Week 4 Matchups + Start/Sits, Wheel of Shame! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/2

Did not practice. He's not going to play. Parkinson's not going to play. I'm still, ask me how scared I am. How scared are you? The most scared. You're the most scared? I'm the most scared. I'm the most scared. Because I've said this, I'm not doing a thing trade-wise with Puka until this week is over. He might be completely fine. I just believe that what he's dealing with is a high risk of showing itself this week. Now, if he makes it through the week, I'll feel great. But this particular week, I am scared.

Yeah, I mean. And I wouldn't be trying to pick him up on the cheap just yet. The expectation is that he's going to play right now. He's not practicing in full, but that's what's being reported is he's expected to play. It's not a guarantee yet. It's listed hip slash groin, man. Which is usually a core muscle injury, a fear of sports hernia and the surgery with that. We've talked about this a lot. I'm on the side, and this is a huge risk, but I feel like if you could trade cheap.

for Nakua or, you know. It won't be cheap. So are you willing to trade medium? It's a league winning bet. I, exactly. I'm willing to take that chance. And it sucks because you're, you know, if, if it works, like let's say it hits, you make a medium bet and you trade a, a good player, you know, that can nab him. Drake London. No. I mean, if for, Garrett Wilson.

Yeah, Garrett, oh man, Garrett Wilson's a great example. I mean, I love Garrett Wilson. I want to put names to it because I want the gravity. I want the gravity to be there. Yeah, I mean, that's a heavy bet. Justin Jefferson. If I could turn like a, like, like if you could turn Tetra-McMillan and something or T. Higgins, T. Higgins is great. Here's what I don't think. I don't think anyone will do that. Because I think anybody that drafted him, drafted him in the top five, top six.

and they're waiting to get their return on investment. And they now have news that he's practicing. I think it takes a Drake London or a Garrett Wilson. I think that's the way. I think you could persuade somebody to stop dealing with that problem of not knowing. Now, my theory, speculation, personal opinion, is when you get a sports hernia core muscle injury, it's not season ending. Puka can come back. But the more you delay surgery, the longer it takes, obviously. They have playoff in Super Bowl aspirations.

I look at this week as like, they're like, do rubbers meet in the road now, man. Like, you get out there. If you feel good and we're ready to go, let's just go. But it's time to draw a line in the sand. If it doesn't go well this week, have surgery. Have surgery. Come back. Come back in four to six weeks. I don't, I think that's the time. Eight weeks. I think it would probably be eight weeks, but I mean, that's, that's fine for the Rams, but not for fantasy. And part of the problem is is like Puka has had and dealt with injuries that have lingered or, you know, it's not been, he's not.

what he was injury-prone-wise, but I just am concerned. And it is a big bet. So there you go. We think he'll play. Breeze Hall, not playing. So we'll get the, and then Kenyon, Sadiq dealing with the back injury, limited on Thursday. We expect him to play. I hope he's playing because Adi Mitchell and Mason Taylor are also not playing. So you've got the same great opportunity that Sadiq took advantage of last week as well as a good matchup. So.

Yeah, I really hope that really hope Sadiq's fine. You want to hear something bad? No, no. Okay, then I'll tell you the good news. Nico still limited on Thursday, but maybe he comes back. All right, the bad news, Devante Smith. The Eagles are planning to play without him, and I've heard maybe more than one week. Yeah, I've seen the reports. Like, he has not been ruled anything as of right now. It's just everything, the reports are they're preparing to play without.

And there is another big piece of news, and I'm going to talk about it now, not later, in case you, you know, you dip out of the show at some point. Ladd-McConkie, Ladd-McConkey has injured his foot. He was seen limping out of the locker room. He missed practice. He has a foot injury. You might ask yourself, is the foot also the ribs? No, those are different. And his ribs were the ones that were hurt. I mean, we can work it there. Yeah, I mean, if you kick somebody in the ribs, your foot will hurt and their ribs will hurt.

But he's got both injuries now. This is just, you're my guys, man. They're all dead. The only one that wasn't dead was Ladd. Ladd was the one that's like hanging on by a rib. Yeah. And now it's like, no, we're not going to, we're going to go foot now. So, scribbling, Lad, Caleb, Alec Pierce, my fantasy MVP, all cooked. It's impossible. It's just irritating. It's just the worst. Yeah. So.

There you go. Devante Smith, you know, we can, we'll have starts-hit questions with Dantavian Wicks, Mackay-Limon on the, on the segment today, and then Mike Evans still not practicing. We'll see. And Travis H-N Jr. placed on IR with his hamstring injury. Yep. So far, I don't know, causation correlation. So far, E-TN has been better than H-N. Yeah, no, you're not wrong. E-TN Jr. better than H-N. The change has not been successful for them.

You know, his bank account did well with the A-chan. I feel like he signed that as E-TN, though. It was after he got that money. Okay. No, I accept your point. He was like, hey, now I'm going to have a press conference to tell people it's A-chan. It's like, oh, is it? You're on IR. So. Oh, man. We are doing well today. How dare you tell people how to pronounce your name? Did he put a Florida, what is that thing called?

Junkins. Florida Lee. Did he put that next to you? Junkins is outrageous, man. And it is now Cleveland. All I shall call him. Michael was trying so hard to correct him. Like every time he would say Junkins, he'd be like, yeah, Juddkins. Juddkins. Junkin's. Junkin' Jonas. Junkin' Jonas. All right, we're taking a break. We got the forecast and the rest of these matchups.

Fantasy Forecast, presented by prize picks. I feel like he's doing the bit. The, why am I talking? Why? What way? And then he came out of halftime and did it again, right? Oh, it was Junkins the whole time. Why don't we not fix it at half time? Like, that's a big deal. Because they're like, Kirk, it's Judkins. You know what someone told me? That's what I'm saying, Junkins. That's exactly what it was. What are you talking about? Yeah, no, I know. Yes, Junkins. I'm hitting the D. Junkins.

Which I think Herbst Street's an Ohio State guy. So this should be, he said Junkins for years, is what I figured out. But somebody did point out, they said, I'm glad you guys noticed that, but throughout the entire history of your show, Andy's been saying Tyler Lindenbaum instead of Linderbom. Oh, I learned that last night. Okay. So we fixed it. That one person that wrote me, you're very happy right now.

Like with A-chan, like when we get corrected, we try to fix it. Yeah. We don't have someone say it the correct way into our face. And we're like, yeah, I'm saying that. Remember Jason with Charlie Collar? You know? Or Jason with McDaniels and. Oh, gosh, that was hard.

Uh, matchups we covered yesterday. Colts commanders, that's the London game, Patriots, bills, jets, bears, Jags, Bengals, the catfights, Cardinals, Giants, Rams, Eagles, Packers, Buccaneers, Texans. Uh, six more matchups. Worth noting, we covered the Bears game yesterday, but, uh, Schefter this morning is saying he, he thinks, he doesn't have news because it's all secret, but he believes it's going to be, uh, secret Bajent man. Yeah, I saw that as well. At the quarterback position. Well, I mean, they're trying to keep it secret, but then they said all the first team reps are going to him.

Yeah, well, then that's not a secret. I mean, if all the first, if we know all the first team reps are going, they're going to the starter. That's what we're going to fake right. No. It's hard to. We'll think about thinking about thinking about it. Ultimate confidence in yourself versus like your system and the plays and the practice versus not coming back. I mean, Case Keenham was dominant. So it's just hard for me to see them not right in the way. We like secret agent, man. We've always thought he was good. They've paid him to be the backup. He was the backup. So.

I don't know. The last case Keenum's health meter is only so big. Well, I mean, speaking of all of that, we have that exact same thing with the Miami Dolphins now. Dolphins are 0 and 3.0 in Minnesota. Good night. Vegas Line, Minnesota minus 10 and a half. Sim to next week. Over under is 38.5. The implied point total from Miami is 14. And listen, the story of Miami is this. They had one good player and he's hurt now for the year. Yeah. They had one good player.

Yes, I'm willing to say that they have none now. There's no way that, like, I like Chris Bell. We're not getting there. You've seen the past completions? Malik Willis has one passing touchdown in three games. His prize picks projection for Malik Willis is the lowest of the week. It is 169 and a half passing yards. And I don't know if I would take more or less. And I don't know if Maligua sucks or if Maliguelis would have done well if you put him in Minnesota with.

Jefferson Addison, Hawkinson, these dudes. Like, I think there's... It's a combo platter here of not having established weapons. Caleb Douglas is out. You know, it's just tough. I think they still have at least one good player. I think that their rookie linebacker, Jacob Rodriguez, looks great. Oh, thank you. Thanks. There's there's quarterbacks. There's tons of, I think there's far more quarterbacks that if they're in the right situation, they can just, they can succeed. It's like, we've seen...

all of that with Jalen Hertz. Like, you can't say he's a terrible quarterback. I mean, you can at this moment. But historically, you're like, the quarterback who went to the Super Bowl twice and won at once? You're like, he's terrible? Like, that's a dumb argument. You're like, yeah, but now watch him. So I think Malik Willis is one of those guys. He just was in a good situation with Green Bay the last couple years, and they made him look. Like, he could thrive in that situation. It's not working here.

No, and they have the cleanest path to get that first pick right now. Their schedule's brutal. Now, in this game, it's 10 and a half points. I have very little confidence in Minnesota's offense outside of handing the ball off to Aaron Jones and kind of having that work in this one because Miami can't stop running backs. But the way they lose this game is simple. It's just not having a passing offense. It's making mistakes at quarterback.

And let's say what's true. I mean, I don't think Justin Jefferson is going to be in this game. If you are fighting an ankle injury, he hasn't practiced, and you're playing Miami as a 10.5 point favorite right now, like, if you want to give your star another week. Yeah, you sit him down. So I do have questions of whether Minnesota will cover this, but they might do it on the defensive side. They might stop the dolphins and turn them over and get some points on that side. Yeah, so the running back position, Ollie Gordon.

was the big talking point of Waver Day as HM went out and Ollie Gordon got a bajillion carries. And a bajillion fab dollar spent on him. We talked about, like we broke down the situation saying, sure, he got all that work. Is he the guy? Probably. But do remember that Jalen Wright was listed ahead of him on the death chart. Jalen Wright was out of that game because he was injured. All signs point to Jailen Wright being back this week. And he still sits on top of.

The depth chart. Talking about Jalen Wright. Good to go is the quote from their head coach, Jeff Hayf's athlete today. And part of our analysis, we're like, he plays Minnesota this week. It's bad for both. It's really, I know you're hoping that you buy volume, but what level of, like, assurance or just any level of positivity are you think it's going to be Ollie Gordon on Sunday? Are you going to play him against the Vikings?

believing he will get 15 or more opportunities. I just imagine that most people have a higher upside option to flex than Ollie Gordon. And the hardest part is if you did spend 80 plus and fab, you feel like you want to play him. I don't think, I mean, you talked about Junkins getting saved by a touchdown. The Ollie Gordon's stat line you're dreaming of right now is about 11 for 31 and a touchdown. Yeah.

And it still could be Jalen Wright. If these two guys are splitting carries, and the thing is, it's more likely to have the long touchdown run. The awful part of this is let's say their plan is to have one of these guys kind of carry the load. And we don't know who it is. Let's say it's right. What's the chance that against the Minnesota Vikings defense on the road in Minnesota that it's going to go well, that he's going to have a hot hand? And at some point you go, okay, well, let's.

try the other guy, no matter who it is. So this is a situation where I would really like to start someone else. I would start Judarian Price, who's been, you know, struggling and bad. Obviously, Kyle Minanghai, even if Swift is playing, I'd rather start Monongai. Woody Marks is a player that I feel like against Dallas, I feel like that's it. That's the tier, at least, of this player. Sorry, Brooks.

popular start sit questions with ollie gordon i imagine that the minnesota matchup is well no i'm so like if you spent and you picked them up you're not questioning it you're just going to put them out there so best well yeah you can you can argue that the viking's offense has been a worse offense than the dolphins by the way sure they have the lowest ever yards per play for a three and o team in history 4.3 59% of their drives have resulted in a punt and you don't have jefferson and after jefferson left last week outside of one bomb throw