Week 8 Matchups, In-or-Out, Blastoff!

Monday night game. Monday night game. So that's a scary situation. You've got to have someone pick up Charles Clay in that same Monday night game. But I agree with Andy's face that he's making. But if you're playing the gronk game, you better be ready. I mean, we call Charles Clay Mr. We call Charles Clay Mr. necessary because of what he was for the offense. He's earned the moniker yet again. He is necessary for gronk owners. I, I have been fielding a lot of questions.

of people who have Grunk and they've got someone else. They were able to pick up Greg Olson when he was coming on. You know, and I'm telling everyone to go with the other player. I'm not waiting. If you have another tight end that is if you picked up O.J. Howard or you picked up someone else. I'm just starting those other guys because there is still the chance. We've seen it before where Gronk is out there as a decoy. And he hasn't been a dominant force. So you've got the chance he misses. You've got the chance he's just not as.

integral and he's using the decoy roll. If you've got another good... You do have the chance he scores three times. Yeah. Sure. He is wrong. But I actually the risk isn't worth the reward if you've got an O.J. Howard, if you've got a Greg Olson... I think it's easy to answer that way, though. If you have another top ten option, then go with them. Right. But if you have no one else and your waiver wire right now is Ben Watson, Ricky Seals Jones, Cameron Brate.

So I would start Ben Watson, but not Ricky Seals Jones or Cameron Bray. In those situations, I would grab Charles Clay and wait for Grunk. That's my take. And, you know, I'm generally the more risk averse of the three of us. Jack Doyle, he's back to limited practice. I do not believe he is going to practice. They have the by week coming up, and I think he'll be back after the buy. Yeah, I agree. All right. Don't forget, we'll update you. These things are always changing.

Got to be water. So the game day alerts one hour before the Sunday kickoff and Mike will be on Sunday live on YouTube, Instagram, etc. YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballers. You want to subscribe. We have something special plan for Halloween. I'm telling you you don't want to miss it. You have to have it, but did you guys hear the biggest news injury-wise of the week? Huge. Maybe. Ed Dixon. Upgraded to full.

Oh, in Thursday's practice. Oh, yeah, baby. Get ready. What team is he on, Jason? The Seattle Seahawks signed a monster contract. People don't know. Monster contract? Yes, he signed a monster. For Ed Dixon? Like he signed on with the company Monster? Energy drinks? Three years. Isn't it like $30 million? No. It isn't even remotely close to that. $15 million? No, not even $15. It's three years, $10.7. Really?

Yes, and guaranteed is $3 million. That's what he is worth. Why do you think Ed Dixon is collecting $30 million? Ed Dixon caught 95% of his total career yards in that one game against Detroit. Just you wait. Oh, we will wait forever. For 31-year-old Ed Dixon to break out. Yeah, it's just about to happen. He's an upgrade for the running game.

Yeah. All right. Hey, before we get into the rest of the fantasy forecast, we do have breaking news that we don't need the button. It appears Marlon Mack is practicing today. So that was, that came through the sleeper alert. I have not verified the source. The hype is, the hype is too intense on Marlon Mack. Yeah. A major pump. Yeah. I will say this with him missing, it still feels like I should not make him my start of the week. He's risky. I'm going to pivot to Gurley.

Question. You're going girly. Yeah. Yeah, that makes sense. I have good feeling about him. With regards to the Will Fuller injury, we did have a, I had a number of Twitter questions that were in the same vein asking this question for commissioners, for owners in this situation. A lot of people entered into trades. Okay, so here's one example. On Wednesday, I traded Doug Martin for Will Fuller. Unfortunately, we got a 24-hour veto process.

Because the Thursday night game was kicking off, and he was part of the deal. That means the trade doesn't go through until week nine next Tuesday. So now I'm getting a broken wool fuller. And my friend is getting Doug Martin. I think you're getting the better end of that deal. Should the commissioner automatically cancel the trade now that I'm receiving damaged goods? The commissioner and the rest of the league think the trade should go through. I'm not sure if that's because I'm in first place or what. Let me know your thoughts. Here's why we...

Funny of the timing, we just talked about this on the show that when you're heading into the weekend, you need to cancel all your trades because you don't want something to happen in the middle of a game where a player can then jump on and click accept of a trade because a player is now injured. The same is for Thursday nights. Don't make trades. You knew the 24-hour process was there. You can't make a trade heading into the game where something might happen.

I love the food clan. I love all the listeners of this show, but you made a mistake, man. Yeah, the issue is you took a risk. You took a risk. Shooters got to shoot. Whenever you took your shot. Whenever you are accepting a trade and you know this isn't going to go through until the next week, that's the risk in every single one of these trades. Now, if the, this is the only way that I would say you can undo the trade. The only way is if the other player.

The other team involved in the trade says, yeah, I don't feel right about it. I'm fine undoing it. If they want to undo it for guilt or whatever reason, then sure. Or just being a moral upstanding citizen. Yes. I don't think it's immoral to sleep in the bed that they made. But I get what you're saying, like the spirit of the trade. I had somebody else right with the reverse situation. And they said, I just traded, you know.

these three players to get Todd Gurley. And it was like two players plus Will Fuller. He's like, I kind of feel bad about it now because I don't think the trade was that good to begin with for this person. But you got Todd Gurley, I would stick with the. Don't get guilty. Don't get guilty. One of the criminals best rules. Don't get guilty. Get Gurley. All right. Rest of the fantasy forecast coming up. But before we jump in, I want to thank Simply Safe, Home Security,

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And, you know, if there's anybody that you're on the fence about, just remember if you wake up after the game starts, you don't get to change them. Let's start here with that London game. The Eagles, the Jags, some news about that game. A.J. Bouye, out. Yeah, we did the full forecast of this game yesterday, but that's the news you got to update. A.J. Bouye is an incredible cornerback.

This is, it's got to be at least a slight upgrade for Carson Wentz in the passing attack. Yeah, I mean, you, you have Jalen Ramsey and A.J. Bouye, that's right. On the second half, that's what's made the Jaguar so great. It's allowed, you know, coverage sacks and things like that. So this is good news. I think this is good news for Nelson Aguilar, at least having an opportunity. I would expect Ramsey to be on Alshan. Aguilar has been targeted intensely this year.

Yes, he has not done enough with those targets, I would say. Is that fair? That's fair. Yeah. So this is a game where maybe he breaks out, but really it, everything is earths to me. Like everything always is coming up hurts for the Eagles. Everything hurts? Everything hurts. Everything hurts all over. And that is a good REM song. After you're done working out, everything hurts. I also.

So if you were worried about playing Alshan Jeffrey because of the tag team cornerback duo, first off, I don't think you should have been, but now you have a reason to say Alshan's going to be fine. The 2-4-1 Browns take on the 3-2-1 Steelers. It's a, well, it's a 49 point over-under. The Steelers are 8-point favorites. These two teams need to go to the overtime.

It'll be great. Again, double ties. I want them to tie twice. Nick Chubb, now the running back for Cleveland. Can they count? Can fantasy owners count on Nick Chubb for RB2 production in this matchup? Lower level RB2 production. He's going to get a ton of volume and he's the goal line back. And if Cleveland ever gets, if they ever sniff the goal line, they go to the run. So you always have touchdown upside with Nick Chubb.

We saw that with Carlos Hyde. Carlos Hyde was very inefficient this season, but very good for fantasy because he was getting all the goal line work when they got around there. And so, yeah, Chubb is basically Carlos Hyde plus because he has the ability to break off a 50-yard run for a touchdown should one open up. And, you know, so far the Steelers have been very solid against the run and not solid at all against the pass.

which is not Chubb's game. So do you think Duke Johnson could be more involved in a higher scoring a game and the passing game? Or are you guys low on him simply because the first Chub high, or the first Chub Duke Johnson game did not see a lot of usage for Duke Johnson? Look, there's always the possibility. Duke Johnson was pretty good the week before.

But because the range of outcomes for Duke Johnson is so wide, I'm looking elsewhere in this matchup. I'm ideally not starting Duke Johnson in Pittsburgh. You can. There's buy weeks, but I'm scared. His usage as far as opportunities was actually very similar to two weeks ago when he had the big game, four receptions, 73 yards was on five targets. He had four targets last week, but it only turned into four receptions for 23 yards. Do you think he's flex-worthy?

He's not my favorite flex option, but desperate times, man. Do we expect David Injoku to keep up the newfound mojo with Baker Mayfield? Yes, I do. He has been the tight-in five since Baker Mayfield took over. So Steelers, not good against the tight-in position. That's why David Injoku is my start of the week. Yeah, the breakout is real.

All right. Is this the last time we see James Connor with that delicious workload? No. At some point, you have to go, give it another week. I mean, you know. I think it's the last time. Yeah. Maybe it is. Aren't you just fatigued? I mean, the reality is he has to come back.

We're talking about Leveon Bell. Yes. We sound like we're talking about Voldemort right now. He who shall not be named. No, look, James Connor's been great. I mean, people have been posting the metrics everywhere talking about how James Connor's actually been more efficient than Leveon Bell was through the same amount of games last year. Better against stacked boxes. Steelers are scoring three more points per game with James Conner. Right, exactly. And obviously, the team has rallied around Connor and is not.