Week 5 Studs & Duds, Rising Stars, Hot Lockett

play with him in the flex. If it's a decent matchup, if there's a high over under, you want to have him involved. And it's really a piece that the Texans have needed. They've needed the short possession receiver because Hopkins and Will Fuller are both, you know, medium to long distance, field stretching capable guys. So if you can have those two guys on the outside and have.

a dangerous option from the slot like Kiki QT, who now, I mean, week one, 100, week one, his week one, 109 yards on 11 receptions, week two, 51, six receptions and a touchdown. I like what I'm seeing. But can you answer the question, Jason? Okay. Kiki, do you love me? Are you writing? You have no idea what I'm talking about? I do. No, I remember the lyrics. Baby Josh, you've got to be in on that one.

Finally a reference for the baby in the crowd. All right. He nods his head in approval. I recognize it. You old man. Old busted. I'm leaving eye upon. Get with it. Those are the rising stars of the week.

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Pooped in his big boy pants. Marcus Marriota, Ryan Tannahill, Joe Flacco. Actually, I like the fact that Joe Flacco is in here. Right. Because he actually has big pants right now. He has earned big boy pants. And he, unfortunately, he filled them up. And that's not, that's never good. You might be time for a pull-up. But he's got him. Yeah. Good for you, Joe Flacco. I mean, not good for you this week. Yes.

So at the running back position, one of the most difficult things to evaluate coming into the weekend, my Sunday live stream, probably 50% of the questions revolves around this character, and the Atlanta Falcons backfield, Devanta Freeman, what do you do with Devanta Freeman? The reports of a three-headed monster came to fruition as... Kind of.

No, not kind of. When a goal line carry goes to the third running back, that's a three running back committee. I don't care if he only gets one touch on the day. If you get the goal line carry, that's a three-person committee. I mean, okay, I get what you're saying, but would you say it's a three-person committee if on the goal line a team handed it to the fullback as a sneak play ahead of the, I mean, that's not really a three-person committee.

Unfortunately. And no, I would not because the fullback, because I'm talking about running back committees, not fullback committees. Right. And I'm not combing them together. I'm just saying he got what, Edo Smith, three. He got three carries to Kevin Coleman's seven to Devon to Freeman's eight. No, it's an important question. It really is because people are relying on both Kevin Coleman and Freeman. This was a game that.

They were supposed to, you know, first of all, the Falcons were supposed to just be far better against the Steelers defense that's been reeling. I would say the number one pooped in his big boy pants was the Falcons, right? Like, Matt Ryan got you, you know, it was okay, it was okay, but huge disappointment based on what you thought you were going to get going into the week. Julio, Ridley.

I mean, other than Hooper and Sunu... Sanoo is the one who came through. Yes. And that's not the one you started. That's not the one anybody wanted to come through or start. But regarding the running back tandem, I think you have to be fine going forward with DeVant Freeman. This is his first game back. He's clearly the starter. This is still an offense. It's great. I mean, you can't overreact to single weak things. I'm fully convinced that... Trade for?

Sure, absolutely. Let me give you this hypothetical situation. Say you could trade, this is a confidence tester for you. All right. You can trade David Johnson for Devonta Freeman plus. It's of course a plus, but I'm saying like a good wide receiver, a nice wide receiver. Like let's say you're, you need help at the wide receiver position. Would you trade David Johnson for Devonta Freeman and Kenny Galladay?

I don't think so. It would have to be better than Kenny Galladay, and that's no disrespect to Kennedy Gallaudet. It would have to be a big plus. But, yeah, I mean, if there was a really good other piece, you know, if I could trade, you know, Dave, maybe you could work at where you're trading someone like David Johnson and Kenny Galladay.

for Freeman and Hopkins. You know, something where you're, you're using the name to go from an elite guy to another elite guy at a different position, then I would be willing. Evans. Mike Evans, as the wide receiver. Still no? Yeah. Well, if it was just Freeman and Evans, yes, I would do that. Okay. Marshaun Lynch was game scripted out by the Los Angeles Chargers. Well, kind of. He had the, I mean, you were playing against him. You're like, oh, no. We both.

said to each other, well, Marshawn Lynch shouldn't touch the ball again because they have, the, the Raiders have to throw nonstop, Taylor Schard's going to be in, and then all of a sudden. Well, the goal line? Yes, they got down to the one yard line. Yeah, and they got an illegal touchdown to Jordan Nelson? Yeah. Dionne Lewis, Derek Henry, the Teen Titans continue to disappoint at the running back position. I don't know what the heck you do with these two guys. Because.

They show up here very frequently. Yeah, they really do. The only one I'm still willing to trust is Dionne Lewis because of certain games he's going to be able to be involved in the passing game. If you're in a PPR, half PPR, his baseline is higher. This was, we already knew going into this game. This matchup was going to be lower scoring. It's going to be a Derek Henry game script, and it was, and he just stunk. So, you know, I would...

Like I said earlier, Derek Henry is, you have to get rid of them. You can't have them on your roster. Because you're going to want to, you're going to be tempted to play him. Exactly. I mean, it's, it's. The siren. It's better. Derek Henry is on the island going, who. I feel like I would rather have. Cover your ears, sailors. It would be better to have Edo Smith on your roster than Derek Henry. Oh. Because you won't play him. You won't play Edo Smith. My goodness. You might be tempted to play Derek Henry. Trade him.

Royce Freeman. Royce Freeman continues to be outperformed. This sucks. Outtouched by Philip Lindsay. We're going to get Royce Freeman more involved. He's deserved it. To the tune of five carries. I mean, the way that they use him, the game script got out of hand very quickly for the Denver Broncos. Latavius Murray could not come through as they started for Minnesota.

No, I mean, he was my final straw guy where I, you know, the last chance to prove that maybe you're relevant. You're not. You're dead. The wide receiver position. This is, this is not for the squeamish. The names that we have to talk about today. No. Doug Baldwin playing on 88% of the snaps played his usual allotment of, of.

slots out or snaps out of the slot. He was one for one on one target. He looked fine. He looked healthy. He was run blocking every play. What happened in this game was the Seahawks were able to run as much as they wanted on the Rams. The Rams could not stop the combination of Mike Davis and Chris Carson. Rashad Penny did not get a snap.

in this game. Say, hey, Seahawks. You wish you had another first round pick to add to your starting running backs anyways? Like, you're so dumb. And this is why Pete Carroll's retiring at the end of the year. No, so I'm, Doug Baldwin, I'm not going to bench him. Like next week, he's probably going to be started by me. He's on the field. He's valuable. He's got a connection with Russell. The problem is.

if they're able to get the running game going, and I don't think they're going to run like this every week. I just don't think it's possible. We haven't seen it so far up to this year, and if Russell's going to be throwing the box. Chris Carson's had a big game a couple weeks ago. Yeah, I mean, it's going to be, you've got to look at the schedule and see, is this team that can be run out? Because a couple weeks ago, it was Chris Carson with over 30 touches, came through, then Mike Davis had a big week, and then both of them had a big week. Maybe Schottenheimer.

He's got to figure it out. He's got to figure it out. That running game is on. Yeah, I mean, it's definitely tough because if Russell's not hearing it out, Doug Baldwin can't be Doug Baldwin. Yeah, but hot locket can get it done. Hot locket. One target, one reception, 10 yards for Amari Cooper. 100% catch rate. Him and Doug Baldwin is unfathable to me.

that your top wide receiver gets one target. See, here's the thing. It's madness. Amari Cooper is actually, I'm starting to realize that Cooper is a little bit more predictive than we think. I mean, when the team has a, when the opposing team has a solid corner that can get on Cooper, he just beats him. He doesn't get open. He doesn't get targets.

I mean, that's why Jordy Nelson was your start of the week. Right. Jordy who caught the touchdown and had a fine game versus Amari Cooper who against a, you know, when you're playing, Amari Cooper against a really good cornerback, he disappeared. Just don't. Right, just don't. But if you're not, if it's, you know, I think so far the last three weeks we've been able to predict it, right? At least I, you know, last week I said I'd play him. He had a great week. This week I said no way. I would sit him.

He had a terrible week. We'll have to take him as a weekly matchup and, you know, make sure you're paying attention to the Raiders previews and we'll say whether or not you could start him or not. Larry Fitz, two for 35, three targets facing Minnesota, Denver, San Francisco, which I'm throwing San Francisco in there because he just put up two for 35 against them. What do you do? What do you possibly do with Larry? Bench him, cut him.

Either. I mean, yeah, I would cut Larry. I would cut him. I mean, if, you know, any time that there's a big name, you try to package trade, we say that every week, and it's true. I don't think you're going to be able to trade later. I don't either, but look at it this way. When you drop Larry Fitzgerald to the waiver wire, I promise you he'll be picked up that first day. Someone will pick him up. Maybe. And whenever there's a player like that, that means someone thinks that there's value there, and they're very well could be.

There very well could be if he gets over the hamstring issues and starts connecting with Josh Rosen. But most people who have Larry have losses on their roster and they cannot wait for the Cardinals to figure it out. And I think the odds are in the favor of them never figuring it out. Alshan Jeffrey, oh, excuse me, only two for 39, but he had eight targets. This was, I think, just a matter of not connecting with Carson Wentz. He had a late game super important.

long distance third down pickup hit him right in the chest and he dropped the ball when he was hit but i think he'll be fine quincy noon we already touched on this uh chris hogan don't worry about it nothing to see here just drop him and move on

Tyler Boy. Tyler Boy, I mean, four for 44, seven targets. Yes, it's a little bit disappointing. Very disappointing. Pittsburgh, Kansas City, Tampa Bay coming up, better days, brighter days are coming up for Tyler Boyd. You continue rolling with Tyler Boyd. I mean, every wider, we just named, you know, Doug Baldwin and Mari Cooper. They had one catch for 10 or fewer yards, whereas, you know, 444 is just disappointing. Here's the reason why Eric Ebron is a must start.

for the foreseeable future. Ricky Seals Jones, nothing. Austin Safarian Jenkins, nothing. Vance McDonald, one for six. Jared Cook, four for 20. Here, the tight end landscape. Wee. You know what's interesting. The one that sticks out to me there. And actually, I guess you could, uh, you could even include Ricky Seals Jones. Jermaine Gresham was involved.