Week 5 Studs & Duds + Marv Trade Reactions! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/12

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instantly in lineups. Price picks. Run your game. Christian Watson. Oh, that guy? Parker, Washington, Malik neighbors, George Pickens, Mike Evans, your top five at the position this week's. Eight target, six for one, forty three and two for Watson. He has been a reliable deep ball player for his entire career. And now he's healthy. And he also had one of the catches of the week. I mean, one of his bomb touchdowns, which he had two.

was incredible. I didn't really even understand, like watching it live. I was like, wait, how did, where did the ball go? He just masta guy went over, caught it off of his back, and he's been fantastic. The upcoming schedule, as we just said, for Jordan Love. Wow. We're feeling good. Dallas and Detroit. I mean, literally those are number one and number two in whichever order you want of teams you'd like want to face, right? Well, in what's.

crazy is so watson is continuing his barrage of touchdowns he has two top 10 finishes you know who else does matthew golden yeah two top 10 finishes golden's on pace for 81 for 1350 and 7 yeah he's just hiding in the shadow of watson doing pretty much the same he's doing the same stuff he's just not catching the touchdowns yeah which is i think that's how it will be it's a big part of it yeah uh i mean christian watson scored in all but one game this year

But both those guys have been, I mean, look, the consolidation of targets. And like I said, Kraft was involved again. It's looking good for the receivers there and the matchups coming up. Parker Washington made two incredible catches in this game. The last one was unbelievable. Six for 124 and two. You love to see it. And then 20 targets from a league neighbor. Oh, that's, well, it's only 11 catches because it's Winston. That's all right. But 11 for 121 and 1. He still has the second most, the last two weeks, neighbors.

first in routes run, first in targets, first in receiving yards, second in receptions, and second in receiving touchdown. So he was sore and, you know, we were worried about it, but seems like he's okay. Yeah, that was a game where at one point I was pretty sure they were going to pull Winston. Like he was playing so poorly. I was like, we're going to see JJ. Well, they kept pulling Winston for a play at a time. It was so weird. Dude.

What is their plan? I see. What is there the plan? Get that deck cards because it's Matt Nagy. Okay. You are right. Yeah. Oh, let's bring in. Let's bring in nine or 18. We're going to trade. We're going to try. We need some quarterback help. Let's go get J.J. McCarthy. We'll be the noise. Let's go get. Yes, he was sitting in the rain because he knew what was about to happen to him. With a hoodie on. He, so they trade for a project quarterback. And then their plan. Well, they got to get him work is.

We're going to get him in and we're just going to run trick plays with him where he's running the ball so he can get exploded. Your backup quarterback. This is your plan? Well, they don't want to explode their starter. I mean, that makes sense. What are you doing? Matt Nagy is a joke, but it's fun right now that the, that the Giants can. Listen, listen, Siriani, Dan Quinn.

Matt and Aggie? Yeah. These guys are not that much smarter than us. No, I... To be a coach, to be a coach, you just have to put on the uniform. You just have to like... That's such a disrespectful thing to the good coaches. But the bad ones. Yeah. They make mistakes too. The bad ones just keep getting jobs. I would have spiked that ball. For sure. Jaden, I would have spiked that ball. Yeah. Because the clock was running out. You see? Put the Madden kid in. I know. Good Lord, people. The Madden kid would be...

dominant in late game situations we know how to manage a clock man Dan Quinn's reaction the video slamming the headset off and slamming it to the ground was delicious it just I mean it really it really really was not his fault it was not Dan Quinn's fault I mean yeah yeah

It was part. It's definitely his fault. You call in a spike. The play is a spike. But he's not the play caller. He's not, he's not even an offensive guy. Like, you are the head coach. You're 100% responsible. You can always override your office. Of course you can. But at the same time, you don't in that situation assume that you would need to say that to an offensive coordinator in the NFL. You don't need to go like, hey, hey, hey, make sure you snap the ball and spike it. Like.

Of course. Like, I don't know, man. Mike Evans was awesome again. Seven for one, 13 and one and always hurt. Also had the funniest moment of all time when he checked the back of Dick's jersey. That was amazing. But every time he would catch the ball and stand up, his face was like, this man is in agony. If you play, he's playing. Demeroglis, two touchdowns for the Patriots. Kyle Williams. Two wide open. Three for 91 and one. I had to pivot off of the Marv prize picks.

Kyle Williams was like, I was typing it in as my pivot, and I switched it to like a stupid Bow Melton one. Yeah. And I should have stuck with Kyle Williams. JSN, great as always, Garrett Wilson. Jamo, start of the week, baby. That felt real bad when he was, like the Cardinals, it's funny. The Cardinals made the lines go three and out three consecutive times. It was the first time since 2016 or something, the Cardinals had any, like, stopped somebody three straight times.

And then it was all wheels up. Jamo almost had a third one, two touchdowns in this one. That was the story for him. Tide ends, Isaiah likely, Brock Bowers, who is unstoppable. Brock Bowers is going to be on so many championship rosters. It's hard to imagine. I guess the only real... He's great. The only real fear there is what happened at the end of that game, which you remember, right? He was not on the team. Team Raiders this week. I did not think it was going to happen, and it didn't in a big way. But Mendoza took over.

And so later in the season, if things start to go sour for them, that's your risk with Bowers. But Fryermuth, I think he's a pickup because of the injuries on the wide receiver core for the Steelers. Tyler Warren with 18 points, and Sam Leporta has been unbelievable. Leporta was my start of the week as well. But every week, he is just, it's really hard to account for the Lions skill players, Amunrah, James and Gibbs. And every week, Leporta is just a play here, play there, fakes a block.

breaks into the wide open. I mean, did you realize this is the best, this is statistically the best offense through five weeks for the lions in history? Yeah. So the blobfish, now he got to play against his old team. Yeah. But putting up 45 against us. He probably was very happy. That helps. Congratulations. Yeah. All right. Tray McBride with the beastly touchdown at the end of the game. And Jason, who's the other guy from Arizona that scored twice? Oh, Teigen. What's the last name? Teague. I don't know.

I've never heard of this guy, and no one, do you know it? Keter, Keteriano? Should have looked into that. Yeah, I don't know. I was trying to, I figured Jason knew. No, I definitely know. All right, let's talk about. It's like to trade. I just can't tell you. Yeah, I just ask me tomorrow. I'll tell you later. Just out of curiosity, statistically, would you say he played well, that guy? Oh, yeah. Okay, just making sure. All right, Duds. Poopped in his big boy pants. They're, they're really, look.

Shuck this chance. You knew. We knew this one. Well, you knew the matchup was bad, but there's a difference between bad matchup and scoring one fantasy point. Correct. And Tyler Shuck went 16 for 25.

for 96. If you had Olavé, it killed you, Joanson, it killed you. Everybody, it killed you. No one should have been starting them. Thankfully, I think most people didn't. We have been the most pro-Shuck pot around and we- And Sunday live, I was like, we were absolutely not starting. I am abandoning. Read that third bullet point we wrote under there. Yeah, so Shucks pressure rate since losing their left tackle.

49% of 50%. That is on. No quarterback. No quarterback plays good with pressure. Tom Brady will not survive this. No, but this was also the Minnesota Vikings defense. And I saw stat. It's so funny to me. And obviously we aren't as smart as these guys in charge. So.

Brian Flores, his defense has been unbelievable. He's blitzing on over 70% of plays, which is outrageously high, number one, in the NFL. This week, there was a point in the game where he was blitzing on over 90% of plays. And it got me thinking, what? What about 100%? Why don't we just blitz more NFL? Like, I get like Drew Brie's going to beat the blitz. But it's like,

Okay, but we're talking all about Brian Flores' defense. It's like, what a mastermind. What a mass is like he's just blitzing. Well, there's a lot to it. Like the DBs, you have to have Clamp DBs. Byron Murphy's amazing. You also have to like the blitzes come out of confusing coverages. If you watch that game, there are multiple plays where guys are handing players off. You don't know who's coming. That's his, his defense is confusion.

It confuses young quarterbacks, old quarterbacks, all of them, but a young quarterback especially doesn't, they've never seen this before. And so, yeah, he's just masterful. He's probably the best assistant out there right now on any team. It's my favorite team, my favorite team to be on by is Minnesota. Because you don't want it to affect the fantasy play. It ruins fantasy. The Vikings are absolute shutdown. Yeah, that's a fair point. It ruins everything.

Dak, first bad game for Brock Purdy after he took the lead for MVP voting. Through an ugly pick in this one. Two touchdowns, only 189 yards. So, yeah, you know, Dak was fine. He just had the two picks. Bo Nix. I whiffed on that one. I thought it would be good against L.A. He was not good. It's not. Jason, you made this comment. Like, maybe it wasn't Davis Webb problem. Maybe it's not play calling. Yeah. It seems like it's a Bo Nix problem. He's looked.

flat out terrible he's playing against Seattle this this week gross i feel like both of the broncos and the chargers like i'm just done yeah projecting any sort of success this is why i have been i've not been confident in wattle because they will have what's going to happen any week they will definitely have games where you're like oh that was the jalen wattle week that was sweet i hope you played him that week um for those two rosters i'm just like hmm

So through through, I'm going to just, I don't care. I'm not going to play those guys. Through five weeks, Jalen Wattle is the wide receiver 36. He's been started well basically one week. He is getting forgiven. Like Herbert is just completely. I mean, he's broken. The charges are broken. Everyone is done with them. I don't think people are done with the Broncos yet, but they are just as bad on offense. They're getting, they're being forgiven because they're three and two. They're winning games. The only losses that they have is against.

the 49ers and the chiefs both on the road. Did you hear the petition the league is doing? They're actually considering removing all victories against the Chargers for all teams. That would be freaking awesome for us Cardinal fans. Yeah. That's how bad. That's how bad the Chargers are. The Cardinals beat you handedly. Like beat the crap out of you. Running back duds. Chase Brown. Yeah. Jeremiah Love 12 for 22 looked awful. Tyler Algier didn't help at all.

Cam Scataboo looked awful until about three plays of overtime. That's kind of a weird, scary one as well. I don't know if it's coming off of injury. Those three plays look great. He was late in the game. This is a rainy game where they talked about. Before the game, it was he's going to get a ton of workload. And I don't know what happened. Obviously, he fumbled at the end, but he wasn't.