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Texans and Vikings coming back off the by, Bill's and Ravens going to the buy. Lamar Jackson getting healthy. Hopefully the Bill's defense as well. I do want to pan over to Deucer's Alley for a moment. I know Al's probably hard at work over there, but I need a first reaction. You've had Justin Jefferson for a while. He was part of your championship team last year. He's Justin Jefferson. Yes, sir. First few moments knowing he's not a member of your team. How does that feel? Do you feel settled? Are you comfortable with this trade? No. I think it was fine, but it sounds like you don't really like that you traded Justin Jefferson to a potential champion. I can see it going both ways. So I'm just going to hang out here on the fence. Well, you see, you're the, you were half of it. Yeah. Do you, I mean, he's not, was he going to be your franchise player? He was. And now? Gary Wilson will be. Okay. Oh, man. Yeah.

Kairn, Harvey and McBride will be my keepers. Yeah. So he's got another guy for his lotto now, though. Okay. That is correct. That was part of it. I only had a franchise and two keepers prior to this trade. And so now it filled out my keeper situation. Man, I can't believe you got that. Mike is dangerous. Mike is dangerous. He acted like yesterday. He was just like, oh, everybody's trading their two's away, their threes away. And I'm feeling really good. Even if things go bad, I don't have, you know, I get to the trade deadline. I got the trade deadline. And then he struck.

Like a tornado at a football game. If you can get Justin Jefferson for a two, you strike because you can't usually get that done. Let's go to London. Again, the Rams, four and two, Jacksonville, four and two. Jacksonville just basically lives in London every year. Vegas line, Los Angeles minus three over under's 44 and a half. Jacksonville lost last week. The Rams lost Pooka Nakua last week. The start sitting this game does feel fairly straightforward. I guess the debates are around some of the peripheral flex options. Brian Thomas had the big bounce back last week. Almost had two touchdowns, still went eight for 90 and one. Devante Adams and Brian Thomas locks, right? Kyron Williams, he's a lock. Yeah. And you have Blake Quorum did not practice on Wednesday with an ankle injury. I mean, it's six opportunities per game, but if Kyron gets...

four more. Yeah, I mean, we've seen Kyron last year get 90% snaps. He can do it. Yeah, he can do it, and he'll be great doing that. This has not been an easy team to run on on both sides of the ball here. You got Travis E.T.N. and Blake Corum who are looking like true work horses for their teams. They have war horses. War course. Corum gets more touchdowns. They're looking like war horses? No, that's a Conan O'Brien joke. Clip-clop, clop, cloppy clue. But neither one of these guys has an easy matchup here. So I'm not, I mean, Kyron is like locked in, but I'm not very bullish on ETN in this matchup. I'm going to make a statement that I don't feel is very safe, but I do believe in. I think you want to trade for Travis Hunter. Wow. Okay. I didn't see that coming. I think that you're going to see it get a lot better.

a lot faster than you might imagine. He played 78% of snaps after a week of 67% of snaps than 56 before that. Like the work is going up. Liam Cohen came out this week and he said, but he also said that he wanted to draw more first read plays for Travis Hunter. You got to understand this is an acclamation process. This is a guy that they, I think, have tried to split the fence on. But when you don't get the practice time you need sufficiently on one side of the football, I do expect it to come along slower. You saw the big play two weeks ago. Last week wasn't good, but the snap counts went up. The targets went up, and it's what I believe. I just believe that Travis Hunter might become a bona fide flex play every week.

I would, the question for that, then, Andy, is this week he plays the Rams. They are currently eighth against fantasy wide receiver. So the matchup is already really tough. Next week is the bye week for Jacksonville. I can definitely see after the bye week, Travis Hunter really seeing an up. And maybe that's your moment. So, yeah. I just worry about the big game coming. He's probably dirt cheap right now, but after this week, if he has another dot and then has the buy week, he'll be on the way to water. I was just going to say, if he has a bad week this week, he will be dropped by everybody because they don't want to hold a guy who is currently on pace for 500 yards, you know, has not had a single decent game and then is going into a buy. You're going to drop him, but that might be the right time to scoop him up.

So the replacement guys over here. He made one big catch that won a matchup for Jason over me. Thank you, Travis Hunter. Yeah. Thank you, Andy, for trading me, Travis Hunter. The replacement guys of Jordan Whittington, who played 92% of the snaps, Tutu Atwell, was limited with the hamstring. But we know that Tutu is just made so much money in the NFL. And he keeps sticking around on the Rams. And honestly, when they find themselves depleted. He's one touch, man. Tutu, one touch. Tutu just, he can show up. So are you- So you have Tutu and Tootin in the same game. Is that right? That's a lot of T-Tut. Tutu-Tutin. That just seems like the kind of thing we'd focus on. But so it like the RAM or I'm sorry, the Jags are you have to beat them through the air. Do you have any interest in the replacement of Whittington or T-2? Do you feel strong about one or the other? Whittington is the one that I would definitely play over T-2.

Tutu, you're waiting for a bigger play. I think Whittington, you're going to see almost 100% of the snaps. So it's what... Yes, you should. You know, that is, to me, very interesting. Yeah, Whittington should be okay. I do have like the little worries in the back of the mind of just being this London international game that so often produces a dud overall. But Whittington would be the guy ahead of Atwell for me. New Orleans, one in five, taking on the... Above 500 at this point in the season for the first time in a while or so it seems, but we'll see if it keeps going. Chicago Bears, who are three and two, the Vegas line, Chicago minus four and a half, the overrunners 46 and a half. The Dennis Allen revenge game we've been waiting for. You get the defensive coordinator of the Bears, who was the former head coach of the Saints, who Jason loved, just loved him. I just thought he was a really solid head coach who built up his team and wasn't just, you know.

demoralizing them. Demoralizing. I don't know if you ever hit one of them. Kendrae Miller. Oh, Kendra Miller will be playing with the fire of a thousand sons. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, man. So this is true revenge for Kendra. It is worth noting. I know we talked a lot about the, uh, the game in Cleveland with the dolphins and the Browns being a bad wind and a bad weather game potentially. This is another one that has the potential to be 20 mile an hour wins. you know, rain. Right now it's projected just before the game, but this could be a bad weather game, which when those wins get above 15 miles an hour, especially if they're above 20, that's where you see more work going to the running game and less work in the passing game. Caleb Williams is the quarterback seven so far in fantasy points per game. DeAndre Swift had the Monster Week last week, 14 for 108. You had Roma Dunzee who he had his first kind of down week.

had the touchdown called back. You're kind of on lookout for what's going on with DJ Moore this week. Does that give Luther Burden more opportunities in the offense? Who is still running behind Mr. Zakias in snaps and routes? I have this simultaneous like, will it, won't it happen with Luther Burden? Sometimes I want to believe the DJ Moore injury could lead to more work. He's a really good player that I like. It's just a matter of how consistent it could be. for Luther Burden. I think I'm very hopeful. I'm optimistic here for Luther Burton to get it going on the second half of the season. Chris Oliva was limited, Alvin Camara limited, or actually he didn't practice on Wednesday, but that's Alvin Camara. Chris Olavet limited on Wednesday with a hip injury. He is leading all wide receivers in expected fantasy points per game. Expected fantasy points per game, eh, whatever.

That's kind of a product of the offense. I need actual. So Joanne Johnson, we're kind of done there. Colston Loveland, just keep an eye on him. But he, you know, he finally overtook come in routes. He's getting healthier. Are there questions on this start sit situation here in this game? The question is, it's just based off of by weeks and injuries. Is Kendrae Miller playable? I mean, the bears, you can beat them on the ground. He has seen 39% of the snaps. the past two weeks. He can be a DFS dart throw because you don't expect people to play him and whatnot and he'll be cheap, but I can't imagine in most leagues that you're going to put someone in not getting enough work. I mean, the matchup is there and the revenge is there and all that. So you can see kind of the narrative for it happening, but throwing him into a starting lineup right now, it feels like you've got to have more options guaranteed for opportunities. So I tried to take advantage of Mike's trading mood.

during the show. Yeah. What'd you offer? And I sent him an offer. I thought it was a good one. It was. I had to push back a little. He did counter it. It was. I'm thinking about it. I get remandre. Yeah. And Andy gets a third round pick. Yeah. Oh. I countered with I get remandre and the remainder of Andy's fab. And he doesn't get anything. Ah. So. But I'm considering him to be honest. It seems maybe reasonable. Gotcha. So for him to be allowed to release Ramondre. Yes. You must pay me. He's got to give you fab. So I'll put them on my roster. We're just doing some live trading here on the show. Miami, Cleveland, the wind will howl in Cleveland, both one and five teams. So the wind is already howling in the locker rooms for these two franchises. You had two come and apologize for all of his comments from last week.

Kyle was very fascinated to find out this is the first time in 19 years that two left-handed quarterbacks will start in NFL. Gross. Oh, what? With Jason finds left-handed throwing gross. So ugly. I got great news. It doesn't. Yeah. If they're both left-handed, you can just watch this game in a mirror. I will do that. And everything is okay. That's great, man. Thank you. If just one of them is, then you got to. Then I'm just switching off. Just watch backwards. No, that's great, man. Thank you. I don't like it. This shouldn't be allowed. Why does it weird you out? You're left-handed. I know. That's the best part. Yeah. I mean, he's gross. Then you're gross. I am gross. It's just self-loathing left-hander. Yeah. Dylan Gabriel, too, a tongue of I loath of the matchup. We never really wanted Cleveland minus two and a half favored at home. Overrunners just 39 and a half. I.

had shared this morning and i will go and find the direct quote so that i am yeah andy slater had tweeted they could have 50 to 60 mile an hour wind gus national weather service says this is a system worth of keeping an eye on as a stronger storm may materialize in the current forecast 94 percent chance of rain 36 mile an hour gus 65 degrees so i don't know who that is the the the sources that i usually look at these are are not having it be that high, but it certainly is, I mean, this is just you put the, you put the red flag up to make sure you come back and look at this, that you're prepared for pivot options. Yeah, just be ready. Things change. Weather changes. Devon A. Gent, RB4 on the season, he's been great. Judkin started the week, bounced back week, in my opinion, with the matchup. The bigger question marks, you don't play pass catchers for Cleveland. You just don't do that unless it's Harold Vannon.

and the tight-end position is different and he could be fine. Yeah, I agree. It makes it very, very easy. It's Judkins and a potential Fanon on the Cleveland side. Do you realize how many targets Jerry Judy got last week? What have we talked about these Cleveland Brown targets? No, I just want you to know the number. If you've asked Jason, it is a thousand times. Targets don't matter. He turned 13 targets into 43 receiving guards. Wow. That's impressive work. Yeah. I couldn't do that. Good grief, man. No, you couldn't. Yeah. We have Darren Waller, four receiving touchdowns in three games. We're feeling, how are we feeling? So I have Darren Waller. I made that trade to acquire him as my attempt to fix my tight-in position. Because of the weather and a good Cleveland Brown's team, I picked up Miaoson Taylor.

your start of the week. And so I've got a real decision coming down on that will probably not be made until Sunday. As of right now, Darren Waller's in the game. If the, you know, if the weather goes really, really bad that morning and it looks like, wow, it's going to be so hard to throw in this, then I will pivot off of Darren Waller. And to comfort people out there with Darren Waller, because it was only two for 12, he did have the touchdown so it wasn't horrifically bad. But the snaps were up again. Very nice. So. He was at the 69 percentile of the snaps. So it's like he is still ramping up. The ramp is endless. No, this ramp is it's a long ramp. Very comfortable to walk on. This is not some. Yeah, it's a smooth grade. Yeah, the grade is. No, no, walking. Imperceivable. A handrail? Not on this ramp. No, no, no. You don't need it. New England, four and two. The Titans one in five Vegas line, New England, minus seven on the road. Overrunners, 42 and a half.

Also have some rain and wind chance in this one. Mike McCoy taking over the Titans. Oh boy. I really want Cam Ward to look better than he does. But it doesn't look good. No, it does not look good. And so, you know, seven and a half point home favorites is where you end up with the way this offense is playing. You know, it's kind of getting messier, I think, in Tennessee because it's an offense you don't love, but now you have a backfield that is going to be shared. Tajay Spears played 59% of the snaps last week. Tony Pollard just 43%. So now you have to split. Like Tony Pollard was at least this solid 10 points due to volume. Calvin Ridley didn't practice, not likely to play in this one. Maybe you start to pay attention to Chigakonko a little bit, but you can't trust this offense. No. I had brought up Elylech-Manner. Maybe he's the number one target. Still not trustworthy. There are a lot of players on the other side of the ball. I'd feel way better playing.

like Kashon Booty last week who took advantage of the, you know, Stefan Diggs kind of, you know, they played the slot really well and Booty took advantage, scored twice. Would you play Booty? Would you play Sterling Shepard with no Abuka and no. I think I'd play, are you just saying over Titans? No, no, no, no. I'm sorry, I'm saying Kashon Booty or Sterling Shepherd. Oh, okay, I got you. With no booty, no Godwin. Or sorry, no, Abuka, no Godwin. I'd be tracking the Mike Evans news. If Mike Evans, let's see, if Mike Evans plays, would I play Shepard over Booty? I, no, I would chase the, I'd chase the fire. Give me three words, three words to describe your current feelings on Trayvion Henderson. Three words? Three words. Either of you can contribute to the pile. Frustrated with talent. Frustrated with talent, so yours is more of a sentence.

With was one of your words. Yeah. Mike Vrable eat doo-doo. I had two other words. I had two other words there. Hence the boss had to cycle through the roll of decks real quick. Ramandre Stevenson led the team in, or led his season high in snaps last week, 72%. The Titans are 30th against running backs this year. If you had to start. Trevion and Ramandre, you're playing Ramandre with that snap count? Yeah, I think you have to right now. I mean, you have to. Hal did you have some words? You don't have to. I just can't imagine playing someone that is getting in the 30% of snaps over the person playing 70% of snaps, even if the person behind him is more efficient, which they are. Also scored more fancy points last week. I mean, who's going to get the opportunities if they're around the goal line?

Ramondre probably. Right. And so, yeah, I would play Ramandre. Both are difficult plays. I think I'd still play Henderson. You're going to get some value at the running back position against Tennessee Titans. I mean, they are down in the vast majority of their snaps. The second half, it doesn't matter if they've got a good defensive line or not, which theirs isn't the worst in the league. But they get worn out. The other team's going to run a ton. And when you run a ton, that to me says it's a remandre game, not a Henderson game. Now, if it's a blowout. I'm with you on that. I think that that's what's going to happen. I could see a world where if it's a blowout, all of a sudden, hey, let's get Henderson more work at the end. But, you know, I have personally, I took the first week coach bump against the spread, which at the time was seven and a half points. So I don't see it being a blowout. That's where I'm on the remandre side.

All right, you know, if you need to start, Hunter Henry is always someone you could take a look at, but it's not been great. He's the tight end nine on the season. If he catches a touchdown, you're happy, which is basically all the tight ends. But the matchup is not there. No, and Drake May, it's been great. Drake May is playing very, very well, completing 73% of his passes, 20 plus yards down the field, which is wild, because the league average is 40%. And you love that. You love that they can trust him to go downfield. It's going to be a game that I...

I think is not close. Yeah, May is currently the quarterback six. He's been excellent. Yeah, he's one of the, you know, there were some names in the offseason, those later round picks that you were looking at saying, you know, you take the shot here and there, and he's been one that's worked out. So we'll take a break and we'll jump into some more matchups. 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% cash back on those two. New tires, new outfits, New York City getaway, all earn 2% cash back. Noticing a trend. So whether you're splurging on concert tickets, fueling up for your commute, or shopping for that perfect birthday gift for the bestie, you'll be earning unlimited 2% cashback on every purchase. Visit U.S. Bank.

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Remember yesterday when we thought something really dangerous was happening and he's on his phone and we're like, is the family okay? He was just betting on Caleb Johnson to score a touchdown. Priorities matter, man. Oh, it was great. It was great. Are we going to have to pause the show? Yeah. Is everything all right? Yeah, we're, but he got the bet in. My family's okay right now. I think. I don't know. I haven't heard from him forever. But that's probably a good sign, right? If you haven't heard anything forever. Yeah, no news is good news is good news here. So I can't find them. All right. The Raiders, two and four, the chiefs three and three. The chiefs 11.5 point favorites. Overrunners 45 and a half. In the games in which the chiefs have been double digit favorites, which is 29 times in the Mahomes era.

They are 26 and 3 with two of those losses coming against the Raiders. Divisional matchup. So do you want to get a quick bet in on the Raiders then? Moneyline? No. No, thank you. I do believe I picked the Raiders to cover, but I certainly wouldn't put money on it. The Kansas City Chiefs have looked awesome. You know, they're getting Rushie Rice back. The defense is playing well. Mahomes is playing outstanding. He's running the ball so much. He's obviously a must start right now. He's the quarterback one on the season. He's on pace for 4,300 yards passing, 32 passing touchdowns, and 630 rushing yards. Now, I am curious, and this will be telling, like, a lot of his rushing attempts come because I feel like he has nobody to throw the ball to on a lot of the plays. Yeah, seems like. And now he's got Rushi Rice. So it's like, does this make the Chiefs better and Mahomes worse for fantasy? Because instead of rushing yards.

It's like, oh, you know, he would have... It's Rashi yards instead of rushing yards. Yeah, exactly. Rashi yards are worth less. It's an interesting thought, and it might hold true, although he is, you know, the passing touchdowns could go up, having more weapons. He's on pace for 4,300 yards right now, but he had never hit 400 in a season. Wow, and he's on pace for 630. Wow. Rashi Rice, your start of the week, where does that put the other guys in the receiving room? Worthy is still startable. The other guys... It will be the ancillary. One of them might do something, nothing predictable. I wouldn't be chasing it. Kelsey, I think, remains who he has been, which is, it's okay. It's a decent, tight end play. The running backs, I think, are what's interesting here. With Riceback, with an 11.5 point being favored, I think that they, like, Cream Hunt could be playable.

of, you know, you've got to pick your spots here, but predicting game script can make you look like a buffoon a lot of the time. I don't think it will here. I think that the chiefs are going to smoke the Raiders here, which could put Kareem Hunt in line for like a bunch of second half work of just run out the clock. You have Ashton Gentis sitting at the RB 11 on this season with a 19% target share of the last two weeks. That's what we need. Talk about what happened to Jacoby Myers. Well, you got 20% of your targets going to the running back position now. And it's worth it for this team in this offense. Yeah, I mean, this is what you want to see. You know, we complained after three weeks and we, we as fantasy community with the utilization, the workload, because it was deserved. That was when we had Genti as one of our trade for candidates. And since then, he's had 23 opportunities, 21 opportunities, 27 opportunities. He is.