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You don't say no, man. Stick around. Find out. Well, we will. Got to tease it out, man. I'll be here. We've got a lot to cover today getting into the week five matchups. So I wanted to update people on a couple Thursday night things. You got the Colts Patriots tonight. Ty Hilton, Jack Doyle, and Marlon Mack are all officially out. Out. So that's three strikes. Well, look, I've kept an open mind on.

Naeem Hines. My hesitancy was related to Marlon Mac and Robert Turbin's return. Marlon Mack is not returning. And you guys have been big Naim Hines fans. I assume you're still fans. Yeah, I considered making him my start of the week. He was in consideration because I just don't see how with all the weapons gone, Naim Hines doesn't get at least...

Five receptions. And if you're a running back that's shown well in the passing game, in a high scoring game, if Vegas is correct and Indy's going to have to battle back, how they don't use him in a checkdown fashion over and over and over. He should put up plenty of points. All right. What else is going on? Rob Grankowski, expected to play on Thursday night. Obviously, you want to be careful. Monitor this close to game time.

And if he's in there, look, it's Thursday. You get the advantage of if he's not, he gets marked as out, you get to put him on your IR and you get to sign somebody off of the waiver wire. So you could be targeting a player like, Brate? You could pick up an Eric. Well, Brate doesn't work this week. Right. Oh, that's true. I mean, you can play him, but you'll probably get less points. Same amount of points. Fewer points. But no, Eric Ebron could be a target. Yes. You know, we just talked about Jason. You said, if this is a high-scoring game and there's all these targets,

Eric Ebron's there without Jack Doyle again. Yeah, absolutely. While Jack Doyle remains out, I mean, it's the exact same argument for Naim Hines. There's just going to be enough volume to go around. And Eric Ebron, despite his lack of ability to catch the good passes, he will have to catch some. It's just mathematically he will have some receptions. He makes a good catch here and there and he makes a bad drop. That's the thing about him. If you give him a difficult catch, he's got it.

You, but if it's important, if it's third down or if it's, you know, game winning drive. No one around him. And you hit him wide open. That's never happening. I also wanted to, you know, we'll just jump in here. Oh. Nothing like a Vance Joseph Hypatrain. He wants to get Royce Freeman more touches. He says, I'm looking forward to it. Hey, Vance. He's playing good football. Do it. Just do it.

These are the most frustrating hype trains for me. Well, I hope it comes at the expense of Devante Booker. Yes. Not at the expense of Philip Lindsay. If you're a Lindsay owner, you're hoping that this becomes a regular two-headed monster as opposed to a, you know, two good players and then one that just soaks up. Losses. The Broncos were winning the game against the Kansas City Chiefs. And then Royce Freeman got one touch in the fourth quarter.

You're bruising back who weighs like 230 pounds. It was crushing people's souls. I mean, come on. Do it. Well, in fairness, they said they want to do it. And sometimes it does take after the game going back, watching and seeing your mistakes. So this is great news coming from Vance. I buy in because of what an egregious mistake was made and because, like Andy said, the DeVanta Booker role can go away.

Maybe. I mean, he was the two-minute guy. Getting more touches to Royce Freeman to me does not mean we're all of a sudden going to put Freeman in on two-minute drill. He's got that skill set, though. He has that skill set. I agree. But Lindsay has it. Lindsay is probably more proficient in that situation. I would rather than put Lindsay in the two-minute punt, you know, Devante Booker off a bridge, and then get.

Get Freeman. You're in this bridge. I just look, this is the year of putting people off the bridge. The body is collecting at the bottom of your bridge. There's a lot of them. There's a river. They're taking their gone down to the ocean. They takes them all the way out. Back to the earth. Yes. Back where you came from. There's an inlet somewhere just filled with players, Jason is cascaded away. Darn right. And DeVant Booker got a one-way tour.

A one-way tour of the ocean. We don't know where this is going. Devante Adams, on the other hand, will not practice Thursday because of a calf injury. He suffered during Wednesday's session. You know who else isn't practicing? All starting wide receivers for the Packers. So what do you mean? Or their quarterback. If Devante Adams doesn't play, I have less confidence in the, look, I know you like Jamone. Jamone.

Jamon Mori. Come on, Jamon. Marquez. Yeah, but where's your confidence lie? Isn't it? Wouldn't it be better placed in a place like Jimmy Graham or Ty Montgomery? Yeah. Those two are my first two up. But then it would be Marquez Valdez, Scantling, who looked very good and would be the next guy up. I guess we can start Heinz or Montgomery. Let's say Adams is out. You won't know that, but.

Montgomery has had four or five carries, six catches, two catches. You'd rather go Heinz? Yeah. Just because I know what the role is for Heinz tonight, and I would have to, I don't know who's going to be out for the Packers. Okay. All right. What else is going on? Is that it for news? I think that's all we have. A reminder, in and out tomorrow. All the injury news will make our predictions on who starts, who sits. And then...

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And as your friendly reminder, it's Thursday night, if you are playing some fantasy players like Naim Hines, get them out of your flex, put them in your running back position, don't find yourself in a really bad situation on Sunday where you have a player you cannot play. Yeah, fair enough. All right, let's get into the forecast. Fantasy forecast. I'll be honest, I was a little bit distracted trying to dad joke my way into Heinz quarters.

You know what I mean? But I couldn't get there. Couldn't get there. All right. Teams on by in week five. That was like a weird jeopardy joke. Where like you gave the punchline. Right. What is a bad joke? The answer is Heinz Cordes. What is a joke you can't make? Don't worry. I think Jason's about to save you. He has opened up the book. You better hurry up, man.

I'm stalling for you as long as I can. What did the bowling pins do when they were mad? What did the bowling pins do when they were mad? I don't know. Well, give them the rim shot. All right. If you're still with us, teams on by in week five, the Bears, the Buccaneers, don't play them. Don't take my earlier camera break suggestion. All right, the Titans, take on the bills. Titans are three and one. The bills are one and three. This game's in Buffalo. The bills are.

three and a half point underdogs in this matchup. And you know what? No way. I wasn't going to do it, but... Andy's almost upset of the week. Oh! I think... Look, that... What world am I living in? It's a tight line there. Three and a half points at home. I just got a feeling, man. I got a feeling. Well, I got some Josh Allen bubbling up.

Well, you're not helping your case by going to Josh Allen. But where else does he go? I mean, what is the case? I want to hear this case. The case is, this is the NFL. The Titans have squeezed by. The bills have shown up at home before. It's a low over and under. The game's going to be tight. They beat the Vikings at home. And I'm believing in a little upset here. Here's my...