Starts of the Week, Wk 7 Matchups, Who Am I?

There are only three-point dogs in this one. They've been playing very, very well. Yes. 46.5 point over under. And I want to start with Dalvin Cook because this is the headline news for everybody. He practiced in full again this week. I had somebody DM me this morning. They said, T.J. Yeldin or Dalvin Cook, why would you all say Yeldin? Because that's where our start sit tool right now on the website, the fancy footballers.com. That's what it says.

It's just hesitance of is Dalvin Cook actually playing? Because we saw this last week. Dalvin Cook was practicing in full, and then they decided the best thing for him is to sit down. I think he'll play this week. But you had pitch count Dalvin Cook the week before, which killed fantasy owners. You had a really good week from Latavis Murray, and you have a situation where hamstring re-injury is a possibility. That's why Aline Yeldin as well. If you need a baseline of points, 10 points, it feels safer.

in the hands of T.J. Elvin Cook is currently, and this is a hedge against injury, is currently my running back 44 because the idea of playing him terrifies me. You know, if you played him a couple weeks ago when he was dealing with this injury and re-aggravated it, he has the potential, kind of like I was saying with Hilton, when you're coming back from an injury like this, a hamstring.

You just have the potential to goose egg or give you one or two points, and those things dive bomb your week. All of a sudden, now a matchup that you would have rather just gotten eight points if you could have just got a good game. Now you've got to make up somewhere else. You've got to get lucky with stupid kickers because you had a guy go out. And I don't necessarily think that the upside is there for this week. I don't think they're going to have him come in.

and touch the ball 20 plus times, and he's going to have a just monster Dalvin Cook game. So I'm hesitant to start him. Yeah, I hear you. Adam Thielen, number one, number one fantasy wide out. Stefan Diggs, you can play him. The Jets are giving up the most yards in the league to slot wide receivers. Adam Thielen, about to hit his seventh straight game.

He's just been unbelievable. I mean, the target totals are incredible. Can it count his eight straight games this week if he hits 200 yards? Is that how? Can we count? All right. You get to bank them. You can bank them for next week. Look, Sam Donald's been playing well, averaging 17.2 yards per completion on third and long this season. That's second best in the league. Making plays is what I'm saying. Yeah. And you've got Jermaine Curse. And I just have.

I just got a feeling about Jermaine Kirst, man. I just feel good about him. I told you I'd spend Favdollars on him. You've got an injured. Quincy and Nunei won't be playing. You have Torel Pryor who hasn't been practicing. And even Robbie Anderson has been banged up, just returned to practice today. So Jermaine Kirst is, to me, he's guaranteed 12 targets in this game. I have hesitancy with Kirst this week. Just because of the matchup.

No, the matchup is actually great for Jermaine Curse. Mackenzie Alexander, who will be guarding the slot position for the Vikings. Similar to Adam Thielandt versus the Jets in the slot, curse is very safe to me this week. Yeah, I guess where I come from is, is it, you know, will they be shadowing Robbie Anderson? Or do they not see Robbie Anderson as that good? Because.

You know, Xavier Rhodes has been great. He is one of the few shadow corners. They usually use him almost every week to truly lock someone out. And I just don't know if they're not going to do that to curse. Curse is going to move around. No, I know. He's talking about Robbie. I'm saying, I don't know if they're going to do that to Robbie Anderson. And so if they use him in a different way. No, I think you have to put Xavier Rhodes on to Robbie Anderson. You have to try and stop the big play. The Vikings defense, they're allowing.

20 plus yard completions on over 13% of passes. That's third worst in the NFL. Big plays are killing the Vikings, and you cannot allow Robbie Anderson to do that. Well, we're going to talk about Jermaine Curse a little bit more in a minute. Oh! I've decided to pivot a little bit. Let's get into it. Starts of the week. Well, let's start there. Let's start at the wide receiver position. I did want to give a little pat on the butt to Robert Woods. I don't...

Look, he's the sixth ranked white out right now. You probably don't need me to tell you he's a start. Nope. With Cooper Cup out. So I'm not going to. But what I will say is I'd start Woods over Michael Thomas if I had to make that decision. That's how high I am on Robert Woods is. Oh, if you could see Brooks's face. He just ate a lemon, including the Rhine. This is true. But my start of the week is Jermaine Curse against Minnesota. This is a game.

that is built for a peppering of comeback targets for Jermaine Curse. The Jets' defense is not going to stop Minnesota. Sam Darnel's going to have the game in his hands every week. He's getting a little bit more control of the offense. And I think Jermaine Curse is a solid, solid start this week. Who do you got as your start of the week, Jason? I've got John Brown. Give me some smoke because...

Look, Smokey has been on fire this year. I know he had a little bit of a down week this week. Every wide receiver. It does not... Actually, the last two weeks. It does not matter if you are Antonio Brown or anybody so far not named Adam Thielen. You will have down weeks at the wide receiver position, especially when you are the deep threat guy. But his air yards have been out of control, and the matchup is...

perfect against New Orleans. He's going to be going up against Ken Crawley. It is a major, I mean, the matchup specifically with that cornerback, John Brown's skill set will torch him. I think that New Orleans will be able to score in a way that Baltimore has, you know, Baltimore's been shutting people down, their defense is great, but New Orleans offense.

will get it done enough to where they're going to need to air it out, and people have been beating them. I don't think Marcus Latimore is going to be an issue for John Brown. I think that's more of a Michael Crabtree guy. I'm starting John Brown if I've got him this week. Yeah, he's, like you said, he's the ADOT master and the New Orleans Saints are allowing a very, very deep targets. So it's a perfect marriage. A dot is averaged depth of the target. Yes. In case you haven't heard the slang. Thank you.

You've got an interesting name. I struck out on him last week as the start of the week. So good luck to you. It is funny. You mentioned that because every time I hear ADOT, we're in Arizona. Yeah. That's the Arizona Department of Transportation. Like you see ADOT everywhere. So it's like, it's weird. Everyone's playing fantasy. My wide receiver start of the week is Jarvis Landry. Cleveland Browns going against those Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Six teams.

Six defenses in the league have allowed 10 or more touchdowns, receiving touchdowns. One of those teams is the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The Buccaneers have only played five games compared to the others who are playing six. I think this is when Baker, Mayfield, and company get things back together. The bucks are just hemorrhaging points to the wide receiver position. And I think that Jarvis will be the biggest beneficiary of this. This is the week.

This is the week that everyone was waiting for for Jarvis. Yeah, I thought that was last week. I'm just so scared because something isn't working like between Baker and Jarvis. Yeah. And I keep leaning on the matchup. So I know, I know. I know the engine is about to turn up. Yeah. We'll see a lot of times when teams fire their defensive coordinator to their offensive coordinator, that first week, that first week is a little bit.

They rally. They rally. Yeah. Good luck. There's two things that just make me slightly worried there. The ankle with Baker, I want to make sure he's able to move around and be mobile and that rallying. But other than those two things, which are kind of narrative, didn't they fire their defensive coordinator? Tampa Bay. Tampa Bay? I thought so. Oh, I got you. I thought you were talking about the Cleveland side. No, no, no. So, you know, I have a little hesitancy there, but it's got to happen. I mean, come on, Jarvis.

If it doesn't, you got a blessing. If it doesn't, there's going to be some panic in the streets. All right, the running back position, I'm going with Tariq Cohen against New England. Love it. Game script, recent performance. No reason to not believe in Tarek right now. And look, New England can give up a big player too. They didn't deal with the speed of Tarek. I don't think they're going to deal with the speed of Tarek. The Dinosauron. Tariq, sorry, Tariq. So Tariq, Cohen, my start of the week. Jason.

Well, hold on. Let me just. Oh, hit it. Start him. Call him for the breakout. I am calling for the breakout. I have him this week as my running back 12. Whoa. Whoa. I believe it's going to happen. Look, the guy has been on fire. He's averaging 5.72 yards per carry. The matchup is great. He's coming off of a buy with a hobbled Theo Riddick.

The biggest thing for Carrion Johnson to me is they had the buy week. You had a long time you could rest a player. And then Wednesday, Theoretic had to sit out of practice. And if Theoretic is not there to soak up the targets, Carrion Johnson's floor goes way up. I believe Carrion Johnson has north of 15 touches in this game, total, between rushing and passing. North being up. Yes, that is correct. If you have a map, North is up.

And so if he gets more than 15 touches, he's going to have a fine game. He's not going to bust. He's not going to be bad. He's going to be a startable asset. But he has the ability to also have a blow-up game. Why not? Why not, Jay? Let's do it. Let's do it. I'm pegging him. Mike, you're running back. I'm going with Philip, Lindsay. I'm too.

And he pushes the microphone away and discuss because he cannot make a decision on who he's going to start. Because you guys have both made my two flex options, John Brown and Philip Lindsay, your starts of the week. I mean, well, either we're giving. You get into Philip Lindsay and then I'm going to ask Brooks to make a decision. Either we're giving fantasy advice or we're just trolling me. We're playing mental warfare against your team. But the Arizona Cardinals have.

They're giving up the most points to the fantasy running back position. They can't stop anyone. Latavius Murray, who has looked atrocious. He came in and said that was his best game of all time, right? Yeah, career high and rushing yardage. The Cardinals are putrid against running backs. And even with the timeshare with Royce Freeman and company.

I still think that Philip Lindsay is a, it should be locked in as a running back too for your team. If, by chance, they are getting boat raced and the quarterback changeover happens. And Mr. Chad Kelly makes his way on the field. Does that change your outlook to the offensive strategy or how they use the running back or anything? No, probably use the running back even more. Yeah, nope. And I agree with everything you're saying in the matchup. I lean towards Royce Freeman, but I would start both players. Brooks, who do I start in my flex?

John Brown against New Orleans. Great matchup. Philip Lindsay against Arizona. It's basically they're facing the worst against that position. So is John Brown against the worst of the position better than Philip Lindsay against the worst of the position? I barely go John Brown. So this is one of those, you know, we give advice all the time. Those players, I like John Brown more than Philip Lindsay. Andy is a very heavy favorite playing a team that, you know, he should beat.

That's where I would go, Philip Lindsay, because the floor is higher. John Brown could explode. That's who I have in there. But it could also have two receptions for 34 yards. My start of the week at the tight-in position, I'm going to go ahead and stack Andrew Luck, my quarterback start of the week, with Eric Eberra. I guess we started. We didn't go through quarterbacks yet, did we? So I'll give you both. Spoiler. I'll give you both.

Eric Ebron is my tight-in. Andrew Luck is my quarterback. I want to give you a vote of confidence in Andrew Luck. He's been the number two quarterback over the last three weeks. He's also playing against a defense that's third best against the quarterback position, which could be troublesome, not a high over-under, but I think Andrew Luck gets it done this week regardless, and he does it in part thanks to Eric Ebron and his Torrid touchdown pace. I think Ebron's good for another touchdown in this one, which would be number seven on the year for Ebron.

Quite the season thus far. Look, start both those guys against Buffalo despite their ascendant defense. My tight end start of the week is CJ Uzama.