Week 4 Studs & Duds + Panic Alarms, Monday Punday - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/4

It's legit. Yeah, you look at his actual usage, and he is involved. It's kind of similar to Max Williams, who has been very involved, Dosakis, for the Arizona Cardinals. You just don't want to believe that Dawson Knox and Max Williams are things. I have a real hard time believing it because over the last couple of years, both teams have just not utilized the tight-in position at all.

These players were there, so it's not like, you know, oh, well, they signed this guy and now he's great. It's like, are you tricking me? But they're on the field. They're running routes and they've been productive for three weeks in a row. Max Williams in the last three weeks is 15 for 179 and 1. So if you look at targets on the year for the Cardinals, I'm going to give you the targets. Hopkins 25, Green 24, Kirk, 18, more 18.

Max Williams is at, I think, 16 for the Cardinals. When your quarterback's on pace for 5,400 yards, there's plenty to go around. Yeah. And, I mean, the Cardinals could have, I mean, I was thinking about this, they could have, I probably won't have it with Rondell Moore, but you could have four thousand yards receivers. That would be wild. Because of the extra game, right? Like you're pacing out. I think they're all pacing over 60 a game. But we can talk about, well, let's talk about Hopkins later. Yeah.

Other tight ends that look legit. I mean, Max Williams, like we said, Dalton Schultz is legit. I mean, Dalton Schultz is involved every single week. He's looked to around the goal line. So you've got to add him to the list of players that you can put out in your lineup. He has established himself in the behind the scene stats, kind of the snaps of routes run ahead of Jarman, who had a touchdown in his own right. But he is the one.

You know, it was like who's 1A and who's 1B. I think it's 1 and 2 now, and Dalton Schultz is the 1. Yeah, and he even had a couple near fumbles. I think he had like almost back to back plays where it was they had to go to the review and like, oh, okay, he was actually down. But he is their guy. Three of the four games, he has seen six or more targets. Well, he's got 23 on the year. Jarwin has like 13. And he's caught twice as many passes. So Jason's right on that. Goddard.

Nice game. Could have had another touchdown. Five for 56 and one. Zachert scored again, too. It's worth mentioning. He's done that two straight weeks. This is who he's throwing to. I mean, he's throwing to Godderts. Yes, two of them. I mean, you can play either one as a tight end and just hope for the touchdown. And the Noah fan ended up with 10 target, 6 for 46 and 1.

You know, are you worried if Teddy B is at? Sure. Yes. Of course, if you're not worried when Drew Locke runs onto a football field. The only person in Denver not worried, if Drew Locke is the starting quarterback is Drew Locke. But to be fair. I got to think he's a little worried. No, no way. He's not worried about anything. He is unshakable with that confidence. That's swagger. You've seen him rapping on the sideline? Pretty good chance he was in the same bar as Urban Meyer. Oh, no. Poopped in his big boy pants.

All right, the less fun part of the show. Oh, yeah. Unless you played against these players. No touchdowns for Tom Brady. Goes to Foxborough, find some rain. Man, what a... Did you see that? That game should not have been close. Like, before the game, you just thought this is going to be really a one-sided affair, and it was not. Rain, rain hurt. He also had a pass that he put right into the basket for Antonio Brown that should have been a touchdown. Mm-hmm.

But, man, did you see these, like, because everybody was making a big deal of this game, which, look, I was excited. I turned the lights down, put the projector on. I was excited to sit down and have some popcorn and watch the return. But one of the props that, like, these books were putting out there was, you know, Brady. No, it was Brady one touchdown. Oh. It was like this, you know. A gimmie. It was like negative 1100 or something silly, but it was like a gimmie. And I was like, you're looking at that and didn't throw a touchdown pass.

You know, I wouldn't worry too much about that rainy game on the road, emotions. But Baker Mayfield had a stinker against Minnesota. Minnesota had been getting destroyed through the air. He had this brutal mess of Odell. I mean, I basically stood up to celebrate the touchdown that was about to happen to Odell. And Baker just put, it's like the not on the same page thing. Big Ben had a problem with Juju on the same type of route.

Yeah, it wasn't good for him. Nope. I would say Justin Fields improved, but I would not put the word mass improvement in there. He got better. Mass improvement, but when you're improving from in the grave, now you're just, you're still in the hospital. Yeah, 11 for 17 for 200 is not what I would call Matt. I mean, Mike might be. I completely disagree. Why? Because this was the game plan. Like,

They only let him throw the ball 17 times. But I'm talking about for fantasy football. Oh, yeah. I mean, yes. He was totally, he was completely held back by Matt Nagy. Well, he wasn't calling plays this week. All right. Well, yeah, so I'm going to say the offense held him back. Well, maybe he was, maybe he wasn't. Matt Nagy will never let you know if Laser is calling the plays or not. But they, like, he looked so much better. He had a couple like,

professional level deep passes to Darnell Mooney. Alan Robinson is not Justin Fields' best friend, which is unfortunate. We didn't see Fields really utilize his legs, only three rushes for nine yards. He went from 3.9 fantasy points to 7.3. Yes. For fantasy purposes, he did not improve. But I mean, there's no reason to roster. Correct. On a fantasy team.

Nine rushing yards, even in a game where he wasn't slacked by a defense. That was the baseline of hoping he's going to go out there and have 30 or 40 rushing yards every game. That's not happening. Yeah, fields should not be rostered. And this was the Detroit Lions. This was a matchup that, you know, if you can't play him here and you couldn't, then you're not going to play him anywhere. And you should be, you should be actively hoping for Andy Dalton's return. If you have Alan Robinson.

Even Darnel Mooney, you need more than 200 passing yards. You need touchdowns. I don't know, but would they have let Dalton throw more? Like, Darno Mooney had almost 100 yards in the first half. He was on his way, and then they just stopped throwing. I think they ran the ball almost 40 times. Well, you're starting running back is now injured. Yeah. And so, and Matt Nagy came out and said, Andy Dalton's our starter. We'll see what happens health-wise.

Dalvin Cook, this was unfortunate. He was active, but he was not utilized a ton. He was not 100%. He did have six targets. I mean, he'll be the same old Dalvin Cook when he needs to get right. Yeah, but this was, this sucked, man. This felt like a rope-a-dope. You're going to play him next week against Detroit, regardless of, if he's active. And DeAndre Swift, eight for 16. It seemed like he was probably game script proof, and then he ended up with a game with only four for 33 through the air.

Which just means to me he's a good target. As far as you want to trade for a guy. DeAndre Swift was terrible for fantasy this week. Still had the six targets. So I'm not worried long term at all. Jamal Williams ended up 14 for 66. So he had more carries. What is happening with Chris Carson? 13 for 30. Another player that Mike and I were like, oh, Chris Carson must be hurt.

because Alex Collins was taking drives. And looking good. Looking fine. Yeah. I mean, no real difference, right? I mean. He got 10 carries to 13 for Carson. Right. And he 44 yards, 4.4 a carry. I don't know. He's no targets for Carson through four weeks. He's got six total. So this seems like problem. Man. The only thing I can think of is last week, Chris Carson left the game. I think it was a leg injury.

And he looked, at the time, he looked pretty shook up. And then it just kind of got swept under the rug of, oh, no, well, Chris Carson is fine. That would be the only thing I could think of is perhaps he's not 100%. And so they have other players on the team that are capable, like Alex Collins. So they went to them a little bit more. I have three panic alarm players in succession here. Okay. What do we establish about the DefCon system? Do we know how it actually works? One means that we're at, I think you're a,

Fully panicked. So let's do it this way. I'll read the name. You tell me whether to hit the button. Okay. Okay. Miles Sanders, seven for 13. Three targets, three for 34. I didn't mention it, but Gainwell had a game. Man. Do I hit the button or not? Yeah, you hit the button. The reason you hit the button is because nothing to do with Miles Sanders. If you watch the game, Miles Sanders looks like he's got juice.

He looks great. He's finishing runs strong. But we've talked about this forever. Opportunity, more important, the talent for fantasy. Sanders has the talent. He is not getting the opportunity, and it doesn't. I don't see why it would change all of a sudden. They've got into the next two weeks are Carolina, whose defense looks great. Their rush defense is maybe second only to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. All right.

I know. I'll just hit this button ahead of time. Miles Gaskin. Yeah. So Miles Gaskin was two for three on the ground, had no targets. Let me just, let me break some news right here, right now. Your season's over, Miami. It's over. Oh, wow. There was optimism coming into the year. Your season is over. What if they get to Sean Watson? He's not playing. He won't play.

I firmly believe people. I mean, I think, look, at this point, they're throwing things at the wall. Malcolm Brown, 67% of snaps. That should come with some concession papers on the year. I mean, that's not a solution. Malcolm Brown is not a solution. So, Jacoby Bressat's not going to be able to get it done. Are they going to go beat Tampa next week? Oh, no. Are they going to beat Jacksonville in Jacksonville? Probably not. It'll be a game. Yeah, yeah. Is Irvin Meyer still the coach?

Yeah. Yeah, then Miami will win. They should have won that last game. Yeah, exactly. They should have won the game. They should have beat the Cardinals too. That's bad coaching. Damian Harris. Do I hit the button? I don't think so. I'm not as worried on Damian Harris. Romandre Stevenson was not active. JJ Taylor was and then he fumbled. Brandon Bolden is the next man up for sure. And Damien Harris, if I'm not mistaken, he actually ran the, it wasn't like.

Earth-shattering numbers. But as far as routes, he ran the most routes. He saw two targets. Did he actually run the most, like actually running routes? Yes, of the running back. I could be mistaken, but I believe I came across that stat on Twitter. He also had 67% of the rushing running back attempts, which is a good number. But then you look at his rushing attempts and you go, wait a minute, how can that be true? Because he didn't get the ball. You cannot run on Tampa Bay.

No, you can't. Although Harris was sending up some red flags the week before. Brandon Bolden had six for 51. He is the James Wright replacement. And I've talked to people from right, like I think Saturday. I talked to somebody from New England. And they said, it's going to be Bolden. It was Bolden. Right. Stevenson wasn't there. They trust Bolden. He was real close to a touchdown on one of those. So he is a pickup on tomorrow's show. Sure. And I'm a.

I, there are, there are reasons to be concerned. I was trying to figure out how I wanted to say it, but I was going to end up in some kind of double negative. I do have concerns about Harris. So I'm not saying there's, I'm not full panicking, but, like this is, it's not a DefCon one for him, but probably a three. Apparently Defcons are all related to nuclear war. I didn't realize that. Really? Yeah, I mean, from what, from what Al, the nuclear war expert over there has told me.

These are nuclear war levels. So, like, DefCon 1 is nuclear war is about to happen. Ooh. And then DefCon 2 is like, it's, it's. So now we're back to flipping it to the other way because, like, is he going to go nuclear? Oh. You know what I mean? I think we're like too many levels deep. This is a real, this is a real fartball Jones nickname situation. Like, is that fair? I mean, poor Tim Patrick, right? First, we say your name's too boring.

So he give you a nickname as Fireball Jones, which opens you up to a very obvious fart ball Jones if you're not good. A very well done. And why be Farball Jones when the real fault lies in Drew Locke? Yeah. It's not your fart. That was an accident. It's not your fart. Oh, no. It's not your fault.

It's funny because what I was, the joke that I was going for was I was going to say it's not your fault fart, but it's hard to say that. It's not your fart. It's not your fart. It's always Drew Locke's fart. If you're in a room and you smell something. Look for Drew Locke. Look. Why are we so mean to? Oh, because he stinks. He stinks because he farts all the time. Melvin Gordon, 9 for 56. DeVante Williams 7 for 48. When the Broncos can run the football.