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

0.7 fantasy points being given up to wide receivers. If you split that up and you say, okay, KJ Hamler is going to get a few and Tim Patrick's going to get a few. There's a lot left there for Jerry Judy. Tim Patrick is in play. Tim Patrick has got two first names. He seems like he's come out of nowhere, but that's not true. I mean, the part about him having two first names, that is absolutely true. But he, the Broncos like him. He should be in play.

Don't think of him as a, oh, crap, I got to start Tim Patrick. Tim Patrick's a fine flex. Yeah, I mean, and this is why Drew Locke was a streamer candidate this week, because this could be a game where Tim Patrick has a fine game, and Jerry Judy has a fine game, and no offense has a fine game. And if those three things are true, then Drew Locke had a good game. Yeah, exactly. Henry Ruggs, Nelson Aguilar. Are you going to play that dance against the Denver Broncos? I think you could play it with Agalore.

He has been surprisingly consistent. It's a little bit scary because it's consistent and yet touchdown dependent. You know, he's got four touchdowns in his last five games. I would love to see the targets up a little bit higher. So I think you can put Nelson Aguilar in if you need to pick between one of these two guys. But I, again, project this to be a game where the Raiders are leading.

In which case, it's going to be the Broncos passing more and the Raiders running more. I am the Walrus. Oh, yeah. This time. This is my start of the week. It's against you? Oh. No, he's not. I don't think we can pick. I mean, I would pick the Walleris every week. He's going to take it up to 100. I'll tell you that much. Oh, for sure. Yeah, that's my pick for that, too. Almost nine targets a game for the Walrus. He is eating yet again. On the other side, though, Noah Fants.

The matchup is there, no offense. He leads in a lot of advanced metrics for the tight end position. Do we have the courage, though, to play Noah Fant while we still have no idea what's going on with that dude's ankle? Yeah, I mean, I think you can because of the position, right? Like we talked about Gronk and we just said, yeah, he's in. It's not like Gronk is...

absolutely locking it down every single week. He's coming off of a bad game too. The reason Gronk is absolutely in your lineups is because relative to the position, if you got a heartbeat and... Dallas Goddard or Noah Fant? I would go Dallas Goddard this week. All right, for safety? Yeah, just because of the ankle situation with Fant, not knowing he was a limited participant in the last practice report. I've seen, but I don't have any other update.

All right, we will get to the rest of the matchups tomorrow, but now. Starts of the Week. My quarterback start of the week. I think it was also my streamer, but I mean, come on now. Jared Goff. He is also my start of the week. The King. Do we have the King Goffrey drop anywhere? Got it. Oh, no. Seattle giving up nearly 28 points per game to the quarterback position. That is the most. Only once have they not given up a top 12 game. Keep targeting.

The Seattle matchup. Jay, who you got? I've got Jared D. Merv. As much as I would love to start Jared Gough this week. I'm giving a confidence play to Tom Brady. Okay. It was as bad a game as you've ever seen out of Tom Brady, and you have to make your bet. Is this the new normal? Or is he going to bounce back? And I've found over time that when you bet against Tom Brady, you're, you know, the house is going to win. And, you know,

He's been a top 10 back, the top 10 quarterback, the two previous weeks to that game. So it's not like he's been abysmal on the season. In fact, the majority of the games he's played this season, he's been a top 10 quarterback. He's been good. And the last time we saw a really, truly horrific game like this was week 16 and 2018. He threw for 126 total yards and two interceptions. Gross. Came out the next week through four touchdowns. I mean...

He's got a chip on his shoulder from that game. I'm going to bet on Tom with those weapons. And he has Drew Breeze as his quarterback start of the week. Michael Thomas is back. The 49ers have been torched four to the last six weeks. And Drew Breeze, we got four straight weeks as a quarterback won. My running back started the week. It is J.D. McKissick from Washington. Smooches is back. The matchup against Detroit, they have loud...

Top five points to the running back position in three straight weeks. Antonio Gibson, a little bit banged up. I do like Gibson, though, if he suits up. But I wanted to highlight. In week five, Jady McKissick saw eight targets. In week nine, Jady McKissick saw 14 targets. What happened in those two games? Can I, Alex, who is Alex Smith? That is correct. Alex Smith, and we expect him to be the quarterback. Smith likes to check down, and Jady McKissick will be.

That player. Jay, who's your running back? 14 targets. If your wide receiver gets 14 targets, that's an outlandishly great week. You're shouting from the mountains. Absolutely. My start of the week is Miles Sanders. Again, a confidence push. He's coming back off of injury. You're not sure. But he had the buy week. The timeline says he should be fine. The Giants have given up the eighth most fantasy points to running backs. And more importantly, they are tied for the second most.

Running back receptions this season. Miles Sanders has that skill set. And if you don't remember how he was before going down to injury, his 16-game pace was 1388 yards, 9.6 touchdowns with another 300 receiving yards on 40 catches. He was really good. He's back. Plug him in. Andy's going with Chase Edmonds, the matchup against Buffalo. I love it. We get it. Chase Edmonds. Oh, the voice of public opinion. Easy, Mike.

What if Kenyon Drake is back? Well, you got to talk to Andy about that one. I think that even if Kenny Drake is back, he's going to be limited. I would still think that Chase Edmonds will be the primary running back in this game. Buffalo is the second worst team against the run over the last five weeks, and Edmonds should see at least 20 opportunities in this game. Kenyon Drake is back at practice in pads, but I think the expectation is still that he won't play this week.

At the wide receiver position, I've got Jarvis Landry. We've really only seen one game with full game planning for the Cleveland Browns without Otto Beckham. It was the weather week, but it turned into 11 targets for Jarvis Landry. And until facing Jake Luton, the Texans have been given up four straight games of top 10 wide receiver production, including a game against Jacksonville when Minshew and the...

when Minchu was the signal caller. So I like Jarvis Landry to get it done this week. Jay, who you got? I'm going with Cooper Cup. I know that there's the wrist worry, but look, against Seattle, we talked about it with Jared Goff. You want to chase those points because it's been too long where you go, well, they can't continue every week giving up. Yes, they can. Yes. They are terrible a defense, and Russ is going to score so many points.

because that's what he does. I really would be blown away if the Sean McVeigh team is the first one that they shut down. Cooper Cup only has two touchdowns on the year. I think he could double it by the end of this game. And if for some reason that wrist is an issue and he is not active, I will, my pivot is Josh Reynolds. Josh Reynolds is. I think Reynolds is in play with Cooper Cup on the field. He is absolutely in play. Over the last two weeks, he has 17 targets.

So Josh Reynolds is absolutely in play against this Seattle defense. And he's got Travis Fulgum. Fulgum has been a top 15 wide receiver three out of the last four weeks, averaging 10 targets a game. The Giants giving up 30 plus points to opposing fantasy wide receivers. Andy does like Rager as well, but wanted to highlight Travis Fulgum, give this man the do that he deserves. On the last four games, played his pace would have been 108 receptions.

1,500 yards and 12 touchdowns. Small sample, but that's pretty fun to do. At the tight end position, much to Jason's chagrin. I am going with double E. Evan Angram. It felt like he was disappointing the last time against the Eagles, but he still came through with 6 for 46 off of nine targets. That's passable. You'll take that from your fantasy tight end. Over the last three weeks, he is averaging nearly 10.

targets a week. And per NBA jam rules, he is heating up. The tight end seven and the tight end four the last two weeks. So to my chagrin, I just want to speak to that really quickly. You called him a great pass catcher. And he's not because he slaps the ball.

It doesn't catch it. He has a great offensive weapon. Yes. I'm totally fine with that. And for the record, if you wouldn't have had him in there, he would have been my start of the week. Oh. Well, okay. It is a wonderful play. All the metrics point to him having a good game. And I'm happy you have them in because I won't have the disappointment that comes from Evan Ingram letting us down. My start of the week at tight-ed is Austin.

Hooper talked about it. Even with, you know, some potential bad weather there, short targets, that's Austin Hooper's game. Remember, he was new to this team, new to the scheme, and in the first three games of the month, you, you kind of, or the season, you went.

And Hooper's not what we thought he was when they paid him and made him the highest paid tight-in in the league at that time. But then the next three games, he was averaging 7.7 targets a game. That's a lot. That's a 123 target pace. For context, Travis Kelsey was 136 last year. Kittle was fewer than 123 pace. Houston is a plus matchup. I mean, tight-ins are all barfee. You can definitely start Austin Hooper this week. And Andy's got...

His own double E. Bron, my start of the week last week, but I love it here. Eric Ebron is set up for a while. Cincinnati, terrible against the tight end, the worst in football, in fact, over the last five weeks. And Eric Ebron has been inside the top ten the last two weeks, mostly on the back of a touchdown. But the opportunity is there. And over the last five games, Eric Ebron is actually on a near 100 target pace. Ebron's been good. He has. And the Bengals have been bad.

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