Fantasy Football - Week 4 Matchups + Wheel of Shame, Marv Madness - Podcast for 9/26

and I make Cam Ward try to complete passes. So I am worried about the ceiling on this game. Do you guys? I do not disagree. For sure. Like, speaking of ceiling problems, Chase Brown or Tony Pollard? Pollard. I think that's, oh. Yeah, it'd be Pollard for me. Chase Brown has a bad matchup too. What about Travion taking a shot against Carolina? I would play Henderson. Yeah, I think that there's more upside there. If you don't want to get shut out like you're a heavy lead type of situation, I think Pollard is safe. Yeah, that's fine. Nick Chubb on the other side

gets opportunities, doesn't do much with him. But this is maybe a game at home where you could look at with the heavy favorite situation he's maybe better? Yeah, for sure. This is a, this is a matchup where I think he projects to be good. I mean, the truth is he should either be good at the end of this week, like, oh, yeah, he had, you know, 70 yards and a touchdown. They're going to be, hopefully, their offense should be able to have little signs of life here at home, favored by a touchdown against the Tennessee Titans. And if they're up,

they'll continue giving the ball to Chubb. He'll have touchdown opportunities. The only reason I don't think it, like if at the end of this week we're like, man, well, Chubb's done would be because they continue the Woody Marks volume. You know, he's been going up and up in snaps. And so maybe in this game this is his breakout game. That's my only hesitation. Otherwise, Chubb should be good. What about the, would you go Nick Chubb or would you go Krosky-Meritt? Definitely Nick Chubb. I mean, I don't know what's going on with that injury. Yeah. Krosky's hard to even make a prediction

right now on a Friday. Nico Collins, play him, of course. Don't play your Tennessee wide receivers right now. If you do play one because you want to, Iow Manor. It is. It's Iow Manor. And Christian Kirk has a dart throw. Ridley has vanished into his cache. Yeah. I mean, he's, he's back to where we were with Levis, honestly, which is constantly targeted, pretty ugly targets, balls not near his hands. Yeah. It's not good. I mean, honestly, in this game, it's Nico Collins is a must start and you have two running backs who are flex options. You might have better options.

Pollard on one side, Chubb on the other. Please. Check out. Stop talking about this game. Yeah. Next. All right. These teams have better records. The Colts. I am so excited for this game. Colts are 3-0. Rams are 2-1. Just coming off the, the loss to the Eagles where they had a big lead. Vegas line, Los Angeles, minus three and a half at home over under 49 and a half. That's, there we go. I believe it's the highest of the week. This is great. And we're going to learn so much about the Colts in this game. You think? I do. The Rams,

to me, are one of the elite teams. Like, I, watching them play, you know, they, they took it to the Eagles. They ended up shockingly losing that game. But they are, I think, great on offense and great on defense and well coached. They have the, the weapons. And the Colts have looked, they've looked like an elite team, you know, but they've only played one difficult matchup. Yeah, they're number two, I was going to say, in total yards per game right now. So they are an offense that is cruising. You've been able to play Michael Pittman. Jonathan Taylor's been a monster.

Michael Pittman, Tyler Warren, yes. Whisperer, Jason, or is Pittman in this week? Pittman is in. This is a high over under. This is not, like I wouldn't make, he was my start of the week last week. This is just a normal, this is like your average Michael Pittman game. He'll finish as the, as the wide receiver 24 this week. Okay. So that's, I mean, that's, I was hoping for more than an average Pittman game. Yeah. Well, you're not going to get it in this one. You're going to get an average Pittman game, which is a, which is a necessary start

in fantasy. Yeah. If you look at his entire, is this like a career average? Cause that would be 10.3 points per game. That is exactly what he scores in this game. Half PPR, 10.3. Okay. 10.3 on the dot. You heard it here. First, uh, Daniel Jones, you can play him. I guess so. It's almost like, how can you not play him? But how can you not play him? But how can you play him? Exactly. You know, it's a real stronger cat situation. There's going to be a, ah, we knew it, but maybe there wasn't with Sam Donald last year. We kept waiting and it was just

like, he was good. And Daniel Jones has looked so good. His pass, he's ripping them. He's staying in the pocket. He's moving around. He's running. He's like, there's been no film of Daniel Jones. It's like, well, he got lucky. He's, he hasn't been playing well. He can only play the defenses. He's, he's been scheduled again so far. And, and one of them was the Denver defense when he was a top six quarterback. Do you remember? I wasn't sure if we were going earth, wind and fire, Michael Jackson. No, we did it together. We, we all jumped in a time machine

a couple weeks ago before the season started. Right. I remember that. And we had to, not a lot of room. And it was, who's going to be, who's Sam Darnall? Remember my answer? Was it, was it Daniel Jones? Daniel Jones. Good answer. You remember Andy's answer? Start. Yeah. Sam Darnall. Good answer. Oh, he's really nailing the Darnall this year. Darnall. I think Darnall's good. He might be good. Do you remember when Malik Nabors said quarterback wasn't the problem when they moved on? Oh yeah. When they moved off of Daniel Jones. And he was adamant. He was like, guys, I'm telling you the quarterback

isn't the issue. And they're like, well, what is the issue? And he was like, he knew. And he's like, I'm not. Yeah. It's up for you to figure out. We're all trying to figure out who did this. Yeah. No. Do you remember when Carolina had Sam Darnall and Carolina had Baker Mayfield and they were like, man, we can't figure this quarterback position out. Sorry, Panthers. It's a good point. I can't wait for Bryce's next team. Oh my goodness. Tyler Warren, by the way, here are all the wide outs and tight ends in the NFL with more yards after the catch

than Tyler Warren. No, no, that's not true. No, I just read the whole list. You're telling me that yards after the catch, rookie tight end Tyler Warren is, is number one, including wide receivers. According to Kyle. Technically, Kyle's telling you that. I want to make sure if it's wrong, but that's, that's the case. That's impressive. You're not playing any other wide outs or taking shots on other wide outs in Indianapolis. Just stick with the tight end and Michael Pittman. Yeah. The, I mean, I like the note here that is written DFS at nine Mitchell because I'm not going to recommend,

hey, pick them up and play them in your redraft leagues. Maybe if you're in a super, super deep, maybe you're in a chopped league and you're like, I don't have a guy. 80 Mitchell might be on your waiver wire. And the reason Alec Pierce is, is out with a concussion and the Alec Pierce role has, like it's, it's given us some production. Alec Pierce is the most unsung good player in the NFL. He never gets credit for anything. I mean, he was 68 yards, 67 yards the last two weeks and got hurt in one of them. So Puka's in your lineup.

Devante Adams, watch for the injury situation. Jason started the week if he's healthy. Yeah. Suppose he's the sit of the week if he's injured. Yeah. If he doesn't play, please do not start him. Uh, stab, whatever. If he doesn't practice today and you're like game time decision for Adam, and then he's active. So, so if he is active after basically not practicing this week, he will move down drastically, but he's not a must binge. He's still very good. But if I've got another good option, like if I, if I was looking at Devante Adams or Michael Pittman, I'm obviously starting

Devante Adams if he practices right now. But if he doesn't practice the whole week and I've got a guy like Pittman, I'd be like, I, what I don't want to have happen is Adams go out there, try out the hamstring, two snaps in. He's like, Ooh, that's tight. I'm going to take this one off. Should have just played Marv. Good. The amount of people in third quarter of just getting tweet, like I even tweeted, I tweeted, Hey, you know, I'm like on behalf of Arizona. Yeah. Oh yeah, dude. I am so sorry that you're having to watch. And dude, the responses are so funny

because people are like, yeah, you should be like, okay, take it. It's a joke. My God, take it easy. I had somebody after the game be like, imagine starting that stack. You clown. I was like, this stack was great. Yeah. That stack was awesome. It ended up being, it was fine. Good play. It was good. All right, let's take a break. We'll talk about our next matchup. What's up, Foot Clan? You can't count on much these days, but you can always count on Sundays with the NFL on CBS and Paramount+. That's right. Football fans, watch your local NFL game every Sunday on CBS and Paramount+,

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I was a huge fan. I love them. I love the helmet. Yeah. I like the, you're wearing the cap. I like the caps. The jerseys. You don't like the, the like sand speckle mold on there? It's, I don't know. I'm still TBD on it. Yeah, all right. Jacksonville, two and one. San Francisco, three and oh. Vegas line, San Fran, minus three over under 46 and a half. I don't know what the Jacksonville Jaguars are. I feel like, you know, on some levels, on some plays, you know, Travis Etienne being resurrected a bit. You feel kind of good for a minute,

but then most of it has been disjointed. Like, targeting Travis Hunter has been a bad bet right now. Five targets of 10 plus yards down the field leading to two picks. No, three picks. One almost interception and a diving incompletion. They want to get Hunter the ball. It's not working. They want to get Brian Thomas Jr. the ball. It's not working. They're throwing it to him. Like, right now, their defense is, you know, holding them up a little bit compared to what it did last year. But, do they stand any chance in this matchup? I think they do stand a chance.

They have a good defense. Yeah, their defense looks so much better than last year. Last year, we were targeting the Jaguars. This is one of those, like, we're, you know, almost a month into the season. And I believe what I've seen from the Jacksonville Jaguars, you know, Josh Hines Allen has looked awesome. And so, yeah, I mean, this is, this is a team that I think can get after Brock or can get after Mac Jones. We're not 100% sure who's starting right now. I think I expect Brock to play. But we don't, we don't know that entirely. And, and while the Kansas City,

or I'm sorry, the San Francisco defense looks, I mean, metric wise, it's like, oh, Robert Sala, he's resurrected this defense. They look amazing. You know, they played the Arizona Cardinals offense that, I mean, yeah, you shut them down, but most people have, the Saints pretty much shut them down. You played the Saints. Like, okay, yeah, you shut them down, but they're the Saints. Everyone's shut them down. Bosa is out. And yeah, and they, and they lost Bosa. So I'm not, I, honestly. There's an opportunity for Jacksonville to be all right in this team. I do. So you'd start ETN? Yes.

Brian Thomas? Yeah. Brent Strange, if you need a tight end? Yeah. Strange is right on that, uh, streaming tight end. And we, we talked about something. I mean, Christian McCaffrey right now on pace for 437 touches. Oh my gosh. That would be, um, I guess the question that you had, don't worry about it, uh, don't worry about it. Who's getting hurt at his expense right now? Oh gosh. Don't care. Who else? I'll sacrifice them all. I think Pearsall's got it. I mean, he's next man. So what were you going to say though? Um, but you, you had mentioned like maybe there was a world where they,

to keep him healthy this year, they limit his touches. That is definitively answered. McCaffrey. No. I hope he can hold up. So far so good. Yeah. I mean, he can, we need a little bit better blocking here from that oil line though. Two out of every five years. Yeah. This might be that year. Uh, Demarcus Robinson, a, uh, if Jawan Jennings doesn't play, would be a desperation. Start there and don't play a ton. Just basketball. No. And Brock Purdy, you're going to want to give him some time. Have we heard anything about Georgie Porgie Kittle? Like it, I feel like it's gone complete radio silence.

Normally you hear, Hey, I mean, George, I are, man. Yeah. He's on, I know. But usually you hear like a, Hey, things are looking good for George. A bit, a couple more. We'll hear when he, when he comes closer to the four week mark. Um, the only other player that I think is maybe where if we're, if we're mentioning Demarcus Robinson, I thought that was a tootin. That makes it a lot worse for me to make that sound. That was not a toot sound. No, that was, that was a juicy toot. Yeah. That was a shoot. Yeah. Whoops. You gambled a lot.

Yeah. Uh, no, but Parker Washington had 11 targets last week and Diami Brown, um, is not going to be active. He's, is he like, I mean, let's double check on Diami Brown. He was limited in practice. He's got the shoulder injury. I mean, I guess maybe he plays, but I'm expecting him to not. So in a full PPR league, that's deeper. He's probably a better play than Travis Hunter because Travis Hunter is playing 53% of the snaps last week. It's gone down three straight weeks. Parker Washington has gone up. If, if Diami Brown's out, then I think he's a better play than Hunter.

Uh, and, uh, coach Cohen did come out and say that if, if Diami Brown misses time, that doesn't mean more for Travis Hunter. If Parker Washington would take that spot. Yeah, no, that's, I think what would happen. So Baltimore one and two Kansas city, one and two games at Arrowhead. Amazing. I'll jump in real quick, Andy, because I'm not going to hit the button, but Dan Quinn did just rule out Terry and Jaden. Okay. So they're both out. Yeah. I bet's just posted. It's all, I'll, I'll get a confirmation on that, but be prepared. How many completions in that game for Marcus Mariota?

Ooh, how many, how many completions do you think? Hmm. What was he at last week? I feel like he's going to have like 16 completions. He was 15 of 21 last week. Now they're not favored. Last week, heavily favored. I think maybe 18 ish. Okay. How many of, how does it break down? Hmm. Position wise. You're, this is a Debo question. You're trying to, you're, you are just trying to see how many targets. Well, I look hurts as well. Yeah. It's like, it is playable. If you look at the, the offense and I'm trying to manage Marcus Mariota, the thing I'm doing is design plays to my best players and you're running out of them.

Yeah. And I'm just going to try and run a ton. You don't have Eckler to throw to. Maybe you don't have McLaurin to throw to. Maybe McNichols is, I mean, he didn't get any targets. Well, yeah, they didn't need them. They were blowing them out, but I don't look at him as the best catching back. McNichols? No. Who do you look at? Yeah. Who? Well, I mean, he's just not on the field enough. That's all I'm saying is just like, yeah, if you were playing them on third downs regularly, what was his snap percentage last week? Uh, McNichols last week.

And this is a blowout game. I mean, he's a 36%. 26%. Yeah. I mean, to me, that's way too scary. Yeah. Well, I mean, this, this was also under the pretext that if I think running back, so this is the game. Oh, it was. Yeah. I would, I would say if it's, if it's Chris Rodriguez, we talked earlier in the news, like if bill didn't go, is Chris Rodriguez a must start? And I was saying, is it, if bill isn't there, is it Chris or is it Jeremy? That's a totally different discussion. That was what I'm. Yeah. I thought we were talking about what he had said,

which was McLaurin and, uh, I guess it's a good, uh, it's a good sign that if they're coming out and ruling those players out, that they're not ruling bill cross. Yeah. Ravens chiefs at arrowhead, Baltimore minus two and a half over unders 48 and a half. Okay. Here we go. Kansas city's won five of the six matchups between Lamar and Mahomes. including the playoffs. When this game, somebody said, Hey, it's Baltimore, Kansas city. I didn't know right away where the game was. I just said, I'm going to take the home team in this matchup. I feel like that's the differentiator.