Starts of the Week + Week 8 Breakdown, Pitty City - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/28

Goodness gracious. The Titans give up how many 39.8 fantasy points per game and half point scoring to the wide receiver position. That's a lot. It's not all T.Y. Hilton? No, sir. Not much of it. So Hilton might not even play. Julio Jones, or would you go with Pittman? Pittman. I would too. And AJ Brown's locked in. Henry, of course. Jonathan Taylor's been amazing. Any other question marks in this game for you in terms of?

You know, you dart throwing Moali Cox in a bad tight-in match-up? Are you... No, I don't... I don't... I don't think so. Not Heinz. Not the tight-ins. Gigantor could sit this one out. I think this one's pretty straightforward. You've got your big names, and you're hoping this doesn't turn into one of those divisional slug fests that are just brutal, but that it turns into the divisional, like, back and forths that are beautiful.

The Bengals, AFC leaders, 5 and 2 against the New York Jets at 1 and 5. The DK Sportsbook line, Bengals, minus 10 and a half. Overrunners 43, it's low, but with a line like that that gives the Bengals 27 points, the Jets at 16. If you have the Bengals defense, I want to congratulate you in those around you. Thank you. Mike White, Michael Carter, Corey Davis, and company are heading your way, and you should rejoice because the number one seat in the AFC.

is going to have a nice time handling the one in five jets this week. Yeah, they really are. And to speak to P-Rine now, finally. Yes. You're the mayor of. Oh, don't you put that on me. Is that P-City? Oh, no. Who's the mayor's Philip Rivers? Yeah, that's right. So here's the deal. The last couple years, we have constantly seen some of these really, really, really bad teams that

don't give up a lot through the air because they give up so much on the ground. And the Jets are one of those where it's like, man alive, you think it's just a good matchup for everyone. And if, like T. Higgins had 15 targets last week. T. Higgins seems like just a great play against an easy Jets. I would be scared of someone like T. Higgins because the reason that he got 15 targets is because they're throwing the ball. But you're not throwing the ball if you're up, you know, 28 to,

Five? No. They're not getting five because they're not getting a safety. 28 to six. They missed the extra point? Yes. No, that's two fields. You think the Jets got a touchdown. So that's where I think at the end of this game, you could see a fourth quarter of P-Rine. You could just see a, you know, a lot of rushing attempts here. P. Ryan or Michael Carter, Mike. Michael Carter. Last week, he had 20 opportunities.

Yeah, the snaps went way up for Carter. Tevin Coleman was out of this game. Inactive. Yeah, and I think he's banged up. But also, like, the Jets are unfortunately at the part of their season where, yeah, they're still trying to win, but you got to figure out what do you have in someone like Michael Carter? You took him in the fourth round. 20 opportunities, a season high, 72% of the snaps.

And part of that opportunity share was nine targets. And that's like Mike White came in and he threw to the running backs with Michael Carter and Ty Johnson. I will say this is more of this is kind of unrelated to the immediate context. But I have not been personally very impressed with Michael Carter, the runner, like on film. I don't know if you guys share that viewer. He will, you look at him where he was pretty strong on the ground in week two. But other than that, in his opportunities, he's.

you know, he's running for three and a half yards for carry on the season. Like if they had drafted Killow Herbert, that would have been a better decision. Yeah, probably. Based on how they're running, based on film, it would seem that way. And I guess you're right because I was going to say, you know, you put Cole Herbert on the Jets. It might be a different story. But I mean, I bet Michael Carter would do better over on the Bears. So they've got equally bad situations here. Obviously, lock in Burrow mixing, lock in Jamar Chase. And then CJ,

You could do worse this week. The Jets are 25th against opposing fantasy tight ends. Yeah. I mean, he's going to get a few receptions. Hopefully he scores. Yeah, I think that's exactly right. The Rams at 6 and 1 take on the Texans at 1 in 6. The D.K. Sportsbook line, the Rams minus 14 and a half. The overrunners, is 47 and a half. The games in Houston. Stafford locked, Henderson locked, cup, yep.

Really? Cup is just... I gave it some thought this morning. I was on the fence. It's all good. I've been diving deep. Tyler Higby? Yes. Do you like Higby? I do like Higby or Tunian tonight? Higby. Higby. Really? You're both... It's just the Texans equation? Yes, sir. And I'll chase the match up. After the Zachert's explosion, which followed a, what, another explosion and all... Yes.

All players that play the Texans. They are one of the worst teams at guarding the tight end position, and that's usually a pretty sticky stat at this point in the season. Higby's been a good tight end. You know, he has not been what we hoped he would be because Cooper Cup are too good. But he's certainly involved in the offense, and when they get around the goal line.

the Texans will forget that he exists. I was asking for a friend on that Tunian Higmi decision. I see. Very selfish. Yeah, very selfish. Robert Woods. Do you should play? Is that the new, like his new tagline? Sure. Yeah. I mean, if you've got, Robert Woods is one of those, like I would bench him for Michael Pittman. If you've got, you know, another good option, you could see this game going similar to the previous game where it's like,

They don't need a ton in the passing game. And Robert Woods could kind of disappear. But he's been solid. You know, the last month, he's been a wide receiver three or better in every single week. So in general, he is a startable asset. Robert Woods or Marvin Jones? Marvin Jones taking on Seattle. I think I would go Marvin Jones. Robert Woods or Chase Claypool against Cleveland. That would be. Chase Cleveland. Chase Cleveland. I mean, it's right there.

QI Houston and Chase Cleveland. We didn't get there until now. Claypool, you better, you better come through. I went with Browntown? Yeah, that was a weird choice. No, I think I would go Chase Cleveland there. Oh my gosh. I'm benching every Texan. 100% of them, including Brandon Cooks. Thoughts? You're now in the position to have to argue for a Texan. Go. Okay. Is it possible that Tyrod Taylor is back for this game? No. Then okay. Probably not.

if he is, that changes it going up against the Rams? The Rams are allowing points. I was going to say the Rams have not been a shutdown defense. I do. They're not, I don't believe they're shadowing with Ramsey. Ramsey's kind of moved inside a little bit. They're using him in a better way, I think. But Brandon Cooks will get enough targets. From what I understand, he's got like a 30% target market share. Outside the top 50 in three of the last four games for Brandon Cook. Yeah. I mean, I'm not, I'm not.

standing on a soapbox here saying you have to start Brandon Cooks. I would start Robert Woods over Brandon Cooks in this game. Okay, I was going to ask that. Yeah. All right, all of our rankings, the starts at tools on the website, the fantasy footballers.com. We'll have more matchups tomorrow, but first. Starts of the week. I'm going to let one of you guys go first. Go ahead, Jay.

I shall start. I'm going to start a quarterback with Ryan Tannehill against Indianapolis. I think that he's going to have a good game. Indianapolis has been pretty good on the ground and pretty bad through the air. Tannehill, his games hit the over 70% of the time when he's under center. We're still waiting for that three touchdown game. I think this is the week now that he's got Julio back healthy, A.J. Brown, we saw dominating and you could end up with a screen to Derek Henry.

I like Tanna Hill. I like them coming into this season. Then I'll obviously injuries and other things kind of derailed the beginning. But the same way that we talked about A.J. Brown last night on Spotify Green Room, the fact that once he got going last year was the wide receiver three from that point on, I think Tanna Hill keeps chugging and is a good start this week. And I want to throw out this name because we haven't really talked about him this week. But Teddy Bridgewater is in a very good situation. He's taking on the Washington football team.

has surpassed Kansas City as the best matchup for quarterbacks. I don't know what has happened over there in Washington, but you play your quarterbacks against them. They've given up top eight points to the quarterback position in six straight weeks. Jerry Judy is expected to be back. Teddy Bridgewater has had multiple touchdowns in each of his last three games. The volume is there. He's a very interesting play this week. I want to go Kirk Cousins against Dallas. Cousins is a

a great quarterback, and when they need him to be elite, that's what he can do with these weapons. Three top six performances on the year, off the bye week, Sunday night game with the highest over-under of the week, and Cousins is going to smash in this one. Yeah. Although prime time, people are afraid of the prime time. Now, let me tell you this, Andy. We'll see if this messes up your start of the week. In our Dynasty League,

I am starting Kirk Cousins. Oh, no. And Daniel Jones is on my bench. Well, then who gave you that good advice? Because it couldn't have been your decision. He was already in before you had him in the start of the week. Oh, okay. Watch out. Watch out. Primetime plus in Mike's lineup. Okay. New information. Fire beware. Pivot. Pivot. Why don't you give us your wide receiver, Jason? Well, because I was all prepped for my running back.

Why? But the wide receiver ties in. All right. Fine. I'll talk about my wide receiver, Adam Thielen. Not prepped for this. Alert. Adam Thielen against Dallas, the last time that he played against Dallas week 11 last year, eight for one, 23 and two. He's been very, very good. In fact,

Thielen has the highest quarterback rating when targeted on this team, even better than Jefferson. So I do like this game. I think this game, despite prime time, despite Mike's fantasy luck this year, I expect it to be a higher scoring game. And those are where Adam Thielen, when he's necessary, he comes through. He's a very good wide receiver. He's had a lot of big games. And if you want to look for a multi-touchdown game, I think Adam Thielen's your guy. And I'm going with Michael Pittman.

All are welcome. All are welcome in Pity City. Look, he's got the target share. He has the catch percentage as well. He is full on mossing people out there on the field. He looks like a number one guy. Carson Wentz has a quarterback rating of 116 when he targets him. So maybe we should throw the ball to Pittman even more. And on top of that, the matchup against Tennessee is just the absolute juiciest.

I want Pittman everywhere I can. I'm going to go Emmanuel Sanders against Miami. Since week three, he's averaged 16.3 fantasy points per game. That is the wide receiver 11. Miami plays the most man coverage in the NFL, and it ain't working. They have given up the second most passing yards and the most 20-plus yard plays, and Sanders has been so involved down the field. I don't think, Jason might have said this on the Green Room show. It is very much in Josh Allen's, you know, going through the reeds or,

scrambling, making a play happen. He is not Diggs only. I mean, he's Diggs or Sanders. So I think it's a great smash matchup for Sanders and he's going to keep doing what he's been doing. Oh, man. Since week three, I just had to look this up. Since week three, the number one wide receiver for the bills is not Stefan Diggs. It's Emmanuel Sanders. So I do like that name. At running back, super prepared, it's Elijah Mitchell. I'm firing up the missile this week.

think what we saw last week was that he's the dude for the Kyle Shanahan system. Once you peg it, and, you know, coming into this year, we were all wrong. Oh, Tray Sherman's going to be great. Oh, Brandon Ayuk's going to be great. No. But the whoever. I said Rahim Moster. Most sure. Mostert would be smashing right now. Oh, for sure. But when you are picked by King Shanahan.

He utilizes you a lot. He's getting 16 rushing attempts per game, 63% of the snaps. He looks great doing it, and Chicago's giving up the seventh most rushing yards. He's also running routes. He has not been really targeted yet, but don't be surprised if he adds a couple receptions on here because he is out there doing the thing necessary. He's not just the first or second down back that doesn't run routes. Mike, it's Kenny Gainwell. Kenneth Gainwell.

Either way, you want to say it, I think he's a great play. Detroit, giving up the fourth most points to the running back position in fantasy football. We're not exactly sure, again, how the split is going to work with Boston, but the team has faith in Gainwell, as they've already proven from the beginning of the season. He will get some red zone touches. He's going to be a pass catcher, and the matchup says that Gainwell from the waiver wire to your starting lineup.