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But three touchdowns, three touchdowns, two touchdowns, three touchdowns. The Raiders have absolutely no pass rush. They're going to be. They had one. They had one. They got rid of it. And then they were like, where did that pass rush go? Can we get that Kalil Mack guy back? And then if you look at Philip Rivers career against the Raiders, his average career scores about 21 fantasy points a game.

in normal standard scoring formats against the Raiders. And Philip Rivers has this really weird. He's one of those players that kind of does the same thing against the same team over and over and over. It always has bad games against certain divisional opponents and good games against others. Oakland, it's good. He averages almost 26 points a game when he's on the road in Oakland. Now, the reason I say on the road, he's at home this week, but not really. Not really. That stadium will be.

with Raiders fans, and there will be a few fans of the Los Angeles Chargers there. This is basically a road home game, and I think he's going to light it up. I'm going to go with Big Ben against Atlanta. Atlanta's defense is shot. The Steelers are up against it. The weapons are innumerable for Big Ben to be able to put up a monstrous fantasy game. And while he let people down last week, I think he's back on it this week. Monster game against Atlanta. He's going to start of the week.

At the running back position, Mark Ingram, this is just a confidence play. We all know that Mark Ingram is fantastic. He was an absolute dominant running back won as soon as Adrian Peterson left town. 2, 7, 10, 1, 2, 6, 3. These are finishes of Mark Ingraham at the running back position in the second half of the season. And if you've been holding on to him, you have options, right? Because you've had to set a lineup without Mark Ingram.

But Mark Ingram goes immediately back into my starting lineup as a high-end running back two with running back one upside. My running back start of the week is a guy that I wish I had on my roster. I just traded him last week before the Rex Burkhead news came out. And now I got to play against him. Fantastic. But Sony, Michelle. You've met my fitness coniglieri, Michelle. Is my running back start of the week. Look, if it's a two-back system.

which it now is for the Patriots. You start both of them. You start James White. You start Sony Michelle. You start him every week. You definitely start him against Indianapolis. He got 25 carries last week for 112 yards and a touchdown. Indianapolis, yes, they have looked good as far as stopping, you know, the ground game. They're averaging, I think, 3.6 yards per carry given up. And I am not a...

Sony Michelle Truther. If you've listened to this show, I don't think he's as talented as a lot of other people do, especially in the passing game. But if you are on the Patriots who are doing their yearly, it's October now, we're getting our act together. The other weapons are back. Julian Edelman will be on the field. I think Sonya Michelle gets 20 carries. And if you get 20 carries against the Colts, you have to start them.

Yeah, I'm going to go give you that boost. We talked about him a lot earlier, but T.J. Yeldon at Kansas City is a must start this week. The opportunity, the fact that this game affords, I think, look, the game plan is going to be what Denver did last week. You want to keep Pat Mahomes and the Chiefs offense and their explosive players off the field. That means you're going to need to run the football. You're going to need to run it proficiently. Yelden offers you both the...

uh the floor of the passing game with the upside of being the main runner in jacksonville love him this week my start of the week at the wide receiver position i'm going with jorts jordy nelson derrick car has been playing good for fantasy uh fantasy purposes not good enough for the raiders record three games already over 300 yards

The quattro touchdowns last week against Cleveland with 400 yards through the air as well. And if you take a look, the past two weeks, 345 yards, 437 yards, Jordan Nelson has been a huge part of that. And I think that Derek Carr is finding more and more that he needs to rely on Jordy Nelson, who still has most of it.

Maybe not all of the jorts. The jorts have gotten a little shorter. It's just been they've been washed a lot. Yeah, they're, I mean, they're fading a little bit. A couple extra rips. But as a deeper play at the wide receiver position, I think that you can start Jordie Nelson this week against the Chargers. Just one game. I just want one game where he wears them.

The jorts? Everything else is normal about his uniform. He wears the socks. He wears the cleats. He wears the jersey. He wears the pads. He's got the jorts on over. Yeah, no, that makes us. Speaking of jorty, uh, two weeks ago, Jorty Nelson, he had a monster game. 173 yards and a,

touchdown. He had that game while Amari Cooper pooped his pants. And one thing that has not been considered is the absolute breakout of a name that we will surely hear over the next few years of Xavier and Howard star cornerback for the Miami Dolphins who has been locking down opposing ones. He's been unbelievable. Right.

The beat has happened from training camp, from last year even. He's got A.J. Green. Tyler Boyd has just been on fire. I am staying in the flames, and my start of the week is going to be Tyler Boyd. I think they're going to need him. They're going to use him. Why would you go away from him? And he's one of those guys where it's like, I know he's been playing well, but his name is Tyler Boyd. I don't trust him.

Trust him. This is going to be a matchup where I think, look, Vegas is saying there's going to be a lot of points scored. The Bengals are going to score those points. If, for some reason, AJ Green struggles a little bit against Xavier and Howard, they might have to look towards Tyler Boyd. So that is my start of the week for those reasons. Makes sense. Makes sense. He's been just a PPR monster right now. I'm going to go with 11 for 100 last week, 6 for 132 the week before, Tyler Boyd. I'm going to go with the clear.

Pass-catching preference for Carson Wins. And that is Alshan Jeffrey. He came back, had a big game last week, just under 20 fantasy points. And Minnesota's secondary has been taken advantage of. Now, look, the Rams are the Rams. So I'm not projecting the Carson Wins-led wide receiving core to put up the 379 receiving yards and four touchdowns that the Vikings gave up last week.

But they have been, they've been giving it up. I mean, in week two, 30 fantasy points to the wide receiver position, week one against San Francisco, they gave up a touchdown and over 100 yards. Alshan's going to be the main guy. And he seemed healthy. And he seemed like, you know, I don't think we expect Minnesota to get shut out in this game. So I think there's a lot of opportunity here on both sides of the ball. And Alshon's going to take advantage of the situation. So Alshan's the start of the week.

And I'm going to go with a guy on the opposite side of the field. And I just want to. For your tight end? For my tight end start of the week and give some people that confidence boost, that push. Kyle Rudolph has been good. Yeah. I mean, I feel like his, the success of the Vikings, the passing game of Adam Thielen and Stefan Diggs has massively been overshadowing what Kyle Rudolph has been doing. The past three weeks, he's averaging nearly six receptions and 60 yards.

a game. And once again, 60 yards never sounds great. But those are fantastic numbers for the tight end position. And he's always a touchdown threat. Kurt Cousins, the Vikings are throwing more than nearly every single team in the league. And I know that's a, they've been a victim of some weird game scripts. Hey, look with the Buffalo game. They had to keep up with the Rams.

But Kirk Cousins already has two games over 400 yards, a third game at nearly 300 yards. I just want in on that. And the Eagles, you can't run on the Philadelphia Eagles. Who from Minnesota is going to be able to run on the Philadelphia Eagles? I think once again, the game script is going to fall on the shoulders of Kurt Cousins. And so I'm just trying to get a cheap option in that passing game, and that's Kyle Rudolph. Yeah, and the good news is, you know, the Vikings defense has not been.

what we thought it would be. So the Philadelphia Eagles, if anybody can score them, the Eagles should be able to, and if that happens, Kyle Rudolph will need to be used. I'm going with a guy who I have had a long, an illustrious relationship with on this show, and when I have made him my start of the week, man, is he let me down in the past? So feel free to bench this start of the week, but I...

have tried to trade for this player this week as I was an O.J. Howard owner and an Evan Ingram owner, and they were like, hey, you want one of these new issues? Me too. So I'm going with Eric Ebron. Now, you might be out there and go, whoa, Eric Ebron's facing the Patriots who are currently the biggest red, the smallest red number in the fact that they're the number one. The Patriots are number one against the tight end. If you're looking on your platform and you're like, wait.

I can't start that. But if you dig a little deeper and see who they played against, they've played against teams that basically don't have tight ends. Miami with a rookie Mike Gassicki, Detroit, whose tight end now is Kenny Ghaladay, replacing Eric Ebron. And week one, Houston, who just doesn't really use the tight end. And week two against Jacksonville, they gave up 62 yards in a touchdown. So I think Eric Ebron will be needed because T.Y. Hilton is...

out because everybody's out. Jack Doyle is out. And, you know, look, surprisingly, he's the number five tight end on the year. He's been averaging seven and a half targets a game, which is great for a tight end, over four receptions and almost a touchdown a week. So I'm willing to start him tonight, which means you should probably bench him.

I'm going to go with the Vance dance. Vance McDonald last week, 5 for 62, which is a nice week from a tight end, right? You're getting 80, that's an 80 reception pace. And the week before the 4-for-1-12, what I love about it is they don't want him to do anything but run routes. He ran 32 routes last week. He blocked three times. Three snaps. He don't need to block. He is the pass-catching tight-in. He does the Vance dance. And tight-ins, look, I put him in the kiddo category.

Kittle Cattle. Gory. The Kittle Corner? What I mean is there's a lot of upside. And I, look, if I'm going to put a tight end on my offense, as much as I like Kyle Rudolph, and I would be more than happy to start Kyle Rudolph, he represents the unsexy safety at the position, right? 600 yards, maybe a touchdown. Vance McDonald offers the big playability, the kind that you saw from George Kittle last week, where he broke a long touchdown.

You saw it from Vance two weeks ago with the long touchdown. I just love that about my tie-in because if your tighting goes off, you win the week. Yes. If you get the Jared Cook 28 points, congratulations. That's what I loved about O.J. Howard is that, you know, he might stink, but every time it might stink. But when he has a game, it's an 80-yard touchdown down the side. And Vance McDonald, if you're not familiar with his days back in San Francisco, he did that several times in San Francisco where he had the long.

touchdown breakaway. So I completely agree with the analysis. I would love to start Vance McDonald this week. All right. Those were our starts of the week. Again, follow us on Twitter at the FF Ballers to keep up to date with everything going on so you can win in week five. And we'll hit our final segment right now. Jason Moore's Ironclad, locked and loaded, 100% guaranteed boom, boom kicker of the week.

I'm going chalk this week with a legit super giant. I want the high scoring game with Atlanta's Matt Bryant. Poor Matt Bryant. I mean, because everything makes sense. What have you done? I mean, but now what's going to happen? I mean, no, very nice. Matt Bryant. That just means start your Matt Ryan's. It's all touchdowns. Apparently. So any concluding thoughts? Brooks, how are you doing over there? You still with us? I'm pretty good. Okay.

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