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

Here's what they've given up to the running back position. 46, 21, 40, 35, 24, and 40. Philip Lindsay has all the juice. Like if there's a 100% juice, like 98% is Philip Lindsay and 2%. There's no concentrate. Is book mode. And Philip Lindsay, two weeks ago, seven targets, six receptions. I've paid close attention to him over the last couple weeks. He's out there on plenty of third downs.

Booker guarantee. And look, you want to win, don't you? Yes. At the end of the day, if you want to win the game, you give it to the guy with juice, the electricity of Philip Lindsay. He's a good player. Yes. He's a really good player. Had a big week last week. I love him this week. Very, very fast as well. He, I believe Philip Lindsay in standard of leagues is my number 13 running back. So I really like him. I'm going to go the start of the week at the running back position. I've got even higher.

Then Philip Lindsay at 13. I've got him as a running back one this week. It's Marlon Mack. And yes, two weeks ago you go, well, it wasn't Marlon Mack. It wasn't just him. But that was when they were getting boat raced by the Jets. And then, you know, there was a lot of passing work. And Naim Hines was involved. He still had a good game. He got 12 carries for 89 yards two weeks ago. But then this last week, when they were up against Buffalo, every time that we're looking at the screen with the Colts game on it.

How many times were we like, oh, Max, breaking away another run, Max breaking away another catch. He had a touchdown on the ground, a touchdown through the air, 19 for 126. Coming into the season, I did a lot of work on the Colts running backs, and I came away very confident that Marlon Mack was the guy to own. Unfortunately, injuries derailed his entire beginning of the season, and now he's back. And yes, I agree that in the games where they are down,

It won't necessarily be the right game script for Marlon Mack. And all the Oakland Raiders are the team that's going to be like, watch, watch us destroy the Colts. So I think this is a good game script, a bad matchup as far as the defense across being able to stop Marlon Mack. And he is well rested and on fire right now. He's my start of the week. My running back start of the week is coming with a strong asterisk.

A what? Asterix. I can't say it. Is that multiple asterisk? Yes. If you look at the show, Doc, I have multiple. It's Colonel Mustard. Rohem, Rahim, man, I'm having a tough time over here. Rahim, most sterts, he's got the Arizona matchup. And the reason for the, just slight concern is Matt Breda. I don't believe Matt Breda is going to play this week. And if Matt Breda is out,

Then Colonel Mustard is the primary running back against the Arizona Cardinals who are getting absolutely eviscerated on the ground. Mostaire was the primary running back last week as soon as Burrito went down. He's got, he has juice. If you watch him play, he's got speed, he's got burst. Arizona won't be able to stop him. And I think that he is a nice plug and play, running back, low level running back too.

If Brita is in fact out. Mostert? Yes. All right. I will go with a wide receiver start of the week of. Stefan Diggs taking on New Orleans. Brought it up yesterday. He's fifth in the NFL and touches per game. He's due for a big game. Is that at the wide receiver position? Yes. Okay. Yeah. And the thing is, is he's overshadowed by Mr. Automatic 20 points, Adam Thieland. But...

When you give a player that many touches on a regular basis, one with the talent of Stefan Diggs, that opportunity will, you know, your production is going to return to the mean there. You're going to have, I believe this with Julio Jones. I know it's a joke and he never scores. Look, he's had eight touchdown seasons, six touchdown seasons. Julio Jones is going to score this year. He's going to return to the average. Maybe it's only three times, but it's three over the next eight games. Stefan Diggs is going to have some big games. It's this week against New Orleans.

Yeah, no, I love that. I hope people listened. He's a great buy low candidate off the last two weeks. And if you got him, put them in. My start of the week at wide receiver is 100%, I guess I would say, 75% due to injuries. And this is Will Fuller, the fifth. Will Fuller is an electric.

talent. We've seen it last year. We saw it start this season, right? His first three games. Yeah. Touchdown. He was a target machine too. Touchdown. Touchdown. But then Kiki Kuti came in and said, I'm always open too. He said, circle, circle dot, dot. Yes. So, uh, is that the cutie spot? Cuty shot. Yeah. Yeah. There you go. There you go. Very nice. Um, got to protect with Kiki QT out with Ryan Griffin out and with Will Fuller being.

taken off the injury report because he was dealing with some hamstring issues. I think this is a perfect matchup where Will Fuller tonight, you know, if he gets his customary long bomb touchdown, I'm expecting that. That is really, and I think he's also going to be used enough to be north of five receptions. This is a guy that only needs two, three receptions to still have a good fantasy day. If he's got six, seven receptions, Zavian Howard is going to be dealing with.

DeAndre Hopkins, I think Will Fuller is going to be a great play this week. My start of the week is Julian Edelman from the New England Patriots since he has returned from his absence. He is averaging eight targets a game. He went right back to being the number one wide receiver for, or I should say the 1A with Josh Gordon being the 1B for Tom Brady and Josh Gordon.

has a very tough cornerback matchup. What's the health of Grunk? If Gronk even plays, is he 100%. And we know from history that when Grunk is banged up, Julian Edelman starts catching touchdowns, has a touchdown reception each of the past two weeks. I think that the offense will have to pivot a little bit to.

Edelman's favor. It's a little bit harder to run on the Buffalo Bills, and they're without their star rookie running back, Sony Michelle. So I think that Jules, he's got the possibility of seeing double-digit targets in this game with touchdown upside as well. All right. Let's talk about the tight-in position. My start of the week is David Injoku against Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh is 30th in the NFL against the tight-in position. Injoku has a building rapport with Baker Mayfield.

And get this, he's the number three tight end over the last three weeks. So much like OJ Howard, you're seeing the emergence and breakout of David Injoku. Both of those players are going to be top six, seven tight ends next season. Thank goodness. We need some of these young tight ends. Stop making the tight end landscape so gross. This is the next generation. This is, you know, much like Kelsey and Ertz had their breakouts together, I think you're going to have. And Captain Picard. Who did I say?

You're the next generation. Oh, there will. Come on, fellas. Keep up. I'm five steps ahead. Gotcha. I think you might be two steps behind, Mike. That's a really good current reference. Star Trek? I remember being a kid. TNG, my man. And my parents watched that every week, you know, and I would try to... Nerds! No, that was the jam back then. You weren't a nerd. You were just...

You were hanging out with Riker and Jordy. Oh, me and Jordy. Me, my parents watch it as well. And I'd sneak up. Loved to the next generation. I would hide behind the couch. It's probably my favorite show. So that I could go. Really? Your favorite show? For a while, yeah. Is it the nostalgia or have you tried to rewatch it? Oh, goodness. I'm afraid to ever rewatch it. Don't do it. No, it's probably terrible. Don't try. At least not in the, I mean, I tried to do that a couple times to capture the nostalgia of my childhood. And then I was like, oh.

I think it was the age where it was like, oh, this isn't a kid show. Yeah. I'm watching like a grown-up real show and it was kind of cool. Oh, space, the final frontier. Exactly. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. All right. I went in Joku. Jason, you're going back to the kitchen. I'm going back to the kitchen. I'm going to get this. I'm going to go with a tight end. Who over the last three weeks combined has 30.

yards. Ooh. And six receptions. Yeah, sounds like a winner. He might be on your waivers coming off of a buy, but he might not considering he's also the tight-in six on the season thanks to the crazy week one and week four. It is Jared Cook. Jared Cook will be the primary beneficiary of no Amari Cooper, of having...

to face Andrew Luck and being probably down. I think that Jared Cook has a great out-of-the-by week performance. He's a must start. I mean, I would take him even over these other guys that I love, O.J. Howard and Joku. Jared Cook, to me, is how he doesn't get seven, eight receptions, it just seems impossible.

Where else are they going to throw the ball? I mean, I know Jordy's getting a bump up, but Jared Cook has to have a major bump up this week. My tight end start of the week. O.J. Howard, he gets the Cincinnati matchup. They're giving up the third and most points to the tight end position. That defense is absolutely a mess. And O.J. Howard has, the breakout is real. And he's been extremely consistent. 54 yards. That's the fewest yards he's had in a game besides, of course, the injury game, which I'm not going to hold that against him.

That's very consistent yardage for a tight end. Always has touchdown upsides. I love OJ. Howard this week. All right. Those were the starts of the week. Just one more important segment. Jason Moore's Ironclad, locked and loaded, 100% guaranteed boom, boom kicker of the week. I got a pick this week that'll come in quite handy.

Scoop up and play the Bengals kicker Randy. Me and him. We're on a first day basis. That would be Randy Bullock. But you rhyme Bullock. I tried for a while. I tried for a while to get Bullock and I just couldn't find anything that was good. So Randy does. I have a personal vendetta against Randy. I've had to stream him twice this year. And both were both times he was a.

On paper, great play. The matchup had a huge over under, lots of scoring. Got me three points both times. Yeah, he wasn't my boom boom either of those times. So dirty, Randy. You picked wrong. Thanks for tuning in to the show back with the rest of the fantasy forecast tomorrow. And enjoy the game tonight. If it's possible for October returns. Check out draft.com slash ballers to play some daily this weekend. Goodbye. Thank you for listening to another episode of the Fantasy Footballers podcast.

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