Starts of the Week + Week 10 Breakdown, Cake or Cupcake - Fantasy Football Podcast for 11/12

It's not getting on the field very much, but when he is on the field, he is getting opportunities. Listen to these numbers. They're ridiculous. So the last four weeks, you saw 38% of the snaps against Jacksonville, yet 18 opportunities, 45% of the snaps, 14 opportunities. And this last week against Minnesota, 40% of the snaps again, but 18 opportunities, he has been crushing.

for fantasy football. If you have not been paying attention in the last five weeks, he has been a top 20, or the last five games, I'm sorry, he has been a top 20 running back. Just four out of those five games. Two weeks ago against the Colts, it was a bust game. But how are you treating DeAndre Swift? Yeah, DeAndre Swift's, you know, arrow is pointing up. And even though I don't love this matchup necessarily, I think that the Washington football team's defense is underrated. They're a solid.

defensive line, a solid team all the way around. You've got to have DeAndre Swift as someone that is probably going into your lineup. If you look at the first three weeks of the season, he was not utilized to the point of, you know, in week three, he had two targets, no carries, nothing. But from that point on, he's been so good that he is now the running back 20 on the totality of the season. That's wild. I have a hard time trusting a Detroit Lions running game.

but four out of five games four and five he's top 20 he's and you just shared the opportunity that that's what's important the reason i have a hard time trusting it is because i feel like you could come out and all of a sudden he gets six carries and two targets and if that is within the realm of possibility but it seems like they're utilizing what they drafted him to be and the most important part are the targets he's getting four or five targets

every single game, and he has the talent to break one open. So, yeah, I'm starting him. The question would be to me, would you start him, you know, over, say, J.D. McKissick on the other side of the ball? I would. I would as well. I would play DeAndre Swift over J.D. McKissick. Terry McLaurin for Washington, he is in. There's a bit of a talent gap between those two running backs.

That's fair. McLaurin is in, but on the other side, Marvin Jones. He came through with the touchdown. We're not expecting Kenny Galladay to play. The matchup is brutal for quarterbacks and wide receivers. Are you playing Marvin Jones as anything more than an outside shot in your flex position? No, that's all he is. He's a touchdown shot and he could get it, but I would bet against Marvin Jones this week. Before we move to our next matchup, ladies and gentlemen. Gentlemen and ladies. Are you enjoying this podcast?

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The Packers are favored by 13 points, giving them an implied team total of 31.5 points, leaving Jacksonville with scraps at under 20 points. Jake Luton, he was, he exceeded expectations. Let's say that. Yeah. And then we will move on. Well, the expectations were very, very low. Yeah. And so exceeding them was not astronomically difficult.

especially in a matchup against Houston, who is terrible. The Green Bay Packers passing game, you can't really pass on them. They are a funnel defense. And what that means is they are trying to shut down the receiving game so much so that they're very beatable on the ground. And what that says is Jacksonville is going to have some success with their undrafted rookie free agent sensation James Robinson. He's a great play.

But there's no chance I'm playing Jake Luton against the Green Bay Packers defense. DJ Chark is a player. He's in question for me. The volume was there. They hit on the big play last week. Monitor the newswire, Jair, Alexander, shut down cornerback. True shutdown cornerback for the Green Bay Packers. But he did leave last week with a concussion. Monitor if he is going to play. If he is out, that is.

That's enough of a crack in the window that I'm willing to put DJ Chark out there. Yeah, I agree. Now, if he is active, I would hope to bench Chark that you don't have to. He came out and he had a great game. I see he's way too high in my rankings right now. I need to move him down. I said the only game that mattered was for weather was the Cleveland game. The reason I said that, despite this game also having.

20 plus mile an hour wins is because historically Aaron Rogers numbers in bad weather games are exactly his average. It's unbelievable. For some reason, he can play in bad weather games and has no problem. So I don't change the Packers at all. And on the other side of the ball, it's not like I wanted the Jacksonville passing attack with Jake Luton. So it doesn't really have an effect outside of DJ Chark. But the deep ball will be a little bit more difficult to come by for DJ Chark with the weather.

Yeah, and if you're looking at Jacksonville, hoping, well, maybe they're going to go to the short game. Rookie Leviska-Schanalt, who has been pretty solid for a rookie running back. He has a hamstring injury, or wide receiver. Thank you. Hasn't hamstring injuries likely to sit or be very limited, so you're going to have to pivot away from that. Aaron Jones is back. It's going to smash. Let's talk about Aaron Jones and Devonty Adams and figure out what should we do with them. Let's play them. Are you? Let's play them both. Can I, I mean, this is.

There's no point in discussing those guys. It is the rare combination where I want a team's running back and a team's wide receiver on my redraft team. Absolutely. Same game. Plug them in. They are absolute phenomenal beasts. Did you know that they're both my number one ranked wide receiver and running back this week? And I think that's too low. Yeah, I'm moving them up. There's zero. Tier S tier. But other possible options here.

Robert Tunyon. Sure. It's a very good matchup. 25th against the tight end. That's what Jacksonville is ranked. It is a good matchup. He was almost my start of the week. I couldn't quite swallow that pill. But if you're out there struggling, yeah, it was a jagged little pill. Thank you. I would think Tunian could be put in. If Alan Lazard, the Lazard King, if he comes back and he actually plays in this game,

Are you going to play him as a wide receiver three? We don't know that he's going to play yet, but he has been practicing the last couple weeks. He can return this week. Are you putting him in? Are you going to wait and see? I'm going to wait and see. I think you've got to have him rostered, but on your bench. We don't know. He's not a superstar that's waited for a significant amount of time because he's fully 100% and then he's put in. He's going to go right to his snaps. He could be limited in this game.

He's not a superstar, but he was playing like a fantasy superstar those first three weeks. Very small sample size, but he was clearly the wide receiver two. This team needs a wide receiver two that is not Marquez Valdez Scanling. How dare you? Two touchdowns last week. The Philadelphia Eagles at three, four, and one. Take on the New York Giants at two and seven. The Giants just a shade out of the division lead here. The Eagles are favored by three and a half points. We have a 44.5 point over under.

Carson Wentz is Andy's stream of the week. Carson Wentz has a league leading 12 interceptions. Were you aware of that? That doesn't matter. For fantasy, that's good news. James Winston's special. When you throw picks, especially when it's pick sixes, you get to get back on the field and you've got to throw the ball more. Yeah, the Giants are kind of right in the middle of the field in terms of allowing production for fantasy. They do have a solid.

defense here. So do you have any concerns with players on the eagle side of the ball? Miles Sanders should be returning. Yeah, I think that helps. Any hesitation coming off the injury? No hesitation from me. The timeline is good on the knee. They had the buy week. I think he should be good to go. We'll talk about him in a little bit because I know that there will be people hesitant to play him. I don't think you should be. I think he should go right in your lineup. Does Boston Scott go right back to the bench? Oh, yeah.

Boston Scott is, if Miles Sanders is there. It sounded like you took pleasure in saying that he goes right back to the bench. I take great pleasure in putting Boston Scott on the bench. As someone who has Miles Sanders in, I think the majority of my leagues, I can't wait for Boston Scott to be irrelevant. Jalen Rager, Jason said he's going to take it up to 100. His average depth of target is 17.4. Just whoo.

Boy, hit him with the ball, Carson. Just let him catch it. Waverwire superstar Travis Fulgum. He's going to come in as Andy's start of the week. It is very difficult to pivot away from Travis Fulgum at this point. He might see the James Bradbury experience. I mean, that's what you have to project. If you look back at the game log when they played against the Giants, that was his one down. It was his down week, but he was still.

11 targets, he was still 5 for 73. Yeah. He wasn't, he didn't rank well on the week because he didn't get a touchdown. But that's not a game that is poo-pooing and killing your roster. If he goes 5 for 73, you're okay. Dallas Goddard returned to much fanfare a couple weeks ago. And he ended up with one target, one reception.

for 15 yards, despite being on the field for 84% of the snaps, despite running a route on 85% of Carson Wentz dropbacks in week 8. Carson Wentz, what the heck, bro? Dude, Carson Wentz is playing some magically terrible football. It's still good for fantasy. It's good for fantasy. Somehow he's winning enough games to, you know, keep his team in it. And amazingly, some of the victories are like, you mean everyone else is losing enough games to keep his team in it?

I am impressed that they have three wins. And some of those wins have been entirely, at the end of the game, Carson wins, putting the team on the back and Greg Jennings this thing. But that's why it's magically terrible because he's also in the pocket holding the ball way too long, trying to make just huge plays every single play instead of just running an offense, missing wide open guys, both in guys that are wide open running routes and not finding them, and then also, oh.

I'm going to throw this ball to not where I meant to throw it. He's just been terrible. But for fantasy, he's been fine. He's been producing enough for Fulgum. And when it comes to Dallas Goddard at tight end, you start Dallas Goddard. Everything out there said, you know, you just read it. He was in on enough snaps, ran 85% of the routes that Carson was throwing the ball. Carson's got a history of throwing it to Titan. He's got a history of throwing it to Dallas Goddard. It was just a bad game. It was a bad game. You know, what I think happened is...

Carson Wentz got used to the beginning of the season where when he targeted his tight end, bad things happened for the football team. Yeah, it's not aerts anymore, Wins. It's not going to hurt you. On the giant side of the ball, Daniel Jones, there's much better streaming options on the week. The running back, though, we've seen some touchdowns coming from the running back position. Devanta Freeman, Wayne Galman, I believe two weeks in a row as the starter has a touchdown.

Devante Freeman did return to limited practice. How are you approaching these running backs? Devanta Freeman? Do we get some Bruce Wayne Galman action? Yeah, I mean, it really just is a matter of whether Freeman is active. I think once he's activated, he'll take over that starting role and can be a... Then would you play him against the Eagles who are allowing the seventh most points?

Seventh least. Seventh least, thank you to fantasy running backs over the last six weeks. His utilization prior to the injury, his utilization prior to the injury was enough to where I think you can plug him in as a desperation flex, but the matchup is bad. And the first week back from an injury in a bad matchup, that's two strikes. You've got to be careful swinging that bat.

for that third time. So I would prefer to bench him. And if he's out, Wayne Galman becomes that desperation flex. Devante Freeman was injured the last time they played the Philadelphia Eagles. That's when he was knocked out. The wide receivers, Sterling Shepard, Darius Slayton. We expect that Golden Tate will be back from his benching.