mason's, I would sit him down. I think Aaron Jones is a sketchy start. But.

Quarterback, wide receiver, and tight end are where you can exploit for fantasy. And I'm okay with the wide receiver part, not so much the tight end part. Aaron Jones, would you play him or Kareem Hunt against Buffalo? Can I play Kareem Hunt? What about Bill against Seattle or Aaron Jones? Oh. Aaron Jones. I think he's a better player. They're both in bad matches. Yeah, I agree with that one. By the way, the way I would do extensions for like my defensive ends, I'd build out the entire contract. I would set up a, I mean, the bag for Aiden Hutchinson, and then I'd be like, you unlock this in 10 sacks. That's how I'd do it. Like you get to sign this pin is locked away and you can sign this contract in 10 sacks. Hmm. I think he would go to a different team that would say, we'll just give you the money. You can get injured and you get all this. Jamir Gibbs. Yes. Amunrah always. Jameson Williams.

Occasionally. This one. Do we make anything of the, it's coach speak, but Guns Mahoney is a pretty forthright guy. Yes. He's not Kyle Shanahan, and he didn't, he didn't name anyone by name, but it was Jamo. He said, we have guys who are not producing right now. I don't have the quote in front of me, but it was a, we have guys who are not getting it done, and we're going to evaluate that over the by week and see if there's anything that we need to change. Interesting. Yeah. Now, you know, on the flip side right now, this season, that is. So egregiously frightening. I don't think that most people listening experience what we experience. We've got in-ear monitors and that's really more for you guys. That electricity. I saw my great grandparents. My heart literally just had one of those clear moments. Yeah.

Yeah. That's on you guys. This is the end. You didn't know that was coming? I had no idea. I think even when we know it's coming, it's too much. That is. I feel like if I'm prepped, I can be okay. But anyways, right now Detroit, you know, this, they had an offensive coordinator change. And we're halfway through the season. And so I appreciate Campbell's quotes. It'll give me some hope for the future. The schedule really opens up going forward where I think James and Williams could. Have a second half resurgence or surgeons, but they're using 12 personnel at a very high rate, sixth highest in the NFL, higher than any of the previous three seasons. Currently, Jameson Williams in that personnel grouping has one catch on the season. So if that's just the new lions, that's scary. You certainly can't start him here, but you watch and you hope that they are manufacturing something for him out of the buy.

I'll be starting them. I'm going to say that at the end of every matchup with the guy you sit, okay? That's how my team is looking right now. At the end of you saying you can't start them, I'll be like, and they're in my lineup as my wide receiver one. Where are you with David Montgomery, though? Because starting him has not been pretty in many weeks. If you, you know, If you catch lightning in a bottle, you get a week three against Baltimore, you get a week five against Cincinnati. This is a tougher situation. It's 50-50 right now. Yeah, he's a fine enough start. I would definitely start him over Aaron Jones at home favored in a neutral matchup. So he is a startable asset. I will say for my, here's the opposite of our situation, Eddie. You're not playing him. I am benching David Montgomery for Travis Eton.

So I'm starting ETN over Montgomery. Your start of the week. That's right. All right. We'll take a break and jump into some more matchups. Lowe's nose Sundays are for football. So tackle your home improvement projects by Saturday and earn your Sunday with great deals on cobalt power tools, pit boss grills, LG appliances and more. Then once your to do list is done, get ready to kick back, relax, and enjoy the game. Shop in store or online now. and earn your Sunday with help from Lowe's, official partner of the NFL. With the U.S. Bank's Smartly Visa signature card, you earn an unlimited 2% cashback on every purchase. That's right, every purchase. 2% cashback at restaurants, 2% cashbacks at the gym, which you'll need to burn off those restaurant calories. Groceries? Yep, you'll earn 2% cashback on those two. New tires, new outfits, New York City getaway,

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There are how many times, 21 times that the Packers have been favored by 13 plus at home. They've only lost one of those 21 games. And yeah, it should go really, really well for Green Bay in this game. It should. You like Jordan Love, Jason, which tells you everything you need to know about the matchup. He looked great. Josh Jacobs, you play him. They're going to keep limiting him to make sure he's back. But. Josh Jacobs in this matchup against, even with limited opportunities. Yeah, it sucks. He's only going to have one touchdown, which is like, boom. Yeah, for a guy that has Jonathan Taylor, it must be really disappointing to you. It's super disappointing. For a guy who has, I mean, forget, forget Jonathan Taylor, just Josh Jacobs. I prefer when Jacobs gets two touchdowns. Okay. You're more of a two. What about three? I would love that. But he does, I mean, if you look at the last month, two touchdowns, two touchdowns, two touchdowns, two touchdowns, one, he's injured.

You're super upset. Jacobs, yes. Where are you with the wide receiver room? We've got Matthew Golden, who's waiting for a touchdown. We've got Romeo Dobbs doing his 10 fantasy points a game thing. We've got Christian Watson returning and playing. I'm excited for Watson. 56% of snaps. Is it Watson's turn? I'm excited for it. I don't, you know, like in our listener league, it's a 14 teamer. I was pretty aggressive and got Watson. He will be in the lineup. 56% of the snaps turning into 4 for 85 and had seen, I saw them talking about Watson or maybe Watson was talking about his own injury. He had kind of, he was ready to go a week or so ago before they made him active. So they took a full extra week. They took the whole 21 day window. So that gives me more confidence, more confidence, more optimism that he truly is healthy. Now, I mean.

You've got to get into football shape, but I think he'll ramp up, and he's exciting moving forward. It's really just random there. I would agree that I would want Christian Watson because I think he is the best of the wide receivers there. I've never been a Matthew Golden Believer, and Dobbs is fine. Dobbs is Dobbs is Dobbs. So I want the upside of Christian Watson. The number one wide receiver there, though, is Tucker Kraft. But Kraft. Yeah, definitely, definitely play him. If you wanted to set Rico Douddle up to fail in a like Belkow opportunity. This is it. So that you can pivot back to the guy you paid. Chuba, Chuba's like, oh yeah, yeah. No, Rico, go ahead. Show us what you got. The Packers are number. He's going to rip off 200 yards. Number one in fantasy points allowed to the running back position. As in the fewest. Yeah, they give up 10.9 total fantasy points of the position. Oh, so what if Rico gets 70% of that? They don't get seven points. Okay.

And then all of a sudden we'll be... What if it gets... If I was choosing between both of those players, which a lot of people are with the RICO... You know, RICO was their guy when Chuba was hurt. I would definitely choose RICO in this game. I would be limiting my expectations for upside. I agree. I would be tempted to play... I would play BAM Knight over RICO. You'd probably... See, that's a really interesting talent versus opportunity situation. Absolutely. Because RICO's a much more talented player. 100%. So I, I, um, but Rico's really on the fence there, Mike. What would you do? I think I, I think I'd play Bam. Okay. The Cowboys, I'm going to choose Rico. I'm going to say Rico. I don't, I don't blame anyone for that. The Cowboys, it's not just a plus matchup. It is the matchup. Just a plusest. Yes. J.K. Dobbins. Plusiest against Houston or Rico? Um, I. That's fair. I'm going to go Rico. Wow.

I'm going to just, I'm going to go Rico this week. Trust the coach. It's not, I think manners expectations have to be part of the discussion with Ted McMillan this week too. It's not a good match. You know, Tet is a first down guy, but is he going to score in this game? I mean, not likely. Is he going to get to 100 yards? I don't know if either of those things happened. He had a great week last week. He's going to be 70 for 82. 70, 70 reception. 7 for 82. That's a very bad yards. But in a PPR. It's like one yard to catch. It's not too bad. 1.17. He's a good play this week. He's just, it's going to open up for him very soon. I mean, would you play Christian Watson or Ted McMillan? Tet. Easily Ted. Okay. The chargers are five and three. They take on the one and seven Tennessee Titans.

The Vegas line, Los Angeles, minus eight and a half on the road. The overrunners 43 and a half. Gives Tennessee just 17 and a half points. I, you know, the sports cards world is a fairly good temperature check on people's sentiment around players. Jason would call it a litmus test. He would call it that. Yeah, he would call it that with some new letters. I'm just going to say, like the interest. It is not a new ladder. It has been around for as long as all of them. New to the word. Okay. That's all I meant. The Cam Ward excitement has faded entirely. Why? There is a complete disbelief in Cam Ward. And unfortunately, it's always hard to distinguish when there's been so much dysfunction. You're changing your head coach. You have limited weapons. You have an injured number one wide receiver. You don't have an offensive line protecting him. Like all these things swirl around. And it's really hard when these rookies who now four straight number one picks have a change of coach halfway during their first season.