Week 4 Studs & Duds + Spooky Season - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/2

in a show of, hey, you're not holding on to the ball. So, you know, 60% snaps for Achan and 43% snaps for Mostert. Mostert's older and has a long injury history and is very explosive. I think they probably would prefer for this to be about a 50-50. Sure. Although they're going to get more players back when Ahmed is healthier when Jeff Wilson comes back. I mean, I think I saw an interviewer McDaniel said he wants to use five running backs. Don't like that. Yeah, he don't like that. Josh Jacobs, welcome back. 17 for 58. That's not great. But he did get the rush and touchdown. And then eight receptions for 81 yards. Andy started the week. I mean, that's Josh Jacobs formula right now is simply workload gets the Green Bay Packers next week. But he's...

As of right now, he is losing the pay me. Give me the money argument that he had with the Raiders. The Raiders betting that last year was more of a holy crap outlier. Congratulations on doing that. We don't think you're going to be able to do that again. And so far he has not been able to do that again. He's been, I mean, he's holding up for fantasy football purposes, but you, those are not. great rushing numbers for someone who's trying to break the bank. Isaiah Pacheco, goodness gracious, 20 for 115 in a rushing touchdown. It was, Zach Wilson played well. Mahomes didn't play. Mahomes had a bad game. Yeah, Mahomes did not play great. And it was a strange offensive decision here by Andy Reed. Because usually if Mahomes isn't playing great, they go, why don't you go out of there and throw some more?

But no, it was like 20 carries. Has Pacheco ever had 20 carries? I think he has, actually. How many times? Well, I don't know his exact workload box score by heart. Kyle, look that up for me. If you look at his opportunity to share through the first four weeks, Pacheco's arrow is pointing up. 20% in week 1, 23% in week 2, 33% in week 3% in week 3, up to 36% in week 4, which was a career high. That's the percentage of team rushes and targets for the position. Which we need to remember. Pacheco missed essentially all of the off season and training camp dealing with his own injury situation. So him getting slowly ramped up, it does make sense. We had 22 carries in week 12 last year.

That is the only other time he's had 20 carries. I mean, it's just it's, I'm not, I'm not banking on 20 plus carries from Pacheco every week, but he is really starting to dominate here. Just four opportunities each for Clyde and McKinnon. It's, it's Pacheco show. Cleo Herbert. There's that Broncos D. Hey, yeah. Oh, yes, yes. 18 for 103, four, five targets for four for 19 with a touchdown. I was going to bring up the insider reports of Roshan Johnson pushing this to a 50-50, not this week, not even close. 78% of snaps for Khalil Herbert looked good, although he was stumbling all the time. It was like he would get to the open field and then fall over, like keep your feet. Cleo Herbert is, he's a momentum guy. And sometimes the momentum, like when you're running downhill, he's running too fast. You trip over your feet. Yeah.

It did look like he was doing the thing where, you know, when you start to stumble and you're running, like he was running so forward just for extra, extra momentum. Derek Henry, because here we are, of course, here we are, of course, because in the matchup against the Super Bowl contending Cincinnati Bengals, super positive game script for the Tennessee Titans, of course turned into 22 carries, 122 rushing yards, a rushing touchdown. It was a great performance. Obviously, this was a trade-away candidate from my mouth this last week, and you're still going to have big monstrous games. One of the arguments of doing it that week was Derek Henry is so much more valuable and gets the 20-plus carries in games where their team wins. Obviously, at that point, the Titans look like they might not win very many games. Tanna Hill has looked decrepit, and they're playing against the Super Bowl.

Contending. Alleged, an alleged Super Bowl. Previously alleged Super Bowl contend. They're not making the playoffs. Like the Bengals absolutely are not making the playoffs. I will be blown away if they do. I mean, the Titans, it was 27 to 3. They mopped the floor with the Bengals. The Bengals offense is broken right now with Joe Baroken. And, you know, that's that's a. What, two weeks in a row where they've scored three points? Yeah, Kyle, what was the Bengals stat you shared that they, I think he was saying they have three offensive touchdowns? Pull that up for me, Kyle, because it is truly an embarrassing thing, what is happening right now to the Bengals. Bejohn Robinson, he had himself a fine game. He's getting all, like, the snaps have gone up. Tyler Alger is an afterthought at this point for.

the Atlanta Falcons, much like Kyle Pitts is an afterthought for them as they turn to Jono Smith. Well, when you've got John who Smith. Yeah, I mean, you've got to go on John who Smith. Yeah, Bijon is absolutely phenomenal. It is very, very rare for a player to be able to be a top player at their position in a week without a touchdown. Really, the only guy that's done that regularly, if you can go back 13 games ago. Was a goat free, McGot-free. Christian McCaffrey is so involved, he can have enough rushing yards, enough receptions and receiving yards where he could have a phenomenal game without a single touchdown. This is Bijon's method because I don't think the Falcons are going to score a ton, but he will get the touchdowns that they score more often than not.

So here it is. Excuse me. It was a tweet from Field Yates. The Bengals have scored a total three offensive touchdowns through their first four games. That's the fewest of any team in the NFL. What is happening? What is happening? DeAndre Swift, he got in the end zone. He had himself an okay game. Alvin Camara is in the, look, if you're in PPR, you are celebrating the return of Alvin Camer because he had 13 receptions. Disgusting. 13 receptions for 33. That's impossible. Hold on, hold on. The fewest receiving yards by a player with 13 plus catches in a game ever. The previous record, Jason, 71 yards. So the previous low on 13 receptions was 71 yards. Kyle, that's such a good one. Oh, yes. And he was at 33 yards. Yeah, he said, watch this. Two and a half yards of reception. Now, we talk about a reception.

is worth what, like two and a half times a carry? Yeah. I mean, two and a half yards per carry would be putrid. That would be like, man, you're getting stuffed every play. How could you possibly only have 33 yards? And we know the answer, and we're going to dunk on Derek Carr in a little bit. Jaliela McLaughlin. Do you not know that name? That's okay. He's a Denver Broncos running back. He's the one. Him and P. Ryan picked up the workload after Giovante left with an injury. We're highlighting the name right now because he was seven for 72, three receptions, 32 yards, and a receiving touchdown. And, I mean, he is, he's undersized, but he has juice. He's also been, um, his name has come out of Peyton's mouth almost every single time that they talk about the running back room.

Sean Payton has brought his name up, and then he performs and his opportunity. I don't think he's going away. Yeah, so he will be, he'll be fun to talk about tomorrow. AJ Brown, 13 targets night for 175 and 2. Foo, brother, dominating. Stefan Diggs. We came through with a hat trick, everybody. Three Tuddies, six for 120 and three. He's a great player. Nico Collins, sever for 168 and 2. He has the wide receiver 7 on the season. And I know Tankdale had a bad game, but saying these Texans are... Stroud. They are destroying the analytics of wide receivers with rookie quarterbacks because Stroud is bawling out. Nico Collins is ascending into looking like he's going to beat a true fantasy force. And he gets the Falcons next week. Yeah, sometimes... Where do you get? Nico Collins, Jason, is the wide receiver.

what moving forward, just off the top of your head. I think he'll probably be in my rankings around wide receiver 16 most weeks. Does he crack top 15? I don't think he cracks top 15. You've still got different ways that it can go. Robert Woods is involved. Tank Dell has been involved. You know, it's going to be difficult. He's their big play guy. But at the same time, it's like sometimes in fantasy football. The managers that succeed the most on the season are the ones that buy in the quickest on something you see. If you can identify some new change and move in quickly, like A-chan, for instance. This was a player that I very much believed in along the way. So when he had his breakout game last week, there was no question he was in my lineup. I wasn't going to say, oh, he's got to prove it again. This is the situation with Strout.

He's legit. Stroud is for real, which means his wide receiving options will be fantasy relevant. You just got to buy in. And don't move away from Take Dell either. Yeah, I agree with that. Puka, 10 targets. I mean, he needed overtime, but 9 for 163 and a touchdown. He has the most receptions through four games to start anyone's career in history. And it was like by nine. So he is. handling that record very, very well. Previous record was 30. He is at 39. That was Bolden. And I mean, he's, I believe, the wide receiver five right now. Yeah, probably. Justin Jefferson, he's great, six for 85 and two. He almost had another one. It was called back on an offensive penalty. Then Kirk Hus is through a 100-yard pick six. And for his troubles of trying to chase down the receiver, Kirk was doing the right thing.

and he got explosive vote. Yeah. He haven't seen the play. It's pretty fun. It's a delight. DJ Moore, nine targets, eight for one, 31 and one. If Justin Fields is going to have a big passing day, it will go through DJ Moore. Michael Wilson mentioned it earlier, but seven targets, seven for 76 and two. That is a Cardinals rookie wide receiver, Michael Wilson. Yeah, oh, yes, thank you. Yeah, people. Who was Michael Wilson? Cardinals, rookie wide receiver, has been pretty good. Was the talk of training camp came out okay? And then they kind of got benched. And now he's back in the starting rotation and looking fantastic. At the tight end position, Cole Comet, seven for 85 and two. He can do this in the right matchup. And then he will be a groundhog for some of the other ones. Yeah, the right matchup is Vance Joseph teams.

I mean, it's true. Like, Lance Joseph over the last several years. When he was the Cardinals, you would just target the tight end against the Cardinals like crazy. His scheme does not guard the tight end at all. Unfortunately next week, that means what, like Conklin? I don't know if you can trust it or not. Mandrews. There we go. Yeah, baby. Five for 80 and two, only five targets. Don't necessarily love that part, but love the output and like to see that he is healthy, ready to go. The second touchdown was, like that was some vintage Mark Andrews stuff. Kyle Pitts, six for 95. No, no, I'm so sorry. That was Jonu Smith. Same team. Wait, wait, wait. You tell me these were Desmond Ritter targets? Yes. So now you start having the conversation. Yep. This, Johnw Smith, really here to reign on everyone's parade that we can just continue to dunk on Arthur Smith, continue to dunk on Desmond Ritter, saying, you have, why can't you get Kyle Pitts involved? Johnu.

is the tight end 10 on the season. Is it a Kyle Pitts problem? I don't know. But more and more, if this continues, he has more. Fantasy players are going to have a problem. He has more receptions. He has more yards. He has more fantasy points. Just about the same targets, one fewer target on the season. All it means is like Kyle Pitts should be on waivers. You're not playing Johnny Smith either, but you're not. touching like don't do matchups don't do anything don't get cute Dalton Schultz he shows up here because he caught a touchdown which was thrown by it was it was not Stroud I can't remember who threw it was a trick play that's that's what it takes to get Dolsholtz a touchdown these days his quarterback is balling out and he still can't get involved Jake Ferguson Fergalicious there it is seven targets seven for 77 oh is Devon Singletary thank you Kyle Jake Ferguson had a

like 77 yards that's a great game and he didn't even get to finish like because the cowboys handled business he he's a legitimate option he's not this isn't it's not going to turn into the doctor's numbers from last year because they're still playing other guys Peyton hendershot is hurt so the schoon man had to step up the ridiculous stanz of the cowboy's tight ends what have we done but ferguson was able to step up while hendershot was out we'll see we'll see how that goes all right Not everyone had a great game. Pooped in his big boy pants. Kirk Cousins had a down game, just 12 of 19 for 139 and 2. He did have the two interceptions as well. They won the game. But they won the game. They got their first game. So just to make sure I'm reading the math correctly, Kirk Cousins, three phenomenal games. Yeah. Three losses. One bad game, one win. Okay, that makes sense.

Also, update, I did see chart talking to Minnesota Vikings fans. So the win, not Kirk Cousins. He was not responsible at all for the win, but he is responsible for all the losses. Tua, yeah, I mean, it wasn't necessarily a bad game, 25 or 35 for 282 in a touchdown. He threw a pick. It was two rushing touchdowns that went eight Chan's way instead of being passing touchdowns from Tua. You're certainly disappointed if you had him in your lineup, but that's going to happen sometimes with this team. Patrick Mahomes, 18 for 30, only 200 yards, a touchdown, two interceptions. And a bad one. Yes. Like usually whenever you see a Patrick Mahomes interception, it's like, oh, he hit the receiver in the hands. Whose fault was that? And the receiver popped it up. This was like a James Winston long ball to the wrong team. What was going on? Which James did get in the game of throwing it. That's right. He came in for one play.

And then threw a pick. Oh, James. Okay, now it's discussion time. Joe Burrow, 20 of 30, 165 yards, three carries for a yard against the Tennessee Titans. One of the top teams that we target with our fantasy quarterbacks because they are a pass funnel. It's difficult to run on them. Historically been very easy to pass on them. And yet, Burrow and Company could not get anything going. Burrell was getting... demolished back there, so I'm not saying it's all Joe Burroughs' fault, but the Bengals, T. Higgins will be out. What do you do with Joe Burrow moving forward? Are we continuing to force him into the lineup? He gets to play Arizona and then Seattle. That could help him get his momentum, get his mojo back. No, no, no, no. You are not putting Joe Burrow in your lineup. You have to wait until he looks healthy.

He is destroying. It's not like, like here's why I kept saying you start Justin Fields. Because when Justin Fields was sucking, he was scoring 15 fantasy points. He wasn't making it to where you couldn't win matchups. Joe Burroughs fantasy points 3.2, 8.2, 4.7 at the quarterback position, you can't have that in your lineup. And that's, now he loses T. Higgins. I know it's a, even if it's a good matchup against Arizona, you have to see that he looks right before you can. Put him in your lineup. It's really bad. And when I say that the Bengals aren't making the playoffs, so you've got two winnable matchups here, then they're by week. Good. Hopefully you get healthy. Coming out of that, you've got the 49ers, you've got the Buffalo Bills, and then two weeks later, the Ravens. I mean, it's, it's going to be tough sledding. I mean, they're already a three-lost team, and they haven't scored 20 points in.

three of their four games. They've scored three points in two of their four games. It's just, it's devastatingly bad. If they were to come out on the road against Arizona and lose, which is absolutely possible. I mean, Arizona at home just beat the Cowboys who handed Bill Belichick his worst loss of his career this week. If this version of Joe Burrow and T. Higgins lists. Bengals comes over and loses, you might see Burroughs shut down for a while. Trevor Lawrence, 23 completed passes, 207 yards, one passing touchdown. He did give you 42 yards on the ground. So QB 15. Certainly could have gone worse, but that is very, very disappointing. So we're talking four total passing touchdowns and four games. That's the problem. I imagine, wait, oh, no, Ridley won't be on this list.

because he did catch a touchdown. But Calvin Ridley, so let's do a Calvin Ridley discussion then because it has been all Christian Kirk, like the past couple weeks here, Calvin Ridley caught the early touchdown. This was like at the very beginning of the game, which did anyone watch any of the Toy Story stuff? I didn't. I meant I wanted to see it. It was novel and it's funny to see adults. On the internet, we're reacting very negatively on a product that's created for small children. Really? Come on, people. So, I mean, the tech is very interesting. It was pretty buggy, but I don't know. You know, it's fine. But the point being, Calvin Ridley, early touchdown, ends the game with two targets. 38 and a touchdown. If you go from week two on.

Um, he's not the target leader. Like you said, it's, it's Christian Kirk. I think it's Evan Ingraham, uh, after that. Like, yeah, Calvin Ridley has not been where you want him to be in the pecking order. Um, I, you know, he's, it's a weird, a little bit banged up. I'm not moving away from him. Maybe that's, maybe that's, that's, that's kind of the big discussion, pig headed and stubborn, but I, he's still talented. Um, 34% target share. 20% 18. Seven. Yeah, this last week was bad. Where we're going, we don't need roads. I do wonder if he was banged up. He got so hurt the week prior multiple times in that games. But, you know, TBD, they've got Buffalo in London this coming week, so it's not a great matchup. All right, here it is. Derek Carr, 23 completed passes for 127 yards. It was impossible to watch. It was.

I don't think you have them all out yet. Yeah, no, at all. There's a lot more. There's 23 farts to get out, 23 of 37. It was infuriating watching the Saints try to play offense. They couldn't do it. Why was Derek Carr in this game? I have to believe this is because of the shoulder is why he played. Totally differently than he's ever played in his career. I'm going to side with yes. But like if that's all you can do is snap the ball and check it down. Snap the ball and check it down. If that's really all you can do, you should not be behind center. It was in fear. So like Chris Olavé, Chris Oliva managers really, really hurt, disappointed. It was a terrible game. And he had no chance. No chance. I mean, Derek Carr would not look down the field. Their car couldn't throw the ball down the field.

Man, does that scare you for like this coming week at New England? Derek Carr's going to be the starter. Is the shoulder just magically healed? 0.4 air yards per completion. 0.4 air yards per completion, the lowest number tracked by next gen stats in over a year. Nice. At the running mac position, Tony Pollard, it was another weird game script. That's kind of the, the. The struggle point for the Dallas Cowboys offensive pieces is that they just beat down the opponent, especially on the defensive side of the football. They're not going to beat down the San Francisco 49ers next week. You're not worried about Tony Pollard. He looks great. It was a disappointing output, but whatever. I don't care. I will say I'm a little concerned about his inefficiencies with the five zone. Week one was great against the Giants.

But then, I mean, the last two weeks, it's only two carries. I mean, you don't get a lot of opportunities inside the five. But both this past week, one carry for negative four yards, the week against Arizona, one for negative two. Their red zone offense is kind of broken right now. So that lowers your scoring opportunity. Remandre Stevenson, don't worry. Both him and Zeke showed up on this list, despite the insider reports that Ezekiel Elliott is going to. Quote, C starter snaps. Yeah. It was nice to see 14 carries for Ramandre only six to Zique. Ramandre is still the guy. This was a very difficult matchup in Dallas on the road. He has another very difficult matchup next week against the New Orleans Saints. And then I will be trading for him. That's how I view Ramonre. I don't mind that. Rahim Mostert. Yeah, two fumbles, seven for nine on the ground. Got to move on from that one. Miles Sanders.

Another, Miles Sanders, he was struggling with the groin injury, and then Chuba out snapped. And we, we were, we had some concern for him during the show because a, look, a groin strain is, it's, it's not nothing. And clearly the Panthers agreed as Chuba was out there. And Chuba looked better. Yeah, I, he's healthy. I would not have wanted to start Miles Sanders after getting downgraded on Thursday. You know, I was telling people to pick up Chuba. Obviously, if he's active, maybe it's difficult to bench him. But I would continue benching him next week. He's going to be on the road against Detroit. That's a bad matchup for running backs. Wait till he gets healthy. James Connor, he could not volume himself into a good game on this one. He looks for 52 against the 49ers. On a per touch basis. Those are great numbers, but Joshua Dobbs was stealing a lot of the production. Jerome Ford, he did have six targets. And it was, I said,

He, man, it's so difficult to gauge, are you happy or not yet by picking up Jerome Ford? Because it was the horrifically bad matchup in his first attempt, which he scored the two touchdowns. And then this, a completely broken offense. He goes into the by week. Watson should be ready to go for the next week. But then in San Francisco, just give Jerome Ford a little bit of time. It is more of a time sure than we were expected. with Pierce Strong getting work and Kareem Hunt as well. At the wide receiver position, Chris Olave, that was a Derek car problem. Jalen Waddle, only four for 46. Debo, this, I know he was hurt and we weren't exactly even sure he was going to play, but no targets, three carries on the ground, six rushing yards. Didn't need him. Yeah, the team did not need him. He was just, he was a distraction out there opening things up. Brandon Ayuk had him.

ton of yardage. He had a great game. So just, I'm moving. Are you making anything out of this? No, not at all. Not at all. He was hurt. They didn't need him at all. Why put the ball in his hands to reaggravate the injury if you don't need him? Amari Cooper. I just chalked that up for Cleveland Browns. But Elijah Moore should be highlighted for his one carry for negative 20 yards. Oh, yes. That play, man. One of the most boneheaded plays that. It's so egregiously bad of him just continuing to run back, thinking he's going to be able to turn the field against NFL defenders. Like this crap, maybe it works in college against a really inferior opponent. But he just kept going backwards. We were like, what are you doing? Elijah, go down. No, I could go back even further. So he had negative 20 yards on that one carry.

I can't believe the team let him didn't bench him for the next play. It was insane. It was like the clock had hit zero and you have no other choice. This is the last play of the game. And the only thing you can do is just not go down. You're going that way, Elijah. Our end zone is that way. Yeah, it's it was spectacular. But again, Dorian Thompson, he's the rookie for the Cleveland Brown. It was just. It was not happening. Mike Evans, he left with an injury, also tougher matchup against Latimore. It happens. Michael Pittman, this one was very disappointing considering, I mean, Anthony Richardson had a fine day. The tight ends did the work, including a gig. Is Gigantor on this list? Come on, guys. How was Gigantor not being highlighted in the studs? You just highlighted them. It was only one catch, but it was a beast catch. Yeah.

How many guys did he run over? How many guys are on the field? Eleven? But anyway, so Michael Pittman, only one for 15. He had a two-point conversion to, you know, wash the skid marks out a little bit. George Pickens, three for 25. It's going to be up and down. Are you excited for Tribisky with him, or how do you gauge that situation? I think it could be an upgrade. I don't think it's going to be a downgrade going from Pickett. But I... It's probably just neutral. I am excited for George Pickens just in general. I think he'll be the number one read and he's talented. This was a bad matchup, a bad game. The Steelers got just dominated. Yes. It was really surprising. Oh, yeah, the hype shirts. Yeah, I know. I totally forgot about that. So if you missed this, Anthony Richardson and Michael Pittman, they had T-shirts. There were matchy T-shirts.