Fantasy Football - Starts of the Week + Week 7 Breakdown, Weather Worries - Podcast for 10/16

necessary if this team wants to do anything. So he's obviously going to be started, but I think he will, should be very good pretty much rest of the season. And bench the rest of the past catchers, right? No Jacoby, no Tucker, no bash, no Bowers is going to play. Correct. Players won't even play, but no, what about mayor? Mayor is potential. Like that could be a pivot if the weather is super bad elsewhere. Um, mayor last week targeted on 35% of his routes. And, you know, He's a good tight-in in his own right. Like he was drafted in the second round. He was, you know, he was in a weaker tight-in class, but he was one of the, you know, at least two best in that class. And then they went the next year and got Brock Bowers. And so Michael Mayer disappeared. Well, in the game, we only had one game because Mayor was missing with a concussion when Bowers went out. Last week was the first time we saw Mayor and no Bowers. He had.

five for 50 in a touchdown. So I think he is in that, you know, break glass in case of emergency. Do you like meowson or mayor? Meowson is all alone. At least here, mayor, while he doesn't have Bowers, he still has Myers and Trey Tucker and Jack Bash and Thornton. Yeah, but you didn't, meowson has Justin Fields. Okay. Michael mayor has, uh, G, no, Smith. We can do this forever. It's a good counter. And pay attention Travis Kelsey. He averaged two receptions fewer per game when Rice was a full-time player. He's, so I have moved him down in my rankings, and he's still at the point where you're pretty much going to have to start him, but he scares the tarnation out of me because what we saw in the three games with Rice last year was a 14% target share was unusability from Travis Kelsey. They work in the same area of the field. And so my eyes, he's going to be in my lineup. My eyes are going to be all over Travis Kelsey. If he comes out and has a dud,

I will be, you know, if I have Travis Kelsey, I'm looking to pick up someone in case his season is kaput with rice in place. The Eagles are four and two. Minnesota is three and two. The games in Minnesota, the Eagles, one and a half point road favorites. The overrunners 43 and a half. The Vikings coming off the by week. Eagles currently two straight win or sorry, two straight losses. That's very different. Those are different. You know, the Eagles reeling a little bit. It doesn't take much to make the entire Eagles, like the media storylines in Philadelphia terrible. Like you just won a championship, you're four and two, everything, the sky is falling situation. You got to remember last year they didn't look great in the first half of the year. Yeah, but this is a team that can get it going. The Eagles defense last week, it was no Jalen Carter, right? And that was part of the key to scatter boom. Yes, it was. Definitely.

But on the year the Eagles 26 and rushing yards allowed, it leads to your Jordan Mason start. We have, you know, Jalen Hertz v. Carson wins, probably. Yeah. You're saying probably. Yeah, oh, no, J.J. McCarthy is not going to play. J.J. McCarthy will play, you know, again, the season Carson wins isn't going to hold the job over him. I can't imagine that world happening. His ankle is just not good. I mean, there was all the. uh he was him talking about it yesterday about his ankle saying the ankle is getting there i wouldn't say it's 100% right now so they're gonna they will wait i mean he when you say selfishly i want to play but we have to be smart here that says i'm not playing yeah yeah that means the smart thing is not playing right so so if he plays it's like if he said i'm doing the dumb thing yeah i would say if he had said selfishly i want to play but we have to be dumb here i would expect him on the field yeah

Sequin Barclay, just averaging 52 yards per game, third fewest rushing yards per game by a reigning rushing leader since the merger. So the big concern in the op season, which, look, it was a terrible and scary thing to utter when you have a season like that. It was like the cumulative effect of 400 plus opportunities on the way to a Super Bowl. Statistically speaking, doesn't lend itself towards a huge season the next year. That's a tough, unrepeatable. career-making season. It's a hard thing to do. It doesn't mean he can't get it going. It doesn't mean that he can't cruise into the playoffs. But right now, it's not been a good ride for Sequin. And are you adjusting him tier-wise in your mind when he comes to trades? Tier-wise from where you drafted him. James Cook? No, I don't think so. I would still be on the Sequin side. But, you know, I would certainly be on the Jonathan Taylor side. Like it...

You know, in draft day, everyone took Sequin well ahead of Jonathan Taylor. And that adjustment has been made. But I still believe, like, he hasn't looked bad. And that's the difference is sometimes you watch these players after these massive workload years and they kind of fall off. They don't break tackles. They don't look great. You know, the last two weeks, five yards of carry, four point eight yards of carry. He had a 58 yards receiving two weeks ago. He doesn't look bad to me. Now, their offensive line isn't as strong as it was last year. They've had an injury to their guard. And, you know, the team's offense is not creative. It is hurt without Kellyn Moore. But I also think this is a, obviously, is a well-coached team from the top. They have been in the Super Bowl two of the last three years. If you look at Super Bowl odds, they're not.

being looked at as some bad team. So, you know, I'm not, I'm not concerned with Sequin as like a, I think he's a running back two rest of season. It's, you're getting Sequin, but you haven't gotten a big play yet. His long on the ground this year was this past week at 18 yards. But he had, he had six of those last year, six like 40 plus yard touchdowns or something like that. He doesn't have a 20 yard run yet. Yeah, that's the difference. And those are hard to repeat. Yeah, they just are. Um, Mike, any thoughts on Justin Jefferson? I like him a lot. I like that he's on Mike. Yeah. Oh, what happened? Mike? Where'd you go? Oh, how did it? Help me. Oh, I'm standing on your mic. Oh, Jason. We're looking over to the producers and Al just points right at my, uh, Jason. Put your mute button in my radio. Talk about your stupid Justin Jefferson. Jeremy, we got to talk about our friendship after the show.

because it's on tonight. We do too, Jeremy. New best friends. We are great friends. Who's FaceTiming each other? Tune in Monday to the spitball. Yeah. The thing we went after Jefferson because, I mean, number one, he's Justin. Of course, you want him on your team. But it's the rest of season, wide receiver schedule is. Number one is Minnesota. Oh, gosh. How do you like that? It was an aggressive play. Well, Jason didn't think it was aggressive. I felt it was to go after not just a great player, but go after a schedule run here at the end. A cakewalk of a playoff schedule. Yeah. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Perfect. Perfect. He's happy. Jason's happy. You knew I was going to go in at some point. I didn't think you would be able to acquire.

like the best wide receiver in football. Uh-huh. With a second rounder. I mean, it's rare. Also, like usually when those grab in our league, usually when those grab a player of that caliber, it's because they're in, it's a Malik neighbors. It's like you don't get them. No, those are for a four. Yeah. Maybe you got to learn how to trade. I guess so, man. Yeah, neighbors, you can get them every day for a four straight up. But you do have T.J. Hawkinson now. T.J. Hawkinson. Oh, did we make a trade? Just one target inside the 10 this year. I see here. Jefferson and I raise you a T.J. Hawkinson. I got to make moves, you know? If you're over here getting Justin Jefferson. Oh, yeah. Viking for Viking. Yeah. You don't want to know what. T.J. Hawkinson's target's going to go way up when Jefferson goes down. Oh, come on now. Watch out. Yeah. Be careful. Now he's fighting with injuries. Let's not do that.

We like Jefferson. You play him. A.J. Brown, Devante Smith, the target chair has been amazing for A.J. Brown. I still think it's going to work out fine. I do, too. I think A.J. Brown is someone to trade for. It's been horrifically bad. He may have already been traded in your league. And I still think it might be worth going after him. Really tough matchup this week. You know, the Vikings, they are number one on fewest fantasy points given up to the wide receiver position. including number one if you adjust for schedule and who they've played. So it doesn't look like, like this is, the Vikings are more of a run funnel. Yeah. So it seems more like a Sequin game than A.J. Brown or Devante Smith, not that you're not going to play those guys. I mean, Devante Smith is probably on the bubble where you're looking at your other options and you say, okay, you know, with Josh Downs, if he doesn't play, would I go Pittman or?

Devante Smith, I'd probably go Pittman without downs. I agree. What about the freaking Dallas Goddard? So I was going to say like the two weirdest tight ends on the season are Dalton Kincaid and Dallas Goddard. Because they are players that keep performing that no one that no one believes in. Goddard has been the number one tied in two of three weeks. And it's not like the week he didn't do that. He still scored 9.4 points. Like his last three weeks have been. And to be honest, which we've talked about the touchdowns bailing him out because, or not bailing him out, but amplifying what he's done. He has had seven or more targets, which is an outstanding number for a tight end in three of his five games play. Which is a product. I mean, we have a different offensive system and coordinator. Like maybe this is more something to buy into is all I'm saying. Yeah, I don't mind that at all. I almost, I was kicking myself last week because I almost picked him up and started him.

in efforts, but he played early in the week, and I lost out on his massive game. Carolina 3 and 3, New York, 0 and 6, the Jets. All you needed, the Jets. Did I put an S in there? No, you put an extra T. A Jets. Yeah, like Jester, like Justin, like Jettis. Like 0 and 6 and lost their best offensive player. Yeah. And Gary Wilson. And may lose. They have you right where they want you. Not believing. I don't believe. They are only one and a half point home underdogs to Carolina. Home underdogs to care. They opened his favorites, so that has moved. Yeah, maybe the knowledge that Josh Reynolds would also miss. Their only productive wide receiver from last week at all that caught a couple passes. I mean, you didn't even have Alan Lazzard play last week. Aryan Smith, rookie, doesn't matter. Alan Lazzard did not play. It was personal. Oh, that's right. Yeah, yeah. Wasn't injury. But he didn't play.

And so no, no Garrett Wilson, no Josh Reynolds. Breece Hall is tweeting free 20. He may get traded at some point soon. Could. Mason Taylor, that's, you know, that's the one guy you can take the shot on. Mason Taylor's going to get a lot of targets. And in the, I have seen the comments upon the incredible social media post of me saying weird things about Mason Taylor that I didn't actually say. By our own team. Yes, by our own team. And I mean, the comments shockingly very negative for a team that put up the game they put up last week. But that was last week. This is a much different situation. Justin Fields for how awful he can be. He can also be excellent and complete a bunch of passes. The previous week.

12 targets, nine catches, 67 yards for Mason Taylor, five for 65 the week before with a 27-yard catch. Exactly. Still hasn't gotten into the end zone. That's always possible for a tight end. Well, that's a dog zone. Okay. So I don't know if Mason's allowed. Yeah, meowsing. Yeah. Yeah. He may be the perfect start. Oh, yes. Oh, we're back. You never know. Rico Dowdell, please play him. Yeah, you got to keep doing it. Tetaroa McMillan, play him. Man, I still worry. Do you have some doubt? If Chuba is active, I'm going to take a look at who I have on my roster. Oh, my gosh. I mean, if Rico Dattle ends up with 50% of the work, this is a good defense you're playing against. The Jets' only chance in this game. Let's not call it that. It will be malpractice. It is a defense. Mow practice? No, it'll be, no, I'm not doing puns right now. I'm saying it will be malpractice by the Carolina Panthers to not.

get not give riko another go there is a big gap between 30 and 31 points almost what he's done to irrelevance almost 400 rushing yards the past two weeks you got okay i'll make you a bet you 12 fantasy points or more rico dowdell i'll bet you a hundred dollars half ppr yes half ppr yeah the only format yeah thank you mike it needs to be said we haven't said it enough um that's only if tuba's playing Well, I mean, obviously, if Tube is not playing, I love Rico this week. Yeah, sure, sure. If Chuba's playing. All right. I'll take less than 12 and a half. Okay. Okay. I set the line at 12. That's the bet. Well, I won't take that. Okay. All right. There's a true meow right there. There's a true meow right there. All right. Ted McMillan, you can play it. Yeah. Justin Fields is to roll the dice and find out. Do you get three, number three, number six, number eight, or number 35, number 30?

I mean, look. Caroline is a team you could play it. Yeah, the matchup is not scary, but the fact that. No wide receivers. Yeah, and Garrett Wilson, once Garrett Wilson is back, then I will be comfortable playing fields. I'm going to go bench. I'm going to go bench. Yeah. Like I'm deciding between my every week is Bo Nix or Justin Fields. This will be Bo Nix. Feels like Justin Fields in this game is going to have 80 rushing yards and a bad fantasy game, which is darn near impossible. Yeah, that is the other side of just he, he goes old Chicago Bears, Justin Fields. Because he doesn't have people to throw to you. And he just, he gets over 100 rushing yards. Breece Hall, how about we throw him the ball one time? Breece is going to get a ton of targets in this game. He's going to get all the workload. He'll be focused on by the defense, but I think Bruce Hall's a great play this week. Yeah. All right. That was fantasy forecast presented by prize picks, mix and match players from football, basketball, and baseball to build your dream lineup today. Use the code footballers to get $50 in lineups.

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