Starts of the Week + Wk 11 Matchups, Pounce Back Candidate

Okay. Okay. Which may seem a little bit antithetical, but I still want to play the guy that I think is the best chance of throwing, you know, six touchdowns as opposed to, you know, splitting hairs on one and two over the court. Yeah, it's actually worth bringing up because a lot of people listening are like, wait, what, you're number one? Binary rankings, you know, they are not the end all be all. Sometimes we say things on the show. You're like, well, your rankings have it.

There are so much variations within every decision. Rankings are probability odds of a player finishing near this spot versus what's the range of outcomes. I would rather start a guy. It's exactly what you laid out. You'd rather start a guy that could have the big upside or rather start a guy that's safe in certain situations even though their ranking might be two spots behind a guy or whatever. My quarterback start of the week.

is the aforementioned Dak Prescott. Look, he has been really good, and I think we haven't realized it. Since week six, this is before Amari Cooper, till now on a points per game basis, he's the number nine quarterback in fantasy football. He's top 10, and he's been fantastic. Now you have him on the road in Atlanta with a great matchup. Atlanta gives up the fourth most.

quarterback rushing yards, which is what Dak has been doing lately. He's been rushing inside the 10, getting rushing touchdowns. He's got to Murray Cooper. They're going to need to keep up with Atlanta. Dak, to me, is, you know, he's a quarterback won this week. It's an unfortunate truth, considering I'm facing him one of my leagues and don't want him to be that good, but I think you're right. You're facing him in the league with me because he's my quarterback. Yeah. Yeah, why don't you play Alex Smith against me like you did against somebody else last week? Well.

Alex Smith's not playing Tampa Bay this week. All right. My start of the week at the quarterback, it's Marcus Mario, I want in on this action against the Colts, Blake Bortles, Derek Carr, Sam Darnold, all quarterbacks that you wouldn't typically want to start for your fantasy football team yet against the Colts. They're a good play. They're raining down top 15 performances. So I...

like Mario da and the Tennessee offense. All right. Where are we moving on to now? Wide receiver? Sure. I'm going with, and this was tough for me, there were several decisions. I could have gone with Corey Davis and him keeping it rolling, but he's too scary. I like Marquez Valdez Scantling, MVS tonight in the Thursday night game. I think he's going to score a touchdown. Seattle's been giving him up to the wide receiver position. Randall Cobb is out. Geronimo Allison is done. Marquez is just more.

talented has a wider range of ability that I think Aaron Rogers is learning how to take advantage of. So I think he gets in the end zone tonight and makes him start of the week because the consensus ranking on him is very wide receiver three range. I think he's a wide receiver two for this week. I am making the decision to flex or to essentially flex him over Philip Lindsay this week, which.

I'm not saying everybody should do that, but I'm going ceiling over floor, and I think the ceiling of MBS is higher tonight than the floor, you know, than the ceiling is for Villa Blenzie this week. Yeah, I am going with a player that has been overlooked a lot because of the unfathomably putrid start to the year. That is Hall of Famer Larry Fitzgerald in his first five weeks on the season. Remember,

He had Mike McCoy. He started with Sam Bradford and then had a rookie come in thrust into the starting lineup. This was not a good situation and was dealing with a hamstring issue. During those first five games, he was on pace for 54 total receptions on the season. 54 and 563 yards with zero touchdowns. That's...

a horrific line since that time in the last four games two of which we have a new offensive coordinator who has in those two games Larry has 22 targets so I was going to throw in they're they're getting more

Ten more plays a game. Yes, over two more. With Biden left, which as the offensive coordinator, and that's a big deal. Yeah, that's a huge deal for the number one target. He's on pace over the last four games for 92 receptions, 924 yards and eight touchdowns. And I've brought up in the past that Larry Fitzgerald is a much. At this stage in his career, he is so different home and road. He is a great home player. I don't really love starting him on the road. He just gets jacked up for the hometown crowd.

This is a matchup against Oakland at home with the new coordinator where I think Larry Fitzgerald is going to be a great play this week. I actually agree. I like Larry this week. My wide receiver, I'm hanging. I'm hanging with Mr. Cooper. Amari Cooper. Thank you. Since joining the Dallas Cowboys, he's averaging nine targets a game, about five receptions a game. Like Jason said, Dak is playing better and is in a very good spot.

Amari Cooper is getting the volume that we had hoped he would get in Oakland, but he's actually getting it now with Dallas after they made the big trade, so I like him this week. It helped stack a lot. Yes. We knew it would do that. We didn't know if it would give Amari the value, but it seems to be. And then my tight-in start of the week, I'm chasing the 10 receptions. I'm going with Austin Hooper against Dallas. Dallas is 22nd against the tight-in position this year, and Hooper was a target monster last week.

I'm locking down Austin Hooper of Atlanta for my tight-in start of the week. When you're making that tough decision, I like him more than Hireman, I like them more than Yuzama, I like them more than those middling titans. Yeah, no, I agree. I was considering Austin Hooper for my titan start of the week. I'm going to do the exact same thing you're doing and really chase the targets, chase the routes, chase the snap percentages. And I'm going to make Jack Doyle.

My tight-ins start of the week. You look on paper and you say, I mean, we brought this up. The Tennessee defense number one against tight-in, it's terrible. It's atrocious. They haven't really faced any tight-ins except once and when they did, they gave up plenty of yards to him. Now they face a team of tight-ins. Now they face a team of tight-ins. It's gross in the sense that he has not done much to put confidence, but like we say all the time.

Most tight ends haven't done enough to give you supreme confidence. So I'm going to go with the guy on the field. This week, I'm playing him ahead of Eric Ebron. And he's my start of the week. Mike, you've got a... Oh, the garbage man can. Well, hopefully he doesn't have to be a garbage man this week. But I mentioned it earlier. Evan Engram, going with the talents.

And the opportunity in this game against Tampa Bay. The defense is just so horrific. And of the guys that you can kind of find maybe on your waiver wire, I think Engram is the one who actually has top five upside this week. I don't know if he'll finish there, but it's in his range of outcomes, which is, it's difficult to find that. All right, those are the start of the week. The start of the weeks? Yeah, multiple weeks. The start of the weeks. It's been a rough show. Yeah, it's been a strange one.

Jason Moores, ironclad, locked and loaded, 100% guaranteed boom, boom kicker of the week. Some teams bounce back after a blowout, you know? I think the Panthers pounce back with the foot of Graham Ganoe. I really like that one. It's not a bounce back. It's a pounce back. It's a pounce back. Look, they're panthers. Yeah, that's pretty good.

There's no way Graham Gano failsy this week. Not with a rhyme like that, honestly. I think he was my start of the week on the week where he had like the 63-yard field goal or something. That was fun. Man, that was one of your best, one of your best rhymes of all times. Oh, you did it. Anything else going on, Brooks? You put some AJ Green news. What's going on with AJ Green? Just update he's not practicing today. That's not good. So he's not practicing on Thursday.

Get out of here, Marvin Lewis. You think he's just trying to put the scare into Baltimore? This was Hugh Jackson coming and go, hey, hey, I got a good idea. Hey, Marvin, listen. Go tell him. Go tell him this. Go tell him AJ Green. You expect him to play. You're hopeful. It'll give him a huge advantage. Oh. I see what you did. Rest of the matchups on tomorrow's show, daily dose, and lots more. All the injury updates will keep you posted. Check out draft.com slash ballers this weekend for some daily action.

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