Starts of the Week + TRADE BETRAYAL, Week 11 Breakdown - Fantasy Football Podcast for 11/16

the Colts, the Dolphins, the Texans, the Seahawks, and the Texans again. So after this week, I think bright, bright days ahead for the finish line of Derek Henry. What about the finish line for Taj Spears? All of the things that you said about the schedule, if he's out there 50% of the time, isn't that an opportunity for him as well? Yeah, I mean, it's kind of like what we saw with Jalen Warren last year, where you see a guy who's got a lot of juice and he's going to get more and more opportunities. But while he's been on the field, snap-wise, he is more of a decoy. Like, for instance, two weeks ago when Henry was on the field sub-50% of snaps that got the ball 17 times, that same game, Tajay Spears was out there 60% of the snaps, five carries.

It's just a different utilization. So I don't think you can start Taj Spears without a Derek Henry injury. Hopkins. He's very good. Can the quarterback get him the ball? There's a lot of those situations in the league right now. Garrett Wilson is very good. Can the quarterback get him the ball? Yeah, and he can. Zach Wilson has looked okay. He really has. Two touchdowns, I believe. The last several weeks. So here's the problem with Garrett Wilson, Red Zone. Man, when they get in the red zone, that team does not. Have they ever gotten in the red zone? Yeah, they move the ball down the field, no problem. I think I saw a stat where it was like he, whatever his passing yardage has been, it's like 260 passing yards multiple weeks in a row without a passing touchdown. I don't think that's ever happened before in NFL history. He's moving the ball, but they cannot punch it in. They do not have a red zone offense. Yeah, I mean, that is a huge problem.

But Garrett Wilson is fine. He's a good play. Okay. Not in this match. I do think in this matchup, before we move on, Christian Kirk, keep playing him. He's been very consistent. Tennessee gives up a lot of points to the wide receiver position. Christian Kirk seems like a very, very safe play this week. Are you ever going to get to the point with Ridley where he feels like you want to play him? It's going to take... heating up. It's going to take two weeks in a row. Okay. You need some evidence. Yeah. All right. Welcome to starts of the week. Presented by Purina Pro Plan. Well, I'll kick it off. Quarterback. I'm going with... Hold on. Let me find it. Jared Gov. Gerf. Oh, yeah. Jared Garf. I forgot. He's taken on Chicago. Come on. He's at home. Come on.

He's a monster at home. He's averaging 273 passing yards and 2.4 passing touchdowns at home. He may even have one to go around for Jameson Williams in this game. Chicago can't stop the pass, and they have been stopping the run. And I think Justin Fields coming back raises the ceiling potential because if Justin Fields can get a little... I agree. You know, whenever I have an offense in a blowout situation like this, I am begging for that defense to find a way to score two touchdowns. Justin Fields can get two touchdowns. Yeah. There's nothing that could be better than a miraculous fumble recovery for a touchdown by the Bears. Like that will just mean Jared Goff goes bananas. 51 and 61 combined points in their two matchups last year. So I'm excited about Jared Goff. My start of the week at quarterback is Brock Purdy at home against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Purdy was one of the quarterbacks we highlighted yesterday on the playoff primer.

He currently leads the league in passer rating in yards per attempt and expected points per dropback. He's been really, really good and especially been great when Debo is on the field. When he's got the whole supply of weapons, he has been a very good fantasy asset. They are healthy right now. And the wheels are falling off for Tampa Bay. Since week six, they rank 31st and scheduled adjusted fantasy points to quarterbacks, 28th and expected points per passing attempt, with a 26 point. Team implied total San Francisco should roll at home as double-digit favorites. I think Brock Purdy is a great play. Looked really good coming out of the by with all his weapons. Brian Robinson against the New York Football Giants is my start of the week at the running back position. He just won't go away. He's Brian Robinson, but he's the RB4 on the year, and we are in week 11. He gets a ton of opportunities. Last week he was the number one pass catcher for this team, which was crazy.

And they're heavy favorites. So this is a game where you can kind of, look, the Giants are going to throw in the towel at some point, and Brian Robinson will, he'll catch it. And then he will just run, run, run his way to a top 15 performance. Yeah, yeah, I love that play. I'm going with James Connor running back for the Arizona Cardinals on the road in Houston. He returned from IR this last week. He saw immediately 63% of the snaps, 16 opportunities. And the Cardinals Texans, now this game is a game I want everything to do with. I want just about every player that can be had. They are the highest over under of the week. Keep in mind, Kansas City plays Philadelphia this week. It says like, could you imagine thinking that, oh, it'll be the Cardinals Texans as the highest over under, not the Eagles chiefs. But the Texans rank 31st in PFF's team tackling grades.

And they've also allowed the fourth most rushing touchdowns in the NFL. So when they get around the goal line, I think James Connor will get his. Regrettably, I have chosen Brandon Ayyuk is my start of the week at the wide receiver position. I say regrettably because I am facing him in League of Record and know what is coming. I was confused. Through week 10, Iyuk is the clear number one in this offense. We saw some big plays last week back into the end zone. The recipe is quite clear in San Francisco. You give the ball to Debo and you give the ball to Christian McCaffrey, and then you play action and throw it about 30 yards down the field to IUC, and then you just do it over and over again, and you win by a bunch of points. Tampa Bay, you mention it. Right now they're awful. They're giving up a pile of these deep throws. You know, 39 completions of 20 plus yards, which is the Brandon Ayuk zone. That's the fourth most in the NFL. IUC is unfortunately for me, but very fortunately for you, if you have him, set up for success this week.

All right. I've mentioned this player a couple times on today's episode already, and we'll talk about him on the matchup tomorrow. But Tank Dell is my wide receiver start of the week at home against Arizona. I think he is the alpha. Among the Texans pass catchers, Nico Collins is just now coming back off of injury. Robert Woods, Noel Brown, dealing with their own. If you actually take out week one, there's a little cherry picky, but it makes sense. You take out week one, which was his first career game. He played limited snaps. He wasn't a full-time player. And you take out the concussion game in week five, where he had 36% of snaps. He is averaging 15.6 fantasy points per game. 8.3 targets, 77 receiving yards per game. For a rookie, that per game average would be top five since 2014 behind only O'Dell Beckham, Justin Jefferson, Puka, and Jamar Chase. He earns targets, and the Cardinals are good at giving them up. They're like, hey.

We're going to make it easy for you to get a target. 37% of opponent pass attempts result in a first down. That's 31st in the NFL. There's a reason this game is the highest over-under. I went and looked at my best ball, like underdog best ball mania situations. Yeah, yeah. Which I don't have, I mean, you have a billion. Not the best ball mania, but I've got a billion. I've got one lineup in best ball media. But I do have a first place best ball man. Which is great. But I take, though. Well, no, I have C.J. Stroud though. And I went and looked at that and I was like, oh, man, like who would have thought like drafting this rookie late would have paid off as much as it had? But he has gotten it done. My tight-in start of the week, I'm going back to him. Dalton Kincaid against the Jets. He's been on fire.

He has heavily involved in the offense. He's involved down the field. He's been the tight-in three in the last four games since the departure of Dawson Knox, which we saw this coming, or at least saw the potential of it. But to see it executed with a rookie, you love to see it. You know, Savon Diggs had his worst game of the year last year and, you know, the panic in the streets of Buffalo. I don't know how much of that was related to the fact that he was very limited in practice and had the back injury. maybe that's just coincidence. I don't know how angry he was. He didn't get more targets. But right now, Dalton Kincaid is a fundamentally sound part of this offense. And that's what you love to see. And it's hard. You know, if you go away from the top in tight ends to find the start of the week, this is the one that you're looking at where the jets are a really good defense, but I think Kincaid will get it done. Yeah, and I've got Sam Leporta stacking up with your quarterback at home. That is the rookie tight end for the Detroit Lions.

The lines of the second highest team implied total of the week. Leporta at home is averaging 15.3 fantasy points per game. Eight targets, six for 63 and one on average. And the bears are bad against tight end. They rank 25th and schedule adjusted fantasy points to tight ends. Sam Leporta should be a great play this week. All right. Thanks again to our sponsor, Purina. Pro plan sport. Pro plan sport provides fine-tune nutrition for strength and stamina that enables dogs and owners to take on life's adventures together. Pro-plan sport, high-performance fuel for active dogs. It all starts here. Jason Moore's Ironclad, locked and loaded, 100% guaranteed boom-boom-boom kicker of the week. Last week on Boom Boom Kicker, I Roundhouse farted the number one kicker of the week, and he dropped dead in prison.

He's a really dark. Escapeed from Alcatraz. I vanished with a little pizzazz as I set course for Shanghai. I commandeered a cockpit. This was rude, I'd do admit. But the ultimate cannonball for the commander's Joey Sly. See, I pushed him out. No, I, sure. Of the plane. I hope he cannonballed. That's how I want to hit the ground if I ever. Have to jump out of plane without a shoot. We left some mysterious to his demise, like whether he could have survived it. I mean, Cannonball is probably the safest method. Okay. So, good. Joey Slot. Good luck, Joey. Last year was, last week was Jason, Jason Myers. Was that right? Yes, it was. Okay. I think he did all right, didn't he? He was the number one? All right. We are. How are you feeling? Was this episode cathartic? Are you feeling more forgiveness in your heart? I think what I.

Forgiveness is not the word. That'll come in time. I mean, the choice I brought it up this morning is spending my life in prison for murder or forgiveness. And I will choose forgiveness in that situation. But I just want people to understand that they cut me out of the offer I made. They cut me right out. That's all. In fairness, they did say that you came up with a great offer. It is patronizing and, uh, Makes it worse. Makes it way worse. Oh, Josh was digging his own grave yesterday. It was a friendship betrayal. It really was because it made it, you know, it's like the show Survivor where you think you're friends with people and you're not. They talk to me for an hour. They talked to me for an hour like a friend. And then instead of ever being a friend at the end of it, they just said, we're going to cut you out and do this in secret.

It was a friendship thing. It's not, it's going to last a long time. Yes. Yes. It's going to last a really, it's going to last a really long time. Remember this when trying to make deals with them to remember what scoundrels are. Don't even make deals with them. At least one. Hold on to your hatred. I probably will hold. I will probably hold it against Josh in all leagues I play with him for a really long time. Two seasons? Multiple leagues. Yeah, no, no, no, no. But multiple leagues. two seasons now see the problem is is i now think you are self-seeking because you do not want me to get deals done i overplayed my hand yes yes ballers discord dot com go check out the conversation over there the foot clan hanging out chatting tomorrow we got matchups fantasy face off we'll see if i'm one day closer to forgiveness also we should let people know in there like what it was some absurd thing you chose to do

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