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They're so hurt at the wide receiver position. Yeah. And he's so capable in the passing game. Head coach Adam Gaze has talked about using him in the as a lined up white out tonight. Yeah. Mr. Butthole says a lot of things. Oh, but maybe he's wiped. Maybe he is. Oh, come on. Maybe Adam Gase has wiped and he is willing to use King and Drake as the weapon that he is. And here's the thing. When did Adam Gase?

wipe away the gays last year and use Kenyon Drake. When was it? Because he was a dominant guy when there was no running back. When there was no other option. No, no, no, no. When there was no running backs left. But I'll take it. Frank Gore is infinite and he is around. I'll take the narrative. He is infinite. He is all. He is Gore. Fantasy forecast. If you do love the Drake and you want to play him tonight, put him in your running back spot. Yeah. It's Thursday. So give yourself flexibility.

A lot of players tonight that are that flex type of guy Will Fuller. We'll talk about him in a little bit. Get him into the wide receiver. We're not going to talk about it. We talked about him yesterday. Oh, we will. Oh, we are. Really? Yes, sir. Oh, my goodness. Foreshadow. Teams returning from the by, Packers, Raiders, Seahawks, teams on by, Falcons, Cowboys, Chargers, Titans. If you play any of those players, expect lower production.

The three and four eagles take on the three and four jags. The jags are three-point underdogs at home against Philadelphia. Sort of at home. Correct. This is a London game. It's their home away from home. If they were actually at home. You sound like you're from London. Thanks. That was really nice. Brooks, can we end the show? Can you wrap it up? 42.5.5.0. Under London game.

Don't make the mistake of forgetting about this and then waking up two hours after the game started. And Melvin Gordon's in your roster. Yeah, you know. Well, if Melvin Gordon's in your roster this week. Yes. But if he was in your lineup last week and you woke up too late, you went, wait, what happened? Thankfully, I don't think there are any in this game. It always stinks when Monday nights or London games have injured.

Guys, because you just don't know what to do and there's all the time tricks you have to play. Here, I don't think there's anybody we're really, really worried about. Nobody's right now. Desperate to play Darren Sprouls. Yeah, I mean, something could happen later in the week. So what will the Carlos Hyde, T.J. Yeldon split look in this game. Carlos Hyde will make his debut, no Lenn or Fernette. Look. Can you play Hyde and would you prefer him over Yeldon?

I don't want to play either of these guys. First of all, it's a bad matchup. The Eagles are great against the run. You don't know the situation for sure. It's only narratives and guesswork to say who's going to be the guy. In my opinion, I think Carlos Hyde will get more work than T.J. Yeldin, at least on the ground, because I think that the Jaguars are disappointed with what they have without Fournette. Obviously, that's why they went out and got Hyde. But since we don't know,

I'm not starting either of these guys. It's just it's a poor matchup and either one could end up with five touches total. I agree. I'm avoiding them. But if I'm projecting it out, I see Carlos Hyde Moore as a Leonard Fournette light in T.J. Alden, he'll get passing down work. He'll get passing down work and maybe eight carries on the ground. The Eagles cornerbacks have allowed the second most fantasy points to outside wide receivers.

However, every time we ask whether you can start at Jaguars Whiteout, we have answered differently at different points this season. For a while, it was Cole. For a while, it was Westbrook, for a while, now people are leaning Moncrief. With Blake Bortle's back behind center and this team having just scored, this is incredible, Rich Rebar, they've scored on four of 35 possessions in the last three weeks. That is the lowest rate in the league. They are struggling on offense. They are underdogs in this game.

Are you steering clear of basically any other offensive piece on this lineup? I am. If you want to play the game of three card Monty with the wide receivers, go ahead. Be my guess. Yeah, be my guess. But I'm guessing that the actual card is up someone's sleeve and you're just going to feel really bad by the end of the game. On the Philadelphia side, we have had the torment that is the running back by committee, Corey Clement, Wendell Smallwood, and last week Josh Adams as well.

How are you feeling about that? They're going up against obviously a very stout defensive front, Clayys Campbell and company with Jacksonville. I'm just not excited to put them in my line. I have to decide between Corey Clement and Carlos Hyde in my dynasty half-point league. Right now, Hyde's in my lineup, but I'm not comfortable with you either. Right now, I would be playing Corey.

Clement because Wendell Smallwood is banged up. He's missing practice. Monitor that situation, of course. But yeah, that makes a huge difference. You could end up Sunday morning that it's just Corey and it's Josh Adams. And that changes things because you go back to the first game without JJ. Both small, Clement, Clement had the better production because he had the touchdown. But both him and Wendell Smallwood were sharing carries. There's at least an opportunity for.

for those guys. If it's not three running backs, otherwise, if it is the three, I guess you start Corey of the three. Jaylon Richard or Corey Clement this week? Jalen Richard. Richard. Against Indianapolis. Yeah, I think he'll be used in the passing game. Yeah, the Raiders are going to be catching up. How do you feel about wins? He's the...

Right now he's our QB 16 on the week. Yeah, I was going to say he's not a, he's not a QB1 this week and a bad matchup across the world against Jacksonville. But he's Carson Wins. I mean, he is a star. Birth certificate says so. First certificate ensures that he is Carson Wins. No, but he's a superstar. And he has gotten it done against tough matchups. I have a situation where in our dynasty league, I'm playing against you, Andy. I'm starting Carson Wins over.

Blake Borrell's, Matt Ryan is on by, and so I'm forced into the situation. But I don't think, you know, I don't see this as, oh, no, there's no chance that he has a good game. So I'm okay rolling him out there. But there are, you know, I would much rather, if I had Andy Dalton available to me, someone dropped them because of his poor week. There's no doubt that I would play Andy Dalton. I'm going to go Pat Mahomes against you. Yes, you are. Producer extraordinaire Brooks has updated me.

There was an update on one, no smallwood status. He missed practice for personal reasons. So this was not injury related. Okay. So now back in them. Expect him back. And it's now back in the murky, but you gave me a little bit of hope. I apologize. You've stolen it away from me. All right. Let's talk about the four and three Ravens taking on the four and two Panthers. Panthers two point underdogs? Is this accurate? Home dogs against the Ravens? Against the Ravens? That makes sense to me.

I would expect this to be more of a pick-um line like Panthers minus one. I mean, the Panthers just went on the road and defeated Philadelphia. They're at home. I'm very surprised. I wonder if this is due to some of that report, the reports about the shoulder of Cam Newton and to monitor him in practice. I do not find that line to be what I expect. Man.

So let's talk about some of the storylines in this game. This is projected to be a more low-scoring affair. We know about the Ravens defense. This game's in Carolina. It's a 44 point over-under. Baltimore is allowing 2.3 red zone possessions per game. That's crazy. Carolina is allowing 2.5 per game. That's four red zone, you know, four red zone. It's got to be a boring game. Possessions. So.

Your guy, basically what that means for fantasy is your guy has to be the one to get the score. You will have less. Yeah, you'll have less opportunities. So can Cam survive in this game, Jason? You pump the brakes on him. Then we get some news that he's sore. He made all the throws in practice, but he's sore. Yeah, I mean, he can survive because he could very well be the goal line back that gets the touchdown. So, you know, again, he's very similar to Wince to me. And they're near each other in my rankings that I would,

There's a lot of guys I would rather play over Cam this week, but if you have to roll out Cam, he can always get it done. I don't expect a lot from this game. I don't like Funchus. I don't like John Brown this week, a guy that, you know, was my start of the week last week. I'm not a big fan of, you know, Michael Crabtree. I just don't think there's a lot of assets here that are going to work out well. If you've got Alex Collins, he'll get enough volume. You know, he's...

really been the guy. He's not been doing much with it. And this is not a good matchup. But, you know, the Ravens, they've only given up one quarterback one performance. That was to Andy Dalton when he was able to throw four touchdowns. I think Cam is safer because that's not his bread and brother when it comes to fantasy points. Let's talk real quick about Greg Olson. He's seeing nearly basically 100% of the snaps. He's back to Greg Olson.

where he's an Ironman and never leaves the field. 30-plus routes run in each of the last two weeks. That's the only area where the Ravens... Yeah, it's the only area where the Ravens defense is not ranked in the top five. Yeah. You know, they're top five against quarterbacks, running backs, and wideouts in terms of fantasy points allowed. You know, that's just a matter of something, you know, you got to give up points somewhere.

We don't really have him in that top 12 this week. There's just not a lot of confidence because of that factor. Low scoring game, right? I mean, limited opportunities, lack of confidence in Cam Newton in this matchup. There's so many other options that I think I'd feel better with. Higher upside. This is a game I am trying to avoid for the most part. I wonder if my favorite player here is Greg Olson, who is currently not, I don't believe he is in my top.

eight at tight end. So I'm not that excited. I would look for other games to be a part of. John Brown, another big week last week. Yeah. Would you play in this week? I would. I'm still fine. John Brown or Philip Lindsay asking for a friend. Lindsay. Yeah. Lindsay's got the backfield to himself. I know that answer already. Yeah. Lindsay takes on Kansas City without Royce Freeman. My only concern there is they end up getting absolutely boat raced and

It becomes all Devante Booker. Yeah. Last week, though. Last week we saw a changeover in that department quite a bit. We saw Lindsay out there for all three snaps after the Royce Freeman injury in a lot of third down circumstances. Right. When they were crushing the Arizona Cardinals. I'm talking about if the game script flips and all they're doing is throw. I'm just saying it's an actual concern to think about. Yeah, I agree. It's not Lindsay's locked in that situation. He's not going to have it to himself.

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