Starts of the Week + Week 7 Breakdown, Cereal Killer - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/22

So much. Dalton Schultz is in play here. I saw enough volume. He's, he's, he's running enough routes that in this tight end landscape, you still should play Schultz as like a, as a top 10 guy. All right. Now, do we have an update on Zach Martin, all world guard for the Cowboys? I've been trying to find something. I know you're the Cowboys fan. Have you seen an update? No, just that he's questionable. Very, yeah, just uncertain for the game.

Yeah, he's still in the protocol. That offensive line that was once the complete strength of the team is looking rough. If Zach Martin is out, that to me makes a big difference. I think if he was there with these weapons, I'm not as anti- Andy Dalton as you are, Andy, but if Zach Martin is out, then I'm right there with you. I have the gross question for you, Andy. All right, I'm prepared because on the other side, look, Terry McLaurin.

He gave a little bit away here. Terry McLarnies, your star to the week. McKissick and Gibson continue to be featured in the passing game. Smooch's? Smooch's, J.D. McKissick. Kyle Allen or Andy Dalton. I don't feel good. You have to pick one. I'm nauseated. It's Kyle Allen, isn't it? It's Kyle Allen. Yes, it is. He was the first player I wrote in to my taking it up to 100. I'm telling you right now.

Let me speak to Kyle real quick. Mr. Allen, do you want to win this week? Do you want to be perceived as a successful NFL quarterback? Yeah. That's his voice, by the way. I'm glad to have you on the line, live with Kyle Allen. I'm glad to be here. Here's what you do. You throw the ball on every single play. You do two things. You throw the ball to Terry McLaren. All right. You target him. Or you...

You freak out in the pocket and you dump the ball up to Antonio Gibson. Oh. You don't do anything else. Nothing else. This is called the Drew Brees plan. This is Michael Thomas and Alvin Camara. You do it with Terry McLaren. You do with Antonio Gibson. And you will be fine. All right, man. Thank you. Good talking to you. Glad we had a direct line of communication there. The sound quality was pretty decent on that phone call, too. Yeah. I don't know where his accent came from. I'm not sure of his...

Birthplace. It's from some place in between childhood and adulthood. I mean, puberty land? I don't know. Logan Thomas? Probably not. No. I mean, he's got enough metrics on the, you know, the air yards, the targets, the routes run. But it hasn't been great for him outside of his touchdown games. And I would look elsewhere. I would rather have Dalton Schultz on the other side of the field than Logan Thomas. And that's.

as deep as you need to go at tight end. Yeah. Starts of the week. All right. Starts of the week for week seven. Very excited to bring them to you. Matt Ryan is my start of the week at the quarterback position taking on Detroit. I'm going to chase those Matt Ryan points this week. Both of the quarterbacks in this game are a great start. Highest over under of the week. He's a different quarterback with Julio. He was the seventh, sixth, and second quarterback with Julio active.

that's all there is to it. Matt Ryan, start of the week. Absolutely. My start of the week at quarterback is Matt Ryan. That is who I would love to start. But if you can't have Matt Ryan, we talked about Ben Rothlisberger earlier. He hasn't had to do much with easy wins over the Giants, the Texans, the Eagles, and the Browns. But this is an undefeated Tennessee favored team. He will have to throw. He's got Deontje Johnson back, MapleTron out there, and Juju could still catch two touchdowns. So I think Ben Rothosberger has a good game.

My start of the week at the quarterback is actually Matt Ryan because I picked him up in our league of record to play him over Cam Newton. But my start of the week for the fantasy footballers, it's Gardner Minshew. The chargers are giving up the third most points per game to the quarterback position. They're allowing 273 passing yards a game. Meanwhile, Gardner is averaging 280. He's...

We've highlighted kind of a lot of streaming options this week, but Gardner is, he's in the mix for me as well. Can I put you on the spot here, Mike? Yes, please do. You did that with Dalton and Kyle Allen. Would you play Herbert over Gardner in this same game? I, man, that one's very close. I would, I'd go with Herbert. I think the upside is more on his shoulders. All right. My running back start of the week is from that game. It's Justin Jackson. He has a.

He's looked like the better of these running backs. Saw 59% of the snaps compared to Josh Kelly's 35%. Once Austin Echler left, 21 opportunities in his first game without Echler, and Jacksonville's 28th against opposing fantasy running backs. Healthy over-under in this game. I love Justin Jackson. And he is a really good DFS play this week, too. I like it. My start of the week at running back is Todd Gurley in the Atlanta, Detroit.

matchup. He's being more involved in the receiving game. The volume has been there for Gurley. It has felt a little bit like it's a matter of his touchdown probability. If he gets touchdown, it's going to be a great game. Well, this is a game that says he has a great odds of getting a touchdown. You've got the Lions as the opponent. That ups your touchdown probability. You have the highest over under of the week. That's going to up your touchdown probability. They are favored at home by Vegas.

Those things up the touchdown probability. I think he gets in the end zone. Our running back starts the week, Jason. It's like when the action stars of yesterday year, all reform, the expendables. There you go. You got talk early. I'm going with David Johnson, man, from the Houston Texans against Green Bay. Maybe. Maybe. He gets to take on the Packers who are allowing, in fact, the most fantasy points to the running back position. They have gotten back on track in the AB.

The after Bob years for the Houston, Texas. 30 plus. 3A.B. Is that this game? Yes. Look, 30 plus points each of the past two weeks. And in those weeks, 21 David Johnson opportunities. He's still averaging 10 yards per reception. He can get it done there. I'm with DJ this week. All right. Wide receiver start of the week. TMC. Terry McLorn. Terry McClorn against Dallas.

Oh my goodness. He's got a couple weeks in a row outside the top 24 at the wide receiver position. Dallas has submitted paperwork in order to change that. A couple big plays here from TMC in this game. Dallas 30th against opposing fantasy wide receivers. Targets are insane on the year for Terry McLaren. Kyle Allen will get him the football and we are going to see a big play touchdown. All right. I'm Terry McLaren in this game. Book it.

That's great news. At wide receiver, my start of the week is DJ Chark. He is back on the field. He should be getting healthier and healthier. 14 targets last week. He didn't come through with this great fantasy game, but you've got Gardner as your start of the week. I think a big reason why he's going to be DJ Chark this week. I have really thought about trading for him. Yeah. Sure.

He looks to be the clear number one after last week. And the Chargers, I mean, they've lost Derwin James, Melvin Ingraham, Chris Harris Jr. This is a beat-up defense that I think Chark can exploit. Chark has been a wild ride this year because you had it start out where the targets weren't there, gets hurt, comes back, puts up a huge game, gets hurt again, and then he gets this tremendous volume of last week. So.

Yeah, I'm with, I agree with Andy. By low. DJ Chark was on my guy this year. I've believed in him. It's been a really rocky start. But there's still a lot of football left, and I think you should go get DJ Chark. My wide receiver started the week. I already alluded to it, but T. Higgins is a must start wide receiver from here on out. Since the week three breakout, he is averaging eight targets a game, five for 76.

uh is his average the browns only have one game of shutting down the wide receiver position they are allowing the fourth most points to the position it's i think higgins is a great play i think boyd is in play to in and the corpse of a j green i think is you could do worse which is saying something t j hawkinson against atlanta is my tight-in start of the week no team is more benevolent to the tight-in position than atlanta

They've given up top 10 weeks to opposing tight ends, not named Ian Thomas, each and every week this year, ranked dead last against tight ends. Oh, Ian Thomas. You got four to five targets from T.J. Hawkinson, maybe no Marvin Jones raising that ceiling. Three touchdowns on the year, meaning he can, you know, he's not dropping them all this year. Huge over under, love Hoculies this week.

Sure, I'm going with Hunter Henry against the Jacksonville Jaguars. Last time we saw him before the buy, he was a tight end 10. Jacksonville was ranked 27th against the position. I think he's a solid bet for double digit fantasy points, which is, oh, that is glorious. When you're outside of those top, you know, three or four tight ends on the week, Hunter Henry should be good to go. Now, do we, with the way that we pronounce Justin Herbert's name.

of Justin Herbert. Is this unter-in-ri? That's where I was going, so I'm glad you tracked. Unter-in-ri? I feel like he just became a Viking instantaneously. Unter. Unter. Come forth, Ant-Fetch the meat, Unter. Fetch the meat. Unter, come forth, except your start of the week. I don't know, man. My time has started the week. Austin Hooper, 50-plus yards each of the past two weeks, five receptions and three straight games.

Austin Hooper is getting more and more involved. The matchup is great. Cincinnati's giving up the six most points to the tight end position. How generous is the Cincinnati Bengals defense to the tight ends? Zach Ertz had 70 yards against them. Zach Ertz, I can't do anything all year except against the Cincinnati Bengals. Austin Hooper is in play. We did it. We got through the starts of the week, but we aren't done yet.

Jason Moores, ironclad, locked and loaded, 100% guaranteed boom, boom kicker of the wig. With the goggles on by, I just don't even know how to be, but I guess I'll pick someone else and go with the Packers, Mason Crosby. You did it again. Oh, 100. Unbelievable. Thank you. B and B. Yeah, B. And B. I mean, there's no other words that rhyme. Oh, man.

I wonder if I will have published works in the future. Like will people study these rhymes, probably. Can we need like a bathroom book? Yes. Of that's just Jason Moore's kicker rhyme. It should just be a book of poetry. Can we compile all of them all time? Somebody out there is going to do that. I'm sorry to that person for having to spend that time. All right. We want to thank pristine auction.

DJ Chark signed jersey, 50 bucks. Oh, nice. Yesterday, a DJ Chark signed jersey for $50. It's called Buying Lou. Right before the breakout. That's impressive. All right, pristine auction.com. If you want to check out there, hundreds of daily sports memorabilia auctions, honestly, I've been checking out there back to the future auctions. That's true. Because I like Back to the Future, and I like that memorabilia game.

And they got a lot of stuff on there. So, pristine auction.com, use the code ballers. That'll do it for us. We'll be back with more matchups tomorrow. See how much cereal I can eat tonight. Well, good luck with that. Have fun watching the game tonight. We'll see you tomorrow. Goodbye. Thank you for listening to another episode of the Fantasy Footballers podcast. Join our fantasy football community on join thefoot.com. And follow us on Twitter at the FF ballers.

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