The Halloween Show! Week 8 Studs & Duds + Fantasy Greed - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/31

The Rams. Yeah, the Rams. The number one defense against running. Oh, baby. Do either of you have that. Do I have Christian McCaffrey? Yeah. Yeah, I do. Okay. That's good. Yes. I do. Do you have the tweet on the pass, the 30 yard passing touchdown? Oh, uh, I can. That's just so funny. Jimmy Garoppolo versus. Yes, Jimmy Garoppolo had, you find the tweet for credit, but Jimmy Garoppolo had his first 30 air yard passing touchdown as a starting quarterback for the 49ers. It's just, yeah, it was from Benjamin Solac who said, uh, the Jimmy Garoppel completed his first pass as a 49er of 30 plus air yards outside the numbers. This was his 50 second game with the 49ers. Christian McCaffrey.

completed his first pass as a 49-30-plus air yards outside the numbers. It's his second game. That pass that McCaffrey threw was awesome. It was like he put so much air under the ball and laid it up perfect 30 yards down the field. It was crazy. Christian McCaffrey is going to dominate with San Francisco. He has, and he got the same utilization. You're talking 80 plus percent of the running back rush attempts, 80 plus percent of the snaps. He's, he fumbled. Once for sure, the second one was called like an incomplete pass, but it could have been a fumble. But it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if you're Christian McCaffrey. Just keep putting him out there. Travis E.T.N. looks great. 24 for 156 and one. Three targets. Not getting it done in the passing game, but he is dominating. Out of the backfield looks like he's being shot out of a cannon on every play. You just keep giving him the football and you get a big play eventually. He is.

He's lined up. I mean, he's got Las Vegas next week than Kansas City before the buy. ETN is arguably a top five-ish, top eight running back rest of the season. Yeah, he's right there. His utilization was exactly what you hoped after the trade. They did not bring in Jamichael Hastie to take, you know, over the job that was left from James Robinson. You're talking about, again, 86% of the running back rush attempts for ETN. He is. the belcow here. Also, I believe leading the league in yards per carry. And the story of Travis E. Tian will 100% for his career come down to durability. Can he stay healthy at that size? Lost the season to the list, Frank injury already. You know, when you get 88% of the running back carries, you have to be able to take a few licks. So we'll see. Dalvin Cook, nice week, Jamal Williams.

DeAndre Swift. Oh, man. It wasn't the storyline for DeAndre Swift you wanted. Five carry six yards. But at least he got in the end zone if you threw them back into your lineup. And I was looking at a snap report that Swift played more snaps than Jamal Williams. Yes. That feels impossible if you watch this game. I mean, it just seemed like Swift was nowhere near as involved as Jamal Williams. And he really wasn't. as involved 10 carries for Jamal Williams, five for DeAndre Swift, but he did out snap him. He was involved, which honestly, that kind of skears me a little bit more for the utilization. Like, if he had only played 30% of the snaps and they're working him back from this ankle injury, I would be more excited for future games of growth there. But the fact that he was on the field, you know, he ran more routes, but he just wasn't as involved as you want for a guy that.

You know, in the beginning of the year, this year and the beginning of the year last year, it seemed like you had a superstar. In injuries made the team go, maybe we can't just keep giving the guy the ball as much as fantasy football players want. It was his first game off of this most recent injury. And even during the week, even though it was, well, DeAndre Swift is practicing in full. The message we were getting from the coaching staff was, well, he's trending towards playing. So even though he was, you know, getting that practice. The team was still hesitant to even say that he was playing for sure. His role will go up, and it's Swift is, he's the receptions guy. And you had the five targets, five for 27 in Detroit, as they showed in this game, they can get into huge shootouts, but no matter what, their offense will have to put up points because their defense is just bad. Green Bay, Chicago. Well, let me test you. I'm still, I,

I still believe in Swift is like a top 15 guy. Would you trade DeAndre Swift for Jonathan Taylor based on what you said earlier? Oh, gosh. Oh, man. Yes. I'm answering for Mike. No. Well, you've been the Jonathan Taylor guy the whole entire time and it's not working out. It's not working out. Stay the course. I mean, what is Jonathan Taylor's? He's great. But what is his true ceiling with this offense with Sam Ellinger as the quarterback? Well, I mean, we've got one game. Yeah. And they were on the precipice of a victory. They lost it. Right, but there are no receptions coming for Johnny Taylor. And that's the scariest part. Maybe they go back to the film and say, Sam, you've got to check this down. Part of it was part of it. He missed some of the game. Sure. That could be an excuse if you want one. The other one is there was a couple designed screens that got blown up.

That would have been opportunities, but that is the question mark, right? What is the ceiling? And there are questions with Swift too. Oh, absolutely. Injuries and Jamal Williams problems where he gets, you know, opportunities. I don't know the answer. I'm just laying out both sides. Yeah, I think that's a tough choice. And because I have Swift, I guess it's just he's on my team and I'll probably keep him. The 21 routes run is very encouraging for that first game. Should you be actually answering the question with Ramandre Stevenson? I mean, Remandre Stevenson. Maybe. Remandre Stevenson, I don't know if people understand. He's been a top 10 running back four of six weeks, and the two weeks he was, and he was 14 and 24. He's that involved right now, opportunity-wise. And it really is the involvement that has started since week three. Since week three, you cut off the first two weeks of the season, which is a large sample now, six games, six of the eight. What running back do you think he is so far on the season from week three through now?

The running back five overall in fantasy. And today's or yesterday's game was the most important because two weeks ago, it was all him. Three weeks ago, it was really all him when Damien Harris went down to injury early. So you forgive those. Last week, it was like, okay, Damian Harris was the backup. You're just, that's his first game back from injury. We have now a healthy Damian Harris who got 11 carries in this game. That is Damien Harris played Damian Harris's role. Ramandre Stevenson played Ramandre Stevenson's role going forward. So I think you can bank on him. I don't believe that he has necessarily, like, you know, he's been the running back five since week three. That sounds great. He had two games that was all entirely him. I don't think the ceiling is quite as high for Ramandre as that, but he is.

You know, I think he's a top 15 running back rest of season, even with a healthy Damian Harris. Do you realize his reception pace in those six weeks is 82 receptions on the year? And he's on pace for 1,300 yards and 11 rushing touchdown. And he's a good receiver. We talk about targets being an earned statistic. I believe Damien Harris ran more routes than Ramondre Stevenson this last game, which seems impossible when you look at the target numbers. But that's because. One of them is a really good pass catching running back, and one of them isn't. Eight targets each of the last two weeks for Romandre. And we need to remember players improve, right? They have the capacity to become better players. And Ramandre seems to have taken a step forward in that avenue this year. Looks like a great dynasty play with Damien Harris, a free agent. If you can pick him up in one of those leagues, sure. I mean, the price will be high, but it might be a worthy price the way they want to run this office. Also, update, I am at 50%.

I'm a 50% right now. The number is climbing. What's the sweat proportions? The sweat is okay. The fan is doing its work on the whole undercarriage region. But it's really the hair that's getting in the mouth and the nose and just itching. You don't want to do the whole day like this? Work in the studio. Oh, yeah. No, this is actually I'm thinking about this just being my look going forward because I haven't had this much hair in a while. Hadrid opted into that look. He chose. Yeah. He wasn't wearing. He's a half giant. It's kind of hard. Yeah. He grows too quick. The hair. Couldn't shave. Aaron Jones is much better than that other guy. 241.43 Aaron Jones also looks like he shot out of a cannon every time he takes the handoff. 143 rush. He guys didn't get into the end zone, but has Detroit?

coming up. Yeah, that was against Buffalo. You would assume that Detroit, and it's in Detroit, which is what you want. That's where their offense has been very, very good. Detroit on the road has been terrible. At home has been great. So Aaron Jones next week seems like a smash matchup. AJ Brown 11 target, 6 for 156 and 3. Such a disappointing game. If you watch this. You're super disappointed. No, you weren't. No, you were not. No, you were not. What are you talking about? Let me ask you this question. Grady maniac. Yes. Let me ask you this question, Mike. Okay. When you have watched Dalvin Cook as a Dalvin Cook manager in the past and he has an awesome game, he goes out there, gets three touchdowns and two touchdowns were taken away from him in that game. How upset were you at those plays that like went to Big Irv? I remember.

This happened. This doesn't mean it was right. No. This is a fair point. This is a fair point. I'm telling you, A.J. Brown was unbelievable, unstoppable. He's so big out there. Obviously six for one, 56 of three. You're thrilled. But if you watch the game, he had another play that was like the same pass play just didn't come down with. It could have been a long bomb touchdown. And then he got tripped. Yeah. When he got tripped, it was like he was going to the house again. So judge, Judge Giamatti, O'Brien. Look, how greedy is this man? Oh, he's so greedy. Oh, yeah. I play fantasy. You were disappointed was his quote from a three touchdown game. If you watched it. You just had the wealthiest man in existence call you greedy. Wow. Wow. How does that feel? Pretty good. DeAndre Hopkins, 13 targets, 12 for 159 and 1. Unstoppable right now. Yep. His touchdown catch was redonk. Jalen Waddle, Tyreek, combined for 20 receptions.

They combine for 25 targets. They combined for over 300 all-purpose yards. They are not, they're not guardable. I mean, that's the facts. I mean, I played Jaylon Waddle in my Draft Kings lineup. I'm not shame this week. It was a delightful choice. Oh, man. Me neither. That's Hagrid this week. The greedy guy is shamed. That's. As funny, as we were getting ready before the show, Mike points out, he's like, I feel like we're all getting, like, shamed by the wheel of shame right now. Yeah, but also put the Hagrid on the wheel, please. A little too much to get into. Yeah, that's like a half hour. But no, Waddle, Tyreek, they're great. They make Tua viable every week. DJ Moore. 11, target, six for 152 and one. He won and lost the game for the Carolina Panthers. The kicker lost the game.

The kicker lost the game. Well, I mean, the kicker lost the game because he missed the much longer kick, yes. He also missed a field goal to win the game that was exactly where the extra point is normally. I think the question is, is what is the percentage chance they win the game if DJ Moore keeps his helmet on? That's fair. And I would put it at 90% because that's about what the extra point kicking is. DJ Moore, I think based on his, uh, face on the bench would say, I lost that game for us. I think he would say that because he felt it. He caught a Hail Mary game for them. Yes. Well, that's, I don't blame him at all. At all. Okay. I don't know that I would have done anything different just because you're in the moment. You're so excited. You catch the Hail Mary bomb touchdown to win the game. He rips his helmet off, which is a foul.

with that is that is illegal yeah he gets the penalty they move the extra point back 15 yards the extra point is missed that would have been the game winner they go to overtime and uh so he he first time in his career top eight two weeks in a row yeah of course j walker it's not i texas ranger p j walker texas ranger looked better than than baker mayfield just In general, the ball had more zip and he's looking at DJ Moore. Well, he can get out of the pocket. I mean, he moves around and then that means DJ Moore's open. There's also a good ball. The Hail Mary pass at the end was a perfect pass. Yeah, and the worst defense. I don't understand how they don't have someone at the deepest point of the field. But DJ Moore very good. With no Robbie Anderson and no Christian McCaffrey, I think it just continues for DJ Moore. Well, the crazy thing is, I think it's the quarterback.

I really do. I mean, Baker, they said, was warming up during part of this game when PJ Walker wasn't looking so good. I got scared for DJ Moore. That's fair. Because it's like he's played a lot of his career with Robbie Anderson sitting on the sideline doing nothing. And I just, he's impressive. You know it's going to change, though. They're not going to just stick with PJ Walker the rest of the year because they're going to lose games and then Darnold will be healthy and they'll switch to Darnold at some point. Maybe. Yeah, maybe. I mean, and then at that point, you should be terrified. Yeah.

for DJ Moore. Ron Dale Moore, seven for 92 in a touchdown. Nice week for him. Diggs, always great. Cup, of course. Ayuk, third straight week of relevant, six for 81 and a touchdown. I mean, when Debo is not there, Brandon Ayuk is a really good play. Dollar store, Deontay Johnson, Jacoby Myers. Again, 12 targets. Wait, wait, wait, where. Dollar store. Deontay Johnson is dollar store Jacob Myers now. Now he is, but I'm talking about what you said at the beginning of the year, which is. You know, I'm talking about draft price, my brother. Yeah, no. You paid a lot for Deontay Johnson. You found that Gucci bag at the dollar store. Yeah, you wanted Jacoby Myers. That's what you would have preferred. His target market share was exactly back to where you wanted it to be with Mac Jones back in the lineup. He is reliable. He is great in PPR. And he's actually scoring some touchdowns. So Jacoby Myers is wheels up as a wide receiver three.

Andy's cackling. He's got a lot of hair in my face. Yeah. I hit the microphone. I mean, you got the fan on. I don't have the fan on. Oh, you don't have a, well, that's because you have the shortest tiny short shorts on. Yeah. Which is unfortunate that you can't really tell. No, it's fortunate. Yeah. Yeah, I think there'd be some private parts that aren't so private. Garrett Wilson, encouraging game for him. Yes. If you look at the snap breakdown. Oh, brother. They have Elijah less. What are they doing? That's double birds. Why are they not trading him? They could get a haul for Elijah Moore. He played well enough and was a high draft capital pick. Someone would give up something valuable for him. If you're going to relegate him to 10 snaps on the field, good. I feel so bad for him. See, I'm going to give a little bit of the benefit of the doubt to Robert Sela and the team here.

because we don't see behind closed doors, right? We don't know. Like, if he's going to come out in public and say those things after a win, we don't know what happens in the locker room and how disruptive that is to the team. So trade him. Yeah. Well, sure. I mean, that's an option, but you're not going to take nothing for Elijah Moore. That would be stupid. But that would also be a really, really bad move. They are currently doing that, though. They're taking nothing for Elijah Moore. They're putting him on their bench and getting nothing from him. No, I don't agree with you guys. But he played 10 snaps. I understand. I'm saying that you're getting nothing from him, but you can't trade him for a ninth. You cannot trade him for a ninth. For a seventh round pick. But I'm saying like, I mean, what if that's the offer they have? Next week will be very telling because if he plays a small amount of snaps again, which we, he, there was a video of him in the locker room and he's still not happy. Well, they asked him what is.

They asked him what his rapport was. His chemistry was. His chemistry with Zach Wilson. He said, I don't know. I don't get the ball. Yeah. So. I was just saying if you're going to perpetually punish this player, then you're punishing your team by not trading him. Well, I mean, would you have said that about the 49ers in Brandon Ayuk last year who, you know, after they worked through it, he came back and he's a super valuable piece of the offense. I mean, you have to work through. That's what I'm saying. And I think Robert Sale is a good coach. That's my whole point here is that we're not dealing with Matt Nagy.

where you have a little bit more of a track record of frustration in the team in the locker room. The Jets are winning ball games. Well, not yesterday. Okay. But they've been winning ball games. I just think that sometimes you can't just take the fantasy perspective on this. Romeo Dubs scored. Yeah. So he was good. That was a great catch. If he doesn't score, he won't be good. Yeah. Tyler Conklin, 10 targets again. Kong Kong. One for each touchdown. Isaiah likely on Thursday. We knew that was a big game. Nine targets, five for 80 for Kyle Pitts. Yeah. Because I put him on the bench. You could do this anytime, Atlanta. Oh, man. I've benched him twice. He scored both weeks. You're welcome everyone who played him. You have played him every other week. That is correct. That is miraculous. At my own demise. I mean, I played him and left Tayson Hill on the bench one week. Yeah, it's not great. It's the pits, they might say.

Evan Ingram, four for 55 and a touchdown. Wait, what? George Kittle back into the end zone, three for 39. How do you feel about Kettle right now? I feel pretty great about Kittle. He's been very good the last three weeks. No Dibo, though, just three catches? Certainly disappointed with three for 39, but, you know, if you get in the end zone, he's going to be a top tight end because that's how the tight ends work. And so, yeah, I'm fine with it based on the body of work of his career and the last month. Greg Dulcich, the last two weeks, has caught 10 of 14 targets for 138 yards, had 82% of the snaps. I was watching that game closely. I mean, I was in that game. Yes. I played in that game. And it was really one drive in the whole game. He was basically shut out in the first half. The third quarter drive, he caught an 18, 22, and 38-yard pass. Got dragged down at the one. But it's looking very good for Dulcich to be a rookie contributor to your fantasy team. Yeah, yeah.

To me, he looks like a budding superstar. What would you, I mean, early, a little early for tomorrow in the waiver show, but Greg D's going to come up. Is he a priority? Yes. It's tough because he's going into a buy week. That's true. I mean, but teams are going to go after him to try and fix their tight-end position. And like Mike Gassicki, who was on the rise, he came through 3 for 38 with a touchdown, but the snaps came back down, the targets came back down. So. We don't know if he can be relied on after that couple weeks of Ascension. And, I mean, it's like you're moving forward with like Evan Engram, which is fine. But I think the ceiling of Greg D. is just, it's up there. Here's a little PSA for the Foot Clan. Greg D's on a bye, so I will be playing Kyle Pitts next week. So make the proper adjustments that you know are going to take place. Poopped in his big boy pants.

Well, we got the floor for Daniel Jones. It was a brutal week. Seattle's defense, I had been watching this team. Three straight weeks, they've been a different defense. These young players playing much better, but Daniel Jones, no touchdowns, 20 yards rushing. It was gross. Yeah, the 20 yards rushing is the truly disappointing part. But it wasn't disappointing enough for me to get shame this week. It was perfect. Derek Carr. was, I mean, Derek Cardin looked like he wanted to be at this game. He passed for 101 yards. What? Wow. And he took so many sacks that looked like a man resigning himself. So you don't know the health of Devante Adams. He was obviously the biggest surprising, awful player of the week, but he was dealing with injury. He was with illness, is what I meant to say. He had the flu missed practice all week and clearly was not himself. When you have.

A not yourself, Devante Adams, no Darren Waller. It wasn't good for Derek Carr. And he didn't finish the game. Fourth quarter you saw was Jared Stidham in there? I don't remember. Who cares? Back up. Trevor Lawrence 133. Dude. What are the Jaguars doing? They are losing a lot of games. They are blowing it. I mean, they basically, if you watch their games. They start the game very strong with scripted plays. Yeah. And they are the worst point differential in second and fourth quarters in football. They don't have an offense really that is consistent outside of the scripted beginning of these games. And they just fall apart because Trevor Lawrence, I mean, he's making boneheaded plays every single week. They're in the red zone. He's pulling his Zach Wilson rushed to the right and chuck it into the defender's arms.

Zach Wilson sucks so much. We're talking about Trevor Lawrence. No, I know, but the name came up. And this is the Duds section of quarterbacks of which Zach Wilson. It's sponsored by Zach Wilson. He threw a couple touchdowns to avoid this segment. But yes, he, please don't roll right, Zach Wilson. Nothing good happens to the right. Three interceptions, two of which were just so egregious. And who's the best second year quarterback? Right now. So you got you got Trevor Lawrence. Zach Wilson. Is it Fields? Justin Fields, Mack Jones, and Trey Lance RIP. Yeah. Pass. Yeah. It's Fields right now. Yeah. As of right now, that's, I mean, that, that thing, that can change next week. But, like, Mac Jones has regressed a lot from what we saw. I don't know. I don't know the answer. I don't, I'm not willing to give Justin Fields the answer to that question yet. It might be Tray Lance only because he's not playing football.

Josh Jacobs, a down week for him because they couldn't get anything going. 10 for 43. He had been a top three running back three straight weeks. This was bad. Jonathan Taylor. He was actually 16 for 76, but he lost. Yeah, he lost a fumble. Is that the right number? Yeah, that's what I'm seeing. That's what I saw. He lost a fumble and he missed a goal line opportunity. and he missed some time getting his ankle retaped. It was after a 25-yard run when, you know, it was kind of one of those runs that you thought maybe breakaway speed might get him into the end zone. You had a huge shift happen in Washington. Yeah. Part of this was being down the entire game, but Brian Robinson just eight carries, no targets. He had two last week. Antonio Gibson, seven for nine. I mean, he couldn't run the ball either.

But he had seven targets, seven for 58 and a touchdown. It was the best fantasy player on the team. It wasn't just the game script, though, because Antonio Gibson returned to the kick and then played the first two drives. It might have even been in the second quarter that Brian Robinson finally got on the field. It's really difficult to know what to do here. Brian Robinson is maybe a guy you want to put on your bench until you see otherwise. I'm not dropping Brian Robinson, but. This is a situation that you need some more clarity before you could put them out or you're getting this week what Brian Robinson scored two points. Yeah, it was a disaster. He does not catch passes. Yeah, I mean, he had two last week, no targets this week. And if they're winning, they'll put them in there. But if they're losing, they have two pass catchers. Gibson and McKissick runs two minute drills.

It is risky, like Mike said. Their next two weeks, their opponents have a combined one loss. So that's not great. Probably should benching. Yeah. Al Borland. Yes, sir. The Pickleman. Yes, sir. You're pointing out that Zach Wilson and Dynasty got you a pretty nice fantasy week. Yeah. He sucks, but I mean, he performed for fantasy this week. 26.5 points in our league. Yeah. Yeah. Other. Issues, the Harris is. I dare you say my hair, yeah. We got some real hair issues on this. And the Harris is. Nogie Harris is brutal. I mean, this is getting bad. Eight for 32 on the ground. It is getting bad. We are going into the by week. Jalen Warren got some more opportunities in this game and looked infinitely better. And this is breaking my heart because I am a Naji Harris truther.

The dude is great. I thought he was an excellent prospect coming into the league. Had a great fantasy year his rookie season. But this is truly troubling that you're going to be, I will be keeping my eyes peeled and ears open for some news over the next couple weeks that are they going to get Jalen Warren onto the field more? Which they said they will. Warren, even through the bye week. Warren, to me, is somebody that you might want to throw on the back of your bench. Damien Harris, also a bad week. 11 for 37. The Ramandre show is delightful. Rahim Mostert. Disappointing. He's super disappointing for what he should have been, a smash play. He wasn't bad. Got 14 carries, which is a good number. Ran for four and a half a carry, which is a good number. But overall, he didn't catch any, he caught one pass, one target.