Starts of the Week, Wk 8 Matchups, The Next Generation

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But let's talk about your guy's opinion on Isaiah Crowell. What is he rest of season? Volume. What is he in this matchup? Pert Plus. Who's the volume shampoo? I don't know. Hair is more your department, Mike. So I don't think we're going to be able to jump in. I'm sticking with pert plus. Okay. Yeah, Isaiah Crowell is running back to the rest of the season. But he's still, he has been banged up.

And you have to keep that in mind with him. He's definitely going to play, but he is limited, and this is not a great matchup for him. So this week, I'm not super high on Isaiah Crowell, but look, if you've been playing him this year, you've been pretty happy with the results. Blow Powell out of the way, Elijah McGuire not back yet, so the volume will be there. He's going to be similar to a Lamar Miller that you've seen this year where, hey, he's getting the work.

It's not always exciting, but you could do so much worse than having to start Isaiah Crowell. So, you know, I think every week he's going to be in your lineup. The one area that both of these defenses have struggled is fantasy points allowed to the wide receiver position. The Jets 29th in the league giving up 36 and a half a game. The Bears are actually 26 in the league, giving up 34 and just under 35 a game.

Where's your excitement level? You know, Alan Robinson, a very disappointing week last week. He's dealing with a groin injury. Where are you distributing your shares here in this game at the wide receiver position? It's not the wide receiver position. I think Trey Burton is the person that gets the biggest bump up from Alan Robinson being a little bit hobbled. I see him as the number two target here. And, you know, the matchup is not terrible.

So I, you know, and I think we've also seen the connection start to grow in this scheme with Trey Burton. So, you know, he got off to a slow start, but in reality, he's been very solid this year and was great this last week. I think that's the primary beneficiary. Mike, you agree? Yeah, I would lean that way as well. But if we got to speak strictly to the wide receivers.

If I'm playing anyone from the Jets, it's just Robbie. I'm going for the big play. I'm not looking for any volume, hoping that curse who has a bad cornerback matchup or anyone can come through. If you're going with the Jets wide receiver, it's touchdown or bust. And then over on the bear's side. I will say this. Robbie Anderson might not even play this week. Yeah, he didn't practice on Wednesday. He's got an ankle injury. You could actually, you could see Richard Matthews forced into action alongside Jermaine Curse.

Fair point. So I'm avoiding the Jets. The Bears wide receivers, they feel like it feels like Jacksonville where you're just guessing because it should be Alan Robinson, but he's dealing with a groin. He was very disappointed this past week. Anthony Miller is interesting because the Jets are giving up over 28 fantasy points per game to slot wide receivers.

But then there's the big play of Taylor Gabriel. So that's where I'm just, there's no surefire start from the Bears, even though they're putting tons of points. Yes, this week. On a traditional week, Alan Robinson is the.

is the better. Yes, absolutely. And I would just throw in the fact that this is a Kenyon Drake type of situation where when your primary wide receiver is injured and, you know, there's no other dominant force here. Tariq Cohen has been more and more involved in the passing game. He gets a bump up if Alan Robinson is hobbled just like Trey Burton. Yeah, Cohen's a must play. You're seeing Matt Nagy implement, look, Trey Burton, he's that Travis Kelsey roll. Tareke Cohen?

He's Tyreek Hill roll. Right. That's the utilization, the ingenuity that you see from that offense is using players to their strengths. That's why Mitch Trubisky has been competent. And even more than that, you know, exceeding expectations in terms of fantasy production. You're playing Jordan Howard, but what are your expectations for him? I'm not playing I'm guaranteed. Ooh. Why would I? If I had Philip Lindsay, I'd be playing Philip Lindsay.

Okay. Jason, where are you at with Jordan Howard? He has not earned an every week guarantee on my team. He's not earned an every week guarantee, but I'm still fine starting Jordan Howard. He's gotten the touchdowns. He had a second touchdown, you know, almost this last week that was called back. He hasn't, I mean, he's still getting the work and he himself is talented. This is not a team that terrifies me. They're completely middle of the pack against running backs.

They're at home. They're favored by more than a touchdown. This is a week I feel like you can absolutely start Jordan Howard. He's the 32nd ranked running back right now. Yeah, he's been disappointing. 14-9, 17, 3, 612. No 100-yard games. John Brown or Jordan Howard in your flex? I would go Jordan Howard. Brown. Yeah, me too. Three and three Buccaneers take on the four and three. Yeah, here we go.

Juice. 54 point over under. The Bengals are four and a half point favorites at home. I'm really quite all in on the Bengals this week. Not that that's always paid off historically, but at home. Not in prime time. Not in prime time. The bucks are working on the triple crown of being dead last in the league in terms of fantasy points allowed to both.

to the quarterbacks, the wide receivers, and the tight-in position. They're so close. You can do it. Tampa, you can do it. So, look, you're starting Dalton. You're starting mixing. You start green. You're starting boy. Yes. You can start Uzama inside your top 12. Yes. The Buccaneers just, it's free points for the tight-in position. So then we expect Andy Dalton to get back on track.

Oh, 100%. I'm not afraid of Andy Dalton this week going home out of pride time against the Buccaneers. You can't overreact to bad weeks. And then there's certain players where you know that you're going to have bad weeks. Andy Dalton is one of those. And last week was very unfortunate. The amount of times, I mean, last year going into the season.

Andy Dalton was one of fantasy, not just this show, but a lot of people, one of their favorite late round quarterback picks. The early season schedule looked great, and he was beyond bad. That week one, I think he threw like four interceptions, had negative points, was atrocious. And so everyone left him for dead last season. The second half of last year was great. So you've got to be able to put your blinders on when it comes to the red rifle. Do you believe that...

This could be a trap game for some of the offensive pieces on Tampa. You know, right now the Bengals by the metrics are not great on defense. Yeah, they've been allowing a lot of points. Peyton Barber, very likely to miss this game. Ronald Jones has gotten all the work in practice but done nothing with it and, you know, done nothing with the work he's had in actual games. Where are you with Ronald Jones? I think you can play him. Yeah, I do too. I think you can play him as a running back too.

I see him more as a running back three with maybe the upside. I'm not confident. Ronald Jones versus Jordan Howard. That's a great question. Ronald Jones versus Jordan Howard. I would play Ronald Jones. I'm going to still be a Jordan Howard starter. Okay. So you expect a big workload for Robert? For Ronald Jones. Yeah. And the over under is juicy. The Bengals ranks 28 against fantasy running backs.

I'm chasing the matchup if I have to choose between Howard and Jones. Are you comfortable with anyone on the Tampa offense outside of Evans in terms of the whiteouts? Yeah, I'll play Deshaun Jackson. He's been perfectly fine. I know he had the dud this past week against Cleveland, but two weeks ago, it was four for 77. Three weeks ago, it was five for 112. He's.

He still boom bust Deshawn Jackson. We were hoping that with Ryan, what he was showing with Ryan Fitzpatrick, maybe we were over that. But then you watched the game and James Winston, look, James Winston at least changed it up this past week. Because we saw him overthrow D. Jacks, but then we saw him underthrow. Oh. Deshawn Jackson. That was a new one. It was. It was new. So maybe we're going to find Goldilocks. And he'll go.

I don't want to over or underthrow him. Perhaps I will throw the ball directly to him. Comfortable with James Winston, Jason? Yeah, I am comfortable with James Winston. I think he's a good play this week. I actually really like O.J. Howard as well. O.J. has been great. And we talked about this back in the Ryan Fitzpatrick days, if you can remember back, if you're old enough to remember those days. We talked about how Ryan Fitzpatrick was great for the wide receivers, bad for the tight ends. James.

Always, you know, we've got a large enough sample size to know that he really utilizes tight ends in the middle of the field and is not quite as great. So I think O.J. Howard is, I think we're really seeing him in the middle of a true breakout. I think by the end of this year, like coming into next year, I think Jordan Howard's going to be seen as like a top five locked guy. He'll be in like the fifth, six round.

For those disappointed in Tyler Boyd last week, a reminder, he runs 70% of his routes in the slot position. The bucks are absolutely atrocious in defending the slot receiver. Some might say the worst. The worst. They are, look, I was trying to be nice. I was trying to be nice. 30 second best. Yeah. They were the 30 second best. In fairness, that's against the slot. They're also bad on the outside. Right. Inside, outside, upside, inside, downside, inside, downside.

The good news is Gerald McCoy probably won't play. Oh, the three and three Seahawks take on the three and three lines. Lions are three point home favorites, 49 and a half point under, and this is. Andy's almost upset of the week. Really? I'd like to see the Lions get on track, but coming off the by week, I think Seattle takes care of it in Detroit. Russell Wilson, back from the bike, Chris Carson.

Mike Davis, Rashad Penny. Let's start there. Yes. Is Chris Carson still the starting running back for this team? Yes. And he is healthier now. That's how I'm projecting. Thanks to the bye week. So I think you can start Chris Carson. How do you feel about Doug Baldwin? He gets a week off, which I think is important, right? He had an okay game. But are we expecting a return to glory for him? Yeah, I moved him up higher than the normal consensus ranking.

Doug Baldwin is going to get back on track. He's the healthiest that he's been the whole year, and that was really what was ailing him to the beginning, the beginning of the season. I like Doug Baldwin in this matchup. The Detroit Lions are not, you know, I don't think that they're going to have anybody shut him down. Well, he should avoid sleigh for the most part because of the slot corner.

Slot wide receiver. Right. And, you know, Slay might be doing the Tyler Lockett dance, which is going to make Baldwin all the more important. Being on the road as well, you know, the Detroit defense will play better at home. So I think Doug Baldwin is a fine play. And people will be scared to play him because he's, so far he's been absent. He's hurt you once, helped you once. Second halfs, man. Russell Wilson and Doug Baldwin, are we expecting a post-by, you know,

upgrades to both players? Yeah, yeah, I think so. Health. Health is really going to help him out. Right now, Russell Wilson has been obviously really disappointing on the season. Not enough pass attempts, not enough opportunities. So that's kind of the scary part about playing him. He's on the road here. He faces Matthew Stafford. Matthew Stafford's thrown at least two touchdowns in five consecutive games.

But he's thrown for less than 218 yards in two consecutive games. What is the kind of growth of the running back production, Carry on Johnson, done to Matthew Stafford? Is that the direct reason why or just some bad luck? Had the touchdown called back last week? Yeah, just a couple off games. Yeah, exactly. Kenny Gallaudet. It was so smooth, had a touchdown. Then did not. So I'm still fine playing Stafford. I'm not.