Week 6 Studs & Duds + Injuries Galore! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/16

Really, it was one big play. There was a 64, 65-yard run, something like that. Yeah. His touchdown run was pretty nice as well. So, but you've got Tajay Spears still getting some work, had a really nice run of his own. And now you have extraordinary worries about the offense. If you lose Tannehill, you know, it's like, what is, what threat of passing is there? to guard against. They do have the buy week, so maybe Tannenhill will be good to go. And the big run for Derek Henry was out of the Wildcat formation. It was also a really good play call. Do you remember it? The big run? The Wildcat, because they did a reverse behind him that he faked, and it just cleared it out. Breeze Hall was good for fantasy. I mean, this was not studworthy. This was okay.

12 for 39 and a touchdown on the ground. But he's still one of the highest scores of the week, man. Yeah, I mean, I guess in the context of this week, that's why he's here. Yep. He's the RB 5 for, when you went 12 for 39? Well, he had 5 for 54 as a receiver as well. I'm shocked. Needed one more yard. I mean, that's not. I mean, when you have a bunch of Montgomery and CMCs go down, I guess it raises up the list. Kenneth Walker? Mm-hmm. RB7 on the year, 19 for 62 and a touchdown. He's had seven, five, five, and seven red zone carries the last four weeks. It almost feels a little bit like the Lions last year, where they would just end up inside the 10 zone and not throwing for touchdowns. Ramandre and Ezekiel Elliott both had good games. Did Zeeke have a good? I mean, he's big scored. The big play was called back.

Yeah, but he still scored. Oh, okay. Yeah. 10 for 46 and a touchdown for Ramandre. The big help was he got back into the passing game. Six targets, five for 24. Yeah, Zik had a long touchdown on a pass called back, scored later. And Ramondre also left this game for a little while. I know because I traded for Ramondry. And after Montgomery went down. You guys were texting and you're like, oh, no, remandre to the tent for a concussion. I was like, what is happening? Which is, I mean, it is worth noting of he played 65% of the snaps, which I'm seeing right now. So that was an uptick over the last couple weeks. And he was forced to miss time with injury. And we got the targets back up there. So that's at least, I mean, the plan that Jason executed, which I mean, I was a part of hoping that they would.

Be true to the word of we have to change up the offense. We got to do something. And that turned into six targets for Ramandre, which he needs to get featured there. Consider me in the sell high camp off of this game. I get it. This offense, Bill Belichick, Mac Jones, Malik Cunningham, I don't know who else is going to get their chances. I can't sell him. I have no running backs. I need him. There were some. whispers some salacious rumors of that Will Greer might be the one who gets a call. Yeah, so we'll see. I put in a waiver claim on Will Greer on Sunday morning. No, did you? Yeah. And you grab Malik Cunningham. And none of them are going to fix the problem. No, no, no, no, they definitely won't. They're one of the worst offenses in football. It's, I made a list of players I've least enjoyed watching this year.

Number one on the list is Mac Jones. Number two on that list is Derek Carr. And number three on that list is Dalvin Cook. Those are my top three least favorite to watch. Where's Ritter? Desmond Ritter isn't on that right now. Oh, okay. He's playing better. When I watch Mac Jones, I can't even get distracted by talent around him. At least when I watch Desmond Ritter, I can go, oh, there's Bejan. Oh, there's Drake London who had a good game. I mean, Bejohn's not on the list, but I'm sure that Drake and Kyle Pitts are going to be in the studs. Yeah. More studs at running back real quick. Chuba Hubbard, 19 for 88 and a touchdown. All he does is perform when he gets a chance. They have the by week. Then they have Houston. So that will be a follow the news closely for what happens with Miles Sanders. Zach Moss back into the end zone. Zach Moss, just seven for 21. Jonathan Taylor, just eight for 19. Neither guy could get it going on the ground.

Both got it going in the passing game. Six for 38 for Moss, five for 46 for Taylor. So pretty even split between the two as far as 50% of snaps for Zach Moss, 42% for Jonathan Taylor. And I think you would expect to kind of see it now shift to where it's Jonathan Taylor in the lead, although next week against Cleveland. And then New Orleans. It's a bad looking run. Got to get those targets. Man. Yeah, if you split at all against bad, or against really good defenses, that makes it tough to, and you got Gardner now? Well, but with Gardner is, I mean, seven targets for Moss, six for a Taylor. Yeah. That's an outrageous target share to the running back. That is fair. Kareem Hunt, 12 or 47 in a touchdown. I'm ashamed to say he looked pretty darn good against San Francisco. He did, and Jerome Ford was having a.

I think a pretty bad game. But then at the end of the game, they figured something out. And then all of a sudden, the running game opened up and Jerome Ford patted his stateline 17 for 84 and 2 for 7 through the air. So not a terrible game for him. You want to talk about Pace? Tyreek Hill on Pace for 2,300 yards and 17 touchdowns. He was 6 for 163. He had another touchdown, a deep one from Tua. Pretty comical, pretty impossible to stop. I've never seen a player. more impossible to stop than Tyreek Hill this year. Do you think it's just oxygen? Like is the only thing that can stop Tyreeks too. He had cramps this week. He had to leave for cramps. That's what I mean. Like he's, it's like his hydration. Yeah. And energy is like the only thing, the defense cannot stop Tyreek Hill is Tyreek himself. Right. It's just like, oh man, he is too tired from dominating. Right. That's it. That's what you got to do. You just need, you need to allow.

The first two or five touchdowns? The first couple possessions, just let it be like an 80 yard touchdown bomb. So this is like a box, a boxing situation. Yeah, it's a rope a dome. Come on. Come get us. Show me how fast you are. Oh, no, we can't stop you. I like the sound of that for fantasy. Amun Ra, 12 for 1, 24 and 1. And his touchdown, he needs to send a gift basket to Craig Reynolds. Oh my gosh, what a block. That block was awesome. He annihilated the defender. That was like my favorite block I can remember seeing it. He, he, he scored that touchdown. Reynolds scored that touchdown. Amun Ra had no business getting a touchdown there. And then just blah blah. The number one fantasy wide receiver since week two is Adam Thielen 11 for 115 and one yet again, 13 targets yet again. Unbelievable.

Cooper Cobb 7 for 148 and 1. He's back, baby. Yeah, he was back. And for the first time, he was back in lieu of, or he took the place of any relevance for Puka Nakua. Yeah, Puka did have a down game. He dropped a touchdown at the beginning. He still had 33% of the targets. So it wasn't like the, they went away from him, just was a down game for Puka. Yeah, I. And two, two. I don't, yes. I don't worry about it very much for Puka. This is a game where, like you said, drops a touchdown early, had the target share. And then when they came out in the second half, they're like, oh, we can just run the ball. Like crazy, totally successfully. You're up. You don't need to throw it anymore. But all of Cooper Cups production came in the second half. Well, the majority of it. Yeah, I mean, you're obviously splitting here. It's not going to be Puka minus Cooper Cup like we saw in the beginning of the year. But I'm saying I'm not worried about like,

This is the type of game that I think people will overreact to and say, oh, now that Cooper Cup is fully back. Cooper Cup is the reason that Puka didn't have a good game. I don't think that's the case. I think that it was the fact that, you know, he was not needed very much at the end of this game. And I don't think they're going to be having quite as often an easy matchup like Arizona. And Kyle's saying Puk or Cup had 100 yards by halftime. So what did he end with? 148. I don't remember when the touchdown happened. The touchdown was the end of the rushing drive. Okay. So the most of his production was the first half. Okay. I'm going to stand corrected there. Rashid Shaheed, two for 85 and one. Drake London was crazy impressive on the day. He's so. They're throwing the ball so much more in the last couple of weeks. You love it. I love Drake London, the player. It's been so frustrating.

over those first few weeks watching him not get targets. And then Desmond Ritter just be a below average starting quarterback. So signs of life. Signs of life. It's nice. They didn't commit to just running the football when, I mean, they were getting, they were getting whooped. They had to come back. 12 targets is amazing. In fact, on the year, just for context, he's on pace for 120 targets, which there we go. In this offense, you'll take it. Mm-hmm. AJ Brown has been a monster. In fact, I think he's five or four straight games with 125 or more yards. He's just unstoppable. Defensively, he is correct. He is, he's so much bigger and stronger than all these DBs. You know, I think the last couple games have been really disappointing for Devante Smith, where I think fantasy manager is very disappointed.

in the total production, but he had 11 targets. He had a bad drop in this game. He is a great wide receiver, and don't go away from him, but he is the two. You know, there was, you know, questions, whispers early in the year or in the off season, like, could A.J. Brown really be the two. No, AJ Brown is alpha. The nice, the thing about Philadelphia's offense right now is that it doesn't look that great on a weekly basis. And when it was a well-oiled machine last year, Both players were always great. But when your offense isn't quite as top tier, the alpha ends up being the more stabilizing force. I mean, Devante Smith through six weeks is the wide receiver 31. Yeah. I mean, there doesn't mean he's not going to have good games. I mean, T. Higgins has been banged up and heard and hasn't had a great season yet. But he's a trade for candidate to me. Again, it was last year's story too, right? Yeah, yeah. Interesting.

Yeah, he had 11 targets. He had a brutal drop that would have potentially completely changed the game for Philadelphia's outcome. Michael Pittman, 14 targets. Stefan Diggs, 16 targets. Hold on, hold on. Yeah. Pittman was looking like a true bust in this early part of the game ends up 9 for 109. I would expect more of the same for Michael Pittman. You are back in the drop? Well, I mean, if you're if you have me. Sure. Yeah. We'll let you. Yeah. We're forgiving. It's a state of mind. I mean, like, we're open. Yeah. Come on in. You don't need no passport? Nah. Borders are open. No, man. Friends. Friends. I can leave though if I want to. Sure. Absolutely. Yeah. Okay. You could talk bad about our city when you're out there and we'll still let you back in. You just got let the producers known. Well.

How are you feeling today about? Sounds like a nice, sounds like a nice place. Yeah. It's pretty cool, man, especially with Gardner Minshu. He's got that vibe. This is when people buy the T-shirts, they buy the Pity City T-shirts right now. Shopballers.com. 9109. It's great to see. Stefan Diggs was the only man targeted in the first half. He is, he has been so good. I mean, he is over 100 yards in five of six games. The disappointment was week two, where he was seven for 66. But the bills, when I talk about an offense that looked broken the last couple of weeks is the Buffalo Bills. It was a travesty against the Jacksonville Jaguars a couple weeks or two weeks ago when they lost, putting up 14 points against the Giants. And it was a just scratch and claw to finally get to 14. They got to figure some stuff out. Well, I wonder if you guys care about this.

Breaking news. The 0 and 6 Panthers have handed off play calling duties. Frank Reich is giving them up. Uh-oh. handing them off to offensive coordinator Thomas Brown. Oh, I know someone that's going to care about that. Someone that's going to care about that a lot. His name's Andy. I heard. I just, I like to play calling. I checked in with the locker room. There was full support, unanimous support for the entirety of the team. There was just one, there was one nay. Can we hear the voice? I don't like this plan. I right my target. This is, uh, uh, oh, I don't care. He's probably fine, but we'll say if, if Sunday rolls around or the next time they play and there's six targets for Thielen, you're going to freak out. You bet I will. Uh, Jalen Waddle seven from 51 and one. He started to, uh, he's starting to come alive a little bit. Jacoby Myers another touchdown five for 61. Uh, Zay Flowers got back into the end zone.

Kendrick Bourne ended up for 10 for 89 in that game. It was hard to watch. Kendrick Bourne is just, the Patriots are so strange of, I feel like if they actually highlighted Kendrick Bourne more, the office would be much better. I'm not saying he's a superstar, but he is, he's better than, like, he's better than what they're putting out there. They're one of the, Bill Belichick should be fired. His general managing of this team, fire tired, retired. Retired. Re-fired? Yeah, I'm just... What are you doing? What are you trying to say? You can't fire Bill Belichick. Yes, you can. No, you can. No, you can't. You can't fire. You have to let him walk. Yeah. You can fire him. You can go in that office and say, hey, you're going to retire. Yeah, you're going to retire. So you think the headline will be Bill Belichick, a step down as head coach of the New England Patriots. Yeah. That would be it. Okay. You can, you can fire him secretly through a resignation. But, you know,

Nelson Aguilar, Devante Parker, Juju Smith, Schuster, Kendrick Bourne. These are not players that provide Mack Jones the ability to even put on display anything. They could use Jacoby Myers. Yeah, I mean, it's an embarrassment because they had made a decision, apparently Bill had made a decision post-Randy Moss that I'm never going to equip you. I mean, this has been a long time. that we're not going to invest at the wide receiver position on top-tier talent, but we're going to invest more money than we should on Nelson Aguilar? They have actually. And Johnny Smith? I think it is a talent evaluation problem because they have, when you bring up like, oh, they invested too much money on Nelson Aguilar, that was immediate in free agency. They went out that year and they went hard after their target and got them. I think they celebrated it. They drafted Nikiel Harry. They spent.

draft capital to... Yeah, that's another example. They have tried to equip. I think it's a talent evaluation problem with wide receivers. They just suck at it. Apparently. Travis Kelsey, Dalton Schultz, Kyle Pitts, Johnny Smith, who, you know, sell high on Kyle Pitts would be my advice when you score two weeks in a row. Because Johnny Smith is still heavily involved. He scored a touchdown. Both had four catches. I mean, you can... not sell high because what are you going to get to replace your tight end? I mean, that's, if you want to roll Kyle Pitts back out there, but negative game script is beneficial. He scored early. Wow. I'm looking at this little, just the context of how bad the week was. Yeah, put it on display. Only three of the top 10 tight ends this week were started. You had Kelsey Pitts, who was started in 68% of leagues, and Mark Andrews. The rest of the top 10 are just guys that,

Give me the names. Dalton Schultz. 25% started. Johnny Smith, 13% started. Michael Mayer. Which keep your eye on him. We kind of highlighted him a bit last week that said it was it was strange that you would spend a second round pick on this guy and then do absolutely nothing when you could use him. Got a few targets the past week and then had him. He must not have made our threshold here to be a stud. But he had a. He had a solid game. Yeah, and he's super talented. Yes, he is. This is a guy who dominated in high school, dominated in college, had the draft capital to continue in the NFL. Britain Strange. Yes. Tassum Hill, Kylan Granson, and Trey McBride. Oh, T. McB. Somehow started in one percent of leagues. That would be two tight-in leagues. Something like that. All right. Let's move on.

pooped in his big boy pants. Do we have enough time? Do we have enough pants? Because this could be a long segment. Cousins, Purdy, Stafford, Gino, and Mayfield were the duds at quarterback. Which, you know, yeah, they were bad, but I almost want to talk about them, not at all. Because I don't think that there was a lot of dependency there. You couldn't have been expecting a ton. from, I mean, Kirk Cousins would have been the one that you hoped for, but you didn't have Justin Jefferson, okay? I want to talk about Lamar Jackson and Patrick Mahomes. Those are the two players in the partial dud category. They put up like 22 fantasy points this week in our league and six point league. You know, they were drafted significantly higher than a ton of Tua or golf or Howl or, you know, some of these players that had bigger weeks. And this has been a trend.

like Patrick Mahomes, the defense in Kansas City, Kelsey being really the only reliable target, and then Lamar Jackson. Like, this has been a trend in Baltimore. Mike, you said it to me this weekend. Like their offense is not good. No, it's not. The Monkin experiment. I mean, look, Lamar on the course of the season has been good for fantasy football. The past two weeks have been rough. And you had the, you know, the drop gate two weeks ago. And this, this performance against Tennessee. you had hoped for more, but 21 for 223 a passing touchdown. And he put up 62 rushing yards. So, I mean, he's still a top 10 quarterback on the week. Quarterback scoring was super low because he is sitting at, I'm looking at 17 points in a four point scoring format. So like that's, that should not be QB7. It's also what my homes was. So let's not pay attention to the weekly rank as much as their underwhelming numbers. And.

the prescription going forward for those guys. But the, yeah, the offense is we're seeing more Lamar throwing, but the routes and the scheme overall not, not featuring Mark Andrews, not designing up better deep shots for Zay Flowers. It's, it's really frustrating. I am probably more concerned with Mahomes than I am with Lamar Jackson. Lamar Jackson's offense, I think, has room to improve. There are things like Mike just said, like why aren't you using Mark Andrews more, scheming Zay flowers down the field? Like those are changes that could be made that could be positive. I think on Mahomes, they don't need to make changes. I think the biggest problem is their defense has been very good. Their running game with Pacheco is working. And, you know, in years past, their defense hasn't necessarily been this good. So I worry more about what is.

needed from Mahomes. I don't know that it's going to change that much. I mean, he is phenomenal. I'm not speaking anything. He's the best quarterback of all time. We all agree about that, right? And he certainly could be. He's not the greatest of all time. Like, that's Brady. He's got the title, but, but the best. Like, he's, I guess I wouldn't say that myself, but I'm pretty, I'll be close pretty soon. So, you know, but for fantasy purposes, I do have. Slight concern that what you're going to see from Mahomes is like, you know, the quarterback six or the quarterback seven when he was drafted as the number one quarterback. Lamar, at least is still running. I mean, you know, you had Lamar with, he was 62 yards this week, 45 last week. Yeah, I had a game with 100 on the season already. Are you saying you'd rather have Lamar rest of season? Yeah, I think I would rather have Lamar than Mahomes. That's hot.

Lamar has Jacksonville, San Francisco, Miami for his playoffs, just for what it's worth. Mahomes has New England, Las Vegas, and Cincinnati for his playoffs, just for what it's where. I mean, we're six weeks in. You can glance that direction when you talk about setting yourself up for the end of the season. Here's a bigger question. Would you rather have Tua, or would you rather have Lamar and Mahomes? And Jason's eyes lit up. I mean, Tua's been Tua can explode this offense. You just want pieces of the Dolphins offense right now. Let me put it this way. Would you be more afraid facing Tua or Mahomes or Lamar? I would be the most afraid facing Lamar and then Tua and then Mahomes. Interesting. I think I'm still scared of Mahomes. Of those three, I think he's still at the top of this. We have the...

The success that they had last year, you know, basically with no true number one wide receiver, it is filtering into this year of we can get it done without that. And the defense stepping up is certainly a part of it. But the transition to Pacheco, Jay, you didn't mention it. But I think that's the bigger thing is in the Mahomes era, we haven't, you know, since Kareem Hunt, we haven't seen the Kansas City Chiefs. establish anything. Like Pacheco last year was what? He was the guy and he was getting something like single digit opportunities per week. And no passes. Yeah. This year he's getting maybe six catches last game. Yeah. The last month Pacheco has 16.8 rushing attempts per game. That's a lot. I mean, I bring those comparisons up because this is the time of the year where you start to adjust your preseason narratives with the realities of today. You start looking and saying like, you know, last week before.

Before the week, I was like, do I trade two end picks to get Lamar? I mean, it's tough to make those calls. Do you stick with the fire that has got you here, or do you make a move for somebody that's been reliable over time? I mean, Lamar has had, I believe, two or three, zero touchdown games. He's had no three touchdown games through the air, and we were hoping for more with Monkin. All right, running back duds, mixing, looked awful. Pierce, 33. percent of snaps. Now, the Pierce game had the chance of being a complete fooled you situation. He had three separate drives with the ball inside the three where they gave him the football and he didn't score. Yeah, three carries inside the five that amounted to negative seven rushing out. New Orleans stuffed all of them. And they played a lot with Devin Singletary at the 33% of snaps for Pierce.

54% for Singletary. Singletary on his opportunities looked like a good running back. And they won. They beat the Saints with this formula. So they're going into the buy week. It could be just a blip in the radar for Damian Pierce and the snap count. But you at least need to have your antennae up. With Singletary and then Latavius Murray in Buffalo, what I seem to... have observed as a very interested party is that there is a migration to Singletarian Latavius when they believe they need somebody to be a fundamental pass blocker. And it seemed like the Giants were getting after Josh Allen last night and suddenly Latavius is on the field a ton. Oh man. James Cook had one of the biggest whiffs of a pass block. It didn't actually result because, you know, Josh Allen just.

rolled out. But it was like, cool. It was like right this way, sir. So there you go. I didn't even see that play. But I think that that's what there is a trustworthiness with Atavius on trying to pass block when Alan's getting hit and the offense isn't working. Like if they're cruising, James Cook, I mean, James Cook was better on the ground. You know, he was 14 for 71. But both of those guys are losing snaps. Pierce, James Cook, concerning. Rashad White. Yeah, he lives here. Like this guy's, this guy still hasn't cleaned up from last time. Deont de Foreman. Foreman's, I think, a huge disappointment because it was, you know, that's, that's a player who everyone went out and got in case the news broke in his favor. It did. And the news broke in his favor. And it was like, all right. And then he gets 15 carries, 65 rushing yards. I mean, it, it just.

didn't result in fantasy points. On the 15 carries, like how many of those were second half? We were bewildered. Darrington Evans had like, I don't know, what seemed like 80% of the work in the first half? Yeah, it seemed like he was on the field and it was a, this whole situation is hilarious because Sunday Live, I'm answering questions about Deont de Foreman, you know, Rocheon's out, Travis Homer's. I don't even know who's, who's fourth in the depth chart. And I look at, oh, Derrickton Evans. Yeah, I remember the promise of Darrington Evans. Don't worry about him. Deontza Foreman's going to get all the work. And then the game starts. And it's Darren to Nevins. What is happening here? What are we doing? But they will be interesting. The Chicago Bears moving forward. Yes, Roshan Johnson is going to be back. The way that they treated Deontah Foreman in this matchup, you have to presume that Roshan is going to be the featured running back for the team. But what do they, what do they do with if Justin Fields can't go?

And that could be a really run heavy team. Well, I'll mention it quickly because James Connor is going to be out for an extended period of time. Oh, man. But like, DeMarcato got almost no work. Damien Williams was featured. Kiante Ingram, Mike's favorite player, who I'm going to get you a jersey, Keante Ingram. They don't make them. No, they don't. They don't make them. Hey, it'll be a custom. He hit four yards an attempt. Did he really? He did. So what was the breakdown and carries there in Arizona? So I'm hooking it up. So Ingram had 10 for 40 and Damien Williams was 8 for 36. The snaps were heavily in Keante's favorite though. By heavy, I mean, he was at 37. So what would you, who'd you play moving forward? It's, it would be Keonté Ingram. All right, Duds at wide receiver. Tell me if you're worried. We talked about Puka. Not worried. Four for 26. Devante Adams.