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for the upcoming week. We're going to talk about it probably on today's episode. This is concerning because you started the practice fine, then got injured. Then they say that they're going to get, you know, imaging done, which you don't do that for no reason. It's a scary proposition. Like right now, if you have Nico, you have to make plans to have a different player, pick someone up off the waiver wire, maybe.

elevate booty in your mind or whatever you're going to do. Done. Yeah. Look, this is not our fault. It's the man's name. Andy hasn't really been a booty guy. But lately, especially after the Nico injury, he's really becoming a booty guy. I did sign Xavier Hutchinson in our dynasty league to play. Yeah, it makes sense. Because he was available. So that's something to pay attention to. But you know what sucks is that, you know, isolated hamstring injury? Sure.

This ain't his first rodeo. This ain't his first rodeo with this. I mean, he missed one, two, three, four weeks, five weeks in 20, 24 with a hamstring injury. It's him and Evans are the two that if you talk hammies, I don't like it. It makes me think about how good Jordan Tyson's going to be. Because Nico's awesome. Mike Evans is awesome. There's something about these tall guys who have like,

They run too fast for their hamstring. When they're healthy, they're going to be awesome. Their Achilles heel is their hamstring. Well, it's their hamstring. Yeah, I get it. Ladd-McConkie didn't practice on Wednesday. We'll monitor that. I think that is Friday. Yeah, Wednesday doesn't matter to me on recovering from that injury. I heard about the timeline. They were expecting him to not practice Wednesday to do a little bit Thursday to be full-go Friday. So we'll see if that pans out or not.

I just acquired Mike's least favorite player in the NFL in our league of record. D.K. Metcalf? Yeah. Nice. Just in this moment. You just made a trade? He has the lowest. He had the highest expected fantasy points contrasting with his performance, which might just be what D.K is. But at the same time, what I ended up doing was I traded Dejan Stribling. And a small pick swap. I get it. I get it. To get Metcab. Because Stribling, we just got the word that Stribbling is out.

probably 10 weeks 10 weeks yeah ankle surgery we were hoping i mean i think part of the show yesterday was like hey scribbling and tyson will be out the same amount of time no this is a nightmare this is a my guy that got no chances to be a my guy been there brother yeah what was it was uh blake jarwin week one ACL and sort of jason last year in the capacity where like kiddle just sucked the life out of the beginning of your season but i said it on yesterday's show i

I will forever be a DK Metcalf hater, but the opportunity, if week one is the new trend of this Mike McCarthy offense and how they're going to use DK Metcalf, if he has to be a starter for me on biweeks and things like that or in a flex spot, I can live with it. It was funny. You had 10 targets and these are like he's getting, I mean, he's running a lot of slants, but he's getting big boy A dot shots too. It was funny that you're talking about his expected fantasy points and he was, he had.

far fewer expected fantasy points than what he should have realized. He had fewer real. And then it was like, I was looking at the list. I think it was 19 expected or something like that. Yeah. And then it was like when I looked at all of the players that kind of, you know, there's a great stat to look at is what was their opportunity? And did they fail on that opportunity or not? And it was like, oh, there were some players who really outperformed their opportunities, JSN, Alman Rae St. Brown, Chris Oliva.

Jamir Gibbs. It's all the good players. Go figure. They do more with their opportunities. And then it's like the players who had great opportunity but did less. It was D.K. Metcalfe, Matthew Golden, Malik Washington, Jameson Williams. So it's like, oh. Well, yeah. See a trend. I've got one more thing I want to talk about.

We've got a couple things in the news, and then I have another topic to bring up. But Brock Bowers didn't participate on Wednesday in practice with the knee. Sam Darnold is officially out against the Cardinals. That line keeps changing. It is now three and a half points. Last week when we were, I think it was, was it Monday? I think it was Monday, because I don't think that Monday night football is over. You were talking about.

Yeah, you and I were trying to guess the line. Yeah, and you thought it would be, I think three and a half is what you guessed, but the line was five and a half. Then yesterday it moved to four and a half, and now it is where you guessed it at three and a half. And I think some, I think Arizona's going to win the game. RJ Harvey was listed as DNP on Wednesday.

Pay attention to that. That is, you know, significant. I'll bet Jonah Coleman hit a lot of waivers this week. Yeah, no, that's a good point. And then the last thing I want to talk about is a comment that came up on 95-7 the game. They were interviewing Christian McCaffrey. Here's the quote from Christian McCaffrey. I look at some of the duos last year, like Bijan and Tyler Alger and Gibbs and Monty. It was such a good way to keep people fresh. He's good enough.

to do that. Speaking of Kalen Black and what he can add to the offensive run game in 2026. Interesting. Wow. That would be awful. I don't know if it'll be awful. It'll be a downgrade to the outcome. Yes. Like he won't be, if that was in any way, shape, and form true, the McCaffrey Healthy equals number one overall would change.

Yeah, I mean, you look at him last week. He was great. Six point yards a carry, eight, eight targets. Did you not catch that? What? What is six point yards? Six point what? I thought I said six point eight yards of carry. No, no, no, you just dropped off. I left the eight out. Yeah, he did. Yeah, he did. Yeah, he did. Okay. Well, six point eight yards per rush attempt. Eight targets, five or six. That's effective. Talking. Really, you know, he was, you got dead. You got dead, Andy? Man, way to jump on it.

Um, my point is he was got to hit those. Yeah. He was the running back 22 last week. Like it. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. I just, he'll still be even in a time show then he would if you're like Chris McCaffrey, healthy is number one. If he's in more of a time share and healthy, he's still top three to me. Top three? No. No. Yes. He's like a. Oh, I forgot about Ken Bone Walker. Top four. Oh. Hey, rest of the season rankings. Where do you have Ken Bone Walker right now?

Because I know where I've got him. Way too high. Let me pull it up. He's number three. RB3. Yeah, he's number three. RB three. Right now. He is. He's four. McCaffrey will still be perfectly fine because he'll get a ton of receptions. B. John Gibbs and J.T. Is that who's ahead of him? Yeah, no, I think I would actually. Like, stribling out. Stribling out means more receptions for Chris McCaffrey. Yeah, I mean, that, that team.

Did you see how heavily favored they are this week? Do you know what the line is? I don't. I haven't looked. They're playing the dolphins, Jason. Ooh. Guess the line. Man, okay. At home or on the? Believe it's at home. Okay. Okay. Minus. If you, they, they were, they opened laying, giving the chargers 10 and a half versus the Cardinals. I want to say nine and a half, but based on Andy, it was like, was it like 11? It's got to, it has to be double digits.

13.5. Yeah, yeah. 13 and a half. And unlike the Cardinals, because generally speaking, that's what won't be my almost subset this week. When you see a favor like that, you're like, just take, just give me the points. No. No, I will not be taking the points. Also, worth noting, because you just brought up our rest of season rankings, Andy, where I've got Ken Bone Walker, fourth, you guys have them third. We have those on the site. We have improved them drastically this.

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in the value of the trades because people just want to know is the trade good and that's just not i'd love to say yes or no always but in a dynasty league we say this all the time on the mailbag shows when these questions come in are you trying to win this year are you looking for long term there is a little bit of a tipping of the balance based on how win now versus long term versus youth versus you know all of those equations matter so we're we're putting some upgrades into place

We're keeping startup dynasty rankings updated all in season, not just in the off season. All of that should hit the Foot Clan this week. Just some more perks. I would just say to be safe next week. But soon. Yeah. It's Thursday. Yeah. And for you to say that. Yeah, I'm usually the one pushing the announcement's a little too early. All right. We'll take a break and we'll jump into our starts.

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amazingly and all the respect you've been wanting to throw his way. Since returning from injury last year, in week 11, the quarterback three in fantasy points per game, their monster favorites. Let's go, Brock Purdy. I'm going to go with a guy that you guys have loved a lot more than I have in his career. Jordan Love this week against the New York Jets.

They don't have a very good running game without Josh Jacobs, and they let him throw the ball second and neutral pass rate, sixth and pass rate over expectation. That was against a very good Minnesota defense. I think against the Jets, he will cook. He was top 10 last week. He'll keep throwing the ball and the Jets ain't going to scare me. And I'm going to Dak Prescott versus Washington. Last week wasn't what we wanted, 175 and 2 plus some nasty George Pickens drops. But 18% of his passes.

were 20 or more air yards. That is delightful. C.D. Lamb and George will be better in Washington's defense 31st and EPA per pass attempt last year. And I don't think that they fixed it. Yeah, no signs that they have. My running back start of the week, I'm going Bay Shaw-Tooten. 16 opportunities last week, even though the snaps were pretty, even with CROD, 14 rush attempts. And look, one season or one week a season does not make, but Denver?

You got run-on by Ken Bone Walker in that game. Also, if you listen to the quotes from Liam Cohen, he was waxing poetic on Bayshell Tootin's performance. Yeah, I think it's going to be a pretty good week. I want to give people confidence after kind of a, you know, everyone's looking at the snap counts and crawled on the field. Look, I think Tutin, I still want to see what the goal line looks like. That's the concerning part, but I think the opportunities will be there. The Denver matchup, not scary against the run in week one, so I'm going to chase it.

I like it. You guys remember when Chuba Hubbard was able to be paired with Luther Burton to get Bijon? Yeah. Yeah. That was because he played against Chicago Bears who were 29th and yards per carry allowed, 31st and rush success rate allowed in 30th and yards before contact. Per attempt, I am playing Aaron Jones without Jordan Mason. We just talked about him earlier. He's going to get all the work. He is a good back. His legs are fresh. The matchup is great. Throw him in there. I love it.