Week 5 Matchups + TNF Fireworks, Wheel of Shame - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/4

which is where Buffalo has been getting crushed, see Derek Henry last week. That is Cam Acres. Like, here are the last two weeks without Joe Mixon. Here's the rushing attempt percentage of the running back core. Agumba Waleigh has 5% of the rushing attempts. JJ Taylor has 18%. British Brooks, a name I've never heard of has... Yeah, you called him Press. I was like... When did they start calling JJ? But the thing for JJ Taylor is it was 9% in week three, his first game being active this year. And then that shot up to 29% the next week. But the two weeks... Press Taylor is the offensive coordinator of the Jacksonville Jaguars. Cam Makers is at 55% of the carry. So he will be the primary ball carrier out of the backfield if that's what you're trying to target here. Now the question is,

Is he good enough to do anything with it? Or is he Cammakers or scam makers? Camerakers is 4.1 of carry this year in Houston. He's not catching passes. The last two weeks have been disappointing. But there was a reason I played him in both of them. You're going to go. You're going to do it again, aren't you? I'm going to probably do it again. If you had, let's say, if you had picked up. Let me make the change, guys. Hold on. If you got Cream Hunt off the waiver wire, would you play him or Cam Acres? I'd play Cam. I'd play hon. Okay, what if I told you that just now we learned Damien Pierce is back at practice? I'm going to move him back out. Right in and right out. It is Friday. That's the first Pierce practice in a long time. I can't imagine he. So we'll see if he's active. I can't imagine he plays. Any, any snaps that Cam Acres is not on the field reduces my chance of getting the beautiful five points.

That's the ceiling for Cam Acres. It's just a scary start. It just is. Yep. He's not in two minute drills. He's not in on third downs. He wasn't in on the goal line when Agumbo Wally got the carry to score. So Camacres between the 20s, sometimes getting a carry, is scary. What about Tank Dell, who was limited on Thursday? We got, look, Stefan Diggs is averaging over eight targets a game. Diggs, his receiving lines at 54 and a half. It, like, Are you going to go right back to Tankdell? No, I'll play Mooney. Okay. Nice. Time machine. Jay? Mr. Tankdell, is he right back in your lineup? It's a flex. He's 100% in my lineup. Whether he should be in yours, I agree with Andy. I think he's a flex option in his first week back. He is an okay start. This is, you know, I have CJ Stroud as my start of the week for a reason. I think it's a good matchup for him stylistically.

And so all three, obviously you're never benching Nico is the number one wide receiver. Oh, my sweet Nico. But Stefan Diggs and Tank, I think you can start both of them as a flex option. Like I would start them both over, let's say, Zayflowers. Okay. Yeah. Not over Dantavian Wicks, not over, would you start them over Rashid Shaheed? I mean, that's where your debate gets close. I probably play Shahid. I would start them over Shahid. I'd play Shahid. On the other side, Shakir is out. So beneficiary in the passing game. Is it Dalton Kincaid? Which wide receiver would you give a shot to? Keon Coleman. If you stashed him and you've been hanging on, we had four targets this past week. Was that the, no, two weeks ago was the disciplinary game, back up to 73% of snaps. With Shakir out, I think that Keon Coleman is worth a flyer.

Tank Dell or Keon Coleman? Coleman. I'd go Coleman. All right. The Raiders are two and two and two and they take on the Denver Broncos who are also two and two. The Drafking Sportsbook line here, Denver minus two and a half at home over under of 35 and a half. Play your Denver defense because they've been great. They've been outstanding. In fact, they're the only team to slow down Baker Mayfield. They literally. look like one of the best defenses in the league. And when you're playing against the Raiders without Devante Adams, you're at home in Denver with the crowd behind you. That's going to be a great defensive play. You think they can stop Madison. I think there's a chance. There's a chance they can slow him down at least. No one could stop Alexander Madison. Except himself. Yeah. Sometimes you have games where you've got a lot of options in terms of fantasy.

This is not one of them. So it's concerning because Denver's defense is outrageous. I mean, they were good last year. They're good this year. Jacoby Myers, Trey Tucker, Brock Bowers. What are you doing? Because the implied point total in this game is brutal. It's 16 points for the Raiders. You know, you saw the Jets. They scored nine points against Denver last week at home. Yeah, so Trey Tucker, I think, is a good football player, and his opportunity is going to go north. He had nine targets two weeks ago. That's great, but that was against Carolina. I think playing in Denver against Denver, it's going to be very difficult to get a touchdown here for any of the wide receivers. And if you're not getting a touchdown, then maybe in a full PPR, you can have six receptions and squeak out a non-bust game, but that's not what I'm looking for. So I'm taking both of those wide receivers, putting them on my bench.

And then I'll start Brock Bowers because he's a tight end that catches balls. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's good. It's good process. Thanks. Jacoby Myers will probably be the one that Sir Tan rolls over to. I, maybe. Does he even shadow in this or does he? Yeah, I mean, if I were going to play one, I play Tucker over, over Myers. I agree with that. I think the talent. You would love to be able to play. I would trade Tucker in my lineup immediately. Right now it's Tyrone Tracy. in my lineup and David Singles, there's point. Jason has, Jason has nobody. I have nobody. My whole roster. Buy weeks, injured reserve, and then a lack of trading with me. I basically have four injured reserve players and three guys on by weeks and Tyrone Tracy is my hero. Cortland Sutton or Wondale Robinson because these are the fifth and sixth highest targeted players in football. I'd go Wondale. I agree with neighbors out and this game.

looking like a very low scoring game, I would go, I would go Wando. The yards per catch, what is the difference? For Wondale? Oh, it's good. Wondale's what, like two yards of catch? Something like that? I guess I'm just trying to think of it's not better, much better. He's at 12.8. So it's at 12.8? Yeah, he's at 12.8. Because he's regular wide receivers. I'm just trying to think about they're both very highly targeted and I wanted to think about that. So you'd go Wondale. Yes, between those two. Josh Downs recording the Sutton? Ooh. If it's Flacco Downs. If it's Flacco, I'd play Downs. Giovante Williams is currently not really good at the game, but the workhorse role it returned. He was at 34% of the work. Yeah, that's where I am on this. Until we get Max Crosby, probably not going to play again. That's which I, I.

If you're in a deeper format, I would add Adric Estimate just in case. At this point, like trying to find a running back who could take a job. Yeah. Estimate is on that list for me. But Javon. They have a now hiring sign up. Like on the stadium. They've got a big banner now in Denver. Now hiring running backs. Against the Jets, it was it was Javante's best game. He was at 4.8 to carry, 16 attempts, three targets, which that was good for 12% of Denver's targets last week. So he is. He's like an RB3. Yeah. Yeah, that makes sense. And then anybody else you want to discuss in this game? Please. Madison is going, I mean, the noting here, Kyle was saying touchdown or bust. I completely believe that's going to be the case in this game for Madison. Amir did not practice. No. It was a full D&P yesterday. I mean, I think Madison is one of those players that he's in a terrible matchup. Yeah. Against the team where, you know, we saw Breeze Hall last week. It wasn't good.

and he's Alexander Madison, but he'll have all the work. The best play for Alexander Madison this week would be a Jacobi Myers pass interference in the end zone. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. He's only had. Four targets the last three games total. Which is crazy because he had six targets in week one and looked like the pass catching guy. They don't know what they're doing. It could be bad. They don't know what they're doing as a franchise man. Yeah. They're two and two. Both these teams are two and two. It's just a gross game. Yeah. The Cardinals one and three taking on the 49ers, two and two, San Francisco out home. DK has the line at San Francisco minus seven and a half. The over and under is 50. 50 points. San Francisco, their implied team total.

is basically 29 points. In games where San Francisco is the favorite, they covered their own implied team total over 70% of the time. Against the Cardinals at home, I expect them to do it. That's not a good bet. That's a great bet. And I'm not saying that like on a betting on the money line. I'm saying that as in 29 points should be coming for the 49ers, and that means Brock Purdy is a good start. That means Jordan Mason is pretty much a guarantee for a touchdown. That means Iyuk should get it done. Samuel Kittle, like everyone here. Juan Jennings? I would play Joanne Jennings. Because of the history of Brock Purdy's Niners getting it done when they're heavy favorites, like they, they.

This is a perfect matchup to just throw all your 49ers in. It's how they're built. The 49ers are built to play with the lead, which I know you're trying to, it sounds strange, but like they really, this is not a, like Brock Purdy is not to me. I don't know if he's really a catch up quarterback just yet. But in the lead, when he's dominant or when their team is dominating, Brock Purdy's fantastic. It's not like the Cardinals are sitting at 15, 16 points. They have an implied point total over 21. And Kyler, his rushing lines only set at 29 and a half. He's not been running the ball enough. We are not pleased with that reality. It's your superpower, man. The coaches should not be pleased with what he did last week. I will say this. On the season, he's been running the ball a lot. Yes. For some reason, the last week, when they were getting blown out at home by the commanders, he had three rushing yards. Prior to that, he was on pace for over 900 rushing yards on the season. So I do expect him to get back to that. I think this is a line that he will.

cover? And the question is, are you confidently starting him? Because he's been outside the top 12 in three of his four weeks. The fourth game was the number one quarterback on the week. According to Jason Moore of the fantasy footballers on yesterday's show, yes. Okay. I trust that guy. If you trust the source. There's only three running backs that have been top 10 running backs in three of the four weeks this year. Alvin Camara, Jordan Mason in this game. and James Connor in this game. James Connor has, he's been outstanding for the Cardinals. Are you confident that he's going to be able to get it done in this matchup? This is a tougher matchup. However, it's worth noting Fred Warner, who is, I don't know, maybe the greatest defensive player of all time. It seems so far this season has not practiced at all this week. I think he is pretty much doubtful to play in this game, even though he's an Iron Man. I think he's missed one game in six years.

So I would not put it out of the realm of possibility that he is active here. But if he's gone, that's very helpful. I mean, you should start James Carter no matter what. Yes, I agree. But I think there is a chance he has a pretty okay game here. Marvin Harrison, of course. You talked about the wide outs on the other side and we expect Tray McBride back. The big one to monitor here, George Kittle, who hadn't practiced Wednesday or Thursday, and he's on the West Coast. So we don't have the news yet on whether he practiced today. But he's the one to monitor.

If he's out, it just means more to go around for Debo-I-Uke and Jennings. Probably makes Jennings a much safer start. All right. Green Bay, they're two and two. They take on the one in three Los Angeles Rams in L.A. The Draft King Sportsbook line here. Green Bay minus three. The overrunners 49. I don't know. Only 49? I don't know what your face is saying right now. You saw that, huh? Yeah, I gave you a moment. What are you doing? The face hasn't calmed down. He's got a little smirkish going on. No, it was more of a sadness. Is it a resignation? What is going on? It's genuinely. It's 100% I just remembered. I was like, oh, shoot, I got to dress up. That's something at the end of the show. Was you remembering you had the wheel of shame? It was remembering I got the wheel of shame at the end of this episode and went, oh, crap. Oh my gosh. Just a little like. Yeah. So stay tuned. You know? I don't know what I'm going to be, but it's not going to be fun. Incredible face tease. There you go.

All right, Packers, Rams. If you watched the film last week, Jordan Love, the film on Jordan Love didn't match the fantasy production on Jordan Love. He had a very bad game. He had three quarters of a bad game. Sure. I mean, it was not what you wanted to see as a quarterback from Jordan Love on the field. It was what you wanted to see as a fantasy manager. But I'm just saying, like, it was a struggle. And it was the first game back. And it probably will not be a struggle this week against the Rams who are just. Their defense is very, like they don't play favorites. They're bad against all positions. If you're a quarterback, they're bad against. What about tight ends? Terrible against them. Running backs? Also bad. How about a wide receiver? Also bad. Okay. So 27th against those three positions. I had a really hard time. So speaking of the draft kings lineup, when I was making mine for this week, my biggest problem was I was way.

too heavy on this game. I wanted everyone. I had Jordan Love and I had Jaden Reed and Donovan Wicks and Tucker Kraft and then Kyron on the other side. Like I love this, this matchup, this game. I'm very excited for it. I think that this one is one that won't disappoint and will be a back and forth affair between two like quality run franchises that are going to do whatever it takes to score. So like I don't know who I don't want in this game. I other than DeMarcus Robinson because I've had to play him three weeks in a row of death. Yeah, I mean, yeah, I get it. How would you order the Rams wide receivers? If you're starting them, I know my order now. Honestly, it's different on scoring. If it's a full PPR, it's Whittington. If it's a half or standard, it's two, two. I don't mind that. That makes a lot of sense. These lines here are interesting to me of Jordan Whittington. His receiving lines at 46 and a half.

Wix, Dantavian Wix, the, the popular pickup of this week, his is at 50 and a half. Like, Wittington's expectation is not far behind Dantavian Wix. It's a good point. So that's pretty wild to me. And the game script, I mean, it's a three-point road favorite Packers team. The Rams have had to come back on all of their matchups. I mean, even their victory a couple of weeks ago was a huge comeback late in the game. So, you know, Kyron's obviously in your lineup. He's been amazing. He averages almost 22 opportunities a game. Love is my start of the week. Wix start of the week. And Tucker Kraft, Jason, start of the week. So we're all in on the Packers performing on offense here. The good part is, is can the, you know, what you said happen? The Rams keep up. So this game is more exciting like last night's Thursday. I love that this game is in Los Angeles. Like that's a big part of this is, you know.

Being the home team having to try to keep up, it's a lot easier here than in Lambo. What's your thoughts on Jacobs and Emmanuel Wilson right now before we move on? I mean, Jacobs just remains a must play. I'm in a situation not far off from Jason where he's starting Tracy. I'm starting Emmanuel Wilson. I don't love it, but at least it's 14 and 9 opportunities the past two weeks. All right, we'll take a break. We've got three more matchups and then the wheel of shame. The one in three New York Giants head to Seattle to take on the three and one Seattle Seahawks. The Draft King Sportsbook line, Seattle minus six and a half. The over under is 43 and a half. That gives Seattle 25 points. The Giants just 18 and a half points. You know, the Giants were up against it anyways, and then you take away their entire offense, which I am.

Speaking of Malik neighbors. Right. Yeah, you said their entire offense. This is their lack of an offensive opportunity in this game is the only thing that takes, that gives me positive about how big of a game Metcalf and JSA and Lockhe can have. Because if Seattle can win with Ken Walker and Zach Charbonnet and I don't know. I just wonder if we don't get the game we hope from. I agree completely. I think this one's going to get out of hand quickly. This is a Ken Bone Walker. great game coming. That's how I see it. I can't imagine that he doesn't have 100 yards and a touchdown. Assuming he plays. And if he was out, Charbonnet. Absolutely. Charbonnet in this matchup against the Giants. The Giants don't have like some horrific run defense that's easy to run all over. But because their offense is so bad, they're going to, the Seahawks are going to be allowed to run a ton and just keep doing that and win.

an ugly ball game. So I agree. I'm starting D.K. Metcalf. I'm not excited about what he's going to do this game. J.S.N. Tyler Lockett. Those are guys where if you've got a good team, I would prefer to bench them in this matchup. Yeah. I would love to play them if they were on. Yeah, no, we got it. Yeah. But no, I say D.K. Metcalf and the normal team. Ken Walker. That's all I want. I wouldn't, just quick if we can, a larger discussion about D.K. Metcalfe, how do you view him? Like, I feel like, I feel like the perception of Netcalf is still where it was from the draft. I'm guessing it, look, week one was terrible. They played the Denver Broncos. Surprise, surprise. We're learning that teams play bad against them. And then the next three weeks.

The dude has been 129, 104, 104. He's scored in two of the three. Like, still undervalue. 14 targets, 12 targets, a monster involvement. Do we need to start thinking about D.K. differently? Well, you guys do. I've been viewing them this way the whole time. I bring it up. I think he's a top 10 wide receiver. I bring it up because I am. Like, my opinion is like, I got to, I got to shift this from D.K. is, well, he's just a, he's a pretty good play. D. K. K. Like, looking like, you know, the hopes and the dreams of Grub coming in from college, bringing that offensive system, who he, like, incredible success at Washington. It's like, is D.K. going to be wrong with Dunzee? It looks, it's looking good. It's looking good so far. Okay, so the legitimate question here, we talked about the wide receivers and how this game script could happen. We're obviously not playing anyone other than Wondale and a full PPR on the Giants.

Wondale or Whittington? Wondale. If it's full PPR, I think Wondale's going to have like 10 receptions. He might not have a yard off of them, but. Yeah, the full PPR, he's just going to get so many passing. If I need a ceiling play just a swing, I'd go Wittington. I will point out, Wondale, this is not his first rodeo. Like, he's played three years in the NFL, and most of those were without Malik neighbors. And there have been lots of opportunities for him to be involved, and they didn't happen. Yeah, well, I mean, we have seen, even over the course of his career, we've seen a handful of those games where there's just hyper-targeted, again, not efficient, not doing much with it, but I think the targets are there. I just don't view him as a guarantee like others might this week. Okay, that's fair. I mean, he's Wondale Robinson. I was on Slack last week watching the game, talking about like this is the worst performance I've ever seen. I've never seen someone with more opportunities to break a tackle who couldn't. His DK line is higher than JSN. So 50 and a half for Wondale.

JSN's at 45. The big question mark for me here, I've been talking up Gino Smith. I love playing him, but we talked about how the passing game might not be needed. I have Gino. He's my pivot from Anthony Richardson. Looks like he's going to be starting. Are there other quarterbacks that are, you know, would you be starting a Trevor Lawrence or Deshawn Watson or those type of players over Gino because of the fears of game script? Or you just roll with Gino? I'd roll with Gino. It should be a It should be a safe floor for Gino. You just might not have the opportunity for, you know, an explosive game. But he should be good in this game. I'm going to go Kirk Cousins. Oh, nice time machine. Nice job. Nice job. What about Fields? Would you go, Gino? I would play Fields. I really like him this way. Well, let's talk about him in this next matchup. All right. We'll get into Sunday night football. Dallas is two and two, Pittsburgh's three and one. The drafting sports book line, Pittsburgh minus two and a half at home. The overrunner is 44.

So we've had some, you know, through four weeks, some changes in the outlook for both of these franchises, right? Dallas last year, you know, they won, what, 13 games? It hasn't been a smooth sailing. Their defense has been not good. Pittsburgh, three and one, getting it done. Although we did mention the fact that the defensive numbers might be a slight, they might be slightly fraudulent in terms of how elite they are. You're talking about Pittsburgh? I am. Yeah. Yeah, we just, we don't, you can't say for sure yet. Yeah, I mean, you saw last week when people expected them to shut down Indianapolis, they lost on the road and they gave up 27 points to Joe Flacco and Richardson. And their previous three games were, you know, they're very impressive. So, yeah, it's probably, they're probably a top 10 team. But I'm just laying that out there for your expectations for this game. The overrunner is 44 as well. That's not.

crazy low. 20 points from both teams, over 20 points from both teams. So, you know, where are the big decisions here? We just talked about Justin Fields. Is he a tough decision for anybody this week? It's not tough for me. I have him as a top six play at the current moment. His DK rushing line is at 46.5. That's like if we can get that on the ground, that is beautiful. He has hit that in two of four games. And it was just, If another team can score on them, that's when Justin feels it's going to be great. And I think that Dallas, they're going to struggle on the defensive side, but their offense will still be able to put up points. That makes sense. There was news this morning that Dallas appears to be getting ready to give Delvin Cook a chance to play football. It makes sense. In the NFL. Zeke missed practice here. It's hard to not. He was thirsty. It's, it's.

He mispractice with, or he was limited with dehydration. I mean, you got to hydrate. That electrolytes, Zee, that's weird. Magnesium, potassium. Get them in your system. Do you guys remember the last time we had a limited participant with dehydration? No. No, because it's never happened. Because it's practice. What are you talking? Where's the training staff with dehydration? He's practicing too hard. He cares too much. Yeah, maybe. His heart is too big. That's right. It takes so much water. As big as his head. Yeah, I mean, look, they've got to figure out how to run the ball. They have to. They're not going to be able to be a competitive, playoff contending Super Bowl aspirational team if they cannot run the ball to the level that they can't right now. So they're going to give Rico Dowdell probably almost all the work in this game. It's a terrible matchup to see what you got. And if they're going to bring Dalvin Cook up and then they're going to pivot there,

It's just a mess. I don't think they get it together. I don't think they figure out how to run the ball this year. This whole year, I'm skeptical that they will have an answer. It feels like they made a, they committed a mortal sin when they chose not to address it in the offseason. Yeah, either in free agency or in the draft. I mean, and Jerry Jones was talking about how important it was. I mean, they were going to get John in the books. Their offense is still moving it. It's just not productive in the running game. They're number one in Red Zone plays per game.

In the NFL. Is there any start? I mean, you've got Brandon Cooks out. Would you start Jalen Tolbert here? I wouldn't do it. I think it's Ferguson and Lamb absorbing the majority of the targets. I agree. I agree. Ferguson, Lamb, Prescott, in. Fields, Najee, Pickens, in. Check out. What about Friamuth? What if you're in this economy? Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. I mean, he's got four receptions each of the first four weeks. I think he's a safe start to not goose. And that is, you know, that's a high bar. The Cowboys defense has generally been pretty good against tight end. So it's not one I'm targeting by any, but like I would rather play Joanne Johnson against Kansas City who gives up tons of yardage and receptions to the tight end position versus Pat Freymeuth. If you're just streaming. New Orleans, we've got a Monday night football game is New Orleans, Kansas City. Speaking of Juan Johnson, you probably, Papa Josh, you've already got red paint. So like,

Do you want to make like a Kansas City, New Orleans bet here? Um, no. Oh, okay. No. All right. Well, you got the, I mean. Here, I can give you, uh, I can give you a bunch of these ws. I won't be needing them. This, this, this thermometer, this 10 wind thermometer for the saints behind me, might just stay at two for a while. To go back to Jason's narrative of Dennis Allen being the worst. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It is. just so amazing for him and that storyline that they dominated the first two games. I know. Because how with the domination of those first two weeks, now how much leeway do you get? Oh, he's got the whole season. Like he, I mean, he's going to be fine. Well, it's going to get better after this one too because New Orleans 2 and 2, Kansas City 4 and O, Draft King Sportsbook Blind, Kansas City minus five and a half. Oh, oh. Andy's almost upset of the week.