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

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member we'll jump right in it's a busy show we've got matchups we got starts of the week and we got news news and notes from around the league presented by progressive insurance well brock bowers not practicing he seems all but seven days out uh for this week and then jacobi meyer's knee and toe his head and shoulders are fine um yeah okay maybe He didn't practice. There's a lot of rumors going around right now of, you know, trade rumors for Jacobi Myers. So when you didn't know a guy was injured and then there's a lot of seemingly a lot of smoke. Let's throw a bunch of things in there. We got the knees. We've got the toes. Yeah. So you don't want to overdo it. You don't want to be like, oh, man, he's so hurt. And then the trade partner's like, wait a minute. Yeah. Is that hurt? What about his head and shoulders? The team is saying they don't want to trade him.

So we'll see. Yeah. We'll see what happens. DJ Moore groin injury. He's doing nothing for them. Did not participate in the walkthrough. The Jacoby stuff is so weird. Like how he's not producing? Yeah. How did it's I think it's more Gino. And he didn't want to be there to start the season. So there's got he wanted money. Yeah, I mean he asked for a trade. So yeah, I know he's in the last year of his contract. He knows his future's not there. He has to be traded. They said no. He's playing. But they're not going to build a new offense around him. I mean, that's not going to happen when you're not part of their future. Yeah, he's in the last year of his deal. So he's just trying to get some more guaranteed money. Darnell Mooney Limited on Wednesday, 49ers. Most of them don't practice anymore. Ricky Pearsall. Most of them don't play anymore. Joanne Jennings. George Kittle Limited. Jennings Limited. Purdy Limited. Those are good news.

You know, those aren't players that have been playing that now are missing practice. Those are players back in practice. I was looking into this yesterday, Marvin Harrison, Jr., who left early with a concussion on Sunday. He was technically limited. He would need to practice on Friday. I think if he practiced on Friday in full, we could feel good about him playing this week. Kyler Murray Limited. We'll see if he misses another week or not. Josh Downs, this is a bit of a... Yeah. Is it an actual concussion? Yeah, it was a concussion and it was after the game. I think it was something in practice. So this makes it. Oh, that means he's probably going to miss. Very likely he misses the game. And he was sort of a waiver pickup. He was. Puka Nakua officially did not practice on Wednesday with the ankle injury. He was also considered a long shot for the week. Chuba Hubbard Limited. Dave Canales said on Rico Dattle, he's earned the right to help this team and we'll find a way for him to do that.

50-50 seems to likely... That's better than we'll see. I'm really curious. Do you think Chuba plays this week? You think he's back right now? Because we've been talking about, like, what do we do when Chuba comes back with Rico Dowdell? But there's a chance is just Dowdell again. And then obviously you play him. Yeah, and if Chuba comes back, do you feel like they give him a full allotment? If he's recovering, you know, is it 75-25 for a couple weeks? There's questions there. I think I'm playing Rico. No, like, if you were going to play Rico, I'm playing him. as usual. Like you might have a lower ceiling of Truba. Truba is active. But I can't, I can't imagine with the calf injury that he has been recovering from that he goes right back into a ton of carries. Terry McCorrin, limited at practice. Could be back. Good news for Jaden Daniels if he gets back out on the field. They need him. Especially if Debo is really dealing with the heel injury, which, you know, the first week he was dealing with it, he still produced, had that late fourth down touchdown that nobody expected. But last week,

not productive for the first time in a while, he could be hurting. And then it's all of a sudden it's like if both of them didn't go, Luke McCaffrey, Jalen Lane, Zach Hertz, C.D. Lamb limited on Wednesdays. Yeah, baby. Practice. Mike, very excited for Kettle to return. You're very excited for CDLAM to return? False. Okay. I'm very excited for both because my Dino squad has CDLAM. And false. I am very excited for both because George Kittles is a my guy. that I really want to succeed. Everyone's excited. Everyone's just good news to have these two guys back. Trade offer. Here's a question for you. Would you rather have C.D. Lamb or Gibbs and Flowers? Oh, Gibbs and Flowers. I've got to ask this one this morning. Or C.D. Lamb. I'm curious because it's like C.D. Lamb seems like he's got the maximum super value right now on the return as well. I'm going to.

I'm probably going to keep the Gibbs side. Jason's eyes got really big. Yeah, it's an interesting trade. I'm usually when you are near the same tier or in the same tier at running back and wide receiver. I'd rather have the stud running back over the stud wide receiver. And then you get flowers. And then you add flowers. I think I'm on the Gibbs side. The question is just C.D. Lamb might be in the tippy top tier. He could. Yeah, yeah. Right now seems like he's in, he's kind of missing out on that, you know. BMC, Bejohn, Jonathan Taylor tier. I think Flowers is a by-low right now. I was going to say it. That was the next word out of my mouth. Zay Flowers should be a by-low with the return of Lamar Jackson. Right now he's just kind of faded into the mist, and then you have the history of not being as great of a player and fantasy-wise, and it's a time to get him. Yep. Mike Evans expected to practice Thursday. Okay, which is good because I mean that's injured in week three. That's like a Wednesday.

They are the Monday night game. So this is a on schedule. Yeah, they're expecting him to play. What's going to happen this week is he's going to practice and play or he's going to have a setback. I don't think there's a world where he's practicing this week and then doesn't play off the hamstring. His hamstring always terrifies me for the setback, but hopefully they've taken the right amount of time. They may be feeling a little pressed. Yeah. With no Ibuka and no Godwin, so that scares me. Don't press too hard. No, no, Mike, you take it easy. You get back right. You make sure Baker wins the MVP. How's your hamstring, Mike? Are all Mike's hamstrings somewhat correlated? Both of the, yeah, we have a hive. Hive hamstring. Yeah. So how are yours are good? Mine are actually getting worse. When's the last time you've used them? A couple days ago. I stood up. You stood up. That was news and notes sponsored by Progressive Insurance Quote today at Progressive.com.

Progressive Casualty Insurance Company affiliates and third-party insurers not available in all states or situations coverage subject to policy terms, limits, and conditions. Talk starts. Starts of the week. Presented by U.S. Bank. Well, it's week seven. And we're getting into the matchups today. Week seven. We're getting into the matchups. We got some weather news to talk about as well that we'll need to highlight. What's that about? It's just the way the world works, Mike. Get a roof. Get a retractable roof, you dummies. It sounds very much like, get a room. Yeah, get a roof. Get a roof. All right, my starts of the week. We'll get into all of them. Mine are all bounce back candidates, all of mine, a little bit of a encouragement, right? We're so reactionary week to week. Jason's been pretty good at picking out these players that they have a down week, and then they get it going. Ladd-McConkie, two straight great weeks.

An example of that minor bounce back candidates, and I'm starting with his quarterback. I'm going Justin Herbert this week, bouncing back. He's not been very good. He's not been a top 10 quarterback since week three. This is a dome showdown. Jason, you'll be happy. It's the dome. They got a roof. Fantastic. Indianapolis, Daniel Jones, 48.5 point over under. Chargers favored, and they remain a pass heavy team, and they're going to continue to be without Hampton. It's not that Vidal didn't do a good job. It's just that they need to lean on their best player. And it's Justin Herbert. Their third and pass rate over expectations or expectation. And teams are chucking it against Indianapolis. They are 26th in terms of fancy points allowed to quarterbacks. It's a good matchup for him. All right. My quarterback start of the week is G.

Ah, Jared Goff. You can start him in certain matchups when you want gargantuan outputs, and this is one of those weeks. They are playing on Monday night football. I sure hope so, because we, like we've been calling for the golf weeks, and it's really just one. You might have been calling. This is a golf week. This is a blow-up week. Monday night football against Baker, 52.5 point over under. There's a difficult team to run on with Vita Vea there. You pretty much have to throw on the Buccaneers. And they're 26th and yards per attempt, 24th and scheduled justice fantasy points allowed to quarterbacks. This is at home in a dome, huge. Everything is lining up to be perfect. And usually what I love about golf, and maybe it's been a couple of weeks where it's not that way. But over the course of his career, Goff is predictable. Goff is like, you can be like, oh, yeah, this is this is a golf game and it works out well. We've seen this with pretty much every game Tampa Bay has been in. Baker's going to do enough to get stuff done.

Hopefully Mike Evans is there. And if he does, if he can score on the Lions enough, the Lions are going to have to throw the ball. So if I had Jared Gough, I can't imagine binging him this week. All right. I'm going right back to it, man. CJ Stroud off of the by week. I think he can be streamed yet again. Your name is, what's your name? My name is Jason Moore. Whoa. No, I do. I like Stroud. It makes sense. You got it last time. You called it. It's a lot easier when you're calling it against a Baltimore Ravens that is playing Juko guys in their secondary. But last time we saw him, 244 and 4, he is completing 71% of his passes. He's also running a bit more, 3.6 rush attempts per game, you know, just a little tiny floor. Just maybe there's a mistake. Okay, we're covered up by 15 to 20 rushing yards. And it's the matchup. Seattle is a good defense, but the way that teams have been...

scoring on them or getting fantasy points, it's through the aired. Over the last month, 26th and passing yards allowed per game and 25th and completion percentage allowed. And I mean, you're talking Arizona, Tampa Bay, and Jacksonville, all scoring above their expectations. So I think that Stroud is in play. All right. Last week, the big storyline, Quinn Sean Dudkins was one of the, oh, nice. The big Punday commonalities. Bounceback week. It's Miami. Quintan Judkins. He was coming off three straight top 12 weeks. They fell flat. Oh, that's the wind. Yeah. You're not throwing there. That's not a very strong wind sound. It's filtering. This pop filter is doing. That's much better, Mike. It's not that hard. So this is the game that is red alert on the weather front. Miami, Cleveland. This morning, they said gusts.

of 50 to 60 miles an hour. Which I don't believe. With sustained wins. We're early, but you got to pay attention. Dealing Gabriel might blow away in those in those gusts, but it's sustained 30 plus mile an hour wins with rain. Some sweet boomerang passes. I think Quintan Judkins alone in this matchup, whether notwithstanding would be a great bounce back because the Dolphins rush defense. Might be the worst in the NFL. You don't care whether the weather is bad? I don't care whether the weather. Don't put a roof on it. I don't care. Quintan Judkins is going to take care of business. And I think they're giving up 130-plus yards a game to running backs. And Judkins is so good. Like, don't freak out. Like last week, I know it hurt and it stunk, and that's going to be part of being a part of a bad offense sometimes. But let's go bounce back number two, Quinshan Judkins.

I like it. My start of the week this week is Jalen Warren tonight in the Thursday night football matchup. He came back off of an injury, was involved quite a bit. He had, you know, 53% of the snaps, averaged 4.8 yards of touch, looked great against a really tough Brown's defense last week. And now he plays against the Bengals rush defense that they're in contention for the worst rush defense in the NFL. 29th in rushing yards allowed per game. 30th in yards before contact allowed and they're dead last in schedule justice of fantasy points allowed to running back so whether it's on the ground or through the air uh jalen warren is is in a great spot tonight how can he possibly hit a ceiling knowing that Caleb Johnson is gonna siphon all that work Caleb Johnson is going to have one drive-killing touchdown run but the rest will

And that's part of why I wanted to make Jalen Warren my start of the week is so that people know. To repent for your. Not to repent. So that they know that Jalen Warren's the dude there. Obviously he has been playing great ball. He's the one that Aaron Rogers trusts. He's the one that Mike Tomlin trusts right now. It's never too late to repent. I love that advice. I can always I'm not going to repent of my Caleb Johnson love. Not yet. Okay. We'll talk to you tomorrow. Yeah. Jordan Mason versus Philadelphia. If Caleb Johnson fumbles, it's the funniest thing that has never happened. The best news is here, we're set up for success. If Caleb Johnson does nothing, great, don't come. If Caleb Johnson gets that touchdown, fantastic. Oh, you're going to dunk all over. You're darn right. Yeah. From half court. I'm going with Jordan Mason against the Philadelphia Eagles. It's a bye week. You always love that. Guys getting a little bit healthier right now. Jordan Mason's at 31% of the team's total rush attempts and targets his workhorse percentage.

Anything over 30% is elite. And I know Carter being out last week certainly helped Camp Scadaboo, but it's just the Eagles right now are looking like a run funnel defense, 26th and rushing yards allowed 31st in percent of runs stuffed at the line of scrimmage. Like guys are getting going. If Jordan Mason is not getting, he's one of these guys. If you're not stuffing him at the line, he's going to start ripping off chunk yardage. He's going to be hitting big play. So I like Jordan Mason a lot. Bounce back number three. He was Cortland nothing last week traveling all the way overseas for one reception and 17 yards on just three targets. But I'm taking Cortland Sutton to bounce back against the New York football giants who were now excited to watch play football with Jackson Darden, Cam Scataboo. But I'm taking Cortland Sutton. He had been a top 20 wide receiver in four of the first five weeks. He is the go-to receiver for Bo Nix. If Bo Nix is going to get it going, it's...

going to happen with Cortland Sutton and the Giants are 26th and schedule adjusted fantasy points to wide receivers. Trust in Cortland Sutton this week. What's going on? Jason, you are, are we pausing the starts of the week for a second? Yeah, we're pausing. Why is that? Why is that? Why is that? What did the trade happen? Yeah, trade happened. Oh, oh no. I don't even, I don't have. I got a breaking news. We'll go. What? Breaking news. Woo, baby! All right, this sucks. Yes, sir. Oh, no. Yes, sir. Mike's team is very, very good. Mike and Josh are the two leaders in the League of Record. Jeremy, you're a gentleman. And Jeremy, pleasure doing business. Also, part of the, Jeremy, slap you across the face. Brian Ketran, you're an awesome dude. Oh, that was part of it.

Oh, that's funny. That's part of the trade. So here's the trade. Mike is sending away an injured Garrett Wilson and an RJ Harvey, two young, good players and his second round. He finally strikes. Which is the biggest ammunition we have in our league. And he's receiving Justin Jefferson in a later pick back. So like, I mean, Garrett Wilson, great keeper. Obviously he's going to miss a couple of weeks. And Harvey, I think, is a in our format, a very good keeper. So yeah. I understand it from both sides. I don't like it from. My side. There is a arms race at the top of our league right now. This side of here. Wow. Okay. Did you pull that reference, Jeremy? Oh, I thought you. Okay. I was like it was really short. That was a fallout boy. I was about. I was about my wide receiver start of the week, which is not Justin Jefferson. It is rushy rice right off of. I'm changing mind. Can we talk about Rushie Rice is ridiculous? Hype videos video? Read.

ridiculous hype video for multiple reasons. Okay. Let's talk. One, what you're returning from. Yes. Was it an injury? Are you battling back from a tough rehab? Yeah. Or a felony. I'm in the pool. A double. Which one is it? I think it was two felonies. And then the second part is to use a customized logo in the Rashi Rice return. Oh, well, I mean, in the video itself. Oh, is that the return? Yeah, it's the return. You guys roll. All right. Go on. You can now. Anyways, look. According to that video, he has been... Can't wait to see Deshaun Watson's hype return video. Oh, man. Justin Tucker, where's Justin Tucker's video? All right. Rushing Rice, he's been working out like crazy, according to that video. OJ. Simpson coming back? You know, ESPN's Jeremy Fowler reported that the chiefs are going to allocate a heavy workload to Rice as soon as possible. Because he is coming off of a suspension and not an injury, there's no, you know...

ramp up, no getting healthy, no worry about, you know, those type of things. And, you know, the match up here is perfect. The Raiders are running an absurd amount of zone. They're running cover three or cover four at 62% of the time. That's the second highest in the NFL. Last year in those games, we saw Rice dominate. He was targeted on 43% of his routes versus those coverage. So we've had a lot of questions already this week of like, do I wait and see with Rushie Rice? And this is, I'm making of my start of the week because it's like, no, you don't wait and see. You've waited.

2C, but you want to see him in your lineup. I'm putting them in my lineup. Immediately. Any wide receiver can dud. You got to just, you have waited long enough. Most likely you are not a 6 and 0 team. You are 2 and 4 and been waiting. And so now's the time. Plug them in your lineup. Get what you're going to get. And I think you're going to be thrilled with it. And I mean, probably a puff piece, but yesterday it was like, Chiefs immediately going to you. heavy workload for for rishi wright so i'm very excited for it uh i kind of snuck it in i think on monday it's like oh you know what dk mcalf i'm really liking the position that he's in he's taking on cincinnati it's tonight touchdown in four straight games no one on that team can handle his physicality since he's 30th and schedule adjusted points to the wide receiver position i mean honestly the the the bangles are that team where you could put anyone in

but when you have top tier players like D.K. Metcalfe and maybe you don't think of Jalen Warren as a top tier guy, but he might be turning into one. And just all Steelers tonight, I'm pretty excited. When it comes to the Trey Hendrickson injury, that favors D.K. Metcalf way more than Jalen Warren because they'll replace him with someone that might be better at stuff in the run. But if you give Aaron Rogers time to throw, he's going to find Metcalf. My final bounce back start of the week, it's a b ounce back for. What for Mason Taylor? That's good. It's Carolina. It's Mason Taylor. It's no Garrett Wilson. It's probably no Josh Reynolds. It's an 18% target share in the season. It's a throw the last one out because they didn't throw at all. It's a meow mix start of the week. Mason Taylor.

Bouncing back against Carolina and oh yeah, the Panthers are the worst in the league. Why don't we? Let's put that on social media. Andy Holloway, start of the week, Mason Taylor. There you go. All right. This is like my Rushdie Rice coming straight off of suspension. I'm throwing George Kittle in the lineup. What is this hype video? Straight off the injury. He didn't have a double felony. So you only really hype up those coming off of, you should make sure that he's going to play. Yeah, I mean, obviously you're going to play. Is this a whether he plays or not, you're still starting him? You know what? I'm going to be so bold as to say yes. Okay. Whether he plays or not, I'm starting him. George Kittle. Sunday night with a Tongis-Mick backup. Yes, yes. Nice. Yeah. Tongis-Mick backup on the Sunday night game, you'll be fine. I expect George Kittle to play, and I don't care if the matchup is good, if the matchup is bad. Right now, like Atlanta looks great against tight ends. They haven't faced anyone elite. It doesn't matter. George Kittle.

is going to finish this season as the tight-in one in points per game. They need him so bad. And in his splits with Brock Purdy, who looks like he might be trending to play, you know, he's averaging 12.6 fantasy points per game and 66 receiving yards a game over three years. It's not a small sample size. So Kittle, right, right to my lineup. Brooksie makes a great point here. A.J. Barner plays on Monday night. Should Jake Tongassman basketball not be there? AJ Barner is a fine pickup and play. Should you be waiting as a pivot? Yeah. My start of the week, I had this in before. I got alerted to a weather situation. This might be the one most okay. Yeah, actually. It could still work. Harold Fanon Jr. against the Miami Dolphins. Look, David Najoku seems like he might miss. And might be traded.

Oh, I have not seen those. There's trade rumors for David Najoku right now. Even more of a reason to go pick up Fanon. Absolutely. If he doesn't have to split any of that tight end pie, then he should be seeing a bunch of targets. But I like him this week. Miami's tied for the fourth, allowing the fourth most receptions to the tight end position. With Najoku, he's on pace for over 105 targets on the year. Harold Fanon. And the average up the target for him with... Dylan Gabriel? I mean, he passed it 52 times. I think there were three that went 10 or more yards. He's built for wind games. Right. I mean, they use him short. Yeah. These aren't deep routes. So even if it's, if you get to Sunday and it's windy, but it's not these catastrophic hellscape of winds, then you're probably, you're going to be fine. It is really worth noting. Like, you have to tune in to Sunday live with Mike an hour before kickoff because.

When we're talking on a Thursday about the weather, it can look catastrophic and it can really be okay. And it can be the opposite. There could be a different game where it's like, oh, Chicago looks okay. And then, you know, it turns out there. Yeah, Chicago is on the, they're on the radar right now of caution. Man, nothing I like talking about more than weather. Yeah. What makes fantasy fun. It's what makes the NFL fun. It's what makes it a real man's game. If you put a roof on everyone, we cannot. have some games forecasted with a tornado like we do this week. Do you realize that? I do. I did not. It is a, no, that's the tornado. Oh, okay. I would actually say a tornado, even with a roof, is a pretty big problem. That's fair. That's fair. Yeah, the roof is not really going to stop the tornado. The roof might be a bigger problem, to be honest. Oh, great idea. Subterrain stadiums. Oh, you guys would love that. Dig deep. Why don't even put the lights on?

Well, no. How are you going to see? We can put electricity down. That's not out of the realm of comp. Why would you say something so stupid? I don't like bad weather. I like some weather. I like the open skies. Yeah. Well, I mean, we are team retractable roof. It's just easier say team don't. Yeah, but. Yeah, retractable roof is where it's out. Yeah. If you're going to push, I'm going underground. Yeah, I will too. I will too. I will be there with you. But the lights on, Mike. It would be the world's most expensive. Stadium? Stadium ever built. Yeah. Oh, you hit that Kalichi? All right. They're going to tell you it's not there. And then you're going to... We know rocks. That's an Arizona joke. That was starts of the week presented by U.S. Bank 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. We'll take a break. And it's into the forecast we go.

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